AILY NEBRASKAN
Official Student Newspaper of the University . of Nebraska
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LINCOLN, IMKRKSK A, TL'KSDAY, OCT0KU 11, 1938"
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Author Opens
Union Series
Of Celebrities
'Japan Challenges the
World' to Be Subject
Of 'Greatest Historian'
Upton Close, world correspond
ent and well known author, opens
the Student union "celebrity se
ries" tonight at 7:30 in the Stu
dent Union ballroom. Mr. Close
UPTON CLOSE.
will give his famous lecture, "Ja
pan Challenges the World." Close
will be the first of a number of
outstanding national figures to
appear here.
Mr. Close will be interviewed
over a local station sometime this
afternoon, according to Kenneth
Van Sant, director of the union,
He addressed the Omaha Ad Sell
club last evening and his speech
was enthusiastically received.
Described by Time as "the great
est historian of contemporary
Asia," Close spent several years
in Japan as an operative for the
American intelligence service, and
has since lived and traveled all
over Asia. His seven books and
thousands of articles have varied
from colorful adventure to Na-
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Students Show
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In Earning Bread, Butter
Huskers Close Doors,
Wash Planes for Pay
The 1938 Nebraska man is work
ing his way through college as Ids
father did, but his Is a stream
lined version of an old tradition.
No more selling magazines from
dour to door or chopping firewood.
The jobs he holds down are in
genious as the Big Apple. From
a campus survey, the Daily Ne
braskan has chosen some of the
more unusual student Jobs.
Take sophomore football threat
Everett Lomax, for Instance. Lo
niax earns his room by working
for the fire department. He sleeps
above a local fire station, and
when the alarm rings and the fire
men whizz out on the trucks, he
closes the doors. The arrangement
saves fuel bills In zero weather for
the department.
Bob Smith of the Delta Tau
Delta house washes airplane mo
tors. Every afternoon he trundles
out to the airport and gets to work
with the gasoline can and rags.
He charges for the Job according
to the size of the plane.
Real Estate.
At the Acacia house Torn and
Fred Bodie have bought a tract
of land and are tolng Into the real
Lecture
Pershing Rifles Meet
In Uniform at 5 Today
Pershing Riflet will meet
this afternoon at 5:00 p. m. Ac
cording to Capt Robert Nel
son, all men will be required to
wear uniform. Attendance will
be checked at thla meeting. All
sophomores not participating
will be suspended from the or
ganization. No meeting will be held this
Thursday as previously an
nounced. Tryouts for the Crack
squad will be held a week from
today and a week from Thurs
day. Coeds Sign
For Hobbies
Cold Counselors Hold
Mass Meeting Tonight
Hobby groups for freshman girls
will be further explained at the
Coed Counselor annual mass meeting-
for new students in Ellen
Smith hall tonight from 7 to 8
p. m. Girls who have already
signed up for the groups or wno
wish to do so, are urged to attend
this important meeting.
The faculty sponsors of the
board, Miss Elsie Ford Piper and
Miss Letta Clark, are to be Intro
duced by Virginia Fleetwood, pres
ident, who will also introduce
board members and hobby group
leaders.
Under the leadership of Helen
Catherine Davis, coeds who en
rolled in charm school will meet
regularly on the second and fourth
Tuesday of each month. The first
meeting will be held on Tuesday,
Oct. 18, to avoid conflict with the
mass meeting. The second meeting
will be on Oct. 25.
The dramatic group under the
supervision of Tex Roselle Rounds
will meet on the first and third
Tuesday of each month, beginning
this week. Scrapbook corner will
meet on the same days under the
leadership of Charlotte Utt. Con
vening on the second and fourth
Thursdays of each month will be
the tap dancing hobby group led
by Mary Kline. This latter group
will be divided into two divisions,
beginning and advanced, if the at
tendance warrants this change.
Ingenuity
estate business. Louis Dillman of
the same address is chauffeur for
a Lincoln family. Cadillac's the
car. Bob Gutru, another Acacian
with ideas, makes his pocket
money by explaining the high
points of the capitol building to
visiting school teacners. tiaroio.
Niemann covers police courts and
the city hall for the Omaha World
Herald, and Scottie Nichols, Delt,
is a legman for the Lincoln Star.
Arranging displays and draping
gowns on the svelte plaster models
in the windows of a local cloth
ing store is the job of Bob Ra
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AG A.W.S. HEARS
PEP PRESIDENT
Virginia Nolle, president of Tas
sels, will bo the guest speaker at
the Ag campus Freshman A. W. S.
meeting at 4 o'clock today in room
216 of the Home Economics build
ing. She will explain the aims nnd
operation of the women's pep or
ganization. Freshman a. vv. a. win muu ii
meeting on Uie city campus to
morrow nt 5 o'clock in Ellen Smith
Hull, with Helen Pascoc, president
of A. W. S. telling of the functions
of the A. W. S. board.
Tonight!:
YW Finance,
Membership
Drive Opens
Estes Trips Offered
As Prizes to Workers
More than 100 advisory board
members, cabinet members, and
workers In the University Y. W.
C. A. Inaugurated their annual
finance drive at a dinner Oct. 10,
at 5:30 In Ellen Smith hall. The
goal has been set at $1,300 with
prizes of trips to Estes awarded
to the most successful girls. Last
year's winners were Maxine Lake
and Priscilla Wicks.
The drive will be under the Al
rectorship of Josephine Rubnitz,
assisted by Selma Hill and Priscilla
Wicks, 100 executives, and team
captains and workers. The funds
are derived from: (1) the mem
bership fees of $2.00 which cover
dues for the entire colege course
of four years, and (2) the dona
tions received from old members
and various other interested per
sons. The campaign ends Satur
day, Oct. 15 with the goal set $100
above that of last year s.
The teams will work under four
big divisions. All unaffiliated etu
dents living in Lincoln are to be
contacted by three teams under
Beatrice Ekblad. On ag cimpus
Doris De Long will have charge
of the three teams. Patricia
Sternberg and Jeanetie Swenson
have charge of covering the dormi
tories and co-operative rooming
houses, while the fourth division
under Mary Arbitman and Helen
Kovanda are responsible for con
tacting the sorority groups.
Muriel White presided at the
dinned during which there was
a program of songs led by Maxine
Federle, and a pep talk by Mary
Jo Hcnn. Campaign material was
distributed by Dorothe Glenn
who is chairman of the committee
in charge of the preparation of
pamphlets and other materials. An
other campaign led by Mary Jo
Hcnn and covering the faculty pre1
ceded the present student drive.
Students Suggest
Union Literature
Suggestions varying from Burns
Mantel's "Best Plays of 1938" to
Phillis Bothunes' "The Mortal
Storm," an expose of inside Nazi
Germany, were deposited during
the first afternoon in the sugges
tion box for the book nook which
has been placed in the lobby of the
Student Union. At the end of the
first afternoon approximately ten
suggestions had been received. The
box will be left in the lobby for
suggestions until next Monday
noon.
Freshman Mannequins Preen
On Ballroom Stage Tomorrow
Union Presents Style
Show With 'Caking' Set
The grill room of the hour will
be set on the Union stage Wed
nesday afternoon at 5 o'clock as
33 good looking freshmen, repre
senting their various houses on the
campus, go "caking" in their best
of fall attires.
Under the banners of "Fresh
man Fashions on Parade," mem
bers of the youngest group of Joe
and Betty College students will
show their individual choice of
campus clothes as a spotlight at
traction during the Wednesday
matinee dance. The show is the
YEARBOOK STAFF
REPORTS TODAY
The staff of the 1939 Corn
hutker will report for work this
afternoon between 3 and 5
o'clock, Patricia Lahr, editor,
hat announced. Work will begin
immediately In the old office In
University hall.
J.C. Thomas
Opens Music
Series Friday
Baritone Inaugurates
Concert Season Oct. 14
John Charles Thomas, one of
the most famous baritones of our
time, will make a concert appear-
j
Courteny Sunday Journal and Star.
JOHN CHARLES THOMAS.
ance at St. Paul Methodist church
at 8:00 Friday evening, Oct. 14
under the auspices of the Lincoln
Symphony Orchestra association,
Mr. Thomas' appearance will mark
the opening of the 1938-39 concert
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Spanish Club
Begins Program
For its first meeting of the year,
the Spanish club of the University
will meet tomorrow night at 7:30
in Gallery B of Morrill.
Several young men of the colony
of South American students now
attending the school of aviation
here will be presented to the group,
Coming from Argentina, Bolivia,
Cuba and Colombia, they each will
tell about their native country,
Latin-American music by tran
scription will be played, with ac
companying comment by Harry
Tourtelot. All Spanish students
are invited to attend. The club
second meeting will be held on the
second Wednesday of November,
first in a series to be presented
during the year by the Coed Fash
ions council.
Rehearsals for the short, yet
complete, presentation have been
held regularly. Those who attend
ed the "first nighter" rehearsal
yesterdiiy afternoon came away
with three words on their lips:
"Good-looking," "cute," and "beau
tiful." The cast for the 20 minute per
formance is composed of one of
the most select beauties from each
sorority and one of the most hand
some "Joes" from each fraternity.
Several frosh football players are
included in the list of performers.
Specially designed settings will
be used to transform the ballroom
stage into the best of "coking"
rendezvous. The frosh will then
walk into the room where Betty
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Rice Drama
Satirize.
Dictatorship
Grace Hill, Alexander
Head Temple Cast
In Production Tonight
Opening the University Playert'
season tonight at 7:30 in the Tem
ple theater is Elmer Rice's "Judg
ment Day." With a large cast of
24 headed by Grace Hill, Bob Al
exander, and Raymond Brown, this
dramatic trial of dictatorship vs.
democracy takes place in a court
room where Justice is ignored, and
only the wishes of the State
obeyed.
"Judgment Day" is a timely
play, interesting in its present day
ignificence, for its reveals the
abuses of a dictatorship and shows
how little chance justice has when
opposed to the State. Three per
sons are on trial for attempting to
kill the dictator of this mythical
country. One is a woman whose
brother comes from the United
States to help defend her. Five
udges, all hired by the State, hear
the testimony, and decide the case,
for there is no jury.
Altho the play is distinctly mod
ern in theme, the setting is a de
cided contrast, an old-world court
room. The entire play takes place
in this one setting. "Judgment Day
is not a condemnation of dictator
ships, but rather portrayal of facts
as they stand in a totalitarian
state. The University Players have
started the season with this mov
ing, stirring dramatization of the
famous German Reichstag tnal.
Barb Council
Elects Members
Committee to Correct
Student Work Evils
Election of new members, dance
arrangements, and student em
ployment measures made up the
program of the Monday meeting
of the Barb Council.
Jane DeLatour was elected his
torian, George Gostos sophomore
member of the council to replace
Don Fitts who is not in school,
and Jean Schuler as senior girl
member. Duane Willey, recently
elected representative of the Barb
Union to the council was intro
duced. The employment committee of
the Barb Union presented its pro
gram for approval which it re
ceived. The committee desires all
students working for their meals
at restaurants and hotels who are
dissatisfied with the food or with
the hours to bring their complaints
to Mr. Epp of the university em
ployment department. The em
ployment committee is building up
a method to correct student em
ployment evils.
Cox and Aubrey Stevenson will be
"catty" and give the audience a
witty, informative line on the
freshmen and the clothes they are
wearing.
The Coed Fashions council has
been organized by Helen Severa
under the sponsorship of the Stu
dent union. Miss Grace Morton,
costume design instructor at the
college of agriculture is advisor.
Miss Agnes Sehmitt, head of
the state board of cosmetology,
has taken charge of mnking-up
the girls modeling Wednesday
night, assisting Miss Severa at
rehearsals is Miss Margery Man
chester. Posters advertising the
show were made by Lucille Pesch
and Elaine Pearson. Also assisting
with the presentations are Miss
Margaret Krause and Miss Marian
Bremers.