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Official Student Newspaper of the University of Nebraska
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VOL. XXXVIII. NO. 26
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20. 1938
Acheson To Address Convocation
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jy JUL JILJSLJ
Ten Coeds
Seek Crown
At Ag Formal
Queen to Reign Over
Saturday Evening Afair
After Door Polling
This year's Farmers Formal
Queen will bo elected Saturday
night nt the annual agricultural
party from the following ten can
didates, It was announced yester
day: Kuth Bander, Bonnie Brown,
Ku'the Browne, Jane Bracket,
1'hyllis Chamberlain, BMith B'illey,
Ann Gersib, Doris Gray, Angellinc
Hellebcrg, Marian Hoppert, Mary
Louise O'Conncll, and Phyllis Rob
inson.
Kach man attending the formal
may vote his preference as he en
ters the door, but all balloting
must take place between 8:30 and
9:30. The winning girl will be an
nounced later in the evening in a
novel presentation ceremony.
Dave Haun and his orchestra
playing in the activities building,
which will be fashioned after a
dude ranch, will provide the set
ting for the event.
Milton Gustafson, president of
the board, announced that at least
one member of each couple must
be an Ag student and that all at
tempts must wear farmer "br cow
boy custumes.
Tickets can be purchased for 80
cents at the door or for 75 cents
before Saturday evening from any
one of the ticket committee.
Ex-Columnist Moans
Passing of Old 'Rag9
'It's All GoneThis New Plushy Pp
Luxury Seems to Be Fatal . . , .' 1 1
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I (Killtor'n note: That gal'i buck .iifuln!
Khr'M none other thun Surah l.nulw Meyer,
ertttuhllp Dally Nebraskun front puice col
umillHt wlioae day to tlay patter oil life,
Hex and Muff mire evoked crlllcltmi botn
fuvorahlp and linfavomhl,- from all iiar
ter. "Slim" vlnlled the IUk Maft the
other duy In Hn new qunrtcrN In the I'nlon.
Her randld Impreftftliinii reunited frtfnl her
dojourn. I!er Mrlklnic rompiirinon, of the
old and the new merited publication in
her old love the,' Kaa.
Moss backed alumni always feel
that they have a special privilege
to weep into their long white
beards at how the old school has
gone to pot without them. I never
was one to pass up a prerogative.
My moan Is re the Rag.
The Daily Nebraskan has
snorky new headquarters, with
pretty little new desks and darl
ing little new tables and cunning
little new chairs and adorable lit
tle new phones. There is light
where once all was darkness,
safety where once there were quiv
ering ceilings and crumbling walls.
It s all very sweet, but it Isn t
the Rag office of yesteryear.
All Gone.
It's all gone the pungent qual
ity that made the old Rag office to
memory forever sacred. The art
New Deadline to Aid
Eligibility Checking
is gone. Only grimy fingerprints
grace the walls where, in a better
world, were lewd limericks, phone
numbers, IOUs, a rogue's gallery,
and staff memoranda. Even the
present society editors are out
beautied by their surroundings.
The tone is gone. Because of
the bad echo, whispering is vir
tualiy a necessity, wnere once
ringing orders rang and blunder
ing reporters W2re dressed down
to their last corpuscle. "Pshaw"
and "dad-burn-it" supplant the
mellow, mouth-filling oaths once
rolled around the tongue by con
nisseurs. Fire Gone.
The fire is gone the fire in the
Lwastebaskets, the fire in the In
dian rassies, me rire tnat nymned
down the journalism platitudes in
the room overhead. The fire of
Fire and Sword is gone that fire
which dared to expose entrenched
administrative grafters, athletic
affluence, and the school's two
Buick families.
The life is gone the animal life,
for example. No more does a
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Ramsay Opens
Lecture Series
Corn Cobs
Plan Rally
Pep Club to Send Off
Gridsters in Gala Style
Corn Cob workers and actives
met last night to discuss plans for
the pre-game rally and sendoff to
be staeed tomorrow afternoon and
begin, preparation for activities
connected with the homecoming
game with Missouri Oct. 29.
Gcorce Rosen, president of the
pep croup, announced that Corn
Cobs would be the sole agency
throuch which tickets to the home
coming party after the Missouri
game may be purchased.
Ralph Rcetl, Corn Cob member
of the rally committee, requested
that "all workers who do not have
4 o'clock classes tomorrow be on
hand on the Union steps at 4
o'clock to assist in keeping order
at tle rally."
Workers who are free at 2 to
morrow afternoon are urged to re
port on the steps to assist in pre
paring the float vhich will boar
Husker gridders ns they are es
corted to the Missouri Pacific de
pot, where they will entrain for
Norman, Okl., at 4:30 o'clock.
No Impromptu Rallies.
Louie Anderson, treasurer of
the club emphasized that "under
no circumstances should Corn Cobs
take part in any impromptu ral
lies begun by students during class
periods on Friday. Corn Cob activ
ities," he stated, "are purely in an
official capacity and no unortho
dox methods of rallying will be
carried on by any members of the
group.''
A report of novelty sales the
L. f 1 1 l...ll..n
and hctween noon and game lime
showed a sharp increase over .tales
for the Iowa State game. Pros
pects of a mass trip to the Kansas
game Nov. 5 were brightened when
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ENGINEERS SOCIETY
POSTPONES MEETING
Today's meeting of the Deto
noers, advanced engineers' society,
has been postponed until Oct. 27
when the group will meet at 7:30
in a room of the Student Union
which will be announced later.
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RAY RAMSAY.
Lincoln Journal.
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Alumni Secretary
Specks in Union Today
On Paradox of Mexico
"Mexico the Land of Contradic
tion" is the topic Ray Ramsay of
the Alumni association will discuss
in the opening lecture of a series
to be conducted by the romance
language department.
The lecture will consist partly
in a series of contradictions no
ticed by Mr. Ramsay during his
recent tour of Mexico. When
asked what he based his opinion
on he said, "Mexico shows evi
dence of being the oldest civiliza
tion in the world yet Mexico City
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Meat Judges
Win Honors
Ag Students Receive 1st
Place in Kansas City
Agricultural college's meat judg
ing team won first place at the
American Royal Tuesday in Kan
sas City, and thereby gained per
nianent possession of the trophy
offered in the largest event of its
kind.
Eleven collegiate teams were en
tered in the competition more
than ever before. Five of the com
peting institutions, Illinois, Mis
souri, Nebraska, Iowa State and
Kansas State, each had two vic
tories to their credit in the U pre
ceding meat judging contests, the
series beginning in 1927. Threo
victories were required for perma.
nent possession of the trophy of
fered by the national livestock and
meat board In co-operation with
the American Royal.
The Nebraska team placed first
In beef, first in lamb, and third in
pork, thus gaining a 56 point lead
over South Dakota, which placed
second. Texas A. & M. was third
and Kansas State fourth.
Edward Zahm of Spaldinir. Neb..
was high man in the contest, and
Russell Jacobsen oft St. Edward
wa sthird high individual, and Ray
cruise, uuricy, tied for ninth
place. In the separate classes
Zahm placed first in pork, first in
lamb and fourth in beef. Jacobsen
was third in beef and Cruise
eighth in beef.
The meats judging team of Ne
braska has placed first at the In
ternational in Chicago on four dif
ferent occasions 1926, 1928, 1935
and 1937. The 1928 victors were
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ligibility Rules
Following are the rules on
eligibility for the coming stu
dent election as anonunced by
the student council committee
on eligibility.
Definition of class standing:
24-52 hours inclusive Sopho
more.
53-88 hours Inclusive Jun
ior.
89-125 hours Inclusive Sen
ior.
Rules governing the com
ing election:
1. Only senior women who
have properly filed may be
candidates for honorary colo
nel.
2. Only sophomore or junior
women who have properly filed
may be candidates for Nebras
ka sweetheart.
3. Only seniors who have
properly filed may become can
didates for senior presidency.
4. Only juniors who have
properly filed may .become can
didates for junior presidency.
The general university rule
which states that eligibility for
any student activities requires
the carrying of 12 hours satis
factorily; completion of 27
hours during the last two se
mesters and at least 12 during
the last semeter of attendance.
Eligibility rules for voters:
1. Every student properly
registered in the university
may vote for honorary colonel.
d. Men students only may
vote for Nebraska sweethearti
3. Every qualified senior
may vote for senior class presl
dent.
4. Every qualified junior
may vote for junior class presi
dent.
Filings for candidates on the
election must be made before
o'clock Friday afternoon in the
student activities office in the
coliseum.
Bizad Delegates
Meet in Texas
Editor to Speak
At Temple Today
Organizations Asked
To Relinquish Rooms
Filing deadline for candidates on
the fall election ballot next Tues
oay nas been moved up one
day to 5:00 this afternoon in
stead of Friday afternoon of this
week, according to an announce
ment by Bob Simmons, chairman
of the Student Council elections
committee, in Council meeting yes
terday afternoon. The change in
date has been made in order to ex
pedite checking of eligibility,
stated Simmons.
Members of the faculty will
check student Identification in
Tuesday's election and also take
charge of all handling of the bal
lots, including counting. Polls on
tne city campus will be in the
basement corridor running east
and west in the Student Union.
Voters will enter at the west end
for identification and proceed to
the east to cast their ballots. Pic
tures on identification cards will
be required and only duly identi
fied voters and officials will be
allowed in the hall during polling
hours from 8 a. 111. to 5 p. m. On
the agricultural college campus,
polls will again be set up in Dean
W. W. Burr's office.
Recommendation Voted.
The Council voted a recommenda
tion to some 20 student organiza
tions that they voluntarily relin
quish space alloted to them in the
two large rooms occunvine the
northeast corner of the second and
third floors of the Union respec
tively. It was the request of the
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BARCLAY ACHESON.
Lincoln Journal.
Traveler, Philosopher,
Author to Compare
Freedom, Progress
Pfeiler Talks
Before PBK
Language Professor
Flays German Writers
Alpha Kappa Psi Holds
Convention in Dallas
Delegates of the Nebraska
chapter of Alpha Kappa Psi, pro
fessional business administration
fraternity, left early today
Dallas, Tex., where they will at- j approximately fifty members of
tend a convention of Southwest 1 pv,i m Kan nr h0 st,innt
Territory chapters. The group j ... . . . . .
nlint inf.,,.
Modern German writers are
purely Irrational and more or less
sentimental in their writings, Pro
fessor W. K. Pfeiler, of the Gel-
foe , manic language department told
Speaking on the subject, "Free
domthe Mental Climate for Pro
gress," Barclay Acheson, associate
editor of Reader's Digest and
world-renowned philosopher and
author, will address the second all
university convocation of the year
this morning at 11 o'clock in the
Temple theater.
Widely known as a brilliant
speaker, Acheson has been recog
nized by a number of governments
for services which he has rendered
them. Several years ago he admin
istered some 80 millions of dollars
for relief in the near east, Rus
sia, Turkey, Bulgaria, and Greece.
A varied career, full of vivid
personal experiences and close ob
servation of world current events,
gives a conviction to Acheson's
words that audiences find ex
tremely stimulating, according to
Dr. C. H. Oldfather, dean of the
college of arts and sciences, who
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Union Shows
Films Sunday
DeCou Presents Color
Movies of Hawaii ot 4
Greeks Vofe
On Yearbook
Contracts
Council Meets Horn's
Terms; Makes Others
Confronted with the same prob
lem of Cornhusker contracts, the
inter-fraternity council Tuesday
night repeated its action of y-ars
past and voted to meet terms re
quested by the yearbook for fra
ternity pages.
A special committee composed
of Wynn Tolbert, Lambda Chi
Alpha; William Sawtell, Delta Tau
Delta; and Ralph Ludwick, Sigma
Alpha Epsilnn, will compile a list
of recommendations for fraternity
pages. This committee will also
examine the fraternity contracts
before they are sent to the Greek
houses.
At a previous meeting, members
of the council heard Max Horn,
jy.j yearnpoK business manager,
explain the costs for compiling,
editing and printing a fraternity
page. Horn is asking $50 for a
double page fraternity section.
The same price was paid last year.
Discussion at previous meetings
brought out the fact that frater
nities are paying a higher rate for
space than the military or athletic
departments. The athletic depart
ment, however, will pay the fra
ternity rate this year, Horn pointed
01a.
Suggestions that a cheaper Ira
ternity rate be compiled by Using
cheaper engraving and paper met
with little favor at the meeting
Tuesday night. Since the yearbook
is primarily a fraternity and so
rority book, it was pointed out,
they must help pay for page3 not
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included Kenneth Ellis, president:
Harold Swan, vice president; Roy
Broyhill, and Bernard Ingram.
C. D. Spangler, faculty advisor
for the Nebraska chapter and
section chief, left Tuesday to at
tend the convention.
The meetings of the convention
will be held Friday and Saturday
in the Adolphus hotel and the pro
gram of the convention will also
include several industrial field
trips. William J. Luby, grand
president, will preside at the
meeting.
The delegates from the local
chapter also plan to attend the
Centennial Exposition at Fort
Worth.
Professor Pfeiler made an ex
tensive tour of Germany last sum
mer and contacted most of their
influential writers. He had con
sultations with editors of Berlin's
biggest papers and periodicals as
well as a number of foremost
writers.
According to Pfeiler, the World
war played an important part in the main ballroom of the Union
German literature. It changed the
German writer from an irrational
thinker to one of a factual and
stem complex. However, he feels
that Germany and its literature
are once more going back to the
irrational writing that existed be
fore the war.
Engineers
Visit Omaha
Students View Airport,
Pump Station Projects
Thirteen civil engineering stu
dents left Lincoln yesterday morn,
ing under the direction of Profes
sor Henry J. Kcsner, of the
civil engineering department, for
Omaha where they made an in
spection trip through the Omaha
airport, pumping .station, and the
Missouri river improvement proj
ect. The group, which left at 7
photographer, will present his o'cloi-k yesterday morning, was
inei 111 umana ov J. c Detweiler,
of "the Metropolitan Utilities Dis
trict, who conducted the inspection
tour.
After inspecting: the airnort
histravel wncrc runway enlargement proj-
K s en is Deing carried 011, tne stu
of' the llents proceeded to an inspection
of the pumping station. From the
pumping station the group took a
boat trip down the river viewing
the river improvement project
from the boat. The group returned
to Lincoln last night.
Brondson De Con, world famous
tecnnicolor movies ot Hawaii, in
the Union nt 4 o'clock Sunday
afternoon instead of 7:30 in the
evening, ns previously scheduled.
mis change in tune was neces;
tatcd by .1 change in
plans, according to Mrs. K. S
Yinger, social director
Union.
The pictures will be shown in
Dictionary Tops Union Library Book Poll
OURY TELLS PHALANX
OF WAR EXPERIENCES
Phalanx, military honorary, held
a rush smoker Tuesday evening
1 at which Col. W. H. Oury was the
guest of honor. The colonel gave
an interesting account to the
group of his experiences with the
1st Nebraska Infantry in the
Philippines in 1898. Chairman of
the event was Ted Pflueger.
D. M. DRIBIN TALKS
ATMATHSEMINAR
Dr. D. M. Dribin will lead the
second in a series of mathematics
seminars this afternoon at 2
o'clock in room 302 of Mechanical
Arts when he talks on "Algebraic
Number Fields and Algebras." All
graduate students Interested in
math are especially invited to attend.
Coeds See Hitler, Mussolini
'Fuehrer's Bodyguards Are Swell Dancers Wonderful Personalities'
Seeing both Hitler and Musso
lini, having dates with Hitler's
bodyguards, witnessing Spanish
refugees pouring into France, and
many other unusual experiences
fell to the lot of two Nebraska co
eds during their stay In Europe
last year. The girls Nan and Har
riet Talbot who were in France
and all over Europe from June,
. 1937, until August, 1938, saw his
tory In the making.
The girls left United States in
June of 1937 for Paris, where they
Corn Cobs Sell Ducats
For Homecoming Party
Exclusive handling of tickets
for the all-university Home
coming party after the Mis
souri game, Oct. 29, have been
reserved for Corn Cobs, men's
pep club. Tickets may now be
purchased from any Corn Cob
for fifty cents per couple.
Tho orchestra for the party
has not yet been contratced and
final arrangements have not
yet been completed, but those
students handling the party as
sure purchasers of tickets that
thy will receive their monsy'i
wsrth.
spent a term in a French school.'
During their stay in Paris, Hitler
astounded the entire world when
he marched into Austria and an
nexed that country to Germany.
No blaring headlines announced
the oppression on the streets of
Paris for the people there seemed
to bo expecting such a thing to
happen according to Nan.
With but one month of school
remaining before they could Ftart
a previously arranged trip thru
Europe which would take them di
rectly to Vienna in Austria, the
girls worked overtime and fin
ished their schedule in three
weeks.
Vienna Interlude.
They arrived in Vienna at the
end of the month to find the popu
lation depressed and sad. The city
was literally flooded with propa
ganda agitating the supresston of
the Jews. All Jewish shops were
closed and huge signs denouncing
the race were painted on the few
windows which had not been
boarded up or broken. The entire
populace of the city seemed re
signed to accept any fate that
might be theirs. It was not the
city of beauty and romance as por
trayed In the many songs.
From Vienna, they went to
Munich, Germany. Hitler was In
Munich at the same time with his
staff. At a festival in the city, the
two sisters met two of Hitler's
bodyguards. The next night they
had dates with them for a waltz
ing party. According to Harriet,
they were "wonderful dancers and
both had swell personalities." Tho
two officers had little knowledge
of the English language and most
of the conversation during the eve
nlng was carried on by a handy
little German-American pocket
dictionary.
German Reconstruction.
Thruout the entire country of
Germany, they found practically
every able bodied man In uniform.
Everyone seemed hnppy and there
was very little unemployment
thruout the whole nation.
From Germany, their trip took
them north Into Norway and
Sweden. Whllo In Norway, they
observed the effects of the mid'
night sun in all of its beauty. At
the time of their visit In that
country, the days were 18 hours
long.
from me Scandinavian coun
tries, they went back through Ger
many. During a brief stay in the
nortnern part, they found the peo
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Lutheran Bible
Students Meet
Rev. Erch Leads
Study Group Today
The Lutheran Bible study group
will meet today at 5 o'clock in
Temple, room 203, for the second
meeting of the year under the su
pervision of Rev. H. Erck.
A general theme is chosen for
the year. This topic Is "What does
the Bible say?" Then each week
a special phase is chosen from this
subject and discuss. Today's ques
tion will be "What does the Bible
say about complicity in sinful
practices? '
Last week at the first meeting a
large attendance was present, ac
cording to Rev. Mr. Erck, and he
further urges any other students
interested to come today.
Miss Topping
ToTglkatY.W.
Religious Worker Set
For Lecture Tonight
Helen Topping, former secretary
of Japan's religious leader, Kag
awa, will arrive In Lincoln today
to speak at the Y. W. C. A. tonight
at 7:30 on the topic "Cooperation
and Peace,''
Although Miss Topping Is not
representing Kagawa now, she has
truveled through almost every
country In tho world spreading his
doctrines. She has also written
a pamphlet explaining Kagawa's
work.
Admission to the meeting:,
which Is being jointly sponsored
by the university and the Y. W.
C. A., will be free, according to
J. D. Epp, representative of the
unlversily and Miss Elsie Wick,
representative of the council of
churches. A free will offering
will be solicited.
building and from advance reports
should be the most outstanding
ever shown in Lincoln. De Con,
a world wide traveler, will make
comments upon the pictures ns
they are being shown. His wide
knowledge of facts and tales of
strange experiences lend a new
fascination to the pictures which
put them on n level far above the
average traveltalk.
There will be no charge for the
pictures. De Cnu is being brought
Counselors Scrap-Book
Group to Meet Today
A meeting of the coed counselor
scrap book group will be held in
the scrap book corner, tho south
east room of Ellen Smith hall, this
afternoon at 4 o'clock. Scissors
200 Students
Signify Choice
Seacrest Grant Buys
Most Popular Volumes
Running the dictionary a close
second was the book "With Malice
Toward Some" in the student book
poll held last week in order to de
termine what new books should lie
placed on the shelves of the Stu
dent Union Book Nook. More
than 200 students voted and made
suggestions concerning books and
magazines.
According to Helen Elizabeth
Claybuugh, chairman of the com
mittee In charge, the poll as a
whole was very successful, Tho
books and magazines which re
ceived the most votes will be
bought and placed in the Book
Nook.
The uggestions ranged from
Homer's "llllad" to "Slogum
House." An enterprising humor
ist suggested a novel, "More
Women." The committee is now
wondering if it could possibly be
a sequel to "Little Women."
From a student in the graduate
college comes this suggestion;
"Breaking World's Records and
Rules of the Road Are the Durable
Satisfaction of Life.'' Supposedly
It Is a hobo manual but the com
mittee Is convinced it's bum stuff.
and magazines will be ready for
work to becin under the riinvtinn
to Lincoln thru the efforts and of Charlotte Utt.
funds of the Union. , .,
Mrs. Yinger also announces a
dance which will be held in the
main ballroom after the broad
cast of the Neliraska-Oklahonm
game Saturday afternoon. It will
be a matinee dance and there will
be no charge.
TAP DANCING GROUP
MEETS TONIGHT AT 7
A coed counselor tap-dancing
group meeting will be held tonight
at Ellen Smith at 7 o'clock. The
dancing is under the direction of
Mary Kline.
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Ex-Columnist Glories
Passing of Old 'Rag9
BARBS PLAN DANCE
SATURDAY IN UNION
The Barb dance this Satur
day In the Union ballroom will
begin at 7 o'clock and last until
10:30. Tho Barb Union Is
handling the publicity for the
meeting which Includes several
posters and the Barb A. W, S.
is taking care of tht arrangements.
'Those Were Good Old Days'
But Look at Better New Ones
By Bruce Campbell.
"Those were tho good old days."
Adam probably said that to him
self after he lost his lease on the
Garden of Eden. Every old foot
ball player says it at reunions and
recalls the time he "got even"
with an opponent by a knotted fist
placed forcibly against the other's
beak or his team bruised bodies
with the "flying wedge" forma
tion. But were those the good okl
days? Look what we have now.
In contrast with Adam, wo are
perfectly free to eat all the apples
we want to without literally eating
ourselves out of house and home.
Football players have bettrr
equipment, are protected by better
rules and given better attention
with the result that there are far
fewer casualties.
"Those were tlv good old days."
So say rag workers who slaved
In U hall's dungeons but missed
the Student Union Era. Tradition,
they claim, has been trampled on.
So much the better, Tradition Is of
little consequence in a changing
world. All precedent Is not 1
good precedent. Politicians, it Is
moaned, no longer use the "Rag"
office as a hangout and thus lend
the office an atmosphere (or
ouor). Ts.k, tsk. Is the "Rag's''
duty to mix 'n politics or to In
vestigate It? Should it be ln
tegratcd In, or distinguished from
politics? If a new office does
away with a political tie-in, is It -rt
Intellectual and moral Improve
ment or not ?
"Kag' alumnae regret that wild
oaths arp no longer sown In the
office. This la not tho fault of
the surroundings, It Is the fault, or
virtue, of tho personnel.
Off with the old, on with the
new, we say. And In concluding
with a comment on tho practic
ability of hnvlng better surround
ings and better furniture, may we
point out that psychologists sho
that better an1 more concentrated
brain work Is done when the
physical body Is relaxed and com
fortable, and not cramped, pro
vided tho Incentive la the same.