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VOL. XXXVIII, NO. 31.
LINCOLN," NKMIASKA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 193
Ingram-Smith
To Address
Convo Today
Australian Will Discuss
Native Land in Relation
To Far East, America
Don Ingram-Smith, Australian
delegate to the World Youth Con
ference recently held in New York,
will address a special convocation
on the subject of "Changing Aus
tralia," this afternoon at four
o'clock in Social Science audi
torium. His discussion of his country,
Its institutions, and its policies
during the present times of rapid
change will explain the signifi
cant relation of Australia to the
far east and to the present social
and economic proglems of the
United States.
A graduate of Sidney, Australia,
university, Mr. Ingram-Smith has
studied also at the University of
London and is at the present time
studying modern American cus
toms and habits.
He has spent the last two
months at the studios of the Na
tional Broadcasting company in
New York City. In his native coun
try he Is a well known radio
script writer and announcer, be
ing affiliated with the largest
radio station in the southern hem
isphere, 2GB of Sidney.
Being sponsored by the depart
ments of sociology, history, eco
nomics, political science, and
geography, the convocation will be
open to all university students.
Dean J. E. Le Rossignol of the
college of business administration
will preside.
Tassels Check
Yearbook Sales
Pep Club Begins Last
Week of Drive Tonight
Tassels will assemble this eve
ning In room 316 of the Student
Union for their regular meeting
and weekly check-in of Cornhusk
er sales money and subscriptions.
The group js beginning today
the last week" of the four week
Cornhusker drive, and all of the
houses will be recovered that every
prospective buyer may have the
opportunity of buying the year
book at the campaign price of
$4.50 cash purchase or $4.75 on
the Installment plan.
Tassels will also discuss at their
meeting the migration to Law
rence Saturday, when they will
charter a separate car on Uie foot
ball special.
Architect's Eye-View of Athletic
The finishing of construction of
the reviewing stand entrance on
12th st, north of the campus at
the first of the year will mark
the virtual completion of the en
tire north side improvement proj
ect. Located; on a elope, the struc
ture will overlook a ten acre area
north of the stadium and the coli
seum which has been cleared of
Theta Sigma Phi
Meets Today at 5
Theta Sigma Phi, women's
professional journalism soror
ity, will meet this afternoon at
5 o'clock In Ellen Smith hall.
Inasmuch as the meeting is for
the purpose of organizing the
group's activities for the year,
Evelyn Taylor, president, urges
that all members attend.
Forum Hears
Artists Talk
Townsend, Kirsch Set
For Meeting Tonight
Addressing the fourth in a scr
ips of vocational forums tonight
in Gallery A, Morrill hall, Terry
Townsend, Lincoln commercial
artist, will touch on practical
nrnhloms connected with voca
tion in commercial art and will
discuss some of the opportunities
whinh business has to offer the
trained artist.
Dwight Kirsch, head of the unl
vprsitv doDaitment of fine arts
will discuss the development of
industrial desieninc as a profes
sion, the results of government
niH tn Rrtists so far as easel and
mural painting is concerned, and
the effect that increased building
activities may have upon the field
of interior decoration.
This meeting, for persons in
terested in fine arts as a vocation
comes durine American Art Week
and those attending will have the
opportunity to see two special art
exhibitions, in uaiiery a, a com
Drehensive exhibition of the work
of Leonard Thiessen, well known
artist recently returned from
Stockholm, Sweden, is on display,
and on the third floor, an out'
standing collection of designs
executed by students of Miss Rose'
mary Ketcham, nead or we na
tionally known Department of De
signing.
According to Dr. Gregory who
is sponsoring the vocational guid'
ance programs for students at the
university, a good deal of interest
has been shown in the series of
meetings held thus far.
Music Lovers
Plan Auditions
Forming a group to listen to
musical programs over the Union
capart, fifteen students met last
Saturday morning from n i n
o'clock to eleven to hear the Tos
canini concert in parlor C of the
Student Union. Besides this pro
gram, the group is planning to
meet to listen also to the regular
presentations of the Philhnrmon
orchestra and the Ford Sunday
evening hour. Any student inter
ested may come.
all buildings, leveled, sowed with
grass, and fenced, preparatory to
marking off for various practice
fields.
Twenty-four monolithic granite
pillars which were donated to the
university several years ago when
the old Burlington Btatlon of
Omaha was torn down will be
formed In a double row backed by
evergreen trees along 12th st. at
approximately Vine st When
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H. J. Gramlich
Terminates
N.U. Career
Animal Husbandry
Head Gives Farewell
Talk, Receives Ovation
Reiralinir an audience of over
250 agricultural students with hia
wide repertoire of jokes and anec
dotes, Prof. H. J. Gramlich, chair-
Prof.
H. J. Gramlich
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man of the animal husbandry de
partment, gave his "farewell ad
dress" to Nebraska's future agri
culturalists last night in the an
imal husbandry hall.
Professor Gramlich, who leaves
Thursday for Chicago to become
secretary of the American Asso
ciation of Breeders of Shorthorn
Cattle, received & big ovation at
the close of his speech in recogni
tion of his service to agricultural
students as teacher, advisor, en
tertainer and friend.
While he kept his audience in
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Union to Buy All
Of Books on List
Meeting with Dr. Robert A. Mil
ler, university librarian, the book
committee of the Student Union
board decided yesterday afternoon
to buy all the books on the list
compiled as a result of the stu
dent ballot which they considered
to be significant suggestions.
About 200 books will be pur
chased and this selection will be
balanced so as to include a variety
which will be popular with the
greatest number of students. Ac
cording to present plans, more
books will be added from time to
time.
Field Entrance
Sunday Journal and Star,
viewed from the north, It will ap
pear as two sets of wide stairs
dscendlng to the playing fields and
a 28 foot by 50 foot stand, suit'
able for such campus events as
football rallies and parades.
A federal grant and money sup
plied by the university athletic
department is financing the entire
project, without the aid of any
state tax money.
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Campus Plans Annual
Football Migration
Rifles Name
30 Members
New Men to Report
In Full Uniform Today
Names of 30 men who have been
elected to membership in Fershing
Rifles, organization of cadets com
posed of the best drilled men in
University of Nebraska cadet regi
ment, were announced late Mon
day. The new men were admitted to
Company A-2 after a series of try
outs. They will report at Nebraska
hall at 5 p. m. Friday in full uni
form with a white shirt substituted
for the regular khaki shirt. The
non-commissioned officers were
selected by the commissioned of
ficers of the group after try-outs.
Following are the new men and
the new non-commissioned offi
cers: New members: Jack Donovan,
Louis Ouren, Harvey Bierman,
Lauren Barnebey, Lester Mitzncr,
Carl Leonard, William Wiley, Ray
Rolland, Raymond Hensley, Karl
Bamesberger, Richard Wendland,
Russel Repetto, Jack Stewart,
Harry Rindcr. Joe Krohn, Robert
Aden, Jack Wiedman, Glen Moon,
Frank Weible, Jack Hoenig, Roger
Crampton, Oswin Keifer, Harold
Alexis, William Rumbolz, Walter
Guy, Blair Menhofer, Carl Ground,
Lysle Shoenauer, Glenn Hymer, Ed
Huwaldt.
Platoon sergeants: Harry Sea-
gren, Bill Mihk, Jack Rohrbough.
Guides: Leslie Lovercheck, Dave
Livermore, Kay McKay, Leslie
Johnson, Gordon Johnston, Vernon
Vrana, Dean McGrath.
Corporals: William Marshall,
Wayne Cramer, Joe Anderson,
Dean Scheele, John Cockle, Dick
Neu, John Catlin, Frank Protz
man, Fred Henson, Jack McPhail
and Delbert Spahr.
Commissioned officers nave
previously been announced.
Nu-Meds to Hold
Banquet Nov. 2
Dr. Reynolds, Graduate
'33, to Tell Experiences
Dr. Otis Wade, faculty advisor
of Nu-Meds, organization of pro-
medic students, announces a Nil
Med banquet Wednesday, Nov. 2,
at 6:15 in the XYZ parlors of the
Student Union.
The speaker will be Dr. Vern
Reynolds, obstetrician, who gradu
ated in 1933. He will speak on his
experiences during a two year ln
terneship at Bcllevuo Memorial
hospital, New York, nnd his resi
dency at the Hague county, New
Jersey, maternity hospital.
Price of banquet tickets Is 35
cents.
Coeds Faint, Pen Farewells,
As 'Mars Men Wage War'
Unusual Radio Program
Brings Campus Hysteria
Death! Destruction! New York
In Flaming Gases! Men from Mars
waging a war which in a few
hours will destroy the United
States, the World. Last night these
words leaped from the radio to
startle gullible listeners into
frenzy. Around the Nebraska cam
pus in their homes girls screamed,
crlod, collapsed. Throughout the
country people phoned Uie pollen,
firemen, railroads, airports, radio
stations, nnd friends.
The girls at Carrie Belle Ray
mond prepared for their few re
maining hours on earth. In a
frenzy one wrote a sad farewell
letter to her love, not pausing to
thing what special spirit would
save the postoi'fice from destruc
tion. Up In her bedroom another
Student Council Takes
Care of Trip Details
Leaving Saturduy morning at
7 o'clock, a special train exclu
sively reserved for Nebraska uni
versity students, will carry mem
bers of Corn Cobs and Tassels,
players on the Freshman football
squad, musicians in the university
band, and nearly 150 other stu
dents to Lawrence, Kas., on the
annual football migration.
Student special railroad tickets
anil tickets to the game are now
on sale in the athletic office in
the coliseum". Train tickets are
$4.20, round trip; reserved seat
tickets in the Nebraska section are
priced at $2.25.
Tickets for the special train will
be sold only to university students
upon presentation of Identification
cards nnd pictures, according to
Mr. Selleck, athletic business man
ager. Corn Cobs and Tassels, uni
versity pep clubs, are expecting to
number nearly 80 members to
gether. Mass Pep Luncheon.
According to Lewis Anderson,
treasurer of Corn Cobs, actives
and workers in the group will be
allotted certain percentages of
their railroad fare, with some
members receiving full fare and
other fractional parts. Amount of
work done since the clubs activ
ities began this year will be the
ruler of apportionment.
Negotiations are being made
with the men's pep club on the
Kansas university campus to ef
fect a Joint luncheon before the
game for the two men pep cluba
of the two schools. Nebraska's
cheering groups will march with
the university band to the center
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Students View
Mexican Comedy
Spanish Department
Plans First Movie
First of the 1938-39 series of
Spanish moving pictures to ba
sponsored by the romance lan
guages department, a musical
romedv called "Jalisco nunea
Pler.le'," or "Jalisco Never Loses,"
will be shown Saturday morning,
Nov. 9, at the Kivn theater.
"Jalisco Never Loses" Is a pic
lure dedicated to Mexican music,
featuring the latest Mexican song
hits as sung by the Marlachis and
directed by Ixjrenzo Barcelata, the
most popular Mexican composer.
The show also features Chaflan,
who In Mexico's top comedian.
In order to accommodate stu
dents who have Saturday clarses,
the film will be screened three
times, at 8, 9:30 nnd 11 o'clock.
Tickets may bo purchased In the
romance languages office, U hall
108.
who had been 111 all day flew to
the phone and sobbed last words
to her bewildered family. Several
girls took the easy way out and
fainted, while calmer sisters tried
to revive them. One grabbed a
comb and compact crying: "They
can't see me like this," while her
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Bernard Dalton Talks
To AIEE Tonight
Feature of a grt-togetlier smoke
to be given tonight nt 7:30 in
Purlors XYZ of the Union by the
members of the American Insli
tutt! of Electrical Engineers will
bo on address by Bernard J. Dnl
ton, senior electrical engineering
student, on the subject "The Ap
plication of Electrical Theory to
Radio Repairing." Refreshments
will be served at the meeting.