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The Official Newspaper of More Than 6,000 Students
WEDNESDAY, FEBKUARY 8, 1939
VOL. XXXVIII, NO. 83.
2-408
V
Flies
The weatherman
Says fair
And snow files.
You sling the bull
On sex
And time flies.
Herr Hitler makes
A speech
And fur flies.
Oh J. C. on
A crutch.
What a life!
A Song
liest of the
Sure-stop
Come-backs
For philandering
J'" Witches
Is the one.
Mary
Martin
W Gives that keeps 'em In
Stitches:
"My Heart Belongs to Daddy".
Morning Sickness
I've never seen
A purple cow,
I never hope
To see one.
But
This I know
That anyhow
They'd be a helluva lot better'n
pink elephants.
Inter-Fraternity Guide
The Kappa Sigs
Are hardly prigs.
No Lambda Chi
For girls does sigh.
Be-t-etas
Will date Thetas.
An Acacia
Will out-race ya.
NoAGR
Would go too far.
Blows from a Delt
Are muchly felt.
All Theta Chia
Are cagey guys.
. See BARRED BAR8 page 2.
Should the Union open beer
bar, ski jump or polo field?
Students propose new features in activity poll;
also request tiddliwinks, tennis, necking parlor
Oh say, can you ski? Mrs. Vera
Mae Yinger, the Union's magnetic
social director must decide whether
the Union building of the future
should more nearly resemble Mad
ison Square Garden or Grandma's
front room on the afternoon when
the sewing circle meets. But it's
her own fault.
You know those Student Union
Activity Cards you filled out on
the registration table? Well, they
were your worry then, but they're
Mrs. Yingers now.
To please some of the more un
usual requests. Mrs. Yinger would
have to order the basement flooded
and frozen for a skating rink,
erect a ski jump in the lounge,
and use the left-over room for a
bridle path. The parlors could be
converted Into courts for tennis,
badminton and tiddliwinks, or
places for "just plain necking."
Sew what?
One hundred sewing machines
lined up in the third floor corri
dor would give vent to the do
mestic urges some gals admit they
must not suppress, and there
would have to he a place to in
struct a hundred or so more in
knitting. One girl named Some-thing-or-othcr
listed as her first,
second and third choices for ac
tivities she would like to see
started in the Union: 1. Dates,
2. Dates, 3. Dates.
Basket ballroom.
And they didn't forget the ball
room in their request, for that Is
the only place in the Union large
enough to give instruction in bas
ketball, which was by no means
last in popularity.
To please all, Mrs. Yinger would
still have to find room for swim
ming pool, a polo field, croquet
grounds and a hockey field.
And free beer.
Some look forward to the day
when free beer will flow from
the Corn Crib bar, and lessons
will be given for the same price in
'Yellow Seal'
shoots 'em up
in Union show
Western portrays love,
murder, justice; roller
skating also to thrill
Totin two six guns, the "Yellow
Seal" will cavort in the grand
style of the wooly west, when the
old time four reeler "The f Thine
Pirate" comes to the screen in the
Union ballroom Sunday at 4
o'clock.
Mothers stifle their shrieks of
terror and children cower 'neath
the old trundle bed when the sign
of the "Yellow Seal" if found
stamped on the sacred oak door.
What does it mean? Is death or
murder in the offing? The sus
pense is terrific 'till the bitter end,
when stern prairie justice tri
umphs at last.
Sweet, Tender Romance.
Sweet and tender romance of the
plains is portrayed for those with
weak hearts, when the prairie
maid is beguiled by the pirate of
the plains and true love comes into
Its own.
Also on the program for the
Sunday laugh session Is the great
est roller skating exhibition ever
to be presented in the Union. De
fying gravity at the risk of life
and limb the three roller skaters
will provide plenty of thrills and
chills for all.
. Between reels and the skating
act the original "Mortoni the Ma
gician" will exhibit a few of his
well 'known tricks. Harmony at
the price of quality will also pre
vail, when the worst quartet that
Mrs. Yinger can find gives a ren
dition of their repetoire.
poker, pool, and billiards.
Then there were the more esthe
tic enthusiasts who would like in
struction in dancing ballroom,
folk, tango and tap.
Mrs. Yinger did it all for one
purpose to answer the question,
"What should be done to improve
the Student Union?" Now that it's
all over, it leaves one question in
her mind "What should be done
to Improve the Student Union?"
Doll to preside
of farm meetings
Films on soil erosion,
its control to be shown
E. H. Doll, Nebraska Agricul
tural college extension agent In
soil conservation, will preside at a
series of meeting scheduled in six
Nebraska counties beginning Tues
day. Three reels of pictures, taken
in Nebraska, showing erosion and
its control In various parts of the
state, will be exhibited. A review
of the work of the four districts
now organized under the Nebraska
soil conservation district law will
be included in each meeting.
Bengtson writes article
for business magazine
"Economic Geography: Teacher
and Subject" is the title of the ar
ticle written by Dr. Nels A. Bengt
son of the geography department
which appeared in the January is
sue of The Business Education
World.
In his article Dr. Bengtson
points out the importance of the
economic geography teacher and
what qualifications should be re
quired to fulfill the position. The
author speaks of the teacher as
the "forgotten man." By this he
points out the emphasis placed
on technique, curricular studies, of
modern problems while the teach
er is "left out of consideration."
All is not 'Number please?'
in phone operating racket
University dialer casts
aside veil of mystery
Number, please. How many stu
dents have heard this command
given in that clipped English tone ?
When you fellows call the univer
sity number, don't you wonder
what sort of person goes with the
voice? Is she blonde or brunet?
Does she come up to your shoul
ders or the tip of your nose?
In reality she is the small, jolly
type of person with a fascinating
personality. She has been at her
desk in the Administration build
ing for 15 years. Every day she
meets hundreds of people by voice.
When people call her and ask such
questions as "what makes the
snow white," as tney really ao,
she is expected to tell them, or
put in a plug and let the
weather bureau commit them-
ministration building for 15 years.
Every day she meets hundreds of
people by voice. When people call
her and ask sucli questions as
"what makes the snow white," as
they really do, she is expected to
tell them, or put in a plug and let
Prom board
seeks color
Wants lightning, bright
rockets in presentation
To deviate from the traditional
prom pattern, the 1939 prom com
mittee is seeking a plan for a
dazzling display of modernism in
the way of flashes of lightning
and colored rockets in the midst
of which to present this year's
prom girl.
Ten dollars has been set aside
for the person who can conceive
the best method for presenting the
prom girl in the most modern and
startling manner. Cost of the pre
sentation cannot exceed $35.
"Show me how to shoot the
prom girl out of a cannon and
catch her alive, healthy and happy
in a triangular handkerchief, and
I'll know you have the idea," pro
claimed Fred Stiner who is co-
chairman of the presentation com
mittee with Elizabeth Waugh
Something which would be an en
gineer's nightmare, and surpass
even the 1939 World's Fair battle
in modernism with a moment of
complete darkness, then bright
llerhts and modernistic contours
would be Stiner's dream.
Cost Lists Must Accompany Entry
Anyone is eligible, but Imagina
tive engineers will probably have
an edge on the prize money. A
detailed list of expenditures for
the presentation must accompany
each entry.
All entries must be turned Into
the office of the editor of the
DAILY NEBRASKAN by Friday,
Feb. 17.
Boucher offers
honoraria to fund
Chancellor to contribute
to student loan capital
Not only will Chancellor Bou
cher contribute all money received
from out-state lectures to the
student loan fund recently set up.
but he will turn over "all honor
aria received from any and all
services, either within the stati
or outside the state" to the fund,
he stated in a communication to
the DAILY NEBRASKAN yester
day. 'This means not only any hon
oraria that may be received for
speaking engagements but also as
an educational adviser or consult
ant," the chancellor stated
Tassels meet tonight
at 7:30 for game
Tassels are requested to re
port at 7:30 in the check room
of the Coliseum tonight, that
they may march fn together for
the Kansas State-Nebraska bas
ketball game.
the weather bureau commit them
selves. She connects them with the
chemistry laboratory in order to
answer such questions as "will air
go through glass."
Advice Aplenty.
The operators at ag college lis
ten to everything from their un
known friends. They listen to de
scriptions of sick chickens in order
to know with whom to connect
the worried parents. They hear all
about the new types of lice and
bugs on the callers' favorite plant.
The telephone system at the
university is well developed, al
though comparatively old. The old
fashioned "drop system" is used.
There are 186 lines on the uni
versity grounds, and many of these
have extensions. The system has
18 incoming and outgoing lines
which they call "trunks." The five
lines connecting the university
with the ag college are called
"tlelines."
And so, when you lift up the
receiver to give your number, vis
ualize the universitys operator
No. 1 in her blue and white uni
form, sayiifj "number please."
Music pupils
to give convo
Advanced students
to appear today at 4
Advanced students of the school
of music will present the 16th
musical convocation of the year
today at 4 o'clock in the Temple
theater. Representing various in
structors, these students will be
heard in the following program:
Bach, Prelude and Fugue, D
Major, Virginia Tookey (Miss
Klinker).
Charles, When I Have Sung My
Songs; Spross, Let All My Life be
Music, George Joy (Miss Wagner).
Schubert-Heifetz, Impromptu;
Favre. Papillon. Mary Louise
Baker (Miss Zabriskie).
Carpenter, May the Maiden;
Rachmaninoff. In the Silence of
the Night, Dale Ganz (Mr. Tern
pie).
Chopin, Nocturne, D Major, Wil
liam A. Kline. (Mr. Steckelberg).
H. L. Clarke, Nereid, Neil Short
(Mr. Shildneck).
Verdi, Caro nome from "Rigo-
letto," Jean Gutzmer (Mrs. Gutz
mer).
Scriabine, Etude, C Minor; Al
beniz, Cadiz, Romulo Soldevilla
(Mr. Schmidt)..
Van Sant books
new swing band
Specially picked group
to play Saturday, 3-5
Dancing to a brand new swing
band organized expressly for the
Union jam sessions will be fea
turcd next Saturday afternoon
from three to five. Kenneth Van
Sant. Union director, personally
selected a group of musicians,
each of which he thinks is the best
available in his field, to swing and
jive for Union dancers.
The group has been rehearsing
as a unit for the past week. After
noon jam sessions with a band still
have a good deal of novelty, and
with the attraction of the Van
Sant swiii? band, should be an in-
terestinar afternoon pastime. Ad
mission has been est at ten cents."
Crobill tells of Oakland
Bay bridge before ASCE
An illustrated lecture on the
San Francisco-Oakland Bay bridge
was given last night by Maldon
Crabill, engineering student, be
fore a meeting of the American
Society of Civil Engineers.
CrabiU's lecture supplanted a
paper previously scheduled to be
presented last night by Gerald
Gillan, engineering senior. The lec
ture was accompanied by a series
of slides showing the various
phases In the construction of the
bridge.
PBK hears
Dr. Orr tell
life of Lister
Influence of Pasteur,
germ theory, discussed
by Lincoln surgeon
Describing the life and work of
"the man who is responsible for all
that Is best in the technique of the
operation room," Dr. H. W. Orr,
Lincoln orthopedic surgeon, ad-
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Lincoln Journal.
DR. H. WINNETT ORR.
dressed 70 members of Phi Beta
Kappa on "Contributions of Pas
teur and Lister to Modern Sur
gery" last night at the University
club.
Dr. Orr gave an account of Lord
Lister showing the relationship of
his germ theory to surgery and
showing how he was influenced
by his contemporary, Louis Pas
teur. Presenting his address In the
first person, as an autobiography
which Lister might have written
himself, Dr. Orr showed the devel
opment of Lister's work and hi3
ideas which have made modern
surgery easier and safe."
Dr. Orr is the author of num
erous articles, including ''A His
tory of the Nebraska Medical So
ciety," and "A Civilian Surgeon's
Story of the Great War." He has
See DR. ORR page 2.
Freshman AWS
resumes sessions
Coeds hear Kaplan,
Miss Russel today
Freshman A. W. S. meetings
will be resumed today with Ruth
anna Russel and Howard Kaplan
as guest speakers. Ag campus
meeting will be hell at 4 o'clock
and the city meeting in Ellen
Smith at 5.
Ruthanna will discuss the duties
and the organiaztion of the Fair
Board. Kaplan, newly appointed
editor of the Daily Nebraskan will
tell the freshman of the ins and
cuts of the "Rng."
Members of this orientation
group, under the leadership of Vir
ginia Clemens, have been assisting
the A. W. S. board with the Schol
arship Tea by addiessing the invi
tations. Maxine Copsey and Xenia Lind
berg will serve as president and
secretary respectively at the ag
meeting. Betty Jean Benson will
preside and Jean Carnahan will act
as secretary at the city meeting.
All of the new freshmen should
plan to attend this and all future
meetings to become better ac
quainted with the outside activi
ties of the campus.
BULLETIN
There will be no Corn Cob
business meeting tonight. All
actives and pledges will attend
the basketball game, wearing
red sweater. Roll will be taken
at the game and attendance is
Important In card points, o
cording to President George
Rosen.