Jewett to speak
to June grads
Famed engineer accepts invitation to deliver
address at commencement exercises
The Official Newspaper of More Than 6,000 Students
TUESDAY, MAKCU 2, 1939
Z 408
VOL. XXXVIII, NO. 11.6
Vomcn elect
May Queen
tomorrow
Junior, senior coeds
nlso select Mortar
Board candidates
To select the May Queen, the
senior girl who will reign over
the traditional festivities of Ivy
Day. crowning event of the year's
activities, senior and junior wom
en will cast their voles Wednes
day, March .29. Nominations for
Mortar Board members to be
ma3ked on Ivy Day will also be
made upon this election day .
Eligibility requirements include
an 80 scholastic average, four
years of school at Nebraska, one
R activity, and no outstanding de
linquencies. To be a candidate the
girl must be carrying at least 12
hours and have credit for 27 hours
in her junior year.
The reauirements governing
Mortar Board candidates are the
same as those governing the May
Oneen election, except that the
candidates must be of junior
standiner and have full intentions
of returning to school the follow
ing year.
Identification cards necessary.
Appearing on the May Queen
ballot will be: Phylis Chamber
lain, Harriet Cummer, Virginia
Nelte, Barbara Marston, Heden
Pascoe, Phyllis Robinson, Jose
phine Rubnitz, and Muriel White.
Voters must designate not less
than five and not more than 20
choices for Mortar Board. The 30
girls receiving the greatest num
ber of ballots will compose the
group from which the present
Mortar Board chapter will choose
its new members.
Identification cards will be nec
essary to vote. Members of the
active chapter of the society will
supervise the election. Tolls will
he onen in Ellen Smith hall and
the Home Economics building on
aeo-campus from 5 to 9 ociock.
Of the 30 eligible women any
of them may have their names re
moved from the ballot if they do
not wish to compete in the eiec
tion.
Chcm fraternity
to initiate ten
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DR. MICHAEL GINSBURG.
. . . recieves fellowship.
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Dr. Ginsburg
wins $2,500
fellowship
Study of Roman social
policy earns professor
J. S. Guggenheim award
Dr. Michael Ginsburg, associate
professor of classics, was awarded
yesterday a John Simon Guggen
heim fellowship for study ot tne
social policy of the Roman Em
perors in their efforts to improve
the conditions ot tne economically
weaker groups of Roman society.
Dr. Ginsburg is the first mem
ber of the Nebraska faculty to
win a Guggenheim fellowship
while teaching here. This year 60
such fellowships were awarded,
each with stipends of $2,500 a
year. The fellowship winners were
chosen from a field of l.uuu can
didates. May go abroad to study.
Plans for his study are not def
inite, Dr. Ginsburg said, except
that he may possibly go to Eng-
(See GINSBURG Page 4.)
Union to show
color movies
Lincoln Journal.
DR. RUFUS A. LYMAN.
. . . discusses marriage.
Lyman to lead
forum today
on marriage
Pfeilcr to address Phi
Lambda Upsilon dinner
Ten students in the department
rtf chemlstrv of the University of
Nebraska will be Initiated Into
rhl Lambda Upsilon, honorary
istrv fraternity, at a meet
ing of the University chapter to
night. Initiation ceremonies will be at
5:30 o'clock in the Cornhusker ho
tel, with a dinner and program
fol'owing.
Dr. W. K. rfeilcr of the depart
ment of Germanics will give the
evening address, and Jack Clem
of Shoshone, Ida., president ot the
fraternity, will preside.
The following students w'U be
initiated:
Donald O. Cain. Lincoln, Rradual tu
dfnt; Oliver A Uarmo, Trentun, crmlu
ata atudent: C.irald A. (iries.i, Kearney,
emduuta mudeni: llnntl A. l'ullerton. jr.,
Kiniix KallH. H. !.. Kraduala Undent;
Kloyd O. Kuhler, M iri'in, la., graduate
atudent; Ralph K. M It-gel, Kama City,
Mn . aenior: JacH K. Morgan, Wayne.
Kraduate atudenl; Oeorce P. Mueller, Jr.,
I.inrciln. Junior: Rlcliard K. Schleuter,
Kent-saw, Junior; Melvin O. Schwab, Sut
ton, Junior,
Lbrary offers student
exams for positions
Students v. ho wish part, time
positions in the library may take
the annual competitive examina
tion on April 1. Students are
asked to apply as soon as pos
sible to Mrs. Consuelo S. Gra
ham at her office near the loan
desk on the main floor of the
library. The examination will be
held In the reserve reading
room, llbarary at 9 a.m. on
April 1.
Dr. Rufus A. Lyman, dean of
the college of pharmacy, will lead
an open forum on the subject of
"Courses in Marriage." scheduled
by the Student Council for this
morning at 11 o'clock in Union
Parlors Y and Z.
Dr. Lyman will speak briefly
on the subject by way of intro
duction before starting off the
group discussion. Students are in
vited to question him on any
problems relating to the general
subject during the discussion.
This Is another in the scries of
forums scheduled during the
school year by the Council on
topics of current interest to uni
vcrsity students. Today's meeting
is open to anyone free at that
hour.
The Council forums committee
Is headed bv Bob Waugh and
Emma Marie Schuttloffel.
Photographer brings
pictures of northwest
Expert photography showing
natural-color scenes of the picture
sque northwest will be available
to university students and faculty
at 4 o'clock today in the Union
ballroom.
According to Prof. Nels A.
Dengtson, chairman of the geo
graphy department, these films
represent the last word in color-1
sound motion pictures, and have
been accorded highest praise from
experts. Glacier National Park
will be shown with the "Monatana
Land of the Shining Mountains,"
its Canadian neighbor, the Water-
ton Lakes Park, and the Black
foot Indians in native costumes
and traditional ceremony.
Railroad gives free showing.
On its way to the New York
World's Fair, the film will be
shown once in Lincoln, and twice
in Omaha. Through the courtesy
of the Great Northern railroad and
its Omaha representative, Mr. Wil
liam Blonder, the pictures will be
shown free of charge, and will be
of great interest not only to pros
pective vacationists but also to
professional and amateur camera
enthusiasts.
William T. Yale, expert camera
man of the Great Northern rail
road, will be here to show the
film personally, coming from Cali
forma on his way to tbo New
York Fair. Presiding will bo Prof.
Bengtson, through whose af forts
the pictures have been brought to
Lincoln.
Dr. Frank Baldwin Jewett, vice president of the American
Telephone and Telegraph company, will be the university com
mencement speaker this year, it was announced yesterday by
Chancellor C. S. Boucher. Dr. Jewclt, recipient this year or
the John Fritz medal, the highest American engineering hono-.
will address approximately 870
graduates at the commencement
exercises, which will be held in the
coliseum on June 5.
The graduation speaker is one
of the outstanding communication
engineers in the United States and
has been awarded honorary
doctor's degrees in science, engine
ering, and law by nine universities
throughout the country.
Among the numerous national
awards he has received are the
Edison medal, the Faraday medal
of the Institution of Elecerical
Engineers, the medal of the
Franklin Institute, the United
State's distinguished service a
ward, two honorary awards from
the Japanese government includ
ing the Fourth order of the Rising
Sun and the Third order of the
Sacred Treasure, and the Fritz
medal of this year.
. Advanced communications.
Dr. Jewett has made many
important advances in the field
of research including work in
such important fields of electrical
communication development as the
transcontinental telephone service,
a problem which seemed to pre
sent insuperable difficulties; the
vacuum tube, introduction and
development of machine switching
on a large scale, and highspeed
submarine telegraph service.
He became associated with the
company, of which he is now vice-
Tassels, girls' organization, will president, in 1904, as a regular
choose officers for tne ensuing
year this evening when they meet
at 7 o'clock in the Union.
Nominees for the officers nave
already been chosen by a com-
miHoA consisting or uve semui
members in Tassels but will be
kept secret prior to the time of
the voting.
Officers to be selected win dc
president, vice president, secretary
treasurer, reporter an nomina
tions chairman. M e m d e r s now
serving in these capacities arc
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DR. FRANK B. JEWETT.
Tassels elect
heads tonight
Nominees for offices
to be disclosed at session
(See JEWETT Page 4.)
NU students
ask Fair jobs
New York exposition
work attracts fifty
Approximately fifty University
Virginia Nolte, Harriet Cummer, of Nebraska students have applied
Priscilla Wicks, Selma Hill. Mary for jobs to act as guides and rol-
Steutevillc, and Helen Kovanaa, iar chair operators at this sum-
respectively, mer s New York World s Fair,
Supervising the election win i.- according to it. - u. jvioruz,
the sponsors of Tassels, Miss director of the Educational ser
Thelma DeForest, faculty advisor, vice department. The jobs, offered
and Miss Jean Walt, alumnae by the American Express Conces
advisor. Serving on the nominat- sion company, are restricted to
ing committee were Virginia men between the ages of 19 and
Nolte, Harriet Cummer, h,ditn 25, who have had one year of coi-
Filley and Maxine Fcdorie. lege.
iue to an unexpected aemana
for application blanks, the place
ment bureau was unable to pro
vide several students with appli
cation blanks and consequently
several wrote directly to the
company for blanks. The company
has returned the letters and ad
ditional blanks, which are now
available at the DAILY NEBR-
The dates for the annual hold for thc following students:
U.O.T.C. governmental inspection Wesley G. Macy, Howard G.
have recently been set for May From!Uli Stefan J. Fraenkcl,
17-20. Coming to inspect tne m- Katherine Piazza, Richard Peter-
fantry will be Col. R. B. Dusen- soni Raymond Kaimmer, Charles
bury, from Omaha; to inspect the Browni Augustine Piazza, Marvin
artillery will be Major Larry Mc- j0hnson, Marvin Pitmann, James
Hale, also from umana; ana in- c Carton, Arthur Boye, Paul
specting the engineers will bo Ma- standig, and Chris Peterson,
jor E. P. Kctchum, from St. Louis, other 8ludont3 Who are interested
Mo. The parades, wnicn are given ln securing a job at the fair may
before these dates, will be in prep- also flecure blanks at the DAILY
Army inspection
set for May 17-20
Omaha, St. Louis men
to judge NU ROTC
aration for the inspection.
NEBRASKAN office.
Garbs choose four
delegates to meet
Select Kimc, Ekblad,
Hcnrickson, Woodard
Four delegates to the Indepen
d e n t Student's Association's
second national conference to be
held March 31 to April 1 nt Iw
rence, Kansas were selected yester
day by the Barb Council Melva
Kime, Victoria Ekblad, Francis
Woodard and Arthur Henrickson
will represent Nebraska Barbs.
Prof. E. W. Latz will accompany
the group as faculty 6ponsor.
Students cfcecEi
Educator's
Following Sunday's article in
the DAILY NEBRASKAN. it was
revealed that the Educator's Asso
ciation, Inc. has done a remark
able busings during it's short stay
in Lincoln.
Perplexed and puzzled, many
students began to make a more
thoro check on their contracts and
on what they had really signed.
Several of these students appeared
at the NEBRASKAN to make
further Inquiries concerning the as
sociation and to check thru the re
ports of the federal trade commis
More direct Implication of the
university was brought to light in
l-M debaters
enter semifinals
Four teams debate
6 year term tonight
Sigma Alpha Epsilon will meet
Sigma Alpha Mu and Beta Tlicta
Pi will take on Delta Tlicta Tl
Thursday evening in the semi-final
round of the intramural debate
Representative Russell R. Hayes'
"sales talk" to prospective solici
tors when he claimed that one of
the founders of the organization tournament
was ur. lsesscy nas oeen ulmu ior rwcti, Hiapui To -rto
15 years and so far records of his . . thnt .... nrsil,nf. Hmild he
activities do not reveal any men- fn. . cx.v,.ar term " and
tion of the Educators Association,
Inc.
Continuing Activities.
Meanwhile, representatives of
the organization have been con
tinuing their activities on the cam
pus contacting as many Btudents mcet in the finals.
as possible. To date, their ctlvi- Debates will be he d at the
ties have been confined to men, chapter houses of the affirmative
but since their organization con- teams, nd Judges will be umver
(See EDUCATORS INC. Page 4.) I sity debaters.
the Sig Alpha and Betas will up
hold the affirmative.
Since each team has already lost
one debate, elimination will be
determined by two losses. The win
ners of Thursday's matches will