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The Official Newspaper of More Than 6,000 Students
VOL. XXXV11I, NO. 122
Z 408
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 1939
athletes
may get new
training place
Long-planned structure
looks probable as WPA
to remove dirt at site
Nebraska U. may pet its athletic
building after all. The long-awaited
servk-e structure may become a
reality, it appears, after a WPA
official's announcement Tuesday.
The spokesman stated WPA
would soon begin the removal
of dirt north of the. stadium
to grade the site of the proposed
building to its proper level. Ac
tual construction, however, is to be
delayed until after stadium re
pairs, which are to begin soon, are
nearly completed.
Plans include football space.
The university's athletic depart
ment applied late last summer for
a PWA grant to help defray the
cost of a building: which is to in
clude space for a large indoor foot
ball lield and baseball diamond.
training quarters, classrooms and
offices.
Major Biff Jones made a special
trip to Washington to confer with
PWA officials concerning financial
assistance for the project. He was
informed, however, that TWA aid
could not be given unless previous
ly made allotments were not used.
Allho university officials have
had no word from TWA authori
ties, the local representative of the
WPA announced that his organ
ization was set to work on both
(Sec TRAINING, Pag 3).
Bob Moon is CBS
staff announcer
Ex-NU student handles
Phil Harris programs
Bob Moon of Lincoln, ATO who
attended university here for two
years, is now a "staff announcer
for the Columbia Broadcasting
System. He is now announcing the
Phil Harris programs from Holly
wood. Bob, formerly a Lincoln an
nouncer, cut his affiliations with
the Central States Broadcasting
company early this year and free
lanced until he was offered the
poistion he now holds. While work
ing for KFAB, he announced the
sciies of broadcasts of the Lincoln
Cathedral Choir which were car
ried over a nationwide hookup.
Steeves, Campbell tell tale Alias Ajaddin's
history; origin of Bagdadian brainchild
cost authors last year's Christmas vacation
The mystery of forgotten treas
ures, the pompousness of Bagdad
ian royal life, and incidentally
Arabian nightmares with a thir
teen man harm served to a motley
crowd of "Alias Aladdin first
nighters" April 17, symbolizes to
the co-authors of the skit, Ed
Steeves and Bruce Campbell, the
Beauty Queen
ball planned
Cornhusker to present
year's beauties May 3
For the first time in yearbook
history, the Cornhusker will pre
sent the six Nebraska beauties
chosen by Earl Carroll at a Beauty
Queen ball in the Union ballroom
May 3, the night before Ivy day.
Presentation of the represent
atives of Husker-land beauty will
be handled in much the same
fashion as the presentation of the
Ivy Day queen, according to Max
Horn, Cornhusker business man
ager. "Since," he stated, "the six
Nebraska co-eds theoretically rep
resent the ideal girl on the univer
sity campus, the honor conferred
upon them should be important
enough to warrant a formal pre
sentation as is awarded to the hon
oray colonel and other represent
atives of feminine pulchritude."
Beck, Jungbluth to Play.
Arrangements have been made
with the Beck and Jungbluth or
chestra, to provide the music for
the beauty ball. Admission to the
presentation will be 25 cents a
person.
Year book staff executives ex
(See BEAUTY QUEEN. Page 3).
William Kline to give
senior violin recital today
William Kline senior from Ver
million, S. D., will present his sen
ior violin recital as the regular
convocation today at 4 o'clock in
the Temple.
Kline, who studies with Prof.
Carl Steckleberg, will be accom
panied by Frank Cunkle of the
school of music faculty, follow
ing is his program:
Bach, Sonata in E Major; pre
ludio, loure gavotte, giga rondo.
Beethoven, Concerto in D Ma
jor; allegro ma non troppo,
larghelto, rondo.
Typical high school principal
merely 'teacher with a title'
conclusion of weeks of typing, re
vision and the Bagdadian Allah
only knows what, that is required
for the composition of a successful
show.
Stating that either studies must
puffer for the show or the show
must suffer for the studies, leav
ing it to the prospective audience
to decide which, Bruce Campbell
outlined the history of this year's
production from an embryonic
brain child to the three act Orien
tal comedy.
Devised year ago.
Originating with a skit devised
a year ago at the cost of a Christ
mas vacation and a whole week of
school." Campbell explained, "the
idea for Alias Aladdin has gone
through complete revisions during
the following year. The action has
been speeded up and a number of
new characterizations have been
added.
First came the idea. Not out of
a clear sky. but out of considera
tion of the best way to give heart
throbs and belly laughs to men
with big, yes. very big imagina
tions Leg, they decided, have ap-
NU pharmacists
take eastern trip
Pharmaceutical firms
entertain group of 17
Twelve university pharmacy
students and five chaperons left
last night on the 11:40 Zephyr
for pnints east to be entertained
by two leading pharmaceutical
companies. The group will be gone
for a week. ,
After seeing demonstrations by
the Abbot company of Chicago
tomorrov , they will leave for De
troit where Parke Davis company
will be their hosts Thursday and
Friday. Friday night they will re
turn to Chicago to be dismissed to
do as they please until their re
turn to Lincoln Tuesday.
Besides the students, nurses and
druggists of the state will make
the trip. Chaperons are Dr. and
Mrs. J. J3. Burt, Mr. and Mrs. bred
Buckey and Miss Lucille Mills of
the pharmacy department. Stu
dents making the trip are: Bob
Chambers. Vernon Lierk, Mar
garet Dickerson, Kenneth Millard,
Bob Irvin, Edward Morgan, Harry
Laudenschlager. Theresa Stava,
Norman Leuthauser, Richard
Wood, Olive Leuthauser and Edna
Martin.
Dr. Keniston stresses increasing importance
of scholars to society in convocation address
FiCty-lhree students became members of Phi Peta Kappa
and Siunia Xi at a joint convocation of Ihe two most prominent
of. national honoraries yesterday morning in the Temple when
their names were read to a silent audience. Ten of the 53 were
elected to both societies.
Thilip Southwick of Friend, Arts
and Science senior was top rank
ing Phi Beta Kappa with a four
year average of -94.50 percent.
Southwick was also high ranking
regents' schol
arship winner
four years ago,
making the sec
ond time in so
ciety r e c ends
that a student
has had both of
t h e se honors.
The minimum
grade average
for the group
was 88.09.
Doubly hon
ored by being
elected to botli
honoraries are
11 o y fienn A
T.ln-r.ln Journal.""' '
Thilip Nonthwirk. Epperson, Jane
M. Ettinger, Elmer E. Glenn,
Helen E. Hewitt, Rlaph E. Miegcl,
Byron S. Miller, Donald T. Rice,
Philip Southwick, Clement Theo
bald and Robert J. Weaver.
Besides the students listed be
low, this year's Phi Beta Kappa
students include the November
group of Patricia Cain, Irene Eden,
Evan Evans, Patricia Lahr, Helen
Pascoe, Jane Pennington, Walter
Schroder and Kathryn Werner.
Students elected to Phi Ecu
Kappa are:
Perry V. Bench, Lincoln, Teacher.
I'hiiI J. KhIiiiuIIk, Lincoln, Biialnros Ail-
(Sec P. B. K., Page 3).
peal. Not long legs or sspindly legs
but big hairy 14.5" regulation
sized calves. How can such
extremities be made pleasing to a
varied audience? Their conclusion,
instrumental in the subsequent de
velopment of Alias Aladdin, was
to use a harem for the background
(See ALIAS ALLADIN, Page 51.
Army seniors
seek positions
Names sent to nation's
capital as opening move
The list of seniors taking R. O.
T. C. has recently been sent to
Washington in connection with the
Thompson act. This act enables a
university graduate, who has
completed two years of advanced
R. O. T. C. training, to compete
for a regular commission in the
army. The names of those who
will be permitted to try will be
announced later.
Those who have indicated that
they would like to try for one of j
the commissions arc:
John W. Cramer
Martin W. Oelrich
Harrison A.
Kpperson
Lyman Y.
Spurlock
Frank M. Scott
Ritchie Clrk
Arthur NewburR
John Loos
Robert MoOeachin
Wade Raser
Thomas Kdwardu
Paul Sprout
Oeorpe Kirk
Arthur Blccha
Richard Hot -ion
Hermiin Str.i.slieim
Theodore Pflu 'ger
V.verett DeKer
Walter Mevcr
Richard Buttery
Roy Skelton
John Toole
Herbert Kit 1
Kraneis I.ibershal
Robert West fall
Walter McClanahan
Walter Crowley
William Jacobs
William B. William Pwtght Whitaker
James Kudra
Donald Ooniales
Robert Volier
Erven Boettner
Victor Carter
IjiRuc Sorrell
James Tisdale
John Boyd
William Pa-is
Ionald Nabity
I.eonard Oirks
Charles Smith
J. Ruell NaiiKhton
William Abrahams
Russel Kyekelhahn
Morrta Odvarka
Sherman Schwartz
James Sherman
The typical public high school
principal in Nebraska is merely a
teacher with r.n administrative
title, says Dr. C. W. Scott of the
department of school administra
tion, who with Dr. Harold O. Ried.
'38, recently made a study of the
status of Ftate hiph school prin
cipals. In a report published in a recent
issue of The School Review, the
principal is described financially
and professionally as follows:
"He is a man who receives an
annual salary , of $1,111; holds a
bachelor's degree, which he ob
tained from a state-supported in
stitution; has occupied his present
positjon for 3.9 years; has been in
the teaching profession for 9.3
years, and devotes four-fifths of
each school day to teaching and
otudy hall activities.
Dr. Scott and Dr. Reid found
that the status of principals in
minor accredited and small schools
is definitely inferior to that of
principals in fully accredited and
large schools. Altho, Nebraska
school boards accept in theory the
idea that high schools need admin
istrative officers, as is evidenced
by the fact that 92 percent of the
525 accredited schools in Nebraska
have principals, low salaries and
heavy teaching responsibilities in
dicate that they actually regard
the principal largely as a teacher.
"Conditions seem to indicate that
a large majority of accredited high
schools do not at present need an
administrative officer as prin
cipal," the authors state. "Such
being the case, it is reasonable to
conclude that any changes in the
status of the Nebraska principal
which occur in the near future will
probably accompany and bs a part
of changes in the status of the
Nebraska high school teacher."
Concordia professor
leads Lutheran services
Prof. W. A. Baepler of the Con
cordia Seminary, Springfield, III.,
will speak at the Lutheran noon
day sen-ices to be held this noon
and every noon thru Friday at the
Stuart theater. The services last
from 12:10 to 12:45. The public is
cordially invited.
The professor of Greek and
Church history is noted for his
work on the Canadian and Euro
pean Lutheran Immigration
boards. In 1923 he aided the immi
gration of some 12,000 Lutherans
into the western favnlands of
Canada. His work lias taken hi in
into ten different European coun
tries for study.
Student kills
robins legally
for science
Everyone has undoubtedly heard
the foolish question, "Who killed
Cock Robin." It is no longer
funny, at least not for robins.
They are actually being killed, a
Nebraskan reporter has learned,
and the identity of the guilty per
son is known. However, it's a case
of justifiable homicide.
If you should sec someone slioot
ing robins, it won't be necessary
to report it to the state game com
mission, provided the person is R.
C Ripple, a graduate zoology stu
dent. It's sll in the interest of
science.
Mr. Ripple is recovering Syn
gamus trachea (grapeworm) from
robins and will try to infect chick
ens with the parasite. It is an at
tempt to determine the original
stage of this worm that infects
chickens and thus effect a great
saving for poultry raisers.
It has been necessary to obtain
state and federal permits to shoot
robins. Due to international migra
tory bird laws, the federal permit
bearing Secretary Wallace's sig
nature was accompanied with the
permission and signatures of Ca
nadian and Mexican officials.
Aetna representative
to- interview seniors
Mr. Howard A. Moreen of Oma
ha will be in Mr. T. T. Bullock's
office SS305, Thursday to meet
seniors interested in the training
course for insurance salesmen by
the Aetna life Insurance company
at Hartford. Conn. Those chosen
the paid a regular salary while in
training.
Several will probably be chosen
from Nebraska this year, as in the
past, according to Mr. Bullock.
Van Roycn leaves
for Dallas meeting
NU geographer to speak
at social science confab
Dr. William Van Royen, of the
geography department leaves this
morning for Dallas, Texas, where
he will address the twentieth an
nual meeting of the Southwestern
Social Science association Friday
and Saturday.
Having spent last summer trav
eling thru Europe as the official
delegate to the International Geo
graphical Congress, Van Royen
will discuss the work of this con
gress in two papers entitled,
"Progress of the Zuiderzee Recla
mation Project" and "Some Im
pressions of the International Geo
graphical Congress." His speeches
will be illustrated by maps and
slides gathered by him on his trip
last summer.
Attending the meeting will be
delegations from Texas, Okla
homa, Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas,
Louisiana, and possibly New Mex
ico. Following the reading of his
papers before the geographic sec
tion of the association, the group
will question the Nebraskan and
hold a group discussion on the
two subjects.
Mock trial features moving
pictures, prolonged debate
The prolonged debate on wheth
er 400 pounds of sample bricks
caused a plane to crash, and mov
ing pictures in the evidence made
Watson vs. Royal Airways one of
the most unusual cases ever to be
tried in the model courtroom in
law college.
George Hermann anil George
Daniels, attorneys for the plaintiff,
offered exhibits and testimony to
prove that the four passengers of
a plane which crashed at Gothen
burg. Nebr.. in 1935, were brick
salesmen who carried in their lug
gage sample bricks with an ag
gregate weight of 400 pounds, and
alleged this to be negligence on
the part of Royal Airways.
Counsel entertains galleries.
Galleries were kept well entcr-
Dr. Peltier to address
prc-meds this evening
Talking on "Tne Relationship of
Environment to Disease." Dr. G. L.
Peltier, chairman of the depart
ment of bacteriology, will ad
dress pre-mcd students at a ban
quet tonight in the Union.
Dr. Teltier, who has shown a
sustained interest in pro-med stu
dents, has been made an honorary
member of the Nu-Meds as well as
the Theta Nu society, the pre-med
honorary organization.
tained during defense counsel
Charles Burdell's plea to the jury,
during which he a i ranged some
100 pounds of bricks on the floor
in front of the jury box, calling
them by such names as the "step
ping stones to happy homes" var
iety, etc. The trial ended with tho
jury unable to reach a verdict af
ter nearly seven minutes of delib
eration. Co-counsel for the defense John
Groth met the plaintiff's display
of showmanship with moving pic
tures which he told court were ta
ken of the interior cf the plane
just a few minutes before it took
off on its final trip, September 17,
1935. He admitted after the trial,
however, that the pictures were
taken only last week on a semi
pleasure trip to the Lincoln air
port which was the home port of
the plane. Purpose of the pictures
was to prove that the plane was
properly equipped with safety de
vices required by law.
Case actually tried at court.
Tho case was taken from one
actually tried in a Nebraska court,
in which Lloyd Marti, who acts as
judge in the niCHjel court, was
plaintiff's attorney and succeeded
in collecting about $3,000 fcr in
juries alleged by the plaintiff to
have been sustained in the crash.
(See TRIAL, rage 2),
