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ar addresses convo today
Noted editor
to discuss
foreign policy
Pulitzer prize winner
to appear at Temple
this morning, 1 1 o'clock
Herbert Agar, recognized as one
of America's topmost authorities
on the national and international
scene and associate editor of the
Louisville Courier-Journal, will
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hincoin Juuriuti.
HERBERT AGAR.
. . . talks at 11 today.
address Nebraska students at con
vocation this morning at 11
o'clock in the Temple on the sub
ject. "Should America Keep Out
of Kuropean Affairs?"
Agar won the Pulitzer piize in
1034 for his book, "The People's
Choice," an account of the United
See AGAR page 6.
Kiva to show
Moliere play
63 minute movie is
French stock farce
The stock farce of the French
theater, Molierc's immortal "Le
Midocin Malgre Lui," will be
shown Saturday morning at the
Kiva theater, sponsored by the
French club and the department
of romance languages.
The "doctor despite himself" is
anything but a doctor. He is
forced into the role, when his
wife, after he beats her, seeks ven
geance and gets him engaged to
'cure" a young girl who has lost
her voice. The girl, Lucinde, is
slated by the father to marry an
old fogy, while she is very much
in love with one Lcandre.
When Lucinde regains her
speech long enough to toll her
father that she will marry no one
but Lcandre, the father is furious,
orders the "modocin malgre lui"
to make his daughter dumb again.
The imM.stor is soon found out,
but everyone lives happily ever
after.
Considered most amusing and
vivid of all Molicro's masterpieces
by critics, the show is 63 minutes
long. Screenings will begin at
8, 9:30 and 11 o'clock. The play
is bcint; read m several French
classes. Copies of the play may
be obtained in the office of the
French department for 15 cents.
No F.nghsh subtitles accompany
the picture, bul a farce is consid
ered the easiest to follow of all
drama. Tickets may be purchased
in U108 or at the box office for
25 cer's.
Debaters meet
South Dakota
Four man squad leaves
for seriei at Boulder
Two Nebraska debate teams nu t
an invading South Dakota squad
yesterday in clashes at the Union
and at Lincoln high school. Kl
wald Warnsholz and Wendell
Bmye argued in the Union at 11,
ami Paul Bstandig and Otto Wocr
ner at Lincoln high at 1 o'clock.
The question was "Resolved: that
collective action by the democra
cies ifl necessary for their sur
vival." The four man squad chosen to
participate in the tournament at
Boulder, Colo., left yesterday aft
ernoon. Their debates begin today,
and the eerieg will probably bring
the season to a close,
65 seniors
The Official Newspaper of More Than 6,000 Students
VOL. XXXVIII, NO. 121
Kosmei ticket sales boom as
show enters last rehearsals
Grandma's time comes to ag
campus with box lunch social
Shades of the good old days
when grandpa bought a box lunch
and got the gal that went with it!
Shadows of the times when the
two dudes bribed little brothers to
tell which box was made up by the
lily white hands of his big sister,
and when the biggest box with the
brightest ribbon drew the town
spinster.
Fifty years later, the ag engi
neers, willing to take the risk of a
riot, are throwing an oldfashion
ed box-social Friday night in the
Activities building. Auctioning be
gins promptly at 8:30, and dancing
will last till the scandolous hour
of midnight.
All the ag Ixdles are urged to
Pep groups
sponsor party
Carl Colby's orchestra
to play here tomorrow
Advrrsised as "the best informal
party of the season" is the Tassel
Corn Cob dance being held to
morrow evening in the Student
Union ballroom.
Cochairmen Tassel Virginia
Wheeler and Corn Cob Bob Klory
reported a brisk pick-up in ticket
sales yesterday, indicating one of
the best informal party attend
ances for many years.
The pep clubs have signed Cari
Colby and his Minnesota Collegiate
band to play. Colby made two ap
pearances here last semester and
was hailed as an excellent party
band.
Tickets are being sold by Cobi
and Tassels at 60 cents a couple.
According to Tassel President Sel
ma Hill and Corn Cob president.
George Rosen, "the party is bound
to be th.? peppiest affair this
campus has ever seen. Cobs and
Tassels are pep groups and proof
of that will be seen Friday night."
Doming to lecture
to faculty group
Final session features
synthetic chemistry
Dr. H. O. Deming of the depart
ment of chemistry of the Univer
sity -f Nebraska will discuss
"Synthetic Chemistry in the
World Economy" tonight at the
last of the faculty graduate schol
arship lectures this year.
The concluding program will be
held in the Student Union with a
dinner at 0:15. Dr. E. A. Gilniore,
jr., of the College of Business Ad
ministration, will preside. Mem
bers of the committee In charge
of tho lectures are Professors L. F.
Carey, department of rural eco
nomics; C. W. Scott, department
of school administration; J. E.
Weaver, department of botany; H.
A. White, department of English,
and Gilmore.
Corn Cobs and Tasscli will
meet today at 5 o'clock in the
Student Union 313 to check
ticket tales for their Joint party
In the Union FrMay night. Tas
sels are required to be In uniform.
achieve honors convocations list
Z 40S
bring lunch boxes incorporating
their brightest ideas, for prizes of
S5, $2 and H will be given to the
best three boxes. Admissions for
the ladies is just one box, and for
the gents, 10 cents at the door to
be refunded on purchase of a box.
Free coffee will be served to all
comers.
Thuis to head
R.O.T.C. unit
Successor to Oury
approved by Regents
Col. Charles A. Thuis of the
United States infantry, who has
been stationed in Chicago, head
quarters for the Sixth Corps Area,
was approved by the board of re
gents Saturday as the new com
mandant of the university R. O.
T. C, subject to asignment by the
war department. He succeeds
Col. W. H. Oury, present P. M.
S. T., who is slated for retirement
June 30.
Colonel Thuis, who is married,
is 59 years of age. He attended
Vincennes university prior to his
entry into the service; is a grad
uate of the infantry school, the
School of the Line, the Command
and General Staff school, and the
Army War college. He has a gen
eral efficiency rating of "excel
lent." The board also approved a year's
leave of absence for Dr. M. S.
Ginsburg of the department of the
classics, who was awarded a Gug
genheim fellowship to study the
policy of the Roman emperors in
their efforts to improve the eco
nomic status of the lower classes.
Dr. Ginsburg will be on leave from
September, 1939 to September,
1940.
Behind world events
'The Life Line of Empire'
Today England is beset with
grievous woes. Her appeasement
policy abandoned because of the
manifest anil insatiable desire for
conquest by Hitler and Mussolini,
Japan threatening British influ
ence and interests in the Orient,
Jew-Arab trouble in the Palatinate
becoming more serious daily, and
domestic unrest and financial
strain caused by the present Eu
ropean war scare flurry -all these
plague the Chamberlain govern
ment. Today the English parlia
ment meets for a special session,
the first since that of last Sep
tember over the Czech crisis.
British warships are standing
off Malta and Corfu, and Italy
has been warned that any un
toward movement in those direc
tions will bo forcibly resisted. Eng
lish interests in the Mediterranean,
menaced by the fall of Albania,
are frightened at the prospect that
the lifeline of empire, thru Gibral
tar and the Suez canal, may be
destroyed If tho power of the
Rome-Bcrlin-Tokyo axis continues
TIIUKSDAY. AI'KIL 13, 1939
Many good seats left
for 'Alias Aladdin;1
chorus works on songs
Ticket sales boom as "Alias
Aladdin," goes into its final week
of rehearsals preparatory to its
first night next Monday evening
at 8 o'clock.
Scats taken on the first dny of
reservations at the Temple box
office spotted tile lower floor and
front balcony seats on all nights,
wilh week end performances ap
pearing to be favorites. "There are
still good tickets available, but
they are going fast," Don Moss
president and Roy Proffit, ticket
chairman, declared.
Beck-Jungbluth band plays.
With the Beck-Jungbluth orches
tra, traditional to Kosmet Klub
performances, signed to play in
the pit, and the scenery now in Vie
painting stage, Joe Iverson direc
tor of the play pushes the all male
cast thru its final paces. Choral
dancers are abandoning dance
practices to tune up their voices
on the song numbers which
Schmoiler and Mueller music men
declare are excellent.
Heading the cast of the per
formance will be Duke Deger, last
year's "Satan," changed in name
but not in spirit to take the part
of the Caliph of Bagdad. J. P.
Throckmorton, the American towel
tycoon, is portiayed by Louis Wil
kins, and his daughter by Jim
Sec KOSMET page 5
Chancellor C. S. Boucher
to speak in Iowa City
Chancellor C. S. Boucher of the
University of Nebraska leaves to
day for Iowa City where he will
attend the 19th annual conference
of the Teachers of History and the
Social Studies in the schools and
colleges of Iowa and neighboring
states at the University of Iowa.
Chancellor Boucher will appear on
the Friday afternoon program
speaking on the subject "History
and the Social Studies - Whither?"
to mount. England's traditional
position as "mistress of the seas"
is in grave danger.
Greece, Turkey and Jugoslavia
have become the new centers of
interest. England and France wish
to bind these nations in non-aggression
pacts. Germany and Italy
say that these smaller nations will
be endangered only if they suc
cumb to the wheedling of the
democracies. Russia, the most im
portant cog in Britain's proposed
"iron ring" around the totalitarian
states, Is strangely silent and none
really knows tho sympathies of
the U. S. S. R.
Italian troops are rushing
toward the complete occupation of
Albania altho badly harassed by
guerrilla warfare in the mountain
ous regions. Holland has mobilized
its frontier guards. Switzerland is
preparing to defend its terrain.
Belgium states that it will fight
to the last man if attacked.
President Roosevelt has, and
some think ill-advbcdly, fanned
tho war flamca in this country
See EVENTS page 2
O. G. Villard
to address
uni scholars
Program recognizing
superior students set
for Tuesday at 10
Approximately 65 university
seniors will be recognized for su
perior scholarship at the 11th an
nual honors convocation at 10
o'clock in the coliseum next Tues
day morning.
Members of this select group,
who have been on the honors list
four years, or whose averages
have placed them in the upper 3
percent of their class, will be
seated on the stage, along with
the guest speaker, the deans and
members of the faculty and the
chancellor. These seniors will be
presented with leather bound cer
tificates citing their scholastic
achievements.
Oswald Garrison Villard, distin
guished author and publisher, will
address the convocation on the
subject. "The Spiritual Defense
of Democracy." Villard was for
21 years managing owner of the
New York Evening Post and
owned and edited The Nation f roni
191S to 1934. He is a prolific
writer, and is the author of "The
German Phoenix," "Germany Em
battled," "Newspaper and News
papermen," etc.
Invitations have been sent to
parents of students who will hi
honored at the convocation, urg
See HONORS page 5.
N.U. draws
foreigners
Chinese coed, Czech
grod may enroll here
Two foreign students may en
roll in the university post doctoral
studies in psychology, according
to letters received by Dr. J. P,
Guilford, professor of psychology.
A Chinese coed now attending
the University of Michigan, where
she will receive her Ph. D degree
this spring, has written to Dr.
Guilford that she intends to be at
Nebraska next year. Another let
ter was received from a student
who received his doctorate at
Charles university in Czechoslo
vakia and he also intimated that
he would enroll here next year.
N. U. outstanding.
Nebraska has long lecn re
garded as an outstanding school
in the field of psychology as four
of its psychology graduates have
been elected to the presidency of
the American Psychology asso
ciation. Only one other university
has fur nished more than this num
ber. The psychology laboratories
here are also the fifth oldest in
the country. Some 400 delegates
who will be here to attend the
14th annual meeting of the Mid
western Psychological association,
May 5 and G, will join with educa
tors in celebrating the 15th an
niversary of the founding of the
laboratories here by Dr. Hanv
Kirke Wolfe.
Holland services
held yesterday
Roscntof pays tribute to
former extension head
Last rites were held for Robert
E. Holland, supervisor of program
and information of the Ag exten
sion bureau, yesterday afternoon
at 2 o'clock at the First Presby
terian church.
Holland, who died Sunday, had
been connected with the extension
division since 1916. During the.
time he held his position he made
many contacts throughout the
state. Holland was one of the
founders of the Farm House fra
ternity. Professor E. W. Roscn
lof paid tribute to Holland in an
address given at the funertl
services.
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