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n7 (0qu(BO tiodlfflsr &5atfE?, Himim3ntiG Council will supervise polling places in ag hall, Student Union; acts to bar women from voting The Official Newspaper of More Than 6,000 Students VOL. XXXVII, NO. 129 Council plans spring election Mew members to be chosen on May 16 Campus also to vote on publications board; filing dates May 8-10 Tuesday, May 16, was set yes terday by the Student Council as the date for the annual spring election of new council and publi cation board members. Dates for candidates' filings are set Monday, Tuesday and Wed nesday, May 8, 9, and 10. President Harold Benn ex pressed his faith that the council will follow the methods used in elections so far this spring in keeping balloting clear of all ob jectionable conditions. Check eligibility. Candidates for offices will be checked for eligibility scholastic ally and under the new men's point system. According to Stanley Brewster, Innocent president and head of the men s activity board, candidates who run for the coun cil or publications board and who will be overpointed if victorious must drop another activity if they are elected. The rest of the council meeting consisted of preliminary commit tee reports by the student loan fund committee, bookstore com mittee, radio committee, and inter campus bus committee. Complete reports were given by the publicity committee and hon ors convocation committee. Approves open nights. The council approved university church night, Good Friday eve ning, the evening of the chancel lor's reception, and the Junior senior prom night as closed nights for the coming school year. Benn announced that the last meeting of the 1938-39 council will bo held two weeks from yes terday. Sigma Delta Chi holds business meeting today Active members and pledges of Sigma Delta Chi, journalism men's honorary will meet today at noon in the Union for a luncheon, to be followed by a regular business meeting. Religious Council launches drive to aid Chinese students A long weary caravan of 1,500 students, college deans and trus tees wound their way drearily Into the Chinese city of Hanchung. They had struggled over moun tain roads for a thousand long miles from their alma mater on the coast that had been bombed and destroyed by the attacking Japanese. They were seeking to continue their education. The world over students are co operating to build up the Far Eastern Student Service fund, most of which Is used to further education of these fellow students in China, and the rest, tw) .per cent, In Japan. The United States has pledged $50,000. In co-operation with many student organi sations the Nebraska University Religious Welfare Council is plan ning to raise $500 this year for the fund. Tag day held last year. A drive last year directed by the Religious Welfare Council raised over $100 here at Nebraska thru a tag day. This year's cam paign will contact all student Z 408 Dean predicts harder classes C. H: OLDFATHER. Arguing that a broad base of general education gives a student many occupational choices, Prof, Charles H. Oldfather, professor of ancient history and dean of arts and sciences college, recommended old fashioned mental discipline In college preparation in his talk be fore Central High school P. T. A. members in Omaha Tuesday night. "Sock it to 'em hard. If they can't take it, put them Immedi ately into vocational training," he advised, "and stop wasting time on them. Dean Oldfather contended that the broadest and best type of voca tional education consists of such subjects as English and mathe matics, and that struggles with Latin and Ccrman are good for the mentality. The nation will be forced to adopt more of this atti tude, he predicted, and this will result in reducing the college population. Barogar to Washington Arnold Baragar, research assist ant In home economics, will attend the household equipment commit tee meetings of the United States department of agriculture In Washington next month. groups with the opportunity to help fellow students. Elmer Glenn, chairman of the council's social action committee, is in charge of the drive. Committee members assisting him are Letha Pettit, Helen Abel, Eva Mae Cromwell, Wayne Wernlmont, Bob King and Jane Stearn. In eleven emergency student centers in the interior of China, students and Instructors are waging an anti-literacy battle to maintain for China an educated leadership group. With over nine tenths of all their building and equipment destroyed, three-fourths of the 67,000 Chinese college stu dents are continuing their educa tion by determined efforts. Schools In mountain caves. Harkenlng to the challenge of Dr. Tao Chik-hslng, veteran Chi nese educator who instructed his students to "Turn every big moun tain cave into a school and use the air siren as the ringing bell for classes, students of Kwangsi are carrying on their education in See CHINESE, Tage 2. is Y-w I Hi i'Z-Jf THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1939 National radio hour boosts NU ag college NBC stations carry story of development of Husker agriculture With 100 NBC stations carrying the story of Nebraska and the contributions which its university has made to the agricultural in dustry, the ag college was given a nation-wide boost yesterday on the National Farm and Home Hour, carried from here to Omaha, where it was fed to the NBC chain by WOW. Originating in Grant Memorial at 11:30 a. m., the program was one in a series of programs ar ranged monthly by land grant col leges thruout the nation. Acting as host for the broadcast was Chancellor C. S. Boucher, who briefly highlighted some of the major contributions of the uni versity to the conservation of Ne braska resources, botl human and material. N. U. sponsored baby beef. "The Nebraska experiment sta tion at Lincoln," he said, "has con tributed many findings of national importance to the agricultural in dustry; one of the foremost early corn breeders in the United States is a member of our staff. The first experimental turkey data ever published came from Nebraska. The university pioneered in show ing farmers the need for changing from large animals to the small, baby beef type." Conversations concerning sum mer fallow were re-enacted, which had taken place some 30 years ago between Dean W. W. Burr of the agricultural college then a USDA specialist in dry land farm ingand W. P. Snyder, superin tendent of the North Platte sub station. Lauds Dr. Bestey. The broadcast sketched the hls See BROADCAST, Page 2. Why don't we all land jobs like this one? Getting a salary for spending his evenings in the smoothest of Hollywood night spots is one of the brighter angles of Bob Moon's new position as staff announcer of the Columbia Broadcasting sys tem. Bob wrote the "rag" a letter about a recent story telling of his affiliation. His working diy, Bob writes, consists of about two hours spent in rehearsing, two hours of "stand ing by" on network programs with an organist "Just in case" and anywhere from one to three hours of actual network announcing which may ls carried by one or all the "legs" of the system. Announcers at the Hollywood studios, where Bob has been work ing, are supposed to be versatile enough to do an acceptable job on any kind of a program to which they may be assigned. Since his affiliation with CBS, he has han dled programs of George Olscn from the Palomar, Dick Barrie from the Beverly Wilshire hotel and Matty Malneck from the Cafe La Maze. Ills announcing of the Phil Harris programs referred to in the NEBRASKAN was done for Mu tual Broadcasting system during his days of free lancing and not since his affiliation with Columbia. Ivy poems due next Thursday Entries in the Ivy Day poet contest must be in the hands of the judging committee be fore Thursday, April 27, it was announced yesterday. Submitted poems should be centered around a general Ivy Day theme and should be handed to Mrs. Westover in Ellen Smith. All entrants must be undergraduates, the poem must be typewritten and double spaced, the author's name should not be on the poem but on the envelope in which it is submitted. English faculty members Miss McPhee, Mr. Wimberly and Mr. Gass will judge the poems. Psychologists to meet here 350 to attend confab on NU campus May 5, 6 Approximately 350 psyhcolo gists of the United ' States and Canada will gather on the Uni versity of Nebraska campus May 5 and 6 for the fourteenth annual convention of the Mid-western Psychological association. Plans for the meeting are under the direction of Dr. W. E. Walton, assistant professor of psychology and Dr. W. D. Dysinger, instruc tor in psychology. Dr. Walton is program director for the organlza tion and Dr. Dysinger in chairman in charge of local arrangements Dr. J. P. Guilford, director of the psychological laboratory is secre tary-treasurer of the association. First Lincoln meeting. Twenty-nine states, the District of Columbia, and Canada are re presented in the association. Menv bers from most of them will at tend the meeting here, the first to be held in Lincoln. Most of the meetings will be held in the Union. Five sectional conferences will be held both days, wih the annual business meeting for the entire group scheduled for Friday afternoon, May 5. The only other general session will be the annual dinner Friday evening in the Student Union, featuring ad dresses by the association presi dent. Dr. Edmund Conklin of In diana university, and Dr. W. B, Pillsbury, a Nebraska graduate and past president of the Amer lean Psychological association, whr will recall the early events leading to the establishment of the university psychological lab oratory 50 years ago. One reason the association chose See PSYCHOLOGISTS, Page 2. Elizabeth Whitney returns for visit after trip abroad By Mary Frances Wittera. From best dressed girl at Ne braska university to New York model and San Francisco costume advisor has been the career of Elizabeth Whitney, daughter of Dr. D. D. Whitney. Miss Whitney is in Lincoln for a month's visit with her father after spending the winter in Mi ami, Fla., where she worked in the dress department of Burdine's. She is a Nebraska graduate and a member of Kappa Alpha Theta. After leaving Lincoln, she expects to return to San Francisco. Made easual art study. She recently returned from a year spent abroad where she made a casual study of art. In her opin ion, the best art is to be found in Italy at Florence. While on her trip, she spent some time in Italy, Egypt, Palestine, India, Singapore, Java, Ball, Greece, Capri, Ger many, Austria, France and Eng land. While in Italy, she had an au dience with Tope Pius XI and vis ited Pisa and the famous acquar- Leading up to the climax of weeks of planning and figuring on the part of university politicians, the male campus will troop to the polls today to elect an Ivy day orator and to nominate 25 junior activity men for Innocents. Voting places will he open in the basement corridor of the Union and in Dean Burr's office, ag hall, from 9 to 5 o'clock. Election offi cials from the Student Council will supervise and check the voting. Only Men Vote for Orator. All regularly enrolled men stu dents are eligible to express their preference for orator while only junior and senior men may make nominations for Innocents. The change in the procedure for the choosing of the Ivy day orator came about yesterday at a Student Council meeting. Formerly women also voted for the orator position. For Innocents, each upperclass man may write in the names of not more than five men who must meet the following qualifications: 1. Not less than 89 and not more than 106 credit hours by the end of this semester. .2. A scholastic average of not less than 78 percent. Those who filed for orator Tues day are: Willard Wilson, liberal, hw college senior; H. Jack Hoi torf, progressive, Delta Theta Pi, law college senior; and Hubert Foster, independent, unaffiliated arts and science senior. The barb union gave its endorse ment to Foster after he had origi nally filed independent of any fac tion. From the 25 activity men receiv ing the highest votes in today's election, the Innocents will select their 1940 membership. Usually 13 are chosen to replace the present Incumbents. Final results of the Innocents' race will be announced Ivy day, May 4 in the traditional tackle'em low manner. Martha McGee to present recital Soprano gives program today at 3 in Temple Martha McGee, soprano student with Alma Wagner, will be heard in her junior recital Sunday at 3 o'clock In the Temple theater. Miss McGee is one of the best singers on the campus, having been one of the student soloists for the Messiah this year. She was highly complimented by Miss Georgia Graves, noted New York contralto, who heard Miss McGee when she was in Lincoln last week. Marian Percy, piano student with Herbert Schmidt, will play three numbers on the program. Margaret Lindgren will be Miss McGee's accompanist. ium at Naples. In India, Miss Whitney was impressed by the means of disposing of the dead by burning the bodies and by the "towers of silence" filled with vul ture picked bones of the dead. In northern India, she went thru the pass of Afghanistan. Clashes between the Jews and the Arabs began while she was in Palestine, where she visited places of biblical interest. Brings doll collection. Miss Whitney brought back an Interesting collection of carved wooden idols from Bali, made by the Balinese natives. She recently gained national fame as the namer of the San Francisco Golden Gate exposition and worked in San Francisco where she spent a year at the Emporium counselling women on dress styles for different occa sions. She spent some time as a model in New York. Her picture appears in the March "Cosmopolitan" in the illustration for the story "Girls In Black." I