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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (April 26, 1939)
Union celebrates birthday May 4 VOL. XXXVII, ISO. 133 Bizad scholastic honorary to Party guests include oiano duo, Rubinoff First year celebration comes Ivy Day; Tassels sell concert tickets The Student Union will celebrate its first birthday on Friday. May 4, Ivy day. As a birthday present to the university students, it is sponsoring the personal appear- RUBINOFF. ance here of Rubinoff and his fa mous violin, who will be co-starred with the well known piano team of Fray and Braggiotti. The out standing musicians will present a cnccit of modern music at tc coli seum. Tassels are now selling tickets for the performance at 5'J cents to SI. National concert tour. , Rubinoff, whose dynami. violin I See BIRTHDAY pge 5. Forrester peper wins Junior engineer ojven first prize by A.I.E.E. J. V. Forrester o." Ar.v-lruo, junior in the department of tlee-trv.-il engineering, won first prize for the l-t p;iK-r presented m the north central dipnoi ii'.uoent ' bnneh meeting of thy American! Institute of Electrical nnir,( e;i .t : Laramie. Wyoming J r.'. wtvl: end. Nine schools from fuitr neirhbor- ; ing states were rcprist-n'r-d. i The paper, "like trottauc Dirt. Precipitators." which wns u'wij judged the best in tliC Nebraska i branch contest, will be entered in' the national competition at Fan I Francisco this JuiiC, according to Forrester. He h;is accepted a re search assi.stant.!:i; at the Massa chusetts Institute of Technology for next year. Professor L. A. ni'ighmn of the department Of tl'-CJ-icd cnr;ir.fcr ing, a rtudent brarth coj;ic;lor, and L. J. Wachttr'of Hermit, stu dent in the eiepitmir.t, ala at tended ihe Laramie convention. Waehtcr is ch, irrr-an of the Ne braska student trench, ur.d pre sided at one of the. s( eti-. !.;il i;- votings. f The Official Newspaper of More Than 6,000 Students dtoaiirog Frosh leads Farmers Fair sales drive After a week of the sales drive for Farmers Fair tickets. Merle Ward, freshman, leads the 60 salesmen with Esther Schneider wind second, announced Eric Tlior, business manager. The sales drive will close Thursday evening with a second Fair rally. It is expected that 500 tickets will be sold by that time. For a 75 cent ticket, Fair goers will get S1.40 worth of amuse rm nt. Included are admissions to "Kampus Ka'pers," feature attrac tion of the Fair, the rodeo, four midway attractions, and the wres tling and boxing tournament with ! a bandana tnrown in for good measure. Ag campus is working to make the 21st annual Fair the biggest ever held. Visitors will see ag college at its best with opvn house exhibits and prize winning live stock vicing for attention. More than 900 agricultural stu dents have assignments in the Fair and work is proceeding apace. See FROSH page 3. Poet Neihardt attracts capacity crowd to hear dramatic readings Convocation audience listens to epic work Dramatically reciting how "the night howled the moon down" upon the shivering Indians' retreat from the Battle of Wounded Knee, Neb; aska's poet-laureate. John Gneiscnau Neihardt "sang" his Song of the Messiah to a convo cation audience which filled the Temple theater to the last row ycfterds-.y morning. Short, dynamic, with a shock 'if curly, s;indy hair, the poet clearly articulated and emphasized with gestures the tale of Chief SaUnka and the Wounded lines See EPIC pnr.e 7. Filings for Serrcor. award due May 1 Freshman to receive $100 setjofewhip in fail Vt crimen men lt:ivc itntil May 1 to til cppiKMiti'ins for tl . Jo.-cjili Simon j5-:-liolar.;iip of $'00 wnich will be available again next fall. Students interested in the award can get application blanks at Dean C. H. O! (father's office. Candidates for the award mast show BchoUstic and athletic ability as well as outstanding qualities of manhood, and moral foice accord ing to stipulations male by the donors, relatives of the late Mr. Simon, Lincoln businessman. A committee composed of Dc?n Gidfather. Major Lav.nenrc Jones and Dr. R. D. Scott will interview applicants and select the winner. La.st spring. Forrest lichni, vaisity tackle of Lincoln, won the scholarship. Z 408 Drastic new code provokes criticism Single letter, general list, August limitation rules already adopted Drastic changes in the sorority rushing system may necessitate a general revision in pledging policy if new rules now being formulated by the Panhellenic Council, soror ity governing body, are carried out. New rules already officially adopted by the Panhellenic group are: 1. The last two weeks of Au gust, which were formerly open to rushing, will be closed and no girl may be contacted in that period. 2. Each sorority must submit to the council its list of rushees and -any girl filing her rush dates or sorority preferences must be included on the list. 3. Each sorority is permitted to write only one letter to each See CRITICISM page 7. v- Uinw.in J.uii:kt John Ncihcrdt . KFOR to feature Farmers Fair University broadcast tonight at 7:45 All social privileges of Delta Up.silon weie suspended for the balance of the semester by the judiciary committee of the inter fraternity Council at a committee meeting last night, acorring to Dwan Green, president of the CTJncil and chaiiman of the judi ciary committee. Violation of the Intcrfrat?rnity ruling dealing with th.' initiation of ineligible men was cited as the reason for the perrlty. "Soci.-il privileges" indole r.ll hour d.rces, house paitic. h.trfe linrers. n'crdes or other ornniztd scciul activity. t iriDslhiDini initiate nine tonight Greek council cracks DU's for violations On the university radio program tonight at 7:45 over KFOR, the agricultural college's annual Farm er's Fair will be the general theme of the broadcast. The program will characterize the midway of the fair, and a b-rker will review some of the points of interest which will be in operation during the event which opens May 6. Mrs. Tullis' all ag college chorus will provide music for the program. Phyllis Chamberlain, president of the Mortar Board society, is in charge of the broadcast. Skolil tells math society about 'Polarized Light' "Polarized Light" was the sub ject of an address given last night by Lester Skolil, of the physics department, before a meeting of Pi Mu Epsilon, mathematics hon orary. Election of new members to the honorary followed Skolil's address. The list of newly elected members will be made public in about two weeks. 'Don't write for money speaker tells students by John Stuart "Don't write for money." John G. Neihardt gave this ad vice yesterday in an after dinner talk to aspiring young writers, members of the W'ordsmith chap See MONEY page 7. A.S.M.E. to view safety glass film Movie shows product's manufacture, utility "Safety plate glass." a movie showing the processes of manu facturing the product and its util ization, will be 6hown to members of the American Society of Me chanic; Kj.iiineeis at a branch meeting of the organization this evening at 7:30 in Mechanical En gineering hall, room 200. The picture will show the va rious phases of the manufacture of safety glass including quarry ing and loading of silica sand, which is the principal ingredknt of the material, and its transpor tation to the mill where it is screened and crusned. Other scenes show the melting pfbeess, the cutting of glass into strips and sheets, and the final stajre of trimming. Preceding- the movie ,?n election of officers for next fall will Lo held. This Friday student mem bers of the society will go to Onicha to vi"v the new 5,000 horsepower tuibine, which is be in i: exhibited there l,v li,ion T'.i- Icific during "Golden Spike Days." WEDNESDAY. AIMUL 26, 1939 rates Beta Gamma Sigma hears ChingJu Ho Chinese educator talks on economic conditions of native land at Union Beta Gamma Sigma, the PBK of the bizad college, will initiate nine students tonight at 6 o'clock in the Union. Ching-Ju Ho, re cently associate director of the Shanghai Vocational G u i d a n ce bureau, will address the group on "economic conditions in China." Those to be initated are: Lcslia Boslaugh of Hastings: Frances E. Weyer, Ainsworth; Mary E. Cliz be. Valentine; Marion C. Bonham, Table Rock; Erven E. Boettner, Roca; Irene Sellers of Custer. S. D.; Evelyn M. Carlson. Richard L. White and W. B. Williams, all of Lincoln. Background of education. The speaker is a nradtiate of Tsing Hua college in Peking; re ceived his bachelor's degree from Antioch college, and his master's and doctor's degrees from Coluni bia university. He has taught on the faculty of several school, among them Cheeloo university, Tsinan, and the Great China uni See CHING-JU HO page 3. Orchesis plans recital Modern dance group performs Saturday The spring dance recital, an nually sponsoied by Orchesis, modem dance club, has been scheduled for Saturday night at 8 o'clock in Grant Memorial audi torium. All dances, costumes and most of the music have been prepared by dance students under the di rcction of Shirley liennet. Mrs. George Anna Theobald. Lincoln, and Miss Jane Goetz of Omaha ere the composers cud accompan ists of the program. David Leav itt. Leigh, is in charge of costume designing. Three solo dances will l given by Katheiine Werner. Betty Muel ler and Dorothy Cook, all 'of Lin coln. Some of the advanced and intermediate dance classes will present class compositions. Tickets are 35 cents. Opening the program will be an exposition of the techniejue ' ed to develop the body in dance work. Including a Negro spiritual "Black Shadows." the recital will close with a four part finale intended lo show, thru dance movements, the reactions of four different per sonalities under the same circum stances. Tickets to the recital are 33 cents. Students taking part are; Lu- wiia, i-vuy Vjiuui. u-ooeue co. ion, lictty Mueller. Katheiiiio Werner and Stev ia, DcTar. all cf Lincoln; Patricia Pope. Sutton; Giace CradJuck. Tobias; Eunice Bk'.mey. Or.nrn; IIortcr.He Cas-P-lv. DCS V"incs. Ia Edith Knight,. Alliance; Helen Young, Stella; Dorothy Jennings, Albion.