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.
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The Official Newspaper of More Than 6,000 Students
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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.
