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The Official Newspaper of More Than 6,000 Students
VOL. XXXVIII, NO. 150.
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FRIDAY, MAY 19, 1939
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Inspectors
close review
Saturday
Army officers examine
artillery, engineers
today; accept 4 for air
Field artilleiy and military en
gineering students will be sub
jected to federal Inspection of
ficers beginning at 9 o'clock this
morning for the third day of R. O.
T. C inspection. Inspectors will
continue examination of these stu
dents until Saturday noon, haying
completed inspection of the in
fantry Thursday afternoon.
First year basic students will
give calisthenic and close order
drills at 9 o'clock under Capt
Hough and Maj. Horan, and com
panies A and- B, under the same
officers, will demonstrate a close
order drill the following hour. At
11 o'clock Capt. Hough's first year
basics will show rifle marksman
ship while basics under Maj
Horan will have inspection in
ranks.
Sophs to stage demonstration.
Second year basics under Capt
Cruae will erect shears and an
auxiliary gin post from 9:30 until
12 o'clock, will demonstrate skill
in sketching at 2 o'clock and will
tie knots and lashings from 3 to
4 o'clock. Under Capt. Hough, sec
ond year basics will receive class
room inspection at 2 o'clock and
will demonstrate close order drill
at 3 o'clock.
There will be a practical close
order drill of all artillery units
except the first year advanced at
2 o clock, and a theoretical ex
amination of the first year basics
under Capt. Grove at 3 o clock
The following hour a theoretical
examination of the second year
basics under Maj. Philip will be
held.
Saturday last day.
Finishing the federal examina
tion tomorrow, there will be
practical examination at 9 o'clock
of the first and second year basics
and the second year advanced stu
dents. At the same time the first
year advanced students, under
Capt. Hough, will be given a
class room inspection. At 9 o'clock
there will be trench tracing and
p visit to inspect the bridge built
by the second year advanced en
gineers, under Capt. Cruse.
According to latest repoitl
available 55 candidates hare been
examined here for the army air
corps but only four have ben ac
cepted. Maj. Robert T. Cronau, U.
S. army air corps officer who is
here for the examination, said
yesterday he hoped more Ktudits
would puss the examination before
Saturday noon, the closing date.
Red Cross man
interviews grads
Personnel executive
sees social workers
H. Fi Downey, assistant to th
manager of the American IUd
Cross in St. Louis, was on the
University of Nebraska campu
Thursday lnte viewing graduate
student in the School of Sociai
Work who w interested In join
tag the staff of the organization.
This 1 the first time the Red
Cross has sent a personnel execu
tive to the Nebraska campus, but
in the future Downey plans to
interview the school's graduates
regularly. The St. Inils office is
Red Cross headquarters for 17
midwestem states.
The Craduate School of Social
Work reported Thursday that
three students have accepted posi
tions with the Omaha Family Wel
fare association and one with the
Lincoln association. North Dakota
and Iowa agencies have sent in
requests for Nebraska trained
students, while New Jersey, Mary
land and Arizona have written re
garding graduates here this year.
All qualified graduate! of year
ago have been placed.
Comhusker out
Yearbook heads
Lincoln Journal,
rrrd SUarr.
Orral Hjutrr.
Edwin Ford
Piper dies
Former professor
succumbs Wednesday
Dr. Edwin Ford Piper, of the
English department at the Univer
sity of Iowa, died suddenly Wed
nesday night after a heart attack.
Graduated from the University
of Nebraska in
1897. Dr. Piper
was an instruc
tor here in Eng
lish from 1899
V
to 1903 and
from 1904 to
1906. He re
ceived his mas
ter's degree
here in 1900.
A mem ber
of Phi Beta
Kappa, Dr. Pi
per was affili
ated with Al
pha Theta Chi
now Chi Phi
fraternity. In
at Harvard uni-
Liiwoln Joamal.
Dr. V.. Y. rtprr.
1903 he studied
versity.
Dr. Piper joined the Iowa fac
ulty in 1905 where he had served
for 34 years. He is the author
of three books of poems, "Barbed
Wire," "Barbed Wire and Way
farers,' and "Paintrock Road."
Dr. Piper was the uncle of Elsie
Ford Piper, acting dean of worn
at the university and Jennie Lou
Piper of the Lincoln high school
faculty.
Ag social council
slates song fest
500 expected to attend
group singing tonight
Trie social council of ag college
will sponser their annual,
"Everybody Sing" session this
evening at 7:15 on the campus of
the agricultural college. Open to
the public, more than 500 partici
pants aie expected to attend, both
students and Lincoln residents.
Favorite hons of the past and
the present will feature the pro
groin v., Hi it as Lois Hammond
s.nd Arnold prleison leading th
group.
Added attractions for the eve
ning are; a Orman band, com
posed of htu-li-fi'.i, uho will play
several numbers; a quartet of Ted
Johnston, Lester Rcid, Chester
Mcpherson and Bill Ruyle, directed
by Mrs. J. L. Thomas; and a sex
tet, composed of Jane Brlnegar,
Khoda Chesley, P.ut!i Ann Sheldon,
Dorothy Peterson, Mina Jean
Yaung ar.d Ardith Hackman pres
ented by Mrs. Altinas Tulis of
tie ag college faculty. .
Gladys Swift elected
to head Omicron No
At a sjx-dal business meeting of
the senior members of Omicron
Nu, profeswional women's sorority,
the following slate of officers were
elected to office for the coming
year: president, Gladys Swift; vice
president, MarJoHe Fanar; secre
tary, Esther Horscb; trensurer,
ji Hammond and editor, Maxine
Armstrong.
1939annual
putsemphasis
on variety
Lahr, Horn schedule
distribution thru next
week at Union office
Distribution of the 1939 Com
husker, 420 page green and copper
yearbook with emphasis on variety
begins today "God willing that
the books arrive from the printer,"
says Business Manager Max Horn.
As soon as the initial delivery
arrives, receipt holders may re
ceive their books in the Comhusk
er office in the Union basement.
Students who have made only the
2 installment most bring the re
maining $2.75 in order to get their
books. Only 30 extra copies of the
annual are now available for pur
chase at J 4.75.
Distribution will continue thru
today and next week. Persons who
have made the down payment but
fail to call for their books within
the allotted time win forfeit their
initial payment, and all the re
maining volumes will be put on
sale to anyone.
Reading Matter Doubled.
Horn calls the 1939 Comhusker.
joint product of a year's work and
worry by both the business man
ager and Editor Pat Lahr, "an all
day sucker instead of a coke," He
means that the book is crammed
See CORNHUSKER, Page 4,
Years record
in Blue Print
Lost issue of engineers'
monthly reviews 1938-39
Final issue for this year of the
Nebraska Blue Print, official pub
lication of the engineering college,
will be ready for distribution
this morning according to an
announcement made yesterday aft
ernoon by Vernon Paulson, tditor.
Basej on the theme of an an
nual, this month's publication con
tains a resume of engineering col
lege activities for the past year
Pictures and writeups of engineer
ing organizations are featured In
this issue
"Slide Rule." an article written
by T. T. Aahkus, assistant pro
fessor or engineering drawing, i:
one of the articles of unusual In
terest featured in this isue. The
article contains a resume of the
historical and functional uses of
the instrument, stressing Its tin
pottance to the engineer.
Describes auto testing.
Another article, reprinted from
Automobile racts is titled "Auto
mobile Parts Testing" and tells
the grueling tortures automotive
engineers subject automobile parts
to during testing processes. The
article was prepared by the luto
mobile manuafcturers association.
In the Dean's comer. Dean Fer
guson speaks of graduation. In his
column, the Dean quotes from a
poem, "Convocation," by Helen
Baker Parker. The poem describes
the lolemn atmosphere of the
commencement program.
Completing the final issue, Ted
V, Buhner, engineer Jn the state
highwsy testing department, tells
of the value of geology to the tn
jineer. Sinfonia elects Edison to
council, White president
Supreme councilman of Phi Mu
Alpha Uknfonia, honorary music
fraterity, for the coming year will
be Edward Edison. 1938-39 presi
dent. Richard White has been
elected president, and Crey 8cott,
vice-president. Secretary is Rich
ard More; treasurer, Phil Heller;
historian, Herbert Cecil, and war
den, Houghton Furr.
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Lincoln Journal.
Patriate Lahr. Max Hmrm.
Pi Tail Sigma
to fete seniors
Marten is to speak at
engineering banquet
Prof. John V. Martenis, chair
man of the department of mechan
ical engineering at the University
of Minnesota, will address mem
bers of Pi Tau Sigma, honorary
mechanical engineering fraternity.
this evening at the Union. This
will be a farewell dinner for the
graduating seniors of the depart
ment.
The visiting engineer will also
install the following officers for
next year: Martin Hems worth of
Lincoln, president; Robert
Schluckebier, Palisade, vice presi
dent; Don Meixel, Waco, corres
ponding secretary; Elwood Housel,
Lincoln, recording secretary; Paul
Owen, Hastings, treasurer; and
Dan Semlak, Lincoln, historian.
Professors Jiles W. Haney and
N. H. Barnard of the department
of mechanical engineering will ac
company Prof. Martenis to Man
hattan, Kas., where they win in
stall a chapter of PI Tau Sigma
at Kansas State college. Three re
tiring student officers of the fra
ternity will also make the trip,
Richard Ostwald, Omaha, presi
dent; Rufus Koerting, Lincoln,
vioe president; and Henry Jensen,
Lincoln, corresponding secretary.
Miss Stapleton
presents recital
Soprano soloist sings
Sunday at 3 o'clock
Louise Stapleton, soprano stu
dent with William G. Tempel, will
present a voice recital in the
Temple Sunday at 3 o'clock, sing
ing coloratura, lyric and sacred
numbers. One of tlM student solo
ists with this year's presentation
of the "Messiah," Mis Stapleton
nas sung for many university oc
casions. Her program will Include the
number which she sang for the
Messiah," Handel's "Rejoice
oreauy. operatic arias will be
The Air of Elizabeth, from Wag
ner's great "Tannhauser," and two
Puccini arias, "tuando me'n vo
soletta per la via," or "Musetta'i
Waltz Song," from La Boneme,"
ana "in Thoe Soft Curtains,
from "Manon Lescant."
Orfttfd to teach equity
at Michigan law school
during summer session
Prof. L. B. Orfield of the college
of law has been Invited to teach in
the University of Michigan law
school this summer. Prof. Orfield
will teach equity 2 in the second
session July 25 to Aug. 30. He will
take a place left vacant by E. N.
Durfee, authority In this field and
author of the standard text
equity.
The course which Prof, Orfield
wai teach comprises mostly
injunctions against torts, such as
trespass, waste, and nuisance, but
also includes such subjects as un
fair competition, trade practices
ana UK like.
Solons hold
fate of social
work school
Legislative committee
receives many protests
against abolishment
Senator Frank Brady, chairman
of the appropriations committee
of the unicameral legislature, said
late Thursday night that his com
mittee had considered no action
toward the elimination of the grad
uate school of social work.
The statement came as the re
sult of protests received from va
rious parts of the Btate against
the school's abolition. Graduate
school supporters said that a pro
posal to discontinue the school
had been circulated among sen
ators. Chancellor C. S. Boucher de
clared he had received no word
from the legislature indicating a
desire to abolish the school, but
added, "If the legislature should
make it clear they want the school
abolished it would be folly for us
to continue it After all, the leg
islature controls the purse strings."
Up to legislature.
The chancellor stated that the
legislature is the final tribunal of
state of which the university is
only a part. In effect, he put judg
ment in the matter entirely up to
the legislature. He said he con
sidered the Nebraska social wofk
school one of the finest in this
part of the country and that in
spectors had assured him that it
was the best school of its kind
between Chicago and the Pacific
coast.
The graduate school of social
work has existed here for two
years under the direction of Dr.
Ernest F. Witte, who recently re
signed.
It was rumored during the day
that an attempt may be made to
increase the appropriation of the
university S50.000 since it will take
the university some months to
benefit from the recent law which
authorizes the regents to pre
scribe the rules of admittance and
thus place limitations on enroll
ment. Summer music
camp scheduled
Curtis ag school plans
program for prepsters
Nebraska's first summer music
camp to promote music in high
schools and to elevate standards
of school band and orchestral per
formances will be conducted May
27 to June 2 at Curtis by the Ne
braska School of Agriculture. Eu
gene Ellsworth, director of musiT
at the school, is in charge of the
program.
The camp is Intended for schools
In the western psrt of the state but
no limitations are placed on any
who wLsh to participate. Describ
ing the camp as a new venture
In public school music, Ellsworth
explained that the large groups for
instruction will indue band, or
chestra, string orchestra and
marching band.
"In addition," he said, "fiectVmal
rehearsals will b: held for all in
struments, and classes will be con
ducted in baton twirling, music
fundamentals and small ensembles.
Opportunities have also been pro
vided for daily roundtables on
various music problems in the
small school." '
More than 100 tilenU are ex
pected to attend the music camp.
Music supervisors from the par
ticipating schools will serve as di
rectors. Band men who will serve
include Leo Kelly of McCook, Earl
flouts of Maxwell, Paul Sell, Loup
CUy; Charles Compton and R.
Cedric Anderson of North Platte;
a W. Alstsdt, Holdrege; T. H.
Lynch, Eustis, and Ellsworth.
A mass band and orchestra con
cert will be given on the final eve
ning of the camp. A full program
of recreation for the week will be
conducted by Clifford Ashburn,
athletic conch at the Nebraska
School of Agriculture.