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BKING NEWS THE NEHRASKAN IS Fit EE Student Newspaper of The V niversity of Nebraska JUL M ft3B . rrlssir. J r LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1939 ioneer site of Tuesdayfs steak fry Dave Haun, 'Rolling Rockets dance team will entertain men For outdoor sport, they choose steak fries More than 200 summer school men students are expected to at tend the first summer picnic spon sored by the students in coopera tion with the union directors, at Pioneers Park next Tuesday, July 18. Baseball, horseshoe, and or ganized entertainment will be on the program continuously after 2 o'clock, M. G. Farrow, chairman of ticket sales and publicity an-1 high schools today has increased Vocational demands lessen requirements, Dr. Morton discloses Increased demands to add voca tional and broadening courses to the school curriculum have les sened the strict requirements of the solid subjects, Dr. V. H. Morton, chairman of the depart ment of secondary education at the university, told the univer sity's fourth administrative clinic at the Student Union last Thurs day afternoon. "Schools are constantly facing requests to add this and that to the daily program," he said. "If we are going to recognize these requests, we shall be forced to eliminate much of the old material and organize the new, not as sep arate subjects but as parts of an Integrated educational program." Dr. Morten pointed out that the number of young people attending Wishnow to direct violin study New music professor travels East to work with Jacques Gordon Emanuel Wishnow, well known Lincoln artist, newly appointed as sociate professor of violin on the university school of music faculty will have charge of student work in violin, beginning this Sept ember. Mr. Wishnow is concert master of the Lincoln Symphony orchestra r nounced yesterday. Though transportation facilities are not being provided, the com mittee requests that any student having any space in his car or any student unable to find a ride should report to the union desk at once. An effort will be made to; get the two groups together. Come and get It j Following the eats, consisting of a large size steak dinner in the , open air, an hour's entertainment j will feature prominent entertain-1 ers of the city. Dave Haun, a 1 well-known orchestra leader and I accordion player, is slated to play a few numbers on his accordion. I An act called the "Rolling Rock- ' ts" features three professional i skaters, jumping through the air! and whirling one another around i on a twelve foot platform. In their ' routine, they strike matches, and ' pick up handkerchiefs while being spun horizontally and being held by only one leg. For dancing, the committee has scheduled "Donna and Jewell" a two-girl dance team. Following their dance show, ensemble sing- JqIc Pace ing ana several snore masts introductions will conclude day's activities. Men only "The steak fry," Farrow plained, "is strictly for men, significantly in recent years, and along with this increase in enrol ment has come a change in the purpose for which students attend school. Exchange position A letter from Miss Lola M. Berry regarding an exchange high school teacher's position, is in the hands of Professor R. D. Moritz, summer session director, in Teachers College room 305. Under the plan, teachers ex change positions, but are still subject to their home school boards and work under a salary paid by the home board. Miss Berry has received permission to exchange with another teacher this coming year and seeks a qualified history teach er to take advantage of the ex change work. Those Interested are re quested to write Miss Berry, whose summer address is 1400 No. 12th St., Waco, Texas. : -y x f 'V- , -Y - - Schultz finds proof giant camels lived here 500,000 years ago C. Bertrand Schultz, assistant director of the university museum, now has proof that the giant camel whose bones have been found in western Nebraska, lived here some 500,000 years ago. Schultz returned this week from a trip to Oshkosh, Broadwater and Canadian, Tex., where museum field parties have been at work for several weeks. During his visit at Oshkosh, stu dent assistants discovered a limb bone and lower jaw of a Plciste cene horse in close proximity to several fossil camel bones. Finding camel and horse bones in such close association now establishes the camel in the early Pleistecene period in geologic history. The Oshkosh site has yielded an abundance' of camel material. Schultz said a completed skeleton of the giant form will be mounted during the winter months. The discovery of a giant dog and a new type of antelope has aroused the interest of persons in the vicinity of Broadwater. The Texas party is preparing to ship back skeletal remains of large prehistoric bison. This material will be compared with the fossil remains of early Nebraska bisor: and with the skeletal paits of the modern buffalo. nrrcnK 'the; position with Dewey jacK race, university or .Ne braska graduate, will commence work on the staff of District At torney Dewey in New York, Sept. 1. For the past three years race ex-in- Journul EMANUEL WISHNOW. . . . back to Nebraska to teach violin. and is first violinist with the uni versity string quartet. He was also concert master for the former (See WISHNOW on page 3i Student Union Notes SCHEDULE OF EVENTS FOR THE COMING WEEK. Thursday, July 13 Bridge tournament, Parlor X, 2 p. m. Friday, July 14 Recorded concert, Parlor X, 4 p. m. Dance, Fizz Powell, Ballroom 9 p. m. Monday, July 17 Recorded concert, parlor X, 4 p. m. Tuesday, July 18 Book pro gram, Book Nook, 4 p. m. Bridge lecture, Parlor XY, 7:30 p. m. Wednesday, July 19 Matinee dance, ballroom, 4-6 p. m. Free movies, Ballroom, 7:30 p. m. furring that the picnickers would h'as been enronec at the the Har not have to worry about unneces- vani iaVv. school. receiving his de- ctn. sary politeness not vouia uay Rree among the upper third of the ; dents in the Bancroft summer lab- Grade school talent summarizes course on KFAB broadcast Sixth and seventh grade have to participate in feminine ( graduating class this June. games. j Thrilled by his prospective as- Heading the entertainment com-, sooiation with New York s famous mittee is I. V. Montgomery, from n a. Face explained, "Dewey is Blair, and Fred Wilhe'm, the man of the hour, captured the position of chief chef. Assisting Farrow with tickets (See STEAK FRY on page 3 1 extremely popular with the masses, if not with the political machines." He predicted that his employer would be a candidate fo' president in 1V10. War scare finishes study in Paris for art teacher whole oratory school took part in a fif teen minute broadcast over KFAB from the University of Nebraska studio yesterday morning. In a roundtablc discussion the ' students .summarized the facts i which they had gathered in their six weeks' course on "Consumer i education in relation to things I children buy." "This broadcast." Theodore H.I Diers, head of the university studio explained, "is given each summer at the close of the ele mentary school project." Miss Schwake takes former faculty post given, and practically the school left. There had been barely a month in Faris - a month in wnich to se some of the sights of the city, to Katheriue Schwake, rec ently re- j CQ fm a k tchinc trio to the fa mous gardens of Versailles, to visit French shops, sample French foods, to attend the opera and most important of all try to turned, to Lincoln to losume n-n-position in the university dfpmt ment of fine arts after a ear's' study in Paris and New York, re lates an incident of minor' signifi cance in general but one of great importance to her, regarding the famed "Munich Pact," and the in ternational war scare of last Oc tober. The situation which gave rise to the now famous 'Tact" threatened world peace, but for Katheriue Schwake and a number of other American students who had gone to Paris to attend the Ecolc de Paris, French branch of the well known Farsons nchool of Fine and Applied Art in. New York City, war-talk and air-raid drill had an other, immediate effect. It ended dreams of a year's study in Taris. Whole school left For, one morning when excite ment wag at fever heat and the fearful citizen could scarcely keep from involuntary frightened sky ward glances to see whether any hateful bombs might be descend ing, students at the Kcole were told that it was advisable to se cure passage for the United States, at once. There was no dawdling, once the order was important of all try glimpse the chic French women whom the world-famous designers turn into the most beautiful and fashionable in the world, according to fill the popular legends. Paris was left, regretfully, after transportation had finally been se cured as a climax to hours of standing in line with frantl? tourists. A train carried Miss Schwake and the other students to Rotterdam where there were two wonderful clays before sailing -days crowded with sights to be seen and memories to be kept. Memories of melodious music from the largest chromatic carrillon in Europe. An unforgettable excur sion to the intemationaly famous Boyman's Museum with its mas (See ART STUDENT on page 3) Scott to participate in guidance meeting Dr. C. W. Scott of the depart ment of school administration will take part in a guidance conference on personality development which ia being sponsored by Kearney State Teachers college July 17 and 18. 15,983 attend short courses at Iowa State during year's time AMES, Iowa. July 5.--A total of 15,183 persons attended shot" courses held at Iowa State College during the year May 22, 1938, to May 21, 1939. R. M. Vifquain, chairman of short courses, an nounced. During this time 40 short courses were held. 4 more than were held during the same period in the preceding year. Farm and Home Week, as usual, drew the largest attendance with 3,300 persons registering. Cattle Feeders' Day drew an estimated 2,500 and the High School Agri cultural congress, 1,700. About 1,987 Iowa 4-H girls and 1,036 4-H boya attended their re spective conventions on the campus. Additions to library number Cornell book America Bernini, hy Kntherlne (.lover. World I rll Hy Winxtiift Churchill. a Crltlilun, hy fJeorce S. I . Sydenham. Aiilnhliik'niphy, hy Wlllliinl l.ynn riielpx. I Wmitid Tii Be All .rtre, by Kxlhn rlne Cornell. I'tienm, hy Kileeu May DiiKean. Keonomle Problem of the .Next War, by I'aul KiniK. Toiiiiirrim' In (lie Milking, hy John N. I Andrew mid ('. A. Marden. 1 Thuddeii Steven, hy Alpliontr lier trnm Miller. I'tililie Opinion In a Pernor rmy, hy linrlr Willi mi Snillh. ;ruie of Wrnlh, by John Steinbeck. .Mr. Jusll.'c Holme and Ihr Supreme Court, hy leliv Krnnh ftirler. A New Priil l'or Voiilh, by Betty Dudley. ( ntiMiiiirr nnd the Keoiinmle Order, hy Wiirren 4'lrliinri Wnllc. Cause of Keonotiile riiiehmllon. hy W ill lord lhell KlllK. Ole Kdvuii Kolvnui;, hv Theodore Jor KeiiMin, Dolmen of the Brenkfimt Table, hy Murk Anltionv PeWolIe Hone. PirRii liivcrn, hy Bertram P. Wolfe. Association reorganizes alumni zones Council seeks central club control; to plan first alumni history Council members of the Univer sity of Nebraska Alumni associa tion met in the Student Union, Monday afternoon to discuss zon ing the United States into large alumni districts so as to effect a more clAsely knit organization. According to Secretary E. F. Du Teau, the country has been di vided into eleven zones. Each zone will have a president, vice presi dent, secretary and treasurer who will be. responsible for the alumni clubs in their territory. Nebraska, however, will be governed by the executive committee and board of directors. Write alumni history. Various constitutional matters were under discussion, and a pro posed history of the alumni asso ciation will be written by Ralph Reeder, editor of the Nebraska alumnus. This first compiled re view of the association and its ac tivites will be published and made available this fall. The association was founded in 1873, altho it was not until ten years later that an active organ- l ization was established. In 1923 an agreement was effected be I tween the university and the as- sociation, which made the alumni (organization a definite service unit of the institution. A constitu tion was adopted in 1931 giving the association a body of organic law, which set forth the purpose of the association, its structure, method of procedure and mem bership requirements. Many present. Those here for the council mcel- ' ing were Vincent C. llascall, Oma ha, president; Sarah B. lunch, Ra venna, vice president; Mr. Du Teau, secretary-treasurer; Max Meyer. Lincoln, and Harold Holm quist, Oakland, members of the executive committee; Mrs. Flor ence S. Bates, Lincoln, Mrs. Ruth Whitmore, Valley; Judge A. E. Wenke, Stanton, Helen L. Scott. Stromsburg, C. Fred Shircy, Beat rice, Ray F. Stryker, Omaha, H. E. Cook, Grand Island, and T. 1. Varney, jr.. Broken Bow, all mem bers of the board of directors. Dan H. B. Foster of the College of Law, John Riddell, assistant state at torney, who is a former member of the executive committee, and Regent H. W. Devoe, also attended the conference. Judge W. W. Wilson, Nebraska City, executive committee mem ber; Dr. F. A. Burnham, Arnold, land Marvin Schmid, Columbus, board members, were unable to attend. 10,000 feet of film makes ;j Hooper's library largest Lost and Found Summer students are urged to remember that the lost and found office Is In Teachers col lege 305. A book, "Statistics in Psychology and Education," awaits Its owner, whose name Is not written in the fly-leaf. Other articles have also re mained unclaimed at the office. Dental dean famous as color photographer Dr. Bert Hooper, new dean of the university college of denistry, is internationally recognized as an authority in the field of prosthetic dentistry. He is reported to have the largest color motion picture li brary in the world concerning den ture work, and his pictures have been shown before practically every state dental society in the United States as well as before the 1938 meetings of the American Dental society of Europe at Stock holm, Sweden. Made new devise. Dr. Hooper has more than 10,000 feet of film. He became interested in photography some yca-s ago and for several seasons took mo tion pictures of university football games. His interest In photography led him to develop a new siglit- Lugn article printed Dr. A. L. Lugn of the depart ment of geology has a discussion of the Valentine geologic forma tion published in a recent issue of the American Journal of Science. ing device lor motion picture Lam eras which is now part of th- equipment owned hy leading uni versities. He was also one of the first to employ photography i'i making records of facial features, which ure used in producing a nat ural result in artificial dentures. He is well known for his many researches and inventions. Severn! years ago he developed a new im pression technique, an improved method of cooling impression ma terial in the patients' mouth, and also an instrument for duplicating denture. More recently he de signed and constructed an electric casting machine and a device for measuring facial dimensions which Insures more natural position of artificial teeth. Mechanical chicken Dr. Hooper's ability as an in ventor is not confined to dentistry. As a youth in high school he in vented a mechanical chicken feed er that weighed the mash, distrib uted it, and automatically called the chickens. By using an eight day alarm clock as a regulator, his machine would function three? times each day for eight days, be fore needing further adjusting. (Sec HOOPER on pa go 3) .