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The DAILY NEBRASKAN
Tuesday. October 10. 1939
DailyNebmsmn
Ojlicial Newspaper Of More Than 7,000 Studenti
THIRTY-NINTH YEAR
Offices ....Union Building
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special rate of postage provided for in Section 1103. Act of October 3, 1917.
Authorized January 20, 1922.
Editor-in-Chief . . 7. . . . Harol d Niemann
Business Manager Arthur Hill
E D I TO R IAL D EPA R7 ME N T
Managing Editors Merrill Englund. Richard deBrown
News Editors Norman Harris, Ed Wittenberg, Lucile
Thomas, Clyde Martz, Chris Peterson.
Sports Editor june Bierbower
Ag Campus Editor Rex Brown
Society Editor ". Letha PetM
Radio Editor Ed Cooper
Fashion Editor Marga'et Krau'
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
Assistant Business Managers Burton Thiel. Ed Segrit
Circulation Manager Lowell Michael
University of Nebraska Official Bulletin
All university organizations, of
fices, deans, heads of departments
and university officials are urged
to use this bulletin as a medium
through which they mar contact
those students to whom they wish
to make announcements. An
nouncements for this bulletin may
be dropped in the campus mails,
phoned in or brought to the I) AHA
vffice. This is your bulletin.
FRESHMAN COMMISSION.
Freshman commission will be held
Tuesday noon at 12:2(1 in the home eco
nomics parlors on hk rampu. Miss I'ai
Mi Mahron will be in charKe of these
meetings for the semester. All freshmen
tirls are rnrlally invited.
niri i: ( i t k.
All students interested In Joining the
Til fie rluli see Sterlinc Dobbs or Carl
l.eoiiard at Nebraska hall from 5 to ,Vl.rj
In room 2 in. The club s membership fee
is one dollar.
CORN IOBS TO ( II y. K IIIKMII l A
TION ( AltOS.
Members of Corn Cobs, actives and
I'ledes. are requested to report (n uni
form at the Student I'nion ballroom Wed
nesday afternoon at 4 1.1 to check identi
fication cards and police the dance floor
for the reeular mntinee dance which
starts at .1 p. m. Credit will be given all
those repotting for work.
IOFII (Ol.NsF.MlRS' IIOItKY (.KOII'S.
Coed Counselors will hold a mass meet
ing In Kllen Smith hall from 7 to 8 this
evening as the organization and operation
of the tour hobby groups to be sponsored
by the organization will be explained
All freshmen and any other interested
omen are urged to attend the annual
meeting at which Kern Stcuteville. presi
dent of the organization will preside
Charm school, the hobby group which
annually draws the biggest attendance
and the most Interest will he led t hi.-,
year by Acnes Wanek. Ruth Cl.irk, a
member of the counselor board, is
sponsor.
A new hobby group will make its ap
J'earanre as Lucille Marker will lead the
t.iK.k review meetings. Jane Iu-I-aiour Is
the sponsor.
Fcrap-book will be conducted by Marv
Ma tine Maney. with Mary Mherburne.
sponsor.
All leaders and sponsors will he In
troduced and meeting times will I an
nounced. l.tMMH l.4MHI.
flamma Lambda will hold Its regular
H. citing Tusday a.t .1 o l'k in room 31. 'I
of the I'nion.
I HI II KIT KWP A.
There will be a I'M Delta Kappa din
ner Tuesday in ttie t'nion I'arlor A. at
k p m.
NKMN CM H.
Newman Club Mission program for
Tuesday and Wednesday is as follows:
Man, Parlors. XYZ, 7 a. rn and S
a. m . and In the Seminar, room 311. 10
to 11 a. rn and 4 to ,'i p. m
Kvening devotion win be at the Cathe
dral at 8 p. m. Catholic students are in
vited to attend and visitors will te wel
come. MKTIIOOIST MEN MEET.
There will be a meeting of Methodist
men students. Tuesday at 7 P nrt. in the
Methodist Student House.
MOM. A ETA CHI.
A Sigma Ma Chi meeting will he held
In the Union, room 313. at 7.30 p. m.
Tuesday. Pledges will meet In room 3l.r
of the Union at 7 p. m. Tuesday.
I'HAI.ANX MEETS.
There will be a Phalanx meeting Tues
day at 7:30 in room 31& of the Union.
EVANOEI.K AI. STUDENTS MEET.
The League of Kvangelical Students
meeting in the Union room. 31fi at 7
p. m. Tuesday.
MATINEE DA NCR.
A matinee dance will be held in the
Union ballroom from 5 to 6 p. m. Wed
nesday. Y. M. C. A. MEETS.
Pr C. H. Patterson will discuss "A
college man's philosophy of life" at the
university Y. M C. A. meeting in the
Temple at 7:1.1 p. m.
KAIM't PHI.
A Kappa Phi meeting will be )ie;d at
the Methodist Student House at 7 p. m.
Wrdnrsday.
sit IIENT COt N II..
There will be a Sfident Council meet
ing Werim'siin) at five in room 313 of
the Union.
slOM iu:n a iii.
Sigma Pelta rid will hold a lunch
eon imiay in the Union. All niembeis
are invited.
V. . C. A. ARINET.
There will be a Y W. C. A. cabinet
meeting tonight at 7 in Kllen Smith.
UIKMOHs MEET.
A Corncob meeting will tie heid Wed
nesday at 7.30 in room 313 of the
Union
CHORUS NEEIIS MEN.
20 vacancies for men's voices re
niauied to be filled in the University
chorus. Arthur K. Westhrook. dean of
the school of music announced yester
day No fui t her position! m the
women'a section .e oien.
MMI'HONY Til KITS.
Student tickets for the Lincoln
Symphony Orchestra Concert series will
remain on sale this week at the school
nl Tni.-uc. The student price is 3 ,0.
SfWIETV REPORTERS MEET.
All students, men or women, who
wish to write society for the PA1I.Y
will meet with Women's Editor 1-urile
Thomas In the HAII.Y office In the
Union basement Thursday attemoon at
12 Ml.
Instructions for gathering and writ
ing will be given, nonet y beats assigned,
and formal organization of a roeiefy
staff will be discussed.
AIM! A KAITA I'M.
Zeta chapter of Alpha Kappa Psl
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Sad annual
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women members of the squad for
male substitutes.
Reliable reports have informed
DAILY members that the year
bookies have been putting the
pressure on Deans Thompson and
Hosp in an 'effort to have them
lean the annual way.
DAILY tear members have
shown no fear at all concerning
this point, declaring that the Corn
htisker members are ineligible for
athletic competition anyway, and
that the newspapermen are just
being polite in allowing them to
take the field.
Daily intellect.
Just who will provide the foot
ball Friday, the 13th, is a ques
tion still under consideration.
Superior DAILY intellect has
judged the yearbook coach or cap
tain would be more informed as
to just what kind of hide to use
for the contest.
Cornhusker spies, denied hear
ings of the DAILY chalk talks
have borne their task heavily, cry
ing that the DAILY team was not
cooperating.
"Clean living, studious, healthy
DAILY staff members," declared
Editor Niemann, "should make
mince meat of the reprobating,
sinful and unintelligent Corn
husker team."
News roundup
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with Turkey constructing huge
new fortifications along its Eu
ropean frontier, and fortifying
the strategic straits; with Russia
looking longingly at Bessarabia;
with Greece and Hungary perpet
ually dissatisfied because of the
lov. standards of their economic
life: with Jugoslavia jarred re
peatedly with internal national
istic disorders.
Perhaps a new day of organized
economic life has come for this
chaotic mess of nationalities and
sub-nationalities. Eut the war is
not yet over, regardless of the
peace proposals of Russia and
Germany, and the very fact that
Russia is organizing its economic
life to help Germany seems evi
dent that Germany at least an
ticipates a prolonged struggle.
The allies wait for winter, con
tending that every day harms the
German cause; the Germans await
the results of their peace propo
sals; America waits for Congress
to vote on neutrality. But appar
ently Stalin waits for nothing,
taking advantage of every op
ery opportunity and avoiding ev
ery risk.
And so four million Finns and
half that number of Lithuanians
will go to bed tonight, wondering
whether tomorrow the sun will
rise "red' or not.
held Its first meetinK of the yes' Thurs
day n'ttht at the Phi Kappa' psl house
with Harold Swan, president, presiding
Plans were discussed for the ensulne
year and an ective program was out
lined and approved.
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Future
Neither dwindling enroll
ments nor lack of public sap
port face Ihe colleges and uni
versities of the country in the
immediate future. This is the
opinion of leading educators
who participated in the four
teenth annual Institute for Ad
ministrative Officers of Higher
Institutions at the University
of Chicago about a month ago.
Summarizing 1he conclusions
of the educational Authorities
on the program. Dr. John Dale
Kussell, director of the Insti
tute, said ihe expert opinion
indicated such developments as
these :
A shift toward the f-4-4 sys
tem of educational organiza
tion, providing six years of ele
mentary school, four years of
junior high school, and four
years of "college" combining
the last two years of the pres
ent high school with the first
two years of the present col
lege. Major increase in enroll
ments of colleges during the
next twenty-five years because
of increasing uncmployability
Just Comment
Our face is red. Not Ihe pale
pink that frequently tinted the
the hue that characterized
boiled herring, but a rich red
color, like unto that of a new
fire engine or a bund meeting
before World War Secundus.
Everyone was celebrating Sat
urday evening, even our own
Lucy Thomas who proofread
our editorial. We meant to say:
"They saw a dying Nebraska
spirit regenerated inlo possible
IMMORTALITY." Perhaps
the word "immorality," as it
appeared, however, wasn't so
far off.
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No more than ten people
called at the office today, and
called attention lo the error.
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An editorial in the Dailv Tar
Heel of Chapel Hill, X. ( says
several Negroes seeking en
trance into the University law
school were turned down by ad
ministration authorities. Thank
(!od, we don't have to editorial-
Education
of youths under the age of
twenty.
Coordination of adrnini.st ra
tion of publicly supported in
stitutions of higher learning
within states, and increasing
cooperation between private
institutions to eliminate waste
ful overlapping of programs
and costly recruiting of stu
dents. Despite the depression ex
periences of the last decade,
when privately supported in
stitutions felt the decline of in
come from endowment because
of reduced interest rates, and
publicly supported institutions
had reduced appropriations,
the administrators are in gen
eral agreement that there is an
era of growth ahead.
They believe that the experi
ence of the immediate past in
dicates that so long as their in
stitutions maintain a service
vital to our society, society
will support them properly
with funds and students.
You will probably have to
be an educator or an idealist
to believe, but it's true.
ize on such matters here. Ne
braska has always provided
educational facilities for their
citizens regardless of race.
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And the propaganda contin
ues to roll in. There should
be no postal deficit this year.
Wires
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coin to Omaha, Philadelphia and
back again.
Admisison by invitation.
The demonstrated lecture is
being sponsored by the university
student branch of the American
Institute of Electrical Engineers,
the Nebraska section, and the Lin
coln Telephone company. Admis
sion will be by invitation.
Dr. Perrine will use long cir
cuits to demonstrate how fast the
voice travels on wires and the dif
ference in the quality of the broad
cast when message and standard
broadcast circuits are employed.
Altho light and radio waves travel
at a speed of 180,000 miles a sec
ond, on wires electrical waves
sometimes travel as slowly as 20,
000 miles a second. This varying
velocity of waves on wires is one
of the major problems in the tele
phone industry, according to the
New York wcientist.
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