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l 1HLY 2408 Vol. 69, No. 36. tuidemts Colonel Council plans to eliminate voting fraud The Men's Activity Point board decided at a meeting Monday afternoon that candi dates filed for today's election are eligible, and that any man elected who is carrying too many activities must drop to the re quired number or be ruled in eligible. Fall elections will occupy the students today as they wend their way pollward to cast ballots for their favorite candidates In the race for senior and junior class presidents, Honorary Colonel, and Nebraska Sweetheart. According to the Student Council there will be a reformed "neat and clean" version of balloting. Lowell Michael, chairman of the elections committee of the Council, states that "with faculty supervision this election will be void of voting fraud." He warns that "any stu dent or election supervisor whose actions are of a suspicious nature will immediately be questioned." Candidates. Candidates for the senior office are Adna Dobson, progressive; Dow Wilson, liberal; and Ed Mc Donald, barb. Competing for the junior presidency are Ed Segrist, progressive; George Gostas, barb; and Forrest Behm, liberal. Vieing for the title of Nebraska Sweet heart are Jane Pratt, Beth Howley, Lois Friedebach and Betty Bach man. Janet Lau, Elizabeth Waugh, Helen Kovanda and Harriet Lewis are each looking to the students for the necessary support needed to be presented Dec. 9 as Honorary Colonel. The liberal faction which com pletely dominated last fall's elec tion will attempt to retain their position while the progressives, also with strong candidates, are hoping to regain the domination of the fall election which was theirs until last year. In order to limit fraudulent vot ing, voters will be required to sign their names for comparison with signatures on their identification cards. As a double check, the fac ulty members will look at identifi cation pictures. Polls in the Union and in the ac (See POLITICS, page 2) Campus groups prepare gala welcome for grads Homecoming plans include house decorations, Innocent dance, Rally luncheon, Carnival Campus groups have completed men at a Rally luncheon in the their plans for the entertainment Union ballroom. Coach Biff Jones of old grads, who will take over and Journal Sports Editor John the campus Friday and Saturday in a gala Homecoming celebra tion. INNOCENTS: Homecoming decorations of 15 fraternities, 14 sororities and Ray mond hall will be judged Friday evening by a committee of three Innocents, a Lincoln artist and a professor in the school of fine arts. KFOR'a mobile unit will broadcast during the judging, which will be as soon after dark as possible for the lighting effects to show up. The Innocents corn- ?itlet. c!wrfeof.. l.h,e cntest; if April! Fnwlitti.l U.h lUnii nYt nn4 Merrill Englund, Bob Waugh and Orval Hager, will announce the time of the judging Wednesday. Innocents will hold open house Saturday morning in their Union rooms and a luncheon at noon or all Innocent alumni. The group will sponsor two hours of free dancing for everyone in the coliseum immediately fol lowing the game Saturday, at which Jtime Homecoming decora 'IIJJI IliLiart' will be awarded. "cOKN CO as AND TASSELS: t FrltlHWoon Corn Cobs will '. honV.r afumriLand Lincoln business Official Newspaper 0 More Than 7,000 Lincoln , Nebraska Tuesday, November 7, 1939 cltaose iAjeetlSiearttodlay Senior class president Vote for one. Alnn Dobson, Progres sive Dow Wilson, Liberal IMwin C. McDonald, Barb Union Junior class president Vote for one. K1 Segrist, Progressive Forrest Behm, Liberal Oeorge Gostas, Barb Union Honorary Colonel Vote for one. Helen Kovanda Q Janet Lau Elizabeth Waugh Harriet Lewis Nebraska Sweetheart Vote for one. Betty Bachinan Jane Pratt Lois Friedebach Beth Howley Bentley will speak, Together Corn Cobs and Tassels will sponsor a huge rally Friday night and a Carnival dance in the Union ballroom Saturday night. Dusty Roades' orchestra will play for the dance. ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: The alumni executive office wiil hold open house and a meeting of the executive committee, the board of directors and the finance committee of the association on Friday evening. Vincent C. Has- call of Omaha, president of the alumni association, will preside at the executive meetings. Elsworth F. DuTeau, secretary, will give a report. Square dancing, band music mix The band's ability at square dancing will be demonstrated this week as a part of its homecoming "between-the-halves" program. This novelty number will be sup plemented by corresponding music. Students prexnes, One student injured as factions clash Faction leaders could not be reached for statements at 1:30 this morning. One student was reported injured late last night as rotten eggs, rocks and garbage flew along fra ternity and sorority row in a clash between the three major campus political factions. The stu dent, altho full details could not be learned, was knocked uncon scious in the melee after the or ganizations had made the rounds in support of their candidates for class offices. Students reported the affair as one of the worst in recent years. Create uproar. Although police were on hand to quell any disturbances, action was taking place on so many fronts at the same time that it was virtually impossible to con trol. Armed mostly with rotten eggs, over-enthusiastic students centered their attacks mostly on the Phi Kappa Psi and Phi Delta Theta fraternities. Water hoses at both houses were torn up. Garb age was dumped in cars parked at the houses. Burned-out torches lined the streets. Little excitement accompanied the actual rallies staged before all sorority houses. The liberal party was the first to turn out at about 8:30. More than 100 students of the faction paraded 16th street. A small group of barbs began marching in support of their can didates at 9, but disbanded before they had completed the rounds. The progressive party then turned out with a mob numbering well over 100. Eggs and rocks began flying as the faction neared the end of its rally. University authorities could not be reached. Census shows Bug populace below normal in Union Population statistics released by the Association for the Advance ment of Bacteria on Restaurant Dishes indicates that the region around the Union dining rooms is just about deserted. In fact, the few remaining bugs there are having a mighty hard time of it. "I don't like to complain, one bacillus moaned as your reporter strained his ears, but the soli tude is getting me. Sometimes I think I'll go bugs." Struggling microbes. Unfavorable conditions for struggling microbes were revealed by Carl K. Georgl of the depart ment of bacteriology who made a study of Union china and glass ware. He checked 30 drinking glasses, the wash water, and rinse water. The wash water had 1,290 of the little fellows per cubic cen timeter and the rinse, 5. The department allows 50,000 per c. c The department allows 500 bac teria on a glass. Georgi found an average of 68 per glass on one set of ten. Another set had 74 and another 76. Single glasses bad as low as 10 and 30 per glass. Praises cleanliness. "The rinse and wash water are excellent," the bacteriologist said. He praised the cleanliness of Union glassware. "Just to make things worse," our mend the microbe said we promised not to use his name "they've gone and bought a new glass washing machine. And haven't had a marsh mellow coke for months." Latin-American good will trippers will speak tomorrow Five distinguished South American professional women to lecture before Union audince at 1 1 "Conditions in South America," Hemisphere. The delegation ha will be the topic discussed by five visited both world's fairs and ma distinguished Latin - American jor cities in the United States, women at a Union convocation Four members of the party will Wednesday at 11. These women speak in English, while Spanish are on a good will tour of the students and teachers may hear United States, and were invited by talks in Spanish by two speakers Chancellor Boucher to speak at in room 315 of the Union. the university. Five Latin-American countries are represented: Argentine, by Senorita Susana Perez Irigoyen; Brazil, by Senora Lucia de Paula Fonseca; Costa Rica, by Senora Angela Acuna de Chacon; Cuba, by Senorita Merecedes Guerra; Venezuela, by Senorita Yvonne Gonzales Rincones. Senorita Irigoyen is a promi nent young journalist; Senora de Chacon, a lawyer and a writer; Senorita Guorra, personal repre sentative for the Mandate Chair man of Cuba; Senorita Rincones is the daughter of the former Min ister of Education of Venezuela; Senora Fonesca, daughter of the Ambassador of Brazil. The tour is under the auspices of the Peoples Mandate commit tee, with Miss Mabel Vernon, who will introduce the speakers, in charge. Also on the tour is Mrs. Ana del Pulgar de Burke, Chair man for Latin America. The purpose of the tour, first of the three planned visits, is to spread information on Inter-Amer ican affairs, increase friendly re lations, and make better known the effective peace system that is being created in the Western NEWS COMMENT Americans revive war profiteering By Woerner and Steele. In the near future American- made bombing planes will be trail ing destruction on oerman vil lages, will be dropping bombs on defenseless women and children. will be aiding in the destruction of the morale of a great people. But such gory business is noth ing new to American exporters For several years Chinese men, women and children have been dying by thousands before the re lentless onslaught of a foe equipped with American trucks. and using guns and ammunition made from American scrap iron The arms embargo has been lifted! A new neutrality act is on the books. Loans and credit to bel ligerents are barred, American ships may not carry goods to European belligerents, Americans can not travel in danger zones or on belligerent vessels, submarines are forbidden to enter American ports, and arms, ammunition and implements of war may be pur chased by cash paying customers. Step in right direction. True it is that an embargo on all essential raw materials and manufactured goods of war, and restriction of all other sales to peacetime levels, would do much more than a simple arms embargo to keep the U. S. from being in volved. But because the arms em bargo was only a step in the right direction, and not the ideal, is no reason for its abandonment. All other provisions of the neu (See NEWS COMMENT, page 2) Sure fire recipe for Non-skid, heat-resisting, tamper-proof English theme is product of DAILY genius By Bob Aldrlch. and contrary to the intentions of Are you getting bad grades on tne Founding Fathers (Don't let your English themes? Come. anolher ""V P by... Write your come, ess up! Ha. we thought congressman now!) so! (Patronizing chuckle.) 1, 2, 3 just like that Well, we're Just the party you Of course, you know every want to see. Time was when wc theme has a beginning, a middle didn't do bo hot on our themes and a disillusionment (that mast either incredible as that may be the word. Everything points seem! English teachers used to toward this denouement, that's cringe at the very mention of our it! Everything moves toward the name. (Now, they just give a denouement (climax). As soon as scream of horror.) That was this is written it's a simple matter when teachers believed in letting to bring the theme to a close. In the punishment fit the cringe, a three-nacre theme this taperinjr- (Good hearty guffaw.) The most important part of an English theme is the beginning. The beginning is the part you write first. And yet we find hun dreds of students putting the be ginning at the last or the middle or even leaving it out altogether. This is sacrelijjioua, un-American The frafers get together to rehearse The scene: Any fraternity house. Time: One night this week. Characters : Four or five funny looking tozos in various weird cos tumes and with long faces not be fitting to their roles as clowns. The idea: It's Kosmet Klub va riety show time and the boys are trying to whip their skit into shape. (Just between us, they're not doing too well.) Gus: Well, boys, we might as well face it. The act stinks. Joe: Oh, I wouldn't say that. . . Bill: You're right, Gus. I haven't seen anything so bad since the last time the Nebraska band tried to play swing music. Ed: It's awful. The gags are no good. The music's lousy. The whole idea's rotten. The Abba Dabba Slappa's will walk all over us. Gus: You said it. I wouldn't put it on in a church basement. Joe: Oh, I wouldn't say that... Bill: And the dancing looks like a football team warming up. We couldn't be worse if we were in plaster casts. Say, that's an idea let's all break a leg. Ed: Cant. I got a date right after the show. Gus: It's undoubtedly the worst act ever presented on any stage. Joe: Oh, I wouldn't say that. . . Bill: You wouldn't huh! Well, what would you say? Have you got any ideas. Joe: As long as you ask, I think we ought to change the whole thing. Now, to begin with. . . Ed: Where do you get that stuff? Bill: Yeah, what's the idea? Gus: What's the matter with the act? Just because we're a lit tle tired tonight... Bill: Yeah, why don't you pipe down? All we need is a little im provement. Why we re gonna walk away with that cup. Gus: Come on, fellas. Let's re hearse it once more. I'll murder anybody that says our act isn't perfect! Holiday Saturday decrees the dean Armistice Day, Saturday, Nov. 11, will be an official school holi day. Dean T. J. Thompson an nounced yesterday. All Saturday classes, labs and recitation sec tions will be dismissed. Thanksgiving vacation starts Wednesday. Nov. 20 at 12 a. m. aJkd ends at 8 a. m. Monday, Dec. 1. Klssch takes exhibit Prof. Dwight Kirsch, chair man of the department of art, accompanied a senior extension art exhibit to Grand Island last week. The exhibition was spon sored by Grand Island high school and was oK-n to students and townspeople. off ought to be done in two page ...or five at the very most. Above all, use big words. There's nothing po delights an English teacher as a four-bit word, especially if he knows what it means. A word like "enantlo morphouB" is your insurance (See THEME RECirE, page 4)