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Official Newspaper Of More Than 7,000 Students
Vol. 39, No. 66.
Lincoln, Nebraska
Friday, January 5, 1940
Ag extension
workers hear
Prof. Laves
World government
only way to insure
peace, says educator
Reduced sovereignty of national
states and creation of an interna
tional government as soon as pos
sible were advocated here Thurs
day by Prof. Walter Laves of the
University of Chicago, as the only
means of establishing lasting
peace and prosperity following the
present war.
Professor Laves addressed the
afternoon session of the meeting of
Nebraska agricultural extension
workers and other U. S. depart
ment of agriculture employees who
are in "school" here this week.
The educator blamed the break
down of the League of Nations
partly on the United States be
cause it refused to loin the league,
and lauded its early successes in
settling minor disputes and in pro
viding international control over
administrative problems.
War is the only justification for
policies of national self-sufficien
cy, the speaker declared. He also
insisted that as national problems
must be settled on a national and
not a state basis, so international
problems must be settled through
international cooperation.
Speakers today at the meeting
will include Dr. Charles E. Kel
logg, chief of the soils survey divi
sion, U. S. D. A.; Dean Marten
Ten Hoor, philosopher of Tulane
university; and Prof. Arthur C,
Bunce, economist of Iowa State.
The convention will continue until
Saturday noon.
Regents ask
block vacated
Request room on Avery
for new field house
A request made by the univer
sity board of regents to vacate
Avery avenue, 10th to 11th, to
make way for the proposed new
field house, was filed Thursday at
the Lincoln city hall.
Upon vacation of this 500-foot
strip, the board proposes to deed
to the public for street purposes
land to the north necessary for
the rerouting.
The university owns all the
abutting property. Blue print
plans of the field house indicate
that upwards of one-fourth of the
structure would occupy the pres
ent street
Bringing art to students
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Two hundred sixteen square feet an artists' workshop was the idea Sunday Journal and star.
is a lot of mural, but that's just of Union officials who, since stu- day, Thursday and Saturday after
what Elizabeth Callaway (left) dents won't go to art, are bringing noons and several evenings a week.
and Mildred Kopac are working on art to the students. The completed Now, they are enlarging prelimi
in the Student Union lounge. When mural 27 feet by 8 feet will be nary drawings to actual size with
finished, this huge work will in- placed permanently in the base- charcoal on white paper. In Feb-
clude figures engaged in every ment game room of the Union. ruary they hope to transfer the
phase of college activity. The two student artists usually mural to pressed wood with egg
Turning the union lounge into are at work on their project Tues- tempera colors.
Union displays
doll sketch exhibit
First of a series of hobby collec
tion exhibits to be shown this
month in the Union lounge now on
display consists of a series of 12
colored illustrations of a group of
dolls collected from all over the
world by L. L. Coryell, sr.
Coryell, who collected the dolls,
loaned them to the class in fashion
illustration, which made the plates
(See HOBBIES, page 3.)
SAM, Beta Sig, DU lead
scholarship over 11 years
Sigma Alpha Mu tops social fra
ternities on this campus in schol
arship with an average ranking of
third place every semester since
the fraternity was founded at Ne
braska in 1927. Second place goes
to Beta Sigma Psi whose semes
ter's ranking averages 4.77 and
third place to Delta Upsilon with
an average of 6.86.
Though seldom among the top
ranking three, Delta Upsilon alone
in the 11 years over which the
survey was made, has not dropped
below tenth place. Sigma Alpha
Mu, on the other hand despite sev
eral slumps to ninth and lGth
places, has led soclil fraternities
over DO percent of the time, with
12 firsts out of 22 semesters stud
ied. Aside from these, Beta Tlieta Pi
And Phi Psi Hre the only other
large fraternities that can boast
high scholarship. The Betas and
Pbi Psls tie for fourth place with
average rankings of 7.40. Sigma
Nu is 17th, Delta Tau Delta 16th
(See SCHOLARSHIP, page 4.).
Prairie Schooner
ends thirteenth
publication year
With the winter issue, the Prai
rie Schooner, Nebraska's literary
magazine, concludes its thirteenth
year of publication with one of its
finest issues.
"Harriet Called Harry," by
Helen Bullard Rydell, "The Elec
tion," by Jesse Stuart, and "Night
of Terror," by Martin Dreyer, are
three stories by former contribu
tors which are featured in the
magazine. Glen Baker, Janet Pi
per, Geoffrey Johnson, Norman
Macleod, Alex R. Schmidt, Guan
Douglas, Sara King Carleton,
(See SCHOONER, page 4.)
President Gilmore
of Iowa U. resigns
The Iowa board of education to
day announced that Dr. E. A. Gil
more, president of the University
of Iowa, will retire July 1, 1940,
in his 68th year.
Dr. Gilmore came to Iowa City
in 1930 as dean of the law col
lege. In 1934, he became president.
Dr. Gilmore is the father of Dr.
E. A. Gilmore, jr., assistant pro
fessor of economics here.
28 compete
for Beauty
Queen titles
Big Six yearbook
editors will judge
Cornhusker contest
Nominations for the six Beauty
Queens to grace the 1940 Corn
husker have been concluded with
28 girls entered by various groups.
The complete list of nominees
for Beauty Queen titles and their
sponsors :
Alpha XI Delta: Genevieve Smith.
Alpha Chi Omega: Kathryn Park.
Alpha Phi: Eleanor Bemer, Holly Shurt-
leff.
Alpha Omloron PI: Maisle Imlgh.
Delta Gama: Harriet Talbot, Marjori
Waechter.
Delta Delta Delta: Alice Blackstone,
Frances Breed.
Chi Omega: Jo Duree.
Kappa Alpha Theta: Either Louise Let-
ler, Harriet Mcintosh.
Kappa Delta: Margaret Mohrman.
Kappa Kappa Gamma: Suzanne Wood
ruff, Jean Cullinan.
PI Beta Phi: Maxine Fuller, Maxln
Stalons.
Sigma Delta Tau: Helene Albert.
Raymond hall: Virginia Clarke.
Love hall: Janet Costello, Anne Tockey.
Unaffiliated: Eleanor Crawford, Nelda
Anderson, Dorothy Filley, Marilynn Barr,
Jean Wochner, Marlon Starlin, Claudia
Baker.
Editors of the other Big Six
college yearbook publications will
be the judges who select the win
ners of this year's beauty contest.
The judges are Jack Williams of
Iowa State, Charles Roberts of
The Sooner at Oklahoma, Russell
(See BEAUTY QUEENS, page 4.)
Variety hour
features film
Sunday show to include
student acts, picture
Matching his wits against th
builders of the British-Indian Em
pire, George Arliss, as the Raja of
Rungay in the Gaumont-British
version of "East Meets West," will
stalk across the Union screen aa
the main attraction of the second
variety hour to be presented Sun
day in the ballroom at 4 p. m.
A picture of British-Indian in
trigue, the film Is one of a group
made after Arliss' retirement
from the American screen, be
sides the movie, three vaudeville
acts will be presented. These will
star Mary Elizabeth Stuart, whose
hot piano numbers made a hit
in the Kosmet Klub show; Eldred
Winters, who will play several ae
cordian numbers; and Norma Pat
terson, 14 year old Lincoln tap
dancer.
George Gostas, member of the
Union board of managers, will be
master of ceremonies at the 6how.
Students hopeful of getting
good jobs after graduation
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By iOK KKI.IIF.V, F.dKur
Hludrnt Opinion Hurvryi of Aiiirrlm,
AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 5 Col
loge youth of this new year is
faced with some of the most stag
gering problems of modern civil
ization, further complicated by
this nation's attempts to make
itself a better place to live.
Unemployment continues to be
a major U. S. problem, vying for
attention with the war in Europe,
which is bound to have its effect
on business and on wages. On the
first of February treasury checks
will begin coming to many of th
aged of the country, and by th
end of 1910 nearly 1,000,000 per
sons will be receiving benefits aa
the gigantic social security pro
gram assumes full stride.
The Student Opinion surveys,
national polling organization of
the campus press, has tapped
the college mind on two topics
that may give a glimpse of
America tomorrow: Old age pen
sions and the Income college
(See OPTIMISM, page 4.)
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