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EBH&SKAN
Official Newspaper Of More Than 7,000 Students
Vol. 39, No. 78.
Lincoln, Nebraska
Tuesday, January 23, 1940
Greek council
names Ball
committees
Frat men elect Miller
successor to Wilkins
as treasurer of group
At a meeting of the Interfra-
ternity Council yesterday, commit
tees were selected to prepare for
the annual Interfraternity Ball
elated to be held in the coliseum
Feb. 17.
On the newly elected committees
are: Orchestra. Bob Miller, and
Tom Shaffer; publicity, Chris Pe
terson and Leonard Friedel; deco
rations, Jack Moore; chaperons,
Fd Segrist and Phil Randall; tick
ets, Verne Raywalt and Jim Stuart
To select band soon.
Bob Miller was elected treasurer
of the council to fill the vacancy
made by the resignation of Lewis
Wilkins.
According to Manley Hawks
council president, selection of this
year's dance band will be made
within the next two weeks and
tickets will go on sale immediately
following the selection.
Last year the Greeks featured
a double orchestra bill with Anson
Weeks and the All-American
Frankie Trumbauer, who "battled'
it out from 9 to 12 in the coliseum
In 'sosh' basement . . .
Archeologists
forgotten past
Wnrwlrp.ls of students throne
the halls of social science every
day and probably only a small
number are awnre that underneath
their feet is a busy, well-organized
project employing 31 people who
are burrowing into Nebraska's for-
gotten past.
Near me nonn entrance io
-sosn" is a uoor opening on a
basement stairway. But it s no or-
uinury uiuwicnu iw iui., ,
cobwebs. Instead the clickety-
clack of typewriters and the drone
of voices indicate tne necnive ai-
mosnhere of the place.
Long, sirenuou. noun.
Eyes, tired from long hours of
straining, look up at you as you
enter. You ask for the man in
charge and are surprised when the
youngest looking man in the room
is pointed out. He is Stan Bar-
tos. archaeologist in charge of the
lab's operations. Dr. Karl It. Bell,
anthropologist, is the director. He V o col ect them. They in
lays out rough plans of the work elude bone tools, pipes, needlea,
to be done and Bartos sees that hatchets and other weapons.
the job is carried out. u" " ou""-
The physical anthropology de
Bartos is an energetic, amiable partment goes in for skulls and
young man. He willingly shows bones. Dozens of drawers are
you around, points out the inter- fmed with skulls. Numbers are
esting features.
lhe, sUrted '2 ?CS;Suy
hall in 1937. was moved to the
"sosh" basement about a year ago.
Its 31 employees are WPA work
ers. For what?
What's it all for? It's an at
tempt to piece together the ne
glected details of prehistoric and
historic Nebraska. Archaeology, in
case you're in doubt, doesn't both
er with animals but sticks to the
species homo sapiens. Consequent
ly the lab digs up, cleans, files,
and makes records of anything
from human skulls to tools used
to puncture skins that might be
a clue to the days when a Con
husker carried a club instead of
a football.
The pottery department is a jig
saw puzzle worker's dream. Here
hundreds of tiny bits of ancient
clay pottery are heaped on a table
and workers spend hours attempt
ing to fit them together. They
succeed, too. On tiie west side of
jty council
defers vote
to open street
Proposal to widen 15th
north to R tabled till
further study is made
City councilmen delayed taking
a vote on the proposal to widen
15th street north to R at their
meeting yesterday, pleading that
time was necessary to study the
problems surrounding the ques
tion.
The proposal arose out of the
general election last spring in
which Lincoln citizens voted
$750,000 for the opening of Fif
teenth and for the construction of
a city auditorium.
Vote possibly next week.
The vote will probably be taken
at the city council meeting
next week. First money for the
construction and for the purchase
of property on both sides of the
present alley will be made avail
able by the first of ten levies next
fall.
Field studies by three realty ex
perts covering a period of ten
weeks ended last Wednesday with
a report that $174,235 will be
needed to purchase 15 properties
through which the street must
pass. Among these and most ex
pensive of all is the Varsity
theatre whose 50-foo' irontage is
valued at $58,000.
bring state's
to present
. . . piece by piece
the room are cabinets filled with
restored pottery of all shapes and
sizes. The figure work on them
wouldn't mean much to you and
me but an archaeologist can see
the lives, loves, births, and deaths
of a people in the strange designs.
Jjgsaw puzze de)uxe
Just to lve ou an ldea of tne
,ob tncy-re doing, it took nearly
g 00Q tiny( broken pieces to make
pleces of pottCry,
1
The pieces are cleaned first,
then catalogued by numbers a
tremendous job in itself. Then
they are tried for fits. Pieces are
analyzed according to how they're
made, material used, decorations,
ana type.
Beneath the pottery cabinets are
wawen rramnwu wiin '"llu;iar;
tools and materials used by early
drawers crammed with artifacts-
man. Assistants estimate mere
are 92,000 artifacts. It took two
stamped on them and on bones
There was no classification ays-'
tern before the project came along.
Now Bartos can look up the femur
of a Pawnee in a few seconds and
give you his life story.
Many of the skulls contain holes
because of trephining crude head
operations as done by Indians.
Some of the holes are big enough
to stick your fist thru.
The pieces are cleaned and
studied for disease or deformities,
the bones accurately measured. A
Pawnee skull is narrow, an Om
aha's short and round. Recently,
a skull thought to be trephined at
first, was proved diseased instead.
The lab is extremely careful to
get things right.
The weather
Reports for today say fair but
continued cold again (same old
line) with a new note: incrwsimj
cloudiness.
Students here, over country
approve U.S. aid to Finland
NATIONWIDE
By Student Opinion Surveys.
Although college students have
often shown an emphatic desire to
keep the United States neutral, a
nation-wide poll completed last
week reveals that sympathy for
Finland Is great enough for a ma
jority of them to approve of Amer
ican loans to the only nation that
has kept up its war debt pay
ments. Specifically, 62 per cent of the
collegians answered "yes" to th.j
question, "Should Congress allow
Finland to draw on her latest
World War payment to the United
.naiEa . in.o oiuuj
in the American college world is
one of the weekly polls conducted
for the DAILY and scores of other
undergraduate newspapers that
form the Student Opinion Surveys
of America. A carefully-derived
sample of students is used by the
interviewers in measuring opin
ions of the nearly one and a half
million U. S. collegians.
Favorable sentiment.
Favorable sentiment was found
in all parts of the country on this
niTmns.il that Prpsirtpnt- Rnnsevelt.
j t, i j.
over the type of aid this country
should give Finland has already
flared in Congress. New England
students are the most in favor,
more than seven out of every ten
approving, while those in the Far
West are the least in favor. An in
teresting fact brought out by the
Surveys in this and many other
polls on international questions has
been that people in colleges on the
eastern coast are usually more in
terested in the part the U. S.
should play in the solution of
Europe's troubles. As one goes
West interest wanes, as these re
sults of the present poll show:
Should We Allow Finland to Use
Her War Debt Payment?
Yes No
New England 72 28
Middle Atlantic .... 62 28
East Central 60 40
West Central 64 36
South 64 36
Far West 54 46
U. S. Total 62 38
This survey stands out in sharp
contrast to student opinion last
October, when a majority differed
with national public opinion in op
posing change in the neutrality
Uw in favor of cash and carry.
Dairy group
meets on ag
Milk industry delegates
hold confab this week
Monday marked the opening of
dairy manufacturer's conference on
the ag college campus, as repre
sentatives of various branches of
the dairy Industry participated in
events which will extsnd thru Sat
urday, Jan. 27.
Speakers at the meeting include
Dr. E. W. Bird of Iowa State col
lege, J. V. Quigley of Kansas City,
Max Morehouse, federal milk ad
ministrator at Kansas City, N. E.
Olson, Grayslake, 111.; R.L.Fergu
son of Lincoln; Dr. H. L. Temple
ton of Omaha; L. Hamming of
Lincoln, and H. L. Rletveld of
Omaha.
Profs take part.
Faculty members who will also
address the group include Dean
Harold W. Stoke of the graduate
school; Trof. F. C. Blood, Dr. P. A.
Downs, Trof. L. K. Crowe and
Prof. E. L. Reichart, who is in
charge of the conference.
Of greatest public interest will
be the discussion Tuesday morn
ing concerning federal regulation
of market milk areas with R. L.
Ferguson and Max Morehouse on
opposite sides of the issue,
NEBRASKA
by Paul Svoboda.
According to the various news
agencies the Russian Bear is
stalled in the frozen wastes of
Finland. The people of that small
northern nation have taken ad
vantage of weather conditions and
have been able to insure national
unity at least until spring when
the Red war machine can roll.
Even with war on their eastern
border the Finnish did not fail to
make their regular payment on
the war debt they acquired during
the last war. Now that their very
existence is threatened, we as a
nation are wondering whether we
snouia noi mane avanaoie meir
iast payment in order that they
might use it to thwart Russian
aggression.
If the United States allows the
fund3 to be used, the question of
American neutrality is aroused.
Can the United States violate the
act in spirit and not in law?
Should we allow Finland to use
her war debt payment?
Nate Holman, bizad junior
If we desire to stay strictly neu
tral I can't see that it would be
... . . . . .
etnicai to lend Finland or any
money, rnd that is
just what we would be doing. This
may sound a little hard boiled, but
they should be required to stand
or fall on their own feet. How
ever I am in favor of personal
contributions for Finnish war re
lief. We as a neutral nation can
not specialize no matter how
goodly the cause.
Shirley Kyhn, arts and sciences
freshman
We should give them any finan
cial help that we can. The fact
that they have been so prompt in
debt payment before is reason
enough for my statement. At least
we know their credit is good.
Joe Cashen, arts and science,
freshman
Since they gave it as a war debt
payment I think it should be kept
that way. Any national aid what
soever would violate our professed
neutrality.
Jean Ann Donley, bizad freshman
I think we should give it back.
We've treated every nation the
same up to now even though some
of them were bad debtors. Now I
believe we should show some con-
(See REPORTER, page 4)
Enlarge med
college staff
NU endorses two new
obstetrics professors
Employment of full-iime profes
sors of obstetrics and pediatrics
by the college of medicine at
Omaha was endorsed by the Coun
cil of the Nebraska State Medical
society, Sunday.
Dr. Harold Morgan, Lincoln,
reported on the maternal and
child health program, explaining
that funds from the federal pro
gram could be matched by the
university in hiring the two pro
fessors. Morgan said the plan has been
worked out by Dean C. W. M.
Poynter, P. H. Bartholomew, state
health department head, and the
university board of regents.
He said the two professors
would conduct intramural pro
grams and refresher courses as
well as teach and train resident
doctors and internes.
Both obstetrics and pediatrics
have been taught by practicing
physicians. The new plan involv
ing two new instructors would call
for the utilization of the federal
money available to the medical
school which heretofore has not
been used.
Reappoint
Betty Roach
Avgvan head
Spahn chosen business
manager; DAILY staff
to be named Wednesday
Reappointed editor of the Aw
gwan, campus humor magazine,
was Betty Roach, Scottsbluff jun
ior, at a meeting of the publica
tions board yesterday in Univer
sity hall.
Gerald Spahn, junior, was grad
uated to the business manager
ship from assistant manager, the
position which he held this last
semester. Spahn assumes the du
ties of Leonard Friedel, first se
mester manager.
Frischer managing editor.
George Frischer was reappointed
managing editor of the humor
sheet. Applications for positions
on the DAILY NEBRASKAN will
be considered tomorrow at 4 p. m.
when the publications bor.rd con
venes in the journalism library.
Retiring editor of the DAILY is
Harold Niemann, senior of Ne
braska City.
Debate squad
plans season
Tryouts Feb. 29 to pick
team for Mizzou meet
Nebraska debaters will argue
government ownership of railroads
against Missouri in Columbia
March 27, 28 and 29. The Nebras
ka team, to be picked at tryouts
next Feb. 29, will also debate next
month with Iowa State college,
Drake, Grinnell, Marquette univer
sity and Creighton.
Bibliographies for these debates
will be available this week and
books on the subject will go on
reserve in the university library.
Men now debating on the topic of
United States isolation will not be
allowed to compete. Two hours
of credit will be allowed students
who make the teams. The compe
tition is open to sophomores, jun
iors and seniors.
According to Dr. IT. A. White,
debate coach, lack of expense
money has made it necessary to
reject several offers to debate with
distant schools. Several dates are
being saved, however, lor visiting
teams who will be in this territory
during the next few weeks.
Boucher reviews
pedagogical task
Chancellor C. S. Boucher last
night reviewed the educational
problem of the university in terms
of two' aspects, breadth of instruc
tion and depth of scholarship, when
he spoke to the Graduate club of
teachers college in Ellen Smith.
The chancellor discussed the
trend in American universities
toward emphasis on research pat
terned along the lines of German
higher education.
He expressed the belief that col
leges today are striving to inte
grate their pedagogical program
with research of a high enough
quality to be commendable to a
university.
Sinfonia features
Mozart symphony
Feature of the weekly Sinfonia
harmony hour to be held in the
faculty lounge of the Union today
at 4 p. m. will be the playing of
the entire "Symphony in G minor"
by Mozart.
Besides the symphony, Mendels
sohn's overture to a "Midsummer
Night's Dream" will be played.
Programs for the harmony hourt
are arranged by Frank Cunkle of
the school of music.
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