Furfoay off Liberia
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Official Newspaper Of More Than 7,000 Students
Dr. J. H. Fiirbay, former presi
dent of the College of West Africa
in Liberia, will present a lecture
Tuesday, Feb. 13, at 4 p. m. in the
Union ballroom. Furbay will show
movies which he spent two years
compiling on the native customs,
dances and music of the Negroes
in Liberia.
Liberia which is often known as
Africa's Little America" is gov
erned by former American slaves
who returned to their native coun
try and assumed control of the
government. A refuge for Amer
ican ex-slaves, Liberia was in
dicted by the League of Nations
in 1930 for slavery and C.D.B.
King, the president, was im
peached. Ambitious Germany.
The colonial ambitions of Ger
many have centered upon this
country since the advent of Hitler
who openly included Liberia as an
early objective for the Third RMch.
The United States is watching
these developments closely because
of the many American interests in
Liberia which would be points of
friction if some other country were
to annex Liberia. Uncle Sam has
sent warships for the protection of
this foster child in the past and
any infringement of the rights of
this country would necessitate im-
(See CONVO, page 4)
NU debaters
meet K-Statei
Team argues isolation
of western hemisphere
Nebraska and Kansas State col
lege debate teams will argue the
question of United States isola
tion in a series of four debates to
day. The question, "Resolved that
the United States should follow a
policy of strict economic and mili
tary isolation toward all nations
outside the western hemisphere
engaged in armed international or
civil strife."
John Stewart will represent Ne
braska in the first of the debates
at 9 a. m. in room 126, Andrews
In the afternoon Stewart and
Harold Turkel will engage the
Kansas State team in a debate at
Lincoln high.
Howard Bessire and Otto Woer
Her, the other two members of the
team, will debate in 126 Andrews
at 10 a. m. and again at noon be
fore the Optimist club in their
meeting at the Lincoln hotel. All
. the debates will be non-decision
contests.
Dean Stoke announces . . .
Research council awards;
three profs get study grants
The University research council,
organized by Chancellor C S.
Boucher in October, has awarded
three grants for research to Dr.
James M. Reinhardt of the depart
ment of sociology, Dr. Roy C.
Spencer of the department of
physics, and Dr. Arthur Jcnncss
of the department of psychology.
The grants were announced
Wednesday by Dr. Harold W.
Stoke, dean of the graduate col
lege, and chairman of the new
University council. They are made
for the purpose of coordinating
and stimulating research activities
at the University. Although only
three grants have been made thus
far, the council has given support
to the applications of the faculty
for grants from outside agencies.
Trace delinquency
Dr. Reinhardt is interested in
making a study of the causes of
delinquency in the rural areas of
the state, and in his study he pro
poses to investigate family, school,
court, and community as well as
individual experimental back
grounds of delinquents from Lho
rural areas. All previous impoi
tant studies in this field have been
made in urban centers. Arm her
reason for confining the study to
the rural regions is the recogni
tion that much of Nebraska's de
linquency come from these areas.
Dr. Spencer will investigate
methods of correcting experi
mental curves, and bis research
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J. H. FURBAY.
.he taught in Liberia.
PBK awards
go to fourteen
June seniors
Trench and American
Revolutions' is topic of
Prof. Cabeen's address
Phi Beta Kappa keys will be
awarded to 14 seniors elected to
the society last fall when the Ne
braska chapter meets in the Union
Monday at 6:15 p. m.
Professor David C. Cabeen, visit
ing professor in the romance lan
guages department, will speak on
'The French and the American
Revolutions."
Professor Cabeen was formerly
instructor in French at Dartmouth,
Cornell, and Pennsylvania, Assist
ant French Professor at Williams
college, and head of Romance
Languages at Vanderbilt. He was
graduated at Syracuse in 1908, re
ceived his masters degree at Cor
nell in 1917, and his Ph.D. from
Pennsylvania in 1923. He is a
member of the Modern Language
Association of America.
The weather
The old superstition about the
EToundhog and his shadow isn't
worth a cent because the weather
man says light snow and colder
for today and partly cloudy for
Thursday with continued cold.
will be of three-fold Importance.
It will enable the physicist to
analyze his present equipment, and
to make approximate corrections
in the recordings of such instru
ments as spectrometers, vacuum
tube circuits, etc. The general
method may also be useful in de
riving certain corrections which
are employed in statistics.
Study mental processes
Dr. Jenness is interested in
studying the higher mental pro
cesses associated with learning,
and will attempt to find out
whether the meaning of words is
more important in the learning
process than the specific sensation
created by the pronunciation of the
words. To do this be will rebuild
an apparatus which will measure
individual salivary secretion.
Although the person does not
recognize it, saliva is secreted
each time there is a stimulus to
the learning process.
Dr. Jenness' instrument will
accurately measure the increase
in saliva which resu ts frcm word
meanings. His data will throw
additional .lght on tne whole com
plicated problem of human learn
ing as it is associated with words
and their intei-pretations.
Through the efforts of Dr. J. E.
Weaver and the council, the Uni
versity plant ecologist was able to
secure a renewed grant of $000
from the American Philosophical
Society for the continuation of his
ecological studies in the middle-west.
Vol. 39, No. 82.
Council seeks
to determine
student view
Committee will probe
Uni housing conditions,
campus health service
In a drive to accomplish some
thing to which they may "point
with pride" Student Council com
mittees were appointed yesterday
to sound out campus opinion on
the student health service, and to
investigate housing conditions, the
possibility of establishing a central
booking agency, and possibility of
a recess between the end of classes
and the beginning of finals.
Complaints of the inefficiency
of the student health were regis
tered by various Council members.
Tess Casady defended the depart
ment Arthur Hill moved that an
investigation of the health depart
ment be the major project of the
Council for the year. Merrill Eng
lund, Beth Howley, Tess Casady,
and Arthur Hill were appointed as
an investigating committee to
learn student opinion in regard to
the medical service.
Central booking agency.
Priscilla Wicks, Lowell Michael,
and Anna Marie Schutloffel were
appointed as a committee to in
vestigate possibilities of the es
tablishment of a central booking
agency, and to learn how similar
agencies at other schools were or
ganized. Investigation of housing condi
tions was shouldered by Ellsworth
Steele and an unnamed com
mittee. Taking up other business, the
Council referred the proposed
drive to raise money for the Far
East relief fund, sponsored by the
Y. M. C. A. and the Religious Wel
fare Council, to the judiciary com
mittee. To consider constitutions.
The constitution committee was
given power to act on the consti
tutions submitted for approval by
the Towne Club, Engineers Board,
and Architect's Club, without ac
tion by the entire council.
Professor Lantz, faculty advisor
to the Council, asked that nothing
the advisors suggested in the fu
ture be given publicity because
of a long-standing "gentlemen's
agreement."
In a discussion of the advisa
bility of faculty-student teas, Miss
Helen Hosp, dean of women,
spoke strongly in favor of such an
undertaking, and suggested to the
council that they take the initia
tive in promoting such a move
ment. Interfrat Ball
tickets go on
sale today
Dancers at the Informal Inter
fraternity Ball will swing to the
rythms of Pinky Tomlin and his
orchestra at $1.50 a couple, Feb.
17, members of the committee an
nounced yesterday, as tickets go
on sale.
Tickets can be obtained from
members of the Council or can be
purchased at the University Drug,
Marees, Union, and the aer cam
pus finance office.
Full career.
Writer of "The Object of My Af.
fections" and a score of other
songs, eight c which have been
heard on the KS Parade, Pinky
Tomlin has headlined in theatres
in almost every key city in Amer
ica. He has been a feature player
in twenty motion pictures and was
on the Texaco radio show with
Eddie Cantor for forty weeks.
Tomlin and his orchestra, favor
ites in hotels and cafes on the Pa
cific coast and in the southwest
for many years, has recently made
a new and even more famous
name for himself at the Hotel
Drake in Chicago.
Lincoln, Nebraska Thursday, February 8, -1940
Penny Carnival
ticket's go on sale
Tickets for the annual Co-ed
Council, penny carnival, Feb. 17,
will go on sale today through the
Co-ed Council members, it was
announced bv Ruth Clark and
Mary Bullock, co-chairmen of the
committee. There will be 18 con
cessions, free dancing, and refresh
ments for all.
Natalie Burns, party chairman
for the Council, added that there
will be a taffy pull, with games
and refreshments, for all second
semester freshman women Sunday
afternoon in Ellen Smith.
Name eight
to positions
on radio staff
Eight students were selected
last night as announcers for the
radio program of the DAILY NE
BRASKAN. Final auditions were
given to 14 students yesterday
afternoon.
The second semester series of
the radio DAILY will start tonight
at 11 o'clock over KFOR. Al
though the staff has been enlarged
the program will not be radically
changed from last semesters
More announcers and a greater
variety of features are designed to
make the program more appeal
ing.
Announcers
Jon Pruden, radio editor last
semester, returns to the staff as
news announcer. A second news
announcer named was Phil Wea
ver. Margaret Krause will again
be radio society editor, while John
Mason will Eive the mans side
of campus activities. Fashions an
nouncer will be Dotty Ward, and
Gene Bradley will be in charge of
special features assisted by Mason
and Miss Ward. June Bierbower
also will continue her sports
broadcasts and John McDermott
was named sports announcer.
Dick deBrown, editor of the
DAILY NEBRASKAN, expressed
his appreciation to those who took
so much interest in the tryouts
He stated that names of all appli
cants will be kept on file in order
that thev mav be called upon if
need for their services arises.
But Joe !
Skip class and
$1.21 each-who cares?
by Bob Aldrich.
Joe was sitting around the of
five with his feet on the desk, as
usual. He yawned and looked at
the clock.
"Ho hum,' Joe said, "I don't
feel like class today. Think I'll
skip." He considered the matter
for a moment. "Yes," he said, "I'll
skip." He yawned again.
'Just a minute," Wilbur, the of
fice statistician and champion
bore, warned him: 'Do you realize
what it means every time you skip
a class?"
"No," Joe said, "and further
more, I haven't the slightest in
terest in finding out."
"All right, I'll tell you," Wilbur
said. "Do you know what it costs
you to go to school?"
Too d much.
"My old man says it costs
blank much," Joe said.
too
"Well, suppose it costs you only
$350.00 a semester," Wilbur said.
"That's $19.44 a week. You're tak
ing 16 hours a week. Skipping one
hour costs you $1.21."
"Cheap at twice the price," Joe
said, looking a little uneasy.
"Cut that's only the beginning,"
Wilbur countered. "If you skip a
class you'll miss some vital infor
mation, get behind in the course,
and never catch up. In a word, we
may say that the course is ruined
Costello and
Flick head
Players cast
Newcomers prominent
in roles of The Gentle
People': opens Tuesday
Clarence Flick and Yvonne Cos
tello, first season performers, take
the leading roles in "The Gentle
People," which University Players
present next week. Flick will play
the role of the string-pulling.
tough-looking young villain in the
drama, which opens Tuesday eve
ning, while Miss Costello plays the
part of the hero's daughter.
John Gaeth joins the players
against this semester to take the
part of Jonah Goodman, principal
character in "The Gentle People.
Gaeth played the lead in "Penny
wise" which the players staged
two years ago. Philip Anaganos,
Jonah's fisher fellow angling en
thusiast, will be played by Jon
Pruden. Another first-season play
er, Max Wittaker, is cast as Eli
(See PLAYERS, page 4)
Radio class
broadcasts
60 students present
weekly series on KFOR
Through the remote control
studios of KFOR located in the
basement of the Temple building,
the radio class of the university,
under the direction of Mr. Theo
dore Diers, will present a series
of "Sketches from Life". The life
stories of such famous men as
John Brown, Walt Whitman, and
Dr. Mesmer will be portrayed
every Wednesday afternoon at
4:30. Sixty students are taking
part.
Eeginning next Monday a series
of dramatizations of famous
poems of English literature will be
broadcast by the radio class. This
series is entitled "Tales from
Bards", and the initial program
tell of the life of Enoch Arden.
The service of this studio has
been in effect for 15 years and
also presents weather broadcasts
and agricultural news by profes
sors of the University.
it costs you
as far as you're concerned. In that
case, a three-hour course takes
$66.62 out of your papa's 350 hard
earned dollars."
"You can't scare me," Joe said,
looking uncomfortable.
"How much money do you ex
pect to make as a result of your
education?" '
"Oh I ought to be making $5,000
a few years after graduation," Joe
said. Sweat was beginning to ap
pear on his forehead as he pre
tended to ignore Wilbur.
Tsk, tsk.
"Then, if you flunk your three
hour course as a result of skipping
today, it will cost you $937.48, fig
uring your earning power as de
pendent on these all-important 16
hours. However, even on a four
year basis it will cost you "
"Stop!" said Joe.
"I don't want
to hear anymore."
it will cost you approxi
mately $117.20. And, what's worse,
if you expect to invest your earn
ings over a period of years and
become a millionaire, your failure
wil cost you around a fifth of
that, or nearly $200,000."
Wilbur paused for breath and
glared at Joe. 'Now," he demanded,
"do you still want to skip that
class?"
"Yes," said Joe.
And he did.