PETITIONS
Students are urged to sign
the petitions being circulated
by the DAILY asking Fred
Waring to compose an original
song for the University of Ne
braska, to fee played on his
Chesterfield radio program.
NOMINATE
Make your nomination for
the Campus Queen at onoe.
Nomination blank appears
on page 2. Turn all nomina
tions into the DAILY office.
Iebha
Official Newspaper Of More Than 7,000 Students
Vol. 39, No. 103
Lincoln, Nebraska
Friday, March 8, 1940
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Transport
conference
to meet here
ICCs Eastman, Sorrell
of Chicago to speak
at Nebraska April 15
Coordination of transportation
agencies will be the subject of the
Odn4 Annual Trunsnortation con
ference to be held here April 15.
Headlining a list of nationally
known authorities on transporta-
tion will be Commissioner J. D.
Eastman, chairman of the Inter
state Commerce Commission,
Eastman has been a member of the
IOC for 21 years, except for
three years when he was federal
co-ordinator of railways under the
present administration,
Roundtable scheduled
For the first time the confer
ence will be In the nature of a
round table, opened by Dr. L C
Correll from the University of
Chicago. Sitting at the round
table will be representatives of
shippers, traffic managers, rail
(See TRANSPORT, pe 8.)
Rifles to take
30 new members
Pershing Rifles begin their an
nual spring drive for new men
next Tuesday, In anticipation of
the spring regimental competition.
About 30 new men will be ac
cepted from freshman and sopho
more basic drill squads.
Regimental competition will be
held at Iowa university on April
27. Company A-2 will compete
against similar companies from
Minnesota. Wisconsin, and Iowa.
Competition will be between drill
platoons, crack squads, and rifle
teams.
All men interested must report
at Nebraska hall at 5 Tuesday.
White shirts and basic uniforms
are to be worn.
Inquiring reporter finds .
Student presidential choices
still hazy; Roosevelt leads
By Bob Aldrich.
Interest In the political cam
paien being stimulated by the ap-
oearance of Thomas E. Dewey, re-
rvwn candidate for nomination.
T i v. imttt u hnnt
in Lincoln, the DAILY set about
to gel a sample oi siuuem. uiiuuu
on the question:
"Whom do you favor for the
next president of the U. S. and
why?"
The Inquiring reporter found
most of the students questioned a
little hazy as to a choice. Scarcely
any had made up their minds for
a definite candidate and some did
not know who was running. At
that, they are not much different
from the average American citi
zen. Roland Shirley, Bizad sophomore:
"I would vote for Roosevelt be
cause of his past record. I like
especially the securiteis exchange
commission, fedrcal deposit insur
ance and the CCC camps. Roose
velt has also done a fine job with
foreign policy."
Joseph Fitzgerald, arts and
sciences junior:
"I like very much the way
Rooseve has done things the last
eight years. I don't think the na
tional debt makes as much dif-
frr-pnre as manv neopie say. n
is all right to have a big debt as
long as people are put to work."
Jane Marvin, arts and sciences
sophomore:
"I don't care who Is the next
resident as long as Roosevelt
isn't kept in office. Dewey might
be a good choice but I'm not par-
First semester grades
available tomorrow
Final grades for the first se
mester will be available tomor
row morning. Students on the
city campus should call at the
registrar's office, Administra
tion 103, and students regis
tered in the college of agricul
ture at the office of Dean
W. W. Burr. Grades will be re
leased only upon presentation of
the student's Identification card
and his picture.
Grade cards which are not
called for will be held in these
offices until May 1. Following
that date the grades will be
available In the credit books.
ily starts
song petition
Students to ask Waring
for program dedication
Petitions asking Fred Waring to
compose an original song for the
University of Nebraska and to
dedicate it on his Chesterfield
broacast series are now being cir
culated ,on the campus for stu
dents' signatures. Richard de
Brown, DAILY editor, urges that
all students sign the petitions but
that they do It as neatly as pos
sible since the petitions are to be
bound in book form for presenta
tion to Waring.
Copies are available in the
DAILY offices in the basement of
the Union. Anyone who wishes to
obtain a copy and circulate it is
urged to do so, as otherwise many
students may not save an oppor
tunity to sign.
The drive Is being sponsored by
the DAILY and was originated
through letters to Mr. Waring by
decrown.
Weather
' Weather reports predict part
cloudiness and not much change
in temperature today for Lincoln
and vicinity.
. .
ticular. There has just been too
much Roosevelt.
John Haacker, engineering sopho-
"Roosevelt I think he knows
mere than any other man how to
h- hu had more
(See REPORTER, page 8.)
Pony practice is all wet or maybe it's me!
Chorus gyrations are no snap for the seni le
By Paul Svoboda.
Sweat drops dribble from my
heated brow. I am all wet. Every
body is all wet. The rumble of
36 pony chorus feet hitting the
floor in room 201 of the Temple
sounds like the Finns and Rus
sians are getting pretty peeved
with each other.
"These setting up exercises
should have limbered you up so
now let's try this new dance rou
tine." savs a drl in green, all
pretty and fresh. "Now lane your
ri&nt iooi, your nsni
end, take your eyes off that chair
and watch me!"
Intelligent hoofers.
I turn around to see who is eye
ing the chair nobody is, the girl
in green looks at me and con
tinues, "How much is two and
two?" Being an intelligent hoofer
I say five. "Well if you can't add
maybe you can at least under
stand English," she says. I nod
complacently, slowly, thoughtfully,
and carefully. 'This is your rignt
foot, see!" the fresh girl in green
says. I nod complacently, slowly,
thoughtfully and carefully
Four night show means
days of labor for Players
By Hubert Ogden.
Once a ain the calendar pages
turn inexorably toward next Tues
day night when the University
Players will produce Sinclair
Lewis' social satire, "Dodsworth."
Audiences at the Temple see
only the players who move against
backgrounds and sets which add
to the realism of the puppets on
the stage. But although the sets
and scenery are background to
the theatre-goer, to those who
mak them they mean work, time,
and patience.
"Dodsworth" is no exception.
The production of this play re-;
quires nine sets and about $250
worth of properties. The 14 scenes
require 13 shifts of sets.
"Portal units.-
The scenery for this production
is made up of what is called
portal units." That is, three rec
tangular arches are set up on the
stage, one in the back with the
two sides fastened to it This
forms a three-sided inclosure of
arches, which is left on the stage
throughout the whole play.. For
each scene, the proper scenery is
fastened into place at the back
and sides of this inclosure. Or in
other words, there is one perma
nent frame made of square arches
on the stage, and this frames any
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The music starts. It Russian
music. Russians drink vodka. I
don't like vodka. It gives me a
headache. "One, two, three, go,"
says the green fresh girl. We all
lift our legs in the air. (Not both
at once of course.) Then we bring
them down. Then we bring them
up. Then we bring them down.
Then... we stop.
My note.
I lift by aquiline nose into the
heavens for a breath of air. What
d j t? Well...BO. I gulp and
swallow. Tasty stuff, isn't it?
The music resumes in a Russia
ing pace. This time we do the
new Communist dance appro
priately named "Zchyouligkosky."
Like alphabet soup, ain't it?
My legs are getting stiff. My
arms are getting stiff. My back
is stiff. My neck is stiff. "Gee,"
I say to myself, "I'm stiff. Be
sides that my feet hurt."
By this time I am beginning to
wonder where the love gal, I mean
the dove gal Roeita Royce is.
'After all why did I sign tip for
this thing... anyway
sort of scenery the property man
wants it to.
The fly backwalls for the seven
interior scenes may be lowered
into place by means of pulleys,
and the side scenery can be slid
into place.
Nine sets for "Dodsworth."
Among the nine sets are Dods-
worth's office, his library, a bar
room aboard ship, and a London
and a Paris hotel suite. Also, there
are a villa in Switzerland, the
Adalone in Berlin, an Italian ex-
(See PLAYERS, page 8.)
Union brings
mystery film
Thirty-nine Steps' plays
in ballroom tomorrow
"The Thirty-nine Steps." a mys
tery-adventure movie, will be
shown in the Union ballroom Sat
urday at 8 p. m. Madeline Car
roll, whom the Columbia . boys
voted to take out on a desert Isle,
and Robert Donat who won the
1939 "Oscar," will be the co-stars.
Alfred Hitchcock, the director.
is the Englishman who won the
highest directing honors for 1938,
He is called the best movie pro
ducer in England and the greatest
master of melodrama. He will be
gin work August 1 on "Rebecca"
by Daphne du Maurier.
Writing out his continuities and
working every situation to the last
detail before studio operations, he
rarely tells the plot to the cast
and often they have to wait un
til the preview for the entire pic
ture.
This clever mystery show de
picts an amateur detective just
one step ahead of the police while
he is trailing a gang of clever
spies. Intriguing and mystifying,
it is one of the first pictures to
make Director Hitchcock famous.
Survey lists . .
Convocation speaker among
country's ten top women
Listed in a national survey as lished book 'This Constitution of
one of America's ten most distin- Ours," she says, "here in America
guished women is Judge Florence we inherited an instrument apt for
Allen who will speak here at the shaping freedom. Whether or not
"annual Honors Day convocation we establish freedom rests with
ADril 23. Her subiect is her fa- ourselves."
vorite interest: "The Constitution,
an Instrument of Freedom."
In Miss Allen's recently pub-
"Wake up," the dreamy girl
says. I nod complacently, slowly,
thoughtfully, and carefully. I am
so tired now that I couldn't raise
goose pimples without help. Sweat
runs from my manly brow and
chest to the floors. I am so dizzy
I see two of them.
"Come on boys, we'll try this
thing once more and if you do it
good we'll quit for tonight," says
the girl, fresh and green. The
music starts. We all lift what is
left of our legs. Then we bring
them down. Then we bring them
up. Then we bring them down.
The music goes faster and faster.
Our legs go faster and faster.
Then it ends in crash. . .we fall on
the nice and friendly floor. "That's
all for tonight" says our green
girl. I stumble down the steps and
go home.
Chapter two.
"Hello, hello, is this the Uni
Drug? It is? Send about five bot
tles of Groan's liniment to 2634
East 14th in a rush," I gasp. "And
while you're going to all that
trouble include six pork sand
wiches, two hamburgers, and a
malt two. Oh yes, one more thing,
don't forget some aspirins.
Counselors
elect Bullock
to head board
Frances Keefer, Jean
Powell vice president,
secretary respectively
Mary Bullock, Junior from Lin
coln, was elected president of the
Coed Counselors' Board for the
coming year at the annual election
of that organization yesterday.
Miss Bullock, a member of Al
pha Chi Omega, will be joined as
senior board member by Ruth
Clark of Tacoma, Washington, de
feated candidate for the presidency
and a member of Alpha Xi Delta
sorority. Both presidential candi
dates are automatically board
members.
Priscilla Chain, Kappa Alpha
Theta from Seward, is the other
affiliated senior board member.
The three unaffiliated senior
board members are Jane De La
tour, Lincoln; Ruth Ann Sheldon,
Nehawka; Beth Howley, Omaha.
An even number of unaffiliated
and affiliated girls is required ift
(See ELECTION, page 84
Lutherans plan
annual banquet
Lutheran students and alumni
will gather Saturday night for
their annual banquet in parlors
XYZ of the Union. Speaker of the
evening will be Judge Paul Beck
of Seward.
About 150 guests art expected
to attend the annual affair at
which the Reverend Schiep of
Lincoln will be toastmaster.
The program for the affair con
sists of vocal and instrumental
numbers and readings.
After the dinner, plans will be
made for organization of a
permanent university students' Lu
theran alumni association.
Born in Utah.
Judge Allen was born in Utah,
and educated at Western Reserve
university and the New York uni
versity law school. Her ancestry
may be traced back to the Ethan
Allen of Revolutionary war fame,
who distinguished himself at
Crown Point and Ticonderoga.
Three universities have honored
Miss Allen with degrees of doctor
of law. These were Western Re
serve University, Smith and New
York University.
She was a critic and foreign
correspondent for leading newspa
pers in the East before she was
appointed judge of the court of
common pleas in 1920. She was
justice of the Supreme Court of
(See CONVO, page 8.)
Casady, Spraguc
vie for WAA
presidency
Hortense Casady and Elnora
Sprague will vie for presidency of
the WAA in an election to be held
in Grant Memorial Tuesday.
The rest of the slate comprises
Jean McAllister and Mary Allen
Robison for secretary; Jeannette
Mickey, treasurer; and Mary Ros
borough, concessions manager.
Votes will be cast by 1839-40
intramural representatives, and
members of the Sports board and
WAA council in Out WAA office
from 9 to 5.
