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Plfe rSSd! StL Council votes fund transfer for Prom debt Unused money in budget for convention will be spent to cover deficit The Student Council yesterday voted to transfer funds from the amount allowed in the budget for Bending a delegate to the Student Council convention to cover the Prom deficit of $64. But at the same time, the Coun cil discovered that the budget for the year 1939-40 had not yet been approved by the faculty commit tee of L. E. Gunderson, John Sel leck, and Dean Thompson. Failure to approve the budget was due to a misplacement of the submitted budget, according to Arthur Hill, treasurer. The motion for transfer of funds (See COUNCIL, page 4.) Honorary begins leader conferences New plan will integrate women's groups, orient activity office holders A new venture on this campus is the series of leadership conferences under the sponsorship of Mortar Board and the office of the dean of women to be held Saturday, March 30, through Wednesday, April 3. The purpose of the confer ences, Selma Hill, chairman an nounced is to integrate women's organizations, to orient new of ficers into the particular duties of their respective offices, to utilize experience of past officers so that there will be continuity in the or ganizations, and to further close working harmony between faculty and student leaders. All officers attend. Officers of all women's organ izations on both the ag and down town campuses will take part In cluding honorary, professional, fraternal, and extra-curricular in terest groups as well as social so rorities and major organizations nuch as YWCA, Tassels, Coed Counselors, VVAA., and AWS. Newly elected officers and board members have been invited to par ticipate along with those who Berved for the year 1939-40. First meeting Saturday. The first meeting Saturday morning will be for all those in vited. Thereafter one meeting apiece will be devoted to the pub licity agents, secretaries, treas urers, and presidents of the organ izations. The speaker at each meet ing will endeavor to present con crete material that may aid the officer in her particular duties. Discussions from the floor will fol low each address. Engineers enjoy . . . Inspection of CBS studio ... on Chicago trip The engineers are happy! At of causing a flood, for they have least it appeared so when they learned that they could produce were questioned concerning their the same effect if they had a cer- recent inspection trip to Chicago tain kind of bird seed to drop In and surrounding cities. From pro- fessors to students enlightened and cheery faces prevailed in the en gineering building yesterday. The trip was from March 17 to March 23. According to Professor Norris one of the most interesting ex cursions was that to the Columbia Broadcasting studio in Chicago. While there the group enjoyed a dress rehearsal of the "First Nighter" radio program and later a special sound effects program. No longer will these engineers be able to become aroused with ex citement when they are listening to Orphan Annie's house burning down for they will know that the crackling fire sounds are produced ,by crushing cellophane and little trawberry boxes. , Drop bird seed In box. Neither will they be impressed by torrents .of rain on the verge Vol. 39, No. 113 All-Campus coed contest deadline near Votes cast exceed managers expectations; balloting ends Saturday Deadline for voting on Ne braska's entry in the All-Amer-ican Campus Queen contest being sponsored by Paramount Pictures and locally by the DAILY, is Sat urday at 5 p. m. The voting which has been going on since March 17 has surpassed the expectations of the contest managers here, Dick deBrown, editor of the DAILY stated, urging students who have not yet voted to do so before Sat urday so that a vote will be rep resentative of the general student body. Gerry Wallace, Marjorie Adams, Pat Keitz, Jean Cullinan, Beth Howley, and Bettie Cox are the candidates. Their pictures were judged by a local committee as candidates for the entry from Ne braska. Pick state winners. The picture of the candidate whom the men select will be sent to a committee of five New York artists who pick a state winner for each of the 48 states. Photos of the state winners are to be pub lished in the May 3, 10, 17 issues of "Movie" and "Radio Guide.' Readers of the magazines will bal lot for their choice for the All American Queen and the 12 can didates who receive the most votes will be sent to the world premiere of Paramount's "Those Were the Days" at Knox college in Gales burg, I1L, May 21. Law college picks arguers Fourteen freshmen law students have been declared winners of the first year's elimination contests to pick the best court arguers, final arguments in which were held Wednesday evening. Four stu dents will be selected next year to compete in the finals in 1941 42 when the best team of two will be chosen grand champion. The following first year win ners were announced by Profes sors James A. Doyle and C. B. Nutting, sponsors: Richard M. Doty, Bruce Grant, Frank Day. Ewald Warnsholz and Samuel Kirschenbaun. Cecil Brubaker, John Kelly, Kenneth Nelson, Fred crick Gilbert, Richard Tcck, Eer nard Menke, Sarah Miller, Donald Moore and Richard Fate. a little box. Interesting, said Pro fessor Norris, is the fact that if (See STUDIO, page 4.) Campus housing is improved Not women, not With the housing problem so vm i-Vi In t txa no tyi rtua onftli crhfr h pharmacy ,., eon,, t. th front with new housing facilities not for women, not for men but for FROfiS This tiau hnrriA for frotrs is a huce box which resembles a giant refrigerator; it is thennos- Rtatlcaliv eoiitrollfl.i and heavllv Insulated. i 1 The box is about seven feet tall and four feet wide; contains nine trays, each holding about 125 frogs; constantly changing cooled Daily lEBBASMk Official Newspaper Of More Than 7,000 Lincoln, Nebraska Coeds hear 'magazine talk9 fromKatherine Clayberger Students will learn the editor's rious Phases of the Magazine view of what goes on behind the pages of a magazine when Miss Katherlne Clayberger, associate editor of Women's Home Compan- Lincoln Journal and Star. Miss Katherine Clayberger. , ion, speaks this afternoon at i in Ellen Smith. "Vocational Possibilities of Va- Sigma Xi PBK to name new members Scholastic honoraries meet Friday; will hear Columbia uni geologist Sigma Xi and Phi Beta Kappa, scholastic honoraries, will an nounce newly elected members of the societies at the annual joint dinner Friday evening in the Union ballroom. The dinner, for members and their guests, will be followed by a public convocation at 8 p. m., at which Professor Douglas Johnson of Columbia uni versity will be the guest speaker. (See MEMEERS, page 3.) NU Delta Sigma Pi's to hear national officer "The Business of Getting a Job" will be the topic of an ad dress by H. G. Wright of Chicago, grand secretary of Delta Sigma Pi, professional business frater nity, at a program sponsored by the local chapter April 2. The convocation will be held at 3 p. m. In Social Science audi torium and will be open to stu dents In the College of Business Administration. Wright has ad dressed many college groups In his present capacity, and has written considerably on this topic. men, but frogs water runs thru the trays keeping; the temperature of the box at Jf ' 8ity witn a jxqo grant from the research council. "It can hold more than 1,000 frogs," says Dr. Harold G. O Hoick, of the Pharmacy college, The frogs are to be used as sub- jects in experiments with digitalis (a heart stimulant) In conjunction with the U.S. P. Revision com mlttee. All the frogs are males females cannot be used. r i i Wws :;f-:::: Students Thursday, March 28, 1940 Publishing Business" will be Miss Clayberger s topic in the fifth of the vocational information series, sponsored by AWS and the office of the dean of women. Men who are interested in any phase of magazine work are par ticularly invited to attend the talk, and to arrange for a conference with Miss Clayberger, Helen Hosp, dean of women announced, adding that Miss Clayberger will hold conferences with both men and women between 2 and 4 this aft ernoon. Appointments may be made at Miss Hosp's office. An advertiser too. Miss Clayberger, according to Dean Hosp, has an interesting and practical way of presenting her material. She tells exactly how the various people now in executive positions on the magazine with which she is associated achieved their posts, and what the duties of each are. Opportunities in the publishing field are a particular interest of hers, and her taiK win be helpful to anyone who is a reader of her magazine, or who wishes to enter magazine pub Jjghing. 31 pass CAA pilot exams Results of Civil Air Regulations, Meteorology, and Navigation tests given by the federal government to CAA students have been re ceived, permitting those passing them to take flight tests. If they pass the flight tests, they will be awarded private pilot licenses. Shell Oil company has provided the Shell Intercollegiate Aviation Schloarships for student pilots and the Shell Aviation Awards for col leges, sponsors, and flight schools participating in the Civil Aeron autics Authority's Civilian Pilot Training Program. Students will compete for the se lection of the nation's three out standing student pilots by means of an audit of their grades and by a nationwide flight competition about July 15. Students, who passed the pre liminary tests are Ainluy, Ankeny, Armstrong. Bachman, Binder- nagel, Craft, Deavcr, Catch, Geis- singor, Hagerman. Hitchcock, Ja cobs, Kersey, Kruse, Lauritson, Robert Nye, Walter Nye, rarmele, Prince, Ptisateri, RoUnson. Schr.i- nost, Schnick, Schappcll, SheH hase, Philip Smith. Snell, Swam, Wiley, Williams, Wittman. Guilford edits new book "Fields of Psychology" is the title of a new book edited by Dr. Joy P. Guilford, director of the bu reau of instructional research. Studies disclose seasonal economic condition universal Business depressions and cycles are more important to the pros- of prosperity have long been recog- pcrity of many industries, Spurr ,z, Mhhc world w,d. Ir. CSmti Sf JiTS character, but that seasonal move- qUired for peak periods of activity ments of economic conditions are lie Idle during slack seasons. More- also universal is shown for the over. tne seasonal problem is more first time in a study published by eptible to solution than that J J of business cycles, since the regu- PrOf. W. A. SpUrr, Instructor In lQPitv nnrl flvf.fi ririnr1 rf spnsnnnl statistics. He based his conclusion on a statistical analysis of 25,000 measures of prices, production and trade in Japan and a comparison with similar data from other countries. The study, which was completed as his doctor of philo sophy dissertation, is now pub lished in the , University , of Ne braska Studies. ' 1 Economists have paid attention to business cycles rather than sea sonal movements, altho the latter Nine acts vie for cups in annual show Style revue is added feature; candidates, 23 others to model Nebraska's Best Dressed Girl, selected from 19 candidates for the title, will step out on the stage of the Temple tonight at the annual Coed Follies Spring Revue. Attendants of the best dressed girl will be the two run-ners-up for the honor. Five skits and four curtain acts will be presented at the spring revue, starting at 7 p. m. and closing at 8:30, and an added fea ture will be the spring style show, with 23 coeds as models. Prize for the best In each class of the acts will be a silver loving cup. Skit titles. Skits are "Sorority Life," Delta Delta Delta; "Student Union," Delta Gamma; "A Coed's Folly," Pi Beta Phi; "Thanks for the Memory," Sigma Delta Tau; "Dean Frauleinstein," Raymond and Love halls. Curtain acts are: "Powder Box Follies," Chi Omega; (See FOLLIES, page 4.). Ineligibility hits Kosmet show cast Many roles changed as scholastic tornado blasts first assignments Casting for the Kosmet Klub spring show, "Ski Stealers," un derwent another change last week for thespians, like athletes, feel the stringent rules of elibil ity. Inasmuch as the first curtain goes up in less than two weeks, concentrated rehearsals will take place nightly. Pony chorus members will re hearse at 8 p. m. tonight in Teachers. "The unusual part about this year's show," stated Bob Lcadley, author of the comedy, "is that even the minor roles are taken by experienced actors." He empha sized that there will be 10 or 11 "catchy" tunes this year which is several more than the usual quota. Adn.a Dobson, sonior class pres ident, Innocent, and footballer, will be decked out in feminine finery as Mrs. E. Pierpoint Bert rand. The trio of Bob Sandburg, John Mason, and Max Meyers, as well as the appearance of the Uni versity Players' star, Jack Bittner, will be high spots in "Ski Stealers." The revised cast: l'rrBld'-nt of Helsinki TtuU WWilm Mr. .da Helsinki .Ion I'rudiii ;:l. (illy Helsinki. . . .t art llurnsliiri;cr V. I'lernolnt llcrtrand Hub Aldrlch Mn. Itertrund Adna Iilmn IVrrlvnl the butler Krl Wlttenbitrf Spalding tlie cook Kenneth Miller Col. Ilumfont Jonrl Tom I'lillllp. MIX Klrl Clarence Flick Icnr the dictator .lark Hlttner Nlmliky I lir lieutenant Itiih (irlulrk nihlli h the M-rvant . . . . Vera fit'iNsingrr llurrl .Mala I lie py Kulph Wnnlcil Three- iackft Hob Hiuidburc. John Maftnn. Max Meyer : l'edlur Warren Bralnard . swings subject ti.em to more ac curate measurements than can be made of cycles. 'J t' - Oldfather to attend North Central meetings Dean C. II. Oldfather of the col lege of arts and sciences will at tend the meetings of the commis sion on higher education of the North Central Association of Col leges and Secondary Schoolf In Chicago April 3 to 5.