Vol. 39, No. 115
PBK, Sigma
Honoraries
elect 46
scholars
Eminent physiographer
gives illustrated talk
on Carolina craters
Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi
announced 46 high ranking stu
dents as new members at the an
nual joint honors convocation of
the two honorary societies in the
Union Friday evening.
Following the announcement of j
the new members, Prof. Douglas
Johnson, eminent physiographer
of Columbia university, gave an
illustrated address on the "Myste
rious Craters of the Carolina
Coast." Dr. Johnson stated that he
had first concluded that the thou
sands of craters were caused by
a barrage of meteorites "several
thousand years ago," and ex
plained why he had reached this
conclusion. He went on to say,
however, that after further con
sidering the evidence "it seems i
the most likely theory that pools I
created by artesian springs pro-
duce the craters." 1
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Hicks announces scholars.
Before Dr. Johnson's speech,
the names of the 41 seniors elected
into Phi Beta Kappa, twenty
seven of whom are new for the
second semester, were read by
Prof. Clifford M. Hicks, depart
ment of business organization and
management, secretary of Phi
Beta Kappa. Dr. E. Roger Wash
burn of the department of chem
istry, secretary of Sigma Xi, read
the names of 19 students who were
admitted to associate membership
in that society,
George P. Mueller of Lincoln,
senior in the college of arts and
sciences, had the highest scholastic
average of the 1940 Phi Beta Kap
pa class, with a 93.32 rating for
seven semesters.
Filings open for
Coed Counselor
posts Tuesday
Filings will open for positions
s Coed Counselors Tuesday morn
ing April 2, and close Thursday
noon, April 4 at Ellen Smith hall,
according to Mary Bullock, presi
dent of the Counselor board.
All girls who wish to become
big sisters, and who will be soph
omores, juniors or seniors next
year, should file their names for
a Counselor's post at Mrs. West
over's desk in Ellen Smith before
12 noon Thursday.
The Counselors' board will
choose the 1940 Coed Counselor
members from the group which
files. The position of Counselor is
now a "D" activity to enable girls
in other activities who are also
interested in the Counselor group,
to file for counselor work without
being overpolnted.
Inquiring reporter finds ...
Students like Interf rat Quiz;
dont agree on effectiveness
"What Lincoln publisher gav
$1,000 to the Union book nook?"
"What British-born, blind pianist
is a new favorite of United States
radio audiences?" "What famous
event occurred at Balaklava in
1854?"
These are some of the questions
which have checked the progress
of fraternities and sororities in
their flight to the final round in
the Interfraternity Quiz which 'ia
to be held this .afternoon. For the
past two weeks, fraternities have
competed in preliminaries and
semifinal quizzes, and at last the
four surviving teams, each trying
for the cup and grand prize of
$15, will meet In th final battU
of wits.
Officio Newspaper Of More Than 7,000
Lincoln, Nebraska
Xi name new members
Scholastic Honor Role
Phi Beta
Aaron Boom
Gordon Fisher
Donald Giffen
Robert Jeffery
George Mapes
Frances Piatt
Ted Smalldon
Wilma Stewart
Wendell Willmore
NAMED TO
Frances Beaty
James Hush
Sarah Miller
Doris Reddick
Lucyle Thomas
Frank Dudek
Richard Freeman
Ray Harrison
Harry Lammel
Henry Maxwell
Emmett Rankin
Alfred Shamberg
John Steinhaus
Otto Woerner
MEMBERSHIP LAST DECEMBER
Charles Brockway
William McConnell
George Mueller
Doris Ripley
Betty Ann Duff
Sigma Xi
Donald Barth
Charles Eberline
Ray Harrison
Jean Lambert
Raymond Murray
Joy Richardson
Montee Baker
John Cramer
George Goodding
Edward Kloster-
meyer
George Mueller
William Pitnpr
Melvin Schwab
Students submit
seven songs for
'Ski Stealers'
Seven songs have been written
and submitted to the Kosmet Klub
for use in "Ski Stealers," opening
on the Temple stage April 8, ac
cording to Grant Thomas, business
manager. Johnny Cox' orchestra
will play at the production. Prizes
of 10 and J5, respectively, will
be awarded for the two songs se
lected as best and second best
The songs and their writers are:
"It Can't be True" by Dwight Bur
ney; "Sweet Stuff" by Mary Eliza
beth Stewart; "Lavish and Plun
der," music by Mary Elizabeth
Stewart and words by Bob Al
drich; "Olga Vodka" by Clarence
Flick; "Strategy" by Mary Eliza
beth Stewart; "I Give My Personal
Guarantee" by Mary Elizabeth
Stewart; and "Fighting Cos
sacks' with music by Clarence
Flick and words by Art Kleinhaus.
Louis Wllklns will present a
humorous song again this year at
the show.
Walton talks to Psi Chi
Dr. W. E. Walton of the depart
ment of psychology will discuss
research projects under way in
the university psychological lab
oratories at the Monday evening
meeting of the Weslcyan univer
sity chapter of Psi Chi, psychol
ogy fraternity.
Daily displays petition
Petitions to Fred Waring
signed by Nebraska students in
an endeavor to have the orches
tra leader compose and play a
song for Nebraska are now on
display in the special news bul
letin board of the DAILY ip the
Union lobby.
The value of the quiz contest
was uncovered by the question
"What is your opinion of the In
terfraternity Quiz contest put to
students yesterday.
Dorothy Jtan Howard, arts and
sciences frsshman
"I think Barb organizations
should have been allowed to enter,
since they pay for the Union, too.
Other than that, I think the
quiz will be interesting and in
formative." Norman Hlbberd, business admin
istration Junior:
T think the quiz Is a fine idea.
(See REPORTER, pag 2
Iebmskan
Students
Sunday, March 31, 1940
Kappa
Myra Egger
Houghton Furr
Marjorie Howe
James Lauridsen
Joy Pestal
Helen Reynolds
Mary Speidell
Maurice Tatleman
Selma Zveitel
Eleanor Eiche
Faith Medlar
Raymond Murray
Ellsworth Steele
Charles Brockway
Stefan Fraenkel
James Hush
William McConnell
John Patterson
Robert Schluckebier
Four houses
vil! compete
in Quiz finals
Farm House, Sammies,
Alpha Xi Delts, Kappas
meet in Union at 4
Two fraternities, Sigma Alpha
Mu and Farm House, and two so
rorities, Kappa Alpha Theta and
Alpha Xi Delta, will meet in the
final round of the Interfraternity
Quiz today in the Union ballroom
at 4 p. m. Beverly Finkle, who
conducted a similar quiz last year
will again act as master of cere
monies and will quiz the contest
ants. Highlight of the quiz will be
the performance questions which
will require, in answer, some mem
ber of each team to provide some
form of entertainment. To answer
the music questions, contestants
will be asked to identify records
played on the Carnegie Music Set.
The answers to art questions will
consist of identification of famous
paintings and their artists. Teams
will also be quizzed on general
information, campus information,
literatute, biography, thought, and
quotations.
Providing stiff competition for
the sorority teams are Farm
House Montee Baker and Jean
Lambert, and Sigma Alpha Mu
Steve Fraenkel. who have been
recently elected to Sigma Xi, scho
lastic honorary.
The weather
The sky is supposed to be all
clouds today, but the temperature
torrid.
Leadership Conference Schedule
MONDAY.
4 p. m. Publicity writers.
Speakers Carroll Chouinard, University editor and
director of publicity, and Richard de Brown, Lincoln,
editor of the Daily Nebraskan.
5 p. m. Treasurer
Speakers Faith Medlar, Lincoln, treasurer of Mortar
Board, and John K. Selleck, business manager of the
department of athletics.
TUESDAY.
12 nom Inter-organization council luncheon in Student Union
for presidents, past and present, of women's organiza
tions. 4 p. m, Secretaries.
Speaker Miss Luvlcy Hill, chairman of th depart
ment of commercial arts,
5. p. m. Presidents. 1
Speaker Elsworth Du Teau, alumni secretary.
WEDNESDAY.
5 p. m. General meeting.
Speaker Kenneth Van. Sant, managing director of
the Union "The Origin and Facilities of the Union."
Discussion on women's point system.
E3 jbdlZ
WS?&&b
for queen candidate
Pat Reitz second as more than 1 300 men vote
for Nebraska's Ail-American College Queen choice
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Lincoln Journal and Star.
BETTIE COX
. . . maybe a movie queen? . . ,
Mortar Board
to honor 500
at tea today
Awards to go to three
women for high service,
scholarship, leadership
Honoring 500 women with high
scholastic averages, the member."!
of Mortar Board will entertain at
a tea in Ellen Smith hall from 3
to 5 today. University women who
have a scholarship of at least a
weighted 80 are eligible to attend.
Main feature of the tea will be
the awards made to the three out
standing senior girls who have
best fulfilled qualities of scholar
ship, leadership and service. The
presentation will be made from
the balcony of Ellen Smith at
4:30. Until that time the identity
of the winners will be kept secret.
No rsoeivtag Ifoe.
There will be no receiving line
but Elizabeth Waugh, president of
Mortar Board will greet the guests
at the door and all of the mem
bers of the women's honorary so
ciety will act as hostesses.
Members of Alpha Lambda Del
ta will serve the tea. Eight alum
nae of Mortar Board will preside
at the tea tables. Music will be
furnished by Sigma Alpha Iota.
Embryonic leaders hear . . .
Mortar Board
alumna speak
Mrs. Fred Coleman, national
president of Mortar Board, Miss
Breta Peterson, lawyer, graduate
of Nebraska cum laude, and mem
ber of Mortar Board, and Miss
Helen Hosp, dean of women, were
the speakers at the first meeting
of the leadership conference Sat
urday morning in the Union.
Miss Hosp, speaking on "The
Place, Purpose, and Work of the
Extra-Curricular In the Unlver-
ilMA Ma9S
UUIB
Bettie Cox will represent the
University of Nebraska In the All
American College Queen contest
sponsored nationaly by Paramount
Pictures and locally by the
DAILY. When balloting closed at
5 p. m. yesterday, Miss Cox was
announced as the winner over five
other candidates by decisive ma
jority. More than 1,300 votes were
cast by men students in the elec
tion. A 1939 beauty queen and sopho
more in arts and sciences college,
"the chosen one" is 19 years of
age, five feet, five and one-half
Inches tall, and weighs 125 pounds.
She Is unaffiliated. She has ap
peared with the University Play
ers. Her home is at Pierce, Neb.
Reitz runner-up.
Second in the voting was Pat
Reitz who ran a tight raec but
was nosed out on the home
stretch.
Miss Cox's picture will be sent
to New York and judged along
with entrants from other Nebras
ka schools. A group of five New
York artists will select 48 state
winners whose pictures will ap-
per in Movie and Radio Guide.
The judges are Russell Patterson,
Dean Cornwell, McClelland Bar
clay, Jaro Fabry, and Armando.
The dozen.
Readers of the magazine will
then vote on 12 national winners
(See QUEEN, page 2.)
Faculty plans
luncheon to
honor Hooton
Anthropologist speaks
on European belligerents
at Union convo Tuesday
Prof. Earnest A. Hooton of
Harvard university will be hon
ored at an Informal luncheon in
the Union by Dr. J. O. Hertzler
and the department of sociology
faculty following the visiting an
thropologist's address at a convo
cation April 2. Faculty and ad
ministration officers are Invited to
the luncheon.
The visiting scientist, author of
"Apes, Men, and Morons," will
talk about "The Anthropology of
the European Belligerents" at the
convocation, open to the public,
(See HOOTON, page 2.)
prexy, dean,
at conference
sity," advocated closer coopera
tion between the faculty and stu
dents in planning the whole edu
cational program. She believes
that the university is morally re
sponsible for developing both the
intellectual abilities and the per
sonalities of its students so that
they will be fully equipped to take
their places in the world today.
Some universities, she pointed out,
no longer speak of outside activi
ties as "extra-curricular," but as
"informal curricular" activities.
Analysis of leadership.
Mrs. Coleman, in her speech,
"An Analysis of Leadership,"
named ten different elements
which the successful leader must
possess. They are popularity, de
pendability, responsibility, knowl
edge, initiative, determination,
courage, conviction, reasonable
ness, and loyalty. She stated that
one of the most important things
for a girl who Is president of an
organization to remember Is a
sense of proportion between her
social life, scholarship, and extra
curricular activities.
Miss Breta Peterson gave n les
of parliamentary procedure. A
panel of Mortar Boards then gave
a mock meeting, after which Miss
Peterson corrected their mistakes.
Miss Selma Hill presided at th
meeting which was attended by
approximately 50 girls, officers
and board members of women's
organizations. The meeting was
the first of the leadership confer
ence being sponsored by the of
fice of the dean of women and
Mortai; Board,