Official Newspaper Of More Than 7,000 Students
Vol. 39, No. 117
Lincoln, Nebraska
Tuesday, April 2, 1940
Noted anthropologist to address convo today
Du Teau sets
date for NU
alum roundup
.Opening three day affair
will be reunion luncheon,
Union open house, tours
Traditional alumni roundup ac
tivities at the university will be
held June 8, 9 and 10, according
to the preliminary program ar
ranged by E. F. DuTeau, alumni
secretary.
Opening the 3-day affair will
be the alumni-faculty reunion
luncheon, Saturday noon, June 8,
which will be followed by an open
house in the Student Union, cam
pus tours, and football pictures. In
the evening will be the alumni In
nocents dinner, the all-University
senior-alumni reception at 7:30
p. m., and the senior-alumni dance
sponsored by the alumni associa
tion for members and friends of
the graduating class.
Roundup breakfast
Reunion activities will get under
way Sunday morning with the sec
ond annual roundup breakfast of
the college of business adminis
tration, and the traditional break
fast meetings of the classes of
1897, 1898, and 1910.
Visiting alumni are invited to
attend the baccalaureats service
Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock in
the Coliseum, and the annual com
mencement exercises Monday
morning.
Honor classes at the 1940 round
up are those of 1890, 1900, 1910,
1920, and 1930. Another feature of
the festivities this year will be the
table arranged by Mr. Du Teau for
past presidents and secretaries of
the association. Letters were sent
out last week to former officers
inviting them to the reunion lunch
eon. Du Teau is the twenty-first
secretary since the founding of the
association in 1874, and Mr. Vin
cent Hascall of Omaha is the fifty
eighth president.
YW secretary speaks
mi leadership series
Miss Molly Heath Conn, Nebras
ka District Y.W.C.A. secretary,
will speak at 3:30 this afternoon
in Ellen Smith hall on "Philosophy
of the Y.W.C.A. and the relation of
Girl Reserve to it." Miss Conn's
address is the third in the series
which comprise a Girl Reserve
Leadership Training Course.
Survey reveals . . .
Students believe American
Student Union communistic
By Joe Belden, editor. leged Red leadership, this survey
MdMi opinioa Swvrri Aimrit. reveals that it has undoubtedly
AUSTIN, Texas. Only one half succeeded in making a bad name
of U. S. collegians report thtit they for itself with a large sector of the
know about the American Student student population. Slightly over
Union.
Of those who have heard about
it. 48 percent have received an un
favorable impression of the or
ganization. At least three out of every ten
In the same group believe that the
A. S. U. is a front for communists
in colleges.
Those are the results of a nation-wide
study conducted by the
Student Opinion Surveys of Amer
ica, scientific polling organization
sponsored by the college press.
The DAILY NEBRASKAN co-operates
by taking personal inter
views on the Nebraska campus
with a carefully-selected cross sec
tion of students, as is done in other
schools from coast to 'coast. ' i
Although many of those with
pinions exonerates the American belief that the Union itself is not
Student Union, long under fire for communistic, but some of its lead
its uproarious conventions and al- era may be,
Stewart, Turkel assume
negative in isolation
debate with Wesleyan
Harold Turkel and Jack Stew
art, Nebraska debaters, yesterday
took the negative side in a debate
on the isolation question with Ne
braska Wesleyan at a luncheon of
State Peace Conference delegates
in the Y. M.,'C. A.
Turkel and Stewart opposed the
statement. "Resolved, that the
U. S. should maintain a strict pol
icy of military and economic iso
lation." The Wesleyan men argued
that this is the safest as well as
the only way to keep out of war,
while Nebraska debaters spoke in
defense of a cash-and-carry policy.
'Big Sister'
filings open
Coed Counselor board
to choose 1940 group
Filings for Coed Counselors
positions open this morning and
close Thursday noon at Ellen
Smith hall according to Mary Bul
lock, president of the board.
All girls who will be sopho
mores, juniors or seniors next year
and who wish to become "Big Sis
ters'' should file their names for a
Counselor's post before noon
Thursday at Mrs. Westover's desk
in Ellen Smith.
Delta Sig officer
speaks here today
H. G. Wright, national secretary
treasurer of Delta Sigma Pi, pro
fessional commerce fraternity, will
speak today at 3 in Social Science
auditorium. His subject will be
"T h e Business
of Getting a
Job."
Wright's dis
cussion will be
followed by an
open forum at
which students
may ask ques
tions about job
seeking.
The speech,
1
s p o n s ored by
JjTpL the local chap
'U t e r o f D e 1 1 a
. -.' Sigma ri, is ae
f j signed p r i-
h. o. wriM. marily for the
seniors of biz
ad college, but is open to all uni
versity students.
50 percent of the men and women
attending college, however, declare
that they never heard of the
A. S. U. Those who were ac
quainted with it were asked these
questions, and they gave the an
swers below:
"Are your reactions to this or
ganization (the A. S. U.) favor
able, or unfavorable?"
Favorable 52 per cent.
Unfavorable 48 per cent. .
"Do you believe that the
American Student Union is a
front for communists In col
leges?" Yes 35 per cent.
No 65 per cent.
Many comments made by the in
terviewers centered around their
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Earnest Hooton to discuss
European belligerents at 11
'Neurotics causes students' greatest problem'
says Harvard prof, 'Apes, Men, Morons' author
l-M debating
tourney opens
Topic for contest is
compulsory insurance
Pairings for the intramural de
bate tournament which opens to
night pit Beta Theta Pi against
Alpha Tau Omega, Delta Theta
Phi versus Sigma Alpha Mu, and
Palladian against T.Ks.
Subject of the debate is: "Re
solved, that the various states
should adopt a plan of compulsory
automobile insurance to cover per
sonal Injuries."
The preliminary rounds open to
night at 7 in houses of affirmative
groups competing, and in the Pal
ladian hall in the Temple. The
same groups will compete tomor
row night before any are elimi
nated. A team must lose two de
bates before it will be ruled out.
Defeats toams.
Debaters are: Alpha Tau Omega,
George Blackstone, Bob Schlater;
Beta Theta Pi, Gene Bradley,
Keith Howard; Delta Theta Phi,
James Brogan, Norman Johnson;
Sigma Alpha Mu, Paul Crounse,
Bernard Epstein; TKs, Hamilton
Reed, Don Buskirk; Palladian,
Hugh Stuart, Harold Alexis.
Speaking will be six and four
minutes for all engaged. Judging
will be on the basis of knowledge,
use of material, refutation, and
speaking ability.
No official announcement will
be made until after the second
round as to the winners.
ROTC second
band to present
concert in Union
The ROTC seconJ band, under
the direction of Ward Moore, as
sistant director of university
bands, will present its first pro
gram of the year Sunday, April
7, in the Union ballroom.
A novelty number on the pro
gram will be played by Nina Arm
strong, Dorothy Everett, and Lou
ise Reed in a trumpet trio, "Three
of a Kind," by Buchtel.
Several prominent numbers
which will be heard are "First Nor
wegian Rhapsody" by F. Melius
Christianson, the ever popular
"Jesus Joy of Man's Desiring" by
Bach, and "University of Ne
braska," a march which was writ
ten especially for the university
some years ago by Sousa. Other
selections are "Colorado March" by
Holmes, "The Angclus" by Mas
senet, "Festival March" from
"Tanrhouser," and an overture,
"Spiritual Rivers," by Gaul.
Former dean to visit
here during May
Dr. John D. Hicks, former dean
of the arts and sciences college,
who is now chairman of the de
partment of history at the Uni
versity of W'sconsin, will probably
visit friends in Lincoln sometime
in May. Dr. Hicks is on leave this
semester at Largo, Fla., where he
is writing a book on "The History
of the Northwest." According to
Dr. J. L. Sellers of the department
of history, the former arts college
dean will be in Omaha for the
annual meetings of the Mississippi
Valley Historical association in
May, and while in Nebraska will
probably visit in Lincoln.
Prof. Earnest A. Hooton, noted
Harvard university anthropologist
and author of "Apes, Men, and
Morons," will speak in the Union
ballroom on "The Anthropology of
European Belligerents" today at
11 a. m. He will
also conduct a
forum at 3 p. m.
He has been
named by Life
m a g a z i ne as
being "one of
the most gifted,
versatile and
articulate men
in the history
of science" and
is brought to
the university
by the convoca
tions committee
and the Student
Union.
Journal and Star.
In a press Pro'- r" Hooton.
conference yesterday, Hooton said
that the greatest problem among
college students is caused by neu
rotics, since they have paid too
much attention to the development
of their nervous systems and none
to their biological make-up. Mod
eri vocational guidance courses do
i.. v help such students to adjust
themselves to society," he said.
"These courses regiment the in
dividual instead of guiding him
individually."
Suggi tests.
He suggested that universities
use vocational tests similar to
those given at Harvard, which test
students on their heredity, patholo
gies, and background. "We must
find out what sort of a niche in
life students can fill by testing
them physically, psychologically,
and tempermentally," he said.
"The basis of education is centered
around two things. First, what
kind of a biological animal is the
student, and second, according to
the way he functions biologically,
what capacities should be de
velop?" "People need manual labor."
Hooton emphasized that people
need manual labor to tone the rest
of their body up and to enable
them to think and exercise all
their faculties. "We cannot keep
our brains well developed unless
we keep striving," he explained.
"Because of so many recent in
(See HOOTON on page 4.)
It was a 'brainy'
day for Thetas;
cop Union quiz
Mary McLaughlin, Betty Dodds
and Hortense Casady won the cup
and $15 for Kappa Alpha Theta
in the interfraternity quiz Sun
day. The Theta team finished with
a score of 92 out of a possible
score of 96, missing only a part of
one question. Farm House and
Sigma Alpha Mu, with the re
spective scores of 70 and 66, were
close behind, and Alpha Xi Delta
won fourth place with a score of
50. Each of the runner-up teams
won $5.
Tough stuff
The questions in the final quiz
proved to be much more difficult
than those in the semi-finals.
Probably the most difficult were
the art questions, which required
contestants to identify paintings
and their artists. The answers to
the performance questions were
much to the delight of the audi
ence, as Hortense Casady panto
mimed the song "On a Bicycle
Built for Two," and the Sigma
Alpha Mu team recalled their
training in military science.
Beverly Finkle acted as master
of ceremonies, quizzing the con
testants, and George Gostas pre
sented the awards. The judges
were Miss Helen Hosp, Karl Arndt
and Harold Stoke.
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Reservations
for Klub show
now available
Reserve tickets for 'Ski
Stealers' to be held until
day of last performance
Reservations for the Kosmet
Klub show, the "Ski Stealers," are
now being made in person and by
telephone. According to Grant
Thomas, business manager, the
number of seats reserved on the
first day was very favorable.
Tickets which are reserved for the
show, which runs from April 8
to 13, will be held until the after
noon of the last day, April 13.
Features pony chorus.
The production, written by Bob
Leadley, and directed by Armand
Hunter, is a take-off on the Finnish-Russian
war and features the
graceful Pony chorus. "Ski Steal
ers" includes a cast of 17 char
acters headed by Egor, the dicta
tor; Jack Bittner, and the presi
dent of Helsinki, Louis Wilkins.
The show features the music of
Johnnie Cox.
Complete rehearsals are being
held all this week, according to
Roy Proffitt, president. "Scenery
is being worked on day and
night."
Journalists
discuss news
DeBrown, Chouinard
stress publicity needs
Richard deBrown, DAILY edi
tor, and Carroll Chouinard, direc
tor of the university editorial and
publicity department yesterday
explained the ins and outs of get
ting organization's news in publi
cations to the newly elected pub
licity chairmen of campus organ
izations. The meeting was held as a part
of the leadership training confer
ence sponsored by Mortar Board
and the office of th dean of
women.
Three steps In publicity were
stressed by Chouinard; the gather
ing of information, writing up the
information, and the business of
distributing the information. He
emphasized the importance of
rural newspapers, and spoke of
the value of "time" copy for
weeklies.
Mr. Chouinard explained the du
ties of the editorial and publicity
departments as being to give au
thentic news and administrative
policies and campus activities. He
also explained the writing of a
news story.
DeBrown explained the process
of getting a story into a paper,
and told of the organization of the
DAILY.
At a meeting at five, Faith
Medlar, Mortar Board treasurer,
and John K. Selleck, business
manager, spoke of organization
treasurers.
Army air corps
to solicit seniors
A board of United States Army'
Air Corps officers, Major H. W.
Beaton, First Lieutenant L. G.
Drafts, First Lieutenant C. D.
Jones and one flight surgeon, will
visit the university sometime in
the near future for the purpose of
soliciting senior students find
graduates as flying cadets for the
United States Army Air Corps.
The board will also visit other
schools and colleges in the Sev
enth Corps area. Lieutenant
Drafts, advance agent for Us
board, will precede it by thr to
five days.
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