Vol. 39, No. 123
Beauteous Reitx . . .
May
rule over
annual classic track relays .
To rule over Drake univvsity's have not been announced.
3lst annual track relays, track
classic of the nation, will be a pos- In judging the contest, spon-eibility-for
Priscilla Reitz, Corn- sored by "Quax," Drake senior year
husker coed and member of Delta book, beauty, intelligence, person
Gamma sorority. Miss Reitz will ality and poise are the qualities
be a candidate under sponsorship considered. Drake's relay queen
of the Cornhuaker for queenly must truly be a queenly woman,
honors and a two day reign, April The selection will be made from
26-27, in Des Moines, when field photographs submitted by the
and cinder path stars from ail over yearbooks which the contestants
the nation will compete under ob-. represent.
Bervance of the newly-chosen ;
queen.
During her majesty's reign she
will be paid tribute at many
events. In her honor will be lunch
eons, dinners and dances, all sub
sidiary to the pageantry of her
coronation. Six beautiful Drake
coeds will form the loveliest of
courts for the acme of queens.
Must enter team.
To be eligible for the supreme
position, the candidate's school
must enter a team in the relay.
Members ct the Nebraska squad
Rogers' vocalist
to sing with Haun
at Union dance
Dave Haun and his orchestra
have a pleasant surprise for dance
patrons this Saturday night at the
Union in Marjorie Whitney, vocal-
1st. Miss Whitney recently com-
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Courtjr Lincoln Journal and Star.
MARJORIE WHITNEY.
pleted a tour with Buddy Rogers
and his orchestra and is now in
Lincoln, her home town.
The attractive vocalist started
(See WHITNEY, page 2 i
Ida Migliario
to speak here
Household editor talks
at vocational series
Mrs. Ida Migliario, editor of
Household magazine, will speak at
the sixth vocational guidance se
ries talk sponsored by the office
of the dean of women and the
AWS board Thursday on ag Cam
plM. "Opportunities for Home Eco
nomic Ttained Women in the
Business World" will be the sub
ject of her talk. Mrs. Migliario's
speech has the approval of the
chairman of the home economics
women in the business group of
the American Home Economics
Association. The subject chosen
will combine both journalism and
home economics. ,
Conferences will be held on the
ag campus from 2:30 p. m. til 4
Thursday and all girls interested
in journalism and home aconom
ics are welcome to have confer
ences. Mrs. Pike, Miss Mamie Mere
dith, and Miss Norma Carpenter
have been actively engaged in
hclphing bring these outside con
tacts to the girls of the university,
and have assisted both Miss Hosp
and the AWS board.
Off kkd Newspaper Of More Than 7,000 Students
Lincoln, Nebraska
Drake's 31st
Mamie Meredith says . . ..
U. S. pronunciation is back
to man on the street's level
American pronunciation has in the Saturday Review of Litera
been taken from its "high brow" ture found thirteen different pro
pedestal and is being returned to unciations of hegemony, a word
the man on the street, says Miss meaning authority or leadership.
Mamie Meredith of the depart
ment of English, who has been 'There is also a tendency to
studying changes in American day to anglicize foreign words, and
speech. to snift accent to the begin
ning of the word," the university
The trend Is definite popular English professor points out.
pronunciations are for the first
time being officially accepted, she
states.
Getting broad-minded.
In fact dictionary editor are
becoming so broad-minded, Miss
Meredith finds, that almost any
way of saying a word is likely to
correct. weDsters latest ecu-
tion, for example, lists 1.100 words
whose pronunciation is a matter
of doubt or controversy. A writer
ASME fetes
anniversary
Society to recall 60
years at student meet
The Nebraska chapter of the
American Society of Mechanical
Engineers will recall the sixtieth
anniversary of the founding of the
society at a student branch meet
ing this evening in the Mechanical
Engineering building. Prof. N. H.
Barnard, chairman of the Nebras
ka section, will review the history
of the ASME at the meeting.
The national organization, which
originated with 189 members, has
grown to a society which today
has 15,000 members. It has head
quarters in New York City and
in 71 local sections over the
country.
Follow founders.
Present objectives of the Amer
ican Society of Mechanical Engi
neers remain as those promul
gated by the founder members,
namely, to promote the art and
science of mechanical engineering
and the allied arts and sciences;
to encourage original research; to
foster engineering education; to
advance the standards of engi
neering; to promote the Inter
course of engineers among them
selves and with allied technol
ogists; and in co-operation with
other -engineering and technical
societies to broaden the usefulness
of the engineering profession to
(See ASME, page 2.)
Greek houses get
tax exemption
The collector of internal reve
nue recently informed Fraternity
Management, Inc., of a procedure
whereby college fraternities and
sororities will be exempted from
liability to the social security tax.
Fraternities and sororities should
write to the collector of internal
revenue, Omaha, advising that
they, as college fraternities, are
exempt from taxing provisions of
the internal revenue code which
corresponds to section 402.209 of
regulations No. 106, and that the
tax return filed for the last quar
ter of 1939 will e eve as their final
returns.
This procedure should be fol
lowed Immediately as social secur
ity returns for the first quarter of
1940 are now being filed.
MASKiW
Wednesday, April 1940
Daily posts latest
bulletins on war
Latest news bulletins will be
posted three times daily by the
NEBRASKAN in the DAILY news
bulletin board in the Union lobby
starting today when the DAILY'S
new newsgathering facilities will
go into operation.
Bulletins on the European sit
uation will be posted in the Union
lobby and outside the DAILY of
fice at 8, 12, and 5 o'clock every
day.
And, if you don't want to re
veal our English background, be
sure to pronuonce your "h's." For
according to Miss Meredith, the
common practice today is to sound
the "h" in most words beginning
wiin mat leuer.
For Bizet's Carmen . . .
School of music imports two
midwest vocalists for solos
Two distinguished vocalists of City. He has also studied conduct
the middlewest will be heard in ing under Mr. Willard Nevins, di
the role of guest soloists, when t n Guilmant Organ
SSvStllISS? schooL Mr- Neu ha8 beM
university present tsizeis ar- . First Preshvterian rhurrh
men" the evening of April 30. New Yk cJ? and Jf 51
Dr. A. E. Westbrook, director Bedford Avenue Presbyterian
of the school of fine arts, who ch"rch in Brooklyn.
will conduct the spring perform
ance, is bringing Mr. J. Alfred
Neu of B'oomington, HI., tenor,
and Mr. F. Forrest Wilson of
Highland, HI., baritone, to the uni
versity to sing the roles of Don
Jose and Escamillo respectively.
Nine other solo parts will be sung
by students in the department.
Neu from Illinois.
Both visiting artists are former
- .....
students of Dr. Westbrook. Mr.
Neu is now head of the voice
department of the school of music
at Illinois Wesleyan university. He
has studied voice with several of
the nation's leading artists, among
them Mr. William S. Brady and
Estelle Liebling of New York
Awgwan appears
with picnic lore
9
Hillbillies, picnics and spring
are featured in the new Awgwan
coming out today. The new rule
on picnics is the main topic of
the editorial page.
Unsuspecting parents are edu
cated apropos of the proper an
swers to announcements of mar
riages in the articles of "What
They Should Say Eut Don't" in
this issue. But articles portraying
life in the hill country are the
most plentiful. Sinclair explains
up-to-date feudin methods in
"Fued for Thought" and Bob
Hemphill tells a heart-rending
htory about child marriages in
"My Son, My Gun."
Towne club elects
Beardsley president
Newly elected officers of the
Towne club were installed at
their regular meeting Monday eve
ning In the Student Union. Those
elected for the coming year are:
President, Marian Beardsley; first
vice president, Aura Lee Dawson;
second vice president, Lorraine
House; secretary, Dorothy White;
treasurer, Dorothy Jean Bryan;
social chairman, Laurel Morrison;
historian, Eleanor Crawford;
music chairman, Lucille Maxwell;
publicity chairmen, Gerry Smith,
Jean Wochner.
Bizad's transportation convo
of midwest set for April 15
'Efficient coordination' chosen as theme for second
annual program; ICC Chairman Eastman to come
WAR NEWS
It was reported by authorita
tive British sources that the
greatest naval battle since Jut
land was raging "somewhere
along the Norwegian coast."
The move of the Allies has been
directed toward severing Ger
man home connections with the
occupational force in Norway.
This war on the seas may de
cide the possibility of Allied aid
to Norway.
The dread of war gripped na
tions In south eastern Europe
today when the German high
command demanded the right
to police the Danube and the
Allies began preparations for a
gigantic military move in the
Black sea. Italy, according to
latest dispatches, will remain
non-belligerent.
ELECTIONS.
Gov. Cochran took and main
tained an early lead over Sen
ator Burke for the democratic
senatorial candidacy with 275 of
2,033 precincts reporting.
Butler was leading the repub
lican senatorial race by a wide
margin at last reports.
Dewey in the early morning,
had a 13 to 10 lead over Sena
tor Vandenburg for the repub
lican presidential candidacy
with 339 of 2,033 precincts re
porting. President Roosevelt who was
unopposed in the democratic
nomination, garnered 13,869
votes in the 339 precincts re
porting. The Dewey vote was
slightly larger than that for the
president.
Mr. Wilson began his singing
career while a student in high
school where he sang leading
parts in several school produc
tions. During his student days at
Illinois Wesleyan university he ap
peared in various solo' roles and
was a member of the Apollo club
male quartet which toured Illinois
and adjoining states. Last summer
he was soloist in a Boston produc
linn nf T3mh' "Vaiw Cllon '
MVII V . UV-lt 9 A U 1 1 4 .111.11.
Aylesworth . . .
Favors streamlining of ballot
to prevent usual 'moron' vote
Prof. L. E. Aylesworth, political tions against the "corruption of
science department, yesterday machine control" in the caucus and
viewed more than 450 primary convention system used prior to
candidates headed down the 1907. He concluded for the pri-
stretch for the April 9 election, mary as such, but with a dras-
took the primary system apart be- tically shortened ballot as a sure
cause he thinks the show won't method of Improving it.
be worth the $150,000 to $200,000
gate paid by the voter, and put it
back together with streamlines.
Prof. Aylesworth has been
teaching political science and his
tory at the university and watch
ing Nebraska politics for 36 years.
He weighted the defects of the
long ballot and minority nomlna-
Blaine Sloan wins
Barb prcxy post
Blaine Sloan was elected presi
dent of the Barb union last night
and Dave Martin, secretary-treasurer,
at the group's election in the
Union. Each barb house repre
sented at the meeting was allowed
one vote for every ten persons in
the house.
Other officers elected include
Bill Gr?n, athletic director; Gil
bert Heuftle, organization director
for the city campus; Ellis Ruby,
organization director for the ag
campus; George Gostas, activities
chairman; Bob Wilson, social di
rector; Boyd McDougall, nssistant
social director; and Ellsworth
Steele, activities board member.
Lincoln will again be the trans
portation capital of the middlewest
for a day when the university col
lege of business administration
holds its second annual transporta
tion conference in the Student Un
ion April 15.
Theme of the conference this
year is efficient coordination of
transportation. The program will
differ in two important respects
from the inaugural conference last
spring. Instead of discussing sev
eral unrelated transportation top
ics, the program this year will cen
ter about the coordination theme.
Another innovation decided upon
by the transportation committee,
composed of Professors C. E. Mc
Neill, C O. Swayzee, F. C. Blood,
E. S. Fullbrook, and C. M. Hicks,
chairman, is the use of roundtable
discussions rather than presenta
tion of formal papers.
Eastman coming.
Among the distinguished au
thorities coming for the event are
Mr. J. B. Eastman, of Washing
ton, D. C, chairman of the Inter
state Commerce commission; Pro
fessor L. C. Sorrell of the Univer
sity of Chicago, who has written
extensively on transportation prob
lems; Mr. L. C. Allman of De
troit, vice president of the Fruc
hauf Trailer company; Mr. J. B.
Hays, of Chicago, counsel for the
Western Association of American
Railroads; Dr. John D. Clark of
Cheyenne, former counsel for the
Standard Oil company of Indiana;
Mr. Lachlan Macleay of St. Louis,
president of the Mississippi Valley
association; Mr. Wm. M. Jeffers,
president of the Union Pacific, and
others.
Other speakers are Mr. John A.
Kuhn, of Omaha, traffic manager
of the Omaha Grain Exchange, and
Mr. D. L. Kelly of Pierre, S. D.,
public service commissioner of
South Dakota, will talk on the
morning program. Mr. P. H. Por
ter of Madison, Wis., counsel for
the Wisconsin railroad commission,
has been added to the afternoon
roundtable, it was announced Fri
day by Prof. C. M. Hicks,
transportation conferenc chair
man. Round tables.
In addition to the general round
tables of the morning and after
noon, there will be a public affairs
luncheon and program at the
Chamber of Commerce at noon,
which will feature brief talks by
various visiting executives. In the
evening at 6:30 at the Cornhusker
hotel, leaders and delegates will
convene to hear Mr. Eastman
speak on "The Transportation Fu
ture." Chancellor C. S. Boucher will
preside at the evening dinner, and
(See TRANSPORT, page 2.)
Facing standard names.
Every Nebraska n voting in a
political primary will face certain
standard names, the republicans
61, the democrats, 44. In addition
there are enough other candidates,
varying with the local subdivision
to raise the voter's total number
of choices to between 150 and 200
candidates, he said.
As to the complexity of the bal
lot, Aylesworth said there was
more truth than poetry In th.i
wag's remark that the state has
a system "to give every candidate
a chance at the moron vote." The
system referred to was that of
printing 100 ballots with candi
dates listed alphabetically, and
then shifting the first candidate's
(See BALLOT, page 2.)
Harrison acts as judge
Mr. Earnest Harrison of the
school of music was judge of in
strumental solos and small en
sembles at York high school
recently. He was also judge for
music contests sponsored recently
by the Lancaster County Activities
Association at Waveily and toy
Lincoln high school.