Smith, Gill and Olson
vie for orator position
Men cast ballots from 9 'til 5; 25 Innocent
candidates to be nominated in preference vote
By Hubert Ogden.
With political fires already glowing from Tuesday's eligibility
struggle, and with the Barb Union faction still a questionmark in the
minds of campus bigwigs, three confident factions clash at the polls to
fk 1ULY MEBH ASKAN
Official Newspaper Of More Than 7,000 Students
Vol. 39, No. 129
Lincoln, Nebraska
Thursday, April 18, 1940
Final vocational advisor appears
Ken Robinson
speaks today
on radio jobs
NBC continuity editor
AWS, Deon of Women
m bring NBC script editor
Radio Executive Ken Robinson,
continuity editor of the central
division of NBC in Chicago, will
address the last of the vocational
guidance series at 4 in parlors
XYZ of the Union today.
Subject of Mr. Robinson's "for
men too' talk is "Diversified Op
portunities in Radio," on which
the supervisor is well qualified to
speak.
Newspaper promotion manager.
Robinson entered business as a
salesman of office equipment, later
joining the staff of the Chicago
Evening American as promotion
manager. While working for the
Evening American his attention
was directed to radio as a promo
tion medium, and his efforts to
create radio drama were followed
with immediate success.
One of the executive's accom
plishments was a recorded drama
series against war, which brought
him to the attention of NBC. He
was offered the position of assist
ant continuity editor for the cen
tral division in 1936, and became
editor later in the year.
Author of aerials.
Besides directing the writing,
Robinson has himself authored
several popular aerials and some
"Lights Out" scripts.
Robinson has general super
vision of all creative writing
initiated in the central division
continuity department, and is
editor of all NBC script material
originating outside the studios.
The vocational guidance series
is sponsored by the AWS and the
office of the dean of women. Mr.
Robinson will hold conferences,
which may be arranged for at
Dean Hosp's office, in the Union
faculty lounge.
Dancers give
program here
Phys Ed club brings
Shaw troupe exhibition
A cross-section of dances of the
world will be presented in Grant
Memorial at 7:30 Saturday when
Lloyd Shaw's Cheyenne Mountain
Dancers convort under the au
spices of the Lincoln Physical Ed
ucation club.
The troupe ia composed of 16
Colorado mountain school artists
who are now touring the United
States from coast to coast.
European, early American, Mex
ican, and Cowboy dances are all
given a whirl as a aeries in the
presentation of historic dances.
Strictly in an informal mood,
the unstereotyped dances move
rapidly. Mr. Shaw, befitting the
mood of the evening, adds brief
dance data and parenthetical in
formation when occasion demands.
Shaw's group has danced lately
for New York university, Swarth
more college, University of Colo
rado, and University of California.
No, Westin didn't talk on war
speaks of 'crisis in religion'
Students of the university gath- countries of Scandinavia, the
ered yesterday morning to hear Swedish historian said, "I think
the long awaited speech of Dr. that independence may make
Gunnar Westin on "The Scandi- successful resistance."
navian Countries in the Present
Crisis," expecting to hear the "in- Church history,
side" on the German invasion of Discussing the history of Swe-
those northern countries. Instead, jen an(j other Scandinavian coun-
they hear of the "crisis" existing tries in regard to their churches,
between the church and the Nordic he recalled that in the early 19th
civilization in the Scandinavian century the "provincialism of the
countries. Instead of a first hand Scandinavian countries was broken
discussion of the history making because of the revival movement
invasion by Germany, they heard an(j c0ser connections with Eng-
a review of the history of churches an(j an(j America." The Anglo-
in Scandinavia. In short, everyone American influence was very
was surprised. strong in politics, he continued.
Am no politician. Turning to "free people's" move-
Remarking that "I am no poll- ments, he believed that the Scandi-
tician," Dr. Westin said that he navian labor movement was the
was not going to discuss the largest political change of any
Scandinavian war, adding that his country. The labor movement led
"topic was formulated a month to a crisis with the church, but
ago," before there was a Scandi- modification of the policies of both
navian war. "Events are so rap- organizations has prevented con
idly developing," he said, "that I flict. Speaking of the change, Dr.
cannot give developments for the Westin said, "As for Sweden, the
last few days." system worked pretty well during
the new situation."
Pointing out that there is great Crjsjs d
nressnre in the Scandinavian coun
tries today, with trade going down
and taxes up, Dr. Westin stated
that "national freedom is not a
part of money." Although no one
expects action from the small
Dairy prizes
go to Silvey
and Carter
Cattle judging contest
winner scores 1,024;
over'seventy compete
Harry Silvey, sophomore and
Jack Carter, junior, carried off the
honors in the student dairy cattle
and products judging contests re
spectively on ag campus as results
of the contests were announced
and awards presented Tuesday
evening by Varsity Dairy club
members, who sponsored the con
test. Silvey won the cattle judging
contest by a wide margin, scoring
1,024 of a possible 1,200 points to
defeat Norman Kruse, freshman,
who scored 973 points. Hugh Ren
nard was third, Robert Pollard
fourth and Keith Gilmore fifth in
all classes in the cattle contest.
More than seventy competed.
Mayfield second
Carter outscored Boyd Mayfield
who placed second, and Leo Tup
per, third place winner, in all
classes in the dairy products con
test, to win the gold medal em
blematic of first prize. Sixty-five
students entered.
Gold, silver and bronze medals
were awarded winners of the first
three places in all classes in each
contest. Fourth and fifth places
drew ribbons. Ribbons were
awarded for first, second, and
third in each division. The dairy
cattle judges placed eight classes,
(See DAIRY, page 2.)
Corporation manager
to interview 'students
Carl Falconer, division man
ager for the Inter-Mountain
Knitting Mills, a western cor
poration doing a nation wide
business, will meet students
with sales ability in Prof. T. T.
Bullock's office 306 SS Mon
day. The meetings are held for"
those wishing to find summer
or permanent employment.
Group meetings will be held at
9 a. m. and 1:30 p. m. Monday.
However, the crisis affected the
Christian religion itself, problems
being: formed because of the work
of naturalists, and "preponderers
(See WESTIN, page 4.)
N Club ticket sales
brisk for Lunceford
Ticket sales for the annual
N Club party which will fea
ture Jimmie Lunceford and his
band are going briskly accord
ing to N Club members. Selling
at $1.50, the tickets may be
purchased at Uni drug, Student
Union, and Magee's.
Informal, the party promises
to be one of the outstanding
affairs of the social season.
Lunceford and his band will
feature the famous trio of Wil
lie Smith, Jerry Wilson, and
Eddie Tompkins. The band has
been heard many times on NBC
and played a season at the well
known Cotton Club.
The weather
It was disagreeable yesterday
and to be consistent with its re
cent antics, the weather today,
should be nice. And, forsooth, the
prediction is fair and warmer.
Linguists turn
film and play
French movie
shows today
The French club will present
"The End of the Day," French
movie acclaimed the best foreign
picture of 1939, today in the Union
ballroom at 4 and 7:30 p. m. The
picture is the story of aged actors
spending their reclining years in
an actors home, and Is particu
larly noted for the characteriza
tions as each of the old actors
plays in real life the part he
played on the stage in his prime.
Victor Francen, Louis Jouvet,
and Micel Simon play the leads,
and the picture was directed by
Julian Duvivler The film is pre
sented with a musical background
and is supplemented by English
sub titles.
Tickets are available at U hall
108 for 25 cents, or may be pur
chased at the door.
day in the Ivy Day Orator-Innocents election. Voting will take place
from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. in the Union basement on the city campus and
in Ag Hall on the ag campus.
Traditionally a preliminary testing of party strength prior to the
annual Student Council contest scheduled for the middle of May, to
days election is predicted to bring a large partisan vote. With Cline
berg's illegibility, law students now equalize the ability of the con
testing candidates and declare that the results of an election have
never been more unpredictable.
Candidates.
Progressives are putting forward Bryce Smith; Barb Union, Lyl
Gill, and the Liberals are backing Gail Olson, who by the ruling of the
WAA gives
$25 awards
to three
Sprague, Kienker,
Beams win; others
get participation cups
WAA presented scholarship
awards of $25 to Elnora Sprague,
Lorene Kienker, and Lorraine
Beams Wednesday evening. Par
ticipation cups went to Helen Ko
vanda, Dorothy Swoboda, Esther
Schneiderwind and Patricia Pope.
Helen Kovanda, president of the
association, presented the awards.
Two scholarships were given to
Elnora Sprague and Lorene Kien
ker as participants in WAA ac
tivities, and one went to Lorrane
Beams who is not. The participa
tion cups are awarded to senior
girls who have participated in the
most intramural sports during
their four years in school.
Officers installed.
The officers who were installed
are: president, Hortense Cassady;
vice president, Elnora Sprague;
secretary, Mary Ellen Robinson;
treasurer, Jeannette Mickey; con
cessions chairman, Mary Ros
borough. Other council members
to be installed are Mary Kline,
publicity chairman; Betty Jean
Ferguson, social chairman; Betty
Neuman and Jean McAllister, as
sistant concessions manager; Bet
ty Mallat, cabin chairman, and
Janet Curley, expansion chairman.
to drama;
scheduled
German group
stages drama
Students in the department of
Germanics will present the one
act play "Unter vier Augen" to
night at 7:45 in the Temple. Un
der the direction of Dr. Lydia
Wagner of the Germanics staff,
the play will be free to the public.
Characters of the fast moving
plot include Dr. Felix Volkart, a
physician portrayed by Glen Nel
son. Lucille Laird plays the part
of Hermie, his wife, while Baron
Hubert von Bcrkow is played by
Theodore Roesler. Burton Thiel
and Olga Marck act the parts of
the servant and Lotte, a ladies
maid.
The play centers around the ball
given by Dr. Volkart and Her
mine married four months. The
servant, Bauman, is very excited
over this affair and loves to recall
memories of the past when he
served the Baroness von Forstncr,
mother of Hermine.
Council elections committee Tues
day was not permitted to officially
file for the position. The Liberal
faction plans to write in his name
on the ballot.
Junior and senior men will nom
inate five candidates for the In
nocents society from any junior
man meeting the eligibility re
quirements of the society. A list
of all those eligibles will be posted
at the polls. The 25 men receiving
the most votes will be nominated.
Election results are to be avail
able at the NEBRASKAN office
as soon as the polls close at 5
p. m. Votes will thereafter be tab
ulated until all ballots are counted.
Records all even.
Political victories at present
evened off between the two major
parties, by the Liberal win, of
Willard Wilson as Orator last
spring, by the Progressive student
Council sweep of eight to five, and
by the spit in offices at the Presi
dential election last fall, campus
(See ELECTION, page 4.)
Profs attend
joint meeting
Midwest Sociologists,
Economists convene
Sixteen members of the faculty
and several graduate assistants
will attend the joint program of
the Midwest Economics Associa
tion and the Midwest Sociological
Society which will be held at Des
Moines today through Saturday.
Dr. J. E. Kirshman, chairman
of the department of economics,
is vice president of the economics
association and a member of the
group's executive committee.
Society officers
Dr. J. M. Reinhardt of the de
partment of sociology is first vice
president of the sociology society
and will be chairman of the sec
tion on social psychology. Dr. J. O.
Hertrlcr, chairman of the depart
ment of sociology, is a past presi
dent of the society, and is chair
man of the nominating committee.
John Burma and Ralph Hukel,
graduate assistants in the depart
ment, will attend the meetings.
Several members of the busi
ness administration faculty will
appear on the three day program
of their group. Dr. Kirshman will
lead a discussion on business
cycles, and Dr. W. A. Spurr will
take part in a panel discussion of
a study of individual incomes. Dr.
O. R. Martin will read a paper on
"Some Aspects of Accrual Ac
counting" before the accounting
section. Prof. Earl M. Arndt will
talk on "War-Time Industrial Ex
pansion" at the section meeting
on American economy and the
war.
Others attend meeting
Other members of thi business
administration faculty who will
attend the conference a.-e Profs.
C. O. Swayzee, E. S. Fullbrook,
John Pfanner, C. H. McNeill, E. A.
Gilmore, jr., Theodore Narburg,
A. B. Carson, L. B. Snyder, L. F.
Carey, and Elton Lux, associate
extension agriculturist. Dean Wor
cester, Lincoln graduate student
in business administration, will
jalso attend the meetings.