fMEBHASKAM
Official Newspaper Of More Than 7,000 Students
Vol. 39, No. 142.
Lincoln, Nebraska
Tuesday, May 7, 1940
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English prof
will speak at
Union forum
London philosopher
to discuss 'Current
Events' Wednesday
Thomas Greenwood, Ph.D., vis
iting professor from the Univer
sity of London, wilt speak on
"Current Events" at a student
forum Wednesday at 4 p. m. in
the Student Union. Greenwood is
professor of philosophy at Lon
don, and is coming here as a guest
of the philosophy department.
Professor Greenwood will also
lecture in several philosophy
classes which will be open to the
public. He will lecture on the 'Phi
losophy of Nature" at 10 a. m. in
Social Sciences 321, at 11 a. m.
he will speak in Social Sciences
319 on "Contemporary British Phi
losophy," and at 3 p. m he will
lecture on "Recent Political Phi
losophy' in Sncial Sciences 315.
Greenwood will address the fac
ulty at a luncheon, with "The
Present Situation in Europe" as
his subject. He is coming here di
. rect from the University of Iowa,
and will make the next stop of
his American tour at the Univer
sity of Missouri.
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The name of Delta Siema Pi
fraternity wm incorrectly spelled
at Delta Sigma Phi in Sunday's
paper. The DAILY apologizes.
Husker movie star ...
IF students vote for Bettie
Cox in College Queen contest
A movie star from the Nebras- from a group of six girls bv
ka campus! That Is what Bettie DAILY readers, and New York
Cox, Nebraska's most typical coed, artists acclaimed her one of the
may be if she is one of the 12 48 winners,
girls selected to attend the world
premiere of "Those Were the Miss Cox's picture is published
. Days. Pictures of 43 state win- with 17 other state winners in the
ners are now being run in Movie May 4 issue of Movie and Radio
and Radio Guide magazine, from Guide. Four or tho o;h ,!ii k
which 12 will be selected by read-
era of the magazine for the free
trip to the premiere.
Miss Cox wus selected locallv
Lincoln Journal and Slur.
St. Paul's choir to offer
annual spring concert
Wednesday at eight
Singing their annual spring
concert will be the St. Paul
Mothodit church choir Wednes
day at 8 p. ra. at St. Paul's
church. The group led by William
C. Tempel is made up almost en
tirely of university students.
ROTC parades at 5
The entlr ROTC unit will
parade today from 5 to 6 p. m.
Companies will form on the
mall between social sclenoe and
Andrews, and the parade will
te on the new athletlo field.
Company sponsors and the
honorary colonel wM review
the parade.'
Vestals initiate
15 new members,
choose officers
Vestals of the Lamp, arts and
science woman's honorary, Sunday
elected officers and initiated 15
new members.
Jean Carnahan was elected
president and Mar ion Cramer, sec
retary. New initiates are: Ann Arbit
man, Annette Biernbaum, Jane
Bird, Bettie Cox, Sidney Ann Gar
ner, Joan Green, Mary Adelaide
Hansen, Betty Mallat, Betty New
man, Margaret Ann Osborn, Rose
mary Riley, Mary Ruth Rhodes,
Betty Ann Roberts, Jewell Tinker,
and Catherine Tunison.
35 enter ag
meat contest
Block and Bridle holds
annual judging tourney
Block and Bridle club expects
more than 35 contestants to enter
its 13th annual meet judging con
test at the Lincoln Packing com
pany Friday, May 10.
Marvin Kruse, member of last
year's judging team, and manager
of this year's contest, stated that
the entrants will probably judge
in nine classes, and will write out
their choices and judgments in six
of the nine. Ribbons will be
awarded the three high men in
each of three classes, beef, pork,
and lamb. And a trophy will be
given to top man in the entire
contest. The National Livestock
(See CONTEST on page 2)
selected for the trip. Readers of
the magazine may vote for Miss
Cox by sending in the ballot pub
lished in the magazine.
The 12 winners selected, four
from each group of pictures, will
be sent with all expenses paid to
the world premiere of "Those Were
the Days," at Knox College, Gales
burg, 111. The movie was adapted
from "Old Siwash" stories about
Knox college, written at the turn
of the century. -
Bonita Granville and William
Holdcn, stars of the picture, as
well as Knox college students, will
entertain the 12 winners at Gales
burg. The director of the picture
will select the most photogenic
girl for a free trip to Hollywood
and a screen test which may re
sult in a movie contract.
So vote for Miss Cox, and help
send a Nebraska girl to stardom!
NU men scheduled
to appear at national
extension meeting
Several extension leaders of the
university will participate in the
25th annual conference of the Na
tional University Extension Asso
ciation to be held at Ann Arbor,
Mich., May 15 to 18. Earl T. Flatt,
assistant director of the Extension
Division, has been appointed leader
of the supervised correspondence
study section, and will preside at
the meetings of this group May
16. He will outline the extension
program carried on at Nebraska
the last ten years. Dr. A. A. Reed,
director of the division is a mem
ber of the past president's panel
forum, and will discuss Extension
Division objectives at a roundtaWe
Wednesday, May W.
I-M debate
tournament
ends tonight
Delta Theta Phi meets
Tappa Kegga for top
oratorical honors
Delta Theta Phi and Tappa
Kegga will meet tonight in the
final round of the intra-mural de
bate tournament at the Delta
Theta Phi house.
Subject of the debate is "Re
solved, that the state should adopt
a plan of compulsory automobile
insurance to cover personal in
juries." The winner of the debate will
be declared champion in the all
university tournament of both or
ganized and barb groups.
The silver gavel of Delta Sigma
Rho will be awarded to Delta
Sigma Phi, the fraternity winning
the section championship.
Use three judges
Three judges will be used in this
debate to decide the all university
winner, and judging points will be
skill in presenting points, subject
material, and effectiveness.
Delta Theta Phi will take the
affirmative side of the insurance
question, while Tappa Kegga will
argue for the negative. Both teams
have previously lost one debate.
Tappa Kegga debaters are Ham
ilton Reed and Don Bursik, while
Delta Theta Phi will use James
Brogan and Don Farrens.
All plars and preparations for
the debate, as well as the carrying
out of the entire tournament has
been in charge of Prof. H. White,
debate coach of the varsity debate
team. Pairings and dates for the
debates have been made in his of
fice. Judge have been drawn from
the ranks of varsity debaters and
those who have studied debate and
argumentation. Often, material for
the varsity debate team is revealed
through intra-mural competition.
Waring to play
original Husker
song on May 17
When Fred Waring dedicates his
original song to Nebraska over his
"Pleasure Time" program May 17,
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students will be hearing one of
their favorite radio programs.
Radio editors of United States
and Canada selected "Pleasure
Time" as the best quarter hour
on the air. Waring gained sup
port of college listeners by dedi
cating songs each week to some
college or university.
Waring will dedicate his song
to Nebraska in response to the
more -than 1,600 signers to peti
tions asking for the song. Petitions
were circulated by the Daily.
Present in the studio at the time
of the broadcast will be the entire
Nebraska alumni chapter of New
York. The grads were invited by
Waring to be present at the broad
cast. The weather
The weatherman says today will
be partly cloudy and may bring
scattered showers.
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Barbs to honor
outstanding men,
women at banquet
Recognition to barbs who have
participated in activities during
the past year will be given at the
annual barb banquet Friday eve
ning, May 10, in the Student Un
ion. The Barb Activities Board
for Women will award pins to
those girls who have earned 100
activity points or over and roses
to the girls who have earned 75
points.
The Nebraska Barb Freshman
Award will be presented to the
freshman man who has done the
most outstanding work during the
past year.
Following the banquet, a dance
will be held in the ballroom with
Jimmy James' orchestra furnish
ing the music. James features a
brass choir, a glee club and a
swing sextet. For those students
who have membership cards, the
dance will be 35 cents a couple.
Otherwise the charge will be 50
cents per couple. Tickets for both
the banquet and the dance may
be purchased in the Barb office.
Three alumni
join Marines
Former uni students
to finish basic course
Lieutenants Martin E. Oelrich,
Lyman D. Spurlock, and Wayne
M. Cargill, all former Nebraska
students, are members of the class
of young Marine Corps officers
who will graduate from the Basic
School at Philadelphia on May 3.
Later Oelrich will go aboard the
USS Astoria; Spurlock to the
Charleston, S. C, navy yard; and
Cargill to marine barracks, Nor
folk, Va.
Following their graduation from
Nebraska last summer, the three
men accepted commissions as 2nd
Lieutenants in the Marine Corps.
For the past ten months they have
been attending the Basic School,
whore all junior officers of the
Marine Corps are required to take
a postgraduate course before be
ing assigned to duty.
Oelrich, Spurlock, and Cargill
were members of the ROTC unit
at the university and ranked as
Colonel, 2nd Lieutenant and Cap
tain, respectively.
Campus peace maker . . .
Regler saves IWyer-engineer
effigies from public roasting
By Hubert Ogdeo. had been ripped open and with a
Perchance somebody may have sticker on it reading "pineapple."
wondered what became of th. It was, said Regler, the remnants
lawyer-engineer effigy and why it ot home-made bomb which som
was not publicly burned as adver- school people had fashioned
tised in this paper, a DAILY re- out of black powder to celebrate
porter went to the place where it a basketball victory several years
was most likely to be found -
Sergeant Reglcr's office - for it is R HOLER on page 24
in this office of the campus cop (
wnere mosi contraband comes:
feuds and subversive activities
finally end.
There, stuffed in a hiker was
the lost dummy. What the well
dressed dummy should wear, it
wore. It had on white trousers,
bright shirt, and canvas shoes.
Across lis shirt hung a plaque,
"lawyers." This man-made mon
strosity had been cut down from
the mechanical arts building by a
night policeman and brought to
the police station, there to be sen
tenced to confinement in the lock
er. It is believed in official circles
that this Is the same figure which
hung on the law building with an
"engineer" sign upon it. and which
was to be burned, but which dis
appeared. "Pineapple" oollection.
Looking around the office for
other interesting things, we no
ticed a piece of gas pipe which
Army opens
cadet exams
to students
Air corps aspirants
take tests this week;
interviews today
Students who wish to join Unci
Sam's flying cadets may take the
examinations here from Wednes
day to Saturday this week, Lieu
tenant Chinton, advance agent,
announced yesterday.
Membership in the flying cadet
corps offers three months train
ing at one of the twelve flying
schools located throughout the
United States, and six months at
Randolph Field, the West Point of
the Air.
Qualificatit
Applicants must have a junior
standing by the end of this school
year, be between 20 and 27 years
of age, an American citizen, and
single. In addition they must pass
the medical examination.
The flying cadets receive $75 a
month during training, as well as
board, room, clothing, and medical
attention. After completion t
training the men receive the com
mission of 2nd lieutenant in the
U. S. reserve air corps. They can
get up to 7 years of active duty
in the army, and many receive
regular commissions in the army.
A board of air corps officer
will give the examinations here
from Wednesday to Saturday. Men
interested my interview Lieutenant
Chinton from 9 to 12 today in Ne
braska hall.
Japanese essay context
offers three free
tours, cash awards
Three trips to Japan are prises
offered in a new essay contest,
sponsored by the Society for In
ternational Cultural Relations in
Tokyo, commemorating the 2600th
anniversary of the founding of the
Japanese empire, and cash award
sufficient to finance one to three
month visits in the Land of the
Rising Sun accompany the con
test. Deadline for submission of en
tries is September 30, 1940, and
winners wil be announced April
29, 1941.
Full information on the content
may be obtained by writing th
Japan Institute. 630 Fifth avenue.
incw lork.
Ferguson to preside at
meeting of educational
engineering society
Dean O. J. Ferguson of the Col
lege of Engineerig, who is presi
dent of the Society fo rthe Pro
motion of Engineering Education,
will preside at the meetings of the
group at Berkeley. Calif.. June 24
to 28. This will be the 48th annual
convention of the society. Thema
this year is "The Unfolding Obli
gations of Engineering Educa
tion." Dean Ferguson will address
the delegates on the question "Is
the Philosophy of Engineering Ed
ucation Changing?"
Counselors meet today
Coed Counselors will hold a
r a
meeting this afternoon at
5 In Ellen Smith. All members
are urged to attend by Mary
Bullock, president.
