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Friday, October 25, 1940
Ratclif f e will discuss English,
U. S. role in current affairs
British journalist to appear at uni convocation
Monday; has been featured by N. Y. Town Hall
S. K. Ratcliffe, British lecturer
and journalist named by George
Bernard Shaw as a "very accom
plished lecturer and a very re
markable man," will appear at a
university convocation at 11 a. m.
Monday in the Temple. Ratcliffe
is beginning his 26lh season of
lecturing in the United States and
has lectured before the leading
American universities and in New
York's Town Hall every winter
since its establishment. He will
speak here on subjects relating to
the British empire and this coun
try in world affairs today.
Former editor
As a journalist, Ratcliffe has
JiaJ a noteworthy career. He spent
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Calcutta's leading daily newspaper
and for 10 years was lecturer in
the University of Iomlon. During
recent yars he has been editorial
writer for the London Daily News
and a constant contributor to im
portant magazines in England and
America. '
In 1933, Ratcliffe's lecture tour
A survey shows 75 per cent of
U. S. collegians disapprove of
ghost writing, 10 per cent don't
care, 15 per cent approve.
Stevens Institute of Technology
has received grants of $3,500,
$2,400 and $4,000 for research
work.
Orson Welles ovens 1940-41
a
Town Hall tonight at 7:30
Orson Welles, dynamic actor,
producer, director and author of
stage, screen ana radio, wm mm-1
ate this year's Town Hall scries at
the coliseum tonight.
WaIIoi started hia irwp A3 a
professional actor before he was
ten. He made $25 a day dressed as
Peter Rabbit in Chicago's Mar
shall Field's. He next took part in
Shakesperian theatricals at a boys
school.
At 16 he set out for Ireland on a
painting tour, and ended up in
Dublin penniless. There he posed
an American star and received an
impoitant stage role. Upon his re
turn to the United States he toured
with Katherine Cornell's company
and started the Mercury Theatre,
which was soon put on the air.
When, in 1938, people all over
America turned on their radio and
heard and believed that Mars citiz
ens were attacking the earth.
Walking hoax
still thriving
on gullibility
A had penny always comes back.
A year ago this fall, reporters
and editors of the DAILY sat in
their office and heard "thrilling"
tales of the adventure found in a
foreign correspondent's life as re
lated by one Richard Richards,
who claimed to be one for a Lon-
on newspaper.
month after the "reporter'
left Lincoln, continuing his lec
ture tour, Colorado Springs police
revealed him as a cook who had
jumped ship during a docking in
New York. His hoax shot to pieces
the ehb. personable, tenacious
Richards was deported.
A letter to L. A "Jiggs" Miller,
Lim-aln raaio executive, from the
adventurer this week filled with
the color of war torn Britain, in
formed his gullible Lincoln friends
that now he is happy once more
for he it finding adventure as a
ao!dir in the army.
uairy juiigmg
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team places Join
in national meet
The university dairy production
Judging team placed 16th this
week in the national competition
being held at Atlantic City. N. J.
Twenty-one college teams are par
ticipating in the judging contest.
Merritt Boone of Fair bury came
out 13th in judging milk, while
LaVeme Curry of Tecumseh was
18th in total score for all products.
Third member of the team is Herb
Smiley of Milford.
took him into the Far East and
he spent three months in Aus
tralia; from there he went to New
Zealand and then to Manila, China,
Japan and finally back to Amer
ica. He is being brought to Lin
coln by the university convoca
tions committee, of which Prof.
Karl Arndt is president.
Statistics show
frequent liquor
Statistics made by the police de
partment of Lincoln show that in
the list of infractions against the
law, the consuming of alcoholic
liquor by .people under the age of
21 ranks highest.
Officials in the department
ascribe this to the fact those stu
dents coming from out of town
have no knowledge of the also
holic liquor ordinance of 1935.
Section three of that ordinmce
states that no person under the
age of 21 shall represent that he
is of age for the purpose of pur
chasing or receiving liquor from
any other person. A fine of not
more than $50 was set as punish
ment for all those convicted on
Welles gained his greatest
His broadcast of the play
fame,
about
Mars reecived nation-wide interest
and comment, and from then on
he became a figure known to al
most everyone.
The lecture tonight will start at
7:30, preceded by a concert by the
university orchestra. Tickets are
on sale at the Union office to un
dergraduate students for 25 cents.
Bedell attributes
to wrong studying methods
"About 50 percent of all the stu
dents failing in their class-work
fail needlessly because of employ
ing wrong study methods." Thus
spoke Prof. Ralph C. Bedell who
has spent much of his time in the
past few years investigating im
proved study methods for college
students.
To the amazement of the major
ity of orientation students Pro
fessor Bedell told his audience
many of the ways students think
they can improve brain power
quickly and painlessly. "Last year
I noticed some students sitting In
the Corn Crib chewing fish inten
sively. I asked one of them the
reason for this activity so short a
time before examinations; the stu
dent answered that chewing fish
improved the power of the brain."
Professor Bedell declared that
there was no such thing as a
brain-improving food. The only
way of improving one's brain is
tlfrough the use of the proper
study methods.
Bedell will be glad to see any
student having study problems
Industrial relation
class inaugurated
at California
(ACP) As a result of the
growing appreciation of the vital
importance of employer-employee
relationships. California Institute
of Technology this fall inaugu
rated a new industrial relations
section in its department of eco
nomics. Instruction both on the under
graduate and graduate levels will
be offered, affording an oppor
tunity for the study of such sub
jects as labor relations, the back
grounds of employer and employee
associations and unions, the prac
tice of collective bargaining and
the functioning of the various
state and federal bureaus within
the labor field.
The teaching will be kept close
ly attuned to reality by using rep
resentatives from industrial con
cerns, labor unions and govern
ment agencies as special lecturers.
DAILY NEBRASKAN
Advanced drill
classes must go
without uniforms
According to an order issued
yesterday by Colonel Thuis, the
company having the contract for
making advanced course uniforms
for the university will be unable
to be here until the early part of
November because of circum
stances which have disrupted the
business of uniform dealers. The
various classes will be informed
as soon as the date a representa
tive of the company can be here
is definitely known.
minors most
law violators
that charge.
The increased number of of
fenses against traffic laws within
the city limits was, like in the
above case, blamed on ignorance
of the Lincoln regulations.
It was suggested that students
attend the lectures given by the
police department each Wednes
day night at 7 p. m. in the city
hall, hour of these lectures com
plete a course.
Bennett college for Negro
women, Greensboro, N. C, re
ceivea gins totaling s-us.ooo in
the last year.
The University of Minnesota
has announced a $000 prize in open
competition for an 80 foot mural
in its new Union.
Movie Clock
Varsity "Too Many Girls,"
1:20, 3:25, 5:35, 7:40, 9:50.
Kiva "They Drive by Night,"
1:30, 3:30, 5:30, 7:35, 9:35.
Lincoln "Strike Up the
Band." 1:42, 4:25, 7:08, 9:40.
Nebraska "We Who Are
Young." 1:00, 3:57, 6:54, 9:51.
"Magnificent Fraud," 2:29,
5:26, 8:23.
Stuart "Golden Fleecing," 1,
3:42, 8:03, 10:24. Stage Revue,
2:07,4:28, 6:49, 9:10.
failures
Saturday at 9 a. m.. Monday at 10
a. m., and Wednesday at 4 p. m.
Any student desiring to consult
him on any of these problems
should ome to Law 104.
Vogue offers job prizes in
annual Prix de Paris contest
If you are interested in feature
writing or fashion reporting, here
is a chance to step straight from
college next June into a ready
made job.
Vogue, elite fashion magazine
for women, has announced its
Prix de Paris, annual career con
test for college seniors. "Our pur
pose in sponsoring the contest,"
said Edna Workman Chase, editor
of Vogue magazine, "is to discover
college girls who have the ability
to write and a flair for fashion.
Four quizzes.
"After submitting the required
entry blanks, received by writing
tTVogue, applicants w 111 receive a
list of contest rules. Major re
quirements consist of answering
four quizzes, the first of which
will appear in the Nov. 1 issue of
Vogue, and will be based on the
Oct. 1 and 15 issues. Qualifying
by passing these, participants will
then choose a subject for a thesis
from among those suggested in the
I-M chairmen
All fraternities who partici
pated in intramural football this
fall are urged to send in their
choices for an all-opponent
team. This team is to be made
up of teams in the fraternity's
own league and can not include
their members. This list must
be turned in by the middle of
next week to the Daily Ne
braskan where the votes will
be tabulated. The deadline will
positively be next Friday.
Members, remind your ath
letic chairman to determine this
list as cooperation will ba appreciated.
Tug of war decides how much
longer frosh to wear beanies'
Battle royal former decision method
When the freshmen carry out
their tug of war with the sopo
mores tonight they will be con
tinuing on a tradition that is prac
tically as old as the university
itself. The contest decides the
age old question of whether fresh
men will wear their red caps until
the first snow falls, or whether
they will be able to pack them
away with the moth balls.
When the university still boasted
only a four block campus, the
freshmen wore green caps with
white letters. About the time of
World war I the caps b'.came scar
let and cream and have remained
that color to the present day.
Early organization
In earlier years the contest was
carried on between the Green
Goblins, a freshman organization
and the Iron Sphinx, the sopho
more group. At that time the
victor was not decided by a simple
game of pulling rope but by really
rough and tumble battles.
The sophomores and freshmen
held an annual "Olympics" with
Alpha Phi leads
in Cornhusker
pielure race
With a 30 lead, the Alph Phi
sorority was leading both theso
rority and fraternity groups,
Thursday morning in the Greek
picture-taking contest sponsored
by the Cornhusker. The Zeta
Beta Tau fraternity, having 60rc
of their pictures taken, were sec
ond. Fifteen juniors and twenty
five seniors have had their pic
tures taken.
Result were
Sorriltr:
Alpha Phi 90'i
Kappa Alpha Tacta t'i
PI Brta Pbi 'V
FralerntHm :
Ztta Beta Taa fS.
Alpha Sigma Phi SOT,
Mcnia Chi l
PM DHla Thrta 'r
HUrna Alpha Ma S"c
Ararte ',
The deadline for the sororities
is Tuesday, October 29. and the
deadline for the fraternities is Sat
urday. October 26. A free Corn
husker will be given to the
president of the first sority and of
the first fraternity having 100',;
of their pictures taken within the
allotted two weeks. If there is a
tie, the first one will receive the
Cornhusker.
March 15 and April 1 issues. The
first prize is a year's position on
Vogue's fasion staff, second prize
is six months as a feature writer
on the staff. In addition, five cash
prizes will be awarded.
POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT
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THE PIONEER SPIRIT OF THIS NATION MUST LIVE ON
His Principles
and Objectives
To promote a program
equolly fair to agriculture,
labor and business. They
must prosper together.
To represent in Congress the
wishes of oil the people of
the first district.
To assist in the building of
on adequate National de
fense eliminating politics
and profiteering.
To keep from sacrificing
American Youth on European
battlefields.
Think
Congres
"battle royals" and "capture the
flag." Around 1920, a push ball
contest was held. The ball, bor
rowed from the University of Iowa
at Ames, was a huge inflated
leather covered ball of seven feet
in diameter. Freshmen lined up
on one goal line of the football
field and sophomores on the other.
When the gun went off the boys
rushed for the ball and the first
to push the ball over a certain
line won the contest.
Broken bones common
This proved too rough for many
of the players since black eyes
and broken bones were common.
After the Student Council had
eliminated these underclass organ
izations the present tradition of
tug war was adopted.
Held the week end of the home
coming game, the tradition is now
sponsored by Innocents society
who also sell the caps. For many
years the freshman have won eas
ily since the sophomores have
failed to show up in great num
bers for the competition.
Students catch
guest stealing
valuables
Student occupants of a rooming
house operated by Edwin Hoppe,
1505 S. st., played host to a tran
sient, Russel Nusser, 19, last Sun
day and Monday during his stay
in Lincoln.
An ROTC uniform belonging to
Robert Walker was found in one
of Nusser's three well filled suit
cases. Also found among his pos
sessions was a Phi Kappa Tau fra
ternity pin owned by Russell Hay,
and a $10 and $5 gold piece be
longing to Delbert Christensen.
A quantity of bus tokens and a
Delta Sigma Pi pin were taken
from Vernon Weibusch who told
police he also missed $17 in cash
from his room. Don Lynch, another
student residing at the rooming
house, reported a silver dollar
missing.
Nusser. who left from Pitts
burgh, Pa., two weeks ago. told
Capt. Joseph T. Carroll that he
had been "working" his way west.
Nusser was arrested at the
Union depot Tuesday afternoon
where he was preparing to leave
for the west coast.
G E instructor
speaks to AIEE
Charles D. Minnich. E. E., '37.
presented a technical demonstra
tion lecture at a joint meeting of
the Nebraska section and Nebras
ka student branch of the Ameri
cen Institute of Electrical Engi
neers held Wednesday evening.
POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT
OREN S. COPELANO
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