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jht 2-408 Vol. 40 No. 32 Kosmet Klub judges select 15 skits for annual fall revue Committee takes 5 sorority, fraternity, curiam offerings After a more than two hour debate, members of the judging committee for the annual Kosmet Klub revue accepted five frater nity skits, five women's skits and five curtain numbers. Skits accepted are Alpha Tau Omega, Phi Kappa Psi, Beta Theta Pi, Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Sig ma Chi. Alpha Phi, Delta Gamma, Kappa Knppa Gamma, Kappa Al pha Theta and Women's Residence Hall. Alpha Sigma Phi, Delta Tau Delta, Gamma Phi Beta, Chi Omega, and Alpha Gamma Rho, According to Kosmet Klub president Leo Cooksley, the skits are exceptionally good. Every one of the tryouta was of such merit that it was difficult for the judges to decide and make the final se lection. The 15 elected were judged from a total group of 26. Everything from the television skit of the A. T. O.'s to a rush week takeoff by the Sig Alphs will be in the show. The Phi Psl's named their skit "Chaos" while the Beta group will have a military air with their crack squad. The theme of the Sigma Chi's concerns Kickof f dinner opens Y drive Nearly 100 YMCA cabinet mem bers, fraternity members and barb men taking part in the campaign for funds among city campus stu dents contributed $48.50 to the drive at the kickoff dinner at the city YMCA opening botii frater nity and barb campaigns last night, said C. D. Hayes, uni Y general secretary. First report dinner is scheduled for next Tuesday evening at the city YM. All workers are expected to have their work completed. Over 125 aboard as Junior Chamber today bound for Over 125 students and Husker fans will board the Junior Cham ber of Commerce special train to day bound for Norman, Oklahoma, to see the Oklahoma-Nebraska game. Chamber of commerce offi cials estimate that 25 of this num ber are students and many more are expected to purchase their tickets today. The special will leave Lincoln at 6 p. m. today and will arrive in Oklahoma City tomorrow at 7:45 a. m. It will leave Oklahoma City at 1 p. m. and will arrive In Nor man one block from the stadium at 1:45, 30 minutes before game time. Immediately following the game, the train will return to Oklahoma City, where accommodations at the Hotel Black and dancing and en tertainment have been arranged for the Nebraskans. It will leave Lincoln barb club monicker is 'GanP The Gauls, new club for Lincoln unaffiliated men, held its election of officers Wednesday evening. New officers are Bob Dewey, president; Bob Schaufelberger, vice president; Frank O'Con nell, secretary-treasurer; Clayton Hughes, barb Union representa tive; Dick Putney, social director; Bob Leonard, atheletic director. Twenty-five men selected the new name. Bob Dewey remarked, con cerning its adoption, "Since, the Gauls were barbarians in Caesar's time, the name seemed very suit able." A permanent meeting time was set, at 5 p. m. every Thursday. AH barbs not yet belonging to an organized club arc invited by the fcroup to attend meetings. Daily IINebmskm 0t'cta Newspaper Of Mon Than 7,000 Students Lincoln, Nebraska "The Dean Takes a Wife." Sororities also showed wide va riety in ideas for skits. The Al pha Phi's title theirs "Joe the Greek." It is a takeoff on frater nity houses. The Delta Gamma's also follow the patriotic theme while the Kappa's will strut their stuff as "Harlem Jitterbugs." The Thcta's call theirs "Fishy" and the Women's Residence Hall will mimic certain members of the DAILY staff. Curtain acts include the Alpha (See REVUE, page 6.) City Pan-Hel will present trophies at tea Top scholars w ill get cups at ceremony in Union at 3:30 Universities sororities will be rewarded today for their scholar ship achievements in 1939-40 at the Panhellenic tea from 3:30 to 5:30 in the Union ballroom. It is estimated that 700 sorority women will be present when the seven high sororities scholastically will receive cups presented by the city panhellenic society. The cups will be awarded after the presentation of a skit enacted by girls from various sororities on the campus. In the receiving line at the tea will be: Mrs. Earl Deppen, Mrs. C. S. Boucher, Miss Helen Hosp, Miss Hortense Allen, Mrs. West over, Miss Piper, Mrs. J. W. Sea crest, Mrs. Robert Malloly, Miss Coleita Aitken, Mrs. A. Ryansbrach and Miss Harriet Byron. special leaves Sooner game Oklahoma City at 10 p. m. Satur day and will arrive in Lincoln at 2:30 p. m. Sunday. There will be an hour's stop-over in Kansas City on the return trip. Tickets for the excursion, includ ing train fare, meals on the train, and admission to the fcame, may be purchased for $15.00 from Ed Segrist in the DAILY office. Pd much rather campaign for someone else, it's easier Hoover By Ralph S. Combs. (ABOARD THE HOOVER SPE CIAL ENROUTE TO LINCOLN.) He looks tired this 67 year old man who was the last republican president. Work has left service stripes of wrinkles on his chubby face.' But he said he wasn't tired. It's much better this way, former President Herbert Hoover smiled ...I'd rather be campaigning for somebody else than for myself it's much easier; you do your bit, and then- quit. Same old line , He half-smiled as he remarked that the democrats were using the same propaganda tactics on Will kie as they used on him in 1932. "When I was up for re-election they dubbed me an Englishman for an Englishman was an unpopu lar type at that time. Now they call Willkie a German because Germans are unpopular." No, we won't carry California, he opined. The -state is over-run with share-croppers from the southwestern states who are most ly on WPA or relief rolls. We can't win over votes like those. But if we do carry California, it will be Friday, November 1, 1940 Union offers last chance for bridge entries toIay Students who wish to play in a contract bridge tourna ment will have their last op portunity to register at the Union checkstand Friday. The tournament will be entirely played off Saturday afternoon at 2 p. r. in parlors A and B of U r. on. A radio will be avail. n the building 10 that plav.. ...ay check up on the Oklahoma-Nebraska game. UN direetory sales large Thiel reports 500 eopies solo" first lay "Student directory sales are leaping far ahead of other years," reports Burton Thiel, business manager for the publication. Five hundred copies were sold Wednes day, the first day of its appear ance. Because of the unusual de mand difficulty was encountered in keeping the bookstores and stands supplied, Thiel said. Di rectories are being sold in the campus bookstores and at special stands in several buildings. A small compact book, the di rectory contains complete lists of all students and faculty members with thir addresses and telephone numbers. Special feature of this year's directory is the combination of the old supplementary list, with all the names in the regular list. Fugitives flee in '35 Ford sedan after ag tbefts Offices of Professors Warner, Brackett, and Young at ag col lege were broken into sometime last week and robbed of a total of more than $150 in cash. In all cases screwdrivers were used in the prying open of desk drawers. From Professor Young's office a screwdriver was stolen which iden tified the criminals. Sgt. Regler 13 now seeking a 1935 model Ford open touring car with a Kansas license beginning "7." Sgt. Regler captured one of the criminals entering the pharmacy building and a search revealed the screwdriver. The man was re leased because of lack of evidence. The screwdriver was later identi fied by Professor Young by his initials on the handle. The captured man, 26 years old, claimed to be from Arkansas City, Kas., and may have headed that way in his car. Journal and Star. Herbert Hoover. .... would rather campaign. a republican landslide the country over. Many new voters The unpredicted element In this campaign, Hoover declared, is the large number of new voters. This ' i Daily conducts straw ballot Council sets Nov. 12 for fall election Voters will east ballots for Sweetheart, Colonel, prexys, prom members Regular student fall election will be hold Nov. 12 from 9 a. m. to 8 p. m., it was announced yesterday by the Student Council. Students will vote for Nebraska Sweetheart, Honorary Colonel, junior and sen ior class presidents, and prom com mittee. Three men and three women will be elected to serve on the prom committee. Two amend ments recently passed by the coun cil will also be on the ballots. Voting will take place on the city campus in the west end of the Union basement and polls will also be set up on the ag campus. Filings for Nebraska Sweet heart, whose identity' will be kept secret until the Kosmet Klub fall revue, must be in the office of John K. Selleck before Friday, Nov. 8. The name of the senior chosen as honorary colonel will not be revealed until Dec. 6, when she will be presented at the military ball. Dramatists perform Present mystery Saturday Majors in the department of speech will present three dramatic sketches in the Union ballroom Saturday at 8 p. m. The plays will be staged without faculty super vision and will be directed by student directors Libby Blasovec, Virginia Thede, and Evelyn Elias. Stage manager will be Romulo Soldevilla. t "Twenty Years Later," the first play, is a sarcastic bit about the meeting of college friends twenty years after their leaving school. Its all-girl cast includes Hilda Mooberry, Dorothy Filley, Ros- Campns poliee foree ado's new officer A new officer has been added to the campus police force to su pervise faculty parking facilities, according to Sgt. Regler, campus police head. He is William Grage, and will check parking four times each day. Several others have been added to the force for keeping order at the coliseum for Hoover's speech tonight, and also several for Hal lowe'en night. year there are 6,000,000 more voters registered than in any pre vious vear. It's hard to believe that as great a number as this would turn out to re-elect Roose velt. It's much more probable that this many people would turn out only to voice their disapproval of the new deal. As he rubbed the arm of his chair he's addicted to nervous movements he criticised polls of the Gallup type on the grounds that they were not extensive enough. A better cross-section of opinion is found, he said, through fan-mail. People who are indiffer ent don't bother to write, those who disagree write hotly, and those who are in sympathy with you write to affirm their support. Ambassadors campaigning Hoover voiced his oponion that Roosevelt's foreign relations were not being carried on thru his am bassadors. "How can they serve as American envoys when they're all here in the United States mak ing speeches for Roosevelt's re election?" I think, he continued, that Roosevelt is in contact with (See HOOVER,' page 8) V Largest poll yet taken on UN eampus To ascertain the accuracy of the DAILY NEBRASKAN polls, the NEBRASKAN will conduct a straw vote of approximately 3,000 students today, Saturday, and Monday. This balloting will be the largest poll ever undertaken on the campus. Norman Harris, NEBRASKAN editor, asks, "the full co-operation of the student body in this attempt to discover the true pol itical sentiment on the campus." The voting booth will be open in the Union lobby from 8 a. m. until 5 p. m. Friday and Monday, and from 9 a. m. until 5 p. m. on Sat urday. Insure accuracy. Names of the students who vote will be checked with the student directory to insure accuracy, and to prevent repeat voting. No booth will be set up on ag campus, but all ag students are urged to vote when they are on the city campus on any of the voting days. Results of the straw-vote, along with the average returns from the NEBRASKAN opinion surveys of the past three weeks will be tab ulated, compared, and published in the NEBRASKAN on election day morning, Tuesday, Nov. 5. anne Hvoboaa, Marian Cramer, Louise Lemon, Betty Cox, Gwen eveir Oatman, Genevieve Wild, Martha Ann Pickering, and Bar bara Scott.- Second sketch The second sketch is James Par rish's "Just Off Piccadilly," a short story about a girl who met the wrong ghost when she went to work on her psychic research paper. Bob Black, Phyllis Welch, and Clarence Flick arc cast for the roles. "There's Money Coming to You" is a fast moving comedy about the plight of a fortune teller who makes theft his sideline. Max Wittaker will take the role of the fortune teller and will be as sisted by Beth Hanisch, Louis Meyer, Dorothy Tipton, Bill Hend ricks, and Bob Green. Stage crew assistants are Phyllis Welch, Marjorie Adams, Mary Rosborough, Maribel Hitch cock, Bernice Crounse, Betty Rosenblatt, and Marjorie Chria tensen. Bar association gives alum medal Dr. Rosche Pound, university alumnus and dean of Harvard law school has been awarded the goM medal of the American Bar asso ciaiton for conspicuous service to America jurisprudence at the an nual meeting of the association in Philadelphia. The medal has been awarded an nually since 1929 to such na tionally known men as Elihu Root, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Dean John H. Wigmore. Dr. Pound was dean of the law school from 1903 to 1907. He was graduated from the university in, 1888 with a B. A. degree and re ceived his M. A. from the graduate school in 1889. The past year Dr. Pound wa3 elected corresponding fellow of the Bristish academy and the Institute Argentine de Filosofia Juridicay Social. Alberts shows work at New York exhibit Thealtus Alberts, assistant In the art department, has a piece being shown in the ninth annual national ceramics exhibition in the Syracuse, N. Y., Museum of Fine Arts, Oct. 13 to Nov. 3. Entitled "Summertime," Alberts figure is of red terra cotta with oil finish on a green soapstone base, . .