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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, . .
