The DAILY NEBRASKAN
Sunday, February 11, 1940
116.5
112.9
102.0
108.6
182.8
126.8
111.7
103 3
1)2.1
103.8
158.8
124. 5
114.8
105.3
95.3
Trade activity
decreases
December business high
for Nebraska and nation
Nebraska's business activity re
reded only slightly last month
from the December level, accord
ing to V. A. Spurr, university sta
tistician. December business reached a
new hiph tor Nebraska and the na
tion. The .'t;.te's retail sales and
mailing r.'liVity showed little
change in January after seasonal
adjustment Building operations
were active and business payments
declined Fherply.
The tab':e bJow shows the busi
ness index together with the lat
est individual barometers. Each
index has been adjusted to remove
seasonal vocation and calendar ir
regularities, and has been ex
pressed as a percentage of the av
erage level of 1935 to 1937. The
combined limine is made up of the
first six individual indexes listed
below plus new car sales, each
component ueir.g weighted in pro
portion to its economic importance.
NIC II RASH A PISINKSS BAROMETER.
'935-87 100.
Combined Index "113.9
Bank nchil 99.0
Dept. Store a...li 100.1
Postal R.-re.rilK 108.5
BiiildlnR CorifH.-urlK'n ..197.9
Vice. Power I'njcluuion
Pay Rolls 113.7
Kmployment 103.9
Life In.urir.rf Htimt 77.5
Prolinuria''!'.
Livestock club
announces Mcda!
Essay Contest
The Sadcne and Sirloin club of
the Union Stockyards, Chicago, of
world-wide lame for its portrait
gallery of lending live-stock men,
announces its 1940 Medal Essay
Contest, wh.eh is open to all un
dergraduates in ag colleges in the
U. S. and Canada, in accordance
with the rales The Gold Medal
winner will have his name in
scribed on a bronze plaque, in per
manent lU'p'Jay in the Saddle and
Sirloin club.
The sur e;t of the 1940 contest
shall be "lie Economic Signifi
cance of Grass in American Agri
culture," and essays must be in
by November, 1940.
Cup for winner.
A sterling silver cup is offered
annually to the college making
the highest rating among the top
20 essays, and may be won per
manently when won three times
by one ce.llcf;e. In the 1939 contest
Nebraska a school placed third,
with ViFeorsin first and Oklaho
ma second Ag college juniors
Wilfred Eeci.cr, Charles Gardner,
and Lercy Kramer placed fifth,
eighth, and twentieth, respectively.
In the 1P38 contest Nebraska was
fifth with two students in the
upper twenty.
Latin department
offers contest
Students with four years of
Latin either in high school or col
lege who have not yet completed
their fifth year are eligible to
take an examination next 'Satur
day, for the Grove E. Barber
classical prire of 560.
The examination will be given
Saturday morning at 10 o'clock in
212 Andrew hall. This prize has
been given five times before. Last
year's winner was Muriel Line.
Those who desire to take the
examination, or who wish further
information, either on their eligi
bility, or the test itself should see
C. A. Forties of the Latin depart
ment omcti;ne this week.
Profs write psych paper
Dr. P. A. Worcester, chairman
of the department of educational
psychology and measurements,
and Dr. W. 11. Bailer of the de
partment have an article describing-
the fld Oinic program they
have developed in Nebraska pub
lished in the Journal of Excep
tional Children.
Schultz writes article
on state's early settlers
C. Bertrand Schultz, assistant
director of the Museum, has de
scribed Nebraska's early settlers
and the prehistoric animals which
they hunted in an article appear
ing in the Stanolind Record, pub
lication of the Standard Oil com
pany of Indiana. The article is
illustrated with pictures showing
Museum camp sites, fossil collec
ting and the type of country in
which the fossil material is col
lected. Musicians judge clinic
Marian Wolfe and Emanuel
Wishnow of the music faculty
served as judges and presented
several numbers at the county
band and orchestra clinic in Hol
drege Friday and Saturday.
Well, Thursday
was a bit snowy
--up to our necks!
Between four and five and one
half inches of snow fell last Thurs
day, weather bureau reports indi
cate. That brings the season's total
for Lincoln up to about 21 inches
since Dec. 23. All of which sub
stantiates optimism about 1940
wheat prospects. County Agent
Lindstrom of Chappell reported
that moisture is down about four
feet in summer-fallowed land.
Moisture conditions now are fa
vorable and most of the wheat
germinated normally last fall.
But many Nebraska farmers are
asking what they could plant to
replace wheat that doesn't live
thru the winter, even tho it's still
too early to predict just what the
wheat yields will be. And Dr. T. A.
Kiesselbach, ag college agrono
mist, suggests that barley is
"probably the most drouth re
sistant spring grain crop we have"
in regions uninfested by chinch
bugs. For such areas, varieties of
kafir may be better.
Harmony hour features
New York Philharmonic
Harmony hour today begins at
2 p. m. in the Union. The pro
gram will be a broadcast of the
New York Philharmonic Orches
tra over CBS conducted by Joan
Barbirolli.
More than 225 pounds of bread
are baked daily in the Arkansas
A. & M. college bakery.
)m't miss the double page picture preview
of prospective
University of Nebraska Beauty Queens
in the
Sunday World Herald Rotogravure Section, Feb. 11
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