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fuEBMSfiAN Official Newspaper Of More Than 7,000 Students 2-408 Wednesday, February 5, 194 1) Vol. 40, No. 74 Lincoln, Nebraska mum White readies intramural debate teams Opening dale March 1; intercollegiate debaters to judge contestants Intramural debating this year will-be divided into two sections, one for fraternity men and an other for non-fraternity men, and competition will be separate, ac cording to Prof. H. A. White, de bate coach. Two persons will make up a team which must speak on both sides of the question drawn by lot during the tourna ment. The plans being completed for the competition state that the de bates will begin about March 1, and conclude before the Easter vacation. Each will be held in the chapter house of the affirmative team, and for the non -organized groups in some place designated. Judges will be chosen from the Intercollegiate debaters by the de partment, and will be ineligible for competition. Judges will be per mitted to adopt their own plans of scoring on the basis of knowledge (See I-M DEBATE, page 2.) Registration figures drop Rosenlof believes army responsible for decline A drop of over 400 students In the second semester enrollment was predicted Tuesday by Dr. G. W. Rosenlof, registrar, an incom plete figures showed 4,911 regis tered compared to 5,353 a year ago. The figures do not include reg istration of medical and nursing students in Omaha and since graduate registration will not be completed until the end of the week, Dr. Rosenlof thinks that final figures for the second semes ter will approximate 5.500 full time resident students as com pared with 5,943 last year. A drop of about 100 students from the first semester is also an ticipated. "The National Guard training program took about 85 students and undoubtedly many others who failed to re-register the second semester are anticipat ing training under the selective service act," Dr. Rosenlof stated. Thar's money in publications jobs Chances to share it are double on the Daily There's gold - almost $500 a month In them thar hills -the DAILY NEBRASKAN, the Corn hunker and the Awgwan Flash. Monthly payrolls of the three publications, active almost every day in the basement of the Union, totals 1497.50 with 2ft students sharing in the money. Paying out twice as much as the Cornhusker and the Flash com bined is the DAILY with a total payroll of $332.50. The Cornhusker pays $120, the Flash $45 a month. If you want to get rich fast, the DAILY and the Awgan Flash are the best bets. Although the Cornhusker does hire a photo grapher who may be sophomore, you have to wait until you are a junior before any money at all comes in and until you are a senior for the big money. Twelve jobs on the DAILY are open to sophomores, and all pos itions on the Flash are open to everyone above freshmen (al though, because of the competi tion, no sophomore has ever been Student dies in Washington bomber crash First UN student to die in the armed forces of the United States since the inception of the draft took reserve officers from their classrooms is Lt. L. E. Mackay who left school two months ago. Stationed at McChord field, Mac kay was a passenger on the army bomber downed on a Washington mountainside Jan. 16. Wreckage of the plane was sighted Monday. Naval board to interview uni students To interview and examine men interested in becoming navy pilots or technicians, a board of naval officers arrived in Lincoln this morning. Applicants must be university graduates, seniors about to be graduated or men who have at least 50 percent of the credits necessary to receive a degree from an accredited college. The board will be at the Hotel Cornhusker until 8 a. m. Satur day. YWCA installs Frances Keefer prexy Tuesday Frances Keefer was installed as YW president yesterday at the 5 p. m. Vesper service. She was in troduced by Jane Shaw, retiring president. The service opened with two numbers by a string duet. Jane Shaw then read part of "The Profit" and gave a short talk. The new president told of the high points in her YW work and closed her talk with a brief statement of the purpose of the YW. Home ec grads Jive in 44 stales The 1,198 graduates in home economics from the university since 1907, when the department was established, are now living in every state of the country except Utah, Alabama, South Carolina, and Maine, according to the an nual news letter and directory recently sent out to alumni by the department. editor or business manager of the magazine.) Opening the fattest pay en velope every month are the editor and business manager of the DAILY who make $40. The two managing editors of the DAILY and the editor and the business manager of the Cornhusker get $30 per month. Earning monthly pay checks on the DAILY staff beside the top men are five news editors rid two assistant business managers who make $20 each a month, a sports editor, $15, a circulation manager, $25, assistant circulation manager, $15, a bookkeeper, $12.50, and a "cretary, $5. Monthly checks on the Corn husker staff Include $15 for a photographer, $30 for each of the three assistant business managers, $7.50 for each of the two manag ing editors. On the Flash, the editor and business manager make $15 a piece, and a photographer gets from $5 to $10 each month. All positions on the Flash and LeRossignol declares . . Russian government similar to fascist state dictatorship i' - r LA' -V- i J. E. LEROSSIGNOL. Bob Calame to play for barb formal; plan special dinner Barbs will dance to the rhythms of Bob Calame and his orchestra at their annual winter formal Sat urday night in the Union, preced ing which will be a banquet spon sored by the Barb Council at 6:30. The affair starts at 9 p. m. Bob Calame, famed as "The Dance Designer," specializes in playing his own arrangements. Formerly with Lawrence Welk's orchestra, he composed Welk's theme song, "Bubbles in Wine." The banquet will be held in Union parlors XYZ. Helen Eliza beth Claybaugh, Barb Council president, will be toastmaster and introduce the program, including the following: a solo by Jack An derson, accompanied by his brother Bert; a bagpipe number in full Scotch regalia by Glenn Wallace, Union talent contest winner who is a direct deseendent of the Scotch clan of Wallace. Blaine Nebraska U medico . . . Bennett develops After demonstrating the use of the drug, curare, in the treatment of shock in mental diseases in New Orleans, Dr. A. E. Bennett, assistant professor of neuri- the Cornhusker are named by the publications board, but the busi ness manager of the DAILY ap points the paper's bookkeeper, cir culation heads and secretary. If you want to be editor of the Cornhusker, do some work while you are a freshman, secure a staff position when a sophomore, get a managing editorship in your third year, and then move into the editorship your last year. To be editor of the DAILY, start as a reporter while a freshman, get a news editorship as a sopho more, move up to managing editor when you are a junior, and get the editorship your senior year. The paid staff of the Corn husker is named for the year; the paid members of the Flash and the DAILY must refile each semester. If you want to go places in publications, all it takes is some ability, persistence and a lot of hard work. But you haven't a chance for any paid position un less you can meet the eligibility requirements. Dean J. E. LeRossignol of the college of business administration pointed out that the Soviet does not have a dictatorship of the pro letariat, but a dictatorship over the proletariat by an inner ring of the Communist party with Stalin as chief, when he addressed the Lincoln Rotary club yesterday. Showing the similarity between communism in Russia and fascism, LeRossignol stated that "the wish ful thinking of Karl Marx and other communists has resulted in something quite different from what they wanted and expected, and the condition of the masses of Russia,.. is worse than it was before the revolution of 1917." According to the speaker, Marx believed that the proletariat, be coming increasingly miserable un- (See DICTATORS, page 2.) Sloan will present the Nebraska Sweetheart, Honorary Colonel, and junior and senior clauw presidents. Dress for the party is to be for mal for the girls and optional for the boys. Barb Council sponsors acting as chaprons are Dr. and Mrs. W. E. Militzer, Dr. and Mrs. W. A. Spurr, and Dr. and Mrs. R, C. Bedell. Prospective Daily reporters will meet with staff tonight All DAILY staff members and prospective reporters will meet at 7 p. m. in the DAILY office to discuss changes in the paper this semester, including wider use of photographs and cartoons, and a greater coverage of all types of society news. Refreshments will be served at the meeting. psychiatry of the Nebraska medi cal college faculty, sailed Satur day for Vera Cruz, Mexico, where he will again lecture on his experi ments. The same drug under a different name is used in the jungles of South America by the native In dians on their dart and arrow heads to paralyze their victims so they can be taken alive. Today, in orthopedic hospitals throughout the world, pioneering doctors led by the early work of Dr. Bennett, are experimenting with curare to treat shock and mental cases and yet avoid the complications of the old treatment. One of the early experimenters in the use of curare, Dr. Bennett has written many articles in medi cal journals on the use and effect of the drug. AM A journal prints theory. His most recent article in the Jan. 27 issue of the Journal of the American Medical association deals with the prevention of tra umatic complications in convulsive shock therapy by use of curare. In chronic affected disorders of depressive and maniac types, fa vorable improvement come from convulsive shock. For this shock, certain kinds of common drugs are used, but the serious draw back in this treatment is the oc curence of traumatic complica tions in the form of fractures of the spine or other extremities. In looking for some means to reduce the fracture complication in shock treatment, Dr. Bennett formulated the principle of curari zation, which eliminates muscle Places open in 2 CAA sections 1 Failure to pass medical exams eliminates many of original applicants Vacancies exist in both the pri mary and secondary sections of the CAA flight training courses, according to Prof. J. W. Haney, chief instructor of flying. CAA classes began this week, but many of the applicants for the course have not completed their physical examinations. Since a number of applicants failed to pass the physical exams, appli cations for the courses will be taken until the quotas are filled. Eligibility requirements for the the primary course are the com pletion of one full year of col lege and physical fitness. Trigo nometry taken either previously or along with the course is also de sirable. To be eligible for the advanced course a student must have com pleted the primary course and now hold an active private pilot's cer tilUate, be physically fit, and have finished a minimum of two years of the university. Filing for the new positions of staff photographer and staff car toonist will be accepted in the NE BRASKAN office, Clyde Martz. editor, announced. A staff of four or five society reporters will be created, in order to make the so ciety news conform to the male as well as the female viewpoint. new drug spasms and bone fractuies in patients shocked by use of elec tricity or some other drug. The curare treatment has not yet garnered a definitely useful application in clinical medicine, and further . experimentation is necessary before the treatment can be safely recommended for gen eral psychiatric practice, accord ing to Dr. Bennett. Refugee lilerarv critic will speak here tomorrow Elizabeth Drew, noted English literary critic, will speak on "Th Modern Spirit in Literature," in parlors XYZ of the Union tomor row at 4 p. m. Introduiing her will be Dr. Louise Pound of the English department. Miss Drew, who is spending this year in the United States with her son in order to escape the nazi bombardment of London, has made several lecture tours in America before. She is a regular contrib utor to the Atlantic Monthly and similar publications, where net work may be found in the book re view sections or under her own name. "Directions in Modern Poetry" Is the latest of four books which Mis Drew has written. Concerning the book, the book review section of the New York Times says, "SIi is an admirable reader with a flair for quotation and a patient analyst. She has a fine literary knowledge and a natural sense of style."