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Vol. 40, No. 121
Lincoln, Nebraska Wednesday, April 16, 19411
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From various samples of flour are baked tiny loaves of bread
at the university experiment station. R. M. Sandstedt looks over
the loaves as they come from the oven. It is through research and
baking tests that the cereal chemists find out more about the pro
tein content of wheat.
By Randall Pratt.
Can you imagine a farmer ask
ing a prospective landlord how
much and what quality protein
his soil will produce?
Maybe that will never come,
but experiments now under way at
ag college point to the day when
farmers and millers alike will be
more attentive to the kind as well
as the amount of protein their
wheat contains.
R. M. Sandstedt, acting chair
man of the agricultural chemistry
department, points out in his re
cent annual report to ean W. W.
Burr, that the quantity of protein
in wheat varies with the soil and
the climate, but there is com
paratively little difference in the
amount of protein in different
varieties grown under similar con
ditions. The quality of the protein, on
the other hand, depends on the
variety of the wheat as well as on
the soil and climate in which it
is grown.
To get down to practical terms,
most Nebraska wheat is grown
Edwards sings
lead tenor role
in UN Taust'
350 gingers, directed
by Wcstbrook, appear
in coliseum April 28
Thomas A. Edwards, vocal In
structor at Monmouth College,
Monmouth, HI., will sing the lead
U'nor role in the concert perform
ance of Gounod's famous opera
"Faust," to be presented by the
university school of fine arts in
the coliseum Monday evening,
April 28.
Edwards has sung the role of
Faust with the Little Theater
Croup of Raleigh, N. C, in
a presentation which starred
Norman Gordon, of the Me
tropolitan Opera company in
the bass role of Mephisotophe
les. In 1938, he won the tenor
competition in the national Welsh
Eisteddfod at Warren, Ohio, and
has appeared as tenor soloist with
many organizations including the
Oberlin Musical Union, The Char
lott, N. C, symphony orchestra,
and the Duke university chapel
choir.
350 voices, will join to present the
opera, Jirected by Dr. Arthur E.
Westbrook, bead of the school of
fine arts.
Senior Council
meets Thursday
Members of the Senior Coun
cil will meet Thursday at 7:30
p. m. in Union parlors A and B.
John McDermott, president,
urges every member make an
effort to be present
An Important discussion on
announcements, the chancellor's
senior-alumni dance and recep
tion, and a class gift will be
held a well as discussion on
other business of the organization.
to become a loaf of bread some
day. The size of the loaf that any
given amount of flour will pro
duce, depends on the "baking
strength" of that flour. And the
baking strength, in turn, depends
on both the quantity and quality
of protein in the flour.
In the commercial milling of
wheat, the miller keeps the
quantity of protein in his flour
(See WHEAT, page 3.)
Annual .
Union-Cornhusker party
tickets go on sale today
Ticket selling campaign for the
third annual Student Union birth-
day party, featuring Ray Noble
and his orchestra and the presen-
tation of the 1941 Cornhusker
Beauty Queens, will begin tonight
when ticket sales staff members
meet in the Union to check out
tickets.
Price of tickets for the party has
been set at J 1.27 plus 13 cents tax
for gentlemen and 20 cents for
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ladies. Price per couple will be
$1.60.
Salesmen to meet.
Corn Cob workers and Corn
husker staff members will sell
tickets for work credit Other
salesmen are members of the Sen
ior Council committee and mem
bers of the Student Union board
of managers.
Meeting of all Corn Cob workers
will be held at 5 p. m. today in
room 313 of the Union. Corn
husker workers and members of
the Senior Council committee will
meet at 7 p. m. in parlor X of the
Union.
Following his midwestern en-
Naval officer
talks on flying
tomorrow
Captain Amsden speaks
at 5:15 p. m. in social
sciences auditorium
a...l(U. ffnrA In
dents will be explained by Capt,
William F. Amsden, U. S. navy,
director of the naval reserve of
the ninth naval district, In a lec
ture tomorrow at 5:15 p. m. in
social sciences auditorium.
Captain Amsden will receive ap
plications wni e ne is nere n ur-
der to be eligible applicants must
plications while he is nere. in or
be under the age of 27 and must
have completed half the credits
leading to a degree in an accred
ited college or university.
"The sky's the limit In your
aviation career," Is the slogan for
navy recruiting. Commenting upon
the national defense program re
cently, Captain Amsden stated:
I believe that the young men
of today who have had at least
(See NAVY, page 4.),
Rabbi Wise
to address
convocation
Dr. Stephen S. Wise, noted rabbi
of the Free Synagogue in New
York City, will discuss "The Uni
versity and the American Dem
ocracy" at the annual honors con
vocation April 22 in the coliseum.
The Rev. Ross S. McCown of
First Presbyterian church in Bea
trice will pronounce the invocation,
and the university symphony or
chestra will play several numbers
on the program. Chancellor C. S.
Boucher will preside at the convo-
(See HONORS CONVO, page 4.) A referendum concerning uni-
English historian . .
Robert Mowat to speak
at history meet, UN convo
The Strategy of War," will be
the subject of Kooerc a. Mowat,
professor of history at the Univer
sity of Bristol in England, when he
appears before a university convo-
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gagement, Noble and his orchestra
will go to Catalina Island for an
indefinite engagement, according
to Joyce Ayres, Union managing
airector, wno sioppea in ues
Moines Monday, to hear the band
on his way back from a meeting
of Student Union directors in Chi-
cago.
Members of the Senior Council
committee appointed at the last
meeting to assist with the presen-
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tation of the party are: Joan Belt-
zer, Gertrude McArthur, Jeannette
Swenson, Dave Noble, Fred Fair-
man and Eric Risness.
Calvin Rollins ivins seven grad
scholarships, accepts Cornell
When Calvin Rollins of Lincoln,
senior in the college of arts and
sciences, decided that he would like
to continue study next year on a
graduate grant, he made applica
tion to a number of institutions.
When he decided last week to ac
cept the Susan Linn Sage $800 fel-
university, he found that he might
have accepted any one of the fol
lowing scholarships:
Columbia university $500 resi
dence scholarship.
Band, ensemble
present concerts
during vacation
The university ROTC band and
string ensemble are presenting a
number of concerts in cities of
Nebraska and northern Kansas
during spring vacation,
Monday
evening, under the airecuon or
Don Lentz, the band played at the
hierh school in Marysville. Kas.
TlIesda morning the group played
afc Wg yes-
terday afternoon at Tecumsch high
school. The band presenrrt a con
cert last night at Pawnee City
high school.
Yesterday the string ensemble,
under the direction of Emanuel
Wishnow, played In the morning
at David City high school. In the
afternoon the ensemble appeared
at Norfolk high school, and in the
evening the group played at
Kramer high school In Columbus.
Forty-SDJi to iron on
fioir Council posits
Forty-six students filed for posi- versal subscription to the DAILY
tions on the Student Council, three NEBRASKAN.
filed for Ivy Day Orator, and
six filed for the Publications Candidates for Innocents Socl
Board before last Thursday night ety.
at 5 o clock. Election for these
offices will be held next Tuesday,
April 22.
The following positions
issues will be voted on:
and
An amendment for reapportion
ing representation to the Student
Council.
An amendment to alter the con-
stitution of tte student Council.
.
cation Friday at 11 a. m. in the
Temple theater. Dean Oldfather
of the arts and sciences college will
preside.
Mowat, who will be in Lincoln
Thursday through Saturday to ap-
pear on the program of the an-
nual meeting of the Nebraska His
tory Teachers' association, came
to the United States from England
late last December as a Carnegie
visiting professor during the cur
rent semester.
Served in navy.
Formerly a fellow and tutor at
corpu3 christi college, Cambridge,
proessor Mowat served in the
naval intelligence during the first
wod war He is the author of
numerous books giving special at
tention to the study of diplomacy
and the problems of the 19th and
20th centuries in England, the
United States and European na
tions. At 4 p. m. on Friday, Mowat, as-
sisted by a panel of university stu-
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dents, will conduct a forum on the
subject, "How Peace Can Come,"
sustaining the goals of both the
(See MOWAT, page 4.)
University
of Chicago $300
scholarship,
University of Michigan Tuition
scholarship.
The Johns Hopkins university
Tuition scholarship.
University of Wisconsin $250
scholarship plus out-state fee
Princeton university Named al
ternate for scholarship.
Rollins' unusual success in his
quest for scholarships has been
equaled by his record at the Uni
versity of Nebraska. He received a
regent's scholarship his freshman
year and the Donald Miller schol-
arship his senior year. Majoring
in philosophy and English, he is a
member of Phi Beta Kappa. He
has been president of Sigma Up-
Bilon, literary fraternity, and has
played in the university orchestra
and the Lincoln symphony. Rollins
graduated from Lincoln high
school in 1937.
WAA holds mass
meeting tonight
All women students have
been invited to attend the an
nual WAA mass meeting to be
held tonight at 7 p. m. In Grant
Memorial.
Program for the meeting
calls for the presentation of all
intramural representatives of
organized groups, new sports
board members and club heads.
Ivy Day Orator.
Members
Board.
of the Publications
Representatives to the Student
Council.
Representatives to the Ag exec
utive board.
Voting will take place in the
basement of the Union and in,
room 303 ag hall on ag campus.
The polls will be open on the city
campus from 8 a. m. to 10 a. m,
and from 12 noon to 8 p. m. On
sg campus the polls will be open
from 8 a. m. to 10 a. m. and from
12 noon to 5:30 p. m.
In accordance with a resolution
passed by the Council, no identi-
f ication cards shall be collected,
nor given by one studcnt to an-
other individual.
Identification
cards not in the possession of the
proper owner shall be confiscated
and both owner and individual
using the identification shall be
disenfranchised. The Elections
committee of the Council will have
the duty of enforcing the Rules for
(See FILINGS, page 4.)
Prof. Weseen
dies Monday
at his home
Member of UN English
staff 15 years; author
of books and dictionaries
Prof. Maurice H. Weseen, asso
ciate professor of business Eng
lish, died suddenly Monday morn
ing at his home. Attending physU
Lincoln Journal.
MAURICE H. WESEEN
died Monday morning.
Cians prmounced him dead from
natural causes. He had been in
poor health for some time,
Weseen recelved hia bachelors
and masters decrees from the uni
versity, and after teaching at Iowa
state college for several years, re
turned here where he has been on
the English faculty for more than
15 years.
He was widely known for hia
standard works on the English
language and for the writing of
business letters. His books, "Dic
tionary of English Grammar,"
"Words Confused and Misused,"
"Dictionary of American Slang,"
and "Write Better Business Let
ters" all sold thousands of copies
and are used as reference works
throughout the English speaking
world.
A member of Beta Theta Pi and
Phi Beta Kappa, Weseen also
served as president of the Nebras
ka chapter of PBK in 1925.
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