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IWe'dnesHay, Xpril 23, 1941 DAILY NEBRASKAN II i j II s'C r n - -o( J it3ss As Bob Ginn, the short, slight Nebraska sophomore miler, is added to the nation's list of prodi gious runners it causes us to give a thought to what elements go to gether to make up a speedster. Ginn's legs aren't long; neither in his chest large to give him easy endurance. His mile in 4:10.1 is as remarkable as watching Gene 'Red"Littler do the 440 in his near 47 seconds time. They are both the results largely of intense de sire to win with intestinal fortitude taking the place of physical build. This intestinal fortitude is in our opinion the biggest qualification for a champion runner. Littler and Ginn are both pint sized with Short legs, yet they have achieved greatness thru strict dieting and severe training, plus this stamina that makes them run despite feel ing. Ginn is the kind of a scrap per who, despite the fact he weighed only 128 pounds, made a star guard oir a winning Madison high football team. Glenn Cunningham, who In his time traveled the fastest mile ever recorded, was another speedster who was no natural runner. Cun ningham was born with flat feet. As if that wasn't handicap enough, his legs were severely burned in a schoolhouse fire while he was a youngster. Glenn had to turn to hiking to enable him to have even normal use of his legs so that they were strong and enduring. Yet his muscles lay near the surface of his leg covered only by scar tissue and all during his racing career his legs were bothered by the weather. In chilly days Cunning ham ran many a race when rheu matism was shooting thru his limbs. Turning from human runners lets look at one of the speediest race horses who ever circled the turf, Seabiscuit. When the Biscuit was a two year old he was sold for a ridiculously low price for a thorobred. A skinny, gangly horse he didn't look like he could make It around the track ahead of one of Bing Crosby's nags. Yet Sea biscuit, because he had that same will to win that great human run ners have, beat the famous War Admiral in a special race at Pim lico altho suffering from sore legs. After retiring for a. season and gaining another leg injury so se rious that veterinarians recom mended that the Biscuit be shot, Seabiscuit came back to win the great Santa Anita handicap. Physical stature certainly helps, but that "good, old college try" is more Important in building cham pions and the boys who make the top the hard way are the kind that spectators like to see. Poll- (Continued from page 1.) should be in the face of strikes like the ones at the General Mo tors, Ford and Allls Chalmers plants, the NEBRASKAN survey asked this question: "Under pres ent conditions, should a govern ment board have the power to issue binding settlements in dis putes between capital and labor?" The 1,366 affirmative vote was more than two to one over the 643 votes cast in opposition to such action. The poll, taken only on the city campus, attempted to reach all students voting in the general eral election. Although every stu dent did not receive a ballot, this survey is believed to be one of the largest ever held on any campus. Your Drug Store Try one of oar Malted Milks. They are the best In town. OWL PHARMACY 148 No. Htb ii P rhone 2-1068 t lv-i Ttx tins J LOST -A rruinila envelop containing term paper note card. Return to Lloydcn Kcrnhaw, Rag etlk. SAE's lake Delta Upsilon in Softball Sigma Alpha Epsilon upset Del ta Upsilon, the leaders in the Jack Best trophy race, 4 to 2 in a soft ball game Monday. The battery of Harold Osbournc and Randell Salisbury upset the DU's. The Sig Alphs had lost their first league game while the DU'3 won theirs. Don Fitz pitched a no-hit game for Farm House as his team set down Sigma Phi Epsilon 15-0. Clarence Schmadeke caught for Fitz. Kappa Sigma defeated Sigma Nu 2 to 1 as hurler Gene Irick, who has been out of the hospital after an apendectomy only two weeks, won for the KS boys. He Annual Engineers9 Week begins May 1; revives many UN traditions Another tradition of UN will be renewed May 1 when the 29th an nual Engineers' Week will begin. Plans are now underway with the entire engineering college due to take part in the affair. Although the displays by all the departments in the engineering college, talks by prominent speak ers, announcement of awards and competition in athletics will be continued, the highlight of this year's celebration will be the elec tion for the first time of the "en gineers' sweetheart" at the dance climaxing the week. Traditionally marking the re sumption of the ancient "feud" be tween the engineering college and the law school, engineering week is now being planned without fear of interference from the lawyers. "They're a game bunch," said Don Maixel, publicity chairman for the engineers, "but there just isn't enough of them anymore to put up much of a scrap." Definite plans have been formu lated, and although details are yet tentative, John Gates, general chairman, has named all commit tees which are now making prepa rations. On the general committee are Earle Cox, vice chairman and Al fred Novak, treasurer, and the following in charge of respective Phi Sigma Iota has open meeting All persons Interested In modern languages are invited to attend the annual open meeting of Phi Sigma Iota in parlors X, Y and Z of the Union at 7:30 p. m., April 24. Dur ing the meeting, Professor Willis Bowen of the modern languages department will present awards to the winners of the declamation contest March 30. Welcome, Esther Patterson. Spanish play "Los Dos Habla dores," from Cerventes. Vocal selections, Charles Old father. Group singing, led by Malcolm Hayes. French play, "Franches Dp pees," by Tristan Bernard. Declamation awards, pre sented by Professor Bowen. Kosmet- (Continued from page 1.) for an excellently selected cast and to Delford Brummer for his stage settings. Without Irving Kuklin's dance sequences the show would have been much less entertaining than it actually was. Everything enters into the show with Jthree sets of romancers, the very Intelligent bull, the twojiig ing and dancing choruses, and a good deal of fast-moving comedy lending promise that this year's productions may go down In the books as one of the best. Among the most enjoyable acts of the show were the dances performed by a Mexican chorus. Alto outstanding were the type writing tap-dancers headed by Pat Herminghaus who very well demonstrated her skill along this line. The show will run each night until Saturday with the curtain going up at 8 o'clock. Price of ad mission Is 55 cents and tickets are on sale each 'day from 2 p. m. to 5 p. m. and from 7 a. m. to 10 a. m. at the Temple or by telephone. Juit one more thing; where have the women been all these yean? v . Dental education secretary visits dentistry college Dr. Harlan H. Horner, of Chi cago, secretary of the council on dental education of the American Dental Associations is visiting the dentistry college today to meet the faculty and inspect the facilities of the college. During the day he will familiar ize himself with the character of dental education offered by the university and in the evening will talk informally with the dental faculty p' dinner in the Union. Arrange c s for the visit and dinner o ieen made through Dr. B. L. iiooper, dean of the col lege was caught by Gale Neiswanger. Beta Sigma Psi put down Aca cia 7-6 under the battery of Clar ion Beuethe and Glen Orig. for twenty-ninth year departments: Don Kruse, agricul tural engineering; David Wink, architectural engineering; Rich ard Schlenter, chemical engineer ing; Frank Slaymaker, electrical engineering; Dave Roach, engi neering mechanics; Martin Siem sen, civil engineering; Wade Paschke, mechanical engineering; and Harry Seagren, military en gineering. Plan unusual structure. An incomplete schedule for the three day "Week," is headed by the erection of "an unusual campus structure." Eight thou sand witnessed the ceremonies last year. First event will be open house on May 1. On May 2, there will be a convocation in the morning. Athletics of all kinds with some other novel events and a picnic is planned for the afternoon. That night, there will be a banquet at the Union when all the awards for the year, including the O. J. Fee plaque to the outstanding engi neer, will be made. Climaxing the week will be a dance at the Hotel Cornhusker on May 3 when the engineers' sweet heart will be introduced. Nat Towles' orchestra will play, and the dance will be open to the pub lic. Another tradition will again be followed, say engineers, if some Juniors and seniors in the "engine school" think they can get out of some of the work connected with the affair. The water-filled tank used during the year by the me chanical engineering department will be employed for ducking all worn aoagera. J Jul (Dopm (DidioncUuf. ALARM CLOCK A device of torture that nukes you feel better when you shut it off. VARIETY--Something you'll find on all our menus. We believe folks want ft change In food, so wo tempt your palate with so many different things that you can't help wanting something on our daily bill of fare. Capital Hotel Coffet Lounge Eay Hedf ei, Mgr. Manufacturing in Nebraska shows two percent gain Nebraska has added two percent to its value by manufacture since 1937, the last preceding cens.s date, W. A. Spurr, university statistician, showed in a study he made of manufacturing in Ne braska before the beginning of the deefnse program. During the same period national industry suffered a loss of two percent. The number of wage earners in the state declined four percent between these two years, but this was only half the loss of eight percent in the nation's total indus tries. Among Nebraska's industries, packing leads by a wide margin, followed by printing and publish ing and three food processing in dustries. Census reports for 30 Nebraska industries indicate that our manufacturing activity is di vided into two quite different Inquiring reporter finds In the spring students9 fancies turn to picnics, convertibles In an effort to disprove the old adage: "In the spring a young man's fancy turns to thoughts of love," your inquiring reporter queried several students on the question: "In the spring your fancy turns to what?" Answers ranged from picnics and horseback riding to new con vertibles, with picnics the ma jority opinion. Unaffiliated Betty Dehart comes forth with "Picnicking." Ed Tollefsen, Phi Gam: "The 2 b's." "My thoughts turn to thoughts of vacation more than anything else," says Lougene Everson, Gamma Phi Beta. Phi Gam Lowell Ellis states, "Sitting on our front terrace watehing the new spring outfits and what's in them." Holland Dahlstrom, unaffiliated, :j'V :jv'v y Tastes good-costs little and svell tun to ctafl that's DOUBLEMHIT GUM . . tvm tp.t .TMINT Yes, chewing deUe.ou5;r studying, oyvau . flavor reiiesnesjova 1 3 -i IT MINT Gum uj Cadets don cotton shirts Col. C. A. Thuis, commandant of the ROTC, announced today that cotton shirts, issued sev eral months ago, will be worn by all cadets effective Monday morning. groups: First is the food pro cessing group, and the second in cludes a large number of small industries. Stanford teams meet tlebaters of UN today Debate teams from Stanford and Nebraska will meet in inter collegiate debate this afternoon on the third floor of the Union at 2 p. m. Nebraska will take the affirma tive on the question, "Resolved: The United States should go to war rather than see the British empire defeated." but not to love thinks of not skipping his physics class (does he mean that?) "Picnics and more picnics," saya Esther Bingham. Eugene Irick, Kappa Sig, thinks of the old stand-by, a new con vertible and adds, "a red one with green upholstering which reminds me of Christmas." Bette Kruse, Pi Phi: "My thoughts turn to the arboritum at Carleton, Northfield, Minn, (no one knows what that means but me). "To thoughts of Omaha, and she's darn cute, too," this from Leonard Chadek. James Benak, Phi Kappa Al pha, "I think of beautiful' nights in Denver in the mountains in June with June." Shirley Kyhn wishes for a "good ol' game of golf at six in the morning." (She's got more ambition than we have.)