IWe'dnesHay, Xpril 23, 1941
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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-
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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.
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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-
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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.
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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,
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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.)
