The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current, October 01, 1941, Image 1

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    Nebraska n, Union Sponsor Defense
Group to Perform Service in Crisis
Formation of a committee for
national defense to correlate stu
dent activity in the Union with
the work of the United Service Or
ganization, the British War Re
lief Society and other such agen
cies, was approved yesterday by
the Union board of managers.
Work of the committee will be
to organize defense projects that
students can work on in co-operation
with the already organized
agencies.
Co-sponsor of the project with
the Union will be the Nebraskan
which will have two representa
tives on the defense committee.
Three student members of the
Union board will serve on the
committee as well as two students
selected at large from the campus.
Morton Margolin, chairman of the
Union activitiese committee, will
t Daily Mebmskan
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Vol. 41, No. 15.
Students Organize
Local AFC Chapter
First meeting of the university
chapter of the America First com
mittee will be held in parlors X
and Y of the Union at 7:30 to
morrow night. According to Rob
ert Lowe, organizer and chairman
of the Nebraska chapter, "All
Americans are urged to attend,
but no communists, fascists, so
cialists or Unioners are allowed
membership in the AFC."
Organized as a student chapter
of the national organization which
exists for the purpose of "keep
ing the U. S. out of war and Am
erican men away from foreign
shores," the AFC on this campus
was started when Lowe recruited
35 members to discuss the world
I-F Council
Holds Rushing
Discussion
Members of the intorfraternity
council met in their office in the
Union yesterday for the first meet
ing following rushing two weeks
ago. Kenneth Holmes, president of
the council, presided over the
meeting.
A general discussion of rushing
was held and it was concluded
that the fraternities had experi
enced a successful rush week on
the whole. However, it was pointed
out that they are still many men
on the campus who would make
good material for a fraternity and
it was hoped that these men would
be contacted and asked to mem
bership in the various houses.
C.' M. Freeark, head of the Fra
ternity Board of Control was pres
ent at the meeting and gave a
talk on the results of rush week
and the situation of the general
fraternity setup here on the cam
pus. UN Enrollment
Falls to 5,324
This Semester
An eleven and one-half percent
drop, due to the national emer
gency, was noted in the enrolment
at the university this year, as
5,324 students registered in com
parison with 6,001 last fall. These
figures do not include the school
of medicine at Omaha, which has
an enrollment of 450, the students
in the extension division, the stu
dents in teachers' college high
school, or pupils at the school of
agriculture at Curtis.
"This figure was even a little
better than we had hoped for,"
said G. W. Rosenlof, the registrar.
"The story at Nebraska is the
same as at other schools in the
midwest, however, exact data on
the enrolment at the various other
universities, has not been obtained."
confirm defense committee ap
pointments later in the week.
Emphatic, was the statement of
the Union activities committee
that projects to be sponsored by
the defense group would deal
strictly with relief or morals de
fense; that the student defense
group was not to be a group to
propagandize war sentiment, but
rather to be of some practical
service in the present crisis.
Similar to projects conducted by
students in the war years 1916-18,
tentative schedule of projects to
be put into immediate operation
by the committee includes:
1. Publication of a monthly
news letter to be sent to all mem
bers of the Army or Navy who
were university students here last
year.
2. Distribution of yarn and
Official Newspaper Of More Than 7,000 Students
Lincoln, Nebraska
situation and circulate petitions
advocating maintenance of the
provisions of the neutrality act.
The acting chairman worked in
the Denver committee headquar
ters this summer and conducted
a poll to determine sentiment for
or against a "shooting war now."
Lowe Opens Meeting.
Lowe will open the meeting
with a discussion of the poll and
will speak on "America First or
Foreign War. Former Congress
man Henry C. Luckey will speak
in rebuttal to the speech given
by interventionist Ralph Linton,
who spoke at a recent Union for-
(See CHAPTER, page 4.)
UnionVariety
Show Stars
UN Students
Four student acts plus a full
length movie will make up the
year's first free Union variety
show at 4 p. m. on Sunday, Oc
tober 5.
Bill Morton in real life, Mortoni
the Magician in the mystic realm,
will stage another of his black
magic stunts. Mortoni will also act
as master of ceremonies.
Sophomore transfer from the
South Dakota School of Mines,
Bud Levison, will exchange gags
with the dummy on his knee
Johnny Dugan. Bud has been at
thi3 ventriloquism business for two
and one half years.
Different from previous shows'
he varieties will this year have a
male tap dancer. Stan Feldman,
Omaha freshman, handles this part
of the program.
Pi Phi Trio.
The already well known Pi Phi
trio will do their share of the en
tertaining. Beldora Cochran, Betty
Krause, and Jeanette Hemphill do
the harmonizing. Gay Gaden is
their accompanist.
Alfred Hitchcock's "The Lady
Vanishes" is the movie selection.
Director of such film successes a3
"The 39 Steps" and "Rebecca,"
Hitchock's English made spy
thriller has received much acclaim
Students Check
Directory Names
Students whose last initial
is E to K should check the
student directory listings post
ed in the main tobby of the
Temple building today; ag stu
dents check In Ag hall. Every
one is asked to determine that
the information given concern
in him is correct.
needles from the British War Re
lief Society to students for knit
ting of sweaters, sea boot socks,
mittens, helmets and other wear
ing apparel to be sent abroad for
relief agencies to distribute.
3. First aid classes to meet
once a week for instruction.
4. Contact with the United
Service Organization for any other
likely civilian. projects that can be
carried on in the Union by stu
dents. Work on the projects will be
done in the old Cornhusker office,
in the basement of the Union. The
room is to be renamed the national
defense room and will be open for
work on the projects from 3 to 5
p. m. on Monday, Wednesday and
Friday afternoons. Expenses of
the project will be covered by an
appropriation from the Union ac
tivities budget.
Wednesday, October 1, 1941
State Deans
Of Women
Meet Here
Dean Boyles Opens
Afternoon Panel, Feature
Of Friday's Program
Deans of women and advisers of
coeds of the state of Nebraska
will hold their annual meeting on
the camps Friday, Oct. 3. The
sessions, which were formerly a
part of the Nebraska State Teach
ers Association convention, are
scheduled for an earlier date this
year in order to enable more of the
80 members to attend.
Miss Isabel McMillan of Omaha
Technical high school, vice presi
dent of the association, is in gen
eraL charge of the meeting. She is
taking the place of Miss Linnie
Keith, president and formerly of
Union College, Lincoln, who is now
in Washington, D. C.
Activities of the day will start
with a morning business meeting
and luncheon in the Union. After-
(See DEANS, page 4.)
Subscribers Need
Stubs for Papers
To receive the Daily Ne
braskan, starting today, sub
scribers must present their
subscribtion stubs at the stand
in social science. Papers will
be distributed there Monday
thru Friday from 9 to 1 a. m.
Block subscriptions will still be
delivered on schedule.
As Annual Staff Acccpts(?) Challenge ...
Daily Will Massacre Cornhusker Lambics
. . . On the Gridiron or The Chessboard
Women of the Daily Staff
Northeast Corner of the Corn
husker Office
Student Union.
Dear Lambies:
We, the men and women (evi
dently thru some typographical er
ror Mr. Calhoun was referred to
as Miss) of the Cornhusker staff
wish to accept your preposterous
and to say the least dangerous
challenge to a football game. At
the same time we would like to
offer our sincere regrets in hav
ing to take part in such a mas
sacre as will no doubt be executed
by us. One of your socalled co
workers came into our office just
this morning and begged us not to
pay any attention to your chal
lenge as it was written during an
irrational moment of a game of
chess.
As to your references concern
ing the prowess of the male mem
bers of your etaff, we found, after
UN Athletic Ticket
Sales Pass 2,750;
locks Mow Ready
Approximately 2,750 student
in John K. Selleck's office and the
which decided the position of the
Tickets may be picked up today.
Mary Kerrigan, editor of the
Organized Group
Drawing Order
Group Order No.
Kappa Sigma 11
Sigma Phi Eplison 19
Phi Delta Theta -.36
Sigma Chi 39
Sigma Nu 43
Pi Beta Phi 44
Delta Sigma Pi 50
Phi Gamma Delta 56
Alpha Phi 80
Delta Upsiton 82
Delta Tau Delta 83
Delta Delta Delta 85
Theta Xi 87
Gamma Phi Beta 113
Phi Mu 119
Xi Psi Phi 134
Phi Kappa Psi 147
Alpha Xi Delta 143
Delta Gamma 169
Sigma Kappa 172
Kappa Atpha Theta 175
Women's Residence Hall... 176
Farm House ; 179
Phi Delta Phi 180
Delta Theta Phi 201
Sigma Alpha Epsilon 211
Chi Omega 214
Kappa Kappa Gamma ....251
Acacia 276
Kappa Delta 296
Sigma Alpha Mu 306
Beta Theta Pi 311
Alpha Tau Omega 314
Zeta Beta Tau 328
Organization filed under an
individual's name are not listed.
Rifles Elect
New Members
On Thursday
Tryouts for Pershing Rifles will
be Thursday at 5 p. m. in room
208 Nebraska hall. A student to
be eligible to try out, does not
have to have any previous military
experience. However, a higher
scholastic and military average
will be required than in the past.
All men who try out are expected
to be in uniform.
Pershing Rifles was founded in
1892 by General John Pershing,
then Lieutenant Pershing, when he
was commandant of the ROTC,
and has since expanded into many
universities all over the nation.
Lieutenant Pershing first organ
ized the group when he selected
the most proficient men in drill to
form a crack drill squad that
would be an example to the rest
of the drill unit. The squad con
tinued and was first known as the
Varsity Rifles before assuming its
present title.
The Rifles is now made up of a
crack squad, a rifle team and a
crack platoon, and has as its main
objective the making or Detter mil
itary men.
a correctly conducted and sound
ly psychological survey, that not
one woman on our staff has ever
seen a real man in the Daily of
fice. If you really have men, take
it from us, it doesn't pay to keep
them hidden. Ask anyone.
Northeast Corner!
We're wondering in our office if
maybe the men, if there are any,
in your little office way over there
in the northeast corner, know
AWS Discusses
Stamp Campaign
Freshmen and upperclass
AWS members will meet to
morrow at 5 p. m. in Ellen
Smith halt to discuss the N
stamp campaign. All are urged
to be present at the meeting.
athletic tickets were sold yesterday
sale was climaxed by a drawing
individual seats in the sta3ium.
Daily Nebraskan, drew the numbers
which each student had been given
when he obtained his ticket. The
drawing is held annually so that
each student or group of students
may be given a chance at getting
the best seats.
Seats are included in a block
on the east side of the stadium
consisting of the first 30 rows, .
from sections D to J.
The first number drawn was
247. belonging to Kenneth Klauss.
Students whose numbers were
drawn first will receive seats on
the 50 yard line in row 30. The
student block runs between the 20
yard lines so that all students will
be assured a good seat.
The first ten numbers drawn be
long to the following persons:
Kenneth K. Klauss
Richard Paul Marshall
Wi'ma Comstock
James E. Newcomer
Quentin Bonness
Carleton L. Washburn
Patricia Joan Caley
Warren Watson
Thayne A. Willman
Robert Davis
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The tickets will entitle a stu
dent entry to all home football
games, basketball games, swim
ming meets, and track meets. The
first home football game will be
against Kansas on Oct. 11.
Sloan, Bryan
Resign Posts
at Barb Meeting
Blaine Sloan resigned as Barb
Co-ordinator at the joint Barb
Union-Interhouse Council meeting
last night in the Union and Doro
thy Jean resigned as secretary.
Nominations for the new co-ordinator
were made, but the election
will not be held until next Tues
day. Friek Lai) Head,
Doing Research,
Visits Museum
Charles H. Falkenbach, head
field man for the Frick laboratory
of the American Museum of Nat
ural History in New York, visited
the university museum Sunday and
Monday for the purpose of confer
ing on fossil mammal research
with Dr. C. Bertrand, museum di
rector. Falkenbach specializes in the
study of oreodonts, an extinct ani
mal resembling sheep and pigs.
Oreodont fossils very common in
Nebraska are well represented in
the university collection. Falken
bach has conducted research thru
the university for nine years. Ten
tative plans call for the continu
ance of research on oreodonts her
at Nebraska.
about this rather disastrous chal
lenge. We're betting they don't. In
fact we wouldn't be surprised to
hear them issue a loud and vig
orous cancellation of all physical
competition between the two staffs
immediately after this letter is
made public.
However, if all is on the up and
up, and we have our doubts; if
there are men on your Daily staff,
and we very definitely have our
doubts; then on with the football
game. You women of the Daily
may bring along your chess game
and any other games you might
have, and our mentally brilliant
female staff members will play
you and without a question given
you the worst defeat you have
ever experienced.
Good luck to you, also, as you'll
need it if this thing goes thru,
and by now we're almost positive
it won't. " 1
Cornhusker Staff..