The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current, October 14, 1941, Image 1

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Vol. 42, No. 23
CkDsmmeti
Kosmet Klub's annual fall re
vue will be staged Thursday night,
November 20, in a downtown the
atre, according to an announce
ment made yesterday by Bert
Smith, business manager. The
revue, composed of skits by or
ganized houses, is usually held on
a Saturday but due to conflicts,
the date was changed for this
year.
Tryouts for the revue will take
place late this month allowing fra
ternities, sororttiei, and organized
houses plenty of time to prepare
Kosmet Klub pledget and ac
tives will meet today at 4:30
p. m. in the Union. The group
will make plans for the an
nual fall show.
a skit. Letters are being sent to
these groups by Kosmet Klub ex
plaining the tryouts and show.
One of the highlights of the
show is the presentation of Prince
Kosmet and the Nebraska Sweet
heart. Both will be elected by
students at the fall election later
this month. Filings are open in
John K. Selleck's office. Last
vear's Prince was Ralph Worden
and the Sweetheart was Virginia
Bergsten.
Shorten Show.
The show will be shortened
somewhat from past years, ac
cording to Smith, since it has
been too long and drawn out. An
appeal is being made to competing
groups to keep slapstick comedy
pretty much out of the skits and
also to cut down on the cost of
presentation. Themes for the skits
must be unusual and appealing as
former revues have shown, and
the winnine- stunts must survive
a great .deal of competition.
Cuns are offered for the best
skit given by women and the best
eiven bv men. A curtain aci cup
is also offered. Winners last year
were Phi Kappa Psi, Alpha Phi,
and Alpha Sigma Phi.
Skits in the past have varied in
presentation but musicals have
proven themselves most popular.
In '32, the first year the best skit
was chosen, the Kappa-DU skit
"Radio Revue," copped first place.
Gamma Phi Beta took the cup
with "College Daze" in '33. Both
were musicals.
Melodramas.
However, a Kappa-ATO stunt
entitled "Ye Old Towne Hall" took
the prize in '34 and since then old
time melodramas have ranked
second highest in popularity with
the judges. In '35 "Lunatic Asy
lum" by the Chi Phis rated high
(See FALL REVUE, page 2)
Counselors
Begin Coed
Charm School
Charm school, a project of the
Coed Counselor hobby group, will
hold its first meeting Tuesday
night, Oct. 21 from 7 to 8 p. m. In
Ellen Smith hall, according to an
announcement made by Dorothy
Weirich, counselor in charge of the
school.
The first meeting will feature
a talk by Mrs. Verna Boyles, dean
of women, on "Etiquette." Inter
esting programs, including a Btyle
show at Hovland's, have been
planned for the school which will
meet on the first and third Tues
days of the month.
Marion Cramer Aden is sponsor
of the charm school and Miss Elsie
Ford Piper is faculty advisor.
Union Holds
Matinee Dance
Second matinee dance of the
year will be held In the Union
ballroom at 5 p. m. today.
Official Newspaper Of More Than 7,000
Lincoln, Nebraska
Klub PireseDDtis
Defense Group Aids
War Relief Society
Cooperating with the British
War Relief society, the Nebraska
defense committee will aid in the
society's latest drive, Mary Kerri
gan, chairman of the UN commit
tee, announced yesterday.
The committee will sponsor,
along with the society, advance
ticket sales to "Yank in the RAF"
which will be shown at the Stuart
theatre Oct. 23 and 24. Tickets
will cost 44 cents.
Altho the picture will be shown
at the Stuart all week, the relief
society will get only the proceeds
from the sales for the two nights.
Tickets bought at the box-office
will not benefit the group.
Tickets can be purchased at the
Union office, the national defense
room, or the Daily Nebraskan of
fice, Kerrigan announced. "Yank
in the RAP' stars Tyrone Power
and Betty Grable in the leading
roles and has been rated one of the
Opposite Sex
Watches Tilt;
Explains All
. . . Almost
BY JUNE JAMIESON.
Cobwebs left from the long
year since Memorial Stadium last
heard the Husker chant and the
NE-BR-AS-KA drifted over the
field yesterday afternoon and lost
themselves in the bright sunlight
which left the student section sun
blind and sun-burned, but happy
with another victory for the Ne
braska team.
As in years before, the card sec
tion covered itself with glory and
remnants of paper by the time the
scoreboard finally marked the
32-0 count. The crowd, only half
heartedly supporting the cheer
leaders, shouting themselves
hoarse when the team rolled down
the field to pay dirt. Cold drink
venders and ice cream girls found
no need to advertise their wares
the hot and thirsty crowd
snapped them up in hope of some
(See EXPLAINS ALL, page 3)
IKligher Food Costs in State
Advance Living Expenditures
Economists
Higher food costs affect Ne
braska families in two ways ac
cording to mid-western farm eco
nomists. They mean higher prices
for farm products and consequent
better income, but they also mean
increase in living expenditures.
Wholesale prices have already
risen almost 24 percent within the
year, and are usually an advance
signal to consumers on retail mar
kets. Nebraskans will buy most of
their owh apples this year, thanks
to last November's cold snap. Pro
duction nationally is up by 10
percent, however, and the supply
should keep prices In line except
as demand and government pur
chase tend to push them higher.
Nutritionists recommend stor
age of three bushels of apples per
person to insure an adequate con
tribution to diet.
Higher prices for potatoes based,
based on small supplies and low
yields, are in prospect. More than
Students
Tuesday, October 14, 1941
best pictures of the year by Holly
wood critics.
Daily Joins
In National
Student Poll
Face to face interviews with
university students began this
week for the nationwide Student
Opinion Surveys of America,
which will be published weekly in
the Nebraskan, Mary Kerrigan,
editor has announced.
"Are you for or against chang
ing the neutrality law so that
American supply ships may be
armed and sent into war zones?"
is the first question to be used by
the surveys, the only regularly re
curring college poll conducted by
means of scientific sampling ref
erendum that covers every section
of the country.
The Nebraskan, like 160 other
undergraduate newspapers, spon
sors the non-profit organization
on an exchange basis. Local poll
results are sent in to the Univer
sity of Texas headquarters for
tabulation, and in return the mem
ber papers have publication rights
to the weekly results.
Art Rivin, has been appointed
university interviewer. Every time
a survey is conducted he receives
a questionnaire) on national, inter
national, and college problems, all
questions having been pretested
for their unbiased wording. In
structions are also received de
scribing the exact types and num
ber of students to be contacted.
The polls are thus "controlled"
by making sure that the correct
proportions of men and women,
working and non-working stu
dents, ' freshmen and upperclass
men, are represented. The ratios
for each part of the country are
based on enrollment figures of the
U. S. Office of Education. Gallup
and Fortune poll statisticians
aided the University of Texas in
designing the surveys, now in their
fourth year of operation.
2
Predict Better Farm Income
six bushels per person is the rec
ommended storage figure. Sweet
potato production is higher by 20
percent, but demand will send
prices up.
Orange prices are high because
of strong purchasing power, but
should meet seasonal decline dur-
Union Distributes
Nebraskans
Daily Nebraskans were dis
tributed for the first time from
the Union check stand, this
morning. Students with sub
scriptions may get the paper
between 8 and 11:50 a. m. at
the check stand from now on,
Pat Lahr, union social director,
said Monday.
.The paper Is also distributed
in the Social Sciences building
and In Agriculture Hall on the
ag campus.
Walkeir
eir voces Todlav
. . No Journalism Classes
Funeral services for Prof. Gayle C. Walker, former director o(
the school of journalism, will be held at 10 a. m. today in the chapel
of the Castle, Roper & Matthews mortuary. Reverend L. W. McMillan,
pastor of the Episcopal church, will officiate at the regular service,
which will be followed by a Masonic service. At noon, the body will
Jan Struther
Opens Town
Hall Series
Lincoln's Junior League Town
Hall series for this year will open
Thursday with the appearance of
Jan Struther, versatile and attrac
tive English writer, who will
speak on "Your County and Mine."
The proceeds of the lecture, to be
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Courtesy Sunday Journal Star
JAN STRUTHER.
. . . Verstale English writer
held at St. Paul Methodist church,
will go to the league's well baby
clinic.
"Mrs. Miniver," novel by Miss
Struther which she insists is not
a self-portrait, has given her
widest attention in this country.
In addition to it she has written
"The Glass-Blower" and other
books of verse. She has also edited
"Women, to friends and relatives
in America during the years pre
ceding the war, the "mock" war,
and the conflict itself.
Announcement Reveals
Regents Approve University
Appointments, Resignations
Twenty-one appointments and
several resignations on the uni
versity staff have been approved
by the board of regents, according
to an announcement yesterday
from the chancellor's office.
Harold C. Vedeler was approved
as visiting professor of European
jiistory for one year from Sept. 1
in place of Prof. R. A. Winnacker,
on leave of absence.
Orin R. Clark was reappointed
instructor in botany for one year
ing October when
enter the market.
juice oranges
Prices on canned goods have al
ready advanced, demand will be
higher, but supplies will approxi
mately meet needs, except in the
instances of tomatoes Carryover
of commercially canned vegetables
is unusually small, but packs are
larger for this year.
Necessary to meet iodine needs
in diet, sea foods will make fur
ther price rises. Huge salmon
catches in Alaska and the Pacific
northwest, will be offset by gov
ernment buying, reduced, supplies
of crab and tuna from Norway
and increased consumer demand,
Pack increase of one-third has
been noted in dried fruits over
1940, but the latter year found the
industry making its smallest pro
duction since 1925, in anticipation
of decreased exports. Increased
consumer demand and the small
carryover will offset the effect of
the larger pack on prices.
Fumeiral
be taken to Clinton, Oklahoma for
interment in the cemetery there.
Journalism classes Tuesday and
Tuesday night are dismissed, ac
cording to Harold Hamil, new di
rector of the school of journalism
who urged that all former students
of Professor Walker attend the
funeral services.
Journalism director from 1930
until this fall, when ill health
forced him to relinquish his posi
tion, Walker was found dead Fri
day night in his home. According
to the attending physician, he was
a victim of a heart attack. He was
37 years old.
Conferences
Important'
Says Dean
Dean Bengtson, head of the
Junior Division office, today em
phasized the importance of the
first conferences of freshmen with
their advisors saying that the real
purpose of the meetings is "to aid
every problem case."
He went on to say that some
students have taken on more extra-curricular
activities than their
academic programs would war
rant, but that there were others
who don't have enough to do.
"We are really holding these for
the student's own welfare. Those
who don't have enough subjects
and activities to create for them
an interest in university life are
being given more to do. Those that
have too many hours or have en
tered into a prohibitive amount of
outside work are dropping some of
one or the other," the dean ex
plained. "However," he went on,
"the greater bulk of the freshmen
are getting along very well."
from Sept. 1 to take up the work
of the late Prof. W. J. Himmel.
George Kleiner will serve as an
instructor in economics in place of
Prof. E. A. Gilmore, jr., on leave
for one year. Instructors named
in the English department are
Oliver Egleston, James B. Haman,
Francis S. Nipp, Donald Stanford
and George B. Stephens.
Appointed as instructor in ani
mal husbandry was Paul F. Fidler
in place of Ross H. Miller, re
signed. In business organization
and management Howard S. Kal
tenborn was named instructor in
place of Prof. C. O. Swayzee, on
leave, and George R. Hawkes was
appointed assistant instructor.
James S. Blackman will serve as
instructor in engineering drawing
for defense training courses during
the first semester. In the college
of medicine Charles P. Baker was
appointed as instructor in pathol
ogy and bacteriology in place of
Joseph A. Weinburg, August F.
Jones as instructor in surgery, and
Chester H. Waters as instructor in
orthopedics.
Frank J. Bell was advanced
from assistant curator of paleon
tology to instructor in eology for
one year In place of Prof. Edith
Webster, retired. John Mercer was
named to take Bell's place in the
museum.
In the School of Fine Arts Leo
(See REGENTS, page 2)
Swimmers Meet Tonight
Tommy Leeke issued a call
today for all freshmen swim
mers to report at the Coliseum
tonight at 7:30. This is a very
important meeting. Any frosh
who has not signed up may do
so at that meeting
..Leeke requests, all varsity
men to report for a meeting
7:30 p. m. Wednesday In the
Coliseum. These meeting are
to get the swimming program
under way.