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Vol. 41, No. 44
Lincoln, Nebraska
Thursday, November 20, 1941
lilub Presents
Fall SCol!: Levwie
Powers, Head of Modelling Agency,
Selects Cornhusker Beauty Queens
Innocents Act as Preliminary
Judges of 26 Applicants
John Robert Powers, head of the world's most famous modelling
agency, will select the 1942 Cornhusker Beauty Queens, Yearbook Edi
tor Shirley Russell announced today.
Mr. Powers has just written a best seller "The Powers Girls" re
viewed in the New York Times as "the inside story of the most en
ticing women the world has ever known."
Innocent Preliminary Judges.
Members of Innocents society acting as preliminary judges to
choose 12 girls from the 26 entries are: Burton Thiel, Morton Margo
lin, Paul Svoboda, Chris Peterson, Ed Calhoun, Jack Stewart, Hugh
Wilkins, Donald Steele, Dale Theobald, Fred Meier, Jim Selzer, Walt
Rundin, and Harold Bacon.
Coed Candidates.
Twenty-six coeds filing include: Dorothy Askey, Alpha Phi; Pa
tricia Caley, Residence Halls for Women; Beldora Cochran, Pi Beta
Phi; Harriette Costello. Kappa Alpha Theta; Marilyn Dade, Chi Ome
ga; Lois Drake, Chi Omega; Doreen Fisher, Howard Hall; Barbara
Hahn, Delta Gamma; Alicia Henson, Alpha Omicron Pi; Neva Hill,
Residence Halls for Women; Ruth Iverson, Delta Delta Delta; Shirley
Johnson, Pi Beta Phi, Grace Leaders, Residence Halls for Women;
Mary McKenna, Delta Delta Delta.
Other candidates are Frances Haberman, Alpha Chi Omega; Jessie
(See BEAUTY QUEEN, Page 3.)
emiQOir CouinicDl
irgamiDzes Planus
. . . As Service Organization
Calling the senior council one
of the most representative student
bodies on the campus. Union Di
rector Bill Marsh sounded the key
note of the work of the organiza
tion at the first meeting of the
group last night in the Union ball
room. The purpose of the' organiza
tion, said Marsh, is to perform
senior services which will work
for the welfare of the university.
Marsh was introduced at the din
ner meeting, held for the seniors
by Chancellor Boucher, by Jack
Stewart, senior class president,
and president of the senior council.
Duteau Speaks.
Second speaker of the program
was Klsworth Duteau, secretary
of the alumni association, who
brought to seniors the realization
of the nearness of the end of their
college career as he repeated the
often spoken works of the Ne
braska alumni, "Once a Corn
husker, always a Cornhusker."
Chancellor Boucher, speaking as
the host, pointed out that the ad
ministration is ready and anxious
Crops Judging
Team Goes
To Grain Show
A five-man team will represent
the university in intercollegiate
farm crops judging contests to be
held at Kansas City and the Inter
national Hay and Grain Show in
Chicago, according to Glenn Kling
man, instructor in agronomy who
is coach of the team.
Members of the team will be
Carl Epp, Gene Mundorf, Fred
Patterson, Merritt Planlz, and
Warner Saha. They will compete
(See JUDGING, Page 2.)
to turn over to students as much
of the administration of student
activities as possible, as soon as
they are ready for it.
Group Discusses Projects.
The senior council discussed
such projects as a class gift to
the university, the building up of
class spirit among the other
classes, and an investigation of
the cap and gown situation.
Probably the most important
business transacted at the meeting
was the election of Frances Dren
guis as vice president; Harriet
Talbot, secretary, and Kenny
Holm, Ben Alice Day, and Miriam
Rubnitz to the executive commit
tee. ,
The council then adjourned, to
meet again when the necessity
arises.
Werfel Says
World Must
Discover God
An inspired fugitive from injus
tice explained his philosophy of
life last night to an almost ca
pacity Town Hall audience. In a
thick German accent, author,
teacher, refugee Franz Werfel
predicted a great intellectual dis
covery for the next decade God.
It was in the generation before
us, the lecturer pointed out, that
materialism, the new science, suc
ceeded spiritualism. Mankind be
came a victim of "naturalistic ni
hilism." "The terrifying crisis un
der which contemporary mankind
suffers is a spiritual crisis," de
clared Werfel.
The short, moon-faced author of
"Embezzled Heaven," refused to
limit spiritual illness to the war
ring countries. "The world is to
(See REFUGEE, Page 4.)
Weil
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There's going to be a rally Friday night . . .
There's going to be a rally and we expect every loyal
supporter of the University of Nebraska to come and yell
like ! Sure, our Huskers have lost five games in a
row. They have equaled the record established in 1899. They
have done a lot of poor playing . . . and they have done a
lot of GOOD playing.
The first student rally brought a crowd of 4,000 rooters
to the stadium and since then the number has dwindled down
to an approximate 00. The rally committee is ready to give
up in despair. They say there is no use wasting time work
ing up a rally if no one shows up. They say that it looks
worse to have a poor rally than none at all and we're in
clined to agree with them.
"What's going to be done about it?
Just this: There's going to be a rally, a big, grand and
glorious rally. And if we, the students of the University of
Nebraska, aren't big enough in heart and mind to prove to
the team, the faculty, the citizens of the city and of the state
and mainly to ourselves, that we've got what it takes, that
we have the spirit, the pride, and the will to win, then we
are not truly students of Nebraska. We are a bunch of poor
losers who don't deserve a football team at all.
With a broadcast of the presentation of the Nebraska Sweetheart
and Prince Kosmet at 8:30 p. m. over KFOR the annual Kosmet Klub
fall revue tonight promises to be one of the best ever staged, accord
ing to Klub members. The show, including six sorority and four fra
ternity skits, begins promptly at 7
p. m. at the Nebraska theater.
Using the radio presentation for
the first time, Kosmet Klub mem
bers expressed the opinion that
the novel presentation will lend
much to the general suspense that
the audience will feel when the
Sweetheart and Prince step forth.
The two were elected at the fall
election by the entire student
body.
Ten Skits.
Houses that will present skits
are Alpha Tau Omega, Alpha
Sigma Phi, Delta Upsilon, Phi
Gamma Delta, Alpha Omicron Pi,
Delta Delta Delta, Delta Gamma,
Kappa Alpha Theta, Kappa Kap
pa Gamma, and Pi Beta Phi.
With Professor Karl Arndt as
master of ceremonies and Johnnie
Cox's band furnishing the music,
the skits will be fast moving mu
(See KOSMET KLUB, Page 2.)
Debaters Hear
H. Kaltenborn
Talk on Labor
Professor H. S. Kaltenborn, in
structor in labor relations, will
discuss the problem or government
regulation of labor beiore the var
sity debate squad at 2:30 p. m.
Thursday.
Just returned from the Arkansas
City, Kansas where he was one
of the principal speakers in that
city's annual debate institute,
Kaltenborn will talk on the sub
ject: "Shall there Be More Gov
ernment Regulation of Labor
Uuions."
At the Arkansas City meeting
were 500 debators from colleges
and universities thruout Kansas,
and Missouri. Other speakers at
the institute were: A. H. Monroe,
Purdue university speech head;
(See DEBATE, Page 4.)
Count Gives Illustrated
Lecture on Ancient Libya
Do Prorok Would Popularize Archaeology
County liyron de Prorok, noted
archaeologist, presented a motion pic
ture lecture of some of his expxedi
tions in North Africa before a large
convocation audience Wednesday
morning in the Union.
The speaker showed the ruins of
m:niv ancient Libyan cities which now t
stand on the desert and are victims of i? fj
changes in climate and river channels, lit ' f
There are countless ruins like them M
which belong to unknown civilizations
of llie past, according to 1hc explorer.
Included in the movies were
shots taken at Muzurk just after
Libya was taken over by Italy.
Count de Prorok declared that the
ruthless methods of Graziani in
attempting to put fear into the
conquered inhabitants by tortur
ing their religious leaders was a
grave political blunder.
The archaeologist explained that
the success of the British against
the Italians in Libya in the pres
ent war were due in Jarge measure
to the careful study of desert con
ditions by English army officers
who accompanied archaeological
expeditions. At Siddi Barrani the
Italians never expected a British
attack from the desert, which they
considered an adequate defense in
itself.
Many of the ruins in North
Lincoln Journal
t'oant o Prorok.
books
(See CONVO, Page 2.)
Mutz Speaks
On Draft Law
Enforcement
Sterling F. Mutz, official hearer
for the department of justice in
this district spoke before the
Young Advocates last night in SS
201 at 7:30. He talked upon the
enforcement of the draft law.
Mutz, former president of the
Lancaster Bar association, dis
cussed the problem presented by
the conscientious objector as it
concerns enforcement of the selec
tive service act.
Lloydene Kershaw.
To popularize archaeology and
bring- it to the comprehension of the
masses is one of the primary aims of
Count de Prorok, noted Polish archae
ologist, who feels very strongly that
archaeology should not be the realm of
"the gray beards" alone, but of intense
inlctest to the ordinary individual.
Acting in accordance with this be
lief, Count de Prorok has devoted
much time and work to writing
designed especially to ap
peal to people who know very lit
tle about archaeology. The latest
of these there are fourteen in all
will be published this winter and
bears the intriguing title, "Dead
Men Do Tell Tales." To be illus
trated with photographs in pro
fusion, the book is a story of his
last three expeditions into Ethi
opia and the Somalilands.
Skeletons in the Closets.
Speaking excellent English with
a brisk clipped accent, Count de
Prorok told of his mother's atti
tude toward his profession with a
humorous smile, "My mother is a
bit superstitious as all Poles are
and she is always very discon
certed and a trifle angry to open
her hatboxes and find mummies
in them that I have brought back
from one of my expeditions. Ber
(See INTERVIEW, Page 4.)