DAILY NEBRASKAN
Thursday, December 11, 1941
Society
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Rumors have been floating
around the campus that this col
umn is getting; dull and that you
have to pay to get your name
among- the immortals. So we're
spiking tuat rumor and saying
that it's easy enough sometimes
too easy to get your name in...
Just drop us a line or trip us in
sosh some day and give us the
information. .We'll print it.. And
now that that's taken care of, we
want to know who's been giving
out stories about 12 Sig Alphs
who've enlisted for their country's
defense. . .Soldier-Beta John Stod
dard won't be around for the Mor
tar Board party... His Uncle Sam
requested that he be in Fort War
ren Friday, and Stod's no one to
argue... The Delta Gammas are
stocking.up on food for the Inno
cents. . .They're coming to dinner
Thursday night... Now that foot
ball season is over, the strong stal
wart players are taking over the
grill: Bob Cooper, Joe Byler,
Kenny Simmons, Bob Deviney and
Herb Von Goetz all in one after
noon and with dates!
Inter-sorority Kid.
SAE Danny Schmidt is having
troubles deciding among Pi Phi
Shirley McNeel, Theta Jerry An
derson and Alpha Phi Billy Kline
. . .They call him the Inter-sorority
kid. . .Sweet and .sentimental is the
pin-hanging of DeoGee Flo Scott
and Beta Lowe Folsom...She has
his old battered Boy Scout badge
...The Fijis are worried that
Kappa Weezy Marcy won't be up
and around fiom an appendectomy
in time to take Gene Reese to the
Black Masque ball... They don't
want him sitting at home that
night... Phi Psi Hugh Sawyer,
who's always seemed kinda shy to
us, is going by the name of
"Sugar" now. . .
Confess.
Emery Burnett and Jean Kirk
patrick claim they're not going
steady, but their friends say other
wise... Corn Cobs wil take their
dates barn-dancing Friday night.
Don Steele will squire Alpha Chi
Lois Scofield and Max Laughlin
will take KD Georgia Kohler. . Al
ways coking in the Grill; Fiji
Squash Campbell and Alpha Phi
Ruth Westover. . .Tri Delt Ruth
Denny and Fiji "Ding" Dingwell..
Betas Bill McBride and Joe Son-
neland without dates... ATO Bob
Jungman will trek to Wyoming
come Christmas to see Annie
Jones, who has the maltese cross. .
All's well that prints well...
Lawyers Take
Taxation Coarse
At Minnesota U
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (ACP).
Even lawyers can do with a little
advice, it appears, when it comes
to the puzzling job of filling out
Income tax returns.
University of Minnesota will of
fer in December a postgraduate
legal course in income taxation.
Lawyers and public administrators
qualified as tax experts will nssist
law school professors as instruc
tors. Topics considered will include
computation of taxes due, methods
of tax collection, classes of tax
payers created by new statutes,
permissible deductions from gross
income, the meaning of gross in
come, credits against net income
and means of recovering tax over
payments. WE USE SOFT WATER
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Calendar
Friday.
Towne club dinner dance, Un
ion, 7 p. m.
Gamma Phi Beta formal,
Cornhusker hotel, 9 to 12 p.m.
Corn Cob barn dance, Leav
itt's barn, 10 p. m.
Saturday.
Black Masque ball, coliseum,
9 to 12 p. m.
Sunday.
Kappa Kappa Gamma buffet
supper, chapter house, 6 p. m.
Home Ec Group
Holds Christinas
Party Today
Home Economics . Association
will hold its annual Christmas tea
this afternoon from 3:30 to 5:30 in
the social parlors of the home
economics building on ag campus.
Betty Ann Tisthammer is genera!
chairman in charge of the affair.
Time Marches On
More Coufusiu' Thau Aniusm'
It's
Old Papa Time really has many
persons in the world baffled at
this moment especially since the
war situation has turned the at
tention of students from movies,
dancing and coking to foreign
radio reports.
When we sit down to our lunch
here in Lincoln, friends in Hono
lulu are turning off their 7:30
a. m. alarms, while those in Lon
don sit down to their 6 p. m. roast
beef and plum pudding dinner.
The sun. cause for all this time
difference, can be said to rise at
7:30 a. m. and set at 4:30 p. m. on
an average all over the world
which gives an average of nine
hours of daylight.
Time differences are listed be-
Students Make
Money, But Lose
Sleep Doing It
(By Associated Collegiate Press.)
"Sleep late, and let the Mer
cury Book service return your
overnight books to any campus
library before 9 a. m.
That is the appeal being made
by two enterprising Brown uni
versity students who are setting
up a book-returning service for
a price, of course.
The entrepreneurs, vmceni J.
Luca and William P. Saunders,
figure that many students would
rather pay a nickle to be sure
their books are returned on time
than pay the library's fine of 10
cents for every 15 minutes that
reserve book is overdue.
With the average of 400 ic-
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scrvp hooKS on overniK'n
durine the week-, at the Provi
donee. R. I. school. Luca and Saun-
Hr run make a maximum oi
$22.50 a week.
Activity . . .
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mittee composed of two affiliated
and two unaffiliated members, the
n,i..nt f'minril president, and
Reece.
Deciding that co-operation be
tween creeks and barbs Is essen
tiai for camnus harmony, the
Council decided to make no dis
tinction according to sex or po
litical affiliation when consider
In? candidates for the positions
Said Council President Burton
Thiel, "Let the Council committee
select the most qualified men and
women for membership on the
cabinet."
Before the Council adjourned
Thiel also reminded the govern
ing body that filings for positions
on the Nebraska student i-ounua
tion will be open soon, and all in
terested students are asked to get
information on the Foundation
from the Student Council office in
the Union.
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Society Editors
June Jamieson
Joann Emerson
Sig Ep Auxiliary
Uses Christmas
Theme at Parly
Sigma Phi Epsilon auxiliary held
its regular monthly meeting Tues
day at the Sig Ep chapter house
with a program on the Christmas
theme. Hostesses were Mesdames
Reed, Todd, Brackett and Zimmer.
The hostesses had charge of the
program which featured songs by
Mrs. Guy Vehrs and the singing of
Christmas carols.
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Barb Groups
Meet Today
Representatives from the
Barb Interhouse Council will
meet with the BABW Jft 5 p. m.
today in the barb office. All
members are urged to be there
promptly, Dorothy White, pres
ident, announced yesterday.
low. When it is noon today in
Lincoln it is:
7:30 a. in. in Honolulu to
day. 5:80 a. m. in New Zealand to
morrow. 4:00 a. m. in Australia tomor
row. 3:00 a. m. in Tokyo tomorrow.
2:00 a. m. in Hong Kong to
morrow. 1:00 p. m. in New York today
5:00 p. m. in Iceland today.
6:00 p. m. in London today.
7:00 p. m. in Berlin today.
Midnight in Calcutta today-tomorrow.
File this away near your radio
and the next time you sit down to
lunch and hear a radio report that
night life in Hong Kong has just
cot ten into full swin? at 2 a. m
you 11 know old Sol is batting
across the world again.
Ranks
(Continued from P.;ige 1.)
to operate in spite of the
low
draft age.
Their membership was composed
of men below 18 and those deferred
for various reasons. According to
Scott, "The going was tough then
and would probably be tougher
now since fraternities today have
more expensive chapter houses."
In the fall of 1918, the govern
ment instituted what is known as
class deferment. Under this plan
the STAC, Student Army Training
Corps, was established on the cam
pus. A dental, medical, engineer
ing, pharmacy and veterinary unit
were formed.
Under this system any man who
entered any one of these fields en
listed in the STAC as a regular
army man. He was required to
take about 54 hours per week and
spend most of the rest of his time
drilling. STAC enrollees lived in
barracks on the campus.
Lyman Advises.
The purpose of the plan accord
ing to Dr. R. A. Lyman (who went
to Washington in the fall of 1918
as an adviser in formulating the
pharmacy division of STACi, the
system was worked out as a means
of keeping students in the "na
tional defense" fields in school.
The university circularized the
state Inviting boys who would not
otherwise have come to college, to
go to school and escape the regu
lar draft mechanism by enrolling
in the STAC.
The difficult y with this plan,
according to Lyman, was that
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Towne Club.
Has Christmas
Dance Friday
Towne Club will hold its Christ
mas dance in the ballroom of the
Union Friday evening. Besides the
usual Christmas decoration, im
ages of Santa Claus in two-foot
statues of fruit pudding will be
centerpieces at the tables. June
Cntchfield, chairman of the dance,
announced that caroling and
dancing will be the main features
of the evening.
Texas U. Seeks
Greater rKick'
For Gasoline
AUSTIN. Tex. To cram war-
important aviation with greater
power and "kick" elaborate chem
ical engineering experiments are
under way at the University of
Texas.
The research has as its ultimate
end finding better ways to design
gasoline cracking plants, and
and everv day Dr. W. A. Felsing,
chemistry department head, and
his assistants are literally weag
ing apart the various components
of airplane fuel.
As a result of the research
Felsing and his workers will soon
know the behavior of aviation gas
oline and its components under all
sorts of conditions.
Purpose of the investigation of
pressure and volume reiationsnips
of the fuels at high temperatures
is to get data to correlate the
physical properties of the hydro
carbons with their structure. The
data may prove helpful in design
ins new distillation and fractiona
tion plants to turn out better gas
oline for uncle sam s aeiense air
craft.
Samples of hydrocarbons for
testing are supplied the university
by the American Petroleum Insti
tute, now spending some $80,000
a year to synthesize hard-to-get
separate gasoline compontnts in
purs enough form to study their
physical qualities.
many men entered training in one
of the defense industries noc oe
cmse thev wanted to practice in
that particular work but rather
because they wanted lo evaae me
draft.
Frosh Numbers Fall.
He noints out that in Sept., 1918,
the time of the adoption of the
STAC plan, there were 27 fresh
men registered in pharmacy col
lege. In Dec, after the signing
of the Armistice and the abolition
of STAC, only three lreshmen re
mained in the college.
Because of that experience, se
lective service headquarters now
makes a policy of deferring in
fields vital to national defense on
the basis of individual case inves
tigation. Men Will Remain.
Local draft boards are -today in
structed to "direct men into chan
nels where they will be most useful
for national defense." Under such
a system it is still conceivable that
considerable number of male stu
dents will remain on the campus
whether the draft age is lowered
or not.
According to engineering Dean
O. J. Ferguson, a man in engineer
ing is usually deferred under the
present draft laws if the quality of
his work is certified by the depart
ment. Dean Ferguson Comments.
Asked whether he thought un
derclassmen in engineering caught
by the draft by lowering the age
to 18 would be deferred. Dean Fer
guson said: "Trained men are
more useful to the nation than
half-trained men. We must take
a long time perspective; this war
will be a matter of years, not
months. We cannot turn out grad
uating seniors unless we have jun
iors and sophomores und freshmen."
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