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County Extension Agents Convene
To Discuss Farmers' War Problems
BY, RANDALL PRATT.
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County extension agents at their
annual conference late Tuesday
afternoon at the Union took a
good look at some ui the war
problems confronting them and
farm people and discussed ways
and means of solving them.
Contrasting education in the
United States with that in nazi
held Germany, where only a
"chosen few" can get higher edu
cation and pointing to the contri
bution of youth movements as
highly important in the nation's
war effort, Chancellor C. S.
Boucher spoke to the extension
workers.
Quoting Hitler as having spoken
of the "blessings of illiteracy," the
Chancellor pointed out that at
present there is no program of
higher education for women in
Germany. After the downfall of
Hitlerism it will take years for the
old German universities to come
back to their former eminence, he
declared.
4-H Club Praised.
"The 4-H club movement is one
of the grandest and most success-
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Vol. 41, No. 65
Forensic
Of National Project
BY ART RIVIN.
In cooperation with an extemporaneous discussion and
contest on inter-American affairs for college students' all
over the nation, the university speech department will hold
preliminary contests in the near future. The national con
test will result in a three month
tour of South America for eight
winners with all expenses paid by
the U. S. government.
The eight students over the
country will meet in Washington,
D. C, after they have successfully
won the local, district, and re-
gional contests. The project is
sponsored by the Office of the Co
ordinator of Inter-American Af
fairs (SeePROJECT, Page 2.)
GeologisKReed
Speaks Fridhyx
To Engineers
C. E. Reed, associate chief of
conservation and assistant state
geologist, will speak at a regular
meeting of American Institute of
Chemical Engineers Friday in
Avery, room 102 at 7:30 p. m. His
subject will be concerned with
the relation between troil water
analysis and oil bearing strata.
Reed will also answer questions
on geological formations in Ne
braska and possibilities of further
oil production in the state. There
will be an election of officers at
the meeting.
Students Tryout
For 'Aiulroclcs'
Tryouts for the next Uni
versity Theater production,
"Androcles and the Lion",will
be held tonight at 7:30 in room
201 Temple Theater.
The play by George Bernard
Shaw will be presented Febru
ary 18, 19, and 20 and thus
second semester eligibility rules
will apply. A large cast is
necessary to produce the play.
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Chancellor Boucher.
. lauds youth movements.
ful youth movements in the United
States today," he stated in point
ing out that young people will be
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Class Schedule
Fails To List
Two Courses
History 102 and vocational edu
cation 112 were inadvertantly not
reported for inclusion in the sec
ond semester schedule, Dr. Rosen
lof, registrar, announced yester
day. History 102, a one or two
hour current history course of
sophomore standing, will be
taught by Mr. Gray on Fridays at
9 a.hvin room 208 Social Science.
Vocational education 112, a two
hour course " which deals with the
problems of hospital dietitians, will
be taught Mondays jmd Wednes
days by Miss Allen in Andrews
room 114. .
Administration
Memorializes
Faculty Dead
To honor the members of the
university staff who have died
during the year, the university
administrative council Is planning
a memorial service to be held
Sunday, March 8.
Plans for the memorial service
have been approved by th council,
and it is hoped that the service
will be held annually from this
year on.
Members of the council are Prof.
C. H. Oldfather, dean of the college
of arts and science, Prof. O. J.
Ferguson, dean of the engineering
college, and Dr. R. A. Lyman,
dean of the pharmacy college.
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able to give much help in produc
tion of food during this year and
years to come;.
The responsibility of a univer
sity under war conditions is per
fectly clear, the chancellor said.
The University of Nebraska has
gone on record as offering to shift
any part of its program in any
way, if such shift is asked by the
government.
Organization of farm people to
meet production goals, mainten
ance of morale in the present
crisis, health and nutrition pro
grams and utilization of home pro
duction were the chief problems
discussed. The agents divided into
small groups to discuss these prob
lems and to offer their suggestions
of attack upon them in the months
ahead.
Plan Will Be Proposed.
It was evident that out of the
conference this week will come a
definite plan for diverting the Ag
ricultural Extension Service force
into the present war effort. Di
rector W. H. Brokaw is expected
to summarize the developments
and point the way toward mobili
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Thursday, January 8, 1942
Museum Parties Unearth
Giant Ground Sloth Skull
. . . Director Schultz Reports
The skull of a giant ground sloth
unearthed north of Mullen in cen
tral Nebraska was one of the
outstanding discoveries by field
parties of the university state mu
seum last summer, according to a
report issued this week by Dr.
C. Bertrand Schultz, museum di
rector. Dug out of Ice Age deposits, the
sloth probably stood higher than
the huge rhastodonts or ancient
elephants of that time. The gigan
tic creatures were vegetarians
Chancellor's New Advisors
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Dr. C. S. Hamilton.
These three faculty members have been selected
by the University Senate to membership in Chan
cellor Boucher's advisory committee. Professor Burt
is chairman of the department of pharmacy and
pharmaceutical chemistry, Professor Hamilton
chairman of the department of chemistry and
chemical engineering; and Professor Whitney chair
man of the zoology department.
Elected for three years terms, the new commit
teemen succeed Ttofessors K. O. Broady, H. P.
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0 BSirect Work
At its first meeting following vacation the Student Council,
last night officially became a member of the National Student
Federation Association, and laid plans to co-operate with the
Union-Daily Nebraska n Defense Committee.
"When Burton Thiel called the meeting of the Council to
order, that "student governing body" was prepared to set up
a Student Defense Committee.
Until Mary Kerrigan, Daily Editor, reminded that body
Denver Show
Attracts Ag
Judging Team
Student livestock judges will
travel westward to Denver to
match knowledge with representa
tives of a dozen or more other
agricultural colleges this weekend.
Five men, comprising the "junior
judging team," will compete at
this annual collegiate livestock
judging contest held at the Na
tional Western Livestock Stock
Show.
Harold Hansen, Don Roth, Keith
King, Ronald Jerauld and Harold
Stevens are the team members.
M. A. Alexander, assistant pro
fessor of animal husbandry is the
coach. The team will leave Lin
coln tonight and will compete
Saturday.
According to Alexander, the
Denver contest annually draws
collegiate teams from as far away
as Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico,
Arizona, and Utah.
with peg-like teeth, massive limbs,
large claws, and long hair. They
reached about twelve feet in
length.
The museum had some 30 men
in the field in observance of its
50th summer season and had one
of its most successful periods of
fossil collecting, according to Dr,
Schultz. Other leaders included
E. L. Blue, Lyle Harvey, Lloyd
Tanner, Loren Toohey, Robert
Glover, Guy Johnson, and William
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and its president that they had
approved, at the beginning of the
school year, a constitution sub
mitted by the Union and the Daily
Nebraskan for a committee with
purposes identical with those of
the committee the Council had
planned to create, it had evidently
forgotten that the Defense Com
mittee was in operation.
Defense of Defense.
In her "defense of the Defense
Committee," as a member of the
Student Council expressed it, Miss
Kerrigan said, "The Union-Daily
Nebraskan Defense Committee
was probably the first in any col
lege in the middle-west to take
the initiative in sponsoring aid to
(See WORK, Page 2.)
Albany Prof
Will Discuss
Diet Tonight
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The importance of food to the
development of man will be dis
cussed by Professor Arthur Knud
son, chairman of the biochemistry
department at Albany Medical col
lege, tonight in Avery at 7:30. The
lecture will be under the auspices
of the Nebraska section of the
American Chemical society.
Professor Knudson will consider
the factors that are lacking in
the human diet, and will explain
the role that these factors play in
human nutrition and the condi
tions resulting from the lack of
them. Also he will give a brief
discussion of the 36 nutritive ele
ments known to be vital in tha
diet.
Before the talk a dinner will be
given in honor of Professor Knud
son, in the Union at 6 p. m. The
public is urged to attend and per
sons interested in home economics
and the medical profession are ex
tended special invitations.
Professor Knudson has studied
in many universities including
Cambridge university, Cambridge,
England. Among his principal re
searches are studies on the effects
of exposure of animals to an ultra
high frequency field, fate of vita
min D in the tissues of anima'.s,
rickets, and the formation of vita
min D by irradiation with various
sources of light.
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Prof. J. B. Burt.
Davis, and R. D. Scott, whose terms have expired.
D. A. Worcester of the educational psychology de
partment was selected to fill the unexpired term of
Professor H. H. Marvin of the physics department,
on leave of absence for war work.
Instituted a-year ago at the request of Chancel
lor Boucher, the advisory committee serves as a
consulting group without legislative power. Other
members of the body are . Professors . W. L. De-
Filley. E. S. Fullbrook, B. C -Hen
J. Pool.