Virginia Ford Is Typical
Coed; Thetas, Pi Phis Win
Vol. 41, No. 110
.Wednesday, March 18, 1942
YWCA Will Gather
For Mass Reefing
... Tonight at 7
Members of the YWCA will gather tonight at 7 p. m. in
parlors A, 13 a .id C of the Union for their first mass meeting of
this year.
Yesterday members received invitations to the "Double or
Not King" party which had been made by the creative art staff
with the help of freshmen YW workers.
The program has been planned by the executive council
and Hetty Hohf. member of the council, will be mistress of cere
monies. The quiz will be a combination of several of the most
popular radio quizzes and has been organized to include many
of those attending and to provide fui for all.
This program has been planned for all members of the
YWCA, which includes all those who have paid the initial $2
fee and are still in the university. Helen Kelley, president, em
phasized that the meeting is for all members, not just freshmen.
Closing the evening the group will sing a new YW song
written to the tune of "Elmer's Tune." The program will be
over at 7:50 in order that freshman living in the dorm may be
in on time.
WAA Holds
Annual Vote
Tomorrow
Council Members,
Sports Board .
May Go to Polls
WAA. elections will be held to
morrow in the WAA office in
Grant Memorial from 9 a. m. until
5 p. m. The elections have been
put off for a week, but will be
held this week.
Candidates tor president are
Betty Newman and Dorothy Mar
tin. Miss Newman has served on
the WAA board two years and on
the AWS board. She was a mem
ber of the University players and
had several roles during the year.
Miss Martin served as treasurer
of the WAA board last year, wrote
the Girl's Sports co'umn, and is
a physical education major.
Candidates for other positions
are: Vice president, Jean Hazen
and Susan Shaw; treasurer, Joyce
Junge and Ruth Ann Robertson;
and concessions Lila Howell and
Merriam Mann.
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Militzer Speaks at First
Marriage Series Lecture
This afternoon at 5 p. m. in
room 315 of the Union Dr. Walter
E. Militzer will speak at the first
meeting in the marriage series
sponsored by the YWCA.
This will be the first in a series
of four lectures by professors and
one by a catholic priest. Last year
two professors spoke in the series
of four lectures which proved so
successful that it was decided to
continue holding such a series.
The lectures were sponsored by
Motar Board and the YWCA last
year, and as is the custom among
many Motar Board organizations,
as soon as the project was estab
lished it was turned over to the
co-sponsoring organization.
The lectures will be held in room
315 of the Union and if the crowd
is large enough the group will
move to a larger room. The lec
tures are open to both men and
women.
The program as planned will in
clude two lectures by Dr. Militzer,
"Choosing Life's Partner," and
"Adjustments after Marriage."
The second lecture will be given
by Dr. C. H. Patterson on "Relig
ion in the Home."
April 8 one of the Catholic
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W. E. Militzer.
...beqint series of lectures
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Ak-Sar-Ben Hires All Girl
Orchestra for Ball Friday)
By Dale Wolf.
Besides getting an earful, those
attending the Jr. AK-Sar-Ben ball
Friday night will also get an
eyeful when they dance to Jane
Griffith and her All-Girt or
chetftra. There will be music by
one of the few all girl bands in
the midwest plus a thirty minute
tage and floor show revue. It's
tuneful, delightful, gay and it'
new.
The activities building on this
campus will be decorated in a
patriotic manner with red, white
and blue streamers. Along with
this decoration, there will be ev
eral pens of livestock around the
outside of the dance floor.
This, according to Professor
Fidler who is sponsor for the show
will add to the barnyard atmo
nphere of the dance as well as ex
hibiting some interesting animals
to those present.
With this unusual orchestra,
floor show, and the gay decora
tions the Ak-Sar-Ben ball will be
one of the best parties of the year.
The price is 75 cents per couple.
Or. Tysdal Lectures.
Dr. H. M. Tysdal of the agron
omy department here at the uni
versity has Just finished deliver
ing some nationwide known scries
of lectures at the Michigan agri
cultural experiment station. En
gaged in cooperative alfalfa in
vestigations with the U. S. depart
ment of agriculture's division of
forage crops and diseases, Dr. Tys
dal presented the lectures in
recognition of the plant achieve
ments of Frank Azor Spragg,
plant breeder at Michigan state.
Most of the lectures had to do
with research methods in alfalfa
breeding.
This was the second time that
a Nebraskan had presented the an
nual lectures. Dr. T. Kiesselbach
presented them in 1931.
priests in this diocese will talk on
"Interfaith Marriages." His name
will be announced later. The last
lecture will be given by Dr. Ruth
Warner on "War and its Relation
to Marriage," a topic of current
interest to many students.
The lectures will begin promptly
at 5 each Wednesday and the
speaker will talk for half an hour.
The last 20 minutes will be allowed
for questions and students are
asked to ask any questions at this
time.
The lecture course has been ar
ranged by Helen Gogela and is
authorized by the Student Coun
cil, Dean of Women and Dean
Bengtson. Announcements will be
read in classes today announcing
the place and time.
Miss Kelley reminded student.
yesterday that the lecture series
is intended for both men and wom
en. Last year, as many men as
women attended and enjoyed the
lectures, she said.
Following each of the lectures,
there will be a period for open dis
cussion and questions from the
floor, according to Miss Kelley.
All of the speakers have agreed
to attempt to meet all questions
that students, may ask, she said.
Virginia Ford.
...typical (and beautiful) Nebraska coed.
Stepping from a harp flanked on either side by shamrocks,
Virginia Ford, Kappa Kappa Gamma, was presented as the typ
ical Nebraska Coed at the annual Coed Follies last night at the
Temple theatre. Kappa Alpha Theta took top honors for their
curtain, act entitled "Jean for Nebraska Queens" and Pi Beta
Phi won the cup for the best skit called "Magic to Music."
Sponsored by the AWS board, the show chairman this year
M as Betty Newman. Other members of the committee were Betty
O'Shea, Janet Curley, Rachel Ann Locke, Janice Cook, busan
Shaw, Lois Christie, Janet Hamphill, Marion Cramer Aden, Na
talie Bum. Ben Alice Day, Jane Bird, Dorothy White and
Jeanette Mickev.
Second and third place winners were Residence Halls for
Women and Alpha Phi with curtain acts and Delta Gamma and
Alpha Xi Delta presenting skits. The winners were presented
cxips by Betty Newman at the close oi the show.
Clothes Modeled.
Following the skits, Marion Cramer Aden narrated for a
fashion show before the presentation of Miss Ford.
Modeling clothes were June Jamieson, Ruth Hult, Margaret
Weld, Mary Stephenson. Catherine Smith, Marcia Beekman,
(See COED, Page 4.)
Col. Pinger Describes Need
Of Ordnance for Officers
To 300 Sonhomore Men
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Declaring that "Ordnance cov
ers the tools of war," Col. R. W.
Pinger, commander of the 7th
corps area ordnance department
explained organization of the pro
posed new unit before a convoca
tion attended by more than 300
sophomore men yesterday after
noon in the Student Union ball
room. "The need for ordnance officers
has been greatly increased be
cause of the present war condi
tions," the colonel continued, "and
to supply that need we must call
upon the colleges and unievrsi
ties of the country having ROTC
units. Nebraska has been selected
by the war department because it
was felt UN could turn out a rea
sonable number of ordnance offi
cers without injuring any of the
other units.
Study Maintenance.
Cadets selected for the course
will probably be instructed in the
functions of distribution and main
tenance of war materials. Other
(See ORDNANCE, page 2)
James R.
Far East
Young to Discuss
at Convocation
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James R. Young.
...expert on orient will speak
at convocation here.
James R. Young, popular speak
er on the Orient, who returned to
America last year after 13 years
in Japan and other eastern coun
tries, will discuss "Why Japan Will
Fail" at a university convocation
Friday morning at 11 a. m. in the
Student Union ballroom.
"Jimmy'' Young, as he is called
in the Far East, first made head
lines in Jan. 1940, when he was
arrested and kept in a Japanese
prison for two months for writing
articles which the police disliked.
He returned to the United States
shortly after his release and has
been busy with his popular books,
magazine articles, and lectures on
the Far East. He spoke in the
Union last July.
His arrest followed a 9,000 mile
trip into the heart of unoccupied
China, as the first foreign cor
respondent to reach the back
country headquarters of General
issimo Chiang Kai Shek at Chung
king'. His release finally was ef
fected through the efforts of
American Ambassador Joseph
Grew who loaned him his sealskin
overcoat for use in the unheated
jail cell.
Predicted Pearl Harbor.
During pre-war days,' Young
long prophesied the probability of
a Japanese-American clash, or an
"undeclared incident' in the Taci
fic. In an up-to-thc minute analysis
of the affairs in the troubled East,
he declared, "Japan is determined
to eliminate all foreign influence
in Japan, and while on the one
hand, she seeks to drive out Amer
ican and British interests, she is
on the other hand becoming en
cumbered by a German strangle
hold on Japanese interests and
(See YOUNG, page 2)
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