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Begins Broadcasting
Every Wight at 10:30
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t'icial p.irt of ihe university,
tVatuifs slndenl talent, fron:
announcing to vocal soloists and
hows sessions.
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Victory Stamp
Corsage Sales
'On the March'
Military Ball Corsages
Sold at Regular Stamp
Booths Thursday at 60c
Victory stamp cors-agcs are def
initely the thing for the first mili
tary ball to be given at Nebraska
during World war II.
Sales, sponsored by the War
Council, will begin today at the
regular war stamp sales booths
in Sosii, MA, the Union, and on
Ag campus and will continue until
Friday afternoon at 3:40 p. m.
This week is the only time when
the corsages may be bought and
the purchase price, 60c, must be
paid at that time.
Coupons will be given as re
ceipts for the corsages purchased
and will be redeemable lor me
corsages Dec. 3 and 4. Each
coupon will be numbered and the
name and address of each buyer
will be recorded in order to pre
vent any possibility of duplica
tion. The victory stamp corsages ere
made up of five 10c war stamp
petals with red, white and blue
starred ribbon. They are not only
dressy enough to wear with the
finest sequins but they also ex
emplify the patriotic theme of the
military ball. Samples of the
corsages will be on display at
every booth so the boys may see
what they are buying and the girls
what they will wear.
Mrs. Verna Boyles, dean of
women, and Colonel Murphy, head
of the military department, have
given their hearty approval of this
type of corsage and the Lincoln
papers have also praised this new
idea of military ball corsages dur
ing a time of war.
The committee of the War
Council in charge of this innova
tion is Lois Christie and Barbara
Shonka, co-chairmen. Sales at the
various booths will be conducted
bv ail of the fraternities and men's
co-ops. Each group will work from
one-half to a whole day at one of
the booths.
Forty-five minutes of last
night's program was devoted to
recorded music, while the rest of
the time allowed for news of cam
pus activities, a jam session, sum
mary of campus social news, and
to vocal groups.
Gene Bradley, production man
ager of the new station has an
nounced that "those interested in
staff work should meet in th
Vol. 42, No. 41
Lincoln Nebraska.
Tuesday, November 17, 1942
DDirnw finnv ScEDnaDconneii0
"Don't be bashful, the Tassels won't hurt
vou! Step right up boldly and buy your year's
ymca room at Temple at 3:30 to-! subscription to the Prairie Schooner." With
day.'
I?NTEB will be on the air nightly
from 10:15 to midnight, with plans
calling for daytime airing later.
Coed Counselor
Dinncrliicliulcs
Fall Style Show
Features of the annual Coed
Counselor dinner tomorrow night
at 6:30 in the Union ballroom will
be a style show with fourteen uni
versity models; a Delta Gamma
trio; and speeches by the Misses
Elsie riper and Letta Clark, who
are the two sponsors of the Cc-:n-selors.
and Dean of Women Verna
G. Boyles.
Girls modeling and the sorori
ties they represent are: Arda
Allen, Alpha Chi; Phyllis Yenne,
AOPi; Marjorie Mulder, Alpha Xi;
Lois Metcalf, Chi Omega; Betty
Dick, Trl-Delt; Gwen Skogund,
Delta Gamma; Harriet Gartner,
Gamma Phi; Marjorie Heyn,
Theta; Evelyn Regarton, Kappa
Delt; Betty Storejohn, Sigma
Kappa; Ann Ahearn, Kappa; Pat
Coby, Pi Phi; Nina Nix, Dorm
and Margaret Reese, Alpha Phi.
In the trio are Ann Crosby, Jean
Swarr and Pauline Van Home.
Tickets for the dinner may be
purchased from Counselors and the
affair is open to all girls.
ODT Hits
Indifference
Of Colleges
Response from colleges and uni
versities that were requested to
shift their vacation dates in order
to relieve Christmas travel jams
has been poor, the Office of De
fense Transportation reports.
Early in September, regional
passenger asosciations with the
endorsement of the ODT sent let
ters to all colleges and universities
asking that they start their
Christmas vacations on or around
Dec. 15, and not call their students
back until Jan. 15. From the 1050
letters sent to colleges in the
Eastern area, 124 replies have
been received to date.
Some of the institutions that
answered agreed to modify their
vacation schedules, but the major
part stated that because their cal
endars were already made up, and
because they were working on ac
celerated war schedules, they did
not feel that they could comply
with the railroads' request.
The ODT reports that this re
action from eastern colleges is
fairly typical of colleges all over
the country.
Schedules Frozen.
With railroad schedules frozen
so that no special vacation trains
can be put on to relieve the sea
sonal rush, the ODT predicts that
people attempting to travel in the
Christmas week may find them
selves standing on the platform
unable to get accommodations.
The American Asosciation of
Railroads reports that passenger
travel on the railroads has in
creased by r0 percent since last
vcar. Forty percent of Pullman
tram facilities and 15 percent of
the space on day coaches is being
used to move troops, and Christ
mas furloughs for the armed
forces will still further increase
the burden on the trains.
In a second effort to persuade
American colleges and universities
to co-operate in the Christmas
transportation problem, passenger
asosciations will send personal
representatives on a campus to
campus canvass starting about
Nov. 25.
llieso vorls Kurt Porics. business manager ol
the Schooner, announced tlie borinnin? of Ihe
enliro week of subscription sales by ihe Tas
sels. Sponsored 1o boost llie subscription list of
t ho onlv nationally known niajjn.iiie edited and
prinled on the 'campus, the sales campaign
opens today to eonlimie thvuoul this week.
Booths on Campus.
Root lis will le placed in Social Sciences.
Andrews hall, and the Student Union by the
Tassels for the convenience of students. If the
subscribing student cannot find a Tassel han
dy, he may. thru 1he cooperation of the Corn
husker staff, obi a in a year's subscription at
Ihe otfices of the yearbook in the Union basement.
Subscription rate for Ihe quarterly mapra
zine is 1.0(1. or which 1lie student will receive
four full copies, starling with the December
issue. Only one issue has been prinled this
year previous to the outcoinin" issue, and as
the Schooner carries no ' continued" stories,
this fact will prove no drawback to present
subscribers.
One of Ten Best.
K.-itcd as one of the ten best magazines of
it n kind in the nation, Ihe Schooner, due to
lack of support of its home state, and particu
larly of the university where it was founded
and' is prinled. w ill be forced to po off campus
unless the subscription list increases substan
lially. ,
In an effore to prevent this loss to the
university, organizations on the campus have
pledged 'their whole-hearted support. Mortar
(See SCHOONER, Page 2.)
Ko&met Kliib
Workers Meet
Kosmet Klub workers will
meet tonight at 7:30 in the
Klub office to check in tickets
and money.
U.S. Knife Must Be
Driven Into Japan
. . . Savs Sir Hubert Wilkins
"Japan's defeat will come about
only when the United Nations can
open a corridor to the heart of
Japan," was the conclusion of
Capt. Sir Hubert Wilkins in a lec
ture at the Union Sunday night.
Wilkins, famed as an Arctic ex
plorer, is now acting as a consul
tant to the Quartermaster General
of the United States army. His
speech was based on a discussion
of "Air Supremacy and Control of
the Pacific."
Japan vs. Navy.
"Japan is our navy's battle and
a difficult one," he asserted. The
ways and means to get to the
heart of Japan are so difficult that
he hesitated to place any time
Lt. Messmore
Tells of Action
On Bataan Isle
. . . At Military Meeting
At a special meeting Thursday
evening at 8 in the Student Union,
Scabbard and Blade actives and
pledges will hear Lt. Hi Messmore,
Army Air Forces, tell of some of
his experiences.
Lieutenant Messmore was one
of the last men to leave Bataan
and for a while was missing in
action. All members are urged to
attend this meeting as it will give
an insight into what the military
situation is in the far east.
TNE, TBK, and . . .
New Night Artists Invade
Campus Sign-Painting Field
. . . Noiv 'Red Dot'
limit upon their realization. "First
of all the geographical dinerences
place the United Nations at a dis
advantage." "Secondly, we lack
air supremacy, and what it means
in supplies, personnel, and cargo
ships. A second front in China
or Russia will do the United Na
tions no good until they are over
whelming in numbers, Wilkins
stated.
Vital to U. S.
Captain Wilkins was most ear
nest in describing what "Control
of the Pacific" should mean to the
United States. To insure our way
of life, control of the Pacific must
mean not merely military power
over it, but an exemplification of
political and economic control of
our complete democratic way of
life so that we may educate the
peoples of the Pacific to an un
derstanding of the Four Freedoms
so that they may gain inde
pendence and help us perpetuate
our civilization.
Questions Follow.
In a question period following
the lecture Wilkins held to the
opinion that India was not in a
position to assume independence
and that she was being propagan
dized by the Germans and Japa
nese who would not invade her but
would use her as a diversion for
the United Nations.
He felt that China and Russia
were very inter-dependent, partial
ly due to China's communistic pro
gram written by Sun Yat-Sen,
partially due to geography. Aus
tralia would not leave the British
Commonwealth of Nations, he felt
altho she was becoming much
more aware of her nationalism and
was setting her own course.
He praised Major Seversky, the
proponent of "Victory Thru Air
Power," as a sound engineer but
criticized his plans as impractical
with our present production.
Alongside the new TNE signs
and the old TNE and TBK in
signias left from last year ap
peared Sunday morning before the
organized houses a new insignia.
Presumably the sign of a drink
ing society, the painters left on
the walks in red paint a sphere
with a T emerging from the top.
More crudely drawn than the TNE
insignia, the symbol suggested
that the painters had perhaps been
in session as the circles were not
very round and paint was splashed
all over the sidewalk in many
places.
Some students call the group
the "Red Dots." but whether this
is the name of the organization
or just the cognomen applied by
Bomeone else to fit the sign is not
known. One campus wiseacre has
suggested that more sidewalks be
laid in front of the fraternity and
sorority houses so that the
"drunken painters" will have
plenty of room for their art
Ag Senior
National
Essay Winner
John Moseman Nametl
Winner in National
Agronomy Contest
John Moseman, senior in the
college of agriculture was recently
announced winner of the National
Agronomy Essay contest. This
announcement was made at a
meeting of the National Society
of Agronomy held in St. Louis last
week. Phillip Miller, also a senior
in ag college, was the second place
winner and Orvil Indra won sev
enth place.
This is a national contest and
essays are submitted by students
thruout the United States. These
essays are then judged by a com
mittee composed of members of
the National Society of Agronomy
and the winners announced at
their annual meeting.
The first and second place win
ners will receive $50 war bonds
instead of the usual trip to the
International Show in Chicago.
The remainder of the prizes will
be paid in war stamps.
The winning of this contest is
not unusual for Nebraska students
for the top three places in the
contest last year were won by
Dan Atkinson, Charles Gardner
and Dale Weibel, all from Ne
braska. The title of the winning essay
was "Legume and Cereal Crops
as Indicators of Boron. Sulfur and
Manganese."
Rag Business
Head Calls
Ad Solicitors
Phil Kantsr, business man
ager of the Daily, requests all
present advertising solicitors to
report to his office today from
2:30 until 4:30 for a very im
portant meeting to discuss the
details of a fashion edition of
the Daily.
F. D. Keim Elected
Head of American
Agronomy Society
Dr. F. D. Keim, chairman of
the agronomy department, was
elected president of the American
Society of Agronomy at their an
nual meeting held in St. Louis last
week.
The society is composed of some
3,000 agronomists from agricul
ture and agriculture experiment
stations thruout the United States.
Dr. Keim, who was last year
vice president of the society, has
been very active in the organiza
tion for some years and is con
sidered as one of the nation's lead
ing agronomists.
Dr. Tysdal was elected to the
program committee and succeeds
Dr. Quisenberry in this capacity.
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