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DD!M JoooiiDoir a Vol. 43, No. Lincoln Nebraska ' Sunday, February 7, 1943 Senior Drill Cadets Begin Enlistments For Reserve One hundred and fifty senior advanced stu dents began registration yesterday morning for induction into the ERC, according to an an nouncement of the military department. Preparatory steps in filling out applications were completed here yesterday, hut 1he major portion of the procedure of induction will be completed at Fort Crook. "Because all reserves have been officially closed to volunteer enlistments, the induction of the seniors had to be carried on through their local draft boards and then into the re serve," stated Col. J. r. Murphy, niS&T of the university. All seniors registering yesterday morning were given a classification of 1-A with their local draft boards to allow them to receive im mediate physical examination and other atten tion in order to place them in the KKC. With this action completed, ajl advanced course cadets will he placed in the ERC, thus giving the corps a closer knit organization with that of the War Department. Closer Knit Organization. Heretofore only the juniors in the advanced course aivd volunteers from the basic, corps en listed in the reserve, leaving the seniors un touched in the government's accelerated mili tary policy in the university. The registering process is not a move to place cadets into the armed forces in the near future, but merely to organize the advanced corps cadets more close ly together. Those seniors who were not able to attend yesterday's meeting are to report to the Lin coln Draft Hoard No. 3. announced the military department. This action should be taken care of immediately to facilitate the remainder of the machinery involved in emplacement in the reserve. Annual Dinner HonorsForeign StudentsFeb.il Rel igious Group Plans Interfuith Banquet To He Held in the Union Annual Interfaith banquet hon oring foreign Btudents on this campus will be held Thursday, Feb. 11, at 6:15 in parlors A, B and C of the Union. All foreign students are Invited as guests of the Religious Welfare Council, uponsor of the banquet. Toastmaster for the evening will be Dr. C. H. Patterson and stu dents representing various faiths and several nationalities will give short talks during the program. Among those to talk will be a (See BANQUET, Page 4.) State Vetinary Association Honors Van Es For Service . . . Election at Door Prom goers will have nineteen girls to choose from when they go to east their vote for Jr-Sr. Prom (iirl of 1943, Monday night February 15. The candidate who will be presented as Prom f!irl this year will be ejected by those attending the party and not in a general election as has been done in the past several years. The following girls have been chosen by members of the Dr. L. Van Es, world-famous veterinarian, teacher and writer, Army Nurse Talks To AWS Group Monday Lt. Helen Respess of the U. S. Army Nurse Corps will speak to the AWS sponsored convocation Monday February 8 at 5 o'clock in Ellen Smith. Lt. Respess has been visiting campuses thruout the United States, speaking at convocations of this kind in an attempt to in terest women in the nursing field where there is a need for 65,000 (See AWS, Page 2.) Dr. Filley Explains Many War Production Problems " 'Business as usual ends when war begins," stated Dr. H. C. Filley. Dr. Filley, proeB8or and en .... J ... Court my Journal. DR. H. C. FILLEY. chairman of the department of rural emonomlcs, has recently written an article entitled "War Production Picture Has Various Aspects" for the University of Ne braska Agricultural Extension Service News. "Labor and materials used to produce luxuries and comforts when a nation Is at peace must be used to produce airplanes, tanks, ships, .guns and ammuni tion when the country is at war," Dr. Filley continued. War Production. "Great Britain has undoubtedly converted her life and her indus tries more nearly to war produc tion than any other one of the United Nations. Two out of every three persons In Britain between the ages of 14 and 65 are working full time In the armed forces, ci vilian defense or war industry. In most factories the employes work 56 hours per week. "According to the Federal Re serve board, the physical volume of Industrial production In the United States in October was 92 (See DR. FILLEY, Page 4.) was honored Thursday night for his 50 years of service. His hosts at a dinner were members of the (See SERVICE, Page 1.) - r ' 1 " 4. DR. L. VAN Es. ROTC Band Gives Concert Today At 3 Nebraska's ROTC symphonic band will present its annual con cert this afternoon in the univer sity coliseum, under the direction of Mr. Donald Lentz, conductor. The concert will start at three o'clock. Accompanying the symphony band will be Edwin Westfall.'solo cornetist. Westfall is a sopho more from Nebraska City. The concert is open to the public, free of charge. The concert program: Le Sorella Gallini Symphony-Allegro Moderato. Borodin Roumanian Rhapsody No. 1 . Enesco Elsa's Procession to the Cathe dral Wagner Mapoli Bellstedt Mr. Westfall. Knightsbridge March from London Suite Coates Three Bavarian Dances from Choral Suite Elgar Italian Polka Rachmaninoff Three Negro Dances Price American Symphonette No. 2 Gould Stars and Stripes Forever Sousa Tassels, women's pep organiza tion will be on hand to usher and hand out programs, according to an announcement from Lila Jean Howell, club president, and will meet at 2:15. Puppets Act, Dance Across Stage Tonight Marionettes will dance and act their way across their own little stage in the Union ballroom at 8 p. m. tonight. Marjorie Shana felt. assisted by Jack Hendrix, will feature her marionettes In vaudeville acts and trick marion ette work. A puppet skit, Wild Cat Sue will beein the show. The second act Pastelist. starring the artist, Mr. Moneybags and the maid, un folds the story of the artist finally sellinf his first painting, which (See PUPPETS, Page 2.) Innocents Society as candidates, for 1943 Prom Girl: Betsy Wright, Alpha Chi Omega; Dorothy Mc Clintock, Alpha Omicron Pi; Vir ginia McCulla, Alpha Phi; Doro thy Black, Chi Omega; Alpha Xi Delta, Flora Heck; Barbara True, Delta Delta Delta; Treva Much- more, Gamma Phi Beta; Mary Helen Farrar, Kappa Alpha Theta; Helen Johnson, Delta Gamma; Dorothy Smith, Kappa Delta; Dorothy Jeanne Browne, Kappa Kappa Gmma; Janet Hemphill, Pi Beta Phi; Jacqueline Woodhouse, Sigma Kappa; Becky Silverman, Sigma Delta Tau; Betty Malone, Lauralee Mundii, Dorm; Barbara Stahl, Dorm; Mary Russell, and Addie Kloepper, Dorm. The Prom is being held on Mon day night this year in connection with university Charter Day. It will be a 12:30 night for girls. Tickets for the party may be ob tained from any member of Corn Cobs or any Innocent at $1.10 a couple. YW Prexy Names New Cabinet, Staff Jane Dalthorp, newly elected president of the YWCA has an nounced the members of the new cabinet and the new staff heads. Members of the cabinet are: President Jane Dalthorp; Vice President Betty Hohf, Secretary Lois Hanson, Treasurer Dorothy Carnahan, Af. President Dorothy Anderson, regional representative, Barbara Townsend; membership finance, Hoyce Junge; Estes Co op, Priscilla Mosely; publicity chairman, Lois Christie; social chairman, Hazel Abel; office, Ha zel Steam; community service, Bonnie Hinricks; freshman work, Bessie Hiebenthal; social action, Helen Gogela; personal relations, Betty Bonebright; worship, Anne Wellenseik; upperclassmen leader ship training, Ghita Hill. The following girls were chosen as staff leaders and will work un der the direction of Vice President Betty Hohf: Tiny "Y," Myra Col berg; "N" book, Mary Alden; Girl Reserve training, Sayre Webster; beginning social work, Maxinne Lynn; advanced social work, Mary Ellen Beachly; vocational group, Rachel Ann Locke; personal reli gion group, Mary Lou Holtz; Ad kane, Barbara Townsend; post war reconstruction, Helen Gogela; marriage group, Betty Bonebright; (See YW, Page 4.) War Council Victory Book Second University Victory Rook Campaign will get under way tomorrow, under the spon sorship of the War Council in cooperation with the national and Lincoln campaigns which arc now in progress. The drive will continue un til Saturday, Feb. 20. This year's campaign emphasizes quality in books with quantity a second major fea ture, flood books, both as to physical condi tion and readability, arc being asked for in this second Victory Book Campaign, rather than any old, worn but books which would be unsuitable for entertaining and educational reading. Army and Navy Special Services officers responsible for library service have indicated five different types of books in which they feel men in the armed services would be interested, Sponsors Campaign The first division includes all current best sellers (Book of the Month, Literary Guild and other book club selections) and the more re cently published (1930 to date) popular fiction and popular non-fiction. Adventure ami westerns, detective and mystery fiction are described by camp libra rians and others as Ihe type of books most sought and most read by the men. They con stitute the second division of books requested. The third group are technical books pub lished since 1935 in fields of mathematics, ma chine mechanics and design, electricity, radio, photography, aeronautics, navigation, meteor ology, chemistry, etc. The fourth nnd fifth divisions include funny books, books of jokes, humorous stories, anec dotes, cartoons and pocket books and other (See CAMPAIGN, Page 2.)