Vol. 43, No. 18
Lincoln Nebraska
Friday, February 26, 1943
Women's
Honorary
Holds Tea
Present Awards
To Three Seniors
Three senior women will receive
recognition awards at the annual
Mortar Board tea honoring schol
arship to be held Sunday from 9
to 5 p. m. in Ellen Smith hall.
Based upon scholarship, leader
ship and service, the awards wUl
be presented by the senior wom
en's honorary at 4 p. m. Invita
tions have been issued to 450
sophomore, junior and senior
women with an 80 average for the
last two semesters.
In the receiving- line will be
Mrs. Verna Boyles. dean of
women: Miss El3ie Ford Piper,
assistant dean of women; Mrs
Ada Westover, secretary of the
dean's of ice; Dorothy Weirich,
president of Mortar Board and Sue
Shaw, vice-president.
Miss Margaret Fedde, Mrs. C. S.
Boucher, Mrs. Robert Latsch and
Miss Agnes Donaldson will pour
from 3 to 4; Miss Eliza Gamble,
Miss Elda Walker, Miss Florence
McGahey and Miss Mary Lockett,
from 4 to 5.
Members of the executive boards
of women's organizations will
serve: From 3 to 4 AWS board
WAA council and Y. M. C. A. cab
inet; from 4 to 5 coed counselor
board, BABW and Home Ec asso
ciation board.
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Adxeflefrated Programs
Sixteen new men were Initiated
into the Corn Cobs last night, at
their annual spring initiation,
moved up this year because of the
war.
Those men initiated are: Rich
ard Batchelder, Sigma Nu; Leo
Bedke.Beta Sigma Psi; John Dale,
Sigma Chi; Darrell Devoe, Phi
Gamma Delta; Alvin Margolin,
Sigma Alpha Mu; William Mun
son, Alpha Tau Omega; Duane
Munter, Alpha Gamma Rho; My
ron Rubnitz, Zeta Beta Tau; Gil
bert Ryder, Sigma Chi; Arthur
Schmale, Phi Gamma Delta; Dean
Skokan, Sigma Phi Epsilon; John
Slothower, Delta Upsilon; Wayne
Southwick, Phi Kappa Psi, Rob
ert VonSeggern, Kappa Sigma;
WAACs Begin
Drive to Recruit
State Battalion
The WAACs have announced
plans for a drive to recruit a
full battalion of Nebraska
women.
The campaign will start next
Monday with a rally in Omaha
which will be attended by sev
eral high ranking officers of the
Seventh Service Command in
cluding Capt. Mary Bell, regional
director of the Women'B Army
Auxiliary corps to the area.
Captain Bell also announced
that farm women will not be ac
cepted by the corps. Women
holding industrial Jobs In war
plants have been banned for
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Courtesy Lincoln Journal.
VERNA G. BOYLES.
MRS.
CourtMjr, Lincoln Journal.
MISS ELSIE FORD PIPER.
Richard Wahlstrom, Alpha Gam
ma Rho; Lee White, Sigma Alpha
Mu, and Robert "Rauner, Farm
House,
Initiating almost three months
earlier than usual, to keep in step
with the accelerated program of
the university, both new and old
members of the club will remain
in charge of the organization's
spring activities.
Stamps Hit
Total $188.55
War stamp sales climbed
yesterday's sales to reach the
weekly campaigns.
Members of Tassels conducted sales in five booths Wednes
day to raise a total of $159.85
Omicron booth in the School of Music was manned by members
of that honorary musical sorority, and their sales amounted to
$25.70 yesterday.
The war stamp booth near
topped all other sales by a total of $67.10, the most ever sold
by one booth. Tassels sold $30,000 of war stamps at the Social
Sciences booth, and ag college
totaling $29.25.
Math students in Mechanical Arts purchased $17.70 worth
of war stamps, and the booth
stamps worth $15,80.
All the booths were open
with the exception of the Cora
continued sales until 5 :30 p. m,
Need Workers
For Surgical
Dressing Class
University women who wish
to lend a hand during the four
week's drive of the YW War
Council Red Cross staff by
wrapping surgical dressings Sat
urdays, should leave their names
in the YW office in care of Mary
Lockett
Catherine Wells, head of the
Red Cross staff, asks for more
volunteers to help meet the goal
of 10,000 two inch bandages
which must be made within the
next three weeks.
Two shifts of university girls
work at the Red Cross head
quarters located in the telephone
building, 14th and L streets,
from 9-12 a. m. or from 1-5
p. m.
White dresses, and 27 inch
white head scarves are worn.
No finger nail polish or jewelry
may be worn and workers must
bring their own dresses and
head gear.
Band Fraternity
Initiates Seven
Seven men were initiated into
Gamma Lambda, national band
fraternity, Wednesday night in the
union. New members are Robert
Tomek, Bob White, Dick Jones,
Glen Eloe, Lyman Torenson, Ed
ward Jordan and Edwin Westfall.
"The present unstableness of the
ERC and other reserves forced us
to take this action in order that
the club be guaranteed of repre
sentatives on the campus after the
present war," stated Franklin
White, president of Corn Cobs.
At the initiation last night all
current members were presented
with keys, and Colonel C. D.
Frankforter, faculty sponsor, was
presented with a gift
New High
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to $185.55 in Wednesday's and
highest total yet attained by the
from war stamp sales, Tle Delta
the door of the Union Corn Cril
neared that figure with sales
in tho lobby of the Union sold
from 9:30 a. m. until 3:40 p. m
Crib booth in the Union, which
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. . . Discuss War Problems
Featuring the theme of war and post war problems, tho
Nebraska Speech Conference begins this afternoon and cou
tinues until Saturday afternoon.
About 100 students from 23 different schools in 7 statea
will attend the eonference. Under the direction of Dr. riaa.se,
chairman of the speech and dramatic department of Nebraska,
a four-point program will be carried out,
The first and dominant activity in the program will be de
bating on the question of a post-
war Federal Union. Second on the
program is an extempore-discussion
on "The Manpower Problem
in War Production," agriculture
and the armed services. This dis
cussion will be divided into three
parts: A round table discussion
on the problem phase of the ques
tion, followed by a panel discus
sion presenting several solutions
and ending with a parliamentary
discussion on resolutions.
Includes Newscast.
Continuing the events will be a
Victory-oratory contest consisting
of a series of 10 minute orations
developing a victory theme. Con
cluding the program will be a
radio newscasting event in which
the contestants will prepare and
deliver international, national and
local news through a public ad
dress system.
A speech luncheon will be held
Saturday noon at the Union to
which all conference members are
invited. The speaker will be
Thomas Collins, regional director
of the victory speaking bureau of
the seventh civilian defense area
of Omaha. He will speak on the
subiect of colleee students and
victory speaking.
Members of Nebraska's Varsity
Debate team who will participate
in the speech conference are:
George Blackstone, Morris Coff,
John Dale, Norman Hansen, Al
bert Johnston, Frank Mattoon,
Bill Rist, Art Riven, Carolyn
Frescoln, Joan Kinnie, Helen Keis-
selbach, Brtty Newman, Kathryn
Sloan and Anne Wellensick.
Uni Men in Services
To Get Daily Nebraskan
With the rapid calling of Ne
braska university men to the vari
ous armed services, the war man
power commission 01 me war
Council in co-operation with the
Daily Nebraskan has started a
new plan for circulation of the
Daily thru mail subscriptions.
In accordance wtih the War
Council's policy of keeping In
touch with the students in the
service, they have obtained the co
operation of the Daily Nebraskan
sponsors to send copies of the
school paper to subscribers in the
Hold Ag Judging
Contest Tuesday
The annual Dairy Products judg
ing contest will be held on Ag
campus Tuesday, March 2, in the
Dairy Industry Bldg. from 5 to
6 ;30 p. m.
Practice and instructions will be
given to the new judges when reg'
istered at 5 o'clock. The contest
Is sponsored by the Varsity Dairy
club.
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Palladian Has
Annual Hooper
Speech Contest
... Tomorrow Sight
Six men and two women wilt
participate in the 17th annual
James H. Hooper oratorical con- ,
test sponsored by the Palladian
Gavel club tomorrow night at 8:30
in the Temple. Marjorie Johnston,
winner of last year's contest, is
chairman of the program and Will
preside at the meeting.
Students giving orations and
their subjects are as follows:
Charles Coale,. "Too Large an
Army?"; Betty Toothaker, "Wotld
Culture"; Henry Marvin, "Push";
Charlton Stuart, "The War Effort
and Agriculture"; James Hugh
Stuart, "Charity"; Don Kroger,
"How to Pay for the War"; Gene
vieve Mullin, "Are You Food-Conscious?";
Robert Veach, "You
Should Know Better."
Winners of last year's essy,
verse, and short story contests will
also be announced. Judges for the
oratorical contest are chosen from
members of the Gavel Club an
alumni group made up of pa.it
presidents of the Palladian Liter
ary Society.
The meeting is open to all. .
service lor
semester.
the remainder of the
Subscriptions are priced at $1.25
a semester and 50c of this wilL go
to the War Scholarship Fund, thua
enabling the students to help wtih
this drive as well as keep in touch
with their Alma Mater. The re
maining 73 cents will be used l
help defray expenses of printing
and mailing.
The war manpower commission
has checked out subscription booka
from Betty Dixon, business man
ager of the Daily Nebraskan. 'All
students, faculty and town people
desiring subscriptions for them
selves or friends may buy thorn
from these members of the war
council.
University Grail
Missing in Action
Reported missing in an air
craft accident in North Africa
it Capt Paul LeRoy Sprout, son
of Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Sprout
of Franklin, Nebr.