DAILY NEBRASKAN
Humors Run Riot
What's the Latest? Rumors
Friday-. April 16, 1943
BY GHITA HILL AND
ROBERTA BURGESS.
What won't happen next?
Spring has brought with it the
usual birds and flowers, but some
thing new and exsiting has been
added rumors.
Because of the many epidemics
on the campus this year, along
with, talk of activation, ct cetera,
the field of rumors has really
flourished.
Will "Anything" Happen?
Some of the choice bits arc re
printed here for the readers' en
joyment and amazement. After
reading these, you will undoubt
edly agree that anything can hap
pen, and will?
Many persons swear that this
Is true because their sister's boy
friend who is an ATO knows that
John Jay Douglas will be the May
Queen .
Why Didn't They Tell Us.
Janet Gibson has heard that the
girls who have signed up for the
women's ROTC are subject to be
drafted for the WAVES, WAACS,
and SPARS.
Firmly believing that the ROTC
will not be activated until the war,
is Lois Christie, while Marcy
Bauer says, "The ROTC will re
ceive orders tomorrow and be ac
tivated Monday."
Vacation ?
Dorothy Filley must be dream
ing when she says, "We will be ex
cused from classes on Good Fri
day." Oh welV stranger things
have happened, but we don't know
where.
AWS communique: Girls will
be given 1:30 Saturday nights to
accommodate the Cadets, but
they must be in at 9 o'clock on
Sundays.
The WAA organization will hold
a spring 1914 football game with
btepnens college, Missouri Nor
rie Anderson will wolferee.
It has been said that there is a
yearbook coming out this year. Is
this true? The Cornhusker will
come out!" Dave Walcott.
Where the Dock?
Evelyn Garton donated this in
teresting phenomena, "All Naval
Reserves will be called and the
battleship USSS North Carolina
will come up Salt Creek to get
them."
From one who knows, Bill Pal
mer, "They are going to quarter
WAACs in the third floor of the
Kappa Sig house."
Just f-'or a Change.
"It will definitely be a Sunny
Ivy day," according to Dorothy
Carnahan.
Common talk has it that the
Betas are having courtesy week
for their pledges.
Instead of donating a gift to the
university, the senior class is
building a monument to J. J.
Douglas.
Florida Hi" They Come.
Johnny Kuhlxan offers this bit
of sure-thin;; information," the
ROTC will be aotivaea and in
Florida witlvn the week. They
will be going to school by corres
pondence or els-2 thfv will be
quartered at ag college and com
mute to the city campus by jeeps.'
- Rumor has it that the Phi Rhos
will win the Intra-Ira ternity sing,
Is it true that President Roose
velt is considering replacing Fran
cis Perkins, Secretary of Labor,
with Pat Lahr
Rumor nas it that there will be
girls on the campus next fall
'Disclose 9 Plenty of Nothing
BY CHARLIE GAI NS WORTH Y.
Rumors run rampant on the
campus. "Hear today, gone tomor
row," pipes a ROTC. preparing
himself for a night with the boys.
"Hey, Tut, goln' out with the
cousins tonight," yells a brother,
standing under the tepid spray
of a shower.
But the boy from the rag of
fice has the topper: "Do you know
that Colonel Murphy has an order
from headquarters at Omaha (ah
yes, fine Omaha) directing him
to get transcripts and other neces
sary info about members of the
ROTC, as a preparatory action to
sending all advanced drill cadets
to Idaho?
"And whatdaya think, we may
go to Sun Valley. Not that I ain't
gonna enjoy Sun Valley, but I've
heard that it's a tough place to
get in shape. Ya run a hunnard
yards and yer fagged. But that's
okay by me . . . Sun Valley's my
meat."
On and on into the night go the
stories. "Hey, Jake, the women's
ROTC is being called. Wonder
where they'll be stationed?" "The
hoys will be called tomorrow."
"The orders are in the mail."
We won't be called until Au
gust." Activation starts tomorrow
and we'll be called in alphabetical
order. "The orders are in the
mail."
"Don't ask me, I'm only a jun
ior." We leave next Monday.
You'll find me at George's.
"Who cares?" I'm in the navy
V-l." "I'm only a girl, but Cliff
told me they were all going in as
second Looies."
"The war will end tomorrow bo
they'll never be called thank
heaven." "Activation looms in the
near future for all those unfor
tunates (ROTC boys). What a
pity for our deah, deah coeds."
"The orders are in the mail." (This
line won by four lengths).
Hey, we're called. See ya at th
corner of der Mug in Berlin.
tew
' mn't tonchejmart h ask us all fi her party when
she knew none of us could waste gr J 0
r.iiss LOUISE HORLEY
From the Office of Wor Information
tells what is happening to
it
YOUNG BRITOHS AT WAR"
Auxiliaries, Land Army, Factory
Workers, Volunteers Described
8:00 p. m., Sunday, April 18
Uniofl Ballroom
Scribe Finds
Many Rumors
On UN Mall
BY NORRIS ANDERSON.
Everytime we see a cohort these
days, we automatically stoop low
and lend him our good ear.
Rumors these days fly faster
than Eric Rommel and who the
h said Hal Davis of California
U. is the world'u fastest human?
Eric could outspeed him, hands
down. We herewith present, in
full order, some of the rumors
that have flitted over this moss-
backed institution.
Colonel Murphy resigned today
to join the U. S. marine corps as
a buck private. His resignation
was caused upon 841 phone calls
asking that devilish question:
When is the ROTC going to be
activated 7
"I only hope the marines have
a coke machine," was rumored to
be Murphy's parting sentiment.
A local rumor-flitter informed
us 30 minutes ago that the Ne
braska women's ROTC corps was
soon to be activated. The gals,
said our source, will be used as
skilled machinists in grease fac
tories. "Pretty slippery work,"
commented Lt. "Squirrel" Adams,
drill master of the Cornhusker
co-eds.
Pat Lahr, Union social director,
will leave late this week to accept
a movie effer to play opposite
Peter Lore in "Hopalong Cassidy
Rides Again." Local joke, Fred
Cassidy, Hopalong's second cousin
on the wrong side, may accompany
Miss Lahr to the Gold Coast. This
is a rumor don't quote please.
Instead of activation, our ROTH
units will move to Penn Woods for
a two-week camn neriod. Accord
ing to rumor, co-eds are cordially
mvnea to spend as much time as
they can muster at the woods.
That feminine touch is npedod
in every army camp," sighed Gene
Jl 1 1 A . .
israaiev. according to rumor, iac-
corainrr to rumor, according' to
rumor, according to rumor, Jeez
mat term s growing monotonous!)
A translation of a German war
communique was made by Dean
Oldfather, according to rumor, in
a history class today.
Oldfather was neglectant to re
veal what his discovery was, but
it was rumored the prophecy had
something to do with the oncom
ing pennant race.
Glen Presnell, it is rumored, Is
sued call today for all university
amazons. All girls weighing up
wards of 150 pounds can consider
themselves definite candidates for
Cornhusker spring grid drills in
absence of the males.
"This should include about half
the women in the school, so we ex
pect a tremendous turnout," com
mented one athletic staff member,
'Gilbert Directs
Comedy at Iowa
AMES, la., April 10 It's no
mistake!
"H. M. S. Pinafore, the great
hit by Gilbert and Sullivan, will
be directed by "Gilbert" when it
is produced for the 1943 Veishea
at Iowa State college May 7.
But it will be Dwight Gilbert
of Rippey, senior student at Iowa
State and general chairman of
the production and not crusty
old William.
Round and Round It Goes . .
Winer Hi Sitps?
John told me that Betty said the
dog catcher told her that when he
was talking to bystanders when
he was picking up "Two-Bits," a
stray bulldog with appealing eyes
on the corner of 13th and O that
the price of cotton paid per bale
to the Nebraska farmer was be
low the salary paid to the univer
sity ROTC buck private when
Uncle Sam put him into uniform
which should be equal to a cor
poral's since that is what the air
crew members in the library get
altho they have set fire to the
Love building with the flames of
their Nebraska co-eds' "billeta
doux" and will have to pay for it
out of the pocket money their
parents send them which of course
is much greater than what Ui
average student pays for his ra
tion of one lemonade a day altho
lemonade will interfere seriously
with the organized serenade the
sororities are contemplating from
the back steps of Teachers college
to the submarine fighters sta
tioned here until the war ends to
morrow.
The Reason Why
Now we have printed all the latest dope. For once in
the editorial staff's life it is certain there is nothing left out.
Our aim is benevolent, socially-minded, and modest. We
believe simply that all rumor mongers will be defated. When
one runs up to you with the newest thing in campus news,
you can squelch him with a phrase already trite:
"I read that in the Nebraskan this morning."
DO YOU PIG IT t
Submitted by Robert Ron Cooper
oiton University, Clan of '43
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