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THE DAILY NEBRASKA
Friday, February 27, 1953
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By DORIS AIILSCHWEDE
Staff Writer
Accident-prone drivers consti
tute a real menace on our nations
hy-ways and by-ways.
They are involved in many ac
prone? The answer is no. You
can't tell but a psychologist or one
trained in psychological testing
can. These tests, still being devel
oped, include such things as test
ing reaction times, vision, mecha
cldents, and perhaps they cause nical aptitude and mental attitude,
many more involving others. These tests are proving to be val-
Are you accident prone? Many uable in detecting accident prone
would answer, 'why of course
I'm not!" But arc you sure? Many
people are accident prone with
out realizing this potential "dead
ly sin.
Can you tell if you're accident
drivers,
What relation does being acci
dent prone havi to safety and
driving? Statistics have shown
that drivers who are accident
prone have a larger percentage of
Join The
Crusade For Safety
Hete Is My Pledge
accidents than drivers who aren't.
This adds up to lives lost, thous
ands of injuries and millions of
dollars In property damage.
What does being accident prone
mean? It means that a person is
much more likely to have acci
dents, not only cur accidents, but
minor ones such as falling down
stairs, cutting fingers and bump
ing into things that don't
seem important at the time
but show that a person might be
and probably is accident prone
What makes a person accident
prone? Sometimes a person is
physically unfit; others are ment
ally unfit. Still ethers have the
wrong attitude toward their driv
ing. Wrong attitudes include such
thjngs as regarding a car as a
plaything, by showing off, speed
ing, driving with the horn and;
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t ivrrnonnlly plrlr mywlf to drive and walk afrly' and think In trrma of frtj
throughout lf33.
I Rive thin pramta In wHmixnm and rarnMtimn having mnHldmwd fully my
sbllrallnn to nrnlrrt my Ills and lh IIvpd of my family and my frllnw mm.
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arttvltle of my club, .chool, employe group and othrr nrganUallone. 1 " " Hl ae,ays ana ln
Unfortunately for the accident
rates and what they show, acci
dent prone drivers cannot be
weeded out until they have had a
number of accidents. The reason
for this is that it is impossible to
determine this proneness to acci
dents until a definite pattern has
been established.
What can be done about acci
dent prone drivers? Not much un
til the drivers nave had a number
of accidents. They can be given
a scries of tests to determine their
mental and physical weaknesses
and then can be deprived of their
driving privileges if necessary. In
the future it will be possible to
give prospective drivers tests
which will determine their fitness
to drive.
Family Service Officers
NU Scientists Declare War
On 'Golden Wheat' Diseases
By PHYLLIS HERSHBERGER
Staff Writer
Scientists at the University have
declared war on the numerous
problems facing wheat growers in
the state.
Taking part in this program are
the agronomy, entomology and
plant pathology departments.
Stem rust, the outbreak of
wheat mosiac and the hession fly
in the West are among reasons
for the intensive research in the
field and laboratory which is be
ing conducted. There are also
problems of frequent losses from
winter killings, drought and lodging.
Scholarship Filing
Deadline, March 6
Application deadline for the
American Association of Univer
sity Women scholarship is March
6.
Any University undergraduate
women who expects to graduate
ln June or August of 1954, '55,
or '56 and who can show evidence
of financial need, is eligible to
apply.
Application blanks may be ob
tained in Ellen Smith Hall or the
Home Economics office on Ag
campus, i
The Office of the. Registrar
must have written permission to
send the applicant's grades to the
scholarship committee.
Two letters of recommendation
must be submitted by the appli
cant Letters and application blanks
must be sent to Miss Mary Mul
vaney, 450 So. 41st St., Lincoln.
In order to solve some of these
problems, the University now has
a full-time state wheat breeder
and a stepped-up program in
breeding and testing.
Under the year-round hybridi
zation program, strains of wheat
resistant to diseases, insects and
other hazards are being combined
with high yielding varities.
Researchers may make 150-200
crosses which will produce 1,500
to 2,000 hand pollinated seeds in
one year. Promising strains will
then undergo more selection and
testing.
Alongside the testing plot are
samples obtained from farmers by
county agents. &eea or. eacn sam
pie is also planted at a master
nursery in Lincoln.
Crop experts point out that, so
far, there has been an estimated
return of $600 for each dollar
sent for agricultural research in
the state.
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Courtw Lincoln Journal
COMMUNITY CHEST AGENCY ... At the 62nd annual meeting
of the family Service Association, a Community Chest Agency,
officers were named for this year. They are: (left to right) James
Tlsdall, treasurer; Louis B. Finklestcin, vice president; and Faul
Meadows, re-elected president.
Tvjo Determent Methods
Open for College Students
Fred Swihart Elected
Honorary Law Justice
Fred J. Swihart was elected
justice at a meeting of Phi Alpha
Delta, honorary law fraternity, on
Thursday.
Others elected to offices were:
Les Jensen, vice justice; Frank
L. Balderson, treasurer; John R
Thompson, marshall; and Paul
Johnston, clerk.
ROTC Physicals
Junior Army ROTC students
should report to the Student
Health during the next week for
physical examinations, according
to the Army ROTC department.
Proposed Bill
Adds Severity
For Drinkers
A six month's suspension of a
driver's license and a fine of $100
will be imposed on first offense
drunken drivers if the bill sent
by the Legislative Judiciary com
mittee to general file Wednesday
is approved.
Second offenders would be
punished by a fine of $300, a one I lmrm DlcruSSIOn
Art Exhibition To Feature
American, European Works
Sunday will mark the opening
of the 1953 Nebraska Art Asso
ciation exhibition in the Uni
versity Art Galleries in Morrill
Hall.
The exhibition, which will be
on display for a month, is the
oldest of its kind in the midwest.
Following the pattern of maxi
mum variety established in the
past several years, the show will
include paintings, sculpture, draw
ings, prints and ceramics.
Much of the material will he
pean artists . including Stanley
Spencer, Joan Miro, Paul Klee and
Ernest Barlach.
A feature of this year's exhibit
is the large section of prints and
drawings. Among those whose
prints will be shown are Antonio
Frasconi, Karl Zerbe, Louis
Schanker, Adja Yunkers, Carol
Summers, Nance De Groot and
Ynez Johnston.
Drawings by Arbit Glatas, Cor
nelius Rhutenberg, Ben Zion, Wil
liam Kienbusch and Ezio Martin-
American but there is to be alelli will be on exhibit.
section of paintings and sculpture Although the central body of
by contemporary Italians ana; the show will consist of Amon-
representative examples by Euro-
Johnson To Lead
year suspension of a drivers
license and a jail sentence of from
five to 90 days.
People convicted of driving
under the influence of alcohol
three times would be compelled
to serve from one to three years
in the penitentiary, depending on
the discretion of the judge, and
be deprived of their driver's
license for one year following
completion of the prison term.
Under present laws, there is a
fine of $50 and a six month's sus
pension of driver's license for a
first offense.
Students and faculty members
will continue the discussion "Is a
Synthesis between Eastern and
Western Culture Possible," at a
convocation Tuesday.
Dr. E. N. Johnson, professor
of History, will lead the discus
sion which will be held in the
Faculty Lounge of the Student
Union. The topic was discussed
at a previous meeting but it was
requested that an additional dis
cussion period be held.
David Dow, professor of Law
will act as a moderator for the
discussion.
Froon Weeds To EFIoveri
By TOM WOODWARD
Copy Editor
Carrots to bananas, flowering
tropical vines to plain weeds all
receive careful attention at the
University greenhouse south of
Bessey Hall.
The University greenhouse is
filled with plants of many dif
ferent varieties from orchid to
desert cactus representing plant
growth from many parts of the
world and Nebraska.
Harry L. Weaver, associate pro
fessor of Botany, explained that
the greenhouse was, "compara
tively new as a University build
ing." The building is approximately
160 feet long and 25 feet wide
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rows
that in the old greenhouse located
near old University Hall orchids
of the large variety were grown.
"One of the orchids had just come
into full bloom when it suddenly
disappeared just before the Mili
tary Ball." Bruse said that the old
greenhouse was impossible to
"lock up completely" and orchids
disappeared regularly.
East of the tropical room is a
space given over to experimenta
tion by University faculty mem
bers and graduate students., Dr.
Weaver pointed out an experi
ment aimed at testing the effec
tiveness of a liquid fertilizer.
normal light periods," he noted
"it blooms when it's supposed to
no matter how much or little light
it receives. Of course, there might
by some development later as
these plants are quite new."
R. H. Moore, associate professor
of Botany, pointed out student ex
periments of plants growing with
certain deficiencies in plant focd.
He pointed out several large
containers filled with white said.
"Each one of these containers will
hold a plant which will be fed
with food lacking some necessary
element for plant development. As
the plants grow, the students will
be able to observe the results of
Several large Balsam plants, a , deficient plant food."
common garden flower, were ap
proximately 13 inches high and
rJLiZt w were covered with large pinkish
The glasTfs designed X"te W4Anoth group of
sunlight to pass through it with
out allowing harmful infra-red
beams to strike the plants, Dr.
Weaver explained.
The upper row of glass panes
may be opened or closed by
manual or electric power, and in
some sections of the building
there are automatic devices that
open and close the panes -with
varying temperatures in
building.
Beneath the main greenhouse
rooms there is a basement used
for storage of greenhouse supplies.
Also there is a room with special
drying facilities to prepare plants
for mountings for exhibition of
plants in the University Herb
arium in Bessey Hall.
The entire greenhouse is heated
by pipe lines using University
generated steam. In addition to
steam heat, there are automatic
electric blowers used in case of
sudden temperature drops or
where unusual amounts of
warmth are needed.
In the western end of the green
house tropical plants are grown
under conditions much like those
in their natural habitat. Temper
ature is maintained between 85
and 80 degrees with a very high
the same time," Dr. Weaver noted,
"and the effects of the fertilizer
are rather obvious from the dif
ference in the size and develop'
mcnt. but its effectiveness will
receive other tests before it will
the ! be used widely here in the green
house."
Several boxes of earth took up
another corner of the room.
"These boxes contain samples of
soil from many parts of the state,
Dr. Weaver said. "The soil is left
here and observed by students in
order to give them a chance to see
what kind of weeds grow natur
ally in such soil."
Students are also given practice
at identifying the various kinds of
weeds they will see on the field
trips taken in the spring.
The green house is filled with
stands approximately three feet
high on which plants are grown in
soil placed on it or in pots.
Over many of the growing
spaces there are large shaded or
dinary light bulbs. These lamps
are used to increase the day-light
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humidity rate. Il,rt
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Dr. Moor went on to explain
the difficulty in making certain
the plants will receive no "nou
rishment other than that given by
our feedine them." He pxolained
mately six inches high with no that much of the soil has to be
blossoms whatever. . cleaned with a strone hydrochloric
"These groups were planted at; acid solution to remove all plant
feeding elements from it.
Other experiments to produce
seedless vegetables were also in
progress with tomatoes being used
as material. Still other plants from
countries throughout the world
are being grown and observed.
Bruse said that one of the main
problems in the greenhouse are
inroads by insects. He noted the
entire area was fumigated at least
cans whose work has been seen
previously in Lincoln, such as
Henry Koerner and Ben Shahn,
there will be many who are new
to the Nebraska Association's
public.
Among these are Jonah Kinig
stein, Charles Semser, Dorothy
Andrews, Douglas Snow, Mariana
Peneda and Forbes Whiteside.
Activities planned to highlight
the exhibit are lectures by Fred
Conway, St. Louis Painter; Wil
liam Milliken of the Cleveland
Museum of Art; and Perry T
Rathbone of the City Art Museum,
Milliken and Rathbone will assist
in the selection of art works to
be added to the Frank M. Hall
collection at the University.
Lectures will be at 8 p.m. on
March 10, 12 and 24 and at 3 p.m.
on March 7. 8, 15. 22 and 29. All
lectures will be held in Gallery
B at Morrill Hall.
Communism . . .
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and then "the wheels turned
faster and faster."
Schmidt was very much im
pressed with the University
campus and the journalism school.
"Dr. Rosenlof did an excellent job
in showing me around the campus
and the city, said Schmidt en
thusiastically. He especially en
joyed the museum in Morrill Hall
and said the students "should be
very proud of it. I also like the
city because it is similar to mine
not too large and not too small.
However, I do not like the bliz
zards," he declared.
"I am grateful for the helpful
ness and friendliness of the
Americans," he commented.
Schmidt also was impressed by
thrpp main features in America.
amounts of oxygen to plant rootj..Thjs is sucri a great country to
svsitrns. travel in because you have many
Dr. Weaver and Bruse empha-ivarietjes in cijmate and in areas.
sizea me lact tne greennouse is;Sometirnes it is similar to the
set up primarily to proauce plants
The Government has provided
several methods of draft defer
ment of University students.
It is the considered opinion of
the government that the training
of young men in our colleges and
universities must proceed without
interruption. The law provides
two broad methods of deferment.
The first of these provides for
deferment from service n the
armed forces for university stu
dents. All young men who are
physically qualified for service
who wish to attend a university
must request deferment for this
purpose from their local draft
boards. However, the local board
may at any time at its own dis
cretion remove a deferred sta
tus as a student. Within ten days
of notification from a local draft
board, students may appeal the
decision to the appeal board of
the state. If you do not make such
notification then you must accept
the local draft board's decision.
In actual practice in Nebraska,
local draft boards generally de
fer all university students who
are doing good work in their
studies. However, even though
you are satisfactory scholastically,
the local draft board may reclas
sify you for service.
The second avenue of defer
ment is enrollment in the Uni
versity's ROTC program. Enroll
ment in the basic Army or Air
Force ROTC course is not, in it
self, a basis for draft deferment.
A student will be deferred be
cause of his ROTC status only if
he has signed the deferment
agreement provided by the de
partment in which he is enrolled
and if such agreement has been
accepted by the department in
volved. The student agrees to
complete the basic and advanced
courses, if selected therefore, and
to accept a reserve commission if
offered. He further agrees to serve
two years of active duty and to
remain a member of the Regular
Keserve lorces for eight years.
Students selected for the Regu
iar Navy ROTC program sign
their deferment agreement in Ap
ril ' prior to beginning the course
in the fall term. They also ac
cept a commission in the Regu
lar Navy and a service period of
three years.
The "Contract" ROTC student
signs his agreement in Septem
ber upon entering the University
and agrees to complete the pre
scribed course, to accept a com
mission in the Naval Reserve if
offered and to serve two years of
active duty if called.
As
once a week or more to keep the
insect population at a minimum.
The usual mstliod of fumigation
is with nicotine fumes, and some
fumigation is also done with cy
anide, but the latter is used only
under careful supervision to see
that no one enters the building.
The greenhouse is also equipped
with a water distilling unit to pro
vile a base for making plant
foods. The distiller has a capacity
of 10 gallons per hour. The green-1
house is also equipped with com
pressed air from a University gen
erator for use to supplying large
The Regular Navy student will
serve an additional five years in
the reserve if he does not request
retention in the Regular Navy.
The Contract student will remain
in the reserve for six years or a
total of eight years active and
inactive service.
Ordinarily the Army of Air
ROTC student, if selected, will
be permitted to sign the defer
ment agreement after his first
semester in the University but
it must be signed before he may
oegin me advanced course and
before Mb can be deferred because
of ROTC participation. If the stu
of the deferment agreement until
dent wishes to delay this signing
finally selected for the Army or
Air Force Advance Course, two
points of law should be considered.
1. A student may not be de
ferred after he has been called
for induction by Selective Serv
ice.
2. Deferment is guarantee by
agreement between the Depart
ments of Army, Navy and Air
Force and the national office of
selective service for a student
with a signed agreement with the
ROTC, but deferment is optional
with the local board if bas-d on
student category alone.
The legal Obligation of at least
two years active duty, plus re
tention in the reserve for an ad
ditional six years, is virtually
the same as that required of those
who enter the service through se
lective service or enlistment.
There are certain provision!
whereby a longer period of ac
tive duty will reduce the time
required for remaining in the
Reserve.
E-Week Open
House Begins
41 Celebration
The forty-first annual Engin
eer's Week Open House will be
held on April 30 followed by the
E-Week convocation, Field Day
and banquet on May 1.
Departmental chairmen in
charge of displays have been
elected by their respective so
cities. They are: Gordon Kruse
and Bill Stout, Agricultural En
gineers; John Savage and Tad
Tucker, Architectural Engineers;
Dick Pusateri and Lloyd Kellar,
Chemical Engineers; Leslie Mar
tin and Jack Bale, Civil Engineers;
Arthur Gross and Paul Moseman,
Electrical Engineers; and Bernard
Kittle and Charles Schade, Me
chanical Engineers.
John Whitlock and Norman
Scott are co-chairmen of the en
tire E-Week program.
- Dr. H. E. Edgerton
Awarded Burr Prize
A native Nebraskan and in
ventor of the ultra high speed
flashlight equipment used in pho
tography has been awarded the
Franklin L. Burr prize of $2,000
by the National Geographic So
ciety. He is Dr. Harold E. Edgerton,
class of 1925 and now professor
at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Boston, Mass.
The announcement that Dr. Ed
gerton was to receive the award
was made in December.
Dr. Edgerton developed the
stroboscopic light which make it
possible to photograph such things
as the pulse of humming birds'
wings, bullets in flight and the
impact of the bat against a base
ball. He was awarded an honorary
degree by the University in 1948
for his outstanding contributions
to the field of science.
Cornhusker
Applicants for assistant business
manager of the Cornhusker year
book will be interviewed Friday
by the Board of Student Publica
tions. Interviews begin at 1 p.m. In
Administration Building, Room
202.
for use in the laboratory bv stu
dents. They are grown to insure
a supply of subject matter for
lab work when the weather is too
cold for plants to grow naturally.
Dr. Weaver noted that all the
plants are grown for a particular
purpose and added, "we could not
have all these plants without a
greenhouse and we could not
study or teach Botany without the
plants."
Bruse added that he is always
Alps, sometimes like that of the
Rivena and again 'like that in
Africa. It is very changeable and
impressive."
Another point he brought out
was the influence that the citizen
has upon governmental affairs.
"The citizen works close to the
government in civic activities and
we are working towards mis in
our country. We would like to
incorporate this feeling in America
to our own land.
"It is so wonderful to see how
glad to have students come to the " " Z k,Ym
Ireen house and would be glad s much Power can li brouxtfit
to show them the many unuiualju".de,,: one Point wlthout dlctator"
plants there.
Postgraduate, Teaching Fellowships
Granted To Chemistry Department
be set to turn the light on or off
as the exderimenter wishes. There
are 27 of the automatic time de
tvres of water plans are grown
Fish and snails are kept in the
lanx, noi onxy iur u r: vices in greenhouse with each time teaching
poses, but to keep pool clean i of them capable of controlling chemistry depa
wuiig 6 j w . two lights.
The other pit, with a dirt bot-j ,n addition0 artifical lighting
torn, is used to grow plants that the 0 is equipped with
would otherwise be too tall to dark rooms used to limit the
grow in the greenhouse. The Ptjamount of j:ht that j,aBis re
KSeil IS -SIX Acct uccjj uu
rvKtems of plants that grow there
ro .free to extend far into the!
r round.
Orchids, not the large variety;
from entering the room.
seen on some of the mere expen- Dr. Weaver said that striking
sive corsages, also are grown in'resuits are achieved with subject-
The University chemistry de
partment has been granted post
graduate and teaching fellowships
by the Du Pont Company of Wil
mington, Delaware.
The new teaching fellowship
will begin next year. It was made
in addition to renewal of tne reg
ular postgraduate lellowship in
chemistry.
The teaching fellowship offers
$2,400 to an unmarried, or $3,000
to a married man, provides $500
to the University for support of
his work and pays tuition and
fees, for 1953-1954
The recipient of the grant, 'who
is to be nominated by the chem
ist'ry department, must be an out
standing graduate student having
two years experience as a half-
assistant in the
department. He will be
Applicants' Interviews
Today For Cornhusker
ADDlicants for assistant hncinoce
ceive. These rooms are also'manaeer of the Cnmhiisitw vmi--
equipped with automatic lighting book will be interviewed by the
devices painted black witn tigntiy Committee on Student Piiblica-
sealed corners to prevent any lightkions in Administration Building,
the troRical room at the green
ho'.re. The plants grown there are
of the very small type, but still
ing plants exposed to abnormal
amounts of light and pointed out
that several plants bloomed be
required to continue teaching dur
ing his appointment.
The grant will be used to im
prove the teaching of chemistry to
undergraduate students at the
University by keeping an experi
enced postgraduate in the department.
Smiliar teaching fellowships
have been awarded to 12 other
institutions. f.
. Du Pont also renewed ii post
graduate fellowship in chemistry
for the next academic yeaf
- This grant provides $1,500 for
an unmarried man or $2,100 Jor a
married man, $1,200 for support of
his work, and payment of tuition
and fees.
ship."
North American
Aviation
Los Angeles
will interview here
Capt. A. L Belknap
Joins ROTC Staff
have the color ana aencacy oijfore they had reached maturity.
tn!r larger kin. "The peanut seems to be one
Carl Bruse, caretaker, noted plant that is un-affected by ab-
Capt. Arthur L. Belknap of
Omaha has been assigned to in
struct the Army ROTC infantry
section, said Col. James H. Work
man, professor of military sci
ence and tactics.
Capt. Belknap served in Korea
from January "952 to January
Room 202, Friday at 1 p.m. 11953.' He received a Silver Star
The position will pay $40 a; with oak leaf cluster, a Bronze
month beginning March 1 until: Star and a Purple Heart with oak
the end of the second semester1. leaf cluster during a 30-day pe-
Application forms are available riod from May II to June 9,
in the office of Public Relations, 1852.
2225 R St The forms must be He was awarded the Silver
filled out and returned to PubliCjStar for rescuing a British flyer
Relations by Thursday, 5 p.m. I from behind enemy lines.
Campus capers
call for Cob
Parties click when the
mood is right. With
enough Coke on hand
you can. "set the scene
for a gay session . . .
anttime.
Cole" if a regiytsred (rode-marlc.
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