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VOI,. XXXVII, NO. 132.
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY. APRIL 2BT.938"
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WHAT'S THAT
VOU SAID?
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"Ask questions, my son,"' runs
the old saying of a sage, "for
that is the only way you can
learn anything."
Who would quarrel with that?
W'c wouldn't, but we might stoop
so low as to gnaw around the
edges and perhaps add certain
qualifications.
Some students, and even some
people, get this idea that question
asking is a sure road to know
lodge, They spend all their spare
time asking questions but very
little in observance beforehand or
in paying attention while the
answers arc being given. Such
questions might be to the point
but also useless and needless.
Call for Question.
There is the student who looks
out the window during the pro
fessor's lecture, and doesn't
come to until the half-way mark.
Then he discovers he wants to
. be cleared up on the point and
asks a question concerning it
only to receive a look of despair
from the prof and the withering
information that that topic has
been fully covered.
Then there are some who
prefer to show off their small
knowledge rather than gain
more, so they state something
they know to be true and tack
a "isn't that so" or "isn't It
true that" on the beginning or
end of the statement.
Questions should be asked after
observance and explanation. Then,
if some points are vague, ques
tions are in order and apt to be
much more intelligent and useful.
There are questions asked for
the purpose of apple-polishing
which quite often boomerang when
their content is simple and reflect
on the student's lack of gray mat
ter, There are also questions asked
"j for the express purpose of delay
' ing the game. These fool nobody
but they do take up time, since
most instructors are well-mannered
and will re-phrase a ques
tion which the student heard all
to well, or elucidate and give the
student a straw to grasp.
Finally, there are the Inane,
banal Miotic, senseless questions
which tut a sage at a loss.
These are the questions formed
as greetings. Things such as
"how are you getting along?"
or "howya dotn', boy?" or
"whadduh say there?" or most
embarrassing of all "whaddayah
know?"
The only answers to such
butcherings of the English lan
guage are equilly trite and banal
replies such as "o. k." (even if
your head is splitting, this is the
only accepted answer); "not
much, fella" (this is generally
true, but still trite); and "I
guess I can't complain" (there
i are usually 1001 justifications).
Ask questions to learn some
thing, yes, but not to show up
your laziness in non-observance
and your Inattention.
ME
Students, Faculty to Visit
Local Irrigation Project
On Two-Day Trip.
A group of civil engineering
students and professors left early
this morning for a two day in-
speetion trip which will take them
tn several Nebraska in Igalini! and
power project.
The Tri-county piojeit has in
vited the students to be present at
the opening of. the Hastings-llol-ilrcgc
Irrigation nrca. They will
visit also the Sutherland project
near North Platte, and the Uni
versity Experimental grounds near
I'nxton. Friday morning tiy will
inspect the Klng.sley rcsrrvoii war
Keystone, which will be the sec
ond largest earth dam in the
i niieu states, and wnich. wnen
filled, will create a lake 21 miles
long, one mile wide, and 1GH feet
deep, with a capacity of 2 Million
acre feet.
Profs. H. J. Kesner. I. A.
Trively, and D. H. Harkness are
accompanying the ten students
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3 m c infixing tne trip. I lie MU-
1 dents are: Gerald Glllan, Kenneth
j B. Schroeder, Albert Schroeder,
J Stanley Michael, Harold Turnbull.
imam Keedy, Donald Lamp Ver
non H. Paulson, Bernard D.' Ton
jner, and Jlarry L. Dobbins.
COMENIUfcWfHElR
TALK ONJHITLER'S STAND
Karl Fortmann to Describe
German Situation for
Czech Society.
A one act farce on marriage
nd a talk by Carl Fortmann, on
"Hitler's Point of View on Ger
mw.y'i stand in the World Today"
will entertain members of the
Comenius club Saturday evening:
The play Is to be "Frank and
E r n a" presented by Charles
Hranac, Ubby and Lillian Blaz
1 horec, Wllma Bauman, Valeri
Bednar. and Bob Kublcek, mem-
hers of the club.
V fortmann will speak of Ger
many basing; hid talk on his three
years' stay in that country. Plans
fnr the Crete picnic, which will be
J'd this Sunday, will be discussed.
Tn mertlnjr begins at 7:45 in
room 306 of the Temple theater.
Ag College Seeks
Home Economics
Structure, Union
Need for Activities Center,
Labs, Classrooms
Emphasized.
Miss Margaret Fedde, chairman
of the home economics depart
ment, revealed plans Wednesday
for a new home economics building
Lincoln Journal
MISS MARGARET FEDDE.
to fill the needs of students vn the
Ag campus who will not benefit
from the Student Union building,
on the city campus. The present
buildin, which was built to house
80 high school girls, is used in an
attempt to fill the needs of 384 col
lege women whoare now enrolled in
the department. The new building
will accommodate both men and
women in a variety of activities
which are now limited due to the
lack of .space. This handicap is es
pecially evident in the depart
ments of institution administra
tion, foods and nutrition.
Plant Drawn Up.
Tlans for the new building have
been drawn by Oscar A. Ellis,
architect. The building: will pro
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Dr. Clark, Dr. Schultz Talk
On Business Cycles,
World Relations.
Dr. John D. Clark and Dr. T.
W. ' Schultz will discuss interna
tional relations and business
cycles at the Nebraska Kconomic
conference Friday. The conference
is being sponsored by Economica,
economics club.
Foreign relationships will be the
topic of discussion by Dr. Clark
and Dr. Schultz at the afternoon
program. Remarks will be made
by Dr. Roy J. Ely of Nebraska
Wrsleyan University, Dr. L. A.
Uisak of Creighton. Dr. E. A. Gil
more. Jr., and Frank Miiier of
the University faculty.
Following the dinner Friday
evening, there will be three ad
dresses including one by Dr.
Sc'i' Dean J. E. LeRosslgnol
will preside at the dinner which
is following the theme of busi
ness cycles.
The afternoon program will be
gin at 2 o'clock in room 312, social
sciences building with Dr. G. O.
Virtue presiding. Meetings are
open to the public.
Frank Mecham to Address
Members of Delta Phi
Delta Today at 4.
Frar.k Mecham, famous mural
artist from the Colorado Springs
art institute, will make a few re
marks at the tea, honoring all art
students, and sponsored by Delta
Phi Delta, art honoraiy, in gal
from 4 to fl o'clock this afternoon,
Mr. Mecham has been brought
here thru ihe courtesy of the Lin
coln Artists guild, to whom he will
give a lecture this evening on the
"Outline of Eight Aesthetics," in
gallery A. About 3,ri members will
be present to hear him discuss the
points of drawing.
This artist, who was born. In
Kansas, hns won the Duggan
heimer fellowship in '33, '34, and
'35. Last year one of his large
pieces. "Indian Fight" was pre
sented In the art exhibit and re
ceived much favorable comment.
I'liLianx Members Hear
Reserve Unit Officers
Address Regular Meet
Speakers at the Phalanx meet
ing held Tuesday night in the Lin
coln hotel were Capt. Walt Gard
ner and Capt. G. W. Stout, re
serve offleeri. Other reserve of
ficers attended the meeting, which
was ' Intended to bring the two
groups closer together. Frank
Howard, Thalanx commander, wss
In charge of the meeting.
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Group Convenes Saturday
For Spring Sessions
In Lincoln Hotel.
Two Nebraska professors will
appear on the urogram of the
spring meeting of the Nebraska
Writers' guild Saturday in tne
Lincoln hotel. Dean J. E. LcRos
signol, a past president of the
writers' organization, will lead thit
morning session on fiction, and in
the afternoon, Prof. Theodore C
Diers, secretary of the group, will
conduct a discussion and demon
stration on "Writing for Radio."
The Nebraska Writers guild is
composed of Nebraskans, here or
in other parts of the world, who
combine an urge for creative writ
ings with talent. The evidence that.
native Nebraska writers have lived
in the state is borne out by their
frequent use in their writings of
the bygone civic and social events
and geographical and local setting
tn Nebraska.
Registration at 9:30.
Registration for the mild meet
ing will begin at 9:30 o'clock Sat-
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MORNING BREAKFAST
Coeds Entertain Mothers
At Affair in Student
Union on May 8.
Arrangements have been com
pleted for the traditional May
Morning Breakfast of the Y. W.
C. A. by the freshman cabinet
and invitations have been sent to
all Y. W. members, who will en
tertain their mothers at the affair
to be held in the Student Union
building on May 8.
An old fashioned garden Idea
will characterize the decorations,
with spring flowers gracing a gar
den trellis, and programs in the
shape of flower baskets. The pro
gram is to include music by Jean
Simmons and Charlotte Quick,
flutists and Mary Fellows, so
prano. A reciprocal toast will
be given by a mother and daugh
ter. Winifred Nelson, Y. W. C. A.
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WAYNE LAWYER TO SPEAK
AT LAW COLLEGE DINNER
Legal Students Hold Annual
Program in Student
Union May 6.
Fred Berry, lawyer from Wayne,
Neb., will speak at the annual col
lege of law banquet in the stu
dent union on Law Day, Friday,
May 6.
Pliny M. Moodie, chairman of
the committee for the Law Day
celebration, announced that the
program would follow thos of
past years, with the Initiation of
new members Into the Order of
the Coif in the morning, followed
by a ball game between faculty
members and students in the
afternoon, mid the banquet at the
student union in the evening.
Further plans will be made as
soon as the student union building
ia finished.
LEROSSIGMO
ti700THER.GIRLrVILL.D0, IDEA
GETS RAZZBERRY FROM COEDS
Kosmet Theory of Feminine
Likeness Merits Girls'
Approval Stamp.
Arc the movies on the right
track when they speak of the "one
woman in the world" for every
man, or is the current Kosmet
Klub show right when it says that
all women are alike and ono is
just about as bad as another?
A handful of representative
coeds thought the matter over and
came thru with the same answer,
but for a handful of different rea
sons. To a girl, they said a de
cided "Nix!" to the no-other-woman-will-do
school of thought.
One Who Can Fool Him.
Asked If she believed In the
idea, Jane Barbour, D. G., replied,
"No, but there is usually just one
woman who can make each man
think she is the only one In the
world for him."
"No," Pat. Jensen agreed, "but
I'd like to feel that some man
BOVVES
AMATEUR
PROGRAM HONORS
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Capital City's Inhabitants
May Ballot for Genial
Major's Proteges.
RAG-MAJOR BOWES
Major Bowes' amateur hour will
honor Lincoln tonight at 7 p. m.
over CBS station KFAB, and Lin
coln citizens will vote for their fa
vorite acts in the popularity con
test conducted by the genial major
to help him select winners and
future stars.
Lincoln residents will hear many
verbal bouquets which the major
will have to throw and may not
think their town is so bad after
all. Llncolnltes who wish to vote
for their favorites may do so bv
calling B7211 between 7 and 8:30
to express their choices. Individ
uals will be allowed one vote,
groups and organized societies
may tabulate votes up to the total
of 25. Families will be allowed
three votes, and if the family has
more than three in it, it may count
as a group.
Express Comment.
Voters are asked to be brief
about their votes, but comment on
the amateurs may be expressed.
Eunice Bingham, graduate of
the fine arts school here with a
major in education and violin
study is slated to represent Lin-
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Leica Photomcn
Snap King Satan,
All Devilish Crew
Representatives of the Leitz Op
tical Co., manufacturers of Leica
cameras, took special experimental
pictures of last night s perform
ance of "Hades Ladies," current
Kosmet Klub musical.
Using a camera that has been
out only two weeks and new ex
treme speed lenses, Harvey Bar
rett, Leica photographer from New
York City, and Claude Tilger, of
Lawlor s photographic department
took a number of pictures in na
tural color.
Chances Slight.
Chances of the colored pictures'
success are rather slight, accord
ing to Pilger, because the idea of
taking them under artificial light
without any special added equip
ment delves into an as yet un
proven field. Black and white pic
tures were also taken, however, of
various numbers in the show.
Barrett has been sent to Lincoln
in conjunction with a special ex
hibit planned by the Leitz Co. for
the state medical convention now
in session here. He brought with
him more than $4,000 worth of
photographic equipment.
HEALTH ASSOCIATION
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Pharmacy Dean to Address
Richmond Collegians
On May 4.
Dr. R. A T.yman, dean of the
college of pharmacy, was ap
pointed counselor-at-large for the
Mi&souri-Nebraska-Kansas section
of the American Student Health
association at a convention he at
tended recently at Columbia, Mo.
Dr. F.dna W. Schrick was the
other delegate.
Dean Lyman, who is one of the
pioneers in the program of phar
maceutical education, jyill address
students and faculty of the school
of pharmacy of the medical college
of Virginia at Richmond May 4 on
"The Romance of Pharmaceutical
Education."
While in the East, lie will repre
sent for the tenth year the Amer
ican Association of Colleges of
Pharmacy at the annual conven
tion of the American Council on
Education to be held in Washing
ton May 6 and 7.
might gaze Into another girl's eyes
and whisper 'Pat' In her ear some
night."
"No," said Eloiso Benjamin.
"Circumstances may limit a man's
choice so that he thinks so, how
ever." t
"Dream Girl" Out.
"There may be more than one
girl for every man. but only the
right woman ran make the man
happy," Holen Catherine Davis de
cided. "No," says DeLorls Bors to the
movie theory. "Fcliows fall in and
out of love so quickly one can't re
member who the current heart
beat la."
"A man has a type in mind, per
haps," said 'Jane Walcott, Kappa,
"but the 'deam girl' stuff Is out."
AH Women Alike.
Why do these coeds tniltt that
any one of several girls could dou
ble for tlK "one woman in the
world" for whom every man is
searching?
"Fundamentally all women are
alike," Pat Jensen answers. "It's
only their moods and reactions to
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IN
N TONIGHT
Student Council Approves
Men 's Point System Setup,
Recognizes Barb Faction
'Dissatisfied' Unaffiliates
Organize I.S.A.; Seek
Campus Offices.
A new faction entered the
arena of campus politics last night
when the Student Council recog
nized the Independent Students'
association. Presented for council
approval by Robert Simmons, the
I. S. A. was submitted as the re
filing of a barb organization.
"The word 'association" may not
be very apt as a description of a
political faction," Simmons ex
plained, in Introducing the peti
tion of the group. "We chose the
name because we are to be con
nected with the national I. S. A.,
not as a faction but as an organ
ization." Six Planks to Platform.
Set forth in the association's
platform were six aims: Encour
agement of barb use of the Stu
dent Union, obtaining of better
student housing conditions, es
tablishment of co-operative room
ing houses, improvement of stu
dent working conditions, an ade
quate intramural program, and in
crease in benefits of the student
book store.
The I. S. A.'s petition for recog
nition expressed the idea that the
petitioning students were dissatis
fied with the position of barbs on
the campus and proposed to place
more unaffiliated students in of
fices. Break With Liberals.
"This organization is merely
explain the duties and purpose of
Coed Counselors. Members will
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Installation Services Set
For Sunday Afternoon
In Ellen Smith.
One-hundred and fourteen wom
n were elected yesterday by the
Coed Counselor board to serve as
Coed Counselors next year for
freshmen women who will enroll
in the university. The Counselor
group was chosen without any so
rority alignments, out of the lists
who applied for the positions sev
eral weeks ago.
Installation for the newly elected
Counselors will be held Sunday aft
ernoon at 2:30 in Ellen Smith hall.
Marjorie Churchill, senior board
member, is chairman in charge of
the ceremony. Virginia Fleetwood,
president of the Counselor board,
will preside at the installation and
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Classes Hear Dr. J. D. Clark
In Addresses on Major
Business Trends.
Dr. John D. Clark, nationally
known oil executive, attorney and
educator, is lecturing this week be
fore several classes in the college
of business administration. Friday
afternoon he will lie one of the
principal speakers at the Nebraska
Economics conference.
Students of Dean J. E. LeRos
signol. Dr. E. A. dilmore, jr., and
Prof. Clifford Spangler heard talks
by Dr. Clark on Soviet Russia dur
ing the first of the week. "The
Prospective Reversal of the Trust
Policy" will be the subject of his
talk to students of Prof. Thco Bul
lock. Classes of Dr. C. E. McNeill and
Prof. C. M. Hicks will hear Dr.
Clark speak on the matter of pub
lic utility regulation. Last week
Dr. Clark wt at the University
of Wyoming giving a series of
similar addresses.
IVY DAY POETS SUBMIT
ENTBIESjy FRIDAY AT 5
Annual Contest Carries Cash
Award of Five Dollars
for Best Poem.
Potential Ivy Day Poets have
three more days in which to sub
mit poems for consideration by
the judges, Miss Louise Pound,
Miss Margaret McPhee and Dr.
L. C. Wimberly.
Entries must be handed in to
Mrs. Westover's desk in Ellen
Smith hall before 5 o'clock this
Friday. The name of the entrant
must be enclosed in a sealed en
velope accompanying the unidenti
fied poem.
Both men nd women may enter
the contest, and a cash award of
5 will be presented to the winner
who will have the privilege of read
ing his work in the Ivy Day cere-moQw
GREEK
DEBATERS
TH
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Kappa Sig, A.T.O., S.A.H
Z.B.T., Win First Tilt
in Eliminations.
The first elimination round of
the interfraternity debate tourna
ment was held Tuesday evening at
the chapter house of the affirma
tive team at 7 o'clock. Kappa Sig--ma.
Alpha Tau Omega, Zeta Beta
Tau and Sigma Alpha Mu were
the four winning teams of this
round.
Each speaker had a sU minute
constructive speech and a four
minute rebuttal. Their speeches
were on, "Resolved, that the United
States should greatly enlarge her
navy."
The teams participating in this
round were the following, with the
affirmative team named first:
Delta Theta Phi vs. Kappa
Sigma.
Alpha Tau Omega vs. Phi Al
pha Delta.
Beta Theta Phi vs. Zeta Beta
Tau.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon vs. Sig
ma Alpha Mu.
Carlos Sehaper, Eugene Curtis.
Harold Gur.skc, intercollegiate de
baters, were the judges.
Second Round.
This evening at 7 o'clock the
fourth round, or second elimination
round will be held at the chapter
house of the affirmative team. Be
low are the teams competing with
the affirmative team named first:
Beta Theta Phi vs. Phi Alpha
Delta.
Kappa Sigma vs. Delta Theta
Phi.
Alpha Tau Omega vs. Sigma
Alpha Mu.
Zeta Beta Tau vs. Sigma Al
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ASSOCIATION TO MEET
Convention to Commemorate
Fiftieth Anniversary
Of Laboratory.
In celebration of the fiftieth
anniversary of the psychological
laboratory of the university, the
rourteenth annual meeting of the
Midwestern Psychological associa
tion will be held on the campus
May 5-6, 1939. according to Dr. J.
P. Guilford, secretary-treasurer of
the association and head of the
psychology department on the cam
pus. Approximately 300 people are
expected to attend this meeting.
The association has about 500
members scattered thruout ID
states.
Local committers have not as
yet been chosen a It ho Dr. W. E.
Walton will be chairman of the
program committee.
Twelve people including mem
bers of the faculty and graduate
students from the university at
tended the last convention of this
organization at Madison, Wis.,
April 21-22, 1D3S.
Banquet in Union Building
To Climax Week's
Activities.
i Gov. Roy E. Cochran will speak
on some phase of engineering to
jthe various departments ot te
engineering college Ht their lan
i quct on Friday evening, May 6, at
' 6:30 o'clock in the student union,
j At this banquet, which winds up
engineer's week. Prof- J. P. Col
bert, instructor in engineering me
chanics, will introduce Governor
Cochran. Governor Cochran was
graduated from the University ot
Nebraska and later became chief
state engineer.
Toastmaster for the occasion
will be L. A. Bingham, assistant
professor of electrical engineering.
Oz Black, creator of the well
known "Here in Lincoln" feature
which appears in the Lincoln
Journal, for the entertainment will
present his chalk talk. Awards
of a scholastic nature will also be
given.
The "Sledge." engineer's joke
magazine which appears once a
year, will be distributed at the
banquet.
Tickets are 75 cents a place and
can be secured from John Kramer,
Tom Anderson, Harold Augustin
and Louis Henke,
TO OPEN FOUR
MATCH
ONIGHT
Governing Body Adds Minor
Amendments to New
Activities Plan.
The men's point fystem under
went three major changes before
the Student Council yesterday un
animously passed the setup which
has been hanging fire on the cam
pus for years. Next fall, the point
ing of men students will zo into
effect under the supervision of a
point system board.
The office of president of the In
nocents Society will be dropped
from the pointing plan, under the
revised .system, and the senior
men's honorary head will not
be barred from major offices in
other organizations. R. O. T. C. of
fices were also stripped of points.
Reduce Scholastic Requirement.
The scholastic average required
of men carrying the maximum
number of points was lowered from
82 to 80 percent, and the maximum
points which may be carried was
also decreased, from 11 to 9, while
the maximum points to be carried
by men with averages of 7S was
lowered from 8 to 7.
New activities ratinp for staff
members of the Daily Nehraskan
gave the editor and business man
ager four points: managing editor,
three: assistant business manager
and news editors, two; and society
editor, sports editor, and circula
tion manager, one.
Point System Flexible.
"As far as flexibility of the
point system goes, it is possible to
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Prof. Gramlich to Address
State Agriculturalist
Convo Friday.
More than 2,000 farmers of the
state are expected to attend the
26th annua Feeders' day at the
agricultural college Friday. Prof.
Howard Gramlich, known all over
the state for his experimentation
with grain sorghums and corn,
will be the principal speaker.
Prof. Gramlich, who will speak
on the subject, "Who's Knocking
at the Door." will bring out in
his address two topics that are
his greatest concerns, trench
silos, the system of putting corn
; underground and pickling it liki
j sauerkraut and his experiments
I with cattle by using grain sorg
I hums and corn for feed.
An advisor to the federal gov
I ernnient during the drought, Prof,
j Gramlirh has often been consulted
for agricultural policies in states
other than Nebraska. Last fall he
spoke in Florida, and in March he
was a judge at a large livestock
show in California.
State Cross Section.
Plans for Feeders' day are near
ing completion. Experimental cat
tle are being "weighed in" and
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Alpha Kappa Psi Plans Tour
Of Omaha Business
Houses May 6.
Lee Liggett was elected presi
dent and convention delegate of
Alpha Kappa Psi, bizad profes
sional fraternity, for the coming
I year at a meeting held Tuesday
I afternoon.
i Other new olficers are: Vice
president. Harold Leford; secre
tary, Kenneth Ellis; treasurer,
Richard Strasser; diary corre
spondent Gerald Spahn: ritualist,
Bernard Ingram and Bizad Ex
ecutive Council representative.
Robert Reed.
The district convention of the
fraternity will be held at Dallas,
Tex., on Oct. 21 and 22. May 6
was announced for the date of the
annual all-'iay field trip to Omaha.
This trip, which is the highlight
of the year, will include visits t'
various business establishments in
Omaha and is a part of the fra
ternity's riearch program.
Geography Students
Plan Field Excursion
For Friday, April 30
Students in Economic eography
71 are looking forward to an all
day field trip on Saturday, April
30.
On this trip Dr. Bengtson will
take his students to Weeping
Water and Louisville, where they
will study land utilization In rela
tion to soil as well as processes
of cement manufacture and pot
tery making as carried on by the
large factory at Louisville.
Three bus loads are scheduled to
ttkf trip.
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