Wednesday. October 25. 1939
The DAIIY NKRRASKAN
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Eight file
for Farmers
Formal queen
Men will vote to elect
most popular ag woman
at annual party Friday
Eight home economics seniors
wore named yesterday as filings
closed for Farmers Formal queen.
The candidates: Lois Hammond,
Gwen Jack, Mario Lienert, Har
riet Millbern, Mary Schrickor,
Peggy Sherburn, Marian Smrha,
Amolic Svoboda.
Election of the queen will take
place at the Farmers Formal,
annual ag party, Friday night. The
girl receiving the highest number
of votes from the men attending
the event will be presented in n
novel ceremony as the highlight of
the evening. The other candidates
will take part as her attendants.
Ticket sales, which opened last
Friday, have been good, according
to Will Pitner and Rhoda Chesley,
in charge of tickets. Tickets for
more than 100 couples have al
ready been sold, with the total ex
pected to run up to at least 300 by
Friday evening. Dick Mills and
his Southern Swingstcrs will play
at the Formal. The Mills orches
tra is coming to ag campus direct
from Kansas City, where it has
been playing at Hotel Muehlbach.
Costumes this year are expected
to be in keeping with the decora
tion theme. The activities building
will be changed to resemble the
interior of a barn.
SOCIETY,
Prize pin hanging is daytime
affair-just to be different
This week's prize pin hanging
goes to Bryce Brodrick, AGR, the
object of whose affections is Bar
bara Crandall. And just to be dif
ferent, the whole thing took place
at about 10 in the morning.
Arnold Carlson came back to
town, but his ACBC gals didn't
see much of him. Mary Lloyd took
up most of his time.
A sign on the ag hall bulletin
board is causing some comment.
"Call for mate at finance office."
Tsk, tsk. tsk!!
It peems that Hah Mae Brad
ford has taken her orientation se
riously and really believes in fol
lowing a schedule. Since she has
three boy friends, according to re
ports, she dates one in the morn
ing, one in the afternoon, and one
in the evening. Moral: don't let
your studies interfere with your
Hcnzlik analyzes
women's service
"Home is the best place for
character building," Dean F. H.
Henzlik of teachers college told
the Nebraska Federation of Wom
en's Clubs in convention in Lin
coln yesterday. Henzlik qualified
his statement by saying the home
offers the best opportunities for
creating right attitudes, promot
ing wholesome activities, and com
mending right actions.
Mending right actions.
Sponsoring and encouraging
programs which improve relation
ships between parents and chil
dren is the greatest service which
women'i clubs can do, said Hcnz
lik. The dean cited recent studies in
which investigators found that
children who come from homes
where parents are divorced, or
disagree, make lower grades than
children from happy homes. A
large percentage of criminals in
prisons and reformatories come
from homes where there is con
stant disagreement.
NEBRASKAN CLASSIFIED ADS
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TYPEWRITERS
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SALE and RENT
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Movie Clock
Nebraska: "Honeymoon In
Bali" 1:13, 3:21, 5:30, 7:37, 9:45
Varsity: "They Shall Have
Music" 1:20, 3:20, 5:25, 7:25,
9:30.
Stuart: "What a Life" 1:23,
3:30, 5:37, 7:44, 9:51.
Kiva: "Love Affair" 1:00,
3:55, 6:45, 9:45. "Blockade"
2:25, 5:25, 8:15.
Liberty: "Old Maid" 1:30,
3:30, 5:30, 7:30, 9:30.
Lincoln: "Blackmail" 1:00,
4:04, 6:52, 9:56. "Mr. Moto's
Last Warning" 2:44, 5:32, 8:36.
Agdramaticsclub
elects newofficers
Edward Klostermeyer, ag senior,
was elected president of the ag
college dramatics club at the
group's business meeting late last
week. Nadine Brittell is the new
vice president; Lenore Alma, secretary-treasurer;
Kenneth Bayne.
publicity chairman and Christine
Hoffbauer, publicity assistant.
Klostermeyer, who succeeds
Vivian Brown as head of the club,
immediately started members to
work on a skit for presentation at
Coll-Agri-Fun.
Meetings of the club have been
set for the first and third Tues
days of each month, with member
ship open to all ag students Inter
ested in dramatics work. The
president emphasized that all stu
dents will have an opportunity
during the year to appear in skits
and plays, as the dramatics club
will follow the policy used in for
mer years of furnishing entertain
ment at campus functions.
education. On weekends, of course.
Fred Whitney is offering a prize
for anyone who can show him how
to make a haystack without using
nay. It could be the heat.
Ople Hedlund was heard re'
marking that the picture of Nor
man Kruse was awfully cute. How'
ever, it Is ag opinion that Norman
is not the only one of the Kruse
family sne thinks about.
A new combination on the cam
pus is Jean Voight and Arden
Sherf. Although Arden is a gradu
ate student and Jean a freshman,
we suspect that the Farmer's For
mal and Military Ball dates are
taken.
Last but not least, here's a tall
one about Iris Johnson being all in
a dither about that Baylor accent
from the country of the high heels
and ten-gallon hats.
NSTA group
meets Friday
Dr. Telle to speak
on 'Europe in 1939'
The Modern Language division
of the Nebraska State Teachers'
association will meet at the uni
versity, Friday, Oct. 27.
Of special interest to those in
the Romance Languages depart
ment is a talk which will be given
by Dr. Emile V. Telle on "Europe
in 1939."
The meeting will be held at
2 p. m. in Morrill, room 219, and
will be under the direction of the
president of the association, An
netta M. Sprung of Lincoln high
school.
The program is as follows:
Frenrh mm, Lincoln high irhool.
"Study Abroad," .Robert Htookey, Uni
versity of NebriMka.
Spnnlah tonga, University of Ne
braska. "Culture: An Important Tore In
Individual and Horlal Growth, " Dr.
Lydla Wagner, UnWernlty of Nebraska.
German tunga, University of Ne
braska. "The Cultural Value of LlnRulatle
Science In Modem Language 8tudy," Dr.
H. O. Keimuth, Union college.
"Kurope In 1939, Dr. Emlle V.
Telle, University of Nebraska.
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NEWS COMMENT
U.S. freighter
Segal prize
of nazi raider
By Woerner and Steele.
A German sea raider captured
the American freighter, the City
of Elint, Monday as it was carry
ing contraband to England. The
ship, conceded by America to be
a legal German prize, was sent to
Russia with a prize crew on
board. Should the cargo prove to
be over one-half contraband,
America will lose all rights to
the ship. The prize crew was in
terned by Russia.
Had Congress passed the pro
posed neutrality law prohibiting
U. S. shipping to belligerents, the
seizure would never have been
made. The senate, however, is
only now nearing a vote on the
controversial measure. After ex
empting "ordinary inland" trade
with Canada from the cash and
carry provisions of the pending
law, senators arranged to bring
debate to a close this week. The
outcome most probably will be
repeal of the arms embargo, pas
sage of provisions for cash and
carry, and prohibition on shipping
to belligerents and on shipping In
war zones.
Turks woo Mussolini.
Turke yand Italy, traditional
enemies, may get together to make
the near east less and less a
poaching ground for kleptomaniac
Hitler. The Turks are reportedly
wooing Mussolini while the Ital
ians are seen as building a neu
tral bloc in the Balkans which
would serve to head off further
action in that area by either Ger
many or Russia. Such a develop
ment, following the allies' pact
with Turkey, would be a second
great diplomatic setback for the
Germans. These aims expressed in
Balkan papers, however, are still
far from realities and Britain and
France cannot yet relax their ef
forts in those quarters.
Negotiations between Finland
and Russia are still going on. The
Finns are reported opposed to
quartering of soviet troops on their
soil or granting of rights on the
Aaland islands, but willin gto cede
other Baltic islands to become red
air and naval bases.
Von Ribbentrop defied the al
lies in a speech delivered today at
Danzig. Finding that all British
and Frertch speakers declare that
they seek security, Ribbentrop
joined the throng stating that the
reich would battle until her se
curity was assured.
Thompson attacks 'Llndy.'
Dorothy Thompson, well known
American columnist, is continuing
her attacks on Colonel Lindbergh's
second speech. She finds that he
has nazi leanings and is a new
American imperialist. Woe unto
those who strive to keep the
United States at home and out of
other peoples' wars. Even Lindy's
great popularity has not saved
him.
During the World war Germany
sent a captured ship to an Amer
lean port, then neutral, to be n-
terned for the duration of the war
and then- to become German prop
erty, just as now she sent the
City of Flint to Russia. Interna
tional law courts decided against
Germany In the World war and the
allied ship was released. Russia's
feeling toward Germany will be re
vealed somewhat if the City of
Flint is held foj Germany, or given
its freedom.
Barnard, Haney address
ASME group tonight
All sophomore, junior and senior
mechanical engineers have been in
vited to attend a dinner meeting
of the American Society of Me
chanical Engineers to be held at
the Union tonight at 6. Charge for
the dinner will be 25 cents a plate
Speakers at the dinner will be
Prof. Niles H. Barnard, and Prof.
Jiles Haney, of the department of
mechanical engineering, who will
speak on Nebraska s Rating as
an Engineering School" and "The
Building of a 100 Car Train Ele
vator," respectively. Technical
motion pictures will be shown
after the addresses.
Wei land speech printed
The National Petroleum News
has printed an abstract of Profes
sor W. F. Weiland's talk before
the June meeting of the oil and
gas power division of the Ameri
can Society of Mechanical Engi
neers at Ann Arbor, Mich.- Thei
university engineer discussed his
test-tube method of determining
Agronomists
'assemblying7
new hybred
Corn seed No. 463 will
be available to farmers
by 1942, for planting
An exceptionally promising new
Nebraska corn hybrid will be in
the "factory" stage next year,
agronomists at the college of ag
riculture announced today. And the
"parts" are now available to grow
ers who want to "manufacture"
this new hybrid seed for certifi
cation. The new hybrid, which will be
known as Nebraska No. 463, is a
product of the university agricul
tural experiment station. In four
year tests it has yielded over 20
percent more than ordinary corn
varieties, and has shown excep
tional lodge resistance. It com
pares favorably with the best hy
brids now certified in Nebraska,
and like them will be rocom
mended only for the eastern one-
third of the state and irrigated
areas further west. It has a me
dium date of maturity around 110
days.
Hybrids like complex machine
But since hybrid corn is a com
plex machine, according to the
agronomists, ilike a new model
car, for example, it takes at least
a year or two before a new hybrid
can move from the blueprint stage
onto the "assembly line" for mass
production and general distribu
tion. And D. L. Gross, extension
agronomist at ag college points out
that seed of this new Nebraska
hybrid 463 will not be available
for farm planting until a year
from next spring.
The seed now available is the
parent seed which will be planted
and crossed next year to produce
seed of the new hybrid for general
farm planting the following year,
Nebraska farmers interested in
producing hybrid seed for certifi
cation can now obtain either the
four lines, of inbred seed to be
used in producing the first cross;
or the two lines of first cross seed
for use in producing the second
cross or commercial hybrid seed.
Lessons improve
frosh reading
ability greatly
Remedial instruction in reading
has improved the scores of poor
freshman readers 25 to 200 per
cent in a single semester, at
teachers college. Improvement
was marked in comprehension as
well as speed.
Dr. Ralph C. Bedell of the de
partment of educational psychol
ogy and measurements, who is in
charge of the university's reading
laboratory, found that by the end
of the semester the average stu
dent tested waa able to read as
rapidly and efficiently as the aver
age sophomore who had never
been given the reading instruction.
"Our laboratory program is de
signed to find out as early as pos
sible the student's several needs,"
Dr. Bedell declared. "The next
step is to provide the type of
remedial instruction which will
more rapidly and efficiently bring
about the desired improvement."
Teachers college freshmen are
no longer classified as good and
poor readers, for recent investi
gations have revealed that altho
many students may score high in
reading the printed word, these
same individuals may show up
poorly in their ability to read
charts and maps.
"Our present program takes
cognizance of these specific prob
lems and provides the correctional
exercises which will best meet
them," Dr. Bedell stated.
The university educator esti
mates that 268 freshmen in teach
ers college will take the reading
instruction course this semester. A
similar number were registered
for the work last fall.
NU geologist entertains
Frick laboratory official
Mr. and Mrs. C. Bertrand
Schultz had as their guest re
cently Charles H. Falkenbach,
field associate of the Frick lab
oratories of the American Museum
of Natural History, New York
City. Falkenbach was in Lincoln
several days checking over the
material that he and Schultz have
been gathering the last several
years. The New York scientist was
particularly impressed with the
recent remodeling in themusrum,
the rearranging of displays and
systematizing of storage eollec
1
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at MILLER'S
HPAKE HEART the
ladders, the paint
ing, the roii nil floors
are fast disappearing,
and soft rurprts and
mirror are tuking
their placet
JMpVYBE you
wear sport
socks, for the
campus, but
for dress up
you go femi
nine and like
a sheer, lovely
chiffon hose.
We've a spe
cial on our
reg.
A
pali
1.15 hose.
89c
Street Floor.
A NECKLACE that
will give a rosy
tint to a cloudy day, is
one of genuine
CORAL. 2.50 and
more.
Jewelry Street Floor.
TV E C K
n WEAR
ran change
last year's
frock to
make it
look li k e
n e w -
you've
prob ably
heard that
before, but
if you
haven't
seen our
big selec
tion of
styles, do
$1 and more.
come in.
Neckwear Street Floor.
V
A BIG special pnr
chase of HAND
KERCHIEFS that are
imilar to ones we us
ually sell for 50c, can
be bad this week for
29c each. Attractive
hand blocked prints,
treet Floor.
Nebraskan
Watch
for .
"Spied at Eff
Miller's" yp
in next I
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