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tan 111 Mebhaskan 2408 Official Newspaper Of More Than 7,000 Students Vol. 39, No. 69 Lincon, Nebraska Wednesday, January 10, 1940 Proffitt sets Feb. 1 for skit deadline Kosmett Kfub president annowimces four plays now Him preparation Deadline on the submission of original fiiutw for the Kosmet Klub spring show, .April 8 to 13, will be Feb. 1, Roy Proffitt, president of the Klub, nnwanced yesterday. One script hatj already been handed in and three otters are known to be in preparation. Selection wiE be on the basis of clevernemj and adaptibility to an all male cast. Forty dollars will go to the writer of the ac cepted skit, all rights of repro duction being merved to the Klub. Ten dollars ia awarded for second prize with honorable mention to all other entrants. The two best skits, for which prizes are .given, will be kept in the possession of the Klub. Production will begin soon after examinations with tryouts and dance routine which will be scheduled later according to Pres ident Proffitt. All scenery and cos tumes are prepared by Kosmet Klub workern under the direction of committees of the Klub. Feature fony choruses Plays Bhouii! be about two hours in length and should have a swift-moving interesting plot rather than an tmphasis on puns ami dry wit. Pony choruses are the feature of all spring comedies, Proffitt added, and therefore should be brought into the play. Manuscripts should be sub mitted at once to Roy Proffitt or Wt at the KoMuifet Klub office on the third flooor of the Union. Another prls of ten dollars will be given later in the year to the writer of the best song. Though the lyrica cannot be penned till after the how has been selected, music can be mi; omitted to Proffitt now. Any nonjf writer wishing in formation about the preparation of music for the show is asked to inquire of Kiub members. Schoolmen hear Kansas educator Speaking on "Some Conclusions of a School Board Member," P. J. Newman, preHident of the Man hattan, Kan., board of education, adiressed the winter dinner meet ing of the Nebraska schoolmas ters' club at Grand island last night. Dr. W. II. Morton, principal of teachers cohere high school, and clulrman of the department of secondary education, who ia presi dent of the club, presided at the dinner which was hem in ine Ho tel Yancey. Ti.e dinner wus at ten led bv ileU rates to the con v'nlion of the Nebraska School Bnrds association. Mastodons couldn't stand the weather, the big sissies Nebraska people may think they have suffered drouth and dust storms, but their woes are far overshadowed by those of the poor historic wastadons, according to a theory e tressed by two Ne braska scientists. C. Bertrand Schultz, assistant museum director, and Thompson M. Stout, gcolcgy department, in a recent report at an annual con vention of the society of verte brate paleontologists told of the plight of the ancient animals. " Drouth and duststorms drove animals found now only In mu seums from Nebraska to the far south. ThcHC animals were mas todons, rMnoccri and other similar creatures. Arctic weather helped to hasten Druggists told to be businesslike Knowledge of modern mer chandising methods is absolutely necessary for the successful drug gist, John A. Porter, Lincoln pharmacist, told members of the Pharmaceutical club at a monthly meeting held last night. "The only way to get practical training as a druggist is to work in a drug store," stated the speak er in emphasizing the value of business training to would-be-pharmacists. In discussing the service which druggists render to their com munities, Mr. Porter called the drug store "indispensable" to mod ern life. The speaker is a former member of the state board of ex aminers and a member of the ex ecutive committee of the Nebras ka State Pharmaceutical associ ation. Players give 'What a Life1 next week NU students are first amateurs to produce latest Broadway hit "What a Life" will be produced by an amateur group for the first time when the curtain rises upon the next University Players pro duction Tuesday, Jan. 16. The play was just finished roadshowing, with Jackie Coogan its star, and has been released to other groups only recently. The play, a swift moving com edy of high school life, has de lighter theater, motion picture and radio audiences since its opening in New York last season. Growing directly out of the pro duction is today's radio serial, "The Aldrich Family," writeen by Clifford Goldsmith, author of the play. The serial takes Henry Al drich from his scholastic difficul ties into one of more domestic nature, but the characters are por trayed as they were originally cre ated. The movie, released last fall, starred Jackie Cooper. Jack Bittner will play the lead ing role of Henry: Virginia Thede, Barbara Pearson, the junior class president; Barbara Blrk, Miss Shea, the office secretary; and Grant Thomas, Mr. Nelson, the assistant principal. The setting is a principals office. Henry, whose father Is a Prince ton Phi Beta Kappa, Is a high school boy with limited mentality and more limited inventiveness. Had he been either a better scho lar or a more plausible liar, his troubles might have been a little less involved. But he was neither, and the difficulty is encounters in his attempt to take Barbara to the school dance, will greatly amuse everyone not too far removed from the high school clays. the migration to a southern cli mate. This is Indicated, the two stated, by the absence of fossils In windblown deposits. Wide fluctuations In climate oc curred. coverlne millions of years, during the tertiary and ice age pe riods, according to uiem. "At the beginning of the Ne braska territory a period of wide spread aridity apparently was a factor In the extmction or a group of huge rhlnoceros-lke animals Known as tiianineras, me acien tists said. Another drouth. "Just before the beginning of the Ice age another great drouth was probably responsible for the death of such animals as the long' (See SISSIES, page 4) Countryman filings close today at 5 14 positions to be filled in near future by ag publications committee Filings for positions on the staff of the Cornhusker Countryman will close today at 5 p. m., R. T. Prescott, faculty chairman of the ag publications committee, warns ag students. This is the annual election of editorial and business executives for the ag student pub lication. Ag men and women interested should file written applications In ag hall 301 if they have not al ready done so. The faculty com mittee asks that applicants state their experience, preference of po sition, and time available. The positions open: Editor, as sociate agricultural editor, associ ate home economics editor, busi ness manager, associate business manager, circulation manager, as sociate circulation manager, and assistants to each of these. The positions of staff photographers and staff artists are also open. Officers elected now will be in charge the last semester of this year and the first of next, accord ing to the committee. Applications have been coming in steadily the past few days. The new officers will be named late this week or the first of next No cure for colds, says Lyman, but can be avoided There is no sure method of pre venting colds, says Dean R. A. Lyman, director of the student health service. "Popular notions about preventing colds thru the use of well known mouthwashes and other medicines have been proved to be bunk as the result of experiments." Speaking of mouthwashes, Dr. Lyman asserted that there are no safe antiseptics for use in the throat. Weak solutions do not kill germs, and preparations strong enough to kill disease microbes injure throat tissues and weaken the cells in the lining. Keeping away from crowds was suggested by Dean Lyman as one possible method of preventing colds. Making proper clothing adaptations to changes in tern perature was also urged. Frosh aptitude exams help advisers predict scholarship Scholastic aptitude examinations such as are given to freshmen en tering the university Increase the efficiency of predicting the stu dents' scholarship as much as 33 percent, according to a study con ducted by the bureau of instruc tional research. When advisers depend merely upon incidental information derived chiefly from interviews, the effi ciency of their predictions of the students' scholastic success is gen erally estimated at about five per cent, Dr. J. P. Guilford, director of the bureau, and H. M. Cox, statistician, point out. With the use of the Ohio State psychological test, which Is given to all entering students, the forecasting success is increased considerably. Guilford, Cox collaborate. To determine the valU'ty of the ei. ranee examinations given at Nebraska, Dr. Guilford and Cox computed the co-efficient of corre lation between these test scores and final marks on various fresh man courses. Perfect correlation Is indicated by a score of 1, which (See FROSH EXAMS, page 4) Bengtson reveals division's policy m Dr. Nels Bengtson, dean of new ly created Junior Division. See page three for complete story. Daily offers ad awards Six firms co-operate in sponsoring contest Embroyonic ad writers will be rewarded for their efforts if they beat their competitors in the "You Write It Ad Contest" announced today on page 8 of the DAILY. Six firms are co-operating with the DAILY in sponsoring the con test. The firms will present valu able prizes to the winners of the contest. Prof. Forrest C. Blood, professor of advertiing, will judge the entries. All entries must be turned in to the DAILY business office or Professor Blood's office by Wednesday noon, Jan. 17. Win ning ads will be published Jan. 21. Prizes offered by firms include free theater tickets, a case of 7-Up, meal tickets and credit at a local cleaning shop. Contestants may enter as many ads as they wish. Ads may be entered for as many firms as the contestant wishes as each firm will award a separate prize. Additional contest sheets will be available at both the DAILY office and Professor Blood's office. Members of the DAILY business staff are not eligible to enter the contest. Hendricks article Dr. B. Clifford Hendricks of the department of chemistry has an article entitled "Irene Curle-Jollot Wins a Nobel Prize" which will be published in The Scientific Leaf let in February. Chief custodian describes Union heating, cooling plant When you rush Into the Union during these cold, stormy days, have you ever stopped to think how heat Is so comfortably main tained throughout the building? And then on those hot days, dur ing the second semester finals, when you come in for the grand breath of cool air? If you have, here's the answer. The Union is heated and cooled by one system, which is among the finest of its kind in the coun try, according to Charles Bolus, chief custodian of the building. The cool or warm air is dis tributed by blower type fans through seven large units, each regulating their share of the rooms. All units are thermostati cally controlled. These units are intricate ma chines, Indeed so much that only George Brebon, air conditioning Council meets in delayed session today Group lacks quorum for first meeting; will discuss rally plan In extraordinary meeting today, the Student Council will gather to discuss and pass upon issues that were supposed to have been set tled at their regular meeting last Wednesday. Due to an absence of a quorum, the previous session was adjourned without taking any ac tion. Before the house are the resig nation of Otto Worner, barb mem ber of the Council; report of the budget committee; report of the political rally committee on the proposed change in faction rallies; appointment of an honors convoca tion committee; underwriting of the Junior-Senior Prom; and a re port from the library committee. Dispute starts with Prom election. Woemer submitted his resigna tion last meeting following the election of the Prom committee members, in protest of the actions of the Council in the election. The Council, with a progressive major ity, garnered an enormous plural ity on the committee to elect a clean progressive slate. Woerner before the election advocated the appointment of one membr from each faction on the committee but the Council rejected the measure on the basis that, since the Council was a representative body and acted as such, the Prom board should conform to this policy. Some definite action is hoped for at this meeting on the new "model" political rally plan which was Initiated by a committee ap pointed by the Council to investi gate the possibility of eliminating the torch light rally which this fall resulted in a serious injury to one student. The proposed rally embodies a mass meeting of the entire stu dent body at which time political hopefuls and faction representa tives would address the students. Committee members feel that this will eliminate faction friction and allow for more businesslike and ef ficient electioneering. The Weather Wednesday will be mostly cloudy, tho not quite so cold. Tuesday night temperatures of 10 to 15 degrees will rise consider ably today. Iowa State offers course in brick laying Do you want to be a good brick layer? Iowa State colhge, recognizing a shortage in skilled labor, opened Jan. 9 a nine-week course in tho art of piling bricks. Thirty-five appentices with at least six months experience were enrolled. regulator, is allowed to handle them. They are controlled by a panel where at a simple push of a button, heat is blown into any part of the building. All air is first tempered by coils before passing into the units, in order to keep the latter from freezing. Air pulled In from roof The air is pulled in from the roof, and mingled with previously heated air from the building.' Twenty percent fresh air is mixed with 80 percent return air, then passed over the colls. The other 20 percent of used air is pulled out through the exhaust system. All the air passes through a double set of filters which clean it thoroughly before it goes to the rest of the Union. The filters are cleaned twice a month to insure students and employees of breath (See UNION HEATING, page 4&