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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 6, 1940)
Tuesday. February 6, 1940 Tlie DAILY NEBRASKA Night school registration held Monday Courses offered include psychology, physiology, foreign language Registration for students attend ing evening classes was held last night in Grant Memorial hall.' Set ting a new precedent, a fee will be charged all who failed to register last night Among the various courses of fered are children's classes, read ing and speaking classes, and pub lic speaking classes. Psychology courses offered are, elementary psychology, problems of personal ity, and psychology of the profes sions. The psychology department gives healthful living, personal hy giene, and principles of nursing. Continued for the second semes ter are new courses in advanced shorthand, geography of Europe, the press and world affairs, and salesmanship. Popular business courses in accounting, advertising, theory and practice, business law, and personnel and labor relations will be offered. In education several courses are offered to accommodate teachers. There are also courses offered by the English department and classes in German, Spanish, and French. History courses and elementary harmony will be offered. Other fields of work include as tronomy, mathematics, geology, economics, sociology, and engineer ing drawing. Alumnus writes article on television reception Ralph S. Holmes, electrical en gineering '23, who is in charge of television receiver research for the RCA manufacturing company, has an article describing television re ccption in an airplane in the RCA Review, a quarterly journal of radio progress. Gass writes novel Prof. S. B. Gass of the depart ment of English will nave a new book published within the next few weeks. It is entitled "Fam ily Crisis," and is a narrative cov ering five years of his early life at Dayton, Ohio. Publishers are Reynal and Hitchcock, inc., New York City. High cost of an editorship or-day with the pub board It is the fatal afternoon ... if you aren't a member of the DAILY staff, you won't get the full sig nificance of the words. In the language of the man on the cam pus, it's the day the publications board meets to decide who will edit El Raggo and who will not mostly the latter. The scene is the journalism classroom in U hall. Fifteen or twenty editors, reporters, and other people with a drop of print er's ink in their veins are lolling about waiting for the pub board to meet. The meeting is scheduled for 3 p. m. Things move slowly. Of course, the board has to nee the Awgwanites first. The DAILY members are rather uppity about this. They can't see why the Awgwan should be placed in the same category as a reputable pub lication like the DAILY. Lack-a-day life. Still they have to sit and wait. Some of them have brought bonks and are pretending to study. I5ut they can't keep their minds on their books. They keep looking at their watches, staring at he ceil ing, as though waiting for some one to come in with the warden's reprieve. They tap their fingers, they chew their nails. It's pub board day. Pub board . . . rub board . . . pub, glub, dub . . . lot's of things rhyme with pub, don't they? Oh, don't mind me- I'm only passing the time. Did the keeper tell you my name is Mussolini? Ilee ha-lui-ha-ha-ha-ha ! All for what? Hours pass . . . you pretty near ly decldo to go home and forget all about being a great journal ist. Their hours are bud anyway and the pay Is low. Then they call you In. You have to go In by yourself. At least, in the prisons they furnish a ch-"-lain and the warden puts his hai.d on your arm. Anyway, that's the way James Cagney has done it in his last 429 pictures. But you've NU weatherman proves himself a topnotch writer Nebraska students who are us ing Prof. Thomas A. Blair's book on "Weather Elements", are now one of a hundred student bodies whose faculties have adopted the text. Blair, who is director of the Ne braska weather bureau service, and professor of meteorology at the university, has gained national recognition as an author since the publication of his book in 1937. Adoptions are increasing each year. He now has plans for a second book. This one will discuss the weather, what it is and how to judge it. Mr. Blair, who Is one of the few government observers to en ter the writing profession, has been in the government service for thirty-two years, and as director in Nebraska since 1924. He be gan his service at the Sacramento, Calif., station, and since has worked in Minnesota, Colorado, Utah, Iowa, and Hawaii. He came to Lincoln from Honolulu. Countryman contest closes Haumont is high with 85 subscriptions The Cornhusker Countryman closed its subscription contest last week with Mary Bell Haumont winning first prize by selling 85 subscriptions since the contest started and a total of 220 sub scriptions for the semester. Eugene Shaw was second high individual in the contest with a to tal of 60 subscriptions. The contest nas resulted in a considerable increase in circulation of the Countryman with most of the organized houses now taking block subscriptions and a circula tion among the ag faculty of 120. Awarding of the prize depended upon the individual's own efforts because a set number of votes had to be obtained by subscriptions to get any of the several prizes of fered, whether the solicitor was ahead or not. First prize was ten dollars. got to go all by yourself. This is what I get for following the Pro fession. Tell them I died for the Daily Nebraskan. You walk in. You get a big breath of air to steady yourself. You try to look pleasant. If you want people to like you . . . smile! Smile, nuts. Dr. Jekyll could look pleasanter than you feel right now. The new editor? The pub board seems amiable but suspicious. What this kid an editor? Ye gawds, what is college journalism coming to? What's that? Somebody is ask ing you a question. You hope you don't look as pale as you feel You'd be glad to say something if you could only breathe. They want to know why you want to be an editor. Well, why do you? I hope to contribute something to the great world of the Fourth Estate and besides I need the twenty bucks. How does that sound? Oh, nurse! You've stammered your answer . . . something about thinking you're qualified. Qualified, ha! That's a laugh -you're qualified for a good nervous breakdown. Nurse, the DAILY NF.BKASKAN please ... I want to sec if I or two other guys wus made an editor. How much have you written? What big stories have you turned out? Did you see the December 19th issue? Well, did you see the Classified Ads? Well, right down there under the classifieds I had an item. Yes sir. wrote it myself. Somehow it's over and you don't know what you said or why. For all you know you recited the Dec laration of Independence or told them when Orion will be in its ascendancy. Who wants to be an editor, any way? I'd rather be a reporter any day. You pet more exercise and you don't have to take the rap when somebody spells the chan cellor's name wrong. Gosh, I wonder who got in! Agronomists say Crop management can make grass as profitable as corn University agronomists at the Nebraska agricultural experiment station along with those of fed eral agencies and of many other states are convinced that the sci ence of crop improvement and crop management can be applied as. profitably to grass as it has been, for example, to corn and small grains. Altho one of the world s oldest and most valuable "crops," it is one of the last to give in to breed ing, selection and management studies and all the other trap pings of modern civilization. Technically speaking, of course, all the common grain and forage crops are grasses but the term here means only pasturage or range grasses as the average per son thinks of them. The latest study of grass man agement reported on in Nebraska is one conducted on the range lands of Cherry county the past three summers under the supervi- sion of Dr. A. L. Frolik of the aeronomv department. Carried on onlv in the sandhills the first two years, it was extended last year to the hardlands. The studies were directed tmvnrri a four-fold iroal: (1) To determine the densitv of the veer- etable cover; (2) To determine what species contribute to this cover, and in what proportion; pronucea me largest, yieias 01 ior (3) To determine the productivity age. Comparative yields, of course, and percentage utilization by live- stock of the imnortant plants; (4) To arrive at an accurate method of calculating carrying ca- Retired dean of men dies Chatburn associated with NU for 37 years Prof. George R. Chatburn, re tired chairman of applied mechan ics in the engineering college and former dean of men, died last week. Chatburn had been associated with the university for 37 years. He resigned eight years ago be cause of ill health. When Chatburn was made in structor in mathematics in 1894 he had no assistants and no equipment. He had seen the de partment grow while he advanced through different ranks to become head of mechanics and machine design. Roads as a hobby. His hobby was good roads, and he gave numerous talks over the state on the subject. He wrote the first road bill introduced into the legislature. Active in the society for the promotion of the engineering pro fession, he served as president in 1916-17, and a member of the council and of the publication committee. Professor Chatburn was chair man of the scholarship committee and of the course of study com mittee in the college of engineer ing. He was a member of Sigma XI, Sigma Tau, Acacia, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American As sociation of University Professors. Student Pulse Thr Mtt-ri prrwnlrd In this rolunin do not rxprevn thr Mrti of editorial policy (if llir D.IIU.-M. Deor Editor: ; Words are so inadequate. I'm not even sure that what I have to say can be put into words. But anyhow, here's the deal in a bushel basket. For the last couple of days now, I have watched part of United States construction gang, namely the WPA, shovel the snow off of the parkings along the south side of the campus, throw white rock on the parkings, and then shovel the snow back on. Now I suppose there Is some reason for it. But I've racked a food brain for hours and I can't decide why it is being done. After all, what deference does It make where that snow melts? Huh? Perhaps some geologist wll dig up some reason. They're always digging up something. Or maybe some agronomist will come out with a theory. I don t care who tells me or how they get about to telling it but I just gotta know why they shovel the snow off, throw the rocks on, then shovel the snow back? Even the WPA'- ers don't know. Over-Curious, r ' 1 J X If v fPW SI f K i J r ' t 1 i DR. A. L. FROLIK. Sunday Journal and Star. pacity by range surveys The most important grasses and their respective contribution to me umhi vceiauve cover wnt found to be sand reedgrass, hairy grama, sand dropseed, blowout gress, little bluestem, sandhill bluestem, and love grass. Sand reedgrass was not only the most common grass, but it also nad to ne tigurea on a compara ble basis to give the less com mon species an even break with the more common ones, Psychologist says even rodents can distinguish colors If you believe that your dog or cat can tell the difference be tween colors, you may soon have scientific proof to back you up according to Dr. W. E. Walton, ex perimental psychologist. Dr. Walton has announced new series of experiments on dogs and cats to follow studies he has iust completed on rats. In these experiments Dr. Walton has shown that rodents can distinguish be tween red-blue, red-green, red-yellow, and blue-yellow. The cats and dogs will be tested next because they represent a step upward in the development of mammals. The whole purpose of the experi ment is to trace the development of color perception toward its high est power in man. Science has already recognized that lower forms of life have inferior powers of perception, ranging from birds, insects, and fish at one end of the scale to apes and man at the other. Krause and Howley win posts in Tassel election Margaret Krause was elected secretary of Tassels, and Beth Howley was elected head of the publicity committee of the same group at a meeting yesterday. So you thinkyouarecold! Stadium shrinks 4 inches So you think you - are cold! How many inches have you lost? The A.A.U. track teams lost four and didn't mind. The temperature dropped to 15 below, and the track shrank almost four inches. John Selleck declares that he has enough to worry about, however, without having football games in sub-zero weather. Theoretically there would be 29 less seats, ac cording to Prof. Daniel H. Hark ness of the department of civil engineering, in explaining the laws of expansion and contrac tion. Not sanforized. The stadium Isn't the only thing that cringes against sub zero blasts. When it is 15 below, the 55-milc highway between Omaha and Lincoln shrinks 192 feet or about two-thirds of a block. Change is size with the variation in temperature necessi tates building pavements, sta diums, and the like in sections. The tar filling between the slabs is a protection as well as an ex pansion joint. Otherwise the con crete surfaces would Boon decay and develop millions of cracks, say the civil engineers. Although the driver doesn't no tice, the Lincoln O street viaduct loses almost nine inches of its Houses enter booth plans for Carnival Coed Counselor board to select ideas this week for penny fete Feb. 17 Announcement of the selection of booths to compete in the com ing Penny Carnival will be forth coming sometime late this week or early next week, according to Fern Steuteville, president of the Coed Counselors board, which is pre senting the Carnival Saturday, Feb. 17. Nearly every women's house en tered an idea for a booth last week. and the selection of the ten or twelve best which will appear at next week's Carnival will be made at a board meeting this week. A cup will be awarded to the booth which the crowd in attendance votes most popular. Alpha Chi Omega won last year. Smith replaced as architect head Walter Wilson, Lincoln archi tect, was elected president of the Nebraska chapter of the American Institute of Architects at the an nual business meeting of the so ciety Feb. 3 afternoon at the Uni versity Club. He succeeds Prof. Linus Burr Smith, chairman of the department of architecture at the university, who has been president the last three years. Wilson received his bachelor's degree from Nebraska in 1914. Special guests for the business meeting were Benedict Farrar, of St. Louis, director of the central states district of the American In stitute of Architects, and Prof. Joe E. Smay, formerly of the Nebras ka faculty, who is now a member of the architectural staff at the University of Oklahoma. Prof. Dwight Kirsch, chairman of the department of art, addressed" the group on "A Photographer Looks at Architecture." Former Lab assistant fakes doctor's exam Harry Hoy, former lab assistant in the geography department re turned to Lincoln Saturday to take the examination for his doctor's degree. Mr. Hoy is now instruc tor in geography at the Illinois University. Westbrook new choirmaster Dr. Arthur E. Westbrook, di rector of the school of fine arts, assumed his duties as director of music and choirmaster of First Plymouth Congregational church Feb. 1. Lentz gives recital Mr. Don Lentz, flutist, accom panied by Mr. Herbert Schmidt of the piano faculty, appeared on a recent program given by Mu Phi Epsilon, honorary musical society. length through a temperature range of 120 degrees. For such a reason many large bridges are built in spans. On end of each unit is left unfastened so that it can move back and forth. We hope the civil engineers know what they are doing! Student Supply Store Used Books School Supplies Jewelry Pennants Bus Depot Facing Ag. Campus Agency For Peterson Cleaners