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v Friday, May 10, 1940 THE DAILY NEBRASKAN 3 Glick tells Red Cross , . . Rural socbl work is matter of orientation of practice There is no such thing as a rural Social worker any more than there is a rural doctor or rural lawyer as far, as his course of training is concerned, Dr. Frank Glick, director of the university Graduate School of Social Work, told American Red Cross workers at their annual national conven tion in Washington, D. C, yes terday. Speaking of "Social Work In Rural Communities," the univer sity educator declared that "we are rapidly reaching the sound consensus that rural social work boils down to a matter of orienta tion of our professional practice to the characteristic features of rural life. It is a matter of adapt ing and improving the skills we 'have not of developing basically new ones. Need best personnel. "If anything is clear about the social work job in our small local un'ts, it is that the best personnel is none too good for the job that needs doing there," Dr. Glick said. "The social worker who will be most successful in a rural com munity is the one who has the full est and best professional preparation." Dr. Glick gave the five charac teristics of rural social work as pioneering, closeness to the local community, working with limited resources, the handicap of dis tance, and the varied responsibil ity involved. Administered by a trained pro fessional personnel, public social work, like public education and public health, will come to be ac cepted as a necessary and proper function of democratic govern ment, Dr. Glick predicted. Al though rural areas have been ac quainted with social v. oik in the form of mothers pension pro grams and activities of private agencies, social service as a per manent and expensive public in mum? - f - - 1-,' ifi)!)"-;, CO) function is new and strange rural America. "The folks along main street and out on rural free delivery had not seen this kind of business be fore and were not at all sure that they liked it," he remarked. "They are not sure yet but they are learning." Russell Sage-ites set up rules for ideal prom man Swains who date the girls at Russell Sage college, Troy, N. Y., at prom time, should remark at least once in the evening on the beauty of their feminine partners And that's not all, for the Sage ites have decreed the ideal prom man shall Be tall and handsome; go down the receiving line with ease and refrain from such remarks as "Pleased to meetcha," or "Gee, it's swell out, isn't it?"; dance di vinely; refrain from smoking on the dance floor; drink punch "as is" no spiking; send his date an orchid for the prom and tea roses for the post-prom dance, unless otherwise directed. Shall not escape. He shall not dash off to ex change a dance with an eager look of newly acquired freedom; he shall suggest they leave in ample time to reach a restaurant before curfew rings; refrain from com menting that his tux or tails were borrowed or rented; limit his con versation to comprehensible top ics; attempt no experimental psy chology on his prom miss; not lose the hat and coat checks; leave his fraternity pin in possession of his hostess for at least one week; make a date for the following week end. Guilford contends mental abilities limited in scope Dr. Joy P. Guilford, professor of psychology and president of the Midwestern Psychological associa- Meat judging students vie for trophies Men judge nine classes, women five; affair begins at 1:15 today Testing their knowledge of meats today and tomorrow, ag college students will participate in meat judging contests, for both men and women, at the Lincoln Packing company. Silver trophies will be awarded the winners. Beginning at 1:15 today, the men's contest will be held. The home economics contest will begin at 8:15 Saturday and will be spon sored by Block and Bridle club, or ganization of animal husbandry students at ag college. The awards. Donated by the National Live stock and Meit board, the silver trophies will be awarded for first place. The Nebraska Livestock Feeders' and Breeders' association will give two pen and pencil sets and ribbons will be awarded for lower rankings. The men will judge nine classes of meats, giving their reasons for placing each class. The girls will place five classes of cuts, beef, pork, and lamb. They will also identify 25 cuts and tell the best methods of preparing each one. "Future testers will recognize more clearly what particular kinds of abilities their tests measure," he said, "and the term 'intelligence test' will be replaced with some more designating names." Annual crops Field Day scheduled for June 18; Webster heads committee The date for the annual crops Field Day on the University of Ne braska agricultural campus is set for Tuesday, June 18. Several hundred people usually attend this event, which gives everyone an opportunity to inspect the experimental crop work for themselves. Both farmers and city people come to this annual oc casion, which is sponsored by the agronomy department. Dr. I". D. Keim, chairman of the Scribner contest closes June 1 Scribner's Commentator contest for the best essay submitted by a collegi student, closes June 1, it was announced yesterUay. First prize for the best article is a job with Scribner's Commen tator from June to October, or longer if the student does not have to return to school in the fall. Second prize in the contest open to any undergraduate student in an American college is $200, third prize is $50, and sixteen prizes of $25 each are offered. The articles may be upon any subject, must be not over 3,000 words in length, and must be suit able for publication in Scribner's Commentator. All winning manu scripts become the property of the magazine. Announcement of the winners will be made in the July issue. Barbs to honor leading freshmen at annual banquet Freshmen leading in activities of the past year will be honored at the annual barb banquet to night in the Union at 6:15 p. m. Guest speaker will be Newton Gaines, associate extension so ciologist. All barb girls who have earned 100 or more activity points dur ing the past year will receive recognition pins, while those with 75 points will be given roses. Barb Union Key Johnny Johnson, former barb man, will award the Nebraska Book Store Barb Activities key at the banquet. It will be given to the barb freshman who has done the most work in the Barb Union during the past year. Vernon Weibusch, Janet Swen son and Art Hendiickson are to give reviews of the achievements made during the year. Toast master is F.rle Constable, presi dent of the Barb Council. tion, told members at a meeting ! aepanmeni, nas appoiniea uuoeii of the association in Chicago Sat- j Webster, assistant extension urday night that there is no scien-1 agronomist, to be chairman of the tific basis for the ' person next j planning committee preparing the door" making; a better salarv be-ioruer ol lne aav- cause "he thinks fast" or "he is a good thinker." He also said that there is no1 scientific reason why a wife can not by training alter her pie-making methods to produce tasty pas try. According to Dr. Guilford seem ingly extraordinary mental abili ties usually are confined to some special aptitude, and then at the expense of other skills. Mental abilities variant. "The absence of a general learn ing ability and a mental speed factor in human thinking is a sig nificant finding. Mental speed is a differing matter," the psycholo gist continued, "depending on the kind of task. Learning ability also varies in the same person from one task to another." The professor pointed out that the arithmetic shark might be a poor detective because he reasons slowly, and an expert grammarian might have trouble operating a stesm shovel. Turning to the 12 factors or ap titudes in human thinking. Guil ford branded as laregly a ver bal factor the "intelligence" meas ured by the usual tests. I 1 . 'I'm Getting Some Business Training This Summer." It will pay college stu dents and graduate! to add specialized busmen training to their academic training. New classes (tart June 10. Cool, comfortable class rooms ... ail aircondi tioned. Lincoln School of Commerce W. A. Robbins, President 209 No. 14 St. 2-6774 MOTHER'S DAY is m SUNDAY SELECT YOUR CARDS TODAY A large assortment from which to choose. Many special titles for other members of your family For your Friend's Mother Sweetheart's Mother, or Sweetheart. IASTE1AM KODAK ST 1221 O ST. Welfaregroup plans '40-41 program Society to "dramatize cooperative spirit in church student groups Three new features for the 1940 41 program of the Religious Wel fare council were announced when the council met yesterday noon for the last time till fall. The new activities include an "Exchange Sunday" when univer sity student's religious groups wilt exchange leadership for an even ing "to dramatize the cooperative spirit fostered among church stu dent groups;" a meeting for re ports of summer conferences at tended by members, and several evening program meetings of the council during next semester. Approves report. The council, approving the re port of Chairman of the Survey Committee R. B. Henry, will again next semester sponsor an all-university church party night, all university church Sunday, and the annual Interfaith banquet, as well as some outstanding national re ligious figure in a university con vocation of discussion series. Final figures for the Far East ern Student Service Fund, under solicitation the past month, total beyond the $250 mark, according to Secretary C. D. Hayes, i : - - Tennis entries strong this year Nebraska state tennis cham pionships promise to be of first class caliber as all of the 1939 finalists are back. Twenty schools have entered the net tournament and twenty-four are represented in golf. The tennis matches are being played at the Lincoln Tennis club, the preliminaries on Friday and the finals on Saturday. Bonnie Mil ler of Omaha Tech, singles cham pion, is back, as is runnerup Frank Rag.in of Creighton Prep. l A, .7; ORES HC. :I -I'll r it It 7 f'fs, 1 i J. 7' !(E DWEIS .SEKEDOWES! $noHg4 Voice Ova? 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