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Official Newspaper Of More Than 7t0Q0 Students
iToL 40, No. 12
iYWCA opens
mill tea today
Flavia Ann Tharp heads
annual 3-week campaign
for members; All invited
With a membership tea at EUen
Smith hall this afternoon from
:S0 to 5, the YWCA will officially
open Its annual finance drive.
Flavia Ann Tharp, member of the
YW cabinet, is general chairman
of the drive,
AH university women, particu
larly freshmen, are invited to at
tend this afternoon's tea at which
members of the cabinet and Miss
Esther Ostlund, executive secre
tary, will explain the work of the
YW on the campus.
May join at tea.
Women may join the YW at the
tea or wait until they are con
tacted by one of the campaign
workers during the drive, which
will continue for three weeks.
Memberships are two dollars and
run for four years with full voting
privileges. Those who are already
members are contacted each year
for additional contributions.
Women members of the faculty
are being solicited this week.
Contributions obtained during
the annual drive are the basis of
all YWCA work on the campus
during the first semester.
AWS explains
aims to f rosli
Croup will organize
women at meet tonight
All freshmen girls are urged to
attend the AWS meeting to be
held tonight at 5 o'clock In Ellen
Smith HalL
At this first meeting the girls
will be organized Into the fresh
men AWS, and Jean Simmons,
president of the Associated
Women Students, will explain the
organization and functions of
AWS on the campus. Betty
O'Shea and her assistant, Susan
Shaw, will have charge of the
weekly meetings, all of which are
to be held on Thursdays at 5.
Purpose of the meetings are to
acquaint new girls with the extra'
cunicular activities of the campus.
"This is one of the few activi
ties in which you freshmen can
participate, and It is planned to
interest you," emphasized Betty
O Shea, " so be sure to come."
'Go-pher the Gophers
battle cry of rally
Chanting the battle cry "Go
pher the Gophers,' Nebraska stu
dents and rabid Husker fans will
rally in front of the Student Union
tonight and then march to Bur
lington station in a gigantic dem
ostration td inspire the 1940 Corn
husker football team to victory
over the mighty Minnesota Go
phers. With football spirit now at a
high pitch and still rising, a huge
crowd is expected for tonight's
turnout The old Victory Bell will
call students to the Union at 6:15.
Cornhusker songs and marches
will be blared out by the Fresh-
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den and his corps of assistants,
aided by Corn Cobs and Tassels
will lead the rally in Husker
cheers. Then the gathering, led by
a police escort, will parade up
sorority row and thru the business
district to the station, where the
team is to leave at '7 o'clock.
At the station Coach' "Biff
Jones and Game Captain Forrest
Behm will make farewell speeches
to the rally.
Daily staff meets
All reporters of the DAILY
and others wishing to get
started In newspaper work, will
meet today at 4:45 p. m. for
the second NEBRASKAN staff
meeting.
Unless those reporters who
have been falling to cover their
beats report for work before
the meeting today, they will be
dropped from the staff and
their assignments given to
others.
Rifles s la ire
final trvout
Honorary offers last
chance for membership
Last opportunity to try out for
Pershing Rifles, national honorary
military organization, will be at
5 p. m. today in room 210 of Ne
braska hall. No candidates will
be considered after this tryout
until spring.
.Approximately 25 candidates
for membership in the Rifles were
present at the first tryout Tues
day. A list of candidates accepted
will be posted In Nebraska hall
and published in the DAILY next
week.
Candidates for the Rifles should
show an Interest In the military
department and have a funda
mental knowledge of drill. Persh
ing Rifles sponsors a crack squad,
crack platoon and a rifle team.
The Rifles perform for such events
as the military ball and major
football games. AH candidates
who are accepted should be pres
ent at the first meeting Oct 8.
Who wood of thunk it? Trees
find private lives Winchelled
"I think that I shall never see
a poem lovely as a tree . . .
The song has more than mu
sical significance for many a stu
dent these days. Whilo balmy
weather still holds forth the bot
any department is conducting its
regular field trips. Students are
conducted about the campus so
that they may team the names
of trees.
Your reaction to the sight of a
tree depends upon your back
ground. A blzad student gives
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RIFF JONES,
Lincoln, Nebraska
Barbs hear
leaders talk on
uni activities
Gostas and Krumpf explain
importance of study in
relation to outside work
Keynote of a talk given by
Ccorge Gostas at the second Barb
Union meeting, held Tuesday
night, was the fact that "scholar
ship should be the first thing taken
into consideration by the freshman
planning to take part In campus
extra-curricular activities."
Gostas, a member of the Inno
cent Society, and first student
president of the Student Union
board concludes by saying, . "Good
grades are essential for participa
tion In activities on the campus.
Remember, freshmen, you're here
to receive an education. Get your
grades, and then enter all of these
activities you can."
Citing the possibilities in activi
ties, Gostas outlined the activities
of each organization and the best
course to follow in achieving mem
bership in them.
Kufpf explains intramurals.
Following the talk by Gostas,
the Barbs heard William Kumpf
explain the Intramural athletics
setup. Kumpf is the intramural
office representative in the Barb
Union.
Gerald Spahn, Corn Cob presi
dent and business manager of the
Awgwan, invited any interested
person to try out for the positions
of staff photographers on that
publication, Anyone with picture
taking ability may try out for
staff positions. They must, how'
ever provide their own camera.
The Awgwan office will provide
all other necessary materials.
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forth the cry: "Programs, get
your programs. You can't tell a
simple leaf from a compound leaf
without a program.'
A sociology major inquires, 'Is
the shady character of this tree
due to heredity or to environ'
ment?"
Wandering among the Siberian
maples, American elms, English
oaks, Austrian pines, Norway
maples, Scotch pines, and Ken
tucky coffee trees a cosmopolitan
atmosphere reigns.
The instructor remarks that the
evergreen is much like some stu
dents he knows. He has been pull
ing this joke for twenty years but
it always gets a laugh.
There is the clever fellow who
insists on announcing: the name of
the tree before the others have
figured it out to the annoyance
or the instructor.
A girl complains of the thorns
in her hands.
The veil is being torn from
mysterious nature.
The field trippers trip along.
Willkie versus
Roosevelt is
issue in debate
Willkie versus Roosevelt by
proxy is the picture tentatively
planned for Oct 13 when two
representatives from the Willkie
for President club and the Young
Democrats club will stage an in
formal debate at the Union.
Following the debate, a straw
vote of the audience will be taken
to determine the winning team.
Debate will center around the
presidential campaign.
Full details will be announced
later, organization heads an
nounced. Final date of the event
wm be decided this week.
Frosh stage own rally
but police halt fun
Tlirong of freshies
pours through streets,
stops show at Stuart
By Ralph S. Combs.
An unofficial pre-rally rally, 200
freshmen strong, poured thru the
streets of downtown Lincoln,
jammed the Stuart theater with
jubilant frosh, and climaxed itself
with a ride in a squad car to the
police station for two leaders of
the mob about fi o'clock last night.
After parading west down O st,
from 15th to 10th, the frosh dou
bled back up P st., to 13th, where
100 of them surged around the
front entrance of the theater, and
several of them forced open the
doors of the P st. exit.
Steal show.
Cheering and shouting in the
aisles of the partly-filled theater,
the joyous freshies stole the show
from Jimmie Cagney who was val
iantly doing his best on the screen.
The operator despaired of the com
petition to the film, and stopped
the projector.
As the operator shut off the
Cobs, Tassels
distribute moltos
"Go-pher the Gophers!", the
motto the Cornhusker team and
Nebraska fans will carry with
them to Minneapolis, has been
printed on 200 stickers, and will
be distributed this morning by
Tassels and Corn Cobs. Nebraska
fans, and especially those who
plan to make the trip to Minne
sota are urged to be sure and get
stickers for their cars.
Tassels also have an inexhaust
ible supply of red "N" feathers on
hand which will also be given to
students today.
Cornhusker fans are Identified.
by these feathers, so loyal Ne
braskans will want to wear them.
All organized houses are asked
to dine at least a half hour earlier
tonight in order to attend the ral
ly. Houses were visited last night
by members of Tassels and Corn
Cobs who made pre-rally speeches
to drum up Cornhusker spirit
Barbs apply for portion
of Don L. Love bequest
Talk of a boys' dormitory was
revived when the Baru Council
applied to Chancellor Boucher for
a part of the recent $100,000 be
quest disclosed in the will of the
late Don L, Love.
The Chancellor gave no direct
answer to the Council, but was
pleased with the spirit shown by
the group.
Tackles
ROYAL KAHLER, left, points
vi- iurj..f
his finger to warn Minnesota
Game Captain, Forrest Behm, of
Thursday, October 3, 1940
film, the ranters began walking
from the theater. That is, all of
them did except Don Sherwood
and Harold Jourdan, ATO pledges
who were the ring-leaders of the
group they were escorted by the
police to a waiting squad car and
taken to the police station.
Run out of station.
Three fraternity brothers at
tempted to deliver some books to
the captured boys so that they
might study during their stay with
the police. According to Desk
Sergeant Dale Carpenter, they got
too much out of line. "They came
in here and tried to take possession.
So I ran 'em out of the station."
As the two frosh leaders sat in
the station, Sherwood said, "Heck,
we used to go thru theaters all
the time at rallies at home. I guess
they just don't like it here." After
a lecture from Night Captain Gene
Masters, the two boys were re
leased. The rally is an impromptu affair
usually instigated each year by
ATO pledges. Following this cus
tom, the pledges tonight gathered
as many freshmen as they could
from fraternity and sorority
houses and followed the tradition.
Awgwan sales
are successful
First issue will be out
within next two weeks
With sales meeting all expecta
tions, editors of the new Awgwan
are planning to release their first
publication of the year within the
next two weeks.
The circulation drive, headed by
the Corn Cobs has been very suc
cessful in the first few days of
sale, said Gerald Spahn, business
manager of the Awgwan and
president of the pep society.
With the exception of the ap
pointment of staff heads, staff
organization is now near comple
tion, editor George Frisher said.
Students interested in working on
the magazine are still invited to
file for positions.
Fire damages davenport
in Union lounge
A fire resulting from a cigarette
dropped between the cushions of
a davenport in the Union lounge
severely damaged its cushions and
upholstery yesterday about 4:30
p. ra.
The fire was not discovered im
mediately, and by the time Union
custodians had extinguished it a
hole about six inches in diameter
was burned completely through
the bottom of the davenport.
talk sbop
Coutaqr Xtncokl Soedajr Soaiaal an4 Stat.
the dangers that are in store for
the Huskers on Saturday. This
u starting tackle
against the Golden horde.