DAILY NEBRASKAN
Thursday, 'October 17, 1940
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The Prom Committee
It's face is lifted
After four weeks of discussion, argument and study of various proposals
presented by a special committee appointed to investigate methods of run
ning next year's Junior-Senior Prom, the Innocents society has adopted a sys
tem which will be used in planning future proms.
Following last semester's furor over what Liberals and Barbs termed a
highly inefficient committee and what the progressives excused as a commit
tee handicapped by a limited budget and by an almost impossible booking
situation, the DAILY initiated a campaign to have future prom committees
elected entirely by student ballot. The Innocents society last year followed
the DAILY proposal by asking higher-ups if that group could take over the
sponsorship of the prom, to do with it what the Innocents thought best.
Their request was granted.
Political wrangling stopped. Everyone was satisfied. Present indications
show that almost everyone has forgotten about the matter, so the Innocents
announcement should come as somewhat of a surprise.
Pefore announcing what its plan is, the society wishes to assure all stu
dents interested at all in the prom, that it has tried to take its handling out
of the realm of politics. No method, however, of selecting prom committee
members would be entirely devoid of politics unless the men's senior honorary
acted as a prom committee itself.
This very same idea was promised in order to avoid any wrangling that
might follow whatever other plan was adopted. And so, the Innocents adopted
a plan to choose a prom committee . . . but the prom committee won't be the
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bosses, the Innocents will. And therein lies the core of the idea. Several mem
bers of the Innocents society served on last year's prom committee and it wag
felt that their experience would greatly help a junior committee, working
without any knowledge of what staging a prom entails. 1
Here is the plan:
First: The Innocents society shall sponsor, at a student election, the
election of three junior men and three junior women to form the prom com
mittee. The junior man elected Junior Class president shall automatically
become a regular, not an ex-officio, member of the prom committee. Only
junior and senior men and women shall vote for prom committee members.
Second: The president of Innocents society shall, at some time in the
near future, appoint a committee from among the Innocents to supervise
handling and planning the prom. This committee shall include a genera
chairman in charge of the prom and a business manager of the prom.
The Innocents on this committee will not be on the prom committee
proper. The latter is made up solely of the seven juniors provided for in the
ruling.
Whether one of the seven juniors shall be made chairman of the junior
committee, to function as an intermediary between his committee and the In
nocents committee has not yet been decided.
The tradition of piom committee will be carried on.
The method of selecting a prom committee becomes the ballot.
Factional majorities in student council can no longer hold back a junior
leader because he is in the wrong faction. We doubt seriously that either fac
tion would ever select men from the other faction so long as one of Ihera
controlled the student council. That situation will arise no more.
And so, the politicians, through bungling and failing to recognize merit
or popularity have lost the prize plum.
By Chris Petersen
Horse Sense.
An expressionless man was
leading an expressionless horse
down the same kind of a street
one day, and he passed a man
standing on a coiner. Turning to
the man, he said, would you mind
helping me lead this horse down
the street? Sure! Thanks! Don't
mention it. They led the horse to
gether for three blocks and
stopped in front of an expression
less house. Do you mind helping
mc lead this horse up the front
steps? Sure! Thanks! Don't men
tion it. They squeezed the horse
into the front hall. Do you mind
helping me lead the horse into the
kitchen? Sure! Thanks! Don't
'mention it. The horse hit his head
on the door. Forgot to open it. Do
you mind helping me lead the
horse up the back stairs? Sure!
Thanks! Don't mention it. Would
you mind helping mc lead this
horse into the bathroom. Sure!
Thanksl Don't mention it. The
first man left the second man
holding the horse. He went out.
Soon he returned with the gun.
He shot the horse. The horse died.
Being nosey, the second man said,
"Do you mind telling me why you
shot that horse?" Sure! Thanks!
Don't mention it. Well, it's like
this 1 have a brother-in-Jaw, and
every time I tell him anything he
always says: I know it I know
it. I'm gelling damn tired of hear
ing him say I know it I know it.
So you know what's going to hap
pen. My brother-in-law is coming
over to dinner tonight. He is go
ing to go upstairs to wash his
hands. Then he's going to come
back down with a smug look on
his face and he's going to say,
"You know what?" And I'll say,
"No. what?" There s a dead horse
In your bath room! And do you
know what I'm going to
"I know it. I know it"
say .
Spurr reports
business gains
Authority sees rise in
monthly general index
Nebraska's business activity in
September showed gains over
business in August according to
the latest monthly business report
by Prof. W. A. Spurr, university
statistician.
All available components of the
university's general business index
gained over August after adjust
ment for usual seasonal move
ments, except for a slackening in
building operations. The year 1940
shows promise of being the best
year for Nebraska business in a
decade.
The reports now on hand for
August show declines from the
July peaks in electric power out
put and building activity, after
seasonal adjustment, with little
change in otlter indices of busi
ness. In the following table each
business indicator is adjusted to
remove normal seasonal changes
and the effect of the irregular
calendar, thus revealing underly
ing business trends.
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Lincoln Cathedral choir
sings iu coliseum Oct. 23
The Lincoln Cathedral choir will
present its first performance of
the season in the coliseum Octo
ber 23 for the State Teachers Con
vention. Their program will in
clude: 'Lee Shore." Coleridge Taylor;
"Norwegian Song of P r a i s e,"
Grieg, and "Cherubim," Gretcha-ninov.
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Bulletin
Tassels and Corn Cobs will meet
at 6:20 p. m. this evening in the
Union prior to the speaking tours
for the rally. Attendance is re
quired. aaa
Sophomore and Junior AWS
"N" stamp salesman will meet in
room 316 of the Union at 5 p. m
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Students interested in the or
ganization of an independent
group to discuss Socialist party
campaign issues will meet Thurs
day at 5 p. m. in the Y rooms
of the Temple.
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Palladian Literary Society will
meet Friday at 9 p. m. in the
Temple.
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Young Advocates will hold sec
tions meeting Thursday at 7:30
p. m. in room 209b social sciences.
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Cheer leaders will practice at 5
p. m. today in the stadium. It is
imperative that all members of
the squad attend.
Students may obtain Union cal
endars of the year at the Union
checkstand.
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Kosmet Klub actives will meet
Thursday at 5 p. m.
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Aq campus YMCA and YWCA
will hold a joint luncheon Thurs
day noon in the home ec building
to plan discussion for future
Library adds 16
volumes to shelves
An unabridged unnotated trans
lation of Adolf Hitler's popular
boow, "Mein Kampf," haji been
added to the university library. A
new book of current interest,
"Conscription and America," by
E. A. Fitzpatrick. has also been
added.
Other books recently acquired
are:
Rhymes of Our Valley, by A. H.
Euwer.
Types of Poetry, by Jacob Zeit
lin. Keeping Our Fighters Fit, by
E. F. Allen.
Normal Mind, by W. H. Burn
ham. Woman Power, by G. A. Gei
jerstam. Two Living and One Dead, by
S. W. Christiansen.
Frozen Justice, by E. Mikkelser..
Introduction to Literature of
Europe, by H. Hallam.
Social Work and the Courts, by
S. P. Breckinridge.
Conscription and America, by
E. A. Fltzpatrick.
Under vour Feet, by Blanche
King.
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Crime and Society, by Nathaniel
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I Knew Them in Prison, by
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know this piece of apparatus as the 108-A
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developed by Bell System engineers to iden
tify pairs of wires in telephone cables some
of which contain as many as 4242 wires.
The cable man explores this mass of w ires
with the pencil-like probe. A tone sounding
in the headphone tells him when he has
found the right pair.
Ingenuity special equipment attention
to details play an important part in maV
ing your telephone service the clearest and
fatct in th ; world.
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