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r Tuesday, February 4, 1941 DAILY NEBRASKAN Interprofessional group of mis-called The question of whether it is safer to help Great Britain now to stop Hitler's conquest or safer to allow Germany to conquer Britain in the hope that in the meantime PROF. L. VOLD. the United States may become better able to fight alone was raised by Prof. Lawrence Void of law college speaking before the Interprofessional Institute Satur day noon. The speaker advocated repeal of the United States mis-called neutrality legislation" because in practical effect we are boycotting Union requests students to vote on new records Students may make their choice for new lecords for the Union music room by voting for their favorites beginning today and con tinuing thru Feb. 14. New addi tions are to be made for the Car negie set each semester and the Union wants students to state preferences. In order to simplify voting, a list of possible selections is avail able in the music room. This list is divided into operas, symphonies, concertos, ballet music, orchestral music, songs and organ solos. Each student may cast only one vote. Vitan to Suy WHERE ARE YOU ON its in Monors at once. IT'S HFi.ru i.. . IT'S FREE I 1 DNIT5 Tim pM - I ' AIL ri F The Deportment Store cf Student Needs neutrality laws" the nations which have been at tacked. If thought advisable there may be substituted legislation pro claiming that private citizens hereafter enter the combat zones at their own risk but involving no prohibitions against their so doing." Aid to Britain. Dr. Void stated that air should be given to Great Britain "to what ever extent is necessary to secure victory," but suggested that there be a time limitation in any legis lation necessary to make such aid effective in order to assure that 'the totalitarian system of coer cive planned economy shall not be come fastened upon this country." Speech group names Laase as new head Dr. Leroy T. Laase, acting chairman of the university depart ment of speech and dramatic art, was named president of the Ne braska Speech association at the convention held in Omaha last week end. He is to succeed Fiances M. Hawk of Hastings High School. Newly elected secretary is Sam Fetters, Kearney High School. Re elected were Gayle McGce, Ne braska Wesleyan University, vice president and Miss Lurlie Lee, York High School, treasurer. College representative on ex ecutive committees is Alma Kresu Lundman; York College, Harold Ahrendts, Superior High School, District 3 and Era Town, Curtis School of Agriculture, District 5. are the new district representa tives. Nu Epsilon Tau, honorary inter- sorority group at the University ; of Texas, is promoting a national . campus knitting campaign to help i the Red Cross. Your Drug Store Fountain Tens Guaranteed As low as Fifty Cents and One Dollar The -Owl Pharmacy 148 So. 14th & V Thone 2-1068 a SlUe'Rufe THIS CHART? . . . READ "How to Choose a Slide Rule" by DOX HKBOI.D The sooner you fin.l the riaht Slide Ride, the easier y our life will lie. Don llrroll, who ran eip'ain anything, ha talen all the mystery out of Slide Hulea in thin handsome new book, rich ith illuntrations. Choooinf Slide Rule is a cinch when you do it the Don llrrold way. "How to Oioo- i Slide Rule" in yours with the compliment of the manarement - if you ask. for it in lime. See your campus K & K dealer SLIDE RULES 50c to $14.00 Texl Book. Student Supplied Critic Drew speaks here Thursday Elizabeth Drew, literary critic, will speak Thursday at 4 p. m. in the Union, parlors XYZ, on "The Modern Spirit in Literature." After taking first class honors in English language and literature seh became a lecturer in English at Cambridge. In private life Miss Drew is the wife of Brian Downs, also a lecturer in English at Cam bridge. Elizabeth Drew is in the United States at this time to lec ture and escape the nazi onslaught. The speaker is authoress of the books, "Discovering Poetry," "The Enjoyment of Literature," "Dis covering Drama," and "Directions in Modern Poetry," written in col laboration with J. L. Sweeney. Miss Louise Pound of the Eng lish department will introduce Miss Drew at the lecture which is sponsored by the Union. Society reelects Pound Miss Louise Pound of the Eng lish department has received no tice of her reelection as a national councillor of American Folklore Society. She is a former president of the Society. AAUW hears Pound Miss Louise Pound of the de partment of English spoke before the North Platte branch of the American Association of Univer sity Women Saturday, Feb. 1. i i r-nr.r 1 irnr I p Ann ty 1 U VJ U U U and department assistants who want 1 subscriptions to THE DAILY NE- II! RRAAM mav uprure them. You llll M- K. X A aV - m at aV A 1 BaM 1111 may have them delivered to your office by filling out this coupon and S sending it along with 75c through I the campus mail to ED SEGRIST, BUS. MGR. I THE DAILY NEBRASKAN II STUDENT UNION BUILDING I ""sign j I NAME fe BLDG uMr RoM 11 I Vw " CSC or thc emo'n'n9 I i .V j 5) School Year! Dr. Louise Pound . Slips de dope ta de PBK's on dis ting called slanguage "Slang was not always thought a proper subject to occupy the at tention of a group such as the Phi Beta Kappas," explained Dr. Louise Pound as she began to trace the history of slang in her speech before the honorary 's meeting last night. Seniors elected to the honorary fraternity last fall were initiated at the meeting, then President J. O. Hertzler introduced Miss Pound, professor of English, ns the evening's speaker. About 100 people attended the lecture in the Union. Fills a need. "When slang fills a real need in present language, it is kept," said Dr. Pound. Some examples are pan-out, toe the mark, and buttinsky. "Awful, howeve r, means very little now because it is so overused." "Certainly 'she gave him the gate' is more colorful than 'she withdrew her affections,' " cited Miss Pound. The U. S. has taken several words from English slang, such as 'cheerio' and 'my word.' England has returned the compli ment by borrowing 'debunk,' 'hy brow,' etc., the latest probably be ing 'jitter.' But much as the Brit ish like some of our slang, they dislike calling journalists 'news hawks' and movie stars 'heart throbs.' " Say "yes" 40 ways. The word "yes." asserted the speaker, has about thirty or forty variations. Among them are "Yip, yap, yup, yez, yaz, 'ea (baby talk), yowsah (started on Amos and Andy's program), yeah, okay, okey-dokey, oksum-dosum, uh huh, sure, and you betcha." The young people use more slang than their elders. "Because they like to do things to words; get more vivacity in them." Pres ent day journalists have added much "to the slang language. " 'Whoopee' was used in talking to animals in the 15th century, but to Walter Winchell goes the credit of making it into a noun: 'to make whoopee.' " Short stuff. A few years ago slang tended towards long, mouth-filling words such as super-splendifferus. but today we have shorter words. "Scram" and "beat-it" are in use instead of the old "skeedoodle." "There arc over 130 words for slang terms like 'thingamajig' and about 400 for 'intoxicated,' " stated Miss Pound. "Words to take the place of 'woman' are very numei-ous: frill, mamma, hot mamma, femme, skirt, etc." Because of the long list of words college boys use to apply to girls, a woman student once made a list of names for college men in re taliation, and in her research sdie distinguished between sissy-pants, frilly-pants, fane y-pants, and panty-waist.