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7-408 Vol. 40, No. 93 UN sponsors summer tour Hosp, Tcran will lead group on trip thru South America Under the leadership of Dean Helen Hosp, the university will sponsor a two-month tour of South America this summer, with an opportunity for tour members to earn eight hours credit in the Spanish seminar of the university's summer session. It will also be open to students desiring to make The tour is being sponsored by the university in line with the rec ommendation of the National De partment of State in order that Americans may become better ac quainted with South America. Sponsorship by the university rep resents the first experiment of its kind in the nation. Itinerary. s Traveling by ocean liner, pri vate automobile, motor coach, railroad, steamer, cable railroad, and airliner, the group will fol low an itinerary which includes Panama, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Brazil and Trin idad. Accompanying Dean Hosp and the group on the tour will be Car los M. Teran, a native of Ecuador, now in the Spanish department of the University of California. Teran will teach Spanish to those desiring to receive credit for the study of the subject. He will also act as interpreter and general guide for the group with Dean Hosp, who was chosen because of her knowledge of South Amer ica. She often speaks for the de partment of International Rela tions on the subject "South Amer ica." Both Dean Hosp and Tcran were chosen by the board of re gents to make the tour with Ne braska's group. Program. Sightseeing programs have been outlined and arrangements have (See TOUR, page 2.) Capitol Personalities Linroln Journal. JOHN MEKATO There's one spot in the sen ate chamber that pressure proiips avoid for a single rea son. The spot is Sennlor John Mokalo's desk; the reason is John Mekato. Representing Saline and Fil more counties, the senator from Crete, serving his second term in the unicameral, is noted in the capltol for his strong opposition to lobbyists. Says what he thinks. He says what he thinks on the floor and he will repeat it to any- one who gets him started. In the debate on the unfair practices act Thursday, Senator Mekato told his fellow senators where he stood on lobbyists, and he said practically w.. iu u "I'm not a fool," he exclaimed. "I know that when a man opposes pressure groups he's like as not to come back to this legislature, but if I have to row-tow to those (see fekson, page 3.) I A? ?. 1 J Official Newspaper Of More Than 7,000 Students Lincoln, Nebraska a South American pleasure tour. DEAN HELEN HOSP Council opens men s activity forum tonight Harnsbergcr, Spahn, Dean Harper to speak at meeting in Union Speaking on college activities in general, Assistant Dean of Student Affairs W. C. Harper will open the first of a series of Student Council sponsored activity forums at 7:30 tonight in the Union. Intended to create an interest in activities and explain the Bcope and the means of getting started in an organization, the forums will be opened to fresh men and other undergraduates wishing to attend. A real purpose "There has been a definite need for such a series and we are rather anxious for its success," stated Ruth Iverson, chairman ot the committee directing the forums, "and the Council urges all fratern ity and barb organizations to send at least two freshmen who are in terested in the scries." At tonight's meeting, Carl Harnsberger, representing Kosmet Klub, and Gerry Spahn, represent ing Corn Cobs, will describe the function of their organizations And the manner in which students be come members. In subsequent meetings the ac tivity pointing system and all other individual activities will be explained. WSSF reaches way mark in drive "If our goal of five hundred dol lars is not reached by Wednes day, the drive will be continued until we do reach that mark," paid co-chairman Cal Rollins, Monday, rerardine the World Student Serv- lce Fund drive on Yhl8 campus. ..It , qulte that we will rpach thMat m'ark b Wednesday, Tha mft1in-f ,,rtl,i, ..n grefltiy this week with donations comine in irom organized nouses - I if , V ; and church groups on the cam- 000(1 hoalth , equally impor pus," Rollins said. an' the soldier, to the worker engaged in defense industries, and At the nroannt tlm fVia nvtimt tn thf moral of the who! nnnnln- of fundfl turned into' the groups making the collections for the fund total $250. Tuesday, March 4, 1941 Why universal Why universal subscription? Yesterday representatives from all organized groups on the campus met with the Council committee on automatic subscription to hear the arguments for the proposed DAILY NEBRASKAN sub scription plan. Today these representatives start circulating petitions in every house, in every campus building, and wherever students congre gate; their aim is to cement student opinion behind the proposal. The endorsement of a clear cut majority of the student body will send the measure before the board of regents, whose action on it will be final. The plan if installed next fall however will be tentative, aimed at showing the students what improvements the NEBRASKAN can make with increased circulation and what ad vantages an automatic subscription plan would have. Then having viewed for themselves the success or failure of the paper, the students are to vote a year from this spring on whether to continue the plan or to return to the voluntary system. The immediate need however is to get permission from the students to give automatic subscriptions a try. So within the next week practically every student on the campus will be contacted by a petitioner and will be asked to make up his mind one way or an other. The plan should be supported... By the present subscribers of the DAILY for they are to get for the same price a paper twice as large, and one filled with pic tures, cartoons and wire services as well as more thoro coverage of local news. By those not subscribing at present, for they are to get a product worth much more than the five cents a week that is re quired. The outlay is but one-sixth the subscription price of a city paper, and if wire services are installed will supplant them. By those in organized houses, for a saving will be made for the house. All houses having more than a certain minimum circula tion will have papers delivered with no additional charge. As a re sult all the papers will be purchased individually for $1.50 a year, while the house now expends in this way could be used for other purposes or returned to the members in lower house bills. By those not in organized houses, for the paper will then serve as an instrument of organization. It will inform them of what is going on, will carry administrative announcements to them, and thru the free expression of all groups will bring them open discus sion of campus issues. (See EDITORIAL, page 2.) Prom Girl filings due at noon today; students vote at door Filings close at noon today for the annual Prom Girl election, which will be held at the door of the Court Biase dance in the coli seum Friday night. Application must be made at the office of John K. Selleck. Tho voting in favor of a formal dance, and urging all students who possibly can to come in formal at tire, the Innocents society and Prom committee confirmed yester day an earlier decision to permit men to come in business clothes. In answer to questions on the To prepare for defense ... Homcmakers must improve Every Nebraska homemaker will soon be called upon to play a voluntary part in the nation's de fense program by studying pos sible ways to improve her fam ily's health thru application of the newer knowledge of nutrition, announced Miss Margaret Feddc, chairman of the home economics department. Miss Fedde is chairman of a state nutrition committee appoint ed to help strengthen the "home front" by improving the health of Nebraska people through better nutrition. Similar committees are being organized in other states. Healthy people necessary. "In order to have a strong na tion we must have healthy peo- Ple-" Mifls Fedde commented, in """ "- luuimiMmiuiivmm. tion. It is no less important la straightening out the maladjust- ments when peace comes." In an effort to find some satisfactory method f redisricting the state, made necessary by the loss of population afl shown by the last census, Prof. John S. Senning of the university political science de partment has prepared four maps suggesting f0ir possible ways of drawing new congressional district boundaries. subscription? degree of formality to be expected Friday, the society ruled that in keeping with the formal nature of the party, tuxedoes should be worn, by every student having one available; but that the loophole was inserted to permit as many students as possible to enjoy the music of Count Basie and his or chestra. Following the election at the door, the prom girl will be pre sented with colorful display by the junior and senior class presi dents. MARGARET FEDDE. ays homemakert must learn. ... . i t pit plan for state Because of its ioSs of population during the decJe of 1930-1940, as registered by the 1940 census, Ne braska losea on seat in the na tional huse f representatives. Congress has decided, on the basis of the census figures, that Ne braska's representation shall be reduced from f've to four. To meet this Situation, the state must be restricted Into four in stead, of five congressional dis tricts. The jot, of redistributing is the state legislature's, and if it does n0t act h the matter. this session Nebraska's four represent atives in the hext congressional election must be chosen from the state at large rather than from individual districts. prepare. f0ur maps. Senning, who jias given long study to such matters, has pre parecj four naPs which suggest four possible hiethods of dis tricting. Any one of his four sug gested districting, Senning points out, would establish a reasonably equitable distribution of popula tion Hmong the districts. The state's population in the 1940 census ia 1,315,834. One fourth of this. 328,959, Dr. Sen ning has take1 as his ratio trying to kep the proposed districts all as near to tht population figure as Possible. Burbs discuss subscription plan at meeting Unaffiliated group takes final action on proposals; to arrange council dance 1 All members of Barb Union who wish to vice an opinion re garding the automatic subscription proposal Of the DAILY NEBRAS KAN should be present at Barb Union meetiflff tonight at 7:30 p .rt ( stated Elaine Sloan, presi dent. Discussion f the subscription plan wi'l be the rnain business of the meeting, and final action will he taken, a SPecial meeting held Thursday, pep. 27, but no official action or vote wa taken at that timo since the group present was scarcciy representative. Arrangement for the Interclub Council dance to be held March 15 in the Xjnjon wH also be made so that all Brb clubs will be rep resented. family health The commiee is now working out details of broad program to help low-incOhie groups obtain better diets ad to encourage fam ilies jn the higher income brackets to Select food3 for a well-rounded diet. Wider distribution and use of surplus foois, increased farm home production, and mass educa tion jn nutrition and food prepa ration are a'H expected to be a part of this program. Importance f balanced rations. "Nebraska's livestock producers have long known the value of bal anced ration." M's Fedde com mented. "Irnportant as well-fed livestock are, our farm and city people alike riw realize more than ever now much more important it is that children pe well-fed." The home Economics authority calls attention to the fact that 17 percent of thc young men refused so far in the Selective service pro gram hav ten rejected becauso of had teeth, and good nutrition is te of the Whin factors In build- jnff 8trong teeth