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Official Newspaper Of More Than 7,000 Students
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Vol. 40, No. 95
Lincoln, Nebraska
Thursday, March 6, 1941
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Naturalist
Sam Campbell
speaks at convo
Woodsman will describe
life 'Behind the Scenes
in Nature,' Sunday
Sam Campbell, woodsman, will
Jj J-be the speaker at the Union spe
cial event lecture Sunday, March
9, at 4 p. m. in the Union ball
room. Campbell, who has given
over 3,000 lectures before student
groups, will speak on "Behind the
Scenes in Nature."
He is known as a lecturer, au
thor, naturalist 'and photographer.
His lecture will accompany col
ored films taken in the North
Woods.
Campbell spends his summers in
Northern Wisconsin where he lives
with his animal pets and takes
pictures. The other three seasons
he lectures and shows his pictures.
PSI sponsors
declam contest
Competition scheduled
tentatively for March 31
Sponsored by the- Phi Sigma
Iota, language fraternity," a
declamation contest of selections
from French and Spanish litera
ture will tentatively take place in
social science at 4 p. m. March 31.
A prize will be awarded to the
winner in each of the three divi
sions of the contest.
Three divisions
Students may choose from the
list of French selections posted on
the departmental and Phi Sigma
Iota bulletin boards or from the
Spanish selections which may be
obtained in room 101 of University
hall, Mercedes Oberlenlder, chair
man of the contest, announced.
Besides these suggested selections,
students may use any which is ap
proved by a French or Spanish in
structor. Divisions of the contest are:
1. Students in French 11 and
12, and In Spanish 51 and 52.
2. Students in French 13, 14,
14a, and 16, and in Spanish 53,
54 54a, and 56.
3. Students in any French or
Spanish class numbered above
100.
Each contestant must submit
three legible copies of his selec
tion to the judges.
Oldfatlier leads
panel on Japan
Graduate students clarify
far eastern situation
"Is Japan the problem of the
United States?" is the question
which will be discussed by a panel
of graduate students in parlors X
and Y of the Union Friday at 4
p. m. ,
The panel will be composed of
five graduate students who will
make investigation before the
meeting. Discussion will be led by
Dean C. H. Oldfather, who wrote
the review for a recent issue of
the Nebraska Alumnus on books
on the far eastern situation.
The purpose of the panel is to
help clear up questions concerning
the Philippines, Singapore, and the
Dutch East Indies,, according to
Pat Lahr Union social' director.
Coffee will be served to all who
attend the panel.
Formal season f
ends tomorrow
with Jr.-Sr, Prom
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COUNT BASIE
...PLAYS AT PROM tomorrow
night. "The Count of Swing"
was discovered by Benny Good
man and now vies with him for
(See PROM, page 3.)
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Square dance team revives old time
Americana; teaches 'buck 'n wing'
Did you know that all of ag college is taking part in the spontaneous revival of the old
fashioned square dancing which is at present almost a national phenomenon! Beginning simul
taneously in a dozen different parts of the country, it has swept over the nation. Jitterbugs
and business men, slum-dwcllcrs and society matrons have discovered its pleasures.
The square dancing at ag col
lege started in October of this
year when Mrs. Arthur Danielson
brought it from her study with
the most colorful enthusiast of
square dancing, Dr. Lloyd Shaw,
superintendent of the Cheyenne
Mountain School in Colorado
Springs.
Dances true American.
Twenty-five years ago, Shaw,
mingling with cow hands and old
timers, rediscovered the cowboy
dances, a rich, tho unexplored,
province of true Americana. Henry
Ford, a square dance enthusiast
himself, has lso given a great
deal of time and money to the
collecting of these materials.
On evening a weei:. groups of
from one to two hundred students
learn to "swing their partners"
"allemande left," and "promenade
all." After the season's first few
(See SQUARE DANCE, page 3.)
UN senior acts
of celebrities on his portraits
Eighty-two portraits of famous
people drawn by Jean Tool, 22
year old fine arts senior, and au
tographed by the celebrities them
selves have been exhibited at the
Lincoln Telephone Company for
the past two weeks.
Tool drew the pictures from
1934 to 1936 when he was in high
school. "I have always liked to
draw pdrtraits of people and still
do. General Pershing was the first
person to whom I sent a portrait
and requested his autograph. Since
I was successful with Pershing I
continued my hobby," Tool ex
plained. Eighty-two are autographed.
Of the nearly 100 portraits
which the hobbyist attempted to
get autographed, 82 were returned
signed. About one out of four had
personal letters of reply with the
returned portraits.
Fourteen of the people from
whom he received autographs are
now dead, Tool said. Some of these
who he drew and who are now
dead, are Will Rogers, Neville
Chamberlain, Amelia Earhart,
Senators Borah, Robinson and
Copeland, Oliver Wendell Holmes
and O. O. Mclntyre.
From Adolph Hitler's office
came a letter to Tool telling in
Lew Sarett .
Poet, woodsman scheduled for convo
With a unique background in
cluding experience as a poet,
woodsman, forest ranger, univer
sity professor, and lecturer, Lew
Sarett will be one of the most In
teresting convocation speakers of
the year, according to Prof. Karl
Arndt, chairman of the convoca
tions committee which is making
plans for the lecture Monday
morning at 11 at the Union.
Title of Sarett's talk will be
"Slow Smoke," name of his most
successful volume of poetry. In
his talk, he will deal with his wide
experiences in the woods and will
read some of the work he has
written.
Speech prof.
Professor of speech at North
western university, Sarett is noted
in university circles particularly
for his course in persuasion, said
Professor Leroy T. Laase, head of
the Nebraska speech department
and a one-time student of Sarett.
autosranhs
German that der Feuhrer was too
busy and had too many Important
papers to sign to sign the draw
ing. Tool plans to graduate in June
and is majoring in commercial art.
He hopes to go into newspaper
cartooning after graduation.
Well drillers to take sliort
UN course during convention
More than 100 members of the
Nebraska Well Drillers association
are expected today and tomorrow
for their 13th annual convention
and a short course at the univer
sity, according to E. C. Reed, who
is secretary of the association, as
sistant state geologist, and assis
tant professor of conservation.
Dr. George E. Condra, director
of the university conservation and
survey division, is in charge of the
short course, and A. A. Horn or
Papilllon, president of the associa
tion, will preside at the meetings
which will be held in Nebraska
hall.
Missouri geologist spaks.
The convention will open this
morning with, registration and
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Lincoln Journal.
LEW SARETT.
author addresses Nebraska
English teachers.
WSSF campaign
nca.500 Soal
With $80 still to be raised in
order to reach the $500 goal, the
World Student Service Fund will
continue its campaign on the campus-until
the goal is reached. All
organizations and individuals who
have not yet contributed are urged
to make their donations immedi
ately at the YMCA office in
Temple.
appointment of committees. Fol
lowing lunch at the chamber of
commerce, the well drillers will
hear Dr. Condra discuss ground
water, and Harold Engsirom, state
coordinator of the soil conserva
tion service, will talk on watnr fa
cilities of Nebraska. Also speak
ing this afternoon wiube H.
S. McQueen, assistant state geolo
gist of Missouri, who will discuss
relations of the Missouri geological
survey to well drillers of that
state.
A dutch lunch is planned for the
well drillers at the Lincoln hotel
tonight at which Governor Gris
wold and a number of state sena
tors ere expected to be present.
The lunch will be given through
(See DRILLERS, page 3.)
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Monday
"I have heard him lecture sev
eral t'"sj " said Prof. Laase, "and
he is .i of the most inspirational
and t x nteresting speakers that
I have ever heard. His familiarity
with the northwoods and, of
course, his great success in speech
work and literature combine to
make him the ideal person for a
university convocation."
Jack of all trades.
Most of the material for his
poems is derived from his years as
life-saver and teacher of wood
craft in a sportsmen's camp, a
naturalist and guide in the Cana
dian North and as a United States
ranger in the Rocky Mountains.
Author of a speech textbook,
Sarett has also contributed to
many leading magazines. His
four book3, "Many Many Moons,"
"The Box of God," "Wings
Against the Moon," and "Slow
Smoke" a prize winner in 1925
have all received praise.
Greeks, barbs
abolish Prom
Girl politics
Representatives in joint
meeting rule factions
not to back candidates
Politics and factionalism will be
left out of the election of the
Prom Girl.
At a meeting of representative
barbs and Greeks last night it was
decided unanimously that no group
would back any one woman but
that all candidates for Prom Girl
would run without support of a
faction.
Filings will close at noon today
and any junior or senior woman
desiring to file should do so in the
athletic office in the coliseum.
Balloting will take place at the
door of the Prom tomorrow night
and the Prom Girl will be present
ed during the party.
The meeting last night was
called by the Innocents society
which is backing the Prom. Pur
pose of the meeting was to allevi
ate the strong feeling between
barbs and Greeks which was set
off when there were several with
drawals of candidates Tuesday.
The action taken was an effort
to make the Prom Girl election
more representative and fairer to
all candidates.
Capitol
Personalities
V.
Lincoln Journal.
L. M. JEPPF.SEN
...proposes tax change.
Senator L. M. Jeppesen is a
farmer and stockman and represents-
Dakota, Thurston and
Dixon counties. Although ho
. . (See JEPPESEN, page 3.) .
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