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Vol. 40, No. 96
Lincoln, Nebraska
Friday, March 7, 1941
Senior Council elects heads
Choose six
for exec
committee
Croup favorable lo
universal subscription;
sponsors quiz scries
Election of vice president; secretary-treasurer
and three execu
tive committee members, coupled
with the group's endorsement of
the universal subscription pro
gram, highlighted the Senior
Council meeting last night and
started the senior's spring pro
gram off with a bang.
Norman Harris, originator of
the council idea, was elected vice
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HarrU.
Lincoln Journal.
MrPrrmotl.
Ode (or) lo that
which stinkcth;
the nose knows
By George Abbott.
Speak of nitrates and nitrogen fix
ation, Speak of scientific
fert'lization
on the mall?
Pile it wisely, pile it judiciously,
Still it odors quite
conspicuously
from the mall.
Pile it big. or. pile it small.
But, darn it, who wants it
piled
on the mall?
Crass on the mall - l'amour!
l'amour!
Manure on the mall l'amour
no more!
on the mall.
Jaywalkers jaywalk and used to
abound,
Now they avoid jaywalking and
walk around
the stuff
on the mall.
Flowers bloom and robins sing.
Announcing coming spring
beside, not
on the mall.
Breezes come and breezes go,
And with those breezes come an
"Ohhhhh
from the mall."
I shot an arrow into the air.
It fell to earth I knew not where;
But if it fell upon the mall.
I woulds't not retrieve it not
at all.
Well drillers
prepare for
two day meet
Reel predicts record
attendance as delegates
file from four states
Committee
explains Daily
subscription
THiiree coeds vie
for Prom" Girl
Nichols, Cox, Wind listed on hallot
as factional fires die
With armistice declared on factional battlefronts over
Prom Clirl nominations, students will ro to the coliseum tonight
to choose Hie 1941 Prom (!irl and dance to the music of Count
Basic and his band at the annual Junior-Senior Prom.
Final deadline on Prom Clirl filings yesterday noon put
three girls into the race: Betty Nichols, Kappa Kappa Gamma;
Dorothy Wind, Alpha Chi Omega; and Bettie Cox, unaffiliated.
The entrance of Wind into the competition and the refiling of
Cox came yesterday morning following a peace pow-wow, Wed-
Further plans in the campaig-n nesday night among the big chiefs of activities, the barb front,
and the affiliated faction. At that time it was assured that
campus politics would not enter into the battle.
Ends formal season.
The piano plunking of the noted Count and his boogy
woogy constituency will officially usher out the '40-'41 campus
formal season. The prom this year will be formal, however,
stipulations from the committee say business suits on the part
of men arc permissible. Admission is $1.50 per couple and
tickets will be sold at the door. Spectator tickets sell at 35c
per person.
for universal subscription to the
NEBRASKAN have been an
nounced by the Student Council,
which is sponsoring the drive.
Because the Council committee
felt that the drive in some cases
has been misrepresented and the
students in some instances misin
formed, the committee is attempt
ing to print a pamphlet contain
ing the reasons, in concrete form,
for such a plan.
president. He is a member of the
Innocents society and former edi
tor of the DAILY. Elnora Sprague.
WAA president, was the council"'
(See SENIOR COUNCIL, page 4.)
Union features
Margit Varga
on broadcast
Booknook commentator
to interview Life editor
on radio program today
Indicating record attendance by
Margit Varga, associate art edi- members of the Nebraska Well
tor of Lite, will be the "author of Drillers association, are the ad
the week" on the Union booknook vance reservations. The 13th an
hroadcast at 4:15 n. m. todav when nual convention and short course
she is interviewed by Frank Egan, will be held on the Nebraska cam
Next week, information will be
distributed over the entire cam
pus giving pro and con arguments
for the plan. Circulation of the pe
titions will be continued, according
to members of the Council committee.
Details of plan.
The plan as designed by the
committee is to put into effect a
system of universal subscription
to the DAfLY NEBRASKAN at a
purchase price not to exceed 7o
cents a semester and to be in
cluded in tuition fees at the be
ginning of each semester.
Should the plan go into effect
next fall, students will have an
opportunity to try the plan. In the
spring elections next year, a ref
erendum will then be placed on
the ballot and students will vote
whether or not they wish it to be
permanent. According to the
Council, this is a good system be
cause the students will actually
have an opportunity to see the
plan in action for a year before
they make their final decision.
Further plans made by th;
Fires of battle burned high on Wednesday of this week
when Bettie Cox and f J race headers, both unaffiliated, pulled
their names for the race against Nichols who reputedly had the
backing of all sororities on the campus.
Automatic election.
Perturbed were members of In
nocents, who have taken sponsor
ship of the dance, to find Nichols
elected as Prom Girl, by a process
of elimination, before the ballots
were even sent to the printers.
So they reopened filings, con
tacted sorority leaders and fac
tion leaders in an effort to get
them to enter more girls in the
race. Cooperative were the soror
ities who agreed to run another
girl, asked the unaffiliated girls to
re-enter the race, and pledged that
they as a group would not support
any one girl. Barbs, too, agreed to
co-operate in the move. Happy
then were Innocents for they knew
the election at the door would
(See PROM, page 4.)
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COUNT BASIE.
Council committee in presenting Unscientific, but . . .
the plan to the students will in- 7
'ESrL3?EZ Mondays, Thursdays initiate
and holding discussion forums. J ' J
Coeds compete stormy weather this winter
... Wednesday broke tradit
lor model show
parts Sunday
A record which wasn't supposed day before that, snow fluttered
to have existed, according to ex- down on the campus choking off
perts, was broken when it snowed the few breaths of spring that
here Wednesday night instead of managed to slip by Old Man Win-
commentator on the broadcast.
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pus March 13 and 14. Delegates
numbering more than 100, includ
ing several from parts of Iowa,
Kansas, and South Dakota are ex
pected to be here, according to
E. C. Reed of the university con
servation and survey division and
secretary of the association.
Eight AWS members
to judge contestants;
Ann Craft is in charge
Thursday or Monday.
For, as explained by T. A. Blair,
head of the Nebraska weather bu
reau, snow doesn't come in cycles
but for the last two Mondays
and the three successive Thurs-
Registration and
of committees will be
morning. Lunch will be at the
Chamber of Commerce, followed
by three talks in the afternoon by
Dr. George E. Condra, Dr. H. A.
Buehler, Missouri state geologist,
and Harold Engstrom, state coor
dinator of the soil conservation
service.
Manufacturers and jobbers will
be host to the drillers at a dutch
lunch in the Lincoln hotel Thurs
day evening, when Governor Gris
wold will be present.
YW frosh plan
bridge benefit
The booknook broadcast is in
tended to interest students in read- A bridge benefit sponsored by
ing and to keep them up on new the freshman cabinet of the YW
books. A book is awarded for the will be held tomorrow in Ellen
best reference question of the week Smith from 2 to 5 p. m. Proceeds
and Egan is anxious that 6tudents will be put into the WSSF fund.
S take advantage of this offer. Last
CT week's book was awarded to
Initial practice for 44 coeds
competing for a part in the annual
model show at the Coed Follies
March 27 will be held Sunday aft-
prnnnn in t he snria1 tiniarxr ra a nrli-
appointment torjum The practice wil, gUrt at
2 n in and 2 M n in Hiffrnt
groups of girls having been in
structed to attend at these times.
Ann Craft, who is in charge of
the model show, announced yester
day that the judges will be eight
members of the AWS board, which
sponsors the Follies; a represent
ative from a down town store; and
a faculty member.
Draft excludes
college men
until July 1
Deferment ff university
students to be same
as any other class
ter.
Monday, Thursday bad days.
In fact, a review of the weather
reports, kept as one of the func
tions of the Nebraska weather bu
reau, reveals that Monday and
Thursday have predominately
been the two days of the week
either initiating bad weather or
having most of it.
The first snow of the season
arrived with disastrous results for
trees on Monday, Nov. 11. In De-
(See WEATHER, page 5.)
Japan is topic
of panel toda
Lincoln Juurnnl.
MARGIT VARGA.
...is Union's author of the week.
After July 1, 1941, college stu
dents registered for the selective
service can be deferred only thru
suits, sports clothes, and campus being engaged in an essential c
costumes in fact, any type of cupation, having dependents or be-
coeds' attire will be modeled at mg physically disabled, Brigadier
Tryout in own clothes.
Formals, date dresses, bathing
the show, acording to Miss Craft.
(See FOLLIES, page 4.)
an
out-state listener.
Tables may be reserved by call
ing the campus YW office before
noon Saturday. A door prize will
Egan will comment on interest- be given and candy will be served
(See BROADCASTS, page 6.) during the afternoon.
Tickets for Bookcast
arc available in Union
Tickets for admission to the
Booknook broadcast Friday at
4:15 may be obtained in the
Union office any time before
the broadcast as long as they
last.
General Guy N. Henninger, state
draft director announced Tuesday.
"Every care must be exercised
to prevent a condition in which
the personnel of colleges would
appear to the general public as a
group which has special privi
leges," Henninger declared. "The
time limit was set on July 1 so
that students could plan their fu
ture with a knowledge that their
Dean Oldfather leads
graduate discussion
Dean C. H. Oldfather, of the
arts and sciences college, will lead
a panel of graduate students to
day at 4 p. m. in parlors X and Y
of the Union on "Is Japan the
Problem of the United States?"
Five graduate students will en
ter into the discussion in an ef
fort to help clear up questions
concerning the Philippines, Singa
pore and the Dutch East Indies.
Oldfather has recently written
revtaw on books about the far
liabilities for service must also be eastern situation for the Nebraska
met," he added. Alumnus,
t