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Vol. 40, No. 110
Lincoln, Nebraska
Thomas Benton to
art at convocation
Presentation of the Best Dressed and see the show, as one did last
Girl on the campus and her two year-
runners-up will climax the annual Fashion show.
Thursday, March 27, 1941 coed Follies to be presented to- Twenty .lg selected from a
night at 7 in the Temple. Winner Rr0Up of 44, will model spring
of the skit-cup, for which five fashions at the Follies. Bathing
sororities are competing, and the suits sacks, lounging pajamas,
. . . . . . . street clothes, date dresses, and
newly created curtain-act cup, to cam Ult win be shown The
be given to one of three houses, dcfetcd BDG candidates wlll
will also highlight the show. mode, forma,a Sororitie8 enter.
... . , . . , ing skits are Kappa Alpha Theta,
Late leaves for tonight are DeBlta Dclta Delt Del Gamma(
granted to all girls attending or nM r., onri pi Rota Phi
taking part in the Follies, the rnmnptin(r for the curtain-act cun
rvffi On a nnMtnit as) 1 0
discuss
Sunday
America's most talked-of, and from $900 to $12,000. His paintings souri. His father wanted him to be Dean of Women's office announced
probably most dynamic painter of depict true American life as he a lawyer but he was more inter- thls week.
sees it in the middle west and ested in nature and outdoor dis-
the American scene today is Mis
souri's Thomas Hart Benton,
speaker at a convocation in the
Union ballroom Sunday at 3 p. m.
His subject will be "Contem
porary Art." The convocation is
sponsored by the university con
vocation committee, Union, and
Nebraska Art association.
Benton comes to this campus
from Indianapolis, Ind., where he
spoke in the recently dedicated
$1,500,000 auditorium in which are
found some of his most recent
murals.
Pictures in Union.
"Lonesome Road," one of his
better known paintings is hang
ing in the Union. This scene be
longs to the university collection
of contemporary paintings.
Benton is the most imaginative
and distinctive of the great mid
western triumverate, consisting of
Benton, John Curry of Kansas and
Grant Wood of Iowa. He is a
natural born fighter and will take
up any cause.
Now at the height of his career
Benton's easol paintings are priced
particularly in Missouri.
Benton was born in 1889 in Mis-
Tickets on sale.
Tickets are still on sale, Betty
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where he stayed until the football
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girls selling them at each sorority
house, five girls at the dorm, or
five barbs-at-large. The price of
He then went to the Art Instl- admission is 25 cents,
tute in Chicago and his instructor
persuaded his father to send him No boys are allowed to attend
to Paris. He soon began to tire of the only exclusively feminine show
the type of life he found and re- presented at the University of Ne-
turned to the United States where braska. Doorkeepers will take
he worked to make a living 'at al- special care to see that boys cos-
(See BENTON, page 5.) turned as girls do not buy tickets
Council changes spring
election filings (leadline
are Kappa Kappa Gamma, Rosa
Bouton hall, and Sigma Delta Tau.
These eight groups were selected
(See FOLLIES, page 8.)
Five students
attend barb
convention
Independent students
hold meeting in Austin;
Lunlz sponsors trip
Five Nebraska delegates left
yesterday afternoon for the Na
tional Independent Students' asso
ciation convention in Austin, Tex.
beginning today and lasting
Date on which filings close for charge of the booking agency, ex- through Sunday. Representing uni-
Lincoln Journal.
THOMAS BENTON. -.
. . dynamic painter.
the general campus election this
spring has been changed from
Friday, April 11, to Thursday,
April 10.
Clayberger will discuss
effect of draft on women
"How the draft affects women's much," as she herself stated, Miss
jobs" is one of the subjects Miss Hosp, dean of women, has persu
Katherine Clayberger, associate aded her to come back again,
editor of the Women's Home Com
panion, will discuss in her lecture Students may arrange appoint-
here Tuesday at 4 0 clock in par- ,.J,irm,,,
lors XYZ of the union.
Miss Clayberger is sponsored by
the AWS and the office of the
dean of women as the second
speaker on this semester's voca
tional series, the first being Roycr.
Second appearance.
This will be the second time
Miss Clayberger has spoken to
U. N. students. Last year she de
livered an address in the same se
ries, and because she "enjoyed
talking to N. U. students so
plained the plan thus:
"All bands for the six big par
ties of the year (Military Ball,
Mortar Board Party, Prom, Inter
fraternity Ball', Union Birthday
Party, and N club dance) will be
handled by one man alone Mr.
Ayres. He should be well able to
versity barbs are Ruth Huston,
Dorothy White, Ellis Ruby, Doro
thy Jean Bryan, and Dnve Marvin.
Prof. E. W. Lantz, sponsoring
the trip, drove the group down in
his car. The delegates expect to
arrive in Austin at noon today.
According to the Student Coun
cil constitution filings are sup
posed to close on the Friday two
weeks before the election, but due ounlifv for this nosition because Main portion of the program
to spring vacation starting on this he has been connected with a band will be held in the Texas Union.
date it was decided at the Council for s(x years,
meeting last night to change the
day to Thursday. -a committee will still select
, . . the band, but he will do the hir-
Plan booking agency. jng cont'acting etc
Plans for setting up a booking
aeencv under Union Director All of the groups sponsoring
Ayres' management were finally the parties have agreed to the
Approximately 400 students are
expected to attend.
Some of the highlights of the
convention are a barbecue, a con
vention dance, and a banquet.
Discussion groups Friday after
noon will present the subjects of
Lab assistant
experiments
on rotifera
By Mary Ellen Sim
"Rotifera," emphatically stated
E. W. Hertel, biology lab assistant,
"are not turtles. (Whatever gave
me that idea!) They are, instead,
tiny many-celled animals which
thrive in stagnant water and re
produce biscxually and partheno
genetically." That definition was this report
er's introduction to rotifera as
Hertel knows them and, for his
doctoral degree, is experimenting
on their reproduction.
Cause of increased vljror
What causes an increase in vigor
when weak, inbred strains are
crossed is the problem on which
Hertel is working. The answer '
may lead to more successful in
breeding of domestic plants and
animals.
At present, four unrelated
strains of rotifera are being inbred
to produce weak strains. The
cross breeding of the resulting
weak strains will produce a vigor
ous rotifer "if," qualified the re
searcher, "the experiment gives
similar results to the inbreeding
of, say, corn."
Each rotifer strain is kept in a
, water-filled cabinet in the zoology
laboratories and is fed a certain
food. For the production of
females, polytoma, a one-celled
animal is used as food. If males
are desired, chlamychomonas, a
one-celled plant, is fed to the
rotifera.
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accepted" yesterday and submitted plan and setting it up will depend noon w t P -uojeo. o
to the Union board. Chris Peter- on the Union board s decision next ew Devclopnients for the in
sen, chairman of the committee in vveen. "Co-operation and Competition
Speaker for the Honors Convo- with Fraternities," "Organizational
cation, April 22, was announced Problem in Developing an Effec
as Rabbi Wise; the senior coun- tive Independent Association," and
"The Pros and Cons of Faculty
Sponsorship."
Barb Council
plans April
Fools dance
cil's constitution was accepted,
and announcement was made of
the election of holdover members
in the next meeting for next
year's council.
A motion to have all organiza
tions whose constitutions have not
Barb Council will initiate its been presented to the Student
new policy of barb dances with Council for ratification, and who
an April Fools' dance Saturday come under the council's jurisdic-
night in the Union. Barb officials tion, to either present a constitu-
believe that by spending more tion or a legitimate excuse for
money on the affairs a greater not presenting one next week,
turnout can be expected.
Beg your pardon
University convocation, fea
turing an address by Clifton
Utley, scheduled for Friday
morning, will be held in the
Temple Theatre instead of the
Union as was announced yesterday.
The Barb Union-Interhouse Inquiring reporter funis
Council dance of March 15 paved
council aance 01 Aiarcn 10 paveu 1 If
ZeJs'J Student control of university
would change regulations
this dance will help the
Council members plan
dances.
Barb
their
Lincoln Journal.
KATHERINE CLAYBERGER.
...talks at vocational series.
ments with Miss Clayberger about
opportunities and abilities neces
sary in the magazine field this
week or on Monday or Tuesday
(See CLAYBERGER, page 5.)
These affairs are expected to in
crease general interest in the barb
program and it is hoped that by
getting larger crowds the barb
group will be able to obtain a
big name band to play in the
Coliseum, climaxing the barb so
cial season.
All students, at one time or an
other, vainly wish they were in
control of their school for a short
time so they could install perma
nent changes. Nebraska students
told us what they would do by an
swering the question, "If you could
change places with the board of
Student relief funds maintain
life for thousands of Europeans
This I Ihr firnt of a nrrWn of utorlp
on Ihr condition of Kuniicnn atiidrnt
prepared fur the DAILY itnd the In
lercollenlnte Washington Nrwn fcervle
by Kverett K. Mrlhy, twhttant Kmrml
Kccrrtary of Uif hurolwiin Student Re
lief Fund. The, KKSf In a branch of the
WSSK on thin raiiM'un, which jual fln
Ithed Un canipnln. Melhy In writing
the wrlri Iroin Ucncva, Swltierlund.
By Everett K. Melby.
(Alntunt General Secretary of the Kuru
pcan Student Relief Fund.)
As the second winter of the war
draws to a close, thousands of
students in war.stricken areas in
Europe look to the European Stu
dent Relief Fund as the organiza
tion which has helped them to pull
through bitter months, helped
them to relieve the long monoton
ous hours of internment or captiv
ity, and in many cases given them
the most necessary means of live
lihood. Relief work expensive.
Student relief work today is be
ing carried out on a greater scope .
and with more effectiveness than
ever before. It is proceeding on
three broad areas. In Germany
thousands of English, French and
Polish prisoners receive books and
study materials, and new type of
institution the "University of
Captivity" has been born. In
France, the ESRF has saved more
than 100 students from internment
and returned them to universities;
while those remaining in the pris
on camps have been encouraged to
continue study. And in Switzerland
more than 900 French and Polish
prisoners are benefiting from the
"internee universities," which have
been organized with the help of
Swiss authorities.
Conditions beggar description.
For three weeks after the open
ing of the fall term I traveled in
university centers in unoccupied
France investigating the needs of.
stranded foreign and French stu
dents. There I found at least 250
students whose condition beggared
description. Half of them were
Polish mostly young officers who
had been the cream of the Polish
army. The rest were students from
practically every country in Eu
rope at war or occupied by an in
vader. Czechs and Slovaks who
had fought valiently before the
armistice. Germans and Austrians
who had been studying in France
before the war. In Montpellier
there were Rumanian and Dutch
students; Hungarians and Lithu
anians in Marseille; Lebanese and
Indians in Toulouse; and Spanish
students in Perpignan.
Papers mean life.
For months these students lived
in real danger, for they had no
"papers." American college stu
dents who have never had pass
(See DRIVE, page 5.)
regents lor one uay, wnai pcrmi
nent alterations would you install
in the university?"'
Pi Phi Shirley Wiley: "I'd abol
ish all outside preparation."
Students should be allowed to
smoke in all buildings on campiu,
thinks Bud Johnson, Phi Gam.
Lois Scofield, Alpha Chi Omega,
comes forth with two suggestions
which include no Saturday classes
or "better still" no 8 o'clocks.
Lucille Jennings: "I don't be
lieve in semester grades. A stu
dent should only take an exam be
fore he is to get his degree (this
practice is used extensively in the
European colleges)."
ATO Bob Schleh desires a free
cut system, while brother John
Stalder wants odorless fertilizer to
be used on the mall.
"Physical education for women
should be optional," says Alpha
Phi Nell Reece.
Marian Linch, Kappa Alpha
Theta, says, "I desire a uniform
system of grading to be used by
all professors.
Don Nilsson: "I want a system
by which the student assumes
more responsibility than he now
does." ,
If these students are ever in full
charge, our university will under
go many changes (for better or
for worse.) -