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No. 5. Vol. 48 July 18, 1941 n L ROTC grads may receive commissions Thtiis says those who didn't make application can get in reserve now ROTC graduates of the univer sity who did not accept appoint i ment in the officers' reserve corps after graduation may apply for appointment now under the fol lowing policy adopted by the war department, according to Col. C. A. Thuis, chairman of the mili tary department. Applications must be made with in five years of graduation. Appointments will not be made in sections other than the one in which training was had and will be limited to the lowest grade in that section. Applicants must meet the mili tary educational requirements of army regulations governing ap pointments in the officers' reserve corps at the time application is made, and no exemptions will be granted by reason of graduation from the ROTC. Applicants must secure a cer tificate of capacity for the grade and section in which commission is Bought, as prescribed in paragraph 34, AR 140-5, except that the prac tical test prescribed in paragraph 34 (2 j may be waived. No ex emptions from the required army extension courses will be granted. Applicants meeting the above requirements may be appointed without regard to existing vacan cies or suspension of appointments. Wise gets PhD from Michigan Prof. Harold E. Wise of Uie de partment of secondary education received his Ph.D. degree at the annual commencement exercises of the University of Michigan, held in Ann Arbor, June 21. He is assist ant professor of secondary educa tion and supervisor of physical and biological sciences in teachers col lege. Professor Wise specialized in secondary education with a minor in physics. His dissertation was "A Determination of the Relative Importance of Principles of Physi cal Science for General Education. Home ec prof . . Ruth Lever ton conducts one day course in food problems Miss Ruth Lcverton, associate professor of home economics and research at the college of agricul ture, conducted a one-day "re fresher" course in foods and nu trition problems Monday at the Student Union. Approximately 125 were present at the morning session, mostly trained workers in home economics, with prospects of a still larger group for the after noon meeting. Dr. Leverton introduced her dis cussion with suggestions for im provement by individuals of their own eating habits. The average woman's diet is apt to be particu larly low in protein, and the diets of all members of the family are frequently deficient in B vitamins, she stated. "At least two servings of con centrated protein in the form of meat, cheese, eggs, and legumes including soybeans or peanuts should be included in the diets of women and girls every day in ad dition to one pint of milk," she Siberian forces permanent threat to Nipponese Uni students will present Dark Victory "Dark Victory," the play that won an "Oscar" for Bette Davis,. will be staged by the university department of speech, Wednesday night, at 7:30 in the Union ball room. R. J. Stanley of the uni versity staff is directing the play and taking the part of the leading man, and Virginia Thede is enact ing the role Miss Davis had on the screen. Written by George Brewer and Bertram Bloch, "Dark Victory" was first performed in New York in 1934, with Tallulah Bankhead in the role of the society girl who is knocked out of her shell by a brain tumor which threatens her sight and her life. Mr. Stanley has the role of the brain specialist who operates on the girl and gives her a new slant on life. Cast in the three act play are Jon Pruden, Mildred Manning, Bob Black, Joyce Burke, Romulo Solde villa, Clarence Flick, Jack Donley, Anna Pedersen, Berenice Demuth, Ruth Rowoldt and Jean Travis. Paul Bogen is the stage manager, and Bette Rosenblatt is in charge of properties. Former student gels army 'wings' As a climax to his seven and one-half months' training as a flying cadet in the army air corps, Charles C. Parmele was presented with the silver wings and gold bars of a lieutenant at his gradua tion from the air corps advanced flying school, Brooks Field, Tex., July 11. Parmele attended the university for two years from 1938 to 1940 and took the university s primary flight training course. The final phase of the air corps training program, which he has just com pleted at Brook Field under the direction of Major Stanton T. Smith, gives the flier a thoro knowlwedge of the art of forma tion flying, instrument flying, in terception problems and day and night cross country, besides an in tensive ground school program. declared. "One pint of milk or its equivalent should be included every day in the diet of all adults whether it is liked or not because no other one food is so valuable." Present popular enriched flour in bread is a substitute only for refined white flour and does not take the place of whole wheat bread in the diet. Dr. Leverton said. She added that parents can give children no greater endow ment than an open-mindedness toward foods. Miss Mabel Doremus, university extension assistant home econ omist on foods and secretary of the state nutrition committee, in troduced Dr. Leverton. Miss Mar garet Fedde, chairman of the home economics department, is chairman of the committee, which is sponsoring these refresher courses as part of a national drive for better nutrition and health. They have been held at four towns out in the state, and a sixth meet ing is scheduled at Wayne in the near future. Should stop all trade with Japanese "Japan hates Russia and Russia hates Japan," according to James R. Young, head of the Internation al News Service bureau in Tokio for ten years, who discussed "The Far East in Turmoil" in the Union Monday evening. "Russia's Siberian force is a per manent and potential threat neces sitating the Japanese keeping their ' ) JAMES YOUNG best armed, mechanized and avia tion forces of a half million men in Manchuria alone," explained Young. "There is a violent but subdued hatred of men like Japan's Gen. Sadao Araki and others for Moscow's Stalinized diplomacy." Young predicts a Japanese American clash or an "undeclared incident" in the future. He be lieves that before Japan moves too far, and her moves will depend upon Germany, the United States should halt all trade with the Nip ponese. Present trade is in war materials only, he declares, and we may find Japan turning to use our own materials on our own in terests. The correspondent, who was re cently held by the Japanese police 61 days because of a series of ar ticles which displeased them, con demns the paradox of giving the Chinese government $100,000,000 when in the same week tens of thousands of barrels of gasoline are shipped from Texas to Japan. "Japan still buys jr gasoline and converts it to use for aviation pur poses by adding lead to the refin ing process, thereby circumvent ing the export licensing require ments of our government. The same applies to buying cheap grade scrap iron to avoid export restrictions, and by using their own ore in the process the Jap anese can obtain metals, altho the process is slow and expensive." Sell ul tz makes field expedition Dr. C. Eertrand Schultz, director it the university museum, and Dr. Edgar B. Howard, director of anthropological research of the university museum at the Univer sity of Pennsylvania, headed a joint field expedition last week to Wyoming. The party left Lincoln to exam ine various sites, including several caves in that state, for traces of early man. Dr. Howard was the organizer and director of the inter national symposium on early man held in Philadelphia in 1937. The museum of the two institu tions have collaborated on several expeditions during the last few years. . J si & " security Rnine talks on Northlands Monday, 7:30 Edgar C. Raine, travel lecturer, will talk on "Alaska, the Frontier Wonderland," in the Union Mon day at 7:30 p. m. He brings with him slides of the great northwest which portray some of his Alaskan experiences. Raine has resided in Alaska for the last 33 years, ten of which he spent as representative of the United States treasury depart ment. During that time he visited every town and village in Alaska as well as many villages in Si beria once a year. He packed an outfit over the famed Chilcoot Pass in 1897 during the stampede to the Klondike. His pictures and experiences will range from the beautiful "In side Passage" to Alaska, to the glaciers and waterfalls, the seal, reindeer, caribou and walrus herds, the Eskimo igloos, Siberian Mazinka houses, whaling experi ences, and life with the Eskimos and Aleuts. This lecture will be the last of a series of visiting guests at the Union for the summer. Here it is . . color postcard of your school Picture postcards of the univer sity are now available to students and visitors who may purchase them at three locations on the campus. The cards, which include eight views with five in colors, have been made up through co operation of th'i university edi torial and publicity department, the museum, and the Student Union. Hand tinted color views include the Union, administration building, coliseum, Morrill hall, and Me morial stadium. Three black and white pictures show scenes in the museum including world-famous Elephant hall. The color cards sell two for a nickel and the black and white ones three for a nickel. They may be obtained from the Union office, museum office, or regents' book store. University . . Psychological clinic makes over 400 tests since Jan. 1938 Utilizing its limited personnel for the greatest possible service to the state, the psychological clinic of the university psychology de partment has diagnosed and re ported upon more than 400 in dividual cases since January, 1938, according to a report recently made by Prof. Donald W. Dy singer. A total of 723 tests have been administered to individuals in the program, most of them in re sponse to requests for assistance on cases from state i gencies. Each test requires an average of ap proximately two hours for ad ministration, scoring, and inter pretation, which means that an estimated 1,500 hours have been put in on the work by Dr. Dy singcr in addition to his regular teaching schedule. Although the age range of pa tients is from two to sixty years, Christensen new head of ag chemistry Regents appoint Idaho educator to develop " new cheinurgy program The board of regents has ap pointed Dr. Leo M. Christensen, head of the department of agri cultural chemistry at the Univer sity of Idaho, as research executive for the chemurgy project provided for in legislative bill No. 462. In announcing the appointment, Robert W. Devoe, president of the board of regents, stated that mem bers of the board have devoted much time and thought to the de velopment of a chemurgy program that may serve best the interests of the state. The board feels that it was fortunate to secure the serv ices of Dr. Christensen in launch ing the project, he said. Advisory committee. An advisory committee will be established by the board to con sist of a number of interested citi zens of the state whose advice and counsel will be invaluable and some members of the staff of the university whose experience and special training will be of value. It is contemplated that from the membership of the advisory com mittee there will be set up an ex ecutive committee with power to determine each step in the devel opment of the chemurgy project, subject to review by the board of regents, explained Devoe. Dr. Christensen has secured a leave of absence from the Univer sity of Idaho for one year begin ning Sept. 1. As research execu tive, he will counsel with the ad visory committee and serve as the administrative agent of the execu tive committee. The legislative act provides for "a survey of all research being conducted within the field by the federal govern ment, by the states, by all public and private agencies and by indi viduals," and for "specific tech nical research projects" to be de termined by the surveys. Former Nebraskan. Dr. Christensen was born in Iowa 42 years ago, but moved with his family to Kearney, Neb., at the age of nine. He attended high school there and the Kearney state teachers college for one year. He then went to Iowa State college at Ame3 where he received his bache lor's degree in chemical engineer ing and later his doctor's degree with a major in chemistry and a minor in bacteriology. most of the individuals are young people of from six to eighteen years. Because group tests are not considered satisfactory in a more or less intensive study of a child or adult, each person is treated individually. In cases where a test is not feasible, a type of "clinical interview" is given, and nearly 100 of these have been recorded by Dr. Dysinger. In the course of the work, which deals with backward and other wise handicapped individuals, ap proximately 67 trips have been made outside Lincoln, totaling about 6,000 miles. As part of the training program in clinical psy chology advanced students par ticipate in the work with individ ual cases whenever possible. In addition to the service aspects of the program, many additional data have been gathered for research purposes.