No. 5. Vol. 48
July 18, 1941
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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
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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.
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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.
