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fht 1ailyIebmskm Official Newspaper Of More Than 7,000 Students Z 408 Vol. 41, No. 38 Lincoln, Nebraska Wednesday, November 12, 1941 Oj n ws-y nucp 4 Tift mm Red Cross Drive Gets Good Start Senior Houorarics Join 100 lVroenl; Council Memhors Tour Houses As the campus roll call for the American Red Cross finished its first day yesterday, Mortar Boards and Innocents joined the charity organization 100 percent strong. First among the sororities to join the 100 percent list was Kappa Alpha Theta, as every Theta be came a member of Red Cross Monday night, just before the drive officially opened. The goal of the student council, conducting the drive, is to pledge every stu dent on the campus to member ship in the organization. Student council members and leaders in other campus organiza tions made house-to-house tours of campus residences Monday night urging students to purchase a Red Cross membership. Drive Ends Nov. 21. During the drive, which ends (See RED CROSS, page 2) State Board Plans Annual A Ses SlOllS Plans are already underway for holding the annual organized agri culture sessions at the college of agriculture the first week in Feb ruary, 1942. Ed Millie, secretary of the state board of agriculture which spon sors the gatherings, was named chairman of the committee. Work ing closely with him will be all branches of the college of agricul ture. . Present plans call for the meet ings to start Tuesday and end with a general session Friday noon. There will be no Master Farmer banquet this year and the Ne braska Farm Bureau Federation is holdine its annual convention at Kimball instead of during Organ ized Agriculture. Several nationally known agri cultural authorities will address general sessions during the week. UN Student Council Plans Ambitious Program for Year In an attempt to show the stu dent body , and the administration that politics are only minor in the activities of the student council, the group has outlined a clear cut program for the first time this year showing what they in tend to accom plish and what they have done. The council, feeling that student g o v ernment is im portant in teaching c o 1 lege students what democ racy is and does, plans to make this more evident to col- Lincoln Journal. legiailS. ' The Burton Tiiii i. o t h er main project of the group is to give services to students and adminis tration of the university. , Introduction of the subject of - f. Father O'Brien Asserts Man Gets Civil Rights from God Program WEDNESDAY. 7 a. m. Breakfast for work ers.. Union AB. 10 a. m. Seminar. Union 315. "Ethics." Father John O'Brien. 12 noon. Faculty Luncheon. Union XY. Julius Gordon. H. A. Lyman, presiding. Seminar. Home Ec. Building 206 Ag Campus. "Religion for These Times," Hilda L. Ives. 12:15-12:50 p. m. Seminar. Ag Hall 305. "Ethics," Father John O'Brien. 4 p. m. Seminars. Union. 313 "Building on Inter Taith Fellowship," Willard John son. Faculty Lounge "The Christian World Mission," Ha- (See PROGRAM, page 2) Kosmct Klub Reveals Fall Revue Titles Announcement of the names of skits for the annual Kosmet Klub fall revue Nov. 20 was made by Walt Rundin, president of the Klub. Everything from draftees to New York night life will be shown in the six sorority and four fra ternity skits which will make up a lively evening for university stu dents. Alpha Tau Omega will enact scenes from a typical draft camp and Pi Phi will swing out "Wed ding of Mr. and Mrs. Swing." Kap pas will use luminous paint in an interpretative dance and Delta Up silon's skit is entitled "Dante's In ferno." Night Life. Both Theta and Tri Delt skits depict New York night life while the Phi Gams will follow the good neighbor policy and describe South American night life. Coeds in beauty shops will enliven the Delta Gamma's act while the Al pha Sigs will present a western melodrama complete with "hosses, shootin,' and sheriffs." Alpha Omicron Pi has chosen "History Mystery" for their skit and only those who attend the show will dis cover the solution. student government into various freshmen orientation courses is one project to be carried out by the council. Forums on student government and activities for un derclassmen, the use of under classmen on council committees and the use of faculty members on specific committees are all things which may bring about a Student Council will meet at 5 p. m. this afternoon in the Commuters Club room in the basement of the Union. greater understanding between the faculty, students and the council. By interesting students, espe cially underclassmen, thru using them on committees, the council believes this will encourage a bet ter quality of candidate to file for the offices and also give the can didates an insight of the work which the council does. By using faculty members on the various committee, such as a member of "You cannot crush the dictators by war unless you first realize that man derives his civil rights from God, not from the state," Father John O'Brien, professor of philosophy of religion and politics at Notre Dame university, told a crowd of several hundred persons in his general address at the Reli gion and Life Week meeting last night. "For the state can say what it has given it can take away," he continued, "and there is no limit to what it would take away if we have such a belief. We are seeing people all over the world being en slaved because they had faith in the state instead of God." Climaxes Fourth Day. Father O'Brien's speech cli maxed the fourth day of Religion and Life week at university. Today begins with a breakfast for work ers at the Union and later in the day there were several seminars. At the noon seminar at the col lege of agriculture, Dr. Hilda L. Ives speaks on religion for these times. At one of the afternoon seminars in the Union, Rabbi Julius Gordon of St. Louis speaks on "Building An Inter-Faith Fel lowship." Today's program for Re ligion and Life Week may be found on this page. Father O'Brien began his speech by asking, "Have we succeeded in (See RELIGION, page 4) Alumnus Gives Husker Story In Pictures The third issue of "The Nebras ka Alumnus" for this year will make its appearance Thursday. Highlight of the magazine will be the illustrated article, "Cornhusker History in Pictures." Also appearing in the magazine will be the article, "Education For This Time and Hour," by Dean Oldfather. This article contains Oldfather's address to the fresh men at the arts and science con vocation. The magazine will contain "Pal ladian's 70th," an article written by Marjorie May, Nebraskan news editor. A letter written by Alumni Secretary DuTeau to the boys now in the armed service will also be in this edition of the alumni's magazine. the sociology or psychology de partment on a committee to dis cuss Greek-Barb relationships, the council believes that considerable aid might be given. Change Elections. The council proposes to loosen the election rules since by the present system little publicizing for the election can be done by political factions. More filings might also be encouraged from students with no political affilia tions under this plan. A greater publicity of the coun cil's activities in the Daily Ne braskan, thru reports and letters is planned as well as a universal subscription to the Daily Nebras kan which the council feels, is an imperative need to the student body as a whole. As a service group the council will investigate housing conditions, encourage co-ops, study working conditions and will pass or. all constitutions of organizations on , (See COUNCIL, page il Tickets Go on Sale Today For Traditional Dinner r i a Lincoln Journal. John D. Cla'k . seeks student interest Husker s Rally For Pitt Game Friday Night Because of the slim margin of victory Minnesota had over the fightin' Cornhuskers and because of Pitt's victory over Fordham, Tassels and Corn Cobs expect to see a large turnout with renewed spirit at the rally Friday night be ginning at the Union at 7 p. m. Lots of color and lots of noise will be the theme of the rally. "As a post-memorium for Armistice day, patriotic fireworks will be shown," said Max Laughlin, mem ber of the Corn Cob rally commit tee. "This display will be unusu ally dazzling and red, white, and blue will predominate." Chanting the slogan "Pitt Pitt" and shouting Husker yells, stu dents and pep organizations will provide plenty of noise. In be tween cheers Don Steele will twirl a baton sparkling with red, white, and blue fireworks while the regimental band plays patriotic numbers. Tassels, Corn Cobs, and the reg imental band will lead the rally down R street to 16th, up sorority row to Vine Street, and thence to the Union. Coed Debate Squad Enters Intercollegiate Activities For the first time in the univer sity's history, women will partici pate this year in intercollegiate debating. Six women have already registered for the activity; any others who are interested are in vited to discuss the matter with Dr. Lua.se. Altho the program has not been completely arranged, a probable schedule has been worked out. There will be a number of debates on this campus with women's teams from colleges within the I-M Delegates Meet TcmU Intramural representatives from women's organized houses will meet at 5 p. m. today in Grant Memorial, room 101. All houses must be represented. Deviating from programs at bizad college dinners of the past, the program following this year's annual dinner, to be held in the Union ballroom, Tuesday Nov. 18, will feature brief skits and music, rather than addresses. This is being done in an effort to Increase student interest in the dinner, according to Dean Clark. Ticket sales for the affair will officially start Wednesday, under the sponsorship of the student council of the college of business administration. Members of the council are John Dean, Eugene Perry, Floyd Hewett, Joe Fleming, Rachel Robertson,' Margaret Mead, Gene Bradley, Harold Hunt, students and A. B. Corson, faculty member. Announcement of scholastic awards won by bizad students during the preceding year is made at the dinner, as well as the award ing of keys to last year's ten top bizad freshmen. The key awards were initiated by the late William Gold, a leading merchant of Lin coln, and the practice is being con tinued by his son, Nathan Gold. Preliminary sales of tickets indi cate that the capacity of the Union ballroom will be fully utilized. ROTC Cadets Observe 23rd Armistice Day Arranged by the military de partment, an impressive program in the coliseum yesterday marked the 23rd annual Armistice day ob servance on the university campus. Filling the east and west balconies, 2,200 ROTC cadets in uniform at tended the program. Other stu dents, faculty members and vis itors occupied the south balcony. The university ROTC band opened the exercises with several patriotic airs, following which the Pershing Rifles company pre sented a drill featuring various formations led by Captain Jack McPhail. Tassels, campus wom en's pep organization, came onto the floor next carrying the huge university service flag which bears the star for each university stu dent who died in the first World war. With the bugle sounding atten tion, all cadets came to present arms while the band played the national anthem. A firing squad fired three rounds in salute to the dead soldiers, and the program closed with taps and the echo of taps at exactly 11 o'clock. With Six Members state. The squad will probably travel to some other Nebraska col lege for a meet and an invitation has been received to participate in the University of South Dakoti Women's Discussion conference. Four of the women now on tlu squad have had experience in high school debating. The four are: Betty Newman, Jo Ann Emerson, Roma Biba, and Louise Woerner. Also members of the squad are Joyce Burke and Mabel Jean Schmer. Assisting Dr. Laase in the direc tion of the squad will be Miss Helen Meyer. Miss Meyer has had two years of college debating at MacMurray college for women in Illinois and one year at the Uni versity of Wyoming. Subject for women's debate will be the same as that for the men's team: "Resolved that the federal government should regulate by law all labor unions in the United States."
