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...Delta Gams, Phi Gams Win Cups
Becky Waite, Kappa Alpha Theta, was pro
claimed Nebraska Sweetheart at the annual fall
Kosmet Klub revue before a crowd of approximate
ly 1,500. She was escorted by Bob Sandberg, Alpha
Tau Omega, who presided as Prince Kosmet.
Delta Gamma won the silver cup among the so
rority skits with their "Beauty Bar" and Phi Gam
ma Delta carried away the fraternity cup after the
thunderous applause given to the La Conga chorus
in "My Sons, My Sons or Where Am Dem Bums?"
Star of "Beauty Bar" was Betty Newman, who
directed the skit. The story involved the transfor
mation of "fatties," "PBK's" and "gym majors" into
beauties. Everyone came out of the treatment all
right except Betty, who couldn't seem to lose crisis
weight.
After a mournful solo by Joe Martin asking "Oh
Where Are My Sons Tonight?" the scene was shift
ed to their possible habitat, a cafe. The group of
chorus girls had perfected the technique of tropical
dancing almost to the point of perfection.
Second place winners were Kappa Alpha Theta
and Delta Upsilon. The Thetas showed a night in
the Black Kat Kabaret, with attention centering
around Maribel Hitchcock, Mary Helen Farrar, and
a trio.
The DU's held one of their famous jam sessions
which included a takeoff of the Phi Phi trio. The
scene was laid in the room of a burning hotel. Dee
DePutron, one of the firemen, brought many laughs
from the audience for his quick work in time of
(See SWEKTHEART, page 3)
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Official Newspaper Of More Than 7,000 Students
Vol. 41, No. 44
Lincoln, Nebraska
Friday, November 21, 1941
High ScDnooD Jyirima!5s4s
egoim Coroveinitfcooini Today
Anticipate 500 Delegates
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Your Nebraska Sweetheart and Prince Kosmet.
Approximately 500 high school'
students are expected to attend the
14th annual meeting of Nebraska
High School Press Association
which convenes here Friday and
Saturday.
Delegates will register Friday
morning from 8 to 11 on the
second floor of the Student Union
where they will secure all tickets
for the banquet and football game.
From 9:30 to 11 a. m. repre
sentatives of the high schools will
enter the various contests. At uni
versity hall a committee of. mem
bers of Theta Sigma Phi with
Carole Wheeler in charge will con
duct the proof reading contest,
while members of Sigma Delta
Chi and advanced journalism clas
ses with George Franklin as chair
man are managing the news
writing contest. Nebraskan man
aging editor Morton Margolin will
supervise the headline writing con
test at Andrews, and Prof. R. P.
Crawford, dean of the agricultural
Journalism department, is con
ducting the editorial writing con
test. Daily Has Special Edition.
A special edition of the Ne
braskan will be published Satur
day morning by the high school
students with the aid of regular
staff members. Managing editor
(See NHSPA, page 3)
Chancellor
Addresses
Rotary Club
Boucher Stales Solution
Of losl-war Problems
Lies In Schools, Churches
Altho the immediate emergency
in world relationships requires
united and enthusiastic support of
the defense program and its em
phasis on arms and munitions, the
greatest hope for solution of grave
post-war problems of readjust
ment of life and work lies In the
institutions of school and church,
declared Chancellor C. S. Boucher
in an address before an inter-city
Rotary meeting in North Platte
Thursday evening.
"Our forefathers honestly be
lieved that our system of govern
ment could succeed only so long
as it rested on a firm foundation
of educntion and religion," said
the chancellor. "Contrast with this
the following pronouncement by
Hitler:
"'Universal education is the
most corroding and disintegrat
ing poison that liberalism has
ever invented for its own destruc
tion... There must be only one
possible education for each class
...We must therefore be consis
tent and follow the great mass of
the lowest order of the blessings
of illiteracy!' "
"Under the new order which
Hitler has designed for Europe,
elementary schools will be train
ing agencies for the development of
(See ROTARY CLUB, page 2)
Travel Bureau
Aids Students
Reports from the Union travel
bureau indicate that there are
ouite a number of students who
wish rides to all parts of the coun
try during Thanksgiving vaca
tion. Students who have cars and
want passengers to share ex
nenses and those who want rides
should register at the Union of
fice.
Already registered are students
who would like rides to Denver,
Julesburg, Chicago, Kimball, Has
tings, Broken Bow, Minatare, Min
neapolis, Sioux City, Palisade
and Lexington.
DEAR BOSS: I Don H Want
To Cover the Rally Tonight
Managing Editor,
Daily Nebraskan.
Dear Boss:
There's a rally tonijh1 ! It
starts at 7 p. m. beginning in
.front of tlie Union then wind
ing: up and down sorority row
in a spontaneous demonstra
tion that pep leaders hope will
equal those last year when UX
was named to the Rose Howl.
Organized houses are asked to
Ar WAA Council
Installs Officers
Thursday Night
The Ag college WAA council
had installation of officers last
night in the college activities
building. Those installed were:
Donna Kruitzfield. social chair
man; Mary Jean Humphrey, con
cessions manager; Romaine Ross,
expansion chairman' and Margaret
Ruth Heim, tournaments manager.
ararnge for early dinners and
to urge all of their members to
attend the rally.
That's the story yon wanted,
and thanks.
Thanhs for letting mo write
this story instead of the actual
aeeount of the rally. It's a lot
easier to write about how stu
dents should cooperate than to
write about how they didn't.
And for the last three rallies
starting with the Missouri fiz
zle, then Minnesota's "quality
not quanitity" gathering, and
finally last week's Pittsburgh's
disappointment, c o o p e ration
was nil.
It wasn't the fault of the
rally committee, because along
with some Corn-Cobs, Tassels
and a few freshmen who want
ed to get out of study-hall, 1
sang: and cheered aid yelled
for the team. I hem-d the
speeches and joined in the
faint applause.
It was fun, but all 50 of us
agreed that it was kind of lone
(See RALLY, page 2)
Band Performs in Precision
Marching for Iowa Game
. . . Also Form Capitol Outline
Saturday's band show will be
specially dedicated to the specta
tors in the lower stands who have
been unable to identify previous
Modern
Gold in
By Edward Hirsch.
Instead of mining gold, pros
pectors can now grow gold in their
backyard.
According to Prof. E. K.
Schramm, chairman of the geology
department, the goldbugs are
demonstrating the Swedish method
of locating gold by burning horse
tail weeds growing in gold pro
ducing soil and assaying the ashes.
When the weed grows in soil with
a gold content, it hungrily absorbs
the valuable metal.
Some cases have been revealed
that by burning a ton of horsetail
from low grade gold fields as
much as 4',i oz. of gold, worth
5157.50, has been obtained. The
Prospectors Grow
Their Backyards
value of a ton of good timothy hay
is valued at $7.78. Hence it would
be more practical in some cases
to harvest and replant horsetail
weeds over low grade surface ore
fields rather than mine them.
Does Not Seem Probable.
However, according to Professor
Schramm, planting and harvesting
horsetails and then burning them
for gold commercialy does not
seem probable. He explained that
it is very unusual to receive as
much as 4 Va oz. of gold from a
ton of horsetail weed. Although he
said that some prospectors do use
the horsetail weed to locate various
metals. Professor Schramm re
marked that harvesting horsetail
weeds and burning them is still in
the experimental stage.
Other metals such as copper,
silver, nickel and tin have been lo
cated by the plant absorption
method. This method of prospect
ing is called geobotany and was
developed in Sweden.
Professor Schramm asserted
that in a few localities in Utah,
South Dakota, and northeastern
Nebraska and other western states,
the plants have absorbed enough
selenium from sous to be ex
tremely injurious to animal life.
This has been learned after years
of ntudy and experimentation to
determine the cause of death of
sheep and cattle grazing in certain
regions.
formations. The major portion of
the demonstration win consist or
nrecision marchinsr. difficult ma
neuvers performed in unison.
The band will lead otf by tne
formation of an "I" for Iowa and
will play "On Iowa." After the
precision march an outline of the
capitol building will be formed.
In this formation soloist with the
band, Cleve Genzlinger, will sing
the band's special arrangement of
"My Nebraska."
High spot of the demonstration
so far as music is concerned will
be the playing of a concert num
ber in mass formation. Director
Don Lentz will direct the band
in a selection from the "Choco
late Soldier," "My Hero."
Planned for the Oklahoma game,
when the Okie band will be here,
is a band circus on the field. There
will be circus music, circus wag
ons, circus clowns.
Lutherans Hold
Skating Parly
Members of the Luthern stu
dent association will hold a roller
skating party tonight at 6 p. m.
at the rink on 19th and O street.
Refreshments will be served after
the party.