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Vol. 41, No. 86 Lincoln. Nebraska Thursday, February 19., 1942
Veiled in Secrecy
v Another secret element was added to the already secretive
Junior-Senior Prom, to be held March 6", as Innocents, spon
sors of the traditional affair, refused yesterday to reveal the
identity of the band that has been signed.
Jim Selzer, chairman of the party, did announce yesterday
that filings for Prom girl would open Friday remaining open
for a week at John K. SellecV office. Only junior or senior
coeds are eligible for the honor.
Filings Open
For All Posts
In Foundation
Svohodu Named to Fill
Vacancy; Repeal Election
Law in Peaceful Session
By Alan Jacobs.
Hottest part of the Student
Council meeting yesterday after
noon was the heat emanating
from the radiators in the Union.
With little discussion and no
disagreement, the Council named
Paul Svoboda, editor of the Daily
Nebraskan, to one senior-at-large
vacancy, deferred approval of
John Thiessen, candidate for an
other vacancy until Thiessen could
attend a meeting personally, and
asked for candidates for about
eight other open positions due to
resignations and dismissals of
elected members.
Approve Douglass.
John J. Douglass was officially
made chairman of the Nebraska
Foundation, provision for a new
position of finance chairman, and
opening of filings for all other
officers in the Foundation in
cluding district and county chair
men were also announced while
a half dozen non-Council members
waited for fireworks that never
materialized.
The Council also added a sixth
member to the executive board of
the Foundation, leaving the gen
eral chairman as co-ordinator.
- Filings for Foundation positions
close next Wednesday.
Repeal By-law.
While the room got warmer and
warmer because of the radiator,
the Council coldly repealed the by
law passed last month that re
quired all candidates for the
Council to file platforms before
the election and passed a new by
law providing for a voluntary
(See FOUNDATION, Page 3.)
Has Vicious Trumpet.
Only hint that Selzer would give
as to the identity of the band was
that it has played regularly at
the "Pirates Cove" on the east
coast where it was a great favor
ite. It has a vicious trumpet,"
Selzer added.
In an elaborate presentation
patterned after the coronation
ceremonies of the famous Ak-Sar-Ben
in Omaha, the Prom girl and
the BDOC will be announced
while the "mystery" band plays.
. First all-university dance since
the Mortar Board ball, the Prom
will end the winter formal season
and officially open spring formal
festivities. It has traditionally
been the big party of the year on
the UN campus.
Unusual Lighting.
Innocents are planning an un
usual lighting effect for the party
which is to be held at the coliseum.
An improved loud-speaking sys
tem will also be installed.
Summer a.ni for university KOTO students
seeking commissions in the Officer Reserve
Corps has been discontinued "for the dura
tion of the war and for six months there
after," according to an official War Depart
ment press release received yesterday by Ne
braska's departmental commandant, Colonel
Charles A. Thuis.
"In the meantime JiOTC graduates of the
senior division and selected graduates of the
junior division will be required to complete
satisfactorily the basic training course at an
appropriate special service school before being
commissioned or receiving a certificate of eli
gibility," the release stated.
No explanation of the "special service
Schools'' or their locations whs provided in the
release.
Nebraska in Senior Division.
Colonel Thuis pointed out that a "senior di
vision" is a school ofering a complete college
curriculum, such as the university's, while llm
"junior division " .schools sire sectional ntili
tary schools such as Wentworth and Kemper,
and high schools offering ROTC training.
This means that Nebraska's advanced mili
tary science students, numbering approximate
ly "00, are included in the senior division
(See ROTC, Page 2.)
Students Elect
Goddess of Ag
Today, Friday
Highlight of the ag college
spring formal, to be held March
14, in the college activities build
ing, will be the presentation of the
1942 Goddess of Agriculture.
Election for this honorary posi
tion is being held today and Fri
day on the second floor af the
home ec building.
To be eligible for this honorary
title, a girl must be a senior, ex
pecting to graduate either in June,
in summer school, or in February
of the following year; no student
can be a candidate more than
once.
She must also be registered in
the College of Agriculture for one
academic year and the equivalent
of one other, and must be a rep
resentative Home Economics girl,
which includes the following re-
(See GODDESS, Page 4.)
Nine Students Named
On BDOC Committee
Members of the committee that will choose the first list of
BDOC contestants were announced today. Six men and three
coeds will do the preliminary selecting.
Heading the committee are lien Novicoff, business man.
ager of the Daily Nebraskan. co-sponsor with Esquire maga
zine of the contest; Burton Theil, president of Innocents and
president of the Student Council; and Flavia Tharp, president
of Mortar Board.
Also on the committee are Morton Margolin, vice president
of the Student Union board; Shir
ley Russel, editor of the Corn
husker; Fred Meier, president of
N Club; Kenneth Holm, president
of the Interfraternity Council,
Becky Wait, Nebraska Sweet
heart; and Dave Marvin, repre
sentative of the unaffiliated stu
dents. Names of candidates may be
added to this list by presenting a
(See BDOC, Page 4.)
Uni Theatre Wins Acclaim
ith 'Ladies in Retirement'
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By George Abbott.
They done murder last night on the stage
of the Temple Theater.
Somebody was kilt and quite a sizeable
number of people enjoyed watchin' the killing,
along with some other things they saw.
This here is how it happened: about 7:30 the
Temple auditorium started f il I in up with
those there people who had come to see the
play, which is one of those psychological mys
tery dramas.
It was. the first work of the Theater for this
here semester, with an unusually small cast
(See PRETENDIN', Page 2.)
Hypnotic
By June Jamieson.
Opening night at Temple theater sent a
mesmerized audience home applauding the
most professional play to bit Temple boards in
years. "Ladies in Retirement" was a hit.
Paul Bogen, director of the University The
atre, produced seven stars in his treatment of
the psychological melodrama which has de
lighted Broadway theater-goers and promises
to do the same for Nebraska. Members of the
cast showed excellent training and ability and
created a mood to which the house could not
help but respond.
(See HYPNOTIC, Page 2.)
All Religious
Groups Join
For Dinner
Bishop Kucera Speaks
At Interfaith Banquet
Tonight at 6 in Union
Nebraska students from foreign
countries will be honored tonight
at 6 p. m. at the Interfaith ban
quet held in parlors A, B, and C
of the. Union. An annual affair,
the Interfaith Banquet is spon
sored by all the religious organ
izations on campus, and is held to
strengthen the relationships be
tween the. different religious
faiths.
All students from countries out
side the U. S. will be guests of
the Interfaith Council and will bs
personally introduced to the ban
quet, and welcomed as a group
by Hugh Wilkins, vice-president
of the committee.
Main speaker of the evening
will be Louis B. Kucera, Bishop
of the Diocese of Lincoln. He will
be introduced by Father Georg-i
J. Schuster, chaplain of the uni
versity Newman Club.
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School Children Register
For Vocational Training
By Randall Pratt.
Men, 20 years and over, aren't
the only ones concerned with
registration for the draft. Word of
registration of all school children
from the eighth to the twelfth
grades in town schools in Cherry
county was received at the college
of agriculture Tuesday. Those
registering will be classified soon
and given vocational training in
doing summer work to help alle
viate the labor shortage.
The Cherry county extension
service, in co-operation with the
county superintendent's office and
high school superintendents con
ducted the registration. It was
pointed out that young folks from
the town schools could probably
offer a greater contribution toward
helping eliminate a labor short
age. Each student was given a
separate card index and each in
dividual gave a record of his name,
address, age and parents name.
The card also listed availability of
the student for work this summer,
qualifications for desire for a pos
"sible job, and references of people
the young folks had worked for
previously.
Classification of the records will
show those qualified for specific
jobs. Training in vocational groups
consist of having qualified volun
tary leaders lecture on the various
vocations. Other groups will form
classes for teceiving training In
mechanical work, farm labor, store
cjerking, house work and garden
ing and other activities toward
helping national defense and meet
ing labor needs.
If this cold weather has made
you wish for warmer climates and
tropical surroundings, here's an
item that you shouldn't pass by:
Positions are now open with the
Brazilian Ministry of Education In
various fields. Some of the open
ings are teachers of agriculture,
teachers of fruit growing and in
structors of machinery and motors.
One must have a knowledge and
experience in the occupations that
were named. However, profes
sional teachers training is not re
quired. If you are interested you
may secure further information
from H. E, Bradford, Department
of Vocational Education, Ae Hall
20G.
Well Drillers
Hold Annual
Meet Today
Machinery Companies
Set Up New Equipment
For Demonstrations
Sponsored by the university's
conservation and survey depart
ment, the Nebraska Well Drillers
association will hold its fourteenth
annual convention here on the
campus today and tomorrow.
Purpose of the conference is to
acquaint the well drillers of the
state with new methods and new
equipment and to foster an ex
change of ideas and experiences.
Over 100 drillers are expected
to meet at 9:30 a. m. today to
hear the welcome address extended
by O. J. Ferguson, dean of the
engineering school. Conventing
members of the association will
then hear lectures on drilling prob
lems for the rest of the day.
In order to demonstrate new
equipment available in well pump
ing and well drilling equipment,
thirty-five companies from all over
the mid-west have set up machin
ery displays in Nebraska hall. Any
interested students are invited to
inspect this exhibit.
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Students Divide on Question
Of liquid' Hear Army Camps
By Joe Belden, Editor Student
Opinion Surveys of America.
AUSTIN, Tex, Feb. 19 -American
college students, a great por
tion of whom will eventually en
ter the armed forces are divided
on the issue of prohibiting the
sale of liquor near army camps.
If the problem were left to the
college men alone, a Student Opin
ion Surveys of America poll shows,
the largest number of them near
ly half would vote to have drinks,
but a majority of the co-eds would
dry up army areas.
Voting Close.
Adding the votes from both
sexes as cast in the nation-wide
poll, the wets and the drys are
within one percentage point of
other, too close, statistically to
decide which side would win.
"Do you think the sale of li
quor should be prohibited around
army camps?" interviewers in
every section of the United States
asked. These were the results:
All studenU
Percentage Unde
Dry Wet elded
.. 48 47 5
Men only . ... 46 49 5
Women only . . 52 44 4
Of the 48 per cent who want
to make it difficult for soldiers
to get liquor, the larger part
would consent to the sale of beer
alone. The "drys"' were asked,
"Do you think the sale of beer
alone should be allowed arouivl
armys?"
Allow beer, said 21
Do not allow beer, said. ... 21
Undecided 3
Congressional Action.
Criticism . of the army's off
duty discipline enforcement flarel
now and then, and a bill to cur
tail sale of intoxicants in the vi
cinity of camps has even reached
congress.
Two previous national studies
conducted .by Student Opinion
Surveys have pointed out that six
out of every ten of the students
themselves admit they indulge but
on the whole the majority regards
collegians as moderate drinkers.
Nation-wide prohibition, first in
1939 and again in 1941, was op
posed by four-fifths of American
students.