(Present "is
Vol. 41, No. 109
Lincoln, Nebraska
Tuesday, March 17, 1942
Sophomore Men Determine
Ordnance Question Today
... In Union al 5
A convocation of nil male sophomore stu
dents will be hold this afternoon at 5 in the
I'nion ballroom to determine the possibility of
establishing an Ordnance Unit here next fall.
Col. R. W. Pingcr, commander of the 7th
eorps area ordmmee department, will address
the group on the establishing of a unit here
and the additional scholastic qualil'ieations for
admittance into it.
Cadets for the Ordnance Unit would come
from regularly enrolled male students who are
now in the sophomore class and who have or
will have completed the regular basic course in
any one of the three units here by the end of
the present school year. All other eligibility
rules for entry as an advance course cadet in
any one of the three units apply also for entry
into Hie Ordnaiiee I'nit. Additional scholastic
qualifications for admittance into the unit will
be discussed and explained by Col. Pinger, who
will also attempt to answer any questions raised
from the floor, concerning the new unit.
Information from the War Department as to
the possibility of establishing an Ordnance
Unit was first received by the Military De
partment last week. Tf accepted it would per
mit cadets to be exempt from Selective Service
and would lead to an appointment as second
lieutenant of Ordiinnce-Kescrve.
In order to determine whether there is suf
ficient interest on the part of regularly enrolled
sophomores, a statement of interest has been
arranged by Ihe Military department and will
be given to each person at the close of the
convocation.
Fliies? Typscal
UKI Coed Tomiglhitfc
After weeks of one-two-three-kick and ".girls, please settle
down," the Coed Follies skits are ready to be presented; and
the curtain will go up promptly at 7:.'i0 p. m. for the annual
Coed Follies in the Temple theater tonight.
This show put on for coeds by coeds will feature five skits
and four curtain acts, the winner of each receiving a cup. "While
these winners are being selected, the AWS will present a style
show with the candidates for Typical Nebraska Coeds as models.
The winner of the T. N. C. contest will be presented at the end
of the show and the cups awarded.
Though the details of the skits and curtain acts remain
a secret until tonight, the titles reveal their nature in part.
Pi Beta Phi will offer a skit entitled "Magic to Music" as well
as the Delta (iamma's "Varsity Vogue," the Alpha Chi Omega's
"Radio Nightmare," the Gamma Phi Beta's "Age of Innocents"
and the Alpha Xi Delta's "Priorities versus Sororities."
Kappa Kappa (lamina calls their curtain act "Kappa's
Kampus Kings" while Kappa Alpha Theta's will be "Jeans
for Nebraska Queens," Alpha Phi's "Fraternity Fluke" and
the Resident Hall's "Life does to ."
, Tickets for the show may be purchased from representa
tives in all organized houses, or at the door tonight for 35
cents.
Candidates for the honor of being Typical Nebraska Coed
are as follows: Marcia Bookman, Mary Helen Dietrich, Jean
Donley, Mary Helen Farrar, Joye Farrens, Virginia Ford, Leona
French, Jean (feddes, Helen Gogela, Maribel Hitchcock, Dorothy
Huffman, Rnth Unit, June Jamieson, Sylvia Katzman, Georgia
Kolar, Shirley Kyhn, Mary Larkin, Jeanne Miller, Edna Mae
Neidermeyer, Catherine Smith, Mary Stephenson, Marge Stew
art, Virginia Tomiska and Martha Whitehead.
Paul Imogen Leaves
University Faculty
For Reserve Duty
Granted a leave" of absence by the university "for the dura
tion" of the war, Paul K. Bogan, director of the University
Theatre and instructor in speech and dramatic, art, will leave
March 26 for the war college at Fort Benning, (Ja.
Bogen, who came to the university speech department in
September of this school year, is a first lieutenant in the
Officer's Reserve Corps.
Play
YW Members
Double
Or Nothing
Program Tomorrow Nile
Will Include Audience,
Belly Hohf Promises
"You are right next question
double or nothing" will be the
words spoken frequently at the
YMCA mass meeting tomorrow
evening at 7 in room 315 at the
Union.
Featuring a quiz program with
ninny participants, this meeting is
planned for the more than 500
members of the University YWCA,
Bitty Hohf said yesterday. Rath
er than just freshman women, all
members are urged to attend and
4ke advantage of this opportunity
to meet their fellow workers in
YVV.
He took an active part in Uni
versity Theatre productions until
his graduation in 1937 when' he
received his A.B. degree. After a
year of theatre work in California,
he earned his
M.A. degree at
the University
of Iowa in 1940
where he was
an assistant in
production and
direction of the
u n i v e r sity's
dramatic
group.
Taking an ac
tive interest in
the Players
during the five
months he has
been here, and
also serving as
the Theatre director. Bogen last
fall originated the plan of allow
ing students to select the plays
thev wished to see produced. This
was done at the fall elections.
Productions presented under nis
direction to date in the Temple
Theatre include "Hast Lynn," a
rollicking, popcorn and peanuts
nineties show, "Prologue to
(See BOGKN, page 2)
f .
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Courtesy Journal.
l.lrul. I'aul V. HiiKcn
CunimcIIl Stoats HDiriive
IFodit I, 6V DBBnIks
Give books, give all the books you can, and then give a
few more to stock the now empty library shelves of Uncle Sam's
armed forces, to the fellows in camp all over the country, to
your fellow, brother, cousin, son, father.
Setting a goal of no less than 10,000 books, the Student
Defense Council announces a new all-out drive to cover both
the city and ag campuses, Lincoln Alumni, organized houses,
organizations of unaffiliated students, individual students,
mother's clubs, faculty and administrative offices.
Drive chairmen Laurel Morrison and Mary Rosborough
say that nothing less than 100 cooperation is expected from
Nebraska, that 99.44 will not
Naval Reserve
Class VI Sets
Enlistment Age
Freshmen, Sophomores
Between 1 7 and 19 Are
Eligible for Training
In an article in the March 13
Daily Nebraskan it was stated
that only sophomores are eligible
for class VI in the Naval Reserve.
However, the class is open to
freshmen and sophomores who are
between the ages of 17 and 19.
Class VI specifies that those
who enlist will continue college for
two years including in their cur
riculum certain subjects in mathe
matics, physical training and phy
sical sciences as suggested by the
government.
At the end of two years of
college after enlisting the enlisted
men are given an examination,
and, if they qualify, are placed in
V7 which entitles them to con
tinue until receiving a college de
gree.
If thev do not Qualify for V7.
but do pass the examination and
meet certain other qualifications
they are placed in V5 and are sent
to a training school to receive
aviation training.
'Qood Sport1 Prof. Q. Qray
Describes British Empire
III with the flu for the past
week, "good-sport" Prof. Glen V.
Cray of the history department
was forced to stop in the middle
of his "American and World War
II" lecture yesterday at the Union
because of a pleurisy attack.
Prof. J, O. Hertzler, chairman
of the university committee hand
ing the series of lectures de
scribed Professor Gray as a "good
sport who, because he didn't want
to disappoint the large number of
students and townspeople, at
tempted to fullfill his lecture as
signment altho he was so weak
that he had to speak as long as he
d'd on sheer nerve."
Professor Gray had completed
defining what the British Empire
was -and discussing the aspects of
recent history that are particular-,
ly important in the war and had
begun explaining the primary
problems of attitudes of the dif
ferent sections of the empire
toward the war, when he became
ill.
Gray It Expert on Britain.
The lecturer, known on the cam
pus as an expert on Great Brit
ain, divided the British empire
into seven kingdoms: Great Brit
ain, India, Irish Free State, Can
ada, Australia, New Zealand and
Union of South Africa.
In discussing the historical as
pects, Professor Gray went back
to 1066 and the Norman invasion
nd traced the development of the
empire thru 1815 and 1819 when
the industrial revolution was
thruout the world bv the
British to more recent times when
liberal thinkers controlling the
tfneriioh government spread the
ideas of self-determination, human
liberties, high standard or living
and equal political rights thru the
world.
Masses Dislikes 'Isms.
He declared that the great
masses of people In England dis-
liked Communism and Nazism,
but that a small group that doml
(See GRAY, page 2).
Cornlmsker Has
Mar. 20 Deadline
Deadline for the final $2.75
payment for yearbooks, origin
ally scheduled for yesterday,
has been extended to March 20.
After that date the final pay
ment will be $3.00.
satisfy the Council. If every per
son in UN would contribute a
minimum of two books, the drive
number would soar to 20,000.
Bring Books to Union.
Individual contributors are to
bring books to the main lobby of
the Union any time during this
week. The drive ends Saturday,
March 21, when the University of
(See BOOKS, page 2)
Pat Chamberlain Breaks
Tradition, Shows Horse
By Dale Wolf.
Since the begining of the Junior
Ak-Sar-Ben, it has been the cus
tom that only boys participated in
the contest. This has been true
not because girls were not per
mitted to show but because no
girl had expressed the desire to
show.
But times have changed, and
this year, for the first time, there
(Staff l'hoto by I) ran Jrnnrn,
will be a girl showing in the Jun
ior Ak-Sar-Ben. This member of
the feminine sex who has been so
bold as to shatter tradition is Pat
Chamberlain. Pat is registered in
Animal Husbandry 1, a course in
livestock judging and production,
under Professor Fidler.
When it was first announced
(See HORSE, page 2)