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Spring Fashions AunitIlnn.Sty nn IFair ffi&stf IT ILecttimire IHIeir TTcodiaiy Vol. 41. No 112. Lincoln, Nebraska WAA Elects Betty Newman Prexy; Name Martin, Shaw, Junge to Other Positions lolly Newman was elocteil the elections held. .in (J rant Memorial. Other officers are: Dor othy Martin, vice president; Susan Shaw seerelary; Joyce J u n c, treasurer and Lila Howell, concessions manager. Miss Newman is a member of Delta (iamma, she has been a member of the WAA board for two years and has served as a member of the AWS board. She was in charge of Coed Follies this j ear. Miss Newman has had several roles in productions given by the University Players and is a member of the wo men's debate squad. Miss Martin has served on the WAA board as treasurer and written several of the articles in the Girl's Sport column in the Daily Nebraskan. She is a physical major education. ue Shaw is a member of Pi Beta Phi and has served on the I-M Debate Filings Are Due Today Fraternity Members To Argue Conscription Of Labor for Duration Entries for intra-mural debate tournament must be filed with the department of speech or Bert Smith at the Phi Kappa Psl house by 5 p. m. today, according to Smith who is handling the entries while Professor Leroy Laase is on a debate trip. The schedule will be conducted on a round-robin basis if there are enough entries. Otherwise a double-elimination system will be used to determine the winner of the trophy, won last year by Zeta Beta Tau. Question to be debated is, Re solved, that Congress should en act legislation providing for the conscription of labor for the prose cution of the war. Each team must be prepared to debate both sides of the question. Each team will consist of two speakers with eight minute con structive and four minute rebut tals. Anv team may substitute personnel from round to round, providing the names areJncluded on the original entry list. Varsity debaters, are ineligible. As in the past, the debates will be held in the houses of the ar firmative teams. Profesoor Lasse with th aid of varsity debaters will handle the administration of the competition. On. Qq. tfampuA, . . . Ak-Sar-Ben Ball Tonight To Feature By Randall Pratt. You're in for it girls. . .You'll be dancing with your backs to the orchestra at the Junior Ak-Sar- Ben ball tonight. It's just human! nature for the boys 10 pe lacing the orchestra. ..That is tonight, for it's going to be an all-girl band. Jane Griffith Is her name and they aay she has a mighty sweet out fit... Both for beauty and music. One proof of the quality of music she produces is the honor of hav ing won the title of being the first prize winner In an Omaha orches tra contest. There's going to be a 30 minute floor show put on by these girls, too... Which should really be worth seeing. Donate Friday. March 20. 1942 president of WAA yesterday in t WAA board for two years. She has been a member of the AWS board and has written for the Girl's Sports column. Miss Junge is a member of Pi Beta Phi. She was elected secre tary of WAA in the middle of the year and was re-elected in yester day s election. Miss Junge is a member of the YWCA cabinet. Miss Howell is a member of Kappa Alpha Theta and has been a member of the WAA board this past year. She is an officer in Tassels. Those who were qualified to vote in the election were members of the WAA council, sports board, and intramural representatives. One Act Play Entries Due Tonight at 6 Three Winning Plays Will Be Given Sunday, April 12, in The Union Deadline for all entries in the one act play contest is 6 p. m. to dav. ScriDts. not to exceed 30 typewritten pages, must be in the Union office at that time. The contest is being jointly sponsored bv the speech department and the Union and the three winning plays will be presented at the Union on Sunday, April xi. The three winning plays will re ceive awards of $10, $7.50, and $5 and shall become the property of the sponsors. Judging the scripts for the plays will be Dr. L. C. Wimberly and Dr. Thomas Ravsor. both of the English department. All - Girl Band In the center of the dance floor, which incidently is in the student activities building, will be a pen of young lambs and pigs to give the party an Ak-sar-tsen aimos phere. Tickets may be purchased from Block and Bridle pledges or may be bought at the door for 75 cents. Everyone is invited to come City campus students arc espe cially invited to the event because it is felt by many students, both ag and city, that those who miss out on the ag dances are really missing out on a lot of fun. Ag dances have a reputation of being Informal and friendly. If you'd (See AK-SAR-BEN, page 7) 10,000 Victory Books, Tomorrow! i Courtesy Lincoln Journal Ji.nes R. Young. ...expert on orient will speak at convocation here. Chicago Newspaper Pictures Sunday's Chicago Tribune will picture "life on the Nebraska campus" in. its graphic section. Photographs were taken at the Interfraternity ball. El e a nor e Nangle is author of the feature story on UN. After describing the presenta tion of Toni McQuistan as I-F Sweetheart, Miss Nangle writes Nebraska is an extremely social school. From the time the tormai season opens in December with the Military Ball and ends laie in March with the Junior-Senior Prom, hardly a weekend passes without at least one large tormai party. Each organization gives one during the season, and some of them are famous. "...The girls dress well at Ne braska and seem to give con siderably thought to styling them- Y Members Hold Supper Sunday at 5 YW, YM Estcs Pow-wow Will Include Delegates From AM Over Stale YW-YM Estes Pow-wow will be held this Sunday in Ellen Smith. The meeting will start with a sup per at 5 p. m. Every memDer is requested to bring a guest and a special invitation is being extended tn those who have attended Estes conferences in previous years and to those who are ii;tcrested in go ing this year. The gathering will include mem bers of both organizations from all parts of the state. Estes songs will be sung after supper and mov ing pictures of last year's con ference will be shown. The Estes conference will be held this year in Estes Park, (See Y SUPPER, page 8) Defense Group Collects Waste Paper Saturday Have your waste paper ready this Saturday morning because the members of the Freshman cabinet will call for it. In collaboration with the all-campus drive for waste paper of the student defense committee, cabi.iet members will call at each of the organized houses on the campus to pick up the paper. The committee has requested that all houses place the boxes in a convenient spot in the front hall or on the front steps to facilitate collecting. .Tamos II. Yuunr, recently returned from Tokyo where he" was head of the International News Service for ton years, 'will lecture this morning at 11 a. in. in the Student Union ballroom. Yonnfr, recognized by newspaperman as an expert on the Far Kast, had predicted the probability of a Japanese-American clash or an "undeclared incident." lie served in the Orient for the past 13 years, and is now on an extensive lecture tour. Voting is not very well liked by the Japanese who kppt him in prison for two months because lie wrote articles "which the police disliked." His release was secured through Ambassador Joseph Crew, a friend of the IN'S correspondent. Since his return, there has been a clamor on the part of publishers for his articles on Japan. Headers' Digest, Coronet, Esquire, Amerasia and Flying and Popular Aviation have printed articles by him since July, 1!'41. lie has had a book en titled "Behind the Hising Sun" published also. In September, 1940, Headers' Digest printed an article about Young written by J. P. MecFvoy and condensed from the Amer ican Mercury. It concerned Young's experiences or "Sixty-one days in a Japanese Jail or One-hundred and Fight meals with UN Party selves well. . .Morning, noon and night students seem to feast on the weird combination of shoe string potatoes with catsup and cokes." Organization of the university into three campuses and a de scription of new buildings being built is also described in the article which is entitled, "Youth on the Campus." A large picture of the crowd shows faces of I-F party goers that can be recognized. There are also pictures of Suzanne Woodruff, Maribel Hitchcock, Marilyn Lin- blade, Becky Wait, Rena Forsyth, Toni McQuistan, Barbara York, Pat Herminghaus, Jack Stewart, Alan Zikmund. Candidates Must File By April 10 With date of the spring elec tion definitely set for April 21, the Student Council has set Friday, April 10, as the dead line for filings for all positions. Filings will be accepted in John K. Selleck's office at the coliseum for Ivy Day orator; members of the student board of publications and all members of the Student Council. Since April 21 is honors day, the polls will open from 9 to 10 a. m., then close during the con vocation, re-open at noon re maining open until 9 a. m. When filing, candidates should submit four pictures of themselves to be used in pub licity for the election. Photo graphs should be application size. Thru Popular Demand . Union to Offer Series of Six Lectures to Staff, Faculty Presented by the Student Union thru popular demand, a series of six meetings will be held in room 31 f of the Union to explain to pros pective employes of the Union, members of the present staff, and faculty, the operations and func tions of the Union building, it was announced yesterday by Bill Marsh, Union director. Classes will meet twice a week to give more an opportunity to attend. One section will meet on Tuesdays, beginning March 24 at 10 a. m., while the other section will take over Thursday after noons at 4 p. m. beginning March 26. Lectures and demonstrations will be under the direction of the administration staff of the Union. The first meeting will deal with the general obligations of the Union to Its mcm- jnopsucKs. ' Besides heading the INS staff, Young was also manager of the American owned Japan Adver tiser, largest and most influential English language paper in the Or ient. In addition, he served as Far Eastern sales representative of King Features syndicate and man aged an advertising agency. Young will analyze events in the Far East at his lecture this morning. Much of his talk is ex pected to furnish new informa tion since he is in constant touch with sources that are open to no one else. He comes from the Scripps and Patterson families of newspaper fame and his daily contact with the INS bureau in New York and personal sources which he has cul tivated over the last two decades. Book Drive Will End Tomorrow Defense Group Hopes Final Collection to Bring Total from UN to 10,000 "Books for Victory" has been the theme on the campus the past week as everyone rummaged through attics and basements for one more book for the "V" book campaign which the Student De fense Council is sponsoring. Tomorrow winds up the drive when the books collected on the city and ag campuses, from Lin coln alumni, organized houses, or ganizations for unaffiliated stu dents, students, faculty and ad ministrative offices. The goal set last week by Laurel Morrison and Mary Ros borough, drive chairmen, was 10, 000 books but with the full co (See BOOKS, page 4) . . . . . Marsh Announces bers where social functions are concerned, and will be presented by Miss Patricia Lahr, Union so cial director. Other meetings will discuss budgets, control, responsibility, efficiency, what happens to the student's three dollar membership fee, the cost of food, placing of food orders, the operation of the grill, banquets and parties and cafeteria service. Conliuskcr $2.75 Deadline Today Deadline for the remaining payments due on the 1942 corn husker is today. Students pay ing by 5 p. m. will be billed $2.75, after that it will be $3.