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DAILY NEBRASKAN .Wednesday, April 22, 1942 TklfAaAkcuL FORTY-FIRST YEAR Subscription Rates are $1.00 Per Semester or $1.B0 for ttie College Year. $2.60 Mailed. Single copy, 6 Cents. Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice in Lin coln, Nebraska, under Act of Congress March S, 1S79. and at special rate, of postage provided for in Section 1108, Act of October 8. 1917. Authorised September 30. 1922. Published Dally during tht school year except Mondays and Saturdays, vacations and examinations periods by 8tudents of the University of Nebraska under tbe supervision of tbt Pub lications Board. Offices Union Building Day 1-7181. Night 2-7193. Journal 8-3330. Editor Paul E. Svoboda Business Manager Ben Noviooff EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT. Managing Editors idarjorie Bruning, Bob Schlater News Editors George Abbott, Alan Jacobs, June Jamleson, Helen Kelley, Marjorie May. 8ports Editor Bob Miller Member Nebraska Frees Association, 1941-42 BUSINESS DEPARTMENT. Assistant Bus Managers Betty Dixon, Phil Kantor Circulation Manager Sidney Sehvarta Rosen lof Urges Re-registration As so often stated by university officials, there has seldom, if ever, been a lime when trained leadership was so important and neces sary as at present. This trained leadership will not only be essential to the war effort itself but, what is more significant, will be manda tory when it comes to the days of reconstruc tion immediately to follow after the cessation of the war. Students in the university not subject to immediate call to arms or defense industries should not allow anything to interfere with their continued training on the campus in the classroom, the laboratory, and the lecture should they not be permitted to return and studies; rather, government officials are everywhere stating that students should not do anything to interfere with their more ade quate preparation for the future. The govern mnt will, in due course of time if the war continues for any period of months or years, call upon you, but until youth are called, it is best that they remain at that very important job of finishing their education and qualifying themselves for the positions of responsibility to which they will be called. Students now in the university Mill in a few days be asked to register for their first semester programs for next year. These stu dents should not neglect that responsibility. They should at least complete their early reg istration ad plan t heir programs in accordance with their scheduled needs and requirements. Early registration does not place students un der any obligations than those which follow upon their return in the fall should they re turn, or should the government not call upon them in the meantime. No penalty attaches hall. It is not disloyal for youth to say at their Acting Chancellor Hastings received com munications from Washington in which he asked for an inventory of all physical test ap paratus on hand. A request was enclosed on what terms the government could either buy the equipment or for what period of time said articles could be loaned. Football in 1918 was hard hit by the draft. Dusty Rhodes, captain elect of the "18 team was selected for service in the U. S. army. Not for one decade had a captain-elect failed to return to school. According to unconfirmed rumors if all draft calls materialized there would be no team in the fall to play Notre Dame and Syracuse. Professor Webster, teaching ancient history at Wisconsin took his A. B. at Nebraska in Latin, Greek. He was in Berlin for many years before the war and was qualified to give an inside picture of life in Germany. xv x . n . . Wit UUUUL :U1WIUJUlZ jj By Marsa Lee Civin. About one hundred students at the Univer sity of Minnesota attended a mass protest meet ing for Negro rights and voted for a resolution "to express a desire that the administration go on record as definitely opposed to discrimi nation in university facilities on account of race, color or creed." Both faculty members and students are in there pitchin- at Louisiana State university as members of commerce college faculty oppose students in a rough and ready game of soft ball at their annual Commerce Day picnic. Engineers at Minnesota are riding to school on bikes these days. They bought bikes to take the place of war-immobilized cars. The Car no Cycle club was formed when some mem bers of the faculty met while procuring bike licenses. The first club project is the construc tion of a bicycle rack. continue their program next fall. The penalty does attach if you return in the tall without having completed your early registration. This office, therefore, would urge all stu dents now on the campus to complete their early registrations in accordance with normal procedures. Doing so will insure all of those advantages of admission to classes ot then own choice and to the sections most desirable and in harmony with work activities or olhei activities which might inlerfere with regulai scheduling. G. W. Rcsenlof, Director of Admissions. In terfra tern ity Conference Tells War Problem. Solution Realizing that college fraterni ties thruout the United States and Canada need to prepare definitely to meet war conditions, the Na tional Interfraternity Conference has recently authorized its war committee to prepare a report out lining clearly a means for meeting the problems that most chapters will face and present a program that suggests methods through which fraternity may aid war ef forts constructively. First point stressed in the new program was the urging of stu dents to remain in college until called into service. The following quotation by the director of se lective Service, Brigadier General Lewis B. Hershey was cited, "It would appear plain enough that patriotism, real patriotism, de mands that you stick with your present job and stick with it hard and work it hard and give it all you have until such time as your Selective Service board decides that you can serve your country more effectively In some other pursuit." Suggest Rushing Changes. The making of the fraternity life more purposeful and hence more attractive to prospective members is the second point dis cussed in the program. Means sug gested were to revise rushing reg ulations to meet with the situa tions and make it an all year act ivity; to inltiaU earlier, even modifying scholarship restrictions as a war measure; and survey with the deans of unorganized men in order to discover ail who would be interested in joining fraterni ties; and to train pledges thoroly so that they may appreciate the value of their fraternity-to-be and to serve it as officers and leaders. Third main point discussed was that of finances. Recognizing that the Achilles heel of the fraternity in wartime is finances, the War committee recommended the fol lowing economies in chapter-house management and social programs: Careful purchasing of supplies and invoice checking; a use of co-operative buying if practical; low coat but appetizing menus; penal ties for failure to turn out electric lights upon leaving rooms; dances without "party frills," such as name bands, expensive programs, decorations, favors, and refresh ments; reduction of rushing ex penses to a minimum, elimination of unnecessary servants, with members and pledges taking -over their work; the abandoning of of fering "free rides" as an induce ment to pledging, reduction of the size and expense of chapter publications with eliminations of gossip column trivia. Ask Lower Costs. The war committee urged with equally importance, a business like insistence upon a "pay-au-you-eat- nnd-sleep" policy, with bills paid promptly and no accounts receiv able. This program entails dili gent solicitation of debts owed by alumni, letters to parents of pledges making clear the financial obligations of membership, the professional auditing of accounts the suspension of members with unpaid accounts, and the training of two or more assistant treas urers. Chapters which find the going hard should not let false pride keep them from entering into arrangements with other chapters for combined eating or lodging: facilities, was also stressed. Fourth and final point stressed by the committee was that of maintaining and developing of civilian morale, by the chapters. Conducting "Freedman's Forums" to discuss various themes bearing on the war effort; to invite alumni to the houses to discuss current events; to send & cheering word occasionally to members in uni form; to abandon all forms of "Hell Week" activities, as the pub lic will not gaze indulgently on silly pranks when other college men are dying on land and sea for their country; to make the chap ter house available to service men on leave; and to purchase defense bonds and stamps with the sur pluses in established funds and as an investment of the chapter, Capital to Campus By Jay Richter Associated Col(eglt Press Jobs ... WASHINGTON (ACP) Secretary of "War Stimson has announced that 100,000 men and women will be trained for civilian war jobs inspectors at Government factories, depots and arsenals; production workers, etc. in Government and state-owned schools. Students will be paid $900 to $1,400 a year while in training. (Men trained must be "outside Selective Service requirements.) Civil Service here in Washington virtually assures stenog raphers a job within one week of filing an application. Within the next few weeks Civil Service must furnish 1,000 stenog raphers to Washington war agencies. Typing and shorthand skills are an excellent entering wedge if you are interested in working for Uncle Sam and can't dis cover any vacancies in your field. Your chances of transferring to the kind of work for which you are especially trained are termed "very good" if the specialty you are seeking ties in with the war effort. War . . More than 5 percent of the nation's 20-year-lds who reg istered in the last draft are college students some 136.700 ofi them. They were assigned order numbers March 17, and pros pects of an early military career are very real for most of them. The War Department says that beginning June, quotas will probably call for men in both the first (21-35) age group and the second age group (20-year-old and 36-45-year-olds). Local boards have been instructed to mail questionnaires to registrants in the second are group in "sufficient numbers to insure filling of the June call entirely from this are group if necessary." According to an OCD survey of 400 college newspapers, more than half are sending the school paper free of charge to former students now in military service. The University of Hawaii was included in the survey, but a letter from Frederick Tom, president of the Hawaiian A. S. U., explained that the student newspaper couldn't answer the ques tionnaire because publication stopped Dec. 7. Enrollment has dropped 65 percent; almost the entire staff of the paper, Ka Leo O, Hawaii, has left school. In Class Case . Library Exhibits Collection Of J. Sterling Morton Items . . . From Nebraska History Many items from the J. Sterling Morton collection are now on ex hibit in the glass case in library hall. The complete collection con tains scrap books, reports, pamph lets, clippings, photographs, and approximately 75,000 letters. The library exhibit includes Morton's original commission for the position of secretary of the Nebraska territory by President James Buchanan and Secretary of State Lewis Cass on June 14, 1858. Also shown is a land grant issued during the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. Recorded is an account of the first Arbor Day in a per sonal journal belonging to Mr. Morton. The letter collection is repre sented in the exhibit by the fol lowing: A note from President Grover Cleveland to Miss Emma Morton, a sister of J. Sterling Morton; a letter from S. L. Clem ens (Mark Twain) .in which he thanks Morton, as secretary of agriculture, for some seed com which had been sent to him, and a letter from Theodore Roosevelt, who at that time was associated with the civil pervicc commission. The scrap book being exhibited, which is one of forty-four in the collection, contains many clip pings, programs and indicates the great popularity of Mr. Mor ton and the nation-wide approval that accompanied his appointment to President Cleveland's cabinet. Kappa Phi Elects IS civ Officers For Next Year Officers of Kappa Phi, Method ist women's club, were elected at their last regular meeting. The new officers are: Carol Jean Griff ing, president: Doris Wood, vice president; Vir ginia Dolan, recording secretary; Twila Bramwell, corresponding secretary; Ruth Tusness, pro gram chairman. Lorraine Crouse will serve as treasurer; La Vaughn Nelson, chaplain; Elizabeth Hite, historian and properties chairman; Lorna Aker, membership chairman; Paul ine Tingley and Betty Stover, so cial chairmen. Virginia Van Patten is the new stenographic chairman; Shirley Spaulding, art chairman; and Jan ice Dudley, music chairman. Several members of the organi zation will attend a biennial meet ing of Kora at Manhattan, Kas., this weekend. Kappa Beta Pi Initiates Two Two university law students, Louise Wilkie and Frances Hans were initiated into Alpha Lambda chapter of Kappa Beta Pi, inter national legal sorority at a meet ing held in the Union April 15. Miss fiarah Miller, dean of the chapter, conducted the initiation. New officers installed at the meeting, at which nine members were present, inchi le lxitus Therk elsen, dean; Louise Wilkie, as sociate dean; Maxene B.irker, reg istrar and Frances Hans, Chancellor. NOW under-arm Cream Deodorant safely Stops Perspiration 1. Doe not rot dreueior men' intra. Doa not irritate akin. X. No waiting to dry. On be used riabt arer fheviag. S. Intanrl I to pi perapiratioai for 1 to 5 dejri. Renxrra dor from perspiration. 4. A pare; white, greaieleii, taiolesa vanishing cream. i. 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