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Mennfe over 3, For 1d A mSBM Vol. 41, No. 142 Lincoln, Nebraska Tuesday, May 5, 1942 Sttuncfleimtts' EEegnsiteii0 IFcmn0 ,RIBXtl Senoaestteir lleginning yesterday. morning, annual ear ly registration for next semester will last thru Thursday for upperclassnien, it was announced by the registrar. Junior division students should pick up their work sheets at the junior division office before Thursday and take them to the assignment committee in the Temple. Kven if not sure of returning in the fall, all resident students are expected to register during this time or a late fee will be charged. Since no fees are to be paid before the fall registration period, no hardships will be expe rienced by any whose plans must be changed. To register students should go to their advisor, where they will work out a schedule of class work and outside employment in de tail. This will then be presented to the dean of his college for approval and further in structions. Summer school registration will be held June 8 from 8 a. m. to 12 noon and from 2 to 5 p. m. and on June 9 from 8 a. m. to 12 noon. There will be no early registration this year as there was last. Instead of mailing out statements of fees during the summer as has been done hereto fore, students wilf call for their registration slips at the coliseum during the regular regis tration davs, Sept. 21 to 23, fill out cards and pay fees. Changes in registration may be made then after consulation with advisors. First day of registration has been unusually slow, according to Dr. A. R. Congdon, head of university registration, and may necessitate long lines when students begin to register, he warned yesterday. x All UX students, except those under 18 years of age and those living with their parents, will receive sugar ration book one when, they register today, tomorrow and Thursday at Ban croft school. Spiking rumors to the contrary, the state sugar rationing board declared yesterday that the only students who are not re quired toregister are those either under IS or who live with their family. This means that all out-of-town students over 18 years of age will feel the effect of the order. Ban croft school is the registration place for all students living on tthe campus, and it is open from 2 to 8 p. m. each day. Registra tion started yesterday. Employment Bureau Needs Men for Jobs The Student Employment Bur eau in room B8 of the administra tion building is advertising for men as drivers of sight-seeing buses in a national park in the Rockies. Qualifications for the jobs are that the applicants must be 21 years of age and able to pass a physical examination for drivers. Also, a job is now open as cashier in a restaurant paying board and some cash for men de siring to work for board from now on through summer school. Students interested are asked to call at the Bureau in the ad ministration building. Send Books Here. Parents of students under 18 will register for them and send their books to the Lincoln ration ing board which will contact the students. It was emphasized that students over 18 living away from home, had to register for themselves, that their parents could not do it for them. Fraternity, sorority and board ing houses registered last week, and the directors of the organized houses will collect the books of their members, with stamps auto matically cancelling at the end of the first ration period. De (See BOOK, page 2) Nebraska Mobilizes As 'Arsenal ov U . . . In War Effort Nebraska is mobilized for the war, Walter Koberts. secre tary and coordinator of the state advisory defense committee, told a small crowd at the Union yesterday afternoon gathered for UN's "American and "World War IT' lecture series. "Nebraska has long been known as the hub of the food basket of democracy,' Roberts said, "and now it is becoming the hub of the arsenal of democracy." Tracing of the growth and development of the slate's mo; bili.ation program, the lecturer said that the program really started on Feb. 15, 1942, when the legislature passed a bill creating the committee. . '' : " . .' v,1; ' ' i ', . -' XK- - i I. i t O'unc Journal Walter Roberts. Today there are supplementary committees In each county, 13 re gional committees, and 17 mu nicipal committees located in the larger cities and towns, he said. Conduct Volunteer Registration. Many of these groups have con ducted volunteer registration of civilian for various defense da- See ARSENAL page 2) Ag WAA Holds Mass Meeting Today at 5 The annual mass meeting of the ag college WAA will be held this afternoon in the college activities building, front 5 to 6. At this time the ffrlJorrirsg new officers, elected t the annual ag spring election. will be installed: Mary Dennis, president; Marguerite Lipootnb. vice president; Romaine Host, sec retary; Beverly Kindig, treasurer; Margaret Ruth Helm, special chairman; and ifsrjorie Bun, cat- cess9ns mans per. Council, Alums Sponsor Choice Of New Board of Universal Regents Approves Subscription Plan Every undergraduate student i next semester, for the Board of on the downtown and ag campus Regents approved the universal will receive the Daily Nebraskan I subscription plan yesterday. Tomorrow Afternoon . . . Scabbard, Blade Sponsors First Annual Rush Picnic Song The Student Council, in search of a nevf official university song. in cooperation with the Alumni association is sponsoring a band conceit at which songs submitted by students will be sung by a choir. The concert will take place in the coliseum May 23 at 3 o'clock. Two of the songs submitted will be se letted for a trial run of one year and at the end one will be See SONG, page 2) The first of an annual series of spring rush picnics sponsored by Scabbard and Blade will be held tomorrow afternoon for a group of nearly a hundred participants in Ashland, at the former National Guard Camp site. The group will leave Lincoln at 5 p. m. and motor to the camp, where they will spend the re mainder of th- afternoon partici pating in sofiball games, horse shoe contests, and various other amusements. Starting at 7 o'clock, Lt. Cols. Luke Zeck and Walter Gardner will conduct several tac tical war problems, in which the group will take part. A practice "iham" battle or an "rop" is al.o planned. Mess at Nine. Mess for the men will be called at 9 o'clock, after which there will be a discussion of the problems worked out. Final activity of the group for the evening will be Maj. (See PICNIC, page 3) UN Innocents Tour Schools, Hold Forums Two cars of Innocents left yes terday on a tour of outstate high schools. The Uip is being made under the auspices of the Nebras ka Student Foundation for the purpose of publicizing the univer sity. Tne Innocents will hold open forums at the schools and will give to the schools visited a free Comhusker. Literature will also be distributed to the students. The regents' action came as a result of the spring election in which students voted 1,724 for and 976 against the plan which is de signed to provide an efficient me dium for campus announcements while at the same time reducing the subscription cost per student. Also announced was special pro visions for the children of army officers detailed or assigned to the state of Nebraska who enter the university. It was decided that a non-resident fee would not be charged. Acknowledge Grant. Acknowledged was the $10,000 (See PLAN, page 2) Prof. Nutting Takes Position As Unit Chief Granted leave of absence from the college of law for the duration of the war. Prof. Charles B. Nut ting will take a position as unit Advanced Drill Candidates Must Enlist in Army Corps All candidates for enrolment in tbe ad vanced course of the Reserve Officer Train ing; Corps will be required to enlist in the Army Enlisted Reserve Corps for the duration of the war, according to an announccne nt of the War Department this week. Students who have not reached their IStli birthday may be enrolled in the ROTC ad vanced course without enlisting in. the En listed Reserve Corps, but they must sign an agreement to enlist upon reaching that age. Those ho are already members of the ad vanced course ROTC will be encouraged to en-, list in the Knitted Reserve Corps. Students thus enlisted ia the Enlisted Re serve Corps who for any reason fail to gradu ate with their class or who are separated from eoLVge before graduation wil be ordered to ac complete the college course in 1942 and who have met all requirements, including a summer camp, will be commissioned immediately upon graduation. " Those who will not have completed a sum mer camp but who will have met all other re quirements must satisfactorily complete the basic course at the appropriate special service school before they can be commissioned. Grad- uate of subsequent classes must also complete Tbe basic course at the special school in order to be commissioned. ' These new orders of the War Department will be put into effect with the new drill class of advanced cadets, next fall it is believed by the, military department. The new regulation, a product of the war, was made to curtail un necessary deferments of cadet officers from tire duty immediately if they bare no valid active duty because of college credit dificien reasons for deferment. ROTC students who eies. ( r ':- i ) . Charles B. Nutting chief of the court review research and opinion section of the legal division of the Office of Price Ad ministration. H will supervise the research of a staff of liwyers and prepare opinions on legal problems arising In connection with the price anJ rationing programs.. lie will als draft regulations and eseouiive order. He plans to leave as soon as the present school yeax cones I to a close.