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Vol. 43, No. 5
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Lincoln Nebraska Tuesday, February 9, 1943
750 Shoes!!
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Thrce.huii.lre1 .nl seventy- cawing the many who -were just
five pair, of r.Ws .intoiifr : going to buya pair to groan
louuiy. on la imcii v..
campus buy an average of five
new pairs of shoes each year, as
compared with the three-per-year
stipulation of the War Production
Board.
i,.js ami in uio sorority
house! .Wovd'mi: to yester
,I,rv's slioe-by-sfi"e survey, does
it look like i.ar. f...tel univer
sity jrirls will be waitin in line
fi.p tlieir rati'-iK-J shoes!
With an aet;a'' of ten
and some tenths pairs of shoes
to each pair of feel, the women
shouldn't be too hard up. The
chief problem now appears t
1... the choice that sills will
hive to make. Shall it be
pumps, oxfords, flats, sandals,
liisrhdieels. low-hcels, white,
black, blue, brown, etc.?
This first government order on
clothing was announced Sunday,
The more conservative half of
the college, or, the men, are ap
parently rather unconcerned with
the news that has caused sucn a
flurry among the women. The
survey shows that they own a
mere three and a half pair of
shoes, and' feel quite extravagant
if they purchase two pairs a year.
Their indifferent attitude toward
the rationing is probably due to
the idea in the back of their minds
that they will be sporting govern
ment issue footwear in the '"near
j future."
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These Are Out
Along with These,
Look for This .
Not Yet.
Well . . .
Whodunnit?
Six fiction bocks, all of them
recent popular editions, and one
biography have been reported
missing from the Student Union
Book Nok
The six fiction editions in
clude "Look to the Mountain,"
by Ie Grand Cannon; "All This,
and Heaven Too." by Rachel
Field; "Marriage is a Private
Affair," by Judith KelJy; "Mr.
and Mrs. Cugat." by Isabel
Ktott Rorich; "The Sun is My
Undoing." by Marguerite Steen:
and "Superrarpo." by Karl
VVh it f borne
"Family Crisis," by Shelock
Bronson Gas is the one bio
graphy which is missing from
the Book Nook library.
Students are asked to return
them? books as f -on as possible.
Lit
F
irarv Exhibit
ealures Lincoln
A new exhibit now in the third
floor showcase of UN library fea
tures as its theme books about
Abraham Lincoln. Abfo Included in
the exhibit is a painting by Violet
Oakley which shows Lincoln with
Uie Union army at Gettysburg in
November, 1&63.
Nationwide 4H
Mobilization
Week Feb. 6-14
February Hth is nationwide
"4-H Morwlization Week." The
purpose of Mobilization week is
to boost the 4-H clubs and give
them credit for the outstanding
work they are doing to help our
war and food production. Many
of the 4-H clubbers are now pro
ducing livestock on a large scale,
and th girls are learning new
and efficient methods of cooking
and sewing, all of this gadding
greatly to our war production.
Mr. Tom Leadley, editor of the
Nebraska Farmer, will express his
ideas on Thursday as will W. H.
Brokaw of the agricultural exten
sion department on Friday,
k()Id (irey .Mare Square
Dancing Ketiirn To UN,
Square dancing, along with the
old gray mare, has come back into
its own at the university. With a
"swing your partner, round we go"
students are invited to dance to
the old time music of a piano and
fiddle at the Activities Building
at Ag College tonight Ralph
Copenhaver will call the square
dances for anyone interested in
having a little fun in the "good
old days" number.
Students Still
In Dark As to
EneineerPlan
University Authorities
Prepare lo Carry Out
New Manpower Program
Officials at the University of
Nebraska still had received no
direct word Monday concerning
the army engineering unit to be
established at the university for
college men.
The announcement was made
Saturday by the manpower com
mission in Washington that the
University of Nebraska had been
approved as one of 281 institutions
in the nation to conduct training
programs for college men. who
will be uniformed, housed and fed
by the army.
Chancellor Boucher said he ex
nected to receive official notifica
tion cf the choice of the university
as an army training unit at any
time. He declared that university
authorities had already made plans
to use the engineering college 10
utmost capacity.
Date Not Known.
University authorities still had
no inkling as to how soon the
training units will be put into op
eration. They are prepared to
carry out plans for the unit when
official word does arrive.
Col. James P. Murphy, com
mandant of the university R.O.T.C.
explained that some 150 advanced
R.O.T.C. students were inducted
(Se PLAN, Page 4.)
Editor Announces
Three Assistants
For Law Review
Editorial assistants for "The
Nebraska Law Review" were an
nounced Friday by Prof. Lester B.
Orfield. editor. They are Herbert
E. Longren, Sioux City, la : Harold
D. Swan, Lincoln; and Joan i.
Morgan. North Platte.
The Law Journal is edited per
iodically by the college of law at
the University of Nebraska. The
new assistants are the three top
ranking students in the freshman
law class.
i..,n;chi.i(r iMiiti for Mondav nichts Pioni trotters will be
"hand. Llovd will bring along
besides himself, a seventeen piece orchestra in addition to girl
vocalist aeeordinfr to the announcement nv noo nnun,
i;,.;tv r-hairman Hunter's band is familiar to the campus as
he has played for numerous parties in past years.
The Innocents announced yesterday the names of the nine
teen "iris who will be candidates for Prom tJirl. There is one
fronevenr sororitv house on the campus, from the dorm, and
unaffiliated town girls. Hallotin? win xase p. ace ... .
The Innocents, who have charge of all the arrangements
for the Prom have placed on more or less war basis. It wi be
i 0A iU 1,-nd for the first time in many years will be
III M'l IIJUI fin1. "v - -
a local one in accordance with a university ruling.
Several traditions of long standing have fallen w.tb tins
vears Prom. First among those is that it is being held on .Mon
day ni-ht instead of one the week-end ami in February instead
of "March, when it has been held ever since its or.ginat.on.
It will be a 12:.;0 night for women. Tickets may be ob
tained from any Innoren! or members of Corn Cobs tor 1.1U
per couple.
. (
I Union Presents
Third Variety
Show Sunday
Third Student Union variety
show of the year will feature
student talet Bud Levinson, ven
triloquist. John Hardy and Dick
Buck in their well-known jam ses
sions, and the thrill packed movie
Blockade in the Union ballroom
Sunday at 8 p. m.
Eud Levinson, Sigma Alpha Mu,
and Johnny, his little ventriloquist
puppet, will converse their way
livtlv dialoeue. This
Rifles Hold
Meeting At
5:30 Tonight
Local Company Begins
New Semester With
Trvouts For Vacancies
The Nebraska company of
Pershing Rifles officially begins
its second semesters kuhu
with this evening's meeting at Ne-
hracUa hall, announced Cadet .Tohnnv 'has eone to war'
J -r
.- . . .in a new army uniform.
ai-tL. u i ..j
the company.
Starting the new term with the
recruiting of new men to fill va
cancies left with the ending of
last semester, the executive staff
together with the club sponsors
have planned a full schedule to
carry the club throuout the semes
ter Formal initiation, the award
ing of medals to the top three
cadets, practice in commando
tactics, close order drill, and in- j
struction on heavy weapons are j
a few of the major things 10 oe
taken up, cited Cox.
New Tryouts.
"Starting with tonight's meet
ing we will hold tryouts for all
cadets interested in becoming
Pershing Riflemen, and will con
tinue to do so until all vacancies
are filled." stated cated 1st Lieut.
Edward P. Doyle, executive of
ficer. Because of the reduced en
rollment among men students, due
to the uncertainty of present con
ditions, about twenty-five vacan
cies have been left in the com
pany. Students interested in im-
(See MEETING, Page 4.)
in a new army uniform.
New Jam Session.
John Hardy. Delta Upsilon, and
Dick Buck, Beta Theta Pi, will
beat out the jive on the clarient
and piano in one of their hot jam
sessions. One of the hot acts
of Ret Hot and Blue. Hardy and
Buck will feature entirely new
(See SHOW, Page 4.)
Teachers Mecl
In Sosh Tlmrs.
All new candidates for teach
ing positions for the school
year of 1943-1944 will meet
with Mr. R. D. Moritz, di
rector of teacher placement on
Thursday, February 11. The
meeting will be held in the
auditorium of Social Science
Hall at 4:30 p. m.
Students having classes at
this hour will be excused to at
tend. This meeting is not a
repetition of the one held in
December and should be at
tended by all new candidates.
Uni.
Final
Theatre Announces
Cast 'Thunder Rock'
Thunder Rock." the University Theater's thud
major production of the year, after final tryouts
last week emerged with promise of both new and
old faces to be seen on the stage of Temple Theater
on February 17. 18. and 19-
Among the new faces will be that of Henry Le-.
known for his work on UN KB and in the Classical
Series of the University Tb'-;it-r. who will play thf
r-art ol Dr. .Stephan Kurtz, the Viennese physwian,
whose early work on anesthetics is interrupted when
he is driven to America by old world oppression.
Another of the strange group who were drowned
in 1SI9 but who re-live again In the present for
ttie purposes of the play, is another newconi'-r to
University Theater Productions, Bc-tte Heine. She
will play the role of Miss Kirby. one of the earliest
suffragettes.
Marjorie "Torch' Christensen will play th-;
role of the doctor's rebellious daughter. Melanie,
and Pnscilla lloseley will play the doctor's wife,
Anne Marie.
Soldevilla Turns pathetic.
Romulo Soldevilla, with a long list ot comedy hit
performances to his credit before University The
ater audiences, will undeitake a new type of role,
the patheic Cockney workingrnan. Mr. Briggs.
The old Sea-faring Captain Joshua Stuart will
be played by Palmer Williams, who has appeared
in smaller roles in both of the past two University
Theater productions.
Bill Todd, who made his first University ap
pearance as Mortimer in Arsenic and Old Lace, will
play another role of a newspaper man, th.s time
the reporter who tends the lighthouse and the
man around whom the .story of the play revolves.
Streeter. the aviator who joins the Volunt'-er Fly
ers in China, is played by Larry Taylor, who a!o
has appeared in two previous production this year.
One Line Part Open.
Bob Black, University Theater veteran, under
takes the role of Inspector Flanning; Hank Buth
rnan will play Nonny, a Light Service Helper. The
Chinese mechanic who knows only one word of
English, "okay," will be played by Don Ricky. Try
outs are still open for the role of Cassidy, whose
contribution to the play is a single, at the end ol
the third act, "How are you."