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ni ( t firs xrx fl ti Fsrv" 5s. pyfN ifla fi)y n (SOW Vol. 43, No. 6 Wednesday, February 10, 1943 Cornelia Oris Skinner Denies Being 'Feminist' BY JEAN GLOTTELTY. 'I'm not a JVminisI ami I don't idealize women." With this firm statement Cornelia Otis Skinner, prominent writer and actress who appeared in a Town Hall series program in Lin coln last night, opened her interview with the Daily Nebraskan. Aflrr thawing out this scared and windblown reporter with her cliarm and wit, the very attractive actress stated that she had been in Lincoln three years ago to do a similar show, and that this stop in Lincoln was one of several on her way to the coast, sne went on 10 ex- nlain that Paramount has pur chased the screen rights of her latest book, the best seller "Our Hearts Were Young and Gay." Mis. Skinner admitted knowing nothing about the movies and only sees about half a dozen a year. Before she left her home for this trip her son told her that he thought Rosalind Russel should play the lead in the movie version of her book. As she has never seen Miss Russel in a movie, Mrs. Skinner ruefully stated, "I sup pose I'll have to start buying those movie magazines I read when I'm under the dryer." Mrs, Skinner also put on a show for the Air Base soldiers yester (See SKINNER, Page 2.) New Alumnus Tells of Army Training, 1918 A feature of this issue of The Nebraska Alumnus is a story by the late Prof. George R. Chat burn. "97. Entitled "This Hap pened In 1918," the artcile deals with training on this campus a war ago. It is apparent that the idea of the contracting of the contracting of the colleges and universities in order to train men to take their part in the war effort is ttot a new one, for the article, published in 1919 mentions of transformation of ' the new Social Science build ing, thought uncompleted, and the Armory into barracks." There is also news of the alumni from Chicago, the Rocky Mountain Region, Houston, Kan sas City, Caliofrnia and Wash ington. John Jay Douglass, in his column "Assistant Editor Reporting" reports on the Ne braska spirit and the sense of duty of alumni to the university. "Alumni Paragraphs" tells of those in the armed services with social news. iff I & if . 21 II Courteny Lincoln Journal. Cornelia Skinner . . . appeared in Town Hall series. Tassels Donate $150, Eight W Bonds, to Fund Tassels have added their con tribution of $150, eight $25 war bonds, to the war scholarship fun this week. This contribution is the largest organization gift to the fund, and the second largest of all contributions. Kappa Kappa Gamma gave $25 in cash and four other Greek or ganizations. Delta Gamma, Kappa Delta. Kappa Alpha Theta, and Sigma Alpha Mu, each contributed $25 war bonds. This week's contributions brings a total pledge of $1,400 worth of war bonds to the War Scholar ship Fund. Eight sororities, three fraternities. and one-cop, the Brown Palace, have averaged a gift of one $85 bond each for this scholarship fund. For This Semester Pershing Rifles Ag Platoon Plans Drill, Field Problems Ol titers and members of the Pershing Rifles Headquarters Pla toon, located on the ag campus, as sembled for their first meeting of the current semester, to outline their second term drill program. The work will correspond as closely as possible to army, naval, and marine corps training pro cedures. Special attention will be given to individual commands. Every meml)er will have opportunity to practice drillin ga unit. Rifle cal isthenics will be continued. The platoon will practice a marching manuel of precise maneuvers and extended order drill. Learn Commando Tactics. In the course of the program, instruction in commando tactics and bayonet drill, under direction of Lieutenant Adams of the ROTC staff, will be given to the pla toon. Later in the semester, weather permitting, extended or der hikes under field conditions are scheduled. The Headquarters Platoon, working a3 a part of Co. A 2 of the Pershing Rifles, was organized on ag late last fall for the conven ience of Field Artillery students. All freshmen and sophomore Ar tillerv men are elierible for mem bership. Meetings are held at 7:00 a. m. every Tuesday and inursaay in the College Activities building. All students interested in receiv ing extra military experience are urged to report next ruesaay morning. War deduces Registration As New Semester Begins Ag Hit Hard . . . BY JOHN BAUERMEISTER. . . All Colleges Ur hit by the drop in registration was Af f- lege, where an estimated .r0 percent drop i.icurred by second semester regis tration. Most noticeable was this drop in classes where men students, freshmen and sophomores, predominated. Reason for the decline in agriculture classes was attributed to the opening of a new 2-C classification by the (iovernment Selective Service. With the major portion ag enrollment connected either directly or indirectly with farms, the government's activities toward de ferment of farm labor, accounts largely for the sudden decrease. Field Artillery classes were forced to drop one complete battery because nearly one-half of the freshmen and sophomores not returning (See AG ENROLLMENT, Page 2.) That World war II would eventually hit colleges and universities and hit them hard, was finally realized yesterday, when unoffi cial reports from the registrar's office dis closed a decided drop in second semester reg istration at the University of Nebraska. Altho no definite figures have been re leased at the present time by Dr. Kosonlof, university registrar, it was estimated that ap proximately a 15 percent decrease had been effected by students it) registering for second semester classes. Incomplete statistics for this semester show about 4,400 students registered here at the University and the Medical Col lege in Omaha. Compared with some 5,000 students registered for last semester, and be tween 6.000 and 7,000 students registered for (See ALL COLLEGES, Page 5.) Union Holds Interfaith Dinner Thur. Foreign Students Gather at Dinner All foreign students on the uni versity campus are invited to be guests of the Religious Welfare Council at the annual Interfaith Banquet, to be held Thursday, Feb. 11, at 6:15 in the Faculty dining room at the Student Union. The members of the committee in charge of the affair are: Dr. Dean A. Worchester, general chairman; Dr. Gerald M. Kendall, responsible for selecting the mem bers of the symposium; Dr. Charles H. Patterson, toastmaster; Mr. Robert Marcotte and Miss Evelyn Menke, in charge of spe cial invitations; Miss Gita Hill and Mr. Bill Heusel, distribution and sale of tickets; Mrs. Helen Hopkins, publicity; Miss Lulu F. Runge, decorations; Mr. Robert Dunning and Miss Evelyn Menke, music. Tickets on Sale. Tickets for the banquet may be purchased in the Y. W. C. A., Y. M. C. A. and student church centers for 60 cents. All students on the campus are invited to at tend. Foreign students who wish to attend the banquet are asked to call Miss Evelyn Manke, 2-4052, or Robert Marcotte, 2-5637, so that their names may be placed on the guest list. Students who will speak are Miss Pamona Banks, Negro Methodist; Miss Nadine Despoto rich, native of Jugoslavia; Mr. Peter E. Loew, Jewish native of Vienna; Miss Nora Maehara, na tive of Hawaii of Japanese an cestry; and Mrs. Joseph A. Mer cier, American Catholic. The speakers have been asked to prepare a brief statement of their remarks for publication. These may be obtained for the members of the Symposium on Thursday evening. Catholic Group Sponsors Annual Valentine Party Friday night at 8:30 p. m. in parlors X and Y at the Student Union the Newman club of the university will hold its annual valentine party and dance. Dur ing the evening dancing and sing ing entertainment will be supplied bv Hawaiian students. Refresh ments will be served during the evening. This is the first party of the new semester. There will be an admission of 20 cents at the door. Sunday morning the monthly communion and breaktast of the club will be held at the Cathedral at 9 o'clock massi Corn Cohs Meet Actives and pledges of Corn Cobs will meet tonight at 5:30 in room 315 of the Union. Final standings of workers will be re leased. It is especially impor tant that every active attend, according to Frank White, president. Patterson In Charge of War Fund Drives . . . Opens Today Dr. Charles Patterson, professor of philosophy, has been named colonel in charge of the student division of the Lincoln Red Cross, in preparation for the- annual roll call to be co-ordinated this year with the general war fund drive. f : ) . fH0<oQ'--:.-y. y '::.::,'.'-. LA zx7 Lincoln Journtl. DR. C. PATTERSON . . . Heads Fund Drive. Lieutenant-colonels supervising student contributions are Cliff Bloom, Bob Henderson and Tom Drummond. Under a new plan, the drive will be organized to include direct student participation. Organized houses and unaffili ated students will be represented by a squad of captains with majors in charge of each squad. Students named by the Red Cross will be notified of their positions. The drive will be conducted March 1 to 6. Daily Makes Call For Reporters Reporters working on the Nebraskan staff will meet to night at 7:30 in the Nebraskan office iu the basement of the Union. General and special as signments will be made and the style and policy of the paper will be explained. Any student wishing to be come a reporter should attend the meeting. Point Board Meets . . . No Quorum, PJoProgram, No Nothing! "It says so right here in the blue book . . ." said one Ag ac tivity man, and eight members of the men's activity point board mentally bowed down to written, law. With no chairman, no quorum and no record of past actions, the point board could do nothing else, last night at a meeting in the stu dent Council office. Called because of a "complaint," the meeting lapsed into a discus sion of chaperons for the Junior Senior Prom. First, the board couldn't decide whether they would act; then they couldn't decide how to act and finally, they de cided that they had no right to act at all. A hurried call to sev eral faculty members gave no clue to the identity of the two faculty advisers required for a quorum. It was obvious that no quorum could exist. "Let's look in the blue book" was the password of the day. The blue book, however, failed to re veal any prescribed action in a case where action itself was il legal. So the point board mem bers went home. They will meet again Thursday at 4:30. U S Quarterly Praises Ag College Work Several Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station projects were described in the latest quarterly research report of the U. S. De partment of Agriculture. They included the work on potatoes, tomatoes, sorghum crops, and egg storage. Research at Nebraska has de veloped a new potato variety, Ka sota, in co-operation with the Min nesota station. Problems in po tato storage and transportation are receiving attention. An egg cooling and storage cabinet is in the trial stage. Four new tomato varieties have been developed which are superior to older varieties. Sorghum crop research has included the widely publicized study of Leoti sorghum starch that has resulted in com mercial manufacture. Study of sorghum malt at Nebraska's sta tion has shown that it is in some ways superior to comercial barley malt for the alcohol war produc tion program. Special praise came from the federal office for a service re port, "War Work at the Colloge of Agriculture," published by the University of Nebraska publicity office.