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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.
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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.
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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.
