elebrates
SonMM (Rally iaht&
A mammoth bonfire rally, inl-;
tial event of homecoming week
end, will be staged at 7:15 to
night. Planned by the Tassels- and
led by the cheerleaders and
Bernle Urich, yell king, the rally
will begin in front of the Union,
proceed down 16th street, and end
in front of the East Stadium.
A call has been sent out for
"fuel for the fire." Any organized
house having waste paper or
boxes to contribute should deposit
them at the Stadium by 5 o'clock
tonight. All sororities and frats
are asked to postpone their hour
dances until after the rally to ai
low their members to attend.
Cheerleaders will lead the yells.
Backfield Coach Art Stark, Ells-
worth DuTeau, secretary of the
alumnae association, and two of
the team members will speak. An
impromptu band will play.
No Frills.
The rally will serve as introduc
tion to a homecoming weekend
which will be minus the frills and
glamour accumulated thru 30
years of tradition. Inexpensive
home made frat and sorority
house decorations, the Kansas-
Nebraska fame, and a simplified
homecoming dance remain to take
. place of the fireworks, elabo
rate house decorations, and ban
quets of former celebrations.
This week end will be a quiet
one, compared even to the 1918
wartime affair, when the fresh
men and sophomores staged
Olympics during the half time of
the game and the University
Players presented one of Brown
ing's plays.
Saturday morning at 1 o'clock,
the University Alumni association
will hold its annual homecoming
meeting in the faculty lounge of
the Union, although far distant
alumni are not expected to be
present. Most of the organized
houses will hold open house for
alumni and friends after the game
Saturday afternoon.
Soldiers invited.
Dates are at a premium for the
Saturday night dance. All aircorps
trainees, ASTP men, and STARs
stationed on the campus have been
invited to attend. Lila Howell,
Tassels' president, 'announced
Thursday that tickets will be on
sale at the door, contrary to pre
vious announcements. The dance
will begin at 9 o'clock in the Union
ballroom.
High point and climax of the
week end will be the presentation
of the trophies for the winning
house decorations and the presen
tation of the pep queen at the in
termission of the dance. Ann Sea
crest, Theta; Peggy Larson,
Towne club; Jean Guenzei, Kappa
Kappa Gamma; Jean iarsen, Al
pha Chi Omega, and Mary Jo
Kobes, Tri Delta, are the pep
queen candidates. A special cam
pus election was held last Wed
nesday, at which time the queen
was. selected.
Vol. 85; No 15
Lincoln, Nebraska
Friday, October 22, 1943
Rflemi ESeftmirini Klov- I to 5L5L
Between Nov. 1 and 11, 89 for
mer first year advanced ROTC
from Nebraska are scheduled to
return to the campus for further
schooling in the Army Specialized
Training unit prior to entrance
in OCS.
Forty-three infantrymen are to
arrive about Nov. l and 27 new
artillerymen are due about Nov.
11. Besides these, two engineers,
seven infantrymen and ten artil
lerymen will be ordered to Ne
braska at some future date. Most
of the soldiers are now complet
ing basic training in Camp Rob
erts, calir. ,
Classified 'by STAR Unit.
The arrivals will first be
screened and classified by the
STAR unit on ag campus. Those
who have a score of 110 or better
in the Army General classification
test will be transferred to the city
campus under supervision of the
ASTP.
Classification for further train
ing will be guided by the principle
that the academic work each'
trainee will pursue under ASTP
will assure his development along
the lines of greatest benefit to the
arm of the service to which he
belongs, thus making the most
practicable adjustment of a man's
previous academic experience in
future use in the army.
ASTP Status.
These former students will be
housed, fed, provided with medical
attention and instructed in a man
ner similar to that prescribed for
all other ASTP trainees stationed
here.
Although these men are arriv
ing after the AST academic cycle
has begun, they will attend classes
arranged for them by university
officials. When they are placed in
the regular AST cycle they will
Capt. Lindley
Explains AST
To Sigma Xi's
For Sigma Xi members and
their guests, the development of
methods of selecting men for the
Army Specialized Training Pro
gram was outlined at their meet
ing Tuesday by Capt. Clyde J.
Lindley, classification oficer in the
Army Student Training Unit.
Before entering the army, Cap
tain Lindley was in the psychology
department at the University of
Minnesota.
About 100,000 students in the
United States are being assigned
to various educational institutions.
Careful checks are being made on
their qualifications for entrance,
and records are kept of their later
performance as students. The fi
nal evaluation of the army general
classification tests as a means of
selecting students for colleges
were discussed at the meeting.
Music, Movies
Headline First
Variety Show
. . . Sunday at 8
.. .vat of a series of free Union
variety shows will be held Sunday
at 8. p. m. in the ballroom. Music
and movies will headline the
show's entertainment.
The Pi Phi trio, composed of
Doris Ann Stauder, Janet Hemp
hill and Betty Krause accompa
nied by Jeanette Mae Smith, will
sing out with top-flight popular
tunes of the season. ,
i
The full length movie on the
program will be the old Alfred
Hitchcock thriller "The Thirty
Nine Steps" starring Robert Do
nat. The film is one of those fast
moving spy chasers.
Toping off the entire program
will be a short movie cartoon.
YWCA Finance Workers
Meet in Ellen Smith
All YWCA finance drive
workers, cabinet members, and
staff leaders should be at El
len Smith at 4 p. m. today for
an Important meeting.
Coad Counselors to
IKlave Ali-Coedl (Picnic
Food, fun and entertainment
will highlight the Coed Counselor
Halloween picnic, to be held in
back of the dorm Oct. 27.
The picnic will replace the an
nual Coed Counselor dinner for all
UN girls which has been held at
the Union in the past. Due to the
feeding of army personnel in the
Union the traditional dinner could
not be held so a picnic has been
substituted.
It has always been the custom
for pledges to take their sorority
mothers to the party so a large
turn-out is expected. Dinners will
not be served at any of the soror
ity houses that night because all
UN girls are invited to the picnic.
Entertainment will be provided
by a style show, in which one
pledge from each house and three
dorm girls will participate.
Ration Book IV
Registration
Ends Today
Last registration period for ra
tion book IV will be held today
from 2 p. m. to 8 p. m. As in past
periods, registration is being held
in the Lincoln elementary schools
University students living in or-
See RATIONING, Page 4.
devote 59 hours a week to train
ing of all types and administra
tive work. This combined aca
demic and military instruction
with emphasis on the academic
work will be co-ordinated to uti
lize the total time available and
to produce a well rounded pro
gram. Recommendation to OCS.
Any trainee who fails to main
tain satisfactory academic stand
ing, whose conduct is unsatisfac
tory, or who for any other reason
gives indication that his retention
in this program is not in the best
interests of the government, will
forfeit his ROTC status and will
be reassigned to a field unit.
Trainees who satisfactorily com
plete the term work will be eli
gible for recommendation to
OCS.
Eisenschiml
Will Lecture
To Chemists
Dr. Otto Eisenschiml, Chicago
chemist and author, will be the
speaker at the meeting of the
Nebraska section of the American
Chemical society tonight in Avery
lab.
Widely known for his ability to
discuss scientific matters in terms
of the layman, Dr. Eisenschiml
will speak on "The Chemist in
This War." The public is invited.
Student Election Filings
Close Today in Coliseum
Filings for student council
positions, class presidents and
ag exec board to be elected
Tuesday, October 26, close at 5
p. m. today. Filings are made
in John K. Selleck't office in
the coliseum.
Coeds Enroll
For Ag War
CouncilJobs
Ag war council activities will
get into full swing next week when
coed registration for war work is
held Monday, Tuesday and Wed
nesday in the Home Ec building.
The registration will be similar to
the one conducted on the city cam
pus and all girls, upperclassmen
and freshmen will be asked to
register, according Mildred Yost,
council president.
Miss Muriel L. Smith of the ag
faculty was elected and will be
asked to be one of the council's
sponsors.
Plan Farmer's Formal.
A revival of the Farmers For
mal was discussed and it was de
cided that the party would be held
sometime in November, probably
the second week end. It will be as
much like former Farmer's For
mals as possible, open to all stu
dents and trainees with pinafores
and prints accepted dress for the
women.
Complete plans for the party
were tabled until next meeting.
Blanche Reid is in charge of arrangements.
C. S. Boucher
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Soldier Reviews Speech Attends Colle
M.
Group Meeting
By Pfc. Jake Monduras.
At 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon
I sat in on a talk by Mr. John
Price of the British Consular Serv
ice at Kansas City. The rather
pleasant ordeal took place in the
Union ballroom and was attended
by over 350 people, most of whom
were AST engineering trainees.
Mr. Price, has spent 14 years
in the foreign service of British
government, nine of which were
spent in the Far East. Before, that
he served with the political serv
ice in India and, subsequently, has
worked with Chiang Kai-Shek in
China. Among his many and varied
experiences was the not too Un
common one of being arrested and
later released by the Vichy gov
ernment in France. The sum total
of his activities would indicate
that Mr. Price has been in or seen
a major part of the significant
happenings of this modern world.
English Opinion.
However, after hearing him
speak, I would say that, like a
true Britisher, Mr. John Price has
not let the world's troubles affect
his truly English opinion one sin
gle whit. His talk, labeled "Anglo-
American Relations," seemed to
me to be an apologetlcal discourse
in defense of the British imperial
policy, which was dented by a few
barbs from our recent "traveling
senators' These American sena
torial critics found somethings to
complain about in our British lend
lease policy and, as a result, gave
their findings to the newspapers.
Mr. John Price spent the major
portion of his talk denying that
any of the charges brought by the
U. S. senators against Great Brit
ain were true, but he negelected to
take one important fact into con
sideraion. That is that senators
travelling as representatives of
the U. S. government can not
divulge any of their findings,
gained while acting as agents of
the American government, to the
American Press unless the ap
proval and consent of the white
house is given them. Therefore,
any news released to the papers
about American lend-lease aid to
England is done so with the full
knowledge and sanction of our
government
Tact and Charm.
Mr, Price did make an admirable
talk and he demonstrated the high
qualities of tact and charm found
in all British representatives to
this country. British diplomacy
thruout history has often proved
as valuable as the British navy in
settling the affairs of the empire.
Few Applicants
Causes Course
Postponement
Until a sufficient number of ap
plications has been received, the
course in Aircraft Drafting which
was scheduled to start at the uni
versity college of engineering
Monday, will be postponed.
Aircraft drafting was planned to
assist married men to qualify for
positions in essential work. It in
cludes making and reading draw
ings and blue prints, calculations
in mathematics, a study of con
struction materials and processes,
the use of precision and non-pre
jcision instruments.
Chancellor C. S. Boucher left
lat night for Chicago to attend
meetings of the National Associa
tion of State Universities, the As
sociation of Land-Grant Colleges
and Universities, and the Asso
ciation of Governing Boards of
State Universities.
The main business confronting
each of these associations is con
cerned with the Army Specialized
Training Program and postwar
planning. Dr. Boucher is a mem
ber of several important commit
tees of two of these associations.
Former Uni Staff
Member On Leave,
Returns to Campus
Visiting in Lincoln is Howard
Haworth, university graduate of
1940, who is on leave of absence
from the university and is techni
cian on water supply for the war
department. Previously he was as
sistant on the Nebraska water sur
vey and was in charge of the drill
ing tests for water.
