Unchors
ilway!
Ship A-hoy, me lads Nebraska!
has a navy and the colonel is the
admiral no, the admiral a
colonel no, confusing isn't it?
For years everyone has been
under the impression that Ne
braska's commandant of ROTC
and specialized training units, Col.
J. P. Murphy was strictly an army
man, but today the report came
in that he has been appointed by
Gov. Dwight Griswold as an ad
miral in the "great navy of the
state of Nebraska."
He's R3en to Sea.
In his letter of acceptance to
the governor, Col. Murphy proved
that he is "just an old salt" at
heart by saying that he has been
initiated Into the mysteries of the
deep on crossing the equator while
traveling from his former post in
Panama so he isn't really the ad
miral that's never been to sea.
Murphy's letter said in part:
"This commission is more ap
preciatea Because I nave some
navy background having been ini
tiated into the "mysteries of the
deep" as a full-fledged shellback
on the 20th of May, 1936, lati
tude 0000, longitude 81 15'00"
west on the USS Texas, and I hope
to serve under the present com
mission at all times to the best
Interests of the Great Navy of
the State of Nebraska as well as
the institution at which I am now
on duty."
At Home in the Navy.
In commenting on his new com
mission, Col. Murphy said that it
represented recognition of other
factors in his background besides
the fact that he is a full-fledged
shellback. A native of South Da
kota, he is fairly at home among
sailing ships, he said fully as
much as "must be the governor of
from Lincoln Journal.
"ADMIRAL."
a state which boasts such great
water ways as the Platte and the
Blue."
No doubt "Admiral Murphy"
will be out supervising ship move
ments on the Pioneers' reservoir
soon.
Long-Awaited
Ex-UN Juniors
Return Soon
Thirty-six former first year ad'
vanced ROTC men will return to
the campus from Camp Roberts,
Calif., next Monday or Tuesday,
announced Col. James P. Murphy
yesterday. All of the men are for
mer Nebraska students and mem
bers of the infantry.
This group will be the first of
a total f 89 returning ROTC men
who are scheduled to arrive be
tween Nov. 1 and 11. They will be
sent directly to the STAR unit on
ag campus for classification be
fore going into the Army Special
ized 'nng Program,
The ii.st and second year ad
vanced ROTC were activiated
early last spring and moved into
Love Memorial Library. From
there they were Bent to several
camps over the country for their
basic training.
Faculty Members
Appear in Recital
X M.
In Union Sunday
Professors Herbert Schmidt, pi
anist, and Donald Lentz, flutist,
both members of the school of mu
sic faculty, will be presented by
the school of fine arts in a faculty
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Vol. 85( No. 18
Lincoln, Nebraska
Friday, October 29, 1943
sire
Schools Meet
For Lutheran
Conferences
Over 50 students from 10 mid-
western colleges and universities
have registered for the midwest
regional conference of the Luther
an student association to be held
here this week end. The follow.
ing schools will attend: University
of Kansas, Kansas State College
Dana College, Luther College,
Midland College, Peru, Kearney
and Wayne State Teachers col
leges. Bethany College and the
University of Nebraska.
Leading Speakers.
The theme of the conference is
Effective Living." Leading
sneakers on thi9 topic include Dr
C. P. Harry, secretary of the
board of education of the United
Lutheran Church of America, and
Miss Betty Garton, secretary of
the student service department of
the American Lutheran confer
ence. The program includes a buf
fet supper followed by a mixer
at 7:45 p. m. Friday, Bible stuay
Saturday morning, and a discus
sion group and campus tour Sat
urday afternoon.
The highlight of the conference
will be the fellowship dinner Sat
urday evening. The meetings close
with communion service and wor
ship at 9 a. m. on Sunday morn
ing. Midwest Council meetings
will be held during the conference
with Marvin Johnson and Edna
Huttenmaier as local representa
tives from this campus.
Local Officers.
Details and arrangements are
being worked out by the local
LSA officers, including Marvin
Johnsen, president; David Simon
sen, vice president; Edna Hutten'
series recital in the Union Sunday maler' secretarv. ana Helen Mar
at 3 p. m. (See CONFERENCE, page 2.)
Mortar Boards
Decorate War
Stamp Booths
War stamp sales last Wednes
day reached $67, excluding the
sales made by the Delta Omicron
music sorority in the school of
music booth ybsterday.
Beginning next week, the booths
for the sale of stamps placed in
Sosh, MA, and on ag campus will
be redecorated with funds given
by the Mortar Boards. The new
design -will be in the form of a
black background with figures of
airplanes flying around the Bides
of the booths.
Design Contest.
The architecture department
held a contest among various de
signs submitted to determine the
best style to use on the booths.
The design selected is that of Pat
Pamsh.
The booths will be made at very
little cost, the only expense being
that of materials, for the art de
partment has consented to make
the booths.
Three Groups
Donate Money
To War Fund
With three more contributions
the War Scholarship Fund has
nearly reached its goal of $2,500
set last November. Red Guidon,
University military organization
donated $7, the remainder of its
funds to aid soldiers who will re
turn to school after the war.
Second place winners in the
Homecoming decorations, the
AOPIs and Phi Gams, contributed
their prizes of $5 in war stamps,
This War Scholarship Fund was
established by the Nebraska Stu
dent Foundation for the purpose
of helpine soldiers to return to
the university after the war.
Ag Men's Club
Elects Sanders
New President
At the regular meeting of the
ag men's social club the following
officers were elected for the com'
ing year: Dave Sanders, president
Don Monson, vice-president; Mel
vin Jones, secretary treasurer
Max Baird, publicity chairman; Ed
Yada. athletic director; Allen
Klingman, social chairman.
The purpose of this new organ!
(See CLUB, page 2.)
'IT NEEDS
MUSICIANS
WITH MUSIC
"It" needs pianists. "It" needs
Reg
music.
'lit" is the women's physical
education department, and the
music is needed for regular gym
classes. The position of pianist
for one or more of these closes
pays 35 to 40 cents per hour.
The musicians are needed to
play for modern dance and
square dance classes, and later
on for tap dance classes.
Applicants should contact Dr.
Aileene Lockhardt personally. If
they are unable to contact her,
they should leave a copy of their
schedule and phone number in
the department office.
Three Music
Sororities List
Pledge Groups
Mu Phi Epsilon, Sigma Alpha
Iota and Delta Omicron, the three
music sororities that have chap
ters on the Nebraska campus,
have now organized for the winter
season and are ready for their
year's work in music. Pledges for
the three groups are announced as
follows:
Mu Phi Epsilon: Ava Bromwich,
Annette Eckblade, Ruth Erickson,
Mildred Huttenmaier, Betty Ken
die, Barbara Payne, Catherine
Trenchard, Betty Wild, and Nor-
(See MUSIC, page 2.)
Party Replaces
Sig Ep Sneak
It took a war to do it, but from
all appearances fraternity sneak
nights are calming down this year.
The Sig Eps, at least, promise a
safe and sane sneak night to
night, in contrast to the wild and
wooly active-pledge riots of by
gone years.
A houseparty centered around
the Hallowe'en theme for actives
and their dates is replacing the
annual sneak. The houseparty will
be more in keeping with the war
effort, and it is expected that the
unfortunate events that usually ac
company sneak niehts vJlll be
avoided.
Halowe'en games and dancing
will be featured at the party and
the pledges' swing band is sched
uled to play for the first time dur
ing intermission.
Frosh Coeds
ister
Saturday
'..An Union
Freshmen coeds will have an
opportunity to select the actvities
in which they wish to participate
at the AWS activities mart in the
Union ballroom tomorrow from 1
to 3 p. m. This mart officially
lifts the six weeks non-participation
ban on activities for the new
women students.
Booths for each of the activities
will be arranged around the ball
room with representatives from
the organizations present to ex
plain the purpose and work of the
respective activities.
The following organizations are
participating in the mart: YWCA,
Coed Counselors, WAA, Corn
husker, AWS, Daily Nebraskan,
AWS, University Theater, Prairie
Schooner, Student Union, and the
Student Foundation. A booth for
the War Council will also be in
cluded at which the freshmen wo
men may sign up for their three
hours of war work asked of each
university woman.
Refreshments will be served
during the two hours of the mart,
and a radio will be tuned to the
Nebraska-Missouri football game
being played at Columbia, Mo.
Each activity is asked to pay
its $1 fee for their booth to Mary
Lou Holtz by Saturday noon.
Former Coed
In WASPs
Stops at Base
Betty Bachman, former student
recently stopped at the Lincoln
Army Air Base, flying an army
plane enroute to another base.
Betty is a member of the WAS?
(Flying Airforce Service Pilot).
While attending the University,
Betty took flying lessons at Lind-
Teacher's Convention Opens; Fischer Speaks at Convocation
Nebraska State Teachers' Con
vention opened yesterday morning
with a general convocation at the
coliseum where Louis Ficher, for
eign correspondent for the Nation
magazine, was the main speaifeT.
Mr. Ficher has recently returned
from a two months' visit to North
Africa and the Middle East, where
he became acquainted with some
of Britain's and India's most out
standing leaders. Among which
were Nehru and Mahatma Ghandi.
Ficher spent a week with Ghandi
as his personal guest, an expe
rience which no other white man
has enjoyed.
Traveled Before War.
Before the war, Louis Ficher
traveled in Germany, Italy, France,
the Balkans and England. He cov
ered the war in Spain for The Na
tion magazine and was in France
when the war broke out there.
Ficher lived In Russia 14 years
and has been acknowledged one of
the greatest American authorities
on Soviet Russia.
Mr. Fischer has written many
books on. international affairs, in
cluding "The
War in Spain,"
"W h y Recog
nize Russia"
and "Dawn of
Victory" which
is his latest
work present
ing an analysis
of the events
of the last two
years and dar
ing forecasts of
ZZZTTZT.:.:", peace.
Lout I tocher. The Subject
of Fischer's speech at the con
vention yesterday was "The So
I :i
vlets in World Affairs." He ex
plained that Russia was not com
munistic but strongly nationalistic
and they are doing just what we
would do under the same circum
stances. The democracies have not
convinced Russia that they will
insure the peace, consequently
Russia will take care of herself
after the war by maintaining a
strong military government.
Other speakers at the convoca
tion were Dr. Novotny, superin
tendent of public schools at Beat
rice, who spoke on Public Rela
tolns, and C. P. Peterson, state
senator, who spoke on Educa
tional Legislation.
Open Discussions.
The convention continued yes
terday with section luncheons at
noon and three divisional meetings
in the afternoon. The divisional
meetings were divided between
Elementary Education, Secondary
Education and School Adminlstra
tion and Supervision. Special
sneakers and open discussions
were the programs for these meet
ings.
Another general meeting was
held at the coliseum' last night, at
which Dr. No-Yong Prk, Chinese
graduate of Harvard, Captain An
drew Holtz of the pre-induction
branch of the United States Army,
and Mrs. Edith Joynes, president
of the National Educational Asso
elation, were the speakers.
The convention will continue to
day and will close tonight with a
musical program at the coliseum
featuring Regina Resnik and Jess
Walters, vocal duo, by courtesy of
the Lincoln Chamber of Com
merce,
C ,
(Photo by AAF Training Command)
BETTY BACHMAN.
berg Field which Is now the local
army air base. In the midst of
her junior year at the university,
Betty decided to join the WASP.
She enlisted in December of 1942
and by the end of June 1943, was
flying Army planes for the Ferry
Command to all parts of the
United States.
Now stationed at Love Field,
Dallas, Texas, Betty says, "I am
seldom at the base over 12 hours
at any one time. Flying aircraft
to the places they are vitally
needed keeps me moving continu
ally." She was affiliated with
Alpha Chi Omega while in college.
