Vol. 44, No. 17 Lincoln 8, Nebraska Wednesday, October 25, 1944
Nebraskan Conducts Poll
On Presidential Candidates
Students will be given a chancej
to express their choice of the
presidential candidates on Mon
day, Oct. 30, when The Nebras
kan conducts a Student Political
Poll.
Speaking tours composed of
members of The Nebraskan staff
will contact every organized house
on the campus, both affiliated and
unaffiliated, Monday night, in an
effort to conduct a comprehensive
survey of student choice. The
speakers will distribute ballots
which every student will be asked
to fill out.
Unaffiliated students living in
Lincoln, not in organized houses,
will be contacted through booths
which will be placed in the Ag
Activities building and in the
lobby of the Union. These booths
will be open from 12 noon to
6:00 p. m., Monday.
The ballots will contain infor
mation as to class, sex, college,
choice of Candida t e Dewey,
Roosevelt, orny write-in candi
date, reason for choice, and the
Gala Rally
Ushers In
Weekend
Songs and yells will again reign
at the homecoming bonfire rally
Friday night at 7;30 on the mall
by the coliseum. The cheerleaders,
thirty Tassels with torches, and a
volunteer band will be on hand to
lead the rally from the Union
down sorority-fraternity row. A
snake dance will be formed at
16th and Vine and wind on to the
bonfire.
The main rally around the bon
fire will begin with yells and
songs followed by a talk by E. W
DuTeau, president of the alumni
association, and short speeches by
Coach Lewandowski and the
squad. A large stuffed tiger to
represent Missouri will be mauled
and burned amidst more songs
and yells.
After the rally a rally dance
will be held from 9-11 in the Stu
dent Union ballroom. All students
and trainees are invited to attend.
The Tassels will carry the
torches to the fire, but for safety
reasons, no one else is to bring
torches.
Each organized house will make
a banner to be carried in the pa-
rade. Cardboard boxes and wood
furnished by the organized houses
is to be at the mall by the coli
seum at 4:00 Friday afternoon.
Coed Counselors
Schedule Dinner
For November 1
Freshman coeds and their big
sisters will be entertained at the
annual Coed Counselor dinner
and fashion show Wednesday Nov.
1 at 6 p. m. in the Union ball
room. Tickets are being sold by
coed counselors for 65 cents.
Big sisters will contact the
freshmen concerning the dinner.
All upperclassmen are invited to
attend.
Monica Ann Alberty is fn
charge of ticket sales; Virginia
McDonald, publicity; and Marion
Greenwood, food.
. , (DMIL IFdDtUnU Ml ADDS IE IJDAYS
To Buy Your Homecoming Ticket
Coliseum Oct. 28 v See A Tassel Now! Tickets 1.25
student's answer on the prohibi
tion question.
Pat Chamberlin, editor of The
Nebraskan, asks that students be
entirely honest in writing reasons
for their choice. "Tt is a well
known fact that 75 to 80 percent
of the voters vote according to
See POLL, Page 3.
L. T. Laase
Tells Year's
Debate Plans
Program for this year's inter
collegiate debate season has just
been announced by Prof. Leroy
T. Laase. The question for de
bate is "Resolved: That the fed
eral government should enact leg
islation providing for compulsory
arbitration of labor dispute."
Tentative plans involve partic
ipation in five major conferences
and other minor contests through
South Dakota, Nebraska, and
Kansas. The five major confer
ences are the University of Iowa
Conference at Iowa City, the
Rocky Mountain Conference at
Denver, the Northwestern Confer
ence at Evanston, the Missouri
Valley Conference at Wichita, and
the University of Nebraska Con
ference at Lincoln.
Go to Iowa.
First of the large conferences
is the University of Iowa confer
ence November 14, 15, 16, where
both debate and discussion" con
tests will be entered. The dis
cussion will center on the Dum
barton Oakes meeting while de
bate will be on compulsory arbi
tration of labor disputes. The
squad attending this conference
will probably consist of four ex
perienced debaters, said Dr. Laase.
All persons known to be in
terested in intercollegiate debat
ing or discussion were called to
a meeting Tuesday at which plans
for the coming season were made
known. Those who were not noti
fied should see Dr. Laase soon.
Plans call for squad meetings over
a period of two weeks at the end
of which tryouts for varsity par
ticipation will be held.
Sigma Alpha Iota
Province Prexy
Visits . Nebraska
Mrs. James Izsett, prominent
Denver musician and newly
elected province president of
Sigma Alpha Iota, women's pro
fessional music fraternity, will
visit Kappa chapter at the UN
school of music, Oct. 27 and 28.
Mrs. Izsett will be speaker at
a banquet Saturday attended by
Sigma Alpha Iota alumna, ac
aives, and pledges. While in Lin
coln, Mrs. Izsett will also attend
SAI formal pledging Friday,
Oct. 27.
Houses Submit
Decoration Costs
Itemized accounts of ex
penditures for homecoming; de
corations must be turned in to
the Union office by 12 noon
on Friday, Oct. 27. Any house
not submitting their accounts
on time will be disqualified
from competition.
Freshmen Hold
Cheering, Song
Practice Today
Freshman! Oil your vocal
chords and polish up on Nebraska
cheers and songs for the freshman
yell practice in the Union ball
room this afternoon at 5.
This is the first practice of its
kind t be held since 1941, before
whichthese gatherings were an
nual occurrances. The purpose of
the pre-rally ralley is to acquaint
new students with UN songs and
yells and to prepare them to shout
the rafters down for the team in
the Homecoming game Saturday.
Not only freshmen but all stu
dents who like to make a lot of
noise are urged to attend. Cheer
leaders will be there to lead the
demonstration and Tassels will be
on hand to incite the pepsters.
Every new student is urged to
attend this rally in order to be in
A-l shape for the big rally Fri
day night and the clash with the
Missouri Tigers this Saturday.
Tassels Drive
For Purchase
Of Ambulance
Starting with today's war stamp
sales, the Tassels will launch a
drive for enough money to pur
chase an army field ambulance
by the end of the first semester.
The ambulance will cost $1,950
and the Tassels urge every stu
dent to buy a share in this neces
sary piece of battle equipment
which will be sent overseas bear
ing the name of the university.
Hundreds of these ambulances are
vitially needed.
When the money is turned over
to the government, the university
will receive recognition for it and
the Tassels hope to have a dedica
tion ceremony when the ambu
lance is purchased.
Mary Lou Weaver is in charge
of the plan and announces that
stamps will be sold as usual each
Wednesday in Andrews, Sosh, Ag
Hall and the Union. She said also
that the sale of stamps must in
crease before the semesters goal
can be reached. Results of the,
drive will be reported regularly
in the Nebraskan.
UN Pub Board
Fills Vacancies
On Nebraskan
Members of the university pub
lication board in a special meeting
Monday afternoon chose three
new staff members of the Nebras
kan. Phyllis Teagarden, a sopho
more, was chosen as new editor
to replace Mary Jarrell, who left
school last week.
Newly-elected sports editor is
freshman Dick Dilsaver, who has
been acting in that capacity for
several weeks. Helen Goodwin,
who has been in charge of the so
ciety page since the beginning of
school, is now appointed official
society editor and is a member of
the paid staff. This year is the
first time thata society editor has
been given a salary.
Members of the publications
board are Forrest Blood, chair
man, David Fellman, H. E. Brad
ford, John K. Selleck, J. E. Law
rence, Albert R?ddish, Mary Ral
ston, and Varro Tyler. The board
is charged with appointing staffs
and reeulatine the university pub-
1 liratinns
Nebraska Ace
Visits Campus
On Furlough
Nebraska's leading air ace,
Major John Loisel, who has 240
missions, 11 Jap planes downed
in the air, two Jap barges, and
the strafing of a Jap destroyer to
his credit, was back to see his
alma mater and the Sig Ep house
last week end.
"Stoop," the nickname of the
six foot major, wears the distin
guished flying cross with three
oak leaf cluster, the silver star,
the air medal with six oak leaf
clusters, and the presidential cita
tion with three oak leaf clusters.
When he left the South Pacific
he had more combat hours in
that theater than any one else.
Major Loisel was a junior in
arts and science college when he
left school in '40. Headed for
Pearl Harbor when the war broke
out, he went on to Australia
where he has been serving under
Gen. Douglas MacArthur since. In
February of '41 he saw the "first
Nips."
Returning to the states on Aug.
8th, Loisel has been attending the
command and general staff school
at Fort Leavenworth from where
he graduated last Saturday. After
a 30 day leave he expects to re
turn overseas.
Rutlianna Russell
Addresses Ilom
Ec Club, Oct. 26
Ruthanna Russell will speak on
retailing at the first meeting of
the year of the home ec club to
be held Thursday at 7:15 p. m.
in room 313 of Ag Hall.
Miss Russell, who is a former
Mortar Board, was active in ac
tivities on the campus when she
was in school. She has been em
ployed in merchandising for Car-son-Pierie
Scott of Chicago.
This is one of a series of meet
ings on vocations and home eco
nomic fields held monthly by the
home ec club. The meetings are
open to all ag women.
Records Reveal Union,
BarbParties Uno fficia I
BY ELEANOR KNOLL.
The two political parties, Union
and Barb, as they appear on the
campus today, have never been
recognized by the Student Coun
cil, according to the records of the
parties as recorded in the files
of The Nebraskan.
In 1940, the political parties on
the campus, the Progressive and
the Barb-Liberals, submitted the
last political platforms presented
by any of the parties on this
campus. At that time the planks
in the platforms indicated that ac
tually the barbs and greeks were
divided into two parties but as
such they were not recognized by
the Council.
Progressive Plank.
In the platform of the Progres
sive party was this plank: "To
make a sincera effort to keep af
filiated groups in the position that
thev should hold on this campus
including both sororities and fra
ternities by uniting in solid vote
behind the Progressive front."
The platform for the Barb
Liberal party began: "For the pro
motion of greater student inter
est in the affairs of the University
of Nebraska; to break down the
UN Chooses
Pep Queen
Tomorrow
Election of the Pep Queen of
1944 will be held Thursday after
noon from noon until 6 o'clock in
the Union basement when all stu
dents will vote on five Tassels
chosen by that organization as
candidates for the title. Vieing for
the honor are Monica Ann Al
berty, Leslie Jean Glotfelty, Midge
Holtzcherer, Suzanne Pope and
Jackie Scott.
Identity of the new pep queen
will be revealed during intermis
mission of the Homecoming dance
Saturday evening, the queen to be
presented by Yell King Bernie
Urich and the 1943 queen, Peggy
Larson, after the homecoming
decoration cups are awarded to
the winning houses. Basie Givens'
band will play for the dance.
One Sophomore.
Of the candidates, all a-e
juniors except Miss Scott who is
a sophomore. Miss Alberty is a
member of the Coed Counselor
board, treasurer of the Home
Economics club and a member of
the Ag Student Faculty council.
Chairman of the Ag student
faculty council, Miss Holtzscherer
is a member of the WAA, YW and
AWS boards and affiliated with
Delta Delta Delta. Miss Glotfelty
is Tassel secretary, WAA treasurer
and Nebraskan news editor. She
is a member of Pi Beta Phi.
Tassell publicity is handled by
Suzanne Pope, who is also presi
dent of the Lincoln Youth Coun
cil, secretary of Coed Counselors
and on the YW staff. Activities of
Miss Scott are cheerleading
squad, Coed Counselors, and
Cornhusker staff. She is-a member
of Alpha Chi Omega.
In Today's IS'ebraskan
G. I. Survey Pape 4
Horse Sense Page 3
Les Said Page 2
V-Mail Pasre 2
barriers that have existed between
affiliated and unaffiliated stu
dents; and to initiate the smooth
functioning of student governing
bodies in the co-operation with
the administration, this new and
greater coalition has been
formed."
That year, 1940, the two parties
were closely matched; so that al
tho the Progressive party won the
election by having a control in
the Student Council, they had
that control by a majority of only
two members.
Three Into Oie.
The Barb Liberal party had
grown out of the three parties
formerly on the campus. In 1939
the election showed three parties,
called Barb-Union, Liberal and
Progressive. The Barb-Union had
grown out of the Independent
party which had first appeared
and presented its platform in
1938.
Since 1940 the Student Coun
cil has demanded no requirements
for recognition of the parties. In
1941 The Nebraskan reported on
April 18, that the council had
made the final rules toward gov
See RECORDS, Tape 2.
