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BY JIDCE MASON.
The weather man is baffled be
cause the Mortar Boards have
confidently predicted snow in the
near future. Reliable sources re
port a gigantic snowball heading
this way and its arrival is ex
pected on January 13.
UN students are oiling their
typewriters and filling their pens
in preparation for the launching
of the ideal SNOWMAN. First re
sults are shown below. Cameras
are clicking to reveal six SNOW
FLAKES. Coeds are looking for
silly corsages and men are buying
black masks with "Mortar Board
Snowball, January 13" on them.
The gist of all this confusion is:
The Mortar Boards have decided
that party time is here again.
What's more. Lee' Barron and his
orchestra will be in the coliseum
January 13 to relieve ticklish toes
and amidst the snow and snow
balls, which the MBs have guar-
teed, lota of excitement is prom
ised. Students Buy Mask
Black masks will be sold In the
Union Friday and Saturday by
BABW to take the place of sabers
which were the precedent at Mili
tary Balls in the past. The masks
will also be sold at the dance and
no person is "properly dressed"
without one.
Carrying out the vice-ersa
theme of the party, coeds will
escort their dates and anything
goes in the way of transportation
facilities. The highlight of the
evenings entertainment will be
the presentation of UN's typical
snowman and six feminine snow-
flakes. The snowman is to be
chosen thru letters, submitted by
coeds, describing the one college
Joe whom they believe would!
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LEE BARRON,
plays for Mortar Board
Ball.
. . . Say Mortar Boards
make the most typical Nebraska first succeeding dance.
snowman.
Snowflakes Give Pictures
The six snowflakes will be
chosen by the pictures, although
Ghita Hill, chairman of the pre
sentation committee, says they are
not supposed to be "beauty
queens." The only qualification
for a snow flake is that she be en
gaged in some kind of university
war work oh yes, and she has
to be an "all-around good girl,'
toe. Pictures should be submitted
to Pat Chamberlin at the Ne
braska office, accompanied by the
name of the girl and the war
work in which she is engaged.
After the presentation the Mor
tar Boards will escort the Snow
man and Snowflakes in a grand
march and, carrying out the Mili
tary Ball tradition, those in the
procession will take part in the
Following are the first two let
ters submitted for UN's ideal
SNOWMAN:
A guy named Batch
Would be quite a catch
In any girl's collection
He's B. M.O.C.
A B.D.O.C.
And just right for the Snowmaa
selection.
I'm sure he'd look cute .
In a snowy white suit
With coal dust in his eyes.
Right zooty aire
No one can compare
He's a Snowman in disguise.
Dorothy Black.
To the Mortar Boards:
Song writers say a good man
now-a-days is hard to find. Pick
ing an ideal UN snowman is even
more of a problem. I even went
so far as to build a snowman
(See SNOWBALL, page 2)
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Vol. 44, No. 42
Lincoln, Nebraska Friday, January 5, 1945
Author Talks Two Home Ec
At UN Convo
Monday at 4
Martin Flavin, winner of the
Pulitzer Prize in literature for
the best novel of 1944, will be
the UN convocation speaker Mon
day.
Mr. Flavin will speak at 4
o'clock in the Union ballroom, his
topic being, "The Moribund
Theatre."
"Journey in the Dark," the
prize winning novel, also won
the $10,000 Harper Award last
year. Flavin's play, "The Crimi
nal Code," won him more fame
in the theatre as it was awarded
the New York Theatre Club medal
for one of the best plays of the
season.
The talk, which is jointly spon
sored by the university and the
union, is open to the public as
well as to students and faculty
members.
Courses Given,
City Campus
Two home economics courses,
"Marriage and Home Relation
ships" and "Nutrition and Man
agement Problems"- will be of
fered on the city campus second
semester.
Dr. Katherine Maurer, former
ly of the University of Minnesota,
will be the instructor for "Mar
riage and Home Relationships" or
Home Economics 191.
City Churches
Plan Activities
For Weekend
Church schedules for the first
Sunday following vacation were.
announced by the university pas
tors.
The Lutheran and Presbyterian
Churches are planning their regu
lar Sunday services.
The Episcopal Church will have
Holy Communion at 8:30 a. m.
and at 11:00 the sermon and
Choral Eucharist Wednesday of
next week the Confirmation Class
will be at 8:00 p. m. Thursday,
the class will convene at 7:00
p. m. Holy Communion will be
Saturday at 10:00 a. m.
The Roger Willipms Group will
meet at the Baptist Church Sun
day night. The supper will be
at 6:30 and the meeting will fol
low at 7:00. Mr. W. H. Werk
meister. associate professor of
philosophy at the university,
will speak and Myrlee Holler will
conduct the service. Regular
morning services will be at 9:45
and 10.45.
On Experiment Station Staff.
Dr. Maurer spent several years
teaching and doing research in the
Child Welfare Institute in Minne
sota. She will be on the Experr
ment Station staff at ag college
as well as conducting the new
course.
"Marriage and Home Relation
ships" will meet at 9 o'clock on
Tuesdays and Thursdays. There
will be no laboratories and no
prerequisites. The course deals
with practical problems confront
ing people looking forward to
marriage, with personal develop
ment in relation to marriage, and
with working out satisfactorily
family adjustments.
H. E. tt Under Gibbons, Wehling.
"Nutrition and Management
Problems or Home Economics 82,
will be in charge of Dr. Re-
bekah Gibbons and Miss Helen
Wehling. The class meets at 9
o'clock on Wednesdays and Fri
(See HOME EC, pare 4)
Campus Exceeds
War Loan Goal,
Pledges $6275
Surpassing their goal of
$1,500 for the sixth war loan
drive, the war council an
nounced the total amount of
pledge bonds as $6,275.
Fred Teller, vice-president of
the war council, announced
that the sixth bond drive is the
first time that pledge bonds
have been accepted on the
campus.
The auction, held in the
Union before Christmas vaca
tion, raised $4,000 of the sum.
The remainder was collected
through the stamp and bond
sales held throughout the year.
Student-Faculty
Directory Mokes
Belated Arrival
At long last "and after untold
difficulties with printers and what
not, the 1944-45 Nebraska student-faculty
directory is on sale
this week, according to Natalie
Neumann, student foundation
president.
Selling at fifty cents a copy, the
bright orange-covered directory
contains names, addresses, home
towns, telephone numbers, classes
and colleges of all university stu
dents, and a similar listing for
faculty members. The back part
ox the new directory is devoted to
a listing of organized houses, tele
phone numbers and members,
while in the front may be found
a list of university pastors and
denominational student workers.
The books are on sale in the
Union office, Graves Printing Co.,
ag finance office, Nebraska Book
store, Regents Book store, Co-Op
Book store, and in a booth in the
Union. Solicitors in each organ
ized house will have a small num- C Y. ThomDson. chairman of
ber of the useful directories to the university board of regents,
sell. The supply to students is will sDeak at the noon luncheon
somewhat limited. today.
Ag Experts
Hold Annua!
L.onierence
County agricultural and county
home demonstration agents from
all parts of the state are meeting
this week with specialists and
other staff members of the ag col
lege for their annual extension
service conference. The confer
ence began Wednesday morning
and meetings are being held on
the ag campus and at the Union.
Byron Demorest of the Omaha
Journalist Stockman, Bill McDon
ald from station KFAB, Hal Ren
nolett of station KOA in Denver,
R. F. Morgan of the university
and H. G. Gould and L. I. Fris-
bie of the ag extension depart
ment will speak this morning at
the sessions to be held in the
Union.
Thompson Speaks.
Prof. D. Kirsch
Lectures Sunday
On Sculpturing
Professor Dwight Kirsch, chair
man of the art department, will
lecture on "The Art of Sculpture"
Sunday afternoon at 4:00 in Mor
rill hall. .
The Methodist fellowship din
ner will be held at 6:00 Sunday
evening instead of the regular
time of 5:30. The meeting at 7:00
will follow.
The lecture is part of the "Liv
ing Art" series which has been
running since November.
Yonny Segel, instructor for
Former UN
lien Merit
Recognition
Two service awards, the Silver
Star and the Air Medal, have been
presented to 2nd Lt. Wilson C
Gilmore and 2nd Lt. James C.
McVay, former University of Ne
braska students who saw action
in the European theater of opera
tions.
Capt. Leigh P. Hopp, infantry,
commandant at the university
acting as representative of the
commanding general, Seventh
Service Command, presented the
Silver Star medal, awarded for
gallantry in action, to 2nd Lt.
Wilson C. Gilmore, infantry, (de
ceased) to the next of kin, Mrs.
Bette E. Gilmore, his wife. The
presentation was made in Tecum-
seh, Neb., at a ceremony held in
trie Presbyterian church on Dec,
27, 1944.
Held Enemy Attack.
Peace Conference Previews J
Lt. Gilmore received the award
for gallantry in action during
March of 1944 when he led a
patrol into enemy-held terrain in
an effort to ascertain German
strength and dispositions. He then
ordered his men to return and
held off a German attack alone.
a The information gained by Lt.
night class in sculpturing at the Gilmore's patrol proved extreme-
university, will be demonstrator
for the lecture. SegeL profes
sional sculptor, formerly of New
York, is now attached to the Lin
coln Army Air field hospital
where ho teaches art and craft to
the convalescent patients,
Lectures Scheduled For January.
Other lectures during January
are "The Arts of Bookmaking and
Illustration," January 14; "Design
as a Basic Art: Its Relation to
Advertising Arts," January 21;
and "Art in Homes," January 28.
The series will run until the end
of February.
ly valuable to his battalion com
mander in reorganizing his de
fenses.
Lt. Gilmore received his A. B.
degree at Omaha University and
attended Creighton University for
one year. He entered the col
lege of law at the University of
Nebraska in 1S40, graduating in
1942. After graduation he en
tered the armed forces and was
selected to attend OCS, infantry,
graduating in January 1943.
The Silver Star ranks next to
(dee RECOGNITION, pare 4)
THE DUMBARTON OAKS
PEACE PLAN
BY PROF. G. W. GRAY
Four great powers have sub
mitted to the world a proposal for
international organization. It is
to be debated, amended, and, if
possible, adopted by treaties
among the United Nations. It
provides for an Assembly, an In
ternational Court of Justice and
an Economic and Social Council,
dui its primary purpose is to pre
vent war, ana mat function is
given to a Security Council of
eleven members. The Dumbar
ton Oaks Plan will probably be
adopted or rejected upon the basis
of the Security Council
The Council is given armed
force put at its disposal by trea
ties of member states, thus rem
edying the League of Nations lack
of power. When used, this force
is to be under command of a Mil
Junior, Senior
Classes Choose
Prcxys Tuesday
Election of junior and srninr
class presidents will be held Jan.
9 in the basement of the Union
from noon until 8 p. m. All junior
and senior students are eligible!?
10 vote.
itary Staff Committee composed
of the Chiefs of Staff of the five
great powers and acting under
orders of the Council. The possi
bility that one state might find
the armies of the rest directed
against it by the Council was
without doubt the major reason
why the Conference was unable
to agree upon the voting proce
dure of the Security Council.
5 Powers Are Permanent
The proposed Council is to con
sist of one permanent member
from each of the five great pow
ers and six additional members
elected by the Assembly. De
cision by a majority theoretically
will give six lesser powers the
ability to direct the remainder, of
which the five great powers alone
represent seven-tenths of the
world's population. In practice
this would never happen but if
the great powers are divided there
can still be control by a minority.
ine problem is a repitition of
that between the large and small
states when our constitution was
adopted, with the difference that
in the proposed plan the large
body, the Assembly, represents
(See PEACE, pate 4)
The decision to hold another
election was made after the Stu
dent Council declared the last
election, held on Dec. 19, void.
A discreppancy occuring in the
number of ballots received com
pared to the number of voters
signed on the election lists was
the basis for the council's action.
Candidates for senior class
esident are: Harold Andersen.
Progressive, and Jean Whcdon
Remmcnga, Student Party. Junior
class presidential candidates are:
Bill Sakayanu. Student Party,
and Leslie Jean Glotfelty, Progressive.
Don't Forget
to grab a man
4ar left
MORTAR BOARD
SNOW BALL
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