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Sin (ffliDKary ESalD Cadet Officers to Select Vol. 48 No. 30 LINCOLN 8, NEBRASKA Thursday, October 30, 1947. NHSPA Convention Opens Friday; 200 to Register Panel Discussions, Convocations, Competitive Contests, Nebraskan Work to Highlight Meet Over 200 high school students are expected to attend the 16th annual convention of the Ne braska High School Press as sociation which opens here Fri day. Registration for this school of journalism sponsored event will begin at 8 a. m. Saturday in the Union. Officially opening the convention will be a general con vocation at 10:45 in the 'Union ballroom with Dr. William F. Swindler, director of the school of journalism, as the main speaker. Panels In order to provide a helpful and interesting convention this year, a new method of conducting panel discussions has been de vised, according to W. H. Hice, instructor. During the first fif teen minutes of each forty minute meeting, three students will pre sent a panel discussion of a spe cific problem. During the next fifteen minutes, those who heard the discussion may fire any ques tions at those on the panel. For the last ten minutes, an adult familiar with the problem will act as a coordinating speaker. This speaker will summarize the dis cussion, answer those questions to which there seems to be no an swer and analyze practices which, though used, may not be the best answers. Contests One feature of the convention will be competitive contests in the following divisions: news writing, copyreading and editing, Pershing Rifles Initiate First Time Since 1943 "Iff J ' - fr' L-.i Slll-Jxlii NATIONAL OFFICERS Newly-elected general staff members of Pershing Riflees, left to right, are Major Albert J. McGill, Major L. Hinman, Msjor Thomas Avner, Major John W. Plantikow, Brig. Gen. Robert B. Avner and Colonel Sam S. Avner. The National Society of Persh ing Rifles initiated twelve officers and four enlisted men at the Union Monday night for the first time Since 1943. The society was established by General John J. Pershing at the university in 1892 and has since become nationwide, working to ward encouraging and developing the ideals of the military profes sion. Brigadier General Robert B. Avner, National Commander, an nounced that the National Head quarters staff had been reorgan ized along lines similar to the Army General staff system. The newly appointed officers were. John W. Plantikow. major. Intel ligence Officer; Thomas Avner, major, Plans and Training Officer; proofreading, journalistic vocabU' lary, headline writing, sports writing, current events, editorial writing, feature writing, pho tography. First, second and third place awards will be made by Theta Sigma Phi and Sigma Delta Chi, journalism professionals. The panel discussions will all be centered around three gen eral topics: Mimeographed news papers, yearbooks and printed newspapers. Each panel will take up a different phase of each of these subjects. Coordinating speakers include Miss Belle Far man of Lincoln high school. Dale Fahrnbauch of the Lincoln Jour nal, Miss Nelle Gingles of Bea trice, Bob Graham, representative of the Nebraska Typewriter com pany, Bill De Vrient, of Capital Engraving company and all mem bers of the university journalism faculty. Banquet Speaker A Nebraska "graduate. Kermit Hansen, will be the main speaker at the convention banquet Friday evening. Hansen is youth activi ties director of the Omaha World Herald. One of the main activities of the visiting students will be work on a special NHSPA edition of the Daily Nebraskan which will come out Saturday and will be distributed at the noon luncheon. High school students will work under the supervision of the Ne braskan staff in gathering news and feature stories of the conven tion. Convention activities will close with the luncheon on Saturday when certificates of merit will be presented to winners of competi tive contests. Robert L. Hinman, major, Supply Officer; and Albert J. McGill, Public Information Officer; and Managing Editor of the "Pershing Rifleman,' the society's semi-annual publication. Other promotions were Stuart Frankel, Paul G. Hanson. Patrick Thomas, and Herbert Miller to Captain,. Pershing Rifles. Ad vanced to First Lieutenant were Wilfred V. Rice. Walt Palmer. Earl Monroe and Bruce Cottingham. - The clerical staff of the new or ganization is composed of the fol lowing: Robert D. Vanderslice, Master Sergeant, Herman D. Oehl rich. James Hartman, and Richard Kuska, all Staff Sargeants,. who have been appointed to new ranks and positions on the National Staff. . . Adamic Will Speak at Convo Today 'Tolerance Is Not Enough' Is Theme Author, soldier, adventurer, champion or civil liberties. Any and all of these titles de scribe Louis Adamic, who will ad dress an all-university convoca tion in the Union ballroom this morning at 11. The noted journalist will speak on the timely subject, "Tolerance is JNot .Enough. Early Immigrant. Adamic left his native Yugo slavia at the age of 14 and came 5 .: I" 7 Louis Adamic to the United States. Here he traversed the county working at practically every kind of job, from a silk mill in New Jersey to the docks in California. He first turned author while working on these docks. In 1928, H. L. Mencken accepted his first article for the American Mercury. This was followed by numerous other magazine articles. His first book wasn't published until 1931 when 'Dynamite" hits the best-seller lists. The book was a record of violence in the United States' labor movement in the twenties. His books were so highly thought of that he was given a three-year Carnegie Grant-in-aid to develop what he called the 'Plymouth Rock and Ellis Island" project. It enabled him to send out hundreds of thousands of questionnaires, to travel more than one-quarter million miles and to interview people in all parts of the United States. From these studies resulted Adamic's most important work, three books covering the social and psychological problems of the millions of Americans whose names are difficult to pronounce. Yells Judged At Union Rally Tonight What organized house can orig inate the best yell to be added to the cheers used by the yell squad will be determined at tonight's "New Yell" rally. The event is scheduled for seven o'clock in the Union ballroom. Each competing house will have one or more of its members in struct the audience in the new yell and then give a demonstra tion of the yell. Houses are lim ited to one yell each. The two houses whose yells are judged to be the best will be awarded prizes. The three judges are Duane Lake, Union director; Harriet Quinn. Tassels president; and Duane Munter, Corn Cob president. Yells will be judged on the effectiveness of the yelL its presentation, and audience re sponse. The two winning yells will be used by the yell squad at the Missouri game and at the Home coming game with Kansas Univer sity. Other yells acclaimed by the judges will probably be used by the yell squad later in the season, Yell King Martin Pesek stated. Colonel by . -. V W M C MM' -v , 7, I 4- jfeli A V. in HONORARY COLONEL FINALISTS Pictured above are the six girls who were chosen in an all-student body election Tuesday to be candidates for honorary colonel. Left to right are, front row, Jean Compton and Shirley Schnittker; standing, Jo Ackerman, June Cast, Pris Flagg and Tootsie Campen. The cadet officers will select one of these as colonel and her identity will be kept secret until she is presented at the Military Ball. Names of the six finalists in Tuesday's honorary colonel elec tion were released Wednesday by Cadet Captain Tom Brownlee. The six candidates receiving the highest number of ballots are: Jo Ackerman, Marion Campen. Jean Compton, Priscilla Flagg. June Gast and Shirley Schnittker. ROTC cadet officers will elect one of the six finalists to reign over the annual ROTC military ball Dec. 5. Identity of the colo nel will be kept secret until the night of the ball, which tradition ally opens the university formal party season. One of the top bands of the country has been engaged for the ball, Brownlee said. The identity of the band will be revealed at the end of a "Guess the Band Contest," which is being spon sored by the ROTC department and will be publicized by local AUF Mass Meet Will Explain Details of Drive to Workers Immediately following the pep rally, a mass meeting for all stu dents who will work on the All University Fund drive will be held in the Union ballroom. The meeting is for team captains, team workers and house solicitors as well as for sectional heads and AUF officers. To the several hundred students who are expected to be present, the details and procedure of the drive will be explained complete ly, Beth Noerenberg, AUF direc tor, said. Curtis Elliott The featured speaker of the meeting is Professor Curtis Elliott, sponsor of AUF. He will discuss briefly the various ways for solicitors to go about their jobs. As an added sidelight, the Farm House quartette, remem bered for its performance at the Farmers Formal, will present a novelty number. The AUF drive opens officially on Monday, November X. Plans Secret Vote radio stations and The Lincoln Newspapers. Colonel Finalists. A list of the finalists and their activities: Jo Ackerman, Cornhusker edi tor, Student Council vice-president. Mortar Board vice-president, - Kappa Alpha Theta. Marion Campen. Gamma Phi Beta vice president, orchestra and YWCA. Jean Compton, Mortar Board, Student Council, AWS. Pi Beta Phi. Priscilla Flagg, Home Ec club president. Mortar Board secre tary. Coed-Counselor board. YW CA. Phi Upsilon Omicron, Alpha Phi. Shirley Schnittker, YWCA president, Mortar Board, Coed Counselor.. Phi Chi Theta. Alpha Lambda Delta. Delta Delta Delta. have been made for a "Starvation Luncheon"' Monday noon in the Union for all students working on the drive. The purpose oi the luncheon is to show in reality o-ie of the aspects of the lifht cf for eign students who will be ai jeci through the World Student Ser vice Fund, money for which is raised through the AUF drive. The main speaker of the luncheon will be announced by Beth Noerenberg. AUF Booths. In addition to having solicitors working on campus between classes , the AUF will set up booths in the Union, Love library. Social Science hall and the Law building. These booths will be operated by six campus organiza tions, each taking one day of the drive to keep open the booths. The organizations are Corn Cobs, Tassels, Student Foundation, Coed Counselors, BABW and YWCA. The University goal has been set at $13,200, with an individual goal of $2 per student