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Wednesday, February 15,1950 THE DAILY NEBRASKAN PAGE 4 Lincolnite Discusses Hoover Commission I k '.'.V' . M ' 1 y? .. pi 'o v . i f v ' i SiT" ! -1 i. if) U ;- Jjh ! ffr i 'I 'w - u i f r v ;; .. ... , I - .- - Ti , I, - , , - fmimmtmm iiinim 1 fnnnrn i FROM THE PAST NU students will soon have a chance to view a creature of the distant past when the museum staff completes assembling the dinosaur shown above. The dinosaur, which lived in the Mesozoic era several million years ago, will be displayed in Founders room of Morrill hall. (Rag photo by Henry P. Lammcrs.) Dinosaur Museum BY GLENN ROSENQOST Morrill hall will soon have its first dinosaur on display. Steggie", as the art students call the giant, will make his de but sometime next fall. Meanwhile the museum staff is trying to finish putting him to gether. He's in the construction Worth Reading By Arthur J. Vennix Are you going somewhere? No i two anr a )-aif fcot lung. Whcn cne is likely to blame you if you cver another reptile irritated try to escape this temporary ' steggie,.. wham . . Steggie's snc-11 of "tvDical" Nebraska win ter. But you'll be better equipped a n d b e tt er able to enjoy yourself if you stop in at the University li braries and borrow a cou ple of books telling you s o m e t h i ng about the places you're V v jj 1 a 11 u icig visit Guide books Vennix end travel books rapidly become out of date, especially when world conditions are so tumultu ous for so long. With this in mind, the University libraries have marie a determined effort to buy the newest, up-to-the-minute volumes dealing with these matters. If you're looking for a warmer clime and who isn't? why not visit Portugal? Your tour can be conducted within the confines of your study room as you scan the little book written by C. C. Mnr tindale titled "Portuguese Pil grimage" (914.69M.Kip). Another place with a warmer atmosphere, in more ways than me, is the Balkan area. In fewer than 200 pages James T. Shot well vividly describes what took place while he was on "A Bal kan Mission" (914.H6, Sh8b). The story itself is "old stuff." but the color and flavor of Constanti nople, Sarajevo, Zagreb and other Balkan locales remain cap tivating and entertaining. You can quickly and easily get the Inw-down on any place in the United States which you might like to visit. Delve into "The American Guide," a source book and complete travel guide for the United States, edited by Henry G. Alsberg (917.3 AlTa). The material is conveniently ar ranged for accesibility and as timiJa'ion. Follow U.S. highway 41 from .,ormn:t VTirhiean to the .nihnm tin of Florida, or take j a coast-to-coast tour on U.S. highway 60 through the south ern states. If you think you d en joy trips out of New Orleans. Colorado Springs, Rapid City or a hundred other places, you ll find them all planned for you A detailed 70-paee index makes your quest simple. , For those rugged Individuals vho feel that Nebraska winters ere designed for sissies, the Uni versity libraries have tours to arctic regions-none P-' conducted. An example of these I Commander Finn Bonne -Antarctic Conquest' O19-8 K66a). H a temperature of -0 accompanied bv an 80 mph. wind isn't sufficiently rugged, thos- Individuals might prefer to eo to Northern Siberia. Pranklv your book reviewer Somewhere and Tread about the wnevs taken by the great trav lers. Richard D. I iv edited a book called Ma worV. of Travel and Explora Inr (910.M29m). It. presents digests of 13 great classics. Marco Polo, Christopher Co lumbus, Richard Hakluyt, James Cook, Francis Parkman, David t i,.ir,ff:tnnp Henry M. Stanley LU'"h-' ' - - . .. a ard several others invne you be their guests on some vc, , im portant and very exciting voy- "All of the books listed above ere currently available in the social studies reading room of the Love Memorial library. None of them is older than last year. If vou'll come in and browse around in the 910-919 classifica tion section, you're likely to find dozens of thrilling places that can provide you with many long winter nights' dreams. Scon $0 Founders room at present, straining on his steel braces. Stegsie's bones were obtained from the Carnegie Museum at Pittsburgh, Pcnsylvania, nearly three years ago. The University acquired him in a straight barter deal, giving in exchange, a giant horse and camel which the mu seum dug up in one of the Ne braska fossil beds. Stecde Has a Vte ! Steggie roamed the Utah plains years and years ago. He ' was a cold-blooded, scaly animal with a douMc row of armor plate 1 or fins riowii his back. Like most dinosaurs, his teeth were defec- j tive, and he lived entirely on I plants; his massive tail was tip- ned bv four vicious spikes, eacn giant tail would swing around and finish off the offender. Henry Reider, chief prcparator of the University museum, pointed out that dinosaur frag-! ments have been found in Nc- tiraSKa, pal UC-UIU! l v iic.n mi: Missouri river bottom, but no perfectly preserved animals have ever been excavated in Ne braska. For the hooks, Stecaic is clas sified as one of the Slcgosaurus Stenons class of dinosaurs j which lived over a period of mil lions of years during the Meso zoic Era or Stone Ace of Reptiles. Stegosaurus dinosaurs have hen found in Europe and in North America, especially in Colorado, Montana. Utah and Wyoming. Now Beins: 'Built' Stcgcie was originally chipped from a rock bed by Carnegie field workers His bones were packed in boxes and sent to the Univer- sity museum, wliere ne is Dcing "built" by Reider and the de partment assistants, Leonard Short and Kenneth Harding Dinosaurs have been found which were DO feet long ami weighed 40 tons when alive. This weight compares with the weight of the giant mastodon elephant now in the museum's main gal lery. The elephant weighed four tons. However, one dinosaur spe cies which has been discovered was as small as a house cat. Some of the lizard-like beasts flew, some lived in the water, and some like Steggie, inhabited land areas. Scientists are not exactly certain why dinosauria became rxtinct. Seine believe that a slight change in climate was the cause of their downfall. Others say that small blood-thirsty mammals riestroved the dino saur's eggs before they hatched. Oversize Toes Each of Steggie's hind paws has three toe bones. The center toe Ag Subslaliou Men to Confer The annual conference of out state agricultural substation per sonnel opened Wednesday morn ing on the University campus. Dean Lambert .spoke about the place of the substations in the Nebraska agriculture research program. M. L. Baker, associate director of the agricultural experiment station, discussed the cattle breeding program at Fort Rob inson, the foundation seed pro gram, the development farms and irrigation farms. Chancellor R. G. Gustavson is scheduled to address the dele gates at a luncheon Wednesday noon. He w ill emphasize the im portance of both music and ap plied sciences. A preliminary session was held Tuesdav evening when approxi matelv'26 delegates from the Ag Colleg'e. Mitchell. Fort Robinson, North Platte. Alliance and Val entine met to develop research plans for 1950 FrR M 27 frt hmwrtraller including piano. gvrmnKH- JOUKNAUKM STUDKNT8 i V) Rcnjirider. lave you taken advan tage of Ktuilrot educator rate available Ttm or Ijfe $4.75. Nwnweek $4. Ml. IMi than (c Ptr cpyt: Fortune H regular price only $7 50. Alao other inaH zinex hfin-ln-'l ; a r'imhrr t Rprnal rater ElUKNK A. fiKIFKITHS. M'IR. ih'Mt "F" FT . TKL 5-t652 URT fhell rim giaMM in rrown wainer . Omie C?rny. UNIVKRKTTT men :r tntM Room. Bus one block, 2- fc-uth,eBt local Ion 22b 5. Classified 1 'Inhabit Room bone itself would take a size 12 man's shoe. The other two toes could be shoa in 9's. however. One of the animal's minor leg bones would make a nice log for an oversize fireplace. Reider says that the same bone on one of the l irger dinosaurs would be six feet long instead of three. So you sec, Steugie is only a medium size dinosaur. Commenting on fossils in gen eral, Reider said that most skele tons in museums have at least one fourth missing bones which must be replaced with false ones. Fossil bones; though they appear to be stone, are actually com posed of the material from which they have been excavated, Steg gie's hones are made of iron and silicate materials. The animal will be displayed in the Founder's room at Morrill hall when it is completed. The construction is being recorded by camera by the museum depart ment. " " An Hr Library Gels S2. Gift The Nebraska Art association has donated S-5 to the Union picture lending library fund. The donation will be used to add to the library's collection of modern and old masters' paint ings which are available on loan to students and faculty members. Thirty-three reproductions are now in the library. Mrs. E. J. Faulkner, association president, sent the check. OCU Discovers :w 1 1 POVwII 1 JWIIH) -! This University isn't the only school where the ratio of boys to girls is three to one. It's true at Oklahoma City University too. According to a recent survey on the Oklahoma campus, if you're a student there, chances are three to one that you are i a man, and ( to a tnai you are a veteran. Students on the campus Feb. 6 totaled 1.229 as compared with 1.3a!) on Oct. 1, 1949. Of these there are 918 men and 282 wo men. Of the 679 veterans, 664 are men, 15, women. A I EE to Hear Prof. Ferguson Professor Ferguson, Dean of the Engineering college, will de scribe Ferguson Hall, U. new electrical engineering building to members of the student chapter of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. The A. I. E. E. meeting con venes Wednesday, Feb. 15, 7:15 p.m. in room 108, Burnett halL Cosmos to Hold World Aid Debate A debate on the topic: Whether American monetary aid helps in World peace achieve ment, will be held at the meet ing Wednesday evening of the Cosmopolitan club. The meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m. in Parlors XY in the Union. . Upholding the affirmative In the proposition are Dick Hansen, United States; and Walter Willi, Switzerland. Blarst Dixit, India, and Biuron Hersh, Norway, will support the negative. FRIDAY COLLEGE NIGHT u Dancing 9 to 12 Couples only Adm. 1.50 per couple Tag InrlBd'tf Richard D. Wilson, Lincoln at torney and a 1948 graduate of Law college of the University, discussed the Hoover Commis sion report for members of Zeta chapter of Alpha Kappa Psi, business administration frater nity, last Wednesday night. Wilson said the Commission on Reorganization of the Executive Department of the Government, commonly referred to as the Hoover Commission, was not set up to get more government in business or to get less govern ment in business; it was estab lished for one purpose only, to obtain more efficiency in gov ernment. Task Forces' To gain this objective, task forces composed of 300 experts were assigned the job of revis ing government operations. These task forces made reports more than ten million words in ail on their findings. The Post Office department, for example, prints and sc; ds cards for lc apiece while the e tual amount spent by the de partment is 22C per card. Investigations also revealed that the paper work involved in preparation and handling of pur chase orders cost the govern ment ten dollars, and half of these purchase orders were made out for amounts less than ten dollars. A farmer in Missouri wrote the government asking how to put fertilizer on his soil. He re- j reived four different letters, tell ing him four different ways to do the job. Wilson mentioned that there were several ways to apply the fertilizer, but there was no explanation whv four in dividuals answered the original request for information. Three Recommendation Wilson mentioned three rec ommendations which were made by the commission. Armv Eneineers The Army FiiPine'ers and the Bureau ( I Reclamation at times duplicate each others work. Both were given the job of surveying an area in California for a dam. Congress approved two dams for the same site. It was recommended that the Missouri Vallev plan should be transferred to the Department of the Interior for engineering functions involved in order 1o eliminate the possibility of du plication of effort. Veterans Administration Dur ing the war the Navv built a hospital in Texas. The Armv wanted to take the hospital over Salem Prefers Objective Exams A recent poll conducted at Salem College in West Virginia indicates that students there would rather take objective ex aminations than the essay type. Of those polled, 49 percent were in favor of the objective type. 41 per cent favored essays, and 19 per cent hsd no preference. Ninety per cent felt that ob jective tests called for more prep aration and nine percent thought that essays were harder to pre pare for. The majority of the students felt that objective types indicated i truest possible grades. Most of j them agreed that neither type can be given lor all or most 01 the courses in the curriculum. Chevrolet alone in the low-price field gives . . . famous Fisher Body . ff L:Eal FIRST... . and Finest . . . at Lowest Cost! -vw ,lrtw -2- stun. d, i 4 or u. """" j rl 1 Here's your buy for 1950 ... for all the things you want in a motor car at lowest cost ... the new Chevrolet with Style Star Body by Fisher! It's the one and only low-priced car that offers you a choice of automatic or standard drive . . . with the thrilling new Powerglide Automatic Transmission and new 105-h.p. Valve-in-Hcad Engine for finest automatic drive results . . . and with a highly improved, more powerful Valve-in-Head engine and the famous Silent Synchro-Mesh Transmission for finest standard drive results at lowest cost. after the war, but the Navy re fi: ed so the Army built its own hospital nearby. At the present time the Army hospital is not full and the Navy hospital is less than fifty percent full. Consolidate Hospitals The commission recommended that all hospitals should be built and administered by one agency rather than by the five agencies which are working at t'lis time. It was recommended also that the National Service Life Insur ance program be handled by a government corporation. Personnel Under present reg ulations if an individual is fired from his job he can appeal to three different agencies before he can be dismissed if he con tests his dismissal. This takes approximately seven months and makes it much easier for a de partment head to eiher transfer a man out of the department to get rid of him, or else move him to another job to get him out of the department. The commission recommended that a new system of hiring and firing be put into effect. In closing, Wilson said that some corrective measures had al ready been put into effect, but that there were some recommen dations which had not as yet been acted upon. Many Apply y-i TT f 1 f Qf I OO Frank Potts, director of ath letics at the University of Colo rado, has announced that a great number of applications for the head basketball coaching job at the University has been received. In the week since Forrest B. "Frosty" Cox anonunced his res ignation, effective July 1. appli cations have been coming in in increasing numbers. Potts indi cated that screening would be- gin after suflicieiit time has elapsed tor all interested persons to get in their applications. Actual hiring if a new coach at the University is up to the Board of Regents, acting upon nominations given them by President Robert L. Stearns. The nominee which Stearns will send to the Regents will be picked by the seven-man faculty commit tee on athletics, which controls the athletic program at the Uni versity. Potts expects to have a coach chosen in time fir the spring basketball session, sometime early in May. Myers Interested In Hau keye Job Football Coach Denny Myers of Boston College Tuesday night in Newton, Mass., admitted he had conferred with University of Iowa officials. But Myers, a former Iowa athlete, refused to confirm rum ors he plans to change jobs. He said he had conferred with the Hawkeye representatives in New York recently and would meet with them again in Iowa City soon. At Corvallis. Ore.. Oregon State Coach Kip Taylor said he had been sent a feeler by Iowa Ath letic Director Paul Brechlcr by telephone from New York. But Taylor responded, "I am happy here." AMERICA'S SEE YOUR LOCAL CHEVROLET DEALER CotvenMHity JIstd under "Aulomokik" in your heed dauiRed epJon directory rwmwmtvtifw - -iff-- - . J f. i" . ;: . t 7 v i . t '1 ' ' r : i I e !' -f j I r i i 1 .-. ... I' vy r n "GLASS MENAGERIE" Laura, the shy daughter, portrayed by Christine Phillips, in Tennessee William's famous play, admires a fragile figurine from her huge glass collecton. The University Theatre's third play of the year, has a three-day run at the Ne braska Theater, starting Feb. 20. Title for 'Glass Menagerie' Originated in Author's Past The title of the University Theatre's forthcoming produc tion, "Glass Menagerie," has an interesting history. The peculiar name assigned to the play which has a three night run at the Ne braska theatre Feb. 20, 21 and 22, was chosen by the author for particular reasons. According to Tennessee Wil liams, whose play won the Drama Critics Award in 1945, origin of the catchy title came during his childhood. . Just after moving to St. Louis from the South, the Williams's family was forced to live in a .(c-'csled apartment neighbor hood. Said Williams, relating later this rather sudden experience, i; was a shocking change for "my sister and myself accustomed to spacious yards, porches, and big shade trees. The apartment we lived in was about as cheerful as an Arctic winter." Glass Collection. In older to brighten the dismal atmosphere of the antiquated house, his sister started keeping a colle-tion of glass ornaments on several shelves. As his fasci nation for the new hobby grew, so did the collection itself. Soon Williams began to regard it as a sort of menagerie. The poignant recollection of these experiences were in a large part responsible for the memory drama and its interesting title. The author also wrote "A Streetcar Named Desire," a Pu litzer prize winner. Other popu lar products of Williams include "American Blues," "One Arm and Other Stone s." "Summer Smoke" and'"You Touched Me." 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William Ellis, technical director stated that sets for the stage had been completed and the stage crew was readying for technical rehearsals this week end. Extension to Aid Feeders Group K. C. Fonts. University exten sion husbandryman, has been se lected to help organize a Buffalo County Feeders' Association. The" group is being organized to aid county livestock feeders. There has been a large increase in livestock production in the area recently. Fonts will assist the group in the organization and plans for future meetings. Miami U. Attacks Frosli 'Dorms" Study ables in men's residences at Miami University have been installed in an attempt to coun teract low grades among fresh men, partially due to crowded conditions in the dorms. In some freshman dorms the men on probation are checked in and out of study table each night. Many of these freshmen have had their rooms put on "off bounds" to all except the rightful occu pants to stop congregating. 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