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Vol. 51 No.-18
Farmers Queen
DOROTHY BOWMAN Crowned Friday night as the 1950 Farm
er's Formal Queen at the Farmer's Formal held in the Colleee
Activities building. Eileen Derieg, one of the five attendants
is standing to the right. Attendants not pictured are: Mary
Francis Johnson, Alice Boswell, Doris Eberhart, and Ruth Fischer.
Dorothy Bowman
Reigns at Ag Formal
Smiling Dorothy Bowman
stepped into the spotlight Friday
night to be crowned queen of the
Farmers' Formal.
Accompanying her as attend
ants were Eileen Derieg, Mary
Frances Johnson, Doris Eber
hart, Alice Boswell and Ruth
Fischer. The queen and her maids
UN Forces
Regrouping
Kept Secret
A cloak of secrecy was wrap
ped around the regrouping of
movements of most United Na
tions forces, but a spokesman
for Gen. Douglas MacArthur
said this did not presently war
rant speculation that a big push
is imminent.
The spokesman said that,
' while regrouping is in progress,
the identity of most U. N. forces
would not be given. Excluded
were the three South Korean
divisions already across the 38th
parallel, the U. S. marines and
the British Commonwealth bri
gade newly deployed in the Seoul
area.
In New York, the United States
and Britain gave solemn assur
ance that U. N. forces will not
cross the Korean border into
communist China or the Soviet
Union.
Lack of Trained Men
General Marshall stated that
the country's great danger to
day is the lack of a reserve of
trained manpower.
The secretary of defense, in a
talk to the United States confer
ence of mayors, said that it was
necessary to strip divisions in
this country in order to fill out
units fighting in Korea. That
must never happen again, he
said. He added it was the inte
gration of 31,000 South Korean
poldiers into American units that
saved the situation in Korea.
In Lincoln, auditorium archi
tects estimate that the nine year
delay has trippled the auditor
ium costs. The current general
contract low b;'d indicates an
increase of approximately 200
percent. The estimate of nine
years ago was $524,850. Low gen
eral contract bid submitted last
week was $1,711,656.
Saylor Speak
At a dinner meeting of the
Nebraska Council on Teacher Ed
ucation, Dr. Galen Saylor, Teach
ers college chairman of the de
partment of secondary education
said that German secondary
teachers have a very narrow ed
ucational outlook and are pri
marily concerned with the sub
ject matter rather than the de
velopement of young people.
Saylor continued by saying that
the reason for this teaching de
ficiency is that German uni ver
ities have refused to accept
responsibilities for training of
teachers except In the profes
sions. Team, Goes Early;
Misses Pep Rally
To the Nebraska students who
attended the Cornhusker rally at
3:00 Friday afternoon, the rally
committee wishes to direct this
explanation.
Due to circumstances beyond
his control Coach Bill Glassford
was forced to leave with the
Cornhuskers at 3 p.m. instead
of at 3:15 p.m.
Glassford evidently did not
have time, to Inform the rully
committee of the change In
plans.
Yell King Frank Piccolo ex
pressed his appreciation of the
student turnout.
were chosen from a group of up
perclass home economics majors
in an election sponsored by the
Ag Exec board. Results of the
election were secret until the girls
appeared to climax the annual
cotton and denim dance.
Miss Bowman is a member of
Mortar Board and two home ec
honoraries, Phi Upsilon Omicron
and Omicron Nu.
Harvest Theme
Built around the theme, "The
Golden Harvest." the Farmers'
Formal had Arlen Beam as mas
ter of ceremonies. Acting as a
quizmaster, Beam called to the
stage a series of people who at
tempted to guess the identity of
the queen and her attendants.
Wayne White was vocalist for the
evening, singing "Shine on Har
vest moon."
Jeans-clad men had to lift their
dates over a wooden fence to
enter the Ag Union, which they
found to be decorated with
wooden fence rails, wagon
wheels, large corn shocks and
piles of pumpkins. A golden har
vest moon dominated the scene.
Couples danced to the tunes of
Al Hudson and his orchestra.
Dance Committee
Those who planned the dance
included: decorations, Dick
Young, Jerry Johnson, Alice An
derson and Rex Crom; publicity,
Joan Raun; presentation and elec
tion, Jerry Johnson, Ruth Fischer,
Jack Wilson, Bob Raun and
Joyce Kehl; and tickets, Gene
Robinson.
Miss Bowman succeeds Gwen
Monson, who was chosen queen
of the 1949 Farmers' Formal.
A sizable number of city cam
pus students joined the Ag stu
dents. A chance to climb into
jeans, old shirts and farmer's
daughter dresses was apparently
welcomed by mnny. Al Hudson's
mustachioed bandsmen left their
suits at home and got into the
spirit of things with ragged trous
ers and plaid shirts.
Tired dancers found the bulky
corn shocks made fine resting
places; others relaxed on gunny
sack covered chairs.
Induction Postponements
For Students
A few students still seem con
fused over the procedure to be
followed in obtaining postpone
ment of Induction from their
draft boards.
Requests coming to the regis
trar's office indicate some stu
dents are seeking information to
show their draft boards that they
rank in the upper half of their
classes scholastically.
No harm will be done by sup
plying such evidence to your
draft board, but. in all likelihood,
nothing will be accomplished. A
Selective Service regulation
which authorized boards to con
sider the "upper half" scholastic
standing is now virtually obso
lete. Ask for PoHtponement
Instead of wasting time and
effort getting a statement to
show scholastic stunding, druft
uge students should decide
whether they wish to ask for a
"postponement of induction."
Under the law (not regulation)
a student subject to draft has the
right to ask that his Induction be
postponed until the end of the
school yar. It he mukes such a
request tind supports it with a
statement from his college regis
trar showing that he Is a reg-ularly-ennolled
student in good
standing, the draft board must
grant the request.
It should be understood that a
"postponement" of Induction is
not a "determent" in the yes of
Ag Lab Tests
'Smallest' Tractor
The Uriversity tractor testing
laboratory has seen just about
everything in the way of tractors.
Last August, tests were made
on a giant 40,000-pound tractor
which has a 142 horsepower ca
pacity. It was the largest tractor
ever tested at the University's
lab.
This week, University engin
eers were completing work on
the smallest tractor ever to be
tested. It is a 165 pound, one
wheel garden tractor which has
a capacity of about three-quarters
of a horsepower.
The small one-wheel tractors
have not been previously tested
by the University, but are now
being examined at the request
of the Nebraska State Railway
commission.
Religious
Leaders
To Confer
A former director Of the Uni
versity Christian Missions will be
in Lincoln Thursday for personal
conferences with Religion-in-Life
Week leaders.
He is the Rev. Phillips Moul
ton, who will help the committee
chairmen and advisers plan pro
grams and specific duties in
preparation for the Nov. 5 to 9
programs.
Sponsored by the Religious
Welfare council in co-operation
with the University Christian
Mission, the week will attempt
to bring more religion to the
University campus.
Rev. Moulton was director of
the Missions for two years, 1946
to 1948. The group has served
as the co-ordinating agency for
similar weeks in a number of
university and college campuses
throughout the nation.
To Help Leaders
Dr. Moulton's organization will
furnish the speakers for the week
and will help local leaders form
other plans.
Chairman of the week's exec
utive committee is Dr. G. W.
Rosenlof. Other members are
Keith Stevenson and Pat Weid-
! man. vice chairman; Charles
Kemp, secretary; Judson Burnett,
treasurer; and Richard W. Nutt,
executive secretary.
Committee members and their
advisers who will meet through
out the day with Rev. Moulton
Are: - -- -
Miriam Willey and Rosenlof,
arrangements and assembly com
mittee; Ruth Trautman and Ruth
Shinn, breakfast and retreat
committee; Duane Dickerson and
Burnett, finance committee;
Alice Jo Smith and Dr. Dean
Worcester, classroom appoint
ments committee; and Bill Mun
dell and the Rev. Rex Knowles,
hospitality committee.
Committee Members
Hester Morrison and Rev. C.
B. Howells, organized houses
committee; Louise Cook and
Lynn Taylor, personal confer
ences committee; Glenn Rosen
quist and William J. Swindler,
publicity committee; Sue Allen
and Dr. O. H. Werner, seminar
committee; and Shirley McClain
and the Rev. John Wichelt,
university Divinity school.
Eleanore Wiberg and the Rev.
Alvin Peterson, book displays;
and Dr. Charles H. Patterson,
faculty committee.
Directs Chapel House
Rev. Moulton is the present
director of Chapel house at the
University of Chicago. He re
ceived his Ph D from the Yale
unversity Divinity school.
Eleven nationally known
speakers will be present during
the week. Plans include meet
ings in organized houses, student
and faculty seminars, convoca
tions, luncheons and personal
conferences. In addition, there
will be a book display.
Clarified
draft officials. When an induc
tion is "postponed" the student
remains in Class 1-A and is sub
ject to induction at the end of
the school year. Registrants who
are "deferred" are classified in a
class other than 1-A.
Few Deferment
According to Selective Service
officials, moRt students cannot be
"deferred," that is, placed in a
class lower than 1-A. The prin
cipal exceptions to this general
statement are medical and dental
students; they are eligible for de
ferment. All students, however, are en
titled to a postponement of in
duction until the end of the
school year, provided the student
requests postponement.
In order to make such a re
quest, here is what you do;
1. Get a written statement
from the registrar's office attest
ing that you are (a) a regularly
enrolled student at the Univer
sity, and (b) that you are in good
standing that is, that you are
meeting at least the minimum
scholastic requirements.
2. Send the statement to your
local draft board along with a
written requetit for postponement
of induction. Sign the request
yourself.
Unless you are In Class 1-A,
there is no need to ask your local
draft board to postpone your induction.
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SIGNATURE FOR FREEOOM Governor Val Peterson is shown
affixing his name on the Freedom Scroll, launching the campus
Crusade for Freedom. Watching are Gerald Matzke, vice presi
dent of NUCWA; Rob Raun, Student Council president; Bruce
Kennedy, editor, Daily Nebraskan; and Leon Pfeiffer, Kosmet
Klub pi-esident. Students will have an opportunity to sign the
scroll Monday through Saturday.
Austrian Endorses
Crusade for Freedom
"Every thinking American,
with character and open eyes
who has observed the situation
in Europe can do nothing but
support the Crusade for Free
dom." With these words, a University
student, whose name cannot be
mentioned without danger of
communist reprisal, voiced his
conviction that the iron curtain
must be lifted everywhere.
The student, a native Austrian, i
whom we shall call W'ilhelm, j
went on to say that he believed
that the goal of 5.000 signatures
easily could be attained.
Having spent severi years tin
der nazi domination and five and
one-half years under Russian to
talitarianism, the young Austrian
could not help but contrast the
Freedom Scroll with the com
munist peace scroll once spon
sored in Vienna.
Siffn, or Else
"The Viennese people were
suddenly confronted with the
orders to sign or else take the
consequences," said Wilhelm,
"Yet even with the threats of
death and imprisonment, the
document never received nough
signatures from the brave peo
ple," he said. "Austrians love de
mocracy and the commies met
open resistance."
"I am certain," Wilhelm de
clared, "that Austrians, as well
as other Europeans, would cer
tainly benefit by the psychologi
cal value of the Freedom Scroll."
Many times since the end of
the war, my native country has
lost assurance of receiving aid in
opposing the communists.
Austria definitely needs psy
chological support in addition to
material support, he said. Al
though the nation is under dem
ocratic rule and only four per-
StudcntCouiicil
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Filings
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For Pub Board
Filings for student positions
on the Committee on Student
Publications will open immedi
ately, according to Rob Raun,
president of the Student Council.
One sophomore, one junior and
one senior student will be elected
by the Council to serve on the
Committee.
Eligibility rules state that the
applicant must meet the honor
requirements for his class and
the University scholastic require
ments. Closing date for filings will be
Friday. Oct. 13. Applications for
the student positions should be
made by letter to the Student
Council. Candidates should in
clude name, college, year in
school, and a brief summary of
their reasons for applying, in
cluding experience with publica
tions work and qualities which
fit them for positions on the
Committee.
The Council will interview
each applicant at a later date.
The duties oi the Committee
on Student Publications will in
clude selection of staff members
for The Daily Nebraskan. Corn
husker and Cornshucks. It is also
responsible for signing contracts
for the publications.
The Committee is headed by
Professor Roger Shumate of the
Politic al Science department. He
is alsc chuirman of the Univers
ity publications board. In addi
tion to the three student repre
sentatives, the board includes the
following faculty members: C. W.
Haroer, Clifford Hicks and Miss
Mary Guthrie. Dr. T. J. Thomp
son is an ex-officio member of
the Committee, serving only on
the Committee's request.
Last year's student represent
atives to the Committee were M.
J. M click, senior, Iiflon Pfeiffer,
Junir r, and Gerald Matzke, sophomore.
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cent of the government repre
sents the commies, there is still
the Russian interference to put
up with, said Wilhelm.
Compares Letters
In order to illustrate, Wilhelm
pulled two letters out of his
drawer. Then he proceeded to
point out the difference between
the two. One had been censored
by the government.
''This" he said, 'is not the will
j of the Austrian government, but
the work of the Russian influ
ence that has been brought about
by the joint control of Vienna."
The other letter from the Brit
ish zone of the city had not been
opened for censorship.
"W ith the threat of commu
nism still facing my own eonntry
men, they are not really com
pletely free. You can perhaps
imagine what it is like then in
many countries behind the iron
curtain," Wilhelm said.
"The American people, how
ever, can't imagine what it is
like to do without democracy. It
is hard to realize unless you have
been subjected to totalitarianism
as Europeans have," he said.
Austrians Concerned
Radio Free Europe, also spon
sored by the same national com
mittee which is planning the Cru
sade For Freedom, was a subject
of concern to the Austrian.
"The radio," said Wilhelm,
"has been a good example of
psychological warfare which has
done a great deal of good. It's
good to know you're not alone."
While in Austria during the
nazi occupation, people listened
to the broadcasts of foreign sta
tions in secret, although there
were stiff penalties for anyone
doing so.
Concerning the Freedom Scroll,
i Wilhelm said that such a move
j could be highly successful in
making the Crusade's voice
I heard behind the iron curtain,
j Two Ideologies
! "In Berlin," he said, "there is
a good example of a native peo
ple faced with two opposing
ideologies communism and de
mocracy. "It is my opinion that these
people wish to show the world
that they can be a bulwark
against the communists. And
Berlin is an excellent place to
start worrying the Kremlin."
AWS Mart to
To Freshman
AWS will officially open ac
tivities to freshmen women Wed
nesday, Oct. 11, when its pre
sents its annual Activities Mart
in the Union ballroom.
The Mart, sponsored by the
Associated Women Students
marks the end of the six-week's
ban on participation in activi
ties by freshmen women. It will
be held from 8 to 5 p.m. and is
designed to give freshmen and
interested upper class women an
opportunity to sign lor work on
activities oi particular interest
to them.
Sixteen organizations will have
information booths to explain
thir function and their working
hours. The loudspeaker system
of explanation will not be used
this year because the campus
"Know-How" series sponsored
by AWS and Mortar Board -explained
the functions of most of
the activities offered on the cam
pus. Organizations
Organizations which will be
represented at the Activities
Mart are: Associated Women
Students, University Theatre, All
University Fund, Barb Activi
ties Board for Women, Coed
Counselors, Cornhusker, The
Daily Nebraskan, Cornuhucks,
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Deans Okay
Plans For
College Days
College Days will be held this
school year.
This decision was made last
week following a meeting of
deans of University colleges who
met with members of the gen
eral planning committee to hear
tentative plans.
Engineers' Week and the
Farmers' Fair will be coordin
ated into the three-day celebra
tion along with other colleges
that wish to participate. Teach
ers college is making plans now
to keep with the project
To Contact Colleres
Other deans will be contacted
in the next few days by mem
bers of the general committee
and invited to participate. Final
decision of whether a college will
join the project, says Gene Berg,
president of Builders, and chair
man of the general committee,
rests in the hands of each dean.
Each participating college will
be responsible for its open
houses, displays and programs.
The College Days committee will
act as a coordinating body.
Members of the committee, ac
cording to Berg and Bill Dugan,
assistant chairman, plan to visit
'Iowa State soon to find out from
Veishea planners how their
project operates.
Berg urges all college deans to
consider very seriously participa
tion in College Days. Full sup
port of all colleges and depart
ments will add much to the suc
cess of the project.
Any University student who
would like to help with College
Days will have opportunity to
sign up for work at the AWS
Activities Mart Wednesday. Eerg
wants to stress the fact that
College Days is not a campus ac
tivity, but rather an All-University
project. Nancy Porter will
be in charge of the booth at the
mart.
Committee members are pres
ently forming plans by which
they can contact high school stu
dents throughout the state to no
tify them of the project. These
students will be invited to Col
lege Days, says Berg, in an at
tempt to help acquaint them to
the University, its studies, pro
grams and advantages.
Each participating college will
have opportunity to show these
students and other University
students and alumni just how
their classrooms and depart
ments operate. Exhibits and dis
plays will be encouraged, says
Berg.
Stressed most in the three-day
celebration will be the academic
phases of the University, con
tinues Berg. "However," he says
"we want the public to know that
we do have fun here and have
enough intelligence and ingenu
ity to present some additional
projects."
Tassels Will End
Shucks Sales Monday
Monday is the last day that
students will be able to buy
Corn Shucks from Tassels. After
Monday the magazines will be
sold at a booth in the Union.
Corn Shucks this year will
have more pages than formerly.
Frank Jacobs, ditor of Corn
Shucks says the magazine this
year will be "bigger, better and
include more subtle humor."
Open Activities
Coeds Oct. 11
Home Economics club, Indepen
dent Students Association, Ne
braska University Council on
World Affairs, NU Builders, Red
Cross College Unit, Women's
Athletic Association, Tassels and
Cosmopolitan club.
Organizations which bave not
been contacted but are interested
in being represented are urged to
call Lola Banghart, chairman, as
soon as possible at 2-2020.
Aid to Student
In order to make the Activi
ties Mart more helpful to stu
dents the AWS will contact, in
the near future, all giris who
sign up for activities to be sure
that they have participated in
those activities.
Although the mart is primarily
designed to acquaint freshmen
with activities, the AWS advises
students to have a fairly definite
idea of whut activities in which
they are most interested. They
are alHO advised not sign lor
more activities than those in
which they can take part.
Along with the Activity Mart,
AWS sponsors Coed Folhes and
the Ivy Day sing. It also en
forces the rules and carries ut
tusks assigned by the Dean of
Women.
Monday, October 9, 1950
As Gov. Val Ftterson wrote '
his name on the Freedom cro li
the University officially Itartea
its Crusade for Freedom.
In signing the document, Gov
ernor Peterson said be hoped it
would "stimulate in the minds
of all signers a picture of Amer
icanism and Chistianity.,,
Expressing approval of the
crusade, the governor said that
in the final analysis, "we are
fighting a war in the minds of
men, not on the battlefields. It's
not actually the economic sys
tem of communism we're fight
ing, but rather the doctrines that
have been included, advocating
violence and aggression to over
throw other systems."
"All citizens, not just stu
dents," he continued, "should
spend more time studying the
fundamentals of Americanism
and Christianity than memoriz
ing text books."
The governor believes the
drive will lo "much good" if it
accomplished these two things
renew in the minds of all citi
zens the fight for democratic
principles and freedom every
where, and portray through the
radio broadcasts, a true picture
of freedom and America.
Kosmet Klub to Aid
On the campus, Kosmet Klub
workers will begin campaigning
Monday to obtain signatures on
the scrolL All organized houses
and organizations will be can
vassed to give all students op
portunity to sign their names to
the list
The drive will continue
through Saturday, explains Ger
ald Matzke, chairman of the
committee in charge of the cam
pus crusade, and the goal is 5,000
signatures. "We already have
the first," he continued.
The Freedom Scrolls, which
are a part of the Crusade for
Freedom drive launched Labor
Day by Gen. Dwight D. Eisen
hower, will be flown to Berlin
where they will be enshrined on
United Nations Day, Oct 24, ia
the base of a freedom belL
The Student Council is spon
soring the campus project and
NUCWA is serving as coordinat
ing agency.
Matzke urges all house presi
dents to read the letters which
were sent out Saturday to all
members of their house.
Booths Set Up
Booths are placed at different
points on the campus and post
ers have been distributed to re
mind students of the crusade.
The Crusade for Freedom has
been started to help mobilize
millions of Americans in the bat
tle against communist propa
ganda and aggression.
In opening the nation-wide
campaign, Gen. Eisenhower de
scribed it as a drive "by private
American citizens to fight the
big lie with the big truth." Ac
cording to him it is a program
which President Truman and
others who have approved it,
call '"an essential step in get
ting the case for freedom heard
by the world's magnitude."
Committee Members
Those on the general commit
tee in charge of the University
campaign are:
Dean Borgmann, administra
tion; Leon Pfeiffer, president of
Kosmet Klub; Bruce Kennedy,
editor of The Daily Nebraskan;
Rob Raun, Student Council pres
ident: and Harold Peterson,
NUCWA president Matzke it the
chairman.
Gen. Lucius Clay, chairman of
the national committee, has pre
dicted that "behind the iron cur
tain liberty-seeking men and
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Entertainers
Asked to Help
In Red Cross
Students interested to work
ing for Red Cross should meet
Wednesday, Room 515, at p. in.
Officers will discuss the work
Red Cross does for students and
its outside activities.
Activities provided for the
workers Included entertainment
at Vet's hospital and Lincoln gen
eral hospital, motor corps, swim
ming and programs lor the State
mental Institution.
At the Vet's hospital Univeruity
students entertain patients by
playing cards, conversing with
them and presenting programs.
The Red Cross also sponsors a
radio program for the Vets.
At Lincoln General hospital
the workers will teach handicraft
to the patients. They win be
trained in the Union craftshop.
The motor corps is open to stu
dents with qualifications thet
meet the Red Cross standards.
Swimming is open to workers
who have a life guard certificata
and teach a course ia the sub
ject. Programs lor the mental hos
pital will be -discussed at the
meeting.
All those interested in helping
with entertainment are urged to
attend.
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