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1 . .t 4- - . -'t-v -,... Y.. ' -" - j :;ir ".1, jl '.ml , ini it in - "'irriT -ir-DT it""" " -p Vol. 51 No. 96 LINCOLN 8. NEBRASKA Tuesday, March 6, 1951 Senate .how to osme 9?Jll7f! fft) o) fill fOl t Klub Sunt ip 1 fulfil K Start Draft Age Bill Aimed at 18 Year-Olds Next The senate rejected the pro posal to lower the draft age to 18 ',4 years Monday and paved the way for a senate vote on the administration's bill to set the minimum age at 18 years. The bill, proposed by Senator Morse (r., Ore.)i was rejected by a 55 to 31 vote. At the present time the draft age is 19 to 26 and has been one of the most controversial ques tions in the legislature. Before the vote was taken Senator Taft charged Secretary of Defense Marshall with trying to "blackjack" congress into drafting 18-year-olds. He said the military leader was making an effort to "stir up the reservists" by saying that it would be unfair to them if the younger men were not called. Senator Johnson (d., Tex.) said that the Morse amendment "was an attempt to tie the military's hands knowingly and willingly." The house armed service com mittee has approved tentatively the 18-year-old draft, but some were skeptical about it. Russia Proposes German Treaty At the Big Four foreign min isters' discussion Monday Russia proposed a peace treaty with Germany, withdrawal of allied troops from the country and re duction of great powers' armed forces. The United States, Britain and France insist that other major difficulties must be cleared up Jirst and have made it clear that if Russia is not willing to decide on other problems than the Ger man treaty, there will be no con ference. U.S. Amoissador-at-large Phil lip C. Jessup said that the United States is not avoiding the east west problems but that the west ern powers are determined to get down to the basic issues. They will not be side-tracked by any soviet efforts to blame the sources of tension on irrelevant matters, he added. The three western powers have agreed in advance to: 1. Act tough in the first stages of the talks. . 2. Blame the size of the soviet and satellite forces in Europe for European tension. 3. Fight any Russian efforts to limit the conference to discussion of the rearmament of Germany. The western powers will try to maneuver Gromyko into talking about the causes of east-west ten sion as well. This is the only way, they believe, that the west can tell if Russia is sincere about settlement or if it is just another propaganda attempt. Originally Russia proposed that the Bits Four conference discuss the rearmament of Germany as "the most acute problem for Eu rope." Seventh Army Smashes Red Defense The U.S. Seventh aivision The University summer ses smashed through a major com- swris offer students unusual op- munist defense in line in mm central Korean mountains Mon- 8The drive extended within 25 miles of the 3oth parallel and was helped by concentrated air at- taThe division swept 6.000 reds from the 4,000 foot plateau on the Taeml front 17 miles east of Hoengsong. On the central front U.S. ma rines ran into a communist de fense line four miles deep in the area three miles north of Hoeng song. Legislature Warned About Amendments Sen. C. C. Lillibridge of Crete cautioned the legislature Monday to go slow on the enjtment of bills which will place constitu tional amendments before the voters in 1952. The senator pointed to nine guch bills which have been of fered. The observation came dur ing the discussion on Sen. John McKnight's bill to have the vot ers ballot on the constitutional amendment allowing the legisla ture to make uniform the sal rvf members of courts, boards and commissions, begin ning with the full term of any individual member. Vets' Hopsital Positions Open Dietetic interns have a chance to fill positions in Veterans Ad ministration hospitals in Califor nia, New York, Illinois and Ten- Examinations will be given ap plicants. To qualify, candidates must have a bachelor's degree and their college study must have in cluded courses in chemistry, bi ology foods, institution manage ment,' nutrition and dietetics, so cial sciences and education. The tests will be oral. Application forms and further information may be obtained at the post office, from Civil Service regional office or from the United States Civil Service commission, Washington 25, D.C. The Weather Nebraska decidedly colder to day in west and north portions reaching- cold wave proportions. Light snow and strong northerly winds 35 to 50 miles per hour wt and north nortions. Blow- Inr .nrl Hrlftlnr SHOW. tlKH Tuesday 10 north to 35 southeast. eft in H!ci3 The University Is announcing its fifty-seventh summer session. A bulletin has been released which has the titles of the courses that will be represented in the program of instruction which the University expects to make available during the 1951 summer sessions. To this pro gram will be added any courses for which there is sufficient de mand on the part of interested students, or for which the need may arise between now and the opening of the session. A more detailed bulletin, to be published about March 15, may be obtained by writing to Summer Sessions, Room 305, Teachers college. Three Sessions Offered Eight, six and four-week ses sions are offered concurrently. A post session in health education is also offered. Major emphasis is placed on the eight weeks ses- sion during which students may register for 8 or 9 semester hours of credit. The six week session begins June 5 until July 18 while the eight week session begins June 5 and lasts till July 27. Students are urged to complete registration prior to June 6. All undergraduate students entering the University for the first time should apply to the Office of Admissions for proper applica tion forms; applications for ad mission are to be filed by May 19. Communications concerning admission to the summer sessions should be directed to the Direc tor of Admissions, Room 103, Ad ministration hall. Guidance Exams Guidance examinations for en tering sophomores and freshmen will be held on Friday and Sat urday, June 1 and 2. Students seeking admission to the Graduate college should file their applications for admission with the Dean of the Graduate college on or before May 1 if they plan to initiate a graduate program with the beginning of the summer sessions. Summer courses are equivalent in method, character and credit values to those offered during the regular school year. The curriculum ranges from under graduate courses to graduate courses leading to the master's and doctor's degrees. The work ! offered is flexible enough to rr.eet the needs of all types of students. . Residence Halls Open The , Residence- ' Halls- for Women will be open. Each room will accommodate two girls, though a limited number may rer:t single where preference is indicated. Costs of room and meals will be reasonable. For reservations or further informa tion concerning the Residence Halls of other types of housing contact the Office of the Dean of Women, Ellen Smith Hall. Residence Halls for Men are conveniently located near the campus. Reservations! may be directed to Manager, Men's Resi dence Halls. For further infor mation on housing, see the As sistant in charge of Men's Hous ing, Dean of Student Affairs Of fice. Room 209, Administration hall. portunities to consider national and international problems of the greatest importance. In the sum mer of 1951 specialists from the United Nations and the United States Department of State will be on hand to present a critical analysis of the most significant issues of the day. Workshops Open for Teachers Workshop seminars in educa tion are open to experienced teachers of all levels elemen tary, secondary and college. It Happened at NU . . . Three freshman coeds were talking about their favorite sub ject as they walked home from classes. Their favorite subject was men, but one of the girls seemed to do most of the talk ing. "You know, he didn't even kiss me until we'd gone together for two months . ." explained the buxom miss as they walked down Fraternity Row. "Really," asked a deep voice on the porch of a near-by house, "What was wrong with him?" The three girls walked the rest of the way in silence. (Editor' Bote Thin Is the eleventh In series f articles entitled "My Most Unforgettable Student." Eiwh article will contain a true story told to the reporter by aa Instructor on this campus.) By Gerry Fellman A guy named Bill alias Terry, (of "Terry and the Pirates") is the most unforgettable student of Paul L. Bogan, assistant pro fessor of radio and speech. Bogan is also director of radio for the University. The incident concerning Bill that first came to Bogan's mind had to do with one of Bill's speeches in class. The assign ment had been to give an eulogy. Bill, being a NROTC man, spoke on John Paul Jones. Bill began the eulogy by say ing that Jones was the father of the navy. Later he added that Jones had never been married. This was too much for Bogan, a former Army man, to resist. Bogan remarked that he had suspected such things of navy men. But had never beiore neara one admit it. Enrolled at Numerous Colleges After graduation, from high school. Bill ioined the navy as eUllStCCl mail. Later he enroiiea I in V-12 and was sent here to OnforgeWbfe M.ms Future h TV County superintendents, princi pals and superintendents of community schools and special ists, such as librarians, will find the unusual facilities of work shop seminars helpful. Suggested areas of work for this workshop are as follows: resource units for science in the elementary school, resource units in citizenship for the secondary school, general business education standards and materials for the secondary school, English enrichment meth ods and materials for the sec ondary school, instruction mate rials for an integrated art cur riculum, teaching resources for the school librarian and instruc tional materials for an integrated art curriculum, teaching re sources for the school librarian and instructional materials in public education for the secon dary school. United Nations Theme All University workshop clin ics will have the theme "Amer ica's Role in the United Nations World." Teachers college workship cone ferences will be held June 18-20, June 21-22 and July 5-7. Topics for these conferences will be mid-century problems in elemen tary education, business educa t i o n, parent-teacher, guidance and mental hygiene and building better citizenship through com munity education. The fine arts program at the University this summer will con sist of an All-State Fine Arts fes tival. This is an unusual Univer sity experience in music, dra matics and art for Nebraska high school students. Students9 Strange Requests For 'Food9 Plague Bus Boys Today's special! Butterscotch crib! "What a gruesome thought!" commented Jack Thurber, a Crib bus boy of two years standing, But what the student public likes it gets! And butterscotch cribs are less peculiar than most requests the students give the crib fountain. For instance, one girl asked for a tomato milkshake. The bus boy rather doubtfully began mix ing tomato juice, milk and ice cream. The result was rather a sickening color oL brange.'trtrt the girl, much to the amazement of the boy, ate it! Shake With Pistachio Another odd combination is a vanilla shake with pistachio ice cream. Quite a few requests come Mortar Boards Plan Regional Confab Here The Mortar Board regional convention will be held at the University Saturday, March 10. The colleges represented at the convention will be the Univer sity of Illinois; Knox college, Oaieshnrir. 111.: University of Kansas; University of Missouri; Washington university, St. Louis, Mo.; and Kansas State college. Twentv-one delegates from the various colleges will attend the convention. More are expected to accept the convention bid. Saturday will be spsnt in chap ter discussions, luncheon and personnel conferences with El eanor Knoll. Miss Knoll is regional secre tary of Mortar Board chapters in Section 7. She was graduated from the University in 1947 where she majored in secondary education and was president of Mortar Board. Miss Knoll is now teaching high school at Soc City, la. The discussions will consist of evaluations of Mortar Board and Mortar Board projects; and panel discussions of current Mortar Board problems and service ideas. The panels will consist, at different discussions, of rep resentatives from various Mor tar Board chapters. The dele gates will arrive Friday, March 9 and leave Saturday evening. the University. He stayed in Lincoln for a little more than a year and then was transferred to. the University of Iowa. He finished his education at North-' western university. Bill actually spent six years getting his degree. During all this time, though, he took sev eral breaks in his education in order to take part in various radio productions. While attending Northwestern, Bill met a man who was con nected with the "Terry and the Pirates" radio program. Bill was given a tryout and soon became Terry. He liked playing the part of Terry but said that it was a strain being a hero all . of the time. Lost Job Voice Changed Later Bill discovered that the Terry job was one of a short period of employment. The radio show was moved to New York. So Bill's hero days were over. But even if the show had not been changed, Bill probably could not have kept the job much longer. Bill's voice was changing, and Terry then, was supposed to have a young voice. In fact, College 'Good News' Highlite Annual Production "Good News" is in store for the audience attending his year's Kosmet Klub spring musical. The show will inaugurate the April College Days ac tivities and will run Wednesday through Friday, April 25-27. at the Nebraska theater. I A (i . 1 Courtesy Lincoln Journal. DALLAS WILLIAMS in for a butterscotch crib with pistachio ice cream, which, ac- cording to the b"s,.bys. takes an iron stomach to digest "The sickest looking thing," stated one of the bus boys, is chocolate ice cream with cherry and butterscotch topping. How ever, they still get orders for them. Almost any combination of sundae has been asked for at the crib. Cherry ice cream with butterscotch topping, butterscotch ice cream with chocolate goup and lime ice cr&m with butter scotch goup are common re quests. Chocolate Popular Chocolate shakes and chocolate malts are the highest selling of the ice cream drinks. Once in a while a coffee shake or marsh mellow shake is ordered. As you would expect, cokes double all other soft drink re quests. However, coffee is a close competitor especially in winter. Eccentricities also run along this line. For instance, one person continually orders a marshmel low green river. Cribs are the most popular along the heavier food line. "This is mainly because they are cheap er than anything else!" com mented Jack Robinson, another regular "behind the fountain" ooy. Favorite Sandwich The cheeseburger is the favor ite sandwich order, followed by the hamburger and ham salad sandwich. These are made by kitchen man, Keith Morel, who taught himself how to make the sandwiches during his 20-nour-week working time. "We believe in experimenting on the custom ers," laughingly commented Keith, "and sometimes they know it!" The favorite "oddity" of the student customers is the "race horse." This drink is a combina tion of all flavorings plus marsh mellow and coke. This "slightly hard to digest" drink is slowly but surely becoming more pop ular with the campus "cribbers." Hadacol Specials Occasionally the crib's hum drum activity promotes the boys to mix up one of their "hadacol specials." Anyone with a cast iron stomach and a few extra hours to recupsrate is invited to try one of these "poison substi tutes." They consist v of coke, water and dry ice and are not advised for a regular diet or even an occasional dit, there had been some dozen Terrys up to that time. You could say that the mortality rate on that job was very high. After this Bill continued school and did other radio acting. But now for more about Bill's days here at Nebraska. , The V-12s were housed in Architectural hall. The men were considered students at the Uni versity. However, they were still required to follow navy rules. Bill had been given per mission to participate in various programs and activities for the University. But all of the V-12s had been ordered to be back at the barracks at a certain dead line every night. Bill did not always let the regulations stop him, though. One night when he wanted to do a special, late program, he de cided to forget about the dead line. He nonchalantly left the barracks (through a window) and took part in the program. Tries to Direct Traffic Bill seemed to have a liking for the unusual. One time when it was navy night on the cam pus, he and a few of his ROTC buddies decided to direct traffic D ays Comedy Will "Uooa jncws ' is a musical com- edy in two acts written by Lau rence Schwab and B. J. DeSyiva, The cast will total 50 or 60 in cluding the principals and the chorus. The production calls for four exterior sets and three in terior sets. This year's Kosmet Klub musical is the first since 1941 that has had both men and women participants. Tryouts are open to any stu dent regularly enrolled in the University. Students will try out for parts on March 19, 20 and 21. 'Roaring Twenties' "Good News" takes place in the "Roaring Twenties". It is a typical college play in the age of the raccoon cats, penants, skull caps and speak easys. In the beginning of the show, the chances of Tora Marlowe playing in the football game are very slim. He has just funked an astronomy exam and his profes sor insists he must qualify in this subject before he play on the team. Patricia, his girl friend at the time, coaxes her demure little cousin, Connie, into coaching Tom. Tom really tries to get his astronomy and in the process of tutoring, he and Connie fall in love. Tom May Play Things really become good news when the harsh professor shows that he really is a good guy and he lets Tom play in the all-important Colton game. Tait University tromps Colton in a rough and ready football skirmish. Tom with .the help of team mate, Robby Randall, gets the ball across the line for a touchdown. Dallas Williams, University Theater head, will direct this year's show. Kosmet Klub will soon launch .their ticket sales. Student Enjoyment Leon Pfeiffer, Klub president, said that the primary purpose of this spring's show is to present, for the students' enjoyment, a type of program which illustrates true student, talent. It was felt that a show with coeds would give students a better opportun ity for dramatic and musical de velopment than mediocre half acting. Principles directing this year's show include written scripts, full deletion of questionable material, definite rules for the show, and faculty supervision of rehearsals. Other action of similar nature has been instigated and promoted by members in an attempt to pro duce a show of the type pleasing to all students. Forbes Wins Violin Audition Kathleen Forbes, senior in the University school of music, has been announced as one of the two winners of competitive audi tions held by the Lincoln Sym phony orchestra. Dr. J. Marshall Neely, presi dent of the board of directors of the orchestra made the announce ment Sunday. The contest held at the University Saturday, fea tured 29 musicians. Miss Forbes, was the winner in the instrumental division. A violinist, she played "Poeme" by Chausson. Miss Forbes is a student of Emanuel Wishnow, director of the University Symphony orchestra. The winner in the vocal com petition was Jackie Harrison, a junior in the school of music at Nebraska Wesleyan university. She sang "Vissi d'Arte" from "La Tosca" by Puccini. The winners will appear with the symphony orchestra in a solo performance April 10. , on the corner of 13th and P I Streets. They wanted to impress ipon the drivers the importance of navy night. The drivers, thinking that the V-12s were policemen of some kind (because of the similarity in uniforms), obeyed. Bill and his friends had a gay time and made several cars go around the block two or three times before they would let them pass. But Bill was not always un ruly. He was a ood student and as Bogan remarked," a bad sailor but a good .actor." Bogan also remembers that Bill was quite a camera bug. Bill would even bring his camera to class. Whenever Bogan saw a flash of light in class he knew the reason. Bill who is now acting on TV, has bright hopes for the futurei He told Bogan that he worked for his college degree so that he will be able to take over the role of John on "John's Other Wife." (A note to the unedu cated John never speaks in the program). Bill was certainly unforgetta ble ., . right Gordie and Bart? WithM 'Smoke, Smoke, Smoke9 . . . Cigaret Causes Second Fire In Month at Dorm Five fire trucks, the fire chief himself, and water gallons of it taught one of the residents of the girls' dorm Saturday night that where there's smoking, there is apt to be fire. A blaze in the girl's third floor rom completely destroyed her mattress and blankets, damaged the bed and her clothes were soaked by the water. According to Ruth Meierhenry, the business director of the wo men's residence halls, the fire resulted from a cigaret burn on the bedspread, which the girl had not completely extinguished. Mattress Burns About 8:30 p. m., several hours later, J. C. Sharpnack, campus policeman, and J i m Smith, switchboard operator, smelled smoke and rushed to the room. They found it filled with smoke from the burning mattress. The fire department was sum moned, and Chief Paul Feaster and five trucks came to the res cue. While excited students in cluding dateless girls watched, firemen quickly soaked the mat tress and threw it out of the window. It was still smoking Sunday afternoon. Damage Not Estimated Miss Meierhenry said that the Nebraska Sales Tax Debate Is Tonight "Should Nebraska have a sales tax?" This is the discussion topic for the first of three public forums designed to stimulate interest in current, local and civic problems, Pat Ash, Lincoln Junior Cham ber of Commerce president, an nouncer! , - . ..f - v. The first will be held 8:15 p.m. Tuesday in Love Memorial Li brary auditorium. Two Nebraska senators will take part. Sen. Dwight W. Bur- ney, who introduced the sales tax bill now before the unicameral, will take the affirmative view point. Sen. Charles F. Tvrdik, chairman of the legislature's rev enue committee, will oppose the bill. Prof. Charles S. Miller and Owen W. Cotton will also debate. Prof. Miller of the University's college of business administra tion will also favor the sales tax. Cotton, executive director of the Nebraska Small Business Men's association, joins Tvrdik in op posing the sales tax. Moderator is Clifford M. Hicks, professor of business organization and management at the Univer sity. The panel discussion will in clude statements of views by the participants, debate among mem bers of the panel and a question-and-answer period in which members of the udience will take part. Teh next two forums will be held on April 11 and May 9. Radio stations KOLN and KFOR will broadcast the forums this spring. Current plans call for a series of similar forums each year. rom will have to be completely redecorated and the floor refin ished. No estimate of the amount of damage has been made. "We cannot impress the girls University Debaters Battle Snow for Minnesota Tourney Universities debaters battled more than speakers last weekend for Minnesota' worst blizzard this winter arrived at the same time they went North. After being stranded the first night at Windom, Minn., the six debaters arrived just in time to participate in the first round Thursday noon. The tourney was at St. Thomas college in St. Paul. The three teams, Doris Carlson and Joan Krueger, Nan Cowles and Nancy Dark and Bob Hase brook and Paul Laase, each en tered eight rounds. The team composed of Miss Carlson and Miss Krueger won five of their debates and Miss Cowles, Miss Dark and the men's team each won two rounds. Debates were held Thursday Union Orientation Meeting Tonight An orientation meeting for Union committee members will be held at 7:30 p. m. Tuesday, March 6, Room 316, Union. The purpose of this meeting is to explain the evaluation of Union activities and workers. A discussion of possible actions to advance Union activities is planned. The program will include the following: Bob Mosher will talk on advancement in the Union. A review of the evaluation system will be given by Herb Reese. They will discuss applications for committee chairmen and board members. usica. heavily enouch," she said, "witn the danger of fire from cigarets." The blaze was the second in a month at the dormitory. Both were caused by cigarets. Botany Prof To Speak Here Wednesday Dr. Herbert L. Mason, profes sor of botany and director of th herbarium of California univer sity will give a public lecture at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 7, in Bessey Hall auditorium. His topic is, "The Genetic Ba sis or Taxonomy, ecology ana Biogeography." His talk is being spons o r e d by the university research coun cil, and the ge netics institute and the depart ment of botany and geography. Dr. Mason will give a sec ond lecture on March 12, en titled Dynamics o f Biogeogra phy." He is vis- Dr. Mason iting the department of botany the second semester. Dr. Mason and his former student, Dr. John F. Davidson, assistant professor of botany and curator of the her barium are writing a bok on plant taxonomy. . Dr. Mason has been a member of the staff of California univer sity since 1925. He became di rector of the herbarium in 1941. His special interests lie in toxon omy, plant geography and paleo botany. He has been a collabor ator of the institute tf- forest ge netics of the-U 'forests, serw'n working on the genetics of pines. He was also a director of a sur vey of flora of the California marshes, in conjunction with waterfowl food problems, in be half of the federal fish and wild life service. Two Seniors Awarded $50 Herman E. Conrad and Harold A. Johnson, seniors in the Uni versity Teachers college, hava been awarded the Herbert Brow nell Scholarships in science edu cation for the current semester. The awards, of $50 each, have been made possible through funds provided by the, family and for mer students of the late Prof. Herbert Brownell, for many years a member of the Teachers col lege faculty and nationally recog nized for his work in the teach ing of science. Conrad graduated from high school at McKeesport, Pa., and attended Valparaiso university before transferring to Nebraska. He is a veteran of the U. S. Army Air Force. Johns is a graduate of the Oak land high school and of Luther college. Both young men will graduate from Teachers college in June, 1951 and expect to begin teaching high school sciences next year. and Friday afternoon and the fi nals rounds on Saturday. ueam from St. Olaf college and Eu Claire were winers in the tourna ment. Because of the snow, the Ne braska squad, accompanied by Donald Olson, debate director, was unable to leave St. Paul un til early Sunday morning. Previ ous plans- called for leaving some time Saturday. Koads were blocked out of the city, Although most teams entered in the contest were able to arrive in time to compete, many return trips were delayed due to th storm conditions. Bcause of the numerous travel ers being snowbound, the first night the group was forced to sleep in a private home. No hotel rooms or other lodging was avail able. Other schools from Nebraska represented at the meet were Wesleyan university, the Univer sity of Omaha and Wayne State Teachers college. Sixty men's teams competed and 30 women's teams. Colonel Frankforter Will Speak Tonight "Explosives and Propelants" is the topic of the speech which will be given tonight by Col. Clarence J. Frankforter, associate profes sor of chemistry. The talk will take place in Avery Hall at 8 p. m. Members of the Red Guidon society and ROTC are urged to attend. The general public has al so been invited. I 1 AA 1 t aj h 8. a h i v ft it U I L rr - Y. ft, ' ft. i r ! t I J 1