. J A. , T1L3T TC AILY NE THE WEATHLil Fair. Official Student Newspaper of the University of Nebraska U4 VOL. XXXI 1 1 NO. 66. LINCOLN. NKHRASKA. SUNDAY, DECEMKKK 17. 1933 PRICE 5 CENTS. ID ID A QF A TVT i n aa nr - OF OFFER MESSIAH Huge Chorus, Four Soloists, And Orchestra to Appear In Production. KIRKPATRICK DIRECTOR Oratorio Tells Story of the Redemption of Human Race to God. The attention ot music lov ers from Lincoln. Ouiiilia ami MUTOumling territory is cen tered this afternoon on the presentation of "The Messiah" for the thirty-vijihth consecu tive time by the University Choral union and the Lincoln Symphony orchestra at 3 o'clock in the Coli seum. A huge chorus of three hundred -oices, including four guest solo ists, and in addition sixty members of the symphony will be assembled for the "production. The guest so loists include Velma Lyon, soprano, from Kansas City; Sylvia Cole Piers, contralto. University school of music: Parvin Witte. tenor. Uni versity scnooi or music, tinu Nelson, bass, from Chicago, who CHORUS 0 AND ORCHESTRA will be heard in the leading roles , attended the third annual Jlor this afternoon. i ., , .111 i-..-. 1 ... Howard Kirkpatrick. direc tor of ! I:'1' 1o;m' l'i"',J ,1('KI V ruIil the University school of music, has j (.Vciiinrr ill the ('olistllni. Jack selected the finest talent in the I . .. ... v city and the university for today's i - " X ",u"' i-wrtlinp presentation of the greatest of oreliest ra played for the senior Handel's works. hnr,r,- .v.nt Presented at Dublin. Tt was nearly two centuries a when that famous old master com posed the oratorio. Since its first presentation in 1712 at Dublin. Ire land, countless choruses all ov?r the world have carried its mclodv from Christmas to Christmas, until It has become almost a pait of the holiday season. "The Messiah" is the story of the redemption of the human race to God. told in music. It is di vided into three paits. the first of which expresses the longing of the world, the nromie of the S-ivior's oming and closes with the nouneement of the birth: the sec ond is devoted to the sufferings death and exaltation of Christ: while the third tells of the tri umphs of Christian faith, the as surance of immortality, the resur tection ot the dead and eloses with the triumphal song of the re deemed. Commemorate Memory. When it was finished by Handel In September. 1741. only twenty three days had been required in it.s writing. Taken from the Scrip tures, the text had been selected a"d arranged for the composer by his intimate friend. Charles Jen nens. During Handel's life the "Messiah" was presented thirty four times, but never on a scale to show its worth or the purpose of the man until twenty-five years after his death in 17M when a huge chorus and rochestra pro- ( Continued on Page 3.) EXTEND INVITATION TO ATTEND Y EVENT Plan Joint Christmas Party; Request Students to Bring Gifts. Special invitation to attend the annual V. M. C. A. - Y. W. C. A. Christmas party, has been given to outstate and foreign students who are unable to go home during the vacation. The affair will be held in Ellen Smith hall Wednes day evening, Dec. 20. at 8 o'clock. Helen Lutz and Sidney Baker, who are in charge of arrange ments, have planned a special pro gram for these students. Each student ' is requested to bring a ten cent wrapped gift. Identification cards will be neces sary for admittance. Miss Bernice Miller, secretary of the Y. W. C. A., and Mr. C. D. Hayes. Y. M. C. A. secretary, will chaperonthe affair, j Encounter Difficulty Plaster Cast for Sculptures Prepare Mold of Hunter's Head to Be Broken at Play. In the play "Another Language" given last wiek at the Temple the ater Jerry Hallam strikes from the hands of his uncle, Walter, a cast of the heal of Victor Hallam. The University Players property man found that a difficult situation had developed in preparing for this ap parently simple gesture. Finding they needed to break a cast at every performance, prop e.ty worker visited Hammond Hendry. University instructor in sculpture, to find if he could fur nish the necessary breakable casts. With only a few days in which to perform a Job that factory officials would have turned down for want of time. Mr. Williams shook his head at the prospect, saying it conli'n't be lor-e. But the plav bad to go on. and realizing it, the instructor finally! PS! CHI TO INITIATE TEN Psychology Fraternity Will Conduct Ceremonies Monday Night. Psi Chi, national honorary nsv chological fraternity, wil initinte ten pledges Monday evening at the nome or Professor and Mrs. J, P, Guilford. Professor Guilford is chairman of the spychology de partment, hollowing the cere mony Mrs. E. L. Hinman will give a talk telling of her early experi ences in the field of psychology. Picture of Dr. Kellogg's collection of "The Ape and the Child" will also be shown. ANNUAL AFFAIR Approximately 500 Couples Attend Event; Jack Crawford Plays. INTRODUCE INNOVATION Feature Program Dance at Party; Late Permission Granted by Faculty. , . . Approximately ..00 couple MORTAR BOARDS SPONSOR THIRD J A new feature in the form of o ' nrocram dances was introduced as an innovation in campus social functions. Ruth Cherney, repre senting the Mortar Eoards, ex pressed satisfaction with the gen eral response given to this new method of exchanging dances. The programs were attached to the tickets providing space for twelve dances. Granted Late Permission. Special permission was granted by the faculty committee on stu dent affairs allowing the organiza tion to continue its party until 12 o'clock. Crawford's orchestra had been recently heard at one of the local theaters and had played engage ments in several of the country's leading hotels and resorts. Their appearance at this event marked one of the season's musical treats, FARES ARE CHEAP Dean Thompson Urges Use Of Public Vehicles Instead Of Private Cars. linilroail and bus fares the lowest in years for Christinas vacation trips according to sta tist ies. A charge of one ami onc-lialf cents a mile is bein? charged by railroads for trips dur ing Christmas vacation and fare and one-half for round trips are being charged by bus companies. "Railroads and busses are much safer than private cars," stated T. J. Thompson, dean of student affairs. "I hope that the students will take advantage of the ex tremely low costs of travel by those methods and insure their safety." During vacations in past years students have endangered their lives to make the trip, home and back. Several students have lost their lives, he stated. "There is no reason why students need risk their lives to go nome wnen me cost o ftravel is so low that nearly everyone can afford insure their safety by traveling in busses ana railroads," Thompson stated. in Obtaining Use in Production consented to do the best he could. That is how it happens that each night tense audiences were able to see the cast fall to the floor, and a problem develop in the lives of the persons portrayed. Sits as Model. Arniand Hunter, who plays the part of Victor Hallam sat for six hours while a clay model was made of his head. After that Mr. Williams and some of his students mixed molding plaster and con structed a piece mold over the clay features. These pieces when fitted together and covered with burlap and plaster carried the shape of the head, and when plaster was poured In and had hardened it as sumed the features of the far .A Hunter. Breaking off the pieces of the mold there appeared the white model ready tc be broken by the (Continued on Page 3.) REDUCE RAILROAD AND BUS PIE Artists Will Appear in 'The Messiah' W I. ' I All. t Curl Nrluin. rlma l.yon. These four well known soloists will appear in the presentation of "The Messiah ' which will be held in the coliseum Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Prof. Howard Kirk patrick, director of the University School of Music, will again have charge of the performance. m. will be the thirty-eighth consecu tive performance of "The Messiah" given by the University choral union and the Lincoln Symphony orchestra. The soloists pictured above will appear in the presentation. Velma Lyon, soprano, comes from Kan sas City, and is here for a return engagement; Sylvia Cole Diers, contralto, is a university instructor in voice; Parvin Witte, tenor, is professor of voice at the Univer sity School of Music, and Carl .Nel son, basso, formerly of Chicago, returns after a previous perform ance here. I E TO SELECTION AS Candidates for Scholarship Appear Before State Committee Jan. 4. Thirteen college students, ten representing Nebraska universities and colleges, are candidates for state nomination to Rhodes schol arships, according to an announce ment of H. A. Gunderson, state Rhodes scholarship secretary. From the thirteen, two may be chosen as the state's candidates to appear before a d' 'rict committee at Des Moines v. .ich will choose four scholars from six states to go to Oxford university, England, next fall. Interview Candidates. Candidates will be interviewed i at Lincoln, on Jan. 4, by the state ' rnmmittpo nf which .1. K. Mil er of Lincoln is chairman. Attorney General Paul Good is a member of the state committee. The state candidates: Harry F. Cunningham, jr.. Lincoln. University of Nebraska. Wentworth D. Fling. Lincoln, University of Nebraska. Frank S. Greenslit. Lincoln. University of Nebraska. Clement L. Harris, Omaha, Harvard university. Frank L. Hildreth, Hastings, Hastings college. Chester L. Hunt. Lincoln. Ne braska Wesleyan university. Henry R. Marshall. Council Bluffs. Ia., Creighton university. William Noyce, Crete, Doane college. Carl E. Olson. Holdrege. Beth any college, Lindsborg, Kas. Louis H. Peterson, Fremont. Midland college. Leo B. Ringer, Norfolk, Yank ton college and University of Minnesota. Ralph A. Rodgers, Lincoln, University of Nebraska. Harry L. West. Syracuse, Uni versity of Nebraska. WHITE SETS DATE OF DEBATE TRIAL Fl Schedule Tryouts for Varsity Teams; Plan to Attend Iowa Tournament. Jan. 11 has been set as the date for the tryouts for the debate teams for the second semester, ac cording to an announcement of Prof. H. A. White, debate coach. The proposition to be used in the tryouc is Resolved: That the pow ers of President of the United States should be enlarged as a per manent policy. The trials were arranged to se cure teams for debates which have been tentatively scheduled early in February. Later trials will be held if there are enough possibilities for contests and sufficient men show an interest in dehating. Reduce Debate Budget. Fewer teams will travel this year because of a reduced budget necessitating an arrangement of the schedule with most of the dis cussions at home. An exception to this rule will be the Delta Sigma Rho tournament in Iowa City about the first of March where Nebraska will be represented by one of its varsity teams. Request Engagements. , Schools lequesting engagements earlv In February are Morning ide. Gr'nnell. and the State Col lege of Iowa, when thy will be (Continued on Page i. ) N A RHODES NOMINEES )R JANUARY 11 - -Cnuriwy ot Lincoln Journal. Sjltlit 4 iilc Dim. run In Wlltr, Director Kirkpatrick will have a chorus of about 300 voices, most of those taking part being univer sity students, members of the uni versity chorus. There will also be an orchestra of about sixty pieces. The best talent of the city is to take part in the presentation, Mr. Kirkpatrick stated. Many students in the school of music, members of the university chorus, and sing ers throughout the city are invited to take part by written invitation. As a means of aiding in the sound and grouping in the coli seum. Prof. H. F. Cunningham, head of the department of archi tecture, has designed and erected a platform to be used by "The Messiah" singers. Director Kirk patrick stated that he believed that the terraced seating space, ar tificially constructed, will provide for a better presentation of the vo cal and group effects. PATTERSON JALKS AT "Y" Explains Purpose of Student Christian Association on Thursday Night. "The Function of a Student Christian Association in the Uni versity" was the topic of Dr. C. H. Pattei son's address at the Ag Yj meeting Thursday evening. i Doctor Patterson asserted that j the Christian association on the :ampus should attract men to take i 1 fearless stand against the two primary evils of society. The ap peal to men by the association shot id be a challenge to come and sha,-e in the tasks of the associa tion i nd also to be helped by com ing :t to the association. E FEATURES ARTICLE !E Second of Stories Describes Newest X-Ray Unit of Lincoln Hospital. '('allina All Cars.'" an arti cle describing Lincoln's police, radio system, is one of the fea-1 tares in the beeeniher Usnc of, ithe lilui-piint, eitirim eriim pub-j lication to be issued on the cam- j pus Monday. The story is writ- j ten by Mark W. Bullock. E. E. '34 i A second feature, written by i Charles J. Probasco. describes the new X-ray unit of the Lincoln Gen-' eral hospital. This unit is said to be the world's largest. The cover design for this issue was made ; from a linoleum block-print de-' signed by Mr. Harkntss, engineer- j mg instructor sponsoring the pub lication. Describe Activities. Accounts of graduate eivil en gineers who have gained fame in bridee building features the alumni section. In the Dean's Corner. Dean O. J. Ferguson discusses the importance of irrigation in Ne braska. Other regular features, the Enginews. Sleage. Jr., and the Science and Engineering page, ap pear in the issue. Holiday Celebration Takes On .Xeiv Aspect For 11 usher Students Christmas spirit on the campus brightened this year when an skepticism concerning the exist ence of that jolly old man known as "Santa Claus" was removed. Ask any of the thirty-eight new university CWA employes: ask any fellow who went to the Mortar Board party "There is a Santa Claus!" Celebration of the holiday sea son has taken on new and different aspects at Nebraska. Featured of all Christmas events will be the annual presentation of the "Mes siah." in which over 350 vocalists and the Lincoln Symphony orches tra will participate at the Coliseum next Sunday afternoon. Celebrate As Romans Did. Parties play no small part in the season's activities. Celeb rating Christmas as the Romans did, forty-five memt-rs of the Classics club spent Thursday evening at the home of Prof. Oscar Keinmulb singing Latin songs and playing games. Musical games and a special program provided entertainment at the Christmas party and musi cale given by Mu Phi Epsilon, honorary musical sorority at the home of Mi-ss Ruth Hird. The Ger man departrntnt faculty gave a party for members of the German club at Morrii: Hall on Friday aft ernoon, where songs and German cookies were outstanding. Exchange Gifts. Teacher's college celebrated with 150 students Frlfay evening when a piay. .-pecial musical numbers, and exchange gifts were present iContinucd on Page 3.) BLUEPRINT I P I AD FIVE HOUSES AID NEBRASKAN DRIVE El Alpha Omicron Pi Heads List Of Donors With Large Contribution. APPEAL TO INDIVIDUALS All Apparel, Regardless of Condition, Acceptable, Says Jennings. Alpha Omicron Pi sorority has taken the lead in collecting old clothes for the drive sponsored by the Daily Nebraskan to help sup ply Lincoln's needy with clothes this winter. An appeal is being made to all organized houses and to individu als on the campus to contribute old clothing to the drive, and bring it to the office of the Nebraskan in the basement of University hall. A representative of the Ne braskan will call for clothing in event donors cannot bring it to the office. Faculty Approve. This is the first Christmas char ity drive to be sponsored by the Nebraskan and has the approval and co-operation of the faculty and of charily organizations of the city. Presidents of all houses have been urged to speak on the proj ect at pledge and active meetings. Several houses have already con tributed to the drive. CONTRIBUTORS. ALPHA OMICRON PI (Largest donation). ALPHA SIGMA PHI. ALPHA CHI OMEGA. KAPPA ALPHA TH ETA (First contributer). CHI PHI. All Clothing Acceptable. Even the smallest donations, pair of shoes, a other discarded coat, shirt, or articles are wanted. No one should be hesitant to turn in shoes or coats or any articles of clothing in bad condi tu n for the P.ed Cross keeps a mending establishment which makes a business of repairing clothing. Bernard Jennings, man ager of the drive, stated. Many houses have promised to i have their clothes closets cleaned w. by Tuesday arid to have con iributions ready for delivery by Tuesday evening. ICE CARNIVAL IS i- i iii-n r n u i i i Event Will Be Held at Oak Creek Park Soon After Christmas Recess. Plans for an all university ice! carnival and frolic to be held as j soon after Christmas vacation as j weather conditions permit, were revealed Saturday by Alice Ged des. president of W. A. A., wihch is sponsoring the event The carnival, which will be held , at Oak creek, will closely follow ! the program which was arranged j ror me one lasi year, wnen pranh.i of the weather caused successive postponements and finally aban donment of the event. Fancy skat ing, races for men and women stu dents, and various feature races and relays are planned for the oc casion. Elaine Fontein is in charge of arrangements for the carnival, full details of which will be announced shortly after Christ mas vacation. In making public general and tentative plans for the frolic, Miss Geddes urged all interested stu dents to bring their skating equip ment with them when they return to school, as the carnival will be held as soon as the ice is formed. BARBS VOTE FOR PICTURE Will Have Pictures Placed In Cornhusker; Given Names of Freshmen. The vote to have the barb pic ture placed in the Cornhusker was carried unanimously at the meeting of Evelyn Diamond's group Friday evening, at Ellen Smith hall. Each girl was given the names of five freshman Barbs with whom to make acquaintance. 5- nnie Spanggaard will meet with her group of the Barb A. W. S. league on the Agriculture cam pus Tuesday at 4 p. ni. CORRECTION. Due to typographical error, in the Friday, Dec. lb, issue of the Daily Nebras kan, T. T. Bullock was mis quoted as saying, "Person ally I am sorry that so much attention has been centered on buying or in other words, etc." The quotation should read, 'Personally I am sorry that so much attention has been centered on money. With more buying, or, in otner words, with an increase in trie velocity of bank credit, so-called inflation may not be necessary." OR OLD CLOTHES ALL-UNIVERSITY PLANNED BY wAA MONEY IS GRANTED FOR STADIUM WORK CWA Allotment Made for Erection Seals at South End Of Athletic Field; Three Foothall Practice Grids Will AIo Be Constructed. GRADING WOKK BEGINS Ninety Percent of Money Must Be Spent lor Wage: Ten Percent Mav Go for Material; I'niversit v Already Received ' ' L S Expect Approximately 1,000 To Attend Meeting of Music Instructors. CAPPELLA CHOIR TO SING Secure Guest Conductor to Lead Lincoln Symphony; Report on Surveys. lli'inljcfs ol' The Natioiiiil Mu si o leathers association ami the National Association of Music Schools Mill meet in Lincoln Dec 27 to ;!0 for the l'iLty-j'iCth annual convention oi' the asso ciations. Approximately 1,000 are expected to attend. The convention program includes j discussions, musical forums, re- ports of musical surveys and denv onstrations. The program will be dispersed with musical interludes presented by the Brahms singers of Denver, the cappeila choir of Lincoln high school as well ;is piano, viohn and organ selections. Chancellor K. H. Lindley of the University of Kansas, will be the principal speaker at the annual banquet which will be held on Dec. 28. The banquet is the main fea ture of entertainment during the meeting. Another "high spot" on the pro gram is several numbers by a cap j'ella choir conducted by John M. Rosborough on Dec. 29. Although the convention will be held during the vacation period, members of the choir have planned to come back to Lincoln to present the pro gram. They will sing one song by Dr. Christiansen and a composition of the late Dr. Lutkin's. The Lincoln Symphony orches- tra under the leadership of gue.t 'conductor. Dr. Howard Hansen. dean of the Eastman School of Music of Rochester, N. Y.. will ap pear on the same program with the choir. Dr. Hansen is one of America's most promising compos (Contmued on Page 4.) 10 BE NEXT TUESDAY Choir Music Will Feature Annual Seasonal Services. rne annual Christmas vespers will be held at 5 o'clock on Tues day at Ellen Smith hall. The beautiful and impressive service which is held each year will be gin with choir entering in pairs singing as a professional number "Oh Come. Come Emmanuel. The service will consist mostly of music. Other numbers will include "Lord Jesus Son of Mary," by Sir John Stainer, "There's a Song in the Air," "First Noel," "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear." Marion Stamp will be in charge i : of the choir. The leader in charge of the service will be announced later. ISICA PROGRAM FEATURES DENVER Al SINGERS Issue Bulletin Naming Professors Available to Give Talks in Future Prepared Speeches Will Also Be Listed; Furnish Topics Of Interest to Campus. Nearly 150 University professors and instructors who are available for speaking dates in the state have been listed, along with sub jects upon which they are . re pared, by the latest bulletin of the university extension division. Seek ing to make the university of more value to Nebraska as a whole, fac ulty members will in this way spread the benefits of their knowl edge and experience over a wider field, it is bel.n-ed. Someone in the university is able from his long study and applica tion to the work in this depart ment to speak on nearly any sub ject Recitals and talks on music, dramatic readings, travel talks, so ciological and religious subjects are amone the lone list. Addresses are prepared on museum and arch- ; its several hundred proposed sub eological subjects. Departments of ! jects there will be at least one for history, ecoujnncs, arid political 1 SOME TIME .NEXT WEEK Twenty Thou aiM I. " l ... 1V.1 i ilUl.l I'M tno i reclinn 01 c - nicnt seats at the .-outh end of the .stadium and ihe construc tion of three practice fields wire completed Saturday bv the Athletic department after the county CWA board approved the gr.'iit of ten thousand dollars lor ti e purpose. Work on the project wiii stat immediately after the approval of the state board is given, which will be sometime next week. The plan includ.-s the grading of one or two feet of out off of the present pract-.ee field, and ut-ing the dirt to build up the ditch on the edge of the field to the level of the new sats. "The practice fi -Ids, whic h will be short in length but official width, are what we're after." stated John K. P'-Deck, fi nancial agon" for the athletic de partment, wiio. with Coarh Bible, presented the plan to the county board. Ten Rows of Seats. The tier of cement seats will be ten rows high, extending around the end of the track. The seats will p.-obably be uscj bv the Knothole club, according to Selleck. but could be sold in case of sufficient demand Provisions in the CWA grant re quire that ninety percent of the money be spent on la'.-or. and only ten percent for materials. Because of this provision two thousand dollar will p'obably he furnished by the athletic department to pro vide the nec.-ssuv materials. At least ninety pet cent of the work nv:st be completed at the tnd of the first sixty days after the grant is received. $20,000 Already Received. , . ' ' -rnt;',hrWA i ny the university and almost seven ; thousand hoars of labor ' were i uad? availafc! or Friday to the ; county's unemployed. There are ! now thirty-eight people employed by the university on various proj ects with CWA "funds. Ir. the university library, nine women nre cataloguing, cleaning, and classifvir g books. Cleric al work was opened to twenty-two women in Classifying university and departmental records for tab ulations and technical studies. Seven men are employed under projects to maintain, grade, and repair the campus and streets. Other State Projects. Ss.000 is bo,r.g used for road b Hiding at the university experi mental static- s at North Platte, i which will connec t the headquar ! ters with valley land where ex . periments are b"ing conducted. At Omaha. S7.6.-6 is brine used for plastering and repair work in the college of medicine. University authorities pointed out Thursday that in line with the CWA plans that these people would be employed for six hours per day. Jive days a wc-k, with the university providing the projects and making up the payroll, but not handling any of the money. All the work rr"st be completed hv Feb. 14. They also pointed out that all of the work is of a type that could not have been done at this time without CWA assistance. LUTHERANS PLAN PARTY Arrange Program Including Fireside Talks, Group Singing, Games. Members of the Lutheran club are scheduling their annual Christ mas party for Dec. 19 at 8:30 p. m. in the recreation parlor of Ellen Smith Hall. Musical numbers, fireside talks, group singing and games will fea ture the evening s entertainment. Loren Wolfe. Esther Schoerlevor. Marian Epley and Harold Olson are in charge of arrangements for the event. sciences have furnished topics that may be of interest. Available to Committees. The extension division in issuing its bulletin has made more easily available to Nebr aska communities information heretofore not com piled. Directors believe schools, churches, and clubs of all kinds may at times desire speakers but be unable to pay the usual price for such addresses. By charging in most instances little more than ex penses, talented men and women can be enjoyed through the whole state. Agricultural clubs may find speakers in that university college, while business organizations will find their vocation problems dis cussed by someone in that depart ment. Engineering lectures, talks on sports in fact, the extension division ha- planned that among every occasion.