THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
SUNDAY. MARCH SI, 193!.
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Daily Nebraskan
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OFFICIAL STUDENT PUBLICATION
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA
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EDITORIAL STAFF
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NEWS EDITORS
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Sunday Meditation
On Religion.
iNCE again Sunday rolls around. Some will tear
themselves away from Morpheus and attend
church. Others, definitely in the majority, will use
the morning as a time for blessed rest. Church bells
calling the "faithful" to service will go unheeded.
And blue-noses will mutter into their beards some
thing about "heathens."
Despite all outward appearances, however, of
unconcern about matters religious, is the college
student devoid of all semblance of religion? Is he
an atheist or has he formed a philosophy of religion
that admits some sort of a God?
According to the Rev. George L. Collins, one
of the student pastors at the University of Wiscon
sin, students are "genuinely Interested" in religion.
As for atheism, he believes there Is less such
thought at that school than when he took up his
duties there in 1928. Conditions on the Wisconsin
campus are not known, but it should serve as a fair
example of religious thought on all campuses.
The religion of the college student Is not like
that of many of our good churchgoers. It is not
something he enjoys flaunting before everyone's
eyes. Nor Is it something that he keeps in the closet
during the week and then brushes off and dons for
a short visit to the church. It is something more
sincere than that.
Nor are all of the student's thoughts on reli
gion strictly orthodox. He has learned to question
institutions and he has discovered fallacies and In
adequacies In the beliefs he has held since childhood.
Accordingly he has formed new theories to fill holes
left by the collapse of the others. In many cases
he Is still in the questioning stage. The important
thing Is that while he may ridicule sects and denom
ination, in the main he has one great creed.
There are existant on every campus, of course,
a few precocious souls who like to claim atheism.
They have found that a non-conformist receives at
tention and have decided to step Into the limelight
by loudly proclaiming there is no Supreme Being.
Maturity, however, may bring a different feeling.
Although the average student is probably not
occupying space in a church pew this morning, he
is probably approaching nearer to the truth than
many of those who are devoutly singing hymns. He
is not a hypocrite; neither does he swallow blindly
all that comes from the pulpit To tag college stu
dents as Irreligious shows a lack of knowledge of
the facts.
Stay Away
From the Stove.
"NEBRASKA'S senior senator, George Norria, in a
public statement this week end expressed con
fidence that the United States can keep clear In
case the nations are Involved In another war. "We've
had our fingers burned," he stated.
It must be remembered that the burnt child
sometimes goes back and pulls the same trick over
again. The problem that confront this nation is to
see that it does not allow itself to get too close to
the stove.
There are forces at work in the United States
now as there were at the time of the World war
which might stampede the nation. Suppression of
those forces should be one of the prime objectives
f every college student and of every other man and
woman in the nation.
STUDENT PULSE
Brief, eonclaa oontribuUona oertlnent to matter f
atudent Ufa and tiie university a" welcomed by thie
department, under the ueual reetrlctlona of aound newa
paper practice, which excludea all libelous matter and
personal attacks. Lettere must be aimed, but name
will be withheld from publication If ao deaired.
Contribution! ehould be limited to maximum of fle
hundred worda la length.
Working Student
Wants A'o Sympathy,
TO THE EDITOR:
ACCORDING to the editorial "Working Their
Way" one might expect to find working stu
dents wandering about the campus bleary-eyed and
hazy-minded, vainly attempting to see through some
Ufflcult subject.
I challenge you to Investigate the reasons why
students go around bleary eyed.
As a rule the students who do part time wcrk
get the most out of school. There are always some
courses which they slide through because they need
the time for other things, but plenty of student who
are not working slide through Just as many courses
because they want the time for other things. The
student who has to help finance himself realizes
that when he spends money he is spending hard la
bor and for that reason la more careful how he
spends. This can be applied to payment of tuition
as well as other expenditures, for when a person la
paying his own fees he takes the courses which he
feels will be valuable to him and are worth all the
time that he has spent to earn his fees. Perhaps this
Is a mercenary attitude, but at any rate It means
that those students are going to take school more
seriously.
The true goal of a college education, awaken
Jng of an Intellectual curiosity, Is never realized."
Tills Is absolutely rn unjust statement Awakening
of an Intellectual curiosity does not have anything
to do with a student's outside work. The working
ttufisnt has an intellectual curiosity awakened be
fore be ever comes to college or be wouldn't be here.
The working student la not feeling sorry for
himself. nd be Isn't asking for sympathy. Respect
Is much mors acceptable. Ha U glad that he Is
working because It enables him to get that which
he could not otherwise, even though he does not get
an the academic knowledge that his native ability
warrant. C
A Military Science
Student Speaks.
TO THE EDITOR:
HPHE subject of military science is one course in
the university curriculum that receives more
comment than any other course. Whether that is a
point in favor of military science, I heaitate to say.
I will say, however, that these comments are Indica
tive of the large amount of interest that is centered
around the subject.
Military science Is not occupying such an im
portant nlace In the pages of the Daily Nebraskan
as it did some time ago. It is not my intention to
stir up any arguments on the subject. What I want
to do Is to release some of the enthusiasm that ac
cumulated In my mind in the short space of a few
hours.
Last Tuesday evening the Reserve Officers as
sociation held its regular meeting. The members of
the R. O. T. C. were invited, especially those who are
taking the senior course. Many attended this meet
ing, Including myself. It was this meeting that gave
me the enthusiasm, or Inspiration, if you please, to
write this letter. It was one of those meetings
which, upon leaving, makes one feel good.
Now you will probably ask (and I don't blame
you), "What caused this satisfied feeling?" Was it
due to a sense of superiority that was instilled in
ua? Were we honored with flowers and bouquets?
Were we offered opportunities for the attainment of
glamour of pecuniary benefits? My answer to nil
of these questions la an emphatic "no." My only re
gret Is that this meeting was not attended by those
people who claim to be pacifists and conscientious
objector. Perhaps there were some there.
Then, too, it would have been well for any citi
zen of the country to attend that meeting. I don't
believe anyone who attended could have failed to
see the significance of some of the statements that
were made by the speakers. The members of the
Officers Reserve, in my humble opinion, are made
of "stuff" which every American should be proud of.
The spirit of friendship and fellowship that abounds
in every one of them is something not to be lost
sight of.
I feel sorry for the large number of people who
have the habit of associating with military training
things that have no bearing on the subject at alt
These people are merely ignorant of the primary
objectives of military training. I could mention sev
eral university graduates who have told me that
their courses In military scienee were some of the
most valuable they had taken in the university. The
military aspect of the training is seldom mentioned.
Although the percentage of Reserve Officers
who are detailed for active duty is very small, yet
the percentage of those who make good Is very high.
That is very significant, a thing which the military
department can justly point to with pride.
M. D.
Browsing
Among The
Books
(In the absence of Maurice Johnson, who regu
larly conducts this column, this week's review was
done by Weldon Kees.)
FrVE years have gone by since Thomas Wolfe
hi first novel, "Look Homeward, Angel." It was a
huge book, which, though only half as long as Her-
vey Allen's execrable romantic botch, "Anthony Ad
verse," had forced tired eyed critics to stay up late
night to finish it for their Sunday editions.
The book met with instantaneous success. Sin
clair Lewi, in his Nobel prize speech, grandly de
clared that Wolfe had "a chance to be the greatest
American writer. . . and I can't see why he should
not be one of the greatest world writers." "Look
Homeward, Angel" went Into six or more editions;
the Modern Library brought it out in their Giant
Series alongside of Plutarch's "Lives" and "War and
Peace." Scrlbner's magazine printed Wolfe's short
stories a fast as he could turn them out; and
Wolfe, once he hits his stride, Is a hard man to beat
for literary productivity.
The critical acclaim on the first book was pretty
deafening, and for a while it looked as though
America had come through. Richard Sheridan
Ames, In an article In the recently folded "Ameri
can Spectator" astutely observed that Wolfe had
escaped the fire and shouting that usually greets a
new writer of promise, and that he was "the real
thing at last" Mr. Ames is talking a lot of non
sense, for surely no author was ever so highly bally
hooed, one way or another, since William Faulkner
shocked the Humanist with "Sanctuary."
Wolfe' new book. "Of Time and the River,"
published this month, reveals his same faults, same
excellences. Those critics who hoped Mr. Wolfe
would learn, in five years, the value of careful' edit
ing, are bound to be disappointed. It Is a bigger
book than "Look Homeward, Angel" five times as
long a one ordinary novel; and If Mr. Wolfe con
tinue his present plan of writing four more of the
same length to complete the aextology, he will suc
ceed In making Proust's "A la Recherche du Temps
Perdu" look like fifty cents' worth of Haldlman-
Juliua' Little Blue Books.
Despite its length, "Of Time snd the River" Is
seldom borlnr. One never feels that Wolfe is try-
Ing, like other writers have too often done, to pro
duce merely a "big" book. No; like Victor Hugo,
whom he resemble more than I like to think, he
enjoys screaming at the top of his voice, philos
ophizing for page on page, indulging In sentences
that even the Clceronians would have envied for
their sheer length.
This section (!) of a sentence might be by some
clever writer imitating Wolfe; but it is his own.
. . . the rich voices, aggrieved, injured, heniike
and sensual, omened with deep undertones of ripe
hysteria, rose and fell with undulant duckings or
volkv orotest the rich sensual voices of the Jew
esses receiving, giving, returning and withdrawing,
rose and fell In curved undulance or yoiky nen
clucklng protest, with omens of ripe hysteria."
Score: Rich, 2; hen, 2; omen, 2; rip 2; undulant,
yolky, 2; sensual, 2; voice, 2; hyaU-rla, 2.
And although Wolfe 1 guilty of passage after
passage of this sort, few can deny tt,&t his gift Is
one of the sweatest In America, He writes with a
vigor and power that none of his contemporaries,
nve Faulkner and Dos Passos, possesses; ana ne
can pour so much into one novel that the reader Is
all times profoundly moved, swept, struck.
But some day. let us Lope, Thomas Wolfe will
realize that Guy de Maupaussant was a far greater
artist than Victor Hugo. For the time being, -or
Time and the River" is one of the best books that
ha appeared In this country about this country
since "The Education of Henry Adams."
drQANTTS
BY CHANCE.
(This Is the first of a series of articles
Thomas Wolfs by Mr. Johnson and Mr. Kees.)
on
"Doc" Ralph Ireland, also known
as "Irish," puts tne members of
the pony and male choruses
through their paces In regular
fashion, If the demonstration Fri
day night Is a usual perform
ance. Joe Iverson, who is direct
ing the play, watched the rehear
sal with an appraising eye. The
young playwright, Art Wolf, was
there also, watching his show pro
gress. Five years ago he wrote In
collaboration with Art Mitchell, a
Delt, "The Absorbing Adventures
of Professor Blotter." This play
was submitted for a Kosmet Klub
show, but at the time Herb Yen
ne's "Jingle Bells" was chosen.
About two years ago, Wolf wrote
a one act play from which the
present show is taken. For two
months he worked on It off and
on, and after reading nearly "every
three lines to his wife as they were
added," Wolf ended up with this
three act comedy. The first and
last acts came readily enough, but
he rewrote the second act several
times, and enlarged the original
cast from five to thirteen charac
ters. He helped Joe Iverson pick
the cast, and thinks the cast has
been well chosen. While here In
school, the author was, In two Kos
met Klub shows.
The two voune ladles who wrote
songs for the show were both up
watching the rehearsal. Portia
Boynton, who has five songs in the
show, has written songs for last
year's play, also. Some of her
pieces are "I Wonder Why," "Too
Many Men," "Is He Dear?", "The
History of Our Love." and "Slave
Song." Marg souders nas con
tributed four selections to the
cause. She also had some of her
creations in last year's chow. Those
which will be In this one are "Mid
summer Night's Dream," "Swords
Play is Sorcua Business," xne
Poetic Sailor" and "Glnsburg's
Jewelry Song." Vance Leininger,
who will be Queen Isabella of
Spain, wrote "I Want a Man" and
the music to "The Executioner's
Song," lyric by Art Wolf. Barney
and O'Neill wrote the "Reporter's
Blues." These twelve hit have al
ready taken the campus by storm,
and are some of the high spots in
the show.
Friday evening was a busy time
around the Temple with one show
and two rehearsals going on. In
the theater, the Coed Follies drew
a large crowd, with the presenta
tion of several skits and the style
show providing a good deal of the
interest. The presentation of
Muriel Hook as the best dressed
girl of Nebraska for 1935 brought
a storm of applause, which tem
porarily interrupted the cast for
the latest University Players' pro
duction which was rehearsing "The
Dark Tower" and members of the
Kosmet Klub cast, who were work
ing rather noisily on "Kiss Co
lumbo." The Follies show was
quite a drawing card for Kosmet
Klub members and It kept the girls
more than busy trying to keep the
fellows out of the balcony.
RE
RECENT NOVEL FRIDAY
'Forty Days of Musa Dagh'
To Be Discussed at
Ellen Smith.
FORMER GIRL'S ADVISER
mm
ELECTS 24 MEMBERS
Pi
Lambda Theta
Initiation on
April 10.
Plans
Twenty-nine new members were
elected by Pi Lambda Theta, hon
orary educational sorority, at a re
cent meeting, according to Martha
Watson, president of the organ
ization. Initiation will be held
April 10.
Those elected are as follows:
Alyce Mae Anderson, Ilene M.
Atkins, Eunice Bingham, Doris
Cochran. Hester Freeman, Phyllis
Humphrey, Agnes Jensen, Opar
Louthan, Maxy McKinnie, Lois
Muthenberg, Lois Pierson, Irene
Remmers, Doris Rlisness, Eliza
beth Shearer, Betty Temple, Louise
Thygeson, Frances Wilson, Marie
George, Irene Opfelbeck, Dorothy
Gathers, Irene Hentzen, Louise
Hossack. Margaret Hufnagle,
Jessie Keeshan, Helen Luttgen,
Ruth Peterson, Gladys Robertson,
Lucille Reilly, and Mrs. Harriet
Piatt.
GREEKS HIVE CHANGE AT
OLD GOLD CONTEST PRIZE
Some Nebraska fraternity will
be winner of a fifty dollar cash
prize, offered by the Old Gold cig
arette company, late in April. The
contest which opened March 15,
and continues until April 26, is
termed "Fraternity house treasure
fund contest" and will be won by
the fraternity getting the most
votes before it closes.
Rules of the contest are simple.
Each front from the package of
Old Gold cigarettes or a facsimile
thereof counts one vote. Covers
from packages of fifty cigarettes
count six votes. "Simply write the
name of fraternity on back of the
label and deposit in ballot box."
Ballot boxes are locited in Buck's
Coffee Shop, Unl Drug Store,
Tasty Pastry Shop, (Cornhusker
Hotel), and Campus Inn.
Votes will be tabulated and post
ed at the end of the third week of
the contest and each week there
after. .
"The Forty Days of Musa
Dagh," written by Franz Werfel
and published in 1934, will be re
viewed by Mrs. Roy Green Fri
day, April 5, at 7:30 in Ellen
Smith hall.
Sponsored by the conference
staff of the Y. W. C. A., the re
view Is being arranged by Gladys
Klopp, who is chairman of the
group. Members of the staff who
will assist with the ticket sales
are Jean Walt, who will be in
charge of sales, Eloise Benjamin,
Mary Yoder, Henrietta York, Mar
garet Moran, Jean Gist, Jean Nel
son, Doris Brandes, Jane Barbour,
Hazel Kolves. Virginia Keim, and
Hazel Bradstreet.
Mrs. Green, who is a former ad
viser of the Y. W. C. A., has
given many book reviews before
various groups In the city, ac
cording to Miss Klopp, who stated
that the review should be of in
terest not only to faculty members
but also to students especially
since the speaker is exceptional
and since the book Is so well rec
ommended and so rich in excite
ment and power.
It is based on historical fact and
so important in the incident de
scribed in the book in the minds
of the Armenian people that they
have set aside a national holiday
celebrating the event. Musa
Dagh is the name of a mountain
and the story is concerned with
the life and experiences of a group
of people who Bpent forty days
on the top of it while war was
being waged in the country about.
Published in the New York
Herald Tribune book section of
Sunday. March 24, 1935, was a
full page article describing the
book. It was written by Armen
ians now living in the United
States who remember all the char
acters and events which are so
thrillingly portrayed in the book.
"It narrates the heroic drama
of a little band of people cut off
from the world, struggling against
great odds to preserve their lives,
their heritage, and their Chris
tian faith. From an episode of
actual history, the defence of
Musa Dagh is celebrated by the
Armenians as a great anniversary
In their annals.
Though not actually banned In
Germany, the book is listed as "un
desirable", by the Hitler regime
and may only be sold surrepti
tiously by book sellers who wish
to remain in good standing.
The review is open to the public
and anyone interested may pur
chase a ticket from any member
of the conference staff.
REINMUTH SPEAKS AT
HORACE CELEBRATION
North Platte High School
Seniors Honor Famed
Roman Poet.
Prof. O. W. Relnmuth of the
rinnnirs department of the univer
sity, recently addressed 850 stu
dents of North Fiattes senior nign
school In an assembly devoted to
n. celebration of the two thousandth
anniversary of the birth of the
Roman poet Horace. In the lec
ture. "One Roman Who Never
Grows Old," he showed that the
secret of Horace's deathlessness
lies in the fact that he Is an aa
of the art of rainlne en
joyment from the simple life
which Is a problem of perennial
pertinence no matter wnai me ma
terial surroundings may be. The
v., onH tho ntrineed ensembles
uauu ivi'u ..w n
of the high school furnished music.
At noon Profesaor Keinmuin un
dressed the Rotary club at the
Hotel Tawnee on "Horace, the Ro
man Will Rogers and Edgar
Guest."
STATE TEACHERS
OF HISTORY MEET
HERE APRIL 4, 5, 6
(Continued from Page 1.)
will be given at 10:30 Saturday
morning in Social Science hall.
Delegates to the covention will
meet at breakfast Saturday morn
ing at 8 o'clock. Mrs. Grace G.
Hyatt of Lincoln high school will
preside. Miss Edith C. Field, Om
aha Central high school, will give
a review of conclusions and recom
mendations of the American His
torical association's committee for
investigation of the social studies.
This will be followed by a discus
sion carried on by Prof. H.- F.
Swanson of Dana college; Prin.
Harold C. Mardis of Lincoln high
school and Dr. G. O. Virtue of the
university.
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OFFICIAL
BULLETIN
Estes Reunion.
An Estes reunion will be held
Sundav afternoon at Pioneer's
park for all students who have at
tended or who are Interested In at
tending the joint Y. M. Y. W. con
ference in Estes park. Reserva
tions for the picnic supper may be
made with Mary Yoaer or at the
Y. M. or Y. W. offices. The group
will meet In front of the Temple
theater at 3 :30.
Episcopal Church.
Rev. Ernest Vincent Shayler,
bishop of Nebraska, will adminis
ter the Sacrament of Confirmation
at the university Episcopal church
Sunday morning at 11 a. m. A
cordial invitation is extended to all
who care to come.
KOSMET MUSICAL
COMEDY TO OPEN
MONDAY EVENING
(Continued from Page 1.)
song hits "Midsummer Night's
Madness," and "The History of
Our Love."
Duncan Sowles, the roving re
ported "Andy," will be featured
in "That's Why Reporters Go
Nuts," a rhythm number that the
choruses have been using in all of
their practices.
As the chancellor of the Span
ish Exchequer, David Goldware
portrays the character "Ginsberg"
in a manner that promises to steal
the show, according to Director
Iverson.
Portraying "Queen Isabella,"
Vance Leininger runs the country
as well as the court household, ac
cording to the story. Despite the
objections of her half-witted hus
band, the Queen gives Columbus
financial assistance for his trip.
The executioner Jose is enacted
by Jim Begley, and Jim Heldt,
Husker linesman, is seen as Man
ual, Don Bello's right hand man.
Lady Mona, "The Don's" sister, is
played by Dwight Havens.
All stage sets and scenery, de
signed by Bob Pierce, have been
moved to the Temple stage, and
costumes were completed Saturday
according to Owen Johnson, chair
man of the costume committee.
BROADY LEADS PANEL
Professor Heads Meeting
At State Principals
Convention.
Prof. K. O. Broady, Instructor in
school administration, led the
panel discussion, "What Is the Re
lation of Visual Aids and Materials
to the Learning Process?" at a
Saturday afternoon meeting of the
superintendents and principals of
the Nebraska State Teachers asso
ciation at the Lincoln hotel. Dr.
Clara Wilson, professor of primary
and elementary education was a
member of the panel.
The panel discussion was one of
a group of meetings which were
conducted during the Friday and
Saturday conference of school
heads from the entire state. En
rollment at the convention reached
250.
About 350 guests attended the
Schoolmasters banquet Friday eve
nine n t fi-sn o'clock when the Prin
cipal speaker was Dr. Frederic B.
Knight or me university oi iuw,
Dr. Knight also spoke at a convo
cation of Teachers college students
Friday morning at 10 o'clock.
Kirkpatrick Judges Iowa
Music Contest May 2, 3
Howard Klrknatrick. director of
the University School of Music,
hns heen nuked to iudee the Iowa
high school music contest during
the festival to ne neia ai me uni
versity of Iowa in Iowa City May
2 and 3.
BELL TALKS ON FOSSILS.
Frank Bell, assistant preparator
in the university museum, talked
on "Fossils" at the Van Fleet
school Parent-Teachers' meeting
recently.
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