Tlie DAILY NEBRASKAN
Wednesday, November 29. 1933s
Thanksgiving Means a Vacation . . .
Vacation Shows Us Off
Both Thanksgiving ami "Franksgiving" provide a lot of
room for editorial thought. Editorial writers can get in a bunch
of idealistic and patriotic licks on why we are thankful. They
will write for the reading public how we can be thankful we are
not at war yet. They can write how we can be thankful for all
the good things of our nation and its people, and how for the
tune being we can forget those things bad and wrong.
Much could be written of our own community. We can
be thankful our ex-professors are doing so nicely at other in
stitutions, our library has not yet collapsed, and thousands
of students are all serious-minded. We are grateful for our
high-salaried professors who all possess conscientious ideals
for educating their students, for our efficient student govern
ment, and active honorary organizations.
But students, themselves, are seriously thankful for Thanks
giving for one reason a vacation, a time for rest and relaxa
tion.. A vacation means going home for about four-fifths of the
student body, doing home raises some serious considerations.
We, therefore, change to the first person and put it in this way:
Students :
It won't be long until the boys back home that loiter in
front of the beer parlor, in the old barber shop, or at the corner
drug will be talking about you. And you know, there's some
thing to what they'll be saying. Things back home won't be
running quite as fast as this institution for higher learning
runs, and in nine chances out of ten, you're going to be as con
spicuous as the New York slicker. Just because you're a mem
ber of the educated generation is no reason for an "I'm just
home from college" or "this is what we do at college" attitude.
Nothing, you mu.-. remember, can do more to stimulate distrust
of university and c Mege education than the actions and atti
tudes of students.
You go from a community fostering scholarly spirit to one
of the common, everyday man. Both are necessary; neither is
more important. If you have the feeling you're lowering your
selves to talk to Jake, the town's retired drunkard, or Hank,
the one-chair barber, you had better stay in Lincoln. You
won't talk about Spinoza, or Plato, or Einstein. You won't dis
cuss (Iresham's law of economics, or the history of Kome, or
Mendel s 3 to 1 ratio. In fact, you might as wel forget that you
ever sat in a classroom when you talk to the folks back home
The fact that you sat in the football stadium when Nebraska
took Minnesota, or on the coliseum boards when the Iluskers
met Kansas will, no doubt, have some significance. But the mo
went you go high-brow and classical on the boys back home,
look out! Just talk sense.
The action of any man is a reflection on his institution.
Remember that. If faith in colleges and universities is to be
retained by the folks back home, drop any snoopish attitude
you may have before you take the roads and rails from Lin
coln. Remember, the boys back in the beer parlor, barber shop,
or corner drug will be watching you. They'll be expecting
the same John and Jane Doe that left their town last September.
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PASSING THOUGHTS OF ONE
BOTHERED WITH INSOMNIA:
Society people make as much
fuss about getting married as Hol
lywood people make about getting
divorced.- - - He's one of those fel
lows who break their arm patting
themselves on the back.- - - In
automobiles, one and one make
love.- - - Time marches on for
ever, and after three hours of drill
yesterday, I'm beginning to think
the R. O. T. C. does too.- - - I'll
be damned said the little stream
when the fat man fell across it,
- The grass is never greener
over the fence unless your neigh
bor uses a lawn sprinkler.- - -Snuff
is stuff that when you don't
feel well, your re not up to it.-
There is no man so bad that a
woman can't make him worse.-
Too many of us are shin deep in
work.- - - Evidently, the fellow
who lives the longest wins the
chess game.- - - Were the dark
ages so called because there were
so many knights?- - - Sympathy
is hke a blind man s bluff.-
you know, feeling for the other
fellow. - - - A senator is a front
half man and a back half man.
- - Suggested motto for a hitch'
hiker: "I'll get there thumb way.'
- A left handed compliment is
not another name for an engage
ment ring. - - - A person must be
somewhere else than where he is
when he is beside himself. - - -If
raining cats and dogs is so bad
what about hailing taxis? - -
Might a bachelor be defined as
fellow who doesn't know where
his next kiss is coming from.-
Just because a secretary uses the
touch system doesn't mean that
she can typewrite.
Dear Disgusted:
I am just guessintr. but I be
lieve your letter in Tuesday's Rag
was written without full knowledge
or tne facts. Do you know the pro
cedure followed in obtaining Red
wicnois to play for the military
ball? Nine of the outstanding
DooKing agencies of New York,
L-nicago, ana Kansas City were
written asking what bands were
available. All the answers stated
that bands are very scarce in De
cember and that only "such and
such" was available.
After answers were received
from all and after two long dis
tance telephone calls to Chicago it
was found that Red Nichols was
the only band of any note that was
available at all within the amount
of money alloted by the Military
Ball Fund for music. Everything
possible was done to get the best
band for the money alloted. All
strings were pulled, and Red
Nichols the result. 'Can you sug
gest any better procedure for use
in the future?
Of course there is the matter of
time, you may say. Our answer is
that all steps were taken long be
fore the Military Ball committees
were announced. The letters were
written over two months before
the ball, and the band was hired
six weeks in advance.
Mr. Disgusted, have you heard
Red on the radio lately? He now
has a well organized fourteen piece
band that is really good. You men
tion Clyde McCoy. Any number of
students today told me today they
thought Red Nichols band was
much better than that of McCoy.
It isn't the old band he used to
have, but a new well organized
outfit. After all Isn't it Just a mat
ter of opinion? You are entitled to
yours, and I hope yuo have a good
time at King's the night of the
Military Ball.
Chairman, Music Committee,
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AIX DAILV nnnltned editorial are the opinion of It editor. Their views
r optntea la war reflect the altltade of the dmlatatrattoa of the university.
i To the Editor:
Really, sir, that musico-misan
thrope who shipped in his beef
about Red Nichols being the Ball
maestro for this year had better
twist his beaten-up ear to the
radio. Has he heard the aforemen
tioned Nichols in the past three
or four months playing out of east
ern dance spots? Does he realize
that the present Nichols band is
composed of more than the orig
inal "five pennies?" And docs he
take the trouble to find out that
new Nichols recordings like Poor
Butterfly are hitting sales peaks?
Fact is, the present Nichols
band in nucleus practiced here in
a Lincoln hotel little over a year
ago, and persons who heard them
say watch out for the torrid trom-
pct wailing to the four winds. Fur
ther fact is that Nichols' troop is
definitely selected by swingreats
as one of the solider clubs now in
session.
Bob Hemphill.
Ag home ec
faculty holds
annual dinner
Group honors founder
of household science;
Marjorie Tye speaks
More than 250 home economics
students and faculty members
gathered Friday evening at the
student activities building on ag
campus to honor Ellen H. Richards,
founder of the science of modern
home economics, at their annual
dinner.
Lois Hammond, president of the
Home Economics association, pre
sided. Miss Marjorie Tye, 1938
graduate and now teaching home
economics in Lincoln high, pointed
out that home economics is an
important undertaking. She said
that students have the special job
of learning the fundamentals of
home economics, that the teacher's
job was to impart her knowledge
to her pupils, and that both to
gether had the task of furthering
home economics.
Pays tribute.
Peggy Sherburn offered a trl
bute to Ellen H. Richards as the
founder of home economics. She
emphasized that Mrs. Richards
visualized how women could help
those less fortunate and make the
world a better place to live in.
Miss Sherburn pointed out that
Mrs. Richards had shown how
women of today could make con
tributions to the world.
Joy Festal opened the program
with a vocal solo after Miss Esther
O.stlund, Y. W. C. A. secretary,
offered the invocation.
Special guests of the home eco
nomics students were Miss Helen
Hosp, dean of women; Miss Mar
garet Fedde, head of the home
economics department, and Miss
Ustlund
Make contributions.
A service for the International
Fellowship fund closed the pro
gram. The home economics girls
present made contributions to thib
worldwide project which provides
laciiilies lor girls from foreign
countries to come to America to
study home economics.
Decorations for the dinner were
in orange, brown and green. Or
ange candles in log holders lighted
each table. Turkeys made of pine
cones were favors, and at the head
table two great horns of plenty
overflowing with fruits and vege
tables gave a holiday appearance,
Ople lledlund was in general
charge of arrangements for the
banquet, the largest ever held to
honor Mrs. Richards.
Jiggers! It's
communistic!
Canadian Mosaic, by John M.
Gibbon and Marxism, An Autopsy,
by Henry B. Parkes are two out
standing books recently purchased
by the library staff. Other books
to be enjoyed with your Thanks
giving turkey are:
Life and Times of V ill.im How
ard Taft, by Henry F. Pringle.
Two vols.
Rise of Integral Nationalism in
France, by William C. Buthman.
Culture Historical Method of
Ethnology, by Wilhelm Schmidt.
Canadian Mosaic, by John M.
Gibbon.
World Economy In Transition,
by Eugene Staley.
Science and social change, com
piled by James E. Thornton.
Invisible Tariff, by Percy W.
BidwelL
Marxism, An Autopsy, by Henry
B. Parkes.
My Life, by Havelock Ellis.
Twenty Best Plays, edited by
John Cassner.
American Teacher, by W. S.
Elsbree.
Pioneering with products and
People, by McCormick & Co., inc.
Seven Pillars, by Wencessalao
Fernandez-Florez.
Dawn of European Civilization,
by V. C. Childe. 2nd editon.
Justly Dear: Charles and Mary
Lamb, by Mrs. Elsie P. Thornton
Cook. Accuracy of the Bible, by A. S.
Yahuda.
Jewish Caravan, great stories
of 25 centures, edited by Leo W.
Schwarz.
NU Ph.D publishes
study in psych journal
Dr. Erland Nelson, who took his
doctor of philosophy degree under
Dr. D. A. Worchcster, chairman
of the department of educational
psychology and measurements,
has a study of "Social Attitudes
and Measurement of Attitudes"
published in a recent number of
the Journal of General Psychology.
The study was made while Nel
son was doing rgaduate work hef:
Louise Pound to speak
at AAUP convention
Dr. Louise Pound of the depart
ment of English, national vice
president of the American Associ
ation of University Women, will
speak at a dinner meeting of the
American Association of Univer
sity Professors December 27 at
New Orleans on "The A. A. U. P
and the A. A. U. W." She has
been invited to appear on two of
the programs of the annual con
ference of the School of Letters of
the University of Iowa December
1 and 2. Her topics are "Amer
ican English Today" and The Fu
ture of Poetry."
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