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Vol. 39, No. 86.
Lincoln, Nebraska Wednesday, February 14, 1940.
Furbay pictures Liberian life
in interview, talk to students
By
Life in
Elizabeth Clark.
a country where there
Is only one road, sixty-five miles
long, where gasoline comes in tins,
at 35c a gallon, and where there
are only two doctors, both of them
white, was pictured in an inter
view yesterday by Dr. J. H. Fur
bay, who spent three years in Li
beria as head of the only college
in the country, the College of
West Africa.
Said Dr. Furbay, 'Americans
think that we lived in a hut, but
actually we lived in a very mod
ern home, with electric lights and
even a bathroom." He went on to
say that their home, however, was
an exception from the general
mud-walled, thatch-roofed huts of
the natives.
Every man a lawyer.
Liberia is a country, said Fur
bay, where every civilized man is
a lawyer, and all the lawyers are
politicians. This upper crust
of lawyer-politicians, numbering
25,000, runs the political and so
cial life of the country, while the
two million natives are not even
allowed to vote. So, says Furbay
the lawyers vote themselves into
office, and never worn for a liv
ing.
White men in the country are
in a very decided minority, for
according to Mr. Furbay there are
two white doctors and four white
educators.
Marriage at 12 years.
Americans who are horrified at
child marriages in this country
would die of shock in Liberia
where according to the educator
the average age of marriage
among natives is 12.
The predominance of the rul
ing caste of Americo-Liberians,
descendants of freed American
negroes, proves, says Furbay
that slavery is not a question of
race but a question of superiority,
"In Liberia, life is much more
leisurely. You go to work late in
the morning, you quit early in the
afternoon and go play tennis. You
really get just as much done that
way, says Furbay. ' in this coun
try people work too hard."
Hope in native class.
"The only hope for Likeria is
from the native class," Furbay be
lieves. "The civilized Liberians will
never do anything, because they
have everything done for them
The country really isn't far enough
along yet to have any literature or
art developed, but both the presi
dent and the secretary of state are
very good musicians, and very
much interested in music,
When asked if he believed in the
native voodooism, Furbay said,
"No, I don't, but most of the peo
ple who have been there long do,
(See INTERVIEW, page 3)
Practice teachers . .
Do or die as 'hardened7 kids
makeclassanhourof agony
With an apprehensive shudder, girl in the front row probably
and a do-or-die expression on her knows more about this than I do."
face the teacher's college senior
goes through the door of her prac
tice teaching classroom. Her sup
posedly cheery "Good-morning"
quakes, and her hand shakes as
- she writes her name on the board.
With knocking knees and a plas-tered-on
smile, the senior goes on.
"First, in order to know you bet,
tor, we'll write a class theme on
"Who Am I." The class, through
years of experience with practice
teachers, is inured to this. They
begin to size her up. 'She's scared
to death." "She looks like the one
year before last who worked us to
death." "You can get by with
most anything, I'll bet." With side
long glances from studiously bent
heads every student forms his own
opinion.
Faced with agony.
Meanwhile poor teacher is un
dergoing mental agony. 'The little
Lc Galliennc
brings Ibsen play
EVA LtUALLI tNNE.
Eva LeGallienne, America's fore
most exponent of Ibsen's plays
and an important personage of the
American staee. will bring Ibsen's
"Hedda Gabler" to the stage of
the Liberty theater Friday eve
ning.
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University Players dispose of villain
in opening of 'Gentle People9 production
h Hubert Oaden
The "Gentle People" in the Uni-
versity Players production of the
same name, last night disposed of
the villain in a manner which,
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less was effective, dramatic ana
permanent.
Starting slowly, the play grad-
uallv grained in momentum and In-
terest until the audience, a fairly
nroitin in
gooa sizca one, wM B
suspense and anticipation for each
scene and act to see what they
would bring.
Flick at gangster
Clarence Flick as Harold Goff
and Yvonne Costello as Stella
Goodman played the leads well,
Flick portrayed, as Goff, a cheap
and totigh young gangster, did ex-
ceptionaJly well in his roll, build-
ing up naturally a hatred thruout
the audience for himself by his ac-
tions. Miss Costello, the excite-
ment-hungry young girl, held up
her nart m eomnanion to the ran?-
ster, and then effectively changed
Those two guys in the back will
(See AGONY, page 3)
Carnegie music set
plays Gilbert-Sullivan
opera, 'H.M.S. Pinafore'
Gilbert and Sullivan's comic
opera, "H. M. S. Pinafore," more
commonly known as "The Lass
That Loved a Sailor," will be
played on the request program of
the Carnegie Music Set, Friday at
4 p. m. in the faculty lounge in
the Union. This popular opera
features some of Gilbert and Sulli
van's best music and humor.
The recordings, which belong to
Byron Lower, were made by the
D'Oyly Carte Opera company,
with the leads of the opera are
sung by Frederic Ranalow, Syd
ney Granville, Violet Essev, Ber
tha LewiSj and Bessie Jonca.
Illustrating his lecture with
films vividly portraying the land
and life of Liberia, John Harvey
Furbay, former president of the
College of West Africa, spoke to a
full house at the Union yesterday
afternoon.
"Liberia is America's own baby,"
according to Furbay, and if mo
lested would quite likely receive
help from the United States. The
only part of Africa ever to fly the
American flag, Liberia is now un
der complete control of Negro
ruled government. The nucleus for
this present day country was a
boatload of American volunteer
negroes sent to Africa in 1820 by
Samuel Mills, who was interested
in seeing American negroes given
a fair chance to fully develop their
talents.
Costoms contrast.
Silk hats, football games, V-8's
and model A's, military reviews
and "jam" bands found in the
cities, were shown in contrast to
the 25 year old grandmothers, na
tive snake dancer, diseased colon
ies, and tribal savageries preval
ent in interior Liberia. Furbay
played recordings of numerous Li
berian bands and native "devil"
dances.
Liberia is dominated entirely by
American descended negroes.
Faced with the problem of check
(See LECTURE, page 3)
her outlook in
life to that of a
penitent 'ittle girl,
jonan Goodman and Philip
Anagnos, the meek and middle-
aged cronies, played by John
Gaeth and Jon Pruden, were sup-
d tQ sim le
posea to De simple, genue pCJp.c,
and tney were Thruout the
play they handled effectively their
somewhat difficult task of being
meek philosophical and reality-
escaping old men. Perhaps the
best handled minor part was that
r Mr- Lammanawitz, confiden-
4- i n 1 1 r t it ona i- n
tiav an anarchist. nlaved bv Louis
wiikins. Wilkins seemed to draw
the audience's attention whenever
he sPke or acteL
Two old philosophers.
In the play two old philosophers,
both with domestic and financial
difficulties, love to spend all their
spare time fishing, so as to escape
realities. They plan a trip in
a vessel to southern waters, but
Just at this time a young gangster
appears and forcees them to pay
tribute for boat protection,
. .
The two men pay and pay.
Jonah's daughter meets the gang
ster, sees a glamor in his ways,
and delights in the material things
he can give her. So, she leaves
her home town boy friend, Eli
Lieber, played by Max Whittaker.
'Awgwan' Confucius issue
appears on stands today
The "Awgwan," with its theme
of "Confucius Say," comes out to
day with new features and new
pictures of social activities on the
campus. The magazine will be on
sale on both the ag and the city
campus for the usual price of 15c
Subscriptions for the remaining
five editions may be purchased for
60c at any of the places where the
"Awgwan" is sold.
Reporters get beats,
instructions today
All reporters who have signed
up for work on the DAILY this
semester will meet in the
DAILY office today at 4:30.
Assignments will be made and
permanent beats will be as
signed by the managing edi
tors. Instructions will be given by
the editor and plans for this
semester will be discussed.
Labor laws
need revision
LeRossignol asserts
Wagner Act unfair
"Reasonable" amendments to
the National Labor Relations Act
to protect the employer as well as
the laborer are needed if the Wag
ner Act is to succeed, asserted
Dean J. E. LeRossignol of the
business administration college
yesterday.
"One must sympathize with the
desire of Senator Wagner to ob
tain justice for the wage-earners
by strengthening their bargaining
power, but certainly it is reason
able to believe that employers in
many instances need equal protec
tion from the radical demands of
labor groups," he stated, in the
proceedings of the American As-
Business.
Dean LeRossignol pointed out
"it seems to be assumed that the
employers are quite able to take
care of themselves, and that injury
to them does not obstruct inter
state or foreign commerce."
Dean Burr to discuss
reciprocal trade pacts
Ag college Dean Burr will dis
cuss reciprocal trade treaties in
the Home Ec cafeteria, Friday
noon. The discussion will be in
formal with students as well as
faculty invited to participate.
Whittaker also puts across well his
portrayal of one of the "gentle
people."
Macgruder, a typical Irish cop,
even to the accent, always appears
on the scene just when the two
old men need him Hi3 t WUJ
taken by Richard Gilland.
"The Gentle People" by Irwin
Shaw was produced last season by
the Group Theater. Among the
cast were Franchot Tone and
Sylvia Sidney.
This 171st production of the
Players was directed by Herbert
enne
Inquiring reporter finds . . .
Fraternity, sorority actives
say courses getting tougher
By Floyd Irving. freshman's part? Is my average
Are classes harder, or freshmen terf erring with studies? No,
less brilliant? Around fraternity studie uiterf erring with social
and sorority houses that seems to "e
be the question of the day. Will WeU t rate here8 what
&tdg;S umake their,, aVeKaflS,? eternity and sorority actives
Why is there so much doubt this thlnK Te m mion toat
year? Don't they study? We keep claS3ea are5 getting tougher and
ta.itu.ly.ha11 a? rt.he,p freshmen are getting dumber,
with their work. Whats wrong? "
Are they just downright dumb? jjm Kirkendall, Sigma Nu
down? Impossible! Social life in- Freshmen aren't simple, they
elmnltr fail tn onnlv t hpmapluoo
Can
harder
it be possible classes are
? Or it is an excuse on the
Nebraskans to see an
unusual astronomical
phenomenon enacted
Tuesday night Nebraskans wi'l
be able to see another unusual
astronomical phenomenon enacted
as the moon passes between
Saturn and Mars, according to
Professor O. C. Collins, Univer
sity of Nebraska astronomer.
Shortly after sundown, Nebras
kans will see the moon moving
in the direction of the two planets,
which will appear as two bright
stars midway in the sky.
By 7 p. m. the moon will be
a distance of about twice its di
ameter from the two planets, and
by about 9:30 o'clock it will have
moved into a position directly be
tween them. The entire phenome
non will pass out of sight by
11:30.
NU observes
71st birthday
tomorrow
Brownell convocation
address features full
day of activities
Herbert Brownell, jr., New York
attorney, will speak tomorrow
morning at 10:15 in the Coliseum at
the Charter Day program in honor
of the university's 71st birthday.
Sunday urnal and Star.
HERBERT BROWNELL, JR.
... asks alumni aid
The subject of his speech will be
"Alumni Aid to the University."
Brownell was graduated from
Nebraska in 1924 and now is a
member of the law firm of Lord,
Day & Lord, in New York City,
has been a member of the New
York State Assembly; Thomas
Dewey once acted as his campaign
manager.
He was editor of the DAILY at
Nebraska and a member of Inno
cents society. At Yale he was editor-in-chief
of the Yale Law Re
view. Boucher presides.
Chancellor C. S. Boucher will
preside at tomorrow's program.
The University symphony orches
tra under the direction of Don A.
Lentz will play.
Dr. R. J. Pool, head of the bot
any department, is chairman of,
(See BROWNELL, page 3)
Scnarship ig an individual task,
ua r,i, t .marf
or
room
smart mate. Why not be the
roommate, freshman?
Mary Jean Westcott, Alpha Chi O
Freshmen are harder and classes
dumber.
Bud Rohde, Delt
I think university is getting
harder because they are trying to
make a higher scholastic stand
ing. I think since Chancellor Bou
cher has taken over all subjects
have become harder.
Betty Bachman, Alpha Chi O
I understand it is more diffi
cult to enter college this year,
therefore freshman must be po
tential PBK's to make averages
The answer is love.
Bob Butz, Phi Gam
This college is getting rougher
than hell!
Sid Hardman, Beta Theta Pi
I say classes are harder and
.(See REPORTER, page 3)
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