Sunday, October 26, 1941
DAILY NEBRASKAN
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Religious Survey Needs
Serious Attention
' Chancellor Boucher has asked the faculty rep
resentatives on the Council of Religious Welfare
to make a survey of religious welfare among stu
dents on this campus. In using the term "religious
welfare," the council includes three points:
1. Religious beliefs and practices.
2. Church relationships.
3. Activities in which ethics ore involved.
The four-page blank asking questions on these
subjects will be filled out by as many university
students as possible. The survey will start in the
freshman orientation classes this week when 1,500
freshmen will be required to fill out the blanks
iind teturn them to their instructors. Upperclass-
DEAR CHEERLEADERS:
If you will open a University song hook to a
place titled "The Cornhusker" you will find the
words "It is a Nebraska custom to stand during
the singing of The Cornhusker." Did you not
know it? Or has the custom been abandoned?
For a couple of years now I have been squirm
ing at football and basketball games as the band
played the "Chant," and the cheerleaders got the
crowd to stand at attention. Is that a custom that
is to be continued? At the final basketball game
last winter the band played the "Chant", and every
one stood and bared his head. When the crowd
was seated again, the band played 'The Corn
husker" and a few bewildered alumni struggled to
their feet.
Now it's happening again at football games.
Last Saturday the band played that ditge which
we call the "Chant" and everywhere people stood
with hats off. Only a few minutes later the band
gave its rag-time version of "The Cornhusker," and
the cheerleaders didn't even recognize it. And it
was alumni homecoming day too. '
Of course to sing the dirge at a time when the
Huskers were being beaten, and had taken time
out, was very poor quartet-backing from the track.
Eut aside from that - let's rescue that old custtfm
of singing "The Cornhusker" at each game.
Nebraska doesn't have any too many old customs.
Let's keep that one. Why don't you cheerleaders
learn which song it is, teach it to the, freshmen at
convocations, and teach it to the crowds at foot
ball and basketball games7 You'll, be surprised at
how many old-timers recognize the tune if played
with some reverence - and how much better it is
than the dirge.
RALPH L. REEOER,
Alumni Editor,
(jcJiilv Jim, Bold, SdkM,
By II. Jayiit' Lynn
men will be contacted next week through the vari
ous organized houses and groups. The information
desired will be impersonal with no signatures re
quired. The responses will be treated impersonally
and impartially.
It is hoped that all students will cooperate in
filling in the blanks and that all will take the
matter seriously, regarding it as an aid to the
chancellor and the university as a whole.
Dean O. J. Ferguson Declares . . .
'Professions Try to Lift Level
Of Mankind by Trained Service'
, ... At Sioux City Meeting
Wat is again destroying men
and men's trust in each other,
and more energy will be needed
to regain this loss of human faith
and intercourse, declared Dean O.
J. Ferguson of the engineering
college Friday at the meetings
of the American Inter-professional
Institute in Sioux City, la.
In the development of the en-
Tuesday . . .
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Piince Kosmet for which five af
filiated students have filed. They
are John Thiessen, Bob Sandberg,
Larry Huwalt, Chet Bowers and
Jack McPhail. The identity of
Prince Kosmet will be kept secret
until Nov. 20, when he will be
presented with the Nebraska
Sweetheart at the annual Kosmet
Klub fall revue.
Co:ds Named at Affairs.
Running for Nebraska Sweet
hen tt are Bonnie Wennersten, un
affiliated, and Beeky Wait, affil
ialed. Candidates for Honorary
Colonel are Bettie Cox, unaffiliat
ed. Ben Alice Day and Harriet
Talbot, both affiliated. The Sweet
heart will be presented at the Kos
met Klub revue on Nov. 20, and
the Honorary Colonel at the Mili
tary Ball Dec. 9. The names of
the winners of these honors will
be kept secret until they are pre
sented at these affairs.
All-university women will oast
votes 'for Prince Kosmet and all
men are eligible to vote for Ne
braska Sweetheart and Honorary
Colonel. Members of the respective
classes are the only students eligi
ble to cast votes for the class
officers.
Vote on Amendment.
The amendment to the student
council constitution proposed by
Bill Dafoe which caused such a
fui ore in the council meeting last
week will be placed on the ballot
for student approval or disappro
val. The council went on record
ergy which is so necessary, prof
essions are among the most pow
erful agencies capable of mini
mizing the set-backs of war and
of speeding recovery from it, he
said.
Professions Solve Problem.
Professions are undertaking to
solve the problem of men living
together. Dean Ferguson com
mented, and are trying to lift the
level of mankind thru qualified
trained special service. "A truly
professional man is a zealot, and
the object of his fervor is in
some very definite particular -a
better civilization-a better life."
Dean Ferguson pointed out that
as disapproving the measure at
the heated session they had over
the proposal.
Although the filings are small,
the student council urges every
student to use his right to vote
Tuesda y.
Anni
versa ry . . .
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national guard and organized re
serves. Those pledged at a meeting
Wednesday night in the Union
were: Vern De3'ke, Edward Wun
derlich, Roger Garey, John Mc
Phail, Bill Kitrelf. Sheldon Kauf
man, John Douglass, Dave ' Wal
cott, Mike Poteet, Leslie Dienst.
Thomas Woods Jr., Charles Dienst
Jr.. George Schappaugh, Harry
Ankeny, Robert Bowles. Hobart
Dewey Jr., Warren Dalton. Bob
Jungman. Bob Schlater, Bob Bar
low, Dave Day, Don McCarthy,
Ray Herr Jr., Allen O'Connor and
Carroll Schrader.
Before the pledge ceremonies,
Lieut. Robert Adams, on leave
from the Ninth infantry, spoke
on his experiences in the recent
maneuvers in Louisiana.
: each profession has one goal in
( common, the reduction of costs
to levels which permit ready pur
) chase of materials and of serv
ice.
Invention Not Needed.
"Goods must be mobile. Service
must be ready. Kaeh profession
will have a different way of loos
ening the dollar, but it is not nec
essary that this be by spectacular
discovery or invention. Most im
provements and adjustments are
more deliberately cumulative."
The only way for us to secure
the working result we desire, said
Ferguson, is to continue the
knowledge of our professions,
technical and social, and com
pound our efforts to make desir
able gains.
"In preparation for the stabil
ization of society in the great re
covery period yet to come, our
greatest hope lies in the reason
able expectation which we have
I of establishing an enlightenea.
f concerted action of all profes
sions.
Temple . . .
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ets for this production may be
obtained at the theatre box office
I Monday through Friday from 2 to
0 p. m. by anyone who has failed
thus far to obtain them.
The cast of this melodrama is
as follows! ' ' J
Arrl lt,Hid Osrlyle mil VrRiidr
Liuly lat.el . Mntilirl Hitchcock
Harinir.i Hare Heidora Oh lira n
Miss Cornelia Crl) le . Hclle I41U P.unRrbr
Sir Francis Lcw.'k.i . Hy Kliealf
Ixird Mount Severn l)le Buticlrn
Richard liar. Kobert Hyde
Justice liar. Kichard Putnrv
Mr. I .ill Robert Aldrich
Joyce ......Unmet Mucin if sen
Wilwin Jean McAllister
An officer lioliert Veach
William Paul Utw
A majority of women students
at the University of Kentucky date
almost four times a week; the
men barely average two dates a
week.
(Reviewer's note: Today I'm not
going to recommend books to
make you think, books to tell you
what is going on in the world;
instead, I'm going to tell you
about books I like, books which
will, if you read them, help you
to forget briefly the tragedy of
current events.)
The Donkey Inside, by Ludwig
Bemelmans (Viking I.
Mr. Bemelmans went to Ecua
tlor. He also came back, and with
him came the memories which he
has written into this amusing
book. In Ecuador there is a revo
lution every Thursday afternoon
at half-past two. Mr. Bemelmans'
guide during his first few days in
the country was the historian of
Ecuador, called, for the sake of
convenience, Don Juan. It was
Don Juan who explained the Ecua
dorian navy to Mr. Bemelmans.
The Ecuadorian navy, said Don
Juan, consisted of three battle
ships, A, E and C. C was shown
to Mr. Bemelmans. B was most
probably somewhere else, being j
navigated by the pride of the
navy, an American who almost
graduated from Annapolis. A, Don I
Juan had not seen for a long j
time; perhaps, he concluded, there i
were only two ships, after all. The
tilings you learn about Ecuador
from The Donkey Inside will as-1
tonish you, if you can stop laugh-1
ing long enough to realize your I
astonishment.
Omnibus of Boners (Pocketbook i j
This is a collection of the ludi- ;
crous mistakes we all make in
examination papers. The fact that
it has recently come out in the
Pocketbook edition, and now re
tails at only twenty-five cent,
might account for its extensive
use by the "writers" of the Pink
Rag. There is no attempt to con
scious humor in the book, but
hundreds of school children, in
cluding university students, have
unknowlingly contributed to
American humor something very,
very funny indeed.
Third Omnibus of Crime, edited
by Dorothy L. Say era (Blue
Ribbon I
This particular book kept me
fascinated for almost a week of
rationed reading. You will want to
ration your reading, too, in order
to make it last longer. For those
whose favorite vice is reading
mystery stories, this book is a
positive "must.'
James Shore's Daughter, by Ste
phen Vincent Benet (Doubleday
Doran )
One of those, 'I remember how
she looked that night" books.
James Shore's Daughter is at the
same time, sentimental and cyni
cal, sad and witty. The story is
one you won t forget too soon. For
all of its sophistication, this is one
of the warmest, most human
books I have read in a long time.
The Importance of Living, by Lin
Yutang (John Day)
Here is the soul of a man. open
to who will read of it. Pick up
the book, begin reading anywhere
and you will be a better person
when you lay it down. This is
a book to solace in time of mental
gony, to joke on your happiest
days, to sympathize at any time
with all your troubles. In reality,
this is no more than a collection
of essays on such subjects as ar
ranging flowers and making tea.
This is a book for people who are
gloriously inefficient, who "waste"
time, who are not "Doers." If
you are never late to classes, if
you never sit up all night just
talking to a friend, if you never
catch colds just because you like
to walk in the rain -then please
do not bother to read this book,
because you are much too busy
with the trivial things of life to
icad a whole book written about
the great things of life, things
like making tea properly and ar
ranging flowers in harmony with
their environment.
Prof Uses Army
Recoil Principle
1 In Peace-time
STATE" COLLEGE. Pa. (ACP.
Reversing1 the modern trend of
changing from a peace to a war
time economy.' Prof. A. W. Clyde
of Pennsylvania State college has
used an instrument of war to aid
the farmer in the peaceful task
of plowing.
Adopting the principles used in
the recoil mechanism of artillery,
Professor Clyde has developed a
satisfactory automatic release
! hitch for use on tractors w hen
plowing in rocky ground.
After the plow hits a solid
rock, the tractor is stonned in &
j to 10 inc hes and is gently pulled
back and tecoupled to the plow.
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