DAILY NEBRASKAN
Wednesday, March 18, 1942
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By Vic Bradshaw.
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Fatigued at fooling around with
unheralded, unwanted and propa
gandous contributes to this jour
nalistic monstrosity of campus
frivolity known as Pink Rag Jr.,
and after flocking all the notables
of ye old campus around, we be
gin the prodigous task of gath
ering glib campus gore and dis
pensing juicy gossip to captivate
our bloodthirsty readers. Lying
there with a rusty iron bludgeon
sunk deeply in his sparsely thatch
ed blonde top piece, blood trick
ling down ears, cigar laying neat
ly in the corner of his lips, we
uns mourn the passing of poor
old Pete. He didn't believe that
"No Admit' sign on the year
book door.
Congrats Initiates.
As must to all sweet young
things who bewiledringly pledge
sororities at Nebraska, initiation
blessings were sprinkled gener
ously come last week ending when
the Alpha Phis, Thetas, Alpha
Chis, Pi Phis and Kappas decided
the girls were old enough to take
a pin from someone besides frat
boys. . . Congrats to all.
Of all my female contacts
around the campus acreage, I
wracked my feeble brain to the
limit last eve to get to the Coed
Follies but to no avail . . . who
were those unholy three stage
craft hands who did the cur
tain pulling honors though. . . I
knew I shouldn't have taken ani
mal husbandly . . . feudin in good
1 old mountain fashion was in order
down in Union dephs yesterday
as the Raggedy Anns and the
Cornhuskies engaged in blood
scuffle. Mussels Russel staunchly
defended untenable position atop
unsold '41 books and belayed the
unmannerly intruders as Calhoun
tore the remaining sheds of fur
from his scalp.
Some Stuff.
Candy and smoke hungry lassie
and lads take heed. . . Max
Whittaker. Husker cheer general,
parted with his Delt ingot over
Pi Phi way and made Nancy Hay
cock happy. . . Bing Curry, AGR,
put the finishin' touches on a
romantic interlude by pinning the
jewel on Btty Kruger of Love
hall out ag way. . . Add spring
signs ether than going to sleep
in Arndt's class: "Noggin" Cal
houn, ATO. trudging around arm
in arm with Georgia Covey of
Alpha Phi after a short chilly in
termission. Maybe tit inspiration of spring
but what aboit those two pairs of
Betas and DO a who whipped off
to Sioux City the other morn at
8. . . tsk. tsk. . . Must be time
to quit as I see Jimmy Sclzer
trudge in to the messy Rag cor
ner and grab the titian locks of
June Jami'-son to take her away.
. . . Goo bye for now . might
be back later. . ,
Alls well that ends well, he
said as he followed a column of
figures in BO lab.
Coed
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Virginia Tomiska. Dorothy Huff
man and Leona French.
Others were Joy Fan-ens, Mary
Larkin, Mary Helen Farrar, Sylvia
i Katzman, Jean Geddes, Jean Don
ley, Virginia Ford, Mary Helen
Dietric'i. Maribel Hitchcock, Mar
tha Whitehead, Georgia Kolar,
Marge Stewart, Shirley Kyhn,
Kdna Me Niedmeyer, Jeanne Mil
ler, and Heicn Gogela.
Other skits and curtain acts
were presented by Alpha Chi
Omega, Kappa Kappa Gamma,
and Gamma Phi Beta.
The Pi Phi skit was a circus
theme using clowns, horses, side
show attractions such as sawing
a woman in half and the Pi Phi
trio. The Theta skit included sea re
crows, straw and coeds in jeans
helping scare the Japs away.
Dr. William Harvey Perkins,
dean of Jefferson Medical college,
was at one time professor of med
icine in the native university at
Chulalongkarana, Thailand.
Reporter Declares ...
There Is No Drink Like Milk
Even Tho Outsold by Cokes
By Mary Aileen Cochran.
There is no drink like milk! It's
sold all hours of the day (no 3
p. m. restriction), and yet there
are 600 cokes sold a day to an
average of 200 bottles of milk.
We drink milk the first ten
years of our life, and we resort
to it in the last ten years, think
ing our-tiealth is ebbing. But what
about those in-between years?
Most of us don't pay much at
tention to what is known about
the superior nutritive value (about
it's being being the most com
plete food material for building
bigger and better bodies), but it
is a fact that those who drink
plenty of milk (at least a pint a
day) are getting all their needed
minerals, vitamins and proteins
etc.
Iowa university students started
a campaign for milk-drinking, and
Kansas U. Psych
Professor Says
'Swin; Is Art'
LAWRENCE, Kas. (ACP).
Swing is art, and it is recently
becoming great art. "The differ
ence between Beethoven's Fifth
symphony and Benny Goodman's
'Opus,' " concludes Dr. J. F.
Brown, psychology professor at
the University of Kansas, "is one
of rtgree, nd not one of kind."
Art, he explains in a new text
book, "The Psychodynamics of
Abnormal Behavior," is the ex
pression in more or less disguise
of conflicts or problems that are
a part of life.
Songs are popular when the
problems which are their content
are easily recognized when the
disguise is thin. Usually the lyrics
of swing music speak, of unre
quited love, a problem of deep con
cern to boys and girls of college
and high school age. And they
speak pretty frankly.
As art disguises its content,
uses technically difficult and dis
torted expression forms, and re
quires more competence of the
performers, it becomes "great"
art.
If you want to satisfy yourself
that popular music is becoming
"greater" art, just listen to rec
ords made in the early twenties
and compare these with the latest
recordings of the same songs.
From the old records you will
hear a thinly orchestrated and
purely melodic recording of the
verse followed by as many ident
ical repetitions of the chorus as
space would allow. The monotony
is tiring to the ear.
Some of Benny Goodman's and
Bob Crosby's and Count Basie's
widely swung choruses represent
variations as complex. Dr. Brown
insists, as some of Brahm's. You
can even listen to modern swing
in a concert of "jam session."
"Fall in love, fall in love, says
my heart... but each time that
I'm almost in your arms, this old
school teacher brain of mine
starts ringing alarms." These
words from a recent popular song
might be translated into technical
language and find their place in
a psychology textbook.
Hate, Dr. Brown says, is seldom
expressed in popular songs except
in war time. For hostility, go to
the comic strip or the animated
cartoon.
Five Nebraska Artists Show
Work in National Exhibitions
Several Nebraska artists are
represented in current national ex
hibitions which are carefully
Juried by art museum directors,
according to Prof. Dwight Kirsch,
chairman of the art department.
Five Nebraskans are represented
at the Midwestern Artists Exhibi
tion in the Nelson Gallery of Kan
sas City from March 1 to 29. The
work in the exhibition was selected
by James Plant, director of the
Boston Institute of Modern Art
Kady B. Faulkner, University of
Nebraska: "Garden of the Gods,"
water color; "The Main Drag,"
drawing.
Aaron Pyle, Chappell; "Sale
Barn," oil tempera.
Barbara Ellis Ross. Lincoln:
"Death Visits the Neighbors"
water color; "Mew Day," water
color.
So Here's to Queen Cow
it was a very short time before
the sale of milk zoomed upward
to replace the previously amazing
consumption of cokes.
That we eat and drink tho
foods which will promote health
is everyone s duty for our first
line of defense. So let's have
glasses up to Queen Cow, and
watch for curlier hair, whiter
teeth, and rosier cheeks!
Books
Books
Books
Books! Books! Books! 10,000
of 'em!
That's the goal of the Student
Defense Council's new all-out drive
to -obtain books for the men in
the armed forces of the country.
The drive ends Saturday, March
21, and contributors are asked to
bring books to the main lobby
of the Union any time this week.
Books of all kinds, as long as
they're in sound condition, are
wanted, and if each student In the
university contributes a minimum
of two books, the total will be well
over 18,000.
18,000 books will provide quite
a lot of reading for quite a few
men.
Third Draft
Numbers Are
Drawn Tuesday
Number 3,485 bobbed up last
night as Brig. Gen. Lewis Hershey
drew that number from the me
chanical mixing machine de
termining the status of men who
registered in the last draft.
Numbers were drawn by sec
retary of war Henry Stimson from
among 7,000 slips encased in
opaque green St. Patrick's day
capsules. It meant that among
the men who registered last month
those holding serial numbers would
be the first in their district to
be called into the armed service
If your number is one of the
first five below, you can expect
to be in the army soon:
Order No. Serial No.
1 3485
2 2850
3 4301
4 441
5 3743
Freshman Speck
Breaks Records
At Texas Uni
(Tlj AtMrtatrJ Cllrc1ate I'm.)
Can anyone equal the record of
Ernest Speck, University of Texas
student? Speck has never failed
a course, yet he is enrolled as a
freshman for the fourth straight
time.
It happened this way:
Speck enrolled first for only
part of the freshman course. He
passed his work, and enrolled
again as a freshman. This time,
he dropped out of a school. Speck
registered last spring for a third
time as freshman, and parsed all
his courses.
J. Richard Sorby, University of
Nebraska: "Spring Snow Storm,"
water color; "Drawing," litho
graph. Thomas F. McClure, Univenity
of Nebraska: "Aphrodite," wood
caning.
In the current exhibition by
American print-makers at the
Whitney Museum of American
Art in New York, a silk screen
print entitled "Big Cottonwood" by
Professor Kirsch is hung with
other work from the midwest.
This exhibition was selected by
Carl Zigrosser, print director at
the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Other examples of work bv
Miss Faulkner, Mrs. Ross, Mr.
Sorby and Mr. Kirsch are included
in the Nebraska Art Association's
42nd annual exhibition at Morrill
hall until March 29.
Student Survey Finds
Miller, Dorsey Lead Poll
Of Favorite Dance Bands
By Sam Holmes
Asso. Ed., Student Opinion Surveys
AUSTIN, Texas, March 18
Two dance bands Glenn Miller
and Tommy Dorsey walked off
with over half of the ballots cast
in a recent Student Opinion Sur
veys of America poll conducted on
college campuses all over the
country to determine the students'
favorite dance orchestra.
Miller, who also ranked first
in 1941, lead the favorites with
three votes to every one for Dor
sey, who took second place. Final
tabulations show Miller with 43
percent of the entire vote, and Dor
sey with 13 percent. Some 40
other bands were mentioned.
Name First Ten.
The question asked was: "Which
is your favorite dance orchestra?"
The bands mentioned most often
were as follows:
1. Glenn Miller
2. Tommy Dorsey
3. Guy Lombardo
4. Kay Kyser
5. ' Sammy Kay
6. Benny Goodman
7. Fred Waring
Wayne King (tie)
8. Harry James
Charlie Spivak (tie)
9. Jimmy Dorsey
YW Girl Reserve
Leadership Group
Hears Mrs. Black
Mrs. Leonard Black, city girl
reserve secretary, will conclude
her talk on program ideas for the
YW girl reserve leadership course
meeting in Ellen Smith at 5 p.
rn. today. The group will finish out
their program with singing and
games. Alice MacCampbell is in
charge of the program.
Chancellor to the Panamanian
consulate at New Orleans is Juan
Diaz, senior in law at Louisiana
State univeristy, a native of
Panama.
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10. Xavier Cugat
Freddie Martin (tie
It is interesting to compare the
results of this survey with the re
sults obtained in a recent poll con
ducted by "Down Beat," leading
dance band magazine, which did,
not confine the balloting to col
lege students. In the latter, Glenn.
Miller was voted the best sweet
band, and Benny Goodman the
"King of Swing." It is significant
to note that Tommy Dorsey
ranked second in both the sweet
and swing divisions.
Lombardo "King of Corn.'
Miller, however, was ranked sec
ond to Guy Lombardo who was
voted "King of Corn."
Almost a year ago this month
Student Opinion Surveys asked
students the same question, and
the first four bands last year are
the four who were ranked first
again this year. The only differ
ence is in the order of the second,
third and fourth positions, and a
break in a tie for fourth place.
In 1941:
1. Glenn Miller
2. Kay Kyser
3. Tommy Dorsey
4. Guy Lombardo
Wayne King (tie)
In 1942:
1. Glenn Miller
2. Tommy Dorsey
3. Guy Lombardo
4. Kay Kyser
Engineers
Are Honored
At Union Today
Honored at the third Coffee
Hour sponsored jointly by the Stu
dent Union and the Student Coun
cil and held today from 5 to 6
p. m. in the faculty lounge of the
Union, is the department of Me
chanical Engineering.
Faculty members, assistants,
majors, and graduate students in
Hiat department are invited.
All students are welcome, and
those in mechnical engineering are
particularly urged to attend.
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