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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
Thursday, November 14, 1946
EDITORIAL
COMMENT
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Memory Test . . .
Today fs the last full day of Religion in Life week on
the campus. Dr. T. Z. Koo's address tonight in the coliseum
will close the five-day visit of the 14 leaders who came to
Lincoln to discuss with students the problems of religion.
How well these speakers have fulfilled their mission of
explaining the necessity of religion in life will be determined
by all of us after the week ends. In the discussion seminars
held daily, various speakers discussed with students the
aspects of religion as related to understanding other faiths,
other races and other nations. If not all students can pro
fess to accept religion for its own sake, (as many of them
do not) they must accept the necessity for understanding to
promote the world peace which has so long been lacking.
Too often in the community, the state and the nation,
as well as the university, has the attitude been "Why should
I do anything? Let the other 140,000,000 American do
something."
Students of today are the leaders of tomorrow. No
matter how many thousands of times that thought has
been preached to us, we refuse to accept its inevitability.
The series o ftalks during Religion in Life week has pro
voked ideas in the minds of many students which, if remem
bered long enough, might lay the foundation for national
policy. Not every citizen can be a leader, but learning how
to select the leader to follow is as important. Selection of
the leader should be made by considering what he stands
for, not who is back of him or whom he knows. j
This week has been devoted to understanding which i
principles are the best for us and for the world we live in.
The question for university students to answer for them
selves as they continue their preparation for good citizen
ship and leadership is: How long will we remember these
principles? S. J.
BY WALLY BECKER.
Hope that American writers
News
Print
BY JACK HILL
With international affairs sim
mering and giving no apparent
sign of boiling over, the nation
took a deep breath this week after
the tumultuous national elections.
The OPA collapse, increasing la
bor difficulties and. local interest
in the housing issue have all
crowded United Nations news off
the front page.
Government economists, us
ing: a new shade of white wash,
have announced that the price
of living will not climb more
than 5 percent before stabili
sation and that the death of
OPA will delay any pending
business recession and help bal
ance the federal budget
Mixing their bombs with a
little grease paint, the Interna
tional Alliance of Theatrical Stage
Employees and the Conference of
Studio Unions underlined the two
months old jurisdictional dispute
which becomes exteremly violent
at periodic intervals.
Assuming an "I'll take my
ball home., then" attitude, the
I. A. T. S. E. has broken nego
tiations with the striking unions
and has called a meeting of Us
7.500 members to meet the new
threats. Secretary of Interior Krug made
new attempts to forestall John L.
Lewis' strike statements by call
ing a special meeting of the coun
try's soft coal mines. He was ex
pected "to urge the operators to
come to some kind of an agree
ment before winter weather sets
in.
In Nebraska, the tragic Bel
mont fire, resulting in the death
of three babies has awakened
the public to the growing hous
ing shortage crisis. Comparable
to the old story of locking the
barn after the horse has been
stolen, committees are meeting:
In righteous indignation over the
conditions in which some fam-
Federalist Group
Will Select Forum
Speakers Tonight
Those interested in federal
world government are invited to
attend the Student Federalist
meeting at 7:00 tonight in Sosh.
room 202.
The main purpose of the meet
ing will be to select participants
j for radio forums sponsored by the
i Federalists.
This selection will be made by
I the organization's faculty ad-
visors and by a member of the
speech department. All candidates
J are to have speeches which are
i approximately two minutes long
I and deal with some phase of
i world government. The talks will
be judged on a basis of presenta
tion, with special emphasis being
given to their radio adaptability.
Dr. Koo . . .
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licity; Phyllis Snyder, arrange
ments; Jackie Gordon, hospitality;
Betty McHenry, book exhibits;
Shirley Hinds, continuation; Phil
Frandsen, faculty; Martha Davis,
music; and Marjorie Hagaman,
radio.
The program for Thursday and
Friday:
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ilies in tbe Lincoln area are
being forced to live.
Red tape or no red tape, public
officials had better keep one
very important thing in mind.
Dropping temperatures mean hot
ter stoves and hotter stoves in
some of the rat-traps In Nebraska
will begin to show in the state's
birth and death rate. As witnes
sed last Saturday night.
most brilliant and
in American liter-
will not make the same mistake
in literature after World War II
that they made after the first
world war was expressed by Ber
nard DeVoto, critic, writer, his
torian and editor, at a convoca
aion yesterday afternoon in the
Union ballroom.
The mistake after the first
world war, DeVoto said, was that
literary men, their values toppled
by the war, became harsh and
embittered. "We were children
of confusion," he said, "And that
confusion was reflected in the lit
erature coming out of that period.
"American writers saw Amer
ican life as thin, empty, useless
and contemptible. It was mean
ingless and it was-sordid. This
was the America of Hemingway,
Lewis, Faulkner and their genre.
But it was not the world that the
reading public saw. We could not
recognize the world of which they
wrote as the world we knew. We
could not find our lives so trivial
and empty as they were pictured."
Brilliant Period.
Perspective viewpoint of the
literature of this inter-war period
is Qjiiicuit to attain now, DeVoto he said. "To
aeciared, but in his opinion it was ! must treat
certainly the
lively period
ature.
"American authors were mani
festly successful in entertaining
and , satisfying the reader, but
they could rot show a functional
relationship to life as we know it,"
declared DeVoto. "Mark Twain,
Henry James and Thoreau, were,
like the postwar generation, crit
ics of their society. They sought
out and assailed evils they found
in American life. They were
ashamed of them and hoped to
improve them, but in so doing pre
served a balance and equilibrium
between life and literature.
It is because of this failure of
the postwar writers that their pro
ducts are so transitory and im
permanent as literature. "Never
has a literature been so quickly
by-passed," DeVoto said. "Today
someone may reod 'Mainstreet,'
but he does so as he would a
Conthiuker Fix
Unaffiliated students are
urged to make their appoint
ments for Cornhusker pictures
since the deadline for appoint
ments in the Cornhusker of
fice is December 15.
The Daily Nebraskan re
ported the December 15 dead
line to be for seniors, but Merl
Shutt Grant, yearbook editor,
has announced that this date
includes all unafliliated students.
classic, or St Nicholas magazine." j DeVolQ hinks a Wlll more'
searching, more courageous (be
cause it will deal with greater
Survival,
Writers of the stature of Frost!
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their work that gave this genera
tion its characteristics; they were
the exceptions.
uevoto oecame philosophic as
be great, literature
human experience
Magazines Feature Poems
By University Instructor
'The new, post-war generation
of writers must discard the emp
tiness and half-truths of my gen
eration. " the critic continued.
I "Writing is a living thing and
must express its validity, or it
will wither away to triviality.
That is where the literature of
i my generation wcril wrong."
BY EUGENE BERMAN.
Bernice Slote, a new-comer to
the university's department of
English faculty, is the author of
poems which have appeared in
national magazines including "The
Prairie S c h o o n e r," "Voic es,"
"Ladies' Home Journal," and
"Good Housekeeping."
Modesty characterized Miss
Slote's attitude throughout an in
terview. The fact that she re
ceived the 1944 and 1945 summer
poetry awards in the Avery Hop
wood Contests at the University
of Michigan, where she did ad
vanced graduate work, was dis
covered in an article published in
"Voices."
Miss Slote, who received her
masters degree here at the uni
versity, was teaching at Norfolk
Junior College before she accepted
the position of English instructor
at the university. While com
pleting advanced graduate work
at Michigan she had many poems
published in the "Michigan Quar
terly Reviews." '
Light Verse and Serious.
The fact that she likes to write
both light and serious verse is
borne out by a cross-section of
her poetry. One of the more seri
ous work, "Aeschylus," appeared
in the May 1945 issue of "The.
Atlantic." In this poem the poet
speaks to Aeschylus, who is buried
beneath the ground on which the
Sicilian campaign was fought.
Contrast this poem to "Child in a
Zoo," which appearcl with eight
other poems in the summer issue
of "Voices." The second poem tells
about a child in a zoo who is I
watching "the moth, the leopard, !
and you." j
Regardless of what type of '
poetry Miss Slote writes, there is
one characteristic of her style
that is particularly outstanding.!
She has the gift of always main- j
taining contact with the reader,'
as when reading her works there1
is a feeling of direct contact with 1
the author and the characters in-'
volved. Miss Slote stated that
she enjoys writing because she i
"likes to join the past and the
present and feel the unity of all ,
of human life."
Farnmount's ace fashion cre
ator. Edith Head, designed the hat
which Lilly De Wolf wears in his
monologue number, called "Mrs.
Murgatroyd," in Irving Berlin's
"Blue Skies," Paramount tech
nicolor musical with Cing Crosby,
Fred Asia ire and Joan Caul field.
William Demarest and his wife
sailed for an Alaskan holiday as
soon as the comedian finished his
role of an old time movie director
in Paramount's "Perils of Pauline,"
with Betty Hutton and John Lund
j starring.
Captain Fred Ellis, formerly of
the British Merchant Marine and
now Hollywood's foremost au
thority on sailing ships, served as
technical advisor for Paramount's
"Two Years Before the 'Ma?,"
based on Richard Henry Dana's
sea classic.
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truly and respectfully. If litera
ture is to keep its life, it must
consider its responsibility, and
wor kfor a true understanding of
humankind. It must begin by
making a confession of the errors
of our society, errors the writer
has learned from his own life. It
must be mature and constructive.
We are travellers in darkness,"
he continued, ' and we ask life to
be made somcv hat more intel
ligible. Authors are like children
talking to children in the dark."
Predicting the trend of litera-