THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
Thursday, March 20, 1947
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September 30. 1922.
It Depends . .
Continuance of name-band dances at the university will
probably depend upon the success of the Junior-Senior Prom
Saturday night. As much as Nebraska students like to dance
and listen to good music, it would be a shame if they could
hear the top bands only on records or the radio.
The meeting tonight to elect a Prom Girl is an effort
to promote ticket sales, but it also is an attempt to preserve
the custom of having big name bands play for all trie university-sponsored
dances during the year. There are only
four of these dances Homecoming, Military Ball, Mortar
Board Ball and the Junior-Senior Prom.
Right now, you cannot imagine not having a nationally
acclaimed orchestra playing for these affairs, but unless the
Prom goes over, you will be dancing to a local group. The
local bands are good, but they provide no change fron
dances given by organizations and by the Union at its week
end dances.
If it's the price that stops you, remember that it would
cost almost the same if a Lincoln band was playing at the
Coliseum, because of the cost of putting on a dance there
and you wouldn't be hearing the big orchestras.
Nov It's
My Turn
BY EDDIE McCULLOUGH
So the kiddies in Colorado don't
like gripers, eh? And the local
wee folk agree so well that they
pull a reprint on the Colorado ed
itorial, huh? Well, stand back.
Jack I gotta word to add, and
this is just my meat.
I am a griper. I enjoy it very
much. In fact, I'm proud to be a
griper! The very name "Now It's
MY Turn!" implies that things
ain't been going so smooth around
here. I've been patient a long
time but now, by Tao, I'm going
to comment most critically on The
Nature of Things.
"The griper never says 'Let
George do it.' The griper
screams 'Why hasn't George
done it?' " You bet he does,
unhuh, if George was supposed
to do it. That's all the poor
griper can say! If he could
change things himself, or do
them up right, he'd do It. But
he can't he has about as much
authority as a transient, enlisted
man in a repple-depple.
In the army, too, I was a griper.
And so were you, if you were in
it. Was it up to you or me to
change things there? Not thai I
ever knew of. it wasn't. But we
griped long and loud, and by the
time we got out," they started
changing things. Not much, but
we won a moral victory, anyway.
It's kinda nice to know that they
boys sweating it out now don't get
as much chicken as we did.
And it's the same thing around
here. Personally, I don't believe
In the grading system not in any
grading system other than "Sat
isfactory" or "Unsatisfactory." I
have yet to ask any professor
what my last semester's grade
was. It doesn't make any differ
ence now to any of us what our
grades in grade school arithmetic
were, but it does matter that we
know how to add and subtract.
But we can't change it. All we
can do is gripe.
Final examinations I hold
equally In contempt. What
businessman can remetrber ev
erything in bis flies? What
doctor'! office is devoid of ref
erence books? Know any min
isters who have thrown away
their Bibles, or any lawyers
.without law books, because they
have memorized them? No, and
you never will. But we're ex
pected to remember everything
in the books, everything the
professor said, and, usually, a
,few things they forgot to say,
and write it all down in one
three-hour sitting.
Well, for a parting shot, let me
say this place moves too slowly.
Everything I've learned since last
September could have been
learned in a month. No, no one
could have waded thru all those
verbose pedagogues' books and
done all those grinding routine
assignments, but anyone could
have learned what he really did
learn in much less time.
The army discovered a way to
teach men more in much less
time than any existing scholastic
method, and it taught them. Did
it work? Did they remember?
Well, they won the war. They ac
complished the task for which
they had been trained, and that's
all anyone expects. The army
proved its high-speed teaching
was sound in practice, but we
still lumber along in low gear.
Most of us are three or four years
behind in our lives now, and the
prospect of loafing thru a couple
more isn't too attractive.
1 Well, that's all. That's enough.
But let's hear no more sneering
comments on the griper. He's
just a well-meaning soul who
thinks things could be better,
and . usually he's right If It
hadn't been for a few gripers
like Patrick Henry and Al Ham
ilton, us vipers wouldn't have a
pit to hiss in today. So God
bless us gripers, every one!
Church Groups
Plan Activities
For Weekend
The national convention of
Gamma Delta, Lutheran organ
ization, has been scheduled to be
held on the university campus
next fall. Rev. H. Erck of the na
tional governing board announced
Wednesday.
Members of the local chapter
will meet tonight at 7:15 in the
YMCA rooms of the Temple.
LSA Vespers.
Rev. Alvin M. Petersen will
discuss "Obedience, the Way of
the Cross" at the LSA vesper
service at 7:00 tonight in parlors
XY of the Union. Leonard Blinde
will direct the choir.
Presbyterians will have their
annual spring party at 8 p. m.
Friday at the student house.
Sunday, members of the Pres
byterian forum will discuss
"Fundamentalism, Liberalism or
Modernism." Those taking part
in tHe symposium will be Dr.
Charles Patterson of the philos
ophy department, Rev. Erck and
Rev. Carl Storm, pastor of the
Unitarian church. The 5 p. m.
round-table discussion will be
followed by a fellowship supper.
Arthaud Wins
Stuart Award
Raymond L. Arthaud of Cam
bridge has been named recipient
of the $500 Charles Stuart Fellow
ship in Agriculture, Perry W.
Branch, director of the University
of Nebraska Foundation, an
nounced yesterday.
Mr. Arthaud, who received his
bachelor of science degree from
the university in January, is
working toward an advanced de
gree in animal husbandry.
DEAR EDITOR AND CAMPUS
VETERANS:
Latest word from Rep. Homer
A. Ramey (r., Ohio), chairman of
the special subcommittee on sub
sistence which has been conduct
ing the hearings on HR 870, is
that the committee now intends
to hear the views of college reg
istrars from different sections of
the country, according to word re
ceived by the local chapter of
AVC public relations.
Committee officials weren't pre
pared to say how much longer
the hearings would last but, ob
viously, they are not planning any
immediate halt.
Meanwhile, the veterans them
selves are struggling along as best
they can or' quitting colleges by
the hundreds because of inade
quate subsistence.
For three days the veterans had
tlfe witness stand and for three
days they all vigorously support
ed" HR 870, the so-called Rogers
bill which would increase mar
ried vets' subsistence from $90 to
$125 monthly plus $10 for each
dependent child. Single veterans
would receive $100.
James P. Roberts of the Uni
versity of Baltimore used the
phrase "covenant with the vet
erans" when describing the GI
bill. Roberts proved to be the
highlight of the student witnesses
and at the conclusion of his tes
timony he was complimented by
the whole subcommittee.
By now, you veterans of the
University of Nebraska are say
ing so what! What can I do? I
need more subsistence but how do
I go about getting the increase?
The University of Nebraska
Chapter of the American Veterans
Committee is urgently appealing
to each veteran on the campus to
send personal distress letters to
Rep. Homer A. Ramey, House Of
fice Building. Washington, D. C,
asking him to consider favorably
HR 870 as it stands now!! In
clude your personal expenditure
for the last month as an example.
THE FIGHT IS ON USE MA
NILA TACTICS LET'S SNOW
BALL RAMEY WITH LETTERS.
Executive Council
University of Nebraska Chapter
American Veterans Committee.
Kcv. T. A. Barlon
Speaks at Council
Vesper Services
"I Never Knew Him," a Lenten
meditation on the significance of
Peter's denial, will be given by
the Rev. Mr. Thomas A. Barton
at today's Vesper service. Held
in Parlors XYZ of the Union, the
service begins at 5 p. m.
Pastor of Second Presbyterian
church, Rev. Barton is a promi
nent local clergyman. His stu
dent assistant will be Roland
Purdy. Continuing the series of
six meditations leading up to
Easter, Rev. Barton's talk is the
fourth in the program.
Group singing and special music
are included in the afternoon
service, sponsored by the Religi
ous Welfare Council.
Alpha Phi Omega
Elects New Prexy
Walter Long has been elected
president of Alpha Phi Omega, re
activated national service frater
nity. Others named to office were
Don Crowe, vice president; Rod
ney Franklin, secretary: Raulin
Wight, treasurer; Stewart Minnick,
historian; and Robert Foster, cor
responding secretary.
Pledges initiated into the or
ganizstion are Tom Stiehl, Bob
Mills, Marion Cosand. Edgar
Steele, Dee Villars. Art Brand,
George Slenker. Don Gregg. Bob
Dunlap and Ben Pickering.
Today. Mr. Marion Dizbur-
ough, a member of the national
advisory council, win address tne
organization In the Temple at 7:30
p. m.
WOMEN STUDENTS
The following members of
AWS are authorized to sign
special permissions:
Tibby Curley, Alpha Chi
Omega, 2-1926.
Jean Coropton, Pi Beta Phi,
2-7875.
Mims Weeth, Delta Gamma,
2-7742.
Kathleen Nickolson, Delta
Delta Delta, 2-7971.
Jackie Gordon, Sigma Delta
Tau, 2-3526.
Jean Chilqulst, Terrace, Hall
2-1107.
To the Student Body:
Maybe this is somr'iiing new
to students here, but the Daily
Nebraskan is not the personal
property of its staff.
It belongs to every one of you,
and as such deserves a little sup
port which it is not getting now.
Okay, so you don't like it And
we're paid to put it out. So why
can't we do a better job?
Three or four people have a
rough time getting out a news
paper even a four-page Daily
Nebraskan. You can look at the
masthead and see for yourselves
how many of us there are on the
editorial staff. But remember,
we're also going to university
and, absurdly enough, have labs
and a couple of other things to do
just like the rest of you, and
can't be here six hours every
afternoon.
It isn't that we can't run all
over the campus, find news stor
ies, write them up, put headlines
on them, take copy down to the
Journal and get the paper out all
by ourselves. ' It's just that we
can't do a first-rate job. A few
reporters would help.
So we ask for reporters, and
what do we get? Snarls from
the sidelines because nobody likes
the way the paper's run. Didn't
it ever occur to anybody outside
of history text-book writers that
there is a relationship between
causes and effects? And that
lack of reporters could be the
reason for rather than the result!
of a poor campus paper?
The staff is partially at fault,
but here's one trouble ".about
which you can do something.
This school work is essential.
And, as you all should know by
now, it is practically twice as dif
ficult and doubled in amount.
But, it's got to be done sometime
or other.
The staff is getting paid for
working on the paper, so we have
a profit motive. But reporters,
who would spend as much time,
perhaps, get nothing in return
except an occasional by-line.
Who wants a by-line bad enough
to spend three or four hours,
needed for studying, writing a
news-story?
So the staff lets its school work
go and publishes the paper short
handed. But it gets pulished.
We could put in a few more
hours and put out a better paper.
We can not, under the circum
stances, publish a top-grade news
paper If you can pound a typewriter,
or copy-read, or just know a bit
of news, we can use you.
Daily Nebraskan Staff.
Interfraternity Council
The Interfraternity Council
will hold their regular
monthly meeting tonight at 5
p. m. in Room 315 of the
Union, according .to Dick
Folda, president.
1 I " iimimiMin mm n i i
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His genius gave wings to words
It was an historic moment. Alexander Graham Bell's telephone
had just spoken its first words "Mr. Watson, comeheret I wantyouT'
That evening in Boston March 10, 1876 Dr. Bell's crude
instrument transmitted his voice only to the next room. But out
of it was destined to come a whole new era the era of quick, easy
nation-wide telephony, of radio telephony in all its varied forms,
of talking pictures, voice and music reproduction systems and
electrical aids for the hard of hearing. Few inventions have played
a greater part in shaping the world we live in!
Since 1877 just one year after Bell's long experimentation was
crowqed with success it has been Western Electric's privilege to
help carry forward his great idea which gave wings to words. In
that year Western Electric made its first telephone. More than
45,000,000 have followed it over 4,000,000 of them in 1946 alone.
Today, from coast to coast, in factories, offices, distributing
houses and central office installation crews, there are more than
110,000 Western Electric workers. Imbued with the Bell System
spirit of service, they are helping to provide equipment in record
quantities to meet telephone needs far beyond any envisioned by
the Inventor.
This year marks tha 100th Anniversary of Bell's birth in
Edinburgh, Scotland, on March 3, 1847. From early youth,
he was keenly interested in aiding the hard of hearing. He
became a teacher of "visible speech" when 18 years old.
This work led to experiments with "telegraphing"
sound, out of which, in 1876, came his greatest invention
the telephone.
Dr. Bell was a great humanitarian as well as a great sci
entist. His accomplishments in aiding the deaf, in com
munications, in aviation and other hclds were outstand
ing. His rich life which had an incalculably great influ
ence on the world came to an end on August 2, 1922.
Western Electric
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SYSTEM SINCE 1882
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