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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
SUNDAY. MARCH II, 1934.
The Daily Nebraskan
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We Suggest A
Convocation Program.
T JNIVERSITY seniors protably hailed with enthu
siasm the administration's recent announcement
that Owen D. Young and Dr. Samuel A. Elliot had
been secured for commencement exercises this June.
At the same university students have responded to
the opportunity of enjoying several excellent convo
cations featuring nationally famous personalities.
The university fathers have, in addition, con
ducted a somewhat successful scries of convoca
tions built around student talent, the last of which
is to be held at the university coliseum next Sun
day. Summarizing recent observations, the Daily
Nebraskan presents today a possible university con
vocation program. While the plan is by no means
the last word in convocation programs it should
fulfil, to a large extent, the crying need for an ade
quate system on the Nebraska campus.
Primarily it proposes the following convoca
tions schedule as a basis upon which the university
fathers may see fit to improve. It would provide
for ten all-university convocations to be distributed
over the academic year as follows: September,
Freshman Day; October and Noember, addresses
by nationally known speakers; December, The Mes
siah; January, the R. O. T. C. band concert; Feb
ruary, Charter Day program; March, Glee Club
recital; April, Honors convocation; May, College
Day; June, Commencement exercises.
It will be noted thst the plan provides for sev
eral traditional events and at the same time es
tablishes several additions, as represented in the
convocations held in October and November.
The Freshman Day convocation, inaugurating
the series of convocations, would be patterned very
largely after the present one. The next two convo
cations should include on their programs nationally
famous speakers. The December and January con
vocations featuring university student talent are
self explanatory. The Charter Day program should
include a reputable speaker for the morning convo
cation and possibly a student party in the evening.
The Glee Club program in March would again fea
ture university talent. The Honors convocation
would b.s centered largely about an address deliv
ered by a well qualified speaker, and quite obviously
bestow scholastic distinction on university students.
The May program should, we believe, preserve many
of the features now In operation. Commencement
exercises should climax the convocation series de
livered by a speaker exemplified by Owen D. Young.
While the Nebraskan recognizes that the pro
gram it proposes is not complete in every respect
it should furnish a groundwork upon which the
university fathers might build a more complete
schedule.
The Nebraskan admits that there should be
convocations at more frequent intervals, but finan
cial restrictions would obviously curtail the ambi
tious project. At the same time, however, the pro
gram stresses worthwhile traditional events In ad
dition it should give university students a glimpse
of the outside world through the eyes of well in
formed convocation speakers. Important too is the
attachment of more than ordinary importance to
several student enterprises.
Most significant, however, is the meritorious
feature of regularity. While we do not condemn
the university administration for its efforts this
year, many convocations have been held during the
second semester. The Nebraskan advocates a con
vocation series evenly distributed throughout the
year, thus safeguarding the program from the pos
sibility of destroying student and faculty anticipa
tion for future programs.
Routine details of publicizing the program in
the N book, Daily Nebraskan, and other publica
tions, class dismissal, and time of day, should be
easily worked out by the convocation committee.
We do not feel that the scheme is unworkable
for it will be recognized that it consists mainly of
a revision in the present convocation arrangement.
As such, university fathers might well consider its
possibilities.
We Ask Fur
Your Comments.
ATPENDED to the editorial columns of this morn
. .. , .i.i- v,,.
ing s uaiiy reDrasKan is an article wmicu uj
Oswald Garrison Villard.
The author needs little introduction. Mr. Garri
son achieved national fame through his brilliant edi
torship of the Nation, of which he is now owner and
contributing editor. While probably best known as
one of the best journalists of the present era, he has
written several books which have gained national
fame.
Throueh the columns of the Nation Mr. Garri
son has established himself in the minds of thinking
men as the outstanding liberal in America. From
this point of view the Daily Nebraskan feels that
the unbiased and liberal points of view expressed
by Mr. Villard on the national and international is
sues will be of tremendous value to faculty members
and students alike.
Indeed the liberal wave of thinking that has
swept university campuses would find more than
adequate expression in the writings of Mr. illard.
Todav's article is the first of what the Nebraskan
hopes will be a regular Sunday feature. Obviously
enoueh tne Daily Nebraskan will encounter some
expense in this connection. As such a fairly accu
rate estimation of faculty and student aesirarjiiuy
for them must, of necessity, be expressed. The Ne
braskan welcomes faculty and student comment and
suggestions on Mr. Villard's contributions.
DEMOCRACY'S BACK TO THE WALL
Oswald Garrison illanl
Editor's Note: In printing these artlrles by Oswald oarri
aon Villard. the Daily Nebraskan feels tht It Is providing Its
readers with the best available interpretation of national af
fairs from the pen of an outstanding liberal. The Nebraskan
does not. however, necessarily agree wub the opinions which
Mr. Villard may express herein.
IT is just sixteen years ago that iFeld Marhsall
Haig startled the world by admitting the tremen
dous German success in its drive of March, 1918, on
Amiens and declaring that the British army had its
back to the wall and was making its last stand.
Probably no other general, certainly not an English
one, would have dared to be so frank, and to reveal
the extraordinary gravity of the situation. That
was during the war to make the world safe for
democracy.
Today, just sixteen years later, it is democ
racy which has its back to the wall and is fighting
for its very life. No less than nine dictatorships
control a similar number of countries in Europe.
There are ideas afloat in this land which would
have seemed incredible and unworthy of a moment's
consideration even five years ago. There are fascist
organizations at work in the United States openly
declaring that our institutions are a failure, that we
vre not fit to govern ourselves, nor to say how our
children shall be educated. I have just seen Silver
Shirts on the streets of Los Angeles selling their
paper which preaches dictatorship and above all
hatred for the Jews one of their leaders told a re
porter the other day that President Roosevelt's
real name was Rosenfelt and that J. P. Morgan's
ancestor's spelt their name Morgenthau like the
present Secretary of the Treasury!
pA.R more significant than that is the number of
young men who openly have lost faith in our
Institutions and our ideals. It is a horrifying re
vealation of the economic basis of our national
Ideals. Ex-President Taft once asked why in the
world Professor Charles A. Beard had to write his
economic interpretation of our American history.
It was true, he said, but why write it? Today we
have to face the fact and write the truth that peo
ples everywhere are ready to jettison all their
rights, their personal liberty, their most sacred in
stitution, if only thereby they may achieve eco
nomic security. Who would have dreamed of such
a thing in the piping times of 1913?
Well I have already written something about
the desirability of creating a recrudescence of re
publicanism with a small "r," of our reaffirming
our faith in our American institutions and our dem
ocracy. I am mere than ever struck with the nec
essity of it as I travel around the country. Almost
unbelievable as the fact is, we hive got to fight for
the youth of this country if the depression contin
ues, if we still have a long way to go before we are
back to what Mr. Harding called "no-malcy."
I have been tn ink Ing a good deol about the pos
sibility of creating a liberal youth movement before
the forces of reaction beat us to it. Perhaps the
President had something of this In mind when he
appealed to the Boy Scouts of the nation the other
day to do one good deed for the country on that
day. The difficulty with creating another youth
organization is, first, the danger, that it may be
annexed or captured by the very forces against
which It would be aimed. Secondly, the difficulty
will be to give it the constructive program that will
be necessary really to enthuse youth and make it
feel that it is working for a definite and worthwhile
aim. But that is what has been done in Germany,
in Italy and in Russia. Youth, which was despair
ing and hopeless has been given new hopes and
new aspirations.
JT is true that false ideals and false ambitions have
been held out to them and that they have been
enthused to put upon their own wrists the shackles
of servitude; they have thrown away their birth
right at the behest of eloquent men who have seized
power. We want nothing of the kind here. But if
we do not do something constructive, we are going
to see something of the same sort happen in this
country, provided always that the economic pres
sure continues so devastating. The youth of this
country no more than that of any other is going to
sit still if it is without hope, if the existing order
holds out no promise of economic security, no pro
mise of a family life, no promise of advancement
in the world.
Yes. democracy has its back to the wall and
the amazing thing to me as I travel around the
country is that more people do not realize it and
more people do not realize that we are in a re
volution and that the President is pointing a way
out His popularity Is everywhere tremendous and
not decreasing, although there is general agreement
that he made his first political error in cancelling
the air-mail contracts without giving the operators
a hearing. But even those who are most enthusi
astic for him do not realize what he is about, what
he is accomplishing, and just what It is that he has
got to do. I have specially noticed this during my
stay in California. The masses of the people feel
that they have a friend at Court; that the Presi
dent is working for them and for them alone and
they are certain that he is not playing politics in
his high office. But most of them have only the
vaguest comprehension of just what the battle is for
they do not realize that the President's New Deal
is only another version of Theodore Roosevelt's
Square Deal and Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom
and that this is merely a renewal of an old battle.
UVEN the big business forces do not see the his
torical background of what is happening. They
can think of it only in terms of the present depres
sion. I am more than ever struck with their sullen
ness and their determination to fight the President
the minute they get the chance. The reactionary
newspapers throughout the country, like the mas
ters of big business, are beginning to attack more
and more frequently and more and more bitterly.
The pity of it is that they do not realize that if the
President's policies, aside from some dubious and
mistaken ones, do not prevail, their plight will be
vastly more serious than it is and that our demo
cratic institutions will be thrown into the balance.
I do not believe that they are consciously fighting
for fascism or that they wish to have democracy
done away with. They cannot see that far ahead.
They will drift into advocacy of a fascist state, if
they do, because their private advantage will keep
them from seeing whither their policies are leading
us and that they are the ones who menace democ
racy. But there the fact is. Democracy is menaced
as never before; Its back Is to the wall.
(Copyright 1934 bj Oswald Garrison Villard).
Browsing
Among The
Books
Hr
Maurice Johnson
tTRANCE'S greatest living novelist is probably Ro
niain Rolland. His monumental "Jean-Chris-tophe"
of twenty years ago is a modern classic,
awarded one-fourth of a Nobel prize. Rolland's re
cent "Death of a World" is the fourth volume of
"The Soul Enchanted," begun in 1925, and it docs
nut lack good taste, humor, vision. In it he writes:
"A world in pain! At one and the same hour, na
tions are dying of oppression and misery ... a world
is dying . . . But I . . . hear the crying of a child."
Katherine Cornell presents Rudolph Besier's
"Barretts of Wimpole Street" here tomorrow, in
terpreting Poetess Elizabeth Barrett Browning of
"Toems from the Portugese." The play closes with
a line concerning the dog Flush, subject of a late
biography by Virginia Woolf, distinguished British
authoress ("Mrs. Dalloway" and "Orlando") who
experiments with writing forms.
"Hear, Ye Sons" is a novel of Hebrews, told in
the first person, fascinating for its deliniation of
Jewish festivals and customs. Irving Fineman, the
author, won an Atlantic Monthly prize for "This
Pure Young Man," kept in the back rooms of librar
ies. In most libraries one must whisper for books
by Sherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemingway, and
John Dos Passos, among others.
Critic John Macy tells of Tolstoy: "Once when
be was walking with Tourgenef they came to an old
broken-down horse in a pasture. Tolstoy went up
to it, stroked it, and uttered its thoughts and suf
ferings with such moving tenderness that Tourgenef
cried: 'You must once have been a horse your
self.' "
Males should enjoy Thames Williamson's
"Woods Colt," Ozarks novel, written entirely in the
hills dialect. In it are man-hunts, murder, pas
sion, stills, humor, and good writing. Williamson's
"Hunky" and "Sad Indian" also deserve reading.
Probably the best of the contributions in the
winter Prairie Schooner are the impressionistic arti
cle "Stalin," and the story "Survival of the Fleet
est." Tha latter is a humorous and soaring tnle of
university over-systematizing.
Since American club women have discovered
and exclaimed over his "Leonardo da Vinci," Dmitri
Merejkowskl is almost as well known as Maxim
Gorki in the front rank of Russian novelists.
"Leonardo" is considered by many to be the great
est historical romance In any language. From the
beginning, with the strange unearthing of the
Venus of Praxiteles, through the weird Walpurgis
night, to the end, this book is filled with necromacy
of writing. Russian Exile Merejkowski's most re
cent book is his life of Jesus, brought out in this
country a few weeks ago.
A current cartoon pictures a gentleman trying
to exchange last year's of Lincoln for this year's.
Biographies have come to be almost as ephemeral
as novels. "Modern" lives exclude any over two
years in print, and readers ask for the latest life by
French Andre Maurois, German Emil Ludwig.
Since the death of Gamaliel Bradford no cne knows
whom the greatest American biographer may be.
Dr. Anderson Speaks
To Group At Library
rr F.sthpr S. Anderson, in-
ctnirtnr in the rlenartment of Geo
graphy, addressed the Community
r-i,,K i T (hortv TJphraska vester-
day on the subject "Geographical
and Agricultural Kesources m
Nebraska." Miss Anderson illus
trated the lecture with lantern
slides
ORCHESTRA WILL
PRESENT SUNDAY
CONCERT MAR. 18
(Continued from Page 1.)
coin; Harriett Kaiser, Lincoln;
Helen Luhrs, Rock Port. Mo.; Ber
nice Rundin, Wahoo; Betty Zat
tcrstrom, Lincoln; and Carleen
Steckelberg, Lincoln.
Second Violin.
Mariorie Smith, Fremont; Neva
vhstpr Lincoln: Katherine
Hirshner, Lincoln; Roberta Wilbe,
Creston, la.; Mary Buckman, Beat
rice: Mary M. Moore, Omaha;
Richard Turner, DuBois; Thomas
McMann, Lincoln; and Bernle
Harbert. Humboldt.
Viola.
TArinri Seaton. Lincoln: Sally
Peltier, Lincoln; Wallie Way, Lin
coln; and Jane Welch, Lincoln.
Cello.
Mary Louise Baker, Lincoln;
une Day, Lincoln: Mary Lucas,
lilver Creek; Ruth Sibley, Lin
coln; Grace Wekesser, Lincoln;
and Cornelia Whisler, Lincoln.
String Bass.
Marian Christian, Lincoln; Ma ye
Davie, Lincoln; and Janebell Nye,
Lincoln.
Flutes.
Velora Beck, Lincoln; Hope j
Probasco, Lincoln; and Willard
Robb, Lincoln.
Oboe.
.TarV Plnmondon. Lincoln: and i
Robert Storer, Lincoln.
Horn.
Clyde Wedgewood, Lincoln;
Ross Martin. Lincoln: Richard
White, Lincoln; and Edwin Beaty,
Lincoln.
Trombone.
Kenneth Anderson, Lincoln;
Charles Webster, Lincoln; and
Mildred Putney, Lincoln.
Harp.
Ruth Hill, Lincoln.
Tymphony.
Keith Schroeder, Lincoln.
UNIVERSITY TO
RETAIN 29 CWS
STUDY CENTERS
(Continued from Page 1.)
These will be limited in number,
and will be those which had ap
plied earlier but had been unable
, to receive last minute approval be
cause of the federal stop-order
limiting first term centers.
To continue as relief study cen
ters into the second term are: Al
liance, Beaver City, Chester, Falls
City, Franklin, Friend, Greeley,
Holdrege, Humboldt, Kearney,
Kimball, Lincoln, Lyons, Merna,
Minden, Oakland, Odell, Omaha
Tech (2), Omaha Y. M. C. A. (2),
Red Cloud, Schuyler, Shickley,
Stanton, Stromsberg, Taylor, Ulys
ses, and Walthill. Lists of those
towns to open new centers have
not yet been completed.
Additional Week.
An additional week will be given
to those relief study groups who
retain a director and have finished
their eight week period, extension
officials said. This week will per
mit them to finish subjects. Where
no director is available during the
extra time, the department will
permit two weeks in which to con
clude the studies, it was stated.
With 1,605 students in Nebras
ka finishing their studies in the
next few weeks, university work
ers were well pleased with the op
eration of the project. This number
of students has been handled by a
force of 100 directors, 20 persons
doing office work, and less than
fifty readers. This working staff
must be demobilized to 100 by
April 1. according to federal or
ders. While the extension division
has been behind in their reading of
papers thru the first term, offi
cials indicated that with the full
quota of fifty readers now avail
able, this phase of the project
would soon be made up.
Estimating that more than 4,000
students wishing to take subjects
in the relief study centers had
been turned down, and that had
registration been allowed to con
tinue 4,000 would have been en
rolled in Nebraska, extension offi
cials are making plans for next
year. They hope that the univer
sity department in co-operation
with .city school boards may b
able to work out a similar project
for the winter.
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