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SUNDAY, FERRUARY 24, 1935.
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Is It
Possible?
HUEY LONG, ambitious and self -esteemed King
fish from Louisiana, apparently forgot his at
tack on the administration thru Jim Farley over
the week end to Introduce a proposal to provide
$2,500,000,000 for highway construction In the pub
lic works and relief bill. Thus, the Louisiana dic
tator goes merrily on his way currying nation-wide
favor.
Preposterous as It may seem, there is a possi
bility that Long is soon to be president of the United
States. People in this section of the country, far
removed from the center of his activities, do not
realize the grip which the Klngfish is gaining on
the minds of an unthinking public.
While still a youngster Long talked about his
ambition to become governor of Louisiana. Un
educated, rough, and direct, he was laughed at, but
at thirty he was recognized as one of the fore
most lawyers in the state. His ambition was ful
filled in 1928. From there he went on to United
States senator, and now he is looking for fresh fields
to conquer.
In his demand for an investigation of the post
master general's office, Long struck a direct blow
at the administration. Farley is admittedly the
hand-maiden of the democratic party. By proving
something out of the way on this important figure
Long can take away many votes from the admin
istration, gaining many for himself at the same
time.
HODDING CARTER, writing in the New Re
public, calls the possibility of Long in the white
house "a preposterous belly-laugh" and then adds
that stranger political disasters could befall a trag
ically Ignorant people groping for security.
And Mr. Carter in his addendum does not miss
the point of the matter very far. For the past five
years the country has been in darkness and search
ing for the light At 3uch times there are always
a plenitude of would-be leaders standing ready to
light the way, if they can see any gravy in it for
themselves.
Huey Long has proven that he has the capabili
ties of capturing public fancy. His personality has
made Itself felt in his home state, and he now has
Louisiana safely within his grasp. This Is shown
by the statement of his disciple, Gerald L. K. Smith,
also writing in the New Republic, who says that
"his greatest recommendation is that we who know
him best, love him best" All movements to over
throw Long and his machine have been squelched
promptly. He reigns supreme in that state.
li Long's activities were confined to Louisiana
it would be bad enough, but he is exerting a great
deal of influence in other sections by his "share-the-wealth"
program. Bearing a catchy title, it is
gaining fralnds for Huey with great rapidity. Now
his latest projects show that he will be content with
nothing but national fame. He has already boldly
stated that if the administration Isn't nice to him,
he will get even by running for president.
ALL this would be, as Carter says, screamingly
funny if it were not too tragically true. Long,
with his personality and mastery of showmanship,
would Instantly appeal to an ignorant and unthink
ing American public that Is noted for accepting
anything at face value.
It would be a travesty on democracy if Long
became president Now dictator in Louisiana, he
would soon set himself up as virtual dictator of
the United States. Can the country have become
o confused as to allow this?
Is Nebraska
A Poor Sport?
rTE poor sportsmanship shown by Nebraskans
as the recent Kansas university baHketball game
here has had its kickback on the campus. Today
a letter from a Kansas student appears In the Stu
dent Rules asking an explanation or apology for
the conduct of the fans at the game.
The writer does not overstep bounds of rea
son when he says that he cannot understand why
the Jayhawkers did not receive, courteous treat
ment and feels that an official apology is due our
neighbor to the, south.
Never Is there any excuse for such UDBports
msnahlp outbursts as were In evidence a week ago.
There may be grounds to the charge that the offi
cials were partial in their Judgments, but it is sel
dom the audience's province to protest in rowdy
fashion. Protests can be amply handled by those
In charge of the team that is injured by the unfair
decisions. Even if protest by the fans were justi
fied they should be directed at the offending parties
and not at the Innocent opponents who happen to
receive favor.
It would erase much ot the stigma now attached
to Nebraska's sportsmanship if some sort of an offi
cial apology, written by the student council or in
the form of a statement signed by the student txxly
at large, were sent to the Kansas school.
It Is hoped that such confidence will not be in
evidence again. It can do nothing but blacken Ne
braska's name in the sports world. If fair-mindedness
is allowed to rule over prejudice, it won't happen.
STUDENT PULSE
Brie!, concise contributions Dertinent to matters oi
atudenl Ufa and tha university are welcomed by thia
department, under the usual reatrictlone of sound new,
paper practice, which excludes all libelous matter and
personal attache. Letters must be sinned, Mil names
will be withheld from publication if ao desired.
Contributions should b limited to a maximum ol ne
Hundred words In length.
A Protest
From Kansas.
TO THE EDITOR:
You may be interested in knowing that the
widely circulated reports around Lawrenct concern
ing the extremely unsportsmanlike conduct of Ne
braska's crowd at the recent Kansas-Nebraska bas
ketball game have been puzzling many Jayhawker
students and followers. W cannot quite under
stand why our teams should not receive the same
courteous treatment at Lincoln that we accord your
teams at Lawrence. We also cannot understand
why you should "boo" and howl at our players for
no good reason. We always had thought that Ne
braska teams were hard fighting snd clean, and
were backed by good sports. I am afraid that our
opinion has been radically changed as a result of
such unfriendly spirit as your students have shown.
Can't Kansas and Nebraska have a friendly
rivalry? I see ho cause for hard feeling towards
us. We have taken football trimmings from Ne
braska teams for about eighteen years and never
yet have we put on such a hostile demonstration
toward the Huskers as that accorded our team the
other night. We do desire intensely to beat Ne
braska in football but we don't yet stoop to muck
erism to do it
I think that a public and official apology by
Nebraska for such actions would do much to smooth
the injured feelings of hundreds of Jayhawkers. I
am sure that those actions were temporary and did
not emanate from a deep-rooted ill-will towards
K. U. But many do not take this view. An apology
would put your school back in our good "graces,"
so to speak. I am sure that Nebraska does not
want the reputation of being a bunch of poor sports.
No school wants that.
With the sincere hope that no more such dem
onstrations will occur In the future to disturb our
natural and friendly rivalry, I remain,
Sincerely yours,
A Puzzled Jayhawker.
Browsing
Among Tht
Books
By
Maurice Johnson
VTTTTH "Heaven's My Destination," published
early last month, Thornton Wilder has made
his classification as an artist still more difficult
"The Cabala" (1928) was a sophisticated novel of
society and mysticism In Rome. "The Bridge of
San Luis Rey (1928) was a pleasantly philosophical
and Pulitzer prize-winning novel of Peru. "The
Woman of Andros" (1930) was a tale of ancient
Greece, based upon a play by Terence.
Typical of "The Cabala" is this sentence telling
of the cardinal: "It would be hard to say what his
thoughts were those clear mornings as he sat among
his flowers and rabbits, a volume of Montaigne fal
len 6n to the gravel path from the tabouret beside
him ..." Typical of "The Bridge" is the Abbess'
saying: "There is a land of the living and a land
of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival,
the only meaning." Typical of "The Woman of An
dros": "He thought of Chrysis and her urn, and
remembered her strange command to him that he
praise all life, even the dark."
But typical of "Heaven's My Destination" is
this: "I'm not crazy. It's the world that's crazy.
Everybody's crazy except me: that's what's the mat
ter. The whole world's nuts."
npHIS new book by Thornton Wilder is s hilarious
caricature of a religion-obsessed traveling salrs
man. While attending a Baptist college in South
Dakota, George Brush was converted by a girl
evangelist, and he never got over it. "Traveling
in school books," George also has' time to write
Biblical texts on Jiotel blotters, assure strangers
that women who smoke are unfit to be mothers,
practice voluntary poverty, pacifism, and "ahisma."
A prig, George Is no weakling: he was the athletic
hero In his South Dakota college. And he has a
rand tenor voice, refusing money to sing his "Ah,
for the wings of a dove."
Unfortunately, George Brush has been a good
traveling salesman to the extent of becoming in
volved with a farmer's daughter. Now, overcome
with remorse, he tries desperately to find her, and
he wants to marry her altho he is not certain of
her name. Finding her at last George persuades
the unwilling girl to set up an "American home"
with him. The gum-chewing, movie-mad farmer's
daughter endures George's theories as long as she
can, and finally leaves him.
ABANDONING the poetic dignity of his three
earlier novels, Thornton Wilder turns in "Heav
en's My Destination" to the American vernacular
which Sinclair Lewis has made familiar. Like Sin
clair Lewis, too, Wilder has made his novel mem
orable by the telling of ludicrous anecdotes con
cerning his hero.
One remembers George arrested for refusing
Interest on s bank savings account: he is offered
$35,000 to marry a judge's pinch-faced daughter;
he becomes rowdily drunk after drinking what ht
is told is medicine; he dines with Mrs. Crofut and
her girls, thinking her establishment to be one of
the finest homes in Kaunas City; ne hears a spirit
ualistic message from Dwight L. Moody thru Chief
Standing Corn's ghost; he is arrested again, this
time for attempting the kidnap of little Rhoda May
Gruber and aiding in a hold-up.
When some years ago Max Eastman took
Thornton Wilder to task for ignoring the con
temporary scene of social struggle in his novels,
he certainly did not expect Wilder to write any such
completely Americsn book as "Heaven's My Desti
nation." But this new book does not take up the
torch of the proletariat (or anyone else's torch)
any more than did the graceful and removed prone
of "The Bridge of, San Luis Rey."
"Heaven's My Destination" is simply good middle
western fun.
Contemporary
Comment
the statements that have recently
Issued from University Hall. Not
so long ago It was announced that
less emphasis than formerly would
I be placed on grades as such, that
more attention wouia be paiO to
all-around ability. Dean Hanford's
report, however, is replete with In
dications that the new prise schol-
ihlps offered Incoming freshmen
Specialists or
leaders?
There is a grave inconsistency is 1 are awarded on the lone basis of I
scholastic achievements, and that
the Individual's personal qualifica
tions are being minimized.
Obviously, the controversy
waged last fall in the "Critic" and
the "Advocate" or she general sub
ject of scholarship In relation to
character, and the university's
task In moulding the latter, has
home no fnilt Ther is no Indica
tion in the deaii's report that L'ni-
OFFICIAL
BULLETIN
Cornhusker Sale.,
The Cornhusker is now on sale
in the basement of U hall. Pur
chases can be made there within
the next two weeks.
PROM PRESENTATION.
Ideas for presentation of Prom
Girl may be submitted to Clayton
Schwenk in the Kosmet Klub of
flees in University hall any after
noon but Thursday between 3 and
6 o clock. The contest closes Feb,
25.
Scholarship Lecture.
Scholarship lecture Tuesday at
0:10 at the university club. Pror,
R. W. Frantz will speak on the
making of Boswell's Life of John
son.
Gamma Alpha Chi.
Gamma Alpha Chi will meet
Thursday at 7:30 o'clock in Ellen
Smith hall.
Sponsors Club.
Sponsors rluh will moot Thnra.
day afternoon at 6 o'clock in Ellen
Smith hall. All members please
be present.
Vespers.
The usual Tuesday vesper serv
ice will give way to the convoca
tion in Social Science auditorium
Tuesday at 5, when Mrs. Morgan
will speak.
versity Hall has paid the least at
tention to this vital topic. Accord
ingly, a restatement of the prin
ciple underlying that controversy
is necessary.
Dean Hanford s report is but
another manifestation that what is
coming to be regarded as the "sine
qua non" of university favor is
mere scholastic standing and
promise of brilliant scholastic at
tainments. This requirement has
so increased in importance for
both undergraduates and young In
structors that the latter are con
fused as to just what is expected
of them, while the former are at a
loss to improve their chances of
obtaining scholarships. Depart
mental tendency to pat the produc
tive scholar on the back must lead
to stultification of. him whose
achievements are less tangible but
no less significant in training men
to assume leadership in divers
branches of public life.
What the university cannot seem
to realize is that the ability to lead
and stimulate, and the ability to
pull down high grades are, if not
mutually antagonistic, leioom
found in the same person. Har
vard's function is not alone to ad
vance learning, to shelter scholas
ticism. Harvard should be able to
boast of the ideal of preparing stu
dents to become valuable members
of their communities. Thousands of
Harvard undergraduates and grad
uates regard the second as the pri
mary function, and the indication
that it is being sacrificed to book
learning and book writing is the
major point of departure for tne
sincerest critics of the new regime.
That the university has so little
use for criticism as completely to
disregard it, and to continue in a
nolicv that has drawn the fire of
the students for whom it exiRts is
an unpleasant revelation. By no
stretch of the imagination is Uni
versity Hall justified in departing
of its own accord from the age
long goal of producing men of
broad culture and liberal ideas,
producing instead mere specialists.
Ten specialists will doubtless con
tribute to the university's reputa
tion in the advancement of learn
ing. Eut a statement is greatly
needed that the principles of pub
lic service which have consiuuteo.
Harvard's most valuable contribu
tions to American society are noi
to be sacrificed.
The Harvard Crimson.
PHYSICS
MAJOR
GIVES
TALK ON COSMIC RAYS
Donald Jorgensen Explains
Result of Many Weeks'
Investigation.
SHOWS DEMONSTRATION
Before a small crowd of student
and faculty scientists, Mr. Donald
L. Jorgensen, graduate physics
major, talked on cosmic rays and
demonstrated the results of many
weeks work on his own version of
a Geiger-Mullen counter Friday
evening, Feb. 82, at the physics
club bl-weekly session in Brace
laboratory. Working with a scien
tist's dogged persistence for the
past several days, Mr. Jorgensen
succeeded In rigging up a set of
complex apparatus that will meas
ure these little-understood rays.
The audience was treated to an au
dible count of the rays passing
thru the counter and then ampli
fied by a loud speaker.
After reviewing the history of
the experimentation and research
that has been carried on in this
field. Mr. Jorgensen emphasized
the difficulty that physicists have
encountered in tne stuay or mis
phenomena because the rays can
not be produced artificially. They
must be studied by tne use or un-
dependable balloons carrying deli
cate apparatus into tne upper re
gions above the earth or by
flights into the stratosphere. Lit
tle factual and supported evidence
has been established concerning
this type of radiation, Jorgensen
explained.
Outlines Difficulties.
He also outlined some of the dif
ficulties which he encountered In
building his Geiger tube counter.
This piece of mechanism consists
of a tube containing a gas at the
proper pressure with a high resis-
tence hooked up across the end.
The rays pierce the gas at Irregu
lar intervals and allow a portion
of the high voltage current in the
tube to pass thru with them and
register on a sounding device, 'i ne
clicks can be counted and the rays
are measured by knowing the size
of the small opening thru which
they pass.
Jorgensen said tnat tne worn
in this field is Interesting largely
because of the newness or tne
phenomenon under consideration.
He stated that in making his tube
the trial and error method was the
best way, because of the conflict
ing opinions as to the proper
method among those experiment
ers who have done work on cosmic
rays He expects to continue With
his investigation and eventually to
perfect his measuring device.
CHANTS
BY CHANCE.
r.nnA thinna come In tmsll pack
ages sometimes. Such Is the case
of the latest University Players
vehicle, "There's Always Juliet."
Altho the cast is unusually small,
It is an unusually good one, too.
Molly Carpenter and Dwight Per
kins are two of the Players vet
erans, whom the audiences always
enjoy seeing. Portia Boynton was
made a full fledged University
Plsyer this year, having been In
other dramatic department plays
last season. Pete Sumption, the
well known director, has been cast
in several other productions this
year, so is well known to current
audiences. All In all this play
should be one to make the matinee
audiences as well as first nlght
ers, sit up and take notice. Molly
has over a hundred "sides" (mean
ing pages In her script) and is on
the stage continuously thruout the
production. Perkins comes next
with sixty-five. Those numbers of
sides are extraordinarily long
parts, but with the able dramatists
of the cast, should go over well,
a
Wilbur Chenoweth of the con
servatory faculty, was in Chicago
last week. While there, he ap
peared as guest soloist at the Chi
cago Nebraska Founders day ban
quet, at which over 800 alums were
present Harold Turner, Staff
pianist of WGN, played several
Nebraska songs for community
singing. The banquet was held at
tha irUn rlnh and Grace Abbott
was the speaker of the evening.
One 01 tne persons oi interest,
whom Mr. Chenoweth met while in
the windy city was John Boles.
Mr Rnlen heard SOme Of the
pianist-composer's songs, and may
use some of them in the near fu
ture on some of his programs. Re
cently Mr. Chenoweth played two
v rou us of his original piano com
positions at the Jackson high con-
vocation. Mis. uenora van mik,
also of the school of music faculty,
eflnir 'T Shot An Arrow Into the
Air," taken from Henry Wads-
.... . . nw .
worth LiOngrenow s poem, ine
Arrow and the Song," and set to
music bv Mr. Chenoweth. Other
of Chenoweth's compositions which
Mrs. van Kir sang were
"Doubts." "Only My Love for
Thee," "Serenade to Spring,"
"Love Light" and two minatures.
Dniibts" and "I Shot An Arrow
Into the Air" have only been re
rentlv published, and are among
the loveliest of Chenoweth's com
positions.
Actives and pledges a "Sin
fonla," musical fraternity, dined
at Suydam'a recently and after
dinner enjoyed a program at the
school of music, which was given
by the pledges. Bob Burdick
played Beethoven's First Move
ment from "Sonata In E Flat."
Willard Robb played "Concertino"
by Chamlnade. Handel's "Arm,
Arm Ye Brave" and "Ragged Vag.
abond" were sung by William
Miller. A string trio composed of
Larry Qrlere, Paul Sell and Dick
Turner, accompanied by William
Gant, played Herman's "Caprtecio
for String Trio," Opus 2.
Monday evening, Feb. 25, Carl
Frederick Bteckelberg of the violin
department of the school of music,
will be guest soloist with the Mid
land college orchestra at Fremont,
Neb. He will play the Grieg "Con
certo" with the orchestra, and with
Lester Bommers, will play the
Bftch "Double Concerto for two
violins and full orchestra.
UOSENLOF ARTICLES
PUBLISHED RECENTLY
Two articles by Dr. G. W. Rosen
lof of the teachers college have
been published recently. "The Next
Step in Secondary Education" ap
peared in the January number of
the bulletin of the Department of
Secondary Education in NEA. For
the March issue Of Light Bearer
magazine Doctor Rosenlof has
written: "Interpreting Secular Ed
ucation In Terms of Religion."
Frantz Speaks at Second
Of Scholarship Lectures
Dr. R. W. Frantz, assistant pro
fessor of English at the university,
will speak at the second of a series
of scholarship lectures ftt a 6:15
dinner Tuesday evening Feb. 26 at
the University club. His subject
is "Making of Boswell's 'Life of
Johnson.'." Faculty members,
wives, and friends are Invited to
attend.
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Only a
Beginning.
Htniients. savs Albert
THwarrl Wictram are developing
a deeper and sHfer patriotism than
the old "emotionalized bosh and
tommyrot." Based on careful
study of the nation's needs and
duties and an "Intelligent ideal of
our national destiny. ine urw
patriotism is replacing the old
"our-country-right-or-wrong" at
titude. It is to be expected that colleges
would lead In the development of
a more intelligent patriotism since
a great part of the old patriotism
It rnieht alao be
expected that the old "100 per
cent Americanism'' would become
lens boisterous after fifteen years
of peace when people, thinking of
constructive rather than destruc
tive work, could look back ana
iudernent on the things
they did during the bust of 1818.
So it might be well 10 suggest,
tho we hate to throw cold water
nn nurh encouragement as Mr.
Wiggam has given, that the pres
ent attitude is nothing to get jubi
lant over yet. It is a line man
snd the tendency is In the right di
rection but there is not much rea
son to believe that anything mort
than a start has been made.
If war were threatening Amer
ica todav. war pOBtera. sutli a
may be seen in the Liberty Me
mnrisl nr KnnRs Citv. with their
startling portrayal of exaggerated
emotions, wnicn wouia ne luimy u
thp wre not bo much blood in
their history, probably would still
appeal 10 intelligent college mu
dents. News reel shots of battle
nhins ruttine- into waves to the ac-
companyment of "Anchors Away,"
or the stirring pageantry or mili
tary parades, could probibly dis
solve in a few months enough of
what little Intelligence has been
pained to send the boys "Over
There" again
The point is not that Intelligent
patriotism is Impossible, but simp
ly that there is a great deal of
work and thinking to be done be
fore It Is accomplished. College
students must study, think, and
mm until thev reach com
plete understsndlng of the true
destiny of their ration among
other nations, and of th Insanity
of m-ar. University Dslly Ksnsan.
WallBre G. Rork of Hastings'
visited the university college of
engineering lart week. Mr. Rork
whk a grad'iate !n the department
of electrical eugineeriiig la 1934.
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