page tto THE DAILY NEBRASKA, WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 10, 1937 "twr J! t 1 ! 4 i , Merrill tl J We are, we suppose, being led Into another war. A decade or two since Europe became the world's butcher shop, we are again being goose-stepped toward the mael strom of death. Students, the receivers of the best military propaganda in the world the shiny boots, the razor creased breeches, the rows of medals are going to play a very important part in this conflict. To them is to be delegated the job of being killed and maimed. Snappy martial music, nifty military parades are again greas ing the skids that send us hurtling Into the abyss of war. What do these students think of the im minence of war? What about com pulsory military training? Inez Eberhart, Teachers college senior: "I feel that a lot of trouble rould be avoided if the newspapers would stop playing up the stories that come from foreign countries, especially those articles that deal with foreign wars. Even if the trouble is not very serious, a news paper story can make a lot of people think it is. "I just can't believe that we will have another war very soon. The effects of the last one arc still so prevalent that I don't see how the people of this country would al low themselves to he dragged into another one. However, the younger generation doesn't remember the last war, so, with a little propa ganda perhaps it could happen again. "The possibility of war seems so remote. Here, we're so busy with ether things that we just haven't time to give it much thought. We have no personal contact with the war problem, so we fail to be very much interested. "I don't believe in compulsory military training. It should be of fered as an elective. It is undoubt edly good, but it perpetuates the military spirit. The uniforms and parades tend to give youngsters, ' who know nothing of the horrors of war, the wrong impression of it." C. L. B., Bizad tenior: "No, I don't feel that the United States has any need to worry about a war at this time. We shall never be invaded, and un less our interests are threatened, We shan't go to another war. If, Jhowever, our lives or interests are -menaced, we would fight for them. " "The possibility of war seems so jremote to the average student. -Here, with our studies and classes, our time Is so taken up that we Tiave no time to speculate as to ..the probability of a world war in the near future. "I do not feel that compulsory drill is especially beneficial. Fel lows who are forced into It just lon't have the proper attitude, and consequently they do no good cither for themselves or for the military department. ""With the present system, how , ever, the ones that are interested take drill along with the rest, and It makes for a larger and better organization. The ones who are really interested get the benefits, and it certainly dees no harm to the others." Jack Sampson, Engineering col lege freshman: ... The probability of war seems Bo remote, that I don't even feel that It is possible that' the way with most of us who have grown up since the war. "Personally, 1 don't think very much of compulsory military training-the training is good, it's the compulsory angle to which I object. The course should be avail able to those interested, but the compulsory feature is out of place In our democratic school system. "The way things look now, this feneration might have to go to war, but all because of silliness. If the nations of the world would Uck together and aquench some of the Incorrigible, we could avoid war." Margaret Van Sickle, Arts and Sciences tenior: "Compulsory drill Is a good thing it's good both for the dis cipline which they boys get, and the fact that we shall be bi tter prepared In event of a war. "The idea of war seems very re mote to me, but talk and propa ganda are the two things which help bring it on. When people be come ao extremely conscious of a thing, they usually use it.' "Student life excludes the great er part of the outside world, es pecially rumors of war. Personally, I don't pay much attention to all this talk about war- It's too much over-emphasized. Of course It dors prevent war from arriving as a complete surprise, but too much space is allotted in our newspa per! to these war scares." Frank Coufal, Bizad aophomors: "Although we are concerned di rectly, we don't get worked up about It until It Is too late. "As for compulsory drill, there Isn't much or position. In one re upect, It gives a semblance of dig clpllne, and aome Idea of military tactica, but it can't bo thorough enough to do much actual good. "A world war, however, la a possibility. If the president con tinues hia present policy of Inter national meddling, something will certainly happen; but If he le; them alone, thlngi win probably b til right. Th peopla of thii country ahould forget their long lngi to becoma an International policeman." -The old Athenian achool of perl pntelc philosophers hat Ita modern counterpart In the trailer achool which Dean Guy 8. Mlllberry of the University of California'! school of dentistry has purchased to meet the demands made on him Xor lectures. Among. J Jul (BockA. "Oh, nonsense," said Maurice, and we find ourselves heartily re-echoing the words of Maurice. Maurice Sterne was merely reply ing to his wife's, Mable Dodge Lu han's, f seling of being one with the people of Taos, while our comment is a reaction to everything she says in her new volume, "Edge of Taos Desert." We have eagerly looked forward to this book, which is volume four of her "Intimate Memories," because we have al ways wondered how any woman, even one with three previous hus bands, could exchange the exotic Russian, Maurice Sterne, for the stolid Indian, Tony Luhan. Mabel certainly attempts to tell us she withholds nothing of the elemental passion which drew her from New York by means of a dream, in which she saw the face of Tony blotting out that of Mau rice, until the time in Taos desert when Tony says, "I comin' here to this tepee tonight when darkness here. That be right? ' and she an swers, "Yes, Tonv, that will be right," but she is hardly convinc ing. Over and over she reiterates that she had never known reality hence her sub-title, "An Escape to Reality," until she breathed the clear dry sparkling air of Taos and met the primitive Tony. But somehow we do not understand; our imagination remains dormant. Tony Strips Gears. To Illustrate one of her mystical experiences of reality, Mable tells about going for a ride with Tony in Sterne's car. Tony, who had never driven a car, expressed a de sire to do so, and as a result he stripped the gears and caused other Internal injuries. When Ma ble returneu home Sterne silently struck her across the mouth. She knew then that Sterne did not understand her, and that Tony did. This was a climax, but our sympathies were all with Sterne. We do not feel with Mrs. Luhan; our minds and not our senses reg ister what she is telling us. She arouses no imaginative sympathy. Therein lies her failure, for what she is trying to tell us is a thing of the senses, of the emotions, and not of the intellect. It is this fail ure of hers to make us experience something of what she is feeling, that makes us doubt the authentic ity of her sensations. She appears to be a very sane woman trying to make believe to herself and to the world that she is neurotic. We wish more of her husbands had had Sterne's flare for silent action. Thank You, Mr, Koch. Several weeks ago this column championed Bernard DeVoto for his suggestion that academicians who mean "lousy should say "lousy." We note with satisfaction that in Fred Koch's story, which appears in the current number of the Prairie Schooner, it is the pro fessor of English who so forgets himself as to call another profes sor a "louse." Thank you, Mr. Koch. The Reader's Digest has a de partment called "Toward a More Picturesque Speech." From Ste phen Crane's "The Red Badge of Courage," we would like to sub mit; "In the eastern sky there was a yellow patch like a rug laid for the feet of the coming sun." Thumb's Down on Hemingway, We do not like Ernest Heming way. We do not like what he says, or how he says it. Consequently we are labeled a prude, a Puri tan, and a Victorian, and are asked, in an Indignant tone of voice, how we can fail to admire Mr. Hemingway's dialogue? Here's a fair sample from his new novel, "To Have ami Have Not": "Did you see it?" Mr. Johnson asked him. "Don't talk about It, Mr. John son," Eddy said to him. "Ii. makq nie sick to even think about it." "You better have a drink," Johnson told him. Johnson, who Ih so unimportant that he is not given a first name, is never referred to after the first chapter, yet In that chapter his name is mentioned 43 times in con nection with "salds," "tolds," etc., giving the misleading impression that the name is an Important one and therefore one that should be remembered. Th-.-e are numer ous examples of . ueh overempha sis of names but Mr. Johnson's, being in the first chapter, seems safer to quote. Why is this good dialogue? We thought "salds," 'tolds," "walkeds" etc., were dis carded way back In siero English. Perhaps no one In this day and age talks like Henry James, hut we grep.tly prefer him to Mr. Mem Ingway'g efforts. Campus Politician Leads ' 'Green Bonnets' Into Arena (Continued from Page l.i ma'a teeth. Each Represenfatlve Is there to get as many men from his nrcanlzatlon on the ticket na possible without the other'! know ing. The oddest thing about this Is that such a feat Is not a' all Im possible, for all others present are so busy trying to accomplish the same thlnir that thev do not notice what their colleagues are aliout. Brother-Pushing. The usual method of nomination Includes a pneumatic oration hv a "brother pusher" in which he says.-jonn, you all agree, Is the man for the 1oh of hucket keener for the Dairy club. He has been very active on the campus, be longing to, belonging to, let'a ace now; well, belonging to a lot of things besides going out for foot- doii. no, ne dian t make the team, but he was out." "He has a COOd eornrltv hsrktno- He ha! a high icholaitlc average," aeciarei me Booster, loklng around warily to see If anyone remembers bow the dean Almost bought John a one-way ticket home last year. "Beaides J1 this, our house hn had no place on the faction ticket In four yean; well, perhaps It hai been only a iemester, but It seem! like four yean" John Wlnda Up On Ticket. An so runa the nominating mi. ter. Ultimately, John will wind up on the ticket, because no one else want! the Job anyhow. Argument THE DAILY NEBRASKAN TIIIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR . EDITORIAL STAFF BUSINESS STAFF E Murray Business Manager Bob Wadhame Associate Edllor Don Wagner Assistant Managers Frank Johnson, Arthur Hill Manailni editors Wlllara Barney, Helen r-asro Clreulatloa Manager Stanley Mlehael Newa Editors Morris Llpn, Howard Kaplan, Rnrbara Rosewater, Bd Sleeves, ZHTZIZZr Marjnrla thnrrhlll. SUBSCRIPTION RATE ON ISSIB 1,0 Tear Mingle copf S1.00 a eemeslrr Pesk r.dltor Burney tM "" """ester Nltht Kdllnr Rinrnater mailed Under direction of the (Undent Publication Una ML editorial Office University Hall 4. Business Offlee University Hall 4-A. Telephone Daj B7181. Mghti BUMS, I1SS88 (Journal). 1937 Member ,03g Fissocided GoUeft'tole Press Distributor of GoUe6iateDi6est Familiarity Breed Contempt You don't want to think you? The conflagration Hint is to nuiko fishes oC the forest of civilized, nations awaits but a gust of wind. There arc a couple of promising fires in China ami Spain. The diplomats of the important nations have formed a bucket line at .Brussels, but the breezes caused by del egates leaving in a luii'E are fanning the flames. This is old stiiTf. Such .things have been going on since our high school days when we thrilled in horror at Japan's previous nggres- sion in China. As students we ered anymore. We have the important matter of livin'p: to attend to: a few classes, about the same number of dates, a rally prologue, a football same, and a party epilogue. Youth will be sacrificed on the altar . . . the best blood of the nation, cannon fodder, lung kindling for seering gas. Such state ments no longer get a rise out of Nebraska's younger generation. There was a time when descriptions employing adjectives dripping with gore, shocked us momentarily into a realization of the awfulness of modern war fare. We've tired realizing it. We expect it. But we don't want to think about it. "We read of it in Ethiopia. AVe read of it in Sn.-i'm nod China. News services are gener ous with bloody pictures, the the less trite. The horrors of ni.iifp df it. the eomectured imothop world affair have been so much that we're used to them. with the appalling danger of the situation. pit virtually nullifies Doctrine in a quarantine speech heard around 1he world. Franco has two-thirds of Spain. Itnlv Cermanv. and Japan form tVisHi'ut. iriiinide fiirainst international commu nism, or against war; or for ensues every nomination merely to keep up the tempo of the party. Now the party Is equipped with platform and candidates and Is ready to go out and slay the po litical foe. Our little man without the cigar organized a rally as a campaign catalyst. A rally Is noth ing more than an unregimcnted mob of students, most of whom are freshmen forced to attend un der the threat of pine boards, and who tramp across people's' ter races yelling vote lor something or other. Our man of the hour has a megaphone which he fairly thrusta Into the portals of respective so rority houses and bellows his well memorized riltty. For Clean Politic. "Vote green bonnet, for we are supporting your candidate," he claims confidentially and then looks across the street to see if any other sorority overheard him. "We stand for clean politics," he shouts with emphasis as someone In the back of the crowd yells, "Yah, the other party's a bunch 'a niun!" About the time that the entire ceremony is completed antl the party marches off hhoutlng and beating wash tubs, some sleepy eyed Individual pokes her head from the window and asks, "What do you want?" Rallies Unnecessary. This illustrates that rallies are unnecessary Instruments for dis turbing the peace, because every Mable, Becky and Agnes will vote for the man their one and only tells them to vt.t for, If they vote at ill. Sometimes, however, one result Is rendered from a political rally. If a man of the orange smock party flings an Insult toward a member of the jrreen bonnets, fists and brick bats fly subsequently. When the participants go home singing "After the Brawl is Over," they have that certain satisfaction that something has been arcomp Ished, even at the price of one very discolored eye, The fistfest has nothing to do with the election, but It does prove the worth of the uni versity Infirmary. Comet The Election. Comes the dawn anil ccmes the election. Members of the student council are In the balloting places to .ee that the election is kept on the "up and up." This they do until one of their own psrty comes Into the building. Then, of course, thy seem to overlook the fact that he Inserts not one, but five ballots Into the box. Thruout the entire election day, It ii a battle to tea who can tuff the receptacle the most. By THE FASHION SEWING SHOP 6-M SoC 14th St., Lincoln, Ntbr. Dressmaking Alterations. , Tailoring Phone L 6.304 LEORA H. OIEL, Mgr. Published every Tues day. Wednesday, Thursday. Friday and Kunnay mornings of the academic year by students of the Uni versity nt Nebraska, nnder the supervision of the Hoard of Publications. nlunit w;ir, Ho can t be both more horrible war, the immi- consequences or noised about "We're sated international the Monroe a menacing territorial ex nightfall the ballot box is stuffed tighter than a Christmas goose, but the council members go out to tabulate. In the process of counting the votes, honesty reigns. It reigns because both parties see that they are represented. Green Bonnets Win. The campus daily announces the winner the next morning with blaring headlines. Our little boss of the green bonnets has won. His candidates are in office. Without further ado, he streaks out to find more people to give the perfunc tory hand pump and to find an other "worthy" project for the spring election. As the scene closes, we find our newly elected men wondering what their duties an now that they are In office. AROUND AND ABOUT (Continued from Page 1.) resources of the teacher, necessi tates constantant study. A Bright Teacher. Native Nehraskans, Dr. Lets Hollingworth and her husband, Dr. Harry, psychologist at Columbia, have, between them, published more books on psychology than any other couple In the country. In Who's Who, which lists both Hol llngworths, the titles of 7 volumes follow Dr. Leta's name, 17 come after her husband's. Dr. Harry Hollingworth Is also an 'OH grad and P. B. K., Iieinfr, In addition, a member of Sigma Xi. Dr. Warren Bailer, assistant pro fessor of educational psychology, studied under Dr. Leta and has been a frequent guest In the Hol lingworth home. Three days In the week, he tells, the famous couple work strenuously with classes and their writing, living quietly in a small apartment on Morn'lngslde Heights in New York. The rest of the time they are to be found in their comfortable country place upstate, where they do a great deul of entertaining. In personality the two are quite opposite. Dr. Leta it ex tremely terlout, unpretentlout in her drett almost to dowdinett, but brilliant conversationally. Her husband It alto catual In hit attire, but utterly informal and Jolly, given to day dream ing, feet high on hit detk, a very violent pipe clenohed be tween hit teeth. Classmates of the Holllngwortha remember Dr. Leta aa an extreme ly earnest student. But. Dr. Harry too Is "capable of spending his energies most efficiently." Some of her intellectual preoccupation Dr. Leta must past along: to her stu Mel PESTER'S ts them really swing II on the finest floor In the midwest at King's. 10MIs Sternle Sternberg, Friday. Nat Towlj, Sat. Sunday. continuous Bus isrvlce. entered as second-class -latter at the postofflr in Lincoln, Nebraska, nnriei aet ot congress, March 8, 181V, and at special rate ot postage .provided for In section 1103, act of October 8. 1017, authorised January 10, IBM. National Advertising Service, Ihc Ctllif fmblitkm Rtprtttutativt 420 Madison Avi. New York, N. Y. chioaoo - Boston . n rnNcisco LOS ANQKLCa PoaTLAND SJIAT7U pansion. Fascist Brazil goes Red hunting in our backyard and bans Twain's "Tom Saw yer" because our childhood hero didn't have a proper respect for authority. Japan takes Shanghai, a seaport vital to China and im portant to the U. S.. Britain, the world. Ve yawn. We'll wait for something im portant to happen before we get riled up. Anyway we have more immediate problems of significant nature to occupy our atten tion. How come we can't get enough people at one dance that know how to do the Big Apple so we can all learn by watching them? There is probably less audible or visible pacificism on this campus than on any other of comparable size in the county. The past has seen Nebraskan editors earnest against the admittably unconscionable policy of compul sory military training in a democratic educa tional set-up. The cause got so old it smelled, but the regents had insensitive olfactories. The students didn't really care, and after all the cadets are kind of Tire'ttv. The past has seen pacifist ic organizations with urgent pleas for a stand against war, for rational thinking on its causes. They died like Rome, for want of men. Why should we disturb the pleasant apathy of getting educated by taking time out to insure the future for the use of our education? Why should we waste our prec ious youth storing up information on the methods of war propaganda, on the eco nomic inequalities that cause war, on the possibilities of embroiling the United States? Why should we try to master the difficult but necessary fete of steering an idealistic country between the dragons of insane isolation and disastrous implication? Why should Armistice Day week be the oc casion for a serious inventory of war? Why should we seek to be the reasonable leaven in the populace just because ours is the time and the opportunity to become well posted? "We don't want to think about war. We have other things to do. dents, for several of her more gifted pupils from an earlier ex periment with exceptional children are among the brilliant and suc cessful graduates of Columbia. And speaking of college athletics word arrives in the capital, where, incidentally, football gossip la whispered in government offices, and football pools are played by high and low alike that the Uni versity of South Carolina In home games, varies the band parade be tween halves with an exhibition of the Big Apple put on by picked coeds and men students. STARTS TODAY BETTE DAVIS HENRY FONDA in "THAT CERTAIN WOMAN" STARTS THURSDAY! Tha rnmrdy of thi mill ing hhmd in the icantiv! Snrli earners trlrks , , . sock hilarity . . . surh fun , v konrst, (oiks, It's a noli I i IJ HICItT Y i "HOPALONG RIDES AGAIN" ; Mil Kurd firo. "Wlnilv" Hayrs ! nd I "I'lm lion" Wllsna Hill Lilian "BEHINDTHE MIKE" Last Timet WED. 'High School Girl" Starts Sun, SMITH BALLEW in ZANE GREY'S "Roll Along Cowboy' Colman In "A Talc of Two CUIet" THUR. FRI. SAT. FAMOUS SWING ORCHESTRA Tonight NO ADVANCK 250 t El fl en On. ihsL dUL By Elwood Randol. Back to earth after the flight Into the heights yesterday, this department returns to a use of the language which is not quite as much over our heads as yester day's masterpiece. The life of John Bartram, America's first bio-chemist, will be dramatized this evening on the Cavalcade of America program which comes at 7 p. m. over KKAB. Bartram was the first per son to apply his knowledge of botany to make medicines synthe tically. Bidu Sayao Guest. Andre Kostelanetz has has his guest Bidu Sayao, young Brazilian lyric soprano of the Metropolitan Opera at 8 and Phillips H. Lord will present another true-life story taken from the files of a local law enforcement agency in the "Crusade Against Crime." Dr. William Lyon Phelps of Yale university will review a book this morning as guest of the Magazine of the Air. Frank Crumit and Julia Sanderson are the editors of the publication. The program is heard at 10 Wednesdays and Fri days over KFOR. Martin to Pitt. Reggie Martin, manager of the local stations and official football ennouncer for the university, will beln Pittsburgh this week-end to bring a play-by-play description of the Husker-Panlher tilt, in the Smoky City. An important note is the change in time. Because of the difference in clock readings in the east, the game will be on the air at 1 p. m. central standard time. It is likely that there will be a period of ten to fifteen min utes of pre-game dope. KOIL, Omaha, Is tearing down Ita nid 135-foot twin towers at the Hilltop transmitter in Council Bluffs that have served tnem ior mnre thsn 12 vears. The towers were built in July, 1925 and were in operation until Sept. 13 ot tms year. It was then that KOIL be gan operation with its new5,000 watt transmitter with a 310-vo'i. vertical radiator antenna. Mary Jane Walsh, Mutual's "Singing Cinderella" heard Fri days at 7 on KOIL, has been granted permission by the man agement of "I'd Rather Be Right," George M. Cohan's new hit show on Broadway in which Mary Jane has a leading role, to miss the finale of the show every Friday in order that singer may make her Mutual repeat broadcasts for the west coast. A Cool One. Many persons speaking for the first time on the air are faced with a stage fright that is hard to overcome. Coolest, apparently, of all of the hundreds of persons Dave Dri.qnnll iinH .turrv rinnvitr have visited on their "Let's Visit" program neard over Mutual and KOIL at 8:30 Tuesdays, was Doris OnillrlinET Pnnnriinn nutrition nt,.. dent living at International House wniie uanzig talked on the air With MiSS rSnillflinir ctho tront rlrrkt on knitting as she' spoke. On the Bunace sne won tne title for the greatest microphone poise ever ex hibited. Dnlv Inter IU ilu ,!,! ... J . DIIC CIUIIIIL that she had knitted right past the icu,uireo numoer or stitches in her excitement and had tn rn m h work and start over. Mat. Only 25c Only 14 Mure 11 Days Till . . ' "DOUBLE WEDDING' STUAItT WHh I'OWtl.l. Myrna UlV SUH HURRVI LAST DAY "THE HIT PARADE" plus "WOMEN ARE TROUBLE" STARTS THURkOAYll ROBERT MONTGOMERY In "Piccadilly Jim" plus Patty KELLY Charlie CHASE "KELLY THE 2nd" Mat. 10o Eve. 15o F.nili Thurmlay! Come on gaup; . . . It's the firnt big football hit of llie yenr! Another tory y tin suUior of Mr. ueeai." "Mr, Dodd Takes the Air" Kenny Baker 15o Mat. Eves 20c 2T Frldayl DIVERS" Qabls Beery In "HELL IS! t Til 0 ! 1 i I'V' ' (IWIttl ' NEWS PARADE h bv f A P3J ajsjasasasaji HP -kv; I HT,1 r ;.." -; V . s' M Ml ... RUSSIA LEAVES 1 V HUFF LABOR SEEI.SG THE LIGHT Russia's delegate to the Brussels conference leaves in a huff us a conciliatory move gets under way which threatens to exclude Rus. sia. The proposed movents appar ently a concession to Japan, who states that she will he willing to discuss peace settlements will, nine-power signatories, but not. with "outsiders," referring of course to Russia. Litvlnoff, soviet delegate, is reported as "espe cially Incensed over any plan to name Italy to membership on a conciliatory committee and to ig nore Russia." v Possibilities that Russia's with drawal will bring about any change of policy on the part of the conference are slight. Italy's entrance into the three-power las cist "holy alliance" presents an indominable front which will defy dictation by democratic powers. As they have fallen back in for mer times before determined fas cist action, the democratic powers, far from taking stand with a com munist power, will likely seisin upon any peace concession made by Japan and congratulate them selves on having successfully solved the Far Eastern crisis. Glimmers of light appear in la bor's laborious struggle toward peace settlement. Tentative agree ment on apportionment of 16 in dustries between the warring fac tions may be indication of a way out. Other Industries, between four and nine in number, will not be so easily disposed of because of the presence of both C. I. O. and A. F. of L. unions in the same field. RECORD HOMKCOMIV, MOB ATTENDED FKAY 32,901 Saw Huskrrs Rally to Tie Ja j hawkers, Solleck Says. A crowd of 32.901, the largest ever to witness a Husker-Jayhawk grid game, was on hand last Sat urday at Memorial stadium to see 13-13 tie. Knotholers at the contest 13-13tie. Knotholers at this contest numbered 6,434, according to John K. Selleck, business manngcr of athletics. The. largest Big Six turnout was in 1928 when 34.002 fans turn.'d out to witness Nebraska tangle with Missouri at Memorial sta dium. Kis:hva Wm a UMssHand tkaatre wm ARMISTICE DAY SPECIAL! The year's funniett... sunniest... honeyetl... of comedies) If IML iff-" s ft Waal a wrtnd ftaarrs eaUeaaaasl THURSDAY 3 Big Daytl 2 FEATURES 2 Vnu'll I Jiff utilll nur MHh-ti hurl when Hnrk iHlHat '. llMW hiirttc ii ml rittil tiltmrft hit niatdfi. 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