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J. PAGE TWO TIIE DAILY NEBRASKA. TUESDAY. DECEMBER 7, 1937 &Jl tllSL CWl By Elwood Randol. Colonel Lemuel Q. Stoopnagle and his inseparable companion, Budd, will be the guests of Al Jol son's musical and comedy program this evening over KFAB at 7:30. The famous comedy duo will swap dizzy nothings with Jolson who will do his best to hold his own. They will also be heard in a sk;t which will enlist the services of the show's stooges, Martha Raye and Parkyakarkus. Stoopnagle and Budd have been on the air since 1930 when An nouncer Wilbur Budd Hulick of the Buffalo Broadcasting Cor poration dashed into the continuity department to see who would brave an ad libbing assignment with him. He found F. Chase Taylor there pounding out a script. Together they went on the air and remained before the mike for an hour and a half. A thunderstorm had cut off the network wires and that amount of time elapsed before they were repaired. They thought they had pretty well completed their errice on the air when it was all over, but hundreds of letters came pouring in and they became a regular station feature, soon to transfer their hilarious dialogues to the national networks. Since they have been on the air, the team has been credited with such amaz ing contributions to troubled civil ization as the inventions of upside down lighthouses for submarines; rod. white and blue starch for American flags when the wind is rot blowing and revolving bowls tor tired goldfish. Beth Langford Write. Additional news of Beth Lang ford has been received by Joe di Xatile. publicity director of the lo . cal stations. According to a lettei he received from her. Miss Lang ford is now rewriting practically all of the scripts used on Edward G. Robinson's show. Big Town. She is assisted by her husband Ray Buffum. Recently she waa com missioned to write five original scripts to be heard during the first 13 weeks of the drama s broad casts and seven to be produced during the last 13 weeks. In addi tion. Miss Langford handles the publicity for Al Jolson'i variety show heard Tuesday nights at 7:30. for Joe Penner's broadcast and of course for Big Town. Tom Haywood of New Bern. N. C, had his tro"ble when he demonstrated his "self-disciplining, self-kicking" machine on a recent Gabriel Heattei We. the People program heard Wednesdavs at 6:30 p. m. over KFAB. Mark War now's instrumentalists, either prankish or bent on soothing a guilty conscience, spent so much time stepping into the gadget and turning the crank, causing hob nailed boots to smack their pos terior sections lustily, that by broadcast time, tie machine was out of kilter and would barely op erate. The musicians. It U reported. st gingerly on the edges of their chairs thruout tie half hour on the sur. Cracked Ice. Guides in NBC studios, as well as all studios, are faced with the task of breaking the ice whenever they have a group of visitors to conduct thru the plant In Radio City, the tourists are ushered into an observation booth to watch a rehearsal. The guides find that one way to put the visitors at ease so that tbey will ask questions and start talking back is to make a quip about the "Quiet" sign. The guide calls attention to it, but tells tiie visitors not to pay it too much mind. "It's only there now." say he. "to balance the 'So Smoking" sign over there. That's serious, too." A young group usually snickers at this one. One guide, Koffif Kahn, had the misfortune, however, of drawing a tour that included six Phi Bet Kappas. The questions tbey broke flown and Hiked were: "What i the D. B. con trol level in the studios?" "What if the amount of tag in one year in the ktuiiio suspension books?" and "What is the amount of power us d in one wek for air-condition-ig?" Kahn has since contracted the Englishman's distaste for cracked ice. Freddy Martin and his ''Magic Music" orchertra currently heard from Chicago's Arngnn ballroom will begin an engagement in New York's swar.k Ritz-Carlton bote! supper room tonight over a Mj tua! network. Stations carrying the program have not be-?i announces but it is Lkely that Kr OR cr, KU1L will have the program. EIL TEMPEL CHORAL i UNION GIVES MESSIAH SUNDAY IN COLISEUM Continued from Page 1.) various musical programs during the year she has lived here. Mrs. Gillan's renditions should be of in te est to everyone in attendance Eufiday, a ahe is experienced as a church moloist and has a thoro un derstanding of all the great ora torio. Two other gu-rt artiKU, Fred eric James. b.s, from New York City, and Men bah Moore, soprano, have sppir-d before with the rhoral union in recent con-ert. Miss Moore was soprano noloiirt when "The Elijah" was presented tr the university lart Chrurtma. and Mr. James had the bsjs lead In the 1935 presentation of the same oratorio. Wesley A. Barton, w-ho was chosen tenor soloirt. has had a wide range of exprince: he has appeared as tenor soloist In sev eral metropolitan churches of JCashviUe, Chattanooga, and Et Louis, as well as hiving sung as soloist with choral groups in New York, Minneapolis, Portland, New Orleans and other large cities. Mr. Barton, recognized as an outstand ing artist, has been a baritone with the Chicago Grand Opera com pany and needs no Introduction to Lincoln audiences. Director Templ has announced that the chorus for this year con cert will be composed of 200 mem bers of the chors union and the " university men's glee club, with no utslde singers In the group. Beginning about 2.40 p. m.. Mr. Chenoweth, aided b John Ehild neck and the brass ensemble, will present a group of Each chor ales. L :-" 1 Miiunifurmj i ! . .-. NEWS PARADE I by ier1 I nrifia f. Ann AiJ On to Ranking. Direct attack on Nanking Is momentarily expected today. Japa nese troops were within sight of the ancient walls of the city yes terday and only three miles from the city proper. Meanwhile, plans for a new, au tonomous government for Shang hai get under way. Shu Hsi Wen announces his assumption of the duties of mayor of the "great way" (the Shanghai area outside the foreign settlements). Citizens of Nanking remember the fate of Shanghai and have fled, leaving an almost deserted capital city. Oh. Where, Oh Where Has The Original Fire-Point Plan Cone? Roosevelt returns to the helm to rescue vestiges of his proposed measures and to iron out the ominous rift which has arisen be tween liberal and conservative democrats on the budget balancing plans. FARM BILL. New deal and con servative democrats in the senate shout that the farm bill is "unsat isfactory'' and would make Secre tary Wallace a "dictator over agri culture." Senator Ftazier of North Dakota charges that farmers, county agi nts and agriculture de partment workers had packed the regional hearings of the senate's bill. Violent denial greets his ac cusation, and the situation points toward probable referring of the bill back to the senate. BUDGET REDUCTION. New deal liberals are violent in their revolt on the president's proposed reduction of highway appropria tions. Congressmen are looking toward the 1938 elections, and slices of appropriation funds with which to appease constituents will not be quickly surrendered. TAX REVISION A house tax sub-committee is working daily on a complete overhauling of the en tire tax structure. Principle modi fications expected are changes in the capital gains and undistributed profits taxes, blamed by business men as the chief agents responsi ble for the present slump. HOUSING. Witnesses urging action on the president s plan are appearing before committee meet ings. However, with the present fate of the farm bill as the chief result of the first two weeks' work, housing measures are likely to re main little more than an adminis tration proposal. WAGES AND HOURS. The house labor committee orders the bill completely re-written with ttis should be a free country. But provision for administration bv the ahould there be freedom for ser labor department, instead of "bv a I vants in the employ of the state five man board. 10 arouse public feeling, day after The constant fear of bureau- crarv which exists is demonstrated I in tie action taken on the wage- I hour bill Outcome of the five w,ir.t la problematical, with odda favoring another two weeks of violent jis rusmon and little or no bill pass ir.g. Promptly at 3 p. m.. the stirring chords of "Adeete Fidelia'' will be the signal for the mass choir to march down the center aihle and oMo the platform. The stage anl coliKum will be appropr iately dec orated in Christmas greens. Di rector Kirkpatrkk invites every friend and alumnus of the uni-er-sity to be present at the rendition of this 42nd Christmas program. There will be no admission charge. DELEGATES OF UNION BUILDING CONVENTION RETURN TO NEERASKA (Continued from Page 1.) I universAies. Bob Simmons, student member of the Board of Mar.asrers I . V.' ,.. v....,-," v. v..t- .- i ajrr. m lyuii'jljj. .T: rf 77 H".w"?ln vith a:r-c;nd:tion- naa njgfl praise building. He pom Trie riri v nmnn tr.g and stated that altho much more costly building had been erected J at Cornell, Wisconsin. California and Purdue, our build. ing had very little waste apace and so compared favortbly. Simmons explained that the iJ fee charged at Nebraska for the union building waa low compared with other school. He xpreked the bebef tnat any skeptic of the value of the union would loie his skepticism once he caw one n op eration. Wh.Ie orne unions enter extensively into the promotion of a recreational program and oth ers merely provide a plate for recreation, Simmon believe that Nebraska will eteer a middle course in this respect. Having een tome of the problems, difficulties, and olution of other .hool at presented at the convention the manager of the Nebraska union hop a avoid many of the pit FUTURE IUUDES SEE PENNY WISE Unusual Comedy Presented by the University of Nebruka University Players Every Night Dec 6 to 11 Eve, 7:30 Sat. Matinee, 2:30 . From Bad to Good Taste at Other Schools What college students think is funny is pitifully lacking in humor. Dean Irving II. Herg of New York university said at the La fayette college baccalaureate services. The American undergraduate's lack of a genuine sense of humor and good taste is evi denced in the quality of so-called humorous magazines published by students, he explained. "The supposedly humorous publications emanating from various college and university campuses seem to deal exclusively with the subject of sex. This is deplorable. It indicates an attitude of mind which doesn't know what is really funny. Many situations in life are ludicrous, but they are not necessarily nasty. "That the American university under graduates are merely evil minded is some thing; I refuse to believe. Bad taste and ir reverence are neither of them humorous," said Dean Berg. "Perhaps our age is pe culiarly subject to demoralizing influences. With the strip tease, the suggestive movie and the salacious novel on every hand, there is a special challenge to the college man or woman to lead the way to a better and higher sense of humor and good taste." Dean Berg's remarks on the subject of hu mor have made one university realize the im portance of developing the student's ability to appreciate comedy in life. A course to develop a sense of humor, the first of its kind in any American college, has been instituted at the University of Florida. A bulletin of the course save the aim is to de velop the student's ability to view life from the standpoint of the spectator at a comedy, to per ceive the comjc elements in situations and in people, and to recognize the comic elements in himself. Florida's English department, which is providin? the course's teacher, is conviwed that the sense of humor is acquired and not in herited. To measure results, a special tct of humorous perception is given to the students at the beginning and end of the course. The development of a sense of humor is undertaken by both extensive readings in mas terpieces of humorous literature and numerous class discussions of the psychology of laughter land the cornic elements in language, situations and character. On the suggested reading lit of the course 'are such authors as Mark Twain, (ieorge Ade, . Henry, Dorothy Parker, King Lardner. Cer vantes and Shakespeare. Graduate Finds LeRossijmol Off Omaha, Nebraska December 4, 1937 To the Editor: I would be the last to deny that d"?- against the principles of the mo!rt P'T"10" element in the country- and to accept money for 't from partisan interests? I tr to the syndicated column written by J. E. LPos!gnol, der. of the University of Xebraka col- lege of busir.ess administration. It! appears in the Fremont Tribune, j and in papers in other states. Supposedly a d:cuijion of hol - arly economic questions, his fav- orite topic i the labor movement, At every opportunity, he thowt the color of the reaction ary money he receivet by at tacking the labor principle! held to by thoutandt of Nebraska workert. Recently, the National Association of Manufacturers of fered to foot the bill for any newspaper that wanted to run LeRottignol't column. I don't know how much time the dean is required to spend on hu tll,, thrn the Mlary tua "J . u 11 "ru? l , m is Tiothlr more tr an a' . , -S "5 . n ' tv, a tht nisi ti 1 ,rrm wmvn ir n a - r""""" when he ues it to fight the move- 'h"h r' r rJ food ' Nebraska Graduate, How Elrnfr Would 1 Spend Arm) Money Dear Mr. Editor: Rome time ago you printed an Interview with Kmedlfy Eutler. and I ve been thinking about it ever since, fimedley eem to think that army men are unprincipled. The man I wrong. I know sev eral that have principle. Furthermore, there are many rule which army men never break. For example, they never kill the tame man twice. After all. fighting 1 part of the nature of man; he ha to let off steam orne way. My radical room mate say. Thn why doesn't he beat hi head against a wall and tave all that money?" but of course that it silly. A far at the money U con cerned, we can spend all we want, Grade 'A,' No Extra Strange are fore they put was spoiled. Siudsmi PjuIm Dean. - Color . , j , for isn t it a well known fact that mere is always neii 10 pay; Eesides. look at all the recrea-' tion that war and military train- i lr.g otters university stuoer.ts. They can all get that nice outdoor drill and the more ambitious ones eipec:al!y those in the eastl can form rlube rich as The Future Progenitors of Future Growers of roppy b-els lor hutur Poppies to be Sold for the Benefit of Fu-1 ture Wars. Xow here is an argument that should be of special interest to those who war.t a rifw library. We got Jhe Armory llernonal "after the Spanish-American war, and the stadium after the World war. and if we have a third war. we j could probably get a library out J of the oeaL So phooey to Smedley ButW. Vourt Truly, Private Elmer Blaine. NEW PAHELL RUSH RULES GO IN EFFECT DUR0ING AUGUST. '33 Continued from I'ape 1.) us studio. Girls who are not reg- ular oHegatea are aked to f o-,p-1 erate with the secretary m teeir.g ' tut the r-guiar delegates are ! there. . . , rT'''!jr represent, SUv "oro r.mt r'hi Beta an.! one from Kappa A.'pha Theta will ; , ' ' "V ' ' St; thaow ?.r, .sororities whirh art having a Chrvtmas ptrty for daughters or t;ster of the members of their i rhap.er are inrtru'ted t file their party with Mrs Wert over and the Panhellenir oUice. Delia Phi Delia Annonnee Pledge at Dinner Tonigli! Delta Phi Delta, national art fraternity, will announce jt new p)-'!ge at a dinner tonight. Terry Towrwnd. well known commercial artist and deroiatxr. will oe the guert speaker. H- will dincuss the pokxioilitie and liw.it for the artist in the popular field of advertisirg. Yy, to, tan be e O'tat tovar , . . tout ycu''l laugh youraelf ailir tatftef leaaona from The Great Garrick" with Olivia DW,v.llrd Brian Ahem E4warJ Cett Morten STARTS THURSDAY! r a f iii at Cost the factors which enter in to raise or lower the marks of a group of college: students. Occasionally, the professor provides, the stimulus that brings up the academic! standing of his classes. Among the various patent methods of, raising academic standing, the solution of-! fered bv Dr. 1). M. Allan, psychologist at j Hampden-ydney college in Virginia, is cer tainly unique. lie claims that by talking a student into a hypnotic state and then urging him on to greater endeavor, he can actually raise marks. Once the student is hypnotized the doctor looks him in the eye and states with emphasis: "As the result of this trance your powers of concentration will be greatly increased and your mind will work better and you will not be nervous during examinations. You will have great ambition to be successful in your studies and to improve your class records." Dr. Allan reports that as a result of this experiment, a number of "D" students jumped to the "C" group, while others climbed from "R" to "A." and a few jumped straight from failure to the honor croup. During the past five years, Dr. Allan has worked on 61 volun teer subjects, five of whom could not be hyp notized. These five were the only ones whose marks were not improved. Another instance of raising marks was the case when a California teacher devised the in genious method of placing corrected papers in three different receptacles, out of which each student must retrieve his own product. 'iood papers were placed in a jar which, when the lid was lilted, gave off a delightful aroma; papers only "fair to middlin' " were contained in a jar the odor of which was slightly unpleasant ; but to retrieve a p.ipcr marked "F." the student must encounter most offensive fumes. The class average rose appre ciably with this innovation. Still another method of raising their standing was arranged by. the students them selves in a Georgia Tech ehissit.om, in which failures predominated. The c!;iss was ciu dueted on a basis of answering "yes" or "no" to questions put by the professor. Among the class members was a blind boy. who was an "A" student. As this in dividual was permitted the Use of a typewriter in class, it became a matter of routine for the other class members to await his answer K down their own. If he struck two keys, they wrote "no;" if thief thev wrote -yes." However, the professor devised ,1 t ,,l 1 t . .1 the method r.f havinfr the m'onncr type a pe - nod after the "no ' answers, and thus the fun Somrtliiiin; Ba To the Editor: We have made it to the Military' "an, Boy! Oh Boy! I wish that you could see this hall. All the girls are so entrancing And the bravest souls are dancing. And vou can see it all if wn tall. i This crod personif ic$ the Golden j Horde. Not a soul, no, not a one f them ! it bored. To judge by all the Press I Were a maiden in distress, It looks at tho the pen would beat the sword. I with that we could always be to happy. Everyone hat got a tmile upon his mappy All have got their hockey thoet, And the necessary booze. ! And they've tent the box of At- pirm home to pappy. He hat just revealed the Honorary Whmxit She rm-'n"'m now with the 8 fw. " ' . ! And they all are mott de- lighted, i r"or Jutt tne "y they wanted 0r 1,7 I regret we cannot ttay tor any met. My thirt it wilted and her drett It tore. We enjoyed it, never fear. For we make it every year. Now left tee if we can make it to the door. Warren Lewn. . nnils t "BIG CITY" : V"; IREiNE '?. . - 1 11 - ."a V 1 rnwi Sbpohisih. br Merrill England "Why," caustically inquired the individual, teetering precariously, one foot on a table, the other on the back of a chair on which two other individuals were standing, "did I come to this mess?" We're still looking for the answer. Some 6.000 people, slight ly more than half of them specta tors, witnessed the ultra in mili tary balls and colonel presenta tions on Friday night, drank pale punch, and literally hugged to music, because you can't call dodg ing elbows and spurs in a two foot square dancing. . but it was fun. The orchestra was good, the floor was as dancable as the Coli seum floor will ever be, the ball was well staged, and the military department should be compliment ed upon its presentation. Compliments fell with the moans as students aired their gripes about the affair. Their comments are anonymous sorrjp were solic ited, many overheard. Bizad junior: "The military department should be given a little room in the base ment where it could march and drill and look pretty all evening if it wanted to. I came to the ball to dance, not to stand on a chair and watch a bunch of would be soldiers in bowlegged boots hanging onto their sabers with death grips, lest they drop them. "I'd enjoy a military ball if we didn't have to wait so long for things to start. Next year, I'm not coming till about 10 p. m. maybe I won't be tired out before I get to the dance floor." Arts and Sciences senior: "The hall is really an enjoyable social function. It has good music, a so-so floor, and a good crowd. It's a lot of fun. One suggestion tho why not have the officers re move their spurs In-fore they go into their dance? Twice I've "been nicked in the ankle by high Mep ping officers who came around the bend with their spurs high. I idon t walk 80 Sd any more Overheard: . ' RUeM x,oU arent verv nice things to dance ! in. . . Swell party, tart it? . . The honorary colonels an all rieht looker. The soldiers sure did j themselves proud on this affair:" Law sophomore: "In the years that I've been here, the ball has impressed me very favorably. One thing, tho why does the Daily Nebraskan spend so much time harping about where the money goes? It's sponsored by a private organization, isn't it? j it s not compulsory, is it? Then. what business is it of anyone's 1 where the monev eoes? I "The Innocents toss a blowout every so often, and vou see no - TA MITT 1 j (And Every Tuetday Vjrit) IS STUDENT NIGHT AT THE STUART! Your registration card and 30C will admit you to tee... Slnrli ritiay'. Greater than A STAR IS BORVI "STAGE DOOR" with Ginger Rogen Katharine Hepburn Adolphe Menjou 25C vi:nKsAi! The Star of "The Aujul Truth' and "Kohvrta" in another Suell PUinre! SttE" trim . 1 RANDOLPH SCOTT DOROTHY LAMOUl BEN MAX AK1M TAM1ROFV till 6 A id4irt tOr enrtimrt Daily Nebraskan Entered as second-cla?a matter at tii postofflce Id Lincoln, Nthraika, under a.-i. ol cons rem. March 3, 1879. and at a cial rata ot postage provided (or In aectinn 11(13. act or Ocioher 3. 1817. authorized January 50. 922. - headlines asking where the money went. The Corn Cobs throw a party every so often, and you don't see any itemized statement of the organization's finances on Page l of the Rag. So whose business is it what happens to the party of the cadet officers association ? "If the price is too high, or if you don't like the principle of the thing, don't go; but at least quit howling about it! Incidentally, I n bet every member of the Ftag'staff came. If I were the colonel, I'd really raise hell." Arts and Sciences senior: "The military ball Is one of the most beautiful scenes I'll ever have the opportunity to witness. The formal black and white of the men. the well tailored uniforms of the officers, the splashes of color of the band's scarlet and white, and the women's dresses make a really beautiful picture. "If we didn't go to the military ball, we'd go to some other dance or formal. I think they're really a pleasure to attend. "After all, the military depart ment is probably the largest one in the university, and it ought to re given a cnance to strut its stuff once in a while." Arts and Sciences junior: I have four reasons. First, the military ball is fun anyway, I al ways have fun at it. Second, it marks the oneninE- of the formal season, and I'm glad to get into my tux again. Third, it's an im portant social function: and since I'm in love I want to take my girl everywnere. i-ourtn, I m an offi cer. and I'd go even if I didn't want to." Phalanx. Phalanx will hold a meeting in the "X" club room this evening at 8:00. Scabbard and Blade. Scabbard and Blade will meet at 8:00 this evening at the Beta Theta Pi houpe. Tassels. Tassels will hold their regular meeting at Social Science. 105. to night at 7 o'clock. Gamma Alpha Chi. Gamma Alpha Chi will meet jt Ellen Smith todey at 4:15 o'clock. , 12 Year$ ft II Since you've r seen such oT Spectacle! Q U "Ben bur" to many thoutardi in one production T NOW PLAYING THIS IS NEWS! 3 GREAT STARS TYRONE POWER Loretta YOUNG DON AMECKE SECOND FEATURE SOLDIER AND THE LADY vl' m H mm ylltr I : weo CM ter itn. New Low I Admittiont Thursday Matinee Hal. N itw lOf I5f Madia All iwala 13f AI.-- Till 6 i s,Jrt f THUR. I j James I 3lf,L CW f TUTH" " ""s5gM I "komethinn to ting About" A !' I