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TIIE DAILY NEBRASKA. TUESDAY. DECEMBER 7, 1937
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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
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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.
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NEWS
PARADE I
by
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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
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universAies. Bob Simmons, student
member of the Board of Mar.asrers I
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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'
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tv, a tht nisi ti 1 ,rrm wmvn ir n a
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when he ues it to fight the move-
'h"h r' r rJ food
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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.
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, 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
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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!
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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
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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.
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"BIG
CITY"
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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
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(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
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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.
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