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THE DAILY NEBKASkAN, SUNDAY. FEBRUARY 27, 1938
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NEWS
PARADE
wrwi Marone Churchill
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DANIEL BOONE
CHAMBERLAIN
Chamberlain dons the beaver hat
and the trail-blazing hatchet and
sets out to mark the path through
the wilderness, and now come
France, Italy, and perhaps Ger
many to ,1oin the enterprising
pioneer in his jaunt toward world
peace. Optimistic observers see a
more peaceful outlook in the Euro
pean state of affairs than they
have seen for many weary days.
With British-Italian amity, the
way is paved toward a British
German agreement and then in
turn a French-German and French
lUili;in friendship.
Skepticism toward such a
pioneering venture seems grossly
out of order. But there's always
the lurking savare in the under
brush this time, the problem of
Czechoslovakia and Austria that
can riddle full of holes the best
made plan of peace.
Watched anxiously by relatives
and physicians, Gen. John J. Per
shing failed to rally following his
relapse early Saturday morning.
Every effort to arouse the general
from the coma under which he has
been lying have for the most part
been of no avail. Relatives have
been informed that there is no
hope for his recovery.
"Good times are com in' " says
Chairman Doughton of the house
ways and means committee, as the
committee winds up the bill for tax
revision. Doughton says that there
is now not "any cause forhesita
tion on the part of business to go
forward, so far as taxes are con
cerned." Republicans who aimed at out
right revocation of the undistrib
uted profits tax were downed by a
vote of 18 to 7. The attempt at a
flat 12'i percent tax met the same
fate.
The bill, however, provides for
broad modification of the two sore
points of the much attacked tax
program. Formal introduction of
the bill remains for Tuesday's
session, and Thursday will see the
bill before the house for debate.
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We will start off today by be
ing in a mood to agree with Mr.
Joseph Frank and his Lincoln lis
tener who was annoyed at the in
terruption of a musical program in
favor of a somewhat questionable
type of program (we mean in
value only). There is a time and
place for each type of program,
and one should not be allowed to
infringe on the other. We think
that the performance of a
Beethoven symphony should take
precedence over the adventures of
Dick Whittington any day in the
week, altho there was a time when
we, too, enjoyed such stories.
Perhaps, however, this merely
reflects the general public opinion
of the relative values of these
types of entertainment. If so, it Is
time that something be done. Most
generally the solution of educa
ing the public is offered; any num-
of erstwhile reformers could tell
of the success of such a plan.
We should suggest that if the
public cannot, or will not, be made
to like symphonic music, we might
do well to look over our standards
of value to see if something may
be amiss.
"Expert" Guidance.
In high circles of music, as in
art, we are too often guided by
the "expert" opinions of people
who fail utterly to appreciate the
fundamental purpose of music
Many are the critics who judge
the value of a composition upon
the "name" of its composer, the
complexity and difficulty of the
parts, the vocal range of the
singer, or some similarly irrelevant
criterion. Most of them fail utterly
to take into consideration that
which is the real test of musical
worth the beauty of the theme.
We have had opportunity to-hear
most of the great artists and mus
ical organizations of the nation
within the past few years; some
of them have come by way of ra
dio; a lesser number have been
neen in personal appearances. In
all cases, the compositions which
make the most profound impres
sion have been those with simple
themes, whether the music be the
product of Brahms or Chabrier, of
Christiansen or Forsythe.
M.;iv are the howls that go up
whenever some foolhardy soul sug
gests a revision of the standards
of music. Highbrow musicians and
"patrons of the arts" point with
shame to the works of modern
composers, and cry over the loss
of the sense of melody, which,
they say, is evident in their works.
The only real necessity is to re
quire that such people attempt to
follow the theme, with all its
variations, in a Brahms symphony.
It takes a real musician to do
that sometimes.
Funds Unnecessary.
Now comes the panacea. We
think that much could be done to
eliminate the continual feuding
among musical groups if some of
the barriers to enjoyment of music
could be broken down. For in
stance, why is it obligatory in the
cultural centers of the nation for
attendants at prominent events ft)
wear formal dress? One might as
well ask that spectators at Ne
braska football games be required
to wear golf outfits. Nothing is
accomplished by such absurd cus
tom except the exclusion or those
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POPEYE
They Saw Red
So-
Two concerned nlumni of Kansas fState
college recently turned nil efforts toward fer
reting out a nest of reds on the rniversily of
Knnsns campus. In fact they did such a good
job of spreading the alarm that Ihey aroused
the Kansas house of representatives to the
point of voting 92 to 4 in favor of an immediate
investigation. And next week, if the Kansas
senate proves to be as patriotic as the house,
the Kansas campus will be cleansed of nil sub
versive elements.
Effects of such action on the part of the
ambitious alumni might be stated best in a
paragraph taken from the Kansas State Col
legian which explains, "If the Kansas legis
lature had voted 100 percent to take up blud
geons and depart en masse for Kansas uni
versity and the other state schools, Kansas
State college included, for the purpose of
going onto their campuses and massacring
those persons who even looked like commu
nists, it could not have stirred up more of a
storm than it did by its recent action pro
posing to investigate the 'subversive activi
ties' on those campuses. From all over the
state has come a flood of protest from the
press, the people, and the educators."
Petitions were sent to the governor and
legislature by the American Association of
University Professors, protesting the "witch
hunting" as an unwarranted reflection upon
their patriotism and n threat to their freedom
as teachers. The petitions go on to state,
"Tear, suspicion and official coercion will de
stroy all we represent, as it has already done to
the work of scholars in those unfortunate na
tions of Europe and Asia which have come
under the dominance of political dictators."
The members of the A. A. U. P. on the
Kansas State campus are only reiterating
statements which have been held sacred to
the teaching profession ever since the first
radical urged the requiring of teachers'
oaths of allegiance and was strongly op
posed. Their plea to the governor and the
legislature is a plea for action to save Kansas
and Kansas schools from one of the blackest
marks ever to be smeared across their
thresholds.
There are those who remember vividly the
witch hunting spectacle which was staged in
Dayton, Tenn., in which a young school master
was involved in the "monkey trial." The inci
dent raised a smell that hung over Tennessee
a dozen years. It was precipitated by official
investigation of the teacher's rights to instruct
his pupils in evolutionary science.
Paralleling the sensible and modern be
lief that a teacher should teach all that will
best equip the student to go forth into the
world is the belief held by Ogden L. Mills,
secretary of the treasury under the Hoover
administration. Mr. Mills says that if a true
scholar honestly seeks the truth, he should
be permitted to expound it as he finds it,
without restrictions of any kind, no matter
how radical his views may be.
What will be the possible effect of the
Kansas investigation? .Tor all practical pur
poses it appears that there will be no good
done. A few crackpots who profess their alle
giance to the communist party may be uncov
ered, but no action is likely to result from their
discovery. For the state of Kansas, the probe
will probably prove to be the greatest piece of
negative advertising ever turned out for $7,500.
For the schools of Kansas and the instructors
serving therein, it may produce the dire results
of curbing the atmosphere of freedom under
which they do their best work.
In any event, Kansas and its lawmakers
will probably spend the next ten years living
down the distasteful ordeal.
It's News
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Down Missouri way ..they no longer de
mand to be shown. They're starting to do
some showing themselves. Stephen's college has
received a grant of a million dollars from the
Alfred P. Sloan foundation for a department
for consumer education. It is expected to be
"a correctional influence on some of the mal
adjustments of our present economic order."
The department will concentrate on in
structing the college's 1,100 girls in the art of
wise expenditure of time and money. Stephens
was selected because woman do three-fourths
of the consumer purchasing and because the
school is centrally located.
This venture shows a wise swing away
from the ordinary college approach to eco
nomics. The emphasis is usually upon the
producer's view of manufacturing and market
ing. If we are to continue our policy of
equipping students to live more wisely we must
necessarily have some such courses as this one
in consumer education. Only a small percent
age of women will be entrepeneurs in the com
mercial sense, but all will be consumers.
The new department will tro beyond the
analysis of proper methods of buying shoes,
ships and sealing wax. It will try to answer
such questions as: Is price fixing desirable?
How can truth in advertising be discovered?
How can both time and money best be
budgeted?
These are questions political economists
have been insisting should be decided by the
citizenry. And here is a way to reach these
people.
value in teaching music apprecia
tion to the youngest generation,
as well as making interesting
listening for the radio audience
which is denied admission.
So perhaps we may assume that
music will eventually cure its own
ills, like a dog with a sore foot.
We know well the usual results
of waiting for an evil circumstance
to be eliminated by its host; but
maybe our Iuck win change this
time. We're optimists.
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Another question: Why is so i Continued from Page 1.)
much vocal music, composed by
foreign masters, sung in American
theaters in the original tongue?
Would any theatrical producer
present a drama in French, Ger- i
man. or Italian in the tneatcrs 01
reproduce it with the undesirable
parts left off. One such product
was novocaine.
Inanimate World.
'Whether we look upon life as a
midwe stern cities? No effort has , factory producing that which does
ever been made, so far as we
know, to translate grand opera
into the vernacular, yet year after
year prominent citizens are urged
to make large contributions "for
the support of musicM art." Does
anyone think that will make se
rious music more popular?
More Popular Music.
We should also like to see some
popular music included on the
program of musical organizations
along with heavy program music.
The most Important steps which
have been made in this direction
consist of the development of
"pop" concerts by symphony or
chestras, which are suitably in
formal, and the inauguration of
children's concerts by the more
liberal groups. Believe it or not,
these programs are actually of
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not have life or as a consumer of
substances which do not have life,
the inanimate part of man's world
is highly important," he says. "We
now recognize the superiority of
artificial indigo over the indigo
that was formerly grown in India
back in the 17th and 18th cen
turies. Then there is another im
portant inanimate substance
known as thyroxin, a drug which
will restore normal growth and
mental development in the indi
vidual; and Insulin, the life sav
ing substance for the diar tic, and
the countless varieties of fertilizer,
most of them being now produced
from inanimate substances. The
present campaign to rid the coun
try of syphilis reminds us that in
animate substances again form the
basis of the cure for this dreaded
disease. And, it is more convenient
to manufacture vanilla than it is
to hunt the vanilla bean as it
grows in its native naoitat. ee-1
sides, factory made flavors are less ,
' expensive,"
Arb Ate Sukker.
"Suear has not always been
available for the table. Early Arab
traders, according to stories, had
some edible gravel called sukkar,
a sweet tasting rock but very ex
pensive. Today through refined
laboratory methods the people of
the world are enabled to consume
somo 28 millions of tons of sugar
Daily Nebraskan
Enterea aa aacond-claaa matter at tut
poitofflca ID Lincoln. NebraaWa, under set
of congrea, Man S. 187, and at apeclal
rate of poatage provided for tn aecUon 110J,
act or October J, 1917, authorUed Janu
ary 20. 1022.
each year. Factory produced rub
ber, likewise, has some properties
which make it superior to the tree
produced rubber."
Thus, science has shown that
man no longer has to depend on
substances produced by nature to
give him the things in life which
will help him to travel to a plane
of still higher living.
DR. GLENN FRANK
GIVES REPUBLICAN
FOUNDERS SPEECH
(Continued from Page 1.)
committee made up of 100 of the
nation's outstanding republicans
who will draft a program for the
party at a meeting in Chicago,
Feb. 28 and March 1. Frank comes
to Lincoln directly from that meet
ine and in as much aa the Ne
braska capital will be ths scene
of his first public address follow
ing the Chicago conference, the
Founders day talk Thursday eve
ning will be followed y republic
ans throughout the country.
Miss Martin Speaks.
The program is open to the pub
lic. Another headhner to attend
the party rallv here March 3 is
fMiss Marian Martin, assistant to
the chairman of the national com
mittee on party organization. The
Lincoln hotel will be the scene of
the day's festivities.
The principal speaker, Dr. FranK,
holds many honorary degrees from
universities throughout the coun
try. He is at present time editor
of the farm paper, Rural Progress,
which is published in Chicago and
was editor of Century magazine
for several years.
He is also the author of a num
ber of books on government and In
1914-15 was made a member of a
committee headed by ex-President
Taft that drafted a covenant for
the League of Nations which was
considered by the peace conference
of Pans at the close or ine war.
Dr. Frank is also a member of the
American Sociological society, Phi
Beta Kappa and the American
Economics association.
The Founders day program
follows:
Morning hrtoa.
( 30 to 10. irHilrntlnn.
11 to 10:1.". welcome.
10:16 to 10:45. awognnient of commit
tee! KI-4S to 11-4V workeri' conference.
Speaker: Mlra Marian Martin,
Noon, five lunrhennii. Lali' troup. Mlea
Marian Martin, apeaker; youna republican
aroiip. Henrv Buhb. national prmnrnt,
upeakrr: ea-aervlce men. Larey Black of
Wtchl'a, aneaker; preeamen. Fred Harring
ton of Pltteburg. Kai., apeeker; old tlm
eri, A. V. Shotwell of Omaha and Pan
Cook of Beatrice, chairmen.
Afternooa Heaeton.
1:30 to 2. oriiamiatlon and roll call.
2 to 3. program of priori taika on the
republican partv'a cgantaatlon by Edaon
F. tfmith. Omaha; Harry Rackett, Beat
rice; Arthur Penny, sr., Falrhury; U Math
en. Oertng. and aira. W. E. eilnier, Nor
folk. i to t 30, bualneaa aaaalon and election
of offtcera.
:U, banquet. Lincoln hotel. Presenta
tion of Dr. Frank. Talk bv Miaa Marias
Martin Toaat to Nebraaka by J. Lea Ran
kin of Lincoln.
Nlghi Beeeloa.
T'nlveratty of Nrbraaki eoUeeum.
Speaker, rr. ttlenn Frank.
Lincoln, February 27th.
Dear Milt Kyaor:
A sharp controversy has
stoimed these last two weeks on
our campus. The issue, similar to
the effect in musical circles of
Toscanini's dramatic farewell to
Salzburg, has subordinated every
other topic of the day, from music
making to basketball and the Coed
Follies,
The difference arose from an of
fer by the Lincoln Cathedral Choir
to affiliate itself with the Univer
sity, in exchange for rehearsing
quarters and permission to assume
the University's name.
Most Impartial observers think
well of the swap. Yet various
groups of objectors (each opposed
to the project for esoteric reasons)
have made common cause and suc
ceeded in persuading the Board of
Regents to reserve judgment for
the present.
Upon analysis the objections
that have been raised simmer
down to three in number.
First it is held by some that
since the Choir is far more re
nowned qua choir than the Uni
versity qua university, the offer
is too goo4 to be true, therefore
suspect, therefore villainous and
let us have nothing to do with it!
Pessimists Foresee Expense.
Another group, whose pessimism
is more measured and specific,
would reject tle offer because of
the probable expenses to the Uni
versity which they foresee. As yet
they have not In their arguments
clearl ydistinguished between in
vestment and mere outlay. Let us
hope that they do not follow the
example of those advisors to Pope
Julius II who chlded his "extrava
gance" for commissioning a cer
tain young artist, named Michel
angelo, to paint the Sistlne Chapel
Julius was stubborn enough to
have his own way. . . .
A third group fears that the
Choir will stifle other musical en
terprises on the campus. This on
the face of it must sound foolish
to vou, something like "For
heaven's sake beware the perni
cious music of Mozart and Bach,
lest Stephen Foster drop a little
in your esteem." Still it is quite
true that heightened standards
impose certain readjustments, and
a few erstwhile white-headed boys
are grey from worrying over that
prospect. Their sentiments In any
case invoke sympathy, if nothing
else. It will prove exciting to watch
how much sympathy their lamen
tations will receive from student
opinion and from the Board of Regents.
Symphony Presents Concerts.
Turning now to concerts, the
main promise of the coming week
is a selection of music for string
orchestra to be played next Tues
day by the Lincoln String Sym
phony. Miss Holcomb has worked
up a catholic program, of which
the leading items appear to be
one of those half-serene, naii
wearied chorale preludes that were
Brahms' swan songs, and ths
Vivaldi concerto In D minor so
admired by Johann Sebastian
Bach. Bach could never forget ths
piercingly sad melody of its slow
movement; one discerns It, some
what regarbed, in many of his own
compositions including the St
Matthew Passion.
Do you know the transcription
of this particular Vivaldi concerto
as recorded oy siokowski r ne
sure to hear It when you obtain
your new phonograph.
J08EPH FRANK.
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UNIVERSITY NOTES
Robert H. Shuler. grsduate in
roology, is the author of a paper
entitled "Some Cestodes of Fish
from Tortugas, Florida," which
appeared in the current Issue of
the Journal of Parasitology. The
paper deals with sixteen species of
tapeworms from sharks collected
in Florida cy ur. m. . Manier.
Prof. L. B. Orfield of the law
faculty addressed the Hirsm club
Wednesday on "American Neu
trality Policy.-
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"Inheritance of a White Fore
lock" is the subject , of an Illus
trated paper by Lyle Fitch of the
department of loology which ap
peared in the Journal of Heredity.
Sometimes we like to sit back
and relax and Just think. W.
think we ought to slow down
once in a while In the midst of
our feverish pursuit of education
and take a long range view of
things. It's time like these, when
we take time out to think, that
we seriously consider that what
we need Is a reconsideration of
values. So we sit back In our
chair, light up our pipe, and
blow rings and think.
You have given us something to
think about, Mr. Rosborough, you
and your choir. Something that we
usually don't have much time to
think about while we're so busy
learning lessons and keeping ac
tivity appointments, something
that finds us trying to weight the
value of things when we do find
time to think.
You have given us Inspiration,
Mr. Rosborough, to think about
culture, for The Great Cathedral
Choir represents the kind of cul
ture that 'we need and enjoy.
It represents the kind of cul
ture that Is not over-prevalent
on the campuses of universities
today. It Is not like the so-called
culture that we find dumped In
our laps and we are Instructed
to soak up. It Is this culture
that we may take advantsge of
without the Incentive of credit
hours or activity points dogging
our footsteps.
We are proud, Mr. Rosbor
ough, that so many university
students are privileged to be
members of The Great Cathedral
Choir. We are proud that wt csn
be so well represented In a truly
cultural organization. It Is be
cause there are so few. such
organizations that we are sel
fish in our desire to have the
choir affiliated with the uni
versity, so that we can really
call it our own. We like to think,
Mr. Rosborough, that at least a
small percentage of this uni
versity's students are a part of
some cultural activity. Ws want
to share In some small way the
Inspiration that you Instill in
the members of the choir.
We realize, Mr. Rosborough,
that it is presumptuous and bold
of us to petition the university
board of regents for the affiliation
of your choir with the university.
We realize that it Is a selfish mo
tive that prompts us to ask to
share the fame and honor that the
Great Cathedral Choir receives for
its work. We feel humble when
we think that we are asking for
the affiliation of an organization
that you, Mr. Rosborough, have
spent 19 years in building up. We
know that this choir which you
are offering to the university has
taken your time and effort and
courage in the face of discourage
ments and criticisms.
We like to think, Mr. Ros
borough, that the Great Cathedral
Choir is the evidence of an ideal,
your ideal. There are many ways
of expressing an ideal In concrete
form and those men who have an
ideal always find some way to ex
press it. We like to think, too.
that when the cathedral becomes
a reality, it will stand as a symbol
of your ideal and your achieve
ment. We do appreciate, Mr. Ros
borough, the privilege of hear
ing the Great Cathedral Choir.
As we listen to the voices of the
choir in that restful setting, we
find time for reflections. We
are not concerned with sectar
ian religion. We Interpret the
music and the readings Into our
beliefs. For the moment we find
relief from harassing thoughts.
Wt are Indeed indebted to you,
Mr. Rosborough, for "giving us
a lift."
St. Louis civic organizations are
working for the establishment of a
free college In that city.
A California group has incorpo
rated under the name of Vacations,
inc., to promote longer vacations
for school children.
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