TIIE DAILY NEBRASKAN, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1938
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STUDENT POLL
What Book Do YOU' Want In The
Apologies
Monday was a big day down in the Rate
office. First of all, they unpacked all of the
new equipment desks, chairs and tables for
which we have been waiting since school
opened. And then construction men arrived
and began swinging hammers with sufficient
din to drown out the clattering of typewriters
and the hum of editorial activity.
But the Rag staff did not particularly
mind. The members, wide-eyed at the thought
that handsome desks and chairs were their
new office equipment, could not hear the ham
mering. The realization that for the first time
in University history the Hag has brand new
equipment the kind of stuff that makes the
former U hall headquarters unbearable by
comparison is a little too much for most of us.
With all this editorial luxury around us,
it is a great temptation to go high-hat. This, we
hope, never happens and never will happen if
.the present Rag staff is continually guided by
the memories of tumble-down old U hall's
cockroach-infested, damp and dark basement.
Books for Undergraduates
A donation of one thousand dollars to the
University Student Union for books is making
possible the completion of the literary rendez
vous, the browsing library. Student members
of the Union's board of managers have been
empowered to make the selection of the
volumes. They have turned the selection over
to the entire student body, giving every stu
dent who reads an opportunity to register his
or her choice.
While sitting back and waiting for the Uni
versity students to designate their literary
tastes, it is only proper to wonder just what
students want to read. The student poll will
show a number of wholly undesirable choices,
made only "for fun." These same students
are the ones who vote for bogus names in
campus elections "for fun."
The reading taste of undergraduates will be
an interesting fact to observe. Will the books
be olies that parents and teachers would heart
ily approve? Will they be volumes that are
supplementary to the educational process or
will they be gay and wild means of escape
from the humdrum existence of scholastic life?
Will anvone list as his choice the world's best
seller The Bible?.
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By Otto Woerner.
What Do Students Like?
What type of book should be on
the shelves of the brOwsing room
of the Student U? What kind of
book does the student like? Well,
what is a good book ?
Some students, in fact many stu
dents, prefer stories as "Lady
Chatterley's Lover" or "Steps
Leading Downward" novels of
the passionate and vivid type,
which go into full and gory detail
about the relations of, perhaps, an
innocent collegiate youth with
some greying prostitute.
Others are a bit farther up the
ladder, and tho still desiring the
intense vividness of description
and the full, realistic talc of in
tersexual activities, nevertheless,
desire a little body to the story.
Consequently, their recreational
reading is done in such books as
"To Have and to Hold," "Men ot
Good Will," "Slogum House," or
"The Painted Veil" all, incident
ally, magnificent novels.
Then there are the idealists, who
nevertheless possess some sense of
dignity, or at least their desire for
realism is overcome by some ar
tificial idea of etiquette, or taste.
And they read such books as "Main
Street," "The Three Soldiers,"
"God Have Mercy on Us" and 'The
Rains Came."
Higher yet on the ladder of book
readers are those who merely care
for a good light novel, without the
distinctive flavor of the sexualist
books, and without the lusty rad
icalism of the realists. They read
Kathleen Norris, Faith Baldwin,
Temple Bailey, and Fannie Hurst.
Again up, we discover those who
wani a good dory, but who are so
inflamed in their desire for truth
that they demand the stery con
tain some historical basis. They
are the readers of "The Forty
Pays of Musa Dagh," "The Ortu
pus," "Joseph in Egypt," and
"Northwest Passage."
Another notch up, and we find
those perennial dislikers of fiction,
who are too dull to understand
anything else, and they begin to
smack collegian. They are the
uneducated people, the high school
all the other popularized non fic
tion books.
And now approaching that un
envied position which is held by
college professors, on the notch of
the ladder very near the top, is a
group who enjoys reading highly
specialized books, research, philo
sophic dissertations, scientific ar
gumentative whirlwinds. These
erudite and illustrious Intellects
read Barnes, Burton, Einstein and
some of the classical writers, such
as Euripides, Aristophanes, and
Gotomi.
But what do students like to
read, and what do they enjoy read
ing? Obviously, to make for an
equitable solution, there must be
books in the library which will sa
tiate the desires of everyone, from
Rhodes scholar to fraternity flunk.
WHAT DO YOU LIKE TO
READ?
Odds and Ends in the
World of Books:
Thomas Mann, exiled German
author, and writer of "The Com
ing Victory of Democracy," and
"Joseph in Egypt," is touring the
United States. He will speak in
Omaha on March 24. . . . "Dead
Men" is a new sea story by the
poet laureate of England, John
Masefield. . . . Winston Churchill,
prominent British statesman, and
the man who objected to Edward's
abdication of the English throne,
has just completed a new book,
"While England Slept," dealing
with the "Rearisal" of a powerful
Germany . Churchill, incidentally,
is also touring this country, mak
ing an appearance in Kansas City
October 2i.
The first complete English
translation of the notebook of Leo
nardo da Vinci, the great Italian
intellect of the Renaissance, will
be published soon, and available in
the libraries throughout the coun
try. . . . Anne Lindbergh, wife of
the noted American aviator, has
just completed a new book, "Listen
to the' Wind." The book is sure
to be a best seller. . . .
Harry Fosdick, the pastor who
is so commonly connected with the
late John D. Kockeiellcr. and who
is heard over a national hookup
every Sunday morning from his
church in Riverside, N. Y is au
thor of "A New Guide to the Un
derstanding of the Bible." The
book is written in the typical Fos
dick. popularized stvlc. and in
Kosmet Klub Actives,
Pledges Meet Today
Members of Kosmet Klub will
hold their regular meeting in
their Union rooms this after
noon at 5 o'clock. Duties and
jobs for the pledges will be
discussed and will be assigned
at the worker active meeting
Thursday afternoon at 5 p. m.
Cellist Appears
At Music Convo
Betty Zabriskie Gives
Recital in Temple
Miss Betty Zabriskie, well
known artist and cello instructor
at the University school of Music,
will present a cello recital Wednes
day afternoon at 4 o'clock in the
1,400 Await
Countryman
Magazine to Reach
Record Circulation
Due to delav in prcsswork, the
Cornhusker Countryman, Ag col
lege publication, scheduled to ap
Dear on the stands yesterday, will
not be issued until next Monday,
Editor Glenn Thacker stated.
An all time high number of
1,400 subscribers is awaiting the
Countryman, now ranking as one
of the largest publications on the
campus. The fall issue features
drawings by Keith Mower, and
group of adventure stories direct
from the Indian jungles where a
Nebraska alumnus is stationed
A history of Ag college and
story of student assistants is in
eluded in the current number.
Ann Gcrsib. business manager,
announced that parents of all sub
scribers will receive copies of the
magazine as a look-see into the
activities of the college of agn
culture.
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STUDENT UNION LOBBY OCT. 10-14
More Workers Wanted
For Humor Magazine
A need for workers on the
Awgwan was expressed yester
day by Editor Virginia Geister.
Business Manager Dick Mc
Ginnis also expressed the dire
need for advertising solicitors,
Anyone wishing to work is re
quested to come to the Awg
wan office in the Student
Union, room 20 at 4 o'clock
this afternoon.
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the much-talked-about date bureau
and began to cash in on the lonely
heart trade. Another brainstorm
was put on a paying basis this
fall when Wayne Cyphers hired
number of student car-washers
to battle Nebraska dust at so much
car. On agricultural campus
Virgil Huegel and Ross Meeham
have copied the stunt but on a
smaller scale.
On the city campus most of the
working students have jobs wait
ing tables for their board. Others
are treasurers of their fraternities,
janitors in the university, oil sta
tion attendants, helpers in the mu
seum, typists, assistants in mort
uaries, and shoe salesmen.
Lincoln Journal.
BETTIE ZABRISKIE.
'Judgment Day'
Is Here
See Elmer Rice's Brilliant Play
All This Week -Temple Theatre
Oct. 11-15, Tues. through Sat..
7:30 P. M.
Presented by The Uni. of Ntr.
University Players
Single Ad. 75c Gen. Ad. 25c
Always A Seat for 25c
be one of the foremost religious
books of the last ten vears. . . .
teachers and librarians, the rugged ! sPite ot 'ts unattractive title, will
lniellectualists. And tnough they
do not admit it, in the solitude of
their own home, thiy read Dale
Carnegie "How to Win Friends"
and "100,000,000 Guinea Tigs." and
MUSIC SERIES
season will be available at Walt's
and thru Florence Gardner at the
Cornhusker.
Thomas began his musical ca
reer as a member of a camp meet
ing trio, the other two units of
which were his father, a Method
ist minister, and his mother, who
was an accomplished musician. He
made his debut with the Savage
Opera company in London, On
tario, in "Kverywnman," following
this successful appearance in light
opera he appraicd in "Alda," in
Washington. From that time on
his rise to fame was rapid. He
went fro mthe Royal Opera, Brus
sels, in 1925, to Covcnt Garden,
London, the Philadelphia Grand
Opera in 1929. the San Francisco
Opera and the Chicago Civic
Opera.
In February, 1934, he made his
debut at the Metropolitan singing
the part of the elder Germont in
"La Travinta." Since his initial
appearanre there he has been
singing at the Metropolitan each
season.
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series sponsored by the associa
tion. Season tickets will be available
up to the time of the Thomas con
cert according to campaign offi
cials. Single admissions to this
concert and other concerts this
Temple theater. Her accompanist
will be Herbert Schmidt, teacher
of piano.
Miss Zabriskie has performed
with leading orchestras of the mid
dlewest, and this year was chosen
by the Lincoln Symphony board to
appear with the Lincoln Symphony
orchestra as one of tne soloists,
She is noted not only for her con
cert ability but also for her ability
as a teacher.
The university instructor has
studied with several of the rank
ing cellists both here and abroad,
including Hans Hess, Bedrich Vas
ka, and Alexanian.
SHOW ENGENlY
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mev, A. T. O. grid star. Robert
Wolfe of Red Cloud also arranges
displays, but the displays with
which he works are the bones and
plaster shapes of extinct animals
in the glass cases of Morrill hall.
He was responsible for tne DacK
ground of the saber tooth tiger
in the east hall of the museum
and for assembling the bones of
the orcodont.
At the Sigma Nu house Harold
Atherton is marketing a song of his
own composition by mail, and Ed
mund Steeves is spreading the glad
tiding of Beechnut gum, while at
the S. A. M. house Art Hill does
the same for Clove. Other men in
every fraternity handle the laun
dry, candy, and corsage conces
sions. Date Bureau.
A new wrinkle In Jobs was in
troduced to the Husker campus
two weeks ago when Clarence Wil
son and Bob James, transfer stu
dents from Northwestern, opened
UNION SERIES
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tional Geographic society explora
tion and history. He was barred
from Japan for telling the truth,
when officialdom was attempting
to keep it quiet. In his book,
"Challenge Behind the Face of
Japan," he accurately predicted
Japan's onslaught on China.
After eight years of astonishing
adventure and intimate acquaint
ance with the people and languages
of Japan and China he repeatedly
traveled in Siam, Siberia, India
and Europe. He then founded and
for many years taught courses in
contemporary civilization in the
University of Washington. He has
recently engaged in several de
bates with Hamilton Fish, famous
republican senator, on the question
of American participation in war.
Close is an outstanding realist.
In his lecture, "Japan Chal
lenges the World," Mr. Close will
point out what is happening in
China, Japan and Russia. He tells
of the importance of Japan's dar
ing adventure in China to the
standard of living in America and
its effect on the cotton growing
south and the machine making
north. Admission to the lecture
will be 25 cents to students.
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Vied M Dept., 5-I0-25-
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