TWO
DAILY NEBRASKAN
THURSDAY, ArRIL 27, 1939
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THIRTY. EIGHTH YEAR
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BUSINESS MANAGER
..HOWARD KAPLAN
..RICHARD M'GINNIS
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
Managing Editors . Merrill Englund,
Harold Niemann
News Editors .June Bierbower R, chard OcBron,
Norman Harris. Ellsworth Steele. Fern Steute
vMle. Ed Wittenberg.
Society Editor Margaret Krausa
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
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Seidel, Helen Severa.
OUR FIRST PEACE DUTY
Bolivia's recent conversion from one of the
America's ilemoeraoies to the European type of
tolalitiirianisiu should awaken some oT this
country's leaders to their constitutional task of
"promoting the general welfare" of the people
of this country. The throwing overboard of our
much lieloved principles of government is itself
a startling action to the people of this country.
But the alleged reason to save the nation from
bankruptcy, should make us sit back and take
a home inventory.
True, the United States is a great power
and as such may bear a certain responsibility
toward promoting the peace and welfare of
the nations and peoples of the world. It can
not be denied that adequate defense meas-
ures must be taken to safeguard our land
from invasions by ambitious autocrats. But it
is only foolhardy blindness that allows us to
tolerate these same undesirables to make en
croachments from within.
The ideologies we hate, the systems of gov
ernment directly opposed to those for which
we have fought and struggled the last one hun
dred and fifty years, thrive upon the very con
ditions which we have failed to eliminate. A
dictatorship has been accepted in Bolivia be
cause the nation faced financial failure. Fa
scism and nazism breed and spread among the
unemployed and dissatisfied.
In our anxiety over foreign affairs, in our
desire to maintain peace in the world, we
must not overlook the injustices existant in
our own country. For a happy and contented
life, man must have financial security and
self respect. These are demanded as com
pletely, if not as lavishly, by the menial la
borer and by the wealthy capitalist. And no
matter how undependable the income or how
insignificant the task, the man's two desires
are apparently fulfilled at least acceptably
by the tyrannical government on the axis.
To those who have tasted the tolerance and
freedom of democracy, it seems impossible that
people could willingly return to a political
ideology prevalent two hundred years ago. Yet
the Bolivians have known democracy. They
hailed as their deliverer the man who freed
them from the yoke of Spanish rule. And now
after a century of what we like to think as the
American type of government, they have given
up their constitution and their congress which
represents the people, their laws and courts
which safeguard their lives and their rights. '
They gave up all this to safeguard them
selves against financial failure. They have for
feited their very liberty to preserve security.
If we would forego a similar occurrence in
this nation, we should do well to avoid weak
ening ourselves in a war to preserve an
ideology. We would be wise to strengthen
ourselves thru a war on unemployment and
starvation, slum districts and underworlds,
immortality and disease. We would be wise
to erase from our country the filth upon
which totalitarianism subsists.
Two to present
recitals Sunday
Tenor, violinist give
numbers at 3 4 o'clock
Two school of music students
will present recitals Sunday in the
Temple theater: James Kemp
thorne, tenor, will sing at 3
o'clock and Margaret Porter, vio
linist, will play-nt 4 o'clock.
Kempthorne, who studies with
William Tenipel, will be accom
panied by Paul LrBnr. His pro
gram, which includes three oper
atic numbers, is:
(InlnPM, Rnlutntlnn.
Hir.et, La Klmr guc Til M'Avlns Jrtee,
fnim "Carmen."
L.InIz, Ohl yuiind Je Dors (O In My
rri'iim).
Purrlnl. Che nHlila Mniilnn (Your
Tiny Hand Is Krosrn, from H
heme" ).
Moxart, II Mlo Tcmiro Inlnnlo (To
Mv Ki'loved Ilnston, from "Don (Jlovun
nl"). f'urrnn, Nocturne.
Mnrtin, The Mliiflrel,
Kury, There In a ladyt.
Knalinrh., Mountain.
Miss Porter's most outstanding
number will be the "Suite in E
Major" by Bach, which Is written
for violin alone. Modern numbers
will include Debussy's "Minstrels"
and "Pantomime," by deFalla
Kochanski. The violinist is a stu
dent with August Molzcr and will
be accompanied by Margaret
Baker. Her program follows:
Bach, Suite In K Mnjnr (for violin
alonel; Presidium, Minuet II, GlKiie.
Vleuxtempa, Conrerto In d minor;
Anrinnte. Adagio rplltloco, Allrfao.
(laRounnw. Mediation.
Bnrasate, Spanish Pane No. 8.
deKalla-Korhaniikl, Pantomime.
lvuiisny, Minstrels.
Werner Buch to address
NU Lutheran students
University Lutheran student
club members will meet Friday
evening-, April 28, at 8 o'clock.
The meeting- is to be at the Grace
Lutheran church, 14th and F sts.,
with the Luther league of thia
church acting; as host.
Werner Buch, student from Ger
many, who is studying: in the arch
itecture department, will be the
principal speaker of the evening-.
Dr. Leland Leshu, host pastor, will
present a devotional message.
Entertainment and refreshments
have been arranged. All Lutheran
students and friends are urged to
attend as this is the last formal
meeting of the year.
Columns
that "they don't hold anything up."
Miss Faulkner, looking at the col
umns from her office window,
shook her head and sighed, "Col
umns wore meant to be func
tional; these are hideous as if
they grew there." Mildred Pot
tor, art student was standing
nearby and contributed with "It
looks like surrealism in architec
ture!" Linus Burr Smith, chairman of
the department of architecture
and designer of the colonade,
pointed out a good many things of
which the critics of the colonade
were apparently unaware.
Neither do other columns
For instance, there are many
examples of open colonades in
European cities where open col
onades are used for a transition
from one type of district to an
other. He pointed to the Bran
denberg gates in Berlin and the
columns opening into St. James
square in London as instances
where colonades were used as
transitions to separate business
from more decorative districts.
"12th Street runs clear across
Lincoln," he continued, "and sud
denly stops and runs blob into an
athletic field. The columns serve
as a mental bumping post for a
transition into different kind of
territory. It is an architectural
idea employed in many cities.
"12th street was originally de
signed as an avenue of columns.
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new woman and matron.
It is faced bv columns from the
Temple, from Sosh, from Avery
lau, ana mere will bo columns
facing 12th street on the proposed
engineering building. Such col
umns at the end of the street
make a fitting terminus according
to the plan."
Ideal rally stand
From the seat of Prof. Smith's
convertible conne at vantage
points on the campus, the columns
took on a different perspective.
Looking directly up 12th street,
they make an impressive, sight,
visualizing the landscaping which
will be done around them, for
out-of-town people coming to
Lincoln for football cames for the
first time. From new Averv Ave
nue north of the practice fields
the columns rise from the hinhest
point of the terrace above a stand
lor the university band.
The columns will make an ideal
site for football rallies. There is
seating for the entire band, and
space ior thousands of students
with the columns etched against
the sky for a background. Huge
"N" banners are planned to hang
from the pillars during rallies.
Part of the original inspiration
for the columns came from the
University of Missouri where six
pillars known as "The Columns"
have become symbolic of Missouri
Athletic achievement.
Tschaikowsky numbers
head harmony hour today
Tschaikowsky will headline the
Harmony hour program to be
played in Union Parlor X this aft
ernoon from 4 to 5 o'clock. Spon
sored by Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia,
the regular Monday-Thursday
musical hour will present the
noted Russian composer's "Sym
phony No. 5 in E minor."
The recording being used for the
symphony was made by the Chi
cago Symphony orchestra under
the direction of Frederick Stock.
Commentary noted were arranged
by Phil Heller.
Apologists
tread up the squeaking aisles anJ
out of the doors.
Gradually the din Increased as it
was supplemented by the singing
of a chorus overhead and the ham
mering of a mechanic outside the
window. At length Neihardt suc
cumbed to the scraping of depart
ing feet which rose to a mo
mentum comparable to the noise
and applause of a political conven
tion rally. Like a newly nominated
president drowned by the approval
of the cheering audience, he ended
his remarks without reading hi3
final poems.
Go to extremes.
Some say these receptions that
the student body have given its
guest convocation speakers this
year have been carried too far. Of
this opinion are those who have
tried to hear from the back of the
auditorium.
The question that the convoca
tion committee would like an
swered is, "What purpose should a
convocation serve?" Should it be
scientific and Instructive, that is,
should it be a place where students
can go to get information about
political and literary subjects, or
should they be turned into political
rallies where attendants can raise
their voices overhead, and scrape
their feet underneath to their
hearts content, but to the incon
venience of the poor men, strain-,
ing their voices on the rostrum in
an effort to reach the unapprecia
tive audienecs.
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