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Prof of the week Daily lEBMSKffl Official Newspaper Of More Than 7,000 Students 2 408 Vol. 69, No. 57. Lincoln, Nebraska Sunday, December 10, 1939 Mortar Boards sign Trumbauer "r (1 ' . n , I j , i V M - : - s 1 " 4 ':::i-v.:::--;:::-:is:;!::;:f'iS:S"'-'l -'v?1 'j :MZMW:V ; iiiliiiiiiflii r mmmm li riii linn jinMiHV'nfrtiiiiiiititiiiiiiiiiiiiwtTiiww Saxophonist DAILY NEBRASKAN staff photo. By bod Aiaricn. ,ng or research he won't, in the A talk with Prof. Lane w. Lan- end, be as valuable an instructor CAster. chairman of the political science department, can best be ,,There are comparatively few described as a sort of two-man real research men at work- that bull scssion-with Professor Lan- is- men who are actually digging caster carrying the heavy end of UP new facts" To many teacn the conversation. He talks fluently and easily and his mind is a bub bling spring of observations, recol lections, and ideas. re- His answer to a question minds him of something else and, before you know it, he is discus sing unrelated matters. But the ernment. "How are we going to ers, he thinks, turn out quantities of published material merely to have an impressive list of writings to their name. He has published a good many articles himself. . . . attitudes. He Is most concerned with what is going to happen to free gov- unrelated matters are far more in teresting than the original ques tion, so you let it go. His build. Professor Lancaster is short, slender, loose-framed. He looks scholarly. His manner is quiet, rather introspective, almost apol ogetic ai umes. tie is exiremciy enemy. "If we have peace, we careful to say exactly what he may get out of our difficulties, means and he will probably re- if We have war . . . ?" He shrugs gard this article as a bundle of as though the question were too misquotations, xei ne is insianuy great a one. escape it?" he asks, referring to the spread of strongarm govern ments. "There are certain things that you can get only by giving the government arbitrary power. These things you must not ask for if you want to preserve what we call free government." War, he thinks, is our greatest friendly, puts his listener at ease. In fact, this listener became so in terested, he forgot to jot down notes. Born in Ohio "while Queen Vic toria was on her throne," Profes sor Lancaster grew up in the min- "Government can't offer you op portunities without your paying for them." His generation, he re calls, grew up in a time when gov ernment was secure, religion un questioned, the borders of right and wrong clearly drawn. "Na- ing town of Belle Aire. Soft coal, turnlly, we are pessimistic as we steel, and manufacturing: comnan- look at the world now. ies were the town's industries and Lancaster says that anybody who wore a white collar was consid ered a sissy. "And I find it hard to get over the idea," he adds. He has been at Nebraska since 1930. . . .education. Ohio Wesleyan included him among its undergraduates. He took his master's degree at Illi nois, his doctor's at the Univer sity of Pennsylvania. The strangest thing about his formal education is that he took no courses in the subject he teaches political science. He stud ied history, later got a job teach ing poli scl for his doctor's. He wrote his thesis on political sci ence. "It was easier to stay on, take the degree," he says. "You couldn't make a living teaching history. I consider myself half his- of communists swarming every xory ana nair pontics bwi. campus, thinks there is an over teacher." estimation also of red activities in ...opinions. America. "There is more to fear "We professors are all monks, from the right than from the left," in a manner of speaking. We're he believes. That doesn't mean paid by the state to lead a quiet, the republicans, he adds. "They've studious life, away from the strain no representation and no leader- of ordinary affairs. We were in- snip. . . . thoughts. He grows serious about democ racy, striving to put into words his feeling for it. "Democracy has always seemed to me a nnvtly spiritual thing. If you can't be lieve in anyltung eise, you surely can't believe in democracy." His doctor's thesis is among his publications. "Not very many people bought it." His last book, "Government in Rural America," has been well received, has sold 11 or 1,200 copies not bad for a textbook. He says Nebraska is not the background of the book tho he "took advantage" of being in a rural area. New England, in cidentally, is hia favorite part of America. . . . Interests. He scoffs at witch-hunter tales tercsted in intellectual things m college and this is about the only way to carry on that Interest." He Is interested in young peo ple's minds, troubled by students' seeming lack of faith in anything. "What the devil does your genera tion believe in?" he asks and we As to the question of whether a teacher's advancement should b based on his teaching ability or his writing and research, Lancas- the stumped for an answer, ter thinks no clear-cut distinction He fears that the . Je" can be drawn. "Undergraduate college course that can be turned teaching is the biggest job," he IntoK'l says. S Nevertheless he believes egos, the less practi cal courses, that unless a teacher attempts to "We are Pf discover new ideas through writ- have to cater to public demand. ICO. Broody will preside at banquet Guests at Extension division anniversary to hear Dr. H. M. Gage Dr. K. O. Broady, professor of the school of administration, has accepted the invitation to be toast master at the university extension division's anniversary of progress dinner Tuesday at 6:30 in the Stu dent Union. The dinner will cele brate 30 years of university exten sion work and 10 years ol super vised correspondence study. Dr. Harry M. Gage, president of Coe College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the main speaker of the evening, will be introduced by Dr. G. W Rosenof, professor of secondary education, who is also secretary of the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. Toasts will be given by repre sentatives of vocational education, the National University Extension Association, of supervised corres pondence study of the life enrich ment courses, and of the state de partment of public instruction. In addition, a number of representa tives from other educational and related organizations will be introduced. Boucher extends greetings Greetings will be extended by Chancellor C. S. Boucher, and Rev. Edmund F. Miller, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, will give the invocation. The University Men's Glee Club, which will be directed by W. G. Tempel and accompanied by War ren Hammel, will furnish the mu sic for the evening. An open house to be held from 2 until 6 Tuesday afternoon in the faculty lounge of the Student Union, will rive all friends and students of the division a chance to meet its director, Dr. A. A. Reed. A tour of Extension Division offices is also planned. Harriet Meyer, cello; Ada Char lotte Miller, violin, and Maxine Maddy, piano, students in the School of Fine Arts, will play during the reception. Union shows French film 'Mayerling' gets two screenings Thursday Combining; a superb cast, excel lent direction, haunting music and a true story, "Mayerling" comes to the screen in the Student Union ballroom Thursday for two show- ines as the second French movie sponsored this year by the univer sity French club. Charles Boyer, Dannielle Dar rieux and Vladimir Sokoloff head the cast of French actors in the production of the true Viennese romance of the Archduke Rudolph and Marie Vetsera, based on the novel "Idyl's End" by Claude Anet. Boyer's impersonation of the ill fated archduke has been acknowl edged as the greatest performance of his notable career. With a triumphant six months' run on Broadway behind it, "Mayerling" is acclaimed as the most distin guished foreign film of the past year. The screen play was written by Joseph Kessel and J. u. Cube. Music is by Arthur Honegger who wrote the score for "Fygmaiion, Anatole Litvols, one of Holly wood's most prominent directors, was the director. The two showings of the movie will be at 7 and 8:45 p. m. Thurs day. Jean Tilche, of the French department and sponsor of the French club, is making arrange , ments. Students to air gripes in session Student gripes about campus af fairs will be heard wholesale in an open expression of student opinion, when the DAILY spon sors its first all-university "gripe session Thursday afternoon. "Our purpose in opening the complaint conclave is to bring out general university opinion on problems of current interest and to stimulate the interest of the students themselves in the admin istration of their university," said Editor Harold Niemann in an nouncing the plan. Niemann stressed the Impor tance of student attendance in particular, since it is expression of student opinion at which the session is driving. The meeting will begin at 4 p. m. in Union 316. To be specific. The gripes will be classified and See GRIPES, page 2 brings band Saturday Tickets to vice-versa party sell at $1.25; gala party promised Frankie Trumbauer, styled as the All-Amerlcan saxophonist, and his orchestra will set the dancing pace for the Mortar Boards' an nual leap year affair Saturday, Dec. 16, next large party of the new formal season. Trumbauer has just finished playing at the Biltmore Bowl, Los Angeles, the Nicollet hotel in Min neapolis, and the Congress hotel in, Chicago. Before organizing his own band the swingy saxophonist was one of the standout attrac tions of the Paul Whiteman band. Trumbauer starred for many sea ions as the leading soloist of the band. He also played all of the symphonies that Whiteman was engaged for and proved to be an See MORTAR BOARD, page 2 mr"--tw-'.-m A $ t i v.v if., y' J ' I -. f - $ if !i v5st -'-i J ; - : :y- --:: . II II I , ... ... i .. iiilimillU'MilT' Lincoln Journal and Star, Elizabeth Waugh commands ROTC at 31 st Military Ball Elizabeth Waugh, Lincoln arts of light, a sign dropped from the and sciences senior, was presented as 1939 Honorary Colonel of the Nebraska ROTC to a crowd of more than 4,000 spectators and dancers attending the 31st annual Military Ball staged last Friday evening in the coliseum. Friday night's presentation, one of the most dramatic in the his tory of the Ball, took the form of a "rescue," simulated machine gun fire from the wings of the stage "cutting away" the door of a stage fort from which the new Colonel stepped forth to receive the cheer ing acclaim of those present. Si multanooir.lv with the appearance of the "rescued" Colonel in a burst roof revealing the name of the successful candidate. Arch of sabers Immediately after the presenta tion Cadet Colonel Charles Pills bury escorted Miss Waugh through a coliseum-long arcade of sabers to the south end of the floor, where she was presented to Gov. R. L. Cochran, standing in his balcony box. After a smart exchange of salutes with the governor, the new Colonel returned to the stage. During the presentation march and return, she wns accompanied by her staff and their sponsor, See MILITARY, page 6