MUSIC
Kirsch selects picture slate
for 50th Nebraska exhibit
Following seven busy days in
New York where he conferred with
art dealers, visited studios and
viewed latest painting, Dwight
Kirsch is concluding arrangements
for the 50th annual Nebraska
art association exhibit opening in
Morrill, Feb. 25.
Fifteen New York galleries will
co-operate with the art association
this year in providing picture for
the exhibit, a marked increase over
the seven helping in last years
show, Kirsch announced, adding
that many of the artists to be rep
resented are new in this part of
the country.
Books describe them
Particularly interesting are the
names of George Biddle, John
Sloan, and Eilshemius, painters
about whom books have appeared
during the year. Eilshemius ia
phowing his works for the first
time in this city.
Not so much emphasis ia to t
put on sculpturing, the number of
pieces to be exhibited being con
siderably reduced from what the
case has been in previous years.
Despite this fat, Kirsch. predicts
those chosen will prove of un
usual interest. Waylande Gregory's
conception of 'Tchabod Crane" and
Warren Wheelock's "Paul Revere"
will have a special appeal to chil
dren while critics are expected to
take Calder's sculptured "Abstrac
tion" on the basis of symmetry and
mechanics, tho the effect of the
slab ia decidedly "humorous."
Makes preliminary selections
While in the east, Kirsch made
preliminary selections for the F. M.
Hall collection of original Ameri
can paintings, selections which are
purchased annually from the asso
ciation show. These selections will
later be voted upon, and those then
chosen will be permanently hung
with the collection now in Morrill.
Artists will be brought to the
galeries in the form of self-portraits
or paintings by fellow work
ers. Doris Lee who has "painted
with spontaniety and dash" will
appear on a canvas by Arnold
Btonch. Waldo Pierce offers a self
portrait and John Sloan presents
a sketch of Robert Henri.
Results of the exhibit, Kirsch
suggests, are the gradual creation
in the people of Lincoln of a deeper
art appreciation stemming directly
from actual contact with some of
the finest work being produced
today in the country.
Union shows
photo display
Exhibit includes state
fair contest winners
An exhibit of prize winning
photographs by the Lincoln Cam
era club was placed on display
yesterday in the book nook of the
Union. The display includes the
winners of the fine arts depart
ment photography awards, given
at the Nebraska state fair, this
yenr.
Winner of the first and second
premiums is W. J. Rice, whose
firat prie picture of "Rain Wor
shippers" shows cornstalks
stretching toward a background of
cloud-flecked sky. The second pre
mium winner, entitled "Fuzz and
Buzz," pictures two puppies.
Pictures on display are: "Gin
ger," taken by Charles Barr; "Cow
Hand." "Bed Time," and "Dark
Contentment," taken by Gene
Bradley; "Bird of Delusion," by
Miles Breuer; "The Swimmer," and
"Water Retards," by E. A. Grone;
"Giraffes," "Lamplighting Time,"
and "Bulb Exposure," by Dwight
Kirsch; "Dictator," by Delia Krem
er; "Angles," by Robert Lipscomb;
"Bingo," W. P. McDonald.
"Rudge Memorial," by Lucille
Mills; "Portrait," "Mountain
Road." "Pattern," and "Hockey"
by Claude Pilger; "Farm Home,"
"Capitol at Night," "Karen Begh
tol." and "Cherry County," by F.
E. Roth; "Portrait Study" by Rob
ert Schricker; "Snooper Snapper,"
"Meditation," "Steps to Storage,"
and "Fire Fear." by Don W. Sig-
ler: "Cowaashanock Pool," by
Frank Slaymaker; "Porcupine
Pattern," by Terry Townsend;
"Old Age" and "Evening." by W.
F. Weiland; and "Wood Pile," by
Julius Bs Young.
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"Miner Rectlng," a nvw In-
terpretatton of the working man
by Paul Sample, wn ohoecn by
Union officials with the aid of the
art department as the January
"Picture of the Month." The paint
ing now hangs in the first floor
corridor of the Union, where it
Propaganda and censorship
Creel committee with World
by Margaret Ann Osborn
Words that Won the War, by
Mock and Larson, is the story of
America's first "propaganda min
istry," and its dynamic leader,
George Creel. This book is edited
at a moment when no one can
say inai Arm- w.u u,
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problems of 1917-1919. The les
sons of the Committee on Public
Information, the so-called Creel
committee of the World war, are
calling aloud for recognition in
these tense days.
France and England have be
come, at least for the time being,
"totalitarian democracies," and
Americans ask themselves what
may happen to this country if it
is sucked into the maelstrom. This
book attempts to demonstrate how
the advance of censorship power
can be silent and almost unnoticed
as wave follows wave of patriotic
hysteria.
Resistance not great "
If the record of the last war is
to be taken, American resistance
to repressive measures may not be
great. The question arises whether,
in the event of a new war, Amer-
ica would feel like indulging in
the luxury of some Creel commit-
tee to stand as buffer between
military dictatorship and civil life.
The "strategic equation" of mil-
ltary language recognizes four
factors (combat, economic, politl-
cal, and psychologic), and the
Committee on Public Information
touched all of these. For an appre-
elation of the "psychologic front,"
we quote Dr. H. D. LassweU: "In
the great society it is no longer
possible to fuse the waywardness
of individual in the furnace of the
war dance, a new and subtler in-
strument must weld thousands and
even millions of human beings Into
an amalgamated mass of hale and
win ana nope.
War propaganda lives
"A new flame must burn out the
Odcll will review
writing problems
Miss Ruth Odell, assistant pro
fessor of English will discuss the
research and publication of her
new book before an open all girls
meeting, sponsored by Coed Coun
sellors in the Union Book Nook,
tomorrow at 7 p. m.
"Helen Hunt Jackson" by name,
the book deals with the autobi
ography of that author. Miss Odell
is publishing the book aa part of
her doctor's dissertation.
Picture of
the month
was brougM temporarily from the
MorrrH half galleries.
Painted by a living American
who r now artist-ln-resldent at
Dartmouth university, the paint
ing show a style peculiar to
painters with a mechanical mind.
The use of triangular shapes as
canker of dissent and temper the
steel of bellicose enthusiasm. The
name of this new hammer and
anvil of social solidarity is prop-
aganda. Talk must take the place
of drill; print must supplant the
dance. War dances live in litera-
ture and at the fringes of modern
earth; war propaganda breathes
caim, no
&nd f . th capitals and prov.
inces of the world."
And in describing the specific
public mind as when they were
vividly presented by pamphleteers.
For instance slogans; "The peo
ple's war," a "holy war of ideas,"
and the "war to end war." And
pictures of German atrociousness,
cartoons and so on. So we see
that the stamp of the CPI is visi
ble, however, not only in the
popular conception of World war
history but also in official think
ing about "holding fast the in
ner lines" If America shouid be
come involved in the new Euro
pean war.
So as the war to end war re
cedes into the past, America's
fighting men turn back to the
CPI. Improvements on the Creel
committee would undoubtedly be
made, but if another war should
come to this country, no American
would need to read the story of the
CPI. He would relive it!
abjectives of war propaganda, Dr.
Lasswell gives this list:
1. To mobilize hatred against
the enemy.
2. To preserve the friendship of
allies.
3. To preserve friendship and, if
possible, to procure cooperation,
4, To demoralize the enemy,
The reader will see how perfect-
jy the work of the Committee on
public Information follows this
formula, thus making the record
it8 activity not only significant
aa a chapter in American history
but an enpecially apt illustration
0 now au war propaganda works.
Slogans powerful.
America went under cersorshlp
during the World war without
realizing rt. The fact that censor
ship power waa employed with
moderation does not detract from
Its Bisrnlficaace in American hia-
McCarthy spokt at
librarians' confrnc
Stephen A. McCarthy, assistant
director of university libraries, ap
peared on the recent program of
the university libraries subsection
of the Association of College and
Reference Libraries In Chicago. He
addressed tho group on "Higher
Education In the Gilded Age,"
BOOKS
Gallery displays Schreiber
watercolor group till Jan. 22
Sunday Journal and Star.
the basts of the composition and
the relation of the figure group to
the stylized mountains show
clearly his power to build pictures
on abstract line.
Some observers see In the sim
plicity of expression on the faces
of his subjects a comparison of
workingmen to robots.
study credits
war victory
tory. If the administration had
wished, it might have imposed an
almost complete censorship on tho
utterances and publications of all
Americans during the war.
The work of the CPI is with us
today. Its sterotypes which it
gave us dining the war have per-
sisted through two decades. The
great majority of these stereo-
types are as clear today in the
Gettmann traces
literary criticism
thru times of war
Condition of war and peace
may be traced thru the study of
shifts and trends in literary criti
cism according to Dr. Royal Gett
mann of the English department.
The influence of war on the popu
larity of foreign authors ia evident
In the history of the literature
written by tfce Russia author,
Turgenev.
At the time of the Crimean war
the British read Turgenev's books
to satisfy their curiosity concern
ing their little known enemy. Tur-
Library displays collection
of prized 17th century maps
Mont prised and akw the mont four seasons appearing at its cor-
interesting possession In the map ners mark it as a true work of art.
department of the university 11- In the collection also is a map
brary ia a collection of 47 large of Africa by Carollum Allard
117" ?UIlrg l year" wh08e work waa Published 1050
iS?. by leading European 1670 Ljke orld map( thia
fnoP k ,T f8 Kmap8,i"?aflUr shows the source of the Nile,
ing 20 by 24 Inches and larger Another interesting fact about this
at rcZllfl1 Y ,& Hnra;!an ear,y maP that it plies a largo
2 maTTf KFJtt M numb?r the Sahara.
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Of particular Interest is a map
of the world drawn by F. DeWitt
arjouc 1B7U, which shows the
source of the Nile to be two lakes
south of the equator. Both these
lakes, given the names Zaire and
Zafflan, were located In the Inte
rior of Africa long shown as a
blank spot on much later maps.
California an Island!
, Pt,n,ly PrV0,;0f the ,obe AU the maps are lnexcellent con
left blank on DeWitt's map ia dltion and quite legible with tho
northeastern North America. Call- exception of a map of Great Brit
fornla Is depicted as an Island, tain from which the ruler's coat
Like many other maps Included in of arms was cut out years ago.
this collection, the map of the other maps in the collection
world is Illustrated by richly col- show portions of Europe, military
red drawings. The scenes of the operations and fortifications of
THE ARTS
An exhibition of the works of
Georges Schreiber, young Belgian
American artist, has been secured
temporarily by the art department
through the courtesy of the Asso
ciated American Artists for dis
play in Morrill. Schreiber's paint
ings recently won the acclaim of
critics in New York.
The 22 paintings will be in Gal
lery A until Jan. 22. After that
date the watercolors are to be
featured at the Nelson gallery in
Kansas City for several weeks.
Beautiful as well as ugly.
Schreiber portrays the beautlf
fid, the disturbing, and the ugly
phases of life in the Unifed States
in his watei colors. The gambling
scene from Wyoming is said to
strike some as being' slightly dis
agreeably realistic. There is a
beautiful treatment of a disagree
able subject in the watercolor of a
Florida chain gang.
Agony in the faces of the unfor
tunate sharecrop farmers is shown
in "Sharecropper's Funeral."
The Tuthill prize at the twelfth
international exhibition of water
colors at the art institute of Chi
cago in 1932 was awarded to
Schreiber. "Portraits and Self
Portraits," a book of characteriza
tions in text and drawings of the
leading International figures In
art, literature, politics and educa
tion, is his. His works are in the
permanent collections of the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, the
Brooklyn museum, the Whitney
Museum of American Art and the
New York City museum.
Schreiber was born in Brussels
of German parents in 1904 and
fled with the family to Germany
at the outbreak of the World war.
They suffered much because
neither country wanted them. He
witnessed the German revolution
and saw German soldiers trade
guns tor bread to the Belgians,
only to be fired at later with their
own guns.
"All this has made me conscious
of the times I live in and the peo
ple I live with. It has made me
strive with passion for human
undemanding in my work," com
ments Mr. Schreiber.
gencv'3 works were regarded as
social documents rather than
masterpieces of narrative writing,
and served as propaganda devices
for picturing the Russians as
merely animated digesting mach
ines who ate cabbage soup, stank
enormously of garlic and commit
ted unhead-of treacheries."
Dr. Gettmann's study indicates
that after the Crimean war Eng
lish interest in Turgenev diminish
ed and the few new translations
which were published were re
ceived with comparative indiffer
ence. However, when the Russians
marched on Constantinople in
1877, English sales of the Russian
author's books mounted to new
heights. Turgenev's works again
were utilized as propaganda. In
the closing decade of the 19th
century, English literary critics
led by Galsworthy accepted Tur
genev's writings aa valuable liter
ature, largely because these crit
ics disliked French realists even
more than the ruthless realism of
the Russian,
colored illustration pictures a
jruuui, iuy uainae a lion icauing
an ostrich-like bird by the neck.
a. crocoutie and a negro queen
complete the scene.
Collection 100 years old
The maps, now owned by the
university, were first assembled
about 100 years ago and were
bound in cardboard. In recent
years the library mounted the
marts aennrntplv nn rl-.th KokIii
