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Vol. 69, No. 130
Lincoln, Nebraska
jUl in Thursday, July 11, 1940.
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Oratorio
to be chorus
presentation
Summer music group
sings Haydn s 'Creations
orchestra to play
The summer school chorus, con
ducted by Arthur E, Westbrook,
will Dresent Haven's oratorio,
"The Creation," at the Student
Union at 7:30 p. m. July it. ine
95 members of the chorus, com
nnapd of both regular session and
summer session students, have
been rehearsing throughout tne en
tire school session with this pro
gram as their goal.
Several of the soloists who hava
been heard before are Miss Rose
Dunder, Jack Donovan, Dale Ganz,
Richard Koupal. The newcomers
In the solo group art Enola Jonn
son, Lucile Reilly, Richard Jones,
Charles Oldfather, Ray Steele and
Val Zetterman.
Orchestra plays.
Conducted by Emanuel Wishnow,
the summer school orchestra will
present a concert at the Student
Union on July 18 at 7:30 p. m.
Featured will be ballet music by
"Faust" and the overture of MO'
zart's "Marriage of Figaro."
The complete program:
Overture of the "Marriage of
Figaro," Mozart.
Ballet music from "Faust" En
try of the Tojan Maidens, Solo
Dance of Helen, Bacchanale and
Entry of Phryne, Gounod.
Prelude, Chorale, and Fugue
Bach-Abert.
Dance Macabre, Saint-Saens
Tales from the Vienna Woods
Strauss.
'Pupils can learn
democracy only
by living it'. . .
...Clark
"Pupils can learn democracy in
the schools only by living it there
S. E. Clark, acting head of the so
cial sciences department at Omaha
South high school, told a clinic of
summer session teachers and ad
ministrators in the Union Tuesday
afternoon
Not all children see democracy
practiced in their homes, said the
speaker, so it is important that
they experience it in school. He
advocated giving students as great
a responsibility in school govern
ment as they seemed willing and
able to assume but warned against
asking them to enforce rules not
of their own making and not gen
erally accepted by them
With remodeling . . .
With remodeling . . .
Campus undergoes uplift
in buildings and under
Building and remodeling brings relocated and in its place
Building and remodeling brings
considerable shifting and con
structing in several places on the
campus this summer. The perma
nent concrete wall is being poured
at the site of the new field house
at the north end of the stadium
to connect the two structures. The
fences, sewers, and pipe lines have
been removed to make room for
connecting underground passage
ways. According to John K. Selleck,
relocation of Avery avenue will be
undertaken some time soon, and
next fall, If the athletic depart
ment is financially able, they will
construct a field house up to the
brick line and possibly complete
the main section of the building.
One large office
In the administration building,
all office space of the ground floor
is being consolidated into one large
room in the northwest corner of
the building. The new student
placement service under Dean T. J.
Thompson will be housed in the
southwest corner. The information
desk on the main floor is being
Bridge fans must
register by Friday
Contract bridge fans must regis
ter by Friday evening for the sec
ond, Union bridge tournament to
be played off Saturday evening,
July 13 at 7:30 in Parlors A and B.
Registration may be made at the
Union checkstand. The tourna
ment will be completed in one
evening, and prizes will be
awarded to winners and runners-
up.
Business
shows gain
Nebraska activity rises
during month of June
Preliminary estimates made by
Arthur Auble, university statist!
cian, show that business activity in
Nebraska increased somewhat in
June. Business for the fifth month
has remained at the level that it
reached following the drop from
last December s peak.
Department store sales, building
activity, and bank debits reveal a
gain over May which, after allow'
ance for the usual seasonal move
ments, offset the drop in postal
receipts.
The business indicator in the fol
lowing table is adjusted to remove
normal seasonal changes and the
effect of the irregular calendar,
thus presenting underlying trends
The general business index is a
weighted average of the first six
items listed.
1033-37 equals 100 percent.
June
1940
General bualneu 112
Bank debit. 100
Department store salea.. 97
Postal receipts 7
Building activity 150
electric power output
Pay rolls
Employment
Life insurance sales
Prelmlnary.
May April
1940 1940
111 112
98
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10S
14
98
90
111
15
133
111
103
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Union converts cool
ballroom into study hall
Tor studying in the cool of
the Union, the Union manager
ment starts today placing
chain and tables in the ball
room on second floor, and re
quests that students make K a
mecca for study rather than
trying to study in the lounge.
The ballroom will be con
verted into a study hall each
day when no special activity is
being held there. AND "the
management requests QUIET."
relocated and in its place will be
a reception room for Dr. Rosenlof,
the new registrar, and examiner
of admissions.
Move books
The reading room and stacks of
the state historical society, which
were formerly in the library base
ment, are now located on the third
floor in a seperate department of
the library proper. The technical
departments have been moved to
the t ement. This arrangement
will provide stack space for about
20,000 volumes. The moving of the
books to provide room for new
volumes each summer, will be
evaded, and they will not have to
be moved for about two years.
To provide room for additional
stores and the visual education
service, office space has betn ex
tended the full length of the west
stadium. To increase the water
supply on ag campus, a new well
is being sunk and buffalo grass is
being planted in the parking front
ing, on Holdrege street. Most of
the work is being done under the
university's blanket W.P.A. grant.
Cloud Smith
to give Davy
Crockett1
Dramatic monologist
to read historic play
in Union Wednesday
Cloud Smith, lecturer and mono-
loguist, will present a dramatic
reading of the play, "Davy Crock
ett in Tennessee," Wednesday, July
17, at 7:30 in the Union ballroom.
The dramatist presents the three
act play of six characters by him
self without makeup or stage
properties.
Davy Crockett was an United
States Congressman from Tennes
see three times and was the hero
CLOUD SMITH,
dramatizes "Davy",.,,
of the historic Alamo battle In the
annals of American history. Smith
has presented this sketch all over
the United States in colleges and
high schools.
A Nebraska grad.
A graduate of the University of
Nebraska in the department of
speech. Smith is a native of west
ern Nebraska, and has spent his
life in Chatauqua and lyceum
work. The play he will present is
now being made into a movie with
Walter Huston as the leading
character.
Geology alumni visit
Recent alumni visitors in the de
partment of geology were Vilas
Sheldon '34, of the Stanolind Oil
& Gas Co., Pampa, Texas, and
John Liming. '37, who has been
employed by the Standard Oil Co.,
of Venezuela at Caracas for the
past two years.
UNION CALENDAR
Thursday, July 11.
3:30 in Book Nook Book Re
view. 4:30 In A and B Choral Group.
7:30 in Music Room Record
Requests.
Friday, July 12.
4:00 in Music Room Record
Requests.
9:00 In Ballroom Dave Haun
and his band.
Saturday, July 13.
7:30 In A and B Bridge Tour
nament. Sunday, July 14.
7:30 In Music Room Record
Requests.
Monday, July 15.
4:00 In Music Room Record
Requests.
7:30 in X and Y Travel Film.
7:30 In Music Room Record
Requests.
Tuesday, July 16.
4:00 In Music Room Harmony
Hour.
7:30 in Ballroom Summer
Chorus Concert.
Wednesday, July 17.
4:00 in Music Room Record
Requests.
5:00 in Ballroom Matinee
Dance.
7:30 In B a 1 1 r o o m D A V Y
CROCKETT, a dramatic
reading.
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Reviewer to tell
of 'Native Son'
"Native Son," best seller by
Richard Wright, will be subject of
the Book Review presented this
afternoon at 3:30 in the Union
Book Nook. Wright, a young Ne
gro author, has written a story
about the problems of a young
Negro in society in a plot which
invclvea a murder, capture and
trial as well as me psychological
effort on the individual.
Enrollment
reaches peak
2,228 attending
summer session
Enrollment in the university
summer session has reached the
peak of 2,228, with the possibility
of a few more registrations before
the end of the term, according to
an announcement from the reg
istrar's office. The final figure
last year was 2,232.
Canada, Puerto Rico, and
Hawaii are represented, as well as
24 stuies other than Nebraska,
bringing to a total of 133 the num
ber of students from outside Ne
braska. 1,753 students have reg
istered for the nine weeks session,
451 for the six weeks session, and
24 in the four weeks vocational
training course at the agricultural
college.
Registration by colleges is as
follows: Agriculture, 124; arts and
science, 273; business administra
tion, 126; dentistry, 4; engineering,
88; graduate, 772; nursing, 98;
pharmacy, 15; teachers, 747.
Wishnow to play
with string group
Emanuel Wishnow of the school
of music will leave Lincoln the lat
ter part of July to appear with
the Jacques Gordon string quartet
at Music Mountain in Falls Vil
lage, Conn. This will be the ninth
summer that ne has worked with
the group and this year he expects
to make a recording with it. To
be gone until the first of Septem
ber, Mr. Wishnow also plans to at
tend the Berkshire festival of the
Boston Symphony orchestra at
Stockbridge, Mass.
Help to Europe . . .
Too late now,
sees clash coming anyhow
"It's too late now for the United
States to help Europe," says A.
Bower Sageser, visiting professor
from Kansas State, "but the clash
will eventually come. United States
can stay out of war, but the ques
tion is, will it be for one, fifteen
or twenty years?"
Hitler will stress continental ex
pansion of industry, which will
make satisfactory trade relations
impossible, predicted the history
professor. All trends indicate a
clash between economic interests.
The reason the struggle may come
later could be due to the fact that
Hitler, while he is having success
now, may have trouble holding all
nations in check for any length of
time. But the outcome is unpre
dictable since such a strong mili
tary force lias never been used
before. The discontent and opinion
of minorities have literally no
chance under the present set-up.
"Hitler will have to be stopped
sometime just as any aggressor."
The problem of satisfactory trade
relations with South America is a
big one. South American trade
does not offer inducements which
European trade does. The domina
tion of South American imports
and exports by the United States
is not so easy taking into consid
eration the fact that these coun
tries have been free to do what
they wish since the 1820's. The in
stability of governments would
Brameld vies
with Werner
in debate
'Shall education join
with organized labor?'
is conference feature
Debate on whether teachers
should affiliate with organized
labor will feature a conference on
the American Federation of Teach
ers which is being sponsored by
the University of Nebraska sum
mer session Thursday at the Stu
dent Union. Dr. Theodore Bra
meld, associate professor of educa
tional philosophy, will uphold th
affirmative, and Dr. O. H. Werner,
professor of principles of educa
tion at the University, will support
the negative at a general after
noon session beginning at 1:30
p. m.
Bedell leads.
Discussion groups led by Dr.
Ralph C. Bedell. Dr. Walter K.
Beggs, and Fred T. Wilhelms. all
of the teachers college faculty,
will meet following the debate.
The American Federation of
Teachers is affiliated with tho
American Federation of Labor, and
the conference is one of three ar
ranged to acquaint summer school
students with the nature and ac
tivities of the three outstanding
national teachers organizations,
according to Prog. R. D. Moritz,
summer session director. A recent
conference on professional rela
tions dealt with the National Ed
ucational Association, and a meet
ing is scheduled for July 18 on
the Progressive Education Associ
ation. Brameld speaker again.
Dr. Brameld will speak in the
Union at 7:30 in the evening dii
"Workers' Education A Neglect
ed Opportunty." He is editor of a
forthcoming yearbook-dealing with
workers' education in America to
be published by the John Dewey
society in February. Dr. F. E.
Henzlik. dean of the Teachers col
lege, will preside at the meetings.
Scott writes article
on superintendent tenure
Dr. C. W. Scott, professor of
school administration, has had a
digest of his article on "Tenure
Preferences of Superintendents of
Schools" published in the May is
sue of the Loyola Educational Di
gest.
says Sageser,
make permanent agreements ex
tremely difficult.
Isolation out.
"The argument that United
States could get along without her
foreign trade is a weak one," said
Sageser. While it is true that only
10 of our trade is foreign, several
industries such as the tobacco and
cotton industries depend on ex
ports for a good share of their
trade. We can ruin Japan's silk
trade, but Japan .is our second
greatest purchaser of cotton.
Versatile.
Professor Sageser's largest pub
lication is a book entitled "First
Two Decades of the Pendleton
Act." He has been working on
some Civil War diaries recently
although he admits that he is more
interested in the agricultural and
economic developments of history.
Kansas State offers a rather un
usual course in current history
which covers only recent happen
ings. The course, was begun in
1917 when a great number of tho
faculty took it to plot out the
events and movements of the war.
Almost all of the students take
Current History regardless of
curriculum, which has made a
necessity of twenty-two sections.
Since members of the history de
partment must take several sec
tions, it is a good way to make
professors keep up on current
events, admits Sageser,