DAILY NEBRASKAN
Tuesday, October 1, 1940
2
A case of having a cake,
but not being hungry
Noticeably absent from the reporters' meeting announced last week on
the DAILY front page for two consecutive days were unaffiliated men. For
some reason or other, these men, evidently installed already with a dislike for
fraternity men and for the fraternity system, failed to ask for beats, failed
to come to the office at all.
At large meetings sponsored by barb organizations last week, and before
then, barb men, interested in activities, were told they had every opportunity
afforded anyone who wants to work on the DAILY.
That statement is the absolute truth. Darb leaders have conferred with
your editor for many hours during the past few days and know that their
friends, that all barbs interested in activities, especially in the DAILY, are
welcome to try their hand at collegiate journalism; those same barb leaders
know and admitted to us lhat the barbs who try working on the XE
BKASKAX have as much of a chance for advancement as anyone else work
ing here.
Jn the past, DAILY editors have told barbs they could advance if 'they
worked hard enough. In the past, under some editors, that was a bluff.
Naturally, news editors and managing editors aren't going to do their
best to favor barb reporters and see to it they get choice stories. Th men
and women we favor are those who have proved they are valuable to us.
At present, there are a few sophomore barb workers on the rag and those
few represent, a trusted and capable element of th DAILY family.
Barbs, you have as much of a chance to work up, to earn paid staff
positions as fraternity men and sorority women have. The old line about
politics and fraternity alignment being necessary to get anywhere on this
paper is an exaggeration to say the least. Advancements on this paper are
given according to the quality and quantity of work done. Individual ability
is the foundation upon which this paper is built.
The DAILY doesn't ask anyone to work on it. It need not, for its needs
are almost always taken care of. There is always room for more workers and
reporters. AVe welcome everyone, regardless of affiliation, regardless of ex
perience, regardless of anything that would tend to make this a paper operat
ing in the interests of something else besides the promotion of a bigger and
better University of Nebraska.
Oil JIisl SdsL
'7V Bob Aldrich-
Tired of being taken for an
escaped Russian convict we went
to our barber the other day for a
complete tonsorial overhaul in
eluding haircut, shave, massage,
facial, shoe shine, and free oil
check.
Our barber is a nice man. He is
a proud, substantial, tax-paying
wife-fearing American citizen.
His one big failing, sometimes
thought to be communicable
among barbers, is that he talks too
much.
This would be all right with us
if he would stop once in a while
and let us get a word in edgewise
or at least cornerwise.
But a barber has two strikes on
you before he starts. In the first
place he has you practically tied
down in the chair with no chance
to escape. In the second place he
is the possessor of several lethal
weapons in the form of shears,
linnra rnnrs and nthpr instru
ments of torture.
Our barber's method is to grab
a large quantity of our hirsute
appendage betwene his remark
ably strong fingers and, giving a
twist that all but lifts us from the
chair, apply the electric clippers
and the monologue at one and the
fame time.
"Well," he says, "what do you
think Willkie's chances are now?"
(Snip, snip, snip.) "Golly, you have
thick hair. Why don't you let mc
thin it out?"
"Well, frankly. I "
"That's just what I was tell
ing George. Now the way I figure,
the newspapers are just handing
out a lot of propaganda, don't you
think?"
"Well, perhaps, but "
"Absolutely! Just like I said to
George the other day. George, 1
eaid. . ."
We feel a mild curiosity to in
quire who George is but presently
our mind wanders to other matters
tintil we are brought to life with
a sharp, "Ain't that what you
say?"
"Yes," we stammer. "Yts, sir,
Scries brings
Orson Welles
Orson Welles, acclaimed genius
of theater and radio, who adapted
H. G. Welles' "Men from Mars"
for radio, and caused a nation
wide panic as a result, will open
the 1940-41 Town Hall lecture
series here Oct. 25.
The Town Hall, sponsored by
the Lincoln Junior League, will
also present during the season
Osa Johnson, veteran of many
African expeditions, Archduke Fe
lix of Austria, and John Mason
Brown, dramatic critic of the New
York Post.
that's right!!"
There's really no reason why
we have to agree with everything
the barber says but we have an
unpleasant conviction that not to
do so would be impolite, not to
say dangerous. Besides the man
is obviously not looking for argu
ment but for someone to listen.
Probably he never gets a chance
to talk at home and takes it out
on the customers.
"Dear," he says to his wife after
a hard day of talking, "I was just
speaking to one of my customers
and I told him I think "
"Never mind what you think!
What's the idea of coming home
an hour late? Do you think I'm
running a soup kitchen? Here, I
work my fingers to the bone over
a hot stove ana you in a nice,
cool "
"But, dear, I was only say
ing "
"You're always saying some
fool thing. If you'd only not talk
so much and work a little harder
you might earn some more
money."
"Oh, so I'm not earning enough
money now? So that's it? I come
home and start a little polite con
versation and it turns out I'm not
wanted in my own home! You're
always talking about going home
to your mother. Well, why don't
you?"
"Why. you beast! Take that...
and that!" (Sound of breaking
furniture.)
Anyway, that's the way our
barber's situation looks to us.
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By Chris Petersen
TETHERED TERMITES.
Dear Chief:
Our favorite diversion being the
capitulating thought to the forces
of insanity, thought it might be
interesting to consider free verse
from the point of the insane.
"Tethered Termites" is a hearty
bit which achieves its best results
when recited aloud at the dinner
table btween mouthfuls of canned
crab. Try it in your home after
a hard day of trying to find out
where the stripes go on the barber
pole. There is nothing more re
freshing than "tethered Termites"
and crab after a hard day.
Tethered Termites.
Ah, but to all of which skyrockets.
Worms seeking apples at dusk.
Worms finding apples at dusk.
Wormy apples.
But what of telephone poles jo
low,
So high,
Medium.
Purple pumpkins, blue apples, yel
low lemons.
That's silly. Yellow lemons.
Take a number from one to ten.
You have it? Fine!
Now I only have nine digits to
figit with.
Figit digits.
Hello tethered termite.
You want to bore, don't you.
And we didn't bring our drills.
A hole in one.
No, one in a hole.
Terminates the tale of
Tenacious tethered termites.
If you were bored by this at
tempt, chief, don't blame me.
After all, what more is there to
say other than "Termites involve
boring situations."
Your Girl Saturday.
Bulletin
Ballroom dance lessons for all
men and women students who
want to learn to dance will begin
Oct. 1 in the Activities building
on ag campus. Classes will be held
from 7 to 8 p. m. City campus se
ries wil begin Oct. 4, and will be
held in Grant Memorial from 8 to
9 p. m. Six lessons will be given
for 75 cents
Ag campus Camera club meet
ing has been changed from Tues
day to Wednesday night.
Barb Men wishing to play in
intra-mural touch football should
have their teams registered at the
Intra-mural office in the coliseum
and with the Barb Union before
Oct. 8. Registration is now open.
Barb Union will meet Tuesday
st 7:30 p. m. in the Barb office.
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All unaffiliated men are invited
to the meeting.
Orchesis, university women's
dance group, will begin a three
weeks probationary period Wed
nesday. Any woman interested in
this group is asked to be at Grant
Memorial at 7 p. m. Permanent
workers will be chosen after three
weeks of practice.
A. I. Ch. E. will hold a dinner
meeting Oct. 2 at 6:15 p. m. in
parlor X of the Union. The dinner
will be free. All Chem students are
invited.
Corn Cobs will meet at 6:15
p. m. Thursday in the Union for
the Minnesota rally.
All-Republican meeting for stu
dents will be held at the Union at
7:30 p. m.
a
University Democratic club will
hold its regular meeting at 7:30
p. m. Tuesday in parlor A of the
Union. Membership cards and but
tons will be distributed. Franze
Radke, local attorney, will speak
at the meeting.
Con dra to discuss
stale water facilities
Dr. George E. Condra, director
of the university conservation and
survey division, will speak Thurs
day on "Water Facilities in North
eastern Nebraska" in connection
with a feeders' tour sponsored by
the Stanton business men's club
in cooperation with the extension
office at Stanton.
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