Reporter Lauds First
Theatre Production
e IPBedlges
FE3ir Umderareidl Sfuden'SS's
Lucy Ann Hapeman, Arlis Swanson, Margaret Hunter, and Gerry
McKinsey look with scorn at The Girl, played by Billie Smith. The
scene is from "The Wingless Virtory" which opened last night at
the University Theatre.
BY BETTY KING.
The University Theater opened
Its season Thursday night with
Maxwell Anderson's "The Wing
less Victory." The play, a
tradegy, deals with the racial
problem as presented in the
1800's.
IBlfflSH
Vol. 44, No. 22
Student Forum Discusses
Political Party Platforms
BY PHYLLIS JOHNSON. Change in the National Adminis-
Republican and democratic
platforms, which Dewey and
Roosevelt have been trying to
c'arify for 16 weeks, were each
outlined in 16 minutes by four
students at the Nebraskan pout
ical forum Wednesday evening in
Sosh auditorium.
Battling over the question; "Re
solved: That There Should Be a
Capt. N. Bartz
Finishes 300
Mission Hours
Capt. Norman Bartz, former UN
student, recently returned from
England after completing almost
300 mission hours in the Euro
pean sector. As a fighter plane
pilot in the Army Air Corps, he
acted as escort to many bomber
missidns and participated in the
invasion. Capt. Bartz holds the
DFC and three Oak Leaf Clus
ters. Before his return to the United
States, Bartz visited his brother,
1st Lt. Charles A. Bartz, who is
in a hospital in England recover
ing from wounds received on the
Western European front. Lt. Bartz
acted as an artillery observer with
the "Lost Battalion" which was
cut off without supplies for more
than a week; however, he was
wounded after the Battalion had
been rescued. Charles, a graduate
cf the department of geology, was
formerly employed by the univer
sity's conservation and survey di
vision. Waits Assignment.
After eight months of service,
which included participation in
the European invasion, Lt. Jerry
Wright, UN grad, has returned
to this country to await reassign
ment He was a member of the
amphibious section of the Army
Signal Corps. Lt. Wright, who
was a geology major, was former
ly employed in the conservation
and survey, division of tne univer
sity. Yearbook Pix
Scheduled to have Cornhusker
pictures taken next week, Nov.
6-11, are the following groups:
Pi Beta Phi.
Sigma Delta Tau.
Sigma Kappa. '
Zeta Beta Tau.
Beta Sigma Phi.
Delta Tau Delta.
The cast of the play was more
than adequate. Altho most of
them are freshmen, or newcomers
to the university stage, they re
vealed the stage poise of veterans.
Gloria Beaumont, as the Prin
cess Oparre, is one of the finest
(See THEATRE, page 2)
Friday, November 3, 1944
tration " Mary Ann Mattoon
stated the republican domestic
policies which Bill Miller counter
balanced with the democratic side
of the domestic question. Dexter
Sharp and Al Reddish rivaled
over the republican and demo
cratic foreign platforms, respec
tively. Moderator was Prof. Le
roy Laase.
Comparison of the polls taken
before and after the forum
showed that of the 173 students
who voted, 34 shifted their presi
dents1 choice after hearing the
debate. In the second poll 98 stu
dents finally favored Dewey, 65
were for Roosevelt and ten were
undecided.
One Undecided.
One Roosevelt supporter be
came undecided after hearing the
forum while four other Roosevelt
students switched to Dewey. Ten
who were formerly undecided cast
their votes for Roosevelt in the
second poll and 11 undecided stu
See POLITICS, page 7)
Reporters Meet
Saturday At 10
There will be a meeting of
all new and old Nebraskan re
porters at 10 Saturday morn
ing. Those who are unable to
attend must bring an excuse to
the editor before Saturday.
Student Council Passes Resolution;
Political Parties Submit Platforms
Wednesday night the stident
council unanimously passed
Jeanne Rutton's resolution and
added it to the student council
by-laws Thursday, thus clearing
the way for the formation of new
political parties on the camps.
The plan declares that no poli
tical parties exist on the campus
at the present time and requires
that any group of students de
siring to be recognized as a politi
cal party must submit to the
council a plan presenting the
name and platform of the party,
the provision for the election of
a party leader, the organization of
the party's faction and the method
of determining the party slate of
candidates for ell campus elections.
Phi Beta Kappa, national
scholastic honorary of the Arts
and Sciences college, announced
the election of four undergradu
ate members last night at a din
ner in Ellen Smith hall.
Dr. Norman Hill, professor of
political science, in his address to
the PBK's on "Can Europe's Ter
ritorial Problems Be Solved?"
said that it was necessary to real
ize that all international bound
aries are nuisances wherever they
are placed for they impede nor
mal relationhips and activities of
people.
Doris Martens
Wins Towne
Club Award
Doris Martens was uiven . the
annual Towne club scholarship
award by Mrs. O. E. Edison Mon
day evening at the club's mem
bership dinner in the Union. This'
award, which is made to the
sophomore member having the
highest scholastic average, is pre
sented by the Mother's club.
Following the dinner at which
officers of the Towne club moth
ers and alumnae were special
guests, 14 girls were given mem
bership at the recognition service.
These included June Carlson,
Dorothy Reilly, Marcella Slaj
chert, Lois Opper, Marion Priest,
Enid Barron, Martha Dishman,
Margaret Hall, Icle Jean Selders,
Mary McCurdy, Dorothy Temple,
La Verne Kline, Doris Martens and
Ruth Waite. Nelda Oltman, presi
dent, was in charge and Betty Lou
Huston conducted the ceremonies.
Bizad Group
Gives Circus
Students from Bizad college
will be circus entertainers and
faculty members will provide a
wild animal show at the Phi Chi
Theta-sponsored Bizad circus, to
be held Wednesday at 6:30 p. m.,
in the Union ballroom.
Final plans for the program,
decorations, entertainment, and
dinner were announced by Estelle
Lenneman, who is in charge of the
banquet. Bernie Urich will be
ringmaster for the circus, which
will have a fire-eater, juggler,
talking cow, and other circus acts.
Choose Committees.
Committee members for the
banquet are: Ticket sales, Doro
thea Lemon and Jo Herndon;
decorations, Mary Sinclair, Mar-
jorie Martin, Margaret Reese,
Marjone Mengshol, Mary Louise
Baldwin, Pat Guligan, and Esther
Blanchard; table decorations, Jes
sie Lou Tyler, Pat Tobin, Joan
Shaw, and Mary Ellen Stuart;
programs, Mary Louise Hansen,
June Dunn, and Inez Johnson;
entertainment, Laurine Hansen,
Jeanne Dougan, Winifred Hask-
ins, LaVonne Milton, and Edith
Hawkins; menu, Mary Lou Holtz
and Mary Lou Armstrong; and
publicity, Shirley Jenkins.
The tickets, which are 50c, are
now on sale at Dean John D.
Clark's office, room 310 in Sosh,
and from any Phi Chi Theta.
This information must be
turned into the council for ap
proval by Wednesday, Nov. 8, at
5 p. m. Every fall term by the
end of the 14th day following the
first day of classes, all political
parties wishing to exist officially
for the rest of the year must fol
low this procedure. This action
protects the student body from
parties whose platforms have be
come out-dated from year to year.
Independents File.
Only the groups that are offi
cially recognized by student coun
cil can present party candidates in
any campus election. This does
not mean, however, that a student
who does not belong to a party
is barred from filing his candi
dacy for office, providing he
NEW MEMBERS
Harold Wayne Andersen
Richard Clements Sill
Barbara Jeanne SUM
Jeannette Mae Smith
He listed the five territorial
claims of nations as: ethnic, stra
tegic (defensive), economic, geo
graphic, and historic, and said
that it was difficult to reach any
satisfactory conclusions about
these. He suggeted free trade, an
effective security system, and a
voluntary resettlement of nation
alities as possible but unlikely re
forms in the present boundary
setup.
Parents Learn
Lt. J. Stewart
Lost Since Oct.
Lt. John W. Stewart has been
missing in action since Oct. 13,
the war department recently noti
fied his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Don
Stewart.
Lieutenant Stewart had been
with the 26th infantry division for
nearly a year before he was sent
to France early in September. He
was believed to have been in Gen
eral Patton's Third army near
Metz.
While in training, he was sta
tioned at the infantry officers'
school at Fort Benning, Ga.
Prior to his entry into the army,
Lieutenant Stewart attended the
University of Nebraska where he
was prominent in campus activi
ties. He was vice president of
Beta Theta Pi fraternity, manag
ing editor of the Cornhusker, and
a member of Kosmet club, Var
sity debate team, Delta Sigma
Rho; interfraternity council and
vice president of the Innocents in
1941.
Roosevelt Buys
Calf From 941
Nebraska Man
Lt. Don Tracy of York, student
at the university college of agri
culture in 1940 and 1941, sold a
calf to President Roosevelt for his
farm.
Lieutenant Tracy, who majored
in dairy industry at the college
here and was a successful 4-H
dairy club member, is now in
charge of the large dairy herd at
a "rest camp" near Pawling, N. Y.
One of his college pals, Lt. Eric
Thor, now teaching at the West
Point Military academy, today
wrote friends here about Tracy's
most recent experiences.
"Don is doing all right," says
Thor. "He is well acquainted with
Tom Dewey, Lowell Thomas, and
a lot of other big shots.
Even President and Mrs. Roose
velt have been out to look over
Tracy's dairy setup and Lieuten
ant Tracy rode between them in
the president's car and showed
them around. Later Lieutenant
Tracy went over to lodk over the
"ag situation" at Hyde Park, ac
cording to Lieutenant Thor who
adds that "the boy is really-getting
around and doing a mighty
swell job."
meets the requirements set up for
all candidates for office. Such a
student is free to file as an inde
pendent. The council has two main aims
in taking this action with regard
to political parties, mainly:
1. To encourage practice and
training among the students in the
handling of those political institu
tions which are characteristic of
our present national and local
governments.
2. To make our campus politics
more democratic.
Political parties wIjd have sub
mitted their platforms to the Ne
braskan ir"iiH t'ic Studen-
(See COUNCIL, pag:e 6)
"Some one has said that good
peace, like good wine, improves
with age. Certainly one test of a
good peace is tjie capacity which
it has of winning an ever increas
ing support from all who are af
fected by it, so that the need for
military enforcement will gradu
ally disappear. If this kind of
peace should be written," said Dr.
Hill, "it would Indeed be a vin
dication of the ideals for which
we are now fighting."
Prof. Lane Lancaster, president
of Alpha chapter of Phi Beta
Kappa, presided over the meeting.
Judges Pick
'45 Beauties
At Tea Dance
Twelve Cornhusker beauty
queen finalists will be chosen
from 38 candidates at a tea dance
Nov. 17 in the Union, according
to Myra Colberg, editor of the
yearbook.
Organized houses on the cam
pus, by virtue of Cornhusker
sales, Uave er-n?d the right to
put up a total of 38 coeds. At the
tea dance from 4 to 6 p. m., the
coeds will be presented in a style
show, each appearing once in date
dress with complete accessories
and once in school clothes. Judges,
whose names will be released
later, will pick the 12 finalists
from the group, and later in the
year, the group of 12 finalists will
be whittled down until only the
number to appear in the annual
remains. These beauty queens will
then be presented in the 1945
Cornhusker.
All organized houses are asked
to have the names of their can
didates in at the Cornhusker of
fice by Nov. 14 at the latest. Can
didates must be carrying at least
12 hours this semester and may
be in any class.
Beauty queens last year were
Pat Welsh, Ginny Malster, Joy
Laune, Marge Heyn, Rose Phil
lips, and Margaret Hagen.
Ministers Tell
Church Plans
For Weekend
The following church activities
for the week end have been an
nounced by the University pas
tors. Student members of the Pres
byterian church will meet at the
Student House Sunday at 5:30
for a discussion followed by a
supper at 6:30. A motion picture
entitled "The Kind of World We
Want to Live In" will be shown.
The picture is produced by the
National Conference of Christians
and Jews. Everyone is invited to
attend.
Sunday at 8:30 a. m. Holy com
munion will be observed at the
University Episcopal church. Fol
lowing at 11:00 will be Choral
Eucharist and the sermon. In the
evening at 6:00 students will meet
for the Choral Evensong. A din
ner will be served following the
program at 6:30. Students may
make reservations for the dinner
by calling either 2-2251 or 3-4151.
UN Forum of Air
Discusses Polls
Saturday at 5
Are there any value in public
opinion polls? Are they accurate?
Do they perform a service or a
disservice?
These are some of the questions
which will be discussed when the
University of Nebraska's Forum
of the Air meets this Saturday at
5 p. m. on KFAB.
Dr. R. V. Shumate, professor
of political science, will act as
moderator. Panel members in
clude Prof. Forrest C. Blood, di
rector of the school of journalism
and professor of advertising and
sales management; Raymond A.
McConnell, jr., managing editor
of the State Journal; and Dr.
David Fellman, professor of po
litical science.
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