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THE NEBRASKAN
We'dnes'day, March 6, 1946
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Vote
Women's elections are being held on the campus today,
to be followed in a few weeks by spring elections. Will the
tabulated results show active interest on the part of intelli
gent student voters or a spiritless performance by a few dis
interested bystanders?
It seems quite evident that elections offer a chance for
members of the various organizations to choose their own
leaders. Yet how many of these students go near the polls
on election day? The total number votes cast is often -less
than 50 of the qualified voters. How, then, can students
expect co-operation and unity within or among the organ
izations of which they are a part?
The university affords a constructive opportunity for
persons to view politics, both good and bad, with an eye to
the future. Such training, altho not as important perhaps
as actual classwork, is a vital part of each individual's edu
cation. The political aspect of life is with us always, and
our duty is to be informed. And having viewed the evils of
politics as found in a university or college, educated citizens
have gone one step forward in fighting those evils that seem
to repeat themselves in governmental affairs of the state
and nation.
No wonder that machines are so easily and unobtrusive
ly operated when the majority of voters do not find time to
go to the polls and mark their "X" on the ballot.
And along with making the effort to go to the polls
comes the added responsibility of being informed as to the
merits and qualifications of those whose names appear on
the ballot. As soon as students realize the privilege and
responsibility of voting, elections will progress one step
further in becoming the true expression of a democratic so
ciety.
The polls will be open today from 9 until 5 p. m. As
university students, striving for education, we should know
the meaning of responsibility. Here s our chance to prove it.
F. Li. T.
Dr. Westbrook
Attends 21st
Music Meet
Arthur E. Westbrook, director of
the school of fine arts, repre
sented the university at the 21st
annual meeting of the National
Association of Schools of Music
held recently in Detroit.
Dr. Westbrook is a member of
the association's curricula com
mittee. The university school has
been a member of NASM since
1928.
Prominent in the meeting's dis
cussions were practical problems
confronting the schools in this
post-war era, including educa
tional and vocational guidance for
the returning veteran, secondary
music school curricula, teachers
colleges and state certification re
quirements, teaching loads, gradu
ate study, and the college library.
The association, influential in
improving musical standards dur
ing the past two decades, is the
only national accrediting body for
educational institutions in the field
of music in the United States.
Its membership consists of more
than 150 of the foremost colleges,
universities, and conservatories of
music throughout the nation.
Scientists are experimenting
with practical commercial uses of
H02.
Sinf onia Names
Eleven Pledges,
New Officers
binronia, men s national music
fraternity, announced this week
names of 11 new pledges, new
officers and the date for their an
nual spring concert.
Men pledged at the group's last
meeting include Robert Ellsworth,
Thomas Green, Darrell Ham
mond, Morris Hayes, Jerome
Hoelscher, Howard Jacob, George
Kimball, Leslie Marks, Jess Neil
son, Dayton Smith, and Jack
Snider.
The new pledges plus the re-turned-veteran
members now
make the chapter roll total 56.
At the beginning of the school
year the roster numbered 30.
T5 Cleve Genzlinger, a prom
inent university soloist until he
entered the army nearly four
years ago, will be a special guest
at the fraternity's regular lunch
eon tomorrow.
New officers elected to fill out
the term are Darwin Frederick
son, treasurer; Alfred Blinde, su
preme council representative; and
Roy Emory Johnson, historian.
Officers retaining positions in
clude Lee Kjelson, president; Ray
Schaumberg, vice president; and
Sam Warren, secretary.
The annual spring concert of
Phi Mu Alpha-Sinfonia will be
FREE VARIETY SHOW
Marlene Dietrich George Raff
Zorina Orson Welles
"FOLLOW THE BOYS"
3:00 P. M.f SUNDAY, MARCH 1 0
UNION BALLROOM
Coffee Hour S fo 6 in Union Lounge
Just as the permanent depres
sions on my throat caused by my
mothers death-grip insistence
upon clean ears and scrubbed
teeth were beginning to fade from
view, I found a most horrible re
port from INS in Thursday's
paper. Quoth the service, "Half
the American people don't even
have a toothbrush. Only 185,300,
000 brushes were manufactured
in 1944, and of this total 43 per
cent were distributed directly to
the armed services." Judging
from the jokes they tell, they must
need them. Not one to be freak
ishly individualistic, I immedi
ately proposed, throwing my worn
out nylon-bristled instrument in
the nearest trash barrel. (How do
you like the new green additions
to each front step?) But if I do,
where will I get any exercise?
Grapevine reports the Towne
club girls were so vocally elated
after winning the cup at Thurs
day's follies, that they literally
raised the roof in their Temple
dressing room ,and were rewarded
with a shower of plaster. To
qnote Bob Crosby's latest, "Who
wants a pocket full of cement? I
don't know."
That obscure shoeclerk named
Ginsburg must have presided at
the conference table in Sweetheart
Lodge Thursday night, as every
campus politician gets down on
his knees, or on the pedestal, to
deny any knowledge of the whole
affair. Some even dragged out
their room-mates, teachers and
diaries to reaffirm their inno
cence. If we even broach the
subject they look as injured as
though we'd asked if they belong
to TNE. ;
Just when we were feeling the
worst effects of ptomaine poison
ing last week there followed 50
solid minutes of timely discussion
on thallophytic disinteration of
foodstuffs. Oh ghastly gastric dis
turbance.
Then there are those who
wouldn't think of missing English
class, so many unusual things
happen there. Monday, while
paying ear-service to a discussion
of the history of literature, 78
pair of eyes strayed to the win
dow, where could be seen dozens
and dozens of men from the en
gineering college, out to survey
the situation. Dr. Frantz turned
from the board, calmly an
nounced, "Oh, I thought the In
dians were coming," and resumed
the discussion. Miracle, the class
with with him-again.
The man who should know,
Martin Pesek, has informed us
that the inter-frat queen election
will "honest to goodness, be fair
and square." Yes, sir, the inter
fraternity council, no less, will
count the ballots. Since votes will
be cast on the reverse of tickets.
Ginsburg says it'll be okay, cause
every man will have to vote the
way his date tells him. Or suffer
the consequences, and a cold
shoulder in an evening dress can
be very cold indeed.
News in a
Nutshell
BY BOB SEASON
presented April 14th at the Tem
ple and will feature the Sinfonia
glee club, and soloists, according
to the president.
Contrary to public opinion,
Cleopatra was not loved by An
thony, but by an obscure shoe
clerk named Ginsberg.
niteJ
(JOHNNY)
( COX
ORCHESTRA
Admission S8 and Tu
7 Bus Service from 10th
LONDON Under arrangements now being made Great Britain
will soon be able to trade with Japan. Sir Stafford Cripps, president
of the board of trade, is working out a method by which Britain can
pay Japan for Imports.
OTTAWA Prime Minister MacKenzie King has announced that
Canada's espionage inquiry has revealed evidence of a "network" to
obtain information on American troop movements and scientific data
on the atomic bomb. According to the Associated Press, the network
consisted of Soviet and Canadian agents, "operating under direct in
structions from Moscow."
In London, Dr. A. Nunn May, who was at one time attached to
the staff of King's College, London, has been arrested on charges of
violating the Official Secrets Act. However, government spokesmen
refused to confirm or deny reports that his seizure was linked with
the Canadian spy hunt. Dr. May, an expert on atomic energy, was
a member of a team of British scientists which went to Canada to
work on the atomic bomb.
WASHINGTON The United Stales, Britain, and France have
asked the Spanish people to oust Generalissimo Franco by peaceful
means and set up a "caretaker" government pledged to hold free elecr
tions. The declaration did not make an immediate diplomatic break
with the Spanish regime, but said the nation faces an international
cold shoulder until it gets rid of the dictator.
In the Senate, a labor committee has agreed to revise the Cas
Labor Disputes Bill. The bill, as it is described at the present time,
contains "drastic legislation that would penalize or straitjacket labor."
The labor! committee is expected to shape the bill into a milder form.
A subsidy proposal which President Truman called "the, heart'.'
of his housing ..program has been defeated. The plan would have
authorized ' 600 ' million dollars of subsidy! payment to encourage
greater production of building materials.
The United States has asked both Russia and China for informa
tion on reported removals of industrial equipment from Manchuria
by Red Arjny forces.
NEW YORK In an effort to head off a nation-wide telephone
tie-up, a member of the United States Conciliation Service has
summoned leaders of the telephone workers' unions to a conference
in Washington.
The C.I.O. United Auto Workers' union has qualifiedly accepted
General Motors' proposal of a secret ballot on the question of end
ing the 105-day-old strike at the G. M. plants.
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