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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
Wednesday, November 27, 1946
EDITORIAL
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Thanksgiving Day . .
Thursday is Thanksgiving Day.
Once again families will gather around the table and
give thanks that all is at peace, at least for the time being.
Some chairs will be empty, never to be filled again, but
those families will still be thankful that the nation has
revived its spirit at all after the devastation of the last
five year.
It was some three hundred years ago that the Pilgrim
fathers first established a day of thanks, grateful for the
land of freedom which they had found and which they con
sidered sacred. The basic principles by which they lived
then are not far removed from our lives today.
As we leave the university for our homes, families and
friends, we may be humbly thankful for many things.
Thankful that we have the opportunity to come back to a
university after a few days of vacation. Thankful that we
have the privilege of expressing ourselves freely on any
and all subjects. Thankful that we are free to decide for
ourselves what we shall make of our lives. Thankful, above
all, that we are alive.
There's an old saying, something to the effect that, "Life
is what you make it." If this is so, and it is, let us go fur
ther by saying that the deeds and actions of mankind,
though not all recorded in the hall of fame, have preserved
for us this land with liberty and justice for all.
The American nation has weathered many crises, both
national and international, and still that same liberty and
justice exists, growing stronger with every year.
May this Thanksgiving Day be one of genuine happiness
based on a sincere determination to make this peaceful
world.
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By Steve Swarti
November 26, 1946
Madam Editor:
It seems to many of us on Ag. Campus that the policy
of the Nebraskan should be to adhere to the fact as closely
as possible and to give credit where credit is due.
Referring to your "Hats Off department of yesterday,
the entire Ag. student body is grateful to all those who were
responsible in any way for finally getting a Union in oper
ation on this campus, but while we are throwing bouquets,
let us not forget all those who worked unceasingly before
the war for this project, and let us mention the names of
Allen Klingman, Dave Sanders, Bill Larson, Wilbur Bluhm,
and the organized support of Love Hall, Loomis Hall,
Amakitas, Home Ec. club, Ag. Mens Social Club, Alpha
Gamma Rhos, and Farm House, without whose interest and
support the Ag. Union would not be a reality today.
DON WARNER
Humor Pervades Vestibules
On Typical Sunday Evening
BY LEODOMS W. ZILCIL
The night was cold and stormy.
Fighting our wajr up the steps
and through the blinding snow
which swept unmercifully down
upon us, we reached the compara
tive shelter of the lighted door
way. Peering inside, I saw that
all was dark.
Cautiously we entered. Except
for the noise made when my date
slipped and fell and dropped his
brass knuckles, all was still and
silent. As my eyes grew accus
tomed to the darkness, I could
make out a group of motionless
forms standing close together in
the small enclosure.
Suddenly a voice boomed out
ct the bleakness, "Sex will never
be replaced by night baseball!"
I relaxed. It was only the
regular evening vestibule session
which takes piace every weekend
from 10:15 until the hour ol doom.
Crowds Rash In.
A murmur of annoyance rippled
through the crowd at the cold
blast of air that came through the
door wiih us. The mob increased
as two more couples pushed their
way in.
My date had to get in early
so that he could get to kinder
garten in plenty of time the next
morning, so I bid him a hasty
goodnight, helped him put his
mittens on, and shoved him
through the door.
I tried to push my way through
the crowd, but such a journey
was impossible without at least
two football players to run inter
ference, so I gave ft up, and
stayed to watch the fun.
The oracle was holding forth
once more. "Shift!" he hollered,
and everyone changed partners.
Silence again.
Over in one corner, a brainless
idiot turned his flashlight on the
clock (which had been set back
ten minutes). "Ten twenty-nine,"
he groaned, and the conscientious
housemother opened the tqueak-
A tune, which up to now, has
received, and unjustly so very
little notice has been waxed for
Decca. This song was first in
troduced in the musical ex
travganza "Ziegfeld Follies" by
Lena Home, but it never seemed
to catch on. Now this fine num
ber has finally received recogni
tion from Judy Garland. Judy
does a terrific job of putting this
ballad across, and Victor Young
and his orchestra add the finish
ing touch with some of the finest
accompaniment heard in many a
moon. Unless I miss my guess,
the song "Love" by Messrs. Hugh
Martin and Ralph Elane should
be the very tops in pops in a very
short time. Backing up her ef
forts on "Love," Miss Garland
changes her maestros and receives
aid from Gordon Jenkins and the
orchestra on "Changing My
Tune," a new song from the 20th
Century Fox production, "The
Shocking Miss Pilgrim." Judy's
efforts on this side are certainly
mediocre and will not do much to
help this tune's bid for fame.
Tex Beneke and the Glenn
Miller orchestra have recorded,
for Victor, "A Gal in Calico" from
the Warner Bros, picture "The
Time, the Place, and the Girt"
The vocal is aWy handled by Tex
and the Crew Chiefs, and the or
chestration is typical Glenn Miller
style. The flip over finds Artie
Malvin taking the vocal on a
brand new ballad from the same
film, "Oh, Bot I Do." Again the
arrangement is a dnplcate of the
old Miller style, an is really great.
The King Cole Trio has at
tempted something new by de
parting from their usual style and
adding a string choir to the orig
inal threesome, as Nat handles the
vocal on a new Xmas song which
should cramp the style of that
annual favorite "White Christ
mas," and which could possibly
overshadow it. The number is
entitled, simply enough, "The
Christmas Song," and I might add
that Nat does a fine piece of vo
calizing which should add, not
only to the popularity of the
record, but also to the popularity
of the song itself. The guitarist,
Oscar Moore, gets his kicks with
a fine "Jingle Eells" ending.
Johnny Miller, Cole's great bass
man, is featured in another de
parture from the beaten path, as
the trio tries its hand at some
interpretative music, entitled "In
the Cool of Evening." Nat Cole
wrote and, as usual, arranged this
opus. The trio, in their new ven
ture have proven their ability that
has carried the mto the top of the
heap, as far as small combos go.
I maintain that their getting away
from a set style is definitely to
their advantage, and is a move
that should be followed up, and
probably will be.
Phantom Begs
Girls for Date
To Formal Ball
During the war the manpower
situation became so desperate that
the coeds were stalking prey in
the streets equipped with large
nets and grappling irons. A man
couldn't walk across the campus
without being whistled at, called
to or asked to accept a ride in
an automobile with four strange
Amazons. The lawns of each wo
men's house were a mass of pits,
traps and snares.
Changed Situation.
Now the situation has changed
with a vengeance. Since men
aren't rationed any longer some
gals are trying to hoard the males;
so that they'll have a half-dozen
spares ready for any emergency.
As a result of the male surplus,
a coed no longer feels protected
unless she has at least three
escorts when she parades down
the walk. And the women are get
ting so particular that they want
better lighting on the streets so
that they can see what the men
who flirt with them look like be
fore they add them to their string
of chumps.
Maybe you think that I'm a lit
tle crazy driving around at night
in my blue sedan, but, there's a
method to my madness. By golly,
I'm going to find a date for the
Military BalL I wore three fingers
off to the second joint dialing
girl's telephone numbers and
batted sixty-'leven females to ac
company me to the sojers' hop
Result: housemaid's knees. 1
didn't give up that easily. Fm
cruising around in my little auto
and 1 11 find me a woman for this
prom even if it's Prunella her
self. THE PHANTOM.
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Mary Lou Blumel
Bachelors
(Continued from Page 1.)
Abraham, Lorraine Abramson,
Margaret Ann Amend, Nina Scott
and Jackie Tobin.
Tassels Sell Tickets.
Ticket prices have been ste at
three dollars, and will be sold by
members of the Tassels, begin
ning Monday, December 2. Tick
ets will be available to all woman
students or to any married male
student.
Presentation of the bachelors-,
annually provides a "Turnabout"
evening, with co-eds asking the
date; providing food, transorta
tion and appropriate corsages.
This year marks the first formal
ball since the war, and will be the
second event of the winter formal
season.
Prentice Tells
Responsibilities
Of '46 Youths
Asking whether th vnufh of
today will set back and accept war
as inevitable or whether they will
realize that as a prmm lhv ar
important in preventing war by
supporting organizations that are
actively WOrki n 2 in pcf.-ihlish a
federal world government, Colgate
Prentice, national president of the
Student Federalist organization
addressed a university convoca
tion in the Union yesterday.
Prentice, a 22-vear-old vrtpmn
who has taken a Rempsfpr off frnm
his studies at Swarthmore to con
duct a nation-wide speaking tour,
Dointed out that a wav of ncci
mism was brought about by the
united Nations apparent inability
to preserve world peace.
He showed that this almost rvn-
ical attitude towards the present
world organization can be traced
to its weaknesses which have In
come apparent during its recent
meeungs. jnese weaknesses were
tnown xo De: ine organizations
having no authority over indi
viduals; the organization's having
no power to stop any nation from
ceceeding; and the organizations
having only the power to make
suggestions and recommendations
to the member nations.
In the discussion period that
followed the main presentation,
Prentice had an opportunity to
point out that as many as forty
nations went to the San Francisco
Convention in the hope of pro
curing a strong international or
ganization, but he pointed out that
at that time the atomic bomb was
not known, and people were una
ware of the urgent need for such
an organization.
Lowell Nussbaum, Indianapolis
Star columnist, read about
the Powder Bowl game on the
Indiana campus deciding the foot
ball championship between two
women's teams, and he is all en
thused over it. He made the state
ment in his column that he would
like to referee the game. The
committee in charge took him up
on his statement and asked him
to come to Bloomington to offi
ciate. So far, however, he hasn't
answered the invitation.
While cleaning: the engineer
reading room at Kansas State, the
custodian recently found an tin
cashed check for $1,000 dated Oc
tober 25, 1893. The 53-year-old
check was payable to G. E. Bray,
at one time industrial engineer in
the Kansas State extension divi
sion, who died in 1917. The cus
todian believes that the check fell
out of an old book in the reading
room. Since Bray graduated from
the University of Minnesota in
1894, he was presumably a stu
dent when the check was written.
The check was signed by II. C.
Cutler.
Here they complain about ori
entation. But such is not the case
on all campuses. A columnist for
the Collegian Reporter, Morning
side College, stated that he be
lieves that all students should
have an opportunity to take a
course in orientation. He wonders
why no such course is offered at
Morningside at the present time!
Although most people believe
that half of the married people
in the United States are men, the
Oregon Daily Emerald, University
of Oregon, points out that accord
ing to the U. S. Census in the
1946 World Almanac, page 487,
of the 1944 population over 14
years of age, there are 29,690,000
married males and 32,850,000
married females. This number ex
cludes widowed and divorced.
"That would leave us," the paper
says, "with the disturbing fact that
there are over three million more
married women than men. Maybe
only the women will admit being
married."
Eastern Club
Charters Train
For Holidays
To enable students living east
of the Mississippi river to go home
for the Christmas holidays, the
Easterners club has chartered a
special train leaving for Chicago
on Dec. 20, according to trans
portation chairman Bill Boydson.
The Christmas special will leave
Lincoln on the Burlington line
Friday, Dec. 20, at 7:30 p. m. and
arrive in Chkago Saturday morn
ing at 8. Students will return
after Christmas on the Burling
ton "Advance Flyer", which leaves
Chicago Saturday, Jan. 5, at 12:30
p. m. and pulls into Lincoln at
10:40 that night.
Burlington officials have in
formed Boydston that all other
reservation trains out of Lincoln
for Chicago have been sold out,
and that the Christmas special is
the only train available.
Eastern students will make the
trip in private coaches, Boydston
said, and expenses will be no
greater than the regular ticket
rate.
ing door, withdrew from. the inner
sanctum, and approached to bid
all the guests a fond good-bye.
Everyone shook hands all
arour d and the visiting mothers
. nd fathers told their good little
daughters that they must come
borne next weekend and departed.
Christmas Carols Concerts
By the
UNIVERSITY SINGERS
3.-00 b 430 P. M., SUNDAY, DEC. 8
Union Ballroom
Adnmnion Cards Now Available at Union Office