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Friday, December 19, 194? PAGE 2 THE DAILY NEBRASKAN Christmas Again . . . It's Christmas time agaii? Yuletide 1947 possibly is a little different than many of us had planned. Almost like groping for a light switch in the dark, it's there, we know what it's like yet it can't be found. The store windows are bursting with a kaleidoscopic brilliance, homes and lawns are mirrci-'g the gaiety of the approaching day, yet behind all this there sounds an ominous note, a rumble of an uneasy world. A rumble of cannon hurling death at mankind. The rumble of millions of feet, some in cadence marching to war, some unsteadily attempting to flee; b ' Ml of them moving, marching, pacing, tramp ling the spirit of C. as, t.,e spirit of Peace under the cold steel of a hob-nailed ht... It's Christmas time again but where? Men live and make destiny, men die in obscurity but Christmas is immortal, too immortal maybe because we're drifting away from the spirit, we're actually forgetting the meaning Christmas. Christmas isn't something sold at a toy counter, tinslcd on an evergreen tree or wrapped with "a gay ribbon, but what is it? Can you remember? It's time we all tried. Not so long ago the scent of young pine was replaced by the stench of cordite and death and the angel's song was the rattle of a machine gun and the star in the east a burning tank or razed village. Four years of those Christmases makes remembering difficult. Christmas isn't one day, it should be every day, it should be living. One generation forgot this; our generation cannot and expect to survive. Nineteen hundred 'and fortyvseven years ago the birth of a child brought hope to a worrying world. The Saviour of the earth. He walked among all men, the war-like and the meek, just as He walks today. Don't confine the spirit of Christmas in a wrapped package, pause a moment and be thankful that there has always been a Christ mas despite the evil that men do and have done. Remember the spirit of Christmas that the weary, marching, fleeing feet may walk in peace again. Walk and remember o'er all the earth . . . It's Christmas time again. New Year's Resolutions . Number 1 Jty Phaednta This officially opens the season on the university Student Coun cil. The group meets dutifully each Wednesday. Since September the lack-luster council has sur mounted all odds to fill its jjanks which were depleted in early fall by AWS point board rulings. A week passed without an in ternal crisis to meet and the council was ready for the world. It rose to new heights last week. As guardian of campus liberties it lashed out at the "Persians," an evil threat to free elections and the incumbents' welfare. In all seriousness the council hear factioneer Bob Wenke re port a proposed barb political party as a "secret political fra ternity." Like children, the few uninstructed council members debated this view, making a farce of what was already a mock dis play of democracy. Wenke, a main straight from the inner party line, damned the Persians as "undemocratic" and "exclusive" (of Greeks). As a committee chairman, he too, up half the hap-hazard meeting without reading the constitution which was "too long to read be fore the council." From out of the night and the Sigma Chi house the words of the ,jvise men still ring: "They shall not pass! ' 0 The council has committees to do its drudge jobs. The commit tees have a slogan to get it done, tc wit: "Let Dale do it." Most of the public works so nraised bv faithful reader last week stem from the personal en- JJhsL (Daily. Vkbha&km. Member Intercollegiate Press t'OHTf -SIXTH f BAB l U.. Mallei al CI Post OHIee la Unroln. Nrt)rak. nW Acl ef l"f" . 119. and al epeelal rule of poMiiKC provided tor l seettoa 1 10a, Act ef October 1. I II 1 7. authorized Beptenioer iO, Ittit. The Dally ISebra.ban M published b tha students at VnMnttt at Nebraska aa a e.re.sion ol student erw. and opinion, anljr. Aceordl-t Laws lovrriilnn student punllrallont and administered the Board al I'oh Icallonii "tl Is the aerial pollr, .1 the Board thl publlr.il hi. under lU Jurisdiction shall be free from edltorlii e7n,rhlp on the part ol the Board. member ot tha frcnlti of the unlversltjn bat members th staff ol The Dally N.)brakaa arTperaoiiall rr.ponslble for what tteey aai or or earn to be printed." EDITORIAL BIAFI ,,,..,- Daba Novotny .iln.' Editors" ..7.7. ........ .... .7 . ..... .Jara Hill. U.rca Miller NewsMltor. . Jeanne Krrrlan. Norm lrr, Wally Berber, t ub t l. o.. Tottle Htewart Niwrta Kdltor IK JSES!! Ac New Kdltor BWllB rreaerirksoa Mneelal Feature BdKor " BL8.KKN STAFF B""la"" unuia r tare .Jarb Helmut Rill Wllklni, Merle Ktaliler, Irwin Cbesea of "Cornshucks" Business Manager Circulation Maar.fer AsHlntant Bunlors Mnnaicera Straight Stuff With this, the last edition of The Daily Ncbraskan before the turn of the year, we'd like to make a few suggestions to organiza tions and companies connected with the university on resolutions L,.gjes Df one Dale (fire) Ball for 1948: 1. Resolved that the Student Council will continue in its ener getic, active ways and remember that it is a representative student body. 2. Resolved that the Lincoln City Bus Company thinks up a better excuse for raising their rates. Pushing up the cost of a ride to 10 cents because coin boxes can't handle pennies doesn't help a student's pocketbook. 3. Resolved that the administration will take a little more time on handing out suspensions of social privileges. Office efficiency is fine, but so is equal representation at a trial. 4. Resolved that Big Seven faculty members, excluding Ne braska's Fullbrook, try to reconcile their negative tabling of the race question with the Missouri Valley's positive end to discrimination. Also to reconcile the ring of cash registers with Presdenti Truman's committee on racial equality. 5. Resolved that Duane Lake and his staff keep up the good work done during the first semester. Topping off a fine year with the Union Christmas party, the Union staffs chief worry in 1948 might well be a cut in food costs. 6. Resolved that the university as a whole act on the question of affiliation with the National Student Association and that a posi tive move be made as soon as possible after the holidays. ' 7. Resolved that Rod Franklin and his Interfraternity council do something about the proposal to set up a scholarship for university students who desire to study in foreign countries. This might shut up some of the fraternal system's critics, or a least slow them down. 8. Resolved that A. J. Lewandowski follow through on his state ments to The Daily Nebraskan on rental fees for the Coliseum. And keep following through . . . 9. Resolved that every student and professor give some thought to "There is no place like Nebraska," and then come back to campu? on January 5 ready to help make the statement fact. 10. Resolved that everyone has a very merry Christmas. J. H. war, he exclaimed that he cer tainly "would wait until the composer had been dead" before he would bring out any such compositions for the public. His own strong emotions against op ponents of the democracy which he embraced four years ago left him undecided if a correspond ing situation if the voice of Flagstadt might be recorded now for release after she personally is dead. "If I have to draw the line between the music I love and the social ideals I profess, I would draw it nearer the side of how I live and expect others to live." As for conducting itself, with all its interpretive demands upon the man on the podium. Director Fellner finds it not unlike the study of language or stage acting. "In language you have a diction ary and grammar book that lay out the basic rules, but beyond BY LOTS OF PEOPLE. Walt Dorothy is planning to spend most of his Christmas va cation in Omaha .visiting his flame Dorothy Kent. Maybe the folks at home would net a kick out of seeing you, too, Walt. Brother Cury Elwood, is taking off this weekend for Wymore. Feature attraction there Miss Jo Feese. Fcudin' & Fussin'. Lois Phillips and Jerry Johns ton, still are carrying on their Xmas feud. Lois and Fank deliv ered their "spokes for the wheel." in person at the Phi Gam house Wednesday night. The two girls, counting on a free meal, were promised their supper as jtoon as that . ?" he shrugged, indicating that there the conductor steps in. The musical idiom is flexible just as language is. "Different actors' vocal inflection will give differ ent interpretations to the same lines in Shakespeare," he com mented, and similarly, theh con ductor, once familiar with the in tent of the composer must then give as authentic an interpreta tion as possible. In fact, this need for the con ductor to be familiar with the composer's intent is the reason that Fellner has studied music ology, taking a master's degree in it at Chicago Musical college. Four things Fellner lists as es sential to correct interpretation: Familiarity with the technical demands of the particular score; acquaintance with other scores of the same composer; a knowledge of the stated desires of the com poser, when available; and a study of the times in which the composer lived. the new issue was delivered. We are wondering whether Jack Bryant, Fiji, is taking Ping-Pong for an extra curricular activity because he enjoys the game or is it because Bev Williams, Theta, is at the other end of the table. Movies evidently aren't a waste of time. Just ask Babs Stenger, Alpha Phi, who walked out of the Stuart theatre Wednesday aft ernoon with a diamond on her third finger left. Take it from Kenny Damon, A. T. O., it was an expensive movie. Marking Time. Nancy Miller, Theta pledge, has finally learned the truth about Brick Paulson, Phi Psi. 27 dates without any "lovin" is quite a record. Brick. Is it because Nancy is cold or whether the Phi Psi's are bashful. Betty "fustle" Fessler and Rod Lindwall are dating again. Last summer it looked like a steady deal, but then something hap- pened. Can it be that Rod is par tial to red? Give out Rod is it Fissler or Feesler for Saturday night. Crete-bound now is Dick "The Male" Folda. It seems that Mari- ann Srb is teaching there, , and Dick has been putting numerous nicks and scratches in his Ford traveling back and forth. Having discovered hidden talent, Jack "88 keys" Yeager, is switching to the school of music this semes ter. To Your Marks. D .U. pledge Dick Satterfield will find a portable radio under his tree Christmas. It's a present Hum a llkuc 11 1 in uiu vs i ivy w seems to be going all out for Dick. Lmie juay uoorway naa Deuer move fast if she wants to stay in the race. Since Chuck Hemmingsen could not pass up spending two hours with Joan Bergman in a movie, he handed Mary Jo Schmale the shovel. It must be getting deep, naughty boy. vt g S 8 8 8 8 8 Musician Also a Citizen, Says Symphony Director Fellner BY SAM WARREN. Hpeolul Features K'lttor. In a world that purports to be one-world minded, there can be no separation of the musician from the society in which he lives, regardless of what great talent he may possess. That is the firm belief of Lincoln Sym phony Conductor Rudolph Fell ner who directed the orchestra in its first appearance of the sea son Tuesday night at the Stuart theater. In an interview earlier in the week the Viennese-born conduc tor who served with the Second Armoured division of the U. S. army from 1941 to 1945 stated that his preferences as a musici an give way to his responsibili ties as a citizen when it comes to the question of allowing fam ous musicians who collaborated with nazis to perform in the United States. , Becoming an American citizen in 1943 winie in me army, rcu ner regarded the current affair over opera singer Kirstcn Flag stadt as "name calling" that we really don't know the whole story about. "But when the of ficial Norwegian consul in Wash ington declares that she shouldn't sing here, we ought to take his word for it," he said. Participating in the invasion of Europe, the 34-year-old conduc tor declared that having risked his skin "more than one time" in a struggle agains tthe forces with which Madame Flagstadt appar ently displayed her sympathy, he thinks it "a crime" for her to per form in this country. She sang the role of Isolde recently with the Chicago Civic opera company under Artur Rodzinski's direction before a packed house. Admitting that he would not favor the destruction of worthy manuscripts by . composers who had collaborated during the late i i . t . i : . : t OlTfl CHRISTMAS CAROL. Here's to you! May Christmas cheer. . . Warm your life throughout the year... And the bliss of this fine Yuletide . X Ever in your hearts abide. FROM ALL OF US TO ALL OF YOU Ulerry and Ctrl istmas BCappy llew IJt t i 3 S ear - yU "BROTHERS t i t t i , i 'ti '.'.,'.