The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current, March 09, 1948, Image 1

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    Vol. 48 No. 96
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THE DAYS OF DAN M'GREW? No, this is a threesome from
Ag college who are growing beards in preparation for the Farm
ers' Fair on May 15. Their card game is probably bridge, but
their beards are a long standing tradition for the Farmers' Fair.
Plan Rodeo, Horse Show
For 1948 Farmers' Fair
A Rodeo and Horse Show will
be feature attractions of the 1948
Farmers' Fair to be held at Ag
college May 15, Vaughn Johnson,
member of the Farmers Fair
Board, announced today.
The Rodeo will be held in an
arena to be built north of the
Union building.
First Fair In Years.
A Rodeo was not planned for
Ex-Nehraskan
Selected to Give
Russ Lectures
Dr. Michael Ginsburg, profes
sor of classics and history at the
University of Nebraska from 1931
to 1947 and now head of the divi
sion of Russian language and civi
lization at Indiana university, has
been chosen by the United States
Air Forces to deliver a series of
lectures at the Air War College,
Maxwell Fields Ala.
The lectures to be given by the
former Nebraskan are part of a
series in the international field
which are being presented by out
standing authorities to a class of
approximately 100 senior officers
of Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine
Corps and observers from the
British and Canadian air forces.
The Air War College is the grad
uate school of the Air Forces and
corresponds with the Army War
College in Washington.
Doctor Ginsburg will give four
lectures, beginning Monday, March
8, on the foreign and internal pol
icies of the Russian Soviet Union.
At Indiana University the Russian
division under Professor Ginsburg
has attracted wide attention and a
large enrollment. Regular courses
are being supplemented by a se
ries of public lectures on the land
and peoples, education, religion,
and government of the Soviet
Union.
Walson to Speak
At Charm School
Mrs. B. Frank Watson will be
guest speaker at Co-ed Counselor
charm school tonight at 7:00 in
Ellen Smith hall.
Mrs. Watson will discuss "The
Differences Between American
and French schools."
During World War II, Mrs.
Watson served as an interpreter
connected with the Red Cross in
France. She was born in Paris,
and was educated in England and
France.
She came to the United States
in June 1946, and at the present
time is vising in Lincoln.
March 11 to Be New Date
For Symphony Auditions
Student auditions for the Lin
coln Symphony Orchestra have
been postponed until Thursday,
March 11, according to an an
nouncement by symphony mana
ger Ted Butterfield.
Auditions will be held at 9 a.m.
in the Stuart theater on that day.
Winners will appear as guest so
loists with the orchestra on the
final concert of the season.
LINCOLN 8, NEBRASKA
the Fair this year since it is the
first fair to be held for several
years on Ag campus. However, a
group of Ag students started cam
paigning for a Rodeo and Horse
Show and presented a plan to the
Fair Board for the events. The
Board approved their plan and
Johnson was nominated to have
charge of the events.
Riding: Events Set.
Bronco liding, bareback and
u.'ith caHHlpc &g ufll ctApr ris
ing will 'be the main features of
the Rodeo. Also included will be
a girl's wild cow milking contest
and a girl's calf roping contest.
In the Horse Show an exhibi
tion of jumpers and three and five
gaited saddle horses will be fea
tured. The Rodeo and Horse Show will
be held in an arena to be built on
the field north of the Ag Union
building. All university students
are invited to participate.
Meetings of the committee in
charge will be held on Wednesday
evenings at 7:00 in the Ag Union.
All students who are interested
are invited to attend these meet
ings or to contact Vaughn John
son. Two Scholastic
Funds Created
As Memorials
An annual scholastic award of
$100 has been established as a
memorial for two college of ag
riculture graduates who lost their
lives in World war II, the Univer
sity Foundation announced Mon
day. The award, provided .by Prof,
and Mrs. Marvel Baker and Prof,
and Mrs. T. H. Goodding, is in
memory of Montee Robert Baker
and George Vernon Goodding,
their sons.
Both young men entered the
army air corps shortly after grad
uation in 1940. George Goodding,
member of a fighter squadron,
wa"s shot down over the Mediter
ranean June 10, 1943. His class
mate, Montee Baker, served with
a bomber group based in England
and lost his life over France, June
25, 1944.
The award is available to sen
ior students at the college of ag
riculture. Perry W. Branch, director-secretary
of the Founda
tion, said selection of the recipi
ent will be made on the basis of
scholarship, moral character, and
interest in technical sciences as
applied to agriculture.
Law Apptitude Exam Date
Set for March 19 and 20
Law aptitude examination will
be given March 19 and 20, in
Room 202, Law school.
All persons desiring to take
this examination should make
sure that applications are entered
in ample time so that the papers
necessary for taking the test may
be obtained.
The first examination will be
given at 1:15 p. m.t Friday,
March 19.
Tuesday, March 9, 1948
Pub Board
Will Select
'Daily' Editor
The Publications Board will
meet at 4 p.m. Tuesday to ap
point a new editor, managing edi
tor, and news editor for The
Daily Nebraskan, and a managing
editor for the Cornshucks maga
zine. I will be an emergency meet
ing, necessitated by the resigna
tion of Editor Jack Hill and News
Editor Wally Becker of The Daily
Nebraskan and Managing Editor
Warren Jacobsen of Cornshucks.
No interviewing of applicants will
be done, according to Dr. W. F.
Swindler, head of the University's
School of Journalism, and chair
man of the Board of Publica
tions. Applications for any of these
positions should be made through
Dr. Swindler's office before today
at noon so that the board may act
conclusively.
Swindler stressed that the
meeting would be closed and
would be held in his U Hall of
fice. The resignations will be elabo
rated upon in a , statement from
Dr. Swindler after today's meet
ing. Wally Becker's! resignation was
effective Sunday, Feb. 27, while
Hill announced his would go into
effect as soon as a new editor has
been chosen by the board.
China Expert
To Speak Here
March 15-19
Owen Lattimore, expert on the
economics and politics of China
will be on campus March 15-19
under the , sponsorship of the
Montgomery Lectureship on con
temporary civilization.
Lattimore will discuss the
present position of China in the
current Far Eastern dispute be
tween the United States and
Russia. He is the director of the
School of International Relations
of Johns Hopkins University in
Baltimore.
In 1942 he was political adviser
to China's Generalissimo Chiang
Kai-shek and later was deputy
director of -the War Information
Office in the Pacific. Lattimore
was engaged in business in China
for six years and has written
seven books concerning his ex
periences there.
The Montgomery Lectureship is
supported by income from a
Dodge county farm given the uni
versity by Mr. O. C. Montgomery
of New York City in memory of
his family. The Lectureship also
brought Dr. Carl Friedrich of
Harvard to Nebraska in January.
Union Slates
Week's Events
Tihs week's Union activities
will open today with the Siesta
Film hour at 4 p. m. in the lounge,
showing assorted short subjects.
Featured event will be the
"Dri-Nite" dance to be held Fri
day evening in the Ballroom, with
Johnny Cox' band furnishing the
music.
Wednesday the South American
dance class will be ' held in the
Ballroom from noon until 1 p. m.
The Union bridge tournament
will continue under the direction
of-Dale Ball in Parlors ABC Sat
urday afternoon at 1:30.
Sunday's activities will include
the usual Coffee Hour at 5 p.m.
in the lounge and a show, "Top
per Returns," starring Roland
Young and Billie Burke, at 7:30
p. m. in the Ballroom.
Theta Sigma Phi to Hold
Dinner Meeting In Union
A dinner-meeting for the
members of Theta Sigma Phi
will be held today at 5:45 in the
Union, according to Phee Mort
lock, president.
The room number of the meet
ing will be posted in the Union
lobby. All members must attend.
Clark Says Team
To Need Support
Calls for Student Backing
During Interview Monday
BY CUB CLEM.
George "Potsy" Clark had little to say about next
year's football team during an informal interview in his
office Monday afternoon, but he had plenty of words of
advice for the student body.
According to the new grid coach, the "mental attitude
Werkmeister
Authors Book
On Philosophy
Dr. W. H. Werkmeister, chair
man of the department of philos
ophy, is the author of a newly
published textbook, "An Intro
duction to Critical Thinking."
Besides being used in Philos
ophy 10 classes here, the book,
published by the Johnson Pub
lishing Company of Lincoln, will
be used at the University of Min
nesota. Examination copies have
been requested by 40 other
schools.
In the introduction to this be
ginners text in logic, Dr. Werk
meister states its purpose as, "To
connect various aspects of critical
thinking with actual problems of
the immediate past and present to
show the student that logic is
not abstract play upon empty
forms." To. do this, he uses as
examples actual case studies with
quotations from literature from
the Communist Manifesto to the
Bible.
Propaganda is analyzed for the
first time in a text book with ex
amples from such different
sources as the Omaha World-Herald
and the Daily Worker;
Thomas E. Dewey, Robert R. Mc
Cormick, Franklin D. Roosevelt,
and Westbrook Pegler.
Another section of the book is
devoted to the most modern type
of symbolic logic. Experimenta
tion and the scientific method is
also discussed.
Dr. Werkmeister received his
first copy of the book on March 3.
Eckvall to Report
YW Conference
Jean Eckvall, chairman of the
Community Service commission
group of the Y.W.C.A., will re
port Tuesday and Wednesday on
the conference of the North
Central, Region YW.CA which she
attended March 2-5.
Some of the leaders of the
conference, which was held in
Milwaukee, were Mr. Samuel A.
Goldsmith, secretary of the Jew
University Orchestra Displays
Wide Talent in Sunday Concert
BY SAM WARREN.
Special Features Editor.
A program chosen by Conduc
tor Emanuel Wishnow to display
the abilities of each section of the
University Symphony orchestra
from strings to tympani was per
formed in the Union ballroom
Sunday before an enthusiastic ca
pacity crowd.
Opening with a rousing over
ture that set the pace for a con
sistently good performance
throughout the program, the or
chestra moved on to the six con
trasting movements of the de
lightfully pleasant "Water Music"
suite by Handel. The short horn
pipe excerpt was notable for the
effectiveness of woodwinds, and
the final Allegro deciso for the
neat execution of the brass pas
sages. Principal - clarinet, oboe and
bassoon players from the wood
wind sections took a bow also fol
lowing the sprightly, light-hearted
scherzo from Mendelssohn's
"Midsummer Night's Dream" in
cidental music. The companion
number, the tranquil nocturne,
was performed with a finesse of
shading, both in tone-coloring and
tempo, under Wishnow's able di
rection. And it was evident throughout
the program that not only does
the university possess a first-rate
orchestral conductor in the per
of the players will depend a lot
on the backing they get from the
students."
Clark stated that he would keep
his end of the bargain, that of
putting a well-conditioned and
well-drilled team onto the field,
and said he hoped the students
would carry through and give the
players the extra lift they need
to play at their best.
New Formation?
Answering a question on what
formation he intended to use,
Clark said he would have to wait
until he saw the boys in action to
be able to tell which to use. The
grid boss said that though he is
by experience a wingback type of
coach, he will use the "T" if he
thinks his players work into it
better.
"I would rather fit the forma
tion to the players than fit the
players to the formation," he said.
While saying nothing definite
about prospects for next fall,
Clark stated that his team would
play one game at a time and let
the opposition do the advance
worrying.
'45 Season.
When he was here in 1945 in
the same capacity, Clark started
from scratch with one returning
letterman, Fred Lorenz, a sopho
more who finished his collegiate
career this past season. The team
lost its first five games but fin
ished strong to take the last four.
At the end of the season, Clark
was presented with a plaque by
the school in appreciation of his
efforts in producing a fighting ball
team.
The new Husker mentor has
been lately associated in a non
athletic position with a business
school in Grand Rapids, Mich. His
grid playing and coaching career,
including college and pro ball,
reaches back to World War I. He
has played and coached both col
lege and pro ball.
According to Clark, spring
training will begin next Monday,
to enable the snow to clear and
the coaches to get things more
organized.
ish Welfare organization of Chi
cago, and Mrs. Grace Elliot, na
tional executive of the YWCA.
Miss Eckvall will make her
report at 4:00, Tuesday at Ellen
Smith hall and also at the cab
inet meeting on Wednesday.
son of Emanuel Wishnow, but also
that the orchestra readily re
sponds to his directives.
The s y m p h o n y's undaunted
supporters who have followed the
group ovct recent years can meas
ure the orchestra's achievement
in terms of the length of time
that Wishnow has been working
with the orchestra since his re
turn from armed service in Eu
rope five or six semesters ago.
This re-vitalizing of the orches
tra is particularly notable in the
strengthening of the string sec
tions, as well as in the general
integrating of the orchestra.
The "symphony's most ambitious
undertaking of the afternoon,
Tchaikowsky's programmatic
"Romeo and Juliet" fantasy-overture,
illustrated this rapport that
exists between conductor and or
chestra. While sectional attacks
outside the strings were too gen
erally fuzzy, and the strict ad
herence to pitch a little unsteady
within the strings, the orchestra
came through with a commend
able and exciting reading that
brought demands for three cur
tain calls by the audience for the
conductor.
"Tintements de Clochettes,"
W i s h n o w's arrangement for
French horn, harp and strings
transcribed from a piano piece by
Pugno was ingenious to say the
least, and effective 'n its own im
pressionistic sort of way.