Student Party Fails
To Draw Up Slate
ID
Dm
TVio first official artinn nf
tion was to adjourn.
The convention was scheduled to elect a slate of candi
dates and propose a party platform, according to advance
publicity. Although the selection of candidates was post
poned, an informal meeting after prr r
the official adjournment had
drawn up a series of recommen
dations for party planks, accord
ing to Ben Wall.
THE FIRST recommendation
of the series promises a com
plete audit of all student publi
cation accounts. The audit would
be focused particularly on the
advertising account of The
Daily Nebraskan. However, the
investigation would require a
complete account of the usage of
all publication funds and
mpthods of handling these funds.
The second recommendation is
the avocation of an inter-campus
bus line. The party platform, if
it aheres to the suggestions,
would embody a request for stu
dent representation of the Fac
ulty Senate. It would also seek a
student observer on the Board of
Regents, which hither to has
held closed meetings.
THE LIST of recommenda
tions states that the party would
make full use of the constitu
tional powers of the Student
Council to recommend minimum
wages for students employed on
the campus. It would also en
force the power to inspect ap
prove men's housing and survey
campus eating places for health
ful conditions.
The party would seek to re
lax the by-laws of the council
constitution as they pertain to
elections. iiuA wuuiu uiL-dii ic
-1 ' ! HPU: IJ .. .. n
lease on laws governing election
publicity and the funds re
stricted by the present publicity
regulations
The party woul also seek to
set up a Council social commit
tee to co-ordinate and call to the
attention of the students all cam
pus social events.
1000 Expected
At Midwest
Rural Meeting
Over a thousand people from
eight states are expected to at
tend the Midwest Conference on
Rural Life and Education to be
held Thursday, Friday and Sat
urday.
Sessions will be free to the gen
eral public and will seek to focus
attention on plans for making
rural communities better places fn
which to live.
The conference will open at 9
a. m Thursday at the Student Ac
tivities building at Ag college.
Other sessions will be held at the
city Union and the banquet will
be held Friday evening at Cotner
Terrace.
AMONG THE MAIN speakers
will be Colonel Louis W. Prentiss
: i t?;.J
Division, Corps of Engineers,
Omaha; former Governor Dwiglit
Griswold, who heads the Amer
ican Mission for Aid to Greece;
and J. E. Lawrence, editor of the
Lincoln Star. ,
The conference is sponosred by
the National Education association
and 39 other agencies and col
leges, including the University of
Nebraska.
Representatives will attend
from Nebraska, Kansas, Okla
homa, North and South Dakota,
Minnesota, Iowa and Missouri.
Coll
Hold
eens
Decorating Talks
Interior decorating is the
theme of a series of meetings
held by the Ag Colleens, wives
of Agricultural students.
In the last three meetings the
group has learned about color
harmony, furniture refinishing
and accessories. The classes,
taught by members of the Adult
Vocational Education methods,
meet every Monday night.
Coming lessons will be held at
Teachers College high school.
They will include slip covers and
d r ;i p e r y construction demon -Etiu?1
by Mrs. Cole and an
adult homemaking education instructor.
the Rf-nHpnt Paiu rnnwn.
icgcius approve
K Slale Budget
A request for $4,148,900 has
been approved by the board of
regents of Kansas State univer
sity and submitted to the legis
lature. The money is to be used
for a long range campus building
program.
Action taken this month re
sulted in a $725,000 appropriation
for a new fieldhouse.
Singers Plan
Palestrina
Song Group
Dr. Arthur Westbrook, director
of the University Singers, has an
nounced the numbers to be in
cluded in their special program
on Sunday, April 3 at 4 p. m.
Several groups of songs are to
be preesnted a group by Pales
trina, a group of Russian songs,
and a group of folk songs. Also
included in the program will be
several vocal numbers by Mr.
Holmes Ambrose, a violin selec
tion by Miss Jeanette Hause and
a trumpet solo by Marlin Killion.
'
THE PROGRAM is to be given
in the Union ballroom, and is be
ing sponsored by the Student
Union Music committee, of which
Mary Ellen Schroeder is sponsor
and Rex Pettipohn, chairman.
The complete program: "Alia
Trinita," traditional; "Gloria
Patri," "Adoramus Te," "Tene-
brae Factae Sunt," Palestrina;
Torna A Sorrento," DeCurtis, and
"There is No Death," O'Hara, sung
by Mr. Ambrose; "How Blest Are
They," Tschaikowsky; "Agnus
Dei," Kalinnikof; "Salvation Is
Created," Tschesnokoff; "Danse
Espagnole," DeFalla, violin solo
by Jeanette Hause; "Alleluia,"
Thompson; "Were You There,"
Barlcigh; "Madame Jeanette,"
Murray; "Australian Up-Country
Song," Grainger; "Hungarian
Melodies," Bach, trumpet solo by
Marlin Killion.
Ronald Barnes, Dorothy Taylor,
and Lewis Forney will accompany
the soloists.
Farmers to Get
Tree Shipments
Ag Extension Forester Earl
Maxwell estimates shipments of
Clarke-McNary trees to Nebraska
farmers and ranchers will prob
ably Ect under way about April 1
More than 1,000,000 of the trees
will again be distributed by the
Agricultural- Extension Service
this vear. The evergreens are
crown at the Nebraska National
1 Forest at Halscy and will be
shioDed from there. Broadleaf
trees will be shipped from a
nursery at Fremont.
Applications for the Clarke-McNary
trees will continue to be ac
cepted throught county extension
agents until April 1.
Rosenbaum Will
At Vesper Services Thursday
Audrey Rosenbaum, Arts and
Sciences sophomore, will speak at
the all-university vespers held in
the Episcopal Campus chapel
Thursday from 5 to 5:30 p.m.
She will speak on "My Experi
ences with the Navajo Indians."
Last summer, Miss Rosenbaum
was one of 22 students working
in the American Friends Service
Committee Work camp on a Nav
ajo Indian reservation at Aneth,
Utah. The job of this group of
students was to renovate the Nav
ajo school which had been closed
for about seven years. It was re
opened last fall as a result of the
efforts of this group.
THE STUDENTS also spent
their time in building two quon
set huts for dormitories, a pump
house, and giving first aid to the
Indians.
A few months ago Life maga
Vol. 49 No. 118 LINCOLN 8, NEBRASKA Wednesday, March 30,1949
Kosmet Klub Spring Show
Cast Members Announced
NU Radio to Tell
Pioneer Story
The story of a Nebraska pioneer
family will be told over "Play
wrights Matinee" on Station
KOLN at 4:15 p.m. today.
"Playwrights' Matinee" is pro
duced by the Radio section of the
Speech department.
Written by radio student Don
Dory, "Infant Nebraska" is one of
a series of historically significant
original dramas. It deals with an
Iowa family which moves to Ne
braska when this state was first
declared a territory in 1854.
The family makes their long
trek to Nebraska in a covered
wagon, in spue oi me wues ie
luctance to leave her friends and
home. The husband, however, is
filled with eagerness and a desire
to have land "all his own."
Budget Seeks
Nine Per Cent
Wage Increase
The proposed University budget
for the next two years includes
funds to provide wage increases
which will average about nine
and one-half per cent.
Some University employees win
get no increase. Others win re
ceive as much as a per ceiu
boost.
Figures indicate that per cent
increase of salaries paid to the
University faculty lags far behind
most wage earners in the state.
The per cent increase in wages
from July 1, 1946 to July 1, 1948
for University faculty members
was 9.1 per cent.
During the same period, auto
motive workers and farmers (cash
income from crop sale) received
over 29 per cent increases. Those
employed in trade received pay
increases of 23.3 per cent.
. Food manufacturing, wholesale
trade, manufacturing and indus
trial employees were given over
20 per cent increases in pay.
Metal manufacturing, retail food
trade and construction wage earn
ers received increases of over 17.5
per cent. University employees
(skilled labor, clerks, etc.) re
ceived pay boosts of 17.1 per cent.
Stanford Students
To Tour Mexico
Let's eo to Mexico!
This is no joke at Stanford
University where a summer tour
is being planned for students
throueh Mexico.
The tour will start on August
26 and will include the Independ
ence Day celebrations in Mexico
City. The itinerary will also in
elude Cordoba, Cucrnavaca, Te
huacon, the volcano of Paricutin
and the historic port or Acapuico
Tell of Navajos
zine carried a story in pictures
on the Navajo Indians, and Au
drey states that they were most
realistic.
Earlier this month Audrey at
tended the National YWCA con
vention in San Francisco. Seventy-five
students were among
the 2,000 delegates, and Miss Ros
enbaum was the only student del
egate from Nebraska.
AMONG THE MANY accom
plishments at this convention was
the remaking of the YWCA con
stitution. Audrey comes to the University
from Chicago. She is a member
of Sigma Delta Ta.u sorority.
The student leader for vespers
this week is Alice Harms from
the Baptist Student house. Miss
Harms is a junior in Teachers
college.
Assignments
For Musical
The cast of "Let's Change the
Subject," this year's Kosmet Klub
spring show, was announced to
day. Jack Solomon, author of the
prize-winning show, and Merle
Stalder, Kosmet Klub rehearsals
chairman, revealed the top all
male assignments in the three
act musical comedy.
To be directed by the noted
Circlet Theater director, George
Randol, the show will boast
Orchesis and football team chorus
lines, the orchestra of Johnny
Cox, male harem cuties, songs,
dances and story humor.
THE CAST OF THE original
show includes Frank Wright as
Clement Schmatlee, "prime min
ister of England," who is "a wor
ried, pessimistic sort of man, with
all career and no soul," accord
ing to the script. Frank Jacobs
will be Lord Byron, head of
Scotland Yard. He is "an im
becile with a high position, and
very, very. English."
Cocker Spaniel Snootful, the
hero, will be played by Don Veta.
Snootful is a "very friendly chap,
who despite lack of intellect, al
ways comes through with flying
colors. He is as nosey and friend
ly as the pup he is named after."
HARRY GIESSELM AN has
been cast as Prince, who is "very
aware of his station and doesn't
act his age (6 mos.) at all." He
is "very advanced."
The chorine, Fatima, "a home
body at heart, who due to cir
cumstances beyond her control,
is an extoic sophisticate, "will
be done by Bill Mickle.
"THE FAT, SHORT and greasy"
Sultan will be played by Bob
Baum. The Sultan has "a decided
waddle." The Mummy, "swathed
in cloth, with a very negative per
sonality as all mummies should
have," will be read by Leonard
Packman. Big Zombie, "probably
the original missing link, very
apelike in appearance, large,
hairy, with dangling arms," is as
yet uncast.
The names of all men in
Latta Compares Russian,
U.S. Political Philosophies
In a capitalistic democracy,
government must satisfy the
citizen, but in communistic Rus
sia, the individual must satisfy
the system. This is the basic dif
ference between communism
and democracy, according to Dr.
Maurice A. Latta, University
economics professor.
Dr. Latta Monday night gave
the second in a series of public
lectures on the general subject
of "Communism and what it
means to America."
"Both these societies claim .to
be democracies," Dr. Latta said,
"But their conceptions of democ
racy are so opposed to each
other as to have nothing in com
mon but their name.
"IN A CAPITALIST society,
democracy implies a situation in
which a diversity of interests
operate through established po
litical parties to control political
policy. The citizen finds his pro
tection in choosing between the
Democrats or Republicans, or if
he likes neither forming a third
party.
"In Soviet communism, how
ever, the ends of the action are
fixed, determined by the doc
trine of one man, Karl Marx,
and by the pattern of motion de
veloped by Lenin. The only
variation open to the citizen is
the variation of tactics. The
party decides the tactics and it
does this to fit the situation of
the moment. But the ultimate
All Male
Comedy
choruses, the heralds, guards,
nurses and the sultan's harem will
be announced later, said Solo
mon and Stalder.
THE COMPLETE TITLE of the
show, to be presented for one
night, April 26, at the Nebraska
theater, is "Let's Change the Sub
ject, (the Story of How the Prince
of England Lost His Diapers."
The show won the $100 prize
offered annually by the Kosmet
Klub for the best original script
for campus production. It is a
completely original product of the
author.
Alumni to Elect
Natl Executive
Council May 1
The Alumni Association of the
University of Nebraska will hold
elections on May 1.
Candidates for president of the
National Alumni Board are: Wil
liam L. Day, '21 and Mathias G.
Volz, '25, both of Lincoln. Vice
presidential candidates are: Mrs.
Robert Armstrong, '13, Omaha,
and Mrs. Barlow Nye, '23, of
Kearney. For member-at-large:
Maynard M. Grosshans, '32, York,
and Dr.. Alva L. Rouscy, '15, Fre
mont. The Alumni Associations are
formed to maintain interest
among graduates of the Univer
sity. Their assocaitions give ban
quets and act as host and hostess
to all graduate functions. The or
ganization -has zone groups
throughout the United States and
they receive all information and
data from the executive board in
the Union.
The outgoing members of the
Executive Committee are: Morton
Steinhard, president; Mrs. Robert
C. Summons, vice-president, and
Fritz Daly, secretary and treas
urer. All members Of the Alumni As
sociation will vote for National
Board candidates.
goal, extension of communism to
the entire world, is never for
gotten' DR. LATTA then explained
how the doctrine developed by
Marx was reoriented by Lenin
in two ways: first, Lenin or
ganized a corps of trained rev
olutionaries to ruthlessly speed
up the spread of communism
which Marx thought would
eventually evolve; and second,
Lenin decided to outflank,
rather than assult frontally, the
areas in which communism was
strongest, which may explain
some of Russia's current world
strategy.
"However, communism was
born during the Industrial revo
lution when maladjustments
were inevitable," Dr. Latta
added. "Capitalism has de
veloped along lines that Marx
never expected. It has a wide
dispersion of ownership, higher
living standards for workers,
and many other benefits. Only
one major charge made against
democracy by Marx remains;"
monoply. Yet," Dr. Latta con
cluded, "communist Russia has
extended monoply to every field
of human achievement, and the
Russians now say this is good."
(ThlH I (he neennd In aerie of five
article on communism and what It
nieun to Amerlra. They are based tn n
fterle of lecture being given mm the
rnmpn hy University faculty member.
The lecture eek to define what I
meant by eommiinlsm and why eom
munlrim I alien Is American democracy.)
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