Theater to Premier
'EDue Unto Caesar
The University campus is hav
ing a hand in at least one premier
this year. Director Max Whitta
ker, has announced that the Ex
perimental Theater will give the
initial performance of "Due unto
Caesar," an original script by
Martin Cobin in the Nebraska
Masquer's play contest.
Cobin holds the position of
professor of Speech and Drama
at the University of West Vir
ginia. The drama is slated for pre
sentation before the members of
the Central States Speech Con
vention at Omaha, April 29. A
special performance will be
staged for speech students April
25 in the Temple.
ACCORDING to director Whit
taker, the play is etched with
"some very powerful scenes."
The plot mainly concerns Chris
topher Mann, a college professor,
who suddenly finds himself at
the head of the People's Army in
a violent struggle to overthrow
the enemy's occupation troops.
Mann is a humanist, and, al
though he believes in the cause
he leads, is forced to resort to
violence which he abhors. He
carries on an effective guerrilla
campaign and closes his mind to
the death and destruction around
him until he is forced to make a
decision which reverses his des
tiny. THE PEOPLE'S Army com
bines with the military forces to
defeat their common foe, but the
victory for which Christopher has
struggled turns -to sawdust be
cause he finds that he has sacri
ficed his ideals for the brutal de
mands of war. In the hour of
triumph, Mann sees only the de
struction of his soul as he delib
erately turns from personal honor
and confesses to his priest:
"I've given Caesar his due. And
having rendered this, I discovered
something. I rendered unto Cae
sar until God no longer mattered
In the great crises of life, one
cannot be both of Caesar and of
God. No man can serve two mas
ters! One must choose! I belonged
to Caesar."
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Vol. 49 No. 124. Lincoln 8, Nebraska, Thursday. April 7. 1949
Judiciary Committee OK's
Constitutional Assembly
The judiciary committee of the Student Council has
approved The Daily Nebraskan's constitutional assembly.
This was revealed in a committee report by chairman,
Dick Schleusener, at Wednesday's Council meeting. The
committee, Schleusener said, had drawn up a letter of ap
proval. The letter was then trans
mitted to Dr. Curtis Elliott's sub
committee of the faculty commit
tee on student organizations and
social functions. Thus far, no ac
tion has been taken by the faculty
group.
Approval of a proposal by Jack
Seizor to schedule spring elections
May 12 was given. Selzer's action
was preceded by a request from
the faculty that 'spring elections
be held after Ivy Day.
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BECAUSE OF this arrangement
the Council by-laws regarding the
selection of Ivy Day orator were
abolished. A motion from the
floor empowers president Dale
Ball to select a committee of three
persons, one of whom must be a
Council member, to select an Ivy
Day orator.
According to Miss Mary Mie
lenz, faculty advisor, Dr. Laase of
the speech department has already
been asked to set up a faculty
committee to judge prospective
orators. Each candidate will be ex
pected to submit a brief autobio
graphical sketch, a synopsis of his
talk and his topic. A committee of
judges will test voice, stage pre
sence and other oratorical quali
ties to determine the Ivy Day or
ator. Fillings for orator will open
immediately. Students from any
college are eligible.
The Council passed the consti
tution of Eta Sigma Chi, electri
cal engineering honorary. The
purpose of the group, according to
Paul Weltchek, acting constitu
tions chairman, is to promote high
scholarship among electrical engi
neers. THE COUNCIL will not meet
again until April 14, President
Ball announced. Because the
Council seems to have been strip
ped of its responsibility there is
no need for a meeting, Ball said.
Ball asked each Council mem
ber to remember that although the
Council seems to have been de
prived of the power, or failed to
take the necessary action, to al
leviate the present situation he
should work as an individual.
Each of us still owes a responsi
bility to the student body, Ball
said.
He urged each member to work
out his own solution to the cur
rent political problem and do ev
erything in his power to bring
about a satisfactory solution for
the good of the student body.
NU Gets Small
Share of Taxes
About one-half of the Univer
sity's total revenue comes from
Nebraska taxes.
Figures show that the Univer
sity is getting a seadily diminish
ing share of state funds. In 1929
the University's share of state tax
appropriations was a little over
12 per cent.
Since then the percentage of
state appropriations going to the
University have decreased. By
1947 it was only a little over five
per cent of total state tax ap
propriations. The University's share of the
total property tax dollar is a rela
tively small amount. The increase
in the University's budget for the
next two years adds up to about
$1.32 per person.
This amount is only 5.2 per
cent of the Nebraska tax dollar.
Other amounts going to other
fields are: school districts, 48.45
percent; state, 20.75 per cent; city
and village, 15.59 per cent; county,
12.82 per cent; townships, 1.96 per
cent; miscellaneous, .44 per cent.
pike Jones to Play
At Coliseum May 4
. . . For Mortar Boards
BY ROD RIGGS
Pandemonium will reign in the University Coliseum Wednsday, May 4.
Mortar Board will sponsor Spike Jones' "Musical Depreciation Revue" that evening.
Spike Jones, widely known as a purveyor of the type of music known as "corn", will
present two and one-half hours of musical madness to the student audience.
THE WORRIED looking man in the loud checked si widely known as a radio
r, composer and bandsman. His
snow has been playing to SRO
audiences all over the country.
Jones' high place in the enter
tainment field today has been
achieved through a mercurial start
accelerated by a wartime novelty
number which became a success
after the early records made by
the group failed to sell. The
subtle clash of corn and sophisti
cation didn't seem to captivate the
public.
INITIAL FAILURE didn't dis
courage Jones. When comments
dribbled in, he analyzed them to
find out what made people laugh,
and tried to work them into his
novelty numbers. This time the
formula sophistication and corn
payed off, and the City Slickers
reached success.
Unprepared to capitalize imme
diately on his new fame, Jones
waited almost a year before hit
ting the road with his own stage
show. The radio and motion pic
ture success which followed the
release of his hit arrangement
prepared the public for his theater
engagements and gave him
enough time to chart an organ
ized laugh-every-four-bars-show.
In addition to his radio show
and being a composerbandsman of
renown, Jones and his entire com
pany are presently engaged in
pitching a tremendously success
ful two-and-one-half-hours of
musical madness known as the
"Musical Depreciation Revue."
IN FIVE YEARS of personal
appearances, Jones has never had
to put on a performance when
he was unprepared ,and this ex
pert planning has made his mu
sical lunatics favorites of the
bobby-soxer, blue-jean set, grande
dames and the tired business men.
Tickets for the show may be
obtained by sending a stamped,
self addressed envelope to Mor
tar Board, Box 1942, Lincoln. All
seats are reserved. Tickets are
$1.20, $1.80, $2.40, $3.00 and $3.60.
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SPIKE JONES clutches a telephone amid a bevy of cow bells.
Spike and his city slickers will play at the Coliseum May 4. The
"Musical Depreciation Revue" is sponsored by Mortdr Board.
Dairy Club Announces Annual
Judging Contest April 8-9
The annual Ag dairy judging
contest will be held April 8 and
9 at the College of Agriculture,
according to Eugene Flynn, dairy
club president.
The dairy products judging
contest will be April 8 from 3 to
5 p. m. in the Dairy Industry
building. Products to be judged
will be ice cream, milk, and but
ter. PREVIOUS experience is not
necessary. If you have a good
taster and can tell good quality
ice cream from bad, you have
a good chance of placing in the
contest. There will be a prac
tice session for all those who
are interested on April 7 from
3 to 5 p. m.
Awards and prizes for those
who place in the contest have
been contributed by Fairmont
Foods Company, Beatrice Foods,
Roberts Dairy, Lincoln Non-Stock
Co-op Milk Producers Ass'n., and
Harding Sealtest.
THE CONTEST is sponsored by
the Varsity Dairy Club and is
under the direction of the dairy
products judging team. The con
test will help to determine who
Lwill represent Nebraska in next
year's national contest at Los An
geles, Calif.
The dairy livestock judging con
test will be Saturday, April 9,
beginning at 7:30 a. m. at the
Dairy barn. The contest' will be
under the direction of Glen Clay
baugh and Stan Lux.
REGISTRATION for the contest
will begin at 7:30 p. m. The par
ticipants will judge eight classes
of dairy cattle. They will be re
quired to give reasons on three of
these classes.
The four breed associations are
offering various prizes to the win
ners including the winners cup
which is awarded each year.
A banquet will be held April
28 in honor of the winners of the
two contests. All the awards will
be presented at this time.
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THREE SMALL boys "take it all in" as a bulldozer digs up a
sizeable chunk of ground near the Union driveway. The excava
tion will make room for a new garbage and rubbish disposal unit
which will be installed this spring.
Sales End Today
For Ag Breakfast
Tickets to the annual Ag Col
lege Pre-Easter breakfast will be
available until Thursday. They
may be purchased from any Ag
Religious council member for 50
cents.
Dr. Frank Court, minister of
St. Paul's Methodist church, will
speak at the breakfast to be held
Sunday at 7 a. m. in the Student
Activities building.
The breakfast is a traditional
affair sponsored by the Ag Reli
gious council with the co-operation
of the various religious or
ganizations on Ag campus. All
University students are invited
to attend.
Committee chairmen for the
breakfast are: program, Muriel
Nelson; preparation and decora
tions, Joan Skueius; food, Irene
Wellensiek and Helen Ochsner;
cleanup, George Wagner, and
publicity, Virgil Ganzel.
Students Will
Elect Goddess
Of Agriculture
Ag students voted Wednesday to
elect the Goddess of Agriculture
and her six attendants.
These outstanding senior wo
men will be presented at the Cot
ton and Denim ball April 29. This
ball is a part of the Farmer's
Fair to be held on the Ag cam
pus. Five names were omitted from
the printed list of candidates pub
lished Tuesday. These names
were added to the ballot at the
polls.
The additional' candidates were:
Veora Endres Erwin, Winola H.
Uhrig, Viola Vosika, Jacqueline
Voss, Shirley Wendt.
According to Miss Margaret
Fedde, chairman of the depart
ment of home economics, the only
girls who are eligible as candi
dates are senior women registered
in the College of Agriculture.
These girls must have a cumula
tive average of 6 or above.
MB's to Search
For Ivy Day Poet
The call is out for Ivy Day
poets.
The annual poetry contest,
sponsored by Mortar Board, will
open today. The contest is open
to any student and the winning
poem will be read at the Ivy
Day ceremony, May 7.
Each entrant must supply three
unsigned copies of his poem. The
copies must be accompanied by
a sealed envelope containing the
author's name. Entries may be
turned into Mrs. Dorothy Day at
the Union activities office.
Deadline for the contest will
be noon on April 29.
The winner will receive aa
award from Mortar Board.