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The Daily Nebraskan
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George E. Grimes Editor-in Chief
Ivan G. Beede Managing Editor
Fern Noble Associate Editor
Leonard W. Kline Associate Editor
Era Miller Contributing Editor
Dwlgnt P. Thomas Sporting Editor
Katharine Newbranch Society Editor
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Entered at the postofflce at Lincoln, Nebraska, as second class
man matter under the Act of Congress of March S, 1871.
THE END OF A LONG STRUGGLE
In the student council election today. Nebraska has reached the
end of a long struggle for student self-government. It is not to be
thought of that In a day when democarcy is the cry of the world,
uppermost In the thought of everyone, the plan can be defeated in
a democratic institution such as Nebraska University.
Student self-government has been the dream of many students
who have found the Impenetrable wall of faculty supervision a bar
rier to the fullest expression of the Cornhusker spirit. For years,
college publications, student organizations, individual students, and
many of the faculty themselves, have hoped for the day when the
responsibility for student affairs would rest upon the students. Many
who took part In the early struggles are looking to the University
today, eager to hear the word that Nebraska is to have a fuller
measure of democracy.
The University exists to give the students the proper grasp of
life. No man or woman who leaves Nebraska undemocratic, narrow,
snobbish, or wtihout full sympathy for all of humankind, has been
educated as the University alms to educate him. And yet he has
received his education for, citizenship in a school where citizenship
has ben held for little, and where democracy as expressed in the
government of the school, has been almost unknown.
Today will probably prove the turning point. Those who fought
in the years gone by can know that their work was not in vain.
Student self government will mean big things for Nebraska, Just as
It has meant big things for every important university that one by
one has put it into force.
The battle ends today. It has been a long one. Let it be hoped
that it has not been for naught.
FARMERS' WIVES AND COLLEGE GIRLS
Now comes the report that the farmers wives of this state,
whom the University girls had planned to help with their heavy and
disagreeable work this summer, are spurning the offer. They don't
want college girls, they say, and the reasons they give are that the
gir! don't know enough about menial housework to be of use, or if
they have been trained in the agricultural college they would demand
wages too high, or if they did the work free they would have to be
treated as guests.
This is most surprising, and makes one puzzle to find the
reason for this attitude. Granting that the University girls at times
look like anything but the average hired girl on the farm. The
Nebraskan has the idea that for intelligent and useful service the
Nebraska co-eds would be worth fully as much as the hired girl, and
would prove a most valuable asset to the farmer's wife. Not a few
of the college girls have made the best possible farmer's wives
themselves, and have adjusted their manner of living to the farm
with apparent ease and enjoyment.
Surely the trouble must be that the wives don't know the co-eds.
Perhaps they have heard their sons speak boastingly of social con
quest, and thus got the idea that the butterfly type prevailed here.
Perhaps it is a fear that the collge girl would put them to shame
by her ability. Perhaps it Is the impulse to glory in the hard work;
perhaps the farmer's wife doesnt want to be deprived of a weapon
of attack upon her husband. Perhaps the work is not so hard as
has been thought.
What will the University girls do in this emergency? If the
wives don't want them, they certainly won't force their way in.
Their patriotic emotions will have to find some outlet, however.
Who knows but that the girls, spurned by the farmer's wife, may
turn to the farmer himself, and do the man's work, forsooth, because
the women will have none of them?
UNIVERSITY NOTICES
Cadets
The quartermasters office will be
open Friday from 5 to 6 to check in
rifles and belts. This equipment must
be turned in immediately. W. J. Al
len, Sergeant
Palladian Literary Society
Palladian Literary society will hold
its regular weekly meeting in Pal
ladian hall, third floor of the Temple.
this evening at 8:30 o'clock. Visitors
are invited to attend the program.
FORUM
FEAT
AND
SORORITY
Pine, Rings, . LaVaHieres,
CuJBf Buttons, Belts, Etc.
Made to Order
, HALLETT
UNI JEWELER
Established 1871 1143 0
Favors Student CounciJ
To the Editor of The Dally Ne
braskan: It may be an undue pre
sumption in behalf of one's opinion to
submit two articles to the Forum in
the course of as many weeks, but my
joy, caused by my admiration for Tues
day's editorial novelty, is so bound
less as to be entirely oblivious to any
check modesty or conventionality
might dictate. The two editorials in
Tuesday's Daily Nebraskan, entitled,
"It Is the Students' Opportunity," and
"The Suffrage Cause Threatened,"
constitute one ray of light from out
the darkness that has embalmed the
editorial policy of The Daily Ne
braskan the paBt semester. That the
editor could manage to get on the right
side of two questions In the short
space of one day is, to me, something
really unique. But enough of that.
The student council, so admirably
defended in Tuesday's editorial and
to which subject I particularly wish
to direct my remarks, cannot come any
too soon. Between the faculty, hesitat
ing to govern, and the student body,
not organized for self-control as was
shown last fall, there exists no real
student government at the University
of Nebraska. If in five years all the
student council will have accomplished
will be the mere prevention of a repe
tition of what took place last Decem
ber, the University will be eternally
Indebted to the student council. The
editorial avalanche and personal criti
cism, from all over the state, which
followed the December riot, has made
the state believe the students of the
University of Nebraska cannot govern
themselves as befits women and men
of their station the men because they
were directly responsible for the af
fair, the women because they are an
Integral part of the University asso
ciated with the aforementioned un
tamed element. Let s 6how them such
Is not the case by adopting the plan
for the student council.
The state pays for the University,
we enjoy the privileges of the Uni
versity. If we not only fail to get
out of the University as much as Is
put Into It, but even abuse the privi
lege by misconduct, we are worse than
thieres. That, from my own knowl
edge, is possibly the view, and ad
mittedly fair enough, of the average
taxpayer of the state. If you don't be
lieve it. ask them this summer. I
venture to say the average citizen
knows more of the misconduct at the
University than he knows of its good
conduct: misconduct is spectacular,
but misleading; behavior is common
place. The evil from a night of w ild merry
making travels and multiplies ten
times as fast as the good from a Uni
versity week program. If the Uni
versity wants bigger appropriations
there must be better conduct. As The
Daily Nebraskan said Tuesday. "The
student has not been given an oppor
tunity to demonstrate his capacity for
self government." Conduct is needed,
the students have never been givn
an opportunity to show what they can
do; moral: vote for the student coun
cil. There may be weaknesses In the
plan as given previously In The Dally
Nebraskan. fifty signatures neces
sary for calling a mass meeting, nomi
nation of candidates by mass meeting
these may offer a chance to the
politician. A provision, however, can
be adopted later on requiring candi
dates to file, this filing to be followed
by a primary election as Is done in
civil government where the primary
system is in force. If these objections
are valid still no one need vote against
the whole plan as provision has been
made for voting on the plan by sec
tions. The big thing is to vote. An
absolute "no" is better than no vote
at at all; the former indicates some
thought; the latter, the result of in-
difference, indicates no thought at all.
Vote: That's the first requirement;
vote intelligently; that's the second
requirement.
ANTON H. JENSEN.
FACULTY MEN SPEAK
TO SCHOOL GRADUATES
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