The Daily Nebraskan
Vol. xxv. no.iis.
THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA. LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1926.
PRICE 6 CENTS.
BUSKERS CLASH
WITH DAKOTA IN
FIRST DEBATE
Teams Argue on
Child Labor Question Be
fore Packed House
FOLLOWED BY DISCUSSION
u M Fo. Ill Chare of "Think
m. ....
Shop" Characterises Forum A
Post in Recant Year
With Memorial Hall practically
filled with interested spectators, the
University of Nebraska affirmative
team clashed with the University of
South Dakota on the forensic plat
form on the subject, "Resolved: That
the Constitution should be amended
to give Congress power to' regulate
Child Labor.", last night Keen,
analytical thinking, presented vigor
ously and effectively characterized
the annual home debate for the 25th
year since the establishment of the
Think-Shop.
A rapid fire open-forum discus
sion followed the debate. Professor
M. M. Fogg, founder of the "Think
Shop" and in charge of Nebraska
debating activities afterwards said it
to have been the finest open forum
with the exception of the Open Shop
discussion four years ago since the
inauguration of the forum discus
sions in 1920.
Nebraska was represented in the
debate by Lincoln Frost, jr., '27,
Lincoln; Edward G. Jennings, '26,
Lincoln; and David Sher, '28, Oma
ha. Reginald Miller, '29, Lincoln, is
alternate.
South Dakota was represented by
Maurice Nelles, Leslie Winters, and
Charles Penfold. The South Dakota
team was chosen last November and
has been preparing especially for the
Nebraska debate and their debate this
evening with Creighton in Omaha.
Tr Nebraska team was selected five
weeKS ago and organized their entire
debate without faculty coaching un
der the intensive methods used in the
Think Shop since its institution by
Professor M. M. Fogg in 1902.
Lincoln Frost, jr., opened the de
bate by pointing out that if the Fed
eral Government were to control
Child Labor a Federal amendment
was necessary. He . proceeded to
show that child labor was a national
as well as local problem, first, be
cause the States have failed to han
dle the problem, and second, because
the evils resulting from harmful child
labor are of national concern. He
pointed out the inadequacy of state
legislation and the further weakness
of state control due to inefficient
enforcement.
In opening the case for the nega
tive, Maurice Nelles called atten
tion to the fact that the debate
dealt not only with Child Labor but
also with the structure of govern
ment. Pointing out the develop
ment of the United States into a un
ion he advocated the necessity of re
taining for the States the police pow
ers they now exercise.- After point
ing out the diversity of conditions he
concluded by raising the .challenge
that the danger of the Federal Gov
ernment not being strong enough no
longer existed and that it was now
surpassed by the real fear of a cen
tralized government overwhelming
the States.
Edward G. Jennings opened by
pointing out that a bloody civil war
settled where sovereignty lies. He
then proceeded to develop the propo
sition that economic conditions have
changed immensely and that the in
terstate character of modern industry
requires Federal control of Child La
bor. He further pointed out that the
problem was beyond their compe
tence because of this feature. He
concluded with an analysis pointing
out that the Child Labor problem is
identical with other problems taken
over by the Federal Government
Leslie Winters based the second
negative argument on the contention
that the power should not be given to
the Federal government because it
does not try to remove the cause of
the evils. He pointed out that Fed
eral control did not eliminate poverty
"or remedy deficient school systems
and that these were the underlying
causes of child labor.
David Sher, closed with a master
ly Presentation of the affirmative
constructive arguments. He pointed
out that Federal control has been an
aid to State legislation and enforce
ment. The increase in Child Labor
due to the removal of the. Federal
"tondards was noted. He closed by
Pointing out thp.i Nebraska asked for
io radical departure from our pres
et form of govtument but that it
was noeessary for it to take over this
important problem which the States
bad not handled and could not hope
to handle.
The negative constructive argu
ment was brought to a close by Chas.
enfold who maintained that the
number of children employed did
"t warrant Federal control. He
Quoted the U. S. Census of 1920 to
Employment Office
Announces Greater
Call For Students
The lack of demand for student
employment, so noticeable d urinu
the past two months, seems to be
gradually improving. A considerable
increase in the demand has been ap
parent in the employment office dur
ing the past week or ten days.
bpring always puts new life into
the employment situation and from
now on more jobs should be coming
. The employment bureau would
be very glad to have students, who
are still interested in obtaining work,
drop into the office, esneciallv those
who are free Fridays and Saturdays.
The office has also received a
number of propositions offering sum
mer employment and will refer in
terested students to the proper car-
ties who will go over the matter
thoroughly with them. The merits
of the work and the adaDtibilitv of
the student to it, however, will have
to be determined by the student him
self. VARSITY TRACK
TRIALS FRIDAY
Outdoor Track Will Be Used
For Preliminary Kansas
Relay Try-Outs
TO HOLD NUMERAL MEET
The varsity track team will run
off preliminary events for the Kansas
Relays, April 17, Friday of this week.
The events will be held on the out
door track and barring bad weather
the time should be fast. In connec
tion with the varsity try-outs com
petition between Red, White and
Blue teams will be held and the time
made will count toward numerals.
The men composing the teams have
made their numerals or have points
toward them and this affords an ex
cellent opportunity to make the rest
of the needed points.
Coach Schulte wants every man
whose name is listed below to report
for the Friday meet The events
will start at 4 o'clock and will be
run in the usual order. The men
composing the different teams are:
Red Team: Doty, captain; Cas
per, Coffee, Hancok, Malloy, Reneau,
Frink, Olerking, Ditricks, Tappan,
Kelly, Campbell, Hepperly, Shaner,
Weir, Gilliland, Mills, Andrews,
Wostoupal, Ashburn, and McMul-
lin.
White Team: Krause, captain;
Beckwith, Eddy, Norris, Fisher, Sun
erland, Betzer, Keyes, Greenslit,
Blessing, Graham, McCartney, An
drews, Lemly, Richter, Hoffman,
Barr, Taylor, Murphy, Skinner,
Lynn, Page, Worfron, Hulsker, Isaac
son, Ekstrom, Raish, Molzen, and
Homey.
Blue Team: Donnesthorpe, cap
tain; Millnitz, Holmes, Lowe, Mar
row, Cummings, Keyser, Olson, Rel-
ler, Leffler, Ballah, Lee, Chadder
son, Lesser, Sodeburg, Haley, Rappe,
Shoeneman, Crocker, Swanson, Mil
ler, Hurd, Holm, and Durisch.
The varisity trials in each event
will be run off first followed by
the team meet in the same event
The final varsity trials will probably
be held after spring vacation.
ALUMNI BROADCAST PROGRAM
Graduate Of The University School
Of Maic To Give Kecitai
Alumni of the University School of
M
usic will broadcast by remote con
trol through station KFKX, Hastings,
Monday evening, March 29th from
nine to eleven o'clock. This is the
last of a series of six concerts broad
cast through KFKX by the School
Music Amor.z those who win
take part are; Grace Morley, violin-
it. Mariorie Little, oreanist, Eliza-
""? "
beth Funke, soprano, Iantha Leonard,
contralto, Edith Ludwick, soprano,
Philio Hudson, pianist. Gail Potter,
reader, and Dora Emerson, pianist
Selections will also be given by tne
Novello Trio and the mixed quartette.
WEATHER FORECAST
Thursday: Partly cloudy.
Weather Conditions
A well developed storm area
over the upper Mississippi valley,
closely followed by rapidly rising
pressure in Northwest is causing
strong northwrly winds in the
Missouri Valley, and light rain
with considerably colder weather
in the Dakotas, Wyoming, Mon
tana, and western Canada. Fair
and warm weather continues in
the Southwest, the lower Missouri
and lower Mississippi 'valleys.
Temperatures are moderate in the
East and rain has fallen in the
lower Lake region and the north
Atlantic states.
THOMAS A. BLAIR,
Meteorologist.
DR. WILLIAMS
TALKS BEFORE
WORLD FORUM
Says Social Reform One of
Greatest Ways By Which
Progress Takes Place
REFORM IS DANGEROUS
Tend Toward Extravagance and
May Cause Trouble in Unskilled
Hands, Speaker Says
"Social reform is one of the chief
and necessary ways by which progress
takes place," said Dr. Hattie Plum
Williams, chairman of the sociology
department in her address, "Social
Reform and Progress", delivered at
the World Forum at its weekly meet
ing at the Grand Hotel yesterday
noon, t 1
Dr. Williams' speech follows in
part:
"All life connotes change; human
life the most of all. In the body
there is carried on a ceaseless round
of vital processes which results in
the survival of the physical self. So
in any society, there is going on
necessarily a round of social pro
cesses custom, tradition, institu
tion which insures the continuance
and conservation . of that society.
This conserving force is absolutely
essential to the survival and stability
of individual and social life.
"But there is another process
quie as essential to life and that is
the adaptive process which allows
for growth and development.
Development Is Quiet
"Much of this adaptive process
goes on quetly and unnoticed like the
days of cloud and sunshine which
follow each other so inconspicuously
that they are forgotten as soon as
past. But crises, as well as steady
growth, characterize social progress;
and these sudden and sometimes vi
olent alterations we call either revo
lution or reform. Both indicate a
radical change, a complete overturn
ing or reshaping of social thought
and procedure. Revolution is most
commonly associated with political
changes brought about through vio
lent means. Curoiously, however,-
the name is applied to the changes
wrought peaceably in the economic
world through the introduction of
machinery the Industrial Revolu
tion, so-called because of its thor
ough-going and far-reaching influ
ence, which changed the very institu
tions of the Western World.
"Reform takes place in every
field of human activity. In politics
we ind such movements as civil
service reform and extension of the
suffrage. In religion, one of the
greatest changes in human history is
known as the Reformation ; while the
establishment of each new sect has
been an effort to reshape existing
religious thought through a new or
ganization. In industry, reforms
range all the way from the emanci
pation of the serfs and the abolition
of slavery to the curtailment of child
labor and the movement for minimum
wage. Education has not escaped,
and domestic institutions and per
sonal conduct have submitted to its
controlling hand.
Reform a Militant Force
"While reform produces changes in
society through peaceable mea'ns, it
nevertheless is a militant force.
"The conservatives defend them
selves first by an attack upon the
reformers, whom they call names.
These epithets serve as a substitute
for thinking on the part of the de
fenders and tend to obscure thinking
by the reformers who are apt to re
tort with other epithets. The second
line of defense is directed against the
reform ideas which are branded as
impractical and Utopian. Finally
they hold the reform party itself
guilty of such evils as they cannot
deny.
"The pioneers in major reforms
are persons of keen conception, in
tense convictions, single purpose, and
unusual courage. They are the
"stuff of which martyrs are made."
But more often than martyrdom, they
face a lonn and weary period of
waiting for public opinion to crystal
lize in favor of their reform. An
important reform attracts to itself
a variety of adherents. Following
the pioneers are the intellectuals who
study the movement and become
converts to it through a purely ra
tional process. There are the orators
and publicists who, from one motive
or another, ' join in the . educational
campaign. There are the statesmen
and politicians who are enlisted to
aid in crystallizing the reform into
law.
Failures Overshadow Changes
4'It.is also true that some reforms
fail to bring about a permanent
change in social policy, but -they
not infrequently foreshadow impor
tant changes brought about in some
other way.
"In times of social unrest when
reform seems cridemic, many people
assume a hypercritical attitude to
wr.rd it The impatience in some
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Yenne Will Carry Lead
In "Romeo and Juliet"
:iIiytfMf!j
""If" ii m- l I s- i ..IwioU
HERBERT YENNE
Herbert Yenne, associate director
of the University Players, who will
carry the role of Romeo in the final
Players' production, "Romeo and
Juliet", which is to be given this eve
ning in the Temple Theater.
LAST MIXER OF
YEAR SATDRDAY
Plans Completed For Annual
All-University Spring
Party in Armory
ENTERTAINMENT CHOSEN
Plans for the annual Spring Par
ty, to be held next Saturday evening
in the Armory, were completed this
afternoon, announced the All-University
Party Committee. This will
be the last party of the season.
Everyone is invited.
Evelyn and Ernest Lindeman will
feature the evening with the Tango
and Charleston during the intermis
sion. The Nebraskans will furnish
the music during the evening. Fruit
ed punch and wafers will be served.
There will be the usual admission
of twe.nty-five cents.
Elolse McAhan was elected Pub
licity Chairman to fill the vacancy
left by Marion Gardner. The elec
tion of other new members on the
committee will be held next week.
The chaperons for the coming
party are: Professor and Mrs. Jiles
Haney, Professor and Mrs. Ray
Cockran, Professor and Mrs. A. R.
Congdon.
The committees are:
General Chairman Charles War
ren.
Secretary Eloise Keefer.
Decoration Committee Vint Law-
son and Grace Hollingsworth, chair
men. Charles Dox, Wallace Mar-
tow, Leo Stieffer, Walter Drath,
Ernest Weymuller, Maurice Konkel,
George Hrdlicka, Lenora Kerl,
Evelyn Frohm, Lucille Mousel, Bob
bie Hall, Laura Perkins, Zelma Har
ris.
Refreshment Committee Robert
Hoagland and Dorothy Smith, chair
men. Archie Eddy, Robert Eddy,
Ben Jense, Walter Huston.
Entertainment Committee Robert
Hoagland and Dorothy Smith, chair
men. Geraldine Fleming, Dorothy
Swallow, Dorthea Dawson, Zeta Tate
Allingham, Ed Seigle, Fred Kraeme,
Mac Kinsey, Victor Brink.
Reception Committee Art Brey-
er and Helen Anderson, chairmen.
Mildred Saul, Pauline Bilon, Lillian
Fisher, Robert Davenport, Ralph
Bergsten, Claire Holmquist
Checking Committee Willits Ne-
gis, chairman. John Comstock, Har
ry Grimminger, Ted Frogge, Dudley
Furse.
Publicity Committee Oscar Norl
ing and Eloise McAhan, chairmen.
Chicagoans Make Olympics.
More men have been sent to the
Olympic games by Chicago than any
other western university.
"Romeo and Juliet
Are Difficult;
Nine sets for sixteen scenes will be
used for the production of "Romeo
and Juliet" which will be presented
by the University Players, March 25,
26 and 27. Dwight Kirsch, instructor
in the Art department, has revealed
many interesting features of the
scenery. "
The most difficult of all the scenes
to put on satisfactorily is the bal
cony scene. It has to be so placed
as to give the audience the impres
sion of heighth. The balcony
scene will be reused several times.
Tapestry will be placed in front of
the balcony windows, the iron rail
removed and the ' balcony platform
will serve as a mantel shelf.
In another scene lattice will be
placed over the balcony windows and
the lowpr part of the balcony will
serve as an apothecary shop.
There will be two street scenes,
one in Verona, and -one in Mantua.
MISS DDNLAP
NEW HEAD OF
A.W.S. BOARD
Viola Forsell Named Vice
President at Annual
Election
OTHER MEMBERS ELECTED
n ii r i ft t .j. . for Wednesday night. The highest
Poll. Were Ope-i- L.br.ry Tuesday emperaturfl Tuegday
And Wednesday For All geyen Wednesday's highest was
University Women ! fifty-six. Thus is March.
The dull clouds that obscured the
Margaret Dunlap, '27, Twin Falls, gy Wednesday were mostly dust, ac
Idaho, was elected president of the cording to Professor Blair. No rain
Associated Women Students at the j or gnow jg predicted. Although the
annual election of officers held wjnj was blowing all over the state,
Tuesday and Wednesday. Viola Thursday or Wednesday evening is
Forsell, '27, Omaha, nominee
senior membership, received- the
highest number of votes and auto
matically will become vice-president
of the board.
Other members elected are :
Senior Members
Katherine McWhinnie, Lincoln.
Helen Aach, Lincoln.
Eloise MacAhan, Lincoln.
Doris Pinkerton, Omaha.
Junior Members
Helen VanGilder, Secretary, Has
tings. Helen Anderson, Lincoln.
Oral Rose Jack, Tekamah.
Eloise Keefer, Lincoln.
Sophomore Members
Kathryn Douglas, Treasurer, Om
aha. Laura Margaret Raines, Marys-
ville, Mo.
Audrey Beales, Blair.
Geraldine Heikes, Lincoln.
All women registered in the Uni
versity were entitled to vote.
FAIR BOARD PLANS
NEW ATTRACTIONS
Booster Trip to Omaha Next Month
Is Planned to Advertise
Annual Event
Try-outs for the Snorpheum to
be held in connection with the Farm
er's Fair were held Tuesday evert
ing, March 23. Popular songs and
a number of dancing steps were
used to judge the ability of the can
didates. The quality of work mani
fested by the candidates indicates
that the 1926 Snorpheum and Fol
lies show will be entertaining.
The fair board will take a special
booster trip to Omaha early in April.
It will visit the Chamber of Com
merce and several other organiza
tions for the purpose of giving the
Farmers' Fair publicity in the Ne
braska metropolis.
The wild west show will not be
included as one of the features of
the Farmers' Fair amusements this
year. It was ruled out at a recent
meeting of Farmers' Fair chairmen
in favor of another larger event, an
nouncements for which are being
held back by the fair board until a
later date.
The 1926 Farmers' Fair parade
promises to be unusually large be
cause of the fact that many novelty
floats are being planned.
Joint Session of
Instructors Meet
(University News- Service)
An invitation to teachers of social
sciences in universities, colleges, and
high schools of Nebraska to attend
the annual meeting at Lincoln in May
of the Social Science section of the
Nebraska Academy of Science has
been sent out by Professor J. O
Hertzler of the department of soci
ology. The meeting will be a joint
session with the State Teachers As
sociation and the Nebraska chapter
of the National Council of Geography
teachers.
99 Scenic Effects
Will Use Nine Sets
The same back-drop will be used for
both scenes. In the Verona scene
arches will be placed in front of the
drop' while in the Mantua scene the
skyline will be visible.
The same platform will be used in
the chamber and tomb sets. The four
posts, which will serve as bedposts,
are so fixed that they may serve as Eaged in mounting the stone age col
candlesticks for the tomb. lection which was obtained last win
An arch doorway will be changed ter fron? Richardson county. This
by putting a window and draperies collection, known as the Zimmerman
into the arch. An iron grill will be j collection, consists of arrowheads,
put in the same arch for the tomb stone implements, pottery, and other
scene. The whole effect of the
scenes will suggest the architecture
of the early Rennaissance in Italy.
The scenery has been so modeled as
to take any color of light so that a
variety of effects may be used.
Lights will be focused on he actors
and not on the sets so that the scen
ery will sink entirely into the back
ground. .
Wind Reaches Only
Forty Miles Despite
Students Estimates
Despite campus estimates that
Wednesday's wind was blowing as
high as 100 miles per hour a consul
tation with Professor Thomas Blair,
Meteorologist, disclosed the fact that
the highest rate it reached was 40
miles per hour.
Freezing weather, brought on by
the gale that prevailed from six o'
clock in the morning, was expected
supposed to witness the quieting of I
uie wjn(j an(j
a return to normalcy.
REPORTERS AID
271 NEWSPAPERS
School of Journalism Students
Write 181,000 Words on
High School Tourney
EDITORS LIKED WORK
Copy aggregating 181,000 words
(enough to fill 15 editions of The
Daily Nebraskan, 225 average coun
try-weekly columns, two and a half
ordinary novels probably more than
has ever before been sent from Lin
coln on any one event) was sent to
271 Nebraska newspapers by 83 stu
dents of the School of Journalism of
the University of Nebraska, organ
ized as a correspondence bureau to
cover the sixteenth annual Nebraska
high school basketball tournament,
March IMS. To 262 weeklies went
172,000 words in local-end stories
three times the amount (60,000 to
128 papers) sent on the 1924 tour
nament; five times (37,000) on the
smaller 1925 tournament.
Appreciative and congratulatory
letters from editors have been com
ing to the School on the service it
rendered and to the individual stu
dents of the School of Journalism of
stories.
"The students responded hand
somely to the call for action," said
Prof. M. M. Fogg, director of the
School. "All but two in the sopho
more, junior and senior classes, and
several of the freshmen turned out
day and night to dispatch this big
job to serve the newspapers of the
state and to give themselves a capi
tal piece of experience in accurate,
get-there reporting. They are very
appreciative of the display (usually
first-page) of their work under their
names and of the encouraging com
plimentary letters from the editors."
The School is giving the corres
pondents, with the compliments of
the editors, copies of the papers con
taining their stories; and a bound file
will be preserved in the School Li
brary. The assignment desk was in charge
of Gayle C. Walker of the Journal
ism faculty, and he and Professor
Fogg took shifts in running the copy
desk. In this they were assisted by
ten upperclass Journalism students:
Millicent Ginn, '26, Nebraska City;
Volta Torrey, '26, Aurora; John A.
Boyer, '27, Pawnee City; William
Cejnar, '27, Omaha; Julius Frandsen,
'27, Lincoln; Elice Holovtchiner, '27,
Omaha; Kenneth Cook, '27, Ran
dolph; Edward Morrow, '27, Alli
ance; Arthur R. Sweet '27, Nebras
ka City; Fred Zimmer, '27, Sidney.
High-point students on the amount
of copy they were able to write while
attending to their other college wor
were: W. F. Jones, '27, McCook,
10,200 words; second, Horace W.
Gomon, '27, Broken Bow, 8,850;
third, Oscar Norling, '27, Litchfield,
7,900; fourth, Veronica T. Carter,
'27, Omaha, 7,650; fifth. Norma Car
penter, '26, Lincoln, 6,725; sixth, Le
roy W. Gore, '28, Lincoln, 6,600;
seventh, Herbert D. Kelly, '26, Ne
braska City, 6,200; eighth, George
M. Hooper, '28, Ames, 6,050; ninth,
Dorothy Nott, '28, Elgin, and Lloyal
K. Morgan, '28, York, 5,000.
STONE AGE RELICS MOUNTED
Historical Society Collection Being
Prepared For Exhibition
E. E. Blackman. curator for the
State Historical Society, has been en-
relics of Stone Age life in Nebraska.
The entire collection weighs a ton.
It was boueht by fifteen nublic-
spirited Nebraskans for the State
Historical Society and was on exhi
bition at their annual meeting Janu
ary 12. A part of it is mounted and
exhibited in the Historical Society
Museum in the basement of the Library.
PASTORS OIYE
STATEMENTS OH
DRILL SHBJECT
Three Out of Seven Stand Back
of Regents' Action; One
Refuses to Talk
JENSEN OPPOSES DRILL
J. D. M. Buckner and F. A. High
Favor Abolishment of Compul
sory Drill at Nebraska
The agitation to abolish compul
sory military training at the Uni
versity was resumed Wednesday
with the issuance of individual state
ments by the student pastors and
f!"'68, of the Y' W- C- A- Bnd
Y. M. C. A. and a statement bv An
ton H. Jensen, instructor in the ro
mance language department
Outside of a few resolutions back
ing up the stand taken by the Board
of Regents in their statement Sun
day, the controversy seemed to have
been dropped. Earlier in the week
the Lincoln Post of the American
Legion and two fraternities, Delta
Upsilon and Sigma Chi, passed reso
lutions showing their approval of the
Regents' stand on the matter.
The opinions of the student pas
tors vary considerably, according to
their statements. Three of them
state that they are not in sympathy
with the movement to abolish drill,
and declare themselves in harmony
with the rsgent's stand; one refuses
to commit himself; and the remain
ing three are emphatic in their op
position to military drill.
Two letters, one by Rev. J. D. M.
Buckner, to the editor of the Omaha
World-Herald, and the other by F.
A. High, of the Nebraska anti-saloon
league, to the editor of the Nebraska
State Journal, to take up the fight
against drill.
Buckner Opposes Drill
In his letter Reverend Buckner says
"I want the privilege of my son not
taking military training unless he
wants to. If I think military train
ing is demoralizing and will develop
military tendencies in my son and
he does not want to take it, I covet
the privilege of letting him do as he
pleases. I do not think any regent
should object to a discussion of the
subject in the state and let people "
think for themselves and decide as
they see fit."
Mr. High states that he is heart
ily in sympathy with the movement
to abolsh military training in our
schools. He says, "Some of the stu
dents want to take military training.
Some do not. Let them have their
choice. That's only fair. Compul
sory military training is unfair. It
amounts to conscription in times of
peace.
Delta Upsilon . in its resolution
says, "that a movement to change
the requirements of the University
regarding military drill by use of the
initiative should be discouraged by
the student body of the University
of Nebraska, and should be defeated
at the polls if brought to a vote."
Compulsion Undemocratic
Mr. Arthur Jorgenson, general-
secretary of the Y. M. C. A., express
es his opinion of the matter in the
following words: "As an Alumnus of
the University, I believe that the
finest academic traditions and aspir
ations, stressing as they do the open-
mind, the tolerant spirit, and the un
trammelled search for truth, are
hindered and not helped by a strong
military department whose develop
ment depends upon compulsion rather
than the free choice of the individual
students.
"As a citizen of the state I be
lieve that compulsory military train
ing is undemocratic and un-American.
As an American I am opposed
to any step, not absolutely essential,
that makes easier the application ef
force rather than reason to issues
arising between nations. In my
judgment, compulsory military train
ing is such a step.
"In all this I speak only my per
sonal opinion and in no sense as a
representative of any group or or
ganization with which I may be con
nected." The following is an unsolicited
statement by Anton H. Jensen, in
strutor (n the department of ro
mance languages: "As one of the
first volunteers in the late war, with
a service record of a year overseas,
and as a teacher in the State Uni
versity, may I say a vord about the
agitation over the compulsory mili
tary situation at the University?
Jensen Against Compulsion
"First, let me say that I think I
know personally' most of those be
hind the movement. In addition to
a group of very sincere students
there are among them the leading
ministers of the gospel in Lincoln
and the religious workers in the Uni
versity. Cooperating with them are
such women as Mrs. Clara S. Clav
ton, Btate president of the W. C T.
U., Mrs. P. T. McGerr, prominent
suffrage leader, and Miss Eleanors
(Continued JTo Fage Three)
(Continued To Tage Four)