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T.l.phonra Kdltoriali HflHSl, No. 141;
Buainaaai D8l. No. It l Nlghti B88.
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Mr. Harvey Newbranch abandons his customary flippancy
in discussinpr the University of Nebraska through the editorial
columns of The Omaha World-Herald, and in his Monday issue,
makes an interesting: proposal which, if carried out, might turn
.the enthusiasm engendered by the teapot tempest over compul
sory drill, into fruitful channels.
The editorial which follows should stimulate thought
among both students and faculty members. Is the plan feas
ible? Can student interest be aroused in such matters? Do
the students want "to prepare for peace?"
The Daily Nebraskan would like to know what its readers
think of this suggestion. Members of the faculty are especially
invited to comment upon it. Letters from R. 0. T. C. students,
Legion members, student pastors, undergraduate leaders, and
all other interested persons, will be welcome.
OMAHA'S WITHDRAWAL
It Is unfortunate that the Omnha
high schools saw fit to withdraw
from the 1927 State Basketball
Tournament. That, of course, is
their own business. The University
offers its facilities to the high schools
and whether or not they accept is
up to the high schools.
The Omaha principals were kind
enough to insert in their resolution
the following sentence: "Tho public
school authorities wish to express
their friendly attitude toward an ep
preciation of the splendid efforts for
athletics on the part of the Univer
sity of Nebraska and the State Ath
letic Association." This may or may
not rid the University of any of the
blame. Probably' not.
We question the authenticity of
the reports which reached the prin
cipals. If there were wild goings-on
at the recent tournament, the par
ticipants certainly concealed them
well. When a large group of people
of any age are gathered together
away from home there is likely to be
a certain amount of improper con
. duct. Witness the American Legion
convention in Omaha. But that the
social situation connected with the
tournament was "unwieldy" is ques
tionable. Considering the number of
students who were here, the conduct
was exceptionally good. Even the
managers of the hotels where the
Omaha teams and followers stayed
said that the conduct of the stu
dents was gentlemanly and that they
had no complaints to make.
One principal stated that he did
not attend the tournament but that
he heard .bad reports of it. We
wonder how many of the principals
who are denying their teams the
privilege of entering the tournament
next year did see the tournament
this year and the social conditions
conected with it which they say have
become "unwieldy". If even one of
them did attend we would be sur
prised to hear of it. Ira Jones, pub
lic school recreational director and
signer of the resolution, did attend
the tournament and is reported to
have told University officials that he
was well satisfied with it.
Charges have been made that the
real reason for Omaha's action is the
desire to hold the tournament there;
jealousy of Lincoln in other words.
We have no means of knowing what
grounds there are for such an as
sertion. It is probable, however,
that it is not true because it is hard
to believe that a group of men of
the type of high school principals
could resort to such contemptible
means to bring about such a thing.
The whole affair is unfortunate.
There is not much, however, that the
University can do about it. Per
haps the action was justified, al
though it does not seem so to the
University public. From our point
of view, the charge of "unwieldy so
cial conditions" seems to be rather
indefinite and unsatisfactory reason
for such action.
. "THE HIGHEST IDEALS"
(Omaha World-Herald)
Department Commander Kinder of
the American Legion is to be com
mended for his sane and moderate
statement of tho attitude of that or
ganization toward the proposal to
abolish comuplsory military training
at the Btate university. Opposition
to tho proposal, he points out, must
follow the Legion's pledege to uphold
tho national defense system as now
organized, of which military train
ing in the land grant universities is a
part. It requires no waving of red
flags, no impugning of motives or
mentality, to drive that point home.
Commander Kinder pledges the
Legion to stand, as heretofore, for
"the highest ideals of patriotism and
good citizenship." " And this sug
gests a possible compromise that
might serve to still tha tempest in a
teapot to the satisfaction of every
body.
Surely one of the highest ideals
of American citizenship is love of
peace and hatred of war. We are
not a military-minded but a peace
loving people. We are keenly alive
to the horrors and evils of war,
its devastating destructiveness phy
sical and moral, and its menace to the
very existence of our orderly and
intricate civilization. We are quite
as much concerned in preventing war
as we are in being prepared to meet
it if it ernes.
If, then, the university should
make its contribution toward pre
paredness to fight if fight we must,
why should it not make an equal
contribution toward the world-wide
movement for education and organi
zation to avert the awful necessity?
If military training should be com
pulsory in the university, as an item,
however small, of a sane prepared
ness, why should not training and
study and research and co-operation
in the ways and means of insuring
peace be equally compulsory?
Why should not the Legion, many
of whose members have suffered
disseminate much helpful information
tion about the institution they re
present, as they meet people on their
trip through the state.
K. W. C.
VACATION TIME
Many university students will
spend the Easter vacation in towns
throughout the state. These stu
dents have a wonderful opportunity
to perform a signal service to their
school during the vacation period.
as they do indeed at any time that
they visit their homes.
That service is to tell the truth
about the University. Many people
really know very few facts about
their own state institutions. In the
case of a state university, numer
ous tales, some of which are true and
many of which are untrue, are con'
tinually feeing circulated.. Many of
ihe stories are detrimental to the
University and serve to alienate
suooort that might otherwise be
thrown toward it
It should, therefore, be the aim
of every student to familiarize him
self with the more important matters
pertaining to the institution which
lie ttend3, in order that he may be
able to converse intelligently and
present the situation fairly before
anyone who is seeking information
bout universities in general and the
University of Nebraska in particu
lar. Members of the University of Ne
braska Men's Glee Club which will
vi,:it, eleven towrs in Northeast Ne-
r the club's annual
, - " ' in a position to
most from tho war, many of whom
have penetrated its ghastly inferno,
why should not they take tho lead
in urging upon tho university auth
orities that education against war,
the supreme evil, go hand in hand
with education to meet it if the ca
lamity comes?
It is a service that should appeal
to Chancellor Avery and the board
of regents. They are well aware
that the hope of the world is in the
youth of the world. They have no
desire to promote war or the war
like spirit among the young men en
trusted to their keeping. They know
there is no reason why "the youth
movement" should be confined to and
directed by a ridiculous and feckless
"intornntionnlo." Why not set going
a youth movement of their own- one
appealing to the universities and col
leges and students of this and other
lands to join with the University of
Nebraska in a noble effort to train
and prepare to preserve peace and
good will and orderly settlement of
differences in this blood-bespattered
old world of ours?
Few sensible people object to the
maneuvers of the drill grounds and
the setting up exercises as such. They
are physically helpful and they tend
somewhat to inculcate habits of
obedience and respect for proper
authority of which too many of our
young folks are in need. The ob
jection is rather to the promotion of
the military spirit, to a possible
idealizing and glorifying of war, for
which there is no slight need or possi
ble justification. Lectures, classes,
study, bringing out the full evil of
war, reasearch and co-operation to
promote law as the rule of the world,
would remove all grounds for that
objection. i
Why not a corn-fed, bourgoise
youth movement for peace, as well
as training for war, at the University
of Nebraska?
Why not a corn-fed, bourgoisie
Why not, Chancellor Avery? -
TALKING ABOUT IT
A prominent Lincoln religious
worker quoted in "The Cardinal
News," an Albion high school news
paper, as making some very inter
esting remarks about undergraduate
lift at the University of Nebraska.
Speaking of failing students, he is
reported to have said: "Frequently
they live in cheap rooming houses
which are sometimes found to be dens
of vice, and very often parents do
not take into consideration the high
cost of romance in University life
and fail to allow the $25 to $30 a
month which it requires It
costs from $5 to $7 every time a
student takes a girl friend out for
the evening."
This authority on social expense
then goes on to argue that citizens
of Lincoln should do something about
the matter, that they should give as
sistance to those students whose in
capacity results in dismissal from the
University, that they should exercise
some "supervision over students who
have night jobs," etc., etc., etc., etc.
Where was this militant reformer
during the recent agitation over the
rent-a-Ford rates?
If the seniors fall to elect offi
cers this vear it will not matter
much. If the seniors feel that way
about an election, why should any
one worry? If tho mcmbors wish
the officers of last last year's Junior
class to represent them in the Arbu
tus, and are too much weighed down
with inertia to select new ones, no
one will be to blame but the seniors
themselves.
In view of the fact that half the
school year is now practically over,
why not abolish the senior election?
If it is to be a farce, a good Job
might as well be done as nor.
The suggestion that tho present
election rules might bo revised to
permit the naming of officers for
every school in the University is so
absurd that it is hard to conceive
of any ono giving it any consider
ation. It has been rumored that
there are so many aspiring politicians
on the campus, and especially in the
senior class, that the University may
be divided to permit all tho ambiti
ous a chance to win an office. "To
the victors belong tho spoils," was
never more true.
A committee was appointed Oct.
15 to select a slate for a senior elec
tion. Thus far nothing has been
done. It has been said that one rea
son tho Bcniors have been bo slow in
electing is because the Aeons are
working on a revision of the rules.
We fail to see where these self-
appointed guardians of the Univer
sity have anything to do with a
senior class election. In recent days
the Aeons have assumed many duties
that belonged somewhere else, if
we remember rightly the specific
purpose for which the organization
was formed.
But if the matter of revising the
election rules is so important that it
requires a great deal of time to re
vise them, we might try to have ap
pointed an international commission
to settle the matter. Indeed, the pe
titioners for a longer Christmas va
cation might have given the need of
revising the election rules as one rea
son for a change in the vacation.
It would have been about as valid
as some of the others.
Ten members of a class may sign a
petition to nominate a ticket if the
nominating committee is unable to
select a slate. In these days when
petitions are growing more popular,
another might not do much harm.
At least, the seniors ought not to feel
under compulsion to wait for a com
mittee to act if thero are ten stu
dents who have convictions on the
matter.
Class officers should have been
elected long before this. If the ma
jority of the students think class of
ficers are unnecessary relics of the
past then do away with all elec
tions, call a spade a spade, and let
that end it.
Other Opinions
The Daily Nebraskan assumes
no responsibility for the senti
ments expressed by correspon
dents and reserves the right to
exclude any communications
whose publication may for any
reason seem undesirable. In all
cases the editor must know the
identity of the contributor. No
communications will be publish
ed anonymously, but by special
arrangement Initials only may be
signed.
The Engineer's Meeting
To the Editor:
In order that the minds of Mr.
Mclick and his chagrined informant
may properly absorb tho facts con
cerning a certain resolution passed
by the Nebraska Engineering So
ciety at its last meeting, I desire to
repeat the facts of the case in more
detail.
. On the nineteenth of March, a
duly advertised meeting of the so
ciety was held to transact business
and show some moving pictures. The
attendance was considered good,
about forty-three being present. It
was estimated by several that about
seventy-five per cent of those pres
ent were freshmen and sophomores.
Just how many of these were mem
bers of the society, I do not know
and neither does your informant, al
though all were eligible, if engineers.
A resolution was presented favor
ing the retention of compulsory mili
tary training. Opportunity was giv
en for discussion of the matter from
the other side, even urged, but no
one rose to the occasion. A vote
was taken on the resolution and it
paused by a vote of eighteen for and
five against, a ratio of nearly four
to one in favor of said resolution.
Since the meeting was an open one
and the subject concerned all, any
one present could have voted or ex
pressed his opinion, without ques
tion as to whether he was a mem
ber of the society or not.
A copy of the resolution signed
by the president and secretary of
the society, with the following state
ment, was given to The Daily Ne
braskan for publication: "With a
good attendance, consisting of about
seventy-five per cent freshmen and
sophomores, this resolution was
passed by a vote of nearly four to
one."
I did not see the statement in The
Nebraskan concerning the resolution;
however, if it was as shown at the
head of your remarks, the only er
ror seems to be a typographical one,
the word "compulsory" before mill
tary was left out.
Of course, Mr. Melick, the rest of
us all know that is the kind of train
ing offered here and therefore the
one to be retained. So that error
was a very minor one, and no misre
presentation.
Using your own words, the only
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The same problems, with dif
ferent trimmings, exist at many
Universities. The clipping which
follows was taken from The
Daily Illini, and was entitled
"Why Officers, If Not Wanted?"
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part - perpetrator of
Camp
Chatt
us
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dated Saturday night with
Cha. Alan Gould, Acacia
and agiU-knecd Charle.ton
dancer I
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Besides learning some new
steps that would make Ter
pischore herself green with
envy, Rosa also learned of a
near-tragedy from Alan.
ElSIEiaiSEEJSJ
It aeenia that a certain Ne
braska male who aspired to a
Vanity Fair appearance, at
well at an eventual P. B. K.,
believed what he read in a
Lincoln paper concerning the
brand of clothes that wit
choien as best by a recent
convention of mature cloth,
iers.
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HE
BOUGHT THE
CLOTHES
and felt so light-hearted
and pleased with himself
that he was the very life of
tha next party he attended.
He even LOOKED like a
CLOWN!
EIS1HISI3ISSEI
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covered that his dearest
adored didn't care so much
for circus-types, so after a
sad sartorial awakening, he'
hied himself to Mayer Bros.
Co. and bought a Society
B.und suit (the real choice
of the convention by the
way). Then with a snap
brim Barbisio, gloves, shirt,
tie and other smart furnish
ings from Mayer Bros., (all
bought on their Ten-pay
Plan,) behold Oswald as he
will appear during his Eas
ter vacation at Palm Beach.
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