THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
The Daily Nebraskan
tatlsa A. Lincoln, Nabraaka.
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EDITORIAL STAFF
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.Editor
Managing Editor
NEWS EDITORS
Jiillua Frandnen, jr. Elice Holovtchlncr
Millicent Ginn Lee Vance Arthur Sweet
ASSISTANT NEWS EDITORS
Herbert D. Kelly Neota Skala
Fred R. Zlmtnar
CONTRIBUTINO EDITORS
William Cejnar Victor T. HaekleT
Kenneth W. Cook Edward Morrow
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PROTECTION PROMISED
The assurance (riven a Daily Ne-In-askan
reporter by John Wright,
Lincoln commissioner of public safe
ty, that signal lights similar to those
used on 0 street will be placed at the
intersections of Twelfth with R and
Q streets, is good news for all who
are compelled to participate in the
dangerous congestion at those cor
ners. It is only to be regretted that
the lights cannot be installed at once,
rather than a month or two from
now, when the school year will be
nearly over.
Commissioner of Streets and Parks
E. E. Duncan, when told of Mr.
Wright's decision, said that a traffic
officer would be better. He is un
doubtedly right, but let us hope that
the officials will not let a slight dis
agreement over the best method post
pone action any longer than is abso
lutely necessary. If a light is in
stalled, surely the engineers can
make some arrangement for switch
ing it off when the traffic is so light
that no direction is needed. At the
other hoifrs, it can operate at the
same intervals as the lights in the
business district.
Commissioner Duncan went on to
say, however, that University stu
dents shoot past signals and disre
gard protective regulations. If this
is the case, it is the fault of Lincoln
city officials. University students
probably are careless and often in
clined to hurry unnecessarily, but if
in their haste they break the laws
of the city of Lincoln, it is the busi
ness of city officials to penalize
them. The statement from a com
missioner that students break the
law, is the equivalent of a plain ad-
mission that officials of this city are
not enforcing the law.
Lincoln citizens should feel obli
gated to provide -such protection as
is needed by students and faculty
members of this University. They
should see to it that action is taken
as soon as possible. They should lock
the barn gate before the horse is stol
en.
University students are likewise
obligated to respect and obey the
laws of the city. If students disre
gard traffic regulations, they should
be disciplined by both . the school
authorities and the city police court
judge.
nor will bo considered by the council
of administration as of the slightest
significance beyond an indication
that the students have not the least
interest in the matter."
If a similar proposal were ad
vanced at the University of Nebras
ka, there would probably be about
the same amount of indifference on
the part of the general student body,
There is something wrong with stu
dents so dead from the neck up that
even a proposal relative to class at
tendance does not cause a single
revolution in the brain. Are they
satisfied with everything, "as is"
We doubt it. i
Why, then, this perpetual an
deadening silence?
Concerning Mr. Mencken
WE SECOND
THE MOTION!
VERY VAGUE
"If the college graduates hold to
the ideals of college life instead of
sloughing them off after class day,
the United States will become the
greatest moral and intellectual power
in his," concludes an editorial in Lib
erty Magazine, which calls itself "A
Weekly for Everybody."
The statement may be true, but
what docs it mean? Surely the edi
tors of "A Weekly for Everybody"
should not talk of things which no
one understands. But that is exactly
the case, when they refer to "the
ideals of college life." What are
they?
Presumably they are high and no
ble. The phrase somehow causes one
to think of faith in reason, freedom
of thought, eagerness for knowledge,
zeal for eloquent declarations about
training for citizenship, desire for
service, and love for mankind. But
just exactly what are the ideals of
the modern college?
We do not know, and very few
other students know. And this lack
of understanding of the fundamental
aims of college, this disinterested at
tempt to swallow culture like a pill,
is perhaps the most serious indict
ment that can be made of American
universities.
"He don't know, she don't know,
no one knows what it s all about!"
Attempts to discover what is
locked up in the little ivory box
es which house the brains of oth
er people are always interesting.
The editorial which follows, tak
en from The Daily Califomian,
reports no startling discoveries,
but deals with the problem.
A Shakespeare festival is held
classes nominate new officers; the
Little Theater announces another
playing in rehearsal; a new magazine
will appear; the Missouri track squad
arrives; "Pelly" stretches her wings
for another flight; a contest for yells
is held and so on.
Every day the front page reveals
the aspirations of one group, the tri
umphs of another, the defeat of still
another. And every day the cam
pus reads and shrugs its often-
shrugged shoulders and says: "Who
cares? And every day the manager,
the athlete, the debater, the actor
turns to the front page and runs
his eye over the columns till he comes
to something about his activity and
stops for good.
The campus falls into three groups,
a very large group interested in
very little of anything; a group in
terested only in specific activities,
and a very diminutive group which
is, to its credit, interested in everything.
What the other half thinks and
does is a dark mystery to most of the
second group. Their minds are pe
culiarly single track in their pur
suit of our aim to the exclusion of
everything else.
For a good many years, editors
and student officials have howled
about something which their facile
minds have chosen to call indeffer-
ence. Not all the campus is indif
ferent. Most of the campus is too
interested in one thing and only one
thing. That is one reason why Borne
activities are in a slump; only the
people immediately interested keep
them alive; the others are too busy
turning other wheels, and grinding
other axes.
The answer to the problem raised
by the uproar about indifference is
not to be found in more uproar, but
in a little personally conducted in
quiry into what other people are
thinking and doing.
If you have happened to read the
April issue of The American Mer
cury before the representative of
the Watch and Ward society saw
"Hatrack" you may have read the
editorial. Of course, since then
everyone has been so busy discov
ering just what was objectionable
in "Hatrack" that other pages of
The Morcurfy (have probably been
over-looked. The editorial for the
month was one which should have
brought cheer to the writer of "Men
and Things" in the Nebraska State
Journal, and thrown a shiver into all
dissatisfied graduates, including
those on the Soviet payroll. The
following little article concerning
Mr. Mencken's editorial is taken from
the "Wind-Mill" column of The
New Student:
The mournful spectacle of a Mes
siah rending his disciples limb from
limb is before us. In the April Mer
cury Mr. Mencken razzes the college
rebels. The revolting student is ac
cused of the "buncombe" of assum
ing that college exists for the learn
er's sake. The poorly trained stu
dents are not intelligent enough to
be subjected to a heady draught of
fresh and stimulating teaching. "Ob
viously it is imprudent to parade
heresies before such infants as it
would be to lecture on obstetrics be
fore girls of thirteen."
Somehow that argument has a
familiar sound to the Windmill. He
recalls the reason college presidents
p-ive for firing obstreperous editors
or canning heretical professors: Col
lege students are immature and mutt
be protected from ideas
Always raucous chuckles are to be
heard from the anti-Meckenites.
The Tech, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, hastens to adorn the
moral:
"This time, we see a leader turn
on his uninvited fol'owcrs as one
would turn on the uninvited com
panionship of a stray dog. His
reprimand is severe, and it should
have a cooling effect unou the acti
vities of the radical, anti-everything
college propagandist, many of whom
work in the mistaken belief that
they are deputies of Mr. Mencken."
As for the Windmill he is glad
to say that he has always been able
to take his Mencken or leave him
And since reprints are in order this
week he offers a poem of more than
a year ago. It happens to be more
or less apropos:
THE COLLEGE BOY'S LAMENT
I feed the mouth that bites me
I read Doc Mencken's mag,
I treat him fine as velvet
He treats me like a rag.
I paid for two subscriptions
Of Mencken's Mercury
And yet he says that I belong
To the booboinie.
i
I bought his book of burlesque
His Prejudices too,
I love him moron moron more
What can a feller do?
The more I love and praise him
The more he does me dirt
He calls me "greasy rah, rah boy"
And says my mind is 'full of skirt.
I've studied cross-word puzzles
And thought that Ra, meant God
But in Mencken's language, rah,
rah
Means a numskull and a clod.
And so I ask you, Beatrice Fairfax
I ask with piteous looks
"Shall I give up my Baltimoron
And go back to my books?"
tain its position as a place of learn
ing and an institution where peo
ple are taught to think, it cannot
bar speakers from the campus just
because someone in the state does
ot agree with what is said.
rofessor Tells
Of Football Ideas
(Continued from Page One.)
SATISFIED?
Do seniors want the privilege of
cutting classes?
Over at the University of Illinois
the school newspaper debated the
question with vigor and enthusiasm,
collected information frpm dozens of
other largea universities, printed bal
lots as an accomodation to ihe stu
dent council, and did everything with
in the power of a newspaper to stim
ulate interest Then the student
body of 11,000 cast a toal of 187
otes.
"We said before this election," The
L'ini dec'ares editorially, "and we
rppent now, that the ballot means
rifit'.ir?. and that it neither artnnM
Thomas Q. Harrison, the lone
ly member of a Fellowship of
Youth for Peace, went to Law
rence, Kansas, soon after leav
ing Lincoln. As might have
been expected, there was some
discussion during the period of
his stay there. And now, Paul
Blanshard, field secretary of the
League for Industrial Demo
cracy, who will also be remem
bered by some Nebraskans, is
speaking at Kansas on "Labor
and Imperialism in China and
Japan." The editorial from
The Daily Kansan which is re
printed may have been inspired
by the visits of these gentle
men. Many people over the state have
demanded that certain men be barred
from speaking on the campus because
they have opinions that are not al
ways popular.
Perhaps the speakers have poorlv
rounded opinions, and again there
is the possibility that judgment of
the good citizens over the state is
faulty. But whether the speaker has
an opinion that is approved of or
not, the student body is entitled to
hear him.
Throughout the past. Droeress has
been made by questioning the ideas.
the institutions, in fact, everything
that existed, and in abolishing and so
changing and creating' that What
ever existed was there because there
was a good reason for it The ulti
mate aim should not be to protect
and keep alive an institution just
because our fathers did. or to hold
to an idea, a hatred or a prejudice
just because they did; but to find
out the facts and then from the
knowledge to do that thinj: which is
best for the society of today and
tomorrow.
If speakers were barred from the
campus just because they had ideas
different from those of the majority
of people, the students would be cut
off from an opportunity to get a new
viewpoint, to acquire a new angle to
a situation, to get more information
about it.
Some propaganda may be put out.
but certainly students and instruc
tors should be about as able to de
cide what is bunk and as able to
discriminate as anybody else. The
University should be allowed to lis
ten to these men with different
ideas for they, like Columbus, may
not be such big fools after alL
If the University wishes to main-
other institutions. It culminates in
the madness of the yelling mob at the
game itself."
The Bulletin, in addition, accuses
modern football of leading to other
evils in the undergraduate body,
its tendency to give occasions for
drinking, its encouragement of bet
ting, and its provocation of dishon
esty in various respects." The
charge of dishonesty rests on the in-
lrect hiring to athletes so that the
alma mater may put out a winning
team, and the temptations to dis
honesty in the football ticket situ
ation, whereby the student often
sells his ticket at a price several
times that which he paid for it be
cause of the great demand for seats
for the "big games." Of the con
duct of the spectators, the Bulletin
says: "The game itself is occasion
ally marred by drunken shouting, by
fighting in the stands, and by per
formance on the part of unauthor
ized sideliners. The football train,
particularly on its return journey, is
apt to be the scene of more or less
disgraceful behavior."
Recognizing the advantages of
training in discipline and cooper-
anon, ana me association witn t
coach, who is generally a man of
high character, the report devotes
the remainder of Section II to an
analysis of the disadvantage, of the
game to the indiiiual members cf
the squad. The disadvantages are
the same as those for the student
body in general, over -excitement
and distortion of values, but with a
special application. All the pres
sure of the press, and the cheering
thousands of spectators are brought
to bear upon the college athlete. The
Bulletin quotes Heywood Broun: "It
is not fair or wise for a 20-year old
boy to be put in a position where
70, J00 may see him blunder. A man
m'ght very well spend forty years
trying to live down the stigma, and
worse than that, the inner convic
tion of dumbness because at a criti
cal point in a big game he is called
for a line plunge when a forward
pass would have been better." Loss
of time from college work is also
mentioned among the individual dis
advantages. The discouragement resulting
from the hiring of a non-facu3ty
coach at a higher salary than that
of faculty members, in proportion to
the period of service, and the con
sequent discouragement to the edu
cators, is the gist of Section III.
Although football does keep the
alumni in touch with the college,
this influence is often unwholesome
since it leads to alumni concern for
the entrance of football men to the
college, rather than for those who
give promise of attaining general
leadership. Afraid of this over-em
pnasis oi iootbaii, section V con
eludes: "The alumni at least know
that we have other concerns. The
general public, without that know
ledge, and fed on newspaper ath
letic publicity, is very likely to fail
to understand our real purpose and
the nature of our real effort, and is
consequently likely to fail to give
that effort the moral and financial
support it deserves."
To remedy these evils, the report
presents the Fauver plan and the
Farley plan for consideration. The
first proposal would limit participa
tion in intercollegiate to one year.
The report admits that the standard
of play might be lowered, but de
clares that the relative strength of
the teams would not be changed.
The advantages of this plan are that
it would permit a larger number of
men to compete, interfere with the
college work of the members. of the
squad for only one year instead of
four, bring about the formation of
an undergraduate coaching staff,
leading to the development of teams
more truly products of the colleges
they represent and a decrease in
the volume ot highly colored pub
licity, "detrimental to the player and
sport alike."
Under the Farley plan a college
would schedule only four games each
season, and those with teams in its
own class and vicinity. The elimi
nation of spring and early season
training are the salient advantages
of this plan, since the four scheduled
games would be played late in the
fall, giving ample time for prepar
ation after the opening cf the fall
term.
The report closes with a plea for
faculty action and the cooperation
of members of athletic leagues and
conferences in carrying out the re
forms which it suggests.
"Abie's Irish Roae"
If your idea of entertainment in
the theatre is to laugh and hear
your neighbor laugh with you, then
do not fail to see "Abie's Irish Rose",
the mirth provoking comedy success
by Aane Nichols, who is both its
author and producer. "Abie's Irish
Rose" is showing today matinee and
ngiht at the Orpheum.
Aptly described as "the play that
puts 'U' in humor,", this comedy,
based on the martial troubles of a
young couple of different race and
religious beliefs, has established a
record for continuous laughter that
has not been equalled by any other
theatrical attraction in America. It
is now1 in its fourth year at the Re
public Theatre, New York, and has
also broked capacity records at Chi
cago, Washington, Buffalo, Balti
more, Cleveland, Montreal, Cincin
nati, Toronto, Pittsburg, Kansas City,
St. Louis, Los Angeles, and San
Francisco, and all other large cities.
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