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TUB DAILY NEBRASKAN The Daily Nebraska!. ludu A. LIdmIh. Hebraaka. owcial FUBLIOATION VNITBKJJ1TY OF NEBRASKA Vaaer DtreaUoa of tlx Btodant publication Boare FublUhea' Tu.adar. WxlnMdiT, Thure ear, Friday and Sunday morning! during the aeadeaile yaar. BditoHal Offleae ITnWmity Hall 4. Buaineaa Office" Waat aUnd of Stadium. Office Houra Aftarnoona with the ax cap tion of Friday and Sunday. Telephone. Editorial: BS"1. No. 141; Buaineaa t B4891. No. 17: Nlahti B4882. Kntrrad aa aacond-claia matter at tha poatoffice In Lincoln. Nehraaka, under act ( Con.reaa. March I. 187. and at pec'eJ rata of poitata proided for in Section 1103. act of October . 1917. authoriaed January !. 122. 6UBSCRIPTION RATE ft a yaar l" aemeeter 8lnrle Copy, S canta EDITORIAL. STAFF Volta W. Torrey .... : !or Virtor T. Harklir Menag-mf Editor NEWS IU1U" Jullua Frandaan, Jr. Elica HoloTtehlner llillicent Oinn Lea Vance Arthur Sweet ASSISTANT NEWS EDITORS Herbert D. Kelly Neola Skala Fred R. Klmmer CONTRIBUTING EDITORS William Cajnar Victor T. Heckler Kenneth W. Cook Edward Morrow BUSINESS STAFF Otto 6koM Bualneaa Manager Siapaon Morton. Aaat Bualneaa Manager Nleiand Van Aradala Circulation Manager BJckard T. Vette. Circulation Manager Who is 0. V. B.? "He's a Nebraska man!" we an swer, with all the vim of a cheer- lender. Juiiying by the amount of interest shown, and the various cunning at temots being made by certain cele r.- nnlitirians to discover the identity of The Nebraskan's well informed contributor, a few people have lost some sleep over the mys tery. Others are dead sure that they Vn v; but, as at a magician's show. those who are most positive with their assertions are often farthest off the track. But what difference does it make whether O. V. B. is a barb or a Greek, a member of your faction or the other faction, a sour grape or an Innocent, an alumnus or a fac ulty member? The only issue which is of con cern is whether he is right or wrong. 0. V. B. is a "Nebraska man" in the finest sense of that term. He is doing more to boom business for The Bonfire Builders, Inc., than any other man on the campus. As yet, his charges are unan swered. If the accused cannot res pond now, they will be forced to on Ivy Day. Perhaps we shall be compelled to print his letter again but if no answer comes, we shall publish such assertions, not as pro babilities, but as facts. The ex clamations of glee which lie between the lines of his letter today may be premature; but time will settle that question. Glen Buck was elected president of the student council at a meeting attended by one more than half of the total membership. Mr. Buck will be remembered for his failure to find something for his junior class to do, and his success with the Far mers' Fair and the Cornhusker Coun tryman. Next year, as president of the council, he will face the most perplexing and important problem of his busy undergraduate activity career. We wish him success. The stu dent council ought to be something more than a stepping stone to an honorary society, which, to say the least, is under a shadow. The coun cil should be the most influential group on the campus. Membership on it ought to be a greater honor than that in the Innocents. But such is not the case. The Innocents are the goal of most really competent men, and several rather incompetent persons. The first raters, to be sure, scorn both the Innocents and the council. The sec ond-raters worship the Innocents. The third-raters run for the student council. And the fourth-raters don't know what it's all about. We are speaking in general terms, of course, and do not mean to charge any particular person with being other than a first-rater. Nearly all of the Innocents, council members, and outsiders are fine fellows per sonally. But when they get together have elections, become confused by pretty names, drink a little politi cal hot-air, and lose their senses they are even more ridiculous than a musical comedy drunkard. One of the reasons why the Inno cents, despite their advertised ten dencies, retain an exalted position, is the power which they have success fully grabbed. A reliable authority has provided these extracts for pub lication in The Nebraskan from one of the society's documents; "At a regular meeting held Oct ober 2, 1923, the Innocents gave due consideration to their traditional ac tivities which were initiated and per petuated by the Innocent society, and with the advice and help of Brothers , the society went on record in their minutes as definitely intend ing to take charge both now and in the future of the following univer sity activities, as they have hereto fore done: "1. The freshman initiation........ (which, by the way, was inaugurated by the student council, but taken away from it by the Innocents, when it proved to be successful.) - "2. (to 11 are omitted they are uninteresting). "12. AND ANY OTHER ACTI VITIES THAT MAY REGULARLY CO .ME BEFORE THE INNOCENTS Ft P. CONSIDERATION IN AN EX ECUTIVE CAPACITY. Innocents unanimously A Friend (The Lincoln Star) Professor Miller M. Fogg was a great educator. He was a remarkable teacher be cause he understood youth, sympa thized with youth, battled for youth and gloried in its successes and its achievements. Few men there are who can pass through the grinding, crushing ex periences of a quarter of a century in the college classroom and emerge from it with the same fine enthusi asm and the same burning zeal to lead young men and women from out of the valleys to the hilltops. And yet, Prof. Fogg did that. The spirit which led him on and on, through years of prodigious toil and labor, never faltered. It was cen tered upon the work, which to him was life, upon the young men from whom he drew inspiration and who in turn were fired with determina tion to go forth and prove that his confidence and his faith in their abil ities had not been misplaced. The closing weeks of Professor Fogg's life brought pain and suffer ing. A tired and worn body could not go on although the mind still urged it to fresh endeavors. It was typical of Prof. Fogg that while confined to the hospital his thoughts should be constantly upon the classes which he directed, the affairs of the various organizations which came under his supervision, and upon the ' young men and young women who invariably looked to him for unfail ingly friendly and helpful advice. Few men, who have elected to give their lives to education, have been able to crowd more of actual achieve ment in the short span of a little over a quarter of a century than Professor Fogg. He came to Nebraska, fresh from the halls of Brown University, a friend of the late Chancellor E. Benjamin Andrews, and started upon the career which was to leave a defi nite impression upon the thought and life of the University of Nebraska. He had few equals as a lecturer in the classroom. He had a capacity for catching and gripping the im agination of youth, for making the dull and uninteresting vivid and ap pealing, for driving home the facts which he sought to convey with ir resistible, sledge-hammer force. He organized debating work at the University of Nebraska, and estab lished the "Think Shop" which be came famed through the Central West and the nation. For a score of years Nebraska has maintained its j enviable record of leadership in de- i : ir : - e . 1 j uaie in litis cectiuii vi ine cuuniry, meeting and defeating the greatest educational institutions. It was thejtude that it was their privilege to genius of Prof. Fogg which made j have shared in his friendship and his this possible. He was a master I instruction. "Tis a heavy loss which teacher of argumentation and adopted the above activities and will regard any interference with the same by any other organizations as opposed to the best interests of the University." The editor of The Nebraskan is betraying no confidence in publish ing this, and prints it because the last sentence is of vital importance to every person interested in stu dent self-government. The blanket! clause, "any other activities," fol-! lowed by such an arrogant claim as the last paragraph, may help to piain me present aecaaence oi me 1 student council. Take the information for what it is worth, and draw such conclusions j irom these lacts and the allegations of O. V. B. as you think are war- ranted, ll you say O. V. B.'s sug- gestions can be ignored, read again! inese extracts irom the document of a self-perpetuating governmental oli- j garcny, and think again. Ivy Day promises to be very, very j interesting. 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. The Dilei To the Editor: Because of the facts disclosed in our discussions of the Innocents so ciety, it. appears as though there are but two or three courses of action open to that organization from now on. Their choice must lead to de struction in any case. What can the Innocents do? The Innocents can go ahead, in spite of all the revelations we have made, and select thirteen successors maintaining the seven-six balance. If they do that, however, they flout themselves in the faces of all stu dents who desire the Innocents to be an honorary society composed of re presentative men. They also prove. if they go ahead, that my statements have for the most part been true. They indicate that the "air-tight" preferential balloting system is a farce. They prove further that as an organization they have thei"pub- lic be damned" attitude, that they in tend to procede in spite of public knowlcdre cf their corruption. In of Youth jbate, without a rival in the entire country. From the university ne turned his attention to the high schools of the state. He organized the Nebraska High School Debating league, and steered it through the enrly years. It grew from a mem bership of a mere handful until it embraced more than a hundred high schools and became a definite factor and influence in the life and thought of the young pc ole who attended them. He developed i... iirst courses in journalism at the university, founded the school, and imparted so much vitality to it that shortly it became one of the most important departments in the institution. He directed the affairs of the publics tions as chairman of the publication board and through his kindly aid brought dignity and merit to their pages. His untimely death leaves a gap at the University of Nebraska which cannot be filled. His courses and his work will go on but the magnetic personality, wihch was so iriuch a part of them, cannot be replaced. He will be sad ly missed in the classroom and by those hundreds of students who had come to rely upon him as a -comforting ark, upon which they could pour out their troubles and their pro blems, knowing that he would not fail them. A gruff and brusque exterior hid a gallant, generous and kindly heart. He was just in his judgments. He could never compromise his sense of duty and responsibility with sloven ly, indifferently performed work and he never failed to speak his mind fairly and honestly and honorably. But his fine conception of justice led him to quick, hearty and ringing ap preciation of the well-turned job in the same measure that he condemned the careless and lazily-performed task. He was a charming friend anc" companion. For hundreds and hundreds of young men and young women who have gone forth from the Univer sity of Nebraska, and who have scattered over Nebraska and in oth er states of the union, the memory of Miller M. Fogg is very real and very precious. He had sent them forth to conquer. He had awaken ed the slumbering mind to new beau ties and new meanings, had created in them the strong desire and ambi tion to serve their fellows more use fully. They see him now as he stood before his classes, hair slight- ly rumpled, eyes flashing, voice clear and vibrant, pounding home the I, i. : i v , iesons wnicn ne suugni. 10 impair.. Their hearts are filled with grati- de-(the University has suffered. any event, however, the Innocents become a discredited organization. Their descent from the pedestal of glory, their fall from grace, should be hard, sudden, and complete. In any other decade, they would be dis graced, If the Innocents do not wish to elect according to the old six-seven balance, the schedule that we pre dict, it is open to them to destroy the balance. The "six" side might be given an extra man or two, ir ex-;order to Mve the face of the society Yet, it is to be doubted that the "seven" would consent to such an 'arrangement probably they would rather walk out and disrupt the or- conization comnletelv than to lose thoir hular, ,.t rwr On tho hand, the "six" side might consent to an eight-five, or nine-four bal- ance. but this is as unlikely as the other. The organization probably would perish rrt. The situation it critical, it must be confessed. The alumni and faculty members might step in to force a change, but to what would they change? They I might allow each faction to have j seven men, but then we would wit j ness the comic opera spectacle of each side maneuvering not to have the president, since the president only votes in case of a tie, and there never would be a tie and the one having the president would be in the minority. The alumni and the lacuity members might devise a new "air-tight" scheme for selections, but they would have to outdo them selves. Furthermore, this would re quire time, and there is little enough times before Ivy Day. I trust that the Innocents see their way out of this difficulty; power to them in working out their destinies! O. V. B. The Red Cockatoo To P. R. and Kwei Chen: If the girl of "The Red Cockatoo" is cowardly, does that character hurt the didactic purpose of I he play to show the degraded state of the sorority. It seems to me that the only moral criticism of the play should be that of the moral purpose of it, for the girl is not tragic; she is a comic part of a comic sorority and university. The criticism of the goodness or bad ness of "The Red Cockatoo" would be whether or not the sorority is shamed or praised justly. My im pression Js that the comedy in the scenes of the sorority house and the professor's office is good satire. VIEGINIA READ. Grand President Says Student Politics Based on Real Merit Thilip H. McGrath, grand president of Tau Kappa Epsilon, in a letter to Rltan rpcardino- rjledirimr systems and Probation practices, argues that "in the great and preponderant majority of cases those who are select ed to positions of trust and responsibility among the students of our American educationnl insuiuuons are ported in their selection, because of personal merit rather tnnn DecBuse oi their possession of any political mechanism developed through and by fra momhorchin AnH I hrlipvn f urt.hfrmore that the irrent and pre ponderant majority of those who are so selected, usually in their junior and senior years, are those who have had the advantages of fraternity con tact from the beginning of their college days. His letter follows: TAU KAPPA EPSILON The Daily Nebraskan, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska. My Dear Sir: In response to your request of April 29, I shall divulge my views as briefly and as convincingly as possi ble, as follows: It would be an interesting thing to have an actual survey of the fra ternity men at your great institution to find out the percentage who really had their minds made up as to their fraternity before they were pledged And it would further be an interest ine thine to determine just how many of the leaders among the r&- ternities, and indeed among the whole student body of the university of Nebraska, who were initiated into their farternities during the fresh' man year as compared to those lead ers who were not initiated until af ter those fine, glowing, fresh days of the freshman year had passed. It has been my observation that fra ternity training is as much if not more responsible for the develop ment of undergraduate leadership than those mere political advantages which are so often erroneously at tributed to fraternity membership. I believe that in the great and pre ponderant majority of cases those who are selected to positions of trust and responsibility among the stu dents of our American educational institutions are selected, and are concurrently supported in such se lection because of personal merit rather than because of their posses sion of any political mechanism de veloped through and by fraternal membership. And I beieve further more that the great and prepond erant majority of those who are so selected, usually in their Junior and Senior years, are those who have had the advantages of fraternity con tact from the beginning of their col We're Style Specialists seiectea, ana are concurrently uti- lege davs. If therefore it is the business of the college and its ad junct, the fraternity to train and to fit men for places of trust and res ponsibility leadership in the work nt tha world, and if those who achieve such places among the stu dents themselves are those who have had the advantage of fraternity training for the ' longest possible period of time, it seems to me to be at least inconsistent, if not actually dangerous to deprive the freshman of the friendship, of the training which logically follows such practice of friendship and fellowship, until af ter he becomes further advanced in his college career. And further if the preponderant majoricy of the membership of your fraternities, and that percentage is becoming larger and larger every year, had their minds made up as to the fraternity of their choice when they entered college, it seems to me that the con tention that they need protection against themselves in the possibility (Continued To Page Three) SERVICE for TEACHERS PLACING Teachera la our only Buaineaa. TRY US. "Calla" coming every oar from Superintendent! and Boaraa of Education YOU need us. We need YOU. Let ua help you. FREE Reciatratioa Discriminative SERVICE Nebraska School Service and Teacher's Exchange 1105 "O" Street, Lincoln Roomi 1 -4 over Harley'a Drug Store. and young men know it This is a young man's store that sells young style for all ages. We know who makes the best styles and makes them better than anyone else and we pick the winners for you... If you want a two button suit, we'll show you one that hits style on all sides and hits it right... 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