THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
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The Daily Nebraskan
Station A. Lincoln, Nebraaka
OFTK'IAL PI'ltMCATION
UNIVKKKITY OK NKHKAHKA
Under direction of Ih Htudent publication Board
TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR
I'uhllahed Tuesday. Wedneeday, Thuraday, Friday, and Sunday
mornlnm during the academic year.
Kditnrial Office llnlvemlty Hall 4
Ilualneaa Office Weat atand of medium.
Office Hours Kditorial SlefT. ! :00 to t :00 eKcept Jr . ay and
Sunday. Ilueine.. Htaffi aft.rnoona esc.pt rriday and
Sunday.
Telephone. Editorial! HM1. No. 142: lluelneeei UB1. No.
77; Nlnht U.HHi.
Entered a. aerond-cl... matter at the P"-'""1"
Nehr.nka under act of Concrei. March . 17. "' "P11
rat. of po.lai. provided for In -ectiun 1108. act of October I,
JK17, authoriaed January HO.
12 a year.
8UUSCKIPTION RATE
RltiKle Copy 6 centa
1.28 a temeator
WILLIAM CEJNAR
I.ee Vanra
Arthur Sweet
Horace W. (iomon ...
Ruth Talmir
Florence Swlhart
NEWS EDITORS
. .. EP1TOR-IN-CHIKK
Manaicinl Editor
Aunt. M"s"in r 'or
Aatt. Manag-lnf Editor
hwlvht MrCormack
ASSISTANT NEWS EDITORS
Mary Louise Freeman
Oacar Norllnit
Oerald Orlffln
T. SIMCSON MORTON
Richard V. Vetta
Milton McCrew
William Kcarna
BUSINESS MANAGER
... AiBt. Huninesa Menauer
Circulation Manairer
Circulation Manaifer
THE BEGINNING
The first day of another scmcHtcr fijind began
yesterday. Coincidently a new editorial talT of The
Daily Nebraskan oiled up the Kod old typewriters,
racked the good old brains, and started turning out
the stream of copy wherewith to inform and entertain
the campus public.
To allay the fears of the reformers, reassure the
stand-patters, and satisfy the curious (mostly the last)
many editors of The Daily Nebraskan in the past have
started off the first issue of their term of office with a
statement of policies they would follow. Many times
the final swan song editorials, perusal of the files dis
closes, refer back to these statements of policy with
sighs of regret, sometimes apologies, and oftentimes
disappointment.
To avoid this possible disappointment, to offer
apologies now instead of later, and to be frco to meet
every occasion with an unfettered mind, the present
editor purposes not to state in crystallized outline what
policies he will follow, what he will attack, and what he
will support.
College is a great place for development of the
mind. This development implies occasional changes
in opinion. The editor of the college paper, no less
than other students who browse about in this great
university store of knowledge, is likely to change his
mind. Remembering this, and humble in the knowledge
that he is editor in great part through the fortuitous
turn of a long chain of circumstances, and somewhat by
virtue of hard work, rather than any exceptional dis
play of superiority, he essays this first attempt at
writing an editorial for The Daily Nebraskan.
For -the additional information of those who may
still entertain doubts conserning the uncensored free
dom of The Daily Nebraskan, it may be well to state
now that the present staff of editors, like all previous
staffs to our knowledge, has in no way been obligated
to bind itself by promises or other agreements with the
Publication Board. Last spring when the present edi
tor was appointed managing editor, he was asked by
the Board what his policy would be in regard to com
munications to the paper. The answer was that if a
communication was news it would be printed. That
policy was followed all last semester, and will be fol
lowed all this semester.
At the same time while upholding and reaffirming
the right of the student paper to freedom from any
form of censorship, the fact remains that control of the
paper must and should remain lodged as it is now in a
permanent board responsible for its conduct. The
financial stake involved would be sufficient reason alone
for this supervision by those older in experience than
students who have been here for only three or four
years. Few people realize that The Nebraskan on its
financial side is as large a business proposition as many
a small-town daily.
Then there is another reason why back of the staff
of student editors and business managers who tempor
arily have control of the paper there should always be
in readiness a more responsibe group of men, and that
is, that the student paper, no less than any other part
of this University, is constantly on trial before the
public. In fact, the college paper is possibly even more
on trial than other parts of the University, because its
conduct or misconduct can more easily be observed.
The college paper must of necessity at all times pre
serve a decorum and dignity in keeping with that of the
institution it represents. For that reason, for example,
many of the familiar features of the commercial press,
such as the advice to love-lorn, comic strips, and other
space-filling and entertaining features, have no place
in its columns. If the staff of editors were deficient in
this sense of propriety, it would be the duty of the
Board to step in and correct the situation.
Within these limits, imposed by the mere fact that
The Nebraskan is a University publication, the editor
has had, and we hope, always will have unrestricted
freedom.
Second-hand Book
A new student cooperative movement in the form
of a book exchange has recently been started by the
University Y. M. C. A. To date about 125 books are
on the shelves. The object is to lower the price of.
second hand books for those who buy and raise the
price for those who sell. The saving in either case is
expected to come from the elimination of the dealer's
profits.
Cooperative movements to us here in the West are
no new thing. Every farmer's son of us is familiar
with the farmers' cooperative grain elevators, farmers'
unions, mutual threshing outfits, and other forms of
cooperative effort. Even in the cities there have been
sporadic attempts to establish laborers' cooperative
stores such as have proved so successful in England and
other European countries.
A student cooperative movement is particularly
fitting. There is no one in the world so much in con
tinual need of money as the average student. Uni
versities have witnessed for ages the struggles of stu
dents to maintain themselves during their college
careers. Cooperation in the forrtiof student dinintr
halls and rooming houses has ofteri been a manifesta
tion of this necessity for some way of lowering the
cost of living. A modern expression of this spirit is
seen in the Girls' Cooperative houses being erected for
women students at various universities under auspices
of the Associated Women Students organizations.
Student book exchanges, according to Secretary
Hayes, who is the father of the schema here -at Ne
braska, are quite successful at other universities, not
ably at Illinois. ' . ,
The general underlying principle of a mutual ex
change and buying and selling of Looks by the students
themselves through some such centra! office as the Y.
M. C A. is now providing seems sound. -There seems
no reason why students should pay tribute to an inter
mediary if they can just as easily solve the problem
themselves.
Upon the practical administration of the plan by
X'. o Y. M. C. A. will depend its initial success or fail
ure. Its ultimate success or failure will largely de
pend on the attitude of the students themselves and
the operation of the underlying economic principles In
volved. Economics students and professors may find de
light In watching how this Infant cooperative movement
prospers in the face of competition with an old-established
private dealer.
Commercial Sport?
At a period when criticisms of college athletics
occupy important space in magazines and newspapers
throughout the country, the University of Nebraska
may point with pride to the development of her intra
mural nroirram.
With the opening of the track season it rounds into
one of its most Important phases. Terhaps the first
sport to be used to draw all students, rather than Just
the stars, Into athletics, its place in University nie
should not be overlooked.
Under the direction of Henry F. Schulte, track
work has been made attractive. As a result, each
spring has seen a far larger number of men out. Last
vear. there were in the neighborhood of five hundred
men who were able to take advantage of clean, out
door exercise under the direction of Coach Schulte
und his assistants. On the basis of early indications,
Coach Schulte is expecting six hundred students out
this year.
In the intra-mural track program, the athletic
.board has removed the principal difficulty to keeping
a largo number of men out. No matter how much a
man may like athletics or physical exercise of any kind,
he generally seeks some reward for his efforts. Twen
ty letters for intercollegiate competition is generally the
limit. But under the system of numeral awards and
non-varsity competitions now in effect, every student
has an opportunity to win a measure of honor on the
track.
Numerals may be won, not by beating this man or
that man, but by acquiring sufficient proficiency in
various events to meet certain definite marks. It takes
twelve points for a numeral and eleven is the most a
man can make in one event. This means that the
average students has to be fairly good at three events
to win his numeral. It means a measure of all around
development.
In addition, numerals are not awarded unless a
man is scholaxtically eligible. Nebraska numeral win
ners, as well as varsity runners, must maintain satis
factory scholastic standards.
Then there are the tri-color meets for men whose
ability lies between those working for numeral points
and the regular varsity candidates. These furnish keen
competition for the non-star as well as making a fine
training ground for future varsity material. Miniature
winged-feet in gold, silver, and bronze are awarded each
spring to the men who have performed best during the
season in each event.
These various competitions are making track a
sport for all. Coach Schulte is making it a worth
while sport for all. Needless to say, the vigorous ex
ercise is a decided asset to the health of the student
who is confined the bulk of the day. Training in form
develops bodily coordination, physical grace and ease.
And the warming up and training exercises serve to
develop the whole body. Track has ceased to be a
sport to develop a specialty. It is now realized that
the best track man is the man in the best shape physi
cally and mentally.
Nebraska students who are able to take advantage
of track training come out better equipped for their
other struggles. Athletics may be becoming more and
more commercialized but Nebraska's intra-mural track
program is at least one argument to the contrary. Ne
braska track is offering splendid opportunities to all
students for one side of their development. It is help
ing to make Cornhuskers participants as well as spectators.
"The Campua Review"
The first issue of "The Campus Review," the long
heralded off-campus publication, was distributed yes
terday. The board of editors is composed of a repre
sentative group of students who, judging by their past
literary accomplishments on the campus and in the
classrooms, are right well capable of editing such a
journal.
Breathing with the spirit of the old-time personal
student journalism which held sway back in the eighties
and nineties in the days of The Hesperian, The Scarlet
and Cream, and The Nebraskan, predecessors of The
Daily Nebraskan, "The Campus Review" we hope will
meet with a hearty reception among students and facul
ty. Growing along with the . University, The Daily
Nebraskan, even like the commercial press of the out
side world, has in large part out of unconscious sym
pathetic imitation of its bigger metropolitan contem
poraries, become similarly cold and impersonal. It has
become a NEWSpaper as "The Campus Review" so fit
tingly describes. The editorial columns have tried in
some measure to graft a soul onto the paper, but only
too often with disappointing results. The rise of an
"independent journal of opinion" is the natural, and
may we say, inevitable reaction to this growing "im
personalism" of the college press. Nebraska is no ex
ception. The same thing is happening at other uni
versities.
The apologies of the editors in anticipation of any
possible seeming competition, The Daily Nebraskan
heartily appreciates as an evidence of their good will,
though they are not needed. No hurt has been done;
no hurt will be done. The Daily Nebraskan welcomes
to' the fold of University publications this latest stU'
dent literary venture.
A Contribution
A bill has been introduced in the legislature au
thorizing the board of regents to make arrangements for
obtaining fifty-five specimens of African wild game
which were hunted down by Adam Breede, Hastings
editor, on a recent expedition to that continent.
It is hoped that the legislature sees fit to ap
propriate the desired $30,000, only a small part of
which will go to Mr. Breede, for procuring these speci
mens and mounting them in the university museum
Mr. Breede's generosity in of ferirrg them to the univer
sity should be commended, as well, for he agrees to
turn over the animals for about $5,000, which amount
represents the expenses of his trip and no more.
With Morrill Hall all but completed the university
will indeed be happy to receive Mr. Breede's collection
as a contribution to what will be one of the finest
museums in the middlewest.
The Price of Economy
The $100,000 fire loss sustained by the Colorado
Agricultural College last Friday is another piece of
evidence as to the folly of failing to put up safe and
satisfactory buildings -in state institutions as long as
the old can possibly be used.
Plans for remedying the situation on the Nebras
ka campus have been formulated by the Board of
Regents. But they will be effective only as the people
of the state through their legislature realize the na
ture of the situation. Old buildings, firetraps, are
dangerous to students, faculty and property also. Their
burning generally leads to the destruction of valuable
and irreplaceable records, researches, etc.
If University were as successful in interior trans
formation of students as it is in most cases in exterior
transformation, what a civilization this country might
have.
Regents To Ask
For More Money
. (Continued from Page One.)
approval of recommendations for de
crees at midwinter commencement at
the University of Nebraska, was dis
cussed at the meeting or the regents,
which lasted from 11 a. m, until late
afternoon.
The recent were taken through
the new building and commented on
its "excellent construction ana
convenient arrangement."
The regents attending the meet
ing Included F. J. Taylor, St. Paul;
William P. Warner, Dakota City;
Earl M. Cline. Lincoln: John R. Web-
ster, Omaha; Stanley D. Long, Coles.
Mr. Landis of Seward was tne oniy
absentee.
J. S. Dales, oldest university grad
uate, who is cornoration secretary of
the board; L. E. Gunderson, finance
secretary of the university; and L. f .
Seaton. oneratine superintendent,
also met with the board.
Appointments Made to
"Countryman" Staff
(Continued from Tage One.)
Departmental Contributors:
College of Agriculture:
Ag Engineering Russel S. Nettle-
ton.
Agronomy Nelson E. Jodon.
Animal Husbandry Robin Spence
Dairy Husbandry Anton Frolik.
Entomology Paul Fowler.
Horticulture Ormand N. Bene
dict.
Lunchs
Candy
Meala
Drinks
At
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SUNSHINE
LUNCH
1227 R
lat Door East of Temple
Poultry Husbandry Lester
Shepard.
Rural Economics Paul E, Fau
quet. Home Economics:
Research and Foods Ilildegarde
Baumgartner.
Design, Home Management, and
Child Development Elizabeth Ram
say. Clothing Mildred Hawley.
Feature Stories Marie Dougherty
and Dorothy Ward.
Business Staff Donald Bell, Bus
iness Manager.
Assistants Robert C. Lamb, Lu
cille M. Bedell, and Henry Hild.
Circulation Staff Gordon T. Hed
ges, Circulation Manager.
Assistants Louise W. laggart
and Dorothy McCoy.
Over 700 high schools in Nebraska
besides 300 alumni and the students
of the college of agriculture receive
the Cornhusker Countryman.
The Ag College Publication Board
members arc: Prof. B, P. Crawford,
chairman; and Prof. II. E. Bradford,
J. O. Rankin, F. E. Mussehl, Miss
Faust as faculty members,
and Alice Klein and Cecil Means as
student members.
Experimental Tha.i..
The Experimental Theater at Grin,
nell, Iowa, arc undertaking pl8yi of
varied types. As shown by the We
andlonea attanHino ttu i
..,. inaya,
theater Is to be a huge success.
PARTY PROGRAMS
SCHOOL SUPPLIES
PRINTING
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It is surprising how much
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Milwaukee Delicatessen
Ererythinf for tha
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At other times departure ia on hour and half hour. Last through from
Lincoln 11:22 P. M. Laat through from Uni Place 11:00 P. M.
Sunday Service starts 1 hour later and discontinues 1 hour earlier
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"MONROE" History Paper 90c ream-Besides a lot of
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Social Stationery in Eaton's, Cranes, and Whitings
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