T HE DAILY NEBRASKAN
The Daily Nebraskan
Station A. Lincoln, NebraiVa
OFril'IAL 1'1'IILll'ATlON
UNIVERSITY OK NKIIKASKA
Under direction of the Btudent publication Hoard
TWENTY-SIXTH YKAR
Publlnhrd Tuextay, Wetlneaday. Thuraday, Friday, and Sunday
mornlma durinic the academic year.
Kilitnrlal Office I'nlverelly Hall 4.
llu.lnr.a Office Waat aland of Htadlum.
Office lloura Kdltorial Htatf. 1:00 to t :00 erer.t f 'Ur nd
Sunday, lluainraa Start I afternoone eceit rrlday and
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Teleuhonea K.litorlal! 11681. No. 142; Buelneeei B68l, No.
Hi Nmht Ui.
Entered aa eecond-clane matter at tha poatolTica In Lincoln,
N.bra.ka. und.r act of Conir.ii, March . Is7. and at epeelel
rata of poataire provided for In aection 110S, act of October S,
117, authoriacd January 80. 1923.
" SUHSCKU'TION KATES
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Single Copy B eenta
WILLIAM CEJNAR ElT0R-,N-(".!!';,,
1 Vanca Manairtnt Kditor
AMhuVswt"":::: Aa.t Managing Kditor
Horace W. Gomon Aaat. Managing fcdltor
NEWS EDITORS
Ruth Palmer . . Oaear Norllng
Dwirfht McCormack
ASSISTANT NEWS EDITORS
Floranca Swihart . , G1" Cr"Iln
Mary Louise Freeman
T. SIMPSON MORTON BUSINESS MANAGER
Richard F. Vette Aaat, Kueinma Manner
M.lton McGrew Circulation Ma..aier
William Kearna - - Circulation Manager
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1927
CHARITY
Not often docs it happen in the history of a col
lege newspaper that its editorials are taken up for
rebuttal by the great newspapers of tho country. The
Daily Nebraskan, however, has been twice honored
within a single month, four weeks ago by the Omaha
World-Herald, and only yesterday by the World
Herald again. The latest is reprinted in the adjoining
column. Above it is printed the original Daily Ne
braskan editorial which inspired this metropolitan
sermon.
Probably disappointed in its anticipation that The
Daily Nebraskan might oppose, or at least, ignore
the Campus Review, instead of welcoming it as the
present editor has done, the World-Herald finds other
things to disagree with. It seems that we're damned
if we do, and we're damned if we don't.
Instead of charging us with running a suppressed
newspaper, the latest charge is that we are not im
bued with enough sublime spirit of journalism to re
fuse to see some of the defects of the modern news
paper. The Nebraskan last week said that newspapers
have become cold and impersonal. That statement in
its proper setting with the remainder of the editorial
said just what the editor means. The modem news
paper is NOT personal in the sense of the old-time
journal of the last century. Where the papers of the
last century carried from 50 percent to 100 percent
personal opinions of the editors and their contribu
tors, the modern papers carry less than 5 percent of
such copy in their reading matter which in turn is
only 50 or 60 percent of the whole paper, the re
mainder being filled with advertisements. Some pa
pers have even dropped the editorial page altogether,
and others fill theirs in part with canned editorials
bought from syndicates and peddled off as the wisdom
of the local editor without any by-line or other form
of recognition to show the difference.
Student journalism passed through the same stages
except that the editorial columns have nearly always
had some degree of importance, and have never de
generated to the canned editorial rage. The prede
cessors of the Nebraskan were once filled almost en
tirely with editorial and personal matter. Today our
paper is filled in large part with news which is handled
in a more impersonal way than in the college paper
of 30 years ago.
These trends of the newspaper are facts and no
fancies.
Between being impersonal and having a personality
there is a great distinction, and the editor of the
World-Herald has made this mistake in his interpreta
tion of the Daily Nebraskan editorial. The Nebraskan
did not say that modern papers have no personality.
The Daily Nebraskan always has had some sort of per
sonality. It has changed from year to year as differ
ent editors took charge, but in its treatment of cam
pus news, and in its presentation of opinion it has
becomes more and more impersonal. The very growth
of the University from a student body of a few hun
dred to several thousand has made this change almost
inevitable. The same line of development will prob
ably be found in the history of the World-Herald and
any other paper as its growth is traced from the days
of the little village of four or five hundred inhabi
tants to the great city of two hundred thousand or
more.
"There's personality in every line written by every
reporter who deserves the name of newspaper man
" the World-Herald goes on to say.
There must have been personality plus in every
line written by the World-Herald's Lincoln correspon
dent who dubbed the Nebraska Campus PULSE col
umn the Campus CRITICISM column, and not satis
fied with that, added a few wrinkles of his own in
describing the editorial which announced this change.
It's just that kind of personality that needs to be
cleaned up in order to make the news columns of
newspapers more truthful, more objective, and more
reflective of news as it really is, and not as the cor
respondent or newspaper would like to have it.
The Daily Nebraskan has no quarrel with the
Wor!d-Herald. It does not object if the World-Herald
disagrees with the opinions of its editor. In fact it
rather enjoys the situation. But it does deplore the
World-Herald's practice of examining minutely every
statement of the Nebraskan's editor, and making that
the basis for another attack on this University.
Aside from the logic involved in such broad and
sweeping conclusions as the World-Herald has the
knack of drawing, there is the further matter of hon
esty and consistency. The World-Herald would like to
have it appear that the editors of the Nebraskan can
not express their opinions as they themselves see fit.
And then when they do express their own honest opin
ions (in this case contrary to the pet theories of some
newspaper editors) the devil's cage has burst again,
and we are damned once more. The very fact that the
editor of the Nebraskan was not afraid to admit that
the Nebraskan at times may have lacked vigorous edi
torial policy, belies the statements by ttic World
Herald that the editors of the Nebraskan "haven't the
conrage to speak right out in .reeling, and that they
haven't the will to be honest and brave."
The University of Nebraska and the School of Jour
nalism have as capable, devoted, and idealistic a fac
ulty a. may be found 'n any American uni 'tn'.ly J:
is highly or charitable for the World-Herald in its evi
dent P' l-'y o. oppostion tr i't-.f University pick out
rtatemen'a oy stud.-il .Ji'ti, and mi.;, these U
basis for .f tacks on the fvecity, the. eulri..titraticn,
and the e.-tire Univer'tv s "I to often di' ci'.her by
direct statement or by implication.
It co ppens that the Ntbiaska School of Jo irnal
ism is permeated with just as high an order of jour
nalistic ideulism and personality as the editor of the
World-Herald so vividly portrays in his editorial.
It so happens that the editor of the Nebraskan be
lieves that the modern press is more cold and more
impersonal than the press of 'another generation.
Glory to the faculty that permits Its students full
freedom of opinion.
Shame on the newspaper that takes this freely-expressed
opinion and by implication and suggestion
makes out of it an attack against this school and Uni
versity. Some people's idea of being civilized is to be foolish
if it conforms to popular ideas of the moment.
Thai Corn Borar
The senate passed the house bill appropriating $10
000.000 to eradicate the European corn borer. They
will get tho money in $1 bills, disguise them with Paris
green, bait tho traps, and the deed is done.
Before passing the bill, the senate amended it so that
the corn borer will eat only the Paris green and tne
government can go around and recover the money.
Here is something for the "contest enthusiast". A
whisker growing contest. Some California men find
that it rather grows upon one, especially when ten
dollars, a loving cup and two tickets to a dramatic pro
duction in the city are the prizes. Inasmuch as special
consideration is given to design, color, texture and
virility, as well as length, late entrants need not be discouraged.
The Campus Pulse
... j... ... ,ll.n. w.lroml In thla department, and
will be printed in all caaea eubject only to tha common newpar
heaping out all libeloua matter, and attache agalnet WMduale and rellgtone.
For tha benefit ol roadera an arbitrary lin.lt of 200 worda haa bean aat.
Fairbury starts the old-fashioned custom of whipping
wayward pupils. If the habit spreads to other schools,
Teachers College may have to establish a new course
in the technique of corporal punishment.
Tha Rag Man says that a few Mortar Boards may
make a mistake and speak to some juniors during the
voting on the May Queen but it won't last long.
In Other Columns
Th Ctntpui Review
The first issue of "The Campus Review," the long-
hci aided off-caiiipus publication, was distr.buted yes
terday. The board of editors is composed of a represen
tative 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, prede
cessors of The Daily Nebraskan, "The Campus Re
view" we hope will meet with a hearty reception
among students and faculty.
Growing along with the University, The Daily Ne
braskan, 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
fittingly 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
"impersonalism" of the college press. Nebraska is no
exception. The same thing is happening at other
universities.
The apologies of the editors in anticipation of any
possible seeming competition, The aily 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.
The Daily Nebraskan. February 1, 192;
The Ncwapaper "It."
A bit depressing are the views of Nebraska uni
versity students on modern newspapers, as reflected
by the Daily Nebraskan's editorial welcome to the
Campus Review. For we read that the Nebraskan
"has in large part out of unconscious imitation of its
bigger metropolitan contemporaries, become similarly
cold and impersonal." And also: "The editorial col
umns have tried in some measure to graft a soul onto
the paper, but only too often with a disappointing
results."
Shades of Frank Cobb and Edward Mitchell (not
to speak of the living presence of Artie Brisbane and
Ballard Dunn) cry fie upon the first statement. Prob
ably the editors of the Nebraskan have heard some
dreaming pedagog talk about the sainted and departed
Dana and Greeley and Watterson, and sigh that news
papers no longer reflect the personality of the men
who work upon them.
That kind of trite and limited thinking is too often
reflected in discussions of newspapers today. Because
the department stores advertise now, when they didn't
a quarter of a century ago, and because most editors
do not parade their own identities, it does not follow
that newspapers have lost individuality. Those that are
growing, and that are exerting any influence at all up
on the present generation, have personality plus.
Lt the student jaurnalists at Lincoln look about
them. Let their eyes rest upon John Sweet at Nebraska
City and Edgar Howard at Columbus and "ivopey
Huse and Marie Weekes at Norfolk and Adam iircede
at Hastings, if they want to see men who have bumped
personality upo.t newspapers. Let them lower their
gaze and find the Denver Post, a "paper with a heart
and a soul" that will give bananas and gasoline in ex
change for want ads, and, as to personality, has "noth
ing else but." The editor had the personality in the
old days; how much better it is for the papers tj have
it today.
Bless the youthful hearts of the Daily Nebraskan
students, the papers that get along best in the world
today are those that have personality, that are warm
blooded, that have souls above the business office, that
strive mightily for good and fight bravely against
wrong. There's personality in every line written by
every reporter who deserves the name of newspaper
man, who strives for space and position for his stories,
who can take an array of facts and tell them, not only
accurately, but with due regard for their dramatic and
humanly-appealing interest and importance.
And there's greater need for a bigger personality
today than ever before. The field of influence of the
newspaper is now larger than when Dana and Greeley
and Watterson edited their brilliant journals, and the
call for newspapers with courage and common sense
and the milk of human kindness is more insistent. The
personality of Hearst is dominant in a seore of citits,
working for good or evil as you will. There's a flavor
about the Baltimore Sun, the New York World, the
Springfield Republican, the New York Times, the Chris
tian Science Monitor, the Atchison Globe, the Emporia
Gazette, the Brooklyn Eagle and many others, that de
serves a good deal of reflective study by our embryo re
porters and editors at Lincoln.
What a shameful confession for the Daily Nebraskan
to make, that "the editorial columns have tried in home
measure to graft a soul onto the paper, but only too
often with disappointing results." That is a confession
of failure, a frank admission that its editors haven't t':e
courage to speak right out in meeting, that they haven't
the will to be honest and brave. The state looks for
better things than that from its boys and girls in the
University of Nebraska.
The World-Herald
To The Editor:
Who started the custom, seeming
ly so well established at Nebraska, of
having an Ivy Day orator?
Sunday's Daily Nebraskan an
nounced the fact that his election
would take place next Tuesday. Cer
tainly if any tradition has ever been
worn out this one has. One person,
perhaps, will file for tho position and
the great honor will be bestowed up
on him by tho student body at their
second semester election. On Ivy
Day he will have a place on the pro
gram, will be prepnred to deliver his
speech with all pomp and glory. The
poor fellow who makes this speech is
in my estimation to be pitied. The
crowd groans, sighs and only those
who occupy desirable seats and wish
to see the remainder of the progrnm
remain, i-ven many or tnese are un
able to hear "what it is all about."
and carry on a'nong themselves con
versations far removed from our glor.
ious Ivy Day orator's topic.
Why do we continue this useless,
worn out tradition! is it tnat it is
impossible for us to break away from
things we know to be worthless and
whose existence we know to be with
out excuse?
The Student Council has talked of
doing away with this custom. They
are certainly to be commended if
they do.
Who knows what last year's Ivy
Day orator talked about, and who
cares?
B. M.
Notices
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8
Vlhinca
Vikinir picture will he taken next Tuea
day noon at 11:45. Meet at the Campua
Studio.
Group picture of the Awsrwan ataff will
be taken Tuesday. February S. at 1Z:SU at
the Campua studio. Everyone who has
worked on the Awgwan be there.
Home Economics meeting at 11. E. build.
Inir on Tuesday February 8 at 5 o'clock.
Sitrn up on bulletin board in II. E. building.
All students who have reKistered or ex
pect to register under the department of
educational aervic?, TeacherB Colleire and
are intending to teach next semester are
requested to meet in Social Science audi
torium at 5 o'clock Tuesday February lfi.
There will be a meetwiK of the University
Commercial Club in the Club Kooms on
Tuesday at 4 o'clock.
Green Goblins
Green Goblin meet inn at the Alpha Tau
Omepa house Tues. Feb. 8.
Awfwan Staff
Group picture of the Awirwan Staff will
be taken Tuesday. Feb. C. at 12:80 at the
Campus Studio. Everyone who has worked
on the Awgwan be there.
Home Economics
Home Economics meeting at II. E. Itldg.,
Feb. 8, at & o'clock. Sign up on bulletin
board in H. E. Huildintr.
Univeraity Commercial Club
Important meeting of Uni. Commercial
Club Tuea., at 4 o'clock in Club Koonn.
Everybody out.
Pershing Rifles
Pershing Rifles, honorary basic course
R. O. T. C. organisation, will sit for their
Cornhusker picture at the Campus Studio
at twelve o'clock noon today. All members
nust be present in complete dress uniform,
including caps, shirt, ties, and trousers.
Pershing Rifie Cords should be worn.
Scabbard and Blade
Members of Scabbard and Blade will meet
at the Campus Studio this noun at 12:80
o'clock to have the organization picture for
the Cornhusker picture taken, bring fifty
cents.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9
Exhibition of fundamental irymnastic- by
Sophomore and Freshmen majom, Wednes
day evening at 7:30 o'clock.
Band. Orchestra and Chorus
Hand practice and orchestra will meet
in Morrill Hall beginning Wednesday of thi
week. Chorus alto.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12
Home Economics
Home Economics rummavre gale Sat. Feb.
12 at 210 N 10th St. lirinpr clothes to
Home Management house or H. E. parlors by
r nday.
Catholic Student Club
The Catholic Student will have a welcome
party at the K. C. Hall Sat. evening, Feb
12. Iancing and refreshments will be on
the evening's program.
MISCELLANEOUS
Home Economic rummajre sale Saturday
February 12. - Ilrint? clothes to Home
management house or H. b. parlors by
Friday. Sale at 210 North 10th str.
Teachers' College
All fitudents who have retfistered or ex
pert to register under the department of
educational her vice, 1 earners College and
are intending to teach next semester are
requested to meet in Social Science audi
torium at 5 o'clock Tuesday, February 15.
Stcpanek's Classes
Students of Mr. Su-panek will find their
papers on the table arros from ha At.s,
i'apersi n-maininj; after February 14 will be
destroyed.
Talks of eating at the
Breakfasting
Perhaps in no meal of the day
is there a greater variety of
habit and choice as to time,
amount and kind of food con
sumed than at breakfast. This
meal lasts five hours at the
Central from 6:00 to 11:00 a.
m.
For the hearty eater, who
feels able to "eat a horse and
his rider", an ample breakfast
of steaks, chops, sausage, ham
or bacon and eggs, or omelettes,
with vegetables, may be selected
from the face of the menu card.
A T-Bone Steak with French
Fried Potatoes, Bread, Buttr
and Coffee or Milk, would cost
you 85 cents.
Ham and Eggs, Lyonnaise
Potatoes, Stewed Tomatoes,
Bread, Butter, and Coffee or
Milk, would cost 80 cents. And
so on in endless combination of
your own choosing, costing you
from about 45 cents up to $1.65
or even more, depending upon
your capacity.
But ihe American people, es
pecially those who live in Ne
braska, are not, as a rule, in
ordinate eaters at Breakfast.
Cakes or Toast, Fruit, Eggs per
ips, a rasher of Bacon, Waf
fles, Cereals these are most
called for. And so the break
fast side of the menu card is
most often consulted by those
who, upon coming in, are still
uncertain as to what to eat.
1325 P
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To the Editor:
The suicide of a student at the
University of . Wisconsin recently
prompted a minister of Madison to
make this statement: "The effect of
psychology, defining life in mechaa
istic terms, was to weaken and de
stroy his devotion to religion. Much
of that which he learned in psychol
ogy and other courses would tend to
remove the inhibitions which other
wise would have probably prevented
him from taking his life." The minis
ter then went on to boast about the
supremacy of religion to psychology,
but that part of his statement is not
important.
The rest is important, vitally im
portant, for the implied attack
against any studies which do not co
incide with religion is a thing that
should be answered at once.
No doubt the Wisconsin minister
was unaware that he stated the case
for psychology and studies in gen
eral when he was attacking them.
Much of that which the student
learns, he said, tends to remove the
inhibitions that religion places upon
him. Could any other purpose be
more worthy of education? To re
move the inhibitions, the restraints,
the prohibitions from the mind of
man; ta make man intellectually
free could the Wisconsin rector dis
cover any loftier object than that?
Education, indeed, could not aspire
to a greater ideal, and surely any
thing which even approaches, freeing
man from intellectual mniDitions is
worthy of profound respect.
Tf nlirion daces inhibitions upon
rhir-h nsvchology removes, then
so much the worse for religion. But
la no real connection between
the two, after all, for religion is a
thing of the spirit while education is
of the intellect alone. As the spir
itual life and the intellectual life
ars entirely separate so are relifrlon
and education eternally asunder ti.
two shall never meet When they do
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iney resuii. in uiu warping or one or
the other, Just as clearly as the Wis
consin minister's intellect has been
warped by religion.
The department of educational
service of the teachers college is now
interviewing candidates for coach.
ing positions in high schools next fall.
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SPRING housecleaning
time is coming and there is hard
ly a Fraternity and Sorority home
in Lincoln but has many "Used"
pieces of furniture that they would
like to replace with new. Our ap
praiser will be glad to call and
give you an estimate of the "Ex
change value" of any number of
pieces you should like to dispose
of.
Furniture,
Rugs. Stoves.
Refrigerators, etc.
We have a market for every piece
in the house if you wish to dispose
of them, in exchange for new.
Call at the
Furniture
Department
on Floor Four and give us an idea
of what new pieces you would like
to put in your home and our ap
praiser will call at your home at
any time you may designate.
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"Watch For and Patronize the Green Coachea"
O. L. & B. GREEN COACH SERVICE
Leave Univeraity Place. 25th 4 Warren
M. 6:22, 6:37, 6.52, 7:07, 7:22, 7:37, 7:52, 8:07, 8:22, 8:37.
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Lincoln 11:22 P. M. Laat through from Uni Place 11:00 P. M.
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In Isaac Newton's mind that question clam
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fall, but this man with the question mark mind
found out why they fall and his answer has
helped us to understand 4he workings of a
universe. "
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answer, is the greatest asset you can acquire in
your college course. This attribute is needed
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