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SUNDAY. FEBRUARY 27. 127
THE HAUGEN DEFEAT
The McNary-IIaupen bill has been defeated. An
attempt will be made next week to pass it over the
presidential veto, but the outlook is not promising.
Whether the bill was one with more advantages
than disadvantages is debatable.
One feature about the whole business, though, is
not debatable. It is a fact. And that ia the awakened
determination of the West to place itself by some
means or other on an economic parity with the East.
For many years the West has been selling its pro
ducts on the world market, unprotected, and buying its
manufactured necessities in a home, sheltered market.
The difference, farm leaders say, accounts for the pros
perity of the East and the hard times of the West.
Quite in contrast with the almost solid backing
of protection for industries as a national economic
policy several years ago, especially by members of the
Republican party, there is now heard a greater and
greater rumbling of revolt. Prominent leaders as well
as influential papers, have taken up a cry which in
substance says "Protection for all, or protection for
none."
As an indication that all is not well in the national
economic scheme of things the McXary-Haugen legis
lative movement takes front rank in political and eco
nomic circles. It will probably smoulder away now until
the next presidential elections, when it may become a
burning question ra.iking with the free-silver and pop
ulists movements which shook the country thirty years
a- . . . .
For the student of history or economics this is a
time of real action, which should furnish more lively
material than a dozen source books on forgotten
periods.
For all University students in general, this is a
time of action which merits close observation and
study, as part of the broad training which all Univer
sity men and women should receive.
MOVING AHEAD
This winter there are three, instead of two, large
formal parties given for the entire University.
Slowly the students of the University of Nebraska
seem to be getting started in the proper direction to
wards a more democratic student body. First, the Pan
Hellenic association ruled that sororities may have only
one downtown party per year. Then the matter was
taken under consideration by the Interfraternity Coun
cil, but, regrettably, no action taken. But the matter
is at least under serious consideration by members of
the University faculty on organizations, and as the
school years grind on, there should be a definite goal
attained.
Probably one of the main arguments against the
limiting of downtown parties is that the special life
of the students will be unduly restricted. If this move
ment to limit them was also to remove them altogether,
there would be real reason in tbi argument. Social
life is undoubtedly one of the valuable assets of college
life. I
This winter, for the first time since the "World
War, the Junior-Senior Prom is being revived. It is
simply a move towards having more large social affairs
for thr" whole student body, and not the exclusive en
tertainments provided by the members of each social
organization. These large parties given for the whole
University, such as the Military Ball, the Pan-Hellenic
Ball, and the Junior-Senior Prom, provide the necessary j
social life, to some extent at least, and with a few im
provements, should come into a deserved place of
prominence during the social season.
The party for all students of the University" is,
without denial, a step towards a more democratic and
human student body. And with these all-University
affairs, there will be less competition to have the best
party of the season, achieved by fraternity men's fath
ers digging deep into their potketbooks, there will be
no overcrowding of the social season, no contesting
and pride in "making" the most formals, and it is
entirely possible that the parties may be so conducted
as to bring about a considerable reduction of expense
to everyone.
It is all moving slowly, and perhaps the progress
isn't just what the over-zealous would desire, but if the
pot Isn't boiling yet, the fire beneath it is burning
strongly and should bring results.
tho man mnke the society instead of membership in
the society making the man.
PROBATION
Well, it's all over now, and further comment on
this sophomoric institution is without particular point
for nnothrr year. Tho Saturday State Journal, how
ever, carried an editorial which reflects in part the
uttitude of the public. As such it is worth while reading
tven though probation is all over except for lack of
sleep and lack of study. The editorial is reprinted below.
In Other Columns
Notices
HONORARIES
Several more honoraries announced selection of
new members last week.
Since these organizations in all their ramifications
seem to be an unavoidable part o our system of mass
education, the best that can possibly be done is to hope
for wise administration of them in order to get out of
them &11 the supposed benefits we can.
One of the most abused features of the system is
the one in the election of new members. Instead of
the men making the honoraries what they are (the
original theory) there is too often a practice of turn
ing the tables around, and having honorary member
ship attempt to make the man. This abuse is found in
practically all organizations from the most insignificent
ones to those which proudly assume they are at the tup.
The only defense that can possibly be put forth
by those who favor honoraries is that they are com
posed of the best men and women in the particular
field covered, and that they serve as a goal toward
which students can work.
Manifestly this whole theory is turned topsy-turvy
when the societies are made into factories for ready
made honors to tack below the names of promising
your.g etudf-nts whom the fraternity wishes to push and
hoort along by all po?;ib!e means.
It is this d'-irnerary in the honoraries which has
v- .'"-.I in their decline in campus opinion.
if the members want to protect their membership
t' i) o:j!J ir.pl-t out of purely selfish reasons that
The) Hours After Supper
Most careers are made or marred in the hours
after supper. It may seem to some that the few hours
between supper and bed timo afford small opportunity
for education. But these were sufficient for Lincoln
and for Franklin and for millions of men who by turn
ing these hours to advantage through special studies.
advanced themselves above their fellows.
"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time
for that is the stuff life Is made of." Benjamin Frank
lin, who said this, not only understood the value of
time, but he put a price on it that made others ap
preciate its worth.
Bradstreet's in a summary of business conditions
ascribes most business failures to what may be called
"the size of their scrap-heaps." Nothing is more in
excusable and disastrous than waste, and the most di'
nstroua waste of all is waste of time. Then unused
hours form the "scraD hean" that has wrecked many a
man's career.
That heap of waste which so many young men
dump at the end of every day and consider useless
would, if rightly used, give priceless results in increased
efficiency, higher service and better pay.
Ambition, resolve, effort, purpose, persistency,
confidence, courage, mental equipment and success may
be manufactured out of this heap of waste time. Mil
lions are doing it Any man can who will.
Many highly educated people are inefficient, and
many efficient people are not highly educated. The
world calls for educated people who are efficient and
efficient people who are educated. Most of all is needed
education for efficiency, for service.
Real education is not so much the learning of what
we do not know as the doing of what we do not now do.
Scottab!' fi Star-Herald
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 27
I ...U.r.n rink
A memherahlp drive will be held by the
Lutheran Club of the University, neginnina
with the meeting. Feb. 7. and cloaing with
the regular semi-monthly meeting. Katur.
u evnnir M.r-h a All Lutheran atu
denta are reminded of the fact that the
regular meetinga of the organisation are
held the firat and third Saturday evenlnge
of the month, in Faculty Hall, Koom ui
Temple Iluildlng.
Lutheran Student program. Sunday eve
ning. &.7 :SO n. m. Flrat Lutheran Church
IS and K Street!. 1'rogram. talka. must-
ra! numbere. Lunch 6:00 to :4R. Mr.
Theodora Diera the apeaker. Lutheran atu-
denta urged to attend.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28
The firat of a aerira of all Lenten talka,
aponaored by the Lutheran club of the
University will be given Mondav evening
Feb. 28 In Temnle llullding. Room 204
Theae talka are a number of meditation!
during the aeaaon of Lent, and eoma of
the talka will be given by Lutheran paetora
ni the rilv. The attention of all Luth
eran atudenta la directed to thia group of
meetinga.
Pennine Riflea
Important meeting of I'erahing Riflea In
mom 206. Nebraeka Hall, at 6:00 p. m. on
Monday. The officers of the organisation
request that every member be preaent. Im
portant mattera await discussion. Unl
forma are not neceaaary.
(iamma Alpha Chi meeting Monday 12
o'clock at 1M Temple.
MISCELLANEOUS
Iron Sphinx
Important meeting nf Iron Sphinx at
Kappa Sigma house, at 7:30 Tueaday eve
ning.
Freshman Council
On account of probation week there) will
he no Freshman Council meeting this week.
Meet next Thursday 7 p. m. at Temple.
Sorority Glrla Picture
The Cornhuaker announced today that all
sorority glrla who have not yet had their
pictures taken will be called personally in
Be next few days.
The State Journal On Probation
If you see a young man going through the streets
trying to balance a feather on his nose or carrying' a
live mouse in one hand and an equally live cat in the
other, don't jump to the conclusion that the insane
hospital is out for recess. It is only evidence that the
fraternity freshmen are going through "probation."
From Thursday to Sunday they endure the slings and
arrows of outrageous fortune as dictated by the upper
classmen. If they live through and take everything
that comes along, from mental humiliation to being
beaten black and blue with barrel staves, they are con
sidered worthy of initiation.
It is all great fun for the older boys and for the
outsiders who happen to see the youths perform menial
labor and go through elaborate physical stunts. The
effect on the freshmen is supposed to be salutary, just
as the "fag" system is exalted as the making of grit
in the English schools. Some of the parents have re
cently begun to question the value of the practice, not
because they don't want their sons tempered by fire,
but because they want it to be a better sort of disci
pline than irresponsible and thoughtless youths are
likely to think up. They don't see any particular bene
fit to be derived from biting the head off a live spar
row as a sign of courage, or being tied alone in a
dark room for fourteen hours, or any of a hundred
other stunts that a bunch of lively and ingenious young
devils can think of for the purpose of adding to the
gayety of fraternity life.
One of the things required of a freshman not long
ago was that he bring to the frat house a penny of a
certain date. He was busy and had a devoted mother
who volunteered to go to the bank and get the coin.
They indulged her at the bank and she spent five hours
pawing over the copper. All the time her hands were
getting dirtier and dirtier and all the time she was
getting madder and madder. Clutching the penny bear
ing the required date she sought out an alumnus of the
fraternity and asked if it was necessary to do such
a fool stunt before being initiated. He said that it
couldn't be required. Nursing her WTath she began
looking into the "probation" system. As a result, three
boys have refused during the last two days to undergo
the disciplinary process in one fraternity. They said
they would give up the fraternity first.
Inasmuch as this is more complete and convincing
proof of courage than taking twenty blows from barrel
staves or being clothed from head to foot in sticky
fly paper, they will probably be initiated without any
question. When the rest of the freshmen discover that
probation is not obligatory some of them will take the
more courageous course and lay down their pins rather
than do a degrading or vulgar stunt. That requires
moral fortitude of so high an order that the vast ma
jority will take their medicine and then spend the
coming months in thinking up ways and means for
taking revenge when the next group of freshmen falls
under their power.
Lincoln State Journal
Three Years Ago
'Colleges Are- Fine For Women,"
Say Will Rogers, Poet Lariat
-By Jack Burlett '28
"Colleges are a good thing," grinned Will Rogers,
America's Poet Lariat, in an interview at the Hotel
Syracuse previous to his lecture at the Mizpah Monday
night, and then squinting at us seriously, added, " for
girls." They oughta know a lot more No! God
knows they know enough, but they oughta be better
educated. They have to earn more or a lotta young
men won't be supported in the style to which they've
been accustomed."
He doesn't agree with H. G. Wells in his claims
that a college course is a four-year vacation, but feels
"that fewer dances and football games might give the
youngsters more time to play." "Less lecturing and
more education," he thinks, "might relieve the situa
tion. When asked what he thought about fraternities and
ororiijes, xvogers fcaia, "net!, i Deueve tney serve a
good purpose. They take the boys and girls away from
the common herd while they're at school, but they get
on the normal level after they get out."
1. : 1 1 i n .
n line ue was viBiiing .Mcnoias Murray cutler a
short time ago, the Columbia Dean said he was going
to see. that Kogers received a college degree. The
peer of modern humorists replied he couldn't accept
because it would put them on the same plane.
Asked if he thought it advisable for college grid
performers to turn professional on graduation, he told
us, "not until they have made as much as possible in the
amateur ranks."
Rogers has a brotherly feeling for George Bernard
Shaw, England's "intellectual scoffer." He says "we
both know the world's wrong. We don't know what's
wrong with it but, we're getting paid to fix it at so
much a word."
Srracure Daily Orange
A big and little sister party was
given at Ellen Smith Hall. The pro
gram consisted of a whistling solo
by Louise Van Sickle, a dance by
Georgiana Lee, readings by Frances
McChesney, and an instrumental se
lection by Ellen Xurenberger and
Mane Wentworth opened the party.
Prof. C. W. Smith of the College
of Agriculture spoke on the subject,
"Work" to freshmen engineering stu
dent's Mechanical Engineering build
ing.
Dr. Latimer of the anatomy de
partment prepared three abstracts
for the national meeting of the
American Anatomists Association at
Buffalo, N. Y., April 16-19 entitled
The Growth of the Brain of the
Chicken," "The Relative Proportions
of the Brains of the Frog, Turtle and
Dog," and "Interglobular Spaces of
the Cat's Teeth."
Harris A. Poley, Law '24, was elec
ted president of the senior law class
for the second semester. Mr. Poley
is a member of Kappa Sigma, Phi
Delta Phi and was elected Ivy Day
orator at the general elections. Frank
Harington was elected president of
the -freshman law class.
Prof. N. A. Bengston of the de
partment cf geography was asked by
the American Geographical Society
of New York to prepare a review of
the Swedish book, "Vart Vagliga
Brod" published by Hugo Gebers,
Forlog, Stockholm, for publication in
the Geographical Review.
Nat Rolman was elected president
of the Block and Bridle club at a
meeting. Other officers chosen were
Jay Hepperly, Vice-president, C. W.
Buck secretary, Dorsejj Barnes treas
urer, and C. L. Fortna, sergeant-at-
arms.
Contributions to the student hos
pital library at the University of Min
nesota, have disclosed the secret pas
sions of the faculty members for such
glamorous novels as those written
by Zane Grey, Harold Bell Wright
and Oppenheim.
AWARDS MADE FOR
BUSIHESSJESEARCH
(Continued f rom Tage One.)
tions are made as to eligibility of
contestants for this prize. The donors
have In mind particularly officers of
banks, business executives, practic
ing attorneys, members of teaching
staffs, and advanced graduate stu
dents in the field of economics and
business. The paper must be written
in the English language.
Former Winning Themes
In 1923-24 the annual monograph
first prize was won by Bradley D
Nash. Rrookline. Mass., who wrote
on "Investment Banking in Eng
land." while the second prize was
won by Lawrence M. Speaker, Mus
kogee, Okla., whose subject as "The
Investment Trust."
Tho 1925 annual monograph prize
winning themes were, -financing
Automobile Sales by the Time Pay
ment Plan," written by William Alex
ander Grimes, Catonsville, Md., who
took first place; and "Financial Man
agement of Farmers' Elevator Com
panies," by Gerald M. Francis, Ur-
bana, 111., who was given second
place.
k All inquiries and other communi-
catior.s should be addressed to. the
secretary of the Committee of Award
Chicago Trust Company Prizes, Lev-
erett S. Lyon, Robert Brookings
Graduate School of Economics and
Government, Washington, D. C.
Point System Files Are Complete;
Girls Limit Activities to Conform
The files of the A. W. S. Point
System are now complete and ready
for use by organizations or individ
uals. Every girl who is in any ac
tivity listed in the point system has
a card with her address, telephone
number, and the activities in which
she is engaged. The files are in the
A. W. S. room in Ellen Smith Hall.
The secretary of every organiza
tion is requested to turn in tho 'ist
of prospective members of that or
ganization to Helen Anderson, chair
man . i the committee, before spring
elections. Each girl on the list will
be checked as to the number of ac
tivity points. The eligible girls will
be determined and the list turned
back to the organization. This will
prevent the necessity of dropping an
activity after accepting it Class of
ficers and finance drive captains will
find this list useful in appointing
their committees. ,
Many Limit Activities
Some careful checking up has been
accomplished by the committee dur
ing tho past few weeks. A number of
girls have been forced to withdraw
from some of their activities becuu8.
of too many points. Tho clause li,jt
ing a girl to membership in only one
honorary otganization such as Xi
Delta or ThhscIs will bo enforvpd in
the spring elections.
Printed copies of the point fcystcr,
are being .made and will be distrib.
uted to all rooming houses, dorml.
tories, and sorority houses so that
all girls may become familiar with
it. If any explanations or Informa
tion concerning the system nre de
sired, write to the A. W. S. board
Ellen Smith Hall, or to Helen a,'
derson.
The system comes to Nehra.v.
from Michigan where it has worked
successfully for several years. Other
schools uxe similar systems with good
results. Nebraska's Point System will
be just as effective and successful as
that of ether schools if organiz.
tions and Individuals will cooperate
in complying with its regulations.
Correspondence
Service Is For
Adults Mainly
Vermillion, S. D Feb. 26. A
span of 40 years separates the young
est and oldest student in the corres
pondence department of the Univer
sity of South Dakota, according to
Garrett Breckenridge, secretary of
extension. The oldest student regis
tered with the Extension division
during the past year was 57 and the
youngest 17 years old.
That correspondence work is car
ried on as a service for adults is
shown by the figures compiled by the
secretary. Of the last 278 students
to register, 218 have been over the
age of 21, and only 60 under legal
age. Of the 218 over the age of 21
129 were over 25 years of age. and
24 over 40 years old.
"Correspondence work is primar
ily for adult education," , says Mr.
Breckenridge. "Our figures and those
of other institutions show that the
business man, the housewife in the
small town, the adult teacher, and
others take correspondence work not
for University credit, but to broaden
their knowledge and better fit them
selves for community life. We be
lieve that our greatest field of ac
tivity is with the people who are too
old to go to school, but still hope to
better themselves through directed
and systematic study.
"The growth of club work among
women has been one factor in the
increase in adult students. Women in
terested in club work take cultural
courses in English, Greek, sociology,
and history to improve their general
training.
"Everyone, no matter how well
educated, can benefit from system
atic study. We recently had a man
who has received his bachelor and
law degrees, register for a freshman
course in history. This spirit of keep
ing up study and work after school
is finished is becoming more evident,
and is a sign of the desire for better
educational equipment on the part of
housewives and business and profes
sional men.
The Stanford Daily rvpirt? that
fiiy Kiss costs us three minutes or
our lives. This estimate is computed
by measuring the increased action of
the heart and not by a stop watch
on the contestants.
The University of Oklahoma may
employ the Oxford school system.
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Most University of Nebraska men
know thats the kind of clothes Lou
Hill has to sell. Thxt is why he sells
more College men than other cloth
iers or tailors in Lincoln."
Lou prides himself on his special
"made to your order" Suits. For
those who want the best, he has the
best, he has the "Oxford" line and
then slides down the price scale,
away down to $48.50. And you'll
have to admit that is some price for
distinctive, individualized made to
your order Spring Suits.
Drop in and see Lou now, while the
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