THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
The Daily Nebraskan
Utatlnn A. Lincoln, Nebraska
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UNIVERSITY OF NEBRAFKA
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TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR
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feel that they are not doing their bit for the University,
when in reality they are making the University what it
la today.
Supporting the numerous Institutions on the cam
pus now is about all that the average student can do
and still be fairly sure that he is going to eat breakfast
next week.
Many a freshman who looked forward to his first
attendance at fraternity meeting has probably been dis
appointed by now at finding it very much like any other
kind of business meeting. ,
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WILLIAM CEJNAR
Lee Vanca .
Arthur Sweet .
Horace W. Gomon
Ruth Palmer
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Managing Editor
Asst. Managing Edjtor
Asst. Managing Editor
Isabel O'Hallaran
Gerald Griffin
James Rosse
NEWS EDITORS
Dwight McCormack
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Evert Hunt
Oscar Norling
Lincoln Frost
Dwight McCormack
Robert Lasch
Florence Swihart
ASSISTANT NEWS EDITORS
Mary Louise Freeman
Gerald Griffin
T. SIMPSON MORTON
Richard F. Vette
Milton McGrew
William Kearns
BUSINESS MANAGER
Asst. Business Manager
Circulation Manager
Circulation Manager
WEDNESDAY MARCH 1, 1927
IN UNITY THERE IS STRENGTH
Displaying the same foresight that it did when the
bill expanding the degree-granting powers of the state
teachers colleges was killed some time ago, the Ne
braska legislature has defeated a bill which would have
permitted Nebraska cities to establish junior colleges
. , - e . : rAniiimil nnmripr nf voters
on tne petition oi a tcimm
in that town.
The establishment of these smaller public colleges
would in the end result in scattering of the state's
resources for higher education.
The bill as framed would have given the local
school boards power to establish the colleges when the
voters of the district desired to do so. If that were all,
everything would be all right.
But there would inevitably be a movement to un
load the institutions on the state. That such a predic
tion is no exaggeration is proven by the experience of
several of our sister states, notably Colorado and Kan
sas, where presumably modest colleges have grown to
be great rivals of the state university, with consequent
scattering of the state's educational resources, and
greater drains on the taxpayers.
Nebraska is fortunate in having only one great
state university instead of two or three stiuggling
second and third rate affairs. If Nebraska's legis
lators show the same common sense in the future, and
refuse to let the whole suffer for the benefit of the few
who might be helped by a few local colleges, the ad
vantages of our one great University will be kept in
tact. Now that spring has arrived, it may be good news
for the seniors to know that there are only 80 more
days until June 4 (graduation day).
FROM FOUNTAIN PEN TO OVERCOAT
Of all places where lost and found articles should
ultimately be returned to their rightful owners, a school
or college next to a church or Sunday school should
HiobaLly Le buiil the beat. All the peupie la a Lnt
versity presumably come from good families, and have
had good training in the home. They are also pre
sumed to become leading citizens after graduation. In
a community composed of such people, then, it would
be natural to expect that lost and found articles would
be quickly returned to their owners.
That such is not the case, however, is attested to
many times during the school year by the many who
unfortunately lose articles from fountain pens to over
coats which they have never again seen.
In fact it is almost proverbial that of all places to
lose permanently an article and never have it returned,
college halls and college walks of a big university are
about the worst.
It is a deplorable situation, reflecting as it does on
the individual honesty of each and every student in the
university.
One reason for it probably is the fact that there
is not a good central university exchange where lost
and found articles may conveniently be returned and
called for. Many people probably keep found articles
simply because they do not know what to do with
them. Many others who lose articles probably never
even inquire for them becauv? they do not know where.
But this is hardly a romnlpte explanation. It docs
not explain for instance why fountain pens and gold
pencils with names engraved on them are never re
turned. We know a student who once had a gold pen
cil on which he had his name engraved. He lost the
pencil one day in downtown Omaha. A day or so later
it was returned to him by a person who had taken the
trouble to look up his name in the telephone directory.
The same student brought the same pencil to this uni
versity, left it on a table in one of the halls for only
a few minutes, and has never seen it since, although
his name was in the student directory at the time and
most of the people frequenting the place where he
left the pencil knew him personally.
Disregard of these first fundamentals of honesty
is one of the gravest charges against college students.
If college students in their quest after knowledge and
learning and training forget completely about the
simple codes of every-day honesty, they are going to
find out in the end that they have made a big mistake.
Nature has a way of fighting back viciously in the
way of deteriorated character when there is continued
infraction of the simple rules of conduct toward others.
Out of the Mire
Out of the mire at the University of Utah, The
Utah Chronicle presents in its society column: "The
second national social sorority to come to the Univer
sity of Utah is Alpha Delta Pi, which will formally in
stall the local chapter of Delta Theta as the Beta Gam
ma chapter. With the coming of Alpha Delta Pi, the
move to secure more and better sororities for the Uni
versity takes a forward step. It is hoped that all pre
judices will be removed in the near future, and that
other national sororities will follow Alpha Delta Pi in
establishing chapters on our campus."
Stanford Daily
Notices
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Courtesy to Chaperonei
One of the objectives of a college education is to
learn courtesy and consideration for others. And one
of the things that many university students fail to
recognize is that it is at least a matter of courtesy to
treat with some respect the women who are kind enough
to chaperon the varsity dances.
Without their assistance, it would be impossible
to have these dances at all. They like young people,
or they would not inconvenience themselves enough to
sit through a three-hour party which they enjoy but
little, in order to accommodate the students.
The chaperons are the hostesses at varsities, and
should be treated as hostesses would be treated else
where. Certainly students should be respectful and
considerate enough to talk, and make the evening some
thing more than three hours of dullness.
It would help a great deal if students would not
accept the presence of chaperons as a matter of course
and treat them as a part of the furniture, but would
remember that they are really granting a service to
the students, and a service for which they receive no
recompense.
Daily Kansan
do.
At last he cried: "She married another, they often
I hope she is happy, for I am happy too."
THOSE DRIVES
Drives among students of the University for funds
'.o keep a missionary in a foreign country or for foreign
aid are gradually losing favor among those who have
been paying the bills. The Grace Coppock drive which
closed Monday night returned less than half the amount
which has been raised in the past years for this purpose.
The reasons for the failure of drives to meet the
set requirements are many. First, students have about
all they can do to meet their cwn current expenses,
since nearly sixty per cent of them are, wholly or par
tially self-supporting. A dollar or two given to a drive
isn't noticed, some say. But that much will pay a day's
board at least
Second, students as a whole contribute to the support
of some church and its affiliated missionary societies
while in the city and cannot be said to be doing nothing
in Lu way of spreading Christianity to other countries.
Third, the students of the University help main
tain the Y. W. C. A. and Y. M. C. A. secretaries on the
campus nni lur) some expenses of these organizations.
Thiil; charity begins at home may be rightly ap
plied in this esse. The few students who need not
p.orry ebont wbr ths next pay clock Is coming from
rot always the ones to respond first in these drives.
I'y harrassing students who are not able to support
' e funds there is, oftentLnes, an attitude assumed
i t'io part of the person soliciting, which makes them
Overstudy
One of the crying needs of college students is a
longer day. If the twenty-four hours could be ex
panded to about thirty, we would have time to fulfill
the curricular requirements along with our necessary
activities, such as sleeping, loafing and reading for
pleasure. The first politician who makes the thirty
hour day his campaign issue will win the unanimous
support of students.
Standards in education have risen to the point
where students who desire to execute their assignments
faithfully are in danger of developing the encyclopedic
mind constipated with half digested facts. Those who
are interested in the highest type of self-development
owe it to themselves to neglect at least two thirds of
their curricular work, and to do the other third only
when it is convenient.
The fifteen hour schedule is too heavy. It allows
a student no time for expanding his intelWtiwI horizon.
Overemphasis on studies alienates students from the
world outside the campus. Over-development in one
line means a sacrifice in another. It is the fault of the
system that students are indifferent to important world
events. We are made lop-sided, and the world pounces
on our neck for developing the don't-give-a-damn frame
of mind,
Daily Kansan
"No, We Aren't Students, But "
The cause for the comparatively low scholarship
of fraternity men at this university is apparent. Intel
lectuality plays little part in fellowship in the modern
college. A good handshake, a pleasant smile, and per
haps a good-looking suit of clothes more than a high
school scholastic record, an intelligent face, and energy
determine to whom fraternity membership shall be
extended.
And then, the fraternities, having chosen their
members, seem resolved not to allow fellowship to
be tainted by the intellectual. Cards, dances, politics,
athletics, "sessions," and the other fraternal knick
knacks are supplied to keep dull scholarship from the
house.
Since fraternities are allowed to exist at the suf
ferance of the University, and since the spirit of the
University is fundamentally one of scholarship, any
organizations which fail to foster that spirit can and
will be crushed by the larger institution. For it must
be remembered that the American system of higher
education is infinitely stronger than the fraternity
system. And if the spirit of the fraternity is not com
patible with that of the University, the fraternity will
be junked.
It is futile for fraternities to plead, "Why admit
we are not students, but there is a lot beside 'Phi
Bete'." True; but any organization which lives only
through the existence of another institution cannot
be independent.
Colorado Silver and Gold
Consider The College Comic
Does the college comic, with its superficial cyni
cism, its giggles over liquor and "necking," and its
forced sense of the ridiculous reflect the life of the
modern campus?
Most emphatically, the college comic does reflect
the sort of life in which the greater part of the modern
campus, for at least part of its time, is immersed. And
that is almost equivalent to admitting that the sort
of foolish stories with which the press delights to in
form the public of campus doings are not entirely mis
representative. What of it?
Are not colleges today overrun by youngsters
who have loafed their way through high school and
come to college simply because their sort goes to col
lege? And when these youngsters enter college, can
we expect them to become serious-minded students, to
acquire a taste for art or historical research?
Certainly not!
The minds of a considerable part of the American
student body during a considerable part of each of the
seven days of the week are occupied in debating the
relative social standings of the several fraternities, in
mapping out the little bits of diplomacy which will make
the members of the opposite sex "fall," and in trans
mitting insipid scandal, sports, and all the other com
modities of conversation to kppp simple souls from
ennui. . (
And this is the froth which the campus comic is
called upon to reproduce in its pages. If the comic did
not perform the function of skimming this froth from
the campus, some other sort of publication would have
to perform the rather objectionable Job.
As long as the fireside, the dance-hall, and the
football stadium are the chief centers of campus life
just so long will students demand the sort of nonsense
that the comic so abundantly affords.
University of Colorado Silver and Gold
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16
Alpha Kappa Psi
Alpha Kappa Psi meeting Wednesday,
March 16, Commercial Club Room T p. m.
Sigma XI
Sigma XI will hold a meeting at 8 o'clock
Wednesday evening in Pharmacy Hall.
There will be opportunity to Inspect the
laboratories and the research work being
done in the College of Pharmacy.
Chemical Engineer Smoker
Chemical Engineer Smoker Wednesday
night at 8 o'clock. Meeting will be held at
Rex Strader'B, 22B Mausc St.
Girl's Commercial Club
Girl's Commercial Club business meeting
Wednesday S o'clock at Kllen Smith Hall.
Student Council
Regular bi-monthly meeting of the Stu
dent Council, Wednesday, al 5 o'clock, in
Temple 204.
Af Club
Ag Club will meet in Dairy Hall Auditor
ium at 7:16 Wednesday. A consideration
of the plan for incorporating the depart
mental clubs will be the main business
of the evening. Every Ag out. '
Iota Sigma Pi .
Iota Sigma Pi meeting Wednesday March
16 at 7 o'clock In Chemistry Hall.
Lutherans
Lutherans meet for Bible studv Wednes
day at 7 p. m. in Temple 202.
THURSDAY, MARCH 10
Math Club
Meeting of Math Club on Thursdav
March 17, in room 304 Mechanics Arts at
7:30 o'clock. There will be a number of
short talks.
Silver Sernent
Silver Serpent meeting Thursday evening
at a o clock in rJl'en Smith Hall.
Scabbard and Blada
Scabbard and Blade meeting in Nebraska
Man at 7 :i)u p. m.
FRIDAY, MARCH 11
Palladian Literary Society
Seniors will be in charge of the frotrram
for the open meetinir Friday at 8 :3Q p.
m. Everyone invited.
SATURDAY, MARCH 19
Lutheran Clum
Lutheran Club meeting. March 19. 8
P. m. Faculty Hall. University Temple.
Prof. O. W. Sjogren, speaker. Musical
numbers. Refreshments. All Lutheran
students cordially invited.
MONDAY, MARCH 21
Lutheran Club
Lutheran Chlh I.pntpn Muflitntinn Mnn.
day evening. March 21, 7 p. m.. Room 204,
Temple Building, theme "The Crisis of the
Cross." All Lutheran students are asked
to attend.
One Y ear Ago
Donald B. Newton, '23, North
Platte, accepted the position of esti
mator in the engineering works de
partment of the Dravo Constructing
Company, a large engineering and
contracting firm of Pittsburgh, Pa.,
doing general contracting and design
ing, and building boats and dock
equipment. It was in this department fn
mat Mr. .Newton became assistant to
the estimator soon after his gradua
tion in June, 1923. This was a case
of rather rapid promotion for a man
out of college less than three years,
according to members of the College
of Engineering faculty.
$50,000 Added
To Loan Fund
By Oklahoman
Norman, March 15. (Special)
Lew H. Wentz, Poncn City oil man
who established a $50,000 loan fund
for the University of Oklahoma stu
dents last summer, took another step
toward aiding needy men and women
of the school recen-lv when he gave
President W. B. Bizzell another
check for $50,000 to be added to the
fund.
The fund, which is known as the
Lew H. Wentz Foundation, is ad
ministered by a board of directors
which passes on all applicants for
loans. The money is loaned at a low
rate of interest, and th9 fund will be
operated as n perpetual foundation.
Already $37,000 of the original
gift has been issued in the form of
loans to approximately 250 students,
E. R. Kraettli, secretary of the uni
versity said today.
In order to benefit by the fund, a
student must have made a creditable
record for at least one year in the
university.
eagerness to defend it, undivided al
legiance to the flag and a desire to
defend it against all invaders. That is
what we need."
STORRS SPEAKS
TOEHGIHEERS
(Continued from Page One.)
dared, "is to transport all the people
in four hours."
The group which Mr. Storrs repre
sents is organized for the purpose
of finding a solution to the financial
problem, and are behind the industry
heart and soul. They believe that
the electric railway must be a regu
lated monopoly, and that it cannot be
economically run under competition.
the industry is not on its way to
the graveyard," he declared, in ex
pressing his belief in its future, "it
is distinctly the other way."
MEANS ADVISES
PREPAREDNESS
(Continued from Page One.)
arms," he brought out. Unprepared
ness caused death. Sickness and in
sufficient facilities to cope with it,
poor sanitation and all that accom
panies it, caused the loss of more
lives than rifle fire. It was all due to
unpreparedness.
In the year 1904 the Spanish-
American War Veterans Bureau be
gan taking action towards establish
ing a national defense. They adopted
constitution which was the first
public declaration to teach warfare
in the United States. Later came the
Dick bill, which enlarged the Nation
al Guard and in 1916 the National
Defense Act was passed. It provided
standing army, garrisons
around our colonies, and that citizens
be taught the rudiments of military
training.
Apprehensive of National Jealousies
"Some say defensive war is bad
enough and try to adhere to the rule
of no war at all," Senator Means
stated, "but the very fact that the
United States is a leading nation is
proof enough tht we need a defense
against the jei usy and hatred that
is bound to Bpring up."
"We need to be taught American
ism in its fullest definition and to
feel the love of country that we
should," he declared. "Americanism
is an unfailing love of country, loy
alty to its institutions and ideals,
Cochran Speak on Pre-Law
Professor R. E. Cochran of the
department of history will speak over
the radio on Pre-Law preparation
Tuesday, March 22, at 1:05 o'clock.
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Ames Glee Club
Will Tour Iowa
During Vacation
Ames, Iowa, March 15, Special
The Iowa. State Glee Club, made up
of 24' of the best male voices at Iowa
State College, will tour through
northwest Iowa during the spring va
cation, putting on full evening pro
grams in Sioux City, Sheldon, Spen
cer, Storm Lake, and Ida Grove.
Leaving Ames Saturday morning, the
club will make the trip in a new bus
accompanied by Tolbert MacEae, di
rector, and Kenneth R. Maryin from
the Iowa State alumni office.
The club opens its week in the
Brandeis theater at Omaha, Nebr.,
singing there on Saturday and Sun
day. On Monday, March 21, it will
sing at Morningside College in Sioux
City. Tuesday it will sing for the
American Legion at Storm Lake,
Wednesday it will give the program
at the Spencer theater, and Thursday
and Friday it will sing under the aus
pices of the high schools at Sheldon
and Ida Grove.
Include Fine Quartet
The program, according to Mr.
MacRae. includes some of th. v
songs ever written for men's 1,
He declares the A-M-E-S lll
one of the best in the hUto'rJ8
school and the solo voices he
favorably with professional PWe
The governor 0f Iowa
complimented the club on tl
gram which it gave i th, JfT
House before the Senate and Hn.
of Representatives and state ome l
Alumni and friends of the col i.
who attend the concerts over f
state are asked to m , the
the club and Mr. Marvin eEV
. me program.
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