THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
The Daily Nebraskan
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THE "STRAW VOTE" POLL
A "straw vote" poll in which students will have
an oportunity to indicate their presidential candidate
choices will be taken next Wednesday morning at all
nine o'clock classes. The vote is being sponsored by
The Daily Nebraskan. Information concerning the can
didates is being supplied through the courtesy of the
Department of Political Science and the Independent
magazine.
Too many students are indifferent to everything
except that directly related to campus life. The attitude
of indifference thus developed during their collegiate
career continues when they enter the business world.
And such terms as civic responsibility and citizenship
merely recall vague ideas of some speech made at the
club or noticed in the headlines of the daily paper.
Such an attitude is deplorable. Since education is
primarily a training for life, it is important that the
student should keep in contact with daily happenings
and the problems under discussion. And the problem
now holding the center of attention is the discussion
concerning possible candidates for the next presidency.
Since many students are really interested but feel
that they cannot take time to read the many articles
in magazines and newspapers on this topic, The Daily
Nebraskan is making an effort to outline briefly the
high points of the discussion by presenting short fea
ture articles on each of the prominent candidates.
"My lord, the castors on your buffet squeak when
it is moved."
"Ho, knave, haste and bring me the castor oil."
Sou'wester.
SOMETHING ELSE IS ABOLISHED!
University Night is now only a title to be tucked
away with the class society pins. For after bravely
striving to regain a place in campus affairs this year,
it wilted under faculty disapproval and the University
Y. M. C. A. has finally decided to do away with the
program entirely.
The action followed the report of the University
Night committee that it was impossible to submit a
program that would meet the approval of both the
fartlty committee and the student body. The faculty
desired a talent show such as that now presented an
nually by the Kosmet Klub while the students preferred
a burlesque on campus personalities. While the faculty
committee admitted that there was nothing particularly
bad about the skits, they felt that there was nothing
elevating or worthwhile about them. After a few at
tempts to obtain other skits the undergraduate com
mittee decided that it would be impossible to reconcile
the two opinions as to what a University Night should
be.
The omission of University Night will be a disap
pointment to the student body. It was the one night
of the year that students could enjoy wisecracks on
others and themselves. It was the only entertainment
that smacked of campus life in the past when the en
rollment 3 small enough that everyone knew prac
tically everyone else.
But the action of the Y. M. C. A. in ridding itself
of the program was a wise one. How they ever came
to sponsor such an entertainment no one knows. For
the staging of a good burlesque does not usually coin
cide with the general policies of such an organization.
But since it was a good money maker and no criticism
was voiced against the idea, the "Y" shrugged it3
shoulders and continued the programs until last year
wb.,n the storm of disapproval was so great that the
Night as formerly staged was abolished. Now the at
tempt to stage a University Night that would merit
the sanction of the "Y" has ended in a dismal failure.
With the recent action the organization has rid itself
of a blierht that broutrht nothing (eliminating the finan
cial side) but adverse criticism.
Whether a University Night sponsored by some
other organization might be permitted is another ques
tion. It would certainly be welcomed by the students.
A faculty committee, with censorship based upon the
standards of a clean burlesque rather than an appro
priate Y. M. C. A. entertainment, would probably have
supervision over the skits. Responsibility for the stag
ing of the acts would rest entirely upon those partici
pating. But it is doubtful whether any organization
would care to sponsor the program and whether uni
versity authorities would allow the reinstatement of
such a University Night
The Cynic Says:
Perhaps if the time on University parties were to
be extended until midnight there wouldn't be so :nuch
interest in this parking situation.
P' tly Nebraskan reader are cordially Is lted to contri
bute arrirles to tbte enigma. This peper, bow rer, ansowee no
responsibility for th sentiment expreeeed herein, and re
Hitu the right to exclude any libelous or andesirable matter.
A limit of sis hundred wores has fceea placed oa ail eon-tritwt'.ona.
To the Editor: V
As chairman of the University Nifht Committee
1 ie-.A t'r.-;t I ehould make a statement explaining the
i: ion cf ti-.ut committee in dropping its plant for Uni-
At a Tr-:-z lait Friday afternoon the committee
' -i rjfil'y tha possibility of continuing with
'. I ron-ers of opinion of the member
t'.e conception of the faculty com
mittee and the conception of the University Night com
mittee as to what University Night should be were so
very divergent that it would be impossible to stage a
show which would please both the faculty committee
and the student body.
The faculty committee maintained that it should
be of the nature of the Kosmet Klub Revue of last
Thanksgiving, that is, a talent show. The University
Night committee thought that it should be a burlesque
on campus personalities, but it recognized the fact
that obscene and vulgar jokes, stfch as were some of
those of former programs, should be eliminated, and
it had eliminated what in its opinion was objectionable
material.
There were to be absolutely no drinking scenes or
obscene remarks such as had appeared in programs of
previous years. The University Night committee felt
that it had arranged a program devoid of dirt and
smut. In fact members of the faculty committee, ad
mitted that there was nothing particularly bad or evil
in the skits, but the fact that they possessed nothing of j
a high and good nature was sufficient reason for their
being stricken out. The faculty committee held that the
entire tenor of the acts was too low. They required that
no mention be made of smoking or drinking by uni
versity students and that campus gossip and scandal be
completely eliminated. That is, they desired a talent
show of a nature similar to the Kosmet Klub Revue.
The University Night committee felt that by post
poning the affair it could arrange a show that would
meet with the approval of the faculty committee. But
the opinion of the committee was that even though
such a show could be staged it would not then meet
Notices
Senator Curtis Has
Outside Chance
(Continued from Page 1)
attorney of Shawnee County. Pro
hibition, at this time, was three years
old in Kansas and far from a success.
Curtis went at its enforcement with
I the same energy that had brought
with the approval of the student body, for it believed him under the wire first in more
that the student body expected and desired a burlesque thai one county sweepstakes. He
Wednesday, March 14
Grenn finhlina
Cireen Gol-lins will meet Wednesday at
7 o'clock at the Beta Theta Pi house.
Farmers' Fair
All chairmen and members of executive
committees for Farmers' Fair will hold a
meeting in the Home Economics building,
Room 218, at 6 o'clock Wednesday eve
ning. Gamma Lambda Meeting
Meeting and dinnc-i' ut Alpha chapter of
Gamma Lambda, Grand Hotel, Wednesday,
March 14, 6 o'clock.
Phi Tn Theta
Phi Tau Theta, Methodist men's religious
fraternity, will have a meeting at 8 o'clock
Wednesday. March 14, at the Wesley Foun
dation, 1417 R street. All Methodist men
are invited. There will be entertainment and
refreshments.
Thursday, March 15
Biz Ad Men
All men in the College of Business Ad
ministration are invited to a smoker Thurs
day. March 15, at 7 o'clock in the evening
in the Y. M. C. A. room of the Temple
building.
show. So in view of the fact that the conceptions of
the two committees as to what type of show should be
presented were so divergent that there was no hope
of reconciling them the University Night committee
decided to discontinue its plans for University Night.
WILBUR MEAD, Chairman,
University Night Committee.
In Other Columns
WOMAN AND THE WEED
One symbol of her emancipation woman has
agreed voluntarily to cast away. No longer need weary
traveling men vacate their habitat before a feminine
influx, or harassed deans tear their hair at co-eds who
refuse to obey non-smoking regulations; not, that is,
if the vote of the National Convention of Sororities
means anything.
A curious twist to the usual older-younger genera
tion quarrel reveals itself here. The present upper-
classmen apparently form the party of the right in the
had been elected to his office at the
age of twenty-four, and he was re
elected at the age of twenty-six.
There followed four years of suc
cessful practice as a lawyer. In
1892, the same year that Henry Cab
ot Lodge published his seventh book
on government and took his seat for
the first time in the Senate, Charles
Curtis was elected to the Lower
House of Congress.
Different Mode of Living
The career which began at this
point is in striking contrast to the
career which had had the Kaw Res
ervation, the paddock, the hack
stand, and the county attorney's off
ice as its background. For one thing,
the new career had none of the sud
den, startling changes which were
characteristic of the old. Curtis was
elected to the House of Representa
tives in 1892, and thereafter contin-
controversy on smoking; and they, in no uncertain lied to be reelected to the House of
terms, reprimanded the alumnae whose visits to college
are signalled by clouds of smoke hovering around the
sorority houses. The conservative Juniors and Seniors
complained, too, that the alumnae give incoming stu
dents a false impression, and lead the young to over
indulgence in the vice f tobacco. They cited evidence
to show that college women are losing their health be
cause of smoking. No doubt they gave graphic details
of floors strewn with cigarette butts, of smoking bouts
fought with grim determination, of gloomy morning
afters from nicotine orgies. The alumnae had no come
back; they meekly agreed to this drastic prohibition.
Drastic, that is, if the reactionary upperclassmen
can enforce it. One wonders if they themselves really
expect to. Harvard Crimson.
He "Please.''
She "No !"
"Oh, pretty please."
"No!"
"Please, just this once."
"I said NO!!"
"Aw, please, ma; all the other
barefooted." Purdue Exponent.
kids
are going
ILLUSIONS AND PARADOXES
Norman Angell, the British journalist, whose title
to fame was established by the publication of his sweep
ing of modern militarism on the eve of the World
War, has now directed his keen and incisive powers
to an analysis of some of the more fundamental faults
of democracy which make possible some manifestations
as armed conflict between democratic peoples
There is some significance, perhaps, in the fact
that the people of a great democracy who fought so
strenuously to save the world from militarism and now
plan to seize the septer of the seas from their former
ally, the British, should be pointedly told that the volte
of the people is the voice of satan. There is suggestion
in these words. But with such notable examples as fur
nished by Chicago and Oklahoma, Mr. Angell's criti
cisms of the present workings of the democratic system
may be better appreciated in reference to the American
Ritnation whon he says: "Political failure has not so
far mattered much because the captain of industry has
been so successful. But the magnificent industrial
structure itself, despite the great capacity of the busi
ness man, may be put in jeopardy, unless the defects
of an outgrown political system can be corrected."
In the wider field of world politics much interert
must be attached to the lecturer's criticism of democ
racy when he points out that the nations which made
the war and peace, imperialist and democratic France,
for instance, is a highly educated nation, and that Ger
many was ruled by the most educated class in the world.
Athens and the Pelopyncsian War come readily to
mind. Pericles ruled on the Bcma by the art of per
suasion, oocrates lectured in the Academy; Phidias
worked in marble and Aeschylus was still writing his
immortal tragedies for the Attic stage. Yet at the point
when genius seemed on the threshold of the greatest
triumph of the social group, the Helenic world was
hurled into an abyss of ruin by the insane policies of
its demogogues and warriors.
In reality Mr. Angell is dealing with paradoxes. He
finds in the jury system, the most discredited feature
of an antiquated legal system, a suggestion for his
remedy of the present difficulties besetting democracy.
Nevertheless, there is much merit in the suggestion.
It provides for the solution of fundamental issues oh
the basis of appeal to professional merit, deliberating
under expert guidance, insteod of submitting compli
cated issues to the mob inflamed by newspaper banners
and partisan propaganda. Daily Texan.
led.
I asked her to marry me,
And she said,
"Go see Dad."
She knew that I knew that her Dad was dead.
She knew that I knew what kind of a life he had
She knew that I knew what she meant
When she said,
"Go see Dad." Purdue Exponent.
'31 "I didn't do my homework."
SO---"Not prepared."
'29 ''The books were out on home use."
'28 "The available materiel was not sufficiently
valuable to undertsko a comprehensive report." Cor
nell Daily Sun.
Representatives with unfailing regu
larity for fourteen years, from 1892
to 1906. For another thing, there
were now no gallops down the track
and no neck-and-neck finishes under
the lash. Curtis had landed a place
on the important Ways and Means
Committee of the House; but after
twelve years of plugging, his name
still stood eleventh from the top of
the august body.
In 1907, after a hiatus of fifteen
years, thpre came another turn of
fortune. The unexpected happened.
A Senator in good health and sound
mentality actually resigned from his
office. He was a Kansas Senator
and Curtis was elected to succeed
him.
Now Near Top
With one short lapse of two years
from 1913 to 1915 Curtis has
stayed in the Senate ever since he en
tered it:gradually bettering his com
mittee posts and advancing toward
seniority. He is now firmly estab
lished near the top of several com
mittees which control the expendi
ture of public money. He is chair
man of the committe on the Senate's
rules. Three years ago his party
honored him by electing him to suc
ceed the vastly different Lodge as
Republican leader in the Senate. Yet
in all this time there has been no
important law enacted which bears
his name. There has been no great
adventure in which he suddenly
flashed before the public. He has
advanced to power and responsibility
through the successful repetition of
an orthodox routine. And between
the colorful career of ol' Cap Curtis'
boy and the conventional existence
of Charles Curtis, Senator, there is a
gulf as if these two were different
persons.
The fact of the matter probably is
that public life in our own times is
poorly organized for great adventure
and much better organized for reg
ularity. Adventure has made a few
successful men in politics, but it has
unmade many more. Men like Cur-
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vivid come to Washington and are
swallowed by the system. Hitherto
bold, they cover up, play safe, risk
nothing, watch their chances, and ad
vances, nnd advance by inches.
Sticks With Regular
There is no surer road to party
eminence than regularity, and Curtis
is nothing if not regular. He was
so regular on the occasion of that
important test of regularity, the
great schism of 1912, that he not on
ly stood by Taft though he came
from the insurgent West but con
fidently predicted that Taft was the
only man who could win and that he
would be triumphantly reelected. The
same regularity has been evident in
other important crises in his party's
history.
Curtis does not make policies; he
unveils them. It is his business to
sound out the opposition, plan a cam
paign, arrange a compromise if one
is necessary, and muster the votes
when the skies are stormy.
Does Little Speaking
Curtis seldom takes the floor in
Congress, and then chiefly to make
a point of order, remind his col
leagues that they have strayed from
the matter theoretically under dis
cussion, call for a vote, or move an
adjournment. His legislative efforts,
if they can be called legislative ef
forts, are chiefly of a domestic na
ture. In the last session of Congress
he introduced seventy-six bills. Sixty-
nine of them were pension bills. Five
were bills to settle claims One was
a bill to provide an Indian memorial
atj Medicine Lodge, Kansas. And"
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the other a bill to create the most
innocuous of all farm boards.
Nevertheless, despite these facts,
Curtis is a power in the Senate and
a great man in his own enviorn
ment. His is usually the shoulder
that makes the wheel turn round.
His is usually the conciliation which
finds a basis for agreement. He is
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