FRIDAY. OCTOBER ;,. i928
TWO
THE DAILY NEKRASKAN.
The Daily Nebraskan
Station A, Lincoln, Nebraska
OFFICIAL PUBLICATION
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA
Under direction of the Student Publication Board
TWENTY. EIGHTH YEAR
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Sunday mornings during the academic year.
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and at special rate of postage provided for In section
1103, act of October 3, 1917, authorized January 20, 1922.
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MUNRO KEZER EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
MANAGING EDITORS
Dean Hammond Maurice W. Konkel
NEWS EDITORS
W. Joyce Ayres Lyman Cass
j ,ck Elliott Paul Nelson
Cliff F. Sandahl
ASSISTANT NEWS EDITORS
Vernon Ketrlng Leon Larimer
Betty Thornton
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Catherine Hanson Je Hunt
William McCleery Robert Lalng
Eugene Robb
MILTON McGREW BUSINESS MANAGER
ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGERS
William Kearns Marshall Pitter
Richard Rlcketts
KINGS AND QUEENS
The king is dead! Long live the queen." Such
might be the weird cry of Nebraska students as
the result of the latest action of the athletic ad
ministration of the University. The answer to the
reader's bewilderment Is that the program sales
concession at Nebraska's home football games has
been taken away from the Corn Cobs, men's pep
organization, and assigned to the Women's Athletic
association, more familiarly known as ". A. A.
Those acquainted with the dash and color of
the Corn Cobs may well wonder at the cause for
the unheralded change. Cognizant of the fact that
the change was imminent, The Daily Nebraskan
has remained silent until today in the hopes that
the matter would be arranged satisfactorily.
Herb Gish, intercollegiate athletic director,
summarizes the reasons for the change as follows:
1. The Corn Cobs were Inconsistent in t lie
time they reported for sale of programs.
2. They were overly anxious to stop selling
programs and to watch the game after it began.
3. A few members failed to check properly
on program sales.
4. It was believed that the VV. A. A. would
handle the program sales belter.
On the first two counts the Coin Cobs must
lake the blame, although the faults are admittedly
ones which might be shared by any other sales
group requiring up to forty sellers.
In answer to the charge that a few members
tailed to check properly, It has been suggesied
from several sources lhat such members could
readily be eliminated from the sales force. In reply
to this Mr. Gish points out that if this were done,
there would not be enough Corn Cobs left. He
considers forty a minimum sales force. It is the
maximum number of Corn Cobs.
Herein a fundamental weakness of the Corn
Cobs has been struck. Designed as a University
pep club, it has admirably functioned as such in
itself. But with only forty members, it has not been
sufficiently representative to insure close contact
with the entire student body for the stimulation
of Nfbraska spirit.
A first step of the Corn Cobs in their efforts
10 regain the program concession would be an ex
tension uf the size of th 3 organization such as would
give representation to all fraternities on the cam
pus and a reasonable proportion of non-fraternity
liK-n. Such enlargement would mean a sales force
always capable of meeting the athletic department's
needs. It would also mean a truly representative
pep club better able to function for Cornhusker
spirit.
Aside from thefc considerations, Mr. Gish will
only say that he thinks the W. A. A. can better
handle the programs. The attitude of W. A. A.
through the past two weeks has been fine. They
ro-operated in every way with the Corn Cobs in
the organization's efforts to regain the program
concession, being prepared to give it. up ou the
assurance that it. would again be given the Coin
Cobs. Such assurance Mr. Gish refused lo give.
As far as W. A. A. is concerned The Nebraskan
offers no criticism. It congratulates them on the
reputation for responsibility they have gained. The
Nebraskan turns Its guns on those who have per
mitted a significant extension of the number of
co-eds engaged in sales work at a ootball game.
That students cannot entirely sympathize with
the situation in which university co-eds would be
placed is Indicated in a letter brought into The Ne
braskan office Thursday afternoon Vhich is pub
lished today in the column, "In My Opinion." It
was written by a university co-ed.
As M. G. notes, there could be little objection
to co-eds selling programs In a student section. But
selling them In a public gathering, particularly of
the nature of a football audience, is another tale.
Criticism has been nnirniered from time to time
at the advisability of co-eds selling candy and apples
through the stands as W. A. A. has done In the
past. That parent through the state will sympa
thize with doubling the number of co-eds In sales
work at a football game, is open to serious question.
That it U at all advisable to thrust university co-eds
into such an atmosphere is serious'. questioned by
The Daily Nebraskan.
SUNDAY IS COMING
Sunday has been decreed all-university church
day for students enrolled in the University of Ne
braska, and on this day hundreds of students will
make an effort to occupy a seat in some edifice of
God.
It li not a valid conclusion to say that In the
course of a student's career he forgets the church,
but there is some validity tn the contention that he'
neglects it as one of the vital things. A week of
grinding study, and a week-end that is filled marked
by a social engagement, or two perhaps these often
times are blinding to the average student when it
comes to placing church attendance at least once a
week on their schedule of activities.
As a heritage it cannot be scuttled, and th-
training that started even with babyhood cannot be
relinquished for the tlm that a young man or
woman is seeking an education. Undeniably the
church has a place, and a prominent place, In the
life of every student.
Lincoln churches have sensed the need for an
all-university church Sunday, to acquaint Nebraska
young people with the houses of worship that hnve
greeted before and will continue to greet thousands
of Nebraskans.
AUTOMOBILES AND TRADITIONS
Many people in the world today decline to ride
In an airplane, stating lhat the older means of trans
portation are good enough. There are others who
jump at (he opportunity of making a fllghi, because
they always waul to do the new thing.
Some people maintain that traditions should be
carried on merely because they are traditions.
These are the people who are content to ride in an
automobile. Others would do away with all tradi
tions because they are old. The.se are the people
who would take to the airplane indiscriminately.
Traditions, as traditions, have no meaning. It
is only when they accomplish some definite end that
they ar? worth while. If they help (o instill the
spirit of the school into students, if they aid the
newer students In getting acquainted, If they assist
in broadening the education of the individual, they
are worth while. But if they are empty and mean
ingless, they would best, be discarded.
But merely because we have the airplane is not
sufficient reason for junking all of the automobiles.
They have their uses, and in some fields are better
than the airplane.
The same is true of traditions. They should not
be done away with simply because they are old.
But, on the other hand, it traditions are useless, it
would be best to discard them and get something
better.
A STUDENT LOOKS
AT 'PUBLIC A1TAIKS
By David Fellman
On October 2, liie Democratic
state convention of the state of
New York, under the leadership of
Al Smith, nominated Kranklln D.
Itoosevelt, former assistant secre
tary of the navy, for the office of
governor. The nomination was a
tribute to the outstanding abilily
and leadership of Kranklln D.
Itoosevelt. He was the unanimous
choice of the delegates. The con
vention Insisted upon nominating
him in face of Ihe fact that Itoose
velt Is at present recovering from
a recent serious Illness, and In
spite of his previous announcement
that he would refuse the nomina
tion, if the convention vyould offer
It to him. Roosevelt is a very
close friend of Governor Smith. It
i I
was Koosevelt wlio nommaieu
Smith at the Houston convention.
The Republican nominee for the
governorship Is Albert EtMngcr,
the present attorney-general of the
state.
ACCIDENTS
Klght persons wero injured in automobile acci
dents in and around Lincoln last Sunday. And it
was just an average Sunday from the accident point
of view. Every pleasant week-end when a large
portion of the city's population get in an automo
bile and speed along Nebraska's graveled highways
or crowd Lincoln's' busy thoroughfares, accidents oc
cur and persons are hurt, more or less seriously.
With the ever increasing number of motor ve
Klleiy Sedgwick, editor of the
Atlantic Monthly, makes a few
statements that should be read by
university students. Kspecially
should his utterances be apprecia
ted because they are made in the
heat of a political campaign of the
sort that Is now going on. Mr.
Sedgwick said: "Let us vote for
Hoover or for Smith as men. Let
us honestly prefer the Republican
promise of good business or the
Democratic plea for fair dealing.
Let us vote to continue our experi
ment In prohibition or put mere
temperance first. Let us save the
farmer by what wayv we prefer.
But let us not try to fool our own
souls by voting before the world
for a secret reason w hich the more
decent of us dare scarcely even
nnirnier to ourselves."
Last year Congress authorized
the expenditure of the $325,000,000
to finance the great task of bring
ing under control the flood waters
hides, too plentiful now for public safety, it is ', of the Mississippi, in order to pre
surprising that no more are injured or killed. But J the urrence of w hat Jle,
tne ton is nign, asiounuingiy uign, ami mum oe iuw-
ered if everyone would drive carefully and sensibly.
University of Nebraska students have been for
tunate so far this year. None has been injured se
riously in any auto accident. Around the campus
where traffic congestion is the worst in the entire
city, srarcely anyone Is ecr hurt. Most accidents
seem to occur on the hichway where cars hurtle
over rmooth roads at a terrific speed.
Carefulness has become an asset to life, no less
valuable than integrity aud intelligence.
peace-time disaster in American
history." There are now approxi
mately 15,000 men at work along
the banks of the great river, and
on certain of its main tributaries.
The highest levees ever built
will be constructed. There will be
floodways to divert the waters, in
lessen the jg-essure. and to reduce
the river speeds. A great spillway
will safeguard New Oileaus. U ap
pears that this will be the greatest
engineering project of the western
world.
Hons, providing for a reapportion
ment of the House of Representa
tives. The constitution of the
United States provides that after
every decennial census there shall
be a reapportionment, of seats in
Ihe House. Tim failure of the
House to do so in the last eight
years constitutes, actually, eight
years of constitutional defiance.
This nullification violates equal
ity of representative rights, not
only in the House, but also in the
Electoral college. At present, mere
are twenty-three electoral votes
that should be reassigned. This Is
Important. Three times in the last
fifty years, twenty-three votes
could have changed the election
Senator Vandenberg's bill does
not change the total number, of
seats In the House. By the pro
visions of, his bill, Nebraska would
lose one seat, reducing the repres
entation of this state In the House
of Representatives to five.
A display of art work by students
at the University of Kansas was
exhibited at the International art
congress recently held at Prague,
Czechoslovakia. The len months by
the Kansas University compared I
favorably with those of eastern uni
versifies.
'Way ahead
in style!
At the big games tl,i,
year there's one score
that,scertain.AlliKators
are alwavn 9wav u i
,. . . hctler you select the
ll-WOOl lined Aviulinn ... .i
-( iiwii.i ur mc
Regulation College Slicker, when it
bears the Alligator label you can count
on correct style, famous Alligator fab
rics and absolute waterproof pioipc
tion. Alligators are sold only at the
best stores from $7.50 to $25.00. See the
new Alligator Aviation model at $10.00
The Alligator Company, St. Louis, j0
ALLI GATOR
TRADC-MANK F13. U. S. PAT. OFF.
THE RAGGKll: It would be a big disappoint
ment for the beau brunimels if it happened that
at Ames they were wearing something other than
trench coats. y
It may be Ames this weekend, but probably
Aims' next week-end with quarterlies not far off.
One consolation about staying home from Ames
Is that you will get some benefit out of having paid
your board bill for a month ahead.
Well Galli Currl ouelit to be a fitting climax
for a month of try-outs for Glee Clubs, Octettes,
and K o.n met Klub productions.
Oiie fellow said that he couldn't make the Kos
niet Klub show because he didn't have a trench
coat.
President Coolidge, on Septem
ber 26, Issued a proclamation ere-
'ating an emergency board of five
I members lo investigate the wage
I dispute betw een certain western
! railroads and the Order of Railway
j Conductors and the Brotherhood
I of Railroad Trainmen. The mem
j bers of the board are: James R.
I Garfield, secretary of the interior
In Roosevelt's cabinet, Waltsr F.
I Stacy, chief justice of the supreme
I court of North Carolina, l'rofessor
Davis U. Dewey, of the Massachus
!etts Institute of Technology, Ches-I
I ter R. How ell, former member of
the California State Railway com- i
mission, and George T. Baker.
The creation of this board was
made necessary, under the provis
ions of the Railway Labor act. by
the failure of the United States
Board of Mediation.
with their feet on the ground
'IN MY OPINION
Co-ed Selling 4s Risk"
Senator Vandenberg of Michigan
has presented a bill to the Senate
committee on privileges and elec-
Tutrntrnd portrait jihotographrr-Ad
I have just been informed 'hat the W. A. A.
girls are to sell football programs at the garnet, a
job the Corn Cobs have previously had. Naturally
the Corn Cobs dislike having this money-making
lask slip out of their hands, but when it comes to
the coeds selling football programs in other than
the student sections, I have a bit of doubt In my
mind as to the wisdom of the plan.
It is a fact that, football attracts every type of
person from the intellectual highbrow, who finds the
game scientifically interesting, to the less brainy in
dividual who likes the rough and tumble fight of
the game. People from all over the state from
bootleggers to ministers come to the University of
Nebraska football gamna. I have been In non-student
sections before I al tended Nebraska and I
know that all the men who come are not gentlemen.
1 also know that our modern girls are not tender
shrinking violets, but why subject them to any pos
sible unpleasantness when it can be avoided. Why
not let the W. A. A. girls sell the football programs
in the student sections and the Corn Cobs sell in
the non-student sections? 1 his seems to me to be
fair to both organizations and will aid both finan
cially. M. G.
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TV TI'.N of vision, yes. But don't over
J. X look the fact that those old Roman
road builders and empire builders kept
their feet firmly fixed on the ground.
They faced the facts squarely. They
were demons for detail. They were the
world's first great organizers.
Pioneering; in the telephone industry
is like that. It is a work, of vision and of
leadership into new fields. But back of
it all must be the ability to organize men,
Vioney, material and machines.
The telephone executive must coor
dinate his machine before he can run it.
He must understand the possibilities in
his organization before he can lead it.
That done, his opportunity is empire
wide, vision-broad and ambition -deep.
BELL SYSTEM
tsf nation-uide lyrttm if l8,;oo,ooo inltr-canntt:ng tt'.rfhonei
"OUR PIONEERING WORK. HAS JUST BEGUN
THOUGHTFULNESS
To the Editor:
Probably one of the first things that the return
ing student was unconsciously aware of, as he en
tered his classrooms this fall, was the cleanness that
existed in every building on the campus. Two of
our newer buildings were immaculate. Their fix
tures were new and unscarred by the abuse of use.
Desks and walls of the older buildings bore the un
deniable traces of years of use, but they were
scrubbed and scoured lo the point of perfection.
Only a pale blue spot remained, where before an
ugly blotch of ink bespoke of some former class
room tragedy.
It is too bad that these conditions of cleanliness
cannot be permanent, but at this early date this
writer has observed the childish work of some
thoughtless student or students. We wonder, if
some students when at home, snap their pens in
the direction of some fine rug as freely as they
splatter 'the floors of our University buildings? We
wonder, if some of the fraternities and sororities are
as artistically decorated with the various Greek let
ters and symbols as are arrayed on the back of
many classroom seats? W'- would venture to say
that neither of these conditions exist. Why then,
should the University proper suffer. K Nebraska
student should feel at hora- in v!s own school as
much as under his own roof.
If he does entertain such feelings, he should
foster a pride for his University in a like manner.
In tr.any homes parentlal discipline Is necessary.
Perhaps the same measures Must be taken against
the young catapus vandals, who persist in improving
desks and seals with their shallow wise-cracks and
cheapen their own dignities by the Indiscreet use
of their own i'Jtlals.. Ji L,
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