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TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1929
THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
The Daily Nebraskan
Station A Lincoln, Nebraska
OFFICIAL. PUBLICATION
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA
Under dlractlon of tha Student Publication Board
TWENTY-EIGHTH YEAR
Publlahed Tueaday, Wedneeday, Thuraday, Friday, and
Sunday mornlnga during tha academic year.
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uelneea Office Unlveralty Hall 4A.
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MANAGING EDITORS
Oean Hammond Maurice W. Konkel
NEWS EDITORS
W. Joyce Ayrea Lyman Caae
Jack Elliott Paul Naiton
Cliff F. Sandahl Douglaa Tlmmerman
ASSISTANT NEWS EDITORS
Vernon Ketring William T. McCleery
Betty Thornton
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
irff F. Sandahl j0 Hunt
William McCleery Bobert Lalng
Eugene Robb
MILTON McQREW BUSINESS MANAGER
ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGERS
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Richard Rlckatte
MISUNDERSTOOD
Universities are perhaps the most misunder
stood objects in the world. Students attend 'them.
Try to find any two who have identical conceptions
of tha duties and purposes of the institution. Pro
fessors teach. Try to find any two of them who
agree completely on their part in the university.
Taxpayers support them. Their notions of the uni
versity ranss from the belief that it is a super ex
iravagance to the opinion that its excuse for exist
ence is a contribution directly to the welfare ot
I he particular Individual citizen.
The Dally Nebraskan believes that, primarily,
the mission of the University, is to educate the
youth of the state. It believes that opportunity to
think, to dream," to study, granted to youth, will
well reward the slate which supports such oppor
tunity. Training far work! Training for citizen
ship! Those must be the ideals for a state-supported
institution. Unfortunate, however, is such a
medium which either In Its support, its administra
tion, its faculty, or Its student body, overlooks the
values of general cultural training, the importance
to a community of improving standards of appre
ciation. Hampered by insufficient funds, the University
of Nebraska has been making a gallant effort to
offer such training to the students who flock to
Lincoln from every section of the state. Vhll?
straining to fulfill Its serious mission, the Univer
sity has been carrying on numerous out-state pro
jects of interest and significance. With this Issue
or The N'ebraakan, a series of articles dealing with
some of these extraneous university functions be
gins. The series will by no means cover all the ser
vices the University Is rendering the state. It
bliould give an insight Into some of the direct bene
fits the state receives from work connected with
the institution. The Daily Nebraskan is glad to
call attention to the work of these agencies. Yet
it does so with somewhat of trepidation. It fears
lest the undlscrimlnating reader forget the real
purpose of those who count only direct aid as worth
expenditure of money. The articles are published
despite this fear, in the belief that students, un
acquainted with the work of these departments will
be interested In such efforts, while retaining recog
nition of the real educational purpose of the Uni
terslty, development of a better youth for a better
Nebraska.
SHARPEN UP!
"Registration weekT Well, I wonder how many
soft courses there are which I have not regixtered
for."
So drifts the conversation in many student
groups this week, and so run the thoughts through
the minds of many others who fail to expound their
views la the midst of other students. The signifi
cance of opinions along this line of individual stu
dents differs. To some, registration simply means
a tack of getting courses that are reputed to be less
burdensome written into the schedule. From thU
extreme there are variations on down the line ol
students, until finally that small handful or students
is reached those that never heed the reputed taaka
that courses entail.
But there can be made a distinction within that
great group of students who choose courses with care
care that looks to the Instructor, the work, sod the
forecast of study during the semester. There are
those who literally thumb the pages of the catalog
in search of easy courses. Perhaps they will make
a mistake and get Into a class which calls for some
thing larger than a vet pocket notebook or an 'V
book, But that Is seldom.
Then there Is the second group of students
hose members cast about for "Just an easy course
or two." There can be no condemnation showered
upon them, for the primary purpose In their choice
of courses has been to lighten the tasks of study and
concentration. Careful evaluation of courses, spec
ulation as to how much time must be devoted to
this and that, balancing the schedule with some
things which will be toilsome and a few others
which seldom worry this Is the best solution to the
problem of ritting schedules to so many students who
have utterly different capacities for studying.
The desirable uniwrciiy student Is one who out
lines a schedule of couiea whit an eye on bin own
capacity. The knife is to be wlpti. .i for those who
thumb the cat&iomies and glean, in ' irmatlon from
after-dinner conversation.
NEBRASKA'S OV.'fJ
The world Is filled wlili its uusung hero. Re
porters, novelists and lecturer are breaking forth
constantly with much eloquence and expression, to
Impress upon the public the lack of support given
to these figures or causes. One would gather from
a. recent article In the Omaha Bee-News that Ne
braska has an Inanimate hero In the Prairie
Schooner, which Is very much unsung.. The articlu
"Broke, but It's a Oood Paper" pointed out success
attained by this magazine in spits of financial dif
ficulties. The subscriptions to this magazine prove that
It bas gained recognltlon'and success as a literary
v-r''.!re. Nationally famous libraries and foreign
nvmirlei have requested copies. While established
magazlneu and libraries are eager to be on the sub
scription i:.;t oi the Prairie Schooner, it is a bare
and painful fuel that a great many students do not
know whui the magazine is. It would interest many,
lo doubt, to know that some of the faculty mem
bers are also brilliant writers. Dr. L. C. Wlmberly,
Iiean LeRosslgnol, and Detn h. A. Sherman are
only a fe r of the contributors, who have helped
inlse the prestige of the magazine with their ad
mirable work.
Members of the Prairie Schooner's staff point
with pride to Its record. They have worked hard
to make the magazine what it is, and complete sue
cess is not far distant. It seems that every Ne
braskan should have some conception of this maga
zine and be familiar with its enlightening and in
teresting contents.
A STUDENT LOOKS
AT PUBLIC AFFAIRS
By David Fellman
THE BAGGER: One of the difficulties of reg
istering for the second semester comes In harmoniz
ing no right or nine o'clucks and no clashes after 2
o'clock in the afternoon.
A caution which
early.
Is seldom heeded register
Hoover has completed his good will tour. Stu
dents are Just beginning theirs before final examinations.
Another advantage of posting grades early
would be that a lot of conscience would be eased.
Weather: weather or not one stays In school
for the second semester depends upon the bours
flunked ,
Tho report of a pistol Is scarcely less fatal than
the report of the dean in some cases.
"Try to pass one going up hill" may be a good
automobile slogan. But students have found diffi
culty of passing while on the down-grade.
"Students," and in this column It seems to be
proper to quote the name, are accused of being un
observing. Few know how many columns there are
in front of Social Sciences. But how can one count
with so many people leaning on them?
OTHER STUDENTS SAY-
To the lone list of individual
liberties for which man has, and
still la, struggling, may now be
added the richt to smoke. The
first. Congress of the National
League for the Defense of Smok
ers hits Just finished lis momen
tous sessions in Paris. The main
theme and conclusion of this con
vention was that when and where
a p'-rson smokes is nobody's busi-ni-ne.
and that it doesu make any
difference whether the smoker is
a member of the so-wiled weaker
sex or not! One of the speakers
said that it was "wito much satis
faction mil pride that veterans in
this movement note the progress
that wunicn have made in this di
rection (luting the past few years
of en'iKh'r nment and feminine
equality." . BesideB parsing resolu
tions dui anding the right to smoke
In restaurants, railroads, and thea
ters, the i ongress d!1 two concrete
tlrngs: Ii elected a Queen of To
bacco, described aB a "charming.
eighteen year old brunette." And
It vent on record as favoring tne
production and markfllng by the
government of a good five-cent
tignr.
Coiiiiiess Is tacklliv the problem
of the it-apportionment of seats in
the house of representatives once
more. The house passed a bill,
last I-'iMuy, providing for a reap
portionment of the -135 members
of that body on the basis of the
IMU census. The bill is designed
to ptevei.1 cny further nullification
of that provision of the consutu
tion wh'.ili provides foi a reappor
tionment of the houi.e after each
deeeinl;il census. The seats In the
house have not been redistributed
since JUKI, due principally to the
opposition of the rural dry const!
tuenr.ies, which will lose about
fifty seuts to the urban districts,
due to Miilts In the centers of
population during tho past twenty
years.
a large business concern, Just as
leadership in government jurisdic
tions is decided. This struggle for
the control of the Indiana Oil com
pany illustrates the wide diffusion
of ownership In the modern corporation.
A BLANKET TAX
A recent Issue of The Dally Nebraskan carried
a story announcing that the Student Council bad
elected delegates to the annual convention of the
National Student Federation of America that was
scheduled to be held at the University of Missouri
in Columbia. Students read the story and casually
dismissed it from their minds, but there is one side
of the affair with which the student body as a whole
is not acquainted.
As the time came arouud when the two dele
gates were supposed to depart for the congress there
were no expense funds to be had. Council officials
interviewed every University official that could pos
sibly do anything to enlist expense funds for the
delegates but to no avail. There were no funds to
be had no account that could be used for such a
matter as this. Nevertheless the delegates went
ahead anyway on their own expense.
At the convention the delegates almost received
an answer "to their prayers." Student activity fi
nance was discussed and much to the two Nebraa
kans' surprise, they found that nearly every school
represented had a student blanket tax that was lev
led at registration and the money so raised was
used to defray student activity expenses such ss
ballots for elections, uniforming the band, financing
the band on trips, equipping the cheerleaders, send
ing the cheerleaders with the football team on out-o(.-town,.
excursions, sending representatives to stu
dent conventions, and many other things that come
under the head of student activities.
Such a tax at Nebraska would accomplish a
two-told purpose. First, it would -provide funds for
all these organizations that are not self-supporting.
Second, it would do away with a series of drives
that are almost Invariably levied at the beginning
of each school year. The tax (which would not
iiecesuarlly be more than fifty cents per student per
registration) would be collected at the time of regis
tration and would not be felt to any great extent
by the student body. Under the present system of
launching drives every time funds are needed for
this or that, only a small percentage of the student
body supports them, consequently throwing the bur
den on a minority of the students.
A system such as this has been tried at other
scbiiols and has been proven successful. Why, then,
cannot the University of Nebraska install such a
system and do away with much confusion and labor
in raising fiitjl lor all-university functions?
An Observer
OTHER EDITORS SAY
THE PRICE OF TEXT BOOKS
As education becomes more democratic and the
number of students Is Increased to Include the poorer
classes, it Is obvious that the price of education In all
iia aspects must be lowered. State universities have
partially accomplished this end by reducing or remov
ing tuition fees. But at the beginning of each sciujol
term there Is sn Item of expense which Is a substan
tial drain on student pocket books namely, text
books. Various commercial organizations in Europe, and
recently in some parts of America, have recognized
the fact that the educated clan is a national asset.
and accordingly have made financial expenses or stu
dents lower ihsn those of the ordinary laymsn. Some
transportation companies have reduced rates for stu
dent commuters, and on our own campus there are
university-sponsored lunch rooms which give lunches
at coct for poorer students.
However, In the line of text-books the student
publisher relations are entirely commercial, and
books which can be produced for a trifle over a dol
lar are hold for as much as five. Students would not
complain if the profit from texts went to enlarge
the flat purses of tho professors who write them;
but we understand that authors receive bV a small
per cent of the total spent for the book. The profit
hen HiUbt go t the publishers snd the book stores.
There Is a highly commendable movement on
this campus to run a non profit book store for stu
dents. But even If such a plan were realised the
problem would be only partially solved. It is very
doubtful If present publishers could be made to see
ths matter in this light, since they do not consider
themselves charitable Institutions. Tbs solution may
lie In the University Presses which ire gradually
assuming respectable proportions. If they can realize
the (value of the non profit service, perhaps one of
the most considerable Items of a student's budget
can be reduoed.
Minneiota Dmy
The bill provides that, in the
event Hat congress fails to pass a
reapportionment y bill, following
each future census, the secretary
of commerce will automatically be
empowered to arrange and put
into effect the reapportionment.
For example, if congress passes no
reuppoitlonment bill after the 1930
census, the secretary of commerce
will effect a reapportionment with
out any specific congressional ac
tion. The measure is now before
the fconate, where Its success is
predicted, although the drys were
successful in bringing about a de
feat of the last reapportionment
measure passed by the house in
1S21.
Czechoslovakia has broken into
the "Help Wanted" column. Old
Johann Wohlschlager, who has
been the official hangman in
Prague for thirty years, and who
has freed over five hundred souls
from their sin-laden bodies, retired
on January 1. Not being able to
find a local man for the Job, the
C:;cli government advertised, and
234 men and one woman sent In
heir applications. This is either
,i election of the unemployment
tili'.ailon in central Europe, or a
ei I onimentary upon the growing
hard liens of the human heart. The
i.-ici probably Is that the job calls
for very little work. There is
nothing In the world so attractive
to men as a soft Job where the
government pays the salaries.
A spectacular fight Is being
waged within the Standard Oil
company of Indiana, for the con
trol of the company, which is re
vealing a new feature In modern
industrial organization. Colonel
Robert W. Stewart, the present
president of the immense oil con
cern, wants to continue In that
office, but John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
doesn't see things that way. Mr.
Rockefeller's ire has been raised
by Stewart's connections with the
oil scandals of the Harding admin
istration, and, although he was
Cleared of charges of contempt
and perjury, Rockefeller thinks
that Stewart is unfit to head the
company. The annual meeting of
the company will be held on
March 7, and It is to control a
majority of the stock that Mr.
Rockefeller has instituted his pres
ent campaign. He has written let
ters to the 71,000 stockholders or
the company, urging them to send
lu their proxies to him. Tbe coun
try is tbus being treated with the
spectacle of a large, national refer
endum, to decide upon the head of
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Hit
A strong protest against the
spread of American power and
ideas has been voiced by Takan
obu Murobuse, one of the most
popular publicists in Japan. Writ
ing in Toklo, Murobuse laments
"the decline of the genteel civili
zation of the nineteenth century,
the passing of aristocratic society,
the coming of mass llvlug." He
blames the degeneration ,of the
world to the leadership of the
United States, the "arch type" of
the new age of crushing material
ism. "We all admit," he declared,
"that the American dollar is the
most powerful factor in the mod
ern world, but there are many who
do not realize that America, mas
ter of gold and power. Is also
making the world's ideas. .. .What
are these sports, this modern Jour
nalism, motor cars, Jazz, radio.
popular literature, all these ideas
about rights of women, the spread
of irrellgion, the decline of phil
osophy, the mania for gold? All
these we have taken from Amer
ica, American Ideas control the
world in all phases of civilization.
Europe still- holds American cul
ture In contempt, and most Jap
anese ape Europe in this respect,
without realizing that we are all
America's slaves materially and
intellectually."
There may be some truth In
what this Japanese writer has to
say about the lack of culture in
the United States. But, on the
whole, it seems to us that his
panic-stricken plea assumes, quite
incorrectly, that this is a new age,
in which we are living at the
present time. We prefer to think
of it as a transitional period, a
period In which the results of the
industrial revolution are being
tested and molded, and then re
cast into new social situations.
The trouble arises from the over
whelming rapidity with which new
Ideas have germinated and devel
oped. It happens that the United
States, for various reasons, has
taken tbe lead, a leadership which
we should Justly view with pride
and a sense of responsibility.
Japan must not become one of
those old-timers who are always
lamenting the passing of the
"good old days." The world is
progressing, and our distinguished
Japanese publicist must wake up
to the fact.
COLLECTION OF NOTES
RECALLS WILDCAT PERIOD
Continued, f rum Tage I.
financial suicide," in a committee
report for the minority.
There was no restraint on tbe
Issue of notes by these banks.
They might be organized and do
business without a cent of paid-
up capital. Soon after their estab
lishment, the banks passed into
the hands of people who were not
residents of Nebraska but who
lived In Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin,
and Indiana. Only one, the Platte
Valley bank, of Omaha, was owned
by Nebraska men.
At this time there . was utile
credit or valuable property in Ne
braska. Borne of the banks tried
to supply the lacking credit but
most of them sought to fool tbe
public and In some cases fooled
themselves into thinking that the
creation of money was possible
without sound credit or actual
property behind It.
The wildcat conspiracy of the
second session continued In tne
third. The preceding legislature
had chartered a bank for every
town of importance, they now un
dertook to supply the villages with
banks also. Sixteen bills were in
troduced with tills in view. The
bills chartering the De Soto md
the Tekamah banks were passed
over the veto of Governor Izard.
The existing banks opposed the
establishment of more rlvnl banks.
The Nebraska News, of Nebraska
City at that time publish by
Thomas and J. Sterling sTorton,
charged Governor Izard of aceept
Ing 12,000 for vetoing the fix bills
chartering new banks. They also
charged the speaker of the house
of having accepted $1,000 from Hip
other faction for his vote In pass
ing the two bills over the gover
nor's veto.
Some Had No Charters
Some banks were established
without any charters whatsoever.
The best Known case was that of
the Waubeek bank, whim was
supposed to have been located In
De Soto. The De Soto Pilot in
1857 claimed that the bank hud no
house there or any other property.
They also clHlmeil that they had
never heard of the bank paying
any of its notes. The bank had
circulated notes amounting to
$200,000 which were not made
payable In De Stito or any other
place. It reased to exist the fol
lowing year.
For a short time the notes issued
by these wildcat banks were ac
cepted at their face value and cir
culated freely, but soon their value
fell. In the early part of 1N5S the
notes accepted from 80 to 50 per !
cent of their face value. One prj
two months later they were worth
only one or two cents on tne dol
lar. The banks were doomed and 1
soon all passed out of existence, i
Forced to Close Down j
The Kekamah bank was forced
to close its doors in the same year.
The bank and its stockholders did,
not have $500 worth of assets In:
the county. The banking house, a
little 10 by 12 shack and the I ix-,
tures consisting of a stove and an j
old table, were sold to satisfy a
judgment of $207. The tank had J
Issued notes amounting to $,9,000. i
The Platte Valley bank, of Ne-,
bra ska City burned In 1S5S. Tin
officers of 1he bank were sus
pected of setting the buil-llng on
fire. Several of them were seen
to throw turpentine on t lie flauijs
whenever the people fighting ttic
fire made any headway. Forty
thousand dollars worth of bank
notes were destroyed, in the tn.
The experiment of the wohinu
banks cost the people cf Nebrasiu
$380,000. The wildcat notes hau a
wine circulation in -the east een
alter the banks which had issueu
them nad ceased to exist. V'lieu
the eastern people finally found
out that tho notes twere won miss
they were not altogether favorably
impressed with the state ot Nebraska.
LEARN THE PI AM) IN
TEN LESSONS
TENOR-HAN JO OK.
MANDOLIN IN FIVE
LESSONS
Without nerve-ruckintf, heart -Invoking
muli-i ami exereiKes. Von are
tuiiKl'l to pluy by note in lenilar pio
fcshiimul choiil style. lr. your very
first lw.is on you will be nuk- lo pi iy a
popular inunlier by nolo.
SEND FOR IT ON APPROVAL
Tho "Hallmark Self-Instructor," Is
iIih title of this method. LOiulit yeura
were required to perfect mm (treat
work. The entile course with tile
neec-eHSury exnminalion ri.-1, la
bound in one volume. The first losooii
is unsealed whitth the aliment maj -iiinniu
und be his own "Jl.LKJIJ und
.H IIY." The latler port of tliu "Hall
mark .Self-Inslrui tOi ," ix sealed.
I nun the student leturnliiK any eopy
of th "Hallmark ,Self-lntrucloi" Willi
the seal iinhrokun. we win reiuna in
full all money paid.
This iiiimzuiK Self-In.-itructor will be
eiit anywhere, ion do net need to
send liny money. When you twelve'
this new method of tfuchinir niusie.
Ivpopit with Hie rostnmn the sum of
ten dollar. If you are not entirely
saliHtH-d. the money paid will be r-uirm-d
in full, upon written reiiuest.
Tim rulilishers ere anxious to liaee
this "Si lf-liiHtni tor" In the hands of
music lovera all over the country, and
is in a position to maki- an Httrm tive
ii ono.oit Inn lo intents. Send for your
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bow it off!
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your basket
after college, too
Is it so different after all this world
beyond the campus gates?
Men in industry have their baskets
to shoot at. They have their
scores to make. Not on regulation
courts, perhaps; but what of that?
The principle is the same.
The five man Varsity becomes tha
five thousand, or fifty thousand, nut
industrial organization.
Not one opponent, but dozens, press
in on all sides. From colloidal solutions
to coordination of personnel, from elec
tronic phenomena to fundamental com
mercial trends, the battle goes on. ,
Til a I r .1
rienry of cnances tor tne man
with the mental training to match
his wits against the questions of
the day!
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