The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current, March 18, 1930, Page TWO, Image 2

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Robert Kelly
Majrlte Akin
William McOaffln
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Margaret Day
David rtllman
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Maniflna Iditora
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Contributing editor
William McClooiy
William a. Taylor
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Mary Nichoi
Paul C. Plan
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Leeler P. Schick
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Harl N. Andaraan Oardnn B. Caraon
W. Joyce Ayrat Harold K. Marcoit
Hinn C. Day Ralph Raifcta
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LaRoy Jack Charlea Lawler
Laatar Lohmeyer
THE PARKING PROBLEM
QK ALL the worries that beset Nebraska students,
the parking problem for more thsn 1,200 of
them I a major annoyance. Since the popular ad
vent of the automobile on the local campus, park
ing has presented a new difficulty which, up to this
time. hn not been met successfully.
There Is little need to review the situation as it
nw exists. Any student interested In parkins
knows what it is. He realizes first that there is far
from enough parking space. He Is also cognizant
of the tact that he must park three and four bl.ick
aay from his classroom.
Statistics compiled last semester by the univer
sity reveal that 1,254 undergraduate students drive
cars to school. On the avenues Immediately bound
ing the campus there is room for no mors than
seven or right hundred. These figures tell the story
of the scarcity of parking space tell a story that
needs no explanation.
Many students do not need to drive their cars to
school. Many would do much better to walk five
or six blocks from their domain to the campus.
The array of motors, ranging from limousines to
collegiate wrecks, that migrates dally from North
Sixteenth street and environs, gets only a block or
two nearer the campus.
Regardless of the wisdom or lack of it shown by
these people, there Is no way of preventing them
from driving to school If they choose to do so. And
so the student coming In from outlying parts of the
city often finds all spaces near his classroom taken.
He must drive around several minutes before find
ing a place perhaps three or four blocks distant.
-po BETTER this condition. The Nebraskan has
two proposals which would provide space for ap
proximately 200 more automobiles with little expense
to the university and with no impairment of salety.
1. The parking space for faculty cars just
north of Social Sciences, never more than half
full, should be doubled by permitting two rows
of cars to park along this driveway. Space
actually used by faculty members should be
reserved for them, but no more.
2. Parking along the east side of Twelfth
street from R to the end of the paving should be
at a 45 degree angle instead of parallel with
the curbing.
There is no reason why the drive to the faculty
parking area could not be widened slightly and
parking space be provided on the north side of the
drive as well as on the south side. Even a part of
the south side, now in use by the faculty, could be
turned over to the students. At no time during the
past week has this been much more than half full.
The provision for approximately eighty cars on one
side could be reduced to sixty so that students could
have one end of this and the entire north side.
This bites another piece off the already depleted
drill field. But still the drill area is large enough
for company or platoon meneuvers. On parade and
review days this space could be shut off with little
difficulty. The cost of cindering another strip of
ground along the present graveled driveway would
be of small consequence.
TJNTIL about a year ago, parking at a 45 degree
angle prevailed on R street and Twelfth street.
This was unsafe on such narrow thoroughfares be
sides adding to the congestion. Twelfth street,
slightly wider than R street, is not open to general
traffic, however. Only students use it. Angle park
ing on one side would not make the situation any
more unsafe than it is today. There would be little
more congestion than now at the noon rush.
The parking problem has grown Into considera
ble importance at the university. The fact that
nearly one out of every four students drives a car
evidences this truth. Relative to education proper
and the Importance of study, parking is of little sig
nificance. But it is a problem that should be rem
edied for the convenience of a busy student body.
TALKIE PROFESSORS.
AT A local theater last week, a class from the uni
versity heard and saw a talkie dealing with oil
production. The picture showed scenes from the oil
fields and from chemical and geoglogical labora
tories. As they were being screened, the talkie at
tachment relayed the explanation of the film by a
noted professor.
With the Increasing popularisation of the talkie,
what will be the situation a decade, or even five
years hence? Will the talkie professor combined
with visual education supplant the classroom In
structor ?
Certainly the value of the talkie films cannot be
underestimated. They are sure to become a great
aid to education from the grammar grades through
the university. They will add materially to the al
ready Important part played by visual education.
They will make possible analysis of phenomena
which often remain hazy In the student mind after
showing of a regular movie.
But talkies will never deprive professors of their
jobs. The personality factor plays too dominant a
role In university education. Rather should the uni
versity consider ways of Increasing the contact
professsors make with their students instead of pro
moting schemes that remove them farther.
Many professors, sorry to relate, contribute no
more perhaps considerably less than would be
derived If their lectures were recorded and delivered
from time to a la talkie.' But there are countless
others whose interests In the Individual student and
the problems each of them moot make them Invalu
able from the stud id point of view.
Inatiuiloia would do well to take an inventory
of themnelvea periodically and connldai, among
other things, If they are mere Ulkles of education
or If they ate contributing something mor some
thing of their personality that Is a distinct and di
rect aid to the st.ident enrolled In Ihelr course.
Nebraska does not want talkie professors. It
wants live ones, Intellectually keen and mentally
alive to the divergent problems that come before the
Individual students In their classes. It wants pro
fessors who will take a personal Interest la these
students. It also wants students who are willing ii
endeavor to grasp what th professors have ti
offer and who are willing to make a personal con
tact with them that their knowledge may le "
panded. that their lives may b further enriched.
FINE FEATHERS VS. FINE BIRDIES.
IOWA university chanter of Surma Delta I'hl,
honorary women' forensic sorority, Is conducting
an Intersororlty debating contest, Ftleven groups
are contenting. Thi subject to b debated Is: Re
solved that the women' panhellenlo association of
the University of Iowa should adopt a rule requiring
that every candidate for admission to a sorority
have a grade average of 2.25 (approximately 78)
for the semester preceding Initiation.
The sponsors of the contest could have selected
a much more significant subject to discus. Their
subject I one which rny be a very pertinent one
now but It la of only passing Importance. Th Iowa
sorority Is to be commended, however, for making a
start In this kind of competition.
University women should have some Interests lo
college aside from their regular school work and
social activities. As future leaders In their commu
nities they should be contemplating and discussing
some of the problems they will have to meet. The Unl-
versity League of Women Voters and the Vespers
group are among Nebraska organisations doing ex
cellent work along these lines.
Too many cieds merely exist from one week end
to another. Parties, picture shows, fine clothes and
dates are the only topica tney can discuss with any
degree of enthusiasm. Anything of deeper meaning
and significance is boring and Is dismissed with a
meaningless shrug of their shoulders.
They cannot afford the time to hear a noted con
vocation lecturer because It would detract consider
ably from the time they have allotted to " caking."
In addition, the lecturer la probably talking on edu
cation, the defects of our social system or some
other similar subject which Interests them not In
the least.
Of course, the same indictment may be made
against a veiy large percentage of men students.
They make a better pretense, hypocritical though it
may sometimes be, of considering some of the
higher values of life.
There are no elections for the general student
body to be concerned with for a month and a half.
It's about time to pick another representative coed
for Miss Nebraska, Miss University or Miss Apprehension.
You can tell spring is here because the wails
and blasts from the school of music are much
louder now that the open-window season has begun.
Absence makes the marks grow rounder.
The Student Pulse
Signed contribution pertinent to matter of atuoant
Ufa and the university are welcomed by this depart
ment. Opinion ubmlttd hould bo brief and eoneiee.
ELECTION A LA SOCIAL SCIENCES
To the editor:
As if the corridor in Social Sciences were not
ordinarily a sufficiently hectic place between clssses,
the coeds have deemed it necessary to further aaa
to the activities of the place by holding their nu
merous elections there.
On gala days the women haul out a table in the
corridor and proceed to elect a May Queen, Mortar
Boards, V. W. C. A. officers, A. W. S. board heads.
a suierintendent for the home of sick monkeys in
Alaska, and heaven knows what not.
While passing to and fro from their classes the
coeds hurriedly scribble someone's name on a piece
fit nanpr and stuff it into the box provided for the
purpose. The argument is orierea uuu me gina ;
would not take time off to go to the Temple or luien
Smith hall to cast their ballots, but is the ballot
some hastily marked amid such a scramble worth a
great deal? Do the girls stop to think about why
they are voting and who they are voting for?
Could not such elections be removed to some
other place without causing any great amount of
inconvenience and making it much easier for the
entire student body to make it way through the
hallway to its classes? Perhaps when the fairer
sex gets a firmer grasp on politics our state and
national elections will be held down on Miller &
Paine's corner and on other busy thoroughfares.
THE CAMPUS CRAB.
University Library Huns Mmm Neu
Hooks, Now Placed on Loan Shelves
AWOWAN REMINISCENCES.
Nebraska wants Its Awgwan back. This off
spring of collegiate wit and humor is as much a
part of our great institution as anything that we
might now mention as being representative. It af
fords a sadly neglected medium for ambitious and
talented undergraduates to express themselves in
our most popular and modernistic mode the college
slang.
Granting for tne moment the alleged "soot" of
past Issues, E. D. T. points out a very conspicuous
truth when she said, "The worst ones were from
other reputable college magazines." Is our "lil' old
college" so much worse than any of the others?
Of course we cau't neglect the talent of Nebraska.
We could manufacture just a much "soot" as could
any other group of collegiate comic writers, but why
should we?
Nebiaska needs its Awgwan again. We recog
nize two different and distinct fields of journalism.
The newspaper and the magazine. The school of
journalism teaches both yet at the present the latter
Is sadly neglected. The Dally Nebraskan has for
many years proved to be a commendable laboratory
for actual field work in one side o fthe profession of
Journalism but how about the other lide?
Glancing through other college comica we can
find sections devoted to poetry (both verse and
worse) to the arts, literature, books, the drama, and
many other subjects of similar nature. However,
sprinkled here and there, quit extensively, are the
parts that contribute to Its apparent existence, the
wit and humor.
We hear the question, "What do college people
read?" Darned If I know. But I do know that
anything that directly affects us la more interesting
than something which does not Things college peo
ple write about college people is a good example.
Recognizing the above experiment, Isn't good wit
and humor good art? I. C. D.
Manv new Ixsik have leen tur-
chaned by the I'mvriMty of N'
tiraka Mini Imve lirrn put on the
lnn shrives In I he nwun library.
The foliiwing is a complete list of
the new arrivals;
Bibliography.
Cm v. "Headlne Interest and
llnhit of Adult"
Itnvie. "A Hnlsnc lliullography,
Hanfoid. "The Magic of lUniks."
Biography.
Kenton. The Life of Alclbiade."
I 'at pent ler. "t ilcrldge)."
LniiK limine, 'I'harl.itt Bronte."
Mcl'iinn. "(irentest of Men
Washington." htryker. "Andrew Johnson."
Towiiheiul. "James Lane Allen."
Fin Art.
Alexander. Jewelry. The art of
the C.iKl.Miillh."
Ottered. l t Pewter. "IU Mak
er nml Marks."
Mijer. "Mutiks and How to Make
Them."
hiiiKleton. "Old Woild Master In
New World Collection."
Newmarch. 'The Coiicert-Gr'
Slater, "Kiigrnvlngs and their
Value."
Hays. "See and lliar."
Krows, "Kipupmrnt for Stag
Productions."
Mantle. "American Playwright
of Today."
liachman. "Top-Flit Tennl."
Browne, 'A Manual of Football
for High School Coaches."
Low man, "Practical Football and
How to Teach It."
Tilden, "Match Play and th
Spin of the Ball."
a History.
Mason., The Creative East."
Rogers, "A History of Ancient
Persia."
Hssklns, "Studies In Mediaeval
Culture."
Thompson. "Th Civilisation of
the Renaissance."
Marphlal. "Three Person."
Selde. The Truth Behind th
New."
"Source. Records of the Great
War," Seven Volume.
r.euman. "The Diary or rnuipp
Von Neuman."
Russell. 'Collections and Recol
lections."
Schneider, "Making Fascists."
Stevens, "Current Controvemle
With Mexico."
Birney. Vigilantes."
Literature.
Nitchie, "The Chiticism of Liter
ature.
Kirk Conned. "European El-
Kobbins, "in fsay.
Aberneteey, "American Litera
ture."
Pattee, "Side-lights on American
Literature."
Marburg. " In the Hill."
Millav. "Poems."
Seiffert, "The King with thre
Faces."
Smith, The Giant and Other
Nonsense Verse."
Melville, "Th Apple Tre Ta
ble."
Melville. "Pierre or, The Am
biguities."
Van Dyke. "Even unto Bethle
hem."
Barrie, "Shall we Join th La
dies."
More, The Demon of the Abso
lute."
Wolfe, "Notes on English Verse
Satire."
Raleigh, "Milton."
Rennes. "Bowles, Bryon and the
Pope-Controversey."
Mayne, "Llge and Letters of
Layd Bryon."
Ashton. "Tradition and Hugh
Malpole."
Baker, 'History of th English
Novel."
Joyce, " A Portrait of the Artist
as a Younp Man."
Lcnanton, "Crouchback."
Young, "Blark Roses."
Chapman, "The Portrait of a
Scholar."
Bridges, "Collester Essays."
Surtees, "Town and Country
Tapers."
Priestly, "English Homor."
Smith, "Main Currents of Mod
ern French Drama."
Perrs, "Ramon Lull."
Philosophy.
Gilbert, "Men in Women'
Guise."
Green, "The Terror Dream."
Herrick, "The Thinking Ma
chine." Lay, 'The Child's Unconscious."
Murclison, 'The Foundations of
Experimental Psychology."
Sociology.
Gillette, 'World Corporation."
Ward, "Soverignty."
McCall, "Patriotism."
Bye, 'Applied Economics."
Carey, 'Franklins Economic
Views."
Lauck, "New Industrial Revolu
tion and Wages."
Lorwin, 'Labor and Internation
alism." Phelps. 'Our Biggest Customer."
Rayner, "The Story of Trade
Unionism."
Russia, "The Soviet Union Look
Ahead."
Soule, "The Useful Art of Eco
nomics." Taylor, "Making Goods and
Making Money."
TOMORROW
The Collegian
Caje
Plenty of Room for All
Large Dining Room
321 No. 13
i.i,oiiipei::iiiBiiiiai.iiiisiB:iiiiiaa'iiiiiiiaiimitSi:
We Make
Fraternity Pins
Sorority Pins
Class Pins
Club Pins
Society Pins
Phi Beta Kappa Keys
Sigma Xi Keys
Alpha Rho Tau Keys
See us for college
emblems
HALLETT
Etb. 1871
University Jeweler
117-119 So. 12
Brlerly, "In tw of Nations."
Parker, "Horn Apets of the
Fieuch Law."
Hippy. Mexico."
lUxlick, 'Tim iHK'Irwe of Neces
sity In International Imw."
ttusala. Hovlet. t'nlon and Peace."
Uau. "Ureal Hntain, A Mudy of
Civ lo Loyalty."
Harris, "Itcgistialloii of Voters
In th United mates."
Stockton, "Peac Insuiance."
Crawford, "Internativr to
8tudy."
Field. 'Tight O'clock Chapel."
Woody, "A History of Woman's
Education."
Tut tie, 'Th Awaking of Wo
mn." Chicago, "Burlington and Qulncy
Railroad. Documentary Histoiy."
Bchotter, Th Growth and le
velonment of Pennsylvania Rail
road Co."
National. "Proverbs."
Travel.
Somervell. English Thought In
th Nineteenth Ccntuiy."
Langdon-Davla, "Duuclng Cut
alana.'' McBrlde, "Norwegian Towns and
Popl."
Useful Arts.
Meredith. 'The Health of Youth."
Scbneller, "Advertising for tho
High School Journalist."
Talntor, "Th 8ecretry' Hand
book." Tead. "Human Natur and Man
agement" Moulton, "Th St. Lawrence Nav
igation and Power Project."
HISTORY STUDENTS IN
VESTI0 ATE EARLY
"RAINMAKER," FAKE
DROUTH SAVIOUR
(Continued from Page 1.)
tain lean year In the offing, hi
belief in tb miracles of the rain
maker 1 easily understood.
Buying Rain.
Melbourne was his name. And
Melbourne waa appealed to from
many of the drouth-stricken sec
tions of Nebraska and offered fat
contract to entice moisture
laden clouds. "For HOOO rash
and ten cents for every cultivated
acre," read one of the offers of
Melbourne. But the rain-faker
took money and brought no rain.
Perhaps the oldtimera remember.
'The Founding of Fontenelle."
on of th early settlements In
Nebraska, occupies another Ne
braska student of western history.
Original records of the colonizing
companies for th venture over
looking the Missouri, diaries of
some of the first Inhabitants of
th settlement, and material from
the old college at Fontenelle, are
being finger printed by the stu
dents in learning the true story
of this early white colony on the
river.
Study Indian Relation.
Another student is studying the
Indian relations in Nebraska in
th sixties, establishing the facts
In th relations of the federal gov
ernment with the plains tribes.
Still other students are developing
th history of local Nebraska
communities.
Appropriate Is the study being
made of Nebraska as the land of
trails to the west, since President
Hoover's proclamation declaring
April 10 to December 29 as the
covered wapon centennial. One
hundred years ago next April 10,
I.- rii.l him r:l WtltMHI I'-"
Ij.uU fnr ( u-K'i. tutHi'K t,,e
wiiiji'ii liaik-t in the tiej;on trail
IhimiKli Nebraska.
No l.iMoiy of a stale west of
Nebraska Is complete without
knowlol:e. of Nebiaska Hail Into
the new coiinlrv lnaled as It l.
the slrtle wits Hie rrosMiig ground
for liii'xl of Hie liiiM.itnnt over
pan.. K"1'' stllke.. free taiiKe.
I.md loiites that led to inountaia
the Pacific and the tlolden Went.
ANY APPLICANTS?
HOLLYWOOD. Calif If '
are thin It I" easv t' K"' J"'i
ihoius girl Hi the movies. Just
run an eve alone thi list of re-
ljiileMnii - ..,... i. v .i.a.r
. Hie lU'lio l'l line' anting ).
flee:
Av limit : ) ra
lit icnt limit - H- 3 I"' '
WrifiM I'll'" 1 1,1 P,,i""l
Kiguie must I almost pel ft I.
r.k llcme iiiiihI llii lu.le iMjt,
t. Md.igni. hiila. gypsy. Itimslsn,
Imlli l an I unicinl'le il.in.
VOlR DRla TOKt"
(Vruiiily la a ilesui lo hate .mi
make u of "
THE OWL PHARMACY
H K Corner Mlh A H
Phe-e '0A
J
1.. - 1 1
THE belter you (eel, tho
more you can do for your
self as well as everyone else.
The "senior who has done
most for his college" i ihe
one who always has the
energy and itrcngth to put
things over.
ShrcdJed Wheat helps you
to lead in campus activities.
Two Shredded Wheat Bis
cuits iwimming in whole
"Man Who
Has Done
the Most for
His College"
milk every morning will put
) ou on your toes for the busi
ness and pleasure of the day.
It gives, in readily digested
form, oil the food elements
essential to a nourishing
vitality-producing breakfast.
smEmm
A world-wide market place
Eighty-five per cent of the world's tele
phones can be reached from any telephone
of the Bell System. This includes those of
Canada, Cuba, Mexico, and by the new
radio-telephone link spanning the Atlantic
most of the countries of Europe.
Already many American business men are
using this service to expedite the transac
tion of foreign business and are finding it
quick, convenient and profitable.
The future possibility of talking directly
with almost anyone in the world who has
access to a telephone is enough to stimulate
any man's thinking not only from an
engineering standpoint, but because of its
significance to American industry.
BELL SYSTEM
A nttitn-witli system if inttT'ttnnntini tiltfhtnii
"OUR PIONEERING WORK HAS JUST BEGUN"