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WKDNKSDAY. OCTOHKK 20. WM). THE DAILY IN fcl IK ASK AN TWO The Daily Nebraskan Station A. Lincoln. Nebiauke OFFICIAL 8TUUFNT PUBLICATION UNIVERSITY Or NEBRASKA Published Tuetdy. Wednesday, Thursday. Friday and Sunday mornings during the academic vtar. THIRTIETH vAfl entareJ aa acondrinse nuttet at the poatottice in Lincoln. Nebraeka. under act of congress. Much J. ia. and at apeclal rata of poataga provided for in "ion 110J act of October S. 1917. authomed January SO. 1922. Under direction of the Student Publication Board SUBSCRIPTION RATfc i 12 wear tlnnle Copy 9 cnte 91. to a eemeater ? 11 year mailed " " 1 73 aeni.at.r m.H.d Editorial Office Unlveralty Hall 4. Bualnaaa Off 'ee University Hall 4A. Tilaphon.,-Day! .6B91 Nlghtl 6882. B-3333 (Journal J Aak for Nabr.ukan editor. - EDITORIAL STAFF William T. McCleery Editor-in-chief Managing Kdltori Robert Kelly Elmont Waite New Editor! Franc Holyoke trthur Vi?? William Mcdaffm eoen 6 Re Wagner . lrap.on:::::::::::::::::on;. Berenice Hoffman.-.. Society Editor Charles Lawlor Actlno Bualnaaa Manager Aaalatant Buslnesa Manager Norman Oallaher Thompson 19 jo t This PPr la wwiiud far waral attWttaln. er Tee Nebraska fr Aasoaiation. Education Is the Big Idea. Thousands of young nu n and women wander into colleges each fall. Every Rprinjr, thousands stray out with diplomas clutcht'tt frantically in their hands. Some are decently educated while others have trickled through the cultural battlements and emerge without any intellectual development. Bringing the situation into our own trout door, we find a mass of youths milling around in the University of Nebraska. Many of these students, so called, are doing something defin ite to exercise and develop their intellects. The rest of the mob is flattening itself against the walls, gazing ignorantly at the educational parade. . . . "What can be done! It is quite impossible to impress upon every mother's son or daugh ter the intrinsic value of education. They can not understand, for they relate education too closely to college. Quarterly reports floated out of the dean's office last week. Far too many of these delinquent notices were issued, for instructors are rather generous in their judgment of the first quarter's work. Laziness, carelessness, inefficiency are to blame for mobt of the scho lastic delinquency. .... . Oh, that we might rid this institution of the blase, sophisticated, lazy, parasitical voutrs who thrust their unwelcome presence 'upon us: We refer to the jelly spined, cake caters who do just enough work to get by; ihe batty brained coeds who try to steal an educational label hy working their charms overtime; the hodge podge of unambitious, dishonest, cribbing, cheating bloodsuckers who snap at the ankles of any collegiate in stitution. . Fraternities have a golden opportunity to lidp. Most of the Greek tongs, however, are satisfied to shoulder the burden of a few drones just to keep up the social rating. They impose slight fines upon their delinquent lirothers, but take no forcible steps to remedy 1he situation. The scholastic average of fraternity men is slipping. The fraternity system is not at fault, but certain groups which comprise this vast organization are blemishes on the surface of brotherhood. Through their failure to en courage study they are waging a battle with the fundamental purpose of the institutions which gave thorn birth. Unless these Grecian gods forget the dat ing, caking, card playing and loafing to in dulge in bonie old fashioned study, they will suck the fraternity system into the pit of their deformity. Cheating and cribbing are dirty practices. Loafing is disgraceful. Those who smile in dulgently at Brother Plupps, "who hasn't racked a book all quarter, but is getting by on drag and personality," should be uncere moniously booted into the collegiate trash pile. We need a rally for education mare than football demonstrations. You believe this talk about natural gas raping around the campus? Why that's just aroma. Out of the Smoke Came a Little Sunbeam. Smoke not, little coed, 4,on the premises of sorority houses or dormitories." is the sub stance of a rule concerning coed conduct. We might add that it is perfectly legitimate to smoke in crowded coffee shops, on stone benches in front of said sorority house, on fire escapes, or in cars. Several prominent students were inter viewed about the above rule by Nebraskan re porters this week in an attempt to seek out true student opinion concerning the subject. Most coeds, in case the reader is not acquainted v. ith the gentle creatures, are afraid to voice their views. We do not blame them too much, but resent this lack of spinal strength. One coed believes that the A. W. S. board is hiding behind an alleged Panhellenie rul injr. This worthy organization must be hid ing somewhere, for we have been unable to Irani anything from the Associated Women Students board. "Public opinion must be treated gently," in the opinion r,f several woinm students. These coeds are afraid that the citizenry of .Nebraska would fall over in a dead faint if it realized that university women smoke nasty cigarets. So the guh are cantcnt to go on smoking behind the university back until everyone is reconciled to the practice. Money enters the discussion, too. . One young thing ia afraid the legislature would slash the university appropriation of coeds came into the open to indulge in a habit which they now carry on in not-too-well-hidden places. She, we suspect, is underestimating the intelligence of the men who make up our legislature. Miss Amanda Jfcppner, dean of wonnn, expresses her belief that the smoking fud is too new. She prefer to wait until it is firmly established, then spring it on the unsus pecting public. She also thinks that few stu dents ure interested in the matter and that a small pereentaxo of coeds smoke. Perhaps alio has not visited a certain coffee shop near the campus between classes; maybe she has not Keen little sparks falling from fire escapes, red flashes from benches and driveways. The Nebraskan has taken it information from observations. We aneercly believe that it would be more beneficial So everyone con cerned, from a health angle, if coed smoking were completely abolished. Since this move is impossible, we prefer to have coeds recog nize the condition and proido for it. We hate to sec n university or sorority eiicouraginjj sham and deceit on' the part of young women. We believe that the smaking mutter should be left entirely to the discretion of in dividual sororities and dormitories. Some would allow .smoking and others would forbid it. Will the A. W. S. hnm-d kindly take one stand or another before we run out of adjectives! Courtesy to Chapcrones Stressed in Communication to Societies on Campus By Student Affairs Office Courtesy to chapcrones is the theme of a letter recently sent to university student organizations. The letter, which origin ated in Dean T. .J. Thompson's office, stresses the fact that party chapcrones are for the mutual benefit of the organiza tion and university. AVarin friendships may be found through association of rbaperoncfi and members ci a so-o c.'cly, Recording lo my Jotter. ur- Lots of pledges get warmed up, but ft w get in the game. Some fraternity house meals would look better in Morrill hall museum. A Tragedy Of Deepest Hue. We find Alonzo Tipper entering the great old University of Nebraska, lie has attended another university for a year, but when the family threw its household goods into t he rumble seat and moved to Nebraska. Alonzo was pleased and proud to change to the Corn husker school. Alonzo is intelligent and ambitious, lie has thirty some credit hours and is fired with enthusiasm to become a regulation, hands down Oornhusker. Activities he consider splendid assets to college education; so he gal lops into the office of a university publica tion. A semester rolls by. Alonzo is thrilled with his work and, having served in minor jobs for half a term, he is sparring for a chanet at a real position on the publication. Alas; poor Alonzo. The staff heads are strong for him. realizing that he has splendid opportunities, necessary talent, high scholar ship. He would, they believe, be mi invalu able addition to the staff. Hut he is ineligible Alonzo, we repeat, is ineligible. He has more than forty college hours and has carried sixteen in the University of Ne braska. He is far from delinquent. Hut the good old Cornhusker rule which prohibits those with less than twenty-seven hours in THIS SCHOOL throttles him. The publication staff signs and appoints an unqualified but violently eligible man in his place. Alonzo is griped at the eligibility rule. So are wc. llicrmorr. the hospitality of puent to hn.t should be emphaaiised, Bays the dean. The Letter. The loiter iollnwa: "It baj often been difficult for organizations to r.-cure faculty Fponoorship :or thoir eocial occa sions. Therj nppar to be a num ber of reasons for this condition. Amunir them may bs mentioned the fact that the sponsorship has often failed 10 bo placed on the proper basis oy a few student or fcanlnatioos; in fact, In some cases the faculty members have come to feci that their presence at these affairs 13 not desired, and there fore th:y have refused to take ary interest In thorn. "The matter has been considera tion by the University senate com mittee on student organizations and pocial functions, looking toward securing- a greater interest of faculty members in student so cial affairs. As, a result a number of queries have been raised, a few among; them being the following: 1. "Do rtudenta and student orpin Ualiom rcallre that ap.m.ors are prm nt al social ilium for the mutual heim.'it of tht organization and the unlvenlty hacsaar- the sixlal ruatnm demand:' that rpniwnrs hf irernt where thrra In Interminjflinit of on. married young men and young women al aortal fiinrtlniuT I. "Do students realise that through these tor.lal affair j they have a very splendid opportunity to form warm friendship with faculty mcmbera that may he of lantlnr; benefit'.' a. "Do r.turirnu realize that faculty rticniliern who act aa aponsora are their L-ueata and that Ihe relationship of MUrm to hint, IhroiiKhout Ihe history of rivlimaiiim, haa alwaya been on the hlxhert and flneet plana possible and tlmt no human nodal relatlonahlp ap proaches It In Ihe demand It makes, especially upon Ihe boat. "Having raised these queries and believing that the faculty members will be the more easily persuaded to act as sponsors If the relationship of host to guest is ex emplified in the courtesy extended them, the committee makes the following suggestions only as an Indication of what may be done in this respect: 1. "The organization should maka mre that Ita sponsora have a com fortable way of reachln and relum ing from the place of the aoclal affair. J 2. "An effort should be made by the group to aee I hat aponaora are not left entirely hy themaelvea, either by having memhrre of their own group v. It It them or Inviting othera with whom the aponaora are acquainted. 3. "Cpnneont ahould have the beat possible opportunity to aee the enter tainment and to take part In the eve ning entertainment or dance, If they care lo do ao. If there are refreah menta, the aponaora enould be aerved first. 4. "ionaora ahould not be emhar raaaeit by the action or conduct of the members of tha organization or of guest. ft. "Finally, taken altogether every thing ahould be done to make your aponaora and gueata comfortable and to make thrin feel as you would wish them to feel In your own home. "In conclusion, It is believed that if the suggestions herein in corporated are borne in mind, lit tle if any difficulty will be occa sioned in securing tponsors." (Signed) DEAN T. J. THOMPSON. . ,r, BEHIND :'mh DOOR, Her Richard Halliburton has writ ten a new book. It is another epoch of advent tife. "New Worlds to Conquer" has the same old Halliburton charm, the same freshness of youth undaunted. It makes you a dreamer, an explor eryour spirit a restless barque tugging at its moorings, trying to slip out with the tide. If you have read "The Glorious Adven ture" by the same author you will remember well the bit of verse with which the first chap ter opens The a vera ire college man's income is about , 1 0 o'clock in the n?orning. ! Texas Lonehorn suggests the following sign for fraternity houses: No Peddlers or Dry Agents Allowed. MORNING MAIL Cool Off. TO THE EDITOR: . . Constructive interest in student affairs is a fine thing. And it is perfectly O. K. if some of the self-appointed trumpets persist in faking a note occasionally it serves to pep up the ensemble. Now, perhaps it would be construc tive to suggest that some of the indignant radi cals and conservatives should lock themselves in a shower room, tie the key to a dog chasing a cat out of the window, and apply the liquid ice before bombarding the university at large. "I see by the paper" that Boulder freshmen are made to adhere rigidly to campus tradition, on pain of a ducking in the icy waters of a lake. That is only one side of it. For strict enforcement of freshman tradition, the Boulder freshmen were once run out of chapel en masse and paddled by every athlete in school with the result of broken bones and very severe bruises. This demonstration to enforce th green cap tradition was a direct result of a radical idealization of the freshman tradition. If that is a balanced manner of approach then the Prince of "Wales never sustained black and blue marks on his hips. Perhaps the Innocents, who are enjoying prestige by alleged ability, realize that it takes time to approach prob lems sanely and with regard to their relative importance in the scheme of our college world. Now for the radical conservative, in regard to the coed smoking problem. He signs, "yours for a constructive paper," and then proceed to give only one side of the question and pan everybody else. In defense of his stand it might be wise to refer his readers to authori ties on Jhe physiological evils of confirmed smokers 0! the female sex. Doubt very much if he has to worry about marrying a girl who smokes even if he gave the girl a big break and was willing to be led to the altar. II r. "Disgusted" athlete, sports in a .uni versity foster the spirit of co-operation as dem onstrated by rallies. If the spontaneity which is such a large component part of such spirit suffers a temporary letdown, perhaps it is partly the fault of the source. At any rate, there is little to be gained by slapping faces; this spirit in itself is just a big happy child discount the joy, and what have youf It can't be done any more than a cheer leader can get yells from a crowd by bawling them out. This is just a plea for some ardent, well meaning individuals to back into a snow bank and view their college world from a cooler distance. Then, after so doing, let them heave their constructive snowballs. Maybe then the missils would break the boils rather than cause a fresh unnecessary batch. So saying, I don the coonskin coat, wrap it closely .about the face, pull the hat down over the eyes, and hope I can cultivate the art of walking backward about the campus, mean while praying that Philo Vance has retired from the game. Love and Kines, K. B. "Come, my friends, ! Tis not too late to seek a newer I world. I Push off. and sitting well in 1 order smite The sounding furrows; for my j purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset . . . till I die . . . To strive, to seek, to find, and I not to yield." ; Halliburton, you make man- ( taught schools a bitter potion. And who hasn't felt the urge ; to slip away. The world is so full of methodical things, so full of moral obligations, and duties to fulfill. If you have a father you're to make him proud of you. If there is a business, you are to carry on. Is life intended thus to make us hinge on one another? If you drift away from your moorings, to roam and breathe the air of another land, you are quite likely to be termed worthless, and a "good-for-nothing." Just that has proved the chain in many an instance. It must be so for the world is full of stay-at-homes. Hungry souls longing for the open, for new vistas, and new friends. But so ciety holds them back, this great world of conventions engulfs them. Their gallions turn to houseboats. But the feeling, the desire re mains. If you have ever wand ered along the docks, or nused along the waterfront of a harbor city you know what it is. You can smell it in the salt spume from the bay. You can hear it gurgling about in the dirty bilge water of a steamer's hold. It lingers in every hoarse note of the plodding, rusty tramp. The rotting quay timbers give it back, and the tar barrels they have it, too, It comes up with the breeze, it comes in with the tide. You can't resist it, for it grips you and pulls you out. out out and away. School, friends, busi ness nothing matters. You have a rendezvous to keep. Where? No one knows. With-whom? No one knows that, either. We read so much about great men and their philosophies of life that it Is almost impossible to formulate a philosophy of one's own. But these great men, these recognized leaders, make their conduct of life too compli cated. There is too much pat tern, not enough freedom. Every thing Is a la blue print, with squares .angles. degrees and boundaries. What a waste of thought. It's too painful to be methodical, and besides, in being methsjdical one knows exactly what i3 going to happen. No doubt there are a great number of philosophio3 of life waiting to be adopted. Every body could have one and some to spare. But made to order phil osophies would never do. In time you would get to be a great man. We have too many great men right now. But if you are a convert of Halliburton's your philosophy will come easily. Your sesame is a single sentence "A new day, a new world." Iterkeley, Si. Paul Are Claxsified as . L'. S. Art Centers BERKELEY, Cal. There are only two centers of culture in the entire United States and this cam pus is one of them. That is the opinion expressed by Hans Hofmann, director of the Hofmann Art school in Munich. Germany, in an article on "Art in America," appearing in the Art Di gest. During the summer just closed Hofmann was on the faculty of the university, and he has also traveled extensively throughout America. "There are in America today two cultural centers," he said in part, "which are the gathering places of an endeavor seeking to create and further unfold an art which is, qualitatively, in feeling and sensitivity a specific expres sion of American life. "These centers are the Univer sity of California, the art depart ment of which is dominated by an extraordinary fine spirit; and the small art school in St. Paul which is of the highest artistic signifi cance. Together with the Univer sity of Minnesota it represents the cultural center of the middle Unit ed States." He goes on to condemn the lack of interest in artistic expression here and to suggest that our gov ernment, with its vast resources, might do more to encourage it, as in Germany where funds are set aside to purchase works of art and to assist worthy artist'. BARBS MAKE BETTER GRADESJHAN GREEKS Non-Fraternity Scholarship Higher Than Affiliated In Kansas Report. MANHATTAN, Kan. Non-fra-ternlty students make better grades than those affiliated with organizations if the report Issued by the department of education at Kansas State can be taken as a t'ue example of the kinds of grades made here. The report was taken from a master's thesis pre pared by Bessie Geffert in 10.10. Names of all fraternity and sot ority students of the year of 1927 28 were secured. With each was matched a non-fraternity student of the same rank In the freshmen Intelligence test, the same sex, the same classification, and the same division. All grades were then se cured from the registrar's office for both groups for the school year of 1927-28. As a check, grades were also secured for those in the division of agriculture and home economics for the year of 1928-29. When the comparison was made by Miss Geffert between grades of each group, it was found in all but one case the non-fraternity stu dents excelled in scholarship. The one exception was in the second semester sophomore yenr in the agricultural division. TEACHER SAYS O. HENRY HAD YELLOW STREAK NEW YORK (IP) That Wil liam S. Porter, who wrote under the pen name, O. Henry, was known to have a "yellow streak," Is the statement made here re cently by Miss Blanche Colton Wil liams, head of the English depart ment at Hunter college, who is a short story critic, and who an nually conducts the O. Henry Me morial Short Story contest. Russell Declares s Men Losing Their Paternal Instinct NEW YORK. ( IT I Writing in the Parents' Magazine, Bertram! Russell, British philosopher, dc calred that men are losing ground In thoir paternal Instinct. In old times, Russell argued, men wanted children to protect them in their old age, to carry on their name and to possess them for their own sakes. Now, he said, old people are pro tected "by police, families move about from town to town and lose the urge to carry on their own line, and men are regarding mar riage less seriously, so that the sense of possession is lacking. PULVERIZED IOWA COAL IS FAVORED HY COLLEGE PROF AMES. Iowa Pulverized Iowa coals are recommended by Earl B. 8mith, research professor of me chanical engineering, at Iowa state college, who has just published a bulletin of the Engineering Experi ment station which reports the re sults obtained by Iowa plants us ing pulverized fuel. Professor Smith says. "On the basis of ' actual operation. Iowa coals, when burned in pulverized form, may be depended upon for efficient and reliable generation of heat and power." His conclusions are based upon a study of 21 plants in or near Iowa which are operating pulver ized coal equipment. Special tests were run at certain plants includ ing the sfate capitol heating plant at Des Moines. 10WANS JAILED AFTER CRASHING GATE OF THEATER IOWA CITY, la. Three hours in the Iowa City jail was Ihe ad mission price paid by six Univer sity of Iowa students who were ar rested after crashing tne gate or a local theater along with approxi mately 300 colleagues. The mob entered the theater after the pep demonstration last night, but their ardor was cooled after the session in the Jug. The sextet was released when no charges were filed against them. Five thousand delegates will rep resent half of the teachers in the world at the convention of the World Federation of Education as sociations, to be held at Denver, Colo., in July 1931. These dele gates will come lrom sixty nations and from all the races of the world. WELLS EXPECTS NEAR EAST WAR WITHIN DECADE LONDON, Eng. IIP) That an other war will break out in the near east within x decade is the belief of H. G. Wells, well known English author and historian. Speaking at a conference on "The Strategy of Peace" Wells said: "Now is the time for men and women to organize and to tell their governments that if the govern ments want war, they can count them out." Wells is of the opinion that a memory of the horrors of the last war will influence people from entering one. Flies Dislike Yellow, Favor White Light NEW YORK (IP) That the common house fly has preference for white light and he will not go near a room where thr Is a yel low light, has-been discovered by scientists. firm of jam manufacturers in England first noticed the fact whtn they found flies, attracted to a room where jam was atored stayed outside the room in the cor ridors when yellow panes were placed in the room's windows, and that when yellow glass as put in the corridors, the flies left alto gether. One hundred married women at tended the Vassar Institute of Eu thenics last summer. TYPEWRITERS Hcc us for the Royal portable type writer, the idcul marliino 'n t!u student. All makra of machines fur rent. All make of uaed mi chine eary payments. Nebraska Typewriter Co. Call B-J157 1232 O St. J LEARN TO DANCE Can teach you to lead in one lelaen. Guarantee to teach you In aix pr. vata leaaona. Claiaes every Mond.iy and Wednesday. Private lessons morning, afternoon and evening. 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