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The Daily Nebraskan
Station A, Lincoln, NeDraaka
OFFICIAL 8TUOENT PUBLICATION
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA
Published Tuetday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
Sunday mornings during the academic year.
THIRTIETH VBAK
Entered a second-class matter at the postoffice in
Lincoln, NchrssVa, und.tr act ef joriQrcn, March 3. I87i.
and at special rata of postage provided tor In section
1103 act of October S, 1917. authorned January 20, 1922.
Under direction of the Student Publication Board
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EDITORIAL STAFF
William T. McCleery Editor-in-chief
Managing Editor
Robert Kelly Elmont Walt
New Editor
Frances Holvoke Arthur Mitchell
William Mcdaffin Eugene McKim
Rex Wagner
Guv Cralo Sports Edtto'
Evelyn Simpson Women's Sports Editor
ereniec Hoffman eiety Editor
BUSINESS STAFF
Charles Lawlor Acting Business Manager
Assistant Business Manager
Norman Callhr Thompson
gMEMBCR
This paper la represented for central
advertising by The Nebraska Tr
Assoaiettoa.
Student Spirit
Is Rip-Van-Winkling.
Nebraska traditions and activities must have
Wen moulded on a foundation of graft, dis
honesty and dirty polities. Since these unde
sirable growths have been sliced off the extra
curricular structure, little life itself remains
in the old svstern. Our task, then, is to begin
anew this development of spirit and find
something more substantial than rotten poli
ties for a cornerstone.
Student spirit at Nebraska has been on the
toboggan for several years. We are swooping
madly into a sea of inertia. The only way to
send the careening carriage up to its proper
heights is to arouse the student body.
Polities are cleaned up. to a large extent.
With the removal of cut-throat methods, how-i-vcr,
students have lost interest in the matters
which formerly aroused Ihem to fever heat.
.Most every manifestation of school loyalty
today is artificial. Tt demands back-breaking
promotion.
Promotion!
Does the studeut body realize that the labors
-,f most student organizations on this campus
are devoted more to promotion and atlention
. ..mpelling than to the execution of its legiti
mate duties?
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i ,.4 tbn flm I riiiiiT-.ii t k society. As a
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i,io,. honorary it should be concerned with
ministration of move-
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... .4 ts-V irtVi Mrill A honffit thp student body.
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Instead, its efforts must be directed toward
tlic instillation of false spirit. rJ his is not me
fault of the society or its memrjers, inn maj
ho traced directly to the state of affairs at
Nebraska. The Innocents have charge of ral
lies. These pep demonstrations may be planned
in a short time the actual work piles upon the
shoulders of those who must attempt to 'ring
students to the conclaves. Publicity, adver
tisingthese methods are used extensively to
call the attention of Conrtiuskers to an affair
which should rightfully attract them by a mere
announcement. (
The senior men battle through Dad s Way.
This commendable affair, piw. of Nebraska
praiseworthy traditions, would fall fli't if the
promoters failed to plug away at the students
and beg them to attend.
H is repulsive and disgusting to perceive a
student body in this condition. "We sing and
shout of Cornhusker spirit, but we are allow
ing it to die away. Sludents deserve the
blame, naturally, for their own dormancy. Hut
faculty members and administrative heads who
are reasonably interested in student affairs
must, recognize Ihis deplorable state of affairs.
"This university is something more than a
stafr of instructors, a group of buildings and a
rlil.; of books," exclaimed an inspired speaker
at the freshman initiation curly in the fall.
How much more?
Our Student council is quaking under the
administrative thumb, powerless to do more
than recommend certain things to 4he faculty
stick-holders.
Student publications are battling for support
and attempting to issue their works with in
efficient and feebly interested staffs. The
Cornhusker fights desperately to assemble a
yearbook, using everything but physienl force
to persuad" juniors and seniors to have their
pictures taken for the Cornhusker, at -1 a
throw. It must .toady to the administration,
faculty, military department and athletic de
partment, giving them desired publicity with
out recompense.
The Daily Nebraskan faces an eligibility
rule which cuts down its available force. It
cannot give its freshman reporters public
credit for the work they do, though no attempt
is made to discourage this labor. Students do
not flock to The Nebraskan office to assist in
the publication of their student daily. They
are satisfied to peruse its columns over the
morning grape fruit snd let a handful of over
worked, weary martyrs do all of the work and
get all of Ihe glory.
It is useless tn cite other groups.; 1 be vast
flock of professional fraternities, sororities and
tonifs are in the same bout. No spirit.
Two student letters appear in Morning Mail,
offering comments on the situation. We are
pleased to find that a few stalwart sons o.
the fertile plains, with due apologies to the
Prairie Schooner, are aware of the condition.
So the football team will be transported to
the station in hey-hey racks.
Divided We Stand
Together We FU Doun.
To preserve the moral purity of Nebraska
student, men and women will bo forced to ride
in separate cars of the. Manhattan special on
their return trio from the Kansas anie. Why
not hire n fleet of baby carriages and trundle
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tJie ninints nacK 10 ine ieirnsKa campus 1
This regulation, wherever it originated, is
sillv enough to revive the Awgwan. Nebraska
students are not nabes-in-arms and snouin not
be treated as such.
The University of Nebraska is a coeduca
tional school. The presence of both men and
women in a school of this size presents certain
problems; it cannot and should not, however,
be regulated as a military academy or a girl's
boarding school. It is impossible to keep men
and women apart and to attempt it on a
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special utun is lowy. runner, inu ri-ijuu viiivm
is a direct insult to the student body.
Certain regulations are necessary to preserve
oi'dpr in n university but we heartily condemn
any attempt to force men and women to occupy
separate ears on a special train.
You Lucky,
Lucky Students!
Students who drive cars to college should be
thankful for this privilege and forget the park
ing problem, in the opinion of L. F. Seaton,
operating superintendent of the University of
Nebraska.
This statement dodges the issue most
adroitly. We are not bothered over the prob
lem of "driving, but of parking. If the univer
sity is magnanimous enough to allow students
the use Of ears it should be efficient, enough to
provide parking places. Since Mr. Seaton is
in charge of campus parking and since it is
such a muddle, we might have good cause to
siisnect the oneratinir superintendent or being
,
inefficient..
Practical or impractical, The Daily Nebras
ka n's plan to solve the parking problem has
been passed by the Student council as a recom
mendation to Mr. Seaton. It will, as he points
out. involve some expense. Hut it is a worthy
cause.
We are not jumping at this problem without
any knowledge of the complications. Hut the
student body has been hunting parking places
for three years and the administration has
made no attempt to improve matters, aside
from granting faculty members space on the
drill field.
"The only method of improving the condi
tion." Mr. Seaton informed a Nebraskan re
porter yesterday, "is to provide more parking
space." Quite right! He continues to suggest
that the mall which will eventually run through
the present drill field will help matters. That,
too, is a statement which cannot be denied.
But how about the present?
' K. ( I. K. U." is a fine slogan, but some
misinformed studenls are apt to mistake it for
a new soft drink.
members on such questions, but such opinions
should not be taken as law.
All very well, but what is the solution, you
nsk! Elections have just been held, and along
with other officers, a new board of regents
has been elected. Lei a delegation of students
meet this new hoard, lay the facts of the situa
tion squarely before (hp board that we are
being treated, not like men and women, out
rnther like babes in swaddling clothes; that
everything, from the time we rise to the time
that "we retire, is nil mapped out in advance,
that we are given no initiative in deciding
questions which should be decided by the stu
dents alone and let this student delegation
ask the regents for a shake-up in the faculty.
Action of this kind, out in the open, is much
more likely to bring action from the regents
than the kind of last spring " With Fire and
Sword." While I heartily agree with the pur
pose 1 condemn the ethics.
Numerous rallies have been held to exhort
the athletic teams to fight. Why aren't rallies
held to exhort the student body to fight for
certain of their inalienable rights that Ihe
administration has usurped? Are the students
willing to sit by and do nothing at all?
FRANK
MORNING MAIL
Going Strong.
TU Tilt EDITOR:
Hy way of emphasis to your excellent edi
torials of Wednesday concerning student gov
ernment, the coed smoking problem, eligibility
rules, and student behavior in general. You
must feel like an over-burdened baby carriage
after going round and round, just a little
tired. Puh-lease! students, let's go Fisk, and
help re-tire.
There is on record a certain university w hose
student government rode the stream in the
same leaky barge the Cornhuskers now employ.
Corruption was evident; instead of fighting
with good organizations beneficial to student.
interests, skeptics tore them down through the
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hopeless attitude that "Homing can no none
about it." Result: one student body com
pletely under the heel of the faculty and ultra
faculty supervision.
Pshaw, a student transfer from another
school, no matter how fitted or interested in
Nebraska student activities as a practical en
thusiastic outlet to apply the theoretical
knowledge a university offers, cannot do so
eligibility rules rules out fairness!
Then these individuals crying about the "im
morality" of t he paper and Greek group
sanctioning coed smoking. What an attitude!
We, as individuals, are only applying the logic
that the university teaches us, sanctioned in
turn by these very complainers. Also, we, as
individuals, are experiencing this university
life. Then, when we use their weapon upon a
sanely conducted plan to make honest provi
sion for an existing situation, they Consist
ent? Well, figure it out. To repeat, we, the
student body, are living this university life.
Blame us for sticking up for our own adequate
measures after you rub the gravel out of your
eyes. '
What, then, can be done, asks Mr. Editor?
Yea, verily, what, if not rouse the individuals
out of the coma? If we, as Cornhuskers, want
to conduct our own student activities, then
let's get going! Ed, we're behind you, keep
it up. And Cornhuskers, get behind the exist
ing student organizations and help re-tire
there's milts to be e.ovoicd.
Just from an ineligible who would like to
down the bacon and scrambled e. over the
Nebraskan without choking over the lack of
progress in a worthy cause. K. B.
Open Action.
TO THE EDITOR:
In Wednesday morning's paper you had a
very good editorial dealing with the subject of
faculty control of student affairs, student
affairs which should be left to the discretion
and judgment of the students in deciding. You
intimated that it was the fault of tho students
because conditions were not remedied. I
heartily agree with you. But I think that part
of the blame may be, laid at the door of one
of the faculty members. This member takes
the attitude that the people of the state are
blind to what tho rest of the world is doing.
This attitude in wrong. The people of Nebraska
II not nntimintcd hicks, with hnvseed in their
hair and straw in their shoes. They are just
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as widely trnveiea as me average run oi peopie
in nnv nilinr (ttnlc. in the union.
The studeut body seems to think that this
faculty member is a little tin god on wheels,
that anything that emanates from the office of
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mis memuer is um, yuesuons sucn as hjj
inc in sorority houses. 12:30 nichts. chaoerons
at parties, the time for university parties, and
t, 4Vt t ...Attn lOTtlae ttiA am, i art A
sorority houses, to close, nil ar questions which
should be decided by the students alone. It is
perfectly all right to g t " opinion of faculty
TELLS OF SUES
Nebraska Alumna Describes
Disorder in New York
Suit Industry.
TALKS AT WORLD FORUM
"I have served as both strike
breaker and picket, as both union
worker and acab," said Kuth
Bhallcrosa at World Forum in the
Temple cafeteria at noon today.
"In the strike in the ladies" suit
Industry in New York City, I have
acted as striker and worker."
Misi Shallcross is a University
of Nebraska graduate of 1929,
having- taken here depree In so
ciology. Last summer she was
working in New York City when
the ladles' suit industry strike
broke out and participated in it on
both sides of the fence.
Detective Protect Her.
She stated that as a scab she
was taken to work in a taxi and
detectives were hired to protect
them. They were protected also by
the police. When near their work
ing place they walked between a
double line of police on each side
of the sidewalk.
"I often felt that' .1 was taking
my life in my hands as a strike
breaker." she said. "The strike
breakers had a definite plan to at
tain their ends by peaceful means
but they could not control the
communists and other elements in
their group."
Industry Well Organized.
"The industry is one of high
grade ladies' suit making and the
union is one of the best organized
in the country. The strike has
come to a partial settlement but is
still going on. The strike had the
sympathy of some of the leading
lights of New York. In a parade
at the beginning of the strike Hey
wood Broun, columnist, and men
of his type were seen marching
with the strikers."
The strike, according to Miss
Shallcross, was a crucial one,
coming in a time of depression as
it did and its outcome will be re
garded with interest by the indus
trial leaders of the country.
COEDSlEiUfBE
Five Women File for Honor
Of Representing
Regiment.
Election of the regimental and
battalion sponsors for the regi
ment will take place during the
week of Nov. 10-15 at the periods
of company drill. The whole regi
ment will vote for the regimental
sponsor, but only the members of
the respective battalions will elect
their sponsor.
The following have filed lor po
sitions: For regimental sponsor:
Barbara Spoerry and Imo D.
Wells; for sponsor of the first bat
talion ( companies A, B, C and D),
Aileen McMonles; for sponsor or
the second battalion (companies
E. F, G and H), Aural Behn; for
sponsor or tne intra oauauon
(companies I, K, L and M). Louise
Cogswell. All applicants must be
at least sophomores with twelve
hours carried successfully the pre
vious semester and twenty-seven
hours carried successfully the pre
vious year to be eligible.
OLOFATHER 10 SPEAK
AT FRIENDSHIP DINNER
Dean Thompson Will Preside
At Gathering in First
Christian Church.
Menus In French, musical num
bers by Filipino groups, and songa
in Czech will feature on the pro
gram planned for the third annual
international friendamp dinner 10
be held Friday at 6 o'clock at the
First Christian church.
Prof. C. H. Oldfather, chairman
of the department of history, will
speak on "Toward international
Understanding." Dean T. J.
Thompson will preside at the din
ner. Hermann C. Decker is in charge
of the musical program for the
dinner. All foreign students of
the university will be Introduced
at the banquet and one from each
of the groups will respond to the
main address.
SEM BOT WILL
INITIATE NINE
NEW MEMBERS
Sem Bot will meet tonight at C
o'clock In Bessey hall for initia
tion rites. Dr. Pool, the grand
warden, has charge of the ritual
program. All old members as well
as the faculty will attend this Ini
tiation. Miss Marion Williams, Mr. Mc
QuUkso, and Daniel Sperry are to
be advanced and T. L. Richardson,
J. Robertson, C. E. Blswell, Paul
Frink, Cornelia Weaver, and Har
old Jones are being initiated into
the organization.
When, the liew members are in
stalled the- total -membership of
Scm Bot will be seventeen. Tra
ditional refreshments of "canis
pie" and cider will be served.
AT
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By
University Chemists
In Investigation
Tear Powder.
Join
of
University chemists have Joined
chemists of Cotner college in in
vestigating a powder which pur
chased as tear gas may cause one
Cotner student to lose his sight.
The powder was secured from
Chicago by two Cotner students
to protect them against possible
holdups. Sunday night while the
two boys were experimenting with
their "tear gas" some of it was
accidently thrown into the eyes of
George Pugsley, one of the boys.
He was immediately blinded and
physicians say he may lose his
sight as a result of the accident.
Chemests who are investigating
the powder say that they know of
no chemical in tear gas that would
cause such Injury to the eyes.
BLACKMAN GETS CURIO
F
E
Secures Piece of Oak From
Old Butler Mansion at
Pawnee City.
E. E. Blackman, curator of the
museum of the Nebraska State
Historical society, returned re
cently from Pawnee City, where
he spent a short visit with his
daughter, Mrs. E. S. Mathers,
formerly of University Place.
While there he found that work
men were razing the old mansion
of David Butler, Nebraska's first
state governor, which was located
in Pawnee City. As a curio piece
for the museum, Mr. Elackman
brought back a piece of solid oak.
used in the construction of the
house, which was built sometime
during 1850.
Among other new curiosities
that Mr. Blackman has acquired
recently are three bills. These
were given to Mr. Blackman by
Peter Johnson, as someone had
given Ihem to him by mistake.
These bills consist of two $2 and
one il bill. They were issued on
the city of Lincoln during 1870.
There has, at one time, been the
signature of buLh the mayor and
city clerk, but time and rough
handling have obliterated these
names.
25 TEACHERS AT
AMES WILL TALK
BEFORE MEETING
AMES. Ia.. Nov. 5 A bout
twenty-fivomcmbers of the staff
of Iowa State college are scheduled
to talk ocfore various sections of
the annual conference of the Iowa
State Teachers' association in Des
Moines Nov. 13 to 15.
A college exhibit prepared under
the direction of W. I. Griffith, head
of visual instruction, will be sent
to the meeting.
Th? Iowa Home Economics as
sociation, composed of teachers,
nurses, dietitlcians and homemak
er3, will hold its annual meeting
in conneciton with the home eco
nomics section of the conference.
Mrs. Josephine Aruquist Bakke,
leader of gills' 4-H clubs in Iowa,
is preridtnt. Dean Genevieve
Fisher, of th'T home economics di
vision here, is scheduled to talk to
the home economists.
Uofclioroupli (o Speak
A. A. RosboroUgh of Gold end
company will speak to Prof. Clcon
O. Sway zee's class on personal
management on "Training In In
dustry" at 11 o'clock Friday.
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11M P St. Always Open. B-681D.
PLANS COMPLETED FOR
JOURNALISE BANQUET
Sigma Delta Chi Awards to
Be Made; 'Reporters'
Speak.
An Important Invitation
and Nothing to Wear!
What matron or miss has not been
confronted with that problem
some time or other. Then mother
usually saved the day with a help
ful suggestion of some kind.
Lincoln mothtri usually say:
"Just pend your soiled dress
to Modern Cleaners. It will
look like new w hen they re
turn it."
MODERN
CLEANERS
Soukup Si Westover, Hlgra.
Call F-2377 for Service.
ALL STUDENTS INVITED
Plans have been completed for
the annual school of journalism
dinner which will take place to
night at the Annex cafe at 6:30.
Tickets for the affair are being
checked In this noon, and all who
Intend to go are asked to buy
theirs or report to some member
of Theta Sigma Phi though a lim
ited number will be sold nt the
door.
The Sigma Delta Chi awards for
the best news and feature stories
that appeared in The Nebraskan
during the second semester of last
year will be made by Prof. G. C.
Walker at the dinner.
Entertainment will be provided
in the shape of a number of toasts
given by a group of "cub report
ers" who are working on a new
school paper and who will give
samples of the news they have col
lected from such beats as Ellen
Smith hall, the athletic depart
ment, the military department, the
administration, and extra-curricular
activities in general. Report
ers covering these beats include
Bill McCleery. Gene Robb, Cliff
Sandahl, Neal Gomon and Bob
Kelly.
A ghost writer who speaks as he
is directed for notables who do not
choose to write their own stories
will be last on the program, af.d
his identity Is kept secret.
Frances Holyoke, "hard boiled
editor" of the new paper, will pre
side as toastmistress. Interested
students outside the school of
journalism are also invited to attend.
STAGE ARTISTS DESIGN
ODD SCENES FOR PLAY
Dramatists Hard at Work on
Costumes for 'Alice in
Wonderland.'
IOWA Cnr, la. Voice train
ing, interesting methods of pre
sentation, and elimination of per
sonal mannerisms are three phases
of a course offered by the Univer
sity of Iowa Id radio broadcasting.
Every situation that an announcer
meets will be studied and methods
of meeting Oese situations will be
practiced. A rsdio set up in the
class room enables the students to
hear faulty pronunciation and per
sonal mannerisms and help the
students to correct their errors.
"Alice in Wonderland," the play
to be presented in the Temple
Saturday afternoon by the Chil
dren's theater, Is in its last few
days of preparation. The scenery,
particularly difficult for such an
unreal theme, Is being done tn
Imaginative fashion,, according to
Charlotte Wells, stage manager
for the organization.
The play will be given in eight
scenes, requiring six different seta.
The sets are: Alice's home; her
home rearranged as though seen
through a mirror; the hall of
doors; the sea shore; the March
hare's garden; the garden of flow
ers; and the court of hearts. The
scale of all the scenery is abnor
mally large.
Story Book Costumes.
The costumes for "Alice" are
taken from the illustrations in the
usual children's edition of the
book. The king, queen and knave
of hearts will be dressed in ac
cordance with the style of the card
pack. The members of their court
will be sandwiched between heavy
pasteboard covers bearing the cor
rect numbers of hearts, spades,
etc.
Humpty Dumpty will wear
trousers and the rest of the con
ventional uniform, but will be two
huge balloons at heart. The other
characters will have simply col
ored costumes, specializing in
stripes and spots. The Mock Tur
tle remains unprovided for, and
the designers are trying to invent
something appropriate as a garb
for him. Miss Betty Jonas, of the
faculty of the school of fine arts,
is in charge of the costumes.
The Staff.
The staff of the production will
be: Pauline Gellatly. director;
Margaret Shepherd, student direc
tor; Charlotte Wells, stage man
ager; Jessie Mae Kirk, illumina
tion; Ruth Frantz, properties.
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS -Approximately
1,500 spectators
watched the Beta Theta Pi pledges
win the second annual running of
the freshman pajama relays, spon
sored by Skull and Crescent, soph
omore honorary inter-fraternity
organization for men.
The race was more like a steeple
chase than a foot race due to nu
merous obstructions which lay In
the path of runners. Racers fought,
stumbled, ran into trees, and feW
over barriers In their attempt to
win.
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