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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
THURSDAY. MARCH 26, 1931
The Daily Nebraskan
Utlen A, Lineal n. Nebraska
OFFICIAL tTUQINT UiLICATION
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA
Published ueeday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday ad
Sunday mermnea during ne acaoenrwc ysar.
THIRTIETH VIA a)
Entered aa aaeend-elae matUr at tha poiteffice In
Umaln. Nebraska, under act at eenoreee, March I. 187
and at aaaolal rata af aeetaee aravlded far In aeetien
1103 act ef October S, 117, autherlxed January SO. 1122.
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EDITORIAL STAFF
Elmant Walta Edltar.n-ehUf
Rebert J. Kelly Aaaaclata Editor
Managing Editor
William MeQaTfln C Arthur Mitehtii
eyd VenSegoerit
Eugene MeKir
Nawa Editor
Arthur Welt
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Franca. Holyoke Waman'e Editor
UEINIS STAFF
Charlaa 0. La lor ....uelneee Managar
Aeslatnnt Euelneea Managara.
Norman Galleher Jaek Thompaoa
Edln. Faulkner
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far g aural
We Are Asking
You, Is It Fair?
During the past few weeks there have been
occurrences tt different universities m the
country which have been the subject of much
unfavorable publicity. Students have been
fired from the University of Michigan for li
quor escapades. Minnesota and Oregon eds and
coeds have been suspended for the same reason,
and now we have a like instance occurring on
the Nebraska campus.
Such t circumstance seems to be the signal
for the press of the nation to deliver a strong
harangue regarding tha evils of the college
youth Somehow, we feel that such a criticism
is not-justified, although v. 2 are not here to
whitewash university life at all. We don't give
a darn about the reputation of Joe College, it
that reputation squares at all with his real
chftrflctip
Suppose, though, that instead of pointing out
the defects of the college students and the uni
versity its critics were to find everything in
which the university community excelled like
communities in the outside world.
Suppose, also, that the aforementioned critics
were to be made fully aware of the fact that m
the local university we have a community of
from 6,000 to 7,000 individuals gathered to
gether in a fashion which might be character
ized ias a "Melting Pot." These individuals
for the first time, in a majority of cases, have
left "behind them all the restraints which home
and friends have placed upon their manner of
living. '
Also let the critics remember that these same
individuals forming university communities
are still, in the most part, in an adolescent
Mage in which their ways of life have not be
come set, and for whom the adventure of liv
ing and of choosing their activities leads to
things which are often more valorous than
wise.
Let the critics keep these things in mind and
then. let him eompile a list of crimes and mis
demeanors committed by the university com
munity. -Then let him place alongside it a list
of the -crimes and misdemeanors of any other
community of 6,000 or 7,000 individuals, the
majority whom have reached the age of dis
cretion. Where ould the critie find a community
with so few a lists of arrests for drunkenness?
Whereeould the eritie find a community of
corresponding sue with so few instances of ar
rests and eontictions for gambling?
Where is there a community with so few ac
tual instances of thievery, of assault or bat
tery? A criticism has been made that the univer
sity man ha lost his respect for womanhood,
and with it a sense of spiritual values.
Where, we challenge the critic, can a com
munity of 7,000 be found with no prostitution
esses cluttering up the municipal courts? Uni
versities are not bothered in this fashion.
In our opinion the university man has as fine
an appreciation of the things womanhood has
stood for as ever before. Because conditions
in their community throw more men in closer
contact at an earlier age with more women, and
in an environment which teaches them to call
a spade a spade, and thus builds up a certain
familiarity which has not before existed, is this
any sign that the university man does not re
spect his eoed companion as much as the man
of the gay Kinetics T
The critic of the university, should he look
for it, would find a sense of ehivalry existing
underneath a certain blase exterior that takes
concern for the weaker members of his com
munity, that admires achievement either scho
lastic, athletic or in any of the many activities
found in the university, and that gives credit
where eredit is due.
To all critics of the university, to all those
who jump at the ehance to say, "I told you so,"
may we ask, "Just where can you find us an
other community of corresponding size in which
there is so little which is downright eviL as wc
have in ours?"
The safecrackers and yeggs whose auto
graphs decorste city police blotters are not en
rolled in universities. Neither are the prosti-iht-
ttr thieves, nor the eambler
.ufva aa.-va vaav j w - - j J
oWftoina nn th a. windier, nor Lne irrafters.
nor the pimps, nor the embezzlers, nor the
scores of other constant oiienaen wno appror
in municipal, police, and district courts day in
and Cij out.
Considering thi comparison, in the light of
which the average university shines forth as a
guiding beacon in a world gone vice-xnad, stu
a AfrnAr MtaaiAri&l as they are, are
? A i!u1 Art Virthlv-
When the Lincoln business man is fined for
drunkenness, he is not taken from his Business.
He ia not fired on Monday for being drunk on
C4-Tii"ai Tiler lit
excellent scholars, are deprived of their train
ing for a livelihood because they drank "on
Saturday night"?
It is far from fair.
We suggest, expelling students for reckless
driving, and violation of traffic rules. It's
much more dangerous to rights of others.
Wouldn't it be a good idea to change tht
essay contest from "What I Got Out of Col
lege" to "Why and When I got out of Col
lege!" This It
Different
The Nebraskan received a very critical let
ter, printed in our Morning Mail column to
dny. It says the "student newspaper" is not
justified in running four standard-size pnges
without sufficient interesting news to fill those
pages.
First,, we wish to make it known here and
now that we arc looking for such critics. We
want them to go to work for us as soon as pos
sible. Any group or individual with such con
structive ideas would make a very good addi
tion to our staff.
Aside from failing to consider a few minor
points, such us the varying amount of uews
copy from day to day, and the whimsical vari
ation in the advertising total, they have
touched upon a fundamental problem. Some
days we could conveniently use six or eight
ii . r a' a. I a!..'. .
naores. ana nave not suiricieni aaverwsmir i
justify that expense, although much news is of
necessity withheld. Some days, too, the paper
has sufficient advertising to necessitate at least,
the regular four-page run, yet has not suffi
cient real campus news to fill
Aside from a few minor points like this, the
objectors have demonstrated a very able grasp
ing of the problems involved.
"Smart phrases used by the editor are per
haps out of place. We should no doubt re
strain ourselves, make our columns as dead as
possible, and then, since no one would read
them, there would be no complaints. Millennium!
The contributors also object, evidently, to
addressing Mr. Vogeler thus publicly. But how
in heck can anyone interest students in the pos
sibility of a swimming pool without discussing
it in public?
Incidentally, the kicking gentlemen were
not preparing a private letter. They prepared
one for print ,as attested by the. fact, that it
bore a head.,;ne, and gave the writers' names
but no addresses. Hence they surely want
their answer public also. Here it is. Fair
enough?
No one as vet has accused T. N. E. of pub
lishing the "Fire and Sword." It would be
ideal publicity for the lodge. N e suggest they
appoint a committee to prepare a confession.
Fir$t Build
Your Pool
Then catch a few fish.
Three nossible wavs to nav for a swimming
pool, according to Coach Vogeler, are :
1. Throufl-h athletic tate receipts. Not prac
tical, according to present situation.
2. Through university appropriations, yoi
nractical. since these funds are needed for
dormitories and classroom structures.
3. Bv donations fi-om alumni. A srood be-
ff-inninir micht be made in this fashion, if some
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influential citizen could be persuaded to do
nate any substantial sum. (We doubt if this is
very practical, either.)
Special events, to which admission miarht be
charged, are not such an efficient means of
raisinp- monev. he savs. He has had some ex
perience in this method and should know.
"Still open to suggestion 'lhanks to
Nebraskan for time and space given swimming
pool project "
Ufll BEHIND
iwmrlP,. the
Next year six rather than the present three
swimming classes for men will be given. If
any pool could be obtained for use of women
students as well as men. there is no doubt
that several courses for the coeds would be
placed in the curriculum as well. Swimming
is a sport that rouses more than a passing in
terest, inasmuch as it is one that is always
voiiicu via an i l lauuouvui
Too bad some method of raising funds for
a pool cannot be devised. No reason why it
cannot. Any suggestions?
Interfraternity council constitution and rush
rules finally adopted. Panhellenic board still
retains a complicated code of rushing restric
tions, the intricate details of which no soror
ity bothers to observe. And still no action on
the matter. Well, most anyone likes to vole
one way and act another. That unspoken
reservation, as Mencken calls it
Jensen reports his "20 questions" on union
building have been prepared and submitted. . .
All that is necessary, now, is 20 answers. Then
well have another donation to the union build-
MORNING MAIL
"Our Paper
TO THE EDITOR:
While reading The Daily Nebraskan this
morning, we came to the conclusion that our
"student newspaper" should be reduced in
size to conform to the amount of news of real
interest to the student body.
Why have a four page, standard size paper,
and then fill it up with a column or so of grad
uates of the Iowa State College, a part of a
column to another advertisement of the Lin
coln exposition (and if we remember correctly
The Nebraskan is opposed to the renting of
the coliseum), a note on a tour by a Kansas
Glee club, and, in addition, every day or so,
an old sports article from a Lincoln daily pa
per. In addition, we wonder why the editor needs
to continue to use smart phrases in his edi
torials, as he did this morning, such as "keeper
of the purse" and "right honorable" in refer
ring to Mr. Selleck, who, it seems to us, wrote
a good article.
Incidentally, if the editor wishes to corres
pond with Mr. Vogeler we would be glad to
supply Mr. Vogeler's addrew.
GEORGE OA NT
RAY HUMMEL.
TOW,
HOOD
LMvjTj!ju:ii-..
Koiana nincr
B razen, to they say, and ever
E aoer aentla tout to
A pe In wordly wise and
U nctuous fashion. A
T empo, which
I rnuat confess, Is
F ound by those who round her
pass
U ncouth, and not becoming her
L ovely self.
B ecaus of this, a primal
U rgt
T ears at my soul.
D erlved of cloth and tinsel.
U nseated from a self-made
throne.
M ethinks we find her like all
others,
B eautifut but dumb.
but in Nebraska its just a big
In a divine board Its sprine.
appointment. March came in like
a lion and its supposed to go out
like a lamb. Maybe it is, but from
all evidence the lamb's in the lion.
With reference to the construc
tion of a fraternity house we note
the following:: "The house is to be
made of brick, three utories high
with a full basement." Have you
a report, Mr. Wickersham?
"K. U. Divides Grid Men," so
reads another headline. Undoubt
edly, then, from a full-back they
can get two quarter-backs and a
half. Page Mr. Einstein.
As far as we are concerned both
Mr. Einstein and his theory are
quite at sea.
So the west coast is succumbing
to the tango. Very interesting, in
deed. That correspondent ought to
drop in on a downtown party here
at Nebraska. The feature dance is
a wow. We call it the "tangle."
In a cigarette its tobacco, in the
Awgwan its taboo.
He called her his real estate girl,
because he loved her "lots."
Irving Cobb is still one of the
world's finest "raconteurs." Back
in '17 when we were having lunch
together, he told one which has
never been forgotten. A poor
mountaineer lived in the hills of
Tennessee with his wife. Their
dwelling was but a hut one room,
one window, one door, one purpose.
Even some of the bare necessities
of life were lacking. It happened
that one day while his wife was
out gathering up wood for the eve
ning meal the mountaineer found
a looking glass tucked away in a
corner. He picked it up and looked
at it "Well, by gum," he said,
"If it ain't a picture of my old
pappy." So he hid it carefully
away in an old box. Sometime later
the wife discovered it and she too
peered at the bit of glajss. "So,"
she said, "that's the old hag he's
been running' 'round with lately,
is it" and with a lusty toss she
smashed it to bits against the
stove.
Now isn't that just the sort of a
tale you'd expect Irving to tell ?
"I'm on to you," said the rain to
the dust, "and your name's Mud."
NEW HOME ECONOMICS
BUILDING IS NEEDED
STRUCTURE ON AG COL
LEGE CAMPUS.
(Continued From Page II
be lightened immensely. The home
economics courses being held in
other buildings could be changed
and thus make room all around.
The building would also bring to
gether in the two buildings all of
the home economics work, as well
aa provide adequate space for the
cafeteria.
The present cafeteria was built
to accommodate eighty girls. The
kitchen is but little larger than the
average farm kitchen in Nebraska,
yet last year 145,000 meals were
prepared there. A new home eco
nomics building that will ade
quately take care of the work will
release space in other buildings
and may make it possible to re
assign some of the departments
that are now poorly taken care of.
The experiment station and the
extension division of the college
have bad increasing demands upon
them in the last few years and
have been doing a large amount of
work in their fields. Dean Burr
explained, however, that the in
creasing demands upon these di
visions of the college cannot be
cared for without IncreaHed appro
priations. He feels, however, that
these can better be put off than
the proper care of the students
who come to the college.
UNKNOWN ALUMNUS
GIVES $100,000 TO FUND
FOR UNION BUILDING
(Continued From Page 1)
versity the dining halls are the
most important feature. Under
the supervision of Miss Etta Handy
who is director of dining rooms,
one of the most modern and com
plete kitcnens in the west has been
built and equipped. Mlsa Handy,
who is a graduate of Simmons
college, and was formerly at
Washington State college, made
an extended tour through the east
and visited more than a dozen of
the largest eating commons of
eastern colleges. The culinary de
partment of the new Stanford Un
ion embraces the best features of
then eastern colleges.
There are four dining halls two
club rooms for men eating there
regularly, the faculty dining room,
and the transient dining room,
which is open to women aa well as
men.
In the club rooms the meala are
paid for by the month at the rate
of about a dollar a day and are
served family style. In the tran
sient dining room. When the kit
chen is In full operation, there are
two different priced table d'hote
meals at noon and at night. In ad
dition, meala are served a la carte.
Student waiters employed aa
"hashers" for meala is an institu
tion as old aa the university itself,
and to put an end to this would
prevent many assbitious men from
getting a higher education.
The old Stanford union, built as
univeraitv club for men in 1915.
I partially from a donation by Pres-
Went Herbert Hoover, was reno
vated In tha summer of 1929, and
now serves as a center of campus
life, augmenting the facilities of
fered by the new union.
The lounge, which no one super
vised or cared for, has been turned
over to the Y. M. C. A. This or
ganization has cleaned it, refur
nished it and made it inviting.
There are racks of popular maga
sines. The old billiard room, which
once was devoted to a certain as
pect of student finances, now han
dles them from a different angle.
It is the accounting office of the
Associated Students.
Student Offices,
Above the accounting office, and
connected with it are, the offices
of tha student body president and
student manager. Adjoining these
quarters, that former adjunct of
the Stanford museum, which once
was called the reading room, has
been turned into a rich and digni
fied chamber for the deliberations
of the ex-committee, and the men's
council, and other high bodies.
Beautifully furnished by the asso
ciated students, the room would do
credit to the board of any great
city bank. There is a vast table,
upholstered chairs a throne-like
specimen for the presiding digni
tary a gavel, a Brecise arrange
ment of ash trays, thick carpet,
heavy drapes, an occasional easy
chair, all furnishing an impressive
setting for weighty deliberations.
The few remaining rooms scat
tered about the lobby are labeled
with the names of the Quad edi
tor and the dramatic manager.
The lower entrance is flanked with
a ticket office occupied by the stu
dent concert association, lacking
nothing but the usual regal blonde
to give It authenticity. The living
quarters top side are still used by
unmarried faculty men, who prob
ably will eventually be evicted by
the Union board and tnese rooms
will be made into student offices.
Changes have taken place on the
ground floor and in the basement.
The barber shop was allowed to re
main, but everything else store,
confectionery, boilers, pipes, kit
chen, lavatories, stairs and shoe
shop were ripped out and tossed
aside. When the dust settled, the
Union board, peering over the
shoulders of its demolishing ex
perts, saw a vast many-leveled
space broken up by unsightly pil
lars. Then they set to work.
Thev reduced the many levels to
two. They floored the whole space,
entrance and all, with red tile, the
kind that beneath the shuffling
feet of college generations, will
take on the rich warm glow seen
in the scrubbed bricks of old
French kitchens. They refinished
the walls in a light brown rough
ened plaster. They tiled them half
way up with a red dish tile, set
off with a small figured border. A
dark moulding accented the walls
and pillars.
By the corner entrance tney in
stalled a store. There is ample
shelf room for an attractive and
colorful display; there is a long
glass case, a selected list or mer
chandise, a radio in the corner, and
a few comfortable seats for loung
ing. It is really a model, that
store.
WOMAN FLO SAYS
INDUSTRY ADVANCING
Amelia Earhart Declares
Aviation Now Out of
'Circus Stage.'
PHILADELPHIA "Aviation
has passed the circus stage and
ia rapidly becoming one of the
major industries of the country,
said Amelia Earhart in an inter
view granted recently to The
Pennsylvanian, University of Pen
nsylvania dally newspaper. She is
the only woman who has flown
across the Atlantic ocean in a
heavier than air craft.
"in inHiratlnn nf the success
which the industry has already
attained," she continuea, "is snowu
r tha rrnri nf the Washinsrton-
New York line which carried 17,-
000 passengers in the last rour
m n n t h a nneratinr twentv-one
planes a day on an hourly sched
ule."
Opportunities Many.
Min F.arhart stressed the fact
that the opportunities for college
graduates in aviation are the
same as those in any young in-rinat-rv
with an almost limitless
field of expansion. "Piloting," she
said, "will euner Decome me po
sition of a glorified chauffeur or
lu that nf rantain of an ocean
liner. Personally I am inclined to
favor the latter view as the size
of passenger planes is constantly
increasing and larger staffs are
needed to operate them."
When asked if she thought the
auroaafiii nilnt mufit have certain
unusual attributes. Miss Earhart
replied that he certainly musi.
tv nilnt urhi arna a transport
license must be physically perfect
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and must nave an unuienusucu
record. He must be constantly on
the alert and must have highly
co-ordinated reflexes. He must be
intelligent and cool headed in any
emergency which may arise.
"Before the airplane reaches
the popularity of the automobile
for private use it must undergo
radical changes in design, particu
larly those which will permit
smaller landing fields.
"The fact that license require
ments are at the present time
more should not make a great
deal of difference aa I feel that
the requirements of most states
for driver's licenses are altogether
too lax and are accountable for
a large portion of automobile ac
cidents."
K. U. STAGES RELAYS
ATTENDANCE DRIVE
Starts Campaign for Purpose
Of Bringing New People
To Annual Event.
LAWRENCE, Kans, .P). Con
centrated drive for a new attend
ance record at the ninth annual
Kansas Relays is being planned by
the University of Kansas Athletic
office which sponsors this middle
western outdoor track and field
event, the goal having been set at
twenty thousand spectators, the
afternoon of April 18.
In order to reach this new at
tendance peak the management
has taken steps for a much en
larged list of added feature events
in connection with the program of
h rinva nroner. announcement
of these events to be made in the
immediate future.
One step toward Increasing at
tendance and interesting many
prominent persons of Kansas and
Missouri has been the forming of
ut nf natrons and patronesses
of the Kansas Relays which in
cludes many of tne social leaaers
of both states. Special patrons or
not vstridkaaA firm holders of these
seats will be accommodated with
back rests for each seat comiorc
u th snecial inducement offered
to box seat holders as their -lew
of the races will be the same aa
that affored helders of other
priced seats.
The UNITARIAN CHURCH
Twelfth and H Streets
"The Church Without a
Creed"
Subject, March 29 "The Paradox
of Life."
ADDRESSES STUDENTS
Says Buying Habits Change
Like Styles; Aa Man
Must Keep Up.
'frrmntH must realize the ;
rVinncrpa which are ever taking .
place in the buying habita and ;
hanriia hi warps in such fashion :
as to meet the new demand," de-
clared C. S. Clark, Chicago direc
tor of advertising and education i
for the National Confectioners' as- (
sociation, in a recent address to ;
more than two hundred persons m
Social Science auditorium.
"Buvin? habits, like styles, he
said, "keep ever altering. The wise
merchant detects tnese cnanges,
realizes that his success depends
on how he pleases his customers
and meets the situation not with
growls of disapproval but with a
change also in nis memoa oi smea
display.
"There in amnle ooDortunitv for
all of us to realize a profit in busi
ness if we will go out arier it. ao
vertising is our medium of ex
pressing ourselves to the buying
public. It should be news, enter
taining though informative."
we fcat Tons.
Nebraskans. he declares ate
mnnv inn a of eandv in 1930. In
Lincoln alone," he declared, "ap
proximately 1,198.785 pounas were
consumed at an approximate cost
to th Durchasers of S479.M4. The
per capita consumption was fifteen
pounds.
A a an Illust ration of the Dower
of advertising, he pointed out that
while other commodities showed a
decided dropoff in sales, candy
showed a slight increase, lnis, ne
said, was due to organized, co-operative
advertising.
"The smart merchant takes ad
vantage of his week kneed com
petitor during these periods of de
nrtwiion and does enough adver
tising so that when his competitor,
wno cas punea nis eaverusing
because of fear," returns to the
field with a concentrated cam
paign he cannot be displaced. The
man who stops his advertising in
time of depression cuts off the
main pipeline to sales volume," he
said.
Among the crowd which gath
ered to bear the address were the
members of the University of Ne
braska advertising classes.
"My boy," said the business
man to his son, "there are two
things that are vitally necessary
If you are to succeed in business "
"What are they. Dad?"
"Honesty and sagacity."
"What is honesty?"
"Always no matter what hap
pens, nor how adversely it may
affect you always keep your
word, once you have given it."
"And aajacity?"
"Never give it." Montreal Star.
The Ayes
Have it
in these c r e p e - y,
sponge-y, sport-y fab
rics which are made
into dresses which im
mediately receive a co
ed's o. k. And there's
yarn to trim them . . .
and belts and ties
which make them very
J spry and spring-y.
$19
75
TYPEWRITERS
Se us for the Royal portable type
writer, the Keal machine for tha
atudeot All makea of machinaa for
rnt All makea of used machines
on easy payments.
Nebraska Typewriter Co.
Call B-2157
1212 O St.
Magee's Co Ed Campus Shop
11 23 R Street
WIIISTLE
GANGPLANKS
Will it be wt'rc off or thtyVe off . . . when jinj
plenkt rumble down . . . when whistles roar goodbye
. . . whin tht ship "Jides cautiously from tht plet with
tht ntxt stop Europe, will you be aboard? . . .
STCA is tht laconic amwer to why stay at home
. . . about $200 round trip in th'w modem Tourist
Third Cabin rtstrved txclusivtly for collf people
and their friends . . . accommodations that Include tht
tntirt former second class on tht Rotterdam, Volen
dam and Ntw Amsterdam . . . and tht Tourist Third
Cabin of tht ast on tht ntw Suttndtm . . . crack
colltjt orchestras ... modern loan libraries . . . lec
turers . . . leaders and hoitttsti . . . invigorating
exercise or lazy relaxation . . '. all perfect setting
for tht colltgt way to Europt . . .Get ready to o up
tht jan jplank . . . set . . .
MISS MARGUERITE KLINKER
1511 D Street, Lincoln
STUDENT THIRD
CABIN ASSOCIATION
40 No. Dearborn 8t., Chicago, HI.
Why is it, then, that students, who may be
