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l" I WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1931 TWO THE DAILY NF.RRASKAN The Daily Nebraskan Station A, Lincoln, Nebraska "" OFFICIAL STUDENT PUBLICATION - ' " UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA Publialtcd. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 4 - Sunday mornings during the academle yea". THIRTIETH YEAR Entered as second-class matter at the postofflce In Lincoln, Nebraska, under act of congreaa, March 3. 187V and at special rate of postage provided for In section 1103 act of October 3, 1017, authorized January SO, 12? Under direction rf the Student Publication Board SUBSCRIPTION RATE $2 a year Single Copy 9 cents S1.2S a semester 3 a year mailed SI. 78 a semester mailed Editorial Off Ice University Hall 4. Business Off Ice University Hall 4A. Telephones Day i B-68911 Nlghtt S-6382, B-3333 (Journall , Ajk for Nebrasnan editor. EDITORIAL STAFF Elmoni Waits Edltor.ln-ehief Robert J. Kelly Associate Editor Managing Editors William MeOatfin C. Arthur Mitchell News Editors Arthur Wolf Boyd VonSeggern Evelyn Simpson Eugene McKlm Leonard Conklln Sports Editor Frances Holyoks Women's Editor BUSINESS STAFF Charles 0. Lavilor Business Manager Assistant Business Managers. Norman Galleher Jack Thompso" Edwin Faulkner sMEMBERe If 31 This MP is npremM tor general tdmtulnf f The Mekraaka AKMlttoa. Scholars And Activities. Fhi Beta Kappa, (pronounced Phee, if you please) has made its formal announcement of newlv elected members. The imposing list in cludes fortv-six seniors, thirteen men and thirty-three women. The figure, make the reader ponder for a moment. YYhv more women than men. Ts is because they are more intelligent than men? Or is it because they study more dili gently their assigned readings? Or is it be cause there are more men instructor than there are women? And then again, maybe it is because women are involved in fewer extra curricular activities that require any appre ciable amount of their time. more important point brought to light by the list is the general exclusion of students prominent in campus activities. Is it because tLev are less intelligent ? Granted that some of are' less intelligent? Granted that some of ihem are, but we doubt if the statement will hold for the majority, or even a fair minority. "ot a member of Innocents in the list. Not a member of the staffs of the major campus publications. Not a major or even a minor athlete in the list. Only two members of Mor tar Doard in the list. A clear separation of activities and scholar ship, if in fact V. B. K. and scholarship ate leallv jivnonvmous. There must be a reason for this. Now if. as i f;i-.iientlv stated by members of the honor arv. attainment of that glory is a prerequisite success in life, then the present campus Iwulers iu extra-curricular fields will be fail ures. This would make failures of most of the .called campus leaders. We say so-called, because it is evident that there are many mis-fin-s in extra-curricular activities. The big majority, however, can be taken as a safe cri leriou for judging the group. And for this ;rmup to have attained even a small measure Tf leadership among six thousand other stu-.b-uts must mean something, and must indicate at least a reasonable chance for success in lanr-Hfe. Considering the activities men and" women and the Phi Beta Kappas in this light, there is very little to choose between them. Both have Very fair chances to succeed, the one group no more than the other. The puzzle, of course, depends upn what is meant by the word "success." If it means a more or less confined, isolated, intellectual-research, continuous grind sort of a life, with success depending rerr little upon social con tacts and relations with other people, then the average P. B. K. will win and the average ac tivities man will fail. If, on b other hand, success means enjoy ing social eoatacts, getting along with people, liking item, helping them, and even knowing how to fight with them on occasion, as well as concentrated brain-work and development f new ideas in whatever vocational field is hosen, then tb activities man will win and j the honor student wfH fail. j Both rf these examples are perhaps a bit exaggerated, for they represent extremes, and extremes are seldom reached in actuality. They do, however, represent what we believe to be a fair criterion. To most of us. there is do percentage in con fining or learning to books alone. More than half the knowledge of the world, and useful knowledge, too, cannot be found in looks. Vet looks are the only doorway to Phi Beta Kappa honors. Psychologists perhaps might find some fundamental ''defense activity" causing stu dents to plunge the more deeply into books when discouraged at their progress in other lines of endeavor. It has been done, at least; how truthfully and accurately, we cannot say. Incidental sidelights on the process of hon oring scholars bring to the fore many other joints ff interest. And does Phi Beta Kappa select scholars, For example, do high grades necessarily mean scholarship? No, always, it is admitted. And dos Phi Beta Kappa select scholars, or .does it make a blind choice of all those with high grades? The answer, self-evident, brings with it thoughts of occasional cribbing, oeca Monal cultivating of instructors with an eye to securing higher average, frequent cramming for, examinations rather than careful study for tlifc sake of knowledge, and other practices eHJ"''y prevalent. Phi Beta Kappa sits complacently on top of the Leap, and sits with folded- hands. It pre sents keys for grades, and fails to account for the more than occasional discrepancies be tween high averages and real scholarship. Osteoid lfake$jt Hit! 1A contributor deplores the lack of any good music" od our campus. Why on earth, he la ments, can't we have a little light opera, put on by students? There seem to be no reason. The Glev Club has, indeed, languished. Likewise university chorus work. Likewise a little classical music, once in u while, nt the downtown theaters or rather, theatre is evidently out of the question. Student-produced light opera. It's an idea, whether it would be called good music or not. And we rather believe it might not be so bad. The difficulty, Oswald whisked in our ear, was in trying to persuade the director of the school of fine arts that such' a feature was needed. Thumbs down! said the director. No rea sous. Oswald thinks perhaps no one wants to take up the matter because it would mean a little extra work for the victim. Perhaps, again, Oswald is not so dumb! Clearly jt is a worthy project, and might be pushed without much opposition, even from professional reformers and itinerant critics. Of course, the costumes would of necessity be carefully censored by the society for the pre vention of cruelty to coeducational eyes. Oth erwise the productions might give rise to a Great Moral Issue, of which we already have a plenty, thank you! If all the college students in the whole wide world were laid end to end, we imagine they would be just as ornamental and fully as use ful as they now are. MORNING MAIL mm mm Aha! Another Movement! TO THE EDITOR: We are being told everyday that the world is headed for the bow wows, and then the per son who states the hypothetical idea elaborates bv talking about the depredation of music, art, drama, etc. I have always thought that such psuedo reformers have been playing around too long in rain storms or swimming pools, but in in one of their assertions they are quite right. Music, such as we have inflicted on our ears, is generallv not so good. We get --jazz" at gui dances, "jazz" for a nearly steady diet over the radio, and in fact, "jazz" is practically all we have an opportunity to hear. ' Jazz" is quite all right in its place, but why doesu't someone realize that it does have an nir r,in,- an not the whole field? There is a "Teat collection of fine music that has been written bv excellent composers, but we haraiy ever get a chance to hear such things played or sung- . , Last vear an effort was made to start hav ing some light opera productions, but as usual, the effort came to no good. Dean Thompson was in favor of the idea, and he even suggested that it might be jwssible to stage a light opera in place of one of the University players pro Hurtions. The idea sounded mighty fine, but like most good ideas, cold water was thrown on it. There are a creat number of young men and women who come to our university, fresh from light opera productions in secondary schools, and in all probability, would enjoy continuing the same work in the university. The facilities afforded the average student iu a musical way are decidedly poor. We never hear of our Glee Club any more; in fact, no one in the office knew whether it was still functioninz or not. We have a chorus class or two that meets rather spasmodically, but the tvpe of music that is sung does not ap peal very forcefully to the students. Why isn't it possible to have a light opera duo or some thinff to that effect, with a glee club large enough and versatile enough to put a show worth watching: Arthur Babich. director of the tuart thea tre orchestra was talking the other day about the type of music he received orders to play. He said that his manager practically insisted that he give the public only "Peanut Vender- ish" songs, and then he started a lengthy dis sertation in which he stated that the only rea son he had to play such things, was the fact that his manager did not know the true pulse of the theatre public. Mr. Babich was high in his praise of the Kos met Klub productions, for be recognizes the fact that it is a step in the right direction. Why isn't it possible to listen to some of the 'hits' that were written by Victor Herbert, "Rudolf Friml. or Gilbert and Sullivan? Whv can't an organization be started that can pro mote the production oi one or two oi tne truly fine light operas? OSWALD. ! M 1 BEHIND THE DOOR.. -lrr Rolard Miller Signs of Spring. An apple pie calling to its young-. A musk ox out musking. A couple of banty roosters getting the low down from an Austin. The swaggering walk of a couple of young "blados" of grass. A young maiden doing her wishy washy. Nature usually "springs" from winter to summer. From all in dications so far she's just going to step from one to the other thiss year. The old oracle -said, "Beware of the ides of March." Must have been thinking of the peroxides. The discontinuance of trolley service to Uni Place and Havelock has already caused its share of grief. Last Sunday a young man was seen standing on tne corner of Thirteenth and O. An officer who watched him for some time finally arrested him and took him to the station on a charge of vag rancy. When the magistrate asked the young man to explain he said, "Believe it or not, judge. I was only waiting for a street car." He entered the restaurant. His eyes wandered about and finally came to rest on the cash register. It cost him $3.60 to get out of there. A caution to hridgc players - if playing with any young lady never lead diamonds they seldom re turn them. Little Susie was a drug addict but strange to say when she went to New York and made the stage she became a great, success. What part lid she play oh, she took the heroin part. (It snow use, you mignt as well give up.) The electric chair is a fine ex ample of period furniture. It often comes at the end of a sentence. Bill's father was on the section gang, so the boy, deciding to fol low in his father's footsteps, came down to the university and took up track. Quite often soapbox orators see red. but they beat it at the fir3t appearance of the "bulls." Clothes make thp man but how about Gandhi? ' The sweet, young thing married the old man because she believed he was rich. He was really broke, the discovery of which led her to believe that she had taken his name in vain. A prisoner recently assaulted the warden as he was being re leased from prison. It seems that it was the prisoner's birthday and the warden merely wished him many happy returns. The national health authorities report a great decrease in sickness since the advent of prohibition. The greatest item of reduction is the number of colds caused by draughts from swinging doors. A certain young man was headed towards a wrestling championship, until he became bothered with a weak stomach. After that he couldn't keep anything down. In the Kentucky derby it's the horse in a stew well sometimes we think it a the same thing. MISS LEE TELLS OF NATIONAL MEETING (Continued From Page 1) prevailing conditions of unemploy ment in the larger cities. While in Chicago, Miss Miller also visited the New World's Fair building which is being erected at this timo on the lake front The Aircraft, a temporary building, and Administration nail, a permanent building, were almost completed and were of modern architecture. Chicago also was astir over the present mayoralty campaign. Play and Work Related. Further stressing the relation ship between recreation and indus try, Dr. Lillian Gilbreth a promi nent consulting engineer spoke on "The Effect of Motion in Indus try" in which she stated that she hoped that workers in factories may eventually come out at the end of a day's work physically weary but not mentally fatigued and dull, attaining such an effect by putting the spirit of creation and competition into the day's work. HAVE INVESTIGATION Governor Woodring Defends Institution in Public Statement. LAWRENCE, Kas. The Uni versity of Kansas will not be put to such an investigation as Okla homa university is now having, if conditions do not change and other factors enter to change the attitude of Governor Harry Wood ring who made public part of a letter which defended the univers ity against the attacks of an ir ritated parent who had withdrawn his daughter from the university because of alleged conditions there. Governor Woodring in his re ply said: "I have been in close touch with' the authorities and student coun cil at the University of Kansas and I personally know that every effort is being made to correct any undesirable conditions that may exist there. I think our state university in its moral environ ment is far above many others, and I feel sure that conditions there do not justify many of the reports." . Chancellor Speaks. . Chancellor E. H. Lindley, in speaking of the letter this noon said: "It was a thoughtful and gra cious act of Governor Woodring." He went further to say that Governor Woodring, when Chan cellor Lindley was in Topeka last week, showed him the letter which he received and said that he wished to stop such reports. Accusations Strong. Reports which had reached here earlier today indicated that the parent's letter was rather strong in its accusations against the university. One faculty mem ber said this morning that hau Brinkley been governor the (uni versity would certainly have been given a thoro Investigation. He went further to commend Gov ernor Woodring quite highly for his stand. It was rumored today that the woman withdrawn was not the only person who has been with drawn from the university this have been spread over the state. However, It was felt in most year because of reports which places that Governor Woodring's statement not only showed his con fidence in the present administra tion of the matter but also that it would decreass rumors going about the state. MILESTONES April 7, 1901 Members of Kappa Kappa Gam ma spent a pleasant afternoon at the state farm. From the end of the car line the party went a la hay rack to the farm. Once ar rived, they were presented with the key to the farm, and converted the butter and cream at their dis posal into fudge in short order. A picked team from the scrubs defeated the varsity baseball nine by a score of 4 to 0. 1911 An article in the Nebraskan de scribed the old boulder which is still located south of the sun dial and fountain between the library and administration buildings. The rock, of granite, and of glacial or igin, is worn and polished, and the uppor side in almost perfectly flat. On its surface there are numerous markings and heiroglyphlcs, among which are a perfect impres sion of a human foot and a less perfect one of a hand. The general design covering the upper side is that of two creased lines, one curved into an arc and the other straight, so that the imprint re sembles that of a crow foot The stone was believed to have been an object of worship among the orig inal Americans. 1921 Orders fr the 1921 "Everybody's Annual" were received from the heart of India, Japan, the Powder River country, Long Island, the Cascade range, and southern France. The varsity show given at the Orpheum presented a program of nine feature acts. They included "Bachelor Days," a short musical comedy, "Hints to the Heavy," a tumbling act which featured Glenn Preston, varsity quarterback. "The Crystal Gazer," in which an un known male portrayed a female seer, and a mystery act entitle "The Mystic Zaxa." 1926. Chancellor Avery teceived num erous letters from civilians throughout the state and middle west including presidents of land grant colleges in defense of com pulsory military training. All of them were categorically in favor of the compulsory feature of the drill, and stressed the value of the training as well as its use for sup plying an adequate civilian reserve force. Letters from New Zealand and tthe Samoa islands expressed ap preciation and commendation of the anniversary radio program broadcast over KFAB from the university. IS BY STUDENT ATTIRE Visiting Instructor Says Great Contrast Here to Own Country. PALO ALTO, Calif. Slouching attire of Stanford men and coeds find an appreciative critic in Prof. Gllberto Freyre. Brazilian scholar and new member of the history department, . who has come here hi. mmrter after sDendine last fall In research work at the li- braries of Lisbon and Coirobra in Portugal. ThA arnhttAritura find thA nalnift of Stanford suggest Brazil," he said in giving nis impression, ouc (n outward appearance your stu id not offer a creater contrast to the formality of uni versities in Portugal, where all students go about in DiacK nereis ar.A inner hlnrlr mhfls. substituting politics for football the latter characteristic also of Brazilian students." Portugese Practical. Th tmditional American-born idea of the Mediterranean college student serenading, with a rose above the ear, is exploded by Pro fessor Freyre. The Portuguese student is most practical, he de- rln rpa Freyre has been a recent specta tor of revolutions in both Brazil and in Spain. Here to conduct a lecture course on the history of Brazil, Freyre gives a significant glimpse of the possibilities of South America. Engineers, Industrial chemists, geologists, and medical students are in demand, he says. For the Stanford student with a yearning for fame and fortune in the relatively unexploited southern continent, Professor Freyre rec omends knowledge of adaptability, a good general education, and a fluent knowledge of Spanish, un less in Brazil, where Portuguese is spoken. Summer School in Rio. A summer school for American students has been established in Rio de Janeiro, with some of the best Brazilian scholars as lec turers. Increasing attention is being given in Brazil to American history and literature, and modern American economists and sociolo gists furnish popular texts. "As a Brazilian I am delighted to find at Stanford an excellent li brary on Brazilian history and lit erature, the Banner collection of fering rare and valuable books,'' Freyre concluded. Ames to Play Luther in Initial Baseball Game AMES, la. Luther college of Decorah has been scheduled to open the Iowa State home baseball schedule, April 17 and 18. Luther has met Iowa State three times on the diamond, winning three vic tories from the Cyclones. Nego tiations are also under way for a game with Central college May 20. ALL SOULS UNITARIAN CHURCH Subject. April 12 "The Twofold Nature of Beauty." 12th & H Streets sncit Current Comment Rulet for thp. A'wf War. A new world war will kill off surplus lalr. Thin ili ir.iif.lv is the easiest way of wiving . difficult problem; it U so much easier to ftart a war than to uity common wnw 10 unu ills. Well, if we are going to have another war, we might as well have Home rule for it. AVe therefore offer for public approval this model set: 1. That all congressmen and senators voting for war be given tbe choice of en lifcting in the shock troops or being shot on the Capitol steps. 1. That each battleship, cruiser, de stroyer and submarine shall carry as ex cewT baggage, one or more stockholders in battleship building concerns. 3. That all manufacturers of war sup plies be hanged when their profits reach the million-dollar mark. 4. That all holy men who announce to. their congregations that "God U fighting with. us' be dicpattjed to interview God lersona!lj on the subject and find out. 5. That college professor be elopped from delviDg into history to prove that the enemy always was a low-down scoundrel, anyway. C. That the secret service be restrained from the discovery of "enemy plots" every time somebody turns on a light in the par lor. 7. That tbe cause of tbe war shall be clearly stated to the nation as the reduc tion of unemployment, and not disguised as "a holy war to save civilization." Many more rules will be needed. But tbete will suffice for a starter. From The L An geles llecord . IF YOU want to be HI l . WELL DRESSED This Spring THEN YOU should by all means READ Friday1 sissue of the DAILY NEBRASKAN It will be full of style notes for men and women. Don't forget, Friday is the day of the big SPRING EDITION