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    THE DAILY NKHKASKAN
The Daily Nebraskan
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A Panacea
For College Ills.
Eductional agencies, without being con
scious of doing 60, have blundered on perhaps
the greatest of cures for the ills of the Ameri
can university today. .
That cure is the proposed extension of the
age irp to which a child must remain in school
from the present 14 or 16 years to 18 years.
Authorities are recommending this step, says
the Lincoln Star, on the grounds that it would
aid materially in decreasing unemployment
and furnish the country young men and women
better equipped to do their life tasks.
But, authorities have failed to sense what
this would do for the universities and colleges
of this country. In brief, it would mean the
sending to the tmiversity students more fully
acquainted with what they intend to do m
life; students of a more mature nature; stu
dents old enough to be away from the force
of parental guidance, students who would be
leaders instead of being easily led.
Picture the conditions as they exist today.
A youth, at the age of 16, is graduated from
high school. He comes to the university. He
is away from home probably for the first time
in his life. He is easily led. He wants to kick
over the traces, to celebrate his liberation from
the heavy hand of earlier restraining influ
ences at home. m
He does those things which he thinks are
"smart," giving no thought to where they may
lead him. He is here for a lark, and cares not
for books or real knowledge. He slides through
as easily as he can his first year or two. But
by the time he has reached his junior year, he
is' eighteen, and much the wiser. He then re
jrrets the fact that he has not studied before,
but two years are already wasted.
-.
What a pity that so many must waste those
l. wo years. And under the proposed extension
of the high school age limit they would not be
w asted. The youth would be at home longer.
He would have more training in the art of liv
ing. He would have more ideas of what he in
tended to make of his life. He would be more
mature, and the university would be rid of one
of its greatest problems the student who is
easily led.
The time between the age at which the stu
dent normally gets out of school under exist
ing laws and the age at which he would ter
minate his academic work under the proposed
new law could be well spent in other ways,
too. The" Btudent could, during that time, take
a number of courses now group requirements
in universities. He could be taught language,
the necessary mathematics, and more of his
tory and perhaps political science.
Then h would come to the university ready
to speedasHaw in the field of his choosing. Much
of hig jeqnared work would be behind him.
He wcraH be well fitted to cope with the prob
lems of frraversity life, in addition, would be
old enough to resist the call of the mob, old
enough to ctetermin lis own conduct in a
fashion tha none eould criticise.
Anotlier reason why the university should
build a swimming pool and teach everyone the
acquatie art so many students fall in creeks
every year while on picnics.
A Good
Investment.
The university, so far as we can under
stand it, is being asked to promise or guaran
tee the sum of $6,000 per year for interest and
bond payments on the proposed swimming pool
to be built, iu the coliseum. The regents and
the chancellor will meet, and the regents will
debate upon whether to vote such a "promise
or not.
The reasons why they should :
1. Income from such a pool, for btudent reg
istration, will amount to $5,000 per year, on
the basis of 500 seudents in swimming classes,
at $5 per student. Miss Lee, of the women s
physical education department, says she dVmbts
if she can restrict the women student registra
tion to such a "small number as 250." Voge
ler, of the men's side, says he is "sure that at
least 250 men will register for swimming, pro
vided an adequate, university pool be con
structed." 2. The university now pays, to downtown
pools, $1,500 per year, not including payment
for use of downtown pools by varsity swim
ming squad. They might as well pay this to
the support of a really adequate university
pooL l'ayments are now made outside of reg
istration income.
3. Therefore it seems ceitain that income
will amount to at least $6,500 per year. The
university, in making its promise, would lose
not a cent.
The reason why they shouldn't :
1. Income may possibly fall below this fig
ure, and the university proper may have to
stand a slight loss. But, if the school can build
a rwimming pool costing $40,000 by suffering
even ns much as a $2,000 a year loss, the pro
jeet will be worth while. And the Iohs could
not continue more than a few years, tho time
required for the yearly payments to clear up
the whole bond issue.
F 1 1 addition, there may be a bet that hoiiip
one is overlooking in regard to disposing of the
bonds. They will be bonds without security,
of the university, as voiced by
the regents. But a construction company
V .... i -a .
might be willing to build trie pooi, aim ia
up the whole bond issue, providing the regents
and the administration auarantee the $i.00)
per year.
Thus there seems to be no god reason why
a pool should not be built this spring. Of
course, the university will probably refer the
matter to seven or eight committees, and stall
around a while. Red tape seems essential to
any institutional undertaking.
it is our hope that no time will be lost. The
time to build is NOW, when building costs are
from thirty to forty percent lower than nor
mal. Money saved by building now will more
than make "up for the disregard of the proper
ties involved in doing away with the usual red
tape.-
College, heroes, says the Buffalo Evening
News, are young athletes who work their heads
off so their coach can get n job that pays more
money.
MORNING MAIL
What' Up?
TO THE EDITOR:
There has been much hullabaloo lately about
building a university swimming pool. What is
the situation? How is one to be paid for, and
what are the difficulties in the way of the
project?
Certainly there is enough student interest in
a swimming pool to insure its regular use by
most of the student body. Everyone likes to
swim. It's good exercise, and lots of fun.
Then, too, it is something everyone should
know how to do. Many a life has been saved
because someone "learned to swim while in
college."
Swimming is also one of the few collegiate
sports that is a "carry over." It is one that
everyone enjoys and participates in long after
he has departed bearing a diploma.
The University of Nebraska is one of the
few srlinnls in the middlewest. in fact in the
whole country, which does not have a pool.
I don't know what all trie cuiiicuuies are,
Vf T J.Mi't u in at. whv a. TiSOl that COuld be
built for only $40,000 could not pay for itself
in a very few years, it the university nas iu
make such a "guarantee" or "promise" as
has been reported, before bonds can be dis
posed of, why then go ahead and do it. They
couldn't possibly lose money on their promise.
Income will exceed the amount promised, it is
certain.
The stadium was built on Faith, Hope, and
roritr at a time when the athletic depart
ment, piling up yearly deficits of fifteen thou
sand dollars, was to assume tne lmeresa mu
den of twenty more thousand. It paid out. The
coliseum was constructed by juggling, opti
mism, and personal notes. It also succeeded.
Why not, just for a change, build a swim
ming pool, on a really business-like basis? It
cannot fail!
A SENIOR.
Critics Two Kinds.
We have on the campus two types of relig
ious workers. Each has a different method
and approach. One type, for example, cures
our ills by removal of such temptations from
vmith as eiffarettes and suggestive movies.
This type first criticizes students and then
charges bribery on the part oi tne iawmnwi
in th rommittees which kill or amend anti-
smoking or movie-censorship bills. The type,
using this removal method, gathers the kind
cYmsrs to the orthodoxy with
which he was born in order to keep him on the
"straight and narrow."
The other type, wnue admitting inm ''
ies are far from perfect, includes in its pro
gram the broader aspects of social and politi
cal life. It does not create antagonism by cri
ticism. It tries to create constructive social,
political, and religious ideals; it carries the
attitude of faith in one's fellow man and hope
for life at its best and a willingness 10 see
arcater possibilities in life. (Perhaps that is
religion).
mi . i 4.. n ilinl ihp mill.
1 ne point j. wu iu uioc
structive type suffers by 1he method of the
other. Right or wrong in it. every intelligent
student has a strong instinct to escape from
the orthodoxies of his childhood. He will do
anything in order to make this escape. The
destructive method not only makes students
t,ov n riicc-pr "flinsr." but it creates deep-
seated inhibitions against the constructive pro-
gram, and false ideas as to tne atinuue oi mi
constructive type. These false ideas cause the
constructive worker to be looked upon as
"another W. C. T. U. hound." It is a crime
to cause youth to stay out of constructive re
ligious work because the worker might be
looked upon as a W. C. T. U. proxy with a
moral program which reaches no further than
"chewing-gum and cubebs."
The unorthodox instinct previously men
tioned may be wrong, but it is so dominant
and so prevalent in all intelligent students
that it must be dealt with and given scientific
attention. Likewise, the liberal and construc
tive attitude in religious workers may be
wrong. However, the religious worker with
out this attitude, who is inattentive of the
strorg instincts to escape destructive orthodox
ies within us, must either change his program
or it will perish. W. S.
Current Comment
Raise School Age.
Educational agencies are advocating an in
crease in the age for compulsory education as
a permanent means of helping to relieve unem
ployment. The compulsory age now ranges
from 14 to 16. National education leaders are
suggesting 18 as a universal minimum age at
which students could leave school.
Fimires comnilcd by W. J. Cooper, United
State commissioner of education, estimates
llial. such an age limit would mean more than
n million fewer people to fight for employment.
To the commissioner, there is a still greater
advantage in Hie possibility that an extension
o. the educational period would mean the send
ing forth of the nation's young men and
women better prepared for tho tasks they must
face.
The educational forces rallied around Mr.
Cooper are not opposing shorter working
hours and beter wages, to absorb a larger num
ber of workers and to give thcin greater con
suniintr power. Thes. mu pvph nnernnlovmeut
insurance, are advoeaied, but uily as cures.
Education, he urges, can help be a preventive
of unemployment.
Extension of compulsory 'education would,
unquestionably, reduce the number at any one
time seeking employment. Such an extension,
however, must be accompanied by a careful
adjustment, of tho curriculum. All students
are not adapted to an academic education, n
such students are to be kept successfully in the
schools until 18, many will have to take tech
nical and mechanical training that will better
suit their needs and tastes. , ,
In developing an extension of the minimum
age at which young people may leave school,
there aro fundamentally two dangers: the iail
ure to provide a sufficiently varied curriculum
to meet the diverse needs of wide ranges of in
telligence and interest and the failure to pro
tect the niirelv academic, preparation ill the
high schools for those prepared to go on to col
lege and university courses. Educational lead
ers are far-!"cing in their advocacy of the ex
tending of education. It is lo be hoped that
they will be as thoughtful of the real interest
of young people in planning curricula. Lin
coln Star.
y. i c. k
GROUPS
ANNOUNCE LEADERS
mm
New Staff Heads Picked;
Executive Committee
Will Meet.
New leaders have been chosen plans with Ralph Copenhaver for
for tht Y. W. C. A. staffs. Fol
lowing is a list of the staffs, their
lcadei-3, and the time of meeting:
Social stuff. Carolyn White,
Thuraday, 4:00; Poster staff, Con
stance Kiser. Monday, 5:00; pub
licity, Rosaline Pizer, Monday,
6:00; Industrial, Mildred Dole,
Monday. 5:00; conference, Ger
trude Clark, Thursday, 4:00; mem
bership. Aleen Necly. Wednesday,
5:00; vesper choir, Dorothy Jen
pen, Monday. 5:00; inter-racial,
Helon Cassadav and Catherine
Williams, Wednesday. 5:00; Ne
braska in China, Julia Simanek,
Thursday, o:0C.
The executive committee meet
ing will be held Monday at 4
o'clock in the Y. W. C. A. office,
it was announced.
All girls who have not decided
upon which staff they would like
to work, should see Miss Miller or
Marjorie Peterson in the Y. W. C.
A. office in Ellen Smith hall.
Other staff meetings will be an
nounced later.
ALUMNI VISIT0N CAMPUS
Mr. and Mrs. Almy Return
to See Friends and
Relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Almy, of
Ann Arbor, Mich., both former
students at the University of Ne
braska, have been visiting friends
and relatives in Lincoln, this last
week. Mr. Almy visited the chem
istry Jepartment Friday. He re
ceived his masters degree in chem
istry in 1928 and his bachelors de
gree in 1926 at Nebraska univer
sity, and is working for his doc
tors degree with a DuPont fellow
ship at the University of Michigan
at Ann Arbor. He is a member of
Alpha Chi Sigma and Sigma Xi.
Mrs. Almy was formerly RutH
Bobbitt and is a member of Alpha
Delta Theta.
Y. W. C. A. EMBRACES A
MEMBERSHIP OF A MIL
LION; MAINTAINS OF
FICE AT GENEVA.
(Continued From Page 1)
ganization they are much better
fitted to understand these prob
lems later on.
Behind all these activities there
is a fundamental Christian ideal
ism expressed. In discus sion
groups this is brought out.
"There is a unique relationship
between the secretary and the
club members," explained Miss
Miller. She does not do the vari-
Aimer. rne aoes not. uu wc van- . . r v J
ous duties and if she does she feels Article by Dr. r orayce
v.ofr cKa foile in hpr nnsitinn. "The I . - T -1 1.
that she fails in her position. "The
secretary should serve as an ad
visor and keep the cabinet in con
tact with the national and interna
tional organization," she said.
SCHOOLS REQUEST
I)K. THOMPSON TO
JOIN COMMITTEE
Dr. T. J. Thompson, dean of
student affairs, has been invited
to become a membt r of the com
mittee on athletics of the commis
sion on institutions of higher
learning in the North Central as
sociation of colleges and second
ary schools. This committee was
established five years ago to study
and promote a better understand
ing of the relationship of athletics
and education.
l Hayseed and Haywire"
i By
r.FHRr.F ROUND
Now, about the 1931 Farmers'
Fair. Hazel Benson, co-chairman of
the concessions committee is doing
her bit toward making it a suc
cess. Already she had made big
the concessions.
Now that elections to Alpha
Zeta, Omicron Nu and other hon
ories upon the Ag campus have
been announced, attention is being
turned toward the probable initi
ates for next year. There are al
ways some surprises.
Salley Seely is another home ec
student who is laying big plans for
the 1931 Farmers Fair. Miss Seely
is co-chairman of the parade execu
tive committee. Floats used in the
parade this year will be on exhibi
tion on the campus during the day,
something heretofore unthought
of during the fair.
Prof. H. J. Gramlich and the rest
of the instructors in the animal
husbandry department at the col
lege of agriculture are preparing
to entertain more than 2,000 farm
people this week end for Feeder's
day. This is the nineteenth annual
event and Gramlich is freely pre
dicting that all time attendance
records will be broken.
y. GROUPS EXPECT 75
AT
SUNDAY
Speak
at
Wendell Groth Will
Of Conference
Estes Park.
Seventy-five are expected to at
tend the meeting of the Y. W. C. A.
which will be held Sunday evening
at 8 o'clock at F.llen Smith hall.
Those attending the meeting will
include- students who have at
tended the Estes park conference,
those planntng to ro, and anyone
who is interested.
Wendell Groth, former univer
sity student who is now a travel
ing secretary for the Rocky moun
tain region of the Y. M. will be
present and give a short talk about
the coming conference. Glenn Grif
fith also a secretary will be pres
ent for the affair. Harold Colvin,
regional serretarv. whose head
quarters are in Topeka, is expected
to arrive in time ior me meeting.
"!rtmiH flnrlto rhulrmftn nf
the conference staff of the Y. W.
and Meredith Nelson, vice-president
of the Y. M. have charge of
the arrangements.
Students on the Ag campus are
looking forward to this month's
Pditinn nf the Cornhusker Coun
tryman which will prohahly apppar
this week. Editor Boyd Von Seg
gern has planned a special issue,
and students are anxious to see u.
Von Seggern in editing the college
magazine this semester has
changed the style of makeup and
is putting out a real magazine.
Rumor has it that the boys who
are to be used in the pageant this
year are already rehearsing the
dance of the sex veils. They lost
the other one. What a dance it
should be.
Trying to throw baseballs into a
man's mouth may not be up to
Hoyle, but nevertheless, the thou
f rn pnthered at the
oaiiu., vi t ' J e .
college for the fair will have that
opportunity. Those in charge of
the contest, however, are having a
v.or1 HmR irvine- to find someone
with a big enough mouth. Perhaps
they will nave to go vo me
campus.
We often wonder why the city
police department doesn't send a
cod out to Ag to keep, the cars
from parking in restricted areas.
Not once in a wnue out eveiyuaj
the main drag from Ag hall to ag
ricultural engineering is crowded
with cars.
ROCKY MOUNTAIN
Y. M. WORKERS
HOLD CONCLAVE
(Continued from Page 1.)
National.
Study of personal problems.
Student movement week.
Summer training conference.
Announcement of national con
ferences and meetings.
Miscellaneous business.
Closing devotions.
Adjournment.
Sunday, 8 p. m.
Meptini? in Ellen Smith hall to
di.qcuss the Este3 conference to be
held in Estes Park at the close of
the school year. Mr. Elliott will
talk and all those interested in at
tending: the conference are invited
to attend.
DK. POOL TO GIVE
LECTURE TUESDAY
An lllnatrntprl Iprtlire on Nor-
wav vtill be eiven by Dr. Raymond
J. Pool, chairman of the depart
ment of botany, next Tuesday eve
ning, April 14, at 7:30 o'clock, in
Bessey hall auditorium. Everyone
is invited to the lecture, which is
given under the auspices of the
Scandinavian club of the university.
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STUDENTS SECURE
ALL-UNIVERSITY FETE
DiAWS200 PEOPLE
Coliseum Depicits Typical
'Bomb Town in Nevada'
Friday Night.
TEACHING
POSITIONS
Appears in Telephony
In the current issue of Tele
phony, national journal of the
American Telephone company, ap
nears an article on "Researches in
the Field OI vocauuniu Aimij'oia,
bv Dr. Charles Fordyce of the de-
partment oi eaucauonm psjtum
ogy and measurements. The ar
ticle deals with measuring devices
for selecting telepnone operators.
DEBATERS TO ENTER
IN LEAGUE TOUKWEY
(Continued From Page 1)
trict winners and their sponsors
follow.
District, winner and sponsor:
1 Humboldt, D. E. Weber.
2 Plattsmouth, Gerald V. Kvan-
nicka. . n
3 Omaha Technical, ira u.
Jones.
4 Lyons, Harry K. Hoy.
5Wayne, Howard R. Best.
6 Beatrice. R. B. Carey.
7 Jackson at Lincoln, Mrs. Ma
bel D. Thompson.
S Oaceoia, Miss r-aiui t,. w u-
son.
9 Grand Island, Carl b. Han
sen.
10 Norfolk, Glen A. Warner.
11 Geneva, Howard W. Hamil
ton.
12 Holdrege, Edward S. Betz.
13 Broken Bow, Frank M.
Rice.
14 Nebraska School of Agri
culture at Curtis, C. K. Morse.
15 Bayard, F. C. Prince.
16 Chadron, Miss Mldred Verny
Several Nebraskans Placed
For Next Year During
Past Week.
Eleven University of Nebraska
students have secured teaching
positions for the next school year
within the past week, according to
the announcement made today by
R. D. Moritz, director of the uni
versity's bureau of educational
service.
Names of these students and
their prospective positions follow:
Hester Axtell of Fairbury,
junior high at Grand Island.
Margaret Crosby of Boone,
seventh and eighth grades and
home economics, at Pa pillion.
Lillian Degner of Sterling, pri
mary at Hickman.
D. Dwight Fellows of Imogene,
la., superintendent at Hastings,
la?
Marjorie Foreman of Lincoln,
English and commercial at Long
Pine.
Esther Mitchell of Republican
City, normal training at Curtis.
Margaret O'Rourke of Creston,
la., English at Holdrege.
Harvey Seng of Lincoln, voca
tional agriculture at Burwell.
Almira Thomas of Lincoln, In
termediate grades at Scribner.
Meiba Waterman of Hooper, pri
mary grades at Crofton.
Virgil Yowell of Bridgeport.
Kas., commercial work at Schnec
tady, N. Y.
MANY WEAR COSTUMES
Tureivs hundred Deonle attended
ii,. oii.nnivprsitv nartv held In the
..Mieanm Frirtnv nlcht. according
to George Thomas, member of the
committee m cnarge. imny-nva
faculty members were In attend
.r,... at tho pvent which was tnv-
ical of a "boom town in Nevade."
Western costumes were worn oy
the faculty members, some of the
guests, and all the attendants at
the various gambling devices.
Eddie Jungbluth's orchestra played
for the dance.
Anrrfino- to Thomas, the most
complete ceiling ever constructed
in ihe coliseum was usea ior me
nnrtv Pnrt of the football Held
canvas covering was used to give
a tent top appearance, nign in wio
middle and brought down on the
sides. Rough lights were suspended
from this at intervals.
Dan McGrew Acted.
Other features of the decorations
were a 'With Fire and swora oi
fice, a bank, and a divorce court.
The SJiooting of Dan McGrew was
recited and acted out during the
course of the evening. Refresh
ments consisted or sixiy-iive gal
lons of beer scrvi'd over a oar oy
bar trnders at one dollar (barb
council monevi a drink. Dice,
roulette, and other forms of gamb
ling were indulged in during the
evening.
Fake money was usea ior every
thing. One partier was reported
$700,000 ahead at tne rouicixe ai
one time in the evening. He quit
after getting down to sutu.uuu.
According to Tnomas, me pany
was "pretty much of a success."
PLAYERS' FINAL
F00TLIGHT BOW
BEGINS MONDAY
(Continued From Page 1)
I ble lover and Paul Thompson, the
! aristocratic Sir Robert.
As the farrJ!y battle waxes
warm, three guests drop in for a
night at the "Bird in Hand." Wil
liam F. Thompson, Herbert Yenne
and Leland Bennett are the guests
and they enter into the family dis
cussion with spirit.
Argument Ends Act.
The close of act I finds the
Greenleaf family submerged in the
romantic argument, with Father
Greenleaf making a scene and the
guests and Greenleaf family bant
second act is played m an upstairs
room of the J'Bird In Hand." Here
the battle continues, with the
guests anad Greenleaf family bant
ering over Joan's love affair, at
tired in pajamas, night shirts ami
dressing gowns. Gerald Arnwood
makes a forced landing in the up
stairs room, having climbed up the
side of the "Bird in Hand."
This act has been branded one
of the funniest dramatic scenes of
all time. The entire play is fiiled
with humorous lines and amazing
situations, giving evidence of John
Drinkwater's uncanny understand
ing of human nature and stage de
vices. Following each performance of
"Bird in Hand," reservations will
be accepted for season tickets for
next year's Players program. Tas
sels, gills' p:cp organization, has
taken over tha sales campaign and
will begin its drive this week.
ALL SOULS
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Subject. April 12 "The
Twofold Nature of Beauty."
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