TWO
THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13. 1931.
The Daily Nebraskan
Station A. Lincoln, Nebraska
OFFICIAL STUDENT PUBLICATION
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA
Published Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. Friday and
Sunday morning durlno tha acadamlo year.
THIRTY-FIRST YEAR
Entered aa seeond-elasa matter at tha ,Potoftlet In
i Sihrnki, under act of conorees, March 3.
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Ask for Nebratkan editor.
That Farce
Called Football.
A few of the more liberal minded sport au
thorities aro willing to concede ivlmt is per
fectly obvious, that football is advertising for
the school. But they sny that it is Rood ad
vortisinsr, and that the university ueedssuch
advertising. The enrollment, they say w in
creased because of the. good advertising that
the university gets, all of which is true, and
merely goes to prove our point. But why uni
versities must be highly advertised and why
they must compete with each other just to see
who graduates the most students, U something
that we do not comprehend. Such practices
nre contrary to the best principles of educa
tion. , . .
Besides this, if students are attracted to this
university bv the football team, it is doubtful
whether 'thev understand fully just what the
university is" for. If students come here to see
football gnnies or play football .they certainly
get what they are aft it. but still we do not
understand why the taxpayers of the s nt.
must maintain a university so that football
fans and athletic associations can gratify their
own desires. ,
If the athletic association was interested
primarily in the physical development of the
students" who attended this university, they
certainly could find a much better sport than
football with which to do their developing.
But football is spectacular, and the sport fans
of the country get a big kick out of it, so the
nthletic associations of the universities in this
country take advantage of this fact and use
tho so-called educational institutions as a
-source from which to draw the crowd. The
students are fed a lot of hokum about the
spirit of the school being closely related to
attendance at football games. Thr parents ol
those students are urged to come down to the
universities and visit with their sons and
daughters. Incidentally, of course, they are
reminded that the best way to spend the d;iy
is to attend the football game for two and a
half dollars a seat. The students have their
; tickets so the parents, if they want to spend
the day with their children, must buy tickets
; also and go to the game.
At this university we have a Dad's d.-iy which
brings father and son and father and daugh
i ter together for all kinds of good reasons, but
nevertheless, it is a remarkal.de coincidence
'that Dad's dav always happens to ian on in-i
day of a football game. If the universiiyi
,i-ntil n frivo a chanee to isit his so.i .
and daughter, it would not be necessary to
have a football game on the same day: in fact,
the football game cuts in on mo. of the time
available.
As far as the Dads getting their money s
worth out of the game, some of them may, but
certainly not all of them. In fact a good per
cent of the people who attend these football
games do not get two ana a nan uouara woiw
what strange ideas will the people reconstruct
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concerning i lie puyique nuu nppcariuicc oi i:
people whose images were carved In stone to a
height of 4G5 feet? Tho changing world it
has left us material evidences of (he past in
geological specimens particularly. From these
specimens, the scientists among us have recon
structed for us nu imaginary picture of the
early days of the world, its peoples, customs,
and" habitation. Will the peopje of tomorrow,
records being lost, look back upon the images
of Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson and lloosc
velt and wonder even hh we do today?
But, we ai living in the present we may say,
and in so saying, mo are forced to believe that
the Kushmore project is to us as well, a ma
terial Hvmhol of accomplishment of n great
count raided by great men. Unlimited imagi
nation' and un'exeeeded skill are being em
ployed toward the erection of a memorial to
the 'founding, expansion, preservation, and
unification of the United States" To us it rep
resents a consummation of the ideals for which
the people of these United States have
struggled and for which they stand. To fu
ture peoples but we can only look into the
mirror of tho future and even mirrors, con
trary to the old maxim, sometimes lie.
Clothiers say that they
usually Inrsre number of
have sold an un
derlies this year.
People must be going to pass the hat.
MORNING MAIL
Ah! a Supporter.
TO THK EDITOR:
It appears, from the comment which your
recei.t editorials on football have drawn, that
college editors must, like Caesar's wife, be
above reproach. For a number of years editors
of The Daily Nebraskan have been under fire
for one cause or another but then, as one.
grownup writer says, "they are only boys.
In the university here we have a course
known as Philosophy 30 which deals with rea
soning. They deal with true and fallacious
thought in this course and one fallacy which
they recognize is the one in which opponents
ignore the question at hand. It appears 1o an
innocent bystander as tho that were what the
state papers and radio speakers are doing.
None of them, not one, has yet refuted the
logic of your reasoning. Xot one has even so
much as' denied that your statements were
true. To the contrary, almost every one is
assailing you as a boy editor, characterless.
Regardless of the fact of whether your are
characterless or not that does not deny the
truth of your argument or am I wrong.' 1
may be.
What do they expect here in college? Jlethu-
Iselahs.' They may remember that Charlie
Lindbergh was only a young fellow when he
flew over the ocean. And. allho the sport
writers won't like this, the boys who play on
the football teams are not old men bV any
means. But that isn't logical because sport
writers won't say anything to that.
The real kick behind the whole thing is the
fact that the athletic board of control, altho
refusing 1o dignify your editorial with a state
inci't. did dignify it greatly by calling a hur
ried i.:ecting of the group to discuss the
situation.
You may be wrong, Mr. Editor, but there
I nre a lot of people in the kindergarten who
iatrree with von. Stay in the Luefry.
I " 1 MAYBE RIGHT.
Speakf
A Fresh ie
Crimea uu u"i I
nf ontPrtainmcnt. Of course, they do not have; Tu TJ,K vniTOK :
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come, Out xnev nave ueen numuum .ow inai ine iooiuhii season j
r.
i,i ;..;. Vinf tViev will spc, something at a
football game. If crowds are diminishing in
size, and if interest in football lags, then credit
the public with coining to its senses.
The students at this university and other
universities have been hornswoggled, the pub
lic has been hoodwinked into believing that
;this a'mighty god, football, is really something.
But, fortunately the public is gradually com
ing out of its stupor, and this fact is beginning
to worry those whose living depends upon the
popularity of football. People do not get. so
; enthusiastic as they used to over seeing sonic
big, husky chap hit his head against a goal
post, or watching fellows get walked on with
spiked shoes, even if it is for the glory of their
alma mater. That stuff dates back to the time
when the Romans threw the gladiators into
the arena to butcher each other. If anybody
gets fun out of that, he can have it.
So we shall again say that football is ad
vertising for the university. But the univer
sity should have no need for such advertising;
it has no one to compete with and should have
no profits to make. The athletic association
uses the institution as a means of making their
football game a paying proposition. The stu
dents are exploited. They are fed full of foot
ball from the time they enter school until they
leave. They are preached loyalty, spirit, pa
triotism, all because the athletic association
needs financial support for their football team.
This football foolishness which the students
have swallowed and have induced the general
public, to swallow is causing a stomach ache,
so unless the athletic heads themselves admin
ister a bromo-seltzer, the public is going to
iuit eating the stuff that caused the pain. And
the sooner they learn this the better off they
will be.
tho mere expression of opinion of an individual
who has a perfect rignt i so i"" "V"
. . . . . .1 IM(ll
The athletic department uoes uui wi
dignify' Mr. Von Seggern's arguments by re
plying to them officially and yet their unusual
senstiveness to being spoken of even in a gen
eral way argues that they are suspiciously
touchy upon tho subject.
The athletic officials, must be getting wor
ried that students and the public m general
are getting wise to the commercial manner in
which college, sports are being handled. Obvi
ously the thing these numerous highly paid
coaches, assistant coaches, directors of athletics
(which is another name for commercial pro
moters) and sports writers, arc worried about
is that the public will begin to cease to attend
and pay for the sports, football in general,
from which they get their fat salaries.
This is not a particular attack upon athletic
coaches and officials, but the fact remains that
few professors or adi..inistrative officials in
i ihn n.nintrv are receiving the
salaries that are paid to coaches. Is this be
cause the coaches are superior m learning or
NEW INFIRMARY OPENED
Lyman Announces Additional
Health Unit Ready for
Patients.
Dean R. A. Lyman, of the col
lege of pharmacy, who is in charge
of the student health service at
the University of Nebraska, an
nounces that a new infirmary lo
cated at 410 No. 13th street is now
open and ready for use. With this
added equipment, stated Dr. Ly
man, hospital capacity for student
health service is doubled.
According to Dr. Lyman, fewer
epidemics have been recorded and
fewer people have been treated in
the infirmary so far this year,
than has been the case in any pre
ceding year.
"The student health service has
attended but one contagious dis
ease this year, and that was a mild
case of diphtheria," he added. "The
siege of chicken pox, measles,
scarlet fever and colds always
comes on us after Christmas, and
this year with our new infirmary
we will be ready for it."
because they work harder or perform more
amicuit junctions I i nnraiy uums u mm i
hnvAv tViinlr Mmf cnoli snlnvips would loniT be
paid if there were not an intenso public inter
est in football and winning teams, and commer
cial advantages which result from winning
teams, and finally in coaches who can produce
winning teams.
There is nothing particularly wrong with
this system if it is what the public wants but
it merely indicates why, Mr. Editor, any state
ment which tends to reduce interest in foot
ball, and consequently might start a movement
to diminish "school spirit" and hence attend
ance at football games, and hence decreased
gale receipts and henco lower salaries for ath
letic officials scratches the sensitive skins of
those who are living from the system as is.
It accounts for why such arguments arc at
tributed to "boy editors." There is always a
vested interest which opposes anyone who
thinks that the "status quo" in the field in
which they are interested is not the perfect
status.
S. O. L.
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and article by Dr. J. E. Weaver,
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Looking Into the
Mirror of the Future.
Last evening Gutzon Borglum, noted sclup
tor, appeared at Morrill hall speaking on Ids
present project at Mount Itushmore in the
I'lack Hills, Bouth Dakota. Somehow, hearing
this artist speak of the tremendous ideal he has
undertaken to effect, one is impressed with the
great strides civilization is taking in applying
mechanical and artistic forces to utilizing the
aspects of the physical world so that they are
more appreciated.
And, one is forced to probe his imagination
concerning the future. In the years to conn
iL-lion thirf rivilizntimi f nnrn which v.t now
nnalHpp an ilvfinrpl is Am nrpliistoric to our
s over. 1 am
going to emit a blast toward those distin
guished gentlemen from out of town known as
rally speakers. What right have they to come
here and deplore our lack of school spirit ? How
do they know that it -sed to he more evident ?
Can they determine how much 1here is when
they have heeu away from the campus? What
do "they want us to do? dump up and down
and ve'lp like a hunch of hyenas? Why do we
have' to be fanatic about it? If that's sehool
spirit then I'm glad I'm lacking iiv it. I at
tended most of the rallies this fall and the
shulents ehecred and sane and I was glad that
j they didn't aet like inmates of the asylum.
Bes'ides what can outsiders know of our spirit"
' 11. T. -,mi fl irri.i '
You are ri?ht when you say students want
winners. You are right also when you say
a disinterested student is considered an infidel.
Your answer to the critics in Friday's issue
was entirely correct. I am a sport enthusiast
and it hurts to admit it, but football is over
emphasized and is used for advertising. The
outstatc students don't come here because we
have a good law school, or a swell Freueh
teacher. No, sir. they come because Nebraska
has a good football team, therttoiv it is a j
great school. I
The action of the athletic board isn't in thej
elast surprising. They were merely looking
out for themselves. If they admitted H there ,
u-finlil bp some vacancies in the athletic de-,
part ment. Why not face the facts? You did,
dear Editor, and congratulations.
ITZZLKD FKKSIlIi;.
I'. S. Your critics are responsible for keep
ing me puzzled.
Light on the Subect.
TO THE EDITOR:
It appears that the favorite argument against
any subject which a student editor of The
Daily Nebraskan is bold enough to express a
really decided opinion upon is subject to what
is known to logicians as the falaey "ad homi
num." In English this fallacy is the fallacy
of arguing against a question by scoffing at
the person who advances the argument.
Thus does John Bentley dismiss the argu
ment of Mr. Yon Scggern by pointing to him
as merely a "boy editor." Thus have the ar
guments of many another editor of The Daily
Nebraskan been discounted by individuals and
organizations who have been attacked.
The peculiar feature of this situation a of
etmiiar npcnrrenees in former times is the
pt""". . .
readiness with whidi these individuals hurry'
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