THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1931
The Daily Nebraskan
Station A, Lincoln, Nobrmka
OFFICIAL STUDENT PUBLICATION
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA
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THIRTY-FIRST YEAR
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Lincoln. Nabraaka, under act of congraee, March 3, nn,
and It apeclal rat. of poataoe provided for In i recMcv,
1101 act of October 3, 117. authorised January 20, 192.
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Tbla psper la TOtMnMd t r,trm
a4Trtlalna r .Tha Nebraska Freae
Aaaociatloa.
keep tho public thinking Hint it is a boon to
thn "Hoft" vouth of lodav. while nt the Hnmo
time Me find that, tho "noft" .vouth is not the
type that is encouraged to ro out for football.
It is tho big, strong fellow that gets to do all
the playing.
If the prcHident of tho Wyoming university
would start pocking into earn at night on the
Nebrimka I'limpus, h! would probably got hit
on tho heat with a bottle.
A Thought
For Vacation.
Tho all-important
season up-
EDITORIAL STAFF
Marvin Von Seggern Editor-in-chief
MANAGING EDITORS
Evelyn Slmpaon Art Wolf
NEWS EDITORS
Howard Ailaway...! Jek Eilckeon
Laurence Hall ....Joe mi ir
Murlln Spencer Sporte Editor ,
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Berenice nuuman...,
BUSINESS STAFF
Jack Thompeon Bualneea Manager
ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGERS
Norman Oalleher Carlyle Sorensen
Bernard Jennlnga
Athletics
In Education.
Yesterday a contributor 1o the .Morning Mail
column and apparently a friend of the nthletie
department stated that football is "a swell
advertising scheme no outlay and a big
profit." That is just what we have suspected
for a long time a big profit. But even so, wc
may be wrong, for the athletic business has
not fared so well this and last year.
Let us look at this matter thru the corner
of our eye, for to subject the athletic depart
ment to a direct gaze seems to make them un
comfortable, and we do not want anyone to be
uncomfortable when there is no reason for it.
First we are told that football is necessary to
make a lot of money so that other athletics
may be carried on for the benefit of the stu
dents of the whole university. Then, when
gate receipts for athletics fall off, and some
curtailment in expenses becomes necessary, the
athletic heads get together and devise a system
of curtailment of the minor sports, the sports
that do reach a good many students who are
not brawny enough for football. Does this look
as tho the athletic heads are interested in the
majority of the students? No, they are inter
ested in seeing that their football machine
makes enough money to pay high salaries to
the coaches. "When a cut is necessary, the
spovu that do the rtudents the most good are
the ones that get cvr.
If athletics for physical development are to
be. a part of education then the state can pay
for them just as they do for the other depart
ments of education. But no, the state does not
do this. Our university here has an athlelie
I'.nnrn which nnprntea nil hv itRflf It. 19 rc 1-1 nj
suporting, they claim, and therefore can thumb
its nose at anybody. This system taves the
people money, it is claimed. The people do not
have to pay taxes to support the athletic pro
gram and hence are money ahead every year.
But even tho the money does not come iioin
taxes, it corns from the people of the state, the
same ones who pay the taxes, and especially
from the university students, who pay high
prices, much too high, to see what someone
else has induced them to believe is exceptional
entertainment.
So, after all, the self-supporting athletic de
partment gets the greater part of its income
from the people of this state. It would cost
the people no more if they paid it. by taxation
than it does by $2.50 n seat. In fact, tho ath
letic program would not cost as much, for if
the athletic department were operated the
same as any other department its heads and in
structors would be paid in accordance to the
service rendered. Of course, admission to the
games would be charged and some revenue
would be taken in, but the prices would not
need to be so great nor would the students
hare to pay very much for their athletic tick
ets. Students should be allowed to buy tickets
for athletics at a very small cost, and they
should not be "loyal-Cornhuskered" into buy
ing them.
There is still the element that insists that
football is "good" advertising for the univer
sity. Now what on earth does a public institu
tion with no profits to make want, with this
kind of advertising. The best thing it could
do for itself would be to build up an institu
tion that gives the students a real, honest to
goodness education, so that it can point with
pride to the men and women it has turned out,
and not to the football team as its greatest
achievement.
Even tho the university has a reputation for
football, no thinking person is going to reason
out that because the football team is good, the
graduates of the school are well educated men
and women. There just isn't any connection
between haA-ing a good football team and a
good educational institution. So the fact that
football team advertises the university
cannot be considered much of a benefit to the
institution. The type of reputation that foot
ball gives the university has no connection
with education, and does not draw knowledge
seeking persons to the university, even tho it
is erroneously claimed by those engaged in the
football business that character is developed
in the players.
The real purpose of athletics in any school
is to develop fine physical specimens, not huge,
muscular oddities, but well balanced, graceful
physiques. This can be done very nicely and
jonveniently iiihfv.i a gridiron.
Athletics should be a part of education, but
this ungodly monster, football, has ceased to
become a part of education ; it is a commercial
enterprise similar to any other business. Those
who are connected with this business have
built up all kinds of excuses to justify it and
Christmas
proacheth and claiineth all of the attention of
college lad and lass. "When are you going
home and what are you going to do'i are the
great questions of the day. A few will take
home it book or two to stud.i. some may work,
most will be home for a vacation and some
much needed sleep.
There is one thing that might be done to
good advantage during the, recess and that is
the settling of the problem of what to take
for next semester. Registration for resident
students for the second semester will begin
th day school opens after the holidays and
conl inuc for a week.
Most students have n pretty good i' Viat
they must take, what they would like . ke,
and what they should take. On alniu.t M.iy
one's schedule there is room for two or three
elective hours. Discussion of what this elec
tive should be with the parents is not at all an
alien thought. The elders oftentimes have very
good ideas as to what the student should take
to build a better background.
Taking the problem home and discussing it
with parents is by no means foolish. New ideas
are the propelling force which keeps the world
rolling. Ideas on an old subject, by those in
timately concerned should be of great benefit.
Considering the schedule with parents should
be a part of college life.
The editor's peanut wagon is doing good
business even if the whistle doesn't work so
good. The peanuts are too salty for some
folks .however.
MORNING MAIL
The Sew Swimming Hole.
TO THE EDITOR:
Xeptunes and Aphrodites won't get to bathe
simultaneously in Nebraska's new swimming
pool. The dean of women's office must have
an obvious reason for this ban; however, I
can't see it. The joint use of the pool might
be as immoral or as unmoral as the student
body itself. Tish, tish! Those awful college
boys!
There could be a chaperon system. There
are life guards anyway. Sunday, if it wouldn't
be desecration, is a good time to have a point
use of the pool. Public pools are open on Sun
days. 1 know that the boys and girls would
promise to behave if this privilege were allotted
for them. As for the censorship of suits, a
special committee could be appointed or maybe
responsibility might be centered on the
life siunrd. Swimming pools ar safer than the
pit falls of Pen Woods.
Public beaches actually allow men and
women to swim at the same time. I know
that the woild is going to hades. University
students will be forced to pay extra ducats
to swim together at public pools. This helps
business. Maybe the depression will be re
pressed. Oh, well, we can go swimming in
the river Styx together.
A MERE MAN.
''Dancing With Tears . . ."
TO THE EDITOR:
As one interested in the development of the
side of the student's life while in school, I feel
that the social dancing class sponsored by the
Y. Sv. C. A., and for all students, should be
paid a worthwhile tribute. I know a surprising
number of students who have benefitted im
measurably from these classes.
Both last year and this year 1 have known
students who have taken a greater interest in
campus life, because they learned to dance at
the Armory. While in the dancing classes they
have made new acquaintances among the many
who atlend. Sharing a common interest, these
acquaintances have grown into friendships.
After learning to dance a new field for making
friends is opened to them in the school and
fraternity dances. They meet many new stu
dents at these affairs and so their acquaintance
grows. I find that my fraternity friends as
well as barbs are profiting from these sessions.
Having learned to dance they go to more
school affairs, meet more people, and learn to
meet new situations, llenee, they are becoming
more social and have a broader outlook con
cerning school life, and school has become more,
interesting to them.
Interest in school is interest in education,
and interest in education is interest in life, for
education is life. Therefore they are learning
something worthwhile for their whole life.
Some of my acquaintances have gained self
confidence where there existed a great lack of
it before, especially in social situations which
are met in social dajicing.
For this student development, by one who
has been benefited. I wish to express my ap
preciation. A DANCING SWEETHEART.
More Mud Slinging.
TO THE EDITOR:
The latest excuse of engineering students
that have classes in M. E. building is at least
satisfactory.
One student came to class late and told the
instructor that his car got stuck in the mud
on the road south of the stadium. He also stated
that by the lime he rounded up a team of
horses and got pulled out, he was late for class.
Perhaps in the years to come someone will
put cinders there so the sludents can get stuck
in the cinders instead of "Good Old Nebraska"
mud.
STUCK -IN THE-MUD.
RESULT SUPERSTITION
Iowa Nutrition Expert Says
Yule Practices Are
Traditional.
AMES, la. Use of Christmas
caka and breads and the practice
of many Christmas customs, both
in the United States and other
countries, have been handed down
from generation to gerneratlon as
the result of superstitious custom
or religious worship, said Mrs.
Clara Gebhard Snyder, formerly of
tho Foods and Nutrition Depart
ment at Iowa State College, In a
ratMo talk over WCI. college
broadcasting station, Tuesday.
Mrs. Snder, now home econ
omics director for the American
Poultry Industries, Chicago, dis
cussed "Christmas Breads and
Cakes From Foreign Lands."
In European countries it is cus
tomary to fast during Advent, the
four weeks period before Christ
mas. At Christmas 'he fast is
broken.
Another reason for indulging ap
petites to the fullest at Christmas
is found in a legend of Scan
danavla, from whence came the
customs of many northern Euro
pean countries. There a festival
marked with feasting began the
winter solstice. As a part of the
feast, cakes of fine flavor were de
dicated to the gods. Since it was
on the longest night of the year, it
was called the "Feast of Mother
Night." Over It reigned Yule, or
Yoel. When Christianity came to
that country the festival was ap
plied to the eve of Christ's birth.
Because the old Yule feast was
in honor of the gods, many of the
takes and cookies were made In
the shape of animals which were
sacrificed to them.
From England, which inherited
many of its pastries and customs
from Scandinavia, from Russia,
Denmark. Germany, Bavaria, and
many other countries America has
inherited recipes in addition to
those developed here.
In some sections of Germany
many kinds of cakes are spread
on a table over night so that the
Christmas angels, supposed to fly
over the earth announcinf
Christ's birth, may pause and
taste of them.
"Throughout Europe a common
Christmas custom is to give
friends and neighbors gifts of fine
cakes and breads," said Mrs.
Snyder. "It is hard to inagine a
more personal gift than an attrac
tive box of cakes and cookies, and
if made from recipes coming from
foreign lands, they become touched
with an additional bit of charm and
romance."
cent cotton. Other points, aiso,
must be taken into consideration.
For Instance, with widely different
grades of wool SO percent of one Is
by no means the equivalent of f0
percent of another, as far as the
quality of the fabric is concerned."
"While It is very desirable that
the buying public know the per
centage of wool in the blankets,"
continued Miss . Anderson, . "that
alone Is not a measure of the real
quality ..f the blanket, but the fact
that fifty blanket manufacturers
plan to put this marking into ef
fect does bespeak a great advance."
GEOLOGY FRATERNITY
MEETS AT 7 TONIGHT
Sigma Gamma Epsilon, geologi
cal organization, will meet Thurs
day evening at 7 o'clock at their
usual meeting place in the base
ment of Morrll hall. Clarence Nel
son, president of the organization,
urges all members to be present.
F
OR RESEARCH
K. U. Director Says Public
And School Reading
Rooms Differ.
LAWRENCE, Kas. That the
general public libraries are largely
for recreational reading as opposed
to the college libraries which are
mainly for the purpose of research
study was tho point stressed by G.
M. Baker, director of libraries at
the University of Kansas, in his
talk this morning over radio sta
tion KFKU.
To bring out his pois. more
clearly, Mr. Baker drew a compar
ison of what would happen nhouM
tho public library and tho univer.
sity library bo closed for a few
days. Most grown ups would miss
their dally or weekly novel and
would turn to other things, but in
the case of tho university library
closing, fully half of tho next day'H
classes would bo upset ana recita
tions in classes later in the week
would bo bndly shattered. Only
courses in elementary sciences, for
eign languages, and mathematics,
would not bo affected immediately.
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WOULTJLABEL GOODS
Public Should Know Percent
Cotton . and Wool in
Blankets, Says.
LAWRENCE, KaJ. In a radio
talk over radio station KFKU this
morning, Miss Viola Anderson, as
sistant professor of home econom
ics at the University of Kansas,
discussed the proposed plans of the
blanket manufacturers of this
country to label all the wool
blankets manufactured in such a
way that the buying public will
know the percentages of wool and
cotton present.
"The percentage of wool alone,"
pointed out Miss Anderson, "does
not tell the whole story in regard
to quality, and to place the em
phasis upon the percentage of wool
may work a hardship for some
manufacturers as well. It is pos
sible to prepare cotton so that a
warm, fluffy, soft blanket may be
made. Cotton blankets have their
place as well as wool blankets.
"There are legitimate uses for
blankets containing all the way
from 100 percent wool to 100 per-
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