THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1932
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The Stronger
Battalions.
Investigations. Last night a special com
mittee of the Innocents society reported its
findings of an investigation of the meeting
held recently over the lack of student interest
in activities. The seven points brought out in
that meeting were reported on with special
emphasis on the first, the strongest, and most
reiterated point which was that the unbalanced
political alignment was the cause of lack of
interest. For the purpose of investigating a
remedy for this the Innocents society recom
mended to the Student council that a special
committee of ten be appointed to find the best
thing to do.
The committee suggested, was composed of
the following membership: three members of
the Innocents society, two members of the Stu
dent council, the three faction presidents, and
Professors Lantz and Schramm. This com
mittee was authorized by the council and is to
begin its investigations soon. This group will
have a difficult problem on its hands, for the
trouble is deep seated and a superficial exam
ination of the surface will reveal little of
benefit.
It is a fact that the politics on the Nebraska
campus are the cause of many festering sores.
There are many enmities and alignments which
are detrimental to the good of the school. It is
entirely impossible to look at the activity sit
uation here without running into the faction
problem. The balance of power has shifted
many times. For many years the Yellow
Jackets held sway. Then came a change and
the Blue Shirts took over the reigns of govern
ment. The present situation is well known.
The Yellow Jackets are so hopelessly in the
minority, that they refuse to file candidates
for the offices. The Blue Shirts are so confi
dent of winning that their organization is be
coming shaky. Something must be done.
Prof. E. F. Schramm, one of the closest ob
servers of student life on the Nebraska campus,
declared recently that he believed political fac
tions should be abolished completely. This, of
course, is the ultimate solution of the problem,
but until a material advance is made, the plan
will be impractical. There will be alignments
of one kind or another even if factions are
abolished. It is much better at the present
lime to have the factions working above board
and under recognition, than to have them
working as sub rosa bodies.
The finest thing which could he accom
plished seems to be a complete realignment of
political factions so that the number of men
on each side is approximately the same. The
committee may arrive at this conclusion. If it
does, then the real work will begin. It will be
difficult to sever the relations of several de
cades standing. It will be difficult to split
Tip the majority group which is holding the
crown. It will be difficult to convince the
students that this will accomplish the purpose
which they are attempting.
If, however, the body which performs the
realignment makes the fraternities see that in
the present political situation lies the cause for
dormant Nebraska spirit, then something will
be accomplished. The groups, if realigned,
will have to work for the honors. Politics will
again be placed on a basis upon which the best
man wins and not the man who belongs to the
strongest faction. There is an old maxim of
war which says that the victory belongs to the
stronger battalions. The military men, how
ever, do not say that the most powerful bat
talions are always the ones who deserve to win.
The investigating committee has a difficult
job to do and it should begin its work at once.
One of the most efficient means of shelving a
difficult problem is to drop consideration of it.
This is the easy way out, the committee will
have to face the rockier road.
cultural things which mean an infinite lot in
the world of men. It offers five concerts which
will bring genuine enjoyment to all those who
attend. The campus symphony campaign is a
significant movement. It is an opportunity
for students to prove that they have deeper
interests than jazz parties and picnics. Per
haps it is a challenge.
,
Suggested course to be added to curriculum:
How to Save Money. This would have to be
about a six hour course, running throughout
the entire four years.
About
A Horse.
One who signs as "A Barb "With No Re
grets" seems to have hit the crux of the mat
ter in the ever existent Greek-Barb strife.
The tone of the letter in the Morning Mail
column is the real and correct attittide toward
the whole affair. The writer seems to be in
sinuating that the whole business docs not
mean such a great deal anyway. The letter
brings out the fact that life in fraternity and
snrnritv is nvpftv much of a MlOuldinflT DrOCCSS.
The only difficulty is that the people who are
cast into the inouias are always mnue in inu
same pattern. Individuality is frowned upon,
even discouraged, ana one wno ciares dc af
ferent is not being true to the ideal of his
group.
The petty snobbery of the Greek groups in
tbeii ridiculous attempt to show their super
iority is one of the many characteristics of the
mould by which the ureeKS are cast, a ihisc
aristocracy is bunt up aim an attempt is mnue
to perpetuate itTy acting like snobs and not
a SnrnrJtips and fraternities do
ti iuvvrvt i4 ui f v
much to aid their members in the superficial-
ities of life they teach Them xne correct iorK
in na Tinwr in unv Txlln. Jllld illst what clothes
to wear. The error lies in the fact that all are
taught to do it in the same way and an indi
vidualist has no chance for survival.
There can be no doubt of the fact that some
of the Barb group are jealous of the Greek
group. On the other hand there are many
Greeks who desire to be members of the Barb
group but so discouraged has their individu
ality become that they dare npt cry out. In
fact it is treason to cry out against one's fra
ternity or sorority. The system has built
about itself a wall which is tremendously
strong. In this light it is much like many
other American institutions. If one assails re
ligion, he is an atheist. If he attacks the na
tion, he is a traitor. If he assails the Mother
Grundy attitude toward sexual matters, he is
a pervert. So it is with the fraternity system.
Does one outside the Greek group assail them
ho is ignorant. Does one inside the group
make the attack sour grapes, is the comeback.
But the Barb who writes this morning seems
to have the right attitude. It cannot make
such a great difference any way. Most of us
are here for four years, then we go out into a
cold world in which the saying is no longer,
"What are you?" but, "What can you do?"
Affiliations of a social nature will not help in
the slightest to further one in the world. The
world is interested in ability, not in affilia
tions. Greeks could profitably spend their time
in coming down off their high horse.
College students would like to know where
these hoarders got their money in the first
place.
That Soothe
The Savage Breast.
In its campaign for memberships the Lin
coln symphony orchestra is offering students
a place in the Lincoln Symphony Orchestra
association for half price. This concession is
one which merits an appreciative reaction from
the student body.
At a university one hears so much about the
highly-touted culture which students are sup
posed to be acquiring. They are having the
"rough edges knocked off," as the saying
goes. As a matter of fact the "culture" which
the average student acquirte amounts to little
more than a superficial knowledge of the rudi
ments of "etiquette" and a -'line." Except
for the very few individual eases graduates
know little more about true culture than they
did when they entered university.
The Lincoln Symphony orchestra, however,
offer even more than an acquaintance vith
MORNING MAIL
Wot So Hot.
TO THE EDITOR:
When I see a discussion of sorority and non
sorority life. I always wonder, ""Why so hot?"
I suppose I had my pangs at not being able to
pledge, but I certainly have not allowed such
a little and immaterial point to color my uni
versity life. 1 am sure that, a sorority would
have done things for me in the matter of social
graces and clothes, but nothing that I can not
learn by observation and contact in other ways.
Besides, I simply did not have the money. Why
worry about such a thing? To do so seems to
me to reveal a lack of sense of values. So my
advice to anyone bothered by the question is:
If you can pledge and want to, why, do it; if
you can pledge and don't want to, why, don't
do it; if you can't pledge whether you want to
or not, why, forget about it ; and in any event
whatever you do. forget it and go on about
the business of living. Remember the lines
from Edna St. Vincent Millay, called
"Prison"
"All right, what's in a name?
I'll be locked into as much as I'm locked
out of."
So if you are in or out, the same adveniures
are there and you may choose the sort of
friends you want and the type of activities you
prefer.
I should like to refute the general impres
sion that barbs have an uninteresting and drab
existence. Only drab and uninteresting per
sons have such lives. And such people are not
exclusive to any one certain group or class of
people.
Personally, I can conceive of no life more
drab than the monotonous conventional one of
societv. Dressing up in formals and playing
at fairies has its place, but becomes pretty thin
in meaning if practiced exclusively. And I
have a good deal of sympathy for the couple
who never find anything to do on a date
except the conventional show or dance, etc.
And the couple that cannot have a good time
unless they spend a flock of money well I
feel sorry for the fellows in this period of de
pression. I dislike to accuse the members of
my sex for lack of ingenuity, but it does seem
that there is little variety in the conventions
of dating among most of the couples I know.
All of this is a bit beside the point, but I
should like to make the point that neither
happiness in university, nor success in life, are
dependent upon whether or not you are a
sorority or fraternity member, but these
things are dependent upon the way you live
and develop your personality and individuality
in the university. If you cannot have intel
lectual or social adventures outside of an or
ganization, then you cannot have these adven
tures within the organization. If you shed
hike warm tears over such immaterial prob
lems, then you are probably incapable of know
ing the really deep experiences of life and only
imagine that you are suffering.
So here's to the college student whose hap
piness is not entirely dependent upon the or
ganizations on his campus; btit who finds much
that is interesting within himself, and makes
the most of it.
A BARB WITH NO REGRETS.
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TREND OF THE
TIMES
by
OERALD BARDO
FiMiniiiHiiiiaiiBiiuaiiBj'ii',
It was a peculiarly mixed group
of people that listened to Paul
Cllne, a communist and graduate
of the University of Chicago, when
he spoke in the Temple Y. M. C. A.
rooms Tuesday evening. Part of
the group were comrades and un
employed men and women. The
rest were university students. The
unemployed folic were interested
becausa their very being depends
upon the finding of a solution for
our economic problems. The uni
versity students, a group which
has met several timea to discuss
the Russian experiment, were in
terested because they arc con
scientiously trying to learn the
problems of communism.
To such an audience Mr. Cline
chose to make his talk, Commun
ism vs. Capitalism, more for the
benefit of those older, unemployed,
sympathetic folk. We university
people were a little disappointed
that he did not deal more with fun
damental principles rather than
Burface Issues. But what we lost
there, we gained in talking and
associating with those who think
communism is the best solution
for depression and suffering.
Not communists, all of us, we
began to sense that the commun
ism Is not only a Russian project,
but a world and American prob
lem, must be thoughtfully consid
ered and studied.
"Dear Gangster: Please make
all other . children safe." This
heads a letter in Hearst papers by
Winifred Black to Mr. Salvatore
Spitale, gangland go-between for
the Lindberghs.
She pleads to Mr. Spitale:
"Stretch out that almost omni
potent hand of yours, and tell us
that as far as organized gangdom
la concerned our children are safe."
Too bad when we have to plead
aa a last resort to gangland for
protection of children, but con
tinues Winifred Black's letter:
"The police have failed, the ma
chinery of the law has broken
down. . . . We know by published
accounts how rich and powerful
and strong and handsome and
clever you are . . . besides ... re
member that It is the women of
America who brought about pro
hibition, which has given you your
great and marvelous chance."
And "What Al Capone wants to
know is, if he returns the kid
(Lindbergh's) to its parents, will
the government remit his sen
tence?" 1 wonder what makes a gang
ster believe he can even offer such
a proposition.
The rfolnese didn't make their
last payments on guns they
bought from the Japanese on the
installment plan to put in the
Woosung forts, so Japan has taken
them back. But Japan took them
back In pieces and mainly because
she had conquered the Woosung
forts and wanted the guns aa war
trophies.
The Nichi Nichi, a Tokyo news
paper, gives a glimpse of Japan's
political troubles. It says: "Count
less patriotic societies exist in
Japan, deriving their subsistence
from blackmail. They are allowed
to flourish openly because both
political parties use them. Every
thinking Japanese condemns them,
but none dares attack thpm fnr
fear of the consequences."
tucn organizations have been
associated with the recent murder
of Baron Taiuma Dan and former
Premier Iuouye, and says a New
York Times correspondent: "Some
Japanese find a consolation In com
paring conditions here with those
in the American atmosphere pro
duced by gangsters."
NEED THIRD PARTY
SAYS LABOR LEADER
(Continued from Page 1.)
if such a. movement
would wreck our present industrial
aysiem ana ao mucn more harm
than good," he declared.
Need Leaders.
The American masses are ready
to act but they don't know what to
do, he asserted. They need cour
ageous, Intelligent leaders to helD
them on their feet There la a
real chance for universitv students
to preform a great service to
numanuy ana to tne nation.
The real condition in the East
cannot be realized by middle west
erners, according to Mr. Williams.
In an interview with fifteen miners,
picked at random from thniifMuiris
in the Pennsylvania coal fields, not
uue ui uiem naa received more
in an one dollar cash in pay meny
for two weeks, all the resi twnne-
deducted for board, room and to-
nacco, ce said.
LAWRSNCE ANSWERS
QUESTIONS ON PRESS
(Continued from Page 1.)
ent to its advertisers, Mr. Law
rence again emphatically denied
any such subserviency. He Indi
cated that the newspaper waa the
most important medium that exists
for advertising, and that the ad
vertiser must necessarily use this
medium. Consequently, he is not
actually in the position which is
sometimes assumed to dictate to
the paper in which he advertises.
The only charges against the
paper which Mr. Lawrence would
admit to were the tendency of the
paper to be victimized by press
agents and propagandists, and
the occasional suppression of news,
usually for good and sufficient
reasons.
SWEATERS
TOP COATS
FELT HATS
Send Them for
Cleaning Now
MODERN
CLEANERS
SOl'KUP WESTOVER
Call 2377 for Service
PROFESSOR SAYS ART
OF READING IS LOST
Creighton English Teacher
Claims Students Skim
Through Books.
The art of reading, If reading
Is an art, has supposedly been lost
In our day, according to an address
given at Creighton university last
Monday night. The address was
given by the Rev. Francis Retlly,
S. J., professor of English in that
school. The reason pupils expert'
ence difficulties in studying: is be
cause they do not know how to
read thoughtfully and Intelligently,
he said.
"We read as we drink and bolt
our food," was his criticism. He
feels that people are committing
intellectual suicide by reading too
rapidly.
Students too often skim thru
books. Passive reading, like food
that has not been masticated does
far more harm than good in his
opinion.
"To read Is to grasp, compre
hend, assimilate and make one's
own the thought expressed on the
page. And since it takes time to in
terpret and translate what the
writer has to say, one should spend
time and thought in 'reading," de
clared the speaker.
"A student does not have much
time to read so he should read very
carefully what he has time for.
He should pick something that
Interests him and make his read
ing an absorbing occupation. He
should not read for more than two
hours at a time. The student
should atop when he realizes that
he is not getting anything out of
the article or book he is reading.
"Read every day. Don't let
your reading lapse for weeks and
months and then try to catch up
In a few days."
ORCHESTRAL FINALS
SET FOR THURSDAY
(Continued from Page 1.)
sistants are: Lynn Leonard, Bas
sett; Roger Wilkerson, Lincoln;
Glenn LeDioyt, North Platte;
Carlyle Sorenson, Omaha; Harold
Windquest, Holdrege ; Byron
Goulding, Omaha and Milton
Mansfield, Omaha.
Merchants and business men of
the cities that "Jingle Belles" is to
plav in as well as Lincoln men
will be solicited by the staff.
Plans for the scenery for tne pro
duction are being drawn up by
Norman Hoff and1 the west sta
dium has been secured to work in
for the painting of props and
scenery.
Publicity for the show is Demg
released by the pubilicity staff, in
communication with Nebraska
alumni and former students in dif
ferent towns thruout the state that
have signified interest In "Jingle
Belles." Alumni will turn the pub
licity sent to them to their paper.
This procedure was made neces
sary because of a university rul
ing that prevents the direct is
suance of publicity to newspapers
in the state.
Pony and male choruses are
kicking up their heels and have
according to Klub members, al
ready perfected one of the rou-
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plans completed during their short
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d&Jack Welsh, member of the
greens committee of the Makonda
club, Des Moines, was elected
president. Registration at the
short course, the first of its kind
ever held here, totalled sixty-two
persons, Including several local
people.
tines. Practices are being held
every night under the direction of
Ralph Ireland. The director of the
choruses is being assisted by Don
Easterday and Roger Wilkerson.
Individual rehearsals are being
held for members of the cast under
the supervision of Herbert Yenno,
author and director of "Jingle
Belles."
INITIATIONS ARE PLANNED
Sigma Delta Chi Announces
10 Men to Be Taken In
Next Thursday.
Tledges to Sigma Delta Cht will
be formally initiated into the pro
fessional Journalism group Thurs
day, March 17, C. William McGaf
fin, president, announced Wednes
day. Tho men to be initiated ere
Joe Miller, Laurence Hall, Dick
Moran, Kenneth Keller. Gerald
Bardo, Don Larimer, William But
terfield, Graham Howe, Marvin
cnhmiii nnrt Art Kozclka. Initia
tion will be followed by a dinner
in honor of the initiates ai wuim
J. E. Lawrenco, editor of the Lln
in Star, has been tentatively
scheduled to speak.
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