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FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 1932 TITF nAITV NPTITIASK AN ,1 1 W V 1 i V1' II V ' Jhe Daily Nebraskan Station A. Lincoln, Ntbrtika OFFICIAL STUDSNT PUBLICATION UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PubtUhrd Tuday, Wcdnaiday, Thuraday, Friday and eunaay ntorningi am my ! pvmw THIRTY. FIRST YEAR Enured atcond-claia matur at the poatoffley In Lincoln, Nebraaka, under act of conoreaa, March 3. 1879. ind at epeclal 'att of peitag provided for tn "ect'on 1103. act of October 3, 117, autnoriieo January u, J, act of October 3, 1917, authoriiea January u, Under direction of the Student Publication Board SUBSCRIPTION RATE I a vear Single Copy 8 eenta M a eemeeter la a vear mailed I1.7S a eemeeter man Editorial Office Unlverelty Hall 4. 3uelnra Off ice University Hall 4A. Telephone Day! B681 Nlghtl B-6842, 3331 (Journa Ask for Nebratkan editor. led jMEMBERp 1932 This paper le represented for tnrJ dvertlalnc by the Nebraska Press Association. EDITORIAL STAFF Arthur Wolf Editor-in-chief MANAQINQ EDITORS Howard Allaway J Erlckeon NEWS EDITORS Phillip Brownell fijffjl Laurence Hail VI7'"lJ!.PrH1', Joe Miller Sporte Ed tor Evelyn Simpson A"oc,,. " '' Ruth Schill VVomen s Editor Katharine Howard Society Editor CONTRIBUTING EDITORS. Gerald Bards George Dunn Don Larimer Edwin Faulkner Boyd Kreweon William Holme George Round Art Koxelka BUSINESS STAFF Jack Thompeon tfunlneai Manager ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGERS Norman Galleher Prank Muegrava Bernard Jenninge Political Muddle. Progress was shown by the rejHjrt of the work done by the committee in charge of fne lion realignment Wednesday. That group dis played its willingness to work aud its desire to act' at the root of the present predicament by hs work. It showed clearly that it meant busi ness and that what findings it makes will W vecoinmended as the facts. It displayed an in teution for getting those facts and its report indicates that a satisfactory beginning has been made. The commission reeomemnds that the solu tion of the problem is the formation of Barb clubs to coalesce with the minority faction so as -to break up the monopoly of the Bine Shirt group. The committee declared itself unalter ably opposed, to the absolute abolition of fac tions, for the obvious reasons that it is much better to have recognized alignments than to have underhand and underground parties over which authorities have no check. It is to be recognized that it is bum in nature to form into parties and so long as there is more than one group on the campus there will be coalitions. It must be admitted, however, that the aN.lition of these faction groups is the best so lution and the only true one. It will be the ultimate answer to the question of what to do wiih politics. It is upon this basis, ami upon I his basis only, that true all-school spirit will come. Not until men are elected upon their owii merits and not upon the vote-getting strength of their party machine, will politics at the University of Nebraska finally come out of their muddle." But the situation at Nebraska is Hot yet ripe for such a radical step. Organization of the Barbs into clubs seems i.i be the logical step at the present time. There is a good deal of precedent upon other cam puses for such an action and upon our own campus there are two excellent examples of the dub idea. The Ag Eating club and the Alpha Alpha club on the Agricultural college campus are co-operative eating houses at which a num U'V of Barb men have come together to eat their meals. They have an economic incentive for their organization aud it does not seem without the realm of possibility that the group would be willing to co-operate politically. Nor does it seem impossible to suppose that more of these Eating clubs might be formed iu the very near future. Organized houses have their faults and their difficulties but there is no doubt that in three phases of campus life they do have the better of the situation. Social activities, in iramural athletics, and political power, are all exercised, for the most part by organized gronpf?. The unorganized groups are undoubt edly missing ont on a lot of their college career in not participating in social, athletic, and po litical activities. Organization of the clubs would permit them to exercise these rights also. The plan as advanced by the committee is by no means a panacea for all ills. It is, how ever, a step in the right direction. If spirit and interest in activities are ever to be raised from their respective graves, it is the Barbs to whom we must look for aid. Oreeks have a strangle hold ou all owers on the campus and until they release that hold, nothing iu the way of progress can le done. And so the whole problem reverts back once more to the individual students and espe cially to the Barb group. Those students must have spirit of school and of self at hearts, they must have a desire for the benefits of extra curricular activities, they must have a desire for something higher than merely a book edu cation. -If the plan is to work, then the Barbs themselves must bear the brunt of the labor. They must have the ambition and the willing hi ss to work and work hard. This opportunity is a challenge to the Barb group. Will they answer it? Io they want to? For the good of internal harmony of the institution, it is to le hoped that they will. Dean Foster has the Law college brown dctby. He won it with a crack alx.ut "miiie. all mine." Chivalry and Chaperones. - That chaperones are considered a neces sary evil by students and that chaperoning is rnm i.wT thp same war by faculty members is no new thought. For many long years one nf iho m-tif difficult narts of outtinz on a party was the obtaining of chaperones. Faculty people uo not like to cnajeroiie funics. of them enjoy themselves and most of them go because they feel they should or iniiiiise they fral flint until flllf O iiirhr to. Students are not interested in the chajierones and !0 ercent of the ones who attend paruen uo nui eer mow who the chaperones are. As it stands, the sit uation at present is nothing more nor less than an anomaly as Mr. Lantz and Colonel Oury declare. An analvsis of the situation fails to reveal much of benefit. The lack of iuterest evinced bv the faculty ieople in parties is due largely to the fact that studentH show them little or no courtesy at parties. The "chaperones cor ner" is the one place at a dunce which is to be avoided by all students. No one ever goes to meet the chaperones except the fellow who asked them to officiate and one or two others. They are shown few, if any. siecinl courtesies, and' are allowed to struggle through the eve ning as best they can. Why should this be so? In the main be cause tliere is no harmony in the system. Stu dents have no other interest in the parties than to dance with their partners. The thought of sociable evenings does not enter the colle gian's mind. Trading dances is seldom prac ticed. As a result party-goers pay attention only to their partners and to nothing else. Many students go to partus hecause ttiey teet they must be seen for political reasons, loo, but' that is aside from the point. And so tliere seem to lie at least two rea sons for the presence of n social anomaly on the Nebraska campus. One is that chaperones are not treated with the courtesy and respect due them. The other is that parties are not social gatherings, but sundry collections of pairs who spend the entire evening together, meeting few icople, if any, and supposedly en joying themselves. Then, too, there is the pos sibility that the chaperoning syslem is wrong. It mav lie that students and faculty alike are not in accordance with the present plan. It is apparent that students do not like it, be cause of the difficulty they have in getting faculty members to officiate at dances, r ac uity members do not like the system. That too, is apparent iu that they turn down so many students who request their services. There is room for a reform in the social situation. Perhaps the solution lies in revis ing the chaK-roning system. Perhaps it lies iu changing the party scheme. Why not have a siag line and a program dance? Another thing which should be done, alt ho this will not improve the situation at bottom, in to be a lit tle more courteous to chaperones. R. 0. 1. C. I Li All in favor of squirtless grape fruit, say ave. tli. my. Auguan Goes A mtv. A twentv-eitrht page splurge beneath a spring sprite cover that's the March Awgwau. out todav. The humor magazine has outdone itself this month iu anticipation of large sales. and the spring issue of Nebraska's comic goes metropolitan. IMshing the dirt on cr.nipus Krsoiialities. a new section titled Oore rakes the boys and girls with Winchellian barrage. If the campus doesn't like it, then it will lie liecause ihe human thirst for scandal is dead. There are. too. enough evideuces of in nuendo almost out aud out breaks, in fact to satisfv even the seasoned readers of the newer class of humor magazine. Last month campus stand sales wiped out the available copies in mid-afternoon of the first day of distribution, and the staff has shown its rratitude bv stepping out iu new and superb fashion. With the quality of humor demonstrated in today's Awgwan scattered over the campus, it will not be unseemly if classes are a bit riotous ami students a Pit lr repressive. After all. it comes only once a month. And now Editor Bobiusou will have a busy time answering exchange requesis. Reflect is it not commendable that a comic monthly of a "provincial, mid-western school" should be so well received in the centers of sophistica tion? Survey of 10,000 Students Shows Opposing Idea By 93 Percent. BELIEVE TRAINING FINE That the so-called spirit of militarism Is not produced thru training in the Reserve Officer's Training Corps of American col leges and universities y&8 revealed in a survey taK-n by the U. S. Department oi the Interior. This question was one of a series put to the graduates of these in stitutions, from which was com piled a "Study of the Educational Value of Military Instruction in Universities and Colleges," written by Lt. Col. Ralph Bishop, FA-Res., and published by the U. S. Office of Education. The question relating to the de velopment of the militaristic spirit was asked to approximately 10.000 graduates of 54 institutions, Ne braska included. Ninety-three per cent of those asked replied that the training did not develop a mill taiistic spirit. The majority of the graduates that replied declared that actual education in the de.structiveness of war is conducive to a sane patriot ism and an enlightened attitude to ward peace. More than six per cent, however, stated that they as sumed that they were being trained for the next war which was inevitable. New light was thrown on the controversial question of the value of military education by Lt. Col. Bishop in a study entitled "A Study of the Educational Value of Military Instruction in Universities and Colleges." Eight questions were put to 16,416 graduates of 1920 to 1930 classes. More than 97 per cent stated that the R. O. T. C. course of study had a definite educational value of its own. Ninety-five per cent said that the R. O. T. C. course contributed something im portant and unique to their educa tion. To the question, "In your opinion does the R. O. T. C. course of in struction tend to produce a mili taristic attitude inimical to world peace?" The majority responded negatively. They aserted that a working familiarity with modern military weapons acted as a sober ing offset to any romantic concep tion of warfare. lected by the nominating commit tee. Candidates nominated by the committee will be presented at this mass meeting. The A. W. S. board Is the wom en's self governing body. Berenleco Hoffman, president, says: "Since it Is the women's self governing center, every girl in the univer sity should feel it her duty to vote. At the Thursday election it will be essential to present Identifica tion cards. A. W. S. ELECTIONS ARE TO BE HELD MARCH 24 (Continued from Page 1) number of names may be put up as candidates. An elimination bal lot will be taken at the meeting and the two high candidates from each class will be placed on Thurs day's ballot with those names se- Go to Hauck's studio for photo graphs that satisfy. 1216 O. Adv. GENERAL ORDER LISTS ADVANCE 72 R. 0. T. C. MEN (Coitlnued from Page 1.) kin and Morris Wakely. In com pany K, Roger Schall was pro moted to first sergeant, LaVerne Seburg and Hugo Schmidt were promoted to sergeants, and Elmer Palmatier and B. B. Wolcott were promoted to cci norals. New first sergeants for com panies L and M are Charles F. Brown and Heye Lambcrtus. Ser geants in company L are: John Hollingsworth, Hugh Wyland, Merle Werner and Harold Han cock. Sergeants in company M are: Samuel Gildner, Ralph Illings wirth, Ralph Hoffman, Wayne Thurman, Elton Ross and Robert Campbell. Corporals in company I are: P. H. G. Moessner and Ivan Walker. Corporals in company M are: F. J. Novak and Robert Powell. In the headquarters company Norman Jeffrey was promoted to first sergeant. Nineteen promotions and ap pointments were announced in the band. They are: Staff sergeants Lowell Heaney and Dale Cameron; sergeants William Kettel, Ray mond Byington, Clarence Scriven, Kermit Pell, Benjamin Grimm, Clarence Higgins and Ross V. Baumann; corporals Leroy Ask ing, Lester Beals, Charles Bryant, William Cams, Gleen Ewing, Banks Gaymon, Frank Greenslit, Bernard Jennings, Oliver Patten and George Reinmiller. Farmers Heceive Trees Through Extension Service Distribution of seeding trees furnished to Nebraska farmers by the agricultural extension service begins Wednesday, March 23 this year, according to a letter mailed the sixteenth to all those who have trees ordered. If weather condi tions delay the shipment of trees, Wonder if the Snoopers are any relation to the (iadflies? Students And Politics. Dr. John P. Penning has reported that American students are subnormal to European students when it comes to interest in matters of politics and affairs of government. What Dr. Kenning sars is quite true but we wonder if the situation is one which is to be greatly deplored. Lxcept in an academic way. students have little time or reason for jionderiug on affairs politic. Naturally they should be expected to have at least a cursory knowledge of what the government is doing but one can hardly ask that they know more than that. While iu school students have other things to think about. If their philosophy of life is not bound up with politics there is still hope for them. In fact the American situation may even lie a boon. It certainlv saves a lot of worry and argument over something which can hardly lie remedied anvwav. There is. perhaps, one class of persons. which does plenty of thinking about affairs of government m this country. That class the taxpaying public is a large one and an inter ested one. Persons who wonder why Ameri can gtudents show so little interest in politics may cease worrying for the students will (soon be taxpayers too. College Editors Say UNITARIAN CHURCH 12th and H Street! Arthur L. Weatherly, Minister The Church Without a Creed Not the Truth, but the Search for Truth Sunday, March 20 "Art and Life" You Get More Wear From Your Garments! Have the m M o d e r n cleaned at regular inter vals they wear longer and have that fresh new look always. Modern Cleaners SOUKUP & WESTOVER Call F2377 L. Same Old Trouble. The school spirit shown by this year's sen ior class, as evidenced by ihe first class meet ing called Thursday evenitig. is practically null and void. Of course, thirty-five of the thou sand and some -who are to receive degrees in the spriug did manage to get out to the meet ing and perhaps in view of the fact that, the first meeting last year drew even fewer seniors, this year's group is to lc congratulated. Perhaps they hated to meet, realizing that their graduation, with the consequent sorrows and parting, is approaching. Again, perhaps for the first time the announcement of the meeting brought to them the thoughts of grad uation preparations and qualifications which in some cases were sadly lacking. But more probably the meeting merely promised to be uot so interesting as some other entertainment. Has four years of university life worn out the school spirit of this class, or is it merely uecessary to get them into the swing of things again? University Daily Kausau. A Case Of Canadian Homespuns A rather weighty, porous fabric of beautifully . .blended rich shades. Canadian Homespuns in tan, gray and flray-tan offers you elegance and variety of ward- robe- $30-00 RAY KILLIAN Inc. TWELVE TWELVE O YOUR SPORT SHOES THIS SPRING NEED COST ONLY jzg $385 I1 ...u haiM Vinm romlniT will be notified thru newspapers and radio stations, Clayton W. Wat kins, extension forester, states in his letter. 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