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THE DAfLY NEItRASKAN VEDNESDAY, MAY 11. 1932. TWO i 4 ft K 4 The Daily Nebraska n Utlon A, Lincoln. Nebraska OFFICIAL STUDENT PUBLICATION UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA Published Tueeday, Wedneeday. Thurs day, Friday and Sunday morning during tha academic year. THIRTY-FIRST YEAR Entered aa tecond-clata matter at .. the poatofflce In Lincoln, Nebraska, under act of congreaa, March S. '88. and at epeclal rate of poatage provided for In section 1101. act of October 3, 1I7, authorized January JO, 1922. Under direction of tha Student Publication Board 8USCRIPTION RATE 12 a year 91.25 a aemeiter Single Copy 6 centa IS year, S1.7S a aemeater mailed Editorial Oflca University Hall 4. Bualnesa Off Ice University Hall 4A, Telephones Dayi B-6891: Night: B-6882, B-J331 (Journal) Ask for Nebraskan editor. EDITORIAL STAFF Arthur Wolf Editor-in-chief MANAGING EDITORS Howard Allaway ...Jack Erlckaon NEWS EDITORS Phillip Brownell Oliver De Wolf Laurence Hall Virginia Pollard Joe Miller Sporta Editor Evelyn Simpaon Associate Editor Ruth Schill Women's Editor Katharine Howard Society Editor CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Gerald Bardo, George Dunn, Don Larl. iner. Edwin Faulkner, Boyd Krewson, William Holmes, George Round, Art Kozelka. BUSINESS STAFF Jack Thompson Business Manager Jot Don Quixote. Sen, Axtell, strongest auppjrter of the bill presented at the last session of the state legislature to . prohibit smoking on the campus by university students, declared in an interview given last week that he would like to see "more super vision of the university officials over the students especially in fra- . - ternitics and sororities. "For ex- - ample," he added, "I think that ' smoking at meal time should be 'forbidden." Whether It is politically popular or not to pick on the students at , the university, we cannot say. Cer tainly, however, it seems to be a general assumption that university students are necessarily dissipaters and snobs, to borrow Axtell's own words. The mere fact that they are university students, regardless of what they were previously, or what they would be anyway, makes them dissipaters in many people's minds. " But college editors have been over this subject hundreds of times. The fact has been pointed out that the number of offenses by - university students in proportion to the population of the university are much less than In any m other class of society. As a class we firmly believe that university " students are a fairly orderly bunch . and live fairly clean lives for the - most part. But apart from all this, we can " Imagine of nothing more absurd 2 than to attempt to regulate the - habits and lives of university stu- - dents by strict measures such as prohibiting smoking in fraternity . houses. One of the major things - which should be learned in a four year college course is how to live a sane and well regulated life. Of course if some students over- - step the bounds, their conduct " must be regulated by university authorities, or in extreme cases by - police regulation just as in the - case of any bad citizen. But why " students should as a class be sub ject to other childish restrictions which would hamper them in any " attempt to learn how to govern and regulate themselves is more than we can understand. We cannot imagine the legisla- Z ture passing a law to restrict the - smoking among its members in the legislative chambers, or in the lobbies, which might as properly be done as to ban smoking in fra ternity houses. And there are just plenty of other activities indulged in by legislators which are on a - par with some of the activities in dulged in by university students, which Senator Axtell deplores. Yet - we do not believe that they should be regulated by statute, for noth ing would be accomplished there by. In the long run the activities of individuals must be controlled by the wisdom of the individuals themselves, and certainly if a uni versity is worth supporting at all, it is worth entrusting with the task of helping its students to fig ure out the wise manner of living and working it out for themselves without cxterr.al interference. We realize that to some extent we are tilting at a windmill, for we believe that Senator Axtell's pro posals are not to be taken too se riously nor will be by the legis lature. The Water Cure. Assumer this morning berates the ag college students for their tactics in promoting work anion? students for the Farmers Fair. It is entirely true that some students did not work and needed ' r "s- ciplined. The ag erllegc people did not hesitate to hurl all these slackers into the old familiar horse tank, now missing, by he way. Men and women both, all of tho&e who refused to work were heaved into the drink as a measure of as suring efforts later. " ' On the other hand, however, the students might have pi ked an other day for their court martial and punishment. Upon seeing that the fraternity in question was en tertaining guests, the police might have desisted in their efforts. There is always time for these little forays and one of th -se times is certainly not on parents day. The deed is done, though, and the ag college students should learn a lesson from it. The work ers should learn to hold their pun ishments until a proper time, and those who do not work should leen to do so. Morning Mail Tuo Assumptions. TO THE EDITOR: Shall we begin with aa assump tion? Good, I then assume that the College of Agriculture is a part of the University of Nebras ka. It is then a logical deduction that students enrolled in the Col lege ot Agriculture are university students. Since that is true, it is true, also, that these same students must have had preparatory work. Ac cording to Nebraska quallfica "tlona, the average age of these students should be approximately twenty. That Is a good age, a beautiful time ot life, enough years to de velop the mind and brain ot indi viduals ot average Intellect Yes, it is a lact Every being who has a claim on humanity should know by this time some ot the morals and customs vt American lite. But, true as these very asser tions may be, It is likewise true that The majority of male students ot the College ot Agriculture have not yet attained the knowledge that there are certain demands made by American people, and more especially Nehraskans, Here is why Sunday, May 8, was Mother's day. A day that was made a tig occasion In the lives ot those mothers who have daugh ters and sons In the University of Nebraska. With the exception of a very few. fraternities and soror ities held dinners and banquets for mothers. At exactly 3 o'clock, central standard time, one individual ol the agricultuial college, (one with more gumption and less Drains, oerbar I "barelled"' up the tin steps of a fraternity house, dashed through a group ot mothers who had just risen from the dinner ta ble, pounced upon a lad in tnis certain home, jerked him from the group in which his mother was present, and in words that this pa per would censure, commanded that this fraternity man should get out. To avoid an indescribable con fusion which would have been in evitable, this fraternity man, with out a word, walked out ol the house and to the lawn, where he halted against the jerking, pulling, cursing, etc., of the Ag. man, and demanded an explanation, for as yet he did not know "what the thing was all about." The man was forceful. Theie v s only one thing to do, and that was for the fraternity man to "b'-t the intruder cn the horn,' which he did quite succesrully. T' an went down, b- not with the calm and quiet t to, but rather with a painful shriek which wild curdle the blood ot one ol the most passive of temperaments. The shriek served a du-fold pur pose. It .rought the mothers from the house not calmly. It also served as a clan call, for "quick like a mouse" one truck load of sixty-three farmers w h i z x e d around the corner and p to the scene with six more car r--'z of the same conspirators. Readers, do yo, 1 .ow the re sults? Yes. 1 am glad that you can use your imagination -nd save me the tribulations of going over the scene once more. The mothers w ho had come to me-t the "brothers' and parents of their sons in this fraternity, the r "'era who p' nneo one of the most enjoyable days ot the year, were swept out of the home and away, with what could l nothing more than contempt tor cr' "e- Hfe. This all came : bout as the result of a determined mob (without even mob sense) to tub a man who failed to go to the farm an. do a teasely bit of after "farmers fr.ir." So I 'ean to wonder. 1 wonde. if ess people who call themsclvej Ag . k-nts are possei s ot any k) ledge of the mores, ca'tcmt, no'nl 'r itions and l"ws of Amci ican civilization, or vh: r the are j 'ain d imple imbicttV.. So. hall we " with an assump tion- the answer to it all is :.he latter ASSUMEK. RESEARCH LAB USED SOCIAL SCIESCES etr York City College lias Place for Practicing What Is T outfit. NKW YORK. A social science research laboratory, through which students in the department of e-overament and sociology at the college ot the City of New York my attack the problems they hear about in the classroom, is announced y Frederick B. Roti insr.n. president of Ihe college. The laboratory has been in op eration experimentally for about two years. Dr. Robinson said, and its success fiom the point of view of a score cf. cooperating social and civic agencies as well as thBt of th; Ltudents . now assures its permanence. Working under the supervision of experts in various fields ol so cial service, public health, and government, 161 students have be?n carrying on research projects in their new laboratory. The volunteer service of these students and their technical ad visory has made it possible lor many of the agencies cooperating with the coll-.'ge to undertake re search studies which, though they have been badly needed, would otherwise have gone undone; it has at the same time given the student worker in this new type ot laboratory an appreciation l what he will face when he leaves college such as is impossible to secure from lectures and books alone. The social science research lab oratory was organized and devel oped by Prof. Samuel Joseph who directs the sociological courses of the college and the practical field work in sociology. So effective has this work become that It has at tracted the active Interest of lead ers in civic and philanthropic un dertakings, who have formed an advisory committee to cooperate with Prof. Joseph in the direction of the laboratory. HARVARD DOCTOR CLAIMS DRINKING IS ON DECLINE CAMBRIDGE, Mass. That the drinking among Harvard students has reached its lowest level in the past two or three years is the be lief of Dr. Alfred Worcester, su pervisor of student health. In re gard to liquor drinking on the campus. Dr. Worcester feels that "In at least the past seven years the decrease has been notable and highly gratifying. In the last two or three years the Increasing so briety of the student body has been even more marked." Dr. Worcester's opinion was confirmed by university police whose general opinion was quoted aa being that there has been a steady decrease in the evidence of student drinking. ARE NOT ATHEISTIC Charge Refuted by Figures Showing Majority Have Church Homes. MADISON, Wis. The absurdity ot the rumor that any number of students at the University ot Wis consin are atheists, radicals or ex tremists In their attitude toward moral conventions and beliefs is shown by the figures made public through the otflce of O. Holt director ot the bureau ot guidance and records. These figures show that 80 percent ol the 8.000 stu dents at the school are either members ol local denominations or have express preferences for cet tain churches The compiled figures released by Air. Holt make up the official church census of all students at ALERT MEN AND WOMEN EAGERLY THRONG OUR AISLES SEARCHING FOR THESE HISTORY MAKING 7 m VAI.IJFS! YESTERDAY ONE (l) WAS FOUND AND. OH. WHAT A MAD SCRAMBLE! THINK OF r! THAT! Now, think of this! For weekt our taleipeople were unable to bLLLf NlUHIb! Now, they can't M But, that' Life this is Ballyhoo and this sale is Grand Fun you simply must come over It's jolly being Every tlay men toy, (after buying one of these suits) "Yon must be crazy to tell clothr at thrxt' pikes.'' They're right ll'c are crazy to that's tchy ice Ye Halting, Sailing I I n i Hhirtt with attached rol lart thirts Kith coWut in watch! tending the inlverslty In 1931 and 1032. They reveal that 6,348 stu dents now attending the unlver alty either declared their member ship In some one of the dozen de nominations surrounding the uni versity, or expressed their prefer enca for one or another of them, Some ot the students declared that they had no direct preference. These figures were compiled di rectly from replies given by the students to queries made to them at the time they registered. Stu dents were not required to answer the question and Mr. Holt believes that practically all of the small number who did not answer have actual religious affiliation. . People Misinterpret University. In commenting on these figures, C. V. Hibbard, for eight years general secretary of the Young Men s Christian association at tne university, declared that "the stu dents on this campus are not a radical lot on the whole, nor are rhey atheistic or immoral, as some would have us believe. On the con trary, I think the great majority ot them are on the side of privi YOUR CHOICE SPRING SUITS Tailored hy tho: fancy uceuiu-Tvork boys. Hart Schaffner and Marx. $1 145 J.vJ' IT isn't often that you find such clothes at such prices! Indeed not! If it weren't for the season the weather and all, you wouldn't be finding: them now. Everyone Is new this spring: not a lot of old junk that we want to get rid of New Fab ricsThe correct colors and every new 1932 Style. Suits to fit ALL, figures at prices to fit ALL pocketbooha! SIMONS IDE SHIRTS (And that's no "ID-yl" boait) $1 28 UNBEARABLE VALUES IDE ahiru ara mad right They look right! They Inok left! They laun der, Junt fin. GuarHnted rolnr fart. And pattarns hy If all theaa pat trna were laid end to end at the bot tom "f gait Creek It mould ba fine thing! Stock up men. They're grand ehlrte! IMPORTED LINEN Golf Knickers $J39 We've Juat received a new shipment (and a good thing tor we sold out of the laat batch) of 22 palra Juat count 'em. Now you can keep cool In four atylea bealdea looking your beat while ia your ear. In the rough, or wherever you prefer to picnic! lege, all hoping that some day they will have a white collar job." "Some peoplo in the state are misinterpreting the university it self and its students," he contin ued. "They are judging the uni versity as a whole and all of the students by the actions and state ments of a very few, something for which the university can in no way be held responsible After rears of experience with students, find them to be generally a wholesome lot, and the students at the University ot Wisconsin repre sent nothing more nor less than a cross section of the people of Wis consin and to a large extent of America as a whole." 4,318 Church Members. The figures show that of the 6,346 students figured In the church census, a total of 4,318 de clared that they were members ol one church or another, while near ly 2,000 others expressed their preference for one or another of the denominations. The churches and the number of students who professed their mem bership or preference for them are IT'S Valuei to S25.00 Value to $35.00 Values to $50.00 AAA to B Not to mmkIi be M enowoli Black to mjk It atribaf and Ma eaaart SovUvaxJ keal mi appeal to you . . Saaw ttyk may elao be kad a WW wtth Brew.;. mem if V . IS SMART FOl i VLBeaiLL0 Sporti SpccUtor remarkable value r 385 . as follows: Baptist, 161: Catholics, 095; Congregational, 833; Episco pal, 416; Evangelical, 64; Jewish 457; Lutheran, 808; Methodist. 721; Presbyterian, 544; Unitarian, 49; Christian Science, 156; Re formed, 65; and Christian, 34. American students at the Uni versity ot Amsterdam are awarded the highest rating on the campus. They are the only ones permitted to drink and chat after the one o'clock curfew. In order to get money to con tinue their studies for the minis try, two Texas students turned bandits. They got five years In stead of a D. D. A TTnitoH Presu Hlsnatch from Quimper, France, states that ab- Hotel D'Haraburger Shotgun Service 1141 Q st 1711 0 8t You'll Have to Make NEWS - GOSSIP 210 NEW COATS-SUITS DRESSES Here's the Price Sh! 2 fr $17 If You Can't Squeeze Into But One It's 58.90. OVER half the women in Lincoln hare not bad a new suit, coat or dress since before the war what war! And here we are trying, foul means and fair, to sell these garments at $15 and $17 for humanity's sake and no luck. But what a differ ence Wednesday 2 for 1 split it up any way you want to just so you take two garments give one to a friend or bring her along and go Dutch tmit. Dresses, Coats, Suits, sophisticated enough for every room in the "Grand Hotel." 2 For $17 Here's a Fishy One! McCallum Meshes McCallum Says $1.65 and $1.95. Simon Saya Who Cares t 19 YES They got holes In them nd like Red Riding Hood they are there that men can ee the better. Never mind what they eee thafa up to you. You'll rave over tbem you're entitled to at $1.19. Oh yea all the new ahadea. Why Co-eds The Thrill of McCallum CHIFFON HOSE 79 "H old staffer ought to be abot at auarlaa for tampering with women' calvea and legs. It's tha way of ail flesh why worry Juat ao you ret yoor share of these f L25 sod Lw anlmmertnc. gauzy boss at 79c solution will not be granted dance hall managers until they have paid for it, and even then only In cane they stage dances on the occasion of marriages. Neither will those who take walks In the country, or automobile rides, without tbelr parents, be granted absolution. STRAW HAT TIME WILL SOON BE HERE Ladies' and Men's Strnw, and Panama Tints Cleaned and Henewed. Send them now Have them ready for wear. 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