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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
The Daily Nebraskan
Station A, Lincoln, Nebraska
OFFICIAL STUDENT PUBLICATION
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA
entered as aecond-claaa matter at the poatofflct In
Lincoln, Nebraika. under act of congress, March 3, 1879,
and at special rate of postage provided for In section
1103, act of October 3, 1917, authorized January 80, 1922.
Under direction of tho Student Publication Board.
Editorial Office University Hall 4.
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Telephones Day: B-6891; Nights B-6882. 6-3333 (Journal)
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EDITORIAL STAFF
Howard 0. Allaway . Editor-in-chief
Jack Erlckson Associate Editor
Managing Editors
Pnllllp Brownell Laurence Hall
News Editors
Richard Moran A rm Randall
Lynn Leonard
Katharine Howard Women's Editor
Joe Miller iSp?r.u 12 !or
Violet Cross.... Society Editor
BUSINESS STAFF
H. Norman Oallaher Business Manager
Assistant Business Managers
Bernard Jennings Frank Muegrave
George Holyoke
This Prohibition
Question.
jyjOUNTING conviction that something: is wrong
with the li.quor control laws in the United
States, which found expression in a profound shift
in the American public's attitude toward prohibition
sometime between last April and the time the na
tional conventions met in June, has opened up this
question to dispassionate consideration on its own
merits, divorced from the prejudices which had be
clouded the issue in the past, for the first time since
the temperance societies of the 19th century began
their evangelism which culminated in the passage
of the eighteenth amendment in 1918.
The prominence given to the effect, beneficial
or detrimental, of prohibition on "the youth of our
nation" justifies such a frank discussion in the
college press. The Nebraskan will attempt to hand
out no ready-made opinions on the prohibition issue.
It will seek only to establish certain well-grounded
premises from which the intelligent reader can
come to his own conclusions.
To question the present prohibiten Vws no
longer brands one as ipso facto destined tn r nna
tion, but to extract the truth from the pile oi' j.n
paganda and mass of misconceived notions, rerau'ns
a difficult undertaking. For the present student
population the matter is doubly complicated be
cause, though we may know what conditions are
now, we have no first hand knowledge of what they
were before prohibition s era.
The real truth must lie somewhere between the
extremes claimed by the rabid enthusiasts on each
side. . Honest recognition of certain fundamental
facts will clear the question of a number of now
vigorously debated elements. '
1. Let us first recognize that insertion of the
eighteenth amendment into the constitution is an
attempt to enforce conformity to a moral code
through the agency of the law. Whether or not this
is a proper function of government is open to ques
tion. In this particular case, the record shows, the
attempt has not been very successful
2. Liquor, itself, has been overemphasized as a
moral issue by those honest zealots who have seen
the evils of over indulgence. Let those proponents
of legally enforced total abstinance who revere
the Bible recall that on a certain occasion Christ,
having been invited to a wedding by a hostess so
careless as to have forgotten to order beverage for
the event, took a jar of water and demonstrated His
divine propensities by manufacturing some on the
spot.
3. America has never been a people to scruple
too much at disregarding those laws which tbey
found not to their liking. A long time ago Eng
land made some shipping laws which forbade her
American colonials trading with certain islands.
By pursuing this trade contrary to the law the
America ncolonies grew strong enough to success
fully defy the mother country when at last a deter
mined effort to enforce these laws was made. In
the same way the United States hi-jacked Texas
from the Mexicans. That Mexico bad forbidden
American migration into the territory made little
difference to those who decided they wanted to live
there.
With prohibition the case has been much the
same. Those who dou't like the law have disre
garded it until, for them, it has been practically
nullified.
4. Prohibition is a bigger question than merely
outlawing liquor. The result of the law, because it
has not or cannot be enforced, has been to breed
contempt for all law. The man who makes and
drinks beer in his home and with his family does
not feel himself a criminal. Yet he is asked to
forego this indulgence on the same grounds that
forbid him to rob and murder his fellows.
It is this weakening of all law by prohibition
that hfc brought the American public to tolerate
real crime on an unprecedented scale during the last
lecade. Because people who want to drink will
drink anyway, gangdom with its racketeering meth
ods has been able to organize and spread into other
fields without effective public protest until today
it defies the forces of law.
6. Much of the drinking done by young people
at present Is done in the spirit with which a little
boy goes out behind the barn and makes himseV
deathly sick smoking a forbidden cigar. That young
people drink because it is an "adventure" nay not
be much of a recommendation for them, but that
this is a fact has been our observation.
"yHESE are but a few observations. But their ex
istence, whether we like it or not, must be
acknowledged before we can reach a solution to the
problem.
The evil of drink lies not in the drinking, but
in the results of over-indulgence. -To prevent this,
then, should be the aim of whatever measures are
adopted. This is what the prohibitionists seem to
have forgotten. Until the passage of the eight
eenth amendment, the fight was for temperance.
Since that time it has been for. the, preservation of
prohibition.
A favorite retort to every suggestion has been
that no acceptable substitute for prohibition has
been offered. To those who answer thus, we com
mond the plan submitted last week by Dr. Butler of
Columbia.
In any case, prohibition having failed, the only
course now open is to try something else. Before
this is undertaken there must be a definite concep
tion of the purpose and a recognition of the ob
stacles which have appeared under prohibition.
The object is temperance. Whether by law, or
by education, or by some other means, this legiti
mate end can best be attained is now the question
to be answered.
Contemporary Comment
Rvtinrd
For Sen-ire.
fyESLEYAN university, Nebraska's suburban
neighbor, announces adoption of a pension
plan for instructors who have passed their period
of usefullness to the school. Teachers, on reaching
the age of seventy, may retire with an annual sti
pend which varies according to the number of years
they nave taught in the university, A fund for the
purpose will be created by deducting 2 percent of
each teacher's annual salary, adding to that amount
whatever is necessary from university resources.
Any instructor leaving the university . before he
reaches 'the retirement age will receive back the
amount deducted from his salary with 4 percent
interest.
In thus providing for the material needs in later
years of those who have given the active period of
their lives to the service of the school, Wealeyan is
ahead of Nebraska.
Adoption of such a plan here would go far In
reducing the great loss Nebraska has taken regu
larly in the past by its better teachers leaving to
accept Jobs elsewhere at higher pay. To mention
but a few prominent American educators who were
once members of the Nebraska faculty: Dean Ros
coe Pound of Harvard law school, Dr. Hartley Burr
Alexander of Scripps college in California, Dean
James of South Dakota and Dr. J. D. Hicks, now-
of Wisconsin. The list could be extended.
Under the present dependence for funds on
state appropriations, it is impossible for Nebraska
to raise salaries to meet the competition of more
prosperous institutions.
I Wesleyan, which has been unusually hard-hit
by "the times,'' can afford to institute a pension
plan at this time, surely Nebraska can do no less
for those who are turning down better jobs some
where else to give their life service for Nebraska.
A policy of providing old age security for those
who stay here despite the allurements of more
money elsewhere would be not only a humanitarian
acknowledgement by the state of its debt to them.
but would serve to keep at Nebraska many of those
fine faculty men It can expect if the past be any
guide will be leaving some of these days for other
schools.
On Broadcasting.
Dr. R. N. Blackwell, former
Southern Methodist University
athletic director, recently told
pressmen that the Southwest
Conference Is making a grave
error in banning the broadcast of
football games. Blackwall will be
remembered as the man who
started Southern Methodist on the
road to national recognition.
Blackwell pointed out in the
statement that big newspapers
who own most of the broadcast
ing stations, will not a bit be
pleased with the action of the con
ference, and naturally they are not
going to feel the same toward
football publicity given to them
thru the athletic departments. He
predicted that the ban would be
lifted within a- year.
It seems that the conference
and the newspapers could come to
an agreement on the broadcast
lng of games whereas the stations
would be allowed to give an ac
count of the games on the air. If
the officials think that attendance
at games is decreased, could not
new field of fans be opened by
navmg me stations broadcast pun
licity twice or three times a week
for fifteen minute periods? We
are certain that such a plan was
suggested at the last meetinjr,
Such a plan would benefit both the
conference and the broadcasting
siaiion. ine uany Texan.
Views on Cooperation.
Visions of a 20 percent reduc
tion in fraternity house bills have
brought widespread support to the
proposal that a Co-operative Man
ager's association be instituted on
this rumpus.
House managers have expressed
BEFORE OUR
TIME
from The 0lly Nebraiban Flies fur
l02 and IBM.
An Old Custom.
LELLO-ftAX is growing up it has become Hello
v Week how, and the first day of the festivity
of friendliness begins Monday morning.
Sponsored by MorU Board aud endorsed by
nearly all organized groups the campus should ring
this week with cheery greeting. Administrative
officials have announced their hearty approval of
the plan, and a Dally Nebraskan survey of student
leaders found them also favoring this new step in
the continuation of an old and worthwhile tradition.
In past years, the fete lat1 but a day and
was under the direction of the two freshmen or
ganizations of that time, the Mystic Fish and the
Green Goblin. Last fall the custom was revived as
a single day of amiable welcome. But this year
"Hello" will be the official catchword for a whole
week, and the sponsors want it understood that the
greeting is for everyone.
At the freshman convocation last Friday, fresh
men girls were given their class buttons, and this
year the buttons will be worn only in conjunction
with Hello Week, it is, naturally enough, the frosn
who find the most difficulty in feeling at home on
the campus. But men of the class wilf be identified
by their red caps, and women by their buttons, so
U s up to the icil of the studrut body to make them
feel at eaxe during this week of exchanging greet
ings. Ami besides the obligation involved, the cus
tom provides no end of amusing Incidents. Try It
Monday morning with a constant string of "hello's."
Perhaps you'll be surprised.
Educational Psychology Professor
Indicates Study's Practical Value
Miter's nolri OvUiif ip llnilla
Mw.a. Ih wen pari of Ik mritrtm hlc
mvwurrm la 1 lixrtUr'a Dally ,Nrbrakaa
nnd-r tills headllur wul not mr rea W
Friday's aaarr. Ta rantlaaalMHi U4w)
marfca th cwaHudliif Installment af Mr.
MmhaMrl'l lulrn lew wllk Cnfrml
fnrtfyea aa lb valar ana arattoal apvll
rattans er th mlmat of aayrhntasy. Or.
fnrayra give fcanilr tn tkr artlrlr ml
aaratloas whtra fcr nn ha tts i
Mlramni and as'jrr.ra fa art mm sadlra
ttea ! ihrlr ability.
" A young man Invites a young
lady to go to a show with him.
On approaching the theater he dis
covers he has left his pocketbook
at home." What should the young
man do? The instructions read
that Just one of the four following
answers are to be checked, the one
that appears the most nearly cor
rect. Pick one for yourself. (1)
Try to get the tickets on credit
by offering to leave his watch sw,
security. (2) Try to find some
friend from whom he can borrow
money. (3) Decide with her on a
courses of action. Mi Find some
plausible excuse and go home and
get some money.
Simple! Ask the Girl.
The correct answer, of course, is
to decide with the girl on a course
of action. Yet one individual de
clared the man should run the
chJL-ce of seeing a friend and bor
rowing the money, failing to state
however. Just what excuse might
be given the young lady for keep
ing toex on the street corner. Still
another suggested the man should
make some excu.se and go home
and get his money.
According to the author of the
tests, these are problems of a so
cial nature, all of which a good
sales person should be capable of
deciding. To show the diversity of
subjects, here is another one.
You are supposed to be living in
a suburb ten miles from the city,
and you promise to take a neigh
bor home in your automobile at 4
p. m. After he has waited for you
from 3 to 4, you find that you will
be detained in the city until 5:30.
Would It be best to ask him to
wait until 5:30, offer to let him
drive your car home or get some
one else to drive it, offer to get a
taxicab for your neighbor or tell
him the circumstances and let
him decide what to do? To some
of the people taking the test the
neighbor should be asked to re
main until 5:30 o'clock. Evidently
the person who suggested the car
owner hire a taxi for his friend
was extremely courteous.
The more buslness-Uke problem
also is listed among the questions.
Here's an example:
How To Get Along.
"You have been appointed to a
position with a large firm. TUe
best way to establish friendly and
pleasant relations with your busi
ness auociatss would ba to avoid.
noticing and correcting the errors
thev make: always speak well of
them to the boas; he interested and
co-operative in your work, or ask
to be allowed to do those tasks
which you can do better than they
can. ,
The prohibition law fails to
escape publicity. Women no doubt
have found themselves faced with
such a situation as the following:
"Two friends are being entertained
at a dinner, one of whom is very
conservative and the other radical
in point of view. A very heated
discussion arises concerning the
enforcement of the prohibition law.
It would be best to (1) Take a
definite stand with the one you
think is right. (2) Try to change
the subject of the discussion. (3)
Enter into the argument and give
your point of view, showing where
both are too extreme In their
views. (4 1 Ask them to change
the subject so as to avoid further
argument.
"Would you try to interest the
boss by reading aloud an Impor
tant headline, or appear that you
are making news clippings relative
to you rework if the chief of your
force ha"ppen' to walk into your
room where) you were supposed to
be at work? Maybe you would
think it best to continue to read
the paper and show no embarrass
ment, or would you fold It up and
return to your duties ?
According to the Upsala Gazette,
students in the University of Ber
lin are allowed a period of six
weeks during which to analyze
and select thsir professors, . .
Thirty Years Ago Today.
The varsity football team per
formed an annual cleanup on the
Doane squad, when the two teams
met Saturday. The final score was
51 to 0 nine touchdowns and six
goals totaling for Nebraska.
At the time the Dally Nebraskan
was published, in 1902, only twelve
other universities and colleges had
daily papers.
An electric class bell system was
used for the first time in Nebraska
history. The S. A. E.'s also con
ceived a bright Idea and a supple
mentary gong was placed in their
chapter house.
Advertising: "History covers. . .
the new 'Clip' cover invented by
Professor Barbour does away with
shoestrings. See the shoe-string-less
cover."
Ten Years Ago Today.
A fashion war nearly resulted
this week because senior women
persisted in wearing short skirts,
and freshmen women were still
wearing long skirts.
A new tradition was started at
Nebraska as students prepared to
elect an honorary colonel. For the
first time in Nebraska history,
cadet officers were to wear uni
forms at the military ball, and the
honorary colonel was to be presented.
Among the girl's social rules
newly inaugurated: "No girl may
have week day dates after 10:30
o'clock; freshmen may have no
week day dates; sophomores are
permitted one; there shall be no
loitering on porches; girls must
come to breakfast fully dressed;
there shall be no eating downtown
after 10:30, and houses shall be
quiet at 8:00.
Football: "It is unlikely that
the new custom of kicking a goal
after a down will remain,' says the
Dally Nebraskan.
The Daily Nebraskan advocated
a campaign for side walks, since
the tearing down of the "old iron
fence'" left great bare spaces.
Men's Glee Club.
The first rehearsal of the men's
glee club is to be held Tuesday
opening at 8 p. m. In room 219 of
Morrill hail. Tiyouta, in charge of
Professor Wltte, will be given
Monday at 3 p. m. for those who
are interested in Joining the
group.
SCHOOL OF MUSIC
The radio program this week
will be broadcast over KFAB at
2 30 Tuesday afternoon. Parvin
Wltte of the voice faculty will
give a Joint recital with Earnest
Harrison of the piano faculty. Mr.
Harrison will play a request pro
gram. Tryouts for the Presser founda
tion scholarship, a cahh award
offered to students in the School
of Music, will be held Monday aft
ernoon, Sept. 2tt, in the School of
Music building. All students who
are majoring in applied music
and are taking a School of Music
degree are eligible to compete.
Full Information will be given
upon request.
Mrs. Will Owen Jones played a
group of piano numbers for the
opening reception and tea of the
First Plymouth church last Wed
nesday. Pauline Holtorf. student with
Vera Upton, won first place In the
Atwater Kent radio contest In
Saunders county last week.
Roland Clark, student with
Homer Compton, and Feme Mis
ner, student with Lenore Burket
Van Kirk, won first place in the
district Atwater Kent radio con
test held Thursday evening over
KFOR,
Sally Scott, dramatic student
with Regtna Holcomb, gave a
group of southern readings in
negro dialect for a tea at the gov
ernor's mansion Thursday after
noon. Mary Kinney, B. F. A., graduate
with Mrs. Will Owen Jones in
piano, was married Sept. 14 at her
home in Woodbine. Ia., to Wilbur
B. leasttxmtt of Chicago,
their willingness to consider co
operative plans such as are in op
eration at the Oregon State collego
at Corvallis, Stanford University,
and the University of Wisconsin.
Moat plans, however, are bRsed on
the successful Manager's assocla
tion at Corvallis which has been
reducing fraternities' and sorori
ties' budgets since 1920.
The association at Oregon is
owned by the fraternities and so
rorities, run by a graduate man
ager responsible to a board of
house managers. All fifty-one or
ganizations at that campus have
joined the association, and it is
estimated in its annual report that
the houses are saved over $22,000
a year.
Dr. U. G. Duback, dean of men
at the Oregon State College, in
backing the association has stated:
"It not only saves monev and time
for fraternities and sororities it
serves, but it stabilizes their fi
nances. The association manager,
handling almost all business of
these organizations, is in constant
touch with the financial situation
of each one, advising continually
and exercising the strict business
methods agreed upon lv the mem
bers. As a result the college ad
ministration is relieved almost en
tirely of this responsibility."
Deau of Men S. H. Goodnight
of the University of Wisconsin re
plied to The Californian in a simi
lar vein, explaining that "Our fra
ternity co-operative is an adaption
to our own needs and situation of
the plan pursued by the co-operative
at Corvallis."
Such a co-operative managers'
association for the purchase of
supplies at wholesale costs is
needed for California fraternities
and sororities as financial cond
tions are acute and a move to save
money should meet with general
acclaim. The organization of this
proposed association demands the
attention of every organization
house manager. The Daily Cali-
lornian.
Editor's note: A half-hearted at
tempt at co-operative buying
among the fraternities at Ne
braska was made during the past
two years, with at least some sav-
ng to those houses in the associ
ation. Failure of a majority of
houses to join the association re
sulted in abandonment of the plan.
n view of the stringency in Greek
finances this year, revival of the
system might provide substantial
savings.
Having recently discovered oil
on school owned lands, the Uni
versity of Texas Is nw making
tests for potash deposits.
"Undergraduates at Yale are the
most pampered individuals in the
whole world," says a student wh"
edits tho "Harkncss Hoot."
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Remember Those Noon Lunches'
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Ladies Invited
More co-eds than ever this
year nre enjoying 'the deli
cious food ' served in Lin
coln's cleanest dining room.
And then, tot, the ladies can
save on their eating expense
y by purchasing a $5.50 meal
ticket
for
$5.00
Auk about the
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free reel
window
"N" stickers
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Y. M. C. A. Cafeteria
13th and P Sts.
Near Campus
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