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The Daily Nebraskan
Station A, Lincoln, Nebraska
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UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA
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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
SUNDAY, NOVEMKER 6, 1932.
Religion and
The Undergraduate.
TODAY has been designated All University Church
Sunday. The churches of Lincoln invite the
etudents to become acquainted with the religious
facilities of the city and offer a special temporary
student affiliation so that religious life shall not
be broken off when the student leaves home to
attend school.
Today the university and the churches of Lin
coln do their bit to combat a charge frequently
and perhaps with some measure of Justification
hurled at college students in general: That an in
creasing number of students are finding no place
Jn their hurried daily schedule for religion; that
universities, as they now operate, are eliminating
religion from the lives of the educated class in
America.
Writing in the Atlantic Monthly for Septem
ber, Bernard Iddings Bell, professor of religion at
Columbia university, repeats the charge, declares
that fact supports it and delves into an analysis of
its cauaes.
Professor Bell traces the foundations of this
Indifference he points out it is not unbelief but
blase indifference to two principle causes, one not
at all peculiar to college students.
In the first place, he points out that this is an
age of pragmatism; that young people, even more
than children or those of more mature mind, are
followers of the crowd; that a dollars-and-cents
world sees little value in religion and therefore is
indifferent towards it.
But the students and their standards of value,
Professor Bell thinks, are not alone responsible.
Much of the blame he lays at the door of the educa
tional system in general and the present university
curriculum in particular. The universities tail in
what he sees as their duty to teach the students
religion as well as accounting and farming.
The misconception that religion and modern
science are incompatible, as a factor in the condi
tion which he deplores, he dismisses with a citation
of eminent scientists, past and present, who were
or are profound believers.
Professor Bell divides man's sources of truth
into three: science, wherein man learns by expe
rience and sensory observation; art, wherein he
finds truth in beauty; and religion, wherein the
truth of things incomprehensible is Intuitively ac
quired. Present day thought, he observes, puts its
whole faith in the first, tolerates the second and
ignores the third. In this, he believes, we are as
far off the track as were they of the middle ages
who ignored science and put all their faith in
religion.
PROFESSOR BELL'S analysis of the situation is
fundamentally sound. But not content with
finding the cause, Professor Bell provides also a
remedy. And therein he demonstrates an inadequate
knowledge of undergraduate psychology. For he
would remedy indifference to religion by adding
compulsory courses in religion to the university
curriculum. He would, in other words, cram religion
down the throat of college students, trusting them
to see the truth and believe if they but know what
religion really is.
Now college students just don't act that way.
Requirements, although some few may be neces
sary, constitute a challenge. No more prolific source
Of student "gripes" could be Invented than a re
quired course in Religion 1.
More emphasis on courses in religious funda
mentals such courses are now provided in the Uni
versity of Nebraska would doubtless prove bene
ficial. Eut a required dose of religion, academically
administered, never!
What the university and the churches of Lin
coln are doing today will go much further towards
Imparting to students the desired interest In re
ligion than Professor Bell's required courses. Re
ligion, to be sincere, must be voluntary.
The Daily Nebraskan joins the university in
Urging that every student attend church this morn
ing and maintain that connection with some form
of organized observance throughout his student life.
sundry offices. Whether to mark an x after the
name of Oscar Zilch or Hesekiah Hayloft for state
land commissioner may sorely vex the conscience
of the voter who feels , he should vote for tbe
"best man."
Walter Llppman claims that democracy in Its
present form demands that the average voter be a
sort of superman. He is expected to know not only
the offices which are elective, but to decide as to
the respective merits of a heat of politicians who
are socking public jobs. That such a knowledge is
impossible is obvious and seems to point to the fact
that democracy has "been run into the ground.
Just exactly how voters can hold responsible
their public officers when they rarely know who
they are is a problem which has never been ex
plained by even the most ardent supporters of the
democratic theory. Such responsibility can be de
termined, however, if the major office holders are
given the power to appoint the minor office holders.
The voter can have a reasonable amount of knowl
edge so as to exercise intelligence in picking tbe
major officers of the government who can thus be
held responsible for the work of the subordinate
officers under his control.
Sheer logic points to the adoption of the short
ballot, and rather than take away any of the voter's
prerogatives, it will actually give him a greater
degree of direct connection with his government
and its policies.
T
Neglect of
Education.
HE National Education Association, commonly
known as the "N. E. A.," has made a study of
the effects of the depression upon the schools of
the nation. The association conducted investlga
tions in four-fifths of the cities having a population
of 100,000 or more. They found that in these cities
the amount expended for education during the pres
ent school year is 8'i percent less than it was last
year. The expenses of these cities were cut 4 per
cent last year, so tbe schools will receive 12 percent
less this year than they were getting a year ago.
A system of economical expenditure and In some
cases total reorganization was felt to be necessary.
The real practice of economy falls most heavily on
the teachers. Some 85 percent of the cities have
cut the salaries of their teachers, and in some cities
the teachers are having an exceedingly hard time
getting what remains of their salaries. Other re
ductions have been affected through a reorganiza
tion of the system.
The rural schools, however, are Buffering more
than the city schools. This condition goes back to
the condition of the farmer, whose Income in many
cases has almost completely disappeared. Farmers
cannot pay the taxes upon which the schools depend,
so the schools are suffering. In some counties the
schools have been closed entirely.
The dangers of such a condition are numerous
and far reaching in extent. Education Iz forcibly
being neglected and the question arises as to what
to do. The world has come to recognize that educa
tion is an influential factor in gaining material
wealth and worldly success. It directs the activities
of individuals into these more worthwhile channels.
Education also serves the public by being a factor
in the checking of crime in that it prevents the
maladjustments of individuals, which are so likely
to lead to crime.
Another disastrous result of such a situation Is
the effect on the institutions of higher learning
colleges and universities. The effects are perhaps
not immediate but several years hence they will
become evident. Students who are now being de
prived of their basic and fundamental courses will
be unable to continue in the fields of higher educa
tion and the result will be a falling off of the num
ber of college students. This situation is inevitable
if the neglect of education continues.
A workable solution to this problem has not
yet been found. However, educators are doing their
best, for they more than anyone else realize the full
significance and far reaching effects of such a
situation.
Contemporary Comment
Doun With
Blanket Ballots.
ADMONITIONS lo vote intelligently may seem
a bit foolish to new voters when they are
handeJ ballots Tuesday resembling to some extent
the city directory of a small town. While the major
interest of the campaign has been in the presi
dential and the gubernatorial election, voters will
find that their franchise also extends to a large
number of state officers including such as state
land commissioner, district judges and so on and on.
If the student has taken seriously the idea of
voting intelligently he will be hard put to it to de
cide who is best qualified to fill these numerous and
Unskilled A. B:?
CHARGES against higher educational institutions
and their graduates have become so common as
to be-worthy of little more than passive amuse
ment, but amoncr the latest of these charges is one
.n.u i Kir vir-rttn nf the heiehta of
rheotorical figure to which the speaker ascends,
Having qualified to make his statement by
putting four sons through college, Joseph Scott,
republican party leader, declared that "the average
graduate comes out of college prepared to do ap
proximately the work of an unskilled laborer, except
that his muscles are usually too soft to do any
strenuous work."
Mr Scott also commented that taxpayers were
not getting their money's worth out of expenditures
for colleges and universities. "Taxpayers shovel out
money by the barrel full in this country for educa
tion," he declared, "and we ought to be able to
develop some intelligence and public splritedness
among the undergraduates of our college.
All of these declarations roll from the tongue
fluently, but that fluency is open to question as
emanating from one whose very desire for such
fluency over rides better judgement. Readers of the
Daily Nebraskan are familiar with the statements
alleged by Mr. Scott, and it would be trite to delve
into their inaccuracies, which would probably have
remained unspoken by Mr. Scott in other circum
stances. But the fact remains that they were spoken,
and it is such thoughtless comments which make
connection with a university or college hard to
justify in the eyes of those very taxpayers to whom
Mr. Scott makes his cry.
There Is only one way to combat that feeling
of resentment so carefuhy nourished in the hearts
of the populace, and that way is almost impossible
of achievement. It Is to be so guarded of action
as to allow no room at all for censure. Even then,
of course, false charges will be flaunted, but if
everyone connected with colleges and universities
everywhere honestly attempts careful conduct, the
biggest battles of the war against Into'erance will
have been fought.
Look Beneath.
A lot of foggy-minded people
thrughout the length and breadth
of the land today are busy throw
ing up their hands in holy horror
at the terrible radicalism of the
college generation. In heart-rending
tones they cry, "Look how
many of them would vote for
Thomas, or worse, for Foster. It's
a good thing they can't vote! But
what will the country come to
when they are governing it a few
years from now?" And off they
go oif an indignant but Joyful ti
rade, rolling their eyes and "isn't
it awfulling" at their descendants
who haven't sense enough yet to
follow in their seniors' wandering
footsteps.
It is thoroughly in character
with such Individuals that they
should consider these evidences of
the trend of youth's thought purely
as proof that the undergraduate
is really, despite his class attend
ance, completely in the dark po
litically and economically. Few
who are awav from constant con
tact with these so-called radicals
can see that their criticized actions
are an indictment of the ways of
their parents, which, Inculcated in
the defenseless children, nave rail'
en down weakly when attacked by
the happenings of the past rew
years, have been revealed as too
flimsy to face the fundamentals of
living and earning.
It is their despair at losing the
very fibers around which they had
built what little of tneir life they
have lived that has made these
young people turn away and run
in the opposite direction. They
are getting rid as fast as they can
of what they were taught was
"right" and are embracing the
"left." The ruthlessness with which
the ugliness of people and the way
they do things has stripped them
of their beliefs, has left them noth
ing to do but turn to something
idealistic, albeit something that is
founded on fact. Their destruc
tive attitude is really a belief that
only by getting down to rock bot
tom can the future be built se
curely, proudly, lastingly. And if
their efforts seem to take on a red
tinge in some cases, it is only the
first flush of bold hope that they
can succeed where only too ob
viously their denouncers have
failed.
Only by discarding the scorn
with which they usually greet the
efforts of the "youne-er trenera-
tlon" can the disdainful be includ
ed in the scheme which is being
sought for the future. Let them
recognize the mistakes thev have
made, the misconception they have
preacned. and forget them, as will
their juniors in their zeal to reach
the gnnl they seek.
Syracuse Daily Orange.
Legs and Morals.
A member of the school board at
Blackwell has indie-nantiv pro
tested presentation of athletic
stunts by eirls eymnasium classes
between halves of a football game.
ine school board doesn t sanction
such leg show as was put on at the
ball game. Friday," he righteously
complained to the town paper.
"Such shows are a disgrace to the
scnool ana to the city, and a poor
way to build up the morals of any
community."
The poor deluded, hypocritical,
smug and Puritanical man! Thru
what crossed eyes does he view the
world! And we had thought the
people who burned witches at the
stake were no longer with us.
We are mean enough to smile
fiendishly and wonder what the
horrified school board member
would think were he to view a
burlesque in St. Louis disreput
able Garrlck, or a really lowdown
leg show In Chicago or New York.
Then the austre gentleman might
be able to distinguish between
lewd exhibition of limbs and clean
honorable exercise in sensible,
comfortable gym clothing.
Immorality is not a condition of
dress; it is a condition cf mind.
A world traveler reports that in
his tour of the continents he finds
the morals highest where the
clothes are least. A person can
be wrapped up in yards of silks
and satins and remain the most
vulgar being imaginable. Immor
ality cannot be created or erased
by dressing.
The Blackwell board member is
of the same family as those
righteous but ill-advised guardians
of public morality who condemn
all who dance to the fires of hell.
And we almost expect such shep
ards of morality to eternally damn
anvone who so much as dares to
smile. Their creed seems to be
built on the theory that to enjoy
life is a sin. And we are just
perverse enough to believe exactly
the opposite. 11 mere is any virtue
in this world it is the Joy of living.
We suppose that the board mem
ber would have given his approval
to the gymnastic exhibition if tne
girls had been attired in the old
fashioned black bloomers which
reached below their knees and in
long black stockings which suc
cessfully covered any skin, ui
course the old costumes were cum
bersome, unhealthy and drab, but
at least the straight-laced member
could heave a sigh of relief and go
home content that the girls were
highly moral. Dally O'Colleglan.
The Student Pulse
Brief, aonelM eaotrfbatlons portl
rat " tnattrrs .Indent life
the anlTernttj are welcomed br '"I.
department, nndrr the aeaal rrtirtc
tlons of sound urwspaper prmctlee,
which exrludr all Ubeloiu niattrr
and prraonal attack.. Ittrrs mnat
bo slfiied, but namne will be with
held front publication If o deslcrd.
"Tagging."
TO THE EDITOR:
A recent conversation that took
place between two barb students
disclosed some not too favorable
opinions of the barb parties that
are held in the coliseum, me gist
of the students' argument, or
rather we should say agreement,
for the two students had harmon
izing: ideas on the subject, was
that these parties are not serving
their purpose as well as they
might It Is not the general opinion
that these parties are sucessfui.
As the barb council is not
known to have made any definite
statement as to the reasons for
these parties, it is assumed that
they are staged to provide social
activity to non-Greeks as well as
providing a place, time and occa
sion where students may become
acquainted with one another. An
attempt is made to provide all who
attend witn an evenings vuyy
mont. If this is the case, it would
be supposed that the rules of cus
toms governing these events would
be such as to realize the purpose.
Yet it does not seem to be the gen
eral opinion that barb party cus
toms are such.
If a man doesn't take a woman
student, in slang a "date," to the
party, ne is In danger of getting
few dances and making fewer ac
quaintances unless he be the cam
pus romeo ana gooa reiiow or un
less he be gifted with the ability
to meet strangers easily. In the
case of women students this is
even more tragically true. Thine
seems to be an unwarranted air
of formality and aloofness at
these get-together parties. This
may be up to the standard the
barb council has set for these af
fairs, but in this maner they are
not fully serving their purpose
and a comparative few who are al
ready well-acquainted are usually
the only ones who really enjoy
them.
With this dissatisfaction listed,
let us see if there are any reme
dies, or at least, aids that nay be
readily put into practice. For the
present, one remedy will be our
concern, ana mat one applies iu
dancing. The dancing custom ob
served at barb parties has been
notably marked as being too for
mal. When this trouble occurs, one
great aid is always available. That
aid which we feel would improve
the sociality and also dancing at
barb parties is the practice known
as "cutting" or "tagging." No
doubt, the reason for banning this
custom is that it may lower the
standard of formality and good
taste, that it is somew hat of a ple
beian practice. Yet we have at
tended numerous strictly formal
afairs In the state's metropolis and
found that the instant was rare
where cutting was not only being
practiced but was affording most
everyone a most enjoyable eve
ning. As far as we can see, there
should be no objoctlon to a prac
tice such as this. On the contrary,
It Is our belief that this should be
observed and encouraged. For it
is not the customs or the formality
that determine the standard of a
party; that standard is set by the
people who attend Barb council.
isn t it possible that students can
have the enjoyment from this cus
tom and still be responsible to
maintain a high level of refine
ment? Let us see this custom in
troduced and sponsored, or at
least, let us see it tried.
1MSIIMAX STUI)ET
cnovr has mi:eti-
Cow mil tee Will Vronuy9
Activities and Get Aic
Members.
The freshman student coime.il
new organization for the purpo j
of furthering the interests ,(
freshmen, lw.'M its regular meetli
Thursday evening at iho
Sigma Lamlxia house.
Two commit tees were appnlnti ,
The one on freshman activities , j
the Nrbraska-riltsbiii'Kh fiai 3
being composed of Ining h,
Sigma Alpha Mu, chain nan; BmI
nnrd McKomy, Sigma :hi, , j
Bob Davis; and the one appoint,
to submit names fur th Vminr
being made up of Notrwn l-'inl
Alpha Sigma Phi. chnii n an; Lyi rj
Mortin, Beta Theta PI, and .m
Bunnell, Alpha Theta Chi.
The next meeting will be hf
Wednesday, Nov. 9 at tie Sign.t
Nu house.
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MUSICAL COMEDY COWING
Eevived "Merry Widow"
Will Be Presented on
. November 14.
"The Merry Widow," world
fampd musical comedy with Don
ald Brian playing the leading role,
will be presented to Lincoln theatre-goers
Monday evening. Novem
ber 14 at the Liberty theatre.
The revival or "The Merry Wl
ow" was made this season in
New York City where it enjoyed
long run. The New York en
gagement has been extended to a
tour of the country, stopping in
I v, , , .. t tk nrlncinal Cities.
Among the towns where the show
was greeted by capacity houses
are Cleveland, Indlar.spolis, De
troit, St Louis and Toronto.
Robert Tucker, dramatic critic
for the Indianapolis Star had the
following comment to make con
cerning the revival: "When the
operetta resists the ravage and
kaleidoscopic changes of twenty
five years and yet retains the
sparkle and the delightfully reck
less abendon of youth, it must at
least be considered good and at
the top of the list where the
Frans Lehar gem, "The Merry
Widow' belongs."
Although Lincoln Is not on the
main chain of theatre stops, it
has been brought here by Florence
Gardner, local manager.
TALK ON CURRENT
EVENTS FEATURES
MEETING OF GROUP
An innovation in the upperclasi
commission will be a talk on cur
rent events, everyone attending to
rurmsn one for a brier discussion
of toptes of the day. Since the
next meeting is Thursday, Nov. 10,
the outcome of tbe election will
also be discussed. If there It any
time left, it will be devoted to
campus activities.
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