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TWO Daily Nebraskan ' Station A, Lincoln, Nebraska OFFICIAL STUDENT PUBLICATION UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA Entered as second -cLiss matter at the oostoffice in Lincoln, NeDraska. ynder net ot congress. March i. 1&79 and at special rate ot postage provided for in section 1103. act ot October 3. 1917. authorized January 20. TJ22. Published Tuesday. Wednesday. Thurs day. Friday and Sunday mornings durinq the academic year. Smqle Copy b cents THIRTY. SECOND YEAR 5,2 ., yenr $1.25 a semester 13 a year mailed $1.73 semester Mailed SUBSCRIPTION RATE Under duection ot the btuaeni kuo- hcation Board Editorial Ot rice University Hall 4. Business Oifu-e University H',, :.oo0 Telephones Day. D6S91 ; Night. Bb882 or 133333 (Journal) ask tor Nebias- kan editor. "editorial staff Ed.tor-.n.Chiet -Phil Brow! MANAGING EDITORS Ditk Moran Lynn Leonard NEWS EDITORS George Murphy Lamome Bible Violet Cross ScoitS Editor tiunori '.'" woman's Editor'::.'. Margaret Tr.e.ejwail was no doubt louder this year BUSINESS STAFF ! than ever before, because every Business Manager Chalmers Grah un nlan who can be initiated now ASSISTANT BUSINESS managers loojts a veritable gold mine to Bemard Jennings George noiyoxe FranK Musgrave Slashing the Cost Of Student Activities. AFTER a vigorous campaign conducted by the Kansas stu dent councils, the student body in a referendum has just latified a proposed plan for a student activ ity tax at that school. The plan now goes to the chancellor of the university and then to the board d' regents for approval. The Kansas fee is $8.75 per year, according to the plan, pay able in semester installments. For this price every student receives .n athletic ticket, a ticket to all vr.rsitv oarties. the privileges of the student uni. n building at Kan- j ... n ti, i.ot t the regular course i of lectures, nlavs. conceits and de bates sponsored by the student ; councils, and a couple ol other minor fees which students already Under the present plan at Kan as whereby each student pays for each of these activities separately, the cost would amount to $26.75. The activity tax ticket is slightly less than one-third of the cost of these various privileges if pur i hased separ ately by each student. N EBRASKA has no lecture and concert series such as is ear ned on at the University of Kan sas. We have nc student union building with facilities for student recreation of all sorts such as Kansas has. But our various ac tivities are just as valuable and the activity tax is just as well de signed to care for them here as it is at Kansas. Furthermore, if any progress is ever to be made toward providing the student body with such desir able privileges as hearing famous musicians in regularly scheduled concerts, or hearing outstanding speakers, there must be a guaran tee of financial stability before s&ueh a program could be under taken. The activity tax would pro vide adequate machinery for mak ing possible such advantages. While the general setup adopted at Kansas is hardly applicable to this university, it does illustrate the tremendous saving in money to students thru co-operative ac tion. An equal saving can be guar anteed at Nebraska no matter what activities are included in the j.lan. The Nebraskan believes thor oughly that the activity tax is an essential step toward putting ex isting student enterprises on a sta ble financial basis. Equally essen tial is the necessity for providing students these various privileges j which are so much a part of cam- pus life at a price within every- one's reach. We'vc been wondering for some time what distinction there is be tween the faculty members invited to parties as guests and those in vited as chaperones. Maybe the solution of the chaperone question i to rail them all guests. It does .ound better. THE DAILY NEBRASKAN I f"""' i Initiation Ixilvs. IRST quarter scholarship IC- ports were distributed to fra ternities Monday. The reports, ac I cording to an Intel fraternity eoun I eil rule, enforceable by the dean's 'office, must be received by each j fraternity before any pledges can : be initiated. In other words, every ! pledge to be eligible for initiation j must not only have made an aver- ; ? o fj of 2 o. boUcr th(. preceding hut must have no 0(.,in- , j quencies at the end of the first quarter. We can imagine the .wail of de spair which arose in many frater nity chapter meetings last night when it was discovered how many pledges who had been carefully nursed thru the first semester to achieve the 72 average, were found to be delinquent in .some n.mrr. fnr the first ouarter. That fraternity treasurers. Rather than resort to gnashing of teeth and tearing of hair over the situation, fraternities would do well to postpone initiation cere monies until sufficient time has been given delinquent pledges to clear- their records. Such a course of action will also provide an easy method of quashing- the suggestion which will no doubt be made by some brilliant Greeks that delin quent pledges be initiated regard less of their failure to fulfill the eligibility requirements, trusting to providence that the violation of rules will not be discovered. If the bank holiday continues few pledges are going to have money for initiation fees, anyway. postponement of the cer emonies seems the best solution of the rblem "ijiny case. ! A goodly number of canny indi viduals who had prepared them ' selves for such a contingency as a i bank holiday by stowing away I cash in safety deposit boxes, were somewhat stunned by the original holiday decree which suspended business of safety deposit compa nies as well as banks. Congress Does a lilit'.iboiil-Face. 117HERK are all the guardians of American constitutionalism, of the sacred rights of the people? They, like the money changers, re ferred to by President Roosevelt, have apparently fled from their seats in the legislative halls find taken to the woods where they cannot hear the huzzahs accom panying the advent of the new president to power, in fact to the greatest degree of power which has ever been conferred on a pres ident of the United States in time of peace. It was only a t datively few months ago that these guardians were expounding their ideas no less vigorously than they were ex pounded in the days when the American people were struggling against the tyranny of a foreign ruler. It was they who blocked every attempt of the then presi dent to assume some powers ade quate to cope with the tremendous tasks he had to solve, and which the American people have held him responsible for not solving. It is a little late to be getting around to the realization that if anything important is to be done by government action, it must be done by someone with not only the courage but the power to act. The failures of the people's represent atives to reconcile their differ- ences and their petty squabbles have finally become intolerable. There is only one answer. Give the power and the responsibility to someone who can act without eon- suiting every narrow minded little lobby interest in the country. This has been done. If President Roosevelt succeeds in securing real constructive gov ernment action to ameliorate con ditions, his success will merit all the praise he will get. But in the midst of the shouting- and prais ing, it would not be out of place to remember that whatever per sonal opinions may be held as to tii siiiiiitv of his nredeccssor in mv. i-... - - i office, Mr. Hoover could not get the demagogues to subordinate their own interests to those of the country as a whole. President Roosevelt has already succeeded, it seems, in relegating the dema gogues to temporary oblivion. A professor points to the fact that a package of Awgwans was leit lying unguarded for two days in the Teachers college hallway without being disturbed either as an evidence of the honesty of Teachers college students or a re flection on the duality of the A wgwan. LARGE FOSSIL ELEPHANT TOWERS FAR ABOVE HIS BROTHERS IN MORRILL HALL (Continued from Page l.i gotiations for the discovery, waived his claim and Archie is in stalled in a glass case in his home state. After the necessary blasting of many cubic yards of the clay wall in which the mammoth's bones were embedded, the remains were assembled and set up as a tempo rarily mounted arch in the old mu seum building- and all students and visitors were required to pass be neath it upon entering the first floor. The sizes, the extreme curva ture and separation of its tusks and incisive sheaths, from which the tusks project, and the unusual shortness of the body as compared with its great width are the out standing characteristics of Mai ben's mammoth, according- to mu seum officials. The contrast in the massiveness of thc fore limbs in i elation to the very short verte brae seern to indicate that the body must have been unduly fore shortened. Although ecral of Archie's original allotment of bones were missing and it was necessary to add parts that once belonged to mammoths of like proportions and similar' origin there was fortunate ly an or iginal to each correspond ing part that was added. Considering that human beings generally lose their teeth when they are about middle aged it is somewhat of a wonder to us that Archidiskodon rnaibeni possesses a perfect set of teeth. The molars have fourteen ridges bonded to gether by an unusual thickness of cement and present an alarming picture of the animal's power to crash instantly whatever food found its way into his gigantic jaws. When Archie was first mounted he was set on feet far too small for the rest of his massive body, this error arising from the fact that several bones of his feet were missing. This error has been cor rected and now the huge Archie stands on feet that adequately support his large frame. The shoulder blades, though large and heavy, are very thin in portions and it seems amazing that they should have been preserved intact. The skull found in several pieces, some very small, presented a difficult problem. An unusual procedure has been employed in the mounting of this particular elephant. Rather than prop the skeleton up by means of unsightly standards erected beside each limb or suspend it from the ceiling by numerous wires, the men in charge of assembling the parts have driven steel pieces into the hollow portions of each leg bone, and no support is discern ible other than the rods bearing the weight of the backbone. Henry Reider and Frank Bell under the supervision of Dr. H. K. Barbour completed the specimen which represents several years' careful study of this and related mammoths. Archie's size is espe cially emphasized by the tiny skel eton of the shrew, the smallest of all land mammals, which is exhib ited in the same ease. oooooooooooo o o o o o 1 S o o o o o o o o o o Hotel D'Hamburger SHOT-GUN SERVICE 1141 Q St. 1718 0 St. o oooooooooooo TUESDAY. MAHC11 7, 1933. HUSKER GRIDSTERS OPEN SPRING DRILL MONDAY AFTERNOON (Continued from Page 1.) p,.iv Pennev. Connie and P' 1 ft of wNim all but Scott have limn to time seen regular action. Back in gridiron garb for tackle n,ii,i.-icv are Mail O'Brien and Walt Pfl'um. O'Brien will be back to play his third year as a regular and Plum was unciersiuciy m i win llulbeit last year. McPhtmm is also bac k filing- his bid, and then there is a bevy of Frosh, some of whom will give the varsity men a run for their money. Outstanding among the yearlings were Fred Brockman, Jim McFarland and Russell Thompson. Leaders in the scramble for the guard assignments are Warren De Bus and Clair Bishop, who have been regulars for the past two years. Two other guards on last years varsity squad who are ex pected to give these two a scrap are Neal M eh ring and Elmer Hubka. Franklin Meier seems to head the list of candidates for center, for he was declared to have ability vir tually equal to that of Lawrence Ely last fall. The backfield positions seem to be well taken care of, with a num ber of very capable lettermcn on hand. Hubert Boswell, Tater Fahrn bruch, Bernie Masterson, Jack Mil ler and George Sauer all have per formed extensively as regulars in past campaigns. No longer do expectant fathers have to wait for a nurse to an nounce to them whether its a boy or girl, according to University of California scientists. Experiments with rabbits have proved perfect in 90 percent of the cases in an nouncing pre-natal statistics. Coal . . . silk stockings . . . meat and the telephone Keenly aware of the problems of business, large and small, Bell System commercial men are con stantly devising special telephone plans to custom fit service to the user's needs. For example, a plan they worked out for a coal distributor helped him to contact 50 more dealers. A manufacturer, using a telephone selling plan, sold 700 dozen pairs of hosiery through one Long Distance call. A great meat packer handles complex sales and distribution problems efficiently with the aid of planned Long Distance and private wire services. Systematic telephone plans are helping many users to build business cut costs handle collec tionsunify nationwide organizations increase profits. And Bell System men are seeking still other ways to make the telephone more useful. BELL SYSTEM TELEPHONK HOME ONE NIGHT EACH WEEK . . . LOWEST RATES AFTER EIGHT-THIRTY E L WILL MEET Joint-Meeting of Workers Monday to Arrange Special Program. The Council of Religious fare will hold its monthly meeting Monday, March 6 at the Temple cafeteria. The final plans for the Religious Emphasis program, t,, )6 staged March 31 to April 5, will w discussed. This will be a joint met, ing of religious workers, faculty members of representatives of stu dent groups. "Professor B. C. Hen dricks will preside. Miss Bermce Miner, seer eta i v of thc Y. W. C. A., announces that the Religious Emphasis program is quite a new movement on this campus. Special leacier s irom other cities wil be here to conduct the mcetinirs at which religous per plexities will be discussed. The program anct me names of sneakers will be anounced on Men- day after the meeting. Back to Barter Trade Slips. Adv. Week. Lony's FONTAINEBLEAU SCHOOL OF MUSIC Palace of l-'ontaineWeau. Fran. Famous French masters: Wuior. ipp, Inipre, Nailia Roulancer, Pali I.itvinne. Hil'ia, Roosevelt, Ie. Hewitt, Bnzelaire. Granri.iany. June UU to September 2.', For IW.l onlalopiie. nrtdref : WAI.TKK HAM ROSCH. Tresiileiit of the American "omi 11U Fust 19th Street, New York I'll. I i-'iin.' RELIGIOUS WELFAR COUNCI u a 8. -MZF