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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER 2t. 19.13
The Daily Nebraskan
Station A, Lincoln, Nebraska
OFFICIAL STUDENT PUBLICATION
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA
Entered nt tecond-clntt matter at tha postofflce In
Lincoln, Nebraska, under act o congress. March S, 1879,
and at special rata of postaaas provided for In section
1103, act of October 3, 1417. authorized January 80, 1922.
THIRTY.THIRD YEAR
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Managing Editors
Bruce Nicoll
Burton Marvin
Newa Editors
Violet Cross
cariylt Hodgkin
BUSINESS STAFF
Bernard Jennings Business Manager
Assistant Business Manager
George Holyoka Dick Schmidt
Wilbur Erlckson
Why the
Pictures?
IN Friday's Daile Nebraskan there appeared an
article devoted to an Investigation of freshman
registration photos and the uses to which they are
put. An effort was made to get definite informa
tion ftbout the alleged values of the system, with
A View to later editorial comparison of the usues
Vb pictures are supposed to have with the uses
they actually have.
To understand the reason for this devious and
rather extensive activity, it is necessary to know
Jwo things; one, the very apparent disregard in
Which the pictures are invariably held by students,
and two, the complete lack of any visible advan
tage connected with the system.
ji freshman, himself strongly disapproving of
Jjh process, first brought the matter to our at
tention by his strenuous grieving. He wanted to
know, finally. Just why the system had been insti
tuted and what purpose was being served. None
Of his immediate audience could answer that
question, and it soon developed that almost no
one paid any attention to the pictures, or took the
trouble to be skeptical of their value.
Further questioning revealed that outside the
registrar office the number of people who did
know r care anything about the photos except
foj indignant freshmen was very small.
la the registrar's office, however, a statement
of the system's alleged purpose was obtained. The
photos are taken as a matter of record "to provide
the Office and the local merchants with some more
definite and exact means of identifying university
Students. This, then, is the broad purpose of the
whole system, and it will not escape attention that
this purpose is both indefinable and inexplicable.
Even more puzzling does the whole question
become when it is remembered that no one has
been known, at least in recent years, to make use
of the pictures. Quoting the Nebraskan article
again, we discover: "Heads of the credit depart
ments of Lincoln's leading stores all replied, when
asked, that they had never at any time taken ad
vantage of the existence of a freshman's identifica
tion picture.''
On the campus itself there is no question of
the indifference with which the pictures are re
garded. As has been pointed out, "the photos may
be easily detached from identification cards, and
upperclassmen have no pictures on their cards."
It follows then, that for the purpose of indentifica
tion on the campus even assuming that such an
attempt should be made the photos are equally
without valug.
There is, then, a complicated system involved
in taking the pictures of freshmen, pasting them
on identification cards and personal records to be
added to at graduation by pasting a "comparative"
Cornhusker photo alongside the freshmen pictures
and generally keeping people busy with pictorial
records. And all this, "to provide some more defi
nite ami exact means of Identifying university
students!"
The conclusion is inescapable that the system
Is not working, and serious questions as to its
value if It did work could probably be sustained.
Even in spite of the extreme vagueness ot the
purpose, the system cannot be adequately justified.
It is complex, expensive, inoperative; these alone
are enough to damn the procedure as highly un
necessary. Because of budget reductions, the library can
not have new books, but because it exists as a
system, an unnecessary and costly procedure can
be maintained solely that freshmen may experience
the distaste of looking at bad pictures of them
selves. Anomalous conditions are not difficult to
find, but this surpasses them all in mystery.
'Let's Cvt
A Tax.'
A LETTER in this morning's Student Pulse col-
umn looks into the merits of the student ac
tivity tax and concludes that the alleged disad
vantages are far outweighed. Stressing the value
of having all students really participating in extra
curricular affairs, J. H. B. concludes that even the
malcontents will find themselves enjoying the new
arrangement after their interests have been broad
ned thru the operation of the tax.
It is an effective review our contributor makes,
and the spirit of enthusiasm in which it is written
should be a bolstering influence for Student coun
cil workers whose concern it will be to secure ad
ministrative approval for a "blanket tax."
J. H. B. is already doing good work by merely
voicing his attitude and spreading the gospel, pre
sumably, to the ranks of hii friends and associates.
But he goes even further; he offers his assistance
to the council committee working on the tax. With
students like this at hand, that committee should
have small difficulty in seeing its work thru to a
successful conclusion. To organize students
whose purpose might very well be the dissemina
tion of additional information about the tax among
students is as much a part of the council's work
as the actual compilation of data.
"THE tax plan does have enthusiastic backers.
Men and women who realize the merits of the
proposal very clearly may be found in nearly every
organization, and their energy should be put to
work in the serious business of seeing the tax
successfully thru its last concentrated stages.
Officially the student body has registered its
opinion on the matter and the results are available
in the figures of the vote taken last spring. But
there remains a surprising number of students who
are either indifferent or misinformed about the
tax. in spite of the unusual size of the spring poll.
To inform these students, to make them "tax con
scious," if you please is one of the major remain
ing problems.
Hand in hand with this project, of course,
goes the actual planning of methods to be used in
presenting arguments for the tax to the regents.
This, however, is largely a matter of executive
work, involving detailed discussion and considera
tion, so it is perhaps best left to the council com
mittee itself.
Summarizing, then, the work facing the coun
cil might be roughly divided into two classifica
tions: Organization of forces for making the cam
pus thoroly 'tax conscious," and actual formula
tion of the method to be used in presenting the
case for which most of the data has already been
collected.
It is a big task, but the objectives toward
which it aims is even bigger. No other single
thing could so vitalize and rebuild student activi
ties. No other thing could so help the individual
students. Like J. H. B., we raise the banners and
shout "Let's get a tax!"
The Student Pulse
Brief, conrln contributions perti
nent So nutters ef tndrol Ufa and
tna smJrenity mr welcomed bj this
department, under the nnutl restric
tions ef sound newspaper pytlce,
whtek excludes all libelous matter
and pmonal attacks. Letters mint
be signed, hnt names will be itn
lieat troia pubUcattoa If se desired.
' rA Zook at the Tax,
9 THE EDITOR:
The student council has pledged
Itself to the adoption of a blanket
activities tax. The Daily Nebras
kan last year devoted consider
able editorial space to acquainting
students with the tax. There is no
question as to the merits of the
tax either from a financial or an
educational standpoint The issue,
as X see it, is to justify- any action
Which thrusts upon the student
body something which they may or
ftjay Dot want and something in
jfbicn the majority may or may
BOt be Interested. Is participation
io remain elective or to be made
Cpmpclsory?.
Obviously, this raises the ques
tion as to whether a university is
more th"n a place where book
learning is made available, where
students may study and supposed
ly learn under professional guid
ance. We must therefore ask our
selves whether or not extra-curricular
activities are an aside to the
business of education or a vital
part of it.
No one doubts but that many
students take book-learning too
lightly and student activities too
seriously. There are many in the
reverse situation practising the
opposite extreme. We are here
primarily for study. That is one
way of learning. But our associa
tions, our contacts, and the expe
rience gained by participation in
student activities are another way.
No one enrolled at the university
who cannot appreciate her tradi
tions, who cannot show an inter
est in them and be a part of them
has a right to proclaim himself or
herself a student of the university.
It appears to me to be an extreme
ly selfish conception of college.
The Greeks have much to gain
by a blanket tax. But so have the
non-Greeks. And by the tax stu
dents who formerly had no inter
est in the school outside of class
room experiences will be com
pelled to become interested. It will
break down their indifferent atti
tude of long standing. And most
important of all they may resent
the compulsion but they WILL
like to participate and enjoy it
once they become an integral part
of it
Compulsion has frequently been
the best thing for us. If students
will take the long-run view they
will agree with me that in this
instance it will be to our ad
vantage and good. I hereby pledge
my assistance to the adoption of
the blanket tax and in addition to
my approval I am ready to engage
in any work which I can do to
help the council to get recognition
from the board of regents. To the
Student CouncU the best of luck.
Let s get a tax. J. H. B.
Smoke and Fire.
TO THE EDITOR:
Nebraska received a self-inflicted
"blackeye" last Mayday
when thirteen so-called "bigshots"
were tumbled to the turf. Whether
the body-politic on our campus
realizes it now or not is still a
matter of question but the truth
will out, no matter.
The Innocents of the University
of Nebraska have a glorious past,
one that any senior honorary so
ciety should be proud to possess.
But the last two years have so
spotted that enviable reputation
that only two courses can be pur
sued with dignity: revolution or
destruction.
The original purpose of the or
ganization was to choose those
men each year that had in them
selves those innate characteristics
of leadership and accomplish
ment. Ho wfine the honor is if
a student can gain, by hard work
and dogged perseverance, the dis
tinction of being Innocent mate
rial! Ah but that is a thing of
history. Corrupt politics now has
the Innocent Society under its
mailed fist with the aim in view
of manufacturing Innocents out
of bird seed.
Nebraskans should feel sorry
for themselves for allowing their
name to be dragged to the muck
with a society that should repre
sent the best of our university.
An honorary society should in it
self imply impartiality and fair
play. But in this instance such is
not the case. At the present time
it is just another political group
using under-handed methods to
rob Nebraska university of one
more glorious tradition.
Bold.
lt Oti'ljle I lotlttk in
FARMERS BEWARE.
A farnur in Illinois, pestered by
chicken thieves, rigged up a device
to got i id of them. He put a gun
in i he hen house and tied a string
to the trigger so that the thief
would be lively to run into the
string.
Unhappily, at a time when the
farmer was directly in front of the
gun. an old hen flew into the
string and pulled the trigger. The
farmer was taken to the hospital.
SPIRIT GROWS BY ACTION.
Last week at Ag club's first
meeting a resolution was passed
to work wlln the Daily Nebraskan
in putting on a subscription drive
on the Ag campus. The idea was
suggested by the Ncbraskan's bus
iness staff, and the club members
liked it.
Monday morning the campaign
begins. In the course of the drive
every Ag student and every facul
ty member will be offered an op
portunity to subscribe to the stu
dent dailv. The campaign, if suc
cessful, will be profitable to the
club, and the prizes offered by the
Nebraskan staff for high individ
uals in the campus-wide subscrip
tion drive also hold good for stu
dents working on Ag Campus.
To facilitate the most complete
coverage of the campus, the club,
according to John Loewenstein,
president, has set up special ma
chinery for the job. Three teams
were organized with Arthur Peter
son, Willard Waldo, and William
Donahue as the team captains.
Certain of the buildings on the
campus have been allotted to each
team to contact both the faculty
members there and the students
having classes in those buildings.
The campaign bids fair to be thor
ough. This sales campaign, an entirely
new activity for Ag club, cames at
a most opportune time. Clubs, or
ganizations and the like exist for
one purpose: to carry out some
function or activity. Without ac
tivities to perform, any sort of an
organization soon atrophies and
dies. Whatever spark of spirit and
enthusiasm an organization may
have grows and develops by U3e,
by activity. That is why this new
undertaking comes at an oppor
tune time.
Right now at the beginning of
the year Ag club has, if it ever
will "have, an element of pep, a
certain restlessness to be up and
doing something. The subscrip
tion drive gives it something to do.
In addition to being a profitable
undertaking in a year when profit
able undertakings promise to be
rare, the subscription campaign
should be very valuable to the club
as a means to bring it to life, get
ting it into action, getting it go
ing. JOBS TO GO ROUND.
The Committee on Regulation of
Student Labor, an organization of
Ag faculty members that has op
erated for several years but is not
commonly known on the campus,
met last week. Prof. H. J. Gram-
Uch is chairman of the committee.
The result of their conference is
that all students who do unskilled
labor in any of the campus de
partments will be paid not to ex
ceed twenty cents an hour, and
that students doing department
work that requires some technical
training will be paid not more than
twenty-five cents an hour. They
ruled, however, that twenty dol
lars a month is the upper limit
for students In the unskilled labor
class, and that students at other
work would bo limited to twenty
five dollars.
To those students on the campus
who can remember back to the
days when part-time jobs paid
twice as much as thnt, or even
more, the new ruling is hard to
take. But it Is necessary that jobs
for students be made to go as far
round as possible. The money
students earn at part-time jobs In
coliege Is Intended to be used to
defray school expenses, not to pay
for dates or week-end trips home.
Heretofore there has been a lack
of uniformity among departments
as to the number of hours students
were allowed to work and the
wages they were permitted to
earn. It will be a just and fair
proposition all the way round ii
the committee's new resolution has
corrected that situation.
Criticisms from outside that stu
dents should not be permitted to
work at unskilled labor when men
with families are out of work are
frequent. But the college faculty
is justified in its student-employment
program, I believe, for two
reasons one in practice and one
in principle.
In p ractice, most of the work
students do is part-time work, it
is a few hours here and a few
hours there. It is work that would
not lend itself to full-time men.
and is therefor more effectively
handled by part-time workers.
The other reason is that in prin
ciple the college is a kind of a fac
tory. It uses the young men and
women of the state as its raw ma
terial, and turns out a finished
product a product that is sup
posed to be of worth to the stat.
Now a factory has to see that it
gets raw material. It has to mn
as nearly as possible at maximum
opertion in order to work effi
ciently. The raw material of the college
is students, and this policy of mak
ing it possible for students to enter
by granting part-time jobs is sim
ply a part of the necessary process
. e : i 1 . . . .
oi securing raw iimii'i mi lu tr-,
the factory operating at full tilt,
and hence, the most efficiently.
Wible is Master of Arts.
Prof. C. L. Wible, assistant pro
fessor of pharmacognosy, was
granted his master of art's degree
from the University of Arizona at
the close o fthe summer session.
YWCA STAFF SCHEDULE
FOR YEAR ANNOUNCED
(Continued from Page l.i
Boos as chairman plans to meet
Tuesday at 4 o'clock. Donna Davis
and her Church Relations group
are to hold their meetings Wed
nesday at 5 o'clock. The finance
staff. Bash Perkins, chairman, will
meet Wednesday at 5 o'clock. Vio
let Cross is to have charge of the
publicity staff which meets on
Wednesday at 5 o'clock. Helen
Lutz will conduct the social staff
at 5 o'clock on Monday. Elaine
Fontein and her group will make
plans for vespers on Tuesday at 4
o'clock.
Genevieve Jeffries will conduct
the Ag staff on Thursday at 5
o'clock while Dorothy Cathers has
Sophomore commission Friday at
4 o'clock. The Upperclass com
mission under the guidance of Vir
ginia McBride will meet Thursday
at 5 o'clock. At 5 o'clock, the pro
gram and office group under Lou
ise Hossack will meet. Roberta
Coffee and Breta Peterson have
charge of the international staff
meeting 5 o'clock on Thursday. On
Friday from 7 to 8:30 Helen Lutz
plans to conduct the social dancing
class.
Denice Green, chairman of the
postor committee, has not yet
scheduled her staff meetings. Hiith
Cherney will have the freshmen
rahinpt
Philosophy Instructor
Attend Chicugo Hireling
Dr. E. L. Hinman and Dt. o. K.
Bouwsma, of the philolophy de
partment of the university at
tended the triennial meeting ot tl-.a
American Philosophy association,
which was held in Chicago. Sept
7 to 9.
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AG STUDENTSJNTERTHINED
Faculty Reception Officially
Opens Social Season
On Campus.
Nearly five hundred people were
present Saturday night at the re
ception given students by the Ag
college faculty, according to a re
port given by members of the com
mittee in charge. The faculty re
ception, which occurred at the stu
dent activities building on the Ag
campus, officially opens the social
season for agricultural college stu
dents. University officials in the re
ceiving line, according to the re
port, were Chancellor and Mrs. E.
A. Burnett, Dean and Mrs. W. W.
Burr, Dean T. J. Thompson. Dean
Amanda -Heppner, Miss Florence
McGabey, Coach Dana Bible, and
Coach Henry Schulte.
According to D. B. Whelan, re
ception committee member, the
major part of the program con
sisted of games and dancing. Spe
cial entertainment was provided
for those who did not care to
dance. A grand march led by
Dean and Mrs. Burr was the big
event of the evening. Lunch was
served at the close of the entertainment.
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