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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22. 1933. TTO THE DAILY NEHRASKAN The Daily Nebraskan Station A, Lincoln, NebriK OFFICIAL STUOENT PUBLICATION UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA sooctutcd Cfollcoiulw Jl'lJJ myN4.'(i g.'" 'J4 Fntered lecond-clntt matter at the P"""1'.,1,," Lm Nrtr..,, under net of congreM. Match S. 1879 w at nccl.il rate ot postaage provided for in ?"oi. art ot October 3. 1817. authorized January 80. 1922. THI KTY-THI RD VEAR Published Tuesday. e.idy. Thuriday. Friday and Sunday mormngi during tha academic year. SUBSCRIPTION RATE 1 50 a vear Single Copy 5 cent. 1.00 a aemJMei Ilia ' y", rolled 1-80 a .emester mailed " under direction ot the Student Publication Boa.d. f ditonai Office Univetatty Hail 4. B-UmZ. B-3333 .Journal, Ask tor Nebraskan editor. EDITORIAL STAFF Laurence Hall Editor-in-chief Managing Editor Bruce Nlcoll B-1 v'"" Cr" Newi Editore Turton Marvin Jack Fischer Margaret Thiele V.rotnia Selleck Society Ed. tor $.po,is Editor '"'" Ryan BUSINFSS STAFF Bernard Jennings Business Vanagtt Assistant Businese Manageri George Holyoke Dick Schmidt Wilbur Erlckion W T" MIIIWIIWI Remarks a Change, yUE purpose of the removal of the old home eco nomics house has been achieved, and the 13th st. vista is unimpeded to the Coliseum. Gone without any great amount of pother, the building: in its re moval illustrates the kind of gradual change that continually molds the campus. Kven more significant, however, is the blank space where the building stood not in the spot's relationship to fond memories, or to appreciation of the "view," but as it emphasizes again the inade quacy of the university's material equipment. That inadequacy is nothing new as a subject for com ment, but the vacancy where the former home ec house was makes the lack sharply apparent. It is that very inadequacy, indeed, which has in spired the letter of bitter denunciation the Nebras kan has just received from a former student. The communication will not be printed, for even any truths it might impart would hardly compensate for the dissatisfaction it would cause. The communica tion itself remains, however, and to a degree it can be considered a typical reaction. It happens that the letter was written in a differ ent connection, having been meant to apply as a criticism of the armory project, but the spirit in which it was written is, perhaps, significant, for the tone thruout is one of bitterness the kind of bitter ness that grows, evidently, out of a feeling of hav ing been cheated of educational advantages. While the Nebraskan does not believe that such a reaction represents a majority verdict of the university's The Student Pulse Brlrt, conflw contrlhiitlnni pertl nrnt to muttiT of student life nnU the university are welcomed by this ilp-.rt.nent. under the usual restric tions ol sound newspaper practice, whirl. erludcs all libelous matter and personal attacks. Letters must be slrncd, but names will be wlth reld from publication If so desired. Careless Charges. TO THE EDITOR: During the last month, three elections for student offices have been held on the university cam pus. Each year, when the election returns are published there is a varying amount of propaganda spread about the campus that the counting of ballots has not been fair, and that the persons who count and tabulate the results have be-n inclined to somewhat change th ? number of votes cast to suit themselves. Although it is impos sible to definitely prove such charges, it is rather of an estab lished fact that such has been the oa-e in some elections. No matter how seldom the elec tion returns have been changed to suit the counting board, it is a pr ictice which should be stopped altogether. A great deal of con troversy has been waged lately on the subject of politics on the cam pus, and attempts have been made to eliminate politics from univer sity organizations. No one seems to have thought, however, or else has not tried to think that the rot tenness of some of the political functions of the school may be in the election to offices, not in the offices themselves. The condition of crooked elec Hons has come to such a state that the Student Council, in an ff-.rt to eliminate the possibility rf chanq-ed ballot returns, has seen fit to provide a member of its body, either the president or a faculty representative, to preside wnh the election committee of whatever organization is conduct ing the election. The Student Council, however, should not be forced to resort to such action as it has Elections are practically the only chances during the year when students are allowed to express their sentiments. No matter how unimportant the election, nor what the organization is under whose auspices the election is being held, there should be no taint of unfair ness present. If the counting committees can not count the ballots as they are, things may come to such a state that it will be necessary for a fac ulty committee to supervise all student elections, and take from them another of their few remain ing functions. If the organizations which now have the power of con trol of elections cannot see fit to conduct them in a fair manner, the talring over of the power by the university authorities will be the onlv remaining recourse. If those who have beer, the stim ulus in the attempts to "clean un the politics of the campus will only shift their attention, at least in part, from the course which they are new traveling, to student elec tions, and eliminate the politics which are rendering them unfair, tteri will be made that will gain them a point toward their goal, the entire removal of politics from the campus. vv. t. Suffers Heart Attack on Trip DENVER. (CNS). Frederick Lincoln Chase, former Yale astron omer. was dead this week as the result of a heart attack suffered while he was on a hunting trip near here. Careless Charges. "Unsubstantiated" would undoubtedly be the best caption for the correspondence relating to election supervision that appears in today's Student Pulse column. The writer, as a matter of fact, brings no charges, being content to hint vaguely and suggest malici ously. As far as the Nebraskan is concerned there have been no evidences of unfairness at any of this year's elections. If evidence existed, it would have been printed; if evidence exists in the future, it will be printed. To date, however, election supervision remains tin smirched by anything savoring of manipulation. College By Carlyle Hodgkin CORRECTION: The organiza tion in which Mrs. Altinas Tullis has been elected president is the Nebraska Academy of Singing Teachers. She was elected at a recent meeting at Crete, will first preside at a coming meeting in Lincoln. HOME COMES THE BACON What no other judging team on Ag campus has been able to do this season, the agronomy team did at Kansas City Monday. By an easy margin they won first in the crops contest at the American Royal. Noc one of the three men Coach Anton Frolik sent into the contest had any previous experience at a big contest. But they seemed not to let that fact worry them. They left Oklahoma in second place and Iowa in third. They placed first in grading and fourth in identifica tion. Raymond Kinch, Ag junior who doesn't make so much smoke but, in this contest, stepped out and dis played plenty of fire, ranked third in the contest as a whole, and won first place in grain judging. Elmer Heyne exhibited a passion for fourths. He won fourth in the entire contest, fourth in grain judging, and fourth in identifica tion. Philip Henderson placed sixth in the identificaton part of the con test. Coach Frolik and his contest winners will get back to the cam pus Tuesday night, attend classes a few days, and then off to Chi cago to enter the contest at the In ternational. Needless to say, Koy Iilaser, Taul H arve y, Elver Hodges, and others of the fellows interested in agronomy will be on hand to welcome the victorious team back. Note of warning: The team will go to Chicago with high hopes of repeating their victory. Three years ago tne tiairy came leam won first at Waterloo, went a few weeks later to the National con test at St. Louis and came out well down the line. Between now and the time ttvVdids sic lunde at Chi cago the agronomy boys will do well to keep on their toes and not be sure of any bird as long as its in the bush. BROAD AND CULTURAL That kind of thing in which stu dent-faculty convocations commit tee Is interested addresses that are broad, cultural, and not agri cultural has been coming this week to Ag students in gobs and big handfulls. Tuesday morning manv of tnem neara ur. n;. Stan ley Jones at the Temple. Tuesday afternoon many more of them heard Bishop Logan H. Roots at the ioint Y. W. C. A. meeting. Speaking on cnina, wnere ne nas for 15 years been a missionary, Bishop Roots pointed out first the treat resources ana ine nneicni civilization of that country. Though they are largely undeveloped, the resources or. tJnina are iremenauua. There are 400,000,000 people In that country, people enough to sur prise the world il ana wnes mey get started and they are begin ning to ret started. A second point Bishop Roots considered significant Is the Com munistic movement in China. It is developing along two distinct lines, he said. The one kind of Communism In China is Idealistic, it is constructive and hopeful. The other kind of Commun.sm is ma terialistlc. political, based on Marxism, and bodes little good to the oeople of the nation. Stressing the fact that the world Is no large place any more, Bihop facilities, neither Is such a blunt view uncommon, and for that reason it cannot be overlooked. All thin, however, is not to say that any action known to man would have any effect in remedying what seem inadequacies to critics. Making the best of a bad situation Is a trite conclusion at which to arrive, but It seems the only possible stand. Meanwhile, the vacant stretch where the home ec house stood, to return to the point from which these comments started, reminds again that the uni versity changes, and that its change is gradual and sure. Buildings or no buildings, the institution continues. in Odd Thin p. JN the midst of what passes for preoccupation in the dirty little pen that the editor of the Nebras kan calls his office we were amused to overhear a conversation bearing on the legend of the state capitol's ghost. It will be remembered that a group of girls, university students, returned from an in spection trip to the capitol all a-jitter with the tales that had been fed them. The story of the trip, the ghost, and the jitters crept into the Nebraskan's columns, somehow, with a stealth borrowed from the ghost itself, and here several days inter were comments still being made on the subject. The remarkable thing about the conversation, however, was not its topic, but the pseudo-serious manner that distinguished it from most of the un dergraduate "sophisticated'' banter. In spite ot the "wise-cracks" they were making, the students dis cussing ghosts were examining their own beliefs as they went along, for there were silences and gravity woven thru the talk. Ridiculous? Significant? Probably neither. But an incident like that might very well be grounds for amusing speculation, as it was for us. And now peculiar kind of editorial pendantry demands that we add recognition of two typical comments that will be made on all this: First the undergraduate, who hh.vm, 'It sounds too much like an assignment," and second, the humorless person whose remark is, "Bah! Adolescence!" Meanwhile a genial glow pervades the editorial typewriter. Roots said that the problem of the Chinese are the problems of Amer ica, and that the problems of Americans are the problems of j China. He asked Ag students to j realize that all nations are to a degree interdependent, and that no i one cun permanently progress j when others do not. j The ag auditorium in which I Bishop Roots spoke Tuesday alt ernoon was completely filled. So, tho it contained lar fewer ag stu dents, was the Temple Tuesday morning when Dr. E. Stanley Jones spoke. What Bishop Roots had to say was essentially infor mation. What Dr. Jones had to say was chiefly inspiration and persua sion. "We offer you the Christian moviment," said Dr. Jones, "as a moral equivalent for war. We of fer the Christian movement alike to the west and the east." Dr. Jones has been twenty-six years in India, spoke specifically of re ligious ideas and customs in tnit country, but spoke also of the east in general. The east, according to Jones is a different pl.ice than it has been in the past. It is awake; it is chang ing; it is throwing its old institu tions by the board; old ideas are being supplanted by new. "One thing," he said, "is sure in the east change." Largely responsible for the up heaval of the old order in the east, Jones pointed out is the impact of the attitude of science. That part of the world has entered into the area of questioning. Like the west ern world, truth is coming to be the one criterion of good. Old in stitutions and ideas are being ousted. The impact of science is causing a dissolution of the old order. Coincident with thut fact, ac cording to Jones, there is in the east an insistant demand for work able religion. It is because old or ders are disappearing and some thing workable to take its place is vitally needed that the east had come to life, that change is tne order of the day. Plunging directly into a subject that has long been a potent one in the west and along with the advent ot science is catching the east. Dr. Jones talked about the conflict or I13J PUB 30U31DS IO IDIIJUOS 10 VyBl gion. "It used to be felt that there is au irreconcilable gap between the facts of science and the intui tions of religion," he said.. But that time has mostly passed. We feel today that each one has its sphere and place." Science, Jones feels, perhaps has something for religion and religion perhaps has something for science. A violin solo, Jones said, has been defined as the "Scraping of a horses tail across the guts of a dead cat." But the soloist would be likely to point out that there was more to a violin solo than just that. So, he said, is there more to a poem, or to a drama, or to life as a whole than simply its physical aspects. One thinks of one thing in con nection with this very intricate subject: We are living certainly In an age of definition. It becomes a matter of definition Just how far religion is religion and when it be comes science, and it is perhaps a matter or definition that deter mines when science is science and when it becomes religion. Wisconsin Extends Christmas Holiday MADISON, Wis. (CNS). A two day extension of the usual Christ mas holiday period this week was announced by the faculty of the University of Wisconsin. Vacation will start Dec. 22 and end Jan. 9. ENTERTAIN GUESTS Hobby Clubs Plan Program Following Banquet; Present Play. Big Sisters, Little Sisters, soror ity mothers, their daughters and any other girls interested will at tend the annual banquet given by the Big Sisters advisory board Thursday at 6:15 o'clock in Grant Memorial hall. The dinner will be followed by a program which has been plan ned by the various hobby groups sponsored by the Big Sister board. It will include a one act play "Hearts" and a tap dance by Max Ine Merries. The play is under the direction of Adcla Toinlrink and Mary Yoder, Margaret Thillipp, Jean Walt, and Marjorie Calder will take part in it. After the pro gram Inez Dobel will play for dancing. Alice Ged.ies. Miss Klsie Ford Piper, and Miss Letta Clark, ad visors to the Big Sister borrd, and Miss Amanda Heppner, dean of women, will be guests of the board at the banquet. Acquaintance Dinner. The dinner gives Big Sisters an opportunity to get better ac quainted with their Little Sisters as well as promotes the work of the organization. Anne Pickett is in charge of tickets, Lorraine Brake, menu, Marjorie Filley, program, Breta Peterson, publicity, and Alice Geddes, general arrangements. OFFICIAL BULLETIN All students orttantrittnins or faculty Krmipft flcftlrlnK to publish notices of nirHIng or other Information for member! may have hlem printed by calling the Dally Nebraskan office. AT THE STUDIOS. Wednesday, Nov. 22. Interfraternity council (senior and junior delegates), 12 noon. Daily Nebraskan Business staff, 12:45 p. m. Wednesday. Tri-K Club, 12:30 p. m. Thursday, Nov. 23: Student Publication Board, 12:00 noon. Friday, Nov. 24: Varsity Glee Club, 5:00 p. m. Monday, Nov. 27: Y. W. C. A. Cabinet, 12:00 noon. All editorial and art work for the December issue of the Aw gwan must be in by Thursday November 24. Rosalie Lamme, editor. PI LAMBDA THETA. Pi Lambda Theta will hold a Founders Day dinner Thursday, Nov. 23, at the Y. W. C. A. at 6:15 p. m. Dr. Morton will speak on "The Present Emergency in Edu cation." Reservations may be made by calling Grace Young or Helen Nesbit. GIRLS COMMERCIAL CLUB. The Girls Commercial club will hold pledging service" at Ellen Smith hall, Wednesday, Nov. 22, from 7 to S p. m. All bizad girls are urged to attend. Regular meet ings are held on the first and fourth Wednesdays of each month. Spanish Club. All students registered in Span ish classes are invited to attend the organization meeting, Wednes day night, from 7 to 8 o'clock, at the Gamma Phi Beta house. WOMEN'S CLUB. The Business and Professional Women's club will hold a dinner Wednesday, at 6 p. m., at the Lin dell hotel. Dr. Yi Fang Wu, noted Chinese educator, and Miss Pickin will be the speakers. Tickets at fiftv cents are avail able at the Y. W. C. A. Interfraternity Council. Interfraternity Council meeting tonight at 7:30 p. m. in room 9 Morrill Hall. All members of the council are requested to be pres ent. A fine of five dollars will be assessed from every fraternity whose representatives are not pres ent. ROBERT THIEL. President Dr. Stanley E. Jones will speak at a student round table discus sion,, to be held at Eiiiiiiuel M. E. church, at 4 p. m. Wednesday. Doctor Jones will conduct a ques tion and answer discussion, for which he was famous in India. The Business and Professional Women's club will hold a dinner Wednesday, at 6 p. m. at the Lin dell hotel. Dr. Yi Fang Wu, noted Chinese educator, in addition to Miss Pickin will be the speakers. All women interested are invited to attend the meeting. Tickets are available at the Y. W. C. A. office. SPANISH CLUB. Spanish club will meet Wednes day night at 7:00 at the Gamma Phi Beta house, 415 No. 16th. All studen's enrolled in Spanish classes are invited to attend the meeting. CLASSICAL CLUB. All students interested In the classics are invited to attend the Classical club meeting Friday, Nov. 24, from 8 to 9 p. m. in room 203 of the Temple building. Carol Auten, president. KOSMET KLUB. All K o s m e t Klub workers should report at the Kosmet Klub office at 4 o'clock Wednesday af ternoon. SCANDINAVIAN CLUB. There will be a meeting of the Scandinavian club Friday night at 8 o'clock In room 212, Morrill hall. The program will consist of songs and games. Only the east entrance will be open. Contemporary Comment Athletics , For All. Is Iowa State's intramural slo tan "Athletics lor all" likely to become a joke? Is the fraternity athletic program degenerating into a powderhouse of jealous rivalry between groups? These questions, in view of no ticeable trends, are not to be con sidered too lightly. They are seri ous enough to warrant thought, and action should be taken to cor rect faults now possessed by the system. We believe that the importance of producing a winning intramural machine is over-stressed. It is not logical that men should train like varsity players to participate in intramural. Such a policy nar rows down to the house's participa tion in sports to the best individ uals physically. The less athletic compose a cheering section on the sidelines to jeer at the less ath letic from the opposing house. Competition between groups is increasing yearly. Few instances of fisticuffs have been reported this year, but nevertheless intra frateinity goodwill is not being advanced by this rivalry. It seems to us that a much more desirable plan than the present would be one in which the season's trophy would be awarded the house which not only won its contests, but which had the greatest percent age of men participating in intra murals during the year. It might be found desirable to award two trophies one based on the present system for the "best" house, and the other for the house which ad te "best" teams consider Interviews With Ghosts by Maurice Johnson This Is one ot a series of Imadnnry dialogues concerning the Ideal university life. .The dialOKues will appear at regu lar bi-weekly intervils. EMERSON. "We complain of our universi ties, we are skeptical of them, we give them no co-operation; and yet we wonder why they seem lacking." The ghost of Ralph Waldo Emerson was speaking. "But the universities are cer tainly not perfect." I said. He agreed. "Indeed, the number of things wrong with them is shocking. We shut ourselves up in recitation rooms for fifteen or six teen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing." "That's very positive language," I said. "But it is also true," said Emer son. "I have often said that after years with our noses in books we do not know an edible herb when we see one. We cannot tell our course from the stars. And we cry out at the sight of harmless bugs." "You make us appear quite li diculous," I told him. "It is only the way we go about things which is ridiculous," he said. "We care nothing for exper ience, and we turn our backs upon experiment. The sight of the work ings of a machine is a hundred times more valuable than olumes of explanation." "With so much lacking in the universities," I said, "we should do something to change the situation. But what?' "That is simple," said Emerson. "We only need faith. A disease of the human mind is behind all these difficulties. And that disease is want of faith. We believe in the defects instead of the power of education." "Just what is the power or edu cation in a university?" I asked. "It is to set the hearts of youth on flame," Emerson, said. "What do you mean by that? I asked. "We need no pedantry o:- set methods," he said. "A true man never acquires after college rules. Education in the university must not subdue minds, but stir 'hem KOSMET KLUB MORNING REVUE Presentation of the Nebraska Sweetheart and 9 Acts of Exceptional Vaudeville 1. Delta Delta Deita Kappa Sigma 2. Delta Gamma- Sigma Chi 3. Gamma Phi Beta 4. Sigma Alpha Iota 5. Alpha Tau Omega Beta Theta Pi 6. Carrie Belle Raymond Hall 7. Kappa Kappa Gamma Sigma Nu 8. PI i Gamma Delta Zeta Beta Tau 9. Alpha Chi Omega The morning of the Iowa-Nebraska Game STUART THEATRE Tickets from any Klub worker or at door 50c 845 A. M- KOSMET KLUB MORNING REVUE ing the percentage of men which participated. "Atlettcs for all" might thus come to mean more. Iowa State Student. Hollywood I'ersions. Some years ago, American mov ies gave French business men no end of trouble. The stenographers went on strike, demanding mag nificent offices and furnishings such as they had seen in pictures which had their genesis in Holly wood. They thought their Ameri can sisters were used to such sur roundings. We only hope that portion of America which hasn't had much experience with college life doesn't form its ideas from Hollywood portrayals of colleges. From the antics of the pictured college stu dent, he hasn't an ounce if brains, spends his time tossing money to the four winds, riding about in sport roadsters, flitting from plnK teas to dances, from football fields to speakeasies. He acts ps no ra tional human being ever acted. If a character out of the screen ttep ped on just any college campus, the psychology professors would be examining him in an hour. Col lege as portrayed by Hollywood isn't college it's a madhouse. We've tried our best to fit Dean McElroy or Dean Stout into the picture version of deans. They're just a little out of focus. No, life about the college isn't at all like the Hollywood version and praise be to Allah! The Holly wood variety would drive a person nuts! Daily Oklahoman. until they begin to burn with thought." He paused. I waited, saying nothing. "Have faith," he said. "Remem ber to have faith and " Emer son's voice faded, and he seemed to be evaporating. "What are you saying?" I cried. But he was gone. COUNCIL BACKS SUGGESTION TO ERECT COLUMNS (Continued from Page 1.) record as favoring the plan, brought to campus attention a few weeks ago, providing for utiliza tion of the columns, and is the first to take steps toward securing its realization. ! Would Erect Colonnade. j Foremost among plans con sidered ior iiuiizauon oi inc columns is that providing for their erection as a colonnade on the east and west ends of the mall south of the coliseum. The pillars are at present lying in two lots, one on the north side of the drill field, the other on the corner of 10th and U sts. They were origi nally donated to the university for use in a proposed open air theater. The council committee on com mittees formed as a result of re cent drastic changes within the council acted in its first official capacity Tuesday when it ap pointed George Rhadbolt as the council's representative on the student World Forum committee. Appointment of the Interfratern ity Bait committee was postponed until the next meeting. Urge Contact with Faculty. Professor E. F. Schramm, fac ulty advisor, urged the various fraternities to invite members of the faculty to their respective houses to participate in general discussion groups several times during the year. He also discussed a letter sent all fraternities by Dean Thompson, offering admini stration aid to fraternities in which encounter difficulties with individual members. YOUR DRUG STORE Remember those famous noon lunches at our fountain. CALL US FOR RUSH ORDERS The OWL PHARMACY 148 No. 14th & P B106A CHINESE B SHOP TALKS AT WORLD F Urge Persons to Attend Who Are Interested in Chinese Affairs. Rt. Rev. Logan H. Roots, bishop of Hankow, China, will speak at the World Forum luncheon to bt held in the Grand hotel at U o'clock Wednesday. Any person in terested in the Chinese and Far East situation may attend the af fair, and tickets may be purchased in Social Sciences hall Wednesday morning. The speaker for this noon's luncheon is famous for the special interest he has taken in the stu dent life in China, and as an edu cator and church-man in that country. During the past few years he has been active In con nection with student conferences in that natio, and has several times been head of educational in stitutions. Hayes Knows Him. Mr. C. D. Hayes, secretary of the university Y. M. C. A., who spent several' years in China doinn Y. M. work knew Dr. Roots well during his stay in that country. Dr. Roots is known as an expert on the problem of Christianity in the far east, and the dangers it faces in communism and Japanese militarism. DRESS FOR THE OCCASION W'c oner the most iistmitul iny ViiliiP in a t tiroe-piec" tuxoilo suit. Single ami louli'-lit'cas)c. modi Is. A Special at Inc. ;y. So. 1 : It K si. 01 MEETING MJ. If I a