THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1034.
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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
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Cabinet Member
Challenges.
COLLEGES of the nation should express youthful
vitality In new and realistic ways in the opinion
of Secretary of Agriculture Wallace. Now is the
opportune time, he thinks, for the development of a
"true youth movement."
Speaking before the national conference of stu
dents in politics, held In Washington last week, the
cabinet member struck a note ot idealism that
should have appealed to the delegates. Pointing out
that America had never had a "youth movement"
worthy of the name, Wallace said "there is some
thing altogether too smug, complacent and self-sat
lsfied about the youth of the United States," but
held out some hope that the years of depression
would prove to be the needed impetus for develop'
ment of new ways for expression of youthful vi
tality. '
The old ways of expression were severely criti'
cized as Wallace declared that there was more to
college life than talking about football scores and
dances. "Organized football" and "college activi
ues or a sort whicn remain essentially the same
from generation to generation" were characterized
as "rackets," and the secretary expressed doubt
that there was "anything so extraordinarily worth
while in extra-curricular activities."
"As a matter of fact," he declared, "many of us
are beginning to wonder if the colleges themselves
are as vital as they should be in furnishing the lead'
ership to enable the youth of today to grapple in an
adventurous way with the realities of the coming
day."
Y THAT Mr. Wallace wants, in short, is a new
" spirit of realism in the colleges and universi
ties of the nation, and it is extremely probable that
the expression of such a desire to the conference of
students in politics was received with enthusiasm.
It is, indeed, a note with great appeal for youthful
vitality and it fits in very well with the modern
spirit of dissatisfaction for old ways.
Unfortunately enough, however, the same chal
lenge to youth has been sounded a great many times
previously, and the only apparent result has been to
put old complacent ways into new forms. The ap
peal for a new and vital approach to "the realities
of the coming day" has been made time and again.
Men in business, education and politics have sought
to bring the Interests of college students into the
circle of reality and to galvanize student com
placity into "new vitality."
Nothing has happened. To all appearances the
numerous appeals and challenges to youth have
been Just so much effort wasted.
In the last few years, however, new factors have
entered into the movements for a "youth move
ment" Or perhaps it would be better to say that
old factors have been intensified. Many thousands
of college students have been faced with the abso
lute necessity of getting their educations "on their
own." They have been forced to provide for them
selves and during school years have had to face the
knowledge that even after college thousands of
graduates have been unable to get jobs.
"Realism," in short, has forced its wh to the
attention of college men and women. They have
been forced to a recognition of social responsibilities
in many, many cases and it is out of this feeling of
responsibility that a "youth movement" might be
expected to grow.
The basis for change in the attitudes of college
students has been and continues to be established.
The stimulus for a so-called "youth movement" is
American colleges and universities respond?
Organization
The Answer,
THIS week several hundred Nebraska farmers
gathered in Lincoln for Organized Agriculture
meetings being held on the Ag college campus.
Sounding what may be termed the keynote of the
entire session, Louis J. Taber, master of the Nation
al Farm Grange, in the opening meeting emphasized
the value of organization in agriculture if the farm
er is to utilize the benefits of intelligent farm plan
ning and operating that have been made possible
through invention and research.
"The farmer is at the crossroads. He must
either utilize intelligent group action or continue to
drift," he said in part. "In the past every invention,
every development has placed unorganized agricul
ture at a greater disadvantage, but with organiza
tion all these things can be made our handmaidens.
We can never stop change or discontinue centraliza
tion. Let's get in step."
A familiar refrain to the eais of the rural popu
lation of this state, and many others, Mr. Taber s
words have been echoed and re-echoed across the
middlewest for generation after generation. The
critical farm situation of today indicates too well
the farmer's indifference to a unified program.
Following the crash of the industrial empire in
1929 and the subsequent descent of prices of farm
unmmnHiHps. the farmer snatched, often blindly, at
every straw that might forestall failure. With fore
closures, sheriff's sales and crop failures some farm
ers turned in desperation to men of radical thought.
The Farm Holiday movement, a shining example of
the accomplishment of these self-styled farm lead
ers, left a muddy splotch on the record of the great
nerfonltural emDire of the middlewest. Meddlesome
and Ignorant tinkerings of politicians had a share,
too, in quenching whatever faint spark of hope the
farmer might have held for recovery.
UT of the chaos, in the form of a "new deal,
emerged what has popularly been termed a new
era for the farmer, carrying with it a definite
semblance of order, and most important a definite
objective. To say that order has in any way been
effected would be foolhardy. To indicate that a
definite objective has been reached would be analyz
ing the situation inaccurately. It must be admitted,
however, that something resembling a program by
which the farmer may lift himself, by his own boot
straps, out of complete disintegration, has been
created.
Under the present federal and state relief pro
grams which are only now getting under way, more
than sufficient opportunity is being offered the
farmer to organize himself. Suggesting, through its
various acts and emergency measures that the farm
er organize his interests into a definite program, the
federal and state farm relief organizations have
pointed consistently to a well-defined and well-organized
agriculture, which has as its basis individ
ual enterprise in a co-operative scheme of produc
tion and marketing. -
Whether the farmer will accept the suggestion
of the federal government in solving his problem
only time will tell. Particularly significant, how
ever, is the advice given out by the master of the
National Farm Grange: "Intelligent, planned farm
ing is here to stay whether we like it or not." And
the intelligent farmer, unblinded by the temporary
glitter of high prices and ready markets for his
commodities, might well heed this advice.
A New
Year.
WHAT would you like to have changed in the
Daily Nebraskan? What policies would you
like to see incorporated in the news, editorial or ad
vertising columns of the paper ?
These are unusual questions for a newspaper to
be asking, but they are not untimely if the opening
of a new calendar year means anything. The staff
of the Nebraskan would like to have the questions
answered, and solicits replies to them.
In a short time new men and women will be
assuming the staff positions, and it is to get some
measurement of readers' desires that the questions
are asked. Answers will perhaps enable the Ne
braskan to come nearer being the university's offi
cial news publication. We begin the year soliciting
your 'criticisms.
Do You
Snuffle?
SEVERE weather conditions, coupled with the last
strenuous weeks of semester work, make watch
fulness in the care of health of unusual importance.
The drain on energies caused by crowded end-of-the-semester
activities is likely to be an invitation to
ninPRM unless all the commandments or neaumui
living: are kept in mind.
If it should happen that signs of ill health make
themselves noticed, we urge you to remember that
the services of the university's health office are at
the command of all, students.
The department of student health is situated in
the Colleee of Pharmacy building, with physicians
and nurses in attendance to give medical advice and
treatment to students free of cost The department's
services include the maintenance of an infirmary
where expert care is insured.
Provisions for furnishing drugs and medical
supplies to students at cost are also a part of the
department's services, through an arrangement with
the Pharmacy college.
These, in general, comprise the health facilities
offered by the department Students are urged to
take advantage of the services in order that they
may guard against the possibilities of mid-winter
disease.
Prof. Otto Mohr. Geneticist, Deems
Ideas of Racial Superiority Unsound
Norwegian Professor Says
Best Human Specimens
Are Mixed.
NEW YORK, Jan. 3. All theor
ies of race purity and race superi
ority are scientifically unsound, in
the opinion ot Professor Otto Louis
Mohr, world-famous geneticist and
zoologist, who this week had re
turned to his position as a member
of the faculty of the University of
Oslo.
His declaration was made short
ly before he sailed from New York
aboard the North German Llyod
liner Bremen. He vigorously at
tacked German claims of Aryan
supremacy as founed and "tragic
In consequence "
Propaganda Being Spread.
Purs race propaganda. Professor
Mohr charged, is being spread "by
men who are not scientists and
who are often uaawars ot the sig'
nlfirance of what they are doing.'
"They did not have the craving
for genuineness or a true scientist.
He added.
Professor Mohr has returned
borne after delivering a series of
lectures ca genetics is medicine
at Harvard university. He plans
shortly to publish a book dealing
with the "pure race myth."
Referring to t be doctrines of the
Hitler regime in Germany, the sci
entist described them as "the
tragedy of unscientific propaganda
for race purity ana race super
iority in the country with the fore
most culture in Europe..
"Therte is no such thing as an
Aryan race in the scientific sense.
No pure races exist in civilized
countries. Continued indiscri
minate marriage and 'out-breeding'
or breeding without reference to
any particular desired qaulity has
long ago destroyed original pure
stocks.
"Pure strains exist only in ani
mals such as dogs, which men have
oeen oreedme for certain partic
ular qualities for manv Fenera
tion
"The human animal is a 'cur,'
a mixed breed. Andf that is best,
for a cur is the best animal for all
around purposes. Pure strains in
one direction are generally de
veloped onlv at the expense of
other Dualities."
As an example, the biologi
cited the cases of two famous
thoroughbred racehorses.
"They had bred in them the qua
lity of fleetness and gameness,
he said. Both won the Derby, even
tho they were 'bleeders.' One of
them lost much blood a month be
bore his race, while the other bled
to death a week ofter his."
Professor Mohr also attacked
the indiscriminate campaign of
propaganda being carried on in
some sections for sterilization.
"We find," he said "that pro
ponents of c-imlnal sterilization
who are usually not scientists,
tend to exaggerate its benefits.
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Contemporary Comment
A New
Label.
A paddle' by any other name
would hurt just as much.
Fraternities and sororities at
the University of Wisconsin this
year, feeling a need of getting
Into the rational swing with a
"new deal" for the pledges, de
cided to cast out Hell Week. That
left empty void so they substi
tuted a brand new substitute and
tacked onto it the high-sounding
title of "Inspiration week."
The "Inspiration" part comes
when the neophytes are required
to lie flat on their backs in the
middle of the street and drink a
glass of water while the droplets
trickle over the face and down the
neck, or they sit at the dinner
table in chairs whose backs are
turned toward the table and try
to draw food thru the bars of the
chair. If, while going thru this
rigamarole, they should relax their
ficial muscles in a fleeting smile,
tney are required to bend and kiss
the dust-laden floor. As if a kiss
toward mother earth could "in
spire" them to bigger and better
things!
"The sole object ot the initia
tion," declared one of the pledges,
"was to humiliate us as much as
possible. Perhaps the members
who conduct the initiation get
some measure of "inspiration"
from the ordeal but the pledges
certainly do not.
One of the main contentions
against Hell Week, aside from its
physical violence, is the feeling of
distrust and antagonism that it
instills in the pledges toward the
members. In the removal of Hell
Week from traternity and sorority
initiation programs, there would
result a better and closer co-operation
between the older and
younger members and there would
be less tendfency to form cliques
within the house. Certainly un
der this "inspiration week" the
basic causes of friction still re
main. They cannot be removed
merely by giving them a new la
bel. California Daily Bruin.
Rome Wasn't
Built in a Day.
When professor of business edu
cation voices his opinion that
graduates of next June will step
from college into a job and slide
right along on a wave of pros
perity into a position where things
will be in their favor, students
familiar with the employment
problem facing last year's gradu
ates do not take him too seriously.
Is this another "prosperity
around the corner" singer? We
fail to see how a professor can
make this statement with any de
gree of confidence when the New
York Times reports that 85 per
cent of last year's graduates are
still unemployed.
What Professor Tilford means is
that in his own department, for the
graduates in business education,
he has had little difficulty in plac
ing his seniors. He expects none
this next year. In this he Is to be
congratulated.
But is it ethical to base gener
alizations upon the experience of
an isolated field, obviously if we
are to credit even a portion of the
conflicting figures a golden ex
ception to the general conditions?
We should like to agree with
Professor Tilford. We should like
to think that the stimulus of the
NRA will give us jobs, the foreign
trade is in a process of readjust
ment which will soon be righted.
But we have waited so long that
even now under the inspiring
leadership of President Roosevelt,
it appears that if we are to wit
ness a general business recovery
it isn't possible this June nor two
years from June.
Supposing this should happen,
that we don't find jobs, what are
we to do? Professot Tilford, have
you a suggestion? Syracuse
Dally Orange.
OFFICIAL
BULLETIN
All tiiftrntn orgaimationt r faculty
group deairing to oublKh notices ot
meeting or other Information for
members mat hnt ntem printed by
calling tho Dally Nebrankan office.
Publicity Staff.
The publicity staff of Y. W. C.
will meet at Ellen Smith hall
5 o'clock Thursday.
International Relations Staff.
'There will be a meeting of the
International Relations staff of
Y. W. at 5 o'clock Thursday in El
len Smith hall.
Nebraska, China Staff.
The Nebraska and China staff of
the Y. W. C. A. will meet under
direction of Arlene Bors at 4
o'clock Thursday.
Study Group.
"Philosophy of Life That Works"
will be the subject of a study
group to be conducted by Miss
Berniece Miller at Ellen Smith hall
Sunday at 9 o'clock.
Program and Office Staff.
The Program and Office staff of
the Y. W. C. A. will meet
o'clock Thursday at Ellen
hall.
at 6
Smith
Social Dancing.
The social dancing hour will be
at 7 o'clock Friday at the Armory.
Peace Committee.
There will be a meeting of the
Peace committee Sunday at 4:45
at Ellen Smith hall.
Council of Religious Welfare.
The council of religious welfare
will hold its monthly meeting
Monday at 4 o'clock, room 205
Temple building.
Freshman Commission.
A freshmen commission grout
will meet Monday at 5 o'clock in
Ellen Smith hall.
Tanksterettes.
The Tanksterettes will meet on
Thursday, Jan. 4, at 8:15 for
stunt practice.
Dancing.
Orchesis will meet Wednesday
Jan. 10 at 7:30.
Intramural Representatives.
Intramural Representatives will
meet on Monday, Jan. 5, at 12
Frosh Basketeera Will Meet.
There will be an Important
meeting of all freshmen bas
ketball men in the basketball
lecture room of the coliseum
on Thursday, Jan. 4, at 4:30
p. m. Every man be there.
H. G. PETZ.
o'clock in the W.
women's gymnasium.
A. A. room.
Publish Articles
by Prof. Sellers
In the last issue of the "Wiscon
sin Magazine of History" appears
the first of a series of articles by
Dr. J. E. Sellers, university pro
fessor of history. James R. Doo
littlc, Civil war senator and poli
tician, is the man about whom Dr.
Sellers will write in these stories.
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January 4, 1934.
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