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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
SUNDAY. FEBRUARY i. 1931.
The Daily Nebraskan
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Of Thee
We Sing!
"pODAY the Daily Nebraskan presents an indict
ment of the Student Council.
This organization, commonly known as the stu
dent governing body, functions only on the strength
of over-ripe tradition. Indeed, the student council
can under no conceivable stretch of the imagination
ba considered representative of the best interests
of the University. Firmly clutched in painful leth
argy, the council exists from year to year doing
little and accomplishing less. Real action is un
known to its members. Tribal taboos are main
tained only so long as they have a supposed func
tion; but the student body has instituted and main
tained a council that has not even a vestigal useful
ness. There are those who will assert, and sincerely
so, that this deadhead organization of sleeping
beauties fulfill the functions set down in its con
stitution. To those individuals we say: "Balder
dash." But this indictment is not against the individ
uals in the organization but against the system it
self and the general inadequacy of its members to
express student opinion.
, The Nebraskan makes these assertions guard
edly, but these facts to appear in a series of editor
ials, seem to amply support the statements.
1. The student council, from any conceivable
point of view, cannot be called a representative or
ganization. Its members do not represent the stu
dents of the university or their best interests. To
admit, under any circumstance, that the student
council is representative would be to tolerate blase
ignorance.
2. The council is supposed to represent the fac
tions that elected its members. This is not true.
The council does not represent any influence what
ever, be it in the guise of political factions. The
council, in fact, is not representative of the few
who particiDPte in elections. It represents, we
think, only tradition.
3. Student council members, with few excep
tions, are arrogantly indifferent to their own enter
prise.. Fortunate is the president of this organiza
tion who is able to gather a quorum. It has hap
pened this year. It has happened every year. In
numerable cases might be cited to justify the
charge that council members are councilmen in
name only.
4. Frequently the student council has failed to
perform duties that it has assumed or appointed
itself to execute. We cite the unfortunate misman
agement of the activity tax campaign carried on
by that body last semester.
5. The Council has been given the right to sup
ervise elections and should continue to do so. But
after each election cries of "graft," "politics,"
"stuffed ballot boxes" ad nausem is raised, Each
year the council tits by complacently until the
storm blows over. The bad reputation and indel
ible stains left on student activities, in and outside
the University by such practices has shewn up
the council in its true light
6. In addition, but extremely improbable, an
alarming situation would arise should the council
attempt to become the spokesmen for a student
body they fail utterly in representing.
These points of criticism of the student coun
cil are offered in the friendliest manner. The Daily
Nebraskan believes that the system of student gov
ernment should be changed. As a substitute pro
posal the Nebraskan suggests a council composed of
heads of the various major student organizations.
This council would truly be a representative body.
It would function much more smoothly and effi
ciently than the present set-up, and execute the few
powers of the organization in shorter and more
conclusive manner. This will be explained more
fully later.
As for the present council, if they enjoy each
others company, we suggest something equal to
their pace something which has as its major pur
pose dull discussion, little action, and an impressive
title The Nebraska University all-council literary
club.
Wallace Makes
A Prediction.
ENRY A. WALLACE, secretary of agriculture.,
has amplified his earlier statement that "Amer
ica has never had a youth movement worthy of the
name." Just recently the much publisized secretary
of the Roosevelt cabinet predicted that a vital youth
movement of some kind would arise as a definite
part of the New Deal."
But Mr. Wallace, in addition to being an admir
able statesman, backs up bis statement with worth
while arguments.
He said: "It seems to me that youth instinc
tively believes in the doctrine of the New Deal as
against special privileg. The depression of the
past three years should ci . te a genuine youth
movement Hundreds of thousands of tjys and
,irls who thought they were going to slide through
college on father's money now know that either
they will have to work their way through college
or they can't go at all. Thousands of students who
have recently been graduated can't get job.
"Of necessity, therefore, hundreds of thousands
of young people are asking these questions: Why
should this grief have to come to us? What has
suddenly gone wrong with civilization? What can
we do to fix it up ?'
"A true youth movement must fee a new, vital,
adventurous approach to the potentialities tf com
ing of age. There has never been anything of this
sort in the United States, because hitherto our
youth have seen fit to disagree with their elders
only on superficialities."
R. Wallace's prediction in a measure, can be re
garded as the hi pe of every thinking individual.
Whether this hope will be realized Is questionable.
It goes without saying that the secretary of
agriculture did not have in mind the kind of youth
movement now evidenced in Germany and Cuba.
Youths gayly attired in purple boy scout uniforms
parading up and down the campl of the nation were
probably not included in the secretary's dream
vision.
Neither was Mr. Wallace referring to the per
ennial "youth movements" that move in from the
sticks to a central convention in Montreal and New
York, pass a resolution condemning war, and move
back into the sticks again. For that round trip is
usually the extent of their movement.
When Mr. Wallace predicted an upturn in
American youth movement he had one, t iing in
mind: A revival of interest in better government.
For government to Mr. Wallace and other liberals,
is all inclusive. Interest in government is interest
in all things.
The expansion of government into all fields of
human endeavor has made it imperative, more now
than ever before that it be intelligent. As such,
the fundamental basis for the so-called youth move
ments Mr. Wallace speaks about is interest in gov
ernment. Whether the college student of today will
scrutinize critically and act intelligently upon the
problems of our government is only probable.
If students avail themselves of the opportunity
to study government at its present ebb, it would not
be too presumptive to say that youth will bring in
telligence to government. ,
It would be, at least, a youth movement worthy
of the name.
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CUUAI.E UODUklM
Contemporary Comment
CWA Funds
Well Spent.
Chancellor E. H. Lindly of the University of
Kansas, formerly a member of the Indiana univer
sity faculty and Commencement speaker here last
year, has formally proposed to the Federal govern
ment that it use part of the CWA funds to give
financial aid to needy students. The plan, presented
by Dr. Lindley after a special trip to Washington,
D. C is similar to the program worked out by
George F. Zook, commissioner of education, which
now is being considered by Harold Hopkins, relief
administrator. It provides for the expenditure of
$2,000,000 a month in CWA funds from February to
June with the view of assisting 100,000 needy stu
dents. Dr. Lindley's plan is in four parts: (1) Aid for
students who could earn their money for schooling
by manual and clerical work on the campus; (2j
Aid to graduate and advanced students by paying
them for doing research work; (3) Aid for faculty
members lacking funds to complete partly com
pleted research; (4) Aid for equipment and build
ings needed by the university. A $200,000 proposal
was presented by Dr. Lindley to build a ward
Medical school.
He estimates that the college enrollment in
building and dispensary for Negrous at the Kansas
Kansas is approximately 20,000, while there tire
50,000 unemployed persQns who would go to college
if they were afforded the financial aid. The cost
of keeping a student in school is estimated to be
between $15 and $20 a month, which is only about
one-sixth the amount necessary to maintain those
unemployed in the CCC camps. For many self
supporting students the battle to remain in school
is now a constant torment. No quiz or expel iment
is as hard for them as the problem of how they're
going to pay next week's room rent.
To be the complete success its sponsors would
like it to be, the CWA program not only must put
money into circulation and provide employment, but
it also must create something of lasting worth.
Certainly there is no sounder investment in a na
tion's future than the education of the men and
women soon to assume the burden of government,
such proposals as that of Dr. Lindley.
This should cause officials to consider seriously
Indiana Daily Student.
A Xetc Slant on
The AV'H' Deal.
Dr. Hu Shih, in speaking of the world crisis
said, "the best thing for all the nations to do now,
is to enter into a period of self-examination." This
is one theory which has not been advanced in all
the "talk" about recovering from the depression.
Other theories have ranged all the way from coin
ing silver to greater economy and household thrift.
This one presents an entirely different point of
view. It is not as fantastic nor as romantic as
some of the other pet theories which have been pre
sented. Neither is it as satisfying, for it does not
absolve the individual from any share of respon
sibility in getting the world back to normal. The
theory would naturally be different from those with
which the western world is familiar, for the author
is Chinese. If this period of self-examination is
taken seriously, and everyone acts sensibly and sin
cerely, and in accordance with the spirit of the
theory, It is possible that it may present "a way
out."
If periods of depression are instrumental in
making the citizens of the world take themselves
more seriously, and to accept a theory, such as the
one advanced by the eminent Chinese philosopher,
then that advice, as well as the depression, will
have served humanity well.
To relieve one class of all responsibility is not
a reliable nor logical manner of restoring prosperity
to the world. Dr. Hu Shih's theory does not do
this, as it places full responsibility on the people
and the nations of the world. Things equal to the
same are equal to each other. The adage still
holds good.
Daily Trojan.
Brother, Can You
Spare a PI I. D.Y
It the present craze for advanced degrees con
tinues, it may soon be nece ary to be a Doctor of
Philosophy to be eligible for a Job at a highway
gas station.
But education is wonderful Such ambition is
wonderful With the universities spewing forth
tens of thousands of super-intellects every year, we
may find that America will become an entirely dif
ferent place.
Street corners will be cluttered with Doctors
of Philosophy calmly discussing Aquinas or the
minor eighteenth century poets, instead of being
crowded with a bunch of moronic toughs, L e., ordi
nary college graduates, talking about football or
business. Moving pictures will be closed, and re
placed with encyclopedia stores. Newspapers will
no longer be published, as no one will read anything
that la not at least 100 years old.
Stanford Daily.
THE SECRET PASSAGE
For years Ag college students
have trudged up and down the
dairy building stairs. Those who
happened to work there have
climbed time and again from the
basemen to the top floor. Prob
ably not one ever dreamed that nn
elevator shaft runs directly up
through the center of the building
from the basement to attic.
Not even the faculty members,
at least most of them, knew about
the elevator shaft. The building
was constructed, it appears, so
that little stair climbing would be
necessary. The elevator would be
used Instead. But no elevator was
installed.
The workmen simply walled in
the elevator, and the few who
knew about It forgot that it was
there. The elevator shaft re
mained sealed and empty until
Prof. P. A. Downs remembered it
one day, took an ax and knocked
a hole in the wall and a new and
hitherto unused part of the build
ing was opened for occupancy.
PHOTOGRAPHER MORGAN.
At the bottom of that newly dis
covered elevator shaft today is the
cleverest little photographic labo
ratory you ever imagined. Down
there in that little laboratory a
little man named Ray F. Morgan
has his fun. His playmate down
there is Prof. P. A. Downs. The
place is equipped with cameras,
microscopes, tanks, bottles, plates,
enlarging devices, reflectors, etc.
Well known to many an Ag col
lege student is Mr. Morgan's flair
for picture taking. Last year at
Farmers' Fair he was on the job
with his camera. On the night the
Goddess of Agriculture and attend
ants were announced, he lugged
camera and reflectors over to the
activities building at ten o'clock at
night to get a picture. Judging
teams and groups of various sorts
have often been lined up before
his camera to be snapped.
Nor does Mr. Morgan's photo
graphing stop there. He is an ex
pert on cows. His cow laboratory
is the green on the west edge of
the campus, just below the nursery
school.
The technique of photographing
a cow -or better, a frisky young
bull is interesting to observ?.
There is a little mound out there
on the green on which the animal's
feet must be placed. That is be
cause the picture is better with the
animal's fore-end slightly raised.
Each foot must be in precisely the
right position: the feet on the side
away from the camera slightly in
front of the feeet on the side next
to the camera. Sometimes that
order may be reversed, but the
principle is followed to the letter,
Every foot must show in the pic
ture. Then the "stretch" must be cor
rect. If the animal's front feet are
too far ahead of its hind feet, then
its back will sag like the ridge pole
of a 2.000-year old barn. And if
the front and hind feet are too j
close together, -the animal's back
will be as humped as a camel's.
So the position of the feet must be ;
correct. 1
The position of the head must ,
also he correct. The ears must he
erect, the eye bright and intent
upon some object ahead, the whole
animal alert. The standard pro
cedure is to send one man ont in
front of the animal to wave a red
rag and make funny noises.
Minor details have to be attend
ed to. The tail has to hang on
the camera side who would want
to see a bob-tailed cow ? The hair
has to lay smooth and straight.
Then when all is set. when
every foot is in proper place, when
the animal is looking at the man
waving the red rag and making
funny noises, when the tail is in
position and every hair is laying
just right, then, and not until then,
Mr. Morgan snaps his picture. And
every wall of every dairy office in
the dairy building bears evidence
of the excellence of his technique.
Once the picture is snapped, be
it cow or coed, down to his labora
tory goes Mr. Morgan to produce
the finished print. With the
equipment in his laboratory he can
make the picture about the size he
chooses he could even make a
lifesize picture of the tallest girl
on the campus. Nor are all thu
pictures big. Photographers Mor
gan and Downs, just for the sport,
take pictures of bacteria, enlarge
them to the size of cabbage heads.
courage. The time to be religious
Is now,
."You save time by praying,
Thinca seem to come out better,
you meet the right people nt the
right time; and you can study with
a clearer mind if you start, me tiny
by 'tuning in', and excluding all
the selfish, unhappy thoughts,
and talking with God.1'
PROFESSOR TO WISCONSIN
Dr.
Rcinmuth Gets Material
For Writing of a
Monograph.
Dr. O. W. Rcinmuth, assistant
professor of the classics at the
university, was visiting the Unl
verslty of Wisconsin at Madison
last week where he was getting
material for a monograph which
he hopes to write in the near fu
ture. This will be published in
"Kilo," outstanding German mag
azine, and will appear In English.
STUD
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TAX FINALLY IIS
ON AMES CAMPUS
Educational Research Record
Publishes Stories by
Professors.
Several University of Nebraska
teachers college professors have
contributed to the recent bulletin
published by the extension division
which bears the title of "Educa
tional Research Record, Vol. VI,
No. 1." Dr. Stephen M. Corey,
associate profession of history and
principles of education, has writ
ten on "The Teachers College and
the Individual." He discusses in
dividualized work as against the
"maps production" of graduates.
Dean F. E. Henzlik has written the
editorial, using the subject. "Vital
izing Present Classroom ana aq
ministraaon Procedures." Listed
among the new articles on educa
tion is one bv Dr. K. O. Broady,
professor of school administration,
which appeared in School Execu
tives Magazine for December. His
subject was "In Defens of the
Small High School."
METHODIST STUDENTS
Students at Iowa State Will
Pay Twelve Dollars
Yearly Fee.
Agitation for a student activity
Ux similar to that which has re
cently been so prominent on the
university campus, has finally
brought results on the Iowa State
university campus, according to
the Iowa State Student, official
student newspaper at Ames.
The final approval of the tax
there, which came on Jan. 30 with
the sanction of the administrative
board, is the culmination of a long
period of agitation starting back in
1913. The fee will be $12 a year
and Includes athletic contests, stu
dent publications, concerts, class
dues, and lectures and debates. The
amount Is payable quarterly, $4
each quarter, and will be added
to the registration fee. The new
plan is to go into eirect next ran.
Poll Favors Tax.
A recent poll on the activities
fee here showed 1,991 students
voting with a majority of 1,225 to
736 in favor of the tax. Two Items
listed on the ballot were voted
down, however. Awgwan, monthly
humor magazine lost by a vote of
1,101 to 815, and the proposed stu
dent union fee also lost out.
The Cornhusker, yearbook, also
lost by a small margin. The ad
verse Vote was attributed to con
fusion resulting over the four dif
ferent plans providing for extra
assessments for Individual and
group pictures.
The council committee on thu
tax voted to accept the report an. I
refer It to the university board of
regents.
Two Nebraska Gradually
Got Teaching Positions
Teaching positions In Nebraska
schools were given to two former
University of Nebraska students
In the past few days, according to
an announcement from the uni
versity department of educational
service. Alice Wing of Lincoln will
teach music and English at Au
rora; while Elizabeth Webster,
also of Lincoln, will be Instructor
in music and teacher to the fourth
and fifth grades at Elk Creek.
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Council Also Arranges for
Program of Parties
And Activities.
WESLEY DINNER FEB. 9
A series of special addresses of
appeal to student groups has been
arranged by the Methodist Student
Council to be given at the Wes
ley foundation starting Sunday, i
Feb. 17. They will begin at 3:30 j
n. m. and will be followed with re-'
freshments. Dr. P. H. Murriick, ;
pastor of Trinity Methodist Epis-;
copal church and one of the lec- ;
turers for the summer schools of
theology conducted by the Metho
dist church, will deliver the ad
dresses. In addition a program
bringing students together in sev
eral all-Methodist parties has been
arranged. '
A week day program of religious i
activity has also been arranged at j
the Wesley Foundation parsonage '
under the direction of the pastor,
Rev. W. C. Fawell and Mrs. Fa
well. Co-oneratintr with them will
be the four Methodist student or
ganizations. Kappa Phi, Phi Tau
Theta. Methodist Student Council
and the Wesley Players.
The annual Wesley Foundation
dinner will be held Feb. 9 at Ep
worth Methodist Episcopal church.
The guest speaker will be Dr.
H. D. Bollinger, national director
of Wesley Foundation in the
United States. Doctor Bollinger
will also conduct the morning
service Feb. 9 at the Grace Meth
odist church and will hold a stu
dent fnrum that afternoon at the
foundation, 1417 R st. He will
rpeak at Elm Park Methodist
Church in the evening.
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because I have found them to be
more sociable; they have developed
a give-and-take philosophy which
they apply to life. They are more
able to see th other fellow'i aide
of life and will give help more
readily to a worthy cause."
He smiled as he stated "Of all
the athletes I have known, I have
found but one whom I couldn't
reach to show him his responsibil
ity to the youth of the country in
the position he held to influence
them,
"One of the big troubles with
the students and student athletes
today," he stated, "is that they
don't take time to pray.
"Most athletes are extroverts
who live such active lives that
they don't take time to think. The
general student attitude toward
religion, which I have observed in
my contacts with them, is one of
reaction to the strict or perhaps
relaxed supervision at home. There
are many," he added, "who would
be more religious if they bad the
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To S'ipn 'Visitor Hook'
As in the past, the university
museum continues to keep open
house in Morrill hall each Sunday
afternoon from 2 to S o'clock.
Hoping to find that visitors came
in from many parts of the state,
museum officials have begun
"visitor book" in which those who
come to the museum may leave a
record. The first name to be
placed In the book when it was
opened last Sunday was that of
a resident of Mexico. The second
signature gave the home town as
Newcastle, Wyoming. Among the
other persons signing from out of
the state were visitors from Chi
cago, Washington, D. C. and St.
Louis. In the state were listed
Pladen, Seward. Omaha. Ceresco.
Plymouth, Minden, Kearney, Sut
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