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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
WEDNESDAY, FERRUARY 7, 1 93 1.
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' With malice touatd r.onr, with charity or all.
with firmness in the right as Cod gives us to see the
, right, let til strive on to itmh the icorlt we are in; to
bind up the nation's wounds; to cure for him u'ho shall
have borne the battle, and for his widow and orphan
to do all which may achieve and cheruh a iust and last
ing peace among ourselves and with all nationi."
' Abraham Lincoln.
Are Council Members
Really Interested?
Art EMBERS of the Student council, with few ex-
ceptions, are usually indifferent or disinterested
In the work it undertakes. What few major proj
ects are attempted, and what few routine duties
the council performs during the course of the year,
are usually carried on by a few of Its members.
The remainder, for the most part, express little in
terest In their own enterprise.
No more striking example of student lethargy
can- be found than the lack of interest the Student
council has shown in Its work for this year. We
cite the following facts for examination by univer
sity students in support of the Nebraskan's con
tention. At the beginning of the year the council insti
tuted a "clean up" policy which called for a com
prehensive examination of constitutions of campus
organizations. The survey got as far as the Corn
Cobs, who were reorganized, but no further.
Attempts were made to Institute a series of
varsity parties. No definite council action was
taken.
Recently the council voted in favor of a com
mittee's report to table the student forum project
We feel that It would have been a worthwhile enter
prise for the council to continue.
The Daily Nebraskan offers these examples
without malice of forethought As a matter of fact
the same criticisms were charged up to the Student
council last year by Phillip Brownell, president of
the Student council and editor of the Daily Nebras
kan. In an editorial headed, "Sleeping Beauties in
Office," he offered the following indictment against
the council:
"The lethargy of the council members yesterday
was no departure from their usual course of action.
Throughout the entire year members for the most
part have sat in their chairs like bumps on logs. It
has become apparent that anyone who makes a mo
tion stands a 99 to 1 chance that it will be passed
eimply by reason of the sleepiness of council mem
bers." Occasion of similar nature have occurred this
year. We cite the meeting of the Student council,
in the midst of its campaign for the activity tax,
which failed to attract a quorum. This meeting oc
curred Wednesday, Jan. 11, 1934, as a matter of
fact
As such, one obvious conclusion can be drawn:
Council members do not fulfill their obligations to
the student body in a satisfactory manner.
Debaters Come
To the Fore.
"THE University of Nebraska debate squad meets
a team from Iowa State college in Social Sci
ence auditorium this afternoon.
Commenting upon the open debate Prof. H. A.
White, varsity debate coach of the university, bad
the following to say: "The practice of having de
bates on the campus was discontinued several years
ago because of the lack of Interest in the activity.
If the students give us a good turnout for these open
contests, more will be held in the future on the
campus instead of before local non-university
groups."
The steady growth and enthusiasm for foren
sics deserves recognition and encouragement
The revival of interest in this field of endeavor
is one worth while. Students who concentrate their
energies in this activity do so for the benefits de
rived from the project in itself. Plaudits and hon
orariums are seldom, if at all, bestowed upon stu
dents engaging in forensics.
The movement to restore debating to a more
deserving place in the campus sun is happening all
over the campi of the nation. At one time foren
sics were held in highest esteem in every college and
university. For lack of the many activities and so
cial whirls that characterize present day college
life, oratory and debating served as an outlet for
student extra-curricular enterprise.
The art of public speaking enjoyed a tremen
dous popularity until the aftermath of the war set
in upon our colleges and vnlversities. Debating di
gressed to the point of extinction, kept alive only
by a few still interested in such an enterprise.
But with the coming of the depression and the
vast overthrow of tradition and the establishment
of the new order set men's minds to work. Men
began to speak their thoughts and public speaking
was once again on the upturn.
And fortunately enough there has been enough
evidence to presume that debating is once again on
the upturn. The evidence of sucb a revival of in
terest on this campus has not been so pronounced
9ut Bone-the-less real
The debate this afternoon is just such an indi
cation. Students should avail themselves of this
opportunity to support a worthwhile activity. At
tend this afternoon's session and see for youpelf.
Contemporary Cerement
Too Many
Graduates.
According to the best available statistics, only
15 percent of the 1,500,000 graduates from Ameri
can colleges and universities have succeeded in se
curing something that might be termed a job.
In spite of this our institutions of higher edu
cation continue to enroll approximately as many
students as formerly and turn out graduates In the
ration of 20 to every 1,000 population. In contrast
to this our northern neighbors, the Canadians, hold
a ratio of 1 in every 1,000. The Canadians are ex
ceedingly skeptical . concerning our extreme liber
ality in education and hold to the view of more
careful selection and higher standards.
All too true Is the fact that American colleges
are turning out trained men at a far greater rate
than industries and the professions can absorb them.
The situation Is one of the most serious in our his
tory and is becoming no less so. It is too funda
mental to be settled by the NRA, the CWA, the
CCC or other temporary measures.
The tendency during the last few years, espe
cially in the professions, has been to raise require
ments and make the courses more involved and dif
ficult; and yet we turn out men and women with
degrees who can't find jobs. At present rates we'll
continue to do so. We must make more careful se
lection, make requirements even more stringent, and
continue to raise standards not lower them.
Seme authorities believe we may eventually gel
back to the old guild system of the middle Hges as
one means of restricting membership in the pro
fessions. Others hazard a guess that the govern
ment will control occupations. Certainly these ideas
are pretty steep, for denying a man the right to
earn a living in his chosen field would be a little
too much. But after all is said, something must be
done, and it doesn't seem that we are headed in the
right direction at the present time. Kentucky
Kernel.
Ag College
IN
CAKLYLE HOUGKIN
The Student Pulse
Brief, concise, contributions pertinent to matters
of student life and the university are welcomed by
this department, under the usual restrictions of sound
newspaper practice, which excludes all libelous mat
ter and personal attacks. Letters accepted do not
necessarily indicate the editorial policy of this paper.
A Student Suggests
Council Reform.
TO THE EDITOR:
Looking back on the recently passed fracas in
the Student council it is easy to detect certain in
consistencies in the actions of that august body
representing the interests of the student body. Now
is the time that we can begin to see, "as in a glass
darkly," the forces that pulled the strings that
moved the puppets on the stage of the council the
ater. Perhaps, carrying the analogy further, we
might term the performance a farce.
It is really farcical for the president of the
council to deny flatly and with the appearance of
fact and authority that there is no evidence of dis
satisfaction with the conduct of student elections.
The purpose of the reform was primarily, as I see
it, an attempt to stifle these accusations by furnish
ing an authority above the muck of campus politics
to vouch for the validity of elections. The commit
tee of the Student council can not claim to have
been the careful arbiter of balloting that it should
be. It is entirely out of place for that committee to
use a candidate to watch the polls in an election in
which he is running. It must be admitted that this
is not good election management and does not give
an unbiased authority to stand behind the honesty
of the election returns.
Regardless of the idea behind the petitions that
were circulated, the council ought to be able to see
farther than their own noses and the prospects of
their junior fraternity brothers and realize that a
move with as much backing as this one with a?
obvious improvement as its result should be adopt
ed for the sake of their own reputations as much as
anything else. Their refusal was labeled with the
trademark of their campus political games. They
ground their axes so obviously it became unsuffer
able. But this letter would be as objectless as the
many others which have poured In to the editor if
it does not at least make a stab at a solution to the
known problem existing in the student government.
The author of this letter believes, as he be
lieves most of the campus does, that the measure
should be adopted for its beneficial results without
thought as to the backers of the idea. It is rare
indeed when any politically influential group on the
campus will back a reform of this caliber. But let
it also be understood that the author does not ac
cuse the whole Student council of being each of
them individually responsible for the horseplay
which has been seen, but he refers only to the few
who are able to persuade and coerce the majority
into acceding to their demands.
Of course a change in the machinery of the
council would not materially better the actions of
the council because it is virtually impossible for a
human being to create a government that another
bright member of the species can not as easily cor
rupt and make a stinking mass of decay. The re
form of the council should come from within, that
is, from within the factions scrapping over the
bones of campus graft The wise men in the lore
of the campus knock-down-and-drag-out know that
an idea In politics without a faction behind it is a
babe crying in the wilderness. The factions must
get behind the council reform if there is to be any
betterment of conditions.
Those same factions ought to have sense enough
not to send a bunb of follow-after fraternity broth
ers of some man who could pull the necessary
strings. It is an insult to their names as political
parties that they should put forward such ten pins
as the leading lights in their tight little machines.
It is also an insult to those who follow and elect
such objects as their representatives. For as much
as the student governing body does by itself the
parties could run it just as well and a lot cleaner
with good respected BMOCs. The author does not
wish to denounce the party system on the campus
but merely its asinine methods of procedure.
The alleged powers-that-be don't seem to real
ize that for all the Interest the student body takes
at its government they could run good candidates
and still secure their slices of the pork as they have
always done since time Immemorial. The pork is
not dishonest, it is merely the legitimate fruits of
the mandates Of the people, but the council must
descend to the depths of the mire to deal it out and
than it silks still further when it attempts to de
feat its unfavorable position. There are beneficial
changes that can be made in the machinery of the
council but the real reform must come In the mem
bership and particularly in the high places.
This appeal will probably undoubtedly be
futile, but it has aired ths views of another con
stituent of the council the body which, according
to tradition, expresses the voice and the will of the
people to the ultimata betterment of all parUes con
cerned. B
CHANGE
Todav the extension department
is in a magnificent muddle. The
bulletin filing and disseminating
unit of the department is being
moved from Ag hall to bricK nulla
in? across the drive from the nur
sery school. Mr. Lux, coatless,
sleeves rolled to his elbiows, ts
bossing the job of reorganizing the
refiling. Helping him is a staf
ot extension assistants and stu
dents.
Once upon a time the bulletin
division's new headquarters was
the campus boiler house. Lately
it has been n storehouse and enn
struction headquarters for Farm
ers' Fair. What other uses it may
have served in its history, I do not
know. The rooms in the basement
of As: hall previously used for
bulletin filing will doubtless be put
to other uses by the extension de
partment. Once the change is
complete, the affairs of the campus
will ko on lust us usual. To the
casual observer, there will have
been no change.
It is interesting to note how
change, ceaseless, tho almost Im
perceptible at any given time, con
tinues to alter the Ag college cam
mis. Within the memorv of stu
dents now on th.? campus thPre
has been a surprising array of
changres.
Last summer the new agronomy
buildine was completed The
agronomy department moved
the laboratory set-up going to the
new building and the acinnnislra
tive offices to the rooms in the
north end of the plant industry
building previously occupied by the
State Department or vocational
Education. The vocational
education offices were mov
ed to the rooms the agronomy de
partment left vacant on the third
floor of the dairy building.
The old Cornhusker Countryman
office, longtime loafing retreat for
Ag students, has been converted
into an office for handling busi
ness relative the government's crop
reduction activities. The little
room next door, once the college
broadcasting station, is likewise
now an office.
Just this semester Mr. Morgan
discovered the walled-in elevator
shaft in the dairy building, and
down of the bottom of it built his
photographic laboratory. And
there are, perhaps, a few around
the campus who remember when
the new dairy farm was completed.
On the parking spot across the
road from the animal husbandry
building used to stand a sheep
barn that really looked like a barn.
Just south of it stood the old calf
barn, likewise no paragon of
beauty. Now there is a new mod
ern sheep barn out on the hill east
of the beef barn, and a new and
modern calf barn near the dairy
barn. ,
And so works change. After ten,
or twenty, or thirty years it will
be interesting to come back and
have a look at the old place.
AG ENGINEERING MUSEUM.
Entertaining as far as it goes is
the collection of antiques in Prof.
Smith's farm machinery room in
the Ag engineering building. It
tells an interesting tale of the agri
culture of another day.
Ox yokes dominate the scene.
There is one from an El Rancho in
western Guatemala. It was once
used by the Aztec Indians. An
other is from the Hawaiian Islands.
There is another one from New
York state. There are several
others picked up from here and
there over the country, each tell
iner its tale of pioneer days.
The remains of an ancient plow
from Assyria is noteworthy.
Scraps of harnesses once used by
the Mexican Peons would look a
bit out of place on a pair of Ag
college Belgians today. And there
is in the collection a horse collar
made frcm corn shucks. Tin
shucks ate twisted together to
form a rope, and then the rope is
coiled and recoiled and nound to
gether to form the collar. It
might just possibly make a
horse's shoulders sore.
Among other articles which make
the exhibit worth a half-hour's
time are an old Egyptian plow, a
plow John Deere made In 1853, a
history text 100 years old, an old
scythe and cradle for grain har
vesting spool of wire for an old
fashioned binder, old knives, glas
ses, tools of one sort and another,
and. for no good reason at all, a
little brown jug.
Movies Under emphasize Honest
Treatment of Sex, According to
Washington English Professor
WHITE CALLS FOR
STUDENT SUPPORT
OP DEBATE TODAY
(Continued from Page 1.)
ing Hill will represent Nebraska on
the affirmative side in both of
these contests.
Meetings arranged for later in
the month will be with Grinnell
college on Feb. 23 and with the
University of Denver on the 28th.
Stcadman and John Stover will ap
pear against Grinnell on the nega
tive of the question before the
Forum of Lincoln high school.
The competition with Denver will
be before the Community club of
Ithaca, Nebr. Nebraska will have
the negative side of the proposi
tion. There will be another tryout
later in the semester and new
teams will be chosen according to
Prof. White if there are enough
men interested in the activity and
enough debates can be arranged.
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ITi.n) The HiiliiKt"i Dally.
Movies distort sex, underempha
sizing honest treatment, Donald
Cornu, assistant professor of Eng
lish, declared yesterday.
The theater, together with par
ents, books and teachers, influ
ences the lite of our younger gen
eration, he continued. All three
contribute to the molding of char
acter. But whether the influence of
the theater is better or worse than
that of the ohers, he would not
say.
Dishonest Presentation.
"Sex In itself is neither bad nor
good; it just is, like the weather,"
Professor Cornu declared. "It is
only when the subject is presented
in a dishonest and disproportW
ate manner that it is immoi
War, crime and vice thus ;
sented are equally immoral."
Tho average college student,
Professor Cornu believes, has been
influenced steadily by the movies
since he was old enough to attend
them. Some persons are more
show conscious than others, having
absorbed a great part of the west
ern feature's blood and thunder
and the gangster thriller's mayhem
and murder.
Actor's Protection.
"What classes of shows should
be censored I cannot say," Profes
sor Cornu declared. "One has to
judge by individual plays what
lines should be included. Censor
ship should protect the performers
as much as ot more, than the au
dience. The spectators know what
they are coming to get. But actors
and actresses need protection from
the exploitation of heartless and
degenerate producers. i
"I don't know what kind of
shows impressionable college
freshmen can safely attend," he
added. "It depends on the fresh
men. Some might go rack and ruin
on Laurel and Hardy while others
could successfully withstand the
demoralizing effect of a strip act
in a burlesque show."
Movies at their best are unin
telligent and unairected facts.
Movies at their worst definitely
appeal to the primitive elements in
human beings rather than the cul
tured. That Is what Dr. Elam J. Ander
son, president of Llnfield college
in Oregon, who is visiting on the
fa ipus, toid The Daily last night.
-esident Anderson is conducting
'iscussion on religion in Eagle
son hall this afternoon.
"Movies lower ideals. ' The only
remedy against this situation," Dr.
Anderson explained, "is intelligent
citizenship participating in a pro
gram of presentation. The profit
motive must be taken out of the
theater. Control and direction of
movies must be introduced imme
diately." No matter whether the govern
ment or private individuals control
the movies, film standards should
be forced to a higher level, Dr.
Anderson said.
"The movies break down and
corrupt youth. I know that. They
build up false standards of con
duct. The movies could be the most
promising instrument of science if
constructively used." President An
derson advocated pictures of edu
cational nature or those providing
"wholesome entertainment."
OFFICIAL
BULLETIN
Vesper Choir.
Tryouts for membership in the
Vesper choir will be held Thurs
day and Friday, Feb. 8 and 9, at
4 o'clock in Ellen Smith hall.
Orchesis.
Orchesis will meet at the dance
studio in the Armory at 7 o'clock
Wednesday evening.
Barb Council.
Barb Council meetine will be
held Wednesday afternoon at 4
o'clock in room 105, Social Sci
ences hall. Plans for the Univer
sity party scheduled for Feb. 17
will be discussed.
BURTON MARVIN,
Chairman
Bible Class.
Bible class with Lutheran stu.
dents will be conducted by Rev. Mr.
Erck Wednesday evening at 7
p. m. in room 203 of the Temple
ouuaing.
Phi Tau Theta.
There will be a Phi Tau Theta
meeting Wednesday evening at 7
o'clock in Ellen Smith hall.
taken by 5 o'clock Saturday of this
week at the Rinehardt and Mars
den studios.
'.'brunette, considered attractive
and about 5 feet 3 inches tall." Thp.
prom is in February.
A survey made by New York
university has revealed "bull ses.
sions" to be detrimental to scholar,
ship.
Several French colleges are now
making a practice of offering .
course in French for Americans la
the summer.
Fraternities at the University of
Oregon can no longer use liquor or
women as aids to pledging.
Nine hundred ex-Klondlkers re.
united over a moose meat banquet
in Seattle recently.
Harvard university owns enough
football equipment to outfit 6,000
men.
I
LECTURES ON STYLES
Development of Articles
Of Clothing Traced
In Talk.
Student Council.
There will be a meeting of the
Student Council Wednesday after
noon at 5 o'clock in the council
room in University hall. All mem
bers are urged to be present.
JOHN GEPSON. President.
Interclub Council.
The Barb Interclub council pic
ture will be taken Friday after
noon at 4:30 o'clock at the Campus
studio. All representatives are re
quested to be present.
Wilbur Erickson, President.
In an illustrated lecture on the
evolution of styles Miss Marjory
Shanafelt, curator at the museum
and Instructor of harp in the uni
versity, traced the development of
various articles of wearing apparel
before members of charm school
Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock in
Ellen Smith hall.
Miss Shanafelt began her ta'k
by explaining that the main pur
pose of clothes is to ornament the
wearer. She continued her lecture
by accounting for the excessive use
of jewelry by particular races of
people.
"Peacocks, topic or lecture, was
given before twenty-five members
of the Big Sister Board's charm
school which held its first meeting
of this semester Tuesday evening.
Luclle Berger presided.
Corthusker.
All fraternity and sororitv nir-
tures for the Cornhusker must be
College World
Sometime back in Iowa State's
past, a custom was established of
allowing seniors a day off to get
away from school and to get ac
quainted. This custom became
known as Senior Off Campus Day.
The other ad offered to share
expenses to the prom, and the per
son advertising described herself as
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