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    THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
J-TUDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1934.
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The Daily Nebraskan
Station A, Lincoln. Nebraska
OFFICIAL STUDENT PUBLICATION
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA
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Lincoln, Nebraska, under act of congress, March 3, 1S7S,
and at epecial rate of post-ige provided for In section
1103, act of October 3, 19 17. Authorized Januaiy 20, 1922.
THIRTY.THIRD YEAR
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Burton Marvin Violet Cross
Newt Editors
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Soorta Editor ...- Irwin Ryan
Sports Assistants Jack Grube and Arnold Levina
BUSINESS STAFF
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Assistant Business Managers
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"With malice toward r.one. with charity for all,
with firmness in the right as Cod gives us to set the
right, let us strive on to finish the work w ar 'n.' t0
bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall
have borne the battle, and for his widow and orphan
to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and last'
ing peace among ourseluei and with all nations.' -Abraham
Lincoln.
Mr. Finkle
Suggests A Plan.
YESTERDAY, a meeting of major student organ
ization heads was called together by the presi
dent of the student council for the express purpose
of airing criticisms of the present system of stu
dent government and discussing proposed substitute
plans.
A comprehensive examination of the profuse
verbiage expressed at the meeting indicated how
ever an item which stands out clearly. Thinking
students on this campus feel rather decidedly that
a change in the system of student government
should be effected.
The tangible outcome of the discussion was em
bodied in two proposed plans of re-organization.
The first, based essentially on representation in the
council drawn from organization heads, has been
presented In these columns before. The second plan
suggested was brought forward by Beverly Finkle,
president of the Green Toga political faction. We
present his plan, in brief, for open examination by
Nebraska students.
"The plan calls for the formation of a Men's
Association Board, the governing body of all men
students who are automatically members of the
men's association. The Board will consist of the
following members: one senior and one Junior from
the arts, agriculture, engineering, teachers, and
bizad colleges, one senior and one junior elected at
large, four sophomores elected at large, and two
holdover members from the previous year's board,
a total of eighteen members. One-half of the nom
inees for the board shall be selected by the board
of the previous year, and the other half shall be
selected at a mass meeting of all men students. A
men's advisory council, composed of representatives
of each organized men's house, will be formed to
furnish advisory opinions to the board on matters
of Interest affecting men students.
"The new Student Council is to be composed of
the members of the Men's Association Board and
the members of the A. W. S. Board. The plan de
mands representation of the five major colleges of
the university on the council, which will also repre
sent the four classes, and in an indirect way the
various student organizations.
"Another part of the plan calls for a point
system for men's activities. The originators of the
plan included this feature in order to insure greater
general student participation in men's activities; it
Is to limit the posslbilites of political dominance of
a few and demands that more students be Interested
in activities in order to fill existent offices. All
activities and positions on the campus open to men
are divided Into eight main classes on the basis of
points awarded for participation or membership.
The maximum number of activity points any male
student will be allowed to accumulate is fifteen.
"Eight points will be allotted to the Student
Council president, editor and business manager of
the Daily Nebraskan, editor and business manager
of the Cornhusker, and president of the senior class.
In the seven point division are the following activi
ties: president of the Interfraternity council, mem
bers of the football team, senior manager of the
football team, members of the Farmer's Fair Board,
and cadet colonel of the R- O. T. C. The six point
class includes: president of the Men's Association
board, president of the Men's Advisory council,
president of the Barb council, president of the Barb
Interclub council editor and business manager of
the Awgwan, managing editors and assistant busi
ness managers of the Daily Nebraskan, managing
editors and assistant business managers of the
Cornhusker, and the president of the junior class.
"The five point activity group includes the fol
lowing: president of the N club, president of Kos
met club, members of the basket ball and track
teams, members of the Interfraternity Ball com
mittee and members of the Junior-Senior prom
committee. In the four point group are: cadet
lieutenant-colonel, majors, and regimental adjutant,
bead of the cheerleaders squad, members of the
Men's Association board, members of the Men's
advisory board. Student Council officers, Interfra
ternity council officers, members of the athletic
board of control, and any holder of a responsible
staff position on any of the three general student
publications.
"In the three point clr... " 'n the following
are Included: departmental council members, stu
dent athletic managers, and cheerleaders. The two
pointers are: members of the swimming team, and
members of the debate squad, boxing, wrestling,
gymnastic, and baseball teams, president ar chair
man of any honorary organization, f fleers la Cera
Cobs, cadet officers, editor or business manager of
any departmental publications, and president or
chairman of any departmental organization. Those
included in the one point classification are: staff
members of any publication, members of the Inter
fraternity council, barb council, or barb inter-club
council, members of Kosmet Klub, Corn Cobs, the
Y. M. C. A. and the Innocents society."
While Mr. Finkle's plan may not remedy the
existing evils of the present system it should at
least furrlsh the ground work from which to start
actual re-organlzation of the council.
BENEATH THE 1
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pJOW more than at any time in recent years,
France is aware of the existence of Royalists in
the sixty-year old republic, militant agitators who
come to the fore every time there is a disturbance
in the government. In spite of the fact that most
Frenchmen would laugh at the idea of the return
of monarchy, there are still some who actively
sponsor this cause as a remedy for the country's
troubles. The present Royalist organization Is
twenty-seven years old and gaining strength
yearly.
The nominal leader of the French Royalist fac
tion is the pretender Jean Due de Guise, now a
resident of Belgium and descendant of forty French
kings. The real power of the organization, which
has the name Camelots du Rol, is vitriolic and in
fluential Leon Daudet, editor of the faction publica
tion. In addition to the continuous editorial attacks
by Daudet, the party's activities include agitation
In the form of frequent street riots, started by un
armed Camelots to spread distrust in the present
regime. At least they are a constant vexation to
French police.
ALL STREET is prepared for the worst, as far
as the regulatory measure now before Congress
is concerned, but it is girding itself for a battle
before it surrenders. The proposed legislation, fin
anciers and market operators contend, goes even
beyond what the president had in mind, namely the
discontinuation of use of the market for purely
speculative purposes. Brokers say the usefulness
and business of the institution would be seriously
impaired by the Fletcher bill.
The main points of contention and attack cover
every angle of the bill. Critics maintain that the
requirement of sixty per cent coverage for margin
holdings will cause an alarming amount of liquida
tion and would make impossible many sound loans
on security collateral. The restriction on short
selling without approval of the federal trade com
mission will jeopardize legitimate functions of the
market, they say; and they laugh at the provision
outlawing pool activities, reminding the administra
tion of its own gigantic pool formed from the pro
fit from devaluation of the dollar. The last stand
of the attackers will be an assault on the bill's constitutionality.
Nevertheless, the stock exchange has taken
steps to stop practices condemned by Congress. It
now prohibits members from sharing profits real
ized from pool operations which were intended to
unfairly influence the market price of securities.
A second rule adopted prohibits members from act
ing as specialists in acquiring or granting knowl
edge or options on stock. The third rule bars dis
closure of Information regarding orders intrusted
to members of the exchange.
IR mail mileage in this country will be tem
porarily slashed from 27,000 to 11,000 miles for
the army fliers who will take over their new job
next Monday. Complete abrogation of all air mail
contracts will become effective that day, and the
army will take over the task Immediately, postal
department officials have announced. However the
administration has decided to ask Congress for per
mission to make temporary contracts with inde
pendent air lines to carry mall where the army is
unprepared to give service. It is probable that
present holders of air mail contracts who agree to
sweeping reorganizations to get rid of officials in
volved in the conditions which brought about the
cancellation will be given a chance to bid when new
contracts are called for.
The new schedules to be flown entirely by army
fliers at first will not only be curtailed as to the
number of trips on the essential lines decided upon
but they also will be considerably slower. Post
master General Farley has stated that the basis of
need will be taken as the rule In determining lines
to be flown. He also indicated that quite a num
ber of lines which bad not been revenue producers
in the past would be entirely discontinued. Imme
diate planu call for only about one hundred army
planes to tske over the routes.
'JUE financial centers of the country in general
and Chicago in particular has lost one of its
most outstanding and representative figures in the
death of Melvin A. Traylor, president of one of Chi
cago's and, for that matter, the country's largest
banks. He died late Wednesdsy night after a
thirty-five day illness from pneumonia. Traylor
was also a prominent figure In the democratic na
tional party and was mentioned ss a favorite son
candidate for the democratic nomination for presi
dency at Its last convention.
Traylor was another glorification of the Amer
ican legend that anyone can climb the ladder ol
success if be has the perseverance and determina
tion to reach the top. He started from a Kentucky
log cabin to become an international figure in
banking and politics. His most famous achieve
ment was the organization of the bank for Interna
tional settlements in Switzerland, a brilliant suc
cess which was partly responsible for his promin
ence In the democratic party. When be was a district-school
teacher at the age of eighteen, he
stumped for William Jennings Bryan. Twelve years
later be started his career as a banker in Texas,
and has been a leader in the field ever since. He
ever actively puraud a political career, although
be was frequently mentioned for high positions,
with Us exception of one election la his early days
when ho was chosen as assistant county attorney.
The
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY FAILS
By
Lane W. Lancaster and Harold W. Sloke
of
The Department of Political Science, University of Nebraska
OFFICIAL
BULLETIN
Editors Notei The following article Is the final Installment of
series at four dlsraealoni dealing with educational problems
at Nebraska and other American universities. The authors
present these articles with the express purpoM of creatine some
discussion on the Issues raised by them.
pHE second step essential to the resuscitation of
higher education is for those engaged in it to
decide much more definitely what they are about
and how they expect to accomplish it. Higher ed
ucation suffers from the confusion which comes
from attempting too many activities, frequently
irreconcilable ones. Higher education needs a phil
osophy which will enable it to direct, not dissipate,
its energies. As a beginning it should frankly ad
mit that it is not primarily interested in vocational
training, and it should take the students and public
into its confidence on that score. Higher education
is, of course, being compelled to make that admis
sion, but it ought to make it for Its own good, not
because it is compelled to do so. The vocational
support for higher education was always superfical,
for there are few things of a vocational nature
which can not be learned elsewhere with a smaller
investment of time, energy, and money. This is
not so true of the so-called professional schools,
but it is truer even of them than we wish it were.
The tricks of the trade which make the difference
between mediocrity and success are never learned
outside the trade itself. There is enough truth in
the adage, "Those who can, do; and those who
can't, teach", to prevent the universities from ever
becoming the sole source of those who carry on a
vocation.
The real weaning of higher education from
vocational support is being brought about by the
failure of the market for the college product. The
situation is simple. If vocational training is the
chief justification for higher education, and if such
education loses its earning value, then higher edu
cation loses its chief claim to support. It must
find other ways of justifying itself. And this it
can do by returning to its rightful purposes and
functions. The philosophy of "getting on" has
swung full cycle. It has neither got us "on" nor
has it advanced us measurably toward the solution
of those problems which daily grow more pressing.
It Is time for those who have faith that life can be
made a meaningful and satisfying adventure in
stead of the cheap and tawdry thing which we have
known of late, to raise a standard to which "the
good and wise may repair." We should begin by
facing what is to us the obvious fact that, educa
tion correctly understood, has nothing to do with
the making of money or the acquisition of so-called
"practical" skills. We should, on the other hand, af
firm our faith in its ability to transform men's
lives, to inform them with an intellectual and dis
interested purpose, to sharpen their perception of
non-material values, and to give to the pursuit of
all of these ends the character of high adventure.
The men and women whose lives have left a mark
for good upon the history of mankind attest the
possession of these values by education as we have
ventured to define it. It has not lost its power to
form other men and women.
If it be objected that such a "narrowing" of
educational interests would eliminate many of the
present activities and reduce enrollment, so let it
be. Education can not teach "success", and by
trying to do so, it reduces its capacity for doing
what it is designed to do.
Wo have tried to indicate that our university
needs a change in temper and spirit. We have
minimized the contribution of "organization" as a
factor in education; but it can not be ignored. For
organization is always a hindrance where it is not
a positive help. University organization has be
come chaotic because of its anxiety to be all things
to all men. No intrinsic principle has governed its
growth. The test which we feel must be applied
throughout the work of higher education is this:
No organization has a right to exist which can not
demonstrate a positive contribution to the intel
lectual enterprise which is the central purpose of
a true university. And the burden of proof should
be heavily upon the proposed organization. For
every cog added to the machine drains it of its
available energy. It means a diversion of interest
and attention from the central aim. Someone must
make out reports, keep an eye on pencils and
chalk, and attend committee meetings. Granted
that these incidentals must be taken care of, why
reduce the educational value of so many people to
do It?
If our test is correct that no organization ought
to be allowed which can not offer strong proof that
it is necessary to the intellectual purposes of the
university, it is clear that much of our present or
ganization is superfluous. If we admit that the
university is not and ought not to be a body-building
institute, much of our present athletic activity
goes into the discard. It is now more of an obstacle
than a contribution to university purpose. We
have never heard an argument to the contrary
which, did not in time become a mass of contradic
tions. Departmentalization has become a hindrance
and not a help to the acquisition of a liberal educa
tion by the students of the University of Nebraska.
Too many courses, over-specialized and hedged
about by departmental prerequisites, have destroyed
all sense of unity in the educational process and
have created illusions as to departmental differ
ences which have victimized the faculty almost as
much as the students. It Is probable that in every
large university treated on the basis of their edu
cational contributions, there are entire departments
and whole schools which should be subordinated or
entirely eliminated. We say that we do not expect
organization to contribute very much to sound edu
cation, but where It can not prove its positive
worth it should be ruthlessly pruned away.
Here, then, as it appears to us, are the chal
lenges which are presented by American higher
education as exemplified In our own University.
First, we must come to a clearer understanding
of the goals of educational enterprise, and resist
much more fiercely the influences which lead us
astray.
Secondly, we must revive our faith in our work
by renewing our sense of its value.
Thirdly, we must examine our universities, i
from curriculum to organization, and instead of
tolerating what is not harmful, root out all that is
not helpful.
Swap Shop.
Students whoso books have been
sold by the Y. W. C. A. Swap shop
will be paid any time from 11 to 3
on Thursday or Friday of this
week. The shop will also be open
from 11 to 8 on Tuesday, accord,
ing to Theodora Lohrman, chair
man of the committee In charge
of the shop.
St. Paul M. E.
A Valentine party sponsored by
the Epworth league of that church
will be held at St Paul M. E. Fri
day night at 8 o'clock in the
church, 12th and M.
Social Dancing.
Friday evening from 7 to 9
o'clock a social dancing class will
be held in Grant Memorial hall.
Ten cents and an identification
card will admit.
Interest Group Leaders.
Interest group leaders will meet
at 5 o'clock Friday in Ellen Smith
hall.
Study Group,
At 9 o'clock on Sunday morning
the study group on the Life of
Jesus wil meet under the direction
of Miss Miller, at Ellen Smith hall.
Any girl interested is welcome.
Swap Shop,
Students who sold books thru
the Y. W. C. A. Swap Shop this
semester may receive their money
at the Student Activities office in
the coliseum Friday and Saturday
from 9 to 12 and 1 to 5 o'clock.
The list of those who are to be
paid is posted in the Temple.
Girls desiring to attend the an
nual law school dance at the U. of
Oregon must file a formal applica
tion with the dance chairman,
giving, "height, weight, coloring,
age, and previous condition of
servitude.
"Robert E. Leu" is an instruc
tor in business law at Temple university.
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Leaders of Interest
Croups to Meet Friday
Leaders of Y. W. C. A. Interest
groups will meet Friday afternoon
to discuss their various groups.
These meetings will be held regu
larly, hereafter, to make plans
and get ideas for the meetings of
the Interest groups.
Gambling in the University of
Washington district costs students
and other "suckers" nearly $3,000
a week.
An investigation at the Uni
versity of Iowa showed that only
one out of eleven college engage
ments resulted in marriage.
More than one-fourth of the
women students at the College of
Agriculture at Fort Collins work
all or part of their way.
We've Taken the Plunge
and reduced our Rent-A-Car rates
as much aa 40 now to 74e
per mile. Insurance Is available for
customers. Phone ua for all details
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Approximately 8 million dollars
has been spent in equipping and
beatutifying the University of
Texas since oil was discovered on
their land in 1923.
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Men's Suits 75c
Men's Hats 55c
Men's Top Coats and
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