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WV tMMiik IMA LttitiBi TWO. THE DAILY NEBRASKAN TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1934. The Daily Nebraskan Station A Lincoln. Nebraska OFFICIAL STUDENT PUBLICATION UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEMBE 9 3 4 This papr Is rsprsssntsd for gsnsraj dvrtlslng by tha Nebraska Praia Association Entered aa second-class mattar at tha postofflee 'n Lincoln, Nebraska, under act of congress. March , 1S7, and at apeeial rata of postage provided for In aectlpn 1103, act of October 3. 18 17. authorized January 20, 122. THIRTY-THIRD YEAR Published Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. Friday and Sunday mornings during tha academic year. SUBSCRIPTION RATS $1.50 year Single Copy B cents 3100 a semester 2.50 a year mailed 31-80 a semester mailed Under direction of tha Student Publication Board, Editorial Office University Hall 4. Business Office University Hall 4A. Telephones Dayi B-891 Nlghtt B-6882. 8-3333 (Journal) Ask for Nebraskan editor. EDITORIAL STAFF Editor-in-chief Bruce Nlcoll Managing Editors Burton Marvin Violet Crosi News Editors Jack Fischer Tred Nlcklas ksmotne Bible Society Editor Virginia Selleck Sports Editor .....Irwin Ryan Sports Assistants Jack Grube and Arnold Levlna Contributing Editor. Msurlee Johnaon Dick Moran Carlyle Hodgkln BUSINESS STAFF Bernard Jennings Business Manager Assistant Business Managers Ceorge Holyoke Wilbur Erlckaon Dick Schmidt Advertising Solicitors Robert Funk Truman Oberndorf Circulation Department Harry Wert Phyllis Sldner Comment on Two Convocations, (VER five hundred persona braved the element to hear the University Glee Club's concert in the coliseum Sunday. The affair was the third all university convocation featuring student talent. For the most part the Glee Club's recital was disappointing. It fell far short of the brilliant rec ord established by the two previous convocations featuring the Messiah and the R. O. T. C band. While we do not pretend to be critics of music, even the most illiterate person can determine pretty much for himself when group singing is in tune and when it isn't. A few numbers were well presented, but for the most part they reflected only a, remote acquaintance with the written score. Necessary discriminations must be made in selecting a program such as this. First it should consist of numbers which glee club members can all learn to sing in a reasonable length of time and, second a program that will hold some appeal for the common laymen. Sunday's program was not particularly adapted to either of these qualities. An ideal glee club convocation program should Include, we believe, a liberal sprinkling of both classical and modern compositions. While the program of fered to University students Sunday was of unques tionable merit, we would much rather hear "There Is No Place Like Nebraska" sung In unison, than a feeble attempt to reproduce the work of a Wagner or a Rachmaninoff. As such, university fathers must make a nec essary discrimination when choosing home talent features for convocation programs. In spite of well meaning ballyhoo praising student talent, the campus population may reasonably expect a pro gram worthy of the name. Unless this discrimina tion is made the popularity of all university con vocations will suffer an immeasurable loss. We do not say that the University Glee Club should be omitted from any convocation series. Theoretically a glee club should be included on a convocation series featuring student talent. Indeed should it be an invaluable asset to any institution Of learning. It must, however, realize that it has fc responsibility to perform in maintaining a high grade convocation series. In this respect the con cert given by the glee club Sunday failed utterly. It must be acknowledged that a university con Vocation series would have an excellent basis in the Messiah, Glee Club, and R. O. T. C Band. In deed these should be included in any such program. Perhaps this would offer an incentive for better performances. But in addition to home talent the university fathers realize that foreign talent must be imported. They also must realize that Imported talent must be better than the average run of self-inspired con Vocation speakers. In securing Phyllis Bentley for an all-university convocation held recently the administration se cured as a speaker of real merit whose message was of broad interest. Indeed she was well quali fied to discuss the topic which she selected. But far more important than this, university students attended the convocation. Today at the Temple Theater, university stu dents will have the opportunity of enjoying a con vocation speaker of real merit. Lorado Taft, who bas selected "My Dream Museum" as his topic of discussion Is well qualified to speak on the subject be has selected. The Nebraskan feels that students should at tend this convocation for the same reasons that they attended the charter day convocation. The speaker knows his subject, and bas selected a topic of inter est to the average student Rather than foist our opinion on university students we suggest that they attend this morning's convocation and enjoy an in teresting and capable speaker. The Engineers Start- a Reform. TTHE engineers evidently intend to elevate their status if the registration bill discussed at the Engineer's roundup is any indication. Just how they Intend doing this was the sub stance of a bill received favorably by the engineers group Saturday. It provides that no engineer will be allowed to practice until he Is granted a license by a state governing board composed of five mem bers appointed by the governor. The board will be invested with the power to revoke a license for de Celt In obtaining it, fraud, gross negligence, or In competency. Candidates for licenses must have bad four years of college engineering work and four years practice, or eight years active practice. At the outset, the bill should place greater sig nificance upon the value of college training, for It should eliminate to a large extent, the numerous pseudo engineers who are engineers In name only. This measure well represents a movement in this country among leading engineers to raise the standards of engineering to that of a true profes slon. For as a matter of fact some twenty-seven states have set up some requirement system before engineers may practice. The movement is a worthy one. The tremend ously increasing importance of engineering in this country has made it a necessity that engineers should fight for a professional status to protect life, health, and public property. Indeed so great is their responsibility in our present society that higher standards in the profession Is a recognized need. Registration of engineers should eliminate the sense of futility among student engineers. It should give encouragement to engineering students and graduates to continue their preparation for engi neering as a career. 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 psper. Brickbats for The Glee Club. TO THE EDITOR: Shades of Orpheus what a nightmare! After six months of sustained practice the Glee Club makes Its first major appearance. As the saying goes "a cat may look at a king," so the great Uni versity of Nebraska may look at each of a half hundred small colleges in this section of the United States whose combined student bodies and resources would not equal that of our University any of them can produce a vocal ensemble which would completely eclipse our representatives. Represent atives did I say ? Heaven forbid. Seventy-five per cent of the fraternities entered in the Ivy Day sing have better functioning glee clubs. We will turn from the poverty of the Glee Club itself with a gesture of despair to mention a few other details of the concert which deserved com ment Why was the quartet which appeared on the program announced as the University quartet? It is the Lincoln High School quartet of 1931, organ ized, trained and developed completely outside of the University. None of its members are members of the Glee Club. They were evidently imported to redeem the concert from complete failure, but as such, why not announce them in their own name as guests of the Glee Club and give them whatever publicity their barely acceptable singing might de serve. The conductor then tries to absolve him self from blame by singing a few solos. Let him do that In a recital somewhere, sometime, not as a part of the Glee Club, and the program itself. No doubt it will look well in someone's scrapbook ten years from now, or might even look impressive if sent to a friend far enough away not to have smelled the singing. The program should be ar ranged for singing, not for appearance. Why not try a few numbers somewhere within the possi bilities of the Glee Club? There are hundreds of them. I would suggest "The Farmer in the Dell." This University should be able to produce a Glee Club. Why don't they? I don't know. Better far not have any than to continue this farce. DISAPPOINTED. Contemporary Comment Is College A Racket? Going to college is called "the great American racket" by President Ralph Cooper Hutchinson of Washington and Jefferson in one of the most scath ing denunciations of the present higher educational system and its students issued within the last few months. President Hutchinson charges that most stu dent organizations, both past and present, were formed for graft, and that fraternity jewelry sales men and other agents declare that they simply can not do business on some campuses without practic ing graft He decries the fact that in general the old ideals of education, culture and character have been submerged by the motives of social and finan cial profit He does not let the matter drop without a rea son. Hutchinson declares that the rapid pioneer ex pansion of the nation created a demand for men of training greater than the supply, and therefore a college degree took on a great practical signifi cance. The general public hence was encouraged to "send its young men and women through the sausage grinder and out with a packer's trade mark." The bitter charges of one so closely in touch with the university system cannot be Ignored. It is probable that the American college system has been permeated in the past by a great amount of graft but there is a lighter side to the picture. The university students seem to be staging a "new deal" of their own in this respect Organizations are hav ing to Justify themselves to exist, graft isn't toler ated as it once was and there is a growing interest in the real Intellectual purpose of a college educa tion. Indiana Daily Student, An Excellent Example to Follow. Believing that "riches in private hands often spell ruin for coming generations" Drs. William J. and Charles H. Mayo, surgeons, gave $500,000 last week to the University of Minnesota to be used for the promotion of medical science. The case stands out in direct contrast to most of the persons in possession of large sums of capital. For the most part, they will leave the bulk of their gains for the second generation to squander. National inheritance tax measures of a dras tic nature should be taken to prevent the inheri tance of millions of dollars by persons who have had no part in the earning of the money. The capitalistic system has failed and It is now time that some action be taken to control the mil lions of dollars that could be spent for educational and othei beneficial causes. Control of the major part of inheritance is one of the best ways to bene fit humanity. There Is no sane reason for a per son receiving millions of dollars of unearned capital just because he happens to be the son of a mil lionaire. It is encouraging to see that there are some persons of wealth who recognize the uselessness of trying to leave a path of ease and luxury for their sons and daughters who, more likely than not, will be more harmed than benefited by the money. We tip our hats to the Mayo brothers. Okla homa Daily. OFFICIAL BULLETIN Y. W. Interest Groups. Interest groups of the V. W. C. A will hold meetings in Ellen Smith hall at the following hours this week: Tuesday at 1 Books and Poet ry, Janet Vloek. Tuesday from 12:30 to 2 Hand craft Ruth Armstrong. Tuesday at 4 Kodakery, Marg aret Ward. Wednesday at 6 Keep Current, Violet Cross. Thursday at 4 Know Your City, Lois Rathburn. Thursday at 8 Art of Being a Hostess, Arlene Bors. Vespers. Wentworth Fling will speak on the subject "Puppets" at the ves pers service on the Agricultural Campus Tuesday noon. Stamp Club. The Stamp Club will hold a bus iness meeting Thursday night March 1, at 7:30 in Social Science room 301. Y. W. Staff Meetings. Staff meetings for Y. W. C. A. members for the coming week are scheduled as follows: International, Lorraine Hitch cock, Tuesday at 4. Social Order, Bash Perkins, on Tuesday at 1. Finance, Marjorle Shostak, on Thursday at 4. Swap Shop, Theodore Lohrman, Thursday at 4. Publicity, Dorothy Cathers, Tues day at 4. Program and Office, Phyllis Jane Humphrey, Wednesday at 3. World Forum, Beth Schmid, Thursday at 4. Posters, Ruth Allen, Thursday at 4 p. m. Church Relations, Mary Edythe Hendricks, Wednesday at 5. In addition to these staff meet ings, Miss Miller will conduct a special study group on "The Life of Jesus" on Thursday at 1 o'clock and also on Sunday at 9 o'clock. Barb A. W. 6. League. Group meetings of the Barb A. W. S. league will be held this week. The schedule of the meetings to be held at Ellen Smith Hall fol lows: Marjorie Smith, Wednesday at 5 p. m.; Margaret Medlar, Tuesday at 4 p. m. Marjorie Filley, Wednesday at 5 p. m.; and Evelyn Diamond, Thurs day at 6 p. m. Bonnie Spangaard will hold a meeting on the Agricultural cam pus at 4 p. m. Tuesday. Bizad Executive Council. Members of the Bizad executive council for both semesters will meet at the campus studio Wed nesday at 5 for a group picture. EDGAR HUDDLESON. Sew Play Opens Monday LJ .J " 1- 1 F1S h '; ! f ttstttsaUS Courtesy of Sunday Journal and Star The University Players opened Monday night with their fifth drama of the year, "Counseller-at -Law." Shown in the picture are Harold Sumption, who carries the role of the lawyer, George Si mon; Irving Hill as the young co mmunist; and Jane McLaughlin as Simon's secretary. II IIII1IIM1U III Avenues of Fashion ft W who just bougl the Cincinna lleds wns a stf Soolal Staff. Social staff of the Y. W. will give a tea at Ellen Smith hall Thursday afternoon from 3:30 to 5:30. All girls who entered at mid year are invited to attend. Young Democrats. Secretary of State Swanson will speak before a meeting of the Young Democrats club to be held Wednesday afternoon at 3 in So cial Science auditorium. Y. W. C. A. Staff Meetings. ' The international relations staff, the publicity staff and the social staff will meet at 4 o'clock this afternoon at Ellen Smith hall. Interest Groups. The interest group on books and poetry will meet at Ellen Smith hall at 1 o'clock this afternoon. Interest groups on kodakery and art of being a hostess will meet at 4 o'clock this afternoon. The Girl Reserve group will meet tonight at 7 o'clock at the city Y. W. C. A. Physics Colloquim. Physics Colloquim will meet at 7 p. m. Wednesday in room 119 during the second semester. Prof. Chauncey W. Smith or Mr. Sever ence will speak this week. Barb Council. There will be a meeting of the Barb Council Wednesday afternoon at 4 o'clock in room 105 of Social Sciences hall. REV. HUNT TO SPEAK. Rev. Ray Hunt of the First Christian church will give the first of a series of four talks on "Laws of Living" at Y. W. C. A. vespers tonight at S o'clock. REGIONAL SECRETARY OF YW TO VISIT HERE Possibilities for Student Movement Will Be Discussed. Possibilities for a joint student movement for a better social and economic order and a federation to promote international peace will be the subject of a talk by Miss Stella Scurlook. regional Y. W. C. A. secretary, in Ellen Smith hall next Sunday at 2:30 p. m. The meeting Is open to all students. Miss Scurlook arrives in Lin coln Tuesday after a two day visit at the state Christian Workers' conference at Fremont snd ex pects to be here a week. She will meet rith the Y.W.C.A. cabinet Wednesday. r.M. TO HEAR ZI6M0KD Lincoln Theater Man Will Talk on Value of Movies. J. Sgmend, f the Lincoln Theater corporation, will give aa address In the Red room of the Central Y. M. C. A. building at 7:45 Tuesday night on the subject "The Powell Crosley, Jr., the young Ohio millionaire light ati nr pitcher in the years when he was first studying engineering and law at Cincinnati Univer sity. The Crosley who turned into the big antenna, and dial man is also a collector of rare antiques he bought the Reds and Dazzy Vance on successive days. Talking about Reds, red seems to have sneaked up on us in formal wear. Waistcoats, for wear with dinner jackets have gone colorful on us with little or no warning. These are favored mostly in a not too conspicuous wine shade. They are also to be seen in a chalk blue. deep green, and yellow. They follow closely the popular fashion of wearing a dark red carnation with formal clothes, in itst-lf a rather startling in novation. Ruby colored studs, an accepted, but not too fre quently seen touch of color, will no doubt find wider ac ceptance, as the appropriate type of jewelry worn with a wine waistcoat. No less a social function than the annual aristocratic New York Horse Show seems to be the birthplace of this fashion which is authority enough even for sticklers for authenticity of fashion. Possibly the sponsors gathered the idea from those Oxford "Dons" who wear club colored "weskits" at their formal University dinners. While on the subject of eve ning wear . . the smart "tails" turnout is completed by the two-stud shirt in fine pique weaves. The return of "J e e m" Londos to ihe grunt and 1T A grapple industry AJ7 drew a crowd of almost 30.000 to the Garden the other P. M. Watching a Hindoo behemoth perform in one of the preliminaries, an embryo sports scribe cracked, "lie smells like a birdcage but he can't Singh . . ." and then we all went out and had a drink. A wee drop o' Scotch is invigor ating outside as well as inside. So the country squire l a anx iiic campus ; I fashion plate f I choose Harris V . J -.. - ::i. rough Shetland fabrics with defi nite patterns for their Balmaecan top coats. The military type collar and rag Ian sleeves together with the full, loose sweep of the skirt, have that "to-hell-with-you, Sir" swagger touch. Camel's hair goes "horsey" and the polo coat still gallops through the fashion chukkers I ",J I although its trappings are slightly different following more closely the standardized Spring topcoat in line and detail. Speakinff of old --astuff, with a new slant, they've been weaving a cloth over in India for lo! these many years . . . and we don't mean, Lo the poor Indian (for after all you should know your Indians). It's known as Bandanna Cloth or India Mad ras. Made of native spun cot ton and woven into colorful plaids in colors limited to dyes from native vegetation, its popularity has been growing for neckwear purposes with a running start at Palm Beach a year ago. Particularly smart in not too wide pointed end bats, it will undoubtedly start the come back of bat-ties generally which will be in evidence this Spring and Summer. An added use for these bandanna pat terns (if not for the native cloth) is in handkerchiefs of large dimension woven in ap propriate textures and follow ing closely the unusual colors of the original. Along with sun tan powder on the lapels, the striped rep tie will grace the bosoms of that masculine group who know what it's all about. This peren nial favorite blossoms again in colors derived from racing stables. It is quite importantrto note that wider stripes than ever before are coming into vogue and the colorings are in different complementary ef fects. So it's really new and surely popular. The Yankees are going II - a - a - a vahd (Cambridge to you). Credit KSQUIRE with the tip that Char lie Devens of the Backbay Denvenses will win eighteen games without a split infinitive and put the Yankees in the series battle. Passing the buck (a favorite indoor sport) has descended to a new footnote. The brown buck shoe which has been slowly gaining favor for coun try wear is unquestionable in for its big season in two styes; blucher front with heavy crepe soles and heels (which is well adapted for campus and coun try wear), and also in the semi brogue model with leather soles and heels. The Trend :The button -down collar attached shirts of cream Oxford is defi nitely gaining in favor. This is the revival of. an old established fashion which is typical of sports cloth ingand will bear watching. ESQVIRE will answer all questions on men'$ fashion. Write ESQl'lRE, 40 East 31th Street, New York, and enclose a self -addressed stamped en velope for reply. 5 FORUM AT IOWA STATE COLLEGE Berry, Indianola Publisher, Stresses Economic Strength. AMES, la., Feb. 26. Financial strength In a newspaper is one oi the surest guarantees of its edi torial independence, Don Beiry, publisher of the Indianola Record and Tribune, told an Iowa Rtnto College audience recently. Mr. Berry, speaking before thu third forum on press freedom sponsored by Sigma Delta Chi, journalistic society, declared that he found it difficult to agree with the comment that "It must be ad mitted with sadness that tha equivalent of a business offic dominates every profession In the world." "Why sadness?" demanded Mi-. Berry. "Why should we be sail t know that a home is run by a woman who insists on living with in her family's income? Why is it unfortunate that a newspaper has in It people who believe in paying bills?" On the contrary, he declared, the newspaper with economic strength is most likely to be the newspaper with editorial freedom. "Freedom from financial worries means freedom from outside in fluences," he said, "and that in turn means freedom to comment fairly and to report accurately and completely." During his talk Mr. Berry quoted from a number of publish ers and newspaper editors to sup port his statement that "business office control" is a minor factor in modern editorial offices. "Ii. might be true that most businfsses could get away with unethical or unsocial practices without the public's knowing about It," he explained. "This isn't true of the newspaper business. Every thing a newspaper does is wide open to public scrutiny, and the instant it lies or misbehaves it is caught up from a hundred differ ent angles. . . The thing a news paper has to sell, primarily, is the news service it offers. If this isn't fair, accurate and unbiased, it soon will cease to exist. I believe that as is often said the news paper is different from any other business in the world in that, in addition to its obligation to make money, it has a definite obligation to serve its community." Denying that chain newspaper control tends to influence member newspapers toward a "capitalistic" attitude, Mr. Berry declared that the nation's two largest chsins. the Hearst and Scrlpps-Howard, are the two most radical in the country. TODAY'S NEWS BRIEFLY REVIEWED (Continued from Page II. last seen alive when a grojp of town members left the house after a bridge game. Twenty-four degrees below zero were recorded at Valentine Monday morning, the coldest point recorded in the state during the present cold wave. Burwell stood next in line for the doubtful honors wit'i a temperature of twenty below. The lowest recorded in Lincoln was nine below, which was also low for the winter. Belief that C. P. Babb of Lin coln was murdered was strength ened Monday when the corner's jury reported that he met death from a hemorrhage resulting from a blow on the head. In the mean time police followed up tips which turned out for the most part to be fruitless. Gamma Alpha Chi, actives and pledges, -ill hold a business meet ing at 7:30 Tuesday evening in Ellen Smith hall. Please be prompt. If the young man who called the police on the murder in the law school last week can admit it and prove it, he will be able to take himself and his date to the Tues day nipht performance of "Coun-srllor-at-Law" in the Temple the ater. This clipping must be pre sented at the box office. 2: EASY STARTING GASOLINE HOLMS i4th a w 30th Year B39M mond will show the value of movies as a peace agent and as a means of bringing great artists to people who would otherwise never know them. The public is invited to at tend. This lecture is the last of a series of four lectures on subjects of current interest sponsored by the Y.W. and Y. M. Potential Value of Movies." Zig- Italian Diplomat Will Speak at Iowa State AMES, la., Feb. 28. "The Ori gin. Growth and Spirit of Fascism" will be discussed here a week from today by Dr. Luigi Villari. Italian diplomat The Cosmopolitan club, society of foreign students attend ing Iowa State college, is sponsor ing the lecture. Big help to STUDENTS ROYAL PORTABLE 2i Precisely the model you need! Litest design.. low est price! Complete! Easy to use..n if ytu': nevtr typiJbtfort! Built for s life time of writing conveni ence! A small initial pay ment, and it is yours! Pay the balance oo easy rwm. Nebraska Typewriter Co. 130 No. 12th St LINCOLN, NESR. Phn B21&7 atoral Trpcwrhif Compur, 2 Park Arson. New York ( i ii I --if ;, W -