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iUESDAY, APRIL 21, 1933 THE DAILY NEBRASKAIS TWO. The Daily Nebraskan Station A, Lincoln Ntbraika OFFICIAL STUDENT PUBLICATION UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEMBE 193 4 Thli ptptr It rapratertiart for flnrl arlvertnlng by tht NtbraiKa Press Allocation Entered at tccond-cUsi matter at the P01h0,il"l,7'9n Lincoln Nebratka, under act of congresi. March 3. 1879. .nd to"lal rate of po.t.ige provided for In '" act of Octobe? 3. 19.7. authorized January 80. 1921 THIRTY. THIRD YEAR Published Tue.day. Wedne.day. Thureday Frlday ind Sunday morninga during the academlo year. SUBSCRIPTION RATE .1.50 . year Sing,. Copy 8 cent. Veme.terTaM." 2 MUndy.eradlrmecrion o, the Studen,$PU,n Board. Editorial Office Univerilty Hall 4. Bueineia Office Unlveraitv Hall 4A. Telephonea-D.y, B.6891! Night. B-6882. B-3333 (Journal) AeK for Nebratkan editor. EDITORIAL STAFF . Edltor-ln-Chicf Bru" Mc0" Managing Editor . .. Violet Crosa Burton afarvln Newt Edltora T.Mr Flurhor Fred Nlcklaa Uimoine Bible 2 Z v3fi,,r Virginia Sflleck boclety hditor Irwin Ryan sporl. A!a0tnnt,:::::::;:.'.'jock crubV and Arnold uvmt Contributing Editor! Mauric. Johnson Dick Moran Csrlyle Hodgkln Feature Editor. Margaret Eaaterday w Ru'h Mattchullat Loralne Campbell Woman' Editor B'tty Sl Assistant Woman'. Editors. .Hazel Baier. Marylu Petersen Newt Reportert Johnston Snipe. Lewis Cass Jack Rasmusson Allen Gntewood BUSINESS STAFF Bernard Jennings ....Business Manager Assistant Butlnett Managers Georg. Holyoke Wilbur Eriokson Dick Schmidt Advertising Sollictort Robert Funk Truman Oberndorf Circulation Department Harry West Janet Kllllan Aid for the Convocation Program. fHETHER students will attend a good convoca tion program if it is offered by the university faculty and administration was the substance of a letter written by Dean T. J. Thompson appearing in the student pulse column of the Sunday Nebras kan. Said Dean Thompson: "I believe I may say with assurance that if the faculty and administra tion can be convinced that the larger portion of the students would attend such convocations, no difficulty would be experienced in securing their approval of some very fine programs accompanied by class dismissals." Obviously thore are no tabulations, no btudent votes, or expressions of campus sentiment indicat ing students' willingness to attend all university convocations. A universal expression of campus sentiment on the subject, and necessarily so, would mean a tremendous amount of work which in the end would probably indicate little or nothing. Since the students of this university have nevsr enjoyed the opportunity of seeing and hearing a good convocation program, the Nebraskan has based its pleas for a worthwhile convocation sys tem upon several assumptions. In the first place the depression has sobered the outlook of the aver age student upon a university education. As such a convocation program would find a warmer recep tion in the minds of more students, than was ac corded many such projects during the glorious twenties. Since Nebraska has never had a regular convocation system, an examination of ether middle western universities and colleges finds almost uni versal participation in good convocation programs. It cannot be denied that university students are changing. The rah rah boys, dressed in coonskin coats, have disappeared from our university camp uses. Since the depression settled on our univer sity campuses student interests have rapidly changed to meet new circumstances. It must be noted, in this connection, that greater significance is being attached to scholarship a id intellectual interests completely disregarded by college students of the twenties. As such, there is a distinct de mand to be met by university administration In fur nishing students with a cultural and intellectual outlet available in good convocation programs. It should give students an intelligent and interesting glimpse of the world outside the classroom thru the eyes of well informed speakers. The Nebraskan feels that here is a distinct challenge whicn univer sity fathers cannot overlook. It must be admitted that from time to time the university has secured worthwhile speakers. But usually they were the result of a fly by night deci sion. Preparations were hurried and in many in stances few students were aware of the forthcoming convocation. It is for this reason that the Nebras kan examined the convocation systems used at other universities in the middlewest In the ma jority of cases, the programs are well attended and attract campus wide attention. Well informed speakers are obtained, classes are dismissed, and administrative emphasis is attached to the convoca tions. Programs such as these might well be worked cut at Nebraska. The many thousands attending the convocations sponsored by the administration this year should give the university fathers an ink ling, of what might actually be Accomplished if a complete convocation program is worked out for the entire academic year. If the university administration desires campus wide participation in convocation programs it must plan a complete and adequate schedule for the en tire year. Convocations shou.d be distributed over the academic year at fixed intervals. This Insures regu larity, which we feel, is a major prerequisite for a successful convocation program. In addition there should be a natural amount of student and faculty anticipation for future programs. At the same time it would eliminate the possibility of an epidemic of convocations. But more Important, the university fathers must of necessity select capable and well informed convocation speakers. In addition, all university classes should be dismissed. Routine details of pub licizing the program in the N Book, university cata logue, Daily Nebraskan, and other publications might easily be worked out by the convocation com mittee. If this is done, the Nebraskan feels that uni versity students will attend all university convoca tions In far greater numbers than has been the ease in the past This type of convocation program la neither Utopian nor unworkable, and as such the university fathers might well consider its possibilities. Intramural Debates In Seed of Support. (NE of the last features of the university intra- mural contests is the annual debate tourna ment. Two brackets, one for fraternities and one for barbs have been set up. They swing Into action on the first round of arguments this week. When the Greeks complete their bracket the winning team will play the victorious barb team In the finals. The question they are to argue, one per tinent to the interests of the university at this time is, Resolved: That the University of Nebraska should adopt the student activity tax. The purpose of the debating contest, part of a comprehensive intramural program on the campus, is laudiblc. It could accomplish much toward re viving student interest in debating and restoring this activity to a position of greater prominence among other extra-curricular endeavors. It is unfortunate, however, that more Interest has not been shown among fraternity chapters and barb organizations. With more than thirty fraterni ties and nearly as many barb organizations on the Nebraska campus, a long list of entries might rea sonably be expected. Eight fraternity teams and five barb groups are competing. Whether this may be taken to indicate that intellectual enterprises fall to catch the collegiate eye as much as do athletic contests is a matter of conjecture. Greater encouragement of the debate tournament would, at least, quiet unfortunate specu latlons. It seems reasonable to believe that if those eligible to enter the contest would include debating in their campus activities the prominence of this event would soon come into the position it merits. Surely this worth while project should get the support that It rightfully deserves, not merely the less than half-hearted backing that is evidenced now by the small list of debate entrants. Another Successful Kosmet Kluh Show. yHIS week university students are afforded the opportunity of seeing and hearing another Kos met Klub spring show at the Temple Theater. "The Campus Cop," a musical comedy written by Herb Yenne, has been selected to amuse the campus. Included in the production are forty-one male students, among them two of Coach D. X. Bible's former football stars George Sauer and Bernle Mas terson. As in last year's show, Art Bailey and Herb Ycnne will take the feminine leads. "The Campus Cop" may or may not be of more interest to Nebraska students, since the plot re volves about the university campus and portrays in many Instances actual personalities. Since 1911 Kosmet Klub has produced success ful spring shows. For the most part they were di rected and composed of all student talent The large majority of them have been successful. This year's production, from all indications, should be on a par or belter than recent shows. If students enjoy femininity "in the raw," and good home talent comedy, they should attend the Kosmet show this week. Contemporary Comment Joe College Is Disappearing. Among the many stupendous changes taking place in the world today, is the evolving of a new type of college student. If one will open his eyes and observe, he will note that he is being permitted to witness an upheaval in the development of the young generation. The war era and its succeeding, approximate fifteen-year period brought to us a swift, giddy, and thoughtless group of people. The college student is not different or worse than the rest of the popula tion but gives you an emphasized view of the trends of the day. As usual the college men and women have done their part to impress upon us the foolish ness and unsteadiness of the post-war period. However, anyone who has been thrown with the college group for the past three years has noted a change. The "rah-rah" boy is already "old stuff." It has long been unfashionable at the better schools to engage in the unreasonable type of football ral lies. The bearcat runabout and the coonskin over coat are alike hi abeyance. Cheer leaders Still hold forth at the big games but mostly for the deleca tion of the alumni in search of their youth. Most striking and amazing of all is that the undergrad uate is beginning to admire mere scholarship! The day of the "polite moron" seems distinctly past. Time was when the impeccable frame of this personage loomed large upon the campus horizon. Mere grinds, bookcrackers, and scholars were dirt fore his elegance. He trod the campus amid the Jin gle of many watchchain keys, the aimless flop of the 20-inch bell bottoms, and the aroma of gin, per fume, and ignorance. But his day is definitely doomed on the campus. Somehow it has taken the depression to suggest to young men and women that one doesn't succeed in life by failing in college and that courtesy and smart in the polite sense make the gentleman and the lady. Such is the evolution as it walks hand in hand with fate and time. Ken tucky Kernel. Something to Worry About. Between worrying about Nazi propaganda on the one hand and Communism on the other, our leading national worriers are having a hard time. Right now, however, they are principally con cerned about how thousands of innocent, unsuspect ing college students are being turned into Com munist revolutionaries. It's so awful that a certain admittedly great chain of newspapers is making a drive for increased circulation by "exposing" the horid plot to poison the flower of our youth. Of course, we're not denying that some of our college students are Communltsts. We wouldn't even deny that some of them a few are Republic ans. But if any political group of students is to be singled out and separated from the others to prevent general contamination, we think the segregation should be thorough. That is, Communists should not be exposed to Republicanism, Republicans should not be exposed to Socialism and Socialists should not be exposed to Democracy. It's all very catch' ing. Look at the Democrats: They've been ex posed to most everything and see what they caught! On the other hand, it's not going to be so sinr pie, if we count everyone who is opposed to war as a "Communist" . . . unless we Include only those who try to "demonstrate" against war. That, of course. Is Communism in its virulent form. The only thing we can suggest is that we close the colleges entirely like they did during the big flu epidemic until the menace is past. And while the colleges are closed, we would fumigate them, es pecially the books. Thus we would kill the propa ganda germs and save the world for Democracy... or something. It might possibly bo necessary w have another war to save the world for Democracy, but well what do college students know about such things? College. News Service. mjFhjrP Airnn TTHftF 3 HJU-l"SfiU-. U Hal as HiEADLDNES By DICK MORAN. pVER since the "Crime of 1873" when silver lost its place along side of gold in our currency sys tem, there has been agitation for the remonetization of the white metal. Silver miners have been most insistent in their demands, as is to be expected, and during the last few years they have gained quite a number of ardent supporters in the halls of Con gress. The outspoKen aemana or me Buventeo uw is for outright remonetization at the historic ratio which gives sixteen ounces of silver the same value as one ounce of gold. Needless to say, the strong est supporters of the move In Congress are those senators and representatives from the states whicn would benefit most from the remonetization of sil ver, and citizens of the so-called silver towns can also be counted on for something to say in the mat ter. Another class of supporters of the restoration of silver involves those exporters who sell to orien tal countries, particularly China. That country is on a silver standard, ana me naiurai result. ii me demonetization of silver In this country would be and has been a decrease in the exports to the old east because American goods became more expen sive in terms of the monies of their country. Con sequently any action to improve the economic status of the white metal would receive their enthusiastic and unanimous support. A number of conferences on the silver question have been held at the white house during the past few months, but at the latest one last Saturday, the movement ran into the obstacle of presidential dis approval, but there are two loopholes thru which some action may yet be taken. Administration leaders are now seeking a compromise under which the president would use bis present authority with out new legislation. If this is unsuccessful, it seems possible that Congress will pass the Die bill, which establishes a government commission to ar range the sale of agricultural surpluses abroad with sliver to be received in payment at a premium nbove Us price in the world markets. Eight now tho gov ernment Is trying to appease the sllvcrltcs by buy ing and coining all newly-mined Bllver and paying the producers sixty-four and one-half cents an ounce, while the world market price Is less than forty-five cents. CVEN though he went down with colors flying, he went down and now John F. Curry can claim the doubtful honor of being the first party leader that Tammany has thrown out In the history of its ex istence. And that Is saying quite a great deal, be cause the political organization known as Tammany hall was born in 1789, the same year that the con stitution went into effect. Curry, who has been leader of the party for the last five years, was de throned last Friday night by a decisive vote of the New York county democratic committee in one of the most dramatic sessions ever held by the Hall. The revolt against Curry had smoldered for two years, altho until six months ago it was confined mostly to the mutterings of discontent within the ranks. The whole trouble was political observers say that Curry had the unfortunate ability to guess wrongly on most occasions, and these guesses were later proved to be costly and disastrous to the prestige of Tammany Hall. A few recent examples will illustrate this point He insisted on the rcnoml natlon of John F. O'Brien for mayor of Manhattan, but fusion leader Fiorello La Guardla won the posi tion. Curry stubbornly kept the Tammany vote solidly for Al Smith in the Chicago democratic con vention, but Roosevelt won in spite of him. And he opposed the nomination of Herbert H. Lehman for governor, the man who now sits in the gover nor's chair. A surface examination of these facts would seem to point out that whoever Curry op posed was sure of election. But the solid alignment against Roosevelt lost the tiger organization a great amount of federal patronage, and the defeat of al most the entire Tammany slate at the last munici pal election cost thousands of Tammany voters their Jobs. Curry was given the opportunity to resign, but, true to his stuoborn nature, he refused. At the ses sion last week, friends begged him to resign, pro testing thaat they held him in such high personal regard that they hesitated to publicly dethrone him. Curry refused and the balloting began. It took al most an hour and a half and a very stormy session to remove Mr. Curry from his position as Tammany leader. HARRIS RETURNS TO CAMPUS FOR TWO DAY VISIT (Continued from Page 1.) Ellen Smith hall at 5 o'clock in the afternoon. At 8 o'clock in the evening Har ris will speak at a community mass meeting at the First Chris tian church at 16th and E streets. All people who wish to attend are invited to come to the evening meeting. At 8:30 Wednesday morning Mr. Harris will speak at a convocation of Jackson high school students in the Jackson high gymnasium, and at 10:30 during the same morning will appear at College View high school. The main speech on the program is to be Wednesday noon at the Forum luncheon at the Grand hotel. Bob Harrison, of the stu dent forum committee, is to be in charge of the meeting. Seminar Wednesday. From 4 to 6 in the afternoon the peace authority and advocate will hold a seminar for leadership, the group to be made up of high school and university students. The dis cussion will be held at the Y. M. C. A. rooms in the Temple build ing. In the evening from 7 to 8:45 p. m. another leadership sem inar will be held, with members of the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. cabinets, and the international re lations cabinets present. Mr. Harris' final apeparance will be at 8:45 Wednesday evening at the Lincoln Labor Temple, where he will address the unemployed, union members and other Lincoln citizens. The committee responsible for Mr. Harris' program here is com posed of Joe Nuquist, Dan Wil liams, Bob Harrison, Joe LeMas ter, Rev. Ray Hunt, Miss Miller. Ela'ne Fontein, Lorraine Hitch cock, Breta Peterson. Dr. and Mrs. E. L Hinman an dWilliam Mot- phew. PART TIME JOBS WORK 78 FROSH 21 HOURS WEEK (Continued from Page 1.) ample," he said, "restaurant own ers and the heads of honws fre quently think of the compensation of their workers in terms of what the students would have to pay were they to purchase their meals and room on the open market. A restaurant man will have a student work four hours a day for mree meals. The student is sup posed to receive the equivalent of 25c an hour, or a dollar a day. But since the student takes out his wages in meals, and these meals cost the restaurant owner probably no more than 50c a day, the owner is really paying only 50c a day for the student's labor." TUESDAY VOTE TEST OF BARB BALLOT POWER (Continued from Page 1.) n e s s administration, Newman Grove. Only two candidates, Vernon Filley, ag college, Lincoln and John Stover, arts and sciences, Malcolm, filed for the two grad uate student posts on the council. The newly written eligibility re quirements specify that the stu dent must carry twelve hours sat isfactorily next semester and must complete at least twelve this se mester. The candidate must be credited with twenty-seven hours for the preceding two semesters, must have a seventy-five average for his university career, and must have no outstanding delinquencies. The participation by Barbs to morrow in the council election will be watched with interest by the two Greek factions, Green Togas and Progressives, for this time a strictly Barb election will be held separately and not in connection with other ballotings, thus making an estimate of the Barb vote pos sible. An accurate accounting of potential voting power of unaf filiated students has not been pos sible for some time. TEACHERS OPPOSE PHYS ED BALLYHOO STATES MISS LEE (Continued from Page 1.) tion" was the subject of a talk by Miss Lee before the meeting of the Wellesley club at the Cleveland Athletic club, Thursday noon, April 12. Miss Bernice Miller, general sec retary of the university Y. W. C. A., and Miss Alvey, member of Miss Lee's staff accompanied Mis9 Lee on the trip. They started home Saturday, arriving in Lincoln Monday noon. CORN COBS NAME IRVING HILL FOR NEXT PRESIDENT (Continued from Page 1.) gram outlined by Hill to help maintain members' interest In the organization throughout the year is the establishment of a pledge fee to be paid in the fall. The amount of the fee would be deducted from the initiation fee in the spring but according to Hill would aid in keeping members active in the pep group throughout the year. New officers indicated Monday night that plans will be shaped im mediately for fall activities of the organization. Recalling to new members the pep club's suspension and subsequent reorganization during the fall months. Hill de clared that Corn Cobs have reached a critical period and must prove their worth or pass out of existence. NEW FACULTY MEMBER GUEST AT UNIVERSITY CLUB DINNER TODAY (Continued from Page 1.) tional convention at Baltimore in 1912. He served as the chairman of the democratic state convention in 1916 and was nominated as democratic candidate for congress man at large by a statewide pri mary. Refiners' Executive. In 1919 he left the general prac tice to become general counsel of the Midwest Refining Company, becoming director and then vice president. When this company came under the control of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana, r REWARD awaits the finder of a Chi Phi pin lost Friday night. Call F4330 PLAN YOUR SUMMER WORK Business will use you if yon can do what they want done. Plan your summer work. ask for literature Lincoln School o Commerce P & 14 Sts. W. A. Bobbins, Pres. B6T74 n he became a director and vice president of the latter company at Chicago. In 1926 he returned to Denver as president of his original corporation. During this period he was also director of many asso ciated companies and was engaged in many federal and state investi gations of the oil industry. He discontinued all business con nections in 192b to lake graduate work in political economy and po litical science at Johns Hopkins university. His only business con nection in recent years has been as director of the American Na tional Bank of Cheyenne of which he was the organizer. KLUB SHOW OPENS FOR WEEK'S RUN (Continued from Page 1.) Russell Whitaker. John O'Neill and Chancey Barney contributing. The complete cast is as follows: Eth4 Ellnworth Iliimird Vt'IiriliT Marjory drwn Hud Mandr-vnn kathryn Kmeraon kclth VoKt tirao Marvin .Winttun Strain Marlon Mrvrna I)i::lit IVrkiim KvHyn Itirv tfprbt-rt Vrmie lufr Duffy ( liurlrit slt-udiiKin Joe WllllA ii-nrKC Saurr frank llnydrn Franklin Mi'lcr Tat Nrylni Wm. KIMht H'tty Dwnvne rf Halliy cd Raudolph Ilrnry Kotnian BUI Lnnranlfr M.mt Will" fiearge Hawthorne I-:d. Cannon racy Adunn Art Sti-narl I'ully Adams ..Win. Smith Mnrk olfr Iryins Hill Al Hnlman C harlro (iallnnav Jimmy Vftiina Don North Annahflllp HrUtrrn .rl MrFnrlanU Billy Brown Dnnrnn Niml.- Jack l.omn Jack F.mtrln Vrir Bradlry Jim Ilr4.ll Randy Valllr IJaru'il lloi ( arl Kent Ui-riiard .SiaMrrimn Bob Maynard Krlth rmir Mrnry Hroolta Ilnlmnn Wnlnh Mr. Tyer I.rv.1 ll.plfirtl lri. I-rr Wilvin Dodd.. Tom Mlnirr Sprnrrr larkr Jack shormaki r Harold Rohblns. Taylor WaMron Ralph Stonr J,iik I'ar Mrnry Nrh.trr Ilirk CiiUi-n Albrrt MrClure Ilrnry Wliitukrr rONIKS. Mary Maroh Ilrnry l.nroon Hrlrn Jnnra Jark f.nf-n l-niilne Ralph Dirk Dirkrr Jan Robrrta Glen Macr Ann Walton Dan Kastrrday Kotty AUrn R,,b IMrrrr rrsinia Howe Ben Hlmnirm M Ruth Monrr Jim ll'rr!s suun larltnn Carl WUKniiiorn Babe Seott Kill iarlfm UHRICH IS GRANTED CHICAGO U AWARD Jacob TJhrich, McCook, graduate student in the university zoology department, has been granted a graduate assistantship in zoology at the University of Chicago for next year. OFFICIAL BULLETIN Phi Tau Theta. Professor Stepanck will speak at the next meeting of Phi Tau Theta on Tuesday, April 24. His subject will be "Religion and Scl-nee." Stamp Club. The University Stamp club has been Invited by the Lincoln Collec tors Club to attend a joint meet Ing at the Lindell hotel, Thursday evening at 7:30 p. m. A speaker from Omaha, who will also show three albums of stamps, will speak on the subject "U. S. Stamps." STEPANEK TO SPEAK. Mr. Orin Stepanek, associate professor of English and Slavonic languages, will speak on "Science and Religion" at the regular meet ing of Phi Tau Theta, Methodist men's club Tuesday evening at 7 o'clock. HASTEIT IS HONORED. i.i es Hasteit, former student , 'miversity, has been initiated ! honorary chemistry soci ety at the University of Southern California. STEVENS COLLEGE BANQUET. Alumnae of Stevens college are invited to a 6:30 dinner at the University club Thursday, April 20. President James Madison Wood, president of the college, will be present. All those wishing to attend may make arrangements with Frances Rice at B3587. Anti Knock Bronze Eaiy Starting Gasoline 1 HOLMS 14th and W 30th Year B3998 DAIRY CATTLE JUDGING TITLE WON BY HUFFER (Continued from Page 1.) ner and Phillip Niviaux. The three Jersey winners were Frank Svo boda, Joe Huffer and Don Joy. In Guernseys the three high men were Don Joy. Taul Tierce and Joe Huf tied for first in Ayrshires and" Duis tide for first in Ayrshires and Duis won on the flip of a coin. Third in Ayrshires was Joe Huffer. Thirty-five men entered the contest. They judged one clasj each of cows and heifers of each or the four dairy breeds. Bill Rals ton was contest manager. Judges were Raymond McCarty, Lyman Wallin and Willard Waldo, mem bers of former dairy cattle judging teams. BOOK STORES EXHIBIT SEMOR IM ITATES Offered in Three Styles; Orders Must Be in by May 6. Senior invitations and announce ments are now on display at Long's and the Co-op Book Stores, according to an announcement made yestreday by Lee Young, senior class president. Samples, which have been sent from the Balfour Jeweiry com pany in Massachusetts, are of the three styles selected by the invita tions committee. They include the leather booklst, priced at 45 cents, the cardboard replica, which sells for 25 cents, and the formal sheet invitation, which is 10 cents. The two booklets contain complete sen ior class rolls, by colleges. Orders are being taken by the two firms and will probably close Saturday. May 6, in order that they may be mniipd in time for commencement. TWENTY-FIVE AT ESTES CONCLAVE RALLY SUNDAY About twenty-five persons at tended the Estes conference rally and picnic held Sunday afternoon at Tioneer park. Baseball, a picnic lunch, and a talk about the Es tes student conference held each year in Estes park, Colo., were the features of the afternoon. Breta Peterson was in charge of the rally, and Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Hayes were chaperunea. Put Them Away Clean Beware of Moths Have your winter garment cleaned. Protect them from Coats Overcoats Tuxedos We will store them for you for a very small charge. Modern Cleaners Soukup & Westover Call F2377 -' mm mr4 i Buy Your Gifts Nowj Graduation for Weddings Mother's Day AT C. W. FLEMING DECEASED i i i t : Jewelry Auction ( jj AT 2 P. M. AND 7:30 P. M. DAILY J P STARTING WEDNESDAY, 2 P. 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