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TTvO. TTIE DAILY NEBRASKAN FRIDAY, APRIE 27, 1934. The Daily Nebraskan . Station A, Lincoln. Nebraska OFFICIAL STUDENT PUBLICATION UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEMBERCl 93 4 This piper I raprasantas for gsiisral advartialnpj by the Nsbraska Prats Anoclatlon gUociatfd gotteoiate jitfit It J J fNii?i 'S4 rrterad at aacond-claaa matter at tha JMtJtf,eTLn Lincoln. Nebraska, under act of eongnjsa, March . THIRTY-THIRD YEAR Published Tuesday, Wednesday. Thursday. Friday and Sunday mornings during tht acadtmlo year. SUBSCRIPTION RATE uSdWSgJcj ouden, Pa .oard. Business Office University Hall A. , TtltphoneDsy. b"68i, Night: B-6882. i-MM (Journal) Ask for Nebraskan editor. EDITORIAL STAFF ,. MVnagingEdVtoV.' Burton arv. MItw VI. Or. l.yKd1or -Irwin Ryn IJSSs Aistt;;:::;:....Jack Grubs and Arnold Ltvint Contributing Edltort Maurice Johnson Dick Moran Carlylt Hodskln Featurt Edltora . . . Marsartt Easterday , , . Ruth Uatachullat Loralnt Campbell Woman1 Editor .. B"r sal .assistant Woman's Edit ore. .Hazel Baler. Marylu Petersen Newt Reportert Johnston Snipes Lewis Cass Jack Raamuston Allen Gatewood A New Course For Student Pacifists. yHAT students must realize the futility of mere protests and demonstrations against war is be coming more evident Anti-military drill cam paigns, "conscientious objectors," and other pacifist tactics should be dropped in favor of a more ra tional approach to an actual problem. It seems necessary, too, that students adopt realism In solv ing a realistic problem. This was the substance, in part, of an address given yesterday by Paul Harris, eminent peace leader, before many Nebraska students. He advo cated, in part, that students organize politically to influence national legislation, Congress, and the President of the United States, if they wish to ad vance the cause of peace. The note Is a refreshing change from the usual run of peace advocations. And especially so, if regarded as a sequel to the nationwide peace strike held recently at many universities and colleges. In many Instances the peace day programs displayed sanity and intelligence. Others did little to en courage the cause of peace. Aside from discouraging features of the general strike, it may indicate that students are attempting to make their opinions a determining factor In this country's foreign policy. They should do this, and rightfully so, since the youth of this country will carry the burden of the next war. It is questionable, however, whether this type of ---demonstration is the most effective means of bring ing the Issue to the attention of the nation's govern ment Rather would it seem more Intelligent for them to adopt the course suggested by Paul Harris. Indeed it seems that inspired pacifists must confine their activities primarily to inflencing national poli cies. Approaching the problem purely from an in ternational viewpoint, is at best, a futile gesture. With this in mind, it seems laudable that the peace movement is taking a constructive attitude. By influencing national legislation it is possible to imagine future legislation which will require United States' entrance into the League of Nations, curb ing the activities of munitions rings, and adopting the practice of placing economic embargoes on belllgerant nations. If it is possible to avert international conflicts, this course of action appears to be the immediate objective of peace leaders. While student pacifists are unquestionably sincere in their efforts to bring about a Utopian understand ing between nations, the whole movement is char acterized by deeply ingrained futility. Pacifists orl this campus, and elsewhere, cannot hope to solve the problem of ending world conflicts by protesting against military drill or staging huge protests against the futility of war. It appears then that control of national policy should be the Immediate goal of pacifists. While the Nebraskan does not advocate a peace program on this campus, students sincerely believing that war may be outlawed should find much food for thought in the suggestion made by Paul Harris. Minor Sports Stage a Comeback. It is with some satisfaction that the Nebraskan noted golfs return to a place among varsity ath letics Thursday, as a four man links team met Iowa State here. The mere restoration of golf may not in itself be significant as part of a program which saw the return of baseball and tennis as letter ports, indicate the minor sports are again on the upturn. Most phases of the varsity athletic program pain fully felt the effect of the athletic department's re trenchment policy when the full force of the de preraloa bit intercoiiegiaie athletics and sent box office receipts on a downward slide. Baseball was among the first to go. Tennis and golf followed in its wake, the latter after a brief existence here, while wrestling and swimming also suffered as was evidenced in a reduced number of meets in those events. Track and basketball of the major sports also operated on somewhat reduced schedule. "King Football,'' which provided much of the where withal for other athletics, alone maintained its for mer high status in intercollegiate circles. All uni versity tournaments in the various sports continued to flourish but the tang of intercollegiate competi tion was gone from many, and with it much Of the incentive for participation. The Nebraskan does not believe that athletics are necessarily the backbone of the university or that the removal of this or that sport from the varsity program would influence materially the institution. It does feel, however, that varsity sports constitute a definite and necessary part of undergraduate ac tivities, and as such should embrace a large enough field to offer the greatest possible number of stu dents opportunity tot intercollegiate competition. The gridiron has no greater importance or thrill for its followers than do the links for the golf en thusiast Whether the sport be major or minor earrWa but little weight as a rule, with the student who is out for a varsity team berth. He is out for tr i w uea because he has a genuine interest in iiiat sport and Is more or less proficient at it Student ability In athletics is not confined to major sports of football, basketball, and track, and It Is for those who excel in other fields that minor sports fill a definite need. That intramural athletics, furnishing all men an opportunity to compete, will eventually replace In tercollegiate contests, was predicted recently by an outstanding college authority. The probability of such a development is debatable. For the present, revival of minor sports will open the sports realm to a wider range of students. With this in mind, minor sports should merit a strong position on Nebraska's athletic program and should rise in importance in the Intercollegiate field. The Student Pulse Brief, Concise, contributions pertinent to matters of student lift and the university are welcomed by this department, under tha usual restrictions of sound newspaper practice, which excludes all libelous mat. ter and personal attacks. Lettera accepted do not necessarily Indicate tht editorial policy of thla paper. We Gather He . , Didn't Like The Shou; TO THE EDITOR: The Kosmet Klub show was so good this year that I feel that I must express my appreciation for an entertaining evening. I can just feel it in my bones that some nasty person will criticize this wonderful play just as they do other activities on the campus. It is a shame that people have to be so destructive about worthy pieces of work such as Kosmet Shows, the Y. W. C. A. and other items less important The members of the Klub must have given up a great deal of their time to get out all their talent and make the performance so smooth. Everything showed careful management by the fourteen mem bers of the Klub and faithful work on the part of the three men working to get into the Klub. One of the best features of the show was the original plan of casting the characters in exactly the opposite role that they play on the campus. If It hadn't been that the Nebraskan had explained the plot everyday for a week, and that each player spent a half hour explaining his part in the play, I would never have figured it out Unlike so many plays such as "Hedda Gabler," which so many people had the nerye to say good, "The Campus Cop" had rapidity of action and per fection of timing. Whenever a player had com pleted his monologue he would leave by one door and another character would enter immediately at the other door. Plays like this are easy to follow. There Is certainly no guesswork connected. I admire Mr. Tenne for introducing the bare stage idea to America. So many of the silly movies seen today have a dreadful lot of furniture in the scenes and this always makes the actors want to sit down. When they sit down it is hard to follow the conversation. Mr. Yenne also used the very sensible and practical plan of having his characters stay In the geometrical center of the stage and stand erect Everyone can see and hear when this is done. My old grandmother used to say that nothing is so good that it cannot be improved upon. In this helpful spirit I would like to very humbly suggest some changes for next year's show. As the admission has been held down to fifty cents the Klub would be justified in economizing on the show a bit The expense of all those elaborate sets and fine costumes must be tremendous. My suggestion therefore would be that the scenery be omitted altogether next year. The Greeks did with out and we could too. Another idea, of which a great many have ap proved, is that of allowing Mr. Yenne to read the manuscript from the stage rather than having all the characters bother about so many rehearsals and performnces. He could be the sole actor following the modern style adopted this year in making the production a series of simple monologues. I sincerely hope these comments and suggestions will be taken in the spirit they are given. "R." Contemporary Comment Staid Harvard Becomes Socialistic. Harvard's six experimental fellowships for fresh men providing a stipend of $1,000 is without ques tion of a doubt one of the most direct and straight forward moves made in several years by that uni versity In its effort to retain its premier educa tional ranking. In possible value to Harvard it seems on its face to merit a position second only to the famed Harkness plan. What If Harvard Is not yet absolutely certain just what will be the source of funds from which to support these fellowships and possibly to in crease them to the proposed 40 ? At least Harvard is striking out a new educational theory that credit ed colleges owe exceptional students an education, free entirely from financial cares. But when the committee on scholarships corns to select the for tunate recipients of these fellowships the problem of finances will fade far into the background. The plan will soon bring serious discredit upon the Har vard educational solons if some of the committee's young hopefuls fail to deliver to Fostering Mother the expected Intellectual achievements which an an nual stipend of $1,000 would warrant But even in this event it Is fully worthwhile for Harvard to take the chance. It means the inaugu ration of one of the few opportunities for students to receive a college education entirely at the ex. pense of the college. It is another remarkable in dication of contemporary trends staid Harvard Univeresity has turned socialistic and socialist-dictator Conant is doling out yellow eagles for the benefit of scholars' pocketbooks and Harvard's pres tige Cornell Dally Sun. Education for The Individual. QUVET COLLEGE is the latest school to reno vate its curriculum in order to better prepare its students for the "uses of the world." 8warthmore, Colgate and the University of Chicago have already brought about changes in their educational machin ery which will better equip the student for the prob lems of today. The general aims of the Olivet plan are directed to provide the student with a unified view of man's knewledre and to determine the relation between this knowledge and his own activities. An Olivet student is to be allowed to formulate a plan for life after he hj tested his own capacities and desires. Especially worthwhile is the attempt of the Olivet educators to steer clear of mass movements In edu cation. The unit at Olivet will be the individual Kdacation for groups, averages, or unique misfits will be discarded. Instead of dealing with hypo thetical entitles, the current reality, the individual, will become the center of the new plan. The stu dent will be allowed to follow his own pace. Olivet will be divided into a junior division and a senior division. Normally two years will be spent in each division, but it will be possible with the recommendation of a tutor to hurdle the first di vision Irt one year if the student Is capable. Two years will be required as a minimum in the senior division and the bachelor's degree will be given after passing a comprehensive examination. . This plan has several features which recommend it. Although the tutorial system Is likely to prove expensive, no better system for individual training has yet been devised. More freedom for the stu dent with stlffer examinations seems to be the vogue. If these experiments turn out an Individual better trained to cope with a modern world, they may be worth copying elsewhere. Minnesota Dally. Ag College By Carlyle Hodgkin THE MELLOWING PROCESS. AYORDS do a very inadequate job of defining the things they attempt to define. It is a far cry from the simple six-letter word "friend" to the sum total of all the experiences that go to make up a friendship. Thero is a world of difference between the word "food" and a delicious steak with vegetables, salad, fruit, drinks and all the other things necessary to complete a satisfying meal. There is a vast gulf between the phrase "trip to the Orient" and the actual experience of seeing all the details of this strange and fascinating life in the Orient. Thero Is a tremendous difference between the word "pageant" and the experience of seeiig and hearing all the music, all the color and all the drama that will be a part of the Farmers' Fair pageant "American Panorama" Saturday, May 5. That is why advertising is a hard Job. The words one can put down on a piece of paper are at best empty shells, and the reader's imagination has to put the meat into them. Words are simply the labels we tie onto experience, and then hope that folks will recognize the experience by its label. But the seven letters, p-a-g-e-a-n-t, are nothing more than a label There isn't anything about them that gets inside people's experiences like music does, or color, or marching soldiers, or a visual presents tlon of the march of.hlstorlo events. So using words is simply using the labels for things when the things themselves can't be used. The job the labels try to do is create in the mind of the reader the totality of experience for which they stand. Obviously they fail in part. The more effectively the labels are chosen and put together, the nearer they come to creating the totality of ex perience for which they stand. For the people who attend "American Panomara," therefore, It means that the labels have been used effectively enough to create so complete a picture that Imagination Is stirred and people are ready for the experience. For those who do not attend the pageant the conclusion follows that the labels have not been effective enough to create a tantalizing picture in their minds and their interest is not aroused in the experience. It's this job of making labels really paint pictures that spells success or failure when one is trying to tell the public about Farmers' Fair pageant or any other human experience. But that is not what I started to write about. I started to write about the word "cooperation." We use that word glibly around Farmers' Fair time. It's cooperation this, and cooperation that, and co operation the other thing. But cooperation is not defined by eleven letters; it is defined only by experience. To learn to coop erate Is a mellowing process; it Is a harmonizing process; it is a process whereby people learn to sacrifice, to swallow personal ambitions and griev ances, and to subordinate everything to the good of the goal toward which they are working. And Farmers' Fair offers an excellent opportun ity to define cooperation in terms of experience rather than of letters. In order to do the thing as it has always been done and as Ag students will always be determined to do it school work has to be neglected, dates, meetings and parties have to be forgotten, meals have to be missed, sleep has to be lost, nearly everybody has to worry, and absolutely everybody has to work. And there has to be clashes of interests and of wills. And there has to be giving in. And because people are human and forget and neglect there have to be unnecessary situations arising to be met to the best Interests of all. The faculty people go through it all just as do the students. The big difference is that they go through it every year while the students go through through it they and the students, the mellowing process is at work. They are defining cooperation it only a few years. But each time they do go -which Is living together In terms of actual, hu man experience. Soviet Union Must Keep Policy of Peace, Teacher Tells Oklahoma Group From Oklahoma Daily. "A policy Pf peace is absolutely imperative for success of the soviet union, and if Japan keeps within a sense of reason, there will be no war horu.'Mn Russia and JaDan." Dr. S. R. Tompkins, associate pro- iessor or nisiory, ioia memuen ui the Trouble Spots in Contempor ary Pontics leisure-time lecture class Tuesday nignt. Russia also may be expected to continue to make friends with capitalistic countries so as to be able to get help in time of eco nomic need, Tompkins said in his lecture, the title of which was "A Chisis in Communism." "A two-fold crisis now exists in R u s s i a," Tompkins declared. "Thpr la first crisis in which the interests of agriculture Is opposed to lnausiry, ana secona, a crisis ui which the international state la op posed to the national state." In explaining that a policy of peace Is a necessity to the soviet union, Tompkins stated that the agricultural crisis that now exists In Russia could not survive a war. Stalin perpetuator of the first and second five year plans, is cogn izant of the situation and is pre serving peace, Tompkins told the audience- To prove his point, Tompkins cited figures to show that in 1916 there were 35 million horses in Russia, in 1933 there were 16 mil lion. In 1916 there were 89 million cattle, in 1933 there were 38 mil lion. Tompkins traced the develop ment of the peasant from feudal times to his present position In the soviet union, also giving a brief history of the post-war Russia un der the guiding Influences of Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin. Unless the communist party does revert to the third international's and Trosky's theory of permanent revolution, the national state stands an excellent chance of suc ceeding," Tompkins declared. A transportation deficiency also was Instrumental In bringing about the present crisis in communism, and will be one of the factors that keeps Russia out of war with Japan' Thompkins believes. OFFICIAL BULLETIN Barb Council. Rarb council meetimr will be held Friday afternoon at 5 o'clock in Social sciences nunaing room 105. Election of officers will be held, and other plans for this year will be formed. Members of both the old and new councils are to be present. Intramural Representatives. There will be a meeting of intra mural representatives Monday noon at Grant Memorial hall. Know Your City. University girls who wish to go with the Y. W. C. A. Know Your City group through the peniten- Your Drug Store It to ear nuidn u trrrt w. ewtk la mat lrag 4rpjUnit a4 Laack- nu. The Owl Pharmacy i4i n. 141k a r st. r wk deli via; Blt'S tiary Friday are to meet at Ellen Smith hall at 2 o'clock. CLUB COMMEMORATES DEATH SPANISH AUTHOR The Spanish club met last night in Carrie Hell Raymond hall in commernr.- -tn of the death of rs! Put Them Away Clean Beware of Moths Have your winter garments cleaned. Protect them from Coats Overcoats Tuxedos We will store them for you 'or a very small charge. Modern Cleaners Soukup & Westover Call F2377 Mitnipl fVrvantes Saedra. Snanish novelist Numerous speeches by members of the ciud ana several Spanish songs by two male mem bers were featured on the evening's program Cervantes is the author of "Don Quixote" and his death is com memorated all over the United States in Spanish clubs of various universities, according to Profes sor Teale, instructor in Romance languages. Develop Your Mental And Physical Coordination By Learning to Dance Classes every Monday and Wednes day. Beginners given personal at tention at 8:00 P. M. LUELLA WILLIAMS PRIVATE STUDIO 1220 D St. B-42S8 LLiOVE THY NEIGHBOR o o o Advises BING CROSBY HEAR HIM SINO. IT ON Newest Victor and Brunswick EEC0ED EELEA3Z3 OTHER NEW NUMBERS Nasty Man by Hudy Vallee A Do Ro Mi Trio e. She Reminds Me by Hal Ktmp Play to Me, Gypsy by Ray Noble Hear Them at WALT'S- mZ Ssi 1240 "O" LlCIIT food is the kind that will keep the brain in action. So start the day with Kellogg's Rice Krispies. Those crisp, crunchy rice bubbles with milk or cream appeal to the taste and fur nish energy you need. Rice Krispies at lunch are also ideal. 'Won! bog you down. And at the end of the day when hungry and tired Rice Krispies satisfy the appetite and promote sound sleep. Ask for Kellogg's Rice Kriepies at your campus restaurant, fraternity house or eating club. Made by Kellogg in Battle Creek. Listen! LINCOLN'S FASHION CENTER AsVja"-" it "St0 V avuojTKxi READY FOR IVY DAY WITH THE CLOTHES YOU'LL WANT WHITE SWAGGER SUITS I095 With coaU long enough to wear later with pastel silks and cottons. WHITE LINEN SUITS 7 95 Either short Jacket or swagger length coats. Also in brown and navy. WHITE AND PASTEL TUBABLE FROCKS 795 And a grand assortment ot tubable pastel prints. Some one-piece others with swagge; lengths matching jackets. SEE THESE SMART COTTON FROCKS 3 95 Grand for classroom and campus and lo they tub so easily. Piques, ging ham and seersucker, one and two-piece styles. SPRING PARTY FROCKS g95.250 Ot fresh billowing org irifly, Mussillns de sole and organza, white and pastel shades. WHITE HAND BAGS 1 95 Whlta wood bead bags, white patent, rodolaque. washable calf and linen klip cover. Also browo. navy, red, beige, gTey. THE COLLEGE SHOP Collegiate ideas about fash ion ... modiste ideas about price. j