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TUESDAY. OCTOBER 16. 1934. TWO THE DAILY NEBRASKAN .V! Daily Nebraskan Station A, Lincoln. Nebraska. OFFICIAL STUDENT PUBLICATION UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA This pa par la represented for general advartlalng by the Nebraska Press Association. MEMBEI 93 4 Tills aaper la represented for genera advertising by the Nebraska Prasa Association Entered a second-class matter at the poatofflcj 'n Lincoln. Nebraska, under act of congress. March 3, 187S, and at special rate of postage provided for ln 1103. act of October 3. 1917. authorized January 20. 1922. THIRTY-THIRD YEAR. Published Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. Friday and Sunday mornings during the academic) year. SUBSCRIPTION RATE. $1.50 a year. Single copy 5 cents. $1.00 a semester. $2.50 a year mailed. $1.50 a semester mailed. , Under direction of the Student Publication Board. Editorial Office University Hall 4. Business Office University Hall 4-A. . , , Telephones-Day: B6S91: Night: B6882. B3333 (Jour rial). Ask for Nebraskan editor. EDITORIAL STAFF Burton Marvin Editor-in-Chief MANAGING) EDITORS Lamoine Bible Jack Fischer NEWS EDITORS Fied Nicklaa Virginia Selleek Irwin Ryan Ruth Matschu.lat "Sc'SJ !d!Ui Ssncna Kilbourne Id tor Arnold Levin 8Poru Ed,,or BUSINESS STAFF Richard Schmidt Business Manager ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGERS Truman OSerndorff Bob Shsllenberg Robert Funk Compulsory Drill Must Go! A QUESTION always in the minds of a certain group of thinking students on the campus is one pertaining to compulsory military drill. Why should male students in the sophomore and freshman classes of the university be forced to undergo two years of military drill, the substance of which course could admittedly be taught in two weeks at any military camp? Recently the Board of Regents, preferring to leave things as they are rather than remedying an obnoxious situation, voted to retain the compulsory feature of military training on this campus. For many years there has been controversy aroused repeatedly pertaining to the subject, but never has a student or faculty group organized and actually and forcefully attempted to make the course optional. It Is high time that compulsory military drill be removed from the curriculum of the University of Nebraska, and in its place be substituted optional training. Compulsory drill as an institution in a university is wholly out of place because it cancels academic freedom, a feature the presence of which i considered vitally necessary In any school of higher learning. Readers will ask first of all why the compulsory feature Is undesirable for any other reasons than the abstract one stated above. Following are several reasons: 1 Compulsory military drill impedes progress made in the direction of establishment of a peace program because it involves military fatalism. One of the declarations made by the military department is that war is Inevitable. Such statements are made and supposedly proven so that a mind-set that will facilitate war responses will be formed. R. O. T. C drill in the colleges and universities of this country exists simply for purposes of propaganda and mind conditioning. It is clearly unfair to place freshmen under the influence of men with such purposes, and only such purposes, in mind. 2 The necessity of conscientious objection caused by the existence of compulsory drill is harmful in ef fect to both the department of military drill and to Use student body In general. Too often insincerity is behind a student's action in seeking exemption and th course isn't regarded in the serious light in which it should be. If compulsory drill were abol- , Isbed in favor of optional training, therefore, the military department as an effective unit of the uni versity would gain advantage, as those taking the course would do so in an sincerity. J The course at present is a farce in several way. Instructors are well aware of the insincerity of student attitude in many cases. 4 Military instructors give the student the idea that there is only one way in which he can express bis loyalty and patriotism. They declare that he owes ft to bis country and countrymen to don a khaki rait, and offer himself for sacrifice on the al tar dedicated to human greed. That belief is false. A student or any citizen of this nation can do better in the way of showing bis loyalty and patriotism by organizing for peace. One can certainly do more for hi country in that way than by pledging himself to dn murder upon order of a so-called superior. 6 The military department has been rather pre sumptious in enrroacb'isg upon the rights of other departments in the university. It also Imposes on the students very extensively. It does so in holding so many marches during the spring, stealing hours of class-room work from other departments of the school. The course as scheduled in the university program calls for three hours of devotion of tune by each student every week. Too much display is permitted in connection with military functions. Each year at the honors convocation some advanced student is permitted to mi in a major part of the program by strutting forth to receive a scrap of paper declaring that be is the outstanding student in advanced drill. That is overemphasis Military officials in Nebraska ball are inclined to harp on the false idea that if compulsory drill were eliminated from this campus federal appropriation under the Morill Land Grant Act of 1S2 would be decreased or cut off completely. The University of Wisconsin, a Land Grant col lege, sbollshed compulsory drill In 1K2, and suffered no diminution of federal appropriations. In connec tion with this case th Secretary of the Interior wrote on July 19. 123: "According to the Act approved July 2, 1M2, rt is clear that th branches of instruction which Include military tactics, are to be taught 'in such manner as the legislatures of the states may respectively prescribe' Military training according to ths Federal law Is clearly placed In the am category as ths other branches of learning which art named. Instruction to military tactic Is obviously a rv aulrtment th state as are ths other branches which an mentioned. It does not appear, however, . I. .l-f ,. Mu4lMi IM Milt, front wo r tary tactic Is any more obligatory on the individual student than is Instruction in agriculture or me chanic arts."' f :-- ir.::.tary drill is compulsory on this campus. agricultural and mechanical arts Instruction should be placed in the same class. John W. Weeks, Secretary of War, on November 18, 1924, wrote to Walter C. Longstretth saying: "I am pleased to inform you that the National De fense Act does not make military training compul sory at any of the institutions which receive the benefits authorized by the Act So far as the War Department is concerned It is optional with the au thorities of the school, college or university whether military training shall be an elective or a oompul aory course In the curriculum." The military department of the University of Ne braska, therefore, can't continue to fall back on the plea that compulsory drill must be retained In order that the school may continue to receive as large federal appropriation as it has now. The burden of the argument rests squarely on the shoulders of the military department, and they should no longer at tempt to pass the buck to stronger hands. The editor of the Nebraskan Is determined to see the establishment of optional military drill as a sub stitute for the existing compulsory training. He has numerous other students allied with him in the drive. If this campaign results in failure that will come because of any or all of the following reasons: 1 Economic pressure, the usual barrier. 2 Suppression of the press by the administration or publications board. Such action would be in di rect con tradition to principles of academic freedom and a free press. 3 Refusal of the military department to acknowl edge the efforts of a group of students bent on es tablishment of a workable and working peace pro gram and system. 4 Defeat of the peace group in a fair debate. If and when this drive results in failure the rea sons for such defeat will be publicized. Bauer Picking Up Yards On Spinner Play STUDENT PULSE Brief, concise contributions pertinent to matters of student lite and the university are welcomed by this department, under the usual restrictions of sound news apr practice, which excludes all libelous matter and personal attacks. Letters must be sifmed. but names will be withheld from publication is so desired. Ilotc About It, Regents. To the Editor: The editorial of last Thursday "Studying the Liv ing World" deserves further comment. Current problems should be studied and analyzed so that students can draw their own conclusions as to how these problems affect them. Too often ideas become so set that they are ac cepted without any question as to their origin or their variance from the truth. This has so often been the case in the set rules and traditions that confront new students entering the "atmosphere of higher learning." In the past we have had the tendency of accepting too many of these set forms and never doubting their benefits. Skeptics, radicals and misguided students (as they are so often called) often make rtatements that oppose the usual order of thinking and extreme contempt for their opinions has always been present. Since schools are erected and maintained for the use of the student, his opinion should receive rnu.e attention than it does. If the schools do develop a few independent thinkers, why shouldn't their opin ions receive as much attention as the group who fol low the set rules? With elections just a few weeks away the atti tudes of the regents who are to be elected should be made pibllc and known to the student body. One of the questions that is often discussed by students is compulsory military drill on the university campus. Are these men in favor of making it an elective course the same as any other course offered? With the aid of competent advisors the average student entering the university can choose the courses he need without distuibing the rules of the institution. J. E. N. TANCLED YARNS BY O. W. D. With the assassination of King Alexander of Yu goslavia, and Foreign Minister Louis Barthou of France still occupying important positions on the front pages of the daily press, is added the further unfortunste news of the death of Raymond Poin care, wartime president of France. Poincare was a close friend of Earthou, and like bis friend has worked long in the interests of European peace. He is the last of the famous French war-time chiefs which included Georges Cle-mt-nceau, and the war riors. Foe he and Joffrc, and like them will remain lor.g In the hearts of Frenchmen. A radically different angle to the toll of European deaths is the ttory from Poca, Hungary, where 1.200 miner have entombed themselves In th black pit of a coal mine for more than 104 hours, demanding higher wages. 1,000 feet below the surface of the earth are these men, half-mad from lack of food, water and light, but determined to die unless their wages are raised from (2.04 to J3..V) per week, s a To revert agin to the Yugoslavian situation, one finIs that it is a country of Serbs, Croats and Slo venes, with a population of 13,630,918 divided into nine banats, and the district of Belgrade, the capi tal. The country which was pieced together after the war, is bounded by Albania, Greece, Bulgaria, Roumanla, Hungary, Austria with only the Adriatic . sea separating it from Italy. While the ultimate consequence of the act are uncertain, the story of the assassination and subsequent developments, reads like the best of the E. Phillips Oppenheim, or Edgsr Wallace mysteries. French police have tracked the conspirators thru out Europe, and in the press dispatches come strange stories of a mysteri ous doctor, and an unknown "gun -girl." Fantastic, perhaps, but unfortunately, the network of spies, in trigues, and radical societies still exist thruout i Europe, and regardless of the consequences to the rest of the world, Kaleman. and others of bis Ilk will continue to give up their own lives in order to obey the orders of their organization. "Crime Doesn't Pay" say the Denver post in liners over eacb crime story, and here maybe are some of the reason: In Chicago, James Sol da t, ag !, tCftSST ritb tn nrATllri ctrnr11 hit grandmother and obtained f 32.00. He was uncon cerned over hi crime. In Denver, two robbers, bung up John Pfeifer, by hi bee!, as a means of torture, .Tbey obtained $4.75. Pfeifer, a 74 year old t scr zy' U-, V I4 V tyk o d$A V) C ' a V ;.L Nt Vl,i( iv r"i" '- ,;n'r.. f j: .A . .t,.. .! ai ' 3, ., ,,. ,,,,,,, , , , , 1 111 " 111 11 1 "r 1 '"' Courtesy Sunday Journal and Star raw fur merchant died. Hope for the return of Mrs. Berry V. Stoll, who was kidnaped fom her sickbed has been practically abandoned. Even the Lindbergh kidnaping law does not seem enough to keep fiends from perpetrating such crimes. CONTEMPORARY COMMENT iVt? i Lectures For Old. Despite the great extent of modern university cur ricula, one field of paramount importance to every one is barely touched upon, the social and political situation of the present time. Those agencies com monly cited as methods for obtaining such informa tion, namely the newspapers and politicians, are alike useless, the former because by nature inade quate, they are infrequently well-read, still more in frequently digested, and the latter because they have usually their own axes to grind. The university re mains today virtually the only available Institution for the dissemination of true knowledge of the present It will be objected that present-day issues have no place in the curriculum of a university. Can it be that although an archeological expedition to Yu catan is considered a fit task for a professor, a study of the race in armaments Is not? Because a Ph.D. can occupy himself profitably with a study of old Slavic roots, is it by the same token unseemly to consider the recent Catalonian uprising? May sub jects be considered of academic interest only when they approach the post mortem stage? Obviously not, and equally obviously the need for a study of present problems by trained minds is among the most pressing needs of the day. The objection may be raised that those who are concentrators in the Division of History, Govern ment, and Economics will be able to fit actual hap penings into those theoretical compartments upon whose creation the whole American educational sys tem is based; it may bs said that those who concen trate in other fields have no desire for such informa tion. That this is obviously false has been tacitly admitted by President Conant's creation of a series of lectures where no attendance will be taken nor credit given, and wherein such problems as fascism, communism, and the Japanese foreign policy will be discussed. But even this scheme has not gone far enough. Al though the subjects dealt with are of present pith and moment, it is "emphasized that it is not the pur pose of tHl lectures to present a survey of contempo rary movements." And yet "a survey of contempo rary movements" is precisely what should be pre sented, for if men are not trained to understand the problems of the day, they will be useless to society, and society will then act not intelligently but blindly. For the establishment of such a series of lectures, two methods present themselves; first, that every professor give one lecture a year on his interpreta tion of the current problems, and secondly, that an endowed series of lectures be established, similar to the Godkin Foundation lectures, but lasting through out the year. In conjunction with this plan, it would be desirable for professors to connect and relate, in sofar as is possible, events under discussion in their courses with present happenings. ( With the inauguration of such a series, the ques tion arises, can the university maintain simultane ously the necessarily active contact with the world and that freedom and independence of thought and teaching so prized by institutions of learning throughout history? In the past, institutions, which have concerned themselves with affairs of state have Inevitably been drawn into partisan struggles. Today academic principles of detachment from po litical affairs obviate this possibility. An eye to the future and present, as well as the past is a necessity to every Institution whl'-h claims to turn out truly educated men today. The future will well repay this innovation. Smith hall. All members are re quired to attend. Interfraternity Council, The Interfraternity Council will hold its regular meeting in Room 9 of Morrill Hall Tuesday night. The Barb Inter-club council will meet at 7:30, Tuesday, Oct. 16, in room 8, University hall. A. S. M. E. A. S. M. E. will meet Wednesday evening at 5 o'clock in Mechanical Engineering, room 204. Outing Club. Outing Club will sponsor a roller skating spree, Wednesday, Oct. 17. The group will start at 5:00 from the Armory. Delts, Phi Psis, Sigma Nus And Beta Sigma Psis Win Monday Tilts. ACACIA FRAY POSTPONED CHANTS BY CHANCE. a radio program over ! KFOR. Well, now that THE SHINING HOUR is over, we're wondering what the Players will present next. As the first dramatic production of the year, the Keith Winter show vent over big. A few actnow'erig. ment should go, however, to those who were behind th curtain. When the fire started in the barn, it was Johnnie Dunman and Doug las Harper, the electricians, who worked the electric fans, red ' lights, and strips of crepe paper. The rain was accomplished through the medium of the university I sprinkler system; tnunoer came from a tympanum (kettle drum to you), and these necessary effects were worked by the two stage car penter, Era Lown end Roy Squires, who also pulled the cur tain up and down. Th collection of silver cups which adorned the mantle, cam from th Athletic Club and various fraternity houses. Dixie Betzer, property mistress, was responsible for many of the properties, and the prop girl who assisted was Margaret Straub. Beth Langford was prompter, and the orchestra which furnished mu sic between th acts was directed by Mr. William Quick. Elaine Shonka "Rachmaninoffed" for Ar masd Hunter three times when he seemed to be playing th classics, and Lois Patterson mad herself useful before th opening night by covering th davenport and other necessary psrts of th furnishings. To those who we'v neglected to mention, consider this a personal orchid, too. Music for the I'anhellenlc Ban quet tonight will be furnished by Wilbur Che-nowe-th. plsnist nd composer. The program will con sist of hi own selection, and will mark the initial presentation of a new concert waits. "Bouree and Mur-ette," still in manuscript form. A group of Chopin selections will complete Mr. Chenoweth's part of the musicale. The assisting artist. Sidney Peprle, tnor, will sing "Only My Love for Thee," and "Love Light." both dedicated to Jessica Dragonette, NBC artist; "Love Everlasting" and "The Ar row and the Song." This afternoon at 2.24, Lura rVhuler Smith, professor of piano at the school of music, will present Advisor) Needed for (iirl Kenerve Clulm in the (lily Miss A 'Louise Trester. girl re serve secretary of the city Y. W. C. A., wishes to invite any uni versity women who are upper classmen to advise girl reserve clubs in the city. Then girls are needed. Any girls interx-aled shuuM apply immediately at the Y. W. C A. office. station j Be prepared to check in tickets. . Money should be deposited imme diately at Student Activities office Sweaters! Shirts'. CLEANED -T-HKIR shasa. I I net lw arm 7 Expert! thetr colat. their fab- hf wi n mm nh Jtm r.lVZ US CALL aa YFAR5ITY v CLEAN 5 B3367 211 No. 14 JOl TUCK tfl HOY WYTHC OFFICIAL BULLETIN in Coliseum. Staff Meetings. Hours for the Y. W. C. A. staff meetings are as follows: Ag presi dent. 5 o'clock Monday, Helen Lutz; Church relations, 5 Wednes day. Mary K. Hendricks; Confer ence, 5 Friday, Breta Peterson Finance, 4 Monday, Marjorie Shos tak; International, 4 Monday, Lor raine Hitchcock; Membership, 5 Wednesday, Ar!en; Bors; Nebras ka ir. China. 4 Thursday, Laura i McAllister; Posters, 5 Wednesday, ! Ruth Allen; Program and Office, I 4 Tuesday, Jean Humphrey; ProJ I ect, 5 Thursday, Theodora Lohr Iman; Publicity, Thursday, Dor othy Cathers. Girl Reserve Sponsors. Any girl wishing to sponsor, a high school Girl Reserve group may do so by applying to Mim Bemlce Miller at the Y. W, C. A. office. Cirls In Teachers college will find it helpfuL Free swimming hours for women have bwn changed from 4 to 5 o'clock on Monday, Wednesday and Friday to 4 :30 to 5 o'clock on thoie days due to the increased demand for instruction the forepart of the hour. Other recreation hours are as previously announced. Com Cobs. Corn Cob will meet Wednesday evening at 7 in U. hall, room , Lutheran Bible League. The Lutheran Eible league will meet for Bible study with Rev. Krck from 7 to 8 Wednesday eve ning in room 205 of the Temple building. CHARM SCHOOL MEETS. Charm school will meet for the first time, Tiu-aday, Oct. 20. 7 o'clock In Klli-n Kmith hall, when j Miss Amanda Heppner, dean of women, will talk on "Personality." Muriel Hook and Anne Pickett are in charge. Gamma Alpha Chi. Gamma Alpha Chi will meet Thursday night at 7:30 at F.llcn Games took on more of an as pect of runaways and less an ap pearance of close battles as the second week of play in the intra mural touchfootball league began Mnday. In league I the loop leading Acacias had a rest as a result of ihe postponement of their fr.iy with the Pi K. A.'s. The Phi Psis and the Delts kept close on the heels of the leaders, taking ad vantage of their day off by timely victories over theiropponents. The former won a 1 to 0 victory over the Phi Sigs while the latter ran and passed their way to a 6 to 0 win over Beta Theta Phi. Th postponed game will be played Friday. In League III the Sigma Nus trounced the Theta Chis 20 to 0. Beta Sigma Psi went into second place by running away with thi Z. B. T.s 20 to 0, and nre now ti.l with the A. T. O.a whose 2 to 0 conquest of the Phi Delta left them high in the standings. On Tuesday in League II the leading S. A. E.'s and Farm House tangle with the Lambda Chi Al phas and D. U.'s respectively. The former game will be played on Field I at 4 while the latter will take place on Field II at 5. The Chi Phis and the D. 8. L.'s tussle in the other game on Field I at U. In League IV the leading A. G. R.s and Sig Eps meet in the fea ture game of the sfternoon to de cide first place. The two leaders will do battle on Field III at 5 The S. A. M.s meet the Sigma Chis on Field II at 4. while the Kapp Sigs meet the Phi Gams on Field III at 4. IF YOU NEED A CAR why nut rent frirn us twA t l'.e'l rafen in Ihe n.uritry no red t-.ne. Tha ear un rail lor yti nl I, Ice yint home tut a tnflln charge. MCT0E OUT COMPANY Always OfMfl 1120 P St. Itli O ,:? I 1 r-rfV JTiTiti . iS lit . ttl pi ft U r- Ut Wax" Wiuoasi is tui latest Winia Ere. Picturc,-THI CLAGON MTKDEt CASE 1 I .