Nebraska Newspapers

    i I
( 1
1 1 ;
A
i
1 i
-TWO
THE DAILY NEB R ASK AN
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1934.
Daily Nebraskan
a i inAAin. Nabrcakaw
OFFICIAL STUDENT PUBLICATION
i luiucDoiTV rB KIFBRASKA
unknw i w '
larsr It represented for general advertlslno by ths
Item a.nm rivmm .--
!
MCMBER 193 4
aper ta repretentwl far gsnerav
dvertlilng by the
Nebraska Press Aaaeelatlen
Entered at second-class matter at the postofflcw In
Lincoln, Nebraska, under act of congress. March 3. 187V.
nd at special rate of postage provided for In eien
Jl03. act of October S. 1817. authorized January 20. 1922.
; THIRTY-THIRD YEAR.
. Published Tuesday, Wednesday. Thursday, Friday and
Sunday mornings during the academic year.
SUBSCRIPTION RATE.
' 11.60 year. Single eopy 6 cents. tl.OO a semester.
12.60 a year mailed. S1.60 a semester mailed.
Under direction of the Student Publication Board.
Editorial Office University Hall 4.
Business Office University K'all 4-A.
Telphnns-nayi B6891; NlghU 66888. B3333 (Jour.
Ml). Ask for Nebraskan editor.
EDITORIAL STAFF
Burton Marvin Edltor-ln-Chlef
MANAGING EDITORS
Lamolne Bible Jck Fischer
NEWS EDITORS
Fred Nlcklaa Virginia Selleck
Irwin Ryan
Ruth Matschullat W2S?I5 Editor
Sancha Kilbourn f tar
Arnold Levin Sports Editor
BUSINESS STAFF
Richard Schmidt Business Manager
ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGERS
Truman Oberndorff Bob Shellenberg Robert Funk
Where Does the
Jingo Money Go?
Todav the editor of the Nebraskan is on edge
with curiosity, wondering whether the military de
partment has chosen his plan for presenting the
honorary colonel at the Jingo ball Friday evening.
He still thinks it would be entirely appropriate and
would fit in well with the strutting and fakery to
hoot the honored girl out of a cannon.
Nebraska's Jingo ball opens the campus , formal
season and is one of the biggest social events in the
state, probably ranking second to the Ak-Sar-Ben
ball held each fall at Omaha.
Every year when this occasion rounds the cor
ner even the Y. W. C. A. girls (all except an honor
able and consistent few) forget their principles long
enough to prostitute their good sense for the sake
of a good time. Military men sugar-coat their in
struction in legalized murder with this glittering so
cial event every December and even some of the
pacifists fall for the gag.
Tonight some thousand new formals will be
flaunted about the coliseum as the wearers adver
tise the military side of this institution and further
the cause of that department in dominating the spot
light on the university stage.
Dean of Women Heppner is open to questioning
on one point concerning the ball and its exorbitant
price $2 a couple.
; At the time when the Innocents society was
planning the Homecoming party early in November
it was suggested by the chairman of the committee
(hat the price be set at S1.10 per couple. Miss Hepp
ner, who as supervisor of social functions for the
administration has authority and power in regard to
ticket prices, objected to that charge, stating that
it was much too high. After much argument, how
ever, the Homecoming committee persuaded her to
allow the price to stand.
""Now comes the Jingo ball. The military de
partment followed its uaual practices and estab
lished a price on the level of high class robbery.
One thousand couples will attend that display, and
at least $1,800 will come in at the ticket window.
(Deductions were made from the logical $2,000 level
because student officers, many of whom sell them
selves to the department, aren't required to pay the
full price.) Miss Heppner did not protest.
Why the discrepancy in prices levied? Ace
Brigode and Louis Panico, the orchestras playing
for the Homecoming- and Jingo balls, come at the
same price from the same agency. Proof of that
fact lies in the telegram received by the chairman
of the Homecoming party committee at the time
when he was signing the band for that affair a
month ago.
The Homecoming party committee finally se
cured Brigode for $350 because he was playing at
Omaha immediately preceding that party. The price
for Panico was $400.
The logical question to ask of the military de
partment is: Where does the extra money go? The
editor of the Nebraskan can't see how there can be
less than $700 or $800 of profit.
Students and
Social Problem.
With comment pro this and con that, right and
left, and conservative and radical drifting around on
the campus at a great rate this year, It seems that
establishment of a Social Problems club in the uni
versity would not be at all out of the way and In
appropriate. Students wildly berating one another
because of differing opinions based on half-baked
foundations need to gather together In a non-political,
non-factional group to discuss problems of the
5a,y, and if possible become enlightened on current
questions through discussion and listening to good
speakers.
Policies and programs of the United SUtes gov
ernment differing so widely from any heretofore
formulated and followed have served as a stimulant
responsible for arousing public opinion and student
opinion to an unprecedented and highly desirable
pitch. A survey of college papers of the nation
shows that students are taking a new interest in the
outside wsrld, that college editors are discussing
topics of social interest, and that there is a national
tampus demaad for cutlet and harmonizing of
opinions.
STUDENT PULSE
' Brief, conn mil ri button eertHim to miners of
twiwrt lira and the university are welcomed by this
0prtmmt, undr the vaual restrictions of sound news
paper practice, which exclude all llhelmia matter end
pwwmsJ attacks Lttrm mum be slewed, but Dames
will b withheld from publication If an desired.
- Contributions snouM b United ta a SMUUmum of Ova
banana words la lessib.
Baptist Resolution
OjL War and Peace.
T.(TMs Is the second of a aeries of national and
refrsr.il church stacds la regard to questions pr
Utr.tag te wv and peace. The following are reso-hiiU-ns
passed at the Northern Baptist convention
Uit May at Rochester, N. Y.
TfiTHE EDITOR:
" Whereas, in previous years the Northern Bap
tist convention has affirmed its commitment to the
ideals of peace; and to the organized agencies of
peace, and
Whereas, in spite of all that forces of peace
have been able to accomplish, there is widespread
conviction, expressed both in word and practice, that
violence is inevitable in the adjustments involved in
the social shift of our day,
Therefore, we desire to declare in unequivocal
language our belief that the time has come to go be
yond a merely formal reaffirmation of these convic
tions and to call upon our people to accept the im
plications involved in our commitment to Jesus'
principle of reconciliation through love, and His em
phasis on the preeminent sacrednesB of a human
life. Among these implications we would acknowl
edge the following:
a a a
We believe that the boards of our national so
cieties should scrutinize their investments, lest un
wittingly we derive a portion of our income from in
dustries engaged in the production of the materials
of war. Further,
We believe that we must use every effort to in
duce the congress of the United States to pass im
mediately the proposed embargo act on arrw and
munitions. It is also our conviction that the muni
tions investigation should be thorough and complete
to the end that private profit should be taken away
from the manufactures of the munitions of war.
We believe further that since Baptists have al
ways stood for the supremacy of conscience, and in
view of the fact that our government has, in recent
years, Imposed the test of military service as a
qualification for citizenship, we are convinced that
the time bas come to call upon our pastors and peo
ple to openly defend the right of alien conscientious
objectoi3 in obtaining American citizenship; and
that we further call on our pastors and people to
defend in the pulpit, before school authorities and
before the courts, when necessary, all Baptist stu
dents who for conscience' sake refuse to submit to
military training in high schools, colleges and uni
versities; and that we ask our governments, federal
and state, to grant these persons and all other con
scientious objectors the same rights of conscience
as now enjoyed by the Society of Friends.
We believe that the time has come to register
our conviction against war, and to formulate our
personal commitment to the mind of Christ in a defi
nite stand against every form of aggressive war,
and thus to assure the world that we will not make
it necessary for any other nation to defend itself
against us.
To this end we earnestly commend to our peo
ple, as a primary step, the signing of personal non
invasion pledges by our Baptist constituency, saying:
"Reserving the right of national self-defense by
such means as may seem to me wise, effective and
Christian, I from now on, definitely repudiate all
aggressive war. I wili cross no national boundary
line to kill and destroy, nor will I support my gov
ernment in sending its army or iavy to do so."
.Claire Rhodes,
Pres., First Baptist B. Y. P. U.
CONTEMPORARY
COMMENT
Hearst and
Boo-hooism.
"People who think" are suffering these days.
Mr. Hearst and his hirelings seem to be hell-bent on
putting every obstacle they can in the path of those
yovug people who are trying to take things seri
ously. The latest blast comes from the erudite pen
of Marguerite Mooers Marshall, writing in the New
York American. She thinks it's "about time some
of our young people stopped being such cry-bablcs."
She thinks we want the world made over for our
especial use and benefit "Youth's present mood,"
says this charming pundit, "is frequently expressed
in three syllables 'Boo-hoo-hoo'." Now, of course
we haven't that Intimate contact with American
youth which Mr. Hearst and his hirelings possess,
but we have a strong suspicion that that portion of
youth which Miss Marshall hears "Boo-hoo-hooing"
comes from the readers of the American. In fact,
we have often been moved nearly to tears by read
ing it ourselves.
After all, why shouldn't youth be sad? There
Is the prospect of war, the presence of social injus
tice and the imminence of violence everywhere. A s
a remedy for the evils of this day Miss Marshall
suggests "patience and self-reliance." If everybody
will just wait and be patient the Hitlers and the mu
nition makers will Just wither away, and there'll be
no more war. If all Just wait and be patient the
forces of greed and privilege which dominate our
economic life will sooner or later embrace Buchman
lsm, and salvation will come by the healing proc
esses of time. Just wait, and everything will take
care of Itself. That has always been the way the
battles of Justice and right have been won by dilly
dallying and patience. The only reason we are so
far from the millennium is because we haven't been
slow enough about getting there. The only answer
for such stuff is an emphatic and vulgar, "Nuts."
It should be cause for rejoicing that some young
people have been moved by the sight of misery
stalking in the midst of unbelieving abundance, that
somewhere students are deeply affected by the
thought of war and mass murder. We are grateful
that in some corners of this sorry old globe theie
are young people whose sensitized consciences are
bruised by the plight of humankind. We only hope
that, forsaking the counsels of despair, remembering
that behind the Hearstian rosebuds of "patience and
self-reliance" lurk the Hearstian reptiles of war and
social Injustice, those who are now crying will wipe
the tears out of their eyes, take heart and join the
fight Daily Prlneetonlan.
Lament for
Learning . . .
A dusty halo still clings to the Idea of "working
one's way through college."
A graduate of Michigan stopped by to visit" the
other day. He was bitter. "The finest four years
of my life, those . . . All the memories I carry from
my college days are those of rushing to classes un
prepared and perspiring from standing over a hot
sink, late hours cramming for exams, and a general
feeling of fatigue and frustration. And now I've
finished. I neither learned my academic work well,
nor materially expanded myself."
It's too bad, we thought He has paid a high
price for his education. And yet our recent finan
cial squall and the federal appropriations to students
have resulted in over half of our student body work
ing to support themselves either In whole or in part
Is It possible, we ask, that over half our students
are wf the same frame of mind who feel that they
are being deprived of the best part of their college
life?
No! cry the old guard. Working brings respon
sibility; It insures a proper perspective toward a
life of reality that the students would overlook In
the artificialities and theories of college life; it
makes one realize the value of an education.
Maybe so. Perhaps there are some among us
who need to be taught the value of an education,
some who need to know what it means to sweat
eight hours a day at a laboring Job. Maybe so, but
college cannot presume to expand the intellectual
life of its students who are weary, bitter, unrecep
tlve. College is a full-time job. More than that, it
is a life a new way of living. For many it opens
the Joy of an Intellectual life; for most, we admit
it is little but a social concourse. But to condemn
those who want to walk with Plato to a fleeting
and unsatisfactory glance at him because they have
to spend half of their valuable time at labor is a
tragedy.
What remains then? Are we to subaidize
brains? We do now, in a large measure. And sure
ly those who find that they must work ought to step
up to the Job without any elf-plty or wasted sym
pathy. But the old conception that It is glorified
and honorable to work one's way through grows
shabby in the living of it Michigan Dally.
CMANTS
BY CHANCE.
Thursday afternoon the fourth
student weekly recital was pre
sented in the Temple. Beethoven's
"Sonata, E Flat, Opus 81, Alle
gro" was played by John fcrlck
son, a pupil of Herbert Schmidt.
Russell Cummings, a student with
Mrs. Thomas gave Haydn's "She
Never Told Her Love" and Sulli
van's "Orpheus With His Lute."
Another Beethoven selection, "So
nata Pathetique" in two parts,
"Grave" and "Allegro di molto e
con brio" was given by Steven
Barwick, a student of Miss Wil
son. Violet Vaughn played "Sona
tina Modere" by Ravel. "Ballade,
Opus 28" by Chopin was played by
Vance Leninger. Both Miss Vaughn
and Mr. Leininger are students of
Herbert Schmidt Marion Miller,
who studies with Mr. Harrison,
played Debussy's cleebrated "Re
flections on the Water." A stu
dent of Mr. Wiihnow's Henry Bra
hinsky's played "Monllo-Vidas,"
"Monti," "Air for G String" and
"Ozardas" as closing selections on
the program.
This coming Sunday afternoon
the Lincoln chapter of the Amer
ican Organists guild will present
a musical festival at the Plymouth
Congregational church. Special
features of the protrram will be
the presentation of works of local
artist composers, it wiu De at
4:30 and the public is invited.
Compositions by Karl Haase or
Seward, Wilbur Chenoweth and
Hazel Gertrude Kincella of Lin
coln will be given. Mr. Chenoweth
will play a group of his own
compositions. A stringed trio, a
strlneed quartet, a male quartet,
the First Congregational churoh
choir and a choir composed or
representative voices from all the
church choirs of Lincoln, will ap
pear.
Occassionally it's nice to read
what is going on in the field of
drama. Reports of the latest cur
rent hits from Broadway are more
than attractive. Elmer Rice s
latest, "between I wo wonas,"
which M. G. M. plans to screen,
is starring Joseph Shildkraut. Noel
Coward's "Conversation Piece"
starring the French actress, Yvon
ne Printemps, a cast of sixty nu
an orchestra of thirty pieces, is
still going strong. Sinclair Lewis'
celebrated "Dodsworth," which ran
all last season as well as this witn
Walter Huston in the leading role,
still draws capacity houses. Bert
Lvtell is starred in "First Legion; -
another timer Rice production,
Judgment Day" is also running
on the Great wnite Way; r-reo
Star is appearing in Floyd and
Sinclair Lewis' "Jayhawker," and
Georae Abbott's "Ladies Money"
starrying Ethel Barrymore, are all
first-raters. "Kill I hat story
from which the song, "Two Cig
arettes in The Dark" is taken, is
a current favorite. ."Within i ne
Gates" by Sean O'Casey, the emi
nent Irish piaywngm, atari my
Lillian Gish. is another play which
the movies are waiting to nab.
L. Aialon" by Clemence Dane,
co-stars Ethel Barrymore and Eva
Le Gallienne.. "Merrily We rioii
Along", starring. Kenneth. Mac
Kenna of stage and screen tame,
is the latest success of Kaufmann
and Hart, the Broadway team who
have produced so many first rate
plays.
LETTER AWARDS
WOULD AID BOXING
ASSERTS OSTRAN
By RICHARD NIMS.
University "mitt slineers" feel
that they are the "forgotten men"
of Nebraska athletics. Despite the
fact that large numbers of men
have turned out for the sport in
the past and that capacity crowds
witnessed exhibition matches and
ihe ail-university meet last year,
' boxing, for some reason or other,
lis not recognized by the athletic
I board as a letter award sport.
Results of last year s activities
indicate that boxing at Nebraska,
if recognized as a letter sport,
would be successful not only from
a financial standpoint, but also in
regard to participation and attend
ance from every angle. Successful
dual meets were held last year
with Kansas State on a home-and-home
basis, In which the team, un
der the tutelage of Coach Harold
Ostran, made a good showing de
spite its being handicapped by in
eligibility of several men. Six hun
dred attended the Wildcat match
here while some l,2i0 viewed the
all-university tournament, filling
the boxing room completely.
Returns from these matches
showed tnat boxing would not only
be self-supporting but would even
be a source of revenue. In addition,
the number of participants in the
matches showed that Nebraska
students desired to compete in the
sport, while attendance figures
proved the popularity of the sport
with the student body.
Today interest in boxing at Ne
braska is lagging. Coach Ostran
points out that boxing is one sport
which requires rigid training. Men
out of condition are sure to suffer
In the ring, and perhaps more than
ordinary preparation is required
for this sport
Under these conditions, men do
not feel like entering upon a period
of rigid training when no recogni
tion awaits a successful perform
ance. Instead, they have turned to
other fields of athletic endeavor
where letter awards offer an en
t'ement to their efforts.
A
BUY INDEPENDENT
GAS ES9c
HOLMS 14th and W
HUSKERS NEW YEAR'S
iL
All Big Six Center to Play in
Yearly East-West Tilt
in San Francisco.
Franklin Meier, Nebraska's All
Big Six center for the past two
years, will carry the Scarlet and
Cream banner to the far west on
New Year's day, the only Husker
r epresentatlv e
in the annual
East - West
game in San
Francisco. Mei
er will carry on
a tradition of
Husker football
men who have
made history in
the annual fray.
Two years ago
Lawrence Ely
played sensa
tionally at cen
ter for the
West and last
year, George
FCANKllN MEIER
Lincoln Journal, o u u r i ycl aur
ally conducted the West to a 12
to 0 triumph.
Meier is one of three selected
from the ranks of conference foot
ball players by Coach Dana X.
Bible, who is choosing the midwest
representatives. In addition to the
Husker star center, Bible has se
lected Capt George Maddox of the
championship Kansas State Wild
cats and James Stacy, Oklahoma
as Big Six entrants.
Skeet Berry, the University of
Tulsa high scoring halfback; Clyde
Carter, tackle, and Ray Fuqua,
end, both of Southern Methodist
university: and Bohn Hilliard. Uni
versity of Texas speedy star back.
complete the list of selections
Coach Bible has made from this
section of the country.
in regard to acceptance, Bible
stated: "All the men have accepted
their wired invitations to play ex
cept Bohn Hilliard of Texas. If he
chooses to remain at home, he will
be replaced by a North Central
conference player."
Percy Locey, Denver university
coach, is in charge of the West
team on the coast The men will
report to him in San Francisco
Dec. 23, for a week of practice
before the event.
Nebraska's last year entrants
were George Sauer, Ail-American
back, and Gail O'Brien, ranking
Big Six tackle. Sauer almost single
handedly won for the West, scor
ing both touchdowns, and inter
cepting a pass which ended the
most dangerous East scoring
threat. His kicking also was phe
nomenal, and kept the Eastern rep
resentatives on the defensive most
of the afternoon. O'Brien played
over half the game at tackle, and
at one point recovered a fumble
Lhat later materialized into a West
touchdown.
PHALANX ANNOUNCES
NEW CORD ADOPTION
Citation Insignia in Blue
And Gold to Be used
With Service Bar.
Adoption of a new citation cord
has been announced by Phalanx,
national honorary for advanced
R. O. T. C. students. The cord,
which is to be in blue and gold,
will be used in addition to the
regular service bar, it was stated.
The organization, which was in
troduced to the Nebraska campus
last spring, is intended to promote
the advancement of military
science. Outstanding cadet offi
cers belong to the group, and
passing of certain regulations is
rpmiired. Walter Miller, a senior
in the ag college, is president of
the Nebiaska cnapier.
GIRLS PLAY IN FIRST
ROUNDS OF BOWLING
First rounds of the girls' Intra
mnrai hnwiirnr tournament are be
ing played off this week. Friday,
Dec. 7, at 4 o'clock two games will
be played, wncn Aipna rni, learn
No 1 will nlav AlDha Xi Delta.
No. 1; and Phi Mu, fr o. 3, will play
the HusKereues, iso. a.
Eowline is the third of the intra
mural sports sponsored by the
W. A. A. Anne ricKeu, Dowung
sponsor, is in direct charge of the
tournament
Eat Thin Dime Specials
AT
DAVIS'
217 No. 14th St.
Eat Quality Food at Loic Prices
jjDDC unu nnu aa&n
S A Regular Attraction at S
the "Canton Tea Gardens" n
in Chicago
j ' 1
V - j
r .1,;: .7
i ! ini -..isA-iist ni'i'miiM ""' " "m
LOBJiS PANEC
Through Special
arrangement
with IVLCeAe plays
for the
MnGnftairy EBaiQO
CP
Futility of War
Cannot Be Told
Saijs Weatherly
"There ia no adjective in any
lano-nnirn whlrh can describe the
utter futility, the absolute folly, o
war!" exclaimed Kev. Annur
Weatherly In speaking at a recent
oironina vesner service on the
problem of world peace. "There
never was a country invaaea dui
what the whole situation was
mprpiv a matter of which countrv
could make the Invasion first," h
went on to say.
Rev. Mr. Weatherly presented
wnr to his audience in the light oi
its folly rather than its immoral
ity, using many illustrations frorf
the recent World war to prove hi
pnntpii lions. In nresentinir th
methods of obtaining world peace
he stressed tne taci inai me proo
lem must be approached intelli
ppnt.lv mid intimated that many of
the methods tried so far would be
of no avail because thev failed to
strike at the fundamental factors
involved in war.
"We must educate the people to
understand and work against the
basic forces which propogate war,"
he said in closing.
The devotions wnicn preceaea
Rev Mr. Weatherlv's sneech were
led by Alaire Barkes. She used as
her theme the Christmas message:
"Peace on earm, gooa win iowara
men." Special music was provided
bv the choir under the direction of
Violet Vaughn.
Pniipirp crndiifttes who have a
-( o ...
irnnwiriTp nf stenocTRDhv are the
most in demand among large busi
ness concerns, accoroing 10 Law
rence W. Zimmer, director of the
New York University bureau of
employment.
Tiilnnp TTniversitv college of arts
and sciences has dropped the honor
system after it has been in force
for 50 years.
So you can write SI-OGAXSTf
OKay, tPM u!l!
T50
For
One
("All
Cash")
We'll
Pay c
You O
And in
CASH
One O'clock Noon, Dec. 17,
is the deadline.
See particulars In this issue
of the "RAG"
Send or deliver to
The Prairie Schooner
Andrews Hall 121
'
welcome V "
'cifts of
6"" f 1 WILL,AI"
jewelry i tV."
I l star In
- , . . f I ,,Cnil
Swank Jewelry Is I 1 mmV
slways sect p table; I i
and it's always a I 1
choice amart- 1
ly styled, of asaured J 1
2'' 1
Tr2' "
Swank Cravst Chain the new and
smarter tie holder. Many appealing
patterns including sport designs.
$2.30 others hither mi lower.
iff ""MT - J i
Swank Gift Sets in many modem
designs and combinations.
$6 AO other higher m4 lowwr.
tonight
Dec. 7th
f '! r, k
1.25
In
uniform
2 A A without
sUU uniform
lLnnn
35c spectators
COLISEUM
anDanc
Swank evening itwelry Is pre
itrrsd by men who desire unfail
ing correctness in Jewelry accesso
ries and ol course. yul'.ty.
T JtwriCKt AND AST BUN'S M0f
TM Saw a WHS Ciaiasinr. Attltkara. Bnav
SUJGnK
Jewelry Accessoriet for Me