WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 1935.
THE NEBRASKAN
TWO
The NEBRASKAN
Station A, Lincoln, Nebraska.
Official Student Publication and Bulle
tin of the 1935 Summer Session.
Published Wednesday morning dur
ing the summer session and circulated
' free to summer students and faculty
members from boxes in Social Sciences
end Teachers college buildings and
i Andrews hall.
I Directed by
I Student Publications Board
i Telephones:
t Day B6891 Niflht B6882
Virginia Selleck ..; Editor
J Johnston Snipes Associate Editor
Truman Oberndorf . .. Business Manager
Here and There
.nrHE recreation committee has
j ; planned a steak fry for the
' men tomorrow night at Pioneer
park. An annual event now, five
or six years ago it was unheard
of. In the Nebraskan files of that
time, we find the editor lamenting
the lack of social intercourse and
unity among summer school stu
dents. That was when Friday
night parties perhaps drew a hun
dred people and an organized
spoils program was a dream in
the minds of a few.
This summer we can see the
marvelous advance in a few years.
Record crowds have attended the
coliseum dances, more students
have turned out for the golf, ten
nis and baseball tournaments than
ever before, and the committee is
seriously considering a steak fry
for the women.
There are all too few social re
laxations for summer students,
and the committee should be high
ly commended for the progress it
has made in making this session
enjoyable as well as beneficial.
THE annual problem of traffic
and parking regulations,
strangely enough, does not seem
to have come up on this campus.
eYt college editors all over the
UniUd States seem to be intent on
that subject.
The Indiana Daily Student de
votes a great deal of its editor
ial space to urging students to be
careful of the lives and limbs of
their cohorts.
The Daily Illini, student paper at
the University of Illinois, runs the
following slogan under the mast
head: "Make Champaigne-Urbana
the safest place in Illinois."
The Aetna Casualty and Surety
company of Hartford, Conn, has
issued a booklet giving rules for
safe driving, each of which is
headed by the one word, in capital
letters, THINK!
The Ladies Home Journal re
cently ran a badge and pledge of
safe driving for all motorist.
Figures concerning the percent
age of students hurt in crashes
r are unavailable, but doubltss every
j one in the university has had two
lor three friends or acquaintances
'hurt or killed each year by some
negligent or careless driver.
Lets borrow from the Ddlly II
Vlinl and Make Nebraska the Saf
iest Place in the United States!"
A BARE handful turned out to
hear Madame Kruse-Huk last
Friday night, tho the crowd at the
Friday party showed no decrease.
It seems strange that summer
achool student, who are usually
thought of as being interested in
the cultural rather than the enter
taining aspect of university life
should so completely ignore the
enly musical program of the sum
mer given by other than Nebraska
artists.
No admittance was charged, and
the entertainment was open to
the public. Perhaps the fact that
there was very little publicity
iven to the affair, was the reason
for the small crowd. At any rate
it seems unfortunate that more
were not able to attend the con
cert, which was perhaps the only
opportunity for many who win re
turn to small towns at the close of
the session.
"pHERK has been a good deal of
very definite opposition to the
girls' baseball team taking out of
town trips, due, no doubt, to the
Victorian idea that unchaperooed
;yousj girls are probably, terribly
Immoral.
. The recreation -commute has
discovered that, altho men like
to play baseball merely for the
pleasure of it, it is hard to inter
est women in that sport unless
they are given competitive games.
Of course, it is ridiculous to sup
pose that the young women are
nnv mni'f! unsafe traveling to a
nearby small town to play a base
ball game than they are coming
from home to the university to at
tend the summer session.
Nevertheless, there are always
those few persons who insist upon
observing the proprieties above
any and everything else and who
have manufactured a good many
of those proprieties for themselves
and others. Why shouldn't those
women who will have to coac.
young people in competitive games
be permitted to take part in them
themselves ? And there are too few
teams in town for the girls to be
able to confine their games to Lin
coln. 1 Contemporary
Comment
I
Behind the Times.
Throughout the realm of higher
education a new spirit, almost a
revolutionary spirit, is being felt.
Advanced theories of the means
and the ends of education are
sweeping away old bogies and old
prejudices. Everywhere the ideals
of the Chicago plan are being put
before the court of common sense
and are being found worthy of
imitation.
Yet, the foundations are ignored.
The primary and secondary steps
in the careers of educated men are
unchanged. Particularly is this
true at the very time when the
candidate for education is the least
able to take care of himself and
the most apt to be spoiled in
what is commonly " termed the
"grade schools."
Outside of a few a very few
exceptions school children are still
being taught things that they must
later be taught to forget. To the
impressionable child, King George
of the Revolutionary war is still
being, presented as a bogey man,
and not as a man ignorant of his
subject's needs. Doggerel is still
being taught as the best in Ameri
can poetry. "Civics" is still the
subject and it still covers things
beyond the interests of any child,
rather than "citizenship" being the
subject and things that vitally in
terest the pupil the material.
History is still a matter of dates
rather than a matter of periods.
Geography still deals with the
sizes and shapes and ignores the
result on men. Art and music are
still a matter of paper dolls and
little songs that are more childish
than "for children."
Of course there is always the
stock answer to such charges. It
can still be said that they are
"only little children and must be
taught things that they can
grasp." If so, better teach them
nothing than teach them wrong.
But is it so? If a child can learn
hundreds of smatterings of more
or less disconnected facts, why
can he not grasp broad funda
mentals that he can later apply
to his higher education?
It is a challenge to the teachers
now attending the university, as
well as throughout the rest of the
state, to prove these statements
false or to make them false.
Daily Illini.
Fete Sunburn Canes
Reported by Office
Of Student Health
Singularly few cases of sunburn
were among the 209 cases treated
during June by the university stu
dent health service, the office re
ported as it closed its records for
the period from June 17 to 29. In
past years the efiect of the hot
Nebraska sun on student bathers
has been noticeable among the
cases reported to the medical of
fice. Eighty-two men and one hun
dred and twenty-seven women
were cared for during the first
part of the summer session. Few
serious diseases were reported, and
there were no epidemics to con
tend with during the month, it
was indicated.
The young woman who startled
the French Chamber of Deputies
leaping from a balcony to the floor
of the chamber is believed to be
mentally Indisposed. The theory
apparently is that nobody other
wise would Join a legislative body
when not required to do so. The
New York Sua. . I
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SOUNMAYDEALERS
Present Marketing System
Efficient, Declares
Commission.
The present grain marketing
system is an efficient system, and
no acceptable substitute for it has
been found, according to a report
on the Hearings and Findings of
the Farmers National Grain Deal
ers association commission which
Dr. H. C. Filley, chairman of the
department of rural economics at
the college of agriculture and con
sulting economist of the commis
sion, recently received.
The commission was appointed
to inquire into the agencies, laws
and regulations affecting grain
prices.
The accumlated evidence, which
was derived from persons repre
senting every step of tho grain
marketing process, from the farm
ers to the millers and bankers,
shows that the "marketing sys
tem was not at fault for the low
prices paid for grain in the three
years preceding the summer of
1934." It points out that a fall in
the world level of prices and in
creases in international trade bar
riers were primarily responsible
for these low prices.
Members of the commission in
terviewed 116 persons at public
hearings during their investigation
of the present method of market
ing grain.
"Prosperity comes from produc
tion." states the report. "A prog
ram which reduces the volume of
production of all kinds of useful j
good will not bring national pros-1
perity regardless of the price at j
which the commodities may sell."
New Variety of j
Wheat is Result j
Of Experiments
After nine years experimental i
work, college of agriculture ex-
perts have developed a new type
o: wheat whicn iney can uneyenne,
named appropriately after the larg
est wheat producing county in the
Cornhusker state.
Proclaiming the new variety of
wheat today to be as great a dis
covery as Nebraska 60 was back in
1928, farmers, experiment station
workers, extension agronomists,
and others believe that it may
mean thousands of dollars in in
creased revenue to growers.
Cheyenne is another step for
ward in the development of a per
fect winter wheat and includes all
improvements found in the former
strains of Turkey wheat and other
characteristics which ultimately
will lead to the actual development
of a vastly superior wheat. Ne
braskans who realize the danger of
rust in such a year as this cannot
question the value of a rust resist
ant wheat.
Today only about 100,000 acres
arc estimated to have been planted
to Cheyenne in Nebraska and only
about 1,000 acres planted to certi
fied seed. Within the next five
years, however, experiment station
workers believe that 60 prcent of
the winter wheat area of some 2,
000,000 acres will be seeded to this
variety.
NEWS PARADE
(Continued from Page 1.)
tests in the highest tribunal in the
land. In. Boston, the circuit court
of appeals ruled that in levying a
procession tax under the AAA. the
federal government had exceeded
its taxing pawer.
Two davs later, the Fifth circuit
court of appeals declared that the
act creating the Tennessee valley
nuthority was constitutional thus
upholding the government's right
io sen ciectric power in competi
tion with Di-ivate utility. Both
rulines reversed decisions handed
down by lower courts.
Congress sought to stave off a
possible supreme court adverse
decision on the Triple A by vot
ing to validate crop crontrol con
tracts between the agriculture
department nd farmers. An
other amendment stripped the
bill of price fixing provisions.
New Momcow
"The construction and architec
tural design of the capital of the
U.S.S.R. must perfectly reflect ths
gradeur and beauty of the scoialist
epoch. So said a decree providing
for the rebuilding of picturesque
old Moscow, signed July lOjby
PDA
SELLING
PLAN
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Questionnaire Shows Less Taxpayer
Agitation on School Costs This Year
This is the third in a series of tabulations from the questionnaire sent
out by the Nebraska State Teachers association to every school superintend
ent in the state. The preceding questions have dealt with salaries of
teachers and administrative heads. Out of the approximately 650 blanks
which were sent, 300 were returned and compiled for publication.
Question: In case elections have not yet occurred for next year, do vou
anticipate an increase, decrease, or the same salary? 7 "
Increase
No. Schools
Classes of schools .Reporting Increase
46 teachers or more 2 1
21-45 teachers 0 0
11-20 teachers 5 0
4-10 teachers 30 9
3 or less 6 2
Special 3 0
All schools 46 12
Question: Is there as much agitation
tive to school costs this year as there
Classes of schools
46 teachers or more
21-45 teachers
11-20 teachers
4-10 teachers
3 or less
Special
All schools
Typical comments of those answering "No:" "Citizens are waking up to
the fact that teachers ara underpaid." "There seems to be a growing senti
ment that salaries should be raised." "Everyone more' optimistic."
Typical comments of those answering "Yes:" "Dust storms and crop
prospects make the situation critical."
a. Was there a reduction of the number of high school teachers employed
in 1933-34 as compared with the preceding year?
No One
No. Schools
Classes of schools Reporting
46 teachers or more 12
21-45 teachers 14
11-20 teachers 70
4-10 teachers 169
3 or less 15
Special 9
All schools 289
b. Question: Was there a- reduction of the number of grade teachers em
ployed in 1933-34 as compared with the preceding year?
No Teachers
No. Schools Reduc- One
Classes of schools Reporting tion Part-Time One Two Three Four
46 teachers or more 12 9 0 2 0 0 1
91-45 1 earners 14 12 0 2 0 0 0
11-20 teachers 70
4-10 teachers 169
3 or less 15
Snecial 9
All schools 289
Will there, in all probability, be an
employ tor next year?
One
No. Schools. Part -Reporting
Time One
Clnsses of schools
4fi teacher? or more 6 0
21-45 teachers 4 0
11-2U teachers 23 3
4-10 teachers 23 2
3 or less 1 0
Special 3 0
All schools 60 5
Question: Did you discontinue any departments or courses in your scnuui
in 1933-34? 1934-35? Will any of the courses or departments discontinued
In 1934-35 or the previous year, be replaced in 1935-36?
Discontinued
No. Schools
Classes .f schools
Renortine
46 teachers i-i
21-45 tca"hers 14
11-20 teachers 70
4-10 teachers 170
3 or less 15
Special 9
All schools 290
Courses discontinued
Supervised music
Heme economics .....
Manual training
Kindergarten
Lrfitln
Commercial subjects . ,
Language
Dramatics
Normal Training .....
Phvsical education ...
Smith Hughes
French, debate, mech.
drawing, school
Russian Dictator Joseph Stalin.
The Kremlin and St. Basil's Ca
thedral will be left standing, but
the rest of tho city will be trans
formed into an extremely mouern
capital capable of housing 5,000,
000 citizens.
MUSIC INSTRUCTOR
TO ATT EM) SUMMER
COURSE AT INDIANA
Mrs. llaniet Piatt, instructor in
Dublic school music, will leave on
July 28 for Winona Lake, Indiana,
to attend a summer master course
for choral directors, conducted by
Melius Christiansen of St. Olaf
college, Noithfield, Minnesota; and
Olaf Christiansen of the Oberlin,
Ohio, conservatory : and Mrs. Carol
Pitts of Central high school, of
Omaha.
The two weeks course .according
to Mrs. Piatt, is a new experiment,
being tried for the first time this
summer. Enrollment was conduct
ed by means of selection, the num
ber of students being limited to
200.
Winona Lake, about 135 miles
from Chicago, is a summer resort,
thereby affording the choral direc
tors unusual recreational oppor
tunities. A Bostonian playing bridge on
a verandah, swung at a passing
bee and felled his partner. At least
he thinks there was a bee. The
Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution.
"Knowledge and timer should
not be much used till they are well
seasoned."-01ver Wendell Holmes.
GASOLINE
6 Gal. $1.00
Ask about our
Treasure Card. Discount
"V HOLMS
14th at
. iW . .
if crops
are good Decrease Same
0 0 1
3 ?
3 1 1
1 0 8
0 0 3
7 2 5s
among the patrons or taxpayers rela
was a year ago7
ino. scnoois
Reporting
12
14
70
173
15
9
293
No
12
10
65
122
10
0
Yes
0
2
2
22
3
0
Same
0
2
3
19
2
1
227
29
27
Reduc- Part-Time One
tion
Teacher Teacher Two Three
9
9
51
144
14
5
232
0 0 2 1
0 3 3 0
4 10 5 0
4 20 1 0
0 1 0 0
0 3 10
8 36 12 1
60 2 3 5 0 0
151 0 16 1 10
15 0 0 0 0 0
9 0 0 0 0 0
250 2 23 6 1 1
increase In the number of teachers you
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ii men ocnooi in uraut? oriunu
One
Part-
Two 12 Time One
1
1
3
13
12
1
2
32
0
5
9
0
1
16
Courses Courses Courses to
Discontinued Discontinued Be Replaced
in 1933-34 In 194-35 in jjmu-oo
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4
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10
12
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1
20
22
2
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53
23
rmiraoa rViurses Not to
Be Replaced Be Repli ed
1935-36
1925-36
6
5
6
2
2
1
1
1
1
0
0
0
11
12
11
7
2
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0
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nurse.
A woman centenarian of Alex
andra, Va., says she despises
crooners. As a formula for longev
ity, the idea seems worthy of con
sideration. The New Orleans
Times-Picayune.
An Illinois county has revived
the bounty on wolves. It sounds
like a chance for door-to-door
agents to make a little something
on the side. The Atlanta Consti
tution. "Good citizens will vote." says
the Florida "Times-Union." speak
ing of a Jacksonville election; and
it goes without saying that the
otheri will. The Louisville Courier-Journal.
Two men have been inajcieu i.
conspiring to wreck the interior of
a Broadway theater. It must have
been a very bad play indeed. The
New York Times.
The story is denied that a recent
double defeat of the Giants by Cin
cinnati will be carried to the Su
preme Court for its constitution
ality. The Detroit News.
Probably the unsafest and most
undiplomatic thin one could do
would be to express surprise in the
hearing of a Public Enemy by
saying, "Gee! Man." The Mem
phis Commercial Appeal.
and
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