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TWO THE DAILY NEBRASKAN WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 193S. Daily Nebraskan Station A, Lincoln, Nebraska. OFFICIAL STUDENT PUBLICATION UNIVERSITY. OF NEBRASKA This papar la represented for general advartlalng by the Nebraika Preaa Aisociatlon. Aattmatrd ffotlffl'mtf &rt -mm 1914 jSij2l) Entered aa second-class matter at the postofflceln Lincoln, Nebraska, under act of congress, March 3, 1879, and at special rata of postage provided for In section 1103, act of October 3, 1917, authorized January 20, 1822. THIRTY-FOURTH YEAR. Published Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday mornings during the academlo year. EDITORIAL STAFF Jaok Fischer Editor-in-chief MANAGING EDITORS Irwin Ryan Virginia Bedeck NEWS EDITORS George Plpai Marylu Petersen Arnold Levin Johnston Snipes Dorothy Bents SOCIETY EDITORS Dorothea Fulton Jane Walcott Dick Kunzman Sports Editor BUSINESS STAFF Truman Oberndorf Business Manager ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGERS Bob Funk Bob Shellenberg Bob Wadhama SUBSCRIPTION RATE 1.60 year Single Copy 6 cents $1.00 a semester 2.50 a year mailed $1.80 a semester mailed Under direction of the Student Publication Board. Editorial Office University Hall 4. Business Office University Hall 4A. Telephones Dayi B6891; Night: B6882. B3333 (Journal). Pep Clubs Or Farces? PIREE days remain before Nebrnskn's undefeated Huskers tangle with Min nesota in what may be the most severe test for the Scarlet this season. National leadership may hinge on this game, perhaps, if we dure to think of it, prospects for a Rose Bowl in vitation, but for all the student spirit in evi dence on the campus one would not even sus pect it. Last week the Daily Nebraskan offered the use of its news and editorial columns to the Innocents society, Corn Cobs, and Tassels, all three of which organizations are supposed to be instrumental in promoting student spirit. None availed themselves of the opportunity or evinced any intention of taking steps to remedy the pitiful condition of student en thusiasm. To the Nebraskan 's suggestions for action, leaders of the two pep clubs answered, "We all did our part in cheering, but we can't do it all. What else do you expect us to do about the situation? The Innocents, traditional man agers of rallies in company with the pep groups, remained noncommital. The attitude of these three organizations since the Chicago game demonstrates conclu sively just where they stand. By remaining flat on their feet with much to be done, they have shown that they intend to do nothing that they don't have to do. It is a plain out and out case of the pep clubs laying down on the job and the more sedate Innocents society following suit. Here we are on the threshold of an im portant and crucial game and these organiza tions, two of which are hypocritical enough to masquerade under the name of "pep" or ganizations, survey an apathetic and indiffer ent student body and exclaim, "Its not our fault. We cheer at the games." There is absolutely no excuse for such a stand. The present pressing state of affairs clearly indicates that they are capable of justi fying their existence to but a slight extent. It must be admitted that both Tassels and Corn Cobs are working under difficulties with many former sources of revenue snatched away from them without yarning. But when an or ganization becomes so engrossed in how it will make enough money to take a trip somewhere that it forgets the primary purposes for w hich it was founded, it is time to surrender its char ter and cease the stupid pretense of rendering service to the campus. The Nebraskan does not intend to beat around the bush. In straightforward language we ask the Corn Cobs, Tassels, and Innocents society, "Just what are you going to do about the present miserable condition of student spirit on the campus? Your duties extend be yond mere attendance at rallies and games and partaking in songs and cheers. It is your duty to promote student spirit, regardless of what measures are necessary to call it forth, and that is the job which faces you now." The Nebraskan has been printing songs and yells in successive issues in the hope of stimulating spirit to some extent and also in the hope that the aforementioned organizations would co-operate in the venture. Now with a view to furthering this attempt, may we kii gest to these three groups that mimeographed copies of all songs and yells be prepared and handed out during the week, at the rally Fri day night, and at the game Saturday. Song and cheering practices should be scheduled both for day and night. Special permission to hold these during the day should be granted by the administration and probably will be if it is sought. And there is no reason why rous ing cheering and singing sessions should not be held in every Greek and barb house on the campus this week if the pep clubs and Inno cents will assume the duties that are theirs and theirs only. There is still plenty of time left to stoke the pep fires of Nebraska to a white heat. What are you, Corn Cobs, Tassels, and Innocents, our so-called pep custodians, going to do about it? STUDENT PULSE Brief, concise contributions pertinent to matters of student life and the university are welcomed by this department, under the usual restrictions of sound newspaper practice, which excludes all libelous metter and personal rttacks. Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld from publication If so desired. A Subtcriber Protests. TO THE EDITOR: In whose opinion was the much heralded Awgwan really a good issue? Last year this current magazine really created a sensation when it came out on the stands. It was inter esting, had good joke3, and there was always an editorial worth reading. But I don't blame the person named editor for this year to wsnt his tame veiled, so no one could tell him what a poor representative of a good magazine was jiven to university students on Monday. After all, a humor magazine should con tain some funny and humorous jokes, cartoons, and caricatures. Along this line the Scptem ber issue was a failure. As for the page entitled, "Are You Sure?" whut could be more of an insult to the intellv geuce of students of university age? Others with whom I have talked expressed it as "something to fill up space." Now, I have a sense of humor equal to most jokes. But what, I ask you, was the point that the editor wished his public to get or think after reading "Are You Sure?" And, we do hope, now that the prelimi naries in giving sorority and fraternity "pos sibles" are over, that the Gore section will take its rightful place in the magazine. There al ways has and always will be campus gossip, and if you get the truth from most everyone, that is one of the chief reasons that the Awgwan is bought. So for the sake of the student body and especially for those of tis who have subscribed for the full year let us have better Awgwans. A Subscriber. A Change In Recommended. TO THE EDITOR: Why must nil Nebraska football games have the same trimmings? That is, why must Mr. Quick have the Cornhusker band play the same songs and go thru the same marches and demonstrations at each game? After going to every home game for three years, it is with some reluctance that some students go to them for the fourth year with this in mind. The band plays Borne good Ne braska songs, but many of them are played from the standpoint of music with no consider ation for the pep and emotional reaction the songs should have on the crowd. The songs should take on the aspect of a mirror thru which the spirit of the Cornhusker boosters should be reflected during the high spots of a game. Can't some variety be attempted during the half? Must the band always march out on the field playing the same song and spelling out the same school names m the same way? It would be extremely well received if a little humor or clownish effects could be intro duced. Crowds at Nebraska games are a happy lot and something should be done to catch the spirit of the crowd. They want entertainment during the half. Let's give them different en tertainment at each game and while we're about it, give them something which will show that Ave have an up and coming school instead of a bunch of sophisticated saps. M. W. A Hand-Book for Dictators Tells you how to be one and what to do when in power. (Written especially for A. C. E. by William L. AVhite, connected with his father, William Allen White, on the famous Emporia Gazette for 10 years; now associate editor of The American Observer). I have been asked to submit a monograph for the instruction and edification of college undergraduates. It will be about dictators and how to be one. The way the world has drifted for the past 10 years and is drifting today, its going to be a most important subject about 1940. First you must be born one ; you must have the proper degree of maladjusted endocrine unbalance to make you a mild paranoiac. If your balance is too extreme, you will think you are Napoleon or William Randolph Hearst, and they will lock you up, you will be unable to dictate to anybody but the nurse who brings you meals or the man who takes you out for exercise, and your career as a world figure will be ruined. If you are only mildly pathological, how ever, then you are definitely in the money, and you might aN well go into training and see what you can' do with your talents. In the first place, you must know thoroughly what people are afraid of. for you must be able to scare thein into letting you dictate, and to know this, you must be a coward yourself, which you already are, of course, because of your paranoia. If you are a middle class coward, con sider yourself very fortunate indeed. For then you know instinctively what they are afraid of, ami have only to master the technique of scaring them even more badly. An upper; class coward is only afraid he will lose what he has, and he doesn't envy anyone, so he can never perfect the technique of rousing fear and envy. And the proletariat, unfortunately for your purposes, lacks fear. He is already on the bot tom, he doesn't like it, but he has no fear of falling because he is already down. The lower middle classes have both some thing to gain and something to lose. They fear the people below them and envy those above. Numerically and emotionally they are the na tion's backbone. So, if like Mussolini, and Hit ler, you have come from their ranks, know their hopes, superstitions, fears, envies, and hates, then, boy. they are your meat,' and all you need is intelligence and industry in the art of stirring their fears (so that you can play on those middle class neuroses like Jesse Craw ford on the organ) plus a driving pathological paranoiac urge of your own which makes you suffer acutely when you aren't on the top. You will, of course, make mistakes. In the early part of your career, you will falter and fall victim of that fallacy that you shouldn't promise what you can't deliver, that people are interested in constructive measures for im proving government and social conditions. Some people are, of course. But not your cus tomers. What you must do on your upward path is to denounce evils, not correct them. If you start trying to improve things before you are m a position to throttle all criticism, then you have laid yourself wide open. People will see that you are only human and not a demi- eod. that, like any other reformer, you can t deliver, quite what you promised, and you will richly merit the political bust on the schnozzle which you will most assuredly get. If you want to become the Heavy sugar daddy of the low middle classes, don't waste you? time and endanger your career by pro posing concrete reforms. Concentrate on de nouncing their enemies pour it hot and heavy about the idle rich, the radical poor, the Jews, the chain stores, and what not. Don't ever fal ter and think that sincerity or logic can be substituted for vehemence ; if you find yourself fallinar back on the truth, recognize this vmr- tom for what it is-a danger warning a sign that your imaginative powers are flagging, that you need a couple of weeks' rest some where. Your job is to induce a mass psychosis, so remember the basic symptoms of paranoia; de lusions of grandeur alternating with hallucina tions of persecution. Tell your customers in one breath that they are the greatest guys on earth, of a pure and noble blood destined to rule, and in the next that they are beset by sinister foes without and withm, and that you are the only fair haired boy who can fish them out of the soup and hoist them to the stars. For supplementary reading to help you master the technique, I cannot too strongly recommend the Hearst press. And if you now bother me with silly ques tions as to what you'll do when you get it, you haven't the proper grandular and neurotic set up to be a dictator. You have the press, don't you? And the radio? And the public plat form? And you can burn all the books you don't like and print some others that you do. And plenty of brass bands to play while your customers march up and down in their uni forms cheering to make themselves feel im portant; able to go out and beat up a few foreigners to resolve any doubts which might comf into their minds. When you're in its a pushover. So run along, now, buy a copy of the Evening American and 6tart doing your home work. It might just as well be you as some body else. CONTEMPORARY COMMENT Complex Curricula. Today's college generation is more illiter ate than its predecessors, declares Dean Vir ginia C. Gildersleeve of Barnard college in her annual report to Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia university, of which Barnard college is a unit. "Instead of taking things in thru the eye and becoming familiar with the aspect of Eng lish words, they (the students) take them in thru the ear, by the radio and the movies," states the dean. "This has a lamentable eiiect on their spelling and on Borne other aspects of their writing." Along with the "rapidly diminishing amount of reading done by our young people," CIGARETTE FIRM HOLDS team, and the other by some other favorite college team. Prizes will consist of $10 to be awarded to the student guessing the nearest to the accurate score of the four teams, $5 as second prize, and 400 Old Gold cigarettes as third prize. Contestants are to register their guesses on Old Gold package lab els by writing the name of the four teams, and the score of each, to gether with his or her name and address. There is no limit placed on the number of times the contest ants can register their guesses. The contest will be staged from Oct. 3 to 19 and the guessing will be on the scores of the Kansas State vs. Nebraska football game, Oct. 19, and also on the score of another football game that will be played on the same date, Oct. 19. The guesses should be written on an empty package of Old Golds GRID GUESSING TEST Cash Prizes Are Offered For Football Score Predictions. Here's news for guessing sharks! The Old Gold Cigarette Co. is in stigating a football score guess ing contest which will be open to Btudents of leading colleges thru out the state. Prizes will be award ed to the persons guessing the fi nal score of two football games played each Saturday, one game to be piayea oy tne local coiiege You Can Depend on the Man Who Advertises "Daily th reduced reauire ments in English composition in our colleges . i . t.1 A. i...,1n4- have combined to mnKe " me present Muueut .i in . . I - U 4n .... rattier more illiterate man were me blu Gildersleeve points out that most students take . . .. . . . j . i. "far too many courses" anu spena too nuvu time "running vainly from class to class." Therein, possibly, lies the reason for our alleged drop in literacy. Are curricula uecum ing so complex that we are becoming jacks-of courses and masters of none? Syracuse Dany Orange. Whither Fr. Couehlin. Since before the assassination of Senator Huey P. Long, one voice which was once raised in loud thunder against tne national au.iu.uns Vflther Charles h 11 UlilVlL JIUtJ lVVU jv - PnnrrHn h-Via nool tn nnll down the wrath of the heavens by his radio messages, and send managing editors of metropolitan newspapers into paroxysms of glee when he delivered a speech, has deserted the lold 01 me great True, the worthy father may merely be biding his time. Yet, it is tiara to reconcile ma iha r.nst. with that of silence which has descended. Whither goes that strange master of demagoguery. 11ns ho lin- ialo,1 Vi!o -nnlitSonl niitnhi oirranhv. We hear little now from his National Union for Social Justice. Is it possible, perchance, that since tne T nn rr D-nionAn VlO TirOQwl Pllt S iflpft Of SOCial .1US- tice has measured up to Coughlin expectations? The radio priest in view of his former de nunciations of almost every previous presi dential speech, must seem by his silence now to assent to every Kooseveman pronouncement,. If Viia in true nsspnt. ho should be congratu lated on refusing further to sell his highly fan tastic variation of "Share the Wealth," to a highly gullible unemployed group. Father Uougnim nas temporarily luiueu. ia niro iha rnh nulv to reat)tear at some later date, the country at large has at least rtrt . i 1.1.1.. been spared the disturbing enect 01 nis raouie nnnoinr ni i 17 i i HO fnP ! IlltlP TllP HatlOU Will be glad of the breathing spell. From whatever motives he does it, Father uongnun deserves oninmonrlntinn now for doilllT the Olie thin" he failed most signally to do in the past for hav ing the good sense to give the American popu lace a rest from his words of wisdom. Brown Daily Herald. and should be placed in one of the ballot boxes to be found at Bucks Coffee Shop, the Bun, Paige's Luncheonette, or the Daily Nebras kan office. Tap Dancing Class Meets For First Time Tuesday First in a series of tap dancing classes for the year was held Tues day evening at 7 o'clock in the women's gym under the direction of Lois Rathburn. The classes, sponsored by the Coed Counsellors, are held the first and third Tues days of every month. Ruth Hill played for the dancing and Elsie Ford Piper sponsored the group. Tanksterettes. Tanksterettes meeting Wednes day evening. This is for old mem bers and anyone interested. NINE times out of ten you will find that the man who advertises is the man who most willingly re turns your money if you are not satisfied. He has too much at stake to risk losing your trade r your confidence. You can depend on him. He is not in business for today or tomorrow only but for next year and ten years from next year. He knows the value of goodwill. You get better merchandise at a fairer price than he could ever hope to sell it if he did not have the larger volume of business that comes from legitimate advertising and goods that bear out the promise of the printed word. Nebraskan GROUP SEEKS JOBS FOR ICE PRI Special Meeting Called for Thursday Night at Y. M. C. A. Possibility Of irranrinir nar time work in nrintimr university students will be dis cussed In the snpplnl muHfi called for Thursday evening, Oct. 10 at 7 o'clock in the Red room of the Y. M. C. A. building, according to Otto H. Brinkman, general chairman of the state wide com mittee arranging studant employ ment. "We Will trv trt botutm Into Brlnkmann stated, "for interested students who need work tn them in completing their college education, it is as necessary to Offer tiractical exnerinnnn In nrinl. ing as in other trades incTuded in the university curriculum." The committee headed by Mr. Brlnkmann has the support of the Dress of the state and ,hiu tm purpose training printers by prao uutu experience. BARB SPORTS GROUP FORMS TWO TEAMS Neuly Organized Groups lo Start Practice Wednesday. Two teams were organized at the barb intramural meetlnr held in the women's gymnasium Mon day at 5 o'clock. The teams, with twenty girls in each one, will be captained by Mary Belle Kuehn. and Iris Knox. With the K. B. B.'b, a barb group organized last year. they will represent the barb A. W. S. league in the intramural tourna ments during the year. The newly organized groups will practice for the first time Wednes day at 5 o'clock. The first tourna ment in which they will be repre sented is tne soccer-baseball tour. ney which will start next week. One of the teams has been named the TNT. The other has not yet received its title. Architecture' Publishes Designs by II. Cunningham Designs done by Harry Francis Cunningham, former professor of architecture, for the Chancery building of the Brazilian embassy. Washington, D. C, appeared in the September issue of "Architec ture." An article "Ideals Are Not Yet Dead" by Mr. Cunningham ran. in the July number of "Pencil Points." Typewritere All Makes for tale or rent. Used machines on easy payments. Nebraska Typewriter Co. 130 No. 1t St. BI157