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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 193S.
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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."
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