TWO
TIIE DAILY NERRASKAN
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1935.
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Revision
In Education.
r LiiJKAiMwv school teachers are once again
at their -w ork in classrooms throughout the
state after having spent the past week end at
conventions in several districts. While in con
vention they heard famous educators and na
lional leaders repeat, although perhaps couched
ti somewhat diilerent terms than in past years,
the perennial message which pleads for and
outlines the course for changes in our educa
tional system which are demanded by the rap
idly shifting character of our society.
The modernization and various improve
ments m our educational system which are ad
vocated yearly are indeed desirous in fact,
the demand for them is pressing. For a coun
try as far advanced in other theaters of nation
al progress, our educational system has re
mained strangely chained to outmoded teach
ing methods and obsolete curricula.
Somewhere along the line, somehow, our
educational system has slipped up in doing for
the rising generation all that it should. This
nation as a society, as parents, as a govern
ment, interested in the future as individuals
and as a democracy, have let this important
duty lag.
Perhaps we have not set high enough the
professional standards of those to whom we
entrust the education of children; perhaps we
have not adequately provided the finances with
which to present in our schools the comprehen
sive and thorough training in character and
mind and morals which is needed ; perhaps we
have not extended the facilities of education to
within the reach of all ; perhaps as Dr. Dearing
has suggested, we are too easily satisfied with
teaching what is only informative.
But such observations escape the point;
the difficulty which faces us is that this prob
lem, whatever be its cause, must be solved.
Today there are more than two million pu
pils being deprived of their education because
of economic or other difficulties, according to
Governor McXutt of Indiana who spoke here
last week. Here is a deplorable fact, one
sixtieth of our national population beyond the
reach of obtaining even elementary training.
They shall be the unfortunate inheritance of
our society of a decade and of two decades
from now, a pitiable portion of the race, who
will fall behind and depend on the rest to solve
their difficulties.
The existence of this unhealthy situation
is a national crime, and an insult to our proud
reputation as the leader among nations of the
world. The work only recently inaugurated by
the national government through the NYA of
remedying this situation should be furthered
by co-operation from local and state govern
ments to correct the matter. This would do
much to improve our educational deficiencies.
Beyond this, however, lie other faults. It
is possible that our entire system for mass edu
cation is wrong although no adequate or work
able substitute appears to have been devised.
Something is bound to be wrong with a system
that sends out each year in its graduating
classes, high school seniors who, upon entering
college are utterly incapable of displaying
knowledge of or ability to use even the simple
rules of grammar, spelling, and English.
Look at the size of English 0 classes in our
own university, step into first year classes
where you hear freshmen say "I've saw, I
done, those kind," nd commit other similar
and inexcusable grammatical errors, or witness
the grave deficiency in ability to think, study,
reason, or express themselves that is the mis
fortune of many incoming students, and ask
yourself: From what sort of a school were they
graduated!
As indicated during the Lincoln conven
tion by Dr. Hill, chairman of Yale's depart
ment of education, professional incompetency
may have secured such a hold on education as
to seriously jeopardize the fulfillment of its
purpose. Our grade schools and high schools
re sending pupils on to the next higher stage
of education or even out into the world annual
ly without the fortification of mind and char
acter that is the aim of every phase of educa
tion. Too much emphasis is placed on facts and
the memorization of facts such as dates and
names and places. Too little is being done to
make our school children think and think
about the right and important things when
they do think. The stress that has so long
been placed upon learning of moth-eaten facts
alone must be transferred to study of principles
and theories and the general inter-relation of
facts in any one field. No value comes from
knowing that such a thing is a fact if the why
and wherefore of its being a fact is not clear
in a pupil's mind.
It is as Dr. Hill says, we must build into
our students "flexible intelligence, open-mind
edness, critical mindedness, social mindedness,
. . . understandings and appreciations must be
developed and tolerances fostered." We must
not teach any subversive doctrine, he says, but
study them all; cover up nothing, be absolute
ly honest with our pupils.
Adding his voice to the argument, Profes
sor Warner of Ohio State points out that we
are today illiterate in consumer problems, m
knowledge of social implications, and, to
great decree, in civic and political science.
And they are both right. It is high time
that we cast aside the ancient idea that chu
dren must be shielded from the harsh realities
of the world until they have left school. That
is too much the cause of our present dilemma.
Children should be taught the actualities of the
society and civilization of which they will in a
few years be the vital stimulating and moti
vatin-r element.
We have schooled our children in the gain
and use of the almighty dollar but we have left
them to find out through unpleasant and un
savory experience the complex and perplexing
nature of social relations and the many exact
me dpmnnds of citizenship and maturity. We
have failed in adequately training them to de
vise wavs and means of utilizing their spare
time and energies to the mutual advantage of
themselves and society. VV e have failed in in
stilliner iu them an adequate sense of responsi
bilitv which thev as individuals should bear in
the business of government and the conduct of
human affairs. We have not permitted them to
assume an important place in the direction of
national and local life with a consequent near
stagnation of their industry and talent.
These failings, these faults, these mistakes
are pointed out many times each year at gath
erings such as the .Nebraska teaeners conven
tions. Remedies are suggested, modernization
is advocated, and teachers are sent home to put
these ideas into practice. The influence of
these meetings is beneficial, but is it lasting?
Right here may lie part of the fault of
education. One application of the remedy near
the start of the year is not enough. The pres
sure and good influences exerted to improve
education should be brought to bear through
out the year. The initial dose is too easily
forgotten ; the task at hand is difficult and re
quires a bit of co-operation.
It seems that here is the place to raise the
standards of the educational system in the
grade and high schools. We would do well to
turn away from visions of Harvard standards
in college long enough to remedy deficiencies
in secondary schooling. With this need given
fho YiwP9R.irv attention, many difficulties of
college training will automatically vanish and
the university may more profitably pursue its
special ends.
STUDENT PULSE
Brief, concise contrlbutlona pertinent to matter- of
student life and the university are welcomed bytnis
department, under the usual restrictions of J0"
newspaper practice, which excludes rll libelous "latter
and personal attacks. Lettera must te ltned. J but
names will be withheld from publication If so desirea.
Off the
Campus
Lynn Leonard
Proposed Social Security
laws have the approval of the federal govern
ment and are ready for consideration by the
special session of the state legislature now con
vened. After studying the bills an assistant
attorney general indicated that while some of
the provisions were not received enthusiasti
cally by federal officials, he was suggesting
only minor changes in a telegram to Governor
Cochran. The program calls mainly for county
administration of relief under state supervision
and with funds that are mostly from the state.
Raral Power Heads
representing Nebraska's ten rural electrifica
tion districts are rapidly forming an agreement
for a state centralized public power plan ac
cording to proposals of state officials recently.
The plan provides for an organization called
the Nebraska Rural Electrification association
with C. A. Sorensen as chairman and is the re
sult of a decision of the directors of the state's
PWA-f inanced hydro-electric projects that such
a unification would produce greater efficiency
in farm power. It is probable that the idea was
borrowed from the Tennessee valley project
nrnmntprl hv NohrARkn 's favorite son, Senator
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Norris.
Exnretsina Svm nathetic Interest
for the efforts of others to prevent an armed
conflict in Europe, the United States reauirm
ed its stand of independent neutrality toward
the Italo-Ethionian war in a reply to tne lnvr
tation of the League of Nations to comment
on the sanction program of the league against
Italy. It is evident that war can affect the
economic condition in every country, but this
country cannot forget the last war in which it
became involved, ana ior mat its citizens snumu
be esneciallv thankful. Fortunately the admin
istration is taking no chances of permitting a
broad interpretation of a policy that is not
undeniably neutral.
Mussolini Branded Boycott
of the league the "most odious of injustices
and an absurd crime that will go down m nis
torv as such" while three columns of Italians
worA rmshinr ranidlv toward the heart of
northeast Ethiopia where they plan to eventu
ally join forces with the army of Gen. Emilio
de Bono, moving southward from Eritrea. It
anDears that Italy is nearly ready tor a cen
tralized attack which would result in the whole
of northeastern Ethiopia falling into the hands
of Italy if successful. Previous battles indicate
that it will probably be successful. Mussolini's
enthusiastic condemnation of the league boy
cott suggests that it is being more successful
than he expected.
Better Housing
For Students.
Educators claim that environment plays
by far the most importance in the life of an in
dividual. Assuming that to be a tact the uni
versity surely doesn't practice what it preaches.
The rooming and boarding facilities represent
another of the grafts growing up around the
university. Upon every avenue ot learning
into which the student turns he learns how
necessary it is to build up a cheery, wholesome,
nnd nlensnnt environment. When he goes back
to his dingy little room that he pays $8 or $10
a month to hear some landlord grumble when
he asks for heat to keep his bones from rattling
and his teeth from chattering, how can he help
feeling, it's all the bunk?
So much is made of the medical examina-
. i . ! J?
t on npcessarv for students and it seems u
housing and boarding facilities were provided
for, on the part of che university, in as eiri
cient manner as the medical side, there would
be much les? physical adjustment needed. The
dormitory for girls is very fine but the aver
age student can't meet the required amount of
cash necessary to live there.
The lotrical thine that would give attrac
tiveness and real worth to a student would be
for the university to order all those dingy old
rooming houses demolished and in their place
establish dormitories for both men and women
under management of the university deans.
There are certainly some discouraging and
homesick looking places for some of the stu
dents to fall into and the spirit of many young
people is badly broken due to outside univer
sity environment.
Every university student loves the
finer conditions of living to a degree or he
wouldn't be in college. Therefore, why isn't
it a part of the university's duty to provide
suitable environment in which to present its
learning? Of course this should be a statewide
outlook for it is the state's duty to help keep
the college going but it seems it is the business
of the college to push such an issue in the in
terest of itself and the student. If the price
for room, board, and a clean atmosphere were
given careful and fair attention surely students
would be happy to stay in a university house
that provided this homelike environment.
This matter has its pros ana cons dui tne
truth still remains that proper environment
provides the best learning. A. C.
fi&SERS CF 4-H CLUB
COLD WEDNESDAY MEET
Extemporaneous Speech to
Be Included as Part of
Program.
University 4-H club member
will hold a business meeting and
program at 7:30 o'clock Wednes
day evening In room 306 of Ag
kail. The program will feature an
extemporaneous speech by soma
timber cf the group.
). xl Lix a membership drive
aadf a club party will be discussed.
The committee In charge of the
program is: Ruth Canton, Den
ver Gray, Lois Uckliter, and Le
xeme Peterson.
Gilbert Srickaon, president of
the group, urges all former 4-H
members of either campus to at
tend the program. The entertain
ment feature is a new part of the
club's activities.
SCHOOL TO BEING
JAMES STEPHENS
FOB CONVOCATION
(Continued from Pag 1.)
As the result he has lectured ex
tensively both here and abroad
and has written several books,
among them, "Full Up and Fed
Up," "Mainsprings of Men.", and
"Horny Hands and Hampered El
bows." Williams' lecture here Thursday
is open to both students and the
general public
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NOMIC GEOGRAPHY
(Continued from Page 1.)
solution to all the ills of the
world." the authors state. "If we
could we'd be one up on the brain
trust."
In its preparation has gone the
experiences of many years of
teaching the subject as well as an
inestimable number of hours of
study and research both here and
abroad.
Probably because the authors
appreciated the old truth, that "all
work and no olav makes Jack a
dull boy," they have brightened
many of the pages with humorous
accounts as laueh provoking as
may be found in any book of fic
tion. That the reader may enjoy
a part of these choice passages, a
portion of the chapter describing
the life of the desert nomads is
reprinted:
Discusses Nomads.
The dweller on the margin of
the desert is of necessity a nomad
he has no choice in the matter.
Thev are nomads because of the
inborn will to live. If they would
live they must roam with the
flocks that feed them. The occupa
tions of the men, herding, hunting,
fighting are dangerous, and hence
mortality is high. Thus, there is a
surplus of women in a social group
wherein there is no opportunity of
employment. If women would sur
vive they must be attached to
households, and so polygamy re
sults.
"On the whole, the desert's edge
is a taskmaster with sharp re
quirements for those who survive.
It leads to a race of strong, fear
less, virile people. The men are
polite, alert and dignified. They
are tall, handsome, lithe, and lean.
These are the characteristics most
conducive to success under the
conditions which prevail where
desert brown and grass green in
tertwine, because there man must
be able to move quickly, to run
and to ride; in this contest lean
men survive because fat men can
neither run nor fight!"
Nitrate Industry.
Equally entertaining is the au
thors' account of a rumor still said
to be in existence in Chile. De
scribing the importance of the ni
trate industry to that country the
text reads:
"The Chilean pampa is devoid
of life except in those parts where
the nitrate industry hums. The
country is desolate. Wild life is
almost non-existent, and it is said
that even the fleas and other un
desirable passengers prefer the
mild sea level climate of the coast
al towns. When their hosts, the
working men of the nitrate pampa,
leave the ports to go back to duty
in the high-lying nitrate fields, it
is natural to suppose that many
of the vermin go with them. Ru
mor has it, however, that with in
creasing elevation and aridity, the
pests become uneasy, and that
when the train reaches the first
stop in the steep climb, they get
off, cross the line to the down
OFFICIAL
BULLETIN
Men' Commercial Club.
Men's Commercial club will
meet Wednesday evening at
o'clock in the Commercial club
room. All members are urged to
be present.
4-H Club.
University 4-H club meets
Ag hall Wednesday evening
7:30 o'clock.
Sigma Delta Chi.
Sigma Delta Chi will meet Tues
day afternoon at 5 o'clock in
Room 5, University hall.
Phalanx.
Phalanx, military honorary, will
hold a regular meeting Wednesday
evening at 7 o'clock at the Lincoln
hotel. Adrian Tolen, president,
will be in charge of the meeting.
platform, and return coastward
with those workmen who are on
their way to a lower and more
congenial environment," So much
for the humorous side.
Considered New.
The book is considered new and
different in that while the basic
teachings of geography are in
cluded, the material goes a step
further and deals with the prob
lems of world production in the
realms of agriculture, forestry,
mining and manufacturing. The
book discusses some of the causes
and consequences of the strikingly
uneven distribution or tne worias
population and points out that al
though changes in this distribu
tion are sure to occur with fur
ther industrial development and
with increasing population, areas
of great density and areas of
marked sparseness will neverthe
less always exist
The problems of political stabil
ity are discussed in relation to the
monopolization of raw materials
by political units, the resulting in
terferences with the free exchange
of raw materials, and even the
military troubles likely to eventuate.
Conservation.
Throughout the text, emphasis
is given the need for conservation
of resources, the authors pointing
out that the wisest conservation is
that of efficient use with a mini
mum amount of waste. In brief,
Doctors Bengtson and Van Royen
sum it up in this fashion:
"As a treatise the work ad
dresses itself to the citizen who
has intelligent Interest In the af
fairs of his country and particu
larly to the business man who
finds that not only must he be in
formed concerning the economic
resources of his own country, but
also in those of the rest of the
world. In its preparation we have
consulted the best literature not
only in English but in that of other
prominent European languages."
The bibliography lists eighteen
pages of titles of the various works
consulted.
While much is made of present
world problems, and their causes,
the student will sense that the au
thors have faith in the future. The
chapter on the petroleum industry
will serve as an example. Although
they say that many wells have
been drilled and too many filling
stations have been built, they pre
dict that uneconomic trade prac
tices will be forced out, that many
small companies will disappear
and greater prosperity will be at
tained under the leadership of
fewer companies more intelligently
managed.
Referring to the age long prob
lem of crop production, they men
tion that: "During the Middle Ages
and later, students of population
and food supply expressed alarm
because of the declining productive
ity of the soil. Lands in the Med
iterranean countries were produce
ing only four to six bushels of
gram per acre, and productivity
was steadily declining on lands
long in use. There is little wonder
that people began to think of the
world as growing old. The earth
has existed millions of years and
man has lived upon it many thou
sands of years, but neither of these
facts are evidences of an old
world. Old connotes waning power
and lessened productivity. In this
sense the world has actually be
come younger because man
turned retreat into advance."
A
ROUND
AND
BOUT
With
Sarah LouU Meyr
has
Y.W. GROUPS DISCUSS
'A LOOK AT YOURSELF
Freshman Groups Schedule
Meetings for
Week.
"A Look At Yourself," a sub
ject which promises to be most
revealing, will be the topic of dis
cussion at this week's Y. W. C. A.
freshman commission groups.
Every freshman woman is invited
to attend one of these meetings
during the week.
The list of group meetings and
leaders follows: Tuesday at 1
o'clock. Hazel Bradstreet; Tues
day, 11, Lorene Adelseck; Tues
day, 3, Betty Cherny; Wednesday,
Elaine Shonka; Wednesday, 4,
Caroline Kile, Betty Paine, and
Katherine Winquist; Thursday, 1,
Marian Rolland: Thursday, 4
Anne Pickett. The ag group, led
by Emma Mock, meets each
Thursday noon in the home ec
building. All other groups are held
in Ellen Smith hall.
Schmidt Presents Program.
Herbert Schmidt, professor of
piano of the university school of
music, will present the radio pro
gram over KFAB Tuesday after
noon at 2 o'clock.
Miss Mansfield Play at Tea.
Elsie Mansfield, who studies
with Mrs. Will Owen Jones, played
for a tea at the Lincoln Hotel
Tuesday, Oct 22.
The cracking of quips, I fear,
will beat me in the end, I never
know when I've had enough.
Surely everyone has been chort
ling for years at Eugene Fields'
criticism of the, title role in "King
Lear." He played the King as tho
someone had led the ace.
Or George Jean Nathan's Judge
ing of "Tonight or Never:" Very
well then, I say Never.
But leave it to the Jacksonville
Journal to call a halt to the equip
ing and attendant superiority
complexes. Says that paper: "Don't
forget that you are a part of all
the people who can be fooled some
of the time."
Smart cracks are not necessarily
confined to the field of the dray-
ma but it seems to neip. in Grand
Rapids, Mich., the Macbeth Clean
era have a slogan of "Out, Damn
ed Spot!" And wasn't It Amelia
Earheart who said she'd always
felt Hamlet would make a poor
airplane pilot. "All the world's a
stage. . ."
Walter Wlnchell, everyone
knows, got his start thru writing
a sheet of keyhole patter on
Broadway satellites when he was
just another hoofer. It looks as if
we'll have a future as well as a
past before us some day maybe.
Here in this salt lick town, how
ever, news can only come third or
fourth hand. But permit us to di
vulge of. . .
Thissie and thatle: Even Holly
wood male beauties have their
fmir raising times, it seems. Fran
chot Tone's forehead has come
thru his front hair so far that he
must pencil In forelocks for the
screen. And Bing Crosby's hair has
so receded that he must wear a
wig. But Clark Gable's devastating
waves grow so low over his eye
brows that they must be plucked
out the waves we mean!
Alexander Woollcott delightedly
confides a la Town Crier how the
Lunts, Alfred and Lynn, stop stage
procedure during their present
Taming of the Shrew" to turn a
barrage of "raspberry" on late
comers. The practice has proved
so thoroly thorogoing that provo
cations for their sport grow fewer
with each performance.
The other evening, however, one
lanky young man wandered (a bit
nonchalantly) in a full thirty min
utes after the opening curtain.
When everyone behind the foot
lights, stopped dead In their tracks
and rent the air with boos, hisses
and cat-calls, however, he had the
decency to turn white as a sheet
The offender was Leslie Howard.
Yesterday the youth cf the world '
joined in a Round-the-World
broadcast. A small dozen or so
"centers" participated, from Ha
waii to Norway. Clear sweet chil
dren's voices contributed the best
of each coutnry's folk music in a
co-operative effort to further
world friendship. United States'
youth claimed chorally to Hear
America Singing, but some of us
have our doubts as to the nation's
vocalizations at that point.
Yesterday most of the country,
I believe, was listcning-to a broad
cast from points about the globe
honoring Navy Day.
Ten thousand acres of farm land
in eastern Montana have been im
proved by flood irrigation.
An Opportunity!
WANTED
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Choir has place for
low bass voice.
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