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mm itnnrirrr"',""'Miia TWO THE PATTY NFKTtASKAN THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1936. Daily Nebraskan utlon A. Lincoln. Nabratka. 1935 Member X93 Associated Cbllo6cde Press Thli Doer li represented for general advertising ty the ' p p Nebraska Press Association. Entered as second-class matter at tht PMtofflea , n Lln.oln, Nebraska, under act ot conflress, March 3. 1879 and at special rate of postsge provided tor In section 1104. act of October S. 1917. authorized January 80, 1922. THIRTY-FOURTH YEAR Published Tuesday, Wednesday. Thursday. Friday and Sunday mornings during the academic year. SUBSCRIPTION RATE $1 50 a year Single Copy 5 eentt 91.00 a semester IfcSO I year mailed $1-50 a semester mailed Under direction of the Student Publication Board. Editorial Office University Hall 4. Business Office University Hall A. Telephones Dayi B6S91 Nlghti B6882. B3333 (Journal). Official student publication of the University of Nebraska In Lincoln. Nebraska. IRWIN RYAN EDITOR-IN-CHIEF TRUMAN OBERNDORF BUSINESS MANAGER EDITORIAL STAFF MANAGING EDITORS George Plpal Arnold Levin NEWS EDITORS Johnston Snloes porotny nu Jane Walcott ' Eleanor Cllzbe Don Wagner Society Editor Louise Magee BUSINESS STAFF ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGERS Manage:':::' 3. Phi Beta Kappas; How They Suffer! Almost sheepishly, some 587 students will submit to being honored this morning for hav ing the brazen audacity of stepping; out ahead of the rest of the "flock" and securing good grades. A certain apologetic attitude is often assumed by those being honored for procuring hiirh mark's, as if wishing to convey to other students their expression of regret for having achieved so inferior an accomplishment. Whenever any articles are written con cerning Phi Beta Kappas it has practically be come traditional that the honored should squirm in their seats for their narrow minded ness and bigotry. They are nothing but pedants who slave for mere distinction. With this issue the Nebraskan wishes to break precedent and vie with such timeworn accusations. True that scholastic achievement is not an adequate indication of capabilities. True that, it is merely a record of the hishest erades. But was it ever intended 1o be more? Who has attempted to claim for it any greater distinction? While many courses are "pipes" in comparison with those taken by olher stu dents, scholastic achievement nevertheless is indicative of something. f nothing better it indicates a will to bet ter oneself along some line of endeavor. That This particular line may later take a different direction, is of minor importance. Ihe fact re mains that, the quality of perseverance is in herent within the student. Due consideration should rightfully be given this aspect when applications for positions are later submitted. Iligh grades do not teach a student 1o think, to reason or to invent. Most certainly they do indicate, however, that they have ob tained a certain store of information. Inform ation as such may not be valuable, but without information no manner of reasoning is pos sible. Analogy cannot enter a vacuum. Train in? in the use of a subject must necessarily follow awareness of the subject matter. The person possessing an elementary comprehen sion of liberal arts, for example, will he much more likely to evolve something of use to the world than that individual who as yet does not even possess cognizance of the simple fads. Long before any interpretations or opinions may be voiced it becomes obligatory to know the salient elements if any logical conclusion is to be attained. Scholarship dors not pre tend to embody genius, rather genius almost indispensably embraces some form of scholar ship. For this very simple and obvious reason the possession of information, recognized thru the attainment of high grades, should not be subject to ridicule. That person in a position capable of excit ing envy is far better off than the individual standing at a distance and vainly rationalizing by use of "sour grapes." The more a m.'iii can, by achievement, make others envy him. the srenfer becomes tluit man. No amount of belittlcnicnt can take av.iy (he glory of some thing well done. Was it not Voltaire who said, "Jieason, industrious hands, a head capable of general izing ideas, a language pliant enough to ex press thern these are great benefits granted by the Supreme Being to man, to the exclusion of other animals." Students being honored this morning have industrious hands and a lan guage pliant enough to express themselves. Much remains for thein to do. Others may yet overcome and surpass them. But while their ascendancy is far from complete they have shown some degree of capability by outstrip ping their either less intelligent or "more leth argical classmates. More nowtr to them. CONTEMPORARY COMMENT Youth Walks The Streets. "You have walked the streets looking for lnlio iUnt nnvnr turned UP." Tlnw Pres ident Koosevelt at Baltimore talking to "a cross section of millions of younir people who have come to maturity since W'J. In these simple, homely words the presi lent described the gravest evil and the grav est menace of the economic maladjustment we call the depression. . The passing generation, after all, doesn t matter so much. For tlie most pan u hh iu- VilU.l Ua iviwuirm lonr its work much of it very poorlv. Biologically speaking, it can be snared, its individual suffering and hardships mav be. and are, pitiful enough. f!ot knows, to arouse the wrathful sympathy ot inose uun eves that see and imaginations lively enough to feel vicariously. But to the race its usclui ness is about ended. Terhaps, even, it is more a drag than a help. The vmmff folks, tho the oncoming gen eration thev do matter. They have their lives vet to live.' The future is in their hands their own. and the race's. And their future matters to us who are their fathers and moth era almost ns much as to themselves. It is in our children, for our children, and their chil dren, more than in and for ourselves, that the passing generation lives. Its eyes, sadly trou bled, arc also on the future. And so all of us older persons are in the same fix as President Koosevelt when "youth comps to ns wanting to know what we propose to do about, a societv that hurts so many of them." None of us, of whatever race or creed or uartv or station, likes to see that hurt, dazed, appealing look in the eyes of the young men and women of our time eager, ambitious, well equipped who walk the streets and troop thru the offices and shops looking for the jobs thev can't find. It makes us feel guilty. Even the" most fortunate, who may be at the same time the most selfish, cannot but be seriously disturbed as to the future of their own chil dren. Somehow or other, we cannot but realize, we have fallen down on the job. We have suc ceeded gloriously in providing the facilities for "the more abundant life." We have mul tiplied and simplified the means and methods for the production of goods and materials. We have so developed education that it comes within the reach of all. Scientific inventive ness and research have brought rare gifts, also within the reach of all. undreamed of a cen tury ago. Music, literature, the arts, are for the enjoyment, of the many and not only the few. We have assembled the materials and in gredients, in rich abundance, for Utopia. And yet. with it all with far greater wealth more widely distributed than any other civilization has known millions of our older persons are subsisting off charity and great multitudes of the youngsters, searching for a place in the sun. can find no opportunity, no chance to work. Their skill, their talents, their energy, their loyalty there is no place for them. Surelv there will be no disputing that something should be done about that. Every one realizes that there is a failure, a disloca tion, so serious that it threatens not only the republic, but every individual, every home, every enterprise within its borders. And, each in his own way. we are all anxious to do some thing about it. The differences are as to the methods, not as to the objective. Mr. Roosevelt says truly that unemploy ment was .rowing at an astounding rate un der the !fS kind of prosperity. What the captains of industry could do to check it was not good enough. It is equally true that what has been done since l'-TJ! to check it is not good enough. Our bright eyed youth still clamors for the opportunity that of right should be theirs. And the recipients of char ity, direct and indirect, hold close to the all time high. For example, a survey of the New York relief situation shows thai federal, stale and city taxpayers are today supporting about '1 percent more persons at a cost of about .'0 ?ereent more lhan before NY PA the adminis tration s chid relief expedient went into effect. The "captains of industry" failed 1o re store the economic equilibrium when they had full sway. And government, itself tackling the problem single handed, has likewise failed, tho it has poured out many billions of dollars, most of them borrowed, in the effort. Tio tins newspaper now. as a year ago. the moral seems obvious, und the lesson driven home. Imlusin . including both labor and capital, and government, both federal and local, must co-operate in yood faith and with good will and mutual confidence :md support, if Ihe problem is to b solved. They cau'1 do it each blaming and assail ing I lie older. They can't do il sinking knives into each older' backs. To a battle to the death between them, there can be but one; re sult and tliat not alone failure to koIvc the problem, but the making of it far more diffi cult, far more menacing. Not alone to recovery, but to reform as well, the great impediment is the profound dis trust now unfortunately existing between the government and private enterprise. It has al most entirely blocked co-operative effort. And. by the same token, it has almost entirely blocked both recovery and reform so far as the youth of the land are concerned and the oider willing workers still unable to find jobs that do not smack of charity. Omaha World- Herald. ionomic Situations Affect Personality Says Reinhardt Finances, Family Trouble re Alain Causes of Present Disintegration of Person's Social Complex Says Professor in Hecent Article. "The personalities or average people In tho United States are sus ponded by thin threads under the present economic setup, says Dr, J. M. Heinhardt, associalo profes sor of sociology at the university and George H. Boardinan, former graduate student, in an article entitled "Insecurity and Personal il y Disintegration" which appeared in a recent Issue of the magazine, Social Forces. "Since personalities In most cases are integrated around cer tain values exprcscd in terms of radios, automobiles, furniture, va cations, occupations. Incomes, and friends, and since the security of equal friendships depends largely upon continuance of the other com plex of values, it seems plain that readjustment and restoration of personality Is possible only thru a redefinition of the whole situa tion," they write. "In other words, involuntary unemployment or forc ed change of occupation affects the personality insofar as it blocks the individual's realization of so cially approved goals." The authors made a study of sixteen dependent families, only one of which had ever been on charity before. It may reasonably be supposed, therefore, says Dr, Reinhardt, that what happened to these people under the pressure of prolonged unemployment might happen to almost any parents in America under similar conditions. The following table, which re sulted from the study, presents in the order of appearance certain resulting personality reactions: DitlntfBrHtnrn. Knliireft Inromt. Moving ti t'hfHrr hin., I niMiu limn on fiimltnrt. IllMII fil'll-llt fiMlll. .NtMTily of Hiking Hid. Olil limn in brother. Hnillirr Imd licttiT fdtii'iilion. OvrnlrHn rfw nr wrroiint. ompanv ihhrld 'niinil,in. Kill piiid up. Mmliby rliilhr. I.mui niiiiiiun.v rullfifl rimilnyf-r. Wilt t-Kin In nug, frlrtiun In the home. TihiI. roomer. trriiM'J liy uifr of hrinr wnrthlcM, lYrxinxlity InrilraMri. Fi'ehni: of iiiMM'iirity, tear. Hrriiied It. humiliated, rear of Iii-miii: it. Wurired Ituout children,, health. Humiliation and diuranrt. Now ronttjnt source of cnntltrt. "Sou -uurce of rcM-ntment. llfsiH'rate, despondent. 'Ihre.itened to rill I limn I. Sitmee of crhnrra.irii-nl. Tell h hindered w irk. II Mm II ih l l, left the firm. Inn-eased nervousness, ('".liked roomer ftomcc of conflict. I 1 1 home 'lo 5in lace.1" "Some individuals went down apidly, while olhers resisted for weeks and months only to break suddenly under some pressure which on the surface appeared in- igmficant, they found. A harsh pjoinder from a nerve-wracked wife, a failure on Jean's report card, or an unsuccessful attempt to land a promised job, proved to be the proverbial straw that broke the camels back. The changed atti tudes of parents are quickly re flected in the changed attitudes of children. These in turn are again j reflected in the parents. Similarly, the older and younger children af fect each other as do the parents. Thus the entire family assumes the character of a crumbling institu tion through a process of psychic infection. "In some Instances the failure of one parent to make a harmonious adjustment produced pitying atti tudes on the part of the other. One man for a period of months devel oped a contemptuous attitude tow. ards society, insisting the world owed him a living. The attitude of his wife seemed to undergo radical change. Where before she had blamed him for numerous and sun dry difficulties the scene had changed so that now, while the husband was all that the wife had accused him of being, she instead assumed the role of protective guardian and insisted that enough was wrong with the world to ac count for any amount of failure on the part of her mate." Dr. Reinhardt says that the limi ted funds with which social agon cies nave to operate leaves no choice in the matter of providing adequate remedies which would tend to build up suffering person- antics, a setup which forces de pendent pet sons to part with val ued possessions as a means of be coming eligible for relief is inde fensible in the light of the present study as is also the practice of put ting the unemployed to the discour aging task of door-to-door canvas sing in times of depression. OFFICIAL BULLETIN Dancing. Social dancing class will meet in the armory, Friday evening, April 17, at 7 o'clock. Sponsors Club. Sponsors club will meet Thurs day at 5 o'clock in Ellen Smith hail. Gamma Alpha Chi. Gamma Alpha Chi will Thursday night at 7:00 in Smith hall. meet Ellen Kosmet Workers. Regular Kosmet Klub workers meeting will be held in the Klub offices Thursday afternoon at 5:00 o'clock. Heitkotter's Market MEAT POULTRY OYSTERS FISH 140 So. 11th Street Telephone B3348 Let I'i Figure Your Mrat Problems . , ' ' ' ' ' ' i '- ' 1 '- 'in , ,'",' S (IV rS : ,. a -4 V ';''! r t s J w C r JF ' "? ' "' i s 1 . ' ' ' A - f' - "s , " i t r - j'v i . '' erW jA..ae- ..- s ; r mm Ummi in u in in ir ,m,m in I mil ml n COSMOPOLITAN LECTURER TO ADDRESS CONVOCA TION HERE. (Continued from Page 1). fain work as general secretary of the organization that he became interested in the problem of mod ern education and the bearing of education upon political thought and economic facts. He has con tributed s. great many articles on these subjects to European and Aperican newpsprs and period icals. Is addition ts his newspaper and periodical articles. Dr. Kotschaig has published a sympoftium on "The University In a Changing World." and Just recently was en trusted by the Carnegie corpora tion of New York In co-operation with the International Institute of Teachers college, New York with an international inquiry into the overcrowding of the universities and the unemployment in the learned professions. The final re port of the inquiry is to appear shortly. In the spring of 1931, Dr. Kotschnig Joined the high com mission for refugees coming from Germany of which he later became a director. He received as a kpe ctal task, tbe coordination of the work undertaken on behalf of re fugees belonging to the academic, professional and student groups. After the liquidation of the com mission. Dr. Kotschnig continued his work on behalf of displaced German scholar. Just recently Dr. Kotschnig served as a resident leader in the Des Moines public foruma and de livered a series of lectures under the general theme "Whither Euro pean Youth?" Apart from his na tive language. German, he speaks tngnsn French and Dutch, and has a reading knowledge of some five other European languages. New Deal Barber Shop HAIRCUT 350 1306 O Street rriLLEPJlO.NE engineers bad to Liid a way to itoj gray X ecjuirrcU gnawing bole in the lead ohcatb of tt lo phone, cables. Even a tiny hole may let in moisture i-liorl circuit the ire& and put a number of tclcjiLnm s out of servi-c temporarily. Many ideas were tried, but tin: fcijuirrrli gnawed on. f inally the calli-H were painted with Mark a-phalliini and (prink led with sand. The gnawing htopped. Not a major engineering problem, to be Mire. Uiit thn ciiniJa of hlrangc little problems too, have been soiled to absure you the world's mott reliable telephone service. CP 1 . SENIORS MAY APPLY FOR TEACHING POSTS AT FORT CROOK CAMP (Continued from Page 1). June 17 to June 30, and tbe third period from July 1 to July 14. All graduating members of the R. O. t. C. who will receive their commissions will be eligible to at tend the Citizens' Military Train ing camp which will also be held at Fort Crook during the month of August. Graduates to Attend. Graduates will attend the camp for periods of two weeks, and will act as platoon commanders. The three periods will last as follows: the first period from July 28 to August 10, the second period from August 7 to August 20, and the third period from August 16 to August 29. The overlapping periods are to enable all first year men to re ceive training before taking charge of their respective pla toons. The first two periods will be open to members of the 355th in fantry and twenty officers will be chosen for each. The last period is for the 54th infantry; twenty six officers will be taken. A special camp for members of the Corps Area Service Command will be held at Fort Crook from June 14 to June 27. Only stu dents who live in Omaha havo been assigned to this branch of the service. 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