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TIIR DAILY NERIMSKAN
W KDNimVY. Al'ItU, 20. 1936.
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IN MEMORIAM
The 11 a. m.f April 30 Student Forum on
the "Subsidization of Athletes."
Born, 5 :30 p. m. Wednesday, March 14
Died, 3:45 p. m. Tuesday, April 28.
Pall Bearers: Bill Marsh, Irving Hill
and Student Council.
The bereaved : Entire student body.
Speakers: Faculty witches scaring
poor students into becoming; "Yes-Men."
Moral: Pay due tribute to the living
dead.
With fondest regrets,
The Daily Nebraskaii
STUDENT PULSE
Brief, eonelee contributions pertinent to matter ot
student life and the university are welcomed by thle
department, under the usual reatrictlona ot eound
newspaper practice, which exoludee all libelous matter
and peraonal attneka. Letters must be signed, but
names will be withheld from publication If eo desired.
Building Up Baseball;
But What a Letdown.
TO THE EDITOR:
"Strange as it seen is" Baseball is a major
sport at Nebraska. Why isn't it treated as
such? Why doesn't it net its share of public
ity, crowds and enthusiastic followers? 1 doubt
very much whether more than half the stu
dents know that Nebraska has a baseball team.
Judging from the size of the crowds at the first
two games, which were free to the public, we
students don't enre whether Nebraska ever pets
to be a Big Six title contender. More publicity
would be a great help. Once in a while one will
find three or four inches of space occupied by
a baseball box score, but it doesn't happen
often.
If Baseball is to be built up, it must start
with the Freshmen team. There isn't much
stress laid on Freshmen baseball. They go out
and practice a few weeks and then play the
Varsity, in order that the Varsity may have
Borne hitting practice. After this they can store
their gloves in moth balls again. The Freshmen
receive no encouragement for the consistent
and diligent effort which they apply in their
work-out with the horsehide. Freshmen Foot
ball and Basketball players receive sweaters,
but the Freshmen who participate in "that
great American game," Baseball, still are hop
ing that the athletic board will wake up and
realize, that to have a good team, some incen
tive must be provided.
Our Baseball team would win more games
if it had some backing. But we don't back 1he
team with that old student enthusiasm that
is shown for the other sports. Rally! Rally I
Some students probably think that idea is ab
surd, but why couldn't rallies be conducted
when the team leaves on a trip. It would show
them that we are behind them? Also, a rally
before the home games, with the band d ruin
ing up a lot of enthusiasm, would be a stimu
lus to get in there and hit that ball for good
old Nebraska U. Why not make the Baseball
games student affairs, rather than entertain
ment for a few who come to see how badly Ne
braska will be beaten. R. H. D.
CONTEMPORARY
COMMENT
Fossils of Prehistoric Turtle and Sea
Serpent Added to Museum Collection
Unsung
Campus Heroes.
It was a eold spring morning five years
ago. Before six o'clock a student knocked on
the Annr ei a nrnfessnr's hmisp. The nrofessor.
being one of the patient sort and one who was
not especially grouchy at that early Hour, in
vited the student in and listened sympathetic
ally to the lad's plea for assistance in obtain
ing a much needed job.
The student had gone to school for four
years, lived in a basement room, and worked
in a enmnna pntinc establishment, lie had to
be at work at 6 o'clock every morning. That I
was his reason for calling upon the proicssor
of tlinf enrlv an hour. He saved and scimped
to get through college. He had various other
jobs to supplant his job at the hashery. he had
in nnv all his own wav. And be cradnated
with one of the highest grade averages in his
school.
Tho ni-nfpss.ni- hclned the student eet the
job. The other day that student came back to
the campus to see the proicssor, to maiiK mm
for all that he had done for him. Since gradua
tion he has been rapidly promoted until now
he holds an important executive position in a
big business in this state.
The story of this former Ajsaie sounds like
one taken from an old time Horatio Alger
novel. Nevertheless, it is true.
Hundreds of other Horatio Alger stories
are being enacted on the campus today. The
stories cannot be told now, but they will be
told in time.
There are the students who get up in the
wee small hours on the cold winler mornings to
go to work in the power plant to see that the
buildings are warm when the remainder of the
student body get to their eight o'clock classes.
There are the boys who sweep up what the rest
of the students carelessly discard. There arc
the boys who milk cows at 4 o'clock in the
morning at the college cattle barns and the
boys boys who stay up all night during zero
weather with prize livestock.
Many students are employed in city busi
ness establishments that remain open all night.
When something goes wrong wilh a campus
water main, students put on hip boots and go
to work. ,
These students are willing to do any kind
of work to get a college education. These stu
dents oftentimes have to cook their owa meals
in addition to studies and work.
These are the students about whom we
hear little. These are the students who do not
get their names in the college daily and who
are not listed as BMOC's by the college year
book. These are the students who do not get
their names in the scandal columns for some
particularly daring fete while on a toot. These
are the students whose name are not included
on the bid list of fraternity dances.
It is these students students who are will
ing to do any kind of physical labor and who
do willingly any job given them that are our
unsung campus heroes.
These are the students who are the back
bone of the institution the students who real
ly want to get an education and are willing to
pay any price for it. It is this sort of student
j ...v, V iinatinnal system is devised.
L ru 111 nuuui - -
-u.- r,nf ostsbliRhpd for the "four
VsUueuca m "v
year winter resort" type of student a type
that predominates in college enrollment iig-
U"STo those students who work their way
through School, who make good grades, and
u 4k.h .nlW hoodies of the spot
light of publicity and the fanfare attached to
those ho attain the BMOC ranking, we take
nff our hats. They are Iruly our unsung
campus heroes. Daily 0 'Collegian.
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My. 'Mh'm
: X N' ' li"
Pi-otostega, the giant fossil tur
tle pictured above, is one of the
two new specimens added to the
ancient turtle and sea serpent col
lection in the museum. From the
tip of its tail to the end of its
skull, the remains measure nine
feet. Standing beside the side
of the turtle is Henry Reider, who
is in charge of the work.
A small Mosasaur, known as
Platycarpus and measuring twen
ty feet in length, is the second fos
sil. The remains of both were
found in Nebraska, and they now
will be companions of the muse
um's thirty-foot sea serpent, Ty-
From Sunday Journal anil Star.
losaurus, which came from the
chalk beds of Kansas. All three
have been mounted to show them
off to the best possible advantage.
Dr. E. H. Barbour, director of
the museum, stated all three pre
historic monsters roamed thru
Kansas and Nebraska during the
Niobrara seas.
1
PETERSON
OUTSTANDING
Take
It Easy.
Petty polilirs stepjnto the center of the
campus student activities for the coining month
of intrigue, combine, faction, personalities, and
the common reaction that follows all of these.
The paradox of the whole situation is that
those students who take an active pari, in the
campaigns are vehemently criticized by those
who show little interest in what the next camp
us government will be like, while those that
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take little interest are just as loudly condemned
for r.ot taking the time to cast their vote.
CoIIpop students take it all so seriously. If
a candidate is given rotten publicity, he com
plains. If another candidate is given favor
able breaks in the same line, he pats ihe re-
. i .1
porter on Ihe back and passes cigars to nis
c:iiiir:iin m.'innoer. Then, after the election
passes, the defeated candidate locether with
his more intimate backers goes into mourning
with the solemn declaration lhat his policy
thereafter will be one of opposition 1o every
ni-onosnl or scheme advanced by the winner
during the latter 's tenure of office.
Yet anolher incident to which one may
nnint tn show with what iiitcnscncss politics are
held in Ihe students' hearts is the creation of
the recent election commission. Just as some
have serious intent of getting their candidates
in office through the combine field, so do oth
ers just as seriously now wish to halt this pro
cedure for the "cleaning up" of campus poli
tics. Of what consequence is all this petty polit
ical mess? Certainly, no office is a matter of
life or death to any student. The primary pur
pose of going to college is surely not one of at
tempting to win politically among your fellow
students. If the candidates elected fulfilled
more than just the honorary position - of at
tempting to direct a few details of activity that
deal entirely with student life, and instead di
rected functions that were vital to every phase
of the daily life of the individual, the political
campaign would be one to give due attention
and call for the noisy action that is always evi
denced. If the collegians would take the slang
phrase, "take it easy," with serious intent, in
their political maneuvers, the campus could be
assured that politics would receive their
meriled place of complacency and be the bolter
for it all. Then candidates that received the
popular backing could be surely selected.
Denver Clarion.
FORMER STUDENT
NOW DICTATOR
(Continued from Page 11.
biaska has made him an advoca
tor nf thp two nartv system, and
he is absolutely opposed to the ex
istence of more than three polit
ical units. "He will not be a dicta
tor any longer than he has to."
But to go back to ihe beginning
of the story:
Karlis Ulmanis was born in
Latvia and studied agriculture as
a boy. At 27 he was editor of an
agricultural paper. Then as now,
a Lettish patriot, he wrote an ar
ticle declaring tnat Xiaivia, a
nmvlnrp nf cnrist Russia, should
have its independence. The inevit
able occurred, ana as me govern
ment agents were coming in the
front door Ulmanis left from the
rear.
He stole to Sweden, then to
Germany, and finally came by
steerage to the United States.
Hardly able to speak English, he
worked his way west where a
frlonrt Knrl Kleee whose father
had helped Ullman escape from
Latvia, found mm a jod wonting
as farmhand for State Senator
Warner at Waverly. That fall he
entered the college of agriculture
to study dairying.
Young Man Morose.
The youn man was morose, of
ten sour. He was hurt if friends
failed to drop in and see him every
day or two. They were often an
noyed by these things, but Ull
man had some attraction that pre
vented their breaking away from
him.
When he waa graduated in 1909,
he took a job with the Roberts
Dairy for a year when he heard of
a good dairy for Bale in Houston,
Tex. He borrowed about 11,000
frcn Professors A. L. Haecker
and H. R. Smitlv attbo they are
still a bit mystified as to the rea
son. Warner pleaded with him to
Investigate the dairy before buy
ing, but he waa coldly obdurate.
At laat Warner gave in and also
lent him some money.
in SO days Ullman had com
pletely made over the dairy. He
hired white drivers to replace the
Negroes, Introduced a new ticket
system, and installed new ma
chines to handle the milk. Ht
could wait for nothing; all the
changes took place immediately.
Business Bad.
Things did not go well. Business
was bad. Auer a year ana a nan,
Unmans hair bad turned aimosi
white. He was worn and discour
aged, when the czar declared a
general amnesty for all Lettisn po
litical offenders. Ullman planned
to return to Latvia and his for
mer job on the farm magazine.
He called his creditors on the
phone, told them they could have
the business, and set sail from
New Orleans on a freighter a few
days later. This was early in 1914.
In Latvia he resumed nis eniionai
work and toured the country
teaching the farmers American
methods he had learned.
nnrinir the war Ullman con
tinued his work, and in 1917 when
the Russian empire fell to pieces,
he was sent to the provisional par
Hament in St. Petersburg. At the
meeting he told the delegates that
Latvia wanted its independence.
At Odds With Russia.
As the Bolshevists gained in
power the little country found it
self at odds with the Russians.
German troops then poured into
the country to stop the red tide.
Once there, they stayed. It seemed
that Latvia had merely changed
masters.
When the German western front
collapsed, Latvia declared itself
free. A provisional assembly chose
Karlis Ulmanis the first president
of the republic. In the meantime
Ullman, a fugitive from both the
reds and the Germans was staying
on a British cniiser. When the
excitement was over, he returned
to Riga and the office of presi
dent. During his three years as presi
dent Ullman fought to have all
territory populated by Letts in
cluded in his young nation. In 1921
Latvia joined the League of Na
tions. At the close of his term, he
stepped down to the more power
ful office of prime minister which
he retained during eight cabinet.
No Majorities.
During the period he served as
premier, th trouble caused by the
twenty political parties grew until
no group could get a majority on
anything. A party "that might
support him on one issue, might
balk on another. The wrangling in
the assembly grew more bitter.
PLAYERS
SHOW
University Group Presents
'Macbeth' as Second of
Shakespeare Series.
By Willard Burney.
Approximately 400 loyal patrons
of the Temple theater and ardent
Shakespearean lovers defied the
wateiy challenge of a driving
April shower, Tuesday evening,
and flocked to the opening of
Macbeth," the second of the
Studio Players' Elizabethan pro
ductlons to be presented dining
the week. The first of the plays,
"The Merchant of Venice," was
staged Monday evening as the
Studio Playeis opened the first of
Its Shakespearean festivals which
tliamatic department heads hope
to make an annual occurrence.
Gains Momentum.
Altho last night's presentation
was decidedly slow and ineffective
In the beginning, it gained mo
mentum as the play progressed
and by the time of the final cur
tain the attentive audience was
applauding as commendable a
performance as has been seen on
the Temple stage for some time.
It was again noticed as In the
former pi'oduction that at times
there were forgotten lines that
marred the smoothness with which
it might have progressed.
Perhaps the brightest light ot
the production was Vera Mae Pe
tersen who assumed the role of
the beautiful but scheming Lady
Macbeth. Miss Peterson was con
stantly good thruout the produc
tion and in the opening scenes of
the play helped to amend the
rather faulty enactment.
Rider Playt Macbeth.
Playing opposite the royal queen
and also deserving of much favor
able comment was Richard Rider,
as Macbeth. Rider's work in tha
opening moments seemed to lack
fire and action but the early de
ficiency was well rewarded by his
work during the central and later
acts.
Equal commendable perhaps was
the work of Waldemar Mueller as
the daring Macduff and eventual
conqueror of the mighty Macbeth.
Wednesday evening the Studio
Players will open with the third
and final production of their run,"
"As You Like It. Henceforth,
each of the plays will be staged
again for the remainder of the
week.
The etrong willed Ulmanis
grew tired of this state of affairs.
On May 16, 1931, he and his friend,
General Balodis who controlled 23
thousand soldiers, quietly took
things into tholr own hands. Ul
manis declared a state of siege at
Riga, occupied all the public build
ings with troops, and told the com
plaining parliamentarians to go
home. The communists, however,
he threw into nrison. and soon es
tablished concentration camps for
them.
The next step was to strengthen
the army and the police. The na
tion was quiet. The dictatorship
was mild. There was little of the
persecution that characterized dic
tatorships in the other European
countries. If there was violence,
none of it came from Latvia.
Support of Peasants.
F.nriv this vear Ulmanis sought
to regularize his position. He had
th mmnnrt of the ueasants. the
largest single group in the country.
On March 1. a law was pm
merging the positions or president
nrt nremier at me ena oi me icim
t CoeiHont Albert KvieSiS.
It was announced mat uimanis
hM th combined office un
til the constitution could be re
formed. No date for tne retorming
has been set. But as he himself has
ototori the renublic will be restored
as soon as the little nation has
fully recovered from its present
political unrest and legislative m-
1 Ck nrt m a a
A short time ago Prof. Haecker
onolvpii ft letter irom unman con
taining a check in payment of the
remainder ot ine one mousunu uur
lar loan to buy the dairy, wnicn
h.i if vAn ji successful venture
miirht have deprived Europe of its
newest dictator.
ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION
GRANTS RESEARCH FUND
$52,000 Goes Into Study of
Hormones Which Cause
Human Growth.
BERKELEY, Calif., April 28.
rw RAhrt M. Evanst researches
into the hormonos that cause or
retard human growth will be con
tinued for three years under a f2,
000 grant from the Rockefeller
Foundation, It wa announced this
week.
E
FULL TIE OCCUPATION
Students Working Part Time
At Illinois School
Outclass Others.
(Bv College Ne Service !
CHICAGO. Atiril 28 The Na
tional Youth Administration has
upset the theory that a college edu
cation is a full time job, requiring
all of one's time.
President Roscoe Pullium of the
Southern Illinois State Normal
university, reported that 194 stu-
aents wno woraea part time ai
NYA jobs during the last term far
outclassed the several hundred
other students in general scholarship.
The percentage or nya students
receivinc trades above B plus
was 34.53, while the percentage of
other students was 22.26.
"The verv marked superiority of
the scholarship of the NYA group
was sometning ot a surprise 10
me," Dr. Pullium told NYA orn-
cials. "I think it indicates mat me
federal government is certainly
making a worthwhile investment
in those young people, who, in
spite of the fact that they spend
three hours daily at worn mat pre
sumably has little to do with im
nrovinir their trades, are able to
keep their scholarship up to a su
perior stanaara.
NEBRASKANS TELL
OF PAST EVENTS
(Continued from Page 1).
The 1916 Nebraskan reveals
one Nebraska tradition that has
fallen by the wayside. It seems
that in those days it was cus
tomary for the Junior and Senior
classes to gather at Ag college
grounds for a breakfast picnic.
On this particular occasion ham
burgers were the favored dish.
Entertainment was furnished by
the girls, who played a baseball
game. All went well until the
Senior boys, fearing defeat for
their class, purloined the only
bat and ball. The outcome of
the game remains a mystery.
Ivy Day Planned.
Traditional Ivy day was to be
observed with a gusto in J 916 if
write-ups are any indication of
the truth. Ice cream and can
dies were sold by the students
and the Innocents were tapped
in ir uch the same manner as
today.
Nebraska's Tennis team won a
dual match from Iowa State,
taking two of three matches
from the Cyclones.
Intramural sports found tiese
results:
Baseball.
Delta Tau Delta, 4, Alpl- i
Sigma Phi S.
Beta Theta Pi 6, Alpha Theta
CJ5. , .
Kappa Sigma and Sigma Al
pha Epsllon (tie).
Society notes revealed .that
Acacia and Farm House were
having house parties that week
end. and Phi Gamma Delta held
forth at th Lincoln Hotel with
their eighteenth annual dinner-dance.
The University farms have a
sign in the pasture: A warning
they allow No Hunting, Strolling
or Tresspassing on their property.
Strollera pleas", note.