Nebraska Newspapers

    TUESDAY, MAY 19, 193b.
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NEWS EDITORS
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Lou ie Magea
Library or
Storeroom?
An earnest aupeal is being promulgated
to those persons in Nebraska who are vitally
concerned with the future of this school as an
institution of higher learning. This university
needs a library and it needs one badly. There
is no problem which so relentlessly confronts a
tax supported school as that of obtaining ade
quate facilities for the proper disbursement of
that school's obligations to those very human
boys and girls enrolled within its halls.
A foundation has been established this
rear, as is explained in the front rage story,
which will enable those willing and able in
dividuals to render a distinct service to the
state and its citizens. Gifts and bequests to
this foundation, with each donation specifical
ly earmarked for the erection of a library, may
ret prove the solution to one of the school's
paramount difficulties'. Gilbert Doane. head
librarian, has demonstrated the lack of proper
housine facilities. From the student stand
point the present library means far more.
To the student the present library on this
campus means a dungeon for the punishment
of our sins: it means a dark hole where it is
necessary to spend only the shortest possible
time in gettine assignments; it means uncom
fortable chairs, poor lights and a stifling at
mosphere. The student at present has no in
tent ie to read even those desirable books now
in the library, not to speak of others that
might be purchased later.
c
Men of letters have rendered the most
service to the small number of thinkine beings
scattered over the earth. Is it then the purpose
of a university to decrease the number of
"thinkine bei'nes" by virtually restricting
their reading habits? It would seem that the
primary function of an educational institution
would rather espouse the contrary. It is to
more widely acquaint the people of a nation,
of a state, "of a school, with the past wisdom
of the ages that they may better serve for the
furtherment of civilization, that we have
schools. We have not greatly advam-ed from
the middle aees when the printed word was in
deed difficult to secure, if we continue to
drive away seekers of knowledge with a re
palsine library.
"In a lawsuit or criminal proepv. your
property, your honor, perhaps even your hie.
depends on the interpretation of a book. It is
with books as with men. a very small number
plav a great part, the rest are confounded with
the' multitude." But that is the past. Ti t
new is rather to confound the multitude with
books in order that the hrpe number, upon
which is based our democracy, can the belter
safeguard their own honor, life or property.
Books provide that understanding necessary
for the attainment of a compatible life.
In all civilized countries mankind is led by
those who can read and write. Constantly we
are entrusting ourselves to the hands of those
who can read but who. it is questionable, have
that same high regard for another that the
person has for himself. Tyranny, boss rule and
like atrocities are possible only because of the
uninformed. No person will care lor an indi
vidual as would the individual himself.
In pleading for all possible aid in the pro
curement of funds for the erection of a new
library, students are seeking soruethinjr far
more "fundamental than a mere frame struc
ture. They want the creation of an atmos
phere tending to rehabilitate the community
thru the betterment of individuals. They de
sire an atmosphere that will become ait incen
tive for the maintenance of a more complete
community life. The verdict for the future
people of the state tests with the people of
the state.
NEWS PARADE
To
Ralph Woodruff
The Mete Deal
was dealt two sharp blows by the courts yes
terday. The supreme court declared the Guf
fey coal act unconstitutional by a 6 to 3 deci
sion, while the District of Columbia circuit
court ruled against the new relief act with a
5 to 3 decision.
The Gufjey Coal
act was kmwn as the "little NKA" of the soft
coal industry. As in the NRA, the govern
ment attempted to regulate the prices charged
for soft coal, and also wages and hours of la
bor in an attempt to bring the industry out of
its depression.
Tho from its beginning there was doubt
of its constitutionality, the act was based on
the vain hope that the courts would declare it
a valid use of the power traded by the con
stitution to regulate interstate commerce. Six
of the nine justices, however, pointed out that
the act was an invalid use of the "commerce"
clause because it tried to regulate production
before the interstate commerce began. They
declared that the act of mining in itself was
intrastate commerce and therefore any attempt
to regulate mining must be an invalid inva
sion of the states' right to regulate commerce
which took place within their borders. These
were substantially the same grounds upon
which the NRA was declared illegal.
STUDENT PULSE
Brief, conelaa contribution, pertinent to "attare ot
atudent Ufa and tfie university are we corned by this
department, under the usual rartrietlona of sound
newapaper practice, which exclude, all libelous
and personal attack.. Lettera must a aigned. but
namoa will be withheld from publication If ao desired.
To the Editor:
The article by 11. R. in the student pulse
of May 5 entitled State Farm is Liability can
hardly be commended for its accuracy of
statement or its straight thinking. .
The rusty machinery which II. R. ob
served driving down a side road is worn out
machinery used by the tractor testing labora
tory as weight for the tractors it is testing.
This testine laboratory was established by a
mandate of the Nebraska legislature. No trac
tor can be sold in the state until a stock model
has been tested and passed upon by the tractor
testing laboratory. The fees paid by manu
facturers for testing tractors are sufficient to
pay all operating expenses of the laboratory.
The laboratory is not an expense to the uni
versity because it is self-supporting.
Nebraska is the only state which main
tains a tractor testing laboratory, and the re
sults of our tests are known all over the world
and its ratings regarded par excellence.
It is unfortunate that H. R. wrote his let
ter without first making some attempt to learn
the facts. We are very certain that if he
would visit the agricultural campus and be
come acquainted with the many things that are
beine done, he would decide that the farm
machinery is well cared for and the field work
and research projects are carried on efficiently
and economically.
Probably no student will question the de
sirability of a Student Union building, but
every student should know that its erection
is not retarded by the practical use which the
tractor testing laboratory is making of worn
out machinery.
H. M. S.
CONTEMPORARY
COMMENT
Today' Youth Hold
The Answer What Is It?
Few. if any, of us realize the true great
ness of the days in which we live. To us. as
we move thru the 20th century, our days often
seem monotonous and humdrum.
Some of us look to the past and dream of
what life was when knighthood was in flower,
when loely Juliets leaned over their ivy cov
ered balconies to throw impassioned kisses at
brave Romeos. when erey clad men walked off
the verandahs of spacious southern homes to
mount their horses and ride away to fiirht for
"the lost cause." or when the howling mob
pushed a poor Jew up a rugged hill to pinion
him upon a bloody cross.
But the hours tha now surround us. the
pulsing passions of our own day. these in real
ity far surpass ail the haloed dramas of cen
turies past. For today we stand at a great
turning point in the history of the race. To
day we are choosine unconsciously, perhaps,
but choosine still a path which will lead the
race forward to treat er triumphs and greater
liberty, or we are turning our feet into a path
that leads to the graveyard of other great
civilizations.
And those who are choosing are the buy
and girls who are now lakine up the reins of
management for the world. Today we step into
an embittered, troubled, and baffled world
a world willing to follow almost any leader
hip. whether it be fascist or communist or
new dealism. We now face one of history's
great moments.
What kind of a choice will we you and I
make Will we choose equality and secu
rity, and to an in thee. bargain away the Lard
won jewels of liberty arid freedom for men of
all colors or creeds or races, even tho the price
may be a lesser degree of economic security
and equality? Or will we seek to strike a
clever eoiiipromi.se take the tood from both
the riwht and the left, and try to move forward
down the middle of the historic road!
How tan we solve the problem of unem
ployment! How can we do the counties mil
lions of jobs that yearn to be done! How can
we put these idle willing hands to work to do
the job that mankind needs done!
How can we smash for all eternity the
hellish ring of international hatreds and bar
barous wars! How can we drive from the
earth the pestilence and blicht of disease and
famine and epidemic!
What other ace of history ever had the
privilege of viewing "Thinly peopled gardens
of plenty!" What other generation ever
stood in the reflected glow of an age wherein
every man can, by mechanical means, be ade
quately clothed and sheltered and fed!
Think not, sneering friends, that this is no
concern of yours, for the very texture of your
life's ihead. the degree of personal freedom,
the sufficiency of your economic security
these hang in the balance.
There is no teed to look longingly to the
past for dramas, opportunity, and greatness.
The world's atmosphere is electric with the
drama of clashing systems, conflicting creeds.
8nd warring nations. The opportunity for
leading the peoples of the world "out into un
dreamed of pastures of peace and plenty" was
never so great. The poet might well say of
our day. "The world's great age renews
again."" for this is one of history's most fate
ful hours.
' Is our day the beginning or the end? Are
we now standing in the waiting room of man
kind's greatest days, or are we standing on
the seashore awaiting; the all destructive hur
ricane which will sweep us into the seas which
in centuries past engulfed Athens, Alexandria,
Troy and Rome!
You today's youth you hold the an
swer. What is it? Daily Texan.
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Collegians Pick
Their June Trousseaus.
With June just around the cor
ner and nothing new in wedding
themes (except gray trousseau
lingerie, Elizabeth Hawes' glass
clad bride and Lelong's motif in
mauve )
f a a h i o n
scouts from
Made moi
selle maga
zine invad
e d five
male sanc
tums of
higher
learning in
s e a r ch of
o p i n i o ns
from those
s o seldom
cons ulted
in such
matters, namely, the grooms-to-be.
Five young eligibles were queried,
and speaking in behalf of their
respective alma maters, present
the following symposium for what
it is worth to prospective Lohen
grin marchers.
Beginning with the bridal gown,
Yale, Harvard and Williams em
phatically preferred the conven
tional white as opposed to such
radical departures as pink, glass,
and mauve. Princeton only wanted
to be sure that it wasn't "the
gown grandmother wore," while
Dartmouth contended that "Cel
lophane would keep this most
prized of packages, fresh and
sweet." Princeton and Williams
wished to forsake their celibacy
in comparative peace and quiet
but Harvard, Dartmouth and Yale
thought a big wedding would be
more impressive and consequently
make it last longer. A chorus of
emphatic "Ayes" greeted "the
honeymoon in some secluded spot,"
but there wasn't a murmur in
favor of "Monte Carlo and other
gay places."
oje College Is
Conservatice, Girls
Just how long the trousseau
ought to last was a matter for
conjecture but the hopeful esti
mate was "at least a year." Dart
mouth voted alone in favor of
"mad. silly hats," though "ding
bats for evening wear," received
no support whatever. Ultra short
bathing suits were, generally
s p e aking.
quite a c
c ep table,
but of
d o u b t ful
dee irabil
i t y for
one 8 wife.
Only Wil
liams ap
proved flat
heeled shoes for
other than
sports
wear and likewise voiced a singu
lar approval for mannishly tail
ored suits. Printed silk dresses
were preferred to solid colors,
Princeton, however, advising se
lective care lest the result be
something like Aur.t Martha's
Christmas tie.
In matters of beauty the jury
seemed most opinionated. "Lipstick
is a necessity to be used judicially
and indellibly." P.ed nail polish
was perturbing to all except Wil
liams who balked only because
"it is too often vividly overdone."
E leached hair was voted out com
pletely tho Yale and Princeton
condescended to overlook an oc
casional slight something in the
rinse water. False eyelashes re
ceived not one affirmative vote
and the same went for painted
toe nails. Princeton observing that
"their only value might be to some
future anthropologist who wished
to compare the decorative habits
of ring-in-the-nosc aborigines with
20th century American women."
Pencil-thin eyebrows were another
taboo, "such hirsute adornments s
do not approximate those of Irvin
S. Cobb or mountain goat, should
be left alone." Eyeshadow put
the jury in mind of Dracula. and
a bride retinng for th night in
hair curies and gobs of told cream
would bear striking resemblance
to a White Zombie.
GRIDIRON GETS NEW DEAL
WITH REPLACEMENT OF SOD
KVsodding of .Memorial Stadium's foot hall field i now un
der mhv, according to John K. Sellcck, business manager ol ath
letics, and next fall's grid teams will have a lush looting ot neu'
grass to sink their collective cleats into.
The vnrsitv field will have 20.000 feet ot new sod bud.
anrt the freshman field Will beO
renovated with 10,000 feet of sod.
This year, a little more than usual
sod is being placed. The varsity
field has been surveyed and
brought down to the true grade.
By the end of the current school
vsar th newlv Dlanted crass will
be ready for the caretaker's mow
er. Mr. Selleck remarked, and
Husker grid patrons will see one
of the finest stadium plots in the
midwest while sitting in Memorial
stadium.
Careers were all right too as far
as he was concerned "for aside
from certain economic advantages
they keep a young wife out of
mischief."
Attributes unanimously desired
were: Beautiful face and figure
(in that order), a flair for cook
ing and sewing, "after all what
was a wife for," participation in
golf, tennis, swimming, etc., cour
age in avoiding that one last cock
tail that invariably does the dam
age, (providing she drinks at all),
sunny enthusiasm (but only when
It ia appropriate), an ability to
save without stinting and, most of
all. occasional glimmerings of in
telligence. Undesirable traits, in
cluding the antitheses of the above,
were; Habitual sarcasms, risque
stories (particularly if badly told),
swearing (except when undeniably
justified), calling the office at fre
quent intervals to chat, leaving a
party too early or staying too
late, buying furniture that is too
modern "for comfort or too anti
quated for safety in short, ex
tremes of any sort, for the com
mittee seemed to place a wishful
reverence in the two words, "con
servative" and "natural."
Again Ice Names
Vhat He Gees For
Harvard alone came out whole
heartedly in favor of perfumes,
Dartmouth insisting that "a man
never notices it until it n put on
in such quantities as to become
distasteful." On the subject of
"making up In public Dartmouth
was ?ain moot vitrolic, citing
"powder in
public - pet
in the
park" a s
hi best
reason. All
except
H a r v a rd
were a-
a i n a t
beaux after
roar nage,
this
a e
m
In? that
extra curricular companionship
waa all right if it didn't come
too soon after the wedding and
provided, of course, that "they
wtitn t too utterly utter about it.
a i ntain-
Worthwhile
Gifts
Should be selected with the
aid of an experienced Coun
sellor. Be It a Diamond Ring
a Graduation Watch or
Cameo Ring, we are glad to
assist you ia selecting Just
tha Gift you require.
Wmlh thu 2 blockt mnd
atw f A dil Irrrmcm
COLLEGE
WORLD
Automobile club directors of the
rountrv are comine- out these days
with figures which show that the
fatalities is occurmg among nigu
most Blnrminp increase in traffic
school and college drivers.
And speamng or suaaen aeaui,
Prof L. A. Clousins of North-
n-eatern university is making in
teresting studies of carbon mon
oxide poisoning in automobiles. He
stopped 200 cars at random on
the highways and discovered one
out of 20 had a dangerous con
centration of gas in the air
Krparhcrf hv the driver. He said the
gas will cause drowsiness and
sleepiness and win slow aown re
actions, altho the driver will
never be aware of bis conditions.
SWniness and drowsiness, bv
the way, are being combatted by
Anctcrs at the University of Min
nesota who have developed a lit
tle white "anti-iaiigue pui. i ney
fed them to two professors who
liked the results. "They speed up
mental processes ana are sumuiai
ing for several hours'' said the
nrnfejwnrs. But. of course, thev
cannot be used indiscriminately
and continuously. isoay ussues
cannot stand long periods of
sleeplessness" said Doctor Beiter
of the pharmacology department
rne proiessor runner reponeu
I he rvills tried like alcohol in that
they caused excitement, talkative
ness and hilarity.
Friik Hausmann, editor of - the
Iivnla NVuii at Ijovola university.
did some checking up the other
day and found that most college
men hate punning, don't care if
their girl friend drinks, since
that s "her own business, uon I
want to spend more than $4 on
anv one ,lur and don't believe
in going eteady. The rest of the
answers we don t believe.
The hovK said the Deifect eirl
didn't need to have physical at
tractiveness it sne naa cnaracier,
intelligence and personality!
One iceman, one plumber and
one travelling salesman.
Now entering his tnirty-third
year of service is James A. Ten
Eyck, famous Syracuse university
crew coach.
Twenty -five deans out of 61
polled at a recent convention said
re-enactment of prohibition would
Improve conditions on their cam
puses. .
Pi of. Ernest O. Lawrence, Uni
versity of California scientist, has
succeeded in turning platinum
into gold.
Colgate univeisity is sponsoring
a contest to find the best student
after-dinner speaker.
Fourteen University of Minne
sota students have been assessed
fifteen extra credits for gradua
tion for participation in a "pa
Ama parade."
A Greek vase 2.S00 years old
will be used m a Grinnell college
dance drama.
An NYU piofessor sued an A. &
P. store lor $50,000 for false ar
rest last week. He got $300.
Nine eastern college hammer
throwers have topped 170 feet.
World's record is 1S9.
We. understand, haven't the
slightest objection to the peace
strike, but there is a budding ver
sifier out at the University of
California at Berkeley, who has.
He objected this way:
Down wit de students
Down wit de class
Down wit de trees
Down wit de grass
Down wit de countries
Down wit de flags
Down wit de army
Down wit bum gags
Down wit de women
Down wit de men
Down it de rooster
Down wit de hen
Down wit de spring
Down" wit de fall
Whatever it is. I'm against it.
so
Down wit it all.
Xavier Cugat. whose lhumba
and tango orhestra will be heard
over NBC from the Stevens Hotel
In Chicago beginning May 14. em
ploys such primitive Latin-American
musical instruments as the
banjo, the quijada, viro. conga,
marimbala, and the marraca.
A heretofore unknown 16th cen
tury stained glass window has
been discovered in England by
Princeton scientists.
Mr. Jesurun. you may remember,
is the student who worked up a
tidy bit of business waking up his
fellow students each morning so
they would not miss class. He
earns his way thru school with his
deft Taps on the Shoulder and
Nudges in the Ribs.
But in this business too, science
has led to refinements of method.
Mr. Jesurun does nothing so crude
now, as Jabbing in the Midriff.
Now he has a special concoction
of ammonium chloride in a little
vial, which he slips under the nose
of the deep breathing ones.
Of course, Mr. Jesurun had first
to sell his proposition to fellow
sluggards. An example of his
promotion metnoa, as ne nimseu
described it: "You take Fernando, i
Well. Fernando set his alarm clock !
for 6:30 a. m. When he was
sleeping I sneaked in his room and
set it for 8 :30 a. m. Then the i
next morning, I made a call and
OFFICIAL
BULLETIN
Student Council.
Meeting of all newly elected and
retiring members of the Student
council will be held on Wednesday
at 4:30 in the council rooms. All
committee chairmen should ba
prepared to give a complete report
of his committee's activities during
the past year.
Barb Council.
Members of the Barb Council
will meet at 5 o'clock this after
noon in room 8 of U hall. Ejection
of oificera will be held.
Sponsors Club.
Sponsors club will meet Friday,
May 22, at 5 o'clock at Ellen
Smith hall. All sponsors are re
quested to attend.
easily convinced him of the superi
ority of my method over that of
alarm clocks.
"Too many coaches spoil tha
team." So Dr. Forrest C. "Phog"
Allen, athletic director and bas
ketball coach at Kansas univer
sity, resigned as director of the
American Olympic basketball
team because of the "unsports
manlike attitude of the members
of the the A. A. U. committee.
There was to be a director of the
team, Allen, two coaches from
the teams having the most play
ers on the squad, and two or
three trainers that thought they
knew how to play too. It was
just a case of too many fingers
in the pie. If Allen had been al
lowed to take the entire matter
in his hands, or either one of
tne others had the same chance,
the whole committee would have
been better off. As it stands
now there will be plenty of trou
ble before the matter is fin.
ished, and a lot of personal mat
ter besides.
Exams and Eyes,
A Itvauty Problem
Exams a"ie with us again and
the midnight oil burns wearily on.
There's Hollingworth or is it
Woodworth to be ploughed thru
one last time and reams of history
'Ai.linn. an.l pm-(irnnniil whirh
may be interesting in term time,
but is on joke now there's such
a lot of it!
And the main question is will
you and your eyes hold out till
it's all over? Well, somehow you
will of course, but quite a number
of you, like the young men and
women of my own student days
in Vienna, will become tired, days
too soon and decide that what you
already know will have to suf
fice; that more study and cram
ming will simply make you dizzy
and confused and cost more than
it s worth. Perhaps these students
are right and further study would
be no use to them.
But have you ever thought how
ine Slair oi yuui cyca nuiucm-vo
your general feeling "of health or
ill health? I do not refer to those
specific eye defects for which
glasses are necessary, but only to
the dullness and heaviness which
come from too steady use, from
a too steady focus on one point
It sometimes happens that a
change of activity which forces
you to change the focus of your
eyes will rest you and entirely
dispel that dizzy confusion which
hours of cramming provoke.
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