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1WO THE DAILY INERKASKAN Daily Nebraskan Station A. Lincoln. Nebrashs. THIRTY. FIFTH YEAR Published every Tuesday, Wednesday. Thursday, Fri. day and Sunday mornings of the academic year by ttu. dents of the University of Nebraska, under supervision of the Board of Publications. 1936 Member IW Flssociaicd CbUe6iate Press Distributors of ColIe6iafe Di6est RKPRKSKNTCO POK NATIONAL ADVERTIflNd SV National Advertising Service, Inc. Coltrtr PuHishtrt Rrtirrsrntatirt AZO Madison Ave. NewYork. N.Y. CHfCAdO DOSTON SAN FRANCISCO LOaANSSLSS POKTLANO GSATTbS BOB FUNK business Manager DON WAGNER Wlllard Burney Bob Heaaisn ARNOLD LEVIN Editor EDITORIAL STAFF Managing Editors CEORGE PIPAL Mews Editors Eleanor Clizbe Ed Murray Helen Pasco BUSIINfcSS allrf Assistant Business Managers Bob Wadhams Webb Mills Frank Johnson This paper is represented tor general advertising bv tha Nebraska Press Association. Entered as second-class matter at the postofflce In Lincoln. Nebraska, under act of congress. March 3, 1879, and at special rate of postage provided for In section 1103, act of October 3, 1917, authorized January 20, 1922. SUBSCRIPTION RATE J1.50 a year Single Copy 6 cents $1.00 semester 2.5C a year mailed $1.50 a semester mailed Under direction of the Student Publication Board. Editorial Off ice Uinvei sity Hall 4. Business Office University Hall 4A. Telephones Day: B6891; Night: B63S2. B3333 (Journal). ON THIS ISSUE -Pipal Night Editor Clirbe Desk Editor- In Mcmoriani--We Prepare for ar. Eighteen years ago today was sounded the knell to the Moodiest, most horrible mar on the record of civilization. The last gun coughed, the last douphboy fell dead on the reeking bat tlefields of France. Some years later, the monument to the Unknown Soldier was dedicated at Arlington cemetery dedicated to those whose graves dotted the European landscape, to those who so valiantly gave their lives in a "war to end war." Those who came hack remember with a shudder the visions of the battlefield visions like the dreams of a crazy man death, guns, noise, gas, screams, suffering, blood. Those visions remain forever, above the hollow glory of "saving the world for democracy," above the "doing your bit for king and country," above the glory and honor and heroism which sparkled on the front pages of the papers back home. They know what war is. Today they re member with a sigh and a prayer and a shud der, and a "Thank God." Today all over the world eloquent statesmen and orators thunder the evils of conflict from the rostrum, point out the foolhardiness of war, recognize the pathway which can lead inevitably but to the destruction of the civilization which created it. Today the people of the world conglom erate in lmye assemblies, with American or French or British or German flags soaring overhead, and listen mutely, sympathetically, isnorantly to the preachings from the ros trum. Today young Americans or Frenchmen or Britons wave their flags in unceasing pride of achievement, and shout "Uuzzah, we won the war." Today young Germans and Aus trians and Hungarians wave their flags and shout defiance to the war which deprived them so much. And above this cacophony is a cryptic "Xext time . . ." Today the world remembers. But how'.' By heating drums, waving flass. marching feet, thundering airplanes looking forward to "next time." The preparation for war goes on unceas Incly tomorrow. "War machines must be built up. For security. For economic rights. For agffression. Generals bend anxious faces over maps technically, they are at Mar now. They visualize the "Schlieft'en plan" of 1940; trace the "Hindenbunr line" of HU'i: plan the "IVI leau Wood offenses'' of Hll'l. The world fortrels so easily. Just 18 jears airo mothers were bemoaninsr the hiss of sons iii the fields of battle; orphans were crying for lost mothers and fulhf i's; wives were with out husbands; killing, killing everywhere, till this was a world gone mad. .Mourners felt, however, that they did not grieve in vain. This was 1 he "war to end war." How pleasant a thought. How great the. sacrifice. How vain. Bow foolish. The world goosesteps to another conflict, prideful, venge ful, blind to the handwriting which promises so clearly the end of everything; listening only to diciators whose charm, whose mag netic persona lilies draw the masses closer and rloser to the destruction which all fear, and from which all shrink. "Thou shalt not kill." For thousands of years this 1cnet has reigned in society. The churches, Ihe courts, the governments, recog nize and abide by it. Gan it be ihe voice of God, Ihe voice of all beliefs.' Fan thes be God-like peoples, who war? It is no wonder that the iconoclast surveys the scene and de nies the existence of God. "Thou shalt not kill." Yes, thou shalt not kill, unless you are French and your opponent German; or you ure Italian, and your opponent Ethiopian. STUDENT PULSE Brief, concise contributions pertinent to matttra of student life and tha university ara welcomed bv hls newspaper practice, wnlch excludes all libelous matter and personal attacks. Letters must ba signed, but names vlli be withheld from publication If so desired, department, under tha usual restrictions of aound The Price Of Beauty. TO THE EDITOR: In the thick of the Gornhusker beauty iueen election hubub, Editor Bill Marsh was asked why the voting was being held at a downtown thealer. lie replied. "Where else can we have it am! make money ?" He stated that the revenue gained in this manner would be used to make the publication " a better book." Editor Marsh tells us that the annual will cost $15,000. Due to the reduction in pur chasing price to $3.75, according to Mr. Marsh, the theater election project is essential to main tain the quality of the yearbook. Accepting the editor's statements of the finances of his publi cation, there still seems a discrepancy in em burdening upon nil voters a financial obliga tion from which only subscribers 1o the Gorn husker will benefit. "Why should purchasers of the yearbook be subject to a special assess ment upon an article for which they have al ready paid? But all this discussion of high finance does not explain why a campus election should be held not only off the campus but also under commercial sponsorship. Before the primary balloting, Bill Clayton, managing editor of the annual, explained that ihe chief reason for throwing beauty queen selections open to the student body in'the first place was to keep the yearbook thoroly .Nebraskan in tone, prefer ably indigenous to this campus. It is claimed by 'the staff that there M as violent criticism of the previous policy of the picking of beau ties by an outside judge. The present plan aims to correct this. Then why remove the polling place from university grounds, and per mit non-students to vote? Why should the ballot of townspeople, cast from 7 to 9, have the same weight as that of the non-Cornhusker buying student, made from 12:45 to 7:o0? This is obvious discrimination among the can didates, giving the town girls a distinct ad vantage. What provisions were made, moreover, to prevent dual or multiple use of identification cards or Gornhusker purchase receipts? Were any precautions made to insure against trans ferability of these cards and receipts and their subsequently enhanced voting power? However, in all probability the staff of the Gornhusker does not feel that it owes an explanation of its editorial and business poli cies to the general student hody. As Editor Marsh smilingly commented, "A smart busi ness man does iiot 1 ell all he knows !" Sarah Meyer and Dale Johns. Preparation For Life. TO THE EDITOR: Years ago it was popular to refer to col lege as a preparation for life. Under the old system of classical education college was to a limited extent and for a very select part, of Ihe population a preparation for life. But the older type of college education prepared stu dents for only a part of life and prepared them for a kind of life that very few people live. Men who Mere hy training and nature scholars, with a love of knowledge for its own sake, undoubtedly received much benefit from the detailed study of dead languages, litera ture, advanced mathematics, and a smattering of science that were formerly thought to be the principal elements of a college education. Pedants in some of these fields today abhor ihe modern emphasis placed on less purely cultural subjects, such as accounting, cooking, cattle breeding, and similar courses designed to teach the student things he will need to know in the struggle to win his coffee and cakes. Scholars, true scholars with a love of knowledge for its own sake, combined with a desire for the power knowledge gives them, are needed and always will be needed. B it what the modern pedants utterly fail to see is that true .scholars will always lie a class apart, that Ihey form a very small proportion of Ihe group that should be' prepared for life by col leges. Fsing the same ideal lhat college Mioubl he a preparation for lif the modern college has expanded and provided preparation for business men, for farmers, for housewives, ste nographers, engineers, and virtually all other persons needing specialized training. In addi tion the changed outlook of the modern cam 7us which puts more emphasis on extra-curricular and social activities makes college a better preparation for life for the average stu dent. These changes leave the true scholar free to prepare himself for his own type of use ful life. The lamentations, now becoming less 1re quent almost to the point of extinction, that the modern student is not properly eilucated because of his lack of knowledge of Latin, Greek, and other purely cultural or scholarly subjects, result, from a failure In recognize the true significance of ihe modern trend in col leges. Collegiate education is adapting itself to" new needs of greater numbers of students. The obi charge that college students live a se questered life ami are unfit for positions in the business world until they have been out of col lege a few years, is becoming more and more false as the 'modern trend is applied on Amer ican campuses. Dorothy Bentz. NO MAN FIT TO BE PRESIDENT IN U. S. COMPLEX SYSTEM (Continued from Page 1.) possible for the present civiliza tion to continue for more than one generation. "A. breakdown would mean a reversion to simpler life a life that would be unable to carry the burden, resulting in war and starvation." "We could, If we had the In telligence, devlte a plan where each man, working twenty hours a week, could produce enough to support our entire population." He later defined his personal answer to the prob lem as Technocracy, but added that there wasn't the slightest chance that it woyld ever be come a reality. "The social thinking of our pe riod is as outmoded as the stone ae and Alexander Hamilton. We seem proud to entertain primitive ideas that antedated Aristotle and get mad when Roosevelt refers to the Supreme Court as a horse-and-buggy institution. He flatters it. The supreme court practices the theories of men like John Locke, all of them antedating the nine teenth century. "We can't go on forever with one foot in an airplane and one in an oxcart. If we applied the same degree of intelligence to the prob lem of war as we do to the prob lem of making better war ma chines, we would have no wars. And if we gave that amount of intelligence to our laws that we do to the problem of making bet ter war machines, we would have no wars. And if we gave that amount of Intelligence to our laws that we do to the architectural plans for bigger and better tem ples of justice, there would be more order." Cave-Man Thinking. "The period of the fourth transi tion started around 1800, when it was considered a creditable per formance to build ir a large na tional state. These states are now called upon to deal with problems that concern ten millions of peo ple, and they use the same cave man Intellect." He agrees with many foreign observers that the Scandinavian states are most advanced of all European countries. "Not due to nationality, especially, for Minnesota doesn't outrun the other states of the union In po litical sagacity." The explana tion, he believes, lies chiefly In the fact that they are small enough to envision their prob lems and policies. F'or creating the bellicose psy chology of war-hungry Europe, Barnes blames nationalism. "We formerly had the neighborhood as our psychological unit: it was pro vincial and smug, but its ideas couldn't menace civilization be cause they worn't big enough. In the last 200 years, however, wo have eliminated time and space to such an extent that entire na tions have become psychological units, and possess all the super ciliousness and hostilities that used to characterize neighbor hoods." Fascism Ahead. "Fascism Is the greatst threat to the peace of the world. Germany and Italy provide an immediate menace to peace, and If another war comes, the col lapse of democracy is Inevita ble. Democracy, thinks Professor Barnes, is on the way out. "Twenty years after the 'war to save democracy,' we have seen the greatest eclipse of democ racy In history.. France, and Great Britain are the only two European powers that still re tain democracy." "Democracy failed, to. solve the question of slavery, threw us Into civil war, and has turned the country over to financial pi rates and exploiters, a tragic waste of natural resources, po litical graft totaling hundreds of billions of dollars. "In the last 200 years, there has been an attempt to transfer the rudimentary type of govern ment to an elaboate national state. About the time of Jackson, condi tions favorable to democracy be gan to disappear." "Jefferson foresaw the change, for the predicted that a repub lican form of government would work only as long as the state remained a simple agricultural so ciety. It is not to be wondered at that democracy doesn't meas ure up to its expectations." Farm Problem vs. Relativity. Referring to the fundamental principles of democratic govern mentallowing the masses to de cide important issues of policy he charged. "It would be foolish to submit Einstein's theory of rel ativity to the people to vote on. Yet our farm problem is more complex than the second law of thermo-dynamics or relativity." In speaking of the fitness of living men for the presidency, he cited Charles A. Beard as the one man who would come clos- j est to filling the position. "But he'd be the first to admit that he couldn't handle the job," Barnes stated. "But the Ameri can people seem to object even if our president associates with people of Intelligence." And a round of applause greeted this remark. "We need someone to adminis ter government with a sense of social responsibility." he pre scribed. "They must approach the problems like an engineer they're simple from that stand point. But we wouldn't have tie sense to hand over our system to the engineers. And predatory wealth is too firmly entrenched to make it possible." Holding Companies Thieves. Drawing on his experiences in the study of criminology, he took time to lash at holding companies, which he termed "crime organized on a large scale." "Financial lead ers primarily want quick specula tive profits, and they have found that holding companies will fur nish t iem. Men like John W. Da vis tell them how to steal syste matically, and holding companies have been made into the most per fect instrument of efficient rob bery." He complained that a thief might be sent to prison for steal ing $30, but members of a holding company may remove $3,000,000 from the company funds and be elected to the legislature. When giving an address at Sing .Sing penitentiary recently, Barnes recalled, he told the "student body" that they were not vicious, just "old-fashioned." "You should have organized holding companies," he advised them. Half a million corporations con trol th' economic fortunes of the nation, he asserted, and 200 larger holding companies control their stock. "I was taught In school thaf it took fifty-one percent of stock to control a company; I have learned differently since." Solution in Education- Taking a blow at the funda mental system, he declared "Capi talism will not work because of it disregards sixth grade logic you can't sell goods unless people have money to buy the goods with. And the capitalists have not yet learned that it's better to have half a hog than none at all." Kdiication has always been pointed out as the solution of all our political and economic ills, he asserted, "But not the type of ed ucation we have had in the past. The men in high office during the World war and the depressions were well educated, some of them college professors." Reorganization, Barnes empha sized, was absolutely essential in American education. More social sciences should be included in uni versity requirements, especially the realistic social sciences. Hon est and Intelligent professors should b insured absolute secur ity in their positions ou the faculty. "We have not more than a gen eration in which to solve this problem," he stated in conclusion, MOLZER MUSIC COMPANY MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS Cnmplet Lin of Mutic Phone D-5272 126 No. 12th St Lincoln, Neb. CAST YOUR II ALLOT! M.v Xinn inn lion for Miss Coriiliusker LEAVE IN NEBRASKAN BOOTHS AT SOSH, AG HALL "One generation will decide whether we find Utopianism or drift into barabarism, suppression, intolerance, and revolution." EDUCATION MUST ECLIPSE FASCISM DECLARES BARNES (Continued from Page 1.) in a teacners reaerauon iu qucu the intellectual raid to which edu cation has been subdued. "There would, therefore, be the danger of either socialism, com munism, or fascism. However, there is really no 'red' clanger in education. Altho Russia, wheer it has been used, has achieved more success than any other country In the past 19 years, it is merely dis tilled essence of human animosity in this country. Socialism has al ready gone into eclipse. Evidence of this has been shown in Spain, Germany and Italy. I consider Hitler to be the greatest single menace to civilization today. Therefore fascism is the only ele ment which can and will come into the country at the first break down." Roosevelt No Assurance. Pointing out that the election of Roosevelt does not represent any reassurance to the liberal minded and that business has merely been given a "shot in the arm" by the Rooseveltian. landslide, tne speaK- er expressed no hope for the re turn of liberalism of the old type. Roosevelt was a liberal and he played along with the capitalists. If liberalism could ever aavance, it was during recovery. Liberalism as a way out of depression is dead, and no one regrets it more than I do." "Could fascism come to this country? Those in "fools para dise," in which many of us live, would say it cannot. However, to look at our record it shows ex actly opposite. The United States has been noted for its violence in the Revolutionary and Civil wars. We have the most distinct record of the terrible way which we treat ed our conscientious objectors dur ing the war. The United States also has more inside organization already tending toward fascism than any other country. Consider the Black Legion and the Ku Klnx movements. As a whole, the hull- dozing of business executives has made us a nation of 'yes-men'." Fascism to Come Disguised. Dr. Barnes made it evident that fascism would not come under its present name. Americans like to change things into fancy names, he said. He pointed out that fas cism would come to this country even easier and quicker than it did in Italy or Germany, and that a war in the next few years would immediately bring the elements of fascism which would be retained after the war. "It will first come as 'sucker bait' for the masses and then after all the suckers are cap tured and sold out, it will make steady progress into the country," he explained. "The only way in which the teachers of this country can avert these elements which are steadily on their way, is to organize on a nationwide scale. Unless the teachers do this, their cause is hopeless. COUNCIL REJECTS CHARTER OF NEW P PLEDGE SOCIETY (Continued from Page 1.) advice, which prevented an an tagonistic boycott of union orches tras that time. Dean Thompson showed the group the folly in at tempting to derive gains tmi un' gentlemanly and unbusinesslike actions. Thru efforts of the dean, a friendly discussion was held with the. union hoard, which re sulted in a revision of the con tract forms believed to insure steps toward higher quality mu sic. The provisions of the contract are as follows: 1. That on the face of the. contract shall appear a list of all the players in the or chestra, and tint the union shall check on the players at the loca tion of the party to be sure that the hired men are the ones who furnish the music: 2. That the group must be a regularly organ ized orchestra with its own com plete library, and that it must re hearse at least once prior to each engagement. Four-Party Rule. "The idea of limiting the number of house parties to four on each weekend night did not appear as a part of the agreement with the union, although there was an understanding that such would be done," Hollister explained. The four party rule will eliminate the demand for pick up orchestras by spreading the parties over a wider space of time. This will entice a good musician to organize an orchestra if he is assured of a sizeable season of employment. "Two weeks after the compro mise with the union," Hollister continued, "we asked the Inter Fraterniy Council for its support to enforce the four party rule. The Council refused to pass the proposal, withdrew its former sup port of the Social Chairmen s arganlzation, and abolished the already retracted boycott of union orchestras. We have since found that such a ruling was out of the jurisdiction of that body, and so the proposal has been brought be fore the Student Council to await its fate." Union Directors. Marylu ePtersen, co-chairman of the 'student union building com mittee proposed the following plan of organization which was drawn up bv herself and Arnold Levin, Student Council president, following their trip to neighbor ing universities that have a union building. Complete management of the institution should be placed in the hands of a board of direc tors composed of six students, three faculty members, three alumni, and one chairman of the board. Student members of the board would be elected annually, two from each of the three upper classes. To lend permanency of policy to the executive body, students would always be eligible for relection, enabling worthwhile workers to remain on the board for three years. Not more than three of the members could belong to the Student Council: at least two of the members must be women: and at least three must be unaffiliated. "We found this plan with various modifications in all the schools we visited," asserted Miss Peter sen, "and we sincerely believe that it is as good as any we can de vise." r,.i; M.n rVi!iirnian of the or- ganization committee, outlined the provisions and purposes of the Inter-Pledge Council and its consti tution. Voicing tne opinion vl n i viiw Motl declared the crganization was unnecessary to pledge classes. Chaff Societies. "There are already too many local organizations on the campus that have no desiraoie or neces sary functions," stated the chair man. "We do not feel that the meager good to be derived from the existence oi mis gioup win warrant our acceDtaiice of its con stitution, without which it cannot legally exist." Resulting from the committees rennrt that ontv 40 of the organi zations of the campus had submit ted their constitutions ior me f" proval of the council, a proposal was accepted to force all groups to submit their constitutions if not done so of their own accord within the next two weeks. To aid the present committee with its work, At Moseman, Genevieve Bennett, and Katherine Hendy, were added. Genevieve Bennett, chairman of the Big Six conference committee, reported that the conference will meet on Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this week at Law rence, Kas. The Council decided to send three members of its own body to the meeting. The delegates will' be named this morning by Levin. The conferences, Inaugurated in 192i under the motivating power of the University of Nebraska Is heM annually at, one of the Big Six conference schools. All uni versities and colleges in neighbor ing states are invited to send dele gates to take part in the discus sion of such topics as publications, military nnd other general campus problems. FINAL JUDGING OF 12 K0SMET SKITS SET FOR TONIGHT (Continued from Tage 1.) much really good material from which to choose that only the best acts will be included." S'icllcnherg reminded skit ma I era again of the necessity of care, fully checking the eligibility of .-ill members of the cast, as no stu dent who does not fulfil the uni versity requirements in entirety will lie allowed to participate in the show, lie also advised that any skit which has an uneligible student participating will not bo considered in the awarding of the cups. Suitability of costumes must, also be approved by Kate Field of the registrar's office. Skit mas ters are urged to have a complete, list of necessary properties ready for the judges when their respec tive acts arc viewed. Judging Hours Assigned. Sororities will be judged be tween t ie hours of 7:30 to 10:30 p. m., and the fraternities from 10:30 until 11:30. Fach bouse will be allowed 1!0 minutes in which to show their skit. Judglngs will be in the following order: Wednes day at 7:30, Alpha Omicron Pi; 7;.;i0, Alp'.ia Chi Omega: 8:10, Al pha Xi lvlta; S:30, Delta Gamma; S:"i0, Gamma Phi Beta; 0:10, Kap pa Alpha Theta; 9:30, Kappa Kappa Gamma: 9:,r0, Phi Mu, and 10:10. Pi Beta Phi. Wednesday at 10:30, Alpha Tau Omega: 10:.r)0, Delta Upsilon; 11:10, Kappa Sigma. On Thurs day at. 7:30. Sigma Alplia Iota; 7:.:)0. Zeta Tan Alpha; S:10, Ray mond Hull: S:30, Beta Theta Pi; S:,"i0, Sigma Alpha Fpsilon; 9:10, Sigma Phi Fpsilon; 9:30. 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