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ON THIS ISSUE
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A Business
Within the University
Jl is regrettable Hint so much time of the
recent athletic coaches' meeting in New York
was taken up with a discussion ot' ihe pros and
cons of subsidized athletics, nnd that serious
charges were hurled which reverberated thru
the press of the land.
The athletic situation, according to some
of the collciiiate bigwigs attending, is deplor
able, corrupted, ;.nd antithetical to all the
ideals of amateur sportsdoni. Some of the
more satisfied professed to see no harm in pi-es-ent
tendencies, attempted to sniooih oil on the
troubled waters, and compared the situation
favorably to the past.
Suine of the more drastic proposed outlaw
ry trotn athletic, circles of any school which
stoops to proselyting athletes; the realists pro
posed recognition of subsidization for what it
is and make no bones about it.
Far-reaching charges were thrown back
and forth across the council tables, a few of
the coaches present foreseeing grave conse
quences if subsidization is not checked, and
declaring that ii is the banc of universities
today.
If subsidization of athletes ever becomes
lesal policy in intercollegiate circles, the pro
fessional leagues might lend a hand by pro
posing to establish farms." or training
grounds on college campi. We might have a
system of "major" and "minor" leagues, com
paring to the majors and minors of baseball.
The Daily Nebraskan is positive that sub
sidization never will be recognized as an overt
policy. Else we would not have drawn the
bizarre illusions referred to in the preceding
paragraph.
"We do bemoan, however, the fact that so
much wet linen was aired on the sports pages
of every newspaper in the nation. The fan.
who on Saturday afternoons screams and
prances about for his real or adopted alma
mater, is bound to be adversely affected. In
tercollegiate football will fail to hold its thrill,
its glamor, if identified with men playing on a
strictly cash basis. The financial ruin of col
legiate football will be in sight.
The battle now seems to be drawn along
another line. A few weeks ago college presi
dents appealed, thru the Carnegie Foundation
committee on athletics, for outside aid in help
ing stem the unfavorable influence of football.
The line of demarcation is clear. It is a ques
tion of football vs. Ihe rest of the university in
many institutions.
Football has become a business within the
university, and a big business at that. Its an
nual income exceeds a billion dollars a year,
and it is played during but a few fall months.
The victory of football over the idealistic pur
poses for which universities in this land were
founded is illustrated by the hundreds of thou
sands of dollars invested in stadia and field
houses on the campi of the nation, while often
times the university itself lags behind in edu
cational facilities, buildings, and salaries to in
structors. This condition is due partly to the influx
of subsidization in athletics, but more so to
ilie demand on Ihe part of interested alumni
for a winner. Their alma mater, according to
their line of reasoning, must have a champion
ship football team no matter the cost. Good
teams lead to huge crowds, and huge crowds
necessitate huger arenas.
It is a condition which will be solved only
when universities put. athletics into their prop
er position, that of departments of the univer
sity in reality and not merely in name.
One bit of optimism for Nebraska came
out of the New York conference. Dana X.
Bible. Nebraska coach, after being offered a
reputed $25,000 by a Texa$ institution, chose
to remain in Lincoln. Coach Bible's loss would
have been irreparable to the Cornhuskers. "We
commend most highly his decision to remain
here. ..
We Apologize
The Daily Nebraska)! apologizes for any
defamation of character or other malignant in
terpretation which might be placed on our re
cent editorials regarding the University of
Pittsburgh and possible future relations on the
football field between Pittsburgh and Ne
braska. We in no way intended to malign the per
son of Dr. .John H. Sutherland, Pittsburgh
coach, mentioned in the editorials, and sincere
ly regret any interpretation which might make
it appear so. Our cry was against profession
alization in collegiate athletics, and we are
sorry if our attacks on a system were confused
with an attack on a person.
NEWS PARADE
By
Ralph Woodruff
A New Threat
to European peace has arisen from the Span
ish civil war, already called the "little world
war" because of the number of nations more
or less secretly involved in it. This threat has
appeared in a German-Spanish socialist dis
pute over shipping.
The Trouhle Started
when the socialists at Bilbao seized the Ger
man freighter, Talus, charging that it was
carrying supplies to the fascist forces in Spain.
Germany protested so vigorously and the so
cialists were forced to return the ship to the
Germans. They kept, part of the cargo, how
ever, which they termed "contraband" and
some passengers who were suspected of being
spies.
The German government was dissatisfied
with 1 h is settlement and demanded the return
of the remainder of the cargo and the passen
gers. The reds flatly refused to return the pas
sengers and the cargo. Germany then an
nounced that it would retaliate by seizing
Spanish socialist ships.
The first ship attacked by the Germans
was the Sot on. a Spanish freighter. This ship
was fired on by the German cruiser Koenigs-berc-
and run asrround. Part of its crew was
captured. Another Spanish freighter, the. Ara
gon, carrying food, was stopped by the tier
mans and was forced to change, its course and
steam to an unknown fascist port, where it
is now beiiiff held.
Hoping That
they had intimidated the Spaniards into sub
mission, the Germans offered to cease their
retaliation on Spanish shipping if the reds
would return the remainder of the cargo and
the passengers of the Palos. The socialist gov
ernment at Valencia met this demand with a
flat refusal and promised that they would pre
have little in common, and it would be rare
indeed if Ihe president -was personally ac
quainted with more thau'a comparative hand
ful of the student body.
But when the board of regents stepped in,
motivated by what has been termed "purely
political" reasons, and attempted to usher out
Glenn Frank without giving the president a
fair trialthe students were sufficiently stimu
lated to come to their prexy's support. Ai the
editor of The Daily Gardinal, University' of
Wisconsin student publication, expressed it:
"Student opinion on the Glenn Frank case
has resolved itself in the past, few days into a
pressure for the president. This does not mean,
however, that the student body is entirely
averse to Frank's resignation. They are hard
ly well enough acquainted with the president
to resent such an action."
The editor continues with what we con
sider the basis for the students' condemnation
of the regents' action: "But they (the student
body) do object, and seriously, to what they
feel is a political force creeping into the re
gents' decisions. . . . The student body does
not hear of faculty anger at unfair waiver ad
justments, or resentment in state governmental
headquarters because of President Frank's pro
posed higher fee. ..."
The question of whether President Glenn
Frank has or has not outlived his usefulness on
the campus of the University of Wisconsin may
be debatable. Whether the majority of stu
dents are wholeheartedly behind their presi
dent we doubt, for students cannot be whipped
into a mad frenzy to support a man they do
not know and have rarely seen. But that is
not the main point of controversy.
President Frank, by virtue of his position,
is surely deservant of a fair trial. If the re
gents of the University of Wisconsin have been
too hasty or undemocratic in their actions, then
they can rightfully expect Ihe indignation of
all thinking students. Daily Texan.
include a single penny of the bonus monej,
either."
Concluding the author asks: "Merely as
a cash register proposition, can anyone deny
that war is the most futile, expensive, and fan
tastically unproductive enterprise that ever
engaged the energies of man?" And then he
calls on business men who stand to lose from
war to crvstallize in their Hiinking and actions
"a. will to ease tensions that threaten peace
and to promote the goodwill that bubbles thru
the soil of intelligent understanding of neigh
bors across national frontiers." Daily Illini.
500 Billions for War!
"The days of inexpensive warmaking are
gone forever; at the height of the World war,
the combatant nations were spending 113 mil
lions a day in cash. It cost. $25,000 to take' a
life in the World war and a total of 9 million
lives were taken. By the time the nations of
the world settle the last bill incurred in the
great war. they will have paid i if they ever do
pay it) the fantastic and dumbfounding sum
of '500 billions."
Thus writes Henry Morton Kobinson in a
recent issue of The Rotarian magazine, pub
lished by Rotary International. Investigating
the cash cost of war to our country, this for
mer naval gunner declares: "Stating the case
in large fractions we can say that l5 percent
of America's national income is spent in pay
ing for old wars, 20 percent preparing for new
ones, thus leaving a tiny remnant, of 15 per
cent to be spent, on civil departments, law en
forcement, education, public health, and the
like."
Mr. Robinson states that "at the end of
June. 19IW, the direct cash cost of the World
war to the United States, not including such
indirect costs as the war's share in causing the
vrnt further Mncks on Stianish shinning bv , depression, was 45 billions. Next year this
attacking any ship which attacked a Spanish ! figure will have to be revised upward again by
merchantman. They have instituted a strict 1 billion, and in 1938 still another billion will
patrol of the port of Bilbao. The Germans! be added. A half century from now Ameri
have labeled the socialist replies and their cans will still be paying at the rate of 1 bil
armed patrol as 'childish threats" and have j lion dollars annually."
answered them bv seizing a. third Spanish "One of the most persistent features of
war is the Jong wake or veterans churned up
'That's
Cute.' .
It onlv precipitates a rather futile debate
to say that the man student is more earnest,
more brilliant, etc., than the coed. Because
the objectivity of the whole matter is too soon
clouded in bickering, speculation on the sub
ject is rightly confined to news bureau re
leases and the American Weekly.
But there is one endorsement of the male
student that can be made without reserva
tion. Either he has more than two adjectives
in his vocabulary, or he leaves adjectives
severelv alone, which is sometimes the wiser
path. But the female of the specie? Not so
with her. Adjectives are an indispensable ac
coutrement to those wide arched gestures
which she makes while describing anything
from a zebra to fine-point lace. According to
a "production for use" theory the campus
miss should have a goodly stock of interesting
and descriptive adjectives with which to
brighten her conversation, but again, not so.
She has. inconsistently enough. two ad
jectives to cover a multitude of situations.
These are "cute" and "darling," the repeti
tion of which will drive many a student of
conversation to an early grave. Confront the
coed, supposedly attending, or having com
pleted, the requisite freshman English course,
with anything from a lop-eared elephant to
a platinum-coated Ihimble, and it is immedi
ately designated as "cute." Professors are
"cute," Crosby is "cute," books are "cnte,
clothes are "cute" and. in spring, "darling:"
boats are "cute,' oh. anything you mention is
"cute." In short, "cute" is the coed's rubber
stamp of approbation. That she shares this
failing with her lesser sisters is no argument
for allowing it to persist. A college education
supposes an attempt upon the subject's part to
help eradicate the more flagrant errors in his
or her cultural pattern.
But why "cute," of all words? American,
as H. L. Mencken points out, has ten times as
many adjectives as any other tongue. Then
why' this poverty of expression? Tt is not af
"of'ted to sav you believe an object to lie
unique" when it is that. Daily Trojan.
WALKER PRAISES
F
OUNDATION PLAN
AI PRESS MEET
Professor Asks Journalism
Teachers of Nation to
Lend Aid to Idea.
Are
Niceties (ione?
Giving vent to his feelings in a letter to
the editor of the New York Times, a college
craduate of 1927 laments that in late years
there has been a more noticeable disregard on
the part of university men of the amenities of ; nalism was held in St. Louis Wed
xu.i i I..., i ! tiAsrtav. Dec. 30. Prof. Walker at
.ue nai m , ' tended this convention as a dele-
He writes m part: "In these avs of ex-1 from lhe university scnool 0f
tensive entertainment for the college men. i j0llrnajsm.
courtesy still requires prompt acceptance or
regret of invitations. Not only is this gracious Siudents May Examine
Calling on the teachers of jour
nalism to support and encoura-
a foundation for the advancemejpa
of journalism, Prof. Gayle C. WM
ker, director of the school of joi
nalism at the university, addressed
as president the twenty-fourth an
nual convention of the American
Association of Teachers of Jour
nalism, held at St. Louis, Mo., last
Thursday and Friday.
"There is need, not only for a
great foundation or, failing that,
state or sectional foundations,
but also for some common meet
ing ground wherein the common
problems of the craft might be
discussed, and where representa
tives of the varous interests in
volved might attempt to reconcile,
diverging points of view" stated
Mr. Walker in his opening ad
dress. Supports National Foundation Plan
"I conceive it to be one of our
chief tasks to further in every pos
sible way approval, endowment,
organization a national founda
tion for the explanation and ad
vancement of journalism."
Two graduates of the university
played leading parts in the pro
pram of the convention. William
T. McCleery, '31, now executive
editor in charge of feature service
for the Associated Press, gave one
of the highlight addresses on
"Mastering the Second Fiddle."
Prof. V. Royce West, now head of
the department of foreign lan
guages in Omaha Municipal uni
versity, conducted a round-table
discussion on "American News on
Europe's Front Pages."
Radio, Photography New Trends.
Emphasis of the convention was
placed on the new developments
in the field of journalism, such as
photography, radio, and new
teaching techniques. George H.
Payle, a member of the federal
communications commission, gave
a talk on "Journalism and Radio
a Crisis."
Membership in the association
is on a personal basis, and includes
about 150 instructors in journalism
in several states. President for the
coming year is Prof. Blair Con
verse, director of the school of
journalism at Iowa State univer
sity. Vice-president is Prof. Oscar
W. Riegel, head of the school of
journalism at Washington and Lee
university in Lexington, Va.
A meeting of the Association of
Schools and Departments of Jour-
merchantman. the Mart a .lunquera.
The socialists say 1 hat 1hey will make an
appeal to Ihe League of Nations on the ground
that the Germans were the aggressors. How-
ever, considering the past experience oi tne
behind it," he points out. Citing America as a
"typical example," he says: "Next to inter
est, charges on the. national debt, the veterans
administration usually claims Ihe largest an-
league in "protecting" Ethiopia from the ! nual share of the taxpayers' dollar. This bu
Italians and the Chinese from the Japanese
there is little hope that the Spanish socialists
will obtain satisfaction from this source.
0
reau lias already spent it lullions. Last, year
it expended ."0 millions, and this sum does not.
gesture at times completely overlooked but
even when the dilatory do respond bad 1aste
is shown by the use of printed forms. Small
wonder it, is that hostesses, whose entertain
ments make the football season and Christmas
c.iTiotViinrr in rpnipinlipv nsV if 'hiffher pdll-
cation' completely d sregards the requisites of j by
good taste and whether an A. B. degree is des- the 0vernment show scenic news
tined to lose that fine intangible meaning of itaiy Wjtn tours thru this pen
cultural arts." i ninsula mapped out for tourists.
Which should give present college men Reproductions of famous Italian
something to
Student.
Exhibition of Italian
Paintings and Posters
An exhibition of Italian posters
and paintings is on display this
week in the Romance Language li-
The Final Chapter
in one of the most astounding incidents in
Chine.se history was written yesterday as
Marsha! Chang was pardoned by Generalis
simo Chiang Kai-Shek.
.Uill MlilL . IUII1H. 'HI l'J urn ill inc iiimnc i
arn.v, made one of the most daring moves in ,"II(,"V" TeVkin
, . ' , , , , ,. . . ., , . History will be In the making
history when he captured the dictator ol his today when Nebraska introduces
country. Chang would not release him until; her new one-house legislature to
Chiang had promised to declare war upon j interested observers throughout
Japan' and stop the continual encroachment thf wrldf- n th.. opirnon of politi-
. '. ! cal scientists, this change in our
on Chinese territory. . form of government, is second
At one time it was believed that Chang only in importance to the year
had killed Chiang, but later these reports were ! 1S67 when Nebraska was admitted
denied. Eventually Chiang was freed uncon- i as Rutte- Perhaps no other step
,. . l ., so effectively reflects the high
ditionally nit ho he had made none of the prom-1 idealisra and faith of our p)0neer-
ises Chang demanded. Chang put himself at ing-minded citizenry.
He was 1 nod 1 Here in the middlewest, where
Eves ot Nation Focused on Debut of Nebraska's
Unicameral Legislature,. Which Opens This Noon
Norris, Professor Senning 1 Italian painter is shown in repro-
the mercv of his former captive.
and sentenced to leu vears in prison and lossine r00ls , , Pgress ana nee
. ... . , . . , , , dom are still alive, it seems fit-
ot civil rights, but ( hiang pardoned his cap- Ung tnat Nebraska should be one
tor unconditionally. It was believed that Chang I of the first to put into operation
would give up his military connections with, a truly one house type of govern
the Chinese army and go into retirement.
CONTEMPORARY
COMMENT
Slate Takes Pioneering
History in the Makiner as of political science at the Univer
01. vi. ai anna, tj li i ui wjiuiu
were largely responsible for the
success of the undertaking. It was
Dr. Sennlng's unselfish devotion to
the cause of good government, his
logically designed plan for a one
house legislature, and his untiring
efforts together with the work of
Nebraska's senior senator that
were the key factors in the suc
cessful fight for progressive gov
ernment here. In another sense,
when citizens of this state voted
to discard the traditional two
house legislature they also paid
high tribute to their veteran sen
ator and champion of government
reform, who personally conducted
a campaign through this state in
behalf of the unicameral.
The university political scientist
is sure the unicameral will be a
boone to the taxpayer with its
savings to him in tha expense
budget. The amount to be spent
annually for salaries, $37,500 is
less than in the past even though
each legislator will be receiving a
ticelli are also posted. "Madonna
of the House of Alba" paimea oy
Raphael in 1510 is one of three
pictures which Andrew Mellon pre
sented to the government. Mellon
purchased these pictures from the
soviet government in 1930 and
1931. His gift was made public
Jan. 3. This painting by the great
ment. And while the rank and
file must be given credit for the
near 100,000 majority that was
given the unicameral amendment
their good intentions would have
been in vain had it not been for
a group of students of govern-
Wateh as Proud
Fathers.
Asked what he felt are the gen-
ment-particularly Senator George far greater was-e. Other expenses
M. Norris and Dr. John P. Sen- common to the two-house system
j ning, chairman of the department 1 will also be materially decreased.
More Than Politics Bared
In Wisconsin's Controversy.
The current controversy raging on the
University of Wisconsin campus over the at
tempted ousting of the university's president.
Dr. Glenn Frank, raises other important ques
tions than those of polities.
The situation there is a unique one in
many respects.
In many American colleges and universi
ties, the students by and large would not be
particularly aroused if their respective boards
of regents decided that since the president was
not -all that he should be, he should be removed
from office. But according to press dispatches,
at least a portion of the Wisconsin student
body is incensed at the regents' allegedly "un
fair treatment" of President Frank.
Altho we are not intimately acquainted
with all the facts in the case, we suspect that
the students of the University of Wisconsin
were formerly either dissatisfied or uncon
cerned with Glenn Frank's policies. They,
like so many similar student bodies, probably
neither knew nor cared what the president was
doing from day to day not because of inertia
or ignorance, but principally because the pres
ident of liuch a large institution had long since
grown away from his students. In a university-
of that size the students and president
duction in the library.
Illustrating the history of one
conception of the personal appear
ance of Dante's personal appear-
eral advantages of the new form -p ' - lay. Dante was
.fTri.? , fronnw,nlng -r i Italian poet and3 pictures and
them briefly as follows. of ha ,jfe compo8e another
1 The group is small, allowing section of the exhibit.
ior me placing oi ruapoiiBiuiiii-y on
each member.
2 The procedure is simple ,
which in itself will frustrate un-.
scrupulous lobbyists. i
Ample opportunity for check-
ing upon its own legislation is pro
vided because of the clear cut
method of introducing and passing
upon bills and the freedom from
a time limit on the sessions.
4 The unicameral is a saving to
the taxpayer.
5 The general efficiency of the
new government will bring back
the former prestige of the lawmak
ing body.
6 The new system allows for a
more direct contact with people of
fijoiifn33 3up;qU3 snqj 'a-jB-js am
to better keep pace with the
changing needs of every community.
LYMAN TO EDIT NEW
L
Nebraska Appointee Makes
Preparation for First
Publication.
Dr. R. A. Lyman, dean of the
college of pharmacy at the Uni
versity of Nebraska, will be the
first editor of the newly estab
lished Quarterly journal of the
American Association of Colleges
of Pharmacy
The publication will be printed
In Lincoln, the first issue to appear
in January. In addition, Dr. Lyman
will serve as chairman of the asso
ciation's publication board.
His appointment to this editorial
position was due largely to his ef
forts in making the Journal pos
sible. It will be the only journal
solely devoted to furthering
pharmaceutical education, and to
begin with it will be distributed to
1.000 institutions and lihraries over
the country.
Other members of the publica
tions board include: Dr. Ernest
Little, dean of Rutgers university
pharmacy college; Dean A. G.
Duir.cz, University of Maryland,
Dean Robert C. Wilson, University
of Georgia; Dean Charles B. Jor
dan, Purdue, and Prof. Zada M.
Cooper, secretary of the national
organization and a member of the
pharmacy college faculty at the
University of Iowa.
HENDRICKS PLANS
OBJECTIV E TESTS
FOR ACHIEVEMENT
Realizing that college students
need to measure their achievement
from time to time even more than
their teachers need to. Prof. B.
Clifford Hendricks of the chemis
try department and Prof. O. M.
Smith of Oklahoma A. and M.
college are at work now deveolp
ing tests for measuring objectives
for general college chemistry.
Both educators call attention to
the necessity of making state
ments concerning general object
ives In chemistery precise and
more to the point. In an article
appearing in School Science and
Mathematics, Professors Hend
ricks and Smith state there are
now available forms for testing
chemical terminology, symbolism,
facts and processes of chemistery,
ability to interpret experimental
data as well as ability to apply
principles. Work is now underway
in an attempt to provide an object
ive method of measuring labora
tory skills.
"Enlarged objectives of general
college chemistery wait upon
progess in building acceptable
test forms," they write. "To know
any entity with certainty It must
be measured. If we are to get
LUTHERANS.
Lutheran students will meet
with Rev. H. Erck for the regular
Bible class Wednesday, Jan. 6, at
7:15 p. m. in room 203 Temple
building.
CORN COBS.
Corn Cobs will hold a meeting
Wednesday evening Jan. 6, at 7:15
in room 101 Social Science build
ing. TASSELS.
Tassels will meet tonight at 7
o'clock in room 105 Social Science.
KOSMET KLUB.
Regular meeting of Kosmet Klub
members will be held at 4 o'clock
this afternoon in the basement of
U. hall.
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Mtlkn advertlurd for ten cmUh. Our
Malted Milks are rrrnde with two ten
cent dippers fif Ice cream, pure dairy
milk, one mince Matted Milk, and our
own chocolate lyrup, the beat In tha
city. i
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