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TUESDAY, MAY 18, 1937. TWO THE DAILY NEHIt ASKVN I in nnnrnr Tfl Linin All IULlLUL IU nULU FIRST 'CAMPUS SING' THE DAILY NEBRASKAN AROUND the CLOCK t ' nxi'i i urn mm n TIIIUTY-SIXTII YEAH I DITOIUAl. STAFF Editor Georo Plpal Mnal0 editor ... .Dor Wagner, Cd Murray Nawa Editor WHIard Buniey, Helen Pnico. J.in Walcott, Howard Kaplan. Morria Udu. Barbara Roitwltir, Rporta Editor Bd Rttv. Society Editor Virginia Andarton ON THIS ISSUE Desk Editor Wagner Nifllit Editor Walcott Under direction ot tha student Puhneatlon Board. Editorial Of'ca Umveraity HaM . Buameta OMice UnivertUv Hall IA. Telephone Oayi BW9U NiglUi B68S2. BJJJ3 (Journal). BUSINESS STAFF Bualnen Manager , .Bob Shellanharg Aaalatant Managtra Hob Wadhatna, Wab Mill, Frank Johmon. Circulation Manager Stanley Michael SUBSCRIPTION RATE 11.50 a year 12.50 mailed Single copy, S centa 91.00 a meMr 11.60 emeter mailed Entered a aecond-claa matter at tha poatofflce In Lincoln, Nebraska, under act of congre, March S, 1879, and at special rate of postage provided for In section 1103, act of October 1, 1917, authorized January 80, 1922. ftwocided Golle6iate Pk Dtatribulort of P u b I l t h d every Tuetday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sundjy mornlnga of the academic year by atudents of the Unl. vrrslty of Nebraska, under the supervision of the Board of Publications. National Advertising Service, Inc Ctllrit PmhUtktrt Ripntmttirt 40 Madison Av. Niw York. N. Y. Cmceo - Boston San pmancisco LOa ANSSLB PORTLAND IATTLS JUL (tor ns-si Student Opinions TO THE EDITOR: This Icttor is to register contempt for an ar ticle published in May 13 issue of the Daily Ne braskan under the caption "Negro Fiats Follow Names In Rivalry Apes, Tolccats." The article is ridiculous and grossly erroneous. Jf you were really interested in writing an intelli gent, informative article on Negro fraternities, a good newspaperman would have approached some official of each fraternity for his source of infor mation. But if you were not interested in doing this, we fail to see the necessity for your article, except to ridicule. A thorough check on members of Beta Beta Chapter discloses that you did not obtain your data concerning Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity from anyone of them. Nor did you obtain the mislead ing fact that Omega Pst Phi is the most exclus ive Negra fraternity because of expenses and high standards of scholarship from an Alpha man, as alleged by you in your article. "Apes" may signify Anthropoidea to the zoolo gist and something far different to the average layman, but contrary to your article, it does not signify a Negro fraternity on the Nebraska campus or any other campus. However, there is a Chapter of Alpha Phi Al pha fraternity on the Nebraska campus Beta Beta, a Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity consists of approximately nine thousand gentlemen, not "Apes," of the highest caliber. They have achieved rational and international fame. They command the respect and admiration of the entire American public. Some outstanding members of this or ganization are W. E. B. Dubois, Nathaniel Dett, Clarence Cameron White, Attorneys Charles H. Huston and Raymond Pace Alexander, Eugene Kinckle Jones, James Weldon Johnson, and J. Rosamond Johnson, and hundreds of others whose achievements would fill volumes. Inasmuch as we consider your article degratory and defaming in spirit, erroneous in content, we request an apology. HOWARD HATLER. President of Beta Beta Chapter, Alpha Phi Alpha. (Editor's note: The Nebraskan regrets the misstatements referred to by Mr. Hatler and tenders an apology to members of the fraterni ties involved. The information or misinformation was taken from a national fraternity publication. Alpha Phi Alpha, which Mr, Hatler repre sents, is the oldest Negro fraternity in existence, founded at Cornell in 1906. The local chapter, Beta Beta, was established in 1927, and now has fourteen active members. Its annual campaign, an event of great activity for southern and east ern chapters, is known as the "Education fr,r Citizenship'' campaign, rather than that which was printed. Two other national Negro fraternities, rather than one are not represented on the Ne braska campus Omega Psi Phi, with about 85 chapters, and Phi Beta Sigma, the newest. There was no foundation for the periodical's assertion that certain standards made Omega Psi Phi more exclusive.) College Commentary . . . From the New York World Telegram and other Scripps-Howard Newspapers. Legal efforts to protect religious objectors from compulsory military training in state col leges receiving federal grants have been blocked by the U. S. supreme court. The court has now upheld the University of California's suspension of students for refusal to take compulsory military courses. This was in line with the recent supreme court dismissal of the appeal of a University of Maryland student in a similar case. Since Justices Cardozo, Brandeis and Stone concurred in the unanimous decision, in a supple mental opinion written by Justice Cardozo, there is little hope that the so-called liberal justices will later reverse the decision. But that does not answer the larger question involved. The militarizing of land-grant colleges may be within the letter of the U. S. constitution and of the law. Still, as admitted by the Cardozo-Bran-deis-Stone opinion, such regulations "may be con demned by some as unwise or liberal or unfair when there is violence to conscientious scruples, cither religious or merely ethical." We condemn, and an increasing body of Ameican citizens condemn, compulsory military training as unwise, liberal and unfair. Moreover, we condemn It as inefficient and wasteful of the taxpayers' money. It is unwise because it breeds disloyalty to the government by large numbers of the highest types of citizens who, though themselves not con scientious objectors, cannot respect an authority which violates the religious scruples of others. It is illiberal because it distorts the spirit of free inquiry into goose-step education. It is unfair because it denies higher education to religious objectors who cannot afford to attend more expensive private colleges, as is the case of these University of California students. It is inefficient and wasteful because many of the students who are compelled to take military training in their first years at college drop out in the later years and do not become suitable material for reserve officers, either in training or morale. The battle against compulsory militarizing of the students of state universities should go on. But the fight will have to be made in congress, which controls appropriations for the army and the Re serve Officers' Training Corps, on which the state compulsory military education system rests In prac tice. And the fight also will have to be continued in the states. Just as Wisconsin and Minnesota recently changed from compulsory to elective mili tary courses, so other states can be persuaded by proper methods. Stravinsky Speaks Of Music and Art. By Bernice Kauffman. It greatly amused Igor Strav insky when Richard Strauss came on the stage after a performance of Stravinsky's "L'Oiseau de Feu" end said: "You make a mistake in beginning your piece pianissimo; the public will not listen. You should astonish them by a sudden crash at the very start. After that they will follow you and you can do whatever you like." Strav insky would have done well if he had heeded Strauss' advice in his autobiography, "Stravinsky." The first two chapters form a bfgin r.ing so soft that it is positively dull. Mr. Stravinsky is not a literary artist. His expression is somewhat loose and extravagant; he is given to superlatives and exclamations; and because of digressions his org anization is at times incoherent. The slow beginning plus his de ficiencies in style have a tendency to discourage the realer. but after Mr. Stravinsky becir.s he really has something to say and his de ficiencies become less distressing. Explanati'n of Opinions. Stravinsky's autobiography is riot iseiely recollections connected with various periods of his life. It is, in the main, an explanation of his opinions, his tastes, and his preferences in music and in art in general. As most of Strav insky's compositions have been written for the ballet, his interest in classical dancing is second only to that of music. He finds the difference between Dionysian and Apollonian principles clearer cut In the classical ballet than in any other means of expression, because It above all demands the full con sciousness of the artist and does rot permit that type of expression which leads to the artist losing himself in a trance of ecstasy. This insistence on the full con sciousness of the artist is respons ible, in part, for Stravinsky's theory on the purpose of music. "Music." he says, "is the sole do main in which man realizes the present. Ey the imperfection of his nature, man is doomed to sub mit to the passage of time to its categories of past anil future without ever being able to give substance, and therefore stability to the category of the present. The phenomenon of music is given to us with the sole purpose of estab lishing an order in things, includ ing, and particularly, the co-ordination between man and time." This is particularly interesting in its contradiction of Proust's theory in "Remembrance of Things Past." that the Vinteuil sonata made it I impossible for him to experience ! the present, but always cast him I into the past, because of the associations it possessed. On the Radio. ; Stravinsky seriously doubts ; whether the positive advantages of ithe radio and the phonograph out i weigh the nezative ones. He feels that the continuous hearing of I music without any active effort on ; the part of the listener cannot but oversaturate him with sounds, and j that this oversaturation wlil pro I duce a kind if torpor which will j deprive the listener of the delicate I power of discrimination. In other words, the consumer of canned ; mu: ic pnrtakes of more faod than he can assimilate, and the result ,will be an inability to understand and to appreciate, j No small part of the enlnyment of Simon and Sehusterv. edition of this autobiography is c" ' 'rom the photographs and portraits of Ieor Stravinsky, including one by the author himself, three by Pi casso, and one by Jean Cocteau. French Circle to Hold Last Meeting of Year At 3 O'clock Tonight Members of Le Cercle Francais are urged to attend the club's final meeting of the year this evening in the Ambassador apartment party room 1310 J street at 8 p. m. Election of next year's officers will be conducted by Lenore Teale, retiring president. Dr. Harry Kurz will present awards to the winders of the essay contest spon sored by the Romance Language department. Entries were received on the topic, "Why I Want to go to Paris this Summer." W? f h ' . . - nil i it iu vrv-.wtlaaa.'-'. ; J LOUISIANA chain store tax, Imposing a graduated tux on each store of a chain based on the num ber of stores operated by the chain anywhere, was held constitutional Monday by the supreme court. Differing from all other chain store taxes, the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea company and other chains contested tho tax as im periling the national chain, since it wns based on number of stores throughout the country and not in one single state. Constitutional ity of the old age pension or un employment insurance provisions of the' social security measure was not touched upon by the night tribunal. FORTNIGHT of tarpon fishing in Gulf of Mexico waters wns not devoted to fishing alone by Presi dent Roosevelt, Quite evidently he spent considerable time thinking over the lederal government's two major issues: relief and court re form. Regarding the former he told house leaders on his return to Washington, that the government must have $1,500,000,000 for relief expenditures during the next fiscal year. In regard to the court re form he banned the proposed com promise of his court reorganization bill after he heard Senator Robin son, majority leader, report that the measure had a "fair chance" of passage. H. R. H. designation may bo af fixed to the name of Mrs. Wallis Simpson when she becomes the bride of Edward, duke of Windsor, i but she will rank as the eighth lady of the realm below the duch esses of Gloucester and Kent and j the five queens and princesses. Ed ward's insistence of the "Her Royal Highness" title for Mrs. Simpson may si em a mere trivial ity, but according to sources close to the royal family, titular ranking comes first in social circles, which comprise the life blood of English nobilitv. o-MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENTS I a S 9 jftinliil 4 5 7 8 9 10 ml I 1384? dm i i r u r I A nil fy rx in 1 Slowly the driver's eyes began to close and even though he expended every available effort he could not rouse himself. Fifteen minutes later, passing motorists extricated the driver's mangled body from the wreckage. Another fatigued driver had met an almost certain fate. Exhaustive research of National Safety council engineers has indicated that driver fatigue is li kely to appear to a dangerous degree after about eight hours of fairly steady driving or after between 250 and 300 miles have been traversed. Therefore, careful drivers will impose definite limits upon themselves. Fatigue accidents are nearly nil preventable. No other type of automobile accident gives sue h uunmistakable and Insistent warning of impending danger. EMPLOYES of the huge Jones & Laughlin Steel corporation who returned to their positions Friday to end the greatest walkout in the past IS years of steel history will hold an election soon to decide the union's claim to exclusive collec tive bargaining rights. John L. Lewis' C. I. O. began the steel or ganization drive last June and a victory with the Jones & Laughlin corporation would sew up the steel industry as far as the committee for industrial organization is con cerned. Nucleus of the steel cam paign has been the Amalgamated Association of Iron. Steel and Tin Workers who severed relationship with the American Federation of Labor. Dr. Harold Ennis of the business administration college spoke be fore the college class of Westmin ister Presbjterian church last Sun day on "The Economic Interpreta tion of History." "Teaching iJ not a one club game. The teacher who uses only single technique is no further along than is the golfer who plays the entire course with a single club." Prof. Guy M. Wilson of Boston university's school of edu cation recommends diversity of , technique minus the clubs. 1 Students to Apply Now For Publication Johs Applications for appointment for the following positions on the student publications will be received by the student publi cation board until 12 noon, Thursday, May 20. THE DAILY NEBRASKAN Editor-in-chief. Two managing editors. Six news editors. Business manager. Three assistant business managers. THE CORNHUSKER. Editor. Two managing editors. Business manager. Two assistant business managers. THE AWGWAN. Editor. Business manager. Application blanks may be cbtamed at the office of the School of Journalism, Univer sity hall 104. Material already on file need not be duplicated. John K. Selleck, Secretary Student Publication Board. CbiDwuL b)ajJwiqh))4L By Marvin Cox. The epidemic of strikes mow sweeping industrial areas will be extended to college campuses this month when an estimated 1.00, 000 students will go on strike. April 22 is the scheduled date for the annual Peace Strike of the students. Among the member organiza tions of the National United Stu dent Peace Committee are the American Youth Congress. Amer ican Studerts Union, Joint Com mittee on United Christian Youth Movement, National Council of Methodist Youth, and others. Whether or not the Student Peace Strike will be a sit down, standup or walkout strike is not certain. In view of the fact that the students Kit in classes, it hard ly seems likely that they can make any effective demonstration by the sitdown technique. A walk out or a standup strike seems nec essary if the students are to make an effective demonstration. The George Washington Univer sity branch of the Peace Commit tee will be addressed on the day of the strike by Senator Lundeen. left winger from Minnesota, and Paul Ward, a well known news paper correspondent and magazine contributor. The questionnaire sent out by the Peace Committee indicated that American college students are overwhelmingly against war; and. also, that the majority are in sympathy with the Spanish Loyalist cause. Young men will reap the bene fits of the community built for the ill starred Passamaquoddy tide harnessing project on the Maine coast- Quoddy village has been largely deserted since con gress killed the project by its failure to appropriate funds for its continuance. The National Youth Administration, beginning within the next 30 or 60 days, will uti lize the buildings and shops there for a resident work and training project for young people. And speaking of private employ ment among recent students and other young people, more than 4.000 Jobs were found for them during the month of February. This number of positions was ob tained thru the junior employment service operated by the national youth administration. Political rote: James Roosevelt, Harvard student, will have a bril liant political future. His speech at Athens, Georgia, on March 19 convinced many wise Washington observers that he is a chip off of the old block. Not so much what he said, but how he said it the sincerity and charm in his voice leads some pretty good guessers to predict that Young Roosevelt will be able to win al most any office be aspires to. 'If wishes were horses " So went an old couplet which used to be an oft-quoted one tolling goxl little children that they would be better off if they failed to get ev erything they wished for. Now, however, the children have grown up, and the things they wish for concern the improvement of our ration, its people, and the world in general "If you could make one change in the' world, or in some system existing on it today, what would you do?" Jim Ivins, Arts and Sciences jun ior: "I would make a change in the standards by which people live, in such doctrines as standards of power, economics, legality, and po litical science. "Our conceptions of economics and power lay too much stress on those qualities of mind which are generally accepted as being faulty, such as inordinate ambition and avarice. "Men bind themselves by law and custom to standards which are after all but the invention of fal lible minds. As to our political sTTtem, I agree with John Stewart Mill, when he states that a gov ernment should only protect men. and that freedom of action should be accorded to an individual up to the point where it interferes with the rights of another." Lucy Jane Williams, Arts and Sci ences sophomore: "I should change our educational system. We should not have a grading system students should be allowed to work for their own personal gain, with the under standing that the amount that they get out of a course varies with the amount of work which they put into it. "Something should be done about tests, too. It should be ar ranged so that they do not count so much on your final grade. The way things are now, you can either ruin a whole semester's work or make up for a semester of idleness in the three hours in which you take an exam. I believe that tests should be given, but they should not count so much on the final grade. "The Chicago plan, that of al lowing each student to proceed at his own speed, would be excellent if carried on in other schools as well." George Rosen, Arts and Sciences sophomore: "I would fix it so that every nation in the world spoke the Eiglish language. Such a change would io a lot toward the building up of a better feeling among all the nations of the world. It would aid in unifying all of the countries. One cannot say that it would as sure world peace, but it would go a long way toward it. "If our language were stand ardized, our system of weights and measures would also become world wide. While ours are undoubtedly not the best, the one system would then be uniform the world over.' Martha Beghtol, Arts and Sciences freshman: "I would abolish all dishonesty. "It seems to be the major fault of humanity. Then, too, you could put your money in a sock, and it would be there when you came to pet it." Bob Flory, Bizad freshman: "I'd change the grading system in education, so that it would in dicate "Failure." or "Passing Av erage," or "Passing Above Aver age." There are so many factors that enter into the actual making up of a grade that I believe that it is impossible for an instructor to accurately rank a student within a single point of his actual ability. "I feel that a person cannot be nt his peak In a subject all the time. Consequently, sometime he is going to slip a little. Any num ber of conditions enter it, making a variance in the actual percen tage, but which are not Important enough to effect a person's stand ing in a better grading system." Louise Wenzlaff, Teachers college sophomore: "Change the educational system, so as to give a student more choice in the subjects he is taking. Each individual should be allowed to decide whether or not he wants to take any specialized course. Courses covering a broad general view of each subject should be available to the student who does not desire to take a scientific re view of a subject." Bob Lipscomb, Arts and Sciences freshman: "I would like to do away with people always thinking about them selves. Each of us places his own welfare and personal gain above all else. Every day you can see examples of people ignoring the rights of their neighbors tramp ling across lawns, scraping fen deis. in countless ways taking' advantage of their vellows. ! "When you listen to someone talk, you're not really paying any attention to him. "you're busy thinking about what you will say when he has finished." Tom Panting, Arts and Sciences sophomore: "I would abolish cosmetics and superficiality in the feminine sex. "Modern coeds spend a great deal of their time trying to appear to be what they are not. The way girls fix themselves up today, I am inclined to agree with the fellow who said that marriage is like a cafeteria you grab what looks good, and then pay for it later. "Gee! I hope nobody takes this personally." Students, Faculty to Gather Friday for Inauguration Of Song-Fest. Ag campus will pay homage to song. Friday evening, when students and faculty gather on the green of the pageant grounds at 7 o'clock to participate In tha first ag campus sing, a long talked of project thnt has at last been realized thru the efforts of the Creative Activities board. The song-fest, under the direc tion of Katherine Jones, Ogden Riddle and Mrs. Altinas Tullis, will begin ft sunset with rollicking parodies and semi-popular songs and will shade into folk-songs and quieter ballads as dusk falls and moonlight covers the amphi theater. Hailed with great enthusiasm In cities as the "community sing," the campus sing has been given much attention in many colleges In late years. At Cornell the annual senior and alumni sings were re ceived with so much popularity that thev have become traditional The Creative Activities board Is expecting 500 ag campus people to attend Nebraska's first sing and they believe that it will be so successful that a college sing will become a tradition at lilac time. SuIMin Student Council. Old members of the student council will not meet with the new council Wednesday at 5 o'clock in room 106 of University hall. All new members are requested to ba present. Interfraternity Council. Interfraternitv council will meet tonight at 7:30 in room 110 of Morrill hall to elect otiicers lor next year. Tassels. Tassels will hold their final meeting of the year tonight at 7:00 in 105 Social Science. 24 ADDED TO REPORT OF TEACHING PLACEMENTS Dr. J. P. Guilford, professor of psychology, will lead a symposium on personality measurements at the 12th annual meeting of the Mid western Psychological association at the University of Illinois Fri day and Saturday. "Further Evi dence of Color Discrimination in Rodents" will be the subject of a paper by Dr. W. E. Walton and R. W. Bornemeier, also of the psychology department. Dr. Guil ford is a member of the executive committee of the organization. Educational Service Issues Names of Students Securing Posts. The following teaching place ments were reported to the de partment of educational service: Curl Heinr. Avwa. W E Thompson. Lyons. Elu Buxmtn. Ho!drtr rdli LcMctauHf. M-Ma City. Krunk Sampson. Grnfva. I-ioii Plrrson. Tfcumpeh. Hrlrn Thare. Lor,. .rt Kovar:k. Mlllipan. N. F. Thorr. Sin- ("rrtk. Pavid Winnc', Madrid. F.mh W-rwIith. Bam-ton. P.alrh Kilrrr. So. Sioux city. Florence Pifmin. Oakland. Flormcf Farwfll. Pilfr. Marv Riw . ;rafton. Marjonf Hfisma. Milford. Sua Pf1rrn. 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