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. Dunninc
Thpjma PriFr. H-tlmfville.
rimr Holm. Napr.
Fvclvn Moon. Lewis. la.
Marvin S. Paul. H")dre
H. Uandon Evan. Hay Center.
Berder.e Hansen. MurCock.
lior.a F. Heine. Ofhkofh.
Heitkotten TJE? M"1"1
QUALITY MEATS
AT LOW PRICES
Makers of Fine Sausages
and Barbecued Meats
B-Utt 140 So. 11th
NOW
TWO ACE HITS
New Low Pricea
MOTOR ( eVp: Ralmar
MADNESS ;
Iw-r. ZSe J
I
1te
BmsIIM KHtai
ALMOST HUMAN
.. ... .: V - . ....... ' ; , ... .
The
ROTATOR h Swank
IfATfNT APPllfD fOU
TIE COLLAH BOLDER TEAT CHANGES TOI EVEBT TYPE OF COLLAB
As new as this year's All American selections is The Rotator,
Swank's new collar holder that is adjustable to make the
most of every style of collar. You'll find The Rotator
at your favorite jeweler, department store or men's $
shop at
Sold by
BOYD JEWELRY CO.
12th & O St. Lincoln
Complete Line of Men's
SWAIVK Jewelry at
rS41
(
