PAGE TWO THE DAILY NEB1USKAN. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1937 THE DAILY NEBRASKAN THIKTY-SEYEMII YEAR LDITORIAI. STAFF ItlSI.M-SS SI AM Editor Kd Murray Bu-lnr Mutineer . Ili.h IIlIImiiii Associate Editor Don Wagner Assistant Mnniuirs Frank Johnson, Arthur Hill Managing Editors Willard Bornry, Hrlrn Canco rirrulatlon Manager Slsnley Mlrharl News Editors ... Morris I.lpi, Howard Kaplan, Rarhara Rnsewater, Ed Steeves, ZZZrZZII!IirrrZ3IirZ3I!II!ZZI3ZZri!IlIirtr!ZrrZir Harold Niemann, Marjorle Churchill. Sl'BSCRIPTION RATE U.N THIS ISSl E XI. AO a yrur SMiirIp ropy 91.(10 ft ai-nirstrr lrsk Editor Hurnry $'.'..80 mailed fi cents SI. 50 srmeMcr Mght Editor Rnsewater mailed L'nder direction of thr student rnhllrntlon Mourd. Editorial Of flee I nlvrrslty Hall 4. BllMnrss Office I 'nlvrrslty Hall 4-A. TelephnnrDay: BB891; Mght: HUSK. BS83S Uournall r.nlcred as second-clans matter at the pn,lofflee In t.fneoln, Nebraska, tinder act of congre,, Murrh it. IH1I. and at opeeinl rate of poHtage provided for In ai-rtlon 1103. act uf tlitohcr 3. 1017, authorized January 20, IMS. Plisocidcd CbUe&fc Prta Distributors f Cbfle6ideDi6esr tuhlfhrd everv Turs day, Wednesday, Thursday, rrldny and Sunday morning ot the academic year by indent of the I'nl yerlly of Nebraska, under the supervision of the Hoard of I'uu-Mratlnna. RieacstNTsD won national aovintisin bt National Advertising Service, Inc Collrfe Publishers Ittfresrntativt 420 Madiion Avi. New York. N. Y. CHICAdO BOSTON BAN FNANCIICO Lea ANOELia Portland sa.ttli Photography Climhs lo Height Of Supremacy Among Sciences We Want More Bawl In Football. Football ! the Team ! Kali. 'Rah, Kali ! IVit'f .Tones! Iluzzah, lluzzah. Huzzah ! Cheers in the halls, rallies, maybe the skipping uf n class or two. Sanyo collece has begun at last. The Nebraskan looks with grave concern upon the state of hidebound bookishness into which the nienibers of this educational institu tion have fallen. We utterly deplore the men tal condition, bordering on depravity, which Allowed the students of this heretofore respec table university to let the first day of ihe week of the Minnesota game be spent in orderly at tendance at classes. We know it's only Tuesday, leaving- vir tually a whole week in which to make the old halls ring with that glorious braying signifying- college spirit. Ah, college spirit, col lege spirit, college spirit ! . But what national magazine, or what news reel, or what movie short would recognize the student of these last few weeks as the glamorous Betty Coed or Joe College? Nebraska is flat on its back from an epidemic of college-going. Oh, col legitis, balm and diversion of youth, where are you? It's true, we have our estra-enrricular ne tivities pretty well under way. The social life has been hampered by polio, but is only path crinrr force for a colossal country club fair of parties, and thinps. and mich. And the vast and impressive machinery of the recruitinp station of the United States army, the R. 0. T. C, is functioninp in fine shape. But ye pods! and all stronger exclamations that the publication board will stand for this is an educational institution and this is football season. Where's your spunk? Where's your fight? Think if we could beat Minnesota next Saturday how the name of our univer sity, our "community of scholars," would be blared over the airlanes, screamed in the headlines, mouthed in the beer joints back some, deified by the chamber of commerce 4own town. How do we expect to get out bawling ability whipped into shape by next Saturday if we don't get organized? Of course the Innocents. Corn Cobs, Tas .;els, and various rally committees of the same have been burning up the haunts of old V hall a class buildinp sometimes thought to be less respectable looking than the coliseum or sta dium organizing rallies, parades, down town demonstrations, special eheerinp practices. But this does not mean that the individuals who will be depended upon to provide the screech ing and droninu for these affairs are cettlnp themselves in the proper frame of mind for real co-operation. Yell in the halls! Yell on the campus! Let's hear a BEAT MINNESOTA that will shatter the clouds peal out every time one of those heroes in a scarlet and white sweater is seen on the mall. Everyone knows that the players are all but oblivious to this fine fidel ity, raucous loyalty, larynx injuring support. But what's the difference? AVhose football team is this? And how do you expect to perform your part in the great commercial enterprise of football is you don't practice a little? The fans, yes, the fans the dear public, the peo ple. The fans want a spectacle on Saturday afternoon. The university's public, the kind patroL of our "community of scholars" have every right to expect the youth of the crop, the hope of the future, to raise a great hue and cry to the almighty god, Racket. And the fans have every right to demand, having purchased Mr. Selleck's $8 ducat, a certain amount of hysteria in the stadium, hysteria which numerous despicable cynics have accused of covering a multitude of sins. And the alumni ah, the alumni, ulorificd fans, sterling citizens graduated from this in stitution in '02, and '01, and '67, ai. l 'lo, alumni, alumni, alumni, rah, r rah, and !od bless thein. How would our institution pet along without the alumni, the life blood of the school? How would our educational mill pet along without the alumni support of football? Do you realize that the alumni of this institu tion virtually built the stadium and coliseum with their contributions? Well, they helped. Alumni Secretary Kay Ramsay boasts that his charges, the irrads, never solicited for any contributions, other than those for the stadia. n and coliseum, until the time of the Union bnildine. And how could this institution ad vance the boundaries of science, inculcate fai lure into the liven of our youth, educate the men and women of the state as we said, the hope of the future without this support from Ihe alumni, without the coliseum, the stadium, and the furnishiups for the Union building? Well, the fans and alumni hosannas as above- wouldn't be satisfied to see a throng of students troop into the stadium of a Satur day afternoon to sec two great football teams demonstrate the best in American sport if those students didn't make a hell of a holler. So get goin' gang. Oil up your pipes. It's your team. You're every bit as important as the players. College spirit ! And let's not pet completely bogged down in the mire of intelli gence before Saturdav cither. A Fair Proportion of i Students Attend Church. At First rivmnuth CnFretratlonal rl.un h r.n Univer- , fity Sunday Mr. MrCV.nnoll !i. u.-reri in sermon the ! nuestii.n raiser! in the Diiilv Nebraskan- "Do Students I Attend Chinch?" j Excerpts from Mr. McCouiiell's sermon i follow: j The Daily Nebraskan asks the fpiestion.i "Do students attend church and answers i it in a fashion by giving figures oi'l'erod by the j fraternities. The figures submitted indicate! lhat '217 out of ti.'tS students in the organiza-j t ions listed attend church. The Inquiring lie-j porter makes no great claim to accuracy. Fur- thermore the number of students in the organi zations is only a little over 10 percent of the student body. The proportion of church at tending students might be materially changed by a study of the much larger number outside the organizations named. But inadequate or inaccurate as 1he fig ures submitted may be, they indicate that one third of the organization students attend church. It probably averages up above ihe general population habits. One-third of the membership of protcstant churches is the aver age Sunday attendance in America on any one Sunday. The reasons given for students not at tending church are "sleep is preferred," "funny papers and other reading," "ser mons are dry," "ministers fail to make ser mons interesting and attractive!" Curious ideal! "Rev. Mr. Blank offers the most in teresting and attractive sermons for the en tertainment of students. Better than the funny papers!" A surgeon or physician might also advertise his ministry of physical healing: "Come to Dr. So and Sc. His serv ice is most interesting and entertaining. You will die laughing." The analogy is not wholly accurate but the idea is there. Ministers are inadequate, sermons often are dull church services smut times lack in beauty and fail to minister to the soul's needs. But often none ot' i,.s- things is true and the student who stays away fails to know it. He rationalizes lower motives, sometimes excusing himself by accusing the church. He is not alone in use of that l !'-nse mechanism. As many students .attend church as ever in all probability. As many students as others in proportion to numbers attend church in all probability. Large numbers of them come to worship, to find strength and courage ior life, to share in service in the oldest institution existing today and the only one wholly dedi cated to unselfish i.bals. to the saving of man and society, to proclaiming the way of life ad vocated by the greatest Teacher of the ages. Students attend classes, but how many would do so if they could graduate without it? Many students stay away from the opera, the concert, the best plays, fail to read the best literature, are strangers to the Bible, Shakespeare, and Milton. Dry and uninter esting? Surely, to some mind?! The church will in the long run survive even John Erskine. ;.s a moral counsellor and guide for students or non-students. The church must seek always to enlist, to minister to, and to commission students. The church must 'remedy h r faults and wtaknesses. Students can help. This is not sm-li an easy world to understand or thai with. I.ii'c has its spiritual meanings and values, or it is a madhouse of unauthorized and u.u-ontroiiid forces. Students need help. The church filters it to those who attend. The church cannot require attendance, cannot and should not compete on the levels of the movie, the funny paper, or other enter tainment; cannot without serious peril enter any high pressure publicity appeals. The church must not betray the spirit of the Master by trying to attain noble cuds by ignoble or cheap means. The church at its best says: Come, follow me! "Except the Lord build the house they labor in vain lhat build it: Except the Eoi-il keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain!" By Bruce Alexander. Photography, having for years occupied a position of importance among the great industries, now advances to the enviable status of an indispensable tool in the pur suit of the sciences. From its first meaner beginnings in the shadowy images imprisoned upon Dsguer rc's silver plates, the process ha. progressed through Its succesive sta ges of development until it stands today upon equal footing with the manner both inexpensive and in teresting, has hastened its develop clder sciences of mathematics, physics and chemistry from which it derives its being. First a Curiosity. First a curiosity, then a toy, becoming the hobby of millions, photography has been improved in precision, in dependability, and in efficiency until it has become an outstanding agent in the modern activities of research, representa tion, and record. The evolution of photography, so far as its industrial and scientific aspects are concerned, has, for the most part, taken place in the last two decades. There Is no doubt that its universal adoption by young and old, as a means of re cording scenes and events in a manner both inexpensive and in teresting has hastened its develop ment into the tremendous indus trial system It now comprises. Its adaption by editors and advertisers to the manifold purposes of news print and periodical, as the su preme attractor of attention, the powerful proponent of the new idea, has furthered the same end. But other qualities, those of facil ity, precision, and versatility, have endeared the process to the hearts of scientists, and introduced it to its most important and enduring work. Records Events. Ample evidence of photography's growing indispensability is the trend of events in science. More and more, it is removed from the realm of amusement, of pastime, and set to work in the serious business of gaining and interpret ing information of the universe in which we live. On June 8. 1937, the finest pictures ever taken of the sun's corona were made at Arequippa, Peru, by an amateur astronomer, Fernando de Roniana. With the blazing orb completely obscured by .the moon, he obtained actual color pictures of those great tongues of flame which shoot hun dreds of miles into space from the sun's surface. Having borrowed certain costly articles of equipment from Harvard university astron omers, he repaid their trust a thou sand times by the excellence of his research. In our own country, at Mount Wilson Observatory, a new photographic lens captures the light from nebulae only one thirty thousandths part as bright as the faint-eat visible stars. From an eight foot mirror, the star's light is reflected Into the camera, forming an image only two twenty-fifths of an inch long. Camera mountings have been devised of such superb precision that the camera may be maintained in perfect focus, de spite the sidereal movement of its object, for periods of exposure as long as sixty hours. Aerial Map of U. S. Most dramatic of photographic projects, and the crowning achieve ment of aerial mapping, is the present ambitious attempt to map the entire Continental United States from the air. At an esti mated cost of S3S.OOO,000.00, planes will fly at an altitude of 14,400 feet, photographic roads, streams, fields, and mountains, re ducing all to a predetermined scale. Of supreme importance to the national defense in event of war, the survey will also furnish Invaluable information in flood control, in the prevention of eros ion, and in the consrrvatio of nat ural resources. At the present mo ment, high flying planes are carry ing huge tcnlcns cameras over carefully charted paths, snapping as much as six hundred square miles in one picture, at an average cost per picture of $6.35. Mobile dark-rooms and flashlight "bombs" are other innovations that help the task toward completion. "Shoots" Boulder Dam. A sidelight of practical interest in this connection is the application of the principal idea to the "con tour mapping" of Lake Meade, the huge body of water impounded by Boulder dam. In contour mapping, all points having the same eleva tion are connected by imaginary "contour" lines. To outline the lake after each successive twenty foot rise, by ordinary surveying methods, would offer insurmount able difficulties, particularly so in the precipitous tcrrane in which the lake is situated. Instead, by the aerial procedure, one picture is taken after each rise, and the margin of the lake furnishes an ac-1 curate contour. As the lake now j approaches its ultimate depth of; 07.") feet, an impressive number of conl ours are superposed, one over another, lending accurate informa tion of the lake's capacity and ex tent. Here, by the simple appli cation of a simple process, man effects a substantial saving in money, together with increased ef ficiency and elimination of waste: truly a scientific achievement of real worth. 9lV JIlSL Darrell Bauder, Glenville. Carol Clark, Rock Island, III. Released Saturday. Jon Pruden, Lincoln. William Rarlck, Auburn. William Johnson, Alliance. Released Friday. Lorraine Beckmann, Burr. and the Magna Carta, while those who found an ancestor among the followers of William the Con queror, 25 generations ago, must distinguish, if they ran, their rela tive from a possible 8,388.608 predecessors in that generation. What about the future? It is Dr. Hertzler's conviction that ancestor worship, frail as it may tie, will not only continue, but wiil become stronger, because the con ditions now croniping human nature will persist and the social and economic trends which have brought about this phenomenon will become more acute as time goes on. SIJi BULLETIN Corn Cobs. Corn Cobs, actives and pledges, will meet at 8 o'clock today for a general meeting in room 107B of Social Sciences building. TASSELS. Members of Tassels will con vene tonight at 7 o'clock in room 101 of Social Sciences building. Rally Committee. All members of the Rally Com mittee will meet this afternoon promptly at 4:30 o'clock in the Daily Nebraskan office to outline rally plans for the Nebraska Minnesota game. Poultry Club. Members of the agricultural col lege Poultry Club will meet to morrow night in room 205. poultry husbandry hall, at 7 o'clock for a short business meeting. ficiently so that he was able to drive the car, we went and noti fied the sheriff." Each thought himself very calm and unemotional. Each thought the other chicken hearted and af frighted. Well, what would you have done? SEASON ATHLETIC BOOKS GO ON SALE IN COLISEUM AT 8 (Continued from Page 1.) the Wednesday noon drawing, and upon presentation of the receipt given them when they paid their money, will be handed their ath letic books. The representative of the students wishing to sit to gether will call for all the tickets of his group and receive their ath letic books. Salei Continue. The ticket sales, however, are not over with the drawings Wed nesday. Students who do not get in with their money before Wd nesday noon may buy their tickets at the activities office Thursday or later. They will, however, have to take what stadium seats are left after the drawings. The athletic book will admit the holder to the student reserved sec tion for football gam8, as well as to all basketball, baseball, dual intercollegiate track, swimming, and wrestling meets during the year. s i r l. r..li:l. i bureau uncrs 10 rum i sr.. Broadcast Best Choral Compositions. A national broadcast and a chance' to have their compositions published and recorded are offered an a prize to potential composers by the WPA Federal Music Project Five manuscripts of unaccom panied choral works for mixed chorus will be selected from nation-wide entrants and will be re corded by the Columbia Phono graph Co. after a premier broad east over WABC and the Colum bia Broadcasting System. Carl Fischer, Inc., is to publish those of the winning compositions which arc suitable. Terms of the contest, open to any amateur composer, follow: j A. 11 compositions must be for ; mixed chorus, without accompani ( ment, having a performance time of from two to four minutes. The text must be in English, and no composition shall have been pre viously performed. All work must be submitted in manuscript form before Nov. 15 to the Choral Con test Committee. Federal Music Project, 2o4 West 54th street, New York Citv. Two University Students Label Each Cther ' Chicken-Heart- ed' When They Find Suicide Victim. (Continued from Page 1.) ple'i convention In Fremont next week. A told to a Dally Nebras kan reporter, here li what they found and here is how they re ' acted to the dlicovery. Version No. 1. John'i story: "Leaving Dorla In the car, I went over to Investigate ;tn cabins and found them locked. Ai I started to hunt for aomeone who could open them for me, I noticed a tall ladder leaning 'against a branch of a tree, with a man apparently standing on one of the middle rungs. Thinking he might possibly be the cmeUker, I walked over toward him and was about to ask If he had the keys to the cabin when I noticed his feet weren't on the ladder. "Alt:-o it startled me a little to find a man hanging there, I didn't get excited, but calmly walked over to the car and told Doris there was a man hanging by hia neck in a tree over there. She took a quick look, gasped, got very white, and for a moment 1 thought she was going to pass out on me. After a while she pulled hcrs'lf together and we notified the sher iff." Version No. 2. Doiis' story: "I stayed In the car and read a magazine while John went to look over the grounds and the cabins. He was gone for quite a long while. When he came back he was pale as a ghost, his teeth were chattering snd he was shak ing all over. 'Why. John, what's the matter?' I asked. He swal lowed a couple of times and finally choked out: 'There's a man over there.' I looked in the direction he nodded and saw that some man had evidently committed suicide. I don't remember that I got particu larly nervous or excited. Finally I when John collected his wits suf- NEW MUSIC DIRECTOR WIL RELIEVE QUICK .OF ACTIVE TEACHING (Continued from Page l.i standing ability that he was chosen as a clinical conductor at the Min neapolis meeting of the North Cen tral Music conference this spring. These are some of the many things which recommended him to How ard Kirkpatrick, director of the school of music. Responsible In part for Mr. Lentz's knowledge Is the great amount of studying he has done under well known teachers. In cluded in this is graduate work at the outstanding Jullllard school of music In New York, where he worked under Edgar Schenkeman. He also studied with Vladimir Bakaelnlkoff, formerly of the Mos cow theatre of art, anC prominent New York artists BARBS ORGANIZE INDIVIDUAL CLUBS WITHIN COUNCIL I Continued from Page 1 ceive representation on the council. Although all the organizations were to have been formed by last night, he Indicated that anyone who does not have his club formed as yet may still be able to com plete his organization and partici pate In the intramural program and later council activities. Reuben Dennine. athletic chair man for the council, reported on the progress of the formation of the intramurals league and Robert Simmons, member of the Barb council, reported on final plans for the Varsity party in the Coliseum Saturday night. The council decided by a unani mous vote to continue to hold Its meetings on Monday evenings the same as last year, Avenge American Neglects , His Future to Spend Time in Worship .of Ancestors, Says Dr. Hertzler. (Continued from Page 1 ) thing." And we must remembei that the economic and social orders are undergoing change and the tomorrows are becoming in creasingly more uncertain. Like wise, the population elements that once provided the pioneers now turn to their past. The future has lost much of its glow; the past alone is secure." Maturity Reached. Dr. Hertzler will have you rea lize that we. as a people, are no longer in a youth stage; we have definitely reached our maturity. We are confronted with new life situations and experiences. Tho grown up. the average American has not yet discovered the duties of his maturity. In fact, he hasn't even prepared himself to meet them. The hundreds of snooty so cieties which have come into ex istence through the passing of an historical event or Ihe renown of peoples who have lived genera tions ago arc indicative of our dependence upon the past. Of course it's fooliah to place so much emphasis on the import ance of these organizations, par ticularly when some of the more petty ones are analyzed and their requirements for membership known. And if the whole develop ment is an unfortunate one. Dr. Hertzler would blame the indi vidual himself, who man, though he is. faces life's problems in the faltering manner of the boy. There are certain factors in the progression of this civilization which have been responsible for me pronounced growth of these so eieties. Pr. Hertzler discusses them in his article entitled "American Ancestor worsmpers" which was recently published In the South At lantic Quarterly. He says: Life Becomes Routinized. "Preceding the late 60's the new frontier always offered new types of conquest as well ns a relief from the undesirable sosciul, eco nomic, and political conditions present in the more crowded sec tions In the esst. But by the time of the 90's the frontier had all but disappeared, while a concentration of wealth became noticeable. A farm for every man was a thing of the past; easy fortunes were rapidly diminishing. American life was becoming routinized. The most striking effect of these events w,as that they produced a skepticism about the present and a pessimist about the future. In addition to these factors, tho great hordes of Immigrants who 'tame to U1I4 country during this transition period threw the older stocks with their declining birth- late into a panic. They made more j acute class distinction anil they di- j luted the older American pioneer j culture. While in the earlier stages 1 the immigrants caused the older! stocks to adhere more rigidly to ; their standard of living, in later 1 years it has led them to turn more i and more to their past. Now, the good Daughter of the American Revolution feels that she can do Americanization work among these peoples, secure in the knowledge that she has an unimpeachable uniqueness arid abiding distinction based on the antiquity of her an cestry in this country. Educational Prestige Diffused. "Another trend tending to throw the older middle class stocks upon their past is the increasing number of people taking advantage of the universities and colleges. The pres. tige that once was attached to the higher education has become so widely diffused that it has lost its distinctive value. And as much as some people hate to believe it, these newer educated people have become the intellectual equals of the older educated stocks. Thus, the educational situation has ac tually forced the older stocks to seek social security and individual aloofness in their past."' Dr. Hertzler is merely saying that we are actually living in a world made up of a vast number of nobodies one in which it is increasingly difficult to become somebody. Human beings will not willingly be unrecognized. They will always struggle for identity and social position; hence, the j increasing interest in these so- called distinctive soeiel?vs. And the humorous side of it all is that the only claim to distinction that many of these ancient worthies have is that they were caught, often against their will, in some event that luckily turned out to have some historical significance. And of course, they reproduced car.sistently and abundantly. Form Exclusive Societies. In his study of this interesting sociological development, Dr. Hertzler found that this growing passion for distinguished aneestty has resulted in the formation of societies of super exelusiveness, including such suggestive organi zations as The Order of Colonial Lords of Manors in America, open to only descendents of one who enjoyed feudal rights in the colo nies prior to July 4, 1776; and, as another example, the Imperial Order of the Yellow Rose, which organization admits only thoe ot royal descent. With the exception of the Pilgrim Soriety, all ot the well-known ancient ancestor so cieties were organized after the late eighties. While not attempting to punc ture onyone's robust pride in be longing to one of these societies, the Nebraska educator is, never theless willing to risk life and limb in declaring that ancestor worship at its best rests upon a very slender thread. For example, If we allow three generations to a century a most modest esti mate in the light of the repro ductive performance of earlier generations we find that these worshipful contemporaries glean their fame from one or two among an appalling number. How Many Ancestors? Anyone now forty years of age would have a possible 18 adult ancestors at the time of the American Revolution; M2 at the time of the Msvflower voyage; 524.288 at the time of King John " LAUGH RIOT OF THE YEAR! 1 ffirj KING OF GAMBLERS CLAIR TREVOR AKIM TAMIROFF L.-ii-t Times Today Tuesday JEDSKINSJIN THE WsRPsTHI RltrE It! V.V, 111 ftrfto 1 FlOc LIBERTY 15cj plus "PUBLIC WEDDING" WEDNESDAY Sept. 29 JOE LOUIS-TOMMY FARR RINGSIDE FIGHT FILMS plus "G" Man Thrills Galore "THE 13TH MAN" NOW! with ALFALFA itf Our rnne mmrdv fanv Walter nrrnnan Yx V S0, ,r,J Mat. 1M 20c Eve. 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