Image provided by: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE
About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (March 18, 1938)
PACJE two TI1E DAILY NEBRASKAN, FRIDAY, MARCH 18. 193ft t THE DAILY NEBRASKAN THIRTY-SEVENTH 1EAR EDITORIAL STAFF ' BUSINESS STAFF HuniiiMi Manaiar. l.'hariM lanloa tMat HW rw Aaalalant Rnnlnna Mann nr. Prank Johnmn, Arthor Hill M.n.tl"! Edllort Morrli Upp. Howard kaplaa circulation Mana.er bunk? Mlrhaal Newi Edltora Ed Utrtrra, Barbara Roarwatrr, Marjorla Chnrrnlll, MrirtU Kngluna, Fred Harm, Dick drHrowa. SUBSCRIPTION RATE OS t'MIS IfcSLB 91 .50 a rm Slngla nipjr 1.00 Mmimtrl P,k ldor Kaplan Night Editor Englund mailed Under direction ot Mm Student Pabllcatloa board. Editorial Offlea lolvtrfltjr Hall 4. Bnalneia Ortlee University Hall 4-A. Trlephona Da B'181. Nl(ht B118S, BS.HSS (Journal). Entered at atcund-clau matter at the poitoftlM in Lincoln, Nebraska, under act of cong-rcaa, March , 1MB, and at apeclal rata ot pottage provided for In aectlnn UO.H, act of October S, IS17, autlyirlied January (0, Wit. 1937 Member 1938 Associated CoIle6iafe Press Distributor of GoUe6iateDi6est fnbllnhed every lliet day, V d n e a d ay, Thursday, Friday and Knnday mommies ot the aradrmlc year by atudenta of the I nl vrrslty of Nebraska, nnder the Rupervlln of the Board of I'ub-Ucatlona. paiaaNTio roa national aovaaTiama av National Advertising Service, Inc Collrtt Ptbllsktrt Rrfrntnttliv 4ao MADiaoN Ave. New York, N. Y. CHICAOO BOaTON . SAN MANCIBCO LOB ANOILIt POBTUAND atATTL' A -aai tm dm f I a -m ADnlsc Personality Phis While spring in all its glory is bedecking the columns of the paper in the form of latest hints on the season's fashions, we're turning our thoughts to another question which must be given some Attention if any student is to do full justice to those spring outfits in which he or she appears. That is the question of per sonality. Give any student a new spring out fit and it will pale into insignificance if he or she possesses that certain something, which for want of a better term, has been called per sonality. That this factor is of major importance is not denied, and the attention of many col leges is beginning to focus on the proper de velopment of student personality in order that future success may be made more in evitable. Those colleges which have become vinterested in the subject, besides showing their interest in the aptitudes and depth of knowledge of their students, are now mak ing them review their own attributes and consult their own experience. The importance of this phase of college life can be best illustrated by the results of a recent investigation by a psychiatrist at the University of California. "Inferiority com plexes" and other "personality troubles" bother about 25 percent of the men entering tjie university, according to the survey. Entering Wellesley women now take tests designed as a "personality inventory." Included in these tests are questions which ask the student if she makes friends easily, -if troubled with the idea that people on the street are watching her, if she blushes eas ily, or if she finds it difficult to get rid of salesmen. The resulting answers indicate any tendencies toward developed neuroses and psychoses. - Michigan State college has opened a per tonality clinic for coeds. Sponsored by the home economics department, the clinic has been organized to help students by offering them a series of lectures and opportunities for consideration of individual problems. A newly organized "personality clinic" at the New Jersey College for Women at tempts to solve personal problems lor us coeds. Established a few months ago by four "crusading undergraduates, imbued with a desire to aid their fellow students be .'come well balanced personalities, the clinic is sponsored by the social amenities commit tee of the student government. . The four undergraduates who direct the clinic advise .their classmates on personal problems. They have- gained experience in handling these problems thru professional training or the pursuit of a hobby. The trend mny lie a lot of excitement over little if, as Dr. Howard V. Haggard professor of applied psychology at Yale believes, pleas ing personalities whirh are considered so im portant in the life of the world and the cam pus today are born, not made. Dr. Haggard puts personality in the same class with genius in this respect. Vet, we are inclined to feel that personality, even 1ho it may he inherited, does not reach its fullest development unless prodded a bit. At least concentration on this factor and development of a personality clinic such as in stalled by New Jersey college organizations might give some of these would be justified campus societies something to think about and accomplish. Beauty and Brains Spring, with its emphasis on fashions and its subsequent glorification of feminine beauty, brings to mind an editorial written several months ago in Hie Omaha World Herald. Ad dressed to the lovely university coeds, the arti cle ridicules the unnecessary stress placed upon beauty in the realm of higher education, and the lack of publicity given to the intellec tual powers which the feminine students possess. Explaining that ihe peeve against too great an emphasis on beauty was stimulated by the pictures of two charming girls who were rivals for the title of "bomb beauty" at a college in a neighboring state, the editorial commented. "The pictures remind ns that next to football in the colleges of t he land the thing that needs de-emphasis is the concentration upon beauty as a coed achievement. " The editorial 'continues by pointing out "that Nebraska has its honorary colonel for the regiment, its sweetheart, its beauty queens as does every other coeducational institution in the land. In fact, as far as the reader of the newspapers is concerned, there is no other activity for women in higher education except to prove they possess the prettiest eyes, the most winning smiles, the most shapely bodies. If there is any other competition for the col lege girl it escapes the notice of the desk men, who have eyes for news as well as for beauty." The editorial is concluded with the force ful and admittedly true statement, "We yield to none in our admiration of the vivacious coed, and gladly proclaim she is Ihe epitome of all that is beautiful. But sometimes we wish our institutions of higher learning could find some competition for these charming girls out side the field of physical charm. Surely they have brains, too, inside those pretty heads." S!3 HLPHS ENTER DEBATE TOURNEY ASEIGHTH TEAM Officials Will Make Pairings, Schedule First Rounds March 29 or 31. Thursday, Sigma Alpha Epsilon entered a team In the intramural debate tournament, making the eighth team necessary to hold a tournament. Tuesday evening, March 29 or Thursday. March 31, the pairings will be made and the tf.rfit round will be held. "Should the United States en large its navy?" will be the ques tion for debate. The winning team will have its named engraved on the trophy which it will keep for e.ie year. The seven other fraternities en tered are: Alpha Tau Omega; BU TheU Pi; Delta Theta Phi; Kappa Etgma; Phi Alpha Delta; !gma Alpha Mu and Zeta Beta Tau. Unaffiliated Students Sponsor Dance Tonight A barb dance will be held from 7:30 to 9:30 tonight in the Arm ory. Mr. and Mrs. U J. Teale and Jir. and Mrs. E. B. Schmidt will be chftperons. KEGLERS CONTINUE MEET Intramural Contestants Play Fourth Tourney Round Tonight. Leagues III and IV go into the fourth rounds of intramural bowl ing tonight at the Lincoln Bowling alleys. The schedule is as follows: League III. Alpha Gamma Rho vs. Bye. Sigma Alpha Mu vs. Beta Theta Pi. Phi Delta Theta vs. Kappa Sigma. Farm House vs. Bye. XI Pst Phi vs. Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Phi Kappa Psi vs. Delta Tau Delta. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs have arrived. The city will live with a fairy tale which, by Grimm, is a pleasant relief from a grim life. The school service "A Ood Teacher Agency" 1 1918-1938 Come in ami St V$ S41 Stuart Bldg. Lincoln, Nabr. t V: Ja U &JiM.J EAT.EL3 SHOP 1051 H at. '...J Ilctel! Grj Coffer- Shop! C ri phis Lunches! :-:-i n. 12th LOOKING for a WAY to CUT Costs? Many of those pieces of clothing you think too old for further use can be ' made to look just as good a new by our rejuvenat ing process. Let us clean and repair them now. You'll be surprised how lit tle it costs, how well they look. JUST PHONE. PEERLESS CLEANERS 06. H. Lemon B8T1 S2J 8. 11th St. A Boston manufacturer told members of- a new deal senate comniitee that to be successful a business has to take in more than it pays out. They had to call in an interpreter. It is rumored that the newly styled femnie swim suits for the coming season are barely large enough to stick a price tag on. One of the easiest things to un derstand and the hardest to learn is that the time to save money is when you've got some. The g. o. p. begin at '40. believes life will A New Angle To Peace To The Editor: This epistle is a challenge to the statements made in the pulse col umn by Martin Oelrlch to the ef fect that: 1. Any American who is not willing to defend his country should be deprived of his rights. 2. Paul (not A. T.) Harris spread the "Insidious doctrine of 'peace at any price' " while here in Lincoln. 3. America is regarded as a sec ond China, wealthy, but weak. 1. Absolute pacifism should be punished. Catholic, Protestant, Jew all have as one of the basic tenents of their faith the law "Thou Shalt not kill." Efforts to rise above hypocrisy and really put religion into practice should be punished? That is not the question, how ever, that Americans have to face. The question is "Shall we, or shall we not, take part in an aggressive war?" America can not be in vaded! Any war we engage in will be aggressive. In proof, Admiral H. E. Yarnell who commands the American fleet in Asia declares, "The inhabitants of the Pacific Coast can sleep quietly in their beds until Japan builds a Navy twice the strength of that of the United States." And despite alarm ists our navy 13 still much larger than the Japanese. To double our navy the Japanese wold have to build 21 more battleships, 6 more aircraft carriers, 32 more cruisers, 468 more destroyers and 141 more submarines, and this does not in clude ships to match vessels that would be added to our fleet by the super-navy bill. Admiral William S. Sims, com msntler of the American fleet in European waters during the World war states, "No foreign power or group of powers can operate across the oceans and stand a chance In combat with the American Navy and plr.nes operating from home bases." General Johnson Hagood writes, "Considered from a defensive standpoint, America is the strong est military nation on earth that is, it is the easiest nation to pre pare for defensive warfare. It would not take much to make it invulnerable against any nation or any combination of nations that could possibly be brought against it." Malor General Smedley D. But ler who visited this fair city last fall finds that any nation invading the United States would require 1,000,000 men and 7,500,000 tons of ocean-going craft to transport supplies. The entire ocean-going merchant fleets of all nations, he asserts, does not equal this task Also remember the "Russian hol idav" that would occur if Japan, currently boomed as the threat to American liberty etc., should leave herself wide open by throwing her forces across thousands of miles of water to attack America. Could an invading force land? Mai. Gen. Douglas MacArthur, twice chief of staff of the U. S army, after telling of the great difficulty America had in getting troops to friendlv France in 1918, and of the inability of Great Brit ain to land troops in the Darden elles against Turkey, says, "Of all military operations, the one which the soldier dreads most Is a forced landing on a hostile shore It is at that time he it at his weakest, the enemy at its strong' est. Need more be said? 2.' Paul Harris did not preach pasifism to his audiences. He asked for adequate defense, which he believes we already have, and opposed any offensive measures As one who heard him five nights straight and talked with htm per sonally at length, I feel qualified to say that never once did he ad vocate any pacifism which would not allow men to defend their country against actual invasion. 3. America a second China wealthy, but weak. It might have hfon more effective if Mr. Oelrlch had not quoted a William Ran dolph Hearst man for such a state ment. Weak? Yet Gen. William C. Rivers says, "We are assem bllng in the North Pacific ocean what I believe is the greatest ag gregation of fighting ships and combat airplanes the world has ever seen in one spot. I feel that by no use of the imagination can one correctly say that our battle assemblage in the North Pacific ocean Is required for the defense of Alaska, the Hawallans, the continental United States, and the Panama Canal, our normal line of defense in the event of a war.' To say that America is a second China is to display a childlike naivety that is astounding even on the part of a Hearst writer, Mr. Oelrlch only quoted it. Yours truly. Ellsworth Steele. Contemporary Comment WHAT WE NEED IS MORE LUNATICS The other day a student walked into one of the classrobms and took a seat. The professor, hav- ine called roll, inquired sarcast- cally of the newcomer wneiner ne hadn t wandered into tne room Dy mistake "I FRENCH CIRCLE BOOKS Tickets for Saturday Movie Available in U. Hall for 25 Cents. No." explained the Btudent, happened to have a free hour and I came in to listen to the lecture." The professor eyed the student suspiciously, as though wondering whether he were an escaped lu natic or Just one of the unbeliev ably rare academic curiosiues re ferred to as auditors. That the genus auditor is prac tically extinct on this campus is an unfortunate fact, and on the whole, the blame has been placed upon the student. He is generally too busy taking, other courses which will give credits and grade Doints and. eventually, a degree. In addition, his interest is rarely so stimulated by courses tnat ne will come in just to sit down and listen. He has gotten the habit of unl versity students, the habit of tak ing the things that win give mm meaningless units and even more meaningless grade points. He is fulfilling the university, requirements for a bachelor's de gree. He is responding in me normal, listless, apathetic university way to tthe offerings of the university, beacuse that is the way he has been trained from his first day on campus. He is doing, academically, ex- actlv what the university wants. He is taking courses regardless of content, he is doing assignments and learning facts regardless of value, and he is being graded re gardless of what he nas aciuauy earned and regardless of what he is able to do with what he has learned. He is not auditing courses be cause he has never been encour aged to do something at the uni versity without promise of re ward. He is not attempting to broaden his possibilities of educa tion because he has formed the habit of associating education un alterably with such terms as re quirements, prerequisites, certifi cates, units, grade points and de grees. That's what he thinks edu cation is. Of course the student Is to blame for not auditing classes for not going about his education in the sincere spirit of trying to leam, and to develop and grow. He is to blame for letting him self follow the set pattern of the university even when the value of this pattern is questionable. He is to blame for becoming a stereotyped student without even beginning to know that education can be exciting and that learning can actually be fun. He is to blame for letting the university condition his responses to the point where he makes no further attempt at independent thought and action and does ex actly what the catalog says. But when a dauntless student manages to shake ofr all campus rnnventinn and flrtunllv fmrltt A dass or two, the professor, it I seems, should be the last one to criticize him. Tt suggests too strongly the pos sibility that the professor, after all, is the one who is least inter ested in education and the one most responsible for the scarcity of auditors. California Daily Bruin. A current French movie, "Lc Gendre de Monsieur Polrler" will be presented by Le Cercle Francais at the Varsity theater at 10 o'clock Saturday morning, March 26. The story of "Mr. Pear Tree" and his easy-living son-in-law has delighted the French audiences. Jt is an excellent cross-section of the social conditions of the last cen tury. Poiricr, a bourgeois who as pires to the peerage, marries his daughter to a ruined nobleman who may have some influence in getting him a title. Living gaily on his wife's money, the aristo crat begins to play with the effec tions,of a countess, and his own wife begins to fall in love with him, which brings about many hu morous situations. Tickets may be procured for 25 cents in Miss Piazza's office in University hall. Students who sell 20 tickets will be awarded a free one. Y. W J J. COMMITTEES BEGIN WORK ON 'N' BOOK Thirteen Memhers of Each Group Start Plans for '38 Issue. Work on the "N" books for next year has already been started by Y. M. and Y. W. C. A. com mittees. The new booklet, grad ually taking form, promises to be larger and to contain much more material and' information than in previous years. The size, however, will remain the same. In charge of the work on the "N" book are Selma Hill and Kvc lyn Taylor of the Y. W. C. A. and Erie Constable and Denn Worces ter of the University Y. M. Com mittees comprised of 13 members from each group are engaged in the actual compilation at present. These committees are soliciting advertising, preparing editorials and other information. Publication will be made this summer and the booklets will be distributed next fall. This year, approximately 1,200 "N" books were placed in student hands. Senator Soaper says the beauty of the proposed .toll road three hundred feet wide is that it would accommodate all the niiddle-of-the road politicians. STEAKS cut from flov. ;: ernment Impectfd CORN FED bf. Reasonably ! priced. WHITE HOUSE. ; N. E. on 77. i; Open All Winter warm Inside i; Ben Heitkotter's MEATS FISH POULTRY Phone B-1273 1450 O St. John Bull is getting more and more friendly with Uncle Sam as the days go by. However, concern ing the little mattar of war debts, his theme song remains the same, namely, "I Can't Give You Any thing But Love, Sammy." IELIIE&EBIETril ) THE QIJKKX Ma.rirrll Aniti'rum' Crrtitrst PI"? rmrntrd by the I nirrrtily of ISrhraska UiMVUKSITY PLAYERS The Week of March 14-19 TEMPLE THEATRE 12th and R Sts. Evenings at 7:30 Sat. Matinee at 2:30 Depressions and recessions stop many wheels from turning, but not those equipped with rubber tires. I V. 1 tllr ... fI&V V2. 11 cxv. V fA2 sVOV lor a1 . A T J. JaY to' 4A See the"1. our V 4 in 8 it. - ,.- few : aiis i Mil ' a m .aa- . 1 ti TvY ' r ' ' ' inese are siy'es i mane 1 l a 1 y L every coed's every outfit for Spring V?Sa' ' ' a every man s'ie's ovtt to sO- Ym , rSi-rtA They've allure in every stitch . . . V JfaV;$ every perforation . . . every peep- llVn4 in toe! Sparkling PATENT 1 m LEATHER . . . crisp COPPER fcyZZh CALF, BLUE GABARDINE, mZMlS COPPER GABARDINE . . ; iZZjrjgfy scoe;s ot others you 11 ooh and aah" over with delight! sT$ A SJ and 4.95 l1! v hJt and 7.50 if n (i j C tJi ' rStTv :;v All the Swanky Styles in Spring i'TiT- Jf ; V SPORT OXFORDS Jg 'P Brown and while aT AC l ' ' ' "saddlm," Pun- $OJ Vf A. M, f chy in Grev, Brown, V VXJ JT iV? I t if . Blue, White... leather, crepe or f Lj! ; I sueded soles I , , , ' "a I - : I lai. i un.miamii uiiniiawi i iua ..jlmw