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DAILY NEBHASKAN FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1939 TWO perseverance, and initiative. They have displayed the qualities of courage and honesty, integrity, and sincerity. They have proved themselves dependable and enthusiastic, imaginative and tactful, open-minded and ambitious. For the most part they have shown the personality desired in a man who leads and forms destinies. They can best be described as "real men." That is the type of person your founders wanted you to select. Conspicuous by absence is the name of any unaffiliated man from this proposed list. This year, last year, and for many years before, there has always been at least one barb elected to Innocents. This year, however, no unaffiliated student has displayed the qualities of manhood and of character to lit him among true leaders of the campus. For years, Innocents, your society has been defamed and degraded by the injustices of political selections. Those who have gone before you have debased the name of your society by selfish and wanton refusal to choose them who deserve and to eliminate the weak and low-grade candidates who do not qualify. Open your eyes, fools. This sort of selection is not a nec essary evil. There exists no unbreakable precedent which de crees that certain fraternities must be represented. It will prove better for all if the aspirants who are to come learn now that it must be merit and merit alone that will clinch wh?.t must become again, a coveted position. To you, Innocents, we sound a challenge a challenge to uphold the ideals and principles upon which your society is based. Be the men yourselves that you would have in the society to follow you. Have the nerve to thrust from you the false shackles which you imagine bind you to a faction you were supposed to have forgotten a year ago. Have the cour age of your convictions that to do what is best for the Inno cents is best for you. Look again at that list. Forget your fraternilies. Obliter ate from your minds the selfish factions. Think only of your dreams and aspirations of four years ago. Recall the beautiful thoughts of just reward for hours of work and development bothof yourself and of the organizations to which you gave your time. Did your minds at that time conceive that it could be ugly, filthy" polities rather than quality and worth that makes Innocents? Think not of the extraneous factors. Be true to yourself and to the organization for which you yourself strived, and you cannot then be untrue to any one or any group. Prove to the campus and to the world, yes, and most of all, prove to yourself, that it is you yourself, not the badgefthat sparkles. Today, tomorrow, perhaps next week, look at this list, and elect the men who have earned, who deserve, to wear the red robes, to be the Innocents of 1940.. Montana art shows here NU exchanges exhibits with Northwest school An exhibit of student art work form the Montana State college chapter of Delta Thi Delta, hon orary art fraternity, is being shown on t he third floor corridor of Morrill this week. The exhibit consists of illustra tions, water color sketches, and architectural drawings and will be on display until April 30. Work from the Nebraska chapter of the fraternity is now on display at Montana State and will be shown here when it is returned. Showing concurrently with this exhibit is i group of paintings by Mis. Dean K. Leland and Mrs. A. R. Eilmiston, Lincoln artists, in Gallery A and a Mexican contem porary exhibit showing in uanery B. Circulated by the International School of Art, the exhibition of Mexican Contemporary Crafts was assembled by Count Rene a Harnoncourt, who selected only the items which genuinely repre sent the contemnorarv crafts of Mexico. The show includes Mcxi can textiles, glass, pottery, jew elry, metal work, lacquered ob- iects and basketry, opened last Sunday and will continue thru April 30. The joint exhibition of Mrs. Ed- miston and Mrs. Leland has heen drawing a number of visitors daily since its opening on April 9 ana has been viewed by many out-state art clubs. B Q D 0 i HAT mmmSH AIM) razor ftt.ADKS? B B Chris Peierson Beecher to conduct Uni Episcopal confirmation The Right Reverand George Al len Beecher, bishop of Western Nebraska, will visit the University Episcopal church to oresidc at confirmation services Sunday eve ning at 7:30. All university students and fac ulty are invited to attend. Dr, Beecher will also deliver the ser mon of the service. Entered at aectfMl-euiaa matter at tlx pootoffitc In Lincoln, Nebraska, onder art congress, March S, ISM. and at special rate of postage provided for la aeeflon JIM, act ol (Mtober S, 1917. aathorlted Jaaaary M, W.l. RICIWTH.CK V HOME! ' ' Grads divide on chance of success in future Several weeks ago, some daring Harvard student plucked two .yel low goldfish from the handiest aquarium and swallowed them. Not lone, after, another student, trying to better the record, chewed and apparently digested two razor blades. With competition grow ing stronger, another husky col lege lad established a new record by eating two phonograph record ings. And now, other publicity mad students are beginning to make plans for eating bigger al though not better thinls such as paste, frogs and what have you. All in all, this new craze is fast becoming a thing of national in terest and disgust. Stories of the Sino-Japanese strife gave way on front oaces to large illustrative photos of students caught in the act of performing such dastardly deeds. As an explanation for such antics psychology students con tend that it furthers the egotism of these students. Public rela tions men say- that it is done pri marily for publicity for both the individual and the school. Mean while, the layman presents a number of theories as to why it is done and how it will end. It is in these two points that we find cause for today's ciucstion "What do you think of the recent col legiate craze of eating gold fish, razor blades, phonograph record ings, etc.?" MARY JANE VYITMER UNAFFILIATED "I think that they do it to get their name in the paper. Of course, they may have been hun gry. Who knows?" JIM LIPSEY AFFILIATED "Well, I have always contended that there is no one so dumb as people. These little ads per formed by apparently educated persons definitely prove my point." the students gold fish." nan themselves and r 3 Q D D the DOROTHY IIOLBROOK UNAFFILIATED "It is publicity for the college and the individual student. It is just a fad that won't last long and as long as those poor fellows don't eat to excess, no definite harm will come out of the crazy ven ture." ROBERT FLEMING UNAFFILIATED "1 tend to think that these stu dents do it merely to satisfy their own ego and to obtain publicity which will further this ego. If this is the true purpose, it is cer tainly working for they are draw ing a good deal of attention." ANN IIUSTEAD AFFILIATED "As Thil Baker pointed out on his program Sunday, they ptob ably do it for the halibut, runny." ED HOLM AN UNAFFILIATED "Oh, it wouldn't be so bad if they didn't swallow them raw. I think fiat if they were fried and served with a bit of parsley, they would be quite a delicacy. How ever, I hope that Nebraska doesn't have students silly enough to try to create an impression by doing such things." DON DAVIS UNAFFILIATED "Such actions reflect upon the intelligence of the individual and the school that he attends. It is one of thoe things like flag pole sitting. It will never last long." Special Noonday Plate Luncheon 2Sc Pipes Parker Pens School Supplies - 1 f" III!., lit I PhrrA Bv Student Opinion Purvevs of America. AUSTIN, Tex., April 20. There are some six million young people who within six weeks to several years will leave college with a pessimistic outlook on their own futures. Almost one-half of the men and women in colleges and universities in this country believe they are facing a world that offers less op portunities for success than it did before the time they were born. These are the results of a noil Just conducted nationally by the Student Opinion Surveys of Amer ica, the wt-ekly sounding board of college youth, of which the DAILY NEBRASKAN is a member. A scientifically defined cross section of students was asked, "Do you think the opportunities for most young men and women to get ahead today are as good as they may have been 30 years ago?" The economic problem of youth is no myth to 48 percent of the collegians, while the rest of them, 52 percent, have an opti mistic view of the world Into which they are going. Altho very few college students today have a personal knowledge of conditions three decades ago. their answers appear to be based on what they can see now and what they have learned about the past. A slight majority is con vinced that opportunities have been increasing, like the Pennsyl vania student who points to the greater number of occupations which now exist. On the other hand, another student in the same state, in Temple university, an swers negatively, stating that the number of youth has increased thus reducing the number of avail able jobs. A Cornell senior believes that success is there for those with initiative, regardless of conditions. The growth of the use of ma chinery, the demand for more edu cation, and government regulation of industry and employment are given as reasons for a decrease In opportunities to get ahead. The survey also shows that stu dents in the southern and west central states are the most optl mlstic, while less than R0 percent of those elsewhere believe their chances are better. The poll, of course, makes no attempt to analyze the situation, but it does definitely nhow the at titude of students on the question asked. MORRIS MAYFIELD UNAFFILIATED "I should say that it is a pub licity stunt entirely. Common ordinary horse sense will tell a person that they can not expect to obtain any good from it. Look ing at it from the lighter side, I believe that it will make the aquarium and fish bowl market obsolete. People will just swallow their fish and let it go at that." MARY LOU BALL- AFFILIATED "I think that they must be quite financially embarrassed to resort to such practises. Personally, J like my Uisty bit ol fish well done." VIRGINIA GEISTER AFFILIATED "I believe it is absolutely ridic ulous. It is just a typical Jot College stunt. It certainly is the wrong kind of publicity for col leges. It creates the impression that a college is just a place to come and pull foolhardy tricks for four years and then get a degree for it. Father and mothers will rx pin to wonder iust to what kind N.U. Graduate School of Social Work SftttoSi.hey "re s"nding tht,r attracts students from all parts of US The Nebraska Graduate School of Social Work is only two years old, but It is already receiving its share of attention from students interested In professional training. This is illustrated by the fact that applications for entrance are being received from all over the country. Thirty-five applications from students in fourteen Ktides have been received to date. Thia num ber doea not include the applica tions expected from at least twenty undergraduates. The le anest are for entrance into the school this fall. The committee on admissions, headed by Miss Alice Taylor, is de veloping a new method for determ ining who will be accepted into the school or not. Every application Is now passed upon by the entire committee only after careful in vestigation. The school haa had requests from other social work schools as far apart as Fordham and Wash ington University for outlines of courses which were originated here, according to Dr. Ernest F. Wittee, director. LEE LIGGETT AFFILIATED "Oh, 1 don't think it is so bad. I would c-al a gold fish for five dollars any day." DOROTHY WIND AFFILIATED "Without a doubt, it is very good publicity but I would not do such a thing myself. If you really think about it, it is very silly. If it keeps up, perhaps the humane society ought to step in and pre vent cruelty to dumb animals QASSIFIED ADVERTISING 10) PER LINE FOR SAIT. Royal portable. Good con dillon. Former Muviim. .Wl-A. SKOOT-MER FOR FUN 11 1 all go rid- InK on a Smltty Rkooter-HIke 60c an hr. 2 bm. for $1.00. iw R St. Come to Church Sunday, April 23 First Baptist 14th K Mlfton H. Ualeoll, Minister ;4.ri A. M. Student Class. 10 45 A. M "Wh;it Money Can Do. 6.00 P. M. Roger Williams Club, First Christian 1th K Ray K. Hyal. Minister 0 45 A. M.-Three Church School elm-sen for University Student. 11:00 A. M. "The Christian's V.ayot Overcoming: Evil. 6:.T0 P. M. College Group. First-Plymouth Congregational toth ft I Uynwn A. Mrionoell. Mlnlter 11:00 A. M. "The Dlvln Proces- i. tonal." 7 00 P. M Sunday Evening Cluh, 8.01 P. M. -Social Hour. University Episcopal IStb A e. I.. W. MrMMon. Prel N ' a M and 1 1 IK) A. M - H e U 1 r Services. 1 SO P. M - Krlilov. Confirmation R if hop Beecher of !!..- Hngs, Nebr. First Presbyterian no. r Dr. TAtnuni V. Miller, MlnMer B 40 A. M.-BiNe Claim for College Age. Prof T.. W. lnt. 11 00 A. M Morning Worahlp. Mo dern Man and Worship.' 0 00 V. M. Youth Fellowship. Westminster Pcsbytcrian PnerMaa aiul Koala Mrlvln V. OKel. D. !., MlaMer II 00 A M - '-Rlch Man, Poor Mn.' 15 P. M. Fellowship Supper 7:00 P. M.-F.ventide Worihtp. Fi ning In tion s yimi 7:30 P. M - Discussion Period.