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DAILY NEBRASKAN TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 1939 TWO Editor's Note: Following are two letters to the Editor regarding the editorial which appeared Friday morning, April 21, in which a challenge was sounded for the Innocents society to select men for quality and merit rather than for fraternity and factional affiliation. Such letters are so licited, but subsequent ones should be limited to approxi mately 350 words. COMMEND. To the Editor: Because the "Rag" has chosen to interest itself in campus ac tivities by publishing an editorial nominating several men as can didates for the Innocents so ciety, many people have ob jected. It seems that such peo ple as Barb 717 would rather have campus affairs carried on behind closed doors, than have them brought out in the open by a newspaper. It has always been the impres sion of this Barb, that the main function of a newspaper is to keep its public informed upon all events of current interest, and all people connected with them. How many readers really know who the outstanding men of the year are? If the editor thinks that the men whom he chose as Innocents are worthy of the honor, why should he not publish their names? In this manner, he gives his public something to think about. Secondly, Barb 717 says that the choice of these men as Inno cents is practically 100 percent "pure politics." But he fails to give any instance in which this is "pure politics," except that Mr. Kaplan, himself, is a mem ber of Kormet Klub, and that over one half of the members chosen are also members of this organization. Why shouldn't ' they be ? Members of Kosmet Klub are outstanding men; that is why tiVy are chosen for mem bership. The Innocents is also a society for the outstanding men, so the members they chose nat urally belong to other organiza tions of this type. If this smash ing editorial "is "dirty politics" why dDes not Barb 717 give some concrete examples? Pt seems to me that this Barb is harboring a personal grudge , against Kosmet Klub and that the grudge tinges his accusa tions. If the contents of the edi torial is purely "dirty politics," Barb 717, why not come out with as much "pure green gall" as the editor had, and name pome instances? In the third place, Barb 717 feels sorry for those men who had their names published in the editorial. All activity men ap preciate any respect a 'olu notori ety that will keep them in the public eye. I doubt if many of the men whose names were pub lished fe-el very sorry for them selves, so why the great con cern on the part of Barb 717? And fourthly, I object to his attitude toward the editor's statement that the reason for the emiisnion ef Barb men from the list is Ix-cause they do not show sufficient leadership and ability to be worthy of In nocents. Much as I, as a Barb, hate to admit it, it is true. Baibs are not outstanding, and it is their own fault. If Barbs were not included in the list, Barb 717 should blame the Barbs themselves and not Howard Kaplan. If Barbs cannot hold to gether long enough to swing an election, how can they expect to have their men in Innocents so ciety. Repeatedly various Barb organizations have tried to bring out enough unaffiliated students to get representation from an election. Kvcryone knows that if Bubs would co-operate they could have a decisive voice in campua activties. But the sad fact is that Barbs won't co-operate, so if Barb 717 wants more Barbs in Innocents he should work to organize Barbs enough so they can support someone. No one will pay any attention to a clamoring voice unless there Is some power behind it. I admire the shrewd stroke of Mr. Kaplan in publishing the editorial. Instead of criticizing, we-Barbs should take it as an example of how to achieve an obje-etivc by doing something about a situation instead of sit ting back and doing nothing. BARB 1313. Phi Tau Thctas discuss 'Place of Man' tonight "TV Significance of Al;in in Tlelatton to the Essentials of Christianity" will be discussed this evening by members of Phi Tau Thcta, Methodist lrafrnity. The meeting will be at the Wesley Foundation beginning nt 7 o'clock. Olto Woerner and Ellsworth Ste tle will lead the discussion. CONDEMN. To the Editor: I read with great interest and surprise your editorial in the DAILY NEBRASKAN of Fri day, April 21, in which you recommended 12 "good men and true" for the red robes of Inno centcy. I say interest because I am a former editor of the DAILY NE BRASKAN and also a former secretary of the Innocents so ciety, surprise because to my knowledge this is the first time the editor of the campus "rag" has sought to place his news paper in the position of nomi nating a straight slate to the Innocents society. The selection of the Inno cents for several decades re poses only with that body. Some years ago the Innocents them selves, to meet charges of poli tics, asked the campus to nomi nate junior men from whom they might choose and at the same time forbade any member to engage in political activity. I am not naive and no not believe that all Innocents since then have ceased to meddle in can pus political affairs or have played the game strictly accord ing to the rules, but I do know thru close contact with several societies that the Innocents have in a great measure laid aside factionalism and fraternalism and made an honest effort thru all the extraneous pressure brought to bear to live up to their stirring oath of service to the university and to the stu dent body. That pressure is at all times enormous Fraternities natur ally want Innocents, each fac tion naturally hopes to have the majority. But at no time have the Innocents in past years been face-el with what amounts to dictation en the part of the- DAILY NEBPASKA.N. The role of the DAILY NE BRASKAN has been that of an interested bystander. The DAILY NEBRASKAN has in the past exhorted the Innocents to do a good job, to stay clear of politics and to pick men of whom the whole srhoeil could be proud. The DAILY NE BRASKAN has always been impartial-no matter what the opinions of the editor. It has waved no individual's banners. It has sought not to wrap cer tain men in the red robes, but to perpetuate a tradition of service en and to the campus. You have broken a tradition and established a precedent which may at some time prove elangerous. For the selection of the Innocents, by the very na ture erf the society, is not mere ly another campus election for which slates may lie drawn and voted into eiffice in toto. The selection of Innex-ents should and must transcend such tam pering, for that is the selection of 13 men who represent no single individual, no single fac tion but the thousands of stu dents who make up the univer sity. My criticism is not based on which 12 men you nominated. That is immaterial, for I have no personal elesires which cone-cm the Innocents society, per haps they are the 12 best men, the only men qualified for the honor. I have no quarrel with you there. But I must and do condemn the DAILY NFBRASKAN s rep resenting itse-lf as the judge on Innocents and seeking to put a slate into the society. You may print this in your "Letters to the Editor" column. I have no doubt but that your answer will appear in your column before long. Sincerely yours, Arnold Levin, '37. Princeton university is organ izing a corps of stu 'ents to travel through five states lecturing on public affairs. 1 SPRING TIME ltrnl-a-Car$ 1 Good Cart and Service 5 We Invite you ; to the I Motor Out Company ,1120 P Ct. Always Open B0819 1 Summer (Continued from Page 1.) sessions include consideration of the following topics: Federal Aid for Public Schools, The Public Schools and Controversial Issues. Public Relations, Democracy in School Administration, In-service Education of Teachers, Moderniz ing School Buildings in Small Communities, Safety Education, and Visual Education. In an effort to make the sum mer session serve the greatest number of students peissible, the customary six and nine week ses sions will be offered. With both sessions running concurrently a student will be able to choose courses from each group, the long session being more extensive in the number of courses covered than the six week schedule. Most of the departments have designed their programs in a manner. that students may secure advanced de grees in four consecutive semes ters. Nine hour limit. Students may carry a maximum of nine hours of work during the long session and six hours during the short session. All courses give college credit and may be applied on entrance units on the basis of one entrance unit to two three hour courses. Coming to the university this summer from schools in all parts of the country will be 1 experi enced professors. Plans are being made for an ex tensive social program throut the summer. Students will have ap portunity to go on picnics, parties and participate in sports and games. The social program is under the sponsorship of the Student Union. All students will be allowed to use the university swimming pool throut the summer in the afternoon without charge providing the rules of the swim ming pool are upheld. Registration bulletins are now available at the registration's of fice, including a list of the courses offered and the time of their meet ings. Ballet-- (Continued from Page 1.) zig, who founder' thr firot -..-.ychol J " Dr. Pillsbury will recount the eventful past and will give the an niversary address en "The Ne braska Psycheili)gical Laboratory." His talk will be followed by the address of the president. Dr. Ed mund S. Conklin of Indiana uni versity, on "The Status of Acad emic Psychology." Full two day program. The program committee, com peted eif Dr. W. E. Walton, chair man; Dr. Fred MrKinny of the University of Missouri and Dr. Guilford, an cx-officio member, have arranged for an elaborate two day program. Most of the ses sions will be held in the Student Unkn, altho a few of the sym posiums have been scheduled for Social Scie nce building. Dr. D. W. Dysingcr, instructor in psychology, is chairman of the committee on local arrangements. Other members are Dr. G. R. Thorntfin, assistant instructor in psychology, registration; Dr. W. It. Bailer, assoe-iate professor ef educational psyehology and meas urements, housing; Dr. Ltland H. Steitt, associate professor f home economics rest-arch, travel and en tertainment; Dr. W. S. Gregory, instructor in psychology, room as signment; Dr. Winona Perry, pro fessor of educational and psychol ogy and measurements, banquet; and Edmund E. Dudek, graduate student, de-monstrations and dis plays. Pi Mu Epsilon to elect new members Tuesday Lester Skfilil erf the physics de partment will speak on "Polarized Light'' for the Tuesday evening meeting ef 11 Mu Epsilon, hono rary mathematics fraternity. The nie-e ting will be held in Brace lab oratory room 211 at 7:30 o'cleick. A business meeting and election of new members will follew the talk. Plans for the annual prize examinations that are scheduled for the last of May will be made. The meeting is open to interested students. O-ASSIFIED ADVERTISING iOj PER LINE LKOOT-HLK r OR I UN Lrl'i fill KO rlrl. Jng on a Rmlltv'f Ekootrr-Pikr. 60c au la. 2 )ii. lot Vi.WJ. 1U04 H SU Methodist council elects Steele head Therkclson Clozine, White take other posts The Methodist students council named Ellsworth Steele president for the coming semester at a busi ness meeting last Saturday night. Thordis Bertleson, Maxine Clopine, and Don White will seive in the capacity of vice president, secre tary p. id treasurer respectively. 'l 1 of money was voted by thi ncil to be used to pay the e - of sending delegates to conventions scheduled for this summer at Milford, Nebraska, Ames, Iowa, and Berea, Kentucky. Other sums were set aside for the Far Eastern Student Service Fund. The officers in confedence with Rev. Robert Drew, student pastor, will appoint the cabinet to serve under them. Neihardt (Continued from Page 1.) descending the Missouri river from the head of navigation at Fort Benton, Mont. After becoming in timately acquainted with the whole vast country of his saga, he searched every available record of the enthralling exploits of the wandering bands of trappers and traders who explored the wilder ness in- search of furs from the Canadian boundry to Mexico and from the Missouri to the Pacific. "The Song of Hugh Glass," the first part of the epic, was pub lished in 1915. After three and a half mor years of devotion to his task came "The Song of Three Friends" (191P), which won the award. The third volume of his cycle, "The Song of the Indian Wars" was published in 1925. The follow ing year he was made literary editor of the St. Louis "Post-Dis patch." Family moved to Wayne. The Niehardt family moved to Wayne, Neb., during the frontier days. Young Niehardt wrote his first verses when he was 12. His family was too poor to afford books, so he saved soap wrappers and procured as a premium a paper bound copy of Tennyson's "Idylls of the King" frr his first volume. Iater, he earne-d his way thru Wayne Normal school by ringing the class bell every 50 minutes of the day. After a varie-d carer as farm hand, school teacher, hobo, boek- keeper, boetweeder, and marble- polisher, the youth moved with his family to Eancroft, Nebraska at the edge ef the Omaha Indian Preservation. There he lived among the Indians from 1901 to 1907, forming an intimate acquaintance with them. He was liked and trusted by them and they gave him the name of "Tae Nu'a Zhinga" (Litele Bull Buffalo). In 1907, he published the "Lenesomc Trail." He then extended his Indian ac quaintance to the Crows and the Siemx Indians who dubbed him "Igimeiu Chie;akala" (Little Cat.) He is nejw a member of the Or der ef Book-Fellows, Sigrna Tau De lta, and an honorary member in the Cempanion Order of Indian Wars of the United States. Reinhardt elected Dr. J. M. Reinhardt of the de partment f sociology of the uni versity was elected first vice president at the recent meetings el the Midwestern Serological and Economics Societies at Des Moines. Several members of the faculty appeared on the j regram of the two groups this year, in cluding Dr. J. K. Kirshman of the Economics department, who was elected a vice president r.i I ! V: I ! v 7W Rntrrrd u aewnd-clatw matter at (ha poitofflre tn IJnroln, Krbranka, ander art of conerran, Marrh S, 1879, and at inrrlal rate of postage provided for tn section 1108, art of October S, 1917. authorized lannary 20. 1921. Miss Pound boasts golf, tennis titles A campus paper reporter for the Oregon State Barometer wrote quite a revealing feature on Ne braska's Dr. Louise Pound who was a guest convocation speaker there last week. When she fas a university stu dent Dr. Pound held the state golf championship, the state ten nis title, and was a figure skater of fine ability. Next time one of today's students wishes to match these accomplishments, let hirh try the Maltese cross backwards, the double Philadelphia grape vine, the waltz and two-step. Bicyclist too. Bicycling 100 miles in 12 hours gave Dr. round some stripes in recognition. If skiing had been popular at that time, she would surely have been doing tne Chris tianna or the Glandesprung. Miss Pound spoke at a convo cation on "Slang, Yesterday and Today". Re-quests were made for her to suggest some good collegi ate slang words of creditable ori ginperhaps from Chaucer or Shakespeare, but she was at a loss to do so, explaining that she did not custonarily have them on the tip of her tongue. Engineer society picks new heads tomorrow Election ff officers for the com ing semester will be the main business of the next meeting of the student branch of the Amer ican Society of Meehanical Engi neers which . e-lr tomorrow night at 7:30 o'clock in room 206 ff mee-hanical engineering. Program for tomeiiTow's meet ing will be a two reel metion pic ture dealing with the subject of "Safety Glass." Goba to!ks on 'Distance Geometries' Thursday Professor M. G. Gaba, of the mathematics ele-partment will speak on "Distance Geome-trie-s." At the next of the current series of mathematics seminars will be held Thursday afterneon at 2 o'clock. The seminar, which is eipe-n to the public, is one f the series e.f bewee kly seminars spon sored throughout the year by the mathematics department. Thurs day's meeting will be held in rexm 302 of Meehanical Arts. Honorary initiates four Feiur men were Initiated into Sigma Gamma Epsilon, geological research organization, Friday night. They were Robert Sullivan, Jebn Adams, Robert Connett, and Keith Ingram. DAVIS SCHOOL SERVICE "A Good Teacher Armey" 1HI 1!I3 Com? In and See Vm MS Mnart Bulldlnx r I- I O 4 I ' ...... A..y. mu in t tfa w a,4 i