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The DAILY NEBRASKA!
Friday. Temucrry I.
Editorial Opinion
Comment
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Gussie Wonders
...ABOUT IT ALL
Editorial Note: Gussie, who seems 'to be our
ever-present influence around this office, who ad
mits that he came from the "sticks" four years ago
and unassumingly believes that he's been "polished
off" by "exposure to higher education," is back. Al
though he has raised some pretty controversial
problems at times and has been generally ridiculed,
he occasionally has a good thought. Today, Gussie
writes:
I guess most college guys, and some young
women with career complexes, are like my Uncle
Sheer who got hit by the drouth six years in a row
and yet lived on "hope." Uncle Sheer went on year
after year with "high expectations". He thought
nature would take care of itself and finally give
him a living. Us college fans do about the same
thing come to school, go one year, look forward to
the next, and so on until the fourth, year comes.
Then what? Well, during our four years we al
ways knew we would have to get out and get a job
Bomeday, but when the fourth year rolls around and
you start looking outside the academic walls, you
get kinda scared. Tou begin to think you've been
too near the forest to see the trees.
I'll bet my Uncle Sheer's 180 acres of dust
against a professor's salary that there's a lot of
guys hanging around here their fifth and sixth
years 'cause they're afraid to get out. They've got
a lot of false Ideas about there being easy money
If they Just wait and watch for it, and about the
theory that the more education the higher the
salary. Course I guess there's a lot of them who
are here just hanging around, having a good time,
looking for a husband or a wife, by George or
Just getting away from home for the experience
of It all. We shouldn't be much Interested In them.
Just let them do what they want to.
What I really started out to say was that this
sickening feeling of facing the world of industry
for a job hit me over the vacation. So I went out
to look for something. By 'Jove, people have some
funny ideas about college educations. Kinda floored
me. Prom the ones I saw, they don't think much
of it.
"Just remember, kid, those who can do; those
who can't teach." That was from a pretty big man
In this country who was hanging around the oil
fields in Falls City.
I hit a lot of pessimists but the biggest one lived
in Omaha. Says he: "Brother, you're wasting a lot
of time in college. What are you getting out of it?"
"Well," I said, "a college education develops a
personal culture sort of an art of the appreciation
of life the higher and finer things."
"Is that worth four of the best years of your
life?"
Trying to be tactful In my defense 'cause I knew
he wanted to tell me I wasn't prepared for any
thing, I came forth with this: "You get the forma
tion of social contacts you know prospective pro
fessional man meets the future business executive
in a fraternity at college. It improves clientele and
Increases customers to have friends from college
days."
"You can get that in junior chambers of com
merce and political and civic organizations in sev
eral months," he retorted.
"Well, college does prepare engineers, account
ants, lawyers, physicians, and the like," I said.
"Nope, it's the college of hard knocks and ex
perience for me, although I am a college man. Tell
me why these private training schools are taking
more college graduates every year."
I'm saying that there's a lot of people who
have to be convinced about thi3 stew college edu
cation has put on the fire. And whether they're
serious or not, most of them, I guess, would like
to grab your degree out of your hand just to take
you off the collegiate high-horse.
K By Davis, Loos, Mahnken
Collegiana .
n FOR
All city college of new york
BUILDINGS ARE CONNECTED BY
' TUNMH S .
TED UNDERHILL
.SNAPPED A PICTURE OFTUJ
KIN6 AND QUEEN LAST
SUMMER AND SOLD MORS
THAN 20,000 PRINTS OF IT.
"WF MONEY FINANCED HIS '
ENTIRE YEAR AT THE UV!
OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
THE WAR IN THE FAR NORTH
According to all reports the Russians are con
tinuing to suffer heavy losses in their war on the
Finns. The Finns claim to have destroyed or cap
tured 400 Russian tanks and to have shot down
150 planes in the first month of the war. The Rus
sians have lost many thousands of men (20,000 Rt
Suomus-salmi alone) as well. The Finns report that
Russian prisoners declared their troops were badly
equipped, freezing and hungry, and that only one
Russian soldier in ten was trained in the use of
modern military equipment.
So, it seems that not only did the Russians
choose a very unpropitious time of year the dead
of winter in an arctic land to attack Finland, but
that they profited little from their experiences dur
ing the World war and continue to send untrained
and ill-equipped soldiers to the front, expecting
them to win battles. It thus appears that the quality
of Russian military intelligence is still lamentably
poor, which fact should bring a feeling of relief
to the allies and probably the Germans as well. For
I doubt that Germany will place many obstacles In
the way of Great Britain should she choose to give
material aid to Finland.
The fate of the Russians against Finland, a
small country with a well-equipped army, leads one
to conclude that: (1) The myth of Russian mili
tary might is completely exploded; (2) had Poland
any appreciable amount of artillery, airplanes and
anti-aircraft guns, Germany's success against that
country might have been very much less startling;
(3) offensive fighting on the part of one modern
force secured behind a well-fortified no3ition arrainr
a similar force equally well-fortified would be so UNIVEKSITY OF NEBRASKA OFFICIAL BULLETIN
costly in personnel and equipment that neither Ger- T, . , .. . . -
many nor the allies will take the offensive on the tmcJt'iZml "aZ 1 f n?pu't oran!""'"""' "nu and
, t .lx. . m . faculty member. Any announcements of meetings or other notice
western front without a great deal of hesitation for the bulletin are asked to be submitted by 4 p. m. of th? dai
and then only as a result of compelling circum- preceding publication; not later than 5:30 p. m. of that day. Tha
Stances. Q,4!.LY that bulletin notices be typed before being submitted,
notices mil be accepted by telephone, however.
MURPHY TO THE BENCH, SYMPHON PROGRAMS.
JACKSON TO THE CABINET. .
y . . . . . ... , , . rnor v or the labia will be opm Sun- XI Z a. m.
President Roosevelt todav sent the aDDointment t at t . m. to Mndmt. .
of two prominent New Dealers to high government bdTu.S,u""' ,ttnoot sm,pt,oy
tear 7(. "M is -SA
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When George tern'
WILD,JR. ENTERED kjL 5hVV
THE LMIVERSITV SsfcKS ,30 ,
OF OKLAHOMA'S Xff HV "iBA W
WHOLE FAMILY ft ffe- v, -" ' L
ACCOMPANIED HIM f L f $$T .. V E&SVb
NOW ALL ARE JLOF? I 'iftCPf1
STUDYING , fiteF'?-' 11 1 -T5
for degrees lJj y
posts to the senate for confirmation. For some time
this action had been anticipated by officials and
T. M. C. A.
The anrrenlty T. M. C. A. KlbU dl-
leading newshawks, hence brought little surprise to f"" . ' wl" ay u noon
v km infl lowYr floor nf fnma. nm
Capitol hill. Frank Murphy has long been looked
upon as a likely successor to the late Justice of the
Baiii" "i t,i",",n Th I'nloa will a frm nrMf
Ballroom I.W-Z.3. "" nmlli.ee ttaaday ftrrK . the ballrowi
vvv'ia .......At; t.xtcnlotl whitnl at 4 p. m, Included In thr nrnrnim am
VZ :30- p. m Exlraihlon trnool MbtU wt .
aily!Medmskm
Olliciat Newspaper Of More Than 7,000 Studenit
EXTENSION SCHOOL
FridaT.
Supreme Court Pierce Butler. Likewise it has been Ktnnom i:M .
predicted by those in the know that Solicitor Gen
eral Robert H. Jackson would be moved up to sup
plant him In the cabinet.
That these nominations will be quickly approved
is also preordained. Therefore, that such a cut and warded the suggestion that there
dried and premeditated selection should have po- be one dav between the termina-
litical significance is not obvious, but the expected nfS siSefex?
reactions as a result of this move may have great aminations?
bearing on the political footnotes of 1940. it is generally recognized that
In the first place, Murphy has been the cham- a period of pre-exam "boning" is
pion of many liberal democrats for the vice-presi- an act"al necessity for the ma-
dential nomination in 1940 with Roosevelt as his Ky ?f he studlcnt3 in order that
. . ... . . their academic banners may not
running mate. His appointment to a permanent and be dragged in the mire of low
secure government post like the Supreme Court scholasticism,
would seem to dispel the idea that he i- possible ...if recounting of the Honorary
candidate for an elective position next year, one C'onel ballots has been forgot-
that might necessitate relinquishing his present po- S?J J11' 80 ... the fac-
sition. Furthermore, rumor has had it that Murphy oSerTrmspuniu"
has been the white hope of Michigan democrats to measures intimidate the student
defeat Vandenburg next year. His latest appoint- until he becomes a veritable yes-
ment leaves them without any outstanding candl- man
date to oppose the Senator. : -what has happened to the
In the second place, rumors have already started J me sine" tn" sS" JnT cro
that Jackson has become the latest favorite of the bones have graced the windows of
President and that his new position will give him t,ic T.ieta house and the Kappa
the opportunity for the much needed publicity for fl0nt Porcn-
a presidential nominee. These rumors presume that ' tIle Interfratcrnity council
the attorney-genehip is a BtePPing-Stone to l-
greatness. On all of these matters, however, the rally? That power rests entirely
president has maintained a discreet silence. Perhaps In the hands of the Student Coun-
he is considering whom he will appoint when an- ciI- f cou,se the Inteifrat coun-
other vacancy occurs on the high bench. frV..1110 varioU3 houses
b frm participating actively in a
iuuy oy means or a fine, but what
is to prevent the Individual Greek
man from participation?
. ..why they don't serve napkins
with food in the Union Corn Crib
anymore? Economy?
The Thinker.
Rm i 9. M, 315, m.-Rxfiiilon tchnnl
AH( 8:30-12 Kxlrnalnn irrvim nuwv
.Kxtraalnn aerviee dance
Satnrdaj.
Ballraom 8:M a.m. -It noon
A Ktlentloa arrvlee nweUnf
OPF.RA BROADCAST
A nntfln-apnnxflrrd apern bnmdraat wlB
be acid la Partnr V at lt:44 p. m. hat
rduy. Mr. Krank Cnnklo will rommcnl
I ha maslr. Ijilinw" aUrrlnf Uly Pan
will be the oiwra.
VARIETY MATINKK
rhool 'tMt MerU Went.'
Pulse
THIRTY-NINTH YEAR
Offices Union Building
Day 2-7181. Night 2-7193. Journal 2-3333
Member Associated Colleolate Press, 1939-40
Member Nebraska Press Association. 1939-40
To the Editor:
I've just been wondering
...why we, represented by the
Student Council, tolerate the im
mobility and inactivity of that
body as shown by yesterday's at
tendance record 14 were present
21 were not?
If the Council is worthy of ex
istence as the voice of the stu
dents, it should act, but since it
reflects the attitude of the student
body in general, it remains in a
lethargy.
Pubii.hed Dally during the school year except Mondays and Saturdays, Looking over ihf attendance
vacations, and examination periods by students of the University of Nebraska, record Of the Council for fpw
under supervision of the Publications Board. vnr t "r lew
. . years back, I found, not to my
ai J,uSiCn't'02, R?tM "re J-5? p.er Semetter or $i.5o for the Coiie0e Year, surprise, that the average attfnd
12.50 Mailed. Single copy, 6 Cents. Entered as second-clat. matter at the ance record Was arounrl r?
pottoffice in Lincoln, Nebraska, under Act of Congress. March J. 1879. and at u u around 3.
special rate of postage provided for In Section 1103. Act of October I 1917 Why the university adminla
Authorized January 20, 1922. ' trators do not act upon the sug
lu..nVMa Pestlon of one realous student at
2 ArthUf Hl" the DAILY gripe session who for-
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Come to
Church.
Sunday, Jan. 8
First Baptist
Ulh and K
Clifton . Walroll, Mlnlnlrr
:45 A. M. Itocer Wllllann Claat for
CollpRe Akq tlroup.
11 "00 A. at. "A Cliurtb Vlskm for
1940."
7j00 P.,M Mr. Cliarlrs Olwm, '"nie
Arhlrvcmrnts of the Bran
dlnavlan Tropic."
First Plymouth
Conventional
?0tli and It
Knyinoad A. Mr4,nnell, Mlnlator
11;00 A. M . "Clirial, Portrait of
Hllrit."
:00 P. M. Youth 8uer.
7:00 P. M - Punilny Kvemna; Club.
J'rolcaaor T.al.li l)r.oll.
University Fpisropal
lSlh and R
Itrr. I. W. Mr.MUIan, frlrat la ( har(i
8:H0 A. M. Holy Communion.
11:00 A. W -Choral Kurharut and
Sermon.
First Presbyterian
11th and P
Vr. Edmund r. Miller, Mlalater
:40 A. M. Blhle Clus for Collrre
Are (iroupi. K. O. Broudy.
11:00 A. M. "Thrre Is No God?"
:00 P. . "8I Months In Kurope
. Before and After Uis War."
7:00 P. U.-D. B. Marti Open Korura
on Clirlatlao Cltlsenahlp.
Westminster
. Presbyterian
Hhrridaa aad Houth
M. V. U((rl, Mlnl.vr
11:00 A. M. "Alone With Ood."
o:oo f. m. Fellowahtp Btipper.
;40 P. M. Dlacuaalon. Kiihlil J. J.
. 0l?lf. "We Compare Notes."
7:30 P. It. Ever.llde Worahlp. "Baul:
The Mighty Fallen."
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