AILY NEB EABKAN
THE D
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TIIE DAILY NEBRASKAN
Chas. II. Epperson.... Editor-in-Chief
George E. Grimes.. . .Managing Ed tor
Eva I. Miner Associate Ed tor
John Cejnar Associate Editor
stration of energy that occasionally-
not often occurs after class.
FORUM
M.
I Toteet Business Manager
Offices: News, Basement, University
Wall
Business," Basement, Admin
istration Building.
Telephones:
News, L-8862.
Business, B-2597.
Published daily, except Saturday and
Sunday, during the college year.
Subscription, per semester
Entered at the postofflce at Lincoln,
Nebraska, as Becond-class mail matter,
under the act of Congress of March
3, 1879.
THE JOURNAL'S ERROR
The ambition of a Journal reporter
to get a good "scoop" is responsible
for the alleged interview with Chancel
lor Avery found under the school items
in Friday's edition of that paper. That
interview is said to have disclosed the
fact that the Chancellor is against our
campaign. This is evidently a mis
take. The Chancellor was Joking
with a reporter and the latter took the
conversation seriously.
We do not know the Chancellor's
flttttndA on this nroDOsition: but do
not get the idea that he has expressed
himself as being against it.
JOHN JONES AND US
And now comes that well known
alias John Jones and objects to our
maltreatment of the steam engine. His
objection is courageous and clear.
But John has mistaken our object.
We are not an enemy of steam or elee
trlc transportation. We have never
lost our youthful admiration for the
iron horse. Even yet we stand with
open mouth and wonder what makes
the street car go. We concede that
our. civilization would yet be compara
tively simple if steam and electricity
had not been harnessed.
But nevertheless there Bhould be a
limit to John's affection for the en
gine. An engine would be out of place
In a symphony orchestra. Its lines
would not be admired at an automo
bile show. A poet could not do his
best work in a boiler factory. And
on the same principle we contend that
a student at the University of Ne
braska cannot get much benefit out of
a lecture on Shakespeare or an ex
position of the law of insurance when
the air is split with the exhaust ot
Rumley's engines or the screeches of
the brakes of the street cars.
No, John, we are not trying to
abolish the steam engine; we are
merely trying to keep it out of our
parlors.
A more serious objection is ad
vanced, however, when John refers to
the noise within the College of Law. It
is conceded that the law students are
at times discourteous to the other
classes in the Law building. But when
the fact of such discourtesy is brought
to their attention by specific instance,
they have never failed to properly
respond.
But consider the circumstances
under which the law students work.
Lincoln's noise prevents the instruc
tors from being heard without diffi
culty further away than the first few
rows. The strain to get each idea,
SINGLE TAX
To the Editor of the Daily Nebraskan:
We do not need a single tax to
support some forms of university ac
tivities. But there are some that need
support and the university needs a
means, by which its student body can
be brought into closer touch. There
L .....L.tlnna thfl
are a numDer ui uisui""-p
purpose and duty of organization, the
mote more spirit and bring the stu
dents into this closer relationship.
Such organizations as debating and
Duplications need more support. These
activities are now struggling for an
existence and in this struggle they
must necessarily Bpent some of their
efforts in a way that does not bring
the returns desired. More of the
desired returns could be obtained if
those organizations were put upon a
solid foundation.
Could not such institutions as debat
ing and daily publications, without
which our spirit would rapidly decline,
be put upon a solid foundation by giv
ing them ample financial backing?
They most certainly could. By giving
the daily paper definite financial sup
port it could be raised to the efficiency
and Btandard demanded by our uni
versity. A complete circulation could
also be accomplished. By the com
plete circulation of a paper such as
the students want all of the students
would become better acquainted with
the inside university life. Thus in
creasing their interest in and desire
for better university spirit, the best
and most practical way or making
our naDer what it ought to be and
putting it into the hands of each and '
every student and in this way promot-1
ing a better university spirit, will be:
to give it more financial backing. This
financial backing can be procured best
by a single tax.
ARTHUR BALIS.
Iceep out the distracting din from
Tenth street. The rooms become close
and stuffy, or else it becomes Impossi
ki hoar in it any wonder that the
laws are occasionally forced to give
vent to outbursts of hiiarityr
finikin of these outbursts reminds
me of the fact that they were the
occasion of some caustic sarcasm in
Mr Tnnen,H letter: I observe aiso
that he resorted to the use of epithets
derogating the character of the editor.
Such tactics are always resorted to
by men who are afraid to meet an
Issue on its merits. I may say further
that thfft is an issue which those who
Buffer from the noise would be very
glad to have decided on fts merits.
Respectfully,
BILL LAW.
UNIVERSITY NOTICES
The Business Women's club will
give a 6 o'clock dineer at thn V. M.
C. A. Thursday, February 17. All
women are invited. Dr. Brown, will
Kive a short talk to the girls. Tick
ets may be procured from Misse liar
riette Anderson, Viola Weathervill,
Vera Fleck and Mrs. Minnie England.
Although I have filed and my namo
appears on the ballot, I do net wish to
be considered a candidate for the
sophomore presidency. Carlisle L
Jones.
Nicely furnished southeast room for
two girls at 1430 P street. Mrs. S.
Poska. M
and separate it from the other sounds
that reach the ear is indeed great, and
is largely responsible for the demon-
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HALLETT
OPTOMETRIST
Estb. 1871 1143 O
Editor Dally Nebraskan,
Lincoln, Nebr.
Dear Sir:
I see by Mr. John Jones' letter to
the forum that "traction engines are
part of the necessary life of today."
To be sure! But what has that got
to do with the campaign for the aboli
tion of unnecessary noise about the
campus? Garbage cans are part of
the necessary life of today. Then by
all means let us have a string of them
around the campus. That is what Mr.
"Jones' " argument amounts to.
But the noise was part of the bar
gain with the city, says Mr. "Jones,"
so why object now? I would like to
call Mr. "Jones'" attention to the
fact that the people who have to suffei
from the noise didn't make the bargain
for it. But entirely aside from that,
if one sees a manifest wrong, which
can be corrected, is he obliged to look
the other way and keep Btill about it,
simply because no one else ever
objected? or because it's part of the
existing order of things? If our fore
fathers had worked on the theory that
wrongs right themselves while we He
"supinely ort our .. backs," there
wouldn't be a United tSates today.
Thinking Americans aren't accustomed
to accept evils merely because they
are here.
And the noise around the campus is
a positive, aggravating nuisance. Very
often in the spring and fall the vlbrat
ing racket of the exhausts from the
traction engines across the way make
8tudy or recitations either in the
I Library or Law building very difficult.
I When a lumber wagon starts rumbling
! up the rough brick-paved street on the
I west side of the campus you can hear
nothing of the recitation or lecture
from the time the vehicle is within a
t block of the building until it has
passed a block beyond. The windows
on the west side of the Law building,
almost invariably at some time during
each recitation, must be closed to
Math. Club Elects
The February meeting of the Mathe
matical club was held Thursday eve
ning. Officers for the second semes
ter were elected: President, Her
bert Grumman; vice president, Ezra
Andreson; secretary and treasurer,
Alva Read.
The following were elected to mem
bership: A. L. Adams, Georgian
Adams, Irving Frost, Fred Garrison,
H. L. Hubbel, J. S. Kelly, Roy P.
Lintz, James S. Martin, C. C. Schrier,
Alma Seim, Carl Shildneck, Ruth Sin
clair, Cyril Wortz and Jay B. Worley.
Prohibition Oratorical Contest
The oratorical contest ot the Inter
collegiate Prohibition association, un
der the auspices of the Frances E.
Willard W. C. T. U.. will be held
about March 5. All wishing to enter
this contest will kindly observe the
following regulations:
Contestants:
Must be undergraduate male stu
dents in the university.
Must fulfill all requirements neces
sary for competition in any other uni
versity event.
Must announce intention to enter
contest not later than Friday. Jan
uary 18.
Manuscripts:
Must deal with some phase of the
l'quor problem.
Must not contain more than fifteen
hundred (1,500) words. ,
Must be handed in to committee not
later than March 5.
Prizes to be awarded by Frances E.
Willard, W. C. T. U. First, $25; sec
ond. $15; third, $10.
Winner to enter state contest
Students who wish to enroll in this
contest may leave names at Regis
trar's office, or call Earl Forbes.
Printing that's better, at Boyd's, 121
North 12th.
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surgeon. 1417 O St. B-3021.
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