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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
EDITORIAL STAFF
Chas. H. Epperson.... Editor-in-Chief
George E. Grimes. .. .Managing Editor
Bva I. Miller.. k Associate Editor
John Cejnar ....Associate Editor
BUSINESS STAFF
M. L. Poteet....".. Business Manager
Roy Harney.. Asst. Business Manager
REPORTORIAL STAFF
Ivan G. Beede Marguerite Kauffman
Jean Burroughs Edgar D. Klddoo
vivipnn Holland John Wenstrand
Ruth MorEan' Fern Noble
Roy Bedford John C. Wright
Offices: News, Basement, University
Hall.
Business, Basement, Admin
istration Building.
Telephones: News, L-8658.
Business, B-2597.
Published dally, except Saturday and
Sunday, during the college year.
Subscription, per semester l-00
Entered at the postomce at Lincoln,
Nebraska, as second-class mail matter,
uder the act of Congress of March
I, 1879.
YOUR DUTY TO VOTE
If the measures before the student
body today are to carry, they must
receive substantial endorsement at
the hands of the student body. Every
thing seems combined against the pos
sibility of such taking place. There
are no classes in the afternoon; the
election is to be held in a compara
tively inconvenient place; it is a busy
year.
Do not assume, therefore, that
others are voting for you. They are
aot. The measures will receive a
good majority of the vote cast. But
that is not the question. We must
get out a representative vote.
Be sure and go to the polls, even
though everybody that is going is vot
ing the way you feel. Your vote is
needed to prove that the students are
interested.
THE SINGLE TAX
You have read the discussion of the
merits of the Single Tax many times
before. It i3 not necessary to repeat
it here. You believe in the Single
Tax, and the good it will do for Ne
braska. Remember that all the unde
sirable qualities have been removed
by making the tax voluntary. Be
sure to vote for the Single Tax.
SIGNING YOUR NAME
The form of ballot calls for the sig
nature of the student voting. This
signature will be treated confidential
ly by the officers in charge. It will
be used for chehcking the names as
to their eligibility. No individual or
group of students will ever know
how you voted. Do not let the idea
of signing your name" deter you,
therefore.
FORUM
To the Daily Nebraskan:
As a senior and one who has hoped
for the biggest things at Nebraska
and believed that those things would
come, I am glad for the vote upon
the Student Council to be taken this
morning. I cannot help but feel that
the students will respond to this op
portunity of expressing their opinion
on the Council and the Single Tax,
but it is up to each one of us to
use our influence. Not one of us
should be indifferent as to the out
come. Even though some of you are
seniors, surely you are interested in
the place which Nebraska is to hold
among other universities! You would
not have her be five or six years
behind the times. Your loyalty and
love for your alma mater must prompt
you to help her be as efficient in or
ganization as other schools. As I
see iL the only way for NVbraskf to
occupy her place as a progressive
and democratic Institution Is for her
Vote for
to have a Student Council supported
by the students and endorsed by the
faculty. Our duty today, then, is to
come out and vote to care one way
or another whether we would have
Student Council and voluntary Single
Tax or not.
Doris Slater.
Below is a letter from Wm. Kavan,
who led the fight for the Student
Council two years ago. Mr. Kavan
is perhaps as well versed on the
subject as any person who has been
connected with the University of Ne
braska :
Editor Daily Nebraskan:
I should like to call the attention
of the students to one or two points
in regard to Student Council before
the question comes to a vote.
As has been stated in The Daily
Nebraskan, the question was not voted
upon two years ago. as there was non
time enough in which to properly dis
cuss the questio nbefore flic end of
the semester and many students were
still undecided on the meriis of the
question.
I have the honor of being a former
iDnocent, and I think I know what
that society has accomplished, its
method of proceedure. am', its spirit
and t do not wish this to .- interpre
ted as an attack urcn the Inno
cents. I am absolutely opposed to
the abolishment of that splendid or
ganization unless it is found to hin
der or retard the deve'opment of
some better organization, and until
some better organization has been
tested out and its worth proven, In
nocents should continue.
The University if Nebraska needs a
student organization which, first law
fully and truly represents all of the
students and which can speak and act
with such authority and be recognized
as having such authority. Innocents
has never received the sanction or
approval of the board of regents and
being self-appohitive and not subject
to student suffrage, is not representa
tive. The student governing body should
hold over in part at least from year
to year. Frequently a movement
cannot be contemplated in one school
year and consequently the movement
is lost or must be entirely gone over
again with the consequent loss of
time and effort. Witness the efforts
to establish a Student Council, for
example, or of the Single Tax, or of
the university extension.
All of these movements have come
up twice within the past two years.
The traditions of the school would be
better maintained by such a holding
over body and their spirit better in
terpreted. Innocents' knowledge of
such traditions is no more than that
of the average student except that
the members of that society are in
structed orally by the outgoing mem
bers at the close of the school year
in one or two meetings. Xc public
record of such traditions is kept by
Innocents.
The affairs of the student body
should be conducted by a public body
and not by a secret society, and such
meetings should be open to sugges
tions and proposals from all students.
There are practically no affairs con
ducted by Innocents that require se
crecy and there are a great many
that could be better conducted if
more publicity attended their being
done. At the present time it is prac
tically impossible for a student not
an Innocent to bring any movement
before that body. For obvious reasons
the average junior cannot and a sen
ior will not. Therefore unless Inno
cents start a movement there is no
body to which a movement can be
taken for support. When the univer
sity Extension Week movement was
started two years ago Innocents did
not support it. Innocents being com
posed of only a few men, and all sen
iors at that, its members are too busy
to attend to more than a few activi
THE STUDENT
ties and affairs. In a larger body
having underclassmen in it, detail
work could be committed to such and
underclassmen under the supervision
of the experienced seniors.
The present governing body is out
of keeping with our present form and
spirit of state government. The stu
dent has no experience in the exercise
of the most important duty and privil
ege a citizen has, that of self-government.
A Student Council or similar
elective body would furnish such an
institution.
No harm can come from a trial of
a Student Council and if the exper
ience of other universities is any cri
terion much good can be accomplish
ed. By all means the students should
vote for the establishment of an elec
tive body which to start with should
have limited powers under the veto
of the faculty and receiving the ap
proval of the board of regents.
Very truly yours,
W. E. Kavan, '15.
NON
COMPOS
MENTIS
COMPET FROM THE SPONSORS'
POINT OF VIEW
On the day he asked me kindly, '
If his sponsor I would be,
I accepted quite blindly,
For I knew not what was stored
for me.
I was thrilled at all the honor.
And the thought of all the fame,
Little did I know the horror,
That lies in a sponsor's name.
I was sure my company would beat
them,
Famous would my captain be,
Oh, little did I know then
And much less did I foresee.
All's well until the moment,
When the sponsor's speech I make,
Then I suffer worlds of torment.
And my heart begins to quake.
For I know my hat's a wreck,
And my petticoat bangs a mile.
My hands and feet don't track.
And I grin a sickly smile.
Oh, ye know not all the torture,
All the qualms and deathly fear,
That a poor benighted sponsor,
Suffers, when before the company,
she appears.
"George, what rhymes with "lop
sided?" "Leave it to the printer.'
Don't be offended these days, men,
if the girls don't speak to you. They
may have four-leafed clovers in their
shoes.
Gee, it's hard to be clever,
And write some witty stuff,
When all this .wonderful weather,
Is trying to call the bluff.
SOCIETY NOTE
Ted Metcalfe entertained at a din
ner and theatre party the other eve
ning.. (Ted and DeWitt invited Larue
to go to dinner with them, and both
being broke, they used DeWitt's meal
ticket at the Y. M. C. A, and after
wards Ted borrowed enough money to
take them to a "Jit" show and buy
a nickel's worth- of candy.)
"The world is filled with a number of
t things,"
And everyone is good.
If you just look around, you'll see
them, too,
For anyone could if they would.
First Student: "I certainly am
strong for the zoo. lab., these days."
Second Student: "Why"
First Student: "We're working on
Mussels, you know."
BRIEF BITS OF NEWS
There will be a meeting of the sen
ior gift committee at 11 o'clock In
U 102. ,
Football men must turn in their
equipment between 11 aud 1 o'clock
today.
The Baptist guild will give a pic
nic Saturday evening at 6:30 o'clock
at Epworth park.
The contents of all lockers must be
removed before the end of this week,
according to latest word from Jack
Best.
Alumni program at Palladian hall
Friday evening. Election of officers
COMMENCEMENT
will soon be here. Why not enroll with us for the summer? Our
courses are the best, and our rooms are delightfully cool and airy. For
many years we have specialized in the training of commercial teach
ers. Don't experiment with untried institutions. Or Normal Courses
lead to State Certificates without further exmaination.
Nebraska School of Business
(Approved by the State Department of Public Instruction)
Corner O and 14th Sts. Lincoln, Nebraska
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Telephones B2311 and B3355
333 North 12th St
tffSHS
CO-OP
Student
Supplies
A. H. Pedcn
318 No. 11th
Cash paid for second hand books
or trede them in for Graduation
Gifts.
College Book ' Store
Facing Campus
The University School ot Music
RELIABLE INSTRUCTION IN ALL
BRANCHES OF
l.!iis!s Dramatic Art Aesttette DsncLig
ASK FOR INFORMATION
WILLARD KIMBALL, Director
Oppmite Campui 11th & R SU.
COUNCIL Today!
will be held after the program. Vis
itors are invited.
All girls who attended the Girl's
club dance May 5 at the Commercial
club are asked to pay the assessment
of 60 "cents at Dean Graham's office.
All council members who did not at
tend pay the amount of 25 cents.
A bulletin from the legislative ref
erence bureau, prepared by Thome
Browne and Director A. E. Sheldon
on the "Torrens' System," is about
ready for the printer. Nebraska has
just recently passed this law and the
pamphlet is intended to enlighten the
people on the history and operations
of the system.
Why pay fancy prices when you can
get the same quality for leas at the
Cincinnati Shoe Store. 142 No. 12th.
EVERYWHERE!
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Gleaners, Pressors, Dyers
For the "Work and Service tftuU
Pleases." Call Bzlll. The Beet
Equipped Dry Cleaning Plant la the
West. One day aervloe If
Reasonable prices, good work.
servloe. Repairs to men's
carefully made.
BOOK STOfiE
Phone L 4610
YOUR VOTE IS NEEDED
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