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The Daily Nebraskan
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA OFFICIAL PUBLICATION
- EDITORIAL STAFF
Katharine Newbranch Editor In Chief
Oaylord Davis Managing Mltor
Heleu Howe Associate Editor
Howard Murlln N Kl,1;or
Jack Lamlale Nevv8 t'di,or
Oswald Black Sports Editor
Helen Glltner Society Editor
BUSINESS STAFF
Glen H. Gardner '.Business Mauagcr
Kov AVythers Assistant Business Manager
Offices: News. Basement, University Hall; Business, Basement,
Administration Building.
Telephones: News and Editorial, B-2S16; Business, B 2597.
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Published every day except Saturday and Sunday during the col
lege year. Subscription, per semester, $1.
Entered at the postoffice at Lincoln, Nebraska, as second-class
mail matter witter the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
For the last two years subscription dances have been the popular
form of dancing among University students. During the period of
war. when many men were gone, and when the few men in school
could not take the responsibility with the attendant financial strain,
of giving the parties independently, the subscription dances were
logical and in demand.
Now, however, with the school back on a pre-war basis the old
customs and social affairs are ready to play their part. Class hops,
proms, and formal and informal fraternity and organization and AK
UniverMty parties are scheduled. They are the legitimate dances for
students. They are given by the students, under the supervision of
the Faculty, and chaperoned by the Faculty. They are essentially for
the enjoyment of men and women who attend the University. They
are democratic, and sustain our "University society."
Subscription dances lack even the simple formalities of a college
party, and give a less favorable impression to outsiders of our forms
of student entertainment. They do not 're present student endeavor.
They are undemocratic, in that they are given by individuals as such,
and are in no way connected with the University.
There is one characteristic of the subscription dance which, alone,
should afford it the campus disapproval. Th;it is that subscription
dances take enthusiasm, persons, and funds from parties that are in
a true sense school affairs. They are a financial drain on the pockets
of men in school. We cannot expect to have hops or any other kind
of parties for the students successful, so long as the subscription
dances are allowed to continue. There is only one way of discontin
uing them. That is by refusing to patronize them. If men would
refuse to attend these dances, and refuse to sell tickets or in any
such way encourage or abet them, they would of necessity die. For
merly when this same question arose the Fraternity men settled
the difficulty through the act of the Inter-Fraternity Council by just
such an agreement.
The emergency is greater than it has ever been. It is for the stu
dents to decide which form of entertainment they want.
THE GREAT BUTTON SCANDAL
There are many points in our conduct of the war on whi-h we
may congratulate ourselves. These are being uncovered with loud
cries daily. But there is one page on which every American with a
sense of artistic honor must look with an audible .-huMT. It is the
page on which is recorded the Great Button Scandal.
As badges of honor for subscriptions to the national loans and
charitable campaigns, the officials distributed certain iciUiloid disks
with symbolic markings. In general effect they v. ire aKin to those
buttons of our inexpensive youth whih came concealed in popcorn
packages, hearing such noble and provocative slogans as "Ki Me
Quick." 'Twenty-three, Skiddoo." or "Rubberneck." Those with a
higher intellectual appeal were stamped wiMi colored representations
of the flags of all nations, and were worn in a row down the length
of the lapel or around the rim of the visor to one's cap. They were
fashioned by the same workers in celluloid who have of late been so
bu.-y giving tangible form to America's civilian honor roll. True, the
designs have been somewhat altered, but with sliaht improvement in
artistic standards. They have the same old gt am mar-school taste if
roiled on the tongue.
It is needless to t-ay that in France suc h things were better ordered.
Artist-, not treasury officials, designee the miniature medals, which
were given form with an appreciation for beauty as well as for econ
omy. Even a bit of ribbon in the bottonhole would have a (Mjrnity
which is entirely lacking in our prize-package buttons. They repre
sent an inspiring series of devotional sacrifices on the part of the
American people, but who will want to preserve them? And those
few which do survive subsequent house cleanings, what will they be
worth, except as curiosities, in the collection of 1975? There is to be
one more Liberty Loan. Is it too much to hope that the new Secretary
of our Treasury, Mr. Glass, has an aversion to celluloid buttons?
HAND GRENADES
SPEAKING OF HIGHWAYS AND j
LOW ONES
There are times, yea, many times,
when you wonder whether or not the
engineer who laid out the streets of
Lincoln is still at large, and if so, who
let him live.
One of the times when you thusly
ponder is when the city resembles an
American Venice, which is any nice
"thaw-y" day. The streets are indeed
canals, in. fact some of them are rag
ing torrents. You stand on the curb
ing contemplating as to how you may
best effect your transit. You think
of Leander, who swam the Hellespout,
of Annette Kellerman, of German sub
marines, of everything endowed with
the power of aqueous locomotion, but
still you have not the heart to brave
the local Amazon.
As you are about to sink or swim
(remember the Alger book by that
name?) a car sails (yes sails what
else could it do in water?) around the
corner, drenching you with gobs of
muddy, chilly water splashed from
the wheels. Enough of this scene
on to the next! ! !
Another time when your thoughts
are so inclined, is when the weather
is no longer "thaw-y", but frigid, and
the streets are glacial. Each step
you take jeopardizes your earthly
career. To walk rapidly is nothing
less than flirting with death. You
slip, slide, scramble, glide. You
fiercely clutch the person with whom
you are walking, but often it is of no
avail for many a time and oft, you
crash pavement ward, with a forc e
which makes the earth tremble.
The. way of tho transgressor I
hard" why should yours ho when th
transgressing Individual Is the engi
neer. and you merely the victim o
circumstances?
DAILY DIARY RHYMES
By
Gayle Vincent Grubb
No matter what kind of a game you'r
! in.
Regardless what e fforts, you d count e
to w in.
When it failed, why you gave up yoni
soul to desp. r.
Clean forget tin the fact that you
hadn't played square.
As long as we live, speukin' logic, it
looks
That the world to the last end will
yet have its crooks;
Who may live lives in underworlds
strung by a hair.
An.l die there foruot ten they hadn't
played square.
Oh. theres' ever so muc h in life's daily
grind.
That can make college book know ledge
decades behind;
Yd life needs such counsels of Who.
What and Where,
To make he that starts out a man.
play it square.
Am I right? Sean tho past of the life
you have led.
Can you see things, if done, would
have put you ahead?
The gold brick was luring with luster
and glare.
But a sham that you fell for and failed
to play square.
Now. no ministers' pulpit is calling t
me.
Yet what I have long seen I want you
to see;
Look square in the eyes of the world.
everywhere.
Shake you fist at the Devil aNd play
the game square.
DUPONT HAS CHEMISTRY
SCHOLARSHIP AT KANSAS
The Dupont Powder company, the
greatest chemical organization in the
world, maintains a scholarship at the
University of Kansas. Some time
during the summer the Dupont people
decided to establish some thirty or
forty scholarships and fellowships
anions the universities of the United
States. The scholarships are open t
undergraduate students in the depart
ment of chemtsiry. The fellowships
are open to graduates and graduate
students.
GOOD EYESIGHT
A PLEASURE
If you do not know the de
lightful sense of seeing ev
erything, far and near, with
a clear vision and a feeling
of satisfaction, then
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