The Daily Nebraskan
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA OFFICIAL PUBLICATION
EDITORIAL STAFF
".avlonl Davis - Editor-in-Chief
Howard Murtln - Managing Editor
Harenci Haley News Editor
Le Rons Hammond News Editor
Ruth Snvder - Associate Editor
Kenneth McCandleM Sports Editor
Helen Glltnor Society Editor
BUSINESS STAFF
31en H. Gardner Duslness Manager
Roy Wythors Assistant Uuainess Manager
REPORTORIAL STAFF
Patricia Maloney Gayle Vincent Grubb Marian Henninger
Kinrv linniintr Sadie Hnch Edith Howe
Mary Herdng Oswald lllack Genevieve Loeb
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PROVE YOURSELF A CITIZEN
L'nheiBity students are olien criticized for their lack' ot interest
in municipal and national affairs and are considered by some people
incapable of taking their minds off of parties and dances long enough
to think seriously about civic problems. The university vote Is not
considered a very mighty factor in politics but if students who are
residents of Lincoln and are eligible to vote will take advantage of
their opportunity TODAY the university vote can mean something
in the primary election.
Roughly estimated, there are close to 700 students who claim
Lincoln as their home and with the women eligible for the ballot,
there must be at least 300 electors in the university. Something
should have been said on registration day relative to university
voters but those who were not Interested enough to register when
the books were open are losing a priceless opportunity to aid the
city of Lincoln and the University of Nebraska at today's election.
The question of a new sewage system for the city concerns the
students of the university as much as it does the merchant on O
street. The nomination of the right city commissioners will have a
.great deal to do with university life. Some candidates are in favor
of municipal ownership of public utilities, some for the establish
ment of a public market, the erection of a new city auditorium, a
new city hospital. Some are in favor of wide open amusements on
Sunday and others are opposed to them. Some are out-and-out for
the laboring man and others take the side of the moneyed Interests.
Four or five thousand student-citizens of Nebraska and neigh
boring states live under, and abide by, the laws of the city of Lin
coln for three-fourths of their time. They depend upon the voters
of this city, including the 300 university students, to say what they
must and must not do. It now remains the duty of this almighty 300
to take a few minutes from their busy school life to cast their votes
in favor of the men and the measures which have so much to do with
the betterment of their city and their university. O. B.
AN EVENTFUL SEMESTER
Tornados, April showers, Easter bonnets, and gatherings on the
library steps, all tell us that Spring is really here. These signs also
tell us that there are but a few brief weeks of school work left. To
be exact, the calendar shows that only six more weeks remain until
examination time. The semester has passed so quickly, that it has
seemed to be possessed of wings. The rapid pace of our social life,
the abundance of post-bellum activities, and the unusually short term,
all go to make this semester one of scant duration.
Crowded into this short semester are many events which are of
pressing interest to University students. Before long we will be
confronted with the Student Council election, then comes the ques
tion of the Single Tax, a question that must receive the thoughtful
consideration of all students, then Ivy Day and the great Semi-centennial
celebration of May 23rd and 24th. Other important things
will no doubt happen in the meantime to attract our interest and
attention. It is seldom that so many momentous occurences transpire
in a single school term.
For those who have been neglecting study In the mad rush of
University life, there are "Incompletes" and "conditions" to be worked
off. A few short days remain in which to do this back work. Now
is the time to worry about the exams that are to come, and to dig in
and get prepared. With the progress of Spring it becomes Increasing-
hard to concentrate on studies, and in the warm early summer
eveninps, It will be like pulling wisdom teeth to sit In a hot room
and try to study. Far-sighted students will make good UHe of the
cool days that are left In order to equip themselves for examination
week, and will plan to be free to enjoy the events that are coming.
INDIVIDUALISM
Long ages ago In the Jungles of a primeval world, men fought,
hunted and fished in the grim solitudes of virgin forests, cave dwell
i i s. and unbrldged rivers and bottomless swamps. Each man's very
existence depended upon his physical prowess and knowledge of
woodcraft. There were no social orders. Each primeval man was a
king and chief himself. No false society was there to dictate, so that
each man was allowed to develop untrammeled by the frills and
cnnvent tonalities of staid society.
Today because man, by nature, Is gregarious, he has become a
creature In many cases afraid to assert himself differently from hfs
companions, catering to the whims and caprices and conventions of
an unaltrulstic society. With the rise of populous cities comes the
tendency of the new social order to repress initiative and the "un
afraldness" of men to assert themselves and do what appeals to them
as right. Men are afraid to be different from other men, to display
their initiative in the great dynamic world movements.
Today as never before great leaders are needed to guide and
shape the destinies of every nation in the great dynamic reforms that
are sweeping around the globe. Fortune is searching for leaders,
men with vision. Initiative, and the iron willed determination to tri
umph over the obstacles of a trammelled and convenUonal world.
Every man has his place in the world but the one that becomes great
is the one that rises above the ambition of his fellows, who cultivates
his personality as a farmer would his field, who day drearcs even,
and lastly labors tirelessly, diligently, and altrusistlcally for men.
Perdue Exponent
UNIVERSITY ANNOUNCES
HEW TRACTOR COURSE
Competent Operators Are Needed
to Carry out neDrasxa
Road Campaign.
Lincoln. Neb., April 8. To help pro
vide trained men for road construe
tlon. the University has announced a
four weeks' course for tractor opera
tors, beginning April 14. Money Is
now available for the Nebraska road
program, and the machinery that will
be needed can be obtained without
delay, but the one thing which George
E. Johnson, state engineer, fears may
hold up the work Is the lack of trained
men, especially tractor operators.
It is thought that 200 tractor opera
tors will be needed. Mr. Johnson
estimates their average wages at 17.00
a day. Construction of roads will
begin about the middle of this month
Mr. Johnson said that four contracts
would be let during the week of April
14, and one a week after that for
several weeks
The short course wi;i be given by
the University school of agriculture
and the training done in the agricul
tural engineering department at the
university farm. It will consist of two
lectures and six hours laboratory work
five days a week for four weeks.
Registration will be at agricultural
hall, farm campus, Monday forenoon,
April 14. Work will begin that after
noon. A fee of $10.00 will be charged
for the course.
Men will be trained In details of
tractor operation and repair. The fol
lowing subjects will be among those
studied: Transmission, steering gears,
governors, Ignition, carburetion, valve
timing, lubrication, bearings, trouble
shooting, repairs, clutches, brakes,
hitches and babbitting. Men taking
the course will have an opportunity
to study and operate about twenty
different makes of tractors.
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QvAltTY iS C0N0MY
SOCIAL CALENDAR
April 11
United Agriculture party Art Hall.
Phi Kappa Psi formal Lincoln
Hotel.
Alpha Omicron Pi House dance.
April 12
Alpha Sigma Phi formal Lincoln
Hotel.
Freshman Hop Lincoln Hotel.
Alpha Xi Delta banquet Lincoln
Hotel.
Phi Kappa Psi banquet Lincoln
Hotel.
Silver Serpent Party for sophomore
and junior girls Women's Hall.
Kindergarten Party Women's Hall.
PERSONALS
David E. Diefenderfer, ex-'19, is
visiting at the Bushnell Guild House.
He has served in the radio section of
the navy since the beginning of the
war, and is on his way back to New
Orleans for further work.
Lleuts. E. F. and Harry E. Reed are
visitors at the Hushnell Guild House.
Both have just received their dis
charge.
Ycu expect to become a law
yer. Have you learned to Influ
ence men? Read today's back
SHOE salesman wanted for Satur
days. Fred Schmidt & Bros., 917 O
street. 123-124-125
For 25 years the social needs of this
community have been successfully
nut by us, and our experience should
be of service to you. George Bros.,
Printers and Stationers, new store,
1213 N st. We Invite you In.
LAWYERSI
The average lawyer, according
to the Literary Digest, earns
$358 his first year starves, in
other words and at the end of
five yeus is making only $1,245
a year. Are you going to be an
average lawyer, or are you to
day developing those personal
qualities and that capacity for
leadership which will make you
a great lawyer? Read today's
back page.
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prominent national figure
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Sar-Ben.
Ak-Sar-Ben is a boosting
organization composed of 2.000
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derived from spelling Nebraska
backward. It owns a large "den"
at which weekly serio-eomie initia
tion ceremonies art held. Ia the fall
there in a carnival, daylight aa
electrical parades.
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evening from June to September.
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.vk-Sur-Ben. That's what it is for.
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