TIIE DAILY NEBItASKAN
Thursday, January 11, 1923.
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Howard Buftett, Acting Night Editor
M'llllain C'uril AU(iint Xixht tTilhor
This city is, without doubt, the cen
ter of cnMuie ,n this Mute. Thre
is unlimited opportunity for the stu
dent who liiiB tilt1 inclination to bone
fit himself by observing or even at
tending the various public affairs
that are here during the school year.
At the present time the legislature
is in session and it is a very impor
tant session for the men are trying
to relieve the abnormal conditions
that exist In this state and supplant
them by smaller taxes, better prices,
and a more prosperous state of busi
ness affairs. Voters have elected
what they thought the most capable
men in the state and it is without
doubt as fair of a representation of
the best men in Nebraska as one
could expect to find at any one meet
ing. There are big issues that must be
brought up and settled before this
session is over and it will be very
interesting to note the manner in
which the men will dispose of greater
questions. The affairs of the t'niver
sity are vitally concerned and its fu
ture activities may rest upon the ac
tions of the legislature. The ques
tion of University appropriations will
be raised In a short time and then
we may know the attitude that iw
taken by the state toward this insii
tution. The former governor recom
mended reduced appropriations, but
the bill has not come up yet. When
It does, the men in session will come
out with their criticism either ad
verse or favorable and the state's
opinion of it University will be
shown at that time.
VARIED READING.
Tnctriiftni-a frennentlv attempt to
Interest the under-graduates in cul
tural reading not directly pertinent
to the subject of instruction. They
do this not in order to benefit them
selves or their courses, but merely
to suggest to the students reading
which they will find profitable.
Different means are adopted to
arouse interest in a varied amount
of reading. One instructor frequently
quotes Interesting passages from a
volume on a given topic, and then
casually gives the name and author
with the suggestion that the book
will he found interesting. Another
Instructor is fond of sugesting books
which one should be sure to buy
when he begins to collect library
of his own. He does not limit him
self to books in his own particular
field. Many are remote from the sub
ject but he manages skilfully to bring
them into his lecture. Another pro
fessor asks the students to read ar
ticles In magazines which deal with
the whole field of instruction. Oral
reports are sometimes called for on
articles read but no limitation is put
on the choice of an article and fre
quently these articles have no con
nection with the specific course. The
instructor feels however that some
thing will be accomplished if the stu
dents can be interested in reading
magazines which deal with the snl.
ject as a whole.
Since the students are not required
to do the reading suggested, many
overlook these suggestions. But thost
who do note the books spoken of an 1
try at leisure to become acquaintr.l
with them are developing and broad
ening their Interests. They seek
worthwhile books in the library vol
uutarily and not because the boo
are assigned reading. They derive
perhaps greater benefit from thh.
reading because It does not have tc
be done. The college student and
almost all humanity somehow seems
to feel an antagonism to the work
that must be done.
Even though the undergraduate
has very little time to devote to the
perusal of voluntary reading he will
find that a wealth of new ideas can
be gained in this little time if those
bOoka and magazines which the pro
fessors so often mention are looked
into.
Contemporary Opinion
Over-Righteousness.
Be not over-righteous is an ancient
and a wise Injunction. Like (hose
puffe"d up with pride tho over-rlght-eoiiB
are marked to suffer a disillu
sionment. Illghteousiiesg is to be
striven for unceasingly but over
righteousness Is hardly less obnox
ious than downright unrighteousness.
In the creed of the over-righteous
there is little allowance made for the
weaknesses of tho flesh and Its pron
eness to lead into error. There are
seldom any "extenuating circumstanc
es" for the violators of the too right
eous man's code of morals. He Is
characterized by an Inflexible ndher
ence to his code and an uncompro
mising attitude toward the violators
of It. Forgiveness Is ono weakness
seldom indulged in by the over-right
eons, yet in reality a charitable spin,
is surely one of the requisites ot true
righteousness.
There Is a play by the well-know
French playwright Hervieu, dealing
with this old theme. "Know Thyself"
is the title. The conclusion of the
play is, ot course, that no one know
himself. To sit in Judgment of one's
fellow is always a dangerous and
serious undertaking. For given the
same circumstances would we have
done otherwise than ho did? in de
livering our Judgments would wo de
liver them In the same way if we
knew they wer to be visited on us?
Smug complacency over our own lack
of fault may be cruelly shattered.
The righteous are always to he re
spected and admired but the over
righteous are an abomination. Co
lumbia Evening Missourian.
U-NOTICE
(Notleea of (rencrnl Interest will hp
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iv. 1hh. Copy nhonlil bp In tbe Ne.
lirnskiin office by flv oi'loek.i
Home Economics Club.
Home Ec club meeting Thursday
at 7:H0, Social Science 113.
Christian Science Society.
Regular meeting Thursday 7:30
Faculty hall.
Y. W. C. A.
Staff dinner scheduled for tonight
will be postponed for two weeks on
account ot examination.
Wayne Club.
Cotner-Wayne Teachers College
basketball game will be played in the
Cotner gymnasium Thursday, Janu
11, at 8 p. m. Twenty-five seats will
be reserved for members of the
Wayne club.
Co. I.
Rifle match with York National
Guard January 15-20. Practice on N.
A. A. targets for rifle team.
Theta Sigma Phi.
Meeting Thursday evening, 7, Ellen
Smith hall.
Phytical Education Normals.
All physical education normal stu
dents should consult Dr. Clapp as ad
visor. Make appointments at G-20G.
Debate (English 104).
Students wishing to register for
debate (English 104, membership lim
ited to twelve) should confer with thu
Instructor.
M. M. FOGG.
Lutheran Club.
Business meeting of the Lutheran
club Thursday, January 11, S. S. 107,
7:00. Election of officers.
Inter-Frat Basketball.
Entries for the inter-frat basket
ball tournament must he handed in
to Robert Russell or to the Athletic
office in the Armory by Friday, Jan.
12. An entry fee of $1.00 will be
charged.
Iron Sphinx.
Please check In tickets for Sopho
more Spree at Student Activities Of
fice at once.
Calendar.
Thursday, January 11.
Theta Sigma Phi meeting, 7, Ellen
Smith hall.
Friday, January 12.
Closed-night beforo examination.
Saturday, January 13.
All-University Carnival, Armory
and Social Science.
Fortieth anual banquet of Sigma
Chi, Lincoln hotel, 6:30. -
"Mis Barnes has gathered together
well chosen representative materlul
from all the tribes, illustrating tho
style, preferred material, and variety
og verse form. It Is now In a shape
confenlont for study.
"Mis Barnes' work may be taken
as a convenient compendium of all
that has been recorded by non-literary
research in the field of aboriginal
verse." Uni. Dally Kansan.
Five Rule Changes
Made in Basketball
Five changes have been made In the
rules and through these changes tho
game is altered in no small way. The
court has been marked off In zones,
extending from seventeen feet from
each end of the court to the end of
the play space and a personal foul
committed within onh of these zones
where the man fouled has tho ball
in his possession at his own end of
the court, gives the fouled man's
team two free throws at the hoop.
A personal foul committed In any
other part of the court nets the side
foHled but one free throw, as in for
mer years.
A technical foul committed does no
give the opposing team n free throv
at the basket hut gives it the pos
session of the ball at the nearest
place out of bounds along the slds
of the court but never at the end of
the playing space.
As is specified in football rules,
this year on the court no Bubstitu
may speak to any person other than
th escorers or referee until after play
has resumed following his substitu
tion. No player will be permitted to call
time out while the ball is in the pos
session of the opposing tram either
on the court or while the sphere is
out of bounds.
The new regulations, while they
may seem cumbersome at first, have
all of the earmarks of being good
ones and will tend to speed up the
tame to a greater extent, it is believed.
Speech on Press Is
Broadcast at K. U.
Reviewer Praises
Book of Teacher
In Kansas School
"American Indian Verse," by Nellie
Barnes, instructor in English and
graduate of tho University of Kansas
has been recognized as an Important
piece of work by Mary Anstin, prom-:-.ent
American author, whose review
appears In the Literary Review ot tie
New York Evening Tost for December
9. 1922.
"Somewhat tardily," says Miss Aus
tin. "American Universities are real
lzlng that the literature of our own
aboriginals is deserving of a frac
tion, at least, of the study that has
been lavished on the .literary origins
of Europe.
"In her brochure, which may be
obtained from the University at Law
rence, Kansas," says Miss Austin,
T1il reserve officers' training corps
Las made many new and interesting
plans for the winter and spring
quarters for all the students regl.s
tiriag for this work. Polo, cross
country riding and jumping, practice
in firing the three-inch guns, the
machine guns, anil a competitive pis
(o! shoot will be included.
Work is under way to organize
some polo teams. At least two teams
will be organized and games will be
flayed with Fort Douglas and any
others with whom games can be ar
langed. Before the holidays the
horses for this game under the in
struction of Major Gay, who is one
of the foremost polo players in the
I'nited States. The success of the
players depends very much on his
horse so it essential that he obey
his rider and also be accustomed to
the swinging of the polo stick and
the striking of the ball. The Utah.
That the charges brought against
the American press susceptibility to
bribery, false ownership, and so forth
by tho critics of the press, are fu
tile and baseless, was the theme of
a speech on tho subject, "Who Owns
tho Press?" delivered by W. A. Dill,
assistant professor of Journalism at
the University of Kansas, from the
Kansas City Star's station, WDAF.
The variation in the charges is suf
ficient evidence that they are un
founded, said the K. U. professor.
One critic will claim that the rail
roads "own" tho press. Another will
assert blandly that it Is Wall Stret
which dictates tho policies of most
ot tho newspapers throughout the
country. x
Size Is Proof Itself.
"The very magnitude of the pub
lishing business," said hfi speaker,
"is almost an answer in itself. There
are in the United Slates about 23,000
publications, of nil classes. Of these,
about 3,000 are daily papers, ranging
In size from such metropolitan news
papers ns the New York Times, the
Chicago Tribune, and the Kansas
City Star, with circulations In the
hundreds of thousands, down to some
little four pago sheets of a few hun
dred circulation.
"To try to buy up a predominating
influence in the American newspapers
would require a sum ot money too
vast to be worth the cost."
The criticism that the newspapers
are bribed, continued the K. XT. pro
fessor (who. incidentally, is a prac
tical newspaper man), if futile by its
nature. Newspapermen are ns hon
est as are the members of any other
profession, in fact, they are a little
more honest they have to be, for
their every statement is spread out
in cold print where all the world, in
cluding the competitor, may read it.
Federal aws Stringent.
An orator may qualify his state
meats if he finds his audience un
sympathetic, but the editor's opinion
and news items stand as they are
written. Far from being considered
the possible recipient of bribes, the
local editor is usually looked upon as
one of tin; most influential citizens.
.'Another way of checking out on
the ownership of a paper," went on
the speaker, "has been provided by
Congress, which requires by law that
all papers using second-class rate?
publish twice a year a statement of
ownership. And a long paragraph
makes the newspaperman swear there
are no evasicms or mental reserva
tions in the statement.
"Another class of critics intimate
that the newspapers say only what
the advertisers want them to say.
There is a measure of truth in the
criticism, in that the Influence of the
advertiser may be used to cause some
news Horn to bo given too littlo at
tention. But, for tho most part, the
business office never obtrudes Into
the policies of tho news room."
Truth Must Be, Printed.
A newspaper cannot distort tho
truth, Professor Dill asserted, for If
it does Bomo champion of the people
will get a hatful of type and a press
ot some sort, and print tho facts.
A few of factors which open the
way for criticism are: human frailty
the Individual sometimes does not
see the facts of the case as another
sees them: tho rush nnd hurry of
modern dally newspapers, and the
distances from which tho stories are
brought; and the magnitude of tho
news supply. Those cause errors to
creep in unavoidably.
The American editor, said the K. IT.
speaker in conclusion, whether he is
editing the class publication, tho met
ropolitan dally, or the country week
ly. Is striving to ndvance the cause of
his clients. He is honest in his ef
forts, for he knows the American
people are not simple they will soon
discern dishonesty nnd ho must be
honest with his clients if ho is to
retain their support. Dally Kansan.
A set of $15,000 chimes will "sing
to tho world" the completion of Min
nesota's stadium and auditorium if
plans being considered by the band
director are carried out. The hand
plans to give a number of concert
dances to raise money for the bells.
Princeton introduced hockey as a
college sport, December 1, at Baker
Memorial rink. A feature of the
opening of the new rink was an ex
hibition of speed skating by "Joe'
Moore and "Bobby" Harris.
The University of Michigan is to
have new deans for the School of Mu
sic nnd the School of Pharmacy, If
President M. L. Burton's trip to the
east to look for men is successful,
according to the Michigan Dally.
Tin- sophomores of Utah Agricul
tural College drew a win from the
frosh in the annual rope pull, con
ducted through the spray from a fire
hydrant.
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Mrs. Moth
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What chance have you
got against hfrn?
IT was a cynic who said: "Some men go to
college. Other men study."'
A slander! liut yet there probably are college
men whose bills for midnight oil are not large.
And there are men who left school in the
lmver grades who, along with a hard day's work,
put in long hours of study spurred on by a
dream and n longing.
Look out for them.
The achievements of non-college men in busi
ness suggest an important fact. Success seems to
depend, not so much on the place where a man
studies, as on the earnestness of the student.
Ilut, granting equal earnestness and ability, it is
still true that the college man has the advantage.
Uegular hours for study nnd lecture, the use of
library and laboratory, the guidance of professors,
contact with men of the same age nnd aspirations
all these will count in his favor, if he makes the
most of them.
A big "if." The new year is a good time to
start making it a reality.
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