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i THE DAILY NEBRASKAN i ag , eaaBaBBBBaaaBEnla3s- The Daily Nebraskan orrntM. publication 4 Ik UNIVaiUITT OF NEBRASKA UnW Da-Mtioa ( th. Student Publlaattoa Boars' iMCMBCRc feg PRESS AsSOWMrpril 19 34 Wednesday, Thursday, during ih aca- I Ts4ay. Weda JrlaW a ttmimj marning moU year. Mtorlal Offtcas Unlvmrslty Hall 10 Qlftii llniri Afternoons with ths exeep uon i rr,ur 1 TJ. Dar. B-6891, No. 142 (I ring.) Night, B-6582. report of the Stanford affair was untrue. There seems to be a well-defined tendency in even the most reputable press agencies to distort and garble news reports from colleges and uni versities. The public seems ready to believe anything of students. It is unfortunate that a college paper should have helped along one of these attempts to discredit a university. uh.. OHUi University Hall 10 B. Office Hour Afternoons with ths sxcsp tlen of Friday and Sunday. Telephones Dy, B-6891, No. 142 rings.) Night, B-8882. (2 . J aarjinJ.ctMI flaSttSr t th pastoffice in Lincoln. Nebraska, under act ij Congress, March S. 1879. and speeljl rat of postage provided for In Section 110S, act of October 3. 1917, authorized January 20, 1912. SUBSCRIPTION RATE a a vear tl.2S a ssmestsr Single Copy, 6 cents EDITORIAL William Bertwell Hugh B. Cos Wm. Card Victor Heckler .. Philip O'Hanloa Alice THumaa ... Volta W. Terry Margaret Long Isabel O'Halloran STAFF Editor Managing Editor , ..nnri taiior News Editor ,... News Editor News Editor News Editor ..Asst. News Editor ..Asst. News Editor BUSINESS STAFF Clarence Elckboff Buslnsss Manager Otto Skold Asst. Bus. Manager Simpson Morton Circulation Manager Raymond Swallow Circulation manager FOOTBALL AGAIN. The football situation at Nebraska still holds the public eye. The at mosphere can be cleared up, how ever, in the matter of the selection of a football captain for 1925. Members of the board of control cf Nebraska athletics did not make a hasty decision in a few hours. They investigated the problem from all sides, studied the matter from the viewpoint of every faction, and ran every rumor to earth. Football men who were interview ed by the board were assured that they could speak freely and nothing of what they said would go out of the room. With this guarantee from the board its members were able to get from the players, they are sure, the truth. The great mass of infor mation which the board gained in different directions covered a con siderable period of Cornhusker ath letics. No allegation was neglected everyone was given a hearing. After the facts had been ascer tained the board considered every possible solution of the problem. Al most without exception the letter men themselves were in favor of the selection of an all-year captain, and this, naturally, had some effect on the board's decision. With their minds cleared of all doubt of just what had occurred, the board of control then decided the matter with complete detachment and impartiality, in an honest en deavor to do the best thing possible for Nebraska athletics. There is no doubt that their settle ment of the affair was just. Neither is there any doubt but that further npitntion in the field of athletics at Nebraska at present will create an tagonisms that will injure irrepara bly the Un'versity and its football team. " IN ENGLISH 36" Not long ago two students were discussing a novel of more than or dinary merit. Another student, who had listened to the conversation, asked, "What course did you read that in?" It seems incredible that the aver age student snouia oe so narrow that he should be unable to under stand why a book should be read for pleasure and improvement, and not for credit. But this is the condition that is present. There are few students on this campus who are familiar with the works of the greater authors unless, perchance, they have read them at the command of an instruc tor in English. University education is not intend ed to give the student a complete survey of the cultural world; it is in tended only to open for him new ave nues which he may follow further at his greater leisure. He is given a glance at each new vista, that he may know something of what it con tains. Until students realize this, and cease thinking that the smattering of knowledge they gain in school is education, they can never be edu cated. Education is a matter of lifetime study. But the average student, who believes that he has learned enough when he has accumulated a few facts never realizes it. His idea of a discussion of litera ture is to think back to the days of his "education" at dear old Blank and mutter, "Oh, yes, I read that when I took English 36." players. Superiority of technique is not required ; each is allowed to play the game according to his potential ities. Life would be enriched if more people would enroll in the sport of free thinking. Accepting at face value the opinions of others has a deadening effect upon society; new opinions are invigorating and liven the daily task. If more people real ized this the world would be a more interesting place in which to live The University Daily Kansan. AN APOLOGY. In The Daily Nebra.-kan for Tues day, November 25, comment was made upon an incident that was re ported to have, occurred at Stanford University. The press dispatch on which the Nebraskan based its views came from a bureau that is widely known as reliable and so the facts in that dispatch were not questioned. A letter from the office of the presi dent of Stanford, however, denies the report. To quote: "As a matter of fact we did have a regretable incident in which a stu dent was tied to a tree for a few moments in front of the Post Office by a dozen or so students. He was almost immediately released. This student had written, communications to one of the San Francisco papers making a general attack upon cer tain alleged conditions at Stanford. All of the facts were available to him if he had taken up the question' with the university authorities. The students were incensed to have one of their own number bring up un substantiated charges in the San Francisco papers. The whole affair is one cf those difficult situations where mistakes have been made by everybody concerned. As a matter of fact a public apology was signed by those taking part in the affair, including Collins, although Collins later withdrew his signature." That senior, according to the daily press, was handcuffed and chained to a tree for an hour while hundreds of students crowded around hurling taunts at him. A card was pinned to his coat, the story ran, with the words "A Traitor to Stanford." This, it was said, was because he had writ ten a letter to the student daily crit icising some conditions at Stanford. And was denounced by athletic au thorities as well as students. If we take the letter from the office of the president of Stanford as giving the truth of the affair, then it teems that the Daily Nebraskan has helped to spread a vicious per version of the truth. Exaggerations just as great have since appeared in the press after unusual happenings at the University of Nebraska, so it is not hard to believe that the press The College Press THINKING AS A SPORT. Athletics as it is run in universi ties has been severely criticised be cause it provides active participation for so few students. Thousands sit on the sidelines and yell themselves hoarse while eleven men engage in competition with the same number from another school. It has been pointed out that the method is es sentially wrong and that it would be much better if athletics were not so specialized but more general in nature. Athletics, however, is not the only activity in which a few strong per sons participate to the consequent disadvantage of countless others. The field of thought is occupied by a few giants and the rest of us sit on the bleachers cheering wildly but neg lecting through either carelessness or lack of interest to do our own bit of free thinking. I There is no excuse for it. The, field of thought is wide. No certain number is required to make up a team of intelligent and deliberate thinkers. No strict rules bind the, CHILD LABOR. Organized opposition to the twen tieth (child labor) amendment to the federal constitution comes from two sources, manufacturers and farmers. Of these two groups, one, the agri cultural,' is under a misapprehension as to the purpose of the proposed legislation. Their belief is that laws passed tinder the new amendment will prevent a farmer s children from helping in any way with the farm work. The manufacturers, on the contrary, see exactly what is in tended, and are fighting to keep their supply of cheap child labor. The two principal arguments used by opponents of the amendments are, first, that it gives the federal gov ernment power which should be exer cised by the states and, second, that it is "the imposition of idleness by law." The limitation of federal power is a Democratic party principle of long standing. If the legislature of the state of Arkansas, representative of the Solid South and the old time Democracy, had believed the propos ed measure to be an infringement of the rights of the states, would they have passed the measure as readily as they did? It is doubtful. As for the "idleness" argument, that is best met by pointing to the child labor laws of the various states which now have them. In these states one does not see children pre vented from helping dad on the farm after school or from helping mother with the housework. Kansas already has a child labor law as stringent as any which the federal congress is likely to pass. In the state of Kansas one does not see the terrible effects of idleness which are predicted by the foes of a federal child labor law. It is just as unlikely that such effects will be produced by any probable federal legislation. These shouters of the "idleness" shibboleth confuse the probable with the possible; if they were consistent, they would paint the terrible effects of a federal law pro hibiting children under 18 from put ting on their clothes in the morning or from the manual labor involved in the use of knife, fork, and spoon in eating. The University Daily Kansan. Twenty Years Ago Statistics had t.ien compiled by the registrar showing the states and counties from which the total regis tration of . 2,563 students were drawn, 2,289 students were from Ne braska, Iowa was second with ninety pine, while South Dakota was third with twenty-six. Foreign students were from Canada, Japan, and Tur key. Lancaster county as the best represented county, having 865, Douglas county as second with 171, and Cass county third with fifty eight. A big "Corn Special" was to be run by the Burlington for an extend ed trio over the state. The train jrs desires to meet prusjiewwYu low ers of 1925-1926. Will those of all Colleges other than the Teachers Col lege kindly report in Room 200 T. C, at 6 o'clock. Tuesday, December 9th, Those of Teachers College, Wednes day, December 10th. Junior League of Women Votert. Junior League of Women Voters,' council meeting at Ellen Smith Hall, Wednesday at 6 o'clock. Meeting of the Junior League of Women Voters in Faculty Hall of the Temple, Thursday at 6 o'clock. Scabbard and Blade. Important meeting of the Scab bard and Bladt, Thursday at 1 :30 in Nebraska Hall. University Commercial Club. A business meeting of the Univer sity Commercial club will be held was to db in cnarge oi uiree piuea- - . , . c .i c! ,r it Thursday at 11 o clock in Social bci sors from the College of Agriculture lnurs?i t. D. . . . .. : ence sua. nana lor mo w w..- and was to visit some sixty points in its week's trip over the state. A new eighty foot special car had been made in which the lectures were to be given. The object of the whole trip was the general improvement in the raising of corn. Ten Years Ago In the final game of the inter- class football series, the seniors de feated the freshmen 14 to 0. The game was played on a field that had six inches of frozen slush, with the temperature at zero. A special eight page Agriculture edition had been put out Four pages were devoted to a considera tion of the College of Agriculture campus, pictures of the buildings, faculty and prize cattle. Thirteen "N" fobs were to be giv en to the members of the dairy stock judging team that had been entered in the National Dairy Show where they had competed with representa tives of fifteen other schools. Foot and mouth disease had caused the meet to be canceled before any de cisions were reached. Notices Iron Sphinx. Meeting tonight at 7:15, in front of the Armory. Bring cars if pos sible. P. E. O. The campus P. E. O. will meet at the home of Mrs. C. O. Bruce, 3008 O Street, Thursday from 4 to 6 o'clock. Silver Serpents. A meeting of Silver Serpents will be held Thursday at 7:15. Theta Sigma Phi Theta Sigma Phi will meet at 7 o'clock Thursday in Ellen Smith Hall. Notice. Dean Sealock, Director of the Bu reau for Recommendation of Teach- TYPEWRITERS FSE rent Royals, Underwoods, Smiths, Remingtons. Latest models. SPECIAL RATE FOR SCHOOL YEAR All makes of portable typewriters used and rebuilt typewriters on easy terms. NEBRASKA TYPEWRITER CO. 1232 O Street Lincoln B-2157 Your Sheaffer pen will prove to be your most valuable assist' ant in the game of school or business. Give your pen a drink of Skim Makes the best pen write better. SHEAFFER S Lifetime Pen is the master of all writing instruments. The 46 Special is made with the same care and precision as all SheafFer pens and pencils. The Student's Special is de signed for students and is the ideal pen at the price for classroom or study. TUT77? Ufetimt $3.75 Sold By The Better Dealers Everywhere tUT. IIA 7T Til i ' ii Til VX1D1 Ql) pens "Lifetime" pencils W. A. SHEAFFER PEN CO., Fort M.disoa, lnra U M M Ml vocation are to be announced. Vesper Choir. Vesper choir practice will be held Thursday at 5 o'clock in Ellen Smith Hall. All members are requested to come. Pershing Rifles. Initiation Wednesday at 6:30 in Nebraska Hall 306. All alumni invited. TOWNSEND Portraits. "Pre serve the present for the future." Adv. TEACHERS Second semester vacancy calls now coming in. Enroll at once so that we can get your credentials together in ame to sepsK TEACHERS AGENCY 1020 McGee, Kansas City, Mo. Around the Corner tftV tVm.u cm... th. ofy --bA di;.Ppnt.d.now ( NEBRASKA SCHOOL OF BUSINESS T. A. BLAKESLEE, Ph. B., A. M.. President. Approved by th. Stat. Department of Publlo Instruction. Accredited by American Association of Vocational Schools. Corner O 4 14th Streets. Lincoln, Nebr. Tours to Europe Summer of 1925 FOR STUDENTS, TEACHERS, ARTISTS ETC. $300 AND UP SAILINGS END OF JUNE AND EARLY JULY 30 DAY TOUR ALL EXPENSES INCLUDED LONDON, BRUSSELS AND PARIS OTHER TOURS INCLUDE ITALY, SWITZERLAND AT M6DERATE COST. 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