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    THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
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Kanncih W. Cook Edward Morrow
BUSINESS
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A RETURN TO SANITY
The first battle of the rent-a-Ford
19 over and the students, it seems
hve been the victors. Friday eve.
ningr, with two formal parties, found
the rent-a-Ford companies with P'en
ty of cars on hand, a condition most
unusual. Ordinarily it is impossible
to get a car without reserving it two
or three days in advance. A check
of the agencies about 9:30 Friday
evening disclosed the fact that there
were cars to be had without formal
ity. One company, indeed, offered
to waive the rules about 6 o'clock
reservations and higher rates if the
inquirer would take the blooming
busses out But the prospective cus
tomer, it was found, was just anoth
er of those smart aleck students bent
on finding out the true plight of the
beleaguered companies.
The students enjoyed the innova
tion. Couples walking to and from
parties were so numerous that the ob
server, were he unacquainted with
the reason, would have been amaxed.
Members of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon
fraternity, of which Mr. E. F. Du
Teau, originator of the rent-a-Ford
campaign, is an active member, rent
ed a twenty-passenger bus for the
evening for $5. They not only saved
fifteen or twenty dollars, but they
had a much better time than if they
had been riding in rent-a-Fords and
"turning corners scientifically.
Those unable to crowd into the bus
walked, among them, we understand,
Mr. DuTeau.
Everyone seemed to enjoy the nov
elty of the evening, when no cars
with elongated hob caps stood at the
curb, remorselessly costing the op
erator thereof twenty cents an hour.
Owners of cars either loaned them or
took along as many passengers as
possible.
The battle of the rent-a-Fords
is attracting wide attention. The
staid Nebraska State Journal has
seen fit to comment upon it edi
torially, in addition to keeping track
of the campaign in its news columns
The Journal's editorial states the
whole matter so clearly, and contains
so much common sense, that we are
reproducing it here.
While the students have greeted
the rent-a-Ford excitement as some
thing new and therefore entertaining,
it has its serious aspects. The stu
dents should remember that some
thing more is at stake than a mere
reduction of rates. If the rates are
reduced as we think they will bi
it is unlikely that the students will
return to renting Fords with their
former profligacy and abandon. The
renting of a Ford may be less popu
lar, once the students realize that one
of these expensive contrivances is not
necessary to the success of the even
ing. We hope that the back of tha
rent-a-Ford craze is broken and that
a return to the good old days, when
people occasionally walked, is in
prospect. If not, the efforts of Mr.
Du Teau and his supporters are prac
tically wasted.
Transportation for fairly long dis
tances and in bad weather is sensi
ble, though it is possible that the
street car may offer the samee means
But walking a few blocks on a balmy
evening, or even on a slightly dis
agreeable evening, might even be en
joyable. The rent-a-Ford affair may illus
trate the truth of the statement that
many of the present collegiate cus
toms are worthless and that a return
to the more sensible basis of the
people occasionally wtalked, is in
most students are not wealthy; and
many students are working to sup
port themselves while they go to
school. And renting Fords, buying
" expensive ct iges, and giving elab
orate parties are hardly compatible
with this condition.
The Kebraskan hopes that the case
of the rent-a-Fords will be the first
step toward a return to a saner basis
in college social customs.
ship. When one of these hired ser
vitors of tha grot God of Sport rec
ognises the true state of affairs, we
believe his article Is worth quoting.
Frederick Ware, writing in The
World-Herald, has contributed the
following bits of Iiorso sense:
"Another of the superstitions cher
ished by tha virile citisenry is that
as a class athletes are better stu
dents than the fellow who attends
university solely for his mind's cul
ture.
Nothing could be farther from
the truth.
"Recent bootings of football and
basketball stars from several of eur
more prominent universities, the
voluntary resignation of Grange
from Illinois immediately his foot
ball days were over, the long list of
scholastically ineligible athletes made
public by honest universities on the
eve of almost every game, are ample
proof of the falacy cf this belief.
"How many men of outstanding
intellect ever gained fame as ath
letes? How many athletes have ever
achieved renown except as a direct
result of their athletic prowess or
by involvement with movie cutics in
the kind of affairs that everyone is
anxious to make his business.
"Whether he be student or ordi
a a a a .
nary yokel chained Dy necessity oi
training a living to some sedentary
task, a person can profitably devote
reasonable portion of his time to
some form of athletics, even if it be
nothing more than a daily walk at a
brisk clip;
'But development of muscular ex-
pertness can only be atxained at the
expense of slighting the cultivation
of the intellect; and if the intellect
is to be developed above the plane
of a chorus man's, some thews must
be left to atrophy."
SPORTS AND SCHOLARS
THE INTER-FRATERNITY
COUNCIL
At the last meeting of the Inter-
fraternity Council only sixteen of
the thirty-four member fraternities
had active representatives present.
Some ten or twelve fraternities were
without representation by either ac
tive or alumni members. As a re
sult the Council could accomplish
little in the way of business, although
matters of considerable significance
were brought up for consideration.
The apparent lack of interest in
the Inter-fraternity Council, by fra
ternity men at Nebraska, is a source
of much amazement to fraternity
men irom other universities where
the Inter-fraternity Council is an
active organization. In most large
universities of the country, this body
not only plays an important part in
the regulation of the fraternities.
but membership in it is regarded as
one of the most prominent activities
on the campus, calling for the elec
tion from each fraternity group, of
the best man within its organiza
tion.
Heretofore, the organization of
the Inter-fraternity Council at Ne
braska has been rather loose. At
the last meeting it was disclosed that
there was not even a corrected list
of members. A re-organization of
the Council has now been put
through which, its officers hope, will
enable the organization to take
charge completely of fraternity mat
ters which henceforth come up for
consideration.
The position of the fraternity sys
tem on the Nebraska campus is none
too secure. Already there are omi
nous rumblings in the air. Unless
fraternity men themselves, through
the medium of an inter-fraternity
organization, choose to correct cer
tain deficiencies in the system, it is
a foregone conclusion that the board
of regents, or some other official
body of the University, will under
take to regulate the fraternities as
they think best.
There is only one solution to the
problem. That is for every frater
nity to see that it is represented in
the Inter-fraternity Conncil, and
that the Council tatfe upon itself
some kind of organization that Till
enable it to deal adequately with
fraternity problems.
stret car or even on foot and look the
world happily in the face next day.
Not so now This sort of transpor
tation is now as obsolete as the horse.
The 1926 model young man who
called for his lady with a street car
check would have about the stand-,
ing in society of a young man of the
year 1900 who called for his young
lady with a hayrack. Automobile
transportation is now virtually a re
quired course at college, like English
I or modern languages. Only, if
one flunks in the language he has hut
a professor to face.whereas if he fails
in the automobile test he is down and
out with all society.
This matter of rent-a-Ford rates
thus involves, as anybody must now
see and admit, the primest necessity
of educational life. Without this
transportation utility, life that is,
social life is paralyzed. One can
now understand why people who
grinned and bore the rise in text
books and potatoes went straight up
in rebellion when inflation struck the
rent-a-Fords.
Timidly, tentatively, we express a
hope. Terrible as this experience to
the college boys and girls, it may re
sult in final good. Suppose now the
rent-a-Ford folks find it necessary to
stand firm for their twenty cents
Suppose that the fraternities and the
sororities are equally adamant.
Nearly every place in Lincoln is
in healthful walking distance of
nearly every other place. If not
that, then there will probably be a
street ca" now it is fallen from its
time. We dare speak kindly for the
street car nof it is fallen from its
former tyrannical estate and is as
innocuous as the exile oi Doom.
Then with a little experience of
these humble and economical forms
of transportation it may occur to
the scholars that there is so little in
herent disgrace and disadvantage in
them that, what with the easing up
which this involves on strained poc-
ketbooks back home, they can afford
in this respect to revert permanent
ly to the simple old times. An idle
dream, perhaps; but dreams, one
likes to believe, have still some place
on college campuses.
thing over today. Let's do some
thinking which reaches beneath the
surface of the situation and emerges
with a true grasp on what is worth
while in it Perhaps we have before
us a fight which won't be over in a
day, a week or even a month, but we
have the BACKBONE to carry it
through, if we are representatives
of the state which is able to boast of
a splendid history. ARE WE
AFRAID TO WALK, we who are
young and out for a spirited, good
time? Come on Nebraskans, show
your spirit YOU ARE ALL behind
a thing if you believe it is right, and
this cause is RIGHT. If the Rnt-a-ford
companies smile, we'll laugh.
If they laugh, we'll roar with mirth,
because spring is almost upon us and
walking will soon be one fine thing
to indulge in. E. F. D.
On The Air
Harpers Offer Prizes
In Literary Contest
Students in the department of
English of the University are be
ing encouraged to enter the Har
pers Intercollegiate Literary con
test for 1925-26. A first price of
(500, second prise of 1300, and a
third prise of f 200 are offered by
Harpers Magasine for the best
fiction story, essay or article. The
manuscripts are to be submitted
to the English repayments of the
colleges and universities.
The best from the school will be
picked locally by the department
of English and forwarded to the
office of Harpers Magazine where
the national prise winers will be
selected. The deadline is April
15. The length of the Bhort stor
ies is not to exceed 7,000 words,
and the articles and essays are
limited to 4,000 words.
University Studio
over KFAB (340.7)
broadcasting
Other Opinions
A TURNED WORM
(The Stat Joaraal)
People living outside the zone of
direct educational interests may be
puzzled at this rent-a-Ford rebellion
in the university circles. The prices
of many other things have gone up.
Books cost much more than they
used to. So do magazines and art
supplies. Food is higher than last
year. University fees have been in
creased in recent years. Room rents
are not the nominal things they were
in the good old days. All this the
student world has borne with equan
lmity, or at least without open rebel
lion.
The rent-a-Ford folks make an
upward gesture in their rates and the
campus seethes with wrath. Frater
nities declare boycotts on the rented
Fords.. Sororities declare bovcotts
on boys who rent a Ford at the newj
rates. Secretary Hocvc. 3 wrath at
the price of rubber was nothing to
this wrath at the addition of a time
charge to the mileage charge for a
rented Ford. The rental comnanies
argue plausibly that the thirg just
had to be done. The extra twenty
cents an hour on Monday to Thurs
day inclusive is a matter of life or
When the newspaper sports writers death to them. It's no use. The
stop predicting victories or reciting students are stubborn, pitiless.
iIe gossip and turn their attention
to the really important aspects of
r "., ?e sports, their remarks are ns
i "y so influenced by prejudice as to
1 .--'-a nicjricaL One of their fav-
j -. 'hnts is to explain why eth-
; , -.i -rt've to better scholar-
Older folks, who walked more than
they rode anyway must be made to
see what a crisis this is to the 1926
model student In the uncouth days
of twenty or more years ago young
men could take their young ladies to
a FriJay night party or a show on a
The Daily Nebroskan assumes
no responsibility for the senti
ments expressed by correspon
dents and reserves the right to
exclude any communications
whose publication may for any
reason seem undesirable. In all
cases the editor must know the
identity of the contributor. No
communications will be publish
ed anonymously, but by special
arrangement initials only may be
signed.
SPRING IS HERE!
1 wonder if anyone is going to
weaken? That question is probably
bothering many of the fellows and
eirls who feel that the spirit behind
the late movement is not sincere.
Human nature likes novelty and a
variety of experiences but when it
favors certain situations and phe
nomena merely because they vary
the monotony of life, then one may
expect to see a weariness appearing
very early upon the social horizon.
To you fellows and girls who feel
just that way this writer would like
to make an appeal, not humble and
full of pathos, but one which asks
you to see the thing as the majority
is seeing it
We have no mass meetings to call
forth from you the cheers of loyalty;
we have no machinery to awaken in
you a response such as a football
team is able to awaken. No individ
ual contestant represents the school
in combat or in open arena, a thing
which inspires any red-blooded per
son to the very heart No glory
awaints the individual at the end of
the fight as is the case in athletic
or forsenic victories. No thrills keep
recurring to HOLD your enthusiasm
at its height. This is a fight for a
cause, a principle, and it is one which
demands a backing that has CHAR
ACTER and BACKBONE.
Most of you have been reared in
these territories where the old pio
neer still lives to tell the tale of
hardships and bravery that were
characteristic of the life of the
frontier days. You have inherited
the spirit of these pioneer fathers;
loyal, brave and enduring. YOU
HAVE IT IN YOUR PERSONS TO
EXERCISE, IF YOU WILL. And that
is my appeal. Exercise the heritage
of your pioneer forefathers in a
cause that is not foolish or petty.
Forget the belief that the men behind
this movement are merely backin?
it for the novelty of the situation;
realize that even if you are just a
part of this university body you are
a representative, and you now have a
chance to show that you represent it.
The warm breezes of spring are
oegintmf to blow. The scent of
awakening nature plays faintly about
one's nostrils in the morning. Does
one appreciate these nights in a rent-
a-Ford? Of course not Friday and
Saturday nights of this week-end
were filled with many odd experi
ences, not old and obsolete but new
and full of life. And all because
we gave ourselves a chance to enjoy
the out-doors as it should be enjoyed
by young people. If we walk in
stead of riding we can learn to stand
on two feet, not on one. If we ride
when we can't afford it we learn the
art of sweet indifference to the capa
cities of our pocketbook.
We all have a chance to think this
Monday, February 22
9:30 to 9:55 a. m. Weather re
port by Prof. T. A. Blair. Road re
port and Announcements.
10:30 to 11:00 a. m. "4-H Club
Recipes Please Dad," by Miss Jessie
Greene, Assistant State Agent in
Foods and Nutrition, Agricultural
Extension Service.
1:15 to 1:30 p. m. Readings from
Wister's "The Seven Ages of Wash
ington," on "Washington the Youth,"
by Miss Ruth Jamison, School of
Fine Arts.
Musical numbers by Miss Opal
Bowers, Pianist
3:00 to 3:30 p. m. "Educational
and Vocational Guidance," by Dr.
Charles Fordyce, Chairman of the
Department of Educational Psychol
ogy and Research.
"Opportunities Afforded by Com
mercial Training," by Miss Gertrude
Beers, Teachers College Commercial
College.
8:05 to 8:30 p. m. "The Value of
a Good Seed Bed and Seeding Prac
tices in Obtaining Stands of Small
Grasses and I-egumes," by F. D.
Feim. Professor of Agronomy.
"Dressing up the Front Yard," by
C. C. Wiggins, Professor of Horticulture.
Reply to Radio
Charter Program
(Contmnea from Page One.)
Notices
Phi Delta Phi
A picture of the Phi Delta Phi will
be taken Wednesday at 12 o'clock at
the campus studio.
Alpha Kappa Pai
The Alpha Kappa Psi picture will
be taken for the Cornhusker Tuesday
noon at 12:30 at the campus studio.
Fraternity Group Pictures
The campus studio has received
many inquiries from fraternities
and sororities in regard to group pic
tures. These will be taken if ap
pointments are made during March.
$4.00 is the charge.
Awfwan Picture!
The group picture of the Awgwan
staff will be taken Monday noon at
12 o'clock sharp at the campus studio
father, Governor David Butler, who
signed the bill granting the Univer
sity its charter in 1869, and because
she was the girl who sat on Governor
Butler's knee and heard the orations
of the first two graduates.
This woman, who was so intensely
interested in the Charter Day radio
program, was Mrs. Violet Butler
Bradley.
In a letter addressed to the "Chan
cellor and Faculty" of the University
Mrs. Bradley said:
Mrs. Bradley's Letter
"Yesterday in my home at Ross-
ville, a pleasing educational town on
the Union Pacific railway, twenty
miles west of Topeka, Kansas, we lis
tened over the radio to the program
celebrating Charter Day of the State
University at Lincoln, Nebraska.
"My feelings would be a little dif
ficult to describe for there was such
a mixture of pleasure and looking
backward to the first graduating ex
ercises in the first modest building,
when, as a child four years old I
sat upon my father's knee, who was
Governor David Butlrr, of Nebraska
and listened to the orations of the
first graduates, not realizing the full
importance of the occasion.
"I am proud to be the daughter of
Governor David Butler, a pioneer
who believed in doing things and was
not afraid of the future, and signed
the charter for the founding of the
University, and a man who had such
accountable, faith in the future of the
commonwealth of the state of Ne
braska."
First Graduate! Still Living
Both of these young men whose
orations Mrs. Bradley heard nearly
fifty year ago are still alive. Judge
Dales is secretary of the board of re
gents of the University of Nebraska,
a position he has held for more than
fifty years, and Judge Snell is a re
tired attorney, living at Tacoma,
Wash., where he has made his home
since 1888. Judge Snell has served
as prosecuting attorney, city attor
ney, and judge of the superior court
at Tacoma. lie was a member of the
Nebraska state senate in the sessions
of 1885 and 1887. Judge Dales
formerly practiced law in Lincoln,
and served as deputy clerk of the dis
trict court of Iancnster county, and
also was judge of the muncipal
court of Lincoln. He formerly was
superintendent of the physical plant,
and is a member of the University
senate, with the rank of dean. He
was married in July, 1873, to Grace
E. Benton, eldest daughter of the
first chancellor of the University,
A Letter Last Year
As a result of the last year's Char
ter Dliy program, a similar story of
the early life of the University was
unfolded. From Mrs. G. W. Stevens
of 17 Heckla Block, Edmonton, Al
berta, Canada, formerly Mary Ses
sions, one of the first students of the
University, came this letter follow
ing the 1925 radio program
"It was especially interesting to
me, as I was the only girl in the first
graduating class of the University,
but the January before I was per
suaded to accept a position as a
teacher, and, naturally, never re
turned, a step I've always regretted.
Chancellor Benton, Professor Church
and Professor Aughey were the
teachers. I remember those names
best as I was in their classes. George
Howard, William Snell, Clarence
Rhodes, were names of young men in
. f. tMl
tne Class." .
Mr. Snell was a member of Z
class of 1873. and Mr. Howard, unti
recently professor of political scion
and sociology at the University,
Mr. Rhodes were members of ill
class of 1876. The registrar's of
fice shows that Mary Sessions was a
special student of the University i!
1876 and 1877. No record of her
activities since leaving the institution
had been kept, and her address was
unknown until the above letter vu
received a year ago by the alumni
office.
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New models and woolen
Two Panta Suits $35 to
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Up a few steps and turn
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bring eut all thsae
light colarcal auits, and
tha? prsoabljr nerd
eta aa ing.
Varsity Cleaners
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Vestals
Vestals will meet Tuesday
o'clock at Ellen Smith Hall.
at 4
Interfraternity Conncil
Important interfraternity council
meeting at 3 o'clock Sunday after
noon in Temple 202. All members
are urged to be present.
High Grade
Boxed
Stationery
Below Cost
We are offering our 1925
line of fine stationery at
exceptionally low prices
to make room for the new
Spring Line.
Lot No. 1, Regular 50c to
1.003 for $1.00.
Lot No. 2, regular $1.00
to $1.503 for $1.50.
Lot No. 3, regular $1.50
to $2.003 for $2.00.
Lot No. 4, regular $2.00
to $2.50 for $2.50.
Lot No. 5, regular 2.50 to
3.003 for $3.00.
Popular Bifold and Club
Sizes.
TUCICER
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Women's Shoes, Women's Hose,
Men's Hats and Men's Shoe
Departments
are now located at
1028 O Street
Same block as former location, 2 doors East
Across the alley. .
Arrival of New Spring Goods in
All Departments
Women's, Hosiery
A complete Showing
HoleproofSociety Maid. Miller
The new colors include Blue Fox, Ectasy, Mauve Taupe Bisque,
Champagne, Satin Blonde, Shell Pink, Moonlight, Sunset.
Chiffon
Silk-to-Top
$2.00
Service Silk
Lisle Top
$1.50 and $1.95
Chiffon
Lisle Top
$1.G5 and $1.85
Service Silk
Van Dyke Heel
$2.25
WOMEN'S SHOE DEPT The new spring styles are particularly fac
cmating. MEN'S HAT DEPT. Ask to see the new Spring Stetsons.
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