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The Daily Nebraskan
Station A. Lincoln. Nebraeka
OKFICIAL, PUHLI0AT10N
UNI VKRSITY OP NKHRASKA
Deaer Direction of the Student Publleetloa
Board
PuUuhed Tunilir, Wedneedar. Thureiair
friU and Sunday mornmga during Ik
aeadamle ear.
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Pueineae Offlcee Wait etand of Stadium.
Office llonri Afternoone with tha imp
Man of Friday and Sunday.
Telephone Editorial I Bftl, No. life
luinlMti BHI. No. 77! Night. IHW81.
Entered ai aecond-elaaa matter at tha
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tl Congreae, March I. 119, and at aneclal
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SUBSCRIPTION RA1B
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Single ropy, a
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Tlator T. Hacklar ...
William Cajnar .....Manag Ing Editor
Arthur Swaat Aaa"t Managing Ed or
U, Vanea Aaa't Managing Editor
NEWS EDITORS
oraaa W. Gomon N.ola Bkala
Fred R. f.lmmer
ASSISTANT NEWS EDITORS
aarg. A. Healer Ruth Palmar
Kenneth R. Randall .
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Vary Lonlae Freeman Dwight McCormac
Ellce Holnvtchiner Rohert Lcn
Gerald Griffin Lee Vanea Arthur Swaet
BUSINESS 8TAFK
T Slmpaon Morton Buaineaa Manager
tic-hard F. Vatta..Aaa't Buaineaa Manager
Milton Mr Craw Circulation Manager
William Kearna Circulation Manager
THE POINT SYSTEM
A few days more and the over
worked, over-nctivitiod women of the
Nebraska campus will have a cham
pion to defend them from the honors
and just plain hard work heaped up
on them by their over generous
friends and by the organizations to
which they belong. Many are the
women of the campus who say, "Yes"
when they should say, "No"; it is
hard to turn down a friend who
comes to one with that worn out
but flattering explanation, "we just
have to have someone in charge of
this who is responsible." She is like
ly to remember the time when she,
too, was in deep distress and an over
worked friend saved the day by
timely assistance. Thereupon she
eliminates the preparation of tomor
row's economics lesson from her
schedule and in its place inserts "as
sistance to a friend in need."
The point system has arisen from
the dust of the ages and for the past
week or two has wandered like a
ghost around the campus. One heard
rumors of its presence- but had no
assurance of its existence. Now it is
really coming to life with a system
for card cataloging the activities of
every woman on the campus and the
curtailment of these activities to a
point wherethey need not interfere
with classes and class preparation.
Enforcement seems possible when the
dean of women and an A. W. S. com
mittee stand back of the system.
For a long time there has been
much discussion and great condem
nation of the lack of restriction as
to how many activities a university
woman, or man for that matter, shall
carry. It may be that students who
' allow their activity schedule to
crowd out their study schedule are
weakminded in not preventing this,
but the fact remains that many a
student has not the strength of char
acter to turn down an honor, even
though he realizes the work and re
sponsibility which that honor car
ries. The honor may in fact be no
honor; when it is once attained he
may no longer desire it; but so long
as it remains abstract it is attractive
and once it becomes a fact he no
longer has the power to refuse it.
The point system, if it is properly
enforced (and it looks as though it
will be), will be at least a check up
on the activities which a university
woman may carry. She will be
obliged to choose, to weigh values
carefully, and eliminate those activ
ities' which seem to contribute the
least to the rounding out of a uni
versity '4fe. This system, seemingly,
would eliminate automatically those
absolutely useless organizations of
which we so often hear for there
wo aid be no one to support them. It
is supposed that people can be found
to support those which are worth
while. It should also distribute the
honors and duties of college life
among a larger number of university
women.
Thus, far we heartily commend and
appreciate the system, and only sug
gest that it be extended to include
- temporary positions upon commit
tees, drives, and so forth, so that no
woman who is carrying her limit of
points in permanent activities may
take on extra temporary ones.
ANOTHER LETTER
Another letter-on the alleged sup
pression of news in The Daily Ne
braskan appears in the "Other Opin
ions" column today written by the
same person who made the charges
more than two weeks ago. There are
so many charges made and so many
qcestions asked that it would prob
ably take the whole editorial page
to answer them. And then we
wouldn't have room to print the let
ter. From our observations on the cam
pas we have come to the conclusion
that no one is particularly interested
in this matter but the writer of the
letter and the editor of the Nebras
kan. T teems rather cruel to force
cur debate upon the readers of the
Nebraskan but then news isn't so very
plentiful riht now and we might
as well fill up with letters such as is
printed today as any thing else.
There is one thing in the - letter
which we consider of interest. That
is the statement that the writer has
"cm tare material, which would
fcuvin'itie even the editor of The Daily
Ketral;an. I can have it in shape by
H An. 20, providing I receive accep
t;..'.:c cf the challenge by Jan. 17."
This challenge, we take it, is to print
the "rare material."
Unfortunately the writer did not
designate just how we are to accept
this challenge, whether we are to fire
a gun three times in tho air, send
our seconds to the writer with a
scaled acceptance, or merely call up
and say "can we plcaso have your
rare material. "
At any rate wo have not accepted
the challenge and we do not intend
to do so. If the writer has anything
on December 20 or any other day
which he would care to have printed
in The Daily Nebraskan he will
either send it to us, bring it to us,
let us come and get it just like
everyone else does or clso it won't
get in tho paper. We will bo glad to
receive any such communication but
we can make no promises now about
its getting in the paper. If, after re
ceiving the material, we think it is
worth printing it' will be printed. If
we don't, the writer will probably
have to go to the expense of print
ing another handbill.
Having answered the only point
we consider worth answering we will
cease bothering our readers with the
subject any more. If the writer of
the letter would really like to have
his questions answered and is not
writing them just for the effect, we
will be triad to answer them or any
others to him personally. Let us say
in ireneral. however, that our ideas
have not changed a bit since January
and that what we said then still
holds good now.
We don't know just what our K.
n T C. courtesy" is supposed to
prompt us to do. Maybe we are sup
posed to turn over the columns of
The Daily Nebraskan to anyone who
cares to write for them. Whether or
not it 1s due to our instruction re
ceived while taking the R. 0. T. C.
course, we feel that we can hardly
be reproached for lack of courtesy
in this matter so far. We have at
least refrained from dealing in per
sonalities or indulging in the childish
pleasure of calling names.
Other Opinions
The Daily Nebraskan 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.
To the Editor:
The Daily Nebraskan of Jan. 13,
contained a reprint of an editorial
by Sam Johnson, editor of The -Daily
Texan, who resigned because of fac
ulty and administrative pressure
used in a most heinous manner.
"University officials actually did
trv to muzzle the press of the Uni
versity of Texas," declares the editor
of The Daily Nebraskan in an ac
companying editorial. Everybody is
supposed, of course, to draw the con
clusion that the editor of The Daily
Nebraskan is not in the same boat
as the Texas editor.
The only difference, Mr. Editor,
is that the Texas editor was indi
rectly suppressed in writing and re
fused to suppress news while the rse
braska editor is indirectly suppressed
in other ways and does his own sup
pressing. A certain delicate pressure
exists which causes Nebraska editors
to suppress news, or the managing
editor, whoever of the editorial staff
is responsible for the suppression of
news in The Daily Nebraskan. Thus
the editor of The Daily Nebraskan
is the goat of the whole affair and
can't see it, whereas the Texas edi
tor could see it.
The editor of The Daily Nebraskan
reminds me of certain patient burros
and fiery mules the undersigned used
to pack in his army daysThe first
thing that was always done was , to
Little stories about the
You May Inspect
In the past 12 nstalments we
have had considerable to- say
- about the cleanness of every
thing connected with the Cen
tral Cafe. And Manager Harris
gives to you and your friends a
standing invitation to come in
any time, night or day, and ask
to be shown through the entire
plant from the big fry station
next the north window to the
store room in the basement.
So to speak, the Central
wears its "Sunday-go-to-meet-in'
" clothes every day 24 hours
a day. Not that it never
changes its dress, but that it is
always "dressed up" and ready
to welcome visitors. You are
always welcome.
The big range or fry station
near the window is itself worthy
of a careful "once( over''. Its
huge pr6portions, its stainless
rustless metal, its steam table
for foods to be served, its pots
for making French fried pota
toes, its big plates for frying,
are all of interest.
You will see meat slicers,
bread cutters, electric toasters,
electric egg boilers, meat grind
ers', mixers, potato peelers, dish
washers, bake ovens, a shower
bath, and a store room which
would make many a grocery en
, vious. Also a cold storage sys
tem and air-washing plant
worth your while to inspect. '
132S P
(Ta be continued)
Notices
"N Ctrl."
Cornhuskcr pictures wearing N'i
must be taken within two weeks.
Townsend studio.
W. A. A. Board
Make appointment immediately for
Cornhuskcr picture if necessary 1
Nebraika Enfineerinf Society
The date for the Cornhusker pic
ture is postponed until Thursday,
Feb. 1 at 1- o'clock.
Green Goblins
Green Goblin meeting at the Phi
Sigma Kappa house Tuesday Jan. 18,
at 7 o'clock. All members must be
at the meeting.
Alpha Zeta
The picture for tho Cornhusker
will be taken at the Campus Studio
at 12:30 o'clock, Jan. 19.
Iron Sphinx
There will be a meeting of the
Iron Sphinx Tuesday evening, Jan.
18 at 7:15 o'clock ir. Social Science,
room 205.
Oikia Club
The picture for the Cornhusker
.will be taken at tho campus studio
this January 18. All members be
there on time.
Commercial Club
Men's commercial club picture will
be taken at noon today (Tuesday)
at the campus studio.
Men'i Commercial Club
Men's Commercial Club dinner at
put blinders on the beast of burden.
After that came the baggage. There
upon the blinders were removed and
the poor brutes never knew, or pre
tended never to know, the difference.
After reading your editorial of
Jan. 4, I had decided not to bother
answering your editorial. But since
you are determined to keep up the
misrepresentation, and since reading
the lame pretense you put up on
Jan. 13, I have decided to answer.
I have charged that The Daily
Nebraskan suppresses news, a fact
so plain that there is no argument
about it. I have never said just how
that censorship operates. In the
handbill the undersigned charged
that "this release (that of Dec. 16)
contained a series of exposures, re
vealing one phase of a censorship,
affecting even the city papers, that
has existed for years." Will The
Daily Nebraskan open its columns to
an article presenting the proof
FOR EVERY SORT OF SILK FROCK MAY
BE HAD AT CLEARANCE PRICES DURING
OUR JANUARY
CLEARANCE SALE
Lincoln'a Biiey Store
Cor.
Great Advance Sale of Smartest Mew
Spring Dresses at
THE DAILY NEBR ASKAN
tha Gr ind hotel 6:15 Wednesday,
January 10. All members be there.
Joint Fraternity Dinner
Delta Sigma IM-Alpha Kappa Psl
dinner at the Grand 6:00, Thursday,
January 20.
Home Economici Club
Home Economics Club dinner,
Tuesday, at 0 p. m. in the Home
Economics par!ors. Interesting pro
gram. Sigma Lambda t
Meeting at 7 o'clock in Ellen
Smith Hall.
Palladian Literary Society
Open meeting, Saturday, January
22, at 8:30 p. m. A cordial invita
tion is extended to the public.
Ad. Club
Ad Club will meet at the Campus
Studio Tuesday at 12:30 o'clock for
Cornhusker picture.
which the undersiimcd has for that
statement? I have some rare mater
ial, which would surprise even the
editor of Tho Daily Nebraskan. I
can have it in shape by Jan. 20, pro
viding I receive acceptance of the
challenge by Jan. 17.
Your editorial of Jan. 4, frankly,
Mr. Editor, contained five false
hoods. You present me as making a
chanre I never made and then you
refute the charge and haven't even
the courtesy to print the letter to
show how cowardly you acted when
you falsified one of my charges.
You said that I charged that The
Daily Nebraskan had been "silent or.
the military drill controversy." I
made no such charge. I did charge
that The Daily Nebraskan "was si
lent" on something else last spring
that spread over the country in no
time. Will you print the release and
let the University public see whether
I'm wrong when I call your act a
cowardly act?
In addition vou said the letter was
a personal attack. My letter defin
itely explained and revealed that
there was no personal animosity in
volved towards anybody. The letter
has been published us full in a num
ber of places over the country. When
vou said that, you falsified again.
Will you print the release and let
the University community see if
am wrong when I call your act the
reprehensible act of a coward 7
You intimated that I had charged
that the administration had ordered
you to suppress the article of Dec.
16.' I made no such charge. I did
charge that "on that day The Daily
Nebraskan suppressed a release han-
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'The Beat for Leae"
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only
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died by three press associations."
Where is then any "falsehood" in
that charge?
In the coml'ifixn of your editorial
for Jan. 4 you wroto the following:
"What we have attempted to do in
the past and will continue to attempt
in the future is to run an impartial
student newspaper." On Jan. 7 tho
"policy" of the paper, as explained
in an editorial, is to support the
"policies" of the University. On Jan.
13, the editor whoops it for the edi
tor of Tho Daily Texan who has time
and again refused to support tht
"policies" of the Texas adminirtra
tion and who says that The Daily
Texan, as a representative university
daily, "being a student organ
should represent, fight with and for
the 5,000 University students rather
ihnn tbe BOO University officials." On
Jan. 7, In another editorial, you ex-
nlnined that The Daily MebrasKan
would not offer any critiques of
classes this semester because it
might be hard on the instructors be
cause of the varying views of the
stndents. One thing is sure: You
never told the truth on Jan. 4. To
show vou what subtle influence works
on The Daily Nebraskan here's an
other nuestion: Will you tell the Uni-
wnroifv nil hi if? definitely what is the
policy of The Daily Nebraskan? Willi
vnu make that statement wimuui
consulting the Publication Board?
You said that you kept the student
letter out of your columns on Dec.
17 because vou didn't have room lor
it. The truth of the matter is that on
Dee. 17 The Daily Nebraskan was
abort of codv and you had to reprint
virtually the same article that you
had in the paper on Nov. 23, occupy
ing the same column on the front
page.
I have made certain charges with
regard to an article appearing on
Dec. 12. You have refused to reprint
that article, an article that could
very well be taken, and was taken in
a number of places, as an attempt to
intimidate the faculty or certain
members of the faculty. The manag-
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FORMAL ATTIRE
Different notes In men's attire f cr Corsnal
wear are taucb in evidence tills ceascn. The
eet standard cS design in dinner and evcnlcs
clothes, that has held sway Ccr tho past Ccar
or five years, has experienced a new trend
To attempt to portray with lUsstratlcns c?
describe with words these new and inter-
estins phases c2 Ccrcxal attire for nsen..,is
quite futile. -Merely reading ahoet them cseans
so little actually eecirs thesn mears co oueh!
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ing editor explained to me during
Christmas vacation that that article
had been, like other articles, abUut
the office for some time. That is im
possible for tho address by Prof.
Jenks was given in Philadelphia at
the close of November. Another
thing: the article was not an "ad
dress." It was only an abstract of
the address. In your editorial of Jan.
4 you said no member of the faculty
or of the administration had ever
told you to put a story into The
Daily Nebraskon. I make no charges
but if that is the case, from where
did that article come? How did the
managing editor happen to know off
hand that Prof. Jenks spoke hero
twenty years ago? How does "boiler
plate" happen to bo in a conspicuous
place on the front page? Since when
has It become customary to play up
certain paragraphs in "boiler plate"
as on Dec. 12? Didn't the article
come to you on Dec. 11, the day be
fore you went to print?
You accused mo of using bulldoz
ing methods. The fact is, Mr. Editor,
that during Christmas vacation I
asked the managing editor of The
Daily Nebraskan if he would print
the release when school began. He
was more than evasive and would
give mo no promise. He never
charged, as you did, that there was
anything personal In the letter. He
finally stated, after many evasions,
that the release was probably kept
out just because it was kept out. I
agreed with him on that. I asked him
if he would continue to keep It out.
He still would give no promise of
any kind. I informed him that I
would seek other means to get v it
nublished. I did, for that refusal, on
the part of the managing editor, was
responsible for the handbill on Jan.
3, with its additional charges.
In closing, Mr. Editor, I want'to
sav that I hold no personal grudge
against you or the managing editor,
in spite of what has happened. My
code is to go at least half way in
meeting people who are kindly dis
posed. Both the editor and the man
jo
Appzrd FbrHcn. tbmst 6 Czldrcn
aging editor are members of the It
O. T. C. One of the- points In favor
of military training is supposed to
be courtesy. What the writer saw of
It for two years in tho army Wa,
pretty thin soup. Are you willing to
come across and show that as fur aa
the H. O. T. C. is concerned there
is such a thing as courtesy? I shall be
ashamed of myself if I don't meet
you at least half way. How about it
now? 1
Anton H. Jensen.
Aylsworth Probing
Township Government
Prof. L. E. Aylsworth is conduct
ing a special investigation of county
and township government in Nebras
ka especial'" of the two rival sys
terns of township government, the
commissioner and supervisor plans.
As a part of this work he gent
double post cards with a questionaire
attached to 470 township clerks In
Nebraska requesting information re
gardlng the annual township meet
ings which were held last Tuesday,
as to attendance and business done.
Tho object of this is to discover the
general interest in these meetings.
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