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THE DAILY NEBIt ASK AN The Daily Nebraskan Station A, Lincoln. Nobraok OFFICIAL PUBLICATION UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA Undor Direction of the Studont PabllontUa Board Thursday Pi.r.n.h.H TuMday. Wtdnaaday. Friday and Bu.iday morning's during- tka aaadamle year. Editorial Offlcaa UnWerilty Hall 4. Business Olflcai Wait stand ol Stadinra. Offlca Hours Afternoons with tha sxeep Maa of Friday and 8unday. Telephones Editorial: B6B91. No. 141; Busnless: B68l. No. 77 s Niiiht. B48J2. Entered at second-clsss mattar at tba aaatoffleo In Lincoln, Nebraska, under act e Congress, March 8. 1879, and at P rata of postags provided for In Section 1108, act of Ootober t, 117. authoriaed January i, trti. SUBSCRIPTION RATE tl a rear 1.26 ssmester Sinirle Copy. Stents. EDITORIAL 8TAFF Tlator T. Hackler .- -'!oir William Calnar Managing Editor irthur Sweat Ass't Managing Ed;tr Lea Vanca .Ain't Managing Editor NEWS EDITORS loraea W. Gomon Neola Bkala Fred R. Zlmmer ASSISTANT NEWS EDITORS eerga A. Healey Ruth Palmar Kenneth R. Randall AMTDin rrTlUrt FniTORS t...i.. c-r.m.n Dwioht McCormack Elice Holovtchlner Robert Lasch R..-.U r.riffin Lea Vanca Arthur Sweet BUSINESS STAFF T Slmpion Morton Busineaa Manager Richard F. Vette....Ass't Business Manager Milton McGrew Circulation Manager William Kearna Circulation Manager One of the most peculiar things about the University of Nebraska, and we suppose it holds true with other universities as well, is the way in which the student body isolates itself from the outside world. We are so prone to think only of ourselves and our problems that we forget much of what is going on in the out side world. We are living in a little world of our own, so to speak, which is in many ways similar to the real, the bigger world. But although this sim ilarity does exist, our problems and troubles are so small by comparison that when we get out and face the real problems we are likely to be blinded by their size. It is all very well for us to take ourselves seriously but the tremble is that too many of us forget that there is anything but the University of Nebraska in existence. What we need to see is the relationship of the Uni versity with the rest of the world rather than just the University sur rounded, figuratively speaking, by a high wall which we should never go through and over which we should seldom try to peek. About the best way to determine what a group of persons is thinking about and what it is interested in is to examine the newspaper represent ing that group. For that purpose let v.s examine the pages of The Daily Nebraskan as compared with those of the metropolitan press for a mo ment. For no special reason at all, let us take the issues of Friday, January 14 for our comparison. For the two most important positions on the front page, the New York Times selected: (1) The troubles in Mexico and Nic aragua and our Latin-American policy; (2) The attempted merger of two of the nation's great railroad systems. A representative Omaha paper carried the following two headlines in the two most important positions on the paper: "Dry Head Probes At tack by U. S. Agents"; "Criminal Plot for War Upon Mexico Seen.' A representative Lincoln paper car ried the following headlines: "Stop Force Deal Among Neighbors," re ferring to our relations with Latin America; "Inquisition into Meeker's Fitness Governor's Secretary to Submit 'Case to Neighbors at Ini perial." On the same day The Daily Ne braskan carried the following head lines in the two choice positions: "Close Games Feature Play in Tour nament"; "Journalistic Sorority Head is Guest Here." In order to be impartial let us consider also the editorials. The lead editorial in the New York Times was captioned "Excellent Intentions" and dealt with our relations with Nicaragua. The first editorial in the Omaha paper was entitled "Strange Place for Auto Accidents" and dealt with the enforcement of speed laws. In Lincoln we find an editorial cap tioned "The Bogy Man" and dealing with our relations with Nicaragua in the lead position. In The Daily Ne braskan that day we lead oft with "The Same Old Thing" wherein we bewail the fact that fraternities and sororities wouldn't quit having par ties on the nights of Varsity dances. The Daily Nebraskan is not to be blamed for thiB, unless it be conten ded that we should carry national and international news as well as University news. Maybe we should, tut that is up to the Publication Board. The deplorable thing is that there are hundreds and hundreds of students who never look at any pa per but the Nebraskan and still other hundreds who don't even look at the Nebraskan. . We would be willing to wager that a representative group of University students would know much less about world affairs than a represen tative group of persons outside of the Universitf who are the same age as the students. Perhaps we are wrong; we would like to be con vinced of the fact. It is pleasing to note the success with which the first issue of the Prairie Schooner has met. The man agement reports that all but BO cop ies are sold now and that it looks like a complete "sell-out" for Ne braska's new literary magazine. We wonder what the University of Nebraska would do if she owned an interest in a couple of producing :i .11 o tk. TTni.ioxaif it tf Tpvnfl ' Ull wcua aa bile uiiitnumj does. Perhaps future state legisla tures would not have to argue so lotid and so long over future appro priations to the University and per haps new buildings would be added to the campus with a hitherto un thought of regularity. Even Twelfth street might be pnved to the end of the campus. But the fact that the University of Texas has a good interest in two big oil wells and has built up a perman ent building fund of $5,169,203.46 since the wells were "brought in" does not seem to cause much com ment from the southern school. In fact university officials are kicking because in December the revenue to the school from its oil properties fell to ONLY ? 182,066.62. Notices 19 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. Freedom of the Press To the Editor: This freedom of the press, where is it? I wrote a article the other day on what's wrong with the university and you didn't print it yet after two weeks. Now the Daily Nebraskan is supposed to be a student newspaper and even if I am not a student my self I know that what I said in my article is" what lots of students think. Now I think that you owe it to the students to print my article on what's wrong with the university even if you leave out the part about the Daily Nebraskan and the faculty; but if you do print it and leave those parts out I will know that it is be cause the Daily Nebraskan does not have the freedom of the press and that it is being dictated to by other interests and if you don't print it at all I will know the same only more so. Now, editor, I'm not saying that it is all your fault but if you are be ing dictated to by outside interests why don't you be a man and print it and then resign like the editor down in Texas who insisted as a matter of principle on the freedom of the press. I dare you to print my article on what's wrong with the university and if you do I will write another one and expose lots of things thnt are still worse. This second aitiilj which I will write if you take my dare I can have finished and proof read by the first week after spring vacation. So don't keep on being a spineless creature. Lon. Wednesday, January ' Lutherans The Lutheran Bible League will meet for Bible study at 7 p. m. Wed nesday in Faculty Hall. Bizad Students All members of the Men's Com mercial club and the Girl's Commer cial club are urged to attend the din ner at the Grand Hotel, Wednesday evening at 6 o'clock. Student Council Meeting in Temple 204 Wednes day at 5 o'clock. Alpha Zeta The picture for the Cornhusker will be taken at the Campus Studio at 12:30 o'clock, Jan. 19. Men's Commercial Club Men's Commercial Club dinner at the, Grand hotel 6:15 Wednesday, January 19. All members be there. Thursday, January 20 College Press "THE BIG NWS OF 1926" (The Minnesota Daily) With the growth of the daily news paper in this country in the last fifty years there has developed with it two definite extremes in the manner of handling news. The first and most distasteful of all is the lurid, yellow type which plays with glaring head lines upon one large story each day True, every luige daily "high spots" one big story each dny, but there are different tastes in this regard and it is the "yellow sheet" which repre sents the extremes to which a paper goes to get readers. On the other hand there is a small coterie of news papers which cultivate, to the ex treme of eccentricity, the idea of giv- ing every story, no matter what its comparative value, the same consid eration. Here the streamer headline is dropped and the front page has no high spots save those inherent in the make-up of any newspaper. As mannerisms in newspaper make-up vary, so do editorial opin ions as to what constitutes a good story one that will be worthy of a epcr You can rent a new Saunders System car any time day or night Ask for a personal identification ard today. New Balloon Tires, Free Road Servic and Real Insurance. Com in Drive offt IAUNOIII SYSTEM 239 No. 11th St. B-I0O7 S3 tivs It Ybtsroclf J Physical Education Club Luncheon Thursday noon, January 20, at Grand Hotel. Sign on Bulletin board for reservations. Joint Fraternity Dinner Delta Sigma Pi-Alpha Kappa Psi dinner at the Grand 6:00, Thursday, January 20. Friday, January 21 Komensky Klub A program of entertainment will be given Friday January 21, in Tem ple 204, at 8:15. All Czech students cordially invited. Saturday, January 22 Palladian Literary Society Open meeting, Saturday, January 22, at 8:30 p. m. A cordial invita tion is extended to the public. Miscellaneous Nebraska Engineering Society The date for the Cornhusker pic ture is postponed until Thursday, Feb. 1 at 12 o'clock. "N Girls" Cornhusker pictures wearing N's must be taken within two weeks. Townsend studio. W. A. A. Board Make appointment immediately for Cornhusker picture if necessary I seven-column head a day and a mil lion words of discussion a week. In an article in the New Republic for January 12, Mr. Charles Merz has made a survey of the opinions of six editors from different parts of the country as to what they considered the biggest story they handled in 1926. Of course none of the six agree on any one story but the six listed represent very well what things interest the great newspaper reading public. Generally speaking these interests run to death, war, fistvc combats, sex, strikes, trans-con- tinwntal and polar air-flights. terest and time and test have proven that rather limited range almost in falliable. But, in adhering to this fixed idea of news interest, the editor lays himself open to the most violent criticism from those who are inter ested in his position only from liter ary moral or "moulding" point of view. Many there are who believe that the editor should be some man ner of preacher who carefully se lects that which he shall present to his public thinking not of what they want but rather of what they should want. True, the best journalist has a well defined standard of values; he must think beyond the mere In terests of his public. The editor is, in a way, the servant of his public, but he is by no means its serf. The de termining factor is that the success ful newspaper is the one which gives the public what it most wants to read. It is not to be denied that there are editors on leading daily news papers who are willing to corrupt their position and betray their public. These are the "yellow" journalists, but they are in the minority. For it has been proven that it is possible to conduct a daily newspaper suc cessfully without pandering to the base, or coloring the news to a lurid sensational hue. What would seem to be the best position for an editor? What would be the right one in the face of these sweeping currents? It seems that the ideal editor is the one who reserves his opinion, his moralizing instincts for his editorial page, and divorces that element entirely from the news side. Taking the news as it breaks, featuring it as he thinks it best from a news and a commercial point of view, keeping before him his duty as a news editor to give his public the story. Sencio, indirectly caused by Bud Tavlor. are few and far between. The supervision of the various boxing commissions is usually too strict 10 Dermit an unconditioned fighter to enter the ring. Jess Willard's case was different. . A "man-mountain" of his size and strength was liable to kill anyone he hit with full force. As far as baseball goes, it's a won der more pitchers and inflelders weren't killed when the "rabbit-ball" was in vogue. Ray Chapman's tragic death, after being hit by one of Carl May's underhand shoots, is the only fatal accident that can be recalled. Ice-hockey attracts crowds because it is thrilling and dangerous, but the records show Very few fatal injuries from this slashing game. Bull-fighting is no game for a weak heart or a weak stomach, either. Lacrosse and polo take their toll of victims, but according to Pedlar Palmer's son, who was in America recently, the cruelest thing in sports, next to cock fighting, is the annual Grand Nation al Steeplechase in England. Photos showing the jumps at Aintree re mind one of a troop of cavalry under machine-gun fire. Two Years Ago (Daily Californian) Which is the most dangerous sport? Is it football, boxing, polo, hockey, bulWighting, auto-racing or any one of the other thrillers in which serious accident occur? With out going into vital statistics of the case, or for that matter even at tempting to answer the question, let us look over a few of the aforemen tioned sports and see where-in the danger lies. Football is still a dangerous sport and no game of violent personal contact between two teams of red blooded youths can be without oc casional injuries but the present game, even though it is played hard er than ever before and by a great many more men and boys, has fewer serious injuries than twenty years ago. The answer lies not only in the absence of mass plays, but in the fact that the traiffltig methods of today are so much better, and the players are in vastly superior condition when game time comes around. Eighteen players were killed in 1905 and about 160 were injured, but you heard of very few fatalities or serious hurts during the recent football season. Auto-racing has its good and its bad years. In one season, 1924, six A survey of this kind has nuito justifiably lead Mr. Merz to conclude Kni(?hts o the Roarine Rad" were that the interest of the people is grounded in conflict and novelty. Conflict between man and man, be tween different groups in society, between nations, between ideas, and between man and the elements. This generalization has struck at the root interest of men. In stage drama it is conflict intensely bitter, or inten sely humorous that grips the greatest number from the orchestra box to the gallery, men will respond as one to a play that successfully drama tizes conflict. So it is with thnt. greater stage play everyday life. We read with interest the stories of another man's struggle whether he be the loser or the victor, be his bat tleground what it may. Writing for the newspaper public and deciding what it wants has come to be a science. The past has worked out a definite range of general in- killed. The loss of Jimmy Murphy Joe Boyer, Dario Resta, Ernie An- sterberg,, Earl Wilson, nd Ralph Thomas have been unequaled before or since. Boxing has suffered very few fatalities. Incidents such as the deaths of Frankie Jerome and Clever Hardy Smith BARBER SHOP Clean towel used on each cus tomer. 9 CHAIRS 116 No. 13th Street PUNCH PUNCH REAL PUNCH ORDER NOW THE IDYL HOUR 136 No. 12 NEW BRUNSWICK RECORD RELEASES Come In and Hear Them Cause I Love You. Mercy Percy All Alone Monday Whisper Sh. Don't be Angry With Mr. The Two of Us. Long Ago. We Will Meet At The End of the Trail. Just a Birdseye View of My Old Kentucky Home. Meadow Lark Ray Miller Orchestra. Sung by Esther Walker. Frank Black and Orchestra. Vernon Delhart. Sung by Wendall Hall Red Headed Music Maker Schmoller & Mueller Piano Co. 1220 o St. The State Journal plant was vis ited by the Industrial Art Projects class of Teachers College. The pur pose of the trip was to illustrate the present studies of the class on print ing and book-binding. The Kearney club of the university held a dinner at the Grand hotel for about thirty-five of its members and guests. Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Elliott of Kearney were guests. Mr. Elliott is a member of the state legislature. Lee Wells gave a talk on his recent trip to China and Miss Esther Ander son, club sponsor, spoke briefly. Dr. H. H. Marvin, chairman of the department of Physics, was a speaker at the meeting of Sigma Xi, in the Physical Laboratory. deal of confusion and a resultant loss of valuable time both to waiting stu dents and to those in charge. Under the present system, a num ber of graduate students and under graduates do the clerical ard card filing work under the supervision of the committee; and representatives of the different colleges, in close touch with the situation, are called in to handle the difficulties which arise In connection with specific case's in their colleges. The introduction ol the test schedules now used ha re duced the number of conflicts to a minimum. Fees will be paid next week at the Armory, new students will register Friday, January 28, and the Assign ment committee will meet in the Temple February 1, to consider any changes in schedule, reasons for which must be very urgent or they will not be considered. Assignment Group Revising Schedules - (Continued from page one) with assignment to classes placed in the hands of a committee is a decided improvement over the old registra tion method which was similar to the present freshman registration and which was characterized by a great SALEM'S Home of the Real Malted Milk A drink that will satisfy All HOT OR COLD LUNCHES B4584 We Deliver GREEK PHOTOGRAPHS FOR YEARBOOK SLOW Manager of Annual Says Pictures Must Be Taken by February 1; Groups Nearly Complete "Fraternity , and sorority pictures for the 1927 Cornhusker are being taken much too slowly", the editor of the year book said yesterday. "Un less the members of these organiza tions have their portraits made in the very near future, they will neces sarily be left out. The dead-line for these pictures is February 15 " Group pictures are being taken at a fairly rapid rate, it was learned in the Cornhusker office. The ma jority of the organizations have either had their sittings or have made arrangements with the photographer. Those that have not done anything about their appointment will be cill- ed by members of tho Cornhu,.., Staff within the next week "u 7 litinurillui " IT ............... ni'iiill'tlt Va,,V anoint tt.lit,,. II... . . .'", theso appointments ho muM bofn February 1, if at all posslMo. last possihlo time for silting uary 15, but arrangements must bs made for tho pictures before the fi, of tho month." Ilr,t Jones is urging all cudet officers to have their pictures taken Immcdi. tely in order that the section may U finished as soon as possihlo, ln . vious years, this section hn dvLA the printing of the book to a great extent, a thing the present stair ij endeavoring to avoid. 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