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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN The Daily Nebraskan Station A. Lincoln, Nebraaka official puhlication UNIVKKSITY OK NtHHAlKA Under direction of the Student I'ubllcatloa Board TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR rubllahed Tuenlair, Wednesday, ThureOar, Friday, and Sunday mornlncs during- the acadei.iie year. Fditorlal Office Unlveralty Ha!l 4. Hu.lnex Offica W..t atand of Stadium. Offiea lloura Editorial Staff. 1 lOO to fiOO except Friday and Sunday, lluaineaa Staff I afternoona except Friday and Sunday. Telephone. Editorial! nSRtl, No. 142 1 Buelneeii B68l. No. 11; Niiiht 1I8HHJ. . Entered aa eeoond-clane matter at the po.tofflee In Lincoln. N.bra.l... under act of Consre... March 8 1 7. and at .peciji rate of po.taire provided for In lection 110S, act of October I, 11)17. authorised January , i". 12 year. SUBSCRIPTION RATE 8innle Copy S eenta fl.SS a aemeater WILLIAM CEJNAR Lee Vanre . Arthur Sweet Horace W. Comon Ruth fainter NEWS EDITORS EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Managing Editor Aaat. Manailna Editor Aaat. Menacing r.anor Florence Swihart Dwlght McCormack ASSISTANT NEWS EDITORS Mary Loulae Freemln Oicar Norling Gerald Griffin A atudont election at Stanford waa called off be cause there weren't enough ballots. The trouble with Nebraska's election yesterday seems to be that there were too many ballot. If the measure to make third-semester pledging mandatory is passed by the state legislature, the elabor ate rushing plans of many a fraternity may all go up in smoke. The pastepot is mighty hnndy around an office. Dut have you ever seen one which had a brush long enough to reach down and get that last daub of paste? Notices How unimportant that little finger on the left hand seems to be until you cut it with the scissors and have it wrnpt up in a clumsy bandage. The masthead of our old high school paper con tains thirty or more names only. Six of these are boys, What's the old school coming to? T. SIMTSON MORTON Rlrhard F. Vette .. Milton McGrew ... William krarna BUSINESS MANAGER ... AM. Hualnena Manairer Circulation Manager Circulation Manager WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 1. 1827 CH ARACTER-TRAI NING? Another student election and another series of rumors that there has been dishonesty. That seems to be the usual thing to expect, but this time there is a difference. The president of the Student Council has declared null and void the election of one of the class officers. He has definite proof that there was dishonesty. Another election is scheduled for next Tuesday. The campus public is prone all too often to waive away lightly charges of dishonesty at student elections. "Sour Grapes" is one explanation often given, and if thof tnnsn'r RAt isfv the last stand is: "It doesn't mat- nvhnr Thn offices don't mean anything." And with that the whole matter is dismissed. And right there is where the campus public and especially those particularly concerned are making one of the biggest mistakes of their academic careers, mey forget that college is the last formative stage in the character-building of thousands of young men and wo men; that it is an intermediary stage between home- life and later life out in the world; and that here, if any place in the. world, old-fashioned principles of rugged honesty ought to be upheld to the very limit These elections may be insignificent in themselves. But involved in them are the basic principles of honesty and fairness, which know no limits of size whether on the side of minuteness or on the side of greatness. Character-building in purpose, as all campus activities are supposed to be at bottom, these student elections, insignificent though they may be in actual import, become pernicious character-destroying demons if al lowed to degenerate to the stage where they now seem to be. That these conditions have gradually arisen is quite easy to understand. The great desideratum of the world, and this campus, no less, is to get along amicably, to have cooperation, and to avoid at all costs any open conflict. That kind of a working theory of life is fine on the surface, but. gradually underneath there is ac cumulated more and more audacity, and more and more disregard of elemental principles, because the trans gressors feel safe in the thought that those in authority "don't want to have any unpleasantness." The election incident yesterday is just another case in point. Unfair practices at former elections have so often been countenanced because the appear ances of peace and quiet were desired, that finally those who make a practice of it come right out in the open. And perhaps right now they think they are per fectly safe, because the world does like to avoid un pleasant situations, and it is easier to let such things go by unnoticed and unredressed than prosecute vigor ously and prevent their recurrence. IWi time to call a halt to such vicious practices. The Student Council has evidence that there was dishonesty in the election yesterday. The Council has decided that another election must be held for the particular office involved. Still another duty faces the Council. It should prosecute vigorously, without fear and without mercy, in its own court, those who are now informally accused of misconduct. And if found guilty these persons should be expelled from all activities as a minimum punishment. In that way, and only that way, can there be as surance that future elections will be run honestly and squarely. If this election scandal is not cleaned up to the satisfaction of all there can be very little assurance that future elections will not be tampered with by the same elements that misconducted themselves yesterday. Northwestern University has decided to keep the ratio of men and women students at 7 to 5. This pro bably means that campus dates for the boys, will be at a premium, and that booking for next fall's parties will start early in spring. THAT FAMILY DAY IN JUNE By a vote of 486 to 275 the students yesterday decided not to abolish the Ivy Day Orator. The wisdom of this decision The Daily Nebraskan "does not care to question. There is probably some ad vantage in keeping old traditions for no other reason than that the? art traditions. But there is another significence to this expressed desire of the students to retain this old feature of Ivy Day. Outside of the Ivy Day orator and the May Queen the Ivy Day ceremonies are practically nothing but a family field day for the two senior honorary societies. The only voice the students have in the festivities is through th orator, the May queen, and in a small degree - through the junior and senior class presidents. The parts played by these have been subordinated to such an extent that they are a minor factor. Ivy .Day exercises for many years have been at tended by only a small fraction of the student body. That this is so may be ascribed to many causes. Among them may be listed the general lack of public interest in ceremonies of any kind. But a better reason might be the general opinion that the exercises are simply a family day for the two senior societies. So long as this impression exists, there can be very little hope for any great amount of genuine public interet. Th vote -of the students t retain the Ivy Day orator shows that they still have some degree of in terest in that part of the exercises in which they still have some voice. Their choice for that office happens Vo be a man of high caliber who upholds in all respects the high standards of his predecessors. If he is given e fair chance, and allowed to speak at the time when most of the small crowd is still there, instead of after tlie other features of the day have been gone through, he will measure up fully to all expectations. TLa Ri Mh wonders if 4 thousand dollars' worth t,f everst-ued fumitrare and furnishings will have any 'fc.t on Ntbrajla's athletic record next year. A lojl-God eubition unrealized to throw a hand - f rr'.-ar j - -".e coed's unbuttoned galoshes. The older an upperclassmen thoy seem to grow thu freshmen. gets, the younger Many a romance would last longer if there were no telephones. "Just one more snow now, and spring will be here." In Other Columns Why Ht Any Rules? Murder the King's English and disregard all prin ciples of grammar and diction if by so doing you put "punch" and personality into your speech. Incredible as it may seem, this revolutionary dic tum is th egist of a theory expounded by a University of Chicago instructor at a recent session of the congress of English teachers. It is possible that the theory was intended only to strike a lively not in an otherwise dull convention, but to most English scholars it has struck a discordant note as well. Murder the King's English, indeed! At its purest, this language of ours is woefully lacking in phonetic beauty. What it needs is more rulesfi if anything, to allow it to retain whatever beauty it still possesses. As for "personality," good English offers as many opportunities for the expression of personality as any other language; more, in fact, than most others. One wonders just a little about the personality of a so-called "man of letters" who would advocate such an unheard of proposition. It would indeed be interesting to attend a class opened with the words: "Hi, dere, boys and girls. Keen day, ain't it?" uBt that's personality, plus. So why have rules? University Daily Hansen Four Out of Five) Four out of five may or may not have pyorrhea, but four out of five students at Ohio State University do not attend any church in the University district regularly. This fact was established through a survey made by the Campus Churches Association. Immediately some people will begin to talk about the godless youths of today and atheistic students, but we fail to grow alarmed. Twenty per cent seems to us to be a fairly good average. We have no' statistics on hand to offer, but we daresay that percentage compares favorably with the percentage of persons in the average community who go to church. Even if the student record did suffer somewhat by comparison we would not grow alarmed. When a boy or girl becomes a college studnet, in most cases he or she is free from parental restraint for the first time in their lives. If church attendance had more or less been forced upon them all their lives, then it is natural that the reaction should make them stay away from church, for a while at least. This normal reaction accounts for much student absence from church. Furthermore, most university students are at an age when they are experiencing their first religious doubts. Nobody, not even the church, can help them through these. They take their own course, sometimes having lasting effects and sometimes not. It accounts for a little more of the church absence among students. And so, all in all, we cannot get alarmed over the fact that four students out of five do not go to church. Ohio State Lantern WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 16 Lutherana Lutheran Illl.le League mecta for Bible tudy Wedneaday at 7 p. m. Faculty Ward 202 Temple. Alalia Knai Pal Alnha Kimia Pal meeting- Wednesday February It at the Alpha Sigma l'hl home at 7 p. n. n.ll Nahraakan Staff All thoie who have worked on the Dally Nohraakan either thia aemeater or laat hmilii have their ulrture for the Corn huaker taken at the Campua Studio Wed neaday. Feb. 1. at It -At aharp. There will be two separate pirturca takrnt one of laat aemeater'a ataff and one of thla aemea- ter'a ataff, including reporters. Girl'a Commercial Club V Meeting Wednesday at 6:00 o clock In Ellen Smith Hall. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17 Sliver Serpenta Meeting 7:10 Ellen Smith Hall Thursday. Pershing Riflea Pershing Rifles will hold second aemeater try outs for new members Thursday after. noon at 8:00 o'clock. Those winning to try out report at Nebraska Hall at the atated hour. Dramatic Club Dramatic Club meeting, Thursday eve nlng, Feb. 17, Dramatic Club Room at 7:00 sharp. Vary important. Margaret Dudley Rep. Math Club Meeting of Math Club In Social Science 218, on Thursday. Feb. 17, at 7:30 o'clock. ejection of offlrera. Scabbard and Blade Scabbard and Hlade meeting Thursday at .10 in Nebraska Hall. Election of new members. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18 Baptiat Studenta- Dinner The Daptiat Studenta club has planned a dinner at the Firat Kaptiat church Friday evening at 6:15. Dr. Allyn K. Foster, stu dent secretary of the Kaptiat Hoard of Education, will be gueat and apeaker. All Kaptiat studenta and their frienda ara In vited. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19 Chess Club Open meeting of Cheas Club. Saturday at 7 :30 Y. M. C. A. room. Temple. Every body invited. Lutheran Student Club Lutheran Student Club party Faculty Hall, Temple. Saturday evening. Feb. 10. 80 p. m. Rev. C P. liarrv. Norriatown. Pa., speaker. Musical numbers. Refresh ments served by committee, Mlsa Alice Sokcr in charge. Gladys Stewart Howard ham, Irola Corrlngton, Viva "Giles, Esther Herman, Evelyn Johnson, Henry KJosterman, Josephine Mc Ginlcy, Blanche Neely. Purchasing Donald Bell, chairman ; Renfro. Snorphaum Harold Frost, chairman; Campbell, Howard Clark, Hardy, Glen Hedlund, Dick Johnson, Sydney Pool, Julian Stone, Stanley Wanlkas. Tick.u Anton Frolik, chairman; Russell Batie, John Roth, Secretary, Ralph Gemmell, Nelson Jodon, Kenneth La Rue, William Limic. Transportation Lawrence' Garvic, chairman, Har old Fulscher, Secretary, Watson Fos ter, Louis Mittlestadt. Wild Wait Francis Reece, chairman; William Buchanan, LeRoy Fussell, Alton Moran, Louis Taggart. Yllow Dof raul Fowler, chairman; George Garrison. Erwin Hutchinson, Paul Howe. White Instructs Radio Listeners On Debating Y. II. C. A. WORKERS TO ATTEND MEETING COMPLETE LIST OF WORKERS ON FAIR ANNODNCED Newspaper Soula They're both right The Daily Nebraskan, Uni versity of Nebraska newspaper, and The Omaha World Herald, each of them recently having been engaged in a sprightly discussion of modern journalism as compar ed with the "good old days" of Bowles, Dana, Watter- son and Horace Greeley. The University paper rather-petulantly editorial ized the other day on the lack of the "personal touch' in modern newspaper work. It seems to be the opinion of the youthful editor that the business office dictates and controls too much these days. The World-Herald spanks the University publica tion with the statement that the school editor hasn't delved deep enough into his eubject, and proceeds to name a few Nebraska newspaper men and women, for instance, who have stamped their publications with in dividuality more or less. They're both right, however. The old time School of Journalism, whose editors led public opinion chiefly because public opinion was easily led has disappeared from4he scene of action in large measure. Fortunate indeed we are that such is the case. The bombastic gentlemen who conducted the journals of enlightenment of that period basked in a sunlight of reputation which they did not always earn. They were individual, it is true, but they had a lot of attributes about 'em that rather bedims their luster sometimes. The modern newspaper man DOES hide his person ality to a great extent, and there are a dozen reasons why he should, any of them good. Students of journa lism know that the "by-line" is being rankly abused and that every jack-leg ((feature writer" is not entitled to all the credit which the bold-faced title line gives him But there is still individuality in the newspaper world, even though the Greeleys and Danas and Medills have shuffled off int a kindly oblivion, leaving their talents for the rest of us to shoot at, rather feebly for the most part. As wit. Newbranch says in his comment, there are newspaper folks right here in Nebraska who ARE the souls ot their newspapers. Perhaps they're not accomplishir .g all that the world expects of them, but they're no rubber stamps depend upon that. The earnest and capaiU- editor of The World-Herald, for in stance, is a splendid, example of personality in news paper work. The young gentleman who wrote the lachrymose editorial for The Nebraskan shows promise of having an individuality himself, else he wouldn't be digging about for couses and effects. It is true that men are engaged in the newspaper business today for profij. Newspaper-makirg is an industry, but it cannot be a profitable industry unless people read the newspapers, and those newspapers are best read whose editors and bright young reporters have Personality Plus. Nebraska CKy Vewe-Press (Continued from Page One.) bald. Violet Vallery, Frances West. Guide Book Gordon Hedges, chairman; Moselle Austin, Ruth Davis, Howard Farr. Hamburger Jessie Baldwin, chairman; Helen Bahr, Esther Leger, Florence Leg- gett, Opal Powell, Grace Rosenthal, Jean Spangler, Arlene Strubble, Le ona Pelz, Anita Workentine. Materials Cecil Means, chairman; Bertha Gross, joint chairman; Dwight An derson, Wm. Koe'nig, secretary; Min nie Sprague, Margery Towle, Irene Welsch, Paul White, Isabel Witter. Movie Morton Fredrickson chairman ; Harold Foster, Paul Frink. Pageant Lucille Refshauge, chairman; Irene Bailey, Mary Field, Louise Genung, Mildred Hawley, Maxine Churchill. Alice Klein, Rosina Heim, Ellen Lindstrom, Helen Lund. Verna Nash, Alice Slama. Pageant Coatumes Maxine Churchill, chairman; Irene Bailey, Helen Christensen, Anna Ford, Ruth Leverton, Alice Line, Mary McDill, Averil Madden, Mina Norris, Helen Noyes, Ellendean Wyn-koop. Police Lynn Cox, chairman; Morris Craig Everett Durisch, Wm. Egan, Milo Jay, Cecil Molzen, Burton Snodgrass, Philip Teal, Wm. Wtbef, Clifford Webster, Paul White. Adrertiaina; Emit Glaser, chairman; Marie Daugherty, Ralph Elliot, John Gard ner, Everett Kreizinger, Alice Loper, Mildred Unland. Newapaper Publicity James Rosse, chairman; Regina McDerniott, Secretary, Kenneth An Dorothy McCoy, Cleora Major, Har derson, Elvin Frolik, Aimed a Jose, old Marcott, E. Hale Sinnett. Sifna Wilbur Shrader, chairman; Theo dore Alexander, Zeta Tate Alling- (Continued from Page One.) mith of the Department of Physical Education of Kansas State Univer sity. Dr. Naismitli is the inventor of basket ball and pioneered with Alon zo Stagg and others in creating clean, sports and athletics. There is a special conference on student work to be held Friday mor ning at 9:10 o'clock. Mr. A. B. Nich olls will speak at 8:30 o'clock Friday morning on "ihc inter-reiaiion 01 the Boys', Young Men's, and Student Departments." Meetings of High School Boys, Teachers, and Hi-Y Leaders will be held Friday from 3:30 to 4:20 o'clock. These programs will be of special interest to the stu dents. The Yancey Hotel of Grand Island is in a position to furnish satisfactory accommodations to all delegates. The prices are reasonable, and the service is good. Write direct to the hotel in advance for accommodations which you want. The High School and College stu dent delegates will be entertained for lodging and breakfast in the homes. Request must be made in advance to the State Office or to Walter W. Smith, Y. M. C. A., Grand Island. The regular registration fee will be $2. Registration fee for boys and young men will be $1.00. This will be used to defray the expenses of the convention and the meeting of the Electoral District. All convention delegates are to be guests of the Grand Island Y. M. Ci A. for the opening banquet, 6:15 o'clock, Friday, February 18. Dr. Levine Talks To Kiwanis on Ways To Attain Good Health Omaha, Nebr., Feb. 15- Slow up on high pressure methods, indulge in less golf after a hard day's work, cut down hurry and worry, lighten gym nastic efforts, systematize methods for relaxation and quit draining physical energies if your span of years is to reach 70 when a man is mentally at his best, is the advice of Dr. Victor Levine, Creighton univer sity College of Medicine, addressing the Kiwanis Club on "Modern Ways of Modern Health." Dr. Levine says, that as a nation, we suffer of hyper-activity which re- suits in sudden and premature death of too many of our leaders. The condition is generally characteristic of men, eight meeting sudden death to one woman, he says. The differ ence is that women have learned the power of relaxation, Dr. Levine pointed cut Pyiml t Hi t fi avT""l The New Heavyweight Champion from Coast to Coast THTS new Winterweight Oxford is a recognized J. Champion in the Heavyweight Class. It has Speed, Strength and Style for any kind of foot work in all kinds of Weather. The upper leather is Tan Norwegian Calfskin with heavy harness stitching. A soft, broad toe and brass eyelets. The bottom has full double soles, a double deck storm welt, and solid leather heel. ThKmm"RESCCr Fitting Suniotudwclwirmlr m 'U REGAL i SHOES The Regal Direct University Service On Display By Mr. "Cush" Siryker PHI DELTA TIir.TA HOUSE (Continued from Tags One.) questions are often sufficiently an swered. Wet most amateur debaters fail to check their own arguments to see where the flaws lie. They forget the third question altogether. "This oversight arises from sev eral causes, first, the speaker as sumes that all he has to do is to pre sent the facts. Facts, figures, quota tions, in themselves usually mean little. It is their significance that is relevant: the conclusions to be drawn from them: the reasoning from the fact that succeeds after all in es tablishing a case. What we need more often is genuine analysis of the con ditions, more details of proof, less assertion that we have proved, or our opponents have failed to prove the contentions involved.. "iNODoay uses a nan hearted or timid arguer," the speaker continued. "Yet calm reason suggests that mere opinion does not make a statement true. Not even the opinion of em inent authorities makes a statement true. It must have the support of rea son and of other items of evidence besides mere assertion." Professor White concluded giving certain defects in the presentation of arguments. They are: 1. Failure to make oneself clear to the audience. 2. Failure to . explain the exact status of the question being debated. 3. Failure to prove by offering considerable evidence instead of by asserting or quoting the assertions of others. 4. Failure to look squarely at both sides of the case. 5. Failure to check up one's own argument for faulty reasoning. 6. Failure to clothe the skeleton of the argument with real besh. From the positive side one must know how to handle all the argument 1. To show the bearing of every point with reference to the problem. 2. To bring out the evidence in considerable detail. 3. To avoid mere assertions, without enough supporting proof through facts, statistics, reasoning fro mthem. " 4. To consider all arguments with reference to both their strength and weakness. 5. To make one's point clear, not be mere repetition, but by cogent reasons and cumulative proof all along the line. Jamin, editor of the Nevada Journal. W. P. Wortman, editor of the 2 1 vern Leader; Don L. Barry, editor of the Indianola Record; Tom Crocker of the Ames Tribune; E. F. Tucker secretary of the Iowa Press Associa' tion; and W. E. Holmes, superlnten dent of the Collegiate Press, Inc. The students are W. E. Ferebv editor of the Iowa Engineer, Hun,! boldt; S. J. McDonough, on the staff of the Iowa State Student, Valley Junction; Urta I. Thompson, as sociate editor of the Iowa Agricul. turist, Hampton; and La.. WJierry, Ames, prominent in college journalism. Dr. -E, M. Cramb. U. of N. '99 Osteopath. Burlington Blk. 13th & Q St Adv. Sigma Delta Chi To Initiate Six At Ames Ames, Iowa, Feb. 15 Special: Six men prominent in newspaper work in Iowa, and four Iowa State College students will be initiated soon into the Iowa State chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, honorary journalistic fra ternity. The six men chosen are O. J. 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