THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
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The Daily Nebraskan
Station A. Llneoln. Nebra alia .
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TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR
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T.l.phon. Kdttori.h B68l. No. Ml Buelneeai B6M1. No.
77! Mmni odkoi.
Ent.r.d aa aecond-cla.e matter at the P?" .L' n
Nebraska, und.r act of Congw.e. March .', V '!'
rat. of potae proylded for In eectlon UOJ, act of October I.
1917. authoriaad January lO. 12.
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Arthur Sweet
Moraea W. Gomon
Ruth Palmar
NKWS EDITORS
Dwlsht McCormack
ASSISTANT NEWS EDITORS
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Managing Editor
Aaat. Managing Editor
Aaat. Managing
Oacar Norllnf
Florence S.lb.rt
Gerald Griffin
T. SIMPSON MORTON
Richard F. Vatta
Milton McGrew
William Kearna ..
.. BUSINESS MANAGER
Aaat. Buaineae Manager
Circulation Manager
Circulation Manager
SUNDAY. FEBRUARY to. 9t
TEN CENTS EACH
Two years ago the state legislature appropriated
money for a new hospital building for the medical
college at Omaha. University authorities had plned
to equip this building with modern hospital fixtures,
beds, and other items out of current maintenance
fund's. The governor slashed this part of the budget
so low that it will be impossible to equip the nearly
i,i k,,iMino nnf. nf these funds.
CUIIIflCLCU ' - -
Faced with the prospect of allowing a brand-new
building to lie idle for two years for lac or money to
equip it, the University is backing a bin wnicn wouia
appropriate $125,000 for the needed equipment.
The proposition comes down to a question of good
business judgment.
The state of Nebraska has several hundred thousand
dollars invested in a splendid medical college. It 1ms
probably more than that invested in a high class stu
dent body and a superior faculty. The new hospital
addition was intended to provide these students and
faculty members with badly needed hospital facilities
: f mBk rmfwible still better and more varied
medical training. $250,000 has been invested in the
new building. Some more money is now needed to mane
that building usable.
The health of the state is in great measure in the
hands of competent medical men trained at the state
medical college. Any investment by the people in that
plant yields a never-ending return, not only in good
doctors and physicians but in the mere presence of an
organized scientific plant where unsolved diseases may
be studied and cures perhaps discovered. Probably no
other college of the University has a faculty and stu
dent body so dead in earnest and so devoted to the
ideals of the profession it represents.
So much for the intangible returns from the med
ical college and the hospital which is run in connection
with it.
While the hospital is primarily for use as a lab
oratory under the ever-present direction of the best
men in the profession, the fact must not be disregarded
that it is also in large measure a state institution serv
ing in a field for which there are no facilities in many
parts of the state.
As Dean J. Jay Keegan has described it, the hos
pital "is in reality a State Hospital of the highest type,
rendering a service to the entire state worth over three
quarters of a million dollars annually. It is operated
day and night, Sundays, holidays and through the sum
mer months when the college is not in session."
Patients treated in the hospital come from prac
tically all parts of the state. Many have to be refused
at present because there is not enough room. The pres
ent facilities are overloaded to such an extent that
often there is not room enough for emergency cases.
The people served are in great part those who
could not afford to pay the regular private fees, and
who would become public charges. Dean Keegan is par
ticularly insistent, however, that the hospital is not a
charity institution. Every patient is asked to pay a
reasonable sum, as his means permit both for the
sake of the state which should not be forced to donate
everything, and for the sake of the self-respect of the
patients themselves. The fees charged are for main
tenance of the hospital alone, for food and laundry.
The medical service is given free by the physicians and
surgeons who make up the faculty of the college.
In a total proposed appropriation of nearly 12
million for all departments of the state, the sum of
$125,000 for this invaluable service is almost a neg
ligible proportion of the whole. It amounts in fact to
less than 10 cents each for every man and woman in
the state.
It will be thrifty judgment on the part of the
legislature if this bill is passed.
cessive worry over one thing or other, with plenty of
time'in which to do that worrying.
The college student is ordinarily so busy with his
echool work, his activities, his athletics, his dating,
and his general love of life that he doesn't have much
time for morbid thoughts of self-destruction.
All in all, college is probably the safest place in
the world for the one with any tendencies at all toward
self-murder.
The flood of Farmers' Fair committees has at last
subsided. They must have worn out the directory.
NO GRAVEYARD HERE
These are the days when the columns of The Daily
Nebraskan contain frequent mention of elections
honorary fraternities and societies of all manner and
decree.
The justification for existence of groups which set
themselves up as superior to all who have not been
elected to smell of the secret candelabrum, is probably
debatable. Yet, a group, once organized, has a will to
live which beats in tenacity that of any nine-lived cat
that ever prowled this earth.
Especially does an honorary tenaciously cling to
life if there is an inherited deficit in the treasury of
the bond. Most of them have a deficit.
Since they have a harder time dying than a turtle
and arc harder to kill than a two-horned rhinoceros,
they will probably be with us forever.
So we have the honoraries. More are born every
year. None ever die.
Notices
All
"Fewer and simpler" is
"more and better."
wiser party slogan than
In Other Columns
Professor Schramm of the geology department has
had a lot of experience with fossils. Perhaps he can put
tome life into the Interfraternity Council.
TOO BUSY AND TOO HAPPY
Nine college students within recent weeks have
committed suicide.
That this is an unusually large number of college
suicides cramped into a short time is indicated by the
wide-spread publicity in the press, and in the large
number of editorial comments.
The wave of svlf-destruction has prompted quite
a number of sage editorials. Some of these editorials
have been quite alarming in nature. Others have passed
out philosophic advice plentifully mixed with heroic
poetic feeling. A few have soberly reflected that the
suicide rate amorg students in spite of this apparent
increase may be about the same as in the population
in general.
None of the editors (as is often the wont of the
editorial page) have bothered, it seems, to look up any
actual statistics as basis for their judgment.
The latest available figures given in the world
almanac arc for 1923. At that .'me there were approx
imately 725,000 students. The suicide rate per 100,000
population was 11.6. This would mean that among the
725,000 students there might be expected about 84
suicides. There are no figures to show actually how
many there were.
The figures for 1926 probably show a larger stu
dent enrollment than in 1923. If the suicide rate at
large remained about the same, it might be .afe to
hazard an expectation of 100 student suicides, or about
8 a month.
The record of 9 in four or five weeks, is evidently
several times the normal number or so much attention
would not be given the matter. It is safe to assume,
then, that the average student sui ide rate is well un
der the average rate of the general population.
This assumption is probably all the more true when
St is recollected that college life is in the great majority
if esse the happiest, most thrilling, most wonderful,
curio:ity-)atir.?j-irigr period of a person's life.
The average suicide in probably the result of ex-
Honor Sjratem
One reads frequently now that the honor system
has failed at another college or university. It seems
that, as fine as the plan is in theory, it is not practical,
Ohio State tried it several years ago and finally
scrapped it. There seems to be something in the human
make up that makes students want to get a good grade
on examinations whether they do it honestly or not.
This may or may not be a sad commentary on
human nature, but is coming to be recognized as truth.
Ohio Stata Lantern
The Way of All Fle.h
Somebody said that women would be better oc
cupied if they would cease constructing traps and build
a few cages. While this is undoubtedly a very pretty
axiom, an empty cage was never worth much.
Every woman is justified in setting traps. Her
success in life usually hinges upon her catch. The
funny part about it is that men usually like to get
caught. A few see how many traps they can snap with
out getting hurt, but most, when they feel the bite of
the steel about their heart, sink down in blissful stolid
ity. No one objects to a woman abbreviating her dress,
both in length and in thickness, providing she does it
to catch a husband. No one objects to marcels and
make-up when it makes the woman easier to look at.
The big kick comes in when co-eds commercialize their
art in order to get better grades.
Perhaps, to be fair to all, the university should
employ only farsighted professors so that those in the
back seats would stand an equal chance with those in
the front row!
Tha Daily Iowan
4 a. m. Dances
For those who like to do things differently and
delight in finding loopholes in rules and laws, we have
a new suggestion.
- It had its origin in Iowa at Drake University, did
this plan. Rules there stipulate just how dances may
be held and when they must end. All went well and
the rules were obeyed strictly though perhaps some
of the students did not like them. All went well until
some student found a loop hole the rules for social
functions prescribed very clearly just when these
functions should end, but not one word was said about
when they should begin.
Accordingly one fraternity upset all traditions and
gave a 4 a. m. breakfast dance. More than two hundred
students and a few faculty members turned out for
this event. And now Drake University is wondering
just when the next morning dance will be held.
It is possible that the same thing might be done
on this campus, but the rules of the Council on Student
Affairs, while prescribing no definite time at which
social functions shall start, state that they must be
held on Friday or Saturday night and the word "night"
probably would stop any dance such as was put on at
Drake University.
Nevertheless, the scheme has its advantages. A
morning dance would get students up early when no
thing else would. They would be much fresher and
peppier at a 4 a. m. dance than at one at 8 or 9 p. m.
It would enable the dance orchestras to work two shifts
and double their income, too. And, since part of the
dance would be by daylight, it would save on electric
bills.
Notwithstanding all these advantages, we hardly
expect to have a 4 a. m. dance announced in this ter
ritory for some time.
Ohio State Lantern
MISCELLANEOUS
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week to gat ratea of 14.00. Altar marcn
ratea will ba 16.00 per group.
P. K. O.
ill P K n .i, .H.nia are reaueated to
met Tueada. Feb. 22. at 4 P. m. in Social
Science Hall. . ,
,..ll...vt.ii Club
R.nnn.t Grand Hotel. Monday, Feb. tl
1027, :S0 p. m.
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Junior and aenior managera of all aporta
meet at cammin atudlo Monday ai itno
for picture for Cornhuaker.
Weekly Radio Talks
Will Be Given
(Continued from Page One.)
an average, eifht or nine different
kinds of work before he finally set
ties down to his life occupation or
profession. That young people may
profit by the experience of men and
women who have risen to prominence
in their especial lines of activity and
avoid as far as possible the necessity
of trying bo many different kinds of
work is the purpose of the series of
talks, according to the committee s
announcement.
This series is frankly an innova
tion in educational work, the an
nouncement continues. "In no other
states, so far as can be determined,
has any agency undertaken to furnish
for high school girls and boys such
obviously necessary information.
This adoption of radio for a
slightly different phase of education
al work is distinctly a forward step.
It becomes possible for big business
men, successful rarmers, eminent
professional men, and leaders in all
other lines of business and profes
sional activity to speak directly and
personally to this energetic, unseen
audience of young people who will
be the leaders of Nebraska in future
years.
This series of talks was arranged
with the definite hope that the speak
ers may bring facts and suggestions
of the greatest possible value to the
young people of the state, so that
each one may choose a life work with
the highest prospects for success and
happiness.
"It is the hope that this method of j
education by example will enable our
young people to think straight and
to choose wisely the lines of work
upon which they may enter happily
and effectively. Then the great state
of Nebraska can boast of a new citi
zenship well prepared to assume the
duties and responsibilities and to en
joy the privileges that accrue to
uccessful citizenship in a great com
monwealth. It is with this larger
dream that this project is most con
fidently dedicated."
Gayle C. Walker, acting director
of the school of journalism of the
University, is chairman of the group
which arranged the series of talks,
the committee on education of the
junior division of the Lincoln cham
ber of commerce.
SENIOR LEADER
TO BE ELEGTFD
NEXT TUESDAY
(Continued from Page One.)
ures of this kind must be taken,"
declared Glenn Buck, chairman of
the Student Council when interview
ed by the Nebraskan reporter late
Saturday evening, "but we feel, as a
body, that in justice to students and
to the student candidates in the race,
every possible measure must be taken
to do away with dishonesty.
"A great deal of time will be spent
on the formulation of rules for the
spring election," he continued. "We
hope to get in touch with other uni
versities of the size of this institu
tion and perhaps can obtain useful
election methods from them. We
sincerely hope that it will never be
necessary for us to have to take such
action as this again."
Robert Stephens of University
Place and Richard Brown of Hold-
rege are the two candidates iinng
for the position of senior class presi
dent.
Council members in charge of the
election Tuesday will be: Eloise Mac
Ahan. Sylvia Lewis, Ernestine Mc
Neil, Emmerson Mead, Richard Vette
Simpson Morton, Jim Jensen and
Esther Zinnecker.
of the Y. M. C. A., told of the sit
uation aa It exista today in Chinu
and of the interests of the Y. M. C
A. there. Mr. Brockman has headed
the association work in China for
eighteen years. His address consisted
of relating experiences in the or
ient, telling of the present ruction
in the country and of the work that
the Y. M. C. A. had done there. Wade
Reeves, of Omaha, was also on Fri
day's program, giving a report of the
World Conference at Helsingfors,
Finland, last year.
The convention was well attended
by representatives from all over the
state in evcy branch of Y. M. C. A
work. The meeting place for next
year ha not been decided upon. This
matter i 'eft to the decision of ttlate
council. J. Dean Rinyer, of Omaha
a . k .tl a.
was elecrei prcsiceni ox mis rieei
ine. Mr Ringer is Postmaster at
Omaha and a graduate of the Uni
versity of Nebraska.
Staemehip University
The steamship university, whose
campus is the entire globe, is proving
successful. The university has formed
an unrestricted honor system and
complete student government which
has proven quite successful. Study is
graphically illustrated in travel. At
all the tropical stops there are rich
opportunities for plant study. The
study of navigation goes on at all
times, while the classes in astronomy
are to be found at night peering into
the tropical heavens. When the Ryn
dam, the name given to this steam
ship university, visits a port near
which a university is located athletic
contests are held between the land
and the sea scholars.
The Eteraal Feminine
Girls seem bent en demonstrating that they can
make good at robbing banks. Possibly it is true, as the
protagonists of feminism insist, that a girl can do any
thing that a boy can do. Still the experience of that
South Dakota girl tends to confirm the impression that
there is something in the feminine temperament which
is a serious handicap to success in a bank robbing
career.
The South Dakota girl went at the job in a meth
odical. business-like, bank-robbing manner. She first
made an estimate of the situation and then adopted
a plan of action, based on that estimate. She found
that tools would be necessary and decided to get them
in a way that would not only produce the tools but give
her a little preliminary experience. So she robbed
garage first. Arriving at the bank, she cut the tele
phone wires as all good burglars do.
Everything seemed to work out according to plan
until she approached the final objective, that is the
money. The enemy in the form of the vault put up a
stubborn resistance. And she hadn't the ingenuity to
cope with this unexpected emergency. Never having
robbed a bank we don't know precisely what a man
-vould have done under the same circumstances. In
general we think he would have called up reserves or
beat an orderly retreat. Not so this girl. She just went
over and sat down on the stairs and cried. And there
the night watchman found her.
It wasn't the impregnability of the vault which
proved her undoing. And it wasn't the vigilance of
the night watchman. It was the eternal feminine.
To this girl and to all others of a like mind we
would suggest gold digging as much safer and much
more suited to the feminine style. Tears are an asset
in a divorce or breach of promise suit. In bank robbing
they are a total loss.
The World-Herald. Omaha
Y.H.C.A. WORKERS
REPORT ON MEETING
the spring of the year. There were
several other speakers of the evening
who emphasized the fact that the Y.
M. C. A. was a promoter of clean
sports and athletics.
Nicholle Main Speaker
Friday morning Mr. Nicholls spoke
again on the interrelation or the
Boys', Young Men's, and Student De
partments of the Y. M, C. A. He
pointed out the fact that the work
was not to help young men and boys,
but so they could help themselves.
Friday afternoon was well taken up
with business matters and there were
special conferences by groups. John
Allison presided at these conferences
and discussed the possibilities of stu
dents doing community work with
boys. A thorough plan was presented
for doing work in cities in which
there are associations and those in
which there are not.
At the closing banquet Friday
night, Flecher S. Brockman, who is
one of the international secretaries
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Courses Announced
For Summer School
(Continued from Page One.)
pert in Rural Education in the South.
His work in Montgomery County,
Alabama, has attracted the attention
of educators in every state of the
country. Mr. Harman will conduct
two classes dealing with rural educa
tion for a period of two weeks, and,
in addition give some general lec
tures.
Dr. Reginald Charles McGrane,
Professor of History and head of the
Department of History at the Uni
versity of Cincinnati, has taught
three summers at Nebraska and it
well known. He is prominent in his
tory circles as editor of The Biddle
Papers and author of two other
books, "The Panic of 1837" and "The
Life of William Allen."
Dr. Louis Martin Sears, Professor
of American History at Purdue Uni
versity, has specialized in diplomatic
history, and has in manuscript "A His
tory of American Diplomacy," which
will soon be published. He is well
known in Indiana as an effective
teacher and an able public speaker.
Dr. W. M. Gewehr, Professor of
History and head of the Department
of History at Denison University,
Granville, Ohio, served as exchange
professor of history in the Boxer In
demnity University (Tsing Hua), al
Peking, China, in 1924-25 H
m japan
ivurea.
and
Pauline B. Camp, who has done e,
tensive work in the field of sPMfn
correction, is now Director of ChiM
Guidance and Special Education of
the Madison Public Schools, wi.
consin. w"'
Complete information regardin
the summer sessions can be obtalw
by writing the Director of the Sum
mer Session, University of Nebraska"
Lincoln, Nebraska.
Neihardt Consents To
Aid "Schooner" Staff
John G. Neihardt, Nebraska'. ...
laureate and noted writer, has con
sented to serve as one of the advi
ory editors of the Prairie Schooner
newly established quarterly literary
magazine at the University. Mr Ne
hardt is now literary and dram..;"
critic for a St Louis news.,on.
Freshmen Laws To
Study In Research
All freshmen in the college of W
are required to take a course in Wi
bibliography this year. The xva
under the direction of G. E. Pri
law librarian, consists of instruction
and practice in the correct methodi
of legal research.
Contents Of Museum
Being Moved Slowly
The museum staff is gradually pro-ceeding-wiih
the task of moving the
thousands of specimens from the old
building to the recently-completed
Morrill hall. F. E. Collins, assistant
curator, is already established in his
new office.
FORMER INSTRUCTORS
TO MAKE TRIP ABROAD
Miss Ruth McDill, formerly an as
sistant in the department of geog
raphy, and now an instructor in geog
raphy in thu University of Oklahoma,
and Miss Vera Rigdon, instructor in
geography in the state teachers col
lege at Cedar Falls, la., are planning
to make a trip to Europe next sum
mer.
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