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f: t. . THE DAILY NEPBASKAN The Daily Nebraskan Station A. Lincoln, Nebraska OFFrniAl, pfim,ir!ATloN UNIVERSITY Of NEBRASKA Under direction of the Student Publication Board TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR Published Tuesday, Wednesday. Thursday, Friday, and Sunday mornings durlnc ti,. academie year, Editorial Offiee University Hall 4. Business Office U Hall, Hoom No. 4. Office Hours Editorial SUIT. 2:00 to f :00 except FT nJ Sunday. Business Staff: afternoons except Friday and Telephones Editorial and Business: B6891. No. 142. Night B688. Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice in Lincoln, Nebraska, under act of Congress. March 8. 1879, and at special rate of postage provided for in section 1108. net of October 8, 1017, authorised January 20, 1022. 82 a year. SUBSCRIPTION RATE Single Copy E cents $1.21 a semester WILLIAM CEJNAR Lee Vance Arthur Sweet -.. Horace W. Gomon . Rath Palmer Isabel O'Hallaran Gerald Grillin James Rosse Florence Swihart NEWS EDITORS Dwight McCormsck CONTRIBUTING EDITORS EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Managing Editor Asst. Managing Edjtor Asst. Managing Editor Oscar Norling Evert Hunt ASSISTANT NEWS EDITORS Mary LouUe Freeman Lincoln Frost Dwight McCormack Robert Lasch Gerald Griffin T. 81MFSON MORTON Richard F. Vette Milton McGrew William Kearns BUSINESS MANAGER Asst. Business Manager Circulation Manager Circulation Manager THURSDAY, MARCH 17. 1927 NO pIVORCE HERE No marriage vows were ever as strict or as rigid ly enforced as the vows of membership in a college fraternity. If a married couple finds it cannot live congen ially, a divorce is the customary procedure. Remar riage with other parties who will make more agreeable mates ordinarily follows. But if a fraternity member becomes dissatisfied with his fraternity, either on account of changes in himself or on account of later accessions of new mem bers who gradually change the character of the group so that it is no longer as congenial to him as when he ioined. there is nothing he can do about it. He can eet a divorce, to be sure, and withdraw from member ship. But as for marrying again into some other group, it is just about as impossible as a Hindoo trying to become an American citizen. It just isnt done. So we find numbers on numbers of college fra ternity members who are discontented with their as sociates, but who have to endure with the disagreeable condition because the system provides no means for a seperation or later connection with another group more congenial. Especially is this feeling marked among pledges who have been with a group for several months. Many of them are probably downright disgusted with the group they have elected to join. They would jump at the opportunity of quitting and affiliating with some other more congenial group, but they just can't. And then rather than withdraw and break their pledges, and be a barbarian, they passively submit just in order to become members of some fraternity. This feeling is most evident among sorority pledges because sorori ties pledge new members only at stated intervals, and are not allowed to raid others as are fraternities which are permitted to pledge all the year round. Probably the biggest reason for these maladjust ments is freshman pledging. The youngsters, green as blades of freshgrown oats, come to the campus a few days before school starts, go through a giddy four or five days of high-pressure entertainment, and while their bewildered heads arc in the greatest whirl they are forced to decide with which group they will irrevoc ably align themselves. They don't even have time or opportunity to check up on all the highflown sales, ar guments put out by the master salesmen of the rush committees. Then a few weok later when the mirage clears away, and they have recovered from their headaches, and come back to normal somewhat from their initial enthusiasm at making the "best" sorority or fraternity on the campus, they realize with a dull pain, that everything is not quite as rosy as they had anticipated. A system such as we now have of intensive rush ing and inseparable union afterwards, is just about as logical as would be a system of universal irrevocable marriages following a period of only four or five days whirlwind, mad courtship. The remedy lies in some form of delayed pledging which would give the bewildered freshmen some op portunity of surveying the field and making their ojvn decision cooly and calmly. Whether this should be two weeks after school begins, t- a whole year later, it is impossible to say. Experiment is the only way to find out. But the present system of blind, mad, rush ing before school even starts is the height of folly. It is a gloriously irrational inconsistency a3 compared with the reputed attempt in university and college to rationalize and reason out everything. Some boys think the girls come to college to get married. We think they're wrong. College is a pretty bad market. The longer the boys stay here the less money they have to get married on, and the more they find out about the women. 79 MORE DAYS AND WE GRADUATE Seniors who are not busy madly gathering to gether enough credits to graduate in June, are probably even more busy these days lining up a job. And it's pretty serious business for the majority of them, too. Most of them have gone through college only after devastating inroads cn their own pocketbooks or those of their fainiiies. They've got to go out now and re coup, pay back all the money they owe, and at the same time keep up the relatively high standard of living they have become accustomed to in four ytars of col lege life. It's a problem more complicated than any calculus mystery or chemical riddle encountered and conquered in the four years behind sheltered walls of lecture rooms.. The calculus and the chemistry problems, ob jective things as they are, have a way of giving up when they are tackled with enough study and deter mination. Getting on in the world is different. There the opposing forces are not stationery like a granite wall waiting to be battered down. They are alive and ever finding new ways of making things harder and more complicated. The average college senior at graduation time is at a period of life when he has to make a final choice soon concerning his life work or at least a definite de cision concerning the field in which he-will pursue his life work. He doesn't have much time to go shopping around and getting adjusted. He took four years of youth ordinarily allotted to that settling-down period tv jo to college. . " When he realizes that his whole future probably depend n great part on the first job he gets after graduation, the graduate is going to be quire cautious, careful, and farseeing before he makes a decision. Some occupations pay large salaries to start with. They are the ones which lure quite a number of college men, who need money iron; than anybody clue after spending nd "psK.-ii.i and earning very little for four or five years. But nn Mcowinspjring fcaturo of many of these occupations which pay high to start with, is a quickly reached maximum beyond which even the ex traordinary man cannot go. Then there are other occupations which pay low relatively to start with, but do not seem to have any limit for those who are really capable. The graduate has in many cases the choice be tween high salary now, but not for very long, and low salary now with every prospect of a whole lot later on. That's one way to look at it purely from the finan cial, end. But that isn't the only thine. A man should choose an occupation which he enjoys and which he knows he will enjoy for a good many years. There and only there can he make the most of himself. This should probably be the great deciding factor regard less of the salary feature of the job. It should be the deciding factor for anybody, but especially for the col lege graduate who presumably has been learning not how to make a living, but how to live better. Notices . -i . In the fall we can't study because there's too much football and too much bonfire spirit raging. In win ter we can't because they're too many parties. And in the spring well you know what it is. The announcement that reserved seats for Univer sity Night will be put on sale next Monday morning, reminds us that last year our freshman was fourth in line, and the best he could get was a row of seats up in the balcony. In Other Columns Etiquette in College In recent years a number of colleges have extended their curriculums to include courses in etiquet. Such courses have proved very popular with student bodies and the movement to inaugurate similar courses has spread to the larger universities. Formerly, the manners of the student were taken for granted or he was expected to pick up a knowledge of good form by means of his social contacts. One can not stay on the campus for many months without learn ing that "How do you do?" is good form, while "Pleased to meet you" is not. College courses in etiquet provide the student with the means of passing as a reasonably civilized being. However, a course in etiquet is no p.ssurance that the student will act like a civilized being. Boorishness cannot be alleviated by burning the midnight oil over "The Blue Book of Social Usage." Someone has said that fine manners are instinctive and observation seems to bear out this description. At least etiquet courses standardize good manners and make the observance of social usage available to everyone. It is a curious fact that politeness and effiminacy are linked together in some quarters of the American scene. The "he man" of America would be false to the traditions of his 100 per cent Nordic ancestry should he deign to show a consideration for the feelings of others. Fortunately, this curious attitude is not uni versal, tho it unquestionably obtains in the more be nighted areas of the Corn Belt. College' courses in etiquet can do a great deal to combat this rather puerile conception. The Oklahoma Daily THURSDAY, MARCH 10 Math Club Meeting of Math Club on Thursday. March 17, In room 804 Mechanics Arts at 7:80 o'clock. There will be a number of short talks. Dramatic Club Dramatic Club will meet Thursday, March 17, at 7 p. m. sharp in the Club Rooms. XI Delta Meeting at Ellen Smith Hall. Ihurs. at 7 o'clock. Tassel Meeting at Ellen Smith Hall Thursday at 7 o'clock to practice for the skit. Com-Cob Skit rehearsal Thursday night In the temple. All men carrying parts be there promptly at 7 p. m. Pershing Rifle First Pershing Rifle drill of the year on Thursday evening of this week. The com pany will form on the drill field with regu lar basic course uniforms. All members and pledges are urged to attend. Silver Serpent Silver Serpent meeting Thursday evening at 8 o'clock in El'en Smith Hall. Scabbard and Blade Scabbard and lllade meeting in Nebraska Hall at 7:80 p. m. FRIDAY, MARCH 11 Pal lad Ian Literary Society Seniors will be in charge of the program for the open meeting Friday at 8 :80 p. m. Everyone Invited. SATURDAY, MARCH 19 Chess Club Meeting of Univernitv Chess Club. Satur day at 7:30. Y. M. C. A. room Temple. All students interested in chess are invited. Lutheran Clum Lutheran Club meeting. March 19. 8 p. m. Faculty Hall, University. Temple. rror. O. VY. Sjogren, speaker. Musical numbers. Refreshments. All Lutheran students cordially invited. MONDAY, MARCH 21 Lutheran Club Lutheran Club Lenten Meditation Mon day evening, March 21. 7 p. m.. Room 204, Temple Uuilding, theme "The Crisis of the Cross." All Lutheran students are asked to attend. One Year Ago Are Diplomas Liabilities? College diplomas hinder Irather than help the average young man in starting his business career, J. F. Hallwachs, employment secretary of the Central Y. M. C. A. at Chicago, told the Associated Press the other day. "A diploma in the right hand, a fraternity key on the watch chain, and a trenerovs portion of psychology, languages and history in the head, are no longer the best stepping stcnes to business," declared the secre tary. "In fact, here in Chicago, the culture achieved in a university is just a bit of a handicap." The prospect of starting out in life without much technical training, unci consequently at a small salary, is undoubtedly discouraging to many a college senior. He expects big money and rapid advancement too early. He is accustomed to a high standard of living, and the drop from campus life to bread earning may in some cases be disheartening. But Mr. Hallwachs probably has a distorted view of th university man. The best of the graduates do not go to the Y. M. C. A. agency to secure employment. Many of them never go to any employment agency at all. When they do it is rather a sign that they are down and out. It is perhaps true that the college senior expects too much of the world as soon as he gets his diploma. But that dyes not prove that education is a handicap. Disillusionment comes soon, and when the college man learns that he must start near the bottom and produce, he is almost certain to advance much faster than his uneducated competitor. The Arkansas T e!er Movie of a Student "Cramming" for an Exam Enters room with a weary sigh and a high resolve to study as he never studied before. Walks firmly to chair and seat3 himself in it. Picks up book, opens it and looks about for reading list. Must be in notebook somewhere. Gets up, looks through notebook, cleans out pockets of three suits. Becomes engrossed in old theater program. Sighs wearily. Finds reading list in pocket of third suit. Sits down again. Starts to read. Gets up. Places pillow on chair and feet on another chair. Starts to read Mouth feels dry. Gets drink of water. Picks out pipe with great care, fills and lights it. Settles back in chair with grunt of satisfaction. Reads 15 pages. Eyes begin to water. Turns nervously to reading list and notes with horror he has 334 pages to go. Glances at watch. Nine o'clock. Reads 10 more pages. Mechanical piano in neighboring apartment house begins to clank out "Always". Student grits teeth. Man in next room begins to sing with the piano. Stu dent becomes exceeding wroth. Yells to man in next room, "shut up!" Sixteen other students join in the cry. Someone yells "Water!" Student casts book aside and thrusts head out of window. Yells "water!" with the best of them. Next half hour is devoted to bantering with Joe Glotz on the floor below. "Howya hittinum, Joe?" "Fine. Howya hittinum?" "Notashot." "Well, I gotta study. See ya some more." Chapel bell strikes 10. Student becomes nervous. Three hundred and twenty-four pages to go. Reads madly for an hour. Gets another drink of water and lights cigarette. Wonders idly what the old buzzard will ask on the exam. Draws caricature of prof on margin of book and amuses himself by burning out the eyes with a cigarette. Reflects college is the bunk any how, .reels warm. Removes shirt. Puts on green eyeshade and wraps cold towel around head. Figures he must look like the real student now. Reads steadily for fully seven minutes. Eyes begin to get cloudy. Puts on shirt and trudges over to delicatessen for cup of coffee. "Black." he says in hollow tones. Delicatessen clerk looks pro perly impressed. "Guess you feller gotta study-pretty hard, eh?" Student merely replies "God"! gulps down coffee and goes back to room. Is firmly determined to study until 2 o'clock. Reads 15 pages. Reflects on observation made by prof that good night's sleep is best preparation for. an exam. Decides be can go to bed now and get uplearly in the morning. Having thus squelched his conscience, prepares for bed with a sage shake of the head and a sigh of self-pity at being so overworked. Columbia Spectator Thomas Q. Harrison was the speak er at Vespers in Ellen Smith Hall. The service was led by Sylvia Lewis and was the fourth of a group of services arranged by the Vesper com mittee on the gteneral subject of prayer during the Lenten Season. Mr. Harrison was the secretary of the Fellowship of Youth at Peace, a graduate of Nebraska Wesleyan Uni versity, and has also studied at the Boston Theological school. The Nebraska Wrestling team re turned from the Missouri Valley Con ference Championship meet at Still water, Oklahoma. Although Skinner of the Nebraska team took a first in the 146-pound and Kellogfr and Tun ning each won a second, Nebraska was only able to place third in the meet. The A Cappella Choir, under the direction of Mr. Rosborough of the University School of Music, gave a series of out-of-town concerts. Ac cording to their schedule they ap peared at Falls City, St. Joseph, Mo.. Marysville, Mo., and gave two con certs in Kansas City. CHIAA WORKER SAYS WE ARE PREJUDICED (Continued from Page One.) Russia has, as being equal, as being friends, the Chinese would have the same feeling towards us, but, as Mr. Rugh stated, the western countries are too afraid of losing some wealth that they do not take in consideration the feelings of the Chinese. "If America would move out of China and try to be a friend instead of a threat, the Chinese would im mediately change their attituda and turn again toward Christianity," Mr Rugh declared, "for as it is now, the Russians have led them to believe that communism will give them more than religion." Consequently they have given up religion to a great extent to, as they think, aid their country. The newspapers are giving us sen sational accounts of the revolutions, as they are termed, but they give only what the public desires, the thrilling material and no not cover all the facts. The opinion that the American public has, has not been extended enough because all that the Chinese want is equal rights, respect and friendship. "All that is wrong with us is that we are too prejudiced," concluded Mr. Rugh. "Russia is taking Ameri ca's place because they foresaw what America did not. A new China." Debating Is Not Dead At Nebraska (Continued from Page One.) merly. More people are hearing de bates but not at any one debate. The Oxford debaters attracted big crowds. "Oxford style debating has been called the biggest improvement in American debating." Professor White evidently didn't think so. "The Ox ford style has in some places degen erated into an exercise of smartness, GET YOUR DRUGS, STATIONERY, BOX CANDY AND SODAS AT Pillers' rescription harxnacy 16 & O B4423 ?j" Look For Results You should have satisfactory results from properly fitted glasses. We guar antee satisfaction. Glasses, complete with reading or distance lenses, frame of your choice and a thorough eye examination full guarantee included $7.50 $9.50 $12.00 Kindy Optical Co. 1209 "O" St. Open Saturday evening B-1153 jokes, puns, word-plays. Entertain ment! That's what it is! That is the great defect of the open forum. The open forum, though, tfives good au diences to institutions located in lar ger cities. "A debate can't be entertaining," he declared. "It is hard to follow a debate. That is one reason why at tendance has declined. Another rea son debate attendance has declined is that under the judge system the idea got abroad that debating was a mere literary exercise in which a team goes through a lot of tricks to win a decision. People interested in an honest discussion of questions aren't interested in that. With the centering of attention on an honest discussion, it seems to me that de bating will be more popular. "The big ,hope for debating in the future is getting subjects in which a definite audience is interested. The most practical plan is for the au dience to suggest a subject and then to let the debaters take the subject to tho audience. We have to admit that that means taking the debate from the campus but I predict that rvdiences will be drawn more and more from outside the University." Professor White reiterated his con fidence in the plan of carrying the debate to the audience. "The best idea," he declared. "The idea of car rying the debate to the people is very popular," he added. He expressed be lief that in such a system, intercol legiate debating held its best hopes of giving valuable practice to debat ers and interesting, worthwhile, dis cussions to audiences. HUNT IS NAMED YJ1.CJI.HEAD (Continued from Page One ) great Shanghai outbreak ended meetings. He added that the Chine " must work out the spirit of ChT, for themselves but it is only rTf that the United States should 2 some of its iChristian spirit iJJ China. After this interesting talk, refresh, ments were served, and a round! table discussion resulted in the bring" ing up of many important questions" some of which will be discussed at the cabinet dinner tomorrow night in the Ten. pie 'cafeteria "Y" , rO0ms. Others interested are invited. Dr. E. M. Crainb. U. of N., '99 Osteopath. Burlington Blk. 13th a a St. Adv. , 0 Special Today Choice of Cheesa or Peanut Butter Tostvirh Any Sc drink C" Choice ol Pie or Ice Cream 25c Owl Pharmacy Corner 14th & P St. LINCOLN TELEPHONE & TELEGRAPH C0MPANY.--Lincoln. Once There Was an Irishman and a Scotchman... (born and reared on this side of the pond). ONE WAS a Sophomore and the other a Junior. Said the Son of Erin, "I telephone my folks back home once every week." Said the Highland Laddie, "So do I, but I wait until after eight-thirty in the eve ning. 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