THE DAILY NEBR ASK AN
The Daily Nebraskan
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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
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. Asst. Managing Editor
Oscar Norllng
Evert Hunt
ASSISTANT NEWS EDITORS
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Gerald Griffin
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BUSINESS MANAGER
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Circulation Manager
...... Circulation Manager
THURSDAY. MARCH 81, 1927
PROVE YOUR IDEALISM
The announcement of Secretary Hayes that the
University Y. M. C. A. has decided not to sponsor again
a show such as was presented last Monday in the seven
teenth annual University Night comes as a welcome bit
of news to all those who are desirous of keeping a
wholesome atmosphere about this University. Ihe an-
.,.,, is ni-nVinhlw psnpciAiiv nleasinsr to an
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friends of the Y. M. C. A. and kindred religious move
heen trrieved to see worthy organiza
tions linked up with performances reflecting a moral
nil tn low for a University campus.
It is only regrettable that the Association did not
see fit to make the announcement of its own tree win
Tuesdav instead of after a number of indignant stu
dents had expressed their disgust in the columns of The
Daily Nebraskan. It would have been a distinct step
tnwnrd a rehabilitation of the Association's standing
nn tii onmniia if the Association had back-fired all
criticism by an immediate annuoncement of house
rlrnninp- on its own Dart.
W re clad to hear at any rate that the matter
was under discussion by the responsible heads of the
Association the morning after the show, and that it had
been definitely decided never again to repeat Monday i
shameful performance.
TVu. Y. M. C. A. could eive the students of Ne
braska yea the students of the whole country a fine
PYmnli of devotion to ideals and refusal to sanction
anything degrading if it would refuse to accept money
got by such a performance. It would be real example
of practical Christianity. In fact in some minds there
is a feeling that the Association actually faces a test of
its own devotion to the ideals it professes in its ac
ceptance or refusal of the University Night proceeds.
This is a material age. Nobody knows it better
possibly than the Y. M. C. A. itself. Here is a chance
for that organization to show the world, that there still
are people and organizations which refuse to debase
themselves for the sake of money, no matter how badly
it is needed. As the matter stands if the Y. M. C. A.
accepts this money it is surrendering its ideals on the
altar of expediency, and that is just one of the things
it is professing to be combating. For after al! what
are all of the sins of mankind if nothing other than
constant surrender of ideals of virtue and Godliness
on the altar of expediency of the moment.
University students are not blind as one of the
Campus Pulse contributors yesterday pointed out. Thpy
can not be hoodwinked into accepting the fine ideals
and preachings of the Y. M. C, A. and other similar
organizations and agencies if those very organizations
and agencies show disregard of everything the moment
it comes to a question of filling their own needy
coffers. . '
Now the defense of the Y. M. C. A. of course is
that it was not responsible for the. objectionable fea-j
tures Monday night. That may be true. The Associa
tion was not directly responsible for the features. That
would be too deplorable beyond words. But the As
sociation has been responsible and is responsible to the
extent that it has provided the setting year after year
wherein such filth can be broadcast. Also the As
sociation has tacitly approved such practices for a num
ber of years by its cheerful acceptance of the proceeds.
It is pleasing beyond words to see that the Associa
tion has finally revolted against the excesses, and pro
mises to bring out something different next year. ,
What the Y. M. C. A. plans to do next year in lieu
of University Night is not yet known. One thing is
known, though. Whatever the Y. M. C. A. puts on in
a theatrical lirve will be done purely and simply for the
benefit of its own needy coffers. The defense of the
organization again is that it is justified in raising funds
by legitimate means of this kind.
On reflection it will be found that University
Night was started many years ago and perpetuated on
thgse same grounds of expediency.
Starting possibly as an entertaining and wholesome
take-off on student and University life, the Night
through the years has gradually become worse and
worse. The Shun a satellite had to be dropped several
years ago, and the NighTltself would most likely have
been banned by other authorities if the Y. M. C. A.
had not decided on reform of its own accord.
What guarantee is there that any new money-mak
ing theatrical productions, however clean they may
start, will not degenerate again to the stage of the
late University Night?
And after ai. the purposes of the organization
might be served many times better if it did not associ
ate itself for gain with activities which by the farthest
rt re ten of the imagination do not have any connection
with the idtals for which it is laboring.
Yes, it is not; difficult ta see why frail individuals
often hesitate and fall before temptation, when the
very uplifting organizations designed to help them do
not hesitate at all in making and accepting money by
all manner of "legitimate" means.
THE UNSOLVED PROBLEM
The coming of spring has Meant the discard of
winter overcoats.
One of the unsolved problems of . man's civiliza
tion vanished as a result.
We refer to the wintsr-long problem -(for men) of
dispoHmg of their overcoats in theaters, churches,
classrooms, and other gathering places.
Architects bavc provided fscllities for just about
everything imaginable. But the overcoat problem they
have sedulously avoided.
. Women solve their overcoat problem very simply.
They just sit on the burly thing. But lomehow that
doesn't work for a man.
So in theater, church, and classroom re has to hold
('3 clumsy mass of wool and cotton on his lap. In
i 1 oc :n it isn't so bad because there ordinarily are
i choirs. But in church and theater it ia a down
right nuisance. Just think of the hundreds of times
when people want to go by a man's seat in a theater
and he must get up clinging frantically to his coat,
muffiler, gloves and hat. And then in church just think
of thv many times when the minister asks the con
gregation to stand while singing, and picture the poor
men holding their coats and hats in one band while
balancing a hymn book in the other.
Yes, the architect or clothier who finally solves
this problem will go down in history as man's one best
friend.
In Other Column
o
Anybody can start a war with an oil well and an
ink well.
We-Mi
Receding from av Position of Intelligence
Most of us can approach, and even attain, intelli
gence on occasion. In fact there are times when we
even surprise ourselves and our friends with our capa
bility. These occasions come either, after a long period
of preparation or on the spur of the moment when we
are carried along on the breast of a wave of inspiration
What we mean, for we fear that it will be necessary to
make explanations, is that thinking flows along at a
generally low level. It is the dominance and the ex
pression of the mind of mediocrity. We are now edu
cating for that mediocrity, it is the aim of the modern
system to produce as many minds cast in the same
mold as possible. Thus, when critics of the modern
student say that they can not write or think intelligently
and blame that to their sloth, these critics are' making
a mistake. They should rejoince to find that their
system is working'to perfection and that independence
and intelligence in thought is almost completely wiped
out.
There is another proficiency which has been highly
developed by college educations and principally by
popular education. That is the ability to gracefully
back down when approaching intelligence. We get
glimpses of the great possibility of the idea in the
rough but our equipment fails or we fear the work
necessary in the resolution of the idea, and then is to
be seen that graceful back-step of our mental gymnasts.
We have no intention of deploring this apparently
graceful act. Were it not for the fact that it is grace
ful it would have no excuse for being:. But since so
many, after so much training, are able to recede from
a position approaching intelligence with such con
sumate grace we have some evidences that education
has not failed.
Minnesota Daily
ENGINEERS GO
TO KANSAS CITY
. (Continued from Page One.)
members of the Committee are: J. E.
Smay, Architectural Engineering
(Chairman) ; C. A. Sjogren, Mechani
cal Engineering; C. J. Frankforter,
Chemical Engineering; L. F. Rader,
Civil Engineering; G. S. Liebeck,
Electrical Engineering; and D. C.
Wallace, Agricultural Engineering,
The headquarters of the group,
while in Kansas City, will be the
Westgate Hotel, Main-Delaware and
Ninth St., Kansas City, Missouri. All
men will be expected to stay there
unless they receive special permission
from the Committee to stay else
where.
Complete Itinerary Made
The complete itinerary as arranged
for the inspection trip is as follows
Sunday, April 3
11:00 P. M. i.eave Lincoln via
Missouri Pacific R. R. in P' val Pull
man Cibches fi r TimEiis City, Mis
Friday, April S
8:00 A. M. Kansas City, Missouri,
Water Works at Quindaro.
100 A. M. Inspection of Bridg
es and Industrial District.
2:00 P. M. Kansas City Structur
al Steel Company, Kansas City,' Kan
sas, 3:30 P. M. Proctor find Gamble.
Saturday, April 9
Return to Lincoln.
Does Education Pay?
By Ward H. Nye, Supt. of School, Billings, Montana
Does Education pay? What a question !
Does it pay to prepare the ground before sowing
the seed?
Does it pay to polish the precious stone before
putting it on the market?
Does it pay to plane and sandpaper the board be
fore putting it into the piece of farniture?
Does it pay to sharpen the tools before working
with them?
Does it pay to know things rather than live in
ignorance?
Does it pay to have a mind rather than be a mere
animal, and be directed by those who have minds?
Does it pay to think, and if so, to think with a
trained mind rather than with an untrained one?
Does it pay to be a leader rather than a follower?
Does it pay to make the most of the faculties God
has endowed one with, or let them lie dormant?
Does it pay to be one of the copable of the human
race or to' be one of the inferior?
Does it pay to prepare one's self to do large things
or to remain satisfied to do small things, and let others
take the advanced positions?
Does it pay to take advantage of opportunity and
make the most possible of one's self?
Does it pay to get an education? Only the lazy and
the ignorant answer, "No."
Pay? Surely it pays many fold. There can be
no better investment nor one anywhere near as good.
Let no youth be deceived. Ask those who are
educated. Ask the wise of any generation. Be sen
sible. Get the education while vou have the chance.
Prepare to live a happy and a prosperous life.
Monday, April 4
7:10 A. M. Arrive at Union Sta
tion. Kansas City. Mo. Breakfast at
Blossom Hotel.
8:00 A. M. Inspection of Union
Passenger Terminal.
11:00 A. M. Liberty Memorial
(across from thestation).
12:15 Noon Registration West-
gate Hotel.
2:00 P. M. Kansas City Tele
phone Company, 11th & Oak Streets.
Tuesday, April 5
8:00 A. M. Black Steel & Wire
Company, 21st & Manchester.
10:00 A. M. Butler Manufactur
ing Co., 1229 Eastern Avenue. Lunch
as guests of Butler Mfg. Co.
1:30 P. M. Missouri Portland Ce
ment Company, Cement City, Mo.
3:00 P. M. Standard Oil Co.'s Re
fineries, Sugar Creek, Mo.
Wednesday, April 6
8:00 A. M. Montgomery Ward
and Co. Independence Ave., Civils
and Architects.
10:00 A. M. Harrington, Howard
and Ash, Consulting Engineers, 1012
Baltimore Ave., Civils and Architec-
turals.
10:00 A. M. Cook Paint and Var
nish Company, Chemicals, Mechani
cals and Electricals.
11:00 A. M City Plan Commis
sion, City Hal, 5th and Main, Archi
tectural and Civils.
1:00 P. M. Swifts Packing Com
pany, Chemicals, blectricals and
Mechanicals.
1:30 P. M. W. S. Dickey Clay
Mfg. Co., Monroe 4 QuinotU St.,
Civils and Architecturals.
3:30 P. M. Kansas City Art In
stitute 3500 Warwick Blvd.
Thursday, April 7
8:00 A. M. Kansas City Railway
Campany, 2nd & Grand Ave.
10:00 A. M. Kansas City Power
& Light Company's Northeast Power
Station, Warner and Missouri River.
1:00 P. M. Lunch as guests of
Kansas City Power and Light Co.
2:00 P. M. Ford Motor Company,
11th & Manchester.
3:00 P. M. Sheffield Steel Com
pany, independence Ave. Winchester.
Serious Young Men in Hurry
For the consideration of young men beset with a
weariness of life Professor W. B. Otis of City College
has offered the following bit of advice:
Don't shrivel up in the face of. the infinitude
of physical matter. Man hold3 the strategic posi
tion between two infinities, the infinitely small and
the infinitely great.
If life is not worth living because humanity is an
atom in the universe, life ought to be very much worth
living for Man, who is also a Titan among the new
infinitesimals of the laboratory. Aftr nil, it ia man
himself who has made the light-years anch the electrons
with his own telescope and microscope. To throw up
one's hands is to shrivel up before the creatures of
one's hands.
Youner men for whom the new triumnha of Rrirnco
have robbed life of its meaning are the victims rather
ol fallacy than of despair. They start out from the
sufficiently reasonable belief that man ought to be in
harmony with the universe in which ht lives. They fall
into the pathetic error of assuming that every "change"
in the universe demands on their part an immediate
readjustment. Einstein having done away for the
sake of the argument with the Newtonian cosmos, it
obviously becomes impossible for man to en nn livino-
thinking and feeling as he did under Newton's dis
pensation, were are star-clusters far beyond our form
er galaxies, here are curved snaces. her ar Rmtinl
time periods, here are electrons and quantums; obvious
ly we must readjust life to the new scientific data. So
reasons serious youth. And because the way of read
justment is not clear, life has no longer any meaning.
Given the present rate of scientific nroirress. thi
rule of behavior would transform man into a lightning
change artist, rapidly doffing his beliefs, standards,
aiiections end acts in accordance with the latest bulle
tin from the learned societies. Impatient youth will
not wait for the new universe to change man in its own
good time and place. It insists oh establishing an im
mediate harmony where nature is perfectly content to
muddle along on compromises. The ardent Futurist
lays it down truly enoughthat this is an age of ma
chinery. Thereupon he insists that art must henceforth
be concerned only with factory chimneva. rlorrinlf. onri
p6wer; but the ordinary man who works in the factories
continues to nnd a great deal of pleasure in the old
fashioned Pictures. Tim ardent
broken with the old social order, set to work upon new
proletarian tneaters, proletarian pictures, proletarian
dances. But the worker in the Russian Communist
factories clings to the old dances and the "bourgeois"
movies.-
Young men who are thrown off their balance be
cause the universe is 5,000 light-years big instead of
only $00 light-years are like the man who righed with
relief when he learned that the earth, Trill become un
inhabitable in three hundred billion years instead of
three hundred million years, as he first understood the
lecturer to say.
New York Times
Talks of eating at the
1gW
Avoidable Waste (continued)
In our last instalment we
spoke of the losses sustained by
hotel and cafe operators be
cause of pilferiugs by guests.
To a very large extent small
articles are carried off by
guests without larcenous intent.
That is to say, many persons
believe that "swiping a souvenir
from a hotel or cafe is really
not stealing merely an inter
esting game of hide and seek.
And still others carry off small
articles inadvertently.
But regardless of the intent,
the hotel or cafe proprietor
loses, and is obliged to recoup
his losses or go into bankruptcy.
And the public r those who
patronize hotels and cafes pay
the bill in increased prices. This
is inevitable.
At the Central Cafe there is
one form of waste .which adds
considerably to the cost of oper
ation: (man or woman comes
in with the morning newspaper
and takes a seat at one of the
tables, opens the paper and be
comes immersed in the news. By
dint of keeping at it, the waiter
succeeds in getting the reader's
breakfast order probably toast
and eggs and coffee.
The order is delivered without
loss of time, eggs, toast and
coffee piping hot, and set before
the consumer of the latest news
about Browning and "Peaches"
or the latest K O delivered by
Monte Munn. Minutes pass, the
food grows tepid or cold., and
then the reader's gastric juices ,
begin clamoring for something
to digest.
"Bah, g-r-rh," growls the
breakfaster, "dpn't want pny
toff cold take it awajt and
get me something hot" And the
garbage can gets what was a
good breakfast when delivered,
but ruined through no "fault of
the chef or waiter.
(Ta be ceatinuee1) v-
CAST FOR 'CYRANO DE
BERGERAHS URGE
(Continued from Page One.)
Carbon de Castel-Jaloux..Carol Dubry
First Cavalier Edwin Compton
Second Cavalier .....Joy Storm
Third Cavalier .Don Ayers
Fourth Cavalier James Higgins
First Lackey Elva Barrett
Second Lackey..... Bernice Welsh
Flower Girl . Jane Glennon
Citizen Jacob Mall
First Page l...Nyle Spieler
Second Page Ruth Dimmick
First Cutpurse Kate Goldstein
Second Cutpurse Ruth Clendenin
First Marquis Frederick Barber
Second Marquis George Gregory
Cuijrv Ernest Clement
Brisaille ....Donald Donisthorpe
Ligniere... Dan Richardson
Orange Girl Doris Hosman
Soubrette Belle Howe Arey
Little Boy Katherine Grummanri
Sister Claire Oza Cunningham
Sister Martha Blanche Farrens
Mother Margeurite.-Frances McFilley
Montfleury Martha Bruning
Lise Mildred Letson
Spanish Officer Jacob Mall
Capuchin Donald Elmsdoerfer
First Poet Katherine Grumman n
Second Poet ...Jane Glennon
Third Poet Blanche Far-ens
First Pastrycook ..Kate Goldstein
Second Pastrycook....Ruth Clendenin
Third Pastrycook Bernice Welsh
An Actress .- Margaret Nichols
Crowd, citizens, musketeers, spec
tators, intellectuals, academicians.
of petitioning for a charter of Zeta
Tau Alpha. The alumnae member
ship includes some of the most pro
minent women of Lincoln and Ne
braska. About sixty-three active and
alumnae members will be initiated
into Zeta Tau Alpha Friday.
Mrs. Adam McMullen, wife of Gov
ernor McMullen and an alumnae of
Alpha Upsilon, is allowing the . ex
ecutive mansion to be used for the
installation ceremonies and for the
formal reception.
wn
en you g0
HOME
you don't want to loo.
though you hadn't h.T M
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Inc. th. I..t lime you
there
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were
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FLORSHEIM
College
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ZETA TAD ALPHA
INSTALLED HERE
(Continued from Page One.)
Madge Miller, Gertrude Aron, Lillian
Brier, Clara Von Bergen, Ann Ze
man, Agnes Graham Muhrh, and
Clara Slade for' the express purpose
The Handy Place
To Buy
SUPPLIES
IS
Graves Printing
Company
Three doors south of Uni.
Temple
'as
i v
TO 'tr.-v'o
C. P. Hoffman
the Florsfaeim factory represen
tative, will exhibit an unusually.
hsse selection of the new spring
, shoes for yon& men.
. Ttiirxday, Friday sid
, Satanlay
March 31 toad April 1 ?mtj 2
The display includes the tort of
footwear all well dressed college
men favor. No 'one builds a
young man's shoe Uke Flor-hci,
Be sure to drop to.
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. 1325 P
Lat us tall jrou about lbs Famous Red Wnosl that wo sail with Cas Rangas Downstairs, and tha Mafic Minutes wita
Rotors Lacquer which wo sell
lMgO:m2si Co
Try a hot cereal breakfast at the Hudae Cu ousel
Co. Cafeteria some
It won't cost much
Ing with coffeo, cream and sweet rolls.
vSTORE NEWS
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Kappa Sigma, Alpha Omlcran Pi, Delta Tau Delta, Alpha Chi Omega and
Pi Beta Phi Fraternity and Sorority Houses on the Campus are usin? Hard
wick & Magee floor covering, in the beautiful new Luildiags. Ask for
leaflet. Floor Three.
Buy Bugs and Carpets from Rudge c Guenzel Co.