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THE DAILY NEBR ASK AN The Daily Nebraskan Station A. Lincoln. Nebraska OFFICIAL PUBLICATION UNIVERSITY Of NEBRAFKA Under direction of the Student Publication Board TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR Published Tutsdar, Wednesday, Tburadar. Friday, and Sunday norninca during- the aeaaemie year. Editorial Office UnWerelty Hall 4. Business OiBce U Hall. Rocm No. 4. ... Office Hours Editorial Staff. 1:00 to :00 except Friday and Sunday. Business Staff: afternoon except Friday and Telephone Editorial and Bu.lneii; B8l. No. 142. Night B88 Entered a. aecoud-eta.s matter at the po.toffiee in Nebraska, under act of Congress, iaarcb . 17. aud at ---' rate of etag. provided for in teotion 1108. act of October 8. 1011. authorised January 20. 1022. It a year. SUBSCRIPTION RATE Single Copy I cents ing and loyal efforts of the professional students who have helped publish its columns. They have in great numbers climbed to the highest positions. But they should in no way consider themselves as having a monopoly on the positions. The Nebraskan is a study t paper for all the students, and by all the students who are in any way interested in campus publication wark fiiid useful bptirotinie sclivivy. Other Columns fl.lt a semester WILLIAM CEJNAR Lee Vance Arthur Sweet Horace W. Gomon lath Palmer "news editors EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Managing Ed)Jor Asst. Managing Editor ... Asst. Managing Editor nlitit MeCormack ASSISTANT NEWS EDITORS Florence Swihart Tnmaa Oscar Norlinc Gerald Griffin T. SIMPSON MORTON Richard F. Vette Milton McGrew William Kearne BUSINESS MANAGER Asst. Business Msnager Circulation Manager Circulation Manager SUNDAY. MAY 8. 1927. MOTHERS' DAY Sons and daughters the nation over are paying special homage today to their mothers. ror many homage in memories alone. Their mothers have de parted for the great beyond. For many others it is actual living tribute to mothers who are still alive, still' hoping and still laboring for them. Young, with only a quarter or so of their life's span behind them, most college students are still en. ..; i Kioc;n of rhfiir mothers. They are fortun- ntP Thev have double cause for appreciation of Mother's Day. The churches have their special programs. Lodges have their special services. The papers and periodicals pay their tribute. And yet none of them have the opportunity ior displaying u u of thpir mother's love, care, sacrifice, thoughtfulness, and still more love, as have students in their lives, their actions, their thoughts ana tneir aeeus In the last great formative years of their young lives when they have the choice more than ever of choosing between lives that will be a credit to them and to the mothers that bore them, and lives that might not be so creditable, students should hold before them more than ever the precepts of their mothers should i j .f oil f no mVP strive more than ever to oe ueeivi.iB and care that their mothers have bestowed upon them. Words of appreciation, words of thoughtful re membrance, words of tribute we owe our mothers. All that and more. We owe it to our mothers to make the most of the great opportunities opened to us in col lege and university; and to so conduct our lives that in later years we may become men and women of whom our mothers may justly be proud. FOR ALL STUDENTS The recent explanatory statement of Chairman Thompson of the Publication Board that all university students irrespective of registration in any particular college or school are eligible to publications offices solely on the basis of merit should be good news for all who are working on the campus publications under con trol of the Board. The Daily Nebraskan and the Cornhusker are all university publications in the fullest sense of the word. Opportunity to work up on the staffs should in all fair ness be open to all students irrespective of their col lege or school affiliations. Such has always been the expressed policy of the Board, although of late years there has been a tendency to favor or even to limit the positions to students registered in one school. The reasons advanced have been quite plausible indeed. The Nebraskan (more so than the Cornhusker) serves as an excellent, throbbing laboratory of news writing and news editing in the making. It is not as good as a regular paper to be sure, because it is strictly limited in is field of operations, but in its way it is an excellent laboratory. It is only natural then, that mem bers of the faculty who have charge of instruction in those lines should have cast' longing eyes on this ripe field for good laboratory practice. Considered in this light it would be perfectly right and justifiable for the student daily to come under control of a department of instruction. But considered in another light such control would be nothing short of calamity for a real, live, independent student paper. The college daily is something more than a mere labor atory for training of journalists. It is the organ of the student body. Its editorial policy, should be representa tive of the student body. It should be representative in a degree of the culture of the entire university, not one narrow section of it. For the accomplishment of those ends it is essential that those students engaged in pub lishing the student daily should be drawn from all col leges arid" departments of the university. In that way and only that way can the paper be kept from ossifying into the impersonal product of a laboratory, The reply may be that all that can be attained even under a policy oi departmental control. But the assertion is hardly backed by experience. The deaden ing hand of faculty influence, exercised to be sure, only for correction of faults to the benefit of the paper, inevitably results in a muzzled and cowed student press, It can result in nothing else. The presence of mature instructors directing vital features of the daily's work can not but in time have a commanding influence on the decisions of those students in charge who previously were under that direct influence. Then another and more important reason for calling the hand of direct faculty supervision a deadening hand is this: once a de partment or school assumes such direction in labora tory or otherwise, it ipso facto assumes either full, or at least partif,N responsibility for the entire direction of ihe policies of the paper. The deadening hand more dead than ever is the result The exchange copies of other college papers com ing to this office bear out in great part the truth of the above statements. At those schools where Ihe pa pers are under laboratory or other control of an one department, the papers are staid, conservative, dead beyond measure. The livest papers are those di .eeted by editors who come from the student body at large xrithout regard to particular professional ambitions later on. The Daily Nebraskan-has never had to submit to such direct faculty laboratory supervision of its opera tions. Students interested in the particular profession, have to be sure, been on its staff in great numbers, but Ihfc direction end the' responsibility for dpciniona has always rcstad with the students. We are not in danger of possible control of the r " per bj any one department, in fact there is no desire ihd now. but we have been in danger in the past f .f h.c.vi v all positions on its staff open only to mem bra of ti.at depHrtmcnt. To counteract the impre3ion t such is now the case is the purpose of tie i.n nounrtment 0f the chairman of the Board. The Nebraskan- has always appreciated the nrtir- Not Far From the Horse and Buggy Whenever man wishes to cater to his ego, he pro ceeds to become expansively pleased with his accom plishments as an inventor. Reams of space are devoted to the little time-saving devices which allow the house wife to spend more of her precious time at the theater or the musicale; industrial developments which in crease the output of a factory become all-important in the popular fancy. Yet every little ,while the elements contrive to jam a pin into the inflated ego of man, giving him a set back which exercises an influence upon him for a short time, until he regains his boldness. One such instance has been the great flood of the Mississippi river. The labor of years has been udone in the lower Mississippi valley; farm lands ruined, houses washed from their foundations, and many lives lost. What have we done to prepare for such emerges cies! In the past we have smugly built levees, confident that the spring freshets would not exceed a certain flow of water. The moment that this elemental mani festation gets beyond control, we emulate the trapped animals, and scurry about in haste to escape the forces of nature. Perhaps our greatest servant is electricity; iron ically enough, we know very little about electricity, save the uses which we have found for it. Since the day of the thunderstorm when Benjamin Flanklin con trived to draw lightning down his kite-string, we have marveled at this source of power, but the combined at tempts of pur scientists have failed to reach a con clusion concerning its physical composition. In this re spect electricity, as does fire, makes a gftid servant but a harsh master. A navy plane, flying above Chesapeake bay, was struck by lightning; the aircraft plunged into the water, killing its passengers. The lack of control which we have over the eleWnts is terrifying; upon sober reflection, we marvel that we have been able to harness their forces to the extent that we have up to the present time. It would seem that man's boasted vantage over his environment is short-lived, once the elements make up their minds to go on a substantial rampage. The situa tion calls an analogy to mind. A hunter has equipped himself with all the paraphernalia necessary to kill a bear smart hunting clothes, shiny boots, high-powered rifle and the like. He stands in the wood, facing a charging bear, suddenly the trigger mechanism of his rifle jams. What does his equipment and superior men tality avail him under the circumstances? In every line of endeavor, the most massive fabri cations of man have been destroyed under the cyclic might of the elements. It might well be said that man and his works have progressed but are not yet ad vanced. Minnesota Daily. SCIENTISTS GUESTS AT AG COLLEGE a Student Newspaper When a college newspaper is controlled by any certain group outside of the student body, or when tke policies of the paper are dictated by members of the faculty, a student newspaper is an absolute failure. It is almost amazing to learn of the number cf so-called student publications which are student publications in name only, but whose content is closely guarded by those who are sent from heaven to guide the destinies of American colleges. After a little investigation concerning the student control of college newspapers in the Hoosier domain, it was shocking to learn that the vast majority are directly controlled by professors or college adminis trators. As far as we can learn, this publication is the only collcg.- ..ewspaper in the state of Indiana which is not guided by a faculty whip. Other newspapers, though they may not be edited by faculty members, are so limited in their scope and influence that many student editors have taken to having their copy censored lest they allow something to slip into the columns which would displease the supervisors and bring their aca demic days to an ignominous and abrupt termination. Wherein lies the value of a college newspaper which ia merely a tabloid o the trifling events of the. day, and in which nothing can be printed which might in any way paint the college name in anything but gilded letters? Some college administrators suppress any articles expressing dissatisfaction with anything pertaining to the college lest the alumni feel that pos sibly tht students are not entirely at fault Professors openly resent any just criticism of their methods lest some trustee read the message and conduct an inves tigation. A college newspaper which does not reflect the views of the students is not an asset to an institution. If the student editors must publish papers with their hands tied and their mouths closed, they are not only being denied a part of their education, but their lit erary growth is being stunted at the time when it most needs to be expanding. If studens are not allowed to develop their individuality, the college is cheating them of a righteous desire. The institution is not accomplish ing the end it seeks, it is defeating it. Students are undergraduates for their first term in college only, and when they become alumni they do not cease to realize the conditions prevalent within the college. In a certain small Indiana college there is a dor mitory in which over a hundred girls live. The dormi tory is three stories high, has no fire escapes, and all the stairways inside are too narrow for two persons to pass without crowding. The door is locked at 12 o'clock each night and there is only one key in the place. The building is of wood construction, built way back in the 1. X century, and would be as inflammable as a stack of excelsior. Do the students dare protest such a condition through the medium of the student newspaper? They do not. They would be immediately expelled from the institution if they dared to mention that their lives were being jeopardized by an unthinking administrator. They must live in such a building, how ever, without a murmur. If a fire should ever break out in such a building there would he no hope of saving life. Yet such a condition does not exist, as far as the student paper is concerned, but all the time the student is in hopeless danger. A college newspaper can be a decided asset to an institution. It can be muck'' more than an organ for praise or condemnation, but even if it is allowed to be that, it is not an absoluta failure. The student mind, however, is a vital factor in ths growth and develop men" of a college. tVhen it is not only suppressed, but is entirely prohibited, as is the case in the majority of colleges, the students are being deprived of just con sideration, the college is cheating itself of constructive action by students, and the undergraduate newspaper is failing to accomplish its aim toward better and more individual journalistic endeavor. ' Wabash Bachelor. (Continued from Page One.) women are not alio to Impart fc greatness to their children. "Heredity and environment are for you and I what we are and what two of the factors which determine we will be," he said. By means of charts, it waa shown how we become complex creatures that we are and how thei characteristics which every one has is different from those of everyone else. The consideration of radio was on the Friday afternoon program in which Prof. J. C. Jensen of Nebraska Wesleyan University, and Prof. R. A. Cushman, and T. C. Diers of the Uni versity of -Nebraska spoke. Mr. Diers, in his talk on "Microphones and Speakers," stated that he was sure that there would always be a place on the air for constructive pro grams and that the radio speaker who appeared enough to allow his au dience to become acquainted with him was the most popular. Sectional Meeting! Held Sectional meetings were held in physics, earth science, mathematics, biology, and chemistry. In these meetings, various subjects relating to these branches of science were presented. The University was represented in the biology section by Prof. L. F. Lindgren, Dr. H. M. Martin, F. C. Olson, Prof. W. J. Loeffel, Prof. Don B. Whelan, T. W. Anderson, I. H. Blake, H. W. Manter, Harvey Pinto, E. F. Powell, J. F. Schuett, Ruth Mayer, William Harvey West, O. L. Williams, R. H. Wolcott, Leonart Worley, N. F. Petersen. Prof. A. A. Luebs and Prof. E. E, Brackett represented the University in the engineering section. In chem istry, Dr. E. R. Washburn, Drv Waldo Westwater, Ralph Nielsen, S. A. Dur ban, A. J. Rymes, Dr. C. W. Acker- sou, Edgar Coschult, R. R. Ralston, Viola Jelinek, and John S. Chambers represented the University. Geographers Represented University faculty members in the. earth science section were: Esther Anderson, Dr. E. H. Barbour, Dr. J. E. Weaver, Dr. G. E. Condra, and F. G. Collins. In the mathematics sec tion, O. C. Collins, L. Hampton, Evelyn Hesseltine, Florence B. Young, and Prof. A. L. Candy pre sented papers. In the physics sec tion, Prof. T. T. Smith, Prof. J. C. Russell, and Morris J. Rrevnort all of the University of Nebraska tjok part. Other colleges and universities rep resented on the program were Creigh- ton University of Omaha, Doane Col lege of Crete, Midland College of Fremont, Nebraska Wesleyan Univer sity, Peru Normal, and Grand Island College. Mildred Cole, Lin Gamma: Althea 28 ELECTED TO HONORARY SOCIETY (Continued from Page One.) Delta Gamma: Bees Dodson, Grand Prairie, Texas. Delta Zeta: Ruth Schallcross, Bellevue. Gamma Phi Beta: Mary Ball, Long Pine. Kappa Alpha Theta: A'Louise Trester, Lincoln. Kappa Delta: coin. Kappa Kappa Marr, Fremont. Phi Mu: Bernice Trimble, Selden Kansas. Phi Omega Pi: Edith Grau, Ben nington. Pi Beta Phi: Catherine Bradley, Beatrice. Sigma Delta Tau: Laura Berek, Fremont. Sigma Kappa: Gretchen Ander son, Fremont. Theta Phi Alpha: Marie Dough erty, Lincoln. Zeta Tau Alpha: Juanita Britton Hancock, Ia. Palladian Literary Society: Mary Field, Lincoln. Delian Literary Society: Mabel Hintz, Western. School at large-: Mary Dudley, Hot Springs, S. D. ; Margaret Dudley, Hot Springs, S. D. ; Ursula Penner, Bea trice; Catherine Beckmann, Blair; Genevieve Miller, Lincoln MRS. ROBHETT TO ADDRESS WOMEN A Longfellow's club has been formed at the University of Califor nia. It will include men six feet tall or over. The library at the University of Illinois is the fourth largest in the country. Talks of eating at the A Mothers' Day Dinner Year by year the list of com memorative days grows longer. ChriHtmas, New Year, Easter and Fourth of July seemed am ple for the fathers and grand fathers of our immediate ances tors. But we add Washington's Birthday, Lincoln's Birthday, Memorial Dayr Labor Day, Ar bor Day, and a host of others which are not officially recog nized as "holidays", but are nevertheless observed penerally. One of the vitally important of these later commemorative occasions is "Mothers' Day". Each of the days observed is to commemorate some event of supreme importance in the his tory of the world or of our country. Becoming a Mother, bearing the burdens and duties and worries of a Mother, consti tute an event of universal im portance and of the utmost sig nificance to the human race as a whole. Without Mothers, the human race soon ceases to exist. The Florists have a happy slogan for une on Mothers' Day: "Say It With Flowers". And the Telephone and Telegraph Com panies say in effect to tell Her by phone or wire. Perhaps the radio people will find a way to congratulate Her. The Central Cafe will have a Dinner on Mothers' Day which in its way will supplement the flowers and candy and messages of love and give Her that sense of peace and contentment for which mankind is constantly striving. If your Mother is in Lincoln that day, bring Her to the Central for dinner: 11:30 to 3:00 or 6:00 to 8:00. But Mothers' Day is for all mothers old, middle-aged and young. Bring your Wiie and Her Children (and your own Mother if possible) and you will never regret it Comfort, clean liness, and good cooking make . the Central Cafe famous far be yond the boundaries of Nebras- BANQUET CLOSES PHARMACY WEEK (Continued from Page One.) visited thei exhibits Pharmacy Night when the College of Pharmacy kept open house from 7 to 111 o'clock. Professor Burt, chairman of the De partment of Pharmacy, said "We feel that the exhibits Pharmcay Night were a qualified success to the public in general and were a means of bringing about a closer relation be tween the druggists of Lincoln and the College of Pharmacy." Eighteen local druggists attended the exhibits in a body Pharmacy night. primtebs) B"fJ78 ptrrmutSEWKE Cspilal EcgiaTzzi Co. S29 SO. ST. LINCOLN. NEB. Learn to DANCE In A Classy Studio Luella G. Williams Guarantee's to teach yon in tlx lessons. Toddle and all late tens. Reductions to students. Call for appointment B42S8 1220 D St IOI o Q Davis Coffee Shop 108 N. 13 (Te be laalfaaU) 132S P Doubled Decked Sand wiches, Home made pastry. Unexcelled Coffee Day & Night n o 01 Tucker-Shean 1123 "O" ST GIFTS FOR THE GRADUATE Silver Plate Jewelry Cut Glass Watches Clocks Leather Goods Fountain Pen Sets Fine Stationery Plan Your Gifts Now Tucker-Shean Jeweler Stationery ' 1123 "O" St (Continued from Page One.) vocation on Monday. Miss Heppner will issue excuse slips which may be obtained at the door after thei con vocation. There will also be tables in charge of the sophomore members of the A. W. S. board where women desiring pcrsonal conference with Mrs. Robnett may sign up for their hour. Each conference will be ten minutis in length. Letters explaining Mrs. Robnett's work have been sent by the A. W. S. board to all women in school and each of the sorority houses was visited by representatives of the board last Monday night. This program is an unusual opportunity for Nebraska women. Mrs. Kobnett s work is not the general "vocational guidance" of most personal workers. That is,Jt does not merely present to girls those occupations and vocations 'which are open to women and general means to success, but is definite and construc tive. Mrs. Kobnett gives detailed in formation in those lines which have Already been decided upon. She dis cusses qualifications, preparations necessary and even openings for po sitions. This last point is of most vital interest to seniors who are go ing out next year. Mrs. Robnett was in charge of an employment department for the wo men s committee for the Council of National Denfense during the war. Since that time she has been in voca- tional work. She is ai8o civic and social service fields, a magazine writer of 8orae She has been with the Chl,0. ' - o " Muivau Ul At- -i 1 I tne iasr- two yearn p Occupations for capahw so the United States are equipped for this work of v0JZ guidance and personnel direction Mrs. Robnett. "section as Univeraity U Re,med The Southern Branch of the tt! versity of California has been named the University of Califmv" at Los Angeles, in order to obvX confusion which has resulted a I the location of the school. The first collegiate co-ed debate team has been organized at Iow State. The co-eds represented ft. college in a debate with Iowa ttTi versity, April 1. Uni- The Handy Place To Buy SUPPLIES Graves printing Company Three doors south of Uni Temple Mothers9 Day GIFTS GREETING CARDS MOTTOES EASTMAN KODAK STORES, INC. (Formerly Lincoln Photo Supyljr Co.) 1217 O St. TERM PAPER COVERS Two Hole and Three Hole Covers Just the Thing for Your Term Paper 10c Co-Op Book Store East of Temple 1229 R St The Season's Newest Open Sandal Alert to tKo advancing mode we preaent "Arabia the rery newest sandal. Our ahoe artiat ha sketched one. Smartaeaa itself I And quite the best looking with its chic French toe. 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