t
THE DAILY NESS ASK AN
i
t
The Daily Nebraskan
Station A. Uneeln, Nebraska
OFFICIAL PUBLICATION
, UNTViCRSmf OP NEBRASKA
Under direction of the Stadtnt Publication Board
TWENTY-SIXTH TEAR
Published Tuesday. Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
earning durlnsr the aanit ysr.
Idltoriai Office University Hall 4.
Itueinea Office U Hall, Room No. 4.
Office Honrs Editorial SUIT, 8:00 to (:00 except Friday and
Sunday. Buainete Staff: afternoon! except Friday and
8undajr.
Telephones Editorial and Buiineaei B8l, No. 142. Nliht BS8SI
Entered ae aeeond-claae matter at the poetoffieo in Lincoln,
Mehraika. under act of Concreee. March 1. 187, and at psi&i
rata of postage provided for in section 1101, act of October t,
HIT, authorised January 10, 1922.
II year.
SUBSCRIPTION RATE
Single Copy I eents
tUt emeater
WILLIAM CEJNAR
Lee Vance
Arthur Sweet
Horace W. Gomon
Rath Palmer
NEWS edttSfS
Florence Swihart
Dwlght IfeCormack
ASSISTANT NEWS EDITORS
Mary Louie Freeman
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Managing Editor
Ant. Managing Editor
Asst. Managing Editor
Oscar Norllng
Gerald Griffin
T. SIMPSON MORTON
Richard F. Vett
ilton HcGrew
William Kearna
BUSINESS MANAGER
Asst. Businees Manager
Circulation Manager
Circulation Manager
SPENDING THE OLD MAN'S DOUGH
The large relative number of young college women
in Lincoln according to' some' shopping philosophers we
have talked with, causes Lincoln stores to carry a
"younger" line of goods and dresses than may be pur
chased back in the old home, for instance, or in larger,
more normal, big cities. The same secerns true to some
extent of the men's clothing business, although men as
a whole spend less on clothing in a college career than
the girls do. (They spend most of their money on
dates.) There are other lines of business, theaters, soft
drink parlors, and restaurants, which are noticeably
well patronized by students. In the summer time1 the
city is relatively dead. And yet, the business men and
the citizens minimize the business importance1 of the
University student and faculty population.
Notices
In Other Columns
All men are liars" runs a proverb. The author
must have been a dean- of men. Athenaeum (West
Virginia).
FRIDAY. MAY 20. 1927.
A CLASSIC SPORT
Nebraska is host today and tomorrow to the pick
of track and field athletes of the Missouri Valley, for
two days, in the preliminaries this afternoon ana in
the finals tomorrow, these men will vie for honors in
the annual track and field championship meet of the
conference.
As a sport which has the most ancient and at the
same time the most illustrious history and background
of any form of athletics, track, in both the running
and field events, is particularly fitting for intercolle
giate competition. The ancient Greeks who gave the
sport its greatest ancient glory enjoyed the competitive
elements of the sport, and above all prized the attain
ment of beauty and grace in form, in the manner of
the doing as well as in the accomplishment. Modern
track and field athletics under the direction of an ever
improving coaching system while stressing a great deal
the actual steel-tape and stop-watch accomplishments,
at the same time is ever improving the form and man
ner of doing as well. So we find today hurdlers leaping
ovpr the barriers in more graceful style than a gener
ation or so ago. Or we find pole vaulters and high jump
ers with much improved form over that existing a lew
t'oarc ocro.
Track has still another attraction, and. that is the
fact that the accomplishments, all recorded as they are
in terms of immutable steel-tape and stop-watch, can
be compared with those of the past or later on with
those of the future, unlike those of the gridiron and
basketball court which are purely relative and depend
ent on the quality of the opposing team. This feature
of the sport, this competition with the past and with
the future often lends to the meets an interest far ex
ceeding that of the immediate competition.
Track is just entering on the era of its greatest
collegiate popularity. It is the one great sport most free
from professionalism. It is a college sport par excel
lence. The University of Nebraska is happy to be host
to its finest exemplars in this part of the country.
At Wabash the faculty has decided to excuse all
graduating seniors having an average of 80 or above
in their coui-sm from final prsmintions. Kansas is
having a similar agitation. Even Nebraska according
to rumors is having somewhat of a senior grumble
over final examinations. If only had a few reports from
New York and the west coast, we could say it's a nation-wide
movement.
IN COLLEGE TOWNS
One of the economic phenomena suffered by stu
dents in every college seat except the very largest
where the university or college and its students and
faculty are a mere drop in the bucket, is the dispropor
tionate spread between the prices students pay for
things they buy and the wages they receive for work
they do.
Practically everybody is out to get all the student
trade possible, and good standard prices sometimes
hiVed up a bit in those items particularly appealing to
students are the rule.
Or. the other hand when the poor student wants
a job, he is paid such miserable hourly wages (often
times as low as 25 cents an hour) that the business
men so employing them would probably be ashamed
to offer their own sons jobs at such pittances. And no
matter how small the wages, the quality and quantity
of work expected in return is in nearly all cas quite
as much as from other employees better paid.
The situation is of course perfectly explainable on
quite a human basis. Many of the students arc here
with a lot of money. They are out to have good times,
to buy good clothes, and above all they are inexpert n
ced in the use of money. The merchants, business men
tad all others catering to student trade, are just as
much out after money as anybody else, and it is only
human that they should take ali the advantage they
can. "If I don't, somebody else will," Is a convenient
salving rule.
And when it cmes to student employment, the
simple truth is that the labor market in that particular
class is gutted. There are so many students willing to
labor away at mere starvation wages, that the business
men would consider themselves quite foolish to pay
more when they can get just as hard working help for
less. And in addition they can't escape a feeling, it
seems, that they are doing a charitable deed in employ
ing a student, and for that reason they think quite
rrturilly VuX ILe aiuueni shouia be willing to work
for little, and be thankful in the bargain.
The situation will undoubtedly persist as long as
college students remain as they are, and tbey will re
main that way a long, long time. They are proad, stub
born, and individualiistie to too high a degree to band
together cr suboili to paternalistic supervision to give
up their great privilege of "being done."
Too Much Classroom
It is rapidly becoming apparent that the intercol
Ipgiate race to raise scholastic standards is reacting up
on students in a baneful manner. The emphasis on class
assignments leaves little to the individual initiative
and places a premium upon pedantry. True schol-hip
and sane educational methods are suffering as a lciilt
of the struggle for Grade AA ranking.
The University Daily Kansan, student publication
at the University of Kansas, comments on this situa
tion:
"One of the crying needs of college students is
longer day. If the 24 hours could be expanded to about
30 we would have time to fulfill the curdcular require
ments along with our necessary activities, such as sleep
ing, loafing, and reading for pleasure. The first poli
tician who makes the 30-hour day his campaign issue
will win the unanimous support of students.
"Standards in education have risen to the point
where students who desire to execute their assignments
faithfully are in danger of developing the encyclopedic
mind constipated with half-digested facts. Those who
are interested in the highest type of self-development
owe it to themselves to neglect at least two-thirds of
their work, and to do the other third only when it is
convenient."
It is bad pedagogy to assign more work than a stu
dent can reasonably accomplish. He will, perhaps, make
a conscientious effort to do everything at first, find it
impossible, and let some of the work slip. When he
finds he can "get away with it," he probably becomes
less earnest in his efforts and does less work than be
fore, until finally he merely tries to get thru on a bluff,
Unreasonably high standards thus defeat their own
purpose.
Marquette Tribune.
FRIDAY, MAY 20
Penning Rifle,
Perahins- Rifle Prill Friday at 5 P. m
in full nnifcrm. 'V7hit6 unif',ms for the
parade Tuesday, May 24.
Kudi Pal
Kappa Psi Senior Farewell party Friday
evening at 8 o'clock at Ellen Sm.th Hall.
Corn Cobs
Luncheon at Cornhusker at 12. National
delegates will be there and all Corncobs
should be there without fail.
United Religious Campus Council
An important mcctinir of the United Re
ligious campus council at 12 o'clock, at the
1 empie.
SUNDAY, MAY 22
Horn Economics
Home Economics club breakfast Sunday,
May 22, at 8 o'clock at Ag Campus. Fifty
cents. Tickets may be secured at the Home
r.c buudinjr.
TUESDAY, MAY 24
Scabbard and Blade
There will be a very important meeting
of Scabbard and Blade in Nebraska Hall
205. immediately following the review next
Tuesday afternoon. May 24. The session
will be short and every member is urged
to report immediately the ceremonies are
finished so that the meeting may get under
way promptly.
If Midland college of Fremont acts on the advice
of its president and moves to Des Moines to be com
bined with Des Moines University and Carthage col
!e?e of Elinoi.', it may well lay claim to being the no
mad college cl t)j3 part of the country. The proposed
merger of plants and endowments, it is said would raise
the resources of the new college to 2 million dollars
and Fremont would be out one college, and the cham
ber of commerce and the rotary club would have to
hunt vp new schemes to kelp business in the falL
PERHAPS BRICKS ARE CHEAPER MOW
Another fraternity announces that It is building a
new bouee to ccist only 20 thousand dollars. All last
year the atmoanMiserta cf sr bo?H- wer quoted at
at krt 45 tnorww) r,d tat&v as high as 65 thousand.
W.l-er thf? later ones tut telling the truth, or they have
t' covered it is tetter policy to underestimate contem
l" ''i t'jrt rather than scare away prospective pledges
t r ':;lt lo-Jk with dubious eyes on loads sad loads
- fit -re fc:.'.i"ment paymests.
Quoting the Bruin of U. C. L. A.
It would seem as though there were enough false
representations of college life afloat without deliber
ately encouraging the filming of pictures which are a
mockery to the dignity and to the educational purpose
of a university.
A short time ago we loaned our campus to a mo
tion picture company for certain scenes in the serial
entitled, "The Collegians". The return for our little
act of generosity is a play which ridicules us unmerci
fully. We made sure that the pictures would not place
students in an immoral atmosphere, but we neglected
a situation which has proven equally disastrous. We are
not allowed a single worthwhile occupation; our only
textbook seems to be Elinor Glyn; the dean is an old
wind-bag who functions at all class scraps and hops,
but is never seen performing any executive office; and
the athletic coaches make more of a fracas between
two individuals, just to see what happens, than of a
varsity game.
As an underlying current, all he-men are athletes;
university co-eds run about the main quadrangle in
bathing suits; and everything else is a student Hardly
more realistic is the notion that anyone who is sincerely
engaged in the pursuit of higher education wears horn
rims and refers to his ''methods of perambulation" and
his "powers of locomotion."
The harm in distorting normal college life so that
its participants do not recognize themselves, lies in the
fact that the movies are the only glimpse some people
will ever have of a university. It should be to our in
terests to make it a true one.
The Daily Trojan.
"Useless Each Without the Other"
A common topic for discussion at school and in the
world at large is the relative importance of brain and
brawn.
Though each is useless without the other, the one
is often lost in the glare that is attached to the other.
Spectacular brawn lets its light shine forth until mind
is as obscure as the desert flower or the "pearls of pur
est ray serene in the dark unfatbomed caves" of ocean
depths. There are big headlines and many pages for
"kings of swat" (ball or "man swatters"). The man
who writes a book or patents something gets a brief
mention.
It is idle to expect the boy in the grammar grades
to give up his spectacular muscular heroes to devote
his adulations to the less dazzling achievements of
scholars. He is too young and immature. Marco Bozaris
who died while bleeding at all of his veins or babe
Ruth who hit three home runs in a single1 world series
game appeal to him more strikingly than other heroes
could.
The average citizen with n rer:gc
ience of sixth grade attainment cannot be expected to
appreciate a scholar's record with the same fervor that
he would attend a basketball game.
because of these attitudes on the part of the boy
in the grades, ft does not follow that high schools and
colleges should reflect the tame attitude relative to
brain and brawn.
Schools are dedicated to the promotion of human
welfare by arming our young citizens against ignorance
with essential knowledge. Knowledge without health
being of little use. We mix athletics with knowledge
getting for the sake of health and recreation. Contests
and publicity are provided to stimulate athletics. Schol
arship is encotuiged in like ways. Along with the fos
tering of scholarship and athletics there often occurs
tne attempt of athletics to dominate, Athletics some
times wags the schooL It is a common failing of high
schools. Sometimes names and achievements of athletic
stars blaze forth on front pages of college publications
while scholarship get brief mention. Athletes swagger
to the center of the college stage and encamp. Scholar
or no scholar, be is it.
Athletics has its place fn every school program.
&j does rxholarsbip. The Hubby scbolsr who in too bnry
for etfrfelif-s or physical exercise i a paUiic pron;
so is the athlete who cannot do anything worth while
in the classroom. Schools should not give athletics
grtkUr prominence than scholarship. Scholarship de
serves a fall measure of emphasis. Each should help to
improve the flaror of the other.
The MoctsaosuL
VALLEY TRACK STARS
GATHER FOR MEET
(Continued from Page One.)
steadiest performer on the Husker
squad this season.
The list of 880 men, however, in
cludes Jack Sides, Oklahoma speed
ster who fooled the wise-acres at the
vn'Iey indoor meet and may do it
again, Epstein of Missouri, who tntil
a few days ago held the Missjuri Val
ley freshmen record in the half mile,
Caulum of Iowa State, Conger's run-
ring mite, McGrat'i. Axttll, and
Moody, the fast Kansa3 Aggies trio,
and Van Laningham of Pri c.. Mosi
of these same stars will also fight it
oat :n the mile run where thi record
is again in danger.
Frazier May Win Two Mile
Toco" Frazier, diminutive Kan
san, is the favorite in the two-mile
but he will be faced by" as stiff com
petition as he has met any time this
year in Keith and Niblack of Okla
homa, who will also be dangerous
contenders in the mile, McCartney
and Hays of Nebraska, Sarvia, an
other Jayhawker, and Steele of Mis
souri.
Thft hurdles will br'ng together a
battery of stars that will be hard to
eliminate. Oklahoma heads the list
with four notable" performers, Dun-
son, the fleet Indian who took both
hurdles at the indoor meet, Flint,
sophomore who has ben posbir.
Dunson of late, Cornelison, always a
dangerous competitor, and "Bud"
Taylor, winner of the low hurdles in
last year's valley meet.
Doornbos is Kansas Hope
Kansas has Doornbos who bas
pushed first place winners in prev
ious years, Drake has Penquite who
gave Ed Weir a great race a year
ago in the Nebraska-Drake dual meet,
Kansas Aggies has Fairchild who has
run nip and tuck with both Doornbos
and Penquite in meets this season,
and the Cornhuskers have the two
(Continued on Page Three.)
TODAY AT
RECTOR'S
25c
Devilled Egg TostetU
Banana Salad
Any 6c drink
PORTACLE
TYPEWRITER
Oh? OmJjJnh'nn
This lifetime Gift
Beautifully designed,
built to last a lifetime
thcRopl Portable Typewriter
is the ideal gift. Weighs only
nine and a half pounds net,
has the advantages of a big
office machine sec the Royal
Portable today.
NEBRASKA TYPEWRITER CO.
1232-O-Street, Lincoln, Nebr.
IIIIIIIIIIIII1H
I in.JJi Rn.. C(m ff list. I fa C um - " -
Hardy Smith
BARBER SHOP
Cloan towel ascd on each -
IMW.
t CHAIRS
116 No. 13th Street
Appointments
for
Permanent Waves
Should Be Made Now
Giffen
Beaute Shoppe
B-3273 1340 M.
Your Steady
will appreciate a nifty
Pen & Pencil Set for
Graduation
C. Edison Miller Co.
for Best Price
218 No. 12th.
The Handy Place
To Buy
SUPPLIES
Graves Printing
Company
Three door couth of UnL
Temple
Talk of eating at the
Pie (continued)
Lamb or Veal Pot Pies being
intended as the principal part
of a meal, let us leave them and
discuss thf.se pies which are es
sentially tor dessert.
Quoting from a recent mime
ographed menu of the Central
Cafo, we find "Individual Pf;ach
Pie with Whipped Cream, 15
cents" very satisfying to the
heavy eater who wishes to "top
oft" with something sweet and
rich.
Or "Swiss Cherry Pie with
Whipped Cream, 20 cents."
Or "Prune Pie with Whipped
Cream, 25 cents.
And listed as pies without
special embellishments, we find
Apple, ItaiKin, Cherry, Blue
berry, Peach, Pumpkin, Elaclc
berry, KbuLsrb, nei otner fruit
pie at various timtr generally
fcbout ftvt kind on any one day
at 10 cents each.
Any of tbeso kinds of pie
erred "a la mode", 70 cent.
Or with cheese, 20 cents.
1123 P
It a
lilllll
Cor. 11th and O Sta. "The Best For L.
'iinwMraaHWBmgngasm
:'i(i
"I
aor i
ill I
lllllMltMH
!!I!llll!IIIItlilII!ll!IH
CONTINUING THE GREAT SILVER JUBILEE AND I
I Sale of Mayer
Bros. Co.
Dry Good
s Stock
At Fraction Of
Former Prices
Follow the crowd of wise and thrifty Nebraskans! For they're all coming to Nebras
ka .greatest sale the sale of the Mayer Bros. Dry Goods Stock and the great Silver
Jub.lee 25th Birthday Sale! SAVINGS you never did see SUCH saving, before!
No matter what you need or plan to buy you'll find it at this great sale at a sub
stantial saving. Come Friday!
S. & H.
Green Stamps An Added Discounts
'niiM s
1 I SPECIAL PURCHASE LOTS OF NEW APPAREL I I
1 1 High Type Coats
1 ! At
Coat values that will exceed your
fondest hopes! For this group in
cludes Coats that were formerly fea
tured at FAE higher prices Coats
of the smartest sort and of the very
best fabrics and make. There are
Sports Coats as well as Coats of
Kashas and other favorite materials
in all sizes, miss to extra size mat
ron. Many twills in the larger sizes.
One of the greatest Coat values
weve offered this season be sure
to see this great special group!
(SEE WINDOW)
5
COLD'S Third Floor.
1 1 Fascinating Dresses
00 -W
ill
lit
At
Ref ular sizes Urge sizes and tk
foT womn smalUr build
-11 are included in this rat group
of smart new sum mar Drasscs offered
at this exceptionally low price. Dress
es of the newest type showing Fash.
ton $ latest whims. Dresses of Wash
able Crepes, Georgettes, Printed
Crepes, etc. Some nary Georgette
Oral-prints in the larger sizes. AU
together an extraordinary group of
the rjr newest and smartest Dresses
a very low prire
(SEE WINDOW)
IS95
GOLD'S Third Floor.
New Arrivals In Girls' Apparel
Little Girl'
Voile Dresses
New arrivals ' In the
lut oVIiifhtful of style
an) coloring. many
ruffle and embroldVrr
trimmlns with or with
out bloomers. Sixes 2 to
rears.
1-95, 2MS ana .
For Girls from
7 to 14 Years
Are these pleasing- HttU
Frocks of Dimities, Tis
. (ilnxhams and
Pr-.nts. lot-sir new wash
able Ureases, many with
bloomers.
One lot 1.95 Others
up t 4Jti
Jack Tar Sport
Garments
- Includlm Knfokers,
Middies and Breeze
breaker. We're show
Ins; complete new line
of these (arments at
Kite to 22
MIDDIES lit to iSS
K.NICKEH3. lS
BREEZS BREAKERS
2.95
nnimiilHnsHMHa, 3
i 'As Others
See
Cold A Co.,
Lincoln, Nebraska.
Gentlemen t
iU As Told By
V$ Our Patrons!
Lincoln, Nebraska.
"Why I fihop at Cold A Co."
"B,-im im sk 1 r!'h rour store luet at ., .
snaa h a.it.d n. to wait Just a moment. A lilPhTJ "? l m rreeted at the door by
et,k with bowed bead. Another bell and I .. h. '.l?"'!;4 1 no""d tht llTk
ba. r,r since that, that moment of plifti ' , rZiUh T .if "j T1 n,"r- " seeaed then and
helpfulne.. of . yr b .,.,;. t "r n, the day l the courty and
aver K.ibU and ,.v. told many' f mrfrWndsTf',h.P w.'y "'"ffittboj? 8?""" " Wb""
Your for greater eurress.
H. E. W.
(Nam and Address upon request.)
aflniDnii!
if i
