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    THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
The Daily Nebraskan
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students may become informed, some means by which
the1 college man may become a stimulant to the poli
tical mind of the nation, rather than a drag upon it.
The university man, especially the member of state
supported institutions, can, if he wants to, play a lead
ing role in the effort to rid the country of its inertia
and utter indifference. He can make himself the leader
that the community is preparing him to be.
The efforts of The Daily Nebraskan to inform and
interest the students in the men who are candidates
for the Presidency are to be highly commended. It is a
step in the right direction. I hope it will not stop here.
Let it take a vigorous and active part in interesting
students in the great questions that interest thinking
men throughout the country.
We have been campus provincials long enough.
Provincialism of any sort is to be condemned. The
campus comprises a very small part of the world, after
all. While it may be our most immediate interest, it
is not, and should not be our only one.
Sincerely DAVID FELLMAN.
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Notices
Tuesday, March 20
P.rihinff Rifles
The Pershing Killos will drill Tuesday at
5 o'clock on the drill field in uniform. There
will be a dinner at the Hotel Grand at b
o'clock and formHl initiation at 7 :!10 o'clock
at Nebraska Hall.
Tassels
There will bo a meet in it of the Tassels
Tuesday at 7 o'clock at Kllcn Smith Hull.
Corncob Meeting
There will be a Corncob meeting Tucsiiay
evening at 7:15 o'clock in Social Sciences
room US. All men who expect to bo in
itiated please be at the moctinR.
Wednesday, March 21
Gamma Alpha Chi
Gamma Alpha Chi will meet at 5 o'clock
Wednesday in the advertising office.
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J. Marshall Pitier
.... ...Business Manager
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Circulation Manager
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PREJUDICE VERSUS REASON
"I'm sold on the rules we now have-" Commission
er E. M. Blair announced yesterday afternoon as he
verified the statement recently published which stated
that the City Council would not be in favor of changing
back to diagonal parking on R and Sixteenth streets.
He added, however, that the Council would meet and
allow student representatives to explain the reasons
for the numerous complaints against the present rules.
He doubted whether a personal investigation would
be necessary.
Thus it seems that as far as the Council is con
cerned, the question of what regulations shall govern
parking near the University is just about settled. As a
matter of form and policy, students will be called into
and the Council will politely listen to their arguments.
The resolution asking that parking be prohibited along
R street within a distance of fifty feet from the inter
section at Twelfth will probably be accepted. In order
that city traffic may be discouraged from R street,
a few stop battons may be placed at various intersec
tions and perhaps a stop signal might even be installed
at the intersection at Fourteenth.
The Council will heartily endorse the action of
the Student Council in requesting students to walk to
the campus whenever possible, and then call it a day.
They will return to their homes well-satisfied. For
didn't they allow the students to state their opinions
and -weren't most of the proposed rules accepted? Of
course nothing was done about parallel parking but
the Council believes that the students are a little1
rabid on that subject anyway.
We may be entirely wrong in our prediction of
what measures may be taken. We hope so. But the fact
that the Council has already stated that they would
probably not consider a change back to diagonal park
ing indicates that student opinion will be considered
only when it is also Council opinion.
Perhaps the students who have been irritated by
the disturbance created by the recent rulings will be
pacified by such evasion by the city authorities. We
doubt it.
Tka Cynic Says:
Perhaps the University parking problem would be
a more serious one if the students were voting at the
next city election.
BOSS tffip
Daily Nebraskan readers are cordially invited to contri
bute articles to this column. This paper, however, assumes no
responsibility for the sentiment expressed herein, and re
serves the right to exclude any libelous or undesirable matter.
A limit of six hundred words has been placed on all contributions.
To the Editor:
I wish to comment upon the series of articles ap-.
pearing in The Daily Nebraskan dealing with the presi
dential possibilities in the coming national conven
tions. It seems to me that this group of articles is one
of the most worth-while of any that have appeared in
our publication in recent years. It is a relief to see some
interest taken on this campus in something besides
petty campus politics. It is of vastly more importance
that the students of our state university should bo
interested in who will be the next chief execptive of
the United States than in the candidates for the all
important position of chief executive of the junior
class. Campus politics certainly have their place, and
deserve, the attention of the student body. But they
don't merit all of their attention.
It is frequently pointed out that the people of
the United States are totally indifferent to the poli
tical vicissitudes of the country. Indeed, so great is
the apathy of the American public,' that the greatest
scandals in the administration fail to ruffle the calm
surface of public opinion. It is no wonder that such
a situation exists when one stops to consider that the
most educated and intelligent man in the land, the
college man, is himself totally immune from any sort
of political germ. What happens in the world at large,
what is going on in his rational government, what
local issues are the concern of public-spirited men, do
not concern him at all. Who shall preside as queen of
some social function will set the campus agog with ex
citement and" activity. But who will control the des
tinies of the nation is about as interesting to the stu
dent as an Ordinary lecture on a hot afternoon in May.
The American college student does not occupy
the place in the affairs of the state, and in the estima
tion of the people that the student of the European
college does. In Europe, the student thinks in terms
that transcend the limits of his campus. The questions
that interest the legislatures and administrators of
Europe interest him as well. As a result of his appli
cation of his knowledge- and intelligence to the vital
issues of the day, he occupies a place of respect and
dignity among the people. But the situation is radi
cally different in the United States. The people receive
their notions of the college man from the front pages
of the tabloMu, vher otj occasion".! "snkenosa or an
inter-fraternity battle for some traditional bauble are
featured. The scandals of the university, not its con
structive thought and work, give it its stamp.
I don't Lmean to say, for one moment, that the
American college student does not think; nor do I
S".y that our universities are not great constructive in
stitCbiunti, B'it it seem to mo that there exists no
d.Mrtii luiough which the critical and public-minded
individuals in our colleges may become informed and
find opportunities to express themselves. There should
I n some medium, some organization, in which the is
f s of t; e day are threshed out, and by which the
In Other Columns
CIVILIZATION?
Of all sad tales of tongue or pen, just try to find
one much more sad than this little paragraph quoted
from the outline of needs and prospects for Nebraska
university, published recently by Chancellor Burnett:
"Today there are 28 active professors and in
structors who have given 25 or more years to ser
vice in the university, one who has served faith
fully and with distinction for 46 years, and many
who have served more than 30 years. Practically
none of these have accumulated sufficient property
t oprotect themselves against want in their old
age."
If what is called (with much chestiness) 'civiliza
tion had time to think about it there would be a world
of food for very, very sober reflection in that an
nouncement, an announcement which, fortunately for
our own reputation before the world, depicts a situa
tion which it not only true with us, but undoubtedly
quite as much, on the average, at every other institu
tion of learning in the United States.
It is a state of affairs that passes understanding.
Certainly there is no slackening of the popularity of
education. Year after year the doors of the rapidly
growing number of our universities are embattled every
September by an increasing flood of young men and
young women apparently thirsting for the waters of
wisdom and learning. In such crowds, and so much with
the force of a tidal wave have they , come than the
poor universities are literally swamped beneath the
weight of them. Trobably the greatest problem of
these institutions today is what to do, what to do with
all these thousands and thousands of youngsters who
are demanding academic degrees and Greek letter so
ciety memberships.
At Nebraska university, Chancellor Burnett points
out in this same statement, there are classes with more
than a hundred students registered for them, and it
takes little imagination to comprehend something of
the futility of an instructor trying to do very much
with a class of a hundred students. What he would
need would be an auditorium, not a classroom. Educa
tion, under such conditions, becomes'not academic, but
forensic.
Most of the other things that the civilization of
the present day wants so enthusiastically it is willing
to pay for. It wants its motion pictures, and Croesus
himself would be flabbergasted at the list of figures
and dollar signs on the salary reports that the press
agents send us from Hollywood. It wants its automo
biles and in Wall street the stock of General Motors
rears and rears until all precedents of fabulous bon
anzas are smashed to smithereens.
Make an automobile, or some entertaining shadow
pantomime and the cornucopia is emptied into your
lap in this age of crowded halls of learning, but make
a mind or mould a character or spill out the treasures
of the lore of the world's learning and its wisdom,
treasures wrung, perhaps, from the agony of years of
labor in the stench of midnight oils, and you cannot
accumulate enough during a lifetime to provide against
the needs and wants of old age.
Here is a real consideration for students of civili
zation and boasters about it. It seems to us that it is a
consideration which might profitably be made the sub
ject of several hours discussion in any one of those
classes at the university that have-more than a hundred
students in them. In all of the rest of the history of
the world there will be found no more promising ma
terial for examination. Omaha World-Herald.
PRESIDENTIAL
POSSIBILITIES
BETTER HOMES FOR NEBRASKA
A work carried on by the University of Nebraska
that deserves more notice than it receives has to do
with the homes. It is the home economics course in con
nection with the College of Agriculture. It is not a
mere cooking school, as some derisively refer to it. It
deals with the serious business of homcmaking in all
its branches. Cooking is taught, as a matter of course,
but along with that teaching goes instruction in many
other things that are vitally important to the home.
And the girl who completes the course is qualified to
go into a home and manage it successfully in all its
departments.
Out of this school has gone into the homes of the
state a continued flow of instruction concerning house
hold management and operation. Not the fussy sort
that merely upsets and leaves nothing of the good be
hind, but help that really is helpful. Women who have
not had an opportunity to get personal contact with
the school have been reached in other ways. They
have been taught about foods, how to select and pre
pare them, what makes a proper diet, and other points
of value. Information concerning things that go into
the home, its arrangement and management have been
Eivn. Dressmaking, care of children in fact, the en
tire range of household economics is presented, and to
great advantage.
At the school they relate with much gusto the
tale of the observer sent by an eastern firm to find out
what country women- were wearing. He attended a
number of county fairs, and then reported he could
not tell the difference, for all the women were well
dre id and in fashion. The household economic school
had something to do with this. It really is making
better homes in Nebraska through its course, its radio
and other lectures, and through the p rsonal influence
of its graduates. Omaha Bee-News.
THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES
One of the marks of a mental attitude which is
healthy is the wave of discussion which is sweeping the
country. uverytniiig is being discussed, nothing is taboo
all of which is a good sign.
Discussion may be likened to cultivation; it kteps
the ground fresh and vigorous, not allowing weeds to
grow up corrupting a field where a valuable growth
might feet started. Discussion is an indication that peo
ple are thinking. Indeed, many ctaeges and universities
ere now offering courses in discussion leadership, and
we should be duly grateful to such men as Lindsey and
Darrow for their part in stirring up thought.
Out of all this fermentation must surely come
something new and valuable; a new attitude suited to
the present day.. Oberlin Review.
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ALBERT C. RITCHIE
second term assumed all the author
ity of unwritten law. So much so
that no Democratic Governor before
Ritchie was ever nominated to suc
ceed himself and the only Republi
can Governor to be renominated went
down to defeat. The rule . seemed
inviolate. Neither a constitutional
amendment nor a statutory prohibi
tion was deemed to be necessary to
raise a barrier against a Maryland
Governor perpetuating himself in of
fice.
Smashes Tradition
But the rule did not hold aerainst
Ritchie. Not only did he smash it
once but if he serves his full time
the smasher will have been chief
magistrate of his state eleven years.
almost, if not quite a new record, in
these United States. He mierht have
served twelve years except for a few
er-election reorganization which re
duced the second Ritchie term to
three instead of four years.
He proposes to go back to States
rights and to local self-government
for the remedies which he believes
conditions of today demand. The
first of these to his thinking is pro
hibition and its effects upon the
Nation. He is catalogued as a wet
and is a wet in the popular meaning
of the term. He is opposed both to
constitutional prohibition and to Vol-
steadism. He would return the liquor
issue to the states, and he believes
it can be done. Here is his prohibit
tion proposal, briefly put:
Prohibition Question
"Either the Volstead law must be
changed or it must be enforced, 'and
I am convinced that it cannot be en
forced. We have spent nearly $150,-
000,000 trying to enforce it and have
sacrificed nearly $4,000,000,000 in
taxes, while the effort has been made
and our last state is worse than the
first.
"I believe in the right of. each
state to settle in its own way ques
tions which intimately concern its
people. Many states prefer absolute
prohibition; others do not. There is
no use of ignoring the fact that the
population in many states is pre
ponderantly against Volsteadism.
The same doctrine of state deter
mination, Governor Ritchie insists,
can be made to apply in other impor
tant directions. He warns earnestly
against centralization of power in
Washington, federal dictation to the
states and federal interference with
legitimate business.
This Marylander does not pretend
to have an answer to all pressing
public questions. He has never mih-
licly elaborated his views upon for
eign affairs, for example, nor upon
the farm problem. Not long ago he
went on a speaking tour which took
him into the grain belt. He had no
inspired message for the farmers ar.j
frankly told them so. He said he did
not know the true answer to thpir
question, but he added, "I know the
farm problem is here and that the
answer must be found."
i '
OSCAR W. UNDERWOOD
the Constitution of the ITnitnd
States. No man should be president
of the United Stai.es who would nul
lify any part of the Constitution;
no man should be Dresidonr. vuhn
would be half-way for the Consti-I
tution and half-way against it."
There is a voice that rings clear.
(2) League of Nations. The sen
ator is earnestly in favor of the
League of Nations as a means for
world betterment. He believes our
old time-worn doctrine of isolation
has been outlived and that an as
sisting part should be played by the
United States in both the League of
Nations and the World Court.
(3) Liberalism of spirit. The sen
ator's record of thirty years of sane
progressive' voting for progressive
measures within the Constitution is
the best possible answer to the in
terrogations naturally forthcoming
on this point.
(4) The matter of taxation. Sen
ator Underwood's chief battle has
been for the placing of the burden
of taxation on those best able to
carry it, the battering down of tariff
rate?, and extension of markets for
the farmer and the reduction of
taxes.
(5) Aid for the farmer. Senator
Underwood is constructively inter
ested in the best interests of the
farm group and believes the regu
lating of the foreign policy is the
beat means of fostering the farmer's
interests. '
(6) Muscle Shoals. The senator's
attitude is one of entire sympathy
with the people of the south and es
pecially with the firming element.
In the support of this measure the
people may refy implicitly on a faith
ful and proficient safeguarding of
their interests.
CHARLES E. BORAH
of the people, the possibilities of that
great office must inevitably have a
vast attraction for him.
To him the Presidency would mean
the opportunity for positive action,
the pressing of his ideas and ideals
of democracy. The insurgency, the
opposition, of which he is so com
monly accused, would, undoubtedly
in that office give way to an affir
mative leadership, a characteristical
ly independent championship.
Conscious of these possibilities, he
would like to be President. But he
has no illusions about his chances.
"It would take a revolution to
nominate me," he said recently. And
thf group of newspapermen he was
addressing smiled with him at his
candor.
Index of Individuality
His unswerving faith in democracy
and the people goes hand in hand
with his aggressive devotion to the
Constitution. To grasp an under
standing of Mr. Borah, and his public
career and acts, these two factors
must always be kept in mind, and be
used as bases for evaluation; these
tenets and the personality of the
man, his broad humanity, his kind
liness, his indomitable courage and
unvarying mental indepednence.
Mr. Borah has served as a United
States Senator during the terms of
five Presidents. .He freely dissented
from and opposed the policies and
leadership of all, and yet, with all
has he been on the most cordial per
sonal terms. It has well been said,
"Borah is the severest critic and the
personal friend of Presidents."
"Republican party leaders must
realize that the country extends be-
yond the Mississippi River. The agri
cultural West demands the same con
sideration that has so long been given
the industrial and financial East.
The American farmer must be given
the same full privilege to the Amer
ican market that American industry
has.
"I voted against the McNary
Haugen bill because I considered im
portant provisions of the measure
unconstitutional. But relief and pro
tection must be given the farmer.
Freight rate discriminations must be
abolished; waterways must be devel
oped, and natural resources and water-power
conserved.
Would Cut National Debt
"I am for giving prohibition a fair
trial. It has not had that yet. I am
opposed to its repeal, until it has
been given a fair trial; until men in
high places have honestly endeavored
to enforce it. The plan of party
leaders to side-step this great nation
al issue is a menace to Nie continu
ance of law and order in America. It
cannot and will not be silenced or
dodged.
Mr. Borah has often been called a
"one-man party." There is much in
that. Mr. Borah has never been sec
ond in command. He cannot do
otherwise than lead; and for the 20
years of his public career he has been
the leader of a party a one-man
party of his own.
Of the issues now facing the Na
tion, Mr. Borah is not only frank,
but active. One of the issues he de
clares is the silence and reticence of
leaders and candidates of all parties.
He is determined that there shall be
public discussions and avowals of po
sition by candidates.
If the people on the earth could
stand side by side, they would en
circle the globe about fifteen times.
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Of Sunday Series
The University of Nebraska or
chestra, under the direction of pro"
fessor Carl P, Steekelborg and WaU
ter Wheatley, tenor, presented the
last concert of the sixth annual Sun
day afternoon vesper series, in the
Lincoln high school auditorium Sun
day afternoon.
It was announced by Charles B
Righter, who has had charge of the
programs, that the same plan would
be carried out next year, but with
the use of more instrumental music
Indiana '99 Rule Bars
Co-ed Rides Out of City
Bloomington, Ind. (I P) The
Indiana Daily Student, searching
among the university archives, has
discovered that in '90 there was a
rule at the University of Indiana
saying that "No co-ed shall ride by
means of horse and buggy beyond
the city limits."
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