TUESDAY, NOVEiMHER 27, I92H
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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN.
The Daily Nebraskan
Station A, Lincoln, Nebraska
OFFICIAL PUBLICATION
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRA8KA
Under direction of the Student Publication Boar
TWENTY. EIGHTH YEAR
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VV. Joyce Ayree
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MONRO KEZER EDITOFWN-ChKF
MANAGING EDITORS
Dean Hammond Maurice W. Konkol
NEW! EDITORS
Lyman Case
Paul Nelson
Douglas Tlmrnermart
ICtltTINT NEWS EDITORS
Vernon Ketrlng William T. McCleery
Betty Thornton
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Clrff F. Sandahl " Hunt
William McCleery Robert Lalng
Eugene Robb
MILTON McGREW BUSINESS MANAGER
ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGER
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Richard Rlcketta
CONVERSE, EE VERSE ET AL
Conversation Is reputed to be one of the lost
arts of too modern age. Acquaintance with the
average collegian might Boon destroy the illusion,
korne educators hare even gone so far as to claim
i hat one of the chief weaknesses of students in
I heir group life, is their tendency to "talk them
selves out of school" In continued and prolonged
series of aimleHS conversations.
However much the student talks among his
friends, his public appearances are becoming rarer
and rarer. Most students tend even to forget that
there Id Bach a tnlug as organiieU speaking In the
university's Intercollegiate debating activities.
Tonight Nebraska debaters meet representatives
from the University of Sydney. Three well-trained
representatives of Cornhuskerdora will take the plat
form in a thought-word-delivery contest with a trio
of youths from the other side of the world.
Greatest Interest falls on the Australian de
baters. The attractive appearance here last year
of the Cambridge debaters was in marked contrast
t general conceptions of debate as a dlcdln-the-wool
series of uninteresting talks. Reports are that
Australians are just as likeable, just as breezy, Just
as entertaining, as were the Englishmen last year.
Effect of English debating in the United States
has been most remarkable. It has tended to bring
i. bating from a dry formalism to a living person
alisra. Debate has become Interesting. Students,
with a sparkling of curiosity of the development of
o'her peoples, can enjoy an Insight Into America's
r.nglish-speaking neighbors at the Coliseum this
ven'.ag.
PROFESSOR OR PEDANT?
Not a few professors are possessed of the dis
ease known as the "school habit" mentioned In a
re cent opinion in The Dally Nebraskan with ref-er.-iice
to students alone. It Is a serious charge to
make but it must be admitted that some of Ne
braska's Intelligencers are merely pedants and not
professors at all.
The concern is not with any particular indl-
idual of the faculty, nor is It with any department.
It i.s with any of those instructors who stand before
the class spouting the same stream which they
have emitted since they were accepted on the fac
ulty, using the same outlines which they used at
this time, and holding to the direct statements of
the text.
The Instructor who does not allow the class to
benefit from his own intelligence is unfair. When
h". repeals the words of the text he is smothering
any interest which the student may have had when
he. read the text. The fresh, the crisp, and the
new never fail to demand attention.
Students who have any excuse for being en
toiled in a university are able to read the text,
l ick out the central idea, and be prepared to ap
preciate any clarification which the professor may
be able to accomplish through his own experience.
A real foundation in a subject could be built for the
fudsnt by the instructor who will credit the stu
nt with some degree of intelligence.
The true professor will draw out the originality
in the student. He will encourage him. He feels
that thre is some hope. The pedant will dis
courage originality and kill Interest. He falls to
f any hope.
THE RAOGER: One does not have to send a
laundry rase home to let his parents know he is
Mill In school. The delinquency slips take care of
t'nat.
college-boy pi: y. It is plain thievery, and should
be punished a : . mil.
Among ;?ollc-,'e people, like all other classes,
tlici" ore. u few who have a very peculiar sense of
:' ! t and wrong. They are the. kind of people who
begin by stealing clothes and sneaking behind the
ticket-taker, and often end their career by breaking
rocks out on South Fourteenth street.
To expose this type of obnoxious person would
take only a little united effort on the part of the
student body.
After exposure, the legal sentence of from
three months to two years doing free work for the
state would not be more than they deserve.
L. C.
The campus dumbbell said yeiterday that after
all the talk about, school spirit, he is beginning to
fear the place la haunted.
Sorority girls can cease Jumping when the
phone rings. The sponsors have been selected.
The Blue Shirts and Yellow Jackets took an
active interest in the election of the "Sweetheart"
of Nebraska. Roth factions will probably claim
t lie credit.
OTHER STUDENTS SAY
A STUDENT LOOKS
AT PUBLIC AFFAIRS
By David Fellman
UNBEATEN SYDNEY
Nebraska students will have a chance in the
near future to show just how much interest they
take in things of intellectual value. The student
body as a whole Is very generous with its enthus
iasm, when an athletic contest la concerned. Ilut
just what will their reaction be in regard to the
international debate tonight In the Coliseum?
The debating team of the University of Ne
braska Is a very important factor in advertising the
University over the country and abroad. When
Cambridge debaters competed here last year there
was a fair sized crowd to greet them. The coming
debate should draw even a larger crowd as the
students and the general public should know what
to expect.
The University of Sydney" has won all their
debates In this country to date. This should give
some Idea as to the caliber of the team. A victory
for Nebraska would mean a great deal. The boys
on the team will do all in their power to bring
victory to the school and it is up to the students
to stand behind them and give them the support
they deserve. W. C.
A contest among sophomores to see who can
raise the longest beard Is being staged at the Uni-
entity of Washington. This should decrease class
tardiness considerably.
With the addition of the course In aeronautics
t the university curriculum, students will soon be
heard to complain about the noise of the air traffic.
Tbe days are beginning to be numbered. Only
seventeen more class day until Christmas.
MULES ARE MULES
George V, emperor of nearly a
hair a billion subjects, is a very
sick man, being confined with a
Blight cold which developed into
a congestion of the lungs, compli
cated by pleurisy. The whole
world i.s anxlorsly awaiting word
from the sick room. The last re
ports Indicate that he Is breathing
easier. The health of the head of
Hn empire that stretches from one
corner of the globe to the other is
h very important matter to the
world.
Old General Feng Yu-hsiang,
the so-called Christian general, in
u speech before several thousand
students, expressed in no uncer
tain terms his opinion of Chinese
students who study abroad. An
exponent of the "good old days,"
this stem war lord dresses In
stern simplicity, but, curiously
enough, travels about In an expen
sive touring car. "Returned stu
dents," he fumed, "think more of
expensive suits, polished shoes,
MieH-rim glasses, slicked hair and
free love than they do of with
standing the hardships and incon
veniences being suffered by China
In her struggles for a place among
the nations." Shades of Cato!
By Catherine Elizabeth Haneon
Well, the Army game is over,
And the mule is in his clover.
Stubborn mule! He thinks he's clever,
But I ask you, did you ever
See a mule that didn't kick?
Well, the score was three to zero.
And the team was playing "hero,"
And the crowd was yelling crazy.
(Should have heard 'em, Uazzy Daisy!)
When the mule began to kick.
Kickin' this way, kirkiu' that. way.
And he brayed, how he did bray!
"What in blazes?" aftked McDuff.
Then the HusKers cried, "Enough!"
When the mule began to kick.
Well, we didn't get the "bacon,"
For the mule would not be taken.
But, If we're not mistaken,
When the Acs start aggravatin",
EVERY MAN WILE DO HIS STUFF!
Now that election is over, statis
ticians ara hnnllv pneaecd with
post-mortem examinations of what
might have happened. Mark Sulli
van, republican, figures it out that
If Herbert Hoover had received
just 275.UU0 additional votes, prop-.Hctt-lhiitaH
ho wnnlH have
received the unanimous vote of the
electoral college. In the same
way, Professor Frank G. Dicken-
i son of the university or Illinois
i shows that Governor Smith lacked
i . . . . i
only oi4.niu votes, property
placed, to be elected president.
This number of votes is only about
one percent of the total, yet It
would have given Smith 268 elec
toral votes, enough to give him
the office.
The explanation of this situation
will he found in examining that
I peculiar institution known as the
electoral college, worked out Dy
the venerable framers of the Con
stitution to prevent "excessive de
mocracy." of which they were
more apprehensive than Mabel
Walker Willebrandt, th Joan of
Arc of the recent campaign, was
of Governor Smith. As the vote
of the majority of the state goes,
so goes the entire electoral vote
of the state. For example, if
2.onn,nnn votes are cast for Can
didal A in the state of New York,
and 2.000.001 for Candidate R, then
all 4S electoral votes of the state
go to I).
OTHER EDITORS SAY
Thus. Professor Dickenson ex
plains the real meaning of the
Hoover "landslide" In the follow
ing way: "Take ten voters. The
Tuwincnd portrait photnjrophcr-Ad
BRUISED AND BATTERED
That gallant band of Cornhuskers, who waged
an unsuccessful battle on the plains of West Point
la it Saturday afternoon aza.ln.st Uncle Sam's West
Pointers, Is returning to Lincoln bruised and bat-:
tered In body, and depressed In spirit. They had '
set their hopes high and the failure of realization
was a crushing disappointment. Not only they, but ,
vheir thousands of adherents throughout this west
ern country, felt keenly the loss of a thrilling foot
ball game, in which both teams battled so desper-1
ately, so courageously, and so evenly throughout i
a greater portion of the struggle.
Under the circumstances, It is difficult to find
consolation, even in the thought that this was Just j
a football game which quickly passes Into history,
to be forgotten along with thousands of other lnci-1
dents. It was more than a footbnll game for the ,
Cornhuskers. It was the apex of their ambitions!
to crown a glorious season with a valid and Impos-;
ing claim for consideration as national champions, j
It was the fervent hope of the folks back home that j
the boys would win, but failing, there Is the duty
of soothing that keen disappointment which was
tbelrs.
In the crowded we .'..- of the football season, the
young men who aspire to places on the team take
bumps, which result in painful hurts, smilingly.
They endure them because they love the game and
because they shower devotion upon the institution i
whose colors they wear. They restrict themaelves !
to careful training, to arduous grind, to hard work,
to abstinence from the social pleasures and festlv-!
itles which ilisraeirrl.e college circles. They are I
entitled to a word of cheer for the fight which thoy j
made against a resourceful and equally Inspired j
enemy. Let's see that they get it. j
Lincoln Mar,
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13th A P St.
n,i miii v,itoj fnr Hoover, the
second for Smith and so on to the
ninth man, who votes lor Hoover.
The manner in which the tenth
liinn now votes decides the land
slide. That is what happened In
the election. Had the tenth man
followed the examples of the other
even-numbered men he would have
voted for Smith, But he did not.
so Hoover Is our next president."
Law and order are taking their
usual back seat In Chicago. The
great bustling metropolis of the
Middle West celebrated last Sat
urday the setting off of the ninety
fifth bomb for the year 192S. "Ver
ily, the cry of Sodom and Gomor
rah Is great, and, verily, their sin
is exceedingly grievous."
John A. Swanson, who defeated
State's Attorney Robert E. Crowe,
of Loeb and Leopold fame, for the
office, will assume the position of
prosecutor for Cook county on De
cember 3. He has a man's size
job on his hands. Judging from
the activity and statements of the
new administration, reforms will
h tnit Inter on an Imoresslve scale.
Rut we've heard that before.
rtnntnunla emereed from the con
trol of a powerful family of dic
tators that dommatea tne goveru
intit nt thnt pnuntrv since the
foundation of the kingdom In 1881,
with the forced resignation oi
Prime Minister Vintlla Bratiano
on November 12. He was suc
ceeded by the leader or the Ma
tional Peasant party. Dr. Juliu
Manlu, who was caled upon to
furnl a Tl P TV Oft blnet. Immediately
upon his assumption of the office,
he abolished the traditional nra
tlonn rnnnorshin of nosts. tele
graphs, telephones, and press. Sstd
the new Prime Minister: "Ours is
the triumph of Constitutionalism
over Despotism. We shall immed
iately call for the dissolution of
Parliament and hold new. honest
elections. . . . We shall guarantee
mn fiili.m full nolillcal liberty
and establish complete liberty of
the press, we snail aiscuss sta
bilization of the currency Bnd ne
gotiate a foreign loan. We shall
revise the present oduoxious anii
foreign mining law passed by
Prime MinUter Jon Bratiano In
1924, as well as other laws which
him maile Rumania a most un
popular country abroad." This new-
regime, and its new policy, seems
tn Vinlrl out a ereat deal of horje
for a kingdom that has been tor
mented with internal dissensions
for years.
l y
shall I do
with
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DREAMERS
It is said that it takes all kinds of people to
make this world. So long as we are happy we
should have few regrets. That Is the purpose of
our educational institutions to give us a good sense
of values so that we can ultimately decide upon the
type of person that we care to know.
Of all of the groups that one could name, the
dreamer seems to have the most varied and, per
haps, the most interesting experiences. In his own
mind be builds nations which he shall some day
conquer; he plans his life years In advance; he
dreams and he finds his happiness In working for
those dreams. He lives. But his life is not all one
of carefree happiness. For when the man of dreams
Is sad then he Is truly sad. If he Is hurt be "covers
with a laugh"; and If he wins, then be smiles. This
Is Just one of the many kinds of people that go to
make up this world.
Daily Trojan.
Notwithstanding
the
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ETHIOPIAN IN THE WOODPILE
Guests at a certain sorority house party last
week were astounded and angered when after the
party they found that some light-fingered guests
had carried off their hats, gloves, scarfs and even
an overcoat.
This very vexing custom has cost university
students several hundreds of dollars and no end of
embarrassment during the lust few years. It has
gone past the stage of mischief. It is no longer
AMBITION
Ambition for a college education prompted a
Texas youth to ride a bicycle 22 miles dally to school I
for six years, during which time he was a straight
"A" student. Undoubtedly, this youth knows whither
he Is bound aud undoubtedly he will reach his
goal. He is one of the few who realize why and
how be is in college and his steadfast efforts are
to be commended.
Most of us accept a university training as a
mutter of course; we know neither why nor how it
is that we are enrolled in an lnst'tutlon such as the
University of Kansas. To most of us it is simply
the thing to do; we live gracefully and easily, ex
pending the least amount of effort possible. Unlike
the Texas boy only a few of us cherish a desire
that is strong to call forth our greatest efforts. As
university men and women are we to be commended?
Daily Katitan,
1 ROFS
You can retain
your eligibility or
your good scholas
tic record more
easily when you
feel wide awake
and energetic.
There's plenty of
roughage and bran
to assure this in
EAT IT WITH WHOLE MILK
foredded BennettsFlugstad
Whea
IN THIS CORNER
Folks, we have B&Fs latest
atrocity the pearl gray and
sand tan Campus Crushers
--These Hats have taken
the University by storm
Wherever you go you will
find them just like new
Fords and All-American
football prospects. More
than any other piece of
clothing-they have received
your endorsement, Nebras
ka Menwe bow, deeply.
IF
WINTER COMES
How are you, gentle reader,
going to keep warm? What
will you do for frost-bite,
wet feet, numbness, fallen
arches, chills and fever?
Consult B&F, kind sir, for
ready advice, wise counsel,
etc., etc. We suggest Over
coats, long and straight, single-breasted
in blues and ox
ford gray s--v e r y, very
smooth. The scarfs too, are
red hot; featuring a wonder
ful selection of bright wool
plaids and figured silks. And
Gloves done in the popular
new slip-on mode look
pretty fair. And Wool Hose
from one buck onward, Ties
at one and a half. Sweaters
for almost nothing, Pajamas
practically given away, Un
dies at a terrific sacrifice.
"BOB"
OUR CLOTHES
'utj&j-jzjxtsjza uA.a.Aiiiaj m jttimU
Are rotten we know it
Plenty customers have told
us so. But we have to do
something for a living.
Across From the Campus
BILL FLUGSTAD
Officiating:
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