THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1929
THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
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The Daily Nebraskan
Station A, Lincoln, Nebraska
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NEWS EDITORS
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A8SISTANT NEWS EDITORS
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CAPTAINS AND OTHERS
Growth of the belief that elimination of the
election of athletic captaincies in the country's col
leges and universities Is a step In the light direction
lias been evidenced since the period In early Decem
ber In which The Dally Nebraskan advocated that
elimination of the captaincy would be helpful to
Cornhuaker athletics.
One of the chief arguments advanced against
(his stand of The Nebraskan was that no other ma
jor schools had done so. Never believing that "Fol
low the Leader" was a game for collegians, the
argument didn't satisfy. For the benefit of those
who thought the argument good, however, attention
might well be called to the fact that others are
eliminating the captaincies.
The University .of Minnesota announced that no
football captain would be elected next year. Steffens,
after his remarkably successful season with Car
negie Tech, declared that there wouldn't be any
iaptaln there next year. Bob Matherne, NEA Serv
ice sports writer, in a recent article calls attention
to several other Instances.
Paul Schlssler, according to Matherne, bas ap
pointed a player leader for each team at Oregon
State for several years. Ohio State didn't have a
captain this year, electing an "nonary captain" at
the close of the season, a policy which offers few
of the objections which may be raised against the
present plan.
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The Dally Nebraskan believes that the athletic
board was wise In not refusing to permit the elec
tion of a captain. Wherever possible, students
should be permitted to make their own choice of
policy. The "N" club has been one of the few
groups on the campus which has carried on any
work of lasting and meritorious significance. It
could add no little approval to Us present standing
by working towards the adoption of a program
which would eliminate the elective seasonal cap
taincies from Nebraska's intercollegiate athletics.
much ena-rosied in keeDlna what they already know
or can do they let pass a dozen helping hands. There
are skeptics who miss opportunity and there are
optimists who are continually in hot water. They
persist in the belief that some good turn will come
to them at the last moment and make their rortuno
for them, And so they wait. Many are still waiting.
To say "Wake me up now so that I may after
ward take a nap in peace. Is reasonable phiiosopnv,
The problem is to find some one to do the waking
DOWN ON THE FARM
Agriculturists, stockmen, dairymen, grain grow
ers; in short, farmersj from every county of the
state have been visitors on the College of Agricul
ture campus this week, attending the anual meeting
of organized agriculture.
To the participants of the meetings it means
the rotation of many problems that confront the
farmer. Better strains of cattle, better seeds, better
planting methods, better marketing conditions
these represent but a few of the cardinal subject
that are discussed. Even the fanner's wife cornea
in for her share of instruction; hints on canning
methods, care of the home, and a whole cortege of
kindred topics place her In a better position to
administer the home duties of the Nebraska farm.
To the farmer, the significance of the meetings
is paramount, and to the University of Nebraska
they are no less significant. Representing the pre
mier educational Institution of a state that always
has been agricultural, and that probably always
will look to the Nebraska farmer in the first in
stance, the University can well extend the hand of
welcome and a vigorous grip to the men and women
from the Nebraska farms In Lincoln this week.
No college of the University of Nebraska Is as
close to the hearts of the people In the state as
the College of Agriculture. The major portion of
the students come from rural Nebraska and have
the Interests of hum life surging through their
blood.
"WAKE ME UP!"
His parents were trying to persuade a three-year-old
boy to go to bed for his usual afternoon
nap. His father told him again and again, "Daddy'U
wake you up. Don't you worry-" Still the child
persisted that be wanted to stay up so as not to
miss anything, finally, the father asked him when
lie wanted to be waked up. "Wake me up right
now," he answered tearfully.
Many students are asleep to a certain extent
moat of the time. They pass up opportunities every
day. Less than best is done. Some look without
Feeing and answer without .knowing what they say.
Some read without understanding and write a jum
ble of meaningless words.
It is too much to hope for perfection. One who
does so is not wise to the ways of the world which
deter and misguide. If only Ood Intention were
necessary to accomplishment a great many people
would be near perfect Few pejple evn approach a
state of perfect accomplishment. They are buffeted
about and lose sight of the object set up as their
goal of attainment. The ones who come nearest
to a perfect attainment are those who are above the
trivial things that hinder them and who can change
to meet changing conditions. .
A great deal of inefficiency of many comes
from the fact that they do not know their goal.
They are afraid to let go their present job to take
a better one for fear that tbey may not be capable
of doing the better Job to satisfaction and thus lose
both of them. They complain that the days are too
short and the work too long and yet when oppor
tunity comes fail to grasp it.
The stale Quality 'of mind characteristic of ail
too great a percentage of people is due in large
measure to their Inordinate feiir of new Ideas. Too
THE RAGGER: The "Question Mark" may have
broken all records for air craft, but the campus
dumbbell says be knows someone who has been up
in the air much longer.
New Years has been gone long enough now for
most people to break resolutions without even re
membering them.
Pennies that once bought boxes of matches will
be cut in circulation again soon, as the Christmas
cigarette lighters will fail to work and follow their
brothers.
Now that Christmas vacation is paBt, the next
thing to look forward to is picnic season.
It has been estimated that it will take approxi
mately two months for the Christmas ties to make
the rounds In fraternity houses.
Several students took a new lease on life the
other day when they heard that, among other things,
George Washington was a gocd dancer.
It is Impossible for a student to go high in his
studies without first getting deeply into them.
The question Is not always, where the student
stands, but in what direction he U going.
OTHER STUDENTS SAY-
TUT r.MAPFRONF
"Friday nifcht is our monthly, weekly or daily story, but for sheer beauty of por-
....... . i j. i.noniinlprl Thti
Got your dates? Everything is an sei
dance, boys
excent the chaperone. Don't know what we shall
do for one." Why is It hard to find a chaperone?
It appears that chaperoning a fraternity dance
would be an ideal way to spend an evening. Tho
music is always excellent and the young people are
always so jolly. Yet If everything goes off fine the
chaperoue l:ll wears a long face and appears to be
bored to death. Why does not the chaperone enjoy
herself?
It must be because the young people make no
effort to show her they appreciate her services.
Oh yes, they all Introduce their friends and go
through the formality of what seems to them as
good manners. Then they rush off and the chap
erone feels that they are not sincere in what they
say. The chaperone is not asked to dance. She
Just sits. Youth may think that she has had her
day and should be willing to sit back now. But
today people are not dead after they have passed
their youthful days. So why should a chaperone
appear to be the living dead?
Youth in outer actions regards the chaperone
as a necessary evil. Youth may be cruel and heart
less toward the chaperone but It Is all due to an
absence of good manners. No chaperone Is cravin?
the attention of youth. She merely asks that they
show an appreciation of her services. To show an
appreciation of the chaperone would merely be a
small effort on the part of the young people to
wards seeing that she spent a pleasant evening.
Showing this appreciation is merely consideration
and thoughtfulness of others. Consideration and
thoughtfulness are the very things upon which eti
quette is formed. Breaking the rules upon which
good manners are based shows a total absence
of good manners.
Some people will not chaperone because they
will not endure the cruelty of youth, others feel
it Is their duty, and still others feel that some time
they may need a chaperone at their house and are
therefore willing to spend an evening once a month
or so, as an outcast at a party. In reality everyone
knows the value of the chaperone. So why treat
"her as a necessary evil? It only makes chaperones
hard to find.
R. O.
BETWEEN THE LINES
By LaSelle Qllman
To the Initiate one mystery
story Is as good (or as bad) as
another, and all seem much alike.
Being an initiate I plunged doubt
fully into S. S. Van Dines "Green
Murder Case" but came up as
from a cold shower, gasping and
slapping. This particular book
must be ancient history to me
mystery addict, as the "Bishop
Murder Case" is holding all at
tnntlnn at rtresent. one Is told. But
vm nine fwhlnh in only a noni
de plume) has the power to write
mysteries that are enthralling to
the layman. They seem to have
a different flavor. . .
Fhilo Vance may well be ranked
u.lh Charlnrlr HnlmpB. and Van
Dine can take his place beside A.
Conan Doyle. There Is nothing
crude here; the mixture of science
and loelc in the deduction of the
crime is delightful. It must be
said that the chapter titles wouiu
lead oue astray, perhaps. (That
Is, If one reads them to get an
tor instance
wrote. He tells of the religion
nf tha nllllnHOnh V TolStOY
eventually found. Turn the other
cheek, said Tolstoy. Do not fight,
..m Tniainv Snmpliow. that vein
of philosophy does not register
with students, with the young. It
is something to tell to the veter-
nn The students wno listened
to Tolstoy speak are at the age
where thev would riKnt at me urop
of the hat, for right or wrong; for
the thrill. It would seem that this
BBB-n advice passes above their
heads. But in general, u w
miifnini? fn aen the theater
packed to the brim and overflow
ing with university men and
women who came to near me son
of a great writer speak. Ones
faith in the student's literary taste
is revived. And especially as
classes weren't dismissed for the
occasion.
The Prairie Schooner evidently
has an unwritten motto: Better
TjitA Than Never. For here is the
fall issue off the press. As the
Omaha woria-rteram raimm.
"Broke; but a good magazine."
namu VaHer ha a rather good
article on The Pioneer Press, deal-
lda or a Btory.; rwi jiiniauvv. i ariiLic wu a no .uu. ... - . '" "
The Missing Revolver, Footprints i ing with early journalistic enoim
111 INeorRBKH.. JAll vai iuo sjwtvtaw.
has n-ritipn hit on roiKiore. a
Official Bulletin
Thursday, Janaary 10.
Junior Clsss Meeting, Social Solencs
... . a ..iuW
Auditorium, w .
Dramatic club meeting r actireii
only will be hrld In trie urama, .
rooms in tne xempi" ---v-at
slirJit oolook. The meetlns la held
for the election of otflcere.
Friday, Jesuary It
Deadline for intramural boxtns entrlea.
Hatnrriay, Janaary 1.
Missouri-Nebraska baaketbeJI asms,
Coliseum. .
Indiana-Nebraska wrsstltna; meet.
ColvMura.
Social Calendar
Friday, January It
Kuds Delta formal party, Llneoln
hotel. . .. .... .
Kappa Epsllon, Bllen emiin nn.
Hi. mi Delta Tau formal party, New
Cornhuektr. . . . . .
Alnha Tau Omega, nara iimee
jai t j . .
Delta Blffma rni, npy
Saturday, January is
Aloha Oinloron PI formal party, Lin
coln hotel. . , , .
Alpha Chi Sigma formal party, Corn-hueker.
1 Hal Phi. houee dance.
agricultural nolli.ee Mixer. Student Ac
tivities building.
uelta zi-ui. ni'jM pnj.
t In the Locked Li
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Drary, ine onauowy rigui. "- una w ullt-i, a -
The Astounding Truth, sounas yarn dealing with pnmiuve wdoos
Jimmy vaienune innnci, and antnropoiogy. n i
ike
eh?
itni thriHe who raise their
supercilious eyebrows at this type
of literature seed beware, tor
the Van Dine books get tnem,
,1 nn the floor in
their pools of blood, for good.
Here is Glenway Wescott's story
of a pioneer family; "The Grand
mothers," A Family Portrait- Wes
cott is one of America's youngest
authors, and has gained fame from
his first novel, "The Apple oi me
Eye," though he Is scarce out oi
college. "The Grandmothers" is a
series of portraits, as the subtitle
hnui nf hn uncles and aunts
and grandparents of any American
young man wnose ancesioin n
oneers. It is not a Desi-Beu--i
nor a western blood-ana-munaer
OTHER EDITORS SAY
trayal it would be unequaled. The
characters are ministers, outlaws,
formers invent, sweethearts, and
the setting is Chicago, Cuba, Mis
souri and London, but everything
centers about the family and the
"am hnme" In Wisconsin. Here are
people one never thinks of in con
nection with romance and adventure-
staid, homey clodding rela
tives, yet the author has displayed
before us the loves, tne wanaer
ings, the dreams, the lives of these
nonn le it In rather a startling
book, though a bit incoherent and
lacking in continuity, wescou nas
Just published - his latest book,
"Good-bye Wisconsin," in which he
lakes leave of that stale as a
field for setting.
see
Count Tolstoy is an engaging
speaker. He does not orate. He
does not read notes. He chats
with one individually and to one
alone. He has firm convictions.
He is a royalist, yet he does not
wish the old regime back, even
though it would undoubtedly bene
fit him. His dream ror nussia is
a republic. And he hates, with a
passion of hate, the communistic
government. He reveres his illus
trous father. Speaking, he said
that his father was a great writer,
DerhaDS the greatest writer the
world has t ver know n. Well, how
is one to construe that? He tells
of his father's eccentricities, when
young.
Tolstoy evidently never iost
those eccentricities, even when he
ronrla like some
SIke's "The Way Out" is too in
volved, however, and Jumbles the
psychology up fearfully. It is dif
ficult to follow, a tale concerning
telephone swltchrooms. Phil Blake
has done a very pretty sketch deal
ing with the hostility of a proud
hn,iae The rest of the reading
matter is all equally good and we
have little fear tnat crimen win
change his august opinion. But
whv. oh why, did the editors let
all that Latin get ir! Sherman's
play has his customary tltlf, hut
why does LaMonte head up his
lencthy essay in a dead language?
And H. W. (whoever that may be)
has written four poems, each with
a Latin title as long as the poem
itself. Oh, for shame!
e e e
A recent story in the Saturday
ir'vontne' Print nlavs nn a nonular
young co-ed and her vivacious es
capades with students, proiessors
and the police. The professor who
tells the story is pedantic and dry
and humorless. The girl Is im
possible, but she upholds the tra
dition of all college interpreters,
namely that students all tear
about drunk and raise Cain,
sponge and josh with iheir profes
sors, and get away with murder.
Why can't some author really
come along who can wnte college
stories that are truthful? Bernard
DeVoto comes as near to it as
anyone, but even he falls short.
And this story ! The girl is
absolutely fictlonary because no
pnlleirn rn-eri haa enouch brains
and originality to pull such stuff.
Ouch, Clariss, dont hit a renow
when he's down.
bridge project at Detroit, Michi
gan. The Ambassador bridge,
which is nearing completion, will
be 1,850 feet in length, the longest
suspension bridge in the world, ac
cording to Davidson.
When the Ambassador bridge is
completed. Davidson expects to be
transferred to New York City
whure a siiKiienxlnn bridee will be
constructed over the Hudson river.
This bridge will be 3,500 feet long,
and when completed will take the
record from its sister bridge at
Detroit,
sex at a respectable distance. The
rules of the club prohibit the mem
bers from holding conversatien
with a member of the opposite sex
except upon matters of business;
prohibits them from taking dates
to dances; and lastly It puts a
ban on any "college engagements"
by any member" of the club.
University of Washington H- O.
T. C. officials at the university
of Washington has expressed their
desire of a discontinuance of com
pulsory military training on the
campus. This comment roiiowea
the announcement or tne expul
sion of thirty-two students who
failed to attend military science
classes.
Drlrw etnn Univaraitv In an ef
fort to end the social dlscrlmlna-'
tion charged against rrlnceton
university's system of upperclass
eating clubs, which have been in
vnmia ulnre 1879. a recommenda
tion has been made by the under
graduate council that a university
club be established.
PHnreton university has Just
dedicated a new $500,000 engineer
ing building, although classes have
been held In it since the begin
ning of the school year.
OTHER CAMPUSES
New York University A three
year course in practical aviation
has been added to the curriculum
of Now York university.
Denver University A body of
men at Denver university have
formed what they call a "Woman
Haters club." They use a formid
able red button to keep the fairer
LEARN THE PIANO
TEN LESSONS
IN
Ames Engineer
Gets Practice
Building Bridge
Ames, Iowa, Jan. 9. A graduate
of Iowa State In 1927. H. N. David
son, already is experiencing some
of the romance of engineering.
Since graduation Davidson has
been employed by the McClintock
Marshall Construction company of
Pittsburg as a Junior engineer and
shop inspector on the Ambassador
TENOR-BANJO OR
MANDOLIN IN FJVE
LESSONS
Without nerve-racking, heait-break-ink'
sralea and exertiees. 0 ou are
tauKht to play by note in regular pro
fessional chord style. In your very
first less on you will b able to play a
popular number by note.
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Cornhusker Request
Group Picture Dates
Organizations are requested to
make their appointments for pic
tures in the Cornhusker at once,
according to the managing edi
tors of the yearbook. Pictures
will be taken at the Campus stu
dio. Pictures should be taken s
soon as possible to avoid the
rush.
The
Temple Cafeteria
Operated By the University
FOR YOU
is
Even The Elevator Boy
Stopped thinking about
His Upa and Downs
in Life
when he saw Sally's new
coat
which she purchased a!
half-price
during the January Sale at
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CLASSROOM COURTESY
The exercise of common courtesy Is woefully
lacking among both the faculty ami atuttents of
this university. We have but to witness the almost
universal rudeness on the part .of students during
the last few minutes of a lecture, or the common
practice of certain professors to keep their classes
three, four, or five minutes after the hour, to obtain
the more obvious evidences of this fact On the
whole students are less gentlemanly than their in
structors, but both as groups are culpable.
It has been said that a urlversity of this size
offers entirely too little opportunity for faculty and
students to become personally acquainted, but we
say it again to emphasize its bearing; on the subject
of classroom courtesy. It is perfectly obvious that
any student who knows his professor personally will
not think of snapping notebooks and shuffling his
feet in the course of the man's lecture. It is equally
obvious that a professor who Is more or less inti
mately acquainted with his student will not make
it a habit of continuing his lecture after the hour
when he knows the student is anxious to have a few
moments recess between classes. Nor will he com
mit tile worse and more common discourtesy of
calking loose Joints of his lecture with sarcastic
remarks which he knows will be inwardly resented
by his listeners.
Unhappily the relationship between the two is
not personal but coldly professional.
Cornell Daily Bun
A FACULTY PENSION 8YTEM
It is with a great deal of satisfaction that the
student body should greet the campaign to raise
JIOO.OOO for the establishment of a pension system
for the faculty at Syracuse.
University faculties as a rule are not any too
well paid and the condition on our own campus Is
no exception. Teaching has never been a lucrative
profeetlon and any attempt at improvement along
this line is deserving of everyone's support.
The plan as now outlined provides that the
Alumni Association raise $50,000 and that Interested
citizens raise $60,000 in order that the salaries of
. those faculty members now receiving less than
$8,600 per year may be raised and that the pension
system may be put in operation.
A successful campaign and the establishment
ot the system will prove beneficial to the faculty
ind students alike and will serve the best Interests
-t the Institution.
Syracuse Daily Orange
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preciate the sensational reducticoa that are be
ing offered on all our Winter Coata. In many
casea the Coata sold for double and more, than
these low prices. Shop and save Thursday
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