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The Daily Nebraskan
TWINTY NINTH YEAR
t utrU as second rlaa matter i the loatoffu
ib Lincoln, .Neb, undrr act of cof.fr. liana 3.
117a. and at special rat of poeta pro;-lC fur la
ectlon U03. act u Oct 1 lif. autnorUcd Jan.
30, jsi't.
CLIFF F. 1ANDAHL EOITOR-IN CHIEF
j. m. mien IUHNEU MANAGER
Official Puolleatlon of IM University f Nf
bitikt and under lbs dirsctio f lb Student
IMbUcatioo Board.
FubUh4 tnry morning during the academic
vear mttb the exception of Saturday. Mouday.
sad during lbs various vacation period of tht
sciioul
Office Hours Uditortal Staff: 1 to p.
dally escept Krtday and Sunday; business staff: I
to 4 p. n. dally ssoept rrtday and Sunday.
Paving the Way.
The annual acramble for appoint rmnts h
begun.- With two of the major soeia! events of
the jrar looming up during the coming semes
tor, the Jnterfraternitr ball ami the Junior
Senior prom, eomra Xh tak of selecting stu
dents to arrange for and carry out plan.
Then, too there are the vacancies on The Daily
Nt-bnskan etaff to be filled thoae vaeancie
eauaed by the departure or the advancement of
those now holding official capacities.
Committee membership have come to plav
an important role In the life of University of
Nebraska undergraduates. Especially is this
to with junior, who are looking forward to
Ivy day. Since the booting of the many un
derclass societies aevcral years past, more em
phasis than ever before la now being placed
upon these party portfolios. The probable
candidates for the only honoraries" that re
main must have aoma sort of activity mnrks
behind their names to warrant their election
and so they bare tended to get as many of
these "responsible" positions as possible.
Committer member to make arrangements
for the Interfraternlty ball were appointed
some time a-o by the interfratcrnity council.
It is easy to bee, even after a hasty glance at
the list, that the majority of appointees ore
those who are being pushed" by their frater
nities for the "highest honors that can be
beat owed upon them."
Regardless of the danger of such positions
becoming mere havens for successful politi
cians, who are not very much inclined toward
industry, the Interfratcrnity ball committee
thus far secins to have digressed from the path
of least resistance and really justified its ex
istencc. Very extensive plans are being made, if
ur judgment of the publicity that has ap
peared is not deceiving. The Nebraskan is
satisfied with the preliminary idas brought
forth by the committee id sincerely hopes
that those in charge maj witness the fulfill
ment of their dreamy reveries. The Nebras
kan congratulates the interfratcrnity council
for having crawled out of its grave and dis
played some virility.
Places on the Junior-Senior prom commit
tee have yet to be filled. According to a lead
ing news story in Sunday's Nebraskan. twenty
six" student have filed for these posts. Twelve
are to be chosen from the twenty-six, tix men
and six women, by the student council at its
meeting on Wednesday of this week.
If we are to be governed by precedent, we
can expect that those receiving the most sup
port from their political fraternities, which
are allowed to exist under the pretext of "so
cial organizations," will be the lucky ones,
fitness, other than the requirements set down
by the dean of student affairs, makes no par
ticular difference. It is the "pull" that
counts. ,
For the first time in years, the names of
iknc Mfiirnr a seat with the committee have
been published. Now the "powers behind"
the council, and there are only a few, can get
busy and centralize their efforts on their
choices, for they know who will be the oppo
nents. They can grooin their henchmen to pre
sent the life's history of their "pets" in the
most flamboyant manner and with the most
-leverly phrased innuendo. They can get
things "fixed" and thereby assure their or
ranizations of representation iu the holy cults.
An interesting sidelight in this connection
id the fact that several students who are now
serving on one commiteee art- entertaining
hopes of copping a berth on the group which
is to manage the prom. Aside from having
too many irons in the fire, they are displacing
others who may be just as qualified as they are.
The principle of that sort of thing is naturally
ridiculous and opposed to the proper function
ing of an administrative body. Anyone can
-tec that a person holding two positions at th--a
me time can do justice to neither.
Although it is like talking to a stone wall
.vhen one tries to warn the student council
Against such maneuvers, it is not entirely use
less, we trust, to suggest that the governmental
body exercise considerable care in this one
matter: To avoid giving places on committees
to persons who are already occupying similar
offices. If the council does that alone, it will
have raised its stock appreciably in the minds
of those who are working for a better univer
sity. J
The same, in a measure, U true with publi
cations applicants as with those after commit
tee appointments. Factionalists have stuck
iheir fingers in this realm ever since the enter
prises were taken over by the student publi
cation board. Students have expected it, fac
ulty members have expected it, so the outcome
for each position baa always been taken as a
matter of course with exception, of course,
when some "dark horse" gains entrance.
The publication board, though bearing the
insignia of "student," is not entirely composed
of student. In fact, they are outnumbered
by faculty members there being five faculty
to three student members. The board as a
whole should not be blamed for the wild man
ner in which appointments have been made.
The faculty, aa a rule, strives to be fairminded,
but can be easily hoodwinked by the politically
minded students who are usually selected to
such positions.
Who couldn't weaken to the flowery and
gilded language of an individual ! It is human
nature to give heed to such glamour. And this
is just what happens when the fraternity string
pollen begin pulling their strings. The other
board in em be ti believe they are in earuckt and
therefore attempt to carry out their bdiiee.
That the qualified aMpiraut always umki
the grade in this manner U certainly bard to
Mine. Vrt there have been cases to show that
this U true. Numerous contriving have been
tffected to get the "brothers" on the staff
en route to the limelight, which is so precious
Ui tht fraternities. Numerous "htish" meth
od law Ueii employed and in the main have
been ftucci-fcsful.
Any alumnus, faculty number, or even
prekent day student can recall instances of t hi
sort how,' for example, noufraternity nun
have been assured of high positions on the
atoJf if tin v would "pledge our bunch." The
at ii. lent number of the board a full fledge.
member of the "bunch" kicks up a lot of
ballyhoo at the time of appointment and thus
sees hit promise a rlit.
It U not the individuals who attain their
"honors" in tbi manner who suffer the con
sequences. They usually enjoy it somehow.
Hut it Is the publication or publications which
are made to feel thu HI effects of "politick
ing." for it i obvious that the best grade of
work cannot bo done unless those who till the
positions are thoroughly versed with the kind
of work expected.
As stated above, the board us a whole
should not be held responsible for such nets.
Hut it can serutinizo very closely the qualifica
tions of those who aspire to the offices and let
that be th groundwork upon which to man
the final selections. In that way bitter results
will be certain to be obtained both from a pro
fcssioiial and a moral standpoint.
' On The Campus
HV UAKY NICHOLS, CACTUS KDJTOH
Echoes of the Campus.
Those Afternoon Classes.
To the Editor of the Nebraskan:
How many students during registration
week saw carefully planned schedules com
pletely destroyed because their advisors in
sisted upon tw'o-fifths of their hours being in
the afternoon 1 Of course, some of the wiser
individuals gave outside work for their schol
arly activities, but then not everyone is a wage
earner.
After all, what is the good of this rule
which is so hulfheartcdly adhered tot In the
first place, almost everyone will admit that the
morning hours arc those in which the greatest
amount of work of any kind is accomplished.
Any business man will verify the statement
that the largest part of his business is trans
acted in the forenoon. If that is the case, why
shouldn't students get the most important part
of their work completed during the most de
sirable part of the day!
Few moreover, will dispute the fact that
uninterrupted study is the best. An entire
afternoon cannot help but bring better results
than an hour here or an hour there.
The rule seems to have as its basic purpose
the idea of making class enrollments nr.ore uni
form. A few more morning divisions of some
of the courses now offered would soon elimi
nate this difficulty. It has been suggested that
the regulation was made for the benefit of the
freshmen students with the hope of formulat
ing in them the habit of spending their time at
school in place of wasting it in some frivolous
pursuit. Surely men and women who come to
the university are old enough to be placed on
their own responsibility. If school means so
little to them that they wish to otherwise em
ploy their hours, they should not be kept by
iron rules at such an unpleasant occupation.
Surely upperclassmen, at least, who have
shown the'ir fidelity by their previous work in
the school, should be allowed to arrange their
schedules according to their convenience re
gardless of whether they are engaged in any
outside work. M. K.
Formal St-iisoii I
In Full SiiiK
That the formal mumu Li will uudu w.v i nideut fiom
the parties scheduled for the past week. Delia (iummu and
Sigma Kappa t-iiteiluiued with formal dinner dunces at the
elu pier bouses, while tiitmina Phi Heta, Phi Omega Pi. Delta
Sigma Lambda, and Pi Kuppa Phi gave formal parlies at the
downtown ballroom. Inclement iv
weather dIJ not prevent students
from attending the parties of the
punt week, nor haa it affected the
number of social events planned
for the coming week.
Methodist Student
Will 8 Cue it.
Melhodmt students of the unl
veralty will be giet of the Meth
od Ut Student council at an Indoor
w Inter aooHa party Friday . eve
ning, from 8 to 11 o'clock, at the
Trinity Methodist church. Typical
winter decorations will be ar
ranged by Neva Ik-th Turner and
her committee. Harold Brawn has
charge of the games and Dorothy
Jackson of the stunts. Henrietta
Becker Is chairman of the refresh
ment committee, and Berenices
Hoffman of the program com
mittee. Chaperons at the party
will be Rev. and Mrs. W. C
Fawell, Rev. and Mrs. J. Howard
Brawn, and Mr. and Mrs. M. H.
Merrill.
Guett at D. 8. L.
Formal.
Out of town alumni were among
the 250 couple mo attended the
formal at the Lincoln hotel Friday
evening by members of Delta
Sigma Lambda,- Chaperoning the
party were Mr. and Mrs. Roy E.
to tonipel virtue and enforce It a
If It were a divine command that
which at bel I a temporary hu
man experiment, when they have
evtu eu.UlUicd (hull filouda b)
their funatu-iitm-then of course,
theae churche will not only be
empty, but deeerted, and who la to
blame ?
if
cfechran. Mr. and Mrs. Charle A
Herman, and Mr. and Mis. O. K
Martin. !
PI Kap Civ '
Formal
Members of I't Kappa I'hl gave ,
their annual formal party at the
Oorahuaker ballroom Saturday .
evening. About 250 couples at-!
tended the party which was chap-'
eroned by Dr. and Mrs. C C. '
Weldeaiann, Mr. and Mrs. P. K.
Slaymaker, and Mr. and Mrs. Roy
U, Ford.
Delta Slg Civ
Houm Dane
Delta Sigma Delta members
and pledge entertained fifty
couples at a dance at the chapter
house Friday evening. Dr. and
Mrs. A. H. Schmidt and Dr. and
Mrs. F. J. Miller were chaperon
at the dance.
Others Schedule
Parties
Members of Kappa Psl will en
tertain at a formal at the Lin
coln Friday, while Lambdtt Chi
Alphas will give a formal dinner
dance the next evening. The houne
party at the Alpha Theta Chi
house will take the form of a fire
men's ball.
1 A Student Looks at J
Public Affairs.
By DAVID FELLUA.X.
llarpo Has His Say.
To the Editor of The Nebraskan:
In two recent issues of this publication
appeared student opinions in regard to the
policy of chantring the personnel of Th Daily
Nebraskan staff twice a year.
One writer, M. N., claims that the school
of journalism sponsors this paper and that one
of the purposes of the The Nebraskan is to
serve as an experimental laboratory for pros
pective journalists. Had M. N. been better in
formed he would have known that The Daily
N'ebraskan is not under the supervision of the
school of journalism, but is governed largely
by the student publication board.
The Nebraskan is not primarily a labora
tory, but rather a newspaper by and for the
students of the university. It seems to me that
The Nebraskan should for this reason be con
ducted in a manner which will cause the paper
to serve the student body in the most efficient
way possible. And changing the staff of the
paper twice a year makes for decreased effi
ciency for several reasons. One is that an edi
tor cannot carry out his policies of construc
tion in four months' time. Indeed often he
cannot even inaugurate them, and one semes
ter is not long enough for an editor to bring
out the best work he can do.
Another reason is that by the time he is
sufficiently familiar with the routine of the
work to really accomplish anything of worth,
he is replaced by a neophyte who must start
the breaking in process all over again. This
certainly does not make for consistent respon
sibility in office, nor for continuity of policy,
both of which are highly desirable on a well
conducted newspaper.
Now as for E. B.'s lament and his wail
for a "change of climate." He alleges that
students are anxious to hear from more than
one man. Behold ! We have found a sage who
has his hand on the public pulse and can in
stantly detect its slightest fluctuation.
Honestly, E. B., man to man, have you
actually heard a single member of the student
body at large petitioning for a new Nebraskan
editor every semester, or is the idea your ownt
And furthermore, do you sincerely believe as
you intimated in your editorial, that a new
editor is going to take to his breast all the
causes championed by his predecessor, how
ever worthy those causes may bet
And, finally, E. B-, is The Daily Nebraskan
so menaced that it needs a "safeguard against
the . . . peevish whims ... of one track minds"!
Or are those one track minds possessed only by
people whose arguments in favor of semi
annual staff changes are based on such puerile
appeal as a desire for a "change of climate?"
HABPO.
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pHICAGO, It seems, cant otay
off the front page if It tries to
This time the cause of the windy
city's publicity is a serious finan
cial condition. The municipalities
of Cook county are in debt to tne
tune of about S280.0O0.0OO, on
which they are now paying
$1,400,000 a month In in lei est
Chicago's share of the Interest
amounts to $4,000,000 a year. To
save the city money, the city's pa
triotic mayor. William Hale
Thompson, has summarily dis
charged 473 policemen and 220
firemen, with a tnreat or future re
strictions on the city's various
services.
The cause for this unprecedented
financial slough In which Chicago
finds itself lies In the tax assess
ment situation in Cook county. The
1927 Quadrennial assesment was
found to have so many striking in'
equalities, that a new reassess
ment was ordered. The great task
of reappraising the property of the
countv is not yet complete. As a
result, the Income of the local gov
emment units has been temporar
ily reduced to almost a shadow.
People who were visiting In
Chicago during the winter vaca
tion tell us that the streets in the
loop are piled high with snow, the
city making no attempt to clear
them. The curtailment of ibis
service is unfortunate, but when
the city officials begin to discharge
firemen and policemen by the hun
dreds, they are treading on thin
ice. Chicago may be able to mud
dle through with sloppy streets,
but it is very doubtful, Judging
from her record, whether she can
dispense with her law enforcing
agencies.
HTHE senate insurgents won out in
their fight to put Senator La
Follette of Wlsconstn on the Im
portant fiaanee committee. At the
same time, the socalled "young
guard" republicans, who occupy a
position somewhere between the
hidebound conservatives and the
radicals, got one of their men
Senator Thomas of Idaho, on the
committee. These two elevations
must have been a bitter piU foi
such men as Senators Moses and
Bingham to swallow, but the alter
native, a complete breakdown in
whatever morale there is left In re
publican senatorial ranks would
have been even less fortunate.
"TWO members of the faculty of
1 the University of Missouri were
dismissed last April for their dis
tribution of a sex questionnaire
among students for the purpose of
making a scientific inquiry Into the
problems of sexual life. A final
and most influential re-echo of the
protest which arose all oyer the
country came last week from a
special committee of the Associa
tion of University Professors.
After conducting an investigation,
the committee found that there
was nothing offensive or Immoral
about the questionnaire, and that
the officials of the University of
Missouri acted in an unreasonable
and arbitrary manner.'
The committee's stand was
sharply and directly put "for the
board of curators to decree the
most severe punishment with its
power, dismissal and suspension
without pay, for their alleged 'of
fense' (trivial. If any) Is under the
present circumstances a clear
breach of the principles of freedom
New Guard Pins
NEW
CRESTS
Crests can be applied to any
article, all national and
local fraternities
Hallett '
University Jewelen
Eftb. 1871 117.11 So. 12th
of teaching and research and se
curity of tenure In the university."
One notes with gratification ibis
vigorous position of a responsible
group of teachers on the Important
matter of their intellectual free
dom. JTDWARD W. BOK. author. Jour
callst and advocate of peace,
died last Thursday. The author of
a number of successful books, his
autobiography won the Pulitrer
prise in 1920. In 1923, his f loo.ooo
prize offered and given for the
plan which would best enable the
United States help keep the world
peace, attracted universal atten
tion, A penniless immigrant at the
age of six, Mr. Bok achieves suc
cess in the Journalistic field, (-octal
position, wealth and the respect of
hill fpllnw rnnnfrvmon Ho , an.
other symbol of American oppor- J'itn aee
tunity.
CUGAR is the big bone of conten
tion in the present state if the
tariff struggle in the senate. The
bill as drawn up by the committee
and approved by the house .raises
the duty on sugar from the present
rate of 1.76 to a new high rate of
2.20 cents a pound. This issue,
cutting across all party and faction
lines, constitutes the most bitterly
contested schedule In the Smoot-
Hawley biU.
QARDINAL O'CONNELL said a
few things last Sunday at a
service in the Holy Cross cathedral
of Boston which are worth repeat
ing: "When the churches are turned
into political factions, when In
stead of saving souls by gen He pa
tience and sincere example of mod
eration in the affairs of human
life, all their energy and effort are
turned violently and virulently Into
a frantic and equally futile attempt
Between the Lines.
Uy LASKLLK U1LMAN.
RANDOM AND LIGHTLY
CONFUSED RUMINATION
UPON THIS, THAT, AND SEV
ERAL OTHER THINGS. WITH
ESPECIAL REFERENCE TO
NEITHER AMOUNT TO A
THE FORMER THOUGH
WHOLE LOT, BUT NEVER
THELESS, RANDOM AND
SLIGHTLY CONFUSED RUM.
INATIONS . . .
AVYKKK of reuist ration Is over
i this counM In the
muscular activity of digestion a
anapT" ask the fine art student
. . . "It's a pipe." someone tell
him . . . ri courses In plumbing
... A home eo major ha found a
hnap in dressmaking . . . ColIeK
curriculum annum great Import
ance during regist ration week . . .
No one knows vO take . . .
And everyone as .w v one else'
advic . . . Ue....u, 1 .ean 1 can't
find a thing to take next semctttcr
. . . I'm all agog . . . What's this
course In history of the pelopone
tan war llkeT . . . What doc B.
O. mean? . . . (Don't you ever
read the ads?) ... And a fellow I
know Is going to take military
science by extension . . .
Credit books are all the rage . . .
But my credit isn't good at the
registrar's office . . . Speaking of
registrars, It was a great week
for them . . . And the college
deans report that they wore out
eight dozen rubber stamps . . .
And the advisers all have writer's
cramp . . . The registrars are all
snowed in for the rest of the
semester . . . The finance office
will get its inning about three
weeks from now . . . But we all
know what the assignment com
mittee is doing . . . It's assigning
prelaw frosh to graduate seminars
in Spencer . . . The assignment
committee always observes April
fool's day as a great event . . .
PRESIDENT Lowell of Harvard
says: "If only the dear moth
ers who are afraid of their boys'
going to college so early would
look over our figures at Harvard,
they would see that the tempta
tion to go to the devil increases
The younger the
boys are the better scholars they
are and the better behaved. My
great grandfather sent my grand
father to college at the age of
thirteen, too young to dissipate. It
worked out exceptionally well."
A good idea. Let's put the
grammar school scholars In the
universities and remove the uni
versities men and ladies to the
kindergarten. Then they could
dissipate in the sandboxes and run
around wild among the building
blocks, cutting out paper flowers.
properoua I becaiiM there no
place to ail down. I suppo in
rcaaon American citlra aie aa
I united and flurried and flonlnr.l
and art lv I broiia there
placs to park.
yilOSE who were winin in the
essay context on prohibition aie
being sent to the big conference
on prohibition In Detroit. One of
the winner war.ted tht muuey m
Htead of the trip so that he might
continue hi collrg education, nut
the Judge wer Insulted. Well.
Detroit U a good town too, though
it's a queer place to be holding, a
prohibition conference. It'a about
two miles by ferry to Ontauo.
HEREBY and to wit. en pari
per contra (law Undents
ilean no(el w. being of sup
posedly sound mind and hmM
body, do set up our New Year's
resolution and swear to abide by
them to the best of our known
abliny:
1. We will not. undri any nr.
cunutanrea. tarry more than
eighteen hours each aementer.
2. Ws will refrain from aver.g.
Ing above 90 In our final g radon.
3. We will not play football on
the varsity during 1930. nor will
we Join the basketball team. ,
4. Ws will not cake at the
eateries during our morning
clause except when we take cuts.
ft. Wa will observe all traffio
lights In the vicinity of poln
headquarter. (You can't I. II
anything about these traffio
lights, anywsy. If they're not red,
they're green, or maybe yellow.
It's no use.)
has his pet peeve,
ours. Here It I:
During a quls concerning the char
acters of a novel, or a short story,
or a play forgotten which-the
professor suddenly asked us,
"Quick! What sort of a person
was Blank's second wife Quick "'
We couldn't remember Blank's
second wife, but there was no time
to spsre, and the grading pencil
was poised. "She was all right,"
we said. "Blank didn't have any
second wife," the professor told us
witheringly. And In the classroom,
you can t even light a Murad.
rVERVONE
We have
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reason American cities are so
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Are Best and Most Reliable
Joyce Ayres "Cheer Leaders"
Phone L464S
Leo Beck "and Orchestra"
Office B120J Phone F2268
Blondy Baughn
Office B53S9 Phone F4334
Geo. Belshaw "Matter Six"
Capitol Hotel Fhone B1261
Dr. H. C. Cook "and Orchestra"
Office B1074 Phone F5129
Ben Gadd "Collegian"
Office B33JJ Phone L4716
Bert Gieger "Harmony Boy"
Phone B6938
Red Krouse "Varsity Viking"
Phon B4632
Ray Lindeman "and Orchestra"
Phone F7185
Juliu Ludlam "and Hi Music"
Office 81365 Phona FS877
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