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r.iM.nv. Mvm.ii u. i'mu I UK DAILY ISKHH Sk AN 5 i k I The Daily Ncbraskan talis. A. LlnssIM, Nasraass OrriCIAt ITUOINt PUBIICATION ONIVtH OF NkatNASKA )4t atrscUsa the Btudant aubial'" TWiNTV NINTH VEAS1 ttT"-!. I ,t-TT TJ FubHl TusaSay. W.d.wl.r.Aur.-r. Sunday ni"" d", ' silsrial PMie-Ulvril Natl guwu PWirs UiscaH Hsu . T.,..-D.r, Nil N..MI l l At for Nabraafcaa asusr. UIICRlPTION MTK li . y.., .. cry I c.nu "" .oitoaim. tailor 3ar) ''aociU ES'Ioi tr Backus. M..f. Wlll,.mMcC....r tr KtMjf Nli m 0. Tiy,, Maurlta AM M, ' WMM.m M.O.ffl M WU sports IsMer Hmtr shev CeMMkuKr, d't.f. Mj Nlenai Marfarai oar s,ui c. PUti Ltaur P. Knich nil.-'.' tlr,.n Mart N. l'M" Maretd K. Marcot Jo,t A,ra auipn Aatsss Haiti Day Alan williama Naat . moi BU.1K. aTArT .. tuamtaa Manage Ma shall Piuar Am ataxia Bualnaaa Manajara Dad Paliman LaSslia OiKnai laRsy Jack Cha.lea Li!' I DDnniNr. PROHIBITION. ,umVBrrioN-tht imu. tbt npp-Hi the tk . .v. i..t residential election, that ex- that ha. caused widespread Tnd con throughout the country, that cau. i for and aKa.nat which rroPaganl. ha. been d. -m.na ed wholesale U now receiving serious at tentlon by the Harvard university daily CTimson and the llanard drhatlnr round ...... a Wh.le prohibition la being flayed and befoit Investigating committee In congress It might be well for Nebraska students to look at the ..tuatlon about them. It 1. a situation which effects all from the highest minded scholar In a university to the lowest factory worker in the slum. The Harvard lads are proposing a plan for en forcement of the eighteenth amendment which is an attempt to ervstalltie undergraduate opinion on pro hibltion the nation over. They advocate: (I) Repeal f V""- Il lation for enforcement of the eighteenth amendment; 2 continued ban cn saloons; (3) federal education to encourage abstinence from use of liquors; 4t federal aid for states that enact legislation against alcoholic beveragos; and (3i taxing liquor heavily to provide funds for federal aid. Progenitors of this scheme do not pretend it n infallible. They merely want to get student senti ment focused on the prohibition question in order that some reform of prestnt conditions may be made possible. THE liquor question has been gaibed iu many towns. It baa been argued from economic. social, moral and political standpoints. The gen eral terms of "enforcement" snd education" have been used widely- so widely that they have become tn:e and almost we nfngle. Pome fel the effort to outlaw liquor Is taking away personal liberties. Othess contend it is a sin to drink. The only difficulty in discussing prohibition with the idea of getting student opinion back of any one plan of reform is that debate over the matter seldom will win any converts to either side of the question. Ideas are already formed. More than mere argu ment and presentation of statistics which can be transposed to mean anything, will be necessary to change them. Even a cursory examination of the Harvard plan shows a number of defects which would render prohibition no more successful under it than it is today. Granting the constitutionality of the plan, which Is doubtful, it is impossible to believe that its adoption would sens as a panacea for the nation's alcoholic ills. It Is, in short, a policy of state control of the liquor situation. It is taking liquor out of national hands and making it a local problem. In no state in the union is public sentiment solidly for prohibition. Nebraska, whose ratification of the eighteenth amendment as the thirty-sixth state to do so made it a constitutional law, is considered a dry state. But there is liquor and liquor traffic in this state, rutting enforcement of liquor laws under state supervision never will remedy existing evils in that department of prohibition administration. at the studnt activities office- on previous proms. There Is a total of mors than IS30 of student money In ieerve. rfforta to get aoros of this money have been met hv former Drum committees, the Blutieni coun ell and both Junior and senior classes. The reason nhv tha raauests. resardlfss of their merit or de- merit. ere denied Is clear when Junior-senior prom history la briefly tevlewed. Proms wera traditionary at the University Nahruka. for many years. Then cam a series i.m .inns. No Droflta wers made. A huge defl was Incurred In a final effort to put on a big party (hat would draw a large crowd. So Inadequate wr the door reclnts It was necessary to tax Junior and senior classes along with reglstratl nnweeiilr.ss. When the prom waa revived two years ago . s I of of IClt the Ion nd a net profit of fS6 waa derived, chancellors of the v.. l . ...k...u.r wars wont to turn It over to anyone. While a record of threa successive success ful proms stands today there Is an ever-present ele ment of uncertainty as to how long they will continua successful. To guard against a failure, the practi cability of a reserve fund la unquestioned. One of Ihe mwt ardent petltlonera for prom funds has been the Student council, which bases Its request on the fact that It really sponsors the party and appoints the prom committee. The Student council needs the money. It has no source of reve nue. As the legislative student group In the uni versity It should have aome available fund for nec essary expenses. It Is entit;d to prom profits more than any other group. The prom Is for the entire student body, de spite the Implication that only Juniors and seniors are invited. Cash on hand after the party Is over. If deposited In empty Student council coffers, will be spent on behalf of the student body aa a whole and not for any particular class or committee. A balance of between 1250 and 1350 should be maintained. Any profita In excess of this amount, however, might well go to the Student council. Pro vision should be made so that when a reserve over a specified sum accumulates, the council will be priv- lleged to draw upon 1L Another reason why so many marriages fall is that couples take marriage as a Sunday afternoon skylarking trip, whereas it should be an entr ance trip. No doubt Methuselah bad days when he couldn't decide which rising generation to worry about the moht. Radio has created aome five hundred new words, but not more than five or six are printable. The vjvisectionlst a song: "If I Can't Halve you." The Student Pulse S.onfd eontributiens pertinant msMers ef i.ta and lb. iin.vers.ty ar. .lcmd by this mtnt. Opimons submltltd should be triaf snd eonciat. gTATES can never control the liquor problem satis factorily unless they have the federal govern ment solidly behind them. With one state wet and Its neighbor dry, there is bound to be liquor traffic. Instead of having to guard the national boundary it would be necessary to throw a corps of liquor of ficers around every dry state to prevent importation of liquors. Federal education to encourage temperance and abstinence, as proposed by Harvard, would be vig orously fought by brewers and prohibition opponents. Keeping out saloons would increase the patronage of the speakeasy Just as imposing a heavy tax on liquors would result in another form of bootlegging. The spirit of the law and the spirit of the people must change before prohibition will be a success. Theoretical enforcement plans and educa tional campaigns cannot be carried out unless the spirit of the nation as regards use of alcoholic bev erages is altered. It is not a new and modified law that is needed but a new Interpretation of the old one and a new and conscientious spirit of lsw observance. How the sincere champions of the wet cause can argue for any change that will bring any more drunken auto drivers or tosspots than already in fest society Is difficult to understand. But until pubH? sentiment is wholeheartedly in favor of per manent outlawry of liquor, prohibition will be a problem unsolved. A LAWYER'S LAMENT. To the editor: I lead with a great deal of amusement the article in Tuesday s Nebtaskan in which K. R. J. so clearly displayed what professors in the academy call an inferiority complex. It seems quite lament able to him that the lawyers are not vitally Inter ested in some of their kid play. We do not par irir,te in their rallies when they break up classes. ; We do not take part in their shirt tsle parades, etc. : We do not paddle our freshmen ana mane mem wear green caps. Our professors maxs tumors-, remarks about some of the adolescent ideas of some of their youthful professors. And yet I ask you in all seriousness, live.i there a man who has been ground through the practical mill of life who would not laugh at aome of their highly fantastical, visionary. Utopian ideas? K. R. J. admits that college men and women have an air of superiority over their high school brothers and sisters and yet he can't understand why the law school feels the same way about the academy. He can understand why four is two more than two but he can't understand why six is two more than four. A large number of our students are college graduates. They are older and more mature. Our full time professors hava eight years of college training in place of five and yet he thinks there should be a feeling of academic equality. It is such ideas as this that make law professors laugh at some of the ideas eminating from the academy. As to college consciousness I would Ilka to re mind my academic friend that this is merely the sign of professional maturity. The older a profes sion becomes and the more tradition it has behind it the more professional loyalty and consciousness appears. The older and larger a university becomes the more college conscious it becomes. Is a man any less an Oxford man because he is proud that he comes from Christ college? Is a man any less a Harvard man because he is proud of L&ngrdell hall ? Am I any less an American be cause I am a loyal Nebraskan? Am I any less loyal to "N-Varsity" because I am law college conscious ? I invite my friend over to hear us sing "There Is No Place Like Nebraska" and I will wager that we sing it louder and more frequently than any college on the campus. Tours for more college consciousness. A graduate of the academy. r. b. m. In olden days the shingle was the board of education. Now shingle bobs are bored of education. PROM PROFITS.. yyWEN there are profits on any student enterprise, all who might possibly be entitled to a share of the money begin to cogitate over ways and means of getting It. There are prospects this year of a profit exceeding $100 on the Jnior-Senior Prom. From the Uat two jwars a balance of $249.60 has been built up POSTAL SERVICE. To the editor: Imagine our surprise at reading a feature story in Tuesday's Nebraskan, commending the officials at station A, the university's postoffice. The casual reader would acquire the impression from this story that the postmaster and postmistress strive to give quick, efficient service at all times, and to do so cheerfully. We wonder if the writer of this story has ever had any experiences with this postoffice. We won der if she has ever tried to mall her laundry case in the ten minute interim between classes. We wonder if she has ever had the experience that some of us have had on countless occasions of waiting patiently, and then fretfully, while the will ing servants of Uncle San chatted gaily with one another, perfectly aware at the time that they had a customer. Station A is supposed to open ita windows at 8 every morning, but it is Invariably some min utes afterwards that ita minions prepare to ac commodate the long line of chafing students that baa gathered. Since The Nebraskan is making such an effort to decry the Yarloua existing evils on the campus, we would suggest a campaign to secure better service at the university postoffice. F. J. MILESTONES AT NEBRASKA March 12. 1929. phi Itho Sigma won the Omaha Intel fratert.lty basketball cham r.in.i.hiii ami challenged Delta t'psilon, winner of the Lincoln championship. The fifteenth annual hlsh school bask etball tournament began. with nuifty teams competing. The editor pointed out the un importance of cUss committees. 1920. FlRhty couples attended the Junior Prom. Tickets sold for $5 M apiece. The track team left for Kan sas City to compete In the K. C A. C. Indoor meet. The editor suggested that the llbiailes provide ink for seriously Inclined students. 1915. Chancellor Strong of Kansas university spoke In convocation on the Meaning of the Present War." Kaymond Ftobblns. Chicago so cial and political leader, addressed three hundred men at the Temple. Second round games In the bas ketball tournament were being played. 1910. Since the Olympics had been In Winitelv nnstnoned. the freshman class voted to chalenge the sopho mores to an inter ciass scrap. The Jack Heat fund passed the $300 mark. The first robin appeared, and the freshman law class went to the Orpheum In a Ixxiy. 1905. The Nebraska girls basketball tem won a double header, defeat ing Haskell and Peru. Professor H. R. Smith of the de n. rim.ni nf animal husbandry purchased a promising Hereford steer at souin WORCESTER. PSYCHOLOGY PROFESSOR. RETUKN3 FROM TRIP WITH NEW IDEAS FOR ORIENTA TION OF NEW STUDENTS i Continued from Page 1.) matter of placement testa. For example, at this institution a stu dent taking a course in French 1 and making in that course a high mark is permitted to pursue the following year the course in French 3. thereby skipping a course. Then. h. aAtufnrtorv completion of the course numbered three, the student is also given crean ror the course in French 2. although he was excused from taking it. There have been numerous at tempts to entirely reorganize the instruction to meet the needs of Rxtensive experi ments have been carried on at Ohio State, Purdue, etc., wnere th students were examined to de termine whether or not the course Is meeting the needs of the stu dents, or whfthfr it is designed, so to speak, for itself. For example, at onio Mate um- v e r s 1 1 y. Professor orcester learned that weir iniroauciory in loolorv was formerly designed primarily to prepare the student for the advanced course. I'nnn investigation, it was found that 92 percent of the students never took the advanced course, and had no knowledge of funda mental living organisms as a re sult of the introductory course in zoology. As a result of this, the entire curriculum in roology waa worked over, and as a consequence those students tsking no advanced work in zoology became familiar in the Introductory course with those living organisms Deanng we closest relation to human beings. Social Orientation. Professor Worcester was grati fied to find at Iowa, Northwestern nd Ohio State, particularly, an attempt to orientate freshmen so cially, as well as acholastically. Ohio State, wnere an exiensiv dormltorv svstem for women is in operation, has shown marked In terest In the social life of their freshmen. Bv means of discussion groups, the older students are en abled to assist the younger and less experienced stuaema 10 nun themselves' in we me or we campus. The health service In the uni versities, according to Professor Worcester, is coming to inciuae mental as well as physical dis orders. Many freshmen come to college emotionally upset The majority of Wese are suirenng from only a minor malady, but there are a few who are so ab normal that they ought to be ex cluded from college aitogewer. And service in this respect should not h restricted to freshmen, but nhmild be extended to include all classes, including the graduate school. Yale was the first to put In a complete psychiatric service In connection wiw lis neann service, but other universities soon fol lowed her example. Only this year the University of Chicago began to have its students ex amined hv an exoert psvehiatrist. When questioned concerning the practicability of the service ren dered oy psycniatry, we acan oi the college of arts at Yale stated that the psychiatric service was an 'indispensable part or we college program." Some universities wat An not have psvchlatric service do have trained psychologists in we rieia wnose worn praciicavuy parallels the work of the psychiatrists. Social Adjustment rueeaea Prrfe!wnr Worehester believes that more and more educators will come to realize that the university ought to provide for social adjust ment as well as intellectual adjust ment. Not much headway can be mads at the University of Ne braska until dormitories are pro vided which can accommodate a majority of the women students. Various personnel officers at eiLstern universities are eivinf good deal of attention to fresh man guidance, for it has been round wat iresnmen neea more at tention than that which la given them during their first week of residence. Not many freshmen enter college with their minds definitely made up as to which course of study they ahall pursue. Personnel officers ca . do much toward helping the students to se lect suitable majors, to register Stitdentu lan Vrojt A$ Learn V.radt't for Firt Half of Year With the recent Issuance of grads cards, university students hava been engaged In a mad at tempt to add, divide and multi ply to determine scholaatlo av erages. If professors could only realise how they are "panned" during the aftermath of semes ter reports, they might be more lenient In their grading system. Possibly a few Irishmen will send home their report cards to have their parent's signatures attaehed, a la grade school, but the percentage has been estim ated as extremely low. At any rate, students begin to realise why they were forced to fill out a string of tnformstlun cards when they registered. REQUIRES i it. frtiw where thev will have the best opportunities for working along weir cnoseo un", civ. On of the most encouraging signs of the time, according to Professor Worcester, la we nu-i that In many places the faculties are definitely trying to find the means to make their Instruction mora effective. At Ohio State, h.r. hla work haa been clven added emphasis, the younger and less experienced instructors are in vited ta attend classes taucht bv the mora mature professors, and vice versa, uuer in comeienrcs tha varimia methods are criticized and analyzed, and the courses of study are then revised lo meet better the Individual needs of the students. IMMENSE WARDROBE Opera Necessitates More Than 500 Costumes; 1300 Trunks Used. MEDICAL COLLLCL ACTIVin PAUL C. PLAT1. Editor. CAMPUS LEADERS FAVOR STUDENT ACTIVITIES RULE (Continued Irom Page l. dulged In. He thinks that If a person does not nave 10 mane i least twenty-seven hours In two .mtera ha will be slack In everything else he attempts to do. ni'kit An vnu rame to school tnr?" nuestioned Marshall Pitier. business manager of The Dally Ne braskan and a member or inno .nta when oueationed aa to his opinion on the rule. "Surely school work is more lwponam io ac tivities and because of that, we reoulrement la a good thing." jnh Jiitr" Brown, cadet colonel of the R, O. T. C regiment and president of the senior class, has always been more or less in favor of suchan eligibility ruie ior acu uiti.a nartlrinatlon as la in force at the university. Mentioning fresh men, especially, ne saia wat wese first year men were apt to over look weir ochool work for outside activities if there were not such a prohibitory requirement aa this in effect No Outsiders? Th. nna rliiisentine oninion out sf th riva men interviewed was that of Joyce Ayres, well known in campus circles ana a memoer 01 Tnnneent. Avrea savs. "The Dlan has this disadvantage: It keeps mucn good talent out 01 service to tha university, through the clause which states the required number or hours ror we previous two se mesters must be taken at the Uni versity of Nebraska. Tt an 4irned to eliminate professionals from participating in student activities but the toll it takes from the ranks of the non professionals makes its advisabil tv nneationahle. Some well mean ing student who comes here from another school to take his last two years at Nebraska Is deprived of one valuable year in extra-curricular activities." SELDOM PUT ON TOUR "Carmen." to be presented by the Chicago Civic opera company at the University of Nebraska Col iseum. Thursday. March JO, is the most colorful opera in the com pany's repertoire. Hecause of the large amount of scenery and cos tuming wardrobe necessary for the successful staging of the Diset opera, the popular work Is seldom carried on tour by we great Chi cago organisation. More than MM) different cos tumes, the outlay generally as signed to two or three operas, are ut.ed In the performance of "Car men" by the Chicago company. The different locales represented in the pi-rforniunce make It neces sary for a change of costumes In every act. The resplendent uni forms of the soldiers that are used In the first act and the brilliant and colorful costumes used by the toreadors, matadors and bull fight attendance, which are depicted during the second and fourth acts, help make "Carmen"an opera pic ture long to be remembered. Costumes for each set are pneked In separate trunks during the tour. The clothing the smug glers wear dining the third act, nnd which corresponds to any per mit's idea of how a smuggler should dress, also are packed In separate cases and trunks. The fiesta costumes used during the second and fourth acts help make up the thrilling scene which pro vides a climax for the perform ance of "Carmen" on the grand scale as presented by the Chicago Civic Opera company. Hundreds ot Trunks Used Some facta concerning the cos tnminc of the comp.inv should prove of interest, "thirteen hun-1 dred minus are dciuk useu on iuc Civic Opera company's present tour of the United States. These trunks and cases contain costumes, armor, properties and wigs for the performance. A great part of the trunks are painted blue, that color denoting the presence of costumes. All year round, the costumes are busy in the huge half million dol lar warehouse of the Chicago Civic Opera company, making new cos tumes, repairing old ones, design ing and creating clothes for new production. Three tailors and five seamstresses are kept busy ail year, and during We winter sea son fifteen seamstresses are busy stitching, sewing, or cutting, to make the hundreds of new cos- Dr. Allen Will be Guest of lurglcsl Faculty. Dr Duff fiherlc Allen of St. Louis will be the guest of the surgical faculty of Nebraska school of medicine at a luncheon on Monday. March 10. Dr. Duff la secretary of Thoracic Surgeons of America, and vice arch-m of the national medical fraternity of Phi lleta Pi. Or. John Letts Is Cueit. The Nu Sigma Nu fraternity had aa their dinner guest Dr. John Latta. Dr. Latta la professor of embryology and organology at the achool of medicine. He Is the one man who guides the destinies of the freshman In his first semester In medicine and this guidance and instruction is always much appre. elated and hoeded by the student. Fraternity Parties. Phi Chi and Nu Sigma Nu fist ernitlea held house parties last Saturday night. 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