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THE DAILY NLBRAaKAN
IK I DAY. NOVW.IKKR 7, 19.H).
The Daily Nhbraskan
Italian A, UMtln, Nebraake
ericiAL rryoiNT sui.ication
UNIV1ITV OP NSBHASKA
Fuslle TtMiday, Wednesday, Thureday, Prlday nt
ertday mernlhge during the acadamie year.
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tar ae eatend-elsee matter at the Bartafliee in
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dltarlal pmse . University Hall 4.
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with T. Moiwy,;
Manaeme H'lara
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...ElmeM Walta
Nawa Id Hare
PiUfleee Heryehe i Arthur Mitenaij
William M6affin.. .. Butane MtKim
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NWmnJllltrar - ThemOao
So tfebra&kans
' Are Moral Weaklings.
Min an women will not be allowed to
oceupy the same, cars on the Kahaa? special,
returning from Laurence Saturday evening.
' N matter hw marly alibis and justifications
the administration fabrieatea in the next few
daya, thia mve ia beinf made because the uni
versity doesn't trust ita students.
N. In Morning Mail, presents the opinion
f moat ptudenta in rerd to this vice-eradicat-ing
regulation. Hia views are quite sound and
rational. Immorality does .not abound on spe
cial traini and it jfl ft provokingly foolish step
16 prmnt n evil which does not exist.
poe the administration realize what such
unreasonable eoereive measures will cause 7
Open violation of wleg which are compara
tively deiriMe.
Thi lrinff blunder on the part of the
.tutatii harks back to a subject on
which The Nebraskan haa commented time and
again. Inactivity on the part of students, and
lack of eommen aenae on the part of admin
istrative ffieiak , .
In the first place, auch matters of student
conduct should be handled by students them
flves. TaeuHy pUeemn e superfluous
baggage en PPcfal tr tnoy? we do "ot
discount the vIue of aponiors. mec the stu
dent Wy Ja not sufficiently dependable to
)mtt the eecasion, however, the faculty must
tak some action,
Tutting iron ban between men and women
tudnts en the Kansas special, though, a
dumb move.
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Lest the student body frown too' darkly on
itd organisations, we call attention to the fact
that the Innoeents society and student council
n'ere interested in sponsoring the special train
to Lawrence. Thft senior, honorary expressed
its opinion that a group of'well. known and re
spected itudent would.be able1 to keep order
iv the train and discourage , effectively the
thing'whjch are considered undesirable.
This proposition was presented to the fac
ulty inogujs. The Innocents' plan involved the
paymnt Of Urtt for twelve, atudents to main
fain order.
"It would cheapen the Innocents and the
dtudent-body i the university paid these
aresl". ehirped the adminiatration. So . the
attempt at student control was toised into the
ravage incinerator.
- Could, the student .body be made to appear
any eheiper than it; doe s under this men. v.
oftten deeree! "We believe that the admin
istration JKa f coekeyed idea of cheapness. The
football" team, the bnJ. the, coaches, the cheer
Jeaderf, am eertein faculty representatives
are sent o Lawrence at the university's ex
pense. Tt it would have cheapened the
Innocents loeiety if its farta were paid on this
trip-'v Jwt another eximple of administrative
near-itbtednesf.
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If it is not too late, we implore the majesties
1 Nebraska t reeonaider their compulsory
diflcipline regulation. AHbie may be flaunted
reasons adertiaed but the facts remain :
Nebraaka'men and women, being morally
deerepit, must be segregated on the good old
Ktnsat apeeial.
What an idea!
of
MORNING MAIL
jorm sditok:
Suffer. Jittle girla to, eome unto me and
forbid them not because ueb i the Kansas
Speelei aieema to be favorite scripture. "When
I first came to this college I thought it was a
oedueatonal institution but evidently I wa
mistaken.
When the administrative authorities take
it upon themselves to segregate young men
and young ladies (it is the consensus of opinion
among the men on the campus that the coeds,
for the most part, are ladies) on a football
trip, then it is time that the said administra
tion had Hi ryes opened.
During the past fire years I have made
seven such trips and in no case have I seen
anything which might be questioned from n
moral standpoint. To try and keep younir
men and young women apart on a football
trip of such short duration is unjust, unfair,
ridiculous and asinine.
- When, may J ask, is jt Improper for men
a&if mR to meet on common ground such
ai "will te found on the trip to Lawrence f
Itees tke administration thin that Nebraska
sea 4 women re unable to mingle with earn
ether in the height of football enthusiasm with
out degrading themselves and those around
tkemf
If the administration still clings to the
petition that men and women ahpuld be sepa
rated I Kiigkrcst that a -few hundred of the
following cards be printed)
Universitt cf Nebraska.
Aboard the Kansas Special:
I (John Jones) request permission to
escort Mis3 Maxy .Smith to the platform
at the next station and indulge in ooffee
and doughnuts. Be it understood that at
no time will X converse with Miss Smith on
any other subject than one which might
perUin to higher learning.
Signed, JOHN JONES.
(This card should be validated by the daan
of student affairs.)
yhould the request, be grunted it would bt
advisable thnt three members of the admin
istrative titaff and fivo members of the univer
sity senate accompany the two happy peop
mid hoc thnt rules and regulations are carried
out to the letter.
With the' sufrgcNt ions mentioned Above it h
undoubtedly true that everyone "Bve
big time on the Kansas special and. will swear
never, never to go again.
N. G.
Athletic Hypocrisy.
TO THE KIDTORi
"Subsidizing and recruiting players''
How often have we hoard the phrase! Kamn
is out of the Big Six. Iowa hna just craw,
fished back into, the Big Ten. Stir and fiir,
stew and scandal! Every year somebody must
hold an investigation, while every conference
school easts a suspicious eye over the roster of
its neighbor s football men. It is not just thtc
year, or last year, or the year before that ;
every year it happens, in every conference.
The truth of the matter is, there is some
thing vitally aim radically wrong with our
present system of athletif administration in the
American colleges. "Subsidizing and recruit
ing of athletes" goes on apace in every loop,
keeps going on, getting bigger and plainer and
more expensive until, finally, things get so
bad (and good players so high-priced) tht
somebody in the conference cannot keep up
the pace and begins to grumble. The clouds
get thicker, and blacker, and at last they break.
Then newspapers carry juicy bits of athletic
scandal about the Iowa. U 'a and the Kansas
U's of the disgruntled conference j and the Mt?-
La in "a and the Jim Bauseh a sooner or later
have to drop out of collegiate fdotball; whil
some perfectly good coach gets it in tho neck
for something he could not help he is mado
the goat because he is t;ie victim of a vicious
system. After while, wsen certain uneasy
fiualms of conscience are satisfied, and the-lwtm-
ble examples are sufficiently chastened, they
may, like Iowa, make their due apologies and
get back into their conference; 'where they
start to blackslide before the games are sched
uled .
Remember the Carnegie JReportV it was
made fun of, and has been conveniently for
gotten by now. If it had boen a report on
anything else, or if it had read the other way,
wc would still be hearing about it. There wi.a
just one thing wrong with the Carnegie Report
on the ''hiring" of athletes it was too un
comfortably' near the truth when it said thnt
practically every school was guilty.
We are face to face with the problem; it
is too big to be overlooked; too apparent to
be ignored; too glaringly unfair to be forgot
ten. And that problem is this: Shall we or
shall we not recognise the principle as well
as the fact of subsidizing athletes; shall we
make it fair and aboveboard to paj' them,
letting every sohool bid for the services of the
players, and the devil take the hindmost!
Or shall we come to ome sort of gentle
man's agreement, since it has been all too
plainly demonstrated that no amount of con
ference rulings to the contrary will put a stop
to the practice? Shall we, I repeat, come to
a solemn gentleman's agreement to cease the
hiring of, players! That the situation cannot
go on much longer as it is is but too clearly
apparent; as Bill Ropes, Princeton coach, has
said, it means the quick death of intercollegiate
football if we do. Football has become too
much "big business" to tolerate underhanded
methods any longer. It gets us nowhere to
kick out the Kansas and Iowa U's from every
loop; we must clean up all down the line, or
else legalize the practice of paying players for
their abilities.
T am not advocating any wild-eyed nv
forms, nor attempting to vindicate the blaek
Bheep of any conference; Iowa deserved what
she got, Kansas deserves what she is getting.
There is but little doubt that the charges are
true enough, but where do the other schools
get their right to assume a "holicr-than thou"
attitude and kick these schools out, when they
are little, if any, worse than the others of the
conference? It seems there is a rather elass
ical remark about situation of this kind "Let
he who is without sin east the first stone,"
Intercollegiate "profesaionalism" ia one place
where even the most discerning cannot sepn.
rate the sheep from the goats maybe because
we re all goats.
How can you pick the schools that hire
athletes? They all do. Take the stsndinga of
any conference, and you esn jyt about bet
your bottom dime that nine times out of ten
the order in which the schools hire athletes
reads from top to bottom the less arty school
pays Hs players, the less games it wins.
c
Xow all these are not the mere assump
tions of an over-wrought ignoramus. While
not an ath.'ete myself, I have been mistakenly
thought to have talent in other lines, and was
offered some rather savory inducements to at
tend certain schools (Nebraska not included).
And I have o very close personal friend who is
captain of his college football team, and draws
a good salary for doing exactly nothing, and
has received some good offers from other
schools. Another friend, who is an excellent
basket-ball player, found a position waiting
for him at a large mid-western university when
he entered college. Such inptances are neither
rare nor isolated. They are common- I could
name over a dosen ethers of my knowledge.
Every spring, when high sehooJs are closed, the
tthletes re proselyted. We here at Nebraska
have a right to feel proud of our school, for
it is my honest belief that N. U. is as free
from the taint of professionalism as tny school
in the United States. But is sueh a hypoerisy
for the s nools to drag out Kansas for the blaek
sheep, when she is nothing but a teo-sealous
advocate of this "system" that has grown tp.
The better athletes are "hired to play,
these days. It is true. We have aide stepped
the issue and closed our eyes to iU-but
haven't stopped it! In every conference they
go on recruiting new players. With Kansns
and Iowa, of course, for the horrible examples.
And for Big Jim Hansen and Indian Mayes Me
Lain, unkindly critics reserve the term ''pro
fessional." 0. H. A.
Dutch Dattt.
TO THE EDITOR i .
Dtiteli dates are the popular voirue at the
University of Wisconsin. Ohio predicts, while,
they don't advocate such a practice, that if
sucli a system was established that it would
have' the support of two-thirds of the student
body, and thnt would' be the men.
It is different, this idea of the girls paying
their share of the evening's entertainment, and
yet there is a; lot to it, ffo the couples who
go "steady" it is a boon to the fellows. The
two naturally desire to be together and the
price of evenings' entertainments drain heavily
upon" the boy's purse.
few students in university have a large
enough surplus to accommodate this drain, and
since the situation is us such, it is no more than
fair for a girl 1 he willing lo share the cost:-.
When a single date' occurs between a boy
and a girl it is m different matter. The date
usually is made upon the iniliiilive of the lei
low and he nat tii-;i M.v is responsible for the -evening's
entertainment. Since this responsibility
for entertainment, according m custom. IV.I
upon the one who makes the date, girls tluu
would have to have some part in establish
ing a date indrdett to be expected to go
"dutch treat."
This is u gainst the social theory of the
place of women. Of course womui have a !"l
to do with the making of dates, but the opera
tion is not obvious effort on their parts, they
merely start the idea and wait for events.
"Fiitch date;" could be made a working
practice. Sever; I theories concerning the pbi-v
of women would have to be changed, and girls
would have to assume more initiative in mak
ing dates. It would be a great help to those
boys who desire feminine company, and yet
A'husc financial' status can not accommodate
the price of an evening's entertainment.
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SELLERS MIES STUDY
OF POPULIST LEADER
Interested in Career of
Pioneer Senator,
Yan Wyck.
J. L. Sailers, associat profasaor
ef history and hlatortaa of th
State Historical society, returned
Wednesday from a trip to Wy
oming, Neb., where he has been
doing some research work for the
State Historical, society.
The society ia wtereaUd in col
lectin material on C H. Van
Wyck, a Nebraaka pioneer, and
one of the moat outstanding politi
cal flgurea that Nebraska has
ever produced.
Van Wyck served four terms in
the state senate in New York state
before the Civil war, - and Was
colonel of the Fiftyalxth volunteer
regiment of New York during the
war.
In 1$71 he came to Nebraska,
served three terma in the-, state
acnate, and was then elected to
the United States senate where he
was a leader of the antimonopolla
tic faction. He ran. for the United
States senate a second time, but,
due largely to the monopoly vote,
was defeated.
Huns for Governor.
Ha then became a leader of the
populist party, ran for state gov
ernor on that platform, and was
narrowly defeated. '
His estate Is administered by
John W. gteinhart, and belonga to
his grandson, Van Wyck Bonner,
who lives in Ohio.
Professor Sellers brought back
with him a plaque, which had been
presented to Colonel Van Wyck by
the New York state volunteers.
Fifty-sixth regiment, and which
had boon made to bo worn on the
martingale, or bridle straps of his
horse. This plaque was presented
to Professor Sailors by Mrs.
James ePterson, who now lives on
the Van Wyck estate. It is now
in tho possession- of K. K. Black
man, curator of tho muaeuaa of
the Historical aociety.
ROWLEY WILL HEAD
HUSKER LETTERMEN
Prucka Is Yice President;
Maclay Secretary of
'NVCIul).
Claude Rowley, Clyde, Kas., a
halfback en the University of Ne
braska, football ' squad, has been
elected president of the ' N" club,
organisation of lettermea. Other
officer are Frank Prucka, Omaha
football and. vice president; Dm
Maclay, Auburn, basketball cen
ter, secretary, and Hugh Rhoa,
Arlington, varsity - tackle, ser
geant at arms.
It was decided at the nesting of
the club that an executive com
mittee should bo appointed In the
near future la order to fermulat
Blans for a more active partlclpa
on In university activities. Initia
tion of new members, mostly the
track, swimming and base ball men
will be held at the neat meeting.
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Special guests are to be en
tertained by Sigma Upsilon,
honorary literary fraternity,
Sunday evening at the apart
ment of Prof. Orln Stepanek,
1712 E atreet, third floor. The
meeting will begin at 8 o'clock,
and all members are requested
to bo preaent.
thoUKh cdui'dtion Im RuppoKcil to
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CHEMIST, GIVES TALK
Speaks on Recent Advances
In Chemistry of
Nutrition.
Dr. H. C. Sherman, Columbia
university chemist and writer on
aubjocta pertaining to public
health, spoka last evening on
"Some Recent Advances in the
Chemistry of Nutrition" at an
open meeting of tht local chap
ter of the American Chemical so
ciety la tho Chemistry 'building
lecture room at the university.
Thursday noon Dr. Sherman
waa a guest of the department of
chemistry staff at a luncheon at
tho University club. He will have
dinner Thursday evening with the
graduate atudents of the depart
ment a,t the Alpha Chi Sigma fra
ternity house.
Dr. Sherman, an internationally
known acholar In nutrition chem
istry, is stopping in Lincoln on his
way back to New York from the
national meetinar of the American
Public Health association wnicn '
held Its annual convention in Fort
Worth the first of the week. He
haa doss considerable original re
Sarch work and has written sev
eral textbooks on the nutrition of
chemistry.
University Students
You lire invited" lo iittciid Hie MTvii-es of
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Sermon Su'iiei
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"Keeping Faith"
WAR DEPARTMENT
IS DISCUSSED BY
EFFICIENCY GROUP
The "War Department" was the
subject of the discussion at the ef
ficiency and government group
meeting of the League of Women
Voters Thursday, in Ellen Smith
kali. Mrs. f orris H. Merrill, who
was introduced by Leone Ketterei,
loader of the group, explained the
various divisions of the war de
partment of the United States and
the duties of different officials in
that department.
Mrs. Merrill quoted figures to
show the tremendous number of
people who are in the war depart
ment of the country, and the great
amount ef money which is used
yearly for war preparedness. Al-
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