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Thanksgiving-
More Than a Meal
Aav ah v,-r we nause to participate
in the recognition of Thanksgiving day. For
some it means simply an opportunity to break
away from school and eat turkey. Without
regard for the moral considerations of over
eating, we wish you a happy vacation and hope
that you have many things to be thankful for.
In the rush and bustle of collegiate existence
we seldom have the time or the inclination to
top and survey our fortunes. Fussing and
fuming over lessons, dates, activities, athletics
and overdue bills we are apt to feel a wave of
self pity washing across our consciousness. "We
sneer at the suggestions of our elders who be
lieve that we are extremely lucky in having
an opportunity to attend an educational insti
tution. This is natural. At times we curse the day
we registered and wish that some tidal wave
would sweep the university forever off the
iin p. But we are young; we have not the per
spective which makes education appear an
invaluable boon. Though wc live in comfort
and ease we sometimes feel terribly abused,
woudering what earthly reason wc may have
for giving thanks.
The doors of the university have been closed.
Lessons may be forgotten as wc celebrate
Thanksgiving day. And everyone has some
thing to be thankful for; docs the day mean
something to you?
Reading and Leading
Are Closely Related.
A professor the other day was discussing
with his class some of the significant changes
that have come over American life and Amer
ican institutions in the last ten years. He
pointed out that these changes were predicted,
examined and to some extent caused by leaders
in thought long before they came to the atten
tion of the majority of people or of the popular
press. These leaders in thought constitute a
very small proportion of the whole population.
"After all," said he, "readers of such maga
zines as Harpers, Forum, The American Mer
cury, The Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, The
New Republic and Scribners are generally the
leaders and they are few in number."
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Circulation figures reveal the truth of his
statement. Fortunate is one of those publica
tions to attain a circulation of 50,000 while
.several popular magazines boast subscription
lists in excess of 1,000,000.
It is strange and at the same time a distress
ing fsct that a very large proportion of college
students are not included in the select list of
readers of better magazines. Too many of
them do not read anything, not even current
event news in the daily papers.
Most students hope to be leaders in some
field. Is it not logical and natural that they
hould want to know what present day leaders
and schoalrs are thinking, what arc the trends
of modern life and what dangers are facing
American civilization? Too many colleirians
drift through four years of blissful indiffer
ence, arriving at the significant things of life
with a shock.
A college education should elevate reading
tastes. A student who has spent four years,
presumably seeking culture, and is still content
to read nothing but that which appeals to
mediocre intelligence, has lost valuable time
and opportunities.
We do not advise au attitude of snobbishness
toward popular literature. A college education
should enable one to read it more critically
iind at the same time create desire to read
better things.
Giving Football
The Run of the Paper.
From the Vniversity of Utah Chronicle comes
ibis short editorial :
"It has come to the editor that the student
puldication is making loo big a fuss over foot
nM and that publicity is being given the
'gridiron sport in preference over other campus
iie-tivitioK.
"Our only excuse is that the football season
..nr ponies once a year and that while it's
here, we're going to make the most of it.
"In our opinion, the student body is vitally
interested in football activity and the purpose
otCthe Chronicle is to supply the' institution
with the most agreeable news.
X'Football spirit is in the air. Iloiiiecoining.
sujjgfests, giant snake dances, rallies, all-conference
selections, and most of all, a champion
ship team, have turned the minds of the Utah
collegians to the pigskin sport. .Football news
i3he news of the moment."
After re&ding the Utah paer one might
rejdily understand why the editor had been
aroused of devoting too much npnee to football.
Like tnany other university dailies, its page's
are plastered with photos of helmetted war
riors; its news columns shout forth the glory
of the team and the need for hilarious spirit.
Why do college papers insist upon giving
athletics tho run of the paper? This sport
needs no promotion. It is already uswuniing
such gigantic proportions that it threatens to
overshadow the better purposes of the institu
tions which gave it birth. Wc believe that
college- editors would be wise to appeal to the
intelligence, rather than the emotions, of their
readers.
Football has a value. Those who condemn
it entirely are not quite clear in their asser
tion; but those who shout its praises to the
blue skies, giving everyone the impression that
colleges are even more football mad than they
are, lend their journalistic forces to a cause
which does not need it.
They slight cultural activities which are
starving for support.
girls occasionally, that this social training they
are acquiring .should aid them to be friendly
without their taclhss wuy of exposing their
conscious superiority, if it must be called
superiority to satisfy their ego. Instead, they
tell about what this sorority sister of theirs
said and tee-hee about that awhile, and then
what some other sorority sister said or whom
she dHted and tee-hee about that, until they
have become unbearably obnoxious.
Little do these eliiiiey snobs know what life
lias in store tor them when their college days
are over. L. (. U.
llm U in
The Fold Again.
Omaha schools will be represented again this
soring at the annual Nebraska high school
basketball tournament, according to unofficial
announcements by Walter Black, secretary of
the association, ami .1. (.!. Masters, speaking for
the Omaha principals. The Omaha school offi
cials arc to be congratulated upon their move.
No state tournament can be a complete success
if several of the larger teams withdraw from
competition.
While the Omaha authorities made no com
ment at the time upon conditions that caused
their withdrawal from the tourney, it is under
stood that, with 100 or more tennis represented,
the students presented a difficult problem to
handle, insofar as their conduct while attend
ing the competition wasconeerued. Now the
number of competing teams has been limiteel
to sixteen, and the conduct problem accord-!
iugly simplified. f
At the lime of withdrawal, the metropolitan
scnoois ctia not eirop nienmersnip in me associa-1
tion, merely declining to enter teams in the
all-state eliminations. Now the only obstacle
in the way of their return to competition is
formal approval of their entry by the Omaha
school officials.
Another factor influencing Omaha's move to
return, it is said, is found in dwindling gate
receipts and lack of popular interest in basket
ball contests there. The principals evidently
are guieled partly by a desire to rouse interest
in the sport and consequently swell the ath
letics income of the schools.
Omaha has indicated that she has no desire
, to act as host of the tournament this spring,
but it is not know n whether or not the games
will again be staged in the University of Ne
braska coliseum.
With Omaha again in the running, and all
state support of the tourney, it is a point de
serving attention and effort on the part of the
university officials. tvery high schoul playr
is potential university material, seholasticslly
as well as for his athletic prowess. .Should not
the university go a bit out of its way to attract
these students? At the very least, the tourna
ment would be good advertising for the institution.
Feminine Shackles.
TO THE EDITOU:
The limpid body of student government is
beginning to stir and uesture weakly in the di
rection of personal freedom and self-assertion
through the Student council. Immediately,
however, as if it were some Gulliver giant, a
host of Liliputians, in tho form of A. V. S.
board members, have dashed forth from their
smug headquarters in Ellen Smith hall, drag
ging with them the golden strands of feminine
sanctity in order to shackle the council in its
moves.
In the eyes of the esteemed members of the
coi-ds guiding angels organization the Student
council is a ruthless colossus, dominated by
men who would be only too glad of a chance
to deprive the fair sex and their representa
tives of their rights, privileges, and pursuit of
ha ppiness.
An efficient Student council must be n
dominant body. If our council is to bo a joint
governing group along with the A. W. S.
board, the luterfraternity council, tho Panhel
lenic society, and a host of other campus
groups it would do better to put up the whito
flag, raffle off its data books, and go the way
of all useless university bodies to oblivion.
In all previous action the council lias
shown its ability. Ii. has faithfully and care
fully attended to elections, rallies and other
like duties. H has represented student prob
lems as it has seen them but too often it has
been deterred in its action by au almost brutal
lack of authority. As to the scope of its power
the administration has been exquisitely and
beautifully vague. What is the next move?
Must a group of women students step in
and attempt to curtail and limit tho powers of
a hotly which is working for more government
by students as a whole without discrimination
as to sex? Need this same group of women fear
tyrannical action by a more representative
body simply because it happens to contain a
majority of men students?
Student governmental progress hangs in
the balance. It is a very delicate balance, one
which is swaying between administrative dom
inance and student freedom. A small part of
the members of a sex which represents a mi
nority of the university enrollment, might do
we'll to forget personal ends in the interests of
the student body as a whole.
.MORPHEUS.
IS
Claims It Will Take Upward
Trend in This Country
In Interview.
DONATE MffllY
Schools Observe Golden
Rule Sunday; Send
Society Checks.
Books Are So
Useless. Don't You Know.
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When college men wore peg-topped trousers,
rented tally-ho's, grew moustaches, courted
ladies, put on winter underwear after the foot
ball season closed in those days reading was
common. Some rational collegians actually
visited the Main library in their spare time to
read. What a laugh!
They missed the real entertainment. While
sitting in a well-lighted, properly heated room
and gazing enraptured at a book they were
wasting time. Their sons and daughters prefer
to slouch in a coffee shop, sipping weak cokes,
inhaling cigaret fumes, making foolish conver
sation. Evolution is a marvelous thing.
We seldom see a college student spend his
vacant afternoons in the library unless he is
compelled to do so. This is a fine thing, for
college students should not pass up opportuni
ties to cake and attend downtown movies.
When they do invade the library it is as the
sentenced man trudges into his penitentiary,
forced to do so much time before they may be
free. Modern youths recognize values.
Let us compare the collegiate attendance at
afternoon movies any day in the week with
the meagre crowd found in the libraries. We
repeat: college students have finally come to
their senses. What fun could one possibly find
in reading a book at the library?
We're asking you, but we know the answer.
Greek Goddesses
With Uplifted oes
Parading their unfounded soeial superiority
before those whom they consider less fortu
nate, sorority girls are apt to make their pres
ence obnoxious. L. O. G. is disgusted with the
unsocial behavior of the affiliated coeds and
we see her point.
Sororities attempt to develop poise in iheir
members. This valuable quality-of personality
should not be confused with unwarranted so
phistication. One who is truly well educated
and properly trained iu the niceties of social
conduct is able to acclimate herself to her sur
roundings. Psychologists will tell us that
intelligence may be measured by one's ability
to adapt himself to new surroundings. Uncouth
are sorority girls who cannot mingle with barb
coeds without making their alleged superiority
embarrassingly evident.
Colleges anel their offspring organizations
have been criticized severely for their undemo
cratic tendencies. This matter of coed behavior,
however, does not hinge upon democracy but
upon the simples? principles of politeness.
Social organizations, we call them; is L. G. G.
right in her accusations?
Smith college, Mount Holyoke,
Miss Porter's school for girls,
Dana Hall. Sweet Briar college In
Virginia, are but a few of the
women's colleges and schools that
observed Golden Rule Sunday last
year, sending generous checks to
the Golden Rule Foundation of
New York to help feed and care
for the neglected and underprivi
leged children of the world.
At Mount Holyoke and most of
the other colleges and schools,
the students, of their own voli
tion, agreed to go without certain
Sunday table luxuries and deli
cacies, partaking of a frugal
meal, in order that they might be
able to give more generously to
those in need In Porto Rico,
China, India and our own coun
try. Sympathy Exerts Influence.
More important than the money
given and the lives saved was the
reflex Influence upon the lives of
the atudents who were thus
brought into fellowship and sym
pathy with the great mass of
mankind.
Many women's colleges will
again observe the day this year.
It is hoped that their good ex
ample will be followed by the
men in universities, colleges and
prep schools.
Or. Cadman Comments.
Says Dr. S. Parkes Cadman,
president of the Foundation:
"This practice is a test of our
religion. Whether Catholics,
Protestants or Jews, Modernists
or Fundamentalists, we all be
lieve in the Golden Rule. Do we
live It? Golden Rule week sum
mons us to plain livnig and high
thinking. It asks us to measure
ourselves by universal standards
to see how nearly we have at
tained to our Ideals. It is an
educational, character building
observance as well as practical
philanthropy.
"This year me periou nas wtu
extended from Golden Rule Sun
day to Golden Rule week in order
to Include public schools as well
as Sundav schools; Jews as well
as Christians: service clubs and
b u s i n e s agencies as well as
churches: theaters and the secu
lar press aa well as religious or
ganizations. Aak Aid of Strong.
It is a season, when, thruout
the world, the strong are asked
to help the weak, the rich to
share with the poor, the employed
with the unemployed and those
who are Drosnerous with those
who are in adversity.
"Money contributed during
Golden Rule week may be desig
nated for any organisation, insti
tution, charity or type of work
in which the donor may be espe
cially interested. One hundred
cents of every dollar so contrib
uted will go as directed, none for
expenses. There is little or no
excuse for not giving. The mini
mum gift the difference in the
cost of a frugal Golden Rule
I meal and the usual bountiful din
nertakes not one penny rrom
Xhe cash reserves of the donors.
If passed thru the Foundation
treasury for, any object approved
by the foundation's committee on
research. Information and survey,
the probabilities are that a sup
plementary sum will be added to
it from general funds."
"Let us be thankful that at
this Thanksgiving-Golden Rule
Christmas season we may be on
the 'giving' lather than on the
'receiving 'end of the Golden
Rulo."
MORNING MAIL
A Sorority Sore.
TO THE EDITOR:
If a girl joins a sorority for social training
and contacts, then .what is this society, if it
makes her unsociable with the nonsorority girl
who is, in intelligence as well as social quali
fications. eeual to the sorority girl?
It seems to me that if these Greek godde-sse-s
are forced to come iu contact with nonsorority
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METHODS OF R. M. T. C.
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argument for militrfry training, the
article states that it has been
established psychologically that
men do not spontaneously transfer
a habit of neatness or obedience
learned in a specific sitva' ;n un
der constraint during military drill,
into the vastly different and more
free atmosphere of civil life. The
author declares that tbt only
ground on which military training
can stand is that it trains students
for war.
In concluding he says: "The sub
conscious effect of the whole thing
is dangerous. Most people over
look the fact that wars arise out
of old habits of thought and feeling
which lead the mass of men into
war against their wishes. Mili
tary training keeps these habits
alive." Syracuse Daily Orange.
the fine Awgwan was suspended.
It had been getting into the same
difficulties for which It . was sus
pended last year.
It was finally revived during
the first semester of the school
year of 1925-1926 and was pub
lished from that time till the time
of its second death in 1929. Ray
Murray was the editor of the pub
lication at the time of its suspen
sion. The Awgwan was at its strong
est during its last year. Eleven
hundred of the October issues had
been sold and twelve out of four
teen hundred of the "objection
able" sheets had been sold at the
time of its suspension.
LARGE NUMBER OF
.0.
73 Percent Register Some
Church Prefeernce;
30 Faiths Noted.
Nebraska's 'Awgwan Which May
Soon Be Revived, Has Had Varied
And Colorful Career Since 1913
BY ART WOLF.
Just one year ago yesterday the ill-fated Awgwan whs ousted
bv the student publication board after its second issue of the
year. Just eighteen years ago on Feb. 17, next, that publication
began its stormy life at the University of Nebraska. And now
Sigma Delta Chi. honorary journalistic fraternity and sponsor
of the publication, is agitating for the return of the humor
sheet to its place among Ne
braska publications.
At a recent meeting of the pub
lication board that august body
hinted that it might give its con
sent to the re-establishment of the
Awgwan. Altho nothing detinite
was done toward taking that step
the board said that Sigma Delta
Chi might be allowed to bring
back the publication if they pre
sent a petition to the board for
that purpose.
Stepanek Contributed
The Awgwwan was inauguiated
on Feb. 17, 19i3, by "students of
the University of Nebraska."
Ralph Northrup was the editor of
that first humor publication which
was issued twice a month. Orin
Stepanek, now on the Nebraska
faculty and at that time a student
here, was one of the chief contri
butors to the early Awgwans. The
featured article in Vol. I. No. 1.
was a story, "Billy Barebakem,"
by Mr. Stepanek.
During the first year of its ex
istence the publication seemed to
have difficulty with its staff for
the names in the masthead
changed with almost every issue
altho Northrup was editor all dur
ing the first year. Nebraska stu
dents then and now must have
been about the same for the
Awgwan at one time attempted to
plug a new pep song which must
not have been received with much
favor for that song has been rele
gated to the. shelves of oblivion as
have many other Nebraska songs.
Sour Jokes.
Some of the jokes in the first of
those magazines seem to indicate
that humor was a great deal dif
ferent in 1913 than in 1930. A
sample of those jokes:
Teacher: Johnny, what's a cate
gory? Johnny: A cat that's covered
with blood.
Another:
One: The Vogue says skirts are
to be fuller this spring.
Two: I don't see how they can
be much fuller.
In Vol. II, the staff was un
changed as to the editor and busi
ness manager although minor
positions were all different. Mar
cus Poteet was assistant business
manager that year. With No. 3 of
that year the publication changed
its policy by coming out fifteen
times a year Instead of bi-monthly.
The price of the magazine was
$1.25 a year. In March. 1914, the
sheet put out a suffrage number.
In No. 7, on Feb. 2. 1914, the staff
announced that the Awgwan would
be published bi-weekly at ten cents
a copy.
Early Sponsorship.
Leslie Slack was the editor of
Vol. HI which appeared in the
school year of 1914-1915. The pub
lication then was sponsored by the
Helmet and Quill society which
was the forerunner of Sigma Delta
mi. i ne on ice or me staff m
that year was in University hall,
No. 1, where it remained until ban
ned in 1929.
Incomplete files have been kept
and due to that fact no trace of
the sheet can be found from 1915
to 1919 when Herman H. Thomas
was editor and the Awgwan was
sponsored by Sigma Delta Chi.
Gayle Grubb, more widely known
as "Gloomy Gus" of radio fame,
was the editor of the Awgwan in
1920 and 1921. The jokes of that
period were not much better than
the earlier ones, one of them being
something like this:
Her fac) was stern,
She stopped to listen,
Now he is her'n,
And she is his'n.
Died In 1923.
The publication of the sheet
was suspended in the fall of 1923
owing to difficulties in which Sig
ma Delta Chi found itself due to
the publication of the scandal
sheet, "Shun," in February of
that year. The "Shun" was a Uni
versity Night scandal sheet which
was suspended some time before
the event itself and for the same
reasons. Due to "objectionable
material In "Shun," the chapter
was fined by the national chapter.
Pending refusal or inability to pay
SYRACUSE, N. Y. Contrary to
the growing opinion in Amcricn
that grand opera will soon vnnirh
it is the opinion of Charles Sun
ford Skilton, composer,' that grand
opera Is going to take an upward
trend in this country. That he
said in an interview with a Syra
cuse University Dally reporter.
"There is a time coming," lm
went on to say, "when an Ameri
can composer will produce n
opera which will gain for him the
respect of all his countrymen. Such
an opera will have to be on an
American subject since Europeans
best know European subjects and
Americans best know American."
LAWRENCE, Kan. More than
73 percent of the students of the
University of aKnsaa are members
in one of the more than thirty
denominations reported to Regis
trar Geo. O. Foster, and another
17 percent of them expressed a
preference for some one of the de
nominations listed. A trifle more
than 10 percent of the students
made no report of their church af
filiation. As in past years, the number of
Methodist students greatly sur
passed the others, 1,167 reporting
for this denomination, of whom
931 are members and 236 have
that preference. Of the 1,167
Methodists, 718 are men and 449
are women.
Presbyterians are next with 446
men and 312 women, total 758; the
Christians are third with 284 men;
159 women; 443 total; Baptist,
162. 90. 253; and Catholic. 166, 79,
total 245. Other denominations
having more than 100 students as
members or adherents are: Con
gregational, 209; Episcopal, 199;
and Lutheran, 109.
Among colored students, Method
dists are most numerous, with 54,
while there are 47 colored Bap
tists; 9 colored Episcopalians, and
3 colored Presbyterians.
Comments on Jazz.
In commenting upon the jaza
tendency in modern music Profes
sor Skilton lauded George Gersh
win, for, he said, "he is a master
in his having transformed jazz into
a more approved type of music. '
"American jazz is remarkably in
teresting in itself." he continued,
"but there Is very little variety.
If given a choice between a pro
gram of the Paul Whiteman type
of music and a classical program
you would be tired much sooner of
Paul Whiteman."
Professor Skilton was very
pleased with the performance of
"Electra" as presented last night.
"The performance was very much
better than I thought It would be
and Professor Polah is an exceed
ingly wonderful director." The
noted composer was enthused about
the entire drama as presented by
the students. "The singing of the
choruses was remarkably fine and
the playing of the orchestra, al
though very difficult to subdue so
as to allow the lines of the actors
to be heard, was exceedingly well
handled."
Praises Ballet.
Aside from the work of the or
chestra. Professor Skilton hIso
praised very highly the perform
ance of the ballet. "The ballet at
the entrance of Clytemnestra at
the beginning of the second act
was very effective and the group
ing at the end of the act made a
very remarkable stage picture"
was his enthusiastic appraisal .
"I have enjoyed my stay in
Syracuse very much," said Profes
sor Skilton in a very pleased man
ner, "and I have been very glad
to be here on a visit since I have
always admired the work of the
music school at this university. At
present." he stated, "I am not
working on any particular com
position. My last composition was
a Mass for the chorus of a Roman
Catholic church in New York
City."
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