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he - Daily "Nebra SKAN Official Student Newspaper of the University of Nebraska VOL. XXX NO. 59. LINCOLN, NEBRASKA. THURSDAY, DECKMBKR 11, 1930 PRICE FIVE CENTS. AWGWAN COMEBACK A ED FELLMAN TELLS FORUM STUDENTS ABLE TO GOVERN Favors Centralized Rule by One Organization of Undergraduates. 'ARGUMENTS NOT VALID' Speaker Declares Opponents Of Subject Are Not Meeting Issue. Upholding the cause of student government and approving of the present move toward centralization of student power in the Student council, David Fellman, instructor of political science, former member of the Student council and author of the proportional representation plan which is now the basis of representation in the Student coun cil, addressed the Wednesday noon meeting of the World Forum. The danger in considering stu dent government, said Fellman, is to impute to it those inherent weaknesses in all popular govern ment and to condemn it for them. "Sometimes unfit students become leaders," he said, "but are public officials always the best available men?" Fellman questions the validity of the argument which condemns student government because not all students vote and then accepts popular rule in regular goverment affairs when the lack of voting is one of the greatest problems of modern democracy. Perfection Not Possible. "Perfection cannot be expected in campus government, when gov ernment is nowhere perfect," he declared. "It is not correct to say that student government means no faculty interference," he added. "It means absence of faculty interfer ence in those affairs which the students themselves are capable of regulating." A number of spheres of influ ence where student government should be effective were cited. Among these were student groups, extracurricular activities, and some fields of morality as the honor system and late hours. Lists Assumptions. He lists the following seven as sumptions concerning the student on which he bases his argument lor more student power: "That this generation is no worse than any other perhaps better. "That the student has far more ability to govern himself and to exercise self control than eitner ne or his teachers realize. "That the normal college stu dent is at heart sound and can be trusted. "That stutfents are interested in constructive programs. "That the greatest asset of de mocracy, and its great need, is comradeship between groups and Individuals. "That the world is at present, in great need of a social point of view; that there are many diffi cult political and social problems to be solved today. "That self government and self discipline can be learned only by Bell government. Sees Great Gap. Fellman maintains that there is too great a gen between real life and campus life, that campus life lacks reality, and mat student gov ernment will help to overcome this by providing an element of reality In campus life. In addition stu dent government would be a step toward overcoming the paternal istic attitude of teachers over stu dents all through school, .n his opinion. The change provided in the new constitution of the Student council for centralization of final authority in student affairs in one body has the great advantage of creating a body with the authority to speak in the name of the student body, he believes. "Centralization and decentraliza tion are not mutually exclusive terms. The centralization does not Imply that all local groups will be utifled or lose their identity. It means that there will be one su preme student body with the power to voice the opinions of the entire university on important ques tions," he concluded. ARTS CLUB PLANS INITIATION AND BANQUET TONIGHT The Arts club will hold an initi ation dinner at 6 p. m. today in til china painting room of Morrill frail Tickets were priced at forty icecta, but the sale was stopped yesterday afternoon. at 5 o'clock. Those to be Initiated are: George Harold Hart, Alice Imhoff, Clara Bartak, Marjorie Bernstein, Helen Davie, Morris Gordon, Sarah Green. Constance Kiser, Alice Duncan. Harold Fierce, Adlyn Moeller. Mrs. Dorothy Simons, Felix Summers, Clara Hardung. Christine Nesbiit. Jean Ohler. Ma rie Osterloh. Eennetta Kennedy, Mrs. Rose O'Counell, and E. Pctti- 3IRS. IIEDEEN WILL PLAY AT MEETING OF SCANDINAVIANS Featuring Hazel Olsen Hedeen at the organ In a program of Christmas music, the University of Nebraska Scandinavian club will hold its monthly meeting at the First Presbyterian church at Sev enteenth and F streets next Tues day evening. The organist is the wif of Prof Carl Hprieen of the foreign languages department of the university. Prominent men in Lincoln have been secured to speak on the pro gram, which probably will be given in the Scandinavian language. The club also plans to have a Christ mas tree. The entire program will be built around Christmas with traditional Swedish carols featuring the program. The program is scheduled to start at 7:30 p. m. Officers of the club are inviting everyone to at tend. 10 BE IN THREE COLORS Black, White and Silver Only Tones Used in New Production. WILL OPEN ON DEC. 15 BY ROSELINE PIZER. The initial performance of "The Importance of Being Earnest" will be presented by the University Players Monday. Pec. 15, at 7:30 p. m. at the Temple theater. The entire production will be staged in three colors, black, wnite and sil ver. Costumes down to the last detail of the jewelry worn will confonn even the lorgnettes are silver in color rather than gold. A special set of wicker furniture is being made at the state peniten tiary to carry out the color scheme. The story of the play hinges about the preference of two girls for the name. Earnest. Algernon Moncrieff and John Worthing, two friends with plenty of nerve and deviltry, do everything to oblige the girls, even changing their names to Earnest. The trouble comes when the two love affairs, progressing secretly, reach the point when the girls confide in one another and reach the startling conclusion that they are engaged to the same man. The play is full of witty satire and real comedy, and is one of the be.-t examples of OFcar Wilde's art. The University Players pre sented "Lady Windemere's Fan" by the same author last year with notable success. IOWA STUDENTS HEAR TALKS BY NEBRASKA DEAN Dean J. E. LeRossignol of the college of businers administration was in Iowa City Wednesday, where be pave two lectures before student and faculty members of the University of Iowa. The subjects of his two lectures were "Labor Cost Theory of Value." and "Economic Basis of Confidence." The college of commerce of the University of Iowa was host to Dean LeKossignol during his visit PIR1E, JEWETT TAKE EXAM FOR RHODES AWARDS John C. Tirie and Richard L. Jewett, Nebraska Rhodes scholar candidates, took examinations in Den Moines, la., Wednesday in the regional Rhodes scholar competi tion. Two representatives each from Minnesota, South Dakota. Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa participated in the examina tions. The result will be announced later by the secretary of the Rhodes scholarsnip committee at Swarthmore, Pa. Prof. William Quigiey of the University of Minnesota conducted the examinations. f'WV ry.i"1 1 j"-" "' 1 1 " i.!iui.niiiiuimi..iiwnfi,Mi ifcijMyiii mijii I PIIW Milium w i. inmi ii.wij..iii.iii.iniii- m m v ;j ri .jx m MIIMMMMIHIMMkMMHbMIMWilMMI " ' ' " " ' ' - ' " " Mi I ! ITM Ml I ! 1 1 H IIMllllMI iTl M U ll rMI jtmiir ' 1 -Cwrtpy of The Journal. Photo t MacdonaJd. These coeds will enter the competition of the Junior Ak-Sar-Ben, being held under the auspice' of the Block and Bridle club at the college of agriculture Saturday evening, and will vie for the title of the grand champion coed showman of the college of agriculture. From left to right they are: Christine Mallick. Indianola; Catherine Stoddard, Lincoln: Kleanor Dixon, Blair; Muripl Moffitt, Lincoln: Ruth Durst. Tecumseh; Thelma Tincber. Odeli; Evelyn Krotz, Odell. and Gertrude Christensen, of Alvo. The winner of the coed class will compete with the winners of the various men s classes for the title of the grand champion showman of the college of agriculture and the trophy offered by the management nf the Ak-ar-Ben of Omaha. The program ia echeduled to begin at 7 in the evening and will be followed by an Ag dance given by the Ulutk and Bridle club in the activities blading at 9 Saturday evening. ' COUS NS HONORED AT TEA; TO TALK AT Speaker Traces History Irish Poetry at Chi Delta Phi Affair. of PAYS TRIBUTE TO 'AE' Temple Address Scheduled For 11; Will Speak On Education. Sketching the history of Irish poetry since ifs revival, Dr. James Cousins, noted Irish poet, ad dressed members of Chi Delta Phi and their guests at a tea given in his honor Wednesday afternoon in Morrill hall. More than one hun dred fifty persons attended the af fair. After quoting the "Unknown God" by AE. Dr. Cousins paid trib ute to the author, whom he said would never be forgotten. He pointed out that within the poem one could sense something from the realm of the immortal. "There is a vast difference in the science of that day and this," de clared Dr. Cousins. "However, there is an interior reality, ex pressed in poetry, which never changes. AE, after the attitude of Tennyson, did not write argument in aesthetic way against a scien tific conception of nature. He only expressed the inner beauty which (Continued on Page 4.) Physical education Club Plans to Teach From 7:30 to 8:30. The dancing club sponsored by the Women's Physical Education department, will hold its next les son Saturday, Dec. 13, from 7:30 to 8:30 in Grant Memorial gym nasium. Beginning Saturday, the lessons will be conducted under a new system. The social committee un der the leadership of Ruth Hat field and Blossom McDade are planning accommodations so that more members will be able to dance, and for an additional room where instruction can be given to those who are in need of drill work. The committee is also planning to include more girls who can as sist in giving lessons. It will hold a meeting soon and discuss a defi nite lesson program under the su pervision of Miss Richardson. Music was formerly furnished by a pianist, but arrangements have now been made to use the new Majestic radio purchased re cently by the committee, Because of the enormous num bers who 8 re coming to each class, it has been necessary to limit the attendance. The class is open only to those who are really in need of instruction. Members are re quested to present their identifica tion cards in the future, and the girls are asked to be more prompt so that ther;e will be partners for everyone and the lessons can be gin on scheduled time. PRESBYTERIANS TO HEAR DECKER SING Hermann T. Decker, instructor of music in the school of fine arts, will be base soloist at the Sunday evening service of the First Pres byterian church. Seventeenth and F streets. He will sing "The Holy City," by Gaul. CONVOCATION COEDS WHO WILL COMPETE IN JUNIOR AK University Uses Only Small Part of Tax Dollar BY ARTHUR MURRAY. Less than 68 cents of the taxes paid on each valuation of $1000 in Nebraska during 1929 went to the support of the university, a re cent bulletin issued by the school shows. This 68 cents represents only one thirty-second of each tax dollars collected from a $1,000 valuation. State funds obtained by taxation account for 55 percent of every university dollar received. Federal funds account for 7 per cent, and cash raised by student fees and departmental receipts makes ud the other 38 percent. n'y 3 7 cents out of the aver age tax aouar 01 went 10 ine state university. State taxation during the year 1929-30 accounted for $4,852,000.00. The estimated cash and federal funds are $2,100, 000 and $554,6650.00, respectively. The grand total of all university funds amounts to $7,506,660.50. Salaries Biggest Item. Salaries of 'nstructors aggre gate the largest single item of uni versity expenditures. Sixty-one and one-half percent of the ex penditures of 1929-30 were for in structional purposes. Fifteen and one-half percent was expended for agricultural experiment stations and extension. Commercial activi ties claimed eight and one-half percent. Capital additions needed a like amount, and six percent was spent for special activities. The number of professors in the university as given by the bulletin, "Primer of Facts" shows that there are ninety-eight, with each one drawing an average salary of $4,209. There are forty-six asso ciate professors with an average of $3,385. Fifty men and women are assistant professors, each drawing an average yearly salary of $2,772. The average wage of all instructors is $2,120. There are twenty-seven assistant instructors with an average salary of $1,363 each. Average Salary $2,948. The average salary of all of the 332 full time members of the in structional force for the past fis cal year was $2,948. Exclusive of those faculty members holding full professorships, the bulletin shows that the average salary of the other 234 instructors is $"2,420.85. A check-up made of the rolls of the faculty showed that there were seventeen members who had been teaching here since 1900. One pro fessor has been on the faculty since 1889, two since 1891, one since 1692, three since 1893, four since 1894, one since 1895, three since 1896, one since 1898, and one since 1899. Twenty-two otners have been with the , university since 1905. The total enrollment of unre pealed names in the university for the school year 1929-30 was 11,313. LEAGUE PLANS PARTY Annual Affair to Be Held At St. Paul's Church Friday Evening. The Epworth league of St. Paul's Methodise church will hold its annual Christmas party Friday at 8 p. m. at the church. Twelfth and M streets. The church will be decorated in Christmas colors and there will be a Christmas tree on which will be a present for each of the guests. The program will feature James Miiler, xylopbonist, accompanied by his motner Mrs. John H. Mil ler. They will play Christmas carols and popular music. Guestr will include young peo ple in Sunday school classes of the church, their teachers and all other young people attending St. Paul's church. STAGE PREPARED FOR AG COLLEGE SHOW SA HAY Junior Ak-Sar-Ben to Open At 7 O'clock; Dance Ends Program. NEW JUDGE ENGAGED Block and Bridle Club Will Present Ten Different Livestock Classes. Arrangements have been com pleted and only final preparations have to be made for the first an nual staging of the Junior Ak-Sar-Ben Saturday evening in the judging pavilion on the Ag cam pus from 7 until 9 o'clock. The show is the successor to the Baby International which for twelve years was held as a major event on the Ag activities calendar. At a meeting of the Block and Bridle club Tuesday evening final consideration was given to the program and the arrangements for the show. The various commit tees reported everything in readi ness for the final developments which of necessity must wait until Saturday. The program of the Junior Ak-Sar-Ben, which is a showmanship contest in the form of a livestock show, will present ten different competitive classes in four different divisions of live stock, all of which have reached (Continued on rage 4.J DART HEAD PROVES MAN LONG IN STATE Museum Collector Finds Object in Deposit of Bison Bones. A flint dart head, found with some fossil bones of bison in Cus ter county, Nebraska, indicates that man has existed in Nebraska considerably longer than most persons believe, according to Bert rand Schultz, chief collector of the university museum. The bones, with which the dart head was found, were encountered sixteen feet below the surface July 16, 1929, bv Mr. Schultz and Frank Crabill. but they were not removed until a short time ago, when Schultz and Dr. W. D. Strong un earthed them. They were located in a type of ground which dates from the period immediately pre ceding the last glacier. The work of removing them was done so carefully, according to Mr. Schultz, that there is little possi bility that the dart head could have fallen among them from sjije higher ooint, thus proving the existence of man at the time of the deposit of bison bores. The bison fossils und in the deposit present certain peculiar ities when compared to present day bison, the bones being larger and differing in other ways. FR ESHMEN DRAW ASSIGNMENTS IN ANNUAL DEBATE , I ants who have signed up for the annual freshman debate for the "Long cup have oeen made by Prof. H. A. White of the English department as follows: Woodward Magee, first affirmative; Maurice Pepper, first negative: Byron Cherry, second affirmative; Gor don Williams, second negative. The debate will be over the ques tion, "Resolved: The United States should enact some form of legisla tion providing for unemployment Insurance." Any others wishing to compete will be assigned sides al ternately as they report to Profes sor White. - SAR - BEN SHOWr SIGMA DELTA CHI TO SPONSOR BOOK Petition of Journalistic Fraternity Is Accepted Publication Board in Meeting Wednesday; First Issue Planned in February. MUST GUARANTEE SUBSCRIPTION LIST OF 800 Material for Fun Magazine Requested From Students; Appointments on Staff to Be Made After Original Number, Based on Work. Ketuin of the Awgwan, ousted campus humor magaziue, was virtually' assured yesterday when the publication board provisionally accepted the. application of Sigma Delta. Chi t publish the first issue of t lie magazine and to take editorial and financial responsibility for succeeding issues. The vote in lavor ol the proposal was State Will Be Divided Into Sixteen Sections Under Latest Plan. WHITE DIRECTS LEAGUE Nebraska accredited high schools will be divided into sixteen dis tricts this vear for the annual Ne braska High School Debating league competition, according to plans made at an executive meet ing in Omaha last wepk and an nounced today by Prof. H. A. White of the University of Ne braska, who is president cf the league. District debates must be com pleted bv April 1 so that the win ners may. compete in the state tournament to be held in Lincoln April 16 to 18. A membership drive to bring mere high schools into the league was discussed and approved.- In the last three years 200 different schools have entered the league but in any one year the number competing in debates has been slightly below 100, according to Professor White. Division Is New. The division of the state into sixteen districts was anothei new plan adopted at the Omaha meet ing. Heretofore, division has been on the basis of the number of schools competing in a given year. The system as adopted, officers of the association believe, will serve to stimulate entering the debating competition annually. Routine duties of league officers in the future will be administered by the extension , division of the University of Nebraska, it was agreed at the meeting. Prof. A. A Reed, head of the extension de partment, will be in charge. Morse Is Secretary. C. K. Morse of Curtis continues as secretary and treasurer, and will be in charge of districting the state. Prof. H. A. White will re main as president to advise league members and direct educational (Continued on Page 4.) Marjorie Slianafelt to Give Talk on Christmas Marjorie Sbanafelt, director of visual education, will, speak on "Old Christmas" at the Sunday afternoon adults' program at 4:15 p. m., Dec. H. Miss Shanafelt will explain the origin and signifi cance of Christmas and its cus toms. "School Pain," a film, and a youthful ventriloquist named Ken neth Carlson, from Council Bluffs, will furnish the fun for the chil dren at 2:30. These programs will be the last of the year, he next numbers be ing scheduled for Jan. 11, 1931. unanimous. O The first issue will appear in -February, provided Sigma Delta Chi is able to meet the provisions stated in its petition, most import ant of which is the guarantee of a subscription list of 800. The Feb ruary issue will be edited by mem ber of Sigma Delta Chi who will work without salary if they are able to obtain subscription sup port at the hands of the student body. Manner of the sale of paid sub scriptions will be decided by Sigma Delta Chi at its Thursday night meeting and announcements will be made after that Under present plans, the subscription for five Awgwans, February to June, will be sold at fifty cents. Will Solicit Material. Material for the first issue will be solicited from the student body and a regular staff will be selected by the publication board after the appearance of the first issue. It ia supposed that the board will base its judgments for staff selections on the accomplishments of various individuals who help with the first number. -The former Awgwatr- was abolished November 26, 1929, fol lowing the appearance of the sec ond issue of the year, due to the publication of material which was considered unrepresentative of the reading taste of the University of Nebraska student body and fac ulty. Under the present tentative staff organization of the Awgwan, Sigma Delta Chi will provide a special committee to act as an ad visory board chacking on both the editor and the business manager. The group would act as a board of censors and the journalistic fra ternity would assume full respon sibility for the editorial contest and financial soundness of each is sue. Second Revival. The publication of the February issue will mark the second time tint the Awgwan has been re vived. It was suspended for the first time In 1923 due to the publi cation of the scandal sheet, "Shun," which appeared in Feb ruary of that year. It was re-es-taMif herf in 1925 and was pub lished from that time until it was again suspended in 1929. Agitation for the Awgwan ' re turn was started almost immedi ately following its suspension last year. Sentiment for its revival was displayed intermittently dur ing the rest of the school year. j through both the editorials and , student opinion in the Nebraskan. j Oldfather is Leader I The first move in favor of the re-establishment of a humor maga zine during the present school year was made by Dr. C. H. Oldfather, newly appointed member of the publication board who expressed the opinion that there was a place for a humor publication of some sort on the Nebraska campus. The spirit was immediately taken up by Sigma Delta Chi uri the Jour nalistic group appointed a commit tee to arrange plans for the Aw gwan' revival. The movement started by Sigma Delta Chi was followed by its petition to the pub lication board and the latest devel opment is the formal acceptance of the petition. Bill McCleery, president of Sigma Delta Chi, baa asked for applications from students who wish to woik on the first Issue. One studert member and one faculty member of the publication board were absent at the Wednes day afternoon meeting. Iowa State Student Cet Degrees Dee. 20 AMES, la. Approximately seventy-five student at low State college will receive degrees at the close of the fall quarts, according to J. R. Sajre. reriatrar. Commencement exercises will be held at 10 a. m.. Dec. 20. Campus Calendar Thursday, Dee. 11. Sigma Delta Chi. Sigma Phi En si) on bouse, 6 p. m. Dramatic ciub meeting in Tempi club room at T.ao p. m. Question of going national will be discussed. League of Women Voters Christ mas meeting, Ellen Smith hall at 4 o'clock. Saturday, Dec 13. Social dancing class. Grant Memorial hall, 7:30 to 8:30. : 1 ' r