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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN TUESDAY. The Daily Nebraskan Station A, Urtrsln, Nebraska OFFICIAL STUDtNT PUBLICATION UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA Publihad Tuesday, Wednesday, Thuraday, Friday and unaay mornings during tna acaoamio year. THIRTIETH YEAR Entered ai second-class matter at the peitofflce In Lincoln, Nebraska, under act of congress. March S, 17, and at aptcln' rata of pottasa pioldeu for In wuion 1103 act of October 3, 1817. authorized January SO, 1922. Under direction of the Student Publication Board SUBSCRIPTION RATE SI a year Single Copy eente 11.25 a semester 93 a year mailed S1.75 a semester mailed Editorial Office Univeralty Hail 4. Bualneaa Office Univeralty Hall 4A. Telephone Diyt B-6M1 Nlghti 6882, B-3333 (Journal) A?k for Nebraskan editor. EDITORIAL STAFF William T. McCleery Edltor-ln-chle! Managing Editor Robert Kelly """ Walte Newe Edltora Frances Holyoke... Arthur Mitchell William McQaffln Eugena McKim Rex Wagner rsii Crla Sporte Editor iSJelyn Simpson WoM"',j5Sf filter' Dcrenlece Hoffman Society Editor BUSINESS STAFF Btiarlea Lawlor amines Manager Aulstant Bualneee Managora Norman Gslleh.r Jf.k.PTiS0 K'be" Edwin Faulkner Harold Kuoe mm fmprnt k rmmmuMJm -r.l miWx W Heart trm AsssrisMsa. Congratulations To Greek Lodges. "When, a band of mischievous fraternity pledges chop down somebody's pet evergreen tree and drag it away for Christmas use, that s news. Lucky indeed are the state papers when they find such a juicy bit of collegiate scandal. "Frat Boys Raise Hell" the headlines may shout; and outsiders shudder at the thought ot these vile fraternity boys. We do not mean to attempt an excuse for such plundering, but the illustration calls for a contrast. This year nearly every fraternity and soror ity on the University of Nebraska campus is giving a Christmas party for poor children. The Nebraskan has been interested in the pro ject, but we claim no credit for its popularity among Greek letter groups. The social organ izations themselves began the commendable practice some years ago and the chanty festi vals have spread throughout the fraternity system. .... Perhaps citizens of the state are too willing to think of fraternity men as hoodlums who bash in front doors with stolen fire axes and live in constant dissipation. College movies and the dirt thirsty newspapers have drawn a distorted caricature of universities, fraternity men and sorority women. The visions thus aroused in the minda of outsiders do not tally or harmonize with this idea of Christmas parties for poor children. We congratulate Nebraska fraternities and sororities on their generosity and willingness to assist in the provision of Christmas celebra tions for children of poverty stricken parents. Universities are doing their best to solve the unemployment problem. AVe have the gradu ate college, you know. Loyola University's I Farewell to Football. Quite a stir was raised in certain athletic circles not long ago when Loyola university of . Chicago abolished intercollegiate football com petition, for its team. Feeling that the over emphasis and commercialization of modern collegiate football was detrimental to the ideals of an educational institution, the university of some 6,000 students has forsaken the sport. Loyola's student newspaper is proud of the action. "Loyola university of Chicago has grown great," explains the editor. "Overnight it has . becoms the most talked of major university in this country. Its student body of more than 6,000 are either seething or complacent, depend ing upon their rationalizing of a drastic move in the university's athletic policy. King foot ball is no longer on his sick bed. He is gone." Possibly the editor strains the issue a trifle when he asserts that Loyola has become the -most talked of major university in the country. We have, however,' heard several comments on the abolition move. Strangely enough, little publicity was given the matter in most news papers despite its pertinence at the close of a football season. Are sports editors a trifle wary of putting non-football suggestions into the collegiate mind? ''In a time when journalists, writers, critics, coaches, and sports followers are decrying the . commercialism that has invaded the amateur ' field of intercollegiate athletics, Loyola univer sity is the first to show the way. . .Loyola has abolished the system of putting on a weekly entertainment for the benefit of the public... Jt has dared to ask that its students cease to be exploited for the benefit of an amusement mad public," continues the student editor. "It has closed the door upon. a Fool's Para dise," he concludes, taking a final crack at the present era of athletic insanity. The pigskin pendulum is bound to swing. In some colleges it may take longer than others; in some it may go farther than in others. But a change will come. The stupendous gate re ceipts and intense spirit cannot last forever: we hope that the universities of this country look beyor J the next game or the next season and procepd warily with their expenditures and their subsidization. Perhaps the ticket sales will not be suffiicent to pay backfield salaries, who knows t Football advertises colleges magnificently, we admit. Notre Dame has become familiar to everyone through her victorious grid teams, but will this athletic advertising actually bene fit the school T An article in the Saturday Eve ning Post several weeks ago explained that winning football teams have not brought larger enrollment or better facilities or more generous alumni gilts to colleges. What, then, is the actual value of this publicity stunt which masquerades as sport when most of 1 lie sport ing .jualitit-s have disappeared! Is the mere publicity worth the price we pay for it? Loyola university has given up football. We doubt if she boasted a particularly strong foot ball team, for successful seasons stimulate stu dent and alumni interest. Once they are bitten by the gridiron bug, they cling to the game at any expense. Can ydu imagine Notre Dame forsaking football because it was felt to be "detrimental to the ideasl of education!" It ?i considered quite all right to csst your bread upon the waters; but never break crack ers in your soup. We Can't All Be Algers College publications, daily newspapers and many magazines' give great emphasis to one type of human interest story concerning col lege life. It is the story of the young man or young woman who has overcome tremendous odds to earn a college degree. Am Bition, we will call him, entered the university with practically no money or means of financial support. By dint of hard work and an overweaning desire to acquire an edu cation, to use hackneyed terms, he not only cams his way through school but graduates with high honors. We agree that too much praise cannot be bestowed on a student who has made that kind of a record. But the playing up by news papers and magazines of this kind of feature story has a harmful effect on the attitude of the general public toward education. The public dotes on that kind of story. Many fathers and mothers come to believe that it is better that their children should earn as much of their way through college as possible. They put more emphasis on the outside work than they do upon the quest for knowledge. School work becomes only incidental to working one's way through school. At the same time many students of meager financial resources enter college solely to work their way through the college. They feel that there is something essentially admirable in that. College authorities say that too much outside work is one of the most common causes of scholastic delinquencies. Every young man or young woman is not of the mental or physical caliber of the Horatio Alger hero. All of us are not capable of earn ing our way through college and graduating with honors. Even those who are able to do it could better devote all of their time to school work. There is no limit to the opportunities of the seeker of knowledge even though students can "get by" on very little work. Feature stories should be written on the students who have been given good educational opportunities and have mtde the most of them. They have overcome just as great obstacles as the others because they have had only their own determination and intelligence to spur them on to great efforts. The unheralded hero in college ate is oiten the one who has made an excellent record even though he had the opportunity to loaf his way through. Some philospohers maintain that it is easier to make people cry than to make them laugh. That's probably why The Nebraskan gets along better than the Awgwan. MORNING MAIL Honor Impossible. TO THE EDITOR: Wednesday's edition of The .Nebraskan con tained an editorial signed by R. B. in which that person deplored the fact that the honor system is not being used at the University of Nebraska. The writer of that article has a very good idea, but also one that is utterly impossible. It has alwavs been the desire oi au proirr. sors to be able to trust their students abso lutely, and it is not their general makeup to walk around the classes in order to catch some individual cribbing. They have found, how- ever, through many years ot experience, that as a general rule a class of students cannot be trusted. In each class are always iound three or lour students, who, knowing nothing whatsoever about the course, will take every opportunity to cheat. As a result, the professors are unable to try the honor system. The fault lies in the students themselves, and not wnn ine pro fessors. . . It is jrranted that many students feel the trust placed upon them, and for that reason will play square with their instructors. Each student has innumerable opportunities to cheat, for it is impossible for a professor to watch every student. There is an opportunity lor each person to use the honor system himself. regardless of whether or not it is the common thing. K. B. spoke of schools m wmcn tins s.vMem is working. It would indeed be a revelation 1o lenrn of a school of that type. It would also be a revelation to find a professor in this school who walks out of the classroom during an ex amination as Jl. B. pointed out. It would be nice, but it just isn't done. At the present time the honor system is im practical for this school due to reasons which the students alone can remedy. M. S. Uote About Scouts at Home? TO THE EDITOR: The intramural sports program of the Uni versity of Nebraska is indeed a fine one, giving great numbers of students physical training and athletic opportunities which they could not otherwise obtain. However, it seems that the sports should mean more than just satisfying the recreation needs of the student body. I believe that the coaching staff of the Ne braska basketball team should be at the games now being played in the coliseum watching for talent. Ther! are some sixty teams competing this year and from those teams a great many good men can be found. Nebraska has a good basketball team but there is no reason why we 6hould not have a better one. A famous Nebraska track man was once dis covered when a coach saw him run across the mi . - I I 1 .1 campus, inese intramural games snouia pre sent the basketball team with some golden op portunities to find new material. Why don't we see some coaches at those games: A. W. Athletic Minded Coed Has Replaced 'Bloomer Girl' of Gay '90' s Declares Head of Women's Physical Training Sees Weed for Ihiildinjr of New Design; Figures Show Increase of 1,649 in Intramural Enrollment In Six 'Years; 21 Sports Offered. "The day of the notorious 'bloomer girl' of the gay 'DO's who conducted herself in most unladylike manner by forsaking her hemstitching for a bicycling is past," Miss Mabel Lee, di rector of women's physical education declared in an interview yesterday. "Her place, she continued, "has been usurped by the recreation minded university woman ot today who expresses her individuality by playing; a?: game of tennis if she prefers it to sewing a fine seam. 'To meet this new situation brought about by a change of at titude towards athletic women," explained Miss Lee, "the woman s nhvslcal education department is sadly in need of a new physical re creation building which would re- vide adequate quarters for the varied athletic program which is being offered by the university." Aside from the regular work for credit which is carried in in Grant Memorial hall at the present time, the intramural sports program which just beginnlg its sixth year of existence on the campus is se verely handicapped for lack of floor space and suitable equipment, according to Miss Lee. Survey Shows Increase. A brief survey of intramural ac tivities which were first introduced here after Miss Lee came to the department as director six years ago shows a decided increase In the interest manifested by women of the campus, according to Miss Lee. The firts year intramurals were attempted, .enrollment was 547 girls with seven sports offered in the program. Last year the to tal enrollment was 2,196 girls in a program including sixteen differ ent activities. According to Miss Lee, this year's enrollment will far exceed that of last year, because the number of girls participating in fall sports alone totalled as much as that for the entire first semester of last year. "These statistics," Miss Lee remarked, "together with the number of girls enrolled for credit work should give a concep tion of the crowded conditions un der which we- are attempting to work. 'As conditions now stand," she went on to explain, " we are forced to beg the use of church and grade school gymnasiums dur ing the indoor season of intramural activities." Many Sports Offered. Miss Lee has been compiling data for a number of years on the number of different sports which are offered in grade schools, high schools, Y. W. C. A., normal train ing institutions, as well as univer sities and colleges. She has found a total of twenty-two sports that are offered throughout the United States, and the university here of fers all of these except la cross which is played extensively in the east, but has never round mucn favor In the west. Commenting on the above sta tistics, Miss Lee said that this would show that they are making a tremendous effort to make a varied program which will appeal to a variety of tastes possesed by girls in spite of the handicaps un der which the department is work ing. Says Building Needed. "In my first statement," observ ed Miss Lee, "I was careful to make a distinction in my choice of terminology for- the building which we as a department are working for. We do not need a woman's gymnasium; we need a physical recreation building. The distinction between the two terms," Miss Lee explained, "lies largely in the construction plans. A woman's gym is an old fashioned structure with one large room built to ac comodate a great many girls. The building I should like to see con structed on the campus would con tain many" smaller rooms, where varied activities could be offered and be carried on at the same time." "For instance," she said as she unrolled a great plan of a model building according to her tastes, "here," and she indicated a square on the plan, "here, we would have an indoor archery range; here, s dancing studio; back here, golf practice rooms, paddle tennis courts, small games rooms, lecture rooms, an inidividua! gymnastics room, a restricted gymnastics room, a study room for profes sional students. In addition to these rooms, there would be one The Gift for Her! SHE will appreciate your good taste if you choose for her a Lady Patricia th dainty new Water man' pen designed expressly for a worn an'a use. She will be delighted with ita small aiie, slender grip and the modern, chic clasp that allow pen to be secured con veniently upright in ner handbag ready for instant us. Three beautiful colors Jet, Onyx and Persian. .Pen $5. Matching pencil, $3. Come in and see these little beauties I Tucker-Shean 1123 "O" St. large room for basketball and sim ilar games, offices, and a swim ming pool." Wants Swimming Pool. Here she paused and remarked that the sports program would in terest a great many more girls if there were a swimming pool avail able for use. According to some statistics, Miss Lee has found that swimming is one of the five most popular sports among college wo men, all over the United Stales, and yet the University of Nebras ka cannot accommodate aequatlc artists. A new plan is being tried this year in the department, the results of which will begin a new system in determining in just what form of physical education a girl should be enrolled. Miss Miriam Wagner is in charge of this research pro ject. Tests to determine what weaknesses should be corrected by physical training were given to all registrants this fall. Kach weak ness was categorized and different correctives were prescribed for girls who had the same deficiency. From these control groups, Miss Wagner hopes to establish which corrective measure or sport best overcomes a certain weakness, and next year each girl, upon exami nation, will be assigned to a cer tain class which will be most ben eficial to her. When asked as to her opinion regarding the increased interest of women in athletics, Miss Lee said she attributed it largely to the change in women's style of dress. "Even though the men on the cam pus do protest that the sight of a woman carrying a hockey stick is odious to them, women are becom ing athletic-minded, and with new quarters which we hope some time to have, I feel sure we can carry on our motto or '.Every gin in a sport, and a sport for every girl," " she concluded. BEHIND THE DOOR.. Roland Miller It used to be "Join the Navy, and see the world." Now it's go to Notre Dame and play on the foot ball team. See America first: Winter is here. The trees will bare us out in this. Many people are all, mixed up about the Army-Navy game. Now for the sake of charity let us ex plain . . . W V When prohibition was in its in fancy the Anti-Saloon league spon sored the attitude or "xvot one bar." From reading current re ports of doings in Chicago and New York one can easily see that the speakeasies have changed it to Bar not one." s We suggest that If the chamber of commerce ever wishes to spon sor a "Know Your City" program that they just throw a downtown party. By the time the guests have found a parking place they'll have covered the entire cuy. We don't mind people swinging intn na nn th dance rioor, DUl oh that follow through. Cheer up. little boys and gnls when you grow older you too can have a bigge pigge wiggo unmet. And If you find sand in your greens, remember it's just an old spinach custom. , The cook where we stay just worships us. Indeed she docs. Every morning she lays burnt of ferings before us. Walking down Michigan avenue in Chicago last night we witnessed a very clever bit of salesmanship. A young chap with an arm full of roses was making an effort to sell his flowers, and how? We'll tell you. As a young lady passed by with her escort the rose chap would step up and offer her a rose. Now every woman is susceptible to flowers. As long as we watched every woman took one. They were fine roses and the ladies were pleased. The catch came when the young man after following a lady and her escort for. a few paces asked to be paid for the rose. Rather than ask his companion to give up the flower the escort paid. Hi W He was a "big shot" from Chi cago. Since the big depression and financial upheaval on Wall street the dry goods stores are featuring a new cloth. It's known as the cloth of a decade, "stock market" crash. w A shot pierced the stillness of the night but that wasn't what the gangster was aiming at so he went home aisgusieur We have a laugh in store for you. The Awgwan is coming back. Tt ought to go over big now that it has made a name for itself. But personally we think the whole mat ter is a joke. And In closing let U3 glvo y.i a little pre-Christian song, sung by the ancient Romans, entitled "What Docs It Martyr." Harrison Takes Grand Champion Showman Award (Continued from Page 1.) showmen of 1930, found Harold Frahm, Huskcr football fullback this year, winning first on his black dog. Frahm appeared in a tuxedo to carry out the spirit of the show. Frank Sampson took second. Oth ers participating in the premier contest were Charles Kellogg, Greth Dunn, Jesse Bilyeu and Ar den Teterson. The Ak-Sar-Bon informal bnll at the student activities building brought the livestock show to an end. It wns sponsored by the Block and Bridle club. Guy MCKeynoids managed the show, assisted by Myrtle White. LEARN TO DANCE Can teach you to lead In one lesson. Guarantee to teach you In six or;, vate lessons. Classes every Monday and Wednesday. Private lessons morning, afternoon and evening. Ball Room and Tap. MRS. LUELLA WILLIAMS Private Studio! Phone B4258 1220 D STREET "Your Drug Store" I'hrislniiiH will non be lure nl ' hit rriidy. hH ua supply your need nlsn, WHITMAN CHOCOLATES THE OWL PHARMACY Phone B1068 148 No. 14 A P St. A GIFT OF QUALITY AND REMEMBRANCE An Elgin Watch 15 to $200 Many Other Useful Gift3 for the Whole Family. FENTON B. FLEMING 1143 O St. JEWELER B3241 '7744 T 7 Smart Modern Designs IN CHRISTMAS CARDS are ready for your ap- ) 1 C 1 . i .1 t provai. oeieci mem NOW! Graves Printing Co. Printers and Engravers 312 North 12th St. "South of Temple" na Our Store Is Your Store GIFTS For Her For Him l RECTOR'S PHARMACY C. E. Buchholz, Mgr. "The Students 13th & P Store" Vj7 Practical tU 8 uggeftiotu1 for jfflen Recipe Files Stationery Stationery Portfolios Decorated Wate Basket Brief Cases Laundry Cases Leather History Covers Desk Lamps Mi Reference Ink-well Sets Leather Memo Books Baokgamon Book Ends Mottoes Diaries Checkers Crlbbage Boards Perpetual Calendars Fountain Pens Blotter Pads Smoker Trays Memorandum Pads Stamp Boxes Our Christmas Cards are more beautiful than ever. A large stock to select from. Priced at 2 for 5c to $1.00 each. latficf) proper STATIONERS WE KNOW WHAT HIS OFFICE NEEDS 1118 O St. OPEN SATURDAY EVENINGS Card Games Smokador Bill Folds Correspondence Cases Scissors and Letter Opener Sets Key Talners Desk Calendars Bridge Sets Card Cases U. of N. Pennants Table Throws History Covers Pillow Tops N I I I I I I t I I I I I I i Sweeten The Day lUith Candy The gift that brings exclamations of sheer delight a box of our wonderful heavily coated chocolates. You can always be sure they will receive a warm welcome for these delicious confections go right to the spot that inspires happy sensations. Prom Package Fruits and Nuts Golden Glow Chocolates and many fancy packages which are useful after the candy is gone. Give a Box of Candy for Christmas I And Hake Someone Happy