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TlfflRSDAY. FEH1UTAKV 19. 1931 two THE DAILY NEHRASKAN .1 The Daily Nebraskan . r Station A, Lincoln, Nebraska OFFICIAL. 8TUDINT PUBLICATION UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA Published Tuesday Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday mornlngi during tha aeadamlo yaar. THIRTIETH YEAR Entarcd aa sscond-class mattar at tha postofflce In Lincoln, Nebratka, undar act of congress, March 3. 1879. and at apeclal rata of postage provided for In section 110) act of October 1, 117. authorised January 30. 12Z. Undar direction of tha Student Publication Board ' SUBSCRIPTION RATE 12 a yaar Single Copy S centa 11.25 a aemetttr ii a year mailed II.7S aemeater mailed Editorial Office Unlverelty Hall Buelneae Office Unlverelty Hall 4A. Telephone Dy I -M1 Might! B-US2, B-3333 (Journal) Aik for Nebraanan editor. EDITORIAL STAFF Freshman asked us yesterday if a h! utK'iit union vu an organization to demand shortor class hours and higher grades. It's mi idea, at that. Elmont T. Waite.. Robert J. Kelly.. William McCaffin Arthur Wolf Evelyn Simpson Leooard Conklin . Frances Holyoke . . . Editor-in-chief Associate Editor Managing Editor New Editore C. Arthur Mitchell Boyd Von&egooin Eugene McKIm Sports Editor . Women'a Edltoi t Without Fire and Sword By MEREDITH NELSON And HOMER OEAOMAN A military figure paune on the height of a hill and gated slowly about him. Fnr In the distance be hind him li pees the sparkling cluster of the city lights; before him and all around, the black shadow of the earth is dimly marked against a blue black hori- U&INESS STAFF Charles 0. Lawlor Buaineas Manas" Assistant Business Managers. Norman Calleher Jack Thompson Edwin Faulkner Harold Kiltie In Behalf Of Our Loafvr$. A contributor lias written us, praising llic ideas advanced by Prof. Horace ii. Dcioiutr in his recent article in the Wiley Bulletin. lie advocates their modification and adoption by home of "the bolder professors. Tliev would have to be bold, becauwe conservativeK would hoot them down if they weren't." Tin. niiiiii iiini of the siiLiiiostioiis. we irnt her. Iron. The fieuie straightens his is to promote speed in education. The ,c, hod j $!?y used in the chemistry department of the I j winter nir, he lifts his face to the velsity of Nebraska is Keggivgiition of tlit'taUrry dome Ehove him. In the VMI'UIIIS uiciitiil trades of students. The intel- I faint plow of the sky, the taut lectuals are placed in a separate division, j a1!?"!! ih-oVSlt6 ., ... i i i ii.ii . ii- Is iixed on the depths of the at- they will not be hindered by the less mtelli-1 raot,phcrc. while lho minutes pass tmn persons, i iey are inns enaiueu to learn in silent darkness, a .cnso of vast the required facts more quickly. Wm rise to say a few words in behalf of the loafers. We like them. We wish we hud more time to loaf ourselves. If we could manage to register for a few classes in which we could master the facts presented in a short time, and I hen loaf, we think it would be a wonderful thing. And then, again, think of the results wholesale adoption of these surest ions. , i , i I.I.I II ... imiilll liigli sciioois auopteu iiiem. college iiu-iiium he has ciown up. who has accom w ould visit this fair campus at the most rnlie-. paniod him wherever he has been, ulous of early ages. We don't think college is necessarily a place to learn a lot of facts, or learn a lot of anything else. We rather prefer to call it a place where youths of a certain age come to spend four years or so, and look around, and sec what they like to do best. If college graduates emerged just cram full of knowledge, we should still doubt the com prehensiveness of their education whenever they faced the world at sixteen years of age, diploma or no diploma. College is not an institution of book learn ing, necessarily. It is an institution to aid in the maturity of youthful ideas to assist in the development of adult observation and percep tion in children. There is no better place, Ave think, for the average youth of from eighteen, him to draw himself together so that he feels a harmony and focus about his own personality. To put it simply, he has achieved his "bet- Prodigies have no place in college, in ourjter self" by drawing on a source modest estimation. They are invariably chock full of knowledge, and just as inevitably look upon the world and its doing with the eyes of their years. Give us the loafers. They may not know formulas galore, but they do know how to live. In this respect, they and they alone have received any benefit from their college careers. And now we wonder how many hopelessly literal-minded folk will assail us lor printing a defense of Hunkers? If Weaver really created prosperity, we wonder why he don't show Bryan which but ton to push? At least fifty percent of t h persons re cently granted divorces in the United States have been women, we read. Seeing is believing no wonder people be lieve in the modern girl! Spanish Custom. All universities in Spain were rcccuth stis pended for one month in order to permit the atmosphere to clear for the coming parlia mentary elections. Earlier than this, profes sors at the University of Seville announced 1 hat there would be no more university classes while the present governor of Seville remained in office. They claimed the governor had ex ceeded his authority in breaking up a student demonstration against monarchy held in the university buildings. Anyone ever suspect Nebraska students of planning a demonstration against their own governor? Neither have we. Anyone ever suspect Nebraska students ot being even remotely interested in national ai lairs? Nor have we. except for an earnest few. As a matter of fact, Joe College and Betty Coed are but slightly interested in anything at all except affairs that concern them in the most direct of fashions. Wisconsin seems the most live of all American colleges in that a few communistic ideas arise once in a while, cre ating no small amount of steam. Other insti tutions are very calm and peaceful let us say indifferent. Here at the University of Nebraska students and administration alike realize the need of a student union building. Students are a bit wary of the eosi to them selves of such a structure. They should be. It will co6t them, personally, quite a fair sum i.f money. On the other hand, many students pay three dollars to attend a dance played by Paul Whiteman. Many others pay two dol lars and a half to attend the Jnterfraternity Ball, and the Junior-Senior Prom. The Mili tary Ball is another such item. The total amount spent on these affairs would make a handsome start on a union building fund. Students wish to evade the work and the expense involved. Faculty members are afraid to begin the drive because they realize the at litude of the students. The Nebraskan is will ing to begin, with the idea in mind of changing this attitude, rather than delaying action for another decade on account of it. Spanish cus toms are advisable, at times. Six hundred thousand is a fairly large num ber of dollars. This fact we admit. But here is another set of facts: 1. Two hundred thousand could build the first unit of such a structure. 2. If each one of the present student body could contribute even five dollars, and pledge an additional five, the total raised would be sixty thousand. o. If each one of the present faculty group could pledge one hundred dollars, in con venient payments, the total raised would be thirty-five thousand. 4. If each one of the three hundred Innocent Alumni could pledge one hundred dollars, in convenient payments, the total raised would be thirty thousand. 5. This would mean a grand 1otal of one hundred twenty-five thousand dollars, over half the cost of the first unit. This, too, with out, covering alumni organizations and gradu ates in general without covering campus or ganizations, or fraternities and sororities and without considering rental income from the the completed unit of the building. Another significant point: Students con tributed freely to the Memorial stadium fund. Kach year, one thousand pledges of twenty five dollars each were secured from under graduates. Cannot this be duplicated today? VVe may not be able to understand anything that our forefathers did not understand, 4iwe out here on the cattle range," hut we surely to truth. It might be possible that t h- hoimr- ean build a union if previous student genera- able 1 !. If. has never hoard of y good many lions built a stadium. ! things but. we doubt deeply if that ih-tmcis l)o students know what a union building is.' I from the value of those 1hii)'s or w hi ther the We rather think they do. We rather think, people "never heard of" are pained, alko, that no action will result unless some The National Broadcasting company lias six pel'son or organization starts it. orchestras under contract, among them Beezley Smith and Rudy Valee. We have no whv of knowing, but the chances are that lho N. B. C. knows its business when it ironies to selecting orchestras. Ii might be too that prominent hotels and night clubs in the east know a little i more about bands than does K. !. 11. I'urduc, an j students. Illinois studenls, and South Dakota students, although different from Nebraska students, perhaps, are in accord in pronounc ing the orchestra a good one. And another thin?, the Prom committee has cither items in its budget aside from music. If V. H. II. would like to dance n the pavement, or between four bare walls, to the music of the best orchestra in the world 1i t is his privi lege. But most people prefer to dance in a beautifully decorated ballroom with soft light ing effects. And another thing, last year's Prom had two local orchestras, and was the price lowered? Not much; it was even more than this year's admission. The tickets for that affair sold at $3.00 each. Perhaps we don't know all the facts: per haps F. 0. H. does. At any rate those who 'udge, must be careful not to judge too arshly and without foundation, lest they be called upon to prove their statements. A TRUE NEBRASKAN. ncss possesses him the vastness of the universe, in which all trifles disappear; petty affairs ceased to worry him; hi mind Is free in con templation of something transcen- dent. He feels, too, the unerring orderliness of the stars, and per ceives dependability and power in jthc consciousness of their regular- I jiy, iiiric i.i it ii iuiiuiiur.-ia nuiiui of ' this sky, with the gleam and the I r sparkle' of its million Jewels the I iniiiumi II.V ui n i i it i ill y, nil willful I : .... I uim 1 hi hlkA.l mill iiijjii i-u nun in ilia nijt,iii:ni moments. .. .Presently he gazes around him once more, turns, and is gone. Who is he? Anyone of tens of millions of us - perhaps an Abra ham Lincoln, a Gandhi; perhaps an ordinary laborer, farmer, teacher. or student simply a man. His identity does not mat ter; the important thing- is that he has found one of those highest and best moments of life an experi ence of religion. He has spent a brief period in which he found the mental relaxation from all the mad conglommeration of worries, desires problems, hurts all those things which characterize the ner vous tension under which we all live. He has found encouragement and faith; he has gained the poise , ii. rt,, aim kJTl 2Utr- W V C m,,ii uun 4 4. 4.. 4. st ma 4 r.nnit.l Km 4 , ... r I It 1 1 . . iu ieiuj-mu t-ni8 in rn-u.i mn iuih. n ir. t0 achieve difficult goals. Tne mo- w ould not be true if every college student I ment of worship has given him re SDCiit all his time browsing in books, and freshment and power, and allowed learning facts and theories. For the major value of college, say we, lies in the fields not covered by books. i coat est danger to the sincere person : Some one might believe him. Well. Beezley may be all right . But what's this reference to a "beautifully decorated, in drectly lighted ballroom?" Is someone actu ally going to decorate the coliseum for the Prom this year? Quick, a Senate investigation! MORNING MAIL All for Beezley. TO THK EDITOR : In a certain town, let us call it lientry ville, lives a beautiful girl, bt us call her Annie Zilch: she is beautiful, talented, and all the of power, If you are a skeptic, you will say that the man was sentimental. But if you are an artist you will say that the man was poetic. You will say that he not only saw but actually felt beauty. If you are an evangelist you will say that the man found God. or God found the man. But after all, isn't religion itself poetry ? Have we not the es sence of religion in the imagina tive, interpretative grasp of facts which are themselves dull and relatively meaningless? Whether you use the prosaic language of the scientist, or the poetic lan guage of the artist, such an ex perience loses none of its truth or values. In any terms the blunt fact is that the man has been inspired by beauty, and has read in that beauty something which hard facts or cold logic could not bring him; he has made an imaginative inter pretation of certain facts, and has felt a rather significance in them. Moreover, a change has taken place within him; he has cleared his mind and gained control over himself in a more complete way; the health of his personality has been recreated. It would be absurd to deny the effect of such an experience, and therefore would be equally absurd to negate the value or reality of it. Most of us have had such mo ments of inspiration in our own lives (if not, we have missed the best so far), in spite of our col legiate sophistication. There are untold thousands of settings for these experiences, yet the inspira tion that comes from beauty is onl yone aspect of religion. The reality of this one aspect, how ever, is evidence to us of the truth of religion. COUNCIL TABLES MOTION SETTING UP COMMITTEES i Continued from Page 1.) other things. All through the counly, alljulty member with no vole, while through the state, in fact all through the south people marvel and talk about Annie's talents, beauty, and other things. But we al Nebraska have never heard of her. Therefore she can not be talented, she cannot be beautiful, she cannot be all the other things, or so we mus believe, according 1o Ihe philosophy of F. O. H. in yesterday morning's Daily Nebraskan. K. C H. says "who the devil is Beezley Smith.'" We'll confine ourselves 1o facts and Nebraska students are no adherents to Span- isE customs. Thev are prone to a vast ealm- and an indifference that verges at times on- complacent laziness; they will, how ever, act v ben properly awakened. Of this we are 11 inly convinced. What we need is an organized movi alaum clock. a e We request permission to report that ihe .ilaui'iii clock Iihs been ordered, and will arrive in"! due time. Nebvaskans will be given a eimriee to aet ; whether such is their desire or mjf remains 1o be seen. Jt is true that no one has written in letters oCifire to The Nebraskan, demanding to know wtry on earth anyone wanted a union building. Ii is also true that no one has opposed the iiillvtmeut. This indicates, not an unfavorable attitude on the part of the student body, but ralher a general acceptance of the fact, that a uiljon building is needed and a realization that it is desirable. Mortar Poards feel hurt. Unjustly criticized, and all that. Yet a year ago one of them sug gjfited, or at least considered ballot-box stuff irnr to prevent the election of an "unrepresen tative" May Queen. Ilo, Hum I the latter will he comprised of five faculty and administrative repre sentatives and a student member without voting; powers. These two committees will decide the proper student organization to whom the enforcement of various Student council measures should respec tively be delegated. Letter from Kansas. Consideration of re-affiliation with the National Student federa tinn followed the reading of a let ter from Kenneth G. Meuscr, re gional representative of the west central division of that group, by Robert Kelly, president of the council. Meuser. who is a Kansas university student, suggested that possibly a regional conierence would be held t.hU spring, and be wondered if this Student council I would be willing to co-operate in i tne conduction of such a meeting. He stated tnat he nopes a bospi- tality committee, to welcome visit ing athletic and debate teams, can be organized on every campus in the west central region and won dered if the Nebraska student gov ernment group would care to link itself with such, a move. Student council representatives were divided in their opinions on national affiliation and co-operation in such a conference as TYPEWRITERS i See us for the Royal portable type- t writer, thr ideal machine for tli ? student. 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Debate was held on whether it would be expedient to attempt to obtain a position for one student on the athletic hoard, have com mittees to jro before the athletic board with their sentiments, or merely appoint Student council delegates to act as a connecting link between the athletic authori ties and the student body. Discus sion on this problem was finally brought to a close through a mo tion to the effect that the council committee on athletic affiliations meet at the earliest possible mo ment with the athletic board and discuss possible arrangements which might be effected. Approval of the MeClean Hall charter was almost immediately granted and the bill was turned over to the president of the coun cil. Robert Kelly, in order that he mignt present it to the proper fac- ulty authorities. The constitution charter, which was drawn up by a group of non-f i aternity men re siding in McLean hall, announced that its purpose was the creation of a society which would work for the development of Christian char acter, better scholarship, useful cit- izensnip and individual training. It cnartered by the Nebraska Christian foundation and also by the state of Nebraska. If faculty approval is granted on the document the group present ing it will be entitled to official recognition as a campus organiza tion and as such they will be al lowed to legislate, take in. mem bers, and take other steps pertain ing to its own interests as a group organization. Founders of the new group, who signed the constitution, were: Curtis Nelson. J. T. Hilton, F. Lloyd Smith, Homer R. Deadman, George K. Hervey, Richard May born, Gordon Quiller. George Lar sen, Delman E. Bailey, Charles Gray, Aldert Moleman, Ronald Hoffman, Don E. Silker, J. Henry Rinker, Frank M. Simmons, C. F. Bartfeld, Jack D. Nelson, Robert W. Hirt. Ivy Day Orator ' ' ' :! dLAi 1 -rourteny of Th Journal. RALPH 8LOCUM. Senior in the University of Ne braska college of law who will de liver the Ivy day oration on April 30 this year. He is from Lincoln. of the unemployment conference that will be held on the Univer sity of Nebraska campus, on February 27, 28, and March 1. The Vesper service will be In charge of Evelyn Adler. The choir will sing industrial songs. SENIOR GIRLS TO NOMINATE THIRTY AT POLLS TODAY (Continued from Page 1.1 ticipstion in extra-curricular ac tivities. Here quality rather than quantity is emphasized. An activ ity rating of "B" according to the A. W. S. point system of activity participation rating is required. Quality of leadership is the third basis for selection. Today's vote is under the direc tion of the present Mortar Board chapter. Ballots will be counted by Miss Elsie Piper, acting dean of women, and Miss Florence I. Mc Gahey, registrar. Scholarship of the thirty girls polling the largest votes on today's ballots will be checked before the final choice of the women to be honored by selec tion to the society is made by the present members of the 'local chapter. county have meetings of thla kind, when the agent leaves, but not often do they turn out in such numbers to get acquainted with the new man when he comes, R. K. Holland, district leader of county agents for northeast Nebraska, says. The get-acquainted meeting was sponsored by the county farm bii. reau. The county supervisors were called upon to give a few re marks and representatives of tho various towns and communities of the county were also on the program. In Mendinir out the notices of the meeting the farm bureau asked each family to bring in a choice of two different foods. As a result the entire crowd had an old fash ionedl country dinner. Farm bu reau furnished the coffee. H. O. Gould reports that E. M. Huckfeldt. the new agent in Sheridan county and his county farm bureau members have worked out a program for exten sion work in that county. Farm ers there are particularly inter ested in dairying, hog raising, crops aud seedling trees, Miss Mary-Ellen Brown, in chargo of women's extension work, and E. C. Scheidenhelm, dairy extension agent, were with Mr. Gould at tho program planning meeting. Other reports coming in to tho central office of the extension service this week indicate that the corn and hog days, the dairy meet ings. 4-H club meetings, nitd the women's project meetings have been better attended this spring than at any time in the history of the extension service. Part of this increased attendance is undoubted ly due to the weather, the exten sion agents sav, but some of it is due to the better advertising of tho meetings and the natural growth of interest in extension work in the state. r The Unitarian Church 1 Twelfth and H Streets THE CHURCH WITHOUT A t CREED" I Sermon Subject. li. ii.: Hie 4 Symbolism of the Maiden's Plare i in the Picture." an Interpretation of Miss Dolnn's nalntiti,. "Tho 4 .Search for Truth. MISS BRUMBACK TO TALK I 'Industrial Experiences in Chicago' Is Topic of Lecture. Lyndell Brumbach will speak on "Industrial Experiences in Chi cago,' 'at evspers, Tuesday, Feb. 17. at Ellen Smith hall, 5 o'clock. Miss Brumbacb, the chairman of the sophomore commission groups spent some time in Chicago last summer, and her talk will deal especially with the conditions of unemployment there. An announcement will be made 400 Turn Out to Greet New Head of Agricultural Work in Area. Four hundred Dodge county peo ple held a reception for their new county asxnt, Merle C. Townscnd, former student at the college of agriculture, last week in the court house. Ordinarily the people of the Today's Special Thurs. Baked Beant Bread 4. Butter Sandwich H JI Choice of Pie OUw Any 5c Drink And 5 Other Specials RECTOR'S 13 A P Make Big Spare-Time Money Make Up to $100 a Month. A large, well-rated concern In troducing a new. novel idea among college men and women, seeks spare-time representatives on this campus. Work You Will Enjoy Doing Choose your own time to repre sent us. The work is dignified and pleasant. A little spare time each day nets big returns. Make a week's expenses in a single evening. No experience necessary we tell you how to proceed. This is the most ideal proposl. tion for college spare-time work. It will pay you well to write for details at once. Address THE SAGER COMPANY 2i2 North American Bldg., Chicago, III. 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