TlfflRSDAY. FEH1UTAKV 19. 1931
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THE DAILY NEHRASKAN
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The Daily Nebraskan
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Station A, Lincoln, Nebraska
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UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA
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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
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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
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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
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Meuser suggested. They argued
the matter of sending delegates to
such conferences and decided to
postpone action until they had a
chanee to receive more specific in
formation concerning the present
status and activities of the Na
tional Student federation.
Walter Huber. reporting for the
athletic relations committee of the
council, said that the athletic de
partment is eager to devise some
arrangement wherehv student
sentiment might be more aptly
presented to the department. It
was conveyed that the officials In
the athletic department wish to
have student viewpoint on Puch
matters as the price of athletic
tickets. Intra-mural athletics, the
most acceptable times for holding
games, and questions of thatvna-ture.
Discuss Athletics.
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
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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.
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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
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