THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
SUNDAY, MARCH 8, 1931.
TWO
The Daily Nebraskan
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This MDer la m'reeeeted for ftnerej
adTertieint b The Nebruka Prase
Association.
Getting It
From All Sides.
A1is l?nlli Hatfield resigned from Mortar
Board because, she says, she was firmly con
vinced that it does not justify its own exis
tence. She was looking for an organization
that would he active render service in campus
activities. She found an honorary, pure and
simple. Because she was looking for an or
ganization that Mortar Board is not, and has
never desired to be, she left. She is not to
be blamed, although she was mistaken. Mor
lar Board is not to be blamed, either, for con
linuing in its traditional role of honorary
rather than service group.
Now, however, the resigner is getting it from
all sides. She is getting what appears to be
the worst of it. "Unethical." "A quitter,"
are two of the titles awarded her, free of
charge. Her action was "unjustifiable."
While the contributor is distributing titles
gratis, he refuses to bestow that of "publicity
seeker" very specifically. . . We have our
own ideas ota that point. He protests just a
bit too much.
Naturally enough, Miss Hatfield will con
tinue to gather unto herself an ever increasing
assortment of ehoice titles. It's part of the
game, we guess. If one resigns from an or
ganization, publicly, one must expect many
novel names. . .
Naturally, enough, we expect this tirade
from well-meaning alumnae and friends of
Mortar Board to go on and on, for days. We
fondly hop it will not. Mortar Board has
nothing to gain from such publicity and we
doubt if th resigner has.
It wouM b well for Mortar Board, in this
incident, to stop and consider that efforts of
the many friends of the society to discredit
the motives of such a "quitter" will reflect no
appreciable amount of honor or credit to the
honorary. Mwe harm will be done Mortar
Board by such efforts than good.
Either the students realize that Mortar
Board is serene and unbothered by such inci
dents, or they do not.
If they do not, their confidence in Mortar
Board will ertainly not be restored by an
epidemic of "calling names." The epidemic
has evidently begun. We hope Mortar Board
will have the good sense to stop it if possible.
The Nebraskan Bees no grounds for ques
tioning the motives of Miss Hatfield, or her
sincerity in choice of methods.
Mortar Board is no service group. She was
mistaken in looking for a thing that nexer ex
isted, and never will. . . But we too rather
wish that Mortar Board really did things.
There are too many honoraries, and too few
working societies on this complacent campus.
ii ball room built for dancing, having acoustic
properties which would hold the music in,
having a floor smooth enough so that even the
worst dancers could keep from stubbing their
toes.
The proposed union building would have a
ball room like this besides many other desir
able facilities for students and alwnni. '
Really, it wouldn't bo bad to go to a party
once where there Mas actually enough room
to dance vithoui ilalUuu j'our life h. the at
tempt. The only temporary solution, as The
Nebraskan sees it, is to issuo door cards and
insist on each guest having one at the door
of entrance. The only permanent solution,
The Nebruskau believes, which will allow
large gatherings to dance under the most de
sirable conditions is to erect a student union
building.
Are Nebraska sludents progressive enough
aud desiring enough of the pleasures which
would come with a student union to build one?
Will they get out and fight ftr something
which will be not for them alone, but for pos
tcrity toot The answer lies largely with Ne
braska students.
The Latest Sport
Of - a, Crowded Age.
Have you tried the latest sport that of
trying to dance at a spring party where no
door cards were issued? If you have not, you
are missing one of the best bumpety bump
diversions on the campus. You take three
steps, -bump, stop, then take three more. And
you are not waltzing, either.
Trying to dance at a downtown spring
party where no effort is made to ke2p out
the crashers is worse than . . . well, anyway it
is badr- Awful. And as for checking riots
hey do not begin to compare with the diffi
iultie?rof attempting to gracefully glide over
a dance floor when all the time you are ex
pecting, a ram from any side which usually
comes and which is, to say the least, very un
pleasait. It is disgruntling to the good danc
ers. ;Afid to the bad it is terrible.
One remedy for the situation is to issue door
cards..and not admit anyone without one.
This, The Nebraskan sugg'dts, should be done
by every university organization at their
largejparties for the sake of their guests as
well as themselves. It is disconcerting, how
ever, to try to make out a bid list whose size
would decently conform to one of the downtown-ball
rooms and still get every name on
tli" list you would like.
Of course, there is the coliseum. Yes, in
deed, what an idea! There is the coliseum
providing it has not already been engaged by
the hardware dealers, the firemen or some of
the other loyal(?) followers and supporters
of the university! And providing the party
givers have the high fee iiecessary for using
the place 1 And providing the people who go
want to dance in a structure which is too large
for even th large university parties and
which is not fitted acoustically for a ball
room I
What is the solution then? A student union
building. A structure would have a ball room
large enough to care for large parties but
would still not be too large. An edifice with
Poor Ray Ramsay 1 Five hundred dollars
subscribed to the union at the senior class
meeting and three classes yet to meet.
Hurrah for
Better Murder Mysterie! (
The Nebraskan always thought Nebraska
students were bargain snatchers that they
would cop a buy simply because it was a buy
whether they had any immediate use of their
purchase or not. That is the mark of a good
business man to buy something which will
have value in the future, if not at the present,
when it is offered reasonably. But evidently
the sludents are not such good business men
and women as we supposed they were.
The Prairie Schooner, one of the finest high
class magazines of the niiddlewest which is
edited at this university, is offered for one
dollar a year. The offer includes four num
bers, making each cost only twenty-five cents.
This is probably the cheapest any magazine of
this type has ever been offered. It is a bar
gain and is useful at present to boot. The
Southwest Review, a magazine of similar type
but not nearly as great reputation, sells for
three dollars. And so the comparing could
go on. The Prairie Schooner, cheap as it is,
is thrust under the very noses of Nebraska stu
dents and they refuse to buy.
The magazine has a good circulation
throughout Nebraska and surrounding states.
But not more than 100 out of 500 copies issued
quarterly are sold on the campus. And the
100 includes both faculty and students.
It seems like something should be done
when a magazine of good reading which has
attained not only national but international
fame does not sell on the very campus where
it is produced. It q. es not seem right that
a high type magazine like this should have to
be dealt with in such cold figures. But such
is the case.
The Nebraskan suggested a few days ago
that if every fraternity and sorority on the
campus would take one subscription to the
magazine its circulation would be materially
increased. Five men and two babies were
killed in the rush for subscriptions, following
printing of the editorial.
One dollar from a whole fraternity is a
small sum to ask. There must not be any
financial reason for the lack of buying. It
must be, then, that the western thrillers and
detective stories have gotten a firmer grasp
on collegiate readers than was thought.
Well, it is fun to sit down and become en
tranced with the shootings of One-Eyed Bob
or the murder of Queenie. And since the
Schooner does does not print such things, how
can you expect students to buy it?
' a
Waste of Time.
Some students were wearing long, sorrowful
faces about yesterday. Grade cards for the
past semester were in the mails and delivered
to the students yesterday. Could there be any
connection between these two? Could it be
that some students got lower grades than they
expected and wanted? Can it be that the
marks were so dissatisfactorily low that it
made the receivers of them sad? Surely not.
But if it is, by some miracle, the case, The
Nebraskan is alarmed. Students should not
worry or care about low grades, conditions,
anything. Life is too short for trying to learn
anything out of books. The four years at
college should be one uninterrupted festival
of play. No books should be cracked at all
during that period. All any college student
should do is slide through the best way possi
ble if passing marks of sixty and seventy
are gotten, all right. If failures are gotten,
don't worry. Sehool is a place to play not
worry.
Old fogy professors are the only ones who
should waste any time over books. Studying
is taboo. Therefore, The Nebraskan is alarmed
if some students are apparently grieving over
grades. It sincerely hopes this is not the case.
And if. by some peculiar chance, it is, The
Nebraskan hopes the above advice will be
taken home by all.
Studying? pooh.
MORNING MAIL
We Need Teamwork-Not Quitter.
TO THE EDITOR:
Without accusing Miss Ruth Hatfield of
seeking publicity and granting that she may
have had what she considers ample reasons
for resigning from Mortar Board, I cannot
but feel that her action was unethical.
After being duly initiated into the honorary,
and after enjoying the privileges and secrets
of that organization for almoBt a year, 'she
found that it would be hypocrisy for her to
continue in membership. Did it take her that
long to find out? Perhaps the political man
euvers of the organization disgusted her, but
she must have known something about the
club when she accepted it. After the May
Queen scandals of the past two years, she
couldn't have accepted the honor in entire
ignorance.
Did Miss Hatfield go into Mortar Board as a
revolutionizing angel, hoping to remodel
things in her brief time?
Failing this, sho resigned.
If she could no longer enjoy membership
and retain her self respect, why not drop out
quietly instead of subjecting the organization
to a deluge of unfavorable publicity? Will
that help the organization and serve as a
"gesture" to uplift other campus activities?
I doubt it. She cannot contend that the pub
ncity not that it constituted her motive
was unintentional, for she prepared lengthy
statements for tho press.
None of our organizations is perfect. But
tho members, having accepted the cloak,
should try their level best to improve them.
If Mortar Board wasn't good enough for Miss
Hatfield, she should have fought until the bit
ter end to bring it up to her standard. We
need teamwork not quitters.
Suppose a football player fights during the
first half; but the rest of the team isn't go
ing as well as that particular man. What
would Miss Hatfield think of him if he threw
up his hands in disgust and walked off the
field at a critical moment? This is a critical
moment for Mortar Board.
Instead of showing underclassmen the shal
lowness of student activities and the useless
ncss of attempting to improve condition
around here, Miss Hatfield has shown some
thing rather unethical about herself. It was
unjustifiable. Sho was a Mortar Board one
doesn't resign from organizations to improve
them.
AN ACTIVITY MAN.
College Comment
You Know Lot Like This.
TheNo persons who tel! everything these
persons who want to reveal their real selves to
everyone they meet, to make father confessors
of every passerby 1 There's at least one in
every office, in every class, in every club, at
every dinner party. And there's a little bit
of him in everyone.
Typing to the tunc of "and I was so hurt
when she said that;" lectures to the subdued
lilt of a neighbor's "that, guy's got a grudge
again me giving me a D minus;" bridge to
the babbling of "so I told Mary if she couldn't
dry the dishes right, she could get out;" soup
synchronised with "if 1 were handling that
job, 1 wouid . . . "
Crystal pools of honesty, wells of self-expression,
pillars of American conversation
there should be a law against them. Daily
lowan.
METHODIST COUNCIL
inn num. iron iiitt I !
tIAO DUW fflttl
Plans Laid
Meetings
Tool
for Regular
and April
Pally. ,
DR. AVERT RETURNS
Declares Countries There
In Same Condition as
Over Here.
"Most European countries are In
relatively the same condition we
are here," declared Dr. Samuel
Avery upon his return to Nebras
ka from a 16,000 mile trip through
North America and. Europe. Dr.
Avery it chancellor emeritus and
professor of research in chemistry
at the university.
While there is a similarity of
conditions, continued Dr. Avery,
Americans have the advantage of
a richer country and are not as
hard up as Europeans. In every
European country, with the excep
tion of France, he found unem
ployment and hard times accom
panying low prices and little buying.-
In France, on the other hand,
there is great activity and unem
ployment is not serious. He found
that Italy was the only country
with militaristic tendencies.
"When I was in Europe in 1896,"
said Dr. Avery, "only the rich
could afford a horse and buggy
while in America everyone had one.
This time I found they were as
relatively backward. Now only the
wealthy have a car, while in the
United States there are millions of
them. They know about labor sav
ing devices but they are not in gen
eral use."
Several other university faculty
members have returned recently
from Europe where they spent
time in study and travel. Among
these are Dr. F. M. Fling who
spent a year studying European
history; Dr. Zora Schaupp, who
spent a year studying in France;
and Dr. Ft. J. Pool, who spent part
of the past summer in European
study. Others traveled abroad for
pleasure as well as study.
WESLEY PLAYERS
TO GIVE PLAY IN
FRIEND TONIGHT
Prof. Floy Hurlbut of the geog
raphy department will accompany
the Wesley Players to Friend this
evening to speak before the Ep
worth league of that place. Fol
lowing this meeting, a play, "A
Sacrifice Once Offered," will be
given by the Players. Miss Hurl
but is a former missionary to
China and will tell of her experi
ences in that country. She will
also be one of the chape rones for
the group.
"A Sacrifice Once Offered" has
been given in a number of towns
in the state and has also been pre
sented in Lincoln at several
churches. This is the annual trip
to Friend, where one three act reli
gious drama is given by this group
each year.
The cast is led by Carolyn Coo
per as Calpurnia, wife of Pontius
Pilate, and Russell Lindskog as
Pilate. Others in the cast include:
Children of Pontius Pilate: Julius,
Oliver Kibben; Virginia, Ingeborg
Nielsen, and Antonius, Lloyd
Watt; Procula, aged slave woman,
Mildred Johnson; Claudia, a slave
girl, Marjorie Dean; John Mark, a
young Jew, Irving Walker; Na
than, Annas' messenger, George
Schmidt, and Longinus, a centu
rion, Norman Peters.
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The station now includes 12 sec
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of agricultural problems, with 13
sub-sections.
The income of the station comes
from state and federal funds and
gifts made by individuals or or
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tion's work consists of original re
searches on problems concerning
the agricultural industry.
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T7HAT is this thing called social
w position ? It's not something
elusive, as most people say. It's
definite, and it can be darned dis
advantageous for girls. This out
burst is called forth by a series of
conferences that we have had with
several of the most prominent and
widely known girls on the campus.
These girls have achieved campus
fame because of associations in
campus activities, social and oth
erwise, which have meant public
ity in many forms. ..
I ET US take the sad case of
Susie. Maybe she is Prom girl.
Maybe she is Honorary Colonel.
Maybe she is a Mortar Board, or
maybe she just also ran for lots
of things and gained her fame
thereby. But anyway, poor Susie!
She labors under that burden
called social position. So she is
seen in public with this heel and
that soul and people say "Susie
has darn poor taste in men." They
seem to think she could have her
pick of campus kings if she would.
They don't realize that her burden
of position gives ner little 10
choose from.
OOMEBODY sees Susie on the
campus and asks who she is.
He finds out that she is Susie and
so he is afraid to ask her for a
date even if he would especially
like to. It's her position he is
afraid of. Or perhaps he dreads
accusations of dating her for hef
fame because everybody always
notices who she is with. And that
makes it tough for Susie. She has
to go with her heels and souls to
keep from warming the davenport.
CHE DOES not even have the re
course to blind dates that
others can fall back on, because
there must be a certain amount of
pride connected with that position
of hers. And she can t be Diamea
for this pride either, unless every
body should be condemned for
paying any attention to what peo
ple say and think about them.
Wouldn't it be a choice yowl for
those minus the position, and con
sequently more or less jealous, to
say "Hot-shot Susie can't even get
herself a date?
Maybe she is prejudiced against
blind dates from painful exper
ience. In this case she is even
worse off.
WE ARE NOT being subsidized
Susies or the oil interests. We
aren't even trying to conduct an
employment bureau for lonesome
college jo's. We are just getting
sick and tired of that stale howl
about Susie's poor taste, and still
sicker of the still more moth-eaten
custom of envying people who
have this thing called social posi
tion. Susie has worked and has made
a name for herself on the campus.
Therefore Susie is more or less os
tracised from general circulation.
What a break! Who was it said
something about it being lone
some on the heights? Maybe he
was right.
Greek Council at
Columbia Split Up
By Internal Strife
A fraternity war which has sent
the Interfraternlty council on the
rocks was precipitated last week
at Columbia university when the
larger houses demanded that the
power of the respective fraterni
ties on the council be proportional
to their size.
The trouble, according to a dis
patch from New York, oegan
when the student daily translated
a recent speech in which Joseph
Grundy of Pennsylvania told west
ern senators from states not so
thickly populated they "ought to
talk dam small" into college lan
guage for the edification of fra
ternities whose equipment con
sisted of a name, bylaws and a
couple of chairs in a dormitory.
Fifteen of the larger fraterni
ties have withdrawn from the
council and drawn up an agree
ment which would provide power
according to size. Thirteen frater
nities have remained in the coun
cil, and one, Beta Theta Pi, has
announced independence of any
and all groups.
Dolan Completes Mural
Painting for Museum
Another mural painting by Miss
Elizabeth Dolan in Morrill hall
has been finished and will serve
as the background for the two
short-legged rhinoceroses of the
C. H. Morrill collection which are
being mounted and set in place
this week. The background de
picts the rhinoceros in his primi
tive habitat.
Business matters were taken up
by the Methodist Student council
In their meeting at the Templt
cafeteria Friday noon. It was de
cided to hold a vespers service at
Wesley hall. 1417 R street, March
25, at 7 o'clock. It will be open to
all students who wish to attend,
and will be the first of a series
of uch meetings, Business meet
ings will be held once a month in
the future. The next la scheduled
April S.
Attent ion was called to the com
ing of Bishop Ernest L. Waldorf,
Kansas City, who will be on ths
campus next March 14. A commit
tee was appointed to work on
plans for tho dinner which will be
given in his honor at the Trinity
M. E. church that day. Henrietta
Becker is chairman of the com
mittee. .
Lloyd Watt announced that he
would meet his class in visitations
at the Wesley Foundation parson
age at 4 o'clock, March 15.
The AU-Methodlst April fool
party of March 27, was also called
to the attention of the group. Th
place of the party will be an
nounced soon, according to Miss
Bereniece Hoffman, president of
the council.
Of Course, a Pleural Dose.
Always remember, double pneu
monia is good for two prescrip
tions. Pathfinder.
All Souls Unitarian Churchtt
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