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-The Daily Nebraskan
Station A. Lincoln. Nebraska
""" OFFICIAL STUOKNT PUBLICATION
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA
Published Tuesday, Wednesday. Thursday. Friday ft
Sunday mornings during the academic year.
THIRTIETH YEAR
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drink 1luv arc equally unreliable ..."
All of which has a res mneble soiindiny
uoise to it.
In any r.dvenl. our dear .Mrs. (ireen. we
recommend Hint you do nothing luit allow
tilnicr to jfo to the devil as he sees til. Bee lire
in the knowledge that some day, stroking his
Ion sr ray heard, he will he deploring vehem
ently the evils of the younger general :mi
And In. ink you ccr and ever so uiueli for
your letter.
Nolan's Land
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H i iwmiiuSIIJm1i!Su
EDITORIAL STAFF
Elmont T
Robert J.
Walte.
Kelly..
William McCatfin
Arthur Wolf
Evelyn Simpson
Leonard Conklin .
Frances Holyoke .
Managing Editors
News Editors
Charles O. Lavtlor. . .
Assist tnf
Norman Galleher
Editoi ln-r.n
Associate Edttm
C. Arthur Mitchrf
Bevd VonSaoin
Eugene McKmt
Sporie Edito
Women's Edio
BUSINESS STAFF
. Business Mjtin
ruslness Managers.
Jack Thompso"
Edwin Faulkner
This paper a reoreseatni for (intra,
sdvertisinf The Nebraiks Prtea
Atiociatico.
Nothing
Wrong Here.
Mrs. I'laus wants to introduee a new clause
in the compiled statutes of Nebraska. She
wants a law against smoking in buildings and
..n .rinimds of all Dublic edncat ional institu
tions. 1
W. C. T. I.. Parent-Teachers association, and
federated Women's clubs join in supporting
i In- measure. It no doubt w ould be another ,
law on the books, and a great help if the pro-1
pundits of the measure are looking for a larger j
ipiaiitity of statutes. ;
Then, too, it M ould add another measure for j
. ir.Vii-i'einont agencies to waste time and
money ou, while accomplishing not much of
anything.
One thousand, two hundred boys learn to
moke each day, we hear from proponents "f
I be bill. Whence this fact?
There is a great "conspiracy In make wo
manhood masculine by the cigaret."
In the state university, there is enormous
pressure exerted on the non-smoker. Scoffing
l.ud ridicule make it impossible for a boy to
attend the university without smoking cigarets.
And as for the girls, it is impossible for a
girl to go out -with a group of students with
out accepting cigarets.
"The only crime that we can see in the pro
posing of this measure is that no one appeared
ia. speak against it. Why women's clubs will
rise up in arms to reform the coming genera
tion bv law and unenforceable law is more
thaii "we can. see, -when obviously all in the
world they have to do is drop such projects
and spend their time in bringing up their
children properly at home.
"It is impossible for a girl to go out with a
yroup of students without accepting a cigaret."
Whv is it that people will believe anything
they hear that is the least bit discreditable?
If they can find nothing else to do but dis
credit students and student morals, Ave can
.suggest a new field for action. Reform a few
women's clubs.
All Objertians
j Gratefully Received.
Conscientious Objector su. union buildi.ig
idea is the bunk. He may be right, bill the-delusion
that students like them is fairly wide
spread. Our neighbors all have si'ch building.
It took much hard work, and much hard
earned money, in some cases nearly a ii.llion
dollars. The Nebraska alumni secretary asked
each of the neighboring schools one question:
"If you had the whole thing to do over
again, would yr,i start a union buiM'ng er.ni
pnign. and fight as hard as you did, i'or siteli
a structure ?"
The answer was a unanimous yes. I'ldcss.
Mr. Objector. Nelnaskans are an unusual ivne
of college critter, the answer for Hum. ey '.:
ijUestion will d as well Tor your :;.',. -ei uiie.
Iiicid.-iitr.lly. if you Ihi.ik'it will he hard i"
dislodge simknts front union huildiii! thiveii
orts, what makes you think, in the same
breitii. (can people think in breath.;.' that n
one v. ill rse the building.' We mainialn in tin'
bitter end tlirt sitlii"; on a daveiip.ut Ju ;t
buih -
A WGWAN Una trmc cut again
" rilll out i l ths opan. Only one
crr.e:: ab:ut liquor. Tlio censoring
bo:v4 riu.t have b:en auleep. We
U.'bU.v auggealed, vhn we w
the luaazine, that next time it be
.Ttven a cm-er thnt looked like the
er.terlor of a ( ollcje magazine in
c.cad of Hysteria ou Phyaical Cul
tu.c, tut tho D. U.'s on the publi-catU-'i
ouelehcd us, so we won't
ment'on it.
'.o
i one
injr
heek til' a good wav to mm a union buibi
"Tins space reserved for cigarcl adveriis-
iii,'." .Might as well get a pay e'n.ek fr
some particular firm as to give fi-e p:;-e ,o
.the lobaeco industry in general.
M li'-rtl ih! ris'aipt advertise-
n":! nv what Drocess of
onp": in it considered sensible
:'.? ivzs 8('.s to all tobacco in
?,3-2 ilfhcn ju t one brand of the
i vile v. ccd v.-outd have gladly paid
j for tha spr.ee 7 Still, the chancel
; lor nays tol-a'o ads are in bad
1 taste. rd chancellors are supposed
1 1- l:m w. ,
( V tiTii thin'.: of a lot of other
. that we j'U't so much rot
; - ad t? to if you want to call it
! tiiat. Yet notwly ever frowned on
I a bc.U-friend-won't-tcll-you ad. The
I . w.TVan r.sver ran one either,
j ;'ow the rji!.-3tion is, would the
' chancellor e!!ow li.-lcr.ns advertis
ing if the Awgwan could ge)t it?
I Is he p:tTO'5nl!y unprejudiced
cga'njt li.sterine. as he is not
a.aint tobacco? Aw heck! Go
; r:.9i)t ah?ad. Kelly, and run your
fre" to'-ir-'r.-,';eneial ads in
; ?t:; d oi: 11-2 tarried cigaret ads,
, rrui . f if we cue.
And i,p.-.a,.;in.!T of the Awgwan,
v v wish to thank Mr. R Spivy
, Ra'.jh. the anonymous contributor,
! for th-; publicity he gave to our
, humble name.
MORNING MAIL
J Mans Land resents the in
sinuation that its Sunday
.-:piel causes it to drop into the
i category of advice for the lovelorn.
: We said before that we deplored
the social conditions that are all
' too likely to surround the promi
1 nent girl on the campus. We
! ie?ched this conclusion after a
j pioup of cow sessions in which we
i paiticipated with a number of the
: "big a i r 1 s". socially speaking.
None of them looked lovelorn. Pur
suing our Sunday argument, the
chances are that none of them had
a chance to look that way. But
we are not going to rehash all that
now. We have been asked our
opinion of campus men in corre
sponding positions. Some day we
may cut loose on that.
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all of his interest. Maybe he will
be invited to fill it meaning the
vacancy. Maybe this will explain
his modesty of yesterday. He
didn't even come near the Mortar
Boards who were conducting the
A. W. S. polls.
' Incidently, just why on earth should anyone
want to conspire to "make women masculine?"
Can the worthy clubs and organizations spon
soring this bill possibly be serious about such
-....-.i If thev arft in earnest, we Lsue a
call for seven thousand alienists. Something is ;
wrong somewhere.
i bout This
Elmer , 4Yom
Mrs. C'has. Green writes us a worried letter
regarding the future welfare of her son, Klmer,
who is twenty years old and about to embark
upon his college career. She asks our advice
regarding conditions at this university, and
others.
Well, Mrs. Green, first of all we recommend
that you wait one more year. By that time
Klnier'will be twenty-one, and you can blame
ail consequences, if any, upon bim instead of
yourself.
Yes, conditions certainly do change. It eau
iiet be denied, however, that Klmer would
learn many things rf he came to college. He
would learn a little history, a little science,
and a lot of things that are not even printed
in books. And we're quile sure Elner will be
just as well off, in later life, for that leam-
Elmer Is a (load Hoy.
TO TUK KD1TOJJ:
Down here in the wesliru end of Kan-as. I
picked up a copy of your Daily Nebraskan
from the floor of our telephone booth. I have
a son. Elmer, twenty years old, and I have
not yet fully decided where 1 will send my
boy for his education. Wondering just what
kind of social environment Klmer would be
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liirown lino mwn hi ne i uni'iMii "! ,. . ... , . ,. i
' , i f i ... f i YE hope that the atcher won t ,
braska. I decided to write and find out. if I W . ' in,aA ir hia c.
could. I have written you rather than H'irecent aspirations. There is a
chancellor or the dean because 1 realize that I place now vacant in Mortar Board,
W I.mvh l.een ..ut of school for several years, j that society which seems to claim
ami limes certainly do change.
Now Elmer has always been a very obedient
youth, and a very good student. lie won first
place in science, history and Latin in the high
school contests for the whole county. Of course,
I read a great deal about the wild parties and
drinking that goes on in college nowadays,
and see by the papers where five of these frat
ernities were closed up because someone
thought they had actually brought liquor into
the basements.
Of course, 1 wouldn't want Elmer to get into
any basements like lhat, but at the same time
he is real well known around here, and goes
to socials and parties: so I really wouldn't
want him to break off all his social relations,
especially with girls from home.
Your views of this situation would be
promptly appreciated. I am sure you must
know something of what social conditions
actually are up at the university, and can ad
vise. Elmer is a good boy, and I wouldn't
want him to get into any bad schools. I know
he will study hard, but 1 don't want him to
get in with any bad associations.
Yours verv truls.
MRS.'CIIAS. OKEEN
in.
Of course you have read about the wild par
ties and the drinking that goes on in every
university, lih-ss your heart, everyone lias. It
i. rather too bad. though, that they have not
.he opportunity to read about anything else.
Colli. r ttiwlfntu mav be troinz to the devil.
but for all that we are convinced that they
.re traveling the downward path just a bit
l wer than their critics.
H. L. .Mencken, who makes his living writ
ing about Kansas and Nebraska in a caustic
asliion. quite, as though he had a perpetual
toothache, trets off a paragraph now and then
that is really something. This time he says,
regardii'r the younger generation and critics
of morals in general :
"Practically of of the censors, when they
lb ge solemnly, to tbe astonishment of the rest
of us. that n siusrle reading ot a naughty book
can establish lifelong evil habiU are simply
publishing incautious autobiography.
"When 1 vjis a youngster, there was neck
ing even in mv early days, and all of it the
traffic would b-ar."
We think so too. He goes on to say :
"A little necking, I am convinced, dofs no
normal and healthy girl any harm. On the
contrary, it tends to improve her, if only by
ridding her of groundless fears. Tbe notion
that the business goes any further, more often
today than it did formerly, i simply a delu
sion spread by two classes of nuisances ; par
ents who forget what they did themselves
when they were young, end professional mor
alist who live by unearthing and denouncing
sins "which do not erist. Id the department of
Backfire!
TO THE EDITOIf :
Opposition to the student union building has
been slow. Yesterday's Nebraskan carried a
slight letter complaining that students will ob
ject to putting out their sacred sheckels for
this student haven. That, in my opinion, isn't
any particular objection to the idea itself.
ilerc's an objection.
I've visited college campuses which boasted
of nice student union buildings. Hut did the
fakers and the loafers flock to that structure
in hordes? No. They still gargle iheir coke
in campus coffee shops. They still stand
around in front of buildings. They still sit in
parked ears and go home to their Greek
lodges. Granted that we need a new cafeteria
and a new home for student activities, will a
student union building be beneficial to enough
students to justify it ?
Are win ouile certain that Ihis new build
ing, if we ever gel it, will provide a nucleus 1
an ineubalor for student pride? I'm afraid:
it will be difficult to get the hoys and girlv
off the daveiiporls there as it is in their frat- j
entities and sororities. We seem to proceed on .
the idea thai once a student hangout is pro
vided, everyone w'ill breathe deeply and plunge
into all that is vital and valuable m college
social life. We're taking a lot tor graiitcu.
Anyone who gives ten bucks to the student
union building in the next ten yurs will be
giving to a dream. It w ill be a divam that will
benefit them if any very little. When a
Greek grad conies back, he will go to his frat
ernity or sorority house. There he may find
at Peart a few boys who knew someone in his
class, but at the stud"iit union barn be would
discover a lot of strange faces, cigaret smoke
and cakes.
So it is a social center? We need a place 1o
it mi 4 1. . . : 4
go between classes, cm i n wager ni.n u u
student cabin of the described nature were
built, a few boys and girls who didn't know
what it was all about would hang around
llif.en u nine h ili at the rest of the college citi
zenry would get sick of drifting in there.
As for loafing isn t then
W. C. T. U. LEADERS
OF WOMEN'S CLUB !
CHARGE CONSPIRACY
(Continued from Page 1.)
women smoke today as did men 20
years ago. Nearly all delinquent
boys, she told the committee, were
cigaret smokers.
Mrs. Leroy Pixley. district 1,
president of the Nebraska Con
gress of Parents and Teachers, de
clared that the most that could be
done would not be enousrh to fight
the 'great conspiracy to make
womanhood masculine by the cig-
arei." She deplored Uie enecx cig
aret smoking might have on the
future motherhood of the nation.
Mrs.. F. C. Claus, president of
the Lancaster county federated
women's clubs, told of finding in
creased smoking in the county's
schools. She also attacked throw
ing away of cigaret. stubs as a
menace to small boys. She told of
one country teacher finding
twenty-four stubs in one boy's
pocket. In the city schools, she
charged that cigarets were com
monly found aa low as the fourth
grade.
Conditions at ihe state univer
sity jvsre also attacked by Mrs.
Clam. She charged that the pres
nure on the non-smoker by scof
fing and ridicule made it impos
sible for a boy to attend the uni
versity without smoking cigarets.
As for the girls, she said she had
been told, that it was impossible
for a girl to go out with a group
of students if she did not accept
cigarets.
No one appeared to speak
against the bill.
MNTON 10 TALK
BEFORE CONVOCATION
Former Fnglish Educator
Is Scheduled Here for
March 26.
Prof. Arthur E. Twentyman.
former secretary of the British
board ot education of London, and
now Carnegie visiting professor
at the University of Missouri, will
apeak at a universny convotauuu
Thursday. March 26. at 11 o'clock.
in the Temple theater.
Professor Twentyman waa edu
cated at St Paul's school, Lon
don, and Shrewsbury school, and
Braaenoxe college, Oxford. He also
studied at Berlin and Leipzig uni
versities and at the Sorbonne. For
neatly thirty years, he was a
member of the staff of the office
of special enquiries and reports of
the board of education of London.
He was librarian and director. He
is nov tutor to advanced students
in education at King's college.
University of London, and chair
man of tne council of world asso
ciation for adult education.
wr,.rauiir I'lupnlvmnn is here
i-iioiifrli l.ni fiu" Ins Hnecial loint sneaker for Phi
. Rota Knnna and Si?mR Xi. HIS
now, wnnou spending umcaou . ... -u his conV(i'cation ,ecture
promotion! There may be a few eds and coeds 1 ..( Social Condi-
going to the library lor vant oi souiemiug tions in England
better to do now, but a student union nun fl
ing would make it unnecessary. And the herds
that eat breakfast between 8 and 10 o'clock
classes will have no use for a student union.
It will still be the swanky thing to sit in a
coffee shop when cakes are cakes and
niekl's are insignificant.
There. Krv lhat or. vour lilrnrj griddle.
CONSCIENTIOUS OEJECTOE . .
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Twelfth and H Streets
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O'Neill's
Church Without
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