THUKSDAY, APrtiL 2, 1931.
THE UAILl NLUKASKAN
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LOOSE THREADS
By Gene McKlm
It Is with some relief that we
see a writer in the latest issue of
the Nation coming to the sup
port of a college editor. Such a
move, -while a bit unusual, is at
least a bit encouraging.
It seems that the editors of
the.' Harvard Crimson saw fit to
oppose the plan of building, a
huge Protestant church as a war
memorial.
For their efforts the students
were placed on the proverbial
"pan" by the New York Times
which remarked in its colums
something to the efftct that the
"college babes were babblir x
again."
The "Nation" undertakes a sup
port of, the opinions voiced by the
editors of the Crimson. The idea
of coupling the thought of war
with that of religion, and thus
attempting to sanctify war, seems
a bit illogical to the Nation.
.
The Nation also comments on the
evidence of a bit of serious think
ing which the Crimson editorial
policy, gave witness of.
.College . editors and students
throughout the country should
Fend the editors of that magazine
a, vote of thanks. It is not often
tht the editors of publications or
the public generally, attributes
anything of a serious or worth
while nature to the endeavors of
the . college population.
They seem much more prone to
accept humor magaines' pictures
of, .college life and efforts, than
to give the students credit for
any serious work.
...
All of which makes us wonder
Why it seems to be necessary for
a college student to apologize for
being such when he applies to
some one for a job.
'Pethaps that is making it a bit
strong, but it seems to be true of
a i certain percent of the business
men-. Of the nation, that for a
year or so after he gets out of
school, the college graduate is
laboring under a handicap.
. Maybe it is our fault though.
Perhaps some of us are too sure
of our abilities "cocky" and all
that- There are plenty of stu
dents who perhaps give that im
pression, but we know quite a
sizeable proportion of our col
leagues who have no inflated
idea of their ability, but would
only be too glad of the chance to
line up a job, in which they
could step when they graduate
next June.
."Manhattan," says Mclntyre, "is
the home of the chronic insom
niac." It Is said only ten out of
every hundred in congested areas
enjoy 'refreshing sleep nightly.
According to population, more
sleeping potions are sold here than
in any other city in the world."
Such is the pay the pipers must
render for the so-called strenuous
life under which they live. In ye
good old. days when life moved
along in a much quieter and easy
fashion the druggists were cut out
of one form of revenue at that.
People could at least get a good
night's sleep In a natural manner.
Living in the Metropolis' en
vironment probably has its good
points, and like many others, we
desire to visit it sometime, but
for a steady diet, an atmosphere
in which one can relax occasional
ly seems more desirable than one
in which the nervous tension is so
high that it becomes necessary to
walk the streets at night.
One thing that we wish it were
possible to legislate against is the
chronic "gripers" which one meets
continually. Whether in school or
out of school there are many who
are continually complaining a'jout
their surroundings.
In the outside world you find
people complaining about this
thing or that thing in the city in
which they happen to be no mat
ter what city, they are never sat
isfied. In the university you find indi
viduals who can see nothing good
about the school. The faculty, the
administration, the students ad
infinitum everything Is wrong.
It Is too load this sort of person
cannot be painlessly removed from
our midst. If they do not like
their school they should get out
and let some of those who are
proud to be attending such an in
stitution, enjoy their chances.
If there is nothing good about
the university lets shut it up. If
there is something good about it
lets say so and look at the good
points and give credit where credit
is due.
Not that we mean we should
shut our eyes to existing faults
which should be and could be rem
edied. Rather, let the "gripers"
get out of the way with their
solely destructive comments so
that the rest may make an honest
attempt at constructive criticism
and work.
STUDENT COUNCIL
REMOVES CLAUSE
' ON ELIGIBILITY
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turn bean Carried over from former
yean.
Major discussion during yester
day's jneeUrg- centered about the
Lincoln Musicians Union, follow
ing a motion by Senior Council
man McCleery that the Student
council go on record as recom
mending that local orchestras be
used for the three major parties
of next year, and recommending
further that all organizations use
local orchestras for their parties
Whenever available.
McCleery's motion, though later
passed by a vote of 8 to 7, pro
voked rampant discussion, due not
so xnuch to opposition to the con
tents of the motion, as to the fact
that It would have no validity next
year. Sentiment on the part of
certain council membai also indi
cated that they believed tie pas
sage of such a motion might be In
terpreted as an attempt on the
part of the council to dictate to
student organizations.
""' Calls for Co-eperatlon.'
. It was to be understood, accord
ing to the author of th motion,
that such an interpretation was
not Intended, merely that it was
wished that a larger degree of co-
fected. Council members were al
most unanimously agreed that the
promotion or such co-operation
and friendly feeling between the
union and the student body was
not only advisable but almost im
perative. Consequently It was de
cided that a committee be ap
pointed to confer with the Musi
cians union in an attempt to culti
vate greater harmony.
Several constitutions of new
student organizations were
brought up in the council and
turned over to Dale Parker, chair
man of the council's committee on
student organizations, to be pre
pared for presentation at the next
meeting.
COMMITTEE DOES NOT
ACT ON SMOKE BILL
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opeatlon between the students and
the musicians union might be ef
student's disrespect for law.
Cook Says Unforceable.
He stated that in his opinion he
did not think the law could be en
forced. Maintaining that the smok
ing situation on the campus wa3
noi as bad as many believe. Cook
declared that he had never seen a
coed smoke on the campus. He
said that the tire marshall's order
forbidding smoking in university
buildings was largely enforced now
by janitors and that the major
portion of the smoking done in
university buildings was by uni
versity professors.
Cook maintained that it was
neither necessary or desirable to
regulate the conduct of these men,
who were worth from $3,000 to
$5,000 per year to the state and
pointed out that the personal con
duct of other state officers was
not regulated by state law.
Fawell Speaks for Bill.
Purporting to speak for 2,000
university studcnt3 or the Metho
dist faith, the Rev. W. C. Fawcll
urged the. members of the commit
tee to take favorable action of the
pending measure. He deplored
"the wide open smoking situation"
on the campus and especially de
plored conditions in fraternity
houses. The Methodist pastor de
clared that smoking was tolerated
on the campus of the University
of Illinois and when he was in
formed that smoking at Illinois
was forbidden by tradition and
not by law the divine exclaimed,
"I wish we had such a tradition
at Nebraska'
The clergyman expressed the
opinion that the reason present
regulations regarding smoking
were not observed was because the
notices posted about the campus
were signed by no other person
in authority than the fire mar
phall. "The students don't know
who the state tire marshal is," Fa
well declared, "for all they know
he may be dead. They would re
spect a notice saying :No smoking
allowed by order of the state leg
islature'." Compliments Legislature.
This remark seemed to be pleas
ing to the solons and one mem
ber of the committee interupted
the cleric's remarks to thank him
for the compliment. The Rev.
Fawell leclared that only 600 stu
dents smoked in university build
ings and that it was not unreason
able to ask these students to de
sist from doing something which
might add to the comfort and
safety of others.
He pleaded for the welfare of
women members of the faculty,
who are compelled to attend a
professional meetings at which
men indulge in smoking. He stated
that the smoke gave many of
them headaches and that the la
dies' clothes became saturated
with tobacco. Rev. Fawell stated
that one lady was compelled to lay
aside for three weeks a dress
which she had worn to a meeting
where smoking was indulged in.
He declared that the garment ab
sorbed so many tobacco fumes
that it was impossible for the lady
to wear it without discomfort.
Says Parents Want It.
Rev. Mr. Fawell asserted that
the parents of the students and
tax nnvprs of the state desired to
have smoking prohibited at the in
stitution which tneir cnuaren at
tended and to which they paid
large sums of taxes to support and
that their wishes in the matter
should be respected. "I know
what my people want," the divine
declared.
Senator Johnson dwelt at great
length on the evil effects which to
bacco had on people wno use u.
We declared that 60 nercent of the
babies born to mothers who smoke
cigarets died before they reached
the age of two years. He also said
that smoking was forbidden at the
West Point military academy.
Says Worse Than Liquor.
He ascribed the growth of the
popularity of the cigaret as bad
habit acquired during the World
war. Senator Johnson declared his
bill was endorsed by 80,000 thru
out the state and that a number of
university students have ap
proached him and urged him to
try and get the law passed. He
stated that in his opinion the cig
aret is worse than the booze evil.
The senator stated that the law
could be enforced and that he had
received letters from thirty-three
county superintendents urging its
passage and promising to enforce
the measure if it is enacted into
law. When questioned by Repre
sentative Buckendorf, chairman of
the committee, Johnson denied his
efforts to secure the passage of
the bill were influenced by articles
appearing In The Daily Nebraskan
and in The Fire and Sword.
Superintendent Lefler of the
Lincoln schools, spoke on the ne
cessity of the law from the high
school standpoint. He stated that
no smoking is permitted in the
Lincoln high school by students,
teachers or employes. He reclared
that nicotine had a very harmful
effect upon every growing person
and that people grew until they
became twenty-five or thirty
years old.
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MILESTONES
April 2, 1901.
A large bed of cannas was laid
out at the front of the campus
near the fence (wherever that
may have been). It was 88 by 16
feet in size. Someone might plant
a few such garden spots round
about the drill field.
Members of T. N. E. entertained
at a select dancing party for 18
couples. The hall was covered
with the fraternity pennants. A
Japanese corner was arranged
where punch was served. Dancing
lasted until early in the morning.
1911.
Platte river floods caused consi
derable delay to alumni coming
down from Omaha to, attend
formal parties. An ice gorge had
formed above the bridge at Ash
land, and the engineer was afraid
to run the train across till the ice
had broken. This took two and a
half hours, and the hard hearted
ticket agent refused to send any
message ahead except which per
tained to the railroad company's
business.
Editors of The Nebraskan and
Cornhusker declared that Nebraska
students did not know how to
spoil. In one piece of copy, the
Cornhusker editor reported, enthu
siastic" had been spelled entnusuc"
four times, and "character" had
been written "caractar."
1921.
Zoological society initiation,
which took place just before mid
night, was a terrifying oraeai,
judging from the shrieks, screams
and lamentations issuing from
Bessey hall. Though fortified by
a strengthening medicine known
only to those who had endured the
ordeals of the mystery, me new
members had barely survived the
awe-insplrlnjr introduction and
handclasp with Sambo, Sovereign
Royal of the anatomy laooratory.
Finally the weak-kneed initiates
were led into the banquet room
where they drowned their sorrows
in cherry pie and made merry imi
tating the animals they were sup
posed to know so wen.
The war tax on ice cream soaas
was removed, and drug stores and
other eating houses no longer col
lected the "penny on the dime."
Taxes on theaters and dances were
still in effect.
1926.
The glee club started on a
twelve day bus tour of Nebraska
towns. Their itinerary named Fre
mont as the starting point and
Sioux City as the grand finale of
the tour.
Gamma Alpha Chi, honorary ad
vertising sorority, installed Epsilon
chapter at the University of Ne
braska. The charter members
numbered eight.
Construction bids for Morrill
hail were opened. The award was
to be made within a week, after
which the work of excavation was
to begin.
TILDEN RATESJNNOUMED
Special Student Reductions
For Tennis Meet Made
By SeUeck.
Special student reductions in the
price of tickets to the Tilden
Kozeluth tennis match to be play
ed April 13, at the University of
Nebraska coliseum, were an
nounced Wednesday by John K.
SeUeck, Dusiness manager of ath
letics. Regular prices to the match are
$1.50 for reserved seats and $1 for
general admission. The prices to
holders of student athletic books
will be $1 for reserved seats and
fifty cents for general admission.
Mr. SeUeck states that student
tickets are available only at the
student activities office in the
coliseum. He also says students, to
avail themselves of the lower rate,
must purchase the tickets prior to
the day of the match.
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KANSAS RELAYS ARE
SET FOR APRIL 18
Five of Nine Winners of
1930 Are Expected to
Defend Laurels.
LAWRENCE, Kaa. Five of the
nine special events winners of the
1930 Kansas Relays are expected
back to defend their laurels in the
ninth annual holding of the Kan
sas relays at the University of
Kansas stadium here the afternoon
of April 18, which means that at
least four new champions will be
crowned in the events for individ
ual competition.
Lee Sentman, crack hurdler of
the University of Illinois who has
been topping world records consis
tently at the shorter indoor dis
tances this season is going to be
back it is expected for a try at the
world record In the 130-yard high
hurdles. Sentman won the event
at the Kansas relays in 1929 in
10.3 neconds and last year set a
new Kansas relays record at 14.6
seconds.
Rhea Will Be lack.
Hugh Rhea of the University of
Nebraska is another champion
who will be back this year and Is
expected to set a new meet record.
He won the shot put here last year
at 48 feet 6 inches, well below the
meet record of 49 feet 10 1-8 Inch
es set bv Herbert Schwarze of the
University of Wisconsin in IMS.
The record Rhea made of 51 feet
2 1-8 inches at the Texas relays
last week shows the big boy can
crack the Kansas relays record if
he is going good.
Ray Putnam of Iowa State col
lege, Big Six two mile champion,
won the 3,000 meters run here last
year in 8 minutes 54.3 seconds and
will be back this year believed to
have a good chance to beat the
meet record of 8 minutes 48.3 sec
onds set by Phelps of the Univer
sity of Iowa in 1925.
Warns to Return.
Tnm Wini of Northwestern
university, winner of the pole vault
the past two years and holder of
the meet record at 13 feet 9 3-4
inches will again be the favorite,
altho he has been finding competi
tion stiff this season tnus xar.
TTrisrnrrf ftordon. great nCSTO
broad jumper of the University of
Iowa and holder of many eham
ntnnnhtna in the event, will defend
his Kansas relays title won last
years at 24 feet 6 1-8 incuts, me
meet broad jump record is 34 feet
6 7-8 inches set by Paul Jones of
DePauw in 1924 and the oldest re
cord on the Kansas relays list.
v.vntn in which the 1930 cham
pions will not defend and the meet
record are:
100-vard dash. Cv Leland. Texas
Christian, 9.4 seconds, '30.
Javelin throw, 208 feet 1-4
inches, John Kuck, Kansas Teach
ers, Emporia, 1928.
riru throw: 158 feet 7 1-4
inches, Melvin Thornhill, Univer
sity of Kansas, 1930.
His-h lutira: 6 feet 8 3-16 inches
Ted Shaw, University of Wisconsin'
1930.
VOGELER CALLS TANK
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Convene Announced for All
Men Interested in
Sport.
Coach Rudy Vogeler is .sn
nouncing a meeting of freshmen
and varsity swimmers and any
other men at all interested in the
sport to convene at 5 o'clock this
afternoon in the N club rooms in
the coliseum.
Vogeler intends to discuss all
phases of the water game and to
Street
Social Calendar
Saturday.
Delta Sigma Phi Sailor's Ball at
the Cornhusker hotel.
show moving pictures illustrating
various strokes, starts and turns.
Plans are also to be laid for a
five weeks spring practice to
start next Monday in order to In
struct the freshmen In particular
in movements they can practice
during the summer months. At
the and of the spring drill ses
sion a numeral meet will be held.
Coach Vogeler also will set
forth ideas they may build a new
swimming pool for Husker stu
dents which will he ready for
use next year.
Another announcement indi
cates that the entire professional
tennis tournament has been post
poned until next week.
WEATHER INTERFERES
WITH K. U. BASEBALL
First Game Scheduled April
13 Against Haskell
Indian Nine.
LAWRENCE, Kas. W e a ther
conditions still continue to prevent
baseball practice at the University
of Kansas. Workouts this spring
have been handicapped seriously
by the late winter which has pre
dominated over the middlewest.
Since the first practice of the sea
son early this month Coach T. C.
Bishop has been working hard
during the intervals or me gooa
and bad weather to round out the
team into a hustling nine.
Thus far in practice, Bishop has
relied on his lettermen to form the
nucleus for the team. The only
men who have broken into the line
up very consistently so far are
Price and Smith, both sophomores.
Price has been used in center field,
and Smith is almost sure to be be
hind the plate. The first game of
the season will be a game with the
Haskell Indians, April 13, and un
less weather conditions Improve,
the Jayhawkers will be far from
their usual expected early season
form.
The pitching problem which
has been Bishop's chief worry,
cannot improve with the cold
weather. The pitchers have been
unable to cut loose with very
much stuff on the ball, altho they
were gradually rounding into form
last week before being forced Into
idleness.
Cooley, Ross and Kraemon at
present form the pitching staff
and unless they have some help
they will have to carry the hurling-
burden all season. The hoped
for help has not been discovered
yet. Cooley is the only letterman
of the three.
Working under the handicap of
having no paid coach, nevertheless
the squad has shown a very good
spirit that is indicative that they
are trying hard to produce a
creditable team this year.
Excavation work for the founda
tion and basement of the new stu
dent hospital at the University of
Kansas is progressing rapidly. The
steam shovel has been busy and
STEPPING
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Striking a balance
for a H,000,000,000 industry
On a larec scale" describes account
ing in the Bell System, whose properties
cost more than $4,000,000,000.
On the outgo side are, for example,
four or five hundred million dollars
annually for new construction; vast
ums for keeping telephone equipment
in good order; a payroll running into
hundreds of millions a year. Under in
A NATION-WIDE SYSTEM OF INTER-CONNECTING TELEPHONES
several shots of dynamite have
been employed to loosen the
masses of rucks. Many of the stu
dents spend their free hours
watching the excavation work.
iSSlMTSPEAKS
AT VESPER SERVICE
Y. W. C. A. Head Gives Talk
At Episcopal Church
On Tuesday.
MIsm TTranres Drake, secretary
of the city V. W. C. A formerly
nf the University V. W. C. A.,
spoke at Vespers, Tuesday after
noon at the University Episcopal
church, at 5 o'clock. "It seems to
m thut nlwRvs. when we come to
the festivals of the church, to the
remembrance of the lire or jesus,
it U hecause we. too. would see
Jesus," began Miss Drake, and
then continued, we reel in mm a
power that we would make our
own if we could. Therefore, we
come to think, together, a little
about the things that Jesus tried
to teach."
Whenever Jesus was trying to
exnress Himself to His people He
drew some of His teachings from
Hi nwn thouc-hts. "He must have
started to figure out these things
when He was a Doy," conunueu
the speaker, "but perhaps when
He the time most vividly contem
plated on what His life should be
during tho time of His life we
call 'temptation.'
"Hn demonstrated first of all
that He was not trying to use His
power tor his own pnysicai pleas
ure," Miss Drake continued. It
was not by bread alone that He
would choose to live. He was not
miner to choose a snectacular
event to win His followers. He
would not use questionable meth
od' to rench an end that seemed
good to Himself. Through all of
His lire, these were tnc principles
upon which he acted," said Miss
Drake.
"Think of our own principles of
living," continued Miss Drake.
"Youth is the challenge to us to
try to make us worthy of our
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lives, rainer man just, at mm
time. It may seem late in Lent
to think of such thines as that, but
after all It is never too late to
think of what has passed and try
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to maxe rne rmure me uesi moi
it may be.
Urges to Keep Lent.
iii keen I.ant as a time of
remembrance of Jesus," conclud
ed Miss Drake, "of the things He
lived for, and that He died for,
onH 1st in keen it. also, when we
shall, ourselves, think of the
things for which we wish to live.
W An livn for the thine-s that we
have philosophy for. Try to choose
the principles ror wnicn we suau
live."
Th. vtop Phnir sane the "Re
proaches" at this Vesper service.
This service was one or me serv
ices that heinc nut on at the
University Episcopal church dur
ing HOly weeK. mis service was
sponsored by the Y. W. C. A.
GRADE TEACHERS
SALARIES SHOW
SLIGHT INCREASE
LAWRENCE, Kas. Salaries of
INTO A MODERN WORLD
BELL SYSTEM
ST r
. THREE w,
tearhors In the public schools ol
Kansas have shown a slight in
crease in the past six years, but
salaries of principals of high
schools in cities of the third class
and In tho rural high schools have
decreased, according to figures
just compiled by Prof. F. P.
O'Brien of tho University of
Kansas bureau of school service.
More than 8,000 grade school
teachers and 600 principals are in
cluded in the study. The study
showed, for example, that 36
teachers out of 4,687 ' in one
teacher schools in 62 counties, re
ceive less thnn $65 a month; 261
receive between $65 and 974, while,
ut the other extreme, three receive
more than $164 a month.
The middle 50 percent of these
teacher are paid from $P3 to $103,
while the median salary for the
group is $03 a month. Six years
ago, a similar study of 4,087 teach
ers (not necessarily the same as
in the current year) showed a me
diun salary of SuO a month.
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STREET FLOOR.
come are such diverse items as a few
cents for a local telephone call, or thirty
dollars and upward for a call to a city
across the Atlantic.
The men responsible for this phase of
the telephone business have worked out
scientific methods of control but their
effort to refine old practices and devise
new ones goes on. The opportunity is then I
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