FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20. 1031 TWO THE DATLY NEBRASKAN s v i v The Daily Nebraskan Station A. Lincoln. Nebraska OFFICIAL STUDENT PUBLICATION UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA Published Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. Friday and bunday mornings during tha academic ysar. THIRTY-FIRST YEAR. Entered second-class matter at the postofflce In Lincoln, Nebraska, under act of congress, March S. 181, rnd at special r.it of pottage provlde.1 fcr In taction 1103 act of October S. 1917. authorized January SO. 1923 Under direction of the Student Publication Board SUBSCRIPTION RATE ?S a year Single Copy A centn $1.85 a aemetter . a year mailed 11.78 aemetter mailed Editorial Off Ice Univertlty Hall 4. Outlnete Off Ice Univertlty Hall 4A. Telephone! Day: B-6891 ; Nlghtl B-6382. B-SJ33 (Journal) Aik for Nebratkan editor. EDITORIAL STAFF Marvin Von Seggern Editor -in-chief MANAGING EDITORS Evelyn Simpson Art Wolf Newt Editors Howard Allaway Jack Erlckson Laurence Hall Joe Miller Murlln Spencer Soorts Editor Berenlecs Hoffman Women's Editor BUSINESS STAFF Jack Thompson Businets Manager Attistant Business Managers Norman Oalleher Carlyle Sorensen Bernard Jennings Will It Do Any Good? In spite of Ihc notation that The NYbrasknu lias stirred up in rojrartl to walking tlntcs. tlioso folks who formerly thought ours uro a necessity still do, and use them whHher they o.in afford to or not. Every day letters come in telling: us why this condition exists and why the wnlk-your date cimipaigii will not work on this campus. In This Morning's Mail, Fiddler maintains that all the legislation or recommendations that the (J reek councils or other bodies could pass wuuld not persur.de the students to resort to their "hoofs" for transportation. This is. perh.'.ps. true, hut neither the lnterfn.ternii y Her Panhellenic council nor the A. Y. s. hoard is suing to require anybody to walk. The most these organizations a.n do is reeonimend that the pedestrian dater not be looked down upon by- his more fortunate brothers, all of which would be as efective as a prohibition law in t hieago. Then, you say, if this campaign will do no good, why fill up the editorial columns with siy.'h rnvir.js. when attention might be devoted io more important issues of the day ? In the firt place, we are not convinced that the cam paign will not do any good. If it doesn't work, that will not mean that the idea of walking isn't a sound principle, but. will merely indi cate that the odier custom is so inbrd in th j modern generation, that not. to have a ear is a social handicap, like halitosis. e As Tiddler puts it. "Life is like that. It is always true, whether reasonable or not." Kvoryone expects it and "if one does not fu'iiic up to expectations, there is a place in univer sity life marked 'exit'." This is just the idea iliat should be abandoned. Why anyone should .insider the chap without much money and v ho must walk where he goes, as an inferior, and as having no business in the university is er.sy 1o understand, but it is nevertheless a i.ilse attitude to have and is entirely devoid of a logical basis. Those who believe this walk-your-date propo siiion is silly and more suited for a high school publication 'campaign, will plea.se analyze any of the so-called campus problem that are sup posedly of great importance, and try to find one that is anything else than a relation be tween two or more groups whose attitudes and actions are governed by a series of well estab lished customs that no longer or never did have any sensible, basis. A good many students on this campus do not have cars, and must in some way pay a good price for transportation when having a date. A good many more students have cars who actually cannot afford to have them. This latter class are working an extra hardship on llicir parents or themselves, if they earn part of their own money, merely because tradition decrees that cars and social affairs go hand in hand. "When one goes the other goes also. To show the unreasonableness of this cus tom find to point out to the student just an olher way to save a little hard earned cash, are the excuses that The Xebraskan offers for troubling the student body with such a campaign. man he is referring to, been use purposes differ with individuals, even tho similarities exist. As to the rift between (.1 reeks and barbs, there is as much uncertainty involved there as in determining the purpose of the Oreek or ganization. The same division lines exist be tween one fraternity and another as exist be tween fraternities and non-fraternity students. So the barbs need not feel particularly har assed because they do not belong to an organ ized house. EPISODES By Oliver DeWolf Speaking of riding the street ears as a means of transportation, when Western played Mellill university at Montreal, two hundred students from the visiting school chartered three freight cars and made the journey. MORNING MAIL A lot of students lament the fact that cam pus traditions are slipping. They need not fear that the "eats and cars" tradition for dates is going to pass out. Three Washington university students were a n ested recently for attaching a freshman to a flagpole and running him to the top. (ireeht And Son-Greek$. Following up Lis letter of two days ago. which inquired as to why fraternity men go into all the activities and hence all the publ city, Puzzled I reshie comes forth with a letter, 'hir-h we have not published, inquiring as to ih real purpose of fraternities and why there is such a rift between fraternity men and Economical Eddie. TO THK KUITOR: Being almost out of nickels, I am interested in your "save n nickel" and "walk your date" campaigns. 1 Jtgrec that in the latter distance and weather are to be considered. Having seen nothing in regard to "eats," I am tempted to make a few remarks on the subject. I'nder present social usages, the fellow with a date and without a car tells a friend or fra ternity brother with both: "You furnish the car and I'll furnish the eats." It is agreed. Kaeh feels fortunate, but even here a dollar plus checking is considered a very nominal sum. If he is not so fortunate, he must rent a car and "eat" besides. Thus, with the ex ception of ten or twenty cents for checking, eats, and transportation, for most, constitutes the entire cost of a party. Now what is it about a party which makes the lasting impression favorable or unfavor able? Is it the music, the dance, the color; the pleasing personality, conversation, and grace of the partner: the friends and acquaintances one meets ' Or is it the memory of standing before an already occupied boolh. wishing they'd get out of there so you could swallow a sandwich a piece and get back by 12 ::U? Or is it Ihc flavor and texture of the ice cream: whether there was quite enough flavoring or perhaps too much: whether it was smooth or grainy? Or finally is it the pleasant sensation as it trickles down the throat? Again which of the things enumerated make the lasting im pression of the party favorable or unfavor able? Now. if the present customs did not demand car and eats for parties. 1, with many others, could press my pants, black my shoes, and date up quite frequently. But as it is ... . (yawn here) "No, I'm not going out tonight. I'll just read a little while and go to bed." I believe that if car and eats ceased to be a social necessity for parties, and at the close of the dance the couples slowly strolled their homeward way (especially on moonlight iduhts'. conversing lightly or softly hum ming a popular melody, more fellows could have dates, and with a financially clear con science, more girls Mould get dates, and parties would lc more fun generally. Think it over. FLAT BROKE. II. iavs iraie nuiv is u siu'iem iiiu- - fering closer relationship for students, with a few social relations thrown in." And then he goes on io doubt whether students join fra il rnities for this reason. He is inclined to be lieve that "they join because everyon else does, it is the thing to do to get anywhere." In a good many cases, the Freshie is correct. Some students do join fraternities because they fear they will be hft out in the cold if they don't. But all students don't have this in mind, nor does the fraternity exist so that men can join and thus be one of the chosen few. There are, perhaps, as many reasons for joining frater nities as there are fraternity men, and each man will get out of his club what he puts into it. Come around any rush week and hear all the reasons why men should join frater nities, and what fraternities are good for. Just why fraternities were started in the first place'is still rather hazy to us, unless it was because small groups of people get a sat isfaction out of bandiDg together and making themselves distinctive in some way from the common multitude. To determine what the purpose of the fraternity is, one will have to pick out the fraternity and also the particular The Futile System. TO THK KDITOl!: Once upon a time scientists argued some thing about spirits on the point of a needle. Now Nebraska sludents argue over "walking dates." Words, just words. If the Interfraternity Council and all others should enact rules upon the subject, what of it. Conditions would not be changed. Those who heretofore drove cars would continue to drive cars, naturally; those who have long "hoofed it" would continue the practice. The only obvious advantage being in the greater peace of mind the latter young man would carry to his task. It seems that life at Nebraska would not be seriously affected with or without the pro posed rules. A few couples would walk for a time or two with the. feeling that they were "starting something." But when, some blocks later, the "something started" became blisters from patent leather oxfords or high-heeled slippers, the ideas would change. In spite of heroic statements by ladies as to how their "Prince Charming" shall arrive, I believe that even fairy tales are practical enough to have a "charger." It may show lack of faith in the co-eds, but one is forced Io believe that they prefer their men arriving in "chariots" rather than as infantry. And the interest in creases in direct proportion to the cost of the chariot. Ask them. They won't tell you the truth, but ask them. On the practical side there is the suggestion from experience that if a man can afford a date, let him go ahead and do it up in style. If not, then why quibble about, getting Ihere. A recent editorial asked why "this latter class, who have not the means to supply this transportation, be forced to imitate those who have the money?" Answer: Life is like that. It is always true, whether reasonable or not. Women expect it: men expect it; fraternities expect it: sororities expect it: the I'liiversity of Nebraska, as a whole, expects it. Ami if one does not come up to expectations, there is a place in University life marked "exit." And that is why "walking rules" would be like Farm Board prices. FIDDLKK. Encouragement. TO Till: EDITOR: O. O. Mclntyre. has come to the rescue of an American institution as characteristic of the nation's everyday life as chewing gum, flappers and jazz music that of whistling. After some eastern professor, who no doubt envied the publicity given the M. 1. T. educa tor who advised his students to "Be a snob and marry the boss' daughter," had stated that whistlers are morons, there were some of us who felt the inferiority complex bugaboo creeping up on us every time wc let out a happy blast. But no more do we have to sneak into the alley to whistle. It was just a hoax and we aren't morons after all. Mr. Mclntyre pro claims the whole business was a cheap publi city stunt staged to put over an uninteresting book. What a break for us monotones. ii. l. a. Rest news of the day: The Union Pacific railroad hs an nounced plans to return 3,500 shop workers to their respective jobs. This plan will enable men to re turn to work In Omaha, Denver, Cheyenne, Pocatello, Los Angeles and' Portland. Happy days are here again! There seems to be a little dis sention in the republican party, The following Matement by Rep resentative LnGuardia directed against the chairman of the re publican national committee proves the point. The statement: Bena ' tor Kens is the best asset that the democratic party has." Yes, you ,iave guessed it, Senator ress, oi Ohio is the chairman of the G. O. P.. at the present time, but noth- I ing can be said of the near fu- I lure. Tom Moonev. for fifteen years a prisoner at San Quentin prison, has waged a long and bitter fight against his sentence of life impris onment for his alleged participa tion in the preparedness day bomb injr in San Francisco, July 26, 1916. To date his attempts to gain freedom have baen in vain. He is not discouraged, and news from the press states that Mayor Jimmy Walker of New York, will plead be fore the governor of California for Mooney's freedom. Walker had previously refused pleas of Mooney and his lawyer to aid the convicted labor leader, but a wire from Moonev's aged mother changed the muyor's mind. He will appear before the governor as a private citizen and a lawyer, not as the mayor of New York. Even royalty resort occasion ally to a good old fist fight to set tle an argument. The scene takes place in the royal apartments of King Carol. Enter his younger brotner. Prince Nicholas. They argue; it seems that the king has recently annulled the prince's mar riage to Jana Lucia Deletj, a pretty Rumanian divorcee, not a member of royalty. The argue ment waxes warm. The king, ac cording to the prince broke his promise m a de eighteen months ago. (That is a long time for any one to remember a mere promise.) The prince has an illusion: he be lieves that he is Gene Tunney, Jack Dempsey and Max Schmeling all at the same time. The result and climax: The king is nursing a beautiful shiner" and a swollen cheek; the prince is still unmar ried. A new credit corporation is proposed. This time tne proposal comes from the Association of Railway Executives, in a petition filed with the interstate commerce commision. It is intended to help railroads through their present fi nancial difficulties. It comes as a counter proposal to the recent in terstate commerce commission plan of surcharge. If the plans re ceive the O. K. of the commission the corporation will be chartered in Delaware. According to Lowell Thomas, Washington newspaper reporters like Dino Grandi, Italian Foreign Minister, better than President Hoover's recent visitors, namely: Ramsey McDonald, Prime Min ister ot Great Britain, and Premier Laval of France. Whole on the subject of Grandi (who most peo ple insist on getting mixed up with Grandhi of India it is apparent that his conference i3 a big suc cess. Premier Mussolini authorized his youthful representative to an nounce that, "Italy and the United States see eye to eye on the world topics they have reviewed." Presi dent Hoover, and Secretary of State Stimson have also intimated that they are satisfied with the result of the conference. Sidelights: County Attorney Max G. Towle, is keeping mum on the inkier case . . . Ira A. King, who has been hiccoughing for twelve days, has a dozen bushel baskets containing letters and tele grams giving advice, and cures . . . The Nebraska g-ubernatorial race is getting an early start: William Ritchie, Omaha, and democratic candidate for governor is busily at tacking Governor Bryan's poli cies: Governor Bryan, who is a candidate to succeed himself, is checking up on Ritchie, and has made an out-of-the-ordinary Thanksgiving proclamation; Sena tor Wherry'. Pawnee City, and republican candidate for the execu tive chair, is busy announcing his policies; who will be the next?... Another notable visitor from Italy will visit the shores of America next year: the young son of Dino Grandi, Italian Foreign Minister is the notable . . . Santa Claus is still coming . . . Headline in Evening State Journal: Lindbergh is on wing: Beat the Cyclone Would Give Full Value. Rescued Man: You saved my life and I would gladly give you a dol lar but J. have enly a two-dollar bill. Rescuer; That's all right. Jump in .'tln. Boston Transcript. 8 You'll always look better A to that favorite date it A i t a. i J a ii you nave una vihilcu me DR. WERKMEISTER TO Mogul Barbers. Mogul Barbers. 127 No. 12 o o Philosophy Instructor . Will Discuss Germany and Disarmament. Dr. W. H. Werkmetster of the department of philosophy will speak Sunday noon at university class, First Beptist church, 14th and K streets, on "Germany and Disarmament." Dr. Werkmetster, who was born and has lived a large part of his life in Germany, will present tho German viewpoint In the question of disarmament. A special devotional service earning out the Thanksgiving thought will be led by Miss Ruth Randall. An offering will be taken to provide a Thanksgiving basket of food for a needy family in Lin coln. This custom is followed every year by the class at Thanksgiving time. "Ten Years' Experience with Prohibition" will b discussed at the B. Y. P. U. service at 6:30. Phases of Prohibition in relation to the public health, family life, in dustrial effeciency, and crime will be taken up by members of the stewardship commission. Everet Rockhold will lead. The B. Y. P. U. social hour at 6 o'clock will be directed bv James House, of the srevice commission. At 7:45 a play. "The Haystack Harvest," will be given by the men' class of Second Baptist church in the First Baptist audi torium, rne tsapust siuuem orchestra will play before the play and between acts. Beat the Cyclones K-Aggie Military Ball Is Con ducted Much Like NeorasKa Opening Formal Event, Says Letter of Cadet Leader (Continued from Page 1.) called, she appears from the side. walks across tne orcnesira piai fnrm nd is met bv the cadet of ficer of corresponding rank. Each of the honorary omcers have been received bv her escort. they face in pairs, honorary colonel and cadet colonel at the head of the. line, the line of the grand march. The senior company officer by command forms a saber arch, with the two lines of cadets facing each other with their dates behind them. After the grand march, the honorary officers are returned to their dates, and the officers re turn to theirs. After that, danc ing is the order of the evening. Tickets Are Three Dollars. The tickets for the ball have usually sold for three dollars. The capacity of the ballroom is found, a ratio of the attendance for the ticket charge is estimated, and the expected receipts are arrived at A careful budget is then worked out auch that the expenditures will not exceed the receipts. In past years, the details and management of the ball were handled by Scabbard and Blade, honorary military fraternity for advanced course members, but during the past two years it has been handled directly as a func tion of the unit, represented by a committee which is in direct charge. The committee consists of the cadet field officers and all of the cadet captains of the unit. The cadet colonel is chairman of the commitee. and from this group certain sub-committees are ap pointed to handle special duties. When the honorary cadet of ficers are presented, they are wearing a special uniform. These become the permanent property of the girls. The honorary officers participate in tne annual inspec tion and regimental reviews held in the spring. The Military Ball at Manhattan is always held in the spring. Decorations at the event usually consist of military ban ners, flags, insignia, machine guns, sabers, and other equipment from the military department. Beat the Cyclones Schramm Flans (lamping Trip During Vacation Prof. E. F. Schramm will con duct a group of twelve boys on a field trip to Weeping Water dur ing the Thanksgiving: vacation, the trip is to make tipographical morning and camp out for three days. Thanksgiving dinner will be eaten in camp. The purpose of the trip is to make topigraphical and geological maps. The Growler By HARRY XSTKU A svmnhony of typewriters Peck! Pck! Peck! Goes my deep bass. Click! Click! Click! Goes the tenor over on the other side of the Dit. Monotones, sopranos, ban tones and jtlepnones and even tele phones raise Iheir voices ana tney all start on "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" and then ch?nge to the sen timental epic "Sweet Add-a-llne." That's what these newspaper men are always making the typewriters do. Add-a-line. Editor Underwood is the maestro of the outfit. Sort of a rhythm to it. It kind of gets you when they start on "Home Sweet Home." Once when I was pecking away I felt that I should stand up. I would swear that they were play ing "Come a Running Boys. ' You can feel that they are actually crying out. Pathos that Rudy never got into his crooning. The Bines. Another time it sounds like "The Blue Danube." Sometimes like a lullaby, again like "The Spring Song" it finishes with a grand finale like the "Soldiers Chorus" from "Faust." All is quiet and the one typewriter that is still singing away seems to fade in the dusk and all is quiet. Night has shrouded the pit. Everyone has gone home to punish the proteids. Who knows but what at the mys terious hour of midnight the U-pe-writers will nose out from under the covers and sing away or rather play away until the dawn comes and day replaces night? I won't be able to write about school spirit much longer so I had better ret the load off my chest while the getting is good. Friday night. At 7:30. in the coliseum. Turn out. If the Nebraska football team ever needed or ever deserved the support of every loyal Corn husker it is now. Big Six cham pions. That's a dream. An air castle. We can't have it unless we're willing to earn it. The team is going to do its part. We must do ours. If the team wins we'll say that we won. That's falla cious unless we do help the team win. The biggest thing that we can do towards a victory is to show the team that we want a win as bad as they do and that we are backing them 100 percent. Forget your dignity, put the k. o. on these tea party rallies and make this one, not only the biggest and loud est of this year but the most boisterous and noisiest rally in re cent history. Nebraska was fa mous all over the middle west for its Notre Dame rallies. Make this one the reincarnation of thosa fa mous epics and lift the roof off of the coliseum. That ad on the third page yes terday with the pictures of the Cornhusker stalwarts seemed a lit tle incongruous at first but then even football players have to learn how to dance and they may even have to buy silk hose. They say that the Northwestern team had silk breeches for the Nebraska game but then the male element is outnumbered at Northwestern and I suppose that gives the girls an added influence or something. My psychology professor said that swearing was merely a cover ing up process and was resorted to only when the individual was at a loss for words. Personally I think that swearing can be mighty ef fective if artistically done. I know that I'd hate to call a hammer that hit my fingernail a clumsy, mis guided un-gazelle like implement. I'd much rather resort to the ple beian vernacular, that would be what I meant anyway. PLAYERS END WEEK'S RUN SATURDAY NIGHT UNITARIAN CHURCH 12th and H Strtett Arthur L. Weatherly, O.D.. Minister The Church Without a Creed Not the Truth but the Search for Truth Sunday, Nov. 15, The Future of the Race Trelawny of Wells' Closes Successful Showing In Temple. BY mTpiZER. University Players will present their closing performance of "Tre lawny of the Wells," Saturday eve ning, in the Temple theater. Pin ero's four act comedy proved amus-' ing to Nebraska audiences, and the play has had a successful run. Dorothy Weaver playing the part of Miss Avonia Bunn creates a very amusing character. Miss Weaver shows stage presence and , admirable freedom in her first major part with the Players., Dorothy Zimmer, playing the lead, is very good. She is very well cast and makes the most of the part. W Zolley Lerner in the char acter lead is a constant source of merriment. His excellent por trayal of the exacting old English gentleman is a very fine piece of work. Elbridge Brubaker, playing opposite Miss Zimmer, has the rather difficult task of acting the part of a character who changes, develops as tho play progresses. The scenery and costumes con forming to the time of the action which is in the sixties ai-e effec ti'e. The setting in the second act, especially, is very fine. University Players will not pre sent the next play of the season until Jan. 16. Beat the Cyclones- BRYAN ESSAY PRIZE OFFERED THIS YEAR (Continued from Page 1.1 and words, must be turned in to the department before May, next year. All contestants are astoed to consult members of the depart ment as to the form of the essay. Titles for the essav may be chosen from the following two classes: Contemporary political leaders Franklin Roosevelt, Wil liam Borah. Alfred Smith, G. W. Norris, Hebert Hoover and Rep. John P. Garner of Texas; contem porary political issues: establish ment of a federal division of edu cation, prohibition. United States and the League of Nations, the tariff, problems regarding power and farm relief. Beat the Cyclones STATE SCOUTS MEET HERE THIS WEEK-END meet at the coliseum at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning to act as guides for the scouts. Another group will meet at 10, and a third group will assemble at 11. They will direct the scouts around the campus. The whole company will meet at the coliseum at 12. 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