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THE DAILY NEBRASKA
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18. 1931
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Who Makes
The Changes?
In most large citifs there are (tumbling
dens, speak easies, and many other organized
vices which operate both in defiance to the
law and under the protection of the law. But
it is generally admitted by persons of good
reputation and sound judgment that, such
organized vices are not respectable businesses,
and should be wiped out. Campaigns are some
times' organized to exterminate the gambling
dens and speakeasies, and even though reform
ers are usually not successful in purging the city
of its vices, it is always found that those who
are interested m the cleanup movement are not
the ones that are sponsoring the vice or par
ticipating in it. And it is further observed
that those who object to having the vices re
moved are the ones who participate in or are
engaged in the criminal business, and are reap
ing big profits therefrom. The change must
come from without, if it is to come at all.
No one will maintain that the organized
gangsters in Chicago are an asset to that, city,
or ithe country. If this country is ever to
boast of law and order the gangster in all
cities must be subjugated. But to wait for the
gangster to come to his senses and bring about
the reform on his own accord will not be sat
isfactory; the process would be too slow, if it
took place at all. The reform must come from
persons who are not connected with the gangs
and their rackets.
No attempt is being made here to com
pare football with gangsters and crime, even
tho it is the opinion of various sound thinkiuir
persons that football is a racket. But a reform
in football is necessary. The game as now
played in colleges is not actually a game, it
is a big, high-pressure business. Who shall
start the reform The football men them
selves! No, that would not be satisiactorv: it
diplomats who have similar views and hopes
cannot hitch on the one plan which will cul
minate in bringing about the common plea for
peace. Fcrhaps it is a miHunderstanding of tho
situation; perhaps it is lack of insight; per
haps stubbornness, incompatibility, or indif
fcrence ; perhaps it is greed.
One marvels At the manipulations within
various pence conferences tho conduct of
great men us they bend their minds to a com
mon purpose. One marvels, especially, at tho
methods employed in avoiding the tundamcn-
tal point of the whole thing that of actually
tossing guns and am ition on the junk heap.
Apparently, then, there is little hope, for
the tunc being, that much shall he aceomp
lished in the way of even partial disarmament,
The old heads of the world will not have it so,
There is only one alternative: Bring the masses
to a pitch whereby they will declare their de
sires and whereby they can force tho thing for
which all clamour. Education of youth is the
easiest and most expedient method with which
to Accomplish that and herein lies the salva
tion of the world.
Youth must know the causes of war; it
certainly is aware of the effects. It must be
taught that the only profits of war aro the
monetary kind, and that such fall only in the
bunds of a few. It must know tho evils of
tariff walls as well as the shortcomings the
serious shortcomings of taxation as the world
practices it today. It must know the funda
mentals of good government. Youth must un-
lerstand that only with these facts firmly cn-
renched within the people can peace, even
after once secured, be perptuatd.
That is where youth and it falls to the lot
of tho student will play such an important
part in the maintenance of world peace. Mis
understanding, lack of insight, .stubbornness,
incompatibility, indifference, and greed can be
overcome only after the busic truths are
grasped. When it has finally been realized
'.iat greater prosperity for the world and tho
masses comes from the application of correct
principles, then will statesmen be sent onto the
international parley floors with the ability to
accomplish much then will tho sweet repose
of everlasting peace be at hand.
MORNING MAIL
By Way of Clearing
Up a Mistaken Idea.
In yesterday mornings edition of the laily ! ,,oaUs 0,1 ndnv ulgnts
Sunday Nights.
TO TUB KD1TOJI:
Winter is here, and with it the customary
cold weather. However, this does no! stop the
bovs Hiid girls from having dates on Sunday
nights. It Is very difficult to find Any type
of amusement in Lincoln since there is a ban
on dancing, going to shows, and appearing in
any public place except a church. Sunday
morning is the proper church time. The city
has put mo many buns on amusements that
nlront the only things left to do arc play mum
ble peg on the ice, or gel out the old checker
or parchese boards. The checker and par
chew boards nt our house arc worn out and
we are unable to buy new ones because of
the depression.
Kestricting students as this city does brings
ninny evils, in the nrst place ic in ten me
money that wo spend In Crete oc Omaha on
Hundav nights away from the Lincoln mer
chants. Most of them are good supporters of
the town and school and are fully deserving
of any business that can' be given them. In
the second place, it unves the students out in
the cold, along the higwnys and by-roads. Thin
n some cases is demoralizing ami it is ex
tremely cold. Many students can find nothing
to do but neck on these cold nights, and even
that gets to be "klmla old'' and uninteresting
in time.
In the third place there may be wrecks along
the highways as a result of so much traffic
leaving this village on Sunday nights. In the
fourth place it puts some who do not have cars
n the streets, and most people do not enjoy
going walking'' on cold Sunday nights.
To give one an idea of the absurdity or the
ordinances in Lincoln, I know of one case iu
which a man was arrested for pitching horse
shoes on Sunday. I do not advocate spending
the winter nichts pitching horse shoes, but
this expresses my point of absurd ordinances
very well. If people would get wise and allow
the younger generation to do a few of the
things they desire to do, at lenst let them dance j
in the respectable cares ou bunday niguts. 1
feel confident that the merchants would pro
fit, and we would need fewer officers to patrol
ropolitau newspapers have criticized your ar
gument merely upon the grounds of your age.
Such an advancement is irrelevant, ininuiterlnl
and is farthest remote from the facts of the
case. "We never get too old to learn," even
tho the gates of fame may be more open to
some of us, than others.
It seems ns tho at the present lime your
points are, subsidizing and recruiting athletes,
or commercialized football. You advunee the
abolition of such, and offer suggestions as to
the remedy.
First of all we must ask you to prove that
such conditions exist, you have offered ns evi
dence of the fact, the testimony of "Chick''
Mcclinii, conch of N. Y. I7, during 1 lie past sea
son. What else could ho say; he has failed to
produce a winning team even tho he did use
'big time" methods of coaching. It seems to
me that it is very evident just why he would
make such statements, and such should be dis
regarded in view of the fact that he i;, tre
mendously biased against football. We grant
you the fact that there has been some "shady"
work going on in football, but do you think
that such tactics are used in every university
no, only a few which we could well do with
out, in tho football world.
Simply because a few of us offend tho rules
of the game, established by precedence years
ago, is no reason to rise in arms against it.
Human nature is such that it demands nl
least one game in which the contact of "flesh
against flesh'' is found, no other form of ath
letics offers this but football. Ask ihe root ha 1 1
man himself who is better qualified to an
swer. Human nature cannot be denied, in our
universities or anywhere else.
Football is not a detriment or a hindrance
to any school as long as it does not interfere
with the scholastic work of the student it is
beneficial ami desirable in modern institutions.
The total of my argument amounts to this,
we, you and I labor under numerous miscon
ceptions and Ibis is one of them. Football
isn't kmmercialized to anv damaging extent.
if it is, you must prove it when you do I will
concur immediately.
unbiased a in:.
Panhellenic Meetings
Postponed to Jan.
Thg meeting of Panhellenic
council scheduled for Monday,
Jan. 4, hat been postponed un
til Jan. 11, It was announced
last night by Julia Slmanek,
president of the council. No
reason for the change of date
was cited.
PROVES PROFS ARE VAIN
Faculty Pictures in Tcxita
Daily Boost Sales
Of Paper.
The old idea that university pro
fessors are a very modest crowd,
immune to such trilling hunvm
qualities as vanity or conc-ull, Buf
fered something of a setback Sun
day. For In the Sunday lsstm of
Tho Dally Texan, a group ptcliiro
of the eutlro faculty was displayed
on the front page. There may, ol'
course, have been somn other rea
son, but tho fact remtiins that
there was a much greater demand
for extra copies than there usually
Is.
Some customers, ' Kurt Dyke,
business manager of the Texas
Srudent Publications, soid, "even
took three and four copies."
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Xebrngkan there appeared in the Morning Mail
column a letter signed by A Mere Man which
attributed to the dean of women's office the
prohibition of the simultaneous use of the
swimming pool by both men and women. In
justice to that office, we wish to inform A
Mere Man that the swimming pool arrange
ments were made under the direction of Dr.
Clapp and Miss Lee, and the office of the dean
of women was in no way connected with any
of the regulations, bans, or prohibitions.
Too often, it would appear, students are
prone to attribute any phenomenon which may
be out of accord with personal opiniou or de
sires to someone who, in the minds of those
students, might possibly be the influential fac
tor behind the legislation. And in all too many
cases, as in this one. the students have mis
calculated and misjudged, and in random
flaunting of opinion and misstatements, they
tin unwarranted harm to innocent persons.
A l ''est, the position held by the dean of
woin.ii is precarious. As is the case with any
person in authority. Dean Iieppner is cred
ited with far too many unpopular rulings than
actually emanate from her office. When nc-
would be too slow and would be vcrv incom-! cnsil,i(m 1na(le' t ' t,,(f fair imd wis
A GUIPJ3.
"Flesh Against Flesh."
TO T1IK EDITOR:
In following your stand taken on '"football"
in American universities. I find that your ar
gument, if it is an argument, is not an un
warranted issue.
First of all, some of the scribes of our met-
Six minutes is the average length of time
it takes for a bull session to turn to subjects
concerning women, according to the experi
ments of two Duke university students inter
ested in psychology. Their method consisted
of starting a conversation on anything but
women, and then waiting until the inevitable
subject came up.
Britt made the statement that O'Connor aad
Lee were no more guilty of the Lincoln bank
robbery than he was. He probably knew what
he was talking about.
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Those engaged in the football business are
reluctant to see any change made except that
which will cspand the business. Sports writ
ers, coaches, athletic directors, who derive
their income from football are quick to stop
any opposition that football may have. So if
this alleged sport is to be dethroned and put
where is properly belongs in the educational
system, the change must be brot about by
those who have no binding interests therein.
The silly claim that only sport writers,
coaches and football players are qualified to
make authoritative statements on the. matter,
is the same as saying that the inmates oi' a
penitentiary arc the only persons qualified to
discuss crime. And to say that th
thing to do to verify the accuracy of them, and
in this instance, surely, no such attempt was
made.
To those persons to whose hands are en
trusted Ihe reins of government, comes, nec
essarily, much grief, aud many unpleasant cir
cumstances and duties are bound to arise.
Inasmuch as all those who govern are rather
avoided and unecessarily criticised by the gov
erned, even such scathing comment concern
ing circumstances for which these governors
are responsible are not pleasant 10 receive. It
would seem, then, that before adding unnec
essary and unjust burden to the lot of those
Co-eds Speculate
Upon Qualities of
The Perfect Male
Would Nebraska coeds be willing
to go fifty-fifty on the dates? Not
if their beliefs are the same as
that of coeds in the farw est.
Three University of California
coeds discussing the subject of girls
paying half the cost of dates, de
clared they would even be willing
to pay all of it if the man meas
ured up to their specifications of
perfection. This was a representa
tive trio consisting of a girl from
the senior, junior and sophomore
classes. They decided that the per
fect man must, as a matter of
course, be tall and broad should
ered, must dance well, talk well,
and think well. He must not, with
emphasis on the not, wear a mu
tache, a cap or spats, nor must he
own a cigaret holder.
Scaled on a percentage basis the
perfect man rated as follows: In
telligence, 20 percent; cultural and
social backgrounds, 15 percent;
personal appearance, 15 percent;
personality, 20 percent; courtesy,
10 percent; physicial fitness, 5 per
cent; social poise, 5 percent; and
dancing ability, 10 percent.
"But," these three wise women
concluded, "If he has ail the quali-
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directors and players are the ones who should i iUjn,Si,tion is Publid.r pressed
make the changes in the business is equally as.
who have been designated governors, the vor
acitv of the accusation being attributed to one ties which make up a perfect man
of the rulers should Ik? ascertained before that ' he T1'd.?".t 1!ow lrl Pf h'8
way : v men leaves us Mini in me
depression.
unreasonable. Even if the. coaches and ath
letic directors knew what changes ought to be
mad-, they would not niHke them and more
than the criminal can be expected to rid the
country of crime. The move must get its start
from external sources and be curried thru by
these external influences.
Lawyers and legislators have been given
the. task of revising the laws which they have
been responsible for making. But if they made
the laws in the first place, how can anyone ex
pect them to make us better ones! So if the
public expects the football men to revise the
football business, it shall be disappointed. The
change must eventually come, and must be
brot about by those not engaged in football.
There is no justice to charging college men !
with discourtesy because thy don't, tip their j
hats to the ladies. College men aren't sup
posed to wear hats.
Unbiased
Or Unbalanced.
Something seems to disturb I'nbiased Abra
ham in the Morning Mail. Ue insists that Ye
Editor prove that football is the evil that these
columns have portrayed it to Ih. lie wants ns
to prove to him that football is commercialized.
As a matter of fact, we are not much inter
ested in whether Abe ever gets his proof or
tot. Most any unbiased person, with few ex
ceptions, can see for himself what the condi-
Tt is said that a certain voung lady when tlo,m are l,1,t whether he exposes his true be-
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enterinsr schoo wan ed o know f tlm rmn r ei is anoiuer siorv
physical examination was written or oral.
UNITARIAN CHURCH
Arthur L. Weatherly, Minister
The Church Without a Crcad
Not the Truth but the Search
for Truth
Sun., Dec. 22 la Chrlatmaa a Sham
The Part
That Students Play.
Solution of the problem of disarmament
among the nations of the world seems per
plexing, and forthcoming action appears dub
ious. Despite the fact that the idea of profits
Hirough warfare has been thoroughly ex
ploded since the advent of the world financial
crisis and human sacrifice and suffering on
every hand, there is little tangible evidence
of a throwing down of the machines of turbu
lent strife. Much ado is made of permanent
peace; yet, each nation vies with the other in
building, rather, permanent armies and navies.
Statesmen stamp wildly across the floors of
every national capital; yet, their murmurs die
amidst the din of jealousy and fear which be
cries the war strength of each neighboring
country. The great cries of "disarmament"
are subdued by the greater cries of "prepared
ness." Something is wrong if groat statesmen .-.nd
If Mr. Abe think that Chick Meehan's foot
ball team at X. Y . I, wasn't any good, he had
better look again. Meehan brought that univer
sities' football team from obscurity to national
fame. It was his methods of doing this which
the Columbia Spectator questioned. Aud fur
ther statements made by Meehan indicated that
he is not biased against football. lie said he
would like to coach again "just for the fun of
it." If the loyal supporters of football are go
ing to discard Chick Meehan's statements as
unqualified. Ihen who are they going to con
sider as qualified to talk? According to Un
biased (?i Abe those who are in favor of foot
ball know what they are talking about, while
those who oppose football are off their base.
And just one more thing Are you sure, Abe,
that when you write of games that feature the
contact of "flesh against flesh"' that you mean
football?
"I wonder how Thanksgiving originated?"
"It was probably instituted by parents
whose sons had survived the football season."
Boston Transcript.,
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What, with Christmas just
a week off, and Vacation starting
tomorrow-we want the gang
at Nebr. U. and their faculty overseers
to know that we wish you all
A MERRY CHRISTMAS
and let's hope that
the depression etc will have gone
to the demnition bow-wows
by the time you get back, and that
1932 will be your
HAPPY NOO YEAR
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