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THE DAILY IMEBKASKAIS
WEDNESDAY, FEB1UJAKY 24, 19S2
The Daily Nebraskan
Station A, Lincoln, Nebraska
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UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA
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MANAGING EDITORS
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NEWS EDITORS
Phillip Brownell Oliver De Wolf
Laurence Hall Virginia Pollard
Professor
A. A. Baer.
Professor Alva A. Haer of the college tif
agriculture faculty was killed Monday evcniiiK
w hoa tit ruck by a cur. Since 1S"J:J he Iihh been
connected in one capacity or nnotlier "with the
University of Nebraska, lie was an adjunct
professor of manual training and wood work
ing at the Agricultural college for some thir
teen years. In 1925 he was given the title of
assistant professor of agricultural engineering
which rank he held at the time of his death.
Frofessor Bfier was a capable instructor and
a searching scholar, lie was manly and honest,
lie was well liked by bis associates and by his
ntudenls. His greatest delight was that, of
helping a young man who showed promise in
the field of agricultural engineering. The uni
versity is unfortunate in losing such a' num.
Fraternity
Forensics,
In a statement In today's Wbraskan, Prof.
IL A. "White, varsity debate coach, advocates
a proposal for an intramural debate program.
Rudy Yogeler, intramural athletic, director,
said Tuesday suck a program could easily be
instituted if demand for it were shown by the
students.
The general values of such a program are
easily seen. Quoting from Professor "White's
statement: ""Work in debating is of assistance
to the student In organizing material and
checking up on his own liens. An opponent is
likely to bring out errors in thinking and this
i helpful to prevent such errors in the
future." Certainly the ability to discuss and
argn u a question is as valuable as the abilities
developed by most extra-curricular activities.
Still more apparent are the direct desirable
results such a program would bring. In the
fft-st place it would revive the decadent interest
in forensic activities by adding to the number
taking part. Debate, we understand, was for
merly one of the leading extra-curricular and
intercollegiate sports. At present only those
directly concerned show any interest, at all.
iThen, too, intramural debate would provide
alvnlunble training school and fertile recruit
ing field for the intercollegiate team. Accord
ing to Professor White: "It would be good
1 mining for Ihe boys and would give good
practice for intercollegiate debate." -Might
u(it the training also be as valuable for the
girls! Of course, since girls have no part in
intercollegiate debate, for reasons given by
Professor "White, their participation in intra
mural debate would not directly add to the
field from which the varsity team is elm: .
Nevertheless, it would give them an interest
in debate which would indirectly benefit
fo'rwisics as a result of added general interest
in; such activities.
Debate 33 a definite part of the intramural
program of many other schools. Adoption of
such a program at Nebraska would be advis
able from all points of view. From the state
ment of Mr. Vogeler Tuesday, it seems, that
the only requirement for action in this direc
tion hei M a demonstration of student inter
est In th matter. The Nebraskan asks com
ment on rh proposal.
Women Government.
Swiday afternoon the leaders of women's
government on the University of Nebraska
campus wit! meet in Ellen Smith hall for the
purpose of discussing problems of local inter
est. They will consider primarily problems
ocHiotTning woman's government and its pres
ent Organization. They will discuss and con
sider new plans in use at other schools. The
A. W. S. board is sponsoring the meeting.
Women on the Nebraska campus are organ
ized into a compact and efficient group. At
the peak of the pyramid stands th Board of
Associated Women Students, which is com
posed of fourteen representative sophomore,
junior, and senior women. The officers of this
organization form the A. W. S. council, which
personally takes charge of all violations of
rules which are brought to its attention.
This board keeps in close touch with the
organized houses on the campus by means of
monthly meetings held with house mothers and
at other meetings with the presidents of each
house. Jt is with this group that the A. W. 8.
board will meet Sunday. Through such an
arrangement as this women on the campus are
able to alter any rules which they believe to be
unsuitable. They have close contacts with the
ruling body as is proper in a democracy.
Such a meeting as has been called for Sun
day is the first one of its kind and should
prove to be of benefit both to house mothers
and to presidents. Problems which are and
which are not discussed at separate meetings
should be brought to light and solutions for
them worked out. The project is a good one
and might be worked to advantage by the
eitire student body for a better understanding
of current problems.
An Answer
To an Answer.
It Becms that the editor got himself into a
liitle hot water by taking issue upon a thing
about which he knew but little, the other day.
Obviously, Mr. II. N. II., who replies to the
editor's unstudied outburst, does kno",Y all
about the bok situation on the Nebraska
campus.
The editor was attempting merely to get on
the right side of the fence. Perhaps not the
right side of the fence but at least on the
winning side. The old, old book question M ill
probably never die because it will probably
always be the mime. It is agreed that hooks
cost a lot of money, it is agreed that there
are better systems. (There always arc, witness
the study of ethics.) The question has been
agitated again and again and nothing ever
comes of it.
There is one solution to the perplexing mys
tery, all save one stickler which Air. 11. N. II.
has unkindly put in his question. Students
could get away from selling used books for
nothing and buying new books for huge sums
by keeping the old books. This has been agi
tated time and again also, and just as vainly.
The college students are in need of ready cash
too often, and books sell easily.
However, that does not solve the problem of
the manuscripts assigned. If. N. II. wants to
know if the profit made by the bookstores is
necessary. Une unversed in the mazes of ceo
nomicK is unable 1o answer a question of lhal
1vpe without great deliberation. .May we refer
II. X. 11. to some gootl used economics book?
MORNING MAIL
An Answer,
TO Till: KD1TOK:
"The old skeleton has been dnigucd out of
the closet again.'' So spake 1lic editor in his
reply to n:t article concerning book stores, etc.
The editor wrote a somewhat, sarcastic reply,
in which he states that the book stores are
entitled to a legitiinatc'profit. and that a 1'iti
versily owned store would save very little
money on used books.
Due to the fact that t his is somewhat falla
cious the editor failed to produce any figures
to substantiate his Hieory. He also mentions
the fact that professors prescribe their texts to
"gullible students." This bit of information
brings to light the startling fact that there are
two kinds of students, the gullible sort and the
wise sort. The gullible student, when given a
home talent, mimeographed text, or when put
in such a position where purchase of oik; is
necessary, is foolish and easy enough to pay
the price demanded for it. On the other hand
tlie wise student is not to be so easily taken in.
When he is given a mimeographed text, he
refuses to pay for it, refuses to use it. and
proudly announces that he wants nothing to
do with it. and then at the end of the term,
with lion like courage, he accepts an incom
plete in the course. Due to the fact that the
University has a peculiar custom that all bills
pertaining to a subject must be paid before a
grade can be given. The professors also have
a quaint custom of not asking whether or not
you wish to buy their text, they justmake it
necessary for a student to buy it. Neverthe
less it must be wonderful to possess such power
and influence from on high that it is possible
to openly flaunt authority.
The editor is also asked, due to the fact that,
he has taken issue on the question, to answer
the following part of this article.
A book costs $3.80 at a book store and $3.40
approximately, at Ihe regents store. Now the
problem : The regents make a small profit and
also pay their clerks and still allow a ,10 per
cent reduction on new books. Take that $3.80
book in a store and sell it and you receive be
tween $1.00 and $1.."0 ( pre depression prices)
for it. Walk around the block and come back
and buy the book and you pay about $3.40 for
it. flood used books being almost as much as
new books at the regents store. The profit
being about $1.2.") per book. This is honest
profit but is it logicnl 1o believe that the profit
Wrn Tiis necessary?
: . ;..lilr students realize that a Uni book
store would only save about, $1.00 per book
but they arc foolish enough to consider this
worth while. Those owning stock in a book
store realize that they have a gold mine and
hence do not want a Uni store but this article
speaks for the average student. Due. to the
fact that the editor chose to reply he should
in all fairness allow this to be printed, for it
seeks information and also allows students to
sec both sides of an important question.
11. N. IT.
STATE TALK
When Students Drink.
One of the saddest results of prohibition has
been the flippant disregard for the Jaw incul
cated in the minds of the young. An evidence
of 1hat disregard is the gayety with which
college and other youth occasionally totes its
flask, there being neither moral stigma at
tached to drinking in college circles, as ihere
was in the bad and wicked wet days, nor ostra
cism invited by the offering of drinks to
young girls.
Observers are generally agreed upon Ibis.
The answer of the dry forces, in Nebraska at
least, is the futile gesture performed at Lin
coln last week, when an all-university party
was raided, a little liquor seized and an ex
student arrested.
The hysterics of Harold Wilson, the new dry
chief for Nebraska, over this triumph, met a
calm response from the state university, Chan
cellor Burnett has corrected any impression as
to university indulgence in liquor by remind
ing the state of the fact that the "university
community is usually free from liquor or other
violations of the law."
In somewhat more breezy fashion, the editor
of the Daily Nebraskan points out to Mr. Wil
son a field in which his zeal might be better
exercised. Instead of seeking the uuiversity
drinkers, why not find the sellers? Therein
lies the useful work of the dry enforcement
bureau; and a failure to meet that opportunity
cannot be concealed by a "raid" for publieitj'
purposes on a few university drinkers.
The "World-Herald rather believes there, are
less drinkers, per hundred of student popula
tion, at the University of Nebraska than there
are in any given section of Lincoln or Omaha.
The World-Herald believes that if students
drink, they find plenty of example and pre
cedence among their elders. And the World
Herald is content to leave the warfare against
student drinking in the sensible and firm
hands of Chancellor Burnett. Mr. Wilson and
his busy agents could more profitably labor in
more vicious fields. Omaha World-Herald.
TREND OF THE
TIMES
by
GERALD BARDO
CONFIDENT Japan Is finding
the ChineHO nut a hard ono to
crnck. Over-confidence In not good
for any contestant.
PRESIDENTIAL candidutes in
Germany now include Adolpt
Hitler, leader of national noclalistn.
President Paul von Hlndenburg is
bo far opposed by two other can
didates, one a communist, one of
the nationalize party. Hardly was
this official announcement needed
for Hitler. It has been long known
that he wanted and would fight for
the presidency.
CALMLY and conscientiously
Speaker Garner 1h tending to his
congressional business, but in
Georgia his friends by proxy have
t.nfurprl him In rmnnultion to the
New York governor as a candidate
for the democratic presiueniiai
nomination. Sometimes these quiet
men have a lot of power.
VTHEN the wets in congress
can't get what they want (re
peal) by direct vote, they begin
trvtnir to iret liauor in other ways.
The attempt to txale down the
$11,309,500 for enforcement in the
house sub-committee failed. Now
the wet bloc will try to stop wire
tapping by federal prohibition
agents.
If the United States is to find a
solution on this problem it must
face it straightforwardly. To cut
the legs off tne law anu ici u
bleed to death Is barbarian. A de
cision fairly won will always be
more highly respected than any
won by dickering.
MOT only is the demand for eco
nomic" boycott of Japan coming!
from such men as President Low
ell of Harvard and Newton D.
Baker in the United States, but in
England Labor Leader George
Lan.sbury is demanding action.
"The civilized world cannot
stand still and sec these things
happening and carried through to
the bitter end without some pro
test," said Mr. Lansbury.
In this country the Presiednt
soems to hardly contemplate any
such move and Senator Borah in
sist a tn do is "turnine: the face
of the American people into war."
VHEN one hears that Austria
W during 1931 drank 17 'i per
cent less beer than in 1930, he im
mediately thinks, "it must be the
depression."
After all, it's a Townsend photo
graph that you want. Adv.
frrine College
World
BY LAURENCE HALL
rninmhli university is in New
York and it's ritzy. But there are
148 Smiths, 91 Millers, 68 Cohens,
60 Browns and 49 Jonses.
"The college girl Is inclined to
be sloppy the more educated she
is, the sloppier she usually Is."
That is the declaration of Dr. Rob
ert Emmons Rogers, professor of
English at M. I. T. who two years
ago startled the nation by advising
college graduates to De snons.
Theft of eighty-eight bathtubs
put the wn of Isadore Polack
through college, Polack admitted
in a Chicago court recently. His
promise to return the bathtubs to
the new apartment houses from
which they were stolen won him
his freedom.
Football is a major interscho
lastic sport for coeds in Melbourne,
Australia.
The spectacle of a university
professor of philosophy writing
plays and scenarios for thetalking
screen is being realized. Paul
Green, of the University of North
Carolina faculty, playwright and
Pulitzer prize winner in 1927, has
signed a contract to adopt a novel
and write an original southern
play for Warner Brothers this
spring. Green's current success is
"The House of Connelly," running
on Broadway.
Hiv o-pninsns are wanted bv the
president of Northwestern univer
sity. The school is seeking to
foster genius on a quantitative
bHsis through special study courses
and similar environmental condi
tions. High school principals have
been asked to recommend six bril
liant students for the education
experiment.
So that the frosh may appeat
masculine, a dormitory at Carnegie
Tech requires its yearlings to
chew tobacco.
Sevcr.ty-five percent of the
women at Swarthmore college are
members of sororities.
Of 173 students taking Czecho
slovakian at the University of
Texas, not one flunked.
Pilgrim fathers left England to
come to an unrestricted country,
America, some time ago, where
they hoped to find religious free
dom. But a questionnaire circu
lated at the University of London
reveals that 90 percent of the stu
dent body there does not believe
in God.
A fraternity pin was found in
the stomach of a cow butchered
recently at the University of
Wooster, O., experiment station.
Cheering stands at Amherst are
bare. Ninety-two percent of the
student body is out for some form
of athletics.
Modern Weatherman Differs from Old
Prophets in Keeping Tab on Elements
Th3 modern weatherman oper
ates in an entirely different man
ner from his predecessor, the an
cient prophet. Like everything
else In this age of sclenco the
weather report la given out in a
much more prosaic, and Incident
ally much more effeclent way. T.
A. Blair, head of the United States
weather bureau offices, operates in
n far different manner than did
the old prophet with his strange
rites and incantations.
The weather bureau receives
telegraphic reports from all over
the United States and parts of
Canada. These reports give the
barometric readings, air pressure,
temperature, and wind direction
and velocity. They also include
the amount of humidity in each
region and the amount of precipi
tation that has fallen within the
last twenty-four hours.
The bureau staff enters this data
on maps, with lines showing tho
distribution of high pressure areas
and cold and warm temperature
variations.
With tho aid of these maps the
weather bureau operators esti
mate the cnanges that am going
to take place within the next
twenty-four to thirty-six hours and
how theso changes will affect tho
local weather conditions.
"More moisture has fallen this
January than in any year since
1878," says Mr. Blair. "The nor
mal rate of precipitation for Jan
uary is .80 inch, and the amount
of moisture that fell amounted to
1.02 Inches."
"Last winter," continued Mr.
Blair, "was the first one in this
part of the country at any time
since records have been kept dur
ing which there has been no zero
weather. The calendar year of
1931 was also without any zero
weather."
In addition to making tho daily
forecast the weather bureau office
keeps a record of all events con
nected with that field of work.
This record is of use to engineers
and agricultural workers.
ColUAgri-Vun Ilills
Must He Presented
The Coll-Aorl-Fun committed
would like to have all outstand
ing bills preiented before Wed
nesday noon. These bills should
be preiented to Kenneth Reed,
business manager.
GOSS IN FAVOROF CARDOZO
Nebraska Chief Justice Says
New Yorker Has Great
Legal Intellect.
Chief Justice Charles A. Goss, of
tho Nebraska supreme court as fol
lows:
"Yes I know Judge Cardozo and
rejoice at his appointment to tho
u,,r,T-mn Tinrt nf the United
States. He is one of the greatest
legal intellectuals in tno woru u,
withal, a modest, winsome char-
acter. '
Tempo allegro of modern life
will cause the words of our speech
to be shortened, according to the
prediction of a public speaking
professor at New York university.
Because he denounced marriage
as "the stupidest of all institu-
Galleher Announces
Meeting for Tonight
There will be an Interfrater
nity Council meeting tonight
from 7:00 to 7:15 In Morrill
hall, according to an announce
ment made Tuesday evening by
Normal Galleher, President of
the council.
tions," the student editor of Cento,
at Centre, college, was removed
from his position by the president.
A rule found in a thirty year old
catalog of Texas Christian univer
sity would indicate that tho moral
ity of college students has im
proved considerably. It reads:
"Students shall neither keep in
their possession or use any fire
arms, a dirk, a bowic knife, or any
other kind of deadly weapon."
Because they had too many
dates, threo women at the Univer
sity of Louisiana shaved their
heads completely bare.
A bazaar is an amateur depart
ment store run at a great financial
loss to raise funds for charity, ac
cording to the report of a fresh
man recorded in the Brooklyn
Polytechnic Reporter.
Urbana university, Ohio, has a
student enrollment of twenty-four.
Chicago university will publish
sample quizes In various courses.
"The language house system" of
instruction of foreign languages
has been adopted by five United
.States colleges. Middlebury col
lege was the first school to adopt
the plan, and it was followed by
tho University of Wisconsin,
Wheaton, and Wcllcslcy.
Teachers' application photos, -SI
a doz. Barnett Studio, 1241 N. Ad
CHEMISTS WRITE PAPER.
In the February issue of the
Journal of the American Chemical
society appears an article, "Iso
meric Nitro-and Ammo-Nophtha-lene-arsenlc
Acids," written by Dr.
Cliff S. Hamilton, professor of
chemistry, and Richard Saunders
who received his Ph. D. from the
university recently.
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