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TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 1932
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NEWS EDITORS
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Let's Play
Politics.
Trepa rations are rapidly beginning to lake
form for the Thirty-fourth quadrennial Ameri
enn Olympiad. The Greatest Show on Earth
has been set for next Nov. 8. The athletes
have gone into training. Managers have cut
definite stands on controversial issues out of
Ihe political diet of their candidates. And on
"the first Tuesday after the first Monday in
November" the body of the country's voting
citizens which, by the way, is a very different
body from the enfranchised citizens will mi
grate to the polls to name a victim on whom
to blame every unfortunate circumstance of
the next four years. Yet merrily the ambitious
race for the prize.
Strangely enough the college world is one
element singularly uninterested in it all. While
his European, Latin, American, and Chinese
brethren eagerly cast aside the pen and grasp
the parade banner and musket in ink-stained
hand, the American college student sticks dog
godly to his little world of "rating." caking
and cutting class. The passivity of the North
American collegian with regard to polities, as
contrasted with students in these other coun
tries, is arousing considerable discussion as the
presidential campaign opens, and bringing a
multitude of would-be explanations for the
condition.
To the difference in social conditions here
and in other countries nnd to the American
emphasis on the material Professor Senning of
the political science department attributes the
difference in political interest. To this is added
the general American disinterestedness in gov
ernmental affairs.
The editor of the McUill student paper de
clares the phenomena is one aspect of the gen
eral refusal of young North America to be
stampeded to the support of any cause. The
normal American, he says, is more interested
in games than in politics and is not apt to be
persuaded from his sports by the spell-binding
of some political opportunist. Others think the
American student is showing an increased in
terest in such affairs, altho he is still far be
hind the student of some other countries in his
radical participation and attempts at partici
pation. One's explanation is as good as another's.
To add another here would advance the argu
ment little towards a solution. The fact re
mains that the American student is little inter
ested in the political bickerings and prepos
terous imbecilities of the demogogues. Nor
can. we much regret that he is.
And then there was the old, old one about
Many are cold but few are frozen.
and the dollar must be forced to pay homage
to our needs. It is time to convert that dollar
into a helper. It is time to cease the futile
seeking for superficialities. The morning after
has come and the world is sobering up.
The University of Nebraska has done much
to combat the ravings of the "Doubting
Thomases" by its ready aid of the drouth suf
ferers. The community has given a good ac
count of itself. Despite all that the writers
may say to the contrary it appears that col
legians do think and that they arc people.
And the Scotchman who, at the end of a golf
match, put something in his cady's hand and
said, "Go buy yourself a glass of whisky."
The boy opened his hand, found a lump of
sugar.
Wonder how the intersorority and intert'ra
ternity sing would sound in a snow storm.
I I allllllal aWW
TREND OF THE
TIMES
by
GERALD BARDO
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A Man
Died.
One hundred yeasr ago today in "Weimar,
Germany, a man died. A common occurrence
in itself, the event is remembered by the world
and its centennial anniversary is being ob
served today because of the remarkable work
that man did. He was John mi Wolfgang You
Goethe.
As a part of the world wide celebration of
the anniversary of Goethe's death, the German
department has prepared a memorial program
to be given tonight at the Temple. Faculty
members and students are joining in a tribute
to one of the great minds of the ages. Here, at
a foremost educational institution, it is fitting
that recognition be formally given the human
being who was at once a poet, a philosopher
and a man.
Best known for his opera Faust, Goethe has
been called by some the greatest poet. That
is an opinion and a matter of literarv criticism,
but whatever the stamp of the degree of great
ness put upon Goethe's work, it still stands
high in its inspiring level of beauty. Poet and
genius whose writings have stood the test of
the years that is Goethe. He was a "provin
cial" in his lifetime, but death has brought him
a cosmopolitan place in the literature of the
world.
One hundred years ago tod.iv in Weimar.
Germany, a man died.
Wonder vliy more American politicians
never enter rodeos they are so adapt at
throwing what they do in rodeos.
IF all kidnapers were sure of
being punished as summarily as
was one of the kidnapers of James
Dejute, Jr., kidnaping might do
crease. But In this case the evi
dence was positive. The defense
asked that common pleas Judge
Lynn B. Griffith hear the case
without a jury. He did and sen
tenced the kidnapper to life, say
Ing that such a crime Is "one of
the most cruel and heartless."
But kidnappers are not always
apprehended. Often they are not
convicted. It does not take such a
large sentence to deter the crim
inal from his act if apprehension
and conviction are positive. If
laws Increasing the punishment for
kidnapers is all that results from
the stimulating Lindbergh case, we
may still expect to see the crime
committed. Death Is talked of as
justice for these abductors. Most
cases will be tried before a jury,
and what jury will subject a man
to such punishment? It takes
more than laws to scare these
criminals out.
VVHEN two students rent a room
w. it costs them a little, but
not proportionate sum, more than
if they rented rooms separately.
But on a Pullman car, the Inter
state commerce commission has
decided, It is not to cost more for
two persons to occupy a berth than
one.
Pullman, feeling the depression,
as have the railroads, asked last
October that they be allowed to
make a twenty percent additional
charge for the second person.
HTHKODORE DUK STERBERG,
Steel Helmeter, has withdrawn
from the run-off German presiden
tial election, April 10. Most of his
support will probably go to Hitler,
but it will take more than that to
elect Hitler.
Kosmet Klub pony chorus dances at peni
tentiary. What was that old say about com
ing events and shadows?
What
Is This?
Daily Nebraskan predicts snow for Easter.
Winnie Winter gets mad at Daily Nebraskan
and sends snow a week early. This is an ap
peal to the elements to quit playing and go to
work. It is high time for spring and students
are worrying if they will ever get to go on any
picnics. It is indeed considerate of John
weather to send snow so that the newly initi
ated members of fraternities can hang on to
their pins a little longer, but the rest of the
students want to climb into knickers and out
of doors.
Daily Nebraskan is beginning to get griped
at Winnie Winter and Oz Black ought to be,
too. Twice, now, has Nebraskan come out with
perfectly good editorials on spring. Immedi
ately after both snow blows again. What is
this strange power. Oz Black has weather car-
oons every Sunday morning. Pretty soon
snow snows. -Sot so iroou.
Fraternity men put woolens away and get
out knickers on recommendation of Nebraskan.
Then snows. Integrity of paper shot to pieces.
Something must be done about it. Maybe
should appoint a committee.
CINCE the Al Capone trial, Judge
James H. Wilkerson who pre
sided has been appointed for the
circuit court of appeals. The ju
dicial committee of the senate is
now considering this nomination
Antlcrime leaders of Chicago
charge that gangland is making
an undercover fight to defeat con
firmation of Judge Wilkerson. An
tagonism to the judge has been
based largely on his antilabor rec
ord. Al probably feels he could
aid in this undercover work if they
would just let him out of jail for
a little while. But Judge Wilker
son or the court of appeals won't
give him bail, and the government
would let him out to hunt for the
Lindbergh baby.
IAPAN will withdraw the 11th
J division and the 24th mixed brl
gade from Shanghai. The Chinese
army will not advance beyond its
present position. Japan will not
aemand that her status in Shang'
hal be settled before she with,
draws. China will allow the Shang'
hai controversy to be settled sepa
rately from the ManchUrian ques
tion.
In private conferences at the
British consulate these points were
settled. Peace is much nearer with
these stumbling blocks removed.
GEOLOGY SURVEY
ISSUES BULLETIN
BY CONDRA, UPP
Another bulletin recently issued
by the Nebraska geological survey
is the "Correlation oi the Big Blue
Series In Nebraska" by O. E. Con
dra and J. E. Upp. This bulletin
wmch contains seventy-live pages
and fifteen figures, is designed as
a basis for geological mapping and
lor ine close study or sediments
and faunal groups. A number of
geologic sections are described and
the various subdivisions In the Big
Blue series are newly named or re
defined, with discussions of the
recognized divisions.
Put the knickers back, gentlemen.
is here to stay.
Winter
Girls give views on what they like and don't
ike about a man. Good thing they weren't
sworn in.
Are We
People?
A check for $50 received today from the
Cadet Officers Association for The Daily Ne
braskan drouth relief fund reminds that the
people in northeast Nebraska are still in need.
The military department is to be commended
upon their donation as is the entire campus
upon their response to the call. Receipts from
the Junior-Senior Prom will be all counted
wjtjiin a few days and will go to swell the
fund. The University of Nebraska may well
be proud of its work in this campaign.
Some few weeks ago a prominent eastern
gentleman cynically observed that "Students
are not people because they do not function as
people should. They are not influential as they
should be in the management of their colleges
or in the control of public opinion." Editorial
writers and columnists throughout the land
took up the statement and took sides pro and
con. The discussion has long since died a
natural death but the work of the students and
faculty at the University of Nebraska seems to
disprove pretty thoroughly the statement that
college folk are "not people."
"Public sentiment is with the poor unfortun
ates in the drouth area and with all the unem
ployed all over the world. No one likes to
hear the sad stories of the victims of chance.
No one likes to hear of a fellow being with a
family to support and no means to support
that family. But all of the public sentiment
in the world will not buy one bowl of soup,
nor one loaf of bread, nor one stitch of warm
clothing. Unless backed by the almighty dol
lar, all of the public sentiment in the world
would stand by and watch a man die of star
vat ion.
Students at Nebraska have proved them
selves thinkers by capitalizing on that public
sentiment to the extent of a large relief fund
of money and of clothing. They have not
only felt the need of the sufferers for assist
ance, they have recognized that something
rrrust be done about it and have done it.
In American culture the dollar has been
placed upon a pedestal ami worshiped as a
golden calf. And now the gold has tarnished
College Editors Say
Futility.
President Hoover's Stanford brother eaused
considerable furore last year when he told a
class that war was a necessary evil. For bis
unpopular statement he received the severest
castigation from the good people of these
United Stales. But now he has been redeemed.
The Society of International Law has com
pleted a study of world's history for the past
3.421 years and finds that during that time
8,000 peaee treaties were signed. Most of them
were treated with the same respect now being
accorded the Kellogg peae-e pact by Japan.
Each of the 8,000 lasted an average of two
years.
The human race has not been content with
disregarding terms of peace treaties. During
the 3,421 years surveyed the society found that
only 268 were years of peace.
The bloody pages of history will not be
wiped clean by any further treaties or peace
pacts which the world's nations may sign. The
Geneva disarmament conference will not spell
an end to violated compacts and sanguine war
fare. Three thousand years from now when
another society makes a similar survey it is
highly unlikely that more years of peace will
be found than our coeval survey revealed.
Man has acquired a cultural veneer but
otherwise he is little different from the other
animals which habitate this earth. The sur
vival of the fittest, keeps our animal brethren
in constant battle. The greed and avarice of
human beings and more especially of the lead
ers will keep the blood flowing so long as man
exists.
We do not fayor war. We sincerely wish
that the war to end wars had done-that. But
neither do we believe in adopting an idealistic
but impossible attitude which believe-:- mere
man will smooth over his own differences and
make his world heaven on earth. It is "as
well to recognize that we are a pretty blood
thirsty tribe and that Mars will continue to
stalk over the globe, leaving a trail of broken
treaties and skulls in his wake. Oklahoma A.
& M. O 'Collegian.
CRANCE, as represented by her
press, is relieved in the German
majority vote for Paul von Hin-
cienburg. Not all of France is sat'
isfied with Hindenburg, but as one
paper expresses it, "better could
have been expected .worse had
been feared." Fnance did not want
Hitler.
NOMINATE SIX WOMEN
FOR A.W.S. POSITIONS
(Continued from Page 1.)
cation card must be presented be
fore a ballot will be issued to an
individual.
Fourteen members will be
elected to the board. The defeated
candidate for president automat
ically becomes a senior member of
the board. The senior member re
ceiving' the highest vote becomes
vice president, the sophomore re
ceiving the highest number of
votes becomes secretary and the
freshman polling the highest total
is proclaimed treasurer.
Nominating Committee.
The candidates nominated by
the A. W. S. nominating commit
tee, and which will appear on the
ballot, along with the six names
still tmrevealed are:
President: Jane Axtell and
Helen Baldwin. Senior members:
Deloris Deadman, Eleanor Dixon,
Willa McHenry, Evelyn O'Connor,
Lois Picking, and Margaret Up
son. There will be six senior
members on the board.
Four junior candidates will be
come members of the board. Nom
inees for these positions are: Jane
Boos, Anne Bunting, Margaret
Buol, Alice Geddes, Valentine
Klotz, and Lucile Reilly.
Sophomore candidates for mem
bership are Calista Cooper, Helene
Haxthusen, Leah Carlsen, Laura
McAlister, Bash Perkins, and
Marian Smith. Of this number,
four will be elected.
Severed at Secretary.
Miss Axtell. Omaha, is a mem
ber of Alpha Chi Omega. She has
served as secretary of the A. W.
S. board this year. She is a Tassel,
a member of the Physical Educa
tion club. Miss Baldwin, Omaha,
is a member of Alpha Phi. She is
a junior member of the A. W. S.
board. She is treasurer and con
cession manager of W. A. A. and
has worked on the Cornhusker
staff. She is a leader of a Y. W.
C. A. sophomore discussion group.
Miss Deadman, Fairbury, is the
newly elected president of the Big
Sister board. She has Worked in
Y. W. C. A. this year and is chair
man of the student group of the
Council of Religious Welfare and
is a member of the Barb council.
Miss Dixon, Blair, is a member of
Chi Omega and has served as
treasurer of the Y. W. C. A. this
year. She was recently elected to
tbat position for next year. She
is a member of student council and
served on the prom committee.
Miss McHenry. Nelson, is
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member of Kappa Alpha Theta.
and was chosen as "Nebraska
Sweetheart" this year. Miss
Upson is a member of Alpha
omicron Pi and is from Odell. She
Is a junior member of the A. W. S,
board and of the Big Sister Board,
She was awarded the Panhellenlo
scholarship award this year and is
a member of Alpha Lambda Delta,
.Evelyn O Connor, Elsie, is a
member of Delta Zeta, She has
served this last year on the Y. W.
c. A. cabinet as research chair
man and is a member of Tassels.
Lois Picking is from Lincoln and
a member of Tassels.
Miss Boos, who is a nominee for
junior member, is from Howard, S.
u is a member of Delta Delta
Delta. She was recently elected the
new secretary of the Y. W. C A.,
and has been active in sophomore
commission work. Miss Bunting.
Lincoln, is affiliated with Pi Beta
Phi. She is a sophomore member
of the A. W. S. board, a member
of the W. A. A. executive council
and served as secretary to Tassels.
Margaret Buol, Randolph, is a
member of Chi Omega, She is a
sophomore member of the A. W. S.
board. She was elected the new
vice president of the W. A. A. and
is a member of Tassels. She has
been active in Y. W. C A. work
also. Miss Klotz, Lincoln, is a
member of Alpha Delta Theta. She
is active in Home Economics activ
ities and on the Agricultural col
fege campus.
Lucile Reilly, Lincoln, is a mem
ber of Delta Gamma. She served
as sophomore member of the A.
W. S. board and has recently been
elected the new vice president of
the Big Sister board. Alice Geddes,
Lincoln, is tne retiring president of
Alpha Lambda Delta, freshman
scholastic honorary, and is mem
ber of the Outing Club.
tresnman candidates are Calis
ta Cooper, Humboldt, a member
of Pi Beta Phi. She was recently
elected a sophomore member of
the Big Sister board for next year.
She has been active in freshman
commission and A. W. S. fresh
man groups and Is a pledge of the
Dramatics Club. Miss Haxthusen,
Omaha, is a member of Alpha Chi
Omega. She was freshman chair
man of the YT W. C. A. finance
drive.
Miss Carlsen, Lincoln, is a mem
ber of Kappa Alpha Theta and is
an active member of the A. W. S.
freshman activities group, as is
Miss McAllister. Bash Perkins, of
Arnold, is the newly elected secretary-treasurer
of the Big Sister
Board for next year and has been
active in Y. W. C. A. freshman
commission, and A. W. S. fresh
man groups. Miss Smith is from
Omaha, and is a member of Delta
Gamma. She, too, has been active
in freshman commission, and A.
W. S. groups.
SPEAKER 10 DESCRIBE
Jacobs Will Tell Engineers
Of Tasks in Building
Huge Zeppelin.
An illustrated lecture by V. R.
Jacobs of tha Goodyear-Zeppelin
corporation, on the construction of
the u. S. S. Akron will be the
feature of a special joint meeting
of the engineering societies on the
campus Wednesday, March Z3
7:30 in room 206 of the Mechanical
Engineering building.
.Mr. Jacobs had a part in his
company's program of lighter than
air craft, both before and after
they built the largest airship in the
world for the United States navy,
He will outline in detail the im
provements made in the large
helium ship.
His discussion will especially
emphasize the engineering prob
lems solved both in the plans for
the air liners while under construc
tion and for the airship dock which
the Goodyear-Zeppelin corporation
recently completed In Akron.
The student branches of national
engineering societies which will at'
tend the meeting are the American
bociety of Mechanical Engineers.
me American Society of Civil En
gineers, the American Society of
unemicai najinneers and ine Amer
lean Society of Agricultural Engl
neers. The Engineer's club of Lin
coln and the Nebraska section of
the American Society of Mechani
cal engineers win also attend the
meeting.
RECENT MISSOURI KID
NAPING PARTY QUEEN
STILL REMAINS DEEP
MYSTERY; QUESTION
LAW STUDENTS ABOUT
AFFAIR.
(Continued from Page 1.)
ternitles had had a hand in the af
fair, but upon investigation it was
round that one of them had been
holding an Initiation for Justice
George Robb Ellison of the state
supreme court, and the other one
denied even knowing the identity
of the queen.
Evidence shows that the affair
was well planned, and that half a
dozen or more persons had part
in it. Just how the abductors knew
of Miss Butterfield's appointment
with the beauty shop and were
able to arrive at her sorority house
at the right time to seize her as
she went out to take a taxicab is
unexplained.
Identity Unknown.
It is not known how far the uni
versity's investigation of the affair
will go. Dr. Albert K. Heckel, dean
of men, said tbe identity of the
kidnapers was unknown to him.
He declined to say what action he
woul . :ake It he learned who was
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Tuesday.
A. W. S. freshman activities
group meeting at 4 o'clock in Ellon
Smith hall.
Wednesday.
A. W. S. board meeting at 12
o'clock in Ellen Smith hall.
Thursday.
A. W. S. election from 9 to 5
o'clock in Ellen Smith hall.
responsible for her disappearance.
County officials stated there had
been no complaint filed and that
I-they would not take a hand unless
some direct evidence that a crime
had been committed was placed
before them.
Meanwhile the engineers are un
limbering long, wicked paddles
which they wield to keep trespass
ers off the Francis quadrangle
grass, vowing vengeance upon
Miss Butterfield's abductors.
The Missouri affair is also remi
niscent of the attempt made on the
University of Nebraska campus, a
year ago, to "kidnap" Robert
Kelly, Pi Kappa Alpha, and mem
ber of Innocents, who was to take
Dorothy Silvis, Kappa Alpha
Theta, to the Junior-Senior prom.
Mr. Kelly was taken to a road
near the state penitentiary but ha
managed to get back to town m
time to escort Miss Silvis to tho
Prom where she was presented as
Prom Girl. Miss Silvis waited until ,
about 10:30 at the Kappa Alphit
Theta house before Kelly arrived.
ANNIVERSARY OF
GOETHE WILL BE
COMMEMORATED
(Continued from Page 1.)
Cosmopolitan," by Dr. Michael
UtnBburg of the department of
classics, and a song by a quartet
composed of Harold Hollingsworth,
Harvey Humann, Lyle DeMoss and
Harvey Hubbard.
Faculty members, students and
citizens of Lincoln are invited to
the program which is a part of the
world-wide observance of the
death of one of Germany's greatest
geniuses. In addition to the above
program, a radio broadcast has
been planned from the university
studios at 2:30 Tuesday afternoon.
Germany has made extensive
plans for a commemoration of
Goethe's death. At the hour of his
death there will be a program in
the Kaisersaal. Various programs
all during the year will pay tribute
to the immortal German poet.
Easter Flowers
The Perfect .Easter Gift
Nothing could
be more expres
sive or convey a
message of
friend ship or
love.
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r a ligements of
Cut Flowers
$1.00 to
$5.00
Kilter Lilies
and Other Pot
ted Plants
$1.00 to
$4.00
A Corsnge to complete the
Easter Gown
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section, reducing the telephone building to smoking ruins. That
night, Western Electric men were at work converting an old court
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