FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1932.
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The Daily Nebraskan
SUtlon A, Lincoln, Nebraska
! OFFICIAL STUDENT PUBLICATION
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA
Entarad at aecond-claaa matter at the pottofflce In
Lincoln, Nebraaka, under act of congreaa, March 3, 1879,
aid at apeclal rate of postage provided for In tectlon
1103. act of October 3. 1817, authorized January 20, 1922.
Under direction of the Student Publication Board.
Editorial Office Unlverilty Hall 4.
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Ask for Nebraskan editor.
EDITORIAL STAFF
Howard Q. Allaway Editor-in-chief
Jack Erlckson Associate Editor
Managing Editors ., ,,
Phillip Brownell Laurence Hall
News Editors
Richard Moran Irma Randall
Lynn Leonard
Katherlne Howard Women's Editor
Joe Miller , Sports Editor
Violet Cross Society Editor
BUSINESS STAFF
H. Norman Qallaher Business Manager
Assistant Business Managers
Bernard Jennings Frank Musgrave
George Holyoke
Politics and--
The College Man.
WHAT possibilities does politics offer as a career
for the college-trained man? What are his
chances in the game as it is played now? This
question, particularly pertinent in the present year,
is posited by the editor of the Vermillion, S. D.,
Republican and left without an answer.
He puts it this way:
We met a young man a short time ago
who is preparing himself for a political career
... He is a college graduate ana nas aireauy
had a year's postgraduate work at Columbia
university. The coming year he will study in
the University of Chicago. The following year
he plans to study international law in Scot
land. He is a young man of sterling charac
ter with high ideals . . . But we wonder how
much chance that young man will have with
the voters when he goes up against an oppon
ent who can chew tobacco and tell funny
stories, the kind of a candidate who makes
impossible promises and forgets them the day
after election, and whose sole occupation while
in office is building fences to keep himself on
' the pay roll?
And well may this wondering South Dakota
editor wonder.
A good many aspects of the political game,
under the present rules, tend to discourage 'persons
of ability from entering public life.
Take the gubernatorial race in Kansas this
year, r One of the candidates is Dr. John R. Brink
ley, the goat gland quack whose license was re
voked by the state medical board. Incensed at this
action. Dr. Brinkley two years ago started a cam
paign for governor apparently on the theory that
election to office would vindicate his standing as a
youth-giving specialist Following a strenuous
campaign among the people. Dr. Brinkley polled the
amazing total of 180,200 write in votes, only a few
thousand less than Harry Woodring who was
elected. .
- This year the good doctor is conducting a truly
up-to-date campaign with a garnishly painted
truck called Ammunition Train No. 1, advertise
ments in the newspapers and entertainment by a
cowboy radio crooner. He is promising the poor
people of Kansas paving on hundreds of miles of
roads in every county in the state, free text books
in all the schools, artificial lakes in every county
crested by state money, and many other expensive
improvements. On top of all this he promises to
n.i. mum. The Kansas fanners are so anxious
for any kind of change in government that they are
falling right in line.
Turning to another state, there is Illinois where
famed Big Bill Thompson is stumping the down
state farming communities for the return of Lee
Small, former governor who was indicted, tried and
made. to disgorge withheld Interest on state funds
in 1025.
Last week Big Bill was going up and down
the Mississippi, Ohio and Illinois rivers in a show
boat promoting Candidate Small's bid for vindicaton.
Opposing Small is Judge Henry Horner, whose name
used to be Levy until his mother changed it to hers
when she divorced his father.
"My friends, I don't have to tell you that Levys
don't eat hogs. If Horner is elected, hog prices are
bound to drop. Furthermore, Jews run pawnshops,
and the first thing Horner will do if he gets to
Springfield is open a pawnshop. He was put up by
Tony Cermak to ge the Jewish vote and he's trying
to get the Catholic vote, too, by sendinng his chil
dren (Judge Horner has neither wife nor children)
to a Catholic parochial school!" shouted Blustering
Bill.
The downstate clodhoppers," according to a
reliable report, "gawped,, snickered and noded ap
provingly." If these two incidents are fair examples of the
way the game of politics is played in this day and
of the way a candidate for public office has to go
after votes, the hopes for Vermillion's college
trained politician are very discouraging, indeed.
BUT there Is another side to the matter. Suih
incidents as th"fv'a .Kansas and Illinois are
common enough not to excite) any appreciable pro
test, but they are not the general rule. The fact
remain that the number of college graduates in
public office is increasing rapidly.
This may -be accounted; for in that the propor
tion fit college graduates La the country is increasing
and that it is but natural that ire of them should
get into office. Granting that, it seems, neverthe
less, that the American public is gradually demand
ing a higher type of public service. Scandals in
volving public corruption which once would have
been considered but natural are now front page
news.
In times like the present when the necessity
of efficient and honest government is forcibly
brought to the attention of the people, this tendency
should be stimulated.
Popular government will long continue to be a
rule of emotion and prejudice rather than a rule of
reason, but progress away from the nadir of that
condition, it seems, is now being made. The fu
ture, even more than the present, indicates a grow
ing place for the college trained, concientious of
ficial who will regard public office as an oppor
tunity for public service rather than for private
gain.
B. M. O. C.
Hatchery.
11TISE heads in the several local fraternities have
" labored painfully during the weeks since school
began and have now brought forth a new crop of
would-be future campus hot shots. The announce
ment came in Wednesday's Nebraskan.
We refer to the list of Sophomore pledges to
Corn Cobs, Nebraska's alleged men's pep organi
zation. There Is at this university we have said this
before a well-beaten path leading to campus fame.
Few arrive without having traversed it. The start
ing places are two: Interfraternity council and Corn
Cobs. Either one will do; both are still better.
At present both these clubs find this their
prime reason for existence: to furnish "comers"
their debut into the limelight. That they were
founded for another purpose is generally disre
garded. In this Corn Cobs is even a greater of
fender than the council.
The Nebraskan has previously expressed the
opinion that the Interfraternity council can never
reach its possibilities as a legislator for the com
bined fraternities of Nebraska until the underclass
representation thereon is replaced by a membership
really representing the power in the constituent
houses preferably the house presidents.
With the Cobs the fault lies not in the basis of
mbembership, but in the attitude of those chosen
to membership towards the function the organiza
tion is supposed to fulfill.
Nebraska is a school known on other campuses
for its spirit. Corn Cobs should form the logical
nucleus for an organization of the student body
for expression of this "good old Cornhusker spirit"
on appropriate occasions. Instead they can scarcely
be got out to a rally.
The way the Corn Cobs have functioned as a
pep organization the last two years, especially last
year, has been nothing short of pitiful. A few usu
ally managed to straggle out to the rallies if they
could drive cars In the parade and it wasn't too
cold. Occasionally there was some present at
games who knew a few of the school songs. Ob
yes, they sold football programs. Of course they
did. They got into the games cheaper that way
and if an effective system of mulcting the athletic
department of a few stray quarters was devised...
weU...
But it Is a sad' commentary oa Cornhusker
Spirit if it was that which Corn Cobs personified.
Corn Cobs if it. will assume a real place of
importance in organizing school spirit on this cam
pus. But they never will until they get alive and
be something more than a B. II. O. C. hatchery.
Contemporary Comment .
A Solution:
Pro$ in Office.
TTHE time-proved game of making a political
football out of public education continues with
unabated enthusiasm in many quarters.
Wisconsin, where a professional university
critic has recently been given a vote of confidence
by the electorate of the state, stands out as the
example of the moment.
In Washington the effect of the game has
been more disastrous. There an ambitious gover
nor who sees in a tax slashing campaign the chance
for a lot of votes has "reorganized" the state uni
versity into a liberal arts college with attached
departments for law and graduate work. His op
ponents say he would abolish even this if he thought
he could get away with it. . The signs portend the
end of co-education in the state. The following
schools and colleges have been eliminated or con
solidated in the governor's "reorganization:" music,
home economics, fisheries, fine arts, journalism,
library, nursing and buslnes administration.
Attacking a state university or cutting its finan
cial resources even to the extent of impairing its
educational facilities has long proved a sure-fire
method of getting votes. It has the added advan
tage that the average voter doesn't know much
about higher education and is bard to make under
stand it needs and place in modern society.
Connecticut, whether with this in view or not
has not been indicated, has found a practical method
looking toward solution of this problem. There the
university professors run for office. And they get
themselves elected.
Governor of the state is a professor. His op
ponent this fall 1 a professor. Professor Hiram
Bingham, her United States senator, has another
professor for an opponent. Another professor and
a formr football coach are running for state or
national congress.
monopolizing Class Time,
Time and again there has risen
editorial lament concerning the
student monopolist, that student
everyonn knows, who, eitner oe
cause of his zestful ardor for ac
quiring knowledge or, more likely,
because of his fanatic hunting for
high marks, appropriates the
classroom discussion. Admittedly
a pretty problem, It still Is annoy
ing, to a degree, injurious to inose
who share his presence in class.
The detrimental effect of desultory
student chatter upon classroom
propriety, upon the various stu
dents' brow made feverish by ex
asperation and the hopelessness of
the situation is too well realized
for further elaboration.
Bv the time such a student
reaches his junior year and still is
as incorrigible as ever, the situa
tion is well nigh hopeless. At least
with a freshman, whose tendencies
and habits are set In a foundation
not too firm, he can with pleasure
be told his faults with the prob-J
ability that they will be corrected.
But of course, with an upperclnss
man, it is different. And besides,
it wouldn't be such a pleasure to
tell him.
But how distressing is this too
visible manifestation of the failure
of home training, of the past sec
ondary and even college education
which have allowed the individual
to retain this disagreeable habit,
this aggressive selfishness for ful
filling, in a superficial manner, his
desires, a habit which will of ne
cessity become more intense, more
offensive, as his desires are height
ened bv ambition.
Let the old dog suffer his fate.
It has been said that one can't
teach him new tricks. At least the
freshmen, as they learn in history
classes, can profit by the oppres
sive experience of their predeces
sors. The Daily Texan.
The Woman's Privilege.
Our calendar has brought to us
again a year divisible by four, thus
making it one in wnicn me posi
tions of men and women are re
garded as reversed. Also since
1932 is a year ot oppression we
wonder if women will change their
stand in regard to 50-50 clubs.
Agitation for 50-50 clubs has
resulted in their establishment
at many schools. Such clubs have
been organized at the University
of Idaho, Oregon State college,
University of Washington and the
University of Southern California,
besides many others. Instead of
the 50-50 basis a group of co-eds
at the University of Southern Cali
fornia suggested that man's pres
ence is not worth while unless ac
companied by the gallantry of a
100 percent 'payment of material
expenses.
Another objector to the P0-50
system at Southern California
wishes to test date applicants by
an entirely different system. She
thinks that each man should be
graded on certain factors and that
it should be the duty of the
woman to pay the resulting per
centage. The following are the
factors of evaluation which she
suggests :
Intelligence 20
Cultural background ..15'
Personal appearance ... 15
Personality 10
Courtesy 10
Sense of humor 10
Physical fitness 5
Clear understanding of
meaning of "NO" .... 5
Social poise 5
Dancing ability 5
100
Such a rating would result in
unfair discrimination because the
power of Judgment Is left entirely
in the hands of the co-eds. A sub
stitute would be to hold a confer
ence between both parties and thus
solve controversies as to "intelli'
gence, social poise" and " a clear
understanding of the meaning of
'NO, Men certainly have the
right to expect similar qualifies'
tions In the dates which they ea-
cort. Their only advantage is in
choosing the dates which thev
hope will be good ones. It is only
fair then to allow men the same
right of evaluation. Then as the
share each should pay could not
be determined by that method, all
calculations should be torn up and
thrown into a waste basket.
Co-eds at the University of
Washington feel that thev would
"rather stay at home and listen to
the radio than ride with a date on
a street car." The University of
Washington Daily wants the co
eds to "heed the modern trend."
At Idaho co-eds are worried as to
who should tip his hat, open the
door or walk on the outside of the
sidewalk. The paper there asks
"Why shouldn't women do a little
sacrificing in this time of depres
sion as well as at other times?"
Women are likely to about-face
abruptly and agree with men In
their plea that expenses be divided
and even go so far as to say that
the escort should not pay any of
the expenses since it is leap year
and they are taking the place of
escorts. Well. "It's a woman's
privilege to change her mind."
University of Washington Daily.
ite Phillips of Lincoln will have
charge of the refreshments which
will be served before the meeting
400 GIRLS GATHER AT
ANNUAL ACTIVITY TEA;
(Continued from Page 1.)
tainment throughout the after
noon: Mary Eley, piano; Audrey
Reed, contralto; Ruth Hill, harp;
and a String Trio from the Uni
versity School of Music consisting
of Ethel Owen, violin; Garnett
Mayhew, cello; and Marvell Jones,
piano.
The tea was sponsored by A. W.
S. Board with the co-operation of
the Y. W. C. A., Big Sister board,
W. A. A, League of Women Vot
ers, and with Theta Sigma Phi,
honorary journalistic fraternity;
Alpha Lambda Delta, freshman
honorary; the Cornhusker, the
Awgwan, and the Daily Nebras
kan represented
BAPTIST CLASS TO MEET
CATHOLIC STUDENTS
RECEIVE COMMVMOM
Breakfast to Follow Mass
At St. Mary's Sunday
Mornins.
All Catholic students attending
the university will r'-ceive Holy
Communion at St. JIary's cathe
dral, 14th and K streets, during
the 9:30 class, Sunday, October 2.
A breakfast will be served to the
students, alumni and others who
are interested in the Newman club
and Catholic activities, at the Ho
tel Cornhusker at 10:30 o'clock.
Hereafter, the first Sunday of
ccch month will be ths student
communion Sunday, and the stu
dent mass will be held at 9:30
o'clock.
Scott and Macpherson to
Address Young People
On Sunday.
Phillip Scott, fnstructor of phil
osophy, wil speak on "Jobs, Prob
lems and Hours," at the First Bap
tist university class Sunday at 12
o'clock. Miss Velma Jones of
North Platte will sing.
At the young people's meeting
at 6:30, Rev. James llacpberson
of the Second Baptist church will
speak on "Can the Principles of
Jesus Meet the Present World
Conditions?" Economics, inter
national and inter-social problems
will be taken up in the future
meetings.
Miss Annabelle Stannard of Ips
wich, South Dakota, and Marguer-
The Student Pulse
Itrlt-f , ronrtM contributions ntrtl
nrnt In mailers of tudi-nt Ufa and
tho milverxltjr ura wrlconird by this
drpartmrtit, undrr Ilia usual rrntrlr
llrnin of aonnd nrwspaprr prartlrt,
which rxt'ludrs all Ubrloui mattrr
and prwinal uttarkn. l-rttrra mud
b nlinird, but nami-a will b with
held from publication If m dralrfd.
TO THE EDITOR:
Freshman! ! Be sure and ob
tain a good record in military
science while registered for your
first two vears of basic drill. It
surely will be of great benefit to
you when trying to get Into the
advanced courses. Do not miss
any drill periods and be sure to
learn all of the movements ana
commands just as Instructed. Lis
ten carefully to every preaching
"advanced courses." If you have
a good record of attendence ana
higher grades than the average in
your tests it will give the officers
a chance to string you along about
the lunior and senior courses. A
man that has such a past record
and is deeply Interested in the
course will naturally believe every
thing that he Is told about getting
in when the selections are made
After two weeks of school they
finally make up their mind whom
to select and post the names, ine
ones not chosen can take the
course under paragraph twenty, or
drop out.
Nice time to get into anotner
class. But what actually gripes
is the fact that after Itending
classes regularlly for two years
aud having & fair knowledge of the
basic course, be rejected in place
of some one who just poked along
the first two years. Nice reward
for your efforts?
Well every body is happy in
the Military department.
DISGUSTED.
ROBB SPEAKS ON
ECONOMIC CRISIS
AT CLUB MEETING
In an address to the members
of the Co-operative club who met
Thursday noon for luncheon Prof.
T. Bruce Robb, explained the con
ditions out of which the present
crisis developed. In his talk, he
compared the strife of the time to
that of other periods. Particularly
did he note the operation of our
credit system and changes in the
banking laws, which have made
the gold reserve more effective.
Campus Robberies Are
Mystery to Police rorce
The campus robberies are still a
mystery to the city police. No
clues have been found concerning
the looting at the Alpha Xi Delta
house nor other campus robberies,
according to the police.
There have been no alarms late
ly from any campus source and it
is assumed that the "crime wave"
has run its course. At least, ac
cording to Officer I-egler, it is
hoped so.
John Harvard's bequest to the
infant college which took his
name, consisted of 260 books,
mainly theological.
Three Cheers
for the
ALL UNIVERSITY PARTY .
Presenting DEB LYONS and his fa
mous 12 piece dance band playing
the latest hits of the season. One
mile of crepe -paper converts the
Coliseum into a gorgeous ballroom
for this gigantic all student party.
Balloons
Confetti
Colored
Lights
Serpentine
Dancing Girls
Unique Stage
Decotations
10 FULL ACTS OF VAUDEVILLE
UNIVERSITY COLESIUM
Tomorrow Night, Oct. 1, 8:30 P. M.
Adm. 50c Men; 35c Ladies
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Chr"-rt. Cocinie.
Ann. thinllnc
Tach cf the University Players'
j ro ! -.ctSons will begin on Monday
j.c:.:;.; tsd txtecd thru Saturday
to r- tlnees. The first week's
7 : .. : i'Jed for the week lv
- r t. 24. and authorities in
d'partnent are now
r tr selection of
' te remainder of the
a 1U be given t in
' ;t a mcuDi apart.
; i -; wi;i -:) t the
i ' i f J 2 each and faculty
member will be entitled to tickets
at the same price. A special ec
tion in the renter of the Temple la
under special leaervation. Public
tickeu for the aeaaon will wu at
2 40 each, a reduction of 40 per
cent from pricei last year. Either
a atudent ticket or a public ticket
entitle! the purchaser to at
tendance at the aix University
Playera' production of the coming
season.
COMMENTS SHOW
ENTHUSIASM FOR
BASEBALL TEAM
(Continued from Pa6e 1 )
in it. Students will not go out of
town to see a University game.
While we do not have a baarball
diamond on the campus, I do not
believe we should reinstate base
ball." Weir aays, 1 would like to
see a well rounded athletic pro
gram. Wt should have every sport
that the students a: j interested in.
The baseball season Is short, and
as toon as we have finances, and
facilities for Indoor practice I fei
sure that baseball will be rein
stated." "Baseball has held a major posi
tion in Nebraaka sports in past
years," aald Jack Thompson, presi
Oent of the Innocents, "and th.r
if no doubt that its nonularitv
would be equally great should it
make its return to our atheltic
program."
When questioned on the idea of
returning baseball as a major
sport, Ralph Spencer, editor of the
Cornhusker said. "I believe that
baseball should be returned to the
athletic program, only if it would
be self supporting."
Robert Harmon, president of
the Alpha Tau Omega, states, "I
believe that baseball should be re
Instated. Americas' foremost sport
should be on every campus."
Alfred Adam believes that it
would be a good idea to return
baseball to the campus, that as
many sports as possible, should be
represented on the campus. Edward
Lyman also connrmea ae iu;.
As for the girls side of the ques
tion, Lucille Re lily says, "I believe
that baseball should be reinstated
because of the interest of the stu
dent toward thai activity."
A Delta Grpma sophomore,
Louise Perry, advocates the rein
statement of baseball. She says,
"Its very hard to stay in night
when baseball games are on."
Home Ee Association
Holds Picnic Friday
The Home Economics association I
Is having Ita annual picnic Friday
evening from 8:30 to 7 o'clock, j
The affair 1 an annual event,
which preceds the drive for mem-1
berahip to the association. About
fifty girls are planning to attend.
Southern California
Has Late Hu-li Week
Rush week by the thirty-five so
rorities on "Sorority-row" directly
across from the eirls dormitorv.
Hershey Hall, at University of
Southern California did not start !
until Monday, September 26. j
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