I THE DAILY NEBRASKAN TUESDAY. OCTORER 11, 1M2. wo The Daily Nebraskan Station A, Lincoln, Nbrka OFFICIAL 8TUDENT PUBLICATION T UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA Entered at cond-el matter at the poatofflce In Lincoln, Nebrak, under net of congr, March S, 1870, and at epeclal rate of potg provided fop In Motion 1103, act of October 3, 1917. authorised January 0, 1922. THIRTY-SECOND YEAR Publlhed Tuetday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday morninga durlno the acadenilt year. SUBSCRIPTION RATE - 12 a yer Single Copy S cente S1.8S a ismeeter 3 a year mailed S1.7S aemeiter mailed Under direction of the Student Publication Board. Editorial Office Unlvenity Hall 4. Buainesa Office Univereity Hall 4 A. Telephone Davi B-6H91; Night! B-6882. B-3333 (Journal) AiK for Nebraekan editor. EDITORIAL STAFF . .Howard 0. Allaway ..Editor-in-chief Jack Erlekion Aieoclate Editor Managing Editor Phillip Brownell Laurenca Hall Newt Editor Richard Moran , 'w Randall Lynn Leonard KatheHne Howard.. '. Women's Editor Joe Miller.' iSporU Editor Violet Cro Society Editor BUSINESS STAFF M. Norman Oallaher Bulnea Mannger Aolitant Buine6t Manager Bernard Jennlng Frank Muigravt George Holyok Avoid Entangling Alliances, T71TH fall election deadlines onlv a day ahead, political fires are smouldering. Investigation reveals that both parties are angling for the barb vote, and well they might, for as the canny Yellow Jackets revealed last wlus to the chagrin of their "majority" opponents, the Blue Shirts, any slate is worthless if the barb faction's power la directed against It in an organized way. Barbs this fall, it is rumored, arc being smart. It seems they hesitate to align themselves definitely with either faction. Terhaps this refusal to become entangled is no more than happy chance, but if barb leaders are really smart, they'll continue to leave alliance alone while they concentrate on inter nal organization. Greek influence is, after all, a shaky thing when viewed in perspective. Organized barb votes would be dangerous to the Greek factions, and they know it Know it so well, in fact, that they tempt the barb morale with subtle offers. Should either faction be successful in securing barb support, it would certainly mean catastrophe to tho little bit of organization non-fraternity men have" already built up. Once Blue-Shirt or Yellow Jacket wolves entangled the sheep in their circle, speedy would be the end of the innocent sheep. For the present, if there is to be anything like the just balance of power between fraternity and non-fraternity groups which would mean so much in rehabilitation of laggard activities, barbs would be wise to keep out of party alignments. By so doing, and by concentrating on organization of their tre mendous potential power, they will inevitably profit. And they can rest assured, too, that their effort will not be unaided. If approached in the right spirit, no other project will be able to do so much for rejuvenation of student activities. Individuals, and individual groups, of course, will look on any such organization of barb power as dangerous. But selfish Interests must be temporarily discarded if the school as a whole is to progress. Wholesome, purging reorganization of stagnant student affairs is in the offing. Keep clear, barbs, and power to you! Falling Football Receipts. gATURDAY'S game, one of the most sparsely at tended ever played in Memorial Stadium, stim ulates Business Manager John K. Selleck to the pre diction that total football receipts this year will be Off some 33 to 40 percent. Despite a successful sale of athletic books among the students in the recent student-conducted drive, the total amount of money from football is due for an almost disastrous drop. In the first place and chiefly, the general public on whom football must depcid for most of its cash customers the ntudent attendance is a comparatively small item just isn't buying. Secondly, even the Increase in ticket sales among the students this year was insuf ficient to off-set the loss through the reduction in the price of these tickets. Among other things, this situation spells sudden and violent extinction for the slow-moving demand for reinstatement of baseball into the Cornhuskcr sport repertoire just beginning to be evidence in the student body, especially at the College of Agricul ture. A band of sincere baseball enthusiasts and players, even while Mr. Selleck was releasing his sad information following Saturday's game, was cir culating or preparing to circulate a petition among the students requesting re-establishment of baseball as a varsity sport Next step on their program was to present the proposition to the Interfraternity council for ap proval, which considering the efficiency of tha council as an approving body it was reasonably certain to receive. Whether this will be now carried through has not been made known. In any case, the movement is now predestined U defeat When baseball was cut out of :je Nebraska athletic program, finances of the department, al though at its word necessitating the action even then, were in a considerably better state of affairs than at present. Baseball under present conditions, it seems, is a lost cause. If maintained, it must depend on a CHAIRMAN MAKES LOCAL POLITICAL CLUB CHALLENGE (Continued from Page 1.) colleague who will do justice to the republican club." The debate, Holtzendorff pro poses, will be a regulation non-decision debate, to be followed by open-forum discussion. His complete letter follows: John Gepson , Chairman, Republican Club University of Nebraska, a Dear Mr. Gcpscn: With the coming election only twenty-nine days away, and stu dent interest in politics still at low ebb, it is the purpose of this open letter to arouse student in terest and aid our fellow stu dents in selecting the best can didates for the greatest execu tive) office in the land. With this motive in mind, I hereby challenge you to a public debate to discuss either the prin ciples of the two organizations, or the candidates for the presi dency of the United States. The exact wording of the ques tion being left to Prof. H. A. White, debate coach, whom I suggest should act as chairman Xor th debate. The time absolutely impossible to give. Back of a campus to draw baseball from bring back Its diamond near forced to do without that sport. Humorless Humor Magazine? place to be decided mutually within the next few days. I have selected as my col league Mr. Donald Shirly. a good democrat, and I suggest you select a colleague who will do justice to the republican club. Said debate to be a regulation non-decision college debate, with an open forum discussion at its close. It is my aim, in issuing this challenge to attempt to stimu late campus interest in the demo cratic and republican parties, their platforms, and their candi dates for the presidency. Yours very truly, Howard L. Holtzendorff. Chairman. Student Young People's Democratic Clubs of Nebraska. ANNUAL SELECTS MARJORLE QUIVEY THE ART EPITOR (Continued from Page 1.) out that there are a number of ad vantages in making appointments with the photographers now before the rush season starts when it will be more inconvenient and poorer results are apt to be obtained. A notice will be run in the Daily Nebraskan each da designating more remunerative sport, football, for support. That support, according to tho athletic department, it is playing field close enough to the large student attendance prevents supporting itself. As a result, then, until the business of football discovers a way to former prosperity, or until a baseball the campus Is built, Nebraska will bo p. It., in a letter appearing In the Student Pulso department this morning, places both feet very firmly on the neck of the poor Awgwan and proceeds to joggle up and down with no little vigor. The trouble with the Awgwan, according to R. R., is that it isn't funny. In fact, R. R. believes, most of those who jead the first issue, sold at the begin ning of the year, were lost as possible future cus tomers. Now, now, M. R. R-, could it be that you have bean reading a very similar indictment launched at the Awgwan last year by Mr. Grimes, literary critic of the Omaha World-Herald ? Anyway, the charge Is about the same. The Nebraskan agrees with ''oth R. R. and Mr. Grimes to some extent - but onl to a small extent. Just what humorous element is injected into an oth erwise pointless quip by calling the speakers by the name of some fraternity or sorority, we have not been nblc to determine. Admitted, too, that somo of the longer features in the recent issue strived manfully, but largely unsuccessfully, to substitute cleverness of style for genuine humor. Rut at that, the Awgwan is a pretty good ex pression of campus humor. Not all the stories fell to the miserable low of one or two in the first num ber this fall. Most of the "shorts" were genuinely humorous. The art work has maintained the stand ard set under Marvin Robinson last year. Kspe clally is the editorial section to be commended. The quality of this department, consisting largely of well-done satire, is worthy of the reputation the Awgwan has built up on campuses all over the country. If you don't get what we mean, it's this: We think the Awgwan, although there is room for im provement, Is a good humor magazine and worthy of a more general student support than it is now receiving. College: Is It Worth It? 'J'HK old question, "Why go to coil;?" is still good for discussion every time someone thinks it has dropped momentarily from public considera tion. Recently the following appeared in a letter in the public correspondence columns of the London Evenign Standard: "I am a widow of limited means, with a son and daughter, both of average intellectual ability or better. I can send only one to college? Which shall I send?" To provide an answer the Journal of Education, a Boston publication, put the question to its readers. In the replies that came in a majority favored send ing each two years and letting them work their wa for the rest. The number who advised educating the son just about balanced the number who would have given the daughter that advantage. William McAndrew, former superintendent of Chicago public schools who was forced out by Big Bill Thompson, however, replied as follows: "Aber nicht (but no)! Ask the widow to set down as many reasons as she can why her son and why her daughter should go to college. You could then easily show her that the number of colleges that are likely to secure any of these benefits can be counted on the fingers of one hand and are full already. Tell her the truth. The outlook for the collegian is poorer than for the non.'' Ex-superintendent McAndrew's reply, while we believe not giving the widow the best advice, does voice a condition which is wide-prevailing enough to discourage many a student when he sees the few ad vantages four years of hard work and financial sac rifice to get a college education gives him over the high school classmate who went to work instead ol to college. Many employers delight in placing the college graduate at a disadvantage in practical work, thus demonstrating (to their satisfaction, because they had no college education ) that college "doesn't pay." And many college graduates provoke this tendency by their presumptuous attitude which assumes their education give a prima facie advantage over men trained in the field. This, however, does not get at the real situation which is causing many to question the practical worth of a college education. The fact is that the college man, despite his four years' of higher education, starts as a cub when he goes to work afterward. This inheres in the fact that college cannot replace actual practice as a training school. The advantage of a college education must be looked for not in technical ability to do a routine job, but in adaptability to meet new conditions. The college man is better equipped to withstand the shakedown of a change in methods for his education consists not in learning one method but in develop ing an ability to adapt himself to conditions which change faster than a college curriculum to train him in them could change. Here he has an advan tage over the boy who went to work out of high school. the time and place for organiza tion pictures, Joe Shramek, organ izations editor, said. He urged that all organizations co-operate with the staff and watch this box so their pictures will be as represen tative of each group as possible. Junior and senior staff members are called for a meeting at the Co-nhusker office Tuesday after noon. Lee Young, junior editor, re quests that his staff meet at 3 o'clock and the senior editor, Rosa lie Lamme, will meet her staff at the same hour. DORMITORY HEADS TAX SALESMEN AT CHAPEL HILL, N. C A ten dollar tax per head on those selling sandwiches and other foodstuffs in the dormitory will be enforced this year at Chapel Hill, N. C. The law providing for the tax was passed two years ago. As al lowed under the state law. the tax was up to one hundred dollars per person, so the local ordinance is comparatively lenient. All food sold is to be inspected by the local health department Contemporary Comment Youth and Depression. To youth this depression of ours may have a startling significance. Previous to this time, most of us have been in tho habit of regard ing tho world as a finished product completely perfected. Why? Prln cipally because teachers and par ents alike have deliberately trlod to give us that impression. They have stressed the past, rather than the future. They have pointed out to us all they know, rather than suggesting all that is yet to he discovered. In.stend of showing us on what a flimsy basis a great part of tho socalled "knowledgu" of today rests, the, defects of our government; the 99 percent of the knowable that has yet to bo dis covered in science; the imperfec' lions in education, in railroad sys' terns, in banks and factories and practically every other institution they and tho generations before mem have erected, they have wasted years of their lives and ours filling ns with a special kind of ballyhoo that is "respect" ani "veneration" for their handiwork. In one way or another, they man aged to convey to most of us the impression that- there was nothing new and big to discover, in fact that scholarship, memorizing ev erything that had been discovered, was tho object and aim of educa tion. College has helped somewhat in dispelling this over-emphasized stress on past perfeetlon. We have learned that the rudiments of jour nalism and of economics were planted less than a century ago, We have learned that historians are still arguing over whehor CO' lumbus was an Italian, Catalonlan or Jew. We are told that the pres ent system of education is perhaps the most poorly organized and the least clearly defined of any modern institution potently affecting the lives of so many people. At least a few professors have endeavored to overcome this popycock we have been years in learning by awaken ing in us a critical faculty. lint it is taking the depression to really point out to the youth of our country some of the fallacies in the theories that have been drummed into us. It took the de pression to show lis in the words of an immenent journalist, Lincoln St ef fens, "that nothing is done, finally and right;" "that nothing is known positively and absolutely." The world is ours, full of things. to find out, of jobs to do or to do over again and do correctly. We find that our elders are stumped by a problem which is too big for them, principally because, their outlook is jaded. For years they have been building up a sys tem of living and of business on the assumption that there always had been and always be too little. They know what to do with too little. They raise prices and make money which goes to mae what they call prosperity. The effort has been made to reduce the abundance of labor to a shortage. "Dear" labor was the substance and proof of prosperity, the goal cf economic effort. Their only solu tion to the present problem of over production is to throw us into fit3 of scarcity again. Yet the term overproduction simply means, ac cording to an eminent economist that we have to face the problem of getting muUi to the many thou sands who have too little. A cap tain of industry was recently quoted as saying, "When we get out of this mess we will find youth in the saddle." And it is true that what over production will mean is the prob- The Student Pulse Rrlrf, rrni contribution perti nent lit mutter of student life una tile iiniwritty uru welcomed liy this ilt'ltarlnieiit, under the unual rt-Htrle-tluni of mtnd uewnpapcf1 prMetlee, hhlih rtrludi- all llbelou matter and iN-ruinnl attack. letter muni ve vrnrrt, hut names will be with held inim publlcvtloa If ss desired. n funny A trgtcan . TO THE EDITOR: Sigma Delta Chi and others have, according to the Daily Ne braskan, started a vigorous cam paign to gain enough subscribers to the Awgwan to continue its publication. Not only have they started a speaking tour, but ap parently a weeping tour as well. Student support is begged and pleaded for as the first campaign step. The second step is on a cyn ical plane. "And unless we have that support, the campus will sim ply have to get along without a humor magazine." Now this idea of hard times on the Nebraska humor magazine is not peculiar to it. Many men and institutions, even p u b 1 i c a t ions, have found that a depression has struck the country. Doubtless it is tsboo to mention the Awgwnn in a questionable manner when it is so near tne brink of disaster as it always seems to be. Everyone should tread lightly lest the slight balance ne disturbed and the magazine go tumbling into oblivion. But adver tising campaigns, generally, are conducted on plans far different from charity for the advertiser. Any product justifying its place in the sun surely has merits worthy of praise. Certainly there is a weakness or the publication could be "talked up" not "begged up." Last year's Awgwan should be praised. The art work was deserv ing of high place in comparison with other school magazines. Doubtless sales fell for the same reason that sales fcil ui every field of selling or buying. This year "hard times" have frozen into greater solidity, and the result must react in Awgwan sales. By far the best salesman for a product is the quality of that prod uct itself, and the first issue of this year's magazine, to introduce it to new students, was a rather miserable itNfnpt. A reason for that would be that summer is a difficult time to gather material. But no future customers were se cured by it. Some sales campaign ing would have been saved by its omission, or at least a good abridging. The word "humor" seems to hold a deeper, more genteel meaning than was given it in the recent Agwan by the majority of the lem of youth. With good manage ment overproduction may menu abundant food, clothing, and shel ter for everybody with a car thrown in for good moasur. Un employment may mean an eight hour, four or five day week with ninntv of leisure for all classes. Not only will it be our problem, but it may be youtn s privilege to aicimu what significance this depression will carry. Pslly Trojan. America the. Land of Political Corruption. The resignation of James Walker from the mayorship a rrntA.qt citv and J. of the profusion of corruption that was brought out by his hearing, fo cuses attention more forcibly than ever to the shameful political con dition of the nation. Gross Ineffi ciency and dishonest manipulation of public office have reduced this country to a moral level that would cause the nation's fathers to turn in their graves. What took place in New York under the Walker regime is merely a sample of what is transpiring in every town, county, and state in the land. Good government is the h which mankind exists and this most important function has been ana is so nmuiretwu nervcrted that the name politician is synonymous with everything K,a, nt riifthnnnat. To protest against corruption In tn,,mio riffle iii in a measure to protest against human nature, yet there are bounds and limits to which both must be subjected if wo may continue to exist. The mal ady is universal, but the United States possesses the most corrupt, lax and inefficient system of local government of any considerable nation. There are many explana tions, our great size, the character of our national strains, and the ut ter and bovine indifference of the masses to the conduct of their af fairs are but a few. The spoils system introduced by Andrew Jackson set rolling a ball of poli tical graft and rottenness that has accumulated such speed and size as threatens to destroy us. But the remedy and not the causes are the primary concern. The outlook if no Improvement is made is serious. If we continue as we are we must die the death of the ancien regime or Czarist Russia, who choked with their own decav sunk into a bloody ob livion. The guillotine in France and the firing squad in Russia are samples of the whirlwinds to be reaped by the unlucky politicians that flourish at the time when pub lic indignation and action is aroused against its betrayers. There will be a change and the youth of today is the instrument that must effect it. In England, remarkable for Its long existence and the integrity which marks its government, the task of governing is a career. The candidate undergoes training, technical and ethical from his high school days and is given expe rience and instruction that enables him to honestly and efficiently fit into the system that has proved the most desirable. There is no reason why we should not profit by the example of the mother country, it will require time and effort but is a goal worth striving f.ir Politics nn honorable and scientific profession is far supe rior to a regime or catspaws ana ward ViwWs unfitted mentally and morally for the execution of a most demanding ana vital oi ou ties. The Dally Tarheel. longer articles. Last year's maga zine tended toward tne same "choanriMs" in manv of the fea- tnr article."!. Nebraska writers appear to be long on "funny stuff" and short on ideas. Knowing tney write for being clever they feel thev must make every line a Joke. until a story degenerates into a bundle or aisconneciea puns, iney could be written by anyone quite a well, and do not nay compli ments to either the writer or the reader. One exception to this denuncia tion wu the storv bv William Mc- Cleery. It fills very' well this ideal of humor. It depenaea upon an idea; it was not so trivial as to iflv an emntv feeline: and it pre dicted its readers as more or less intelligent people. To have printed article would have im proved tie issue greatly. Doubtless such manuscript rareiy unus us way to the desk of the editor. If fv,ia K trim then beerine for lov- - , " - alty from students should be changed to pegging iur wmcu who can concoct good Ideas and i-n n.(.m with a twist of humor, not with witty epigrams. Subscrib ers will then d iouna. jwagazmes bought with a sense of duty and not read are so much wasted paper. . Perhaps the next Issue of the Awgwan will have overcome some f. firt time, errors. If it can not improve and justify itself it must become anotner viciuu oi supply and demand. R. R. OLDFATHER CALLED AWAY FOR FUNERAL Dean C. H. Oldfather was called out of town to attend a funeral in southern Illinois. He will be gone for a few ays- DEPRESSION RATES New cut In Rent-a-Car prices brings down our rates to almost one-half of IS30 rates. 11 S5 Flat Ritt is msds svallable for every day In the week mood for 10 milea. Insurance, and time (afternoon and night) to 1:00 a. m.) Standard Rate on Forda. Durante and Austin la reduced from 12c to 10c: time chare; la reduced from 20c to 15c; insurance or ervlce fee ta reduced from 50c to 45c: Ion: distance rate as low aa 6c per mile. Special Announcement. New V- Ford available at ailiajhtly hiaTher rate than regular four. Only g-nod cara furnished and our lowest rates quoted to ail custom era. MOTOR OUT COMPANY Always Open 11 P Street Phone B6819 mum "Travel, trouble, music, art, A kiss, a frock, a rhyme I never said they feed my heart, But still they pass my time." We're starting to string our new fall clothes lino with this hit by the worldly-wise Dorothy Parker bocauso it names almost every thing that makes a girl's life in teresting. And of course it in cludes this column's chief inter est, "a frock." A friend remarked this week that most nicely dressed girls look too much alike. We picked out some who are doing really smart and dlfferont things, and hore they arc. For a black velvet informal dress Mary Helen Davis has a stitched while chiffon velvet scarf, which she ties in a soft bow in the front and wears with a match ing ribbon. Several girls are wear ing velvet gloves for dressy occa sions . . , (Does that remind you of a saying about the hand of steel hidden in a velvet glove ? ) In the way of wraps, Teg Gur- ley has a mutton-sleeved wool jacket in small red and black checks. Nice? And Jane Robert son is wearing a brown coat with full pleated sleeves, in lina with the trend of sleeve importance in other things. Being curious, we've asked sev eral fellows-about-campus what they think of veils. The result was what most of us would expect "nt so hot" for classes, but pretty nice for dress. Lois Brehm has a novelty veil that most anyone would go for. It's fine, and starched, and stands forward from one side of a black turban in a fashion good to see. While it's rather early to talk about candidates for the "best dressed girl," who isn't chosen un til spring, we'd like to suggest some for your notice. One is Florence Miller. Another is Jane Youngson, and a third is Jean Ivans. Watch them! 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Hoagland, jr., of Omaha, was seriously injured, when their car overturned and crashed into another on the highway near Omaha as they were returning from tho gamo .Saturday night. Attending physicians expect Hoagland to live. Mrs. Gambcll's funeral services will be held Tues day afternoon. County Attorney Beal announced the investigation will in all probability bo followed by a formal Inquest. V VARSITY CAFE T X 1187 R X O Special Plate ?Cf fk Lunch W T COME IN f Sophomores and Upperclassmen A nationally known manufac turer of iiicu's lenliier neceani ttes will appoint one undergrad uate representative at Univer sity of Nebraska to sell Its prod ucts. A sophomore or upper classman who is wholly or par tially self-supporting; who is well liked and active in extra curricular affairs; and who is willing to devoto one or two hours a day to earning a gen erous monthly commission is preferred. No outlay of money will be required; and no special training Is necessary, although previous selling experience will be helpful. Further details will be forth coming upon the application of anyone who feels that he meets the foregoing qualifications. In applying please give whatever personal information you think necessary. The Arcon Leather Products Company 150 West 30th Street New York City, New York Our garage attendant takes your cor ox you arrive and Qrytt it the best of core. Practically backless and cut to almost nothing under the arms its very brevity is "lXr-Bak's" chief charm. It allow s such perfect freedom everywhere except where support is actually needed I With this clever little bras siere is shown one of the new Maiden Form "High Waist" girdles designed to give slender waists as well as smoothly rounded hips. These are only two of a wide variety of Maiden Form brassieres and girdles created to mould every silhouette in harmony with fashion's latest dictates. 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