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i .t ,( rMDAY, OCTOIWK 21, 1932. wo 4i - J .vi ?! i ' Z i ' The Daily Nebraskan Station A, Lincoln, Nbrls OFFICIAL STUDENT PUBLICATION UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA Enter.d m ocond-clmt mttr t h P"."lc 'n Lincoln, Nebraska, under act of congreii, March 3, 1879, and at tpeclal rat of noitaga provided for In octlon 1103, Vet of October 3, 1917, authorized January 20. 1S22. THIRTY.SECONO YEAR Published Tueaday, Wednetday, Thureday, Friday and Sunday morning during th acadenile year. 1 SUBSCRIPTION RATE 12 a ver Sinnl Copy 5 cent $1.25 wmiitir 3 I year mailed Mnmur mailed Under direction of th 6tudent Publication Board. Editorial Off ice Unlverlty Hall 4. Buainet Office University Hall A, Telephone.-Day: B-6891S Night! B-6882. B 3333 (Journal) Ak for Nebraakan editor. EDITORIAL STAFF Howard Q. Allaway Au'eSttJl Jack Erlckon AmocIbU Editor Managing Editor Phillip Brownell J Laurence Hall New Editor Richard Moran '"' Hndll Lynn Leonard Katherlne Howard Women' Editor Joe Miliar i8pfr.U 2 !or Violet Cro Soclty Editor BUSINESS STAFF H. Norman Oall.iher Bulne Manager Aulitant Builne Managir Bernard Jennings frtnk Muigrav. George Hotyok Open the Swimming Pool QR. R. G. Clapp, honJ of the physical education department, tells the campus that 'there is a decided lack of Interest, especially among the men students, concerning the use of the swimming pool.' As a cogent explanation for this lack of in terest, Dr. Clnpp points to the following two fac tors: 1. Many students perhaps feel they 'can not stand the additional expense required to register for the swimming classes. 2. Others may not be able to secure permits because of ahtletes foot. It is then pointed out by the physical education director, who supposedly arranges the swimming schedule, that only six hours a day are reserved for classes. The other hours, (he neglected to men tion the one hour a day between 5 and 6 o'clock, which Is reserved for varsity practice), are divided as nearly as possible between men and women as open hours. Now once upon a time nearly two years ago to bo explicit the student body decided it would like a swimming pool. . The university, it was dis covered, had no money for such a project but so eager was the student body for a natatorlum that it pledged, by means of petitions, to pay an extra - dollar each semester in fee money until the pool was paid for. Of course at the time the students were laboring under some strange impression that as soon as the pool was completed things would be arranged so that it might be possible for them to I take advantage of it occasionally. It should be definitely understood that during the . time signatures were being acquired for the petition there was no altruistic idea in the student mind to ward the end of constructing a $30,000 laboratory for the benefit of the physical education department. - Nor was there any impression that they were going to give one dollar of their monies each semester to .- provide a convenient dally practice range for some five or six varsity swimmers during the choice hour of the day. The student body, once upon a time, was building a pool for its own use. And now the - director of physical education for men discovers the students do not care to use their pool. Such an incongrous situation obviously needs - wider Investigation. It is not that Dr. Clapp's ex- planation is being doubted for it is quite sound. That - is, as far as it goes it is quite sound. But it seems that there may be other reasons as well. For the - moment, however, Jet us consider the two factors ", already mentioned. Athletes foot: For the time this restriction shall not even be criticized. In passing it might be mentioned, however, that the proper authorities - should have pointed out this imminent regulatory measure at the time petitions were being circulated. It seems odd that a ban is not placed on those with the disease at other pools in the city, at least those regulated by the city itself and the "Y's." And it has been said that this same malady may be picked up in the shower room as easily as in a pool yt many students are making use of this latter agency who are not allowed entrance Into the rooI. How ever, in all fairness, let it be said that there is pos- - Hlbly some wisdom in letting the athletes foot pro Vision stand as it is. Swimming classes: How many students, Dr. Clapp, make use of the swimming classes each day? ' Six hours a day and the better daytime hours at that is a lot of time to take away from soma 4,000 students who pay some $4,000 each semester for a pool which they are giving to the university's pos terity. How can these classes and the action in volved in literally taking these hours away froai the ; student body be justified ? The only open hours now remaining for men during the daytime are between 12 o'clock and 2 o'clock. Is it any wonder that there is little inter , est. One can hardly lunch while one swims nor does , one usually care to take a daily dip immediately - after lunch. Men students were offered convenient 7 hours between 5 and 7 o'clock. Of course few are able to use the 6 to 7 o'clock hour but the other was . satisfactory until it was given to the varsity so that an average of about 5 men might work out daily for the team. It doesn't seem right. Sports should be for the many, not for the few. As to suggested evening hours, who really cares I to swim after 8 o'clock during the school year? Too many study duties call at that time. It is not even being suggested here fthat mixed groups should be allowed to use the pool, thus doubling the efficiency of open hours. Thia is not a doflnlte condemnation. An explanation is all that is asked for the time be ,lng. What would the parents of some 4,000 students say parents all oyer the state of Nebraska if they knew that their sons and daughters were paying ono dollar each semester for a swimming pool which has practically been denied them for use ? In these times can their spirit of benevolence be stretched to conceive the fairness of turning a student-built project Into a laboratory for the few ? Even as payments are arranged now the stu dents over a three or four year period will pay for the entire pool. That is open to some question for the payments might have been stretched over a period twice that long. But students are not com plaining about that. All they want is a chance to swim during the day as the impulse seizes them, or at least when it Is half way convenient. Students are beginning to talk and there is bitterness in their voices. It is an unhealthy sign. An explanation, it would seem, should be forthcoming. Contemporary Comment . Protecting Freedom of Inquiry LJOW mature are university students ? Can they be safely approached with new and startling ideas which do not conform to previously accepted doc trines of right and wrong? Will such doctrines mar their naive ideas and tend to destroy the fairy tale philosophy and Bible school morality which keeps them in the bounds of decency and good taste ? In short, will exposure to radical thinking of others cause them to lose their equilibrium and go careen ing off on a wild orgy of expensive and destructive experiments in human experience? So apparently think certain guardians of mor ality in the state of North Carolina who have pe titioned the governor of that state to prevent the appearance on the campus of the University of North Carolina of Dertrand Russcl and Langston Hughes, styled "angels of darkness" by the peti tioners. Russcl as is well known holds certain views as to marriage and love which differ from the ordi narily accepted doctrines. Hughes, a negro poet, has a very decided conviction that the negroes in the South are not treated on the same basis as white people. In other words, he disagrees with the ma jority opinion In the South as to how negroes should be treated. And so the petitioners seek to erect a shelter around the virgin minds of the students, and shut them off from communication with any such sub versive doctrines as advocated by men who like the Pied Piper may lead vast throngs to the hell on earth which awaits them if they listen to the se ductive strains of the doctrines. The governor of North Carolina has rejected the petition. He refuses "to take the initiative against freedom" at that university. Surely, if the petitioners are right, if students have no discrimination, if, by the time they are nineteen years old or more, still so mentally plas tic that they can use no judgment in deciding things for themselves; if they accept any doctrines put before them on sight, then there is something vit ally wrong with the educational system of the coun try, and perhaps even more definitely wrong with the very Inheritable fibre of the people of this coun try. For surely, not even the most uneducated citizen of the nation who has much claim to full possession of his faculties, is in such a wishy-washy state of mind that he will accept as a model for his line of conduct each new idea which he may read, hear, or otherwise come in contact with. That new ideas and doctrines should be Judged by a self-appointed board of censors or any other agency is contrary to all traditions of American freedom. Such censorship Is scarcely ever attempted in this country, or at least if it is, it is seldom given recognition. . But because university students are young, be cause they are educated at state expense in many universities, it is more or less of a popular diversion to keep them from doing any thinking which Is deemed radical by conservative elements among the taxpayers. Just so soon as some student does such thinking and expressed his belief or even his toler ance for some so-called subversive doctrine, the con servative taxpayers denounce the state institution to which they are paying money because it is al lowing students to come in contact with and even accept doctrines with which they disagree. In the first place we do not believe that tax payers, as such, are completely qualified to deter mine what doctrines are valid and what are not. In the second place we believe that students, even more than the average run of citizens are capable of dis criminating between ideas which have value and those which are, to speak collegiately, "screwey." And certainly if there is any atmosphere sup posedly conducive to broad thinking, and conse quently to the adoption of progressive ideas, it is in institutions established for the express purpose of educating young people. If university students are to be shut off from stimuli to their thinking, our universities will lose a large degree of their pos sible value to society, for In the mere learning of established formuli, there is little which is condu cive to social progress. It is when universities recognize the possibilities of advanced thinking which can be developed within them, and construct courses more In an effort to stimulate such thought, that the universities will come to mean even more than they do in the prac tical progress of the nation. The North Carolina governor has acted fear lessly in protecting the freedom of unhampered investigation or inquiry. SEVERAL JOIN Y. W. A. T AT MEMBERSHIP TEA (Continued From Page 1.) - amount in the office di ring the - tea. E. Bash Perkins, of the fi Z nance staff presided in the office - from four to five, and Phyllis Sid r ner and Evelyn O'Connor, chair- man of the staff, took charge from Z five to Bit? Elizabeth Rowan and - Hallene Ilaxthauseu will be in the 1 office during the tea which will be held at the same time Friday aft 7 ernoon. The Friday tea will close - the membership drive, and all girls who desire to be members " must have signed up by that time, r. Lists of present members are - posted in Ellen Smith hall, Social Srienc r!ilrtfnr and in th Home Economics building on Ag campus, Present members are asked to check this list and correct ad dresses. The Ag Y. W. C. A. held their " membership tea Thursday after- noon at the Home Economics bmld- - tag from 3:30 to 5:30. About fifty J g-lrls called during tne afternoon. The tea was in charge of Hazel In - gersc" I LINCOLN CHAMBER I PLANNING EVENTS ON NEBRASKA DAY (Continued from Page 1.) Every effort is being made through the various city organs to attract as large an outstate crowd as is possible. The basis for all of this civic ac tion is to promote a large crowd at the university Homecoming and the Nebraska Kansa3 Aggis game. Success of the day is assured by the facilities at hand and the pow ers backing the movement. Bill Devereaux, Innocent in charge of rallies, urged the stu dents to get behind the idea and co-operate with the chamber of commerce committee, "with so much effort being put forth by the committee and with such assur ance of success we are expecting one of the biggest demonstrations n Nebraska's history," he said. The chamber of commerce com mittee is composed of such men as Governor Bryan, the mayor of the cltythe president of the chamber of commerce. Postmaster Trev Gil laspie. John Selleck, D. X. Bible, Bill Devereaux. the executives of the various department stores in the city with the co-operation of the Lincoln merchants, who will decorate their stores for the occasion. VIGILANCE GROUP ELECTS OFFICERS OF ORGANIZATION (Continued From Page l.l the meeting of the student council will be in about two weeks, the homecoming game will have been played. If freshmen win lue tug of war between the two lower classes, they may throw away their caps and the original purpose of the committee will be thwarted. "However, we intend to go for ward and see what we can do as an unofficial organization, in the way of persuadng freshmen to wear their caps." said Steadman, chairman of the organization. "All fraternities and organized barb groups have pledged their support of our program, and most of their freshmen are wearing caps at present. Unaffiliated barbs are still obstinate, but we will deal with them during the next few days." The committee will meet next Wednesday at the Phi Delta Theta house. What to Do Someone once remarked that undergraduate activities were the icing on the cake of academic life. This is a very tasty expression, but, like most metaphors, does not hold true in all its detail. For icing is scarcely nourishing, it is often merely an adornment, and if the cake is good enough it is unneces sary. Perhaps it would be better to abandon any round-about cxpres ston, and say plainly this: that the student who fails to take part in any activity outside his course of study is missing education and throwing money away. Those undergraduates who have been here a year or more, and who are aware of the multitude of extra-curricular activities which surround them, must realize the truth of that statement. But the newcomer, impressed by time tables, gowned figures and the like, may imagine that lie has come here to study, and nothing else. ' Most of them will soon change their minds. But it would be re grettable If even a few persisted In this error, and bent tired eyes to textbooks for seven weary months. Their's would be the folly of neg lecting the chances that sport, act ing, music and so on, offerto each, One of the strongest criticisms hurled at the college of education is that it does not teach responsi bility. Certainly the education con fined to the intellectual nourish ment set before us by professors justifies that criticism. Yet the half-back who gathers in tne soar ing ball as opposing wings hover about, the debater on whose re buttal hangs a decision, the ama teur designer whose scenery will make or mar a play, they all besr a heavy burden of responsibility. It is part oi tne educative process of student activities. So the freshmen and freshettes who wish to drink college life to the kes will take part in some work that Involves more than a parrot-like memory or bookish Dscudo-facts. To Join several or ganizations and devote little time to any is also a waste or eiiort. It is better to concentrate on one or two. Then college will teach something beyond the scope of lec tures. McGill Daily. Violators or Enforcement O icenY Two prohibition agents spmt $7.50 and several hours in a speak easy gathering evidence recently Incurred tne wrain oi rewim Judge Thomas Slick of the north am Iridium) rllatrlct. Judge Slick admitted that it was necessary on occasions for law en forcement officers "to go back fre quently to a piace io ouhu up case," but he objected very much to their "sitting down In a com fortable place and consuming sev eral dollars worth of whisky to get evidence." Judge Slick is known for being outspoken while he is on the bench; it would be better if more judges were as frank and outspoken, Some of our most outstanding law violators are law enforcement officers. It is not to be doubted that the police should employ any and all necessary means to appre hend criminals, nut It Is question able whether prohibition authori ties need to drink liquor to prevent others from drinking it. Anotner rrequeni example m flagrant law violation by law en forcement officials ia the police man who seems to find It neces sary to break all speed limns whether there is any need for arp4 or not. Almost everv motor ist can tell of numerous cases where policemen have driven mmllv alnnir the street and high ways at breakneck speed, ignoring stop lights and without bothering even to warn other drivers with his siren. While most of the law enforce ment officers perform their duties well and properly, there arc by far ton manv who ppm to foreet that their duty merely is to enforce the law. Any policeman who uses the privileges given him for any other reason than for strict nerformance of his duty should be arrested and treated as any otner puDiic enemy. inaiana uauy oiuueni. HOLD REGULAR MEETING League DiscusBCB Election Offices and College Thursday. AG COLLEGE HOST TO MANY FARMERS AT ROOTERS DAY (Continued From Page 1.) team is to open the Friday morn ing program with a demonstra tion. E. B. Lewis of the agricul tural engineering department is to discuss the grinding feeds when he appears on the program. Har old Hedges will talk about the "battle of fats," M. A. Alexander will speak about the sheep feed ing problems, while Dr. S. W. Al ford of the college is to explain hog lot sanitation. R. R. Thaiman is to discuss me cattle-feeding experiments con ducted at the college during the past year as another feature of the morning program. M. i Bauer, animal husbandman at the North Platte substation, is to be the other speaker on the morning pro gram. In the afternoon Dean W. W. Burr of the agricultural college will welcome the visitors to the campus after which W. L. Pier point, president of the Omaha Chamber of Commerce, will de liver one of the main addresses of the day. He will speak about Ne braska's debt to the hog. R. C. Pollock, general manager of the National Livestock and Meat Board, is to be the other headline speaker on the afternoon program. He will discuss the marketing of pork and pork products. The swine feeding experiments conducted at the college will be discussed by Prof. William J. Loef fel. He will tell about recent tests with hogs In comparing different rations and give a progress report on the "hogging down" project started recently. Prof. H. J. Gram lich, chairman of the animal hus bandry department, is to speak about the merchandising of Ne braska's corn as the last speaker on the program. GLADYS PARKER'S BEAUTE SALON 1229 N St., upitalr. 82355 Fine Specials for the Co-eds. sftep& t On it on glk Ibipesakff sa AND you want something quick and nourishing try a howl of Kellogg's Rice Krispies with milk or cream and sliced bananas. These toasted rice bubbles arc so crisp they crackle. And they are rich in energy that's quickly digested I Enjoy Rice Krispies for lunch and feel fitter. Fine for a late snack around bed- time. So much better than heavy, hot dishes. All restaurants have Rice Krispies. Made by Kellogg in Battle Creek. The most popular cereal served la the dining-rooms of Ameri can colleges, eating elub and fraternities are made by Kellogg In Battle Creek. TbT include All-Bran, PEP Bran Flakes, Corn Flake, Wheat K rumble, and Kellofg'e WHOLE WHEAT Biscuit. Alto kaOee Bag Coffee real coffee that let you ilerp. Discussion of the coming elec tion, candidates and officers, tho electoral college and tho lame duck amendment was held at the regular meeting of the licnguo of Women Voters Thursday after noon. Dorothy Wlebusch, president of the organization, lead the discus sion. She was assisted by Mrs. Hill, sponsor of tho group. An other question discussed was whether married women whose husbands are working should be employed. Tho opinion of most of tho girls was that the women should not, If their husbands could support them. Mrs. Mill suggested to the group that they read "Do You Need Your Job?" in the Good Housekeeping magazine, in regard to this question. It was decided that the regular meeting of the organization would be held in the A. W. S. room at 4 o'clock Thursday. GROUP SELECTS ASPIRANTS Northwestern Non-Partisan Organization to Choose All Candidates. EVANSTON, 111. (CNS). Forma tion of a nonnartlsnn organization to select best-qualified candidates for student offices this week was being completed at Northwestern university. WE CLEAN HATS Men's Felt . 75c Ladies9 Felt 50c Caps 25c Modern Cleaners Soukup & Westover Call F2377 for Service The organization, to be known 11s the "University Movement," will present and support candi dates at elections "entirely on thu basis of their qualifications " leaders of the movement an. nounced. No consideration will given to fraternal or factional al liances, they stated. 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