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Daily Nebraskan
Station A. Lincoln. Nebraska
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Fttr Agriculture.
THERE exists in America to
day a complex of economic
conditions collectively termed the
depression. One of the greatest
single factors making up this com
plex is the plight of the farmer.
Parallel to this condition is the
chaos of industry. In both produc
tive methods have become so effi
cient that more is produced than
can be sold. The supply curve has
risen so much more rapidly than
the demand curve that the two
lines now cross at a point which
sets the price below the cost of
production. As a consequence the
return to labor, land, and capital
in both has been all but wiped out
In other words, men can't make
money any more.
Running through the history of
the past century are two parallel
lines of economic development
which, a la Herr Einstein, have at
last converged, and to this con
vergence can be laid much of the
cause for present conditions. The
impact has resulted in an explosion
that has practically wrecked the
economic structure. These two de
velopments have been the constant
opening up of new land and the
constant rise in import tariff
rates. Hastening the convergence
has been the growing efficiency of
machines, now frequently publi
cized as the root of all that is evil
in the present breakdown,
DEAN Chris L. Christensen of
Wisconsin agricultural college,
f peaking to pome 1,500 Nebraska
farmers gathered at the Organ
ized Agricultural meeting at the
college of agriculture here this
week, pointed to this impasse when
he said that there are but two al
ternatives open in seeking a way
out of the chaos in which Ameri
can agriculture has been plunged.
World markets for American farm
produce must be again opened up,
cr else part of the present agricul
tural production plant must be dis
mantled. Dean Christensen was pointing
to the natural conclusion from the
fact that American agriculture is
producing more wheat, cotton, to
bacco and lard than the people of
this country can use; that unless a
foreign market for this surplus is
found, the old law of supply and
demand will continue to hold the
price of this produce down where
it is now.
This means that the tariff bar
riers which a century of propa
ganda has persuaded the farmer
are to bis benefit roust be 6caled
down in accordance with the prin
ciple that international m change
must ultimately be made in goods,
or else much of the land America
for a hundred years has gloried in
cpening up to agriculture will nave
to be abandoned.
The domestic allotment plan of
agricultural relief now before con
gress chooses this latter alterna
tive by offering the farmer a
bounty for decreased production.
The result of its accomplishment
would Lave in increasing unem
ployment is a strong argument
gainst its adoptioa. Far-seeing
economists f the type who signed
the recent open letter to oangresi
requesting tariff reduction approve
lather the opening ud ol foreign
THE
markets than reduction of domes
tic production.
While no man or group of men
can be relied upon at this time to
possess the perfect solution to the
nation's ills, it appears that a re
duction in the tariff trade ob
stacles for a country dependent on
foreign trade for its prosperity
would be a long step in the right
direction, at least from the farm
er's point of view.,
171 Tell Teacher
On You.
WAR blazes anew in the Far
East as Japan resumes its
offensive against China in the war
that isn't a war because hostilities
have never been declared.
Shanhaikwan within the Great
Wall, for centuries protecting
China from invasion and now
about as effective as a barrier of
straw against Japan's modern air
warfare and long range guns, lay
in ruins one morning this week,
smouldering evidence that Japan
intends to gain the objectives in
territorial conquest which she has
stoutly maintained do not exist.
Thus merrily does the game of
killing, renounced not long ago by
Japan and eight other major pow
ers as a means of settling interna
tional disputes, begin once more.
'
T TIDDEN away in the vivid dis-
patches telling of the .on
slaught is a single sentence which,
were it not for the appalling piti
fulness of the condition which lies
behind it, would be highly amus
ing: The Chinese government at
Nanking announced through
its foreign office that the
League of Nations had been
notified.
The efforts of the Chinese for
eign office attache who penned the
note, we must think, would have
bee as effectively expended had
he addressed the communication to
the Association of Nebraska Re
publican Officeholders. The prob
ability that the massacres would,
on account of the note, be stopped
is about the same in either case.
A FTER its first effort at settling
an international dispute of
major proportions, the League j
stands a failure as an agency for
the prevention of war. In the way
it handled the report of the Lyt-
ton investigation into last year's
Chinese-Japanese war, it admitted
that it is powerless to do anything
about a war where one of the ma
jor world powers is a combatant.
We would not detract from the
deserving honor the League has
earned for its work in promoting
international welfare on certain
non-controversial matters. But as
far as an association for the pre
vention of war is concerned, the
League of Nations however re
luctant those who looked to it with
genuine expectation of accomplish
ment has turned out to be an
other beautiful theory mutilated
by a band of brutal facts.
PROSPECTS POINT TO
MANY PLAY ENTRANTS
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will be given to the person submit
ting the play selected for the an
nual p reduction. The award last
year went to Herb Yenne of the
dramatics department, whose mus
ical comedy "Jingle Bells" was
successfully presented last Fpring.
Tryouts for the various parts in
the production and organization of
the work for the show will be com
pleted a short time after the play
is selected, according to members
of the Klub. The play will prob
ably be presented in the latter
part of April
PROF. BULLOCK
WILL SPEAK AT
GUIDANCE MEET
Prof. T. T. Bullock of the col
lege of business administration
will speak at a vocational guidance
group meeting Monaay, ai
oclotk. Mr. Bullock plans to give
an outline of the advantages for
women i the field of business ad
minstration tinder the title 'Busi
nenss Admiistration ai a Vocation
for Wcm?TL Gertrude Clarke,
chairman of the vocational guid
ance committee, will preside at
the meeting.
DAILY NEBRASKAN
DOPE CALLS JAYHAWK
Impressive Non-Conference
Record Gives Kansas
Edge Tonight.
LAWRENCE, Kans. When the
TTnivrsitv of Kansas and Univer
sity of Nebraska basketball teams
open the Big six conierence sen
Fridav nie-bt. Jan. 6. they
will be playing the sixty-second
game played neiween teams oi
twn universities. In this cage
competition the Jayhawkers have
won thirty-seven games ana scoreu
i 7?i noints. while the Cornhusk-
ers hav-j won twenty-four games
and rolled up 1,4u points.
Winning two non-conference
games from Ottawa university and
three from Stanford university,
but losing two non-conference
games to the Kansas State college
five gave Kansas a good start for
the coming conference season but
none too impressive a record upon
which to base hopes for retention
of the Big Six conference title
which the Jayhawkers have held
the last two seasons.
Nebraska, on the other hand,
under a new coach, Harold
Browne, is more or less of un
known strength hereabouts, altho
a rather unimpressive showing in
non-conference games to date
would seem to give Kansas a slight
edge for the coming battle.
K. U. Squad Improves.
Intensive work thru the holiday
season seemingly has brought the
Kansas squad along to steady im
provement and Dr. F. C Allen has
some nine or ten players who are
potential first string men. Should
Paul Harrington, junior forward
who injured an ankle in the second
Stanford game, be in shape to play
the Kansas lineup for the confer
ence opener with Nebraska prob
ably will include him and Dick
Wells, a soDhomore. as forwards;
Rill Johnson, all-conference center.
at center; and Elmer Schaake and
Ernest Vanek, lettermen, guards.
Strong reserve forwards include
Bob Curd, Lawrence, a good
scorer, Raymond Urie, Ellis, both
of whom are copho mores; and
Ernest Casini, Jeannette, Pa., and
Gordon Gray, Newton, guards.
The Kansas-Nebraska rame is
scheduled for 7:30 p. m. and Fred
Williams of Kansas City, Mo, for
mer University of Missouri piayer.
will referee.
New low nrices are in effect for
all conference games at the Uni
versity of Kansas this season, re
served seats selling for seventy
five cents and general admission
for fifty cents.
REGISTRATION P0R
SECOND SEMESTER
BEGINS ON MONDAY
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visor. An application blank and
statement oi outsioe activities
should then be left with the col
lege Jean for approval.
Students in all colleges may pay
their fees in Memorial hall Friday,
Jan. 20, 9 a. m.-4 p. m.; Saturday.
Jan. 21, 9 a. m.-12 noon; and Mon
day. Jan. 23 to Thursday, Jan. 26.
9 a. m.-4 p. m., including the noon
hour.
A late fee will be charged all
students who do not see their ad
visors or whose applications are
not in the offices of their respec
tive dean by noon of Jan. 14 and
those who do not pay their fees
by Jan. 26. A late fee for gradu
ate students and Lincoln city
teachers will be charged beginning
Feb. 13. Changes in registration or
assignment will not be considered
until Monday, Jan. SO.
Registration for new students
will be held on Jan. 27.
AG MEETINGS SET
ATTENDANCE MARK
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bill devised by agricultural leaders
over the country is expected to
help American farmers from their
present ills.
Advocates Tariff Cut.
In bis talk on Wednesday after
noon, Christensen, who is a Uni
versity of Nebraska graduate and
an Innocent while in school. 5 poke
about the present plight of the
farmer and advocated the opening
of international trade by lowering
the tariff schedules at the present
time. High tariff walls at the pres
ent time are keeping internatnal
trade down. Christensen Raid.
"Agriculture faces two alterna
tives," be declared. "The American
farmers can either adjust ttxeir
production to domestic needs or
they may have the tariff walls
lowered so other countries can buy
their products. IX Ue roductJca
MN
OVER
NEBRASKA
v. Kb MirtAiled to domestic
needs, the production of various
crops will have to be cut from50
to 30 percent from the present."
The Christensen talk attracted
over 1,500 people, the largest
crowd ever to gather for a single
Organized Agriculture session in
the student activities building.
Farm people from all over the
state were present and the build
ing was crowded. Many former
schoolmates were present for the
address, which was enthusiastic
ally received by the audience.
On Thursday George E. Farrell
spoke of the expenditures of the
federal government He showed
charts proving that about two
thirds of the money appropriated
for the federal government during
the past year went to roads and
roads upkeep. Extension work re
ceived but little of th money. Miss
Mary Rokahr of the extension
service in Washington also ap
peared on the Thursday afternoon
program. She spoke of adjusting
farm home life to present condi
tions and urged farm women to
use more home products in their
household activities.
REED HARRIS 'PJvS'
FRATERMTY SYSTEM
Former Columbia Editor
Says Creeks Are
Reactionary.
(Syracuse Daily Orange).
"Because of the dependence of
fraternities on tradition, however
outworn, they serve to perpetuate
all that is worst in American ed
ucation.' This is the opinion of Reed Har
ris, former editor of the "Columbia
Spectator," expelled last spring
from Columbia university, as ex
pressed in an article in "Revolt,"
which he titles "College Fraterni
ties Obstacles to Social Change."
"Fraternities, which in theory
are merely organizations for pro
moting friendships and congenial
ity," Harris says, "are dangerous
to any progress in thought because
of their complete reliance on the
past.
"Are Reactionary."
'Change is a word which is sel
dom given more than a passing at
tention in their conduct. If the
founder of a fraternity was a good
old Baptist and a republican then
day say a little Baptist prayer be
fore they sit down to a meal, ana
the organization is conducted on
good, old republican principles.
"Within three days after I joined
a fraternity, the process of disillu
sionment begin We were told
how to wear our ties, how to keep
away from non-fraternity men,
from Jewish students and from
Catholic students."
Was House President.
In his senior year, Harris was
made president of his fraternity.
"And the five months I p&oaeu iu
the position," he says, "during
which time I tried very hard to
bring some changes into effect,
only proved to me that the fra
ternity game is all wrong. I re
signed with my term half served,
"There are often in the informal
initiations arranged for freshmen
before the formal secret ceremo
nies, events which belong to an in
sane asylum. And yet, organiza
tions like those are sanctioned, and
even encouraged by the educators
who have influence over new col
lege men.
"Organizations which uphold the
worst tradition, give vent to organ
ized feeling of sodism, tend to low
er the general tone of the minds
and acts of persons affiliated with
them and curb nearly all attempts
at thought by members, are fos
tered and patted on tbeb ack by
fussy deans and grandiose presi
dents." DALES TO JCEEP POSITION
Board Persuades Secretary
To Remain Until
August 31.
J. Stuart Dales, secretary of the
board of regents, who bad previ
ously announced that he would re
tire on December 31, 1932. was last
week persuaded by the board to
remain at his position until August
1. 1933.
As legal adviser to the univer
sity, corporation secretary, and
secretary to the board of regents,
Mr. Dales has b-en in the employ
of the university continuously
tince 1&75.
Iu-trurlor to Speak at
Tuesday Vesper Meeting
Miss Ada Iteynoldson. uvlructor
in the history dpaitrrent. will
fpeak at vesper Tuesday at 0
o'clock in Eln .Smith Hall. "Ktu
dfit Rlation:-tip to Ir.U-rcatiotial
Affairs acd OxJ Will-' in the topic
he Las elected. Kutn Cberoey
wjJJ trt:de at the mating. Plans
art bticg made lor. special mu.c.
FRIDAY. JANUARY 6. 1933.
SECURE KIRBY PAGE
AS STUDENT FORUM
. 25
Noted Author Will Address
First of New Series
Luncheon Meetings.
First speaker for the newly or
ganized Student Forum's series of
luncheons will be Kirby Page, well
known author and speaker. Chair
man Howard Allaway of the Stu
dent Council committee announced
yesterday.
Page, who has for several years
been speaker for the Estes Stu
dent Conferences and is well
known to student groups in this
part of the country will be in Lin
coln Jan. 24 and 25. On Wednes
day, Jan. 25, he will speak at the
Student Forum luncheon in the
Temple and Tuesday he will con
duct an all day conference for the
city Y.W.C.A.
He is an editor on the staff of
"The World Tomorrow" and the
author of several books. Among
them are "Jesus or Christianity,"
"Living Createdly," and his latest
"Personality of Jesus." He has
also traveled widely and has but
recently returned from a trip
around the world, studying politi
cal and social conditions in Europe
and the Far East.
This noted speaker is the co
author of a number of books and
pamphlets on social questions. He
is at present conducting a lecture
tour on the Pacific Coast.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN.
Awowan Business Staff.
The business staff of the Aw
gwan will meet Friday afternoon
at 3 o'clock, announces Otto
Kotouc, business manager.
Cornhusker Staff.
Cornhusker staff meeting Mon
day afternoon at four o'clock in
the Cornhusker office. All staff
members requested to be present.
Each staff editor see me before
the meeting.
R. W. SPENCER, Editor.
PHI SIGMA PLANS BANQUET.
Phi Sigma, honorary zoology
fraternity will have an initiation
banquet Friday, Jan. 13, at the
Y. W. C A. club room on the sec
ond floor, according to Dr. E. R.
Walker of the botany department,
who will give an illustrated talk.
Tickets for guests are available.
Phi Sigma.
Phi Sigma will bold a meeting
Wednesday, Jan. 11, at 7:15 at
Bessey halL The topic will be "Vo
cations for Scientists."
PETEKSON TALKS
ON THINKING AT
WALTON MEETING
Mr. F. V. Peterson of the po
litical science department dis
cussed "Errors in Present Day
Thinking,' during vacation before
the brotherhood of the Congrega
tional church of Walton, Neb.,
where Rev. W. C Poind in is pastor.
He gave a general survey of the
present economic conditions with
regard to employment, first by the
traditional method and then from
the standpoint of. technocracy. He
cited several common errors in
social thinking which included
over-simplication of tim problem,
the idea that society has fixed
goals toward which it progresses
steadily, and that we can return
to past golden areas.
ProfefeMr Completes
New Laloratory Guide
Prof. Harry E. Low of the
zoology department Is having bis
laboratory guide to students for
study in comparative vertebrate
anatomy published for use the sec
end semester. Professor Low has
been working on the guide for
about three years and completed
it last summer. Trie Burgess Pub
lishing Co., Minneapolis, is printing
the book which will be used in
sophomore zoology 112.
DaviMjii Win Turkey
At Cliriftmaa Shoot
Kecntlb Davison was the win
ner cf the choice turkey in the
Christ ma turkey fboot at the rifle
rarge. J. B. Douglas, second high
score man. and Harold Carter,
low MX-re man, also teceired
turkeys. Davirn arid Douglas ae
members ct this years varsity rifle
team. The ffcoct tnded Wednesday.
Dec. 22.
SPEAKER
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