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TWO . " Daily Nebraskan Station A. Lincoln. Nebraska OFFICIAL STUDENT PUBLICATION UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA Entered as second -class matter at the postoffice in Lincoln. Nebraska., under act of congress. March 3. 1879 nd at special rate ot postage provided tor in section 1103. act ot October 3. 1917. authorized January 20. 1922. THIRTY. SECOND YEAR Published Tuesday, Wednesday, Thurs. ti.iy, Friday and Sunday mornings during the academic year. SUBSCRIPTION RATE Single Copy 5 cents 2 a year $1 .2b a semester 13 a year mailed $1.75 semester mailed Under direction ot the Student Pub lication Board Editorial Ottice University Hall 4. Business Office University Hall 4. Telephones Day. B6&91; Night. B6882 or B3333 (Journal) ask for Nebras kan editor. EDITORIAL STAFF Editor-in-Chief Phil Brownell AtsoCMte editor F. Laurence Hall MANAGING EDITORS Dick Morart Lynn Leonard NEWS EDITORS George Murphy Lamoine Bible Violet Cross Sports Editor Burton Marvin Society Editor Carolyn Van Anda Margaret Thiele Women's Editor BUSINESS STAFF Business Manager. .. .Chalmers Graham ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGERS Bernard Jennings George Holyoke Frank Musgrave yiotr Look ho Caused the Depression. CINCK bankers began excusing their part in bringing fin.mcial distress to the country, .startling pronouncements from them have become almost common, but an Associated Press dispatch from New York puts all the other state ments to shame for their lack of imagination. Fredeiick H. Prince, "banker and stock-yards mag nate," is the author of the absurd ity, and the burden of his lemarks is an attack on professors who. hu says, are a "curse to the country." To quote a paragraph of Mr. Prince's declaration will be enough to expose the man and his views: You have only to think Lack the last ten years upon the oil 1 i- culties into which we have drawn because of the influence of the pro fessors to realize that the sooner we gpt away from their influence the better we will be." Isn't that astonishing? It is disheartening enough to realize that there are people capable of looking on professors in such a iight; but when it is a banker, a man to whom public monies have been entrusted, who makes such a statement, the utterance assumes the proportions of a crime. Pushing aside the fact that Mr. Prince begs the question and that not very adroitly there yet re mains the evidence of a mind hound in the narrowest of chan nels. It is difficult to imagine where the banker found the basis for his opinion, if it is an opinion. It is hardly possible, of course, that the statement represents merely a ch.msy attempt to divert public at tention from bankers to prolessors. In that case, the Associated Press would be open to censure for carry ir the story. But in any case, it might piove beneficial for Mr. Prince to make the acquaintance of an education. Perhaps then he would conclude with the rest of us that what the country needs is not fewer profes suis, but more and better pro fessors. And fewer nitwit indus ts lal bankers. U hat. Ho! A not her Challenge? IF ARCHKOLOGISTS some cen- turies hence are lucky enough to d'g up the published reports of the committee on recent social trends in the United States whicb have lately been released from the press, they should have sufficient infor mation to study about this era of the civilization of the United States without bothering with any ether material. The survey in cludes a thoro analysis of every field of modern social organization and thought by men eminent in the specialized problems and fields which they investigated and upon v. hich they reported. One of the striking points tt ought out in the condensed sum mary of some of the information is the emphasis which the various in- vestigatora place upon the depart ure from the philosophy of indi vidualism in all phases of social activity. Not without irony Is this conclusion reached by a committee appointed by President Hoover, not long ago expounding to the public the doctrine of adherence to the traditional American "rugged in dividualism." But the conclusion is an impor tant one in view of the immense amount of material advanced to substantiate the conclusion. One committee, studying the subject of government in its relation to so ciety, in particular emphasizes this trend toward control of th? indi vidual and his actions by increas ingly centralized authority in gov ernment. Side by side with this trend, however, the committee points out the adherence of the American people to the "religion of rigidity" in governmental structure. In other words, the cit izens are asking and expecting the government to carry on theso ex panded and complex functions without providing adequate ma chinery to properly deal with these functions. Likewise the committee points out the "large scale contin uance of corruption and govern mental incompetence." NT THK FIELD of public thinking ' and the agencies which control or influence that thinking, -iniilar evidences of centralization or the institutions suc h as newspapers. ! radio, and moving picture produc ers is referred to. The individual not only asks his government to act for him, he expects ceitam . agencies with immense resources I university provides for the state to piovide the stimuli for hi.? : '-'ink- auditor to examine the accounts of ing. As the committee report j funds pertaining to student at tiv states: "(Treater possibilities for j Hies, athle tic associations, field social manipulation, for ends that! houses and stadiums connected are stilish or socially d"s; ' able, i with the University of Nebia.'ka have never existed." Despite the emphasis placed upon the need for more modern! governmental institutions to cope with the modern situation, the committee investigating govern mental trends places faith for the final solution of the problems in the existence of an educated and enlightened public which can pre vent the abuse of centralized power without checking the necessary exercise of it. As the report puts it: "Corruption and extravagance in government are not so much causes as symptoms, and by the same logic are curable not by sur face remedies but by more basic changes." Similarly, for the possible evils resulting from dissemination of material designed to influence pub lic thirrking by agencies with con centrated control, the committee relies for the remedy upon an en lightened public capable of discern ment between good and ill. From this enlightened public will come the controllers of these agencies of dissemination who will be unwill ing to use the means at their dis posal for any but the pettcr pur poses. -THE REMEDIES seem idealistic, but they cannot remain so. The conditions as reported already exist. The possibilities prosnnted are either that existing circum stances will be taken advant'ie of for the benefit or for the detriment of society as a whole. The choice of which alternative will be select ed remains to be seen and in the last analysis lests upon the ques tion as to whether or not the in- How Does Your Suit Look to Others? . . . Ask Your Mirror! When It Needs Cleaning Send It to Modern Cleaners Soukup & Westorer Call F2377 for Service THE DAILY NEBRASKAN tangible qualities of individuals making up society are sufficiently developed to meet the situation forced upon them by the tangible or material development of cir cumstances. To be concrete, a true test of the efficiency of the American educa tional system is imminent. Has the public merely been educ.Ued to know facts, to get along in the economic world, or has it been taught to interpret those facts, to realize the significance of events, and to act in such ways as may be necessary to protect themselves and others from detrimental inllu ? If there is no realization ences of what is going on, if the public is blind to the significance of it, then it will be natural to expect continued and increasing abuse of the concentrated power which exists in every phase of society. If the public is dull and stupid, i it can only expect unscrupulous th.. nnhlic to mould its opinions for evil purposes. It can expect to be governed by other un scrupulous members of society bent on serving their own ends and no others. It can expect its con centrated financial institutions to use the power which they must al most necessarily have for private and not public purposes. No doubt everyone is wcuy of challenges, but the report of these "social trends in the United States" can hardly be called anything else, Maybe I hey Can Find Out. One of the pending bills m the legislature in connec tion witn me and state normal schools. Oi.t of the great mysteries to most stu dents has been what connection the athletic department has with the university, and what policy, if any, governs the use of funds for various student activities. It seems an anomaly for the athletic department, which tech nically has no connection with the university, to furnish funds for the carrying on of many student activ ities, and be the sole judge of how much these various activities shall get according to how successful the football season is. Perhaps the legislature will find their labors fruitless in case they pursue such an investigation, but it might be enlightening to the stu dent body to learn where the money which certain student activ ities get comes from, and where the money which other student activities make goes to. We trust that if they audit the funds, they will publish the results. To the question "Have you ever been in love?" 56 out of 203 fresh men women at the University of Syracuse answered: "Many times." A redheaded students club has been organized at the University of North Carolina. v Second Semester Class Feb. 6 Full or part time classes in practical training. Select the subject that will help you most to achieve your goal. Phone B6774 Lincoln School o Commerce P & 14 W. A. Robbins, Pres. TMl USD Contemporary Comment Take It Easy, Children. When a prominent and popular campus administrator remarked the other day that he knew of at least fifty undergraduates who were confident they could take over the reins of this university and assume authority in adequate fashion of all the regulative work involved, it is to be feared that an altogether true observation was put forth. The only criticism we would make of the statement is that it minimizes the situation in limiting the number of such self ass.ired and confident individuals to tifty. It is more likely that some phases of this unfortunate undergraduate attitude are being nourished in the minds of 5,000 students on the Spracuso campus. I j ia.ll" ycai m it n.- uivv.... i f Jar to disapprove of all measures Arionted bv the administration in i elation to the control and super- irient life acauomic, snri.tl or athletic True, it is i.ot a phenomenon purely local in Cifect. But it has become so popular and widespread here as to be obnoxious and positively detrimental. It is essentially a childish hang over of high school and prep school days to allow to continue unabated this idea that everything done by the administration contains some element conductive to the seizure of the "vested rights" of the stu dents. The age of revolt serves its purpose at a certain period ot life. College without a doubt is a part of that period. But the aveiage undergraduate's newly discovered intellectuality does have its limits and certainly it is overstepping its bounds when it proposes to dictate to an experienced group of a Imin istrative authorities every novc they should make. - - Syracuse Daily Orange. HOLLAND SUBJECT OF VAN ROYEN'S TALK (Continued from Page 1.) buying is established here where the prospective buyers are seated in an auditorium facinjr the canal on which boat loads of produce are brought belore l..:m. uicnering begins at the top price, such a method being termed a 'Dutch auc tion' in our country. Each man has an electric button before him which he may punch at the time the pointer on the bidding board oefore the group reaches the price he desires to pay. The man who signifies his desire to buy first naturally receives the produce," the instructor declared in conclu sion. Junior Officers Attend Smoker Wednesday Night About fifty members of the jun ior class in military science at- School & College STUDENT SUPPLIES History Covers Genuine Greenback History Cover. 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Thompson, formerly of the teachers college faculty and now of the Omaha Municipal uni versity, was a visitor on the cam pus last week. Instructor to (lolumhia To Do (iraduate Work Miss Gertrude Goering, instruc tor in commercial arts, has gone to Columbia university for the sec ond semester where she plans to do graeluate work in the teachers college. More than two-thirds of the stu dents enrolled at the University of Paris are Americans. YOU'LL GO for these uaiima 3 new OXFORDS for School or Sport Mack and While llroun an tl White llrim ti find Tan Tan I' if! skins These are just the swanJuest Oxfords we've ever seen Every line of them spell'' CHIC Every smart College girl will have a pa11 cl these at this low price. vtrsvr AWWW 5 is 0M$r fjm