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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN SUNDAY, APRIL 9, 1931N aily Nebraskan Station A. Lincoln, Nebraska OFFICIAL STUDENT PUBLICATION UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA Entered a second-data matter at the postofflca In Lincoln, Nebraska., under act ot congress. March 3. 1879 and at special rate ot postage provided for in section 1103. act ot October i, 1917. authorized January 20. 1922. Published Tuesday, Wednesday, Thura day, Friday and Sunday mornings Single Copy 5 cent during the academic year. T HI R TV. SECOND YEAR S3 a year mailed $1.75 semester mailed SUBSCRIPTION RATE Under direction of the Student Pub lication Board Editorial Ottlce University Hall 4. Durmac f f 1 1 r- I I niUPft itU Hall 4. Telephones Day. B6891; Night, B6882 or B3333 (Journal) asK ior iieui k.in editor, EDITORIAL STAFF Editor-in-Chief Phil Browne MANAGING EDITORS Dick Moran Lvnn Leonard NEWS EDITORS George Murphy ' Lamoine Bible Violet Cross Sports Editor Burton Marvl Koeietv Editor Carolyn Van And Woman's Editor Maraaret TMele BUSINESS STAFF Business Manager. .. .Chalmers Graham ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGERS Bernard Jennings George Holyoke Frank Musgrave We Have Yet to See a Russian Rouble. ((THE agitation against military training in colleges and high schools Is a part of the general communistic agitation," declared Robert M. Armstrong, state com roander of the American Legion, in an address before the Omaha Kiwanis club Friday. "This agita. tion and the frequent overstress- ing of internationalism should re ceive careful attention," he said. If the Nebraskan thought that any of the people who really be lieve this sort of tripe could be convinced of its absurdity, we should attempt to argue against it. But the task is a hopeless one. Tacking the communist label on anyone or any idea damns it hope lessly in the minds of a large num ber of people, most of whom have n't the faintest idea of what com munism is. It is useless to argue or reason. When, you are called "communist," or your ideas are called "communistic" you are ut terly lost. Therefore the Nebraskan has lit tle to say about the foolish charges either that communism is rampant among faculty and stu dents at ,the university, as Mr. Armstrong claims, or that at least one student is having "all his ex penses paid direct from Moscow," according to Mr. Armstrong, or that every idea of pacifism is in spired by Russian propaganda and paid for from Mr. Stalin's treas ury. TTHE Daily Nebraskan is only a student paper. We know of no connection which Mr. Armstrong has with the university. It is en tiiely probable, therefore, that Mr. Armstrong knows a lot more about the number of communist conver sions which are being made on the campus every day than does the Daily Nebraskan. He no doubt also is in a better position to know how many professors are trying to convert students to communism than would any students at the university. Since he is so sure of all these vicious practices being carried on at this institution, we shall not gainsay him. But if it will cheer Mr. Arm strong and his patriotic followers &ny, the Daily Nebraskan can hon estly say that it has never been given a single Russian rouble. In view of the struggle which the Ne braskan is having to make both ends meet this year, however, we shall not promise that if Joseph Stalin should send us enough rou bles, we shouldn't take them. . While the People Slept. OPEAKING of bank robberies in Nebraska, and lo and behold another is perpetrated with ease. Wednesday, when we were com menting on the Fairbury robbery, the Nebraskan remarked; "It would be entirely possible-fo the same gangsters, no doubt, to re turn to Fairbury tomorrow and re peat their facile performance in perfect safety." Probably the Central City ban dits were not the same ones as the Fairbury robbers. They did not rob the Central City bank until three .Jays after the Fairbury rob bery. But they accomplished their job "in perfect safety." We should be inclined to con sider this a coincidence if it were not for the fact that these two robberies coming so close together are just repetitions of a long con tinued series of such depredations. Possibly after the people of Ne braska have been thoroughly fleeced enough times, and have seen a considerable number of their citizens shot down by bank bandits, they will wake up to the inadequacy of sending out deputies from the state sheriff's office to investigate clues. Contemporary Comment TO THE EDITOR: Sheriff Endres has replied to an editorial in the Daily Nebraskan in such terms that one would feel he had a vested interest in keeping the state enforcement facilities as inefficient as possible, and has brought up the entirely irrelevant statement that he has been inves tigating communism on the Ne braska university campus. He fur ther says that a secret organiza tion is being set up there. Rumors are about that this is the Social Problems club. Hence, we of the Social Problems club feel con strained to issue this statement. We have been working with the knowledge and expressed approval of the university authorities, and know of no secret organizations on the campus. The Social Problems club has- for its purpose the study of social conditions and problems both at home and in other parts of the world. Naturally at times we will touch upon economic and political aspects of social conditions. t is true that many of those at tending our meetings were mem bers of the Socialist club during the presidential campaign, but we are not an action group, and have no political affiliations. We make no attempt to control the political beliefs of those attending our meetings, but it is a fact, which we do not deny, that communist sympathizers have a much greater interest in social questions than many other persons, and we would not deny any such a place of mem bership in our group, not setting ourselves up as sectarian in any ay. There are groups for studying informally, outside the classroom, on this campus, the physical and biological sciences and psychology. We feel that there is more need, and at least as much right to study the social problems of the world. The social sciences have too long been held back by such hammer ing as is now being resorted to by the state sheriff. There are em bodied in our constitution safe guards for the right of assembly and free speech, and we feel that the action of the state sheriff im plies that we of the Social Prob lems club ought, in his estimation, to be deprived of those rights. Either academic freedom is an empty phrase, and we have no right to think or to allow those to our membership whom we think fit, or else the state sheriff has no authority to attempt to gag us. The Social Problems Club of the University of Nebraska, GERALD H. AGANS, Temporary President. Geology Instructor Talks to Children Gerald Loetterle, assistant in the department of geology, recently lectured to more than fifty grade school children on the subject, "Geology and Fossil Collecting." What's the 0ltl$? Dy Arlemut Mr. Cy Sherman, ,who puts out a neat daily column on the Athletic Way of Life, as well as editing the sports page of the Star, has ad vanced upon one subject which has roused my ire. I refer to his com ments on the athletic situation at the University of Chicago. One of my plaints is the "Chicago UY which he uses. It is wrong, cgreg- iously wrong. Let Mr. Sherman in quire and he will find that expres sion taboo on the Midway. The institution bounded by 55th and 61st and by Cottage Grove and the I. C. is the University of Chicago. The correction is small, I know. But you know not how the "Chicago U." grates on one who has ambled around those collegiate Gothic halls once graced by the presence of Amos Alonzo Stagg and some very fine football teams. The instigation for Mr. Sher man's recognition of Chicago for which a Big Ten man thanks a Big Six commentator in his daily me anderings was the number of the candidates who turned out to as sist Clark Shaughnessy develop a root Dan team. .There were only 41 willing to sign up for a Maroon jersey silk not moleskin uni form and a position on the squad To Mr. Sherman that evidently should be taken as a slap in Mr. Shaughnessy's face. But there's nothing startling about it. In fact it seems like a pretty fair aggre gation for Chicago if not for al most any other middlewest insti tution. When one has grown accustom ed to smiling at the very smart wise acres who ask "How many are there on the Chicago team now?" he soon develops a stocial defense to the small number of candidates out for football. Besides what material difference does it make except to the ex-football players of the University of Chil cago? Personally, a football team to me is nothing more than a foot ball team. It is the same thing, I suspect, to most U. of C. gradu ates. And so I snort when I read : "The big task which confronts Shauerh- nessy involves the detail of re building the Chicago U. spirit. That, I vow, is the main essential. for until the proper morals within the student body is established, the urge to join the gridiron squad will not be present." He takes for granted an inert capacity in the student body to throw their hats and work themselves into a state of hysteria over the outcome of a Saturday afternoon's fracas. For tunately, or unfortunately de pending on how you look at the matter that spirit is just not there. The spirit of Classicist Ern est Hatch Wilkins, who went in par intra murals in a big way) has been too deeply imbedded. Whether Mr. Shaughnessy and winning football teams and more stalwart material from California can change the status quo is a moot question. Undoubtedly suc cess will attract fleet football and earnest lads looking for headline publicity on the sport pages. But such a change will seem incongru ous. Somehow or other brawnv. thick athletes just don't fit in with James Westfall Thompson and Quincy Wright and Sophaniba P. Breckenridge and Anton J. Carl son and Walter H. Judd. If Chicago does produce, under Mr. Shaughnessy, some high pow ered football teams I won't obpect. Neither, however, will I get much perturbed if they don't. An occa sional win over Princeton when Capt. John Merrkk Patrick Kelly played a swell game or over Washington State satisfies me. What difference does it make if the old cry "Stagg fears Purdue" can no longer be thrown at a lan guid public in an attempt to sell enough ducats to pay the Boiler maker's expenses to the Windy City. STAGE IS SET FOR HONOR ASSEMBLY (Continued from Page 1.) students from all colleges and dents at the convocation, including schools on the campus and the ag college campus. Chancellor to Preside. Chancellor E. A. Burnett will preside at the meeting. The uni versity school of music symphony orchestra under the direction of Carl F. Steckleberg will present the overture "Der Kreischutz" by von Weber. "Invocation will be de livered by the Rev. Henry H. Marsden, pastor at the Lincoln Trinity Episcopal church. The convocation committee ex pressed the desire yesterday, to see students, their parents, and friends attend the annual event, which has been advanced from the evening to the forenoon. All university class es, laboratories, libraries, and of fices will be closed from 10 a. m. until noon. In former years the convocation was held later in the year and during the evening, but have been cnangea 10 piace mure stress upon the importance of this affair, as well as making it more convenient for more students to at tend. Hunter Prominent in Education. The speaker for the convocation, Dr. Frederick M. Hunter, chancel lor of the University of Denver, has been a prominent figure in the field of education since he grad uated from the University of Ne braska in 1905. Following his graduation Dr. Hunter engaged in teaching in various schools and colleges. His fame as an educator became rapidly known, and in 1921 he was elected president of the na tional education association. Since that time Dr. Hunter has served on many of that organization's re search committees. The speaker is also the author of several vol umes on teaching and teaching methods. He was apopinted to his present position as chancellor of Denver university in 1930. The personnel of the Honors convocation committee, which has worked out plans for this year's observance, includes: Dr. W. C. Brenke, chairman; Dr. W.'H. S. Morton; Dr. Emma N. Anderson; Dr. E. L. Hinman; Dr. C. H. Mc Neil; J. L. Sellers; Professor F. W. Morris; Professor M. H. Swenk; and Dr. T. J. Thompson. The list of the individual prizes and awards which will be the last feature on the program include the following: 1. Alpha Zeta Mertal: agriculture. 2. William Gold Prize: Bizad. 3. Delta Sigma PI Key: Bizad. 4. Alpha Kappa PM Prize: Bizad. 5. Phi Cht Theta Key: Bizad for girls. 6. Phi Lambda Upsllon Cup: chemistry. 7. A. S. C. A. Award: engineering. 8. O. J. Fee 'Award: engineering. 9. W. H. Sawyer Scholarships: engineer ing: 2. 10. Sigma Tau Scholarship Award: en gineering. 11. Omicron Nu Cup: home economics. 12. Sigma Delta Chi Awards: Journalism: 4. ' 13. Sigma Delta Chi Cup: Daily Nebr. news story. 14. Sigma Delta Chi Feature Story Award. 15. D. A. R. Award: military science. 16. The Lehn and Fink Medal; pharmacy. 17. Psi Chi Award: psychology. 18. Chi Omega Prize: sociology. 19. The Palladlan Links Club Scholarship. 20. The Vernon H. Seabury Scholarship: Palladian society. 21. The Women's Pan-Hellenic Association Pins: 3. 22. The Lincoln Pan-Hellenic Scholarships: 2. 23. The American Association of Univer sity Women Scholarships: 6. 24. The Faculty Women'a Club Scholar ships: 2. 25. The University 4-H Club Scholarship Medals: 4. 26. The Pershing Medal: military science to be awarded by General John J. Pershing in person. t (What a T Imogine It TERRY CLOTH SWEATERS AT We've koM dozens of these 'new Terry Cloth Sweaters . . . but we know that there are a Jot more fellows who still want them at this juiee. In while . . . ponder blue . . . and gold. Size 36 lo 42 ' Basement HIGHER AVERAGES ARE MADE BY GREEK IN Survey Recently Completed By Interfraternity Conference. Scholastic averages at a ira. jority of the western colleges show a higher rating for fraternity men than for non-fraternity men, ac cording to survey completed by the National Interfraternity confer, ence. Nebraska, which is one of the largest colleges in this section is included in the survey. In regard to other sections, it was reported that the north cen tral, southern and western states, as geographical sections, have been above the all-men's averages for several years. However, in 1932 the Pacific coast and New England sections joined this group Higher scholastic averages for the country as a whole were reported by forty of the seventy organiza tions in the Inter-fraternity Con ference last year. Scholarship Improves. Scholarship in the past five years has shown a steady improve ment was the statement given by the survey. Fraternity standings have moved from a point below tho non-fraternity mark to a position considerably higher than the all- men's figures. This included both the fraternity members and the unaffiliated students. The survey completed by the Interfraternity Conference included 153 educational institutions with an approximate enrollment, of 250, 000. 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