1 THIjRSDAY. SKI'TKMHKlt 21. 1 o;i;i i WO A The Daily Nebraskan Station A, Lincoln, Nebraska OFFICIAL STUDENT PUBLICATION UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA Entered as second elats matter at the postoffice In Lincoln, Nebraska, under act of congress, March 3, 1879. and at special rate of postaage provided for in section 1103, act of October 3. 1917. authorized January 20, 1922 THIRTY-THIRD VEAR Published Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday mornings during the academic year, SUBSCRIPTION RATE $1.50 a year Single Copy 6 cents $1.00 a semestei $2.50 a year mailed $1.50 a semester mailed Under direction of the Student Publication Board. Editorial Off ice University Hall 4. Business Office University Hall 4A. Telephones Day: B-6891 ; Night: B-6882. B-3333 (Journal) Ask for Nebraskan editor. Laurence Hall Bruce Nlcoll Burton Marvin EDITORIAL STAFF Managing Editors News Editors Carlyle Hodgkin Editor-in-chief Violet Cross BUSINESS STAFF Bernard Jennings Business Manager Assistant Business Managers George Holyoke Dick Schmidt Wilbur Erickson Replacing Old Nonsense, PRESHMEN have had first glimpses, so far, of university social life, university classes, and some university activities. Today as they gather in the Coliseum for the annual convocation, they get the first real look at university tradition. Sprung from customs of hazing which made the freshman year an inevitable period of unpleas antness, the annual initiation ceremonies as they survive have become symbolical of the actual en trance of new students to their work at the univer sity. Massed in the field house, as they take the Cornhusker oath, freshmen have an opportunity of sensing; the unity and variety of which their own unit is now a part Tradition is a thing greatly maligned and de based by the absurdities which claim its name, but in the Coliseum this morning a sensitive observer will be able to feel its weight. The freshmen, too, are expected to gain an im pression of the solidarity which is tradition. If they realize what that solidarity means surviving the flux of the changing student body, assimilating even faculty and policy changes then they will indeed be "initiated." Today's freshmen will doubtless hear much of "spirit" and "tradition"- in the years of their connection with the university, but at no time will they have a better opportunity of sensing it - than at their meeting this morning. Freshmen, the university pays tribute with you to tradition. A Bookless Year, rIRECT results of unreasonable economies forced on the university were seen Wednesday when the Nebraskan carried a story in which this para graph appeared: "The library budget has been cut to such an extent that it will be impossible to purchase any new books this year, Mr. Doane said. Here is evidence all too direct and actual of the circumstances in which the state's institution of higher education finds itself. Other revisions of pol icy have been made necessary by drastically reduced appropriations, but in almost no other single in stance has it been made so clear that the functions of the university are being seriously hampered. A university unable to buy new books! The condition suggests a research chemist without labor atory equipment. The next step is obviously to make it impossible for the library to subscribe to magazines and periodicals; then the campus would be completely isolated from the world, and even more money would be saved. New books the ganglions from the sphere of Intellectual achievement have been eliminated. The whole burden carried by new library books must now be borne on the shoulders of individual students and faculty members, never wealthy at best and now least of all able to assume a burden. Books, fore most among the seeds of culture, must be done Without T is unnecessary, however, to dwell on the serious ness of the straits into which the school has been thrust More to the point is consideration of the grave charges impelled by the necessity of being forced to do without new books for a whole year. Thruout the period of financial stress, the uni versity and everyone connected with it has main tained a desire to be of assistance in meeting prob lems attendant upon decreased revenue. It was granted without hesitation that there were opportu nities for reduction of operating expenses, and that euch reduction should be carried out. There was no denial that various aspects of the university's func tion could be curtailed and economies thereby ef fected. But hand in hand with this acquiescence to the restrictions imposed by universal conditions was a firm determination to fight any measure that would Impair any of the vital functions of the organism. That fight was successful, in some degree, and it was with considerable relief that the university Baw its appropriations given fairer consideration at the hands of the state senate. But the battle could as well have been left unfought if vital functions af fecting the whole university's welfare must be sac rificed. Better a sacrifice of educational advantages for a few, than a wholesale curtailment of facilities from which the entire institution profits. Student Council Meeting. A LTHO evincing less enthusiasm than their mates on the Interfraternity council, new members of the student council meeting for the first time Wed nesday evening made two Important things known about their plans for the year. The first of these was the very evident desire ol the members to carry thru to a success! u con clusion the work done last year on a student activi ties tax, and the selection ol a committee for that purpose. The second was the delegation of a com mittee to look into proposals for changing the rep resentation scheme of the council, in accordance with suggestions made late last spring, but never acted upon. In the inauguration of these two projects, the council starts the year with two major jo'.s. Defi nite work, other than the appointment ol the com mittees to deal with these affairs, remains to be ac complished, but even to outline such an ambitious program is a great deal for the legislators to achieve at their first meeting. Encomium is hardly justified at this stage of the game, but promising vistas beckon. That the new governing body has no intention of letting work on the student activities tax slacken is probably the most encouraging omen of all. Ef forts to concentrate material gathered thus far will begin immediately, and the student body may ex pect to see their representatives rounding off prep arations to submit their data to the beard of re gents some time this fall. There is plenty of work to do. it must lie granted at the outset, but it will i be done and as speedily as possible if Wednesday night's meeting may be used as a basis for predic tion. "pHE othet proposal of great importance to the fu- ture ol extra-curricular activities is the one em bodying a desire to place the student governing body cn a more eflicicnt basis. The movement has, to date, taken no more definite shape than the ap pointment of a committee, but indications point to a drastic revision of the present proportional repre sentation scheme. If the committee empowered to investigate pro posed changes really can outline a plan to get coun cil representatives who will take more interest than has been shown by any of their immediate predeces sors, then they will indeed have performed real service. To work out a system whereby delegates will be chosen from constituencies really interested in student activities, rather than from the present unrelated and almost meaningless entities, would be a piece of work unequaled in council history. Several proposals designed to effect such a change are understood to be in the hands of the new committee members already, and whether this is true or not, here is one section of the council which faces work of very great importance. CONTEMPORARY COMMENT GUIDES and controllers of student activity are, in any case, started on their year's tasks. It can not be predicted what the results of that work will be, but a good start at least has been made toward some needed and highly valuable achievement. Flags Ware Again. "pHERE was a time when student editors thru- out the country rarely concerned themselves with topics weightier than next week's parties, when, in deed, it was tantamount to high treason for a stu dent newspaper to look into any governmental workings. More recently, however, that attitude has found a substitute in a liberalism which glories in pyrotechnical displays directed against the status quo. 1 To the Nebraskan's way of thinking, the wel come extended to the "new liberalism" is vastly overdone, for the present college editorial attitude is only blightly less obnoxious than the complete indifference which preceded it, founded as it usually is in soirhomorish ignorance of the topics dissected so splendidly. From time to time, however, evidences of rather sound thinking may be seen thrusting themselves up thru the mass of printed material that reaches the Nebraskan office through the exchanges, and these are the articles the paper strives to make available through its Contemporary Comment col umn. Just such a thrust at truth is the article re printed Wednesday from the Daily Oklahoman. The Sooner writer is concerned lest America break out in another rash of imperialism like the one which made the early years of this century so fervently patriotic and so crowded with pension beggars. There is indeed cause for concern if the reports emanating from Cuba and Washington are correct. The muddle that presents itself now is only the old theme with variations, and in 1898 just such a muddle precipitated what has been derided as the most unnecessary and awkward war ever fought. Cuba has replaced Spain, to be sure, as the al leged anti-Christ; but the locale is the same, and the "sugar interests" those guarded puppeteers are presumably almost identical. That is the stage, manned by its stagehands. The next step is the box office ballyhoo designed to inflame public emotionalism to the war pitch, ana the prelude to ballyhoo was sounded when battle ships and cruisers began to be concentrated in the Carribean. The outline is complete, lacking only a session of congress to complicate the scene as effectively as it was done in earlier years. Yet there is this difference, and it is probably of major importance. When the United States first began to feel its strength, that virility was untested, altho grounded in an extreme nationalistic in sanity that was almost boundless. Now, however, the country bus a tradition of power, and it is a ruthless tradition, calculated to cause little hesita tion at forceful dealing with a small republic. And although it might be maintained that the futility ot such an uneven passage of arms in itself be a chec k to actual belligerence, history does not bear out the contention. In any case Cuban-American affairs are in the spotlight, and the thoughtful student is being af forded a glance at imperialism as it actually operates. lie Who (lets Slapped The battle of Sands Point is ovei. A phantom assailant came, s.iw and conquered. In what must nave been a most satisfying mo ment, the phantom unruffled what ever senatorial dignity the much touted "Crawfish" from Louisiana ever possessed and left his mark over that person's eye. Once more Muey Long, who seems to delight in thumbing l:is nose at law, order anil the conventions of society, found himself floored. Unlortunately, he was not down for the long count. While headlines screamed his latest eccentricities the Crawfish hastened to Milwau kee to condemn that city's news papers, and certain policies of the adininistrUion. In no uncertain terms, the filibustering, swagger ing "Crawfish" who recently held his brother senators dumbfounded by establishing a non-stop record for speaking and saying nothing, lambasted the press. It is too bad that Huey must go in for the spectacular and melo dramatic. That senatorial dignity -which 's not Huey's might serve him in good stead as he blazes his way around the country digging his political grave with his uncalled for diatribes and harum scarum tactics. Perhaps the Ro man Gladiator who this week was sacrificed to the lions of Long Is land prefers this method. But it would be more in keeping with his retiring nature to hire the evangelistic temple of Aimee Sem ple McPherson Hutton. Garbed in his sacrificial robes and flooded with the glare of publicity which his psychopathic mind craves, he could, after the manner of a Ro man Gladiator announced to the world: "Huey, who is about to die, sa lutes you." Newsdom. The Old Conflicts "Enthusiasm takes cold, hard facts and makes them spit fire," so the adage goes. The incoming freshman class will do well to keep this thought in mind. Many stu dents come and go on the campus, students whose average standings are among the upper two-thirds of their classes, but whose lack of this necessary spirit is obvious to their associates. The group in question takes its college life with dour misgivings, sometimes with not a little touch of the inferiority complex. The so cial contacts made by members ot this group during their years at the university are few and far be tween. This is decidedly not a plea for the purely social side of uni versity life but it is a plea for a balance between play and study. College students realize only too well that concentration on social events to the neglect of studies will result disastrously. The four years spent sincerely in the pursuance of a college edu cation are intended to broaden one's perspective to assure a se rene state of mind or as some per sons say, happiness. In order that this may be attained without a mental and physical strain, a bal ance between the social side and the educational side must be main tained. Suggestions as to how to do this are in order. The cultivation of persons associated with you in col lege is the first requisite. Friend ships made in college are endur ing. Choose your intimate friends wisely, with a thought as to their character, sincerity and philosophy of life. Attend university gather ings that will profit you most in the way of meeting these persons. Be natural. Do not attempt to play the part of the sophisticate. It doesn't pay. The democracy of a college campus is refreshing and different. Maintain this spirit of good fellowship and friendliness prevalent at Kentucky. It serves admirably in aiding freshmen to become adjusted to the strange en vironment of the campus. During these times when every one is urged to do their part to assure economic recovery, you can do your part on the campus by keeping a miK on your face and a ready word of encouragement to all students. Enthusiasm will then reign and it is surely needed if we intend to regain lost leadership in the realm of nations. Kentucky Kernel. OFFICAL BULLETIN All uliiilcnn orranlmlrnns or family KTtHip ricfclring to ihiIiMmIi millers of uirfiinicn or othpr Information for nirnihrrii may have hirm prtnlrd by culling the Daily Nebrunkan offlre. PERSHING RIFLES. The first meeting of Pershing Rifles will be held Thursday night at five o'clock in Nebraska hall. All members should be present Max Emmert, Captain. AWGWAN WORKERS. All students interested in work ing on the business or editorial staffs of the Awgwan should re port to the editor or business man ager any afternoon at the office of the publication in the basement oi U Hall. Bandmen. Captioned 'Tender Infants' by Private Mecham, Camp K. P., Tell Other Side of National Guard Story. (Continued from Page 1.) would think a session of tent pitch ing would do our souls good. Other wise we would drill til) dinner time in regular band formation. At 2 or shortly after we began again. A rehearsal first, followed sometimes by more drill in band formation. Back to the tents for a moment only to be whistled out to stand or play retreat After re treat another session in the sun playing for the guard mount. ! Kvery other evening we played for the fights. In the spare moments we amused ourselves serenading various com panies, or some visiting officer. If t membr of the powers that were and still are for that matter) felt thargic, we would stir up his liver with a roi'sing march. The lest of the time was our own. We notice that our cynical K. P. bemoans the fact that mention of the neth-r regions, politely called Hades, failed to roll from our aesthetic Hps. ( Horn blowers are always aesthetic in the eyes of the world, i Personally, we hadn't no ticed, but the explanation is easy. Men undr strain don't use their immediate environment as a cuss word. But we have no axe to grind with Private Mecham. He can stick to his potato peeling or whatever his soul longs for. We'll continue to blow our homs. (We have to for three years. An old army custom.) It was hard work, and while few of us would chooue It for a life work. th camp was fun while it lasted. It was a man's job, and we hope, Private, that you'll take us out of the floral category! Ag Collide By (jtrlyle IlodgLin EVEN UP. There are exac tly 222 girls and 223 boys registered as undergrad uates in the college of agriculture. Why not let the presidents of Home Ec and Ag clubs choose sides, and then have the entire gang stage a tug-of-war. THE FARM. When At college student think of books about THE FARM, they are likely to picture huge text books with drab type, long dull titles, and endless topic heads printed In the margins. They usu ally shudder at the thought of what such books cost, shrug when they are asked what they learned from them: and an noon as the course is finished, into the bottom DRAMATIC CLUB. The dramatic club will meet Thursday, 7:30 p. m. at it rooms in the Temple theater. Reg Porter, President. VESPER CHOIR. Marian Stamp, director of the vesper choir announces final try outs at Ellen Smith hall from 3-5 Friday, or 9-10 Saturday morning. Those desiring further particulars may call B6695. CHOIR TRYOUTS. All students wishing to try out for tne University Episcopal Church Choir should report to Mis. Elizabeth Bonell Davis, at the University Church, 13th and R Streets, Thursday, from 7 to 8 p. m. SWIMMING CLUB. The women's swimming club will meet Saturday, Sept. 23. at 12 o'clock at the coliseum. All mem bers must get swimming permits. CONCESSIONAIRES. All girls wishing to sell candy at the f.iotball games please call Maxine Packwood at B62.. of the trunk goes the book to stay there for ever and ever. Ixnis Bromfield has recently written a book which, should a stu dent of larm life once get his nose inside it, would be likely to be en tirely different. The took is called THE FARM, and is a story of peo ple who came to Ohio in earlier days than these, of people who worked, played, fought, loved, married, had babies, died, and did all the other things that human beings do. The magazine TIME points out some interesting spots in the book: Writing informal history as much as fiction. Author Bromfield does not try to make what he has to say sound like a story. The book is a collection of notes alxjul the people whose lives touched the Farm seen as Johnny saw them or as he might have known them. ... (Johnny is the central character in the story). There are enough minor charac ters in THE FARM to fill a dozen "Spoon Rivers" people like Dr. Trefusls, whose grandiose Gothic house was one of the town's sights; Big Mary, an amiable, immensely efficient Negro cook, who refused to exchange her status of "accom- modntor" for steady employment; Johnny's Uncle Robert, a champion bicycle racer who was killed in a railroad accident when, during a wild thunderstorm, his train plung ed into a ravine. Sharpest of all Is the picture of Johnny's Grand father Willingdon who came home to Johnny's house when he was an old man. He lived, embittered, eccentric and alone, in a room above the kitchen that was per vaded by the aroma of his kero sene lamp, his dry tobacco and the apples he kept piled upon a table. He wrote the book in Switzer land and dedicates it sententiously to his three children, "the story of a way of living that has gone out of fashion. . . .It was and is a good way of life I counsel you to cherish it It has in it two fundamentals which were once and may be again intensely American characteristics. There are integ rity and idealism." THE SPUD. Students batching their way through college in stuffy little third-s t o r y apartments usually have for dinner one day potatoes and bread, and the next day bread and potatoes. But this year such students are finding potatoes pain fully high priced. Landladies who earn their daily bread by feeding college boys po tatoes are finding the same thing to be true. So are boarding clubs and fraternities. So is John Citi zen. Potatoes are unusually high priced this year because there is a seriously short crop. That situa tion is true over most of the Unit ed States. Prof. H. O. Werner, horticulture department, says that on Sept. 10th the government esti mate was for the shortest potato crop in fifteen years. The crop in Nebraska will per haps not be as light as the aver age over the country. The eaily crop was very light, but Mr. Wer ner thinks that the fall crop may be much better Nebraska's crop of market potatoes will vary in good and bad years from 4,000 to 8,000 cars. One long suit of Nebraska's po tato produc tion Is the raising of certified seed for use in the south. From 400 to 1.000 cars of certified seed are shipped from Nebraska every year. Southern states all the way from Texas to Georgia plant certified spuds from Nebraska. STUDY STRUCTURE OF Theoretical Physics Course Developed After Two Years Abroad. Recent spectacular developments in the knowledge of the heart of the atom will he surveyed in a special course of atomic nuclei to be taught by Dr. J. Rud Nielsen, professor of theoretical physics, and Dr. G. A. Van Lear, jr.. as sistant professor of physics, it was announced Wednesday by Dr. Homer L. Dodge, professor of physics. Dr. Nielsen has just returned from 'two years of study at the University of Copenhagen with Niels Boiir, who is recognized as the leading authority in the world in the field of the structure of matter. A former professor of the university, Dr. Nielsen, received a two years' leave of absence to study in Copenhagen on a Guggen hoin' fellowship, offered only to the best scholars in physics. In this course the very latest discoveries of the neutron and the positive electron, together with the many artificial transmutations of elements recently accomplished, will be treated in detail, Dr. Dodge said. The other course on atomic structure which wns scheduled for this semester, physics 440, will be replaced by physics 354, physical optics. In the latter course, which will meet at the hours assigned to physics 440, the electromagnetic wave theory of light will be de veloped and applied to those opti ca! phenomena which can be treated without the use of the quantujn theory, Dr. Dodge announced. STUDIO SQUIBS You have to be a movie fan to work in the Hollywood postoffice. The film city leads the country in receiving letters with mystifying addresses on the envelopes, and yet the mailmen rarely fail to make correct deliveries The latest was a letter ad dressed, " 'You Can Be Had," Hol lywood, Calif." It was delivered to Mae West at Paramount studios. Shortly before that, Mae re ceived a letter from an Oakland high school boy, addressed "Why Don't You Come Up Sometime?" and another from a Gloucester fisherman, reading "Queen of Sin." The letters were all delivered promptly. Postmen Must Know. Seldom do these writers put the studio name on the envelope. They let the Hollywood postoffice figure out that part of the riddle, as well as the star's identity. Another lettezr was one address ed to "Girl Without a Name," and Judith Allen, a newcomer to Hol lywood, got it without delay. This proves that not only do postal workers see movies, but they also read movie publicity. For several weeks. Judith Allen was without a name while Cecil B. DcMille was trying to find a new one for her when he chose her for the lead in his Paramount picture, "This Day and Age." Character Names Used. When James Cagney made his first big hit in pictures, he wes flattered when the mailman deliv ered a letter to him, addressed merely "The Public Enemy," and Edward G. Robinson got the same thrill when one came marked "Little Caesar." Bing Crosby recently had a let ter addressed to "The Ace of Crooners," while better still, a fan in England addressed a letter to "Bing, U. S. A.," and there was no delay in it reaching the crooner. Fredric March was the recipi ent of a serial letter from a fan in the middle west. The first let ter, unfinished, came addressed to j "Dr. Jekyll," and the continuation , was marked for "Mr. Hyde." Two More for Frawley. William Frawley will be fea tured with Cary Grant in "Come On Marines," and with George Raft and Carole Lombard in "All Of Me," both at Paramount. SLASHED FUNDS FORCE LIBRARY CURTAIL STApp (Continued Irom Page i , purchased in the future when ti legislature is able to appropri,.' the necessary funds. e Other universities have i found it necessary to resort to"S similar policy. The University ,f Chicago will be unable to edd vol umes to its library this year Northwestern university has 8llf fered a deep cut. An accurate re. port on the .situation m other schools will not be available uiuii late in October when the America i Library association will convene ,!, Chicago. It is expected that th , will be one of the main topjrg tu be discussed by the delegates. The association which boasts some ten thousand members is dj. vided into several sections Doanj will represent his department at the convention for which he has been asked to prepare and read a paper. "The Librarian As A Writ, er" is his subject and it will fce presented before the university and college section of the tissoria tion. "The policy to which we have been forced to resort is rcgrettabl and puts a definite obstarle In the plans of continually building 'p our libraries," said Donne "it js hoped, however, that the nppto priations will be sufficient in the future to allow a continuance of the usual program." Ask Your Dad or Mother Who cleaned their clothes when they were at Nebraska Uni. Invariably the reply will be Modern Cleaners. i This is our 29th year In Lincoln We have cleaned a lot of clothe. Let us take care of yours. Modern Cleaners Soukup & Westovcr Call F2377 For Service Coeds at Stanford university must pass physical examinations and be excellent in their studies be fore they are allowed to stay out until 12 o'clock one week nights and 1:30 on Saturday nights. Don't Borrow a Car Good rental cars are available for all occasions, flat rate on evenings, with insured cars and special rates tor long trips. NRA Motor Out Company 1120 P St. Always Open B68I9 ien! Young Men! We don't ami nt to scare you inlo Iniviiiit now But Facts are Facts! jn ll.o face ol' VJ'a ml ii nee in raw wool . . with woolen mills w it lulniv, in2 ii(itiilioiis on future in lefs . . wit li iiiaiiiil'ii'-tiM' in;: costs nsin:x in lnrs iind lioiuirls . . 1 1 1 1-1 1 emu plijiuee with 1 1n N eoiie there is no need 1 I rv to fool ourselves - t.'lothiiijr prices liae al ready ureatly advanced and are yoni- still hi-licr. Only because we pre pared months ahsed for this fall can wc show such remarkable fine all wool suits at $18.50 and $20.00 We won't he :M- 1" sl"" such unusual values for lonp. We urjrc vein to Im? now and save Interest should be aroused in the "coin belt" 1y the announcement of the agiicultural ttharps in Wash ington that there are thirty-five ways of eating eornmeal. YOUR DRUG STORE Try those snappy noon lunches at our fountain you will enjoy them. Quick Delivery The OWL PHARMACY 14S No. 14th V P Street 81068 B Special Oil Permanent $2.00 II Oil-O-Pint Permanent $3.50 ; FREDERICS VITRON SCOQ J Permanent Wave Shampoo and Marcel J0c Shampoo and Finger Wave 50c Haircuts 25c i mi fvi V Nti A-fYiAmfc. Beauty Parlor- 2W Sec Mut Bldg, 12th A O B2327 ' - SAVE MONEY on SUPPLIES Fine Arts Bus. Org. Bot. - Zoology Law Engineering Sets (University Approved) Seal Stationery Loose Leaf and Bound Notebooks Fountain Pens 45c and Up Lowest Prices at 7j R7(Sul