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TWO THE DAILY NEBRASKAN THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 28. 1933 d ft v h c P o n n t: a. 1 t tf ai w ui w lit in tb tb fit bt 1h ( Daily Nebraskan Station A, Lincoln, Nebratka OFFICIAL STUDENT PUBLICATION UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA Entered as seeond-clati nmtter at the postoffice Lincoln, Nebraska, under act of conareaa. March 3. 187a and at special rate of postaage provided for In section 1103. act of October 3, 1917. authorized January 20, 1922. THIRTY. THIRD YEAR Published Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday mornings during the academic year. SUBSCRIPTION RATE SI. 50 a year Single Copy 5 cents 1.00 a semestei $2.50 a year mailed $1.50 a semester mailed Under direction of the Student Publication Board. Editorial Office University Hall 4. Business Office University Hall 4A. Telephones Day: B-6891: Nighti B-68S2. B-3333 (Journal) Ask for Nebraskan editor. EDITORIAL STAFF Laurence Hall Managing Editors News Editors Bruce Nicoll Burton Marvin BUSINESS STAFF Bernard Jennings Assistant Business Managers George Holyoke Dick Schmidt V. ilbur Erickson The NRA in A New Aspect. QA.TCH words and wise cracks, publicity and prognostication about the NRA sweep daily in such floods over all obstacles that it is only at the risk of having an audience vanish that anyone un dertakes to discuss the innumerable aspects of the stabilization program. For that reason, and be cause the Nebraskan does not believe itself or anyone else in the position to vaporize about ulti mate results in the social order, editorial comment in this newspaper has bec-n avoided. Comment has been avoided, that is, until now, when an aspect that seems to have been completely neglected presents itslf very forcefully, partially as a result of a statement by Dean Roswell McCrea of the Columbia school of business, concerning Whose NRA views the Nebraskan carried a story in its Wednesday issue. Said Dean McCrea, an swering the argument that colleges are "glutting the employment market far in excess of present or future needs:" "To educate to better understanding of vexing problems and of opportunities for service, and to raise the plane of competition among workers from lower to higher levels is surely a gain rather than a detriment to the social weal. "None the less, there is a grain of truth in the contention (that colleges turn out too many job seekers), and in recognition of this truth, it be hooves us to strive perennially for better selection of student material, for more effective vocational guidance, and for better focussed efforts at place ments of graduates in particular jobs." JT behooves colleges to strive perennially for "bet ter selection of student material, for more ef fective vocational guidance, and for better focussed efforts at placements of graduates in particular jobs," Dean McCrea declares. All three of these significant points, it will be noticed, are concerned with the development of a professional spirit and the operation of professional devices within the col leges. And to the Nebraskan's way of thinking no better possibilities for carrying out the aims stressed by the Columbia dean can be found any where than in the professional organizations that already exist. Obviously "professional organizations" covers a wide variety of activities, so for the purposes of discussion the meaning will be limited to the type of organization which falls under the less broad classification "professional fraternities." Under this arrangement the Nebraskan will be afforded an opportunity to air some of its favorite views about the values of professional fraternities, and, too, the discussion is less likely to flounder com pletely in theoretical paths, for such organizations do exist and are rather familiar. Professional fraternities, then, are believed to hold the key to realization of the dean's three ob jectives, but to see how, each of the aims must be inspected more closely. J7IRST, the part professional fraternities may play in "better selection of student material," is limited, because ultimately this responsibility rests with college administrators empowered to adjust en trance requirements. Professional groups can help to raise standards within the colleges themselves, however, by a variety of ways both scolastic, and otherwise and the Nebraskan believes that they have been of assistance in this respect, but have by no means achieved perfection. Second, the need for "more effective vocational guidance," is part and parcel of every professional fraternity's program, or at least it should be. The professional fraternity, indeed, can probably ac complish more in this respect than can be expected from more formal attempts at any sort of voca tional guidance, which have always manifested a tendency to get out of direct touch with student in terests, and hence fail of satisfactory results. "Vocational guidance," after all, resolves itself OFFICIAL BULLETIN AO student ari-anlutlone or faeulir group desiring I" publlan nutlcr of mfrllnn ur allM-r Inform elon lot members mjt hut htm printed by calling in Onlly rtbrakaa office Swimming Club. Women's swimming club will meet Thursday, Sept. 28 at 5 o'clock in the W. A. A. room at Ellen Smith hall. Maxine Pack wood announces that it is to be an important business meeting. Awgwan Worker. The Awgwan is in need of ex perienced contributors for the art and editorial departments. All students interested in doing mis work should apply at the Awgwan office in the ba:;cment of U hail. Rosalie Lamme, editor. Lambda Gamma. Lambda Gamma, Lutheran girls sorority, invites all Lutheran girls to a reception to be held Sunday, Oct. 1 from 3 to 5 p. m. at Ellen Smith hall. Scabbard There will be and Blade. a meeting of the Scabbard and Blade Thursday, Sept. 2H. at 5 p. m. in Nebraska ball. Rifle Team. Men interehted in varsity and freshman rifle teams will meet in the basement of Andrews ball at 6 p. m. Monday, Oct. 2. Commercial Cub. The Girls Commercial club will meet Tuesday. Oct. 3, at 7 p. m., in Ellen Smith ball. some of which As tor the In "better focussed in particular to do much to . Editor. In-chic. go much for Violet Cross Business Manaaer UNAFFILIATED MEN ORGANIZE COUNCIL FOR GROUP ACTION (Continued from Page 1.) plans call for extensive organizing this season. Last winter the interclub bas ketball tournament and schedule proved eminently successful, and a baseball league was functioning nicely when the school year ended. Extensive work is to be done along these lineg this year as soon as the council is formed. According to the constitution the Barb council is a committee of the interclub council, and has as its function the forming of a me dium of social life for the barb students. This organization is In charge of the All-University par ties, the second of which is to be held this Saturday night in the coliseum. The first dame was two weeks ago. Sept. 16. Besides the next All University affair five more have been arranged for by this committee, the last two to be held in the Student Activities building at Ag college, and the other three scheduled for the coli seum. Harry West, president of the in terclub council for the coming year, said Wednesday: "I feel that the Barb Students have a big year ahead of them, and that the Inter club council will enjoy a great deal of success." UNIVERSITY WILL AID COMMUNITY CHEST CAMPAIGN, (Continued from Page l.t i Six teams are included in ths ' regiment j Team No 210 is under the Ji- j rectlon of Air. C. O. Swayzee who will act as captain. This organiza-! into dissemination of information about a given profession or vocation, and professional fraternities are in a psitlon to operate here in a vivid and in teresting fashion by a great number of activities- are being carried on already. third need listed by Dean McCrea efforts at placements of graduates jobs," we find again that professional fraternities could expand their activities to be of great service in this respect. At least one national professional fraternity already has invaded this field successfully, and even it has made little more than a beginning. Combined with better organized placement bureaus within colleges and their de partments, professional fraternities ought to be able aid graduates find actual jobs. the actual points and their relation to professional fraternities. Specific sugges tions for carrying out these objectives are almost impossible owing to the variability of conditions among various colleges, but it can be pointed out that contacts with high school students, semi-social functions on the campus and off, and a great num ber of other devices have been used in the past for the promotion of professional spirit. And it is the promotion of that spirit which must be sought, in any case, for all the activities which spring from professional fraternities are ul timately seen to rest on this foundation. "Professional spirit" adjustment of individ uals to their places within a particular vocation is, in the last analysis, the thing around which efforts to train college students to a place in modern so ciety must revolve. Inculcation of codes of pro fessional ethics, abandonment of the selfish "rugged individualism," all remain to be developed under a movement for professional spirit. In the light of the connection between the NRA and the development of professional spirit in education, the capital letters might be reinter preted. Why can't it be professional spirit and the National Restriction of Avarice? Equality for All Drivers. gHORT and to the point is the communication from a student who has evidently fallen into the net of parking regulation enforcement. He says: "Since we have a faculty parking area in which student cars are tagged for parking, why not tag faculty cars for parking in the student parking places? It seems to me that turn-about is fair play. (signed) One-of-the-Tagged." And in this fashion the Tagged One brings back into the limelight a perennial concern. Dating from the days before the building of the malls, when parking space was really a major problem, the question has sung more or less in the air for a long time. Rare, indeed, is the semester that passes without some attention to car-parking and as a matter of fact the above note from an ag grieved student marks the second time the matter has ben called to our attention, even this early. A faculty member was the first complainant, and his voice was raised against the slovenly way in which cars were parked all over the campus, but especially, he pointed out, in the space reserved for faculty cars. It was both unnecessary and irksome, he declared, to find a parked car taking two spaces when places themselves were at a premium. THILE the two complaints are directed at dif ferent phases of the car-parking problem, yet they have this in common: both involve faculty as well as student parking, and both, by implication at least, plead for greater attention to the way faculty members park their cars. Boiled down and fused, the pleas amount to this faculty members who drive cars should be subject to at least the same amount of supervision as is given student drivers. That there is some justification for such a request is evidenced by the two communications de scribed above, and if you ask a student driver he will aver, perhaps profanely, that most faculty members who drive cars handle their machines in a way much below the standard set by students. There would seem, then, to be justice in the request that student and faculty drivers be treated equally. Certainly both have the same dangerous potentialities for both operate powerful machines that only too easily may be devastating. And the claim that faculty members need supervision, too, seems sound, if for no other reason than that many professorial drivers lack the youthful alertness that often saves the younger driver from mishap. In any case, automobiles continue to piesent "social problem" aspects, no matter what people drive them. Complex expressions of transporta tion needs tho they are, automobiles still involve the variable and human fa tors and these are not limited to any class of drivers. If there is to be any udequate supervision of campus drivem, regulations should certainly be en forced with a.s great an eniphHHis for faculty mem bers as they ate for students. lion will have charge of the Col lege of Arts and X ienees and the College of Biwineh Administra tion Mr. M C. Koch has been chosen captain of Team No. 211. and he will have charge of Teach ers College, College of Dentistry, College of Phaimacy, and the Col lege of Law. The College of Engineering, Conservation and Survey, and Ihe University Extension department will be taken care of by Team No. 212 under the direction of Mr. J. 1'. Colbert. Mr. L. E. Gunderxon will act as captain of Team 213 and will have charge of General Ad ministration. School of Music, General Accounts, which includes the Library, Legislative Reference bureau. Military Science, Physical Education, and Athletics, and Commercial Activities, which In cludes Bookstores and the Wom en s Dormitories. Mr. H. J. Gramlich will act as captain of Team 214. and will take charge of Agricultural Extension department, Ag Experimental sta- tlon. College of Agriculture. and the State Department of Vocati'in- al Education. The final team. No. 215. will be under the supervision of Mr. R. B. Scott. The Service de partment. City campus, and the Agricultural campus comprise this team. Room for Rent To a Girl Reasonable Amount 726 Elm wood Tel. F7876 CONTEMPORARY COMMENT Business vs. Professors. Professors are all right in. the university, business thinks. In the classroom before the rostrum, the little meek-eyed, forgetful Ph.D is innocuous. When he speaks of ionization, amoebae, Cartesian philosophy, or marginal utility, the professor wins approval from the money makers. But when the professor becomes audacious enough to involve him self in politics he is marked im mediately as dangerous. If he speaks in sociological terms about improving conditions he is brand ed as a red. The harmless little fellow who lectured at women s clubs and luncheons suddenly grows to terrible stature. His eyes glare with an awful light. Business leaders, shuddering at the sight of college professors on the president's cabinet, revealed their instinctive fear of the aca demic mind. Editorials were writ ten ridiculing the mathematical Ezekiel Mordecal who can predict the price of hogs by using calculus, v hat makes the professor dan gerous when he leaps over the academic fence? Why does his mumbling raise no concern when it is done in a classroom? Because professors have ideas; they are thinkers. And thinkers when given political power naturally try to transform these ideas into reality. But American business is afraid of these academic ideas. It pre fers that the political power be bested in non-thinkers. It feels perfectly safe when congress and not President Roosevelt's academic 'brain trust" directs the affairs of our government. Daily Northwestern. A Contagious Malady And Its Remedy. Symptoms of the dreaded mal ady Xerbus Uanthovepekis have already made their appearance and school has just begun! In case you don t know or have forgotten what X. Uanthovepekis is, we'll explain. This contagious disorder which seizes its victims almost entirely from the upper classmen is a brain ailment. The chief manifestations are that the victim's brain suddenly grows un til his hat becomes too small for comfortable wearing. The reason that few freshmen are affected, strange as it may ap pear, is that their brains don't get a chance to develop because of the presence of those affected by X. Uanthovepekis. The latter tend to retard the development of the "bug" in the brains of their neigh bors by continually impressing up on them their (neighbor's) unim portance. This immunity usually lasts throughout the freshman year, un less the man is initiated into a fraternity or receives some other distinction. Then he has his first ordeal of the malady. The immunity further disap pears as the man enters his second year, and in mild cases, the victim suffers only for brief intervals throughout the remainder of his college career. In the more severe cases, the victim may never re cover as long as he is in school. Is there a remedy, you ask? Authorities recommend a well directed kick from a No. 14 shoe applied at the spot where most kicks are applied. Iowa State Student TASSELS BREAK LAST YEAR SALES RECORD (Continued from Page 1.) Pollard, Ruby Schwembly, Mar garet Medlar, Phyllis Sidner, Lou ise Hossock, Laura McAllister, Alaire Berkes, Doris Erickson, Kathryn Evans, Mary Edith Hend ericks. V'irgene McBride, Lois Nel son, Marjorie Smith, Maxine Pack wood, Frances Brune, Jean Brown lee, Marjorie Filley, Irene Maurer, Irene Nabity, Mary Reimers, Gretchen Schragg and Adela Tom brink. Three of these saleswomen, Louise Hossock, Alaire Barkes and Polly Pollard, are candidates for membership into Tassels. Twenty sewn members of the organization will nut be allowed to take the trip beause they failed to hell twenty tickets or more during the drive. Tickets for the University Play ers theatrical season including six plays may still be obtained by call ing the office of the Players at the Temple building. The first play. "The Late Christopher Bean," starring Ray Ramsey, will be given Oct. i) under Miss If. Alice Howell's direction. GIRLS ATTEND TEA, DISCUSS ACTIVITIES (Continued from Page 1 i Athletic association, the A. W. S. board, the V. W. C. A., the Big Sisters board, the! Daily Nebras kan. the Cornhusker, and the Aw gwan. The honorary sororities will have a room, and the relig ious organizations will have an other. The Tassels will show the freshmen girls around to the roonm of the campus activities. Decorations are in charge of the W. A. A. and posters are being made by the Y. W. C. A. The A. W. S. is providing for the refresh ments which will be served by the members of Alpha Lambda Delta. This tea is a comparatively new feature in girl's activities, being instituted to give freshmen the op portunity of acquainting them selves with university women's ac tivities. At the tea girls will be given the chance to select and jo' the particular organization whu-. has attracted them. Oil-O-Plne Permanent $3.50 ' "ssm I FREDERICS VITRO JCOO IsSj f f Permanent Wave . . . . " Y -sV 6hjmpoo and Marcel 50c I (p Shampoo and Finger Wave 50c """) Haircuts 25o O NETA-fiTARIE Beauty Parlor ? 21 Sec. Mut Bldg., 12th A O B2327 College By Cnrljlc Uodgkin WOMEN FARMERS. Interesting, though perhaps dis illusioning, to college girls who might some day be farm house wives would be an article appear ing in the August and September Issues of the Atlantic Monthly called "Letters of Two Women Farmers." One is Evelyn, a widow, who op erates Howell's Point farm at Bet terton, Md. The other is Caroline, who, with her husband, operates Wayside farm at Eve, Okl. The woman In Maryland operates a large fruit farm: the one in Okla homa raises cattle and wheat. The letters begin in the spring when the peach orchards in Mary land are in full bloom, and despite the failures of the two previous years and low prices of everything farmers have to sell, Evelyn is op timistic. She writes Caroline of her optimism, and about the little apples and peaches starting on the trees, and how she hopes to pay ou a few debts this year. Caroline, from the Oklahoma plains, writes back a different story. The wind, wind, wind! It blows and blusters until they can't get the spring work started. One day, she relates, the wind was so ferocious it started four freight cars on a siding to rolling and the momentum of the wind carried them forty miles. Coal for her chick brooder, she said, cost $20 a ton, it took two bushels of wheat to buy a wick for her oil stove, and two pounds of butter to pay for a felt washer for the tractor. And at the same time they were get ting 31c for wheat, 7c (in trade) for eggs, 8c for hens, and 2c for steers. About the $20 coal, the woman in Maryland wrote back that she could pay a few of her debts if she could collect a bill for fruit she had sold to a store in a mining town. But the store keeper said he could not pay the bill for the miners could not pay their bills because they were out of work. The min ers were out of work because the price of coal was so low the own ers could not afford to operate. men came the bad news from Maryland. Just when the peaches were all set, and she had contract ed for boxes and crates, and had had a man come out from New York to appraise the crop and make her an operating loan, the fire blight hit her orchard, took all the crop, and killed a laree num ber of the trees. The tomato crop in Maryland was better, but the crated toma toes in New York brought just lc a pound, not enough to pay for her cost of packing, transporting and handling. She had nothing- left for her labor and expense of grow ing the tomatoes in the first place. She rebelled most at the thought that the men in her neighborhood worked ten hours a day at the farm for $1.00, and the longshore men who loaded her tomatoes into the boat, all union men, were get ting 85c to $1.10 per hour. And all tne time they were try ? to harvest and can the vege table crop it rained, and rained. and rained. Meanwhile, in Oklahoma. Caro line was paying 23c, the price of a bushel of wh-;at, for a box of Cream of Wheat. There was no rain in Oklahoma from June-Sept- tember. What little wheat had not been killed by the hail storm in June had died from the drouth. One neighbor combined a field of wheat from which, if he got seven bushels per acre, he could break even. He got only three bushels per acre. The garden dried up with the wheat. They had neither feed for the winter, nor could they af ford to sell their cattle at the ter rible low prices. In her last letter Caroline said that they still had their friends, the family was still well and healthy, and that "perhaps in what many people would call ignoble poverty, we are rich." Ag college students would find the article interesting as a pic ture of all the desperate situations that farmers have found them selves in during this depression. But the letters are far too schol arly to have been written by most farm women in Oklahoma, or in Maryland either. The woman in Oklahoma quoted Shelley and Masefield too freely, and the woman in Maryland had too pro found a knowledge of economics her discourse in places reads al most like Tassig or Fairchild, Fur nace, and Buck. The article reads more like the work of a newspaper man in a New York office, one who is thor oughly familiar with the situation from bis newspaper work, and who Is extremely capable of putting his observations down on paper. (SoattG 12 Shuulit be tent In u$ note. They'll be properly Cleaned will look newer ) 0 will wear longer will save money Hf ARSITY V CLEANER 221 No. 14 Joe Tucker E3367 Roy Wythera American Institution of 'Boy Friend' Remains Mystery to French People. (Continued from Page 1.) by no means give the tone to the social life that they do in this country. Stoke Not Impressed. Apparently Prof. Stoke was not particularly impressed with the French "chic" that we hear to much about. "French women are not particularly well dressed, yet one occasionally does see some striking outfits there; women seem to use more freedom in giving the cut to their clothes than American women employ," he said. Men and women in Germany are more on a par than they are in France, Stoke believes. "The Ger man girls are permitted almost as much liberty as American girls." Coeducation is common there thought not as prevalent as it is in America. Girls are often seen with men in the fashion described by university students as dating. "German girls are healthy and husky," Mr. Stoke said, "and do not possess a great deal of style in dressing, according to American ideas of taste. Marriage In Ger many is conducted on practically the same basis as it is Uore." Belgian Women Free. Belgian women have a good deal of freedom, though not quite as much as the German women do, Dr. Stoke observed. More of them attend universities. The reason for this difference, he believes, is that in all countries where the Catholic church dominates education, co education is not common. "Belgian women are short, heavy set, and extremely substan tial looking, on the whole not as smartly dressed as American girls," he said. In England the women have ss much freedom as American girls do, Stoke believes. He was im pressed with the fact that they are especially large in stature, and it is not unusual to see couples in which the woman is a good deal taller than the man. Fewer English Coeds. "There are by no means the number of coeds in England as there are in this country, probably because of the idea upon which the educational system of Great Brit ain is founded. Every one who can afford it there goes to a private school; thus most girls of the up per middle classes attend finishing schools rather than public univer sities," Dr. Stoke stated. English women smoke as much on the streets as men in this coun try do, Stoke observed. This situa tion is a startling contrast to the French women who are very sel dom seen smoking. Hampton Heath, a huge park in the center of London, and a favor ite rendezvous for young people, is, in Professor Stoke's opinion, one of the few solutions to the problem which they must face. This problem is how to get ac quainted with more individuals of their own age and interests, of which a city the size of London affords little opportunity. Dramatic Club. Dramatic club will hold its try out for the year in the club rooms on the third floor of the Temple building at 7:30 on Thursday eve ning. Those trying out should have a short reading memorized on any appropriate subject to use in the competition. You've Never, - - 1 And in the trend of higher prices, Connie Creations .'7 s. are "still only" .... Suede is to be found in the smartest places... and rightly. In combination or with self trim, Suede is modish and wearable. These two Connie shoes are lovely in both brown or black. ffm Simm&ScnS rORMrv ARMSTRONG WASHINGTON STATE IS OF E Most of Students Registered At Western School Pledge Support of System. (From the Washington State Evernreeni Not many Washington State stii. dents can now say as did one stu dent Wednesday "NRA Where have I heard that before'?" for close to two thousand Wash, ington State college students, UUr. ing registration Wednesday and Thursday, signed cards expressing their cooperation in the national movement for industrial recovery Presided over by Miss Amy Lewellen, a desk in the administra tion building was the scene of NRA action for students, and prac tically all those registering signed cards. In the opinion of Major R, r Sloan, in charge of the State col lege regiment, the students' atti tude toward the NRA, in signing up practically 100 percent, is very encouraging. Students not only have considerable buying power but such willing response points to much future assistance from stu dents. Col'ege men and women are responding with enthusiasm to the call, "Have you signed?" al though many, as one student said, were more interested in the minu mum wage provided than anything else. Working under Major Sloan in the State college NRA organiza tion are the following captains, with the groups which they are contacting: Loyd Bury, unorgan ized students; Mrs. B. L. Steele, sororitk-s; Miss Amy Lewellen! dormitories and residence halls' and Harry M. Chambers, fra ternities. NRA worker here emphasized the fact that in order to reach the 100 percent goal at Washington State college each student, even if he signed an NRA card at home, should sign a consumer's card here at school. It is not yet too late to sign a card and receive your NRA sticker. Those who registered late, or failed to sign a card during reg. istration days, may do so by going to the graduate manager's office in the Administration building. 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