TWO THE DAILY NEBRASKAN WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 1, iq The Daily Nebraskan Station A. Lincoln, N"ra.k OFFICIAL STUDENT PUBLICATION UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA . ..... .ttip at the Doitofflce In Entered cn;'L"V t of congress, March 3, 1879. Lincoln. Nebrsska under fct f "ded' for , et(on ?" .cYT, Octobsr 3. rW7. authorized January 20. 1822, THIHTV. THIRD YEAR - uj.rfn.iriav. Thursday. Friday and PUBHSunda7 n,orVlnB. dur7ng th. acad.m.e year. SUBSCRIPTION RATE . ,. ..... nt (1.00 i tern titer Under direction of the Student PuDlicauon ooara. Editorial Off Ice University Mall 4. ?e7,pnhTnbCi7. B-689U Nlflht: B-6882. B-3333 (Journal) ASK TOr nBuri" w""" EDITORIAL STAFF . u. Editor-ln-chlef bdUIVllWB Managing Editors ...;. u.,u Violet Cross Dl UVf iiwvn News Editors Burton Marvin Jack Fischer Margaret Thlele e.ii.rk Society Editor BUSINESS STAFF Bernard Jennings Business Manager Assistant Business Managers Ceorgs Holyoks r , Dick Schmidt " Wilbur Erlckson Rustling Of Leaves. T)AYS and nights of balmy weather in the transit loveliness of autumn erect seilous barriers to scholastic activity. What text is there to compete with blue sky and breezes, soft airs and lovely foliage? Nebraska's autumn has this year been unusually enjoyable, and remarkably serene in its lack of bad weather. To be outdoors on days like these is to recognize for a brief space that after all it is living and not merely the superimposed complexity of an industrial age that really matters. Even in the midst of the buzzing lives of a uni versity campus nature's splendid simplicity in trudes. Look at the autumn and feel its beauty even If but for a moment. You'll return to work re freshed, as we did. And now that the super-excellence of the weather has been responsible for its inevitable editorial we knew it would get us snow may be expected. Play! Or Eh 'TRAINING for use of leisure time, rather than emphasis on intercollegiate athletics, is the new trend in physical education according to Miss Mable Lee, physical education department head just re turned from addressing an Indiana state teachers' convention. It is indeed heartening to know that physical education thruout the country is concern ing itself with fulfilling a real need, satisfactory utilization of spare time. There seems to be some disagreement, however, about the methods to be employed in teaching Americans to play. It is rather generally conceded that they have come near to forgetting how in an industrial preoccupation that amounts almost to absurdity and physical education departments have been a part of the machinery on which the bur den of remedying the lack of play has fallen. Un fortunately the machinery perhaps from the very fact of its being machinery has often failed to operate very successfully. One of the reasons for that failure has been the paradoxical method of teaching people to play by forcing them to, whether they want to or not. Re creation, relaxation, in short play, happens to be of such a spontaneous nature that it cannot be gen erated at will. No account of compulsion or "organ ization" can induce anything approaching the real recreation admittedly so badly needed in America. Play, then, is essentially a matter of spontaneity and Informality. It cannot exist if prescribed in doses. And that is the reason it cannot exist at all in a physical education department like Nebraska's where compulsion, not interest, is the determining factor for coed participation in play activities. There certainly is a need for training in the use of leisure time, perhaps now more than ever before, but compulsory physical education if of questionable value as a training method. Contemporary Comment Ten Years From Aon-. A GAIN and again students grumble at the re peated "drives" and sales campaigns which harass them thruout the year. Organizations which depend for financial support on sales to students make heroic efforts to sell their offerings, and the natural result is the ever-present student grumbl ing. Unfortunately there is no ready solution for the problem the many campaigns present. Adoption of the activities tax, consolidating and reducing the costs of the major items students buy, would sim plify the problem greatly, but until such a tax is adopted, the campaigns continue to bear the brunt of all manner of criticism. Meanwhile they are necessary to the continuance of various campus enterprises. One such enterprise, indeed, is campaigning this week in its annual sales drive. The Cornhusker, student yearbook, is concentrating efforts in a week's campaign. An honest attempt to reduce the price of the an nual to a figure within the means of student pur chasers has been made by the yearbook staff, and even in the face of increased publishing costs un der printers' and engravers' codes, the Cornhusker is being offered to the campus at a low rate. The annual, it must be remembered, is a self-supporting institution. Its place on the campus as the record book of the student year is thoroly justifiable and perhaps the most astonishing feature of the publication is the increasing and immeasurable value that acrues to it as time goes on. Ten years from now you will be either glad that you bought a Cornhusker or sorry that you failed to buy one. Think it over. Mak ing ends meet may be difficult sometimes, but future possibilities should also be considered. Ag College By Carljle Hodgkin FOUR-H CLUBS. Reluctant to say farewell to the good old days in Four-H clubs, Ag college students a few years ago organized the University Four-H club. Thursday night that organi zation meets for the first time this semester. According to Bill Waldo, the club's president the meeting Thurs day night will be devoted chiefly to reports of the National Club Week at Washington last June. Annually a few outstanding club workers from Nebraska attend the two weeks outing with outstanding clubbers from most other states in the cation. The Nebraska group this year was Mazie Foreman, Lawrance Liebers and Burr Ross, all three now Ag college students. Mr. L. I. Frisbie, state club lead er, will show reels of pictures taken at the club camp at Wash ington last June. Each of the three delegates to the camp will give re ports on what they saw, heard and did there. Waldo expects practic ally every former Four-H club member in college to be at the meeting Thursday night NOTE BOOKS A student went home for Christ mas vacation, forgot to take along his note book, and every time his dad, or his mother or maybe a neighbor asked him a question about something he'd learned in college, he was unable to answer the question. Another student on his way home at the end of four years in college lost his trunk. In his trunk were all his college notes. w hen nis notes were gone, his edu cation was gone. If some studenls had in their heads what they have in their notes, they would be able to get some high grades, would perhaps be worth something to an employer when they finished college. If some other students would take a few notes In classes, they might be able to improve their grades. Note tak ing may be valuable or may not be vaiuaDie; it depends upon the in dividual student and his learning nanus. I sat in a class and heard the Instructor explain the distinction Deiween a "ngnt and a "privi lege nan a dozen times, asked him to explain that distinction to me personally more than once. His explanation was so clear that I was sure I'd remember, but when an examination came along, I got zero on me question. A girl sat next to me, and every time he explained that particular point, sne wrote down everything he said. When the examination came along, she too got zero. If she had listened closer and perhaps thought a little more, and if I had taken a few notes instead of being so sure I'd remember, we would both have been happier when the examination papers came back. It is a matter of common knowledge that when you begin to write, somehow the contact be tween you and the speaker is brok en. You can't be thinking about what you are writing and at the same time thinking about what the instructor is saying. It is equally a matter of com mon knowledge how easily things can fade out of your mind. You can be ever so sure you remember just where the fine point of a cer tain discrimination lies, and all at once it will fold its tent like the Arabs and silently steal away, leaving you. absolutely blank. The assumption is that every student wants to get as much as possible out of his college courses. There is value in giving the speak er your undivided attention. There is also value in taking notes. The point is that each student will prof it by studying his own learning habits. When and how do you learn the easiest and quickest"? Figure out a method that is, for you, the easiest ad surest way to get grasp on the information, and form a habit of using that method. IT SEEMS A BIT FOOLISH. One of the latest suggestions from federal government officials to dairy farmers is that they stop feeding their cows grain, dairy on grass and hay with only a very limited amount of grain. The rea son suggested is that crop reduc tion programs are going to leave large areas for grass that have previously been planted to grain crops. Without grain, the cows would eat a lot more of the result ing grass and hay. Another advantage to dairymen is pointed out: Greater profits al ways result when grass and hay are fed instead of grain. The pro duction will shrink, but there will be a greater net return, according to the officials. Still a third ad vantage, this to the ent'.e indus try, will be the shrinkaj-ii in pro duction. A paramount problem to day is what to do with the alleged overproduction. A big decrease in what cows produce will help solve that problem. For years farmers have been told to feed cows more grain. They have been told that in every agri cultural meeting they attended. Flocks of bulletins have told them the same thing. Ag college stu dents going out as cow testers, club organizers, and what not, have told them the same thing. And now, after all those perfectly good years of teaching, and preaching and explaining, and exhorting, the gospel of more grain may be changed to a gospel of no grain at all. Interviews With Ghosts by Maurice Johnson This is one ot a st-nea ot lmagin&r dialogues concerning the ideal university lite. The dialogues will appear at regu lar bi-weekly Intervals. Russian Recognition. After fifteen years of non-recog nition it is curiously moving to see the beginnings of a rapprochement between "these great people," as President Roosevelt calls them, "two great republics," as Presi dent Kalinin cans them Russia and the United States. The largest, most energetic and most hopeful nations of the west and east how natural that they should be diplO' matlc friends, exchange ambassa dors, and carry on trade of vast benefit to both. It is interesting to note, in the press comment on President Roose velt's letter to the head of the Soviet state, that the old argu ments about the wicked Bolshe vik have melted away. The chorus of agreement is almost unanimous; the Czarist debts, which were at one time such a stumbling block to recognition, are barely mentioned. Mr. Duranty of the New York Times mentions them, but only to point out that were Russia to pre sent counter claims for American intervention on Russian territory, the much-mooted unpaid debts of the Czar's and the Kerensky gov ernments would be met many times over. The New York Herald-Tribune points out manfully that Russia's private morals need not engage us; all we need is assurance that the Third Internationale will not camp on our front doorstep. These assur ances Russia may be presumed to be prepared to give. In short, the Bolshevik has come out from be hind those whiskers and appears to look about like anybody else with the important exception that he holds in his hands large con tracts for the purchase of Ameri can goods. It should be remembered, how ever, that successful trade works both ways; we must be prepared to import Russian goods as well as to sell our goods to Russia. In the first eight months of 1933 im ports from Russia almost exactly balanced exports to that country. This balance must be maintained for the full advantage of Russian recognition to be felt. The Nation. About Criticism. About this time of year every magazine editor who values his reputation as an "intellectual" starts printing denunciatory or cynical articles on colleges aim uic college students oi iouay. a just what is wrong with higher ed ucatlon its critics are undecided some shout from the housetops that colleges and universities are ton imrjractical. too idealistic thev don't teach young men and women how to keep a job. Some bitterly declare that these institu tions should not attempt to teach the student how to make a living that a college should instead cie vote its time to instilling a nine culture into the minds of youth Upon one thing, however, most of the critics of the campus seem to acree; most of them are convinced that the colleges and universities should be quite different from what they are. How retresmng, men, ih tne Den- evolent. straight forward state' ment of William Lyon Phelps, the noted Yaleman, scholar, writer and teacher, "As I look at the college of today I feel assured as to the future." Heartening, it is indeed to find this bouquet in the midst of a barrace of brickbats! Such sweeping find wholesale faith is a little breath taking but wholly inspiring. There is little doubt that if most of the older gen eration expressed like confidence and trust, youth would be eager to shoulder responsibility, fired with the determination to Justify that trust. Los Angeles Junior Col legian. OFFICIAL BULLETIN All students orgsnlintlniis or faeulW groups desiring to publish notices ot meetings or other Information for members mar h.va hlem P''J calling tbs Uallf Nbrakan ofllc. Depression-Beating Innovation Is Inaugurated On Wisconsin Campus ENDORSED BY PRESS California Paper Supports Students Refusing to Take R.O.T.C. SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Oct. 31. (CNS). The Santa Barbara Morning Press has endorsed pro tests against a ruling of the Uni versity of California board of re gents, which resulted in the dis missal of two students from the Los Angeles division of the uni versity because they refused to take military training courses. "We recommend to the regents the thought that if they had each taken military training and duly exercised it in the wars of this country since they became of mili tary age, they might not be with us now to guide the education of our youth. We suggest also that taxpayers have a right to send their sons and daughters o the university which their taxes sup port, for such education as they desire, without being compelled to drill in uniform for the edification of regents who stay at home." The two students ousted from the University of California at Los Angeles have indicated they will appeal to the courts. "VOU once wrote a book about your own education," I said to Henry Adams. "What do you think a university should be?" "I don't know," he answered im mediately. "My own four years at Harvard wore wasted. I got almost nothing from the professors, and I got less from my school-mates. In fact, my years at Harvard had nothing to do with my education." I looked at him in surprise. "And then I was a professor my self, for seven years," Henry Adams went on, "and I saw how pathetic university education is. The students alone are satisfied with it. They think they gain some thing, and it would be shameful to ask them what they intended to do with education when they have it." "Well, then," I said, "didn't you try to give them something more when you were the professor?" "Yes, certainly," said Henry Adams. "I decided that lecture classes of hundreds did not suit me at all, and I limited classes to half-a-dozen students. I did not pretend to teach my pupils what I did not myself know, but I joined them in discovering the best way of learning. There were no text books, and the students read what they pleased and compared their results." "And was it successful?" I In quired. Henry Adams shook his head. "Oh, no. It was a wonderful method, but a sickening- failure. I found that few things are of any use, even after you teach them." "You don t think much of uni versities," I said. Henry Adams smiled faintly. 'Neither as boy nor man did I ever profess the least faith in uni versities of any kind. And I hadn't the least admiration for a univer sity graduate." "Then what's education all about?" I asked. "I'm sure I never exactly knew." he told me. "I spent some sixty years trying to find out. I learned a few things in life which were useful and many which were not useful, and that was all. I'm afraid that was all." A 600 pound vibrating table has been developed in the mechanical engineering laboratory at Stanford university which can create on a small scale the effect of an earth quake. The purpose of the inven tion is to test shock resistance of bridges, dams, office buildings and other structures. Each Monday night one sorority on the campus of the University of Kentucky will be host at the Tate wood cafeteria. The sorority hav ing the most business on their night as host will be given a prize of $25. Scientists at Princeton univer sity have succeeded In producing a new kind of water valuable in the study of atomic structure. It is heavier than ordinary water, and each hydrogen atom in it has a mass of two instead of one. Professor Cuthbertson of the University of Colorado has in vented a French verb wheel which consolidates all grammatical verb material and makes the learning of the language much easier. Kdltora Note: In the Frei Bulletin from 1 homes, . ,- v, Minrviiniii. H liirrn r nil nrurit' ,.. . . telling that thirty-eight Mlidents are able to I aDie 10 iraue DUSneiS Ol potatoes, eat for Sir a day. .As the story, which la printed nelow. explains thl In made non Mhle. hy a method of eooneration. .Re.,1 dents of Howard and WlUon hull on this campus puy exiiennes of a home Inrlndinic HshtN. a rook, rent and live "royally" for szu per month. A "Three Squares Club", mean ing three square meals a day for at least 38 students, is the latest de pression-beating innovation which has been started on the University of Wisconsin campus. The idea originated this fall un der the auspices of the Wesley Foundation, Methodist church stu dent center at the university. Us ing the dining facilities of the Foundation, the 38 student mem bers of the club prepare all their own meals and dine royally three times a day at a total average dailv cost per person of only 41 cents. Students Do Cooking. The students take turns at cook ing and serving the meals, and at purchasing the food, under the careful supervision of the Rev. Ormal L. Miller, director, and Earl Page, associate director. The Foundation charges a nominal fee of $5 per week with which to de fray cooking expenses and re place broken china. The lub also has become the nucleus around which the social and religious program of the stu dent church center is being built this year. The 38 students do not only gather to eat. They have mu sical programs following the meal, with the entile group singing var ious songs, befcre they go to their rooms to put in an evening of study. Use Form of Barter. By the simple means of barter, the club has been the means by which at least four students have been able to continue their studies at the university this fall, Mr. Page said. Coming from the farm these students have been home-canned fruits and vegetables, and even luilk, cream, butter and eggs, for th?ir meals at the club, A definite price schedule satisfac tory to all has been worked out, and provides he basis on which the borter plan is carried out. Since the Foundation is sup ported by Methodist church con gregations thruout Wisconsin, only Methodist students at the univer sity are eligible for membership in the cooperative eating organiza tion. Send Food Stuffs. Besides solving the problem of good food at low cost for the stu dents, the cUib has also given var ious church congregations in the state a way in which they can pay their maintenance dues to the Foundation this year, Mr. Page ex plained. T hose congregations send foodstuffs to the club, which pays for the material at prevailing wholesale prices, the money being turned over to the Foundation as the regular contribution from the church congregation. Is Latest Step. Thus the Three Squares club, which is thj latest step in reducing living ccfit taken by either univer sity or students, has helped to solve several problems facing Me thodist students and the Founda tion at the state university. The university itself has helped reduce living costs of Its students considerably in the past few years. Board and room rates in both men's and women's dormitories have been substantially reduced, cooperative houses for both men and women are operated, and meal costs in the Memorial union have been reduced to aid deflated pock ?thnnks. As a result, the cost of obtaining higher education at the state university has been re duced to a new low. Three Professors at University of California, After Study of Problem, Say Russian Recognition Desirable (From the Pail Californian. "The United States should recog nize Russia"1 Three University professors, dis cussing this problem from varied points of view, yesterday reached this same conclusion concerning the recent note of President Frank lin D. Roosevelt to President Ka linin of the soviet republic. A. S. Kaun, professor of Slavic languages, is of the opinion that "the closer Russia's contact with the western nations becomes, the sooner will its extreme views give place to more moderate and more workable forms. "It Is isolation thut breeds out landish notions. I see no reason why two great nations should dis continue traditional friendships." Russia Wants Recognition. Discussing the matter from the Russian people's point of view, Kaun pointed out that the United States has always served as a sym bol of liberty and brotherhood to the Russians. The recognition of the soviet government by our country will give the Russians moral encouragement as well as provide opportunity for a cultural co-operation between the two countries." Stating the opinion of a political scientist. Prof. F. M. Russell de clared, "There is no reason why we should not recognize Russia. While we have recognized such extreme governments as those of Mussolini and Hitler, we continue to ignore Russia. Would Enhance Trade. "Most people are inclined to be lieve that recognition of Russia would mean that we sympathized with the soviet form of govern ment. It has been our traditional policy to recognize 'de facto' gov ernments as in the cases of Ger many and Italy, but it does not fol low in any way with their form of government. "Russian recognition bv this country would not oay stimulate our trade relations, but it may de velop a different attitude toward Japan. Russia has always frowned on Japan's policies in Manchuria, but Japan has felt free to go ahead without interference from Russia or the United States because of the unfriendliness existing between them." Roosevelt's Fine Note. Prof. E. D. Dickinson, authority on international law, made the fol lowing comment: "After sixteen years the United States still acknowledges the ex istence of the Russian state but refuses to have intercourse with the government which must, of necessity, speak for that state. "Until recognition is granted there can be no assurance of dip lomatic protection for the persons or properties of nationals of either state, w-ho may travel, reside or trade in the other country. RrtJERNITY II LONG'S College Book Store Fudge Party. Publicity staff of Y. W. C. A. will hold Its membership fudge party in Ellen Smith Hall at 4 o'clock Thursday afternoon. Cabinet Meeting. Y. W. C. A. cabinet will meet at 7 o'clock Wednesday evening in Ellen Smith Hall. Y. M. C. A. Meeting. Y. M. C. A. cabinet will hold its regular Wednesday night meeting In the Temple Theater at 7:15. Vespers. Weekly Vesper services will be held at "The Little Church on the Corner," at 13th and R street this week. Barb Council. There will be a meeting of the Barb Council Wednesday after noon at 4 o'clock in room 105 of Social Science building. SHEAF LEADS DISCUSSION. Rev. Sheaf of Epworth M. E. church will lead the discussion at the Ag Vespers to be held Tuesday noon in the Home Economics par lors. Everyone is urged to attend as this meeting will be of special interest. Stamp Salesmen. All salesmen for Nebraska home coming stanx s are to check in Monday .ind iriday of next week at Ellen Smith JIall. Corn Cobs to Meet. There will b8 an important meet ing of the Com Co.'s at the Delt house, Wednesday, 7:30 p. m. PI Mu SpRl'in. Professor O. C. Collins will dis cuss "The Applications or Aiame- matics to Astronomy at a meet ing of Pi Mu Epsilon, national hon orary mathematical society, to be held Thursday, Nov. 2, at 7:30 in the university observatory. Any one interested in this phase of mathematics is invited to attend. HALF OF WESLEYAN EMPLO Methodist Council. The All-Methodists student coun cil is sponsoring a waffle supper, Wednesday evening, at 5:30 to a o'clock, in the Wesley Foundation. Everyone is welcome and urged to come to this supper. Y. M. C. A. Cabinet. Y. M. C. A. cabinet will hold a brief meeting Wednesday evening at 8:15 immediately following the regular Y. M. C. A. meeting. Cornhusker Staff. There will be an important meeting of all Cornhusker sales men at the Cornhusker office, Wednesday afternoon at 4 p. m. Bob Thiel, business manager. Student Council. There will be a meeti'iir of the student council .at the council's room in the basement of U hall, today at 5 p. m. Freshmen majors in the art de partment will be the guests of the Art club at a picnic to be held at 6:30 Thursday in Pioneers park. Nellie Ferris is chairman of the committee in charge of the picnic and members of the fine arts fac ulty will be chaperons. Finance Drive. All workers for the Y. W. C. A. finance drive are requested to be present at the meat ing to be held today at 5 o'clock in Ellen Smith hall. Miss Pauline Gellatly. in structor in the dramatics depart ment, will give a short talk. Compulsory attendance at Sun day school Is a disciplinary meas ure at the University of Colorado. Recent Survey Shows 52 percent working to Pay Way in College. More than half of Nebraska Wesleyan students are working while they are attending school tn help defray their expenses. A ques tionnaire on the student emplov ment situation presented in chanei on Wednesday, Oct. 11, revealed that about 52 per cent of the 350 persons who returned the quc. tionnaire are employed. Of this number of students work, ing about 34.7 per cent are work! ing for the university 56.6 per cent are employed by the university and work outside also; 9.7 por cent are employed by outside agenclej alone. The greater number of persom wum lur jmi L uuaru uni cash pav. ment. Thei e are 28 per cent work! nig tut i-iai b uuiwu, unu a percent are working for cash payment Working for board only are I85 per cent; for room and board 1! per cent; for room only 16 per cent. There are about a dozen Wesleyan students who do light housekeeping to meet their ex penses. Nearly 13 per cent of the group work for part tuition and only 4 per cent work for all their tuition. Out of 156 Freshmen return. the ballots showed that over 54 per' cent of the Freshmen boys and leu than 36 per cent of the Freshmen girls are employed while in school. ine answers 10 me question, "Are you satiesfied with the pres. ent employment arrangement?" indicated that the feminine stu dents are either more easily sat isfied or luckier. Eighty per cent of the 167 answers to this inquiry expressed satisfaction with the present arrangement. Out of the 20 per cent in the negative, about 95 per cent were men. There was so little time betw the taking of the vote and the printing of the paper that there was not enough opportunity to prepare complete tabulations of the results and their interpreta tion. By the next issue more com plete results will be available. "I think the note President Roosevelt sent Russia is perfectly admirable and the prospect of re cognition is very encouraging. 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