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The U tters.
TXDKRCURRKNTS of confusion following in the
wake of the Student council's rejection of the
Corn Cob constitution lead the Nebraskan to reprint
in its Student Pulse columns today two samples ot
widely varying opinion. Charges contained in those
letters may be objectionable if they are considered
as statements thoroly founded in fact, but by com
menting cn them, the Nebraskan hopes to clarify
the Corn Cob situation, separating- fact from fan
tasy to the best of its ability.
The Corn Cob setup, first of all, has been as
an organization purposing to be representative of
nil men's organized groups. To lead in pep activi
ties, together with Tassels and band, has been the
avowed determination of the Corn Cobs. Secondary
activities have been sales of football programs in
the stadium, in order to raise money for a trip
of the group to one out-of-town game, and a spring
dinner dance, financed by an assessment in the
form of a initiatio fee amounting to eight dollars.
Members wear sweaters, which they pay for them
selves. Officers of the pep organization have been
chesen in the fall, and the meetings at which elec
tions occurred have been presided over by retiring
officers, who have usually been Innocents. The
implication that A. I.-P. C. gives to this fact, how
ever, is probably overestimated, inasmuch as the
Innocents society itself has not been involved in
the elections, that mistake having been made by
individual members only. Election of Corn Cob
officers in the spring, with no Innocents present
at meetings might be of benefit in eliminating the
basis for A. I.-P. C.'s charge.
It must be remembered that the Innocents
themselves are officially concerned with the Cobs
only as an organization to help with rallies, which
are under the direction of the society. The fact
that individual members of the senior honorary may
have interested themselves in Corn Cob electicns
is something for Innocents themselves to eradicate
if they wish to keep the respect of the campus,
and the Nebraskan believes sincere attempts have
been and are being made with just those factors
in view.
yS for the Student council's Wednesday evening
action, which finds so much disfavor in the
eyes cf the contributor styling himself "Jeff," there
is every reason to believe that the action was moti
vated not by a desirs for publicity, as is sug
gested but by a real desire to see the Corn Cobs
put on a sounder basis.
Starting from the assumption that the Corn
Cobs is a pep organization, the council brought two
main charges against the present setup of the red
sweatered boys. The first was that Cobs were
not fulfilling their obligations as pepsters to the
best of their ability, is being maintained that sale
of football programs interfered with the group's
duty as nucelus (together with band and Tassels)
, for a student cheering section.
The second charge was that the present consti
tution did not prevent the Cobs from becoming the
political organization which, the council declared,
it has been. The word "political" remained un
defined ir. the council's discussion. The fair inter-
pretaticn would be that "political" means "activity
pushing," whereby individual houses choose men to
be Corn Cobs not because of their potentialities as
pepst.TS. but because of their potentialities as fu
ture powers in activities.
"Jeff's" protest, on the whole, is rendered
rather Ineffective because cf the spleen he allows
hi:nself to vent, hut shorn of his harsh criticisms
one thing does stand out as a valid objection -that
the student council itself needs reorganizing. The
council recognizes that need, if previous announce
met of intentions is a guide, and council reorgani
zation is one of the things on the docket for its
year's work. Unfortunately its present nature will
allow fur only one, or at the most two, big projects
at once, so tolerance demands that the council be
given a little time to progress,
CO much for the confusion of the Corn Cob ruckus,
whose importance as always is greatly ex
aggerated in the eyes of the activities workers,
past, present, and future, who see in it only an
occasion for misconstruction of motives.
The Nebraskan has presented the case as
clearly and accurately as is ever possible during
the midst of any conflict, and suggests only that
disagreements be brought to light in a manner
approaching sincerity and fairness if they are to
be brought to light at all. As in so many cases
in undergraduate activities, the whole difficulty
would never have arisen if youthful ambition had
been subordinated to some sort of reasonable in
spection of the whole university scene.
Campus activities, after all, are a matter of
supreme indifference to everyone but the gory un
dergraduate participants, and altho it is flying in
the face of human tendencies to suggest it, there
would be no harm done if activity workers kept
some such perspective in mind. That is probably
an impossible thing to ask, but it is at any rate
a valid plea, for it asks only some measure of
balance which is one of the aims of education.
What the immediate future of the pep squabble
may be is a matter to be determined by the for
tune teller and the student council committee in
charge of making recommendations for reorganiza
tion of some male pep group. It may be the Corn
Cobs on a reformed basis, or it may be an entirely
new organization. That is a matter for specula
tion. The thing that does stand out, however, is
that the council has taken definite action toward
reformation of an organization that had long been
under a fire of criticism.
Kor the present, that is enough. If there is
to be further discussion of the Corn Cob fate, the
Nebiaskan's Student Pulse column is open, as
alwavs, to reasoned remarks.
The Student Pulse
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which rii'luilt'K hII llhruiiin mnttiT
mid irMnnl attni'ks. I'ttent nmnl
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held from nnlillrutloii If no di-nln-d.
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Objective.
pORMATION of a campus committee devoted to
the aims of peace indicates that the recent visit
of Paul Harris, youth movement leader, was not
without tangible results. Already, indeed, a laud
able step has been taken toward making students
"peace-conscious" in preparing an anti-war declara
tion for the approval of various young people's
groups.
The declaration itself is representative of the
highest ideals of civilization. It says in part:
"We desire to live and live at peace. We de
sire to construct a world society providing free
dom, equal opportunity and a sense of security.
We desire to make possible for every human being
full development of personality in terms of the
highest human and spiritual values we know.
"We, therefore, in the light of these convic
tions that war does not settle disputes, that war
means the destruction of the best of human cul
ture, and that the mind of man is censtructing
adequate peace machinery if he will but use it,
pledge ourselves to the eradication of war and to
the organization of the world as a whole on a peace
basis."
That is the foundation of the local committee
on pnace action. It is, very naturally, essentially
a thing of high and shining idealism, for it is the
cry of youth awakened to the hypocrisy of war.
s such a reflection of idealism the declaration is
to be commended, as well as the formation of the
Nebraska committee itself.
gUT within the new organization, if U is to be
more than the gesture so many such organiza
tions prove to be. there ought to be a very thoro
definition of specific aims and a complete realiza
tion of the pressure of prejudice and tradition which
must be combatted. For centuries men have been
allowing their innate tendencies to violence to
assume control of their actions and that is a factor
not to be overlooked.
Peace, in short, cannot be reached by declara
tions of intentions nor by blanket resolutions. The
desire for peace can be effective only when it be
comes such an organic part of an individual's phi
losophy that that individual will not under any cir
cumstance allow himself to be forced into becom
ing a part of a war machine. And to instill such
a determination into the hearts of his fellows is
the biggest task with which man has been con
fronted in his long evolution.
The optimism of youth insists it can be clone.
And the insistence has given rise to the new com
mittee on peace action on this campus. It is a
heartening sign.
Ag College
lij Carlle HoditLin
VISITORS AT THE
HOME EC DEPARTMENT
Teachers' convention this year
wes just like a minature home
coming ;n the heme economics de
partment. It was good to see some
uf our former students back, and
it took one back to earlier school
days. Just to mention a few. there
was Hazel Benson, who is teaching
out at Ainsworth; Carolyn White,
who was in from Exeter, and
Eleanor Dixon, who is teaching out
at Eagle.
Helen Myers, instructor at Ches
ter, has the distinction of teaching
both home economics and physical
cd'ication. Carrol Durffee has a
fce'..ool at Randolph, and Catherine
Christcanson is teaching at Fair
mont. Then I had a glimpse of
Clarice Hads, Farr- formal
queen last year, and d Saxton.
lioth ot the grls are teaching.
It would seem that the home
economics department was enter
taining friends and graduates of
foimcr days. Hester Chadderton,
'24, made her annual visit this fall
from Ames, la., where she is as
sistant professor in home eco
tomics education. Miss Grace Hen
deison. member of the same class,
stepped to visit in the department
on her way to Ithaca, N. Y. She is
connected with the extension de
partment at Cornell university.
We were honored when Mrs. J.
V. Wattles, acing head of the Ne
braska home economics depart
ment in 1917-18, came here last
month to call. Another cf the more
recent graduates. Hiss Hildegrade
Baumgartner, "29. also came to see
i-s. This year Miss Baumgartner is
Staying at her home in Murdock.
TEA ON SUNDAY.
Sunday, Nov. 5, the ag college.
Y. W. C. A. is giving a tea in the
home economics parlors for new
members and for the down-town
members. Valentine Klotz will have
charge o fall arrangements.
AG COLLEGE AND
THE CHURCHES.
One of the Interests of the mo
ment is university go to church
Sunday. Probably more students
will attend church this Sunday
than any other time during the
year, and probably every minister
will make some effort to fit his
day's program to the needs and in
terests of university students.
To think simultaneously of
churches and ag college is bound
to bring to mind the Warren and
Epwcrth Methodist churches. By
no means the only churches that
minister to the needs of ag college
students, these two churches un
doubtedly play a larger role than
ar.y other two churches. They are
particularly a part of ag college
because of their proximity one be
ing a few blocks to the south and
the othe.' n few Mirks to the west.
They are located in the parts r,f
the city where most ag college stu
dents live.
To Reverand J. J. Sheaff, many
years pastor at the Epworth
church, his work with Ag college
students is one of the important
functions of the church. When the
building was built, he says, the of
ficials deliberately put it close to
Ag college In order to serve the
needs of student. Doubtless the
same consideration was in the
minds of the men who planned the
Warren church.
For University Sunday, Rever
and Sheaff ias announced that his
sermon will be "Purposeful Liv
ing." It will be designed especially
for young people, he sas. and he
will develop the ideas that "the
need of every age is for men big
enough to meet the problems of
the age."
At Warren, Rev. W. U Ruyle
will speak on "Things to be Proud
Of," pointing out the high value
of human character, and the part
that both the university and the
church can play in helping young
people develop that quality. Affili
ation of student-members in both
churches will also be a art of the
Go to Church Sunday service.
Ag college's close relation to
these two churches is indicated by
the number of faculty members
and students who take active parts
in the programs. Several years ago
Mr. T. H. Godding, director of
short courses built up a large
Sunday school class at Warren.
Whiic he w:is away for two years,
Dr. F. D. Keim, chief of the
agronomy department, taught the
class, went with the gang on pic
nics, parties, and took Mr. God
dings place in many ways. When
Mr. Godding came back to Ne
braska, he took over the class
again, and the Warren Sunday
school class is reputed today to be
one of the largest in the city.
Then there is Prof. Carl E.
Rosemquist, botany department,
who for two years has taught a
large hunday school class at Ep
worth. And before him Mr. H. K.
Douthit, then director of short
courses, taught ihe Epworth class.
Not only Ag college faculty but
Ag college students as well are
active in the two campus churches.
At Warren. Roscoe Hill, Ag col
lege junior, is president of the
Sunday school class, and Miss
Irene Leech, home economics
sophomore, is class president at
Epworth. For many a student. Go
to Church Sunday is an unsual
event For these Ag Students who
take regular parts in the work of
the campus churches, it is only one
more day of a pleasant and con
tinuous expenence.
About forty percent of the stu
dents at the University of Puget
Appraising the
Corn Cobs.
1. Council Action.
TO THE EDITOR:
How great, how omnipotent the
Student Council and its president
must feel after its clever, even if
unfounded, assertions crashed the
headlines of the student daily. An
uninformed reader of Thursday's
edition would surely believe the
Corncobs to be a biased, incom
petent, spiritless group of a sup
posedly pep nature. The writer is
not a Corncob and is not a mem
ber of the Student council, but I
wish to uphold the Corncobs as an
organization that is really trying
to accomplish somctning, an or
ganization that is, or rather has,
occupied a permanent position in
campus pep and has made such a
position possible by achievements
of whic h thy deserve only praise.
The Student council upon Ne
braska's campus has been pushed
in the background because of its
lack of duties but an attempt by
its president to bring it in the
limelight by such a cheap publicity
scheme as branding the Corncobs
as a "political group" is plain
laughable.
Its members are chosen from the
groups they represent with poli
tical influences felt only when of
ficers are selected, but is there any
organization upon the campus that
of the strongest faction within
doesn't have its officers made tip
that organization? (May I include
the Student Council within the
category also ? ) Then why, of why,
land all over the Corncobs for
similar existing conditions?
I have read yesterday's story
over time and time again trying
to find a valid reason for the oust
ing of the Corncobs, and I'm still
as much in the dark as ever. As
sertions of the continuous trouble
caused by the organization is un
based: the council expresses its
dissatisfaction with its conduct for
some unknown reason; and how
can the selling of programs at the
games be logically branded as a
nuisance within itself?
The president's assertion that
"program selling is not a function
of a pep group and has ruined the
real purpose of the present defunct
pep societv on the campus" falls
thru for the lack of any resem
blance of a better suggestion. Air.
President, can your fertile brain
concoct a more efficient method of
selline the "Tales of the Corn-
huskers" than by the Corncobs?
If vou were working: for a Deuer
campus organization of Corncobs,
as you seem to want us to think, it
is (inly logical that you would have
a better setup in view Detore you
tried to so cheaply tear down the
one already existing. The Council's
holdover member states "the Corn
cobs have failed to conduct a real
rally this year, thus failing to live
up to the Veal purpose of the or
ganization." In the next paragraph the coun
cil's president states that "this
(conducting the rallies) power has
been delegated to the Innocents
Society." There you have it. Tying
the dog to a post and then giving
it the devil for not chasing the
burglar out of the house! If any
one is to blame for poor rallies it
is the Innocents and not the Corn
cobs. Further the Corncobs have
met with opposition with every
move they have tried to make.
Stunts between halves were de
clared out because this time was
reserved for the band. Similar
cases can be easily stated.
To the Corncobs your determi
nation to continue to function is
admirable. To the Student Council
your cheap publicity scheme is
understood all too clearly, and if
you wish, as you say, to clean up
campus politics clean your own
house first and then, and only then,
start on the other campus organi
zations, but use a little more dis
cretion on your next attempt which
vou deem so noble in character.
JEFF...
.fti,rin' of Innocents. It la
man mut .... "',-3 -
in the control of the Innocent s so
This Is how it's controlled. The
past president and some or tne or
ficers, being Innocents, call
. ,i e th new Corncob or
ganization after they have selected
the candidate whom they wih to
tin on T nnfi"nn r. nominate h'm. then
rush him through. It's simple. New
members and pledges oi me um
cobs don't know what it's all about
and the others are too dumb or too
subdued by the sight of a red robe
to object. The favored candidate,
fitted for the office or not, usually
not, is elected and another Inno
cent is selected a year before he
is tapped.
I admit that this is an effective
way for the Innocents to fill up
their society with the men whom
thev want personally. But it looks
to me ns if this system has under
mined the Corncob organization
and taken away from the Univer
it nf Nehraska a valuable asset
to tha building of school pride.
A. i.-r.
Suggest Proposal
Of Consolidation
For Iowa Colleges
Discontinuance of Iowa State
.lUtraii at Amps and consolidation
of some of its departments under
tne state university wna oiigprnivu
i. Dr,,-o,ntativp Arch F. McFar-
lane for possible legislative con
sideration, according to an Asso
ciated press dispatch. McFarlane,
former iieuienani-govenior, smu
pnnntial urn Q fl TTlPflnS Of Hlin-
porting President Roosevelt's crop
reduction pian.
"It looks foolish for the state of
Iowa to spend huge sums each
year to teach farmers to raise
more hogs and more corn while
the federal government is ordering
the hogs slaughtered and sent to
the tankage barrel and farmers are
beine- ordered not raise so much
corn," he declared.
Name Poynter as
Medical Officer
2. Corn Cob Mini.
TO THE EDITOR:
Today I was confronted by a
freshman with that old question,
"What is the Corncob organiza
tion?" I answered, "It's the pep
organization of our university."
Afterward, after thinking about
the matter, 1 decided that I had
given the diplomatic answer but
doubted the true validity of it.
The chapter of the national pep
organization for males. Pi Epsilon
Pi, on this campus is called the
Corncobs. I think they are pepsters
in name only. Looking over their
activities, individually and as a
group, I find that they sell pro
grams at the football games and
take a trip to some out-of-town
game with the money they make
from selling such programs. They
have a meeting now and then and
some of them get around to their
rallies. Individually they are very
self-conscious when they have their
sweaters on and if one of them
should start leading a few songs
in class before a football game the
rest of the class would be so sur
prised that they'd let him stop
after a few bars solo and he would
be too unconcerned to try again,
taking that attitude, "Well, Tv-:
done my part." It would be nice if
they did fulfil the purpose they
were founded for and create a little
pep and enthusiasm around the
campus.
Now that my opinion is ex
pressed as to what the Corncob or
ganization should be 1 11 give you
my opinion as to what" it really is.
Go back in history five or six
years. We still find the Corncob
organization selling programs and
being pepless. But this club, wheth
er it naa a jjood or bad year selling
programs, whether it draws the
attention of some reformer or not,
has officers and these officers are
tapped Innocents in the spring aft
er meir term or office. At least
the president is. Go back as far as
you like in campus history. Look
up the officers of the club, then see
if they didn't .urn out to be chosen
as Innocents. I ll guarantee that
you 11 rind a vast majority of them
did.
Dr. C. V. M. Poynter, dean cf
the University of Nebraska medi
cal college, was named vice-president
of the Association of Ameri
can Medical colleges at the close
of the association's convention held
in Minneapolis.
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MISS LEE TALKS IN OMAHA
Brownell Hall Invites Head
Of Phys Ed Department
To Give Lecture.
Miss Mabel Lee, head of the
womens physical education depart
ment, has been invited to speak at
the 8:30 chapel of Brownell hall
in Omaha, on the subject "Physi
cal Education as a Vocation." She
will leave early Friday morning
and return in time to teach her
afternoon classes.
Miss Lee plans to enumerate
some of the requirements, qualifi
cations and opportunities of physi
cal education as a profession.
ENTERTAIN JPICNIC GUESTS
Phys Ed Majors and Minors
Are Honored at Shrine
Shelter House.
Physical education majors and
minors were guests of the faculty
of that department at a picnic
held at the Shrine shelter house
Thursday Nov. 2 from 5 o'clock
to 8. Ahout forty-five women at
tended. Time was spent in playing
shuffle board, bull board, quoits,
Chinese checkers, and solving puzzles.
The University bl MMugun h
Increased the gym requlreT,
from one to three semesters.
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