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THE DAILY NERRASKAN WEDNESDAY. FERRUARY 14, 1931. TWO. The Daily Nebraskan Station A, Lincoln. Nebraska OFFICIAL STUDENT PUBLICATION UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA ssociukd (foUcoinle 'jprcsa , -v't.e . l)iJ if out, 19.14 Entered m second-class matter at the postoffice 'n Lincoin, Nebraska, under net ot confjrest. March 3. 18' 9, and at special rate of postioe provided tor In c'ln 1103. act of October 3. 19,7, authoriied January 20, 1922. THIRTY. THIRD YEAR Published Tuesday, Wednesday. Thursday, Friday nd Sunday mornings daring the academic year. SUBSCRIPTION RATE $1.50 a year Single Copy 6 cents $1.00 a semester $2.50 a year mailed $' 50 a semester mailed Under direction of the Student Publication Board. Editorial Off ice University Hall 4. Business Office University Hall 4A. Telephone! Day! B-6S91: Nlghtt B-6882. B-3333 (Journal) Ask for Nebraskan editor. EDITORIAL STAFF tMltor-in-chlef Bruce Nlcoll Managing Editors Burton Man-In Violet Cross News Editors Jack Fischer Fred Ntcklaa Lunmlne Bible S.irieU' Editor Virginia 8Hleck Sports' Editor Irwin Ryan Sports Ass-latants Jack Grube and Arnold Levlne BUSINESS STAFF Berncrd Jennings Business Manager Assistant Business Managers George Holyoke Wilbur Erickson Dick Schmidt Advertising Solicitors Robert Funk Truman Oberndorf Circulation Department Harry Wtst Phyllis Sldner 'With malice toward t.one. niih chants for all. uitH firmness in the r:j;it as Cod gives us to see the right, let us strive on to timsh the for); ue are in: to bind up the njhon's u'Punds; to care for htm u'ha shall have borne the battle, and for hit uiJou' and orphan t.) di il! ulnch may achieve and cherish a tint and last ing peace among ourselves and with all nations." Abraham Lincoln. May Lead To Big Things. yHE cbtainment of Phyllis Bently for the all-uni- versity convocation to be held Thursday morn ing in connection with the university's charter day exercises, and the welcome news of a third convo cation featuring- universi'y talent scheduled for Sunday afternoon in the coliseum are announce ments of vital importance to university students. They indicate two things: First, that the uni versity fathers have sought elsewhere, except among the ever present religionists, for a convocation speaker, and second that a nucleus has been formed about which a regular all-university convocation series might be built. The convocation to be held in the university coliseum Thursday measures up, in part, to the ideal convocation program advocated by the Ne braskan. The speaker, probably not well known to mid-western sons of the soil, has chosen as her sub ject something about which she is qualified to speak and at the same time broad enough to interest more than a few zealous students. The convocation to be held in the field house Sunday features the university glee club and is the third regular convocation featuring a university or ganization. The other two held earlier in the year were the Messiah and the band concert, both of which were presumably successful. This series rep resents the fruits of labor well spent by the univer sity fathers who have been working on such a scheme since the beginning of the school year. This niche into the convocation problem at Nebraska de serves commendation. Expansion of this series of convocations to in clude other major functions of the university would remedy for the most part the crying need for an adequate convocation program at Nebraska, A regular convocation series based primarily on home talent. Interspersed at occasional intervals during the year by qualified convocation speakers, can be cf infinite value to the student's academic career. Through them he is able to cultivate an appreciation for student endeavor, and at the same time he may catch a glimpse of the outside world through the eyes of well informed speakers. The series of three regular convocations and the one Thursday morning indicate in a small way what might be accomplished if such a program were to be handled correctly. At least university students would be able to anticipate a regular program ot high calibre. They would not be subjected to the spasmodic efforts offered in the past. We do not say that university students will swarm into the convocation halls eager to swallow the grains of wisdom that might be gained from at tendance. Nebraska students have never been of fered the opportunity of enjoying a really fine con vocation program. As such, an appreciation for good convocations would of necessity have to be cultivated as time progressed. These developments should at least be given the greatest encouragement by university students and faculty members. Art for Art Sake. One of the finer traditions on this campus was preserved when the forty-fourth annual exhibition of the Nebraskan Art association was formally opened at the Beaux Art ball held in Morrill hall. The exhibition is well worth the time and ef fort spent by students attending this event. Essentially the exhibition serves as a fitting outlet for native talent. On display in the Art as sociation's galleries are the works of many students of this university, in addition to a notable collection of the better works of many of the state's foremost" painters. Irdeed it is a fitting tribute to Nebras ka's own arUstic enterprise. In addition, the Nebraska Art association an nually collects available paintings of the world's foremost artists and their best known works. This factor probably accounts, to a large extent, for the large crowds which pass through Merrill ball each year. Coming from all parts of the state as they do, the exhibition renders a service to the people of the state. The cause of culture, however futile it may be, is encouraged by this interesting display. As in former years the display will probably go unnoticed by the larger portion of the campus population. This Is unfortunate, fcr university students would find it well worth the time to visit the galleries next week. All Hail The -Queen. ABOUT this time of the year campus politicians again throw out the drag net for the quetn of the Junior senior prom. And abcut this time of the year university students begin yawning, for they were Informed that filings for the position would he pen until the last part of this week. That was a brave announcement. What with the nomination, election, and flim flams that have accompanied previous queenahips, Nebraska studenU have settled to a season of bore dom of the first magnitude. For let it be known that no year at the university is a complete success unless the usual quota of queens is installed. Up to the present time Nebraska students have suffered the monstrosities necessary to actually realize the presentation of three queens. Relief is in sight for the weary in heart, for few remain to be chosen. Thinking students on this campus have for years frowned upon the election of numerous queens. But from year to year students desiring publicity or anxious to bask in the bright light of the campus sun, have continued to preserve an outworn tradi tion. We admit that all students dabbling in the queen business are not publicity hounds. We realize there must be someone who shall sacrifice a reputa tion for sane thinking upon the alttr of tradition. Why such a sacrifice is continually being made no one seems to know. The puerile stupidity of this superfluous campus royalty adds nothing to the cause or good name of education. If youth must have its fling then let it be turned into more con structive channels of student endeavor. The queen of the prom. How thrilling! We hope that you will pardon us when we say: "Balderdash!" SSSSSOSfl ft By DH'.K MOR.AN. 11 ECHOES of Paris riots are now heard in depression-ridden Austria. Yesterday's newspapers screamed the news that socialists, fearing fascist tendencies on the part of the present administration, voiced leadon objections to any leanings in this di rection. In answer the government retaliated in the same language, and the result was the appearance of a civil war. Roads were full of military trucks carrying troops and supplies to areas of outbreak, streets in Vienna were guarded by machine guns and police armed with hand grenades, sawed-off shotguns, and other lethal weapons. Some engage ments between socialist and state troops were so serious that artillery was employed. From what has been released, Austria had no Stavisky or Chiappe to precipitate rioting, but the' mortality rate there was much higher than it was in Paris. Unconfirmed figures report hundreds dead and wounded after two days of strife, but the gov ernment apparently has the situation somewhat un der control. Chancellor Dollfuss, Austria's midget dictator, re-enforced martial law which has been in effect since last October and decided upon a policy of governmental rule at all costs. In answer the socialist leaders issued orders to followers to resist the government to the end. rMPORARILY all is quiet on the French front Laborers cf the country continued their general strike, started Monday, as a protest and warning against any fascist leanings on the part of the French government. A few small riots attended en forcement of the strike yesterday, but the bloody events of last week were not repeated. Socialist and communist enthusiasts, however, kept things interesting with large parades and demonstrations ell over France. It is expected, at least by the anti-fascist ele ment in France, that Doumergue, head of the "po litical truce" government, will ask for semi-dictatorial powers to deal with the present crisis and that he will dismiss the parliament as soon as possible. Dismissal of this body would give him a freer hand and make possible more decisive action against the royalist party, now taking advantage of the pres ent unrest to encourage more frequent shouts of "Vive le Roi." MORE judicial criticism of and opposition to the national recovery act, subject to several pre vious attacks from the bench, came in rapid order the other day from federal judges in Illinois and Texas. In Chicago a federal judge denied the gov ernment's plea for a temporary injunction to stop the business of an oil company accused of violating the industry's code. The judge in Sherman, Tex., set aside the code rules for the same industry by holding valid the order of the state railroad com mission's production order. Contemporary Comment A Sharp Note To Faculty Members. That American colleges lack creativeness and contribute nothing especially to social problems has long been the cry of the college critics. And that charge is justified. In answer the faculty innocently "passes the buck" by pleading "It's not our fault; the students don want to learn." And so the great public brands the students as either "social llzzards," "football maniacs," or "intoxicated imbeciles." But an intelligent observer of the -situation must realize that the trouble with American colleges lies in the ignorance of the faculty, not the students. "Be creative," admonish the social science pro fessors, mimicking the words of the nation. In the next breath he assigns an examination on specific factual material from his lectures or the textbooks. The embryonic economist is not encouraged to think creatively about economic conditions; he Is stifled by the order to memorize the various divisions of la bor. The budding historian is thrown against a mass of facts and dates; the expectant sociologist is crushed by definitions. And these requirements aren't incidental in the courses; they aren't merely to supply the basis for intelligent study; they are made the purpose and the end of the course. In every third lecture, of course, the professor halts the encyclopedic disser tation long enough to remind the class that they aren't thinking creatively. Can a man or woman think creatively, or think at all on the social sciences when submerged under a mass of data? Unfortunately thinking and mem orizing are distinct processes and usually mutually exclusive. Notice the examinations. Are the questions phrased to demand originality and thought or mem ory and "crib sheets"? Any professor of a social science who must forbid notes and books at an ex amination Is either too lazy to write an intelligent set of questions or too dumb to realize the difference between creative thinking and parrot-like memor izing. American students are so busy learning or evading the heaps of factual information thrown at hem that they can't intelligently comprehend the course of event! Exchange. The AMERICAN UNIVERSITY FAILS By Lane W. Lanacaster and Harold W. Stoke of The Department of Political Science, University of Nebraska Kdltor's N'ntrt Toe tollowtaf article Is the series of lour dl.ro..loas ralnif wllb the d'" Prob'r"'. al Nfhrn.k. ami other American nlvenllles. Hefng arti cles will appear la th Nebraska the remainder el this la the flr.1 Article the authors pointed eut the J'-"'''"'; Ions of ronvlcllon, .d lack of eennineiieas of Purpose proa lent anions family members. The author. irent ' with the eipress purpose ef creatlm dlsemskra on the Issues raised by Ihem. THE sense of discouragement among the students is even greater. They are bewildered. Their trag edy is that they are not particularly happy in a sit uation where their youth, surroundings and activi ties are almost ideally calculated to make them so. They support the campus distractions desperately. They perform their classroom work hastily and skimpily, as if the one requirement for its perform ance was to get it out of the way. When they do their clearest and most pointed thinking in the sor ority and fraternity .midnight sessions, their discus sions are nearly always efforts to find some central principle that will give meaning to what they are doing and connect it In some tangime way wun what they want to do. It la In this problem that we sense the student's difficulty. The tasks which the student is asked to perform seem to him to bear no relation to his ulti mate goals. "Why should I study a play of Moliere or Shakespeare, or read Karl Marx, or learn atomic weights, or classify plants," he asks. The answers he gets do not satisfy him, not because they are not adequate answers, but because they are to him meaningless. Here Is the difficulty. The student has always vaguely regarded college as a prepara tion, not for living, but for making a living. And when he actually embarks upon his college course even the poorest student can soon sense the distant relationship between what he is asked to perform as a matter of daily routine and what he had in mind in coming to college. For he finds from ob servation that the community "outside" gives its rewards of authority and leadership and influence to men ignorant of French irregular verbs and the case endings of Latin nouns; men whose whole store of mathematics is found in the compound interest table convenient at their elbow; to whom Goethe is, as likely as not, the name of the latest radio. Po litical corruption is dissected in the classroom and the ideal of disinterested public service held up as a worthy one for three or four hours a week; on Main street the student finds men honored by their fellows for a success due in part at least to the cov ert corruption of the titular holders of political power. It is probably accurate to say that a major ity of students come to the university under the mis apprehension that their work here has some rela tion to getting ahead in the world. What they ac tually see in the world "outside" serves only to in crease their bewilderment. Like most problems this one has its historical background. The studenu did not invent the mis apprehension that college is primarily for the pur pose of giving them a means of making more money more easily. That illusion was created in the com munities in which they live. When all is said and done we need not wonder that they overestimate the importance of football and are inclined to slight their Shakespeare. After all, their elders, in many cases the pillars of local society, went into mourn ing a few years ago on the death of a famous foot ball coach. Earlier in the history of our country a smtUer and more select group of persons went to college. They went because they were economically able to do so, or because they were persons of un usual integrity, determination or ability. And those factors and qualities, intensified by a college train ing which added to them some knowledge and a deep sense of responsibility, enabled these persons to re turn to their communities and become men of sub stance and influence. Thus a college degree became a label for dis tinctiveness. It was the hallmark of superiority. It was only natural that the communities should at tribute the superiority of its college-trained men to college training. Then the rush began. But the hordes of new students did not come in order to ac quire the habits of industry, the knowledge and the sense of responsibility which the colleges had hith erto sought to confer. They came because a college degree was the shortest cut (to all appearances) to enviable social and economic position. The error has begun to reveal itself. The incongruity between the ideals which the college was designed to conserve and the commercial spirit which drives students to its doors becomes more clear. The temples of learn ing are crowded with those who buy and sell. Only a few remain to pray. Friendships, once the prize of college years, have become "contacts"; superior ity has been superseded by "pull"; culture has been displaced by the "practical." As it has corrected our thinking in so many ways the depression has helped to clarify our edu cational problem Although the students have al ways been more or less puzzled by the lack of con nection between their studies and their purposes, they have previously been able to disregard their bewilderment and unhappiness because they felt rather sure that their degrees would be serviceable passports to what they really wanted an opportu nity to make money. The depression has destroyed that assurance. There are too many college gradu ates unemployed to permit students yet in the uni versity to hope that the world is waiting for them. The market is glutted with persons stamped by the colleges. Furthermore, we are beginning to realize that the slump is more or less permanent, and that, in the future, distinction of a higher and different character than the mere possession of a degree will be essential to the person who wants the economic rewards which have hitherto been open indiscrim inately to the college graduate. No wonder students are gloomy and hurt. No wonder there is more reluctance now in performing their apparently purposeless tasks. The college has failed them. They have spent time and money and energy, and the prospect of reimbursement has gone glimmering. When they voice their dismay to their instructors, they get no help, for educators them selves have all but surrendered to the age of com mercialism and their world is consequently as dis rupted as the students. Many instructors can offer no guidance because they perform their own work with no real Insight into its purposes and possibili ties. Only a few are frank enough to tell students that the colleges no longer have for sale what they came to buy, but that it does have, at a high price in devotion and industry values that are greater than but different from those they came to secure. The problem of the future is: Can the college gradu ate persuade the student to take what it has always been its purpose to give? Northwestern Brands Rumor As Scheme to Wipe Out That Institution. EVANSTON, 111. (C. W. S.) Charges that the proposed 'merger of the University of Chicago and Northwestern university is a scheme to wipe out the latter com pletely this week were being made in Evanston. The charges were originally voiced in the Evanston Review, a weekly, which alleged that the pro posed consolidation is merely a k vioo to make the University of Chicago the only major institution of higher learning in the Chicago area. The Review also charged that, in the event the merger is accomplished, the Rockefeller in terests will provide the new uni versity with an endowment of "staggering size." Because of the studies being made to determine the feasibility of consolidating the two institu tions, the Daily Northwestern, un dergraduate daily, has assigned one of its editors, Phelps Johnston, to live at the University of Chicago and attend classes there for a tirm to obtain the viewpoint of Chicapo students and observe the operation of the university at first-hand. He is writing a series of articles on the University of Chicago for the Northwestern daily. Strong opposition to the merger has been expressed among certain student groups at Northwestern. L AT Speech to Concern Various Aspects of Eastern Problem. Dr. T. Z. Koo, Internationally known speaker, will address a forum luncheon for men to be held at the Grand Hotel, Tuesday, Feb 20. Dr. Koo has a cosmopolitan viewpoint, having lectured In coun tries as far separated as India. Australia, Asia, Europe and North America. His talk will concern various as pects of the far eastern problem and will be followed by a general discussion. A graduate of St. John's university at Shanghai, he served for nine years on the Chi nese railway service and following that a member of the staff of the Y. M C. A. in China. Dr. Koo's manner Is lucid and convincing and his talks have al ways been greeted with apprecia tion. Tickets for the event are on sale at the university Y. M. C A. office. Approximately one-third of all students attending Columbia uni versity are receiving scholars-hips to aid them in financing their education. FORTY AT MEETING OF Miss Ward, Superintendent Of Training School, Talks to Group. Forty students attended the monthly luncheon of social work majors at the Grand hotel, Tues day noon. Miss Lena Ward, superintendent of the girls' training school at Ge neva, spoke of the work of that state institution, and the problems connected with the rehabilitation of delinquent girls committed there. Guests of honor included Mrs. Nellie Benson, chairman of the board of control: Mrs. Effie Mon den, superintendent of the state home for dependent children; Dr. F. A. Alcorn, superintendent of the Orthopedic hospital, and Mrs. Al corn. Rosina Cross was chairman of the committees on arrangements, p listed by Elaine Fontein, Mary Heard, Esther Rosenberg, and Lucy Martyn. DR. PFEILER TO LECTURE BEFORE RELATIONS CLUB (Continued from Page 1.1 significant aspects of the Hitler regime and making a general sum mary of tha condition. Vincent Broady, president of the organization, said in explaining the European situation said the reason for discussing it was, "The World war did not, as most people hoped it would, settle entirely the difficulties in Europe." ."Events following the armistice have widely broadened the gulf be tween the nations preventing a clear and lasting understanding. The present economic chaos has only served to increase this misun derstanding and make it harder to reach any agreement." The speakers cn the program have spent considerable time pre paring their speeches and all stu dents are urged to attend. The two previous meetings of the club took up the problems of Russian recog nition and the serious problems confronting the NRA. Charges that labor made against NRA were an alyzed and discussed. OFFICIAL BULLETIN Swap Shop. Students whose books have been sold by the Y. W. C. A. Swap shop will be paid any time from 11 to 3 on Thursday or Friday of this week. The shop will also be open from 11 to 3 on Tuesday, accord ing to Theodora Lohrman, chair man of the committee in charge of the shop. Barb Council. There will be a meeting of the Barb council Wednesday afternoon at 4 o'clock in room 105 of Social Sciences hall. St. Paul M. E. A Valentine party sponsored by the Epworth league of that church will be held at SL Faul M. E. Fri day night at 8 o'clock in the church, 12th and M. Scandinavian Club. The Student Scandinavian club will meet Wednesday night in Room 203 of the Temple at 7:30. PROFESSOR COLE SPEAKS Cleaners and Dyers Hear University Man at Meeting. Prof. D. F. Cole spoke before the Nebraska Association of Cleaners and Dyers at their meeting Mon day afternoon, February 12, on the topic, "The Necessity for Cost Ac counting Under the Cleaners' Code." Recently, Professor Cole adddressed the Interprofessional Men's club on the subject "Modern Developments in the Federal In come Tax." 1NNERS OF! Students today are "larkine in initiative in intellectual thinking and are failing to apply their edu cation in everyday living," accord ing to a member of the faculty of Louisiana State Normal college. ART POSTER CONTEST! Walter Ducker Receives First Prize From Association. Here's a New Year's resolution of a Converse college student. "Because I know that sleep will make me healthy. I shall not get up for breakfast." A new honorary journalism or ganization. Pi Upsilon Phi. has been formed on the campus of Fairmont, W. Va., State Teachers college. Announcements of the winners in the Nebraska Art association poster contest for the best original posters advertising the forty-forth annual exhibition of the associa tion have been made. Out of the forty posters sent in, the first prize of $12 was won by Walter Ducker, I the second of $8 to Marvin Robin- son, and the third of $5 to Kath- i erine Palmer. Honorable mentions were awarded to Carl Froelich, I John O'Neill, Terry Townsend and j Eleanor Pleak. I The contest was open to resi-1 dents of Nebraska, and the exhibi tion which the posters were to ad- ! vertise is being held in Morrill hall j from Feb. 13 to March 18. It in cludes paintings by well known J contemporary artists. Prizes for I the annual contests are furnished i from a fund set up by J. L. Teeters. Lfllossignol Speaks To Alumni Meelinp Dean J. E. LeRossignol delivered a Charter day address before the Johnson County Alumni associa tion Tuesday evening, Feb. 13, at Tecumseh. All of the Ohio State university wrestling team's equipment was stolen recently when they niade a short stop enroute to a match. TYPEWRITERS All standard mkn for rout. Special rates for long term. Reconditioned ma chines cn easy terms. Nebraska Typewriter Co. 130 No. 12 St. B2157 We've Taken the Plunge and reduced our Rent-A-Car rates as much as 40v now 414 to 70 per mile. 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