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TWO. THE DAILY NEKRASKAN WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1934. ' V 1 The Daily Nebraskan Station A, Lincoln Nebraska OFFICIAL STUDENT PUBLICATION UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEMBER JSC 1934 This paper la represented for general artvertiBlns by the NebrasKa Praia Aaaoclatlon Associated GoUtahxtt torts ui I9J3 (mno,.., UrKQ wwti) iaJ4 Entared aa aeeond-claaa matter at tha poatofflea 'n Lincoln, Nebraska, under act of congreaa, March J. 1879. and at apecial rata of postage providad for In l"' 1103, act of October 3. l3i7. authorized January (0, UM. THIRTV.THIRD YEAR Publlahed Tueaday, Wedneaday, Thursday. Friday and Sunday mornings during tha acidamlc year. SUBSCRIPTION RATS $1.50 a year Single Copy S eenta 11.00 a eemeeter $2.50 a year mailed 50 a aamaater mailed Under direction of tha Student Publication Board. Editorial Office University Hall 4. . Business Office University Hall 4A. Telephone Day: B-689U Nlghtl 8 6882. B-3133 (Journal) AK for Nebraskan editor. EDITORIAL STAFF Editor-in-chief Bruca Nlcoll Managing Editors -"" Burton Marvin Violet Crosa News Editora Jack Fischer Fred Nlcklas Lnmolne Bible Society Editor Virginia Selleck Sports Editor Irwin Ryan Sporta Assistants Jark Gruba and Arnold Levlne Contributing Editors. Maurlca Johnson Dick Moran Carlyle Hodgkln BUSINESS STAFF Bernard Jennings Business Manager Assistant Business Managers George Holyoke Wilbur Erickaon Dick Schmidt Advertising Solicitors Robert Funk Truman Oberndorf Circulation Department Harry Wtst Phyllis Sidner Another Successful Convocation. THE AH University convocation held Tuesday morning In the Temple theater was apparently a success. Several hundred students packed the Temple theater. Judging from the generous applause, La rado Taft's address, "My Dream Museum," held more than a polite Interest for those attending. Tuesday's convocation should be another con clusive demonstration to the university fathers that students and faculty will attend a good convocation program, as exemplified In Mr. Taft's address. Aside from the apparent success of the program two factors detracted from the universal appeal convocations might have. In the first place the convocation was held in the Temple theater. It Is reliably reported that over 300 students were turned away for lack of standing room. This was unfortu nate but Inevitable, for the university does not have a theater suitable for convocation programs, nor the type of address that Mr. Taft presented. The sec ond factor that may have destroyed the Incentive for greater participation was the failure to dismiss classes. We feel that this should be done. But not necessarily to encourage student participation, but to place a greater degree of emphasis on this valu able part of the university's extra curricular ac tivity. Aside from these items, however, we feel that the convocation was well managed. Certainly the convocation committee should feel well repaid for its efforts. At least it should convince them that students will attend convocations such as this and Miss Bently's program held in the Coliseum recently. On the other hand, they mu3t carefully avoid overworking student interest in this activity. As such they should adopt a regular system of convo cations, comparitively small in number, fixed in date, and of high calibre. In this way, we feel stu dent and faculty appetite for convocations would not be destroyed. Indeed it should cultivate a certain amount of anticipation for regularly occurring convocations. fill the Creeks Support Debate? A CCOP.DING to a story in Tuesday's Nebraskan work has been started on the third annual in terfraternity debate contest. Such a movement is a worthy cause for Nebraska fraternities to support. Indeed it would be a refreshing change from the Usual menu of athletics and social endeavor. Considerable comment has been raised, how ever, as to what the subject for this year's debate should be. Sponsors cf the contest have Indicated their willingness to submit subjects to interested students and let them select the one of greatest in terest to the student body. A topic of timely local Interest would do much toward increasing a much needed Interest in this activity. Previous to this year subjects discussed were: "Should we have compulsory military drill?" and "Should athletes be subsidized?" All of them have been somewhat remote from the average stu dent's daily life, and unfortunately have limitless amounts of canned material that have nothing to do with this campus. As such, Greeks would be wise In selecting a subject cf interest to the campus. The debate being held this year, obviously, is the third one to be held on the Nebraska campus. It is sponsored by Delta Sigma Rho, debating fra ternity. Winners are presented silver gavels. Certainly the debates held among Greek houses should stimulate interest in debating. Whether It does this, is another question. If correctly man aged, and a timely interesting question Is supplied for the embryo debaters, it should create a much needed thought on controversial campus questions. This quality, in Itself, more than Justifies whatever upport Greeks may contribute towarl making this success. Close Up And Long Shots. Correction: In yesterday's Nebraskan we stated that over 500 people braved the elements to hear the Glee club. We were wrong. Over 1.000 people at tended, which makes it still more painful. The University Players are presenting an other fine show at the Temple theater this week, faatur bit; Elmer Rice's "Counsellor-At-Law." Tot lack of a legitimate stage or home of the drama, the Uni versity Players fill this gap in local amuMSMats very well. Now that another prominent pacifist was In Lincoln recently we may expect the usual peace movement which gets aa far as a county set-up. and then dies out, peacefully and sublimely, The Student Pulse Brief, concise, contributions pertinent to matters of atudent life and the university are welcomed by this department, under tha usual restrictions of sound newspaper practice, which excludes all libelous mat ter and personal attacks. Letters accepted do not necessarily Indicate tha editorial policy of thia paper. Campus Parking Comes Up Again. TO THE EDITOR: When N. S. in the Sunday Nebraskan gave vent to his feelings concerning the present campus park ing situation, he voiced my sentiments exactly. This situation is one that has been the subject of gripes for many years and still nothing has been done about it The new mall added a great deal of park ing space, but it is still quite inadequate. As for in creasing the amount of space, I have no suggestion, leaving that problem up to the powers that be. There are some things, however, that can be done about remedying the situation and that is the conservation of every inch of available space. There fore, I want to back up N. S. in his nomination for oblivion the ones who park so as to use up the space that would ordinarily accommodate two cars. Who has not seen time and time again the type of person he mentions who carelessly drives up on R street and leaves his car sticking out into the street? And then the drivers who get their parking directions mixed up over on the mall and try to park their cars parallel where the parking regulations call for diagonal parking. As N. S. states, both of these are inexcusable and should be remedied. If it can't be done by rea soning with the offending people, how about an ap peal to those who have the power to correct such situations? B. L. Contemporary Comment The Newspapermen May Organize. A LTHO the status of labor theoretically attained a new dignity under the national industrial re covery act actual benefits thus far have been mea ger and disappointing to those who saw in the act the wage-earners' emancipation proclamation. Nev ertheless, the attitude of the government has been uniformly sympathetic, and adherents of the old laissez-faire school of thought may have lost mere ground than they yet realize. Under the old order, industry held the whip hand and labor took the residual share; if the new deal means anything at all, It means that a larger share of national wealth and income will go to labor, and in the struggle be tween the two, any concessions that are made will be at the expense of capital and to the advantage of labor. As a case in point, take the resignation of Ralph Pulitzer last week as NRA administrator for the newspaper code. In explaining his resignation, Mr. Pulitzer gave as one of his chief reasons "opposition to my appointment by the American Newspaper Guild." To the public at large such a statement would have very little significance; most of them have perhaps never even heard of the guild. Yet the American Newspaper Guild is a true child of the NIRA. It represents the first unified and nation wide attempt to bring newspaper editorial workers together in an organization designed to improve the standards of newspaper work and defend the rights of editorial staff members. Organized only last De cember, the guild is still in the formative stages, yet its first test of strength with the publishers has re sulted in a telling victory for its membership. Publishers generally will be reluctant to admit this. Thus far they have been, if not actually hos tile to the new organization, at least unsympathetic. Since the inauguration of the guild movement last summer, most American newspapers have consist ently suppressed all mention of the guild's activi ties In their news columns. Nevertheless, the or ganization has mushroomed with surprising rapid ity, and the Pulitzer statement may be taken as the first public acknowledgment of the place the guild is to hold in the future. All this may be traced di rectly to the fostering spirit of the NIRA; without that legal sanction, the opposition of publishers would have made such an organization impossible. Under the approval of the act, labor activities in other fields may be hoped to achieve a similar foot ing of equality with industry. Minnesota Daily. Sign of The Times. yHE interest and enrollment in the adult night school, the increasing patronage for the public library and many other factors are encouraging signs of the times. Education is a continuous process, including bringing in new ideas, revaluing things, discarding mistaken ideas and accumulating valuable ideas and information. We cannot rely on some old graduation certifi cate Issued twenty years ago to keep us educated all our lives. There is no way to obtain an "eternal" education that will keep us in mental trim. Adult education to teach us to think clearly and to understand an ever changing world is a vital matter just now. Our nation will not exist in its most Ideal form unless its citizens are enlightened. Just a smattering of knowledge is a dangerous thing. Newspapers magazines, radio, movies, the li brary and ether things can help. We cannot be good Citizens unless we know the facts and face them living by Impulses and impressions and street talk will lead us Into unfortunate circumstances. "Educated mind is the guardian genius of de mocracy." The great Texan who said that did not mean by the term ''educated mind" only a group of people who had been given a prescribed number of years' schooling, essential as that Is. "Education" Is an every day matter. Temple News. Ag College Carlyle Hodgkin We Have Failed What Olc? nrHE American University Fails, that illuminating series of articles Political Scientists Lancaster and Stoke wrote recently for the Daily KebraAkan were written, so the editor's note ran, partly to pro voke thought and discussion. What follows here is an attempt to look at soma of the things the authors aai4 lu their specific relation to the college of agri culture. The American university has failed. If I follow the authors corrafly, chiefly bees use of the point of view university instructors have come to hold toward their own profeaalcn. They have ojmiml lated, so to speak, tha popular point of view of the general public: That education exists to enable people to make more money. When the depression hit, say the authors, uni versity graduates could make no more money than persons who had never gone near a university. Therefore, in the public mind, university education had failed. The public did not hesitate to bring that charge of failure against the university; and the university faculty members, because they had them selves come half to believe that education exists to teach people to make money, had no answer to that charge. So, say the writers, we are in that mess today. The faculty has lost fuith in the product it has to offer. The students, in quest of ways to learn to make money, see In university courses little that will help to solve that problem. The number of stu dents two or three years out of school who are still hanging around the campus because no satisfactory Job awaits them add to the present dissatisfaction. Both faculty and students, looking through com mercial eyes, see education as a failure. The one can offer little consolation to the other. The way out, say Writers Lancaster and Stoke, Is first for university instructors to re-sell them selves on their own pvoduct, to re-dlscover for them selves that education is a thing that affects the quality of the mind rather than something that gives one greater skill In business, that education Is con cerned with knowledge and understanding, not with training for competitive enterprise. Once the fac ulty has rc-gaincd Its own faith, then the task is to cicate among the students the point of view that education Is concerned with how to live, enjoy, un derstand, and appreciate rather than how to hold down an executive position in business. Specifically, tho writer's suggestions are these: "First, we must come to a clearer understanding of the goals of educational enterprise, and resist much more fiercely the influences which lead us astray. Secondly, we must revive our faith in our work by renewing our sense of its value. Thirdly, we must examine our university from curriculum to organi zation, and instead of tolerating what is not harm ful, root out all that is not helpful." Those things to be weeded out of the curricu lum are those which have no relation to education conceived as a thing concerned with knowledge, un derstanding, and the quality of the mind. Now what, against such a definition as that, happens to Ag college? The first thought that one is bound to have, it seems, is that education, purely as such, and train ing for skill in practice are almost inseparable. Sup pose that one should start to prune out of the Ag curriculum all courses or elements of courses that fit the students for actual competitive practice rather than simply increasing their understanding and appreciation. Where would one start? Pro fessor Abbott's chemistry course would be a good starting point, for certainly no one ever got any training from it that he could get paid for putting into practice. But where to from there? Courses in history of agriculture, even in his tory of dairy, engineering, bee keeping, or vocation al agriculture, would be pretty largely education. They would Impart to one very little of practical skill. But beyond that it would be almost impos sible to go and still take courses that offered edu cation only. For how could one possibly study the principles of dairying or crop gi. wing or farm man agement to understand them without at the same time becoming better equipped to put them into practice than the person who had never learned to understand the principles? Of course there are tricks to all trades, and the student still has them to learn when he actually enters the trade, But my point is that it is impossible to separate pure edu cation and practical skill, especially so in a subject which so mixes practice with theory as does agri culture. How then could Ag college be changed to fit the wishes of Writers Lancaster and Stoke? There is only one way: Simply change the pcint of view. Let the attitude of both faculty and students swing away from commercial toward educational. Almost the entire curriculum is necessary regardless of the point of view. But if students can be made to feel that they are coming to college for understanding, not for a good job. they will not be disappointed after college If they don't get that job. If students can be made to feel that they have a responsibility to the state by virtue of having been educated at state expense, they will cling less to the notion that the state should have a good job ready for them because it has prepared them for such a job. The state pays for the student's education. How then can that student justify himself if he uses that education in competitive enterprise to take advan tage of those who helped to pay for his education? Actually, he owes a debt to the state rather than having an excuse to exploit it to his own advantage. And if the Ag faculty should take the educational point of view rather than the commercial point of view sufficiently to Impregnate the students with the Idea that their education and training Insepara ble, remember are first to be put to the service of the state and second to be used for personal ad vancement, I fancy that Writers Lancaster and Stoke would be satisfied with the change. Economics Professor Says Internal Combustion Engine and Limits of the Human Stomach Cause Farm Troubles LAWRENCE, Kas Feb. 27. Invention of the internal combus tion engine and the limitations of the human stomach were blamed for a goodly share of the farmer's difficulties in a speech here re cently by John Ise, professor of economics at the university. The American tariff policy that pre vents building of foreign markets for American farm products also came in for a share of the blame. Professor Ise was speaking on the American land policies, and declared that the present trend of governmental effort to retire mar ginal lands, and to bring produc tion into line with needs was the first evidences of an American land policy. Invention of the internal com bustion engine, which has revolu tionized travel, transportation and even farming operations, has re duced the demand for food for horses. "There is a limit to the capacity of the human stomach," said Truf. Ise. "If we consume more bananas, spinach and other vegetables, we muat eat lead wheat. It is probable, too, that as society becomes more urbanized, and as people live in furnace heated homes, they have less need for heavy food. Even farming Is becoming a sedentary occupation. "The world needs all of the farm products that America can raise. In fact, a considerable part of the world's population is hungry right now. I should estimate at least 10 million Germans are undernour ished; twice as many Russians; 40 million Japanese; 100 million Chi nese and a like number in India; as well as 10 million Americans who are out of Jobs and require adequate food. "With so many hungry, it would seem reasonable for the American people to be willing to trade their burplus for such gocds as foreign countries roulii send us, but our tariff policies and the tariff pol icies of other countries make this increasingly difficult. "Henre our policy undc;r the AAA. It is a stupid thing, to be sure, to plow under cotton when so many people lack clothing; to throw pork into tho river when mil lions are hungry for meat; to let fertile fields grow up to weeds, but as long as we refuse to engage freely in foreign trade we must somehow get our efficient export industries down to a domestic basis. "Secretary Wallace does not like to see cotton plowed under. He recognizes as clearly as anyone that we cannot build the wealth of a nation by destroying wealth. Eut he is faced by a condition, not a theory. "The AAA was designed to cut production of all farmers. Aside from the difficulty of administer ing and enforcing crop reduction in this way, the AAA was defective in making no differentiation among various kinds of lands. "Good Kaw bottom farms, poor hill farms, the rocky slopes of the Ozark region, the Fandy wastes of Michigan wti- treated aUk?. Thia seemed unfortunate, for giod level 100 million acres will finally be taken over unless conditions change radically. "Some of this should be refor ested as fast as possible, some should be returned to grass; at many points lake sites might be improved. "It is true that the withdrawal of marginal lands from cultivation will cause much hardship and suf fering. Perhaps 2 million farmers will have to move off their farms, and try to secure employment else where. Yet the definite govern ment policy will involve less hard ship than would the harsh policy of letting the farmers "sweat it out" until the necessary number of them have decided to quit. "Such a policy would mean that all farmers would have to .suffer much hardship before conditions became better; and there is no as surance that the necessary number would quit anyhow. "Where they shall go is a ques tion the government will have to help them solve, for the govern ment that permits its farmers to sink Into a condition of hopeless peasantry, as one finds in parts of lOurope, is planning for its own decay." OF Kansas University to Give Dinner on Tenth Birthday. LAWRENCE, Kas. The tenth anniversary of the organization of the School of Business of the Uni versity of Kansas will be observed by a dinner In Kansas City, Mo., the evening of Feb. 28. Chancel lor E. H. Lindley, Dean F. T. Stockton, and other members of the School of Business faculty are expected to attend. Arthur Cromb, honor man of the university's class of 1929, now with the Standard Steel company, will be the toast master. Since the organization of the School of Business st the univer sity, it has granted degrees to 627 students, of whom 481 were men and 46 were women. Nearly one third of these live in the two Kan sas Cities, Leavenworth, Independ ence, and nearby cities. One hun dred are expected at the dinner. Graduates of the school are now engaged in all phases of business, in at lenst twenty states. The School of Business Is open only to Juniors and seniors, and in recent years has been graduating 61 to 84 annually. Throughout its history, its dean has been Frank T. Stockton, who holds a doctor's de gree from Johns Hopkins, and came to Kansas from the deanship of the College of Arts and Sclencs of th University of South Dakota. In nt years all members of American authority on taxation problems. Prof. H. F. Holtzclaw is author of widely known books on agri cultural marketing; Assoc. Prof. J. H. Taggert, and Asst. Prof. L. D. Jennings have served as tech nical advisers to the committee on economic policy of the Kansas Bankers association. Assoc. Prof. L. T. Tupy is on leave this year as head of the blue sky department of the Kansas corporation commission. CHURCHES TAKE PARI OFFICIAL BULLETIN Y. W, Interest Groups. Interest groups of the Y. W. C. A will hold meetings in Ellen Smith hall at the following hours this week: Wednesday at 5 Keep Current, Violet Cross. Thursday at 4 Know Your City, Lois Rathburn. Thursday at 6 Art of Being a Hostess, Arlene Bors, Stomp Club. The Stamp Club will hold a bus iness meeting Thursday night March 1, at 7:30 in Social Science room 301. Y. W. Staff Meetings. Staff meetings for Y. W. C. A. members for the coming week are scheduled as follows: Finance, Marjorie Shostak, on Thursday at 4. Swap Shop, Theodore Lohrman, Thursday at 4. Program and Office, Phyllis Jane Humphrey, Wednesday at 3. World Forum, Beth Schmid, Thursday at 4. Posters, Ruth Allen, Thursday at 4 p. m. Church Relations, Mary Edythe Hendricks, Wednesday at 5. In addition to these staff meet ings. Miss Miller will conduct a special study group on "The Life of Jesus" on Thursday at 1 o'clock and also on Sunday at 9 o'clock. Barb A. W. 8. League. Group meetings of the Barb A. W. S. league will be h"ld this week. The schedule of the meetings to be held at Ellen Smith Hall fol lows: Marjorie Smith, Wednesday at 5 p. m. Blzad Executive Council. Members of the Blzad executive council for both semesters will meet at the campus studio Wed nesday at 5 for a group picture. Social Staff. Social staff of the Y. W. will give a tea at Ellen Smith hall Thursday afternoon from 3:30 to 5:30. All girls who entered at mid year are invited to attend. Young Democrats. Secretary of State Swanson will speak before a meeting of the Young Democrats club to be held Wednesday afternoon at 3 in So cial Science auditorium. Physics Colloqulm. Physics Colloqulm will meet at 7 p. m. Wednesday in room 119 during the second semester. Prof. Chauncey W. Smith or Mr. Sever ence will speak this week. Barb Council. There will be a meeting of the Barb Council Wednesday afternoon at 4 o'clock in room 105 of Social Sciences hall. the fac .. y have been doing a land can be farmed for a thousand great amount of special work for years without Injury, while much state departments. Dean Stockton sloping iand is eroded to worth- j has served on Governor Wood Icssness in fifty years. ' ring's committee on employment t ortunateiy. the government and on Governor Landon's corn- has recognized this, and we can now begin to see the outlines of the government's evolving pollcv. "It is apparently the plan of President Roosevelt, and of Secre taries Wallace and Ickes, to work out a comprehensive land policy, under which the government will classify lands and see that each kind is put to Its proper use. "Marginal land will be taken over by the government and put back Into-the public domain. As sistant Secretary Tugweli once miggested that perhaps .VI million acres chould be taken over, but I am convinced that not less than mlttee on self-help, and Is chair man of the technical commitlee of the Kansas economic council. Prof. John Ise is a member of the executive committee of the American Economic association, and Prof. Jens P. Jensen is an Rent-a-Cars Our new riles are elvlne; nearly twite aa murh driving; for the mon ey. Guoil cars available at all huura. Motor Out Company 1120 P 8t B6819 Rev. Ray Hunt Urges All Students to Attend Service Sunday. Lincoln churches are participat ing in a nation-wide campaign to be known as "United Church Loyalty Crusade" which opened Feb. 25 and will continue until Easter and April 8. It Is the aim of pastors in the city to rench all members of their churches and urge them to attend church some where. Each Sunday during this period has been designated as a particular day and services ' are planned with this in mind. In commenting on this event Ray E. Hunt, pastor of First Christian church, made the follow ing statement: "It is a call to wor ship, to repentance, to renewal of faith, to adventurous living in be half of uod and man. The cnurcn Is being reborn and covets this re vltallzating experience for the whole of l.er constituency." He closed by again urging students to attend church services next. Sun day. Max Zelle Wins Sheep Judging Contest at Ames AMES. Ia Feb. 26. Max R. Zelle of Alleman, sophomore ani mal husbandry student at Iowu State college, won the sophomore sheep judging contest In competi tion with thirty students, according to an announcement Saturday. Sec ond, third and fourth were Bayard Scott of Mitchellvllle, Lawrence Pease of Farragut and Myron Min ish of Hudson. Y. W. Social Staff. The social staff of the Univer sity Y. W. C. A. will serve a tea Thursday, Mar. 1, at Ellen Smith hall from 3:30 to 5:30 p. m. All girls who enrolled at mid-year are invited to attend. Barb A. W. S. League. Barb A. W. S. league meetings will be held at Ellen Smith hall Wednesday at 5 p. m. under Mar jorie Filley, and Thursday at 5 p. m. under Evelyn Diamond. All Barb girls are urged to attend. Student Council. Student Council meeting will be hold at 5 o'clock Wednesday after noon in the organization room in University hall. The group will consider several plans for reorgani zation of the Student Council, and all members are urged to be present. JOHN GEPSON, President. There are nineteen major build ings at the University of Kansas which are used for school purposes. This number includes the new Watkins Memorial hospital. f Counsellor-at-Law Claimed to be the most authentic law play ever written. Playing all this week and a special matinee Saturday, with no advance in price. University Players Temple Theatre Y OUR PHOTOGRAPH . It is a lasting remembrance of your col lege days! And the artistry of the pho tographer who takes the portrait is of great importance. The Rinehart-Marsden studio, a new comer to Lincoln, has won in a short time the reputation of Lincoln's most srtistic photographers. Only skill, knowledge, and good equipment can produce a photograph that is true. And the Rinehart-Marsden studio has these three es sentials. So think of Rinehart-Marsden when you think of good pictures. The terms are synonymous! RINEHART-MARSDEN STUDIO .... . "0ficUd Cornhutker LapitOl Hotel Photographer" B-2442