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Using Intelligence
In Polities.
COME time ago George W. Norris, Nebraska"
progressive senator, stated that the bright spot
in the governmental sky today was the active inter
est youth was taking in our major political and so
cial problems. He added that students should break
away from the old party bossism and adopt a
Fpirit of healthy interest in politics.
Senator Norris did not mean that students
should induce in the type of "government" prac
ticed during the past decade. He suggested, on the
other hand, that students should participate in gov
ernment by exercising intelligence in selecting cap
able candidates for office.
That Senator Norris' plea is being re-echoed
fever the nation is somewhat apparent. The over
throw of Tammany hall, and the bitter fight of the
fusion ticket against the Pendergast machine in
Kansas City combined with other instances to indi
cate that youth is taking an active interest in gov
ernment and "politics."
This means, briefly, that the average individ
ual's notion about government and politics is being
rapidly changed. During the past decade, and now
to a less degree, students and others have been
awed at the very mention of the word politics. It
is a horrid word, bringing to mind unpleasant as
sociations of graft and corruption in the high places
of our democratic governmental machinery. But
this is being changed if we believe in signs of the
times. Today participation in politics means active
interest in public service.
This "new deal" has not been confined to legis
lative hulls. On the other hand, there is a definite
movement among colleges and universities to edu
cate youth for better government. Our institutions
of hipher learning, it seems, are attempting to im
bue youth with a sense of social idealism.
JEBRASKA students will parade to the polls
Tuesday morning to elect their representatives
in the student governing body, members of the stu
dent publication board, Iva Day orator, and to sanc
tion an amendment to the student council's constitu
tion. Judging from the unusual amount of political
activity during the past few weeks, Tuesday's elec
tion should reveal a large student vote. In addition,
the relative strength of the two factions, formed
last fall, will be put to the acid test.
Close inspection of the present political scene
indicates that Nebraska students reflect only in a
small way the movement about which Senator
Norris spoke. Many discrepancies in tha present
political situation are apparent. For instance, the
usual run of candidates are individuals known as
"activity people." They know little and probably
care less about the position they have been chosen
to fill. Their primary claim to candidacy rests
mainly on social success or fraternity affiliation. A
predominance of the candidates are either totally
disinterested or seek office purely cn the score of
climbing tha activity ladder. Whether this year is
an exception may be subject to considerable specu
lation.
The most damnable aspect of the campus poli
tical system is its utter lack of organization. Suo
cessful candidates represent nothing. They are not
responsible to student voters, nor the faction which
nominated them. In short they represent no active
functioning constituency. Factions which nominate
them, it must be noted, have but little excuse for
existence. Apparently they represent nothing but
an effective consolidation of personalities.
As a possible avenue for improvement the Ne
braskan suggests that candidates be told what he is
to do, and who he represents if elected. At least,
this would be a change for the better.
"THE Nebraskan recognizes that where there is a
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there are elective offices to be filled. Candidates
obviously will compete for these posts. There will
also be factions, to back these men in the hope that
they will share in the spoils if their candidate gets
"in."
It must be noted in this connection, however,
that in most cases the political machinery is well
organized. In many respects it has a definite pur
pose. Successful candidates represent most usually
the principles of the group they represent. Directed
into constructive channels this set up exercises a
healthy influence on government. This is what
Senator Norris had in mind, we believe, when he
spoke of the revival of interest in faithful public
service.
Student politics, although petty in nature,
might well serve as an excellent laboratory for fu
ture public servants. In this respect campus poli
tical machinery is lacking.
Browsing
Among The
Books
Maurice Johnson
A UTOBIOGRAPHY is often stuffy, but Maurice
O'Sullivan's "Twenty Years A-Growing" is like
a fresh breeze. Written first in Irish, it had wide
popularity in England and then was chosen by the
Book of-the-Month Club here. O'Sullivan is now a
Dunlin policeman, but he writes like a poet: "Did
you never hear how the life of a man is divided?
Twenty years a-growing, twenty years in blossom,
twenty years a-stooping, and twenty years declining."
Dancer Ted Shawn and his troupe of men per
formed here Wednesday, and in the same week the
tragic story of Nijinsky, greatest dancer of recent
time, was put on sale, written by his wife. The
book "Nijinsky" is called a "portrait of the glitter
ing Imperial Russian Ballet in all its glory."
Miss Luaren Gilfillan left Smith college looking
for "copy," and she found it among desperate min
ers turned communistic. "I Went to Pit College" is
not a novel, but it is a brilliant piece of reporting.
To get her material Miss Gilfillan went down into
the pits disguised as a boy, begged on tie streets,
was made love to by communists, and lived among
the poorest miners.
Middlewesterners who enjoyed Phil Stong a
"State Fair" and "Stranger's Return" will find an
other soothing dose of Iowa humdrum living in
his "Village Tale." He does, however, introduce
fear and death into this new novel.
Poet Robinson Jeffers, aloof and seeped in mis
anthropy, has afforded Eddie Guest another scare
with his "Give Your Heart to the Hawks." This
poem continues the mood of Jeffers' neurotic ob
session. Rather than sing of violets and nostalgia
for the old Oaken bucket Jeffers cries of life who
"drinks her defeat and devours her famine for
food."
Biography is "5ing" put out in wholesale lots,
and several publishers have hit upon the idea of
biography series. The thirty in the Macmillan
Great Lives list are of convenient pocket size.
Number fourteen is "William Blake" by Alan Clut
ton Brock. Artist-author Blake was made to
scream with fright at the age of four when he saw
"God put his head to the window." Later he saw
a trn filler! with antrels. and he met Ezeklel. His
strange but simple poems and drawings are
with mysticism. "The Tiger" is
poem.
his
filled
best-known
People are still reading and exclaiming over
Lloyd C. Douglas' "Magnificent Obsession." Neither
that book nor his "Forgive TJs Our Trespasses" is
well-written or bas any real importance. Given Im
petus by ladies' aid societies, "Magnificent Obses
sion" has proved a perennial best seller, much to the
surprise of its obscure publishers.
America's leading Negro citizen, James Wel
don Johnson, has written 411 big pages of "Along
This Way," his autobiography. He says of the
Negro: "And, today, his self-confidence may be in
creased by only looking around him and noting what
a mess the white race has made of civilization."
This may fit in with Oswald Spengler's prohphesy
that the day of the white race is waning fast.
Says Chicago Poet Carl Sandburg: "Poetry is
the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits."
Dr. Charles Fordyce Predicts Future
Occupations, Discovers Specialized
Talents With Many Ingenious Devices
"Why nin T out. of a joM" thousands of men and women
have asked sadly since the depression dropped down.
"What's the matter with my hoss?" ask workers whose
employers have taken "sudden dislikes" to them.
Answers Dr. Charles Fonlyee from the university: ''You
aren't adapted to the job for which 0
vou are lookine. You don e 111
THE PLIGHT OF HIGHER EDUCATION
By
Oswald Garrison Villard
I have just spent twenty-four hours within the
precincts of a university with whose activities I
have been more or less familiar for so long that I
am afraid to say when that acquaintance began.
I found it enormously improved since my last visit.
New and attractive buildings added tremendously
to the development of a campus whose glorious
trees and wonderful lawns are not surpassed, I am
sure, by those of any other. But what I heard about
the plight of education in this state filled me with
dismay. The student body has decreased from about
3,300 to 2,000. Many of the present students are
continuing with the greatest difficulty, and there
are cases of real undernourishment. I heard of one
student whose work improved enormously when it
was arranged that he could get one square meal a
day, and of another who was trying to live by an
expenditure of only $1.35 a month. It seems to me
that as long as there is one such student attending
a university its existence is justified.
But the students are not the only ones who are
Buffering. The university itself is in straits as a re
sult of the tremendous decrease in its revenues. The
instructors and professors look with envy upon
teachers in other States who have taken only a 10
percent cut in their salaries. Some of those here
have had to accept a decrease of more than SO per
cent. The library has only the slenderest means,
ehiofly-an endowment fund established l my-
father some fifty years ago. Some of the most im
portant books can therefore not be purchased. It is
hard to see how the university can keep up with the
newest developments of knowledge in any field.
Again, the teachers are appalled by the fact
that many Oregon schools were actually closed for
the rest of the school year at Christmas time I
mean small, rural public schools. They ask them
selves whether, if this continues long, there will be
enough students sufficiently trained to take a uni
versity course. But while they are suffering, the
United States government continues to waste money
upon military training, and compulsory drill is still
enforced, although the faculty upheld it by only four
votes when they voted on it a few weeks ago after
a rigorous undergraduate campaign against it a
campaign that ought to have succeeded if only be
cause from the point of view of modern warfare
every cent spent upon the old-fashioned drill in our
colleges is absolutely wasted. If the government
wanted to help where help is needed it would turn
these wasted funds over to the underpaid faculty.
The picture I have presented varies only in de
gree from what I have seen on other campuses on
hls trip through the West It has set me to won
dering whether the teachers in our higher educa
tional institutions ought not to come together and
demand, in this hour of codes, a code for universi
ties. If the President thinks it necessary to fix a
miniuum wage for mine workers and factory work
ers and laborers in the oil industry, why not a living
minimum wage for college professors ? Why not es
tablish an ethical code for the conduct of boards of
trustees of universities in their relations with both
students and teachers? Above all, college teachers
in a State like this yes, in every State ought now
to organize in unions, following the example of edi
torial writers and reporters. Is not this hour of re
volution the time for them to demand representa
tion upon the boards of trustees, to acquire some
voice in how much freedom there shall be upon the
university campuses and what shall be taught and
r.ot taught? Mr. Roosevelt declares that he is free
ing industry from innumerable shackles. Why not
strike a few from the wrists of university profes
sors '.'
I have something further to suggest. I think
that the entire life cf the university should be built
ai'ound the existing economic crisis; that the first
function of such an institution should be to keep the
students and the faculty currently aware of the mo
mentous changes that ate going on in our economic,
social, and political life. Does that sound ridicu
lous? Well, if we think back to the year 1917 it
was not considered ridiculous then to rebuild the
whole life of the universities and colleges around
the business of learning youth to go overseas and
slaughter fellow human beings. Schools were made
merely institutions of hate and misrepresentation.
Every scholarly protest was abandoned or subor
dinated to the great task of making the world safe
i dp moeroeyr-P-ftd profewnrg were drafted If. large
numbers for service in Washington or abroad. The
crisis is pregnant now with far greater conse
quences for the future of American life. Is it really
foolish to suggest, therefore, that the universities
busy themselves primarily with what is happening
in Washington? Dean Russell of Teachers College
has admirably pointed out that if the electorate is to
have any hope cf saving America from a perma
nent dictatorship, it must become sufficiently well
Informed as to what its rulers are doing to be able
at least to criticize and control them. He thinks,
and I with him, that the colleges and universities
of the country have a special call to furnish the
public with the necessary knowledge to keep its
rulers in check. He believes that our entire educa
tion must be reoriented for this purpose.
At least somebody ought to call President
Roosevelt's attention to the dire distress of so many
of our schools of higher learning, which ought to
be the most cherished institutions in our entire na
tional life. It is ail very well to build concrete roads
and dams and put young men into the forests, but
it is an infernal outrage in this national emergency
to approve a bill for the expenditure of $500,000,000
for warships when the price of even two battleships
expended upon our universities would bring hope
and cheer, yes, decent sustenance, to students and
teachers on a thousand campuses. Can there he
any question which expenditure would really make
for the true preparedness of this country for the
tasks and dangers and infinitely difficult problems
of the future? The Nation.
your job. You are the square peg,
trying to match the round hole."
Phrenology Out.
Everyone remembers the old-
fashioned "bump-study" man who
used to visit the town ana run nis
hand over the children's heads.
Each bump was named and indi
cated to him that the boy was due
to be a preacher or a piano-player.
Now phrenology is relegated to the
ash heap. Dr. Fordyfce has substi
tuted scientific devices for discov
ering specialized abilities and talents.
This modern man of science, too,
predicts future occupations. But
he does it through the use of his
accurate measuring devices and
his long experience in the field of
vocational guidance.
Uses Ingenious Devices.
He is professor of educational
measurements and research, and
his answer to the big question of
What can I do?" comes from
anweis he has received to smaller
questions and puzzles. For more
than 16 years he has worked with
vocational guidance problems. He
has invented and adapted many in
genious devices: blocks to be
placed together, keys to be
punched, needles to De inserted
into pinholes. The speed or ability
which a person shows in perform
ing on the machines gives tne pro
fessor definite clues to natural en
dowment in the performer.
Nor is this idea an impractical
dream of a university teacher. Dr.
Fordyce established his unemploy
ment research clinic in downtown
Lincoln in the new Y. W. C. A.
building. He and his students have
taken various types of mechanical
aptitude testing devices there, and
have invited as clients those young
women who are unable to find jobs
or who feel they are not doing
their best in their present posi
tions.
Hoping to reenter employment,
150 girls applied last year for help
and training. Special training
given them is mainly in stenog
raphy and typewriting, toward
which seven unemployed commer
cial teachers have given their serv
ices. These girls who have applied
range in ages from 17 to 30 yean.
They have been employed in better
times, as clerks, salesladies or
teachers. Dr. Fordyce was asked
by Y. W. C. A. workers to set up
his clinic, in order to test and ad
vise these young women as to what
training would be necessary to per
mit them to reenter employment
which their abilities fit.
Clinic In Y. W. C. A. Rooms.
With a staff of 16 members of
his class in vocational guidance,
Dr. Fordyce transferred his prac
tical work in testing and coun
selling to the Y. W. C. A. rooms.
The students and instructor carry
on their study from 3 to 5 o'clock
on Monday, Wednesday and Friday
afternoons. Each member of the
class is trained to give some one
particular psychological test, while
the laboratory work in general fs
under the direction of Ruth Lar
son, a graduate student in the field
of measurements and Leona Fail
or, graduate assistant in the class
es in measurements.
Unemployed young women who
have registered are each given
tests for measuring academic abil
ities, clerical abilities, salesman
ship, teaching aptitude, social in
telligence and the use of a vocabu
lary, together with personality
tests. These last are given for the
sirable traits possessed by the
girls. Tests such as these are in
tended to discover which girls are
adapted by Interest, aptitudes and
abilities "for occupations which
have to do with the making of such
social contacts as may enable the
individual to deal successfully
with people. Clerks, salesladies,
secretaries, dramatists, librarians,
and social workers would fit into
this class.
Second Series Tests.
A second series of tests pur
posed to dlsover manipulative
ability are being given to all the
girls. These include such per
formance tests as the O'Connor
block, the Ziegler form board for
determining the mechanical abil
ity in general. The tweezer dex
terity test and the motor precision
test are given to test ability for
finer manipulation required in
such occupations as delicate needle
work, or inserting delicate springs
in machines.
Proving ability in such tests, the
young women might. Dr. Fordyce
finds, be able to do well the work
of dressmaker, hair-dresser, musi
cian, nurse, optician, stenographer,
or telephone operator. They would
probably be adept at other occu
pations requiring various types of
mechanical abilities.
Nearly loo of the women have
gont through the clinic, and Dr.
Fordyce and his staff are now en-
eased in interpreting the results
of the tests. Through this diag
nosis they hope to find to what ex
tent careful individual examina
tion may aid unemployed youth to
readjustment for occupations
which their interest:!, abilities, and
personality make them fitted. The
workers believe that groups of vo
cations differ markedly in the in
terests and aptitudes required and
that they may be discovered with
a fair degree of accuracy by means
of available vocational tests.
Two Aims In View.
The clinic, Dr. Fordyce explains,
has two alms in view: first, to
find out the main contributing
cause of the unemployment of the
girls tested, and second, to dis
cover in them potential qualifica
tions for some particular occupa
tion or group of occupations. Thus
far the study indicates that many
of them have been engaged in oc
cupations for which their interests
and abilities do not adapt them.
Having completed the tests, they
will be ihteipieled by Dr. Fordyce
and his workers, then interviews
will be held with the girls. They
will be encouraged to prepare
themselves for those occupations
for which they have shown to be
best adapted, and be urged to en
ter these fields rather than others.
A careful record is being made for
each candidate of her educational
status, her personal, family and
occupational history, and such
other data as may be helpful in
guiding her into the proper chan
nels of occupation.
Plans Examine Men.
Among the tests Dr. Fordyce
has set up for practical applica
tion is a series for selecting tele
phone operators, another for se
lecting salesmen and clerical work
ers in department stores, and yet
another for choosing secretaries
for the Y. M. C. A. and the Y. W.
C. A. His university teachers col
lege laboratory is equipped with
some 200 pieces of testing ma
chines and apparatus, and eacn
week he points out to many Ne
braskan what they may have the
ability to do. When finished at
the Y. W. C. A., Dr. Fordyce and
his staff will move their equip
ment to the Y. M. C. A. and begin
tests on the unemployed men who
wish them.
LIBRARUS SAYS JOBS
OPE TO APPLICANTS
Candidates for Positions
Must Tale Placement
Examination.
There will be two or three va-
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cancies among me posiuons cem
bv students in the Library next
vear. Gilbert uoane, neaa ii-
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brarian, and nis stair nave aeciaeu
to hold a competitive placement
examination and select incumbents
from those who are successful in
the examination.
Any student who wishes to com
nete should make application w
take the examination at the Li
brarian's Office Library Hall,
Room 301, not later than Friday,
April 13. Those who have already
applied for work in the Library
must renew their applications and
signify their desire to take the ex
amination. The examination itself
will be held at the Library on Sat
urday, April 28th at 9 a. m.
SEVERE COLD KEEPS T. J.
THOMPSON l-R0M1)ffltt
T. J. Thompson, dean of student
affairs, has for the past few days
been ill at bis home, suffering from
a severs cold and bronchial trou
ble. It was announced that he will
return to work oon.
WOMEN'S CLUBS WILL
HEAR DR.W.H.MORTON
Dr. W. H. S. Morton, principal
of teachers college high school at
the University of Nebraska will
address the meeting of the first
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OTOE P. T. A. ADDRESS
Dr. W. H. S. Morton of the uni
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Dunbar Thursday evening before
the Otoe county council of the
Parent-Teachers association. His
subject was: "The Parent and His
Local School."
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