T TWO. THE DAILY NERRASKAN WEDNESDAY, MAY 16. 1934. The Daily Nebraskan Station A, Lincoln, Nebraska OFFICIAL STUDENT PUBLICATION UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA till MP1 represented for general advertising, by tht Nebraska Prats Assoelatlon wineom, -- -"V."V. ni hi .action 5 HQ at special rij vi k' ""v; VT iio 1M, act of Octobar S. 1917. authorized January SO, 1922. THIRTV.THIRD YEAR Published Tueaday, Wednesday, Thuraday. Friday and ounaay mormnue uunng wm wunf SUBSCRIPTION RATE i.M vnr Slnals Cony S eontt 1.00 a aemester ia.M a veer mall.d semester maiiea Under direction of tho Student Publication Boara Editorial Office Unlveralty Hall 4. AiJI.a I laKU.BalU U 1 1 A Sk Teleshonee Dayi B-689U NlQhU B-M82. B-S3S3 (Journal) AaK tor nioraiiun unui. EDITORIAL STAFF Miin.rtiif .Bruce NicoU Manaalna Edltora v.in Violet Crosa Newt Edltora Jack Mscher rred Nlckla. vtaSanifc Hocl.tv Editor... Virginia BellecK Soorta Editor Irwin ityan Sport Assistant Jack Grube and Arnold Levlne BUSINESS STAFF atanard Jennlnga ......Business Manager Assistant dui nsii mnpiii Wilbur Erickaon Dick Schmidt Contributing Edltora Dick Moran Cariyla Hodgkln Feature Edltora Bumnt Xaaterday Ruth Matachullat Lo rains Campbell Oaorga Holyoke Mauri oe Johnson Students Should Enter Politics. TNIVERSITY students should enter politics. This, At least, la the overwhelming sentiment of many SStlonally prominent, commentators. And rightfully hould It be a universal plea, for in this remarkable Country universities and colleges have been graduat ing thousands of young men and women best quall fted to enter the professional field, while govern ment and social order have been neglected and left to a small minority. leaders of American thought in education, government, and Industry have advocated strongly during the pest year that youth enter government Jrvlce as a career. Many times university students have been criticized for a smug complacent attitude toward governmental affairs. Back In December, Henry A. Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture, statea: T'bur college life has expressed its vitality in such rackets as organized football." George Zook, Com !jolssioner of Education, said: "My complaint about "College students Is that they are too darned docile." -Senator George W. Norris, while in Lincoln re cently, advocated that the youth of this state take -vital interest in better government. The future Efficiency and honesty of our democratic political system, In his opinion, depends largely upon the in Jberest of this generation. What are university students going to do about ' Will the youth of this country follow in the footsteps of the youth of Europe and organize a -strong youth movement? Probably not. But there are evidences that young uwn and women are de voting more attention to oetter government The 'CM order, perhaps, is being seriously challenged by 4'cutn. Bui the movement is not widespread, Amer ica's youth movement, it seems, is still in its in fancy. Recently in Kansas City a group of young men and women organized a successful movement to Oust the Pendergast machine from control of the city government. The vote implied, if nothing else, that people are willing to express dissatisfaction With our old discredited governmental leaders. At nearly the same time, thirty-four Pennsylvania col leges Joined hands to aid the state with its campaign for a one house legislature. True, these instances are not conclusive evidence, but they may be taken to Indicate an interest noticeably absent among youth during the past decade. It must be admitted, here, that administrative lad Important posts in our national government have been selected from the ranks of older men. During the Hoover regime men serving in diplo matic and cabinet posts had served under Taft. At the same time Roosevelt has chosen many men prominent during Wilson's time. But with the new deal and its Innumerable governmental projects covering the country from coast to coast, younger jnen and women have been given the opportunity to enter public service. Many men under forty are playing Important parts in determining the suc cess or failure of the present administration. For years universities have been turning out thousands of men and women trained for profes sional service. The professions, as a result, have been developed rapidly. They have become over crowded. The number of graduates educated to be come Intelligent citizens have become less and less. Social sciences and government have fallen far behind our economic development Certainly the Social idealist is the "forgotten man." ',- In politics and government, then, lies a field Open to the youth of this nation. Will youth accept the challenge? The next decade, in all events, Should determine whether America is to have a youth movement worthy of the name. If youth wants better government, rather than smugly cri ticizing our present one, then it should assume the responsibility for performing the task. And they may do this by discarding blase indifference in favor of a primary interest in better government. 'Attention for Summer School. 'm While students are anxiously awaiting the end of school and making plans for vacation, out state teachers are awaiting the opening of summer school June 8. Perhaps added importance will be at tached to this year's session for teachers complying with the new ruling of the North Central association of colleges and secondary schools requiring a mas tery degree of superintendents and principals. Within thosa few days elapsing between com mencement and opening of summer school the campus becomes an entirely different world. With the exception of a few laboring toward eligibility or making sure of graduation, those who have popu lated the campus for nine months disappear. In tJje.lr place come almost 2,000 teachers and graduate students. For those who are here during the summer 1Bt well known and well qualified lecturers and Instructors have been secured to offer courses In specialised fields. In addition another group of well known educators will be on the campus to lead dis cussions and lecture at the three day conference planned for the benefit of school administrators and teachers. In the line of recreation a well rounded and supervised program is always planned. Softball leagues are organized, horseshoe and tennis tour neys held, and mixer dances scheduled at regular intervals. In short every effort is expended to make this extra period of school attractive. Contrary to the common opinion which a3so ciates summer school with unpleasantness, the Ne braskan feels that a course of study during the summer session would be time pleasantly and profit ably spent. Paternalism and The University, UNIVERSITIES in this country wet-nurse under graduates through rour years or nigner eauca tlon. Students enter the university their first year and are advised, probated, hemmed in with many regulations, and told how to get through their four years of college. Actual examination of university life, in many Institutions, reveals that higher education does little toward developing initiative and "individualism" in the youth of our country. University adminlstra' tlons provide for all emergencies which confront him during his undergraduate years. There is little in centive, briefly, for students to stand on their own feet. While progressive institutions have lessened the administrative grip on student life, on and off the campus, many of them have preserved regulations that have long outlived their usefulness. Now if Scott H. Goodnight, dean of men at the University of Wisconsin, had his way about it, the modern university would do away with all the traditional beliefs that university students must be paternally protected by the administration. Said he recently: "I am not all sure that we would not be much better off In our colleges if we scrapped a large part of our machinery, raised the pass mark to something approaching a high C and awarded a flat failure to each and every performance below that tasndard," the dean said in outlining his new form ula for the handling or what he calls "playboys." "Let the play-boy accumulate a nice collection of failures for two or three semesters, and let the realization percolate through to father and mother that sonny boy had spent a couple of thousand dol lars without making any perceptible progress toward a degree, and I don't believe the college would have much to do about it. "But I suppose it is useless to hope for anything af that sort. We appear Inevitably committed to the molly-coddling and spoon-feeding program. 'There is too much advising and counselling, too many intelligence tests, executive committees scholastic chasrmen, junior and senior deans. "We do too much for our students. I believe they would get a better discipline and attain a bet ter training if we weren't so constantly on the alert to protect them from their own mistakes. "We carry paternalism to too great lengths. And the discouraging factor is that the further we go the more is expected of us and the more we are blamed for what we don't accomplish." The Student Pulse Brief, conclte, contributions pertinent to matter! of ttudent life and the university are welcomed by thit department, under the usual restrictions of sound newspaper practice, which excludes all libelous mat ter and personal attacks. Letters accepted do not necessarily Indicate the editorial policy of this paper. confession of stupidity. If a student Is content to make the best fraternity, the best managerships and poncy his way into Phi Beta Kappa, can we do more than shrug? He is all around us here at Syracuse and on every other campus. In our experience, two professors out of every three encourage Individual work are surprised and delighted to find individual thinking In their stu ents. Few professors, of our acquaintance, are any longer awed or Impressed bjy a show of encyclopedic factual knowledge. Formalized education can kill individual think ing and does produce an artificial mentality, as Mr, Shaw charges. But we believe it produces artificial mentality where there was none at all. Individual thinkers, worthy of their salt, survive four years of college training. While the memorlzers cop the Phi Beta averages, they come out with the machin ery necessary for individual thinking. Syracuse Daily Orange. Rushing Fee for Prospective Pledges. i Senior Gift Again. TO THE EDITOR: June 4 nearly a thousand Nebraska students will get sheepskins signifying that they have more or less satisfactorily finished a certain number of requirements, courses, etc. and are entitled to leave the University with a degree. All well and good for some people, but just where does the much talked of Alma Mater come In? What does she do year after year when her prodiges ieave nothing by which she can remember them ? In years past it was customary for the grad uating class to present the school with some gift. Then something happened to this worthwhile tradi tion. It probably got lost under piles cf ether col lege "stuff." A Senior in the Nebraskan last week sueeested that now would be a good time to revive the cus tom. Why shouldn't the class of 1934 do something for the school from which they received their "learn ing." I would like to endorse the suggestion and urge that senior executives take some sort of action on the matter. Seniors spend money tor degrees and diplomas every spring and no one ever knows what happens to it. Does any one really know what does become of all the "cash" which is turned In. Why couldn't some of this money be put where students would see It; buy improvements for buildings, add artistic touches to the campus. It's a good idea and a good time to get busy. ANOTHER SENIOR. Contemporary Comment Watchdog Shuic Speaks His Piece. George Bernard Shaw, bewhiskered watchdog of the intellectuals, it up and at them again. This time In "Don't Go to University," he has taken for malized education by the trouser scat for a eood old Shavian shaking. "I think all the universities in the world should be razed and salt thrown on the sites where they stood," he has barked in his most recent article. But Shaw, refuser of titles, is not so drastic and pedantically dumb as some people conclude after seeing his dramatic overstatements, lill'i . . c - ucu jfoui proiessors give you racto you should say to yourselves: 'Nothing of this is worth while being remembered.' Like the ragpicker dig ging in the dust bins of history, you should ap praise what you find, keep the good and leave the rest "Then you will be cultivated men. You will carry about with you a few facta which are really worth while being remembered. The individual who stuffs his memory with the things he should really try to forget easily wins the highest . university honors. But thi best thing we can do with him is to burn him ea quickly as possible." As usual, Mr. Shaw makes a startling general ization and then digs down to the bed rock of In dividual failures. Mr. Shaw's condemnaUon of the crammer, is given substance In this month's Issue of the American Spectator where "I Am a Phi Beta Kappa" recounts the experiences of a "man about the campus." Intended as a philliplc against the university educational system, it turns out to be a A definite step toward Improving rushing of students by fraternities was taken by the lnterfra- ternity council of the University of Michigan with a proposal to assess a fee to all entering students wishing to be rushed at their recent meeting. The motion which was presented by the finan cial committee read as follows: "All entering stu dents who wished to be rushed by a general frater nity shall register and pay a 50 cent fee upon ar riving in Ann Arbor.' The evident purpose of the measure is to pre vent men from eating free meals from several houses under the guise of being interested in the house. Two very apparent results are evident on the face of the motion. In the first place, those fresh men not wishing to join a fraternity will not pay the 50c, and secondly, this money collected from the others will aid the fraternities themselves. A newspaper article on the matter states, that a larger rushing fee had been considered for some time, but the committee later reasoned that such a fee would be Impractical and discouraging to fresh men. A rushing fee here seems a very good idea. Too many examples of spongers attending meals contin ually from one house to another have shown the need for some protection from it. A rushing fee would very quickly eliminate those who should be eliminated. It would be interesting to try such a plan here. Michigan State News. Ag College By Carlyle Hodgkin Students and Elections. Thursday was to be election day on Ag campus but it has new developed that Thursday is not to be election day. Election day will be next Tuesday. Vernon Filley, Ag executive board president, said Tuesday night that too few had filed for some of the offices to justify the election. Perhaps the election had not been sufficiently advertised. At any rate Filley said he intends to see to it that before next Tuesday the election is sufficiently adver tised. The deadline for filing has been set at noon Saturday. For Coll-Agri-Fun and Ag club the filings were almost nil. One name appeared for each effiee in Ag club. For some of the Coll-Agri-Fun offices, no names appeared at all. Not so, however, with the filings for member ship on the 1934-5 Farmers' fair board. The filings for that organization are all in the dean's office. The names are there ready to go on the ballot. And the choice students make next Tuesday when they pick the new board determines largely the success next year of the biggest student activity in the uni versity. Six students are to be elected to Farmers' fair board three men and three women. Three women who were members ot the junior board, Florence Buxman, Catherine Agnew and Lcona Gcigcr, have filed. That means that there is at present no com petition for the women's positions on the board. Let the women put on their thinking caps. If there are better I mean more capable women on the campus, let their names be written on election day. Four men's names are now filed for the board. They are Richard Jackson, Walter Roller, Charles Rochford and Louis Schick. That means that there is competition. And one of the four is to be elected manager. The position of manager is the office that is vital. Consider what a successful Farmers' fair manager must be able to do and what qualities he must have. lie must, first of all, be able and willing to do a whale of a lot of hard work. No tenderling is fitted for that job. He has to be able to take petty disappointments on the chin and come back harder than ever. He must have a standing in school such that he can afford to take a great deal of time away from his studies that semester to de vote to the fair. The Farmers' fair manager must be able to appear at all sorts of gatherings rallies, clubs, conventions, what net and make convincing sales talks. And and this is probably the most impor tant qualification of all he must be able to win and hold the respect, confidence and co-operation of all the students in the college. Admittedly this is something of a heavy order. But it is the necessary order nevertheless. The suc cess of next year's fair depends greatly on whether the students weigh these qualities In the candidates when they write in the name of the new manager of their ballots next Tuesday. The qualifications to consider when the three men for the board and the one for manager are selected are the things that are relevant, the things that have a bearing on their capacity to handle the Job. Things that are not relevant to tho fair, that have no bearing on the man's capacity to handle the job, have no place In the voter's consideration when he decides how to mark his ballot. Relative to the 1934 fair, these four men have done these things: Jackson electricians committee, assisted with wiring and operating of lights tor the pageant and other events of the fair; Walter Moller co-director with a homo economics student of one of the episodes in the pageant; Charles Rochford member of Junior board and general chairman of agricultural exhibits; Louis Schick member of the junior board and assistant director of the pa geant. The thing that is relevant Is the man's ability to handle the job. Nothing elso Is relevant. Noth ing else matters. Let every college student make his choice of the candidates on tho basis of actual qualifications and then on election day next Tues day write that decision onto his ballot. The Dean's Party. No longer news but nonetheless noteworthy la the party Dean and Mrs. Burr gave for a number of Ag college students one evening last week. About forty students were there, ofifcers of tho various camDua organizations. Faculty people there In cluded Chancellor and Mrs. Burnett, Miss Margaret Fcddc, Prof, and Mrs. H. J. Cramlich, and Dr. and Mrs. F. D. Kelm. The early part of the evening was devoted to visiting and to a dinner that everyone described as "most excellent" Following the dinner came a treat that drew many a gasp of admiration and astonishment. It was a scries of lantern slides in color shown by A. P. Hufnagle, university photog rapher. The pictures were shown in a new recreation room in the basement of tho dean's home. Hufnagle had taken them himself and explained the color affects and photographic technique as he went along. Among the pictures was one of the Chan' cellor at his desk reviewing a new university bulle ton. Another was of Dean Burr standing in front of the ag Cullege experiment station building. The photographer said that picture had been taken that afternoon only two or three hours before the time it was shown. The slides included a series of buildings on the city and ag college campuses and a series of pic tures of the state capitol. There were various un usual studies of parts inside the big building, and some piotures from outside taken at different sea sons and with different light effects. Two pictures at the end of tho series drew the most favorable applause. One was the dome of the capitol taken from 14th street just at sunset with a telescope lense. The otner taKen trom a point east of the city, was a picture of a flaming sunset with tower of the capitol in the foreground. Nearly everyone at the gathering declared they had never before seen such color work. The gathering at Dean Burr's home will be remembered by the students longer than they re member most of the all-important things they learn in their classes. Many will remember it as one of the most enjoyable and worthwhile experiences of their college career. One hears continuously on Ag campus that there should be more gatherings to bring students and faculty together, that there should be mere real social activities, the kind of thing where folks get acquu.nted. Dean Burr's party was certainly that sort of thing. Perhaps, if it is true that thpro should be more of that sort of thing, it would not be so difficult to arrange. But faculty members' homes are not large enough for gatherings of large numbers of students. And dinners are expensive. This column several months ago suggested the establishment of an AG COLLEGE NIGHT, a gath ering one evening each month in the activities building. Such a gathering would take the place of some of the convocations. The spirit would be democratic, everyone would meet and visit together on common grounds. It would fill the need for real social gatherings on the campus. It could be co sponsored by student and faculty organizations, That suggestion when it was made drew no comment. It might still be worth consideration. A New Event. Thursday night begins another "annual" Judg ing contest on Ag campus. It is the products con test being sponsored by members of this year's products judging team with Dr. P. A. Downs' as sistance. There are too many "annual" affairs on the campus now, too many because if there is always an annual coming, no one has time to think up anything new. But every other judging organiza tion on the campus sponsors an annual contest for the students, so there is no just reason why the dairy products should not do the same thing. And since they are doing it, here's hoping them success. The contest is open to both men and women. That should help to make it interesting. It offers some advance training in products Judging and there Is a very good reason why a number of students should grab the opportunity for that train ing. The reason is this: membership on the products teams means just as worthwhile a trip as does membership on any other team. Last year the team went to Chicago. The year before to Detroit, before that to Atlantic City, New Jersey, and the year before that to Cleveland. A real trip goes with membership on the pro ducts team, and usually there are not as many men competing for that trip as there are on most of the other teams. Therein lies an opportunity. a a - National Secretary Speaker At Banquet Following Initiation. Alpha Kappa Psl, professional btzad fraternity will celebrate Its thirtieth national and twentieth lo cal anniversary Thursday, May 17, when newly pleged men will be in itiated into the group. The ceremonies will be followed by a banquet In the Chinese suite at the Hotel Cornhusker, Dwight Bedell, national secretary, will be the main speaker and Rex demons will act as toastmaster. Short talks will be given by Dean LeRosslgnol and President-elect William LSpomer. Men who were recently pledged are: Raymond Elliott, Omaha; James W. Peery, Omaha; John Hallett, Lincoln; F. W. Christen sen, Hartington; John L. Kos, Lin coln; Delno Slagernon, Randolph; W. L. Sunderman, Lincoln; Henry Whltaker, St. Joseph, Mo.; Frank Gallup, Aids; Ross Martin, Lin coln; John Campbell, Lincoln; Robert Ely, Omaha, and Gerald Myers, Fremont. Barefoot Children May Pick Up Germs Says Ioica Teacher AMES, Iowa, May 14 Barefoot children in the city run consider able risk of picking up disease germs off walks, pavements and much-trodden grass plots, Mrs. Lulu R. Lancaster, head of the Child Development Department at Iowa State College, said today. Small bruises or cuts on the child's feet make going barefoot a dangerous business, she said, since germs or animal organisms can so easily enter the child's body through the cut. Children of less than 5 years have such tender, easily broken skin that well-made sandals and ankle socks are much safer for them than bare feet, Mrs. Lancas ter said. After the child grows older his skin toughens a little, and going barefoot is not then bo likely to result in broken skin. Going without shoes Is a good foot-strengthener, however, Mrs. Lancaster said, and if a clean, grassy plot, over which no stock has been allowed to graze, or not too many people walk, is available, going barefoot may be approved. Pi Mil Epsilon Inducts New Members Thursday Mu Gamma chapter of Mu Phi Epsilon, national honorary musical sorority, will hold initiation cere monies for the new members Doro thy Delphs and Inez Dovel, at the Alpha XI Delta house, Thursday, May 17, at 7 o'clock. Following the Initiation will be a short business meeting and later a musical program will be presented Our arw Bert-a-Tar ratrs art yea Mve aartr twtoe as mack for tha same Bieary. New ears are bring aodri U our Iter. Thanks for the buttons yea bare threa as this rear. MOTOR OUT COMPANY ilte "T". Always Opra. by Ruth Burkhoder, Elizabeth Horrigan, Henrietta Sanderson and Garnet Mayhew. Put Them Away Clean Beware of Moths Have your winter garments cleaned. Protect them from Coats Overcoats Tuxedos We will store them for you for a very small charge. Modern Cleaners Soukup 4V Westover Call F2377 ALPHA KAPPA PSI 10 OFFICIAL BULLETIN Barb Council. Barb Council will meet Wednes day at 5 o'clock in Social Science room 105. Plans for next year's parties will be completed and ar rangements for the annual Barb council picnic will be completed. May 20 is the date set for this affair. Young Democrats. Student Democratic club will meet jointly with the Lancaster county Young Democratic club Wednesday, May 16 at 8 p. m. to hear Prof. Karl M. Arndt speak on silver as a basis for money. Scandinavian Club. There will be a Scandinavian club luncheon at the Grand hotel Wednesday noon. Sigma XI. All members of Sigma XI who wish to make reservations for the annual Initiation banquet to be held Wednesday at 1 o'clock at the Cornhusker hotel may do so by calling 72, two rings. Corn Cobt. Corn Cobs will hold initiation and business meeting Wednesday evening at 7:30 at the Delta Sigma Lambda house. All members must be present. Y. M. C. A.-Y. W. C. A. Cabinets of the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. will hold a joint cicnlc Wednesday evening at 6 o'clock in Pioneer park. STUDENT COUNCIL. Student oounril will mwl WH. nesday afternoon at 5 o'clock in room 10 U. hall. As it is the last meeting of the vear all members must be present. Tanksterettes. Tanksterettes meeting, for elec tion of officers, will be held in the W. A. A. room of the Armory Wed nesday, May 16, at 12 o'clock. Student Interviews. G. T. Gobson, personnel director of Gamble-Skogmo, Inc., is to be on the campus Thursday to inter, view all students Interested in merchandising. All seniors and graduates are to schedule appoint ments in Prof. Bullock's oriice, bo cial Science, 306. SWIMMING HOURS. Women's recreational hours for the swimming pool during final exam week have been changed. The pool will be open for women on Monday, Wednesday, and Fri dav from 4:00 to 5:00 and Satur days from 1:30 to 3:30. The entire Louisiana State uni versity campus at Baton Rouge was reconstructed in 1925 and now b'ja.sts one of the most modern campuses in the United States. mat? s . :.:: FINEST ' CADINS v 2 at tourist class rates? i 5 - J :: . . . 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