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Supreme Court
Considers Drill.
THURSDAY the United States Supreme; Court
started consideration of R. O. T. C drill ( focus
tag Its attention On a case brought up from the
University of California, Los Angeles branch, 'where
a student backed by some powerful legal counsel,
1s .seeking to be exempted, and also alms to obtain
a final, conclusive decision ss to -whether Land
Grant colleges are required to offer compulsory
drill to order to receive full federal grants.
Questions to be decided by the Supreme Court
in the near future are:
1. Can a state law (in this case, compulsory
military training) supersede the rights and immuni
ties guaranteed citizens under the federal constitu
tion? 8. Can a student In a tax-supported institution
be compelled to participate in military Service?
3. Must a school, if it Is to receive a full fed
eral quota of funds under the land grant provisions
of the Morrill Act, have compulsory military drill?
Decisions of a former Attorney General, Sec
retary of War, and Secretary of Interior have stated
to the effect that there is no compulsory require
ment under the Land Grant clauses of the Morrill
Act, nor does the National "Defense Act In any way
alter the situation.
In Thursday's session of the Supreme Court
oral discussion among the justices on the R. O. T. C.
question took place. Justices Butler and Van De
vanter were of the opinion, agreeing -with former
Attorney General Mitchell, that colleges and uni
versities receiving federal funds under the Land
Grant provisions of the, Morrill Act are not re
quired to give compulsory drill. The only require
ment is that those schools offer a course in military
tactics. No diminution of federal gunds would re
ault from (the substitution of optional drill for the
compulsory training, according to Mitchell's state
ment Justice McReynolds declared Thursday that the
Board of Regents at U. C. L. A. has the right to
decide, and that students who wish to attend the
school must sblde in their action by the decision of
that governing body. The latter, however, didn't
offer his ideas as to whether the national law re
quires schools to include compulsory drill in their
curricula In order that they may receive the full
Land Grant government quota of funds.
Observers, among whom are thousands of
American citizens, will be anxiously awaiting the
imminent decision to be offered by the United
States Supreme Court.
Meanwhile students of colleges and universities
thruout the nation are not idle. Student peace
groups have sprung up In virtually all of such insti
tutions of the contry. During the past year organi
sation on a national scale has been developing at a
good rate. Tn a short time there will be a network
of college peace action committees designed to work
thr political channels in an attempt to establish
some sort of peace machinery in our national gov
ernment In several states, notably Kansas in this
section, adults have become Interested in the sub
ject of peace, and are Joining In the youth move
ment, aimed in that direction.
. In the Wednesday Nebraskan announcement
was made of the establishment of a local Student
peace Action committee that is affiliated with the
regional organization. The regional group includes
colleges and universities in Nebraska, Kansas, and
Colorado. This regional organization is closely con
nected with a national network.
The. aim to eliminate compulsory military drill
from the numerous campuses where It exists la list
ed under local objectives. It Is an important part
of the program but is far from being the point of
greatest emphasis.
When a peace group begins to consider na
tional objectives it is at least thinking of getting at
the heart of the matter. When it plans to work
thru channels that already exist, namely political
systems, It is adopting a realistic attitude, orm
needed and sadly lacking In the past. Organization
of peace sentiment and action by precincts has been
developing rapidly In several sections of our neigh
bor state, Kansas, and possibilities of such develop
ment are open here in Nebraska
When a group of students bent on obtaining
some kind of basis for future peace considers such
questions as those surrounding this nation's rela
tions with the League of Nations, World Court
munitions manufacturing, arms embargo, partiality
to cert" In races, naval armament and non-aggression
pacts It is getting at the core of the matter.
Militarists and pacifists agree that there should
peace. They differ on the point of how that
peace is to be assured.
The former group declares that preparedness
insures peace. Prepardeness hasn't Insured peace at
any time In the 6.000 years, more or less, of the
world's civilized history. It seems that other meth
ods should be tried for a change. For hundreds of
years samples of preparedness have been distributed,
h ihnr have all resulted in headachea
Pacifists are incliied to aspire for International
arbitration, and enforcement of rules drawn up th
these sessions by a force of International police.
Such a system 1s wholly possible under the League
of Nations, but it wouldn't be Very successful In Its
work unless there were unanimous membership of
the world's nations in that body.
There is the general misapprehension extant
that pacifists are all Reds, waving flags of that
color, and toting bombs hither and thither. As a
general rule pacifists are liberals. That is why they
are paciTUits. They deplore the blindness of that
sort of patriotism demanded of people today. Most
student pacifists are patriotic Citizens, but in addi
tion to that they are progressive citisens, aware of
defects and anxious to correct them.
Pacifists usually have no axes to grind, being
impelled to action by their own convictions based
on knowledge of facts. The peace program is be
coming more realistic every day, ideals are being
mixed with practical programs, and in years to
come pacifists Will discharge their duty to this
country by building a peace system. It 1s a pity
that in the past so many fine young men have been
led to death fighting for a cause that never has
been won.
STUDENT PULSE
Brief, concise contributions -pertinent to matter of
student life and the university are welcomed by this
department, under the usual restriction of sound newH
puper practice, which excludes all llbeloua matter and.
personal attacks. Letters must be sla-ned, but names
will be withheld from publication la so desired.
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A Mistake!
TO THE ED'TOR:
A few cheers for your stand against compul
sory drill, Mr. Editor! I found it even more inter
esting than the announcement by the guiltless men's
honorary that we need a new fight song. I don't
mean to deride the action of the Innocents. If I had
any talent I would join the contest But it gives
me great pleasure to see a man 1n your position
showing enough spunk to oppose compulsory drill.
The War Department is in a place of too great
influence on our campus. It is certainly true that
it is one course that should net be compulsory in a
liberal school curriculum. It is not my opinion that
the men over in that department are a hunch of
devils but to hear some people one would think they
held a Sunday Schol class which anybody who has
taken the course will readily know is a false con
ception. Peace sentiment is growing in this country. Ot
course there are still those gleam followers who say
that "war will always be." And that attitude is
reflected yet by many reactionaries in high places.
It is unfortunate that the Regents made their pro
nouncement regarding drill but Nebraskans still
hav their representatives in the legislature.
Idealism is certainly needed in this time ot
crisis. Not emotionalism but careful thinking and
analysis rather than blind following of tradition.
War is one of the big evils in modern society. It
swells the pocket books of a few hut federal taxes
are largely payments for past wars or appropria
tions for future ones. The R. O. T. C. alone is more
expense than the whole State department with its
foreign ministries. The cost of the last war would
more than pay for a modern home for every "civi
lized" family in Europe, America, and South Amer
ica, hut now we read of Hungarian miners burying
themselves alive in an attempt to get $8.00 a week
instead of (2.00.
Our boys display a great deal of pride dressed
up in their brown uniforms, but I could develop lit
tle enthusiasm in sticking one of those highly pol
ished sabres in the guts of any one, even if he were
a Chink or a Jap or an Eyetallan or Roosian.
To those Who Just can't conceive of any one
having such ideas I suggest that they corner any
conservative professor in the Poly Science or His
tory departments and ask "What do you think of
the R. O. T. C. as a part of the liberal arts college' ?"
If he is not afraid of his own shadow he may answer
you specifically. No need to question an ethics
professor.
I am not much of a hero worshiper, but George
Washington, the father of our country, Thomas Jef
ferson and Abraham Lincoln, the founders respec
tively of the Democratic and Republican parties (as
they now aren't) are revered in the minds of men,
not because they believed that the evils of their
fathers would live after them, but because they felt
as Ernest Tucker, our Commencement speaker of
three years ago does, that "what must be done, can
be done."
So hooray for you Mr. Editor, on your stand.
And hooray for Mr. Norrls, Mr. Borah, Mr. Nye
and Others who say it was all a mistake and that
the profits must be taken from war!
R. H.
Realistic
Idealism.
TO THE EDlTO:
Youth is idealistic! Such was the platitude that
sounded the keynote of the recent Young Democrat's
meeting on the campus. (October 15.) Both the
local director of the young democrats and the par
ticular candidate present enunciated this. Each were
equally content that it be so; that It remain so. The
Inference: that the adults, the regulars were the
practical politicians. It was for youth to busy itself
with theory.
To be specific, when the congressional candidate
present was asked bis stand on matters affecting
foreign policy it was at once to the effect that
youth's viewpoint was a theoretical one and in so
far as being able to state his position on even so
definite a matter as to the adherence to the World
Court by the United States which will be considered
In" January he was hesitant with the fear that in
tervening conditions might alter circumstances.
Could it be that intervening Interests might alter
cases? It also seems clear that the would-be-congressman's
analysis of theory Is a bit superficial.
Perhaps there is no definite connection between
theory and practice yet it occurs to me that the
Ideals of peaon and actual life are too interwoven to
be separated by wistful talk of theory on the one
hand and actuality on the other which from the ac
cepted point of view would be death for the same
idealistic youth.
No, youth is realistically idealistic and as such
demands not the unposslb alignment with the
above-described practical politician. O. Mo.
TANGLED YARNS
BY
O. W. D.
With the tang of autumn becoming more ap
parent as October rolls by, we feel that we can sym
pathise with the rudlsts who held a National con
vention recently at Akron, Ohio. It seems, so the
story goes, 'that the delegates took a brief dip in a
nearby brook, sans wearing apparel, but decided
that it was too cold to sit around all day in the raw
to listen to the customary convention speeches.
Consequently, th armed guards patrolling the spot
had a dull afternoon.
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It is understood that not so long ago Ma West
wired Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau ask
ing if the Indian who posed for the profile on the
penny is still alive. ' It has no special significance,
tout yet one cannot help but wonder why.
It might be of interest to Nebraska students to
know that in a survey of ten larger universities in
the tniddlewest that the Cornhusker institution is
sixth in enrollment. It ranked fourth In gain over
IMS. Minnesota ranked first with an enrollment
of more than 11,000 with Ohio State and Illinois
both exceeding th 10,000 mark. However, contrary
to popular belief, Nebraska Is larger than ither
Northwestern or Chicago.
In the east New York has nearly 24,000 stu
dents compared to 16,000 plus for Columbia. Prince
ton has tout slightly over 5,000; Yale toetter than
5,000 and Harvard nearly 8,000. California is high
in the west with 11,731.
While out here in th mlddlewest re any
thing tout marine conscious, yet it might be nice to
know thst Lloyd's Register of Shipping, the first
and last, word on all vessels weighing over 100 tons,
has successfully passed their 100th birthday. While
the original Edward Lloyd died in 1713, after start
ing the bulletins in 1689 for the convenience of his
coffee house patrons, and which later gave way to
the Underwriters Register, the present register has
been a "Bible'k to shippers since 1834. The Lloyd's
Register of Shipping, while having no legal connec
tion with the great Lloyd's of Insurance fame, they
are closely toound together in tradition, much of the
latter insurance toeing written on marine risks.
However, the insurance firm win also gladly insure
a movie star's ankle; a man against th possibility
of going bald, (as they did In the case of one Lon
doner) and against laying violent hands on your
mother-in-law. However, they are forbidden by
charter to write life insurance. One of the few
risks that Ihfcy have refused to take is the possi
bility that Adolf Hitler might be assassinated, which
must be a source of endless comfort to the German
Dictator.
The fraternity population of Yale has taken a
decided drop, Alpha Delta Phi closing Up entirely,
and Psi Upsilon resigning their national charter to
toecome a local organization. It is with some awe
that one notices that the Alpha Delts house cost tout
$175,000, and the Psi U house only $178,000, which
in the middle west might toe knewn as quite a few
potatoes, to ape Damon Runyan. However, not so
much there, as Chi Psi finished their house in the
tooom days for a cost of $2lO,000. The Alpha Sigs,
however, limited their's to $110,000. Incidentally
the Dekes gave notice that they are still on the
Yale campus, and in good shape.
There has been some tendency of late to point
out that college students know little concerning na
tional figures, some polls being taken in small
schools with ludicrous results. Here are a few
names that have not toeen seen of late on the front
pages, and also something to scratch your head
about to identify: James Walker, Aimee Semple
McPherson, Arthur Mullen, Newton Baker, Einstein,
Franz von Papen, Ramsay McDonald, Francis Per
kins, Albert Fall, Litvinoff, Suzanne Lenglen, Glen
na Collett, "Babe" Didricksoh, Ellsworth Vines,
Walter Hagen, "Lefty" Grove, Oscar DePriest, and
Louis Howe.
Some that grace the headlines are: Samuel In
still, Donald Rlchburg, Richard Bruno Hauptmann,
Robert Moses, Gordon Cochrane, Robert Simmons,
Jerome Dean, Harold Ickes, Edward Burke, Henry
Wallace, Hugh Johnson, Robert Hutchlns, Rex Tug
well, Henry P. Fletcher, and a few others. How
many of both groups can you Identify?
Just to prove that this depression idea must be
something of a myth, (in some mindei one can read
with interest, and no little envy about a poor little
French girl who Insists on singing popular songs
with a curious blue intonation and for her trouble
draws a measly $6,000 a week from one source, and
more than $3,000 per from snot". Wonder If this
Inspiration will cause a new crop of "blues" ringers-
to spring up?
AG COLUMN
By
DICK JACKSON AND GORDON H0BERT.
As school goes into full swing some men turn
their extra time to social activities. Some turn to
athletics. Their abilities and great deeds are given
notice in the press and they are hearlded ss heroes.
Other students go quietly about their studies and
prepare themselves for contests contests which are
given little publicity and the winners go unnoticed.
A good many men at Ag College are preparing
themselves along several lines. They are studying
diligently to toetter their facilities. The winning of
a contest is only a milestone to success.
Professor Downs and his dairy products team
slipped away to the National Products Exposition at
Cleveland, O., With very few people knowing about
their going. The men making th trip are Oliver
Shields, Paul Swanson, Lyle Rolfson, and Albert
Pearl. Their contest Is toeing held this week.
"Doc" Downs has been coaching the dairy prod
utcs team for a good many years. To his credit go
a great many winnings. His teams have ranked
high 1n th competition. Within the last four years
three $750 research scholarships have toeen won by
members of his teams. Perry Meridth was the last
winner Of the scholarship.
The crops team will leave Friday for Kansas
City to attend the American Royal Livestock and
Grain Show. The team this year win toe composed
of Roland Weibel, Roland Nelson. Bob Cushing, Ray
Pearson, and Jim Westrich, In the absence of Pro
fessor Frolick, Elmer Heyne and Phillip Henderson
have toeen doing the coaching. The crops team usu
ally ranks near the top of the list. Last year the
team set a record toy winning first at tooth Kansas
City and Chicago. Ray Kinch set a new record as
an individual and the team also set a new high rec
ord on possible points.
Another team leaving Friday for Kansas City 1
the livestock judging team .coached toy Professor
Alexander. The members of the team are Walter
Larson, Lyman FoWler, Owen Rlst Neil Hall, and
Louis Schick.
The men on these teams have spent many houffe
in preparation. Although the putoliclty is small the
returns are great The trips to various parts of the
country are well worth while. A good many scholar
ships, cups, medals, and ribbons make the prizes
desirable. The practical experience and knowledge
are oeyond measure. They are, useful throughout
one's lifetime.
Ag College's Annual Fall Fun Fest is next week.
The Farmers Formal will toe attended "by men in
overalls and women in gingham dresses.
Last year in order to reach the dance floor one
had to crawl over hales of hay to the entrance roof
and then go through a tunnel of hay on hands and
knees. This year from all reports the scheme is
better yet The decorations committee guarantees
you'll like dancing in the "hay loft" in the Activ
ities Building. Other entertainment includes a floor
show and the crowning of the Farmers Formal
Queen. Tickets go on sale this week.
Any Senior woman in Ag College is eligible for
Farmers Formal Queen. Women aspiring for the
title must file toefore 5 o'clock on Wednesday, Octo
ber 24 in Dean Burr's office. The men who attend
the Formal will vote for the woman of his choice.
College may seem all studies to a person who
first enters college. But there are many other things
which will aid greatly in rounding out our personal
ity. The Freshman Council is held each week for
the men of the campus. Although cRlled the Fresh
man Council the meetings are open to all men. The
officers this year are Don Radcnbough, president;
Morris Peterson, vice president, and Howard Peter
son, secretary-treasurer. Meetings ae held each
Thursday evening from 7 to 8 In Ag Hall.
Tomorrow night Professor Rosenquist will be
the speaker and his topic will be "Evolution and
Horse Sense." An open discussion will follow. Every
msn in A g College Hhould attend.
BY CHANCE.
OFFICIAL
BULLETIN
Staff Meetings.
Hours for the Y. W. C. A. staff
meetings are as follows: Ag president-
5 o'clock Monday, Helen
Lutz; Church relations, 5 Wednes
day, Mary E. Hendricks; Confer
ence, 5 Friday, Breta reterson;
Finance, 4 Monday, Marjorie Ehos
tak; International, 4 Monday, Lor
raine Hitchcock: Membership, S
Wednesday, Arlene Bore; Nebras
ka in China, 4 Thursday, Laura
McAllister; Posters, 5 Wednesday,
Ruth Allen; Program and Office,
4 Tuesday, Jean Humphrey; Proj
ect, 5 Thursday, Theodora Lohr-
man: Publicity,
othy Gathers.
8 Thursday, Dor-
Corn Cobs.
Corn Cobs will meet In uniform
Friday at 12 noon at the campus
studio for their group Cornhusker
plteure.
Cornhusker.
Copies of the 1934 Cornhusker
are available at the Cornhusker
office in the basement of Univer
sity hall. These copies were or
dered last spring, and the orders
cancelled.
Block and Bridle Club
Entertains at Ag Mixer
Block and Bridle club will spon
sor this year's second ag mixer,
the highlight of this week end's
ag college affairs, Friday, Oct. 20.
FEATURING
Chick Ashlock's
Syncopated Music Makers
AT
Lincoln's
Newl and Classy!
House of Entertainntent
NO COVER CHARGE
Special Attraction
SUNDAY NIGHT
with
BUDDY PAUL
8- NEW AND NOVEL ACTS 8
Remerubw the Place
Duf fy's Tavern
at the Student Activities "building.
Music for the dunce will "be fur
nished by Lyle De Moss and his
eight piece orchestra. Students of
both campuses may attend but
must show their identification
cards.
Any profits from the affair will
be used by the Block and Bridle
club for the support of the Judg
ing teams, stated Howard White,
president of Block and Bridle.
NOW THAT YOU all know the
names of the cast members in the
new show, "Her Master's Voice," it
may toe cf interest to know some
things about their "pasts." Th
first player was run down while
playing with Pet Sumption's dog,
"Whiskers," recently In the direc
tor's office. She Is Leila Irwin, a
senior who has seen experience In
the Studio Theater and Children's
Theater, but who will make her
debut as a University Player in the
role of "Mrs. Msrtin." This role
is a character part and is that
of the mother of Queens Farrar,
the opera singer Helen Elizabeth
Lawrence). Among the roles Miss
Trwin has had In the Children's
Theater were In "Treasure Island,"
which she helped direct "Snow
White and the Seven Dwarfs," and
numerous others. The new charac
ter actress hails from Kearney,
where she was in the Junior and
senior class plavs. She adores
horseback riding, swimming, red
and all other vivid colors, George
Arliss, Norma Shearer, Eva Le
Gallienne, Chinese dishes, Pete
Sumption's log, and said of the role
she will portray. "It's a splendid
part and I am most happy to have
been chosen to play the part of
'Mrs. Martin'."
In "Her Master's Voice." two
sets will be used. The first one is
a middle class living room and din
ing room, and the second set, that
of a sleeping porch in an extreme
ly wealthv Hollywood, New Jersey
home. This set carries over Into
the third act Settings are toeing
arranged and made under the di
rection of Don Friedly, scene de
signer and technician; and Don
Buell, supervisor of properties, will
again aid Direction Sumption.
-HER MASTER'S VOICE" toy
Clare Kummer, opened on the
Great White Way on October 2S,
1S3S, and has proven to he the
most outstanding comedy on
Broadway this past season. The
original New York company in
cluded such eminent stage players
ss Laura Hope Crews, Roland
Young Frances Fuller and Elisa
toeth Patterson. Max Gordon was
the producer, and Raymond Sovey
did the settings, with stage effects
toy Worthington Miner. In the re
cent issue of "Stage." the follow
ing quotation appeared. "The plot
doesn't matter at all in this com
edy that ho urines people around
crazily and sets them to working
things out with all of Clare Kum
mer's most plausible illoglc. Rol
and Young, Laura Hope Crews,
Frances Fuller and Elizabeth Pat
tersonn each using his own expert
brand of comedy, finally hring
things to Hollywood, New Jersey
to a happy and hilarious conclus
ion. New Farrar gets his mother-in-law
married, his rich aunt's de
votion, and his wife hack."
The Symphony Concert Ticket
sale campaign has toeen held over
an extra week, and students wish
ing to take advantage of the spe
cial student rate, can purchaes
tickets still at the office of the
school of music the remainder of
this week, or at Schmoller and
Mueller's Music company.
BITS FROM BROADWAY . . .
It seems that Helen Hayes will
definitely not tour "Mary, Queen
of Scots" this fall, so Lincoln will
be devoid of one of its e::nected
major dramatic attractions. Ocor?e
Kauffman and Mcis Har' heve
written many si'?r hits ar "Of
Thee I Sing." arrl their most re
cent "Merrily Wp R :'l Along." The
staping of this nroducMon is on the
same magnitude hf thi.t of "Din
ner at Fight," which Ka"ffmai
staged. Instead of smarting the plot
years back, and bringing It up to
the present time, the plHvwrltes
hHve started with nnd "one
backwards to 1916, when thev were
graduating from college find Plan
ning all the big plays they vnuld
write Hnd all the big things thev
would do1 Critics are of different
opinions concerning the merit of
this play. Some think It too real
istic, so therefore rather borine.
whereas others think it quite
clever and therefore most enter
taining. At any rate, the book
has been published and is on sa'e
here In town, so you can read it
and make your own decision.
trie tkl .
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