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Station A, Lincoln, Nebraska.
OFFICIAL 8TUDENT PUBLICATION
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA
Nil papar la repraaantad for ganaral advartlalng by tha
Nebraska Prest Anoclatlon.
If those aenlor men aee fit to keep out of politics
and let others do the pushing of junior men, they
Will the Student Council, Innocents Society, and
activities community. Because of their positions
they can keep politics as clean as possible (which Is
a sort of dingy grey).
Will the Student Council, Innocents society, and
Mortar Board work together in developing good
points and abolishing bad elements In the current
student political picture? The Nebraskan has of
fered suggestions.
HELEN MONSCH VISITS
HOI EC DEPARTMENT
Head of Foods, Nutrition
Inspects University
Division.
Tkkt papar la repraaantatf far ganaraj
arfVartlalng by tha
Nabraska Praia Aaaealatlan
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EDITORIAL STAFF
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MANAGING EDITORS
0, Lamolne Bible Jack Fischer
h , NEWS EDITORS
f ' Fred Nlcklaa Virginia Selleck
frwln Ryan
Ruth Matschullat Woman'a Editor
Sancha Kilbourne .....Society Editor
Arnold Levi no Sports Editor
BUSINESS STAFF
Richard Schmidt Business Manager
ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGERS
Truman Cberndorff Bob Shellenberg Robert Funk
Give Presidents
Some Duties!
Two Kinds of
Book Rackets.
Decorating bis statements with considerable
sarcasm and vehement berating, E. S., writing In
today's Student Pulse column mourns the fact that
the Second Hand Book Racket should flourish here
on the Nebraska campus, with the students inevit
able victims of the bad practices of dealers.
Early this fall a Student Council committee,
working with a group from the Y. W. C. A. was
formulating plans for the establishment of a student
cooperative second hand book store on the campus.
The Y. W. C. A. has developed a fine Swap Shop
in the Temple building, but with such a small
amount of space, business of the whole student pop
ulatlon can't be handled adequately. Lack of avail
able floor space was the stumbling block responsi
ble for at least a temporary failure by the Student
Council book store committee.
The Second Hand book racket isn't the only de
plorable activity depending on studert book pur
chases for its existence. What about professors who
revise In a few details their books, and then demand
that students purchase new volumes for their
courses? Numerous professors in this nation nros
per on royalties gained from such unethical prac
tices. Income tax records prove this.
Ab for the second hand book racket the Student
Council plans to continue making plans for a coop
erative store on the campus. What about the prac
tices of several faculty members in operating their
own book racket? It is wholly unfair to students,
On a round of visits to the
(United States' most outstanding
Home Economics departments,
Miss Helen Monsch, head of the
Foods and Nutrition department
in the college of Home Economics,
Cornell university, stopped at Ne
braska's department of Home Eco
nomics last week.
Cornell university is the first to
have a College of Home Econom
ics. Miss Monsch enthusiastically
described the new million dollar
building which houses the college,
built through the efforts and in
terest of Mrs. Roosevelt, while the
president was governor of New
York. The most popular course of
fered by the college, she said, Is
on Family Life, others are Tex
tiles, Foods and Nutrition, House
hold Art, Hotel Administration
and Institution Management.
Miss Monsch, who was accom
panied by her sister, Miss Mary
Monsch of Chicago, 111., Is spending
the semester visiting departments
of Home Economics in the United
States.
CDHAWTS
BY CHANCE.
Educators Relieve
Day of 'Specialist'
Searing Expiration
CollfKe News Service.
The dav of the "specialist" in
WITH the annual fall election set for Tuesday,
November 13, campus politicians are hard at it
lining up the factions, attempting to make traitors
out of groups by bringing them from one faction to
the other, and determining who are the activity men
who need just s few more plums before becoming,
as they see it, little gods of the Nebraska campus.
Class presidents will be elected at the polls In
Temple building and on Ag campus less than two
weeks from now. The offices aa they exist now are
nothing but sinecures, the men In them having very
minutely proportioned duties If any at alL Once
upon a. time, when this school was smaller, class or
ganization meant something and worked for the
betterment of the school. Of course there can be
nothing said against class organization as it now
exists, because there is no such thing.
If the Sutdent Council can't find duties for
Junior and senior class heads why doesn't it abolish
the offices? Last year the Junior class president
was, for political reasons, stripped of all his powers.
His one function and job previous to that time was
to head the prom committee, but the political dope
sheet decreed last winter that the Student Council,
tin idols of the campus, should cancel that duty. If
the junior class presidency is nothing but a political
volley ball, why not get rid of the office?
The senior class president, strange to say, has
a few specific duties to perform. He has charge
of making arrangements for senior caps and gowns
before commencement, and is handed some gravy
on senior announcements. It Is also customary that
he appears at the Junior-Senior prom along with the
junior class prexy in presenting the prom girl, but
what does that amount to? There Is, of course, an
opening for some strutting if the men and the beau
tiful member of campus royalty aren't too freight
ened to do anything but stumble.
Student Council, you should restore the prom
chairmanship to the junior class president or abol
ish the office!
As for the senior president, the Dally Nebras
kan editor several weeks ago suggested a possible
job for him, work cut out for only a competent and
energetic leader to handle. To further the Interests
of the University of Nebraska the senior class should
organize, develop as a group some knowledge of the
needs of the university, and then after graduation
each member of the group might be more useful as
aa alumna or alumnus.
At present the Alumni Association is handi
capped by lack of Interest In the institution from
which its members graduated, and to which they
owe a debt. If, before graduation, seniors are fired
with a desire to work as a group in the interests of
this school they will be useful alumni. Senior class
organization under a competent leader would ac
complish this task.
The Nebraskan should like to hear from both
tha Student Council and the Alumni Association In
regard to this suggestion. As for the junior class
presidency, all the Nebraskan has to say is that the
head of that class must be returned the powers
justly his or the office should be abolished.
With the reforms made on the campus last year,
smoky political clouds began to clear away a bit.
There were, however, few changes made that
amounted to a whole lot Interfraternity council
was reorganized so that only Beniors are eligible for
membership, Innocents requirtments were made a
trit more rigid, and some reformation within the
Corn Cob group was accomplished.
Neebraska's Student Council must continue to
emphasize issueea considered of primary importance
by last year's governing body, and also has as a
duty the cleaning away of the mud thrown by the
1933-1934 council.
There must, it sems, eventually be some sort
of organization and control of men's activities.
A. W. S. board has its point system that serves to
exercise powerful control over women's organiza
tions. During the hub-bub last winter over proposed
reorganization of the Student Council, a plan for
establishing of an Associated Men Student's board
was tendered. Nothing, however, came of it.
Mortar Board unanimously passed a resolution
recently declaring itself to be opposed to any and
all women's sorority and barb alliances, and an
nounced that its members would exert all of their
Influence in keeping women's activities much cleaner
than they have been recently.
Innocents society members, because of the in
fluence they have among under-classmen, have much
to do with the political developments on the campus.
CONTEMPORARY
COMMENT
Buy Mitchell
A Muzzle.
Again America's own Brigadier-General Billy
Mittchell has been seeing what he could do, in his
own natve way, to preserve amicable relations with
foreign powers, and especially the little island across
the erroneously named Pacific ocean which jingoistic
newspapers choose to regard as the festering place
for the Asiatic Peril.
Apparently General Mitchell shares the belief
with the omniscient and omnipotent yellow journals,
for the last barrage of the army's "bombastes furio
so" was a quaint little exposition of the effectiveness
of 60 hypothetical U. S. dirigibles upon the geogra
phy of Japan.
Greatly cheered by the prospect of a skyfull of
potential diastrophism flitting gaily about in the Nip
ponese firmament and reassured of the peaceful in
tentions of the United States, dignified Japanese
army officials gravely agreed with the general's
statement, and added that the fleet of lighter-than-air
craft would be quite capable of reducing Japan
to an atoll in even less time than the great general
estimated. Two days was his modest conjecture.
Par more wisely than the press of these great
United States, the Japanese news services played
the story down and gave it little prominence. How
ever, the general reaction upon the populace of
Japan should not be underestimated. Compare, for
example, the reaction of a highly frightened Ameri
can people about a year ago when a Japanese ad
miral, a bit too far in his Sake, had ruminated that
perhaps, after all, the United States would not be a
bad place to begin Asiatic expansion. American pa
pers seized upon the statement, and before dusk of
the same day, jittering old ladies were triple-barring
and bolting their doors and peering furtively out at
the suddenly suspicionable little gardener.
Most Americans have complete faith in the abil
ity of newspapers to start wars, as was so amply
demonstrated in the regrettable Spanish-American
fiasco, and if persons such as the former chief ot
the U. S. Air corps continue to supply the press with
insane and incindiary material, we may blissfully
contemplate a nice quiet game of "You blow me up,
and I'll blow you up," centering in the land of or
ange blossoms and honey.
Current betting has it that General Mitchell is a
1 to 10 chance for somehow, somewhere finishing
a radio broadcast without the Inconvenience of be
ing cut off for indulging In the luxury of overly
emphatic expletives. No more than does this form
of expression characterize all army officers, do the
general's opinions on military matters coincide with
the rest of the official Btaff. It therefore seems re
grettable that one officer Is allowed to mold the
public mind as to military tendencies and policies.
In the light of past experience and the rules of
probability, the general's denunciation of heavier-than-alr
craft and bis passionate, doting love ot
lighter-than-alr ships is utterly unfounded and un
endorsed by the remainder of the army.
The General glibly and coyly suggests 50 dirigi
bles for a two days' tour through the skies of cherry
blossom land. Fifty of these craft could be built
for say $300,000,000, and it shouldn't take so many
years to construct them. Inasmuch as the probable
life of a dirigible In battle territory may now be
placed at something over two hours, even the lay
man can see what a profitable investment the Gen
eral has planned. Picture the surruptitious build
ing of 50 dirigibles. Picture a surprise attack by
those same 50 dirigibles. Picture that and you will
have pictured a purely hypothetical, abstract, and
impossible situation, of which even a philosopher
would be proud.
If the General continues to express his own per
sonal opinions involving the United States in inter
national affairs, and obtains audience and publicity
for his statements by virtue of his uniform, while
at the same time expressing opinions diametrically
opposed to those of the rest of the army, then the
General should be induced by some means to im
prove his ability to complete a radio address and
to cultivate a little less love for seeing his name
attached to sensational statements In the press of
the world.
The Daily Trojan.
Nebraska Trails in Field cf
Mental Hygiene, Says Dr.
Walton; Declares Many of
Mind Ailments Could Be
Cured.
(Continued from Page 1.)
erlea of actual facta, but we art
helpless when the mind U seized
with various epidemics.
-It is my hope that this condi
tion may be improved that we
may go so deeply and jo painstak
ingly into this field that the old
era of mental taboos win gradual
ly disappear and their place will be
taken with a series of intelligent
recourses adaptable to Individual
cases," Professor Walton concludes.
VARSITY THEATER OPENS
FOR EUS1XESS THURSDAY
Planned especially for collegiate
entertainment, the Varsity theater,
formerly the Rialto, was opened to
the public Thursday evening. Open
ing with Grace Moore in the pic
ture "One Mght of Love," the the
ater was attended by a large
crowd.
Liberty magazine says that the
current picture of the Varsity li
one of the most charming and in
telligent muBlca pictures to come
out of Hollywood. The New York
Daily Times says that the picture
is something to cheer about and
that It sets a standard that will be
difficult to top.
America's long industrial era has
reached its twilight.
This novel view was advanced
by many leading educators this
week who strenuously advocated
liberal education as a depression
palliative, in response to a recent
call by President Roosevelt for the
"spirit of the pioneer" in Ameri
can colleges.
Speaking in connection with the
inauguration of John Stewart
Bryan as the nineteenth president
of William and Mary's college,
President Roosevelt stated last
week :
"The necessities of our time de
mand that men avoid being set in
grooves, that they avoid the occu
pational pre-destination of the
older world, and that in the face
of the change and development in
America, they must have a suf
ficiently broad and comprehensive
conception of the world in which
they live to meet its changing
problems with resourcefulness and
practical vision."
The president pointed out the
value to modern life of broad
vision and adaptability as em
ployed by the American pioneer.
"There is in the spirit of a lib
eral education something of the
self-confidence and the adaptabil
ity that is characteristic of our
country," he said. "The pioneer
does not call his life a failure if
he comes to the end of the path.
"He knows that there are others.
and with a sense of direction and
a will to persevere, his life can
go on with confidence into the un
certainties of the future."
A new leadership of men of
"broad liberal education" was seen
this week by Dr. Lewis Perry,
president of Phillips Exeter acad
emy, Andover, Mass., as a replace
ment for the asserted rule of the
technocrats."
"One of the troubles of our edu
cation in the past," he said, "was
the fact that many people learned
to read and to write, but not to
think. That day happily seems to
be dying. During the past fiftv
years we nave seen the emphasis
on specialized, technical training:
technical men have had their day
in power, r or the next fifty years
we shall see control in the hands
of men of broad liberal education."
"A liberal school is one where
the faculty teach not only biology
or French, but life: where the
emphasis of intellectual curiosity
is stressed ratner than that of
passing examinations; where the
students are trusted and are there
fore trustworthy; and where get
ting into a rut in not only a mis
take but a sin!"
Following an old, old custom,
the Delta U. Pledges held their an
nual Hallowen'en Serenade Wed
nesday evening. Not only every so
rority house on the campus was
visited, but the University Players
as well. Each had a Jacko lantern
and Smith Davis was noticeably
dressed up, even to a muffler, and
coyly snapped an electric bulb off
and on to the beat of the music.
Last Wednesday Marguerite
Klinker, pianist, presented the
fourth convocation at the Temple
theater. The three Brams "Inter
mezzos" were lovely ana in no
tlceable contrast to the gayly rap
Id "Capriccio," dramatic "Rhap
sodie" and melodious "Ballads," all
of which were played in the first
group. Chopin s harmonious "im
promptu" and the lilting "Ber
ceuse" were played with sympa
thetic understanding. Schumann'
celebrated "Sonata, Opus. 22'
closed the program. Played in four
parts, the vivacious 'Presto,'
smoothly contrasting "Andantino'
and saucy "Scherzo" and caprici
ous "Rondo" compose the score of
the Sonata. Miss Klinker plays
with feeling, and her interpreta
tions received an enthusiastic re
ception. The fifth convocation next
Wednesday will be given by the
school of music quartet, accom
panied by Ernest Harrison at the
piano.
e
Strangely enough, a picture of a
rather plump cow was nicely situ
ated between the music of "Sweet
and Low" and "Blue Sky Avenue'
on the set of "Her Master's
Voice." When one of the prop men
hastened to remove It, the blond
Miss Lawrence insisted that it be
replaced Immediately, as It was
her inspiration. She said it remind
ed her of someone. As she played
last evening, the plctui a of the cow
evidently remained on the piano
We're wondering who the stranger
is, that Is an Inspiration and yet so
strangely resembles a cow.
COMMERCIAL
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Theologian Interprets New
German Religious
Movement.
Tankstereltes Hold
Tryouts for Members
Approximately fifteen girls tried
out for Tanksterettes, girl's swim
ming club, last night at 8 o'clock In
the coliseum pool. Those seeking
membership in the club are al
lowed a six weeks probation period
before final tests will be given.
Interpreting the new movement
in theology in Germany, Dr. Wil
liam Pauck, well known theologi
an, lectured before Dr. Patterson's
2 o'clock seminar in psychology
yesterday, in Social Science 321.
The basis of Dr. Pauck's speech
the religious theory of Karl
Barth, a Swiss who studied reli
gion in Germany. In his work as
a practical preacher, Barth was
faced with the problem of the
source of authority in religion and
he formulated a sort of revealed
religious truth, not entirely mod
ernistic but not in the least ortho
dox. Dr. Pauck has written a book,
"Karl Barth Prophet of a New
Christianity," and, according to
prominent authorities, he is well
versed on the Barthian movement.
"Altho there are many loopholes
and contradictions in the Barthian
conception of religion, the lecture
was vpry informative, profitable,
and well-presented," was the com
ment of W. H. Werkmeister, as
sistant professor of philosophy.
14 LIST NAMES IN
RHODES CONTEST
AS FILINGS CLOSE
(Continued from Page 1.)
asked to be relieved from the com
mittee post this year.
The scholarships, tenable at Ox
ford university in England in 1935,
are for two, or in some cases three,
years, and amount to 400 pounds a
year.
Scholarship, leadership, high
moral character, and other traits
that go to make up an outstanding
individual serve as the basis for se
lecting the winners.
Nebraska Ball Schedule
to Be Announced Sunday
Announcement of the schedule
for the Nebraska ball tournament,
which will start next week, will be
made Sunday by Mary Reimers,
head of the tournament committee.
Two games a night, beginning at
five o'clock, will be played in the
gym until the meet is ended.
Miss Esther Anderson Gives
Lecture at Banquet
Wednesday Night.
The Girl's Commercial club initi
ated twentv-three girls Wednes
day, Oct. 31, at 6 p. m., at the city
y. w. u. a.
A banquet followed the cere'
monv. at which Miss Esther An
derson, sponsor of the club, gave
an illustrated lecture. Miss An
derson told of her recent tour of
Europe, during which she was pre
sented to the International Geo-
eranhical association.
The following girls were Initi
ated: Cornelia Matteson, KUtn
Kuehl, Ailine Marshall, Dorothy
Chanelow. Alice Crawley, Lllyan
stuhr. Lillian Shine. Ina Marie
Smith, Anne Ferguson, Marion
Sadie, Martha L. Ruyle, Irene
Hahn, Dorothy Larson, Donna Lee,
Mary Ellen Long, Betty Cherny,
Maxine Grnssman, Mary Jean
Bremer, Elma Hcnnies, Virginia
Groom, Mallu Rosen, Francis Fish,
and Fole Laub.
The committee in charge of ar
ranging the banquet were: Eunice
Camp, chairman, catnenne btoa
dart, and Dorothy Veone. Yellow
chrysanthemums were used as dec
oration.
Oldfather Makes Spirited De
fense of Liberal Arts College
Against Attack of Dean
Chase of New York.
(Continued from Page 1.)
sociology.
Dean Chase seems to feel that
the present educational standard
is dissolving originality to the ex
tent that the democratic system is
practically non-functional and bu
reaucracy is increasing in prestige.
The opposite view is expressed
by Dean Oldfather who contends
In my judgment students are
more alert now than ten years ago
and certainly are giving greater
expression to their opinion.
Emphasis on 'How to Live.'
Dean Oldfather agrees, however,
with a recent article by Dean
Chase in the American Mercury
entitled "Doubts about Liberal Colleges."
"It is true," says Dr. Oldfather,
"that the future emphasis in the
liberal arts college will lie in train
ing a man how to live In the world
about him. There will be a lean
ing toward courses which are one
view general rather than depart
mentalied. The whole tendency will
be toward a junior college level
curriculum.
Dean Chase closes his attack by
pointing out what he believes is
the goal which must be enuisioned. I
'The objective to be sought," he
says, "is not a passive people,
oenevoientiy ruled, but a govern
ment set up, criticized, kept in
power or put out of power, by an
informed citizenship.
"Buy Your Cornhusker."
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Lutheran Club.
Lutheran club meets Friday at
8:15 In the Temple. Trof. Joseph
Alexis will speak. All Lutheran
students are invited.
Omlcron Nu Alumni Meet.
The alumni chapter of Omlcron
Nu, Home Economics honorary,
held a dinner meeting in the Chiid
Development laboratory Thursday
night.
FASCISTS FAIL
IN OBJECTIVE,
SAYS FELLMAN
(Continued from Page 1.)
pose of impressing tourists. Vlsi
tors fail to see the slums, the low
wage level, or the pathetic condi
tion of the people.
"There is acquiescence, but there
is no unity in the Fascist govern
ment," Prof. Fellman asserted. "If
there were, armed forces woulu
not be necessary to keep the peo
ple in subjection. Mussolini is
popular merely nerause no on
dares mention anything which
would make him unpopular. There
is rigid censorship of press, radio,
and public speeches. No one
knows, least of all Mussolini him
self, and probably no one will know
Just how popular or unpopular he
is until he dies.
"Let me say that Mussolini has
done far more harm than he has
good," concluded Prof. Fellman.
"He took control at a strategic mo
ment, just as Italy was beginning
to get her head out or water after
the war, and since then has brand
ed the Italians as a people incap
able of governing themselves. He
has turned Italian civilization back
hundreds of years."
The meeting which was under
the direction of Vincent Eroady,
was closed with an open discussion
led by Prof. Fellman.
New officers or tne club elected
during the evening were: Irwin
Ryan, president; Miss Selma Gold
stein, vice-president; and Grant
McClellan, secretary.
MORE IP. A. A. PRIZES
TO CANDY SALESMEN
ELECTION FILING
OPEN ONE WEEK
BEGINNING TODAY
(Continued from Page 2.)
lor members of the advanced
course, wili be contacted by the
department, and if they are will
ing, their names will be filed as
nominees.
Any girl desiring to file for hon
orary colonel may do so, however,
it was fitated, and no distinction
will be made on the ballot or in the
Daily i Nebraskan announcements
between those nominated by the
department and those filing inde
pendently. Candidates desiring to file for
any of the four offices were
warned to check their eligibility
before filing since the record of all
nominees will be checked by the
student countl before the election.
Announcement of additional
prizes to be offered to W. A. A.
candy saleswomen at the Pitts
burgh game Is made today by Eliz
abeth Bushee, concessions mana
ger. First and second prizes will
be cash, and the third, a pound box
of candy.
Additional girls are urged to sell
at the Pitt game in order to ac
commodate the large crowd ex
pected. They may sign on the W.
A. bulletin board at the east
end of the women's gymnasium be
fore Friday, November 9, when
there will be a meeting at 5 o'clock
of all those selling at the Pitts
bugh game.
Miss Bushee stated that it had
been increasingly difficult to serve
the crowds this season, and that
the organization was trying to give
satisfaction at the Pittsburgh
game by increasing the number of
saleswomen.
"Buy Your Cornhusker."
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