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THE DAILY NKHRASKAN SUNDAY. AKCII 17. lm. TWO : Daily Nebraskan StaMon "V. Lincoln. Nettiaaka. OFFICIAL STUDENT PUBLICATION UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA This paptr u rnrcntl for qeneml dvrtiino bv Iht N.braaka Praaa Aaeoctation. V ... "-CV '-' Enttrcd cond-ciaaa mailer ! the poatofflcu M Lincoln. Nebraska, under act of conareMt March s. 187V. nd at apci.ii rata or postage provided tor in tct'cn 1101. act ot October S. 1917 autnixed January 80. IBM. EDITORIAL STAFF tamolna Bibla Eaitor.in.CMet Jack Flachar Aaaooatt Editpr MANAGING EDITORS Irwin Ryan Virginia Sellach NEWS EDITORS Fred Nickiai Arnold Levlna Sancha KUbourna George Pipal Vlarylu Petersen ... Woman's Editor Dorthe Fulton . Society Editor BUSINESS STAFF mchard Schmidt Buslneti Manager ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGERS Truman Oberndortt Bob SheHenberg Robert Funk Professional Law-Makers. T AWMAKERS should bo professionals in the opin ion of Governor Olson of Minnesota, but the Minneapolis Journal takes exception to the gover nor's statement. Legislators should come from the , people and should return to the people when they hav served their terms, says the newspaper. The value of Governor Olson's theory depends largely upon what he meant in using the term "pro fessional." On one hand, he may have had in mind the professional as that person is understood in the sports world. If this be the case, then the Minne apolis Journal is right in denying the validity of any auch theory. The United States has had too much experience with this sort of politician and lawmaker. His type is well known throughout the nation. He is inclined toward oratory, is a back patter and baby kisser, and is in the political whirl with no motive except that of personal satisfaction and gain. He is the man who has made our democratic form of govern ment sometimes seem almost a farce. It is he that has paved the way for the various and sundry poli tical absurdities that are now threatening to upset the snip of state. There is a different type of professional, how ever, whom the nation would do well to place in our legislative and executive halls. That person is the person who has acquired the necessary attributes that go to make a true profession. If such a course were taken, much would have been accomplished in curing the political ills of our country. In the first place, a true professional man, such as a doctor, must have had special training for his career. He must have had academic training which was planned with only one aim in view his profes sion. The doctor must spend from seven to nine years in scholastic training and then some time as an interne, before he is pronounced qualified for ac tual duty as a physician. The lawyer must haTe spent many years in school, much of it in special ized work, before he is admitted to the bar. On the other hand, anyone who has the desire can become a lawmaker, if he can secure enough votes. He may be anything from a banker down to the town dog catcher; he need not have a college de gree nor even a high school education to get into our lawmaking bodies. All that is necessary is the ability, by hook or crook, to secure election. A genuine desire for public service is the sec ond attribute that goes to make of any line of work a profession. The doctor unselfishly holds himself ready to answer any and all calls for medical aid. Too many lawmakers, despite their oratory about "for the pee-pul" forget their constituents, once elected, and enter into the game purely for their own gain. Public service is pushed out of the pic ture by private sen-ice In the third place, a profession must have a code of ethics. The medical profession has a code of ethics, as do the bar associations: even journal ism, which has not yet been recognized as a profes sion, has set up a code of ethics. Anything that even resembles such a code, however, is conspicuous among our lawmakers by its absence. The old idea that anything is fair in love or war seems to baie been adopted to the legislative game. Finally, in a true profession there must be a provision for some sort of disciplinary measures. Again this is carried out to a large extent in the rec- j egnized professions, but is lacking among the poli- ! ticians. Here discipline could come from two sources, ; the offender's associates, or from the constituency. Most of the time it comes from neither. j All of our politicians and legislators cannot, of course, be included in this indictment. There are always some who stand out as examples of the best J that can be attained in legislative ability. They serve not themselves, but their country. They truly "un derstand all the ins and outs of government and, secure in that knowledge, fight for the betterment of the government. It is to the development of more men like these PLAYERS OPEN IN MY LUCKY STAR' FOR WEEK'S RUN (Continued from Page 1. 1 Stern, a lazy, easy-going fellow of the Ughtnin' Bill" Jones type. The role U interpreted by Ray Ramsay, secretary of the Univer sity Alumni association, who has long been familiar to Players' au diences. I get the itch to act in one of the Players' shows about once a year," said Ramsay. "After a glance At Ballard's manuscript, I felt that "My Lucky Star' was my selection for this year. 'Keg' Stern is the type of a character which I enjov playing." Harold "Pete" Sumption, stage director of the Players, predic's that the current offering will meet with popular reception. "It recalls my work in New Tork City wvrral years ago in produc ing original shows," he said. "Or dinarVy In a Players' show, we are working with a fixed manuscript, but in this instance we had Bal lard' original script. There have been a number of revisions, and we feel that Mr. Ballard win be pleased with our Interpretation ' the shew." Since I31S. Ballard has devoted fcimseif exclusively to playwrigbt ir.e. Two other successes mere Tour.g America" and "Ladle of the Jury." The University Play ers have Tiresented both tn recent veara. Miss H. A2-e Howell star rer in the lattrr. Curtain rises at o'clock, while a Saturday r'v.-,iM wU begin at 2.30 o'clock. " 73 YEAR OLD COED'S EDUCATION' MAY E.VD Injury Cau$e Student to Give Up Pursuit For Ph. D. LOS ANGELES. March 17. The oldest college co-ed in Amer ica wept today because her pur suit of a Ph. D. degree seemed at an end. because of a broken hip. Physicians say the injury will ke?p Mrs. Adolphine Kaufman, 73. on her back lor at least six months. Mrs. Kaufman was registering at the University of Southern California last week when some one she doesn't know who jostled her. throwing her off bal ance and causing her to fall to the floor. Mrs. Kaufman started going to college after her husband died. 10 j years ago. houowing a tiree year i course in the Parific School of Re ! ligion !he entered California Chris tian college in 1928. and was awarded an A. B. degree in three years. She later received as M. A. de A CASOLIHE U. . Meters Regular 13-9 16-9 HOLM'S utt, ., w that the nation should devote itself. The United States is in need ot lawmakers who will make of their work a true profession, and not a game as it has been for so long. The government trins men for military service. There is 'just as great a need for training for civic service. It is encouraging that as each week goes by, word is received of the establishment of such courses in the curriculum of various colleges and universities. In this way will the government be placed in the hands of those who will treat It as an opportunity for service, Colleges Get A Defender. EORGE A. Works, dean of students at the Uni versity of Chicago, came to the defense of col leges this week as he characterized all the noise about college reds as a "tempest in a tea pot." He declared that at Chicago there are no communists on the faculty and that radicals comprise only about 1 percent of the student body. It is interesting to wonder what William Ran dolph Hearst, Hamilton Fish, and other famous red baiters have to say about Dean Works' statements. If one were to accept their Ideas, he would believe that every college and university in the United States is honeycombed with students and faculty members dyed a deep red, preacihng salvation via the soviet. This declaration by the Chicago dean, however, ought to put a damper on Hearst and his cohorts to purge the colleges of anything that smells like com munism. Dean Works, in his administrative posi tion, should have a fair idea of how sentiment is running on his campus. And If Chicago university, supposedly one of the more liberal schools in the country, is without sin, then the situation cannot be too terribly bad in the other educational institutions. The dean brings matters closer home when he states. "There is a great deal more to fear from Huey Long and his ideas." There has been too much screaming and tearing of hair over an almost mythi cal red scare, while criminally neglecting tangible situations that are striking at the heart of the nation. Browsing Among The Books Br Maurice Johnson lRAXCIS Hackett takes great pains in "Francis the First" to depict that monarch as "the first gentleman of France" Biographer Hackett calls the j long nosed Frenchman a true soldier, a great lover, a patron of the arts, a dazzling fellow; and the por trait is a convincing one. As in his biography of Henry VIII, Hackett displays a remaikable faculty for reviving the dead, and it is his pleasure to epito mize Francis as a gentleman, and to construct his biography upon that idea. The most interesting thing about the man Fran cis L to me, however, is that he gathered about him such people as Rabelais, Benvenuto Cellini, and Leonardo da Vinci. Macniavelli, Erasmus, and Mar tin Luther also have their places in Francis' life. Perhaps the most memorable portions of "Francis the Firsf'are those in which Hackett is concerned with these geniuses of the renaissance and reforma tion. The vignette describing Rabelais is especially effective: "Rabelais, in his own way, is a Gothic cathedral. One sees, first of all, his gargoyles. How long the tongue of his devils, how broad his matrons, how sudden the shoot of his rain water, and how sly his imps. But in this cathedral that bursts and ripples with laughter, this cathedral with a cacopho nous choir and troops cf monks who overflow in their stalls, the baptism font full of wine and the communion a gorgeous love feast, there is at times a quiet like the descent of a dove, and one is aware of a rose window exalted and radiant, and of an al tar with a new legend on its altar cloth." This, it seems to me, is a wonderfully accurate figure. Machiavelli. Erasmus. Calvin, and Luther fare no less well than Rabelais ir having their portraits drawn. Da Vinci, says Hackett was a man who "hovered somewhere above the serviceable and be yond the immediate, unpunctual by the ' human clock, obedient to a true rhythm in the universe which ran through sex. art. science, religion, and took the span of time." In Francis I, himself, we see a man far leas worthy of being remembered than the men to whom he was patron. He was a philanderer and royal rascal. And certainly Hackett Is not trying to whitewash Francis, for he writes: "He knew him self to be an animal, a great healthy animal in his vigor, proud of it and abundant and quivering." Again: "He might be a timeworn ostler or a rascal, stewed in wine, who lived by selling onions." Francis I is painted in rich, raw colors and his virility is shown in a dozen anecdotes. But in the biography there are smaller, fine etched pictures of men who. by their accomplishments, make Francis seem a trivial though gaudy flower. gree in political science at U. S. C. and expected to win her Ph. D. in June. ENGINEERS' COUNCIL MEETS TO PLAN BALL The student executive board of the engineering college will hold a special meeting- at five o'clock, Tuesday evening, March 19 in A. M. 205 for the purpose of consid ering plans for the engineers ball, which is to be held on Saturday evening, April 27. Gridi-ters Tackled by Measles; Two Downed Jim Heldt, Huiker varsity tackle, has the measles. Quaran tine will keep him from Coach Bible's spring practice for a few days. Johnny Williams, another member of the squad, has been a vistim of the epidemic. RIJV Aim byname A Always . UNIQUE CHARMS USED AT HNALEXAM III Pennsylvania; Students Are Superstitious, Recent Survey Shows. PIANO GIVES RELAXATION K tullrir .Nf srlor. PHILADELPHIA. Pa., March 17. Rare psychological bits about "Students at Examination Time'' were recently uncovered at the University of Pennsylvania in a hitherto unattempted survey on the campus. Many students entering the ex amination rooms were found to be weaiing favorite sweaters, special pencils, peachstcne rings, lucky neckties, and other unique charms to carry them through to victory. Some were found to have tin bounded faith in drinking a large glass ot apricot juice before the ex amine ions. Late arriving students during exam week are "overlooked" be cause they assertedly feel a chat while waiting for the zero hour smooths out the confusion of the "cramming." A piano in the campus engineer ing building was almost constantly in use during the "finals" by stu dents seeking relaxation and men tal alertness for the tests, the sur vey repotted. OFFICIAL BULLETIN Girls Rifle Team. All eirls who registered for rifle firing prior to March 1 may con tinue firing until March 30. Newman Club. There will be a meeting of the Newman Club, Sunday, March 17 from 5:00 to 6:00 p". . in the Temple building, room 205. Offi cers will be elected for the com ing year. CORNHUSKER PICTURES. Group pictures for the 19S5 Cornhusker must be taken at the campus studio immediately, if or ganizations are to be represented in the new yearbook. Four groups remaining to be taken are: Engineers Week committee. Engineers executive board. Gamma Lambda. Delian Union. Appointments may be made by calling Richard Hufnagle at the campus studio. Alumna to Teach at Riverton. Miss Man- Erb. Lincoln, a grad uate of teachers college, has been elected to teach at Riverton during the rest of this year, according to th department ot educational serv ice. Notice. Coach Knight asks that all city campus ball players report at the Coliseum Monday instead of the ag gym for practice. BARBOUR SPEAKS AT DOANE. Dr. E. H. Barbour, director of the University of Nebraska mu seum, will speak at Doane college in Crete on Monday evening. March 18. He will present an il lustrated talk on the fossils of Ne braska. KOCH WRITES FOR BULLETIN. Dr. H. C. Koch, formerly chair man of the department of secondary- education at Nebraska and now at the University of Michi gan, has written an article "Why Not Give Them a Preview of Col lege?" for the school of education bulletin there. A contemporary tells of a U. S. C. grad who applied at a Holly- j wood movie studio for a job as j scenario writer. The executive re quired the applicant to posses a ' diploma. ' Show me your diploma," de manded the producer. j The applicant tried to explain , that it was not customary for col- , lege students to carry their di plommas around with them. "Well, then," demanded the movie mogul, "say me a big word." i An article by Dr. Benjamin H. j Handorf and Dr. E. Roger Wash- j burn was published in the last issue of the Journal of the Amer ican Chemical Society. They named their article "The Vapor Pressure of Binary Solutions of Ethvl Alcohol and Cyclohexane at 25 "Degrees." Dr. Handorf re ceived his doctor's degree at the university in 1934. and Dr. Wash bum is associate professor of chemist ry. One hundred and thirty-five un dergraduates at Princeton univer sity, working as waiters in the din ing halls during 1933-34, received $31,971 wages. Special for Graduation Rytex Hylited Visiting CARDS 50 Card ffg Plain or Panelled. .3 7 (100 Cards $1.00) A Tin quality of card both White and Ivory- Here an unhrd f valu In Callinr Tarda. COME IN AT ONCE Time la aa elemenL SPECIAL ruck Month om STATIONERY 200 Sheets, 100 En v. 4 m m Single Sheet Or 100 Double Sheets, 100 Env. Ev. and Paper Printed GEORGE BROS. Printer mnd Stmtionert 121J N St Lincoln. Nebr. Botany Students Turn 'Rain-Makers' I';',) gmw When 'Ma' Nature Fails to Cooperate;,., ;,,- , ,:d If you want to study the effects of rainfall, and there isn t any rain, wnat can you do? Dr. j. K. weav er's graduate students in botany at the university turned rain-mak ers, and so- were able to continue tlicir experiments through eight eon months of hot and cold dry weather. They have been engaged in a study to find whether, when it rains, more water will be absorbed by unbroken sod, by wheat stubble fields, or by fallow land. For a year and a half they have been working, and when natural rainfall Is lacking it is supplemented with an artificial application of water at the rate of an inch per half hour. Checking up on results the stu dents found that native prairie sod held the rain actually ten times as well as stubble field and fallow land From the prairie the water which ran off was nearly clear, while from the fields it was muddy be cause of the soil it carried. They came to the conclusion that farm ers should have a crop whenever possible on their cultivated fields. For their experiments Dr. Weaver's students went to farms near Lincoln. When it failed to rain they hauled truck loads of water to the field in steel barrels. These they painstakingly sprinkled over their test areas. Areas 3 feet wide and 33.3 feet long were enclosed by long boards placed on edge in the soil. These held the water from getting in or out of the experi mental lot. Water running down inside the enclosed area found its way into the interceptometer, which is the name for a galvan ized iron water-tight tank. After a shower, or after the stu dents have sprinkled the soil, the water is emptied from the tank and measured as to amount. Then the water is placed in a settling tank, and the quantity of soil it carried away can be determined. The workers applied five inches of artificial rain to the prairie and to a stubble field during a period of two days. Each of the areas was in the same kind of soil, and each had a 4 degree slope. The to tal amount of water which ran off the stubble was 28 percent, off the fallow land over 30 percent, but off the prairie sod only 3 percent That water which escaped from the prairie was nearly clear, but one-hundredth of an inch of top soil was washed away from the stubble field, and two-hundredths from the fallow ground. Pores of the soil are kept open by a cover of grass on the prai rie," Dr. Weaver observes. "Half of the soil under the prairie is pore space, partly filled with air, and partlv with water." After a few years of cultivation pore space in the soil is often de creased 12 percent, the botanists have found. The silt from the bare soil soon clogs the pore space and greatly increases the water run off after a rain. "Close-grazing and trampling also greatly increase the run-off." says Doctor Weaver. "Experi menting on a steep hillside with a 10 degree slope, we found that the run-off was always greater in the pasture, varying from 3 times to 10 times as much lost water as that of the prairie land." Describing their experiments and measurements in water run off and soil erosion. Doctor Wea ver and William Noll, a graduate student published an article re cently. They explain that the ex LEARN TO DANCE GUARANTEED in Six Private Lessons Lee A. Thornberry B363J S'nce 1929) 2300 Y St. Have You Lost I periments were carried on primar ily to illustrate these soil dangers to students enrolled In courses in plant ecology. "That run-off water and soil erosion have become problems of both local and national Importance Is widely recognized. In fact soil erosion over at least half of the United States has reached the pro portions of a national menace," say the writers. Students learned to observe the effects of large amounts of rain fall, as well as the manner in which it falls. The effect of the plant cover upon reducing the force with which the raindrops strike the soil was seen. They ob served the erosion loss of mate rials from the dark surface soil which is rich in plant food materials.. More serious than over crop- j ping, tne writers believe, is the washing away of rich surface soil. They point out that quantities of water lost during hard rains run to form gullies and ditches, and pile sediment Into the lowlands.' "The water is lost to ground storage," they write, "the deepen ing of gullies and ditches lowers the water table, which results in a ; constant tendency of the water in j the upper layers to sink to lower i levels. The habitat is gradually j changed." j CHENOWETH TLAVS CARILLON PROGRAM Wilbur Chenoweth will give the second Lenten carillon recital Sun day at 4 p. m., at First Plymouth Congregational church. The pro gram includes: "Westminster Chimes." "Change Ringing on Eight Bells," "America," "Saviour Thy Dying Iove," "Blessed Assur ance." "Chorale." "Lamb of God," (Bach), "Duke Street." "God So Loved the World iStainerl." and "Oh Worship the King." Lincoln's Fashion Center ffBfflffii & tS SMART WEAR SMART WEAR te" 1122-1224 O WHITE DRESSES for sorority initiation S95 of genuine peep-hole crepe arid lin-y-coinb crepe and the styles are perfect lor inhi.':1in purpoM-s hm fur a smart summer dress laier. Tillable of course. COLLEGE SHOP Something If You Have, Use The Most Convenient Method Of Recovering Your Article. The Daily Nebraskan Classified Ad Section Brings Results. Phone B6891, Or Stop In At The Daily Nebraskan Business Office, University Hall. 7 CLASSIFIED RATES Ten Cents Per Line Students in fob Guidanev. Dean O. J. i c... ison of the c. 1 lege of engineering has be n elected to membership on the st.i dent belection and guidance com mittee of the engineers' council fur professional development. Word ing through this committee, e i gincering societies plan to he'.p guide boys wishing to become en gineers by giving them contacts with individual members of the so cieties' who can give them advice and guidance, according to Dean Ferguson. VOIR- FKIEM)S are EATIG nt the Y. M. C. A. FOUNTAIN Thick Malted Milks 15c Extra Thick 20c Y.M.C.A. FOUNTAIN 13th &. P Sts. FOR WOMEN STREET MAIN FLOOR Moal Ticket :Si Men Ticket for ts.oo J t