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J J TTTO THE DAILY NEBRASKAN SUNDAY, MARCH 2i. 1935. Daily Nebraskan Bta.'lon A, Linooln, NsbrssKa. OFFICIAL STUDENT PUBLICATION UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA Tftis ppr Is raprasantsd for general advartlsins Ov Ntbraska Press Association. UociBtfd (Mlfpiatf Hress -a. IW toBs5H&itf U tut Enured ascsnd-clsss matter Mia Mstoffley Lincoln. Nebraska, under act of eongrtss. March fc J7. nd st special rats of postage provided for In MCt'on 1103. act of October . 1917. autherissd January 90. IMS. EDITORIAL STAFF Lsmolns Blbl Kd ,r-,, Jack Flsehsr Associate Sdltor MANAGING EDITORS Irwin Ryan Vlrglnls selleck NEWS EDITORS Fred Nlcklss Arnold Levins Sancna KHboums Oeorgs Pipai Marylu Psteraen , Woman's Editor Dorthea Fulton Soeietv Kd'tor BUSINESS STAFF Richard Schmidt Bunneas Manage. ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGERS Truman Obsrndortf Bob SheMenberg Robsrt Funk Breaking Down A Barrier TJECENT developments in the educational world show that at last steps are being taken to tear down the traditional barrier existing between stu dent and Instructor. A. group of students in one of the residence halls at Syracuse university, under the direction of a head proctor and an especially selected g-roup of graduate advisors, have raised their scholarship av erages more than 20 percent over a year ago. Through the closer personal contact between the student and his professor thus brought about, more than 66 percent earned better than C averages while less than 45 percent attained that rating last year. Another school that is striving for this personal contact is Russell Sage college for women, where the old style grading system has been eliminated and a conference system substituted. This problem is one that has confronted colleges and universities for a long time. It has been recog nized by educators that students were not receiving the full benefits of a college education under the present plan whereby they attend classes so many times a week, listen to coldly impersonal lectures, do so much assigned reading, and are graded ac cording to what is shown on an examination paper. Under such a system, the main idea in the stu dent's mind is to get through with a passing grade and eventually receive a degree, which in itself means nothing. His curiosity or thinking faculties are not stimulated la ilic least degree. His courses are like so many dead fish, something to be disposed of as rapidly as possible. In this way the prime objective of a university, the development of an intellectual curiosity and of the thinking process, is defeated. The degree which the student receives at the end of his four years in dicates that he has completed a required number of hours, but nothing remains to him from those hours except a few cut and dried facts. The professor undoubtedly has more to offer than the dry accumulation of data he offers for class consumption, but how to get that extra some thing across to the student presents a question. There is a minimum of time allotted for class and in this small group of minutes it is hard to do more than is usually 'done. In addition there is always a group of dullards in every class whom the instruc tor, try as he might, could never interest in some thing more than getting by. The only answer to this question is the estab lishment of closer personal relations between the two. The means of accomplishing this is not as im portant as the end, and need not present too great a problem. It is indisputable, however, that in or der to keep up with the enlarging demands upon the educational system this relationship must be estab lished, and it is encouraging to see more colleges falling Into line with the movement President Hoover, who is mors and more getting back into the political spotlight, was taking a nasty slap at President Roosevelt and his cohorts. Many defects of the present administrative pol icy were enumerated by Hoover in his diatribe against the "un-American" course he claims is be ing taken by the administration. Among them be points out that the government has become central ized under an enormous bureaucracy and that small business men have been disabled and crushed. Our ex-president, however, seems to forget that under his "constitutionally organized" government when men and women were masters of the govern ment, the small business man was being crushed just as badly by the expansion of large industries which were aided and abetted by government policies. An appeal is made to the young republicans to rejuvenate the republican party so that it can crush this democratic ogre in the next election. To do this would be to go back to the old system under which the country was operating when this great depres sion came upon us. The old republican ideals which originated in the time of Abraham Lincoln have long past been outmoded. If to go back to them is prog ress, then let the nation remain at a standstill. Browsing Among The Books By Maurice Johnson 'UnAmerican,' Sayg Hooter. k T almost the same time the United States senate was acting favorably on the administration's public works and relief appropriations bill, former EFT-WING authors and critics must have a good e deciding just what is proletarian literature. They exclude Albert Halper from their brotherhood because in his "The Foundry" he gave almost as much space and consideration to the bosses as to the workers. They exclude the poet Archibald Mac Leish because although be does express his dislike for J. P. Morgan, he also laughs at the left-wingers themselves:'Aindt you read in d'books you are all brudders?" Indeed, those upon whom the cham pions of proletarian literature do put their approv ing stamp are few. Among the major voices chanting on social themes are the two young English poets, W. H. Auden and Stephen Spender. Neither of them doubts that the economic system is responsible for all our selfishnesses, emptinesses, and general bad taste. Both Auden and Spender are remarkably adept in the handling of contemporary subject matter. They do not resort to conventional figures and rhythms, but they speak of cigaret ends, motor cycles, wires, "the black statement of pistons," and plate glass windows. And they plead with us of the younger generation to put aside the old ways for new. Listen to Stephen Spender: "oh young men oh young comrades it is too late now to stay in those houses your fathers built where they built you to to build to breed money on money" W. H. Auden is even more persuasive, for be expresses the futility and frustration of our lives: "It wasn't always like this? Perhaps it wasn't, but it is. Put the car away; when life fails, What's the good of going to Wales? Here am I, here are you: But what does it mean? What are we going to do?" Whether or not you are in sympathy with these young Englishmen s social philosophy, you must agree that their writing is effective stuff. Even when Auden writes that "Financier, leaving your little room. .... The game is up for you and for the others," he does it so facilely that one admires him, no matter what he may be saying. The new collected poems of Auden and Spender have been popular volumes in the United States. Almost everyone agrees that these young men are versifiers of an ability not to be found in every year, and a good many people are willing to agree with them in their damning of the financiers and the empty life engendered by the economic system. Here is proof, then, that poetry is, after all, a fitting medium for the expression of our chaotic times. Editors Outline Objectives of '35 Recently an outline by various college president of the duties and objectives of college newspapers wan compiled by the associated collegiate press. Here is presented the opinions of editors themselves con cerning their duties. CMANTS 8Y CHANCE. A world premiere has come and gone at the University, as the Uni versity Players closed another play last evening t the Temple. "My Lucky Star," the play by a former Nebraskan, Fred Ballard, featured Ray Ramsay. His drollery and easy-going drawl and the East Side bowery linge of Art Bailey as the tramp kid, were good char acter contrasts, Sid Baker as the hat-twisting school boy in love with Marjorie Filley, the daughter f the house, and Gen Calling, the chum, were a numerous trio. The nagging wife and typical mother-in-law were well presented by Mary Dean and Harriette Leeson. Although the plot of the produc tion dragged in seversl spots, the play was well received by local audiences. It may open on Broad way next fall, but whether it will meet with outstanding success is question. Incidentally, Director Sumption practically re-wrote the entire last act to suit this local presentation. Whether the original last act will be accepted by New York critics as is, is rather doubt ful. "Huey Long has been denounced as Public Menace No. 1. The real menace is that so many people have developed a dangerous psy chology that makes them willing to listen to him. His menace is about to be multiplied to the nth degree by the purchase of a very powerful radio. The menace of the radio, used for political purposes. is that it has no responsibility. The newspaper is responsible to its readers and patrons for honest ana lair atatenwius. The radio political shooter hit no such re ponRibiliUfcs "n tnyoue. He says what be wants to say and clicks off to give way to a soap company tmri-iT.y down comedian telling ancient jokes, or a pie factory f posssrisg S crooner." The above r-BTETph appeared in Harry Carr s column "The Lancer" in the Lrs Arge!s Times recently, and erprrfTf that eolunsBist's idea of ti-.e KJr.gfisn. a r.-h Hilt, Margaret Baker, and V Mm Cant. Fiane student with i M-fct Harrison, played with the Lincoln Symphony orchestra in its special ccbhiun, opuvri r i n thology" recently. Winfield Eden, accompanied by Harriet Daly, sang tor the Book Review Club Thursday . at Trinity Church. Robert durdick, organ student of Edith B. Ross, was guest organist Sunday evening at Grace Meth odist Church, where he also ac companied the Y. M. C. A. octette. Ruth Dean and Bud Eden, stu dents with Wilbur Chenoweth, ap peared on a P. T. A. program at Uistrict 4 recently. Margaret Jane Klmmel, accompanied by Irene Remmers sang a group of numbers for the Higb.ano Park Church. Lester Humoaugh, supervisor of music at Long Pine. is preparing an operetta and is also dc'-.j con siderable solo work. Marian Wil liamson, supervisor of music a. Adams, successfully trained and directed the high school contest ants enabling them to win a cup in the Mudecas contest. These are students with Mary Hall Thomas. Hazel Smith and Homer Gammill, students with Vera Upton, pre sented the musical program for the Y-Men's club banquet Tuesday evening. Maintain Free Press Rights. By William Ferris, Editor, University of Michigan Daily. The most important objective of the college newspaper In 1935 is the maintenance of its right to express free criticism of campus and national in atltutions. Under no circumstances should the col lege press become controlled by either faculty or student groups who have no knowledge of news papers and whose interests are not in sympathy with the journalistic profession. Campus political Institutions are eternally endeavoring to influence (they call It "co-operation") the college paper for the benefit of their own ideas or functions. No pa per can maintain the respect of the majority of the members of its community if it appears to be the branch of any other campus group or organization. Once this right is established beyond Question, I would suggest the following as objectives: 1. Honest news reporting. It is easy to favor one group in reporting campus controver sies. This should not be done by an intelligent and conscientious newspaper. 2. A liberal editorial policy. Most metro politan newspapers are owned by wealthy men. They reflect the opinions of their owners. Col lege papers can be a far more honest expres sion of general public opinion on national mat ters than can class controlled metropolitan newspapers. 3. College newspapers are in the unique position of having a large number of men in the faculty, experts in their own fields, who may be interviewed on important issues of the day. I believe that college papers should place more emphasis on educational interviews of this type and less on circulated comic strips and other so called feature services. Use Editorial Power Wisely. By Tom A. Dozier, Editor, University of Georgia Red and Blsck. I think that the principal theme of college edi torial policy should be conservatism. Not the con servatism of the indifferent, the narrow and the backward, but the conservatism that marks the really great newspapers of the United States. For too long, the college press has been prone to fly off into a frenzy about things which, after a little weighty deliberation, may be worked out sanely and s-lsely. College editors have placed in their hands a power the potentiality of which few of them realize. To use this power wisely then should be the main editorial objective of 1935. Wake Up Conservatives and Liberals. By Albert Kosek, Editor, University of Minnesota Daily. What should be the objectives of the college newspaper in 1935 ? Here is my answer. Purpose ly I make them only two in the hope that by limit ing their number we may better assure their ful fillment. 1. To poke a finger into the ribs of con servatives and liberals (who, after alL predomi nate at least in numbers and somehow, some way, prod them into activity. The radicals have made themselves heard, and three cheers to them for doing so. But for those of us who are not looking to soviet Russia let us shake those in the middle and on the right loose from their dangerous apathy. 2. To cry out vigorously when freedom of assemblage, expression and of the press are im pinged upon. With Hitlers here and with Huey Longs on the way up, it might be wise to keep one eye to our liberties lest we look around some day and find them gone. And let's not forget Mr. Hearst Don't De a Camp Follower. By Ames Landman, Editor, Brawn University Daily Herald. The notion that the college newspaper should "reflect" campus opinion belongs to the collegiate era of gin bottles, gals, and five-day week ends, as depicted by the late lamented College Humor of the 1920's and by the movies. Campus opinion, unfor tunately, is too much concerned with the next date or dance or class president or rushing party. Un doubtedly those matters are of a certain interest and local significance, but the college newspaper's edi torial page is not going to be worth reading if it confines itself to such petty affairs. The truth is, it seems to me, that if the newspaper is going to lounge about, complacently playing the part of a mirror, the opinion it reflects will be unbearably insipid. The college paper must be in the van; it dare not linger as a camp follower. It must adopt a set of objectives, a platform if you please, and a set of principles by which to go. There must be some point to its editorials. The paper can crusade for some definite im provement in the campus situation by intelligent, constructive, and helpful criticism. By persistent efforts it can bring about that improvement, for the college paper is usually the best and most powerful medium on the college campus, if it is intelligently used. The goal may be an innovation in the cur riculum, or any one of a host of judicious changes. Second, the paper can use its editorial columns profitably by working for some less tangible goal, but one which is none the less of the greatest sig nificance. Many editors are doing just that by their attacks on Hearst and by their devotion to the cause of peace. The immediate result of such editorial comment is perhaps negligible, but it is of definite importance in helping to mold thoughtful and con sidered public opinion. There is no reason why the college paper should refrain from comment on national and international affairs, for if the editorial writer is up on current events, as he should be, and if be is careful and thoughtful in what He writes, his views are valid in themselves. His editorials are also significant as an expression of the opinion of the rising genera tion. A balance, however, should be struck between editorials commenting on local events and conditions an 4 situations beyond the campus. But the diversity of suitable topics should not cause him to permit unconnected and aimless edits. And, ss a parting shot, the editor should never lose his sense of humor. Stimulate Reader Thought. By Charles H. Bernhard, Editor, University of Wis consin Dally Cardinal. The editorial objective of a college newspaper. not only in 1935, but every year, ought to be the stimulation of thought on the part of the readers. If people agree with you, you will have a pretty dead newspaper. But you will also avoid contro versies which may become unpleasant. In other words, if it is your aim to end your administration as editor with nothing but happy memories of the complimentary tickets received it is far better to stay away from subjects which might lead to chal lenging letters from readers and possibly a few broken friendships. It is the duty if not the privilege of editors to raise a little polite hell with the sacred shibboleths of readers. Question the value of military training. You may get quite a kick-back, but you will also get a stimulating discussion and an awareness that you have been responsible for some thinking on the part of your subscribers. The objective of the 1935 newspaper editorial page ought to be first, reader- stimulation and, second, self-stimulation. Perhaps that last objective ought to be ranked first. STUDENT ATHLETES TAKE PART IN MEET Represent 100 Activities at Physical Education Demonstration. One of the highlights of the Central District Convention of the American Physical Education as sociation, which opened at the Fontenelle hotel in Omaha last Wednesday and which ends today, was the athletic demonstration, held Friday, March 22, at the Ak-Sar-Ben coliseum. Approximately 100 students and faculty members of the university took part. Over 100 different activities were shown and participated in by delegates from the University of Nebraska, Creighton university, Nebraska W'esleyan, State Teach ers' colleges at Wayne, Peru, and Chadron, and the Omaha and Council Bluffs high schools. Coach Schulte's tracksters dem onstrated several of the fine points in track technique and Coach Bible used several football men for demonstration. Crittendon, Andrews and Wlm- berly took part in fencing demon strations, while Herman. BignelL Reynolds, and Green participated in gymnastics, tumbling, and wrestling exhibitions. Forty-five women, including tac- ulty members, under the direction of Miss Mabel Lee, head of the women's physical education de partment took part in demonstra tions of Grant volley ball, archery, badminton, shuffleboard, and ten- niquoits. GERMAN DEPARTMENT Tl 0 SPONSOR PROGRAM Pfeiler Shows Movies Taken While Abroad; Miller Will Sing. Dr. W. K. Pfeiler of the Ger manics department, will show moving pictures taken in Germany at a program sponsored by the Germanics department Tuesday evening. March 26 at 7:30 in the auditorium of Morrill hall. Dr. Pfeiler took the pictures during his stay in Germany in 1933. The Rev. Father Demuth of SL Theresa's church will speak of his trip thru the Black Forest and along the Rhine. Dr. J. Alexis, chairman of the Germanics depart ment will introduce him Mr. William Miller will sing two German numbers. ' Phosphor e enz," and "Ich sah den Wald sich faerben," and the group will sing German folk songs accompanied by Miss Esther Fuenning. REV. RAY E. II VST TO TALK O.V SELF DEMAL Faxtor Speak at Vetper Service Tuesday in Ellen Smith. OFFICIAL BULLETIN Girls Rifle Team. All girls who registered tor rifle firing prior to March 1 may con tinue firing until March 80. Volley Ball. All volley ball games beretotore scheduled to take place at 6:20 o'clock will hereafter take place at 8. All participants In the intra mural volley ball tournament are asked to make a note of this change. A forfeit will be charged against any team not on time. Barb Open House. Barb open house, Sunday after noon from 8 to 5 o'clock in Ellen Smith ball. All unaffiliated men and women invited to attend. Rev. Ry E. Hunt, of the First Christian church, will give his sec ond address in the series of Lenten services conducted by the vesper staff of the Y. W. C. A. Rev. Hunt will speak at the regular vesper at-rvice Tuesday at 5 o'clock in Ellen Smith on the subject of "Self Denial: The Essence of Lent." At the devotionsis which will precede the speech. Jean Palmer, chairman of the program and of fice staff of the T. W will preside. Bemice Rundin, violinist, will pro vide meditation music for a few minutes before the service begins. Caroline Kile, cairxoan of the ves per staff, aaks that girls come early in order to bear the music. Miss Rundin will also play a spe cial selection during the program. Tbe service will take place in a special setting of candlelight and thi crucifix. Newman Club. Members of Newman club will bold a general meeting. Sunday, March 24 in room 205. Temple. All Catholic students are invited to at tend this meeting, which will take the form of a Lenten discussion. The meeting will be held from five to six o'clock in the afternoon. Bullock Speaks on Economy. T. T. Eullock of the university economics department addressed the Lincoln St. Matthews guild re cently. Hia subject was "Practical Economy." Eny ifig Aiuffm! Return. Alumni visitors at the college of engineering last week were Rich ard F. Hansen, Pittsburgh, Pa-, a graduate of the university in civil engineering in 192e; and Vale Tittering-ten of Midwest. Wyo.. a graduate in cbtmical engineering is 1934. . Davis, Dswns C Ts Valentint. Prof. H. P. Dsvis and Dr. P. A. Downs of the university depart ment of dairy husbandry will go to Valentine Wednesday, March 27, to Inspect the dairy herd there. Blish Bakes Bread in Order To Test Qualities of Wheat If any housewives still bake their own bread, they prob ably still M-ish it Mould turn into lipM, crisp loaves each week. Because it doesn't always do that. Dr. M. J. Blish at the um- venity proffers them much sympathy. In the laboratory Dr. Blish has baited countless thousands of loaves of bread in the last dozen years, but he says, "Although we can tell pretty well what will hap pen to our bread in the laboratory, if I were to go into the kitchen of a home and try to bake I should probably make a failure of it." Dr. Blish is professor of agri cultural chemistry at the univer sity, and is interested in tbe bak ing of bread in order to test the quality of wheat. Unlike tbe hose wife and baker be does not care much what the bread tastes like. But be does want to know the properties of the dough, for they indicate to him what chemical or mechanical modifications are needed to produce good bread. Quality Varies. "Quality in wheat." the pro fessor explains, "varies greatly in different wheats and in different seasons. Because of this the miller must use a variable product and get a constant quality in his flour, or the baking quality will vary." Agronomists test wheat for its strength and ability to grow in different climates, but tbey also wish to find the best wneat for both miller and farmer. Yet so complex are wheat and flour that the great trouble is in finding what constitutes quality in tbein. It is this difficulty which has led to the comparatively new field of study in cereal chemistry. In order for bread to rise, gas must be formed in the dough by yeast acting on the sugj-r. How ever, wheats differ in their ca pacity to turn their owu starch into sugar during dough fermen tation. Dr. Blish explains. These differences must be measured and identified by the miller in order that flours lacking in this prop erty may be supplemented by cer tain malted preparaUons. With proper additions all the flour can be brought to the desired level, the professor points out. and from this would result more uniform baking results. Properties Measured. Precise methods for measure ment of wheat properties have been developed in the laboratories st the University cf Nebraska, end they are standard over most of the scientists, so that every sample is chemical laboratories and watch their products carefully. When Dr. Blish started work on this problem he found baking tests were not scientifically conducted. If the bread turned out poorly there was no way to tell whether the wheat or the technician was st fault. He was instrumental in getting a basis for such study and removing the element of personal skill from the tests. All wheat which is turned to bread at the university laboratory is now sub jected to tbe same conditions. Temperature, time, amount and methods are controlled accurately by sensitive machinery. Housewives would find their work made much easier in the uni versity laboratory of Dr. Blish. A mixing machine kneads the dough exactly long enough; a molding machine turns out the loavea. Thermostatically controlled water baths, fermentation cabinets, and bake ovens bold temperature even to a fraction of a degree. "Fundamental causes of differ ences in wheat and flour quality is not known," says the chemist. "We have been able to show, however, that the glaten protein material is made up of a series of inde pendent proteins, instead of only two as was formerly believed." Most kinds of wheat, believes Dr. Blish. can be turned into flour with good baking quality if tests are made to find what properties are lacking, and the faults cor rected. Millers must blend flours and mix in the needed materials to keep their product constant. These tests developed at the uni versity are to find out and inter pret the differences, and enable products to be kept about 0 per cent standardised. Small quantities of test neat are ground la band mills by the gives tht mama treatment. Wits precise laboratory machines and thermometers the ground flour is turned into "pup loaves" of bread, all of the same size. Careful check can be made of the exact color, weight volume, and texture of tbe finished bread. Working with Dr. Blish in his important experiments is R. M. Sandstedt, assistant professor of agricultural chemistry at tbe uni versity, and a number of graduate students and technicians. Each year a fixed amount of funds are allotted by tbe government for this work. 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