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f USX TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1935. JWO HIE DAILY NEBRASKAN fi if I 1 Daily Nebraskan Station A, Lincoln, Nsbraska. OFFICIAL 8TUDENT PUBLICATION UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA , This paper la represented for general advertising by the NCDraixa tress Assggisuon. 3UcUtrd ffotlcpinuf tyre m 22 I "li " ' tntered aa teeend-elaea matter at the poetoff lee In Lincoln, Nsbraska, under act of congreae, March 3, ''. and at special rate of postage provided for In section 1103, act of October t, 1917, authorized January 20. 1022. THIRTY-FOURTH YEAR. Published Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday mornings during the academic year. EDITORIAL STAFF Jack Flschsr Editor-in-chief MANAQINQ EDITORS Irwin Ryan Virginia Solleck NEWS EDITORS George Plpal Marylu Petersen . Arnold Levin Johnston Snlpee Dorothy Bents , 80CIETY EDITORS Dorothea Fulton Jane Walcott Dick Kunzman Sports Editor BUSINESS STAFF Truman Oberndorf Buelnese Manager ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGERS Bob Funk Bob Shellenbarg Bob Wadhams SUBSCRIPTION RATE $1.50 year Single Copy 5 cente $1-00 a semester $2.60 a year mailed $1.50 a semester mailed Under direction of the Student Publication Board. Editorial Office Univeralty Hall 4. Business Off Ice Unlvereity Hall 4A. Telephones Day B6891 Nlghti B6882. B3333 (Journal). Shall We Subsidize? Charging that the football situation in American colleges is one of "hypocrisy," the editor of the University of Minnesota student paper crashed briefly into the limelight of sports pages this week, asserting that either "colleges must return to a program of athlet ics subordinated to cultivation of mind. . . or they must cast aside thinly-veiled pretense and professionalize an already professionalized sport." Last week a sports writer of the Daily Ne traskan advocated adoption of subsidization at the University of Nebraska or cancellation of future games with teams which employ this method of securing their athletic timber. He immediately brought down on his head the wrath of many sports followers and faculty members, and perhaps rightly so. The discussion over subsidization is an old one and the battles which have raged over it are legion. Ever since a certain famous Car negie report was made public, the word "sub sidization" has been made to cover a multi tude of evils which collegiate athletics, prin cipally football, are accused of harboring. Many are the college presidents and coaches who have trembled when that word has been mentioned in connection with the name of ther institution. Rumors of subsidization have floated about the placid air of the University of Nebraska and other Big Six schools, however, without provoking even mild alarm, for if anywhere in the nation athletics are played as Mr. "Ware of the Omaha World-Herald puts it, "for fun," it is in the Big Six conference. One look at their intersectional and interconference record since the Big Six was organized in 1928 should convince any doubting Thomases of this for it is, to say the most for it, very unimpressive. With the exception of Nebraska, no Big Six school has achieved a non-conference vic tory of any importance in football. Kansas State this year conquered Duquesne, two years ago Kansas tied Notre Dame. Oklahoma is quite regularly taken to town by southwest conference rivals; Missouri plays no non-conference teams of any consequence; the same is true of Iowa State with the exception of their battle with Iowa. Kansas and Kansas State try hard to raise their prestige by playing a few outstanding opponents occasionally but they are still playing too many breather games. Certainly if Big Six schools are paying their athletes they are getting gypped royally. Be that as it may, they are to be com mended for at least being pure from the odious practice, and as one of this group Nebraska seems in line for orchids. But Nebraska athletics, even if they be pure, need a tonic of some sort and need it badly. Approximately forty-three men turned out for football this fall when schools half this size boasted many more. Turnouts in other sports are comparable, and lead to one logical conclusion: Nebraska is not getting its share of athletes, much less the cream of the stato crop which it should attract. Other schools and universities are literally stealing them right out from under our nose. It would not take a very expert detective to discover that Nebraska prep school athletic aces are annually approached by representa tives of schools from many parts of the coun try who dangle sugar plums of freo tuition, jobs, and similar enticements before their eyes. And many of them are enticed. Smaller schools in this state are claiming many men who are of varsity caliber and who are needed here. Others who would like to come here stay at home for various reasons, ;$o that when all is done, a comparatively small percentage come to the university. On the other hand, a look at the roster of outstanding Husker athletes would lead one to believe that Nebraska is forced to rely to a large extent on ont-of-state material to produce its teams. e It would be indeed a sorry thought to think that the state of Nebraska does not pro duce enouKh athletes to insure its university of having first class teams in all branches of sports competition. But it is a sorrier observa tion that the state produce! them and then the university does not avail itself of their talents. Something should be done to correct this situation and it need not be the subsidization which iorae advocate and which Webster de fines as a gift of money made by way of finan cial aid. But why should not athletes be given the opportunity to work their way through college? Why make their case any different from that of ths student with high grades who is given scholarship to ease his financial dif ficulties! Let us hope that no such thought exists that because a man is an athlete is any reason that hi does not desire a college education at much as the good scholar. Athletes must msk their living, must learn trades or professions, must educate themselves to become a part of our society and civilization. Why treat them any differently! If the scholar is given an opportunity to use his brains to ease his finan cial burden in gaining an education, why deny the athlete a chance to use his muscle and brawn to the same end so long as it is honest work! Perhaps he too has brains and the de sire to learn and wants a college education every bit as much as others. Now this is not to advocate the granting of athletio scholarships. It is rather to make a plea that athletes be given a chance to work work honestly and for decent wages to gam their college education, This they lo not have m full measure at this university. The athletic department uses little discre tion and much favoritism in handing out the jobs at its disposal. Ask a few outstate coaches who have sent men to Nebraska only to nave them return home full of despair. Yet many Lincoln men who have a home where they may eat and sleep are working for the department at good wages while out-state men have been forced to go home because, as the powers that be allege, there are no jobs open. Then there are a few loyal and interested alumni who see to it that some students get jobs. But the rest of the alumni have fallen down miserably on a job they could have helped so easily, and it is these same men who want winning teams. More jobs could be pro vided from outside the university if the effort were made, and men who wanted to come to Nebraska would have in opportunity to do so. It seems preposterous that with thousands of dollars from student pockets pouring into Lin coln merchants' pocketbooks year after year, jobs enough can not be found to insure this school harvesting the cream of the prep school crop. Is this subsidization! It is not no more so than is the method employed by universities and colleges everywhere whereby they actual ly compete for new students by offering schol arships or other inducements to lure them to their respective halls of study. The athlete is every bit as desirable a col lege student as is the most perfect scholar. Just because his major interests outside the classroom lie on the athletic field is no more reason to judge him than to criticize the schol ar who in his spare time engages heart and soul in extra-curricular activities or whirls through social seasons at a dizzy pace. More often than not. he proves himself of value to the university in other ways than on the ath letic field. Nebraska athletics need more men. The state of Nebraska has them each year. It's time the athletic department or interested alumni do something about the wholesale losses of which we are the victims time and again. If this is not to be done, the school and its fol lowers had better begin accustoming them selves to seeing conference titles go even more regularly to other schools than they have in the past two or three years, and seeing our non-conference record bogged down worse than it now is. A Cornhusker Goes West. TJEADS of Nebraska sportsmen and sports lovers are oowea in griei ax me passing of one of the university's most loved charac ters, "Doc" McLean, for almost fifteen years trainer for Cornhusker teams in every realm of sport. Today Nebraska N men and a host of students and friends will pay finaj tribute to a man who built his life about the Cornhusker school and its warriors whom he affectionately called "my boys." "Doc" was one of those few men who have achieved that rare distinction of having become so thoroughly a part of the university and its ideals that he. was in himself a Nebraska tradi tion. Many students knew him only by sight when he rushed onto the gridiron during foot ball games with the inevitable black bag to render aid to some injured Husker. But his friends among the student body, in the state, and in the nation, were countless and his name was honored and respected throughout the sporting world as the ace of all trainers. "Doe's" workroom Mas in the depths of Memorial stadium where only those of the sports world gathered. There he performed his works of wizardry, effecting miraculous cures for sore and aching muscles, torn ligaments and tendons, sprains, strains, and broken bones. To this haven flocked not only the men of the university and the prep students of the state but even the greatest figures in all sport -doin, all seeking the healing touch of his magic fingers. "Doc" was glad to help them all. But even the great had to wait until "his boys" were taken care of first. He did not cure all who came to him but such cases were the excep tion. He sent most of them on their way com pletely well again. Seldom did he ask for pay. His pay was the satisfaction of having cured aches and hav ing relieved someone from pain. He was glad to serve and asked only that his Nebraska men came first. The entire university, but more especially the men of Husker teams, have suffered an ir reparable loss. None can replace "Doc" Mc Lean. But the clean principles for which he stood shall live on in Nebraska athletic annals together with the spirit which reigned within him, a spirit which echoed its faith in the Iluskers with almost his last words, "Go get 'em, gangl" 1 Off the . Campus ' Lynn Leonard Ntbnulc Legislator will meet for a special session Oct. 28. Gov ernor Cochran issued a formal call Monday, reciting the various items on which tha ses sion might act with repair of the social secu rity measure invalidated by tha supreme court, of primary importance. The governor now concedes that the session will last more than a week, probably closer to a month, but the solons will only receive pay for ten days at the job, at $10 a day, and mileage. Citizens of the state are still wondering how money for the relief measure will be raised. In spite of the governor's promise that th'ere will be no additional taxation, the possibility of a sales tax is pondered by some. Several border states have found it necessary to resort to this inconvenient method of rais ing revenue, and Missouri has issued cardboard discs, resembling milk bottle tops with which consumers might pay the tax. It is reason ably certain, however, -that some efficient means of providing social security legislation will be reached, with even the federal govern ment lending its assistance in drafting a bill. The League of Nations is still trying to stop war with its recent declaration 6f a boycott on all Italian goods and all nations except Austria, Hungary and Albania supporting the action. This is the third drastic sanction the diplomatic body has adopted against the aggressor nation, the other two being placing an arms embargo upon Italy and lifting the one against Ethiopia and deny in a Italv cash and credits abroad. Such ac tion, if enforced, should handicap severely even the most powerful nation. Meanwhile Mussolini continues his three point program in Ethi opia, having completed the first part with the pnnmierino- of the Tiere province and setting up a puppet regime there with the traitor, Ras Gugsa, as a ruler, xne remaining pouuu me m to connuer Oeaden province in the south, and (2) to disarm Emperor Haile Selassie's armv and put it to flight. Plans at Rome, are to achieve this by Oct. 31. English Ships Remain w w w in the Mediterranean in spite of a propos al Mussolini sent to that country through France asking for a withdrawal of the jjnt isn warships, after which he would consider a dis cussion of settlement of the Ethiopian troub e. England replied with an indication that she would be satisfied with nothing less than Mus solini's downfall. Great Britain is still wait ing for a definite answer from France on the question: Will the French navy support the British in case Italy attacks British warships in tbe Mediterranean ? France apparently won ders why they are there and why England has already turned North Africa -into an armed camp. Italy thinks the whole league program of sanctions will fail because the smaller nations are already asking financial compensation U they stop normal trade with Italy. It would cost England 500 million dollars a year to meet this demand. Consideration of these circum stances make a European war appear almost inevitable. Even Mussolini indicated that he did not hope to avoid a European war. Eight Days of Testimony at the Tri-County hearing failed to pro duce any definite results except the indication that the hoped for alliance of the three large power and irrigation projects in Nebraska was impossible. Even public owned power proj ects evidently cannot work together. The hear ing disclosed the fact that the Keystone dam is still in the Tri-County picture, that a pence offering was made to the Tri-County by the Platte valley public power and irrigation proj ect and that granting water rights to the fn County might damage irrigators and riparian owners along the Platte river. A ROUND AND BOUT With Sarah Louiie Meyer WE KNEW of several adept musicians in the speech de partment yea, composers, we were familiar wiui tne atnieuc in terests of the English department's Bob Scott. We had even reached a state of semicredulity about the Beta who entered the ministry. But we have just unearthed the poetic proclivity of the women's physical education department. One of Ruthie Fulton's efforts, as well as we can recall it, goes some thing like this: "And then there's Miss Moore Who sure works us hard. It makes sore the muscles, But breaks down the lard." Our small tin god, Oscar Odd Mclntvre, "Bagatelles" about a local girl thus: "Virginia Faulkner is being hailed as another Dorotny Parker." Miss Faulkner is a leg andarv personate about this cam pus, and tales about her are just as legend. But none of them could do her justice she's unique with out end amen! When she was twelve she showed no Inclinations toward the fragile humor that makes Miss Parker immortal. She asked nothing from the world but a good, stout pair of football pants. Which she got, and broke her brother's leg in the feroci ous using thereof. Dr. Wimberly love to tell how, when she was in the university, she would tit in the front row of his classes and very obviously draw picture the entire time, com ing out of the coma only to dis agree with him. e She wrote, of course, as she has always written since she could bang a typewriter and did occa sional book reviews for the Ne braskan. One particularly caustic one caused Bess Streeter Aldrich to weep very copious tears all over the book section ol a local depart ment store. She is now in Hollywood writ ing a snappy sketch for Bob Montgomery. . . . She's good.S. . yes, of course. .. .but, shes not another Parker. She's a Virginia Faulkner, begad! Contributions to a fund to be used for the purpose of buying the director of the school of journalism a pair of squeaky shoes will be gladly welcomed In the offices of the Daily Nebraskan or in any journalism class. e Several times, sad have been the results of his quiet approach, and na one bright soul exclaimed. "We miirht BUtreest that he Imitate Mr. Arndt at least to the extent of knocking on the class room door before entering when he's giving a test. e Sleuthing is getting to be more than a pastime on this campus. We understand that It has as sumed the character of a duty In one of the women's organiza tions, members of which are required to make every effort to uncover all rule breaking which goes on. Consequently, if some one tries your door on some dark and gloomy night, don't worry and don't scream, it's just members of the 'Vigilante corps" out to be sure you're safely tucked in bed. Graduate Assistant Seeks to Revegetate Old Western Lands The problem of revegetation on abandoned land in western Ne braska has occupied the attention of B. Ira Judd, graduate assistant in the department of agronomy at the agricultural college, during the past summer. Mr. Judd obtained the histories of a number of fields and has plotted the plant succes sions since the time they were abandoned. In addition he collected seed from native grasses and legumes for germination studies and maae root studies of thirteen of the most important native grasses, Includ ing buffalo grass, western wheat grass, blue grama, little bluestem, and side-oat grama. Mr. Judd was assisted by Marion Jackson, senior in the college of agriculture, who also made soil type investigations in correlation with the studies of abandoned land. CONDRA, BURR ATTEND M'COQKJELEBRATION Recovery From Flood to Be Commemorated by Citizens. Dean G. E. Condra and Dean W. W. Burr leave Tuesday after noon, Oct. 22, for McCook to be present Wednesday at a celebra tion of the recovery of the Repub lican valley from the flood hazard. Richard Hufnagle, university photographer, who will accompany them, will take motion and still pictures of the celebration. Condra, accompanied by Ray mond C. Moore, state geologist of Kansas; E. C. Green, of the Mis souri geological survey, and Dr. Tester of the Iowa geological sur vey, are to be in the field on geological correlation work Oct. 27, 28, and 29. They will visit a number of places in southeastern Nebraska, northeastern Kansas, northwestern Missouri, and south western Iowa. OFFICIAL BULLETIN Ag College Y Council. The agricultural college Y freshman council will meet Tues day evening at 7:00 p. m. in room 202 of the agricultural hall. Tho discussion will be a continuation of tablo ettiquette which will bu presented by Margaret Fedde of the Home Economics department. Barb Interclub. Barb Interclub Council will hold an important meeting Tuesday at 7:30 p. m. In Room 8 of U hall. All clubs should be represented uc this meeting. Program, Office Staff. Program and office staff will meet Tuesday, at 4 in Ellen Smith hall under the leadership of Jeanno Palmer. International Staff. Jane Keefer, chairman of th international staff, will meet witli the group Tuesday at 2 in Ellen Smith hull. Poster Staff. Poster staff will meet with Doris Weaver, chairman, Tuesday at 4. Freshman Commission Meeting. Freshman commission groupj meeting Tuesday are: Katherini WinqulHt 3; Loreen Adlesack--11; Marian Rolland 4; Betty Cherney 3; Theodore Lohrman . 4; Hazel Bradstreet 1. Student Council. Student Council pictures for thi 1936 Cornhusker at the Campus studio, at i) p. m. Wednesday. All members aro ordered to be Uiera on time. Intramural Managers. A meeting of the intramural managers from each fraternity will be held at 7:30, Thursday, Oct. 24, in the N-club room at thy Coliseum. A decision whether or not to have soccor included in tha intramural sports must be reached. Tassels. ' Tassels will hold their regular meeting tonight in Social Scienca 105. All members must be present. CLASSICS CLUB WILL IIOSOR POETS BIRTH MRS. rOLLEY'S RADIO HOUR IS AGAIN OS AIR Schroeder Will Discuss 'Rural Electrification' 'Rural Electrification" is to be the topic which Ted Schroeder will discuss for members of the Ameri can Institute of Electrical Engi neers at a meeting to be held Wed nesday evening, Oct. 22, in E. E. 104 at 7:30 o'clock. Schroeder is chairman of the en gineering executive board and for mer editor of the Nebraska Blue Print, student engineering publication. YOUR DRUG STORE The home of delicious Tostwich Sandwiches Whittman Chocolates, Bauer Rus sian Mints and Glllen's Candies. THE OWL PHARMACY 148 No. 14th 4 P Phone B1068 WE DELIVER University Classes Sing For Opening Number Of Series. Lillian Helms Polley's radio hour began its third season last Wed nesday with "Beginnings and End ings" for a subject. Singers from university classes were Misses Henrietta Dirks, Dorothy Kutchcr, Maurene Johnson, Emma Stiang man, Mildred Platz, Ruth Johnson, and Mr. William Gant. Next week the juveniles will broadcast songs of October. Engineering Students to Make Trip to Coliunhu Prof. O. E. Edison, associate pro fessor of electrical engineering, said plans are under way for a one day field inspection trip of the Columbus power and irrigation project. The trip is for electrical engineering students. Horace Convocation and Annual Saturnalia Party Planned. Activities of the Classics club this year will include a Horaca convocation celebrating the 2,000tli anniversary of that poet's birth, the usual Saturnalia party, a pro gram of Latin plays, and several other meetings for the discussiou of tho Classics. These meetings will be primarily student forums, open to anyone interested in clas sical studies. Officers of the club for this year are Lois Pierson, president; Norris Getty, vice president; Joan Bick nell, secretary-treasurer. Time and program for the first meeting will be announced soon, according to . Miss Pierson. Oury, Scott to Speak. Colonel William Oury will spca on the Ethiopian situation and Ma jor Walter T. Scott on the Chaco truce at a regular meeting of the Lincoln Reserve Offices to be held in the Lincoln hotel Tuesday evening. Girl's Group Holds Party. Sigma Eta Chi, Congregational girls' iiorority, helJ a rush party Saturday afternoon at the home of Miss Henrietta Sanderson. Ganit 1 were planned by Dorcas Crawford, and refreshments were served by Miss Sanderson. OXFORD GLASSES This is the style that Is popular with the girls in all Eastern col leges. We have several styles for your selection to N. U. students. Credit extended Pay Part Now. Balance per week. $1.00 Club PlanJeioelet 11-44 O Jfj STRUT QB&f MSB life HANDS ON CLOCK REACH TWELVE O'CLOCK. 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