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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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