SUNDAY, JANUAllY 19, 1936.
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It Can
Be Done.
"It Can Be Done." Such is the title o an
nrticle in the January issue of Header s Digest
which presents evidence showing that the
crent toll of deaths and injuries from motor
accidents has been and can be slashed almost
ia two where the effort is made. Having lo
omed the attention of the nation on tho ter
rible results of careless and incompetent driv
ing in its famous article, " And Sudden
Death," wherein the grim and bloody details
of motor accidents were pictured boldly,
bluntly, and without modification, the Head
er's Digest has now turned its efforts to pro
moting nationwide safety campaigns and finds
back of its program today an aroused nation,
organizing itself to reduce the staggering to
tal of death and injury resulting annually irom
auto accidents.
Federal and state governments have ap
pointed special committees and councils to
handle the problem of accident prevention.
The National Safety Council is active in many
fields in behalf of this movement. Tn indi
vidual cities and communities the press and
local governments have likewise taken up the
crusade against reckless and careless driving.
The Daily Nebraskan is glad of the opportu
nity to add its support and energies to the
important movement by opening this week a
safe driving campaign among university stu
dents and faculty members whose support of
all traffic and safety regulations will be
sought. Safe driving pledges and windshield
stickers for all signers will be made available
at once, and it is to be hoped that the campus
will back this humane movement wholeheart
edly. hi the campaign that is now being con
ducted throughout the country, one fact, as
stressed by the Header's Digest in its January
issue, seems to stand out boldly. That fact is
that we have known all along what to do to
lower the number of traffic accidents but wc
haven't used that knowledge. While Ave have
had at our call effective means of reducing ac
cidents, we have ignored them and permitted
the ghastly toll to mount, higher year after
year. We have been like those who have eyes
and see not, cars and hear not, brains and
think not.
The Digest points out that only ten states
have driver's license laws that are at all ade
quate; six states have no minimum driving
age. Traffic violations mean nothing in many
cities where, through political connections,
they may easily be "fixed." Street illumina
tion and traffic engineering have been impor
tant in reducing accidents but they have been
used little in comparison to their possibilities.
Correct and adequate highway markings and
road patrols are other safety measures which
have not received their full share of use. In
these few factors, alone, lies much cause for
accidents. It is to these methods of prevention
and avoidance that the nation must turn today.
Industry, according to Reader's Digest,
between 3926 and J 934, cut accidents 57 per
cent; taxis reduced deaths b'O percent since
1929. States with excellent driver's laws hung
up an enviable record by reducing motor acci
dents 20 percent since 1926 while those with
out them recorded a 40 percent increase.
Evanston and Milwaukee have produced con
crete evidence that safety measures pay. Or
ganized safety campaigns lowered their death
rates to 10 and 11 per 100,000 population re
spectively in comparison to rates of from 2(!.7
to 115.4 in adjoining cities and communities.
Says the Digest, "If the entire nation had
applied the available knowledge as effective
ly as Milwaukee has and Milwaukee safety
crusaders consider their work only begun
22,800 people who were killed by automobiles
last year wovtld be alive today."
Why should not car drivers duplicate the
splendid record made by industry and by
taxis? Why should not the entire nation
achieve the same success as Evanston and Mil
waukee have locally in combatting accidents?
The answers to these questions is that
their records can be duplicated if all co-operate
in the safety movement. Part of the answer
lies with the law in the nature of higher quali
fications for drivers, stricter laws, better en
forcement. Part of it lies with our govern
ment, national, state, city, county, in eliminat
ing hazards on highways, streets, and other
thoroughfares.
But by far the greater part of it lies with
each, individual who drives a car at any time.
It the people of this nation who, by not ob
serving the rules of safety and that caution
and care which should naturally attend them,
have contributed most to the motor slaughter.
When he places himself behind the steering
wheel, if every driver will bear in mind that
it is not alone his welfare but that of other
drivers and pedestrians that he must protect,
remember that he must consider driving a
solemn responsibility and observe all rules of
safe motoring, then the greatest contributing
factor to accidents personal negligence and
carelessness will have been eliminated.
It is not enough that the attontion of the
country has been drawn to the horrors of n1o
tor accidents. It is not enough that we sign
safety pledges and participate in campaigns.
Wo must practice safety in driving and prac
tice it as pedestrians if the movement is to
succeed.
The University of Nebraska has been par
ticularly fortunate in regard to accidents on
the campus. This record should bo maintained
in tho future while an added effort should be
made to prevent tho few off-campus accidents
which concern students and faculty. Firm in
the belief that tho great majority of motor
fatalities and injuries can be prevented or
avoided by exercise of caution and care, by
education, and by better driving laws and su
pervision the Daily Nebraskan carries to stu
dents and faculty members an earnest plea for
co-operation in making tho highways and
streets safe for pedestrians and drivers alike.
It can bo done. Let's do our share.
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ttudent llfo and the university are welcomed by thl.
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newipaper practice, which excludes all libelous matter
and personal attacks. Letters must be signed, but
names will be withheld from publication If so desired.
It Happens
Every Time.
TO THE EDITOR:
Your writer is most warrantedly in a dis
gruntled mood. Among 10,000 citizens of our
commonwealth, I went to avail myself of what
I thought to be an opportunity to hear the
statements of an internationally important
speaker who was brought into our city. One
of 10,000, I was prompted in my action by a
desire to gather information upon the subject
upon which this noted man was to speak. 1
was disappointed. The amplifying system did
not carry his words to the middle of the build
ing. Of the 10,000 Nebraska citizens who
gathered in the coliseum to hear the address
not more than 2,000 could possibly have heard
enough to have carried home the faintest con
ception of its context.
Nowhere in this state is there a place so
well suited to such public gatherings as is tlu
coliseum of the university. Nowhere in this
state is there a place where the citizens should
be accorded more consideration than upon the
campus of this institution. Yet the other
nijiht S.000 citizens unsuccessfully strained
their ears for a word of Mr. Hoover's address.
They were not shown the common courtesy of
consideration in the institution inaugurated,
constructed and maintained by their own tax
es. Many had traveled long distances for the
occasion. Their reception was a demonstra
tion of gross inefficiency in the institution to
which they are sending their sons and daugh
ters m the hope that there they will learn to
become more successful men and women.
In countries of Europe convocations of
one million persons are successfully being ad
dressed in the open air. In other sections of
the United States speakers successfully speak
to gatherings many times the size of a ca
pacity crowd in our coliseum. Public address
systems within our own city are adequate to
carry sports programs to thousands at a lime.
Loud speaker systems are provided to carry
announcements to 40.000 cheering football
fans. Yet on one of tho very rare occasions
when an individual of national prominence
deems it advisable to set. his foot upon the
plains of Nebraska to address its citizenry he
is accorded less facilities than are provided for
an auctioneer at the Ak-Sar-Ben stock show.
The fault does not lie within the individ
ual. Orchestras play and are muffled in si
lence; artists sing to the first three rows of
seats; speakers present arguments audible
only to their colleagues on the platform, be
cause the amplification system is either inade
quate or improperly managed. In considera
tion of the amount of money that has been
spent in the erection, beautification, and main
tenance of the coliseum it seems to this writer
that a little foresight and responsibility might
well be directed toward the correct manage
ment of its facilities.
This condition is a comparatively small
mailer, perhaps, amid the maelstrom of activ
ity on the campus of a university of this size.
It is, though, a condition that is indicative of
carelessness and poor management of the
equipment at hand. I only hope as a student
and a citizen, that all of the university prop
erty is not being as badly mismanaged for,
should that be true, wc shall come to a sorry
end. K.
What Student
Em pi oyees Wan l .
TO THE EDITOR:
Jn the several complaints that have been
submitted against the downtown restaurants
in their treatment of the student help, there
has been little said about students' demands
in a direct and definite statement. They have
been for the most part a list of the "gripes"
rather than demands.
The student should be allowed twenty
five cents an hour for his services. He should
be permitted to order anything on the menu
within these limits. If the student has to miss
a meal he should be permitted to apply that on
some future meal or receive not less than 80
percent of the value of the meal in cash if he
so desires.
All aprons, uniforms and equipment nec
essary should be furnished by the employer.
The expense of laundering the clothes should
be borne by the employer.
In case any dishes are broken by the em
ployee, the employee should be permitted to
know the exact cost of the dish to employer,
and should not be required to pay a cent moro
for the dish.
The students should never be required to
work overtime without their consent. In case
the student does work overtime he should be
paid thirty cents in cash for each hour he
works overtime.
Several restaurant owners will probably
complain that I am asking too much. A num
ber of restaurants are making even more gen
erous terms to their employees than I havo
asked for, and they seem to be doing business
at a reasonable profit. R. E. B.
Psychologist Corey Reveals
Cause of College Friendship
What causes friendship? What do intimate friends havo
in common V These questions have been answered by n study
of college friendships reported in a bulletin of which Dr. Ste
phen Corey, professor of educational psychology and measure
merits, is co-author.
Tho investigators lounti mat mu
the case of two intimate couego
friends, both are probably less well
ndjustcd cmotlonnlly thnn the av
erage student. General Intelligence
and scholarship arc relatively un
important In tho formation of in
timate friendships. Thirty pairs of
friends at DePauw university were
subjected to vnrlous tests to de
termine traits conducive to colso
friendship, some degree of cmo-
tinal maladjustment being the
most common mutual trait, with
social intelligence next.
Shyness Explained.
Emotlonnllv maladjusted stu
dents, It is explained ,are general
ly shy; henct chooso a few closo
friends, often just one, in prefer
ence to many less intimate nc
minintnncps. Since frlendshln lt-
nelf is a social relation, It was not
considered surprising that the In
timate friends should possess cor
responding social intelligence.
The neurotic student is describ
ed further as a person with "few
friends of the opposite sex," and,
according to psychologist L. L.
Thurstonc, is defensive about it.
Ho is extremely likely, therefore,
to form an intimate friendship
with one of his own sex.
Six tests of measurement were
used, including freshmen Intelli
gence scores, Thurstono's neurotic
inventory, Mosa social intelligence
test, Droba's "Attitude Toward
War," Hnd Watson's "Public Opin
ion Test."
Friends Don't Agree.
In their opinions regarding war
and pence, tho close friends were
no more in agreement than were
other members of the studnt body.
In tho public opinion test, few
.similarities of prejudice on mat
ters of national concern wero
found among the friends. Tho in
vestigators pointed out, however,
an obvious similarity of pre
judices concerning campus affairs,
particularly thoso concerning so
cial, fraternity and sex subjects.
In comparison with thu enllru
DePauw student body, tho thirty
pairs of friends scored higher in
tho Thurstonc intelligence test and
proved slightly superior In
academic grades.
While tho results of this study
arc not presented as conclusive,
tho authors feel that the name re
sults would follow should identical
procedures bo used with larger
groups.
GIANT SEA SERPENT IS
MOUNTED AFTER AL
MOST YEAR OF WORK.
(Continued from Pago 1).
life cycles, and finally died. While
their carcasses were floating up
on the water, sharks of the Cre
taceous seas tore at the flesh as
is indicated .by a ring of sharks'
teeth around the bones of the mo
sasaur. When the bones of these
great marauders of ihc sea settled
to the bottom minute chalk shells
rained down continuously and bu
ried them.
These self same chalk beds are
now raised about 3,000 feet and
the oceans drained. There are
probably just as many masasaur
bones in Nebraska as in Kansas
but a greater number and finer
specimens hve been found in west
ern Kansas because the sod and
soil have been washed away from
the chalk beds making It an easy
task to find their fossil remains.
Five to Be Mounted.
In the Morrill paleontological
collections, two other sea serpents
remain to be mounted: namely,
Clydastes, which is as big and awe
inspiring as Tylosaurus, and Platy
carpus which is somewhat smaller.
In addition this noted collection
contains a good many contempo
raries of the mosaurs such as the
giant turle Physostega, and the
giant Pleslosaur with the swan
like neck. Thees companions of
the sea serpent will be mounted as
rapidly as possible and will make
a startling aggregation. They lived
in the closing days of the age of
reptiles when there were practic
ally every size, shape and peculiar
ity of design that could be thought
of in the reptilian kingdom.
The mosasaurs are the most in
teresting, says Dr. Barbour, be
cause they started as llzard-llke
reptiles on land, which they left
for life in the sea, where they
learned to swim like a fish. Ac
cordingly their feet were changed
to paddles or flippers and their
tails were flattened and converted
nito fins for swimming. Anyone
noting the creature's great length
and size of body, must be lost in
contemplation over the carnage he
must have wrought in those prim
eval days. Once caught no crea
ture could hope to escape from
these cruel jaws. During the spring
months the museum is visited by
high school children, boy scouts,
and campfire girls from the vari
ous towns in the state and from
the various states surrounding Ne
braska. Accordingly, this speci
men has been placed on display
in time for their annual visits.
Dream Out Job.
Tl-.t story of the mounting of the
monster Is a fairy tale in itself.
The bones were brought to the uni
versity museum all in the matrix,
which necessitated the longest and
most delicate process of them nil,
that of removing each tiny digit
from its chalky bed. Next, Reider,
Bell and their assistants gave each
bone a coating of shellac so as to
preserve them.
Then came the cross-word puz
zle program. Each fossil piece
was sorted and placed where it
was to fit in its proper location on
the panel. Metal supports were
then devised to hold the parts to
gether along the wall and section
by section the thirty-three foot
reptile was mounted on the Wall.
The work involved properly allo
cating 121 vertebrae bones, 14 ma
jor ribs, 6 short ones, and a mass
of paddle bones and smaller con
necting digits.
NO LAST MINUTE
RUSH RECORDED
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CONNING THE
CAMPI
By Arlen Crenshaw
Students entering our colleges
in increasing numbers today meet
the disconcerting predictions from
leaders in every country of the
rapid and almost complete dissolu
tion of the chief features of our
western civilization. In such a pe
riod the passing of the old at
tracts more attention than the
emergency of new trends.
"The proper study of mankind
is man," onco remarked an Eng
lish poet and social philosopher.
Mankind has studied everything
else but man. So long as he was
the creation of an arbitrary god
and the subject of a divine right
king, the idea of progress entered
into the minds only of the dreamer
who dared to doubt the current be
lief concerning both.
The slowly dawning conscious
ness that biological, social, eco
nomic, political, even religious de
velopment were within his control
has reached mankind only within
the memory of those still living.
The social scientists having an in
tricate laboratory specimen, man,
have had to progress more slowly
that the natural and physical
scientists. But through biology,
psychology, bio-chemistry and
other sciences man Is turning se
riously to a study of himself.
Another group of comparatively
new social sciences is studying vig
orously his traditions and customs
in terms of man's needs. It is not
without reason that the result is
as yet confusion. The study of
man is new; the significant fact
is, it has begun.
Social traditions are undergoing
scrutiny with uncertain results.
Capitalism Is being examined in
terms of men rather than In terms
of profit. Tho system which re
places it will have need of higher
social values. There Is no inability
In tho political scene. Govern
ments by dictator have reached
epidemic proportions, but these
same governments are seeking to
justify their existence in terms of
the people as never before.
Thoso people In the United
States who arc at the present time
making tho perennial cry against
government expenditures do not
distinguish that In this Instance
the motive Is toward tho construc
tion of a better society. The at
tempt may fail; it will still bo
epoch making. The International
community Is seriously poisoned
and on the verge of a critical ill
ness. National leaders still think of
tho course of empire in terms of
larger and more powerful states
rather than of a bettor and hap
pier people.
Within the month, however,
what may emtio to bo one of tho
most significant stops In tho prog
rcss of civilization has been taken.
Socially minded nations havo
joined on a basis of prearranged
rules of the game to Insist upon
reason and order ns a means of
making changes in tho world
stntiis. Religion Is In all probability
on tho vcrgo of a change almost
as fundamental us that which wit
nessed tho replacing of tho Greek
and Roman cods by that of Chris
tianity. With moro emphasis upon man
and less upon sect and dogma reli
gion may continue to bo ono of tho
most powerful factors In lifting
mankind toward his highest ideals.
From the Montana State Col
lege Exponent; distributed by Col
lege News Service.
Broady to Kearney Meet.
Dr. K. O. Broady, professor of
school administration, 'plans to at
tend tho Schoolmaster's meeting
at Kearney, Jan. 28.
Geologists Hold Possibilities of Oil
And Gas Reserves in South Nebraska
Geologists continue to hold oil and gas possibilities for
some areas in southeastern Nebraska, according to n geologic
survey bulletin issued recently by Dr. George H. Condra, dean
and director of tho conservation and survey division of tho
university.
It is observed, the bulletin states
that the geologic section in the
southeastern part of the state con
tains many formations that cxend
thru the oil regions of Kansas and
Oklahoma. One of tho apparently
favorable structures lies northwest
of the present Morgan well, lo
cated ncur Dawson in Richardson
county.
"This structure and another
nearby have been leased and prob
ably will be drilled within a year"
states Dr. Condra. "If productive
Is found there, the other small
structures hi the area should be
tested, and no doubt "wild-catting
would be done in the flanks of the
Table Rock area."
In the Table Rock area lies the
Humboldt fault, marking a line of
recurring displacement of rock
masses. Just east of this fault,
some geologists claim, oil and gas
may be trapped in the deep gran
ite wash and upturned beds.
Dr. Condra believes that the
crest of the Table Rock arch is
now quite generally condemned for
on and gas, but ho holds some
chance for discovery in the small
structures in the basins bordering
this arch, Including the one pre
viously described northwest of the
Morgan well. Also included in this
area, the survey reveals, are sev
eral thin coal beds. Several coals,
including Nodaway, a source of
considerable production near Cla
rlnda and New Market, Iowa, are
believed to underlie Richardson
county, Nebraska, altho they are
considered too deep and too thin
for economic mining.
Tho bulletin, latest of the Ne
braska Geological Survey, Is prU
mnrlly a technical description of
a geologic cross section extending
from Forest City, Missouri, to Du
Bols, Nebraska. Data were ob
tained by a close geological sur
vey of the exposed formations and
from the logs of four key wells of
the area, the DuBois, Morgan,
Rulo and Davis. In making the
survey, Dr. Condra was aided
chiefly by Eugene Reed, assistant
state geologist, and C. E. Busby.
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