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Telegrams
To Vashinaton
The Student Union Activities Building
committee, which met yesterday aiternoon in
the Student council room, was so engrossed
in settling to their individual satisfaction all
references pertaining to the technical ereciion
of the hoped for structure that only a few
members remained aware of the real issue in
volved at the present time. Much argument
was wasted upon the size of the ballrooms; the
manner of building to be erected, whether it
would be rectangular or L shaped, and the
fvnp nf architecture to be used.
The vital nroblem now before the student
body, which Mr. Wilson, architect, and only
one or two committee members brought out,
is not so much the size, shape or structure of
thP bnildhio- but rather the necessary steps
yet to be taken before the adequate amount of
money can be procured. Mr. vuson ana me
board of regents are only too anxious to co-
onerate with the students once the monetary
hurdles have been cleared. The plan submitted
to "Washington can be readily changed by the
regents provided the new program does not
necessitate an additional allocation of funds
by the federal government.
The lower house of congress just two days
aco massed thru to the senate a WPA bill with
out any special rider or stipulation allotting
rwu't of the money for the use of r A funds.
.Xtu' the WPA handles small, independent and
relatively inexpensive projects. Under PWA,
on the other hand, come those more costly
single endeavors dealing with greater sums of
money. It is under the PWA that a project
such as ours would fall. Now unless the sen
ate insists upon designating a portion of this
WPA money for PWA purposes, which the
house refused to do, then for the present Ne
braska's prospect of securing a Student Union
Activities building is doomed.
Students should act immediately. The
cause is by no means lost. Both Senators Xor-
ris and Burke from Nebraska explicitly ex
pressed the desire for such a project as this
and stated they would lend their wholehearted
support. It is not an uncommon occurrence
for the senate to send back to the house a to
tally revised bill for the lower branch's recon
sideration. Much pressure is being placed
upon this particular issue and student incre
ments would aid immeasurably.
Ineffectual as would such a policy seem
upon superficial examination, nevertheless it
has been shown m the past that sending tele
grams has often changed the expected out
come of a bill. As many students as possible
should send telegrams to either of Nebraska's
senators or to President Roosevelt insisting
that the appropriation bill earmark a certain
amount of its funds for PWA work. If no
such earmark is made the Union building is
lost tor some time to come.
The importance of getting into immediate
action can not be overly stressed. A flood of
individual messages can work wonders. Last
year a similar situation arose. All the PWA
funds were to lie handled exclusively by Hop
kins. It was thru the efforls of certain indi
viduals employing such tactics as these that
they were finally enabled to upset the already
completed program. As a result 3 million dol
lars was granted to aid building projects in
Nebraska.
Already Irving Hill, employing student
committee funds set aside for just such exig
encies as this, has sent a few telegrams to the
above personages. Acting in the group's be
half Mr. Hill has taken the initial step. Let
as many organized houses as are possibly able
respond to this gesture. A telegram from" each,
pleading for the betterment of our university
by urging the earmarking of the appropriation
bill for PWA funds, might easily become a
lasting contribution to the school. Whole
heartedly take up the cause and see the proj
ect thru to the finish. Do not let it die. Here
is a chance to materially aid that institution
which is your institution. Each organized
house should speed at least a single entreaty
to Washington without further delay.
STUDENT PULSE
Brief, concise contributions pertinent to matters of
student life and the university are welcomed by thle
department, under the usual restrictions of aound
newspaper practice, which excludes all libelous matter
and personal attacks. Letters must be signed, but
names will be withheld from publication W so desired.
TO THE EDITOR:
Some time ago you produced a few edi
torials with a slight tone of ridicule toward
the Kosniet Klub. Suddenly they stopped, and
I wondered why. But after witnessing for the
third time that political farce labeled the tap
ping of the Innocents. I can readily see why
the inquiry ended so abruptly.
- At the time of my entrance into the uni
versity, the Innocent society meant to me just
aJ it must mean to hundreds of gullible fresh
man every year, little short of immortality.
Now I realize strongly that those thirteen men
that are tapped during their junior year, make
a speech before some high ncIiooI society, and
tap a successor for the following year, do not
represent the cream of the Cornhusker crop.
but merely the members of fraternities that
are fortunate enough to have n man in power.
These young men who enjoy the privileges of
Innocents pledged to them a year in advance
have only to sit on their doubtful thrones and
wait until their representative for the follow
ing year is ready for the ceremony. By being
a little bullheaded and compromising, the In
nocent in power can give and receive favors,
support undeserving candidates tor his fellow
Innocents and insure his man one of the cov
eted seats, regardless of comparative merit.
In past years such practices have passed
unquestioned, but last Thursday, when the ex
citement created by the football tactics on the
lawn had died down, there were many who
paused to reflect and wonder if those chairs
were really filled with the thirteen representa
tive men of Nebraska. There has been much
discussion on this subject during the last few
days, and I believe that the campus is begin
ning to wake up to the fact that our present
method of choosing Innocents and the caliber
of the Innocents chosen is not at all what Dr,
Condra and the other founders of the organi
zation had in mind.
If something is not done in the near fu
ture to remedy the situation, the dav will come
when Ivy day or the Innocents will carry little
significance to the students of Nebraska or to
anyone else, for like the ivy that dies from
year to year, the Innocent society is dying.
But there is still time for something to be 'done
about it. The movement must he made from
within the society itself, and a little sacrifice
will have to be shown, but if only for the sake
oi tradition, it should be saved.
I may be a bit hasty, and nossiblv radical
in my beliefs, but if so, I am not alone, and
we would like to be shown. An answer wnnlH
be appreciated. B. K.
CONTEMPORARY
COMMENT
Motional
Restaurant Week
This week more than 50.000 eating estab
lishments in the United States are observing
National Restaurant week.
I he restaurant industry is one of the
ioremost employers ot labor," Secretary of
Commerce Daniel C. Eoper said in commenting
on the inauguration of the week. "The indus
try devotes a larger percentage of its gross in
come to pay roll than any other retail trade."
lhe president of the National Restaurant asso
ciation, Frank 0. Sherrill, points out that res
taurant sales have increased 1 nercent in the
last two years. Yet many workers employed
in restaurants in Bloomington and elsewhere
are working as many as 17 and 18 hours a
day, and an 80-hour week for a salary of little
over $10 a week.
The facts do not coincide with the state
ments made by the leaders of the association.
If a larger percent of the gross income is be
ing devoted to the pay roll, the wages ot the
worker should show a difference. Americans
have now come to look upon a six hour day as
a normal working day and a 17 hour day is
regarded as extreme.
The tragedy of the 80 hour week and the
low wage scale of the industry is that the ma
jority of the persons employed are young per
sons, many ot whom have a tamily to support
on the meager wages which they are receiv
ing. In addition, although the industry is one
of the foremost employers of labor, there is a
rapid turnover in the labor and the persons
employed have no assurance of security. Since
the establishment of America's first eating
house 300 years ago, the industry has made
great advancements, but before it rightfully
can command public acclaim it needs must yet
go iar m providing a decent wage and security
for its employes. National Restaurant week
might well be dedicated to that purpose. In
diana Daily Student.
a world peace will be possible. Those who be
lieve that mankind is in the grip of irresistible
forces such as war, hatred, show only their ig
norance of history and mankind.
It has been observed through the ages
that man has inhabited the earth that he has
needed certain characteristics in order to live
and progress, but as soon as ' he no longer
needed those characteristics, they disappeared.
Cannibalism was once predominant among
the people of lhe earth. At that time it was
necessary to eat human flesh in order to exist.
But conditions changed. It became no longer
needful to practice cannibalism, and it has been
abandoned except in the most savage tribes;
tribes who have not undergone that progress
enjoyed by the world in general.
A philosopher of ancient Creeee said that
slavery must always exist. That without it
there could be no leisure class to further learn
ing, invention, and the arts. But slavery has
been outlawed today.
World peace is possible and inevitable. The
world is in its infancy. When children are
young they fight, but when they grow up to
adults they cease scratching each other's faces.
Early in the history of the world, the main
object of man was to kill. He had to if he
expected to live. Man and beast differed little
in their needs and emotions. But man was des
tined to progress, Those who claim that war
is the result of capitalism have their theory
disproved by the fact that the most predomi
nant era of war (in its broadest sense) wns
during the simplest economic period expe
rienced in history. Man killed then because
his stomach demanded it.
Peace is not a thing that can be gained
in a day, a month or a year. But eventually it
is inevitable, if man is to continue to inhabit
the face of the earth. Psychologists agree on
one thing that, the foremost instinct of man
is sell preservation, itli the modern ilistru
incuts of warfare paradoxically, the instru
ments of progress which have been turned to
the wrong use another world conflict would
dispopulate the earth shortly. Man will not ex
tinguish his very existence.
With lhe same modern instruments of
transportation and communication, the world
will ultimately unify. It cannot do otherwise.
Modern invention has opened a wny for a
democratic world, not so conscious of class and
civil strife.
War is a demons! ration of physical force
nnd might. The world is gradually abolishing
the idea that might is right, and with that reali
zation will come world peace. The world nas
never before felt the uselessness and disaster
of war so vividly.
Only those who make profits from war
promote it. People do not make wars; they
only fight and die in them. With a free press,
democratic government is possible, and demo
cratic governments outlaw war. Daily O'Col-legian.
Lincoln Firm Invites Coeds
to See Display of New
Summer Clothes.
Collegiate Polish,
Over Confusion
-Sheltered in the moment, man regards his
present systems of culture with a curious stol
idity and takes his own particular social milieu
for granted with sanguine assurance. Thus we
are chained forever to relative values. We-an
know no other environment than the present;
even our imaginings of other modes is limited
by experience; and so the best we can do is
live our little lives in studied nonchalance.
The college youth is an admirable success
at such techniques. By careful practice he has
become adept at simulating an attitude of so
phisticated assurance. His mannerisms are lesd
individual than mass; he assumes the fadisms
of his day in droves, hardly aware of his own
conventionality.
Those incubated in the college environment
tend to be very world wise and smile in kindly
condescension at the rusticities and egoisms of
less urban localities. The new barn of Silas, the
sewing eircle which meets at Minnie's house
how quaint! And all the while we concern
ourselves with rushing teas, riding habits, pub
licity chairmen and gowns of mousscline de
soie! How infinitely more elegant; how much
more elan !
Perhaps it may be said of us that at least
we are consistent in our perversities and that
consistency of standard is required. But even
consistency may be an illusion. Thus we are
almost reduced to a state wherein we hesitate
to proclaim exact knowledge of anything ex
cept our own ideas. At least we must scorn
any peremptory proclamation of values.
Man is an inconsistent creature, and his
attempts at consistency are often ludicrous.
The span of illusion is unbounded. We, as col
lege students, may act sophisticated or even
blase, but at heart we admit our confusion.
Minnesota Daily.
All university girls are invited
to attend the ' Playtime Fashion
Show to be presented by Hovland'
Swanson Co., tonight at 7:30. The
show will be given in the new and
elaborately decorated college room
on second floor.
Charming new creations will
be modeled by ten girls chosen
from different sororities on the
campus. Alice Mae Livingston
will wear a special number called
"Isle of Desire" which should de
light girls interested in something
different. Natalie Rehleander is
showing a "Marlene Deitrich"
dress especially suited to all types
of coeds.
Beach wear, active sports wear,
and spectator sports wear, will
be prominent features of the show.
Afternoon evening: dresses of
sheers', linens, and nets too will
be shown. There is no admission
but complimentary tickets may be
obtained from Hovland-Swanson's
or from the models, Helen Fox,
Florence Smeerin, Virginia Ander
son, Claudine Burt, Inez Haney,
Virginia Hyatt, Ruth Rutledge,
Alice Mae Livingston, Natalie
Rehleander and Marjorie Laurit-
son.
FISCHER FIGHTS
FOR 'REAL UNION'
BEFORE COUNCIL
(Continued from Page 1).
with a grade of 2.410, and Delta
Upsilon, with 2.354, took second
and third places respectively.
The remaining social fraterni
ties, in the order of their scholas
tic averages, are as follows: Sig
ma Alpha Epsilon, Beta Theta PI,
Tau Kappa Epsilon, Delta Sigma
Lambda, Phi Kappa Psi, Aipna
Sigma Phi. Kappa Sigma, Delta
Tau Delta, and Zeta Beta Tau. .
Chi Phi, Alpha Tau Omega, Phi
Sigma Kappa, Pi Kappa Alpha,
Acacia, Sigma Phi Epsilon, Theta
Xi, Lambda Chi Alpha, Sigma Nu,
Phi Delta Theta. Sigma Phi, Theta
Chi, and Phi Gamma Delta.
Delta Gamma s 2.860 average
was closely followed by Alpha
Phi's 2.804 and Alpha Xi Delta's
2.787, for second and third places
among the Greek sororities.
Fourth, fifth and sixth places were
captured respectively by Chi
Omega, Kappa Alpha Theta, and
Sigma Delta Tau.
Other social sororities in order
of their averages are as follows:
Alpha Omicron PI, Alpha Chi
Omega. Gamma Phi Beta, Alpha
Delta Theta, Surma iappa, zeia
Tau Alpha, Kappa Delta, Phi Mu,
Delta Delta Delta, Pi Beta Phi,
and Delta Zeta.
Honorary Bizad fraternity. Al
pha Kappa Psi, topped the list
of professional fraternities with
the grade of 2.913. Farm House
placed second when tneir com
puted average was 2.864. Third
place honors were captured by
Sigma Delta Chi. journalism
fraternity. Their average was
2.827.
The other professional fraterni
ties averages were computed in
the following order: Sigma Gam
ma Epsilon, Phi Mu Alpha, Delta
Sigma Delta, Xi Psi Phi, Phi Delta
Phi. Delta Sigma Pi, Alpha Gam
ma Rho, and Phi Alpha Delta.
Third to seventh planes among
the professional sororities were
taken in the following order: Sig
ma Alpha Iota, Phi Chi Theta,
Phi Upsilon Omicron, Theta Sig
ma Phi, ind Delta Omicron. ',
The other organized groups at
tained averages in the order fol
lowing: Howard hall, Palladian,
Wilson hall, Raymond hall, and
Delian-Union. Scholastic average
of the members of Howard hall
was 3.125.
Man's Own Show-
Civilization
Will world peace ever be possible? That
question has been asked innumerable times,
and today it is a more important question than
ever before.
The revolt of youth, of democracy, against
possible war again brings justified hope that
FETZEIt EXPOUNDS
ALTITUDE THEORY
Chairman Chess Meet
Says Height Asset.
That the "static in the high
er altitudes improves the mental
ability to play chess" is a
theory epressed by Frank L.
Fetzer, chairman Denver Ath
letic Club Interstate Chess
tournament, and is also offered
as an inducement to 'Dean J.
E. Rossingol, Bizad College, and
Prof. E. L. Hinman, philosophy
department, to - enter competi
tion at Denver, Jully 3, 4 and 5.
Mr. Fetzer basis his observa
tion on the keenness of compe
tition betweenn himself and Mr.
Barker, Nebraska's chess
champion, which took place in
Estes Park a few years ago.
However, the Bizad dean and
OFFICIAL
BULLETIN
Barb Council.
Barb council will meet today at
5 o'clock in room 8, University
hall. All holdover members and
newly elected members must at
tend. Election of officers will be
held.
Pershing Rifles.
All Pershing Riflemen who are
going to the party must pay the
assessment to the mail department
by 5 oclock, Thursday, May 14
Alumni who want their names on
the door list may call Kenneth
Pavey at the Alpha Tau Omega
house.
Prof. Hinman will be unable to
attend the tournament due to
unalterable plans; according to
statements made Wednesday the
two faculty men.
Dean LeRossignol plans to
leave June 9th for his summer
vacation and will not return un
til the end of January. He has
accepted a half year's leave of
absence. In expressing his re
grets for being unable to enter
the chess competition in order
to test out the "altitude theory,"
he remarked. "It reminds me of
the Irishman who, when asked
to change a ten dollar bill, said:
'I cannot, sorr, but I thank you
for the compliment.' "
AG COLLEGE KEEPS
PICNIC TRADITION
200 Students Gather for
Annual Fair Clean-Up.
More than 200 ag students
gathered at the annual Clean
Up day picnic at the activities
building on Ag campus Sunday
to dismantle booths and return
tables and other properties to
their regular places. The picnic,
which has been held the day
after every Farmer's Fair since
the organization of the first fair
15 years ago, is one of the fa
vorite traditions of ag college.
All persons who take part in
the fair come to the picnic to
clear away all traces of the oc
casion and to make the cam
pus ready for school the fol
lowing day. The men wear over
alls and the coeds wear cotton
dresses. After their morning's
work, the Farmer's Fair board
gives a luncheon for them.
Usually the lunch is held out
doors, but this Sunday the pic
nicers were interrupted by rain
and forced to seek shelter in the
Activities building.
Moving pictures, taken of the
group at work, will be shown
next spring at the first rally for
the 1937 Farmer's Fair. The
moving pictures are also a part
of the tradition surrounding the
fair.
In charge of the picnic was
Janice Campbell, who was as
sisted by the concessions com
mittee which she heads.
OP IN FRENCH LIBRARY
Colored Reproductions
Famous Paintings
Exhibited.
of
The library of the department of
romance languages has been trans
formed into a miniature Louvre
with its present exhibition of over
a hundred colored reproductions
of famous paintings to be seen in
the Louvre museum of Paris.
Being of interest to students of
art as well as students of romance
languages, the exhibit contains re
productions of great French, Ital
ian, Dutch, Spanish, German,
Flemish and English canvases.
Among the celebrated painters
represented are Clouet, Watteau,
Fragonard, Ingres, David, Millet,
Corot, Greuze, Boucher, Poussin
Gros, Delacroix, Manet, Rubens,
Reynolds, Murillo, Velasquez, Fra
Angelico, Raphael, Leonardo da
Vinci, Andrea del Sarto, Titien,
Hans Holbein, Frans Hals, Van
Dyck, Rembrandt, and others.
FOLK SONG PROGRAM
Prof. Diers Directs Group
In Recital Thursday
Evening, May 14.
Prof. Theodore Diers will direct
the German sacnger choir in a
group of folk songs in the Mor
rill hall auditorium Thursday eve
ning, May 14. Walter G. Keiner,
graduate assistant in the botany
department, will talk about his
native land, Switzerland. His lec
ture will be illustrated.
The selections that will be sung
are: Loerelei, Der Lindenbaum, An
den Sonnenscheln, and Heiden
roeslcin. Prof. Diers has trained
this group to sing the interesting
old folk songs that are still sung
In Germany.
This is the fourth In a series of
programs planned by the depart
ment of Germanics for students
and the general public.
L
T
Ninth Annual Flower Display
Include Variety
of Blossoms.
DOBEUS INTERVIEWS
SENIOR ENGINEERS
Alii Chalmers Company
Hunts for New Men.
Jbb hopes increased Wednes
day, as nine mechanical engi
neering seniors were interviewed
by Representative Dobeus of
Allis Chalmers company, one of
the larger manufacturers of
farm equipment. Men taken by
the company will be given a two
year training course in selling,
maintaining, and servicing trac
tors. Selections will not be an
nounced until later, stated De-beus.
MUSIC
FOOTNOTES
Miss Helen Kunz, student with
Lenore Buikett Van Kirk, dis
played a wide vocal range and
fine tone quality in a senior re
cital Wednesday afternoon.
One was impressed with a voice
of great possibilities. Thruout the
program, however, one was con
stantly aware of a vocal effort
which, in good singing, should be
present but not apparent. It
seemed as tho there was so much
concentration in producing a tone
that little was left for meanful in
terpretation of songs.
Numbers best suited 10 me
singer were "Le Tasse" by Godard
and "Only My Love for Thee"
written by a member of the uni
versity's faculty, Wilbur Cheno
welh. The accompaniment was
Miss Hilda Chowins.
Among the ingenious college
youth of the country, we think
we ought to place the name of
Harold Jesurun of Columbia along
side that of young Mr. Gorin,
founder of the Veterans of Fu
ture Wars.
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The American Student Union
was termed part of a "Communist-controlled
movement" by dele
gates to the D. A. R. convention.
University of Oklahoma arche-
ologists have discovered skeletons
of Indians believed to have been
buried 300 years ago.
Notre Dame will open a special
department for the training of
Catholic apologist writers in Sep
tember. "More destructive than con
structive" is the practice of work
ing through college, says Presi
dent Conant of Harvard.
The rustic sportsman's lingo
that customarily echoes through
the massive halls of the Univer
sity coliseum will give way to the
gardener's lexicon on the structure
of blue delphiniums, pink petunias,
and American peonies as the Lin
coln Garden club opens its ninth
annual spring flower show, May
23. The show, which Is sponsored
In conjunction with the American
Iris society, bids fair to be the
greatest exhibit since the birth of
the garden festival in the city of
Lincoln.
Due to the late season that has
been so evident this year, show
sponsors expressed hopes of of
fering one of the largest floral dis
plays in the nation. Entries are
open to all exhibitors and awards
will be presented regardless of the
affiliation ot the entrant.
BANQUET, JUT MEET
Students Convene Tonight
With American Society
Members.
Civil engineering students will
hold a banquet and Joint session
with state chapter members at
tonight's meeting of American
Society of Civil Engineers. Mem
bers will be re-instructed in so
ciety aims and accomplishments
by Mr. Lei son, secretary of the
Omaha Metropolitan Utilities dis
trict. Professional interest will be
supplied by state P. W. A. Ad
ministrator Latenser, in a discus
sion of phases of PWA project
work. Held at the Annex cafe,
the meeting will start at 6:15. An
admission price of 50 cents will be
charged.
The "Practical Pacifists" and
the "Student Americaneers" are
the only peace organizations ap
proved by the D. A. R.
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