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TWO THE DAILY NEBRASKA! TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1936. Daily Nebraskan Statioa K Lincoln. Nebraska. THIRTV-FIFTH YEAH Published every Tussday, Wednesday. Thursday, Frl. day and Sunday morninos ' tin acadtmle year by atu. dents of the University of Nebraaka. under (upervlalon of (he Board of Publications. N?6 Member )J? Pl5$ocioted Cofleeiate Press Distributors of CbfleetoeDi6es National Advertising Service, Inc CtUtf Mliiktn ' 410 Madiion Avt. NiwYOhk. N.Y. CNICAAO SOSTON BAN PRANCiaCO LOa ANSSLS8 PORTUANO atATTkl ARNOLD LEVIN 0 1VNK Editor Cualnaaa Manager EDITORIAL STAFF Managing Editor GEORGE PIPAL DON WAONEB News Editors Eleanor Cllibe Wlllard Burney Ed Murray Helen Pascee Bob Reddlar) BUSINESS STAFF Assistant Business Managers Bob Wadhama Webb Mine Frank Johnson This paper Is represented for general advertising by the Nebraska Press Association. Entered as second-class matter at the poatofflej In Lincoln. Nebraaka. under act of congress. March 3. 17. and at special rat of postags provided for In taction 110S, act of October 8. 1917. authorised January 20. SUBSCRIPTION PATE $1 SO year Smgi Copy 6 cents 100 a eamester M.50 a year mailed 11.50 a semester mailed Under direction of the Student Publication Board. Editorial Office University Mall 4. Business Office University Hall A, Telephones Dayt B6891; Night: 66882. B33M (Journal). ON THIS ISSUE Day editor Wagner Night editor Murray De-Pantherize The Husker Schedule. Sunday's Daily Nebrn.skan carried a fea ture account of the froinps-on on the Pitts burgh bench during the recent Panther-Nebraska game. The Nebraskan '-stooges'' didn't attempt to hide under old blankets or in any other way disguise their identity from the Pitts burgh players. They were a couple of college kids out to get the low-down on why Pitts burgh beats Nebraska year after year after year. What they heard should turn every ear in Pittsburgh red, but, unfortunately, ears in Pittsburgh don't turn red when the ethics of the football team are under consideration. All Pittsburgh cares about is that Jock Suth erland keeps on turning out the winners, and who cares how? The Daily Nebraskan interested itself in how," and the results of the ''bench" con versation would lead us to the conclusion that perhaps it would be for the best if Pittsburgh wis dropped from the Nebraska schedule. Jock Sutherland evidently lacks the ath letic idealism which permeates Nebraska's liana X. Bible. Unless Mr. Sutherland's "little boys" were telling fairy tales, Mr. Sutherland lacks any athletic idealism. His job is to turn out winning football teams. He loes his .iob very well, but at the expense of all that is considered honorable and decent practice in amateur athletics. Mr. Sutherland probably doesn't employ tactics which in some measure or other aren't applied in other institutions, but those tactics, no matter by whom employed, are so differ ent from those of Nebraska that the Corn buskers should not engage a team using them. The meeting of Panther and Cornhusker Is a battle of professional against amateur football. Pittsburgh subsidizes with never a pretense at camouflage of her purpose. Her players receive scholarships, are on a training fable all year lonif, practice football ten months a year, and indulge in a summer's hard training in a mountain camp. Sutherland scouts comb the Pennsylvania coal fields for strong young men who are capable of as-s-milatine the technicalities of a football play. These husky young men, who measure strength by the number of baskets of cnal they can carry, face Nebraska's Cornhuskers duni'Mly. Most f the Pittsburgh players admit that football isn't so irnwh fun but it is more fun than clrairiiinc (,oal bucket around in the fields. Most of them haven't been to school j-t. Evidently they get degrees for four years of font lift 11. W contend that Nebraska teams should tint be subjected to playing professional teams. We boast of our amateurism, and Dana Bible is noted all through the land as the defender of the old time faith in football. Yet he per mits his team in play one that is antithetieal to all that he believes. Where is the. logic in this? Nflniiska fa ns wait and wait, and wait nuain for a victory. .Minnesota is human. H-r foot hall tennis make mistakes sometimes. Pitt's team makes some mistakes but they nrt-ii't of the type that counls. Nebraska will be recording victories over the Clophers years l.ffore Pitt fulls by the wayside, if they con tinue the prs nt m-thod of getting and hold in' players. The Daily Nebraskan recommends to the Athletic Board, of Control, after that last foot ball car, in which fit flew thicker than grhopper during; the plague, that Pitts burgh be drPPJ from the Nebraaka football schedule an toon as he can be replaced bf a team which resorta to clean, wholesome, ama teur practices. STUDENT PULSE Brief, concise contributions pertinent to matters of student life and to the university are welcomed by thle newspsper practice, which excludes all libelous matter and peraonsl attacks. Letters must bs signed, but nsmes will ba withheld from publication If ao desired. Finding A Niche?. To The Editor: In a recent address before the state con ference of the National Youth Administration in Albany, New York, Mrs. Franklin D. Roose velt showed a grasp of the problems of youth which, though still uncommon, is becoming more and more apparent in most members of her generation. The problem of finding a job is, of course, vital. But it is equally important that the individual find a job in which he feds so cially useful and in which he will do his best work. Mrs. Roosevelt displayed her realization of this fact when she said that she knew noth ing sadder than a young person, at work or unemployed, who did not know the purpose and reason for his place in the community. She continued, "No matter how young the hoy or girl may be, each has a right to feel himself or herself a constructive factor in the community life. The findintr of a job is not a panacea for all the ills of the younger generation. A large part of our recently graduated seniors find themselves in such a treadmill job that they have no conception of the part they play as a cog in an important wheel. They cannot realize that above them is unity as a group and there is work to be done by this group. Above all they do not realize that they are. or could be, indispensable to that group. There inndispensability must be in either one of two categories; constructive or destructive. It naturally follows that it is an individ ual responsibility for one to acquaint himselt with his place in the community. Find the job you want. The one that will enlarge you mentally and give you pleasure in its per formance. Having once found your niche in the business world then see to it that you find vour second niche serving the community. Robert Shellenberg. Why Not a Liberal Education? Last month's issue of the Atlantic Monthly contained a bit of verse by one Rob ert Hillyer entitled "Letter 1o a Teacher of Bnelish." Poor in the matter of poetic diction, but rich in thought-provoking material, the writing deplored education in the modern sense. AVhat does a Th.D. mean, questioned Mr. Hillyer. when those who receive it have no more knowledge than an undigested mass of facts and dates? Why do universities honor those who have read few if any of the world's great books, who favor a saxaphone to the music of Brahms and Beethovan? The poem revives an issue long before American colleges. What can be done to in still a bit of the worth of the world's great intellects into the minds of college studenls? How can a liberal education be best effected? The answer, quibbled about for years, is no nearer solution than it has ever been. It seems to us, however, that a college student claiming an A.B. or any degree, should have had a little contact with the great thinkers of other days. Rousseau. Locke. Shakespeare, Dostoivsky, Plato, others who have survived these many years as writers of ereat literature. Surely the university could introduce re quirements for graduation that include classes dealing wilh the masters of earlier days. Jt seems to indicate a definite lack in cultural requirements to allow a student unfamiliar with Thaekery except thru mention made of him in a popular song, to craduate with hon ors. Let's have a little LIBERAL education, but not in the sense of wholesale decrees. Dorotha Fulton. Edwin Harden, '27, Compiles Text on Experiences in Dramatic Work. tng committee containing; reaolu tiona and Ideas agreed upon. Inasmuch as the association of colleges Ik In its Infancy, next year's meeting" of the group will also be held at Lawrence, Kaa. In following years the conferences will be held at various other schools belonging to the associa tion. NEWS PARADE By Dale Martin. A group of gloomy new deal prophets, led by Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, are pre dicting a too rapid boom followed by another major depression. Said Secretary Wallace:, ''I would like to suggest that when the next j building bnom blows up, as it probably will j some time in the 4J's. there will ensue a sit- uation which in some respects will be more difficult to meet than the depression of the early 30's, if in the meantime serious efforts to prevent it have not been taken." The first predictions of collapse, though never made public, were made by government economists for 193. The time has now been extended because the expected farm surplus has not been forthcoming due to adverse weather conditions. Rythmically successive periods of Ihim lioss activity and inactivity have been notice able in the L'nited States since 1S2". From that time until the turn of the century de pressions occured about every ten years, the cycles being broken only by the Civil War. In the 20th century depressions have occurred on an average of every seven years in '03. '07, 14, '21. and '29. The seven yean allotted to the present cycle have been almost entirely consumed in getting; started back to normal. It if quite poiiible that another teven will see the inception of a depression of doubly large proportion! due to the 14 year acceleration of businei. From the Spanish war front : The mti mated million persons still in Madrid are fac ing starvation. Their homes shattered, many women anil children are wandering about the city, huddling in doorwaya, and crying for food. Lloyd 'a of London announced Friday that odd are ten t one against war during the next aix monthi between any two Euro pean powers or between a European country and Russia, Turkey or Japan. "Practice in Dramatica," a text written by Edwin Lyle Harden who received hlg M. A. here in '27, was recently presented to the public. It waa designed to supply a need which the author believes has been felt by teachers of dramatics and directors of dramatic clubs, as well as by students In high school or college dramatics. Ten years' experience as a teacher and director of dramatics gives Mr. Harden authority to present specific material for prac tice in the fundamental principles of dramatic production colleagues point out. At present, he Is head of the English and Speech depart ment of the high achool at New Braunfels, Texas. "Practice In dramatics" contains scenes from thirty-five plays by such authors as Eugene O'Neill. Zona Gale, Christopher Morley. Richard Hughes, Robert Kasper, Anton Chekov, Kenneth Sawyer Goodman and other, as well as a complete one act play for pro duction. Each of these scenes illustrates an important element of dramatic production as pantomime, char acterization, grouping, stage bal ance, tempo, pause, climax, reac tion and response, and atmosphere. Classified and arranged to pre sent a definite point, each unit of the text is followed by a well se lected list of references which bear upon the particular dramatic value under study. Miss Jcston Dickey, M. Ed., di rector of dramatics, Brackenridge high school, San Antonio, Texas, writes the woreward for Mr. Hard en's book, says, "I can recommend j this practice book for its terse,; discerning, and comprehensive treatment of the vital problems of i dramatic production." Florence H. Slack. Mope street high school, Providence, R. I., comments on Mr. Harden's book thus: " 'Practice In Dramatics' presents in clear, simple language the basic principles underlying speech activities, with ample ex ercise for classroom propects." Published by Baker's Plays, 178 Tremont St., Boston. Mass., and 448 So. HU1 St., Los Angeles. Cali fornia, the book may be secured for Jl.fiO, prepaid. LANDIS OUTLINES IDEA OF MIDWEST COLLEGE ENTENTE i Continued from Page 1.) new ideas included in the consti tution. Officers of the group were elected at the Kansas meeting. They are president, John Phillips, Kansas university: vice-president, Naphee of Oklahoma university; and secretary-treasurer. Bob Tyler, Colorado university. All schools have equal voting privileges ex cept in consideration of constitu tional officers and financial poli cies when it is to be determined according to population. The plan provides fur allowing one vote to schools of 1,000 students or less, two votes to school containing be tween one and two thousand, and three to those having over 3.000 students. There are only three schools in the association with an enrollment of over 3.000, Nebrska, Minnesota and Colorado. Co-operative plan for contract ing nationally famous orchestras had been organized as a subsidiary body to the association. Purpose of the plan is to fill long sought after method of hiring well knpwn bands at prices possible for uni versity organizations to pay and to induce interesting lecturers and artists to appear at mid-western schools. To Create Agency. Actual work contacting the : orchestras will be in the hands of an agent appointed by an execu- j tive body to whom he is respond- i ble. The agent will not necessar ily be a student, in fai t, according to LHndis. the organization's lead- i ers had their eves trained on plac- lng the work in the hands of a large Kansas City agency. Be sides contracting orchestras fori the schools, the representative's duty will be to notify all schools of available orchestras during cer tain periods. To be operated as a non-profit making jfroup, a nmall commission ! will be patd to the agent to cover i cost of correspondence and other ' routine work. The amount of the commission to be collected on each orchestra will be set by the execu- 1 tive body and not by the agent. Progressive Move. j "In mv opinion this association j of schools and co-operative system for hiring orchestras are the two most progressive and far seeing steps that the council has taken, or even proposed," declared Lan dis. "This orchestra plan includes the good factors of the system in use at Iowa State university, which has proved so successful, and includes added features which should make It even more effec tive and economical for members of the group." Genevieve Bennett, chairman of the Big Six conference committee and one of the delegates to the Kansas meetiriK. submitted a gen eral report of the proceedings In Lawrence. Miss Bennett announced that delegates attended every pos sible discussion and that although most of them were quite general, any helpful suggestions received would be passed on to the respec tive committees. She offered a special paper compiled for the benefit of the student union build- Two Liehted Matches were t'irown in the powder keg that is Europe in the last lew davs. the first of these incidents which could start a general con flict was the reported conviction and forthcoming execution of a German spy in Russia. The unfortunate nazi was E. I. Strickling. mining engineer for the soviet.. He and eight others have confessed sabotage of Rus sian coal mines which resulted in the deat'i of 14 Russian miners. . The Russians are convinced that the explosion in the mines which caused the death of the workers was due to a conspiracy of the nazies and Leon Trotzky, exiled commuinst leader. They charge that this plot is only part of a deep laid plot of the nazls to ripple Russian Industry. A score of others, including 17 Germans, are yet to be tried. Strickling It reported to have confessed fully to the conspir acy and to have Implicated the German government In hli con fession. He said during the trial "I have concealed nothing.... . .and I have showed who led me down the road." The person referred to in his confession was presumably the German consul. He was found guilty of direct connection with the "secret service of one foreign state." It Is Believed that Hitler would Immediately break off diplomatic connections with Russia if Strickling were ex ecuted. Relations between Russia and Germany are already strained to the breaking point because of the conflict in Spain and because of secret treaties which have been formed between Italy, Germany and Japan against Russia. It seems unlikely, however, or at least, unreasonable that Germany would go to any great lengths to protect a man who has betrayed his country in confessing his own guilt. The Second Storm Signal hoisted in Europe was the an nouncement by the rebels in Spain that they intend to blockade Bar celona, supposed to be the port thru which the loyalists have been receiving aid from the Russians and from other sources. The loyalists charge that it Is not the rebels who are going to blockade Barcelona, it it the Italian and German navies. There are several Indication! that the German and Italian navlet will lend "unofficial aid" to the fatcittt in Spain. In the first place, the rebel navy in itself would be entirely Inca pable of making the blockade effective. There are only eight vessels in the rebel navy while there are 18 in the loyalist navy. It would be foolish for the rebels to anounce a blockade under these conditions unless they ex pected outside aid. In the second place, at the same time Paris newspapers were pub lishing rumors that the Italians were to lend aid, American cor respondents in Italy received t.ie same report. These reports, from two different sources, Indicated the same thing that Italy in tends to send submarines and planes to aid the rebels in their blockade. In the third place, to confirm all these rumors, the Spanish loyalist fleet reported that it was attacked by submarines of a for eign nation. A British destroyer standing by confirmed reports that a Spanish cruiser was dam aged in a series of mysterious ex plosions. If the cruiser was ac tually attacked by a submarine, it was attacked by an Italian or German submarine, since the fas cists in Spain have no undersea craft. In tie fourth place, Italy does not deny these rumors. Italy re fused to confirm or deny the ru mors but added that it was pre pared to take drastic measurea to prevent soviet aid from reach ing the loyalists and to prevent establishment of a red republic In Spain. Britain, France and the United Stales have announced that they do not intend to allow unrestricted block ade of Barcelona. Britain has an nounced that they intend to pro tect their merchant marine witn their navy. If the Italian navy is aiding the loyalists and should happen to sink a British ship or a Russian supply ship, the stage would be set for another war. CZECH MUSIC FEATURES NEXT COMENIUS MEETING Lincoln Women Plan Nov. Program for Student Organization. 20 Chechoslovakian music and folk dances will be featured in the next regular Comenius club pro gram being prepared by Mrs. H. R. Tvrdik and Mrs. V. S. Splrk of Lincoln. Mrs. Tvrdik, outlining her plans for the program at the meeting Nov. 20, included in her classification of representative Czech music the following: peas ant music, Czech music composed by Czechs as "The Bartered Bride," music composed by Czechs but not necessarily Czech as "Hu moresque," and Czech music com posed by others than Czech. These four types of music will be in cluded in the program to be given at the next meeting. Victor Morava, president of the Comenius club, appointed the fol lowing committees: Entertainment and program, Lavern Stastny, Eu nice Blatny, Clarence Kunc, and Ed Vacek; membership, Bob Kubi cek, Paul Filipi, Rynold Clmfel, Evelyn Ripa, Lorna Kalina, Elsie Bernaaek, Marie Vidlak. 50 AG SCHOLARS RECEIVE HONORS AT CONVOCATION (Continued from Page 1.) Dakota City: Theodore Doyle. Curtis; Earl Heady, Imperial; Don ald Magdanz. Pierce; Albert Mose- man. Oakland; Ogden Riddle, Bartley and Frank Svoboda, Burchard. Honoraries Choose Members. Three girls were elected to Omi cron Nu. Elinor McFadden of Lincoln, president of that sorority, presented Katherine Jones. Fair bury; Virginia Keim. Lincoln and Gladys Morgan. Winnebago. Nine girls were honored by election to Phi L'psilon Omirron, another hon orary home economics sorority. Frances Schmidt of Wymore, presi dent, presented Agnes Arthaud, Cambridge; Donna Histt. Beatrice; Agnes Novacek. Milllgan; Helen Phares. Guide Rock; Pauline Walt ers. Kiawatba, Kas.; Ester Wie chert. Lincoln; Eula Wintermote, Chambers and Mrs. Carrie Horen, Lincoln, lis new mambers. Dairy and crops Judging teams j were also presented to the student ' body. On the dairy cattle team j were Ivan Borman, Papillion; ! David Carder. Albion and Chris : Sanders, Lindsay. Prof. R. F. Morgan coached the team. Prof. P. A. Downs, dairy products team consisting of Richard Larsen, Newman Grove; Albert Pearl, Hebron; Norman Weitkamp, Nirk erson and Arell Wasson, Lincoln, were also introduced. The college crops judging team coached by I Prof. A. L. F'rolik was presented. BULLETIN. Tassels, Tassels will meet tonight at 7 o'clock in room 108 Social Science. Alliance Francals. Major Max Vivier, distinguished member of the French Foreign Legion, will address the Alliance Francals at a meeting to be hold in Ellen Smith Hall at 8 o'clock, Tuesday Nov. 24. Home Ee Dinner. Home Ec students and faculty will attend the annual home Eo dinner at 6:15 this evening in the ag activities building. Delta Phi Dalta. A business meeting of Delta Phi Delta, fine arts honorary, will be held this afternoon at 4 o'clock in room 204 of Morrill hall. Plans for the annual Christmas party will receive special consideration. andfhe-Evolution of Love" by the Farm Operators. Curtain Acts Selected. Curtain acts which will appear In the revue are aa follows: a chalk talk by LeRoy Hansen; a (Gorman hand' SI humsll DUPDet dance by the Y. W. freshman com mission group on tne ag campus, and a number of musical selections by the ag college quartettes. The latter numbers will be sung by the girls, boys, and mixed quartettes. Discussing the selection of skits made by the board, Bengtson stated, "Since there was a greater number and variety of skits and xurtnin art than has been entered in the elimination contest in the past few years, the committee is well satisfied with the quality of acts which make up this year's Coll-Agrl-Fun revue." He contin ued by commenting, "tmi renear sala for the presentation will be hM tlio Yi-.fU after Thanksfrivinff vacation, and we are asking that all groups complete iinai pians ior their acts sometime this week." Members of the board who Judged the acts in addition to Rono-tain BN PeO'CV PASCO. OS- sistant manager: Pauline Walters, Al Nore. Leroy Hansen, ana Truma McClellan. Faculty advis ers helping in preparations for the revue include: Prof. L. K. Crowe, Miss Louise Leaton, and Misa Mary Carse. Miniature Artists Will Hear Omahan Speak on Exposure Meter Value Meeting in the midst of prize prints in Gallery A of Morrill hall, the miniature division of the Lin coln Camera Club will hear J. G. Kretschmer. Omaha expert in the mechanics of photography, this evening at 8 o'clock. He will talk on exposure and the value of ex posure meters. "The successful enlargement of miniature prints and development of regular negatives depend a great deal on careful exposure." says Prof. E. A. Grone, president of the miniature division, in urg ing the attendance of both minia ture and regular camera owners. Everyone interested in photog raphy is welcome to attend. Dr. Neville MoLellan, one of the four dentists from Australia who traveled 10,000 miles to take post graduate work in the University of Minnesota's college of dentis try, says that the average price for a tooth extraction in his home land is 20 cents. 'YOUR DRUG STORE' When in need of Drug Wants or Fountain service Phone E106S. We deliver free. The Owl Pharmacy P St. at 14th Phon B106S COLLAGRI-FUN BOARD ANNOUNCES PROGRAM OF SKITS FOR REVUE (Continued from Page 1.1 college boarding club: "The March of Time" by the Ag cafeteria club; a number by the Ag Rangers; Heitkotteri Markat QUALITY MEATS AT LOW PRICES Makers of Fine Sausages nd Barbecued Meata B-334 140 So. 11tH W4WED ana's to Kansas City r Columbia CALL BILL CHITTENDEN LI741 er S2St The Sale You Have Waited For ENTIRE STOCK Nelly Don Dresses TREMENDOUSL Y REDUCED All $595 Nelly Dons - - All s795 Nellv Dons - All SI095 to SI650 Nelly Dons All s295 Nelly Don Cottons - Only once a year does this Sale happen and only at Ben Simon & Sons in Lincoln because the famous Nelly Don crepes, Wools and Challis are exclusive wtih us. Buy your season's supply and buy now for Gifts. Sizes 12 to 44. S395 $595 $795 S79