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if WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 20, 1937. TWO Daily Nebraskan Hation . Lincoln Nrbratka. THIRTY-FIFTH V EAR Published every Tuesday. Wednesday. Thursday. Frl. day and Sunday mornings of the academic year by stu. dents ol the University of Nebraska, under supervision of the Board o Publ'r.tinn N76 Member 19 J? Associated OoUesiaie Press Distributors of G)De6ideDi6e5t tttPRSSKNTKO rOH NATIONAL ADCTiaiN ST National Advertising Service, Inc Colltif Publithtrt Rttrrttntath 420 Madison Ave. NcwYohk. N.Y. Chicago Boston san riUNcitco LOSANOIkSS ronTLANO SJIATTLI ARNOLD LEVIN BOB FUNK Editor Business Manager EDITORIAL STAFF Managing Editors GEORGE PIPAL DON WAGNER News Editors Jans Watcott Wlllard Burnev 6.0 Murray Hlen Pascoe Bob fieddllri BUSINESS STAFF Assistant Business Managers Bob Wadhams Webb Mills Frank Johnson This paper is represented for general advertlslno bv tht Nebraska Press Association. Entered as second-class matter at the pott off lee in Lincoln. Nebraska, under act of congress. March 3. 1879. and at special rate of postage provided for In section 1 103. act of October S. 1917. authorized January 20. 1922. SUBSCRIPTION RATE $1.50 a year Single Copy 6 cents 11.00 temester 12 5C a year mailed $1.60 semester mailed Under direction of the Student Publication Board. Editorial Office University Hall 4. Business Off ice University Hall A. Telephones Day: B6691; Night: B6S82. B33S3 (Journa.). ON THIS ISSUE Desk Ed tor Pipal Night Editor Rosewater We 'We' For the Last Time. With this issue, the stall' of the Daily N'e lira&kun for the first semester. 1936-1937. closes up shop and looks for clust covered texts. Kxams arc all lut here, and journalists . are no more exempt from those ihree hour nightmares than the rest of the student herd. And next semester a new staff, with new ideas, will take charge. This is, perhaps, the time for remini scences, but that is better saved for a time when the hurly-burly of examination week has ceased and quiet and rectitude on the campus are reflected again in habitated caking booths. So reminiscing is out. for the present, at least. We do not intend to recount the vins lovses of the past semester's editorial cam paigns. Such mathematical recapitulation we leave to the future the farther in the future the better. "Why raise the ghosts of past is sues.' This half of the year's Daily Nebras kau doesn't intend to leave office in a blaze '.Zf formulative public opinion. We intend, ml her, to leave in the lipht of reflected priories or otherwise. The campaigns of the future arc for future editors. We do not at present intend a definitive editorial policy. At the start of the year, the Daily .V- brnskan promised itself it would not become tied to a single policy, but would wander from issue to issue as they appeared. We believe we have rambled as promised, but hope out of the melange that someplace or other a respon se chord vhich will prove of eventual bent fit to the university was struck. The Daily Nebraskan thanks those read ers who have followed its editorial and news columns this past semester. We undoubtedly have stepped on your toes sometime during the past few months forgive us, it was meant for the best. We have no qualms, we have no re. frets, and in this happy mood, ue say goodbye. To the Future! Hat hor regretfully we pull the co:er i,vev t!ip f-ditorial typewriter. Repretfully because so mudi is to be done, and we would likf to ha e a hand in the doing. 'i.Imniation of a dream of year, tin- Stu dent. I'nion building is the most noiablc ch ievemrnt of the past seme.ster. That is the Mart of the university building campaign. A library and new classrooms must come next. 'I he student body should si c that the Tni'iii building is placed under its control, and separated from administrative agenciev ii!y then will it express the ideals of its founders. . In similar manner, the university bookstore should I" made a student enterprise, and not another branch of the university. Jfeorganiat ion of pep organiat in. seijjiiiigly overtaken by lethargy, is necessary. The new song. "Mail Varsity," fchoubl be pushed until it holds first place in students' hearts. Tin; university campus should be beuuti ' f'n d. changed from its present frowning coun ten:iMcc inii a site of beautified culture. Je-.r-l'iti- the materialists, a student usually a" uuire.s a sentimental taste for his cumpus that k1 j'-ks ihru life. ( one could get sentimental mer the stern walls of the east campus. Thee are a lew of the most important i rues hanging fire over the campus. They mut he provided for in the future, and the Daily N'ebrafkan will have a leading role in thone improvements. Thy cannot be done at once, of course. The very thought proceMe of fcome of the citizens of this Mate will have to be changed, and that is not an overnight accom plishment. Time and effort are needed, and we are sure that time and effort will be found in the Daily Ncbraskans of the future. STUDENT PULSE Brief, concise contributions pertinent to matters of student life and to the university are welcomed by this newspaper practice, which excludes all libelous matter and personal attacks. Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld from publication If so desired. Invalids in The Making. TO THE EDITOR: You knew him in ihc classroom, on the campus a pleasant fellow interested in his work and Ihose about him, but always a little worried, a little haggard looking. He has left school, they say, a physical wreck. A common story in a large university. If ii fellow gets a job, he is considered lucky and there follows long hours of work after classes are over, often late into the night, (studying is crammed into spare moments, sometimes in the early morning hours when the head aches with fatigue. Three meals a day most students get that, but it is sleep that is fought back night after night until one becomes accustomed to the lack of it and accepts a dulled mind and body iis a normal feeling. One day comes an unusual strain and the human mechanism, worn out from running at the limit of its power, breaks down. It is a tragic experience for the student who has sacrificed the normal pleasures of college to fulfill an intense desire for an edu cation. But is such an end necessary? When spare moments are few there is lemptation to use them in "getting away" or in "drowning" one's troubles rather than in much needed rest. The grinding hours of study might be cut short for the benefit of a brighter mind tomorrow. Health is valued too low by those who cannot see beyond the present years. If the struggle for an education results in the loss of health, it is not worth the price, but there are students who manage to keep both by care fully apportioning their time. The Battle. TO THE EDITOR: Once again as in the recent Olympics we see politics, race feeling, and other unsports manlike ideas overshadowing the event itself. The event referred to is the projected Schmel-ing-Hraddock fight. A proposed boycott by iiu organized minority threatens to halt the fight. Their reasons for this are more or less shadowv and vague as connected with the fight itself. In the first place, this fight is for ihe championship of the world, and whether the contender is a (Jerinan, Australian. French man, or any other nationality is no reason for. trving to stop the fight. Schmeling has cer ta'inly shown his ability, and is deserving of a chance at the litlc. If any sport should be en-tivoU- ,1iv.iree,l fnnn Political and racial t'eel- ings'it is lhat of prizefighting. No nation has j the monopoly on Doxing taienr. ami vn e sav a man is champion of the wurld it should mean just that that he had met all coiners who had fought their way up 1o a position of challenging ihe holder of the crown. Schmel ing. by his most decisive victory over Louis has reached that position and it is difficult to see how the championship title could be much more than an empty honor to the holder if he is ignored in the picture. So. for the sake of the name of sportsman ship which America professes to revere and cherish, let us hope that Ihese groups can real ize that this is merely a prize fight and not an arena in which to parade their various un related dissatisfactions and dislikes. C. V. M. OMAHA EDUCATOR TO SPEAK AT PBK DINNER TONIGH I KANSAS U. ENGINEERS TEST NOVEL DISTILLATION DEVICE CONTEMPORARY COMMENT Advocating; Ignoranee An Educational Paradox. The sound of a teacher's voice advocating! ignorance falls slrangely on ears lhat have grown accustomed to hearing other ideals of education. The recent address by Dean Rus sell of Columbia university's Teachers college to Texas leaehers in their annual convention, suggesting that they ignore ihe communists and the fascials and concentrate on upholding and improving our liberal form of government fails to maintain the traditions of the profes sion. Certain classic examples of colossal igno rance in high places have been so often o, noted that they torni part oi the lore ot most hign school pupils; but iheir implication is often j neglected. That .Nero fiddled while Home i burned may indicate the emperor's hardened conscience; it also illustrates his ignorance of' current altairs. thai Marie Antoinette, con fronled with the statement that "the people are crying for bread." should have (pieried, ' Why' don't they eat cake?" testifies 1o the uueen's lack of education in fundamental eco nomic problems as much as or more ihnn j u, her lack of svinpathy; her ignorance pre- eluded her symputhy, in fact. When Louis XV set forth his philosophy of the future. 1 'Wpres moi le deluge." he certainly ignored I Ihc possibilities of averting the deluge. j The idea of .Veto's violin recital should not ; appall those persons whose major iictivily lur-! ing Ihe depression was mastering the rules of j Kly fiilbertson. .Marie Antoinette's question j should not sound strange In those who have I been mildly puzzled that the unemployed did-1 n't get busy and find jobs. Louis' philosophy) is mirelv corio-eninl to Ihose iteolde who are busy exploiting natural and human resources as fast a they can lake oil out of the ground, cotton off the soil, and work from underpaid laborers. If Ihe glory of ihe fathers was their knowl edge, nurely their shame muM be the ignorance of their on. The fathers knew Mint there was to know about the governments of Greece and Rome; but they did not know about oviet Russia; and 20th century Italy. They knew the demand of an agrarian civilization, but they did not know the demands of a highly central ized industrial iytem. If teachers are not to teach, where ihtll the next generation fret ita learning? And how ahull thev teaeh without knowledge! It ia an i insult to a teacher's intelligence to suggest that he look here and yonder, but not in the closet under the stair and oh niot certainly not across an ocean 1o see anvthmg that is Dr. Royce West to Address Society on Life, Work Of Mark Twain. Describing the life and work of Mark Twain, Dr. V. Roycc West, head of the English department of Omaha university, will address members of Phi Beta Kappa at a dinner meeting to be held tonight at 6:15 o'clock at the University club. Dr. West, a graduate of the uni versity in 1927, has spent the past 15 months at Heidelberg univer city lecturing on the works of the American author, and is widely known as an eminent authority on Mark Twain. As the second feature of the din ner program this evening, Miss Muriel Jones, a member of the lo cal chapter of Phi Beta Kappa will present several piano selections. The meeting is scheduled to ad journ promptly at 8 o'clock, ac cording to Dr. Louise Pound, presi dent of the honorary society, in' order to permit members to attend other meetings called for this eve ning. Miss Pound will preside dur ing the dinner program tonight. ! Reservations for the dinner may be phoned to the organization sec- retary. Prof. C. M. Hicks, or to! the University club. Give the Student's Opinion a Chance. (Continued from Page 1.) era would like to know it in order that thev mieht compare their opinion with that of the professor who has had much more knowl edge and experience upon which to base his Judgment. To Reach Opinions. It is very obvious that a student will not be taught to think and gain opinions and judgments if they are always handed out for him to accept. Neither is it well for a student to develop a tendency to dispute the professor upon every point and opinion, for in the end no real conclusions are reached anyway. The instructor is delegat ed to put the truth before the stu dents; college teachers are usually competent enough to do so. The thinking student will always be able to gain a judgment, and if he cannot while taking a course he surely will some time during his college career. Quite frequently the student has had insufficient expe rience to reach a Judgment upon any issue. As long as the scholar has true data and observations placed before him and he can think, his opinions should be rea sonably valid. A college training is designed to cause the student to reach certain opinions and judg ments by the time he graduates. Impartial Instructors. If the opinions were always ex pressed for the thinking student to use as a means of comparison with his own he would, probably unconsciously, have a tendency to modify his opinion for usually he will respect the professor and re gard his opinion as quite authori tative. In thw way he might be come somewhat like the unthink ing student. The student 6hould develop a feeling of confidence in his thinking. All that 1m needed for this stimulation of thinking is true data and care of the instruc tor to maintain ah impartial atti tude. If the student only had more opportunities for expiessing his opinions he would be more stimu lated to thinking; perhaps this will be the future way of solving that perplexing problem of miking a student think. May the Misfits Haunt You, Profs. (Continued from Page 1.) babies" seem to flaunt their luck of adjustment to their environ ment of college life. They may even take pride in Intolerance, or dote on feeling misunderstood or unappreciated. But their antag onism to the more natural imper fection of others is easily re cognizable as "'sour grapes." Cherish Adjustment. It is not a crime to be dis oriented; almost everyone is to somt degree. But such a mis fortune is nothing to cherish or foster. Unfortunately it can be charged apaln.'it many a profes sor, lond parent or loving friend that he "coddled" the mlflt in stead of helping them to atune to the world in which they live. Rather than showing them that they were out of step, the instruc tor ( or kind confidante i fed their poor vanity In being "different -not like other students." Indi viduality is a precious thing and to be highly prized, but not at the price of maladjustment. Perhaps the devotees of tomes are Incapable of fitting themselves Into any picture but their own., There must always be souls who live all alone and like it. And true atunement with one' fellows is n ideal seldom achieved. But educators and counselors who knowingly disavow their responsi bilities as moulders of youth and fall to even attempt to aid per sonality adjustment are shirking . their opportunities and duties. May a misfit menace stalk them to their graves. Senior women students at Penn sylvania Ptate college have agreed that marriage and a career can not be combined aucressfully. Chemistry Department to Use Apparatus for Lab Study. LAWRENCE, Kas., Jan. 8. A huge distillation device, which has been under construction at the University of Kansas for the past three months, for the use of the department of chemical engineer ing, will be put into operation early in the new semester. T. H. Marshall, associate pro fessor of chemical engineering, in charge of erecting the new plant, listed three purposes sought in using the 'new equipment, namely: 1. The training of students to become refinery engineers. 2. The refining of petroleum by closer cuts than are now common in industry. 3. Research to determine the effect of adding metalo-organic ad dition agents for eliminating or limiting gums or carbon formed by combustion. While the distilling apparatus can be used for any type of dis tilling, it will, for the present, be used exclusively on petroleum. One of Best in Nation. The new apparatus now being installed at the University of Kan sas is one of the best in the coun try, and was designed especially for this university. From this ap paratus it will be possible not only to study distillation, out aiso me transportation of fluids, fluid flow, flow of heat, and absorption. This one setup has been designed to show all types of distillation, and may be operated as a vacuum column, or at pressures up to 200 pounds per square inch. Five sections of the fractionating column, at the top, are constructed of glass so that visual observations may be made up to 40 pounds pressure. The apparatus will be employed to instruct students in the calculations involved in simple binary systems, with a few of the more complex. The still and its service lines has an overall height of 25 feet, and four elevations of catwalks are necessary for the operators. The still is constructed of copper and bronze' and has 21 plates in the fractionating column. This column can be cut out of the system entirely to show other types of simple steam distillation. The jacketed pot has a volume of 25 gallons. Mighty Fall. So tall is the apparatus that an excavation had to be made below the basement level of the chemis try building. The department of chemical en gineering was set up as a separate department, under Jurisdiction of the School of Engineering and Ar chitecture a year and a half ago In that time the department has constructed and nearly finished equipping of some 3,000 square, feet of laboratories and offices. For part of the laboratory, the basement floor was dropped to the underlying ground level, and in one corner, Oreod limestone wan excavated still deeper. Some 1,500 feet of piping was necessary to bring the supplies of gas, com- j pressed air, water, and steam. : needed in the laboratory. , A new curriculum in chemical j engineering has been adopted and la being put into operation. This curriculum is designed to meet the requirements of the American In stitute of Chemical Engineers. Early Studies. In the earlier years of his course the prospective chemical engineer studies fluid flow, transportation of fluid, heat transfer, evapora tion, diffusion, air conditioning, drying, distillation, gas absorption, extraction, crystallization, filtra tion, mixing, crushing and grind ing, size separations and con veying and weighing. In the last year, the students design appa ratus, plants and otherwise make use of the fundamental training they have received. Laboratory work follows the classroom program, giving prac tice in the handling of chemical engineering apparatus. Thus far, laboratory instruction in pyrometric practice has in volved the calibration of thermom eters, resistance thermometers, and optical pyrometers. In fluid flow work the students determine the friction losses in a piping system, calibration of ori fice meters, venturi meter pitot tube and gas motor. In the trans poration of fluids the efficiency of the various types of pumps is determined. fins absomtion. and humidity work is being studied in a stone ware absorption tower. 10 gain surface this tower has been nackprt with some 15.000 stone ware rings. This apparatus is so designed tnat tne gasses punam upward contact the fluid falling thru the ring packing in a counter current manner. NEW AG PUBLICATION BUSINESS MANAGERS START GROUNDWORK (Continued from Page 1.) ager, Glenn Klingman: and Circu lation Manager, Albert xsore. i 11 Agricultural Editors. Assistant Agricultural Editors are Claud King, Ward Henderson. , Harry Bell, Rex Brown, Wallace Chalouka, Harold Benn, Glenn ; Thacker, Russell Bierman, Roger; Cunningham and Bob Rupp. As- I sistant home economics editors are ; (Bidktui Sigma Delta Chi. Meeting Nebraskan office 12 noon, for pictures. Grand hotel luncheon following. Lois Giles, Sarah Harmon and Nelle Lippilt. Associate business managers are Edna Mae Crain, Hubert Alolwuy, Carl Swanson, Denver Gray, Cl.f ford Heyne, Dale Theobald, Edwin Rousek, Leo Cooksley, Morrison Lowenstein, Wesley Lipp and Nor man Gustafson. Associate circulation managers are Agnes Novacek and Earl Hed lund. Assistant circulation man agers are Mildred Nash, Iris John son, Frances Weides, Lawrence Gustafson, Frank Shipman, Melvtn Glantz, Alvin Christensen, Lillard Pratt, Edward Zahm. Room for More 'Brain work.' (Continued from Page 1.) less intelligent to continue to root in the school's foundation as a courtesy not only to the intellec tuals but to the less fortunate. The officials should "clamp down" on their entrance requii-ements and continue running the school on the basis of a higher educa tional institution. This sugges tion will have opposition on many sides and will be argued by the citizens on the basis that all are entitled to the same educational opportunities. That Is true, yet why let those suffer who are un able to keep up with the P. B. K.'a and why limit the classes to a mixture of the elite and unintelli gent? This is a problem and due con sideration must be given it. May be in time the state will support two institutions, one for the lesa fortunate students and one for those who are capable of "brain" work. Heitkotters V;,, Market QUALITY MEATS AT LOW PRICES Makers of Fine Sausages and Barbecued Meats B-334S 140 So. 11th That's what your boss will say when you get out in the business world unless your clothes are neat and clean. Gvt the habit mm and send your laundry and cleaning to Expert Laundercrx Responsible Cleaners new ! Syracuse Daily Orange. Buy where Equipment is Tested for Cleanliness Roberts Dairy 7Mk ttanisd. The other Six will look ia the Daily Nebraskan Classifieds for their's. 4 Hi Daily Xebraslum Advertising Pays ' IdDc IPeir L5nne(Esi!Iri V