v-r --r WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 1937. TWO THE DAILY NEBRASKAN THE DAILY NEBRASKAN KIHTORIAI. STAFF Editor George Plpsl Munsglnfl Editor. .. Don Wgnr. Ed Murray News Edltors-Wlllurd Burnry. Helen Pasce, Jn WAlcott. Howard Kplan. Morrli Llop. . h tH0r B,rtMr R"W,,,er- .... Ed S.eeve. l&VXi::::r .7v:::;::.:.virB.n,. n.r.o ONTHIS.SSUE Murray Detk Editor Pitcoa iNigni tomr Under direction of the Student Publication Board. Editorial Office University Hall . ST.?' BmU N.BMY BSb. Telephon fn6 Member TT Fissociafed CoUoeiate Pre Distributors of C6llc6ialGDi5c?st Nebraska Goes 'Commercial; Funds Spent for Instruction Show Proportional Decline . ft-AWt ro o-a 1 civ .rri.nt was devoted to commercial activities, uch as the hog cholera scrum plant, which fur nishes serum to Nebraska farmers at cost; the cafe teria at the agricultural collepe; and the women s dormitories, where the receipts are ued as revolv ing funds to pay operating expenses. Quite a proportion to spend on outside activities, isn't it Especially is this true when we see that the proportion is growing, simply necause the uni versity has not had enough money for instructional purposes. In 1934-33. 63.5-, of the expenditures were for instructional purposes; in 1933-34, 65; in 1932-33, 66.7. These activities are essential as services to the people of the state; they should not be discontin An Open Letter to President Roosevelt. To King Franklin I Roosevelt, D. C. Dear Chief: I have been unable to reach you by mail lately, until the boys down at Yale let us in on the fact that the name of Washington has been changed to Roosevelt. What I have to report, Chief, is pretty urgent We had a student forum yesterday on your plan to knife the Supreme Court, and some of the nasty things they didn't say about you! There is a very prominent attorney here who needs to be liquidated. This Mr. C. Petrus Peterson doesn't like you at all. Mr. Peterson told us that our governmental systems, like the university, in which centrifugal and centripetal forces hold a constant balance, vacillate between rule by dictators and rule by the masses. He said that packing the court got rid of one of those checks and balances, upsetting the equilibrium, which was liberty. I was puzzled for awhile. Chief, because one of the many law students that were there told me that when we got out of balance, like Mr. Peter son said we would, everybody would disregard property rights and the masses would rule. Not tinly that, Chief, but this student backed his state ment by showing how you were trying to help all the communists and farmers and workingmen. I was about to lose faith in you until Mr. Pet erson straightened me out. He made it plain that the masses weren't in danger of getting control of the government because you have a messianic com plex. Frankly, Chief, I've been worri?d about your messianic complex lately. To make a full confes sion. I've been studying up to do a little dictating myself, because you can't last forever. And here's what's been bothering me. I've always been taught that America could beat those foreign countries all hollow in making anything from Fords to domestic champagne. But if this fellow I've been reading is any authority on dictatorships at all, those boys in Europe are putting your technique in the shade. Chief, what you need to organize is a joint seminar with Comrades Stalin, Hitler and Mussolini, and pick up a few pointers on dictating. No stuff, Chief, you re pretty poor. For instance, to make a real dictatorship, you have to have an economic philosophy like the Rus siars. It has to be simple, so any moron can under stand it; people like trite little maxims for ration Criterion Of Excellence. Washington Daily. Murray Morgan, Editor. What makes a university great? If asked this question many a j college stulent will reply "the fac- j ulty and the teaching methods." j cite the fact that Oxford does not j employ the American system, de- cry "billiard ball education," and let it go at that. If asked to write .VJ0 words on the faculty of any American uni- , versity except his own, or on the benefits of the Oxford method, or i on Chicago's "new plan," the stu- j dent would fail. Dpspite the possible denials of , idealists, universities in America j gain their reputations primarily i through athletics. No? Who was , president of Notre Dame during l the Knute Rockne regime? Those who shirk from the idea j that a championship football team means a good university, have an- j other answer. They say that the : criterion of excellence lies in the campus. I The prophets of the campus j school point with pride to Gothic structures which soar toward the fkies, massive concrete and steel affair with specious buttresses, ''"iiis. they say. makes a university. The belief of other thousands is that the schools of America should be bigger to be better. Those who suffer from numberatosis. glory in the 20 and 30 thousands of Cali fornia and Columbia. Still another school declares that It is not football, nor buildings, nor number of students but instead the fame of the alumni which de termines excellence. To this school. Harvard, which waves (somewhat TIUKTY.SIXTH YEAR BUSINESS STAFF Business Manager Bob Shellenberg Aaalstant Managtrt Bob Wadhami, Web Mills, Frank Johnson. Circulation Manager Stanley Michael $1.50 a year 2.b0 mailed Entered at aecond-claaa matter at the poatofflce In Lincoln. Nebraika. under act of congreat. March 3. 1879, and at apecial rate of postage provided for In aectjon 1103. act of October S. 117. authorlred January 80. 1922. B33337jOurn. 0. P u b 1 1 1 h t d every Tuesday, Wedneaday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday morning of the academic year by studenta of the Unl. versity of Nebraska, under the supervision of the Board of Publication. remains that of instructing students, and snouia not be neglected to make commercial clearing houses out of our seminars, and factories out of our laboratories. Yet a cut In appropriations hits the classroom first, and such an emphasis on non educational phases is bound to result. If the state wishes the university to continue these special services which now represent over 40 percent of our expenditures, we raise no objection. But we do object when these services approach the main function of a university by their proportion. We ask that this institution either receive a fair amount for ins-tructional purposes, or drop the appellation of "an institution of higher learning." alizing purposes. But your New Deal? The other day Stanley High wrote about his conception of your aims, and did it raise a rumpus! If anything brought out the "abysmal ignorance" (borrowed from another era! that we mass men have about your future plans, that did. If you would settle down instead of experimenting around so much, maybe we could get this dictatorship organized. If you don't have an economic dogma, like the Russians, you have to try to be economically self-sufficient, like the Germans and Italians. I first suspected skullduggery when you made that trade treaty with Canada. And we're still getting all the butter we need. Chief, if there's any place where you haven't been loyal to home products, it's at Washington. Imagine sending a commission way over to Sweden to investigate their coopera tives. I'm beginning to believe Mr. Hearst with his "Buy American" knows a lot more about dic tatorships than you do. Another thing, you have to pick out someone that we mass men can hate real hard, and then periodically purge them. The Germans and Ital ians proceed along racial lines, and the Russians liquidate the kulaks. Up to now, the "economic royalists" have been taking the biggest beating over here, but confidentially. Chief, that gag would be a lot more effective if you didn't have your picture taken for the newspapers on Mr. Astor's yacht. Mr. Salvador De Madaiiaga, who wrii.es about dictators for the New York Times, says that "Dic tators are no longer kings, princes, generals; a workman, a schoolmaster rules." You can't help it if your origin is against you, but it certainly would have helped to have been a house painter or a journalist. Finally, you have to have a carefully organized party system under an iron discipline. Chief, I know plenty of fellows who are working at the union warehouse here in Lincoln that don't have The Cause at heart. In Russia, they have only three per cent of the total population of the coun try in the communist party. Sometimes, Chief, I think you don't discriminate enough in matters of party membership. Your whole record as a dictator has been pretty spotty. If there's one thing that should be impressed upon you, it's this: when you get a chance at power, seize it. You certainly didn't do that back in the dark days of the early thirties, and your chances aren't half as good now. I'm hoping for a change. Chief, but I can tell you frankly that my patience won't hold out much longer. Sometimes I wish that the Kingfish hadn't met with such violent opposition. discreetly in view of its 8 percent republican rating) the Roosevelt banner, rates tops. There are a few left, however, who really do believe that a faculty and teaching methods mark the great university. To these de votees of the Oxford and Chicago methods, the little colleges such as Reed rate high. The members of this school fur ther brieve thst the wisecracks of the imperturbable George L. Kit tredge of Harvard, who once tum bled off the lecture platform and rose calmly to announce "this is the first time I ever descended to the level of my audience," are as worthy if publicity as the repartee of Lar.., Kelly. But then, they're idealists. "No OoTk Winding Wanted . . The Daily Texan Ed Hodge, Editor One all-important cog in the University athletic machine that has long been far too much neg lected appears, at last, to be get ting some attention. That cog is the athlete, the athlete as a stu dent seeking a way of life, not the athlete as a publicity organ for the University. And it is Dana X. Bible, brought to the campus by the Regents to point to just such things, who is turning the focusing dial in that direction. Participation in athletics should have an educational value, Bible told the Ex-Students' Association executive council here last week. And they approved of the plan he SUBSCRIPTION RATE Single copy, 6 centa 11.00 a semesier $1.60 aemeater mailed National Advertising Service, Inc Coll'f Pmblliknt Kttrntnlctlv 420 Madison Ave. NiwYos.N.Y. Chicago . Boston . Can Francisco LOS AHOSLSS PORTLAND - SSATTLI ued. But the fundamental principle of a university proposed, a plan calling for the useful employment of players in jobs that would require work "60 minutes of each hour." Bible's contention is that the men who play football, basketball, and other sports, should be given honest jobs instead of clock-winding as signments and checks slipped un der the pillow. He is looking to the future of the graduates of this University. When they finish school, will they be men morally as well as physically? Too often in the frenzy of bang ing bands and cheering crowds the purpose of coming to college is forgotten. Any sincere man with football ability does not come to the University to play football. He comes, first, to find an education, then to play football. Should he be paid for his ability to make the team? The modern trend of intercollegiate athletics demands that he be paid if the institution wishes to remain athletically on the same level with other tnptitu tions. The Regents last month had to decide whether the University would cempete or whether it would reject the custom like Co lumbia did a few years back. They hired the best set of coaches. Paying a man to make touch downs for Texas is one thing. Pay ing a man for work he does, when he knows that the reason he has the job is that he can make touch downs, is another thing. D. X. can see this difference. It L VI E CONVOCATION TODAY Nine Students to Perform At Twenty-First Music Assembly. Advanced students of the school of music will present the twenty first musical convocation this afternoon with a recital of piano, vocal and violin music at 4 o'clock in the Temple theater. Opening the convocation with a number by Chopin, Alice Terril, a student of Miss Dreamer, will play "Scherzo in B flat minor" on the piano. "Carmena" by Wilson, will be presented hy Sylvia Wolf, voice student of Miss Upton. Edith Burkett, who is studying violin under Mrs. Larimer, will offer Rehfeld's "Spanish Dance." With a violin obligato played by Eunice Bingham, Jean Spencer will sing for the convocation audi ence "The Nile," a composition written by Leroux. Miss Spencer is a student of Mrs. Van Kirk. Two selections by Debussy "Sara bande" and "Prelude" will be per formed on the piano by Margaret Jane Pyle, piano pupil of Miss Klinker. Hazel Gertrude K i n s c e 1 1 a ' s "Daisies" will be one of the two numbers that Constance Baker, who is studying under Mrs. Diers will sing. The other selection will be an old French air arranged by A. L., "Come Sweet Morning." "Etude, Op. 25, No. 10" will be the selection that Houghton Furr, student of Mr. Harrison will present. Hermit Hansen will sing three selections "Love Went A-Riding" by Bridge. "I Heard a Lady Sigh" by Church, and "Absence" by Easthope-Martin. Mr. Hansen is a voice pupil of Mrs. Gutzmer. IX THE INFIRMARY Admitted Tuesday: Verna Reynoldson, St. Ed wards. Dale Wolvin, Utica. Released: Fred Shirey, Latrobe, Pa. Ruth M. Green, St. Francis, Kas. is one of the many components of a healthy athletic program, and if he has been successful with this kind of program for 25 years, he can be successful again. When the ex-students' executive council approved of D. X.'s plan, they approved the best idea that has been submitted here for mak ing the foremost educational insti tution in the south, the University of Texas, the ethical, successful center of Southwest conference sport. Education A la Dr. Conant. Oregon State Daily Barometer Hal Higgs, Editor. Filling courses with masses of information to be memorized for examination meets opposition from Dr. James B. Conant, president of Harvard university. Yet he advo vates old fashioned education with plenty of stiff courses, grades and examinations as the most effective means known to select college graduates to be leaders of the future. Dr. Conant has placed himself in a seemingly ambiguous posi tion. To the average college stu dent a stiff course with lots of examinations means plenty of facts, cold and unappealing. As signed readings are packed with an array of almanac material. For many students, even in our own college, the class hour is devoted to a sonorous recital by the pro fessor of stuff to be found in any good encyclopedia. The type of stiff course Har vard s president is talking about must be of an entirely different nature. Certainly Dr. Conant would not be so careless as to contradict himself in the same speech. Is it possible to make a course stiff without requiring parrot work by students? Professors find that the easiest way to kep students busy is to en tangle them in a maze of facts. Students, prone to protest, spend hours at "busy" work in an at tempt to get facts catalogued for the exam. Mar.y students and, certainly, some professors have overlooked the possibility that understanding and creativeness may be the stiff elements in a course. Says Dr. Conant, "The apprecia tion of the interplay of forces lead ing to the development of our pres ent governmental machinery is surely of more educational value than an exact knowledge of legis lative and administrative details." Here the emphasis is placed on un derstanding, a greater and more permanent asset than a carload of facts. College advertises itself as de veloping the ability to think intel ligently. The "pouring in" of nicely arranged facts is a far cry from de'elopraent of thought proc esses. Stiff courses having as their aim the development of un derstanding and creative ability would better equip students to fit into the present day world. "We are all products of a sys tem which knows not the classics and the liberal arts, and there is every indication that the system is growing wnrse instead of bet ter. Every day brings us news of some educational inventions de signed to deprive the student of the last vestiges of his tools and to send him for his education help less against the environment it self." The dirge of President Rob ert Maynard Hutchins of the Uni versity of Chicago. A figure finder at Northwestern university has discovered that rain corbon dioxide and. water, as it strikes the limestone buildings on the campus will dissolve the; structures in 72,000 years. j Your inquiring reporter had some difficulty getting answers to the question: "Have you ever taken a course which was, to you, practically a waste of time?" Many students felt that such can dor might have some slight ef fect on professors who still re main to be impressed. At any rate these answers obtained may give some clue as to what not to take if you had it all to do over again. Charles Tanton, Bizad junior: "Psychology. The course is too general. It spreads itself out over so much territory that it is value less at any point. It attempts to cover a lifetime of psychological research in a single term. Like a mouse eating chee'se, what he doesn't eat, he crawls through; this subject crawls through prac tically every field yet doesnt pause in any one long enougn to give the student any practical val ue. Ray Herschner, Arts and Sciences junior: "Fnp-lish. It- was a course that I had to take although my interest didn't lie along that particular line. It took valuable time away from subjects in which I was really in terested. Lewis Pral, Arts and Sciences freshman: "Freshman lecture. Anything which I might learn by chance from the course will not in any wav annlv to the tyne of work which I pian to take up." Mary Ellen Leweiien, mzaa iresn man: "Historv. It's merelv a repetition of things you already know. By the time you've finished high school vou've had all the funda mentals of history that you will ever need. Also, why tresnman lecture? That subject takes so very much time and you get so very little out of it. You gain no complete knowledge aooui any one thin? all vou acauire is a miscel laneous hodge-podge of assorted facts." Orville Hutchinson, Bizad senior: "Trie-onometrv. It doesn t relate in any way to the field which 1 plan to enter, l naa to wne me stuff and reallv feel that I got nothing out of it. The "cosign of a tangent" has no bearing what soever on my work in business." Jerry Wallace, Teachers college sophomore: "Freshman lecture. There was nothing to it. You write for hours and hours on a paper, and what good does it do you ? In most cases, the lectures are merely repetitions of something you already know, or an advance into something which vou will take in the future." Delvan Becker, Bizad sophomore: "Required Economics. I can see no significant value in the course which should give it a place among the compulsory subjects. For a required course it does not bring out any information that should make it an essential to the following courses." Ted Weltcn, Arts and Sciences freshman: "Freshman lecture. The stu-, dents who take it do no work. Everyone that I know of. myself included, merely copies excerpts from a few references, throwing them together, and handing the mess in. Before the paper has been returned to you, you've for gotten all about the subject. Jean Willis. Bizad sophomore: "French Phonetics. MO negm : with, I hate French, and I took I the subject just to get the credit. I didn't care a bit about the tech- nical side of French, I was not ; interested in the subject because it was too far removed from th j field in which I plan to work." ! Dick West, Arts and Sciences j junior: i "Freshman lecture. The lectures covered subjects which were too technical. The lecturers usually I knew too much about the field 1 which he was covering, and conse quently raised his language to a technical level far above the un derstanding of his listeners. The course took time which could have been profitably spent in work, study, or better yet. in taking a useful course." Annabelle Emlein, Bizad fresh man: "History. You just learn a lot of details which are unnecessary, which you'll never use, and which you forget by the time the first examination is given." Harold Huestis, Graduate Stu dent: "Education 31. The course, a history of education, had no prac tical application. A reasonable familiarity with the subject mat ter could be gained in a week, and to draw it out over the period of a semester is just a waste of time. All of the material contained in the course is covered time and again by other subjects. Ruby Schwarting, Bizad fresh man: "Gym. It may be good for you, but it should not be required. You never really do anything in the course." Last 2 Days: GRACE MOORE-CARY meanip? Finn J mm a wesiianii IhMatrtmMtmmm t Iff i STARTING FRIDAY 11 r i to t p. m. X vi RGm0 "Solas U ( 20C H Wt j ii. - 11 NIGHTS JJ e"thTTNESS Lower Floor 2Sc H I"! .up Balcony 20c II " ,1 FEATURE SPRINGTOPICTUESDAY Misses KeinHoltz, Albin, Peterson Take Part In Program. As a tribute to spring the pro gram at yesterday afternoon's Ves pers at Ellen Smith hall was de voted entirely to enreriHmni'-in. suggestive of this coming season. Mary Elizabeth Keinholtz sang "A Pastoral by Veraveisa and "The Little Shepherd," bv Walts. Repre senting the drama department were Vera May Peterson and Flora Albin. Depicting the Negro's version of the first spring, "Creation," by James Waldon Johnson, Negro poet, also includes the story of the creation of the universe and man. Miss Peterson read this poem and Sarah Teasdale's "Wisdom." How a man dreamed of his first real love while attending an opera with his betrothed was described by Miss Albin, who read "Aux Italieans." Assisting with the program was the Vesper choir under tha direc tion of Maxine Federle. Bernice Nellemann was accompanist. Eva Jane Sinclair presided at the meet ing. WOMEN TO NAME COED COUNSELOR OFFICERS TODAY (Continued from Page 1.) which time she has headed com mittees for the Coed Counselor dinner and carnival. Following is the election ballot: BALLOT. President. Jean Marvin Mary Priscilla Stewart. Senior Board Members. Affiliated. (Two to be elected) Frances Scudder Martha Leefers Katherine Kilbuck Kay Risser Unaffiliated. (Two to be elected) Helen Ann Howie Bernice Velte Eunice Schwedhelm Mary Jane Birk Junior Board Members. Affiliated. (Two to be elected) Virginia Fleetwood. Lois Cooper Harriet Cummer Pat Jenserv Unaffiliated. (Two to be elected) Virginia Nolte Arlene Williams Betty Beeson Sophomore Board Members. Affiliated. (One to be elected) Jean Meents Fern Steuteville Unaffiliated. (One to be elected) Joy Pestal Faith Medlar PORTIA B0YNT0N SUBMITS WINNING SONG FOR REVIEW (Continued from Page 1.) in the review, Shellenberg an nounced. The western setting of "Bar Nothing Ranch" provides oppor tunity to use the talents of Melvin Beerman, student rope twirler of professional skill, who will appear in the show. Principals of the cast have al ready been announced and re hearsals are under way, Joe Iver son, director of the show, an nounced. About five more minor roles are vacant, but are expected to be filled soon. Kermit Hansen plays the chief comedy role, that of Mrs. Van Fleet, a gay divorcee who comes to the ranch to recuperate from a nervous strain caused by her recent divorce. Judge Van Fleet, as played by Thurston Phelps, also in need of a rest after the divorce, comes to the same ranch. Strong, Boehm in Leads. Bill Strong is he ingenue of "Bar Nothing Ranch," playing the role of Lynn McAllister, the girl owner-operator of the ranch. Don Boehm takes the male lead as Spud, the ranch foreman. Both Strong and Boehm held the leads in last year's Kosmet Klub show, "Southern Exposure." Villain of the show is Waldemar Mueller in the role of Beit Mc Allister, who poses as Lynn's half brother in order to claim title to half the ranch Irvin Kuklin, as Lil, and Bill Pugsley, as Eddie, are a professional dance team visiting the ranch at the time ot the action. Freshmen at the University of Michigan have been granted the permission to live in fraternity houses during the second semester. GRANT "When You're In Love" YW VESPERS NEBRASKA TO MEET WEST VIRGINIANS IN VERBAL DUEL TODAY (Continued from Page l.j town is Arkansas City, Kansas. Kreuger, from Wallace, Nebraska, participated in the Topeka legisla,.' ture in 1935, where he was elected head of the independent party. . The West Virginia represent.! tives will have their choice of the question. If they choose the mlii Imum wage maximum hours question, Nebraska will uphold the negative. If, on the other hand, they choose the question of con sumer's cooperatives, Nebrask4 will debate the affirmative, science and will pursue the study of law. ' Both Kreuger and Curtis of Nebraska are also experienced arguers. Allho Curtis was a new man to the squad at the beginning of the season, he has had con siderable experience in high school debating and has participated in more than a score of contests for Nebraska this year. His home EY TO COMMENCE TODAY State Meet Begins With 48 Prep Teams Entered in ; Three Flights. At one o'clock this afternoon on the coliseum maples, the 27th an nual NHSAA basketball tourna ment will get underway with 4.s teams taking part in the A, B and C classes. Creighton Prep of Omaha is defending champion in the A class, but dopesters do not pick the metropolitan quintet to repeat. On the varsity court at one this afternoon, Coach Cornie Collins' South high Packers tangle with York in the championship flight. At 9:30 this evening and on the same floor, Mentor Merritt Rob son's Jackson high team, runner up last year to the junior Blue jays, clash with Kearney. To accommodate the large num ber of entries, the varsity, fresh man, and stage courts will be used in staging games thruout the tourney. Finals to be held this Saturday, will be staged only on the varsity court. Pipe Smokers! Please Don't Believe all Smoking Tobacco bites the Tongue Edgeworth Guarantees that Process Aging Prevents Tongue Bite TONGUE BITE is the bane of pipe smokers. We guarantee' that Edpeworth will not bite the tongue. The use of the finest Burley to baccos will not prevent tongue bite. It's the processing that does it. As every tobacco expert knows, pipe tobacco can, be rushed through the plant and save big sums of money. It is pipe tobacco, but it is not EdRCworth. 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