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TWO TOE DAILY NERRASKAN TUESDAY. MARCH 23, 1937. THE DAILY NEBRASKAN EDITORIAL STAFF Editor George Plpul Managing Editors .Don Wagner, Ed Murray Newt Editors Willard Burney. Helen Pascoe. Jans Walcott. Howard Kaplan. Morris Llpp. Barbara Rosewater. 6ports Editor Ed Steeves Society Editor Virginia Anderson ON THIS ISSUE Desk Editor ...Murray Night Editor Roiewater Under direction of the Student Publication Board. Editorial Office University Hall 4. Business Office University Hall 4A. Telephone Day: B6S91; Night: B6SSZ. B1333 (Journal). Olttributort of Cblleekite Di6esf QontswipjohaJu QommsmL From the Washington Morgan. Editor). Daily (Murray During: the last few months there have been a remarkable series of articles on the value of a college education. The series be gan with the discovery by John Robert Tunis that Harvard's class of 1911 was by 1936 surprisingly devoid of celebrities. This discovery, besides giving Yale graduates an enjoyable sub ject for bullsessions, turned the eyes of other writers upon their classes and while many produced reports more encouraging than than that of Mr. Tunis, there was considerable leaning toward the "college dims the diamond" side of the picture in their summaries. Undoubtedly colleges and uni versities are not all they might be. but on the other hand they do not as completely fail in their purpose as the reviews might indicate. Under the pressure of an indus trial civilization, the modern uni versity has so changed that its pri-i mary objective is no longer solely j the creation of men able to en joy life by better understanding it, but also to graduate men more able to meet the economic hazards which are to face them. In this second purpose, at leait, the university seems to have a high ratio of success. As a group, the 1936 college graduates will work 40 years and earn $194,000 each, as compared to SSS.000 life earnings for high school grad uates, $64,000 for grammar school graduates, according to the fig ures of the Fidelity Investment association. For spending four years and an average $4,000 in college, the sur vey figures, the average graduate will net $102,000 more than his high school brother, an amount equal to $100 for every day of class. Despite the discounting which must be done because of the higher economic status of the families of college graduates and because the supply of graduates, is rising faster than the demand, the figures are still significant. Since there is an ever increasing tendency for college sutdents to answer symposiums by saying they came to college "to get a better job" it must be admitted that a university education does eerve this one purpose. On the cultural scale, colleges show a lower batting average. A large proportion of the graduates escape classrooms with a mini mum of interest in the cultural as pects of life and without even an understanding of the problems of current history. The picture is not so drk. how ever, when one considers that a large proportion of those who ; sire learning, because they will get rome to school merely seek e''o- the impression which the profes romic self-improvement but leave j sor is supposed to stimulate -that with considerably more cultural of a man who has learned to enjoy Masters Fail- in Allegory and Syinlfilim. By Bernice Kauffman, In his long narrative poem, ''Golden Fleece of California," Ed gar Lee Masters attempts roman tic allegory and dramatic sym bolism, and fulls rather miserably at both. Man's rush to California for gold is seen as symbolic of man's and Americas insane de- eire for riches, and is likened to the mythical Jason's pursuit of the , golden fleece. Tt is evident that there is color I and power in these ideas, bora use i cause the aulhoi never achieves untiling ji'.rti iu me luuiief.s oi the fullness of that promise, because the latnt potency of the poem is never de veloped. Too Much Local Color. The nariative traces the adven ture of five young men and one young woman who set out from an Illinois college town cm the long trek across the prairies and moun tains in search of their golden fleece. One is aware that local color is being too carefully pre served in the conscious reference to such obvious historical land marks as Grand Island, tfce Platte river. Fort Laraml. Tahoe and Great Salt Lakes, the Carson, Humbolt and American rivers. Stocton, Sacramento and San Francico. The story takes on something of the "One little Indian, two little Indians, three little Indian boys." when one man is drowned in the Platte, and two more die along the trail, and when of the three who teach California, the woman soon dies, and one T the men is con veniently f'u gotten hy th author. Then there is only the narrator I' Jcit Iv ttike a somewhat I allegory gives structure which can rrauve poetry, out it gives Ma- ; ' " " -' ""-6- - be clothed with very beautiful a" opportunity to come to the and aviatrix from all over poetry, and symbolism gives im-1 iterative mmal that: "Gold and hco,"!try w, " down on ages lovely to the eve. They catch , ruilt go together." Washington. the imagination of the reader. One! These diiiiculties could be over- . fMf7 U'& hol?bl ar? ne" reads with ever increasing annoy-1 lked. in part, for this is poetry "ct,e'i T """Batten In the strug- o,i v,, v v.. ' not wose and the llni,rv ami K1? f"r existence which usually TIIIKTY-SIXTll YEAR $1.50 a year $2.50 mailed Published every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. Friday and Sunday mornings of the academic year by students of the Uni versity of Nebraska, under the supervision of the Board of Pub lications. background than they had ex pected to accumulate. There are, of course, a few stu dents who come to school merely for the enjoyment of thinking and studying. To these are added a considerable number who pri marily want to learn a profession but who, by the end of their sophomore year, realize that a college is an excellent place to 'earn how live with themselves. If but 10 percent of the college graduates have been benefited both economically and intellect ually from their four years, is not college worth while? Educational Dogma.. Dany Oklahoman: The age-old custom of restraint and dictation exercised upon uni versity professors is robbing mod ern education of its greatest sig nificance that of teaching people the enjoyment of living. Precedent demands that professors adhere to traditions and principles laid down by their predecessors, allow ing little opportunity for the de velopment of progressive ideas in the execution of their duties. The professor is required to teach his classes according to the rules of the past, which are enforced by his contemporary superiors. As an example of concentrated intelligence, the professor is placed before the public eye to show the effects and worth of education and to stimulate a desire for learning. This exhibition is failing in its pur pose. Peopls have been taught that education makes for happiness, and that an educated man is a happy man. The public cannot un derstand how anyone even a col lege professor can be happy when compelled to walk a chalk line for fear of any deviation from ihe straight and narrow will bring dis- I approval of the "higher-ups" down upon him. The public sees a col lege professor as a person who has forfeited his individual per sonality to become a yes-man to out-of-date educational theories. The public detests puppets. It is a logical presumption that no man can be happy unless he is allowed to do his work in his own way. Take the restraint and dictation away, and let the rro- f essor teach his classes in a more personal, spontaneous manner, and immediately the public will be come conscious of the significance of education. The professor, viewed as an ordinary men who has ac quired the kowledge of the higher bracket, and who, in the trans mission of that knowledge to omers, radiates satisfaction and : 1 l"tds VlXW1 R h ' ""i un wuiv niura ana idolized. Then 1hp nnV,l IP will Aa. grandiloquent pose, and to merge Masters' themi-s with rhetoric: "...Does my life symbolize, May it be likened to America's, Which built its argo, with all lovelier Dreamt of the voyage, but to win the prize Of riche only, by all broken laws In wan, revenges, robberies and greeds? Shall it, like Jason lying per haps concealed Under the ship it built be crushed tor weight Of treasure, which the Strength thereof tceedi; And falls therefore?" Philosophising Slows Story. The )ove theme somewhat ob- scures the real message of the poejn in that it leads to philoso- rising. The result is that the Blor' mcm'S ton slowly for good LI1 "jmoonsrn are means not ends " lr,e verse itself, had speed or (smoothness, but it fairly creaks with inversions and awkwardness. Needs Revision. It is startling to think that the author of "Spoon River Anthology " "it'ujy jaii i,dufe oi uiiucuiiy with the mechanics of verse con struction, but when one considers the number of books being written by Mr. Masters every year, one can more readily understand that he has little time for careful con struction, or for revision. It seems unfortunate that a poet capable of the poetry of ' Spoon River." and capable of a theme as suggestive of power as this one. should fail because of haste or carelessness. Randolph Wardell Johnston's wood engraving, which appear in the limited, autographed edition by the Countryman Press, are lovely enough to overcome much that is disappointing in the poem. In order to study the night-life of birds. George R. R. I'flaum. debate coach at Kansas State Teaeher's CVillegp. has put vp a glass wrrn-h'ue, with rl'-'.'tric light attachments, in bis backyard. BUSINESS STAFF Business Manager , Bob Shellenberg Assistant Managers Bob Wadhams, Web Mills. Fran' Johnson. Circulation Manager Stanley Michael SUBSCRIPTION! RATE Single copy, 6 cents $1.00 a semester $1.50 semester mailed Entered as second-class matter at the postofflce In L'ncoln, Nebraska, under act of congress. March S. 1879. and at special rate of postage provided for in section 1103. act of October S. 1917, authorized January 20. 1922, RtPRISINTCD WOO NATIONAL AOVIRTISIN. ST National Advertising Service, Inc Cellett Pabllthtrt Rtprttrntatif 420 Madison Ave. New York. N.Y. CMICAOO - BOSTON . SAN FRANCISCO bo ANSELsa Portland sattli living through the acquisition of education. Students will be more eager to learn if they receive their instruction from a man who, they realize, has been over the same route and has come back to dem onstrate the fact that education is worthwhile. I think the Instructors of the university have lived too long in glass houses. It is time they be allowed to throw a few stones. Putting; U In Education. California Bruin. Critical analysis of modern col legiate education is quick to show the defects attributable to imper sonal education. Today, most educational institu tions hatch degrees with about as much maternal interest as an in cubator. Either you get the lec ture drift and repeat it back au tomatically to the professional phonograph or you don't; if you don't, it's just too bad. Further analysis shows that we've only so much money avail able and a more personal relation ship between students and instruc tors would cost money which we simply do not have, so that's the problem, but what's the answer. A few professors are attempt ing a temporary answer. For ex ample, certain of them have in vited their students to their homes for an evening, discussing prob lems at hand. Students thus get an opportu nity to investigate and know their educational leaders in an off campus environment. This more personal education will step far forward if both stu dents and faculty continue to in- mh.r. fn ih. iriPas rtatciiiciitji To Hemcmher. Daily Ellinl. Conferring Wednesday with Gov. Henry Horner over the uni versity appropriation requests, Arthur Cutts Willard, president of the university said: T am loath tr kav tViat mnrA taxation is necessary, but I hone some way can be found to make these i-, ts unnecessary for all de partme...s. When the governor and the leg islature attempt to whip the state appropriation into final shape, we hope they will remember this statement. e hope at the same time they wl keen n mind that crime is the United Stages five imm no ,,,, a. n ,,..: i kit! ,1 A. .......... . . , ... n, Diiiujaj win, mat we upend more per an num for amusements than for ed ucation, and that the annual out put for intoxicating beverages ex ceeds that for education. CbwuwL OJci&hinqlDVL By Marvin Cox. Washington. D. C From Bos ton to Chicago for the weekend. This sounds like a long weekend trip even for collegians, but mem bers of the Harvard Flying club recently made a visit to Chicago for this short time. Harvard is one of more than 40 colleges that have flying clubs. These local organizations of young aviators are banded together in a national organization, the Nation al Intercollegiate Flying clubs. On March 30 and 31. the National or ganization will hold its annual follows college days. The boys and girls who make a hobby of avia tion in college, however, often make this modern phase of trans portation their life work. A recent survey by the National Inter collegiate flying units found per manent places in aviation upon graduation. They have become pi lots, salesmen for airplanes, aero nautic engineers and airline exec utives. Collegiate interest in aviation is not confined to men. Flying clubs are active at. Smith college and Lake Erie college, both of which are women's colleges. Some splen did pilots are being developed at girls' colleges and among the co eds at universities. Officials of the NIFC. when in terviewed by your corespondent, failed - report a single instance of a t -1 walking home from a date with a collegiate flyer. Washington, meeca of lobbyists, experienced a new type of lobby this week. The lobby of young people who came here to uree passage of the American Youth j Act contrasted Mrangely wih the more experienced and skillful J wielders of political pressure. The J ffifl fi.riTir'ft Vir-A ttnA r,llr.n a in rm . !... '' ,;r - mm - MS 1 IM.( I I usn W HLItl till t (pAQAA I liy 3 II Mfttaisy. &"?. .mv wit r sv ' 4. tW -9.pt. AWAITING the signal of the high command of the U. A. W. U. su.uuu uetroit workers are pre pared to resort to a citywide sit down strike as a protest to the re cent forcible ejection of sitdowners elsewhere. Such a mass strike, un dertaken only "if necessary" by Homer Martin, would indeed crip ple the automotive Industry, which would be a sorrowful plight in deed. Unfortunately enough, com promises aren't easily effected when a multitude of interests are involved. Those Frenchmen really introduced something to labor when they inaugurated the tech nique of sitting down on the job. POLITICAL aspirations of John L. Lewis, C. I. O. headman, were lambasted by rival V illiam Green, president of the slipping A. F. L., who charged Lewis with employ ing the current wave of sitdowns as a means to a lofty end labor candidate for president in 1940. Whatever political ambitions Lewis might have, Green need not publicly exploit further as they have been apparent in Lewis' ac tions during the many strikes. With the added backing of several more powerful labor unions Lewis should have no trouble in rallying to his fold a great majority of American laborers who can organ ize a strong labor party. If the buildup of the C. I. O. is indicative of any strength and it should be considered as such don't be sur prised to see a powerful labor group throw the 1940 election into a free-for-all. DIPLOMATIC strife is immi nent between the Vatican and Ger many. A delayed but vigorous pas toral or "sendschreiben" letter written by Pope Pius XI is being circulated among the Catholics in Germany, accusing the nazi state of violation of the German-Vatican concordat of 1933 and encourage ment of anti-Christian movements. Even the Catholics living in Ger many were alarmed by the tenor of the epistle. The wrath of all faiths, unable to tolerate persecu tion much longer, will soon come smashing down on the head of the nazi fuehrer if he doesn't desist from his infringement upon the few liberties permitted German citizens. PRESIDENT Roosevelt's su preme court reform was subject to the attack of one man perhaps most keenly interested Chief Jus tice Hughes. In a letter to Senator Wheeler the jurist claimed that the reform plan might "impair" the court's efficiency. Omitting poli tics from the issue, Hughes seems to be voicing the opinion of the august body, despite the fact that it has always been a custom for such jurists to abstain from indi cating their stand on any issue. As far as the supreme court's ef fiency is concerned, it all depends on what partisan colors you wear. Democrats call it inefficiency and republicans term Jt careful con servatism. young group made up in sincerity and enthusiasm, however, what it lacked in wire pulling skill. To one who has often watched the machinations of shrewd, calculat ing lobbyists backed by vast ex pense accounts, it is refreshing to see clear eyed, eager college men and women go alter an ob jective they want. Melancholy note for college foot ball players: Eighteen year old Ar mand Charron of Indian Orchard, Mass.. a high school graduate, has applied for the job of head coach at North Carolina State. If he gets this place without ever having played college football, it will look as tho the four hard years gone thru by some college players in the hope of finding a coaching job have been wasted. No reports have come from N. C. State, however, that would in dicate that Mr. Charron is to guide .his school s football destinies. WCAIl REPRESENTATIVE TALKS ATAG WEDNESDAY Hostess Editor to Discuss 'Manners for Moderns' At Assembly. Miss Toni Taylor, hostess editor and director of modern hornemak ers of McCall's magazine will speak on "Manners for Moderns" at a special convocation to be held at 2:05 Wednesday afternoon, March 21. in Ag hall SOIi. Stu dents interested in student publi cations and entertainment work may sign for special conferences with Miss Taylor from 3 to 4:30 o'clock. Miss Taylor is stopping at Ne braska during a western trip taken to contact home economics students in representative colleges. She is anxious to confer with ail social organization leaders. A luncheon is to be held Wed nesday noon, at which time Miss Taylor will discuss various phases of Journalistic work with 30 men and women student and faculty advisors. Arrangements are be ing made by the Home Economics association. KoMnet Chorus, Cast To Practice Tomorrow Song practice for all mem bers of the cast and chorus of the Kosmet Klub show will he held at the A. T. O. house at 7 o'clock Wednesday evening. Greek Letter Group Plans To Finish Structure By September. Ground was broken recently for the new Phi Delta Theta fraternity house at 1545 R wor which an ap plication to build has been filed for the sum of $25,000. Plans call for a three story structure 52 by 64 feet with brick and concrete con struction, altho stone may be sub stituted for brick. Trimmings will be white stone, and a distinctive feature will be the use of some glass brick in the building, which will be fireproof thruout. Martin Aitken is the architect and the Olson Construction com pany, of which Carl Olson is the superviser, has been awarded the contract. Both men are graduates of the university where Mr. Aitken was a member of Phi Kappa Psi, and Mr. Olson of Delta Tau Delta. Three Story Structure. Plans cal lfor a full basement containing kitchen, dining room, chapter room and freshman room adjoining. The house mother's quarters, living room, reception hall and bath will occupy the first floor. The second and 'hird floor will be alike, providing seven bed and dressing rooms, three studies, a guest chamber and two baths. Paul Hart is president of the active chapter of the fraternity which is now located at 544 So. 17th. Alpha Sigma Phi will move into the present Phi Delt house during spring vacation, the Alpha Sigs having traded their lots at 15th A- R for the Phi Delt prop erty. The new building is expected r -..i.i, i mi mi. 'JilW t " WMli- 1111 1 M ) ' - " . a -v 'i9e r J3- '- i r1 (Bulkdin Tassels. Tassels will meet tonight In F.llen Smith hall at 7 o'clock. In stallation of officers will be held. There will be a Kosmet Klub meeting at 8 o'clock in the office at University hall tonight. to be complete in time for rush week next fall. First Nebraska National, Phi Delta Theta was the first national fraternity to appear on the campus at Nebraska, and the first to own their own home here. In 1906 they bought a house at 1504 S. They remained there until 1013 when they rented a house on South 11th street and later one at 26th and Q. In 1917 the present house was acquired from the late Judge Allen Field who previously used it for his residence. Mock N. U. Senate Session Features Gridiron Dinner (Continued from Page 1.) Returns:" "We Cover the Cam pus;" "The Vigilante Committee" and "More and Better Honorary Societies." The program commit tee is composed of Edward Mur ray, George Pipal, Marylu Peter sen, Johnson Snipes, Willard Burney, Arnold Levin and Sarah Louise Meyer, general chairman of the dinner. Tickets may be obtained at the office of the School of Journalism, University hall. 104, or from mem bers of Theta Sigma Phi and Sig ma Delta Chi. All students in the School of Journalism, workers on campus publications, those taking journalism courses and others in terested in journalism are urged to attend. The price of the tickets is 75 cents. Tells Audience of Need for Laymen to Appreciate Artists' Views. "It is as much the responsibility of the layman to acquaint him self with the language of the ar tist as it is for the artist to paint in terms understandable to I"- It is the layman's duty to maka an effort to appreciate eveijwy evidences of modern art." That was the contention of Dr. Berthe Koch when she spoke on "Understanding Modern Art" Sun day. She was presented thru the auspices of the Nebraska Art as sociation. Praises Art Exhibition. Dr. Koch, head of the fine arts department of the Municipal uni versity of Omaha, praised the N. A. A. exhibition, now in its last week of showing. "It is an unusually good exhibition, one of. the most comprehensive to be seen in the middle west. The selections show very well the development of American paintings," she said. Dr. Koch's actions do not belie her words. She has visited the ex hibition three times. On on occa sion she accompanied students from Omaha. The DAVIS School Service "A Good Teacher's Agency9' 643 Stuart Bid?. Lincoln