cQEpfi! Til T7 111 KAN, ilJoiA 5n until, Sarah Louise WK THINK PLENTY. Z 408 Official Student Newspaper of the University of Nebraska VOL. XXXVII, NO. 12. LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBEU 17, 1937" PHICE FIVE CENTS Elsewhere, editorially, students are condemned for their refusal to voluntarily undertake to learn to think. It is our opinion that such a finger-pointing of score is not only vnklnd but actually flagrantly untrue. Wc collegians use our nog gins all the time. To he any kind of a smoothie at all n have to be quirk on the tiratf. "fast learner" indicates probable genius In school children, then "fast thinker" must cate gorize those most likely to suc ceed in college. The term includes distinctive ability hot only at classy repartee for ether convlv lals, but also for the professorial leg-pull, the social you-and-mc-togethcr eye, and tho effective exuding of love for the brothers and sisters in the bon;! to say nothing of the talent for rising to unexpected situations. Let us consider these component parts of the' long unrecognized super-special collegiate mental activity. Although the snappy come back is the most obvious display of intellectual powers, and has fallen somewhat Into disrepute of late, let no one doubt its va lidity as an index of thought. Few indeed are the minds ca pable of keeping beer-room con versations in the upper layers of grey matter with unanswerable retorts like "I betcha." Few in deed are the staked-down gents who, caught with a ravishing someone else, and being cye-brow-uppishly accused of "hav ing the wrong girl" can stop 'em with "You've got something there." Boy, that kind of stuff takes brains. Classroom Brain Ousters. Another definite sign of bright ness in thinking is displayed in adept apple-polishing and leg pulling. Some heaven-blessed stu dents are so nimble in this spe cialized field of thought that there is little need of their doing the classwork required of the non thinkers. Masters of side-stepping situations as they arise, of appras ing the vulnerability of their sub ject, these peerless thinkers arc further refutation of editorial ac cusation. It is in the social arena, how ever, where lightning quick cere bral reactions are most conspic uous. Could the book-bound edi tor see for himself, in all its glory, the evidence of the origi ' nal thought displayed in group scene, he could but withdraw his foundationless condemnation of college students. Fraternity men greet their brother and his delectable date with "Howya Cl in?" One salutes all comers with the intellectual, "Whadaya know?" One bids farewell with a Winchcllic, thought provoking promise, "I'll seeya." One ob tains countless conquests man tal of course with brainy but soulful, "No smooch?" The Arm in Arm Act. ATHENS REMAINS CULTURAL CENTER .C. SAYS DR LOW E Crowds Pack Lecture Halls In Greece, Speaker Tells P.B.K.'s. Dr. Clarence G. Lowe, head of the university Greek department spoke on "Intellectual Life In Modern Athens" before a meeting of Thl Beta Kappa at the dinner given at the University club last night. Dr. Harry Kurz, president of the Nebraska chapter of the honorary, introduced the speaker, According to Dr. Low. , who re cently returned after spending six years in Greece as head librarian at the Gennadius library, Athens Is still the center of great Intel lcctunl activity. Excavations are going on in Greece, many of which are sponsored by foreigners, altho all statutes and findings must stay in Greece, due to the stringent laws of the country. Occasionally a few valuables are smuggled out and find their way into American or European museums. American School Wealthiest. The speaker explained in some detail the foreign schools main tained there by , endowments of citizens of the respective coun tries. Most of these schools are primarily for nrcheological work and all are for graduate workers. The American school, which has the largest endowment, has about 25 members. Excavations done by the Americans arc principally at Corinth and in the market place at Athens. Slums of Athens had been situated over the old histor ical site and had to be cleared away before operations could be begun. The French school was the earl iest to be founded in Athens while the Italian school, which was the latest, has digressed from intel lectual channels and now reflects Mussolina's propaganda of fas cism on a little higher plane. Hit ler recently ordered the German government to donate to the Ger man school which has diggings at Olympia. No Greek Archaeologists. No Greeks have ever been great archaeologists. Dr. Lowe pointed out that the Greek research school. supported by lottery tickets which were sold in the streets, may ex (Continued on Page 2.) Roy Blixt Wins Lawyers Derby Willi Long Odds Barristers of the class of 1940 arc again circulating the notori ous brown derby in an attempt to determine who is at the footest of the class. Twice the proud pos sessor of the traditional headgear, Roy Elof Blixt is endeavoring to make the derby a part of his per manent possessions; his only com petition to date, who does not as yet even run a close second, is Aaron "Arky" Finklcstcin. Awarded on the basis of remarks made in class, the decision must meet with the approval of the en tire freshman class, which cries "derby, derby," when an appropri ate remark is made, and the pres ent possessor has the honor of throwing the derby at the victim and pulling It down over his ears. The first time Mr. Blixt won the derby, he was guilty of confusing a statute pertaining to swearing in front of women. Mr. Finkle stein's remark, however, had more of an intellectual savor to it, thus arousing the jealousy of the entire freshman class. It seems that Mr. Finkleslein presented a rather doubtful case in such eloquent language that it aroused the jealousy, disguised in the cloak of ire, of the freshmen lawyers and he was awarded the derby. Uf course I wear my derby. Mr. Blixt enthusiastically re marked. "I shall not endeavor to keep it, and am going to keep my ears open for a remark from some one else on whom I can hang it. but nevertheless I do not consider it a disgrace and am not ashamed to wear it. STAFF HERS HONOR OR. PALYI AFTER MEETING Chicago University Professor To Speak on Armaments At Bizad Convo. Dr. Melchior Palyl, of the Uni versity of Chicago, speaker at the Bizad convocation on Thursday in social science auditorium at 11 o'clock, will be guest of honor at E f If ilt5v!t; j wmm DR. MELCHIOR PALYI. - Courtesy of The Linculn Journal. Initial Forum Features Current Fascist Threat College Education Does It Fit Students for Success? The display of fraternal love where it will do the most good is an act above all arts of intellect. Hush weeks in particular one in cannily cosy with the boys or the girls. Should there chance to be a knock-down drag-out fallin-out among the actives, the pledges, dictates the incisive reasoning power of the upperclass men. must never know. Should there be ne cessitated a tightening up all along the line the wholesale plucking of pins. Greek mentality has the sit uation so well in hand that the world continues to think Chi Chi Chi is the nuts. But where the real student mental giants shine is in recla mation of breaks. Breaks befall everyone; only the on-the-tocs guys can pull out of them neat ly. Quick thinking student can handle those nightmares when she has overheard all those catty things said about her and then bargs into view, when he discovers he can't cover the meal check, when she becomes ceitain of the impending departure of her frail strapped gown in the middle of the dance floor, or when he breathes his vivacity j Into chaperons face. ! Only the short-sighted tan 1 question our conclusions that stu- ' dents arc thinkers -clever, effi- ! cient. original, disciplined, Ingrn-' Inns thinkers. The facts speak for themselves. If consideration of surh collegiate quick quips as thinking is unorthodox, we main tain that fast thinking is assuredly thinking, and one kind of thinking is surely as good as another. Yep, we students use our noodles oodles and oodles, Ray Kinney to Speak at First Of Monthly Meeting Scries Tonight. Hay Kinney, who taught in China last year, will be guest speaker at the University Y. M. C. A. meeting in the Temple this evening at 7:30. Mr. Kinney taught Knglish dur ing the past year to students in a Chinese "middle school." which corresponds to our high school. He has done volunteer field work for the Y. M. C. A. since his re turn to the United States in Au gust. Kinney is a graduate of Doane college. Dan Williams will lead a dis cussion of "Y" objectives and Will R.ecdv, Harold Buxton and Dick Leask, "the three hot potatoes," will plav their ocarinas. This is the first of a series of monthly meetings, and altho it is primarily for members, anyone on the campus interested in Y. M. C. A. is Invited. Humorists Promise Straight Dope in November Issue Out Monday. Self-styled as the country's foremost sports experts, the Aw gwan All-American Board of Strategy is today engrossed in the delicate task of picking the 1937 All-Ameriean team whose identity will be flashed upon its campus public when the humor magazine makes it November appearance, Monday, Nov. 2!. In keeping with the All-American theme of the issue, the cover will show a gridiron hero of the 1890's in nose guard and brass kunckles, and to satisfy the flood of requests, Editor Bruce Camp bell has promised that the Romer Boys will be back again to con fine their antics to the football field in an epic entitled "The Romer Boys on the Gridiron." 'Gossip Not Gore.' Complaints have come to the office of the Awgwan that the new column "Stuff About People" isn't gorey enough. Says Editor Campbell, "Our ODjeet is to print pages of frothy gossip that will interest, not antagonize, people. If you want dirty dirt, read an inferior publication." Cartoons and photographs will again add life to the pages of the Awgwan. A full page of candid camera shots taken at the Tasty Pasty will be a surprise feature, the three candidates for honorary colonel will smile from the pages, and the Awgwan Ail-American Board of Strategy has posed be neath their team notice. Cartoons this month have been done by Virginia Geister and Ed Sleeves. ORCHESIS MEMBERS MEET Modern Dancers Rehearse Routines Tonight. a staff luncheon at the University club following the meeting. Dr. Palyi is one of the growing group of distinguished foreign scholars in social science, who, be cause of political persecution, have migrated to the United States in recent years. In this group are also included such outstanding economists as Professors Joseph Schumpter, Bertil Ohlin. and Got tfried von Haxbcrler of Harvard and Professor Emil Lederer of the new school for social research. The influence of these men upon Amer ican thought has been much greater than their numbers would indicate. Dr. Falyl has recently returned from observation of economic and political conditions in central Eur ope. The subject of his convocation lecture on Thursday morning will be "The International Monetary Situation and Rearmament." A round table discussion of current European political problems will follow the luncheon at the Uni versity club. 'Yes,' Say Most Employers In American Magazine Questionnaire, Does it pay to go to college? Are the four years of caking, cramming for exams, bull aession- ing, apple polishing only an inter lude which peps up an otherwise grayish existence, or does it get returns, docs it fit the student to dig better ditches, to set world progress off to a new high? Correspondents over the coun try responded recently to a ques tionnaire on the subject, results of which are printed in the November issue of "The Fraternity Month." Keep Degrees Secret. To the nurseryman, motorcars retailer, employer of sand and gravel workers the college man is definitely out. The Miami, Fla., employer, when questioned, re plied with an emphatic, "Decid edly no! If any of our 85 employes now have college degrees, they are keeping it a secret, until their efficiency is proved." Most employes agree that it is up to the individual person as to whether he makes a go of after college life. He may weather the exposure to a college education and come thru with no irreparable damage. The wholesale grocer, the rail- Dr. Harris of Omaha to Lead Discussion of Brazilian Situation. TO way employer, and department store manager feel that the in dividual with the right background is the man for the job, whether he be the college graduate or the man with a high school education or less. A certain San Francisco banker would rather hire a high school gradunte "who has the right slant on life than a college gradu ate who has absorbed the tenets of communism." Learns How to Play. A considerable majority of em ployers agree, however, that the college graduate very likely has picked up something of value along the wayside. The advertiser, the cafeteria manager, the printer and publisher, the public utilities em ployer, the managers of shops dealing in women's apparel and various fabrics all join unani mously in lauding the merits of a college education. From an alumnium manufacturer Pitts burgh comes the statement, "Col lege education offers the best means today for a young man to develop self-reliance, resourceful ness, and ability to get along with others, while at the same time he is acquiring certain definite infor mation." "the college man has a better sense of humor," says a New Orleans editor. "He seems to have learned how to play which is important." ff yt 1 AcLJ U. P. STATE BUREAU CHIEF TO ADDRESS JOURNALISTS TIIE WE ATI IKK Well, our first taste of winter this year seems to linger on. The weather man forecasted cloudy and continued cold for today and lowered the probable minimum ( temperature to 20 degrees. All girls interested In modern dance, whether they have attended previous meetings of Orchesia or not, arc again invited to come to ! practice tonight at seven in Grant Memorial. Final tryouts for the i dance club will be held on the aec- ond Wednesday after Thanksgtv- ing vacation and work has been i progressing on routinca to be ! Judged then. State Bridge Engineer Talks At Civil Engineering Meeting Tonight. John G. Mason, state bridge engineer, will address members of the Nebraska chapter of the Amer ican Society of Civil Engineers on the subject of "The Relation of the Engineer to Future Industrial Progress" at a meeting of the group this evening. Mr. Mason's address will be pre ceded by a dinner at the Y. M. C. A. at 6 o'clock in the executive board room. Charge for the meal will be forty cents a plate. In his talk. Mr. Mason will show the increasing relation and influence which engineers are coming to bear on the progress and expansion of industry, and the relationship which they will have with labor In its changing role in the industrial field. Included in the business to be conducted by the society at the meeting will be the nomination and election of candidates to represent the group for the offices of chair man and secretary treasurer of Engineers week this year. ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS TAKE FIELD TRiP H Tom Ingoldsby Speaks Friday At Journalism Smoker In 'N' Clubrooms. Tom Ingoldsby, United Tress state manager and chief of the Omaha bureau, will be the guest speaker at an All Journalism smoker held Friday night in the N clubrooms of the coliseum. Sponsored by the local chapter of the Sigma Delta Chi, national jour nalistic fraternity, the smoker is open to all men students in the School of Journalism and others interested in journalism. Recognized thruout the state by veteran newspaper men and busi ness leaders as a keen observer of the press' relationship to the world at large Ingoldsby will give a practical discourse on the number of newspapers that may be sup ported in any city, new styles in news writing, facsimile and other new methods of news transmission, and a general outline of United Press operations, foreign and do mestic. Next year, Ingoldsby celebrates his 25th year with the United Press in Omaha. He is one of the three oldest press men in point of service connected with the United Press. Board Selects Candidates For Engineers Week On Tuesday. Reading of Plautus' Version Of Amphitryon Features Program. Nominations are being conduct ed this week by various engineer- i it .' . : f -.. l ,.t t lMg CIMI('U .UClt"l IVO 1UI U1IT Iflllirn of chairman and secretary-treasurer for Engineers Week, annual engineering college event held each spring. Each of the six societies, repre senting agricultural, civil, electri cal, mechanical, architectural and chemical engineering groups; will nominate one candidate for each position. The names of these men will be presented then to the En gineers Executive Board at their meeting next Tuesday afternoon. The board will then select two can didates for each office from this group whose names will go on the ballots at an all engineering col lege election which will be held sometime before Christmas vaca tion. This procedure differs slightly from that used in past years where four names appeared on the bal lots, and the one receiving the highest number of votes was given the office of chairman, the second highest receiving the stcretary treasurer position. This year each office will be specifically repre sented by two candidates on the balloti. With the recent invasion of ra cism in Brazil spreading alarm in. all of the democracies of the west ern hemisphere, the forum com mittee of the Student Council brings an Oma ha authority on diplomatic re lations. Dr. Ly man H. Harris, to Lincoln to morrow to con duct a discus sion at the first university for um of tlie year on "Fascism in Brazil." Tho ir. i h. HAKiu.s forum win start at 11 o'clock in the Temple theater. Dr. Harris is in the history department of the University of Omaha, and he specializes in the courses of diplomatic relations. Be sides being chairman of the Social Sciences Introductory courses there the forum leader teaches courses on English and European history. Problems of International Rela tions, and Domestic and Foreign Politics of England, France and Germany. Following Dr. Harris' talk, a panel made up of Robert Wadhams, Ed ward Murray and Winifred Nelson will discuss phases of fascism, me forum will then be turned over to the audience and Dr. Harris will answer questions from the floor. Native Southerner. A southerner by birth and a na tive of Tennessee, Dr. Harris is still very interested in the prob lems of the south, especially in the problem of the southern cotton planter. Dr. Harris did his under graduate work at Washington and Lee university, and received his Ph. D. from the University of Wis consin where he later became a member of the faculty. Later he taught at Knox college in Gales burg, 111. The forum, the first of the year, is sponsored by members of the Student Council committee on for ums of which Paul Wagner and Eloise Benjamin are co-chairmen. All students are invited to attend and to partake in the discussion following Dr. Harris speech. Classes will not be dismissed ex ceDt bv special permission of the individual instructor. Publisher of Foreign Paper To Address German Club Tomorrow at 8. Why Use Compulsory Training? 'Preparedness State Officials. 'Bunk!' Says Senator G. P. Nye E North Dakotan Describes Neutrality Program On Indiana Visit. 3arb Inter-Club Council Plans Novel Decorations for All-Campus Party. A Varsity Hop, sponsored by the Curb Inter-Club council will be held Saturday nlht alter the Iowa game In the coliseum. The admls fcion will be 25 centa per person. This affair will climax the In formal season of all unlvt.nitv dances. Ken Nelson and his 12 piece orrh-M.ra have been secured to furnl.h the music for the dance. The committer in charge hsve promised many unique decorations. In addition In refreshments and confetti. The dnnre floor U also to be improved upon. Scnutor Gerald P. Nye outlined his neutrality program and blasted away at university compulsory training during a recent visit to the University of Indiana campus. Senator Nye declarer that the same cry that brought America Into the W91M war is now rising from China. Introducing his seven point pro gram for neutrality. Senator Nye d.tclared "I have no cure all. In d'ed, I believe we are going to have a difficult time preparing against war." His proposals, the senator stated, "will eliminate a large percentage of the possibili ties that this country will be called to enter into war." National Defense Armament. The North Dakolan's program rnlls for an educational program to acquaint the public with the causes of war and its futility, a policy of armament for national defense only, a confiscatory tax bill to eliminate war time profi teering, government ownership of munition factories and production of its own materials for nutioiial defense, ail embargo on the export of arms belli In times of peace and war, the abolition of com pulsory military training In Amer ican schools and legislation mak ing it possible to conscript capital and property on the same basis that inn are drafted in times of war. n Concerning; the "folly of the preparedness issue" the senator asked. "Why should college boys be penalized with compulsory military training when all around us are thousands of farm boys and boys In Industry who haven't been trained? Milftary authorities would answer, 'preparedness.' I say, bunk. "Our national defense would not (Continued on Tage 2.) The classic club will hold its first meeting this year tonight in j room 21 of teachers college. The i main features of the program will j be the reading of Flautus version of the Amphitryon, comedy fore-1 runner of the Broadway hit, "Am-. phitryon 38, and the singing of a translation of "Vieni Vieni," a ; continental favorite introduced in ; America by Rudy Vallee. j The legend upon which tne Am-, phitryon is based will be discussed. : After the discussion songs ana ; refreshments will conclude the i meeting. Margaret Saxton, presi dent, and Florence Steuteville, secretary-treasurer, are in charge of the arrangements. ATTORNEY TO WEE ASKS NO INQUEST IN PAUESEN CASE County Attorney Towle who has been investigating the death of Glenn Paulsen, uni versity freshman, who war struck by an automobile Fri day night and died at 3 o'clock Monday afternoon announced Tuesday that there would be no Inquest. Paulsen received fatal Injuries when he wa struck by a car driven by Ed Ryan, university student on the corner of 14th and R Sts., Fri day night. His body was taken to his home at Newman Grove for funeral services and burial. Simplifying her conversation to the level of the German students, Mrs. Dora Strauss, editor of Lin coln's only German newspaper, the Post-Welt, will speak to me. uei man club tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock in the Morrill hall audi torium. Mrs. Strauss will give her im pressions of the people and poli cies of present day Germany as she saw them while traveling in the Nazi state most of tho past summer. Rounding out the eve ning's program, musical numbers will be presented by Miss Janet Currier and by a student quartet made up of Francis Lotterle, Clif ford Sturdevant. Gerald Wilson land Eugene Pentnon. Erich Albrecht, faculty member in charge of the meeting, cordially i invites anvone interested in Ger ! man as well as all students in the i German department to attend, j Last Tuesday's Nebiaskan er roneously stated that the meeting 'would be held in the Temple, and 'Kugene Pentnon was listed as ; Pcntner. Student Organization Travels To Omaha for Plant Inspection. About 60 student members of the Nebraska chapter of the Amer lean Institute of Electrical Kn gineering will make a field trip to Omaha today to Inspect a number of plants there. The scheduled Itinerary begins at the transmitter plant of radio station WOW where the group will visit Horn 8:30 to :30. From 10 o'clock to 11:30 will be spent nt the United States Army radio Mil lion at Fort Omuha. A noon meet ing and Kmcheon will be held un der the auspices of the Omaha Knglneerlng club and the Nebras ka section of the A. I. E. K. of which Prof. F. W. Norris Is chair man. From 1:15 to 3:30 o'clock the group will have a choice of two places to visit either the Omaha Structural Steel works or the Northwestern Bell ' Telephone building. At 4 o'clock an inspec tion tour will be made of the Ne braska Power company. Students will be transported to Omaha and back by private cars, ard accompanying them will be I Trof. Norris and Prof. L. A. Bingham. Hill Thinks Long Japanese Rule Over China Improbable Even Though Invaders Triumph Professor Maintains Chinese Mass Would Overthrow Conquerors. By Ellsworth Steele. "It Is my opinion that the Japa nese arc sufficiently remote geo graphically from the Chinese to be able to retain their own ex istence almost as easily as F.ng- lund has done in relation to India assuming, of course, that Japan should conquer all of China.',' de clared Prof. Norman Hill, instruc tor in International affairs when aaked whether Japan would be ab sorbed by the Chinese millions even if she were able to conquer them. "It is difficult to imagine a na tion of 67.000.000 people conquer ing and holding for a long tim a country like China with its pop ulation of more than 400.000.000. Some writers and observer have piophcsUcd that, wlulc the Japa- Maxwell C. Maxwell Informs Engineers on Handling Of Raw Materials. nese probably can conquer China, they would themselves be conqu ered by the slow but sure process of assimilation ana aosorpiion. There Is some support fur this point if view to be found in the fa -t tba'. th2 Mu'Hhu tribes, which conquered China in the early nlli century and established a Mancliu dynasty, were themselves swal lowed up by the Chinese millions and lost their Identity. The migra tion of the Chinese into Munchurin anil of the Manchus into China, with Intermurrlage and assimila tion, brought this about." Indian Culture Affects EngUnd. "On the other hand we have the example of India, with a popula tion of more than 2."0.000,000 peo Dle conquered by England and governed by them for several een turies. England has been affected bv Indian culture but.by no means, has she been absorbed. That Ihe Manchus were absorbed by the (Continued on Tage 2.) A combined meeting of all the engineering groups on the campus heard Maxwell C. Maxwell, repre sentative of a lock manufacturing: company of Stanford. Conn., speak on the handling of material in large industrial plants. Maxwell traced the histoiy of improvements in the transportation and factory handling of raw materials and fin ished products. He Illustrated his talk with motion pictures showing the use of modern equipment in handling material. Maxwell, who is returning to the east from an extended speaking tour on the coast, lectured last spring to Nebraska engineering student on different , phases of lock niuklng. Prof. A. A. l uebs of the mechanical engineering depart ment was in charge, of tho meeting. IN THE INFIRMARY Theron Dreler. York Lowell English. Lincoln Lloyd Grimm, Omshs Alice Aekernon, Aurora DISMISSED. Arlo Klum. Lincoln