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Culture: Two Bucks
The effervescent bunch of red-swe.'iterecl,
white-skirted University ticket sellers me at
work again. Yes, the Tassels, the crew of 11c-tivity-inindeil
eoeds. Today they have to offer
culture at only two bucks, or in more precise
English, two dollars. Tassels may not he the
personification of culture, hut their sponsor
tin? University Players represent a mild and
not-too-hard-to-tiike brand of it.
Students should not be at all reluctant to
help out the Tassels by buying University Play
ers tickets. They are keeping alive one of .Ne
braska's better traditions by backing the stu
dent theatricals. The acting may not etpial
Broadway's or Hollywood's, but often it over
shadows that of the greater artistes in its re
freshing homeliness. For cultural entertain
ment, it is two dollars well spent.
Human Derelict Laments....
f? Ufi
horrors ov war
Ceremony
Lawrence. The 1 in prenslvr
ceremony of kindling a lire on a
heart before the great seal of the
university will be repeated Thurs
day evening at the 10th annual
new student induction ceremony
at the University of Kansas. Stu
dents representing the classe
from graduate to freshman groups
will participate in the ceremony.
Kids Free
The Convo Season
First University convocation is on tap for
this morning at 11 o'clock with Ur. Fay-Cooper
Cole. Chicago field museum official, as guest
speaker. The scientist, whose forte is the inter
esting study of anthropology, will speak on
"The Anthropologist's View of Race." The
title alone is intriguing enough to warrant stu
dents putting pressure on instructors for class
dismissal.
Temple theater, scene of the University
convocations, cannot accommodate the entire
student body, but there is ample room for those
undergraduates who are sincerely interested in
hearing Dr. Cole. The convocation committee
Appeals only to those students who have a gen
uine desire to profit from such an assembly.
For the past several years the convocation
committee has had to apologize to many noted
speakers for Nebraska's "barnyard" manners,
students, fearful lest they be a minute late for
lunch, disturb the entire assemblage by walk
ing out before the address is completed. The
floorboards in Temple still cre."k and quake.
The last resort appears to be either locking in
the convocation-goers until it s completion or
barring students from attending when thv
plan to leave before the end.
(irtek letter societies are now so numerous
that they are found in nearly, if not all col
leges. There was a day when there was only
one, and it diJ not sport any (ireek letters, but
Was a college fraternity known as the Flat Hat
club. It appeared at the College of William
and Mary as far back as 1750 and continued in
existence tuUil 1772. The organization was
'secret, literary, and social. The oldest Creek
letter fraternity in this country now in exist
ence is the Phi Net a Kappa, organized in 177(.
Mueller Record.
One Man's Case
Against Higher Education
Just how much of a liability is a college edu
cation ?
In a recent issue of a national magazine, James
Carroll, who claims to hold two college degrees
himself, raises this pertinent question under the
title, "No College for My Son."
We, of course, are college student. We have
come to the univeriity fully convinced that a higher
education is a valuable stepping stone, even a neces
sary bridge, toward obtaining and holding the kind
of position we wish to assume in later life. Un
doubtedly we will protest Mr. Carroll's decision that
four years spent in a modern college or university
do more to unfit the average graduate for "success"
than they do to fit him for it.
But some of his arguments against college for
the usual high. school graduate are significant, If
not agreeable. A few:
(1) College damages the student's "forthright
perception of reality,"-of personal observation by
substituting the authority of books, of "authorities,"
of tradition.
(2) The gang life inevitable in fraternities or
rooming houses smashes the student's personal in
dividuality, makes him become a slave of the group
in matters of taste, prejudice, attitude, and the like.
(3) The two to three thousand dollars necessary
to complete work for a degree could much better
be spent in launching the student in the business
or industrial field he will follow later. College does
not help one to make money. Surveys which show
that the average college graduate makes more than
the average high school graduate may be explained
by the fact that the average college graduate has
more to start with in the first place, in the way of
family prestige and finances.
(4) The four years spent in college isolates the
student from his home or any other community,
breaks the ties he formerly had in that community,
so that it is harder to establish business and social
contacts after graduation.
(5) Most important of all, "higher education"
of itself is wasted on the average student. Such
students should be kept out of college ao that those
who really profit by such specialized training may
have a better chance.
"The class rooms are jammed, the taxpayers
burdened, with Jimmies average college students).
They come in droves to strew the campus with cig
arette butts, to join fraternities, to make the teams,
to neck with the girs, to do not much drinking, not
much crapshooting but to have grand bull sessions,
stage mighty pranks, leave with splendid mem
ories. And I was about to forget for degrees!
"College cannot educate these young animals.
T -itvt-o t t.fs r-r.1 1 a r-ft thAm libn a.ntv fa" . - . .
..... v wm a. inrv auiu . Wa 1 i I,,,... I f....ti ..ti
mobile. Science entices them a little way. But they , fans .n this sector nrc 21, worn
know all the secrets of life already. The purlieu- by Co-rapt. Kverett Kisrher, vcr
larities and precisions of scholarly research excite Ptttil0 Quarterback, and 38, worn
their humor and contempt. The Cassroom irks ,hem TSL Sirdar
"ea - j numerals Hie th 73 of George
' Umviiity Daily Kannn. j Ba7.iU. G4 'of Clyde Shiiniirt. 30 of
'Chuck Heilrman. 4.ri uf Cordon
Ames. High school and grade
school pupils of Iowa will get a
taste of collegiate life Saturday,
Oct. 1 when they will be admitted
free to the football game on the
Cyclone field.
A special section of the stadium
on the 30 yard line has been re
served for Iowa State's school
guests. They will sit Just south of
the section in the east stadium
reserved for Iowa State students.
A special cheer leader will be pro
vided to lead the 'kids" in yells.
Double Time
Norman. With development of
team and individual oftenslve
skills the main problem, a 38 man
University of Oklahoma football
squad is working; double lime for
the opener against the powerful
Hiee Owls at Houston, 'lex., Oct. 1.
In spite of the loss of Jack Baer.
all Big Six quarterback, who did
practically all of the Sooner pass
ing and kicking lust year, and also
Wood Huddleston, the best run
ning back and safety, and Capt. Al
Corrott). key blocker, the Okln
home running and forward pass
ing attacks ai beginning to
s moot hen up.
1,000 Passes
AMES. Approximately 1.000
former Iowa State college athletes
will receive passes this week to all
1938-39 Cyclone home athletic con
tests. Secretaries in the Iowa State
athletic department are complet
ing the yearly task of addressing
and mailing the passes to all let
tenvinners in the 4ii years of Cy
clone athletic history."
Strange to say, nearly three
fourths of the recipients of the
"varsity I pass'' never won the
Iowa State athletic "I." These 700
won the "A" award, symbolic of
Ames, the old college name under
which name Cyclone athletic teams
competed until 1928.
By Otto Woerner.
The college kids were dancing
to the sweet melodies of some
king of swing: the playboys were
on their Saturday night spree; the
grade school teachers were just
getting home from the latest his
torical movie; in every beer tavern
in town, the nickleodians were
whirling out some hot tune. But
an old man walked slowly over to
the court house terrace wall, and
sat down alone.
It wasn't the man's shabby
clothing, for others along the ter
race were poorly dressed; and it
wasn't the tired, wrinkled face,
for others had worked, and others
were aging; yet there was some
thing magnetic about this man, as
he stared up into the night, and
began to mumble prayers to some
God somewhere to smile once
again on the nations of the world,
to implore of the omnipotent,
ubiquitous gods, whoever they
might be, to grant peace on earth.
"My boy," the man dropped his
dim, dark eyes from the skies, and
the hardness of his face somehow
spoke of gentleness, "did you ever
listen to such beautiful music that
you were overcome by its splen
dor; did you ever see a tornado so
big that you could only think of
bignens: did you ever see a friend
die: did you ever see blood and
gore spread over squares miles of
land?"
Star of Peace.
"Sec," a finger somehow
knarled like an old limb was slow
ly lifted toward the heavens, "see
that star? That is the star of
peace. That's the star my buddy
asked the name of when he was
bleeding to death in no man's
land. That's the star that guided
the wise men to Jesus Christ as
he sat suckling in the stable in
Jerusalem."
The man talked slowly, irregu
larly, and he breathed rapidly, his
chest pounding up and down as
though he had just completed a
hard run. But his eyes were steady
gray and hard they were and his
breeze blown hair parted in little
while ribbons that glittered in the
light reflected from the red neon
sign up the street.
"My buddy Johnny wa his
name he died, died in France."
The man paused a moment, at
tempting to recall some memory
picture of a pal dead 20 years.
"We were .going thru the Ar
gonne one night God, it was aw
fulmud and barbs, and shells,
and, Lord, soldiers were out there
crying, and moaning, and shriek
ing like so many frogs, and they
were about as helpless." The
man's face became cold and clam
my, and his words came in little
spurts like the chattering of a
far off machine gun.
"Johnny and I were pals - we
ate together in dirt holes; we sang
songs and told stories and killed
men together; we told each other
about our girls back home and
read each other the letters we
got. We went to gether to the
red light houses In the French
towns..." a star shot overhead,
and disappeared far in the east.
Horribly Beautiful.
"It was like that then, some
how horribly beautiful, with some
thing barbaric and uncivilized in
the air, and everybody in those
holes felt that God was awfully
close. We were crawling forwaru
slowly, when u flare went up, and
1 saw Johnny had stopped. I went
back to him, and when I got my
ear close enough, above the roar
of everything. 1 heard him say my
name. And he asked me slowly,
Bud, what's that star up there'.'
I looked anil saw sninlnji out of
all that hell a bright star, and I
told him it was the star of peace,
and he understood. . ."
"And now there's going to be
another war. Can't you see -men
don't want to fight: men don't like
to fight; men don't like to die."
The man shuddered as tho some
electrical current were passing up
and down his nervous system,
"war is hell."
I left him there that way, lean
ing bHck, far hack, looking up at
the star of peace, which sliined
now even as it had sliined 20 years
Corn Cob Yearlings
Get Tasks Tonight
First regular meeting of Corn
Cobs will be held this evening
at 7:30 in room 313 of the Stu
dent Union. All actives and
pledges are urged to be present.
Main business for tonight
will consist of assignments of
initial projects to pledges.
previously. The merry crowd from
the cheap dance floor over on
ninth were just coming out and
laughing and joking, and 8 couple
of cars ran along side of each
other, blasting in some dishar
monious manner with their bari
tone horna. t
But the old man remained,
dreaming perhaps, praying per
haps, to a God to be merciful to
an earth an old man kneeling on
the courthouse steps, talking with
his dead buddy. , .
Polilicus Peeks; Spies Party
Chieftains in Big Dither
Identification, Union
Polls Cause Criticism
Crosscountry
BY POLITICUS IX.
For the moment at least, all is
quiet on the campus political front.
NORMAN. An improved Uni-. Current beatings about in the uni
versity of Oklahoma cross country versity mulberry bush, however,
team is now being built by Coach seem to indicate that many and
John Jacobs. Allho they still lack ' often will be the political outbursts
championship strength, the Soon-1 preceding both fall and spring poll
ers should be faster at all five po-! tussles.
sitions this fall.
The Oklahoma two
tile:
lr.
mile sched-
o, t.
Oct.
Nov.
Nov
N'iv.
Kan-ii tit !.arnrr.
XttirnhKn at Noimmi.
kanp;i4 State at Norman.
Oklahoma Atsios at Norman.
Bij: Six nifft, p.are uritti
nounrcil.
Jersey Numbers
AMES. It may be a supersti
tion or a custom but the seven
seniors on the Iowa State college
football eleven will bear the same
jersey numbers for the third con
secutive season. The Cyclone jun
iors, too, are partisan to the num
bers they were as sophomores
Engineers Manufacture
3,000 Lb. Model Locomotive
Start Work in 1933;
Expect Finish in 1940
"By the spring of 1940 it should
be completed," said Prof. N. H.
Barnard, speaking of the 3,000
pounds of locomotive which have
BULLETIN
Alpha Prti Omega.
Members of Alpha Phi Omega,
national service fraternity, will
meet tonight in the chamber of
commerce lobby for their first
meeting of the year. Plans for (he
year will be dmcussed in this in
formal sesion.
Keupke and 39 of Joe Goldberg.
Grads Get Awards
Michigan State, N. U.
! Give Two Fellowships
been In the making since 1933 in
the machine-crowded shop of Me
chanical Engineering building.
The running gear of the neat
looking model is finished and work
this year will be concentrated on
the boiler. This involves welding
in the firebox, placing the flues,
completing the boiler piping and
mountine the assembly on the
chassis. I
The diminutive working model :
of the "Pacific type" locomotive is
built on a scale of one-fifth actual
aize and has an overall length of
15 feet. Professor Barnard esti
mates that the two cylinder steam
eig'ne will probably develop 20
horsepower at a speed of 15 miles
per hour. The boiler is designed to
carry a water pressure of 100
pounds.
That the 650 parts of the loco
motive will co-operate in operation
has been shown in demonstrations
on engineers night when the en
gine has been mounted on axle
.jacks and powered with com
pressed air.
To emphasie the complexity of
the work already done, Professor
Barnard Indicated the cab- and
boiler-less running Rear. "It would
take me and my sLudents a year
to tear that down and put It to
. gather again." That's almost as
bad ai Humpty Dumpty.
' "The locomotive is not a produc
tion Job In any way; IU conatruc-
j tion was undertaken as a project
I to give students in mechanical en
gineering practical expeiience,"
said Professor Barnard. "All work
from the pattern shop through the
rounary ana me maenme snop is , A A Sports board will picnic at J tension service un home demolish a-
being done by students, hince tne , the cabin on Wednesday, Sept. in.
inception of the project, about 200 i Members of the women's physical
students have had a hand (or two I education staff will be guests,
'in the steam engine as it now ;
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The W,
W. A. A.
A. A. Council
and W.
Two giaduates of the liome eco
nomies oi-paiimeiit of the univer
sity have received fellowship in
home economic to study tlun fall.
Miss Christine Carlson, who has
been connected with the state ex-
Newest headache- how can
either faction win an election with
the new pictorial identification sys
tem in action? And, as party chief
tains lie awake nights seeking a
loophole thru which they may ease
extra votes, student council mem
bers, a majority of whom swung
in on the tail of last semester's
ballot box fiasco, promise a tight
ening up an along ine line.
Will there be? Well, reforms of
a similar nature have been prom
ised before - to no avail. However,!
with the new identification system,
it should be relatively easy to es
tablish the identity of a student
before he is given a ballot.
Union and Box Stuffing.
Whether this change is instituted
or not, it would be an exceedingly I
c lever move on the part of elec-!
tion officials to hold this year's
spree clsevjieie than in the Union!
lobby.
Last semester's mess should be ,
sufficient proof of the necessity j
; for larger quarters. No such un
pleasantness characterized previ
ous elections. Ballot box stuffing,
if it went on, w as at least con-:
, ducted on a smaller scale and in a
politer manner.
By the way, a survey of frac-1
tinns shows that both parties1
pledged approximately the same
number of men. Retaining then j
much the same numerical qualities!
as last year, the factions prepare j
for another year.
The piogiessives have an edge,
as far as voting strength eoes, ,
Betas Where?
Liberals, once more lie across
the barrel, seeking both candidates
and policies while the vacillating
Betas straddle the fence. Do they
want another shot at running in
dependent? Remembering the fiz
zle of a year ago, we'd say no. J
Probably they'll go liberal once j
more.
The stillborn I.S.A., which placed
but a single man and polled an in
significant fraction of the barb
vote, will no doubt fold. Into whose
tent the barbs will come, is a
puzzler. Lack of interest and past
voting policies make their presence
not too much sought after by
either faction.
So, the scrap begins again. Kind
us a national political trick which
Is not utilized on a smaller scale
on this campus, and we'll change
our opinion of uni elections - the
Library Add Books
Works of Cheyney,
Mann Stand Out
The University library today
announced a new group of books
now ready for distribution. Among
the outstanding authors repre
sented are Sheldon Cheyney and
Thomas Mann. Mr. Cheyney is
noted as one of the most promi
nent critics of art and literature
in the world, and in hia new
book, "A World History of Art,"
displays his mastery of the pen
as weil.
Thomas Mann, probably the
best known author of our day,
was exiled from Germany because
of bis Jewish blood. His work,
"Joseph and His Brothers," Illus
trates amply the statement once
made of him: "Germany may go
down in history as the country
who disowned Thomas Mann."
A partial list of the new books
follows:
World IIMnry of Art, by Nhrlilon
Chi'Mii'.v.
'1 lie l)t'il l.fitniA to Vtitr, by C'hrla
tuplirr ( imlHilly,
M;irk Tuuln'ti Wratrrn Yram, hy Ivan
hniMin.
WuikI Carving, by Allan lliirnt. n.
I-Illy Yi-iir lit Anirriran Oolf, hy
lliirrv llriinluw Martin.
Mini .Ualn-.t If liiiorlf, by Karl Au
Kllilllh VlMininni'r.
'I In- Turkish llirntrr, by Mcholai S.
M:lrtlmiileh.
I'ollilinl Innlltiitliiiia. a Trrfarr, by
I'iihtunl Mi- hr-Mii'y Salt.
Mi'iilul ( mitllrta ami Pmonallty, by
Mutiili'l Slirrmun.
M u-liiiie I'ollth i.: (M ami Mndrl, by
llurnlil OiiMirll.
Ainrrlrun Mrknaines, by Grorsa Earlle
slmiiMr.
( mnmtinhm, r'asrltm or Democracy?,
by r.tlicird llrlniunn.
Amrrirnii Indian llitnrr Strp. by Bra
air h:iliN and Mary (i. KvanN.
Thr I'rr mid World Affairs, by RoSr
frt William !,-Mll(rid. '
Anti-Si mltlhin Historically and Critic
ally tAumlnrd, hy Ifiitn Valentin.
I ndcr the Af of FaaclBm, by Cact
ami halvcmlnl.
A lllntiiry of the ,lcua, by Abram
l,ein Sui-hiir.
Academic I'niccHhion, by Jamca RrlS
Parker.
America' Experience As a Creditor
Nation, liy Juhii Thorn Madden,
.Marcus Nailler. and Harry . Sauvain.
Mniiey, .Morals and Manners, by Har
old Irtor Kiinlh.
James Mathrw B'rrle; an apprecia
tion, hy James A. Rni.
The ( rait of I!:- Japanese Nrulptor,
by Ijinsdiin V.trn.-r.
The trirndly Tree, by Cecil Day
Lewis.
Joseph and Ills Brothers, by Thomas
.Mriio.
The Comniest of Cholera, by John
Shnrjie hambcrs.
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tetn in Mocemoue
mogozine
stands. At the present time.
advanced mechanical engineering i C.njn rc fn Annlu
students are working on the job: JCHIUra IU tJlJ
in the machine shop. Next semes-
ter, another group will come up to ;
put in the 12 nhop hours a week
which has been the necessary time
nit.
Eight Year's Work.
After the boiler is completely
mounted, the cab and tender, or
coal car, will be constructed. This
will be largely a sheet metal job.
Before the engine Is ready for op
eration, these must be painted and
Insulated. Eight years will have
looked on the student workers in
the machine shop by that time.
"We do not Intend to lay tracks
around the campus and make a
circtia of this as m.py people seem
to think," Rmiled the shop director.
He explained that the locomotive
would probably be mounted to op
erate in a stationary position to
be used as a testing unit In the
power laboratory.
O.R.C. Aspirants
Report to Schaeffer
Applicants for mld-yritr and
June commission In the Olflceia'
Reserve Corps may now obtain the
necessary forms and Information
from Sergeant Schaetfer In the
office of the Military department.
Nov. 1 is the deadline for mid
year seniors to apply for or de
cline their commissions In the
O. R. C, and June R. O. T. C.
graduates must apply by Dec. 1.
National guardsmen must apply
earlier.
Requirements for a commission
are: One period of R. O. T. C.
camp, two years basic military
training and two years of ad
vanced courses.
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DRESSMAKING SHOP
- AM kinds of alterations and
Z repair work.
Dresses shortened, 7Se up.
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Oct. 14 John Clarks Thomas.
Nov. 12 Lincoln Symphony Orchestra, Herbert Schmidt,
guest soloist.
Dec. 3 Robert Virovai, Violinist.
Jan. 10 Jose Iturbi,-Pianist.
Feb. 13 Lincoln Symphony Orchestra, Betty Zabriske,
guest soloist.
Feb. 23 Lotte Lehmann, Soprano.
Apr. 10 Lincoln Symphony Orchestra.
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