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Friday, February 23, 1940 THE DAILY NEBRASKAN A Editorial Opinion Comment Bulletin , Daily HI IVebmskan 0tcial Nrwacx 0 More Than 7.000 ituJtnU THIRTY-NINTH YEAR Offices Union Building Day 2-7181. Night 2-7193. Journal 2-3333 Member Associated Collegiate Press, 1939-40 Membsr Nebraska Press Association, 1939-40 Represented for National Advert'sing by NATIONAL ADVERTISING SERViE, INC. 420 Madison Ave., New York, N. Y. Chicago Boston Lot Angelei San Francisco Published Daily during the school year except Monday and Saturdays, vacations, and examination periods by stu dents of the University of Nebraska, under supervision of the Publications Board. Subscription Rates are J1..00 Per Semester or $1.50 for the College Year. $2.50 Mailed. Single copy, 5 Cents. En tered as second-class matter at the postoff'ce In Lincoln, Nebraska, under Act of Congress, March 3, 1879, and at special rate of postage provided for In Section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, Authorized January 20, 1922. Editor-in-Chief RichaTd de Brown Business Manager Arthur Hill EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Managing Editors Clyde Martz, Norman Harris News Editors Chris Petersen, Lucile Thomas, Paul Svoboda, Mary Kerrigan, Morton Margolin Sports Editor June Bierbower Society Editor Mary Ann Cockle EUSINESS DEPARTMENT Assistant Business Managers. .. .Burton Thiel, Ed SegrUt Circulation Manager Lowell Michael AIX DAII.T unsigned editorials are the opinion ef the editors. Their views or opinions in no way reflect the atti tude of the administration of the university. 'The Sow's Ear' and College 'Educashum' "Why arc so many dolts, poorly prepared ele mentary 'scholars,' and congenitally tired Individ uals allowed to matriculate in our colleges and uni versities, especially those maintained at the expense of the taxpayers?" That is a question propounded in the February Issue of The Kalends of the Waverly Press, pub lished in Baltimore, and it ia a question which has formed in the minds of many persons familiar with Institutions of higher education. Why are time and money valuable and limited commodities extrava gantly wasted on persons incapable of profiting from advanced study at a great university? Would it not be better for all concerned if this time and money were concentrated on a small group of stu dents showing real promise instead of thinning it out over a large body of persons unsorted aa to na tive abilities? "Despite the fact that certain chemists, a few years ago, demonstrated that a silk purse can be made out of a sow's ear, the Indubitable fact re mains that a stupid human ass cannot be trans formed by a college 'educashum' into an individual of intelligence and culture," asserts The Kalends, and no one would dispute such a statement. To de scribe a man to a stranger as holding a bachelor's degree is really to tell him nothing about that man. Until the stranger has seen the man and observed in him the results of those four years of study, the nominal appendage Is meaningless. Perhaps the reason for our mass higher edu cation system, says The Kalend, "resides in our false conception of democracy, viz., 'One man is as good aa another.' While it U readily admitted by Hoi Pollol that every man cannot be a Joe DiMaggio or a Jack Dempsey, yet Hoi Pollol in general has a vague idea that any man can rate 'general culture' if at parents' or taxpayers' expense he can wriggle through four years of college and be crowned with a bachelor's degree." ALL MEN ARE NOT EQUAL Certainly it is obviously untrue that all men are equal and alike. Some are fitted for one thing, some for another. Human capacities vary Infinitely. Many persons are not fitted for university study and de rive no benefit from It while using up money which might go to assist others who are capable of profit ing from it Chancellor Boucher is one of this coun try's leading educators who has expressed himself in favor of turning the endeavor of persons not suited to university life into other channels. Many high school students do not Intend to enter college and there is no reason why their work should be designed to prepare them for a higher foundation which they will never undertake. Many others have no real interest In attending university, but do so because their parents wish it and because it has become almost an axiom in this country that a bachelor's degree Is absolutely basic equipment for anyone who would be successful in life. "Presumably Thomas Jefferson, an early and foremost advocate of public education, visualized (only) the sending of all children to public schools so that they might learn reading, writing, and simple arithmetic. Certainly it may be ventured that Jefferson had no idea of L'xlng poor farmers, me chanics, and unskilled laborers to the end that the upper middle-class and the wealthy might send their progenitors to state universities at public expense, regardless of whether their progeny's mentality be of the nature of a sow's car or less," continues The Kalends, growing more heated and perceptibly less precise. By no means are state universities' student bodies made up entirely of "the progeny of the upper middle-class and the wealthy." Many a poor farmer's son has gone to ag college In order that he might learn how to become a more affluent farmer. And many sons of unskilled laborers have gone to university and learned to apply their abili ties to a different, if not more useful, advantage. In other words, as long as the argument for re stricted university enrollments is based on ability to profit from higher study, it is sound. But when it makes the problem of mass education look like a class struggle, it is inevitably weakened. 'HIGHER' EDUCATION! The Kalends concludes its colorful and not wholly misdirected article by pointing out that 17 cents of the annual "national tax dollar" goes to education whereas the next highest item is 3.75 cents given to the judiciary. "The 14 cents difference represents billions of dollars wasted or, rather, of fered to the great god Educashlm in the form of luxurious high schools, useless state universities, and their output of blighted lives in the form of white collar misfits, who have the idea that it is beneath them to earn bread in the sweat of their brows." If it is true that education receives such a lion's share of the tax dollar, it is quite likely that this situation will be altered in the immediate future, as new social legislation and its numerous relations press hungrily forward for their share of the reve nue. However, it does not seem wholly illogical to spend more money in giving youth a good start in life than in giving the aged a happy end, since suc cess in the former might eliminate the need for the latter. As for the "blighted lives in the form of white collar misfits" which universities turn out, perhaps examples could be found, but certainly they are not the rule. University graduates are noted for their willingness to accept menial Jobs after leaving school. If they are ambitious to rise to more im portant positions, that is hardly a disadvantage. There always will be plenty of men to fill the Jobs of unskilled labor, and there never will be too many men qualified for more responsible work. The prob lem rather is to guide young people into pursuits which best suit their capacities whether is be re pairing cars or doing advanced work at universities. In a world of specialization, it does not seem un likely that university work may become a spe cialized pursuit Intended wholly for those calculated to profit from it instead of as a general answer to the problem of what to do after graduating from high Bchool. j VkwA. Davis, Loos, Mahnkenft BALKAN DILEMMA. News items of the last few days have tended to heighten the impression that spring may find the scene of the European war shifted to another front, the Balkans and the Near East. The diplo matic struggle which at present is being waged in the Balkans, even if it is not as bloody, is perhaps more bitterly contested than is the war on the west ern front. No nation occupies a more unenviable position than does Rumania, whose oil and gasoline are being sought by both sides in the present conflict King Carol, faced with the thankless task of preserving the independence of a nation almost defenseless be cause of its geographic position as well as its lack of any adequate military machine, has proved thru far to be a very adept tight-rope walker. Dispatches yesterday indicated that the Ger mans are becoming a bit more determined in their insistence upon the Rumanian delivery of the oil which the British and French have forbidden them to hand over. Placed between these two horns of the dilemma, the Rumanians at this time occupy the hot spot of Europe. It Is evident that only the slight est spark will be needed to bring the dispute out in the open, with a Balkan war the inevitable result. Meanwhile in yet another sector of the Near East events have been developing which foreshadow little good. Both the French and English have been increasing the number of troops in their Near East possessions. The effects of the allied policy of al liance paved with gold has become evident during the past few days. The Turkish inspired press an nounced this week that any attack against the Bal kans would bring Turkey into the wsr. At the same time the Russians are calling home experts, who for years, have been employed in Turkish industrial establishments, Military preparations, the massing of manpower along the Turkish frontier, and the nival of 50 British engineer officers to examine Turkish fortifications at Adrianople Indicate that activity in the eastern theatre may quicken. It is not improbable that the allies, should they decide that the war on the west will remain a stalemate, will undertake a concerted Turkish-French-British drive against their opponents in the Near East within a few months. UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA OFFICIAL BULLETIN This bulletin Is for the use of campus organizations, students and fac ulty members. Announcements of meetings or other notices for the bulletin may be submitted at the NEBRASKAN office by 5 p. m. the day before pub lication or at the registrar's office by 4 p. m. on weekdays and 11 a. m. on Saturday. Notices must be typed or legibly written and signed by some one with the authority to have the notice published. The bulletin will ap. pear daily, except Monday and Saturday, on page two of the NEBRASKAN. TODAY. POULTRY DEPARTMENT. Prof. F. E. Mitssehl, of the Poultry de partment, will discuss "Plant and Anlnml Nutritional Relationships" at 4 p. m. In room lu of Plant Industry. All members of the faculty r d graduate student are cordially invited. PQUARE DANCE CUB. The faculty Square Dance Club will meet at 7:30 p. m. In Grant Memorial. Faculty and graduate students are invited. ROTC. Junior and senior officers Interested In extra training pi rlods will meet In Ne braska hall room 201 at 4:30 p. m. Plans for the periods will be discussed at the meeting. VICTOR HERBERT CONCERT. A program of Victor Herbert records will be played en tlie Carnegie music set at 4 p. ni. In the faculty lounge. UNION DANCE. Dave Haun and his orchestra wHI play for the Union dance at 9 p. m. Admission Is lOe per person. SATURDAY. OPERA BROADCAST. Regular weekly opera broadcast wHI be brid la Parlor Z of the Union at 1 p. m. ACBC. ACBC Is having a dual celebration In Parlors XVZ of the Union. It Is the tenth anniversary of the club's founding and also the birthday of the house mother, Mrs. H. C. Wilson. CORNIIISKER FIELD COMPANY. Members of the Cornhusker Field com pany will meet at I a. m. 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Dean of women to tell of dating do's and don't "Do's and Don't's of Dating" will be discussed by Miss Helen Hosp, dean of women, before the regular meeting of the Y.M.C.A. next Wednesday. Beginning at 7 p. m., the meeting will be held in the Y rooms of the Temple building. They're Here! Your Hit Recordings The Rhumb Jumps jrN Gene Krapa JJC 35c 35c 35c Angel Bob Crosby . . . Cherokee Jimmy Dorsey The Starlit Hour Glenn Miller . . Fifth Floor. mmmmm mmmms 3 if ' 3 .m.,, . wZ3trinmv, .iff) 4t,sJM.laW.4H Dressmaker Suits have a softer look! Not In years has there been so much talk about the dress maker suit That's becaute the new suits are soft, feminine and infinitely more flattering to the figure than they have ever been before. They still retain, however, the trim, precise lines that make them look refreshingly smart. Particularly right NOW. ' Third Floor. 'it. 4 N 1. 1. - j 4