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Editorial Opinion
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AM. DATT.T lullnH editorials are the ootalea of the
editors. Their views or optnloas la M way reflect tb at
taa of the aomloluratioa of the anlTmtily.
Today is Primary Day
nd the DAILY strongly urges all faculty
members and students who are properly regis
tered to take note of their privileges and du
ties as citizens of the United States by voting
today and thus demonstrating their ability and
desire to participate in our democratic form
f government.
Wc Hunk
P.B.K. IS nice,
but not essential
to be a leader
If rVef. J. O. Hertzter, president of Phi Beta
Kappa, was quoted correctly in Sunday's DAILY,
and K he was speaking in all seriousness, he does
not think much of the value of extra-curricular
eoHege activities. Perhaps it is natural that one
defending scholastic honors should take a poke
at activity honors, and yet to do so does not seem
quite fair or necessary.
Certainly election to rW Beta Kappa is an
achievement of which to be proud, and one which
should command respect and admiration. Members
have demonstrated their ability to do superior work
aa their study at the university, Phi Beta Kappa
la designed to recognixe thia superiority, and supe
riority is to be sought in all lines of constructive
endeavor. However, anyone who believes that all of
the benefits to be derived from attending a modern
university come directly out of the classroom is
overlooking a very Important side of college life.
For most students study should be of primary im
portance, to be sure, since that is the fundamental
reason for universities' existence. But for some stu
dents, this extra-curricular activity may prove even
more important to them after graduation than what
they got out of textbooks, and for all students it
can do a great deal
If one wished to strike a comparison, rt might
be shown that work and advancement in extra
curricular activities more nearly approximate
conditions ts be found in post-graduate life than
work and advancement in the classroom. One
must not only demonstrate a knowledge of his
particular line of work, but he must demonstrate
an ability to get along well with people a valu
able and necessary ability in nearly all occupa
tions. And anyone who thinks that success in ac
tivities has no concern with self-discipline and
habits of hard work his ne real knowledge of
those activities. Students engaged in them are
required to devote a great deal of time to them,
as well as te keep up their school work, and so
they are forced to forego many of the lighter
pleasures of collegiate life. By no means are they
mere "glamour boys," They work quite as hard
for their recognition by activity honoraries as do
P. B. K.'s. One mfght almost say that many of
them work harder since they wHI be found to d
above-average school work at the same time.
In the last analysis, knowledge is only aa valu
able as one's ability to use R. We live in a com
petitive and social world la which those who reach
the upper branches of success are able to do so
because they can demonstrate this ability and be
cause they can get along well with those who are
necessary to their success. It may be tiw that there
are many P, B. K.'s among the world s leaders, but
there are also many leaders who are Aot members
of that organinatioa. Ami one could find many
P. B. K.'s who have made rery small marks indeed
in the world. A survey of college activity leaders
certainly would reveal results quite as compli
mentary. There may be "amiable mediocrity"
among the rank and file of college students but
there will not be any more among activity leaders
than among scholastic leaders. The very name
"leader" denies such an ascription. To be sure all
leaders may not be worthy of the name. There are
ways of becoming a P. B. K. without too much brain
exertion and without too much brain to exert, and
there are ways of becoming an Innocent or Mortar
Board without having really achieved much in or
for activities. But people who practice them are
likely to find their success short-lived.
The only real value of honoraries lies in their
ability to inspire superiority by recognizing it.
Those who win election to them have over those
who do not only the advantage of having begun
early to demonstrate their capacities. The real
success of their lives depends upon their ability
to maintain this advantage, and the more broadly
they combine those qualities for which P. B. K.
stands and for which Innocents and Mortar
Board stand (qualities which may easily and do
frequently overlap), the more likely are their
chances to do so. The mortality rate for empty
headed glad-handers is equalled only by that for
encyclopedic recluses.
YbiwA, (RoundupL
By Norbert Mahnkcn
Bulletin
As we go to press, the European, political and
war pot is boiling over. In the last few minutes,
Norway has opened war on Germany. Per
haps by the time that this paper reaches your
hands other Scandinavian countries will be at
war with the nazis for already German forces
have invaded Denmark.
ELECTIONS HOLD SPOTLIGHT
Election day interest centers on a few contests
in Nebraska and Illinois, where primary campaigns
have in a few instances been waged with consider
able heat. Here in Nebraska attention will be cen
tered on the contest for the democratic nomination
for United States senator, over which a lengthy
battle has been fought by Senator Burke and Gov
ernor Cochran. Considerable interest has been
shown in the noisy campaign for the democratic
gubernatorial nomination where Terry Carpenter
and Keith Neville appear the chief contenders.
The nominations on the republican ticket are
being sought by a large number of candidates, with
the result that narrow margins of victory may well
be in order.
In IllinoS the pre-election struggle has been
more heated. In the democratic preferential primary
both Roosevelt and Garner are seeking votes, and
the Garner supporters have spared nothing in their
denunciation of a third term and all that the New
Deal implies. The contest for the Illinois democratic
gubernatorial nomination borders on the ludicrous, j
lieutenant Governor Stelle has come out as an "in
dependent" candidate in opposition to Hershey. the
Chicago machine candidate who also has the back
ing of Governor Horner. To add interest to the
election Lieutenant Governor Stelle yesterday pro
claimed himself acting governor (Horner has been
ill, and has made only three visits to his office in
a year and a half.) Even though the state's attor
ney general has asserted that bis action was illegal,
Stelle called a special session of the legislature
to meet on the same date as Horner had planned.
With such horseplay a large vote is expected in
that state.
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TODAY
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BARB FNtON.
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PHALANX.
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WEDNESDAY
MATINRE DANCE.
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Taloa ballroom at t p. as.
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Bertrand (Adna Dobson), keep
the giggles giggling.
Some femms,
Thespian Dobson, 300 pound
"dainty" Gangreena the power
behind the throne does his slap
stick role of hen-pecking and
brow-beating Bertrand with the
audacity and sloppy cleverness of
a veteran. Louis Wilkins, whose
resemblance to Charles Laughton
(also of the theatre) is extremely
noticeable, flicks his frock-coat in
true Fanland presidential style as
President of that country.
And the others.
Colonel Hamfat Jones, Colonel
of the Imperial Eightball Lungers,
makes his appearance in shorts,
a fur coat, and a beautiful set of
darling dimpled knees. Verne
Geissinger plays this role with a
regular British scrawny mous
tache and half-open mouth. His
drawled-out lines and everlasting
craving for a spot of something
or other especially food are om
nipresent. It takes a true Kos
met Klubber to speak his lines
while munching a banana,
Fanny affair.
Best line of the show is spoken
by Egor, while he's raving about
taking all the people in Fanland
as prisoners. "Just think,' he
shouts, "I'll have a prison full of
fannies!" The dialogue of the rest
of the play is good, and will no
doubt improve by tomorrow night,
when the opening night kinks are
stretched out.
The theme of the play follows
the recent Russo-Finn war, but
deviates from the facts in that
Egor, Hairi Mata, the Cossacks,
and Egor's girls are all captured
in a climactic raid by Guy Hel
sinki, son of Finland's president,
and his small band of FannUh
soldiers.
Morton to speak
Dr. W. H. Morton, chairman of
the department of secondary edu
cation, will address the southeast
district convention of the Ne
braska Federation of Women's
Clubs at Falls City April 9 on
topic of "Citizenship."
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Candid Clippings
Morton Margolin
What was probably the biggest college event of
the last weekend took place at the University of
Texas where they held their 11th annual round-up
which started Friday morning and ran for 17 con
secutive hours.
The entire campus put on extra finery for the
event A parade with 69 floats was staged by the
students, the University of Texas sweetheart was
presented at the annual Bluebonnet ball, and a
special concert was presented by the University
band. The "Daily Texan," came out with a special
86 page paper for the celebration. At the top of
the first page the paper carried the title of the
jlay'a editorial, "All This and Nothing More."
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At the University of Kentucky the Student leg
islature tabled indefinitely a bill brought before it
to abolish "hell week." Opinion on the campus is
that tabling of the bill means permanent shelving.
The bill advocated un condition abolition of the in
stitution after next September with suspension of
charters as a penalty for Infringement Before final
passage the original motion would have been put
on the ballot for student approval
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