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UNL and the Dry Spell: Student Attitudes Toward Prohibition, 1931-1932

Project Editor: Jeffrey Miller, History 470: Digital History, Spring 2008

Table of Contents

Overview
The Wimberly Affair
The Beer Apartment Raid
Source Page

Editorial Note:This article reproduces an article from the Daily Nebraskan which criticized the accusation of Professors Wimberly and Eliason as well as prohibition law in general. It is clear that Wimberly was popular on campus and that prohibition law and the media coverage of the raid were not well liked. This article points out that there was never any proof of Wimberly and Eliason's guilt made public.
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WIMBERLY DEFENDED BY DAILY NEBRASKAN

Assails "Hypocritical Public" for Demanding Rum Suspensions.

Special Dispatch to The World-Herald.

Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 25.—Criticism of the suspension of Dr. L. C. Wimberly and N. E. Eliason, University of Nebraska English teachers, for their connection with a liquor raid at the university coliseum a fortnight ago was voiced today in the Daily Nebraskan, student daily, by Editor Arthur Wolf of Edgar.

"Just what the six months' suspension of the two faculty members hopes to accomplish is not known," writes Wolf. "The only possible interpretation of the affair is that it was conducted only to satisfy the public."

Mr. Public, says Wolf, is "licking his chops with glee and raising his hands in hypocritical horror." He continues:

"A public which demands the job of a man when he steps from the straight and narrow just once is certainly not civilized. A public which demands the head of a man for breaking a law which it is literally fashionable to break is certainly not a fair public. And there is reasonable doubt that the persons connected with the affair did break any laws. A public which cries at the heels of a man in the public eye because he is suspected of having broken a law is certainly not an honest public."

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Source:

Author: Staff, The Omaha World-Herald
Title: "Wimberly Defended by Daily Nebraskan"
Periodical: The Omaha World-Herald
volume: 
pages: 4
26 February 1932
Nebraska State Historical Society, film 071 Omlwm 433, copy and reuse restrictions apply, http://www.nebraskahistory.org/lib-arch/services/refrence/use_policy.pdf