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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (July 14, 1916)
SUMMER SCHOOL NEBEASKAN SUMMER SCHOOL NEBRASKAN Editor and Manager. . . .A. R. Swenson Associate Editor... ,...C. Ray Gates Reportorial Staff W. W. Wilson Edgar Boshult E. W. Smith J. E. Morgan J. H. Moseley Carleton B. Yoder. Alberta Ackley Florence Dunn Helen Stidworthy Leonard Trester Office of Student Activities, Basement Administration Hall, Phone B2597 Published tri weekly, on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays during the Summer Session, by the student i-udii cation Board. In this issue appears a brief history of the fight for a new state constitu tion for Nebraska, and the reasons in brief for such a change. As high cchool teachers the summer school students should take care to inform themselves on this issue for it is of vital imnort&nce to the state. There is little question in the minds of think ing men that Nebraska needs a re vision of her constitution and it is largely the indiffernce of the people which holds the reform back. It is the duty of the teacher to keep in the van of movements for social and political reform. The success of the University pic nic Wednesday reflects credit upon the summer students. It showed that there is a growing spirit of fellowship and school spirit in the student body. In proportion to Ihe enrollment in Summer School the attendance at the picnic was larger than the represen tation which cau usually be gotten out for any student enterprise during the regular session. The Summer School will in time become recognized as an integral part of the University instead of as a mere sideline or afterthought. As is usual with such events the pichic was made possible by the loyal efforts of a few who, seeing the value of such an event in drawing the stu dent body more closely together socially, sacrificed their own interests to make it a success. The student body as a whole seldom realizes what it means in time and effort to make some student activity succeed. They take the result for granted if the event is a success and are ready to criticise any failure. Those who made the pic nic succeed last Wednesday, however, can have satisfaction of knowing that they have set a successful precedent for an event which should become one ct Nebraska's best traditions. Apologies are due to Deans Fordyce, Luckey and Burnett, whose pictures and names did not coincide in Wed nesday's issue, due to a printer's mis take in the composing room. FORUM It is a commonplace remark among students that some of the janitors own the buildings, but no one has suspected that any Janitor was so lacking in gentlemanly instincts that he would verbally abuse a defenseless woman student, and place her in the Ananias Club as a charter member. Yet such an incident happened in one of the buildings yesterday afternoon, and we believe the malter should be brought to the attention of the regents, if no one else in authority has nerve enough to reprimand him as he de'serves. In one of the advanced classes a young lady was quietly attending to her work at a table, when suddenly the Janitor in question arrived upon the scene of action and accused her of interfering with his work. The young lady denied all knowledge of the affair, and every other student in the room believed she told the truth. The janitor then began to abuse her with sarcastic and cutting remarks, his anger rising as the square of the distance his talk proceeded. One of the young men near her, spoke to the janitor, and succeeded in drawing down upon his own head the outpour ings of a wrathful spirit. We believe students, especially women, are en titled to protection by the University authorities from their employees, and if any employee has not yet learned the first lesson of a gentleman, im meiUatp Rtens should be taken to "educate" him. A SUMMER STUDENT. An effort will be made to secure the adoption by both party conventions of planks favoring the calling of a con vention. The 1917 legislature will, in all probability, pass an act calling for the desired convention. NEBRASKA NEEDS NEW CONSTITUTION MOVEMENT FOR CONSTITU TIONAL CONVENTION GROWING Nebraska Popular Government League Sees Victory Ahead In an itnerview for the Nebraskan yesterday Mr. C. E. Sorenson, the new legal counselor for the Legislative Reference Bureau, and secretary of the Nebraska Popular Government League stated that there is every indi cation that the next legislature will pass a bill calling for a constitutional convention. The fight for a new constitution for Nebraska is about fifteen years old. The question of calling a constitutional convention has repeatedly been before the legislature but one house or the other has always managed to turn it down. In 1913 Senator Kemp intro duced a bill calling for a convention which carried in the senate but failed in the house. In 1914 the ' Popular Government League of Nebraska was organized with the object of securing a constitu tional convention. C. A. Sorenson, then a scholar in the Political Science Department of the University, was elected secretary and put in general charge of the work. Bulletins were published by the League and in the 1915 legislature the co-operation of both party leaders in the house was secured. House Roll No. 1, calling a constitu ional convention to revise the consti tution was passed by the house by a vote of 90 to 9, but on account of cer tain interests in the senate failed by a few votes to get the required three- fifths majority there. A few days after the defeat in the senate some one hundred members of the legislature and others interested held a meeting at the Lindell and de cided to proceed through the Popular Government League to get the con stitutional convention called through the Initiative. To do this 40,000 signatures were necessary for the petition and the work of getting these was immediately begun. About ten days before July 1, 191C, the date necssary to file the petition in order to submit the proposi tion at the November elction, about C0.000 names had been secured and with the organization in the field it would have been comparatively easy to secure the other 10,000. But in the meantime a poll of the candidates of both parties for the legislature had been taken and an overwhelming ma jority of these found to be in favor of the amendment as a result of the pub lic opinion which had been crystallized by the work of the Popular Govern ment League. Hence it was decided to secure the call for the convention through the legislature instead of through the Initiative since the latter method would have involved much more expense. As it was said 2,000 years ago that all roads led to Rome, so we can say in Nebraska today that all roads in governmental matters lead to a Con stitutional Convention. It matters little whether you are interested in securing more efficient and up to date state, county and mu nicipal government; in developing Ne braska's natural resources; in judicial reform; in getting a tax system that will distribute the taxes more equit ably and lower them generally, or any thing else, you get only a short dis tance before you run up against some obsolete or out-grown provision in our present constitution of 1875. With all the states around getting into line by revising their constitu tions to meet changed economic, social and political conditions, Nebraska with her "one-horse shay" lags in the rear. 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