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Daily Nebraskan
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MANAGING EDITORS
Dick Moran Lynn Leonard
NEWS EDITORS
George Murphy Lamoine Bible
Violet Cross
Scorts Editor .Burton Marvni
Society Editor.'. .'.'.'.'.Carolyn Van And
Woman's Editor Margaret inieie
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If hat Is ttie
Activities ItlX?
CAMPUS student activity may
often look to the student body
in general as one ticket selling or
subset iption campaign after an
other. Beginning with legisla
tion in the fall students aie hound
ed to buy this or subscribe to that,
OreaniLF.tions expend half their
energy distiibuting tickets oi
checking them in. The test ot
their eneigy is likely to be con
sumed in worrying about -.he
amount of suppoit which their
various piojects aie going to com
mand. All of those campaigns and all
this unccrtanity as to the suppoit
which the vaiious activities will
teceive is unnecessary. A plan in
use in numerous other schools
thiuout the country
eliminates j
these handicaps and promotes a
number of other advantages as
well. This plan is the so called
student activity tax.
The Nebiaskan will from time to
time during the semester publish
infoimation and editorial opinion
about the student activity tax. The
student council is studying the
various methods of administeiing
the tax at other schools in the
country. If a satisfactory plan
can be formulated for Nebraska,
the council will submit the idea to
a student vote. The Nebraskan is
interested in seeing the plan adopt
ed at Nebraska and desires to co
operate with the student council
in informing the student body as
to what the student activity tax is.
HE activity tax works on the
piinciple that quantity produc-
ti' n promotes decreasing costs. In
cther words the activity tax plan
provides that every student can
participate ia a number of student
piojects and as a result will have
to pay considerably less than if
relatively few .students participate
in relatively few activities.
To be specific, one may cite the
case of athletic season tickets. If
tlrse tickets were sold to every
sludent it would be possible for the
athletic department to receive the
same or greater total revenue by
filing the tickets at half what
they now cost. Similar and even
greater reduction in price could be
made for such things as the Corn
h'jsker. Daily Nebraskan, Awgwan
fcnd University Players.
By combining a number of these
iVrr.s. one lump sum can be
charged students who receive the
J -refits of all activities, the pro
ceeds being distributed to the vari
ces participating projects. Just
what items should be included un
ui the activity tax plan is a mat
ter of policy to be determined by
the student council and the student
1 "dy.
As indicated, however, the suc
sful working of the plan means
that every student shall pay the
t.:.x in return for which he receives
the benefits of all the activities in-
eluded. Various arrangements
could be made with regard to the
payment of the fee. In most
schools it is paid each semester as
part of the registration fee. In re
turn, a ticket is issued to each
student which entitles him to par
ticipate in or receive the bereft of
jsuch activities as are included in
the plan.
W
MILE the idea of a compul
sory tax may at first
thought seem repugnant, it should
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payment of the tax aie possible.
Furthermore the plan should not
be considered from the angle of
compulsion so much as from the
viewpoint of economy. If it be
true that student activities are
worthwhile, then their benefits
should not be restricted to rela
tively few because of prohibitive
cost. And if it be true, as it most
certainly is. that every student
naturally and willingly spends as
much as he can for certain student
activities, why should he not be
able to secure more for perhaps
nearly the same amount of money
by co-operating with all other stu-
! dents.
In esscnce tne student activity
lax js what has befn l1esclibed.
jTheie are numeious details which
j aiust be worked out to fit such a
iplan to Nebraska university. There
are many advantages to the plan
which have not been enumerated.
There are some disadvantages if
the plan is viewed from the ex-
jtremely
individualistic point of
view.
The Nebiaskan is convinced
that the advantages plainly out
weigh the disadvantages. By the
time the spring: election on this
campus is held, it hopes that every
student will understand what the
student activity tax is and will be
wiiliner to endorse it.
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Solution for Creeks.
fjINTS of drastic changes in
operation of Greek houses
come from Iowa State wheie Zeta
Tau Alpha is successfully carrying
on under the "co-operative plan."
Under this system, members of an
organization do most of their own
work to cut expenses.
Commenting on the rejoited
success of the venture, in an edi
torial headed "The Co-operative
Plan A Way Out for Greeks,"
the Iowa State Student says, in
part:
"Zeta Tau Alpha reports a 'bet
ter unified feeling' among its
members since the adoption of the
co-operative plan. There is noth
ing mystic about that. When a
grcup of young individuals is
working together, all with the
same goal in mind in this case
reduction of expenses -there is
bound to exist a stronger bond of
fellowship than there exitss othe-r-
vise.
"The co-operative plan has
proved its worth among Iowa
State's dormitories. There is no
reason to believe it won't work in
Greek societies. At bast it will
serve as a temporary measure to
bridge the chasm of present eco
nomic difficulties."
That such a scheme of cutting
hou.-e expenses by eliminating lux-
luries of maid service is practical
J would seern to be established by
the success of the plan at Iowa
State. Its advantages in lowering
the budget are self-evident, and
there is more than a little truth
in the statement that such unified
effort breeds a very desirable
morale in any group.
Dignity and pride of certain
aristocratic members, of whom
there is a sprinkling in any group.
would naturally stand in the way
oi me plan s adoption in many
cases, but sacrifice of a little
pseudo dignity is a small price to
pay for lower operating expenses
of a fraternity in this precarious
year 3933.
Nebraska Greeks would do well
to consider the feasibility of try
ing the co-operative system of
management. "At least," as the
Iowa State Student points out, "it
will serve as a temporary measure
to bridge the cb&sm of present eco
nomic difficulties."
The Menace
Of Words.
WHAT image does the word
"technocracy" evoke in your
mind? Or do you have unpleasant
sensations when someone mentions
the word "communist" or "red"?
Professor Einstein, recently ar
lived in this country, criticizes our
tendency to become excited over
words and phrases while we pay
little attention to ideas. Words and
catch phrases are the effective
weapons of alarmists and dema
gogues who understand the habit
which unthinking- individuals have
of endorsing or damning words.
The furor created by the ad
vancement of the plan called tech
nocracy is but an illustration of
the tendency to become excited
over words. Without having an in
telligent understanding- of what
the word denoted, nearly everyone
was willing to welcome or criti
cize technocracy on the basis of
some emotional concept which the
word induced.
One indication, perhaps, of an
educated person is his habit of re
fusing to be bamboozled by words,
and of refusing to form an opinion
of anything until he understands
what the terminology involved
means. The ignorant, however,
will continue to be guided in their
decisions by momentary reactions
to catch phrases and words.
Contemporary
Comment
A Political Career
For College Cradnates?
OUIS aicHenry Howe, political
- adviser to Franklin Roosevelt,
has just stated that a man ought
to have an outside income or a
lack of scruples if he expects to
make a living from politics. Mr.
Howe, credited with some of the
smartest moves of Roosevelt's
campaign, ought to know. The be
ginner in politics must have an in
dependent income from law prac
tice, business, inherited wealth or
some other socrce.
What becomes of the time hon
ored plea for students to enter pol
itics as a profession? For most
students it is an invitation to do
the impossible or the unethical.
There are very few students who,
upon graduation, have the re
sources to take up an occupation
which will not furnish them a liv
ing. The only way they can get
around this financial barrier is by
extracting dishonest gold from pol
itics. To their credit, few college
students have taken this road to
political prominence.
Most men receive elec tion to a
position carrying a comfortable
salary only after long years of rou
tine work in the party organiza
tion. During those years they
have relied on their earnings from
some other profession, and in a
few cases their wealth. It is quite
possible that we may see an in
crease of student interest in poli
tics: on the part of the college
graduate, but, until there is a
change in the situation described
by Mr. Howe, few students will be
able to take up a political career
immediately following giaduation.
- Minnesota Daily.
The .story in the Nebraskan the
other day about the inter fraternity
ball got mixed type graphically
with a story about "Porgy," the
current production of the Univer
sity Players. A description of
Porgy as a dope and liquor peddler j
was inserted after the name of one
of the members of the interfrater
nity ball committee. Perhaps the
financial straits of the Nebraskan
will save it from a libel suit. !
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Young 'Captain' Spoerry Contests
University Drum Major, Ptamondon
tl'roni Sunday Journal and Star.)
Jack Plamondon of Lincoln,
drum major of the University of
Nebraska's 135 piece band, had
best look to his laurels for the on
coming generation is already
threatening his position with for
midable competition.
Five year old Phillip Spoerry,
son ot "Capt. and Mrs. G. W.
Spoerry, 2020 Tcpper ave., is Pla
mondoh's chief competitor, and yet
voun"- Phil holds absolutely no
animosity for the elder baton
wiclder. As a matter of fact,
Plamondon is Phil's ideal.
Percy Crosby, internationally
famous cartoonist, must have had
such a lad as Phil Spoerry in mind
when he created "Skippy." As
Skippy is "the squarest little
shooter on Vesley street," so Phil
might be termed the same typo of
a regular fellow on Pepper ave
nue. Daily Parades Staged.
Neighbors will testify that they
an. vvoll entertained almost every
day by the "big parade" staged
by Phil and nis gang, a squau oi
eight or ten youngsters bearing
broom sticks, kettle lids, and other
articles that, by a stretch of the
imagination might be musical in
struments, may be seen regularly
after school marching down the
avenue with "Drum major
Spoerry heading the column,
strutting with all the dignity and
nride of a hieh-sehool horse, tas-
selled baton in the air, and baik-
insr "rieht and left face in a tone
of voice nearly as big as he is.
And age is not considered in the
Spoerry platoon. Phil recruits his
followers from kindergarten tots to
junior high school lads. There is no
age limit in this army. But the
amazing fact is that the young
sters, large and small, concede the
authority to Phil, who is the small
est boy in the neighborhood.
The embryo drum major was
regular attendant of football
Miss Clark to Publish Book Dealing
With Labor Conditions in Mexico
Miss Maigery R. Clark of the
home economics department will
publish a book soon dealing with
labor conditions in Mexico. She
was sent to Mexico last year by
the social science research council
of New York to gather material
for that purpose, and made an
intensive study of labor conditions
in Mexico.
At this time, the power of labor
organizations in Mexico is at a
very low ebb. In the past how
ever, under President Calles, labor
organizations were very strong.
They had the ear of the president
But their demands were too great,
and President Calks decided they
were becoming too powerful and
so their authority was lessened.
"It was a political mixup," de
clared Miss Clark, "and many con
ciderations entered in. It ended
with labor out of power."
"Labor was one of the control
ling element in the Obregon and
Calles governments between 3020
and 1J28. But since 1928 the labor
organizations have had very little
official recognition. So far all
attempts to regain power have
been ineffectual, and in my epinion
they will continue to be."
Under the last president of Mex
ico, Pascual Ortez Rubio, presi
dent from 1929 to September 1932.
when he resigned, the labor cham
ber was organized with Alfredo
Pere-a Medina as secretary of labor.
Chamber Organized Lossely.
' It is too soon to know whether
the labor chamber will do any
gcod," declares Miss Clark. "I
think it will have power in time,
but labor will never be as power
ful as it wa before. The cham
ber is an extremely loose central
organization of all labor, and that)
is pernapa ris eniei lauil, loose i
organization."
The former labor organizations
LEATHER
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Cleaning Vrocent
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on this class of work.
MODERN
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games last fall. But the game
itself was a secondary attraction.
Hi3 presence in the stadium was
largely brought about by appear
ances of the university band, and
particularly by its field director
and commanding officer, Plamon
don. Phil's eyes were constantly
on him and only once was he dis
appointed in his ideal, Phil reluct
antly admitted after the Thanks
giving game that Jack had
dropped his stick, but he promptly
excused this accident because
either the sun was in his eyes or
his hands must have been cold.
Has Regular Uniform.
The uniform of which Master
Spoerr yis so proud, was ordered
specially from Santa Claus, and it
consists of fur-covered shako, mili
tary cape lined with red satin, and
miniature baton. A broad belt
with a saber hook and saber have
been added.
Children of Phil's age in school
were mobilized into an "outfit" the
first week of school following the
holidays, and Phil wore his uni
form to school every day.
He takes time from his military
duties each day, however, to follow
his avocation that of managing
his "estate." The estate consists
of several yards of track cm which
travel electric passenger and
freight trains through fertile fields,
mountainous regions, cities, vil
lages and army posts. This, too, is
direct from Santa Claus, who with
the aid of Captain Spoerry, as
sembled it on an elevated platform
in the basement of the Spoerry
home.
So between looking after his
military interest, conducting hi.-;
estate, and attending the first
grade (in which he was enrolled
just hist week) Phil is a very busy
"man." But most mothers will
agree with Mrs. Spoerry that the
busier these youngsters are, th
less time they have for "otht-r
things."
have not done a great deal for the
people in general. For some groups
wages have been raised and condi
tions improved, but not as a w hole.
"The living standards in Mexico
are still very low as compared to
the United States," sas Miss
Clark, "and of course there is a
great deal of unemployment."
Succeeding Dr. Howard Monroe
Raymond, Dr. Willard E. Hotch
kLss of New York university will
become president of the Armour
Institute of Technology on Feb. L
ALAS!
POOR
YORICK
He too, was
disillusioned . . .
but fair ones,
not you ....
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nays).
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