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The NEBRASKAN
Station A, Lincoln, Nebraska.
Official Student Publication and Bulle
tin of the 1935 Summer Session.
- Published Tuesday and Friday morn
ings during the summer session and
circulated free to summer students ani
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Editor Virginia Selleck
Johnston Snipes Associate Editor
Truman Oberndorf. .. Business Manager
Good
Justness.
On last Saturday the university
iMjents approved a plan to retire
professors on half salary when
they have reached the age of 70.
How fitting that such a plan
should be put into effect. To the
regents and the people of Ne
braska is due credit for having
stepped ahead in the march of
social progress.
"Just as hundreds of progressive
industrial concerns have recog
nized that business efficiency is
increased by the adoption of sound
plans for the retirement of super
annuated employees, progressive
state school systems are recogniz
ing that teaching efficiency is in
creased by the adoption of sound
plans for the retirement of teach
ers," J. W. Crabtree declared sev
eral years ago.
Too long have educational insti
tutions neglected the methods of
good business as practiced by suc
cessful firms. Leaders of thought
in a nation, the schools should also
be leaders in action, and in putting
their theories into use within
themselves.
It is good business for a school
to have a retirement plan. Capable
young teachers will enter the pro
fession because it gives a better
guarantee of promotion, and partly
compensates for the lower pay
that teaching offers during active
service. These scholars find more
security because it will not be
necessary for them to look for
employment that will keep them in
their old age, and each year of
teaching service becomes a step
toward independence.
By relieving the teacher's mind
of fear and worry for old age, the
university is giving him more of a
chance to study, train, and travel
without endangering his living in
the future.
- A sound teacher retirement plan
is a protection for students from
teachers rendered incompetent by
disability or advanced age. Be
cause it sets up a practical method
for the regular retirement of fac
ulty members, it frees" administra
tive boards from the obligation
which they frequently feel to con
tinue the employment of teachers
who have rendered many years of
satisfactory service. Younger mem-
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bers of the staff are allowed more
t iLI.
chance for promotion oy una
method; and even students are
more likely to respect a leacner
who is not dependent on the kind
ness of the board for keeping him.
In the long run, a working re
tirement system is a saving to the
public which supports it, for it
protects from the waste incurred
in schools where teachers are past
the age of best service.
One of the first universities in
the United States to establish a
pension system was Yale in 1897.
According to the president's re
port for that year it was felt to be
desirable for the interests of the
Institution, as well as a proper
recognition of the services ren
dered by the persons to make such
allowances.
The president and fellows of
Harvard University adopted a sys
tem on March 27, 1899, which went
into effect September 1 of that
year. In 1905 the Carnegie Foun
dation for the Advancement of
Teaching established a system of
retiring allowances for college and
university officers and teachers.
It is not an entirely new idea at
the University of Nebraska. A
similar plan has been working for
some years, based on a decision
for each separate case. But the
new plan puts the school and its
staff on a business basis. Advan
tages will come from it to faculty
members, the university in gen
eral, and the state of Nebraska for
its forward looking school.
Red Without
The White and Blue?
Interesting to university stu
dents, particularly to students of
government is H. L. Mencken's re
cent article in Liberty entitled
"Capitalism Won't Die," in which
the former editor of the American
Mercury attacks the "Reds" in an
attempt to show that all commu
nistic governments are essentially
capitalistic and that they merely
combine capitalism and politics,
whereas in America the two are at
odds.
Many educators and commenta
tors as well as statesmen regard
with fear the seeming growth of
communism in the United States.
In the recent street car strike in
Omaha, the appearance of commu
nistic pamphlets and other Red
propoganda aroused a storm of
comment, some of the very
staunchest democrats are worried
at what they believe to be the so
cialistic tendencies of the present
administration. "Capitalism is not
only not dying in the world," Mr.
Mencken says; "it is perhaps more
solidly established than it has ever
been for 100 years and nowhere
more solidly than in Russia."
"What was the chief thing that
all Socialists complained of before
Socialism gots its big chance over
there? It was the fact that the
workman, under capitalism, had
lost control of the means of pro
duction, his tools."
With the advent of machinery,
he goes on to say, new tools of
great expense were necessary; and
merchants of the time had to sup
ply them. When times are good
the capitalist demands enough
compensation to cover the risks he
takes when times are bad.
"That this system was and is,
far from perfect no one denies. A
capitalist who is hoggish still has
plenty of chances to oppress his
workmen. But . . . workmen have
learned to organize for their own
protection, and laws have been
passed to aid them. Factories are
safer and more healthy and pro
fits have been taxed heavily.
"There has resulted an enor
mous improvement in the condi
tion of the workman. Communists
and other frauds deny it, but it is
a plain fact that he lives better
than ever before, with more se
curity and leisure."
When the Bolsheviki seized
Russia, Mencken says, they were
pledged to wipe out the viper,
capitalism, yet the Russian work
man today is a complete slave
of the capitalist's principals.
"It not only owns his tools; it
also owns the miserable quarters
in which he lives, the meager
stores from which he must get his
food and clothing, and the schools
in which his children are taught
He must take whatver jobs and
whatever wages it deigns to offer
him. The moment he resists its
mandates he becomes a slave in
law as well as in fact, and may be
put to forced labor without any
compensation whatsoever.
"The man whose labor earns It
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Vin via mnrd tr rr witVt Its ITlflJl
agement than a garage attendant
has to do with the Standard Oil
Company. It is controlled abso
lutely by the politician-capitalists
who now own and operate the
Russian government. The Bolshe
viki have made only one change in
the capitalistic system and that is
to bar out all the ordinary capi
talists and gather the whole capi
tal of the country in their own
hands.
"The people of the United States
would resist such a change stout
ly because they know there are
evils much worse than private
capital.
"So long as the capitalists and
the politicians remain at odds
watching each other and sounding
alarms, there is some chance for
the rest of us to come by our own.
but when one outfit takes over all
the powers and becomes omnipo
tent as has happened in Russia
there can be only woe for every
one else.
"Without the accumulation of
capital this country would have
remained a wilderness. We owe to
it not only our material re
sources, but also our spiritual pos
sessions schools and universities,
libraries, orchestras, magazines
and newspapers, parks and play
grounds. - We have, of course,
wasted much of our accumulated
capital. But when all is said the
fact remains that the Library oi
Congress is a really noble monu
ment to the industry and thrift of
the American people, and that the
Johns Hopkins medical school is
another nnd the Philadelrjhia or
chestra a third, and the Bureau of
Standards a fourth, and so on.
"Every Red has something to
say against these typically Ameri
can enterprises, but he forgets
that every one of them is imitated
in Russia imitated incompetent
ly, to be sure, but still with un
concealed envy. Russia, in truth,
becomes a sort of inflated bur
lesque of the United States, with
all the evils of capitalism and
none of the solid benefits.
"Nine-tenths of the burbling
against capitalism which goes on
in the United States is done by
mountebanks who dream of get
ting on top by changing the
rules. That is all you will find
in the doctrine that capitalism will
presently be ready for the cor
oner." I Contemporary t
5 Comment j
i. .-5
Sammy
And Iippo
While we pray over the bleached
bones of the blue eagle, while Eu
rope staggers under the weight of
a monetary crisis and the militant
activity of Herr Adolph, Japan
prepares for another invasion into
China. Not satisfied with the rape
of Manchuria, the Nipponese war
lords now turn their lascivious
eyes at the fertile lands lying be
tween the great wall and the Yel
low river.
In the past, the Japanese have
advanced with bewildering speed
and have then maliciously thumbed
their noses at the rest of the world.
Downing street, Rue d'Orsay,
Pennsylvania avenue have been
caught sleeping under the table,
and, harried by an eager press,
have attempted to formulate a
policy on the spur of the moment.
The result of the 1931 fiasco was
our stupid non-recognition policy
and our futile attempts to co
operate with the League of Na
tions. - American policy should be form
ulated in terms of American in
terests and not in terms of vague
principles of international equity
and justice. We must recognize
that Japan has scrapped the
league covenant, the Kellogg pact
and the Washington conference
treaties. It is useless to labor over
rotting carcases.
Once and for all it should be
recognized that our financial in
terests are bound up with the pros
perity of Japan and the pacifica
tion of China. Japan is our best
customer in the Far East Fur-
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leading agents in China. It is es
sentially stupid for the United
States to climb out on any more
limbs in behalf of English invest
ments in China or French money
in Indo-China. We hold no con
cessions in China. Neither have we
any territory whicn is prejudiced
by Japanese aggression or invest
ments which are worth the price
of adequate defense.
The frantic pleas of national de
fense urged by such jingoes as
Senator Hiram Johnson, rest on no
secure factual foundation. Most
naval strategists recognize that
the United States is practically
impregnable. Successful Japanese
action in the new world is predi
cated on a naval force of such co
lossal proportions that no national
budget could ever bear it.
In the light of these considera
tions, it is folly for the United
States to attempt to throw pillows
of diplomatic intrigue in the path
of the Japanese Frankenstein. This
does not mean that Nipponese ag
gression is thereby condoned. But
it is far less expensive and far
more prudent for the United States
to mind its own business and strive
to take advantage of the impend
ing Japanese aggression in the
light of American interests.
Harvard Crimson.
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Dance?
TO THE EDITOR:
Why is it that at the Friday
night parties at the coliseum boys
stay parked on a post the entire
evening with such bored expres
sions on their faces? Why not
stay at home to do that?
Perhaps they fear some desper
ate school teacher will stick too
tightly to their coat tails to be eas
ily dislodged, when all she wants
is a little passing gaiety herself.
Can't anything be done to pre
vent a reasonably good dancer
from becoming a wallflower with
out her having to go out and ask
a dancing partner to rescue her
for at least one dance?
A disgruntled summer
school student.
FATHER TIME WILL BE
SCOURGED AT A. A. U.
SPORTS WRITERS SAY
(Continued from Page 1).
Herman Neugass, Tulane's south
ern champion and Eulace, Peacock,
Temple speedster who has domi
nated eastern sprints, the 100 and
200 meter events promise to be
more than interesting.
Owens again will be a man to
watch in the hurdles where he will
compete in the 200 meter lows.
The hurdles have been ranked as
a feature almost if not equal to
the sprints in importance, follow
ing several bitter duels waged this
spring.
Hardin to Spoil Hurdle Menu.
Glenn "Slats" Hardin, Louisiana
State title-holder of last year fin
ished second back of Owens at the
N. C. A. A. meet and is expected
to be gunning for revenge when
they meet again July 4. Phil Good,
ex-Bowdoin timber-topper and na
tional titleholder in the lows, will
add spice to the low-hurdle menu,
while Kenneth Sandbach, Purdue
track co-captain and holder of
world's indoor 60 yard high hurd
les record, is expected to furnish
stiff competition in both the lows
and highs.
Al Moreau and Johnny Morris,
Louisiana stars, will have to be
watched in both hurdles events,
while Phil Doherty, Northwestern
track satellite who finished second
to Owens in both the 220 hurdles
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and the furlong dash, may spring
a surprise.
Sam Allen Here for Hurdles.
Overlooked somewhat in early
reckoning was the impending bat
tle scheduled for the high hurdle
event, where Sam Allen, Oklahoma
Baptist star, has sprung into fame
almost over night with amazing
performances which shaved close
to the world record.
Allen, unheralded and unsung,
flashed to victory for his first
major achievement in the Drake
relays, leaving a select field in the
dust. He then went on to top the
high sticks in 14.3 at the Princeton
invitational meet in beating Percy
Beard, A. A. U. champ and world
record holder, for the biggest upset
in many months.
Turning in a 14.5 against the
wind at Berkeley Saturday, Allen
served notice that he is in fine
shape and will be out to repeat
against Beard in the A. A. U.
games.
Cunningham Runs 500 Meter.
Other bright spots on the two
day program include the 1500
meters where Glenn Cunningham
is expected to try for a new record.
Although Bill Bonthron will be
missing from the fray, Gene
Venzke, third member of the
famous distance triumvirate will
be on hand to contest Cunningham
as will Dawson of Oklahoma,
Bauer of the Army, Don Lash, Big
Ten mile champ, and Ray Sears,
crack Butler distance runner and
holder of the American 2-mile
title.
Jack Torrance, 300-pound man
mountain from Louisiana State,
and world record-holder in the
shot-put will defend the title he
now holds in the 16-pound shot.
Hinkel Defends Walk Title.
Other defending champions will
be Harry Hinkel, 10-time national
champion, in the 3000-meter walk,
Ivan Fuqua, Indiana's ex-star in
the 400 meters, and Dudley Wil
kins, Southwestern Louisiana in
stitute's title-holder in the A. A. U.
hop, step and jump.
In addition to these, Floyd Loch
ncr, and James Luvalle, national
collegiate champions in the mile
and 440 respectively, and Earle
Meadows and William Sefton, co
holders of the collegiate title in the
pole vault, entered the competi
tion. The high jump promises to be
outstanding among field events
with such stars as George Spitz, of
the New York A. C, Vincent
Murphy of Notre Dame, Al
Threadgill of Temple, and Harold
Osborne of Cleveland competing
for honors.
Many Bright Stars Compete.
Other stars include Mark Panth
er, Big Ten champion, in the jave
lin throw, Ted O'Neill, Southeast
ern conference 880-yard champion,
in the 800 meters. William Roy of
Loyola in the pole vault, Roland
Romero of Louisiana in the hop,
step and jup, Keith Brown of Yale
and Bill Grabcr, cx-Southern Cali
fornia ace, in the pole vault, and
Duane Purvis, ex-Purdue all
around athlete, in the javelin.
Ted Husing, popular Columbia
Broadcasting system announcer
with the southern drawl, has been
selected to broadcast the two-day
program.
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