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What's Wrong
With Nebraska?
Inspired by Editor William Allen
White's Twentieth century editorial classic,
"What's Wronj with Kansas," every other
editor, who may never hope to be a William
Allen White, still has the burning desire to
turn out a similar masterpiece on perhaps
a lesser scale. Pounding out this grandiose
recapitulation is difficult to do in one's last
editorial. Maudlin sentimentality is so easy
to creep innocently into these last lines. But,
thankfully, sentiment is hard to muster in a
new place like this Student Union. If we
were back in cockroach-infested U hall, tra
ditional home of "Rag" editors, it would be
a simple task to pull out the plugs of deep
regret, after seven semesters, let our hair
down and have a good cry over what's
wrong with Nebraska.
Vhen -wo label our last editorial ''What's
Wrong with Nebraska?" we are biting off a
lniCfl chunk, if ivc attempt to analyze thor
oughly every thing that goes to make up Ne
braska, the state, and Nebraska, the state uni
versity. But, the title intrigued us. It also
pave us an opening wedge to delve into Ne
braska's problems and toueh upon those most
vital to us as students, future alumni and oil i-
zens-to-be of the Nebraska eonimonwoi
The State
Despite the glowing pictures of Nebraska
as a well-to-do state painted nationally by the
"white spot" anti-tax interests, Nebraska is
far from being well off. For five consecutive
years, Nebraska agriculture lias taken a sound
beating. Drouth has all but impoverished the
state, draining good, fertile land of its pro
ductive value and making of agriculture, the
state's No. 1 activity, a puny means of support
for an inland subdivision of the United Stales.
Talk of new taxes to make up for agri
culture's unavoidable deficit cannot be sub
stantiated by fads. New taxes would only
plunge the people in deeper. Tax delinquen
cies for 1058 have been huge, for when people
don't have money to pay their taxes one of
their first obligations to their government -conditions
must be bad.
But this year, 1939, hasn't had a fair
chance yet. Its newness hasn't quite worn
off. Common hope is that 1939 will blot out
some of the past's headaches and heart
aches. This year should be one of challenge,
rather than another year of admitted de
feat. The University
This past semester will go down in the
annals as one of the university's most revolu
tionary terms. Within the short, span of a
semester, a new chancellor has made sweeping
administrative and intellectual changes that
bespeak even more sweeping revisions of the
university. What lias been done so far is for
the good of the university as a whole, bringing
it more up-to-date and co-ordinating it with
modern educational advancements.
During this next semester, we look for
ward to more progress along the lines of this
semester. Their findings are bound 1o result
in more changes around ibis university. To
meet the problem of increasing enrollment, a
lower division study plan is being investigated
many obstacles to hinder this plan, but cer
as to its feasibility at Nebraska. There lire
many obstacles to hinder this plan, but cer
tainly some plan must lie devised soon to cor'
relale an insufficient budget with an increas
ing enrollment. We don't pretend tin; lower
division plan is the cure-all for this trouble.
It is going to take all the skill of modern
scientific education to appraise the situation
and find, bit by bit, the answer that will make
the University of Nebraska the greatest state
university this side of llie Mississippi.
Chancellor Boucher and the regents
cannot possibly achieve their purposes with
out having the full cooperation of the fac
ulty and students. The entire "university
family" must pitch in with contributions,
small as they might be, to aid in the univer
sity's rejuvenation.
The Campus
Perhaps as adage "familiarity breeds con
tempt" holds particular truth when applied
by n Daily Nebraskan editor to the campus.
Scholarship, activities, politics, society, text
books, publicity and countless other campus
fixtures are clearly in the ken of a campus
editor who daily comes in contact with prob
lems arising out of these fixtures. Hut we
have noticed this semester a depreciable dc
emphasis of eainpus activities, a trend not
easily a noted for. Scholarship has not
soared to Hew heights. Social life runs along
in the same cin. Why the lack of activity
interest .
Election reforms have wiped any and
all attempts at "dirty politics." Thus,
campus elections have lost their appeal to
the many campus men ad women who take
sheer delight in doing what they are net
supposed to do. Campus "shots," men and
women alike, have been burdened with sev
eral activities which do not permit the com
plete success of any one. Interest in the sen
ior honoraries has waned, largely because
they have become do-nothing organizations,
basking only in the reflected glory of past
years. The second semester must see some
minor changes in the women's point system
and some drastic revamping in the new, but
as yet unoperating, men's point system, if
campus activities are to continue to mean
something.
The Library
If the Daily Nebraskan this semester has
served to rekindle a spark of interest among
students, faculty and state officials regarding
the emergency need of the library, the retir
ing editor feels his staff has made some tang
ible contribution to the eventual construction
of a new library building. An $800,000 library
is a huge project for a university, and one
that requires a great deal of lime. Nearly a
decade ago. the library issue was started, and
each year if has snowballed into an issue of
prime importance.
We feel the library is due, if not over,
due. While we realize the state's conditions,
our immediate interest as students is the li
brary project. An alert undergraduate class
before us pushed thru a Student Union
project, the fruits of which we are enjoying.
Few of them have ever made use of the
Union, but their efforts are indelibly writ
ten in the pages of campus history. We can
duplicate their efforts by showing the peo
ple of the state our unflagging interest in a
university library.
The "Rag"
The same campus-wide disinterest in nc
tivilies apparently has reached the Daily Ne
braskan. While we of the staff are prone to
romanticize our work, filings for next semes
ter's staff positions clearly showing a falling
off in interest. It is true there is a lot miss
ing from the old "Hag." quartered in the
squalor of old V. hall, where eccentricities and
a strange camaraderie existed. Newness of
the Union doesn't make up for this old-time
spirit; there arc too many other attractions in
(he Union to distract from the "ay."
The "Rag" has tried its damnedest to
keep from going high hat among the Un
ion splendors of new desks, swivel chairs
with soft cushions, and lots of telephones. It
would be unjust to accuse the "Rag" of
doing nothing more than being a service
outlet for the faculty and administration.
The "Rag" has stuck with the football
team all season "win, lose or draw" because
it understood the status quo. It would be
easy to berate the team and coaches for the
season's losses; a lot of nice publicity would
come our way. But we didn't want it. The
"Rag" pounded home the university's case
charges of textbook discrepancies, de
manded election reforms and did its best
by taking students out of their sheltered
campus existence to show that "life is real,
life is earnest" in a foreboding world.
Next semester's editor and staff member!!
will fall heir to these ever-present campus
problems. Kvcry new stall' takes office with
a lot of enthusiasm which only naturally falls
off as llie problems pile up. Kvcry new editor
sees a lot of changes he or she would have
made, many of them radical. Hut on closer
examination, the difficulties make themselves
f. It.
The traditional advice a retiring editor
passes on to his successor is that if he or
she gets the university plant some tries on
a barren mall, to get a class dismissed for a
holiday, to compel more courteous and
prompt university telephone service, to force
professors into a more personal interest in
the students, etc., the new editor can point
with pride to a job well done.
Next semester's editor will have a tiekli.sh
problem in dealing with the state legislature.
Next week, the university budget for the
1 4 1 1 i 1 1 1 11 i n 1 1 1 will be presented by the gov
ernor to the legislature for approval. Since
the university asked for an increase, there
should be considerable interest. Then comes
the matter of the state planning board and its
recommendation for a new library as the ninth
state project ill importance, and the proposed
consolidated board of education.
You can neither browbeat nor ridicule
Nebraska's 43 state senators into acceptance
of university demands. A sane exposition
of the university's needs, based entirely
upon facts, is the only manner of impressing
the solons. They get enough "pressure"
from the various lobbyists, each with an axe
to grind. The Daily Nebraskan can cham
pion the university's cause best bv a dis
passionate presentment of the facts, rather
than a schoolboy version of a college news
paper editor trying to run all state institu
tions into the ground. To the new editor
and staff members, this retiring editor
who suddenly feels as if he were a gray
beard wishes the very best of luck, hap
piness and success in the discharge of their
duties. May you ever be guided by the
Cornhuskers' traditional "There Is No Place
Like Nebraska!"
MORRIS J. LIPP
Editor
MUSICAL
LETTER
Daily Nebraskan Opposes College
Standardization
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llllft. nrl nr Orlnh. S. In. "'' I cussing "StioiiliuMiziilR AuciKics
Lunar? to, mi. I ani Their Interference With Nor-
nial University Development." J.
Klon McKixMck, president of the
University of South Carolina, ile
clureil that "I favor reasonable
standards for colleges and mover-
New Clothing Service
Organized at Skidmore
SARATOGA SHUNGS. N. Y.
(ACPI. Science ban come to the j sltles, but I am opposed to exies
sive and oppressive standardiza
tion which invades the HoverciKiity
of collegen and tiiiivomilics ami
assumes dictatorial powers over
their administration.
"Some of these standardizing
agencies do not properly take into
account the vast differences in fi
nancial resources of colleges and
universities. Some of tbe stand
ardizing agencies compel finan
cially poor colleges and universi
ties to spend the same minimum
for certain purposes as are re
quired of tremendously wealthy
institutions like Harvard, Yale and
Columbia.
"Some colleges and universities
have already refused to submit
aid of fashion-conscious students
- and tho.ie who are not so clothes
minded, too.
At least It has at Skidmore col
lege where home economics stu
dents have organized the Skid
more Clothing Service to aid un
dergraduates and faculty members
to select clothea to fit the person
ality of the individual.
ThU new extra curricular serv
ice wilt advise iU client on tex
tllea styles and the proper ac
cessories to make a complete en
semble which will express the per
sonality of the wearer. Style ad
vice Is given free, but standardized
rates are charged for alterations
and repairs.
further to the dictatorship of such
stnndBidlzlng Hpeneles.
"Some time r;o I presented cer
tain Hspects of this problem to our
board of trustees. Upon my rec
ommendation, that body adopted a
resolution deferring liny new or
additional compliance with the re
quirements of standardizing agen
cies until after the annual meeting
of the National Association of
.State Universities and the Land
Giant College association in Chicago."
"Modern youth has many good
qualities that the youth of other
periods possessed and, in addition,
good qualities that were not con
spicuous in the youth of the past.
But it is clear to me that the youth
of today, both men and women,
are not the equals of earlier gen
erations in elegance, in manner,
or in ease in behavior." Dean J. T.
Madden, New York University, be
lieves you, and you, and you should
brush up on your manners a bit.
Oldest person represented In the
Who's Who of America Is Dr. C.
W. Super, former president of Ohio
University.
New York, January 8.
Dear Mr. Frank:
This Christmas season produced
a new trio-improvised by three top
artists for the benefit of German
and Austrian refugees. Held at
Carnegie hall, the concert was a
huge success both financially and
socially. A varied assortment of
socialites came to hear Governor
Lehman speak, Hulda Lnshanska
sing, and Mischa Elman, Emanuel
Feuerman and Rudolph Serkin
play trios. This last was not only
a novelty but a special treat for
not often are we privileged to hear
our chamber music performed by
musicians of such stature.
Here we could see what three
great artists, with hut a few re
hearsals, can do with a trio. How
smoothly they play together, how
beautifully their individual styles
blend, melt into a perfect whole.
One, not knowing, might have
taken this for one of our foremost
chamber groups, who practise and
play together every day. The
Tschaikovsky trio and the Men
delssohn trio in D minor must
have a similar meaning for each
of these three men, for not once
did either work get out of hand
not once was there too much cello,
too little violin, or thai lack of
balance of which even experienced
ensembles often are guilty.
Your correspondent could not
attend this superb perfo- niance.
How, then. Is she so certain that
F.lman plus Feuerman plus Serkin
equal one glorious ensemble? Has
.1ip such faith in the critics as to
accept, without question, their
glowing criticisms? Is she so eas
ily impressed by the reports of
friends who heard the concert?
No -it Is simply this- that she
had the good fortune to assist at
one of (he few rehearsals. Spe
cifically, she turned pages for Mr.
Serkin!
No youthful aspiring musician
ronld ever have suffered more
than your friend did on that thrill
ing occasion. She learned then, at
first hand, how nicely pain and
joy can meet and mingle in us,
turn us inside out ami upside
down, and leave us bewildered and
thrilled, exhilarated and weak all
at the same time. She was ex
hausted, too, for she wanted to
watch Seikin's fingers, to note his
peddling, etc., while hearing El
man's rich singing tune, while
marvelling at Feueiman's smooth
ness. But you can believe me, Mr.
Frank, your friend heard very
little of the trios or the individual
instruments in her anxiety to con
nect the musical score with Sei
kin's sounds and thus keep the
music going.
Never befoie have I so fully
comprehended the responsibility of
the poor page turner who hides
modestly behind the artists and.
almost apologetically, slips on and
off the stage. Henceforth, my ap
plause will have to bo shared by
the artist with his page turner,
whenever there is one. In fact I
dedicate mvself from this time on
to applaud only lor the page
turner- and let the rest of the
audience acclaim the artists!
FLORENCE KAYSOR.
Welfare Director
Talks At Vespers
YW Members to Help
With Social Service
Dr. Harry Becker of the State
Weljaie society presented a vivid
picture of the need of the de
pendent children of Nebraska to
the meeting of the Y. W. C. A.
Vespers Tuesday. Dr. Becker is
the director of the state depart
ment of child well'aie and. among
other things, is responsible for re
lief work among children.
As a result of this talk, the
Y. W. C. A. members are invited
to talk to Miss Ostlund Ht the
Y. V. C. A. office in Ellen Smith
hall in regard to doing some
specific social service work. This
woik would be excellent tiaining
for prospective teachers.
A special number was sung by
the Vesper choir ami the meeting
closed with a prayer.
Prof. Weilond Returns
From Detroit Convention
Prof. W. F. Weiland of the me
chanical engineering department
attended the recent meetings of
the Crank Case Oil Stability com
mittee of the Society of Automo
tive Engineers held at Detroit.
Meetings were held in conjunction
with the annual convention of the j
society.
Professor Weiland has done
considerable research with lubri
cating nils, his results indicating
that it Is possible to predict the
useful life of an oil with a rea
sonable degree of certainty. He
presented some of his work at the
committee hearings.
Princeton university has re
ceived a special grant to finance
a study of the effects of the Orson
Welles broadcast of the Invasion
from Mars.
Davey O'Brien, Texas Christian
university All American grid
player, received more than 2,000
letters and cards from fans dur
ing the 1938 season.
Cornell university has been
given a collection of early Ameri
can fire fighting relics numbering
50 pieces.
The IfiO freshmen and sopho
mores at Gourher college follow
no less than 114 different personal
curricula.
Harvard university has estab
lished 20 scholarships of $500 each
for refugees from Germany.
The state of Indiana has refused
to take over the control and fi
nancing of Evansvllle college, now
supported by the Methodist Epis
copal church.
The University of Texas drama
loan library last year provided
Texas high school students with
copies of 20,000 plnys.
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