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DAILY NEBHASKAN
WEDNESDAY, IVIAHCII 22, 1939
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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF HOWARD KAPLAN
BUSINESS MANAGER RICHARD M'GINNIS
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
Managing Editors Merrill Englund,
Harold Niemann.
News Editors June Bierbower, Richard DeBrOAin,
Norman Harris, Ellsworth Steele. Fern Steute.
vllle, Ed Wittenberg.
Society Editor Margaret Krause
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
Assistant Business Managers Arthur Hill, Robert
Seldel, Helen Severa.
Circulation Manager Stanley Michael
PLAN FOR IMPROVEMENT
Every undergraduate student who enters
the University of Nebraska swears a solemn
oath to "advance himself in scholarship and to
cultivate those social activities which make for
good citizenship." n return for this promise
made in pood faith that opportunities for pur
suance of those principles will he placed at his
disposal, the university in. reality guarantees
nothing. Thru a series of budget reductions
since 1933, the pursuance of these goals is
hardly mad possible. This is the state of af
fairs of which the Unicameral education com
mittee must become cognizant if it is to deal
wisely with the situation at hand.
It is not primarily the future of the uni
versity which is at stake. Instead it is some
thing far more important, far more vital to
the welfare of the state which must be con
sidered. Not the university, not the institu
tion, but the students, the seekers of the ad
vantages of higher education, are the ones
who will bare the full brunt of inadequate
facilities and inferior instructors.
This fact was brought forcefully to view
this week when Chancellor Voucher and the
board of regents announced a probable reduc
tion in the school of music faculty unless an
unexpected, large appropriation be rendered
the university. As one of the leaders in the
field of radio instruction for students and the
nation's first school to broadcast lessons for
rural school chorus work, the crippling is evi
dent that will be done both to students and to
the state's rural communities through neces
sary shaving of the faculty.
Unwilling unless forced by the will of
the legislature .to continue the downward
trend, university officials have offered three
plans to the education committee, only one
of which resigns the state university and its
students to continued loss of standing among
the educational institutions of the country.
That plan is the one easiest for the legisla
tors to pass. That plan is the one which will
do the most damage.
Tlan number two for the education com
mittee is the ideal one the one that would
make the whole story end with a rosy hue, the
one that is least likely to be accepted. It pro
vides for an increased appropriation over that
of the last biennium. With the passage of this
suggestion the university would be enabled to
check its declining quality it would be en
abled to some extent to employ additional and
better instructors, to award slightly increased
salaries, to readjust certain departments, thus
bringing them up to the minimum standards
of recognized accrediting agencies, to provide
more adequate facilities for both instruction
and research.
In the face of economic conditions which
seem to predict almost certain defeat of the
above plan, legislators must take upon them
selves nerve to face something entirely new
and foreign to their previous conceptions of
educational policies. They must refuse to al
low their prosperity engendered views of the
university influence their appreciation of
suggestions of qualified professional educa
tors. These educators have turned their eyes
from the frontiersman's idea of more schools,
to the sensible and modern demand for bet
ter schools. They believe more is to be gained
in a more exacting and better quality univer
sity education for less students, than in the
wholesale distribution tof degrees to anyone
with mere intelligence enough to reman in
the institution for four years.
Upon these conceptions is based the third
plan of the regents decreasing the number of
students by grealer dismissals in early years,
raising fees, or heightening entrance require
ments. Such a plan wouU enable the univer
sity, without additional funds to accomplish
the many needed improvements and revisions
in its colleges and departments. In short, such
a plan would spell the answer to a good many
of the university's major difficulties.
Decreased enrollments would mean much
lower per capita cost for education, thus leav
ing extra funds for increased salaries, addi
tional facilities, and the multitude of evils ex
istent in the present money pressed institution.
From the opposite view of the proposed pic
ture, 1he plan would eliminate from the uni
versity the heavy costs of students who attend
merely because it lias become a social custom
without regard for their mental aptitudes, ca
pacities, or educational needs.
Members of the legislature: University
officials are not listing the only paths open
to you, they are merely suggesting from their
qualified capacities, the moves they deem
most desirable for the welfare of the state.
Choose wisely. Our future lies in your hands.
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D.A.R.
iiiiiiib:
Far less concerned
about the incident
than their professional brothers.
the collecg press nevertheless
heatrily condemned the reported
refusal by the Daughters of the
American Revolution of the use of
their hall for a conceit by Marian
Anderson, called bv many tho
world's greatest singer.
"Since they make so much of
their Revolutionary connections,
the ladies of the D. A. R. ought to
remember that the soldiers in that
war were mostly common Ameri
cans themselves. And in that fight
the Americans were seeking just
the freedom and tolerance which
the D. A. R. is doing its best to
abolish," said the Cornell Univer
sity "Sun'' of the incident.
More vigorous in its denuncia
tion of the act, the Muhlenberg
College "Weekly" had this to say
"The D. A. R. has finally declared
itself. The perpetuation of the
most dastardly stunt in the annals
of this supposedly super-patriotic
organization has placed the group
beyond the pale of right thinking
Americans. '
DEWEY
The
victory in "Jfr
New York of N
famed racket buster Thomas E.
Dewey in the spectacular trial of
James J. Hines, Tammany hall
politician, has r.iade the former the
number one candidate of repub
lican collegians for the G.O.P.
nomination for the presidency in
1940.
While congratulating Mr. Dewey
for gaining another victory in his
long fight for clean government in
what was once one of the most
crime ridden cities in the U. S.,
college commentators predicted
that he would add great strength
to any ticket the republicans could
devise to head the smash Roose
velt drive.
Typical of the comment by col
legians is this statement from the
University of Minnesota Daily:
"This last conviction seems to have
won him almost complete support
of the New York republicans and
likely has added many new back
ers in republican ranks thruout the
nation. If the republican party is
convinced that New York is the
key state for 1940 it will probably
Uni psychologist's moke
tests at Genera school
As a part of the regular tesU
ing service of the university, ex- J
a miners from the department of
educational psychology and meas
urements spent Friday interview
ing and testing girls at the Gen
eva training school. Those mak
ing the trip were Dr. W. R. Bailer
and Miss Leona Failor of the de
partment staff; Marshall Hiskey,
Lincoln, graduate student, and
Harold Salter, educational directof
of the state board of control.
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THE CASE
A
Sensation
In Chicago,
A
Furore
in New York,
The colored
"Mikado"
Wowed
Radio audiences
Sunday last.
The
Novelty and
Catchlness
Of "swung"
Gilbert and Sullivan
Carried
Even over the air.
But the
Ether waves
Couldn't tote the
Heat waves
That emanate
From the
Flesh and blood production.
When colored folk
Swing out
They swing
Wide and handsome.
There
Need be no
Artificial stimulant,
No mood-setting;
The weather
And the temperature
Don't count.
Most publicized
Of all the
Swing-time
Mikado tunes
Is
"The Flowers
That Bloom in the Spring."
Reckless abandon
Abounds as
Sarong-garbed
Dusky torsos
Truck
And peck
And Suzy Q
To the
Mid-Victorian
Ditty with
Built in
Swing.
In white
Instead of
Black rhythm,
The innovation
Would Recm
Sad indeed.
But with
The spontaneity
And natural "ump"
Of the
Colored cast
Swinging corpuscles
Course
Through even
Hardened critics'
Arteries.
Spring
Foments
Healthy animal spirits
In all of us
On the dance floor.
But with
Black folk
The flowers
That bloom
the spring,
Tra la,
Have nothing
To do with the caac.
Zowie!
Klub-
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of sizo and shapes, in general they
all fit the standard measurements
based upon average sizes of body
portion. Nebraska beauty queens
in 1939 in meeting the standards
of the Kosmet KluD beauty review
must display broad 36.6 inch chests
curving gradually into muscular
30.3 inch waists.
Dancing feet should extend from
ankles measuring 9.4 inches in cir
cumference. "Calves," pudges of
the tryouts revealed, "have swollen
this year to 14.5 inches in the form
sheets of ideal Nebraska chorus
woman."
Work begins on dunce routines
Thursday evening at 7:30 o'clock
in the teachers' college basement,
director announced. Speaking cast
rehearsals are scheduled for Wed
nesday and Thursday evenings,
likewise at 7:30 o'clock in the So-
ii.il hcience auditorium.
Tickets for the snow go on sale
the latter part of this week. They
will be distributed to the workers
at the workers meeting in the
Kosmet Klub office at 5 o'clock
Thursday afternoon. All salesmen
are requested to be present to se
cure a ticket supply. In addition
to the Kosmet Klub salesmen, Ma
gee's store will handle the sale of
tickets this year.
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Delta Thl Epsllon fraternity has
awarded its National Honor Key
to Secretary of State Cordell Hull
for his work in fostering the cul
tural solidarity of the nations of
the western hemisphere.
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