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Tuesday, February 11, 194T
DAILY NEBRASKAN
Now it's up to you
Today brings the work of the Innocents parking com
mittee to a close. Through the interest and able assist
ance of Sergeant Regler, L. F. Seaton and Carl A. Don
aldson, that committee has taken rather sizable steps
toward driving non-university cars elsewhere and toward
providing additional parking places where they were
most needed.
To attain these ends the Innocents committee first
of all secured two hour limitations on R street parking
areas, a provision not injuring the students attending
classes for one or two hours, but making it Impossible
for business and professional men to appropriate the
needed stalls for the full day.
And secondly, this morning they are instituting
diagonal parking along twelfth street and along the
west end of the upper mall. This measure it is be
lieved will provide SO percent more parking places in
the congested area between social sciences and phar
macy buildings.
And now with their job well done, they hand over to
the students the problem of utilizing the facilities pro
vided by them. The success or failure of their program
now depends upon the co-operative spirit in the student
body itself.
For additional parking spaces are available in these
areas only if students adhere to uniform parking, tak
ing care to maintain a 60 degree angle and to park
reasonably close to the neighboring cars. Lobsided
careless parking will cause maladjustment to the whole
alignment and reduce the number of stalls to little
more than the number previously existing.
But this is not enough. This student body must in
addition seek diligently to reduce the number of cars
on the campus. A little hoofing on the part of those
living nearby will ease the congestion necessitated by
those driving cars from greater distances. There is no
excuse for those living within a block or two of the cam
pus driving cars to classes and taking up the parking
stalls needed by others. Co-operation in this respect
will do much to alleviate the campus problem.
With the steps taken by the Innocents society, and
a measure of consideration on the part of the students
both in careful parking and in deciding whether or not
to drive cars onto the campus will settle this age old
problem. Then there will be parking places in abun
dance for those who need them.
Without a mandate . . .
From the people
Last Saturday the United States House of Representa
tives by an overwhelming vote endorsed the President's
Lend-Lease bill and sent it on its road through the
Senate. This week that body will debate the matter, and
by its vote to approve or reject the measure, which will
decide one of the greatest issues of American public
policy of this age.
It will decide whether the age old principle of sepa
ration of powers should be discarded when national
emergency threatens; it will decide whether a neutral
nation to better protect itself should discard interna
tional neutrality law, and actively support one side or
the other.
And of more immediate importance it will decide
whether the victory of England is important enough to
QommsmL
our own welfare to give out freely materials, muni
tiers and possibly men to secure that victory.
What should be done is a question every person must
answer for himself. The arguments for the bill are
mighty. The dangers of the bill are equally good. It
will vitally affect the masses; it should be passed or re
jected by decree of those masses.
Though in most instances wc elect men to represent
us and leave it to them to voice what they believe are
our opinions on issues of this kind more interest than
that is necessary. A mandate of the people themselves
on this particular issue is Important.
If it were actually a question of war and peace, and
rt might possibly be, everyone would want a voice in
the matter. Or If it were a question of what form of
government America should have, and that Issue is
present, everyone would likewise want to exert his
democratic right of speaking his mind. This measure
involves all of these considerations.
The question is large; we are small. Our opinions
one way or another we often feel make little difference,
and so democracy tends to become the work of a bureau
cratic few. And yet, whatever our opinions, no matter
how insignificant we are in comparison to the millions
making up this country, only by the ready expression of
them can the spirit as well as the name of democracy
be preserved.
Write to Washington. Tell our representatives how
we feel about this question. Then having done that duty,
we can rest assured that we have helped decide, even
though in a very small way, the course this country is
to follow.
The Federal Youth Committee in New York City is
arousing students in every state to express their opinions
one way or the other. Our letters will be but part of a
general youth movement the nation over. And collec
tively the weight of those opinions will be felt
If the question of House Bill 1776 means anything
to you at all, write immediately, that the voice of
America's youth may serve as a mandate to the Sen
ate. That the passage or rejection of the bill may be...
... by decree of the masses.
Beneath the
Golden Dome
by Art Rivin
Fiery debate marked yesterday's labor committee
hearing. The source of controversy was L. B. 41, a col
lective bargaining act. The bill would give laborers not
subject to the National Labor Relations Act, the right
to arbitrate difficulties with their employers.
Chairman o'f the Nebraska state federation of labor,
Roy Brewer, opened fire for the bill's proponents. He
pointed out that numbers of employees in this state are
not receiving a living wage and that granting those em
ployees the right to discuss their problems with their em
ployers in a peaceful manner would be a step in the
right direction. The bill would not make arbitration
compulsory but should either party refuse to arbitrate,
the regular state court system would be empowered to
fine or issue a writ of injunction.
Two years ago a similar act was introduced and de
feated. Protests from employer's organizations and
other groups smothered it It was Mr. Brewer's conten-
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Khu News
Tools, not troops
The radios of the world were turned to London Sun
day as Prime Minister Winston Churchill spoke to the
British Empire on the progress of the war. Much of
his speech, however, was directed not to the empire, but
to the United States.
"Send us tools," he pleaded, "and we can finish the-
job."
Further, he specifically stated that material aid waa
all Great Britain wanted or needed from this country.
Speaking of the armies now forming in America, he said
emphatically, "We do not need them this year, nor next
year, nor any other year that I can forsee."
While Churchill was speaking thus, Wendell Willkie,
stepping off the Dixie Clipper on his return from an 18
day visit to Great Britain, echoed virtually the same
sentiments.
Willkie, who testifies before the senate foreign rela
tions committee today, declared that he had heard no
talk in Britain of either anticipating, expecting or sug
gesting that the United States become an active ally as
far as war is concerned neither from cabinet officials
nor private citizens.
U. S. debate
In the present discussion of the lease-lend bill the
issue of whether it will effectively increase aid to Brit
ain has been relegated to the background. The major
argument of opponents' to the legislation is that it will
vitally change the structure of the American government
Senator Lodge denounced it as setting up an "inter
national dictatorship." Joseph Curran, CIO official,
termed it "downright fascist." In addition, Curran called
the bill an "outright war measure" and said approval of
it would mean certain involvement in the war.
The
tear issue
Curran, in declaring the bill a war measure, hit upon
an issue that is more significant as concerns the present
bill than that advanced by Senator Lodge all cries of
"dictator" to the contrary notwithstanding.
On this issue, the opponents of the bill declare that
its passage will lead us into the war. Those who hold
this point of view were severely criticized by the repub
lican standard bearer, who said:
"That is a wholly unrealistic statement of the issue.
As a matter of fact, if we do give aid to Britain, we are
likely to stay out of war, while if we do not give aid to
Britain, we shall probably become involved in war."
tion that the bill was defeated because the people had a
distorted knowledge of its provisions. "Of course," said
the labor leader, "some employer's may be inconvenienced
by this bill, but sometimes in the Interests of social prog
ress, we must slightly inconvenience some individuals."
Funds for university repaid with interest-Filley
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employed six men and only had 98
registrants taking 278 credit
hours. By deduction, he declared,
"several watch dogs of the treas
ury" computed that $30 was being
spent for each credit hour.
Proceeding to analyze the
work of the department, how
ever, Filley pointed out that rt
' search and non-instructional du
ties reduces the effective teach
ing force to two and one-fourth
men.
One of the men Is assigned to
the creamery, another is paid
entirely by federal research
funds. Farm operators are
taught for 8 weeks, dairy manu
facturers for 12 weeks, butter
makers one week and ice cream
manufacturers for one week.
The
Daily Nebraskan
FOKTIETU VEAB.
Sabarrtptloa RMit arc tl.PO Prr Hrmea
tn or SI. M lor Mt Collar rr. S1.M
Blallrd. hingle ropy, (nU, Kntrrrd aa
errand-clam matter at tbr poatoffirr la
iMrmim. Nrbraaka. ontfrr Act at -oa-frana,
March I. 1871. and at aprrlal rale
Art af October J. 117. Aathartrrd BP
temhrr M. IKt
f poiUc provided lor hi HecUoa USS,
Furthermore, he declared, "the
department answers 3,500 letters
a year, performs regularly analy
ses on butter fat, ice cream,
cheese and milk, gives advice on
feeding and breeding calibrates
glassware and performs vitamin
assays.
Dwelling for a time on the agri
cultural extension division, the
lecturer revealed further
That 25,662 Nebraska wom
en were members of 1,685 Home
Demonstration Project clubs
over the state.
That 20,523 boys were en
rolled in 4-H club projects, with
more than one-fifth of them en
rolled in two.
That the extension agents
in 1940 answered 138,674 let
ters, had 124,601 telephone calls,
talked over problems to 181,000
office callers and held 41,324
meetings with a total attend
ance of 787,153.
That the work of the divi
sion has a vast influence upon
the production and prosperity of
the state. Among the projects
of the extension are those seek
ing to find the amount of feed
required to produce a pound of
gain on a hog, and analyses of
rations needed to fatten cattle,
With an equal interest shown
in cereals, grains, fruits and veg
etables, Filley drew the conclusion
that 365 days a year must be spent
on other work than classroom
teaching.
Concluding his lecture Professor
Filley traced a few of the ac
complishments of the experiment
station, the importance to the ag
riculture of the state being self
evident.
The first Kherson oats
(highest yielding variety) ever
grown in the United States were
produced at the Nebraska sta
tion. Discovery of the Spartan
variety of barley which produces
331-3 percent more grain was
first made here.
Hybrid seed corns average
18 percent higher yields than
the normal varieties were re
leased by Dr. T. A. Kiesselbach
of the station.
The discovery of the means
of getting rid of wheat smut
was so effective as to result in
the total disuse of the wheat
washing machinery in the Oma
ha elevators.
Finding means of controll
ing turkey diseases the depart
ment made possible the erection
of a million dollar turkey Indus
try In the state, where few tur
keys lived prior to 1930.
And finally the discovery
by Dr. Van Es of a potent serum
for swine erysipelas has made
possible the marketing of 5,452,
000 healthy hogs a year.
Ho war d-
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cattle graze over 7,000 acres of
land in McPherson and Arthur
counties. Altho he was not born
in Nebraska, Mr. Howard has
lived in the state 32 years, at
tending this university in 1909
1910. This is his fourth term in
the legislature.
As speaker, Senator Howard au
tomatically becomes a member of
the appropriations committee. He
is chairman of the appropriations
sub-committee on educational in
stitutions. He is also a member
of the legislative council
Bill introduced during the cur
rent session by Senator Howard
number about 23. Asked which
of these he believed one of the
most important, he named L.B.
72. This bill is framed in the
form of a constitutional amend
ment Briefly, it would place
utilities on the tax list that are
now apparently tax exempt
Last semester the senator's son
graduated from the university
school of journalism. He is now
employed in the advertising de
partment of the Yankton, S. D.,
"Press and Dakotan."
Six-
Big
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"We are very much in favor of this
convention and are sure that all
who attend should benefit by it a
great deal."
Following is the program for
the convention:
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Oklahoma.
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