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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
Tuesday, June 28, 1949
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FORTY-SEVENTY YEAR
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Editor
Business Manager
Our Arithmetic
Seems to have gone on the blink again. But we are
happy to see that someone else is having difficulties with
figures.
According to the budget, outlined by the Board of
Regents, the University of Nebraska will spend approxi
mately six and a half million dollars during the next fiscal
year. According to the state legislature, in a measure
passed on May 16, the amount appropriated for University
expenses is eight million dollars.
Button, button, who's got the other million and a half.
The Regents' explanation of the revenue income for
the University totals almost exactly the amount to be spent
wot hoppeened?
We do not suppose for a minute that there is actually
anything wrong with the set-up. We imagine that it is all
very logical and accountable. We would merely like to have
it accounted for.
Perhaps the Regents are having difficulties in deciding
what to do with the other million and a half. If suggestions
are needed, we have a few worn out and overworked recom
mendations kicking about.
In the same vain, we were happy to see that Ag College
is coming in for another increase in pocket-money. As we
have mentioned in other columns of this paper, the remark
able 'tie-up between the University of Nebraska and its
bovine friends is positively uncanny.
Not that we begrudge Ag its added expenditure, we only
hope the animals in question thrive on legal tender. Ap
parently the University is in for a pulling up by the boots
straps in alphabetical order. Ag and athletics seem to get
their share of that green stuff.
We are breathless with anticipation to see what will
happen when the program gets to "B."
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Keith O'Bannon
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We are sorry to hear that our
good friend, Mrs. Philip Schmel
kin, is leaving us. Mrs. Schmel
kin, in case you didn't know, has
guided Panhellenic on this campus
for many years.
We can well imagine what sort
of harmonfous statements will
come from university authorities
when they are called upon to sing
Mrs. Schmelkin's praises now that
she is going. A complete state
ment might be something like this:
"We are deeply sorry to hear
that Mrs. S. has resigned. We,
all of us, will mfss her dominant
influence in Greek affairs. It is
a matter of great concern to us
that the girls coming under Pan
hellenic s helping hand must do
without this inspiring leader."
As we said ,we are sorry that
Mrs. Schmelkin has to go.
Speaking of women who have
left their mark on this world,
we were looking over some of
Louella O. Parsons' choice re
marks on Hollywood she, too, is
an inspiring social leader. Here
are a few examples of her friend
ly, homey prose, quoted from the
"Journal American," one pi the
Hearst newspapers:
"Leon Gordon, who will produce
"Kim", one of my favorite Kip
ling stories, has written the adap
tation. Don's think for a minute
that I don't know Kipling from
K to G.
"When I was first married many
years ago, our lavonte pastime
was reading Kipling both prose
and verse aloud to a small group
of friends. Oh, we were very
literary and high brow in those
long ago days."
Your very very favorite past-
time?
Getting down to more mundane
things, she comments:
"From New York comes word
from Marlene Dietrich and her
new flame, I. S. Patcevitch. Mar
lene appeared at the theatre in
a gold turban, sable stole, her
skin dead white and her eyebrows
jet black. But she still looked
striking."
If we didnt know you were
such a nice lady, we'd think you
were awfully catty.
And still another:
"Nancv Valentine leaves next
week to visit the Maharanee of
Jaipur, who is the sister of the
Maharajah of Cooch-Bchar. The
lovely Maharanee was here not
very long ago with her husband
and made many friends. While
here, she met Nancy, of whom
her brother had talked so much
and invited her to India.
"If you remember, Cooch-Behar
fell hard for the Valentine girl
and took her out constantly while
he was here. The Cooch-Behar
holdings are not comparable to
those held by the Maharajah of
Jaipur, who is one of the wealth
iest men in the world and whe
ther Nancy will marry the In
dian prince, I don't know."
Let's run through that one
again.
To top it off:
"Jennifer Jones is ordering her
wedding gown long distance.
Christian Dior of Paris is making
the dress and airmailing the
sketches to her in Hollywood. I
wish you could have seen the
huge silver heart stuffed with
rosebuds David Sclznick sent her
for Christmas! It topped in ap
pearance the 150 orchids he gave
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Confusion
Seems to reign supreme over the intended book probe
at one time scheduled by a House of Representatives com
mittee. The Regents will not take up the matter because of a
report that the house group has dropped the probe. Time
magazine of this week reports that the investigation will
continue and that the University of Nebraska is "on the
list." Supeiintendent Gilbert S. Wiley of the Lincoln city
schools states that he has heard nothing concerning the
status of that school system's textbooks. While Supt.
Harry A. Burke of Omaha city schools has sent a report on
books to be used next year, to Washington.
Dr. Burke echoed the sentiment of educators all over
the country when he said, "The list is really none of their
business but we sent it to them anyway."
We can just imagine how the system will operate.
Hundreds and hundreds of clerks will spend long hours
pouring over text books and deleting anything which might
give young America a "slant" on world or national affairs.
The whole project sounds like a marvelous idea. Let's
rive the American public the largest dose of propaganda
they can stomach. A few may suffer intellectual regurgita
tion, but they are negligible. Let us prove to mister average
citizen and -his offspring that American democracy is the
finest form of government known to mankind by totali
tarian methods.
In many little ways the Communistic hysteria that has
been sweeping the country has gnawed away at intellectual
freedom, but no one has actually dared to apply an axe
to that prized commodity no one but the House of Repre
sentatives, that is.
Perhaps, like a man who recovers slowly from the
effects of a drug, the House is waking Up. If it is not. it's
high time that American educators are. It's time that the
men who consider a censorship of textbooks "none of their
business" make it just that.
In spite of the fact that we Americans make a great
show of being "rugged individuals," we seem to be proving
daily that we are as easily led arbund by the nose as any
other variety of T homo sapiens.
1 At this rate the American tradition of free public
schools has only a monetary consideration.
" Apparently the minds who guide the higher destines of
this nation believe that public opinion works like a machine.
One turns it on and off with a switch. Maybe they're right.
Apparently the Board of Regents intends to ignort the
situation an example which may well be followed by in
stitutions all over the country.
With tongue in cheek,
"free" country.
Dear Editor:
With reference to Mr. Jensen's
concern as to the Daily Nebraskan
quite disconcerting to me that Uncle Don would deprive such nice
people of such a pastime just because his nephew has taken to the
game. I wonder if Mr. Jensen, a psychology major himself, would
have taken such a dim view of this
tions of the human organism that would be heaped upon those al
ready being relieved by the blocks.
Please, Mr. Jensen. It is difficult enough at times to reason with
Madam Editor and her staff without adding impedimenta to the tune
of an obstacle course.
In reply to Mr. Jensen's question on interest in "dandelion dig
ging en masse," those "285 lines of print" brought back the time
when I was one of that crew that fairly mutilated the campus with
a steak knife in order to rid the
science has developed a spray twice as effective. What Mr. Jensen
doesn't know, it appears, is how
were weighed and reweighed to
groups. There, Mr. Jensen, is tne
As to mistakes, Madam Editor,
wouldn't be the same without them.
COMING Pl
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Friday
Qpwi 8 PM Panrlnf 9 U 1 AM
we repeat that America is a
Letter of June 24, he states a
Staff playing with blocks. It was
had he analized the added frustra
campus of that plant for which
many times those same dandelions
the credit of as many different
cnuc-Kie 01 mose zsd lines.
don't be discouraged. The Rag
KENT L. TILLER.
her for the opening of her play
last Summer in La Jolla."
Who besides us would like a
drink?
Rifling through some of Lou
ela O.'s other efforts, we read
about Rita and Ali until we were
punchy; we read about who was
divorcing who to marry who if
you follow us until we were
ready to throw in the towel.
All we can say is that the mod
ern world produces some strange
social phenomena, and Louella
Parsons can be definitely included
under this label. We're concerned
about Miss Parson's health, but
that is where fate will have its
way. We could protect her our
selves, but some one will axe her
despite our feeble attempts at pro
tection, we fear.
YM Inleviews
Prospective Head
Bob Clark, executive secretary
of the University of Connecticut
YMCA, was interviewed Wednes
day for the executive secretary
ship of the University of Nebraska
WMCA.