WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 7, 1937.
The Daily Nebraskan
ution A, Lincoln, Nebraaka
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Appropriations Must Be
Adequate Not Extravagant.
Rumors that university appropriations are to
l.io viciously slashed by the 1931 Nebraska
legislature have preceded that body's opening
Mission, held yesterday afternoon. Since finan
cial depression has placed its icy hand upon
the country, it is logical to anticipate con
servatism from the governing body. The gov
crnor has declared a policy of strict economy
during his administration and whisperings
I'rom the legislative quarters indieaic that an
attempt will be made to eliminate all unneces
sary expenditures from the university.
Is this unreasonable?
The phantom of slashed appropriations has
haunted this campus, we presume, since the
university was established. When any attempt
is made to reduce expenses, certain students
and loyal representatives of the institution
raise boisterous howl. The laments of these
biennial mourners are based upon ignorance
of actual conditions. They brand every attempt
1o economize as a stab at the university's vital
parts, seldom considering the logic of the legis
lature's views.
Whv not eliminate unnecessary expendi
tures? The taxpayers should be unwilling to
pour their hard earned mills into a purse which
may have hidden leaks. The Daily Nebraskan
does not condemn the legislature's policy of
spending no more money than is absolutely
necessary," provided that it does not interfere
with the educational process. Any reductions
must be made intelligently, with a full realiza
tion of the university's needs.
The state university should ask i'or no more
lhaii a reasonable appropriation; it cannot be
content with less.
Thorough investigations are 1 be nmdc by
the legislature of all state institutions before
appropriations are granted. To our knowledge,
however, no plans have been made to inspect
the university. We sincerely believe that such
an investigation should be made by men who
are acquainted with educational problems, in
order that the allotment of money to this in
stitution may be adequate, but not extrava
gant. To tighten the purse strings simply be
cause the voters at home want economy find
because the lobbyists believe we are over
appropriated, is folly.
Let us have economy without sacrificing
education. We believe that a thorough, intelli
gent investigation by the governors might un
eartb certain inefficiencies in administration
duplications of officials and pay cheeks. It is
not unreasonable to suspect that many econo
mies might be made without reducing the
effectiveness of educational machinery.
We need new buildings, without question.
Students on the city campus are a-ware that
University ball has outlived its usefulness,
except flB a historical landmark, and should be
replaced. Other structures should be provided.
Since construction prices are low and unem
ployment prevalent, it (teems wise to erect some
buildings now that will be needed in a short
time. A legislative investigation would find
these conditions.
e
Yesterday's Nebraskan contained a discus
sion of Anton Jensen's recent accusations
concerning alleged misuse of university funds.
Although we did not and cannot endorse his
assertions, we believe that the state legislature
should look into the matters which he has at
tempted to uncover. True, Mr. Jensen lias
made many bold accusations, but we are not
aware that they have been openly disapproved.
Too many supposedly interested Nebraskans
are content to wave them aside with knowing
smiles and mutterings of outrageous fanati
cism. We are not crying for more of the taxpayers'
money. The legislature must agree with us
that the state's youth thould be properly edu
cated, a process Thich involves large expendi
tures. On this common ground we greet the
legislature and ask that it be reasonable in its
conservatism and act upon definite, reliable
information not upon rumor. Is that an un
fair request?
Our idea of an embarrassing moment-is per
sonified in a cheer leader at a basketball game.
friends, branding anything which smacks of
strong character ns "sissy." This is a sad
error, particularly on the part of Elmer the
Freshman, who is soaking up sophistication
and clever laziness in huge quantities, lie
needs something to stiffen the backbone and
upper lip.
Yeah I flunked about six hours Inst quar
ter," yawns the semiconscious freshman. By
pulling up a smart front to (he faculty commit
tee which interviews him, he is able to stay in
school. Ho dances well, insuring his popularity
with Betty Coed and her coy companions, and
is clever enough to get by in relations with
his fellow students.
"Why workl" he shrugs.
Listen, Joe. Success is an oldfashioned af
fair, we admit. Ferhaps the Algers and their
friends drove ambition and its accessories into
the ground, but. failure is the oldest and shab
biest cf them all. It is neither cuto nor admir
able to flunk hours, no matter how much ready
wit is employed in bluffing the deans and
instructors.
Some of us grimace at the mention of tho
boy from home who is working his way
through school, helping support his mother,
and making the honor roll annually. Is it be
cause he is a shabby figure fresh from the
comic pages? Or is it because we are jealous
of him and disgusted with ourselves for wast
ing our time and the family's money?
Why not stop this rah-rah practice of dis
guising laziness, ignorance and dishonesty as
savoir faire, whatever that is. and social poise?
Flunking hours is failing. The boy who
dummied out on his football team in the last
quarter is a rotter something to write home
about. T.ut the lad who flunked ten out of a
possible sixteen hours every quarter in the first
semester is just one of the boys. It takes back
bone to study. The collegians who cut classes
ami li.mil if their failures in courses are not
to be admired, but to be pitied. Perhaps some
brilliant instructors would be wi.se to read a
few chapters of Horatio Alger before their
juvenile classes.
Success 1$ Old,
But Failure Isn't Original.
Horatio Alger, and other word-t ossti s of the
same family, have harped on the desirability
of courage, honesty, ambition and energy so
much that the 1931 youth has become slightly
rauseated with the golden attributes that
made Tim the Bootblack and Joe Dip Bellhop
nuch big shots in their hometown Sunday
schools. It Iihs Imcoiup fashionable for the
modern outh to snicker at his hard working j
Never park on the gravel in front of the
stadium daring basketball games. We're rais
in? a fine stand of cabbage out there.
LOOSE THREADS
By Gene tycKim
W7iy Concentrate
On Husband-Hunters?
"It is a shame," lamented Dr. Clarence Cook
Little, former president of the University of
Michigan, during a talk in Paris recently,
"that stale funds should be used for the educa
tion of girls who come to college only in order
to meet marriageable men."
Husband-seeking coeds have had abuse
heaped upon their dainty shoulders too long.
The criticism has become trite, since matri
monial minded girls constitute a small percent
age of the horde which al tends universities for
purposes other than the pursuit of education.
We agree with Dr. Little that the condition is
present and unfortunate, but it is inevitable.
In the -first place, many coeds who are en
gaged in a collegiate search for marriage ma
terial study quite diligently and conduct them
selves as all good little college girls should.
Thcv have siters. we admit, who flunk
consistently and cake continually, but they
mav be eliminated by the wide awake college
officials on the firing line. Certainly the first
class of big game hunters is not the most unde
sirable to reach the college portals.
We have students who come to college 1ct
play football, or engage in other athletic activi
ties'. There arc many who come for the social
life, oi hers who find themselves in college
simply because their parents could find nothing
better to do with them for four years. In the
average American state university of today it
is a small legion which lias come primarily to
groom itself for cultural life.
Why concentrate on the husband-hunters,
Dr. Little?
Gilbert Doane says, "we are teaching more
and more about less and less." That's some
thing like leaching less and less aboul more
and more, no doubt. Or do specialization
have -something to do with it?
MORNING MAIL
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Crabbing the Referee.
TO THE EDITOR :
The wolves, it seems, are ou1 agai.i.
The howling pack displayed their usual en
thusiasm at the Brigham Young-Nebraska bas
ketball game Monday evening, crabbing every
decision the referee made, moaning when a Ne
braska player was fouled or shouting with glee
when one of the westerners was caught in some
allegedly foul act.
Just why is it necessary i'or students to
shout, jeer, kick, and crab at the referee's
every decision? He calls them as he sees them.
Of course he is not always light, He is only
human. But, bis percentage of error is far
below that of the rabid fan.
Time and time again a Nebraska player
would clearly foul an opponent, yet the howl
ers were so blinded that they would bemoan
for many minutes the fact that a Nebraska
player had been fouled.
To do so avails the home team nothing. In
fact, such howling angers a referee, and makes
him Octet-mined to give the visitors all the
breaks. Thus, these radical shouters handicap
Nebraska's team.
And that isn't all. Their actions show a
poor quality of sportsmanship, and give visi
tors the idea that Cornhuskers are thin-skinned
aud poor losers, and that is certainly the last
thing to be desired.
Time and again the writer has sat through
high Bchool games in which all the breaks
seemed to be going to the opposing team. Did
the high school crowds bemoan the fact? No!
They were sportsmen. When younger students
can accept apparent adversity and not grum
ble, it seems that university men and women
should be able to control their -emotions and
cease making a referee's life one of trial and
tribulation, FAIR PLAY.
Father; And to think that I mortgaged
the house to send my boy to college. All he
docs is go out with girls, drink and smoke.
Crony: Are you sorry you sent him?
Father: Yes. I should have gone myself.
Southern California Wampus.
With tho death of Marshal! Jof-
fre, not only France, but the world
as a whole, losea an honorod hero.
Marshall joffre wns a man
who dared une hla own judgment
In the f.ioc of bitter public oplnlou.
Aa a result he probably saved
not only the French from defeat,
but the entire Allied causa during
the early daya of the war.
During the first areat German
drive In 1914, Joffre insisted on
the French troops withdrawing
and not engaging in a crucial con
flict until, in bia opinion, the time
was ripe when he at least would
have a fair chance of winning.
Public opinion demanded that he
engage the Germans at the Aland
river, but be refused to do this,
knowing that his troops were in no
condition to compete with the
highly organized German force.
Instead, he continued his retreat
until he reached the valley of the
Marne. Here he gave the word for
a stand thtch resulted in the first
great battle of the Marne, and
proved a defeat for the German
cause, when a victory would have
meant the capture of Paris.
Since the close of that conflict,
men of all nations have been la
boring, often in the face of bitter
public opinion in their own coun
tries, for the cause of world peace.
For daring to work in the face of
the opinion of the general public,
or at least that portion of the pub
lie which expresses itself most
forcibly, these men often suffered
indignities and great disappoint
ments at the hands of their coun
trymen. Few. if any of them, will ever
see their hope realixed, yet regard
less of this they offer an ideal
which is worth looking up to.
After all, is it not possible that
one of the greatest values to be
rained from a college education, ia
to learn to form an intelligent per
sonal opinion which will not be
swayed by the ravings of the
mob?
To students sitting down to
three square meals a day In their
more or less palatial quarters
about the university, the idea that
not so many miles from this city
a few hours of air travel there
are American citizens without suf
ficient food for subsistence, is a
bit remote.
Yet this is tbe case in the state
of Arkansas. Farmers were moved
to mob action last Saturday in the
town of England in an effort to
get food. Over three hundred of
these impoverished citizens de
scended upon the village in the
search of food. They would not
disperse until supplied with $1,500
worth of staples. Hastily written
requisitions were supplied by the
Red Cross, which were good for
emergency doles handed out by the
merchants.
Such a state of want is hard for
people having plenty, and more, to
realize. It only emphasizes the
continued need for co-operation
among the various sections and
citizens of the nation. It empna
slxes the need for increased sup
port by those having plenty, of
such organizations as the Red
Cross, whose services prove in
valuable at times of stress such as
this.
Tbe United States circuit court
of appeals in New Yoik ruled Mon
day that the eighteenth amend
ment was legally adopted. The de
fense used was tbe same as that
employed in tbe recent Sprague
rase "in New Jersey, in which
Judge Claik held that the amend
ment was invalid.
This must be a bit disappointing
to those individuals who beheld
with joy Judge Clark's decision. It
would seem to be a fair indication
of what may be expected when the
Sprague case is appealed to the
supreme court.
With the thirteenth victim of
poison rum dying in OmfCia, the
police are attempting to trace the
source of tbe poison l'quor supply.
Four arrests have been made of
men making and selling the liquor
lo the victims. A charge of man
slaughter will be added to those of
manufacture and ponsessioti of il
legal liquor, should a chemical
anal j sis of the confiscated rum
pi jve poisonous.
IOWA CORN PATCH
GIVES 81 BUSHEL
YIELD PER ACRE
AMES, la. Another "tall corn"
yarn which should go into the rec
ords of the current year is one
from the Walter Grove farm north
of Ames.
Dr. C. S. Reddy, plant patholo
gist in the experiment station at
Iowa state college, planted twelve
strains of com oa the Grove farm
in one of a serieB of cooperative
experiments seeking disease re
sistant strains.
One strain yielded thirty-one
bushels per acre. The average of
the field was thirty-three bushels
an acre with some plots yielding
forty-four bushels per acre.
Dr. Reddy points out that the re
sults of this one year mean noth
ing as far as determining the value
of the strain. What it will do in
a normal year, or whether the ex
tremely high yield was due to
some factor other than the natural
ability of tbe seed is not known.
Farm and Home Week. Is
Planned at Iowa State
AMES, Ia. Arrangements for a
poultry and egg marketing; day to
be held Tuesday, Feb. S, during the
annual Farm and Home week at
Iowa State college have been com
pleted. The day's program will include
discussions of bow to obtain better
poultry products and bow to mar
ket them more efficiently. It will
consider the problems from the
standpoint of the Iowa poultry
farmer as well as from the stand
point of the produce buyer and the
consumer, according to W. D. Ter
mobien, extension specialist in
poultry and egg marketing, who
will be in charge of the program.
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If You Have
Lost Something
Here's a Few That Have Been Found
Qloves
We have on hand a great many gloves with no means
of identifying the owaer. Some are in pairs and some
are singles. If you have lost some, these may be
yours.
Pens and Pencils
A few odds and ends of pens and pencils picked up
in various places and uncalled for.
Pocket Books
In all sizes, colors, shapes. Some leathers, some
cloth and mesh. Also check books.
i Keys and Containers
All kinds of keys on rings and in containers, with
no identification discs.
i Qlasses-
Specs and rimless glasses with no eyes behind them.
Some show signs of tears, and others reflect the
dignity and scholastic abilities of the owner. May
be your eyes hurt. If they do, these may be j our
glasses.
All kinds and lines. A few smell of perfume, oth
ers smell different. If they are different, they don't
smell.
Jewelry
Bracelets, rings, brooches, and all kinds of jewelry,
found at parties, dances, etc.
Also All Kinds of Curios!
Drop In and Look Them Over
OR CALL US
Lost and Found Department
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