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TOE j DAILY NEBRASKAN
TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 1932.
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This War on
Depression.
Legislative reductions ami decreased revenco
from students have necessitated a budget cut
of $300,000.1)0 for the present bienniuiu. This
reduction of the budget will necessitate low
ered salaries, smaller departments, and reduc
tions in position The C8l.se for the whole af
fair iM he-general nation wide depression. N'
brJfsEa has beeii especially hard hit by depres
sion and drouth and the losses incurred must
be made up from somewhere.
The budget of the state university is always
a good thing to slash when reductions are
needed. The cost of such slashes is seldom
counted. At the present time the University
of .Nebraska is in such need as almost any
other institution in the state. Its needs are
large. Equipment is scarce, buildings are not
large enough, there are too few buildings, sal
aries arc too low, and the general financial
plan of the institution has always had to be
one of penny pinching.
Cuts in salaries will be necessitated. Thee
cuts will bo made in salaries already too low.
The building program will continue to be held
up. Poor equipment will have to suffice and
it will continue to degenerate. There is even a
"danger that we will lose some of the men
whose salaries are to be cut.
These things will cost much. Material needs
Kible that the material always wins. The re
trenchment program is absolutely necessary
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doubt of that. But people of the state Rhould
i,lra anaa.a. .ff,.f 4 i va,, 4 Iw. i a a imivaisiiil'
uacijx' tiw j liivil, n pub luvia Sicily uuniioiit'
back on its feet as soon as it is humanly pos
sible and it should be among the first of the
institutions aided.
Depressions and panics to 4lie contrary not
withstanding, students should not drop out of
school if it is within the range of human capa
bilities to remain. Students who drop out now
are doing a harm not only to themselves but to
their institution. They, most of them, will be
unable to find work and should be willing to
sacrifice a little in order to improve their time.
Not only that, those who drop out are depriv
ing the university of a source of revenue, one
they do not deserve, some think, but never
theless a source of revenue, much Deeded.
That the University of Nebraska will suffer
from this budget slash will not be denied. That
it is necessary, is as obvious. Extraordinary
times require extraordinary measures to right
them. Every effort should be made to put the
University of Nebraska back on its feet again
at the earliest opportunity.
We Have
Debate,
Delta Sigma Rho has succeeded hi placing
debating on the intramural program. Seven
teen fraternities have signified their intention
of entering 4hc competition and Rudolf Vog-
tier, luiramurai uirector, is pairing tnese
groups for meets in the very near future. Of
sample questions submitted by Delta Sigma
Rho last week the one on the abolition of com
pulsory military training aroused the most in
terest and it will be upon this problem that the
fraternities will debate.
This may be looked upon as a forward step.
The interest in all forensic activities has long
been on the wane. Debate contests no longer
draw the crowd of interested listeners they
once did. The collegiate debater was soon to
become a thing of the past. The interest shown
by the fraternities in this new project is en
couraging. Jt maj- be interpreted as an indi
cation that students are becoming more serious
minded.
At any rate the new program of intramural
debate should interest as many students as do
the various intramural athletic contests. The
attendance at these affairs is very slim for the
most part and the whole purpose of the pro
gram : that of giving exercise to all, is not fol
lowed out to any jrreat extent. The real goal
of intramurals has come to be to win. 'The
intramural debating will provide another con
test for some group to win and at the same
time it will interest and entertain an altogether
different group than the ones who participate
in the athletic program.
Delta Sigu;a liho must not cease its activities
now. It is necessary for that group to aid Mr.
Vogeler in getting the project under way. The
pairings have been made and the times have
been set for the meetings. Unbiased judges
will have to be selected for nothing can do
more harm to the program advanced than poor
decisions.
Mr. Vogcler has worked out en effective plan
for the furthering of these debates and has
stated that he believed it would develop into a
good activity and that h thought it mighty
good training.
Everything possible has beeivdone to further
the plan. The intramural authorities have
adopted into their program, a plan has been;
worked out, and the stage is set. Now all tha.t
is required is the work of the fraternities.
They have signified that they want it. Now
it is up to them to work arid keep it going.
The question before the group is one a.f na
tional as well as local interest and significance.
The problem has been thrashed out in the
columns of almost every college newspaper in
the United States within the last two years.
The Daily Nebraskan last year took a definite
stand against compulsory military training and
the arguments both ft and con were; printed
in its columns. This is a fertile field and the
question should prove interesting to debaters
and listeners alike.
Professor
G. D. Swezey.
With the promotion of Prof. Jj. D. Swezey
to the status of emeritus and the combination
of his loved astronomy department with the de
partment of mathematics, Nebraskr 1 st - one.
of its noblest men. Professor S .. who
came to the university thirty-cigb' . . . ago
in 1894, has devoted the, best part of his life
to service on the faculty. Next fall his resig-
WHAT SHOULD BE
CONSIDERED IN CHOOSING
A PROFESSION?
x BY MARIE MAOUMBER
Second Prize Essay in the Chancellor Contest
Anv consideration of a career or
a profession is of necessity condi
tioned by the attitude of the indi
vidual. Does he, for instance, want
to practice medicine or want to be
a doctor? Does he wish to teach
in h teacher? In
other words, is doing or being the
important thing?
Tn Ami-rlm rh ouestion is set
dom "What are you?" but rather
"What do you do?" This stress
upon doing was perhaps inevitable
in our history. Only men and
women of action, could conquer a
continent, subduo a virile red race,
and tame a wilderness whose
drouth and pest-infected reaches
are still not entirely friendly to
white Inhabitants. People of ac
tion excelled here. They and their
families became Influential, im
portant. They were the success
ful ones.
And then suddenly the man
whose ancestors staked out land
nation takes effect, and his department as an j . chmSST W PE
ably a pioneer one, found nimseu
with no geographic frontier to try
his mettle and to offer him laur
els. But the restless urge to push
on was undiminished. For want of
a better outlet he turned his tre
mendous radal energies Into in
dustry and business and accumu
lated the more tangible evidences
of achievement wealth, property.
If he failed here he failed entirely,
individual depart incut perishes.
Cooped in a small building out of. the spot
light, Professor "Swezey has worked quietly
and unheralded. Hampered by inadequate
equipment, his dream of expansion someday
has been the more bitter by the realization of
a fine telescope owned by the university and
stowed away in a steam tunnel.
Hw work has been careful and his eyes have
grown weakened by search of the heaven's
depth. And now his very department is sac
rificed in an attempt to balance a heartless
budget. College editors are supposed to be
cynical and cruel, but the spectacle of Profes
sor Swezey s exit from Nebraska annals leaves
an empty spot.
MORNING MAIL
Full House.
TO Till-: EDITOR :'
1 wonder why, where e'er you go,
You see the queen of so and so.
You walk across the campus greens.
And meet a half a dozen queens.
The sweetheart of the hoipolloi,
The H. C. of the soldier boy.
The honey of Ye Aggie Camp,
The Mortar Boards own Pansy Vamp.
Now just go ba-k with me. my dears
(Jo back for several thousand years.
We see the eyes, the cheeks, the lips
Of her who launched ten thousand ships.
In her day it was quite the thing
For every thing to have a king
Or queen, they had a different name,
But, Uod and Goddess, it's the same.
The (iod who watched o'er winter's hoard.
The God of Kire, the God of Sword.
Minerva Goddess, wondrous wise.
And Venus with the heaven eyes.
But I ju.-t can't quite comprehend
Why modern Greeks should cond'-seriid
To ancient stuff and every spring
To have a queen of everything.
With queens and queens on every hand
We get the Baby of the Band.
Now, if they'll pardon my advice,
I don't think one queen will suffice.
Why not present a Queen of Flute,
A Saxophone and Trombone Beaut,
A Queen the drummers call their own,
An Empress of the Sousaphone.
If queens we want, why queens there'll be.
Let's have a Queen ofT. N. E.
The .Moon should have a queenly throne,
The Dear (ld Rag one all its own.
If torn apart by female claws,
I'll die a martyr to the cause.
But none exist who do not sin.
They know not what thej're doing
LINN.
College Editors Say
These Idiots.
During the year we have heard at least half
of our instructors dubbed as being "off" by
students. It would seem that a whispering
campaign to undermine the faculty mentality
is Under M ay. One begirts to think we are be
ing instructed by a bunch of nincompoops,
gibbering idiots, as it were.
It is no new thing, this derision of intellec
tual superiors. More than one genius has been
regarded as crazy by his contemporaries.
"Mad" Shelley they used to call that great
Euglish poet at school, and mad his school
mates believed him. Those men who first ex
pounded the theory of a round earth likewise
were regarded as cracked. WThenever any person
rises above the plane of mediocrity, soars into
the heights which the common man cannot per
ceive or understand, then those he leaves be
hind explain the difference by terming him
loouey .
What a dismal world this M ould be if all of
us were patterned from the same moulds, if
we all acted alike, thought alike, did alike.
What a monotonous existence it would be if
none thought thoughts which others could not
comprehend, had no theories which others could
not understand, had no beliefs which others
could not accept. What retrogression (that
which does not progress eventually must lose
ground) if there were no generals to lead our
armies, no composers -to write new songs, no
writers to indite new ideas, conceive new plots.
How different a world we would live in if there
had been no ambitious warrors, shrewd diplo
mats, persuasive orators. : How horrible to
think of a world in which there lived no su
periors no nuts, no idiots, if you please.
Daily O 'Collegian.
completely.
Drift Into Jobs.
There was, of course, no train
ing school for the pioneer. He
went out and was one or wasn't
In either case he seldom embar
rassed his friends and relatives
further. Perhaps our impatience
with careful planning and long
preparation for a profession grew
out of the immediacy of pioneer
ing. Instead of taking up an oc
cupation or a profession as a cul
mination of early parental prep
aration or the gradual develop
ment of a particular bent as in
other countries, most Americans
get Jobs or go to college as they
yo to movies drift in, with only a
hazy notion of where they're go
ing or what it's all about.
We seldom, it seems to me, stop
to consider the advantages and
disadvantages of the various pro
fessions, to weigh what each offers-economic
security, perhaps
even affluence; fame, power; or
the opportunity for service and the
joy of congenial work well done.
We may take up fine arts because
someone about the campus tells us
that dancing and china painting
are "pipes," or that engineering
pays big, or that law offers spe
cial social and political advant
ages, on and off the campus.
Later we find we do not like a
lab instructor or we develop a
crush for this or that" student or
professor, or hear where we can
get a "hot" history note book for
tha copying. We clamour at the
registrar's window, change courses,
perhaps colleges. And when we
are finally graduated we drift into
this or that through pull, through
accident, or through necessity, and
if we accumulate a good living, a
big house, a car that overawes the
traffic cop, and memberships In
certain clubs of -standing we are
pleased, and pointed out. Young
people and reporters for the popu
lar magazines interview us and let
I us tell them what was the secret of
I our success.
' Picture Is Changed.
Out just recently the pretty pic
ture has been a little blurred.
Thousands of college graduates,
some even from the upper quartile
and with connections lately influ
ential, are Jobless, in a few cases
very near actual hunger. Angered
at first, then bitter and finally
dull and confused, they can't un
derstand what has happened to the
world and to them. Theoretically
at least they are fitted to do some
job well. The world owes them an
opportunity to do it. The world
always delivered before.
But did it? Until recently, when
the American found his world dis
integrating under his feet and op
portunity unreasonably reticent,
he piled his belongings "into a cov
ered wagon and pushed westward,
where homes were comparatively
free, where litigation, disease and
violence provided work for the
ftoctor, the lawyer and the grave
digger.
The pioneer endured hardships
but they were leavened by adven
ture and apparently everyone
made good in a big way. At least
all we ever hear about did. At the
worst the migration relieved the
charity organizations and unem
ployment in the older communities,
built up new consuming areas!
later producing ones. Hard times
were followed by waves of popula
tion Into the most convenient wild
erness. Westerners Wander.
Out here In the middle west we
are selected and re-selected wan
derers. At the slightest provoca
tion we pick up and go, whether it
be from a class, a school, a politi
cal party, or a profession. This
unique ability to cast off all ties
and depart is an asset If we use It
to desert what has so often failed
us and search for greater perma
nence. It is a liability if we be
come professional wanderers.
The man or woman choosm a
career will c o well, it seems to me
to consider this business of per
manent value.; something outside
of money, soci.J position, and
power, all of which may be and
sometimes has been swept away
between suns. The young person
choosing a profession may well do
a little advice-seeking and self
searching to discover his handi
caps, his special abilities, his phy
slcal, mental -and spiritual equip-
"Your Drug Store"
Our RiVfa EVnintafn a ..af r w
j OaUlf IaUUUla
wiicn- servile, Digger, oetter
than ever. Remember your
Drug Store.
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ment. But most Important, it
seems to me, is to discover where
in he finds most joy and self-ap-
proDauon.
men, u vicissnuaes come, as
come they will In a society whose
oconomic structures are alwavs re
built upon tho old crumbling foun
dations, and his profession become
less remunerative, he will still
have the Joy and the approbation
These things arc at least of com
parative permanence.
And If he should find his great
est sausracuon in tne manlnula
tion of things, if his choice seems
to be the ax or the monkey wrench
ramer man ineories and abstrac
tions, should he hesitate? Not for
a moment if he have the shoulders
and tho zest for the ax or the
wrench. Not even If It were son
nets or the palette should he hesi
tate. Those who have no wealth
and property to lose are strangely
unaisiuroea Dy me swing of the
economic pendulum.
' Although there is no frontier to
speak of outside of the individual
himself today, no retreat from the
vagaries of nature and the unwis
dom of man other than the regions
of the intellect, let the young man
not be appalled. Let him choose
his profession with caution; weigh
it carefully, make his decision ju
diciously and with what allegiance
he can muster.
Let him insist upon the thing he
wants to be. And when the spade,
the scalpel, or the brief is laid
away for the day, let him, if he
likes, push out into the one fron
tier that is left to him. the broad
est, the most mysterious the land
of things men are and have been.
It is not entirely uncharted. A
great drama here, a symphony
there, a paintmtr. a noem snow
capped peaks to guide him. And
between them are deep canyons
and foaming rivers and waterfalls,
waiting for the eye and the ear.
Let those who are choosing a
profession consider carefully what
they are to do but even more care-'
fully what they are to be.
Go to Hauck's studio for nhoto-
graphs that satisfy. 1216 O. Adv.
DR. GINSBURG LISTED
ON OMAHA PROGRAM
Dr. Michael Ginsburg, depart
ment of the classics, has been in
vited to take part in the cere
monies sponsored by the Omaha
German society commemorating:
the anniversary of Goethe.
All frosh at the University of
Maryland are required to work on
the school paper one day out of
each week.
IOWA JOURNALISTS MEET
Sigma Delta Chi Members
In State Convene for
Founderi Day.
AMES, la., April 4. Iowa State
students who belong to Sigma Vti
ta Chi, national journalistic so
ciety, ' are co-operating with
branches of the society In Des
Moines and Drake university, State
University of Iowa and Grinnell
college in arranging the first an
nual Iowa Founder's day banquet
of the society, to be held in Des
Moines April 10.
Jav N. "Dine" Darling, car
toonist of national repute, will be
the chief speaker at the banquet
More than 250 newspaper and
marazlne men of hte state, to
pettier with journalism students
from four colleges, are expected to
attend.
The society was founded in 1909
at DePauw university, Greencastle,
Ind. Its annual convention is to be
held in Ames next fall.
STUDENTS ASSIGNED
TO REPORTING JOBS
(Continued from Page 1.)
tv News; Marjorle Peterson, Wis
consin State Journal; Roseline
Plzer, Stanton Register; Virginia
Pollard, Albion Argus; George
Round, Wahoo Wasp; Ruth Schlll,
Custer County Chief; Evelyn
Simpson, Omaha World-Herald;
George Thomas, Leigh World;
Ignatius Walsh, Howard County
Herald; Edgar Wescott, Pawnee
Republican; Meredith Williams,
Curtis Enterprise; Arthur Wolf,
Nebraska Dally News-Press; Les
ter Vaughan, St. Paul Phonograph;
Kenneth Keller. Lincoln Star; Wil
liam McGaffin State Journal;
Bereneice Hoffman, State Journal.
NEBRASKA CITY MAY
BOOK KOSMET SHOW
(Continued from Page 1.)
Kosmet Klub has been able to
bring their play to that city
through the efforts of Frederick
Daly, Nebraska alumnus.
Will Show At Brandeis.
The Brandeis theater will be the
house for the Omaha performance.
Joy Sutphen is responsible for the
appearance of "Jingle Belles" in
the metropolis city.
The setting- for "Jlnsie Belles"
is a summer home on the banks
of the Missouri river a few miles
north of Nebraska City. The cast
is snowbound in the cabin during
Christmas vacation.
Rehearsals for the cast and the
choruses will be held this week as
they were last week. The Coliseum
was the scene of the practices last
week and the Temple stage has
been secured for the rehearsals
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Tryouts Scheduled
For Dramatic Club
Any aspirants to membership
in the University of Nebraska
Dramatic club may try out
this evening at 7:30 in the
Dramatic club rooms- on the
third floor of the Temple build
ing, Ralph Spencer, chairman
of the tryout committee an
nounced yesterday. Information
regarding previous dramatic
experience must be filed with
Reginald Porter in the Corn
husker office by 5 o'clock this
afternoon.
this week. Director Herbert Yenne
and Assistant Director Ralph Ire
land are well satisfied with the
work that has been done on the
musical comedy, they say,
ine orcnestra has been rchears-
inp under the direction of Jim
Douglass and will make the road
trip along with tte cast. The snow
flake costumes and Uie costumes
for the chorus are nearing comple
tion, tne scenery under the suner-
vision of Norman Hoff and Frank
Musgrave is about ready to be
set up.
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