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TWO THE DAILY NKRRASKAN THURSDAY. APRIL 7, 19.32 The Daily Nebraskan Station A, Lincoln, Nebraska OFFICIAL STUDENT PUBLICATION UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA Published Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday mornings xuring tne academia year. THIRTY. FIRST YEAR Entered as second-cists matter at the postofflce In Lincoln, Nebraska, under act of congress. March J, ism. and at special rate of postage provided for In section lfb3, act of October S, 1917, authorized January 90. 1922. - Under direction of the Student Publication Board SUBSCRIPTION RATE $ a year Single Copy 8 cents tl.W a semestei S3 a year mailed 91.75 semester mailed Editorial Office University Hall 4. Business Off ice University Hall 4A. Telephones Day I B-6891 Nlghtl B-488, B-J3J3 (Journal) Ask for Nebraskan editor. jMEMBCRl I 19SS Title paper is represented for teneraJ adrertlsiac ky the Nebraska Press Association. Nebraskn niul can never be. The two upper classes arc unuicd to a certain extent on ivy Day and by the Junior-Senior Prom, but the bonds are f radio. . There still is work to be done. Jt might be wise to perforin an opera tion and remove the lower class offices. But then, there is always time. And when the picnic season opens up the theme None will be "Slnppy Days Are Here Again." What this campus needs is a good five cent cup of coffee. EDITORIAL STAFF Arthur Wolf Editor-ln-chlef MANAGING EDITORS Howard Allaway Jack Erlckson NEWS EDITORS Phillip Brownell Oliver De Wolf Laurence Hall Virginia ponara Joe Miller Sports Editor Evelyn Simpson Associate Editor Ruth Schlll Women's Editor Katharine Howard Society Editor CONTRIBUTING EDITORS. Gerald Bardo Ceorae Dunn La Von Linn Edwin Faulkner Boyd Krewson William Holmes George Round Art Kozelka BUSINESS STAFF Jack Thompson tfuslness Manager ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGERS Norman Qalleher Frank Musgrave Bernard Jenninge The Iron Cow Dollar. Makine even more drastic cuts than recom mended bv the Chancellor, the Board of Kfgents Tuesday slashed approximately $300, 000 from the university's budget for the pres ent biennium. The amount of all salaries over $1,000 was cut 10 percent. This item alone will effect a saving of $100,000 and will affect 686 people. Limiting the number of laboratory assistants, cutting equipment expenditures and reducing maintenance and operation funds will save another $60,000. Reduction of the mini - ber of instructors will save an additional $18,. 001). Summer school instructors will have their salaries cut 5 percent from amounts specified in the regular budget. These cuts have been necessitated by dimu nition of student fees, and by appropriations cut by the state legislature. Department re ceipts have also contributed to the lowered sources of income, by their decrease. It is difficult to prophesy the exact effect these decreases will have on the operation of the educational machine. Not until next fall when the machine beigns to operate on the minimum fuel prescribed by the llegtnts will the outcome be plainly felt. It is certain, how ever, under the restricted budget that there will be small opportunity for growth. There can be little, if any, progress, and without progress, stagnation and even retrogression looms as a possibility. Sludents have never before had brought home to them so forcefully that the almighty dollar is a false deity. The worship which modern culture has accorded materialism has at last turned about and shown its true color. The golden calf has tumbled and institutions of every nation and of every type are waver ing upon their foundations. The depression has struck and the god has failed us. The dollar is all that can aid and it refuses to do so. Because of an extraordinary crisis in the economic, history of the world, the social and political history must assume the robes of that same crisis. Because Hie dollar has failed, every institution in the world is being made to suffer. Somewhere, someone must be laughing at us. And what can be done? A $:!00,000 slash has been made in the budget. Whether the sludents like it or not a $300,000 slash has been made in the budget. Whether the instructors like it or not a $300,000 slash has been made in the budget. Someday Sririt, The decision in favor of the organization of the Barb clubs made Tuesday night by the rep resentatives of the unorganized groups indi cates another step toward a change in the po litieal situation at the University of Nebraska Now if those fifteen men who represented their houses will carry througli that plan at the earliest possible oportunity and the unison between the Barbs and the Yellow Jackets is effected then a change may even occur m th spring elections. Not only does this new Barb club plan hold forth promises of greater political power, hut also of social promise and even economic aids Oru-anization can work winders and if the Barbs, as they have signified, can effect an or ganization which will be bound togelher for a legitimate purpose they can be powerful. Jf representative government on this campus is ever to be effected, the Barbs will have to be organized. The present system is robbing campus activity and school spirit of its zest. The alternative plans of realizing the two fra ternity factions and abolishing factions abso lutely have been gone over time and time again. They cannot work at this time. The only thing left is to organize the non-Greek groups as much as is possible. That is what the realignment committee instituted by the Innocents society and the Student council is attempting to do at the present time. The Barbs have shown interest and willing ness all along the line and. as soon as their organizations have been begun then it will be the turn of the fraternity men on the Yellow Jacket side of the fence to go to work. They will have to effect a new organization of their faction. They will have to make some plans for the assimilation of the Barb group into the faction. Thev will have to provide for the passing around of the ofiees so that one group or the other will not be left out and make the situation as bad as it is now. The middle point of the whole project has been reached. Steps have been made which indicate that all are interested. There is still much to be done, which if done will result in a new spirit, both campus and clique, which will build a greater interest in campus activity which is the real end of the whole project. And if the Barbs can only build themselves into a strong ana efficient working group which can do battle with the entire group of fraternities in a few years, then real spirit will be generated and the goal of the whole project will be realized. There is some wmider now. not as to where the younger generation is going, but when they are going to get there. College Editors Say i Roy Howard, Scripps-IIoward Leader, Slid From Bottom to Top in Business These Class Presidencies. Class presidents are still wiih us! The Student Council Wednesday evening allowed the matter to be tabled after slight consideration of the committee's report. The Council slated that it wished to wait until after the Big Six conference of Student council representatives here. The committee's report consisted of the fol lowing points : 1. Effective next year have senior class president be elected for one year and have Ihe following duties: a. Chairmanship of senior announcement committee.' b. Estab lish contacts with alumni for the purpose of furthering roundup week. e. Plant ivy on Ivy Day with junior class president. 2. Have junior class president be elected for one year with the following duties: a. Chairmanship of Junior-Senior Prom committee, b. Planting of ivy on Ivy Day with senior class president. 3. Abolish sophomore and freshman class presidencies. The Student council voted to accept 1he first part of the report and table the second part of it until after the Big Six conference, April 30. This means that the first two points were in corporated into the council's rules and that the freshman and sophomore class presidents still exist as political plums. So the council really did two things, namely: (1) made the junior class president chairman of Ihe Junior-Senior Prom committee, and (2) extended the upper two class president's terms to a full year. f Total work two plums abolished. Diffi cultyfour still exist. The council has brightened the horizon, how ever, by promising that it will consider the abolition of the lower class heads immediately after the conference. Perhaps something has been done, perhaps not. Whatever can be found that is being done at other schools will not aid the situation at Nebraska. Class presi dents will not mean much until they have some functions. They can have no functions unless there is a class organization. There is none at fallacious System. The American system of grades thrusts a letter or a mark on a sludent in various sub jects for four years and, if he hovers about the beginning of the alphabet, with considerable flourish and uttering of great truths, solemnly presents him with a diploma. Thereafter, as far as the universities are concerned, he is an educated, intelligent man. In a few cases he may even be considered cultured. Obviously, there is something radically wrong with this system of grading. Statistics have shown that the average intelligence of the college graduate is practieally on a par with the average freshman. This deplorable fact would seem to prove conclusively that Ameri can students are much too grade conscious, which is really the fault of the universities for placing an entirely unwarranted stress on them. The attendant evils are legion, cramming, cribbing and copying leading the file. True knowledge is sacrificed to arbitrary marks. General intelligence is not cultivated, in that grades at any price override the value of ap proach to a subject. Neither the faculties nor the colleges, for the most part, seem to care whether their undergraduates actually know anything after four years of work, so long as they have procured a certain grade. This neg ligent attitude is further fostered by the fre quency of superficial examinations, most of which are entirely too relative, and empha sized far too much. Foreign schools have eliminated the grade system with marked success. They have sub stituted, instead, examinations at the end of three or four years of studying a course, the student having the option of being quizzed when he feels prepared; the only grades given are "passing." and "failing," and "passing with honors." Cramming is made impossible, for it is a most unusual student who could cram successfully three or four years of academic work. Consequently, the graduates glean a far better knowledge, culture, and train their intellects more thoroly. The Euro pean student who has worked under this sys tem is a good step ahead of his American brother, who in general knows as little after a college career as he did before, all his grades notwithstanding. Native educators have realized this fact, and arc now devising a method to replace the grade system. Often students themselves are aware of the fallacy of trying to compete with a marking system which minimizes retentive knowledge. It lowers the value of a college education considerably, and places the aver age college man and woman in an intellectual and cultural sphere little above that of a high school graduate, who has not had any of the alleged advantages of university curricula. However, when the American institutions admit that the value of education is being much distorted by the grade system, they will increase their potential value, and the Ameri can students will be benefited. Syracuse Daily Orange. NEW YORK. Roy W. Howard, chairman of the board and in as- foclatlon with Robert P. Scripps, ditorial director of the Scripps Howard newspapers, was charac terized as one of the real and gen uine liberal forces in American life and was described as having a practical theory of public serv ice that dominates everything he does, in a story of his life told by Frailer Hunt, correspondent and author. Hunt drew a irraphic picture of young Howard's boyhood and then traced his career as a reporter for the Indianapolis News, as a sports writer for the Indianapolis Mar, as assistant cable editor of the at, Louis Post-Dispatch, as assistant maanging editor of the Cincinnati Post, as president of the United Press, and on up to his present position as executive of one or the great chains of daily newspapers in the country. He is a fearless fighter, oriutani oreanizer and imaginative execu tive, said Hunt, but he is still the reporter, finding the facts for him- se f. seeinc witn his own Keen eves, history in tne maaing. Frazier Hunt a story, wnicn was nresented as one of a series of talks on "Great Personalities, sponsored by the insurance conv pany, follows in full: Tonleht I ra eolne to ten you a story about a fifteen year old boy who actually "slid" into the news paper business and kept on sliding until, when he was tweniy-nine, ne was made president of the great United Press news-gathering or conization; and then still kept right on sliding until, at imrty- eight, he was head of all the Scripps-Howard newspapers and their allied organizations. V His name is Roy Howard, ana he was born in a toll-gate house at Gano, Hamilton county, Ohio, on New Year's day, 1883. When he was seven his family moved to In dianapolis, and pretty soon after that he started earning nickels and dimes. When ne was fifteen .and sophomore in the manual train ing high school, he used to get up in the mornings at three and work morning paper route, and m the late afternoons he would deliver his evening papers. He was a crack shot at throwing papers on front porches. Slides Into Press Box. One late fall day a rainy, muggy, gray day in November the Universities of Illinois and In diana were to play football in In dianapolis at Newby Oval. Roy was so set on going that he hired substitute to deliver bis papers and trudged out to the Oval. It cost fifty cents to get in, and Roy was such a slight undersized lad that he figured he could crawl over the fence and save the half dollar. On top of the fence was barbed wire but Roy safely nego tiated it and jumped on to a steep roof; but the roof was wet and slippery and before he knew it he was sliding down. He landed ker plunk in some strange enclosure. He saw stars ana then wnen ne had nibbed them out of his eyes, he looked around. He had slid di rectly into the press box where three or four sports writers were scribbling out their stories. They picked a few splinters out of him. had a 'good laugh and then told him to take a seat and enjoy him self. It was as if he had been turned loose in a candy shop; it was the very essence of thrilling adventure. Here were romantic figures out on the firing line, deep in life and action. That moment this boy, Roy Howard, determined he was going to be a newspaper man. It took him some little time to "chisel" his way on to the great "Indianapolis News" as reporter of high school news, but he did it. He still had his two paper routes and, in partnership with Freddie Fer guson, he ran the , high school lunch room, and on six nights a week ushered at a theater. He was getting along pretty well when he graduated in February, 1902. Sometimes he would make eight or ten dollars a week from his work as reporter of high school news alone. Then the blow fell! His father, a conductor on the Big Four rail road, who had been fighting a long fight against tuberculosis, sud denly took a turn for the worse and on a raw day in March died. Becomes Staff Reporter. There was no money and it was up to this seventeen year old boy, the only child, to care for his mother. That spring he worked even harder than ever.( Toward the end of May he pushed in so many columns of high school news that in one week he earned $35. That was preposterous, and at once the managing editor called him in and fired him from his position as high school reporter, but gave him a regular job on the staff at eight dollars a week. He was a full fledged newspaper man now, with a silver star having the legend "Reporter 'Indianapolis News' " engraved on it. It looked like a policeman's badge, altbo this slender, hundred pound, five foot and a half, seventeen year old boy wa far from looking like a police man. Now of course a real reporter could not afford to be caught car rying papers, so he gave up his evening route But he needed the money; so every morning he was up at 3 o'clock with the milkman, delivering his morning papers. No one would see him at that time of day. On the staff of the "News," was another young man, four or five years older than Roy Howard, who took a great interest in this ambi tious iad. He was sporting editor, and as times assistant news editor. His name was Ray Long and he was destined to become one of the great magazine editors of America. The friendship that sprang up be tween these two men has been one of the abiding elements In the life of each of these two successful men. Writes Sports for the "Star." That first year Ray Long, out of his superior experience, helped this skinny little Howard boy over many of the bits ot stony road thai every cub reporter has to travel. A year later Roy Howard followed Ray Long to a newly es tablished Indianapolis paper called the "Star" as a sports writer. Here voune Howard brought to. Corn Belt readers the first of the easy, slangy, baseball chatter that has since become so popular. Ha dreamed even now of going east and working for the New York World. Then one day he went to Chi nago and somehow succeeded in seeing the managing editor of the old Chicago "Inter-Ocean." Roy Howard was almost twenty, but he looked sixteen. He was frail and overworked. When he struck the editor for a Job, the great man looked him over and with a grin on his lips said: "Young man, you go back to Indiana ami when you get old enough so that you can wear those long pants without looking funnv, come back and we'll talk about a job," It Just about broke Roy Howard's heart, and he made up his mind that when he got to be an execu tive he would see every one who came to him and at least treat the applicant kindly. For eighteen yars on the United Press no man, young or old, was ever turned away who asked to see him. Tries for Job on the "World." Back in Indianapolis he studied the issues of the New York "World" and fed his ambitions to be a "World" man some day. On his next holiday he came east and stormed the citadel itself. Every afternoon for ten days he made it his business to go down to Joseph Pulitzer's "World" and try to talk his way into the managing editor's office. But he failed. For he was smaller than most of the office boys and he looked even younger than some of them. Twenty-eight years later he personally conducted the negotiations for the purchase of the New York "World." and the night the final agreement was put through he told the sons of Joseph Pulitzer the story of how the for mer managers of the "World" had refused even to see him. But I am getting ahead of my tale. Returning to Indianapolis young Howard was still determ ined to make a place for himself on the New York "World." He figured that by going to St. Louis and getting a job on Pulitzer's "Post-Dispatch" he might get into the "World" by the back door. The "Post-Dispatch" put him to work as assistant cable editor, but with in a few months he had joined Ray Long as assistant managing edi tor of the "Cincinnati Post." Meets Col. McRae, and "E. W." Now, a day or two before he ar rived in Cincinnati an irate reader had burst into the city room of the "Post" and blackened the eye of one of the reporters. As a con sequence, a railing with a trick gate had been installed. The desk of the new twenty-two year old assistant managing editor was right beside this gate, and one aft ernoon while ne was puling tne last edition to bed, old Colonel McRae, part owner of the Scripps McRae group, came up the stairs and unsuccessfully attempted to open the trick gate that led into the city room. A little indinant at this new arrangement, and seeing the slight boyish figure at the desk, he said gruffly: "What's the idea of this silly gate what's it for " Roy, busy with counting' the let ters on a seven column head, looked up and in his high pitched voice remarked: "It's to keep the children from falling down the stairs." Whereupon tbe colonel re plied, "Well, it looks like it's been put up just in time." Seven years later, Roy Howard's introduction to the powerful E. W. Scripps was almost as humorous. One of "E. W.'s" sons broughht the young stripling into "the pres ence," and the extraordinary old gentleman lifted up his glasses to his forehead, cocked his good eye, and remarked: "Humph! another little one, eh?" But Roy Howard was little only in stature. He still had a hanker ing for New York and with Ray Long to help him he worked out a plan to come to New York and do a daily letter for the six Scripps McRae papers in Ohio. And so it was that in 1906 he came to the big city that O'Henry called "Bag-dad-on-the-Subway." Before very long he was retting $33 a week. Then he was told he would receive $50. The Publishers' Press. And now comes one of those al most unbelievable tales in a man's life. Mr. Scripps had Just bought the Publishers' Press and the Manager came to Roy Howard with a strange proposition. He was to go ahead and do his regular daily letter and theatre articles for the Ohio papers, and also to be the New York Manager of this Pub lishers' Press. But as part of the agreement, he was to turn back into the struggling Publishers' Press his $50 salary, and for his double work was to receive only his original $33. It was an in credible offer, but Roy Howard was f3r seeing enough to take it He liked tbe title, and he liked the idea of getting in on the ground floor of this press association. He believed he could soon make him self so invaluable that he could name his own price. Within three months be was making $80 a week. The next step was the formation of the United Press of which Roy was made New York Manager. He was "sliding" easily now! Little by little he added to his duties and to his responsibilities. and to his salary. Here he met tbe first man who deeply affected his career, Hamilton B. Clark. Mr. Clark was then Chairman of the Board of the United Press. From this unusual man Roy Howard learned how to handle people, how to be patient with men under him and, even tho he drove them hard, always to be fair and appreciative. It was Mr. Clark, too, who sent Hotel D'Hamlmrser Cbotfun Service 1141 q st 1718 SEBiSSESal taWaaWBaaWtaaW him West to see the great E. W, Scripps. Influence of "E. W." and Northollffe. "Of course, I learned a great deal from 'E. W." Roy Howard told me the other day. "He taught me that service to the public al ways pays in the long run; for the public, contrary to popular theory, does appreciate and does well re pay tho men who taithruiiy serve it. It wasn't anything philanthropic with Mr Scripps. He had simply worked out a theory that in Jour nalism it pays to serve the people rather than some special interest, or party, or advertiser. It was the greatest lesson- of my life." In 1912, when Roy Howard was twenty-nine, he was made v resi dent of the United Press. Now began the great expansion of this news service. During the first year or tne world War he met Liora Northcliffe. the famous English newspaper publisher. "Northcliffe showed me." Mr. Howard ex plained, "that the same emotions and appeals and technique that in journalism are required to interest people in one section of tbe coun try, will interest them in any other Section, that people are fundamen tally the same everywhere, and that you can apply the same rules and theories to big city journalism that you can to country journal ism. Northcliffe made it clear to me that the Scripps papers could invade the great eastern cities with the same Ideas and ideals that they had used west of the Alle- ghanies." But Roy Howard, at that time. wasn't dreaming much about Scripps newspapers. He was dream ing about building up a great and powerful afternoon news service. Foreign news stories written around people, he figured, would bring something brand new into journalism. So he inaugerated a series of interviews with the war leaders. His own intervUw with Lloyd George was but one of the scores of famous newspaper "beats." Still the Reporter. Then America entered the World war. Roy Howard ws here, mere and everywhere. Pen on ally I shall never forget an evening in late October, during the great Meuse Argonne drive, when just back from a tour of the front I met Roy Howard. He was still a real reporter, eager, hungry for infor mation, seeing with his own eyes this military drama, one of the greatest stories of all time. In these thirteen years since then, I have run across Roy Howard in a score of places over the world. A year or two ago we spent three or four days together in Moscow; and there, too, he was still the reporter, finding the facts for himself, seeing with his own keen eyes, history in the making. I could go on and talk about this unusual man all evening; how in 1920, when he was Just turned thirty-eight, he was shunted over to the Scripps-McRae papers, that two years later were to become the Scrippa-Howard papers; how in the last few years he has in. vaded the east with papers in Pittsburgh, Washington, Baltimore and finally in New York City; how a year ago he bought the New York "World" and merged it with his "Evening Telegram" to make one of the sensational newspaper successes in the history of Ameri can Journalism; how he has be come the brilliant organizer and Imaginative executive; how his nracttcal theory of public service still dominates everything he does; and how he Is one of the real and genuine liberal forces in American life. These are all notable accom plishments, but I have only enu merated them in passing. For it Is Roy Howard the fearless fighter, the wise and humorous human being, and the loyal friend, who appeals to me. 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