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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1933.
Daily Nebraskan
Station A. Lincoln. Nebraska
OFFICIAL STUDENT PUBLICATION
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA
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1917, authorized January 20, 1922.
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Stopping the Bung-Hole
While the Spigot Huns.
"yHILE the state supported
agencies are busy figuring
ways and means of carrying on un
der severely reduced resources, and
while the legislature is busy figur
ing more places to pare state ex
penditures, taxpayers may take
consolation in the fact that their
state taxes will be reduced.
But their satisfaction may be
considerably checked when it
dawns on them that no matter how
much state and federal taxes are
reduced their total yearly tax pay
ments will be only relatively
smaller. The bulk of the support
of government for which taxpay
ers in this and other states con
tribute goes to the county and lo
cal governmental districts.
Self-government has tradition
ally been identified in this demo
cratic nation with local govern
ment. The work of caring for the
poor, for providing public educa
tion, and for maintaining law, or
der, and protection, within a core'
munity have been among the func
tions which the rural communities
and municipalities have been proud
to uphold and carry on.
But these functions have in re
cent years been tremendously ex
panded. And even for these simple
functions, the cost of administra
tion has grown. Rural populations
have thinned. But the services re
quired have been increasing expen
sive, and the communities with
sparse populations have demanded
just as much and just as expen
sive services as have the thickly
settled and wealthy areas.
- Special tax levying districts
have been set up within other tax
levying districts and bonds have
been issued to pay for various im
provements which the citizen
wanted. For each new district and
for each new service a set of ad
ministrative officials is required.
These are some of the reasons why
the taxpayer's dollar is being eaten
up largely by the local govern
ments all over the country.
JHE mere fact that many of
these officials have outlived
their usefulness or that the servi
ces provided could be better ad
ministered over a wider area at a
much less cost has made little dif
ference. The shibboleth of local
"home-rule" and community con
sciousness together with the pow
erful influence of the various
corps of public officials, some
times known as "the courthouse
gangs" has effectively blocked
any attempts at reorganization of
local government.
The fact that distances, once an
important factor in determining
the size of local governing units,
have been radically reduced is also
a fact which the local government
officials, their employees, wives,
relatives, and friends prefer to
overlook.
When the state has gone so far
it can go no further. Although
there is so much opposition on the
part of most local governing dis
tricts to any plan hinting of con
solidation or elimination of func
tions there will come a time when
the taxpayers will no longer be
Muffed by the courthouse gangs.
The state, when it has cleaned its
Loue, and cut all it can from its
list of services, may well point
back to the rural areas, the small
school districts, the special tax
levying districts of all kinds, the
small incorporated villages, the
poor counties maintaining expen
sive services, the small counties
and the township governments
and say: "It is high time that the
pruning hook be used on the trees
which have the most dead limbs."
A Boot for Booing Boohs.
JT is distasteful to be forced to
call attention to things which
belong in the province of high
school immaturity, but student
actions at recent basketball games
make such comment necessary,
Seldom do Nebraska students lay
themselves open to charges of be
ing "poor sports" but at basketball
games so far this fall they have
made such a charge justifiable.
The game Saturday night was
not occasion for outbursts of boo
ing as violent as some this season,
but even so several decisions of
the referee brought deluges of
rude noises from the crowd. That
such a display of adolescence is
hardly beneficial to the school's
reputation ought to be a matter of
common knowledge, but evidently
it isn't.
Emotions are very often height
ened, it is true, by the excitement
of the game, and sometimes even
the best of referee's decisions are
inaccurate and unfair, but neithei
of thes excuses are sufficient
grounds for childish booing.
Look in the mirror at yourself,
round your lips and boo. See how
near idiocy such an expression is,
and resolve to practice a little re
straint at basketball games. It
reauy isn t necessary to make a
fool of yourself to enjoy all the
sensations of a thrill . . . try it
next time and see.
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Contemporary
Comment
ECONOMY IS KEYNOTE
OF FRATERNITY BALL
(Continued from Page 1.)
decorations fund, which was start
ed by the Innocents society last
fall.
"All expenses for the Interfra-
ternity Ball will be cut as much as
possible," was the statement made
by Bryon Goulding, chairman of
the committee in charge of ar
rangements for the event. "The
committee is unanimously in favor
of cutting expenses especially on
decorations in order that the fund
for decorating the field house can
be completed as soon as possible."
A special meeting of the Inter-
fraternity council has been called
for this evening to check out the
tickets for the event. Admission to
the ball is $1.50.
BLUE PRINT FEATURES
ROCKEFELLER CENTER
(Continued from Page 1.)
now employed by the Westing-
house Electric and Manufacturing
company.
George L. Sullivan, a graduate
of 1908 and now a consulting en
gineer in Santa Clara, Calif., has
contributed an article entitled.
'California Paving A Description
of Some of the Good Roads for
Which This State is Famous."
In addition to these articles the
magazine contains the usual page
on science and Engineering, edited
by A L. Coffin, a page on the
alumni of the college, The Dean's
Corner, written by Dean O. J. Fer
guson Qf the college, and news of
the various activities in the college.
NEBRASKA ALUMNI
CLUBS ASK FILMS
FOR ANNIVERSARY
Seven more alumni clubs have
sent requests to the alumni office
for films of the campus to be
shown at their meetings celebrat
ing the sixty-fourth anniversary of
the founding of the university on
teo. 15. Five clubs had made
previous requests for films.
The alumni clubs are located in
Washington, New York City, Min
neapolis, Colorado Springs, Des
Moines, Sioux City, and Portland,
Ore.
Corey Speaks Before
Schoolmen at Columbus
S. M. Corey, associate professor
of history and principles of educa
tion, appeared on the program of
the meeting of School Boards and
School Executives association and
the Nebraska Schoolmasters' club
at Columbus Sunday. A number
of faculty members of Teachers
college also attended the meeting.
Love vs. Study.
Who has at some time or other
not wondered about the tremen
dous time allowed for the learning
of a typical college course?
Walter B. Pitkin, professor in
journalism at Columbia university,
lays the cause to a chap named
Cupid, "who. being the world's
greatest dunce, gives complete
satisfaction in his high office." In
Professor Pitkin's recent book,
"The Art of Learning," one finds
an Aladin s cave of modern com
mon sense.
As the teacher sees it," writes
Professor Pitkin, "the later years
of high school and the entire col
lege period are probably the poor
est of all for learning. Youth finds
it hard to knuckle down to any
solid job requiring mental concen
tration, detachment and coolness."
And now our noted authority will
explain why.
"Rapid sexual development
thwarts the learner, especially be
tween the sixteenth and twenty
tirst yeras. All the elemental ap
petites and passions raise the devil
with young learners. The hungry
pupil cannot learn well, still less
the thirsty. But the erotic adoles
cent is hopeless as long as the sex
ual unrest persists."
Professor Pitkin goes on to say
that the four years of college are
wasted for many students simply
because they cannot keep their
minds off sex lures. Naturally,
this is at its worst in co-educa
tional schools, he says, and is the
reason for the low and "even con
temptible" scholarship of such in
stitutions. The journalist throws out a
thought at this point doubting if
the social advantages of throwing
hot youths in with hot maids out
weigh the intellectual stunting.
And then he pays the follow
ing compliments, which should
make many a face burn:
. "Many a bright girl giggles her
sexy way through college, learning
less than a decimal of what she
might, but for her flirting and ero
tic fidgets.
"Many a clever boy receives his
sheepskin after four years of futil
ity and necking parties during
which he has not even learned how
to be a wholesome male."
Besides the inevitable maturing
of sex traits, Professor Pitkin be
lieves that changes in endoctrine
growth actually arrest mentality
more or less in these years, also.
Adults learn better, be says, be
cause with the passing of adoles
cence the mind steadies. Four
years at any institution, he charges
cover no more intellectual content
than a fairly zealous and able per
son of 30 or 40 complete in five or
six months of sustained study.
And now for the good of all
students we will quote Mr. Pitkin
on the most interesting theology of
currently propagandized and
vocated by "leading" men.
Sound economics holds that, be'
cause of the very nature of inter
national exchange, a country can
not continuously import goods un
less it also exports and that, con
verselv. neither can it export un
less it in turn imports.
Acting universally under the
"Buy American" idea, the public
could create a condition wherein
few if any foreign products would
be imported. Such a situation
would be to America's ultimate
disadvantage because, importing
nothing, she would be deprived of
her world market for wheat, cot
ton and other products in the pro
duction of which Americans have
an economic advantage.
Analyzed down to its basic
meaning, "Buy American is an
irrational campaign which was
iniated by profit-seeking leaders of
industry and is being sponsored by
politicians whose first and last
thought is always, "how does it
'sound' to the mass of voters?"
Oklahoma Daily.
Second Cornhusher
Installment Is Due
The second dollar installment
on the Cornhusker due Jan. 15,
is now payable at the Corn
husker office. All students not
having paid their installment
are requested to do so at this
time. CHARLES SKADE,
Business Manager.
Smith hall.
Social dacing hour will be held
at 7 o'clock in the Armory Friday,
Jan. 20.
Monday Night
COLLEGE WORLD.
The student who sold the most
subscriptions to the "Arbutus." In
diana university yearbook, was of tne cast do creditably in this
Laughs in the guise of , pearls
strung on a fast-moving plot enter
tained the audience of the Liberty
Stock Company Monday night
when it opened the three-act com
edy "Square Crooks" for a week's
run.
When Elton Hackett as Eddie
Ellison, an ex-crook reformed by
Gladys Griswold as his loving wife,
Kay, becomes involved in the dis
posal of a stolen string of pearls.
the situations are productive of
plenty of laughs.
Gavin Harris and Maralyn Fink
give fine performances in their
character roles, and the remainder
awarded a summer trip to Yellow
stone. A coed won with seventy-
eight subscriptions.
The honor system has been ex
tended at the University of North
Carolina. Under the new plan,
eacn classroom group elects a com
mittee which has full jurisdiction
over breaches of honor, suspension
of students for violation of the
code and reporting of students to
the council.
Vice President-elect John N.
Garner spent one month getting
his collegiate training at Vander-
bilt university.
Men students at Indiana univer
sity became king for a day recent
ly when the coeds sent the boy
friend floral tributes. Gardenias
were the favorites, but in some
cases the men merited lilies, poin-
setuas and a few carrots.
James Judge drama in a New
York apartment.
The complete cast:
Kddlr Klllaon K.ltoo Harkett
Kay Klllnon ...Cindy Orlvwokl
Jane Brown Juliette Ooodwin
Hridirrt O'Rourke .Maralyn Fink
1-arry Srtilt John (iraham.
Her cant O'Hara fiavin Harris
Harry Welch Clyde Armstrong
Mike Rosa Don Parry
Keardon Russell Mndsknc
lancy Robert Wilson
Mr. Cartoon Horn Walnole
GOVERSMEST STOPS
'RACKET AT SCHOOL
Minnesota Students Are
Marketing Pens in
Chain Scheme.
Uncle Sam took steps to check
the "get rich quick" schemes for
the marketing of fountain pens by
students of the University of Min
nesota, and they will have to look
for new schemes on which to prac
tice their wily "hie-h pressure"
If the eighteenth amendment is
repealed, Harvard students mav be arts
served liquor with their meals, the several students were among
superintendent of the college din- the army of salesman who were
ing halls has announced.
Janitors at the University of
Minnesota recently drew lots to de
termine who would carry several
skeletons across the campus to a
new laboratory.
flooding the city with fountain
pens on an endless chain selling
scneme, which, if carried out with
out flaw, would net the salesman
a profit of $44,286 in ten weeks'
time.
The endless chain plan which is
being marketed to students calls
for the distribution of pens at $3
each. The idea is for the salesman
to sell a friend, who in turn will
A student at Louisiana State
university, convicted of criminal
libel for his manner of editing: "The
n'kn.nj..ji. ,, , , dcii i menu, wuu in turn will
g1Llfrl8CaDla he" another friend, who will also
KT'JV , I sell someone else.
f" BCV-C'"-C. spena- No commission ig th. KBw
man for the first three rens sold,
ing a few days in jail.
sin was told.
Only one out of every four of but 51,50 sa,e is Paid on every
five graduates of the school of edu- I611 thereafter. Besides the original
cation will be able to look forward s8-268"1 receives commissions on
to a position next June, the 1933 tne first re I which are sold
class at the University of Wiscon- bv salesm?n buying pens from
U1U1.
If a salesman sells seven pens,
and the seven buyers in turn re
tain three pens each, the profit
amounts to nearly $140 at the end
Lutheran League. of the sixth sale. Numerous per-
The Lutheran Bible league will sons in Minneapolis who are on the
meet for Bible study with Rev. Mr. ground floor of the scheme have
Erck at 7 o'clock Wednesdav in been reported "cleaning un" on the
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room 203 Temple Bldg.
plan.
love.
-Love is the foe of the art of
learning. If you are well versed in
theology, you know that the holy
trinity is heat, light and power;
and that love is heat, while learn
ing is light, and action is power.
As you also know, there was a ter
rible family quarrel in heaven,
ages and ages ago, in which love
sought to be elected head of the
Pershing Rifles.
'mere will be a meeting of
Pershing Rifles at 5 o'clock Tues
day evening in Nebraska Hall.
Team.
a meeting: of all
Rifle
There will be
men trying out for the rifle team
at the rifle range at 5 o'clock to
day.
Y. W. C. A.
ah members of the Y. W. C. A.
are urged to attend Vesper services
Tuesday at 5 o'clock in Ellen Smith
works but was caught stuffing the hal1. 80 tnat thev may vote upon the
Penny Carnival Plan
Of Big Sister Board
A Penny Carnival scheduled for
Feb. 11 is the latest scheme of the
members of the Big Sister board.
On that date they will erect booth
in Grant Memorial hall from which
will be sold entertainment and a
variety of wares.
oaiioi Doxes and was ridden on a
rail out of town. Ever since then,
love has been running an establish
ment where everything is so hot
that it has been called hell. The
law of the place is "Never think!
Obey that impulse!" And the
mayor of the chief city is a chap
named Cupid, who, being the
world's greatest dunce, gives com
plete satisfaction in his high of
fice." Washington Evergreen.
revised constitution.
The Y. W. C. A.
meet Wednesday at
cabinet will
7:10 in Ellen
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'Buy American,'
It Costs More.
Another economic fad sweeping
the country-which "sounds good"
is the "Buy American" campaign
Duke University
SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
DURHAM, N. C.
Four term of eleven wrrlia are glvea
Mu-h imr. These may be taken m
serwtlveljr M. I. In three fears) or
M. I). In loor immi. The entrance
retirement, are intelligence, character
and at leant two years of roller work.
Including the. subjects specified for
rade A Medical Nrhools. Catalorvcs
and application forms may be obtained
from the Ilean.
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and CHOPS
under. iuSry and
delicious
steaks and chopa are aervca
from our fountain 5 'til 8 p.m.
Try them!
5 Course Dinner 35c
Try Our Taaty HOT
PLATE LUNCHES..
25C
Boyden'e Carry Out Ice Cream
Pint 20c. Quart 8c.
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