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EDITORIAL STAFF
that it is not a quest ion of personal
interest on the part of the univer
sity but of state interest now and
in the future, they may bo less
zealous in their blind swinging of
the i-eonoiny axe
I Vftsri ipt We notice that the
legislative committee in a state -Inieiit
issued Monday denies that
any political considerations entered
into the formulation of the reeom
i mendation. Frankly, if we were
the committee, wo should prefer
to have at least this as an excuse
for the way the report was made.
Otherwise i( reflects .seriously on
the committee's sense of logic.
ri., x- -jU,. wiv I hat the ueoi'le of
1 M tl i ...... - 1 .
Ne ) aska are not "now able to
A I 1 1 . . ..
r.hinr-ii.-rhiri mil lUnu.i. U ! ni.-intaui an ai isleioraiie noei.y inn-
mamacing EDITORS ! jo- the present biennium." Maybe
we're wrong but wo recall no l'irul-
i . . . . 4 4 t U. .1 ri j-
nigs in ineir rejion is n n
tocratic tondem ies of the institu-
Duk Moron
NEWS
George Murphy
Lynn Leonard
EDITORS
uamome D'utr
Violet Cross
Sports Editor.. . . Burton M.irvir) I jjon Slllilv they should have Ill
Society Editor Carolyn Van And.i I ' , . ., ' . if :c
Wom.-nVs Editor . ... Maro.net Thiele ! eluded this in their report l 11 is
BUSINESS STAFF 'true. As opposed to the state pen-
Business Manaoei .. .Chalmers Grahun jtciitiarv and the state hospital,
ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGERS
Bei tin rd Jennings
Geoige Holyoke
perhaps
c -ratio.
the iinivei sitv is aristo-
FianK Musgrave
77 v I 'nivi'rsily Is
N o a Si'lfish Intvn sl.
TP UK Nobraskan does not. wish to
overdo the mattei of express
ing' indignation at the poor judg
ment i very mild of the legisla
tive committee in its report con
cerning the university. Hut we
feel that the time has come for j themselves as little more than
importing- me
01 me .American
vigorous e.xpiossions of opinion on jingoisU
iiin matt. i vp imp. i lie students state commander
Is I'atriolisiti
' Ex I wine ati(Hialism?
TT is a long distance from a group
; of N'ebraska club women to the
foreign policy of the nation, but
! not such a distance as to prevent
'the l. A. P., meeting in convention
at Hastings last week, to reveal
Alter
ami alumni of the institution to
use any proper means to make fell
the disapproval which seems to be
widespread of the iccommenda
tions of the committee.
The university has until now 10
maincd supine awaiting whatever
it. should be the pleasure of the
legislature to deal out to it. The
university would and should have
remained passive if it had not been
for the stupidity displayed by the
legislative committee in assuming
the administrative poweis of the
university board of icgents.
Furthermore, the drastic cut
it-commended by the committee is
proper cause for complaint inas
much as it goes beyond a sensible
limit for cutting this institution.
The additional cut proposed by the
legislature over Governor Bryan's
propose will make considerable
difference to the university, but,
us the regents point out, will
make the difference of only 31-100
of 1 percent on each dollar paid by
each taxpayer in the state.
4.
HPHKRK is no cause for putting
Legion to speak to them, the pa
triots wont on record as opposing
recognition of Soviet Russia, and
then, as if this action did not al
ready brand them as shortsighted
nationalists, the feminine militar
ists classed themselves with the
huge American group of meddlers
by forwarding a copy of their
resolution to President Roosevelt.
Here, it seems, is an excellent
illustration of what critics mean
'when they declare that America is
full of intolerance, despite its claim
to he "the home of the free.' Just
such intolerance was the founda
tion of another nationalistic or
ganization which stirred the melt
ing pot into a froth years ago
the Ku Klux Klan.
The attitude reflected by the D.
A. ll.'s resolution can be seen con
centrated in a line from the speech
by Robert A. Armstrong, Ameri
can Legion commander, who said
it is "high time for us to hunt
down all alien reptiles who are
spreading the poison of commu
nism against homes and schools
and send them back to the coun-
against thorn just because they
have a form of government we do
not like."
THIS is the statement of a man
prominent in public life, a
I. I. 1. 1 , i ll 1 111
I man wnose woin ni-
occasion to investigate the tre
mendous amount of anti-soviet
ballyhoo which has flooded the
country through the channels of
just such "patriotic" societies as
the 1). A. R. Set against the ab
surdities published at the state
convention of that organization,
Mr. Smith's statement makes the
D. A. R. resolution appear in its
due colors, as shortsighted nation
alism broueht to a climax.
W hen bigger wars are made, it
will be "patriots" like the Daugh
ters of the American Revolution
who will cause them.
SLASHES WOULD
CRIPPLE SCHOOL
1 Continued from Pago 1.)
that schedule. The Board of Reg
ents believes that this committee,
acting in the stress of an emerg
ency, has inadvertently overlooked
i the most lundamental pr inciple 01
efficient University management
and has started on a course that
will prove distinctly harmful to
the University.
The constitution of the State of
Nebraska vests the Board of Reg
ents with power to administer the
University under the broad, gen
eral direction of the state legisla
ture. The Regents are invested
with responsibility as to the selec
tion of the faculty and the determ
ination of individual salaries, while
the Legislature has responsibility
to determine such questions as
types of colleges to be set up, ac
tivities to be authorized, appropri
ations for the support of the insti
tution, and similar broad, general
powers.
From the beginning of the I ni
versity the power of the Regents
to administer its internal affairs
has been recognized as a rcsponsi
I bility confer red upon t In 111 by the
I constitution of the Slate of No
I braska and not heretofore chal
; longed in the more than sixty years
1 of its operation. It is only a step
! from fixing individual salaries to
appointing" janitors, professors, and
administrative off liters. Determ
ination of salaries by the legisla
ture would place a premium on the
political activities of professors
and would prove embarrassing" to
members oi the legislature.
3. One of the most injurious
features in the committee's report
is obvious from an examination of
the following table showing the
percentage of the proposed salary
cuts in the various college budgets: o
cuts believe that the ellicicncy anu
the reputation of the University
are dependent upon the outstand
ing qualities of its ly mon, itf
deans and leading professors. If
the governing board is unable to
lcward exceptional service or to
meet salaries ot competing insti
tutions, the Univeisity cannot con
tinue to be "one of which Nebras
kans can be justly proud." The
theory that the physical needs of
faculty members are about equal
and this may be used as the stand
aril of fixing salaries is utterly fal
lacious. The Regents agree that
the higher salaried men should
take relatively higher cuts than
those in the lower levels, but be
lieve that the ratio should not be
so fixed as to penalize the ablest
men on its faculty and leave little
incentive for anyone to do excep
tional work. Standardize all sal
aries to the lowest point of phys
ical subsistence and me resuu is
the wrecking of this institution as
an efficient servant of the people
of this state.
Exponent of Economics.
f The report of the committee
oronosos a cut of $385,000 below
the Brvan bud ere t. Governor Bryan
has long been noted as an exponent
of governmental economies. The
R.vir.i of Repents has shown its
desire for ligid economy by volun
tarily taking a 10 percent slash on
salaries with 1.000 exemption and
by reducing their request below
last year's budget. The University
was the only state expending
agency so to do. The Bryan budget
has reduced stale appropriations to
the University by over .f.SOO.000
from the appropriations made in
the preceding biennium. The pro
posed cut of the committee will re
duce such appropriations over
$l,isr.n00 from tax sources.
Dealt With as a Whole.
. It is apparent that the fact
finding committee dealt with Uni
versity appropriations as a whole
and did not take into consideration
that the $570,061.20 from Federal
sources is not subject to direction
1 by the legislature. The authority
I of the slate over such funds is
1-
1 up the interests of the univer- ltry frum wnich the' came." Mr.
sitv as an institution against all Armstrong also indulged in a par
other interests of the state. The ticularly violent bit of flag waving
question is not one of each profes
sor and instructor complaining
against a cut on a personal basis.
The Nehraskan merely wants the
legislature to understand that
there is a general sentiment on the
prut of those who have no mono-
taiy interest whatsoever in univer- '
sitv appropriations, that the report
ot the committee is neither f;iir
nor sensible. Those people are in
terested only in seeing that the in
stitution is neither injected into
politics 1101 unnecessarily ci ippVd
I iiianoially.
The Nehraskan believes that
students can aid somewhat in the
p-oeess eif getting this sentiment
o.it into the open where the legis
lates may feel it immediately. If
tlv sentiment of the student body
)e without influence.', there are
I I !:;t ive-s and friends of students,
alumni ot the university all over
the stale who are interested and
influential. It is within the power
f the students to enlist these peo
ple to make known to the legisla
tive their attitude upon the sub-j'-'-t.
The "noisy agitators." as the
by charging that a representative
of the soviet was even now at
work in Lincoln among students
a charge so palpably absurd as to
merit only laughter.
I purely that ot trustee. redcral
I funds are closely hedged about rjy
! Feeleral laws. They are audited by
j Federal officers and may be with
held for misuse. The legislature
will not elesire to absorb Federal
t imel.s to leplace state funds with
drawn through retrenchment. Such
use clearly would be illegal and
would jeopardize all Federal ap
propriations to the University.
Whatever reductions have been
maele from this $370,061.20 cannot
be made effective and must be re
storeel, since using Federal funels
to replace tax money would be mis
use of funds.
Saving Would Be Small.
How much will the proposed
I THAT, we wemeler, would
vv
" been the reai tion ot the
state's patrieitic wnmi-n if they
had been pri-se-nt in the halls ot
e ongiess r ecently u lie-n Altied K.
Smith ad oi .ate d 1 e-cog nition ot
Russia, elee-laring that he did not
"know any loason iot not doing
it"? That, indeed, would have'
be-e-n a spectacle' 01 the pioils
la.iies!
Backing up his ;nlvih ;n y o) Rus
sia, Mr. Smith further said some
things weuth ne.ticing:
"... Somebody says they owe
us $100,000. We kept tioop.i in
Russia for quite a while when we
( .vero not at war with them, and
j we did .me elamage to them. 1
; think we could sit around the ta-
ble ami settle that matte 1 very
! easily.
I "There is no use in tiading with
I them under cover. We are doing
.it. Thru the Arr.toig, or whatever
Lincoln Star calls them, have had ' you call it, the Russian Tiading
tli. ii say. Let the citizens of Nc- . company, our material and stuff
oiaska have theirs, and light
quii kly. The time honored method
u' writing lettcis. to repi esenta- I lesented ther e and let them be iep-
liv'.s ami senator s may be a bit . resented her e at Washington, and
obnoxious, but it sometimes seems j let us do business with them in the
to have effect. If the legislature open.
Present
Salary
Schedule
Administration $108,349
Arts and Science College 383.663
Fine Arts and Music Schools. 39 947
School of Journalism 4,430
Graduate College 12,128
Business Administration Colege 60.410
Teachers College 92,470
Engineering College 93,408
Agricultural Colelge 224,006
Dentistry College 31,898
Pharmacy College 14,340
Law College 33,480
Medical College 155,296
Physical Plant 19,168
(Agricultural Experiment Station 147,123
! Agricultural Extension 85,450
have I Library 44,208
General Accounts tifv-
Commercial Activities 18,140
Special Activities 17.746
County Agents 76,520
Extension Division 19,192
Service Department 21,642
No reason is given by the te.m-o
Per-
Reccm- cent
mended of
Cut Cut
$ 20.934 19.3
105,151 27.4
3.687 9.2
1,080 24.4
2,553 21.0
9.835 16.2
13.255 14.3
18,432 19.7
17,036 7.6
4,133 12.9
2,800 19.5
8,875 26.3
15,266 9.8
3.218 16.7
19,770 13.6
16,293 19.0
14,736 33.3
11,984 28.6
18,140 100.0
3,061 17.2
19,130 25.0
2,742 13.7
3,427 15.8
niittce tor the difle-r nc e in these
cuts, which range' fiom 7.6 to L'7.4
in the elil lei'. nt 0 lle-ge-s. The Cel
legc of A 1 Is and Sciences is given
tlie most diastic out of all. The
$3sr,000 saving help the individual
tax payer in Nebraska? Accord
ing to the report for 1032 of the
State Tax Commissioner 3.9 cents
of every dollar paid for taxes in
committee has evidently overlooked .Nebraska in 111.32 went for the sup
the .facts that the College of Arts port of the University. In that
and Sciences was the iirst college year SL'.'JuO.noO was collected for
of the University to be established, i the Univeisity. On the basis of
that its woi k is vital as a basis for j 'hat report a cut of $385,000 off
work in the professional schoe.ls of I the total tax colle ction would re
the University, and that it consti- suit in a saving of thiity-four one
tutes the very heart and center hundredths of a cent on each elol
of the educational activities of the j lar of a taxpayer's bill.
University. The University library! The elamage to the University of
is slashed 33 per cent, 'notwith- ! s"'i h a cut has already been' se t
is getting into Russia.
"We might just as well be rep-
standing it furnishes the indispen
sable tools for professors anel stu
dents alike and is esse ntial to the
proper functioning of every col
lege of this institution. If there are
to be differences in salaiy cuts as
applied to the dilferenl 00 lieges,
such differences should be mad" tej
depend on the relative s"iic.es
rendered anel the relative nerfssity'
to a state educational institution. '
All to Same Salary Level.
4. The most unfoi tunatc fea- 1
ture of the salary cut proposed by I
the committee is that it tends to j
reduce U men on the faculty to
l e -i in. jne cut proposed by the
committee runs as high as 47
pei cent compared with the 1931'
1932 salaries. Let it be recalled
that President Reosevelt's salary
cut as to Federal officers is from
10 to 15 per c ent. Also, it should
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1 'ine ('t Ri.nei coir.panv.
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We Deliver Phone B1066
be noted that the legislative.
propriation operates over a tv,..
year period and that it is e,,,
probable that during this pe rinej a
rise of prices will automat a )v
operate as an additional salary out.
If the extra cut proposed by the
committee were of an appreciable
benefit to any individual property
owner in the State of Nebraska
this letter would not be addresser"
to you. We submit that an insti
tution with a record of sixty-four
years of service to the State of Ne
braska should not be needlessly
crippled. The decision is with you,
but the chief loss of any crippling
of the University will be borne by
the younger generation of Ne
braska. In view of the fact that the
Board of Regents is responsible tor
the maintenance and direction ,f
the University it requests t),;it
whatever appropriation is finally
granted to the University by t Ik
legislature shall not be' hld;.ee)
about by restrictions, but shall ht
subject to such distribution as the
Hoard deems advisable.
During the sixty-four year-.
the existence of the Unive'rsit v its
governing board has always' ad
ministered the University 'wu inn
the appropriation made by tin ,,.-.
islature. No Board of Repi'is
has ever appoareej before- i!,e
Legislature with a deficiency. 'I 'he
present Board will operaie ihe
University during the ne'xt l i, n
nium within the appropi iati..n
given it. The' Board of Kerenis
believes that it should be give n the
opportunity to operate a Univer
sity of which the citizens e.f Ne
braska may continue to be piomi.
Respect fully submitte d,
Marion A. Shaw
Ured A. Marsh
Karl Cline
l''ranh J. Taylor
Stanley D. Lonj.
Arthur C. Stoker
LITERARY CIRCLES DI
R E C T ATTENTION TO
WARD FORMER UNIVER.
SITY STUDENT
(Continued from Page 1.1
cago, has pronounced artistic tal
ents and does consielerable work n.
pastels of Nebraska scenes around
the Platte valley. Mark Thomas r
a student in the univeisity at the
present time.
Dorothy Thomas attended Lin
coln high school, and took three
years of work in this univeisity.
Although most of her writing has
been developed since she left si be ml
she credits Professors Stepanek.
Wimberly and Pound under whe-ir
she took work, with giving her
considerable help and encourage
ment. A play which she has ree entlv
written, "There Goes the Bride-."
will be published soon by Samuel
French. "Joy Bell," a story, will be
a part of O'Brien's anthology of
"The Best Short Stories of 1932:"
and two other short stories will
appear in the April issue of Harp
ers and The American Mercury.
Here's the 1933 way
ioEUROPE
Best on the ship
for 189
rounej
trip
JlOCi.0 'up e ne
Yes, sir here's a way to Euroi t
ranks with 1933's best bargains! 1'..;
the low Tourist Class rate ami c
"top class" on the Red Star li'
Paiuland, Wuternluuf, Mnutu, ..
Mintutonka. The former two were
ships and the latter two recenth ..-:
passengers only in First Class.
And now their best staterooms, bro.
decks, loveliest public rooms, art y
at a fraction of the foimer cost. No
der travelers who are "in the knu
saying'This is the nev-eliyToun( -:
To Southampton, Havre, An'
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RED STAR LINE
Int., national MrcntiU Mri-
216 No. Michigan Av., Chicago u
can be impressed with the lar t J
I do not believe
in neing
i the same salary level. The Reg-1
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