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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN THURSDAY, MARCH 2.1. 1933. 4mester jf.tr mailed nr If represented for rcneral advertising by the Ncbruk Pro Association. SUBSCRIPTION RATIJ Under direction of the Student Pub llcatlon Board Editorial Office Unlverelty Hall 4. Stialneaa Office Unlvorslty Hall 4. Telephone! Day: B6891; Night, B68S2 or B3333 (Journal) ask for Nebras fcan editor. EDITORIAL STAFF Edltnr-ln-Chlrf Thll Brnwnrll MANAGING EDITORS Dick Moran Lvnn Leonard NEWS EDITORS eorn Murphy Lamolne Bible Violet Crota porta Editor Burton Marvin Society Editor Carolyn Van And Woman'! Editor Margaret Tr-iele BUSINESS STAFF Business Manager... .Chalmen Gratum ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGERS Bernard Jennings George Holyoke Frank Muigrave Democratic Autocracy. HTHB Dally Nebraskan has no intention of trying to tell the legislature that it is a bunch of sap heads" and to dictate to it what it should do, as was charged by C F. Beushausen of Loup Ciy on the floor of the house Tuesday. The Daily Nebraskan has disagreed with the committee report, and Mr. Beushausen suggests that the Board of Regents abolish the organ of student expression. Its tatti tude, eaya Mr. Beusnausen, 'is nothing short of a disgrace. We are wondering, in all seriousness, if the leg islature, because it was elected by popular vote and entrusted with the function of passing laws for the state and with providing for reductions in state costs la thereby justified In stopping its ears to the request of some people, and incidentally of the Daily Nebraskan, that other points of view be considered. The Daily Nebraskan is not necessarily hostile to the legislature. We believe that the members are acting In good faith, trying to reduce taxes be cause they realize the dire straits of citizens of the state. But we do believe that they are overdoing the matter. There Is an attitude of autocracy which fails to consider things in any but one light. VfVE see In the fact that the Nebraskan has pointed out objections to the committee report, nothing disgraceful whatsoever. We reiterate our opinions of the report and believe that the legislature is un wise, in attempting to control policies which by their very nature are' administrative! WeSvould say the same thing If the legislature were composed of the most highly educated experts In the country. The Nebraskan also feels that the tendency of the Nebraska legislature to slash everything has been taken without due consideration of the relative benefits to be derived from the respective cuts as opposed to the amount of damage which may be done as a result of the cuts. Intelligent legislation must take Into account the future as well as the present regardless of the exigencies of the situation to be met. After all, the Daily Nebraskan is but one means of expressing public opinion. Far more intelligent and experienced editorial writers than are repre sented on the Nebraskan, however, have pointed out similar and even Identical criticisms of the legisla ture. If all these various opinions are taken as per sonal antagonistic propaganda against the legisla ture, the purpose of these criticisms is defeated. And If the legislature chooses to Ignore every sen timent except what is expressed in committee rooms, caucuses, and on the floor, then it is an autocratic agency of government no less obnoxious than the most dictatorial kingship ever In existence. What Other Editors Think. on all sides of a subject, and, furthermore, students heads should not be bothered with such things. A bit of applicable irony from the Oklahoma Daily. However slow recovery in general may be, the financial recuperation of the natioh's schools and colleges will lag behind the general trend. State and public institutions which await annual alloca tions by legislative bodies are among the last to re cover. It is particularly unfortunate that salaries of those on the public tax pay roll lag behind in times of mounting costs and larger budgets. At the University of Illinois, for example, the actual purchasing power of faculty salaries in 1913 was only regained after 16 years, altho during this period of slight salary increases were made regu larly. Since above-high-school education is the common denominator of every man's and every woman's ambition, it becomes an ideal that will not be easily surrendered. Legislators might do well to take this into consideration when planning what functions of government shall be curtailed. Los Angeles Junior Collegian. . Continual insertion of the faculty wage scale in the mire of politics can have only ultimate re sult. It will bring about Intellectual sterility by so harrassing and terrifying the instructors that the majority of them will hesitate to express their hon est convictions and sincere beliefs. There is no doubt that a noteworthy faculty personnel is one of the greatest assets a university can enjoy. Ore gon is fortunate in being in that position at present. It is to be hoped that the legislature is sufficiently aware of this fact. Discretion must be observed at Salem jn future legislation regarding higher educa tion. Oregon Emerald. Some of our eminent law-makers are doing their utmost to revive the dark ages. The legisla ture has recommended that Chancellor Kerr's sal ary be reduced 50 percent. In the same recommen dation, it was reported that the national guard ap propriations were to sustain a tremendous reduction of from $198,937 way down to $186,383. It does seem a bitter shame that the national guard will lose $12,554. This deplorable fact ap pears even more tragic when one realizes that the higher educational system has suffered a cut of only $1,107,000. Oregon Emerald. There is something sinister and foreboding in the spirit exhibited in the appropriations measure just passed by the South Dakota legislature. In some of its details, it is a bitter, prejudiced attack on education, particularly at State college. This saving to the taxpayers of South Dakota will mean too little to deserve serious consideration. In its effect on the educational institutions of the state, it is deplorably crippling, and a distinct backward step. Brookings County Press. Reducing faculty salaries requires no thought, no effort, no re-organization. It can be done by anybody who understands the rudiments of arith metic. But it is in my opinion the stupidest and most short-sighted means of cutting the cost of edu cation. Robert M. Hutchins, president of Chicago university, in an article from the Rotarian. A Minneapolis tax-payer recently estimated that he would save 15 cents on his total tax bill of $171 if the budgets for the state teachers colleges. and University of Minnesota were slashed as sug gested by the legislature. It is becoming increas ingly evident that there are men in our legislative halls who are going to sacrifice the opportunities for higher education in order to save 15 cents 'on the average Minneapolis taxpayer's bill. Our elders are going to save 15 cents on their tax bills, but we'll spend dollars to replace their self-levied exemptions. Minnesota Daily. The University and the Legislature Ity Jamei I'.'. I.nwrvnre The University and The Graduate College. ' j'HE Dally Nebraskan, it seems, despite its "dis graceful attitude," is not the only college paper in the country, to say nothing of the 'legitimate" press which feels Justified in calling to the attention of legislators the fallacy in making education bear the brunt of government cost reductions. We are printing A few editorial opinions from these other papers. They Indicate, not alone that universities are defending themselves, but that there is a wide spread feeling on the part of legislators favoring pitching on education. This attitude is born of an unthinking spirit of panic and Is not worthy of the American people and their chosen legislators. It is an Ironic indictment of our legislators that during times of depression they should attempt to economize drastically in one of the institutions that should prove of value In preventing similar occur rences. The first thing that came to the minds of the California law makers as apparently the safest thing in which to cut expenses and still please their most important vote supporters was the state edu cational system. California Dally Trojan. The legislators who insisted upon limiting all deans and department heads to fixed salaries, in stead of allowing regents to adjust salaries accord ing to caae-study justification, bad nigK-mare ideas that the new regents might "go wild." The salary limit clause Is inconsistent witb other action of the legislators, inasmuch as no similar measures were added to appropriation bills outside the education field. University of Washington Daily. It la unnecessary, we believe, to make any plea to the legislature for funds with which to continue adequately the work of the university. It Is equally fraltleM to ask for any special favors in the matter ef finances during these times. We are assured that we shall have the just and equitable consideration of both the house and senate. Utah Chronicle. The effrontery of college students, to imagine that they have a light to read, think or write about questions that are bfce the public today! W tnuet cot encourage the k of getting information Contemporary Comment "AN the state, through its state -university, afford to support research? In these-days of econo mies the public is rightly asking what public ex penses can be eliminated. One that seems most ob vious to many is the expense of research fostered by our graduate college. It is readily said that the state owes no one education beyond the bacculau- reate degree. It may be true that a state does not owe any one even a bachelor's degree, and yet it may owe society things that it does not owe! to any individual. The original research done by graduates in our graduate schools is in the nature tf broadening the fields of knowledge. The graduate student works only a very small field seldom if ever enough to make a saleable discovery. His contribution Is often in the nature of explanatory experimentation which is only valu able in guiding the director or other scholars in dis covery of new truths. This work while it has no monetary value to the student is of immense value to society. Much of the progress of modern medi cine, applied agriculture, and more efficient indus try is based upon the efforts of these humble researchers. It should alsb be borne in mind that the pur pose of the "Land Grant Act," under which the Uni versity of Nebraska was organized, was for the pro motion and advancement of knowledge. This does not mean a mere teaching institution. Yet one might qtiestion whether any teacher can reach his maximum teaching efficiency until he has done a creditable piece of research. It Is through the con fidence that comes from complete knowledge of some subject that the teacher blossoms into full competence. It should be borne in mind that the graduate college is not on the same footing with other profes sional schools. Students in the nrofessional nrhnnla make no research contribution to social progress and they enter professions where the public fixes no limit on their compensation whereas the graduate student will go largely Into public callings in which mere are very definite legal limitations upon his re muneration. It is needless to speak of the effect of the rrad- uaU college upon the teaching staff of the Univer sity. Every prominent educator has recognized the graduate college aa a sort of cambium layer of the university where growth taks place. One might w!l auk: Can the state afford not to support and encourage gradiAte rmearch? J I.. riKIJ.KRR. Profi'div.r of HiMory. is r (Continued from rage 1.) other ways to exercise functions that are "properly the business of lh hnnrd of reeents. Such tasks are administrative and should be undertaken only after, a careful study of conditions and a full knnu'livin-e of nil the factors in volved. The regents and university Heads are constantly maKing trim study and possess that knowledge. The legislature could act only blindly. "One doubts for example, whether it would be wise to limit anv university salarv to that paid any state official. Positions for -vhich one may qualify only by vpnrs nf stnriv and nrenaratlon are not on a par with those gained by . . ... i j . . political hick. iNoining wouiu un dermine the usefulness and value nf ihi university more than to drive its best professors into other schools. NCDrasna university una ordered salary cuts in keeping with the times, and is prepared to order more. It must arrange its budget in conformity with whatever total sum Is appropriated for the com ing biennium, but it should be per mitted to make the specific sav ings for itself, and not under the hastv dictation of an uninformed legislature." w - Vn mnttrr how well meant the committee's findings and recom mendations are. they are a plain deliberate violation of both the spirit and the express wording of the statutes. tvio fpnr that hune-line would re sult from the effort of any group not intimately schooled in the ex-.,-! r,rnhi.nis of the university is justified by the report which has been made, .Tne cornmiu.ee icuum- mendations show mat were no economies put into effect, me budget for the biennium snouia ne $6,270,661. Instead of that, how cv tho rpnnrt insists that Gov ernor Bryan's figures of $6,129,661 . i ennr AfA should be reduced Dy ooo,uuu. This would give the university but 774 Kfii which is $526,000 less than is justified on the basis of the committee nnciinga. The explanation of this inconsis tency, or error, is found in the failure ot me commin.ee iu take into account, the decline in tho rnsh funds of the university. Their action was not wilful. The chairman of the house committee admitted that the factor of a de lino in rnsh funds was not taken in making the recommendations, hut instead tne committee pro ceeded on the theory that they wnnlH hi? the same in 1933-1935 as they were in 1931-1933. Any study of the question would convince the legislators that the cash funds of the university inevitably will be reduced considerably during the coming biennium. Nor is that the only thing in which experience is reflected. In the higher salary brackets, reduc tions are applied in such a way that recognition which the regents have given properly to merit, and years of service, will be over turned. As a specific example, the educator now drawing $3,200 an nually, under the program adopted by the committee will draw con siderably less than the professor who is receiving now $3,000. It was this situation, which Repre sentative C. F. Beushausen, of Loup City, wisely attempted to point out to the legislature last week, when it was considering sal ary reductions for county officials, but the majority refused to recog nize the point. Tn the same manner, the com mittee closed its eyes to the speci fic requirements which must be met in the federal aid funds ex tended to the University of Ne braska. Under the grant by the federal government, the purposes for wfilch these funds may be snent are defined snecificallv. The committee took no account of j whether salaries were paid entirely j ny tne state or partly Dy tne mine and partly by the federal govern ment. For the past several months, education in general, and the Uni versity of Nebraska particularly, has been under the drum fire of a small group of noisy agitators. It is not surprising that their clamor should find ready soil, because j educational costs, specifically with j reference to the public schools, are j heavy. The committee, after weeks of inquiry, reports the University of Nebraska has been managed excel- I lently and is worthy of the pride ! which its citizens possess for it. . The fact that has been over looked is that school boards and the management of the University of Nebraska, recognizing the Im perative needs for economy, have proceeded to slash wherever pos sible. In the case of the univer sity, a 10 percent salary reduction was ordered a year ago. Before this legislative session opened, the board of regents proposed a still further reduction in funds in ap preciation of the conditions con fronting the taxpayers. That re duction was one of the few volun tary cuts taken by spending agen cies of the state. The budget drafted by the governor necessi tated a salary cut of 20 percent, but ignoring it, and ignoring the leadership of the democratic party, the democratic majorities have proceeded in their own way. It is not common sense ana it deserves the stern rebuke of the people of Your Clothes Will Always Have That New Appearance When Cleaned tty the Old Reliable MODERN CLEANERS SOUKUP & WE STOVER Call F2377 for Service Xlh Vr m Lincoln" the state. Too much In sacrifice has gone into the university to per mt it tn h torn down thru un thinking action. Thousands of Ne braskans, who have spent large sums of money to complete their course or study at tne umveiaiiy, do not deserve having that invest ment destroyed by converting their alma mater into a political foot boll to sink to tho ranks of an ob scure and Becond rate educational Institution. Thousands more Ne braskans, contemplating tho edu cation of their children in years to come, are entitled to an institution which commands their respect. For if it is not provided in Nebraska, they will send their boys and girls elsewhere, even at greatly added cost. Does any one believe the state will not suffer if that takes place? That is the challenge which confronts the Btate university. DEBATE OPENS ON FINANCE MEASURE (Continued from Tape 1.) Off agricultural extension, $17,350. Off conservation and survey, $32,000. The addition of a $4,000 approp riation to repair hail loss at the North Flatte agricultural experi ment station completes the approp riations proposed by tho finance committee. ( Wells Satisfied. Chairman Frank Wells of the house finance committee which drew up the appropriation meas ure expressed himself as com pletely satisfied with the bill. "I feel that the appropriation meas ure is the best that could have been submitted under existing con ditions," he said. He refused to comment on any specific part of the bill. Speaker O'Malley of the house, on the other hand, declared that some appropriations are too high, while others are entirely too low to permit efficient performance of the functions required of them." He saw little hope, however, oi the house increasing the commit tee's proposal for the university, declaring that Wednesday morn ing's 81 to 1 vote or approval to the special committee report showed the house backing any economy move almost to a man. He added that this vote indicated that the entire appropriation bill woiild be put thru the house in rec ord time. "House sentiment strongly luvors the recommenda tions of the finance committee," he declared. PBK, SIGMA XI TO RECOGNIZE HONOR SENIORS JOINTLY (Continued from Page 1.) ures in the field of educational psychology in the United States, according to Prof. Clifford M. Hicks, secretary of the local chap ter of the Phi Beta Kappa. Serving formerly as professor of psychology and director of ho psychological laboratory at Yale, Dr. Judd has been more recently dean of the school of education at the University of Chicago. Among his contributions in rcsenrch are those in the study of tho nature of reading and in the study of the na ture of numbers. These contribu tions have been embodied, in part, in school text books, one of the most outstanding of which is his "Psychology of High School Sub jects," known In its more recent revised form as "The Psychology of Secondary Education." Judd Member Both Socltlei. Dr. Judd Is a member of both Thl Beta Kappa and Sigma XI. Altho no scale of grade averages has been announced for the new members of the two organizations, they will probably closely follow the standard set in other years. In the year 1928, forty-one mem bers were admitted to P. B. K. with the high average at 94.30, and the low at 87.73. Fifty members in 1929 set the grades at 94.87 high, and 88.00 low. In 1930 fifty-two members with averages ranging from high at 93.87, to low at 88.54. A high average of 93.87 and a low of 88.57 admitted forty-six mem bers in 1931. Last year the high average was 95.45 and tho low 88.10. Forty-flvo members quail fled. Dr. Winona M. Berry, professor of education at psychology and measurements, local president of Phi Beta Kappa, will preside nt the meeting. Chancellor K. A. Bur. nctt will Introduce tho main speaker. I HOWE HEADS PALLADIA Graham Howo Is the new prcsi-, dent of Talladian literary society for the spring term, it was an nounced Wednesday. .Officers' elected also Include Lucio Starr, vice president; Margaret Reedy, critic; Marjorie Filley, recording secretary; Leona Geiger, cone, spondlng secretary; Helen Still, program secretary, and Elwood W. Camp, historian. The officers will servo for the months of April, May nnd June. YOUR DRUG STORE rton't fornot, they sll any our flimdwlehcs nnd Fmmliiln Service are the benl. 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