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The Nebraskan
Station A, Lincoln, Nebraska.
OFFICIAL STUDENT PUBLICATION
AND BULLETIN OF THE ,
1933 SUMMER SCHOOL SESSION.
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA.
Bublished Friday mornings during
the summer session and circulated free
to summer school students and faculty
members from boxes in campus build
ings and book stores.
Directed by Student Publications
Board.
Telephones for News and Advertising:
Day B-6891
Night L-8563
B-3333 Thursday.
HOWARD G. ALLAWAY,
Editor and Business Manager.
The Present Speaks
But What of the Future?
"YN Sept. 7, 1871, the University
of Nebraska opened its doors.
On that occasion it was dedidated
by J. Sterling Morton, whose sta
tue stands in Washington beside
that of William Jennings Bryan as
one of the two great men of this
state, as a "token of perpetual,
systematized war against Igno
rance, bigotry, intolerance and vice
in every form among the people of
this state and the youth who in a
few years will become its legisla
tors, its judges and its governors."
For more than sixty years
nearly three-quarters of a century
the growth of the university, in
size, in national renown and in
service to the people of Nebraska,
has paralleled the growth of the
state in population and economic
resources. Its progress, if falter
ing at times, has been steady.
This morning's Nebraskan de
tails effects of the most drastic
reverse, financially, it has suffered
in all its history from 1S71 until
the present.
Seventy-two faculty members
are cut off the staff. Salaries of
those who remain are slashed 22
percent on top of a 10 percent re
duction taken last year. The school
of fine arts is reduced to the status
of a department. Tuition scholar
ships, which placed Nebraska on a
par with other schools of the state
in attracting the scholastic cream
of each year's high school gradu
ating class, are eliminated. Gradu
ate scholarships and assistants,
Vi'hich enabled the university to in
vestigate and offer solutions for
fre problems of Nebraska's peo
jle, are curtailed 25 percent Agri
cultural instruction and experi
mentation at four subordinate
schools and stations are likewise
reduced. Hospital and dispensary
service, heretofore provided by the
medical college for many who
could not meet the great expense
of private medical service, is se
verely reduced.
,
JHTS story, as it appeared in the
daily papers last Sunday, was
big news. Doubtless it brought
satisfaction to a small group who,
for personal and selfish motives or
from a misguided notion of the
welfare of the state, goaded the
legislature in recent session on to
swing the axe on public education
and on the university in particu
lar. To others it brought feelings of
a different sort feelings tinged
with regret that the institution of
which Nebraska can Justly feel
proudest should have suffered from
high pneed economy brought on
by temporary conditions.
For is it not high priced econ
tiny to take away from the state
something whose loss will make
its future poorer? Directly and in
directly, curtailment of the effi
ciency of its foremost service in
stitution will cost Nebraska mon
iev. Where is the saving when tui-
when hospital and dispensary serv
ices are curtailed? Where is the
saving to the state when its facili
ties for providing enlightened and
better equipped future citizens is
impaired?
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CHANCELTjOR Fred Hunter of
Denver univfsity answered
those responsible for the action
forced on the university when he
spoke here Wednesday morning.
Education, said Chancellor Hunter,
is attacked as extravagant because
its expenditure is open and above
board where everyone can see just
how much it is.
Democracy, he said, cannot pro
gress if these attacks on our
schools are successful. Greater
than the need, which cost this
country and it is still paying
billions of dollars, to make the
world safe for democracy, he
might have added, is the need to
make democracy safe for the
world. For if the people are to
rule, then it is only when the peo
ple are enlightened and equipped
for the task that the world can
expect intelligent ruling.
The real extravagances. Chan
cellor Hunter asserted, are those
extravagances which are also
vices, whose costs ate less easily
measured than education's. He
mentioned crime and war as two.
With these expensive vices as the
direct result of the inability of an
unenlightened people to rule them
selves wefl and with education as
the only means of enlightening
them to the place where they can
overcome these vices, where then
is the saving when economy im
pairs the efficiency of education?
AS affects the university in com
parison with private higher
education institutions, the econ
omies forced upon it will have an
other unfortunate result. Retrench
ment once accomplished, reversion
for former standards will be diffi
cult. It will be many years before
the resources of the university are
restored to the 1929 level. The
present figure will be taken as the
standard from which future ex
pansion to conform to future
growth of the state will be meas
ured.
Private schools, on the other
hand, have suffered greatest in
come reduction as the result of
shrunken returns from securities
in which endowment funds are in
vested. Industrial recovery, which
those who claim knowledge of such
matters say is now on its way,
will bring immediate relief to
these schools.
Industrial and agricultural re
covery will also bring increased
enrollment to the university. But
appropriations, having been once
reduced, will come back to former
standards with an inevitable lag.
COME may condemn the Nebras
kan for whining after "the
horse has been stolen." To that we
confess. It is nevertheless desir
able that the forces behind this sit
uation be known and that those
whom it will adversely affect un
derstand what the results will be.
It may be a long time before
circumstances lead to a similar
condition we hope it will be but
it is necessary, in the best inter
ests of the state, that the people
of Nebraska recognize the differ-
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high priced economy such as has
been practiced on the university.
BURR SPEJKSJO FARMERS
Nebraska Dean Tells Crop
Growers Agriculture
Outlook Bright.
Nebra&a farmers in their Tues
day afternoon session of the an
nual crops and field day at the Ne
braska college of agriculture, were
told by Dean Burr that the out
look for agriculture is "looking
up." The meeting was the last of
a series held for farm people at the
college this summer.
Dean Burr said advancing farm
commodity prices, altho inflation
has not yet taken place, indicate
that the outlook is getting better.
However, he declared, if other
prices advance faster than do the
prices for farm products, Nebraska
farmers will not be benefited to
such a degree as if the latter made
the greater advances.
P. H. Stewart, extension agrono
mist at the college, told the visi
tors of the advantages of growing
hybrid corn. He cited tests to show
that hybrid corn has outyielded
common varieties in Nebraska
during the past five years.
MICHIGAN PROFESSOR
CLOSES TALKS TODAY
(Continued from Page 1).
State and Local Government" At
n virrir will he address an all-
university convocation on "Democ
racy in Peril." Classes assigTicu
to each of these lectures are listed
elsewhere in today's Nebraskan.
oth.r Rturirnts and facultv mem
bers may also attend. Both are
in Social sciences auditorium.
TVmrsHnv on the subiect of con
structive government economy, Dr.
Reed spoke at 8 ociock ou uic
"Ttiip Rnsis of Government Econ
omy" and at 9 o'clock on "Simpli
fication of Areas ot locai ixoveru
ment." Dr. Reed, now professor of mu
nipir,l P-overnment at Michigan,
is director of the American Politi
cal Science associations weewy
"You and Your
Government." He was formerly
city manager of San Jose, Calif.,
onrt v.00 mndiirteri municipal eov-
ernment surveys in Michigan and
at Pittsburgh ana St. louis.
CRIME, WAR COST
MORE MONEY THAN
SCHOOLS HUNTER
(Continued from Page 1).
itc iflfulism is totent enourh to
bring into being new nations cre
ated in its likeness. But democracy
cannot go forward if these as
saults against its social institu
tions are successful.
"Extravagance in tue scnoois,
he said, "is attacked because
exactlv what the
schools cost. I want to call atten
tion to some real extravagances,
ones whose cost, while not so
readily apparent, is far greater
than that of the schools. Two of
these are war and crime."
st,Tr stfitiatirn and reDorts ol
the National Educational associa
tion, of which he was ai one unit
president, Dr. Hunter pointed out
that crime in America is far more
costly than education and that
the cost is going up every year.
About a century ago, he said, the
American and English homicide
rates were approximately equal.
Today ours is ten times that of
England.
"If democracy is worth having,
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told his school-teacher hearers and
issued ; a pleafor the schools to
take up the fight against the ex
travagance of crime.
The cost of past wars and pre
parations for possible future wars,
he said, makes up two-thirds of the
budget of the national govern
ment. Another war like the last
one, he predicted, would send mod
ern civilization surely downward
to the dark ages again.
"I am not a pacifist," he de
clared. "I do not believe in laying
down our arms until the rest of the
nations do. But civilization could
not survive another war. If the
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