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Politicians Have
A Field Day.
TJNIVERSITY students will parade to the polls to
day to save Nebraska student government for
posterity. Pseudo politicians claim victory for their
parties, political rumors run rife, fifty-four candi
dates have signed up to enter the all university
pary, and the usual amount of enlightening bally
hoo has been disbursed. In short, the stage has
been set for another "record vote."
Today's election brings to mind several sig
nificant tendencies on this campus. The first is
the astonishing frequency and regularity of student
elections. In addition to the spring and fall elec
tions, students parade to the polls to elect at least
a dozen queens, and several other superfluous tra
ditions which have been foisted on the student body
via the ballot box route. The second tendency is the
equal number of editorial exhortations on election
day, imploring students to "get out and vote."
The most astonishing feature of student elec
tion is the rarity with which they are accompanied
by anything that resembles an issue. With the ex
ception of approval of the student council's new con
stitution several years ago, there has never been
an election of any importance.
We have pointed out previously in this column
that the system of nominating candidates on the
Nebraska campus is at best hap-hazard. On rare
occasions a worthy candidate is brought forward.
Some are successful. Most generally he is defeated
for lack of correct fraternity or faction affiliation.
Those who "get in" do not represent the faction
which nominated them. They do not represent the
voters. They represent nothing. But that's to be
expected. They're not supposed to.
Each year the campus wiseacres and political
soothsayers prophesy a "new deal" little short of
revolutionizing if their slate wins the contest Each
year, it must be noted, the campus settles down to
rts usual lethargic pace after the heat of battle has
cooled. This makes the score nothing to nothing,
with leniency In the lead.
Today the Nebraskan is urging a big student
vote. We do not make a frantic appeal for fairness
and widespread participation. We have been suffi
ciently disillusioned to know that the election re
sults, whatever they may Te, will mean nothing save
perhaps so much misdirected energy.
But we recognize that this may be a bit dis
heartening to the sophomores and juniors, whose
ambition far exceed their ability. But to correct a
possible false interpretation, the Nebraskan does
not wish to appear discouraging this endeavor. So
Instead of shouting almost screaming "Vote, Vote,
Vf'te!", we will recommend in a barely audible whis
per that students make the occasion a carnival.
This U some improvement, it will be noted, over an
ordinary field day.
So have a good time, you student voters, for
this is your day. Don't ask anyone who they are
voting for or what the candidates will do after they
re elected. That's not part of the game.
The Tax Plan Reaches
lis Destination.
'J'O give students more for their money and to put
activities on a sound financial basis, several ac
tivities learlr-ra a few years ago Inaugurated a cam-,
palgn that is only now being culminated. It is the
drive for a student activities "blanket tax," or gen
eral "activities fee." that has caused all the effort
during the past two years, and the culmination of
the effort will have been reached when the board
of regents pass on the student council petition at
their next meeting.
Originally intended to bring the fruits of
campus extracurricular activities to all students at
a nominal cost, the tax and Its general aims have
survived through ths long months of vicissitude.
Items have been added and subtracted from the ac
tivities to be included. Leaders have disagreed on
matters of policy in connection with presenting the
tax plan for a student vote. Students themselves
have made changes through their use of the ballot
In two general student elections.
Throughout the shifts and changes, the aim of
lowcost activities within the reach of all has stood
securely, stamped with the approval of the student
body.
In the beginning of the tax campaign, exhaus
tive studies were made to determine the nature of
the activities fee plan as it was used In other
schools, and to determine the various merits and
disadvantages of such a scheme. The investigation
brought out two significant facts: first, that the
tax plan was In use In many of the nation's repre
sentative colleges and universities; and second, that
tie plan was universally favored where used.
Student council promoters of a similar arrange
ment for Nebraska then set about the task oy form
ulating a, system adequate to the needs of this
campus. From their work, and from the opinions
gathered at a general student election last spring,
a tax system was drawn up, and the beginning of
the present school year found everything in readi
ness for presentation to the regents.
Uncertainty as to the accuracy of prices quoted
previously by the various activities leaders, caused
the Student council to seek an additional poll of
student opinion, which was taken during payment
of second semester fees, and again a majority of
the student voters favored an activity tax.
At present only two Items remain on the tax
schedule: the athletic ticket, and the Daily Nebras
kan subscription. Requests for a five-dollar yearly
fee to cover these two items will be taken before
the regents.
Throughout the long work of Investigating,
tabulating and promoting, the Nebraskan has urged
the advantage of an activities fee. While many
items on the ballot failed to carry at the last elec
tion, the Nebraskan joins council leaders in believ
ing that a tax with even two features is better than
none at all. And if the duo-tax passes the regents,
a start will have been made, and perhaps future
years will see such items as a union building fee,
and a convocations tax added to the things deserv
ing of all-student support.
Meanwhile, a barrier of regent approval is to
be passed. Whether the leap will be successfully
made is a matter for speculation, but whatever hap
pens, students may rest assured that their individ
ual and collective betterment has been the aim
throughout the tax campaign.
The prime effort of the student council during
the past two years will be put to the acid test this
week. The tax committee should exercise, of nec
essity, more than an ordinary degree of care in pre
senting their case to the board of regents. The Ne
braskan believes that if this is done, the university
regents will recognize the merits of the tax plan, of
which there are many.
The Student Pulse
Brief, concise, contributions pertinent to matters
pf student life and the university are welcomed by
this department, under the usual restrictions of sound
newspaper practice, which excludes all libelous mat
ter and personal attacks. Letters accepted do not
necessarily indicate the editorial policy of this paper.
Corn Cobs Ashed
To Elect Men.
TO THE EDITOR:
Tuesday evening comes the election of Corn
Cob officers as the final act in the big election pro
gram of the day. At that time the Green Togas
and Progressives will match their strength and
wits in an attempt to land their respective slates in
the offices. But few of the members of Corn Cobs,
or of the factions back of the organization, sop to
realize that in Tuesday's election of officers the
fate of the organization may be decided.
It is apparent that the Corn Cobs must come out
of their lethargic condition and become one of the
school's active groups. If the pep club doesn't do
that next year, likely as not the organization will
see its last days. It is time that Corn Cobs follow
the example set by the Tassels this year, and be
come an active group with some excuse for existing.
Any kind of change in Corn Cob conditions and ac
tivities is dependent on the officers of the club.
Therefore, competent officers must be elected this
year men capable of organizing and leading their
fellows in any kind of enterprise.
Laat week in a letter to the editor H. K. stated
that the officers of Corn Cobs were the men who
worked hardest in that club during their pledgeship.
Figures indicate the coptrary. These figures I am
referring to arc those listing the number of pro
grams sold by the men at the football games. In
variably the men who sold the most programs rarely
saw an office in the club. These are the men with
ambition in the club, not the one using the club as
a stepping stone.
Men named to Corn Cob offices are not those
who are "conscientious and hardworking in their
attempts to make the work of the men's pep or
ganization worth while," as H. K. says. At least
hard work is not the basis on which the men are
selected. In a few rare instances the hard-working
men may get an office But that is just a coinci
dence. It occurs when the newly-elected officer be
longs to the right house, and is marked as a future
Innocent.
Possibly it would be better if the Innocents
would stay home tonight when the election is held.
They came last fall, and a few of them actually cast
the ballots.
It would be a progressive step If the Corn Cobs
would name men as their officers and not figure
heads doing the bidding ,f their prrd'-ci .s.sors in the
senior honorary.
ANOTHER MEMBER.
Contemporary Comment
Hull Sessions its
A Part of Education.
EDUCATION while you hk-ep is being experi
mented with at New York City college. Educa
tion while you repose in an easy chHir and smoke
is being tried here in the Foreign Affairs Bull Ses
sion A. Of the two experiments ther seems to be
more hope In the seeond, although educators of the
rtiff-nnrkod dlseinl'n school probably would not
victions would stir debate among students.
Directed and purposeful, the bull session can re
place the one-sided classroom education which falls
from lack of controversy to shake students from
their Intellectual Indifference. Dally Northwestern.
Student 8 in
Politics.
The time is ripe for students to interest them
selves in the vital and terrifying problem of political
bosslsm which exists in our city and local govern
ments. Such systems as those of Tweed, Tammany,
Vare, and Pendergast breed corruption of the worst
type. Brutal assaults, machine gun massacres, brib
ery, and bloody, premeditated crimes are the out
growth of a condition which has developed under
the manipulation of the political boss.
In Kansas City an outraged populace has or
ganized to support a fusion program under the ban
ner of a Citizen's ticket so that it can more effec
tively fight the machine. It lost the first prelimi
nary skirmish, but the fight is not over and there is
a strong chance that the machine will be ousted.
The recent winner of the Freshman-Sophomore
Oratorical contest made a strong appeal to Univer
sity students, saying that the remedy for the fu
ture was in their hands. The crime of indifference
hangs too heavily upon the head3 of the so-called
better class of society. University students have
many opportunities to acquaint themselves with vi
tal political problems and they should develop their
own critical minds and school themselves in the art
of clean politics.
Hill politicians should not seek to pattern their
organizations after those of the big political ma
chines. Underhanded tactics, crooked voting, and
ballot-box stuffing are not the sort of practices stu
dents should indulge if they are preparing them
selves for a place in the new movement against or
ganized crime and political racketeering. Dally
Kansan.
HEADLINES
j By DICK MOHAN.
BENEATH THE
FTER spending approximately a billion dollars
and providing employment for thousands of men
and women, the CWA came to an end last Friday
to make way for the new relief agency. Most of the
onf million eight hundred thousand persons still on
the payroll were transferred to the work of the new
program, which started yesterday. About two hun
dred and fifty thousand will remain for finishing
up CWA details and completion of federal and re
search projects by the first of May, but the biggest
part of tbo work is done, The end of the CWA
forces one to admire its administrator, Harry L.
Hopkins, who undertook and successfully carried
out the job of spending a billion dollars and hir
ing and firing about four million men.
Of the billion dollars that the CWA foent,
three-fourths of it or seven hundred and fifty mil
lion dollars went for labor. The remaining two hun
dred and fifty million went for materials and sup
plies. Some of this money was supplied by states,
counties, and municipalities, however. According to
figures given out last week, the average employ
ment by civil .works from the first of December to
date was about three million. The highest number
working at one time was slightly over four million,
with a payroll just about $60,000,000 a week. The
CWA worked on thousands of projects, such as
street and highway repairs and improvements,
schools, drainage plans, and many other types of
improvement. In the state of Mississippi alone, the
CWA spent more on schools than had been spent
there in the last twenty years. Not a county in
the country did not benefit to some extent by CWA
projects and money. In the words of Administrator
Hopkins, "it seems to me that this represents a real
cooperative effort between business men and pub
lic officials.
QOLUMNIST Walter Lippman, in his column "To
day and Tomorrow," recently presented possibly
the clearest and most easily understood analysis of
the whole situation at Washington that could be
written.. He starts the column by admitting ' that
the president has been given enormous powers, but
he cautions those who cry out that Congress has
given up all of its powers and everything is in the
hands of the president, telling them that the prob
lem is not as simple as that. In his analysis Lipp
man divides the president's powers into three gen
eral classes, based on recent legislation.
The first class includes such measures as the
economy bill, appropriations for public works and
relief, loans thru the RFC and other similar agen
cies, and the Thomas amendment and the gold bill,
dealing with monetary policy; and to a certain ex
tentwithin the broad limitations set by congress
the president has been given the initiative in fiscal
matters. However, Insofar as these bills involve
expenditures, they are practically applications of
the principle of the executive budget, a principle
well established in our government. Lippman ad
mits that there is some question about the mone
tary measures, recommending that the best solution
woulu be control by a permanent independent
agency.
The second class of delegation of authority,
Lippman says, is represented by the AAA and NRA.
In legislation, the purposes of the agencies are so
broadly stated, especially in the case of the latter,
that the president really has the whole discretion.
He has been given the power to make federal laws
regulating all interstate commerce, which is almost,
the same as saying all commerce. But the power
has not been delegated to the president alone; he
turns that power over to code authorities or trade
associations n the various industries, and they
make their own laws which are enforceable in fed
eral courts just as if they had been passed by congress.
The third class of powers is represented by
such bills na the Securities act, tho banking bill,
and the stock exchange bill in its earlier form. This
legislation really does not give the president much
power, but because it was passed by the same con
gress that gave him these other powers it was gen
erally supposed to be of the same type. The basic
idea behind these laws is that they are more or less
inflexible laws thru which congress attempts to stop
financial abuses. Lippman says that there is justi
fication for the delegation of vast powers in an
emergency but does not justify hurried legislation
for a complicated matter, which is permanent and
inflexible.
countenance both.
Smoke softens and dissolves away classroom ten
sion and the cleavage between the professor in front
on the raised platform and the students below. In
the circle of comfortable chairs he loses that "off
ness" of the rostrum.
Personal philosophy, individual differences with
departmental programs, political leanings all ta
boo in class are revealed in the bull session. Con
troversy always avoided on the lecture platform
sparks up, just as it does over coffee at the Uni
versity club. Restraint falls; differences are voiced.
Such informal debate, in which conflicting convic
tions clash, stimulates more mind-twisting than
does a unilateral lecture. Cerebrums cannot sleep
well while controversy rages.
Though relaxation and the easy interchange of
opinion make the bull session the mlnd-provoker
that it is, they are also its limitations. Some dis
cipline of program or aim is necessary to supple
ment it Because the bull session has been regarded
as divorced from formal education, few who engage
in it are inclined to follow the questions to books
and to study after the session is over. The bull ses
sion is often regarded as candied education taken in
ease without effort.
If classes could be warmed into bull sessions to
which students came to wrangle with problems
raised in reading and lectures, the bull session
would become a significant educational method. Un
restrained controversy of opinions and ideas would
become the end of supervised study of bockt, and
lectures. Professors vigorously arguing their con-
COUNCIL CONTROL
IN BALANCE TODAY
(Continued from Page 1.)
eil offices, seven for publications
board posts, und two for Ivy Day
orator. Kourtern Green Toga, and
seventeen Progressive men candi
dates, and twenty-three Independ
ent women candidates are running.
Arts and Sciences Have Ten.
The largest number of filing
from any one college is from Arts
and .Science where ten candidates,
four men and six women, seek elec
tion. Three women and two men
will be elected. Teachers college
with seven filings, one man and
.six women, follows closely.
Four men seek the two offices
open In Eneincering college, two
the one post in Graduate college,
onp each the lone posts in Pharm
ney and Dental colleges, and two
the one Lnw college office.
Two men and two women have
filed for the single post open to
each from Business Administration
while two men and three women
seek the one post available each
there.
Four men and two women are
candidates fur the senior at-laree
posts to which two of each will
I,.' elec ted. Two candidates havfl
filed for the two junior women at
Lime posts.
Two candidates each have filed
for Junior and benior positions on
the publications board while three
neck the sophomore, membership.
For the first time in several years,
a woman speks a position on the
board, Sirah Louise Meyer having
filed as sophomore member.
most typical farmer will be just
preceding distribution of the pos
ters. The dancing at the rally Tuesday
night must be finished by 8 p. m.,
the board announced, and ex
pressed the hope that students will
be there at 6:45 p. m. sharp. Ar
thur Peterson, manager of the
hoard, pointed out that attendance
at the rally is important because
distribution of posters to students'
home towns is one of the impor
tant jobs to be done.
PLAN ELECT TYPICAL
FARMER AT AO RALLY
(Continued from Page 1.)
where students will BHsemble at
6:45 for games and dancing, a
short pep rally, anil tr n more
dancing.
These changes in plans for the
final i ally In foui wpiliiK vacation
were announced by members of the
Farmers' Fair board. The original
plan had been to convene at the
agricultural ?all auditorium.
Overalls and aprons are the
order of the evenlne, the board
announced. Informality, they said
is the way to have fun, and the
purpose of the Tuesday night rally
is to give the Ag students a good
party before they go home for va
cation.
Senior Men Eligible.
"The most typical farmer" will
be voted upon as a feature of the
rally, according to Gerald Mott,
member of the board. 1I senior
men in Ag college are eligible, he
said. Students will vote at the door
as they enter the meeting. The
senior elected to the position of
most typical farmer will be pre
sented immediately after counting
of the ballots.
Issuing of Farmers' Fair posters,
the board said, is th big rnminess
of the evening. Howard White,
member of the Junior board, will
have charge of issuing the posters
and will explain to students where
and how they may be used most ef
fectively. The program of entertainment,
Mott said, will consist of a few or
ganized games while the students
are arriving, and then the dance
will start There will be a short
break for White's discussion of dis
tribution of posters, and then more
dancing. Announcement of the
FACTION CHANGES
ARE RUMORED AS
ELECTION OPENS
(Continued from Page 1.)
Senior and junior women-at-large
candidates are faced with the al
most certain prospect of election
without a battle as they are un
opopsed on the ballot.
Despite a number of unopposed
filings at the present time, predic
tions are that write-in votes may
bp resorted to to overcome a pos
sible overconfident candidate. In
dications point to the fact that the
added importance of the student
council resulting from removal of
Interfraternity offices from poli
tics, will call out the largest vote
in campus history before the day
Is over.
been a feeling, no doutt without
Justification, that women have
been discriminated ag'tinst in the
making of appointments. Election
of a feminine member to the board
should result in the proper ac
knowledgement of tin valuable
contribution of women to the stu
dent publications."
CKAMLICH ItECAlXKI)
TO WASHINGTON, I). C.
Prof. H. J. Gramlich, head of the
department of animal husbandry,
was recalled to the national capi
tol Sunday to continue working
for the passage of the Shallenberg
bill for an excise tax on foreign
oils. Gramlich just returned from
the east where he appeared before
the senate finance committee on
behalf of the bill.
The University of Minnesota'.
board of regents has approved a
$96,000 budget for that institu
tlon's 1934 summer session.
32 GIRLS NAMED
AS MODELS FOR
FASHION PARADE
(Continued from Page 1.)
and Alpha Omlcron Pi, the latter
offering "A What-not Shop." Phi
Mu, Pi Beta Thi, and Delta
Gamma will feature dancing acts,
and musical numbers will be pre
sented by the Alpha Phi trio and
Sigma Alpha Iota. Carrie Belle
Raymond Hall will offer an instru
mental act. Delta Zeta, some im
personations, and Kappa Delta,- a
novel curtain act.
Candidates for the beat tlresseci
girl, selected by A. W. S. board on
March 28, are: Arlcne Bors, De
lores White, Elfrieda Stauss, Elea
nor Worthman, Elizabeth Whit
ney, Georgia Nelson, Josephine
Reimers, Prlscilla Eiche, Evelyn
Foster, Lois Breh, Kathleen Long,
lice Krapp, and Maxlne Rut
ledge. DR. STOKE SEES
MISSOURI VALLEY
AS '49TH STATE'
(Continued from Page 1.)
power, md that leads one to be
lieve tnat manufacturing centers
will follow. "Can the presence of
electrical power alone outweigh
the absence of other things neces
sary to industrial life?" asks Doc
tor Stoke.
The three factors that he de
clares are sure to be involved,
then, have to do with a view into
the future of the nation's natural
resource development, the newness
of the idea of a "public corpora
lion," and the production and dis
tribution of electric power.
PLACE FOR GIRL
ON PUBLICATIONS
BOARD IS SOUGHT
(Continued from Page 1.)
granted their due recognition
through a representative on the
publications board.
"Because of this fact there has
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CORN COB ELECTION.
There will be a Corn Cob meet
ing tonight at 7:30 o'clock at the
Zeta Beta Tau house for the pur
pose of electing officers.
Mu Phi Epailon.
Mu Phi Epsilon will hold its
regular business meeting Tuesday
night at 7:15 in the conservatory.
Special Vespers.
A special Estes vesper service
has been planned for this after
noon at 5 o'clock in Ellen Smith
hall. Miss Fedde will discuss the
Estes conference topic for this
year.
Tassel Meeting.
Tassels will hold their regular
meeting this evening at 7 o'clock
in Ellen Smith hall.
THI
International Relation Club
Meets in Iowa During
Spring Vacation.
Thirteen University students will
attend the International Relations
clubs conference at Grinnel. Iowa
during spring vacation to discuss
peace programs with other college
students and to hoar the opinion of
several eminent speakers. Dele
gates will be sent by other Nebras
ka schools, some attending from
the Nebraska State Normal school,
Doane college, Hastings college,
Nebraska Wcsleyan, and Nebraska
State teachers college.
At the meeting to be held April
6, 7, and 8 the students will hear
the views of such men as Aldcn G.
Alley, Dr. Otto Nathan, Sherwood
Eddy, Clark M. Eichelberger, and
Edward A. Steiner. The time will
be divided between round table
discussions and formal lectures,
some time being devoted to social
and religious affairs. This will bo
the fourth annual Mississippi val
ley conference, a project of the
Carnegie endowment for interna
tional peace.
PAU.ADIAXS IX IT I ATE
XIXE XEW MEMBERS
Literary Society Holds
Services Friday
Evening.
Nine pledges were Initiated into
active membership in the Palladian
Literary Society Friday evening,
March 3d. The new members are
Princess Lundy, Lincoln; Max Ilal
derson, Newman Grove; Anne Bull
ion, Yutan; Evelyn Asborn, Paw
nee City; Edward Suchy, Niobrara;
Althea Swift, Lincoln; .lohn
Stover, Malcolm; Charles Nielsen,
Askor, Minnesota, and George Wlc
busch, Broken Bow.
Recent pledges of the organiza
tion are James Rilsncss, t'relgh
ton; Theodore Mattley, Lincoln,
and Lewis Bottorff, Gretna.
Exactly 200 University of Mich
igan students are doing research
work under federal emergency re
lief administration grants.
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