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CONSTITUTIONALITY of the
new deal's social security act
old age pensions and unemploy
ment Insurance was surprisingly
upheld Monday by the supreme
court to climax its term without
a single reversal of new deal legis
lation. The Justices ruled 5 to 4
in favor of the federal unemploy
ment insurance provisions and 7
to 2 for the old age pensions, two
of the most sweeping projects
undertaken by the present admin
istration. If anything can take the
fire out of President Roosevelt's
court reorganization plan, it most
certainly Is court ruling such as
the high tribunal has handed down
since the reform proposal has been
hitting the headlines. No comment
had been made as yet by the chief
executive In regard to the bench's
ruling and observers are wonder
ing if the president won't agree
to a compromise on the proposal.
It seems to be the only way out,
especially when the court is in ac
cordance with the administration's
legislation.
MESSAGE to congress Monday
from President Roosevelt sought
"to extend the frontiers of social
TirnPTess" bv the restriction of
child labor and the enactment of
flexible standards for minimum
wages and maximum hours. His
message also asked that "only
the goods which have been pro
duced under conditions which meet
the minimum standards of free
labor shall be admitted to inter
state commerce" and non conform
ing goods shall be called "contra
band." Congressional whips began
planning to lay legislation before
both houses to carry out the presi
dent's labor program.
DEATH came to John D. Rocke
feller, sr., Sunday, at the ripe old
age of 97. At his winter home,
"The Casements," at Ormond
Beach, Fla., the multimillionaire
philanthropist quietly passed away
to end one of the fullest lives in
modern times, a life that origi
nated on a farm and has seen wars
and panics, booms and depressions
without any great alarm. The
Rockefeller clan will assemble at
the great castle overlooking the
Hudson river at Tarrytown, N. Y.,
to pay tribute to the patriarch
and founder of a billion dollar for
tune, three quarters of which he
gave away in endowments and
gifts. The body will be sent to
Cleveland for burial.
BIRTH of a son to Col and Mrs.
Charles A. Lindbergh in England
inon the date of King George's
coronation was announced Monday
in an exclusive United Press story
from Cleveland. A letter to that
effect was received by an aunt of
Mrs. Lindberg, the former Anne
Morrow. First son, Charles A.
Lindberg, jr., who was kidnapped
and slain, was born June 22, 1930.
Second son, John Lindbergh, was
born August 16, 1932.
Cornhusker Townsend Tells
Audience of Pension Utopia
(Continued from Page 1.)
security law it's constitutional to
have a good one."
"The benefits are insufficient
and inadequate, and it leaves a
great many of us out. What a
farce they have passed. I'm amazed
that a congress of lawmakers
should engage in anything so fu
tile and foolish. This social secur-
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WEDNESDAY.
"Campus Police Solve New Series of Thefts."
A feature In today's Ncbraskan gives the bat
ting average of Sergeant Regler and his four as
sistants, a record for which students can be grate
ful. "Too many students get the wrong idea of all
cops, Including us," one of the officers recently told
the Ncbraskan. "We're here to protect their inter
ests, and they seem to think we're working against
them." Their record offers ample verification.
THURSDAY.
"Censorship at Omaha."
Students who saw the Lunts in "Idiot's De
light" gleefully followed the battle between the Lin
coln Journal and Omaha World-Herald on the gen
eral question, "Who has the holier city?"
The fun stopped short when The Journal took
the World-Herald's jests as serious charges,
"amazed that Omaha should revolt over an evil
that had been passed over silently here."
We want to support The Journal's campaign.
Lincoln is too as wide open as Omaha. We can
bet on ponies here, drink beer every day but Sun
day, and then It's only a five minute drive, and
everybody got to see "Ecstasy," including the kids.
So there.
FRIDAY.
"Spring Brightens Old Campus."
"This cut of the administration building shows
the lush greenery of the 'old campus'," the Ne
braskan's caption read. But the cut showed only
bare branches, a threatening sky, and snow on the
ground. If the cut had been of the "new campus,"
it would have had all the earmarks of an editorial
campaign instead of a ludicrous mistake. Winter
or slimmer, the only "lush greenery" that bright
ens the new campus Is the badly trampled, weed
infested mall.
SATURDAY.
Earl Bell Declares Revolution Looming.
With scores ot other university professors, Dr.
Bell, university anthropologist whose recent dis
coveries won him national recognition, addressed a
high school graduating class.
Reported by the Associated Press: "From a
dust blown southwestern Nebraska platform, Earl
H. Bell, University of Nebraska anthropologist,
warned a high school graduating class Thursday
night revolution threatens the United States unless
wealth is decentralized."
We only wish he had been more specific. Other
wise some people might interpret his speech as a
prelude to Dr. Townsend 's "Every Man a King"
overture of last evening.
SUNDAY.
"Cornhuskers Retain Big Six Title."
Ncbraskan sportswriter Joe Zelley wrote our
editorial on this event in his lead: "Two of the
greatest athletes ever to flaunt Scarlet and Cream
colors. Lloyd Cardwell and Sam Francis, ended
their athletic collegiate careers yesterday at Memo
rial stadium. . . " With the aid of one of the great
est Cornhuskers, Henry F. Schulte, they have writ
ten a brilliant final chapter for their four volume
work on sports history.
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Edward Murray
News Edltori Wlllard Burney,
Helen Pascoe, Jane Walcott, How.
ard Kaplan, Morris Llpp, Barbara
Roiewater.
Sports Editor Edmund Steevei
Society Editor Virginia Anderson
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'More Than Kread'
For Summer Months.
Bernlce Kauffman.
It Is singularly fitting, I think,
that the last review before vaca
tion should be one of Joseph Aus
lander's slim little, green linen
bound volume of poetry, "More
Than Bread," for the title page
tells us:
"The mind knows too much,
Breeding a barren art;
Wisdom, abhorring such
Inhabits the heart."
The title poem, "More Than
Bread," Is a poem of the fulfill
ment of love which will, like the
promise of the summer season,
nourish us with "dung lilies and
cabbages," with "acacia trees."
with "bold apples and blunt yel
low pears."
The volume contains impas
sioned poems, thoughtful poems,
tender poems and whimsical poems.
Man and the seasons, man and his
loves, man and his illusions and
dreams, and man and his feeling
for beauty and poetry are the
themes of Joseph Auslander. His
treatment of Keats, of Elinor Wy
lie, of John Bunyan, and of A. E.
Housman gives us an understand
ing of his feeling for literature.
His "To the New Poets," "To the
Poets Who Fly Left," "The Poet
Pursues His Dream," and "I Am
Poetry" are in part, an explana
tion of his theory of poetry.
His verse patterns are varied
and irregular. He belongs to no
school of poetry, and thus, his
form and subject matter are en
tirely of the mood of the time of
composition. He has a definite
feeling for words, a part of which
is expressed in the poem, "Splen
dour of Words."
"What virtue lingers In the
sullen splendour of words!
Fragrant with gold and eager to
possess a poet's passionate blood,
his burning mouth."
The loveliest of the poems, in
this volume, is Adolescence, a ten
der little poem in which Auslander
likens spring, the young year, to
the adolescent girl, half woman,
half child. Fearful yet eagerly she
reaches out for life:
"No use to go back now. This
will never leave you alone, this
burden of flame.
You have walked out too far.
There are lights on the river.
Your breath comes quick. You
are not the same."
Student
Opinions
KOLLMORGEN RECEIVES
RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP
Nebraska Geography Grad
To Complete Investigation
Of Dairy Industry.
Walter Kollmorgen, A. M. '33,
and former graduate assistant In
the geography department has re-
ceived a post-doctorate fellowship
from the social science research
council under which he is to make
a special study of agricultural
geography problems in the eastern
states next year.
Kollmorgen, who has completed
examinations for his doctorate at
Columbia university, will be on
the Nebraska campus next month
to conclude special investigation
of the dairy industry in Nebraska
which he carried out in 19d4 and
'35 under auspices of the conser
vation and survey division.
COL. FRANKFORTER HONORED
Chem Engineering Society
Presents Gift Pipe.
Col. C. J. Frankforter, professor
of chemistry, was presented with
a pipe by members of the local
chapter of the Chemical Engineer
ing Society in appreciation for his
aid and support during the past
year. Col. Frankforter is faculty
adviser to the group. Harold Haf
ner, president during the past
semester, presented the gift at a
special meeting yesterday afternoon.
The day of the 15 foot pole vault
is not far off, thinks Coach Brutus
Hamilton of the University of Cali
fornia. There are at least four
athletes capable of skidding over
the bamboo at that height: Bill
Sefton, George Varoff, Sueo Oye
of Japan and Earle Meadows.
BY MERRILL ENGLUND.
(The Inquiring Reporter.)
Oh where are the champions of education?
"College," in substance say our educators, "is abso
lutely necessary for iuccess today."
Yet, yesterday we ran into a touchy subject
when we asked the students if they had been helped
materially by their past year's sojourn here.
The results of these queries, while startling to
say the least, were anything but gratifying to the
Institutions of higher learning. Out of approxi
mately twenty people interviewed, three felt that
they had been aided sufficiently by their past year
in college to say that they felt that they were bet
ter prepared for life than their schoolmates who
had not gone to college, three more said that they
"guessed college was o. k." but failed to give any
reasons beyond "Intellectual and social betterment,"
and the remainder swung to the opposite side of
the question.
Of course, the fourteen were not willing that
their names be used with any statements to the
effect that this university was more or less a
waste of their time and their parents' money.
Their reasons and their statements varied. As one
particularly loquacious little brunette put it: "My
folks expect It of me, and It seems to be the
thing to do. All thru high school, they told us
that we had to go to college to be anyone, and I
suppose they're right. My parents Insisted, so
I'll be here until I graduate. No," she went on,
"you won't get my name. I would only get my
self Into trouble with the university and at home.
As long as I'm going to be here, I might as well
make the best of it."
She seemed to sum up the feelings of the four
teen who felt somehow that they had been black
jacked into something. A few of the boys, how
ever, felt that their high school classmates who had
not gone to college were getting a start in actual
business training while they were acquiring a gen
eralized smattering of everything in general.
Taking a firm stand In favor of college, was
Howard Curtiss, Bizad sophomore. "Altho I do
get fed up with studying," he said, "I see no rea
son for condemning higher education merely be
cause it takes work. Of course I could have stayed
home this past year, worked in my dad's store, and
probably have saved both he and myself some
money. I didn't tho, and I'm sure that this last
year has added a lot to my general knowledge.
"It seems to me that it's not the actual
training from which a college student benefits,
it's the practical experience that comes from look
ing out for himself down here. If a fellow can't
come down here and make a go of it, he certain
ly will have a tough time making his own way in
life. The ability to make use of what you know,
instead of just having a head crammed full ot
facts, is the thing to be gained from collece."
Perhaps we hit an off afternoon; perhaps the
scholars, the ardent advocates of education, were in
class; at any rate we found a ratio of 6 to 14 who
felt that their past year had aided them materially.
DRUG COMPANY HONORS
PHARMACY GRADUATES
Lincoln Firm Entertains
At Dinner for Class
Of 1937.
The graduating seniors of the
college of pharmacy were honored
nt a banquet given by the Lincoln
Drug company last night, and will
be the guests at a luncheon and
inspection trip given by the Smith
Dorsey company of Lincoln.
Both of these establishments
have made it an annual custom to
honor the outgoing seniors in this
manner. At the banquet at the
Cornhusker last night there were
six seniors who will be graduated
in June and five who will be
graduated next February, the fac
ulty members and their wives. The
same group will attend the lunch
eon this noon, and then take a
trip thru the Smith- Dorsey plant
here in the city.
MAY EDITION OF
N. U. BLUE PRINT
APPEARS TODAY
(Continued from Page 1.)
The fourth car consists oif a 23
foot baggage space and sleeping
quarters for the dining car( crew
of 12 men. In the same car1 and
to tho rear of the crew's quarters
is locnted a luxurious cockuui
lounge and bar. The fifth Vind
sixth cars are roaches, while sthe
seventh car is devoted to dinfVig
facilities. Pullman sleeping cars
comprise the eighth, ninth, anij
tenth cars, tne eievenin car is an
all room sleeper, and the twelfth
car is given over to a parlor and
observation lounge.
Ferguson Outlines Curriculum.
Denn Ferguson. In his page
"And That Is What Engineering
Is," stntes that a satisfactory en
gineering curriculum should con
tain the following elements with
varying emphasis upon its parts:
Basic training in mathematics,
chemistry, physics and English,
engineering drawing, and the the
ory of mechanics, familiarity with
the materials used in engineering,
advanced courses in applied sci
ence in some particular field, ad
vanced studies in the scientific
theories upon which the upbuild
ing of one's professional work will
need to rest, and attention to the
understanding of human relation
ships. Herbert Reichert, general man
ager of the Blue Print during the
past year and n senior, and Low
ell Newmyer, editor of the nvbli
cation and also a senior, are rec
ognitor! in Nebraska's Engineers
this month. The 1937-38 Blue
Print, will be headed by H. A.
Langston. general manager; Ger
ald Gillan, editor, and Glen R.
Jameson, business manager. Eman
uel Olson is the retiring business
manager.
ity act can do nothing to raise the
standard of living.
Dr. L. C. Wimberly sulked near
a pillar, surveyed the crowd, left
early. As Dr. Townsend let fall
vituperations on the property tax
Prof. H. Adelbert White quietly
lett his seat for the stairs. Politi
cal scientists and economists
seemed to be absent.
But Dr. Townsend failed to set
the keynote of the evening. That
was left for Madame Mamie
Stark, buxom and red haired,
mother of nine children, whose
spirited songs carried the audience
into frenzied cheers for their
"great captain, great leader this
man who burns 'em up." Madame
Mamie sang 14 songs, and he
deep, booming voice drew knots of
listeners around both tweifth
street entrances.
The dear old lady who tapped
her feet to Madame Mamie s par
odies couldn't get interested in
Roy Webb's drawled plea for
funds "Five million dollars to
make the final drive. Will five
million dollars do it?" Roy chal
lenged? "I'll tell the world it
will. We were able to elect nearly
100 congressmen on two million
dollars. We must do it as our
patriotic duty."
Madame Mamie had hard words
for politicians. It sounded like
convention hall In Cleveland, birth
place of the Republican battle cry,
"Four Long Years" when she
poured the sonorous notes " "Two
Short Years" into the public ad-
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"We've made the donkey shake
with fear;
We've made the elephant shed a
tear,
In Two Short Years."
Behind her, the banner of the
Lincoln Ladies Loyalty league
fluttered in the gasp of breeze that
entered the sweltering church.
On what Utopian creed is the
Townsend plan based ?
Madame Mamie sang that "It
makes every man a king."
Roy Webb drawled, "It's an in
vestment to end poverty."
Dr. Townsend explained, "If
anyone at sixty has put in forty
years of service to the public, no
matter in what capacity, he de
serves a pension. It is becoming
more and more obvious to congress
and the supreme court that we
must do something for the gen
eral welfare of the people."
How would it work ?
A two per cent sales tax "that
doesn t hurt anyone and helps
everyone would be levied on all
transactions. "It would not only
provide $200 a month for every
one over sixty, but would pay off
the national debt and put the na
tion on a pay-as-you-go basis."
The audience, citizens of the only
state besides Delaware that pays-
as-it-goes, cheered.
Who would benefit?
"I've heard," Roy Webb con
fided, "that there are some den
tists in Lincoln who aren't in fa
vor of the Townsend plan.
How many of you would buy
false teeth with vnur first check?"
Twenty-five hands went up.
"Now you see. It would pay every
dentist to support the Townsend
plan."
"How many would build
homes ':' "
Twenty-five hands went up.
"How many would buy new
automobiles?"
One hundred hands went up.
Thus, car dealers and lumber
man fell Into line.
What would added governmental
revenue accomplish?
It would eradicate tuberculosis,
build new schools. It would abol
ish war, since "you can't get fel
lows to go out and kill if they can
engage in more profitable work."
Other Townsendisms:
"Evetbody asks me, 'When did
you get out of jail?"
"we encourage people to accu
mulate property and then tax them
so much thev can t afford to own
it."
"We don't want this campaign
to drag out like the soldier's bonus
did, for 26 years."
"The government paid to have
gold dur out of the ground and
now we're paying to have it put
back In."
"I sometimes think we have
crazy men making laws for us."
"The ones who have the least
mony are our greatest support
ers.
"Lately. George Hormel of Hor-
mel hams and other financial and
social leaders havt seen that we
have the only way out."
Madame Mamie closed the eve
ning's performance with song.
One of her favorite parodies to
the tune of "Old Man River," was:
"That man Townsend...
He don't destroy taters;
He don't destroy cotton;
Them that does It, will be soon
forgotten,
While our man Townsend
Will keep things rolling along."
Then the audience Joined In
singing "God Be With You 'TU We
Meet Again."
N. U. GEOGRAPHERS' ROOK
REACHESMTH PRiuTING
Publishers Report Great
Demand for Bengtson,
Van Royen Edition.
Sixth edition of Fundamentals
of Economic Geography by N. A.
Bengtson and Wm. Van Royen of
the geographic department has
been published. The book, one of
a series on economic geography,
has been extremely popular, and
heavy demand for it necessitated
printing of the new edition.
Drs. Bengtson and Van Royen
interpret the effects of such fac
tors as soil, climate, power re
sources, mineral and agricultural
raw materials, and available
markets upon economic produc
tion and industrial growth.
Geographic Review and other
geographical journals in England,
Scotland and Germany have com
mended the book.
Every senior should have a
photograph in Cap and Gown
Special Cornhusker prices prevail.
Townsend's Studio, 226 So. 11th.
'Robin Hood Not Legendary,
But Real . . . Typifies Upris
ing of Lower Class in 13th
Century.'
(Continued From Page 1.)
stands as a symbol of the redistrib
ution of wealth among the masses.
The largest Robin Hood library
when Mr. Gable made his com
pilation was the collection of the
Nottingham libraries, of Notting
ham, England. Recently Mr. Ga
ble sold his valuable collection to
the Cleveland public library which
now claims the largest and most
valuable collection of this type.
In Mr. Gable's library were
about 230 Individual items, in
cluding at least 175 separate titles.
The most highly.prized items were
four editions of "Robin Hood's
Garland." These were small re
prints, termed chapbooks, of the
early Robin Hood ballads on which
practically all the later literature
was based. Thirty-four separate
editions of the Garland were pub
lished between 1670 and 1820. Two
of Mr. Gable's four editions could
not be found In any other library.
Varied Collection.
Many manuscripts, magazine
articles, pamphlets, books, pic
tures, and several operatic scores
were included in his collecMon.
Mr. Gable was among the
founders of the Wordsmlths chap
ter of Sigma Upsilon, literary fra
ternity, and also a founder or tne
Prairie Schooner, which it pub
lishes. He was editor of the Pyra
mid of Sigma Tau, an engineering
magazine, from ivw to ia.ii.
He is author of several Juven
ile works, including "The Boys
Book of Exploration," in 1930. He
was translator of a French story
for boys. Octave Fuilett's "The
Story of Mr. Puncn, for an Amer
ican publishing house. Another
work Includes, "Learned and Scho
larly Publications of the University
of Nebraska." (An 1876-1926 com
pilation.)
He nas contriDuiea io rraine
Schooner, Nebraska Alumnus, the
former Golden Book, Poet Lore,
and American Speech.
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