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M1 WMl, NO. 117.
LINCOLN. MAHASKA. TIU'KSDAY. AlMUli
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H.VVK A NICK
VACATION?
Tsk, tsk, how tcmpus fugit.
Here it is the day after the day
after the end of spring vacation, if
you'd only stop a moment and real
ize it. Eactly one week ago today
spring- vacation was about to he
pin and suitcases were being
Muffed and classes cut with hasty
bIi.i ndon.
Approximately 99 percent of the
students about to partake of
spring vacation told nil their
friends and hcquaintanccs that,
by golly, they were t,-i-.ng to catch
up on their studying.
Did You Study?
You were probably one of the
99 percent with good intentions.
Well, where are you know?
Fight where you were before va
cation began, except maybe a
little sleepier. (All right, all
right. So you did too stucy over
vacation. Just remember you're
the exception).
One of the minor mysteries of
college life is the mystery of
what happened to vacation time.
The first day of vacation is usually
spent luxuriously in bed. You pet
un at noon for breakfast, stretch
STANLEY TO TALK
BEFORE SIGMA XI
PM ON APRIL 12
Princeton Chemist Speaks
on Borderland of Life
at Joint Session.
Sigma Xi has scheduled Dr. V.
M. Stanley, noted rrineeton bio
chemist, to speak before the an
nual joint convocation of the local
chapters of Phi Beta Kappa find
Sigma Xi Tuesday evening at 8:15
o'clock in the Cornhusker ball
room. His address, which will be
open to the public, bears the title,
"The Borderlands of Life," and
will be illustrated by lantern slides
which the chemist has prepared
for his lecture.
The address in the evening will
be the climaxing: feature of the
Sip-ma Xi-rhi Beta Kappa honors
activities which will pet under
way at 11 a. ni. in the Temple
with a convocation honoring- new
students elected to membership in
both organizations.
Isolated Tobacco Virus.
Dr. Stanley, a member of the
staff of the Rockefeller institute
of medical research at rrineeton,
Dr. Harold Hoick Named
to IMiannaoology Croup
the rest of the afternoon to get i has been awarded the $1,000
rid of that sleepy feeling and all award by the American Assoria-
(.f a sudden it is the next day. lion for the Advancement of Sci-
ruttenng about at one thing or ence for his work in isolating the
another which takes up a good virus of the tobacco mosaic dis-
deal of time and seems necessary ease. His talk before the two non-
. , . I . ....... r.A.,i.t M-ill Wa s.f HIICIial
nt the moment nut wntcn voui'".nv ""'
can't for the life of you rcmcm-1 into st to
hr -met u-hat it was Time likes nn professional
two or three- more days and va
cation is over.
When it is over, students in
variably greet each other for the
next two or three days with o:
"What did you do over vaca
tion?" "Oh, nothing much. Got a little
studying done. What did you do?"
"Same thing."
Social Problem.
That is consistently the rou
tine patter. The rare person who
has really had a nice vacation
or been somewhere will not wait
for you to ask him or her what
he or she did over vacation. He
will cheerfully volunteer the in
formation or make you curious
by saying be wished you were
along with him on his vacation.
You ask him what he did and he
launches a play-by-play dcwin ,
tion of his good time while you
listen idly and think sorrowfully
and enviously of your own list
less vacation. This sort of thing
builds up to class hatred and
may be listed as one argument
against having any vacations,
tions.
It is estimated bv an eminent
bureau of t-slimatoi s that
every scientist ana
man' of other uni
versities and schools as well as to
lay groups, most 'f whom already
know of his brilliant discoveries
resulting- from his years of re
search with the virus.
As a result of Dr. Stanley's
work, it is known now that these
organisms, formerly thought to be
invisible living things, are actually
protein molecules of huge size. In
some respects they seem to pos
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MERCEY TRACES" TICTOWAL
JOURNALISM' DEVELOPMENT
F.S.A. Executive Addresses
Special Convo, Luncheon
Wednesday Noon.
Speaking on documentary films!
A. A. Mercey, assistant director of
information f the Farm Security
administiation, traced the devei
opment of a new and influential
motion picture Industry, Wednes
day morning- before a special con
vocation of journalism students.
Documentary films were described
discussion of the recent vogue for
informative films.
"Frontier of Journalism."
Following the convocation, Thet a
Sigma Thi and Sigma Delta Chi,
professional journalism organiza
tions, sponsored a luncheon and
round table for the visiting K.S.A.
official, when Mitrey led a brief
informal talk on new frontiers of
journalism.
"The best qualification for se
curing a government job in the
by Prof. Cayle C. Walker, at the field of public relations." Mercey
convocation's opening, as "pictor- told luncheon gti.sts, "is five veal's
ml journalism." with the Associated Tress. There
Mercey explained the difference j is no substitute for sound, prae
between travelogues, educational i tical newsnaner i voeiien. e " Me
I pictures and documentary films, described ,V day in the life of pub-
Introduced as the man who was lie relations official and the na
partty responsible for the produc-jture of his work,
tion of "The River" and "The Tlow Mercey was introduced at the
that Broke the Plains," the convocation by Paul Jordan, re
speaker frequently referred togional director of information of
these two feature pictures in his , the farm securities administration.
Dr. (inlur Uocovrrs
From Major Oporatityi
Lincoln Journal.
DR. HAROLD G. O. HOLCK
Dr. Harold G. O. Hoick, associ
ate professor of pharmacology,
has just been named to member
ship in the American Society of
Pharmacology and b.xperimrnta'
Therapeutics. Dr. Hoick recently
attended the convention of the
Federation of American Societies
for Experimental Biology at Baltimore.
DR. MICHAEL
Dr. Mu-hael S
I.ireoln .loiirnal.
S. GINS8URG.
tJinshurg of the
NOTED EDUCATOR
SPEAKS APRIL 19
N
AT HONORS CONVO
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classics department, returned to
his home Wednesday from the hos
pital where he had undergone a
major operation. His condition
was reported as being greatly im
proved. Dr. Gmsburg is on a short
leave of absence from the university.
Dr. Schrick Enters Health: Preliminary Trials Planned;
Block, Bridle Club Sponsors
Annual Stock Appraisal
Competition.
Faculty-Members to Speak
at Worship Meetings
in Morrill Hall.
Annual students' judging con
test sponsored by the Block and
Bridle club will be held Saturday
afternoon at the agricultural col
lege with student participants di
vided into two groups, a senior
and a junior division.
Open to all students in ag col
lege, the competition is divided
for entrants who have had expe
rience in judging- and have taken
the course A. H. Ill and those who
have not. Judging- will be done in
the forenoon and the reasons on
the judgments will be given in
the afternoon. Junior participants
will submit written reasons and
senior entrants will give oral reasons.
The winner of the senior Rroup I
will be awartled a cup by the club !
and have his name engraved upon
the plaque in the Animal Hus
bandry building. The three high
individuals of the entire contest
in both divisions will receive nied-
Service; Sears to Head
Botany Division.
Two graduates of the university
will go to Oberlin next year. :t
was announced by the Oberlin col
lege board of trustees yesterday.
They are Dr. Kdna Schrick, who
will act as assistant college physi
cian to Dr. R. W. Rradshaw; and
Dr. Taul R. Sears of the Univer
sity of Oklahoma who received his
A. M. degree from Nebraska in
1S15. who will be head of the Ober-
i lin collece botany department to
succeed Miss Susan V. Nichols.
Dr. Schrick. who is one of the
leaders in the field of student
health service in the United States,
has for the past two years been
associated with the student health
sen-ice at the university and has
i aught physiology here.
Interned at New Haven.
She was graduated with the
A.B. degree from Nebraska in
1930 and received her M.D. at
Washington university. St. Ixuis,
in 1P34. She then served her in
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for April 30. Featuring
Walk, Trot, Canter.
Both affiliated and non-affiliated
girls are eligible to enter the
Tntersorority riding contest, one of
the features of the K.qucstrian Cir
cus during the Farmer's Fair on
May 7.
Using the eastern saddle, the
contestants will be judged on rid
ing ability and the way in which
the horse is handled. The paces
will consist of walk, trot, and
canter.
Last year Marie Christensen.
Lecturer From Munich Will
Talk on 'The Golden Age
of German Art.'
Dr. l.udwig Waagen, lecturer on
the history of Furopean Art, from
Munich, Germany, will address a
public gathcung at the Temple
theater Monday evening, April 11,
on the subject "Purer and his
Dr. C. H. Tatterson, chairman -sis and the top ranking individu
of the committee in charge of the ls in the different classes of live-
. ,, , T , .! stock will be awarded ribbons.
All University Lenten services, ... ...,. . . . ...
All flwflrns w 11 rw. Tnfl.ie at hp
three has announced the schedule of the r0iar mM,unr of tbe Work ami
The services will bet Bridle club the week following-the
contest. The general chairman in
April 11
out of ten io,-re students 'i" j devotions,
titu r 1a llif-if .-"ilCfi TTfim i
and ,,ull that old cb-stnut that : "'M un,,er tho "Pi the Re
reads as follows: j liginus Welfare council.
"Well. I'm gh'd vacation is to IS. in gallery R of Morrill ball,
over. Now 1 can catch up on my This year s services represent a
sleeping.-' slight departure from the usual
That also is one argument that Religious Fmphasis week. Form
could be used ac.unsl having va- erlv, speakers were brought in
charge of the contest is Loyal Cor-
man.
cations. Hearing that old chestnut
repeated time alter lime grates
on the sensitive ear and if there
were no vacations there would be
no chestnuts to grate against
one's cars.
A last minute news flash con
veyed by one who reads this stuff
hot off the typewriter, reveals
the fact that the university li
brary was pretty well filled by
students during vacation. This
would seem to refute our argu
ment that very little studying was
dono over vacation. However,
think of the thousands that went
home for vacation and took no
l)ooks with tivm at all. When you
pet thru thinking of those stu
dents, think of those that took
books home and did nothing with
them but let them lie around the
house. When you have thought
that over too. " you may pretty
fafely come to the conclusion that
the majority did not catch up on
their studying.
Why Spring Vacation?
All in all, it was probably the
average vacation. And tor some
seven or eight hundred senior,
the last vacation cf their under
graduate dayi. It is still rather
purzling. however, to find
logical basis for spring vaca
tion. Just because it Is spring,
Is not a good reason. It seems
as tho an Easter vacation would
be more appropriate and better
utilized than thrre days out of
two ordinary weeks in March
and April.
from outside the university to talk.
This year, however, faculty mem
bers of the school will speak.
Fach program will consist of a
10 to 12 minute talk by one of
the faculty members on a theme
appropriate to the season. Then
will follow the worship sendees,
with selected scripture readings
by students, and special music.
Dr. Workmeister's recordings of
sacred and other music which he
brought from Germany will give
an apropriate setting to the
devotions.
The following is the schedule of
the sen-ires and Rx-akers:
Mnniliiy. April 11, II a. m. Ir. W. II.
M"rtnn.
TorvlHy, April It, 18 a. m. llrii O.
I. l-rKUnn.
nr4lnr(1liy, April 13, . m. lr.
H. J. I'nl.
Thurvli.j, April 14, II a. m lr.
Marrr Kr.
Krlrtnv. April IS, 10 a. m. in. It. H.
Stnltt. .
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS
MAKE TELEVISION TEST
Prof. Norris, Two Students
Record Signal Strength
. of Purdue Station.
To test the efficiency of the
Purdue university television send
ing equipment, the university elec
trical engineering: department last
week set up a receiving set in a
vacant field southeast of College
View.
Prof. Ferris NoiTis and two stu
dents, Thurman Sipp, Lincoln, a
senior student in the department,
and Milton Staab of Leigh, a jun
ior, measured the signal strength
of the Purdue broadcasting station
five nights last week at the re
quest of the Purdue authorities.
Ferguson Hears
of Cousin's Plight
Only 10 Days Ago
Dean O. J. Ferguson, dean of
the engineering- collepe at the
university, a cousin of Albert M.
Trover, who is being held in Rus
sia on a ten year nris. n sentence.
stated yesterday that he has been
unaware of his cousin's plight un
til ten days ago when Mrs. Trover
appeared in , his office and in
formed him o'l her husband's im
prisonment. Dean Ft rguson says, that to his
knowledge the Troveis had not
made their home in Lincoln since
their graduation from the univer
sity, and that he had not been in
touch with them for many years.
Albert Trover moved to Ne
braska in the early SO's into the
vicinity of Dorchester. He re
ceived his bachelor of science de
gree in agriculture from the uni
versity in ISfl and in 1 f5 was
awarded an A. M. degree. As a
graduate student he was made an
assistant on the agricultural col
lege faculty and later continued
work for his Th. D. at the 1'ni
versity of Wisconsin. Dean Fer-
fuson said that when be was a
freshman at the
Kappa Alpha 1 heta, won the blue I contemporaries The Golden
ribbon and Nan Talbot, Delta Af:(, of German Art." Dr. J. E. A.
Gamma, took second. Alexis, chairman of the depart-
inose interested in entering are ( mf.nt 0f Germanic languages, met
requested to report to Marian i pV- Waagen last summer ' (luring
Kidd, Kappa Alpha Theta, chair-1 hjs vjsit to Germany. The speaker
man of the university riding club, j is onP of ip most popular and ad
or to Clarence O'Rrian. represent- mired lecturers at the University
ative of the Farmer's Fair round- 0f Munich where many American
up committee. The preliminary i students go for their junior year,
contest will be held April 30, at pv Waa-en has lectured in all
Shreve's Riding Academy, at ! parts f,f the world and is partiru
which the number of entries will ; a,.y known for his contributions
be eliminated to about 10 or 12, to the American-German Quar
who will compete in-the finals at I terly of the Carl Schuiz memorial
th fair. Miss Kldd Urges all 10 fnmidnl i.m
start practicing immediately. 7j;s address" here will Te in Fng
''Blue" to Appear. lish and students as well as towns-
Also featuring in the Ag college ! people are invited to attend. In
,,,;.. i .. ,i v,.-c asmuch as he is considered a
Dr. Thomas Vcrnor Smith
to Discuss 'Promise
of U. S. Politics.'
Scholarship, the primary pur
pose o fa university, will receive
due recognition when Dr. Thomas
Vernor Smith, distinguished Illi
nois educator, addresses the audi
ence at the annual Honors convo
cation in the coliseum April If.
The convocation is a yearly pro.
gram at which high ranking stu
dents in the different colleges are
oficially honored by the institu
tion. "The Tromise of American Poli
tics." an increasingly important,
subject ,is the topic of Dr. Smith's
address. Dr. Smith is a professor
of philosophy at the University of
Chicago and an Illinois state sen
ator. The spcs"kcr was educated at
the University of Texas where he
received Kith his bachelor of arts
and masters degrees. He receivd
bis Ph.D. from the University of
Chicago in 1P22 and has held th
position of professor of philosophy
there since 1P2T. Retween 1P22
and 17P27 he was a professor of
Fnglish literature at Texas Chris
tian and a member of the philos
ophy staff at the University of
Texas.
Author of Several Books.
The author of a number of
books, Dr. Smith is well known
for his "The Tromise of Amer
ican Politics," "The Philosophia
Way of Life." and "The Amer
ican Philosophy of Equality." He
has written for a number of pe
riodicals and he holds membership
in the American Philosophic as
sociation and the American Polit
ical Science association. In 1937
Dr. Smith received the prose
award of the Chicago foundation
for literature.
AIR B0fRD SPONSORS
NOVEL MIXER FW
which have been procured by the
world hiithoritv in the field of art,
board. Rlue," owned bv Lowell . " ".."
Roomer of Lincoln, won all three T interested ,n art will find
Tumping classes at the American. ! ?r W s h A? '
ib Li V: ,e i, sw,. , wnri" interesting and beneficial, says
City last October, the first horse
ever to win more than one of the i
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Dr. Alexis.
Ellis Smith. John Passmore
Represent Nebraska
Engineers' Group.
Male Chorus Appears in Six
Towns, Sings 72 M umbers
on Spring Trip.
Thirty-six members of the Uni
versity Men's Glee club returned
Tuesday night from their spring
tour, on which they appeared in
six towns and sang some 72 se
lections. The group is directed by
MEMBERS OF FACULTY
ATTEND SCHOOL MEET
Kov. Knk lo Addrrss
Lutheran Group Today j
Lutheran students will meet j
with F.rv. H. Frck for the regular i
Ribl'.1 hour at 5 o'clock Thir-day
in Room 203, Temple building. !
Subject of discussion will be "The '
Gift of Eternal Life." I
Students to Virinovc
Conditions on April 12
All French and Spanish stu
dents who have received con
ditions for the first semester of
this school year are privileged
to take a make-up examination.
The fleneral mak-vp examina
tion will be given next Tuesday,
April 12, at 3:00 o'clock. Stu
dents will report to room 109 In
U hall.
Fllis G. Smith and John K.
Passmore. both of Lincoln, junior
and senior respectively in the me
chanical engineering department i William G. Tempo.
of the university, have been chos- The group, se lected from the
en from a group of competing 4(5 members of the choral unit.
university be ! student engineers to represent N'e- j sang- at Geneva Saturday night
roomed with Trover while the lat- braska in an engineering essay at the district music contest, and
ter was a graduate student. contest sponsored by the dist net performed in Wyniore. Reatnce,
The dean is one of th? several student branch of the American Tei-nmsch, Auburn, and Weeping
i rover , Society of Mechanical Engineers.
of
cousins and relatives
who live in the state.
campusites1ontbute
$130 to jastern youth
Tag Day Receipts go to Swell
National Fund for Aid
of Orientals.
One hundred and thirty dollars
was sent to national headquarters
! of Student Youth Movements to
aid destitute far eastern students 1 paper dealing with "X-F.ay Weld
The contest will be held 111
Omaha April 15 and 16 during
the annual convention of the group
and will be attended by student
engineers and their sponsors from
Nebraska, South Dakota state col
lege, Kansas State college. Mis
souri School of Mines. North l'a
kota aericultural college, Wash
ington university at St. Louis.
University of Kansas, University
of Missouri, and University of
North Dakota.
Four prizes will be awarded
totaling $S.V Smith wil read a
Water.
Resides selections by the glee
club, audiences at eicii stop heard
solos bv Raritone Dale Ganz, Ten
or Nate Holman, and Trumpeter
Duane Harmon, who are included
In the membership of the organi
zation, one of the finest to rep
resent the university.
Recause of the fact that advance
booking for the tour was not be-
jLBi'ry Dance Scheduled
to Arouse Interest
in Coming Fete.
To arouse student interest in the
Farmers' Fair, the Junior Fair
board will sponsor a hillbilly
mixer in in the Activities building
on Ag campus Friday right.
Dubbed the "Dog Patch Hoe
Down." the mixer takes its theme
from the Kentucky mountaineers,
and Rob Rurnish accents, tattered
straw hats, corncob pipes ar.d
Ozarkian atmosphere will be the
order of the evening.
"Put on your shoes just for one
night and quit vour feuding.' the
Junior Board advises ag students,
"and come on over for an evening
of old time fun."
Decorations will carry out the
hillbilly scheme. Prices are set at
a new low for mixers, with 20
cents for coeds and 30 cents for
men. Russ Gibson and his orches
tra will plav for the affair.
The mixer is one r.f a series of
rallies, mixers, and other activities
planned by the Farmeis' Fair
boards to stir up campus enthu
siasm for the Farmeis hair. 1 ne
Fair itself is scheduled for the
week of May 7.
University lleeeive
Gift of Wahinfrton
Letters to D'Estaing
On exhibition in the Romance
Language depailment library is a
book of the correspondence be
tween George Washington and
DFstaing which the general con
sul of Fiance in Chicago has re
cently presented the University of
Nebraska,
The correspondence, which has
remained until now unpuMisneo,
o,,r, until rather lute and that
numerous such croups had already i whs sent by Srnatcur Andre Hon
oured the state, this year's trip 1 norat. The book ftlso contains
was cut to a minimum.' Plans for several pictures of the French 1 in
n statewide tour for next year ternatlonal house at the Cite Lni-
Oriiii of Uncles Ladies' Dales
Uaek lo Dr. imberlv's Class
Composition l our Years Ajjo
North Central Association
to Convene This Week
in Chicago.
Several members of the faculty
are attending the 43d annual con
vention of the North Central Asso
ciation of Colleges and Secondary
Schools which is being held in Chi
cago Wednesday thru Saturday.
Dean F. K. Hehzlik of the teach
ers collepe Is second vce president
of the association and Dr. G. W.
Rosenlof. profcssir of secondary
education, is secretary of the com
mission on secondary schools.
Other members of' the university
factulty attending the meetings
are Dr. C. H. Oldfather, dean of
the colleg-ea of arts and sciences.
Dean F. W. Upson of the praduate
college, Dr. A. A. Reed, director of
the extension division, and Dean
T. J. Thompson.
Ill
When tin curl tin 1 ises at the
Temple theater on Monday eve
ning, April 25, K'osnict Klub
sliow-goeis will see the concrete
result of an inspiration had by
John Edwards Imir years ago last
January. That "1 lades' Ladies" is
distinctly a native university Pr0"
duct may be deduced from the
fart that Edwards first conceived
the idea of his show in Doctor
Wimherly's English 211 advanced
composition course.
In HC4 I Victor Wimberly told
his class that he would like to see
somr of the members try their
hand at writing one-act plays. Ed
wards accordingly worked up a
script entitled "Get Thee Behind
Me, Satan" dealing with a hen
pecked husband who fell asleep
and dreamed that he was in
Hade. "Hades' Ladies" la an
elatie-ration of that same Idea, but
It did not evolve over night.
Sect Short Subject.
he saw a short subject in the
movies called "The Unemployed
Ghost" which had been written' hy
Marc Connolly, noted Broadway
producer. In it the spirit world
was represented as experiencing
labor difficulties nnicb th same
as their earthly brethren. Tbe
Idea was novel and amusing and
Edwards thiught immediately of
its adaptability to his own script.
In April of 1934 on a rush date.
Edwards was taken to see the
Kosmet Klub show of that spring,
"The Campus Cop." He decided to
try his own luck at submitting a
script to the Klub and during the
next year worked up "Hades'
Ladies." He didn't have time to
finish it, however, before the (lead
line for filing in lf35.
During the next two years, busy
with other matters. Edwards did
little. with the play, working on it
only now and then. This year,
however, he decided to give It one
Not lone after Edwards handeo. j "ore try and took it. still uncom
in hi play to Doctor Wimberly, (Continued on Pape 4.)
as a result of the campus tag day
March 30.
Some 2.000 tags which were not
sold have ben offered to the re
gional office. According to C. D.
Hayes, Y. M. C. A. secretary, it
is hoped that colleges thruout the
state may sponsor similar tag
days to add to Nebraska's con
tribution for the national goal set
at $25,000.
"On the whole," said Mr. Hayes,
"the sale was quite encouraging.
The 1,400 who gave is a good in
dication of the willingness to grive
to other students."
That it is difficult to contact
effectively many people on a cam
pus of this size in one day was
observed by Mr. Hayes; $140 was
the actual amount taken in. but
$10 was used to cover expenses.
Appreciation was expressed by
the Council on Religious Wel
fare to the workers) on the citv
and agricultural campus who made
the sale possible.
Dr. Senning to Address
Futrhiiry C. of C Meeting
Dr. John p. Senning, chairman
of the department of political sci
ence, will address a Fairbury
chamber of commerce meeting:
April 12 on Nebraska's unicameral
Inspection on High Pressure
Lines." and Passmore a paper on
"The Use of Aluminum Foil as an
Insulation." Russell Tsrsell of Lin
coln, and Harry Brown of Da
kota City were named alternates.
MEMBERrOF'FACULTY
ATTEND SCHOOL MEET
have already bepun.
j vcrsitaire of Taris.
Democracy's Cornerstone May
He Education. lut Professional
Salary Scale Fails to Show
It
North Central Association
to Convene This Week
in Chicago.
Several members of the faculty
are attending the fofty-third an
nual convention of the North Cen
tral Association of Colleges and
Secondary Schools which is being
held in Chicago Wednesday
through Saturday. Dean F. E.
Henzlik of the teachers collepe is
second vice president of the asso
ciation and Dr. G. W. Rosenlof,
professor of secondaiy education,
is secretary of the commission on
secondary schools
Other mernbus of the university
faculty attending the meetings are
Dr. C. H. Oldfather. dean of the
roUepe of arts and sciences. Dean
F. W. Upson of the graduate col-leg-,
Dr. A. A. Reed, director of
the extension division, and Dean
! T. J. Thompson.
The cornerstone of democracy is
education.
Yet an inquiry into the average
salaries of public school teachers,
supervisors and principals v ho
build American democracy thru
education which was made by the
school life reveals an average sal
ary in 1P36 of S1.2S3 for the na
tion. $772 for Nebraska.
From the peak of $1,420 per an
num paid in 1929-30, salaries fell
to $1,227 in 193fi to pinch the
pedagogical pooketbook. Salaries
were 11 tra in at the 1!I24 level. Be
tween 1H34 ind JfC.6. 29 percent
of the cuts had been restored, with
the trend upward continuing.
The amounts paid in different
states varied greatly from $504 in
Arkansas to $.2,414 in New York.
Only f.ve states paid higher av-"ra-e
salaries in 1936 than tn 1930
and in 43 states the salaries were
lower. Nebraska ranked twelfth
in the 13 states which paid nor
than $200 less in 1936 than In
1930: her reduction was $3(i.".
Approaching the problem from
the rural-urban and NegTO-white
angle interesting facts are again
revealed.
The nation's average urban sal
ary was Jl.SlS, Nebraska's $1,296,
the highest was in New York,
$2,780. the lowest in Arkansas.
$76ft. The rural areas paid lower
wajres. for tne nation, mi. tor
Nebraska, $C1."; the highest was
in Conn., $1,594; the lowest was in
Arkansas, $430.
Fifteen states and the District
of Columbia reported, salaries
separately for White and Negro
teachers." Delaware and Missouri
showed a higher average for Ne
groes, due to the fact that in those
states the Negroes live largely in
cities where salaries are higher
than in rural areas. In the Dis
trict of Columbia no diftinctior U ,
made but in the rest the disparity
was very definite. Florida pays
white teachers, $1,130, NegTO
teachers, $403.
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