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THE DAILY NEBRASKA!, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4. 193
In 'America's White Spot' .. .
Does Nebraska's Public Wash Smack of Tattle-
e Gray?
Native Nebraskans have heard,
read and seen their state "plugged"
as "America's White Spot" so con
vincingly that any criticism of its
self-praise meets the. immediate
scorn of the Cornhuskers, imbued
with sovereign state pride.
Sister commonwealths t a n ta
lized by Nebraska jibes at their
tax and governmental system
have been stirred either to defense
or self-reproach. Kastern writers
have poured into the state to
"cover" the Nebraska phenome
non. Few have done as well as
Karnsworth Crowder whose article
'Tattle Tale Gray on America's
White Spot" appeared in the Octo
ber "Survey Graphic."
Mr. Crowder overlooks one
hugely Important thing in his
scrutiny of Nebraska. He writes
as if the state were the sponsor
of the campaign of self-eulogy.
It i not the state itself. He even
says "The organization purport
ed to be sponsoring the cam
paign (Associated Industries of
Nebraska) is merely a revamp
ing of the Nebraska Manufac
turers' Association." Yet he
writes in that journalistic vein
that gives the impression that
the state is footing the bills for
the "white spot" movement.
Education
Education comes in for some
thoro examination by Mr. Crowder.
Reference is made to the Univer
sity of Nebraska with an observa
tion that is known to nearly nit
Nebraskans:
"The State University has not
escaped the economy squeeze.
Manv classes, laboratories an
in a farm state! have dropped
their courses in agriculture; 26
their courses in domestic science;
14 their manual training; 20 their
music. Textbook appropriations
have vanished in some districts.
Shop, laboratory and library facili
ties have not been maintained.
"Now, this is no place to discuss
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kans that the American people
spend a lot more for education
than thcv can afford, or that they
st be housed : are buying their children too much
education, or that Ihey are buy
ing them the wrong kind. What
we can suv is that, relative to
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entered at accond-rlam mallet at Iha poiloltlca u
Lincoln Nrbraika, ancler act ol congreaa, March S, Mill,
and at apeclal rnle ot imitate provided tot IB aertlnn
1103. act of October S, 11111, aoltiorlted Januarr 0, IVU.
T itself, if the aim is to bring in
dustry and money troin me otii
side? And then you arc told that
it is for the purpose of persuad
ing the people that theirs is an
ideal tax system (ideal, that is,
for industry, intangible wealth and
big incomes).
Explanations
"Some white spot leaders oranu
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in condemned structures which.,
even to a casual observer, appear
to have been victims of a convul
sion In hi,l,linr ncainst other uni- i other states and relative to certain
versities for a first rate faculty, other governmental services with-
Kcbraska is at a stubborn dollars i i her own borders i roads, tor in
nd cents disadvantage."
"Total expenditures for state
government (1925 to 1937) in
creased 106.5 percent (largely on
account of relief and social se
curity). Expenditures for the
public schools declined 34.2 per
cent. Expenditures for all other
local subdivisions remained at
about the same. This is to say
that education's cut from the
tax dollar has been squeezed to
a fraction of the former size.
"It is not that Nebraska is
without the resources to main
tain better then average common
schools. The president's advisory
committee on education attempt
ed to determine, as of 1935-36,
the ability of the 48 states to
support public schools. Applying
a standard tax plan, the reve
nues that each state could raise
were calculated. On this basis,
Nebraska's potential ability to
support education ranked 16th.
Actual performance, however,
put her in 28th position. Her ed
ucational bill per pupil in 1935
36 not only was far beneath her
ab lity, it was $12.95 under the
n? ional average. In the impor
tant matter of state aid given to
schools, Nebraska rates 43rd
among the states."
"With such barren inducements
the state simply cannot compete
for the most competent teachers i
The offices of a big placement
agency told me they were seek
ing jobs in other states. Applica-1
tions to the Omaha system have i
fallen off two-thirds and the quali
fications of those applying are of
course not of the highest.
"An application to all states of
the revised Schrammel-Sonner-berg
scale for measuring educa
tional performance found Nebras
ka in 23rd place in 1933-34 and it
has lost much ground since then
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her education budgets, if indeed
she is not usintr her schools as the
scaoeeoat to satisfy the insistent
demands for tax reduction.
Assistance
"Keciu rcn'.ly over Nebraska
conies devastating grief from tiie
sky- tornadoes. Hoods, blizzards,
dust storms and drouths. For years
there was a statute requiring all
males, 16 to GO. to give two days a
year to fighting grasshoppers.
Crop failures in the nineties re
quired state aid, relief commis
sions and heavy county indebted
ness, l.inciiin Jtiurnal.
"In good times. Nebraska is a ,
wondrous producer, ranking
among the first five states. But
even in the fabulous twenties, farm ; r . - - " i" " "
bankruptcy cases were averaging i - ,h. is..es Deficit spend- " " V "'" V.y only a tew votes at the last
five and six hundred a year. Kvery .Q n,tinc, rertain counties! . ,lne aooe I1,-Ules ' .' 'u. ! legislature. But the state's chil
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FRANK ARNOLD
. Exposes Tax Waste.
such reports 'perfectly ridiculous.'
Others give you a shrewd look
and say, 'Well, yes, we're selling
Nebraska on itself -and why not?
We've a good thing here and can
hang onto it so long as we keep
the tax equity boys piped down.
And there's liiis about it -this is
a prime field for industries that
process farm products
burdened, can we boast an equit
able tax structure? With a 5-ccnt
gasoline tax, Just what do ve mean
when we say we have no sales
tax? With poll taxes, bank stock
and insurance premium taxes, with
dozens of petty fees and licenses,
what do we mean when we say we
have no nuisance levies? sWlth
over 8.000 government units for
only one and a third million people,
just where is that Nebraska effi
ciency we hear about? With our
educational, public health, relief
and institutional standards begin
ning to keep company with cotton
belt performances, does our parsi
mony look so attractive ?
"We say that unwise spending
Is not the antidote for excessive
economy, but maybe we should
add that wise spending Is an
antidote. We say that public ser
vices should be limited to the
ability of the people to pay, but
maybe we should add that we
have underestimated our ability.
"While folks in other states are
staring at us and asking how in
the world we do things, it might
he to our benefit quietly to dis
patch some Cornhuskers to Denver
to learn how to establish and oper
ate a first class psychopathic hos
pital; to Virginia to learn how to
operate an economical and humane
system of poor farms; to Ohio to
.study the benefits of city-manager
administration; to California to
examine the meaning of state aid
for education; to New York to
learn something about penal insti
tutions and parole; to St. Louis to
see the operation of a superior
county hospital; to Des Moines to
compare its schools and Omaha's
... It could be a long and salutary
itinerary. We in Nebraska have
some fine things to demonstrate,
no doubt. But we have a whale of
I a lot to learn and we ought quietly
"Another White Spot leader
said to me, "We're going to j to onm jt before nominating our
commit the State of Nebraska s(,ives for summa cum laude
clean up to its ears. Before ever
we started this thing out in the
open, we lined up the farmers,
the press, labor, the chambers of
commerce, everyone. They're in
so deep, there will never be any
body not even Charley Bryan
who'll be able to wiggle them
out. And that's as it should be.
2nd add Editorially SpeakingRag
We have the best tax and gov
ernment setup in the country,
and an inviting labor picture.
It's something worth going to
bat for and advertising to the
world."
"What appears then is that Ne-
honors.'
Barb Council
Starts Clcan-Up
Moves to Abolish Sweat
Shirts at Hour Dances
Barb council moved in its Mon
day session to remedy the situa
tion which found boys in sweat
shirts, minus ties and even with
shirt tails dangeling at the opening
year an average of about 20.000
Nebraska farmers move to try
their luck in a, new spot. Since
1935, over 6.000 farm families have
pulled out entirely, heading, the
majority of them, into the Pacific
west. During the single month of
March 1938. the farm security ad
ministration had to extend emer
gency grants to 15.000 farm
fa milies.
"Harsh events and hazardous
contingencies, then, have tet ::d
to keep the purse strings tight;
and this fact must be remem
bered during everything that re
mains to be said. The state in j crape of $115.18. She has received
ing was putting certain counties
so deep in the red that their war
rants were selling at discounts ap
proaching zero.
"Well, we must begin by report
ing that, off stage as it were. Ne-
legislature
and Rural Electrification obliga-1 llIon- maigems. wasters ami warus,
tions. They do not indicate that 1 are without voice; its educators
the "Little TYA" hydroelectric ; and social workers are without ef-
districts have under set ions con- , f(,(.Uve 1( a,iel ship. To the thai
i;e as 1L wen, c . : . . . . l - :.. - ... , r n . I. '
c - . si.iprui inn I ne ni vn i: n il t ,iu inf.. , , ..,
k.i,. v,Qa o henevolent Uncle , T cnue consiaruiv wing nun;; mi
biaska nas a ovnevwem .-'"-'Y nrtvat lrtH unlit m in the stale .. , . . ... -
mem: nai is mere m me way
ol governmental services that could
possibly have been worth as much
to our citizens as the $139,000,000
reduction in general property
Sam who has not declined to put
her in woolens. Of all her 48 sis
ters, Nebraska has stood ninth in
line' outside of the federal treas
ury receiving a total of 551 million
dollars, or $404.02 per capita. In
the matter of non-recoveiable fed
eral relief funds, she has also
stood ninth,N receiving $203 per
capita, as against the national av-
particular has been very Scotch
For 70 years she has been cau
tious, right up to and over the
borders of false economy, scorn
ing any bended debt in excess of
$100,000, running on a cash basis
most of the time and taking one
spectacular fling a special levy
for a 10 million dollar state
house.
! six times as much in non-recover
able relief as she has contributed
in federal internal revenue, altho
the nation as a wnoie nas ianen
back in relief almost exactly what
it has paid out as revenue (14 bil
lion dollars i.
"Not that this federal assistance
has all been clear gain either. In i
braska is advertising, not only her , Barb .lance last Friday evenins
(products and industrial attractions. 1 following the foctball rally. Here-
but iv r virtu s. iow sell-nghtcou.s-1 a) ter a neat apparance will be a
ness is a dangerous pose. It invites ' requisite for entering the ballroom,
attack and it is suspect as hypo-! The council considered division
crisy. It can. under criticism, .o of the prof its . from the Friday
easily shade off into truculent self-1 dance among the Barb A. W. S.
defense. Contrariwise, it can en- J boai .1 and the Barb Interclub
gender self-doubt. Both of these ; council, and empowered a comlttee
reactions are already evident in j with if s'.-. ictions to buy furniture
Nebraska. There are the people for the Barb office, which is room
who flare up emotionally at any . 307 1 tiie Student Union. Bob
fault finding. There ure others who , Simmons, council president,' Bp
assert they never heard so much i pointed Beatrice Ekblad and Hai
criticism as has resulted since the riet Lewis as a committee to nom
White Spot campaign. Th'-re is a inate a senior girl to fill one vac-
levu-s fuhicved since 1927?' they I bare chance 1h:it the kick-l ack will ; aneey in the council, and Duane
have the counter challenge: 'Can j emphasize Nebraska's shortconi-1 Hs;, in and Ki le Constable to nom
the adequacy of governmental; ngs even more than its excel-, inate a .sophomore boy for the
services be measured only in terms lencies. ; second vaeancy.
of dollars saved?' A man may I "The feeling of many Corn-
save by never visiting a dentist. buskers might be paraphrased as LONELY HEARTS
but he may also die ot an abscess j follows: "We should have been left
mleetion. i in our obscurity. We were luakint: (Continued from Page 1.)
One day this summer a Para-1 some commer.ua oie advances ai.u
piivate electric utilities in the state
at an estimated .j to 100 million!
dollars. j
Institutions
"To inquire into Nebraska's in
stitutions would require a book
length compilation of data. Such
a compilation, detailed and dis
mal, has in fuel l en made the
two bulky volumes of the Nebras
ka survey of social resources
(19381. I suggest it in evidence
to the curious, together with the
Yiiiit-n ,.rft,-,t w.rir.vt tf 1 Vi rt (Ithfti'MP
relation , National Society of ' mol'nl Clpw 111 and i experiments. For example, tryii.g
Penal Information., ai.,1 set .'lo.vn iill",it Lincoln shooting pictures of
I Governor Cochran, of the magnif
, icf-nt paid for state house, of a
i housi w ife in a market making
, riin , hast s without m.leK tokens
the most part, housed in antique , , .wnC(.ll free fjf
here no more than three generali
zations derived therefrom:
1. Nebraska institutions are. for
'In the town and country dis
tricts 46 accredited high schools j state parsimony has been to leave
! responsibilities with the counties,
towns and school districts, rh.s
policy, coupled with the usual
wasteful sins of local autonomy,
has borne painfully on hundreds
of local subdivisions (of which
there are 8,5381. Ey 1928. these
units were obligated for 113 mil
lion dollars in bonds. Refunding
in some cases became so costly in
interest charges as to overtop the
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ocai hip on uie eiaim luml mh- mibi,. -.. . . i-.. . . ,. : . , .
v... CC..1 r.t ,v,;c ! as she eoes and has no state debt. ' .V:1 .. . " ' "'t. At the time 1 heard about it,
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the White Spot is a little like the ' "
.mil,. ha hAt ita home is un- 2. Salaries and wa-es paid are
I happened to be with a dissenting
Ncbia!-k.i attorney. 'I wish,' he
incumbered hoping that vou will i so 1'. ll0Uls u,n and the , snorted, 'that these cameramen
infnr tViat it Visia nrt bill ! work so heavy that Nebraska t-n-! would follow some of these t.aid
the baker, the ntH sltm ' uisinuuons wiui a ior mgnways to some ol our paid
modern. nigiuyirain-.i personnel, j lor stale institutions-paid for in
3. Nebraska institutions can give j lv0 and photograph what they
little more than custodial t are. I found there. The white spot woulil
"It must not tie supposed that have a reel of publicity it couldn't
riiir.l ibdHI.ln bond. . $ 14.ikiii.WH. mere is no awaiennehs oi uie.-e , lausju on.
rllhlotl Irritation projwt
itiir T A" Irrl. ft ik din
nou :s.(XKi.eoi
go on
with the butcher.
candlestick maker. But note just a
few of the debt items not mention
ed (except subdivision bonds I in
White Spot propaganda
a unicameral legislature. Giving
Mr. Arnold a field lor his expos. s
of tax waste in th
, cording to the type of date that the
' !i -nt w arts
.lames states that it is a good
plan to call for a date, a day ahead
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au.l i it Tir.ill !..ei,,c in........ i.f V......1 -
issues for big const nation pro
jects. l-.!iii(ting a county budg. t
law (thanks to Mr. Arnold's Fed
eration) that might well be a na
tional model. I'aring to push ahead
with our 'Little TVA' hydro-electric
districts, which n.fty rvsult in
Nebraska becoming the fiirt st-.te
publicly to own its entire electric
power system.
"But sujdciily to set ourselves
up as a paragon ol civic viitm-s is
l unwarranted. We're not that pood.
inadequacies in Nebraska. Anin-; "Why. you are aked. is the With incomes at.d intaigibles go
BLiiunouni ouuiuijg in ofji fin i.uieu (,i(io,i:i so iiiicnsivc in AeoiasKa ! ing lice aii'l real prop, r.y over-
When the
clock strikes
nine
o o
NOT a murder, not a peace confer
ence nor a dictator's speech, but a far more
important occurrence will mark this signifi
cant hour.
THE September issue of the Ne
braska AWGWAN will go on sale at 9 A. M.
tomorrow.
RELIGION WEEK
I of missionary personnel of the
I I'resbvteiian board of foreitrn mis-
Isicins; Mrs. Grjee Sloan Overton
Ann Arbor. Mich.; Dr. K. Stanley
I. bines, evangelist at large for the
i North India Annual conference,
(Continued from Page 1
ority houses, boarding clubs, dorm
itories, and student tnr,nse.
& vnp.iyl Ti.rifnt in ehirh iho
,. . , ' , . . Speakers Increasing.
religious leaders triav be inter-
viou--.fl -r.,1 hav vr.wi.l ei.Mer. Seminars held st 4 p. m. ev.-iy
ences with stude nts has been set ; IlUrr,'""n tn i nUln. builJ1"K
aside on each day s progiam.
Pershing Rifles
;To Meet Today
satisfio tion even if a client calls
an hour before a contemplated
date.
Dining formal season, the bu
re, a will tal:e cue of such details
as the corsage .tickets and other
such points of a date. Of course,
the c st of these services will be
include. in the fee.
This- tniiaii does not connne its
activities to college students. They
a:.-,i have a number of business
men and women and high school
students as clients.
Their office houis aie from
a. in. til midnight. You can con
tad them by calling B1255 during
any time of the day.
include talks on "The Meaning of
the Christian Faith" by T. Z. Koo;
" "ill iTVJlt ion -if thff Sioir-il iii.l T if.-'
every evening during the ' v, c, -... i,.nAy. ...
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Public meeting scheduled for S
p. m
week will feature special addtess' s
by T. Z. Koo, Secretary ol the
World's Student Christian Feder
ation, Shanghai, China; Albeit H.
Palmer, Chicago, 111.; Sam Higg en
bottom, organizer and president
of Allahabad Chtistian rollege
and head of the agricultural in
stitute nf that college, Allahabad,
India; Merrick B. Young, secutary
cmr
Vhy
vocation" b- H. D. Bollinger:
"Chrirstian Living in Social re
lations by Fiank C. McCullock;
"Chnstian Marriage'' by Mis.
Glare Sloan Overton, and 'The
Woild Mission of the Christian
Church" by Hcrrick B. Young.
The list of speakers for the week
is stiJl being enlarged, aecordli;
to Dr. Cliailes Patleison, chairman
of the speaker comlttee, and rep.
rtH-Maiive Irotn every denomi
at ion will be secured before th"
lint IS conipleted.
New ii.t UiU 13 of the training ,
nn;t of the Nebia.-l.a t ria j,t -r ol (
I't Isllllig illfleh Will hold their fust j
meeting -if the year this afternoon
at .1 o'clock. '
I'.olnit Nehon. c ; f .1 h i:i f.f the i
orgaiji7.a1ioii lor this year, an
nounced that it is important that
all of last year's incriibefj attend
the meeting this afternoon.
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The queMtion of 1he very trou
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will be attarked this week by
member of Alpha Thl Omega, Jis
tional service fraternity. A.P.O.'s
under the leadership of Ellsworth
Steele will control the utag line
from 4:30 to 5 o'clock when Aul
ton Holland. Alpha Phi Omega
president, will assume rexponslbil
ity.
I linost co-operation with the
men wotking with the stag line,
is requested by Mrs. Kdger Yinger,
St'idcnt Union day social director,
and by Aulton P.olland of the serv
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