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5unfay, Jancary T, Editorial Opinion Comment Bulletin Tli DAILY NEBRASKA! No Politicians Allowed, Eh! News dispatches bring us word that Thomas E. Dewey, most youthful of material for the republican presidential nomination, will speak in the university coliseum as part of a G. O. P. Founders day get-together in Lincoln March 1. These facts are not sur prising. Republicans in the state have always man aged to get one of their national big-wigs, like Col. Frank Knox or Dr. Glen Frank, here about this time of the year. Furthermore, they have always en gaged the university's coliseum, Lincoln's only ex cuse for an auditorium. But It seem almost necessary, however, that these facts bring to light the surprising situa tion several weeks ago when Student Union offi cials had to tell Senator Edward R. Burke, after having invited him, that it would be impossible and inadvisable for him to appear before the stu dent body In the Union building. We learned from reliable sources In Omaha that Senator Burke, who was elected on the democratic ticket six years ago and is presently entering a stiff race for re-election, had begun preparation of an address that was to "contain no political propa ganda or campaign comment but pure observa tion and knowledge of the national and interna tional situation'' as had been requested in the in vitation. It is believed refusal to permit his ap pearance came from officials high in Union ad ministration from officials higher in tne admin ktration than those who put in their appearance at the Union daily to do their work. Senator Burke, at least, was afforded more courtesy than that given Mr. Earl Browder at sev eral eastern colleges where the communist was not permitted to make his appearance. Nice words were spoken when Senator Burke was told that his re quest address here would have to be canceled. No publicity was given the cancellation because of the fact, according to sources, that one member of the Union board of control thought it improper to have "a politician" speak before the students of the Uni versity of Nebraska. The entire incident raises many questions. The thought that the university was playing factional politics is completely out of question since the scheduled appearance of Dewey and the canceled appearance of Burke have to do with different cir cumstances completely. It leads one to wonder, however, when a man of politics IS a politician and when he IS NOT. It asks whether or not men of university affairs consider a man of political af fairs inferior and his words "degrading" upon young political minds. It makes one wonder if the univer sity has any constructive idea of attempting to re capture student interest in politics, public affairs, and down-to-earth, first-hand problems concerning national problems. It imposes the question whether or not Nebraska students, who are fortunate in be ing able to witness a unique state legislature func tion, should concern itself at all with politics. We've heard our foreign exiles who do thetr duty of predicting international affairs at the tune of $300 or so per appearance. Why not hear our own men for a change? Why not hear those men upon whose compro mises and political Juggling the grants for con struction of the Union building itself and the athletic field house depended. Regent Action . . . Bri.:js Housing to a Head Action by the Eoard of Regents yesterday in reducing women's dormitory rales brings the wom en's housing problem to a head. We have known for some time that the new dean of women had been informed of the women's hous ing investigation carried on during the past two j'cars on the campus. It was probably this knowl edge that prompted her to take steps to remedy the situation before any unlavorable publicity could be smuggled into the newspapers and besmirch the elaborate build-up given Love hall at the time of dedication. We have known for some time, also, that altho Raymond, Love, and Northeast halls accommo date 370 girls, there are only 190 girls occupying rooms. Northeast hall is completely vacant. At the beginning of the second semester this num ber will be reduced to about 160, taking into ac count about 30 girls who wiH move into sorority houses. This leaves room for a little more than 200 girls next semester. The action of the board of regents yesterday re duced dormitory rates beginning second semester from the present rate of $152 to $144 with the year ly rate, efective Sept. 3, 1940, scaled down from the present $304 to $270. Provision was also made whereby girls who are working for meals outside the halls may rent rooms there for $10 a month. Thus it is assumed that there are 200 girls now living In university-approved rooming houses work ing outside for their meals who wiH be in a position to move into the dorma next semester, but a look at some figures will disprove this possibility. Ac cording to average figures compiled last spring, there are approximately 160 girls living in ten houseB, that do not provide meals, at a cost of $7..r0 to $11.00 a room per month. At least one-third of these girls are engaged in light housekeeping, with an average cost of a little less than $10. This leaves about 100 girls whose average room cost is $8.50. These are the girls that are to be encouraged to move into the dorms where they will pay $10 per month for a room. This leads to two conclusions: If a girl can have light housekeeping privileges for less than $10 and if another girl can live in a room for $8.50 a month, why should either of them move into the dorms where they would be obliged to pay $10 for a room and where there are no provisions for light housekeeping ? And still the dorm lacks 100 girls. Are they to come from the more than 100 girls who live in the seven other university approved houses and pay an average of $24, per month for board and room when it would cost them $36 a month in the dorms ? And this question of bearable living quarters for more than 250 girls now living in "university-approved rooming and boarding houses" becomes more serious as more money is put into beautifully built, but empty dormitories. An investigation of more than half of these houses last spring showed that if any authorized investigation had ever been made by the university, two of the houses, from the standpoint of decent living quarters, could never have been approved. Yet these houses house about 25 girls. Of the remaining 15, five could almost be considered in excellent condition, with the exception of one that presents somewhat of a fire hazard be cause of too high light voltage on one outlet. Of course, the university does not own these houses, but merely approves them with evidently a cursory investigation of their condition, accord ding to reliable information gathered In the recent investigation. The situation sums itself up into thie one re grettable conclusion: "The university ia barking up the wrong tree." For the action of the board of regents, which we believe may be credited mostly to the sincere effort Dean Hoep, while it does reduce the cost of living in the dorm, doea not vet meet the existing costs of living in rooming and boarding houses, nor provide for those girls who de sire light housekeeping privileges. There is no pro Tision made for the fact that all girls do not work for all their meals, nor do they work aS the time. Thus the dorms cannot yet be filled, unless the university ia desperation, requires aH freshman women to live in them within the near future. In the meantime a sufficient number of rooming houses could be made satisfactory for Kvlng. But perhaps it ie to the university's advantage not to remedy existing conditions but to concentrate in stead on filling the dorms. For with the gradual increase in emphasis on the dorms and the con sequent lack of unfavorable publicity on the rooming houses, it is not too impossible that these later may become, more and more, unpleasant places for girls to Kve. Those girls who wish to attend university will be forced to live in the dorms. This will raise the cost of living. Less girls will be able to afford to attend university. Perhaps this is one way of restricting enrollment, a subtle way. 1 dfoundupL 1 w By Davis, Loos, Mahnken fjfo Daily Nebraska Official Newspaper Of Man Than 7.000 SajrfWs THIRTY-NINTH YEAR Offices Union Building Day 8-7181. Night 2-7193. Journal 8-3333 Member Associated Colleglata Press, 1939-40 Member Nebraska Press Association. 1939-40 Represented for National Advertising by NATIONAL ADVERTISING SERVICE. INC. 420 Madison Ave., New York. N. V. Chicago Boston Los Angeles San Franclace Published Daily during the school year except Mondays and Saturdays, vacations, and examination periods by students of the University sf Nebraska, under supervision of the Publications Board. Subscription Rates art $1.00 Per Semester or $1.50 for th College Year. $2.50 Mailed. Single copy, S Cents. Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice In Lincoln, Nebraska, under Act of Congress, March S, 187$, and at special rats of postage provided for in Section 1103, Act of October I. 1917. Authorized January 20, 1922. Editor-in-Chief Harold Niemann Business Manager Arthur Hill UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA OFFICIAL BULLETIN This bulletin is for the use of campus organizations, students and fac ulty members. Announcements ef meetings or other notices for the bulletin may be submitted at the NEBRASKAN office by 5 p. m. the day of pub lication or at the registrar's office by 4 p. m. on week-days and 11 a. m. on Saturday. Notices must be typed or legibly written and signed by some one with the authority to have the notice published. The bulletin will ap pear daily, except Monday and Saturday, on page two of the NEBRASKAN. snirHOCT raocmAais. racist C af the Falaa will be rrm So- a t a. m. ataSmta wtahtaf mm the VARIETY MATINEE The t'aioa will pratmt a frw rarfcty MtaM Naaday tftmnm ha taw ballnMm a 4 p. m. lncladea ha the program are vandrviltat art a4 twH length botvM "kaat Meets WeaU" TWCA VESrERS Mm. C. E. Btaaeaqaist wilt speak aa "KnUrtaa hi the Hmr- at Veaprra Tm aay at S p. m. In Film Smith. Mary BUmjH wiH Ina4 -rtons. VESTES CHOI a. T W Veapercfcolr rehearsal wttl be Mo ay at p. m. tm Etlea Smith. SIGMA trsiLOV The Wwdfunlth chapter of Sigma I pul- am, Biwqr literary fraternity. the elertl it wrm ffleera. They are: Smith B. Pavla, prmtdeat, mm Emary t. Bnrmett, arrrrtary-reaaarrr. laataJlatUa will he at the aext aamttac. to he brae Raw4ap, Jaaaary 1, S a, a, at est Karta IMA ttu Two Momenta haw her eJerte4 to mm benihlp this year: Frank J. Blaa4( wmt , Hamiltoa Ree4. PRE-SOCIAL WORK UNCHBON Jodce Joha L. Inlk will aaarr the Pre-hoetal Work Majors tm the sabjert. "The Juvenile Coart." at thrkr aanathly timrhenn to he held Jaaaary f kt Room SIS 4 the l aloa at 11:1. CONGREGATIONAL DINNER. The ConKrecaUunal utadente of the M wrulty will have dinner la Tartar X and T of the Mtaerat I hi low Taraaay, Jaaaary S, at . r. Joha M. fhllUn ! the tint f Vnti-al OntTreatJoaal march of Omaha will be the uneaher. AH Cearreralloaal tadenu are wrbvme. Panne jour reorrva tmne to Doris Rtplry S-6M4 or to She CimirrraUoaal office, 5-489. Grad school gets $4,642 Relief funds to be used for worthy students Graduate School of Social Work has received $4,642 from the Ne braska Emergency Relief Admin istration, to be used in assisting worthy students in the school. Di rector Frank Z. Glick, announced. This is the sum remaining: after liquidation of the state adminis tration some time ago. When the work of the federal emergency relief administration was concluded, the government decided that the states which still possessed relief funds should keep and spend them as they saw fit. The Nebraska agency had ap proximately five thousand re maining, which has now been turned over to the university to be used for scholarships and as sistantships, beginning next year. Recipients of the grants must have demonstrated their scholas tic ability and must show that they cannot continue their gradu ate study without financial assis tance, according to the social work head. According to the provisions agreed upon, one or more of scholarships of not less than f 250 each will be awarded, plus free tuition, and at least one graduate assistantship of an amount com mensurate with the quality and quantity of service the student is able to render. English instructors . attend holiday meetings Dr. T. M. Raysor, chairman of the department of English, and several members of the English faculty, Miss Louise round, Miss Mamie Meredith, Miss Ruth Odell, Miss Margaret Cannell, Miss Ma bel Strong, Kenneth Forward, and Ray Fiantz attended the Christ mas meetings of the Modern Lan guage Association and the Amer ican Association of University Professors at New Orleans. SUBVERSIVE HOUSEWIVES. A report of the Dies committee made public dur ing the past fortnight reveals that of the 4,751 members of the communist party registered in Cali fornia, housewives comprise the largest single oc cupational group. The assertions of those who saw In the longshoremen and agricultural laborers hot beds of communism have been proven nothing but a smokescreen threwn up to becloud the opposition to the economic demands of these elements, for the combined membership of these groups is less than 300. Rather, it is the feminine hand that is rocking the cradle of the infant red party. Overlooking the fact that probably the greater share of this group possesses no full and complete understanding of what communism implies, we may pause and view with mock alarm, and pose the question When "comes the revolution" will it be led by grim-eyed refugees from the kitchen who have forsaken skillet and broom for the hammer and sickle? Meanwhile the committee has asked congress to extend its life for another year, that the subver sive elements may be turned into complete rout. Congressmen who read the committee's report will certainly not feel inclined to do so. 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