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Wednesday, DecemEer 11, DAILY NEBRASKAN The University's budget proposal - - QommsmL - - fiuilsduL During the week just completed, the DAILY has tried to acquaint read ers through its news columns of the university's budget problem. By presenting facts, cold ones and pure one3, the DAILY hopes that stu dents understand what the school is up against, hopes that students are in terested enough in the future and present welfare of the school to give it all support possible. Briefly, again, these are the facts, as presented to the state tax com missioner, the Governor, and indirectly, to the legislature -when it meets next month. Operating for four years now under appropriations which forced strin gent economies in all departments, which forced the administration to use up all cash reserves, and which made the total operation and work of this school fall far below the standards necessary to claim prestige as one of the nation's top twenty or thirty educational institutions, the university has been so hard pressed to maintain its standing in national educational circles that it is again forced to ask for an increased appropriation, one which the Regents hope will cover necessities, if the legislature docs grant it. And all the while, the enrollment of the university has gone up! Figures in years during the decade nearing completion show that when the university had hundreds less students than it has now, it received bi-ennial appropria tions all the way from $400,000 to $700,000 more than it received in 1938. The expense to the state for each student enrolled in this university is lower by far than the per capita expense of all surrounding states in the midwest, where educational funds are probably the most difficult to ob tain. Nebraska spent $473 in 1938 on each student while the University of Iowa spent $502, Iowa State spent $641, Kansas spent $568, and Kansas State spent $528. And the other two states represented here support TWO major institutions, not just one . . . giving each of them a larger per capita appropriation than Nebraska has given its ONE state university. We don't blame anyone. We're sorrythe legislature in 1938 didn't see it our way. We realized there were many, many items in the budget and that only so much money was available. In 1938, the university took what it got, depended on its cash reserves to pay the rest, and hoped mightily to retain its prestige and national standing. But in 1940, there are no cash reserves, the prestige and standing are at the brink of the precipice which will drop the school into a third-rate ranking among the nation's colleges. In 1940, a new legislature meets, one to which we appeal for considera tion, one which we ask to understand our problem, one in which we reposej much of our futures. If the university is treated fairly, if it retains its reputation, then we, as future alumni of it, will carry with us the reflected prestige and whatever ad vantages it provides us with in our battle for success. If, when we leave this school, it has degenerated into a third-rate col lege, we shall be at distinct disadvantage. We don't know it now, but we will know it if that budget is cut again, or if the Regents' request is decreased. You all have an investment in this school. Even though you pay for only a third of your education, what you do pay is an investment. The wise business man protects bis investment, makes all possible effort to see that his final income is the greatest possible. And the first step toward pro- tec ting and enhancing the chances of success in investing is to know what you are investing in, to know everything and anything about it Behind the Headlines by Olson and Ordol; Defeating the world . . "We will defeat the entire world," Adolf Hitler promised Ger many Tuesday as he added another supplement to Mein Kampf, blue print of conquest, bringing it up to date. Standing before a backdrop of shining new cannon barrels, the German leader with impassioned fury outlined German war aims be fore a crowd of 12 thousand workers in the huge Borzig munitions plant in Berlin. Referring to the war as a contest between the "haves" and the "have nots," he justified Germany's war procedures on the ground that the right to live includes the right to soil, that still more "lebcn sraum" was necessary for the populous German nation. On the nature of ideals he said: "We want a state in which birth r mSm) T-t f i acre s always r moment for the pause that refreshes with Ice-cold Coca-Cola. The taste of ice-cold Coca-Cola delights your taste. It brings you a refreshed feeling that is always welcome. Millions enjoy il daily. 4USE THAT REFRESHES Boidvi uodez authocu of Tin Coca-Cola Co. by LINCOLN COCA-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY matters nothing and achievement means everything. For this we are working with tremendous en thusiasm. Contrasted with this is the idea of our enemis a fight for egoism, for capital, for individ ual and family privileges." Noteworthy is the phrase, "in dividual and family rights" 6S characteristic of the democracies. He went on to insist that the principles of German national socialism are diametrically op posed to the aims and bases of the democracies, that "one of these two worlds must break asunder." He explicitly stated that it is not the Reich that would be doing the breaking. In expounding the- new eco nomics, he said: "The traffic sig nals are now placed as follows: Gold versus labor. I built up my entire economy on the conception of work. Those who had gold have failed completely. You can't get anybody to take British pounds even if you throw them after them. Our German mark without gold is worth more than gold." Explaining his personal attitude, he said, "I am not a man who does things half way. When once I have decided on my course I am filled with boundless fanaticism." The truth of this last statement seems incontrovertible. It reminds us that Herr Hitler is not a man who can be judged by ordinary standards. That is clear from the many colossal errors of under estimation made in recent years. Also estimates on what he and other nazi leaders may try seem out of order. Sole valid criteria is the estimate of what they can do. Consequently, analyses of po tential German activity must be in terms of German military might and not beclouded by wishful thinking. A HAIR CUT Commerce Barbers 35c MorOi 35c 13 EXPERT WORKMANSHIP DICKINSON TIM Senoel of ItdhWul Imtrocttoo AIX BIBINKKS SUBJECTS DICKINSON SECRETARIAL SCHOOL ZtZ-f U Onmta lib. Ufe RMg. t-tlfl tJa North af OoM ELGIN AND HAMILTON WATCHES Sheaffer Pens and Pencils Telechron and Westclox Clocks Court- S. Mullen Jeweler 141 No. 13th Phone 2-7551 Bulletin CORN COBS. la rum SM of today. Cora CM will meet the Into at 7:30 p. m Fill SIGMA IOTA. Mil Hi cm a Iota, romance htafrnage hon orary, wHI inert at tan hen of Dr. Hl fakrto Haent, 204 South tth aUeet toaajr at 7: So p. m. raprra will be read by Rob ert Sandbar an4 Dr. Bowm. ECONOMIC. Economics mill meet Tlranaay at 7:39 p. m. In the family Ignore of the I'alnn. Irof. Karl Arndt will 4lnn "Cnrrrnt Conflict In Monetary Theory" to be fol lowed by an informal dJwcoakloa of the subject. 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