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Vol. 40, No. t(4 6? 7 Lincoln, Nebraska Thursday, January 9, 1941
annuo budgeti cuft
Budget proposal $665,000 under
regents 'minimum' request
Administration grants
ball goers 12:30 night
A 12:30 night has been granted university women wishing to
attend the inaugural ball at the coliseum tonight, according to Helen
Hosp. Only women planning to attend the ball will be given late
permission, and a note signed by the housemother will be required
before permission is granted.
The ball, honoring Nebraska's
new governor Dwight Griswold,
will feature the music of Gus
Arnheim and his world famous
orchestra.
Permission for the special late
night must be obtained from the
house mother, according to Miss
Hosp. The ball is open to all and
Is the first one since R. L. Coch
ran took office six years ago.
Attire will be either formal or
informal and a reception will pre
cede the dancing which begins at
9 p. m.
Tickets may be obtained at all
Lincoln hotels for $1.10 per per
son and at the coliseum tonight
for $1.35. Spectator seats are 35c.
A grand march at 10 p. m. will
be one of the special features as
well as several numbers by the
Lincoln American Legion drum
and bugle corps.
Following the first hour of danc
ing, the grand march of the inau
gural ball will take place at 10
o'clock. State officials, members
of the legislature and others bid
den by special invitation will take
part in the march. It will be
opened by flourishes from the
American Legion drum and bugle
corps. After the march dancing
will be resumed for the rest of the
evening.
'Miss Bishop'
director talks
here Monday
Tay Garnett arrives
for picture premiere;
plans convo in Union
Hollywood's Tay Garnett, direc
tor of "Cheers for Miss Bishop,"
which will have its world premiere
in Lincoln Tuesday, will speak at
a Union special event convocation
Monday at 11 a. m. Garnett, who
has coached actors for such pro
ductions as "Seven Sinners," and
"Trade Winds," will generally dis
cuss the motion picture industry
under the subject "The Art of
Making Motion Pictures."
Garnett was assigned to the di
rectorship of the movie version
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request, wishing to try his talents
on a story depicting the life at a
typical midweatern university aft
er having specialized in escapist
adventure pictures. He will ad
dress speech classes in the afternoon.
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Betas go to dogs
again as Byron
replaces Prince
have gone to the
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Dwight Griswold.
The Betas
dogs again!
This time it's Byron, replacing
last year's giant St. Bernard,
Prince. "The Mut," actually a
Great Dane, consumes $25 worth
of dog food, bones, meat and
pledges; especially pledges, be
cause they are reported cheap this
year.
Following in the footsteps of his
predecessor this little two year
old is using his great size to pro
tect the Betas from the girls, if
they need it. He is seven to eight
feet from tip to tail and stands
three and a half feet high. The
girls are not the only ones who
may get into trouble with Byron.
This morning he opened his mouth
and the grocery man fell in.
Byron is really quite an attrac
tive dog. He is black with white
spots which make him appear to
be gray at a distance. Thev say
if he so much as wags his tail
15 freshmen fall to the floor. That
is pledges, of course, whose chief
duty at present is the task of
house breaking Byron.
Still Journal.
Gus Arnheim.
University of Nebraska
Appropriated Expended Requested Recommended
Tax
Cash
Funds.
Funds.
Tax Funds..
Cash Funds.
1939-41 FirstYear
.3,501,485.00 1,742,828.84
.4,028,785.00 2,085,786.24
Normal Schools
.1.063,269.00 523,973.91
.1,464,258.00 334,693.32
Total INCREASE in budget for state
1941-13
3,931,300.00
4,118,773.42
1,177,219.53
430,400.78
8.1.
3,266,028.00
4,118,773.42
1,051,675.23
430,400.78
Total DECREASE in educational funds from last appropri
ations 6.7.
Cut in regents' budget proposal 16.9.
Relative cut of requests borne by educational institutions 30.
Total cut in recommended budget appropriations $2,634,773.33.
Cut in education appropriations as recommended $790,816-30.
Cut in normal school request 10.7.
A recommendation of an appropriation for 1lie university
of $3,2Gfi,02S was made by Outgoing Governor II. L. Cochran
yesterday morning in his budget message to 1 ho .Vth legislature.
The figure set by (Joveruor Cochran represents a decrease
from the 19:19-11. .appropriation by 2:l..4.""7.77. The sum rec
ommended is also $G65,272 less ,
than the $3,931,300 requested by
the university board of regents.
Budget figures for the general
fund are $2,659,482. The previous
general fund appropriation was
$2,837,400. Agricultural extension,
conservation and survey, and col
lege of medicine recommenda
tions were also below the 1939-41
appropriations.
Departments hit.
Not only were recommended
university appropriations slashed,
but also many other state depart-
Wendell Berge talks
at Charter Pay convo
Wendell Berge, '25, will address the annual Charter Day convoca
tion in the coliseum Saturday, Feb. 15, it was announced yesterday by
Dr. R. J. Pool, chairman of the program. Other plans have been made
by various organizations to celebrate the university's birthday follow
ing the convocation.
The wcallier
The weatherman predicts, cloud
ed skies and a low thermometer
reading for tomorrow and isn't
any too optimistic about there not
being a layer of white covering
the campus by Saturday.
Survey finds college students
believe in freedom of opinions
Michigan
expels 'disturbing' 13;
action shakes rights supporters
BY JOE BELDEN.
Editor Student Opinion Surveys of
America.
AUSTIN. Tex., Jan. 9. Ac
tive supporters of academic free
dom and student rights were re
cently shaken when the University
of Michigan with one-sentence let
ters refused re-admittance to thir
teen young men and women
cause they were considered
turbing influences."
"be-dis-
Berge is on the legal staff of
one of the government depart
ments in Washington, D. C. The
topic of his speech which he will
give at 10:15 a. m. has not yet
been disclosed. Chancellor C. S
Boucher will preside.
Saturday evening the Lincoln
Alumni club will hold its celebra
tion banquet. Only tentative plans
have been made but it is certain
there will be a large celebration.
According to Flsworth DuTeau,
Nebraska alumni are vitally in
terested in returning to some soil
of celebration for the alma mater
since over 1,800 attended the ban
quet Jan. 1 at the Ambassador
hotel in Los Angeles following the
Rose Bowl game. Others would
have attended the banquet if res
ervations had been available.
University officials have de
clared the action was not taken
because of the students' political
ideas or activities, but the Mich-
iean Committee for Academic
(See OPINION, page 4)
Bishop contest ends today
Nebraska coeds have until mid
night tonight to submit their
photographs in the contest which'
will name the Lincoln woman re
sembling Maltha Scott, star of the
picture "Cheers for Miss Bishop"
which will be premiered in Lincoln
Tuesday.
Winner of the contest will spend
a gala day rubbing elbows with
the Hollywood stars who will be
on hand lor the world preview.
Those attending will include
Wayne Morris, Sabu, Marsha
Hunt, Earbaro Pepper, . William
Curgan and others.
' At the governor's inaugural ball
tonight, three Nebraska coeds will
wear the original costumes worn
by Martha Scott in her role in
"Cheers for Miss Bishop." '
Winner of the contest naming
Lincoln's Martha Scott will meet
the stars at 10 a. m. Tuesday at
the station, ride with them to the
coliseum where they will be pre
sented and then have luncheon
with the actors. Later in the day
she will visit the orthopedic hospi
tal with them where they will be
presented, after which they will
attend a tea in honor of Bess
Streeter Aldrich who wrote the
novel from which the picture was
made.
The Lincoln winner will then be
an honored guest at a banquet at
which the stars will also be hon
ored guests. A police escort to the
theater which is premiering the
show will fellow and the winner
will be presented on the stage with
the Hollywood group. v
Lincoln public schools will be
dismissed at 10:30 a. m. to witness
the premiere. Mayor R. E. Camp
bell has proclaimed Tuesday as a
holiday in celebration of the first
world premiere to be held in Lin
coin.
Entries in the contest must be
turned in either to the DAILY NE
BRASKAN office which Wserving
as official campus sponsor for the
affair or to the Ella Bishop com
mittee at the chamber of com
merce. Only rules governing the
contest state that the candidates
must be of high school or college
age.
I Judges cautioned that the name
and address of entrants must
accompany the photographs which
do not have to , be large ones,
I Snapshots will be acceptable.
ments. Explaining this action, the
governor said in his budgetary
message: "The ability of people
to pay taxes is best measured by
income and assessed value of the
property. As a result of reas
sessment of real property in 1940,
we have seen a decline of i.l per
cent in the valuation of all prop
erty.
''In the preparation of this budg
et, I have felt that total expendi
tures should be reduced in a per
centage equal to the overall re
duction in assessed valuation of
all property for taxation purposes.
In this we found many cases in
which reductions were not possible
because of constitutional or statu
tory provisions. Accordingly, I
made a reduction of 7 percent
where possible in order to obtain
a net reduction in the total of
property tax appropriations in
proportion to the reduction in the
assessed valuation of the state."
The governor further said: "In
keeping with the policy of this
budget, I recommend a 7 percent
reduction in the maintenance fund
of the university and the four
state normal schools."
Three-fifths vote needed.
According to the Nebraska con
stitution, "no appropriation shall
be made in excess of the recom
mendation contained in such
budget, unless by three-fifths vote
of the legislature, and such excess
so approved by three-fifths vote
shall not be subject to veto by the
governor."
Statute provides that the outgo
ing governor shall deliver his
budget message to the legislature
prior to the close of his term and
that the incoming governor shall
have fifteen days to review the
budget of his predecessor. He
may then send a supplemental y
(See BUDGET, page 4)
Void speaks to Advocates on
legal aspect of aid to Britain
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Professor Void.
"Aid to Great Britain in the
Light of Legal Analogies," will be
the subject of Prof. Lawrence
Void's lecture before a meeting'
of the Young Advocates tonight
at 7:30 in social science 209B.
Void, assistant professor of bw,
will discuss the possible applica
tion of domestic law to interna
tional affairs at the present time.
Since international law holds that
it is permissible for private citi
zens of a neutral country to have
dealings with a belligerent, he
says, there is a question as t
how far a neutral nation can of
ficially go without it becoming an
act of war.
International law, how?ver(
doesn't answer the questions of
which nation is right or wrong or
when intervention is justified, ac
cording to Professor Void, and
these questions are pertinent in
considering the proposal of aid t
Great Britain. He will present a
legal analogy of them in hia
speech,