Thursday, January 9, 194T
DAILY NEBRASKAN
Retiring governor's
last act-6.7 cut
recommended for UN
Retiring Governor Cochran, in his last public act (until he is elected to
some other position in the state, by the state . . .) recommended an increase in
the state budget for 1041-43 of approximately 8 over the amount appropri
ated by the last legislature for the 1939-1941 biennium.
Accompanying the budget proposals was the three-term governor's mes
sage. In explaining the items listed in his recommendation, he hurriedly, it
seems, skipped over any reference to the 6.7 slash he made in University
of Nebraska funds from taxation monies.
Last appropriation for the university from tax funds was a little over
$3,500,000. Cochran's idea of what the university should have for th next
two years is $3,266,028. The amount requested by the Chancellor and the
Board of Regents (and that amount is the lowest, the very minimum that
is needed ... no exhorbitant request was made and nothing unnecessary
was asked) is $3,931,300.
The retiring governor's recommendation is not only a C.7 cut under
the last actual appropriation, but it is a 16.9 cut under what the regents
and the Chancellor requested.
At the same time, state normal sthools received a cut of barely over 10
Their fight for appropriations is their own. It is noteworthy to write that in
Cochran's message, when he spoke of the cut in educational funds, his sub
ject did not stray from the normal schools, which take less than half of what
the university gets. There was no reference to the university slash.
Unless Mr. Cochran simply didn't understand that the Regents and the
Chancellor were entirely honest and conscientious; entirely cognizant of
other needs for public monies, we can see very little reason for cutting the
university appropriation, or recommending a cut in it.
The governor has the job of reframing this proposed budget and the new
legislature has the job of passing his proposal. Whatever political wrangling
and whatever political reasons there ore behind the whole budgetary prob
lem, we are not informed well enough to comment upon. But v n mise there
is some skullduggery.
We do hope Governor Griswold and the new legislature decide that grant
ing the university what it asks is not too much.
The time when the legislature could say the university could stand
being underfed another couple of years is past. Cochran may have thought
the institution's constitution was stronger than we know it is. And then
again, there may be other reasons for cutting.
In the meantime, we must wait a few weeks to see what Governor Gris
wold does ; and also in the meantime, if we want to think things . . .
Behind the Headlines
by Olson and Ordol;
Defense and deficits
Two days after reporting the state of the nation to be one of "un
precedented peril," Tresidcnt Roosevelt submitted an unprecedented
peace-time budget, reflecting the huge cost of preparing for total de
fense in a world at war -a budget which asks 10 billions for defease
and ups total aliottments for gun economy to 28 billion.
This estimate took no account of cost of aid to Britain, Greece
and China, an extensive program to be covered in a subsequent ap
propriation request and which may easily mean an additional 10 bil
lions before the completion of the fiscal year 1942.
On the basis of the President's message, it is calculated that
the national debt will rise to 58 billions in 1942; and the chief execu
tive indicated that he believed statutory limitations on the public
debt should be removed.
Clearly mandatory upon the hew congress is the necessity of
voting new taxes. Relative to this exigency there exists an unprece
dented state of mind among the American people. In diametrical op
position to the usual yowling of diatribes against ne-v taxes by the
groups about to suffer them, the general public now is willing to pay
new tar.es even asking for them,
A recent Gallup poll shows that a majority of adult Americans
favor the imposition of a special income tax on ALL incomes from
whatever source derived, and regardless of total income.
This attitude certainly deserves commendation. It seems to stem
from a general realization that defense needs are Imperative; that
annual deficits running into decades of time are unhealthful. It is
another indication, fairly common in the last two years, that gen
eral thinkina is ahead of congressional action.
Another encouraging factor in the situation is the fact that the
American public is not faced with the necessity of choosing between
guns or butter. We shall be able to have boUi at least for some time
to come.
Equally encouraging, however, is the realization that toil, and
sweat and sacrifice are essential to protect the American way of life.
Immediate action Eteming from that realization is the news of the mo
ment As the president has aptly said: "It will never be any earlier.
Latins may win
CAA awards
Training division offers
scholarships to students
Twenty special primary flight
training scholarships are being of
fered by the Civil Aeronautics Ku
tlu.ily to all Pan-American stu
dents registered in United States
colleges. Prof. J. W. Haney of the
mechanical engineering college
Ba d today. '
ilecip.ents of scholarships wih
en .or Lhe program on the same
phys.caJ and scholastic basis as
regular students except for mect
Lii citizenship and national de
fense requirements.
Applications must be in Wash
ington. D. C. not later Uitui Jan.
22. Clanks can be secured from
Prof. J. W. Haney.
' The
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By CIu U Petersen
MORONITORIAL.
ln Defense of this Column"
A Statement of Column Policy.
I don't know of anything more
innane or assinine or Freudian
than an unradical radical. Such
an imbecile is a heretic and un
worthy of his Alma Mater. As H
L. Menchen says, "hie, haec, hoc.'
He ought to feel, as I do, more re
sponsibility toward raising the de
cadent standard of student
morals. If he can't write free
verse he ought to at least contri
bute a new dance step to modern
culture.
I don't like dumb people who
aren't members of Phi Beta
Kappa and intelligent ones who
are. I am a radical myself but
not many people know it. How
ever, I have read all the books on
the restricted shelves of the li
brary in preparation for this
worthy declaration of policy. As
H. L. Mencken says, "such is life."
Put I digress. Time was when
a fellow could drink two bottles of
soda pop and produce a master
piece. Look at Poe. Now you
can't thirst or even hunger toward
degenerate thinking and get by
with it As H. L. Mencken says,
"bah!"
So if there's anything wrong
with this column, that's it. I light
another cigarette to make me feel
wicked and give up in smoke. Af
H. L. Mencken says, "sno use
'sno use."
27 to 30. Also attending from the
University were John Steinhaus
and Fred Strandskov, graduate
assistants.
Dr. T wis presented a caper on
"Growth of Non-Snorulatine Ancr-
obic Bacteria of Intestinal Origin
in Synthetic Media" which ho
wrote in collaboration with Dr.
V. B. Militizcr of the chemistry
department and Robert A. West,
Jr., who received his M. A. de
gree from Uic university last
June.
Bull din
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HOOAI. WOKKKKS.
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partw X af Utr I nkua at 12 . aa. today.
KINKONI.
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ClltUsriAN MIUWCE.
Htodmt luiHllaa HviratlU wUI tnrrt In
room 31 ui I a.ua at 7:WI p. aa. today.
HOC1AL WOltklKS.
The Amoriat ua of S iaJ Vi jrkm will
raw la ruum 313 of the I .ua at
p. m. today.
I Ul.MIMAN AWN.
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Hnuta at t p. in. to dlneaaa aewvlra.
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UN bacteriologists
attend St. Louis meet
Dr. G. L. Peltier, chairman of
the bacteriology department, anil
Dr. K. H. Lewis. Dr. C. E. Georgi. i
and L. F. Lindgren of the depart
ment attended the annual meet
ings of the Society of American
Bacteriologists in St. Louis. Dec.
Itoilpliii
to
m. la I Jltv huMU.
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ing. Reward. it-TSt.
Optomihts to hear IIop
Helen Hosp, dean of women,
will discuss "Observations in
South America" before the Op
timists Club luncheon meeting
today at the Lincoln hotel.
It is claimed that the modem
coed likes to be healthy, wealthy
and wi.sed-up.
The rains that Nebraskans saw
in "sunny" California kind of wash
up the work of the chambers o.'
commerce oi there.
AfrirccHvc
Rooms for Gir!s
ct Unci's
1339 No. 37
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Pevrlo'pg better apparatus of many lir! at lower co;-t
is a continuous process in the Bell Svtrn. It play a major
part in making your telephone ten ice the finest aud cLeapot
in lhe world. Here is one of many caMs in point:
Alove you we two telephone loading coiU one old, one
new. Suili coil are fj'acd at regular interval along tele
phone circuit. Tliy reduce el- Iric.l loes... help to bring
jour voice through clearly, Mrongly over long dihtanrei.
Through iht years, engineers at iJell Telephone Iilora
torieg hae tueceedej in rnaling them; coili tinallrr and
rmalh r. In m doing, they have greatly reduced the cot per
coil, which... multiplied l-ylhe luilliong in u-e...ha helped
to keep the cot of out-of-town K-ric low.
Why not telephone home ot leost once a week?
Long Distance rotes to mott points are lowest
ony night ofter 7 P. M. and all day Sunday.
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