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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 4, 1941)
Tuesday, February 4, 197 DAILY NEBRASKAN fcdxJtoJiiaL An unchanging policy . . . Tlin the NKRUASKAN staff changes each se mester, and with new editors come somewhat al tered viewpoints on most campus problems, we are proud of the inflexibility of the fundamental poli cies of the paper. The DAILY shall always be a student newspaper, and shall express the opinions and desires of all factions, all organizations and all social cliques of the student body. Without administrative guidance or control, we Khali always follow the course and pursue those ends that we as students feel are bst for our univer sity and for our fellow students. Charges are related ly thrown at the Nebraskan that it has failed in this policy, that it is colored with the views of only half the campus, that it is over critical of certain organizations and interest groups and above all that it does not report or play up adequately and indiscriminately the ac tivities of all this student body. Most of these charges are quite unfounded and arise thru ignorance on the part of the oomplain ors of the opportunities for expression they pos scss in the X Kill? A SKA X. An editor is on the sot. Tho he seeks to le non partisan and fair in the stand he takes, his views are Itouml to W colored by his own past exje riences, and will inevitably create dissent ion in some sectoi-s. For if his views were those of all groups, it would be useless and trite for him to express them. Therefore in order to counteract any bias in the editorial columns, and to hear all sides of a ques tion, so that thru an interchange of ideas sounder conclusions may le reached. The DAILY has al ways welcomed comment and criticism in its Letter to the Kdilor column. Thru that column the en tire student body can receive free and unequivocal expression of its views. Xaturally jxditical and grije letters cannot be published, however, for it is the jolicy of this paH-r to build and not to destroy, to unite rather than to split the student body, and to create thru constructive comment a greater interest in the leg islature, the university and the state. Problems of campus coverage can likewise le remedied thru the cooeration of the groups con cerned. Make your act hitler? known. Meet us half way; let us know of your program; tip us off to s)ecia emits. And almve all let the paper know when adequate coverage has not leen received. Ktery student has the opjortuiiity of self ex pression and of publicizing the activities of his in terest groups. The DAILY welcomes such expres sion. lA-ia get together that this pajer may for ever le the student riewspajer of the University of Nebraska. Good-bye Dr. Frolik How indiscriminate is death? lhat it should so often cut short the careers of embryonic leaders whoso lives might well have told the story of one achievement followed by auoiher. If il is predestined that some must die young, why can't it. le those who are wasting away their das in sloih, laziness and drunkedness. Why must fate single out men like the University's Dr. A. L. Frolik, a man whose short can-er gained for him Ihe admiration and resect of all who had contacts v ith him. His dealh by influenza last week ended ten years of steady advancement made by him towards an un derstanding of grasses, their food values and their pror-je tive yilds. It furl her closed a short but com iriendable hi jh of leadership with youth, thru Li work with the so often victorious ag erop judging teams. Working in the field in Cherry county three fum iriers ago Frolik rriajied the vegitatiou density of 114,7."")! acres of the state. Tho the crops field is still young and as yet little understood, he made in his fdiort life brilliant inroads into U, leaving us won dering what might have been Lis status ten year Letts if he Lad been permitted to live. His students say they will always rerneinlT Lira as a friend and an able teacher. Tbe work he has started will be continued by others, that someday tbe understanding be nought for will be achieved. The world Las truly suffered a great loss, as death Las claimed a victim. Comments . . . from our readers j Apologies are in order. The need is even greater than you said I have viewed with considerable skepticism the recent reports in your paper stating the great need of the university for increased appropriations. Like most people 1 guess I've always just taken it for granted that the university would carry on some how, and that the case presented last semester in the NKBRASKAX was nothing but the result of a college editor wanting something to write about. My skepticism was changed to genuine concern last week however when your figures were substan tiated by a statement published in the Lincoln Jour nal, pointing out that the University of Nebraska has the lowest investment per student of any of the 31 members of the Association of American Univer sities. This fact was quoted from the 1940 annual report by the American Council on Education. Reflecting upon the ramshackle condition of the engineering buildings, rickety old U hall and the library, 1 can readily see that lack of capital replacement and subsequent depreciation of that capital accounts for a sizable part of the difference between this and other universities. Rut a comparison of the figures with those of neighboring states reveal too large deviations to le accounted for by this explanation alone. The per student investment at Towa for instance is $2."3. better than double the $1,282 investment at Ne braska. The Kansas ratio is $1,6S) and that at Mis souri is $1,476, both considerably larger than the ratio here. And in addition Kansas is preparing to build itself a new Union building. The significance of it all seems to me to be that Nebraska is grossly underequipped. Our enrollment has outgrown our apropriations and investments. With such figures as these I am convinced that something must be done. Are we to place this per capita ratio on a par with the other schools by decreasing the number of people getting the advantages of an education, or are we to increase the amount spent on the univer sity to a figure comparable to lhat needed by an in stitution this large? I realize only too well the scarcity of money in the state but 1 am truly concerned with the uni versity's financial problems. A graduate student. Kd. Note. The university's financial needs have been explained in the Chancellor's annual repoit to the governor. The legislators are well aware of the problems we face. I think we can feel sure of get ting our share of what money is available during the next bionnium. Can we ask for more than that WjiJCUirkAuiqA. oiv ilxsL WmiL With C Willie To introduce a column is a difficult thing. J think that first It would be only proper to present a minute autobiography of tbe author. G willie first saw the light of day some few decades ago in the little town of Burwell, in the county of Gar field and the state of Nebraska. It was an eventful day. In all the year of Burwell'a poker-ridden, grape juice quenched, Eromo-flooded history, nothing like this had taken place. For was Una littie g willie not a kin of g Pontius willie who drew up the plana for the Great Pyramid and personally laid (he first rock in place? Waa he not kin to Sir g Francis willie who gave Queen Elizabeth a ride on his tandem bicycle so that she could go down to the Channel and watth the de struction of tbe Spanish Armada? Waa he not kin to g Nappie willie who sold ham burg era to the Ruasians at Waterloo? Yes, be was all of this. Can one wonder why this was an eventful day in this little sandhilla town. From the very start, g willie was a robust little ras cal. At the age of 43 hours he kicked the slats out of his mahogany cradle. When a litUe older. 51 hours to be exact, he kept the household awake during one whole night while be amused tbem with musical selection which ranged from Hoffman's 'Tales from the Vienna Woods' to Glenn Miller's "Frerasi.- At the age of four days be astounded his father by Behind the headlines One for the books ... The Supreme Court handed down a decision for the history books Monday when it unanimously up held the constitutionality of the highly controver. sial wages and hours law. giving the federal govern ment ihe authority to regulate wages, hours and child laln.r in industries entering in any way into iuiorstaie commerce. The decision comes at the beginning of the hun- dmlth vear since the Courts first recognized laU.r unions as entitled to a legal existence. In the early part of Ihe nineteenth century it was held a con spiracy against the public good for workers to meet together to discuss labor problems, and it was not until 1S42 in the famous case of Commonwealth vs. Hunt lhat this conspiracy doctrine was revoked and the right of labor to organize was recognized. Since 1S42 lalor was slowly obtained recognition, of its major aims. The significance of Monday's de cision is twofold: it specifically approves t lie right of the federal government to regulate wages and hours, and it makes unnecessary a constitutional amendment for the prohibition of child !alor. Such an amendment was proposed by the Con gress in 1J24 after previous attempts to regulate child Jailor had ended in failure before the court in 1!HS and 1121 in the cases Ilammer vs. Ilageu hart and llailey vs. Hrexel Furniture company. The promised amendment has leen floating around from state to state since 102U collecting the approval of 2s states eight short of the 3) necessary for ratifi cation. Tearing for the ultimate ratification of the amendment the New Ileal early made an attempt to outlaw child lalor by statute only to have it in validated when in the famous case of the four sick chickens the court unanimously threw out the N. II. A., into which such legislation was incoro rated. In the opinion written Mondav bv Justice Stone I the constitutional ban on the federal regulation of child laln.r sj-ecifioally is removed. The struggle to obtain wages and hours regulation has leen even more tedious and discouraging to the partisans of lalx.r. In VmC,, f.r example, the court in Lochnor tk. the Slate of New York denied to New York tli jxiwer to regulate the hours of lalor by women in bakery shops. Again, in 1!2:; in Adkinw vs. the Chil dren's Hospital, the court forbade the federal gov ernment to lamjier wiib hours or wage. The states got the right to regulate wags in when a Washington law was upheld. Now, for the first time in the hi-tory of the country the federal government has leen d-em-d constitutionally com petent to legislate concerning the time lalorcrr shall work and the pay they are to receive. leaping from hia third floor nursery window and promptly proceeded to pound to a pulp the neighborhood bully. He waa finally stopped by hia father rwith the help of six or eight neighbors) and the bully waa carrw-d away to the Burwell hohpital, from which, a doctor told me junt the other day. "he will be released in a lw montha if luck ia with him." Thus it was in the beginning. Despite the pleas of the townspeople begging him to remain, g willie moel away and eventually matriculated to the University of Nebraska, where be is at present absorbing an edi tion. And now about the column. It will contain informa tion which might be garnered from meandehnga on the mall, with a few comments and analogies by the author. It will, it is hoped, oontain intimate glimpses of campus life, of various departments on the campus which have not been given enough "glamorizing" publicity. Comment and reaction to student opinion will be put In black and white, as a part of the column. What to do during what seasons will be listed. Youth on the cam pus will alo be watched with a scrupulous eye. Thumb nail aaeunes of extra-curricular doings and misdoing will be worthy of note. In general it will, it ia rcped, contain a itUe of the life, misery, fun, recreation. Fiin kms, and activities of the college student and th Ro dent's college. I It is hoped that g willie can carry on the noble Jot of his ancestors and that they, wherever they are inltht . - a - ... w v..ri tyona, wui approve of his efforts as a co'lnoa writer.
