Tuesday, February 4, 197
DAILY NEBRASKAN
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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.
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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
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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.
