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XLVttl Privately Endowed Schools BrUce Biossat, NEA privately endowed college and universities generally arc feeling a financial pinch. Their costs have Soared and though their income has mounted it has not kept pace. Many educators in leading institutions are voicing serious concern over the future of the private schools. They fear the pressure for funds may force dozens of schools either to go out of existence or accept government bounty. The layman might ask: "Why should it make any difference where the money comes from so long as people have schools to attend?" Robert M.

Hutchins, chancellor of the University of Chicago, has an answer to the question. He also strikes a ringing note of hope for the years ahead. In a statement on his 20th anniversary as the top University of Chicago executive, he said: "I believe that the principal service that can be preformed by independent universities is to set standards. This means showing hospitality to good men who are pursuing unconventional Work, organizing in accordance with common sense rather than academic tradition, pioneering in the development of education programs and methods and maintaining academic freedoms." The university Hutchins leads is a perfect example of these ideas. It was founded with the notion that it would serve as a pace-setter for other schools in the Middle West.

Educators acknowledge that it has been just that. The great state universities in Michigan, Minnesota, Illinois and, Ohio are all better institutions because of Chicago's bold experiments and high standards. In way, Harvard, Yale and Columbia have provided leadership for eastern schools and others throughout the nation. Were the private universities not free to pioneer as they wished, to pursue all sorts of special research tasks without worry over their immediate practical value, they could not show the way to others. It is plainly up to these schools themselves whether they can survive.

To spurn government money means tremendous efforts will have to be made to turn up dequate funds from private sources. Right now many "energetic fund-raising programs are under way and early reports indicate some success in closing the gap. Says Hutchins: "The independent universities will survive as long as they insist on being independent and living up to the responsibilities that independence implies." If they can continue to perform services that cannot be done by public institutions, they will not disappear from the education scene. What Hutchins is really saying is that it is just as important to the ppor boy who must seek out a tuition-free school as it is to a wealthy lad to keep Chicago and Harvard and Yale and the others in full health. For without them the state- supported universities would not rise so high.

Finance Again there is some talk of operating the federal government's financial accounts with two budgets. One would include the regular expenditures, the other extraordinary disbursements. Presumably it is deemed easier to balance two budgets than one. In his private accounting system, a citizen is aware of the fact that not all disbursements are expenses reducing his net income. Suppose he lists as a "deductible item" the Bum he has paid for a new typewriter.

If he uses the typewriter to operate his business out of which he makes his income, he lists this amount as a "capital to be depreciated through the years. If he calls it an expense, the revenue bureau will tell him he's wrong. In these days of high taxes, individuals and corporations are on the alert for deductible items, thereby paring down the net Income on which they have to pay taxes. The federal government has been more and more operating services through public corporations. The RFC, for instance, is a lending agency.

Its loans are of the class which a private lender would have to call capital investment. What proportion of the loans will be repaid is an important question, The RFC is only one of a multitude of agencies lending government funds. Some of them were created specificially to make loans to persons who had no credit to justify a loan from any other source. Expectation of repayment is in many cases remote. During the first World War, the financially strong nations made loans to their allies.

According to the treasury books, these loans were investments. Britain and American finance ministers, whenever someone worried about the size of the bonded debt could point to the large loans which would be repaid after the war. After the war, the ugly truth came to the surface that these supposed assets were not assets at all. The American people were the slowest to learn the facts. In World War II, we used the lend-lease method of helping our associates, so there is no interallied debt problem to harass us.

At present the financial load of "cold war" is upon us. In one sense we are at peace, but financially we are carrying a war loan. From the accountant's standpoint, the books would look better if we had two budgets, one for ordinary expenses, the other for exti-aordinary disbursements presumed to be temporary, a passing phase. It takes a lot of faith to go along with this presumption, but it would afford a degree of satisfaction to all of us to be told the regular budget is balanced, even though we have doubts as to some of our capital investments and the temporary nature of extraordinary expenses. The Upper Room A federal judge plastered Oklahoma City's "society" bootlegger with a fine of 510,000 and a 10-year prison sentence.

The state authorities were lax in enforcing the state laws so the 'legger had become too bold. His conduqt ired the judge. This conviction will likely upset the Best People, requiring them to find another specialist in law defance to serve them. The profit motive will likely cause the vacancy to be filled. The entertainment industry covers a vast area of human wants.

People like to be entertained. A few go in for self-entertainment. Hence the association with a long name whose members meet for harmonizing on barber shop chords. This is a growing institution, people singing just for the fun of it. With all the music sound track in the theatre, juke box in eateries, canned and live music on the still is a place for non-professional singers to sound off for their own entertainment.

Some of the groups are really good. The association is growing rapidly. The square dance is undergoing a revival. Reformers who used to crusade against dancing as an evil institution, gave specific attention to the "round The square dance was not the main target. The intricate drill with a minimum of embracing were regarded as no worse than many forms of time-wasting.

Now the square dance is coming back. A piano, a violin and bull fiddle provide the music. And the bull fiddle rassler presides as caller. This is an American institution and used to provide a lot of exercise and entertainment at low cost. It's revival is an encouraging sign.

The blizzard the weather announcer has been talking about has not reached us. Now is the time to get ready for winter. If the weather remains mild, O.K.; if and when wintry blasts do come, you can laugh at the storm, knowing the antifreeze is in the car radiator, the water to the outside tap is shut off, the broken cellar window has been repaired, the fuel supply is ample, the overcoat hangs ready. M. Science says a person's age can be determined by the hardness of the eyes.

The theory, of course, doesn't apply to bankers. To bad men men are a bad omen. Comedian Answer to Previous Puzzle HORIZONTAL 1,5 Depicted actor 11 Got up 12 Prayers 14 Burmese wood sprite 15 Shop 17 Cravat 18 Wading bird 20 Bitter vetch 21 Charge with cargo 22 Hawaiian bird 23 That thing 24 Dearth 26 Fruit 29 Half-em 30 Of the thing 31 Symbol for selenium 32 Babylonian deity 33 Small branch 36 Heavenly body 38 Symbol lor thoron is a character actor 40 Brother of Jacob (Bib.) 42 ol infatuation 45 Finishes 48 Unit Of i 3 Doctor of Science (ab.) 4 Affirmative reply 5 Portal 6 Makes mistakes 7 Contend 8 Exists 9 Marked with lines 24 Direction lOGeraint's wife 25 Again in Arthurian 27 Extent legend 28 Erect 11 Blackbird of 34 Type face cuckoo family 35 Antelope A 0 1 A i A L. L) 1 A 1 A A 1 A PI A 1 E. 3 A I- 1 A A 1 1 1 1 A VJ 1 A 13 Observe 16 Symbol for tellurium 19 Drunkard 21 Mouth part 36 Her 37 Soft 40 Unit of energy 41 Indian weights 42 On the sheltered side 43 Gull-like bird 44 Suffix 46 Completed 47 Harden, as cement 49 Mimic 50 Golf device 53 Pair (ab.) 55 Six (Roman) Farmer Dead; Body Found Badly Burned UNION, Nov.

29 The badly burned body of Forest M. Barkhurst, 64, was found in his farm home a mile east of here yesterday by Sheriff Tom Solomon. Solomon said he broke into the prominent farmer's house after being called by neighbors. The sheriff said what apparently happened was this: Barkhurst, a bachelor, was sitting in a rocking chair in the kitchen whe nhis clothing caught fire from a cigaret. Barkhurst ran outside, tore off his clothing, then doused himself with water.

After that, he went back inside and lay down on a bed. The sheriff found his body on the bed. Death was caused by third degree burns, he said. Hanover News Mr. and Mrs.

George Bond of Topeka, visited in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wilford Poell and family over the weekend, K. Of C. Mrs.

Otto Landoll and Mrs, Chris Kappes were hostesses at the regular meeting of the K- of C. Ladies Club at the K. of C. Hall Monday afternoon. 51 rf.

Frank Imming, was awarded high prize and Mrs. Anton Triska second high, while MUs UlUan Landoil as a guest. kun was served by the hostesses. Basis of most modern radio wiving sets, including television, is a circuit invented by Major Edwin ArnutrfliMf, known the OUTOtTRWAY -By Williams OH WE PUT ATHIRPLESSTIME ON THIS ONE THAN OUR LAST TONIGHT-HERE'S A. MOPEU BORM THIRTY VEAES TOO 6OOM Red Walked Free In U.

S. After First Battle Held During 1919 BY PETER EDSON (Eds, Note: Here's the second of 12 dispatches in which Peter Edson, NEA's Washington correspondent, turns the spotlight on that 30-year war to show how the Communist party established itself in the U. what's behind the current trials and where the fight may lead.) The first of the many battles be fought with Communism pened with a skirmish on Nov. 1919, two years and three weeks after the revolution that created he Soviet Union, On that day Atty. Gen.

A. Mit- 'hell Palmer staged the first of series of raids intended to rid he nation of a radical-anarchist nfestation. He was fortified by a appropriation, the pirit of the time and the convic- ion he was right. Before his agents, supplement- by Immigration Service men nd local law enforcement offi- rs had finished, between 6000 nd 10.000 persons had been ar- esred, some 750 deported and on 600,000 suspects corn- pi Today there are those who point to these impressive figures and suggest a return to the tactics of 1919. The con- census here is that U.

S. anti- Communist policy is too soft (as witness the 'ob-like patience of Federal udge Harold A. Medina). But cooler users of history's hindsight disagree. In running oughshod over the radicals, the men of the old Bureau of Inves- igation (now the FBI) admin- stered a medicine as bad as the isease itself.

The Bill of Rights 11 but went by the board. Mass rrests; search and seizure with- warrant; neither grand jury ior jury action in many cases; xcessive bail; deportation pro- eedings without defense counsel; vidence most flimsy; all these vere condoned and ordered. Edson men, with the White house checkrein off, were feeling their oats. There was a great deal of war-left inflation, which was to lead to the recession in mid-1920. Politically, socially and economically, the nation was an untended corral, filled with bawling and milling about.

The Communist party, only a few old, was divided into two factions. Powerful radical leaders still held the loyalty of thousands: Eugene V. Debs, the Socialist, was one who had lost little by his conviction of espionage. Another was Big Bill Haywood, boss of the I. W.

"Wobblies" who considered themselves one big anarchistic union. Haywood had been convicted of sabotage in 1918, and was to jump bail to flee the country in 192', as did Gerhart Eisler in 1949, but he yet could order widespread strikes and have the order respected. In February 50 of Haywood's lieutenants were deporte'd. Li April, New York postal inspectors found bombs in the mails, addressed to prominent persons; in June Attorney General Palmer's Washington home was damaged by a bomb. Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were in a Massachusetts jail, awaiting trial for the murder of a Braintree paymaster.

Sacco and Vanzetti were destined to lose a seven- year fight for freedom, to be executed and to be seized up forth with by the Commies as the first great martyrs of the New World revolution. Actually neither Sacco nor Vanzetti was a Communist. The Commies simply moved in and grabbed the act. Onto this arena strode Palmer and his chief aide. William J.

Flynn, the famed detective then heading the Bureau of Investigation. Coincidentally, the New York legislature empowered Sen. Clayton R. Lusk to turn his committee loose on radicals in the state. The November raids were little more than experiments.

On the seventh, Palmer's men seized 250 officers of the Union of Russian Workers in 12 cities. Next, day the Lusk committee agents hit 70 Communist party meeting places and hauled in as many members as they used 700. Eighteen days later the Immigration Service had deported 230 aliens, but could not be sure how many of them were actual Out of the Past 10 Years Ago Celebration of the 10th anniversary of the 29 class of the Presbyterian church was held at the home of Mrs. C. A.

Spellman with Mrs. Sylvia Hester assisting hostess. Mrs. P. E.

Dodson as guest, gave a book review on Mrs. L. E. Fife and Mrs. Maxwell Hutchison entertained at ten at the home of the former in honor of Mrs.

Glenn Howard and Mrs. M. E. Henthorne and their houseguests, Mrs. J.

H. Ilenthorno of San Pedro, Mrs. O. H. Fishback of Covenia, and Mrs.

L. G. Vamlerboom of An- ahierm, Calif. Mr. and Mrs.

Dan Low who were moving to DCS Moines. had been given a farewell party at the Country club. 20 Years Ago Ben Falk and Edward Bott didn't get all the glory for killing 43 rabbits on a Sunday. Others in the party were George Loy and Floyd Swan. Tthe boys said the battle front weakened when they ran short of ammunition.

For the Thanksgiving dinner at the state institution east of the city under the direction of Steward William Pollock there were to be 30 turkeys, 150 chickens and three veal calves providing; the meat course. There were to be about 1,000 seated at the tables. On Dec. 11, Mr. Pollock was to complete his thirtieth year at the institution.

A Biblical drama "Tent Dwellers" was being presented at the First Christian church by the Wright California players. 30 Years Ago Mrs. Grace Sample had entertained on November 25th at a 7 o'clock dinner in honor of her mother, Mrs. Verona Chapman at her home at 1004 Court street. Mrs.

E. C. Powell had returned from Chariton, Ia where she had been called by the death of GLANCES By Galbralth COPH. IY NIA StAVICt. INC.

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OFF. "This report card is too my dad is going to keep me at those, books every minute expecting me to lead the class!" her sister, Mrs. Lusanna Wright, a school-teacher. Mrs. Emma Cox went to Seward to visit her daughter, Mrs.

E. B. Hawley and family, formerly of this city. 40 Ago An expert from the Union Welding company's western branch at Kansas City had installed an oxygen acetylene welding plant in the Jonz automobile fac- tory in Beatrice. It was the largest plant of its kind west of the Missouri river.

Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Shuler of Parkersburg, former Beatrice residents were visiting at the home of Mr.

and Mrs. William Wolfe. Miss Dora Drengenberg of Johnson who attended the McAttec- Pittenger wedding November 25, had returned home. advocates of revolution. (Two were: Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman, avowed leaders of anarchism).

The greatest raid, nainstakinclv nrepared like a military maneuver, occurred Jan. 2, 1920. Hun- drews of agents swooned down simultaneously on leftist halls in 60 cities. The net was 700 in New York. 400 in Boston.

800 in Detroit. 180 in Buffalo. 200 each in Philadelphia. and Chiraeo. Throughout the balance of the month, moo-un continued the arrests, with Seattle's 31 fi biggest of the latter month raids.

The nublic clamor, to which was added bitter congrpssiona' Criticism of Attorney General Calmer, put an end to the in Anril. For three vears then, two sooaratf oornmiitees of con Tress investigated, that the end ordering a number of reforms to make sure the future would not see the un-Constitutional acts renpnted. When thev hnd done, the "treat- technique was a used firecracker. And for 20 years the Communists we'-e to walk virtually unmolested on what had bppn a battleground, nm'ntins to HH scars as living that caoital- ism is wrong and Red revolution right. Plants Able To Have Twins Too BERKELEY.

basso plants have twins and triplets, and at about the same rate as people. A seed that will produce two or three seedlings usually happens about once in every thousand, says Dr. D. R. Cam- fron, University of California geneticist.

Checking some 100,000 Tomorrow: The war In the 10-year civil WARMEST LATITUDE The warmest latiitude for the year is not the equator, as might be expected, but latitude 10 degrees north, according to the Encyclopedia Britannica. seedlings since 1938, Cameron has found 120 twins and 16 The rate can be increased, by selection. UNIQUE CAST The actors in one Russian film consisted of puppets fashioned of wood, clay, cloth, and rubber. All their movements made by hand, and 20 exposures were required to show one puppet raising its arm. The cast consisted of 3000 puppets.

The open road to better health, Is called the milky way. It not But common sense. To drink milk every day. EUGENE V. DEBS (Above) and A.

MITCHELL. PALMER (below) Both of them were fortified by a conviction. These excesses aroused immediate public indignation. The outcry was effective. But it held no candle, in its demand that the Constitution be respected, to the adroit use by Red propagandists of what had recently as 1948 one Robert W- Dunn published a pamphlet in which he charged a recreation of the 19191920 raids bu the investigations Of the FBI and the House Un- American Affairs Committee and by the enforcement of the Taft- Hartley Jaw.

Like all propagandists, wrUii without 'or the fullnew of truth, If the raids are to be understood, mutt the times, "HolihevlKI" wai a gag to many an American, a cartoon of dirty- wild bearded nian with round black Umb In ene hand President WilWO taJlttt the League of NOVEMBER LADIES' MISSES, JUNIORS, NEW WINTER COATS REDUCED Three Important Price Groups $2750 $3500 Every Coat A New Style It Pays To Pay A Little More $39 30 50 Ladies Dresses Reduced Rayon Prints Small prints, long sleeves, sizes 14 to 20 NOW H.OO Frost Point Casual styles, one two piece, mostly half sizes to GABARDINE Casual styles, dressy dresses, size 12 and 20 only NOW Many Baiter Dresses at Reduced Them SJNCB WW7 JTS BPSN THE STORE FOP' WOMEN.