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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
Thursday, February 27, 1941
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EDITORIAL STAFF
F-dltor Shirley Jenkins
llnnsKlna Editors IaJe Novotny, J ark Hill
New Editors. .. .Jeanne Kerrigan, Norm Legrr, Fat Jensen, WaJly Becker, 8n Goldea
Sports Editor i George Miller
HocletT Editor Gene Jensen
At News Editor , Charles Brim
Bpeeial Feature Editor ...Kant Warren
Bl'SINESS STAFF
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tlrrnlatlon Mnnarrr
Asslittnnt Business Managers Gould
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Keith Jones
Flagg, Al Lagmsn, Bill Wilkin
Well Done
Student reaction to the faculty move to notify the Sen
ate of its approval of David Lilienthal was favorable yes
terday, after the first expressions of surprise. Today's an
nouncement of the number of faculty members signing the
memorial letter may well bring forth even more favorable
and well-deserved comment.
This has been the first chance for most of the stu
dents in the university to witness our professors and in
structors in action, although alumni tell us of a similar let
ter sent to Washington during the debate on the lend-lease
bill. The prevailing sentiment is expressed in the Letterips
today in the Daily Nebraskan. We are proud of the faculty
and of the students who are backing it up in its decision
to make its opinion known where it will count most.
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Levinger Elected
Chess Club Prexy
Bud Levinger was elected pres
ident and Harry Richman, vice
president, of the University Chess
club at its first meeting Tuesday.
A ladder tournament was or
ganized and playoffs were begun.
Top player in the ladder tourna
ment now is Lee Magee. It was
decided that meetings will be held
every Tuesday night, and for the
next meeting a round-robin tour
nament will be made out and
begun.
Levinger commented that the
meeting proved the club to be an
"immediate success."
INSURANCE ISYOUB 1
MOST VALUABLE SOUVENIR
OF SERVICE - HAN6 OH TO IT I
IF LAPSED, INSTATE IT!
Knoll Announces
May Queen Data
Filings for May Queen are now
open to eligible senior women,
according to Eleanor Knoll, presi
dent of Mortar Board. Names
must be entered at the Student
Activities office in the Coliseum
before 5 today.
To be eligible to file for May
Queen, coeds must have been reg
istered at the university for three
years, have a weighted 80 aver
age, no delinquencies and have
one "B" activity. The May Queen
will be chosen at women's elec
tions on March 5 and will be pre
sented on Ivy Day, May 3.
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ZBT Open House
Will Be Saturday
Alpha Theta chapter of Zeta
Beta Tau will be hosts at an open
house party from 9:00 p. m. to
midnight Saturday at their chap
ter house.
The theme of
"World Premiere,"
be furnished by
combo.
the party is
and music will
a three-piece
February 27, 1947
To the Faculty of the University of Nebraska:
Dear Sirs:
We congratulate you upon your forthright stand supporting Mr,
Lilienthal. It is indeed encouraging to discover that our professors
have the courage and earnestness to speak out on this all-important
issue. We heartily concur in your stand and are proud to be your
students.
NewsT 1
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Tom Sorensen
Daniel Bernd
Daniel Kern
Gordon Lippitt
Mildred Taylor
Bill Miller
Anthony J. Good
Dale M. Mesner
Bill Reuter
Homer Livermore
M. L. Cadwallader
Ted Sorensen
Donald Crowe
Phil Frandson
Sam Maier
Dorothy Mastin
Tete Cerv
To the well meaning framers of the Lilienthal backing Memorial
Most certainly extended Senate investigation in what is a most
vital Presidential appointment is necessary to establish the practical
and probably political qualifications of the man appointed. But that
such investigation be conducted with the dignity of pertinent truth
must be the mandatory procedure of any mature government. Mr.
Lilienthal was subjected to a great deal more than just factual
scrutiny. His record however, as a human being, a believer in the
democratic system of government, and most important as an effi
cient, conscientious and productive public servant has come out of
an extended of muckraking Senate investigation totally unblemished.
This investigation has succeeded, fortunately for the American peo
ple, only in accentuating the ability and integrity of David Lilienthal
and reducing to the absurdity they were to begin with, the charges
made by Tennessee's Senator McKellar.
I come now to the reason for this letter. That your memorial
is of good faith, well reasoned, and formulated with a fine degree
of intelligence, cannot be impugned. However, you have gone into
the resolution making business, no more and no less as does the
man on the street joining an actual bandwagon or at least a band
wagon of righteous indignation. The facts about Lilienthal have
been a matter of Congressional record for the better part of a month.
Much more than that, the facts about Lilienthal hve been coming
in for 10 years of $10,000 per year service with the TVA. You had
access to those facts. Fortified with a knowledge of the truth that
existed then as it does now you (and thousands like you) should
have then resolved or dedicated memorials of practical meaning.
Such memorials or resolutions sent to Congress would have had the
practical effect of public opinion, and at the same time have given
notice that you appreciated fully the intelligence of truth, and spoke
with its courage, unhesitatingly.
The shouting is now over and Mr. Lilienthal has survived the
ordeals of fire, sword, and witchhunt. The Senate will confirm the
appointment. It can do nothing else without a single skeleton to
point to. Your memorial got in under the wire; the vote-hasnt
been tabulated.
I'm grateful that you and the people have grasped a measure
of the horror of what was attempted to be done to Lilienthal and
what the Senate might still attempt to do with the atom.
Hopefully,
Abe Katz
Dear Editor:
The report by Jack Hill in the
issue of Wednesday, Feb. 26, is
more significant than anything
that I have seen in the past three
and one-half years in the Daily
Nebraskan.
Any faculty member who comes
in contact with students should
feel that he is obligated above all
to arouse enthusiasm and curios
ity. If the purpose of spending
four years here is merely one of
absorption, we might well let the
faculty devote all their time to re
search and spend all of our time in
the library; there is slightly more
material stored in there than in
the collective brains of the faculty.
But in this land of the dollar, fac
ulty members are justifiably re
ticent about voicing any strong
personal conviction except behind
closed doors to one or two inti
mate colleagues, and, as was
shown last year in the dispute
over racial discrimination in Big
Six athletics, they can least of
all be expected to disclose mature
and fair opinion to enthusiastic
students who, although probably
the best informed and most mor
ally earnest on the campus, haven't
yet seen that their delightful max
ims, bred in a Sunday school at
mosphere, will make not a dent
in a blood and guts world.
Consequently, the report in the
Daily Nebraskan of faculty mem
bers cutting loose and letting the
fur fly is an event that makes
one proud of the university and
all connected with it. I don't know
what fortuitous cirucmstances
brought it about. For the Daily
Nebraskan and Jack, there should
be nothing but praise. It is an
example of what will happen
when men who are tops in their
field and who also realize the
importance of the field of their
colleagues get together and hash
things out. Only parts of the pro-1
ceedings were quoted; we should
like to see a verbatim report here
after. The important thing is that
10,000 of us, instead of 10 or 12,
got a glimpse of good men work
ing together. What would happen
if all the student body personally
threw their unqualified support
behind the entire faculty, in ad
dition to supporting the univer
sity's current baby kissing and
farmer fleecing projects?
Sincerely,
Richard Sundermann
Fish
erman s
Friend
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BY JIM COUFAL.
Thursday will probably be th
last day of hearings In the senate
atomic energy committee on the
appointment of David Lilienthal
as head of the atomic energy com
mission. If the committee reports
out favorably Lilienthal will be
reasonably assured of getting the
appointment.
But no matter what the com
mittee decides, the hearings will
be marked as one of the more sor
did interludes of American poli
tics. The head of the atomic energy
commission will have a highly
technical job. His decisions will be
of utmost importance to the na
tion, and he must necessarily be
free from any political commit
ments or responsibilities. It fol
lows, then, that the appointment
should be nonpolitical in that the
good of the country should be
placed over personal enmity.
In the appointment of Lilienthal
this procedure has not been fol
lowed. The- fact that Lilienthal
successfully headed a project that
achieved world-wide recognition,
and that he has the support of the
other members of the atomic
commission, in addition to the
support of many of the country's
leading scientists, has been re
duced to secondary importance.
Personal prejudice and politics
were made the primary issues of
one of the most important ap
pointments Congress will ever
have to make, v
If Lilienthal is not appointed
head of the atomic energy com
mission, the program will become
hollow shell, as most of the
"scientists will resign," stated K.
E. Compton, president of the
Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology. Whether or not the action taken
by Congress on this appointment
will establish a precedent cannot,
of course, yet be determined; but
if this is the case it will be safe
to predict that there will be a
general lowering in the quality of
the heads of the supposedly non
political bureaus.
Pharmacists Elect
Slates of Officers
Two student professional soci
eties in the college of pharmacy
announced their new officers
this week.
James Dusenberry will head the
Student Branch of the American
Pharmaceutical association. Other
officers selected for the group are
Carl M. Glen, vice president;
Mary F. O'Connor, secretary; and
George A. Breen, treasurer.
Kappa Elsilon, national profes
sional pharmacy society for wom
en selected Mary F. O'Connor.
president; Cherie Lou Viele, vice
president; Dorothyann Miller, sec
retary; and Frances Longfellow,
treasurer.
Zion Group Elects
Koisar New Head
IZFA, the Zionist organization
on the campus, held an election
of officers at a meeting last
week. Louise Koisar was elected
president, Ronald Rosinsk vice
president, Dorothy Sterling sec
retary, Helen Rodin treasurer. Don
Stern program chairman, and Sue
Tabue and Lee Harris co-pub-
the society.
The next meeting will be held
Thursday, March 6. The place
will be announced at a later date.
AdaaMntHa Aw
Colorado troirt streams should yield a
better haul in years to come through an
on-the-job training program recently ap
proved by the Veterans Administration ot
the State Hatchery, Bellwe. Shown grad
uating minnows to a more adult pool is
Richard E. Matthews, who is taking the
2-yeor fish culturist course Matthews
Sat injured on Afu.
KOSMET KT.l"B MEETINGS.
Ron met Klub workrrs mrrtlnir at 5 Oil
afternoon In room 897 of the Union.
Kosmrt Klub activities meeting at E:20
this afternoon In the same room.
GAMMA DELTA.
A disrosHlon of "Do's an4 Dont's" for
Gamma Deltas will follow the Gamma
Delta business meeting at 7:15 p. n. this
evening In the Temple VMCA rooms. A
new viee president will be elected.
AO GRADUATES.
Air Gradnte club will meet February
18 In the Faculty lounge at the downtown
Union at 8 p. m. All graduate students
au welcome. .
LOST Black leather tfflfold. Important
identification cards. Reward. Call 4-2540.
LOST-lSmall plaid purse in 101 A SS
Monday noon. Call Joan Cable, 2-6095.
Reward.