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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN Thursday, March 20, 1947 Prrae 2 Member Intercollegiate Press roBTY-nrTB tzam. Subscription ratet $1.50 per semester. $2.00 per emester ""ailed, or $2.00 for the college year. $3.00 mailed. Single copy 6c Published dally during the school year except Monday and Saturdays, vacations and examinatioa periods, by the students of the University of Nebraska under the wpMlen of the Publication Board. Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Off ce In Lincoln, Nebraska, under Act of Congress. March 8. 1879, and at special rate of pottage provided for In section 1103. act of October S. 1917. authorized September 30. 1922. It Depends . . Continuance of name-band dances at the university will probably depend upon the success of the Junior-Senior Prom Saturday night. As much as Nebraska students like to dance and listen to good music, it would be a shame if they could hear the top bands only on records or the radio. The meeting tonight to elect a Prom Girl is an effort to promote ticket sales, but it also is an attempt to preserve the custom of having big name bands play for all trie university-sponsored dances during the year. There are only four of these dances Homecoming, Military Ball, Mortar Board Ball and the Junior-Senior Prom. Right now, you cannot imagine not having a nationally acclaimed orchestra playing for these affairs, but unless the Prom goes over, you will be dancing to a local group. The local bands are good, but they provide no change fron dances given by organizations and by the Union at its week end dances. If it's the price that stops you, remember that it would cost almost the same if a Lincoln band was playing at the Coliseum, because of the cost of putting on a dance there and you wouldn't be hearing the big orchestras. Nov It's My Turn BY EDDIE McCULLOUGH So the kiddies in Colorado don't like gripers, eh? And the local wee folk agree so well that they pull a reprint on the Colorado ed itorial, huh? Well, stand back. Jack I gotta word to add, and this is just my meat. I am a griper. I enjoy it very much. In fact, I'm proud to be a griper! The very name "Now It's MY Turn!" implies that things ain't been going so smooth around here. I've been patient a long time but now, by Tao, I'm going to comment most critically on The Nature of Things. "The griper never says 'Let George do it.' The griper screams 'Why hasn't George done it?' " You bet he does, unhuh, if George was supposed to do it. That's all the poor griper can say! If he could change things himself, or do them up right, he'd do It. But he can't he has about as much authority as a transient, enlisted man in a repple-depple. In the army, too, I was a griper. And so were you, if you were in it. Was it up to you or me to change things there? Not thai I ever knew of. it wasn't. But we griped long and loud, and by the time we got out," they started changing things. Not much, but we won a moral victory, anyway. It's kinda nice to know that they boys sweating it out now don't get as much chicken as we did. And it's the same thing around here. Personally, I don't believe In the grading system not in any grading system other than "Sat isfactory" or "Unsatisfactory." I have yet to ask any professor what my last semester's grade was. It doesn't make any differ ence now to any of us what our grades in grade school arithmetic were, but it does matter that we know how to add and subtract. But we can't change it. All we can do is gripe. Final examinations I hold equally In contempt. What businessman can remetrber ev erything in bis flies? What doctor'! office is devoid of ref erence books? Know any min isters who have thrown away their Bibles, or any lawyers .without law books, because they have memorized them? No, and you never will. But we're ex pected to remember everything in the books, everything the professor said, and, usually, a ,few things they forgot to say, and write it all down in one three-hour sitting. Well, for a parting shot, let me say this place moves too slowly. Everything I've learned since last September could have been learned in a month. No, no one could have waded thru all those verbose pedagogues' books and done all those grinding routine assignments, but anyone could have learned what he really did learn in much less time. The army discovered a way to teach men more in much less time than any existing scholastic method, and it taught them. Did it work? Did they remember? Well, they won the war. They ac complished the task for which they had been trained, and that's all anyone expects. The army proved its high-speed teaching was sound in practice, but we still lumber along in low gear. Most of us are three or four years behind in our lives now, and the prospect of loafing thru a couple more isn't too attractive. 1 Well, that's all. That's enough. But let's hear no more sneering comments on the griper. He's just a well-meaning soul who thinks things could be better, and . usually he's right If It hadn't been for a few gripers like Patrick Henry and Al Ham ilton, us vipers wouldn't have a pit to hiss in today. So God bless us gripers, every one! Church Groups Plan Activities For Weekend The national convention of Gamma Delta, Lutheran organ ization, has been scheduled to be held on the university campus next fall. Rev. H. Erck of the na tional governing board announced Wednesday. Members of the local chapter will meet tonight at 7:15 in the YMCA rooms of the Temple. LSA Vespers. Rev. Alvin M. Petersen will discuss "Obedience, the Way of the Cross" at the LSA vesper service at 7:00 tonight in parlors XY of the Union. Leonard Blinde will direct the choir. Presbyterians will have their annual spring party at 8 p. m. Friday at the student house. Sunday, members of the Pres byterian forum will discuss "Fundamentalism, Liberalism or Modernism." Those taking part in tHe symposium will be Dr. Charles Patterson of the philos ophy department, Rev. Erck and Rev. Carl Storm, pastor of the Unitarian church. The 5 p. m. round-table discussion will be followed by a fellowship supper. Arthaud Wins Stuart Award Raymond L. Arthaud of Cam bridge has been named recipient of the $500 Charles Stuart Fellow ship in Agriculture, Perry W. Branch, director of the University of Nebraska Foundation, an nounced yesterday. Mr. Arthaud, who received his bachelor of science degree from the university in January, is working toward an advanced de gree in animal husbandry. DEAR EDITOR AND CAMPUS VETERANS: Latest word from Rep. Homer A. Ramey (r., Ohio), chairman of the special subcommittee on sub sistence which has been conduct ing the hearings on HR 870, is that the committee now intends to hear the views of college reg istrars from different sections of the country, according to word re ceived by the local chapter of AVC public relations. Committee officials weren't pre pared to say how much longer the hearings would last but, ob viously, they are not planning any immediate halt. Meanwhile, the veterans them selves are struggling along as best they can or' quitting colleges by the hundreds because of inade quate subsistence. For three days the veterans had tlfe witness stand and for three days they all vigorously support ed" HR 870, the so-called Rogers bill which would increase mar ried vets' subsistence from $90 to $125 monthly plus $10 for each dependent child. Single veterans would receive $100. James P. Roberts of the Uni versity of Baltimore used the phrase "covenant with the vet erans" when describing the GI bill. Roberts proved to be the highlight of the student witnesses and at the conclusion of his tes timony he was complimented by the whole subcommittee. By now, you veterans of the University of Nebraska are say ing so what! What can I do? I need more subsistence but how do I go about getting the increase? The University of Nebraska Chapter of the American Veterans Committee is urgently appealing to each veteran on the campus to send personal distress letters to Rep. Homer A. Ramey, House Of fice Building. Washington, D. C, asking him to consider favorably HR 870 as it stands now!! In clude your personal expenditure for the last month as an example. THE FIGHT IS ON USE MA NILA TACTICS LET'S SNOW BALL RAMEY WITH LETTERS. Executive Council University of Nebraska Chapter American Veterans Committee. Kcv. T. A. Barlon Speaks at Council Vesper Services "I Never Knew Him," a Lenten meditation on the significance of Peter's denial, will be given by the Rev. Mr. Thomas A. Barton at today's Vesper service. Held in Parlors XYZ of the Union, the service begins at 5 p. m. Pastor of Second Presbyterian church, Rev. Barton is a promi nent local clergyman. His stu dent assistant will be Roland Purdy. Continuing the series of six meditations leading up to Easter, Rev. Barton's talk is the fourth in the program. Group singing and special music are included in the afternoon service, sponsored by the Religi ous Welfare Council. Alpha Phi Omega Elects New Prexy Walter Long has been elected president of Alpha Phi Omega, re activated national service frater nity. Others named to office were Don Crowe, vice president; Rod ney Franklin, secretary: Raulin Wight, treasurer; Stewart Minnick, historian; and Robert Foster, cor responding secretary. Pledges initiated into the or ganizstion are Tom Stiehl, Bob Mills, Marion Cosand. Edgar Steele, Dee Villars. Art Brand, George Slenker. Don Gregg. Bob Dunlap and Ben Pickering. Today. Mr. Marion Dizbur- ough, a member of the national advisory council, win address tne organization In the Temple at 7:30 p. m. WOMEN STUDENTS The following members of AWS are authorized to sign special permissions: Tibby Curley, Alpha Chi Omega, 2-1926. Jean Coropton, Pi Beta Phi, 2-7875. Mims Weeth, Delta Gamma, 2-7742. Kathleen Nickolson, Delta Delta Delta, 2-7971. Jackie Gordon, Sigma Delta Tau, 2-3526. Jean Chilqulst, Terrace, Hall 2-1107. To the Student Body: Maybe this is somr'iiing new to students here, but the Daily Nebraskan is not the personal property of its staff. It belongs to every one of you, and as such deserves a little sup port which it is not getting now. Okay, so you don't like it And we're paid to put it out. So why can't we do a better job? Three or four people have a rough time getting out a news paper even a four-page Daily Nebraskan. You can look at the masthead and see for yourselves how many of us there are on the editorial staff. But remember, we're also going to university and, absurdly enough, have labs and a couple of other things to do just like the rest of you, and can't be here six hours every afternoon. It isn't that we can't run all over the campus, find news stor ies, write them up, put headlines on them, take copy down to the Journal and get the paper out all by ourselves. ' It's just that we can't do a first-rate job. A few reporters would help. So we ask for reporters, and what do we get? Snarls from the sidelines because nobody likes the way the paper's run. Didn't it ever occur to anybody outside of history text-book writers that there is a relationship between causes and effects? And that lack of reporters could be the reason for rather than the result! of a poor campus paper? The staff is partially at fault, but here's one trouble ".about which you can do something. This school work is essential. And, as you all should know by now, it is practically twice as dif ficult and doubled in amount. But, it's got to be done sometime or other. The staff is getting paid for working on the paper, so we have a profit motive. But reporters, who would spend as much time, perhaps, get nothing in return except an occasional by-line. Who wants a by-line bad enough to spend three or four hours, needed for studying, writing a news-story? So the staff lets its school work go and publishes the paper short handed. But it gets pulished. We could put in a few more hours and put out a better paper. We can not, under the circum stances, publish a top-grade news paper If you can pound a typewriter, or copy-read, or just know a bit of news, we can use you. Daily Nebraskan Staff. Interfraternity Council The Interfraternity Council will hold their regular monthly meeting tonight at 5 p. m. in Room 315 of the Union, according .to Dick Folda, president. 1 I " iimimiMin mm n i i -:'"V pL f r His genius gave wings to words It was an historic moment. Alexander Graham Bell's telephone had just spoken its first words "Mr. Watson, comeheret I wantyouT' That evening in Boston March 10, 1876 Dr. Bell's crude instrument transmitted his voice only to the next room. But out of it was destined to come a whole new era the era of quick, easy nation-wide telephony, of radio telephony in all its varied forms, of talking pictures, voice and music reproduction systems and electrical aids for the hard of hearing. Few inventions have played a greater part in shaping the world we live in! Since 1877 just one year after Bell's long experimentation was crowqed with success it has been Western Electric's privilege to help carry forward his great idea which gave wings to words. In that year Western Electric made its first telephone. More than 45,000,000 have followed it over 4,000,000 of them in 1946 alone. Today, from coast to coast, in factories, offices, distributing houses and central office installation crews, there are more than 110,000 Western Electric workers. Imbued with the Bell System spirit of service, they are helping to provide equipment in record quantities to meet telephone needs far beyond any envisioned by the Inventor. This year marks tha 100th Anniversary of Bell's birth in Edinburgh, Scotland, on March 3, 1847. From early youth, he was keenly interested in aiding the hard of hearing. He became a teacher of "visible speech" when 18 years old. This work led to experiments with "telegraphing" sound, out of which, in 1876, came his greatest invention the telephone. Dr. Bell was a great humanitarian as well as a great sci entist. His accomplishments in aiding the deaf, in com munications, in aviation and other hclds were outstand ing. His rich life which had an incalculably great influ ence on the world came to an end on August 2, 1922. Western Electric A UNIT OF THE CELL SYSTEM SINCE 1882 Or I