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EDITORIAL PAGE
old Stride Fowan
Glaring newspaper headlines heralded the
Supreme Court decision which declared seg
regation in schools for reasons of race un
lawful. Few times in the history of the
country have Americans had an opportunity
to see history with such far reaching im-
A Solution
Two "letterips" on today's editorial page
point out a view that has gone unconsidered
to date in the squabble over the results of
the recent Ivy Day Fraterity Sing compe
tition. First, few University students realize how
keen the interest in the traditional contest
was among the two fraternities in Omaha.
The Nebraskan must agree that a move
ment to bar them from the sing would bes
unnecessarily discriminatory.
Second, though several of the arguments
.... have seemed like "sour trapes" after the
results of the contest have been announced
T and the trophies awarded, there were sev
eral serious discrepencies In administering
the affair.
Third, several of the suggestions made by
. The Nebraskan have been taken in the
wrong light. To clear up the latter impres
sion The Nebraskan presents its idea on how
the Ivy Day Sing for fraternities should be
bandied.
There should be a group" rather than a
.' . single person administering the sing. Rules
- ahould be formulated by this group and en-
- forced by the group. All decisions of those
Jjgiven the responsibility of handling the sing
-should be final, unless the committee set up
to govern the contest should care to reverse
itself or adjust its program of administra
tion. N
" - There should be a definite list of rules con
cerning the type of songs to be sung (whether
or not to allow medleys, etc.) and these rules
should be made public well in advance of
the actual day of the contest in order that
no group would be punished simply because
it had started practice early to insure a top
notch performance.
The Nebraskan believes that the Omaha
fraternities should be allowed to compete
or make a guest appearance as the com
mittee in charge of the sing shall rule. In the
event that these groups are allowed to com
pete, they shall be governed by the same
t rules as are the other contestants.
The most Important element In avoiding
any future happenings similar to those of
this year is In setting np a comprehensive
policy and seeing that the policy set up is
enforced, completely and impartially.
It is not fair to put one person on the
spot by making him solely responsible for the
contest. One man regulation puts enforce
ment on the personal rather than the im
personal basis, a situation always open to
criticism.
Perhaps the committee is not the real
answer to the "tempesi, in a teapot" that has
brewed itself into a real storm in the past
few weeks, but it will go a long way in
preventing a similar occurrence at next year's
Ivy Day. T.W.
Follow The Arrow
The two University publications that find
their homes in the Student Union are usually
at friendly swords-points throughout the
year. Petty argument, concerning which or
ganization owns what waste basket are com
mon. More heated battles are waged concern
ing the property rights on typewriters, rulers,
pictures, etc
Out of these skirmishes arises a friendly
rivalry, with each publicaiton seeking to
prove its superiority over the other.
The Nebraskan has its day of glory when
high school journalists descend on the cam
pus, frequently overrunning the sister pub
lication's office and annoying Cornhusker
workers with questions as "is this The Ne
braskan office?" or "what are you doing in
this little place?"
. Each Spring, however, the day of reckon
"" Ing comes.
The Nebraskan office is swamped with
, pleasant, but confused students who wish to
"' pick up their yearbooks. These seekers,
"m. though well-intentioned enough, disturb Ne
braskan staff members, who have erected a
large sign and a road-block directing all to
t" the Cornhusker office.
Finals are upon us, and pressure is con
stantly mounting. For the good of the Ne-
Toraskan and its staff members this plea is
made.
Please follow the arrows directing you to
the Cornhusker office if you wish to pick
', up your yearbook.
We Nebraskan people do not have a sup
? ply of the !?$ books. We don't know
' when there will be any more in when the
. present supply runs out We don't know ii
the book can be picked up if you've lost
- your receipt and your I.D. card. We'd like
to help you, but we don't know anything
- about the Cornhusker. To be perfectly hon
,. est, we'd like to forget there was such a
thing as Cornhusker, but we can't without
. your help. So please Just Follow the
Arrows. D. F.
portance made during their lifetimes. The
move has been called a new step forward
in bringing American social institutions into
step with the rapid engineering and mechan
ical advances in the United states.
The unanimous vote by the Supreme Court
has also been called other things, especially
trom the reaches of the deep south. These
statements have an entirely different ring,
with claims of "reversal of opinion" and
"dabbling in politics" among the more com
mon. However, the complaints of reversal of
opinion are not valid. These complaints have
their basis on the past decisions that segre
gation be allowed if there are equal educa
tional opportunities for persons segregated.
The principle of segregation but equal has
never been observed. Schools for Negroes
have been notoriously under the level allowed
for whites. It seems as though the Supreme
Court has finally awakened to the fact that
segregation and equality are not compatable.
The cries of political dabblinr hardly
seem valid, though there are now facts that
will definitely show that this is not true.
The men on the Supreme Court are for .the
most part, acknowledged masters at determ
ining public opinion, or at least well versed
in the skills of knowing what the publie
will and will not stand for.
Certainly they knew they were sitting on
one of, the most controversial problems in
the country when they allowed the segre
gation case to be presented. Certainly they
knew that no matter what decision they
made, there would be strong criticism from
one quarter or another.
It seems highly illogical that these men
would deliberately place themselves in the
verbal lines of fire for highly vocal anti or
pro-segregationalists, unless they were sure
of their jurisdiction. It also seems highly il
logical that members of the court would
wiDingly place themselves in a precarious
position purely .through love of "political
dabbling." ,
Equally interesting have been some of
the comments from the states that will be
most affected by the decision. One state
governor has stated that he will not allow
anti-segregation moves in his state "as long
as I am governor." He has started the old
band wagon of states' rights moving once
more.
Some complaints that the new ruling will
make condition unlivable in some southern
states seem to have some merit. Cries that
the peace of the public will be disturbed are
not completely unreasonable, but they are
disgustingly familiar. These same complaints
that segregation is necessary with the word
"slavery" used in the place of segregation
could have been used as part of the pro
slavery arguments used nearly a hundred
years ago.
The Supreme Court has made a bold stride
forward. The opposition to making this step
has been great and will probably increase as
the states search for loop-holes In the law.
In any case, the complaints against the de
cision as they have been expressed have been
nothing more than attempts to justify an
action by saying that "We've done it in the
past"
"These fast moving steps hack to the slavery
days are not wholesome sights, especially
when prominently displayed along side an
enlightened expression of tolerance and an
intention to make 'liberty for all, with mal
ace toward none," more than a nice bit of
rhetoric. T.W.
Margin Notes
It's OK
A wife is going to have to think of a better
excuse as grounds for legal separation from
her husband than finding lipstick on her
spouse's handkerchief. A justice in a Quebec
Superior Court recently made this ruling.
The judge said a wife did not have
grounds for separation simply because at a
dance a husband could not resist the temp
tation to taste his partner's lipstick.
No Mail
The old saying goes that neither rain,
snow not sleet can keep the trusty postman
from delivering the mail.
One rural mail carrier, however, found an
even greater obstacle in his path. When he
went out one morning to get his car which
was parked in the driveway by his house,
he found that all four tires were missing.
A Long ln
A New London, Conn., motorist stopped
his car in front of Lawrence Memorial Hos
pital and began unloading his eight children.
One at a time, they all filed out, from the
oldest 15 year old to the youngest five year
old.
One day later, the procession was repeated
in reverse. All eight children returned to
the car, minus eight pairs of tonsils.
Jim VMhashut
FIFTY-THIRD TEAR
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THE NEBRASKAN
LfTTLI MAN ON CAMPUS
by Dick 62blf
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Wednesday, May 19, 1954
The Student Forum
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Where ke We?
"Then on th' other hand I never was sensitive about anyone
seeing my term trades."
The Challenge
Education Not Luxury,
But Needed Investment
By 1L G. THUESEN
(This is the second article by
Professor Thuesen reprinted in
The Nebraskan. The articles
were mailed to the Editor after
the student newspaper at Okla
homa ASM, where Dr. Thuesen
is head of the School of Indus
trial Engineering, reprinted an
article concerning education by
Nebraskan columist Bert Bish
op.) The high standard of living
which we as citizens of the
United States enjoy is a source
of great satisfaction to all who
are privileged to enjoy it nd
a source of wonder to all others
in the world who observe it. Why
is it that the United States, a
youngster among nations, can
provide us with a standard of
living higher than any other na
tion on earth can match?
Is it because of our splendid
natural resources? Abundant
natural resources help to make
a high standard of living pos
sible, but alone, natural re
sources do not insure abundant
living. India is well endowed
with resources, but its people
by and large live in abject pov
erty. a
On the othCr hand. Switzer
land, a country of meager nat
ural resources, is noted for its
good living. The natural re
sources of the area that now is
the United States were present
when the Pilgrims landed. But,
then, it supported a population
of approximately 1,000,000 na
tives in very meager circum
stances whereas now, it supports
160,000,000 Americans at a level v
that is the envy- of the world.
Does our superlative well
being depend upon our industri
ousness and our arduous labors?
Industriousness can help, but
hard labor alone will not lead
to high levels of economic well
being. In fact, where people are
hitched to plows and slave on
treadmills to pump water, where
people work to the limit of hu
man endurance, the standards of
living are the meagerest.
On what, then, does our abun
dant and challenging living de
pend? It depends almost wholly
upon widespread knowledge.
The resources of the world
have been available for count
less eons. The crude oil from
which petroleum products come
and whose energy substitutes for
the muscles of men is millions
of years old but of no service to
by accident, but most new truths
are now discovered as a result
of deliberate search.
Our rapid economic progress
is directly traceable to organ
ized search for knowledge in
modern research laboratories.
Most of our basic knowledge, tiie
fundamental truths on which we
depend is discovered in college
and universities.
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Practically all our progress in
better labor saving machines,
improved roads, improved agri
cultural methods, as well . as
widespread enjoyment of musiv
art, literature and more graci
ous living, has its origin in high
ly theoretical knowledge devel
oped by people in the colleges
and universities of our edufa
tional system.
The educational process of
imparting knowledge" is the
means whereby the effect of
knowledge is multiplied. Wlin
a useful bit of knowledg? is
shared by one person with an
other its usefulness can be
doubled. Often a discovery of
knowledge made by a single per
son has been multiplied to serve
millions of persons.
Education is the means where
by each of ss may enjoy a stand
ard of living cemmensurate with
that ef our most intelligent and
wisest people.
Genius is generous and shares
its wisdom and insight with the
world through education.
For the purpose of demonstrat
ing concretely that education "is
Oklahoma's most profitable ac
tivity, it will be assumed that
national averages apply to Okla
homa. Comparisons will be made
in terms of 1950 dollars. In 1890,
we did not have automobiles,
airplanes, widespread electrical
systems, radio, hybrid corn, trac
tors, combines and untold other
labor saving machines now in
common use, many disease and
drouth resistant crops, the wan
der drugs, or the skill to per
form an appendectomy with
more than an even chance for
success.
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And the chief reason-that we
did not have these things is be
cause we did . not have the
knowledge necessary to produce
them. For most, in 1890, educa
tion was reading, writing, and
arithmetic. It was good as far
as it went, but it was inadequate
to bring forth most of the mate
rial things and many of the cul
tural things that most of us en
joy today. If we had continued
on the basis of our education of
1890, it is reasonable to be
lieve that we now would be
living at about the same stand
ard of living that we did then,
without automobiles, air planes,'
wonder drugs, refrigerators, ra
dio and, of course, television.
In 1890, the per capita cost of
education was $7.00 and the
gross national products was $188
per capita. .
Fortunately, the pioneers had
an uncanny realization of the
worth of knowledge and educa
tion and supported it generously.
In 1950, the per capita cost of
education was $51.00, but each
of us on the average produced
and enjoyed a national product
valued at $1880.00.
This means that by Increasing
our educational activity by $44
per capita we came to enjoy a
per capita increase in well be
ing represented by $1,392.00. On
the basis of these figures, to
put it another way, the increased
income per capita in terms of
dollars was ever SO times the
amount of the increased cost of
education.
In 1850, the average Ameri
can worker worked 70 hours per
week and produced 27 cents
worth of goods per hour. In 1953,
he worked 40 hours per week
and produced, with the aid of
labor saving machines that are
a product of superior scientific
knowledge, goods worth $1.58
per hour, or nearly six times as
much.
Consider what knowledge has
done to improve the automobile?
The life expectancy of the tS25
automobile was 26,000 miles. The
life expectancy of the 1950 auto
mobile was 120,000 miles.
The improvement en the bates
of 1950 dollar value and for a
$2,400 automobile amounts to a
saving in depreciation cost of
over 7 cents per miles or $700
per year, for the family auto
mobile driven 10,000 miles per
year.
For a family of four this sav
ing alone is mearly three and
one-half times the cost of ' all
educational activities of the
family at a per capita cost of
$51.00.
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In 1913, a tire guaranteed for
3,500 miles for a model T Ford
cost $18.00 or in terms of pres
ent dollars, approximately $32 CO.
Assuming that tires performed
as guaranteed, and few did, as
any told timer will recall, it
would cost about $194 to keep
the family automobile in tires
for a ten thousand mile year.
Today's bigger, better "and
cheaper tires will cut the tire
cost for a small automobile ior
a 30,000-mile year to about
$30.00 and save the family about
$160 per year. The cost of
higher education in Oklahoma is
$9 per capita for $38 for a
family of four. Thus,, the result
of knowledge as it has alfected
tires alone saves the average
Oklahoma family more than four
times its cost of higher educa
tion in Oklahoma.
Education is not an indul
gence showered upon us by a
generous public but a profitable
investment that yields magnif
icent returns to all in increased
personal income.
University
Bulletin Board
WEDNESDAY
Mechanical Engineering Ban
quet, 6:30 p.m.. Union.
Alpha Kappa Psi Initiation Ban
quet, p.m., Lincoln Hotel.
THUESDAT
Lab Theater Flays. 8 p.m., 201
Temple.
FRIDAY
Cornhusker Staff Meeting, 4
p.m., Cornhusker Office, Union.
Lab Theater Plays, 7:30 p.m.,
201 Temple.
By BERT BISHOP
The business of a university
and the identity of its graduates
ire wrapped up in one fundamen
tal idea the improvement of
mankind. A university does not
prdouce Nebraskans or Ameri
cans it produces human beings
in as nearly the fullest sense
as possible.
The very essence of learning
fs its internationalism, its com
munal nature, Its obligation to
truth and value irrespective of
national boundaries, social clas
ses or personal prejudices. - It
attempts to instill this notion of
universality in its participants
against a continuous resistance
by forces of selfish, divisive, in
tensely fanatic nature.
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Selfish pride cannot long with
stand the overwhelming sense of
humility which comes to a man
in the face of the greatness of
the world as a whole. Com
placency in one's own unassisted
indestructibility soon fades with
the knowledge that there is no
one. "Mathematician," no one
"Painter," no one "Doctor" or
"Scientist," .to end -all mathema
ticians, painters, doctors or sci-,
entists.
At the same time, learning pro
vides a man with the knowledge
that he, as aa individual, can be
all that he Is capable of being
that he nay become as great as
he has courage and ability.
It teaches him that what he
does is of infinite importance,
not only to himself because he
has learned he must not yield to
the mediocre, but also to man
kind, because he has learned that
he belongs to it for much more
compelling reasons than he belongs
to any other group.
"Noblesse oblige" pertains
much more validly to the learned
than it did to the herlditary aris
tocrat The obligation which each
learned man has to the mass of
mankind is such that he does
not dare to ignore it What ha
possesses, what he knows, what
he feels is the result of centuries
of progress from the savage, bes
tial and ignoble. It is the re
finement of everything in man
that has made him what he is
a creature of meaning, of value
and of purpose.
It is not enough that he bo
happy. The well-fed swine is
often in ecstacy, as is the pap
whose ears are rubbed. It is
not enough that he be healthy,
well-clothed and provided with
the luxuries of living a lifetime
which furnishes only these things
has been wasted la a fantastic
self -consumption, ending' coin
pletely la the crave.
The things ef real worth are
things which come at the high
price of dedication. They are
the result of a sacrifice of flat
tering, self-titillating, petty en
deavors in favor of profound
values which, once achieved,
yield the kind of peace and ful
fillment which only man is cap
able of knowing. Anything less
is sacrilege.
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If we who are supposedly
learned are content to mingle in
the pettiness, short-sightedness
and selfishness which many
would demand of us, we will be
violating what we save learned
and the many before us who have
provided this knowledge. If wa
are content' to hold to our ideals
only up to a certain point, to be
uncompromising only so long as
it is prudent, we are frauds.
Lelterip
tetters From Medical Fraternities
Offer Other Side of Sing Argument
Dear Editor:
I would first like to state that
the following is not necessarily
the opinion of the Phi Chi Med
ical Fraternity or of medical
students in general. It is my
personal opinion.
It has been suggested by the
Interfraternity Sing chairman of
this year that next year the
groups should sing fraternity
songs with only members of the
Interf r a t e r n i ty Council partic
ipating, "thereby eliminating
Fhi Chi and Phi Rho Sigma from
competition!"
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It was "always my under
standing at the University that
The Nebraskan and activity
groups on the campus were dis
tressed over the fact that in
dependent groups and individ
uals would not participate in
projects of general University
interest and that the only groups
with enough spirit were the so
cial fraternal organizations. The
fact is that the very feeling
which underlies the sing chair
man's proposal is that which
limits rather than expands gen
eral student interest
The Nebraskan states that
"perhaps the ruling would dis
criminate against several groups
without good reason but it
would centalnly make an end to
complaints similar to the one
this year. One might ask the
question: Is the purpose of the
Ivy Day Sing to eliminate as
many complaint as possible or
is it to Judge the quality of
the groups who are entertain
ing alumni and students at the
occJLsion?
The sing chairman has cer
tainly received too much abuse,
but if the goal in the future, as
in the past, is to keep the level
of performance high, why elim
inate proven competition?
Bill Pfeiler.
Freshman Medical Student
Dear Editor: '
Phi Rho Sigma has partici
pated actively in Ivy Day for
many, many years. I stress this
point because it has been one
of the high points of our year.
We have little opportunity to
participate in our University's
activities and consider it aa
honor to do so when time al
lous. For years we have paid
our fee and sung last. This is
time honored as far as that
place is concerned and a real
tradition to us. This year we
expected to continue as always,
but now some storm clouds have
gathered to blacken a very fine
tradition.
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Perhaps through an oversight
Phi Rho Sigma was not extended
the courtesy of an Invitation to
participate in Ivy Day this year.
By telephone, I ascertained that
there seemed to be a chnge in
the rules and we would be con
sidered guests this year.
Upon arriving in Lincoln, Mr,
Curtis of Phi Chi and myself
spoke with Mr. Kushner of hte
Kosmet Klub. I still am not aware
of what the mixup was, but the
discussion ended by our receiv
ing permission to compete.
Phi Rho Sigma is happy the
medical students can participate
in Ivy Day and welcome tho.
Phi Chi's. Rather than complain,
we feel it is better to congrat
ulate the winner and rtartplan
ning on how to surpass their
efforts in 1955.
Hugh C. Follmer
Song Chairman,
Phi Rho Sigma.
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