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Nebraskan Editorials:
Of Self-Determination
Representatives from Farmers Fair Board
and Ag. Exec Board will appear before the
Student Council this afternoon. The appearance
should mark the end to the rather mixed up and
sometimes pointless chain of events that is par
ticularly hard for the city campus student to
understand.
Briefly following is a bit of condensed campus
political history:
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Last spring the Farmers' Fair Board, for
some obscure reason, failed to make plans for
continued existence following a moderately sue
cessful Farmers' Fair. The Ag. Exec Board,
n organization composed of representatives
from almost all of the multitudinous Ag organi
zations, was about to assume the duties of the
supposedly defunct Farmers Fair Board when a
cry of anguish and foul play was voiced by a
fraction of Ag students, and also by members
of the Student Council. The Council found out
that Ag Exec was acting in a rather boorish
manner assuming powers that heretofore had
been reserved for the Council.
Ag Exec Board, after being told that they
were not acting in accordance with protocol,
then submitted a revised constitution to the
Council that would allow them to absorb Farm
ers Fair Board and its functions. The amend
ments were submitted to the Council Judiciary
committee who presented the report that ap
pears on the first page of today's Nebraskan at
last week's meeting.
The Nebraskan has,' during the past semester,
stated that there seems to be no plausible reason
for the Fair Board to be swallowed up by Ag
Exec Board. The reason for the Board's action
seems to be a desire to give Ag Exec another
function to perform. At present, it has vague
general powers and few actual duties.
The Council will vote on the judiciary com
mittee's report today after a hearing of the two
groups involved.
The important phrase in the Council report is
the part that guarantees all campus organiza
tions the "right to self-determination." An or
ganization's right to exist can be determined
only by the group or the Council. That is, no
organization can assume the duties of another
organization unless the second organization
acquiesces.
This is only logical and proper. A nation can
not assume the commerce of another nation on
the assumption that the less fortunate nation is
not utilizing its trade to the best advantage.
Only when Farmers Fair Board ceases to
exist and that state is recognized by the Student
Council can another organization think of as
suming its functions. Ag Exec Board may co
ordinate the activities on the Ag Campus
which in itself is fine but it has not the author
ity to add to its specific functions by decision
of its own members. S.J.
Participation Or Apathy
For the first time in several years. Religious
Emphasis Week is being promoted on the
campus with national speakers, a stimulating
program and discussions aimed at an analysis
of one's personal religious faith.
This is one of the few religious events on this
campus in which all faiths Protestant, Catholic
and Jewish should have an equal interest. The
topic, "Man, The Maze and The Maker", is one
which offers intellectual as well as spiritual
stimulation and permits a personal interpreta
tion. There is no attempt to force this program upon
the students as is done on some campuses where
class sessions are used for the speeches and
discussions. The sponsoring organization, City
Campus Religious Council, feels that it is up to
the student to recognize the value and im
portance of this week.
Certainly this should be the case. No student
is truly educated without some knowledge of
religion. Even the confirmed atheist should ack
nowledge the powerful sociological effects of
religion in our society. Those who confess to
some faith should be willing to analyze their
beliefs in the lights of new insights offered by
the speakers and discussions.
If students do not participate in the activities
of Religious Emphasis Week it will not be
because of a lack of planning and publicity. Nor
will it be because this is a "Godless" university
composed of self-styled atheists and agnostics.
The great majority of University students pro
fess some religion. But for many, their prac
tice belies their profession.
The array of speakers who have been secured
should offer something of interest to every
student. The only question is whether the stu
dents will ever know what was offered them, or
will apathy win again? L.S.
A Psychological Challenge
"It's a shame there are only about 5 per
of them students."
This comment, overheard in a small of de
fenders in the riot at Alabama University, char
acterizes many of the so-called "student riots"
throughout the country.
Quoting the AP wire from Tuscaloosa, "While
most of those taking part in the demonstrations
appeared to be students, Dean of Men Louis
Corson said the disorder was led by a 'hard
core' of outsiders."
Those who watched the riots the past three
years at Nebraska can probably remember that
they were all spearheaded by a similar "hard
core," probably amazingly similar psycholog
ically, emotionally and mentally to the "hard
core" to which the Alabama Dean refers.
It seems to us that a fascinating and signifi
cant study could be made into the nature and
psychological disposition of this "hard core" of
riot leaders, the people that follow them, the
people that stand by and watch, the atmosphere
that produces them.
It might not only be a popular best-seller but
it might stop future riots before they ever got
started. B.B.
Chiang Kai-Shek Puts Faith In God:
Wor d
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By CHIANG KAI-SHEK
President, Nationalist China
(Eds note: Today's installment
of the "Challenge" series has been
specially written for The Nebras
kan by Chiang Kai-Shek, presi
dent of the Nationalists on the is
land of Formosa.)
The world is a gigantic battle
field, where many different kinds
of battles are fought. Whatever
the motives or goals, the world's
battles are in reality all fought
between truth and falsehood, good
and evil, light and darkness. In
other words, between God and Sa
tan. Since the atomic bomb has been
followed by the hydrogen bomb,
and the appearance of the cobalt
bomb is anticipated, anxiety and
terror prevail as if the end of the
world were at hand.
Why are people everywhere so
fearful? Have we lost faith in God
and Truth? Have we put so much
mphasis on material' progress
and military preparedness that
we are paralyzed?
If so, we do not realize that mor
al and spiritual forces determine
history. If men forget that the un
seen world is more real than the
world of sense and time, if they
lose faith, or adopt a pessimistic
attitude toward Life, they will be
come hesitant and cowardly.
Worse than those who lose heart,
are those who would barter with
righteousness, or compromise with
evil, in order to grasp at tempor
ary peace. Some kowtow before
his Satanic Majesty as though ap
peasement could buy peace.
Little do they understand that
the more we ignore truth, or bow to
evil, the more we are duped, trap
ped, or caught irretrievably by the
conspiracies of the wicked.
If truth is trampled, faith shat
tered, moral and spiritual values
disregarded, will not crass mater
ialism reign, and evil triumph in.
the world?
Matter itself is not evil. Mater
ial progress per se is not to be
condemned. As long as progress
conforms with the moral world
which God created, as long as it is
used to advance (he welfare of
mankind, material progress can
be a blessing to the world.
But material things must be
made to serve a righteous pur-
pc i. Material civilization can de
velop to full usefulness only when
consonant with the moral universe.
Truth lies deep in every heart.
God and the universe are one. If
we hold fast to our faith, fight for
justice, sacrifice ourselves for the
sake of righteousness, as Christ
did, we will not only gain our
Quiz Shows
Multiplying
By JACK PHIXNEY
(Eds. Note:) Jack Phinney who
was a columnist for The Nebras
kan last semester under the pen
name of Mr. Mockery, will write
this semester under his real name.
The name of his column is The
Left Bank.
About a decade back, a seem
ingly harmless radio program
achieved nationwide popularity by
quizzing random members of its
studio audience and by dispensing
such items as silver dollars, can
dy bars and tickets "to next
week's production."
This particular show expired
after a while, but it left a pro
geny which blossomed in sequence
The Left Bank
A Job Not Done
Corn Cobs and Tassels were organized on this
campus to provide spirit and "pep" for Uni
versity athletics. By sitting together in a large,
centralized section, and wearing symbolic
sweaters and uniforms, these two groups were
given the task of raising the "thunder in the
sky whenever Nebraska teams are in action.
As a secondary function they took over fund
raising and selling. This secondary function now
seems to be their major outlet of energy.
This emphasis on selling yearbooks, flowers
and balloons is best illustrated at the current
season's basketball games. The Cobs and Tas
sels are notoriously absent from their big section
by the band. Instead of a sea of red and white
enthusiasm there are a few waves of empty
seats and a sprinkling of Cobs and Tassels who
at least know where the best seats in the
bouse are.
One reason for the dwindling fulfillment of
their main duty by the University's "pep"
groups during the basketball season may be
that all the emphasis is put on football.
Cob and Tassel workers seem to fold up after
there are no more yearbooks or flowers to sell.
Since election to these select groups is based
largely oa the amount of such necessities sold,
it it so wonder that interest lags after the foot
ball season.
It is time that Cobs and Tassels realized how
ffcey are falling down in their duty to University
athletics and the student body. Since athletic
teams are fielded mainly for the University, and
since the University is made up largely of
students, these two student groups most logic
ally should spend most of their time promoting
such University functions.
It is difficult to say where the trouble lies. The
Cora Cobs, long recognized as the richest stu
dent activity, seemingly have turned into ground
squirrels and spend their time and energy stor
ing away acorns for a rather improbable long,
cold winter.
Or, like many other student organizations, the
Cobs and Tassels may have reverted to a posi
tion where their only purpose is to exist us
"something to belong to," with the original pur
pose lost in a flurry of activity points.
It is very hard indeed for the student body to
generate spontaneous joy unassisted for any
legth of time. It is even harder when the Corn
Cobs and Tassels, long thought of as the epitome
of Cornhusker spirit, hardly bother to come to
basketball games.
Perhaps there should be a little less flower
selling and balloon-inflating in the fall, and a
little more beat generated in the winter.
Corn Cobs can make a hot fire, if someone
touches a match to them. F.T.D.
and which, through a malignant
process which we might call As
cending Munificence, evolved into
those monstrosities which com
prise the current lineage.
Now don't get me wrong. I'm
not so much concrned with either
"The Big Surprise" or its mori
bund cousin "The $64,000 Ques
tion" as I am with their as-yet-unhatched
descendants.
The two current behemouths are
at least muzzled and chained;
their offspring may become un
bridled Frankensteins bellow
ing forth hundred-dollar bills and
belching trust funds.
It once was, in those days before
television aerials came to domin
ate the landscape, that quiz show
listeners deprived pleasure from
merely" joining in the game"
by augmnting and displaying
their own knowledge and by
heaping mirthful ridicule on the
occasional "lady in the rear bal
cony" who could not recall for
whom Hoover Dam was named,
This primary phase of the quiz
show evolution which we might
label as the "Wits and Wisdom"
era was soon smothered, un
fortunately, by its successor, the
"Lavish Jackpot" era.
The emphaisi was no longer on
The Question, but rather on The
Prize; and, that this shift in em
phasis was effective, if unwhole
some, is attested by the fact that
the type of program which result
has flourished mightily ever
since.
Our current cases in point cer
tainly bear this out. Taken in
dividually, however, they reflect
several other significant facts fore
most among these being the inse
curity of any particular giveaway
show.
"The $64,000 Question," for in
stance certainly does not have a
bright future now that another
program has exceeded its jackpot
by $36,000.
"The Big- Surprise," on the oth
er hand, though sure to experience
increasing popularity during the
next few months, seems unlikely
to reign for longer than six.
At the end of that period, anoth
er sponsor undoubtedly will have
come forth with a Bigger and
Better giveaway one with more
gimmicks and more cash to go.
And through it all, of course,
American televiewers will witness
the proceedings with avid interest.
Afterthoughts
A New Burden
It is interesting to cote that no longer will
there be a "Typical Nebraska Coed."
Instead, at this year's Coed Follies, she will
be unveiled as "the Ideal Nebraska" Coed.
This is in keeping with our modern philosophy
of "making everything a little tougher." For
merly, the coed had only to be "typical."
Now she must be "ideal."
Final Week
Mid-Year Slump
Invades Campus
All In Vain . . .
Several male students helped a girl friend
move her belongings into a different room.
All afternoon, they lugged multitudes of
feminine accouterment from the second to the
third floor of the sorority house.
But the good intentions were all in vain.
The next day the girl announced she was
married.
'Not Enough For Me'
Sen. Alben Barkley (D-Ky), an orator of the
old school, asked in the Senate bow much
speaking time was left for advocates of recom
mitting the natural gas bill to committee.
"Three minutes," be was advised.
"WelL that isn't enough for me," Barkley said
and sat down.
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By LEN SCHROPFER
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ior in Teachers, is a recent addi
tion to The Nebraskan 's core of
columnists. Schropfer is active in
University Theater, holds a posi
tion as an officer on the RAM S
Concil and is a member of the
Student Council. His column, The
Parvenu, will appear throughout
the spring semester.
Dear Mother,
One hardly knows where to start
around here. Final weeks are a
rather nondescript time of year
not pure vacation, not pure time
of application, not even pure time
of crisis, unless you're conscien
tious. The Rag (our school paper)
stops; anything that is known is
passed via the mouth, always a
very unreliable vehicle.
And when you've taken all your
tests and thrown away the last of
your notes, you look around and
see some stranger in your room
mate's bed, and as soon as you
have appropriately changed your
vulgarity to gentility, you find out
,jt's a new room-mate and you re
vert back to torm, wondering now
be will want the room arranged.
AH your friends, who, after
months of mental writhing, had
reached violent decisions are leav
ing school and told everyone how
far away they were going after
their last final are complacently
pressing down hard at the M&N
Building, pulling money mysteri
ously from somewhere and mut
tering about the extra three dol
lars. And in bookstores people are
once again standing in lines, which
are as inevitable for the college
cavalier as for the starving Ar
menians, complaining about how
usurous bookstore magnates are.
I bought a second band book to
dayit really doesn't matter what
book which had no price to its
name. I told the clerk at the cash
register that -I thought its shining
new counterpart back on the shelf
had $4.25 scribbled on its fly.
It seems the exact computation
is 30 off on used books, for she
spent five minutes distractedly ask
ing her colleagues what 70 of
$4.25 was. I wish I had told her
that new ones were selling for a
dollar it would have been im
measureably easier on both of us.
La Boheme is opening at Temple
Building next week; you might like
to come up for it. It's an opera,
and quite delightful. It's about
these three malcontents in France
who are too shiftless to work or go
to school, and so they call them
selves "bohemians" and live in the
attic.
One paints pictures, one is a
musician, and one writes plays
which he burns in the fireplace. A
little wench who lives downstairs
The Parvenu
comes up one night she keeps I
teiung now her name is Lucia but
everyone prefers to refer to ber
as "Mimi."
She loses her apartment key in a
neat little ruse to spend some time
with one of the "bohemians." They
eventually fall in love, through
quite a bit of singing and they go
to this cafe with a can-can dancer
on the wall. Then finally "Mi
mi's" hands get real cold and she
dies in the end.
There's some more to it, but
when they sing it, it makes it rath
er difficult to understand. They
have an artistic set for it.
Don't bother to send me money.
Mother. I found out in a desperate
moment that I can write perfectly
acceptable checks on Dad's account
by writing "by Pierre" beneath
the forgery. Has Dod had to sell
the eighty yet? Tell him it's full
of sunflowers anyway.
I have two or three meetings to
go to tonight right after dinner.
Mother, so 111 have to stop now
and shower.
Chianq Kci-Shek Biography v
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek was born in 1886 and after elemen.
tary schooling on the mainland of China he entered the Military Staff
COl,Therenhe0kme; iTL Yat Sen, leader in the fight to free Chin,.
When Dr Sen led a revolt against the Chinese government in 1911,
Chiang returned to the Mainland and there in 1924 engaged in a
strueele to unifv China which made him internationally famous.
In 1928 on the death of Sun Vat Sen, he became virtual dictator
of China. Meanwhile, in 1927, Chiang had married the beautiful and
talented Mei Lin Soong.
From there the seventy year old general directs his armies la
preparation for his return to the mainland.
Sun Yat-sen have their basis
these Christian concepts.
We firmly resolve at the begin
own salvation, but help to save
mankind.
All things material may disap
pear. Truth alone is eternal. The
spiritual alone is indestructible
Why should fear of bombs atom
ic, hydrogen or cobalt paralyze
our wills? Why should we fear
Death itself? God is with us at
all times and in all places.
The people on Kimmen have
erected a memorial to the soldiers
who have given their lives in the
defense of this offshore island.
Over the outer gate are engroved
Chinese characters meaning, "The
Righteousness of the World." On
the right column the characters
mean, "Honor the dead," and on
the left, "The soul will not die."
In the present world turmoil and
conflict, each of us must stand
at his post, fight as one man to
overcome evil and injustice. Vic
tory will be ours if we make
God's will supreme, his righteous
ness paramount, if we keep the
faith, if we endure present trials
and tribulations.
We dare not be craven before
the present dark outlook, or the
temporary problems. We look to
the omnipotent, omniscient, om
nipresent God. He alone is Lord of
Heaven and earth, God of the uni
verse.
As far as we are concerned in
Free China, we believe God will
lead us to the recovery of our
homeland, to end the suffering of
our people, and to destroy tyran
ny utterly.
We want to establish on our
mainland a new China based on
freedom, equality and brother
hood. The Three Principles of Dr.
in
ning of this new year to overcome
the unprecedented calamity that
has befallen us. We resolve to
cultivate our spiritual nature, align
our moral forces, so that our na
tion may successfully overcome
the conspiracy of the aggressors,
whether the traitors are led by
Chu Teh and Mao Tse-tung or the
Russian imperialists who control
them.
We want to wipe out out past
failures and humiliations, attain
national recovery and rehabilita
tion as soon as it is God's will.
Our present Anti-Communist and
Resist-Russia struggle is not only
a war to restore out own country
and people, but also a war to sava
the free world.
It is also a spiritual battle to
realize God's righteousness and to
save mankind. If this be our
purpose, there is no room for
doubt or fear! No room for hesi.
tation!
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FAMOUS LAW CASES: NO. 1 GRANSMIRE
vs. MIDDLE ATLANTIC BUS AND DRAY CO.
Gransmire, the plaintiff in this celebrated case, lived with his
daughter Ernest and a canary named Whirlaway on Elm Street
in Cooch, Delaware. The Middle Atlantic Bus and Dray Co.
started operating a bus line on Elm Street The passing buses
caused a cut-glass chandelier in the Gransmires' living room
to begin tinkling. The chandelier tinkled in the key of E-flat.
This so unnerved the canary, Whirlaway, whose key was C
sharp, that the poor bird moulted out of season, caught a chill,
and died untimely.
Ernest, Gransmire's daughter, was herself so unsettled by
the death of the canary that she flunked her final exams at tha
Boar's Head Beauty and Barber College, where she had been a
promising student, majoring in bangs. Now removed, willy
nilly, from the skilled labor market, Ernest found work carry
ing a sandwich sign for the old Vienna Chow Mein parlor.
Si9 i &fA
Here she met a bus-boy named Crunch Sigafoos. Although
Crunch was not especially attractive - he had, for one thing, a
large bushy tail - he was always clean and neat and kept his
shoes shined, and after a decent interval, he and Ernest were
married.
Ernest soon learned that Crunch's large bushy tail was not
as anomalous as she had supposed: Crunch was a werewolf.
After a while Ernest got sick of staying home at night while
her husband went prowling about, so she asked him to change
her into a werewolf too, which he did with an ancient Transyl
vanian incantation. Then, together, the two of them would
lope out each night and meet a lot of other werewolves and
maybe kill a few chickens or hear some book reports or just
lay around and shoot the breeze.
Meanwhile, Ernest and Crunch's landlady, a miser named
Mrs. Augenblick, noticed that Ernest and Crunch never used
their room at night, so she, in her greed, started renting it to
transients. One night a Mr. FfoUiett stayed there. In the morn
ing while brushing his hair, he took a bottle that looked like
hair tonic out of the cabinet poured some, and mbhed it
vigorously into his scalp. Unfortunately, it was not hair tonic,
but a bottle of glue which Ernest had bought to mend a model
airplane that Crunch had given her for their paper wedding
As a result of Mr. Ffolliett's grisly error, he was unable
to remove his hat and was, therefore, barred from his usual
occupation which was lecturing to women's clubs. He sued Mrs.
Augenblick, who sued Ernest, who went to her father, who sued
the Middle Atlantic Bus and Dray Co. who had started the whole
horrid chain of events.
Ladies and gentlemen," said the defense attorney in his
opening address, "this case, though very ramified, is covered
by law. Indeed, every facet of life is covered by law. Law
governs the homes you live in, the cars you drive, the food you
eat. Even the cigarette you smoke is strictly regulated. The
gentleness, however, is Philip Morris's own idea. Out of their
yast experience as tobacco people, out of their profound regard
for the astuteness of your palate, the makers of Philip Morris
have evolved a gentle, new cigarette, with a taste as mild as a
May morn, as subtle as gossamer, as welcome as money from
home. I thank you."
Whereupon everybody rushed to the tobacco counter to buy
bnjrht red, white and gold packs of Philip Morris and were ail
rendered so amiable after a few gentle puffs that the whole
complicated case was dropped. This later became known as the
Delaware Water Gap.
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