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The Daily Nebraskan
Wednesday, October 15, 1958
Editorial Comment
The Campus Green
How would you like a more beautiful
campus?
You have an opportunity to make sug
gestions on how to improve it. Here's all
you havo to do: Walk around until you
see something that you think should be
changed. Go home, write out how more
grass or trees could brighten up this or
that spot on the campus, then give your
signed suggestion to your Council repre
sentative or to the Daily Nebraskan. We'll
be glad to relay it to the Council.
Don't think there aren't any things that
can be dona. Take the faculty parking lot
as a for Instance. Here is a mass of cars
which might be sleek beauties to their
owners but make a composite picture like
an unattractivt midtown parking lot. Per
haps all of the cars can't be swept into the
ea, bat the administration might con
aider planting tall bushes around the lot
which would at least let the folks and stu
dents passing by on the streets feel like
they are walking on a campus instead of
by an orderly junk heap. The same goes
for the lot at Selleck Quad. An example of
how it can be done is the back of the girls'
dorm lot on 17th.
This is only one suggestion. There should
be many more. How about, as the
Council is considering suggesting, closing
14th to traffic? This may not be as im
practical as it sounds. Some day there
will be an Interstate Highway running
near the campus, giving another excess
route to the city. This may mean that 14th
won't be as highly traveled as it is now.
The time to start pushing for these
things is now, not next week or the next
decade.
The University grounds keepers are doing
a highly commendable job. A few changes
here and there could do much to make the
campus more like a campus.
Individual Staff Views
By George Moyer
'Mr !
Mos'er
Today is the day of the great experi
ment. University students will have their first
chanca to judge themselves. They will
have their first chance to show that some
of the maturity they are
always claiming they
have is fact and not
ophomcric bluster.
Today the Student Tri
bunal will have its first
cases.
A good thing for the
Judges of that body to re
member might be that
laws and regulations are
made to give the indicia
guides for administering justice. Justice
noma oe use primary concern of every
decision.
Unfortunately, the letter of the laws or
regulations are not always compatible
with justice. It is here that judges must
sometimes depart from the letter of laws
or regulations (never the spirit) and set
precedents.
It is here that wisdom, judgment in
short, maturity, come into play.
This is not a plea for leniency on behalf
ef those who will appear before the Tri
bunal today. It is rather a hope that the
most significant advancement in student
government on this campus in recent
years will prove successful.
It is a hope that the Student Tribunal
will accomplish the aims of those who
worked to see it a reality. It is a hope that
there will finally be a student organiza
tion capable of dealing justly with the in
fractions of other students.
Lincoln Project, a combination Univers
ity class and student service project
which receives all too little recognition for
its work, Tuesday took charge of squiring
157 Grand Island high school seniors
around the University.
The purpose of the Grand Island visit
was to acquaint high school seniors with
University classroom procedure. This is
a commendable idea in view of the many
lost souls who can often be observed
among incoming freshmen.
A program like this might go a long way
to cutting down the rather alarming attri
tion rate among University freshmen. If a
student has concrete knowledge of what he
is getting Into before he comes to the Uni
versity, he may be able to plan for the
often bewildering adjustment period.
It's a great idea but why in the blue
perfect hell did the high schoolers after
causing major confusion seating them
selveshave to get up in the middle of the
class period and walk out?
The exit of 15 odd high school students
and their University guide in the middle
of a history lecture totally destroys the
continuity of the lecture, distracts the
lecturer and students and is plain, down
right bad manners.
Any more good ideas coming from Lin
coln Project ought to be prefaced with
common courtesy.
Certain campus institutions like Kosmet
Klub, AUF, Student Council, etc. have re
ceived quite a going over in Daily Nebras
kan columns lately.
Other campus institutions, the necessity
of which might be investigated, are Daily
Nebraskan columns. Seems if AUF could
cut down on the size of its organization
the columnists ought to be able to work
out a reciprocal agreement by which they
could eliminate some of their blither.
From the Editor
A Few Words of a Kind
e.e.
My upper right hand drawer contains all
types of significant information which will
be of ve when I run out of pressing and
imposing events and items on which to
comment.
I reach in my hand and
out comes a yellow paper
entitled "News Flash."
There is nothing else
there except two letters
from my family, a tin box
of aspirin, a gift comb
from an office supply
company and empty en
velopes. I read the news
flash. This is what I find:
This is the 20th anniversary year of
the American Feline Society, Inc.
Cat Week-International will be held
Nov. 2-8. It as called National Cat Week
during 1946-52, simplified to Cat Week
1953-56, with the suffix International added
la 1957 "to more accurately describe its
geographic range and impact."
In America there are 21 million cats,
approximately 50 of whom are "owner
fed (obviously the cats take a big bite),
housed and cared for."
"Child psychologists agree that homes
having small pets, rarely turn out juvenile
delinquents, because of a sense of re
sponsibility instilled in the young, growing
and mentally-developing person."
To this I reply, "Bah!" Only a child
psychologist would make this observation.
Any grown up psychologist would point to
children picking cats up by their tails and
say, "T'aint necessarily so."
Actually, I came from a family where
cats were considered miniature panthers
and loved for their grace and cunning.
Many was the time we delighted ourselves
1b watching the black mother cat hop on
. . . e. e. hines
an invading neighbor dog's back and ride
him across the street howling and bark
ing. And when the hoodlums down the block
chopped the tail off one of our cats we
bombarded them all week with stones and
curses. We were as proud of our cats as
the Bronx Zoo is of its lions. Having cats
did not develop responsibility in us so
much as respect. Little cats, we learned,
can leave big scratches.
We claimed no cat as a Hines cat unless
he or she was an alley cat, the rough, rug
get individualist of the pet world who
never ask any more of you than a porch to
sleep under and a garage in which to
have kittens.
I have a terrible disrespect for well bred
cats who never see to stop hissing, who
won't let you pet them, and who don't
like to slap their paws at a dangling string.
And I don't like to see grown-ups talk
to them like they were children just back
from the doctor's office after swallowing
a button. You can ask an alley cat where
he's been, but its hardly necessary. Al
most certainly he has been out stalking
in the alleys like the proud king of the
alley a cat should be.
Talk about being slighted. I borrowed
this text book which I have not had money
enough to obtain. On one of the front pages
I read, "Copyright 1956 by The Children's
Theatre Press."
These past days have been the type which
tempt you to wander far away down a
tree lined trail and never com back. If
only I could live like Thoreau at Walden or
Wordsworth above Tintern Abbey. But
every time I begin to "recollect in tran
quility" the instructor asks a question or
a fly lands on my nose.
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Objections Sustained
By Steve Schultz
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a nnna-nat
The ways of business never
cease to amaze me. Probably
because I am a compulsive
buyer who has millions of lit
tle trinkets sitting around my
room which
looked good "
to me w h i le
they were
on the store!
shelf and
which sud
d e n 1 y be
came useless
after I pur
chased them.
I hold in awe
all those who Schultz
have much respect for mon
ey. I cannot, for instance, un
derstand why anyone should
particularly want to sit up in
to the wee hours of the morn
ing doing an accounting proj
ect just so he can learn to
know where the money has
gone; it's gone, so what can
ycu do about it?
Especially, I am amazed
at the business finesse d i s
playcd by the money coun
ters who worked for Scrip
last semester. You Mill be so
kind as to remember that
Scrip is the literary maga
zine which made its debut on
campus last semester.
My amazement is triggered
by the fact that each copy
cost 47 cents to print, was
sold for 25 cents, and the
magazine came out two dol
lars in the black. How's that
for having business acumen?
This, of course, is simply
a subtle way of making a
sales pitch. May I suggest
that if you have any manu
scriptsshort stories, poems,
fortunes written for fortune
cookies you submit them to
the editors of the aforesaid
magazine.
They won't promise you
that what you submit will be
printed, but rest assured that
you will be in sympathetic
hands; everyone on the staff
is a would-be hack himself.
The above is an unpaid ad
vertisement and was in no
way prompted by the fact
that I am editor of Scrip.
Bro. Shugrue alluded some
days ago to the rumor that
two of the columnists whose
work regularly appears on
this page were attacked in an
AFROTC class because they
disagreed with that mighty
la.i.vdi'y torce s current me
owing campaign.
I was the source of Bro.
Shugrue's information, and
I was also the alleged victim
of one of these attacks. Bob
Ireland, who has always been
close to my heart and for
whom I feel a certain pater
nal responsibility, was the
other columnist on whom the
Air Force supposedly inflict
ed massive retaliation.
According to my source in
this matter, Robert and 1
were the subject of a 60-min-ute
lecture, the gist of which
was that we arc unpatriotic
and easy prey for Commu
nists. At that point the well-spring
of my information dried
up. He either could not re
member any specifics con
cerning the matter (he was
supposedly an ear witness to
the innuendo) or he did not
want to take the chance that
his name might have to be
used.
So there we are. Either
I have been the subject of a
possibly libelous attack or I
have not. At present, I am
in the dark on the matter.
I assume that somewhere
there is someone who can en
lighten me: that someone
will please step forward,
growl, and tell me what he
knows concerning this affair.
McCarthyism did not die
with McCarthy, and one
trusts that neither did the
righteous wrath which should
answer the smear technique.
Reprinted from the Vapor
Trail, the combination trade
journal and cheering section
of the local AFROTC detach
ment: "How about it men do you
have your date lined up for
the Military Ball? Remember
this is a big event to get your
sharp dates early.
"Yes, there is over a
month's time before Decem
ber 6th; but with the short
age of sharp girls here on
campus one cannot afford to
wait. Get on the ball right
now and call that good-looking
girl in your English class.
Surely you do not want to be
stuck with a last minute, blind
date."
And while you're at it, do
your Christmas shopping.
Nothing is more beautiful
than Indian Summer in Ne
braska. If possible, I would
have spent Sunday sitting un
der a tree in Pioneer Park
thinking
about study- ffCv :
ing, but real
ly thinking
about the
s n u i r- : . i
rels, trees ;.tT J :
and other mti
nature - like g
thoughts.
But, alas I
neither got
to the park or Judy
the library and ended up com
bining Alfred Hitchcock and
When Egypt Ruled The East.
Good, practical, applicable
knowledge is what we're aim
ing for. Besides being aesthe
tic and dreaming about trees,
I have now picked up the nec
essary information on wrap
ping a mummy.
With what Mr. Lentz had to
work with he put on a master
ful show during halftime last
Sunday. What with 7,600 trom
bones and about as many
trumpets and hundreds of
shrilling little flutes, and so
forth, what can one expect?
The mere fact that they all
got assembled on the field, got
through their numbers (if not
quite in unison at least with
2reat trusto). and got off
again with only the most nu
nor of calamities is complete
ly amazing. After all, wheth
er we are inclined to admit
it or not, this is a state in
stitution and what better way
to get the prospective students
and their parents down to
view the campus on a beauti
ful day.
It has been the most im
pressive show so far this year.
and those kids were reany
giving it their all so the least
we can do is admire the enor
mous quantity of planning and
prepa-ation which it repre
sented. All ready I've started
dreaming about acres of chic
ken wire and lacerated fin.
gers from trying to punch
stubby hands through tiny
holes and at the same time
clutch a piece of crepe paper
which will be twisted in some
intricate way back through
the same hole.
But before all this labor be
gins, it is first necessary to
find out which idea you get
to struggle with. It is slightly
perturbing after working
hours on figuring exact esti
mates of lumber and positions
for braces to suddenly read in
the paper that your work has
been in vain and that you got
your other idea.
It is even more perturbing
when you know that a com
petitive group found out three
days before by official word
that they would have their
second choice.
From now on every minute
counts and it is so sad to see
all that time wasted. But,
qood luck to all chairmen,
their reluctant workers, and
anyone else who m i g h t get
harrassed into stuffing crepe
paper.
Homecoming displays are
such huge productions that it
practically requires an engi
neering major and long nim
ble fingers to be of any assit
ance. This is a subtle hint that
I might be found hiding un
der my bed with the dust.
Alpha Lambda Del' a
Alpha Lambda Delta, fresh
men women's scholastic hon
orary, will pledge new mem
bers at 5 p.m. Thursday in the
Union.
On Campus
(By the A uthar of "Rally Round Ik Flag, Boyt! "and
"Barefoot Boy with Cheek.")
SAIL ON, SAIL ONJ
I suppose October 12 is just another day to you. You get up hi
the ordinary way and do all the ordinary things you ordinarily
do. You have your breakfast, you walk your ocelot, you go to
classes, you write home for money, you burn the dean in effigy,
you watch Disneyland, and you go to bed. And do you give one
little thought to the fact that October 12 is Columbus DayT
No, you do not.
Nobody thinks about Columbus these days. Let us, there
fore, pause for a moment and retell his ever-glorious, endlessly
stirring saga
Flickering Art
By John West
eyes on o.
By John West
Lincoln plays host this week
to two beautifully mounted
and important productions;
one a delight, the other, a dis
appointment. Most spectacular is "Gigi,"
Lerner and Lowe's musical
adaptation of the C o 1 e 1 1 e
novel about an impressionable
young girl brought up in Pa
ris at the turn of the century.
Both of her unmarried
aunts insist that champagne
and jewels are more import
ant than love, but as Gigi
blossoms from a gawky girl
to a glamorous woman, it is
for love to triumph over all
as she casts her spell on the
irost eligible man in Paris.
One cannot help but be
overwhelmed bv the expan-
siveness of the "Gigi" sets,
costumes and location
photography in color. The per
formances of Leslie C a r o n,
Louis Jourdan and Maurice
Chevalier also greatly contri
bute to making the picture un
questionably the most delight
ful musical in years.
a a
John Huston, ever with his
perceptive eye on shooting a
picture in an unusual ana ex
otic part of the world, ven
tured to Japan to film "The
Barbarian and the Geisha."
Wnrkinf with Cinemascope
ami pnlnr. and i mostlv Orien
tal cast (with important ex
ceptions), his first effort since
such notable productions as
The Treasure oi we sierra
Madre," "Beat the Devil,"
Mobv Dick" and Heaven
Knows, Mr. Allison", is hand
some but not quite up to the
standards of a master.
Ostensibly the uncomplicat
ed story of Townsend Harris,
the first U.S. consul to Japan,
the film fails in two import
ant areas. Its writing and
some of its acting are, quite
frankly, embarrassing.
Under Huston's direction,
poor John Wayne, dealing
with a limited talent and
script, flounders through ca
tastrophies and love scenes
with the ease of a turkey on
Thanksgiving eve; the impli
cation being that even Michel
angelo couldn't instruct a two-year-old
to reproduce a circle.
The film's graphic qualities
are a delight to any eye. The
settings, costuming and use of
color and scene composition
make "The Barbarian and the
Geisha", apart from its other
awkwardness, delightful to
the extent of greatly over
shadowing certain of its
faults.
One will salute Houston for
again including that great ac
tor, Sam Jaffe, in one of his
productions. Their last asso
ciation resulted in what many
critics consider to be the very
best of all crime and suspense
melodramas, "The Asphalt
Jungle."
Librarian Ciapp
Speaks Today
Verner Clapp, president of
the Council on Library Re
sources, will speak Wednes
day at 4 p.m. in the Love
Library Auditorium.
The speaking date was mis
takenly printed as Thursday
in a previous Nebraskan.
Christopher Columbus was born in Genoa on August 25, 1451.
His father, Ralph T. Columbus, was in the three-minute auto
wash game. His mother, Eleanor (Swifty) Columbus, was a
sprinter. Cliristopher was an only child, except for his four
brothers and eight sisters. With his father buBy all day at the
auto wash and his mother constantly away at track meets,
young Columbus was left pretty much to his own devices.
How ever, the lad did not sulk or brood. He was an avid reader
and spent all his waking hours immersed in a book. Unfor
tunately, there was only one book in Genoa at the time
Core of the Home by Aristotle -and after several years of reading
Care, of the Horse, Columbus grew restless. So when rumor
reached him that there was another book in Barcelona, off he
ran as fast as his fat little legs would carry him.
The rumor, alas, proved false. The only ook in Barceloni
was Cuidar un Caballo by Aristotle, which proved to be nothing
more than a Spanish translation of Core of tlie Horse.
Bitterly disappointed, Columbus began to dream of going to
India where, according to legend, there were thousands of book.
But the only way to go to India was on horseback, and after so
many years of reading Care of the Hotk, Columbus never wanted
to clap eyes on a horse again. Then a new thought struck him:
perhaps it was possible to get to India by seal
Fired with his revolutionary new idea, Columbus raced to
the court of Ferdinand and Isabella on his little fat legB (Co
lumbus was plagued with little fat legs all his life) and pleaded
his case with such fervor that the rulers were persuaded.
On October 12, 1492, Columbus set foot on the New World.
The following year he returned to Spain with a cargo of wosders
never before seen in Europe-spices and metals and plants and
flowers and -most wondrous of all -tobacco t Oh, what a sensa
tion tobacco caused in Europe! The filter had long since been
invented (by Aristotle, curiously enough) but nobody knew
what to do with it Now Columbus, the Great Discoverer, made
still another great discovery: he took a filter, put tobacco is
front of it, and invented the world's first filter cigarette!
Through the centuries filters have been steadily improved
and so has tobacco, until today we have achieved the ultimata
in the filter cigarette-Marlboro, of eouree! Oh, what a piece
of work is Marlboro! Great tobacco, great filter, great smoke!
And so, good friends, when next you enjoy a fine Marlboro
Cigarette, give a thought to the plucky Genoese, Christopher
Columbus, whose vision and perseverance made the whole Ievely
thing possible.
Hit Ku all
And thank Columbu too for Philip MorrU Cigarettet, for
thoe who want the belt in non-filter tmoking. Philip Morris
joint Marlboro in bringing you the column throughout
the ichool year.