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Editorial Comment
Ike's Unpopular Cause
Nearly every publication of national
icope has devoted some space within the
past week though rarely much space
to one of the most significant comments
made by President Eisenhower recently.
That was his reaffirmation of belief that
the United States should abandon its te
nacious clinging to the stipulation that no
case concerning the United States may go
before the World Court unless the United
States chooses. The President has advo
cated previously that we announce public
ly and honestly that we would submit in
ternational disputes to the Court. His con
firmation of this stand last week was only
a reminder to the United States of some of
our diplomatic hypocrisy.
In our position as avowed leader of the
free world, staunch advocate of the United
Nations, symbol of democracy can we
still say complajcently that we will not al
low a World Court to determine the Justice
of opposing claims by our nation and an
other? We obviously do this, but can we
take such a stand while at the same time
urging world unity, international justice
even birth control for other nations?
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As the most powerful force in the free
world, the United States occupies an en
viable, yet singularly unenviable position.
What we may know to be the right medi
cine for the world as a whole may be the
bitterest to our own taste.
Disputes over jurisdiction of soldiers
stationed on foreign territory offer a good
case. While all the canons of good sense
indicate that the country in which a per
son commits a crime while not on duty
should be able to try him, still the outcry
from home was "Don't let those foreign
ers get their hands on our boys."
While the language might not be the
same, the reaction is practically identical
to the prospect of the United States com
mitting itself to submission of disputes to
, a world court of justice. And yet, at this
time, given the realities of the cold war,
the potential destruction of a nuclear war,
can we afford to tread the path of world
anarchy? Scarcely.
President Eisenhower is sponsoring an
unpopular cause. But it is hoped that some
of the tremendous Eisenhower prestige
will rub off on the idea itself.
The day of hiding behind our shores is
long past. In an era of painful groping to
wards some working system of world co
operation, a vigorously supported world
court is an absolute must.
An Outstanding Gentleman
The University has been fortunate to
have had many distinguished and well
known figures on its faculty during its long
history. One of the most outstanding of
these individuals was Dr. James LeRossig-
nol, who passed away Wednesday at the
age of 93. ,
Dr. LeRossignol was the founder of the
College of Business Administration and its
first dean. He was a widely-read author
. of some 13 books. .
Although he retired more than 20 years
ago from the faculty, Dr. LeHossignol still
From the editor's desk:
maintained an active interest in the Uni
versity and its affairs. He remained in
good health until his death and often at
tended academic gatherings on campus.
One of his occupations in later life was
chess, at which he proved himself an
adept player. Only recently he attended a
reunion of Business Administration deans
at which every dean, past and present,
was represented.
It is with regret and sorrow that we say
goodbye to Dean LeRossignol. The Univer
sity can pride itself in having had such an
outstanding gentleman as part of its community.
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Diana
By Diana Maxwell
A curious metamorphis takes
downtown once a year.
The location is the city auditorium
that same building that houses ice-skating,
professional basketball, Grand Ole Opry
and the Community Con
certs. The insides of
Pershing become a
strangely wonderful blend
of the military and the
frivolous.
The blending provides
an atmosphere that is
matched at no other Uni
versity function. It is a
combination of pageantry
and music which comes
off with militarily oiled
precision mixed with a formal gallantry
which is nearly missing from the social
scene otherwise.
Personally, I'm glad to see the Grand
March, the formal presentation of the
Honorary Commandant .nd the service
queens. Even the long presentations of
dignitaries in attendance gives the Ball a
lustre which is really fun for a once a
year occasion.
Like what I'm really saying is that the
. army brat in me likes to see a once a
year dance which is really a Ball in the
old sense, and not just another occasion
when any wool dress will do for the girl's
outfit.
And perhaps because the Christmas sea
ton If with us, good, good feeling pre
vails. Union types as usual have decked
the halls with not just the traditional
boughs of holly, with St. Nick Nebbishes
and who knows what else.
Also in the Christmas vein, my first
visit In four year's to the YWCA's Christ
mas Bazaar proved that I should have
made about three others. It was a United
Nation; shop complete with everything
from chop-sticks to America n-type
brownies and cookies.
Lest this time of good will slip by with
out spreading out the sunshine further,
further comment Is in order on the music
season which always accompanies the
. Christmas season. Sunday's offering of
two sessions of the annual Christmas Carol
Concert in the Union kicks off a series of
some of the finest entertainment we have
. a chance to see.
One week later all of Lincoln turns to
ward the campus to hear the Messiah per
formed in the Coliseum bad acoustics and
an.
Even the Womens Residence Halls gets
music in the dining hall for the Christmas
season and when there is music in the
dining hall one can almost believe in the
Second Coming or something.
Oh, yes and as you zig and zag your
way through the maze that is now the en
trance to the Union (like it's hard not to
chuckle about those glass doors which are
so cute but keep breaking) say a little
prayer for the "tradition" which is get
ting so much attention.
My brief experience with tree planting
when the parents bought a home in El
Paso plus watching the other "tradition"
die in front of the Administration building,
would indicate that transplanting full
grown trees is a delicate business.
So ... if our "tradition" is to become
really traditionally tradition (like if the
tradition survives a season or more of
tradition) it may take a traditional prayer
or so.
Opinion Collection
Once again an extension of library
hour is up for Student Council consider
ation. Council members are now in the
process of collecting student opinion on
this proposed extension for a full report
of conclusive evidence for the powers that
be.
Once the Council received the desired
response when they requested opinion and
the proposed change became a reality.
However, the Calander committee this
year was thwarted in its evidence collect
ing attempt. Your opinion, as well as your
vote, counts.
Even a Palace
When the delegates from the 23 colleges
and universities scheduled to attend the
convention of student unions convene here
this weekend, the Nebraska Union will
be in full display.
The Daily Nebraskan extends a wel
come to the delegates from neighboring
schools. Enjoy our new building. Even if
it is forever dubbed the Pleasure Palace
we do.
Youth Will Serve
(ACP)-From Egyptian, Southern Illi
nois University: "Some of the AFROTC
cadet officers look so young that they
should wear their bars on one shbulder
and a Captain Video button on the other."
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By Sam Hall
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Sam
A University of Nebraska
Board of Regents "member
criticized my column re
cently, saying ". . and
all you write about is drink-
3 -1
ing a n u - v t
sex! wny , ,
uuu i y v u
write about
s o m ething
more intel
tual?" C o rrec
tion, s i r,
for that's
an u g 1 y
way to cat
egorize this
strip. I merely attempt to
write about the lighter side
of our nose-to-the-grndstone
way of life down here.
"You know nobody reads
that kind of junk," he con
tinued. Insert foot in mouth,
for after that dandy little
statement, he informed me
that he was saving all my
columns. Hooray an ardent
fan! Then after one decade
of time "he is going to pull
them out of his file and
show me how "silly" they
sound. That's a good deal.
He'll probably want to put
a border around this one.
- Chain Letters
Regardless of the criti
cism from the higher up I'm
going to speak of alcoholic
beverage. Seems a number
of "get rich quick" or "get
drunk more cheaply" cam
pus business tycoons have
Letterip
On Campuses Vi Things
The Daily Nebraskaa wltl aeftllsa
enlr those letter which ere signed.
Letters attacking ladlTidusi mast
carry the author' name. Other may
as Initials er pen name. Letter
should aot exceed 90S words. Wbea
letters exceed this limit the Ne
srsiken reserre the right to eoa-
dense them, retaining the writer'
views. '
Max Defended
To the Editor:
The Daily Kansan writer
who compared H. L. Menck
en with Max Shulman chose
poorly for his comparison.
Menchken was a sneerer
rather than the comic that
Shulman is, and if I were
to compare the two,
Mencken would come out a
poor socond-best, or per
haps first worst.
Mencken's essays are
fiercely dull reading, his
opinions go all unsupported,
and his statements of fact
are outrageously inaccur
ate. The writings of his ac
quaintances reveal him to
be anti-Semetic, anti-Negro,
anti-democratic; it is nota
ble that he was pro-German
in both World Wars. His
only merit, it seems to me,
was as an editor and a jour
nalist. Rather than this misan
thropist it would be -better
to compare Shulman to Sin
clair Lewis, or, going back
a little further, Mark
Twain. In either case I
think our Max would put on
a good show, though he is
hardly the equal of either
Lewis or Twain yet.
Shulman is a keen parod
ist, and can be a telling
commentator when he can
resist the cliche'. Let's re
member that Twain did
some very poor writing ear
ly in his career, and Lewis
did some late in his.
So let's have no more
deriding our our Maxie. I
think he's as funny as as
well, yes, as Yogi Bear.
Pupil
E-Weck Heads
Arc Otte, Kacs
Heinz Otte and Jerry Kaes
have been elected co-chairmen
for E-Week of 1960 by
' the Engineering Executive
Board.
Otte is a junior in mechani
cal eneinTln and Kaes is
a senior in chemical e n g l-neering.
Eice Sale Dec. 12
Assistant Buslnrs Manager
Ninety-six guaranteed bred
ewes will be sold at the sec
ond annual Purebred Bred
Fwe Sale on Ag campus Dec.
12.
The sale will begin at 1
p.m. in the horse barn with
Charles Corkle as auctioneer.
A srecial meats clinic will be
held in the meats laboratory
from 10 to 11:30 a.m.
ASCE Meeting Set
The Nebraska student chap
ter of the American Society
of Civil Engineers will meet
at 7 p.m. next Wednesday in
301 Stout Hall.
revived the age old chain
letter gimmick.
This time it's no promo
tion of savings bonds, base
ball bats, popsickle bags or
Masked Marvel pictures,
but instead, to quote the let
ter, one of "Christmas
Cheer." The letter is ap
parently within the limits of
the law, for all transactions'
are hand-to-hand and not
through the mail.
It works along the same
order as other chain let
ters. In this case, Buy a let
ter for $4, call the man at
. the top of the list and make
arrangements to buy him a
bottle of "Christmas
cheer;" then scratch his
name, -place your name at
the bottom of the list, make
a duplicate, sell the two
copies and then sit back
and hope that eventually
someone will call.
It all sounds good, but
the buyer is not obligated
to call the man at the top
of the list. Another fallacy is
that anyone getting hold of
the letter can make morev
copies and go into business"
for himself.
The individuals who start
ed the chain are probably
swimming in liquid assets"
with a little spending money
to boot. Late comers, how
ever, stand to lose a few
dollars, for the letter will
undoubtedly peter out soon.
Requests
Although this has been
done by columnists before
and lacks that original
touch, many of my close
associates have requested
that I mention them in my
column: Bennet "Abe" Mar
tin, Ayoub Ghammi, Earl
"Skippy" Dyer, Ahwed M.
Ibrahim-Basha, Harlan No
ble, Chuck Stacey, Candy
Bar, Ed Higgenbotham and
the Sig Alphs.
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A Few Words . . .
. Of a Kind
e.e.
by e. e.
I'm usually not moved to
sympathy, but I have to
take exception in the case
of "rocket scientist Dr.,
Wernher Von Braun."
V o n
Braun, the
Sunday
paper told
'me, built a
new home
and paved
the front
yard with
c o ncrete
which he
painted
ereen. A
friend explained, "He
hasn't got time to bother
with mowing the lawn."
Mr. Von Braun is too
busy to smell freshly cut
grass ... to pull dandelions
... to weed out watergrass
... to have sparrows look
ing for worms in his yard
. . . and will crickets be
happy, living in the hard
green cracks?
I don't believe Mr. Dis
ney or I shall be inspired
to produce a documentary
film on Von Braun's Half
Acre. Drinking the hemlock was
a great factor in helping
Socrates depart. Reading
the Satyr column of Nov.
24 was a great factor in
Hineg'
inspiring composition (de
composition?) of the follow
ing: And then there was noth
ing. And there wasn't Dick
Masters or satyrs or Life 1,
Thefe unexisted only
nothingness unsurrounded
by nothingness.
' And an unimagined Rag
turned yellow in my un
imagined fingers
While not-I unimagined
not-I unread nothing in un
praise of nothing.
Yet nothing could not be
undenied and no-I unread
not-he,
Unrealizing unbeing was
nut-ty
(That terrible pun wasn't
fun and couldn't be sung
because unworld hasn't got
one unpun to be unsung for
unfun).
There is or isn't only
Unlife 1 untaught by un
staffed nothings
And unprotested by noth
ingness unmouthing noth
ing. Yet can nothing care
about nothing?
Then, in a totally unin
spired moment, this crip
pled thought crawled into
my broken mind:
Hines is not w i t h the
times
But he has a subscription.
iff!! Wn
(Authorof'l WasaTeen-aqe Dwarf' "The Many
. Lorn of Dobie GillU", etc.)
AMERICAN LITERATURE:
ITS CAUSE AND CURE
Today, as a service to students of American literature, this
column presents digests of two classic American novels: .
THE SCARLET LETTER
by Nathaniel "Swifly" Hawthorne
This is a heart-rending story of a humble New England last
named Hester Prynne who is so poor that she does not have
what to eat nor a roof to cover her head. But she is a brave,
brawny girl and she never complains, and by and by her
patience is rewarded: in the summer of 1850 she wins a football
scholarship to Alabama.
Hard-working Hester soon wins her letter and everyone says
she is a shoo-in for All-Conference honors, but along comes the
War Between the States and football, alas, is dropped for the
duration.
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Poor Hester goes back to New England. I(j is a bitter cold
winter and poor Hester, alas, does not have any warm clothing
except for her football sweater from Alabama, but that, alaj,
has a big scarlet "A" on the front of it and she can hardly wear
such a thing in New England where Union sentiment runs so
high.
Poor Hester, alas, freezes to death.
LITTLE WOMEN
by Louita May "Bubbltt" Alcott
The Marches sre a very happy family and for no discernible
reason. They are poor as snakes; they work from cockcrow to
eveiuwng; their dear old father Philip U away with the Union
armies; and they can't do a thing with their hair.
Still, nothing can dampen the spirits of madcap Meg, jocular
Jo, buoyant Beth, animated Amy, and crazy old Marme, aa
the merry March girls laughingiy call their lovable mother.
Well sir, one Christmas the March girls get an invitation to a
ball. They are dying to go because they never have any fun at
all except maybe a few chuckles during the hog-rendering
season. But Beth reminds her sisters that they can hardly go
traipsing off to a ball and leave poor Marmee all alone at
Christmas time. The sisters swear a lot, but they finally agree
with Beth.
Marmee, however, will not hear of it. "Land's sakes, little
women!" she cries. "You must go to the ball and have some
fun. There will be fruit punch and Toll House cookies and
.Early American sandwiches. Best of all, there will be morris
lancing. Oh, how your father and I used to love that I"
"I never knew father could dance," cries Meg.
"Oh yeah?" cries Marmee. "You should have seen Pbilio
morris."
"Was Philip a good morriser?" ones Jo.
. "The best!" cries Marmee. "Philip could morris in soft pack
or flip-top box and was full of fine, fresh, natural mildness!"
The girls are cheered to hear this and go to the balL Marmee
stays home alone, but soon gets a wonderful surprise: Philip
comes back from the war I
When the girls return from the ball, they find Marmee and
Philip morrising, and they ery "Huzzah!" and throw their poke
bonnets in the air, where they are to this day. ,
And epeaking of literature, in our book the best eelection ot
cigarettes on the market today comes from Philip Morris
inc. Marlboro filters; new Alpines, high filtration and light
aienthc tand, of course, mild, unRltered Philip Morris.