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TO THE EDITOfc:
George A. Peterson, on
March 29, made the f o 1
lowing points.
1. No student is truly
educated without having
had academic religious
training.
2. Religious training is
not permitted at this Uni
versity, but teaching non
religion is permitted.
3. Intelligent-appearing
men who denounce their
religion are only suppos
edly intelligent.
4. Religion must be in
cluded in our education.
5. We must arrive at a
concensus as to the nature
of reality.
6. We must develop a
theory of the good life and
of the role of government
in promoting it.
My reply to each is:
1. That part of academ
ic learning which con
cerns religion should con
cern the effects of religion
and a knowledge of the
different religious beliefs
from which these effects
are derived. Also, a
knowledge of the reasons
for people's acceptance of
these beliefs should be
would be helpful How
ever, by considering the
effects, alone, which are
produced by religion, a
study of human behavior
WELL GEORGIE:
I do not know if Mr.
Jones has answered any
of your questions or not,
but I wish to do so.
I did as you said, and
I thought about the entire
matter. I drew one big
conclusion, that being you
are the most -narrow-minded
person I have had
the misfortune of coming
into contact with since I
have been at this univer
sity, Not only are your
remarks slanted, invalid,
and unauthoritative; but
they show ignorance and
a lack of understanding.
As acearately and
briefly as possible, I will
give a Negors' side of the
question:
1) It is understandable
that we do not accept
your race with no groudges
We are ham an, and a
hundred y e a r s of preju
dice for nothing is too
much. Actually, we are
like the proverbial rubber
band. You can put on so
much stress and then we
snap.
Now you mentioned th
Black Muslims, a group
that not only represents a
very small percentage of
the Negro populus, but
is hated by a larger Ne
gro percentage! The true
figures show less than 7,
000 Negroes on the Mus
lims' membership rec
ords. These radicals do
not represent the o t h e r
20,000,000 Negroes fa the
United States today.
Why did yea not say
anything about the groups
that try to work with your
people: NAACP, National
Urban League, and the
Congress of Racial Equal
ity. Ia these nationaUy
koowa gronps is laid the
greater part of the Negre
support. But, of course,
yea failed to mention the
KKK, the White Citizens
Committees, a a d the
Americas Nazi Party, to
ax me Just a few. Is this
where yonr majority of
ffsppert lies?
2) Nine-tenths of the
TO ELBRIDGE FOSTER:
I jam assuming that
someone used your name
in submitting that list of
questions to the Daily Ne
braskan, contained in a
recent paper, f or a p e r
son of college intelligence
would not have read the
word "passenger", as
used in news articles con-
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could well avoid strictly
religious learning.
2. Comments to the ef
fect that a particularper- .
son or instructor does not
blindly accept all dogma
of a particular majority
sect, or to the effect that
he does not agree with -our
great numbers of sec
ular authorities, does not
constitute the teaching of
non-religion.
S. "Intelligence" should
not be determined by a
test of a person's religi
ous beliefs, or dis-beliefs.
Surely there have been
some persons who have
recognized the fact that
their particular religious
teachings were deter
mined largely by the lo
cation of birth and also
that since not all of the
contradictory beliefs
taught could be true, some
could be false.
4. Religion could be in
cluded in our academic
program, as could mysti
cism, extra-sensory p e r
ception, and other fascin
a t i n g subjects. B u t a
course in religion would
have to cover the entire
area to be justifiable, and
could not very well p r e
sent, as facts, the beliefs
of the local majority sect.
If the latter were done
there would be a duplica
tion of the fine facilities
'FOR MY PEOPLE'
Negro population in the
North and West live in
cities, and nine-tenths of
these live in, or adjacent
to, disorganized slum are
as. Poverty, overcrowd
ing, vice, crime, and so
cial disorder characterize
these areas and are fac
tors in Negroes' crime
causation.
3) T h e only reason
these Negro people live
under these crowded,
"three and four families
living in the same apart
ments," conditions is sim
ply because of your silly
"white only" housing
laws. However, why
should one go all the way
to Chicago to the slums
you live in, or was it
across the tracks.
Look in Lincoln. Go to
Omaha and take a g o o d
look, and while you are
there, investigate the
"White slums" mlower
and Southeast Omaha.
Discrimination is our ex
cuse, what is yours?
The chairman of the
Chicago Housing Authori
ty states, "More than 80
percent of Chicago's resi
dential area is covered by
restrictive covenants."
The main part of the Ne
gro area in Chicago has
a density of more than
75,099 persons per square
mile, and the least c o a
gested section has 50,
000 persons per square
mile. Compare these fig
ures with the whole of
Lincoln, which has less
than 150,600 people ia aa
area of 32 square miles.
V Who do many Ne
groes live in slum areas?
The majority of the Ne
groes in the larger cities
have migrated from the
South in the last twenty
years. These people are
mostly unskilled workers.
However, this is pot be
cause they are inferior, .
as you try to make peo
ple think, but because of
the lack of opportunity to
seek an advanced educa
- tion in the South. Conse
quently, with very little'
Letter to Foster
cerning the case, to mean
"driver".
Apparently the person
who submitted the q u e s
tions did. Nebraska does
not have t law that a
"passenger" must have a
driver's license, as could
be inferred from the first
3 questions.
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of our many churches and
a clear violation of the
U.S. Constitution.
5. The nature of reality
is a concept, the under
standing of which cannot
be condemned. However,
quite a number of persons
are able to recognize re
ality by their physical
senses and by use of their
thought process, and are
not troubled by the possi
bility that their ideas as
to what is reality might
be in error.
6. A theory of the good
life could well be consid
ered, although, again,
many of us are able to
think out our own theory
and would gladly discuss
the matter, but would not
appreciate being subject
ed to the proposed consen
sus. As to the role of the
government in promoting
"the good life", we should
enter this area very cau
tiously. To help the help
less is an honorable task
of the government. But to
prescribe what the good
life is to be, and to see
that every citizen lives it,
is not a function of the
government. Rather, the
government should carry
out its rightful duties and
allow us to live our own
lives.
RAY F. TRAUDT
formal education, discrim
ination, segregated hous
ing, political pressures,
economic pressures, and
' 'closed - minded" people
like you, what type of re
sults could one expect?
5) This next piece of
fact was taken from the
March 29 issue of the
Omaha World-Herald.
"The doctor said a 1961
62 survey conducted at 21
schools in California's
Contra Costa County
turned up 121 pregnancies
among 12,136 junior a a d
senior high school girls.
"Dr. Toshiye TagasakL
the county's assistant
health officer, delivered a
report to the California.
Medical Association
Wednesday and later dis
cussed the survey at a
news conference.
"She said the survey
showed the school "with
the highest incidence of
reported pregnancy had
an all-white population
with the parents general-
ly in a high level of in-
A
Unless yoa caa give me
tome real facts oa yonr
Chicago ratings, I consid
er your statement dealing
with this subject to be a
typical, "stereotyped" lie.
I think your article rep
resents the inner-thoughts
of the majority of the
white people, not only on
this campus, but in Amer
ica today. You "do-gooders"
are always ready to
look at the problem, but
not look into the problem,
and help remedy the situ
ation. It is because of
slanted articles like yours,
two-faced friendships, and
"white-only" laws that
cause the Negro to carry
a make believe chip on
his shoulder.
Now, see if you can
think it over but this time
use a little common
sense, and a little less
prejudice and narrow
'mindedness. You are only
fooling yourself, and your
kind.
RICHARD LLOYD
my time answering the
4th, 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th
questions for I feel that
they are just a big joke.
In r e g a r d to the 9th
question I might ask
whether the author or per
son who used your name
is a nut?
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To all young
men and
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their freshman year at
college as well as to those
whose first term is no
more than just begun
comes a dream of fellow
ship which includes their
own popularity..
To be able to make
people like you, to get on
easily with those who are
thrown into close and
continued contact with
you, and to make friends
is of importance always.
It might be helpful, there
fore, to look back to see
what sort of start you
have made:
Has college been what
you expected? Have
things gone well? Or are
you disappointed?
If everything has been
wonderful if you are nat
urally gregarious and
adaptable, if you have
made the freshman team
or whatever else you tried
for, if you have plenty of
friends, if you are likely
to make the fraternity (or
the sorority) of your
choice, then certainly
you are not in need of this
or any other advice.
But if you have some
how drifted to the outside
edge of the various stu
dent groups instead of
finding yourself circling
in toward the center of
one sympathetic to you, it
might be will to find out
where you are, and where
you want to go, and if
possible which direction
to take to help you get
there.
Why Did you come to
college? Was your pur
pose serious or casual?:
Was it to study for a def--initely
chosen career?
Was it to acquire a col-
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lege degree because it is
likely to b " Hvlt"'
no matter what sort of
job you decide later on
you are fitted for? Or was
it school reputation as a
star in a major sport
wheih led you to believe
l.that success at the Uni
versity would lead to op
portunity in business?
The making of friends
especially such as you
want to make is certain
ly a normal objective. If
you are finding yourself
more or less lonely, you
might ask yourself what
you have done to be
liked. A pleasant smile
and good manners are
good building materials
as far as they go, but you
can't do " much building
without mement to hold
the materials together.
The question is: What
are you interested in
and working for? If you
are just playing turtle,
drawing into your shell at
every approach, waiting
for an altruistic min'd
reader to discern how lik
able you are and coax you
out, get out and get busy
at once. Go and volunteer
for whichever ac t i v i t y
needs help. Don't get it
into your mind that there
is nothing for you to do
because you couldn't
make the football team.
If you have no star
possibilities in any form
of athletics or their man
agementhow , about the
glee club, or the dramatic
society or the debating
team? How about work
ing as a reporter? Or how
about working on the
drive for the college en
dowment? Remember, the worth-
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while people of today are,
those who da things to get
things done. The modern
world likes and makes a
place for the good work
er who isn't afraid to work
harder and more cheer
fully than someone else.
It is very seldom that
work well done doesn't
bring interest as well as
satisfaction with it. Also,
nothing is more conduc
tive to general friendship
than interests shared in
common.
The best way to make
yourself liked and to make
friends is to like people
enough to become inter
' ested in what interests
them and to be outgiving
and" friendly. No, don't
read this rule glibly. An
interested and outgiving
person is very rare. Most
of us go through life men
tally cotton-wrapped in
our own affairs. We go
about thinking of what we
are going to do, what we
hope or fear is going to
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