THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
SUNDAY, JANUARY 10, 1937.
SIX
Daily Nebraskan
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Merrily On.
The Union
Is Under Way.
Yesterday, at 2 p. jii., the Student Union
building officially was gotten under way. Sur
rounded liy the hoard of regents, the architect,
and other administrative bigwigs, and all un
announced. Chancellor Hurnett swung a pick
axe into frozen turf; pebbles flew, camera
shutters clicked, and the Union building was
on !
A few miirutcs later, when the adminis
tration had whisked away from the scene,
several members of the Daily Nebraskan staff
who had learned of the scanty ceremony
planned, just a few minutes before the event,
took over. They, too, swung pickaxes and
shovels, and a hastily requisitioned camera re
corded the students' celebration of the break
ing of "round. Somewhat a bit more infor
mal. to be sure, but nevertheless sincere and
with a pr;ier for the success of the structure
which they helped plan and found.
Their joy is so much more expressive of
the purpose ;ind ideals of the building than
mere official commendation. The administra
tion posed for its picture se) I'-sal isfiedly. and
with llie feeling that it had dune s etliing
worth while to benefit campus life. The stu
dents were the ones benefited, and they frisked
about and exchanged hearty congratulations
in their unofficial ceremony, altho the most
wi re seniors who never will actively enjoy the
The Counsellor's Corner
Happy New Year Stress llie "Happy'"
By Miss Grace Spaelit, Baptist Student Secretary.
"Happy New Year!'' How many times have you hailed
your friends with that cheery phrase this last week? What did
you mean by the word 'happy'? Happiness may be considered
a universal desire, but its interpretation and ways of achieving
varies with eacli individual.
After the rush of the ChristmasO
season, it is customary for nier- which bring him recognition, re-
. i Union as undergraduates.
I I 1 1 i.al ion s worst Joe, lis most Iwooii
tliirMv eiiemv. will take the Jives of .".7.000
American citizens during H,:- the lives of j The keynote of the Union is to be taken
helpless children, of their mothers and tat hers. not from the official, but from the unofficial
Thousands more will be injured and maimed, j breaking of ground riles. The comradery that
A tragedy a major, national tragedy will knitted together that small group will find its
in- ultimate expression in the good fellowship of
They will not go as a sacrifice to the the entire student body thru a common means,
greedy gild of war, not as the uiisusfSict ing 1 1 he Union.
sufferers of the wrath of nature, but rather as
Ti.c determined lull of a vicious maniac, the
careless driver.
The whole course of lives, of families, of
Jiomcs will be darkened. Jt will be a recur
rence of the world's most needless calamity, a
calamity because it can largely be prevented.
Revive
The Forums.
Last . midyear, to promote cultural influ
ences on the campus, llie Student Council ap
pointed a forums committee to brio problems
of the day before the student body for open
The year ju',1 closed was the nation's
worst from the standpoint of fatalities - a
death every 1.1 minutes, four lives during
each hour of every single day. I nbss the
present trend is cheeked sharplv. more peo
ple will be mercilessly murdered on the na- s,.IIH.sf f operation. Several open for-
i u m s were held, were well attended, and the
student body seemed pleased with this means
discussion.
The committee f unci ioiied -vcrv w ell in its
linn s st reels luring tlie next I lii'ilillis
than there were American soldiers killed
during the entire World war.
Property loss from accidents during the
;.st year is estimated by ihe lialioii.il salely
council at .41 . ;o 1,001 1.0O0: 1 Ml.OfKj.lK Kl is
the estimated factory cost of all the new
passenger cars sold in l!l!H.
chants to take an inventory of
their goods on hand. After our
Christmas rush is over, after the
melody of the beautiful Christmas
music has faded from the air, let
us take an inventory of ourselves
to see what we are doing that will
make our wish of a "happy" new
year come true for ourselves as
well as for others.
It is easy to make a child hap
py by giving him the things that
he desires at the moment and
satisfying his every want, but
this does not bring happiness in
adult life. For one of the meas
ures of being grown up, of be
ing mature, is the ability to de
fer satisfactions, to work and to
wait for the sake of a desired
result in the future. "Learning
to wait" is one of the greatest
lessons that must be learned if
we would attain happiness. How
do you rate on this first ques
tion in your personal inventory?
Neither does happiness depend
upon living in a certain place or
under certain conditions, for hap
piness may be sought and found
in any place, because it is in our
selves that it exists and only there.
Happiness is an individual product,
dependent upon the organization
and health of the body's cells, the
stability of the nervous system,
and the attitudes of the mind.
What health habits are you form
ing? Are your nerves "on edge,"
dashing from one activity to an
other, keeping up, under pressure?
Are your attitudes growing more
tolerant, more understanding, more
appreciative of those who differ
from you in color or race or
creed ?
"Happiness is a perfume you
cannot pour on others, without
getting a few drops on yourself."
If one centers his attention on
himself, only doing those things
gardless of the other person,
lives "egocentrlcaily," as our
psychologists say, he is far from
the road to inner happiness. Life
becomes richer and more stis- v
fying as we live "objectively,"
become absorbed In a cause out
side' ourselves, and lost our sel
fish traits in working for the
development of the larger group.
"For he that saveth his life shall
lose it, but he that loseth his
life, for My sake, shall find it."
Jesus, the Master of Life, under
stood and lived and taught the
way to lasting happiness.
t
"Happiness belongs to the inde
pendent, the competent, the cour
ageous, to those who have re
sources within themselves to com
bat ill-fortune, to those who can
inhibit anger over trivialities and a
release it for just causes, to those
who have few fears, to those who
can love unselfishly, and can give
pleasing expression to that love."
The year is before you. Will you
make it a "happy" new year?
"Listen to the salutation of the
dawn! ,
'Look to this day.
For it is life the very life of
life.
In its brief course lie all the ver- '
ities and realities of your
existence.
The bliss of growth,
The glory of action,
The spendor of beauty. .
For yesterday is but a dream,
and tomorrow is only a
vision;
But today, well lived, makes ev
ery yesterday a dream of
happiness.
And every tomorrow a vision of
hope.
Look well, therefore, to this day.
Such is the salutatio.t o the
dawn."
Fale of Unicameral Evident in
Four Months, Says Sociologist;
Calls Seiining"s Hook 'Timely'
for their expression of thought openly and !
freely.
i This year, the Student Council forums
i committee lias made nice promises whieh ap
! jm-.i ri I in print, but the forums never were
j forthcomiiiL'. A semester has passed, and no
act ion has been t a ken.
! The J)ailv Nebraskan belices the forums
. . a I
steering wheel ami an acceiijator , .,(.,,,,. r , (. .s, propa-.-alc! by tj.c council
,rr I m i ics 1 1 i a o s iii-i iirvi mi h m
('an it be that thi.s slaughter must go on.'
Miisl we believe that automobile drivers arc
transformed from sound, sane humans to irre
sponsible, irrepressible killers w hen eon front ed
wild
pedal V
r ni vears. and ihat this activity ought
tl,,.ii- l',. I I, .;n cs Ihe street colli' All'
wc helpless before this ov r, w helming death!""' 1odicforwa.it of a pjili-at ion in t he coun
,),..,!, ,.' -eil. The committee must be rejuvenated, and
I Ibv ioiisly not. Man has never been so .must take more active control of its sphere in
the coining semester.
igncij.
IMucatiou and public interest can solve
this problem. Kxpelieiicc lias proved this to
be iruc. When drivers are properly educated
and pedestrians properly instructed, and
when a community i.s aroused to the nee. for
iincjein engineering methods ami intelligent
law enforcement methods d'-aths and aeci-
b ills are reduced.
According to n rcnrl from Kvansion. III..
'Iiv i iibghlciicl enforcement and common
sense engineering, cut it dealh rate lrm to
to i deaths last year Syracuse. . V.. has
reduc-d its deaths from 1 in VX'A lo in
l!i:..Y
Lincoln's chief of police. Waller Anderson,
has compiled a booklet of Iraffb regulation.
1,'ead 1 hem and above all, obey idem. IJciiicni
per Idat ''courtesy is the byword to safe driv
ing "' I d ive carefully.
h un
' i. pie responsible for 12 deaths and 'i
red jo juries in New Viars tree fires in
soviet I'ussia are to lie arrested and punished.
Mow much more civilized is America here
the deaths from auto accidents alone mounted
to over 200. We couldn't be bothered with
VI deaths from New Vears tce firi.
j There are any number of interesting sub
ijeets which Ihe students of Nebraska would
'enjoy listening to and discussing. Among them
:are subsidization, now coming in for a great j
ideal of controversy in Ihe press: fraternity
, v . the dormitory system, one of the major
collegiate social issues; censorship of student
! political ions ; regimentation: new NTIA, and
many others of political and social nature.
There j no Jack of material. 'Ihe campus
abounds with controversial subjects in wJiieh
every student at least should be interested,
and which he would be anxious and willing to
discuss if given the opportunity and needed
impel us.
The Sludeiit Council sdoiild take action
at once to see td.il its system of forums is not
destioved.
A Hollywood playwright and Hollywood
actress are gelling married after )u fell in
love wild her when he fcaw lier in a motion
picture. Typirydly Holly woodiaii 1
iTIw oUli. t. Or. i. O. HitIIi-i--.
fnt-ftirfilt r.lirrnll llir llnM-ly allrur-itiirv-
ni Or. J. f. l-nnliiK's lir IxMik
on fill' nr Imiiimi IrclMfMturi. Or. Ilrrt.
Sfr I rkiirmu ! tlif df imrlniriit f
WHiloKy at ilir lflttrMy ! .Nrlirmatt
and Or. Nraninc t rhainnwa f tlir 4r
pmrlmi'lil i,f pwlltb-al rtMirr. I
"Sow that the unicameral is in
session we will Ik; able to see in
part at least whether this type of
government is more open, respon
sible and responsive, freer from
buck-pasMing, log-rolling and pork
barrelling, than the old bicameral
form. At the same time it roust be
eranteij that a single session will
not be a fair test of thia epochal
experiment. .Social blueprints are
not so easily translated Into Hocial
structures. For Home time the
mcmbciA Individually and as a
whole will have to 'feel their
way.' furthermore, many persons
of consider able importance, as
well as certain organized interests
will attempt to embarrass the new
legislature and if possible scuttle
it. Nevertheless a partial 'proof
of the pudding' will occur during
the next four months.
Most Significant.
"Vr. Sennieg's book Is most sig
nificant. In view of the fact that
the author was one of the chief
pioponeiito of the unicameral Idea
in Nebraska, the foremost xlitical
theorist in tli determination of
the technical details, one of the
leaders In the: movement which re
sulted in the adoption of the
amendment by the electorate, arid
the man largely responsible for
the legislative dlrtrii-U now es-tabhshi-ij,
the book has a com
mendable degree of objectivity.
"The eyes of the- politically In
terested people of the country will
be on Nebraska during the enau
Ing months, for the Interest in a
unicameral legislatuie is wide
nprcad. Thla is attested by the
fact that resolut ioni catling for the
establishment of a one-house leg
islative body were proposeij by 2?,
of the state legislatures meeting
in 1935 and It remained for
the citizen of thin Mate to defi
nitely replace the bicameral leg
islature with the one which so
auspiciously met for the first time
the paat week.
Theory of Bicameralism.
"Professor Srnning s book starts
with a meaty and well reasoned
chapter on the theory ami prac
tice of bicameialism. The second
chapter recounts the unicameral
movement in the United States
since 1912, and includes the early
cultivation of the idea in Nebraska
by such men as J. N. Norton and
Senator Norris. The third chapter
is largely devoted to a discussion
of the principles' arid policies
which influenced the model legin
lative committee in drawing up the
amendment which was submitted
to the people of the Htate, and a .
statement of its seven provisions
with the reasons for their Incor
poration. "Thin is followed by a most in
formative presentation of the case
for the one-house legislature,
stated in terms of the social and
economic changes and the new de
mands which the treatment of
these have made on the state leg
islatures, and presented In the light
of the inadequacies of the bicam
eral body previously discussed. The
main points offered in favor of the
one house legislature are its non
partisan character. Its smaller size
ami the increased importance, re
sponsibility and accountability of
each member. Its simpler proced
ure. Ms inability to shift responsi
bility to a second house, its greater
economy, greater freedom from
corruption due to more publicity
per member and less Involved ma
chinery, and the removal of the
time limit on sessions which en
courages mature consideration and
does away with the careless dis
posal of bills in thct rush of closing
days.
Rules Suggestion.
"The book concludes with some
very Interesting suggestions as to
the ruled which should tie or might
be Adopted by the one house legis
lature. .
