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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1937. TWO THE DAILY NEBRASKAN Daily Nebraskan Station A. Lincoln. Nebraska. ' THIRTV-FIFTH YEAR Published every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Frl. day and Sund.iy mornings of the academic year by stu. dents of the University of Nebraska, under supervision Of the Board of Publ'ootlnnn tVft Member W Associated Gbtleeiafo Press Distributors of Co0e6iaieDi6e5f National Advertising Service, he Collrfr Publislttn Jtrtrttentmtiv AZO MADISON AVE. NIW YOltK. N. V. CHIOOO . BOSTOM . " mNCiCO LosANetkis roTUANO satti.s ARNOLD LEVIN BOB FUNK Editor Business Manager EDITORIAL STAFF Managing Editors GEORGE PIPAL DON WAGNEB News Editors Jane Walcott WIHard Burney Ed Murray Helen Pascoe Bob Reddish BUSINESS STAFF Assistant Business Managers Bob Wadhams Webb Mills Frank Johnson This paper is represented for general advertising bv the Nebraska Press Association. Enterrd as second-class matter at the postofflce In Lincoln. Nebraska, under act of congress. March 3. 1879, and at special rate of postage provided for In section 1103. act of October 3. 1917. authorized January 20. 1922. SUBSCRIPTION RATE 1.50 a year Single Copy 6 cents (1.00 a semester 2.5C a year mailed 1.S0 a semester mailed Under direction of the Student Publication Board. Editorial Office University Hall 4. Business Off ice University Hall 4A. Telephones Day: B6891: Night: B6882, B3333 (Journal. ON THIS ISSUE Desk Editor Pipal Night Editor Walcott The Spirit Of Safe Driving That safe driving campaigns do not neces sarily lead 1o fewer automobile accidents is the opinion of two university psychologists quoted in Tuesday's Daily Nebraskan. The two firmly deny that even the sanguinary - - And Sudden Pealh" produces the ex pected result, namely careful driving. These methods fail hecause they frighten Most drivers, changing fair drivers into poor ones, and poor drivers into poorer ones. This causes more accidents, for it has heen proved that earelessnes . and not fast driving, is the cause of most automobile wrecks. There may lie much truth in this conten tion, even tho fear is a great motivator. Even more interesting, however, are the proposals made by these two psychologists by applica tion of which hitrhway mishaps can be re duced. They include the creation of a "driver's vigilante" committee, composed of some hun dred excellent drivers who would act as a check on the behind the wh- antics of olh crs; the pinninu of medals of distinction for careful driving on those people who have few est accidents; and extensive and stiff examina tions before a person will be allowed on the liiuh wav. e e 1'ndoubtedly tests would impress prospec tive drivers with the necessity of learning and obeying traffic regulations, and here is where most cities fail in their efforts to keep their streets and the country's highways clear of de bris and bodies. They campaign for safe driv ing and for carefulness on Ihe highways, while daily they issue drier's licenses to persons unqualified to handle a ear. Their effort to curb accidents is that of the fellow who locked the barn door after ihe horse was stolen. If safe driving is to become a reality and Tiot a hypolhesis, steps must be taken to see that, only capable people are behind driver's v heels. 1'riti! a strict and adequate system of examinat ions is forced upon the driving pub lic, that public will continue to smash itself lip on the highways. e There is a beneficial aspect of a vigilante committee, and that is that people reported over a certain specified number of times will be deprived of their right to use the highways. Rut the Daily Nebraskan doubts seriously if any American citizen can arouse enough vigor within himself to do any more than shudder over the number of accident victims yearly. The average American driver is far too busy to look out for the welfare of his fellow man. The benefits of safe driving campaigns and of gruesome exposes is of course ques tioned after the record highway death toll of last year, when such articles were the vogue. However, the material cross at the side of a road where a fatal accident has taken place, or a picture of death gripping two ears on a highway should, thru fear, help create an ele ment of carefulness. The descriptions given h the popular "- - - And Sudden Death" should remain in any reader's memory. That, however, is not enough. The high ways cannot be made safe until strict driver's ries are enforced, and, further than that, un til an attitude of careful driving has been fos tered and nurtured among the driving public. Wonder what "Father" Norris thinks of his "baby" the new unicameral legislature now that it is fullv a dav old? STUDENT PULSE Brief, concise contributions pertinent to matters of student life and to the university are welcomed by this newspaper practice, which excludes all libelous matter and personal attacks. Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld from publication If so desired. Jefferson, What Oimes Are (Committed in Thv Name! TO THE EDITOR: Two items of .Teffersonia have appeared recently. One was a news account reporting that Irenee DuPont had contributed $73,000 1o the ".Teffersonian democrats" the past year. The other was an address to a univer sity class by a nazi who said that national so cialism occupied the same place in Herman life which Jeffersonianism occupied in Amer ican life. (It should be mentioned here that nazis. unlike ordinary cut throats and unlike partisans of communist dictatorships, move in Ihe best circles of the land, even among the "liberals" who professedly are opposed to "all dictatorships, fascist or communist.") There is an element of truth in ihe nazi's assertion concerning Jeffersonianism and llit lerism. even tho the comparison was funda mentally unsound. (It should have been enoujrh for Jefferson, the author of ihe decla ration of independence and the leading pro gressive of his day, to turn over in his grave to have his name coupled with that of Hitler.) The element of truth is this: "Jeffersonianism" has in our country be come a mask under which interests of great wealth have sought to hide their activities. The title has been assumed by men such as the Du Ponts. men whose economic ancestors Jeffer son would have been ihe first to denounce in his day. Similarly, national socialism has been a movement in which ihe Herman DuPonts. the Thyssens and Krupps. have sought 1o cloak iheir tyrannical rule. Herman national social ism is a "nalional unity" based on violence and repression, on the "disciplining" of the working class and the persecution of Jews, Hat holies, progressives, and radicals. It is a dictated unity, not one achieved ihru a true harmony of national interests. The "social ism" of national socialism was purely dema gogic and was denounced by every group which had t(-r favored socialism. A few comments might be made upon these phenomena. One is that patriotism, a very admirable quality in itself, has changed its 'standing during the years. In Ihe 18th century it was, according to Dr. Samuel John son, the last refuge of a scoundrel. Today it is very nearly the first. Secondly, the Amer ican people are to be congratulated upon their decisive rejection of the spurious "Jeffer sonians" in the past election. I arn beginning to think that they can detect a scoundrel even when he wraps himself in red, white and blue and quotes from the words of the great third president of the United States. Thomas Larson. COEDS TO BRING COMIC STRIP TO LIFE ON JAN. 14 (Continued from Page 1.) preparations for th party are as follows: Program, Betty Cherriy. chairman; Elizabf-th Waugh. Mary Mullen, Barbara Meier. Joan Oault, Dorothy Jane Vetter, and Jf-nn Hughes; refreshment!. Mar jorie Crabill, chairman; Marian Ki)l, Kathryn Johnson, Jean Meents. Virginia Rapp. and Betty Jean Davison; favors, Vee Loiiixe Marshall, chairman; Vir ginia Coleman, Phyllis Greene, Mary Jsr.e Hendricks, Ellen Fun fler, Janet Lau, Ruth Robes, and Mary Margaret Maley; publicity, Dorothy Bcritz and Helen Pascoe, co-r hairrnen, Lorraine Lynn, Fran ces Van Anda, Maxine Grant, Bet ty Grme, and Vie Gillan; Tickets, Barbara .Selletk, chairman and Nana Talbot, and prizes and Judges, Jane Barbour. SEVENTEEN GIRLS JOIN METHODIST'S SOKOKITY SUNDAY Seventeen university girls were initiated into Kappa Phi, Method ist sorority, Sunday afternoon in the St. Paul Methodist church, and a new patroness, Miss Alverda Simpson, was inducted into office. Y. W. SPEAKER RELATES Vesper Service Features the Story of Missionary's Work in China. Professor Adeline Reynoldson, of the history department, and also vice president of the Advisory board of the university Y. W. C. A., spoke at the weekly vesper service Tuesday afternoon in Ellen Smith hall. This meeting was sponsored by the Nebraska-in-China staff, of which Mildred Holland is the chair man. Miss Reynoldson spoke con cerning the life and works of Miss Grace Coppoek, of the class of '05 at the University of Nebraska, who was the first general secre tary of the Y. W. C. A. in China, "We at Nebraska are s proud of Grance Coppoek whose life meant so much in opening up a great work in this field of service," said Miss Reynoldson. "Her great religious faith, her belief in and love of people, her good common sense, and her keen sense of humor all went to make one of the finest personalities that ever lived. On such lives as these peace may yet be built." Maxine Durand was in charge of the worship service and intro duced the speaker. Mrs. Yerda Robinson played "Chopin Prelude, Opus 28, No. 15"' as the piano prelude. The vesper choir, under the direction of Margaret Phillippe, sang a special number. Student Council. Student Council members will meet in room 106 of University hall at 5 p. m. today. ' ' Scabbard and Blade. Scabbard and Blade will hold initiation at 5 p. m. today in room 205 of Nebraska hall. All members are required to attend. Phalanx. Formal pledging of new mem bers by Phalanx will be held Thursday afternoon, Jan. 14, at 5 p. m. in the "N" club rooms of the coliseum. Coed Swimmers. University women who wish ta participate in the intercollegiate telepraphic swimming meet are re quested to attend the meeting in room 101 of the Armory at 4 o'clock. Lutheran. Lutheran students will meet with Rev. H. Erck for Bible study at 7:15 p. m., Wednesday, Jan. 13, in room 203, Temple building. This meeting will take l!ie place of the regular meeting scheduleu iof Jan. 20. Heitkotten M?J? Market QUALITY MEATS AT LOW PRICES Makers of Fine Sausage and Barbecued Meat B-3348 140 So. 11th ;," v y ' ; 1 AS small boys, many fathers now living knew the jlJL telephone only as a little used curiosity. It grew into today's constantly used necessity largely because the Bell System never ceased looking for the new and better way. It stayed young in its thinking. Young ideas developed "conference service", ena bling several ncarhy or widely separated persons to talk on one telephone connection. Young ideas steadily made long distance service better, quicker, yet cheaper. Young ideas are nt work day and night to make ure America continues to get more and better service for its telephone dollar. Why not call Mother or Dad tonight? Rates to most points are lowest after 7 P. M. (moo cmoooTOK laoo