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DAILY NEBRASKAN
TUESDAY, MAY 23, 1939
IT'S ALL RIGHT, MR. GRIMES
!Mr. (Icorgc (I limes,
Tho Omaha AYorlcl-Herahl.
Dear Mr. Crimes:
Do you rcitiernher writing:
"Somewhat disconcert in g, journalistic
ally, is the news from Lincoln lhat the of
fices of the Daily Nehraskan, 1he student
newspaper (affectionately "The ftng") will
hereafter he in tlie new Student Union
building.
"No more cockroaches. No more falling
plaster. No more dank smell from insuf
ficient hasement ventilation in tumlilmg
lown H hall. No more battered desks and
tables, littered floors, unkempt walls.
"The picture is all wrong . . ."
You are right, Mr. Crimes. There are no
more cockroaches. The plaster still clings firm
ly, and there is no dank smell. But 1hc Hag is
Still the same. And what is more, so is its
personnel.
The Ivag staff is still "inflamed with the
spirit of reform," it still cries "out against the
smugness that, like a pestilence too often
spreads over a college campus, infecting the
faculty, isolated from reality, and the students,
depending upon Dad's earnings." Its staff
members still average their periodic visits to
various dean's offices to salve offenses which
threaten them vith being "fired from their
jobs and kicked out of school."
But of even more importance, Mr. Grimes,
is the Rag staff's appreciation of the Uni
versity of Nebraska. They, more than any
group on the campus, perhaps more than any
person on the campus, accept readily the
challenge to benefit by all the privileges our
institution offers. They learn early the great
value of time well spent, of a program in
volving a little work, a little play, a few
true friends.
Here are real people. They are not at
tending college for a pood time. They are not
here for the purpose of learning how to make
money. They have set as their goal the very
aim of education itself. When these young
people gradual e they will look back at some
thing tangible Ihey have crealed. at something
worthy they have accomplished. That some
thing, Mr. Crimes, won't be a building or a
service or a reform; it will be a person.
And when they look back after four
years, they will find that instead of missing
the frivolity and the financial trainings their
less ambitious mates sought, they will dis
cover that they have received it all. Then,
for perhaps for the first time in their college
lives, they will fully realize the depth of
their enjoyment, the completeness and abun
dance of the pleasures that campus life has
bestowed upon them.
The liag staff, Mr. Crimes, even with new
desks and only a few pictures on the walls,
still appreciates humility and sentiment, it still
loves the sagging- floors of old U. hall, the
vines clinging to the walls of Administration,
and the green grass and trees of the Triangle.
At the shallow of the campus it looks with
disgust at chronic complaints of "no beauty."
With all sincerity, with all its collective
hearts, the Hag declares the Nebraska campus
to be the most beautiful in the world. Beauti
ful in its Cornhusker spirit. Beautiful in its
honesty and sincerity. Beautiful in its west
ern friendship.
No, Mr. Grimes, the picture isn't all
wrong. On the contrary, it's all right. Be
cause essentially it's the same picture. It
wasn't really the cockroaches, the falling
plaster, the littered floors, which you loved.
It was the gay American spirit, the zest for
living and loving, the fight against "sweet
acceptance of the status quo," which kept
those college memories forever so near to
your heart.
The DAILY NEBRASKAN is still fighting.
Its floors are still littered, and its new waste
baskets are battered and bent. But that is un
important, Mr. Crimes. The Rag is still ful
filling your dreams. The Rag is still pro-
pressing. II. X.
Schools neglect importance
of geography, says Lackey
Survey shows students'
lack of information
Important features of the
American landscape that are asso
ciated with the history of the
country are recognized by less
than half of the nation's high
school students today, finds Dr.
K. K. Lackey of the department
of geography. More than 30 per
cent of a sampling group of about
2,000 high school students whom
he tested did not know, for ex
Ample, that the Mississippi river is
& south-flowing stream.
Dr. Lackey's Investigations show
that although historians and ge
ographers agree as to the impor
tance and nature of a geographi
cal background in studying his
tory, the great majority of high
school students recognize only a
small number of landscape fea
tures, such as the Appalachian
barrier, the Atlantic coastal plain,
and the like, at the close of their
course in American history.
Dr. lackey was interested In
determining the degree of correla
tion between geography and his
tory as taught in high schools.
He had three georgraphers, three
historians and three educators
help him select 48 landscape fea
tures that every school pupil
should know. He then had each
of the features rated as to their
importance by 12 prominent his
torians and 10 leading geograph
ers. Out of more than one hundred
exercises bawd on these landscape
features, 60 were selected for a
test which was given to a sam
pling of 4,765 high school students
selected from 43 states.
The tests revealed that although
historians and geographers agree
that geography is important in
eaehing American history, many
students, after they complete their
work in history, know little about
the important topographical fea
tures that are outstanding in
American life. Pupils who had Just
finished their couise in United
States history achieved onlv
small percent in the test, whereas
tnose who expect to take history
next year achieved a still lower
percent in the test.
university or Michigans men
sported corsages of vegetables at
a special party given for them by
their coed friends.
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AT ONCE
For (innA Trarhlnt Piwllliirm
Parade
of
Opinion
by
Associated
Collegiate
Press
GRAFT Thoroly in accord with
the current drive to clean
up the government of Kansas City
and oust those who corrupt it, col
legians are applauding the move
to make government more effi
cient. They are urging other cities
to follow the lead of Kansas City
reformers.
Many believe, with the Univer
sity of Minnesota. Daily, that
'those persons who are inclined to
be shocked at the vice and cor
ruption often need look no further
than their own city to see the
same condition exist. Machines
and corruption exist only because
the public is apathetic, and Kan
sas City, with its Pendergast, is
not much worse than many other
cities that have escaped having
their records scrutinized."
Going just a bit deeper, the
Jamestown College Collegian, ana
lyzes the problem: "We have often
heard people say jokingly, 'Laws
were made to be broken.' judging
by the way American citizens
practice those words at every op
portunity, they might easily be
the country's slogan.
ROYALTY Most collejrians are
warmly cordial in
their views on the coming visit
to the U. S. of the king and queen
of Kngland. Many believe that
their tour of the country will
bring us closer to the English
people and their government.
However, a few are just a bit
skeptical, believing that the visit
is just another attempt to sell to
America the idea that we must
aid England in war. The follow
ing editorials aptly summarize the
two viewpoints:
Prom the Santa Barbara State
College El Gaucho: "The king and
queen are coming to the United
States to sell England to us; to
make us buy English goods, con
sider the English as our best
friends, and if possible, agree to
help England in case of another
war. Like any other merchants,
George and Elizabeth will try to
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make a good impression. They
will do their utmost to win our
approval."
PLAN President Roosevelt's plan
to reorganize the executive
branches of the government to
make them more efficient and
less expensive is approved by the
majority of today's collegians.
There is little, if any, comment
today that would indicate under
graduates believe the move will
make the president a dictator.
Of the plan, Uie University of
Wisconsin Daily Cardinal says:
"Now that its original inertia has
been overcome, the reorganization
movement will be hard to stop.
While President Roosevelt has in
dicated that be will submit no
more 'general reorganization
plans' to congress during this ses
sion, he can go ahead with lesser
changes thru the instrumentalities
of executive and military orders.
If congress can be persuaded to
enact a large-scale expansion -of
the merit system, President Roose
velt and his colleagues will have
set up a series of administrative
landmarks."
The University of New Mexico
Lobo hailed the plan as an answer
to the dictators' charges that, de
mocracies CAn never be strong be
cause they are inefficient.
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