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The DAILY NEBRASKA
Editorial Opinion
Comment
Bulletin
The Daily Nebraskan
Collegiana
To th Publications Board:
The greatest editor I've ever seen on this paper
wrote three year ago: "Gentlemen, you are meet
ting today to choose a new staff to suffer, tin, and
shine with the DAILY NEBRASKAN for another
semester. 6ince this It the last letter I shall ever
write you, bear with me, I'd like to make some
suggestions. There is something you should con
sider besides staff positions. It is in your power to
Initiate a change in policy on the NEBRASKAN,
which would have a most vital and Important in
fluence on this campus." It was signed: The de
parting, disillusioned editor."
Today, again gentlemen, you meet In old U"
hall to chooae another new staff to take over the
reigns of this the campus moat Important publi
cation. Again, you are to choose future Innocent!
and Mortar Board. Today, as never before, you are
faced with questions of policy. And once again a de
parting, disillusioned editor steps down from a posi
tion which has been one of some consternation end
protest.
The quentlon of policy, gentlemen, Ls moat Im
portant You no longer are going to be able to sit In
your austere sort of way and primarily concern
yourselves with the okay of recommendations. In
the light of your precarious position between the
unrveralty administration and youthful, revolting
hinds that cause no end of embarrassmfnt at times,
your selections are no lor.ger going to be based pri
marily on accomplishment, work done, or ability.
You, gentlemen, from now on murt ju!ge future
staffs on the basis of what they will do, what policy
they will pursue. You will find it difficult for the
next few years to find a staff which can follow the
nice, well beaten path thru the middle one of ag
gressiveness, yet one which In no way would cast
any unfavorable light on your institution.
You must realize, gentlemen, that present con
ditions at this Institution make the middle path
practically impossible. You must tee that this ed
ucational plant is rapidly changing in the minds
of some, too much so. You must see that the pow
ers behind the throne are no longer a triumvirate
exerting their Influence of status quo on a fine old
gentleman but now rest solely In one man eager
to make many needed Improvements. You must
become aware of the fact that any change from
the status quo which had endured for many years,
is bound to bring a sentiment on both sides. You
will tee a tightening "along the line," valiant ef
forts to turn this institution into one for teaching
and education, and the greatest exodus of well
known faculty members this institution has ever
seen since the days of World War No. 1. That's
why you gentlemen must consider policy as you
hav never considered it before. Conditions have
changed and you gentlemen might just as well
realize it.
Gentlemen, your paper faces many problems
that need correcting. Your paper needs the respect
of students. It needs to be made a paper for stu
dents and not a paper edited with the viewpoint la
mind that Its readers are mostly faculty members.
Your paper needs a continuity from one semester. to
the next not just a bunch of beliefs that make
every editor try to outdo the other. Your paper needs
to be made a laboratory for journalistic endeavor,
not just a joke for aspiring activity leaders. It needs
to be taken from the ranks of those enterprises
which are necessary customs on every college cam
pus and placed into a position where it will speak
well of a neglectful school of journalism.
Your paper needs a school of journalism in
which faculty members teaching topography would
take an Interest in the general make-up and form
of the publication. Your paper needs more pic
tures. It seems a sad commentary, gentlemen, to
think that courses In photography and photog
raphic developing and printing are offered In the
school of journalism and yet your paper hires its
own photographers and pays a downtown estab
lishment for processing the pictures. Your paper
needs better writers. It needs students able to
handle stories, write headlines, and proof-read
copy not a bunch of Junior activity workers who
become to deep in activity ruts they can't see a
story of general Interest Your paper, then, needs
a school for Its reporters, since most of them are
not in the school of journalism and since they
wouldn't receive much experience there anyway.
Your paper needs editors and reporters who can
forget their campus politics long enough to handle
a story justly.
Most of all, gentlemen, your paper needs a wire
service. Either an AP or a UP wire would mfcke an
almobt Incalculable difference on this campus. It
would make your paper a newspaper. It would tend
to de-emphaalze the great Importance placed on ac
tivities on this campus. It would put your paper In
a class with other outstanding college dallies. You
should have no fear of your paper running competi
tion with metropolitan dallies, but, of course, there
is that fear among the vested interests of the down
town papers and you would have little chance of
.. .And Its Best Interests
getting either service. We found that out earlier in
the year when we tried to gam access to sucn a
service ar.d suggested that the DAILY and the
school of journalism share the use of a teletype for
news materia! and experience for those In the school.
Aside from the sloppy writing, bad news
judgment and poor proof reading, gentlemen of
the pub board, there is something else that con
cerns your own attitude. Why give yourselves that
auspicious "air" that makes every staff member
fear you and consider you unfriendly from the
first time he appears in a trembling sort of way?
Why not have the luncheons with staff members
of the DAILY that you once suggested, yet never
offered? Why don't you take an Interest in some
of the good or constructvie things your paper un
dertakes, Instead of seemingly existing only when
the bad and destructive appears? Why don't you
come around our offices and talk things over once
In a while?
You must remember, gentlemen, that your
paper la somewhat a show-winjow of your institu
tion. You should help your editors in every way
possible to Improve the appearance of that show
window. Last semester your paper ranked as a sec
ond class enterprise among other college dailies. Ac
cording to reports, its numerous changes this se
mester lead it toward All-American ranking.
It has made many changes. It has instituted
a bulletin board in the Union building to keep
students posted on the latest news. It has initiated
the official university bulletin which has routine
announcements from cluttering its entire make-up-It
has instituted a popular radio program. It has
found Increased faculty favor with a well-written
"Prof of the Week." It has stressed Importance on
careful business management something you
gentlemen didn't seem to be concerned with before
this semester. It has initiated campus wide cov
erage by finally realizing the existence of the ag
ricultural campus. It has departmentalized its
news, stressed pictures, attemped to do away with
social gossip emphasis, and tried to operate as a
business enterprise. We think it has Men of su
perior quality.
Work and cooperate with your editors, gentle
men, and your status quo will not be disturbed.
Harold Niemann
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school of music.
MATINEE DANCE.
A matinee dunce IH be held la the
Tnloa ballroom today from S to S
a.m. Modrnts matt prcoeat idratifleatlaa
cards for admittance.
ASAE.
. .Members of the Americas Society of
Arrlcnl-aral taKinrera will meet ia room
SOS of the Vnloa today at 7:SS p. m.
BARB MEMBERSHIPS.
Barb ntemberthlp cards for those who
did aot ret them flrvt aemeMer and want
theoa for the aeeoad semester will CO oa
sale at the Barb office ant Monday for
7 Sc. heeood semester card arlrtlrces la-
rlade the winter party, weekly hart)
dances, parties, and picnics.
BARB BANQUET TICKETS.
Tickets for the banquet which Is to be
ftivea preerdtnr, the barb winter party art
oa sale la the barb office bow for SOS
a plate.
DENTAL FACIXTT.
Members of the dental faralty wfll
meet la Parlor C of the I'ntoa tomes',
row at 8:20 p. m.
S1NFOMA.
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Ml' PHI EPSILON.
Members of Ma Phi EpsOoa win
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GAMMA LAMBDA.
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COMMUNIST CONVICTED:
dor that after Friday Japanese merchants now doing business In the
United States under treaty provisions would be regarded as tempo
rary alien visitors.
America's demands are well known to the Japanese. The diffi
culty enters in with Japan's attempts to misconstrue ar.d cloud them
in a violent effort to save face in the Far East Our government is
Earl Browder, American communist leader, was equally determined that Japan is going to do all of the backing down.
convicted of passport fraud in federal court Monday, The United States Is adamant in not recognizing a changed or-
and was sentenced to four years in prison and fined jer in china. We refuse to recognize the conquest of that country. We
$2,000. Browder, out on 17,500 ball, that same night are determined to keep the Open Door for all countries in the Far
addressed a mass meeting of 20,000 "reds" and at- East. In holding out for this position our government is really carrying
tacked the Finns and President Roosevelt viciously. tne )oa(1 for England and France, who are too engrossed with Ger-
He declared further that he was permitted to speak miny to Uke a firrn hand v,lth japar4. japan has offered to allow
in the courtroom only within the limits prescribed America certain concessions in compliance with the Open Door pol-
by the Judge. We wonder how broadly Mr. Browder 0ur country wants them for all nations. The Panay incident, the
thinks he could have spoken before a Russian court, treatment f Americans In China and Japan and the hostile attitude
even tho he is correspondence school lawyer. U. S. ef the japanee toward Americans are still remembered over here. It
courts aren't the proper places to give communistic j to make a new treatv with us. we feel that we must be
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recompensed for these in some way.
We probably shall win our point Our Far Eastern ambassadors
are shrewd men and clever diplomats. Our country will not suffer
from a ruDture in Jaoanese relationships as much as Japan will. Fur-
of American principles and the American system of tnermorer 0UP refUM, to compv with Japan', requests gives us a good
government. For these champions of other kinds of Ulking point m AngIo.Americaa and French-American relations. It is
government and other social and economic systems ,We that we m5ght continue dealing with Japan indefinitely with
orations.
The fates of Messers Browder and Fritz Kuhn
Indicate convincingly that U. S. laws offer ample
facilities to quiet attackers and would-be destroyers
have a phenomenal facility for violating the laws of
the land in which they preach their nefarious doc
trines.
no treaty guarantees.
NO ENTANGLING ALLIANCES.
Fnaay tnc American-Japanese trade treaty ex
plres and the future attitude of this country toward
its renewal has been a vital issue In Internal Japa
nese politics for many months. The recent overthrow
of the Japanese cabinet and the Inauguration of the
Yonai regime was brought about over this question.
It Is obvious that Japan ls most eager for Its re
newal It ls equally obvious that the United States
is content to sit back and be non-commital, keep
the Japanese guessing, and be wooed on its own
terms.
Today this country's attitude was a little more
clearly defined in the answer that Assistant Secre
tary of State Berle banded to Japanese Ambassador
Horlnouchl In answer to ,rtain questions that the
ambassador had placed before him two days ago. special rate of pcttjgt provi
One of these answers was a refusal to grant imme- ES.ln'chi""."...
dlately Japan's suggestion for an exchange of notes Biln'
defining the status of trade relations between the
two countries. Another reply informed the ambassa-
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