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Sunday, FeEruary 23, TOU
DAILY NEBRASKAN
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Follow the golden rule
The university religious welfare councils open a one
week's drive Monday to raise a minimum of J 500 for
homeless and war-numbed students in Europe and the
Far East.
The goal is not a high one; rather for an insti
tution of this size it is disgracefully low. Divided
among the 5,400 students now enrolled on the city
and ag campuses it represents less than ten cents
per student.
When the Student Union grill is filled daily with
cokers; when the theaters and dance halls are receiving
so sizable a patronage from the students as they are,
there is little reason to think that a gift even as high as
a dollar for a cause of this kind would be missed.
There isn't a Nebraskan among us who wouldn't give
freely if he recognized a need existing. We have not
become enthused before, because in America we live in
safety and can't understand the necessity among other
peoples for books and reading material to ward off
savagery.
Administrators of the World Student Service Fund,
having contact with the students in these countries, how
ever, know what the conditions are. Their enthusiasm
has been such that they are working without salaries to
secure the needed funds.
All they ask is that students who can afford it (and
most of them can) believe them that there is a need and
deprive themselves of needless luxuries that the unfor
tunates elrewhere might be aided.
If the students of this university don't get be
hind these welfare councils and blast the top out of
this $500 drive, we should certainly feel self-centered
and ashamed. The United States is among
the few regions where war and famine has not
reached; we are lucky. But it is time we stop
basking in our own good fortune and start thinking
about the need that must exist elsewhere.
For seven days money will be collected by the TM
and YW associations on the campus. Everyone will be
solicited thru one group or another. Remember how
little is being asked; remember how much good your
gift can do.
Since you tcant . .
Your money's worth
A bargain giving more in both quantity and quality
for the same amount should not meet with much opposi
tion. That is self-evident. But most people say a bar
gain of that kind is altogether misleading, for it is im
possible to get more without a corresponding increase
in cost
They reason that increases in quantity with no
change in the method of production cause costs to mount,
and that increases in quality causes other costs to react
in the same manner. Thus the proposition giving more
in both of these measurements for the same price, they
reason, must be fallacious.
Tet the DAILY could make precisely that bargain
with its readers. The DAILY staff could publish an
eight page paper daily, adding new feature services, more
cartoons and pictures and selling it for exactly the same
price, 75 cents a semester.
The catch of it all is that: the bargain could be made
only if our distribution took in the entire campus. If
there was some way, possibly by automatic subscription
or thru broader distribution facilities, to increase the
circulation, a vastly improved paper would result.
It is even possible that the NEBRASKAN could in
stall a wire service bringing to the students national and
international news. This campus can support a paper
equal in reader interest and in news worthiness to those
of Minnesota and Kansas, where automatic subscription
Ss already in effect The adoption of a plan of this sort
would certainly give the students value received and
would place the NEBRASKAN on a par with typical
college newspapers.
Some chatter, please
What's the matter with our readers? For better
than two weeks we've tried o bring them the news,
the opinions, and the problems of this university. With
the aim of making this a student paper in which the
student would actually express his ideas as well as read
what's written, we've sought to arouse a wee bit of in
terest in what's going on.
Further than that, sec-king to answer the usual
griper's objection that the NEBRASKAN reflects the
"narrow" views of its editors only, we've urged students
having opiniorvj on any current subject or suggestions on
JJisl Sunday- TJTeAMgsL
Circle-Drauing
Luke 19:1-10
Jesus was not interested in the tree-climbing tax
gatherer alone when he invited himself to dine with
Zacchaeus. He sensed a need in the lives of a multitude
of pious Jericho citizens who, for their own goodness'
sake, had cast the little publican from their company.
"After all," they probably reasoned, "he is a crooked
grafter. If he won't be good, he shouldn't expect con
sideration from the good."
Now Jesus visioned men as belonging to a great
family. And the welfare of one was in a very real sense
the welfare of all. As long as Zacchaeus was cut off
from fellowship with his brothers, not only he, but also
they were missing something vital. To stubbornly insist
that it was all his fault was no solution for the problem.
So Jesus moved from the circle of those who felt
that he, a religious leader, should belong to them to the
company of one of doubtful morality. By his going to
Zacchaeus Jesus said to the group, "You will never have
from life the satisfactions you seek until you can include
this man in your fellowship."
Today, we have hold of the local and current end of
the quest of the Jerichoans. With reasoning like theirs
we draw our circles with the tilt of a nose or the price
of a frock ... or with creed or nationality or race until
the trees are full of outcasts and the family of God is
shattered into a thousand pieces. With naive and pathe
tic lack of perspective we say, "Go to, now. In my little
circle 1 11 be happy." We fail to see that little circles
limit happiness ... We must learn that the welfare ct
the least member of society is inextricably bound wiffl
the welfare of us all
A hungry, hopeless transient stumbles down O street
What have we to do with him? He is one of the family
Our lot is bound up with his. So long as he is hungry,
or hopeless or diseased, our Uvea are Incomplete and
uncertain.
In war the fallacy of the Jerichoans is reproduced
on a grand scale. We impute badness to nations and
seek to build walls high enough to keep the good and
bad separated. The more effective the wall, the further,
we are from the sense of community, family, fellowship
in which lies our ultimate happiness and security.
Even dictators (including good democratic one9)T
must eventually learn the futility of circle-drawing. Dio
tators are undoubtedly strong men, but they try to per
vert God's laws. The high values of community and
fellowship the dictators can never win. They struggle
vainly to fragmentize the world, to make it something
less than the whole which God intended.
The truth of the Jericho lesson is summed up In
Edwin Markham's quatrain:
"He drew a circle and shut me out.
Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout;
But love and I had the wit to win.
We drew a circle that took him in."
ROBERT E. DREW. '
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With G Willie
MURDER ON THE CAMPUS
Ernie got a date with Sandra for Friday night. Ernie
got a date with Thelma for Saturday night Sam got a
date with Thelma for Friday night Sam got a date with
Sandra for Saturday night I got a date with me for Fri
day night Me got a date with I for Friday night. Friday
got a date with Saturday for Friday night. Saturday got
a date with Friday for Saturday night
Ernie asked Sandra if it would be all right with her
if they had the date Saturday instead of Friday. Sandra
asked Sam if it would be all right with him if they had
their Saturday night date Friday instead of Saturday.
Sam asked Thelma if it would be all right if they had
their Friday night date Saturday instead of Friday.
Thelma asked Ernie if it would be all right with him If
they had their Friday night date Saturday instead of
Friday.
I asked me if it would be all right with I if we had
our date Saturday instead of Friday. Me asked I if it
would be all right with me if we had our Saturday night
date Friday instead of Saturday. Friday didn't say any
thing to Saturday. Saturday said nothing to Friday.
Sandra told Ernie it was all right. Sam told Sandra
it was all right Thelma told Sara it was all right Ernie
told Thelma it was all right I told me it was all right
Me told I it was all right Friday didn't say anything to
Saturday. Saturday said nothing to Friday.
Ernie talked to Sam. Sam talked to Thelma. Thelma
talked to Sandra. Sandra talked to Ernie. Ernie talked
to Thelma. I talked to me. Me talked to L Saturday
didn't talk to Friday. Friday said nothing to Saturday.
Ernie got his father's shot-gun. Sandra got her
brother's shot-gun. Sam got his father's shot-gun. Thelma
got her brother's shot-gun. I got me's sling-shot Me got
I s sling-shot Saturday didn't get anything. Friday didnl
get anything.
Ernie shot at Sandra. Sam shut Sandra. Sam shot at
how the school, its organizations, or the students them
selves might be improved to write letters for special
commentorial columns.
But instead of a floodof ideas, our readers have gen
erally responded with silence. But there must be a few
ideas floating around; this campus certainly isn't so
homogeneous that there isn't such a thing any more as
a controversial subject
Surely the inertia against putting one's ideas
down in black and white isn't so great that a few
murmuring can't be voiced. This week the ice was
broken by two .contribution. Let's tee rf the water
cant be kept in sufficient motion that our ideas
won't become ice bound again. Ss following today's
lead, let's hear a little chatter.
Thelma. Ernie shot Thelma. Sam shot Ernie. Saturday
shot Sam. Friday shot at me. Friday got Saturday. I shot
me. Me shot I. ,
Ernie is dead. Sam is dead. Thelma is dead. Sandra
is dead Saturday is dead. I am dead. Me is dead. Friday
is alive. This column is dead.
Hereafter Sunday will come after Friday.
Moral: Don't trade dates with people who have datefl
with people who have dates with the people first men
t toned.
Commentorials
. . from, our readers
Dear Editor:
I have heard a lot of comment among my friends
regarding the publication by the Union of menus in the
NEBRASKAN. That service cert inly appeals to M
"give me a second helping" book-weary studea, for f
permits us to enjoy our lunches twice, first by anticipate
tion, and second by actually eating them.
Seriously, your business manager is to be com
mended. I would suggest, however, that you donl
restrict the service to the Union. There may be good
lunches at other eating houses; and not knowing of
them we are inclined to come to the Union alone.
A DAILY Reader. "
Ed. The DAILY mustn't assume undue glory. Ths
menus were a service instituted by Joyce Ayre to
facilitate the students. I am sure Mr. Ay res will be
pleased to know his menus are appreciated. j
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