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DAILY NEBRASKAN
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Bcatlons Board.
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Day 2-71B1. Nlpht 2-7193. Journal 2-3330
Editor ....Mary Kerrigan
Business Manager Ben Novicoff
In the Mail
Two letters in this week's mail seem to deserve
ft little attention from the editor's desk. We print
the first in order to clear up any misunderstanding
in regard to the university's policy on athletic eli
gibility and we print the second as a commentary
on Daily Nebraskan reporting.
Vike Francis
Dear Editor:
A week or two ago, the Daily Nebraskan carried
a story to the effect that Vike Francis was ineligi
ble for athletic competition. The ineligibility, it
was stated, was because of the fact that his work
In a geography course did not reach a passing
Standard. The Sunday Daily mentions Vike Fran
cis' playing in the lowa-Nebraska game of last Sat
urday. From that we may deduce that Francis'
(eligibility status has been altered.
It is stated in the university catalog that instruc
tors are required to send reports of the scholastic
status of students at the end of the sixth week, the
end of the twelfth week and at the end of the se
mester. However, all of this has happned during
the second six weeks' period. From that, we may
deduce that an eligibility status may change dur
ing, as well as at the end of, the six weeks' period.
The Daily of a week or two ago mentioned the
fact that Francis failed to pass one makeup exam
ination given by the department of geography.
Evidently there has been at least one examination
since that time.
The whole question resolves itself into this: If a
student is scholastically ineligible at the end of a
six weeks' period, it is either the option, or the duty
of the instructor to give makeup exams as neces
sary for the student to change his eligibility status?
Since this is a matter of general university pol
icy, and the Daily is the official news organ of the
campus, it would seem perhaps fitting for the Daily
to publish a statement of the official university
policy relative to the matter.
Yours very truly,
Donald C. Moore,
Arts and Sciences '42.
Ed. Note: We think Mr. Moore has stated the
university policy in his letter so that the Daily
does not have to publish a statement. He has
made a great deduction when he says that Vike
Francis' status must have changed and his work
in Geography raised to passing. Each instructor
has complete charge over the scholastic status of
each of his students and can declare a student
passing when he feels that student's work is up.
Not too difficult to understand, is it?
Nebraskan Reporting
Dear Editor:
It's not amazing! I won't believe it! It isn't
true!
Your paper is guilty of disseminating false in
formation to the unsuspecting student body of this
institution of higher learning. (From now on many
will suspect much.) In today's (Nov. 20) "Rag"
there appears an article that purports to give sta
tistical information on the number of cokes con
sumed in the Student Union grill during a school
year. The number of cokes, 250,000, may be cor
rect, but it is absurd to say that 250,000 would
reach 20 miles into the stratosphere. I haven't
the energy to calculate the actual height, but I'll
wager that they would reach less than 15 miles into
the stratosphere. It is manifestly absurd to say
that 390 barrels will fill- the Student Union build
ing. If the Union were a cube 25 feet on a side, it
would contain 15,625 cubic feet, a number equal
to the number of gallons of coke mentioned in the
article. There are 7.5 gallons in a cubic foot. In
cidentally, 15,625 gallons is equal to far more than
390 barrels. There are 31.5 gallons in a barrel.
(See page 1732 of the 21st edition of the Handbook
of Chemistry and Physics.) I would estimate off
hand, that the answer is between 495 and 500 bar
rels. The other statistics mentioned in the article may
be quite correct, but all the world suspects their
inaccuracy because of the profound errors extant
.in the examples cited above.
Yours for the truth In the press,
Timothy G. Higgins.
Ed. Note: Thank you, Mr. Higgins, for your
Interest and your astute analysis of our very
great error. Hereafter, we shall consult the
Daiiyi dtartment of highly specialized physical
scientists on a matter of such great moment as
the number of cokes consumed in the Union grill.
Even if you are spoiling our fun, we think you
hit the nail on the head when you said that our
article was "manifestly absurd." To be "mani
festly absurd" was our only intention when we
planned, plotted and printed the article.
From My Bookcase
By II. Jay lie Lynn
The Survivor, by Dennis Parry, (Henry Holt).
This is another of the Henry Holt "books for
the imagination." The story is not exactly "super
natural," but it is definitely not conventional or
ordinary. Modern psychologists, confronted with
this situation in real life, might take refuge in long
scientific terms and pretend to give an explana
tion; I doubt, however, that even the most accom
plished and erudite psychologist would explain it
to himself any difhrently than does the reader
who allows Mr. Pany'.1 restraint to convince him.
James Marshall, eminent British physician, has
an acid tongue, no particular code of morality, and
a will to live. Even his indomitable desire for liv
ing fails him, however, when he comes out of his
retirement to fight an epidemic of an uncatalogued
form of influenza. He succumbs to his life-long
enemy, death, and the story begins.
James' ."adopted" daughter, Olive, is the most
important living character. What happens to Olive
used to be called "demonaiac possession." To state
it barefacedly, James Marshall's spirit takes inter
mittent possession of Olive's body. From this point
on, the book is intensely fascinating. Mr. Parry's
restrained handling of horror makes it so much
more effective he writes in accordance with the
theory that, in a haunted house, a whisper is in
finitely more terrifying than a scream. I would
rank The Survivor beside Henry James' The Turn
of the Screw.
One rather beautiful subtle refinement is ac
complished in the story. Olive's fiance, a clergy-'
man of the Church of England, is asked to exorcise
James' spirit from Olive's body. This he is unable
to do, because the Church of England does not rec
ognize demonaiac possession.
3 Lord Peter Mysteries, by Dorothy L. Sayers,
(Harcourt Brace).
One of my favorite mystery writers has writ
ten a trilogy. Lord Peter Wimsey unravels the
threads of circumstances in three complete novels.
"Whose Body," "The Unpleasantness at the Bellona
Club," and "Suspicious Characters" are three good
stories. They are not Miss Sayers' best writing,
but they are still far above the run-of-the-mill
mysteries. As usual, Miss Sayers astonishes her
readers with her fund of technical knowledge, and
baffles her readers with her intricate and clever
plot construction. She also has a pleasant faculty
for amusing all comers with her pleasing char
acterizations. All in all, this particular book keeps Miss
Sayers on the list of my three favorite mystery
writers. '
What
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I Want to be American
Editor's ncte: We picked this up from the
Rafu Shimpo, a Japanese newspaper published in
Los Angeles. We think it is timely considering
the current state of negotiations between Japan
and the United States.
Secretary of War Henry Stimson has asked
American-born Japanese for an all-out severenace
of ties with Japan.
You are either an American, or you are not.
There is no middle of the road for any of us today.
Occasion for his message is the war department's
proposed amendment to the nationality act which
will clarify the dual citizenship problem.
Dual citizenship among the nisei has no justifi
cation, moral, legal or otherwise. If and where it
exists, let's get rid of it immediately.
American-born Japanese have welcomed Stim
son's message.
Two thousand of their number now serve in the
U. S. army, faithfully, with the conviction that they
are every bit a part of America. They are not blind
to the Imminent possibility that Japan may be the
country against whicn they shall bear their arms.
It takes more than nisei effort alone, however,
to achieve lasting results.
It requires a better understanding of their po
sition and an acceptance of their loyalty to America
ty the vast body of fellow Americans.
In a word, there is a responsibility resting on
(be shoulders of all Americans today.
J Jul SahVudm dbrfhA.
THE RIGHT ANSWERS.
Most of those who yell, "Kill the umpire," mean, "Slap him on
the wrist." Most of those who yell, "Knock 'em cold," mean, "Play
strenuously, but fairly." Most of those who say vehemently, "Go to
hell," mean, "Please go away and stop annoying me."
It seems logical, therefore, to assume that the persons who say,
"Shoot 'em down like dogs," are the same persons who will (about
1944) donate their shirts and large sums of money to send food and
clothing to those they now put into the dog classification. We may
also assume that altho we (all of us) agree that the bully of Europe
must be stopped we also agree that we are terribly saddened by the
death and suffering resulting from the wars.
Most of those who are now yelling, "Kill," are intelligent, cultured
and kindly persons who men, "We must prepare for our own defense
and we must aid those who are attacked by the bully." Not one of
these yellers (those who shout for death) would calmly and deliber
ately swing a club with intent to bat the brains from out the head of
a storekeeper or from out the head of the storekeeper's 20 year old
son. Not one would cause another human being to be cruelly hurt if
injury could be avoided.
Therefore, since the populations of all European nations are made
up in large measure of sane, reasonable and decent individuals, why
must there be these terrible catastrophies which involve millions?
Why are mad men allowed to control governments and go thru with
such terrible orgies of conquest?
We think we know the right answers but we also thought we
knew the answers in 1920. We probably do know some of the right
answers and we probably did know some of the right answers in 1920.
Involved somewhere are attitudes toward values of a human life. You
parents who are now so hopefully planning a future for that baby in
the crib are simply wasting your time unless we do know the answers
because otherwise that baby will spend the next 20 years getting ready
to say, "Goodbye, mother, dear, I'm off for the slaughter."
Is there any hope? I would say, "Yes," just because most of us
don't want the umpire killed, the players knocked cold or the boys of
other parents shot down like dogs. Most of us are at least fairly
decent so you young parents may (if you have a little faith) go ahead
with the idea of naming the eight pounder, John Henry III, and also
with the notion of starting a savings account to send him thru col
lege. At least he (the pride and joy) has a better chance than has
the proverbial snowball and we may get something done by 1960
within the field of mad-dog-dictator control.
Very truly
Raymond E. Manchester,
Dean of Men,
Kent State University
Behind the News
German Label
Labeline the American move in
to Dutch Guiana the "first mili
tary attack by the United States
on South America" and indicating
that the action was directed
against French colonial possessions
in the western nemispnere, Ger
many branded it as an agressive
move and indicated that the gret-
est attention was being given to
the question of Berlin.
It is quite possible that me senu
inir of troons to the little Dutch
colony was to do more than just
protect the bauxite deposits there.
It mav be a step to forestall me
threat that may arise to that por
tion of the western hemisphere if
Germany succeeds in getting con
trol of French North Airica ana
particularly the west African port
of Dakar. Also there has been con
siderable unrest in Dutch Guiana
about the number of French con-
icts kept in French Guiana who
have been ked unfed and are sep
arated from the Dutch by nothing
more formidable than a narrow
river and a few hundred Dutch
soldiers.
At anv rate the move made with
the approval of Brazil does in no
way indicate an attack upon South
America by the U. S. Mich an as
sertion bv Eerlin is an absurdity,
but characteristic. Suffice it to say
Peterson Speaks
l Faculty Forum
On Farm Prices
Dr. Arthur Peterson of the rural
economics department told mem
bers of the faculty forum last Fri
day that a flexible dollar would
equalize the disparity between the
farmer's income and his expendi
tures in times of an economic up
set.
The talk was a continuation of
a discussion of rises in farm prices
and means of stabilizing price
trends in relation to the gold con
tent of the dollar. The particular
problem discussed was the varying
increase in prices as it occurs
among various commodities in a
period of inflation.
Dr. Karl Arndt will continue the
discussion at the next meeting on
Dec. 5.
that we cannot afford to risk any
interference from any source what
soever with the bauxite deposits J
there that provide the U. S. with
60 percent of its aluminum.
Any and all legislation that may
be forthcoming on the trouble
some strike problem and general
defense stoppages will come from
the initiative of congress. This
much was indicated as President
Roosevelt Tuesday told congress
that the executive branch had no
recommendations to make on the
subject other than the fact that
it was time to do something about
it. This policy of letting congress
determine the measures to be
taken on the subject is rathe an
innovation with the president. Had
the coal strike continued and the
emergency created by it not beeo
averted quite so soon, we might
well have seen administrative
recommendations for legislation
this time as well. Inasmuch as it is
no longer a matter requiring im
mediate action, it is. well that the
problem be given to congress for
deliberation.
The problem of dealing with
labor is one which demands the
utmost consideration and full co-
operation of public opinion which
is most capably represented in con
press at this time. It is a good
deal more likely that organized
labor will accept action by con
gress with more grace than mere
administrative action. At any rate
the opportunities for rash and un
just criticism will be restricted if
it is done by the popularly elected
representatives.
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