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Page 2 THE DAILY NEBRASKAN Tuesday, October 15, 1946 EDITORIAL- COMMENT Jul (batty VkLhoAkiuv rOKTT-FIFTB IEAE Subscription rate are $1.50 per semester, $2.00 per semester mailed, or $2.00 for the college year. $3.00 mailed. Single copy Sc. Published daily during the school year except Mondays and Saturdays, vacations and examination periods, by the students of the University of Nebraska under the supervision of the Publication Board. Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office in Lincoln, Nebraska, under Act of Congress, March 3, 1879, and at special rate of postage provided for in section 1103, act of October 2, 1917, authorized September CO, 1922. EDITORIAL STAFF. rdltor PhjUU Teararde" Managing Editors Shlrlr Jmkln. Marjr Alice )wod News Editors: Dale Novotny, Phyllis MortlocJc, JaJc Hill, Mary UmIm Blomel, Jeanne Kerrigan. ..... Sports Editor '"' BISINKSS STAFF. t loMness Manacer . ',m ' '"dtnfliani Ansl.Unt Biittlne.i ManaKers Dorothy lahtr. Byron Eajnlek Circulation Manager K"tn 'one Time Out . . . To those few faithful friends who may still be reading this space of the editorial page, I voice this fervent plea: LET'S SETTLE DOWN. Since UN's doors opened again this fall to the influx of students, there has been a growing undercurrent of unre strained and adolescent emotionalism. The resemblance is so similar to children fighting over mud pies that it isn't even funny. Perhaps I have the wrong idea, but it .has always been my opinion that as people are graduated from high school and enter the university they automatically become respon sible for their thoughts and actions. They are expected to develop some semblance of maturity, not only on the surface but in their minds as well. That maturity must, of necessity, be a gradual process. But, because it is gradual, it should become embodied in the impressions he makes on his asso ciates. Up to this point, any signs of maturity on the part of any student, myself included, have been sadly lacking. The "profound" statements of policy and the equally meaning less "back-stabbing" was amusing for a time. That time has long since passed. I am reminded (pardon the attempt at wit) of the bungled quotation, "Friends, Romans and coun trymen, lend me your ears ..." A majority of the soap box oratory staged. on yonder street corners has less meaning when boiled down to the simple facts. Your next question, and a very fair one, "Why did you print the stuff?" Keeping in mincf thi t the reins were dropped, permitting various and sundry items of little or no importance to be printed, the idea' was to air any and all sides, hoping that, by so, doing, the "differences" would automatically wear themselves out. Being somewhat naive, that was my belief. But life isn't that simple when person alities are so intricately and vitally involved. Why not try, just for a day, to reduce the phenomenal complications of everyday life in the university to being natural? Instead of doubting the veracity of your friends, adopt the attitude of faith in your associates and yourself; concentrate on yourself and the rest will come. Consider seriously that you are fortunate to be one of 9,500 students at UN and one of millions throughout the world who has the opportunity to receive an education. It's trite, yes, but true. And it is the most important thing to you right now. Let's stop playing games with ourselves and try to make this a better university. atntbiiifi. My Dear Mr. Broderick Jr.: Yours of the 13th is in hand arid I must admit I am quite amazed at the attention you focused on the Thc-tas, the Tri-Delts, the Betas and me, Perhaps it would be fitting for me so say with Richard II, "I am disgraced, impeached and baffled here, pierced to the soul with slander's venomed spear." (Act I, scene I, line 170 in Richard II.) Or repeat with Gay, "I hate the man who builds his name upon the ruins of another's fame." But no, I full well realize with Ben John son, that "Where it concerns him self, who's angered by a slander, makes it true." And I agree with Moliere that " 'Gainst slander, man in vain a rampart rears, to cackling fools then let us close our ears; be it our aim, in inno cence to live and to the chatterers, full license give." My friend, I would not stoop to name-calling or accuations. I leave it to Appius Claudius, who once said, "Slander is a dog's elo quence," or to Quintilian, who states in his De Institutione Ora toria, "An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only by oppor tunity." Perhaps, friend Carton, you eannot help the things you utter. There may be a psychological problem to deal with in your case. You may be an incurable egotist, poor chap. Listen to the words of other writers. Voltaire remarks, "Slan der is the immortal daughter of self-love and idleness," and La Rochefoucauld in his Maximes, No. 483, tdls us that, "We com monly slander through vanity more than through malice." If such be your case, I sympathize most heartily. You may think that others feel satisfaction when reading: your malicious column but I am sure many agree with Goethe's state ment, "It is said that self-praise stinks in the nostrils. For the kind of smell that arises from the unjust abuse of others, people have no nose at all." It is difficult, my friend to prop erly answer an unknown antag onist. Philip of Macedon thought it was, "Better to speak where we are both known than where only one of us is known." And Cow per believed, "The man who dares traduce, because he can with safe ty, is NOT A MAN." I sincerely regret that you have assumed such a sour grapes atti tude since my fraternity was not able to pledge you, but please re member, "Since we cannot attain a desired objective let us not avenge ourselves by abusing it." (Montaigne said it, Carton.) You say you are not a faction man (and certainly no one has accused you of such association) but listen to the word of Blaise Pascal, 'A slanderer cannot suc ceed unless he has the reputation of hating: scandal." Could this quotation be made to read, "A factionist cannot succeed unless he has the reputation for hating: the faction"? I do not regret your malicious attack, for rest assured in the words of the sonneteer, "That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect, for slander's mark was ever yet the fair, so then be good, slander doth but approve thy worth the greater." And so, Mr. Broderick, jr., I leave you with this thought, "Thy friend has a friend, and thy friend's friend has a friend, so be discreet." BILL SWANSON. Public Letter to Carton Broderick, Jr. In regard to: Article of Cct. 13, 1946 on the Betas: You are to be congratulated for a very interesting column. Never have I read a column by a "respected" columnist attempt ing to discredit an organization based so securely on the grounds of ridicule, scorn, studied sophis try, and so devoid of facts; unless those incerts marked "Ed. Note" were by the columnist. Indeed, if it were not for those notes, a per son such as myself would be com pletely befuddled concerning the issues involved. If you don't like the way the Betas play politics, why not say so and let it go at that? No, I am not a Beta. Then, you may well ask, why am I per turbed? A question was never more easily answered. Any group failing in its desire to obtain no minees within its ranks might re sort "to other honorable tactics to accomplish the same ends, and be attacked in the same vicious man ner. Anyone on the campus could be the subject of such ill-advised methods. I say ill-advised because any thinking person would be revolted by any group basing its argu ments on the moonshine of fili bustering and juvenile emotional ism. The first things to be looked for in any attack are the facts. Only the grace of the editor, if it was the editor, saved your face on this score. But, you say, you did speak of the public letter by Bill Swanson of the Betas and that is the fact at issue. That is true, but your motive for attack lies in the political methods used by the Betas before, or shortly after, they wrote the letter and you did not give the facts which, in combination with the letter, gave you cause to write as you wrote. Half-truths will not stand light. As the saying goes, "Murder will out," so will injustice and bi ased reasoning in 'politics, if the constituents but think. An emo tional appeal may well. carry the appellant through the crisis but it soon fizzles out and disillusion ment follows. A disillusioned fol lowing makes very poor support in the long run. Better found your DANCE Oct. 18 9-12 Cnrnhusker Ballroom Gene Moyer's Orchestra 75c per person, Fed. Tax inc. Ticket at ff'alt'a and door LOOK FOR HE!) ON NORCROSS AMERICA'S BEST-LOVED GREETING- CARDS Obtainable at the GOLDENROD 215 North 14th St. South of Student Union house of strength on the granite of reason than the sands of emo tion, for your edifice of influence to withstand the storms of public favor; if you do desire influence through your public. No doubt you disagree with me as I disagree with you as you ex ple I know who would say that I should let all this go by the board, that it is of no consequence to my purpose of being at the uni versity, and that I will accom press yourself in print. If there are facts to uphold your stand, let us hear them. There are peo plish nothing. Be that as it may, it is an incontrovertible fact that graduates of a college or univer sity are believed .to be examples of the surface of their campus life. The campus is often accused of messy -politics. Evidently the accusation is true from my few observations since I have newly arrived on the cam pus, I do not intend to have my self marked as being such a char acter. If I can arouse some per sons in influential positions in any degree to tnihk and act somewhat along these lines, I will feel that this is not in vain. What do you say to all this? JOHN R. JACOBSON. Editor, Daily Nebraskan: This is an explanation for ads in the Daily Nebraskan which some students consider "too strong" or just plain misleading propaganda. Neither of these as sumptions are correct. We would all surely be more shocked if we knew the whole truth behind the voting records of our republican congressmen. 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