THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
We'dnes'day, May 7, 1947
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An Open Letter to the Student Body:
In a letter that recently appeared in these columns written by
David Innis, the issue of Hawaiian statehood was presented to the
readers of the DAILY NEBRASKAN. This letter is to supplement
that letter with factual information and possibly answer one of the
most frequently asked questions in regard to Hawaiian statehood,
Why does Hawaii desire to become a state?"
"Self government is the right of all peoples, and statehood is
the framework of self government most appropriate to Hawaii's
economic and social situation," stated Harold L. Ickes, former Secre
tary of Interior in a speech advocating statehood for Hawaii.
Hawaii is the home of 502,122 persons, well over 85 percent of
whom were born in Hawaii or on the mainland. These 432,818
American ciitzens have the same aspirations for self-government as
Americans on the mainland. Statehood will mean to Hawaii full
eaualitv in the American system of government, including the
right to:
1. ' Two senators and two representatives in congress;
2. Choice of their governor;
3. Participation in choice of president;
4. Automatic share in federal grants for education, health,
highways and other public improvements.
5. Carry on functions of government by their own elected of
ficials in lieu of federal administrators;
6. Latitude of lawmaking law by their own legislature with
out the discrestion of the President and Congress;
7. Passage of bills without the possibility of veto by an ap
pointed governor absolute veto of the President;
8. Judicial functioning in their courts by local authority
rather than by federal appointees.
9. Freedom from overlapping of federal and local authority;
10. Enhancement of prestige and pride in being an American.
Why should Hawaii be granted statehood and the obvious
benefits that would be derived from admittance to the Union? Ad
vocates for statehood contend that the Territory has fulfilled every
conceivable qualification for statehood, amongwhich are these: In
area, Hawaii exceeds three of the states-Delaware, Connecticut, and
Rhode Island. Its 1945 population of 502,122 is greater than that
of any state at the time of admission with the Exception of Okla
homa. As compared with the several states at the time of the 1940
census, Hawaii exceeded the population of the states of Nevada,
Wvnminr Dplawarp and Vermont. Hawaii is not as isolated as
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were western states like Texas and California at the time of ad
mission to statehood. Hawaii has an experienced, intelligent elec
torate. It has a functioning orderly government. It has a self
sustainins economy and valuable resources. It has passed through
a long period of territorial tutelage and probation, and has proved
its capacity to conduct its affairs as an American commonwealth.
Hawaii is subject to federal taxation imposed on tne states,
cnontiv navs into the U. S. Treasury a considerable
larger amount than the Federal Government has spent upon the
Territory, but has no vote in the Congress levying tne taxes,
is taxation without representation. It is unfair
th American system of government.
There is but one answer to Hawaii's plight: We all must join
President Truman in saying, "I urge that congress promptly acceed
to the wishes of the people of Hawaii that the Territory De aa
mitted to Statehood in our Union. . ."
EUGENE LI BERMAN
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Varsity Dairy
Club to Hold
Annual Contest
Varsity Dairy club will sponsor
its annual judging contest Friday
and Saturday, according to Don
Chnstenson, club president.
The dairy products contest will
be held Friday at 4 p. m. Prod
ucts to be judged will be cheese,
milk and ice cream. On Satur
day at 8 a. m., the dairy cattle
judging which will include Ayr
thires, Jerseys, Guernseys and
Holsteins will be held. All ag
students are eligible to enter. En
tries may be filed in the dairy
building or at the contest.
Dr. P. A. Downs w ill be the of
ficial judge for the products con
test and Robert Fossland will
serve as the judge for the cattle
contest.
Prizes and awards for both
contests will be presented at a
"chili feed" Saturday at 6:30
t. m. Representatives from Bea-
. .Highlighted by a hula number
performed by Pat Tokomoko, the
program for the U. S. A. variety
show will begin at 10 p.m. Sat
urday, at the Antelope Park pa
vilion, where the Barb group is
sponsoring its annual picnic.
Other features of this program,
which occur in conjunction with
an evening of dancing, include
a vocal number by Bob Nielsen,
Boogie Woogie by Claude Under
wood, and a dramatic monologue.
From four to five o'clock base
ball, horseshoe, and volleyball will
be provided. At 5 p. m. special
relay races are to take place, with
awards for winners. Dancing
begins at 8 p. m.
trice Foods, Earl Woods Dairy
Stores, Fairmont Foods and Rob
erts Dairy will present cups to
the winners of each division.
Stanley Matzke, farm editor of
the Lincoln Journal, will be
speaker of the evening.
Stage Closes
Season With
O'Neill Play
Last Thursday night the Expert
mental Theatre offered its final
isrogram of one-act plays for the
current season. The two plays
were both directed by Max Whit
taker, head of the Experimental
Theatre.
"Before Breakfast," an early ef
fort by Eugene O'Neill, was pre
sented by Mary O'Donnell. Writ
ten in monologue form, the play is
a character study of a nagging
wife living out a drab existence in
a tenement district with the artis
tic husband she supports. Miss
O'Donnell, and Arts and Science
freshman, gave further evidence
of the pronounced talent which
she first exhibited earlier in the
season in another O'Neill one-act,
"He."
Criticism.
By way of criticism, Miss O'
Donnell's portrayal looked a trifle
too prim and might have been
more effective had she made the
wife more shrewish and slovenly,
The pacing of the play was slow
in the beginning and the build-up
to the very effectiv climax was
not as smooth as it might have
been. Also, Miss O'Donnell's tran.
sition between soliloquy and bit
ter words addressed to her off'
stage husband needed to be more
concrete and clear-cut.
Farewell to Love," by Ryer
son and Clements, is a rather weak
sophisticated comedy. The plot
concerns an actor and an actress
who both wish to find true love
off-stage and yet maintain indi
vidual top billing behind the foot
lights. Lorma Bullock and Dale
Wisser played the comedy with a
light touch and managed to inject
a good deal of life into the play,
Both showed an easy stage pres
ence and smooth delivery of their
lines. Only in one or two spots
did they allow the tempo of the
play to lag or become jerky.
Miss Bullock and Mr. Wisser
will be seen later this month in
Experimental three-act produc
tions of "Claudia" and "Thunder
Rock" respectively. These two
plays, plus one other three-act,
"Children of the Moon," will be
given one-night production during
the week following "Pygmalion.
Exact playing nights will be an
nounced later.
An apology might herewith be
offered to Miss O'Donnell and to
Mr. Whittaker, the director, in be
half of those people who arrived
late Thursday night. Whether it
was through carelessness or
through thoughtlessness, the con
fusion they created did little to
help the effect which the people
on and back-stage were attempt
ing to creat.
Unit Inspection
Of ROTCers
Begins Today
The annual federal inspection of
Nebraska Army ROTC unit will be
held today and Thursday, Col.
Howard J. John, professor of mili
tary science and tactics announced
Monday.
The inspection will be conducted
by a team of four officers from
Fifth Army headquarters in Chi
cago, and one officer from the
Second Army Air Forces at Of f utt
Field, Omaha.
The team is headed by Col. Wil
liam May, Inf. Col. Elmer P. An-
brecht, F. A. Major, Robert M.
Lorenz, Eng., and Capt. O. C. Vi-
gen, xm. The Air Forces officers
has not yet been announced.
Highlight of inspection of the
parade and review of all ROTC
students and the ROTC band,
which starts at 8:30 a. m. Thurs
day on the University athletic
field west of the coliseum.
RS!!
ADDITIONAL GRADUATION ANNOUNCE
MENTS HAVE BEEN ORDERED FOR THE
BENEFIT OF THOSE WHO WERE UN
ABLE TO ORDER PRIOR TO DEADLINE.
ORDER NOW AS THE QUANTITY
IS LIMITED.
NEBRASKA BOOK STORE
About Degrees . . .
With less than five weeks of college left before grad
uation, seniors are aching to get that degree they have
worked so hard for in their four years of university. After
the diploma is resting in a scrapbook or hanging on a wall,
exactly what have they received? It is supposed to re
present education, but to many it means a completed edu
cation an open road to a good job.
Dr. Henry M. Wriston, president of Brown University,
however, claims that the degree is "no better measure of
the character of a person who receives it than of his com
petence," and "is no indication of personal qualifications
pertinent to success." His article, "What Good is a Col
lege Degree," in the current issue of The American Maga
zine strikes out a degree-chasers, and with good reason.
It is too late now for seniors to wonder if they ac
tually got the kind of education they wanted, but the un
dergraduates, who are by far in the majority, still have
time to make up a noticeable lack of that elusive stuff,
education.
As Dr. Brown states, "the requirement of a college
degree (for a position) is becoming so general as to stimu
late a rush to college in order to acquire .the label." He
cites examples of journalists or would-be bankers being re
fused jobs of carrying copy or clerking merely because
they did not have letters after their names.
A college degree is the best thing in the world, if it
is obtained and used in the right way. If the sheepskin
means as thorough a knowledge as possible of a particular
field, combined with an understanding of other fields, es
pecially those which increase the capacity of a man to
exercise the functions of citizenship correctly, it has been
obtained the right way. If the diploma means to the grad
uate a stepping-stone to more and more education through
experience and training, it will be used the right way.
Dr. Brown sums that thought up in these words: "En
ightenment is not a matter of degrees. Self-discipline,
reflection on experience and its meaning, wide reading may
educate a man in the best sense of the world."
Each senior must answer for himself the question,
'What good is MY college degree?" The anwer may not
come for 20 or 30 years, but it will inevitably spring from
the way he got it and the use he made of it.
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