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PAGE 2 THE .DAILY. NEBRASKAN Thursday, April ,1950 Member Intercollegiate Press FOBTl-SKVKNTH VHAH Tbs Rally Nebraska l pubilsluw Dy ins siuaems ot in univunmj ui Ne ar SS.OU during the lerlods. Dy oard. En under A el . ,:: ...,, .Hants' nW and oDItllOlli OUIV. ACCOraiD.1 lO AniCW II it o t1,. .o,n .indent DUbltcatlons and administered By the Board of Publication. -It Is tht declared policy or the Board that publications, under tt. induction shall be free from editorial censornhtp on the part of the Board. IT "hi Tart of a member ot the faculty ot the University but inernhers vl If- ...J. -5 . n.ii Nibrukui are personally responsible for what they say Ull VMM w ' , . . " tSE r.U.VrH&O P.. semester. IS. SO per ..m,.,., mailed. ircon'srSfarch 3 1879 and i special rat. of postage Provided for Id Sec tlon 1103, Aot of October 8, 1817. authorised bepiemoer iu. w. V EDITORIAL Fritz Slupson Editor Susie Reed Associate Editor Brace Kennedy, Gene Berg Managing- manors Norma Chubbuck, Poochle Redlger, News Editors j- Warren Kent Axtell, Joan Krueger Kimon Karahatsoi Sports Editor jean Fenstei Ag Editor Pat Wledmar 8oclety Editor 7.7.7.'. Emily Heine Feature Editor 7. 7.7... Hank Lammers Photographer BUSINESS , Keith O'Bannon S.rSBu.rn? ifanig.r;-::::::::::Tea--Randc,ph. juk coh.n. Circulation Manager ".'.'.'.'.'.'.Norma Chubbuck Night News Editor 'Teenicide' ... Concern over the increased accident rate of drivers in the 15 to 24-year-old group has mounted inrougnuui. Statistics consistenly show a ais- H proportion between the total number of accidents and those 1 ,i,-r -ir.ivpro under 24. Last vear 31 per cent of traffic I fatalities in the United States involved young drivers. Insurance companies, tne iNauonai oaicty v-uuui,u vouth leaders are waging a constant war to Vi event. v, iriAnts in this ase eroup. These interested groups are us; ing constructive propaganda, traffic safety programs and v f increasing driver schools toward the elimination of teeni- '1 J cide, the new word cornea to appiy to iraum mw"' " k I the 15 to 24 age group. ifl 4 t..i. j inroocpfl pffnrts throuffhotu the na- .1 XUL UCOMltC LULOO iiii.ivu.uv.. o efjeti&JUfi. To The Editor: The following is iu regard to the column entitled "Farber's Folly" which appeared in the Apirl 5 issue, p your paper. Upon reading the column today I was reminded of a child aged 5 to 7 who, when he couldn't think of a clevierj retort to some teas ing, came back with some typical childish x emarks such as . . .J nincompoop . . . pointed head . . . etc. (These may be familiar to those devoted readers of "Farber's Folly.") Whether Mr. Farber honestly believes rid is a gifted columnist or not I have no idea. However, I have never heard or read of any columnist who became so very childish that it was necessary for him to resort to juvenile name-calling and ridiculing. 1 doubt that Mr. Farber could enmnrphphrf that tho artiViA in "Ml K the humor magazine was a satire the author certainly resorted to I leqs reading. no outright ridiculing of Mr. Farber, and consequently turned out a I lythnV nrof much more effective article than Mr. Farber's "retort." Utnnnri in and made the f o 1 1 o w i ng comment: "A n y fool can review a book h e's read. It takes u"ew.v BY ARTHUR J. VENNIX I feel better today. Praise has been effectively applied to my injured ego. Two weeks ago 1 reported that one of the profs had embarrassed me by asking for a book I had reviewed without even seeing, much Mr. Farber I think it is time you grew up. If vou can't think of anything clever to say iust don't - - wiiuiij iuuuj j column lert me completely flat. , , Yours in the great movement toward maturity, Edward C. Lennword i It firm th "eliminate teenicide" program is lacking one fac- U if t. rrtnt i'a nPfided to make the drive successful. That fac- C I a , h imnnff Hrivprs. Drivers fallins in the age group of lo to are tnose wno are ihusl ai.ict;i.cu mu those who should be most concerned. It is mainly up to them whether the program succeeds or tans. The University of Nebraska's share in the success of this program will be measured by the interest and concern taken by student drivers and student car owners. Just as it is up to a countless number of young drivers throughout F ... . ., ,i i- 1 j 1 T T Z A A. the nation, it is up to tne students at tne university io nrnmnte safe drivinsr. finr TTniversitv ia not immune to "teenicide." The fatal accident on West O street a year ago in which two stu dents were killed demonstrates this fact. During recent months other students have been fortunate to escape traf fic accident iniuries involving young drivers. The resDonsibilitv for keeping Nebraska student drivers out of the fatal statistics column rests with the drivers. It is up to you, to me, and to the other guy to see that the elmination of "teenicide ' is started successiuuy, continued successfully and ended successfully. 1 f 1 Editorial Briefs V, Tiia fcirrl in a series of f our broadcasts of John HArBhPv'a ' Hirosshima" will be presented tonight by mem bers of the speech department radio section. Six faculty members and two students will maKe up tne cast in me "Authors of the Ages" show, reliving the August day in 1945 when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, of the best stories to come out. of the war, the testi mony of six individuals who survivea the blast makes bet ter than average listening. Last year Fortune magazine told the reading public that graduating college students were individuals who pre ferred ready-made security to a security for which they had to fight. One of the biggest obstacles standing in the way of progress seems to be this overwhelming fear of failure held by graduates starting out on their own. In spite of the added risk, seniors desiring to go into busi ness for themselves should find the advantages of such a future so inviting as to give it a try. Things are looking up for the masculine gender of humanity. A recent report of a life insurance company had this heartening news: In 1947, for the first time in history, the females outnumbered the males in the United States. And if the trend continues, by 1975 there will be only 985 males for every 1,000 females. It looks as though the coeds had better start hunting while the hunting's good ... be fore the male animal becomes extinct. The Daily lowan recently commented appropriately on new men's fashions. It told of Paris designers announcing a new line of spring fashions for men short-trousers, lavender-colored tuxedoes, tomato-red dinner jackets, ruffled shirts and pointed shoes in assorted colors. The new look for 1950, one designer said, consists of broad shoulders, absolutely no "tummy" and a very pinched-in waist. Tne designer, of course, was refernnz onlv to cloth ing style, not to men's shapes. Despite changes in cloth ing styles, the new look for men probably will be exactly like the old look hunched shoulders, a paunch instead of a "tummy" and a pmched-in wallet. This is not a "keeD off the grass" bit as Dailv Ne braskan readers have seen manv times in the nast. Rather. this is a "save the grass" notice. It should be everyone's inalienable rigut in the springtime to sit, sleep or other wise enjoy nimsetr on tne grass. But there won't be much grass left it we don't try to curb the careless nractine of walking on the iwass not out of any aesthetic pleasure. i i - Baptist-Christian Students Convention Opens April 14 Vennix The Christian and Baptist churches will jointly sponsor a Baptist-Christian state student convention in Lincoln April 14 16. The Christian student fellow ship and the Roger Williams fellowship on the University campus will be hosts at the con ference. Students from colleges all over Nebraska will attend, as will University students of the Chris tian and Baptist denominations. Committee Named On the general committee for the conference are Calvin. Ra venscroft, Winifred Gilson, Alice Harms, Dick Fisher, Loraine Lagerquist and Gwen McCor mack. Speaking at the Saturday morning sessions will be the Rev. Lowell Bryant, First Christian church, Lincoln; the Rev. Rich ard Nutt, Methodist student pas tor; Ruth Shinn, University Y.W UA. director; the Rev. Rex K-nowles, Presbystenan student pastor; C. B. Howells, Baptist student pastor; Mrs. R. M. Ben son, Christian student worker; and the Rev. John Lepke, Con- siegauunai siuaem pastor. oaiuraay aiternoon sessions will be held in the Union. Dr. Gordon H. Schroeder, pastor of nrsi eapust cnurcn tn Lincoln will be the leader of a panel discussion on Christian vocations to be held at 3:30 p. m. Panel Memberv Appearing on the rjanel will oe Lr. C. Vin White, Dr. O. L. Webb, Lexie Farrell, Charles Kemp, Ruth Shinn and Jean Graham. Dr. White is Dastor of the First Presbyterian church in Lincoln. He will tell of the vocation of the ministry. Dr. Webb, formerly of China, will speak of foreign misisons. Miss Farrell, who is the national Baptist student leader, will tell of student work; Miss Shinn will represent the YWCA. Miss Graham. Christian educa tion and Kemp, the YMCA. Uther speakers at the three- day conference will be the Rev. Forrest Haggard, Elza Hawkins and Dr. Ernest E. Smith. On the agenda Friday are registration in the afternoon and a party for the conference goers in ine evening. A banquet is planned for Sat uraay evening at the YWCA at which Rev. Knowles will speak. Sunday morning the group will meet at First Christian church for breakfast and a worship service. but rather out ol laziness. According to Albert E. Wiggam, noted psychologist and columnist, entirely too many young people who do not possess a general knowledge of basic English nr hfinr graduated from our institutions of higher learning. The major reason for this condition can be attributed to poor uvuuu wciuw me university level. .However, college text books are at least partly responsible. Too many of them are written in the vernacular of the verbal Einstein. For instance, students reading a typical text are confronts with, peregrinations" which means travels and "stylistic! rtftmnltir' w.USnl. J "a .... ...... 71 ua1M,jr wuiuii means triteness, vvny do it the hard way7 rerhaps students would digest a little more practical in iormation if they could understand their textbooks. It is rideeda pity that college students today do not understand ,1 f "Sllsh; however, it is even more pitiable that the r u'thoritiea and scholars who write college text books have forgotten basic English. . I niJ IJuHclin iru ti t:.e C.C. Tj.'ii'port'i'ion '( item LHpii -J p.m. end Ag p.i.i activities building at 6:45. Theta Sterna Phi meets at. 5 p.m. Thursday, Ellen Smith hall. Block and Bridle elub meets at 7:15 p.m. Thursday In the Ag Union for election of officers. ; IVCP meets at 7:30 In Room 91 H TT1 T Friday ,, . Corn Shucks advertising staff meets Friday, at 3 p.m. In the Corn Shucks office. r sCai Radio Faculty To" Dramatize JLJ.1JL US111111U Six University faculty mem bers are participating in the cast of the radio presentation of John Hershey's "Hiroshima" on the Authors of the Ages program. They are: Bill Dempsey. Ber ling Jorgenson, Don Klein, Don Olson, Maxine Trauernicht. and Max Whlttaker. The book is being dramatized over four radio shows, two of which have already been com pleted. . Thursday. April 13 at 9:30 p. m. and Saturday. April 15 at 7:30 p. m. are the two dates still onthe "Hiroshima" schedule. Director of the show is Gay lord Marr. Technical producers are Jim and Jess Krump. Jane Dempsey and Bob Askey, Uni versity students, are also mem bers of the cast. "A great deal has been writ ten about how the atomic bomb works. John Hershey, in his book, brings out the destructive quality of atomic blasts. The bomb has become a moral Issue in the world today and is a timely topic with which all peoples are concerned." com mented Marr. The book is an account of the testimony of six individuals who survived the atomic blast at Hiroshima August 8. 1945. and lived to tell in their own words what the bomb does. These six people are a clerk, a widowed seamstress, a physi cian, a Methodist minister, a yound surgeon, and .a German Catholic priest. i Literary critics have labeled the book "the best reporting to come out of the last war." When published. It immediately be came a best-seller. The radio department. in readying the show, consulted with Alfred Knopf, publisher of "Hiroshima" for permission to produce the book on the air. Med Students Get Loan Fund Students at the University Medical college In Omaha got good news Monday. Mrs. Lizzie Oltmanns and her son, Frederick, of Belgrade, Nebr., established at student loan fund with the University Foun dation. Perry W. Branch, Foun dation director-secretary said that money from the fund will be for loans to Medical college students at low rates of Interest. By George Wilcox National WASHINGTON. Senator Mc Carthy continued to occupy ma- : jor portions of the headlines with the announcement by Senator Robert A. Taft that President Truman is "li beling" Sena- mXU tor McCarthy in an effort to w h i t e w a sh the senator's charges against the state depart ment. Taft also accused d e m o c r atic members of a senate foreign rela- Wilcox tions subcommtttee of making "no real effort" to determine the truth of McCarthy's state ment that communists have in filtrated the state department. Taft also stated, "Whether Senator McCarthy has legal evi dence, whether he has over stated or understated his case is of lesser importance. The ques tion is whether the communist in fluence in the state department still exists." 1 4 C - . WASHINGTON One of the unfortunate results of our China policy was climaxed by the news that all plans have been aban doned to remove some 2,000 Americans and other foreigners from Shanghai by sea. Secretary o; btate Acheson reported that efforts will be made to get com munist permission to move the refugees to a north China port or to the British colony of Hong Kong. WASHINGTON. T h e senate commerce committe killed a bill which would ban liquor adver tising in interstate commerce. The proposal in effect would have banned liquor advertising from newspapers, magazines, ra dio, and television. State and Local LINCOLN. The trial of David Darlington, suspended Univer sity student, continued in district court with the testimony of Mrs. George Darlington, his mother. Mrs. Darlington related to the jury incidents to prove her fears and contention that her accused 19-year old son is mentally dis turbed. David is on trial on a charge of assault with intent to commit rape in connection with the alleged molesting of a 16- a genius to review one that he hasn't even seen." Do you sup post he means a genius, junior grade? As evidence that somebody's been reading this column of lit erary levities, a student asked me to show him that long list of books about ships and sailors. My surprise was tremendous. I'm entirely amenable to further surprises of a similar nature. So many people have been asking me about the new Collie pup (delivered on schedule by the Easter Bunny last Sunday morning) that I think I'd better provide a bit of a sequel. My daughter no longer has illusions about from whence come the eggs and gif's pt p-:ter time e e You should sea u.y daughter's mother. She fusses over tre pup more than she did over our first ten or twelve children. She (the pup) is as awkward and clumsy as an overgrown pup can be, and it amuses me to see her ram into the furniture as she gam bols or do only lambs gambol? about on the waxed hardwood floors. But she (my wife) wor ries that she (the pup) will in jure herself permanently. She has made quite a change in my life my wife did so many years ago. I spent all day Sat urday building a large pen in the back yard and my hands and arms are scratched and scarred. lesteiday evening I nut in sev eral hours building a pen in our Dasement out of an old coffin case. Our Collie isn't yet 'house broke' so we have to confine her somewhat. I wish someone would heln me Tina a name for her (the hud.) The names of her dam and sire and their dams and sires, and theirs in turn, are all so im pressive sniping th?t we ran. simply call this one "Sandy" or "Lassie" or anything else so common. Suggestions will be srratefully received at 301 Love Memorial library, either bv per sonal visit or by a note in the mail. So much for the pup almost. Practically all of my reading lately has been confined to books about 'Man's P"?t Friend.' Hence, I'm not in a position to review anything except Rowland John'.' "Our Friend the Collie," and Milo Denlinger's "The Com plete Collie." If you're planning on getting a Collie pup, though you might like to consult those heloful little volumes. Five years ago this morning I awoke in a Red Cross Club in Belfast, Ireland, where I was on leave. O happy day! A home away from home! One of the first things I heard that morn ing, after rattling the Guiness about a bit, was that President Franklin D. Roosevelt was dead. I was positive that had to be merely German propoganda. But now I'm convinced that it wasn't. The number of books written about FDR will soon ap proach the number written about Reprinted from MayJ950 issue of ESQUIRE Copyright 1950 by Esquire, Inc '''Did you say something, dear?" Abe Lincoln. They'll make a siz able library by themselves. Out of the plentiful supply of new books which have arrived in Love library recently, I've picked a few to call to your at tention. Here's one titled "Pat terns of Panic," by Dr. Joost A. M. Meerloo. . In slightly more than a hun dred pages, Dr. Meerloo defines and explains panic, tells under what circumstances it is likely to occur, and tells what to do about conquering panic. Despite the fact that he seems to be nis own best friend (eight of the titles in his bibliography of 47 items are written by himself), I can recommend "Patterns of Panic" as interesting, informa tive reading. For those of you who are eager to learn about, the relationships between the Americas, there is Laurence Duggan's "The Ameri- I cas; the Search for Hemisphere Security." The author spent many years studying the prob lems of Latin American coun tries and had almost completed this work before his death. In three well-defined sections, the social background, the his torical background, and the pre sent and the future, "The Americas" presents a concise, lu cid readable picture of inter American relationships. A little book with a title al most as long as the book itself is "Crazy Horse: the Invincible Ogallala Sioux Chief; the 'Inside Stories.' by Actual Observers, of a Most .Treacherous Deed Against a Great Indian Leader." It is a biography of an Indian chief who figured prominently in Nebraska history, edited and ar ranged for publication by E. A. Brininstool. Among other illustrations. there is an interesting picture of nearby Fort Robinson, recent ly taken over by the University in cooperation with the U.S. De partment of Agriculture as an agricultural experiment station. Brininstool is no straneer to stu dents of Western history, having produced 10 other volumes prior to "Crazy Horse . . . . " "Land in California" bv W.W. Robinson, is one of the volumes in the chronicles of California series. It is devoted to an inter esting discussion of the history of the development and occu pation of various parts of "the sunshine state." There are sections devoted to the missions, to large ranches, to grants of land to railroads, to homesteaders and squatters, and so forth, and many descriDtive charts and maps of land grants. To you who enjoy reading fac tual material simply for-the- fun-of-it I can recommend "Land in California" as WORTH READING. Campus Closeups Contest Begins The new Campus Closeups contest is underway in the Union Crib. The voice of a "mystery" stu dent may be heard on the Sola tone record players in the Crib singing "In the Still of the Night." Students may enter the name of the person they believe to be the owner of the mystery voice by writing the name on ballots which will be handed out with every purchase of a "crib." The name Campus Closeups was submitted by Jerry Warren, in the contest held to choose a name for the mystery voice con test. The winning contestant re ceived $1 worth of free cokes in the Crib. Each week, a new voice will be placed in the record players. inis week's voice belongs to a coed who was recently heard singing the same song at a Uni versity show. The winner of each weeks con test will receive free purchases in the Crib or other suitable prizes. Canterbury Club To Give Dance Canterbury club will present a cabaret dance Sunday evening as part of their spring schedule. Atmosphere will be created with soft lights and card tables surrounding the dance floor. Records will provide music and refreshments will b served. Members of the club, their guests and friends are invited to at tend from 7:30 to 9:30 p. m. MAIN FEATURES START "Cinderella" 1:00, 2:44, 4:28, 8:12. 7:56, 9:42 "Port of New York" 1:00, 3:44, 6:28, 9:12 "Boy from Indiana" 2:19, 5:03, 7:47, 10:31 I UV 1JTM ANV 1JTM ANG "Lawless Code" 2:36, 5:10, 7:44, 10:19 "Search for Danger" 1:30, 4:04. 6:38, 9:13 year old girl on March 18. Mrs. Darlington took the stand after Judge J. H. Broady had overruled a defense motion for dismissal. The motion charged that Darlington was "forced" to sign a confession, forced into trial before psychiatric exam inations had been completed and discriminated against in that counsel for five other youths in volved in similar charges had been given "unlimited time" in which to plead. WARNER CERTAINLY CARRIES A LOT OF WEIGHT ) SINCE HE STARTED USING VlTAUS ivGH- urn Yeu'll ha strong with the gals, too if you'use your head- and "Live-Action" Vitalia care. Just be sure to use that famous "6U-Second Workout" topside. SO seconds' scalp massage (feel the difference!) 10 seconds to comb (and will the gals see the difference!). You'll look neat and natural. Bye-bye loose, flaky dandruff and dryness, too. So be smart and look smart get ViLulii soon at drug store or barber sbop. NITeL'HYKIIS UU tL and tht Hjrrs f liar . ouoccona woncout It A NEW PAIR FREE . . . IF THEY RIP! mm All Time College Favorite Western Style fc m 3 45 Logk for the red tab which means the origi nal blue western Jeans of extra heavy 19-os. denim. They're slim and trim with stronr sviteh lng and con cealed pocket rivets. Fine for work and play. Sizes 29 to 42 waist. . Bsloonjr