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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
TUESDAY, JULY 25, 1950
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EDITORIAL
Editor , , .Norma Chubbnck
BUSINESS
Business Manager .....Chock Burmelster
A Thank You Note . . .
With the last issue of the Summer edition of the Daily
Nebraskan, I would like to thank the many people who have
made it possible to put out the paper this summer.
News is scarce in the summer, but we have tried to pre
sent a paper which contains features interesting to the stu
dents on campus, as well as all the news we could find.
Without the help and cooperation of the University
staff, the Union, and the reporters, the paper could never
have been put out.
To Genene Grimm, Union Activities director, I would
like to extend a special thank you. Mrs. Grimm has helped
in so many ways, letting us know about events coming up
and providing us with information and stories about Union
entertainment facilities.
To Dr. Frank E. Sorenson, director of the Summer
Session goes much of the credit for some of the feature ma
terial. The Air-age feature would not have been possible
without his interest and encouragement.
And especially to the reporters who have helped write
the news I extend my thanks. Phyllis Long arid Donn Pres
cott have been responsible for the greatest portion of the
news copy, as well as spending hours working on feature
material. Jerry Warren also deserves thanks for helping on
the make-up of the paper, and for the special feature on
ROTC cadets at Camp McCoy.
These are only a few of the reporters and administration
members who have made the Daily Nebraskan possible this
summer.
By the Way
It's not all play at a University is a fact generally ac
cepted by most everyone. But 134 University students have
proof that study and scholarship can be rewarded materially.
The scholarship a -yards committee has announced more stu
dents who have been -awarded Regents, Noyes, and other
scholarships for the coming school year. This brings the
number of upperclass students who have received scholar
ships to nearly 300. The accomplishments of these students
go a long way in proving to skeptics that the stories of
"playboy" college students are greatly exaggerated. Con
gratulations to the scholars who have been justly rewarded
for their work.
As Seen From . .
The Cloister
By Frit Picard
After about six weeks of at
tempting to present serious, ma
ture judgments on the world to
day, we turn with relief to a
frankly escapist subject. -Things
right now are grrni, bleak. The
country is dotted with places in
habited by people who take the
world too seriously. We are tired
of earnest people urging us "to
adjust to life in the world today."
Most of us don't expect to live
anywhere else and are painfully
aware of our present surround
ings.
Anyway, about the present sor
ry state of children's books. In
our far-off childhood, that Golden
Age of literate children, that
happy time before the advent of
movie serials, 4 funny" books, and
TV, children had and read things
that were worth reading. There
were, besides such classics as
Robin Hood, Alice in Wonder
land, Treasure Island, etc- some
excellent contemporary juvenile
works like the Oz books. The
classics are of, course, still avail
able (if you can get any children
to read them) but the Oz books,
as well as Barrie and Milne, are
largely and unfortunately neglected.
The earlier Oz books were clear,
clean, fascinating stories with in
spired illustrations. They were
not, like Barrie, so super-sacchar-inated
that oneoften wanted to
throttle the leading character, and
thy were, unlike either Barrie or
Milne, peculiarly adapted to Am
erican tastes.
When Frank Baum wrote the
Oz books, he knew what he was
doing. He ' knew that a child's
chief pleasure is' derived from im
agining, that most children's
games involve imagination, and
that the best in literature owes a
great deal to the imagination.
That is why he wrote fairy tales.
This position irks many people
(including some educators, sociol
ogists, and scientists). To these
tough-minded people I simply
quote one eminent American lit
erary critic, "The trouble with
most people is not that they have
out-grown fairy tales, but that
they haven't grown up to them
yet." Unfortunately, the fairy tale,
like everything else nowadays
that can't be dissected, analyzed,
graphed, or synthesized, is in disrepute.
"Comic" books are now read.
Most of them are pure poison.
The "love" comics are worst, as
their main appeal stems from dis
gusting suggestiveness or the ut
ter asinity of the "young love"
angle. Overly abundant sadism
and violence make the crime
comics next worse. Supermen,
Tobacco Law Worried '39 Rag
In 1S39 a startling revelation
was printed In the Daily Nebras
kan concerning a Nebraska stat
ute. It is not known whether this
law had been repealed; if not
there should be no more cigar
passing, no more mooching, no
more free samples!
University students made th
alarming discovery that everyone
who passed a cigar, begged a cig
arette from a friend, or gave any
form of tabacco away since 1919
had been breaking a Nebraska
statute and making themselves
liable to a fine of from $100 to
$200 or two months imprisonment
in the county jail.
The astounding revelation came
when members of the state legis
lature referred to the tobacco li
censing act and became surprised
at its implications.
Thus read the law: "That it
shall be unlawful for any persons
to . . , give away any cigars, to
bacco, cigarettes, or cigarette ma
terial, to anyone, without first ob
taining a license . . ." Lawyers in
the legislature said this meant
it was illegal to give away a cig
arette. It is the hope that the legisla
ture had fb.ed this disastrous state
of affairs. For campusites are
fond of the tradition of cigar pass
ins and they would sorely miss
free samples.
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Term papers and other work typed,
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women, and mice abound in the
adventure stories; most of which
are minute and insipid variations
and already cold plots. The "fun
ny animals" type is negatively
praiseworthy; most of them are
slight but innocuous.
There are some good current
books, especially simplified his
tory and biography, but they are
generally prosaic, factual, didac
tic. Even Indian . stories have to
be weighter with "authentic ma
terial on life in Navajo villages
as the jacket blurb on one book
testified.
The point is this: Children to
day need some new books with
little imagination, a touch of
phantasy, to carry them through
the grinding dullness of a "life in
the world today" which the prag
matic gadgeteers, statisticians, and
hucksters will bequeath them.
Tho Wit and French Swim suits
please by their brevity
One feels picture postcards could
use more longevity!
R. D. Thompson
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