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PAGE 2 THE DAILY NEBRASKAN Wednesday, February 14, 1951 EDITORIAL COMMENT Our Steadfast Goal . When the first issue of The Daily Nebraskan came out in October, 1892, its editors declared, "The Nebraskan does not stand for any single faction or class, but for the whole university." Today, through 59 years of succeeding editors, the "Ragn has supported this policy. Through years which saw the "Rag" stumble, falter and rise to greater heights in its attempts to serve the students of the University, the "Rag" has held steaafastly to this goal. Why does a student newspaper need a goal? Why cannot it simply record the doing and hap penings on campus without expressing itself in its editorial columns, without "spouting off" here and praising there? Part of the answer to this question lies in the very first editorial which the "Rag" published. In the October, 1892 edi tion the following editorial appeared: "Steps should be immediately taken to adopt other college colors. Over 31 colleges in the United States have old gold. Many others have orange or some shade of yellow. It is especially desirable to change beore the foot ball games, as Iowa, and Missouri both have old gold and it will be difficult to distinguish Ne braskans. Let us adopt, if possible, some color characteristic of the state, and though it is a sunny state, let it be something besides yellow. . . . The Nebraskan will publish in the next issue, any suggestions that may be received." In the Nebraskan issue, directly following this editorial, a short item was printed which proved the success of this alert editor's action. It fol- Register? Dillard H. Gates wrote in ths column yesterday criticizing quite "Nebraskans now have new school colors to Nebraskan and quite a number of 1 J 1 J X T T . l . lows Reds replslce the old gold of former years. University students unanimously assented to the change. Nebraska's school colors will hereafter be Scar let and Cream." A better choice could not be made." When we support such organizations as Build ers or Red Cross, we do it not because they are "friends of ours," but because we genuinely be lieve that such organizations and groups do much for our campus and are worthwhile to the place where they deserve support. When we blast the faction, or professors who take their time about sending in grades or refuse to cooperate with a teachers rating system, we do it not because of our personal prejudices. Maybe our campaigns are futile, useless. Maybe they are not representative of the majority of the student body. Maybe we do make mistakes. Perhaps in the past five years we hace not sup ported the projects and ideas which the major ity of University students consider worthwhile. Perhaps our editorials this year will never equal the editorial in The Daily Nebraskan's first issue, the editorial which brought action on and changed the school colors to our long-revered Scarlet and Cream. But at least our intentions are just as great. We have tried in the past and will try in the future to uphold and continue the policies of Daily Nebraskan editors in the past, and this shall be our guide: to not stand for any single fac tion or class, out for the whole University, g.t. Why Dislike It Not very long, a University student, speak ing to a Lincoln organization about the McCar ran act, was asked by a member of the audience if communists liked the act. Without thinking, the speaker later realized the mistake. Why should the communists dislike the act? The McCarran act requires all communists to register with the attorney general. In Tuesday's Daily Nebraska Letterip column, one reader asked "why not make the communists register?" First, is a person already is a known commu nist, why register? Registration will not dis close to the public or to the government anything they do not already know. Secondly, if a person is communist secretly what incentive does the McCarran act offer to him to sign his name to a list which will restrict his activities. If com munists already are underground, as the writer claimed, why will the McCarran legislation emerge them? Actually it will drive them further un derground. Lenin himself has said: "It is neces sary ... to use any ruse, cunning, unlawful method, evasion, or concealment of truth" in or der to reach the goal. Certainly a mere legisla tive act will not flaunt them. The writer said that Americans are not be coming hysterical, but only opening their eyes. What Americans need to open their eyes to is the mass hysteria fear that they have allowed to engulf them. If Americans "are preparing to act to keep the United States for what it was intended to be a democracy " then we must not fear ideas for they have strengthened us. If we were true Americans, we would oppose signing loyalty oaths and their accomplices be cause we would realize that thereon lies one step toward denial of the liberties which made us great. Now is one time for Americans to think sanely not fear panicy. "Potpourri" Students Have 67 Hours Of Leisure Time Each Week JBy Mary Lou Luther By Marjlou Luther What do you do with your 67 extra hours each week? Let's assume that the average student attends classes 15 hours per week, that he spends two hours studying for every hour he carries, and that he sleeps eight hours every night. Everyone knows, of course, that most students carry at least 18 hours, study 54, and sleep 84.) On the basis of this assumption, Joe College has 4,020 leisure minutes every week. Where does he spend these two and three-fourths days? persons who have given much thought to the problem of com munist registration. These under criticism, Mr. Gates not among them, believe that the McCarran act requiring all communists to register is un-American. Gates believes the act is American and he has a fair argument. After all, wnar is or is not -American is hard to define, even by our instructors. But hear me out. I was very fortunate to be able to attend a meeting early this week at which the Kt. Rev. M. M. Coady, direc tor of extension, St. Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia, was the main speaker. He is an elderly gentleman well versed in the present as well as the age old social problems, their philo sophical aspects and the psycho logical problems involved. He said many of our problems in the world today are brought around to this one. That is, the problem of fooling the people. If we retrospect for a while, we can easily clarify that. Colgate dental cream has a definite selling point that smile of health. Though microbiologists tell us we can not completely rid ourselves of micro-organisms in our mouth no matter what tooth paste we use. Communists have a definite front in China and Korea land reform. Superficial as it is, but it looks good when you are being taxed to the point of starvation. Even fraternal organizations on campus have a definite attrac tion television sets. Though many people doubt their worth in any house of learning. It has been said people and na tions rise to greatness but do no: show their greatness until they start downhill. And on the way down we say, "Oh, you never looked better in your life." Such rot you must agree. Now if we can bring these il lustrations to bear on the prob lem of whether or not to require the registration of communists. If we allow ourselves to be lieve that any efficient and loyal communist party member would without force weaken himself in this country by allowing his name to be attached to the word, "Communism," we are fooling ourselves. He's too smart, he'll work under false name as a front. But by compiling a list of a few communists probably not espe cially loyal or active party mem bers, and thereby up our list as being the official "thing" then we would be fooling the people. Fooling the people, that's what By Rex Messersmith 'Follies' Skits Show Coed Humor, Talent By Ann Gllllff an. Ever since Eve received top billing for her apple act in the garden, with Adam acting as straight man, women have been trying to get in the act. They re Spring has sprung and the time m t . t t . t the act and Hoar urhan oil A rr inllairA man'c - " O v" O is near when all Ag college men's fancy turns to (no you're wrong) it's the 1951 Jr. Ak-Sar- Ben!! Saturday is the signing up for deadline for swine, cattle or sheep, so all you guys or gals who are interested rush right over to Charlie Ad am's office, Room 208 in Animal Hus bandry hall. Seems to me that those per manent posses sion trophies I j Messersmith that are to the communists are doing in events from a coed riding contest China and Korea. We would be I to dancing horses. will have a chance to their "claim to fame" Feb. 27 Coed Follies night. Upon gazing into the crystal ball for a look at the past, we see that the winning skit in 1940 por trayed the perfect pledge-active relationship. Six pledges, dressed in short white satin dresses, woke three actives, helped them get off to class, comforted them over downs, approved their boyfriends, and congratulate them over pin nings. humorous note wass added by the careful rearrangement of the appearance of the actives as they came back from their dates. Another skit contained chorus cirls eailv wavine their lees to be awarded would lure even the : Union. Another portrayed the in busiest lass Or laddie to come On ' riisnpnsihilitv nf tV, nnwrinpr out to show in this big event. puff. Coeds walked up and down As you all know, it is to be; the aisles, accompanied by "oo"s held in the Coliseum at the State fairgrounds this year where there are exactly 2,980 available seats. Now that will seat quite a few people and with the weather on our side it is hoped that we can fill the place to overflowing. Wouldn't it be a thrill to show an animal before all those people? The show is not all that the Block and Bridle club has planned for that weekend of March 17. The night before there will be a big barbecue and square dance in the Ag Activities build ing. And this is to be no regular barbecue!! How can one turn down the thought of barcecued ham along with the rest of the menu usually to be found at such a deal? Ticket prices for the barbecue include the square dance. In other words the meal ticket stub will admit the holders into the dance too. Now hear this! Now hear this! The show ticket prices have not gone up with inflation. It will cost only 90 cents for adults, 65 cents for students and 35 cents for children under 12. Just con sider a movie costs 65 cents and if the shows of the past years are any indication this will be just as food as a movie. But the showmanship contest is only a small part of the pro gram planned for this big an nual event. The evening will be loaded with all sorts of special Navy Program Includes Coeds University women in the fresh man or sophomore class who are interested in serving their coun try but who wish to complete their college education are urged to apply for Naval Reserve Of ficer corps. Two women from the Univer sity will be selected from ap plicants in the Naval Air re serve and will be required to at tend one week-end meeting a month during the school year and go through a six week training program in the summer. At the time of their gradua tion these women will be com missioned officers of the rank of ensign in the Supply corps of the Naval Reserve and will be called to active duty only in time of a national emergency and "ah"s from the audience, modeling the latest spring fash ions. Instead of our version of the Typical Nebraska Coed, a best dressea girl was chosen tu reign over the evening's -rterta'.-..-Tient. In 1941, the cunain avi cup was presented for tne firs lime. The winning skit was a pantomine of a study hall where a peldge shed tears over her latest love. A trio furnished the continuity, and a telegraph boy ended the skit happily by singing the boy's love. "Variety is the spice of life was proved in the 1947 follies. The first place skit was "As You Like It" and evidently the judges did! The wiggles and shakes of a French dream when "ouing" Fifi professed to be "drunk with love" brought that skit second place. Another skit showed the best calendar to have in your room those blustery nights, and still another was a take-off on AWS "bored" mem bers. Even the microphone jumped in appreciation of the slanteyed beauty in a Chinese act which proved it more profitable to travel east, not west. The winning skit of '48 fea tured a bride who was looking for the right flowers to wear at her wedding and was presented with several varieties girl represent ing orchids, roses, and daisies. One skit feaured old-fashioned bathing suits from 1880 to 1948 the '48 version was strapless. "In spring a young man's fancy turns to thoughts of " but it won't work because he can't come to Coed Follies. However, that doesn't stop him from trying. In past year, suspicious looking females found that the years of "fizz ed' 'the coeds are required to take doesn't go in vain as tey were quietly thrown down the Union stsps. Any judo instnrtor would have been proud of the little (?) ladies. Ivy Day Corn The requirements for appli- i nfinne I L-!ix cants are: they must be 18 years old; be in good physical condi tion and be a University fresh man or sophomore. This program will in no way interfere with the woman's col lege education. Interested persons should con tact Lt. R. T. George of the Naval Reserve at the public information office at the Naval Air station, Lincoln municipal airport. fooling ourselves. Poor Richard. If his last name "begins with S he probably spends most of his time on "pressing matters." For from Saad to Sziksxoy the S's are the neat est students on campus. No, it isn't because the word soap begins with S. And it isn't because the words suds or scrub do too. It's because a survey of six cleaning establish rnts here reveals that week in, week out there are more clothes under the S category than any other letters of the alphabet. Here's to more suds in your I's! Rubey to Speak To Sigma Xi Herd Supervisors Train at Ag College Fashion Expert To Visit Campus A representative from the Vogue pattern company will speak to the Home Economics club Thursday afternoon at 5 p.m. The meeting will be held in the social room of the home eco nomics building. The speaker will address the members on "The new trends in fashion." A question and answer period will follow. Anyone who is interested in finding out the coming styles should be on hand Thursday at 5 p.m. Mr. William W. Rubey, United States geologist, will speak to Sig ma Xi, national research society, j Wednesday at 8 p.m. in Morrill Hall auditorium. His lecture is entitled "The Development of the Ocean and the Atmosphere." Dr. Rubey will discuss develop ment and chemical composition of sea water and atmosphere. Sev eral lines of evidence will be giv en, which indicate that the his tory of the earth's air and water must be closely related to that of solid earth. This lecture is part of a tour arranged by the distinguished lecture committee of the Ameri can Association of Petroleum Geologists. It is sponsored by the Univer sity department of geology joint ly with the University chapter of Sigma Xi. Dr. Rubey will speak before 37 local societies from To ronto, Canada to Los Angeles. Dr. William W. Rubey received his geological training at Univer ity of Missouri, John Hopkins University, and YaJe. From 1922 to 1924, Dr. Rubey was an in structor in geology at Yale. He has been associated with the United States Geological survey ince 3924 and is now Research Geologist for the survey. He is the immediate past president of the Geological Society of America. Four potential supervisors of dairy neara improvement asso ciations in Nebraska are in train ing this week at the University's dairy department. Extension Dairyman C. W. Nib ler said the men are being trained in the latest techniques of super vising associations. The trainees include: Dale Jacobson, Glenn Hen- drickson, J. W. Effam and Law rence Gordon, N.U. Bulletin Wednesday Cosmopolitan Club meeting, 7:30 p.m., Room 316; Dr. Held to speak on "The Heatland in Ac tion." Alpha Kappa Psi meeting in Union, 7:15 p.m. Union craft shop will be oper from 7 to 9 pjn. in Union base ment. Pre-Orchesis meeting at 5 p.m in urant Memorial. Second sem ester officers will be elected. AUF sorority solicitors meet ing, Room 309 of Union at p.m. Thursday. uea L runs Workers meeting at o p.m. in Union, Room 316. Ag worship service, Thursday morning, from 7:30 to 8, Home Exchange. Leith Samuel will speak. ME TIKI E Wi T HAMMER IT OUT ON SAMUEL 4 v . 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M Ar editor twrtrtF Editor 'batttgnravlirr . ....... 'I vd Kaaduln! .. .dark f uli. n. Clitirk HuriiwlNtxr, Hub It-lrli.Tihai l. Can The Atom Bomb Stop Communism? How Shall We Face The Draft? What's The Use Of Religion? What's The Good Of War? If there i a God, Why does He allow suffering? And Why didn't He make man foolproof? Can We Make a Go of Marriage? ATHEISTS, AGNOSTICS, FREE THINKERS, EXISTENTIALISTS, AND ALL SKEPTICS WELCOME 12:C3-1:C0 P.M. LOVE LIBRARY AUUITOIIIUM WEDNESDAY TIIII1J FIHDAY BRING AND FLING YOUR QUESTIONS COME WHEN YOU CAN, GO WHEN YOU MUST TONIGHT AT 7:30 CAMPUS CHAPEL 1STH & U "INSECURITY-THE VICIOUS CIRCLE THURSDAY NIGHT 7:30 LOVE LIBRARY AUDITORIUM "THE FIFTH FREEDOM" A few of the special events that could be mentioned here are a horse jumping contest, Jimmy and Rita Murphy, trick riders from Wisner, possibly a six-horse hitch and others too numerous to mention. Just a word about Jim and Rita I Organized houses, canr'idylej i for freshman, soohomore and sen ior attendants to the 1951 May Queen souH be fe'ectsd before Wednesday, Feb. 14. j Each houe can name two girls from each class, with the excep tion oi' junior, as their repre sentatives. 1 The house candidates should be ; placed in the Mortar Board mail- . box in the Union basement or obtaining this pair due to the fact mailed to: Mortar Board, Union, that they are booked nearly solid University of Nebraska. The can at rodeos and fairs throughout didate's name, scholastic average Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma. ; and honoraries of which she is a Soon they will start on a tour member, should be listed, with Jimmy Lynch and his Death i The Mortar Boards will select Dodgers, who plans to feature two seniors, four juniors, two these horse acts along with the sophomores, two freshmen and car acts. two pages for the Ivy Day court. 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