THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
Thursday, February 7, 1952
EDITORIAL PAGE
Politicking Days
Every four years our democracy submits to a
period of political bedlam. Present office holderi
want newspapers filled with stories of government
saving", of sound national and foreign policies and
of pictures showing them as "just one of the boys."
Out-of-offloe politicians point to government
corruption, magnify any error any official hw
made any year In his life and try to take credit
for anything favorable happening during the op
position's administration.
A-
The political embers in Nebraska brightened
this week with the democratic and republican
pre-prlmarles in Omaha. Pre-primary endorse
ments and party platforms were the chief business
at the party wheels' meeting.
Interest in the conventions and primaries is
high, sparked by the many political posts which
re seemingly wide open. Several University stu
dents and faculty members attended the sessions.
Nebraskan must choose two senators one
for a long term and one to fill the term now
held by Fred Seaton of Hastings who was ap
pointed upon death of the Sen. Kenneth Wherry.
Adding fuel to the flames also Is the fact that
so many well known Nebraska political figures
are competing for offices some against each
other. These factors, plus the fact that this Is
a national election year will keep Nebrtskans
politically busy for several months.
The national politicking probably will not be
able to overshadow the state scene, at least until
primaries are over.
We are witnessing an exciting year. Exciting
because of both state elections and national elec
tlons. Important because we will decide what men
are to lead us through the crucial months and
years which are undoubtedly ahead of us.
In Nebraska there isn't much room for a can
dldate to make a political blunder this year. Re
publicans especially will be careful because of the
importance of the primary results.
Why
Am I
Here?
Even on the state level, we can expect daily
OOP digs at Fair Deal and Trumanlsm foreign
policy blunders and government spending. We'll
hear republicans cry for government cuts In
expenditures, but we'll probably not hear many
Isuggestlons as to Just where cuts can be made.
The democrats will point to all successful parts
of the past 20 years of national ruling and try
to dig out any state corruption.
The battle is just beginning. Nebraska voters
are the target
Meetings: Once A Month
To the University's Interfraternity council our Aproximately $750 was added to the IFC funds
attention is directed; directed because of their fine following rush week. Each man going through rush
and noble purpose and the activities which they week pays a $1 registration fee and an additional
claim to carry on. But our attention is directed $1 when he pledges a fraternity. According to the
to this body of University men for another reason IFC treasurer, the council depends on these funds
also; namely, the little or nothing they accomplish
The Interfraternity council la composed of
elected representatives from each University
fraternity, required to meet at least once a
month to "discuss and regulate any and all mat
ters pertaining to all fraternities eligible to Coun
cil membership . . ."; this shall Include relations
bewteen fraternities, between fraternities and
students and between fraternities and the Uni
versity as a whole.
" - '"
The 1951-52 IFC finds, under its realm of com
mand, the job of sponsoring the annual Interfra
ternity ball, choosing the year's Interfraternity
sweetheart, registering all men going through rush
week, enforcing rushing rules for fraternities, send- forcing the existent rules is being worked on by
ing delegates to the National Interfraternity coun- the IFC and will be put into effect. What this
cil conference, enforcing University rules for the plan is, how it will be enforced is unknown,
initiation of pledges, which includes both aver- Flagrant violations of the rushing rules have
ages and, the hazing problem, along with keeping been noticed by The Daily Nebraskan, particularly
Nebraska fraternities in the good favor of the during the fraternity rush week of this past fall
when they lose money on the ball which seems to
be expected. It is reported, however, that "we lost
less money on the ball this yar than the IFC did
last year."
Again, pointing to IFC finances, the Council
voted to spend 5400 to send several delegates to
the national convention. We have yet to see any
Indications, public or otherwise, of progressive
Greek ideas and programs brourht back to the
University campus by the official delegates.
Another big job of the IFC is to enforce rush
ing rules during fraternity rush week. Hod Mayers,
IFC president, has reported that a system of en-
Stolen Goods-
Survey 'Tabulizes' Reasons
Why Students Attend College
Bob Reichenbach -
The King is dead.
King George , VI, in frail
health all his life, who took
over the throne of England
when it was at its lowest ebb
as far as popular esteem was
concerned, died in his sleep
Tuesday night. When King
Edward VIII renounced the
throne to marry American-
born Wally Simpson, the,Coeqofe Survey
JCiDKUsn laun in ineir l uieio
was shaken to the roots. In
this time of crisis it fell upon
the shoulders of Edward s
shy," quiet i younger brother,
Georee. to strengthen the
position of the monarchy. At
the time King George vi was
coronated the population of
the British empire was ap
proximately 500,000,00 or
about one-fourth of the world
population. During his reign
the King has seen his coun
try's holdings dwindle in area
and, particularly, in numbers.
T 1 T 1 ' ' . I
wnen inaia gainea ner ixee-
dom King George lost some
300,000,000 subjects. He has
seen nis country struggle
through the worst war in the
history of the world, a war in
which he lost his younger
brother, the Duke of Kent.
Perhaps even more disastrous
2. Desire for more knowledge
3. To find a mate
4. It was "the thing to do
5. The parents wished It
6. None of these.
Marilyn Mangold'
After sorting, adding, dividing,
multiplying and all the other
things math majors do, my aver
age is still Just as far under
eround as I thought it would be.
You see, my last postcard came .
winging its way through the Buffalo University
mails this a.m. and I am feeling University of Buffalo Spec-
rather like the fellow I know who,trum recontly printed six reasons
jusi got nis uiuii nuuev. iudi "Why Never Joined i aunuuj,
don't understand.
Before this trite message gets
triter (you un
derstand about
the English
grade now),
best I tell you
the results of
another survey.
I love these
surveys. This
one was taken
by the Associ
ated Collegiate
Press to see
why students
come to college,
t it
"ZT J
I I Wf i
I V 1
1 T iimn tH tn An as I wished
and think for myself instead of
being led around by a bunch ot
sorority sisters.
(Ed. note That's intellectual,
but some people are bom with
rings in their noses.)
2. I had never gone imo wu.- n,rtXaeeftr Janet
Mh. nn. conizations be-rrotessor jones
Naturally you'll associate the
salt mines witn acr Koosians, wno,
Professor Howard Mumford Jones
which we are currently celebrat
ing. Just give me a man
With a million or two,
Or one that is handsome
Would happily do;
A dashing young fellow
13 swell any day,'
Or one that is famous
Would suit me okay.
But if the man shortage
Should get any worse,
Go back to the very
First line of this verse.
Ah, well, comes the revolution
and all poets and columnists alike
will head for the salt mines.
Aw' WtM
Mangold
According to the highly tabulized
poll the results were:
1. For a good Job afterwards
Letterip
'Art' Controversy
Dear editor:
Like many others we are not
authorities on abstract or mod-
than the war, is the position; em art. According to Webster,
or his country toiiowmg mat
war, what with the split in
AH arts, we must remember, are
phases of the social mind. We are
so much in the habit of thinking
sn'i nini-i nun nreanizuuuuD
fore I came to college and I didn't
Iwant to start.
(Ed. note Just how is tne noo
Nob?),
3. I had never danced with a
man In my life and I didn't
want to. ....
(Ed. note You haven't lived.
4. I didn't like the idea of hav
ing to room with the same girl
all semester. , , .
(Ed. note That's all right,
honey.)
5. I didn't fill out a sweater and
I didn't look very attractive in
a sleeveless, low-cut gown.
(Ed. note Some people do and
some don't.)
6. 1 am a male.
(Ed note Oht
Sioux Falls
A contemporary of ours has just
written a poem In Sioux Falls,
S. D. She wrote it of course after
?he had found it written in an
other paper. It's for leap year.
politics and the increased SO- of them in terms of art products
cialization of Great Britain. that we forget that the arts them-
rn h hrloht-r oM. nf thai nlr..Belve5 re groups 01 ideas tmu
ture, the King saw, before he died,
his older daughter, Elizabeth,
mnW.. D.ln.. DKllli. rilA.M
climaxinz a romance that can- Prhps the key to this defini
qulsitions of skill that exist only
in the minds, muscles, and nerves
of living men." The living mind
administration, anti-Greeks, pro-Greeks and tak
ing cognizance of and action on progressive move
ments within the Greek structure.
" " "A"
The University's IFC has fulfilled one duty
for which they exist. They have met once a
month during this school term. Whether they
had the required two-thirds membership present
for a quorum to conduct business Is unknown.
The University's IFC, inadditioh to meeting
once a month, chose an Interfraternity sweetheart,
Patsy Peters, with whom we do not quarrel. How
ever, as The Daily Nebraskan pointed out in prev
ious editions, the method of selecting finalists was
extremely questionable.
As for the Interfraternity ball itself, the IFC
pat on A .financial flop snd what came close to
a soclaTTJdp. Publicity for the ball, announcing
the date, time, price of tickets and orchestra
for the evening, appeared on the campus one
week prior to the ball.
The social committee in charge of the ball had
300 tickets printed. Exactly 69 of these were sold.
This made a total of $172.50 proceeds on ticket
sales. The-hotel ballroom, used for the dance, cost
the IFC $75 and the orcehstra cost $300. Usual in
cidentals are not included in these figures. This
leaves a total of $202.50 deficit in IFC funds for
their annual ball, attended by, according to ticket
sales, 69 couples. To cover this deficit, the IFC
treasurer reports that an approximate $1800 was in
the treasury after fraternity rush week this fall.
semester. Complaints were turned in to The Ne
braskan concerning these violations. However, fra
ternity members have admitted they would not file
a complaint about another misbehaving fraternity
because they also violate rules.
According to various IFC members, the prob
lem of fraternity "Hell-Week." which, inciden
tally, Is ruled out by the IFC constitution, has
come up In several discussions this year. Al
., though not all campus fraternities have Initiated
their pledge classes there has been no great
trend toward the now nationally-advocated
"Help-Week." As nsual, the IFC has talked much
and done next to nothing.
The Interfraternity council exists and exists
under an approved constitution. Members meet,
elect officers and appear to carry out duties. They
lose money, they bring back nothing constructive
from an expensive trip to a national convention,
they allow rushing violations to exist under their
very noses, and they must still favor the outlawed
"Hell-Week."
The Daily Nebraskan feels that a body such
as the Interfraternity council could do a great
deal toward promoting the good points of a
Greek system, In which the council is primarily
concerned. It is our hope that the apathy and
neglect this organization has shown In the past
can be replaced by an active, admirable atti
tude which could advance favorably the Greek
system.- R.R.
Margin Notes
When parking lots were distributed, the stu- braskan columns this week at the lack of students
dents were left with a muddy lot next to the going through the add and drop process this se
Union. Now there is a fence between that muddy mester. To Dr. Hoover, we offer our answer to
lot and the back door to the Union.
Administrators have problems, but couldn't
they do something to make student parking less
gooey so the Union will take the fence down?
The Dally Nebraskan could use some reporters.
Anyone (male, female, activity student, brain,
senior, transfer student, journalist, engineer or
Cornhusker worker) is welcome.
this puzzling question. Perhaps students, this se,
mester, taking one look at the add and drop pro
cess, decided to carry a minimum of hours, stay in
the wrong course or remain in a course they dis
like. Any person who graduates from the Univer
sity, having gone through and mastered the art of
adding and dropping, is truly educated,
Two hundred University women entered the
jr doors of Ellen Smith hall Friday afternoon and
Princess Elizabeth has become Queen Elizabeth, selected YWCA commission groups and projects in
youngest queen of England since Victoria. The which to work. General purpose of the University
worry and tension of Britain's many colonial prob- i organization is to instill religious leadership and
lems have fallen on the shoulders of the little girl principles into the lives of college women. The
who used to romp on the Palace lawns with her Y's second semester enrollment does not speak well
younger sister. The blonde princess who used to either for the organization or the rellgipus leanings
love to eat pickles with her ice cream, Is now of University women.
monarch of a country that is fighting to regain
a leading place among nations.
God save the Queen.
The democrats want him to but Walter Raecke
says that ho won't try to get the democratic nom
ination for Governor.
Baecke bas a good record and possibly is the
only democrat with a good chance to beat who-
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tion given to students with each semester. We
ami't ln favor of lower enrollment at our Uni
versity, but, since it can't be helped, it might tend
to favor those 1,100 students still at the Corn
husker institution.
Car. Floyd Hoover, acting director of registra
tJstts expressed his wonderment in The Daily Ne-
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tured the heart of the world. He
saw a grandson, the new heir ap
parent, born to this marriage as
well as a granddaughter. "Bonnie
Prince Charlie" is now next in
line for the throne.
There is no doubt that King
George VI and Queen Elizabeth
reigned during a period of almost
constant crisis. Nor is there any
doubt that the Royal couple was
beloved by their subjects to a de
gree seldom attained by mon
archs. The future presents various
intricacies which will be re
ceived primarily by tradition.
For one, there are, in a sense,
three queens in England today
. . . Elizabeth, the reigning
Queen, and her mother and
grandmother. Probably the 84-year-old
Queen Mother Mary
will become the Dowager Queen
and Elizabeth, the widow of
George VI, will hold the title of
Queen Mother.
The line of ascension to the
throne looks something like this.
Prince Charles, the three-year-old
son of the new Queen is next in
line, followed by his baby sister
Anne and Princess Margaret Rose,
the Queen's sister, in that order.
The Crown of England that
Queen Elizabeth assumes is all
glory and no power. The sole
function of the Queen today is to
be a public figure. While her il
lustrious Dredecessor "Good Queen
Bess" bore among her titles that
of Empress of India, the modern
Elizabeth is just a Queen again.
Her late father dispensed with the
title Emperor of India fdr fairly
obvious reasons, in mo.
Among her many duties, the
new Queen will find that it will
be up to her to proclaim her
own son as Prince of Wales in a
grand pageant at Carnarvon
Castle in Wales. Elizabeth will
find that the training she re
ceived from her father from
earliest childhood will stand her
in gcod stead now. In a thousand
years, the English klnrs have
developed a technique of braz
ening it out. The position of
nominal ruler is possibly more
difficult than that of an actual
ruler. Princes and Princesses
are trained in a hard discipline
from the very beginning. They
learn that It is all right to laugh
at the clowns at the circus, but
not to wipe your nose on your
alfvf.
r.iiyabeth is probably quite
thankful for all the tiny things
h learned which will help her
in new life which will be about
as quiet and peaceful as me aver
office. For Eliza
beth, at 25, is the second youngest
Queen to Uke over the throne of
F.ncrlnnd.
As the Herald will shout from
j. l 1 . AJ Ct TamAQ
tne lamous uaicuujr vm.
Palace in London . . . "Long live
the Queen."
- A uaV a
says, win sureiy bibti issuing
parking permits and registering
people for service here soon if
the average college lady doesn't
become more Interested in the
world around us.
I'm wondering, do you think
Professor Jones has been dat
ing enough college girls re
cently? Really, the atom bomb
and the war are quite Inconse
quential to the average college
woman. Because as the great
Incomparable Shakespeare said,
"Alt the world's a stage, and all
the men and women merely
players." This must be a com
edy. Incidentally those poor Yale
boys didn't get the legislation
passed that would have permitted
them to have set-ups at their
dances.
Oh, well ,comes the revolution!
tion for living implies an inces,
sant change.
Consider music in the light of
the foregoing definition, be
cause, music, as a universal art,
is constantly permeating our i
everyday Hfe. Often the obvious
discord or breach of harmony
the result of a change in "old
school" rules by the living mind
conveys the exact mood and
feeling desired. It Is not this re
creation of mood and feeling
"the" Important thing? Is this
not true art whether by note,
brush, or written word? Can
not this art be understood and
appreciated by all?
Sincerely yours,
RUSSELL JORGENSEN
BILL SCHLEGEL
JACK KEENE
(Editor's note. The Dally
Nebraskan welcomes any state
ments which
Rlche's views on modern art.
We will give the same amount
of space and pray to anyone
disagreeing with Rlche's contentions).
Book Notes
'Wait For The Wagon'
Is Conversational Gem
NU BULLETIN
BOARD ' 1
Thursday
Red Cross. S p.m.. Union. Work-
r mav lien un for committees,
Elections and County Fund Drive
will be discussed
Coed Follies skit judging, 7-9:45
... t -A. . 1 1
p.m. Judges wiu visu organized
houses. t
Search Week committee, 4:30
n.m.. i'anor z. union.
Prospective teachers meeting
for all planning to teach in 1952
1853, 4 p.m., Love Library aua
torium.
Girl Crazy chorus tryouts, 7
p.m., Union ballroom.
Phi Sigma Iota, 7:30 p.m., Union
faculty lounge. Sarah Fulton and
Kathryn Swingle to present
papers.
Picture lending library. 2-4:30
p.m., Union music room. Students
may check out pictures free of
charge.
"All's Fair- tryouts. 3-5 p.m.,
Temple auditorium. Six female
parts.
"Helena's Husband" tryouts. 7-
9 p.m., Temple costume room.
Three men, two women.
"Spankln' " t r y o u t s, 7-9 p.m.,
Room 151, Temple. Three women,
one man.
Discrimination
To the Editor:
Yes, our memories are short
when we can not remember the
drastic march upon the state capi
tol. This march was a march by
students who had or were going
to be discriminated against. With
rising tempers of the students, the
campus and the city of Lincoln
were in a state of chaos.
The terrible parking and
traffic situation Is again con
fronting the driving population
of the University. "Fraternity
Row" is about to become the
scene of bedlam, traffic tickets
and congested areas. One way
streets through the University
will cause as much misunder
standing between this institu
tion and the city police as has
been caused between the stu
dents and faculty in their park
ing problem. Now is the time to
act on this approaching prob
lem and not after the ordinance
has been put into effect.
Many of the students are not
aware or tne predicament tnat
is now facing the faculty and stu
dent bodies. The students are
parking in the faculty areas; the
faculty are parking in the student
areas. Both the faculty and stu-.
dents have been receiving sus-;
pensions or better known as
"rustications." To my knowledge,1
one instructor has been perma-j
nently dismissed and innumerable
assistants rusticated. There is no
object in this trivial scrutiny. Oh
yes, regulations should be en-
forced; but when regulations exist
to the detriment of the majority;
then they should be repealed.
Last year, when there was not
any discrimination, everyone ,
was perfectly happy with first i
come, first served. No one got
fired or suspended, and no one :
received detrimental records,
fit only for a common criminal.
Why was this change brought
about? It was brought about be
cause of the human inclination
to want favoritism, and the per
sons with the facilities to ad
vance their wants have maneu
vered Into an advantageous po
sition. This segregated parking system
has not worked, and there should
be considerable thought upon a
new or a more eriective system.
If there were enough parking
spaces and no segregation the
money that is spent upon patrol
men could be diverted to main
taining an additional temporary
area suoh as the mall or the cor
ner of 14th and Vine streets, east
of the Military Science building.
Something should be ftone about
this parking problem.
Or It should be known to
anyone, who is considering at
tending the University, that &ey
will not be able to drive their
car to the campus; therefore,
they must live in the sub-standard
housing accomodations that
are adjacent to the school. Re
gardless of what Is dene, there
is no object ln excluding pro
gressive students from classes
because of undemocratic dis
crimination, i
R. D.
Juno, wife of Jupiter, king of
the gods, gave her name to June.
Feeley, Mrs.
Rasmus sen,
and Miss
Tin k h a m),
Old-T 1 m e r,
nd an alabas-
A Ml 1
disagree with 'affectionately
named Aphro
dite, pile into
their 1926
Cadillac
loaded with
"Wait For The Wagon,"
(Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston,
1951) is Mary Lasswell's latest
contribution to the belly-laugh
circle. The celebrated author of
"Suds In Your Eyes" and "Mr
Rasmussen's Book of One-Arm
Cookerv" has written another
bounder.
A trip from Newark, N.J.,
across country to San Diego is
the scene of the confusion. It
appears harmless, but when
three elderly ladies (the re-
Mary Worrall
IsmhsV sfinipi, Vamtj
Warrall
buckets of iced beer, anything
can. and does happen.
The journey begins quietly, but
the beer-loving trio and their
driver run into trouble soon when
they add two passengers, Dr.
Crudleigh Freemartin, a crackpot
psychoanalyst, ind his strip-,
teaser girlfriend, Uremia. Hectio
days are ahead for the travelers
and their truck-driver buddies.
One ridiculous situation leads to
another, making the book a con.
versational gem.
The language In "Walt For
The Wagon" is uninhibited and
necessarily so, for ,he characters
are also uninhibited. What
eventually occurs upon their ar
rival in San Diego, leaves the
reader laughing and crying with,
at, and for the characters In the
same sentence.
The story is especially worth
reading because of the familiar
sketches of cartoonist ueorge
Price. The dowagers with the
tremendous capacity for beer
come to life before the reader's
eyes, and become leger lary and
unforgettable.
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