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    THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
Wednesday March 12, T952
EDITORIAL PAGE
McCarthy vs. Lattimore
During the endless Washington merry-go-round Agnes Smedley, who was named by MacArthur's
game against Communists that is used by the intelligence as a top Soviet spy, and with Philip
United States government, the game between the Jaffe, who was named under oath as a Russian
Red-seeking senator of Wisconsin, Joe McCarthy, espionage agent,
and the professor and publicist who played an
influential role in shapning the U.S. Far Eastern fourth fcall from McCarthy announced that
policy, Owen Lattimore, was bitterly played under his opponent had spent months at Communist
the "unbiased" eyes of the referees, the Tydings headquarters'in Yenan where he lectured to Mao
Barbed Wire
committee.
Claiming that Lattimore was "the top Soviet
espionage agent," McCarthy was named the loser
of the game when the committee ruled it had found
"no evidence of Communism, pro-Communism or
that he (Lattimore) ever knowingly associated with
the Communists."
The Senate Tydings committee gave the pro
fessor a ringing victory, but the people of Mary
land might have disagreed with the ruling of the
referees, for they ousted Millard Tydings from the
senate seat he had held since 1926.
In the 1950 stage of the McCarthy vs. Latti
more game, McCarthy pitched the first so-called
"mudball" at his opponent when he announced
that the American Legion's National American
ism Commission sub-committee on subversive
activities listed Lattimore as being "unfit for
sponsorship by any American Legion post."
The pitcher then raised the question, "Why is
this man, whom the Legion considers unlit for
sponsorship by any American Legion post, quali
fied to be a top adviser for our State Department?"
Ball one, the commission ruled.
His second ball to Lattimore carried the in
formation that ex-Communist Louis Eudenz def
initely called Lattimore a Communist. Lattimore
Tse Tung's Communist troops.
And following the last ball pitched by Mc
Carthy, the referees allowed Lattimore to walk
safely home with the ruling, "There is no evi
dence that he ever knowingly associated with
Communists."
But since then, the referees' decision is being
questioned. Since last July, a Senate subcommittee
on Internal security, headed by Nevada's Pat Mc
Carran, had been going over the ground again. To
refute the information revealed during his game
with McCarthy, Lattimore came before the McCar
ran subcommittee with a 50-page statement that
bristled with some of the angriest denunciation
ever directed by a witness to a congressional in
quiry. Lattimore called McCarthy the "Wisconsin
whimperer ... a graduate witchburner." He raked
Budenz as perjured and immoral, Stassen as "irre
sponsible," the Nationalist Chinese as "driftwood
on the beaches of Formosa."
Lattimore had told the Tydings committee that
he did not have a desk in the state department; he
had also told an executive session of the McCarran
inquiry that he never took care of the mail of
Lauchlin Currie, then an assistant to President
Franklin Roosevelt. Under cross-examination, he
confessed to being absent-minded. He did, after
all, remember having a room in Currie's offices in
-Connie Gordon
Guest Columnist
was also the man, McCarthy claimed, who, upon the old state department building; he used it fre
Acheson's request .furnished advice to the state quently. Furthermore, it is true that during Cur
department which followed the Communist party rie's absence he read Currie's mail.
line on Asia almost down to the last period.
Ball two, the commission cried.
McCarthy's third ball was also ruled in Latti
more's favor by the referees. It carried the state
ment that the architect of the United States Far
Eastern policy admitted having roamed Asia with
This week the committee is continuing its in
vestigation of the professor's slipping memory.
They were not proving Lattimore a Communist;
but they were exposing what looked like a pow
erful Communist web of propaganda and persua
sion around him, around the Institute of Pacific
Relations, and around U.S. policymaking. S.G.
It's A Good Beginning
Six weeks should be sufficient time for stu- take this step toward Improving the quality of
dents to become well enough acquainted with in- courses and instructors.
structors to form an opinion of them and decide When a University Senate committee studied
their strengths and weaknesses. Six weeks should and passed its approval on the Purdue rating scale,
be enough time and it has been proved, at least Dr. Ephriam Hixson, one member of the commit
no one instructor, to merit utilization of the teacher tee, suggested that making the evaluation official
rating scale. might cause students to be aware of its importance
Dwight D. Miller, associate professor of zool- and that it would be beneficial for the University
ogy, gave the Purdue rating scale for instructors and the students. Dr. Hixson also added that "only
to approximately 180 University students enrolled those instructors who are afraid to be criticized
in biology II. The rating scales were filled out by WOn't ask to use the evaluation system."
students during their laboratory periods, when
Dr. Miller was not present.
The rating program, as applied to University
faculty mmebers, is to be completely voluntary
on the part of the individual instructor, and re
sults of each rating by students will be made
available only to the instructor evaluated. Dr.
Miller had the rating scales given to his biology
students because he felt "something useful ought
to come from it." He feels in such large classes,
as his biology lectures, little opportunity exists
for tne students to know the instructor and for
the instructor to meet his students.
Dr. Miller emphasized that, in a large class,
itudents have little opportunity to discuss problems
with their instructor or to let the instructor know
how they feel about his course.
Dr. Miller also pointed out that most of the
180 students rating his course and his instructor
abilities, had taken biology I the preceding semes
ter, were not in danger of affecting grade by their
opinions and were well-enough acquainted with the rating scales are filled out. The instructor does
At the same time, Frank E. Henzlik, dean of
Teachers college, said, ". . , any system that works
should focus attentian not on quality of instructors
but on courses. Students are not in a position
authoritatively to rate instructors. Such a teacher
evaluation system would develop fear among teach
ers and undermine the school system itself."
When, and if, instructors telephone the office
of Henry M. Cox, director of the bureau of in
structor research, Temporary A, Room I, request
ing the rating blanks, they are realizing that stu
dent views on their course and their teaching
methods might be of value to themselves and to
their course. It is rather far-fetched to think
that students will leap upon the rating scales as
a means of venting pent-up wrath upon the fac
ulty. The results of the ratings, known only to
the instructor rated, might be of eventual aid
and value to the students themselves.
The streets have been so icy, world
lately that you can't tell if
coeds are limping around
campus from a fall or from
girls PE.
This brings to mind the subject
of girl's PE as opposed to ROTC.
I overheard a discussion the other
day in which a girl told two young
men, and I quote, "I bet that any
girl could do better in two years
of ROTC than any boy could do
in two years of girl's PE."
I suppose I'm prejudiced, but
I have never seen any ROTC
man limping around campus be
cause of a fall in ROTC. They
may be limping because of
corns, but rarely because of
broken bones.
Let's take a hypothetical situ
ation, for example. If a girl tak
ing modern dance, tour jets when
she should arabesque, (it happens
every day) chances for injury are
almost doubled. However, men in
ROTC can march around a field
for two years and never suffer
from anything worse than two
flat feet (note: this might prove
helpful if coupled with some sort
of heart condition, bad eyesight,
etc. for cases of staying perma
nently out of the draft.)
I have never met a man who
received a broken nose in ROTC,
but one of my friends got a
broken nose from duckpins. She
didn't duck when the pins came,
I suppose. For the record, the
duckpin, Any way, she ended up
ducpin. Any way, she ended up
with a broken nose.
But, broken noses, aching
muscles or what-have-you,
Marshall Kushner provided the
perfect ending for today's column
oy nobly saying, "I'd take girl's PE
anyday."
You Need Another Language
w n the society of these peoples? If we attempt
By EUGENE N. ANDERSON ng up the ocy
Professor of History he latter W countries. We shall have to
The United States is the leading power among peoples m r negotiate with them in
the free nations and the main opponent of the be able to c" haU have to overcome
iUSSR and its satellites. lnel.r "... 110 hv chowine that most ele-
You students are here to prepare yourselves lor the.r m7 for any foreign people
playing a part in this country and in this world, mental token of us government
in at least one important respect you are not a knowledge of the ? J
doing so. You are not learning how to read and and V'chen and technicians able
speak one or more foreign languages. eers, soc.al sc.en ists, teachers an
The ability to use a foreign language is essen- to speak a fore.gn language The succe s of the
tial and may even be vital for you and for the free Point Four program depends to a .large extent upon
whether tne wawcu
Those of you who become business men or
farmers may still find yourselves directly involved
in international affairs. The government or the
United Nations may wish to borrow your services
for a few months. Your corporation or a farmers
association may propose to send you abroad. Your
ability to serve the cause of peace and interna
tional cooperation may depend upon whether you
know a foreign language.
We can expect thousands of foreign students,
workers, technicians, government employees,
farmers, in fact persons from every occupation,
to come to this country for study. In order to
make their visits most fruitful for all of us, we
should manifest an Intelligent interest In life
abroad. As world leaders we must be acquainted
with the peoples whom we are leading. In a de
mocracy this responsibility rests with each of
us, and the basis for fulfilling it rests upon the
knowledge of a foreign language. Without that
knowledge one cannot claim to be interested in
a culture, for one does not esteem it sufficiently
to acquire the most fundamental tool for becom
ing acquainted with it the language.
Every student in the University, irrespective
of his or her college, should be studying intensively
a foreign language. The opportunities for service to
a free humanity are both vast and specific. The
nuns!
Letterip
Women's Athletics
To the editor:
Every sensible person has to
come to a realization, that, in the
machine age, intelligence and per
sonality have assumed a role in
successful living far more impor
tant than physical powers. Along
with this realization has come the
knowledges that the brain is de
pendent for Its welfare upon the
health and efficiency of the or
ganic system of the body, and that
these in turn may be developed
in power or vigor only through
muscular activity. It has also be
come apparent that development
of a well-adjusted personality in
volves the cultivation of the physi
cal and emotional elements of life
through muscular activity.
Physical growth needs can be
met only through vigorous ac
tivity. A person grows as he
exercises his body and mind;
as he gains new ideas and de
velops new skills; and as he ap
plies his knowledge and skill
effectively. Successful living
also involves social and emo
tional adjustment, including
outlets creative of self-expression.
Most or all of the men and many of the
women will serve in the armed forces. Military
intelligence as a separate branch of the services
must have personnel trained
to use foreign languages as a
basic tool for obtaining and
analysing Information about
conditions in every country
in the world. If you as a
chemist or an engineer or a
doctor do not -know the lan
guage of the country about
which you are expected to be
informed, you are unable to
perform efficiently. Even If
you do not join military intelligence you will
need to know foreign languages. You may be sent
to a foreign country, where irrespective of your
branch of the services, you will have to deal with
foreign peoples. You will need to know thier
languages. How many Americans in Korea could
have escaped the fate of captivity or death if
they had been able to converse with the natives?
You may argue that you cannot learn all lan
guages and that the armed services rarely use
persons in the areas in which they are prepared.
This fatalistic argument is unbecoming a people
of individual responsibility and free government.
Anderson
Government service in the civilian branches responsibility for adequate preparation to seize
urgently needs persons able to use foreign lan- these opportunities devolves upon each individual,
guages. The amount of need has changed radically The students eager to live in a free, united world,
since the outbreak of World War II. This country should be requesting courses in foreign languages
possesses about half the industrial productive ca- in such numbers that they burst the bounds of
pacity of the world and has wealth and a standard the present language departments. When they do so
of living which most of the people of the globe the greatest problem of our age, that of maintain-
regard as fabulous. Shall we remain isolationist ing and spreading freedom and the good life, will
and wait for the under-developed peoples to go be well along the way toward solution. A Nebraska
communist and then destroy us? Or shall we take farmer boy studying Bantu that is the spirit of
the initiative and supply the leadership for build- the United Nations.
Korn Kernels
'Ag Rag' To Give Rundown
An All Campus Activities
Dale Reynolds
Iff
The Ag .Union has done it scholarships are due this week,. Friday night the Ag Country
again. They start out with the I and also because anything con- Dancers will hold another all-
Saturday Night Cabaret, the free cerning money seems to be timely University square dance in the
movie on Sunday, the weekly Bet
ter Living series, assistance on
"Pot Luck With the Profs," all
kinds of games and entertainment
for Ag students, and now they
come out with the weekly Union
"Ag Rag."
The "Ag Rag" is published
weekly by members of the Ag
Union publicity committee, and
its purpose is to create interest
in Ag college activities by in
forming students about coming
events.
Students publishing the "Ag
Kag" feel that there has been a
definite lack of interest in Union
activities during the last semes
ter, and that more interest and
wholehearted support may be
given to Ag events if students
are informed as to what will be
happening in the A? Union and
around Ag campus. They also feel
No instruction is eiven to the students before' A ,c?,,ee or V"'Y5rsi ha, ,that more active student partici
No instruction is g ven to tne stuoents oeiore twofold reSp0nSibiMy. The first ation will benefit th fhe in
his teaching methods to use the rating scale objec
tively and fairly.
The Dally Nebraskan is aware that other in
structors, in addition to Dr. Miller, have used the
teacher rating scale. The Department of Speech
has used a rating sheet for several years. How
ever, The Nebraskan would like to take this op
portunity to commend Dr. Miller for using the
rating scale, for realizing lis benefits, for apply
ing it in all fairness to his students, and for
being one of the first University instructors to
Margin Notes-
not watch individual students fill out the rating
blanks and no name or identification of any sort
is written on the blanks. The results of the ratings
are compiled by Cox's office and are then returned
to the instructor. The instructor is, without excep
tion, the only person who reads, studies and evalu
ates the results of the ratings.
If the ratings produce favorable results for
any instructor, well and good. If the ratings In
dicate students are not entirely in accord with
an Instructor's methods and his course, there is
room for improvement. If an instructor finds that
his students have a low estimate of his course
and his procedures, there is room for change.
However, since the results of the rating are
known only to the instructor, any changes in a
course, method of instruction would remain en
tirely to the discretion of the individual instructor,
The Nebraskan salutes Tish Barry and her
staff for the recent issue of the Nebraska Blue
Print. The new editor, first woman to hold the There is no stipulation that an instructor must act
position, and other staff members have published on the results of the ratings,
an issue which is a credit to the College of En- jl.
gineenng.
is to provide a fu l nrogrnm oidividual and the orgamzation
pnysicai activity xo neip i-acn mu
dent achieve and maintain a high
level of personal and social com
petence. The second is for edu-
It will not only give the "run
down" on Ag Union events, but
will also publicize all Ag college
activities. The "Ag Rag" may be '
to students.
Speakers for the discussion
on scholarships and student
loans are C. C. Wiggans and
A. W. Epp. Wiggans is on the
scholarship awards committee,
and Epp is an instructor in Ag
economics, so they are well
qualified to lead the discussion.
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College Activities building. Ag
YM-YW are also helping to spon
sor this square dance, and special
entertainment will be given re
freshments served during the in
termission. "Son of Monte Cristo" is the
name of the movie to be shown
ai iilC UaVMlMUJ .'If,"' WUUU.VW.
Also featured is television, danc
ing and other games and enter
tainment provided by the Ag
Union.
Don't forget "Pot Luck With
the Profs" next Sunday night.
Sign up by Friday In the Ag
Union office.
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in various professions who will be
capable of advancing the me,h
standards of their individual pro
fession. The speaker feels that such a
program is vital to college women
who will soon be actively serving
society. Such a program should be
developed and maintained through
a coordinated campus-wide pro
gram which will include physical
education experiences, not limited
to the campus itself. It should be
a college to college competitive
Builders office.
The "Ag Rag" may prove to
be worthwhile if it accomplishes
its aim of creating interest in
Ag activities. And right- now,
with Farmers Fair plans well
underway, is when the so-called
"Interest" in Ag activities is
needed most.
The Batter Living series is tl-'i
The teaching rating plan should ultimately
produce better instructors, more profitable
courses and vastly improved student-faculty re
lationships. The success or failure of the program
lies partially with instructors who realize they
have nothing to fear from the ratings and par
tially with students who realize advantages to
be gained through a fair and objective rating
of their Instructors.
Dr. Miller and his students seem to typify the
kind of attitude and action that might be the be
ginning of the success of teacher-rating. R.R.
Italy seems to have replaced France for ro
mance and intrigue in movies these days. First
was Ingrld Bergman's marriage to Italian di
rector, Roberto Rosselini. Now, Hedy Lamarr
wants to have "Esther" filmed In color In Rome.
To top things off, Shelley Winters says she wants
her boy friend from Italy, Vlttorio Gassman, to
play opposite her in "Liliom."
Italy apparently is acing France and the
United States out of the picture.
To the Student, Council today will go, presum
ably, two petitions one representing Pharmacy
college's request for Council membership and the
other the N-club's request for the same. It will be
Interesting to see how far through the maze of
administrative red tape these student pleas will go.
The 300 Germans who are still hoping for the
"people's car" Hitler promised them some 14
years ago are having a tough time convincing
manufacturers that their 112 million dollars in
down payments still is good.
Soon we expect these 300 Germans to sue
big hearted United States because we defeated
the Nazi Labor Front which made the promise.
Sen. McMahon (D., Conn.) has asked that Gen.
Dwight D. Elsenhower be called home to testify
on the new $7.9 billion foreign aid program. Re-
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