THE DAILY NEBRASKAN Thursday, May 15, 1952 EDITORIAL PAGE Not Goodbye . . . But Thanks This editorial is not a farewell. It is about a and cookies. Also, the School of Music sponsors man who ha sprvpd his University end plans to an annual Christmas Darty in the halls of the continue serving it A University ruling has forced this man to retire from his position as Director of the School of Fine Arts. But Arthur E. Westbrook is not going to leave. He will stay on the faculty as a full-time Instructor of music. If ever a University instructor was close to his students, Dr. Westbrook is. He carries on a tre mendous correspondence with alumni of the School of Fine Arts and other colleges. Perhaps the strongest alumni organization of the Univer- music building with plenty of pop corn and apples He is considered one of the finest administra tors in his field in the country by his. fellow administrators,. He serves on a seven-man com mittee which tours schools around the nation to check on standards. He is a member of the Executive committee of the National Association of Schools of Music. According to David Foltz, who will replace Dr. Westbrook as chairman of the department of music, the whole staff is continually stimulated by sity is made up of his old pupils. Every year he Dr. Westbrook's tireless energy. He has influenced sends a letter to each School of Music graduate a general feeling of solidarity between students giving a roundup of the year's activities. Truly, and faculty. his efforts in this respect are amazing. But these efforts are not confined to almuni. Dr. Westbrook has shown an interest in his stu dents which has caused many of them to think of him almost as a second father. He is the director For this type of influence he has received an honorary Doctor of Human Letters degree along with two other honorary degrees. Dr. Westbrook knows his business and that is vital for an administrator, but he will not be re- of the University Singers and every Christmas membered by graduates so much for this technical when that chorus gives its concert of carols, Dr. knowledge as he will for his deep and sincere in Westbrook and his wife serve homemade cocoa terest in the individual student. D. P. Three Months Without School Strains of George Gershwin's "Summertime and the livin' is easy" sound fine, and the words are intriguing. To spend a summer of playtime with easy living might be on the vacation agenda of many University students. From sailing on Cape Cod to camping in the Rockies will be some students taking a rest from hard months with the books. However, even to these easy living students, a few little facts strained through from nights of jobs not in any way connected with their field of black coffee and no sleep might apply. Think of study might come the reminder of a school year, the sun-tanned student out sailing on bright blue Think of the coed working at a summer resort and waters. At first glance, nothing else could seem watching a sunset over the Grand Canyon after a farther from school life. But perhaps the sight day of waiting tables. The dust in the air might of a fish might make the student-sailor remember remind this student of the scientific explanation what he learned in a class about what to do in of the evening beauty. ...Oris It? knowledge. Or take the agriculture student. After hours of agronomy, animal husbandry, dairy and poul try student, our aggie might find himself perched atop a tractor from sunrise until dark. Perhaps he has learned how to turn the tractor from row to row a bit more economically. Even to those students with summer jobs but What Am I Doing Here? Letterip case he and a shark were in the same waters. The student with sleeping bag and camp rations hiking through the mountains. This, too, seems completely divorced from studies. But perhaps Into his college -trained mind might spring the geological definition of a certain rock formation or the explanation of layers of earth. Even to those students not following Gersh win's song-pattern of easy living those with sum mer jobs undoubtedly will come a few reminis cent strains of college days. Some students will Or to the young lady in Teachers college, a summer of playground direction might lead her to remember what to do when Johnny raises his hand. Even the physical education major might have learned how to catch bigger and better fish through a course in bait and fly casting. Or a construction job might remind the male student of his weight-lifting course. To top off the summer vacation reminiscent of school days one's course in French might en able one to ask the way to the Follies Bergere. be living at home. To the women, a home ec To those traveling students, of course. course how to carve the roast or how to make lemonade might interrupt the vacation atmos phere. Many students will be living away from home. To these, hours spent pouring over some bizad assignment might remind them of how to keep a budget Many summer jobs for the University family Gershwin might have had the right idea "Summertime and the living is easy" it sounds mighty nice. The college students' summer might be easy with a vacation or it might be hard like going on bivouac in the hot Georgia sun. But even for three months one-fourth of one might be in connection with one's nine months of year those nights of cramming for exams, sitting college training. Take for instance, the engineer, through hours of lectures getting writers cramp After wandering around campus carrying a slide from taking notes and those endless days in the rule during the winter, the engineering student library gathering material for term papers will might find himself working for the county sur- still be with us. Vacation or not we're college veyor's department applying some of that book students for the duration. R. R. 'Little Bad Boys1 "Now about these Russians, I don't believe the Soviet leaders are bad men. They are like little boys who enjoy throwing brickbats at other people's greenhouses." , . Have Shed Their Disguise to him because since he had been the legal repre sentative of the Soviet Union, there was fear that he might be pro-Communist. The opposition was led by Sen. James Couzens (Mich.); the defense This opinion concerning Russia was asserted by by Sen. Millard E. Tydings (Md.) the then under secretary of state, Dean Gooderham Acheson, Jan. 3, 1946. At that time, this was exactly what the Russians wanted the U.S. to be lieve. Acheson continued, "Must every Russian move every rock through a greenhouse be the result of conspiracy? After all, what's the difference be tween Russia and America?" There b a rreat deal of difference between the two countries. The difference between Russia and America is the difference between slavery freedom. The past record of these "little boys" included such pranks as uncounted millions of human beings enslaved and mur dered; whole nations robbed of their identities; everywhere, the cruel, systematic destruction of human dignity. Yet here in the U.S., the man who fjpoke for the government believed that, "the Soviet leaders are not bad men; they are like little boys who en joy throwing brickbats at other people's green houses." It is not surprising that the policy of the U.S. was to force free men in Poland and free men in China to coalesce with the Communist "little boys" whose first intent was the destruction of freedom. Acheson, however "liberal" and well mean ing be might consider himself to be, was a man with aa enormous capacity for disservice to the human race, His record of disservice to the cause of freedom begins at least 19 years ago when he became one of Stalin's paid American lawyers. Before such agencies as the United States Tariff commissions, It was he who appeared as counsel for the Soviet delegations, trying even then to win favors for Stalin. On May 16, 1933, the U.S. Senate was consid- Senator Couzens then withdrew his opposition with this statement: "I have been encouraged to withdraw my objection to Mr. Acheson on the alleged statement that he is a Socialist." There is no denial on record by either Sena tor Tydings or Acheson that he was a Socialist. Why, among all the American lawyers, did the Soviet leaders hire these two:Acheson and Lee Pressman? Pressman was a Communist and a member of the Ware cell organized for espion age in the government. Their reasons for hiring Acheson might have been to promote their cause. He believed that the cause of Soviet Russia was a gcod and hopeful cause; and for most of his life he has been trying to prove that his clients, the Soviet leaders If only they can be made to feel secure In the affections of free men will be good little boys. Five years have passed since Acheson labeled the Communists, "little boys." Since that time, he has been raised to secretary of state and the world is faced with Communism from all sides. Since then the men In Korea are fighting the results of the "little boys throwing brickbats." The little men have shed their disguised appear ance and are showing the nation their huge sice and power. It's nothing for them to fool the or dinary American but it's a red feather in the Commie cap to have foiled the secretary of state. Old Joe is probably still laughing about it. S. G. JltsL (batty TkLhadJicuv FIFTY-FIRST TEAR Member Associated Collegia intercollegiate Press Tha DUr NabntakM pnhllabra) Vr. UM f lantl at Ik t'nhreralty of NvlmM.k M exv-MMloa of tiMimU' m m4 omlm Ion mar. Aerwrdtaf to Anlrl. II ef law mr-lMW rovarnlnt at urtrul uubUnatlom and admliilaWirMI by tka Poaird of I'oMfaw. dm, "It la tha dclrr poller of l Boar, tha Btibtltmtlau. ndr It lurtMHrtkin ahall ba Into froai cdlton! aamarsklB an erlnf Acheson's fitness for the position of Under fM-iiMr of tbc Lnlvmlly, hat tha mrmhm of tha staff of Tha Secretary of the Treasury. There was opposition SXZaZ,mUf ponb - SabMiiptSoa rta ar (I.M aaaonauo, SZ.M ana, taut af . for tba fHfa rar, tt.1l mllM. Blur la eon Sa. fobltakaS telly urlnc tba artonot yaw oanaol oaJUTteya auttl Hunter, vacation au4 ruunlnoUoa owrtvtf. but awbllabnf Oaring th month of Auiurt by th UnrrrrMty of Mxnraaka a(W the aiiprrvtaloa of tbc enmmltto urn ModMit PaMlfmMons. Kntorca M Km ClM Manor M tM root Offlna la Ltarala, Ncoraak. uiaar Am of (lonyrma, March . I ova, twi t apMuU raui of poalara profited for to ftooUoD 1103, Act of Cvatnm af Oatobar a. mil, oolhartiad Soptornbor IS. IMS. EDITORIAL STAFF MH. .feaa Kim Aaaoeteto realtor , tuaib Pnrrrraf Hnnwlni lull lor. loa rtonar. Mm Gortaa aa rmtor telly A tenia. Kaa Rratroaa, Jmm Slrtfiw, Mad " ........ ,. Kporta Editor Hamluill hn.hu. Waoa Noam Utah Kauuta Margin Notes An educator of Lincoln remarked is a recent panel Aiscussloa that acceptance in a group Is most Important to teenagers. Perhaps this theory might explain the University's group of rioters, fhe strong competition to receive recognition in activity organizations, the strength or weaknesses f organised house living or maybe even the strong picnic spirit these days assuming that people in these groups are teenagers! Daily Thought Every action of our lives touches on some chord tb&t will vibrate in eternity. E. H. Bob Rechenbcfcfi I understand that a certain brewing company is paying Dick "They're Not Thinner, Just Printed on Thinner Paper" Billing a largish sum for advertising. Note the color of the Cornhusker cover. The convocation is over. It seems to have accomplished its purpose to some extent. The only purpose it had, as I see it, was to attempt to appease the wrath of the people of our state and to show them that we are opposed to riots in any form. I think that the University owes a vote to the newspapers and radios of the state for the extremely fair way they handled the convocation when it could have been handled other wise very easily. It is fairly ob vious that nothing was done to prevent riots in the future, reso lutions to the contrary notwith standing. No mention of this fact appeared in any of the papers, fortunately. From our standpoint, as stu dents, the convocation seems to have accomplished no pur pose whatsoever. Admittedly we are cleared of all guilt in the eyes of the public, we hope. But in our own house the situ ation is unchanged. In my own humble opinion, there will al ways be incidents of this sort in the spring on every campus in the country. Some will be more serious than others. The ones that occurred here are in the serious category and, as such, have received a tremend ous amount of publicity a lot of which was distorted. This is not to say that those involved conclusively proven to be in volved should not be punished, but it strains my imagination to believe that because around 100 students voted to go on re cord as being against riots and another 50 or so voted to try to stop a riot if one should appear imminent such incidents as those in question will cease to occur. We cannot, of course, excuse such occurrences by saying that they're bound to happen. But on the other hand it seems possible that the "riots" and irrational letters to editors demanding that the boys involved be inducted and shipped to Korea and the college students not be deferred from the draft are part and parcel of the same... mass hysteria that lurks not far beneath the surface of al most all of us. It is scarcely more excusable to demand that the rioters (those suspected of riot ing would be more accurate) be shipped to Korea post haste than to run through sororities grabbing lingerie. True, no property dam age was done by the letter-writers but their actions showed the same traces of hysteria that the actions of the rioters did. As for other non-rioters try ing to stop rioters I don't know. I can't help but think of the many times I have seen soldiers try to stop a fight be tween sailors and marines. The non-fighters soon become fight ers, usually fighting against both the original combatants. Imagine a mpb of rioters marching on the girl's dorm. Across the street another mob forms to prvent the other mob from rioting. This is the stuff from which gang fights are made. It almost defies the im agination to think of a lone pacifist, or even a few of them, standing in the path of a mob and saying, "Stop, you don't know what you're doing!" Why add manslaughter to the other crimes? It seems just a bit unfair to me to say that the onlookers were Just as guilty as the men in the mob. I sat in my car across from the Pi Phi house for. a few min utes and watched the boys at their play. The thought occurred to me that something should be done to stop it... but only briefly. I have seen mobs before. And 1 have seen men with much more control over the members of the mob than anyone at the Univer sity has over any student try to stop them. To make a long story short, they failed. At the time I saw the mob they were so far along in their sport that it would have been ridiculous, not to say foolhardy, to have ventured near and asked them to go on about their business. On top of that, from the way some of the "par ticipants' have been implicated, it is probably a good thing that I didn't cross the street. From the third floor on the Pi Phi house or any other one for that matter, it might have been a little hard to tell who was rioting and who was trying to stop the riot. From some of the reports, the girls have been rather indiscriminate in their identification. Since this iden tification, is accepted, apparently as prima facie evidence of guilt it does seem possible that the girls might make sure that those they identify were actually in the mob and not just watching. There's a big difference! All In all the whole incident Is regrettable. . .from the riots up to, and including, the convo cation. To me an official apol ogy on the part of the Univer sity by the Chancellor, such as he made on Your University Speaks May 4, and a promise to do everything in his power to punish the wrong-doers Don't Feel Bad (Editor's 'Notts Letters printed In the lllcrlp column represent only the author' view and In no way reflect the opinion of The Daily Nehrasltan. This column Is offered as a service to readers In order to offer a chance for them to express their opinion. Iictlers must be sinned, hut names will be withheld upon request. Please be brief.) To vou students who actively entered into the "May day riots" on the girls' dorm, and especially to the 75 who have been chosen to carry the brunt of the penal measures, do not let your. respec tive consciences feel guilty lor tne dastardly prank that you created by running rampant through the girls' dormitories and sororities. On May 15, your University did something that should cause you to feel far more ashamed of it than it does of you. I mean, expressly, the all-Uni versity convocation, which the various organizations coupled with the Chancellor, wished to occur to show the people of Nebraska and the people of the United btates that this sort of thing would not happen again, and the one that did happen was merely a night mare. This convocation was merely a public display to the people of Nebraska. The real issues of the problem at hand could have been discussed to everyone's satisfac tion. - In a country where majority rules, the Student Council asked for permission to present to the public a certain policy. A few tentative hands were raised on behalf of the motion; a few were raised opposing the policy Our Student Qouncil president, who is indeed amazing at fig ures, found that the policy was passed! Yes, your University has put 75 men on every type of probation known to the minds of the faculty and to show their ever-loving at titude for freedom, democracy and policy that you are innocent until proven guilty they dedicated a whole hour to air the views of some 6,000 University students. After they passed their little, meaningless resolution, the meet ing was closed, and the reason that most students went to the convocation to find what is to happen to the men discovered and what will happen to those in fu ture time was brushed aside with the statement of "they will be punished." Realizing, in proverbial custom. that all I say will be held against me (and certainly that is the at titude of the University; in fact, anything anyone says will be held against me) I will admit that I have a very close friend that was indicted by our vigilant faculty for being a participant of the riots, He was arraigned; told that he was guilty; was given no chance to meet face to face the person who "Dut the finger on (And let us use these gangsterisms as that is practically the case). But before I go too far. let me also admit that if this person was a rioter, I, too, was a rioter. Hear ing shouts of glee, we left our study rooms to investigate. Have you ever followed a fire truck? If so, did anyone indict you as an arsonist or for dis turbing the peace for merely watching? We watched the vari ous attacks upon the girls' dorm from the SAME SIDE OF THE STREET AS THE GIRLS' DORM! Yes, I am guilty. I dared watch the authority of the omnipotent University flaunted I must be rioter, mustn't I? Yes, "comrade," we rioted on May day, the traditional "4th of July" of the communists, and because of this we are being treated as if we lived in Russia, secret police, trumped up charges and trials, public dis-. plays of disapproval and purges from the party. It is a well-known fact that witnesses to the same accident give various and sordid details and descriptions to the same accident. Four hundred men are assembled below you; which were the ones that "stormed the Bastille;" which were the ones you merely saw? How does the University know that the informers were accurate and had photographic eyes and memories? Seventy-five students are be ing indicted and proven guilty in the same breath. You could be next whether you were there or not. Find an iron clad alibi or no don't. You wouldn't be given a chance to prove that you were innocent. him.", spoiled kids who have so much nf ovprvthintr waste. However, I say this. The action that took place is a sub-conscious revolt against the dogmatic pres sures and restrictions that so typi fy the University in particular and the state of Nebraska as a whole. This is the very heart of conser vatism in these United States and dont think for a moment you will be given a chance to forget it. There is no truly spontaneous, wholesome spirit at the Univer sity and there shall be none until a liberal, healthy atmos phere prevails. So I say to you of the "old guard," who casti gate us so easily, look about you at the progressive schools and benefit by their actions. Plan combined functoins where the youth of this University can let off their steam. Create unity of organizations rather than in dividual discord. Cast away your pilgrim "holier-than-thou's" and face reality. Lead, don't push. Run don't walk. This my friend is 1952, not 1928. MARK DITTMAN Up To Us NU BULLETIN BOARD To The Editor: I participated in the recent riot. I cannot explain why I did because I don't know. Anyway it is no longer important for me to find out why I did it. The thing now is for each of us to look back at what we did and pray to heaven that we are stronger next time. Certainly most of us would nrt have par ticipated had we had our right senses about us. I would, therefore, like to pro pose that we get our senses about One more point, maybe you , f property this is a criminal shouldn't worry. Remember the ; ;ffense PUnder most law. If we are poor Phi Psi that was ; taken care prosecuted, we should of of last year? Nothing happened to be gratef'ul. But we shouid the students connected with this; n that gratitude by initiating ngiT1?1 haPPeny"'' among ourselves a fund which we And to the University: Thanks win ssubmit to tne administration. for the wonderful insight to a ThS m will corne only from "S,3" fr the fenced rioters and would be S iedate to our well- offered as payment for the losses, being, thanks for getting these, 5' u ... 41l. figure submitted by the Chan cellor Tuesday is too high. I am willing to pay for damage that Tmi CWilAran was done but I don't think that " imy niiaren j ,d b asked to purchase new furniture to replace some thing that was worn out anyway. rt f hnfvgh tTKreally fund started among ourselves to get worried about. Now, I have a' for our damaee real issue, so before I'm rusticated, pay 10r """S WITHHELD "hrteSTss of '-Potential Draftees Should treasonous suspects arraigned; tnanKs lor nothing! LARRY DUXXTXG To tne Editor: I've waited a long time to write to The Daily Nebraskan even told myself that few of the issues Thursday Sale of University ROTC band's album of records in Union. YW Noon Discussion group, El- n Smith dining room, leader, Neala O'Dell. YW Worship Workshop, 4 p.m. Ellen Smith dining room, Phyllis Knerl, leader. YW Community Tours, Ellen Smith southeast room, 4 p.m., leader, Jane Jackson. j YW Student Faculty coffee hour,! Union faculty lounge, 4:30 p.m. Theta Sigma Phi meeting at 5 p.m., Ellen Smith. YW Office Staff meets at 5 p.m. in Ellen Smith dining room, Bar bara Hershberger, leader. YW Christianity and Social Problems commission, Ellen Smith northeast room, Clarice Millen, leader. N'UCWA dinner, 6 p.m., Parlor C, Union. NROTC parade, 6 p.m., practice field west of the Coliseum. Kosmet Klub Smoker, 7:30 p.m., Parlor X, Union. Alpha Phi Omega, 7:30 p.m., Room 316, Union. Gamma Alpha Chi will not hold a meeting. Pledge project and in itiation will be tabled until fall. morale of troops in the army there is one and only one place to look for the cause and that is at the head of the unit. It isn't the little, uneducated peon who caused the trouble, but rather the top brass who failed his men! Likewise, I believe that the students of Nebraska are treated like tiny children, sit ting in awe while a commandment-bearing tabloid is unveiled before them. Don't do this Don't do that! Our University is an institution to develop indi viduals, not intellectual midgets. No I do not condone the mob action (neither assault, stealing, nor murder) nor do I look with pride upon the money the Fill Data FormsColbert Students subject to the draft are urged by J. P. Colbert, direc tor of veterans and selective serv ice affairs, to fill out draft data forms in order that the Univer sity can file coljege student .er-" tificates with their local draft board. 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