1 Poge 2 THE DAILY NEBRASKAN Thursday, April 30, 1953 hs Bekiesn Us... Br DON PIEPER : Editor You. What are you? You, the person reading this editorial, what art you? Are you the neurotic product of a thaken world? What do you want out of life? Do you think? Yei, I'm talking about you a 20th century university it'-dsnl Just what are you? There have been a lot of words written to de- mlght not know all the answers? Did you chal lenge anything? The tendency seems to be for blind acceptance Are you learning by absorption or do you sort through different views and come to logical con clusions? The Importance of thinking can never be min imized but especially not now when a cruel and shrewd enemy stands ready to pounce on Amerl ca's every weakness. You must, know why you do not want to live under Qommunist domination. You must not be content to believe that free en ternrise is best merely because others say so. Do crlbe you and your contribution or lack of con- you have an inquiring mtnd? There are those tributlon to the world. Many men have at- who say that youag an aggregate are afraid to tempted to evaluate you in the light of preceding lhjnk and that you wcicome indoctrination, generations. For the most part, these evaluations are not favorable. In too many instances, these critics are right. Your crltics-both members of your genera- There are exceptions ljut there is no need to dis- tion and your elders-have described you as un- cuss them. , The student who needs discussing Is imaginative blobs who are unwilling to face y"1' yu are conlent t0 rid wlth 1he tide' reality, These critics have said that yau are In- There are plenty of you who don't belong here terested only In security and are afraid to think. Louis Bromfield, an author with whom this In a word, you belong to the "lost generation." writer very seldom agrees, discussed you recently WORLD REPORT I1ITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Bibler TODAY'S HEADLINES. ... At Panmunjom today, Armistice ne gotiators are to meet at 11 a.m. . . . The negotiators appear ready to compromise on Bmall issues but are still far apart on the basic problem blocking a cease-fire in Korea. . . The White House announced Wednesday that President Elsen hower will present his administra tion's defense program, complete with military and foreign aid By PAUL MEANS Staff Writer costs, at his news conference to day at 2 p.m. (CST). Thirty OIs and five Marines came home to American soil Wed nesday from long captivity in Red prison camps in North Korea. , . SHADES OF JESSE JAMES. . . Two "tough talking" bandits held up the Citizens State Hank at De catur, Neb., in broad daylight Wednesday and escaped with around $14,000 after locking three women employees in tne vauu. Brkker Amendment Might Limit Atomic Control Pacts can well rniTOK'H NOTKl A nropoard amendment (iiihmlllcd hy ' J'J. iA limit Ih. trratv-maklnc power, of the rreaidrni. Aiinou.n nr.,.., ...... hi. heann action ou the prnpoxl. "till, mimtlpn nt aniennna i" '' ....... . . -- - . u. i th. i hri.iian Nrifwir ninniinr. tilt Inn." ftporflinv in nmi Vw V 'i ..-. .n.i .wcum on a hit-. Tk. MK-aiaL&n FAD fill I and ioiirlh'edHorlnla will be pul.ll.hrd In the near future.) President Eisenhower yesterday gave the best definition we have . l lh mt healed and cnnlrnv.rlnl liif of Ihe eomtni month..", "nf 'dl ortn lw l" .rrlr. f four. were ...hll.hed reei-nlly In .he Va.h- I ?i The Nebra.kan reprlnl. W-m Irnm Ih. nnirr....lonnl Kac..rd. Th. third . Consider the Inflammatory words of an edi torial writer for the Athenean, a student maga zine at the University of Wisconsin: in an article for Esquire. And, In his analysis of the American system of higher education (which he thought was "merely messy"), Bromfield says "Tndav'a students are a sterila assemblaeo of that "there are too many young people in our prisoners of orthodoxy. A group with little curl- institutions of higher education who are not there osity, content to munch chocolates and watch a to acquire knowledge but to get a Job somewhere, television set while the rest of the world staggers r to make a club- or to cscaPe from thoir fathcrs blindly to destruction, a group hungry for a rut business, most commonly, simply to please their to cower In; a collection of youngsters already parents. middle aged, lulled by life into a state of vegeta- why are you hcre? tive smugness." k Don't back off from that question. Why are Is that you? you here? If you are even partially awake in- No question could be more basic now, especially tellectually, you know that the world faces a for the seniors. Are you, the future citizens, crisis. And it takes only a little more reasoning merely frightened refugees of confusion? Do you to conclude that solid, free-thinking leaders are ignore the difficult, preferring to bask in the false needed. Are you here to prepare yourself to lead? security of blind belief? Bromfield said that you wanted a college edif- Don't laugh. There are a lot of people In- cation so that you could "get a Job somewhere. telligent, deep-thinking people who believe that In 1949, Fortune magazine wrote, after taking a you are not even beginning to meet the chal- nation-wide poll of the class of '49, that "security was its goal." Fortune went on to say that your generation "wants to work for somebody else preferably somebody big." Is this bad? Is there anything wrong with security? Of course not as long as your search for security doesn't blind you to the importance of chance. You must not forget that progress comes only with adventure. If you do nothing but look for security you will become stagnant. editorial charges that students are content to ac- Then a1 ife will become stagnant. Do you recog- cept without challenge the facts and opinions of nize the pitfalls of a selfish search for security? their Instructors "We (have) refused to partici- re this bjjd off? PrQbably not pate in the business of thinking, but preferred to haye been disiUusioned by watch ttie intricate process go on in the heads of rtomance ,n these critica, times. And, others' probably, they have been justified. But every Oscar Handlin in the January, 1951, Atlantic generation js disappointing yours seems to be Monthly says that "your generation has welcomed especially disappointing because your problems the shackles of orthodoxy all those eager faces are especially great. looKing up ai ine piauorm, waning to re ioia lenge you must face. Are these critics right? . Unfortunately, there is a great deal of truth in their indictments. In many cases, these critics have completely overemphasized the situation. But the modern student you cannot ignore their charges. For instance, do you think? The Wisconsin what 'to believe. There is a delight in dogma; know the authorities, accept the classics and wash your problems away." This does not excuse you. The Wisconsin condemnation concluded with these words: "We hope that enough introspection will push Is that you? us up the scale of evolution from sheepdom to Things don't seem to be that bad. However, something nearer the dignity of a Free American what did you get out of your lectures this morn- citizen. ing? Did it occur to you that your instructors "Our world is not a safe place for sheep." NEBRASKAN EDITORIALS Constitution At Stake The Student Council meets this afternoon. it is clear that both of them will be seniors next Today's meeting may provide the only oppor- fall, tunity for open debate on the matter of election , filings. No changes can be made in this year's The otner constitutional provision appears at elections, it is true, but by next week the 1953 first glance to cioud the issue. If "regular Uni- election will be a- matter of record and nothing versity rui0S" include class standings, the rules is quite so uninteresting as an election which has must be appiied ln accordance with Art. IV, Sec. passed. 1 a (5). In other words, the University's eligibil- Should the Council leel obligated to recom- ity system mUst be employed to determine the mend election changes to next year s council, xne class stan(jing a student will have next fall urss maner miuiuu .uu ,mw.. The on, practicai manner to determine this of the eligibility requirements for applicants for number fa add number of hours fhe stu(Jent class and Council positions, for grave injustices hgs earned th h the flMt gemester Qf tW nave resuiiea mis yeur num viie aiuumi uiv sion? between junior and senior standing. The first question undoubtedly is, "What does the constitution say concerning eligibility?" It says two things. Art. IV, Sec. 1 a (5) states: "Filings for col (the number now employed in determining eligi bility ) and the number of hours he is now carry ing. Two problems immediately arise: The student may not pass all of his present courses and he may pick up additional hours by attending sum mer school. The first problem is unlikely since honr-A nt the Brloker resolution to limit the treatymaKing powci . x who are arguing for this proposed amendment, he said, are saying tnat me wnuiuuun should be changed so as to keep it the same as it now is. Many agree with the President that this is a bit or an anomaiy, un mi. nrifWpp amendment would add nothing to the safeguards already in the Constitution. It must be remembered, how ever, that the President was talking- about only one segment of the four-point resolution. The other three poInU are all con cerned with crippling the treatymaklng- process thro;" which our foreign relations are controlled. These would effect changes of a most dangerous character. Frtr pvnmole. section 2 of the proposed amendment would for bid the United States to negotiate any treaty permitting an interna tional nreanization to supervise or control any matter essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of the United States. Witnesses at the recent hearings naturally supposed that this would prevent the United States from agreeing to international control over atomic power. Senator Bricker takes a different view, but his intterpretationof section 2 seems to fly into the face of its precise language. Mr. BRICKER told the Senate the other day that this claim that his amendment would stand in the way of an effective atom control program was the. most absurd charge leveled against it. He arrived at a contrary inter pretation by saying that control of the atom is not within the domes tic Jurisdiction of the United States. hat. then, is within the country's domestic jurisdiction? No one knows. In trying- to escape from one horn of his dilemma, Senator BRICKER has made section 2 meaningless. Perhaps there is some gain in that, but it seems inconceivable that Congress will approve a resolution which meant one thing to its author and the opposite to nearly everyone else. This is the second time that Mr. Bricker has come forth with a muddled and mischievous proposal affecting the treaty power. His 1952 resolution was abandoned after its defects had been exposed. Since January he has been pressing his new version on the apparent assumption that it had the support of the President and the Secretary of State. Now it is obvious that no such support will be forthcoming despite Senator BRICKER'S missionary work at the White House. It is a pity that the Senator did not also sit down with some of the experts who have been studying this problem for the ad ministration, for his resolution, as a whole, is the gravest sort of threat to the standing of the United States as a world power. He is in the ridiculous position of a Republican senator trying to undercut the powers of a Repub lican President to deal with a world erisis. Last year his . reckless course seemed to be explained as parti san politics. But what can ex plain it now? The Senator has the alternative of withdrawing his had been in effect In 1945 It would have prevented the United States from joining the United Nations. The Association of the Bar of the City of New York also concluded that sec tion 2 wouloXforhld the United States to play Its part in the , . . a i r international Monetary runu Agreement, The International Telecommunications Union, the World Health Organisation, and similar bodies. Presumably It would also prevent the United States from espousing various rights of its own nationals be fore the International Court of Justice. Even more serious would be the impediments placed in the way of agreements designed to keep the peace and insure our security. The ban against international con trol over anything "within the domestic Jurisdiction of the United States" would seem to forbid the kind of atomic-control program that this country has been seek ing for several years. If atomic disarmament is to be achieved, it. must include ar rangements for international sup ervision of the users to which fis sionable materials are being put. The United States as well as other countries would have to submit to such international controls, and the Bricker, amendment seems to be a direct bar. To be sure, Senator BRICKER denies this by saying that con trol of atomic power is obvi ously of international concern, hut if his amendment Is to be interpreted In that loose fashion It Is merely a piece of foggy verbiage which ought to be dis carded on grounds of vagueness. The one thing certain is that section 2 of the amendment would clamp unmeasurable restraints on President Eisenhower and Secre tary Dulles at a time when our international ties are closer than ever before. No need for such re straints has been shown; the safe guards against unwise treaties are ample. On the other hand the necessity for a flexible, positive and unembarrassed foreign policy stands out from every instance in which American leadership is put to the test. 1 i i ri i I v xs m t i-i immmi i w-wma-. ,i - f I , I It Seems To Me Octogenarian Tauge Jo Win Class Election Dorothy, 81 -years-old. has ap plied for junior class president, Though her hair is scraggly and white and her shoulders sag, she is eligible. Dorothy is no ordinary student. Because of her age, people as sume she is a mature personality. She is respected on the campus because she is older than most. When she blinked her baggy eyes and announced her In tentions to run for class office no one batted theirs. And everybody wanted her to win. That is, until they found out her platform from The Daily Ne braskan. Dorothy is campaigning for a junior-senior class council of fifty members, a lavish junior senior prom, class dues, class pic nics, class beer busts and many other friendly and heartwarming get-togethers. Old Dotty will probably be elected junior class president in -ti a iriiiuauuc occaubc ui uci ma turity and popularity on campus, how could she miss? Maybe she'll even be a Mortar Board. But though Dorothy is 81 years old, she s got a lot to learn, bhe must leam the deep-down facts of so-called "class spirit on the campus. She'll learn that it's there all right. But Nebraska's class spirit is a passive thing, which disappears when it's riled up. Glenn Rosenquist sophomores more than: "Will I get into advanced ROTC?'' At least the Air Force has Ini tiated a new policy. Their quota system has been drastically changed. Sophomores wishing to be eccepted for advanced are sweating it out. More emphasis has been placed on flight training. Cadets inter ested in flight training and phy sically fit for this training have a much better chance of making advanced. Rigorous physical examinations are in progress to determine those physically fit to fly the airplanes in tomorrow's air force. The other exams are getting tougher too, as any sophomore can testify. . ' While the Air Force Is chang ing its quotas, Max I. Dog is enjoying the benefits of college association, Max, I understand, attends Professor Curtis Elliott's class regularly. Does Max pay tui- Nothing seems to be worrying Engineers Week Aimed At High School Students lege representation are open to students who will the chances are that any applicant who meets the be eligible to serve during their sophomore or grade average requirement will not flunk courses junior years." (The by-laws say: "Filing pro- this semester particularly since he obviously feels cedures shall be the same for class officers and he had enough time to engage in an activity next representatives to the Student Council . . ." fall. Art. V, Sec. 1 b states: "Regular University The addition of summer school hours is a possi- rules shall govern in determining a candidate's bility, but it is just as great a possibility under eligibility." the system now employed. No one has raised fa an objection. ' The first provision says nothing about the . "T standing students must have at the time they file. . If the constitution were to be followed strictly, The by-law provision implies that the same is the Council this afternoon would have little choice true of class officer applicants. Applicants for in devising an eligibility system. senior class officers shall be eligible to serve dur ing their senior year and those for junior positions quently finds it easy to avoid the constitution on to serve during their junior year, is the obvious the matter of elections, perhaps this afternoon's Intention. debate should concern itself with the advisability If this is true, it is unconstitutional to base 0f a constitution, eligibility for filing on- the applicant's standing jbe constiution is specific. Will the Council As you read this article, the engineers are feverishly perform ing miracles they never thought were possible on displays that were supposedly fool-proof. Yes, the nail chewing is finally over with, and open Hoice is here; most engineers will be involved in one way or another to present an other successful and educa tional display of what they con sider to be valid applications of engineering principles. , I need not describe the disDlavs here because they have been pub lished elsewhere in the paper. But the students in the College of Engineering and Architecture are ready and willing to explain as much as they know about their displays from 2 until 10 this eve- think about from one or several displays. Then, perhaps, you will realize the very real purpose of E-Week; e.g., to engender in the minds of visiting high school stu dents an interest in the field of engineering, or at least an inter- ;tle doesn't move any machinery. esi in me possionuy or securing While Max I. Dog is paying his tuition, let's pay some attention to the ticket-sellers. Ticket sellers sell tickets and right now they are selling Kosmet Klub tickets, 'Tis said that a Kosmet Klub offi cial at the last Kosmet Klub worker meeting asked the work ers to raise their hands if they hadn't sold more than 300 tickets. It's ridiculous, but those who raised their hands probably won't make the club. NROTC. . . It was the first trip to sea, and one young sailor was draped weakly over the rail. The captain came along the deck, and with onet, look at the sailor, said, "You can't be sick here." The sailor looked the captain up and down, then with all the dig nity at his command, said. "Watch." WORDS OFv WISDOM. . . The steam that blows the whis- a college education of some sort. Yes, E-Week is here to in form the public of the oppor tunities offered at the Univer sity for their children, and to acquaint the children with an atmosphere and a way of life that might otherwise be com pletely foreign to them. This year's Open House promises to be as complete and diversified as the 83 previous events of this sort. Many of the old disrilavs mn.8- that are practically demanded by Any and all students are ureed the DeoDle will reanwar hut tv,o auernauve 01 wnnarawinc n s i. , .l. r t- . .. r . . - fniid, cin.i " l" ollc,,u .l"e. VPen ouse wneniotners win be new and interest- stultification of the adminTstratJiOu!30.1.1,1.! ?h ' Part in keeping with technological tion he helped to bring to power. other function involving as many l ii students. Amendment Would1 nou can be assured th?1 yu Steal Ike's Power Any move to narrow the treaty making power must be closely ex amined these days because of the vast responsibilities that the United States has acquired. The power to make . treaties is the power to. regulate our relations progress being made in all fields or engineering. So plan to attend, even though you may have seen it before. You'll be glad you did! Immoral . . . Dear Editor: Your editorial Letterip of Wednesday, Homonc thof tK But because the Council has shown that it fre-iimTt t ui iuuo v a j a ou as iu with other nations, including our' "Bargain Basement," was well closest allies. j taken. A satirical approach is un- When the Constitution was be- j doubtedly the only sensible one ing drafted in 1787, there were t0 be taken toward such a pre posterous suggestion as that ad vanced by Gen. Clark. avoid possible abuses. The United States was then only an isolated strip along the Atlantic seaboard with fewer than four million people. I would like to noint out. in addition, that the offer of money to Red pilots is highly immoral, since we are bribing them to com mit treason against their country. But the Founding Fathers in- The Russians may have a legiti- this year. In the two cases in which applicants members respect it or is the constitution just a'sisted that the door be kept openlmate reason for protesting Clark's for senior positions were disqualified this spring, piece of. paper? K. R. The Daily Nobraskan FIFTY-FIRST TEAR Member: Associated Collegiate Press Intercollegiate Press Advertising Representative: National Advertising Service, Inc. 42$ Madison Are- New York 17, New York imikf M tittimka M nnte tf w9ii' am tntf optaitom . Accordma M AttMm ii Mm St-Ijiw o.cniiD MadcM pwiliraitmu an admtautcrftf to rt Boanl at PablkatkHn. "II to tea aml poller af On Boar ikat aahHcaftaa. aadtr K tarta $ftm riuuU fea traa troa adttorial tmaonhiw aa Uia aart af tlM frxMrii. a w lb a ri of aw atoM at IH facaltr af tfca n-rrmt, bat IM attwtwn af ifet rtafT af Tk Daflr Na. twaa&xa fwmwlt .wiaoaalMa tot what tta ma ar n ar eiKmi M at artwte." ' fewwertptioa rataa ar ft a atamtat, St.SH amlM n Ii Mi IM rewr, S4 anunM. tiingia anar to, ruMlahea' 4a maw! (Murdftjr. Bandar. Monday, vacation and eiamlnattoa pa-rt'-.r. On rfinc anhllolifid during AwtuM comb jrimr a? fha I'mifttMly of WrhnMka ondr tha aupfirrlslon of I ha t;omimt t on c. .ukiiit f nhllratliHia. fDntarea' aa Mironil elan matter at tha rvt Vf4ia la Mnroln, NrhnU, nnder art at Conrrpaa, March S. m4 at awM raM af pettsit. arnviaXI fnf la Aarttoa tins. At a aaaru at Ostoixr . 1917. aattwrtae4 Seatnaiwr la. lata. KOITOBIAI, STAFF BMiist . . Oaa Pftaai frawa t'JIIoc. ,. E Da Mm Kaa Rnma Manaeina Koltaf Ball Rail Cour Edltora Tom Waoawara', Jaa Karrlma, MarHya Trvoa, Nancy Gardiner Sport, ltd! tor Oiatui Nolana Anl Saortt Editor Howard Vi Ftatara Raitor . . . ,v Illr Caffa? At unar Cfcar Beam RBrORTtfU Marianne Ranaon, Marilyn Hnttoa. Natalia Ran. Cynthia Has. 4,-rmn, Wlllla lwh. Kay Nmky, loil Ahlwhwade, Marilyn Mitchell. Nancy Odum. Phyllli Herehbarirrr. Beth Rowher, Elaine Smlthhrrrrr, Jaa t'armen. Doe Jarkann, Orare Harvey, .nama i-nweiann, norrr nan, Franna Nvohnoa. Henry Hanm. Jim I'arlih. Dirk Kadlrreke. Don Hhafton, Don Hllkemler, and Harlln Brea. ncaiaicsa taf Kailaen Manager ..... AraoM Htera Asi'l Basiarst Maaacen Kd Ran (.imuiioa maaaaer rata Bfcaa. ntaa HtanM Mfht Mewa idltor , Nancy Gardiner to any kind of agreement deemed1 offer as being contrary to the appropriate to the national wel- purposes 01 ine united Nations. fare within the powers .granted by the Constitution. Now that the United States is the most powerful nation in the world, however, Senator BRICKER and his collearues want to take away part of what the Founding Fathers deemed essential. Section 2 of Senator BRICKER'S proposed constitutional amend ment reads as follows FRANK PIERSON NUBB THURSDAY Home Ec Club at 4:30 p.m., Home Ec Building parlors. Robert Ripley's "Believe It or Not" display starts at City Hall. Ag Students Bull Session at 7:30 p.m., Ag College . Activities Building. PhVCIOC Pnllnnxliim nt J.lt n ..j onaai Koom in, iirace Lab. permit any foreign power or any Engineer Open House starts international organization to sup-jfrom 2 to 5:30 p.m. and 7 to 10 ervise, control or adjudicate rights! p m of citizens of the United States Kosmet Klub Spring Show, within the United States enumer- "Anything Goes" at 8 p.m Ne ated in this Constitution or any braska Theater other matter essentially within the I AUF at 7 p.m. in the Student domestic jurisdiction of the! Union. United States." I Sony Directors for the Ivy Day Some students of international Sing at 5 p.m., Room 315, Student law say that if this provision I Union. j A Challenge? ... Dear Editor: . It seems as thouch Eneinpprs Week has affected a couple of loose wires in tnat they are boast ing that Engineers Week can be won by quantjty and not by qual ity, originality or simplicity. Is it a Herculean task to con nect with wires, the motors, gen erators, switches and lightbulbs which are permanently installed in the new Electrical Engineering Building? This building was no doubt designed and constructed by "belabored" Arch E's and "en croaching" CE's. As far as being discouraged it will take more than a series of self-excited EE's to challenge all the "dormant," incompetent engi neers who roam the campus. If the "chamrjions of nil crin. tific knowledge" in the Engineer ing Open House Award they should give thanks to the fields of CE for impounding Water for hydroelectric power, the "stink ing" Che ME's and the ME's for converting natural energy into mechanical energy and then into electrical energy, without which the electric?! engineer cannot ex ist. Their part in Engineers Week would collaise completely without electricity. If the open house can be won before it begins, it would then appear that to hold a competitive open house is useless.' A COUPLE or "ENCROACHING" CE'S i presto Pen A Guarantees no is ink-stained hi $ button hands M l Z-"?,ahu or clothes In T SI I No cap Hi ,1 to lost nil j ...thert tit! I U" III I " 0 can't leak, transfer, , smudge, smear or fade-ink is permanent on paper DftUXf M0DU Tradtd) 70,000 word refills only 49 Always a clean point 0) 0) J) 0? 0 A v ,