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Friday, Octobe r 2, 195: Page 2 THE NEBRASKAN EDITORIAL PAGE The Thoughtful Generation Let's try our hand rt psychoanalyzing the Younger Generation. Let's give it a name, too. ' And when we're through, let's tell the old sters so they can stop worrying about us for they are worried. The first and biggest symptom of this worry was a survey by Tim Magazine. The resulting label for us was "silent." The name proved so interesting and catching that col leg professors still use it Latest in the series of worriers is the New York Times. Recently four pages of its magazine section were devoted to "Portrait of the Korean Veteran." The article calls the Korean vet "polite, even timid ... a different breed" from the World War II Veterans. He Is confused and frustrated about the "end of the war in which both sides are claiming victory. Yet," the artcle continues, "even these reactions don't seem to reach very deeply . , .; what stands out vividly . . . is an amazing amalgam of first-class fighting competence and an almost eerie disinterest in Job or surroundings or relationships." The article then ties up this "disinterest" with a peculiar "fatalism." "They had a spe cial phrase in Korea, a phrase that spells out the profound fatalism that they seemed to feel, and that they still show now that they've left the; wan That's the way the ball bounce, Obviously a main point of the portrait is this lack of Interest Korean vets had toward the war. Xven the "re-treads" didn't get Where Were They? The number of applications for student membership of the Board of Student Publi cations; was a disgrace to the University. With all the concern students on the cam pus seemed to show about The Nebranskan's decrease from four to three issues a week thy failed to rally to the Nebraskan's defense when the time came. If Students really had the desire to help The Nebrasfcan, they could have done it by showing enough Interest in the organization which decided such matters and applied for membership in the organization. Xa other words the one senior applicant, three junior applicants and two sophomore applicants should be patted on the back for their concern. At the same time the rest of the student body which was so up in arms about the Publication Board's decision to cut The Ne braskan issues should hang its head in shame for not taking advantage of the opportunity to apply. Perhaps they could have gotten in their two cents worth next time the problem comes pv JA The Squeeze Play If you've paid a parking fine this year, It was probably because you couldn't find a parking stall In time to get to your nine o'clock. Undoubtedly you're disgusted with a sys tem that doesn't give its students enough room to park and then fines them for park ing too many cars within that space. Xresi more curious Iswhat happened to the sBcney yea paid a a fine. Last spring the Student Council Parking Committee proposed that money from fines go into av scholarship fund. The idea was a reasonable one, since students, In the end, would receive money collected from students. But, when the parking plan went behind the Walls of the Administration, a number of the Committee's suggestions, including the scholarship fund, were forgotten. Instead, the Administration ruled that fines "shall be utilized fully to implement the parking plan for the 1953-54 academic year, Including the hiring of clerical personnel and additional part-time police." In other words, the cramped parking sys tem is now an expanding bureaucracy, with policemen and clerks being paid indirectly through too-few parking places. In ether words, the Administration is col lecting money from its under-developed parking facilities la order to pay men and Women t nab parking offenders who are easgfct between no parking place and a nine o'clock class. Sounds like an ever expanding bureaucracy particularly if additional policemen are hired. Since issuing tickets is only part of their Job, the bantam parking facilities are financing the policing of the entire campus. That's where your money went. s According to the Administration, this squeezing of dollars from student drivers will top by the end of next week. At that time, we are told, enough new parking facilities will be opened to relieve the parking pres sure. If this is true, student fines should drop 75 per cent. How then will the campus police be ptld?,K.R. steamed up. It was simply a job to be done. They did it no questions asked, no yelling. In a word, they had no gung-ho. This coincides with the point everyone makes about us, the Younger Generation. We dont get excited. We view life with an outward calm which the Older Generation finds distressing. Let's suggest to the worriers, the namers, the analyzers that the explanation is so simple they've missed it. Let's suggest that wo have replaced the blatant, outward in dividuality of their generations with individ uality of mind. Let's remind them of the intensely machine-like character of the world we grew up in and suggest that we accept this and try to go above it not fight it. Let's really shock those concerned about 'What's Wrong With Youth" by simply say ing, "There's nothing wrong. We've just grown up sooner than you realize." Let's say, "The only trouble is that you don't recognize maturity when it occurs in youth." Then let's add for good measure, "We may be 'silent.' It's just because we're thinking instead of talking. If you must have a name for us, why not "The Thoughtful Genera tion'?" S.H. V Vets Organize NU Veterans, previously bound together only by their common service to the nation, at last have the makings of an organization which will place them in a recognized niche in campus life. Delta Alpha Pi, now lacking only formal recognition, has 20 active members at the present and plans to inaugurate a pledge class. Eventual ownership of a fraternity house and possible establishment of a National or ganization are contemplated. This, for a beginning, is certainly ambi tious; but, at any rate, it is typical of the "can-do" spirit exemplified by America's servicemen. Delta Alpha Pi is restricted to ex-members of the Armed Forces who hold an Honorable Discharge or were released from service without prejudice. This however is the only restriction to membership; for written in the Constitution is the clause, "No person, be cause of his race, creed, or color shall be refused pledgeship." Again, this clause is a carry-over from service life. While the military is far from democratic by its nature, those men serving in it highly prize democratic principles. Contrary to some notions, the veteran on the campus is not looking to Uncle Sam for handouts; nor is he a "security conscious" displaced person. The veteran in college is at a disadvan tage, to be sure, in that his contemporaries in college are his juniors by some two to six years and his interests differ from theirs; yet he has a distinct advantage because of this. The veteran uually know what he wants out of a college education. He generally has a more mature approach to his problems. For this reason, The Nebraskan believes that Delta Alpha Pi will likely set some standards which ether Greek organizations may do well to notice. E.D. Margin Notes A New Killer During August a series of "ice box inci dents" resulted in the deaths of several chil dren in the United States The youngsters, playing hide-and-seek no doubt, got shut up in the abandoned boxes and were smothered to death. Several towns in the country immediately passed ordinances forbidding unused ice boxes to remain within the playing areas of children. But this week two four-year-old boys were found dead inside an abandoned ice box in Windsor, Ont. To The Depths Modern man is not satisfied with breaking the sound barrier or flying at record heights. Now he must descend to the bottoms of the ocean. A month or two ago a couple of French naval officers took a diving boat a mile beneath the surface. This week a 69-year-old professor rose to new depths and got his bathyscafe more than twice as far from air. Pelican's Pitiful Plight A white pelican found a new home Thurs day. Unusual visitor for eastern Nebraska, the migrating bird settled down on Oak Lake. Park department officials captured him, however, and took him to Pioneer Park. Not even a pelican can do as he pleases nowadays. A Chance For The 'Bums' The Yanks are leading in the World Series so far. This is getting to be a habit. However, if the Democrats can be ousted after 20 years, surely there is still some hope for "Dem Bums." JJxsl Tkbha&kai v FIFTY-THIRD YEAR Member: Associated Collegiate Preen Intercollegiate Press Advertising representative: National Advertising Service, Inc. zo Madison Ave., New York 17, New York TM nMMa t mMlafc B Mia miiAim m tw f!wtt af Nebnufca as an expression of ihidntt' fmwt mmm avtHkm tmtr. AewarAInt t Article II of th l l-l s (awmifaf tnt smbflmflan nntnlnlstcre' fey kowS of rbllMtttmu, "I I the aWlnrca polity f ta Bmmi that jtibtlea?lon minr It jurisdiction hall b fra from editorial censorship ira the part of the Itanra, ar an the part af any mcmhrr of the faculty of laerMT, but the memhora af tha staff of Tha eBraakaa are pars anally rrspoaslbl for what they ar to ha printed." .a en Ryutfora T Ie Mar ftalty Hall ...Tom WnodwarS Marianne Hansen, ehaHptloa rataa are fl a aemealer, f 1 go ma. lied, or S fa the enHlea-a yrsw, t raaliM. Nlntle ronjr l fi a. rahtth4 a Taetday, Wednesday an FrMar, " aattoa at examination period. One lame fvMUhe Sarin tfca month of Aiirvst earn year hy tha lafeonrity ef Kehraslta and tha aiipervtulon of tha Cwmsiittea aa Stnrtent Publications. KntereS aa aeeond attua manor at tha Part iffie In Lincoln, Nebraska, aev A of feeirree., March , in, and at special rota of paataira prariiteo' for In fteetloa 1 103, Act af CansraM of Oct. S, authorised pt. 10, 113. EDITORIAL. STAFF Foltor ., FdltorlaJ Pare Editor , Manaclnr Editor New Editor , Copy Editors. ......... .Jan Harrison, Cynthia Henderson, Kay Nosky Sport Editor Genrro Paynlrh Ac Editor DwIfM Jundt REPORTERS "Villi Desch, Marilyn MlteheU, Trr Daly. MareM) Mlrkelaea. Harriet Nneg-f, (irae Harvey, Sam Jensen, Marilyn Hntton, Jndy Jnyea, Mary Hue I.nndt, Natalie Kati, Phrllls Hershherter, Mary Clara Flynn, iaartd Swore, Mary Kay Besvrhler. BUSINESS STAFF Rnslness Manacer Stan Hippie Ass't Business Manacer ... Pore Efirksnn, Toran Jacobs, Cheater tfuifer, lllrk Uestrott 4'lrrolattnn Manacer Kan Williamson Mglit News Kdltor , Kay Nosky Richest Country In The World The Student Speaking III wmygm Stern Thoughts Sw . rm vo fr o On The I Search For 'Truth' Aisle i Is 'Martin Luther' You have an opportunity to see a very extraordinary movie this weekend. "Martin Luther" is a movie which you owe it to yourself to see. I doubt seriously that I would have gone, had it not been for this column. I can tell you that I am glad I saw "Martin Luther." Before I went to this movie, I had the impression that it was more than just another religious epic; but I didn't expect it to be a very good movie. It did not seem to me that "Martin Luther" was anti-Catholic. Personally, I felt that the movie was not "jabbing" the Roman Catholic Church. Rather, I carried away the feeling that here was a man who searched until he found a "truth" he could live by. Certainly, all of us cannot find the Identical religious "truth." The fact that we search is important and I think the movie Jolts anyone into re-examining the faith he lives by. By anyone's standards Luther was a great if not a saintly man. At a time when a vast ma jority of the world's civilized population was ruled by the Church-State government of the Holy Roman Empire, Martin Luther rose up in defiance to a situation he could not tolerate. To tell a controversial story such as this is not easy for any movie-maker. Most members of the Catholic Church agree that the Church did not have its own house in too good order at the time of Luther. In all fairness I say that the Catholic Church would have lit tle to criticize in this movie. I hope no Protestant will unjustly criticize the Catholic Church after seeing this movie. I walked out of the theater with the thought that Faith is University Bulletin Board FRIDAY Delian Literary CInb Picnic, 6 p.m.. Union. Annual Fall Roundup, 8:30 p.m., Ag Union. SATURDAY Pan American Club Meeting, 8 p.m., Congregational-Presbyterian Student House. Nebraska-Kansas State Foot ball Game, Manhattan, Kansas. SUNDAY Sigma Alpha Iota Initiation, 8 p.m., Union. Important much more Impor tant than how that faith Is ex hibited; be It in a Cathedral, a Tabernacle, a Synagog tr a Tem ple. To better understand an im portant segment of history, see "Martin Luther." BOB SPEARMAN. By ARNIE STERN Here we are again. Same col umn, same paper, same day, poorer humor and some enlight ening thoughts (?), all for the price of a jitney token. Spent a most enjoyable week end in Champaign due in part to the improved showing of the football team. The University of Illinois is quite an institution. There are some 18,000 students with 60 fraternities and about that many dolly houses. For a school of that size they really have a lot of school spirit. Thousands of Illini students and fraternity pledges held a torch light rally last Friday night and really whooped it up. Potsy Clark sort of dampened things when he told the ralliers that they shouldn't be so excited about lil' ole Nebraska, for Wis consin was coming up soon. Lit tle did he know. Apart from the spirit, Illinois is in some ways the same as Ne braska. Parking is a most criti cal problem. Until this year one had to be of legal age to have a car, and everyone took cabs and moaned. This year anyone can have a car at school and they are still moaning about the parking space shortage. Of course the university has taken advantage of the situation with parking meters on the cam pus, Imagine, they only get 20 hours of parking for their dollar I've been asked to put in a plug for the All University Fund. This group is not to be confused with the All University Party which meets late WednesdJ evenings in smoke-filled rooms 10 Q1SCUSS DOJltlCS. AlIF 1. charity organization which hitl' tribution. Ths money collected distributed to charities chosen k. the student populous. Be char table, give to AUF. (unphJ It was heartening to tt football team in action list g)t urday. The improvement remarkable. If Bill's crew (, tinues to improve, the footbij season could be quite a success I've got a lot of confidence in th, team, and I hope that the ntlr) student body will give them ft! necessary support win, loss f draw. I hope that those studen migrating to Kansas State wil cheer the boys to a victory, member that the lung suppt helps greatly. There weren't many more thu 100 Nebraska rooters at Chm paign, but believe me they heard. If the grandstand euii terbacks will take the cue o( tU Nebraska fans at Illinois, w sure that both school and teirf spirit will really soar. 1 i notice mat tne evtni. course in sign-painting has bee) started again, i aon t know whi the instructor is, but the pupjt must like yellow. Evidently thj present course subject is Gred lettering and animal drawing. imagine that all the studtnj taking the course got 9's in thu Pi, Xi, and snake portrait txid 3 Your Church God Has A Place On Campus ST. THOMAS AQUINAS CHAPEL 1602 First St. Sunday Newman Club Com munion breakfast at Mayfair Grill following 9 a.m. mass. G. W. Rosenlof will speak. Supper at Student Center, 5:30 p.m. LUTHERAN CHAPEL (Missouri Synod) 15th and Q Sts. Sunday M orning worship, 10:45 p.m. Gamma Delta Hobo picnic, meet at chapel at 4 p.m. Wednesday Choir, 7:15 p.m. CHRISTIAN STUDENT FELLOWSHIP S u n d a y Bethany Christian Church. Phil Lahman will speak on "India" at 5 p.m. East Lincoln Christian Church, discussion on "That AU May Know," 5:30 p.m. First Christian, speaker will be Rabbi Fineberg; topic, "Atti tude Toward War," 5:30 p.m. Tabernacle Christian, "T.V.B show and mixer, 5:30 p.m. Tuesday Cotner House, Mat ins: Walter Calhoun is leader, 7:15 a.m. PRESBYTERIAN-CONGREGATIONAL BOUSE Saturday Pan-A m e r i c a n Party from 9 to 12 p.m. Sunday Sunday School, 9:30 .m. Forum, 5:30 p.m. Monday Discussion on "Why Believe?" at 7 a.m. Tuesday Study group, "Why Worship?" at 5 pjn. Sigma Eta Chi, 7:15 p.m. METHODIST STUDENT HOUSE Sunday Wesley Fireside, Why Worship?" at 5 p.m. Tuesday Kappa Phi Cabinet, 7:30 p.m. LUTHERAN STUDENT HOUSE 535 No. 16th Friday Theater party, "Mar tin Luther" film, meet at house at 8:15 p.m. Refreshments fol lowing film. Will also be held at Student House at 1200 No. 37th St Sunday Bible class, 9:15 p.m. Ag Student House will have Bible class at 9:15 p.m. LSA cost supper and meeting, 5 p.m. Ag House will have sup per at 6:30 p.m. Monday Grad Club Cost sup per at 6 p.m., speaker is mission ary E. F. Hannemann D.D. Tuesday Vespers, 7:15 p.m. Wednesday Chri s t i a n 1 1 y Course, 7:15 p.m. Thursday Matins, 7:15 a.m. Choir, 7:15 p.m. Toki the FREE bus to UJfLdJtmbiAisL leave PRESBY house 10:30 each Sunday. Sheridan at South Advertise Now In The NEBRASKAN for best rtsvltt Coll the Business Offic 2-7631 xi 422$ or stop OTtr to (ha hTRASIAT. olUc. 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