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Wednesday, December 7, 1955
THE NEBRASKAN
Nebraskan Editorials:
Needed: Authority
'The Challenge' For Nebraskans:
icoiooks Votei Detd
A week has now gone by since the heat of
controversy over the proposed change in the
Interfraternity Council's new Rush Week rules.
In this week, tempers have had time to cool and
thinking should have had tune to begin to jelL
As The Nebraskan has maintained, what the
ETC needs more than anjthing else is authority
authority exerted by itself, for itself and
through itself. This is the American way, it is
the logical way and it should be the IFC way.
Over the last weekend IFC leaders attended
the national convention. They report that the
problems of the Nebraska Greek world are dif
ferent than those of other campuses. They say
do other university has found a solution to the
"spiking mess" or a way to settle some of the
differences that exist here. Yet, other campuses
do have IFC control.
This IFC control is what Nebraska needs if
the fraternities are to continue to exist, not to
mention grow in numbers, influence or ability
to do good.
All fraternity men here have got to realize,
before it is too late, that the good old days of
the fraternity system will have to change. Many
of these changes will be bard to shoulder, espe
cially for the diehards who always persist.
Though the inevitable might happen and no
body can possibly predict what it will be there
will always be a place cn this campus for a well
organized fraternity system with clear principles
and clearer practices that actually function.
Right sow is an ideal time to recognize what
the future will hold. Right now is an ideal time
to lay the groundwork. Even more important,
right now is the time for fraternity men and
fraternity leaders to re-orient their thinking.
Nebraska's Greeks should take a long look at
themselves and see that basically their system
is good. They should further see that the local
IFC does good work in many areas, for example,
the Christmas party which is just around the
corner or the Rush book that will be published
again this spring.
Though all this is good, there is more to be
desired. What is lacking is force, teeth,
strength, authority or anything else one wishes
to call it. Many IFC men know this. They have
seen the hypocrisy of the present, the useless-
ness of the 'police program during Rush Week
and the futility of trying to get enforcement of
very clear rule violations.
The old notion that one man will be afraid to
punish his buddy has been proven wrong on
many campuses. This practice, although it is
written into local rules, is quietly forgotten when
it is most needed each Rush Week. There is no
adequate reason that has yet been given to this
lack of enforcement of local rules other than
the , attitude, silently expressed, that "we just
don't do things like this at Nebraska."
It is just this attitude that has made Rush
Week the farce that it is, farce, that is, if the
rules are to be seriously considered as rules.
The IFC is here, but it lacks power, it lacks
procedure to enforce its own laws, it lacks a
system, it lacks the desire to police itself, it
lacks a set of penalties and it lacks one good
"test case" it can point to as a precedent.
It takes no imagination to see the importance
of the above items. And right now it takes no
imagination to see the ineffectiveness of the IFC.
None of this is meant to discourage or intimi
date IFC men. Rather, it is meant to serve as
a question and, hopefully, a stimulus. Why don't
we have an IFC capable of exerting itself? This
is the question The Nebraskan asks.
Why don't the letters "I" and "F" and "C"
stand for in addition to Interfraternity Council
'"independence" (of action) and "Fraternal
ism" (demonstrated not only intra-fraternity but
also inter-fraternity) and "Control" (wise and
honest control of their own system.)
These elements, now missing, is what Ne
braska's IFC sorely needs and what it is cap
able of having, if it will only exert its author
ity. D. F.
Toviarcl A Better University
The following editorial dealing with the building program is the third of seven in The Ne
braskan's special series discussing questions voiced in a Nebraskan editorial published Nov. 16.
This series is aimed at helping students, faculty and administration better understand their
mutual problems. It is hoped that these editorials will speak for thinking elements of the campus
and that the various elements of the University may come closer to mutual understanding.
Today's editorial deals with buildings being constructed under the present ten-year building
appropriation and also with buildings which will be constructed if appropriations and loans can
be secured. Succeeding editorials in the series will deal with student self-government, student
bousing. University parking and faculty standards including the loss of good professors.
Dinger Arf
Hsffer
The University is in the midst of its big ten
year building program. This Bigger and Better
improvement program will provide both aes
thetic and utilitarian needs.
Although this type of news is cot exciting nor
sensational it is comforting and pleasant. And
it should be pleasant.
The building program casts far more import
ance to the status of the University and the
students than the heated controversy over the
Kosmet Klub show.
The average student can very easily lose his
perspective of the college scene by attaching all
Ms interest and conversation to something like
two week exams. While at the same time be
passes off the new administration building by
saying simply and quietly, "It's a good deal."
Too often the realization that a new building is
being constructed comes when a student sees a
large excavation bole in the ground where be
used to take a short cut to classes. Then as
be stares at the steam shovel heaping the dirt
in buge mounds at the sides of the excavation,
be asks bis companion, "What's going on here?"
If bis companion is aware of the situation, the
student w21 trot on to bis 9 o'clock informed of
the fact that the University is building a new
Administration Building.
At the present time two other buildings besides
the administrative one are being constructed,
Lyman Halt, where Pharmacy College will be
boused, and an Ag chemistry building.
These structures are the latter part of the big
tea year program. The Military and Naval
Science Building, Ferguson EaH, University High
School and an addition to the chemistry build
ing were all part of this plan.
the philosophy behind this improvement plan
Includes the expected increased enrolment and
the replacement of old facilities. The situation
Sow is inadequate for the present stodetst body.
Another ten year building program is being
discussed. The constructions which are pending
on the appropriation include a music building,
classroom building, Ag library, power plant ex
paci&m, physics building and engineering build
icg Za addition to these buildings which will be
constructed if the state legislature approves an
other ten-year building appropriation there are
several other buildings being considered which
would be financed by self-liquidating revenue
bonds, -
These include the much-discussed Union addi
tion, a sew fire-proof Student Health building,
and several additional units of bousing. Con
StTuC&u tn ume buudiogs depends solely im
wti&er or not the University wilTbe able to
borrow $3 ,750 ,XXI in revenue bonds at a rate it
can efford to pay.
If a.1 these buildings can be financed it would
mean the disappearance of all the unsightly '
temporary buildings now located on the mall.
Junior division offices and the elementary ed
ucation offices presently located in Temporary
T and "L" will be moved to the new admin
istration building and the present Student Health
building would be torn down. The proposed site
for a new Student Health building is directly
west of Bancroft, facing 14th street.
Long range, the hoped for programs would
both concentrate the campus by filling the pres
ent area with more buildings and expand the
perimeter of the campus region.
The University recently has been buying land
east of 15th street and north of Vine for this
expansion plan. B. J. . .
Our 'Challenge'
It is gratifying for The Nebraskan to print
its many entries in "The Challenge" series.
It is gratifying to find fiat important people,
in important positions, with a limited amount of
time, will contribute articles to a small campus
newspaper.
It is gratifying to receive, as we did yesterday,
a four-page, laboriously band-written letter from
an aide of Chiang Kai-Shek, who not only sup
plied a 20-inch article but a personal compli
mentary note to the paper and a complete bi
ography of the author.
It is gratifying for us, as college students, to
know that many world famous personalities
realize the importance and significance of a
university audience. B. B.
We Commend
The Nebraskan commends Chancellor Hardin
and Athletic Director Bill Orwig.
The Nebraskan is also happy to see Pete
Elliott, its number one choice, coming to the
University.
The Chancellor told The Nebraskan Saturday
that the University in no way will sanction "spe
cial deals" for athletic officials or students.
The Athletic Director said Monday that all
coaches undentand that every man must serve
only one master the University.
This is the way a state University should be
run. There should be no place whatever within
this academic sphere for "special pressures."
The Nebraskan has good reason to suspect
that in the past some "special interest" pres
sures have been successful.
But we are glad to find that both Chancellor
Hardin and Aihieik Director Bill Orwig recog
nize this danger.
Let's hope they take special precautions and
exert extra efforts to see that this everpresent
danger is and will never in the future creep
into any sector of the University B. B.
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By CHIANG YUN-TIEN
Advisor to Chiang Kai-Sbek
While talking about the strategy
of antiommunists, we must not
neglect the significance of eco
nomic problems. The economic,
war, is, perhaps, especially im
portant to the so called "cold
war.
First of all, me should know that
the control which the communists
exercise over mankind is twofold:
one is over brain, while the other,
over belly. We only know the Com
munist brainwashing. We should
also know how they control the
human belly.
No matter how strong his will
power, one can not live without
eating something. In order to take
counter measure against it, we
should know bow the Communists
control the belly of the people.
The most effective way to deal
with it is to explore their starva
tion policy.
To effectively combat such a pol
icy, we have to lay stress on eco
nomic prosperity. In other words,
we have to increase production on
the one band and to balance pro
duction and sales on the other. The
economics of Free Asia is a mar
ket economy. Such being the
case, the economics of one coun
try can not fail to be influenced by
that of ber neighboring countries.
Secondly, with the possible excep
tion of Japan, all other countries
in Free Asia have an economy
largely agricultural. Thus, they
have to depend heavily upon the
international market. We have to
bear in mind these two special con
ditions in waging an economic
war with the Communists in the
future.
We should also know that So
viet Russia does not merely con
trol political and military affairs
of its satellite countries. It also
controls their economic affairs.
.
Immediately after his break with
Soviet Russia in IMS, Tito in bis
report to the Congress said: "So
viet Russia has attempted to con
trol Yugoslavia politically and to
'Finish My Article At Once'
The Nebraskan:
Your good letter asking article for the series of your daily paper
reached me on Nov. 27, 1955. And enclosed is a letter also to our
President Chiang Kai-Shek. I have transmitted it to him on the next
day through his Secretary-General Mr. Chang Chun.
On my part, I deeply appreciate your broad mind and sincerity.
So I finish my article at once and send it to you by air mail.
Sincerely yours:
Chiang Yun-tien
make the economy of our country
subordinate to that of Soviet Rus
sia." From this we can easily
the Communist bloc is a single
unit.
We can know further that in case
of a war with the Communist bloc,
it would not only be a military
war, but also a political and eco
nomic war. Unless we mobilize all
availabb forces on our side we
would not be an equal match to it.
Therefore, I suggest the forma
tion of a Joint Economic Warfare
Advisory Organization of all Free
Asian nations. Each country should
have two representatives to par
ticipate in this organization. One
of the representatives should be
a student of economic theory, while
the other should be the responsible
man in industrial and commer
cial circles.
Besides, in each of the member
nations, there should also be a
branch organization which supplies
to the head organization in regu
lar intervals the production pro
jects and economic conditions of
the country. Equipped thus with
all available information of all its
member nations, the joint Econom
ic Warfare Advisory Organization
would be able to map out an over
all plan. In drawing up such a plan,
the following points should be tak
en into consider aton:
1. We all know bow horrible the
Communist starvation policy is.
In countering it, we have first of
all to raise the productive efficien
cy .of the economically backward
areas in Free Asia. The overall
economic plans should also include
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By SAMUEL GOLDWYN
Hollywood Producer
A little over a year ago, I sat in my office in Hollywood looking
at a contract I was just about to sign. It called for the payment of
the highest price ever paid for motion picture rights, a million dollars
and more, if the picture grossed over ten million dollars for "Guys
and Dolls."
An Exciting Moment . . .
Newspapermen and cameramen were there to record the event,
flash bulbs were pooping and the requests for "Just one more, please,"
were coming thick and fast. One of my people said to me, "I guess
you can hardly help being somewhat excited about a miUkm-dollcr
story."
I dont remember what I said to him, but I do remember that
the words "a milhcn-dcllar story" started me off on a chain of thoughts
that took me back a lot of years and got me to thinking of what was
the real million-dollar story cf my life.
I went back in my mind to the image of a skinny youngster who,
before the century began, lived about seven or eight thousand miles
away from Hollywood.
The Traditional Way
Perhaps I ought to begin about h i in the traditional way that
all fairy tales begin, for his real li'e tunv:-d out to be a fairy tale
far beyond the wildest imagination of a.-.y teller of tales. So . . .
Once upon a time, there was s i ear-old boy who lived in a far
Cff country. His folks were poor -iv. often there was barely enough
to eat in the house. His father we-.. work early in the morning and
came borne so late at night, so tha the bn? saw little of him except
on tne Sabbath Day.
It was the boy's grandfather who also lived in the crowded family
quarters whoe stories started the boy on the road to what became,
during the years that followed. The Million-Dollar Story.
John Dos Passos
A great American writer named John Don Passos once wrote
about this same boy:
"Many, many years ago there lived in a crowded slum in a bag
f ard, horrible city under the leaden skies of Eastern Europe, a poor
little Jewish boy named SamueL It was a city full of mud and misery.
4 The police wore great, heavy, high leather boots just for the pur
pose of kjckinj poor little boys, and especially poor little Jewish boys,
around. The little boy was very skinny and very weak, but there
b"f)?d in his heart so great an ambition that be decided he'd run
away.
"Far to the West beyond the Rhine and across the ocean there
was a country called America. 'What did I know about it?" be says
today. "It was a dream."
It was a dream, built on the storks my grandfather used to tell
for, of course, I was to at boy. Out of all the dim memories of those
days, there remain three things which I remember most about my
grandfather his long, white beard, the hours be spent playing chess
with bis cronies and the stories be used to spin.
It was during one of my grandfather's stories that I first beard
the words that meant "a million dollars." I had no idea of what a
million dollars meant except that it was more money than I believed
could possibly exist in the whele world. But what I remember most
distinctly is that my grandfather spoke of "a million dollars" as
ometbing vxh which be measured another even greater value.
'Someday Get To America . .
"Mzybe seme day you will get to America," he said, "and you
win find that there are some people there who have a million dollars.
Perhaps some day you yourself will have, not a million dollars that
you could never ewevl but enough to live without worry frcm day
to day. GOOD.
But there you will find something more important than a million
dollars, or two or three, or ten million dollars! You will find freedom,
where ycu will not have to be afraid of what you think, cf what you
say or cf what you believe. This is worth more than all the millions
in the world."
The Contract Signed ...
I thought back to those words, that day a little over a year ago
when I was about to sign that contract. It had been quite a long
path over the years from Warsaw to Hollywood and it was quite a
tiring to be able to write a check for a million dollars. But it was a
far greater thing to realize that, from the moment I had landed in
America as a 13-year-old, I had found my grandfather's words to be
so true.
Here in America I had found sjch freedom and opportunity as
I never could have found airy plse else in the world. Here I had been
permitted to use freely whatever abilities I bad, without regard to
who 1 was, who my parents had been, where I had come from, what
my religion was the only test had been, what could I do.
Here I bad raised my family and seen, my children and my grand
children growing up in a land which the shadow of oppression bad
never reached.
Tlii. and not the dollars I was paying for a musical, was the real
Million Dollar Sury. Not only mine but that of all Americens, for the
freedom and opportunity we know here is, indeed, "worth more than
all the millions in the world."
we following items:
a. AGRICULTURAL PRODUC
TION: in a self-sufficiept and self
supporting economy, competition
is not only unavoidable; but is ne
cessary for industrial inducement
and efficienty. However, each coun
try should produce such agricul
tural products as best fit her own
natural conditions such as climate,
soil and so forth. This is the so
called classified agriculture.
Such a plan takes into considera
tion the conventional agricultural
condition of each individual coun
try. Therefore, it will not have
any adverse effect on the origin
al system of the country.
b. INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION:
With the exception of Japan, all
countries in Free Asia are indus
trially backward. In drawing up
an industrial plan, we have to con
sider the following factors, name
ly, where to get the raw mater
ials, capital, expert workers, tech
nological experience of the indus
trial circles, the natural conditions
of each country and emphasis on
division of labor (which should
take precedence among the prin
ciples of self-efficiency and self-
support.)
The conditions laid down above
do not aim at discarding the or
iginal productive organs. They will
serve as a guide as to where in
vestment should be made in the
future.
e. EXCHANGE OF PRODUCTS:
In this respect, transportation is
highly important. There should be
close coordination among member
nations under the guidance of the
Joint Economic Warfare Advisory
Organization. If the three condi
tions enumerated above can be
closely coordinated, there would
be greater efficiency and much
waste can be eliminated thereby.
2. ; A survey should be made as
to the manpower, material resourc
es and the total consumption of
whole Free Asia. It will be of
great importance both In time of
peace and war. In the time of
peace, member nations can help
one another in case of necessity.
In case of war, such information
is helpful in deciding on how they
can by used to serve the best in
terests of the allies. This is also
one of the important functions of
the Joint Economic Warfare Ad
visory Organization.
3. After distribution should come
consumption. In other words, this
is the problem of how to raise the
standard of living of the people.
If the two above mentioned prob
lems can be satisfactorily solved,
this goal is not hard to attain.
Because, according to plans,
which are mentioned above, the
productivity both in agriculture
and industry must be promoted to
a new level to let the people oof
Free Asia have a more satisfactory
standard of living.
At the same time, the countries
of Free Asia are all on the American-aid
list. If there is an over
all economic warfare plan, it would
convince the United States that
all the aids given have been prof
itable used.
As we all know the Marshall
Plan has done much to help tht
economic recovery of Europe. The
reason for this is that all Euro
pean countries had their own eco
nomic plan. It is hoped that all
countries of Free Asia should draw
up its own economic plan upon the
basis of which the economic aid
is given.
Now that we are all engaged in
anti-communist struggle, I think
we should cooperate to do it right
away.
Chiang Yun-tien
Biography
Chiang Yun-tien: Chiaese profes
sor and statesmaa; bora 1904; ed
ocated, Cheng Chi (political sci
ence) University, Shanghai (B.
A.); University professor 193C-45;
Chief editor of Renaissance Week
ly 1938-40; member of standing
committee, Democratic LeagM
1945-46; Secretary of Political Con
sultative Council 1945-4C; Delegate
to the people's assembly 1546-47.
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THE GIFT llORSE
Today's column is about Christmas gift suggestion, and I
suppose you think IU begin by suggesting Philip Morris. Wei,
the joke's on you. Ill dp no such thing. Why should I? Anyone
with two brains to knock together knows that Philip Morris
makes an absolutely smashing Christmas grift Only a poor
&f Jicted soul with atrophied taste buds needs to be told about th
new Phaip Morris; its bracing flavor; its freshness, lightness,
pleasantness, gentleness; its truth, its beauty, its brotherliness
in this discordant world of ours. So why should I waste time
telling you what you already know?
t
Let us, instead, turn to less obvious gift suggestions. Here's
one I bet you never thought of :
Christinas is the best time of year, but it is also the beginning
of winter. How about a gif t that reminds one that though winter
has come, spring is not far behind? I refer, of course, to Easter
chicks. (Similarly, on i-aster one can give Christmas chicks.)
Next, we take up the problem, common to all undergraduates,
of trying to buy gifts when yon have no money. To this dilemma
1 say-Faugh ! It is not the price of the gift that counts ; it is th
sentiment behind it.
Take, for example, the case of Outerbridge Sigafoos. Outer
bridge, a sophomore, finding himself without funds last Christ
mas, gave his girl a bottle of good clear water and a nice smooth
rock, attaching this touching message to the gift:
II ere' t torn water
And here's a rock,
I love you, daughter,
Around the clock.
And the whole delightful gift cost Outerbridge lass than ft
penny!
I sra compelled to report, however, that Outerbridge'i girl did
not receive these offerings in the spirit in which they wera
tendered. In fact, she flew into a fit of pique, smashed the bottls
on the rock and stabbed Outerbridge with the jagged edge. But
the experience was not without value for Oobsrhridw. Pir- h
discovered that the girl was not his type at all. Second, he learned
how to make a tourniquet.
But I digress. Let's examine now a common complaint of
Christmas shoppers: "What do you get for someone who has
everything?''
To this I reply, "Doe, be?" Does he, for Instance, have a
nnicycle? A sled dog? A serf? A bu moose? A hairball? A bung
starter? (The bung starter, incidentally, was invented by two
enormously talented men, Fred Bang and Oth o Starter. Their
partnership thrived from the very start, and there Is no telling
to what heights they might have risen had they not split up
over a silly argument It seems that Eung was a firm believer in
reincarnation; Starter was just as firm a disbeliever. Bung in
sisted so violently on the truth of reincarnation and Starter
scoffed so positively that they finally decided to go their separate
ways. Singly, alas, the two fared badly. Starter gave up business
altogether, joined the army, and was killed at San Juan Hill in
18S8. He is today buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Bung
drifted from job to job until he died of breakbone fever in
Elizabeth, N. J in 1902. He is today a llama in Uruguay.)
CMu Rwtawa, lt
The maker, of Philip MorrU, pmtmr$ of this column, bmg btM to
odd one more gift ug,iitn - MAX SHULMAWS GUIDED TOUR
OF CAMPUS tlUMOR, collection of the funnlemt ttuff rcrr urrltten
on or about campuimrw on malm ml your boohuortt.