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Friday, November 15, 1957
Editorial Comment
I he uaiiv Nebraskan
Our National Challenge
"Tthea Russian graduates from high
cheol, he has had five years of physics,
four years ef chemistry, ine year of astrono
my, Ave years of biology, 10 years of mathe
matics, throagh trigonometry and five years
f a foreign language." President Eisen
hower speaking in Oklahoma City Wednes
day Bight.
Tht president offered some staggering in
formation to the American people on Okla
rioma'a fiftieth anniversary Wednesday eve
ning. Ike told the nation that during the present
National Education Week, we must "scrutin
ize the schools' curricula and standards to see
whether they meet the stern demands of the
era we are entering."
It would seem that if the Russians have set
any sort of a standard we are far below it. We
have neglected the sciences and in order to
keep up with the demands of the times America
must get on the right road toward preventing
disaster in the world today.
No longer is the world depending on hordes
of men for security. Now the criterion of
achievement militarily is the criterion of ad
vancement in science.
And so Eisenhower's words that we must
be willing to sacrifice a balanced budget for
the security of the nation, that we must in
spire more and more young Americans to take
up science as a life-'ime dedicated career, that
we must keep pace with the thrust into the
unknown by encouraging basic research ring
every hail of learning and every
have to become the law of the land.
Government expenditures in the fields of sci
ence and in grants to colleges will have to be
increased, as the president indicated.
Requirements for graduation from college,
perhaps, should be changed to direct students
more toward scientific thinking. In Arts
Colleges, for example, perhaps the requirement
should be changed from 10 hours in one sci
ence to eight hours in each of two sciences.
Eisenhower said that according to his scien
tific advisers the program ;n Soviet schools "is
for the American people the .nost crucial prob
lem of all."
Indeed it is.
Indeed it will be up to the Universities and
colleges to drag America up by the bootstraps
from its complacency and put us down within
a revamped college curriculum to enable us to
catch up with the Reds and catch up fast.
There can be no delay t 0 this all-important
task.
As citizens we can and must demand from
the government much better education.
And we must be willing to pay for what we
are given.
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The Galley Slave
dick shugrue
"Newspapers ought to dig deeper sel Robert Kennedy of the Senate
Into labor racketeering in this Rackets Committee used to tell the
country s a public service re
sponsibility." Those are the word chief conn-
NO SUBSTITUTES.'
ur urive
The Ail University Fund Drive will be over
Tuesday.
A student can give to the AUF and not be
bothered by other campaigns and drives for
funds. AUF is set up in such a way that only
'hat organization is allowed to solicit money
for charities on the campus.
The students decide which charities will be
benefitted by the funds collected. It is an open
election at which the decision for the Lucky
Five is made.
This year the AUF is supporting the Multiple
Sclerosis Drive, the Mental Health Fund, the
American Heart Association, the World Univers
ity Service and LARC School.
These are all charities which desperately
need money to continue their work with the
afflicted and the research which will ultimate
ly elminate such diseases Irom our world.
All in all. there is not a man of good heart
who can deny the Uiinversity's drive to support
these needed charities.
true in every hail
home in America.
Universities can begin the move toward ex
panded scientific learning by revamping the
qualifications for admission, by changing the
present, college curricula for basic courses from
mere memory exercises and reworking of anci
ent experiments to investigation regulated and
e.icouraged into the vast worlds of the un
known. On the college level tricks of the advertis
ing trade are going to have to be used to en
courage people to stay in the fields of science.
New teaching methods with interesting speak
ers a.id stimulating laboratory sessions will
The Religious Week
By SYLVIA STEINER
Religious Editor
MethortM Student Hmi
1417 R St.
Saturday, Nov. 16
8 A.M. Work party
Sunday, Nov. 17
5 P.M. Supper, worship and panei discussion,
"Christian Ethics vs. Campus Practices.''
Tuesday, Nov. 19
6:30 P.M. CCRC Friendship Dinner
Wednesday, Nov. 20
7 A.M. Cabinet
7 P.M. Bible Study
8 P.M. Choir
Friday, November 22
7:30 P.M. Wesley Weds
Congregational-Presbyterian Fellowship
Sunday, Nov. 17
:30 and 11 A.M. Worship
5:30 P.M. Supper and forum, ''Presbyterian
ism's Unique Contribution to Protestantism."
Rev. Frederick Roblee. speaker
7 A.M. Breakfast and Bible Study: Genesis
3 P.M. Study of Contempory Theology
6. P.M. Graduate Club
Wednesday, Nov. 20
7 A.M. Cabinet
7 P.M. Vespers
7:30 P.M. Choir
Thursday, Nov. 21
7:15 P.M. Sigma Eta Chi
Baptist-Christian Student Fellowship
1237 R St.
7.30 P.M. Visit old people's home. Meet at
Cotner
Sunday, Nov. J 7
5 P.M. Supper, worship, and forum "Should
a Christian Buy Life Insurance?" Hariey
Sowell speaker
Wednesday, Nov. 20
7 A.M. Cabinet
7 P.M. Vespers
University Lutheran Chapel
(Missouri Synod i
15th Ic Q
10.45 A. M. Worship
4:15 P.M. Gam ma Delta Pledge Orientation
5:30 P.M. Gamma Delta forum "All from
God All for God" Pastor Charles Born,
speaker
Bible Study
Tuesday, Nov. !
7 P.M. Christian Doctrine Class
Wednesday, Nov. 20
7 P.M. Choir Practice
Thursday, Nov. 21
3:30-5:30 Coffee Hours
Friday, Nor. 22
7 P.M. Married Students' Potiuck
Newman Club
1602 Q
Friday, Nov. 15
8 P.M. Harvest Ball. East Hills Sunday, Nov.
17
Masses 8, 9, 10, 11 A.M. & 12 P.M.
Wednesday, Nov. 20
8 P.M. Choir
Weekday masses fi.45 and 7:15 A.M.
Saturday masses 7:15 and 8 A.M.
Coniession 7:30 P.M. and beiore all masses
Religion Classes
7 P.M. Tuesday. Wednesday, and Thursday
11 A.M. Tuesday a id Thursday
7 P.M. Tuesday Ag Activities Bldg )
Legion of Mary
4:15 P M. Tuesday and Friday
8 P.M Tuesday Ag Activities Bldg.)
InterVarsity Christian Fellowship
Student Union
Tuesday. Nov. 19
7-8 P.M. Bible Study at 317 No. 18th
Thursday, Nov. 21
7:30 P.M. Fellowship
Lutheran Student House
535 No. 1(1
Friday, Nov. 15
fi P.M. Mr. and Mrs. Club Pot Luck supper
Dr. Edgar Palmer will speak on "The Quakers
and their Faith''
7.30 P.M. L.S.A. Roller skating party
Saturday. Nov. 16
After-game coffee
Sunday, Nov. 17
9:45 A.M. Bible classes at. 1200 No. 37
535 No. J ft
10:30 A.M. Coffee and rolls
11 : Of) A.M. Morning worship
5:30 P.M. L.S.A. cost supper
6 15 P.M. L.S.A. Program "What Do Luther
ans Believe about the Sacraments?" Tues
day, Nov, 19
7:30 P.M. Membership class
Wednesday, Nov. 20
7 P.M. Vespers
7:30 P.M. Choir
Thursday. Nov. 21
6 45 P.M. Church Council
I'ninvcrsity Episcopal Chapel
346 No. 13th
Sunday, Nov. 17
9 A.M. Hoiy Communion
1 1 A.M. Morning prayer and sermon
6 P.M. Canterbury Club
7:45 P.M. Evening prayer
Wednesday, Nov. 20
7 P.M. Choir
Thursday, Nov. 21
10 A.M. Holy Communion
B'Nai B'rith Hillel Foundation
Tlfereth Israel Synagogue
32nd k Sheridan
Friday, Nov. 15
8 P.M. Friday evening services
Saturday, November 16
8 A.M. Sabbath services
South Street Temple
Win & South Streets
Friday. Nov. 15
8 P.M. Evening services
Evangelical United Brethren
Room 313, Student Union
Sunday, Nov. 17
5 P.M. Les.son and discussion
Unitarian
12th t H Streets
Sunday. Nov. 17
11 A.M. Worship
6 P.M. College Student Group at Stude.it
Union.
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Leiterip
To the Editor;
The demand for teachers may be
increasing but it doesn't look like
the salaries- are.
If I am to teach in Nebraska I
would want even more money
than I could get in California be
cause the poor facilities which I
have seen in the little red school
houses make the job of educating
doubly tough.
This is the big problem which
folks in our state are going to have
to face. I don't know whether
they're willing to do it. I've seen
lhat there's some consolidation
getting into the act around the
state, but who knows how much
will be done?
Well, in the long run Nebraskans
will just have to learn that you
only get what you pav for.
J. SILVERHEELS
Weeping Reader
To the Editor:
After reading the Wedneday pa
per I wept. I wept at the sight of
the completion of the prostitution
of a mind. I wept at the complet
ion of a cycie of conformity. I
wept at the fall of a man.
For I saw a man tailed Jim
struggling to find himself. I saw
a man halting, perhaps, clumsy,
perhaps, immature perhaps, but
breathing out a h"eath pure in
that it was sincere. I then saw
this nian shattered arid broken ly
ing on the ground in pieces. I saw
that life was gone ard that what
creativity there might have been
squelched by useless and unneces
.sary criticism which sought to ridi
cule and not reconstruct.
1 saw the jackles ripping hnn
apart bit by bit until there re
mained nothing of this man's optir.
1 unity. And 1 wept.
Let there rage against these
jackles which rip and tear, a war
to exterminate them. Exterminate
not the men beneath them but their
lack of respect for those less than
they. For it is this lack of con
sideration, it is this desire to de
stroy without leaving something
constructive in its place that are
the jackles I speak of.
Object to this. Voire your indig
nation at this slaughter that these
jackles carry on under your nose.
Or perhaps you don't care.
Rex W. Menney
Drag ieer
To the Editor.
With regards to the ar: u
what have you, on our ram ms en
titled "NU Police Dept. .V.?me"
Tuesday I have a comment Had a
susestion.
That fact that our police force
is ageing is undoubtedly the rea
son why we have "raceways" on
12th and 14th Streets of the cam
pus, where the speed limit for mo
tor vehicles is a non-qualifying
time of 15 mph.
I do therefore surest, with com
passion for the campus force, that
if we cannot slow-down the move
ment of traffic on campus, and es
pecially on 12th and 14th Streets.
possible we could speed-up the
campus pedestrians. To accom
plish this, such signs with the fol
lowing inscription might be erected
near cross walks, "Cross with
Care, Rapidly."
By the way, "drag race " on
12th and 14th are from 7:3!i a.m.
with the finals occuring daily be
tween 5 and fi p.m., save week
ends. Observation is free.
L. Otto Olhon
Oiordale Comment
To the Editor:
I understand that one of Ne
braska's greatest wits is thinking
about leaving the University next
semester and going to Europe.
Let's hone that Iowa's transplant
ed inconoclast settles down in Ne
braska's transplanted corn and
stays on to fill our little minds
with more smooth-flowing prose.
Steve Schultz for president! (and
keeper of the fourth floor collec
tor's itemt.
A CHORDATE
The Gadfly
Sara Jones
Five frothy publicity chairman
attacked me on try way to cla..
thus morning, demanding to know
why the weekly free publicity tor
their group had not appeared in
the Rag, citing five wrathful pres
idents wio would bring down the
curse of Calvin's God upon my
head. Though 1 managed to beat
off my assailants with the nail
studded club I usually carry for
the purpose, I am getting tired of
being able to appear in public
only when accompanied by four
snarling mastiffs.
Consequently. I will devote this
column to an explanation to the
YWCA Peanuts Party chairman,
the president of Cosmopolitan Club.
Doug Thorpe of the Engineering
College and to all other people
who consider the Rag a daily bul
letin board for the activity sys
tem, of the perils of the journey
embarked upon by any Rag story.
Fir-U a story must reach the
Rag office, or more specifically,
the story must reach toe in the
Rag office. 1 assign it to a re
porter, if one ."hould hnpien ac
cidentally to w:inclr down and
when he (inislu s v. ri' .'j it, he
brings Hie story Ui'v'n !r ine.
Having weathered this important
storm, the new-; s r g:e to the
copy dpok to h m e a headline as
signed P'--i to lie copyreatl. Then
t1'" ' :i '' The story, the size
of the headline and the first line
o! tfte head are noted on a piece
rr r,.,.,,.. . Vieh has a tendency to
u: iosl. Some disgruntled copy
( tor picks up the copy and trots
! .v.'ii to the Journal with it.
The managing editor lays out
the page. By consulting tlie chert
of paper on which are written
head sizes and stories, he gjts
an idea of ttie length and relative
importance of the day's news, if
any. Sine the Nebraskan has got
ten out of the bush leagues into
the daily class, and since we oper
ate, by choice, without the benefit
of is wire service and are there
fore limited to nuivv.'s news, at
five o'clock we are often trying to
figure out whether the nomina
tion date for the Hello Girl or the
practice time of the debate team
is the most important story. Any
way, if perchance the managing
editor (Ron Warholski. a nice guy,
hi't lie yells too loud) forgets, or
if there's a lot of news, or if he
can't tell frc m the headline what
the story is about, he won't lay
it in and the brave little sii.p
gives up the battle that's an al
lusion, literary or something.
The most terrible, the most aw
ful, the most grueling job faced
by a copy editor is called night
news we lose four or more editors
a year from it. From 9 p m. to
2 a.m. before each publication one
copy editor works, juggling the
stories around to fit, reading prool
and correcting errors in headlines.
If the story doesn't fit or if it is
overlooked, it doesn't get in tne
paper.
When the paper comes out, presi
dents examine for publicity, AHA.
Tfce Rag did not carry the story
about the meeting of the All-University
Chess Club. Obviously, dis
crimination. The president calls
the publicity chairman, who sees
her chances of "working up" going
out the window. The chairman
rushes over to the office and
screams at me. In my usual soft
soothing gentle voic? 1 point out
to Ron that he really might have
tried to lay in that story, Ron
will then turn to the night nes
man, ''you idiot why didn't you
get that, story in." The copy ed
itors reply that if the news editor
could get her reporters on the jop
so the copy editors could play
editor instead of reporter, they
could find out what was and wasn't
important and the news editor
yells . . A Yes indeedy, the ac
tivities system is great training
for the hard cruel world outside.
Of course, this may come as a
surprise to members of the Stu
dent Council and the Administra
tion who think we spend all our
time in between coffee breaks sit
ting around thinking up misquota
tions. With all this talk about Nebras
ka school spirit, the debate team
would like to know what happened
to their team support. In 1910 when
the forensic fighters won one de
bate, they were met at the sta
tion by ,()IK) frantic students and
pulled to the steps of University
Hall in a torchlight parade. Come
on. Kappa Sigs, let's get another
drive on.
Inland Daily Press Association oi
the responsibility of the press in
handling the pressing problems of
modern economics.
Counselor Kennedy didn't say
whether the newspaper should ex
pose the corruption they find. w
can lay odds that he would.
He told the group. "We art
grateful for the support that we
have received, approbation which,
I believe, is largely due to the
chairman Senator McClellan and
his judicious conduct of the hear,
ings.
"But if this publicity and these
efforts are to have any real mean
ing and lasting effect it will be 3
necessary for the committee and
the press to dig deeper
If the press will share the com
mittee's responsibility we may
latef be able to consider the in
vestigation a real step forward in
American society to make this
country stronger, and for ourselves
and our children, even a better
place in which to live."
And so with these words, we
await anxiously the investigation
by the committee into activities
around Nebraska. This investigat
ing will begin the 25th of thu
month.
And so the student newspaper
will be searching for activities
which affect the students at this
school.
For example, some evidence in
dicates that there may be irregu
larities in the business relations
of certain organizations and the
local mask- union.
Some tes imony is at our dis
posal that the implied pressure by
the union local has harmed the
chances of certain non-union bands
to play in particular dance halls.
At the present time this newspa
per has not found evidence that
union officers are involved in the
situation. It will be interesting,
however, to wsit and see what
the committee finds out about
such irregularities . . . particular
ly since Nebraska is. in theory,
under a right-to-work law.
Fie on the teachers who say
that newsmen have no culture.
Here are the results of a sur
vey made recently by some people
who were interested in this sit.ua
tion. Most popular book among re
porters at the capital in Washing
ton: ,"The Catcher in the Rye" by
J. D. Salinger.
Average number of books read
by reporters during a month: six.
"Thomas Wolfe's Letters" was
another popular book as was Nevil
Shute's "On the Beach."
Well, it just goes to show that
the life of a newsman, though calm
and intellectual, is charged as
goofy, chaotic, hectic, sordid and
Bohemian.
Take this survey into considera
tion when reading the Daily Ne
braskan and remember that even
if a reporter can't write, he can
-ead
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