The Daily Nebroskan
Monday, February 16, 1959
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Editorial Comment:
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Daily Nebraskan Letterips
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has reflected badly upon
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Jim.
This week, Feb. 15-22 is Brotherhood
Week.
In a specially prepared newspaper kit,
the chairman of the newspaper commit
tee for Brotherhood Week, Seymour Berk
son, publisher of the New York Journal
American, tells newspapermen that:
"Newspapers today face a grave re
sponsibility to do everything possible to
strengthen the position of our democracy
in the eyes of the entire world."
Grave responsibility" is a pretty
threatening term. The only trouble is that
it is exactly appropriate. The proof posi
tive of this can be found is the Daily Ne
braska! Letterip columns today and of
several issues past
There has never been a time when un
derstanding between free peoples was as
necessary as it is now. The United States
is looked to as the country which will set
the example for liberal, democratic poli
cies among the nations of the world.
If we break faith at borne wfch the ideals
we preach abroad, our position of leader
ship will be lost Loss of faith at home can
only foster the cynical belief among new
nations abroad that American democracy
certainly sounds nice, but just doesn't
work out in practice.
Now all of this is not too startling a con
cept. It lias been said many times before
in a variety of ways. But it has never been
more eloquently said than by the delega
tions which have visited the Daily Nebras
kan office in the past week.
The people who composed these delega
tions were citizens of those nations which
the United States is trying desperately to
lead to freedom. They had first hand
knowledge of what the people in those na
tions are doing and thinking.
Daring Brotherhood Week, the, it would
be a good idea for the ritirens of the
United States to stand back and draw a
deep breath. It would be a good time for
all of bs U review what we stand for as a
nation. And if we don't know what we
stand for it would be a good time to find
oat.
Second, Brotherhood Week would be a
good time for all of us to practice what
we, as a nation, are supposed to believe.
Ideas without action to implement them
are sterile.
Third Brotherhood Week would be a
good time to set a pattern that we could
adhere to every week in the year. It would
be a good time to launch a campaign to
clean out bigotry and discrimination from
this nation which has always stood against
these things.
In an article entitled The Four Faces of
Peace, General Carlos P. Romulo, Phil
lipine ambassador to the United States
and United Nations sums up the real
meaning and significance of Brotherhood
Week.
General Romulo said, "It has been said
that peace has four faces: peace by pow
er, peace by trade, peace by diplomacy,
and peace by people. It would seem to me
that peace by people should have been
called peace by Brotherhood because it
is only when peoples of the world under
stand and believe in and carry out broth
erhood that there can be real peace."
Congratulations
Belated congratulations to the new
members of the Faculty Senate Commit
tee on Student Affairs, Duane Lake, Pro
fessor Charles Miller and Professor Hen
ry Baumgarten.
And congratulations to the Faculty Sen
ate for making the choices. The people ap
pointed have demonstrated through their
past efforts that they are interested in. stu
dents and their problems and have worked
hard to increase the benefits of student
life.
Interested and dedicated people of this
kind will go far toward bettering faculty
student relations.
From the Editor:
B
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Joe has Leen at it again. The other
tdght he came Mo the room and asked
if we had a couple of No-Dor. (Don't
panic Se.Hen.tin, they advertise with us.)
Out of curiosity (mostly because I know
Joe). I asked what he wanted them for.
The reply:
More About Joe
1 want to take a couple before I go to
bed so ni wake up early tomorrow mans-
Nobody has more trouble registering for
classes than Joe. For instance, he regis
tered for a political science course this se
mester, then found that be bad taken the
coarse before. This necessitated adding
and (dropping which Joe took care of with
admirable dispatch.
(Dispatch that it is only took bun three
days to find bis advisor and two more to
get to the registrar's office.)
Card exchanged, Joe trotted dutifully to
the new class. But when he got there, be
found that instead of giving bim a card for
that class, the registrar bad just given
him another card for the old class.
Tm happy to report, however, that Joe
mas everything straightened out now and
is wel on bis way to another conf used se
mester. (la case you're wondering bow all these
things can happen to one person, they
cant? Joe does alright by himself, and be
has a lot of incompetent help. If some
thing scatterbrained has happened to you
lately, keep an eye on Joe. Chances are
this typical NU student win pull off your
favorite boo-boo sometime or other.)
To Columnists
My columnists, you wonderful people,
the schedule as out of kilter and we have
n't bees able to run many of you for the
last two weeks. One of these days, Sellen
tin win give me some room to play with
and I will get you all in. In the mean
time, thank you for meeting your dead
lines. Sanctuary Falls
Tim magazine reports that the mid-
ious encroachment of women into all
fields of endeavor, previously set aside
for men only, has even extended to that
most hallowed of ground, the Harvard
Crimson.
A raddiffe freshman (and a redhead to
boot) has been given a job on the editorial
board of the Crimson. She is Alice Patter
son Albright, granddaughter of the Sate
Captain Joe Patterson, founder of the
New York Daiy News.
Alice told Time reporters that she knows
exactly the kind of newspaper she would
like to ruj someday: The New York
Times with guts."
This is a rather intriguing statement.
The New York Times has long been con
sidered one of the nation's best if not the
test newspapers. The hallmark of the
Times has been efficient, top flight report
ing m depth. The Times makes almost a
fetish out of complete and in detail report
ing. Their news seldom pulls its punches.
Also, however, the Times does not sen
sationalize. Murders are seldom Iron!
page news (Starkweather got three graphs
at the bottom of their front page and pro
priety is a keynote.
Now it seems to me that a certain quan
tity of courage it necessary to run a news
paper of this sort In Miss Albright's
terminology, you might call this "guts'".
Which makes one wish that a majority
of the American press bad a little of the
same.
It's embarrassing when your younger
sister gets better grades than you did
when yoa were a freshman. Ifs even more
embarrassing if she takes harder courses
than you did and still gets better grades.
I know because my younger sister did.
Surely, there is some good campus ac
tivity that she can get involved in that will
lake mp so much of her time that she will
stop beating my brains out gradewise.
In the meantime, bold up that next let
ter father, I can explain about that jnown-plete.
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To the Editor:
I feel that my reference
to foreign students in the
Wednesday issue of the
Dailv Nebraskan should be
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Forei Defense
The Feb. 11 article in
the Letterip of The Daily
Nebraskan decrying foreign
students has been a sub
ject of great concern and
dismay to all the foreign
students on this campus. I
feel that this article is mis
representing, biased and an
unjust analysis and evalu
ation of the students and
their attitudes towards the
United States and Ameri
cans. The students on a whole
are not discourteous, im
polite or disrespectful to the
American government or
people. On the contrary,
they esteem and regard
them very highly. Like in
any other group, however,
there are unfortunately one
or Uo misguided persons
who may misbehave or utter
undue statements about the
people and way of life. I
regret that this is so; but
very strongly refute any
statement branding the
group as disrespectful or
misbehaved.
The foreign students in
general are very respectful
towards Americans and ex
tremely cooperative with
them whenever the oppor
tunity presents itself. Po
litical issues in the United
States and other countries
find a very fertile ground
for discussion and criticism
on both sides. I see no rea
son why Americans should
feel degraded or insulted if
their policies are criticized
or decried. A f oreign student
comes to the United States
for an education not to
be an American.
The student therefore has
every right to continue feel
ing and acting like an In
dian, Arab, German or what
ever nationality he repre
sents and to defend and
stand by his country and its
policies whenever he finds
it necessary. All countries
like to think that their poli
cies are the best. Why
should the foreign student
not defend his cwn?
Throughout my school ca
reer here, I have noticed a
very high degree of intoler
ance of other peoples and
their viewpoints. Whenever
a student defends an issue
"All-American," he is im
mediately branded as being
pro-Communist or Commun
ist The majority of American
students are not interested
or adequately informed
about matters of interna
tional importance. Ignorance
and lack of toleration make
it quite easy to classify an
other student's viewpoint as
being Communistic. Neither
can any of our students
truthfully sing Communist
praises because none of
them have ever visited Rus
sia. It should be oorne in
mind that any attitude that
denies or frowns upon criti
cism is not very democrat
ic. Criticism in general is
an aid to efficiency and per
fection m matters of contro
versy. When foreign students are
classified as impolite, dis
respectful and misbehaved,
let it not be forgotten that
the American military is on
every continent and island
notorious for obnoxious iraa
ners and disbehavior. The
repercussions have been
many. Only three months
ago, a very prominent and
successful Lincoln physician
vacationing in Ewrope was
denied the services of a
French restaurant. He was
asked to leave just because
be was an American. From
this viewpoint it w ould seem
like we need to project
much greater toleration of
other people, also.
This article is not written
with the aim of denying to
tally the faults of foreign
students or to blame Amer
ican students for lack of tol- ,
eration. Instead, it is with
a very earnest desire to see
that each party will care
fully analyze the existent
problems and utilize all
agencies to build stronger
foundations for cooperation,
thus breaking down the
walls of misunderstanding.
The American too often pro
jects an attitude of self-sufficiency
in matters mate
rial and non-material. It
follows that there is nothing
done because of expediency.
This becomes most revolt
ing to others concerned.
The Editorial Comment of
Feb. 10 speaks of the for
eign student as "already
having the strikes of color
and language against him.1
It seems to me most un
fortunate that this is the
condition within a univer
sity society .the future
intelligencia of the Ameri
can nation.
It is high time that Amer
icans reconsider and re
evaluate their concepts of
peoples of "other colors and
languages." The American
can retain his dignity and
respect only as others are
equally respected. I do hope
that the recent publicity of
foreign and American stu
dent relations will be instru
mental in helping to stimu
late interest and aid in
spurring the two groups to a
new era of understanding
and cooperation. Peace in the
world is very dependent
upon the strength and soli
darity of the non-Communist
nations.
The sooner we solve our
internal problems the closer
we w ill be to our goals.
Sydney L. Jackson
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Less than four years after graduation...
He runs a team of 69 people
serving 20,000 telepfione customers
H. D. "Doug"" Jones graduated from Texas A-1 M. with
a B.B.A. 6rpe La 1953. Today, Doug supervises six
plant foremen and 63 craftsan for the Southwestern
Be2 Telephone Company at Galveston, Texas. He is re-
s possible for installation an3 maintenance atth slir on
some 31,000 telephones serving 20J customers. It is
a big job and Doug finds it chaHrr-giBg and rewarding.
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to ise their aMities in II1 Ttlqboae Companies. There may be a bright and
fulfilling earT waiting for you, too. Talk to the BeU interviewer when be
vwll your campus. Hell give yoa the whole story. And read the BeU Tele
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