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Poge 2 The Doilv Nebraskan Wednesday, November 12. 1953 Editorial Comment Homecoming Queen After the battle the second-guessers live on. The matter of controversy for today is the election of Nebraska's Homecoming Queen. Before the election this year the Nebraskan objected to the president of Tassels about the way in which it was to be handled. Realizing that the rise and fall of Homecoming Queens did not seri ously affect anything but the rise and fall of Homecoming Queens, the Nebraskan did not make a great outcry against the hush-hush manner in which Tassels had decided the election should be conducted. The ultra secret maneuvers were report edly carried on to prevent "politicking." The Nebraskan objected because the Homecoming Queen under such a plan be came little more than a half-way Cinder alla who converted into a Tassel when the clock tolled midnight or there abouts. Other schools, we pointed out. give ad vance publicity on the election, allow cam paigning by the candidates, and announce the queen far enough in advance to per mit television and other public appear ances. This allows the school's queen to enjoy greater prestige and for folks around the state to gel a glimpse ol the school's popular young lady. If you are going to do something, you might as well do it right was our philosophy. Well, impartial returns from sororities, dorms and fraternities who voted for or against the present method of selection indicate that the majority are opposed to the present system. The reason cited by many unsatisfied groups was that the status quo does not allow this advance publicity all ready mentioned. Houses in favor of the present system echoed the argument that it prevents politicking. Seeing how the student Itody has in effect spoken, the Nebraskan sees no reason tor it to raise cries of revolution. The rise and fall of Homecoming Queens remains the rise and fall of Homecoming Queens. But before long Tasels should be announcing a change in the election policy. This is unless the election is for Tassels and not for the student body. Perhaps even a girl outside of Tassels may someday get the chance to le a candidate. Individual Staff Views By Marilv Well, they are at it again. Merchants have discovered that Christ mas is just around the corner. Displays are not only in offing: they are up. The red suit of Santa Claus and the frosty snowflakes in a down town window in the fore part of November stunned me for a moment. To a mind reeling with mid term exams and over-due English themes, the sight same as quite a jolt. Actually the displays did their duty. My mind stopped pivoting around exams and began ponder ing possible sources of Christmas money. Advertising is a necessary evil. In a relatively free market, wares must be shown. It is a pity that religious symbol ism and the meaning of Christmas are often buried deeply in the garb of adver tising. Yet a thoughtful person has little difficulty distinguishing between the two. The essence of Christianity has never at tempted to wed itself to the world. The separation of Christmas and commercial ism is. perhaps, only a parallel to a deeper separation. Advertising has a basis at least as ancient as Christmas. From Sunday school pictures I have a vivid image of beggars' Marilyn n Coffey outstretched hands sounding their plight as does modern advertising point out needs through All-l Diversity Fund and the like. The market place in Christ's day was composed of sellers displaying and parad ing their wares, sellers who are the ancient parallel of our advertising men. I cannot honestly advocate banning ad vertising. On the contrary. I'm not pat ting advertising on the back and saving. "It is nice. boy. to have you around." What I am trying to point out is the necessity of advertising. In our culture, or any culture that advocates competition between sellers, the practice is inevitable. I nless the businessmen can distribute his goods in some other manner (perhaps by selling them to the government and letting the administration dole them out) advertising is not only inevitable, it ac tually performs a service. The service of advertising is informing the customer of possible purchases. For those who would point out the dan ger of the practice. I would say. the only real danger is the possibility that the customer actually believes the mouthings of the advertising man. This possibility must be the nightmare of salesmen, as well as buyer. Imagine the plight of the Cadillac salesman confronted by a cus tomer demanding girls in fur as pail of his 'accessory" order. From the Editor A Few Wortls of a Kind . . . e, e. hincs e.e. For the lack of an interesting question the test was forgotten. This is what hap pened to a few stern hearted 8 o'clock class attenders, including this poor fellow. In we walked to our class. In walked the in structor and announced. "There won't be a test today. I tried to think up some interesting ques t i o n s last night but couldn't. We'll write a paper instead." My No-Doz alerted mind didn't know how to react. Until 3 o'clock it had tried to stay with my bodv while I slowly thumbed through eight chapters of text. It had taken a nap until 6 a.m. and then resumed its desperate and somewhat fruitless attention to jumbled words that were to be so closely involved in deciding my academic future. This went on until last minute skin scraping with overly used razor, and a hurried walk to class. Machines may be man's wonders but they are also among his frustrations. This is especially true of vending machines. Some men will remain calm while their home burns, their girl deserts them and their best friend beats them out of a pro motion. But there is no man more rare than the one who will smile after he puts a nickle or dime in a machine and gets nothing, not even his money back. The normal reaction to such a situation is to kick the machine very hard, jam the levers and coin return with all the power that mad anger can provoke, swear to any and everyone within earshot, mutter what type of evil he would like done to foul money grabbing operators who post defective machines about town waiting to ambush innocent folks' spare change, and to write a very nasty note accusing the operator of every crime short of matri cide and threatening violence unless he returns every cent that was lost to the deceitful slot armed bandit. Being but a mortal t though my conver sations seldom show it), I, too, have re acted in such fashion. In fact, this sum- met 1 fell victim to two pay telephones which refused to refund my dime after calls 1o information for telephone num bers not in the directory. The first theft of this nature angered me only enough to desire complete eradication of the offend ing pay phone. The second offense found me uttering profane oaths and jiggling the receiver up and down decisively in a fashion that must have resembled John Henry's battle with a steel driver. Finally I called the operator and poured forth more determined oratory than Patrick Henry's "if this bp treason, let us make the besl of if performance. 1 demanded my money back, carefully dictated my name and address, and scouted the mail box with eternal vigilance until a 10 cent check arrived from the telephone com pany. The chec k I still have to remind rne of my sole victory over a money swallow ing machine. This discourse was inspired by the actions of my fellow students Tuesday morning in the Love Library lounge. Mr. Gary Frenzel and I left our aforemen tioned 8 o'clock class with visions of hot cups of coffee at the end of our trail. We found both beverage machines sporting notes that the water was turned off. Every coin thai was dropped in by stu dent after student during one hour of observation clinked back to them half heartedly via the return coin slot. The students would then read the notes, look around to see who had observed them, slip the coins back in their pockets and saunder off unsatisfied. One girl confused the game when she strolled up to the machine, read the note, tossed ii on the lloor. dropped in her money only to have it jump back at her. grabbed it up and stomped away in indignation. H was impossible to determine what she was thinking. Or was it? Med Prof Elected Dr. Roy Holly, professor and chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gyne cology at the University Medical College has been elected a fellow of the American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. 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Hum Mutaftnc editor orr Mun rmor Maff Writer rmmir IJmrw port rdltor Randall lmhrrl tp editor . Carroll Inn, Illaaa Marorll. andra Hullj. Crrtrb'o Side, taff Writr Marllra forte,. Hondn w a 11. H.van Hmlrhtwrger. wtaff Photorraoher MlnnrtM Ttyior M'HIvmo ST A FF Bul- Mamn terry rllmilri Al -nt HiHtitiew Manatrrn Mian ftainma. ( harirn linn. Norm Kohl'mc Cirraiatiua Mua-r tmrrt Truuu TMt STtANGt WORlO Or MR. MUM thru the peep-hole BY DICK TEMPERO The B riar Patch By R. M. Ireland Senator Douglas came to Nebraska and rubbed some more salt into the already fes tering wound of Republican ism. And what's more he did an excel lent job. i knew v ft when dec- ( t i 0 n day 1 cold ' Qfc 1, , t 4f dawned and wintry I a n d k lien s ttie smell of f hydrogen sulfide pre- fV Sf'1 1 ailed o cr - A W campus that Ireland the party i truth, honesty and person ciance was in for trouble. I nay puck up my dinosaur bones unci move to Arizona where God. Goldwater, and gophers reign supreme. Seriously though. 1 suppose a great many people have been deliberating the conse quence? of the recent politi cal puree which saw right wing Republicanism all but exterminate d. Eisenhow er Republicans completely slaughtered, and those sane people, who were running un der the GOP label but who covered it as besl as possible, elected Has the ;P been annihil ated? It seems to me that the an swer to this question will be resolved in the next two years. Eisenhower, who proved himself to be an ex , tremely poor politician during the last two weeks of the late campaign, has apparently willed the leadership of t h e party to his sidekick. Dickie Nixon. The question now is wheth er Dick is ihe man for the job There's a Republican in New York named Rockefeller whose recent ascension to the governorship showed him to be the most promising and unique politician to come along since T.D.R. Writing under the assump tion that the Republican par ty's two main problems are 11 lack of new. invigorating personalities and 2t too much rock-ribbed McKinley con servatism. Rockefeller would seem to be a preferable par ty leader to Nixon. Nivon cannot be identified with either wing of the GOP as can the liberal Rockefel ler. During his career in Washington Dick has at tempted to exert a compro mising influence on the Cro Magnon Republicans and the so-called Eisenhower group (since Ike has failed to define to the public's satisfaction what an " Eisenhower Repub lican" is. 1 assert that this group is now extinct, t. 1 question whether Nixon can. in the course of the next two years, inject enough spir it into the waning hearts of Republicans to offset the ris ing tide of Democratic victo ries. In the first place there are a great many Republicans and all of the Democrats who have a profound distrust for Mr. Nixon. In the second place he tailed miserably to rally the GOP during the last campaign and consequently suffered a great loss of po litical prestige. If the Republican party wishes to retain the White House in 1960 and thereby in sure the existence of two po litical parties in our country they must nominate Nelson Rockefeller for the presi dency, send their Old Guard to the Smithsonian Institute, and make Richard Nixon am bassador to Pogo Pogo. Revolt ! I'm not quite sure what the i fitting baptism manner for this column would be sprinkled with water, topped with seltzer, or bathed in gin perhaps the last would be the best. If nothing else, it'd be the most fun! Officially christened, this cheery epigram does need some explanation. Being somewhat fond of puns, the title came naturally. When said fast "peep-hole sounds like 'people', and herein lies the ultimate purpose of this column. To discuss that most ' magnificent, most intelligent, and most humorous specie of the whole animal kingdom man. You and 1, him and her, whomever I happen to ob serve or hear about. The Nebraska Union, and the activities committee in particular, must be compli mented for the fine talent show that was given in the Union Ballroom Sunday eve- , ning. After attending these shows since 1 was a fresh man, I think it is sale to say ttv t the overall caliber vcas bost ever. All of the acts . were good; and together, with some fine lighting effects, presented comprehensive and enterUiiiiing show. It was also heartening to see a talent show that had a serious side to it and one in which the judges would rec ognire true artistic value for w hat it really is. A special hand should go to the winners Bill flingles, for an excel lent interpretation of "Scher zo in B Minor" and to Ieon ard klathe, a guitar player who ran sing something be sides popular, hit-p a r a d e songs. Acts from the show will be chosen to represent Nebraska in the Big Eight Talent Show which will be held later this year, and these performers will have the opportunity to display their wares at each of the Big Eight schools. And while we are passing out kudos to the Union the board members have just re turned from Cornell College in Mount Vernon. Ia.. with some good new s. The new Ne braska Union has been chosen host of the 1959 Regional i Iowa. Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska) Student Union re treat. Contrary to my prediction, the All-University Convoca tion was well attended by a responsive audience of about 4.000 students and towns peo ple. Senator Douglas had in teresting, if not razor-sharp, opinions on many subjects and he seemed to do a credi ble job of answering the ques tions and sticking to the sub ject . There was no doubt from the very first to which party the former economics profes sor from the I "niversity ot Chicago owes his allegiance. And after a few questions it was easy to see that he was a member of the liberal wing of that partv. Of interest to the writer were his views on the election a prolcst vote against the Republican Parly and not particularly a vote of confi dence for the Democrats I, his view that more and more of the elected representatives of the people w ere of liberal and not conservative timber, his belief that the Democrats should adopt a strong civil rights plank and let the south ern wmg of the party make its own decision as to what to do. and the fact that he supported the recent Supreme Court decisions. Typewriters For Rent Try Ovr tental-Pvrchase Plan Special Student Rates NEBRASKA TYPEWRITER CO. 125 No. lltk Phone 2-4284 Typewriter Ribbons fuf On Qr fitters ooooocc Shop Thursday n 10:00 to 9:00 j 11 ST. PAUL METHODIST CHURCH 12rh & M St. ;P fBM CO' P'7 o" ot tt-,e ftc-e' t nrst p -.d 1 Hrt . , sermon: "WHERE SCENCE S. RELIGION MEET ' Services. 9 30 4 11.00 AM. 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