Monday, February 16, 1959
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The Dolly Nebraskan
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Editorial Comment:
B
rotherhood Week Is
Time for Self-Appraisa
This week, Feb. 15-22 is Brotherhood
Week.
In a specially prepared newspaper kit,
th 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 fonnd in the Daily Ne
braskan Letterlp columns today and of
several issues past.
Thera 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 home with 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 has 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.
During Brotherhood Week, then, it would
be a good idea for the citizens of the
Ufced States to stand back and draw a
deep breath. It would be a good time for
all of us to review what we stand for as a
nation. And if we dont know what we
stand for it would be a good time to find
out.
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 m 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:
By
George!
Sit
Jo has been at it again. The other
night he came into the room and asked
if we had a couple of No-Doz. (Don't
panic Sellentin, they advertise with us.)
Out of curiosity mostly because I know
Joe), I asked what he wanted them for.
The reply:
More About Joe
'I want to take a couple before I go to
bed so 111 wake up early tomorrow morn
ing." 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 he had taken the
course before. This necessitated adding
and dropping which Joe took care of with
admirable disp&tk
Dispatch that it is only took him three
days to find his 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, he
found that instead of giving him a card for
that class, the registrar had just given
him another card for the old class.
I'm happy to report, however, that Joe
has everything straightened out now and
is well on his way to another confused se
mester. (In case you're wondering how all these
things can happen to one person, they
can't? Joe does alright by himself, and he
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 will pull off your
favorite boo-boo sometime or other.)
To Columnists
My columnists, you wonderful people,
the schedule is out of kilter and we have
n't been able to run many of you for the
last two weeks. One of these days, Sellen
tin will 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
- Time magazine reports that the insid-
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jous 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 radcliffe 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 late
Captain Joe Patterson, founder of the
New York Daiy News.
Alice told Time reporters that she know s
exactly the kind of newspaper she would
like to run 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
best)newspapers. The hallmark of the
Times has been efficient, top flight report
ing in 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 front
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 is 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 had a little of the
same.
It's embarrassing when your younger
sister gets better grades than you did
when you were a freshman. It's 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
take up so much of her time that she will
stop beating my brains out gradewise.
In the meantime, hold up that next- let
ter father, I can explain about that incomplete.
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To the Editor:
I feel that my reference
to foreign students in the
Wednesday issue of the
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of a minority of the foreign
students minority that
has reflected badly upon
the majority.
Jim.
Foreign Defense
- The Feb. 11 article in
the Letterip of The Daily
Nebraskan decrying foreign
students has been a sub
ject of great concern nd
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 m
any other group, however,
there are unfortunately one
or two misguided persons
w ho 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 5n
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 foreign 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 own?
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 sdequately 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 borne 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 in 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 man
ners and disbehavior. The
repercussions have been
many. Orjy three months
ago, a very prominent and
successful Lincoln physician
vacationing in Europe was
denied the services of a
French restaurant He was
asked to leave just because
he was an American. FronT
this viewpoint it would seem j
like we need to project
much creator toleration f
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 sea
that each party will care
fully analyze the existent
problems and utilize all
agencies to build stronger
foundations for cooperation,
thus breaking down tha
walls of misunderstanding.
The American too often pro
jects an attitude of self-sufficiency
in matters mate
rial and non-material. It
follow s that there is nothing
done because of expediency.
This becomes most revolt
ing to others concerned.
The Editorial Comment of
Feb, 10 peaks of the for
eign student as "already
having the strikes of color
and language against him."
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fortunate that this is tha j
condition within a univer-1
sity society the future j
intelligencia of the Amcri- I
can nation. i
It is high time that Amer-
icans reconsider and re-)
evaluate their concepts of
peoples of "other colors and
languages." The American i
can retain his dignity and )
respect only as others arei
equally respected. I do hope j
that, the recent publicity of J
foreign and American stu-j
dent relations will be inslru-j
mental in helping to stimu-?
late interest and aid in
spurring the two groups to a '
new era of understanding
and cooperation. Feace 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 will be to our goals,
Sydney L. Jackson
Less than four years after graduation...
He runs a team of 69 people
serving 20,000 telephone customers
11. D. '"Doug" Jones graduated from Texas A. & M. with
a B.B.A. tlcgree in 1955. Today, Doug supervises six
plant foremen and 63 craftsmen for the Southwestern
Bell Telephone Company at Galveston, Texas. He is re
sponsible for installation and maintenance activities on
some 31,000 telephones serving 20,000 customers It is
a big job and Doug finds it challenging and rewarding.
Here he is during one day's activities . . .
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"8 A.M. Today, before the men start
out on their job, I talk to the foremen
and their crews about the importance
of taking every opportunity to sell tele
phone services and build good cus
tomer relations."
"9:10 AM. One of the best ways for
me to judge the results of our training
programs is to ride along with the men
on service calls. Here, I chat with
customer while a color telephone is in
stalled in her home."
"1 0:30 AAA. Returning to the office,
I check customer trouble reports with
my Chief Test Deskman. Continuous
study of these reports helps us to pre
vent serious problems from devrloping
and keep our customers satisfied."
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"1:15 P.M. After lunch, I meet with
the district department managers to go
over floor plans for a central office now
under construction. The office is being
planned to serve a particularly fast
growing area."
"3 P.M. At my desk I prepare produc
tion reports on our installation and re
pair activities. A foreman reports a
complex switchboard installation being
completed today. I decide to go over
and talk to the customer."
44 Well, that is how the job went today . . . tomorrow will be very liferent
There is just no set routine on this assignment I have to be ready for any
thing that develops. That is one of the reasons I really look forward to my
work every day."
Doug Jones and many college men like him have found real opportunity
to use their abilities in Bell Teiephone Companies. There may be a bright and
fulfilling career waiting for you, too. Talk to the Bell interviewer when he
visits your campus. He'll give you the whole story. And read the Bell Tele
phone booklet on file in your Placement Office.
"4:10 PAA At the Port of Galveston
offices, I discuss advantages of the new
P.B.X. w ith one of the officers of the
Port The Port requires complex tele
phone services, which must be main
tained around the clock."
BELL
TELEPHONE
COMPANIES
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