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to!. Wednesday, March 2, I960 Page 2 The Daily Nebraskan Editorial Comment: Lenient Passport Giving Poses Foreign Danger The increasingly alarming problem of the issuing of United States passports to known Communists was brought under fire by Charles Stevenson in a recent is sue of Readers Digest In June of 1958, the article stated, the Supreme Court ruled that the Secretary Another Name Would Help Avoid Confusion Friday night, patrons of Coed Follies watched as five girls were presented as finalists for the title of "Ideal Nebraska Coed," and the award was presented to one of the junior women. The title, based on activities and schol arship, is presented yearly at the Follies to an exceptional leader. This idea of honoring a junior woman for her activities' and grades is certainly not objectionable, but the presentation should be better clarified. For instance, AUF's naming of a sophomore "Activity Queen" is specific. She is an outstanding sophomore in activities. Ideal Coed, however, is a bit of a glorious title that sounds like it's describing a beauty queen that all the men on campus would think of if they followed the diction ary, as a perfect model. The title now says little about the abilities and qualifications of the recipient. The name of the title used to be "Typical Nebraska Coed," which also was a mis nomer. Why not change the name again to "Idol Coed" or "Outstanding Coed" and stop confusing the men in the audience who expect to see a Brigette Bardot in bobby sox. of State has no authority to deny pass ports to people because they are Com munists. Since that declaration hundreds of pass ports have been issued to Communist agents for travel abroad under the aus pices of pleasure when in reality their ob jectives are to deliver hate-America speeches in such crucial spots as Red China and the new African nations. With the constant. anti-American propa ganda originated by our enemies through out the nations of the world, disloyalty from within is a sure step toward building even more distrust among those countries which can be swung either toward the be liefs of Communism or the democracy of the United States. Our federal government officials have realized what a foolish decision the Su preme Court has made and have urged that action be taken. President Eisenhower, in a special mes sage to the high court, said, "It is essen tial that the government today have power to deny passports where their possession would seriously impair the conduct of the foreign relations of the United States or would be inimical to the security of the United States . . . Each day and week that passes without it exposes us to great danger." The American Bar AssSciation has urged Congress to take effective steps soon. It says there are ways of permitting the Secretary of State to use information from hidden sources without violating individual liberties. We, as Americans, not only have the right but the duty to demand that our legis lators take notice of the statistics and act. Our reputation as a nation depends upon it. Staff Comment: A Leftist's View By Sandi Looker Sandi Are we becoming a nation of giants? Yikes! That headline on an article I read recently really got to me. Have always accepted the fact that some of us -belong to the world of tall people but never really thought us to be Amazons. Oh well, things are rough all over. The article said that year by year Americans are growing taller. That's nice. But I really don't think the country will be overrun with giants in the next few days. Statistics look this way: In 1900 less than four per cent of American men measured six feet Today in the 20-29 age group, one of every five is six feet talL In 1900 less than four per cent of American wo men measured five foot seven. Today in the 20-29 age bracket, more than 18 per cent are five foot seven. This change in national stature is caus ing big changes in our lives, the writer says. For instance, at Cornell, the University of California and many other colleges, new dormitories are equipped with beds seven foot long. Such luxury. And a purchasing agent for a large hotel chain confirms that he is now ordering 80-inch and king-size beds instead of the old standard 74-inch bed. The came person says that bath towels used to measure 21 inches by 44 inches. Now be orders towels that are 26 by 52 inches. At this rate, beach towels will soon have to be the size of a double-bed blanket A store executive says, "Our customers seem to come taller and taller. I myself have waited on girls as tall as six feet five." Yea. Suddenly I'm short. What's behind this tall body boom? "It the end anywhere in sight, or do we Just continue growing until we get so large that we can do longer find food and disap pear like dinosaurs from the face of the earth?" the author wonders. First we're likened to giants. Now he muses that we may become disappearing dinosaurs. The world becomes more com plex every day. Chuckle, chuckle. Scientific type minds have decided that the increase in stature has been brought about by better nutrition, improved en vironmental health conditions, better con trol of childhood diseases and the work ing of evolutionary forces that somehow stimulate growth. Dr. Earnest Hooton of Harvard, a noted anthropologist who died in 1954, suggested that possibly there was some factor, as yet undetermined, in modern life that stimu lated the pituitary gland which controls the body's growth, the author points out. He goes on to say that doctors would like to be able, by using hormones, to stimu late growth in short children and to slow the rate of growth in those who appear to be sprouting too tall. But the late Dr. Hooton recommended that best thing to be done about height is to accept it. That's a right noble attitude. To think that society will try to accept the giant dinosaur! I wonder if trees will ever have to grow taller in order to provide shade for us. Got so excited at the great round ball game Saturday I almost lost my compo sure. But the loss of something else was the singularly most amazing part of the game one of Jim Kowalie's contact lenses. The fact that he found the little thing on the massive floor was a feat in itself but the way he popped it back in impressed me so much I could hardly stand it. Watched a sorority sister wrestle with ber contacts all last semester and got the impression that inserting them was not only a major operation but also a time consuming enterprise. She had to seat herself at her desk, use a magnifying type mirror and numerous kinds of solutions before she got the job done. But Kowalke did it in about two sec onds. Right there on the basketball floor and alL Daily Nebraskan grXTT-JttXE TEARS OLD Member: Associated CoIlerUte Press, Inter- eolleriate Press Xepresentative: National Advertising Serv ice, Incorporated k Published at: Room it. Student Union Lincoln. Nebraska Hth 3c. Tdev&one HE 2-76Jt ext. 4225. 4226, 4227 The Itmitr Wrtoraekaa paetrehe' Maa, lamaa. TTeSamier aaa rrttmr rUt the tru ar, aerie vacattea aae) arrteee, taeat of the Cwvcntty at 4ruk eeoVr the aataurlzatlua f tlir f i hit l in mm KwiIrM Affair a aa ii"ti rf ete ra eiexea. CaliljrMlM aar tlx turtaalrttaa at tka 1,1,, mi, M lull it reMleatlea ehaM ar 1n tram mmurm eeaarel aa tbe rat af the Kebeem MMae or aa tka part af mmr member at the faealt? at i ii. ii am turn aart af aar ami eatalL tuanw. The umber mt the UmiU aearaekaa aerarjoallr reepeaetble for a-ttat they . af a. er eauae ta ae print, triiraarr I. lMf, huiraenptiua rate are pr ermeeter er ti tin the ranftr year. Kater ae enmma dee matter at the auet efflt Lieeata, JVebraeka, eaarr the art f Aacaat 4. lei 2. KDrroUlAL STAFF Carrey Kraae Manartnr Eatter fcera Laeiu ewe Ertr Brk fnrlm.ee Bperl. filter Ume talhuua V" Baiter fcra ut Cea, Editor, Deaa. Oar KeOtrre. " rAiu Oary Matter Staff Writer Mike Milro. Aaa HT . " . Ceral lmhenna Jotter "Staff Writer un Wakiferta, Jim for re. business staff Maetnra Maaacsr a,u Kalmaa AMletaat neelnea Maaacen JStJ Crae. aerteae Oiiii, Ardrth IJtlere .ireejaea jajtaacer fjuax leeaceaaJ Daily Nebraskan Letterips Doubtful Value To the Editor: It is with reluctance that we will attempt to reply to the views of Mr. Heeckt as expressed in "For the Heck of It." This is because there is doubtful value in dignifying views such as his with an answer. We reply, however, be cause Mr. Heeckt, in his "bumbling" fashion is symptomatic of the growth of neo-fascism among the so-called "experts." (Most budding journalists say what they really think while still in the "bumb ling" stage once ma tured they write in TIME ese and their views are ex pressed through slick cliches.) Certainly it is im perative that fascist views at least' be identified as such. If he, like many other apathetics, would like to leave government to the so-called experts, our ques tion is: Who are these "ex erts"? By what criterion are they chosen? Are they to have responsibility along with there authority? If, as Mr. Heeckt says, "... common man is little more successful at govern ing himself per se in a democracy like ours than in any other system," are we to adopt the ways of an "expert's " dictatorship For the Heck of It By John Heeckt Dr. Lancaster tell us that the maverick philosopher Bentham loved mankind in the abstract and not in the particular. This idea could probably be extended to professors, professional men, etc., in our times. They concern themselves with people as a mass and with the problems of this mass (e. g., populations, prejudice and poverty). They are repulsed by in dividualsthe atoms of all society. The whole becomes a fo cal point and the value of its parts standing alone is passed by. This provides a clue perhaps to our stress on a "common" society which conceives of man as only an abstract symbol overlooks quantitative dif ferences in the particular. Some, who may not be wrong, believe that this tends toward a society in which man alone is almost without being. If this is true, then is many anymore than a cog on a whell or a single raindrop in a desert? If solving the problems of the world can be done only at the expense of regi menting m a n to be a sim ple tool for providing ex istence for ohetr simple tools, are the problems really worth solving? What is the value of living when the essence of individual life is destroyed? American men and wom en are involved continually with the subject of sex. In private conversation of male to male and female to female, it has been, is, and will remain the chief dis cussion topic. Yet Americans as a whole live a frustrated ex istence under irrational mores and laws governing this relationship which find their basis mainly in the hypocrisy and religious fraud of puritan ancestors. These mores are sup posedly accepted as right and proper not only by old maids and clergy but by the whole populace. But while our society eternally gives over lip service to these mores, each person in society spends his life t i m e covertly violating them all in thought or deed. It is a matter of wonder that our "educated socie ty" has never rationalized human relations in this one supreme area, but continues to be controlled by unnat ural, mystical conventions that have no basis in fact and are generally refused by simple human psychology-One could almost suspect that the origin of our cur rent laws and customs ia this respect rose from the Middle Ages concept, rein forced by the religious fa naticism that landed en onr shores in the 17th and 18th centuries; that the only way to glory and heaven is to punish and scourge one self to the point of suffer ing during the sojouni on earth. This makes the benevo lence of a Christian God a mockery and the idea that man is set apart from an imals by his rationality a sham. A popular concept holds that man is different from the animal because he is rational. Any professor will im mediately question this as a definition because his own experience with people seems to imply a lack of rationality in the species more frequently than not. I think that it is worth while here to conjecture where a man would be if he were turned loose as a baby without the benefit of today's storage of know edge. What a seemingly interminable length of time would have to pass, as it has passed, before his pro geny would even be able to use verbal-lingual sym bols to communicate with their kind. It would appear that the difference between man and animal is basically minute 'it is dependent upon man's individually small capacity to remem ber and pass on, that the highest animal has not. Or, in other words, the difference between man and animal is not between two isolated representa tives of different classes, but between the painfully gradual accumulation of hu man history and technolo gy and a single animal. In the end, it appears that little proof can be of fered for any other idea than that man is an ani mal, a little the highest of all species, with a storage compartment added to his brain. IT'S REAL DIFFERENT! Slender, tapered side diamonds Txpercd diirnondt are highly prized for their rare style and uncommon effectiveneti. There are four of them, two Unking the, found diamond in each ring. A new ensemble, ery advanced, very correct. J250 CONVENIENT TFRAIS Beth rings Ird. fed. Tn" 1200 "(T Quality Tells It J s ta Jr and give up the "little" success we have achieved in order to avoid "sterile catering to mass man"? What should we adopt as an alternative to "The pathetic scramble ... to serve the bumbling whims of the mass (which) has had a tremendous negative impact on all of our social institutions as well as on the conduct of political re lations?'' Are we to turn to the "... upper educated classes in this country ..." or the "experts," or would Mr. Heeckt point to the ef ficiency of Hitler, Stalin or Mao? Mr. Heeckt's views are symptomatic of still another deplorable parochialism on the part of those majoring in " . . . modern social fields." Perhaps those in the College of Agriculture should not "go out among the masses and ask them various policy questions aft er a brief and anaemic in doctrination on certain problem areas." Is the staff at Ag College non-intellectual? Do s t u dents at Ag College learn nothing more than "grow- in? corn"? Would it be bet ter if the professors at Ag College got the "Nebraska layman's opinion on how to operate the nation" after a thorough "indoctrination on certain problem areas"? Just what are "local ag- riculturists" that they should remain apart from the body politic? Are those of Ag College truly less in tellectual than "experts" from "modern social fields"? We submit that the parochialism desplayed by Mr. Heeckt stems from the usual source ignorance! "Perhaps a lasting and burning error in our sys tem of educating is that it ..." removes the illiter acy of people such as Mr. Heeckt and gives them only "... a brief and anemic indoctrination on certain ..." democratic prin ciples and basic human rights. We suggest Mr. Heeckt read Animal Farm by Or well (a fairly simple book) and examine his own ideas critically. In what way does he (and those like him) dif fer from the pigs? A Part of the Bum bling Mass K., M. & B. Evans On few (Author of "I Wat a Teen-age Dwarf", "The Many LovetofDMeGiUit",k.) THE SEARCH FOR BRIDEY SIGAFOOS It was a dullish evening at the Theta house. The pledges were down in the catacombs; the actives were sacked out upstairs, not doing much of anything. Mary Ellen Krumbald was stick ing pins in an effigy of the housemother; Evelyn Zinsmaster was welding a manhole cover to her charm bracelet; Algelica McKeepport wag writing a letter to Fabian in blood. Like I say, it was a dullish evening. Suddenly Dolores Vladnay stood up and stamped her foot "Chaps," she said to ber sorors, "this is too yawn-making! Let's do something gay and mad and gasp-rnaking. Anybody got an idea?" "No," said the sorora, shaking their little sausage curls. "Think, chaps, think V said Dolores and passed Marlboro -cigarettes to everybody, for if there ever was a smoke to start you thinking, it is mild and flavorful Marlboro! Things come clear when you puff that good, clean smoke through that fine filter knots untie, dilemmas dissolve, problems evaporate, usbwebs vanish, fog disperses, and the benevolent sun pours radiance on a new and dewy world. Oh, happy world! Oh, Marlboro! Oh, soft pack! Oh, flip-top box! Oh, get some already! v er a f ycvL civ mx":xi Now Geraldine Quidnunc, her drooping brain cells revivified by a g'xd Marlboro, leapt up and cried, "Oh, I have a perfect gaHer of an idea! Let's hypnotize somebody!" "Oh, capital!" cried the sorors. "Oh, tingle-making !" At this point, in walked a young pledge named Alice Blue gown. "Excuse me, mistresses," said she, tugging her forelock, "I have finished making your beds, doing your homework, and ironing your pleats. Will there be anything else?" "Yes," snapped Dolores Vladnay. "When I count to three, you will be hypnotixed." "Yes, excellency," said Alice, bobbing a curtsey. "One, two, three," said Dolores. Alice promptly went into a trance. "Go back," said Dolores, "back into your childhood. Co back to your fifth birthday, bs-k to your birth, to before your birth, to your Lust incarnation . . . Kow, who are you?" "My name is Bridey Sigafoos," said Alice. "The year is 181f and I am in County Cork." "Coo!" said the sorors. "How old are your' asked Dolores. "I am seven," said Alice. "Where is your mother?" asked Dolores. "I don't know," said Alice. "She got sold at the fair last ear." "Coo!" said the sorors. "Tell us about yourself," said Dolores. "I am five feet tall," said Alice, "I have brown eyes, and I weigh 3200 pounds." "Coo!" said the sorors. . "Isn't that rather heavy for a prl?" said Dolores. "Who's a girl?" said Alice. "I'm a black and white guernsey." "Coo!" said the sorors. "Moo!" said Bridey Sigafoos. UW Me aaelaaa a a Wt, tht maktrt of Marlboro, havt our doubt about thU $torg. About etgarettt$, howtver, stw hold tht truth to b mlf-vldtnt: Marlboro for filter tmoktrt, fhlllp Morrlt for non-filter tmoktrt. Try tome. tke tednraitr. yaa aereaarr a. imm piaaarer itoac ieaacdaaJ I miunai. iiwXvwKvvvvwi UNIVERSITY THEATRE PRESENTS THE NATIONAL CONTEST PRIZE-WINNING PLAY by R. G. 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