.. i.. ... - MM,, s . 1 Page 2 The Nebraskdn Monday, ; Dec, I960 Nebraskan Letierip EDITORIAL OPINION .- . ... 1 r .1 1 1' . ; , ' Our Holiday Letter To Santa Claus I ' s Since front page editorials are not in keeping with I The Daily Nebraskan's policy, we have expressed our wish for the season and the new year in the greeting f drawn by staffer Jim Forrest. 1 The theme, which is depicted by the tree growing out of the globe, is that of one world, embracing the goals of peace, equality, brotherhood, freedom and love decorat- ing the tree. In addition, hope, which must accompany 1 all efforts to achieve the desired goals, is a part of our g tree. i This past year, the first of what promises to be a dec- ade of unparalleled impact on the future of the world, has been one both of encouragement of hope and also of futility. At times it seemed that we had moved closer to f our goals; there were other periods when the waters f were troubled. I As we think back over what transpired during 1960, we find it hard to believe that so much could have hap-x pened in so little time. We also find that in lining our- selves up so solidly behind the goal of world peace, we as Americans may have overlooked those black marks which tarnish our reputation as a leader of the cause for free- dom. . . . 1960 saw the execution of Caryl Chessman. Ameri- I cans found it easier to erase their mistakes by total era- S dication of the effect, still paying little attention to the cause. Rather than rebuild, we destroyed. "An Eye for an Eye and a Tooth for a Tooth," according to the Bible, the same Bible that says "Thou Shalt Not Kill." 1 Those events which are taking place in New Orleans have found Americans fighting against the very thing which they have so long and vigorously supported, broth- erhood and equality for all. They call it white supremacy f down South. However, it would be hypocritical for us to ignore the discrimination that is present above the Mason-Dixon Line. It is a case of yelling loud enough f about the other fellow's wrongs to protect our own from f being discovered. I The letter from a "Japanese CORN HUSK" which onnaoT-c in tha T .otArin VYlnmns tnrinv TWliTlt, IW) B CHIPS.- tion which we must all face. What is American Dem ocracy? However, a New Year is about to begin. We must look ahead, not back. If we have erred, we must be careful not to make the same mistake. We must Join with the free peoples of the world in working towards those goals for which we hope: peace, equality, freedom, love and brotherhood. This is our message to Santa Claus, to our selves, in other words, for we must be our own Santa Clauses, working for one world. Staff Views I "bovine views 1 by Jerry Lamberson I Preliminary plans drawn up by the Ag planning sur- g vey committee call for a considerable change in the present pattern and facilities of the Ag campus. This committee asked each of the Ag campus depart- 1 ments to estimate their future needs by 1980 so that plans could be laid out as to the pattern that the campus might follow. The estimates were compiled by the committee and a mapping of facilities was begun. The committee had three major points ki mind as to the improvement of the Ag campus. One was to induce some logical pattern of growth so that the campus would be orderly and neat in appearance. The present pattern of the campus has been outgrown due to the construction of some new buildings and the future need for more. ' The pattern followed by the committee was one of emphasizing some type of academic environment for the campus. However, it will be hard for any architectural firm to calculate a plan that will show such environ ment unless some of the present buildings are torn down. Some of them are old and do not illustrate academic achievement of the campus. Others are out of place at the present and stick out like a sore thumb. The improvement to provide a traffic route through the campus and to aid in pedestrian safety is definitely a must for the Ag campus. Wider streets and better pavement would allow much of the traffic to bypass some of the acadamic areas which would aid in quieter condi tions as well as increased safety to the pedestrians. Such streets as the One to the north of the Ag Engineering building are quite dangerous especially to the hot-rod type of drivers. Here the street runs directly up to the building. Access to the campus is another improvement that is definitely needed. The heavy traffic on Holdrege has caused considerable congestion at the Ag campus en trances on Holdrege. Street. However, another entrance on 33rd might aid this cause. The committee proposed an entrance at the northeast corner of the Ag section which is near University Place. This entrance would be dose to the radial highway of the Interstate. An entrance here might attract more visitors to the Ag campus. Also proposed in the building committee survey is the change of the center of the campus to the north and east to accommodate for the new buildings that may be needed by 1980. This would probably cause some con struction to the nor and east of Dead Man's Run, a creek that runs through the Ag property. Construction on the north, side might present problems in access and con struction as bridges would have to be built to cross the creek. The survey said that the intramural fields for all Uni versity instramural sports might be included in the pro posal for the 1980 campus. This would allow plenty of room for the intramural sports. Such proposals with the addition of several new build ings will cost the University plenty of money. This type of campus will not be developed over night and probably many ideas will not become a reality because of lack of funds and because of changes in ideas by various sources. All of this must I k considrably different from the proposd campus in 10 when the University considered moving the main orfmpus and combining tt with the Ag campus. However, the Board of Regents after much dis cussion decided that the main campus should be left in its present location and so the large area of ground has been left for Ag campus use. Daily Nebraskan Member Associated Collegiate Press, International Press Representative: National Advertising Service, -Incorporated Published at: Room 51, Student Union, Lincoln, Nebraska. SEVEN XT-ONE TEAKS OLD . I4th A R ' ' -'-, Telephone HE I-7S31, ext. 4125. 422S. 42iT ffnhmrlimm rmtn are S3 Pr tmntm r tit far the s4nf Mr. KntanS a Miaii 1M matter M the poet efflee la LlaeOB. KeknMka, ader the Aaurn 4, ltil. The DeJtj Meltruksn It paMiibcl Mono,?, TneW, Mm4 kn4 trt. T arla the irhool rear, exeept inrlnf ecteatkim an exam prl4, bf tudmte el the tnlrenltr ef Nehntika aader aatherlatla at the Commit a Btndenf Affairs a aa exnraealoa ef atadeat nptnloa. Pnhllrattoa ander Ma Jnrtudletiaa ef the Bntraonanlttae oa gtndent Pahllratlsnt ihall ac free from editorial erxMrshlp oa the part af Ike 6abommlttee or the part ef aar aweea entald the Unlvrrelty. The amnbrra ef the Dall Nebraekaa staff are tumnnellr rretxmiible for what they aa?, ac do, er cams to be printed, ebraarjr S, UM. CDTTORIAL IT AIT fMltar , Herb frobaaea Maaa1a Rdlte Dare calheea ewa Mltor , . Karea Xaa( porta Editor ftj IS raws As Nw adite Gerald UnbmN Cop Editor rat OeakB, Ana Mover, Oretrhea flMlberg titaff Writers Mom Beattr, Dare Wshlfarth Junior Htaff Writers. .Naney Browa, Urn Tet, N alter Whltfnrd. Chip Wned Mght Mews Kdltor .Dare Wohlfartk : t . BUSINESS STAFF . , ' ... Siulneas Manaacr ... .i ...... .w. .. i .fitaa Ratmaa Altant BnalnrH Managers ....Dob Fersaaoa, Chip Kuklla, John rVhrordnr :trcu!atloa Manater Bob Kerf ClaaeUled Maaatvr Jerl Jehnsea s Stevenson Faced I Restarting U.N. By Eric Sevareid By his act in asking Adlai Stevenson to speak for America at the United Na tions, John Kennedy has done the country, the U.N. and himself a favor, but he has done no favor to Gov ernor Stevenson. The Democrat twice fated to carry his party's weight in hopeless races against a n ational hero is now asked to perform an other near miracle, the most imme med lately critical task any Ameri can states man could face. He is Eric Sevareid asked to help restart the machinery and drive of the United Nations, now sputter ing closer to complete para lysis than at any time in its fifteen years. In the first year of the Kennedy regime the world will find out with finality if the U.N. really is to be a powerful instrument for world order or if another dream of peaceable men is to fade into the mists like the League of Nations. Its treasury is virtually bankrupt, largely because oi Communist bloc refusals to honor their debts. The Security Council may cease to function for months be cause of the quarrel over uhu iRag Seeks f Articles for Magazine Material for a magazuie issue of The Daily Nebras. Kan, to appear sometime in January, is still being sought, according to Herb Probasco. editor. "We have had good co & operation for this experi I ment," he said. ''However, I we can still use more ma I terial and I .hope students fwill use Christmas vacation as a time to write articles for the magazine." I ; Probasco explained that 1 nonfictkm material is being s sought' on problems and ideas of a contemporary nature. Articles should be 1,000 , to 2,900 words ' in g length, double spaced, type i written and on plain paper. Manuscripts cannot be re I turned. s The. magazine will.be pat terned After similar "publi cations at the Universities of Michigan and Minnesota. Tnnloa in 1hea macraTinne ranged from "A Liberal Education: Whys and Wherefores" to "A Modern I 'Analysis of Religion." Deadline for submitting I articles to the proposed ! magazine, which would ap pear in place of a regular issue, is Jan. 6. ; ''If this first issue is sue 1 cessfirt,";. Probasco said, i c"we hope to make it a part "'of the' paper," perhaps ap 1 pearing twice a semester." . jp- Vim &Sm 1 " Homework its composition. The Secre tariat still labors under the Russian blackmail threat to ruin its effectiveness by boy cott. And the whole prestige of the U.N., so recent ly booming by reason of its bold start in the Congo, is now on the verge of col lapse by reason of its in ability to finish the Congo operation. Two powerful forces, one coldly organized, the other passionate and spasmodic, are shipsawing the United Nations with cruel effect. The first is the Communist world movement which seeks, not order, but disor der everywhere beyond its own walls and uses the U.N, with utter cynicism to that end. (In the eighteen thous and dreary, arrogant words of the manifesto for world Communism short of major war, just issued by the Mos cow conference, there is not one mention of the United Nations!) The second force is the jealous drive for national prestige in the small, new countries as witness the self -centered - behavior of Nkrumah and Nasser in the joint Congo operation. A strong United Nations is immensely important to this collection of new sov ereignties because it is the only means by which their whole can become greater than the sum of their parts; yet by immaturity they are paralyzing the UN as surely as are the Communists by calculation.. One might add a third, though passing force the damaging influence of Pres ident deGauUe's disbelief in any supra-sovereign institu tions of any kind. Stevenson can help; if he cannot, no American alive can help. He can bespeak . - He was now he'll sleep forever . Whan yo fael'dctvwiy of Hie wheal, eat off fh rood. Take a nop. latter lots ond olirl Lost yaor nearly 40,000 diilS on evr roads. Too many ware vkthns of their own mistake. Good drivers never risk the lives of then r their own Help stop senseless killing. Drive safely. Insist on strict law enforcement. Support.your local Safety Council. Wherr traffic laws are strictly enforced,' , ' : ' deaths go down. Published in an effort to save lives, in cooperation talk ' The National Safety Council and The Advertising Council , ' W MawSim With Drive the America that thoughtful, men everywhere long to hear once more, the Amer ican accents not heard at the U.N. since the ambas sadorship of Warren Austin our fundamental peace ableness, our straightfor wardness, our creative sym pathy for the dispossessed of this world. It should not be the purpose of the Amer ican spokesman to score quick debating points against the Zorins arid the Gromykos for the afternoon headlines. To do that is to reduce the United States to the propagandists level of the Communist bloc; it is , to tarnish our name. ' Stevenson is more than an intellect in operation; he is a kind of presence, on any stage. He will be persona more grata upon this stage than any performer we could send. In the very spe cial setting of the U.N. the personal tone and bearing of the performer is of sub stantive importance. In this' realm, manner often be comes matter. Prime Min ister Macmillan demon strated this, in September. India's Krishna Menon Is speaking didactic non sense, therefore, in stating that neither Stevenson nor any other American will be any better at the U.N. than the policy instructions from ' Washington. No more perti nent example, In the re verse sense, exists to dis prove Menon's logic than Menon. Incessantly has Ne hru's light from New Delhi been refracted, diffused and discolored through the prism of the Menon personality. There is a culture of the heart as well as that of the head. Stevenson, thank God, is at home and fit ease in both. x ; Out. land. Rail Syndicate, Inc. 1 t tired... Th nallv Xpftrftikftn Will Ubl.Ml niy innw ifii-na .,. a..? kkiitu. IH- I? .Si ",.h 'a ar. nan or lalllala. Hrr lt,;r, tUI be print aader a pre ..me yr Initial, enly at ; the editor. JU " luiuM ant excrra oa rd. When wtters evci-ed this ttto!2JJ fr U, na,nM them, retain ,. writers view. 'CORN HVSK Asks About Democracy I am a man of graduate of University of Nebraska and a Japanese, but there is no difference in my heart 'to love my Alma Mater compared with American graduates. The campus of Lincoln, where I have been many years ago, stays still now in my memory and once and while it comes to me in a vision to make me please. When the . war ended, many American service men and civilians came to - Japan. Whenever I had a chance to meet with them, 'I used to ask them if there was a graduate of U.N., i.e. CORN HUSK. When I found a alumnus, I felt just like I met my real brother and I used to repeat same questions; "Is there any change in the campus?" or "How are professors getting along?" Last month the Japa nese news papers reported all together that Mr. Ken edy won the honor of the new President of the United States and his new brain trust. It gives me a great pleasure to know that Mr. Solensen who graduated ' from the University of Ne braska is appointed top ad vicer of the new President. We expect greatly showing of Mr. Kenedy's ability for the progress of America and for world peace during next four years of his pres idential term. Beside my professional study there were too many things to learn during my stay in U.S.A. One of them most valuable, I believe, is that the American are never proud, for example anybody even in high posi tion say "halloo" cheer fully each other. This is the fact 'to show beautiful hu man friendship of Ameri cans without distinction. I myself have observed in Lincoln the mayor said to a shoemaker, "Halloo. John!". Such a frank and warm scene has never seen in Japan. However I am very sad to confess that the day has come when my beautiful dream for America was broken. It happened several years 'before, and it is the impression I received from one who was an ambassa dor to Japan (not make clear his name). He was a graduate of University of Nebraska. It is quite natural that one Who is the same alumnus, very few in Japan, must express his respect So I visited the ambassador for salutation. ButI was re fused to see himoy the rea son of his inconvenience. As I thought that it was formal to send a letter ahead to get his appoint ment to see him, I wrote a letter in the highest form in Japan and sent it to him. However I could not re ceive any reply from him at all. I was disappointed very much and have begun to suspect a little for the til?) "'"he 0ptoin uS9"ts that fV now is the time. New sweat- t j er$ Qnd fli'r items orrivecl I I late this week to give you a J Captains Walk iiMmMft.ii it.- ( A American Democracy; why he could not reply the rea son he could not to see me, or why he did not spare a minute to receive the re spect of the same alumnus, a Japanese. Also I know clerks are working in the American Embassy to as sist him. I used to speak to stu dents abroad including my self when I was a student in U.S.A. that we were un official ambassadors so we should behave courteously, associate with the people of America, and not give bad impression and many Americans agreed to my word. . I can not yet understand his attitude and not clear my doubt for the American Democracy of Americans staying in Japan.. By a Japanese of CORN -HUSK Editor's Note: The above letter was received at The Daily Nebraskan office. The author is Shiroku Tao ef Kawasaki, Japan. The am bassador he is apparently referring to is John Allison, a graduate of the Univer sity who represented the United States in Japan in the early 19508. The views of Mr. Tao are not neces sarily those of The Daily Nebraskan. However, we find them interesting in the light of recent hostility in Japan towards the United States. Suggests Masters Wasting His Time To the Editor: As a part time student at the University, I attempt to keep up with,- and follow student news and campus opinion to as great an ex tent as my time permits. The main source of infor mation to which I am ex posed is The Daily Nebras kan. During the past two se mesters of which I have been a student I have at tempted to -follow the arti cles written by the different members of the newspap er's staff. In reading these various columns and (?) columns I have come up with the question, "Is the name Dick Masters a pen name, or does it actually belong to an individual?" I have read most of (Dick Masters' ?) articles and am truly amazed at the attitude of this student If he is a student, I do not understand how it is pos sible for hin.to "waste" away so much of his time with apparent worry about the activities of the Sub Rosa organizations. My suggestions to Mr. Masters: (1) Buy youur way into one of these or ganizations, (2) Form your own "hand" picked group, (3) Reread "Alice in Won derland", (4) Sleep more, write less, (5) Edit comic books. MELVIN FOSTER Editor's Note: Dick Mas ters is real. He is not a staff member, only a col umnist. Vi larger selection. ' I SHOP NOW I I I I 9