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The Nebrask.an
Tuesday, Feb. 21, 1951
EDITORIAL
Brotherhood Doesn't
Involve Red Tape
Brotherhood: Believe it! Live it! Support it!
This is the theme for the nationwide observance this
week of Brotherhood Week. Sponsored by the National
Conference of Christians and Jews, the week of Feb. 19
26 has been called Brotherhood Week. It is hoped that
individuals will not only give themselves a good check
ing over, but will also extend a little extra effort to their
neighbors.
Here at our University community, we have a chance
to f u 1 f i 1 1 the purposes of Brotherhood Week. Actually
there are many University citizens who carry out this
idea throughout the year.
There is no red tape involved, no bear down sheets,
no long string of white cards involved in carrying out the
ideas of brotherhood. With this in mind, maybe you could
help your neighbor out this week, be he Nebraskan or Af
rican, Christian or Jew.
The Catacombs
In order to follow the precedent I set for myself in my
last column (or win this be my last?), I will take this op
portunity to thank another of my critics for the (not neces
sarily apt) observations as to what this column may turn
out to be. I might add for the reading public that perhaps
(eels that someone is taking undue advantage of me, that
I overheard the noble Satyr, probably at his intention,
planning this, so his efforts did not hit me right between
the eyes almost, but not quite. I am not so egotistical
(although an egotist) to believe that my column could not
have fallen into this rut, but in the future I will do my
best to prove that for once the Satyr is not omniscent,
psychic or actually Madam Zaza, Gypsy Fortune Teller.
K I were so inclined I could have taken the reference
to my hack scribblings as an insult, instead I consider it
quite an honor to be mentioned even in this manner in
"Smiley's" column. But for those who think that writing,
my honor, or the glorious right of making a fool of one
self in public have been subjected to the acid test, the
mark of the hoof by our Houyhrthnm Zorro, I enclose the
following quotation:
The only gracious way to accept an insult is to
Ignore It; if you cant ignore it, top it; M you can't
top it, laugh at it; if yon cant laugh at it, it's
probably deserved.
Russell Lynes
m let you make your minds as to which category this
enfeebled writer belongs ... all right, SO I'M CHICKEN.
The following are three letters Chicken Little found
before the sky fell:
July 15
Dear Susie, Sally, Mary, Lucretia or whatever your name
is,
Gee, gosh and golly whiz, it's just fab-u-lous that you
are going to come up to the "oT U" next fall. I am just
dying to meet you and hear all about your date life, the
state of your father's pocketbook and if you have an older
brother.
Perhaps I should introduce myself, I'm Sadie Script
your Girl Guide for your freshman year at college. It's
going to be fantastic all the fun well have just too bad
that the Turnpike burned down, because we could have
doubled and gone out there.
This is just a teensy little line to get our summer
correspondence going, but please feel free to write me and
we can talk all about the old "campi."
Collegiately yours,
Girl Guide, Sadie
July 19
Dear Sadie,
Thank you for the nice letter. What Is the Turnpike?
What is the old "campi?" What Is "or U?" Who are Girl
Guides?
Sincerely,
Hermione
Sept 11
Dear Her-
Holy snakes, I'm surely sorry that I called you by the
wrong name the first time that I wrote, but . . . !!!"
Don't be such an old kidder. Certainly you know what the
Tiks, campi, and ol' U" are: Pretty cute, that naivete
keep it, the boys really lap it up. That way you may be
a "columnist" before you know it.
By the way I think I know a Phi Gam that lives in
your town. His name . . .
Let ns leave these innocent little blathertngs and get
to the meat in the three course dinner being offered today.
The matter at hand being "Can i mall town girls find hap
piest in college without getting letters over the summer
from some college coed" Soap operas ride again.
Not having had much to do with the similar organi
zation that is surviving on our own little haven of educa
tional opportunity I am not in too good a position to offer
my opinion, but that is what makes K all the more excit
ing. The case in point being, Is the organization necessary;
and if it is, is there a job to be performed; and if there
is, are they doing it well; and if they are doing it well,
what's all this noise about the whole thing being dis
banded? I suppose that all organzations with some humanitar
ian purposes have their place and assuming that this one
is necessary, then they must have some sort of job to do.
(With logic like that. I'm glad I'm only a philosophy
minor!) Ah, this is where the rub comes in. Is it not so
that students are welcomed to the campus by other means
than Uttle four cent missives sent at regular or irregular
intervals during the summer, depending npon the sense
of responsibility of the authoress?
If the need for an organiztion does exist, and we shall
now work under the misapprehension that it does, then
why couldnt somebody else perform the same job. This
would eliminate the problem of one organization doing
the job while another with the potential is standing
around looking for an opportunity to do something. An or
ganization that could be suggested to fill the void would be
Alpha Lambda Delta.
It appears to me that they havent done anything of
world shaking importance this year. However, their broth
er organization Phi Eta Sigma has had meetings and
speakers, at least that is what my meager knowledge
has led me to believe. So why not allow these sophomore
. women, who supposedly stand for one of the ideals of the
University, that is to say grades (nasty things that they
are) do the job? It would not only give them something
to do, but it would put them back in the realm of or
ganizations that really offer something to the campus.
I may have erred again, but I have been led to as
sume that the purpose of an organization is to be of some
service to the campus.
Dailv Nebraskan
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OPINION
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By M. D. K.
Knowing full well that
the reading masses on this
campus are very literate
and therefore likely to be
critical of fledgling attempts
in the world of letters, we
hasten to explain how the
forthcoming material was
obtained.
Late last night we were
listening through the walls
of three 0 six, popular cam
pus tea lounge, when sud
denly we picked up the con
versation of three incoher
ent, drunken consorts of
Bacchus.
The following is our best
attempt at recalling their
prattle with editorial com
ment freely interspersed to
save the busy reader time.
They are given titles for
those of you who are no
vices at this sort of thing.
You may cover up the titles
to test your skill, if y o u
wish.
Beatitudes for Lost Lovers
Grave eyed one, I love you.
Do not hold your beauty
still:
No man enters Paradise
Uninvited
Unwillingly doth the
I spoiler approach
de-
The shrine
1 Stone it with awe
and
Leave me in my grief
I Twice shed tears support
but
one loss
I Or none at all,
When I'm with thee.
... Without them I should
1 die
God is tired . . .
Today
And no man rests.
Go spirit: leave my limbs
and join dead lust.
Mind Is mud and dust is
dust
Here we have the young
poet putting into a form of
emotive axpression the pro
found truth that he couldn't
get a date last night.
Lines To Diana
Alone midst pools of dew
and tear-shed torrents
Knelt the naked goatherds
brimming youth
Pale of eye and trembling
in his reverence.
Vanquished by Apollos
1 glorious reign.
Even songs Diana
seemed bereft of truth;
I Beam-sprinkled goddess
i fleeing heavens pain.
f Crooked staff lay shrouded
I under cloak
And passion, lotus sweet,
clung yet
To him. and bound him by
a blessed yoke.
I For him, the only mortal
1 aspiring to her love
Diana cast away her bow
and f e 1 1 her cheecks
I grow wet.
1 Only once the culmination:
he forever here and she
above.
I God pity forlorn shepherds
terrifying crave
I Blast mind from memory;
put joy to grave.
I Here we have the young
poet putting Into a form of
emotive expression the pro-
found truth that he had a
date last night and fears
that he'll never have an
Scion of the Beasts
other. The use of high dic
tion and the classical theme
indicate that he had a so
phisticated, but rather, frig
id friend along. The
"blasted mind line gives
us a certain indication of
the causation of his im
mense concern. The lines in
dicating that she was a god
dess who once dwelt on
earth betray the fact that
she may well have been a
member or member to be
of the blessed boards an
old classical name for those
wafted to Olympus by un
earthly ambition.
Untitled
(this author suggests
Flunk Fatigue)
I'm tired
tired of mumbling slobs
wallowi-" in mountains of
spit
and relishing latin puns
Who cares
cares about a pedant
locked away in lost centur
ies with sick cellmates
coughing over rotting pages
Forget it
earn a buck
and keep your belly full
of chain-store meat
Shuck It
kick the book-shelf
out of bed
like a beggaring bitch you
bought
Success?
Sure I know her
a giggling barmaid
selling dime dreams in dirt
glasses
I've bad it
or like I've been had
conned and crapped on
by Madison Avenue Asses
Long-eared, horn-rimmed
Asses
maketh me to want
shiny green goodams
to drive to the Country
Club
Leave it
and see another piece
of sky even if it's
Hell's smokey Lid
And maybe I'll
meet him
this screwed-up slob
inside me.
Here we have the young
poet putting into a form of
emotive expression the pro
found truth that he didn't
pass philosophy last semes
ter because the professor
didn't understand him. He
couldn't tell the professor
that the course was no good
for that was uncourteous,
but his sense of values
would not permit him to
stay in the course, so, he
compromised so he didn't
attend. We can think of sev
eral lines he might of used:
for instance success is a
young bar maid named
Ruth. In the line "chain
store meat," the phrase
latin puns would fit th e
meter better were it "Greek
Rituals."
Those of you who are
Notice To SENIOR and GRADUATE MEN Students
r will com p let their education and commence work thin
year. If you urgently require fund to complete jrotir education,
, and are unable to secure the money etiewhere.
Apply STEVENS EROS. FOUNDATION INC
A Non-profit Educational Corporation.
10-41J tNOICOTT BUILOtHC ST. PAUL 1. MIMM.
offended are invited to play
a little game. It is called
"do not pass go, do not col
lect the $100.00, do not cast
your pearls before swine.
Those of you who under
stand this drop into the
room adjoining three O six
after you have explained
it to us. the nectar of the
gods shall flow.
Reed, Barton
Hold Contest
Reed and Barton, Ameri
ca's oldest major silver
smiths, are sponsoring a na
tional women's "Silver Opin
ion Competition" offering the
winners scholarship awards
amounting to $2,050.
University women are eli
gible to compete in the con
test which runs through
March.
A contest entry form illus
trates 12 designs of sterling
with nine designs of china and
crystal. The competitor lists
what she considers the six
best combinations of these.
Contest winners will be
those entrants who have come
closest to matching the se
lections of table setting edi
tors from three of the na
tion's leading magazines.
The first grand award is a
$500 cash scholarship, second
prize a S300 scholarship and
third prize a $250 grant.
Fourth through sixth place
awards are $200; seventh
through tenth place winners
will receive $100 scholarships.
In addition, there will be 100
other awards consisting of
sterling silver, china and
crystal.
Gladys Rolfsmeyer is t h e
campus representative for
the contest. Any person in
terested in entering the com
petition should contact her
at Love Hall, (IN 6-9946) for
entry blanks and details con
cerning the contest rules.
PROBLEM OF
THE WEEK
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A boy and his smaller
brother are riding up a
moving escalator. Both are
in a hurry, so they run up
the moving steps, adding
their speed to that of the es
calator. The taller boy
climbs three times as quick
ly as his little brother, and
while he runs he counts 75
steps. The smaller boy only
counts 50. How many steps
has the visible part of the
escalator? ..
Turn in answers at 210
Burnett.
ANSWER TO LAST
WEEK'S PROBLEM:
It will take 2 hours for the
man to go over the falls
after peaching the bottle.
Correct solutions were sub
mitted by: George Grone,
Keith Kroon, Gary Lorent
zen, Hubert Paulsen Jr.,
and Larry Schuster.
Overset
Enrollment figures re
leased yesterday by the Of
fice of the Registrar indi
cates that Nebraska is get
ting larger. My answer to
this, is an unqualified
"Hooray!"
- Late in December a
study of the educational in
stitutions in the Big Eight
revealed that Nebraska
stood at the bottom, as far
as total numbers are con
cerned. As I spoke to Chancellor
Clifford Hardin asking him
for possible reasons for the
decline in Nebraska's
standing (at one time we
were second in the B i g
Seven in enrollment), I
found that about the only
answer (hypothetical at
that) lies in the facts of Ne-
' braska itself.
It is a universally known
fact that Nebraska is not
particularly known for its
large industrial centers
nor a remarkable rate of
development. Hence, Ne
braska does not have com
parable numbers of citizens
as do our nearby states.
v When speaking to other
Administrative officials I
soon found that Nebraska,
unlike the University of
Colorado for instance, does
not make any concentrated
effort to attract students
outside the state. I a 1 s o
found that some efforts are
being made (through prop
er counseling as one
"means) to improve upon
the caliber of the Univer
sity student This, natural,
ly, means a process of se
lection. However, as o n e
University official pointed
out, the University of Ne
braska has a "moral obli
gation" to all youth of Ne
braska that are reasonably
qulified to enter the Uni
versity. Yet the point I am
trying to bring out is the
fact that Nebraska is try
ing to improve. So far this
philosophy is an admirable
one.
What happens to a state
University if it does not try
to attract the top students
of its boundary but also,
from other states? How can
real progress be justified if
not only within the confines
we only improve upon the
kind of students, which
means "weeding out" and
"selectivity?"
I suggest that Nebraska
follow through with the
original thought behind the
improvement of the Univer
sity of Nebraska; devise a
comprehensive program for
attracting the students that
will not only benefit from
the University the most but
students that in turn bene
fit Nebraska. To use an
often used cliche "ever y
body's doing it."
A solution for grabbing
Nebraska high school grad
uates that would normally
leave the 6tate, Mrs. Bob
bie Bible Spilker outlined in
an informational program
in a letter to t h e Student
Council. She was prompted
to write the letter after
reading in the Nebraska
Alumnas telling of the con
cern ,some Nebraska S t u
dents and officials have
over attracting high school
ers in the state.
Mrs. Spilker suggests
that the present students in
form themselves of the high
quality of our institution
(she enumerates examples
in a news story in today's
issue of the Nebraskan.)
She points out that "Ne
braskans have an Inferior
ity complex about being
Nebraskans, Likewise, I
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By Norm Beatty
feel that most Cornhuskers
have a guilty conscience
about being Cornhusker."
In another part of the let
ter she asks that the Stu
dent Council "Sell the stu
dent body of the Univer
sity on the University and
that they, In turn, will au
tomatically do the selling in
their home towns for you."
Through a means of in
trospection I cannot agree
with Mrs. Spilker's reason
ing and accusation in say
ins that we all generally
have complexes of our Uni
versity. To say that even
a majority of the students
have complexes because
they are attending the Uni
versity is a gross error
and an over generalization.
However, I do laud Mrs.
Spilker on her proposal of
"selling" the University. To
me, this is the most prac
tical method of obtaining
the students the University
needs for total improve
ment. By-word of mouth
communication has always
stood as one of the best
methods of salesmanship
ever devised. It takes an
alert student body but with
the facts pointed out in the
letter from Mrs. Spilker
and on the part of the Stu
dent Council, this program
for progress can be set in
to motion.
In closing I would like to
use Mrs. S p i 1 k e r's final
statement: "The salesman
with the highest commis
sion is the salesman that
is convinced that his prod
uct is truly the best."
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Questions Raised
About Questions
To the editor:
Re: Flowerpot.
Why didn't you ask a
question?
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