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r r r . -i v w w -a- Hv ... 4 KAnndav. Nov. 20, 1961 Pane 2 The Daily Nebraskan . EDITORIAL OPINION Death Awaits Campus Drivers j What would be the results of a total nuclear war 1 directed towards the United States? What if a 50 mega- ton bomb were dropped over the Strategic Air Com- mand headquarters in Omaha? Needless to say, millions would die in a million horrible ways. This type of mass slaughter, however, is not our biggest threat today. Over the next four or five days, hundreds of Amer- lean citizens will die or be crippled. But not because of aey bomb or bombs dropped. The only weapons in- volved in the tragic deaths to come are automobiles and, In some cases, malfunctioning minds. The Thanksgiving holiday weekend is expected to draw a good portion of America's drivers on to the roads for that quick trip to the next city or that jaunt across the state. The National Safety Council estimates a shocking total of drivers and occupants of automobiles who will never make the return trip home. For them there will be no Thanksgiving. Long ago the Council quit trying to be nice and decided to be realistic. The odds are against us. There are too many fac- ulty members, administrators, students and employees for all of us to finish the semester. Pure statistics de- mand that there are those living and breathing this instant which will never open another book, work an- other hour or see another day after this Thanksgiving weekend. None of us want to die. The statistics, odds and esti- I mates can be beaten. What does it take? It takes com- mon sense. The National Safety Council says that four I out of ten accidents are due to speed. There are other f things, however. Driving when tired, driving while in- toxicated, driving for an extended period of time, driv- I ing with a wandering mind, driving too close to the I car in front of you and on and on. I Perhaps the best advice we can give the drivers i is a simple slogan most people have heard before "Drive Defensively." Sometimes in football circles ex- perts say the best offense is a better defense. The 1 same philosophy holds true for those who travel by I auto. Drive as though the guy in front of you will not 1 signal for a left tarn, drive as though there is a car coming over the hill or around the curve. In short, I think of yourself and the other driver too. Driving is a 1 full-time job when yon are behind the wheel so play k that way and be back next Monday. f We would go a step further than the slogan. "Drive f safely. The life you save may be your own." We have amended it to. read. "Drive safely. The life you save may be that of a staff member of the Daily Nebraskan we need them back!" (X. B.) A Tribute Paid to I A. J. Lewandowski The University and entire state was shocked Satur- day with the death of A. J. Lewandowski, athletic busi- I ness manager and long-time Cornhusker athletic admin- I istrator. j Lewandowski spent most of his lifetime working with Husker athletics after his graduation from the Univer- I sity where he was an outstanding athlete himself. His I efforts have had much to do with the stable financial I status the athletic department now enjoys. I His dedicated efforts during the lean years of World 1 War II and after went a long ways toward keeping the NU athletics alive. He served as athletic director for a year, football coach, and coach of other varsity sports during those hard times. 1 His absence will be felt not only in the role of busi- ness manager and stalwart of the Husker athletic system' 1 but also as a leading citizen and dedicated individual. I (NB.)l Peace Corps and People to People (Useful But No Answer to Peace Letterip Eric Sevareid Noting, but not exam ing General Eisenhower's ambidextrous perform ance in ridiculing the Peace Corps while ac cepting the chalr m a nship of the "Peop 1 e to Peo ple" or g a n i z a tion, which is based on the same premise, jm we Sevareid might look at the popular, . chiefly American, notion that if only people alien to each other could "get to know one another," peace will be preserved. History not only sug gests but insists that while the by-products of personal and cultural ex changes across frontiers are many and important, peace is not necessarily numbered among them. If there were a direct re lation between acquaint anceship and peace, then generations of a saturat ing intercourse, through tourist travel, literature, science, music and the visual arts, should have produced something else between Germany and her neighbors than three ghastly wars in "0 years. Then the American civil war should never have happened. IU opposing participants were hardly strangers to one another; some were of the same family. Physiologically, "a 1 1 men are essentially the sme," but in terms of ideas and illusions they are not, and it is illusions and ideas that set great movements in motion, in cluding wars. Contrasting ideas do not always merge and soften by con versational contact. In deed, the more contact I have had with hard-core Russian Communists the more inimical I feel, the the more frightened I be come of their prefabri cated, mechanical minds; and presumably they feel the same. 'At thing! now stand, the only form of "greater understanding" between Russians and Americans that is conducive to peace is the mutual understand ing that if one tries to destroy the other, be will himself be destroyed. We have to assume that Communism is not even remotely an alternative way of life, but is, in fact, a political weapon de signed for the simple sez ure of power. We have to assume that the likeliest perhaps the only prac tical road toward peace lies in the slowing and eventual halting of the Communist advance. Therefore, all person-to person contact with the Communist world must be designed to weaken their resolve, which is exactly the design of all the contacts they initiate tcvar&s us. Not always does the chasm widen. Occasional ly they win a victory, as in the case of the nation ally circulated columnist who recently informed millions of Americans that we must get used to the idea that "Commun ism isn't really all that bad." More often thev lose; individual defections Fall 'Schooner Issue Ready "An issue of specialities" is the description given by Bere nice Slote, acting editor of the Prairie Schooner, to the fall issue of the literary mag azine edited by Karl Shapiro. One of the articles the ma 2 azine contains is a review ar ticle by Mrs. Viola H. Drath, Lincoln, on the Germai Lit erature in Exile by William K. Pieiler, professor in the German department Hopkins Again is a critical article on "Gerard Manley Hopkins, associated with on Spanish baroque architecture The Harlem Gallery: Book 1: the Curator, by Mrlvin ToJ son of Oklahoma, is from a long poem on the history of the Negro people. A story called Where There is Love the River Goes by French author Caroline Dei teil is also included in the magazine. The Prairie Schooner is T;aa. ;si uvik6 is pepscwz is me, ak ask I JlMN5!irWNS -I ME HOW TO UVE..J HELL THM I SAttfiSMSS TII 1 5 THE NO, X THINK l I MCTOSAsKEiSfiJWOyri 1 Courtiw a! Omah WirW HeraU - Daily Nebraskan Member Associate! CofierUt Frets, latfrniUonU Frees KeprewmtiMve: Xxtlona! Adverttitng Scrrfec lawrporfttai Published lU Eon St, Student I mo a, Lincoln, Nebraska. SEVEN TT-OXE TEAKS OLD HUl K Telephone HE I-TC21 ext. UU. 4226. 4227 ftioMrlatMa imh an f 1 aw mini a n tnraw afladxmit nar. IpwM a wmm ouvm aiatMr i Ow 91 mttu m Linmla. KckiwMa, The OaUy rm-m m vuklMkMI Wadav. Twmamt, Mnn airf rn at vtn tt vkMl reu, ranri 4arMm maum mmt w . ttr .imim 1 m wm mmwrtua t tuki mfAnmm (iblimtM mtm tkr jMiiiw ( m ftakeamitm MuiOrM rnMwrntUm atea fee Imp raa WW nnanHil mm the tout e ke MkmnMlii m M tar aal at aar Biwwna aMtna thr I ntwnttt. n mmitwr af MM! Oall atawtkaii ataff an rmrr a. ms. ATTENTION STUDENTS I ! SAVE A PACK CONTEST ! EflDS DECEMBER 1 -save your packs- f f . f I fitarlboro - Parliament ! from traveling Russian delegations are a famili ar story. This will contin- ue to happen in spite of the severely hand-picked nature and the severe su pervision of their cultur al emissaries. It will hap pen in spite of the fact, 1 discovered by American investigators, that one fourth of their visitors are repeaters, returned ' here because of their proven abilities as intel ligence agents or propa gandists. We have some thing to gain, little to lose by continuing these exchanges, and we would gain more if all our own emissaries to Russia were trained debators. There is a certain amount of hunger for in formation about the west in Russia itself and this is not true in reverse. But the assembly halls of Moscow University and the conference rooms at Black Sea resorts are not exactly soft spots in the Communist intellectual fortress. The soft spots are in the satellite coun tries. Historically, the Slavic peoples of eastern Europe provided the will ing transmission belt for getting Western ideas into Russia. If East Ger many is now a fenced-in intellectual desert, Poland is fairly open to our ef forts, and there. If any where, should our efforts be concentrated. Governments, for most countries, decide peace or war, and governments do not always or often be have like individuals, which is where so many well-meaning Americans get confused. But there remain governments on this earth which are sub ject to degrees of popu lar feelings conditioned by personal exchanges. Thousands of "returned students" from America proved ineffective when the Communists cod quered the mainland of China; all their training was a waste. Score of devoted Western mission aries have been tortured and killed by the very African nationalists whose aspiration., we had en dorsed. Yet there can be little doubt that a gener ation's work by American school teachers in the vil lages of the Philippines had much to do with that good country's generally relations with us. Nkrumah of Ghana was embittered by his exper iences in A mere? as a student and his present policies may stem in part from that. Yet, a couple of hundred miles from his old Danish presiden tial palace, Azikewe of Nigeria sits as governor eeneral in the old Eng lish palace at Lagos. He is equally black; he, too, was a young student in America, but for him, the American experience for tifited belief in democ racy. Personal exchanges cut, the ice both ways; on the whole, I think, the larger portion goes to us. Even on a massive scale they could not guarantee peace. But they can slow ly, bit by bit, weaken the force and attraction of Communism, the serious debilitation of which will be the ultimate guaran tor of peace. one hand. The original pur pose and motivation has near ly been lost in the re maining "activities" and they pxist as empiy Mieus now "Activity Letter" Draws Comment To the editor: The complaints of "Thir- circumscribed by meaningless teen Sorority Activity Chair- constitutions. .. v.-J. . n fnr a Student activities must em men" which ran on for a o genuineiy worthwhile seemingly interminable j,rinciples and practices serv length (two full-length col- ing a goal that benefits the umns) was an interesting studeht body as a whole, as plea for dying activities, and wen as serving the individual at the same time, a plea to student's ambition, cease the crowding of the few sk yourself,1 activity chair popular activities remaining maf is this activity bene in the good old "Union fiting the student body in any Hall". worthwhile manner?", and The possibility that student tnen aSk yourself "Is this ac- activities are regarded as tivity necessary?", A careful merely a stepping-stone to a re-evaluation of the goals and student's political achieve- methods of student activities ment sems to be inimical may weii be a start toward to the activity chairmen. If regenerating interest in un- a student activity is to be re- popular organizations. garded in any other light, then the activity must offer some other form of achieve ment and (Unfortunately?) re ward to the student. Since 1956, numerous obser vations have led me to be lieve that student activities offering anything but politi cal recognition or the hope thereof can be counted on Very truly yours, David h. Menke Use Nebraskan Want Ads ; sic flics ; "I understand you don't see eye-to-eye jwfei?- with Professor Shultz...." qticiAfTTEs 21 GREAT TOBACCOS MAKE 20 WONDERFUL SMOKES! AGED MILD. BLENDED MILP-NOI FILTERED MltD THEY SATISFY J (I n Hw4 A y 1 ii - r-Zzf ' iOOO; 1 1 J ' jooo; , 1 J o o o . ! o o o lw 5y ry wlkss(i& naming Distinguished from that whtch h pres. ticat appltcation, pure research is corv cerned with the discovery of fundamental knowledse to widen mart's understating of himself and tfit universe. 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