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The Daily Nebraskan
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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.
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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
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