The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current, December 20, 1963, Image 2
I 111 .ll'li 1 f M ojga& lies Friday, December 20, 1963 YES VIRGINIA, FflSF The New York Sun on Sept 21, 1897 published an editorial in response to a letter by an eight year old irl on whether Santa Clause exists. The editorial has become a Christmas classic. We reprint the letter and fiie editorial below: Dear Editor I am 8 years old. Some of my little Mends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says "If you see it in. The Sun it's so." Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus? Virginia CHanlon 115 West Ninety-fifth Street Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except what they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as com pared with the boundless world about him, as are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can con ceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world. You tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the super natural beauty and glory beyond. Is it real? Ah, Vir ginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding. No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten tones ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood measured by the in telligence capable of grasping the whole truth and know ledge. Yes, -Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as eertainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its high est beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus. It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginia. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this ex istence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished. Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? The Daily Nebraslcan m3252 ?J2??JS,vS155!yIin edilor; SUE HOVBC, turns aditor; SUSAN SMITH ?!?IP,?SJlFtilJ$m PARTSCH1. itaff writer.; LARRY ASMAN, MAR V McNEFF, JERRI O'NEILL. JERRY BOFFERBER. Junior S? 'WHSWSAJUL1NAPP' ARfnE GARSON. CAY LEITSCOTCK, copy teJZ?131' "hot"fr'""T; MICK ROOD. .Mrt. rtltorrMJKE JKFF BEY. emulation manajer; JIM DICK, subscription Tnimiiaer- rii i GUNLJCKS. BOB CUNNINGHAM PETE LACE. dSm aE Subanintloa ratal S3 per aem enter or M per year. unaclTl " P ffiC ta ,Jrb Daily Ncbraskan ti published at room 81. Student Union, on Monday. rJSSS"'' Th?rdiv- rrid to Univeralty of Nebraska etudentir under the S?1!!dt?0!Lof .th r,cu,,y Subcommittee on Student Publications. Publications J" "e ree from censorship by the Subcommittee or any person outside the University. Members of the Nebraskan axe responsible for what they cause o m printed. JJax Facts jjjll A REAL BARGAIN! I 'Law ,lp'Qym Gasoline ouAUTy has been improved so much THAT TWO GALLONS NOW WILL DO THE WORK THAT VOULP HAVE REQUIRED THREE GALLONS IN I92 SUEPRISIN6LY,THE COST-EXCLUDING. TAXES- IS ABOUT THc. 5AiVfc.' In THE WST 10 VEAKS, VHU f? POS, IN GEN ERAL RO&E 13 PERCENT, f TUP A.VEBA&E PfUCJE. OP r REGULAR &RAPE &AS- f CUNE, BUGK.IN& THfe teend, eropps more thah 4- pezceni. lUtriNTHESAAftE P6CAPE.6ASOLIN6 TAXES INCREASED HEAKLV 39 PEBCENT. THE FUEL. ! : nfeflfi tsm Is an fa 'rtm mil v to D f XT Til OH 2 4 ' &ASOLINE TAXES NOW COSf MOTOR ISTS $17 MILLION EVERY PAY ON A NATION-WIPE AVERAS-E, TAXES AW - . 50 PERCENT TO THE RETAIL .PRICE OP By Collexiate Press Service I don't know what it proves, but the young American has the damn dest way of discussing his real or imagined amorous exploits. In the hope that some observant sociologist will draw the sweeping con conslusion, I offer a brief discussion of this puzzle. The most prevalent and incredible feature of such discussion is that the young American male has evi dentally confused the na tional indoor pastime with the more prosaic outdoor diversions. Sex, for young Johnny, is not only a sport; it is a competitive sport. He seems to have gotten his partner confused with an opponent, A successful exploit is a "score" in the popular ar got, a triumph against an opponent in combat, much like hockey, where the ath lete outmaneuvers the v ary goalie and rings up a goal. Higginhotham's Edict Dear Editor: Due to Mr. Higgin hotham's latest edict, 14 teams are being dropped from the intramural basket ball roster. Probably more than that are included in the purge since each fra ternity usually enters three teams. The reasons: failure to check their rosters, or fail ure to pay entry fees. The procedure: To check your roster, you hand a list of names of team members and corresponding ad dresses, then you go back the next day to tell him yes, those are the right names and addresses, Mr. Higgin botham. To pay your entry fee you turn in $20. His second reason, dropping a team for failure to turn in its en try fee, would be legitimate if it did not demand more than a simple reminder phone call to get the teams to bring their money in. Figure 14 teams and as many phone calls by physi cal education staffers. That adds up to $280 that is be ing dropped from the intra mural fund for no apparent good reason. Let as be reminded, Mr. Higglnbotham, that while our intramural set up is not a money-making proposi tion, and while it is not any officially sanctioned league such as the Big Eight or Big Ten, and while students have plenty of other things to do to fill their time, it remains an important part of a student's extracurricu lar activities. For that rea son alone it exists, not be cause it is well adminis tered and not because teams are afraid to show College Sex . Also, the young man no longer copulates: he ''makes" his girl, presum ably along the lines of con structing a model airplane, ot conquering a mountain peak. The use of the sport jar gon has reached a point where one enthusiastic ath lete of my acquaintance would regale us with his nocturnal gambols much like an announcer would rattle off a play-by-play. "Had a wild game last night," he would say, eyes gleaming. "I threw a couple slwi passes and ground out the yardage. Then I took a gamble too soon on the touchdown pass and she threw me for a loss back to my own 25. So I huddled, and just bled out the line a little. Then I faded back and hurled a long pass and..." The game would vary. Some nights this young up for some minor mistake. To drop a team from the league for either of these infractions is, to say the least, too harsh a punish ment It's a familiar refrain when their is a problem here to say that students could run it better, but . . . A Student With Nothing To Do But Play Intramurals mmmm iiiiiii CONGRATULATIONS TO MAAM WINNER OF THE MML10E0 " fM(!D iOUIiUP CONTEST WINNING ENTRY- 12,090 PACKS iHiiniiafiiiiniHMn . ...... . - r:wair?rK. . . . JtWjjfAigfg,.i aw man would spend on the baskketball courts other times, a baseball game was the media through which we communicated his tri umphs and failures. Al ways, however, the wars were won, lost, or tied on the playing fields of New England beaches. There is something as disturbing as it is amusing about this attitude toward sex; for it indicates a sad element in our society. We have reached a point of ma terialism where the gratifi cation of physical needs has become a mere end in itself, where the partner in the sex act is relegated to something along the order of a vending machine. The sex act has now be come an aquisitioo, an at tainment which is equated with a car, or a phono graph, or a victory in some kind of contest. What is completely missing in this attitude is any regard for the partner, who is, after all, another human being. The prevailing attitude is geared so forcefully to the acquisition of sexual fulfill ment, that the element of love, or compassion, or even consideration is miss ing. Sex is to be obtained from an opponent, not shared with a person. To require or even ex pecta young man of nor mal makeup to be favor ably inclined to chastity is evidence either of incredi ble naivete, expect this normal young man to regard his sexual partner as some thing more than a pinbaH machine or a tennis op ponent. :t;tiniMi:sBiiTaBBtiuiBiinaninfiiHaEBmtHiiLEiiaSK! Our Sacred Cows By Jim Moore Thought that perhaps as a change of pace, I might just write a gossip column today about anyone who pops into mind. JoAnn Strateman told me that she feels left out the Cows haven't attacked her as being corrupted by the haze of a Black Masque, or as being tl3 opposite of student opinion in voting against the recent drinking problem motion before Council. The other day in the room where the Red Robes hang (Student Council Of fice) a prominent pusher and I made out the eighty fifth list on "Who the Inno cents Will Be." There's still hope, gunners of the world we only came up with twelve. Tom Kort has an ab cessed tooth. Guess we won't have any Public Is sues for a while from Coun cil . but then, did we ever? The Cather Hall veg etables recently complained that my accusation about "three kegs in Cather" was totally unfounded. I was touched by their sincerity. Dean Ross called in one of the officers of Cather and asked him how kegs should be carried into the dorm. But the last two nights I've been studying in the Cather lounge. With barf on the elevator door and a to tal of four drunken bodies staggering around, some how I was disillusioned with their righteous indignation over the "three kegs" issue. A quote: (Said before Prince Kosmet election) "I wanta be Prince Kosmet!" Speaker, John Lonnquist. He also pointed out to me in the same conversation that his father is one of the three top corn-breeders in the world and the Julius Caesar was "Chief Weinie in Rome." Smart kid, that Lonnquist. Enjoyed George Peter son's column on Playboy yesterday. He does a mar velous job of quoting other people. 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