How Near Is a Neighbor?
A neighbor is as near as there is understanding, and caring,
and a common purpose.
You will hear that question and answer many times this
week. It will be posted on billboards, broadcast on the radio,
maybe even sent to you through the mail.
It is part of the advertising for World Fellowship week,
celebrated by the YWCA this week.
World Fellowship week is admittedly a fund-raising scheme.
It will be climaxed by a worship service in the National Cath
edral in Washington, D. C., conducted by The Reverend Fran
cis B. Sayre, Jr. In this ceremony Y-teens will form an altar
processional to present funds gathered in the drive.
Like most fund raising schemes from beneficent organiza
tions, it is in-support of a worthy cause—relief abroad.
We hesitate to declare that this cause rather than any other
is most worthy of your support. Nor do we subscribe to tlie
claim that the YYV CA is “a little like the I nited Nations,"
although 65 nations are observing Fellowship Week.
But we will tell you how some of this money is used.
In Korea it finances schools. Students in Korea now sit on
wet mud floors or stand up. They share books and paper.
In Italy it is used tor rehabilitation of teen-age prostitutes,
who have fallen into the profession because of inadequate
food and housing, and ignorance.
In India it provides maternity centers, pays for cod liver
oil and vitamin pills.
In Brazil it pays teachers who teach Portuguese to refugee
immigrants.
In Lebanon it is used for an education program for better
rural living.
The World Fellowship program is not one of charity from
wealthy Americans to the rest of the world.
In Germany, Y members decided to give some of their
own much-needed funds to flood-stricken Italians.
That is the real spirit of world fellowship. That is how the
distance between neighbors is measured. (H.J.)
Limited Social Contact
“And if you join our ‘club’ you have an opportunity to enjoy a real
unique spirit of friendliness with th’ sorority next door.”
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except Sept. 17 and 19; Nov. 27 through Dec. 1; Dec. 4, 9 and 10; Dec. 12 through Jan. 5:
March 5, 10 and 11; Mar. 13 through Mar. 30; and May 30 through Tune 4, with issues on
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Opinions expressed on the editorial page are those of the writer and do not pretend to
represent the opinions of the ASUO or of the University. Initialed editorials are written by
editorial staff members. Unsigned editorials are written by the editor.
Labry Hobart, Editor
Sally Thurston, Business Manager
Jim Haycox, Editorial Assistant
Helen Jones, Bill Gurney, Associate Editors
Al Karr, Managing Editor
News Editor : Kitty Fraser
Asst. Managing Editors: Judy McLoughlin
Paul Keefe
Sports Editor: Larry Lavelle
Asst. News Editors: Laura Sturges,
Nat’l Advertising Manager: Carolyn Silva
Advertising Manager: Sally Thurston
Classified Advertising Manager: Beverly
DeMott
Layout Manager: Jim Solidum
Other Editors Say
College Press
Should Both
Puff and Pout
(Ed. Note: In the column tic
low arc printed two articles
concerning freedom of tlie
press among college newspap
ers. The first article is taken
from the Michigan State Vt-ws
of Michigan State, East Lans
ing, Mich. The second artlcIS
appeared in the Daily Kansan
of the University of Kansas at
Lawrence, Kansas.)
Michigan
State News
College editors across the na
tion have been having trouble
expressing themselves,-according j
to an article by Tom Tomizawa I
in the Masthead.
He cites many examples, a few
of which we have space to print:
“Miss Sara Woods, editor of
the University of Oklahoma
Daily . . . this spring went cor
ruption-hunting in the student
governing body, and called its
elections ‘rotten, stinking and
filthy.’
“When six students of a small
eastern college recently were rep
rimanded for drinking, the editor
of the school paper took advan
tage of the opportunity for some
barbed comments. ‘A lot the col
lege has to holler about strident
drinking,' she said in. an editorial
blast, ‘when the school owns
shares in a tavern and when it
goes around soliciting funds from
local pubs.’
The article points out that
most college newspapers arc very
loyal to their school administra
tions and often bend backwards
to support them.
“But," it continues, “it is the
school editor’s occasional flights
into criticism that get him into
hot water. That is when charges
of student editor irresponsibility
are made. And that is what the
campus Greeley despairs of. He
wants to be free to criticize, as
well as to puff, his school.’’
Tomizawa stresses the fear
most colleges have of “bad pule
.licity” as a result of campaigns
by student papers. “Schools are
sensitive to pressures of public
opinion ...”
The editor attempts to refute
this with the claim that “it is the
responsibility of the school ad
ministrators not to get into em
barrassing situations.’’
Probably never before, says the
article, have so many college edi
tors been so sharply aware of the
problem of college press freedom.
Campus editors from all parts of
the country are writing editorials
expressing their abhorrence of
controls.
Daily Kansan
A news story by the United
Press a few days ago reported a
row at the University of Minne
sota because it concluded an edi
torial with a statement that Ad
lai Stevenson would make the
best president.
The student editor who wrote
that editorial was reprimanded by
the school’s editorial committee
of the board of publications and
was told he should not have en
dorsed any candidate for presi
dent. The incident ended with the
editor agreeing to publish an
editorial favoring Eisenhower.
Despite the phones calls and
letters recently received by edi
torial writers of the Daily Kan
san saying its recent endorse
ment of Gov. Stevenson for pres
ident was out of order, we were
generally encouraged in taking
our stand, not for political rea
BOB FUNK
A Day at the Zoo •
Harry was not the sort of per
son who complains.
It was not that ho didn’t have
anything to complain about.
Hardly. It was just due to some
thing his mother had said when
Harry was very young which had
caused him to be intrapunative
rather than extrapunative, which
meant that Harry had quite a
lot of trouble with indigestion.
These were dif
ficult times. To
’ day Harry was
I looking o.it upon
the worlil with
I sad and sunken
eyes. He felt,
j somehow, that
\ the world w a s
!not exactly his
baked potato.
There was this business of
studying.-Harry meant Lo study;
he would have liked to study all
of the time. There was going to
be a test in Shakespeare, and for
some reason or other Shakes
peare was not Harry's baked po
tato, either, or anybody's baked
potato as far as he could deter
mine.
Harry had started to read the
play for the test. It had a good,
concise title: King Lear. Harry
had just about mastered the title
when fame fell from high place.
He was named to be one of the
Celestial company which was in
charge of house dance decora
tions.
The house dance was going to
bo formal with Sophisticated
Decorations. Harry was deep in
the basement executing what he
hoped was a very sophisticated
decoration when word came that
the anti-formal party had just
taken control of the government,
and that tiie theme was now
“Chow Time’’ and everyone was
going to come as some sort of
comestible. The coup had been
led by a young man who wished
to attend the dance in the guise
of a piekle. Remembering the last
house dance, Harry decided there
would be cpiite a few of those
there.
He had just finished making a
large paper mache frankfurter to
be hung over the fireplace when
the newly formed anti-comestible
party came to power and declar
ed that the theme was now
sons but because most people be
lieved we bad the right, if not the
duty, to express our honest opin
ion.
We believe it is the newspap
er’s duty to publish fair editor
ials as well as objective news.
Our columns were declared open
to both sides of the election al
though the editorial writers’ pref
erence for Gov. Stevenson was
announced. That the editor of the
Minnesota paper may have ne
glected to do this does not for
give the reprimand he got for
publishing an endorsement.
It is not necessary to restrain
from publishing one’s penfonal
preference in order to be fair to
both sides of an issue. We be
lieve we were justified in our en
dorsement as long as we Mso
published the criticisms of the
writers and of the candidates
that were received.
A student newspaper is a
learning process. The writers are
training for a job and the read
ers are training to be citizens. It
is too bad when a University can
not see its student newspaper as
a responsible publication or its
student body as mature enough
people to read a newspaper and
form their own opinions of it. To
take away such freedom at the
college level is a cramp on both
academic and intellectual free
dom.
"South American Hayrldo, .to ’
The decorations committee \\ |{«
ed through five different net (,!'
decorations. Finally the cl.nujr
had to he postponed beeuu •
was not registered with the 0£,
fice of student affairs.
Harry returned to King l.i.;y
with notlilng aliin, or nUltli, r<,g
that matter, to relish. King l.e.tr
and llarry were not compatible]
Harry’s Idea of literature was a
story which had been nrgllgt t |W
splattered Into a movie script
and made Into a musical conii ii\.
He hud a rather fatalistic
that King I.car would ncu r l>tPc
at ttie MacDonald Theater as ji
musical comedy. Jane Wjmun
might pass as Cordelia, hut I’.in/
Crosby would never make u*.
grade as la-ur.
There was not much tiir tg
dwell upon such things. H my
was wrestling with ad one v, tie?/
the matter of the Homecon rig
sign was brought to hi:, attent a>
The sign was a masterpiec' of
subtle humor. With moving p. t*.
The moving part was a duck'
which sadistically jumped u; r.jl
down on a furry object which
the fraternity hoped would > It
taken by everyone to be a Coi>
gar. There was one proble:^
which perplexed the genius who
had thought up the sign; v hift
was going to move the moving
part. A motor was out of the
question, since no one knew just
how to hook the duck up to J
motor or just what the duck
would do if hooked up to a motor.
The answer was Harry. Harry
stodd behind a large rectangle u!
cardboard which said Hi T .1 g
Alums and moved the Duck.
It was, he thought, sort of like
King Lear In the storm. (Or rath
or, he might have thought fluij
if he had re ad that far. You g-t
awfully confused writing one 0/
these columns.) »
That was on Friday. Tomorrr ,v
and tomorrow and tomorrow 1
the dusty pace skids to a t ,p
and it is time for the Sh ike.,
peare exam. »
'the eve, of the Shakes;ica:c
test settled darkly down up, , t *
campus. Harry sat, illiteral and
alone, at his study desk, f. gir;
ing his fraternity badge, wi ie*
ing who was this Goneril in '
anyway? It was the elgv H
hour; he thought with r>
hack upon the ninth anrl tiie
tenth, spent in the name of duty
working on the house dance and
moving the moving part. It wm
the eleventh hour, and King Leai
u a.s an unconscionably long play
The rushing chairman entered
“Harry,” he said, holding n pho
tostatic copy of the frat rnih
bond with Harry’s signature ^
fixed to it, “I realize tlu^^K
are busy, but between no^^mld
tomorrow I want you to go out
and meet the following fifteiai
men and ...” *
Harry smiled a fraternity smik
at him, gave him the sign, woj
and grip, and pulled out a smaV,
revolver which he always koft
flies, and rata, and shot the rush'_
ing chairman neatly between the"
eyes.
Harry was not <.110 sort of per
son who complains.
by the graduate school of tk.t
University of California at D>s -
Angeles says "America's Week!)
Daily” on its nameplate.
The Emerald is a four-da;) *
daily.
If this is confusing, you <'An
find consolation in William All®®
White who said of his co-worke?®.
"doctors bury their mistakes’;
journalists publish them.” .
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