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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
Sunday, fanuary 12, 1947
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EDITORIAL STAFF
Editor . . Phyllis Tearsrden
Manarjnr; Editors .. .. . . Rhirley JenVlns, Mary Alice t'awood
Newt Editors Dale Novolny, Jack Hill. Mary Louise Blnmrl,
Jeanne Kerrigan, Norm l.tftt
ftporta Editor , , George Miller
fiocirtT Editor Pat Jrnaen
At Newt Kdltor Phil Ray oar d
Personally Speaking
By Norm Leger
Contrary to popular belief, the Daily Nebraskan office
isn't always the hectic and confused place that Crib talk
and Bui Palmer make it out to be. In fact, m the a. m. hours
the Rag office has a morgue-like silence, and here one can
spend a leisurely hour or two retyping an English theme
that is due the next hour, or browsing through the files.
For some unimportant reason, we wandered into the
office one morning last week, and, since we found the in
spiration to complete the theme during Christmas vacation,
we were able to spend the time reading what erstwhile re
porters, columnists and letteripists had to say in bygone
days.
And that explains how we happened to be rereading
several "Hell and High Water" and "Les Said the Better"
columns written by the famed columnist, Les Glotfelty. Un
fortunately, freshman and transfer students may find the
name unfamiliar. Not having known Les or read her col
umns is your loss. Ours too we knew her only through her
column.
Les was a gal who saw the need for bringing to light
through the press both good and bad elements of university
life. She knew (or soon found out) what needed to be said,
and had the courage to say it, despite the reverberations
that her alarming but veracious comments brought.
Les is gone, but the need that she so admirably fulfilled
still exists. Oftentimes we are tempted to do a little "spot
lighting" ourself. We regret that we haven't the insight
and acuteness of expression that Les had. We may have
the courage but not the means. Hoping that time and trial
will give us that, we ask you to bear with us while we
struggle or send another Glotfelty around. We would wel
come one of either sex. x
The Mortar Boards (and prospective members, Junior
Women) in the year of '43-'44 were rightfully subjected to
a continuous flaying rendered by the acrid Glotfelty pen.
The Innocents were spared. They had gone to war. Tem
porarily, the organization had become defunct.
Whether peace is here or not is a debatable question,
but the war is over, and the men are back in school and
have been for a considerable time. Enough time, anyway, to
let a number of men obtain senior standing and become
leaders in the men's organizations. Yet the once-active
Innocents are still defunct for all practical purposes.
We won't commit ourself to say whether or not we
think the organization should be permanently defunct, but J
we do fjeel that if the Innocents planned to become once
again an active organization they plainly missed the ball
this year, anyway. And why? Because they failed to tap
this year's senior men who deserve the honor. Last spring
they offered the excuse that they had just returned and did
not know who the outstanding Junior men were. What
kept them from tapping this semester after they "iad time
to observe and determine who the leaders of the senior class
were? A constitution? Or reluctance on the part of the
members who thought their glory would be gone if a new
group of Innocents were tapped? Now there is no glory.
With two or three exceptions, the campus male leaders are
not wearers of the red hoods.
We know enough of the senior men to be convinced
that they are big enough to feel little regret for not being
of The Thirteen. But the tragedy is this: these men are the
ones in the position to know the men who will best be quali
fied for Innocent membership next spring.
This means that the Innocents will have to make their
selection of new members in one of two ways. One, to judge
as "outsiders" (with the exceptions), or to confer with the
senior men who are leaders, and base the selections upon
their recommendations. The latter would obviously be the
more intelligent procedure to take but embarrassing, con
sidering how the Innocents have turned their backs on the
men in-the-know. Time will tell whether intelligence or
foolish pride will win out.
Perhaps there is a sound explanation for the course the
Innocents have taken. If so, we would like to hear it. Think
what you will, our concern is with fair play. We like to see
credit given where credit is due, and, accordingly, we think
that if an organization exists for the purpose of giving
recognition to campus leaders it should do a sufficient job..
Besides, we're only a sophomore, and what's more we could
give you a good affirmative argument on the question,
"should senior activity honoraries be abolished ?", unless it
was proven to us that without them activities would still be
over-run with people more .concerned with getting a name
for themselves rather than with serving the activity and the
university. ,
News
Print I
BY JACK HILL.
Taxes and the 1947 federal bud
get caused the first major partisan
Ilareup on the floor of congress
this week-end as republican house
and senate leaders reacted to
President Truman's 1947 request
for $37,528,000,000.
The long-awaited GOP plans for
a 20 ir.x clash r:-:lved a body
blow from the proposed budget
since the full amount would re
quire no reductions. Referred to
asg a "tough budget" by the Presi
dent, the fiscal plan would place
the nation's federal economy in
balance for the first time in 18
years.
However, a forerunner of what
the political year will bring was
shown in the highly mixed re
action by republican leaders as
opposed to the democrats.
Knutson of Minnesota, chair
man of the house ways and means
committee and one of the staunch
est proponents of the over-all 20
income tax drop, commented that
no matter what the president sub
milted, the house would "adopt a
budget that will enable us to cut
taxes."
Senator Taft of Ohio announced
his belief that the presidential
proposal could be reduced by
$3,500,000,000. Federal depart
ment heads have already regis
tcred mild protests to the Truman
plan and definite howls are pre
dieted if the republican cut goes
through.
One of the more interesting
sidelights on the entire budget
question came with a memor
andum from the white house to
all armed forces. The army and
navy, who would like a slice of
the melon, have been ordered to
remain silent on the more than
four billion dollar reduction thoy
have been subjected to.
Republican leaders, playing
politics for all it is worth, claimed
that the president's only savings
had come at the cost of the na
tional defense program and the
vetreans benefit plan.
From the dispatches available,
it appears that a compromise will
be necessary, but the scene in
Washington being what it is, there
can be little doubt that most
of the giving will have to be done
on the part of Truman and the
democratic minority.
Happiest news in many moons
for the housewife and the bachelor
vet came with hints that food
prices are beginning to drop. Re
ports from all over the nation
seem to point to wholesale cuts
resulting from overstocked inven
tories and increases in food sup
plies. Labor received a storm-warn
ing with the Introduction of a
bill by Joe Ball of Minnesota,
outlawing collective bargaining.
While the bill is in the tentative
stage, the mere fact that any rep
resentative is willing to go to
such extreme measures should be
a sign of the times for all unions.
Ball had already introduced, a bill
forbidding closed shops and the
house and senate agendas are be-
CORRECTION
Due to a typographical error,
Friday's Daily Nebraskans
stated that Lyell Bremser's talk
by members of Alpha Epsilon
Rho would be Jan. 15. The
correct date is" Jan. 14.
ing flooded by increasing amounts
of anti-labor legislation.
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POEM FOR THE WEEK:
I've never seen a Reader read
Surely a Reader reads xome
When biology quiz returns I see
I'd rather freeze than be one.
A Reader's life may be tiresome and dull
Not worth the meager fee
But 1 think it's the Reader's own darn fault
Whejn he writes the note, "Sec me."
I used to think a Reader had final say
But I found the theory debunked
When I learned the inside dope from a prof
Who said 'They only read cause they flunked!'
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