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TTIE DAILY NEBRASKAN
Friday, Tuly 8, 1949
JIisl (Dotty rh6AaAuttv
Member
Intercollegiate Press
rOKTT -SEVENTY THAR
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8, 117, autnorired September 10, lyzi.
Editor M. J. Melk-k
Business Manager Keith O'Bannon
It seems as though the DAILY doesn't care too much for the way
one of our aluir spends his money. Planning on being a rich alum
someday myself I have been discouraged from ever donating anything
to this fair institution. I had planned on giving the first half of my
first million to the university to build a wall around the campus
with the names of all of those of us who have managed to cheat, crib,
study our way through the school. The second half of that million
I had planned to U6e to earn my second million all of which I was
going to donate to the school. I was going to let the Board of Regents
use the money as they saw fit, but now I am afraid they might be
influenced by the DAILY and use it for some foolish purpose such
as class room buildings, auditoriums, and so forth.
I may even be forced to use the money for my own use. To an
old alum there is no greater satisfaction in life than being able to give
a million or so of the money he has earned through the education
that his alma mater gave him. Now that I know that this has been
taken from me I look forward to my old age with much dismay.
Ajax O'Meara.
Whittakcr . . .
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marshall after being adjudged
unsafe.
Tryouts for the production were
open to any summer session stu
dents. They were concluded Tues
day night and the cast was then
announced by Whittaker. Re
hearsals will begin immediately
according to the play's director.
Summer theater is a regular
part of the University's summer
session program. Last year's pro
duction "The Show-Off by
George Kelley starred Bill Pal
mer. The show was directed by
Dallas Williams of the speech de
partment. It featured a minimum
of scenery and other stage props
in contrast to this year's produc
tion which promises some elabo
rate stage effects.
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Basement
The other day we heard a
sweet-faced tittle coed say
cheerfully "I just don't under
stand politics on this campus"
and just as cheerfully we could
have smashed her dear little head
right in.
On second thought, it occurred
to us that perhaps she'd get the
point of campus horsetrading if
we drew a set of pictures for her,
and threw in a little information
gathered from Psycho 70, Poli
Sci, and Animal Husbandry.
But we decided that we weren't
artists, nor do we have any red
paint handy so, we will give
that sweet-faced little thing the
picture in words and music.
First, a few statistics. Around
ten thousand students annually
are enrolled in NU. Less than
one tenth of this group are
Greek. The rest, we presume,
struggle along
This Greek group, however, is
not the control. That is where
even interested people get fouled
up, when analyzing the political
system on this campus.
This campus is politically con
trolled by about ten people, and
usually one or two of these
people have a final sayso. These
big ten may be all Greek, BUT
it is not a prerequisite. The pre
requisites seem to be a certain
kind of smartness, a willingness
to crawl, a willingness to com
promise, and a willingness to
deal out your best friend if it
has to be done.
The way it is now, control is
in the Greek name, but even so
there are just a few hands in the
pot, so to speak.
Let s analyze what those in
control have to gain, and how
they operate. They have to gain:
places in senior honoraries; class
offieership; posts in activities.
They do gain these things, and
sometimes more. A nice basis for
a power complex, later in life.
So, perhaps the sweetfaced
little coed says: " I came to col
lege for an education. Some
people, including myself, don't
care about these activities, and
honoraries.
The little girl doesn't have her
thinking cap on. These activities,
and these honoraries are im
portant. They establish contacts,
socially, economically, politically.
They get better jobs, for it just
stands to reason that an em
ployer, who is looking for a man
or woman straight out of college,
and who wants the type of per
son that is going to be worth a
good salary, is going to pick a
man or woman who has been ac
tive in these things so we say,
See BARGAIN, page 4.
On the National Scene .
It looks as if Congress is throwing rocks at the presi
dent and Truman is hiding behind them. The issue, of
course, is government spending.
The calculations didn't run particularly close for this
fiscal year and now someone has to take the blame. While
the powers that be in Washington are passing the buck
back and forth, we in Nebraska have a few general com
ments to make on the entire subject of government finances.
The whole matter seems a trifle incoherent. If gov
ernment spending is purposeful and systematized we have
yet to find the system. Every year a certain sum of money
must be disposed of so someone flips a coin and bingo it's
gone. The next year the same process is repeated and so
on ad infinitum, witk apparently no reason.
A factory manager will show off an air-purification
apparatus, installed at considerable expense, or a costly bit
of machinery, with the simple explanation: "It increases
efficiency."
True economy, then, is a difficult and sophisticated
art, and yet an understanding of the principle of making
real savings through high-capital-cost efficiency rather
than through painful and short-sighted frugality is rather
well-diffused among us. There is only one level on which
we still insist on a more primitive approach to the question
of economy, and that is the level of government.
As we said before, our government spends a great deal
of money but not in the imaginative way that business does,
for the sake of future benefits, ultimate savings, smooth
ness of function or contented operation.
For example, to set up a fund, say, five billions of
dollars, right now, to halt the gathering recession by pro
viding work on public projects, and low-cost loans for busi
ness expansion, might completely change the current busi
ness mood and atmosphere. But at the mere thought the
cry "economy" would split the air. Our government is
simply notallowed to engage in this kind of economic
weather control or social air-conditioning.
No private business would be debarred by its stockholders
for spending money to provide against a known risk. But
government is. It is only on the governmental level that
we consider a penny spent to be a penny lost. Government
simply isn't allowed to be as clever or as acknowledageable
or as foresighted or as cagy as private business.
Government under the argument of economy is not
permitted to take steps to insure the welfare of its citizens
or its own delicate financial balance. Numbly, it must lift
its head toward whatever blow may fall; knowing what
may happen, it is nonetheless required to act as if it did not
know and all this is justified on the ground that it is
important for us to "save" every penny possible.
No man dares to go very far in life without insurance,
but for government to take out insurance in its own future
and its own people is unthinkable.
Government spending with a purpose? Government
spending to ward off crises to prevent disaster which
may cost billions how novel!
Well might the boys behind the bricks stop to consider
where the dollars have gone and for what purpose, rather
than "who done it."
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