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THE NEBRASKAN
Friday, November 13, 1953 Q
EDITORIAL PAGE
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rom l Regent
Dr. C. Clyde Mitchell, chairman of the ag
ricultural economics department at the Uni
versity, drew fire from two directions this
week.
First, obviously attempting to interfere
with freedom of expression of University
faculty members, the Hall County Farm
- Bureau criticized Mitchell for his views pub
' lished In a recent issue of Capper's Farmer.
The man who drafted the Farm Bureau's
resolution, Charles X. Miller of Doniphan,
told the editor of the Lincoln Journal that a
professor should not express his opinions in
writing or speaking but should "just further
the facts and let the people judge."
Then, without any hesitation, a member of
our own Board of Regents Jumped into the
fracas, exclaiming. 'No member at the Uni
versity has any right or authority to advo
cate the destruction of (the free enterprise)
system."
Regent J. Leroy Welsh, of Omaha, told re
porters, 'I am glad to have a group like these
farmers pay attention to this sort of activity
and call attention to it. I have no brief for
anyone in a tax-supported institution who
favors the destruction of the free enterprise
aystem,n
Regents C. Y. Thompson, Earle G. Johnson,
J. Q. Elliott and B. N. Greenberg declined to
comment until they had obtained more facts
in the case. Other members of the Board
were unavailable for comment.
The Farm Bureau's resolution was bad
enough. In short, the Bnreau criticized
Mitchell for arguing In favor of fixed farm
price supports. The Bureau champions a
system of flexible price supports.
While the resolution to confer with the
Board of Regents undoubtedly was aimed at
the specific stand Mitchell took in his article,
To The Rescue
Student's study time before semester exam
inations has been partially restored by action
of the Student Council.
Original Faculty Senate plans called for
placing the two-day "refresher" at the close
of the exams period to facilitate mid-year
graduation exercises. In addition, opinion
among the faculty was "the students don't use
the time for study anyway."
The Nebraskan believes, along with the
Council, that many students use the time to
full advantage. We also believe the period
serves a worth-while purpose if only a small
percentage use it for study.
Congratulations, Council, on prompt and
effective action. S.H.
An Old War Over?
A spherically-shaped germ about a millionth
of an inch in diameter has been isolated a
germ which may hold the key to development
of a weapon to fight one of America's worst
diseases.
Announcement was made Wednesday that
two University of California scientists -have
Isolated the human infantile paralysis virus.
"Polio" is a frightening word to all Ameri
cans Nebraskans are no exeception. Isola
tion of the virus causing this dreaded disease
is one of the most heartening pieces of news
we could receive.
The value of the discovery will probably
not be felt immediately, however. Just as
years of research are behind the present an
nouncement, many more may be required for
development of improved vaccines and cure.
Research was supported by the National
Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. This news
should make Americans proud, for each per
son who has contributed may feel as if he had
direct hand in speeding the fight against
polio.
We are a nation with big pocketbooks the
entire world will testify to that. The new
development in a nation-wide fight testifies
that our hearts are as big as our pocketbooks.
S.H.
Dignity Of Man
In this day, when more and more people
agree with John Dewey that there are no
eternal moral laws and that rrtAn'a mlnria arm
wholly products of biological environment, a
recent announcement from the Department of
Defense is encouraging.
Breaking with the modern thought that
man is not ultimately responsible for his ac
tions, Secretary of Defense Wilson declared
that captured Americans cannot be excused
for "confessing" to germ warfare and other
ficticious charges even under tremendous
pressure of Communist captors.
Dewey undoubtedly would have excused
forced confessions and conversions to Com
munism through threats and propaganda on
grounds that the mind is entirely subjected
to man's physical vulnerability.
Men willing to defend the sovereignty of
the mind, and indeed of the soul, are becom
ing rare.
Wilo-' statement is an expression of faith
In the dignity of man. K..R.
Legislative Chairman Miller eventually was
forced to take the undemocratic and untenable
position that professors should keep their
opinions to themselves.
As opposed as the Farm Bureau is to
Mitchell's stand, the Hall County Bureau has
not attacked Mitchell for advocating the
"destruction of the free enterprise system."
But Regent Welsh has accused Mitchell of
that very thing.
The Nebraskan questions whether Regent
Welsh knew what Mitchell wrote in Capper's
Farmer.
Mitchell said:
"Despite all the talk about free enterprise,
much of the non-agricultural economy is not
free. For that reason, agriculture demands,
and receives, help from government so that it
can compete with industry and labor . . .
"Crop loans and associated production re
strictions have placed farmers on more even
terms with America's industrial economy.
Farmers like fixed supports because they pro
vide a solid basis for planning."
He said that farmers did not feel regimented '
by price supports because "freedom they en
joy under production controls a good price
Is more valuable than the supposed free
doms they might have under an unsupported
program."
Is this advocating the "destruction of the
free enterprise system," Regent Welsh?
Is it a crime to state your support of the
status quo?
The Lincoln Star described the article as
"kind words about the farm program that has
taken shape in the last two decades taken
shape chiefly In a bipartisan atmosphere."
The Lincoln Journal said, "You could put
the whole Mitchell article, a dispassionate, an
alytical piece, into a speech by Rep. Clifford
Hope, Republican chairman of the House Ag
riculture Committee who will do the real job
of writing the national farm program, and
Mr. Hope wouldn't know the difference, since
it is what he has been saying for years. The
Mitchell article actually doesn't go so far as
Hope, or as the promises Dwight Eisenhower
made during the campaign, or as Secretary
Benson went (in a speech he didn't really be
lieve in) this fall in Wisconsin."
If what Dr. Mitchell favors Is the, "destruc
tion of the free enterprise system," Regent
Welsh, then we long ago destroyed enterprise.
If yon do not agree with the present farm
policies, direct your criticism toward the gov
ernment which Is responsible for price sup
ports. The Nebraskan can understand the position
of the Hall County Farm Bureau. Men, in a
group are easily aroused when someone chal
lenges their views on issues as close to them
as farm policy. Understanding the Bureau's
position, of course, does not accuse the group's
attempt to abolish freedom of expression for
The Nebraskan, however, cannot sympa- I
thize with the position taken by Regent
Welsh. When a member of the faculty comes
under fire for expressing his opinions lib
eral, perhaps, but far from radical The Ne
braskan would like to believe that the Board
of Regents would come to his defense.
Instead, Regent Welsh has sidestepped the
issues involved in the article and has at
tacked Mitchell for beliefs which are entirely
inconsistent with the article.
Is this the support our faculty receives from
the Board of Regents? K.R.
Margin Notes
Democracy At Work
National politics may be confusing, but in
the little village of Clifton, O. population
220 local affairs are even worse.
Voters there sent four men into a heated
race for an office that doesn't exist Then
they elected the same man mayor and coun
cilman. Next they elected a soldier on active
duty to the council, despite a strong suspicion
that he may not legally hold village public of
fice. The old system of drawing straws was cer
tainly a lot simpler.
One lost Trick
Money can't do everything. But sometimes
is sure helps.
For instance, in Greece a 44-year-old spin
ster fell madly in love with a handsome 24-year-old
shepherd. She vainly tried all the
traditional devices to win his love including
passionate advances, poetic love letters and
even kidnapping.
Then she inherited $3000 from a distant
relative.
They were married immediately.
Fable Disproved
One of the most Tellable descriptions of
chaos used to refer to a bull in a China shop.
But last week a 1000-pound bull fugitve
from a slaughter house strolled into a china
shop in Toronto. The woman proprietor
frantically shooed him out
Not a teacup was broken.
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(EDITOR'S NOTE: The fol
lowinr article, written by a
member of the faculty of the
University Teachers College, is
published by The Nebraskan as
the third and last in a series of
articles about modern education.
The series was published in ob
servance of National Education
Week.)
By ROYCE H. KNAPP
Professor of Secondary
Education
At the middle of the 20th Cen
tury, the American people are
probably being presented with
as much information about their
public educational system as
they can absorb. Newspapers,
magazines, radio, television
even student newspapers are
loaded with educational news
and views these days.
Historians writing in the 21st
Century will very likely have to
give a paragraph or two in their
history books to the tremendous
interest in public education that
was generated during the middle
of the 20th Century. It would be
tragic, indeed, if all of the view
points on public education were
alike. It is extremely beneficial
to our society that there are
many views and that they are
being expressed.
It would perhaps he worth
while to review briefly some of
the major developments that
have taken place In American
public education during; the past
half century. If we look Just
that far, we may gain some per
pective, and very likely some
basis for solving some of our
present problems. What are
some of the changes which have
been wrought in this period?
1. Science has been added in
large quantities to both the ele
mentary and secondary school
program.
2. Activities, such as athletics,
clubs, dramatics, school news
papers and so forth have be
come important in most schools.
S. Vocational education in ag
riculture, homemaking, wood
working and many other lines
has become an important ele
ment In the secondary school
4. The fine arts have become
increasingly important in most
schools. Music, and art, and
speech and dramatics have be
come highly concentrated fields
during the past quarter century.
5. Guidance and counseling ac
tivities have been incorporated
in the school program in order
to help youth match their tal
ents and abilities with the tasks
of society.
6. The past half century has
witnessed the rise of a new con
ception of human growth and
development so that today we
look at boys and girls as indi-
On The I Film Shows Rigors
Aislej Of Basic Training
While most of us have been in
school, there's been a war going
on. This week you can see a
movie about the men who fought
that war while we supposedly hit
the books.
"Take the High Ground" is not
a story about the mud and snow
of a Korean Winter. It's not a
movie about war, but rather a
story of men who are learning
about war. "Take the High
Ground" is the story of that 16
weeks of training that turns an
American boy into a fighting
man.
The closest most of us college
boys have come to knowing any
thing about the kind of life de
picted in this movie, has oc
curred when we once a week
change into our "Blacks Browns
or Blues" for fifty minutes worth
of tin-soldiering.
F6R A LOT of us "Take the
High Ground" represents a look
into the future. If you care to
find out what "Basic" is really
like, put your movie money on
the line and you can find out
(vicariously).
Platoon Drill Sergeant Richard
Widmark is more than the stere
otyped hard-nosed -"Sarge" in
"Take the High Ground." Wid
mark, a combat-vet is deter
mined to make his platoon a
bunch of real fighters. Fighting
his own battle about "duty,
honor, country" because his fa
ther was a deserter, Widmark
gives his men an even larger
than normal dose of hell-on-earth.
A NICE simple love story is
very deftly mixed into the action
as a sub-plot. Widmark hesi
tantly falls for a girl who is one
of this generation's crazy mixed
up kids. She has been married
to a soldier, whom she deserted
while he was in Korea. Soon
after she left him, he was killed.
Her feeling of guilt drives her to
the honky-tonks etc. etc. etc. The
girl is played by newcomer
Elaine Stewart.
Actually, "Take the High
Ground" is a story of what hap
pens to young people who love
peace and the quiet life, when
wars and rumors of wars plague
them. You won't find a solution
to this problem in "Take the
High Ground," but you will find
a fairly realistic appraisal.
BOB SPEARMAN.
University
Bulletin Board
FRIDAY
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the Rally, Union.
Lab Theater Try-Outs, 3-4 p.m.,
Room 206, Temple Building.
Homecoming Decoration Judg
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SATURDAY
Union Coffee Hour, 4-5:30 p.m.,
Union Lounge.
"Upturned Glass" Movie Show
ing, 7:20, Lounge, Ag Union.
SUNDAY
Better Living Series Lecture,
4 p.m., Ag Union.
Memorial Service Deceased
University Staff Members, 3 p.m..
Love Library Auditorium.
MONDAY
Lab Theater Try-Outs, 3-5 p.m..
Room 206, Temple Building.
TUESDAY
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COA Tea, 8 p.m., Union Lounge.
viduals in the classroonx and at
tempt to provide variability in
instructional procedures. More
over, most schools make pro
vision for remedial instruction
for bovs and girls who may have
difficulties in some subjects.
7. Nearly all schools today are
providing instruction in physi
ology, health and physical edu
cation under qualified instruc
tors. 8. Citizenship education has
been emphasized during the past
quarter of a century and is now
emerging as one of the major
responsibilities of the school.
9. The college preparatory
program has been least modified
of all programs in secondary
education during the past half
century. It is unfortunate that
thousands of youths .have pre
sented themselves at colleges for
admission who have not satisfied
college entrance requirements.
However, the program of col
lege preparation for our schools
is still in existence and is es
sentially unchanged. If anything,
it is a stronger program because
the courses in science, language,
English and mathematics that
are offered today in our better
high schools are more difficult
than those offered 50 years ago.
About 80 percent of our Irish
school graduates do not go on
to college. Something less than
20 per cent do arrive at higher
institutions of learning.
Despite this overwhelming non
college population of the high
school, the fact remains that in
hundreds of smaller schools the
basic program is primarily a col
lege preparatory program. We
must recognize the fact that there
are wide differences of opinion
among educators as to what
should constitute adequate col
lege preparation. Perhaps we
shall not have a final answer for
many years to come.
10. Recently increased atten
tion has been given to the im
provement of the education of
handicapped children.
11. During the past 50 years,
the high school enrollment has
increased over 3.000 per cent
from 200,000 in 1900 to more than
6,000.000 in 1950. This increase
occurred while the national pop
ulation increascsd slightly more
than 5 per cent. This tremen
dous increase in enrollment has
made public secondary education
almost universal. It has called
for a spectacular development in
school building construction.
THE AMERICAN people have
shown an unbounded faith in
American public education. They
are willing to spend millions of
dollars for their children's edu
cation. If we have learned any
thing in this past 50 or 60 years,
it is that schools are very re
sponsive to local needs and prob
lems. Our system of education is
localized to a considerable de
gree. Although it might bring stand
ardization and uniformity, and
although it might raise the ipvels
of education in some places, a
national system of education is
obnoxious to most people.
Therefore, the local community
will probably continue to be the
chief influence upon what the
schools teach, what building Is
built, what teachers are hired
and what changes are made. It
is a mistake to think that profes
sional educators can influence
m
educational change without com
munity support.
Although there have been many
movements by college and unt
versity leaders to ehangt public
education, it is difficult to dis
cern precisely the extent to yhich
these national movements ave
really made a deep or lasting
effect on a particular school sys
tem. LOOKING BACK over this half
century, one finds good reason
to be hopeful for the future. Many
innovations in public education
have been smoothly integrated
with the total school program. It
is a major achievement to have
accomplished these many
changes, and at the same time to
have increased the total popula
tion of the secondary school.
Looking at the present scene
with all of the public crises, frus- f
trations and difficulties that have J
taken place In the past 20 years, .
. one must be amaced that public
education has retained the sta
bility .hat it has through depres
sion, war and cold war. It would
never have maintained it, had the
public lost faith in their schools.
This is American Education
Week and the general theme,
"Good Schools Are Your Respon
sibility," has real meaning for
every citizen. It has meaning be
cause what citizens really want
their children to learn and do in
school will determine what
WE MUST still solve many
problems that confront us. We
must find ways of developing
more of our gifted boys and girls.
We must find ways to solve our
teacher shdrtages. We must find
ways to bring into our schools an
enriched moral and spiritual
depth. We must provide always
for the continuous improvement
of our school system through re
search, public discussion and the
never ending task of training
first-rate teachers.
By CHICK TAYLOR
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