Tuesday, February ,31, 1956
Pecs 2
THE NEBRASKAN
Nchraskan Editorials:
UTTIE MAN ON CAMPUS
by Dick Bibler - x
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Our Native Son
It isn't often that a candidate files for pub
lic office with no financial backing, official
party support or organized campaign.
Especially when he's still a senior at the
University of Nebraska.
Such a man, however, is Dick Johnson, senior
in Ag College, member of the University Stu
dent Council who Saturday tossed a battered
atraw hat, the symbol of his campaign, into
Nebraska's political ring.
Johnson filed for representative from Ne
braska's first Congressional District in the
House of Representatives. He will run against
the incumbent Phil Weaver of Falls City.
Usually, under these circumstances, such a
candidate isnt given much of a chance.
But Johnson isnt entering the 1956 Republican
primary for entertainment. He means business
and he's out to win.
The 14-year-old Fairbury student has plenty
at standard political assets on his side of the
ledger. He's young, a Marine veteran, good-
Birthday Salute
A long as man has lived in more or less a
society with others of his kind, be has delighted
in building legends about his heroes.
Ilea who, by virtue of a peculiar ability or
the fortune of being in a particular place at a
particular fame, have been idolized and placed
on high pedestals until there is nothing really
left of the original article.
Some, like Napoleon Bonaparte, were loved
and feared at the same time while in power,
vilified when defeated, and then raised again
to almost god-like heights when the French
people became tired of their new government.
Such is the fickle quantity of history, which
Wolizes some men of do particular ability, forgets
those of real greatness and can't decide on the
rest.
Then men like George Washington come
along. They never do anything wrong.
The first history an American school child
learns is how young George cut down the cherry
tree, and told his father be had done it. George
was honest.
Then, after a few side-lines on Abraham Lin
coln, the school child learns how George threw
a silver dollar across the Potomac River. He
was strong and athletic.
Then, after surveying part of the Western
Frontier, George became Col. Washington and
led the colonial militias to victory against the
British, and eventually to independence.
He chaired the congress that met to organize
fiie new state, and saw its Constitution develop
after endless haggling through the hot days of
July and August.
Ee was brave, and a true leader of a new
people.
Finally, be was the only person to be unani
mously elected President of the United States.
He served two terms in the first eight years of
the new democracy, starting a chain that exists
lip to this day.
In abort, George Washington is the embodi
ment of all the virtues that make up an Ideal
American. He rests above the common garden
variety legendary bero, who either drank too
much or had a nasty temper.
Any vices George might have had nobody
knows much about. Nobody would believe them
anyway.
So, a salute to George Washington on his
birthday, just as Americans have been saluting
for the last 157 years.
A salute to America all wrapped up in one
nan, who was the-Father of our Country, its
first military leader and its first political head.
And he still found time to invent deep-dish
apple pie-F. T. D.
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A Shock . . .
la a J$H Cornhusker, one of the division pages
shows an aerial view of the University campus
and it's a shock. Burnett Hall is only a base
ment. Love Library completely missing and
the temporary bsaTdings have not yet reared
their clapboard heads is the photograph.
But the strangest thing is the presence of run
down houses all over campus. One of them
blocked the view of Social Sciences Building
frota R Street.
All along MA Street, beside the Union, around
fee corner and across the street (does anyone
remember Dirty Earl's?) there are more.
Despite the griping tt times about campus
feeing oae vast muddy parkicg lot, it has made
a huge improvement in 13 years by getting out
ef the slums.
History Lesson
Eecest experhaet&Jtikm and research by var
foss iypnotists and psychiatrists across the coun
try hss resulted la claims of proof of reincarna
tion. Certain people notably Bridey Murphy,
esse a gay la dancing on the green Irish sod
have told their life stories through the minds of
fc tjpmLzed subjects.
The possible efiects of this system on history
Jbabrs could be astounding. Students could pick
titer particular field by simply finding out in
what period of history they originally lived.
." E beats time travel a!! hollow lor experts.
looking, a college student, and has been raised
on a Nebraska farm and the name Johnson
certainly can't hurt him any.
He has the plow-calloused hands, the mud
caked boots and the wind-burned cheeks of the
Cornhusker farmer; he has the dignity and
forthrightness of the young politician; hi3
voice and appearance carry the honest convic
tion of that which he speaks.
But most important, and not to be overlooked
in an agricultural state, Johnson knows and
understands the problems of the farmer. In his
first press release he cut to the core of the
farmer's difficulty when he said: "The answer to
our farm problem lies in providing a means
of consumption of the farm products instead
of underproduction of farm products."
If Johnson can satisfactorily show the Ne
braska farmers how to resolve this problem
bow to provide for the consumption of farm
products he may be able to make an inter
esting race for Congressman Weaver in the
primary runoff.
Already student enthusiasm, particularly on
the Ag Campus, has generated quickly behind
Johnson and individual campaign contributions,
though in small donations, have been pour
ing in.
He has set a tentative speaking itinerary to
cover the first Congressional District thoroughly
in the next few weeks. He also intends to use
the radio and television media to reach the
voters, and especially the fanners, in the Lin
coln area.
Johnson has attracted a stout group of stud
ents, interested in seeing a young man with
fresh ideas installed in the House; be has caught
the attention of several prominent Lincoln poli
ticians who are interested in beating Weaver;
he has Aan the support of several faculty
members who are interested in seeing the prin
ciples for which Johnson stands brought before
the voters; he has caught the eye of many peo
ple who would simply like to see if a young
fellow with a lot of big ideas could ever get the
job. i
In but a handful of days. Johnson has
achieved what many politicians with five times
the backing would be unable to do if nothing
else, injecting inio the Nebraska poltical
st-eam, a blood of new and younger vintage.
j-very once in a while in politics a young
candidate seems to spring out of the soil, dust
off a few specks of dirt and a couple of grains
of pollen and rise to full height before a sur
prised countryside populus.
Perhaps, in Dick Johnson, Nebraska has
such a man. B.B.
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Pending Problem
Parking on the University campus has been
a small but often irritating problem to students
and faculty for a number of years. With the
prospect of an expansive building program loom
ing in the next few years, this problem could
easily become acute.
As it stands now, parking at this University
compares favorably with other schools. Compar
ing notes with other universities in the Midwest
ern area shows that this campus is. in many
ways, better off than many universities of like
size.
This condition, however, will not last. Pres
ent building plans call for new structures to be
built in areas now used for parking. The ad
ditional space made available by purchasing pri
vate homes a few years ago along 14th street
will be gone. This space currently supports the
bulk of campus parking.
Suggestions have been made to both the ad
ministration and to the Student Council regard
ing solutions to this pending problem. They in
clude restricting ownership of on-campus cars
to juniors and seniors, building parking garages
and providing off-campus space for student and
faculty drives.
Host of these solutions would be too expensive
for the University and the state of Nebraska to
support, largely because of the large-scale ex
pansion that will start the problem in the first
place.
A parking garage would probably not pay for
itself, largely because it would be inactive dur
ing the summer. The idea of restricting on-campus
cars to upper classmen has been squelched
because of the hardship to students trying to get
around in a city as large as Lincoln.
The best solution seems to be the purchase
of additional land outside the present boundries
of the University, necessitating students to walk
a few additional blocks.
This purchase of land would be very expensive
according to the Administration, and the avail
ability of much space is limited by local busi
ness districts and the railroad right-of-way.
It is perhaps a little strange to be thinking
of a problem regarding the University which does
not exist at the present. The fact that this prob
lem will exist sometime in the future can be
seen only by observing plans that as yet have
not been pot into effect. For this reason, it is
an easy matter to to overlook the situation.
It is, however, a situation that cannot be
overlooked. With enrollment expected to reach
13,000 in ten years, and with new buildings and
other facilities, students within the next decade
might easily find themselves with little or no
access to automobiles.
.The University, with sights set on a bigger
and better University, should perhaps lower
tltem bit to the street level. F. T. D.
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NEW YORK, Feb. 15 - This
morning began for us with a
guided tour of the United Nations,
which culminated in a council with
Joseph El Haj, member of the
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tries through sending in experts
for consultation, by raising fellow
ships for the education of indigen
ous engineers and by establishing
training centers in the actual
areas. Direct gifts of money are
never given.
Perhaps the high spot of the
day was our opportunity to ob
serve the shrewd Soviet tactics at
work in the Trusteeship Council,
the body of 14 members which is
responsible for the supervision of
the 10 UN trust territories.
During the Belgian committee re
port of the conditions in Ruanda
Urundi, the Soviet delegate con
stantly besieged the speaker with
exacting questions and tart com
ments. From the American point of
view the grilling was repetitious
and unnecessarily sarcastic, but to
the Asiatic and African nations,
the Russians' attitude was an in
dication that Russia is vitally in
terested in their land, taxation and
public work problems.
I am compiling two notebooks
for the benefit of - tevitv. One
is a list of People V. 'io Are Walk
ing Absurdities a r-P-dly grow
ing and not-in-tbe-least-c:;o'usive
host, but, regrettably, libelous);
the othr is s notebook of the
Things I Would Least Like To Do.
And one of the primary Things
I Would Least Like To Do is
to plan or have anything to do
with the Spring Event. Just what
the Spring Event is, I don't know,
but it's at least a committee's
worth.
Anyhow, it is a colossal waste
of time worse, far, than Build
ers could ever hope to be and if it
could walk, it would be in the oth
er notebook.
So far, I have hesitated to men
tion this farce because participa
tion in it has been limited to a
small committee of otherwise
worthwhile people who met for
lunch in the Union (where else?
My Bootless Cries
I imagine even the local Com
munist cell plotting to overthrow
the government meeis in Parlor
X for lunch once a week) every
Wednesday, and bored themselves
with soporific syrup about further
ing the student's interests, et c:t
era. Until the issuance of last Fri
day's Nebraskan, I let this sleep
ing dog lie, hoping it would get
diabetes and forsake the Spring
Event. But, alas, I've been in my
tent too long. 1 should have entered
battle long ago. Someone dropped
a lump of sugar in the campus
beer.
The notoriously objective and
stoical Nebraskan nearly did hand
stands over Spring Day, tra-la-la
It was. to them, "long await
ed, much planned, fully discussed"
(I'll bet it was fully discussed.
Belabored might be more the
word). They said it will be an
other Veishea. If I want another
Veishea, 111 go to Iowa State for
it.
Last year the only thing that
siived us from the potato-sarV
races and the greased pigs wag
an opportune campus riot. It
doesn't look like well have as
much luck this year.
The ostensible purpose of this
thing is to preclude any such out
bursts as a riot this year. It's a
pretty reckless preventative, it
seems to me.
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All I can foresee is a free after,
noon for most males to drink beer
elsewhere, an epidemic of ague
from sitting on the village green
during the (ugh) barbecue and a
lot of slippery, uneducated pigs
running around with or without
blue jeans.
I doubt if the Nebraskan or the
Committee realizes that this Spring
Event has definite pagan over
toi.es, and I call upon the student
religious chapels to ban the thing,
For my part, I'll be home in
my cellar breeding plague rats
and howling imprecautions down
op the street-dancers. Either that,
or I'll be at the Spring Event,
making entries in my notebooks.
Letlerip
Denuded Texts
To the Editor:
Why is it that a school of N.U.'s
status has no standard book cover
design? The only book covers
available this year have been of
poor quality and they are still
scarce.
Other institutions utilize a cover
with school colors and the seal or
other symbolic design; students
are easily recognized by the books
they carry (if they are caught in
the act!)
Why must Huskers carry denud
ed texts? Surely they realize the
functional as well as decorative
value of a good book cover. Per
haps campus bookstores could in
vestigate the matter and start
selling decent covers.
Undercover Operator
The kids who hold onto their dreams
All kids dream.
Some of their dreams are but phantasy.
Others are those of accomplishment, of do
ing something better, creating thincr that
haven't been created before.
A Special Group
Saluting a whole profession, though, is ex
tremely broad. This company has come to
feel that there is appreciable difference be
tween just an engineer and a Honeywell
engineer. Time and again, Honeywell's
engineers outstrip those of other leading
corporations with speed and effectiveness in
their solutions to difficult problems.
Many a lad has turned such dreams into a
way of life. They have become graduate en
gineers. Equipped with an important array
of technical learning, they have taken posi
tions in the nation's laboratories, engineer
ing firms and factories. By doing so, they
are contributing to the health, welfare and
happiness of us all.
A Nation Salute$ its Engineers
This week is National Engineers' Week. Be
cause Minneapolis-Honeyvt-cll is basically an
engineering company, wc take special inter
est in the nation's salute to the engineering
profession.
What accounts for this, of course, is the co
operation and spirit with which each job is
attacked. This makes Honeywell particu
larly proud of its engineers. We now, there
fore, riot only salute the engineers of America.
U e also want to express special appreciation
to a special group within that profession,
the engineers of Minneapolis-Honeywell