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THE NEBRASKAN
Wednesdoy, December 12, 1956
Mebraskan Editorials:
I Plea Considered
The Nebraskan has been squelched many
times this semester in its efforts to get the
news. ..
The primary reason for this has been the
slamming of doors in the faces of reporters wno
are earnestly trying to do their Jobs to get the
facts.
But Monday a step in the right direction was
taken by the Board on Student Publications. Dis
cussion of a proposal made by the editor of The
Nebraskan to recommend opening of the meet
ings of the Committee on Student Affairs to the
press will be made at the Pub Board's next
meeting.
Whether or not the Board will make any rec
ommendations to the Student Affairs Commit
tee is not the point in question at the present
time. A strong foundation, a powerful backing
for the cause of opening the closed meetings to
the press is the initial step which must be tak
en. It seems that with the nature of the Com
mittee on Student Affairs as it is now, students
are deprived of the knowledge essential to their
welfare.
The Nebraskan has long maintained that it is
the right of the student to hear and testify before
committees which will influence his conduct at
this institution. Until now, the student, through
the ears of the press, has been unable to know
even the names of the "Anonymous Committee"
set up by the board of Regents to decide ques
tions vital to the students.
Some suppose that the opening of meetings
of the Student Affairs Committee will mean
stricter enforcement of the laws for the campus
in general.
Perhaps this reaction would be the most favor
able to the opening of meetings. At least it
would insure the same treatment for each stud'
ent, for the Committee would know that the
students would be following, with great inter
est, with intensity, its actions.
We cannot exist safely under a system of
closed doors. Without fear of reprisal we stand
for the student's right to know what rules and
regulations are being passed by whom for his
sake.
Dean Colbert has expressed his desire to co
operate with the Nebraskan in as much as he
Is able. He has stated that he will present the
oaner's recommendation to the committee
through the channels necessary for any business
We rely on the integrity of the administration
of this University to weigh the advantages and
few disadvantages of open meetings. The prin
ciple at stake is very basis to a democratic society.
Blundering Ambassador
There are times when the North is a little
too self-righteous in its condemnation of segre
gation in the South. That view is expressed in
the following editorial, included in the St. John's
University Record, published at Collegeville,
Minnesota: .
The North has long considered itself the de
fender of the ideals of democracy, the rights of
the individual in regard to the racial segrega
tion problem. The recent verdict of the Supreme
Court concerning integration in education has
given the ankee superiority mentality an added
shot in the arm.
Consider this problem faced by a North Caro
lina state college: Two negro girls were ad
mitted to the college in an attempt to break the
segregation barrier. The school as a whole did
not merely tolerate the two girls, but accepted
them wholeheartedly 'as fellow students.
Needless to say, the two girls received great
publicity through newspapers, magazines and
other mediums of comunication. However, and
this is the problem, the school newspaper is un
able to print this story of successful integration.
The paper fears the state legislature of North
Carolina, and has reason to.
The state legislature of North Carolina is em
powered to stop state aid to state-supported
colleges. This legislature is notably pro-segregationist.
The faculty and students fear repercus
sions if the school newspaper carries the story.
The paper could be pressured into non-existence,
state aid to the college could be stopped, or per
haps, as one southern student remarked, "The
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college would be closed down and the buildings
sold to the cotton mills."
The problem is not unique. In a recent college
press conference in Cleveland, several editors
of southern college newspapers expressed sim
ilar problems. They asked simply, "What can
we do?"
A multitude of indignant, Northern defenders
of democracy will cry, "Print the story. You
have an obligation to." One editor of a north
ern college newspaper, thoroughly indoctrinated
, in Yankee self -righteousness, did just that. He
was not alone in his sentiments.
However strongly one may feel that segrega
tion and discrimination is morally and socially
wrong, it must be realized that a Supreme
Court decision alone cannot change a mentality
developed through generations.
The solution of the problem lies not in dictat
ing our way of life to them. Thumping our
Yankee chests proudly and pointing to the South
as Un-Christian and undemocratic will only
deepen the gap of resentment between north and
south. The feeling of Yankee supremacy is as
much detested by the South as the attitudes of
white supremacy is deplored by the North.
The solution lies in attempting to understand
the southern mentality and way of life. It re
quires a serious and sympathetic study of the
problems they face.
Until we are ready to understand their diffi
culties, the North will remain the blundering
and ineffectual ambassador of ill will to the
South that it has been in the past.
Cycle
Need
Dealing with the need for continued profes
sional service by (he University, this is the
first in a series on the five critical points rat
lined la the University's proposed budget which
was presented U the Governor. Other articles
w&l deal with the teacher shortage; expand
ing enrollment, agricaltare services and the
building program.
By DICK 8HUGRUE
Copy Editor
Dean of the College of Medicine J., P. Toll
man said that Nebraskans will have to remem
ber that if their University Hospital closes be
cause it can't meet the pressing needs of today's
costs, then the medical college and the school
of nursing will also have to shut down.
Pointing out that operating a medical college
without a hosiptal is like trying to maintain an
engineering school without laboratories, Tollman
stated that, additional funds for the Omaha unit
must be secured.
Tollman said that when the greatest amount
of tax money is needed for support the College
and the University Hospital state funds are
most scarce.
"When farms art faced with drought and it
becomes difficult to meet medical expenses, the
Hospital, which cares for the medically indigent
in the state, is most filled," the dean stated.
Funds ia the proposed $5J million like in the
University's budget are allocated for the Uni
versity Hospital at Omaha. "And if we don't get
these funds, well be in trouble," Dean Tollman
said.
Funds for the hospital pay for aH the gen
eral costs of the institution. These include food,
drugs, x-rays, and services. "With the mountitng
cost of living and decreasing purchasing power
cf the dollar, we are having a difficult time
making ends meet," the Dean remarked.
He noted that nurses in the hospital who have
been earning $240 per month are seeking a $80
Increase. Ta?y are being backed In their de
mands by an organization of Omaha nurses.
These nurses and professional technicians are
soma of the persons Chancellor Hardin was
speaking of when he noted that wage boosts
and the drawing power of private industry were
taking some of the most valuable personnel
from the University.
This is a problem we must meet with increased
salaries and benefits," Tollman said.
The Medical Dean conceded that the state
would be able to care for indigent patients
through private hospitals in the state by means
of welfare funds and other charities.
"But this would mean that the Hospital, which
Is equally as important, if not more so, as a
teaching center, would close down. After all,
if there are no cases to work with, no material
for the students to study, then our medical
school would be forced to close," he predicted.
He said that history is moving the other way.
"Mississippi, for example, has just increased its
medical school's facilities from a two to four
year program," the dean declared. He added
that the picture is the same in "Alabama
which just began its four-year curriculum, Ore
gon, which has expanded both University Hos
pital and Medical School operations, Syracuse
University, which transferred its medical
school to New York State and Washington
State which has increased the medical pro
gram." Tollman said that the Governor is giving
every consideration to the needs of the Uni
versity. "The people in the state have the in
terest of the school at heart. They are not ques
tioning the cost of operations at our Medical
School.
At present, tuition increases would not halt
the pressing needs of the Medical unit in Omaha.
Tollman said there are about 450 students there
paying $450 tuition a year.
"Even a substantial increase in the tuition
($50, for example) would not meet the total
operation's cost of the school of nursing which
is about $300,000 a year.
Tollman concluded that the triple duty of the
University Hospital medical , care, clinical
teaching and service from doctors and other
professional people would have to be met by
the combined efforts of the people of Nebraska
if the University Medical College is to survive.
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Nebraskan Letierips
Voice of
The Turtle
Why Is It, when one begins to
relax a little around the beltline,
that your friends find it especially
cunning to romp up and put you on
the belly and remark how "fat"
you are getting?
Instead of letting you maintain
your comfortable and prosperous-
looking frontage as you see fit.
they get all excited and try to
drive you to starvation and exer
cise until you have dwindled to a
mere shadow, like themselves.
It is a passion with them. They
Fred Daly
feel if they never accomplish an
other thing on this earth they are
going to slim you down to noth
ing more than an echo of your
former impressive circumference,
and you no longer fill out your
clothes in an impressive and ad
mirable fashion.
They are trying to make us a
nation of "little men." Gone will
be ruddy-cheeked, cigar- smoking
titan of the dinner table. Instead
we will become a nation of let-,
tuce-eaters and cottage cheese ad
vocates.
The day of the Jolly-belly is pass
ing. People just won't leave us
alone. The beer ulcer is a thing
gone.
a a a
What with the myriad of queen,
prince, bachelor, sweetheart, etc.
contests running about the campus,
it seems there it an area of the
student scene that has' been sadly
neglected.
What we need is a Dirty Old
Man contest to give a silent salute
to that small but determined band
of men who shun the razor, ab
hore the Ivy Style, and would
rather immerse their chins in a
goblet of the clear tan than dine
in the finest of restaurants.
Send your nominations to Dirty
Old Man Contest, Room 20, Union.
Probably nothing will be done with
them, which would be a good thing
for everyone concerned, but they
do rate a kind word, or something.
a a
Thought for the week:
Be there amaa with soul s
dead,
Who never te himself has said,
"To HeU with classes, I'm stay
ing in bed!"
'Party Of The Future':
Jglv vs. Old Republicans
By SAB AH KUSHKAKI
As soon as the Inauguration Day
is over, a big dissent between the
two camps of the Republican par
ty will begin a fight between the
Old Republicans and the New
Republicans. And, the way that
things are set now, the Old Re
publicans are in such a strong
position that the New Republicans
will face the utmost exhausting dif
ficulties in pushing through their
aspirations.
No matter who prepared it for
him, President Eisenhower's
speech last August in the Cow
Palace in San Francisco, was
considered to be one of the most
eloquent, primed and ingenious
speeches he had ever made. In
it, establishing as his precedent
the ideals of Abraham Lincoln
(for Eisenhower was conscious to
note that Lincoln was the only
Republican President of whom the
Republicans should be proud) he
chartered the future faith of the
party, and reached to the conclu
sion that if the Republican party
wished to become once more the
party of majority (since 1932 the
GOP has been the minority par
ty) or, as the President put it,
'the party of the future," it had
to accept his program. And the
heart of that program was to per
suade the members of the party
to become in favor of internation
alism (he must have had in mind
the tragedies of Lodge v. Wilson)
to avoid for themselves the adop
tion of such notorious titles as the
sponsors of the "slave labor act,"
to accept one of the most urgent
functions of the modern govern
mentthe , function of providing
more comfortable life for the peo
pleand to be "a little merciful
in stepping on the civil liberties
of the American people. This was
New Republicanism.
Well, that was fine. Then it was
time to fight the common enemy,
and everybody was heard to say:
"Oh, what a great speech it was!"
But when, on one hand, one looks
at the charter of the New Re
publicanism and, on the other
hand, at the people who are con
sidered to be the pillars of the
party, and from whom Eisenhow
er must obtain support, he finds
that what a waste of effort will
it be for the New Republicans.
It has been reported that once
Mr. Eisenhower was asked to com
ment on certain personalities in
the party. Sarcastically t. .e Presi
dent remarked: "There are some
people you cannot afford to have
as friends." These "some people"
are understood to include such
pious Republicans as Sen. Henry
C. Dworshak, Sen. Andrew F.
Schoeppel, Sen. Barry M. Coldwa
ter, Sen. William E. Jenner, Sen.
George W. Malone and Sen. Jo
seph R. McCarthy. And also one
could safely include in the list
such other leaders as Sen. William
F. Knowland, Sen. Everett M. Dirk
sen (incidentally, some people say
that President Eisenhower should
be grateful that the American
people did not give him a Re
publican Congress, otherwise he
would have been left without sup
port). But the point is that during these
coming four years Eisenhower
must labor so hard to outcast
the influence of these "some peo
ple" and to bring in such people
who are willing to cling to his
ideals of New Republicanism.
Indeed it has been heard that
those who oppose the New Re
publicanism are waiting for an
opportunity to blast their utmost
uproaring dissent on these unsanc
tified Republicans who are in an
effort to skin the holy cow; and
thus to spoil the great tradition
of the party.
The Campus Green
Taunt
How confoundedly complex
Organizing all these nothings into poems,
would you call this a pome?
Rather exstrominically describing
In rivid rages this instrument
Devoted to our destrustlon.
In fact unless one looks under the surface it remains
Covered (with ula skins)
Under which there may be meaning, but is it art?
Limited applausibility no doubt?
Or do you expect that everyone will figure It out?
Uferously may you search your Worterbuch
See if you can find them, myself I doubt.
1
R. L. Howry
Dear Editor:
I do not know whether the Icono
clast will deign to descent from
his olympian heights to exchange
word ssllies with his most out
spoken attacker of late whose
chief "Iaim to fame is a propensity
for heisting books from Love
Library, but were he to ponder the
deep-rooted source of much of the
criticism leveled at him in general
he need look no further than his
self-given title.
"I submit" that the Iconoclast
is at the very least somewhat p re
sumption. I doubt that H. L.
Mencken ever labeled himself as
such. In this day and age, the era
of science and the graph, (as the
Iconoclast, himself, recently
pointed out) the highest form of
recognition would seem to be that
form of recognition bestowed upon
the individualist ... the non-con-fcrmist
... or the iconoclast. Cer
tainly every individual whether he
be intellectual or of the mass must
derive some sort of secret satis
faction from receiving this recog
nition. In an era when the great
emphasis is laced upon conform
ity, it follows that the non-conformisthe
who dares to march
out of step with the rest, he who
dares to break images is going to
receive a certain distinction.
Human nature being what it is,
however, that same person who is
completely willing to say of his
own volition that "so-and-so is
really an individualist," or "so--and-so
is an iconoclast" is going to
feel somewhat alienated if "so-and-so"
asumes this same title
for himself.
Furthermore "I submit" that the
title, the Iconoclast, is unfortunate
in that its author has not managed
to break any images in so far as
the mafcwity of readers who read
his column are concerned. This
statement is based on the assump
tion that the majority of readers
who read the Iconoclast are made
up of three groups would-be egg
heads, pseudo-egg-heads, and egg
heads. In so far as these three
groups are concerned, no images
are broken when the Iconoclast
makes pungent observations about
the Eisenhower administration,
which is a perfectly respectable
thing to do in most egg-head cir
cles, nor when he speaks disparag
ingly of Jimmy Dean, who has
come in for his share of brick-bats
since the growth of bis cult follow
ing his death, or of the movie
High Society, of wLich no self
respecting critic would say any
thing nice.
Moreover the Iconoclast would
seem to be an unfortunate title in
so much as it is somewhat of an
anachronism. Nowadays (at least
in the Iconoclast's area of letters)
there just aren't very many im
ages lying around that havent
already been pretty well busted
up.
This is not to say that the Icon
clasl is not a more fortunate title
than the previous one, Schultx's
Schmultx, which had more the
flavor of a kindly old Kraut writ
ing advice to the lovelorn in Ham
burg, Germany. Nevertheless per
haps the Iconoclast would be on
safer ground were he to dub him
self something like the Egg-Head.
This title might, be to his ad
vantage for the sake of popularity
if nothing else. For it is just de
rogatory enough that a few read
ers 'might feel less alienated.
E. B. Ellison Jr.
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EAT, DRINK, AND BE MARRIED
On a recent tour of seven million American colleges,
I was atruck by two outstanding facts: first, tha great
number of students who smoke Philip Morris ; and second,
the great number of students who are married.
: The first phenomenon the r&st multitude of Philip
Morris smokers comes as no surprise, for what could
be more Intelligent than to smoke Philip Morris? After
all, pleasure is what you smoke for, and pleasure is what
Philip Morris delivers. Try one. Light up and see for
yourself.... Or, if you like, don't light up. Just take
a Philip Morris, unlighted, and puff a couple of tiroes.
Get that wonderful flavor? You bet you do! Even with
out lighting you can taste Philip Morris's fine natural
tobacco. Also, you can make your package of Philip
Morris last practically forever.
No, I say, it was not the great number of Philip
Morris smokers that astounded me; it was the great
number of married students. Latest statistics show that
at some coeducational colleges, the proportion of married
undergraduates runs as high as twenty per cent! And,
what is even more startling, fully one-quarter of these
marriages have been blessed with issue!
Now, to the young campus couple who are parents
. for the first time, the baby is likely to be a source of con
siderable worry. Therefore, let me devote today's column
to a few helpful hints on the care of babies.
First of all, we will take up the matter of diet. In
the past, babies were raised largely on table scraps. This,
however, was outlawed by the Smoot-Hawley Act, and
today babies are fed a scientific formula consisting of
dextrose, maltose, distilled water, evaporated milk, and
a twist of lemon peeL
After exiting, the baby tends to grow sleepy. A lullaby
is very useful to help it fall asleep. In case you don't
know any lullabies, make one up. For example:
Go to ileep, my UttU infant,
Goo-goo moo-moo poo-poo binfant.
A baby sleeps best on its stomach, so place it that way
in its crib. Then to make sure it will not turn itself over
during the night, lay a soft but fairly heavy object on its
back -another baby, for instance.
. . .... --'AllaV
So, as you Bee, raising a baby is no great problem.
All you need is a little patience and a lot of love. Also
diapers, rompers, soakers, crib, mattress, sheets, bumpers,
blankets, high chair, diapers, talcum, baby oil, fish liver
oil, paregoric, diapers, safety pins, cotton, cotton covered
toothpicks, bottles, diapers, nipples, diapers, bottle
brushes, booties, diapers, nighties, wrappers, diapers,
rattles, teething rings, pacifiers, diapers, and unlimited
funds.
tKiShulmn, 16I
Whin Baby U fa$t ntUep thm Jilla angel ! mhy not rao
and fire yourttlf a trtatf With Philip Morri; of eorrUi
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