The Daily Nebraskon
Wednesday, May 20, 1959
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Editorial Comment:
Political Warfare Red Goal SsW?
Once upon a time (1917) the first Com
munists in power in a government any
where in the world sat down at a place
called Brest Litovsk to make peace with
the Germans.
For a while there, it looked like the
Russians, thoroughly defeated though their
armies were, were going to get a fairly
reasonable peace. Either that or they
were going to stall the Germans until their
propaganda machine had rendered Ger
many's army as ineffective as the Rus
sians'. Unfortunately or not, the Germans re
covered from the shock of the new kind of
conference and imposed typically harsh
terms on the Russians just in time.
In Just a few short weeks, the Germans
realized what the Communists meant
when they said, "Let's sit down and talk
things over." Apparently, the United
States hasn't found out in 15 years of talk
ing with the Soviets since the end of the
war.
The present Geneva talks are an ex
ample. From the beginning the Russians
had heir tried and true propaganda
methods in operation, taking every op
portunity to make the conference a forura
for their political ideology while the west
ern nations sat patiently by, getting kicked
in the face.
And yet, it would be so easy to blow all
the Communist smoke right back in the
Russian's faces. It would be so easy to
stop being painfully diplomatic and start
being painfully embarrassing to the Com
muntsts. For instance:
"Seat the East Germans at this table
but of course Mr. Gromyko. By all means
give them a free voice in this conference.
It has been years since a free voice has
been heard from beyond the Elbe. It has
been years since East Germans have
elected free delegates to sit at a confer
ence table as liberated men, unashamed
and proud to speak their minds without
fear of censure. But then, isn't that what
we have been proposing all along, Mr.
Gromyko?"
Maybe by now it is time the West real
izes that the Russians come to a confer
ence table not to sincerely resolve differ
ences but to wage political warfare.
Maybe by now it is time we tried it, too.
Handy Unofficial Graduate
Though he's not officially a graduating
senior, the University will lose a man this
spring who has become a part of the grad
uating class.
After four years at Nebraska, Bob
Handy, the Union activities director is de
parting for Kansas City University.
There he will be the director of a brand
new, million and a quarter student union.
The new Job will be quite a challenge to
Bob for the school has never had a union
before and he will be starting his program
from scratch.
But people who know Mr. Handy are
convinced that he will handle it with his
Turn Down Volume
On Carrilon Tower
We hate to end up the semester by be
ing old grouches. ,
But we feel that somebody really ought
to say something about bells.
Now we have been supporters of beauti
fy the campus measures as long as they
were practical. We have encouraged cam
pus traditions as long as they didn't in
terfere with the primary process of get
ting an education.
And we appreciate all that Ralph Muel
ler has done for the University including
the Carrilon Tower which does a nice job
of beautifying the central mall and is
practical too for ending class periods.
But do they have to play the furshlug
giner thing so loud, long and often?
Anyone with a class in Burnett, Bessey,
Morrill, or Andrews is hard put to keep
up with any instructor who likes to start
giving notes early and continue until the
next class starts to edge his own out of
their seats.
So could you kind of tone it down a little,
please? .
usual style. After all, he has had four
years to prove that he has anything it
takes here at Nebraska.
Every senior class leaves a legacy which
can be associated with them after they
are gone. This year, the seniors leave the
new Union addition as their gift to the
underclassmen.
They also leave a new activities pro
gram and a fine innovation in Union gov
erment the Union advisory Board.
More than any one man, Bob Handy is
the author of these two campus improve
ments. When the seniors came here in the
fall of 1955, Bob Handy came with them
and together they have worked out these
outstanding campus improvements.
We are proud to have been a part of
Handy'- work. Anything which we might
have helped him with gives us a stake in
the senior class bequest.
And we can't deny that we are happy
that Bob has gotten a well deserved break.
Like the proverbial graduating senior he
is moving on to better things.
But in a way, of course, we are sorry
he is leaving. This can't be helped, but
we hope that Bob will remain a Nebraskan
in part wherever he is. Certainly he leaves
Nebraska with something that has becurie
a part of him these last four years.
Times Change?
It was sort of nice to hear Ralph Muel
ler's statements in the Lincoln Journal
a while back.
Mr. Mueller mentioned while in town for
an alumni meeting that when he was in
school they used to go out to an old sand
cave south of Lincoln to drink beer. Never
hard liquor though.
Seems that we never really do get rid of
our heritage at that, even if Elien Smith
Hall is gone.
from the
Sideslines
J .'asm. i
Nostalgia, sentiment, and typical end of
the year, departing forever or for just a
while type sentiments all of this abso
lutely dripping and oozing all over.
Our editor was affected Monday (under
their tough exteriors, all
these newspaper people
aire softies); many hard
ened old seniors seem con
siderably mellowed (some
of them are even admit
ting they might miss the
University and those of us
who "are staying rather
reluctantly behind) and I
even find myself looking
wistfully back at the year,
wondering how it scooted
by so speedily and grudgingly admitting
that it was fun, though hectic.
Dead End
The only bad thing about the end of the
year is that all the things you've put off
suddenly come leaping out, all waiting to
be done. It's sort of like cruising along a
street at about 75 miles per only to crash
headlong into a dead end sign.
It's rather terrifying to think that you've
finally run out of time to do those papers,
pull up those grades, date the cute boy in
your English class, etc. etc. Of course, for
most of us there is still some college time
Miss Sides
By Gretchen Sides
left but it'll be a different year, with dif
ferent people, classes, opportunities and
most important of all, we'll be a little bit
different, too. Nope, this particular year
and whatever chances it offered are gone.
And it must feel especially funny to be
a senior for whom college and the chances
that attending it offered, are gone. I'm
sure most people come to college expect
ing something from it some kind of ex
periences or some kind of education. And
to have to look back and evaluate what
has really happened, what You've missed
and what you've acquired could be rather
a sad thing.
So go ahead and be nostalgic and senti
mental if you want to. You can't change a
thing, you can't regain anything but it's
still sort of nice just to reminisce.
Finals
Oh well, these regrets never seem to
bother anyone for long. How could they
when in exactly fourteen and a half days
finals will be all done and summer will
really be here. One can't be sad' about the
good old days for long when better days
seem to be looming in the distance.
So, so long seniors and good luck. And
good bye underclassmen for a while un
til the fall when you'll be just as glad to
come back to school as you were eager to
leave this spring.
Daily Nebraskan
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Settit &
the distillery:
'Soap Boxisli' Column Is Finale
Borland
Diana can't
Since this is the last piece
of worthless trash I will
uncover I can assume
that you won't care if I get
soap-boxish. Also, because I
never could ' , , , ,
org anize - j"
a n ything, f.-4
"this will be
a collection
of what I
C really
think, laid
out willy
nilly in one
big con
fused mess,
mostly so
George and
stick subheads above every
thing without looking ridic
ulous. "The weight of this sad'
time we must obey, speak
what we feel, not what we
ought to say. The oldest
hath borne most: we that
are young shall never see
so much, nor live so long."
The biggest deal today is
to know we'll never get to
be old, and to feel the
weight of this sad time.
You know, the anxiety bit.
Our grandaddys felt this
way too, but they never
had personality inventory
tests to tell them how use
lessly inadequate they
were.
Adjust
When I was even young
er a clock was something
to tell time by now it's
something to live by. I have
been punctured with this
like the rest of you. The re
sult is that my vocabulary
carries these words in a sort
of guiding crown: be com
petative, assert yourself, be
aggressive, adjust, adjust.
These things all lead up
to the next logical conclu
sion: be an individual. Peo
ple who aren't really sure
that they are an individual
reassure themselves by be
coming continually sick in
public, the sicker the bet
ter. To be topical, I have
learned during my years
around here how to be a
good college administrator.
Remember always to
smother everybody's exu
berance by telling them to
form a committee. You peo
ple fell for it again didn't
you? Form a committee
and get lost!
Expression
I have learned in college
that what I mull over in
my mind when I try to fol
low a lecture is more Im
portant than all the notes
I forgot to write. I have
remembered more from the
tests I flunked. I have be
come pregnant with opinion
from a professor's personal
expressions, and gotten
nothing from the instructor
who clicks away bke a tele
phone dial.
I don't believe that there
is a scrap of learning in
the whole of Teacher's Col
lege. .Wash away the psy
chological adjustment in
Elementary Education and
all that remains is a one
way observation mirror.
They all know how to teach
if some-body would please
show them what to teach.
Adjust, Adjust!
Then there is the word
phony. This term is a by
word around here. It ex.
presses everybody's philos
ophy. To be phony is worse
than sodomy or parking
double on 16th street. I
have had some acquaint
ance with this word in re
cent years. It's funny how
most everyone's girl is
phony, except, of course,
your girl. 1 don't believe
sororities make a girl
phony, it comes from the
size of her date-book.
Spoiled
.The great difficulty on
campus is that most of the
students are spoiled. The
majority of us live here on
somebody else's mon
ey, money by mail which
gets to be expected, and
looks more and more like
foreign aid. Imagine the
situation with all those
spoiled slobs living on one
little campus.
From my years h I
have realized, wheth I
like it or not, that I i. st
adjust, adjust. With the for
gotten lectures of many
classes behind me, I know
that they have added to my
ability to do something or
other. Words, the sim
ple things I hear every day,
are the greatest help. It's
words and how you use
them, that counts. Being
saturated with words for
four years, no matter what
college you enroll in, is the
most direct contribution to
that old g e 1 1 i n g-ahead
philosophy which papa
taught us.
Tublar
The worst thing about it
all is that you forget about
papa, or why he sent you
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all the world are found at SARTORS
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to school in the first place.
Picking our way through
worn leather couches, or
dering cokes and coffee in
mid-morning breaks, we
stand wasting. We are the
tubular people, screwed
from the thoughts of those
who knew the gummy fla
vor of packing tape, who
knew the soft touch of set
tled dust on the shelves of
private enterprise, who
cussed and said "this will
suffice, that the kid won't
know what I have known,
that he begins where I
have never been".
Lastly, I must show how
much human charity etc.
exists in my learned bones.
Therefore, I devote thii
empty space to George be
cause he likes to write
bold-print editor's notes, or
maybe slip in a Phillip Mor
ris ad. George, the ques
tion today, is: How can you
consistently be so f
mm. Ehk
(By th$ Author of "Rally Round th Flag, Boys "and,
"Barefoot Boy with Cftfc.")'
TILL WE MEET AGAIN
This is the last column of my fifth year of writing for Philip
Morris and Marlboro. I have made it a custom in the last
column of each year not to be funny. I know I have also
realized this aim in many other columns during the year, but
that was not for lack of trying. Today I am not trying. am not
trying for two reasons: First, because you are getting ready for
final exams, and in your present state of shock, nothing in the
world could possibly make you laugh. And second, this final
column of the year is for many of us a leave-taking, and good
byes always make me too misty to be funny.
For me the year ends neither with a bang nor a whimper, but
with a glow a warm, pleasant, mellow glow the kind of glow
you will find, for example, at the end of a Philip Morris or
Marlboro.
It has been in every way a gratifying experience, my fivt
years with the makers of Philip Morris and Marlboro, and I
would like to take this opportunity to extend my heartfelt
appreciation to these good tobacconists, to assure them that
the memory of their kindness will remain ever green in my
heart, and to remind them that they still owe me for the last
three columns.
And in these waning days of the school year,' let me addrest
myself seriously to you, my readers. Have I trod on any toeg
this year? Ruffled any feelings? Jostled any sensibilities? If
so, I am sorry.
Have I occasioned any laughs? Chuckles? Sniggers? Mona
Lisa smiles? If so, I'm glad.
Have I persuaded any of you to try Philip Morris and
Marlboro? To taste that fine flavor? To smoke that excellent
tobacco? If so, you are glad.
And now the long, lazy summer lies ahead. But for me sum
mer is never lazy. It is, in fact, the busiest time of year. Two
summers ago, for instance, I was out ringing doorbells every
single day, morning, noon, and night. There was a contest,
you see, and the kid in my neighborhood who sold the most
bluing won a pony. I am proud to report that I was the lucky
winner.
Last summer I was also out ringing doorbells every single
day, morning, noon, and night. I was trying to sell the pony.
This summer I am not going to be out ringing doorbells.
I am going to saddle the pony and ride to Hollywood, California.
What am I going to do in Hollywood, California? I am going to
write a series of half-hour television comedies called THE
MANY LOVES OF DOBIE GILLIS, and starting in October,
1959, your friends and mine, the makers of Philip Morris and
Marlboro, are going to bring you this program over the Colum
bia Broadcasting System every Tuesday night at 8:30. Why
don't you speak to your housemother and ask her if she'll let
you stay up to see it?
And now good-bye. For me it's been kicks all the way, and I
hope for you it hasn't been altogether unbearable. Have a good
summer. Stay well. Stay cool. Stay loose.
1M. Ma (Mesa
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For us, the makers of Philip Morris and Marlboro, tt't
been kicks too, and we would like to echo kindly old Max' l
parting words: Stay well. Stay cool. Stay loose.
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