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Vote as You Please,
But Please Vote
The most hard hitting and exciting campaign in the
nation's history is drawing to a close. Only 11th hour
efforts by the candidates for undecided votes remain.
The climax comes tomorrow when citizens go to the
polls to mark their ballot for the candidate of their choice.
This campaign has seen strenuous efforts on the part
of all candidates, especially in t h e national races, to
reach more voters. As a result, the citizenry that elect
the country's public servants Tuesday are probably the
most informed electors in history.
Both candidates for President have visited every
state in the Union. The "great debates" drew audiences
of more than 75 million each time. Any voter who says
he doesn't know the issues has. little excuse for being un
informed. Anyone who doesn't have to move out of his
living room to hear four hours of discussion of the issues
and then says he isv uninformed is cheating. The candi
dates have fulfilled their part of the bargain. It is up to
the voter to make an effort to know the issues and vote
intelligently.
Nearly 3,000 University students are eligible to take
part tomorrow in the country's most important election.
Vote as you please, but please vote.
MOW LETS TAKE A
AT THf RECORD !
AUF Drive Needs
Student Support
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If the crowd which turned out for the AUF pancake
drive is any indication of support on the part of the stu
dents, AUF should have no difficulty meeting its goal.
Last year with a goal of $5,500, AUF fell $1,000 short.
This means that an average of less than 50 cents a stu
dent was contributed, since part of the money collected
represented faculty contributions.
If each student were to contribute only a dollar, the
drive would more than meet its goal. It is a small sacri
fice, but it could save a life. We're betting AUF will make
its goal this year. How about your help?
Staff Vietcs
BOVINE VIEWS
by Jerry lAimberson
A Last Look at Issues
And the Answers, If Any
By Jerry Lambcrson
What each of the presi
dential candidates will do
to solve the farm problem
has been a major concern
to several of the Ag stu
dents. However it is the general
feeling that the farm prob
lem will remain a sore
spot for either candidate as
neither seem to have a real
good way of solving it.
In general both Sen. John
Kennedy and Vice Presi
dent Richard Nixon have
done little but revamp the
planks that their party has
proclaimed before.
As to the present situa
tion the Republicans say
that a Democratic-controlled
Congress has al
lowed the Administration
to do little in m a k in g
changes beneficial to agri
culture. The Democrats in
return are blaming the
present situation to the
lack of Republican leader
ship which has allowed the
average farm income to dip
30 per cent. Who to blame
for the past policy is not
the question now; the citi
zens must select the man
and party that will make
the future farm policy.
Kennedy has pushed the
democratic platform to a
direct approach. He wants
increased price supports at
90 per cent of parity with
stiff production controls.
This would guarantee the
farmers and ranchers a
certain price for what they
could raise but would cause
production control to limit
the surpluse produced at
these high prices.
Nixon leans toward rais
ing market prices at home
and abroad by proclaiming
a crash research program
to create new commercial
markets for farm products.
He feels that strict con
trols and a guaranteed
price will not settle the
farm problem and will be
an added burdened to our
federal budget and to the
farmers. The creation of
tew markets Nixon says
will relieve the surplus ard
w ill provide a stable market
that everyone can count
on.
The Nebraskan vote will
probably be again Repub
lican as many of the farm- i
ers will favor the creation
of new markets over strict !
controls and a guaranteed
price. Many of the farmers 1
have experienced past!
farm policies of parity sup-
port where the govern-
rr.ent failed to maintain its I
parity support level. Also
the farmers are willing to f
have full production with
a market for the surplus. 1
This allows them to save
for periods of drouth and
hardship. With only limited
production the farmers!
(especially t h e smaller
ones) usually get only s
enough income to meet i
their expenses and many 1
fall short.
Kennedy's liberal view of
support and control seem I
vague in an economy that 1
is always changing. Pro-
duction and prices seem I
hard to control unless the
whole economy is con-
trolled by the government.
This, I am sure, none of 1
the farmers and ranchers I
want.
Although farm policy has
not played a major role in
the campaign, its impact
on farm belt voters could
be great enough to turn I
the tide in a close election.
Rodeo Qui) Adds
18 New Members!
Thirty-six new members!
were initiated into the Rodeol
Club Wednesday night an-I
nounced Sharon Russell, sec-i
retary.
New members are Danaf
Bigelow, Eduarde Bisbal, Har-
old Burton, Keith Christen-I
sen, Pat Curran, David Der-I
man, Don Eby. Len Fleis-
cher, Leroy Friesen. Garyl
Gevier. Mick Hadine. Marilpfi
Helms. Ronald King, Rich-1
ara Kirch, John Lambert.
Norman Lewenberger, Lane
McClure, Lowell Mever. Lennl
Olsen, Rich Pallas, Gale!
Pierce, Paul Plate. Jack Ru-
pel, Mary Samuelson, J i m
Jcneeier. w arre Shanahan i
Doug Simonson. Larrv Smith I
Harold Erwin, Carole Stuchlik.l
1 om Trzill. Delwin Wilson s
Diane Marie Vopalensky. Jan-
et Wagner, Rosemary Wag-1
ner ana Martha Woodberry.
By Eric Sevareid
If it were not for the risk
i of being tarred and feath
; ered by sixty-five million
i fellow citizens, we would
like to ask the two Presi
i dential candidates if they
; would mind
! repeating it
all once
i more, just
for our
i sake. We
i didn't quite
i catch it the
first three
hundred
times
around.
A lot of Sevareid
you feel j did, so
you will cheerfully line
up at the polling booth and
crisply mark your ballot,
confident that you voted for
the better man and exactly
why. We would envy you,
save for a still, small voice.
The voice speaks to us in
dim though not blank verse
with a re-written version of
Kipling's "If," saying "If
you can keep your head
while all about you are los
ing theirs maybe you don't
understand the situation!"
As a supporter of The Sit
uation, without which we
would have had to go to
work or .inte .real .estate
long ago, our personal view
is that neither Kennedy nor
Nixon has answered the
real questions about
America or the world or
themselves. Not, at any
rate the questions that
bother us.
We have been totally un
able to find out if either
man truly understands and
accepts that:
In spite of all their prom
ises about parity payments,
wage levels, defense appro
priations and pensions, it
is the quality, not the quan
tity of American life that is
the great domestic concern.
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A system that has found
opulence, is blindly search
ing for its own cultural form
and tone among the civil
ized societies. America
knows what it can do and
get; now it must know what
it can be.
Americans in their heart
of hearts wish not only to
like their President but to
respect indeed, revere
him and his office, and they
yearn for loftiness, so ut
terly lacking in this shrewd
and sharp campaign.
Americans will forgive
error and understand in
consistency if only there is
honest candor.
Humor remains one mark
of the large-minded man,
and the people will respond
to the leader who laughs
at himself, knowing it is
only the unsure man who
will not.
Americans want to be
led, not to be given "what
they want," for in number
less contexts they cannot
know what they want until
experiments are tried.
"States' rights" has be
come the wooden, totem
pole language of far too
many who cite one letter
of the Constitution in order
to deny another letter, as
well as the spirit
Equality for Negro citi
zens "cannot wait upon
"changes in the hearts of
men," as Eisenhower
seems to believe, for it is
the illumination of actions
that produces changes in
the heart, more often than
the other way around.
The farmer is not neces
sarily nature's nobleman
nor the salt of the earth,
and -the family farm is no
more sacred in a rapidly
changing economic pattern
than the family flat it is
only more difficult to move
out of.
In an era of total wars
that make every fifth or
sixth adult male a "veter
an" by the mere act of don
ning a uniform, only those
veterans and their families
who suffered directly from
the fighting have special
claims upon the national
treasury, and the rest of it
is organized greed.
"Non-interference in the
internal affairs of other na
tions" is a standard to aim
for under normal condi
tions, but cannot be a po
licy straitjacket in a revo
lutionary world struggle in
which the United States af
fects the scene in other na
tions when it fails to act
about as often as when it
acts.
Israel is a sovereign na
tion among other sovereign
nations, to be treated as
such; it is not our orphan
ward with special claims
upon ounnoral sense.
"Matching Russia's rate
of economic growth" is in
an unnecessary as well as
an undignified purpose. Rus
sia is late in the race, and
in any sprint the accelera
tion daring the first few
yards is faster than that
during the final few yards.
Russia's advance in
w ealth, though not in weap
ons, is a happy and not an
ominous thing, for by this
process are revolutionary
societies altered to conser
vative societies.
NATO's fabric is shed
ding away, partly under the
strain of viewing strategic 1
nuclear weapons not mere- f
ly as the war preventive I
but as weapons for actual
ly waging war. For any
crowded European nation
this proposition wipes out
the ancient choice of vie-
tory or defeat and replaces
it with the choice of sur-
vival or extinction, which
is no choice at all.
Great Britain, in spite of
her Commonwealth, can no I
longer go if alone and must
attach herself to a larger
context, preferably an eco-
nomic "Atlantic union," I
which will require an Amer- I
ican action of immense size
and consequence. '
By no means are all I
backward peoples ready for 1
political i n d e p e n dence,
whatever the anguished
backlash against the Amer-
ican leader with courage
enough to say so.
"Masterly inactivity" is i
sometimes the hallmark of I
diplomatic wisdom, in spite
of the American tradition
to the contrary. To admit
that the United States can-
not directly deal with every
threat in the world is not I
to be an appeaser. A danger
postponed often is a dang- I
er averted. We will know
no absolute peace but will
live in the twilight between
peace and war. This is not
insupportable. Time is life.
Surely, these are among
the real truths involved in I
America's choice of a new
leader, truths which neith- 1
er Nixon nor Kennedy has
spoken or clearly indicated
they are aware of.
Both candidates have let
us understand that they are i
praying men. Our choice in
this contest would have
come much easier if one of
the two men had indicated I
that he lives by the spirit
of a very short prayer, the
one our own father ever ad-1
mitted to:
"Please, God, give me I
the courage to tackle those I
problems I can solve; give 1
me the humility to forget
those problems I cannot
solve; and give me the com-
mon sense to know the dif- 1
ference."
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Wallich Defends 'Growth' Article
In your issue of Oct. 26th, Prof. Stuart Hall comments
on my article on economic growth, which you were good
enough to reprint. I appreciate the attention Professor
Hall devotes to my piece, but I fail to find in my writings
some of the views he attributes to me. Neither in the re
printed article, nor in my book, "The Cost of Freedom,'
upon which the article draws, is there a statement that
it is harder for a wealthy economy to grow than for a re
tarded one. Neither the article nor the book argue that we
should not endeavor to step up our rate of growth. The
great bulk of the article, in fact, discusses circumstances
that today call for more rapid growth and proposes mea
sures to achieve it.
I do say that very high rates of growth, of the type
attained by the United States in wartime, are possible
only at the cost of an abridgement of freedom. Professor
Hall questions this but the three proposals he lists, desir
able as they inherently are, all bear out my case. He pro
poses equal opportunities for racial minorities, equal op
portunities for women, and fuller employment particu
larly of people in labor surplus areas. Each of these
objectives I support though I would prefer area assist
ance to relocation' of unemployed workers in labor surplus
areas. If Professor Hall would let me know how these
goals can be realized quickly and adequately and in a
way that does not short-cut the democratic process nor
involve drastic measures that would ride roughshod over
what he calls "our fatuous attachment to the shibboleth
of 'states rights,' " I should be very glad to have his ad
vice. Henry C. Wallich
'Liberal Democrat'' States Views
To the editor:
In answer to the column, "Strictly Partisan," by Mr.
Sam Jensen, of Friday, Nov. 4, I feel that his view is
subject to examination. I neither wish to condemn nor
glorify the political thoughts of the writer; I do wish to
set forth my observations as an out-of-stater presently en
gaged in graduate work at the University.
Mr. Jensen obviously supports Senator Curtis for re
election and feels that Mr. Nixon is the most capable
man, all things considered, for the presidency. As for
Senator Curtis when I first arrived in Lincoln a year
ago, the newspapers were giving much space to accusa
tions by Senator Curtis that Jimmy Hoffa and the Team
sters Union were paying sums as high as $250,000 to fi
nance the defeat of Mr. Curtis for reelection. While I
would not uphold Jimmy Hoffa in all his thoughts, it
strikes me rather strange that Mr. Curtis should make
such an issue over the Teamsters Union in a state such as
Nebraska, where its influence is very slight, when there
are much more important issues at hand.
As a resident of Michigan, I have belonged to the
United teel Workers' Union and the United Automobile
Workers Union, headed respectively by Mr. McDonald
and Mr. Reuther. While working, I, like every other union
man, had to pay dues, and I can assure you that such de
ductions hurt me far more than others, but I also view it
in this light that practically without exception, the pres
ent scale of wages in major industries in the United States
is directly and unequivocably the result of union action
(the action of the combined efforts of the working man in
each industry). Senator Curtis and his fellow reactionaries
seem to take pleasure in expounding that if you have
closed shop, you have automatically let the devil into
your parlor that dishonesty, unamericanism, and cor
ruption are synonymous with organized labor and its
quest for a closed shop. Nothing could be further from
the truth.
I have yet to find although it may exist an area
where the scale of wages is as high as the union scale,
except where the union has caused the employer to raise
his workers' pay to keep them from joining the union
which is still an indirect result of union action. How
strange that, with some notable exceptions, those who
favor an open shop within their states are the same ones
who usually pay some of the lowest wages in American
industry.
Regarding Mr. Nixon and Mr. Kennedy the issues
are well enough stated that it is not necessary to dwell
upon them here. I consider myself a liberal, yet I do not
believe in the government taking over every phase of our
lives economic, social, etc. I do believe, however, in a
government which assures its people that when they have
an extended sickness, they need not mortgage their homes
and sell their cars to pay for medical care; where people
in later years are assured some degree of income to suf
fice for their needs; where slums that darken the skyline
of practically every large city will be done away with and
their occupants resettled through federal assistance;
where American farmers who produce in surplus will not
have to unload their produce onto a buyers' market on
which they make less than it costs them to raise their
products; where states having a large area with a small
population, such as Nebraska, will benefit from the action
of the government in applying wealth in the forms of
federal highways, irrigation, reclamation, public power
enterprises, etc.
In summation, vote as you wish-it is our privilege,
but inquire thoroughly into all schools of thought before
making your decision. It seems that far too many people
have their eyes and ears closed to any views which are
different from those which they have traditionally sup
ported. ' r
Fraternities
To Distribute!
IDA Info
Fraternity men will distrfh-
ute literature favoring the
amendment for industrial de-
velopment at the polls Tues-I
day according to Phil Bauer,!
chairman of the project f
As many men as possible!
will be needed to circulate thef
materials at the 200 pollings
areas, according to Bauer. 1
who originally proposed thef
idea to the Interfrateniity!
Council.
Bauer's original plan wasl
that Greeks would furnish!
cars to aid in the transpora-1
tion of people to the polls oni
Election Day. 1
' Since that time, the plant
has been chaneed to nrnmnt.I
ing the industrial movement,!
said Bauer.
The detdline for signing upf
is this weekend. Those who!
are goLig to help will report!
to the . Junior Chamber of!
Commerce Monday. I
William R. Stanley
Liberal Democrat
Department of Geography
Criticize Column on Greek System
To the editor:
wlnn voV'1 Guilty" PriDtd 1,1 Tne Daily Ne
braskan Nov . 2 by Myron Papadakis and Bob Nye, has
again brought to the attention of the student body the
ever present question of stability in the Greek system.
rr J a4bsurit0 refte the statement that the
S, IS hy apathy nd sension. However.
LLT t PTn that the mjr underlying
ffl dir lLT f d diLsension " abundance of
Srui thr?H?matUre Criticism and ck of con
SWnrrh?. y many membe" of the Greek system,
it is furthermore our contention that criticism is of little
cSv1pL?f crSc's eg0) teSSUto?S
constructive and feasible suggestions.
Cheap critism requires little thought and no initiative,
whereas the formulation of a feasible plan of JeSzS
effort that is to say what this campus needs u fewer
complamers and more doers.
William B. ConneH
Charles J. Sherfey
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