THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
Friday, February 8, 1952
EDITORIAL PAGE
In a closed session of the House armed services
committee, by, a vote of 27 to 7 has brought the
proposed legislation for Universal Military Train
ing to Congressional representatives as "privileged
legislation." At any time, any member of the
House may call for a vote on UMT.
In very short order Carl Vinson's (D-Ga.)
committee has put its stamp of approval on this
latest military venture for the nation's youth and
given it practically an uncontested ride into the
legislative halls. If and when the bill is passed by
the House, it will find its way into the Senate com
mittee hearings and then back to the floor of the
Senate for final vote. After that, only President
Truman's signature will be necessary to govern
the next eight years of the lives of each 18-year-old
male citizen of the United States.
That's a pretty large and radical order from
the country's solons to their youthful constitu
ents. Advocates of this grand departure from our
ooun try's fundamental policies are being heard
far and wide. Military men and veterans' organ
isations, in general, are backers of UMT. Ar
rayed, In not very good order, against the bill
are farm groups, educators, church groups and
a large section of the nation's parents.
Parents of the nation's youth have been the
loudest in their cries against UMT. Letters to the
lawmakers from this group of the U.S. population
has moved one group of lawmakers to draft a
compromise plan. ,
Reps. Charles Brownson (R-Ind.) and William
Lantaff (D-Fla.) are leading the movement which
is backed by 20 other members, 10 from each party
and all of them World War II vets. Nucleus of
their compromise proposal is an hour a day of
basic military training for all youths in the last
two years of high school, followed by a summer
ca:np and a term in a reserve or National Guard
unit.'
No new camps or bases would be needed and
the cost would be only about 15 per cent of the
estimated $4,187,983,600 that it would take to start
UMT. as proposed now.
Universal Military Training, as can be seen
from the 27 to 7 vote in committee, has not had
a very rough road to tread so far. It possibly will
receive another official okay in the House and
go right on to its final fight in the Senate.
Universal Military Training Is not Just a tem
porary measure thought up to meet the present
emergency. There is no clause In the bill which
might bring It up for review In future years.
If passed, UMT will be here to stay for quite
a while.
The Daily Nebraskan is not waving a white flag
at the hordes of Communists overrunning Asia
The Daily Nebraskan is not advocating a mass
movement by the nation's youth against military
service. The Nebraskan is not in favor of an in
different or apathetic attitude toward defending
the principles for which our country stands. And
we are not saying that the police action, which
has resulted in 105,000 casualties in Korea, should
be ignored.
However, we do assert that Universal Mili
tary Training will not accomplish what It claims.
It overlaps the present Selective Service mea
sures, It will cost a tremendous sum of tax
payers' money, it violates all principles on which
this nation was built and it shall be permanent,
not Just a temporary measure to avert the pres
ent crisis.
t iwniiirf he irrmossible for every person to
study the UMT proposal in its 124-page entirity
But it would be possible and wise for every per-
mnn nrhnu nuts him within the reaches of
military service, to discover just what UMT would
do to him, just what it would accomplish as far
as the- military preparedness of this country is
concerned, and whether or not it is a hoax being
perpetrated upon the young men of this country.
Advocates of UMT are seeking, and seeking
through strong, legislative pressure, to exploit the
present situation of unsettled cold war between
Russia and the United States to the fullest The
Daily Nebraskan is seeking to arouse opponents
of the bill to action.
Robert Harrison, Dr. A. L. Miller, Howard
Buffet and Carl Curtis will soon be called upon
to Vote for or against UMT. They are Repre
sentatives of Nebraska at the nation's capital.
Their votes seem rather small in a group of 435
Representatives. But their votes will count and
their influence might count for a few more votes.
Perhaps our Representatives would be inter
ested in hearing from the opponents of UMT as
they have heard and now hear every day from
the advocates of this legislative farce. R.R.
arb Wire
Road To Bankruptcy
Herbert Hoover, the sixth "most admired" man,
according to the Gallup poll, made the news last
week with his foreign policy speech directed at
Congress. The Hoover speech was noteworhy for
its moderate tone. The crisis the former president
envisions is not immediate but stems from the
"dangerous overstraining of our economy by our
igantic expenditures."
Mr. Hoover is not the only person worrying
about the steadily increasing federal expendi
tures. Taxpayers from whom the government
will receive an estimated 71.6 billion dollars for
the current fiscal year ending June SO, 1952 and
87.3 billion dollars for the following year are
worried also.
America's resources and financial capacities
.have been regarded as unlimited. In the United
States we have everything automobiles, television,
movies and skyscrapers. But there now appears to
be a drawback. Congress passed last October, a
tax bill designed to yield $5,700,000,000 on top of
federal taxes that already had been taking about
$60,000,000,000 out of the taxpayers' pockets. If
these figures mean little more than numbers, do
you know approximately how much one billion
dollars is? If a company, organized over 3000 years
ago, started with one billion dollars and preceeded
to lose one thousand dollars a day, it would still
be in business and continue to be for 300 more
years.
To Illustrate how taxes have continued to
mount: in 1929, federal expenditures were less
than two-thirds of the total income payments of
the inhabitants of California. In 1938, federal
expenditures were equal to the income payments
ef the 11 Pacific Mountain states. For the current
fiscal year, it is estimated that expenditures wiU
take the equivalent of the aggregate income
payments of the Pacific and Mountain states and
ia addition, North Dakota, South Dakota, Ne-
Margin Notes-
In answer to students gripes about the muddy
parking lot behind the Union, Carl W. Borgman,
chairman of the University parking committee, has
given this explanation:
The problem of mud in the Union parking lot
has been accentuated by the flat ground surface.
The area was formerly excavated and the soil
keeps sinking. Therefore it is very difficult to
drain the lot. However, graveled soil and cinders
have been dumped on the lot to give it a solid
base. It would do no good to place crushed rock
on the area until the drainage problem has been
solved.
Another fact emphasized by Borgmann is that
tiw area is temporary In that it is the site of the
future addition to the Union. Thus, the parking
committee had to weigh the duration of its exist
ence against the cost of correcting the situation.
Therefore, no drastic steps have been taken.
The results from his latest poll tell George
Gallup that the democrats still hold a voting lead.
All talk has indicated that a strong republican
candidate that could bring out the latent power
that stayed home during the last election would
win for the GOP's.
If Gallup's figures are correct, and certainly
after the 3z.st election we can't be toe certain that
they will be, it will take more than a strong re
publican candidate to win.
America is going to try again. We are sending
another man to walk around the streets of Mos
cow and represent us as ambassador. Time has
proven that there is nothing of any vital impor
tance anyone could do as ambassador in a coun
try where everything is decided by a few men.
The Daily Nebraskan wishes George F. Ken
can the best of luck, be certainly will need it
Daily Thought
TTi ought to weigh well what we can
csly once decide. Syrus.
braska, Oklahoma, Texas, Minnesota, Iowa,
Kansas and nearly three-fourths of Missouri.
Quite an increase!
Some Congressmen do feel that the tax burden
cannot be made greater without grave damage to
individuals and to the nation's economy.
But the majority of congressmen feel that the
citizens may continue to pay increased taxes, and
for this fiscal year the treasury may find it needs
$4,000,000,000 more to, balance the budget and $13,
000,000,000 more the next year.
But where will this money come from?
Not from moderately prosperous and well-to-do
for they have already been squeezed dry. The
Revenue act of 1951 will take almost 92 per cent
of the top earnings of individuals in the highest
bracket And even if a 100 per cent were put on
all taxable income over $10,000, the treasury would
get less than $3,500,000,000. To get $10,000,000,000
more from individual income tax, the treasury
would have to take all taxable income over $4000.
Furthermore, additional taxes cannot be obtain
ed from corporations for the 1951 tax law will
taV more than half of corporation earnings: m
some cases up to 70 per cent.
There Is no satisfactory way to raise 70, 75
or 80 billion dollars for the federal government
to spend. It cannot be obtained from the well-to-do.
They do not have anything left to pay.
It cannot be obtained from corporations, with
out killing their activity and their rrowth, or
without shifting the ultimate burden to the
consumer.
This country, must, of course, spend whatever
is necessary to bolster its national defense. But
while we are spending staggering amounts for
military purposes as protection against aggression,
the administration is undermining our financial
security.
Mr. Hoover's concern that the overstraining of
the economy is a great danger brought to mind
some momentous words spoken in the 1932 presi
dential campaign.
"If the nation is living within its Income its
credit is good. If in some crisis it lives beyond
its income for a year or two it can usually bor
row temporarily on easy terms.
"But if, like a spendthrift, it throws discre
tion to the winds, it is willing to make no sacrl
. flee at all on spending, extends its taxing to
the limits of the people's power to pay, and con
tinues to pile up deficits, it is on the road to
bankruptcy.
Wylie
Was man des
TV wrestler?
Don't know the exact procedure
followed when printing a retrac
tion, but here goes anyway. It
was very ably pointed out to me
Wednesday by one of the more
eminent campus wheels that the
election by-laws are not subject
to a campus vote as so stated, in
the Wednesday column. To pass
the election rules takes a two
thirds majority vote of the Stu
dent Council. My most abject
and humble apologies.
The thing that makes me laugh
is when a fella graduates from ye
old ivy-covered University com
plete with high honors from his
college and the best job recom
mendations and spends the sum
mer hauling garbabe for $200 a
month.
Have you ever wondered what
would happen to campus night
life if 16th street was made a one
way street? Or just how tem
porary the temporary buildings
are?
Thought for the week: Youth
is not a time of life it is a state
of mind.
Barb Wylie
With everyone expounding
on the untimely death of
King George VI, let us not
forget the problems that face
the new queen. - Elizabeth is
the first queen the British
have had since Queen Vic
toria and the nation's history
shows it is always more pros-:
perous tinder a woman's rule. I
Perhaps it's a woman's world
after all.
Down through the ages men
have believed or at least thought
about some form of human evolu
tion. Whether
they prefer
JL;I1 WIU Wi A.iAA ; . ' 1
thus, man is Jr
n W
usuauy cuu
ceited enough
to wonder how
this whole mess
started.
Recently a
new theory has
rnme tn light
which is advo- ""s'
cated by those
viewers oi the
20-inch screen,
cended from the
lYour Church
Letterip
'We Like Contemporay Art1
(We km chose to writ our editorial In livina r-VinnPorl sinrp thpm? The
the form of an open letter lo Tom Klsche. 'ni,v.jjl .,( u;ppnmp5 fven de
hni, Krcuertck and Phyllis Mow.) PUD11C accepis, welcomes, even ue
Is the contemporary artist try- mands timely changes in other
ing to fool the public? You, like fields why not in art?
many other people seem to think j Try to realize this: that the
so. We believe that you are sin- artist has been developing along
Julie Bell
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cere in your bewilderment, bin
cere questioning merits a sincere
answer, and so, as Fine Art stu
dents, we should like to attempt to
clarify some of the misconceptions
apparent to us in your article.
Let's start with "Battle of In
sects." We would like to ask you
how a thing can at once intrigue
you and yet remain meaningless.
We may have misinterpreted
your connotation of the word
"mean," but we would like to
ask you to reconsider your state
ment. Don't you mean that the
insects in the painting aren't
"true to life?"
with the scientist. While the sci
entist was exploring and harnes
sing electricity, atomic energy,
cosmic rays, the artist, too,
started to work with large and
weighty matters. He dealt now
with whole conceptions, ideas,
and new methods of presenting
those ideas sincere, intense, di
rect methods. Yet, the artists
were, and are, ridiculed and ac
cused of trying to "put some-
Baptist student house, 315 North
15th, C. B. Howells, pastor. Sun
dayChurch school and morning
worship in city Baptist churches;
5 p.m., fellowship supper; 6 p.m.,
forum with Mr. George Ramdol,
member of original cast of "The
Green Pastures" and former di
rector of the Circlet theater in
Lincoln, as guest speaker on the
topic "Race Relations in Lincoln."
Friday 6:45 a.m., Bible study at
Presby house.
Methodist Student nouse, itii
R street, Richard W. Nirtt, pastor.
Friday Open house. Saturday
10:30 a.m., MSM cabinet meeting.
Sunday Kappa Phi Rose Sunday;
5:30 p.m., supper with member
ship dedication service following.
Tuesday 7:30 p.m., Kappa Phi
Degree of the Pine in Union fac
ulty lounge; 7:30 p.m., STE rush
party. Wednesday 7 p.m., Wesley
Worship.
Lutheran Student service, Alvin
M. Petersen, pastor. Friday until
Sunday Midwinter Training con
ference at Kansas State college.
Sunrlav 5 n.m.. cost supper for
city LSA at First Lutheran church,
thing over' on the public,
Many people who still refuse to ' , . fi,5 D installation
accept contemporary art in its f officers with Hcrluf Jensen, na-
pure- state ao noi realize mat, iitional LSA president as guest
is actually already a part of their k 6 30 n m Ag LSA cost
The artist could have presented , lives just as "pure" scientific!
the picture with photographic ac
curacy had he thought it to be the
l strongest una niusi aireci means,
supper at 1200 North 37th fol-
theory is through its applications. I owpd by mstanation of officers
Take Furguson hall or the layouts !,,, y,v TiPrif Jensen. Tuesday
of any modern magazine; they arel7.vs Dm VesDers: 2 p.m., course
He chose, however, to do part ofidirectly traceable to the abstract Miinns in 1st Century;"
the necessary interpreting for us.! painter. Take a good long look at's pni i course in "The Mission
He did not see his function asjthe new furniture, fabrics, silver, lpan'. ij D m ..seminar on Christian
mirelw c.i.rf iim ani viarratlirA
His purpose was not to make his
pictture "pretty," but to make it
strong. He wanted it to impart
some of the feeling of battle and
violence; the colors, composition, a scientist, is to report life in an
even the distortion are all care-1 objective manner; that job of the
fully chosen elements in achiev- artist, the poet and the musician,
ing this end. Perhaps you (and you 1 on the other hand, is to report life
are not alone) cannot or will not j more subjectively to edit, distort,
understand why we consider this t interpret when he feels it to be a
to be true; we must ask you to ! neoeitv.
china, and you'll find
"modern" art is here to stay. Lours in "The Mission Call;" 3
In regard to your last para-;p.m., course in "Missions in First
graph, we think we can agree that Century."
the job of a journalist, like that of'aaaMUMMa
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take our word for this as we would
accept a musician's verdict that a
work is well composed if we were
unfamiliar with harmony, coun
terpoint and orchestration.
Don't you ask that a poem or
play be something more than a
mere setting down of facts?
Don't you accept distortion and
unfamiliar patterns of sound in
music? Do you, upon listening to
a Bach fugue ask, "What does it
mean? What is it?" No, certainly
not. Why, then, can you not ac
cept revision of the obvious in
painting?
As for modern writing, it has
already been "Invested." May
we suggest that you read Mal
larme, T. S. Elliott, Edith Sitwcll
and Gertrude Stein even good
old Edgar Allen Poe.
Just as it becomes difficult (yes
even futile) to "explain" With
words the odor of a rose which
is a sensory experience, music
an auditory experience, of the feel
Friday
Ag Sno-Ball, 8:30-11:30 p.m,
Ag College Activities building.
Music by Bobby Mills and his or
chestra. Newman Club, dance, 8-11 p.m..
Union ballroom. Music provided
by the KFOR combo.
Audubon Screen Tour, 8 p.m..
Love Library auditorium. "Canada
North" by Bert Harwell of Berk
ley, Calif. Admission 60 cents.
Table tennis tournament, Union.
Picture lending library, 2-4:30
ic ; 4;0n jcc;m t p.m.. Union music room,
"explain" art, a visual thing. We
have tried to avoid, as much as
Dossible. artistic terms that mifiht
Your statement regarding the become gibberish to you. We have
drawing of the cat is a good illus-1 not gone into the relative charac
tration of a common fallacy in the teristics of surrealism, cubism,
public mina concerning contem- dadaism, expressionism, non-ob-porary
art Because the artist hasjjective suprematism. We simply
borrowed a child's way of seeing Sav we like .contemDorarv art:
lTi like t0 ? like U8Lco, coeS
turn out a comparable piece of
All's Fair" tryouts, 3-5 p.m,
Temple auditorium.
"Helena's Husband" tryouts, 3
4:30 p.m., Temple costume room.
"Spankin " tryouts, 3-4:30 p.m.
Room 151 Temple.
Saturday
Tenny Carnival, 2-4 p.m., Union
ballroom. Admission 25 cents.
Bridge tournament, 2-5 p.m.,
for Big Seven entrants.
I'LL SEE YOU IN
DREAMS, now showing at
Varsity theater, neatly combines
the talents of Danny Thomas and
Doris Day into the biography of
song-writer Gus Kahn, who wrote
such hits as "Memories," "I Wish
Had A Girl," "ijove Me or
I-eave Me," and "It Had To Be
You."
Portraying Kahn as a sensi
tive man who conceals his shy
nature under a cover of brash -ness,
Danny Thomas lends
warmth to a sentimental story
of the rise from rags to riches.
His sympathetic wife (Doris
Day) lends him the incentive
needed to push forward to make
rood.
The underly
ing inspiration
for all ot
Kahn's lyrics
were his wife's
words, "There
are so many
young people ?
in the world
today who
don't know how
to say 'I love
you.' Why don t -
you tell them
how in your
songs.'" This started
rise to fame.
Kahn had the ability to say
beautiful things in songs, but in
real life, he couldn't utter a one,
even while courting his wife.
The plot is kept moving by good
dialogue and Kahn's songs, which
are sung to best advantage by
Doris Day. Danny Thomas's act
ing won him a contract. Also,
Actres Patrice Wymore's legs add
welcomed distraction.
LONE STAR at the Stuart
art. A comparison would show
that the child's drawing was er
ratic, the artist's controlled; the
child's c6mposition accidental, the
artists every knowing. It would
show too that the artist Has bor
rowed the child's mannerism only
where they will add to the total
effect which he wishes to produce.
You hat-e said in your article
that you belong to the old fash
ioned school when it comes to art.
Perhaps that is where your trouble
lies, Tom. Are the means or ex-j
pressing the sixteenth century,
mnunc rif pvnrpwinn in thA
twentieth century? Haven't wej
the ,.,Ir mpnlal attittisrtps our nnrp f)f
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Men like valentines even more when they take
the practical iorm of our smart furnishings. Well
help you choose the gift tt open his eyes . . . well
wrap it in our gary Valentine package.
have come a long way irom the
grade B pictures that Hollywood
has been accustomed to grind out.
From it has evolved a super west
ern starring three of the box of
fice's biggest crowd drawers
Clark Gable, Ava Gardner and
Broderick Crawford.
Clark Gable has the role of a
hard-bitten Texan who is sent
by Andrew Jackson to urge
Texas to statehood. In his poli
tics, he befriends the would-be
ruler of Texas (Broderick
Crawford) and his girl (Ava
Gardner). In the eyes of Gable,
Ava is a "lotta woman."
Th fate of Texas is held in
balance by Sam Huston, Texas'
revered patriarch. After things
take a turn for the worse, Craw
ford takes the law into his o vn
hands and rounds up his cwnl
militia to take over the govern
ment by force. He is opposed by
Gable and his friends and a smaJ!
scale war breaks out. The day is
saved by the appearance of Sam
Huston who stops the fracas, and
lets the leaders fight it out.
In the best tradition of all
good westerns, Gable tarns out ,
to be much man as be steals his
opponent's girl, saves Texas,
fights a bloody man-to-man
duel with guns, knives and fi
nally with fists. Then he gets on
his horse and slowly fades Into
the sunset to fight for Texas.
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