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' V s r. i ! I i II I, ' C i - i s ! I b i n n i? n. i v ' Ii Vie Si itit s i Page 2 THE DAILY NEBRASKAN Thursday, October 23, 1952 EDITORIAL PAGE Harry's Final Blunder It's politics, this younger generation says with a resigned voice. You can't do anything about it you can't reform the world, says the voice of the generation that Time magazine called the silent one. We just have to accept it, repeats the cynical voice of the once idealistic young. These inspiring words are uttered in regard to the latest issue of this mud-splattered cam paign the attack by the godfather of the Dmeo cratic party President Harry S. Truman on what he calls the "moral blindness" of Dwight Eisen hower, Republican candidate for the office Tru man now holds. Golden Roads Right now the news from Korea is the worst it has been for a year. The fight for White Horse hill is as desperate and costly as many battles during the last war. Everything indicates that the truce negotiations have become null and void. Therefore, any diverting news from that disputed peninsula is welcome indeed.. A recent press service dispatch is just that. It involves some golden roads. It seems that the US Army Engineers made a mistake when they began resurfacing the roads around Pyongtaek and used refined gold ore in stead of gravel from a slag pile. A righteously Irate Korean mine owner discovered the mis take the Engineers had used $60,000 worth of his gold. The incident provided some relief for the Korean people as well as newspaper readers in this country. Army officials report that Korean civilians have swarmed over the roads with ham mers and shovels trying to get at the treasure. Typically, the government settled the mine owner's claim to US advantage. They paid him $20,000. This incident has interesting political impli cations in this country. Each party is hollering that the tax issue is vital. The GOP insists that ' a big cut must be made if our economy is to continue and the Democrats are trying to justify the program they have instituted. But here is $20,000 down the drain because the US Engin eers can't recognize gold. Moreover, it should justly be $60,000. News like this is not exactly funny but differ ent enough' from what usually comes from Korea that we feel it deserves soma attention. In fact anything that diverts us from the gloom that is overtaking this country in connection with the Korean problem is admirable. D. P. President Truman left a speech In Washing ton to be read at the mobilization conference of the National Jewish Welfare board in which he attacked Eisenhower without any regard to prin ciple. While the speech was being read, this illustrious Democrat spoke In Boston and, ac cording to press releases, directed his comments at the large number of Roman Catholic voters in this New England metropolis and surround ing territory. In his whistle-stopping, in personal and by proxy appearances, Mr. Truman charged Eisen hower as willing to accept the Nazi "master race" theory, as leader of the "forces of reaction" in America, as riding a whirlwind of slander that threatens to stir up the most "disgraceful and un American" election campaign in American history. President Truman's weekend comments were directed at, number one, a Jewish audience, and number two, a primarily Catholic audience. Harry's been giving them hell, the grass roots populations say in half-humor, half-admiration He's been doing that all right in one of the lowest, most disgusting, most irrevalent campaign fights in the history of this country. As in most campaigns, the news columns are filled with charges and counter-charges, attacks and counter-attacks, contentions and rebuttals. Politicians accuse each other, in glittering gener alities, of glittering generalities and call each other just barely printable names. Truman has done this on his whistle-stop. But the past weekend, his campaigning degen erated below what this writer feels can be ex cused on the grounds of political expediencey. The appeal to a segment of our population to a group of special interests that comes under frequent attack from the anti-enthusiasts, the "America for Americans" type is unparalleled in the annals of public life blunders. To say to a group of Jewish people that one's political oppo sition is accepting Nazi philosophy part of which is heated anti-Semitism is unforgivable irrelev ancy. To speak to a predominately Catholic au dience of slander, of un-Americanism supposedly evidenced by one's opponent is catering to the most base instincts ever present in man. President Truman has done irreparable dam age to his party with his present low-level cam paigning. While the United Nations meets in New York City to bring understanding and har mony to our troubled world, political expediency, seemingly, causes the President of the United States to resort to the very thing that is the basis of a world divided. R. R. Two On The Aisle Hemingway Tale Told Excellently i By DON PIEPER Associate Editor mere is something about an Ernest Hemingway tale that even the movies can't kill. They not only didn't kill The Snows of Kilimanjaro, they in jected true Hemingway flavor and produced one of the better movies of the year. Starring Gregory Peck as a romantic wanderer who flits from Ava Gardner to Hildegarde Neff to Susan Ilayward and from Paris to Madrid to Africa, the movie, now showing at the Lincoln, mixes magnificently In studio sets with brisk dialogue. With the exception that several scenes were victims of poor transi uon, xne siory nseir mat or a novelist who feels that he must learn about life by travel and his wife who wants to settle down is excellently told. Generally, the acting was all right. Nowhere was it exceptional. hcenery, though quite obvi ously the product of Hollywood ingenuity, is worthy of some mention because of its great beauty. Camera crews were sent abroad for background filming but the cast remained in Cali fornia. Nevertheless, the tech nicolor result is very good. This picture has been ballyhooed as one of the greatest film pro ductions of all time. It is not. It is a good solid picture and one which everyone especially Hemingway fans should enjoy. The stars are good, the photog raphy is excellent, the plot is in triguing and the prices are slightly higher than usual. However, stu dents' coupons are available which give a reduced price. Letterip Thank You . . . Rented Lands Hg Departmental Clubs To Hold Conference, Initiations Today Chuck Beam Directory sales on Ag campus will be con- Thursday will be initiation night on the campus ducted in a different manner this year according for many departmental club Those holding initi- to the Ag Builders Board. ih" TvllnJn . In the past, the sales committee has held ad- Bridle, Tn-K, Voc-Ed and Varsity Dairy vanced sales of this Builders' publication and used Two departments are holding special day. on the receipt system to distribute ""PUS this ,week' Th Vo!!0"J Education the books Department, in cooperation with the Nebraska This 'year the committee (fjg$ State Education Association Is conducting the will sell the Directories on the JMA, Vo"A Itcto Conference Thursday and cash and carry system. They fMEn Fr,day' Home Eoonomics Alumna Day will be will not start sales on Ag Mli he,d ct' 30' Th,S da ,S 4be,"f ,anne & campus until Nov. 3 which is P&Y formcr students of the dePartraent- T the the date of distribution. Build- MjfA Home Eo "ePartment nd discussions will be ers will maintain a booth in ftffftf he,d "nd the E"en " Rlchards' Din,,er W,K clU the Union after this date while S&I&P max the speclaI event organized houses will be con- tactea by their own represent- Beam Two animal husbandry judging teams entered ative. interschool competition this week. The meats The receipts which are being used on the judging team left Sunday for the judging contest downtown campus will not be honored on Ag, but at Kansas City while the senior livestock judging students may purchase their Directories, by this team also journeyed to Kansas City to judge In method if they wish. the American Royal Livestock Show. Notes On Half-Notes Phillips Started With Navy Band; jVoiv Tops In Campus Popularity Danny Fogel This week I'd like to dedicate the column to a swell fellow and a fine musician. Most of you have both danced and listened to his music. I'm speaking of Jimmy Phillips. Jimmy is responsible for most of the dance music at the Union and at the various house parties on campus. I thought musical aggregation. Along about this time the combo was starting to become popular on this campus. At 'e pres ent time Jimmy's group is well at the top of the popularity list at the University. The group at the present time consists of Marv ThP memhers nf Nphraska T7nl- ua"u' alu"6 W1L" ut-u versity Council for World Affairs muiscians as Don Dennis, of wish to express appreciation to Stan Kenton's orchestra. Then you'd like to know a bit about the Phillips combo, Hanson, alto; Norm Smith, tenor; Fred Boucher, and to get better acquainted with Jimmy. trombone, Jim Anderson, bass; Earl Mitchell, drums; Jim Koser, piano, and Phillips, trumpet While he was in the service, Jim played in the Jimmy tells me that the combo is in need of a girl vocalist for many of the groups arrangements call I'll Get By "University men" and "University women." These words apear day after day in news columns of The Daily Nebraskan and are heard daily on the lips of students. They are a part of our working vocabulary that has lost meaning through constant use. Like all trite expressions, they generate no thought in persons using them. How qualified are we as students and individ uals to be called men and women? Much has been written about our "silent generation." So much has been written that public opinion has completed a circle of thought and decided that we really aren't silent, we're just thinking instead of swallowing goldfish. The question we would like to raise is this: Are we thinking? Are we gaining any more solid foundation for living than our "roaring" counter parts of almost 30 years ago? Or is our theme song "I'll Get By"? We are silent in classes. Is this because we are studiously weighing an instructor's words as he utters them and because we refuse to talk without a solid background of knowledge? Or do we know too little to begin thinking because we have been "getting by" scholastkally for years? we are silent In religious discussions. Is this because we have deeply-rooted convictions that need no discussion? Or is it because we have not troubled ourselves to do more than "get by" with lip-service to ready-made ideals? We become more articulate about politics. Have we examined and evaluated conclusions we throw around so glibly? Or are we simply re gurgitating ideas absorbed from family and friends? No one will dispute the college student's ability to 'get by." He Is a past master in the art of sliding through courses with a bare min imum of efort. He has perfected the technique of saylnr nothing and saying it fluently. He 6eems perfectly able to live his life with out thinking. However, the song docs not end with "I'll get by;" It continues "as long as . a comparison end with "I'll get mall children and inhabitants of old peoples' homes can "get by." So can convicts in a prison. Free men can "get by" as long as they have peace and security. Peace and security are non- existant today. Senator Sparkman drew silent, cynical grins when he informed us that "we are not afraid." We are afraid. We should be afraid because we are "men and women" "getting by." If we continue, we will soon have a world in which there will be no demand to think. We can "get by" easily in a police S. H. state. Use Your Heads It is not the policy of The Daily Nebraskan to act as mother of the students of the University and we certainly do not want to get that reputa tion. However, we on the staff feel that someone must impress the hundreds of students who will fill the highways to Colorado this weekend with the fact that a little common sense can save a lot of lives. The drive to Boulder Is a long one. Mostly it will be done at night or early morning in either case the drivers will not have had their usual amount of sleep. On top of this, the trip will be made in a general party atmosphere. . It doesn't take an Einstein to see the dangers of this. But past experience has shown that a great many normally intelligent students overlook the obvious dangers both to themselves and other travelers. Remember that the game is not a mat ter of life or death and the safety organizations are constantly reminding us that "speed kills." Even more important than speed is the chance that students will drink while they drive. It certainly wouldn't be original for The Ne braskan to come out against drinking while driv ing. But some action (somewhere is necessary because of the great number of overcrowded cars that will be making the trip. We only want to remind you that it is not Just your own future you are risking when you start to party before you get out of the car. The Nebraskan believes that the Colorado trip " Neither docs will be free from incident, but only if students use by." Granted, their heads. There can be no excuse for careless ness. Also, there can be no excuse for not having a good time and still remaining within thp liberal bounds of reason. D. P. The Daily Nebraskan for the edi torial concerning United Nations Week which appeared in Wednes day's Daily Nebraskan. Knowl edge of support of what we con sider an important and worthy project in these chaotic years is truly gratifying. It is impossible to over-emphasize the importance of having each student understanding the United Nations and its functions and its possibilities; The Daily Nebraskan deserves credit for promoting this knowledge. Sincerely, NEBRASKA UNIVERSITY COUNCIL FOR WORLD AFFAIRS I ' ' 1 W- - I '- m in '47 after leaving the Marines he formed his own band which enjoyed popularity in the Mid west. The band depression days came in '49 and Philips broke up the large organization to form a combo. This combo consisted of a tenor, two trumpets, and the Fogel rhythm being piano, . bass, and drums. Using this group he played many small spots in this vicinity. Feeling this group lacked depth he re organized the combo in '50 integrating trumpet, clarinet, and vibes plus rhythm into a fine for a female singer. One reason for Jim's success with the combo lies in the fact that the boys do most of their rehearsing in a room comparable to a recording studio. The Phillips basement is soundproof, equipped with an overhead mike, a 15" speaker, and a tape recorder. The playbacks have the same quality as commercial recordings. This enables them to strive for perfection. Jim reentered school in '50 under the G.L bill and is now a senior. He's majoring in teaching and after graduation will probably do some teach ing for a while and when the right time comei along will organize a larger band and go into the dance business. A STUDENT LOOKS TOWARD POLITICS VI Your Vote DidrVt Count By KEN RYSTROM Managing Editor More than 260,000 Nebraska votes for President didn't count in 1948. Governor Dewey still would have received the state's six elec toral votes if those 260,000 per sons had stayed home on election day. Sounds sensational, doesn't it? uation, despite its popularity with the bosses. In the first place, sectionalism is likely to result. A majority in Congress therefore represents sections of the country, instead of other interests. Second, a state considered, ana JacKSonian uemocrats. "safe" is controlled entirely by a Perhaps the very basis of single party with no effective American nolitics is shiftine. The GOP attempt to free the South While this is not likely in the from Democratic control will present election, it is a possible j solution in the Democrat s attempt to keep their opponents from de stroying the foundation upon which Jeffersonlans have rested since the days of anti-Federalists But its true, for two reasons: Icheck on the government of that 1. The 224,165 voters who sup-'state. Kansas is a magnificent ex ported President Truman in the ample of this danser. where, in election had no effect upon the! the primaries this year, less than;!;! numner oi electoral votes which 'half of the districts in the state the President received. And, afterieven had a Democratic candidate all, it is the electoral votes which for the state lower house. Thus, Margin Notes fa Osia&fouv Them Dry Bones' Lincoln approached 50 days of dry weather this week with no prospects for rain in the near future. During this time only .04 of an inch of FIFTY -FIRST YEAR Member Associated Collegiate Press Intercollegiate Press EDITORIAL STAFF xneasurable rain has fallen. The last rain, .02 of f sin prt.t widexu' arw, .nd o takm. o"i. n lnrh fpll a month ocn kot1Ib to Artlrl II ef th Rr-Iw nvrrnint m.tM pnhllr.. , -e,-, iim mnm aomiimirrra nr rat nam at rurrltfCatMiiH, " li fb 1 A Great Nebraskan elect or defeat a candidate 2. More than 40,000 of the 264,774 citizens who voted for Governor Dewey cast their bal lots in vain, since that was Dewey's margin over his Demo cratic opponent in the state of Nebraska. These 40,000 might just as well have stayed home. Our concern at the moment is not with the 224,165 Democrats, for to make the minority vote count would take a Constitutional amendment. Although a change in the functioning of the electoral college has been under discussion for some time, no immediate ac tion is in prospect. Let us concern ourselves rather with that excess of 40,000 Repub lican votes. It is this margin that caused columnist Marquis Childs to write: "It Is comforting to be In Ne braska In this troubled time, for here the certainties of Repub licanism are unshaken. While in some of the other farm belt states the Republican organiza tion registers now and then a slight nervous tremor, remem bering the upset of four years ago, in Nebraska they know that things are under control." Childs then proceeds to speak of Taft's victory in the GOP pri mary last spring, declaring that "everything since that . if every Democratic candidate ::: should win, the Republicans ij;; would still retain control of the;i! house. HI Third, national candidates tend:!;; to neglect those states which are !;! weighted heavily on one side, I since winning, say, 10,000 votes in! some other state might change1 the outcome of the entire election. The national campaign then be comes simply a battle for a few key states. Fourth, the lopsldedness of the political situation in a state tends to keep voters from the polls both members of the ma jority and the minority parties. The election landslides of the late President Roosevelt wiped out many of the old Republican strongholds, although since 1936 the GOP has steadily increased its strength in the Midwest and West to the point where condi tions similar to the Solid South may exist within a few years if the present trend continues. Partly because many of these !!! states are still listed as "doubt ful" and partly as an effort to break the back of the always- depended-upon Southland, Re publicans this year have made an impressive attempt to break the mean that the votes of several million Republicans might count toward the election of the Presi dent. The question is: Will this rev olution Invade the Midwest and free 260,000 votes In Nebraska, or will we remain as a "safe" state a "comfort" to political planners? H;;;;;.:::;;;::;;:;i;;;i:i:;":::;;:j;;:n 3 a li ::: :: r.: iii I::: ji!! Hi Democratic hold on states south of seems unchanged me mason-uixon line, wnne pres . contest . " The'cnt indications show that Elsen hall b rrt from MlMnrlal ri-nratil on lh pari id Ih Hoard. r bervlces were held Wednesday for an outstand- "" oaii Ktbraxiaa art enaiu n lng Nebraska citizen, Francis P. Matthews. Habacriatioa rm v t.m to m.n, ., sx.on Matthews, who died In Omaha Saturday, was the IW'Z SZ, ST SZttJttMS. 2S5ES United States ambassador to Ireland and former XLTCZW, secretary of the navy. Another of Nebraska's great iTSr'S'' .Ht'.'!4nL,',ta'!u"Jimltmt ! T"- M"" J ron Oltln laj Mania. Nabnuka, m4et Act of Cmirm, una passes. . . aoo ai nwcmi ma of aovtaat arotMr for n Ma ' . lilt, . 1 I . M . . . ' M vaaroa w immr i w 1 1 . aaiaomaa aaataaa. few io, ma. columnist appears to draw a hower is unlikely to carry many,;!;; parallel between the consistency 'if any, of these dates, the two-1!!! of the Nebraska voters and thc'Party system is being restored ini;! unswerving qual'ties of the Ohio 'this area. senator. I . ... wiin narro voikt at iaa noaro cuai publication, andn Hi luritdrliltm v" luK " viius. Miracles Still Happen Lest we become discouraged and cease to believe in the Improbable and the unlikely, let cite the case of a French miracle. Police In Le Mans reported that a truck carrying seven tons of tffn overturned. Only 21 eggs were broken. Daily Thought There Is four hundred times as much learning In the world as there is wisdom. Josh Billings. r;mot .... Ha Rarmoad rtamrlata KdMor Oua 1'Wo.r Kfi MUmn Bad, flail. Hal HaMalbalcb, . , Dick Balatoa. Kara atlcRatiiMn. I'al Ball Saorbj MIUH (;iMB Nloo mm r.anor , CbarlM Klaarh raatara Collar CM laeaj a r.aiior Owes Unit ( KdllM . Jao Ml.ll3 I '"' . ..Taaj WaHart, Fail Maani. Marllre Taan, Pall Paltanoa, Natalia Halt, Jahn Irtnarre?, an lU.rliun, Jaa Maraa, Rofer Walt, Scott hllti, Dan Smith, Marshall Bceicr, vim voircr, nana? uamincr, rat Lfm, Cannia (tooil. John Vannm, Cbark Uaakcr, Ed DrMar, Cal Kaika, Umrj Sharman, Hal Hardlni, Darwin McAfFt, Dal Snadtraaa, Hart Brswo, Tarn Bacaar, Howard Vann, Bub rr, Oar Prandaan. BUSINESS STAFF HathwM Maaaacr Arnold Sirra Am i BaHM Manaaan Staa) Bloint, Frta RanMra loa Orrrhnll rirralatloa Manawar Bd Barg Niiht Editar ,, Sara Stpheneu This "safe" voting condition ex ists through the northern midwest states North Dakota, South Da kota, Nebraska and Kansas; most of the New England states Maine, New Hampshire and Ver mont; and, from the Democratic point of view, in the 80-year-old bond South. Counting an area as "safe" politically is not a healthy sit- the South slipping from1;;; their hands, perhaps the Demo-,';; crats may attempt to capture otner areas and creak the Repub lican grip on mldwcstern states. A. yr 1 !;; s KNUS 3:00-3:15 3:15-3:30 3:30-3:45 3:45-4:00 4:00-4:15 4:15-4:30 4:30-4:35 4:35-4:50 4:50-5:00 Purple Grotto Shake Hands With The World Songs Of The Saddle Sport Parade 4 O'CIock Class ACF Show This I Believe World Of Wax News CAT A musician who plays ; notes only a dog can hear. jji COOL Crazy ciircttes smoked ! by penguins und musicians. 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