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THE NEBRASKAN
Wednesday, Jgctober H, 195Q
Kicking The Mule
The Nebraskan has never overrated the
Student Council. In fact, the paper's editor
ial comment probably has been hypercritical.
Last fall The Daily Nebraskan each week
published a box score of Council action. Al
. though the accompanying story wouli' fre
quently run 12 or 15 Inches, the box summar
ized the proceedings of the Council in a few
short lines. "
For example, on Dec. 4, 1952, two related
stories on the Council's meeting of the pre
vious day ran a total of 13 and a half inches.
The box score, however, read:
"At its Wednesday afternoon meeting the
Error Admitted
The University Daily Kansan, student
newspaper of the University of Kansas, fin
ally acknowledged its error in inadvertently
publishing Communist propaganda.
In an editorial apology printed in Friday's
issue, the Kansan said, "We made a mighty
stupid mistake and are ready and willing to
advertise it to the world with hat in hand."
The Nebraskan's hat, in turn, is off to .a
paper which can publicly admit its mistake.
The peculiar nature of newspapers, in that
censorship rests with the paper itself and
not any outside agency, demands that news
papers be quick to admit error and attempt
to undo any mischief caused by mistake.
The fact that at least three college news
papers, including The NebrasWan, noticed the
faux pas and devoted editorials to it is itself
a sign that newspapers police themselves and
consider any wayward journalistic conduct
the business of everyone.
This self-policing policy, in addition to fair
and open letters to the editor columns, is the
reader's guarantee that he is not being vic
timized nor propagandized without his know
ledge. This is the American system of a free
press. E.D.
Dollar Diplomacy
If a cartoon were drawn depicting present
economic attitudes of the U.S. toward expen
ditures a'nd revenue, it might show two long
arms, one reaching into American manufac
turers' pockets and the other arm dropping
coins on the continent of Europe with both
sides throwing stones labeled "Republican
promises," "bribery" and "capitalist."
Recently, the government decided, accord
ing to President Eisenhower, to put aside
consideration of a federal sales tax to make
up a $5 billion deficit when the excess profits
tax and special income tax run out.
Now however, discussion is leaning toward
a possible tax on manufactured goods. The
Republicans who had promised to cut taxes
are now faced with the problem of cutting
budget and defense allowances if the $5 bil
lion cannot be obtained from a different
source of revenue. Republican prestige
would receive impairing injuries from such a
move making the coming congressional elec
tions rough going.
. That takes tare of one aspect of our theo
retical cartoon.
The present dynamitish Trieste situation
between Yugoslavia, Italy and the United
States-Great Britain coalition will be a testing
ground for the purchasing power of the
American dollar.
Within the last three years the United
States has sent $900,000,000 in military-aid
appropriations to Tito. Whether this aid will
constitute any U.S. influence in settlements
of the Trieste situation remains to be seen,
but the U.S. can not overlook the fact that if
Tito ignores the monetary U.S.-Yugoslav tie,
a serious deflation of the American dollar's
purchasing power in the diplomatic field will
take place.
The U.S. is aware, too, that should this
monetary devaluation result, serious effects
may be pending in the like situation between
France and the European Defense Community
proposal.
,. The French, who have refused to agree to
the re-armament of Western Germany for
admission to NATO, because of the fear that
German nationalism might again rear its ugly
head, were put off guard when the recent
German elections supported the Adenauer
government, a leading advocate of EDC and
refutee of aggressive German nationalism.
The French defensively said they would v
agree to nothing until the Saar region con
troversy was cleared up.
Congress last spring appropriated $728,
000,000 for French military aid to relieve the
French treasury, which is strained from its
financial expenditures for combating the
Communist insurrections in Indo-China. Here
again the power of the American dollar is
being tested.
In both cases, should the countries bolt the
monetary security given them by the United
States in opposition to U.S. sponsored policies,
what will happen to American monetary
prestige which has, up to now, won many
European battles?
Thus, it may be said the United States, is
In the midst of a diplomatic battle with the
ultimate victory lying in the deflation or in
flation of the prestige-standard dollar. J.H.
Student Council took the following action:
"1. Heard and tabled a motion to recom
mend creation of a faculty-student board.
"2. Appointed a committee to conduct
hearings.
"3. Defeated a motion to rescind a motion
passed at last week's meeting. '
"4. Adjourned for two committee meet
ings." While the 13 and a half Inches were im
pressive, the box score showed that the Stu
dent Council actually hadn't accomplished a
thing.
Glancing through the Thursday issues of
last year, we believe that this case is typical.
Last May The Daily Nebraskan summed up
the work of the 1952-53 Council. In addition
to purely functionary actions, the Council
spent most of its time on five issues, only one
of which was settled decisively.
The paper's editorial, on May 15, 1953, con
cluded, "From The Daily Nebraskan's point
of view, this is not an impressive record."
Thus far this year, the paper has controlled
itself and simply labeled the Council "The
Once-A-Week Club."
Sometimes members of the Council become
a little peeved at the editorial handling they
receive. Once in a while they even accuse
us of trying to discredit the Council.
Whether these suspicions are true or not,
The Nebraskan places the Student Council
somewhat In the position of a mule which is
being: kicked vehemently from the rear but
which cannot kick back.
We mean to say that the Council has no
effective means to deal with our criticisms.
It must rely upon The Nebraskan for publi
cation of its news, filing procedures, election
results and general publicity. The Nebraskan
is mentioned no less than seven or eight
times in the Council's constitution and by
laws. After a blistering editorial, the Council
cannot turn around and blast us editorially.
True, it has recourse to the Letterip column,
but a group has difficulty speaking effec
tively through such a device.
Some student councils, faced with what
they considered unnecessary opposition from
the campus newspaper, have taken radical
steps to combat their journalistic foes.
At one Big-Seven college, for example, the
council has published a rival newspaper.
At SMU the council filed an injunction
against the SMU Campus in order to keep the
paper from reporting "off-the-record" re
marks from open meetings of the council.
SMU council members say they have the
"discretionary power to separate the extrane
ous, irrelevant gossip from the official de
cisions; and therefore we take this action to
insure that the worthless gossip will be ex
cluded from the student paper and only the
official, pertinent matters will be printed."
Both solutions sound absurd to us. We
believe that the duty of a campus newspaper
is not to debate with the Student Council
but to direct the Council's atention to mat
ters of importance and to criticize the Coun
cil's actions when they are not to the best
interest of the student body.
Thus, the student newspaper acts as an
effective check on the student government.
While The Nebraskan may criticize the
Student Council at every turn, we are not
kicking the mule to bruise his posterior.
Rather, we hope that the mule may move
a step or two.
But just because a mule is a mule and
won't move is no reason to stop kicking.
K.R.
Margin Notes
Chem Building Threatened
Exploding in a Tuesday Lincoln City Coun
cil meeting was the issue of explosive-carrying
vehicles being allowed on Lincoln streets.
Proposals varied from an outright ban to
a mandatory police escort.
Who knows, perhaps the Chem building
will be given a permanent police escort?
Foiled Again
A Nebraskan reporter was ejected from
Tuesday's Faculty Senate meeting in Love
Library auditorium.
Could be they spotted his intelligent look
and lack of a bow tie (not even a clip-on),
and immediately concluded he was not a
faculty member.
Matter Of Obecfvfy
An Omaha radio station recently presented
a half hour program to acquaint listeners
with the effects of the explosion of the ammo-bearing
truck. The program was very
dramatic and frightening.
Throughout the half hour, the announcer
kept repeating, "This station does not intend
to take sides in this controversy. But just re
member what would have happened if the
explosion had occurred within the city limits
of Omaha."
Perhaps this was' one time when the sta
tion had no right to remain objective And
didn't, in spite of itself.
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The Student Speaking
"No, Hank, I ean't accept a diamond. You should have
given the money to AUF."
The Challenge
ROTC Not A 'Hand Out';
But Needed Investment
By HARVEY J. DAVIS, JOC,
USN
Naval Science Instructor
(This Is the fifth in a weekly
series of articles treating the
problems, issues and challenges
of the day as viewed by repre
sentatives of various fields of en
deavor.) My challenge today comes from
an editorial appearing in the
Sept. 23 edition of The Nebras
kan, headed "Hand Outs."
The writer ponders the effect
of the ROTC program on the fu
ture thinking of America's young
men. He offers the idea that
Uncle Sam's "silver-platter tech
nique" in training the military
leaders of tomorrow may not pay
dividends in either military serv
ice or the eventual readjustment
of these same military leaders to
the economic system in which
they are to live.
The writer asks what this at
mosphere of receiving without a
tangible medium of exchange will
lend to their stint in the service.
He wonders if there will be a
tendency to think in terms of
governmental controls and hand
outs. He asks, "When the test
comes, how will today's genera
tion stand?"
1 have not the ast doubt that
when the test Comes today's gen
eration will meet the tests as did
their fellow Americans at Bou
ganville, Okinawa and Korea. I
have not the least doubt that to
day's generation can give un
selfishly of themselves to their
country in time of need and still
bounce back to give their civilian
competitors a run for their money
in any chosen field.
The ROTC programs are not
"Hand Outs." They are merely
cash advances against the auto
matic military lien that world
conditions have placed against
every American citizen. They are
investments in a reservoir of
training and experience that no
amount of money could otherwise
buy on short notice tomorrow.
The regular military services
will attract a small percentage
of career people from the ROTC
programs, but our average young
American with an inherent dislike
for war and the military way of
life, will be eager to complete
his obligated service and return
to civilian life. He will leave the
services a more mature person,
enriched by his experiences and
associations, better equipped and
more determined to find his
rightful place in the society of
reality. '
He will be possessed of a deep
sense of pride in that he has
faithfully served his 'country and
delivered dollar for dollar value
to Uncle Sam for all the monies
invested. He too, will have paid
from the "proverbial pocket." He
will have accepted government
subsistence on board a battle
ship, a destroyer, oil tanker or at
an air station in lieu of the cold,
hard dollars that the non-military
are drawing for these very same
things. He will have worked for
a pay scale that, including all
fringe benefits, is still far below
his corresponding number in ci
vilian life.
I wish the writer could have
shared with me the experiences
involving our Reservists of World
War II and the Korean action.
The backbone of our services in
those days, and the only reason
we were able to survive as a na
tion, were the non-professional
soldiers, sailors, marines and air
men who wrote their names in
glorious fashion across the pages
of our military history.
A vast majority of those men
successfully made the transition
back to civilian life. All too few
chose to remain in the service
and that is one of the reasons for
our desperate need of leadership
today.
I'd like to point out the record
of the first navy carrier taken
out of mothballs, the USS Prince
ton. Captain W. O. Gallery, USN,
the present professor of Naval
Science at NU, took her into Ko
rean action with about the most
non-prof er sional crew that you
could imagine. Eighty per cent
of the crew were Reservists
most of the officers having been
educated at government expense
in civilian colleges. They were
boys from the farms, factories,
department stores, schools and
colleges.
They turned in a magniflcient
performance, equal or superior
to the regular Navy men, yet
every turn of the screw, every
plane that was launched, every
day that was logged, brought re
newed hope that they would soon
be at home with their families
and back at peacetime pursuits.
There can be no positive as
surances that the transition from
civilian to military life will be
easy. Neither can there be as
surances that all men leaving the
military services can success
fully adapt themselves to the eco
nomic conditions of the times,
but my experience with Ameri
ca's youth in the last two wars
have completely sold me on his
ability to deliver the goods when
he is called on and his sincere
desire to live in a world of real
ity, completely removed from the
military, if possible.
Every American citizen recog
nizes the fact that he has a heavy
military obligation today. One of
the most important decisions fac
ing our young men is how to meet
that obligation without completely
disrupting their normal way of
life.
I believe the ROTC programs
offer the best possible solution.
It gives the young man an op
portunity to prepare himself for
a better place in the society in
which he expects to live. At the
same time, he himself makes
available to his government for
a limited amount of specialized
military training, thus buying for
himself and his country, a greater
share toward a Christian and
democratic world.
Fridqy's Rag
for
rules and regulations
on
contest
Hey, Arready
Bv JERRY SHARPNACKE
On the thirteenth floor of the
Berkley Building high above the
fog-strewn street, a lone light
pierced through the suffocating
blackness. That light was from
the naked Mazda of R. Sam
Jones's office. Jones was a pri
vate dick.
The detective now leaned
back into the ancient, crackling
leather of his rocking chair, and
tore open a fresh deck of Cards.
He lit a four of clubs and let the
smoke dribble slowly from his
nostrils. The blue-grey stuff
swirled momentarily about his
face, then drifted to the glaring
light, wrapping itself about the
. bulb.
The sounds of the street oould
be heard the blaring, rushing,
gurgling, thundering of this mad
generation. Jones listened, and
swore. He knew what it was to
fight for his very existence, for
enough money to eat decently.
He was tough.
The life had made him a bitter,
cynical man with a quick trigger-finger,
a suspicious nature,
a secretary named Lucretia
Bourgeois, and a glass eye. It
was a rough business, his.
But business was slow to
night and he pulled his .60 cali
bre automatic from its shoulder
holster and began cleaning the
barrel slowly, lovingly.
Then, suddenly, it happened
as he knew it must. There came
a tapping, as of someone gently
rapping, rapping at his office
door. Only this and nothing
more. Slowly, he lifted the .60
caliber and moved cautiously to
wards the door. He listened for
a moment, then said, "Who is
dere?"
"It is I," said a wee, feminine
voice.
Jones slid a heavy dresser
from the doorway, opened the
door three-quarters of an inch,
and peered through the opening.
There stood a young girl of
about nineteen years, witn a
sweet smile on her face and a
large basket balanced on her
head.
. "What ya want, ya young girl
of about nineteen years, with a
sweet smile on yer face an' a
large basket balanced on yer
head?" he asked. .
"You know what 1 want,
Jones. I have your name on my
list," she sneered, the smile
quickly fading.
"Yea . . . yea. 1 know," he
said quietly, and opened the
door permitting her to enter his
office. Now, with ashen face, he
walked from her to the window
and stared into the gloom. It
had begun to rain, and scrillions
of damp drops were foolishly
smashing themselves against an
unyielding window pane.
He thought to himself. She
knows what it is for me to
tru dis every year. I am hare?
makin' enough money to eat de
cently. But she has her reasons,
I guess. She is too logical in her
argument an' dere is no sense
tryin' to fight it.
He turned to her now, and
managed a smile. "How 'bout a
smoke," he asked. "It's a fresh
deck."
"No thanks," she said sharply,
"Bicycle's my brand, And stop
your silly shilly-shallying, Sam,
see?" She took the basket from
her head and shoved it towards
him.
Sam stared at it for a long
eternity, then pulled off his
sock. A very old five dollar bill
stumbled to the floor. He picked
it up and dropped it into the
mysterious girl's basket.
The sweet smile returned to
her face. "I know that was your
bullet money, Sam, but Just re
member every dollar donated
goes to help people who are
hardly making enough to eat
decently. We of the A.U.F. ap
preciate your generosity."
Letterip
'Better Method' Proposed
(Letters to the editor should be limited
to toil words. I'nMnned letters will not
he published; however, names may be wlh.
held on reauest. The editors reserve the
runt to edit all letters. Letters represent
only the contributors view.)
Dear Editor:
I would like to oblige Mr.
Sherwood's request for a better
method (of combatting internal
Communism) by submitting one
of my own.
I believe the job of finding
Communists should be taken
from the Senate and turned over
to the FBI; the job of trying
them should be left up to the
Department of Justice.
My reasons for this change are
the following:
1. No Communist is going to
get up and "spill the beans"
about himself in front of this
Committee, and no innocent per
son is going to get up and ridicu
lously announce he is a Commu
nist. This makes the McCarthy
method of getting any facts use
less. 2. The Judicial branch of our
government is set up to try cases
against the United States. I think
this branch should be given the
job of trying those suspected of
Communist affiliations.
3. The FBI has better methods
of getting facts than "shooting
off their mouth" like Sen. Mc
Carthy. They are well-trained,
well-experienced and more cap
able of getting facts than Mc
Carthy. 4. You can't get much work
out of a Committee that fights
within itself. This is exemplified
If
by the Democratic members or
the Committee walking out dur
ing one of the hearings.
5. The fact that the Senate
Investigating Committee is not a
court takes away the usefulness
of the committee as a method
of trying and punishing Commu
nists for their crimes against
this country.
6. Although the McCarthy
Committee does not have the
power to establish guilt in the
legal sense of the word, most
people who appear before this
committee are established as
guilty in the eyes of the public
This is due to McCarthy's un
fairness and his incapabilities o1
getting the facts.
I believe if this method wai
followed, we would extract mon
Communists and would have
fewer innocent people persecuted
in addition to'having "less ink
wasted on McCarthy."
BUTLER SHAFFER
Nick: "I need five dollars at
once, and I've only got four.
What am I going to do?"
Joe: "That's simple. Go
pawn the four dollars for three,
and then sell the pawn ticket
for two dollars."
I
She: Who said you
me?
He:
m could
Everybody!
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days makes us come in like a
lion and go out like a lamp.
for '53 . . .
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