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SUMMER NEBRASKAN
Thursday, June 30 f955
The Mh TMchens ...
" - Tlie trucking lobb is said to be powerful in the
Nebraska Legislature, but consider France where the
liquor lobby is so powerful that it at one time persuaded
the government to buy a year's liquor supply for 20 per
cent more than the regular sales price. There is one
wine shop in France for every 64 persons.
Milk-drinking former PremierfMendes-France is said
to have been ejected from office because of his opposition
to the consumption of alcoholic beverages. He favored
the drinking of milk which is admittedly a poor substitute
for wine especially in France where the milk is thin,
poor tasting and expensive. And so Mendes-France soon
went the way of all French premiers.
Now, the French government is again treading on
shaky ground. They " are now- encouraging the dairy
industry to improve their product and fruit juice manu
facturers, non-fermented fruit iuiee. that is. are also
being given a boost.
Including babes in arms and octagenarians, the aver
age consumption of pure alcohol in France is currently
running at 33 quarts per year.
- Oh yes, the French people are finally admitting that
alcoholism is a problem in their country.
War-And Losers . . .
Val Peterson said Monday that civil defense is the
nation's device for minimizing the effects of atomic at
tack. He also said that any air attack from an unfriendly
power would be successful enough in terms of the de
struction accomplished.
It is becoming more and more apparent that no
winners will emerm fmm inv fnfiitv iror ioatc '
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When war was in a relatively infantile state the Duke of
Wellington remarked, "Nothing except a battle lost can
be half so melancholy as a battle won."
Now, 140 years later, another Englishman has ex
pressed hope for the survival of mankind. Winston
Churchill has stated that perhaps peace can be achieved
through a Process Of "mutual termr" iritfc S?vl
ogies realizing that mutual annihilation is the only sure
result of nuclear war. v. '
Civil defense is the important cog in a vast wheel of
what may or may not be survival of the nation. How
successful evacuation of cities or digging of deep holes
in the ground will be when the real thing comes is not
known and is not likely to be known until time of crisis.
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The Changing Role
Civil Defense Needs
School Cooperation
The leader of 1 million people of Southeast Asia
visit niteu states Wednesday for an extended
w .u Prime minister of Burma, is basically rro-
4, f -I i -n-?iu.i ieaaer ana aoes not see
Atf SfteS le l of the world as
Americans believe their country to be.
In a speech in 1954, he said, "We" see America as &
nation of creat men a.fi3 ummcn riv
mg this a better world." Then, a few sentences later, he
IT a v?ecan aiso see tfcem playing the unpre-
fv11?- role of benefactors showering the needy world
with billions worth of free gifts when most countries are
indulging in receiving instead of giving. I am holding no
brief for America, nor have I an axe to grind. As you
know we have already refused ud offered by her -
As is typical of Asia's new leaders, U Nu is'a very
wise man. He confesses admiration for both Red China
and the US. and says, ,fWe do not want these two es
teemed countries confronting each other with bitterness
and hostility .
a On stopping Communist aggression in Southeast
Asia, he says very simply, Western blood need not be
shed in countering aggression in this area. Just make
the nations of Southeast Asia strong
U Nu will be in the country for three weeks and yet
few people will-know of his visit and even fewer persons
will know anything of his country and his people.
Asia now is the dangerous flash point of the world,
Asia is the troubje spot With over half of the world's
population, the people of the area are tired of colonialism
and war. They fear bic. powerful nairm tv.
peace and a small portion of modest prosperity so thev
can grow.
. The Summer Nebraskan
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Assistant Editor Roger Wait
Business lanaer ...... ; ..................... Earbara Eicke
By KAY NOSKY
It wasn't too long ago that grade
schoolers were herded in fire-drifl
style down the stairs and through
the doors only then it was for
practaoc to case of air raids. It
seems a long time ago. Reflecting
upon Nebraska's ex -governor Val
Peterson's speech on Monday, one
wonders what new form of safety
drill wiH become a part of educa
tion's changing role.
Civil Defense Director Peter
son's chart, which plotted the path
of possible "fallouts" was enoueh
to make one want to catch the
first one-way rocket to the moon.
Evacuation and back-yard boxub
shelters seem scant ennuri wy4mt
tion ircua blasts, fire and fallouts
of an atomic bomb. But, Peterson
said they can work, and be should
know.
For educators, the point is this:
A strong civil defense organization
will have to include cooperation
of schools.
Should evacua
tion be called
for in the mid
dle of the day,
a number of
panic- stricken
p arests are
going to swamp
schools for
their children.
It's something
to think about.
But not rifrht
now. Or, at least it's difficult to
beerin worrying about snch phan
tasies as atomic blasts end fallouts
right now. Of course, it reaEy
wouldn't hurt anything if everyone
was prepared for something that
never happens.
Peterson most become terrifi-
cafty discouraged at timet. What
the United States needs k a BiBy
Graham-type operator who cevld
shock some f ns eel f ear com
placent world aad aot for just oe
or two honrs.
As one teacher said about Civil
Defense, tot's drop the subject.
Another phase f education's
changing role is a relatively anew
method of teaching Drocressive
education, it is c&Hed, many tiroes
wita a sneer. Dorothy Thompson,
a syndicated columnkL let educa
tion have it with a double-barreled
shotgun in hex column last Sunday.
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"American education wants to
achieve success without effort,"
she said. "This is also the ideal
of the American Deoole: The
largest utilitarian return for the
least expenditure of energy.
"All the subjects -that require
mental discipline, memofv reten
tion, concentrated work, and the
exercise of logic are pushed
aside.1
Miss Thompson said that first it
was cultural studies literature.
history, languages that were be
ing neglected, because of the tech
nological age. Now various gov
ernmental agencies have come
through with this amazing set of
figures: 24J per cent of high
school students study algebra;
only 11.S per cent have studied
geometry; only half of the nation's
high schools offer courses in chem
istry and 53 per cent offer none in
physics.
"It is doubtful whether anything
whatever will be done about it,"
she continued. "We have the kind
of education the American people
want, and the kind of National
Education Association, which de
temises educational content and
teaching method, demands.
"Tor the American notion of de
mocracy has degenerated into a
universal workhop of mediocrity,
combined, in educational circles,"
intellectual and spiritual canacitM
of the average American child and 1
youth,?
w a uuarrei uerraen t-mn
conflicting principles as to how
children should be taught Which
ever side is right, one thing is cer
tain. Educators are not doing a
good job of answering school
critics.
From ,iV;
The Editor's Dosk
. A few weeks ago The Summer
Nebraskan published a current
poll' that surveyed the opinions of
American college students. Publi
cation of the resuits of another
college poll are now available'
a poll of 68 college editors who
serve over half a million students.
Polls and their results are of in
terest to us since they 'offer some
uniformity of thought on issues
with which we are concerned.
A few general opinions of the
majority of, those editors polled
are, as follows:
The. AFL-CIO . merger is un
healthy for the coantry as a whole.
Red China should aot be seated
in tae UN, but the U. S. service
academies should be allowed to
debate Red Chiaa's admission to
the UN. .
It is "hogwash" that educational
and philanthropic foaod aliens are
subverting Americans.
Mass edacalioa substitutes quan
tity for quality.
The editors offered comment on
how their papers were regulated
with reference to censorship or
control by university administra
tions. Eighty-eight percent of the
editors felt that the collegiate press.
more specifically their own papers,
was free of administration control
and advertisers influence. Only
seven editors said that they were
impeded by administration poli
cies.
Probably the worst example of
censorship came from the editor
who said, "We are not expected to
disagree with policies of the ad
ministration since they consider the
paper a publication of the univer
sity and not of the students."
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There doesnt seem to be much
unity or pattern ia the answers
given by the 66 editors, but it is
shown very clearly that college
editors, whatever else they may
do, are not afraid to offer com
ment The second in our series of Op
portunity articles is featured on the
third page of today's issue of The
Summer Nebraskan. Some readers
might not think that a group such
as the Haylofters deserve feature
coverage. Perhaps not, but I ad
mire the spirit of these neonle of
txjxEparatively few years and much
determination.
If the University continues to
produce the ''let'a-do-A-ourlelves
type of people who are producing
u plays an a white barn this sum
mer, then the University will con
tinue to have distinguished alumni.
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