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. Poae 2 The Daily Nebrcskon Monday, April 14, 1953 Editorial Comment IT LAGGED OPSANIZATION! UEL,TO:5YEAl?IT'S60!NS rVE(J2lTTEN DOWN THE NAAE fJEAC PLAYER AfO WHAT POSITION HE PLAYS, AND IVE IF THAT tCMT ORoANfZATlON. I DCNt kfNOJJ WHAT IS.' Political Fever TO BE DirTKSNT! ATTACHED THE PAPERS TO inns:: r i; Ij 70KTCARLACI ; . V LAST YEAS? j C7 s 5 "4 Ji :' 3 Thanks to politicians a solitary soul hardly has to trouble to purchase a cal endar during election years. He knovrs that it's April when the incumbent of ficers start praising their glorious achievements, tell how they could have done more if so many members of other political schools hadn't been around, and make speculations that the coming years will be better than ever "if you return me to office." Governor Victor Anderson has already started his promise campaign. He tells the folks in the state that he's hopeful that the Nebraska property tax can be cut 23 cents or more per $1,000 valuation. This would of course, he says, be done without any reduction in the number of state government services available to the taxpayer. A rednctioi in pr6perty taxes would be a desirable thing, bet a reduction in state sen ices would not. It weuld seem that the Governor's promises to attempt to avoid cutting services while cutting taxes doesn't hold too much ater. In the first place how would he do it? "Hard tack." is his answer. This he de fines like a true public relations man as "tightening every place we can. I have asked department heads to slop any un necessary spending." One then begins to wonder what happens when depart ment heads begin to tighten up every place they can. Hasn't there been at least one case where "saving money" meant turning off a fire sprinkler sys tem during the winter at the State Men tal Hospital at Lincoln? The result was a useless sprinkler system during a fire in which fortunately no one was hurt. How many other undisclosed foolish "money saving" practices have been and are being performed in Nebraska under a hard tack policy? And what has hard tack in the past meant to our schools, our roads, our recreational areas? Compare them with the same services in other states and then pass your decision on hard tack. The second objection to hard Jack is that it does not allow a state to grow. Greater and more concentrated popula tions require special services that are not easily supplied by a city government alone. Increased industrialization and urbanization require the establishment of new agencies and providing of new services. Government services and agencies must, in other words, grow with the state. And taxpayers must realize that a government agency is not a para site that is growing by sapping dollars from their pockets, but rather a helpful unit designed to meet essential needs too big for any individual or city to pro vide. All this takes money. Money does not grow on hard tack trees. The irony is that property owners are overburdened with taxes and should not have to share the complete cost of gov ernment, yet must because the Governor and other powerful political figures along with large city interest groups refuse to provide the real answernot simply a reduction in property taxes with the joint dangers of poor and inadequate services, but rather a broadened tax base. Gov. Anderson has said that, "We don't ha e radical people as heads of our gov ernment. When we have a problem, we try to work it out so everyone has a fair deal. We don't care who it is." If this is really so, help the probity owner out not through momentary relief which will ultimately benefit no one, but rather through support of a new tax base w hich w ill be -fair and sufficient. If hanging on to an antiquated taxation system is to allow Nebraska to escape the tag of " radical," it certainly is likewise to al low nearly every other state in the Union to call the Cornhusker tax plan "reac tionary." And these aren't the good old davs. Sasty Habit The llipsheet, published by the Metho dist Board of Temperance, reports on the evils that spring from the bottle in the iollowing manner: Russia's ii ii k'ng problems were highlighted by the iate of Eduard Strelt sov, once-famous star of Russia's na tional soccer team, a national idoL "Says Parade magazine, "Streltsov was drunk nearly all of the time off the field, t Russian) authorities charged, and some limes on it. After repeatedly missing practice, allegedly because be was off wrecking saloons, Streltsov was dis missed from the team.' ' From the Editor private opinion be The Delta Sigma Rho national stu dent congress held this weekend on the Michigan State University campus dem onstrated once again that .students are essentially idealists, but can become quite practical when it comes down to dollars and cents. At the congress, held in Hie beautiful Kellogg Center for Continuing Education similar to the one we are hoping will be erect ed on the University c ampus delegates from all parts of the country coped with the problem! up with four bills which Ivy Establish a National ' Academv of Science to ww t advance sc-ieaee. a Increase federal tax deductions to corporations and individ uals who donate funds to colleges and universities. Stiffen teacher certification to make tt more academic, essentially cutting out much of the methods w ork. Establish state educational planning commissions to investigate and evalu ate the present -and uture needs id' the respective states. Administer federal aid to all areas cf need. Administer federal funds for scholar ships and loans given directly to talented but needy students in liberal ails as well as the sciences. Keep in mind when reading the ideas about federal aid to education that there were many delegates present from the South who might, under normal circum stances, be opposed to federal aid to education. At the Congress, they were more interested in solving a v ital prob lem facing the land thai fostering petty grievances. Just for the sake of information, here's what the Ml on teachers requirements said with explanations of my own: A minor in education uniform in con tent is a must for teachers with bache lor's degrees. Hut that's all. The uni- dick shuzrue formity would throw out the repitition, the bead stringing, the monkey business which students from the University of Colorado to Ohio State to the University of Virginia decried as ridiculous. Increased reqiiirements for courses in one's major field, the students then wrote. This means, essentially, that courses should fc beefed up in the major area of interest and that more courses should be compulsory ior the major. And here's the best one yet. ""States should allow anyone with a master's degree to teach ia any school without education courses provided that that person has been a graduate assistant for at least one year and those who have aot verted as graduate assistants must have at least four hours of methods courses within their major field. It becomes obvious that the debaters of the land those wild-mouthed indi viduals who travel from place to plat taking in ideas available at co'He?s and discovering the calibre of courses and teachers are disgusted with the em phasis on teacher methods courses which are detracting from the vital "real course'" material essential to teaching. Delta Sigma Rho delegates admitted the need for some teaching experiences or for some methods courses. But as for the rest of it? Well, the bills speak for themselves. Now, the Delta Sigma Rho 'national congress bills passed will be duplicated and distributed to all the legislators rep resenting the states and persons at the congress. They will be accompanied toy a note telling the solons we are the old est forensic group in the land having studied and read on the topic of educa tion throughout this year and batted it around everywhere from Las Vegas to Minneapolis to Newport News at tourna ments and have begun to understand the problems of education. I'm sorry for the exponents of extend ed teacher-metliods courses and the like that the national congress took this view. But if the representatives of the colleges know anything they're talking about, they taiow what they think is getting in the way of education's progress. 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One must not assume that just because it states in their , c o n s t i t u-1 lion tl at the I ' Com Cob of-1? ficers "w 1 1 1 1 oe seiecia 2 weeks prior to Ivy Day"- tiiat these men have xil t e r i o r ino tives. This is a dangerous 'rumor probably started by some TasseL Perhaps it was stained merely to raise specu lation that the organization still exists on the campus. Rumors like this one breeds resentment and I think it should be squelched. Tle Pink Hag made some point of the fact that an old stfll was tound in the now rmns ol Ellen Smith. This also is untrue. Actually, the still which used to fill the teacups on old Ellen Smith was clever ly hidden under an IBM ma chine which wzs transferred to the TC Annex.. I understand from reputable sources that it now resides behind a bookcase of Cornhuskers. However, rumors that this still was found as Ellen Smith was torn down is false. It's gossip like this that hurts Student Afiairs and whoever spreads such rumors certainly is naughty, It is also .untrue that the desk attendants at Love Li brary shp back into the stacks for nips and mokes. The tensions of those w h work at the circulation 4esi are taken out 'by typing fine slips and making curt re marks to the pages. Occa sionally the attendants who are filled with heatd rage' send you to documents when the wook you want it in west basement but they do ool slip into the cairoHs. Actually, al though 1 fear my ob with this "expose, the reserve desk on third floor is the place to watch. Ev er w onder why the debk attendants trip to third for their coffee breaks? Campus Green TV lltate Waa I should aliio like to inakt The ultimate man., Is he a god or a devil Is he among us now. Or is tie an endless myth. Is he a saintly man, A t'iiilarmist among con formists, Following the rules of society. I s he a roan who things, A nan who lives any way, A mas with hi owa rule Or ha none. Would lie be The judge? The jailor? The jailed The ultimate man. V.. ELMEK A Few Words Of A Kind by e. e. hincs get a telephone and now oth er important people bounce in and out of my old monas tery) has appeared on t h scene and changed every thing. There's now an easy chair, my desk drawers hava been cleaned, the floor vac uumed, an end-table added after a terrible fight with a stubborn door that finally hopped off its hinges when it saw that it couldn't resist our determined efforts to get that book shelf moved and t h a window shades dusted. it clear that there w ill be a Spring Day on the campus. Rumors have it that Spring Day is to become merely an ''open house" for visiting pros pective students and their par ents and that XU students will only tussel on the MalL Those who are secretly sajing that Spring Day will convene in the south woods should defi nitely be scotched. Chances are they wiB only be beered. Someone is passing around the idea that the students on this campus are "spiritually dead" and have no real relig ious interest. However, accord jng to the best authorities which naturally are not stu dents there is definitely a religious rnisal on this cam pus. There are always a few lanatjcs who view the decline in religious interest. One must not make such an assumption heard by anybody or one might get the cold shoulder from their Bible-study group or at least be eliminated from the pastor's prayer list. I've attempted here to clear up some of the mist which hides certain rumors. In the true journalistic spirit, I've tried to present only those tacts which disspell any doubt concerning these ideas. It's a good thing there are a few 1 earless columnists like me still around who are willing to state the facts and not let his personal opinion get involved in the rumor. Rumors are distasteful. I'm a complacent old man or I was until I got a room mate. All semester I dwelt alone in a little room amonj my many secret stuffed schol arly looking volumes and frayed pock, et books, an odd assort ment rang ing from a fairly well pres e r v e a ; s L i ers' manual to an anthology of short stories by Dylan Thomas and a set of not quite paid for encyclopedias. This was my world along with my red-shaded lamp that at night makes my window glow like a fire engine's fur nace door, a little wooden stool with "26" scrawled across the top, 2 rugs one green, the other blue which must be overlapped because neither is long enough to cov er the floor by itself, a photo static copy of my release from the Marine Corps i se curely anchored to the wall with a rusty steel thumbtack!, and a group of copy pencil filled beer glasses which help give my room that ''belong to an important and busy per son" look. Little slacks of dirty laun dry would occasionally ap pear overnight in my room. The floor would go un vac uumed for days. Dust would gather on the shades. Draw ers would become filled with golf balls, envelopes, test pa pers, chewing gum wrappers, appointment slips, warnings from the Junior Division that I have not fulfilled my lan guage requirement, tbealre ticket stubf. newspaper clip pings, telephone numbers I shouldn't forget, loose tacks, pencils, pens, scotch tape, bow ties and a program from a church service which I somehow attended by momen tarily forgetting that I'm self pledged to play act the role of staunch disbeliever. But now this world has been destroyed. A roommate of sorts (all roommates are of sorts good, bad, neat, un tidy, understanding, slobs, etc., and mine is of the im portant sort. We've had to Every moment is one of insecurity. What brilliant idea of change and progress will next jump into his mind might even escape the omniscience of one of the lesser gods of Olympus. And so I sit uneas ily in the new ly acquired easy chair waiting, waiting, wait ing .. . "He's a frustrated interior decorator." I say but only to myself. Thanks to a Pink Rag and the comments of the god of Mudslingers my red sweater has won more lame. You will remember that I once sug gested that everyone in the world should wear red sweat ers to have something in com mon, and that having some thing in common would make everyone more sympathetic and understanding with each other. Well, apparently you other folks didn't go in for that sort of stuff so I had to abandon the idea. Now I may rent my red sweater with a sign attached proclaiming. "This is Ernie Hines famous red sweater." If I only had sufficient red sweaters to obliterate the chemise hysteria. Dick Shugrue, a very big mas around this office even when he's cot standing on a chair, took off for Michigan last week end for a very of ficial trip with a i ery official group. Delta Sigma Rho speech honorary. During the w eek end a stack of letters ac cumulated for him and I got so anxious to see him return and open them that at times I w anted to jump over to his desk and find out what folks had to say to him. He always gets terribly friendly letters. People seem to have the warmest ways to . threaten an editor's life or to call him evervthing from a baboon to the Great Irish Myth. Photoplay By John WeI A recent trip to Chicago and a few side trips to loop the atres provided several vaca tion delights and disappoint ments. Most unrewarding were The Young Lions and The Broth ers Karamazvv. The first it probably the most disorgan ized and disjointed picture ever filmed. The latter, dis pite a noble attempt at art, suffers from the tod direc tion which is Richard Brooks .chronic disease, and well qualifies as the leading con tender for the Dullest Picture of the Year . An undying faith was reaf firmed by The Bridge Oa The River KwaL Teacher's Pet and Souta Pacific. Sq oat could ask for more m one season. The Bridge Oa The River KwaL which will appear at the Varsity soon, is every bit as great as we have been Jed to believe. The performances "by WiJLLam Hal den. Alec Guinness and Jack Hawkins are sensational. The direction by David Lean is inspired and moving and the location pho tography done ia Ceylon and Pierre BouEe't Academy Award winning screenplay are as food as airytbirg pre sented anywhere on any screen at any time. Teacher's Pet marks the return of real comedy to films. With rare exceptions, , laughter has been an absent commodity in pictures the past few yea-s, but this one will have you happily rolling down the aisles again. Clark Gable and Doris Day take us behind the scenes ia the news paper world, each snaring op posite journalistic philoso phies. As one might expect, tba debate ends in time for soma kisses at the end, but by that time the entire audience is too limp from chuckles, mer ry gafaws and outright and uncontrolled laughter to be in terested ifl the heavier side. Gig Young and a Miss Mamia vanDoren add to the mirth. The film treatment of on of the greatest of all musicals not only compliments its ve hicles but enhances S t h Pacific wj3h 1 new sou Todd-AO and magnificent col or. Mitzi Gaynor's poor voice, some excessive and uninter esting padding to the story and the fact that different singing voices were dubbed for Bossaoo Brazzi, J a fa a Kerr and Juanita KaH (the Bloody Mary of the original cast may displease but they certainly do not keep Suth Pacific from being 1 of tha most delightful and visually beautiful film interpretatians of a stage production we may ever be privileged to see, no dxtes-moj pourquoi about iL