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The Daily Nebrcskon
Monday, April 14, 1953
Editorial Comment
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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
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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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It has always been the pol
icy of this column to relent
lessly pursue subtle rumors
about the campus in search
of the TRUTH. The iollowing
rumors have been floating
around lor some tune now
and are of such importance
that I feel they need com
ment. Don't be taken in by
these rumors:
The idea that Corn Cobs is
a political organization for
certain fraternities is. of
course, untrue. 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
