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Pooe 2 The Daily Nebrcskan Tuesday, May 13, 1953 ..3 it i - 1 ' 'I ft 4 : if, t . - i , ' , i X J 1 - J i ' i . - I 'A ' y . a - . ' 'J. 0 . MX i 1 Editorial Comment Maturing Politicians While the Young Republicans were busy this past week end preparing for their mock primary at the University, another, bunch of maturing politicians were meeting in the Lincoln. This group was the Nebraska Young Democrats, an organization that has received added life this year with the national Demo cratic party's emphasis of Young Democrat clubs. The adopting of idealistic resolutions Is a comparatively easy task to perform when a harmonious minded group of young party members get together. It is possible, however, to determine to a degree which political direction they are towar by the type of idealism they support, ice Young Democrats of Ne braska went on record for progressive and liberal legislation. Juit how liberal and progressive? Well, they supported the Nebraska Tax Equity Council's proposal for a vote in the November election on a constitu tional amendment outlawing the prop erty tax as a revenue source for the state's general fund, and providing state aid to school. This would mean that a different type of tax sales or income, possibily a combination would have to be used for financing these items. Not only a broadened tax base was endorsed by the group, but also a tax on pari mutual betting, an appeal for re peal of the state's right to work law (making union shops illegal), establish ment of a state budget director, and recommendation that the K-12 system be adopted throughout the state weherever it proved practical. Then on the national level they came out in favor of such proposals as federal aid to education, a cut in income exemp tions for individuals in the form of a $700 personal exemption in place of the present $600, exemption, and banning of thermo-nuclear testing. Through out the semester .the Daily Nebraska has supported nearly all of these proposals, not as a banner waver for the Democratic Party but as a ban ner waver for progress and liberalism. It is believed that the time has come to stop muttering hardtack in an effort to get votes, and to honestly realize that a tighter budget is not a panacea for a narrow minded government which perpetuates itself through cries of "save your money" instead of honest efforts to "serve you well." Governor Anderson is the crystaliza tion of the hardtack caller. To him and his cohorts it might be suggested that it would be fortunate if someone would place a few "hardtacks" on their chairs just long enough to have them sit down on their "hardtacks" and thereby wake up to the fact that helping a state to grow requires more than talking the voters to death about saving. kM,Llfr1 1" 1 1 YOU BLOCKHEAD! I . VMORRC f GOODY u TUE&'S A jftff CH5 (p Hf ilSt - Ve At ililfeM;?tov i&UytJjj,b L&mtj dokxj know I All i kmuiGTWTHEvtel I I f i think that costs V" ( ANYTHING ABOUT VERY RERCE-LOOWNS.. . 1 LOSING HIS AW! J Hosts Of Unknown Soldiers The folly of war has been discussed time and again since man first started tossing spears around at people who disagreed with him or who had some thing he wanted but couldn't peace fully have, A brief ceremony in Epinal, France, is one of the latest striking comments on this type of folly. The ceremony was the selection of one of 13 flag-draped caskets to symbolize the American servicemen who died names unknown in World War II on the battle fields of Europe and North Africa. The casket selected is on its way to American shores to join another casket bearing an unidentified American mili tary victim from the Pacific campaign. From these two caskets one will be selected for burial as the Unknown Soldier of World War II. In the ceremony in France three mili tary chaplains a Jew, A Roman Catho lic and a Protestant prayed for the unidentifed serviceman. He was a sym bol of 7,500 World War II dead whose bodies cannot be identified and another 75,000 still listed as missing in action. In a greater sense he symbolizes all the dead of World War II, not only for the United States, but for its allies and foes alike. All of these unidentified soldiers, along with the countless identified dead, who gave their lives in World War II or every battle before or since are un known soldiers in one way They died because nations spurred by madness allowed the spirit of love and under standing to remain unknown. "This Will Give You Both An Even (Cfcnnce Buck Shot By Melvyn Eikleberry From the Editor private opinion dicl$ shugrue Be prepared for a disturbing fact. A highly recommended reference in Educational Psy chology 61 says quite flatly that "Human beings are di vided into two sexes." In case any pro spective teachers were xm- fl uui aaMaBBBBBBBBBBBBBt i W v 1 L.-J Shugrne Books on my shelf. When the bookstore had a big sale come months ago, I went over and dug blindly into the "All You Can Carry for a Dollar" pile. Just today, we whisked away all the copy for the IFC Rush Book and I finally found what I had bought Any- L' one who wants to come down to an unauthorized book sale is certainly I welcome. Here's an idea of the stuff I bought. George Eliot's Works. A biography of Maeter linck. The Wit and Ho mor of America. Ethics of the Dost Tbe Poem of the Cyd. I Dare Yon, by the checkerboard kid. The Anatomy of Peace. And others. A great load of the literary pieces of the day. I'm happy to say that I wasn't the one who got stuck the worst. One guy I know ended up with a Southern Cookbook and another collected a dic tionary of American-Italian languages. Then there are the books that are con stantly going out to readers who drop in, handle the volumes and comment, "Oh, yes, I've heard of that one. Where can I get it?" I always say, "Take mine. I don't need It for a few days." Such was the fate of a bock I loaned out some months ago. I can't even re member what it was. It's been as mis laid, I guess, as the folder full of Stu dent Council material on the National Student Association which I took from their office way back when. But, having things like books around never puts you at a loss for spare time projects. Someone suggested that we run a weekly list of those people who have just turned 21. This would serve a two-fold purpose. 1) It would be distributed to all bars around town, thus eliminating the messy job of going through purses or pockets looking for drivers' licenses and draft cards and birth certificates. 2) It would be distributed to the poli tical parties around the state, so that both the Demos and the GOP could send out those nice little cards that only the latter now send inviting young people to affiliate with their group. Today is it. Election day. The real thing. Yesterday at the mock primary, the gal at the desk had the Demo list hid den under the GOP list and I almost put my John Henry on the Republican roster. That happen to anyone else? Today is the big day for many candi dates, since, some smug Nebraskans seem to think, if yon get through the primary on the GOP ticket yon don't have to worry about tbe general elec tion. It's too bad that prophets like Frank Marsh say few people really give a darn about the election. The number of per sons expected to vote in this election is minute. Once again, if students would get on the stick and vote they might make a dent in the results. (Repeat sentence from yesterday.) I'm always at a loss to know why people who have the power of the vote neglect it so often, so non chalantly. That's human nature, John Kelley says. That's poor reasoning, I reply. What's your reaction? can afford it, and if they want to buy a diamond ring, okay. But if a fellow wants a part ner instead of a jockey, he should beware of the girl who insists on a diamond. Pardon the column, but it's Spring! "Buck" education 'acnfliiuisKfln 6EST7 SEVEX TEAKS OLD Member: Auoci&ted OAOetiate fnm iBtereoIleflat rren KcprMentttSve: Nitionil Advertising Serrie Incorporated pBb!isbd Koom 20. Student Caioa 14th E linoola. 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CarraU Kraaa, (rfatcaea ataoi lea H EaMa Diaaa Manna) aiwi mrwmn aUrran W tail aflllfnMa Tmm Urn. mum Kahnaa, Hk ftmlat . .. ..." ..mm... aware of this fact, they have been informed and warned. 9 But don't think that I am accusing courses of being too p r o found or controversial in sub ject matter; many other courses are similar. For ex ample, an anthropology text book tells me that "Man is a member of the animal king dom." Now how can I ever understand that? With them the seed of Wis dom did I sow. And with mine own hand wrought to make it grow; And this was" all the Har vest that I reap'd "I came like Water, and like Wind I go." Omar Khayyam I wasn't going to vote at the last Student Council selec tion. I had some real reasons for not voting, too. Whatever the Student Council may have done, it doesn't seem to have done anything for me; I hope the Student Council, and the Student Tribunal, continue to let me alone. I also felt that whichever clique I favored in the elec tion) and I don't like either of them, I would not feel truly represented after the votes were mounted. In addition, the snail turnouts at elec tions would indicate that "stu dent government" is passe, and is only maintained as the pampered darling of the ac tivity jocks and the university administration. To vote, I felt, would place me in the position of being a dupe. But with the sudden candidacy of Dick Shugrue on a write-in ticket, I felt that I had an opportunity for pro test; I voted. Next year, if there isn't a good fire breath ing candidate from my col lege, m join the real .ma jority and simply won't vote. a a a fellow was telling me that his pocket book was still hurt ing from the cost of buying a diamond engagement ring for his wife-to-be. Speaking of cruel and unusual customs of our tribe, a fellow about to get married has enough financial worries without including the cost of a rock. A plain silver band should be sufficient. The girl who thinks that a husband must shoot a wad for a bit of glitter on her finger obviously has a warped sense of values. If the two of them t J"- i I : 4m hi e.e. A Few Words Of a Kind e. e. hines Idle thoughts from an idle mind: As long as people curse most of us will be remembered. aiy wrecit- f.!w scarred carl runs. . . but after the wrong things brick o b structions and the like. W h e ther you're rich or poor, it's good to have money. Some instructors are won derful persons. That is, they make you wonder. Rock-n-roll music might be successfully employed in a physical therapy program for neurotic orangutans. And in case you've forgotten the complete description of an orangutan, Webster's offers the following one: "An an thropoid ape. It is about two thirds as large as the gorilla. The adult male may weigh as much as 250 pounds, the arms are very long. The face, hands, and feet are naked, and in old males flattened ex pansions of the cheeks are de veloped. It is chiefly herbivor ous and lives almost exclu sively in tree tops, where it constructs rude temporary nests of leaves and branches in which to sleep. In captiv ity, like the chimpanzee, it has been taught to wear clothes and Imitate the ac tions of men." If this description is not complete enough, station yourself near the jukebox in the Crib. One will eventually appear to select his favorite therapy mumble-jumble. . Every bush should be a -lilac bush. A stroll past Love Library in early evening con vinces everyone except hard hearted souls who stumble along the sidewalk looking at the ground in hopes of finding a dime Like they did last week that lilacs are an essential fpart of life, love and lilac bushes. Park your car and amble around this well land scaped -area. If you don't have 8sthma you'll agree spring is a richer thing be cause of lilacs (and ladies legs that creep out of neat bermuda shorts). Now Hollow Flames . . By Dave Rboades 9 ifatf m Jul The candles are lit every evening until 1 a.m., so for a relaxing session during these days of finals. I suggest a local north-town pizzaria. t tion c o m e s easy thferel and the mu- CIS t ! t TV 'M a a v sit a . -a. illUlCU 111-11 V,t into a somo ,s i mfifi hpr rprti- t tude. The room is usu- 4 ally more' crowded with Rhoades tables than with "questioning youth," but there's always someone you know from Fed de Hall or Farmhouse for light talk and spaghetti. This friend and I visited it Friday evening following The Long, Hot Summer (which is a long, hot drought). Hoping to rouse my friend from ob vious lethargy, I proposed that college students were devoid of intellectual curiosity and oniy pale, tired, and hungry. He briefly sparkled, reply ing that this might be be cause of the negative re-., suits one achieves when one "takes a stand", as he ex pressed it. Turning to the ac tivity scene, he pointed out these examples of negative results from otherwise hard working people: Biff Keyes and the Tribunal, Sara Jones on the Summer Rag, and Ken Freed in the recent Student Council elections. His com ment: "A vote for a candi date on this campus usually means one doesn't like the other candidates, whether the person receiving the vote has any quality or not." I agreed, smoked my pipe, and ate piz za. We were out there again Saturday evening following Wesleyan's production of "Death of a Salesman" a play which has a medieval and Christain theme; radix malorum cupiditas. It's doc trine is immovably rooted in our culture, a stereotype (Wil ly Loman) as self-evident and inescapable as life (and three Manure Hall boys) itself. While there, I renewed friendship with Bill Shulz, Blue Key member, et. al., and Jim Forrest, of likewise vintage. Dr. Philip Kaye (he was here for Religious Emphasis Week) and his stu dent staff should be pleased with the accomplishment. About this time the Meat Ball Sandwich (not recom mended) and the hamburger pizza (recommended) were brought by a very charming Italian waitress who later explained she had recently come over from Paris and was only "filling in" as a waitress that evening. I commented that the "Charles Cilona" who wrote a Letterip Friday ex alting Editor S. for his at tack on Student Council elec tions wasn't a student at this University (according to the Division of Student Affairs when I checked Friday.) My friend agreed that one could at least secure a name of someone who attends here to sign his letters. The Chi Omega's who had dropped in earlier had i e f t now and only a few tables were occupied. This evening there, as it always does, gives one a "mystic, poetry-reading feeling", as Camus expresses it in The Stranger. . I J fZJ DOC Tidings . . The person who told me said not to tell anyone, but I know you won't tell any one so . . Once upon a time there was aai ' innililnr for Congress '? named Block. Now Block was a well liked m a xi and he gained a lot of sup port. In o n e election h e came within a couple o f hundred votes of being sent off to Congress. But since he was defeated he set about to campaign even more for the next election. Block lived in a farming dis trict and was himself a stock man. This left open an un limited campaign opportunity. Block attended every sale in his little area and met all the farmers. Some people said that meet ing him was just enough to sway their vote the other way. But, that's neither here nor there. But there's more to winning an election than just meeting people. And one of the big gest factors is money. Yes, it takes big $'s to get the little X's. But Block had 'em. Now he wasn't a successful business man (and I'll go into this in a second) but he had a red headed friend. And this red headed friend represented the big unionist, the bigwig of la bor union corruption. And the union leaders fi nanced the campaign of Mr. Block. Rumor had it that the figure was $20,000. That's some fund, for a congression al campaign in a small farm ing district. Now I hinted at Mr. Block's business failure(s). First as a small businessman, Block lost his britches, so to speak. Then, he inherited, from some relative on his wife's By Doc Rodger $ side, (father-in-law I'm told) a 240-acre farm. But, alas, even this has a $23,000 mort gage and $17,000 chattel mort gage on it at this time. Now to what better use, could a failure in private lifebe put than a position in public life. Then we must join together to elect this blockhead, oops, I beg your pardon, Block. De feat these nasty rumors about his forcing his mother-in-law to hash in a small hamburger joint to support him and that untruth about his being ex pelled from a square dance club for inebriation. Incidentally, in case you haven't guessed by now, this little story is just a figment of an imaginative little mind. Any resemblance to any "liv. ing" person, is not implied. However, is anyone is in terested in seeing documented proof and photostats of mort gages, it can be arranged. That's all for this week's story hour with Uncle Doc. Reports from the state young Democrat confab here are few and far between (as was attendance). Seriously the turnout at the YR convention last fall, 5 state area, was not "heavy." Goes to show though that the students are apathetic. Not you and I, but definitely all the rest. The Nebraska Secretary of State, Frank Marsh, has pre ducted that less than 180,000 Nebraska will go to the polls tomorrow. Well, that's about 1 out of 10. Pretty good huh? In Russia, the election is not up to personal choice as it is here. There you vote for or against someone, yet almost 98 per cent of the peasants and Communists go to the polls. I hope those of you in the fourth district have joined the movement to elect a g o o d congressman Kenneth S. Go tobed. Add to the shouts of "Goto bed for Congress.