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The Doily Nebraskon
TupsHnv. September 16, 1953
Editorial Comment '
Aid to Education
There appears to be some question as
to whether the State Board of Education
will accept the $325,000 slated ior Nebras
ka in the recently approved federal aid
t education bill. The legislation was
backed by President Eisenhower and
managed to win easy congressional ap
proval despite opposition by Nebraska
representatives to the national govern
ment The legislation calls for a $900 million
four-year program, but so far only $40
million has been appropriated for use in
the first year. It is in this $40 million that
the $325,000 is included for use in Ne
braska secondary schools to advance in
struction in science, mathematics and
foreign languages.
Dr. W. Ray Hill of Seward and Hamilton
F. Mitten of Fremont said they were op
posed to accepting federal aid, reportedly
because they fear accompanying federal
control. Nebraska teachers, meanwhile,
seem to express little or no fear of pos
sible federal control if the money is used
in the state. The Nebraska State Educa
tion Assn., which claims the membership
of nearly all elementary and secondary
teachers, has come out strongly in favor
of accepting such aid.
Donald F. Kine, NSEA executive sec
retary, and Howard F. Schroeder, the as
sociation's president, urged the board to
accept the funds. But definite action was
delayed until a "working plan" showing
how the funds will be used can be pre
sented to the Board of Education. This
plan probably will be ready for a board
meeting late in October.
Realization of the tremendous advances
being made in Russia's education system
was the spearpoint that aroused national
legislators to pass the four-year federal
aid plan. Launching of a Sputnik was the
first rude awakening to the fact that
Russia is more than a land of well trained
fqpt soldiers.
Kline, writing in the Nebraska Educa
tion News, summed up the effects of this
Russian show of knowledge and power.
He wrote: "The plea for goals set by ed
ucators was a partial response to the cat
aclysmic importance attached to the ap
pearance of Sputnik I on Oct. 4, 1957. It
was a part of the great debate about who
was to blame in all things technical and
mechanical and scientific. '
"The fault was not Republicans or Dem
ocrats, the presidency, the Pentagon, the
Congress, the rivalry between the serv
ices as far as most Americans were .con
cerned. It was education. Once the blame
was established complaints were made
about the sophists of modern education
and the second guessers began their field
day."
We at the University will recall how this
second guessing started with an attack
against Teachers College, the system of
dual matriculation, and the requirements
for method courses. Most of the attack
ers of the education system in Nebraska
failed to note how poorly financed it is.
They failed to admit that Nebraska
schools must be almost completely sup
ported by local communities, even in
areas where finances are inadequate to
maintain good schools. They failed to note
that Nebraska schools receive less state
aid than almost any others in the United
States. But despite these facts, educators
supposedly were the ones completely at
fault. America, Nebraskans and a few
dissatisfied instructors in other Univer
sity departments had found a good scape
goat and kicked it as hard as possible be
fore it had a chance to get back to its feet
after an unwarranted flurry of assaults.
Morris Jacobs of Omaha is one State
Board of Education member whose state
ments made sense when the board first
considered federal aid. He said he was op
posed to federal aid but other local agen
cies get it so "I'm not going to fail public
education by making it the whipping boy
for those opposed to federal aid."
Kline of the NSEA has asked the most
sensible question of all: "Will Nebraska
taxpayers' money, already appropriated,
be returned to Nebraska in the form of
matching funds or will it go to some other
state to assist in the education of non-Nebraska
children?"
From the Editor
A Few Words of a Kind
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If anyone thinks that being a campus
queen has become a matter of small sig
nificance because of the prolific produc
tion of such ladies, he is right. And now,
after seeing a televised portion of the
Miss America Pageant
several nights ago, I am
convinced that the Miss
America title also runs
close to the rim of insig
nificance. In the first place, Miss
America contestants have
no edge on beauty. A
walk around, the campus
or a tour through Lin
coln's department stores
could turn up girls just as
lovely as the semi-finalists in the Miss
America contest.
In the second place, at least a thousand
young co-eds on the University campus
are as graceful as most of the young
ladies who strutted out on the stage to
show how they looked in formals.
As for swimming suits, I don't know. I
bought a new swimming suit two summers
ago and have used it all of three or four
times. In my trips to water tanks I reaf
firmed, through careful observation, my
belief that a woman usually doesn't look
much better in a swimming suit than she
does in a skirt and blouse. And most girls
were never meant to be bathing beauties.
But what about the talent j ortion of the
program? Talent is the one thing I am
convinced a Miss America does not need.
Only one of the 10 semi-finalists could
sing. The rest thumped around in ballet
shoes, played pitter-patter on the piano
keys, recited a dramatic reading in junior
high school fashion, or proved that a lousy
singing voice is something not owned solely
by me.
Ultimately, an honest observer roust ad
mit that the only real purpose of the Miss
America contest or any other beauty con
test is to assemble as many fairly pretty
girls as possible or reasonable in a spe
cific area at one time to wear as few
clothes as society will allow. It's all very
much like a half-hearted strip show with
a sheriffs deputy standing in the aisles
waiting to raid the joint if any girls gets
too bold.
Then, when a retiring Miss America
steps to the microphone to thank the
United States for honoring her and ex
claims how proud she has been to repre
sent a country of honest, kind, industrious
and charitable people, that's too much for
me. No Miss America will ever represent
me or anybody else I know. I have been
accused of dishonesty, am seldom kind,
almost never industrious and make it a
point to accept 10 times as much charity
as I ever give.
If America ever needs a symbol for its
womanhood, it has one in Eleanor Roose
velt, Nancy Hanks or a million other con
scientious ladies, many of whom never
owned a bathing suit or got near a beauty
contest.
The word getting around the world of
education is that school is getting longer
and longer for elementary and secondary
school pupils. Supposedly the nine-month
term is a relic of the horse and buggy
days when practically every youth had
farm tasks to keep him busy and out of
trouble. Ten months may soon, educators
say, be the length of youngsters' school
terms.
Educational leaders and several million
parents might think this is a tremendous
idea. I, despite my increase in years, can
recall nothing more wonderful than the
last day of school before summer vaca
tion, or anything more dreadful than the
first day of school the next fall. The only
conclusion in my book is that it must be
getting less and less enchanting each year
to be a kid.
When the world reaches the place where
a youngster has to give up his almost
sacred swimming, hiking or ball playing
time in order to learn a little more about
mathematics, space satellites, and im
pending total destruction that is the time
to wonder if life is really worth living.
Huck Finn and I would never have stood
for it.
Congratulations are in order for Bev
Buck, last year's editor of the Cornhusker,
and Jack Pollock, former editor of the Ne
braskan. The dazed couple said "I do"
just last Saturday in the Presbyterian
Student House Chapel. They'll set up
home in Sidney, land of spreading oil.
wells.
Daily Ncbraskan
SIXTY-EIGHT YEARS OLD
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THE STRANGE WORLD
Objections Sustained
... By Steve Schuliz
MR. MUM is the creation of Irving Phillips, who has
had a long career as playwright and cartoonist-gagman.
Mr. Mum manages to be amusing and whimsical without
any words at all, while he plays the role of today's be
wildered man.
Phillips is former humor editor of Coronet and Esquire
magazine's humor staff. He has written a dozen plays, in
cluding "Gown of Glory" and "One Foot in Heaven." He
also wrote four movies and more than a hundred television
plays. '
The Briar Patch
Bv R. M. Ireland
Being a nominal Republi
can, I was somewhat dis
mayed this summer to find
that the vast majority of Eu
ropeans not only dislike John
Foster Dulles
(I had ex-
pected this JK
reaction) but i 1
are beginning )
to lose faith .'c-JC;.t
in President . , -j
E i senhower S
i n e cng
hsh, who a
supposed to
be our num- Ireland
ber one European neighbors,
seem to have the most con
tempt for Mr. Dulles who so
ably stomped on Prime Min
ister Eden during the Suez
crisis.
As one chap put it, "we
think Dulles is a principled
man but we don't Like his
principles."
The President apparently is
losing some prestige although
his decision to send troops in
to Lebanon w js greeted fa
vorably. A growing number of Eu
ropeans regard Eisenhower as
indecisive. They feel he should
exert more leadership.
While we were in Venice
we talked with one of Nas
ser's student disciples. It was
during the Iraq mess and the
conversation tended to be
rather heated.
The Egyptian was satu
rated with anti-American
slogans and information he
had picked up during his
education in Cairo.
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U5 SOMETHING INW5TIN6.
IT SAYSA RANO CAN STRIKE
NOTES THROUGH A RANGE
'OF SEVEN OCTAVES...."
He considered the United
States to be "imperialistic,
war-mongerish, and anti
Arab." It was a very disgusting
and shocking experience when
one realized that this fellow
would soon have a prominent
position in the leadership elite
of Egypt.
Mr. James L. Harpstreith,
holder of the dubious title of
"World's Champion Olive
Pusher" (It is quite apparent
that no one in their right
mind has ever duplicated such
a performance), has asked me
to squelch all rumors that he
will do a repeat show on the
capitol steps.
Apparently Mr. Harpstreith
suffered a bruised proboscis
in his infamous descent in
Rome and cannot meet the
challenge like a true cham
pion. 6
In Rome we talked with Mr.
R. B. Henkle, world-famed
bottle cap collector. Mr. Hen
kle had just culminated a pub
licity stunt involving a worn
out, supposedly "b 1 o n d"
American athlete, 132 Spanish
steps, and an olive and was
in rare humor.
Mr. Kenkle related to us the
exploits of his youth w hen he
was the leading bottle cap
entrepreneur of the midwest.
"I think bottle cap collect
ing is especially beneficial for
our youngsters. It affords
them an opportunity to get
down in the dirt and grovel
around," Mr. Henkle stated.
Mr. Henkle said he retired
from the wilds of bottle cap
collecting some years ago
when he discovered what the
caps were protecting.
My mother has sewed name
tags on my towels and un
mentionables and I am ready
to spend another year at the
well-spring of culture getting;
soused on intellect or what-j
ever is handy. I have paid;
my $240 for the privilege, of
having classes to cut. 1 have a
pen from a lovely young lady j
who assures me that I have
done my bit for a top-drawer
horn ecom-
ing, and I " - ' -
have fended '
off an ambi-
nous young
man who
tried to se 11
me a ticket
to the fresh
man barbe-
que by ask
i n p him
whether they Schultz
had notified the parents of the
freshman they were going to
barbecue.
In short, I am my nasty self
and I am back at school. So
a pseudo-hearty handshake
and a half-hearted "how was
your summer?" to you too.
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One of the, appalling as
pects of coming back to
school is the number of open
houses which face one dur
ing the first few weeks. At
every door of every organi
zation someone is waiting
w ith an extended hand and a
fixed smile trying to con
vince the shakce that this
particular organization is
the one for him.
Theoretically, ever yone
should go to at least one of;
these charming get togethers. j
drink watery punch and dry j
cookies, exclaim over the!
phsyical surroundings, andj
become a convert.
What really happens, of
course, is that no one goes '
to anything. I remember that !
in my ow n new student days ,
lo, those many years ago:
I went to one of these soir
ees, watched a movie con-j
cerning something or other,,
and resolved never to go to j
another. I never have. 1 rec-;
ommend this course of inac-1
tion to all entering freshmen, i
One would suppose that I
eventually whoever is in j
charge of these functions j
would get the message that ;
everyone who is not in
charge of these functions is
bored stiff by them. In the '
meanwhile, we will continue
to spend time telling high
school graduates how to use
a card catalogue and what
to sav to the lovely young
lady behind the counter
when one wants a book from
the stacks.
We will not consider the
fact that anyone capable of
getting through college will
figure these things out for
himself and that if he is not
capable of getting through col
lege he will probably not be
here long enough to learn
where the library is anyway.
We will also solicitously
provide little dances and little
picnics so that the little class
mates can get to know each
other. This is very big hearted
of us, but it fails to take into
account that if sex has not
reared its ugly head in the
life of an 18-year-old, it prob
ably never will.
The centrifuge of this so
cial whirl is slightly nauseat
ing, and we would be doing
a greater service for to
getherness in the class of '62
if we would just give them
an unsupervised night so
that they could go over to
the pillars and neck.
This will serve as enough
of an introduction to me.
Through the next 30 years or
so. I will be covering this page
with the murkiest prose (fea
turing semi-colons, parenthe
sis, dashes, misplaced modi
fiers, pronouns without ante
cedents, and generally garbled
syntax) that you ever read.
1 will also attack with vicious
and unfounded rancor any
thing which happens to rub
me the wrong way.
I am prejudiced against Re
publicans, Elizabeth Taylor,
popular music, this newspa
per, the advance of science,
people with automobiles that
I can't borrow, advertising in
general, little boys in red
sweaters who try to sell me
things, other columnists, the
Chicago Tribune,, places I
have to wear neckties and
take a shower before I go to,
and anything that anyone is in
favor of. I have an office in
the Crib behind the cigarette
smoke; I am rather proud of
my straight nose so hit me
in the jaw.
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