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The Daily Nebraskon Wednesday, November 5, 1 958 Editorial Comment Page 2 Federal Aid A spot check by the Commissioner of Education Freeman Decker shows that Nebraska school are split on whether or not the state should accept federal aid to education. The issue should be especially interesting to Nebraskans because or the makeup of the state, traditionally Repub lican in oolitics, and the fact that the re cently approved federal aid bill was backed by President Eisenhower, the number one Republican. Grand Island, Fremont, York, Sidney and Kearney have come out against such aid, while Omaha, North Platte, Seward, Bellevue and Hastings have voiced favor for the program. Interestingly enough, few of the "yes" schools will even admit that they have received federal aid before (despite participation by some of them in federally aided school lunch programs and vocational education programs), but that they feel they should accept it now because it is now in effect and "Nebras kans ara going to pay for it anyway." This latter fact, that we are going to pay for it anyway, is a good reason if not tha best reason for the Board of Education to seriously consider acceptance of the funds. Far too often state politicans have boasted about , their refusal to accept matching funds from the government for items such as roads; meanwhile, we have continued to pay for construction of roads in other states while driving to election polls on bumpy roads to re-elect economy preaching politicans. The state's formal decision is only about a month or so away. It would certainly be a forward look if the answer were "yes." Several colleges in the state, including Wesleyaa and the University, have an nounced plans to participate in accepting funds under the act to provide more stu dent loans. If schools at this level do not fear federal control there seems to be little reason for secondary schools to fear it Certainly if any program could have been used by orators as a road in the direction of federal domination of a school, it would have been the ROTC pro gram which is an established and wel comed facility at university after univer sity. Several years of ROTC has shown that its control doesn't extend beyond an occasional shoe shine, demerit and letter home to mom reporting that sonny has been cutting too many classes. The whole federal control idea is, in a few words, a lot of bunk. It is interesting to see how many different ways the argu ment is used. The South opposes federal aid because it would "lead to integration," and some people in Nebraska oppose it because "the first thing we know we'll have federal officials establishing offices in school headquarters." The honest reason for federal aid to ed ucation is that many states do not have adequate funds to support certain types of programs while other states have ex cess funds which could be used to supple ment these weak programs elsewhere. Such aid is possible through "the general welfare" clause of the Constitution. When Nebraskans mature enough to realize that federal government isn't a big fat monster ready to trample states under heel, but rather a government formed by repre sentatives from all the states, we'll have acquired the progressive attitude that is typical of thinking people. Exotic Land As youngsters we used to stare at pic tures of far off lands and dream of our selves someday visiting these exotic places. Well it happens that leaders from these lands are among the most frequent tourers of the United States, Nebraska and the University in these days of 1958. Amazement seemed to be one of the most common reactions registered by a group of Turkish governors who stopped at the University Ag Campus earlier this week. Among the items that supposedly afforded them the most amazement was our use of waste products, the number of cars adults and students drive and own, the tractor testing lab, the size of animal fossils in Morrill Hall museum, and the new planetarium. It makes you feel good to realize that being stuck out here in the Great Plains doesn't exclude us from having a lot of things that impress the foreign visitor. And you stop and wonder if some where in Turkey a youngster is looking at a picture of some spot in Nebraska and dreaming about a visit here. Maybe that's a little far fetched, but by golly Nebraska has sure come a long way since the horse and buggy days. Scholars Desired One of the day's most interesting news items was an Associated Press story re porting that "colleges and universities are giving him (good scholars) the big rush once reserved for fast halfbacks. One Texas dean reportedly said: "Those fel lows from the Ivy League are beating the bushes everywhere for the best brains. If there is a really good student at a high school in these parts, you're sure to find someone from the Ivy League down here to recruit him." After years of reading recruiting reports on colleges' drives for athletes it is pleas ant to discover that the same efforts are being made by some schools to develop top notch braintrusts. The Regents schol arship program is probably an example of such a program on a small scale. Per haps someday our scholarship program will even be good enough to earn nation wide comment. On the student side, how ever, it is good to remember that as schol arships increase the number of partymen will undoubtedly decrease and courses win get tougher and tougher. From the Editor A Few Words of a Kind . . . e. e, Junes j e.e. They contend I've just been liberated from semi-confinement after a bout with a sore throat. The treatment for this trouble in my younger days was a liberal greasing with Vicks-Vapor-Rub and as extra blanket or two. In this day and age new methods of treatment have been "injected" into the field of medicine. The result is that as your throat gets better your posterior gets worse. And if you will allow me to make an off the cuff com ment, my treatment re minds me of the attitude of every "life is always sweet" optimist I know. "that everything is always better in the end." Really, I am quite pleased with Student Health. A shortage of doctors was the ap parent cause of my long wait the first day I showed up for treatment, but once the doctor got a hold of me I got some of the best treatment I've ever reecived. He, I believe his name is Dr. Nebe, even explained to me what I had which makes my sickbed tales so much more graphic. Drop around and 111 explain my illness. Please don't object if I stand. Glancing through the Oct. 26 issue of New York Times Book Review. I came aero a review of a book by John R. Talis "The American Way in Sport." Young ladies may not recognize the Tunis title but every red blooded young fellow who Tift explored the world of sports fiction can probably rattle off the titles of two or three Tunis books he has read. Robert Daly, the reviewer who also is publicity director for the New York Foot ball Giants, says: "His (Tunis) sports books for boys,, particularly those dealing with Indiana and its passion for basket ball, have thrilled teen-agers for a gen eration. He has always been a man of strong convictions. But few would have supposed convictions as strong, fearless and iconoclastic as those propounded in this short book." Here is one quote from Mr. Tunis him self: "Intercollegiate sports has gradually de "eloped into a first class training ground for a jungle society. Now interscholastic sport is following the same road." Tunis reportedly says this sense of competition permeates American life in a sort of be better than the Jones' attitude. The part of the review which stopped me short, and which is certainly worthy of much serious thought, was this: "Mr. Tunis suggests abolishing all competition among youngsters under 13 they are simply too young. And he suggests that our colleges and universities get out of the entertainment business and spend a little more time and money on such often overlooked commodities as education. Daly reports that the book closes with this thought: "Some day, in the great struggle that lies ahead the good people of Indiana may be asked to choose be tween basketball and their future. Have we any assurance what that choice will be?" I consider this all very serious stuff, especially when it comes from a man who has devoted much of his life to follow ing, reporting and writing on sports. Daily Nebraskan CXXTT-FJCHT TEAES OLD Member: A-iociated Collegiate Presi Intercollegiate Press Representative: National Advertising Rerriee, Incorporated Published at: Room SO, Student Union Llaooln, Nebraska H' A ft Tka (taDy SeBraak-ji In auMlolM- Mondmy. TnMda. 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Staff rbotoaraphar Mhnott Tartar vcbikeh rrrr Bailaeo Mojuurar Jerry Scllentla aaalataot HuaiHOM Manas ataa Ralman. tlharloa Graaa. Jtana Kuhlfina uiremanoa I FOUND A NELL) FRIEND At school HE'S JUST ABOUT W SIZE. 1 ( And polite ...he's V 0 POLITE.. y YOU CAN MlT HIM, AND HE DOESN'T HIT YOV BACK. Daily Nebraskan Letterip The Daily NVbratAtaa will ufcli--i aly tmrn Irtun - arc tfnt4. Letter attarkiaf twlivi.1iia.ft mart can? th aataar't same. Oihert may aac taitials r a nm nmf. LHttrs siMata tf4 wcr-H. Hap W-lur ccc ttaia limit Mm .traakaa rcMrvtt the rirM U rea 4fiw them, rctauw Uw writers view. DisguMeri Alum Editor's Note: The followirf it rapt' of a leuer ahtteo tft Chincellor Chflnid Hindu by Genrte A. Poll, Nebraska graduate and attorney ( Fort Moriaa, Col. Dear Chancellor Hardin: This morning's papers car ry an item about someone hanging Coach Jennings in effigy. Of course no one but a vicious weak-minded moron would be guilty of such a contemptible act. Let us hope that the culprit is not a Nebraska student. We have quite a few Nebraska alumni in Fort Morgan and we are thoroughly disgusted with the possibility that at a time when many worthy young men are unable to attend college, our alma mater may have on its roster of students some of this type of juvenile delin quents who might more ap propriately be enrolled in one of those two Nebraska insti tutions near Lincoln, either the one with the gray-celled walls or the one with the pad ded cells where they could be kept under control and asso ciate with their equals. Like all other alumni we in Fort Morgan like to s e e "our team" win. I've attend ed every Nebraska-Colorado game since Colorado joined our league. Several times I've seen an "under-dog" Nebras ka team win when Colorado had the greater man-power. Never have I felt ashamed of our Cornhuskers. This year we were very proud. Colorado went into the game w ith a na tionally acclaimed "p o w e r house,'' leading the entire country in yards gained. For three quarters Nebras ka led. Throughout the entire game our team noi oniy played with the old Nebraska j fire and spirit, but they were i very evidently a well-coached team. All I ve talked with who saw the game, regard less of which school they at tended agreed that Nebraska showed the better coaching, while Colorado just had "too many horses." I've never had the pleasure of meeting coach Bill Jen nings. But I hope that he'll be big enough to ignore this i childish insult and stay with Nebraska, and that Nebraska will have the good sense to stay with him. After all, Northwestern didn't win a game in '57 and in '58 their very same coach is being boomed for "coach of the year." I'm tired of having Nebras ka known as "the grave-yard for coaches." I long to see the Nebraska foot-ball roster include the names of all of the better high school foot ball graduates from Nebraska schools as in days of y o r e. And the Nebraska alums, es pecially those living in Ne braska, would serve the old school better if they would see to it that these young Ne- Krocla fAtthQ.l nlovAre ctov I ; ui ana vutuau rJ J I jm Nebraska and boost the coach and help him win in stead of throwing knives in his back. Meanwhile, Mr. Chancellor, I trust that you see to it that ; the nin-com-poop who com-, milted this silly, asinine, childish act will be punished, and if he is a "student" (what a title for such a per son) that he be banned from the University. We alums are proud of our University. But win or lose our teams have never made us feel ashamed. We do feel very much ashamed, d i s graced, chagrined, humiliated and apologetic for Nebraska and Lincoln because of this disgusting episode. Let us strive to make the University of Nebraska a school for adult minded men and women not a refuge for weak-minded juveniles. GEORGE A. DOLL '10 National Anthem Ni?e going and hats off to the Innocents society. They evidently do not read the Daily Nebraskan because within the last two weeks a letter concerning student action at football games during our national anthem and flag presenta tion was completely ig nored. As potential leaders and cream of the University scholastic standing, I imag ine all the members could get an 8 or 9 in a course on flag presentation and our national anthem, but if they put their knowledge into practice as they did last Saturday, 1 personally w ould not hire any of them. Cigarettes in the mouth, talking, moving about and putting robes on during the ceremony was observed by i . TH STRANGE WOULD . j MAKE !t &l$ -r emmm9mmmmBmgmmfmm9 'i"i'"i"""l,''-1''o"aMMii mwmmmmimmwmmmimmmmmi k P YOUR : tg M0VE TO THE Vk) j F1NEST DIAMOND RINGS from SARTOR'S 1200 '0" Street 10 or 15 thousand Nebraska fans and every viewer of this sight disliked the dis respect shown by the Inno cents. The advanced ROTC program has not helped a certain individual even though he has surely learned in grade school what the expected proced ure is at any time the flag is presented. Men have fought and died to preserve the freedom that the flag represents and I for one like to think that w hat they did was for all of us, and that appreciation should be shown by proper resped. any time the flag is present. R. C.-A VETERAN Arnold Air Society A SAC B-47 crew from the Lincoln Air Force Base will speak to the Arnold Air So ciety tonight at 7 p.m. in the Union. All Air Force ROTC cadets are invited to attend. L On Campus wth (By Hit Author of "Rally Round tkt Flag, Boyd "and, "Barefoot Boy with Cheel.") ANYONE FOR FOOTBALL? When Pancho Sigafoos, sophomore, pale and sensitive, first saw Wills Ludowic, freshman, lithe as a hazel wand and rosy as th dawn, he hemmed not ; neither did he haw. "I adore you," h said without preliminary. "Thanks, hey," said Willa, fiinping her apron otct her fa modestly. "What position do you play?" " Position T" said Pancho, looking at her askaooe. (The ankance is a liRament just behind the er.) "Un the football team," said Willa. "Football!" sneered Panclio, his young lip curfinp. "FootSaH 5s violence, and violence is the death of the ruind. I un out a football player. I am a poet!" "So long, buster," said Willa. "Wait!" cried Thncho, clutching her damask f Slie placed a foot on his pelvis and wrenched herself fre. I only go with football players," she said, and walked, ahimmet ing, into the gathering dusk. 's- net Jost-.-- Pancho went to his room and lit a e'parette and ponaered hi. dread dilemma. What kind of cigarette did Pancho light? Why, Philip Morris, of corris! Philip Morris is always welcome, but never more than when you are sore lset. When a fellow needs a friend, wheti the heart is dull and the blood rung like sorghum, then, then above alL, is the time for the mildness, the serenity, that only Pliilip Morris can supply. Pancho Sigafoo", his broken psyche welded, hig fevered brow ended, his synapses restored, after smoking a fine Philip Morris, came to a decision. Thouch he was u bit small for football (aa even four feet) and somewhat overweight (427 pounds), he tried out for the team and tried out with such grit and gumptioa that he made it. Pancho'a college opened the seaaon against tl Manhattan School of Mines, always a mettlesome foe, but strengthened this year by four exchange students from Gibraltar who had been suckled by she-apes. By the middle of the second quarter tht Miner, had wrought such havoc ujion Pancho' team that thert was nobody left on the beneh but Pancho. And when the quarterback was (tent to the infirmary with him head drivea straight down into his esophagus, the ooach had no choice but to put Pancho in. Pancho ' teammates were not conspicuously eheered as the little fellow took his place in the huddle. "Gentleman," said Pancho, "ome of you may regard poetry sissy stuff, but now in our most trying hour, let us hark U these words from Paradise Lost: 'All is not lost; the uncon querable will and study of revenge, immortal hate, and courage never to submit or yield ! " So stirred was Pancho's team by this fiery exhortation that they threw themselves into the fray with utter abandon. Aa a consequence, the entire squad was hospitaliied before the half. The college was forced to drop football. Willa Ludowie, not having any football players to choose from, took up with Pancho nu rai ucuvcrea uie Beauty oj jug goul. l aday they are i Bvcrywiirre uancmg, noicung hands, nuMlmg, smoking. Smoking what? Philip Morris, of eorrie 1 mm m a And tor you Alter fancier, tlie matctrt of Philip Morrlt aim you a lot to like in the teniational Marlboro- niter, flavor, pack or box. Marlboro joint Philip MorrU in bringing mam this column throughout Vie tcliool year.