Pace 2
The Dailv Nebraskan
Tuesday, December 16, 1958
Editorial Comment-
Tax Matters
Cy Thompson, retiring member of the
Board of Regents, and Governor-elect
Ralph Brooks have presented varied
opinions on Nebraska taxes. Brooks' com
ments came during and since his cam
paign for the governorship. Thompson's
views were contained in a feature story on
his approaching retirement. Brooks be
lieves that new forms of taxes should not
be considered until efforts to effectively
and fairly use the property tax fail. This
is essentially the same attitude as that
held by Gov. Anderson with Brooks more
or less contending that the governor has
failed to take adequate leadership to in
sure such reforms in the use of the proper
ty tax.
Thompson, on the other hand, believes
that property taxes' are not adequate
enough to fulfill the needs of the state. He
believes that a sales tax should be consid
ered. His stand is interesting because it
has been expressed - by many liberal
groups in Nebraska, including many edu
cators who feel the pinch of limited funds
from property taxes and who would like
to see other forms of taxation which might
tnabla more state ajd to education. Ne
braska is about the lowest ranking state
in the Union when it comes to such aid.
This need for more funds was probably a
big factor in the approval of participa
tion in the National Defense Education
Act by the State Board of Education.
Schoolboards at Lincoln and Omaha, the
state's major population centers, both ap
proved participation in the act to reflect
this growing need for educational aid even
in large population areas.
There are many people in the state who
seem pleased to discover that the future
governor and the legislature that will
serve under him have expressed opposi
tion against any new forms of taxes, with
more equalization and better enforcement
of present property tax laws. Why try
something new until the old has been per
fected? they ask. '
This argument will probably have major
appeal in the state in 1960 just as it has for
, lo these many years. The fact that Ne
braska is one of about two or three states
which do not use another tax to supple
ment property taxes will continue to be
ignored on the basis that we can still
tighten up the old laws. What the users of
the argument fail to consider is progress
and social changes. The number of non
agricultural workers in this state who live
in apartments and own few articles of
personal property is steadily increasing.
' With the rise of industry the number of
land and property owners doesn't neces
sarily keep pace with the boost in the
state's working force. This means that
proportionally fewer and fewer property
owners must carry a bigger and bigger
tax load. The logical step to take would be
the utilization of another form of tax. To
say that such a tax should not be used
until the property tax has seen 100 per
cent effective use is to come close to ar
guing that the airplane should never have
been developed until the train was made
100 per cent effective. Progress calls for
diversification and changes in many
fields. Citizens can continue to see state
agencies' budgets lose needed item after
item in the future as the legislature con
tinues to work under a strangling proper
ty tax. The demands for more services
and better schools can only be met when
and if the state's tax base is broadened.
Individual Staff Vieivs
By Diana
Besides being Christmas time, it is ap
plication time, and scattered around in
various parts of the Nebraskan these days
terse little messages carry such phrases
as "applicants may pick up," "interview
times should be sched
uled" and "positions open
include ..."
AUF announced its new
board members and as
sistants yesterday. The
list contained 48 names,
and out of curiosity I
checked for affiliations.
Sure enough, not one was
an independent.
Now, before anyone in
AUF rises In wrath at
condemnation, let me say that I know that
this is not because the organization did
not want independents. About a week ago,
old board members were crying for some
independents to apply. According to one
of the vice-presidents of the group, not
one unaffiliated student showed up for in
terviews. This leads me to a point which is one
of the biggest headaches of those unaffili-
I
Diana
Maxwell
ated students who are active in campus
organizations how to tell other inde
pendents that these groups are not closed
to them.
Examples: every year Tassels scrapes
and scrapes and scrapes to find enough
unaffiliated coeds to fill the 50 per cent
requirement. Coed Counselors board re
quires at least 20 percent independent
membership, and the group is in the pro
cess of revising its constitution, so the
percentage may change, but not the idea
behind it.
Another door that has never been closed
to any aspiring new worker is that of the
Rag. All that's necessary down here is to
walk up to the first desk and say "I'm
available."
I could go on and on. Yes, there are one
or two organizations where it is virtually
impossible for an independent to get in,
but for the most part these are activities
that are controlled by one or two houses
and it is just as difficult for members of
the "wrong" houses to get in as it is for
non Greeks. On the whole, doors are pret
ty darn open if anyone wants to try the
knob.
From ths Editor
A Few Words of a Kind
. . . e. e. hines
e.e.
One important factor, at least, takes
some air out of the current boom in the
small car business. While many friends
have talked in glowing terms about-the
economy and parking ease of their foreign
imports, they nave ig
nored the safety factor.
This warning was deliv
ered to me in a report
from Motor Vehicle Re
search. Inc., i which
showed a small car folded
into two equal parts after
hitting a telephone pole.
"Small cars branded un
safe inaceldentt...
thousands of American
mntnrtatx are chancing
their lives and limbs for a few gallons of
gasoline by riding In small cars," the head
line and boldface type declared, adding:
'Research shows small cars competing
in accident! with standard automobiles
are like bantam weight boxers challenging
heavy weights. Energy and construction
are prime safety factors in automobile
crashes." .
The report was put together by the MVR
Scientific Evaluation Group of Durham,
N. H., headed by Professor Jonathaa
Karas of the University of N. H. and A. J.
White of Motor Vehicle Research of New
Hampshire. The group reportedly works
closely with the automotive industry, legal
firms and insurance companies.
An article in the bulletin violently at
tacks efforts to get Americans to buy cars
now to "help business," which would
seem to indicate the organization doesn't
have a direct Interest in Detroit's prosper
ity. MVR's White also says: "I am not for
a moment justifying the large American
automobile from the standpoint of utility,
initial cost and economy because most
models do not make transportation sense
for individuals. However, as long as 4,
000 pound frame type automobiles are on
the road in large numbers 1 am forced to
protect myself by not riding in a small
imported car as accidents are common
occurrences.
"Small cars make sense if all persons
drove them. Present prices of these cars
are out of line. They are expensive and
some are dangerous in more ways than
one."
The report says that the organization
has found a near 100 non-injury record
for drivers of large trucks and tractor
trailer units when their vehicles hit stand
ard automobiles. The same conclusion was
drawn, the report indicated, when the
standard automobile was involved in a
crash with a small car.
MVR said that the small car owner
doesn't have a chance on the road when
his numbers total only one million and the
big car owners total 50 million.
So goes one side of the big versus small
car story. Personally, if I desire safe
travelling in Nebraska, I take a street
car. You will recall, of course, that there
was not a single accident in the state last
year in which a street car was involved.
The fact that there aren't any such oper
ating vehicles left inside Coinhusker
borders may have a factor.
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LITTLE MAN ONXAMPUS
My Little World
. . . by judy truell
Probably the most gratify
ing functions of the year in
the Greek world occur at
Christmas when a sorority
and fraternity band together
to forego an
afternoon of
beer and
bridge-
to give a par
I ty for one of
the groups of
children in
the orphan
ages or wel
fare societies
of the city.
"F unctions"
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Collegiate Roundup
Student Names Plague
Daily Kansan Writer
A Daily Kansan editorial
says that a college student
uses his right name at wed
dings and in the student di
rectory but nowhere else.
"Why this is so is a mys
tery to science, but it is a
fact. That girl everyone
knows as Taffy is actually
named something like Ter
esa; Bucky's square handle is
George; DeeDee is Dorothy,"
cracks the editorial writer.
He continues: "An analysis
of several types of nicknames
may show why students en
crust themselves with aliases.
"First there is the compul-
Letterip
Student Cheer
Would you like to use your
newspaper to give a student
some cheerful news this
Christmas? This news is di
rected to a woman student
who may be finding it very
difficult financially to con
tinue her education.
Our national sisterhood of
fers loans up to one thousand
dollars, with very liberal ar
rangements, both for under
graduate and graduate wom
en. P.E.O., through the con
tributions of three genera
tions of women, has accumu
lated over a half million dol
lars for the sole purpose of
making educational loans.
Our particular chapter,
E.Y. of Omaha, having no
girl to sponsor currently, is
again seeking a student we
may sponsor. She may be of
any race or creed.
If you know someone of
suitable reliability and am
bition or can use your paper
to bring this to such a per
son's attention, we would ap
preciate your encouraging
such a student to correspond
with us.
The star is thought of by
so many at Christmas. It hap
pens our symbol in P.E.O. is
a star. We would like to make
it shine brightly for a girl in
your student body.
Mrs. J. C. McCracken
Educational Fund Chairman
2532 Van Buren
Bellevue, Nebraska.
sive cutie. She thinks
Albertina is too horrid a
name, so she or her friends
shorten it by stages. She be
comse Bert, then Berry, then
Bear, and finally winds up as
Teddy.
"Then we have the victim
of circumstances. It is impos
sible for any girl named Jan
ice, Jeanette, Janith, Jean,
Janet, or Jeanne to be called
anything but Jan.
"A third category is the
nickname, pinned on by a kid
brother in a moment of
stress. This group of names
is noted for its nauseating
qualities, and includes pearls
like Bubba, Barbar, Orn, or
any nonsense syllable. The
unfortunate must be pitied,
not scorned.
Students are speakin? out
against closing of public
schools at the University of
North Carolina.
According to the Dailv Tar
Heel, a bill calling for tele
grams to Governors Orval
Faubus of Arkansas and J.
Lindsay Almond of Virginia
on the closing of Dublic schools
was the highlight of a Stu
dent Legislature meeting.
The telegram bill was to
read in Dart "We denounce
all efforts to evade the clear
meaning of the law and the
decision of the Supreme Court
through the abolition of pub
lic schools . . . We decry . . .
any destruction of the system
of universal free public
schools . . ."
According to the sponsor of
the bill, its purpose is to
show the governors that there
is a body of individuals who
consider public education a
primary necessity overriding
all other issues.
"Firstly, the thing at stake
is education, and it is the re
sponsibility of we who are a
part of the educational com
munity to speak out on this
issue," he said.
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at their best are quite obnox
ious affairs with eager fresh
man, sullen sophomores, un
manageable juniors and com
pletely indifferent seniors
dragging their complaining
bodies down the stairs to
meet an equally unwilling
bunch of boys. In the ensu
ing scramble the freshmen
manage to grab all the eli
gible junior and senior males
leaving the seniors to mother
some big-eyed, fresh-shaven
lad who is all of 18.
And amidst all the gaiety
the social chairman runs
franctically about alternating
pleas, dire threats, and final
comments as "well, it's your
function and if you absolute
ly refuse to talk to that poor
boy I really couldn't care
less."
The big run on these affairs
is in the fall and they grad
ually taper off to none when
the social chairman discovers
that no one is talking to her
as she brushes her teeth in
the morning and that if she
even mentions functions ev
eryone choruses that they
can't stand functions and that
they especially can't stand
her.
But for this one brief party
when all intentions are di
rected at entertaining a small
boy of five or a little girl who
doesn't talk much impressions
are forgotten and everyone
comes in later and tells you
that was the best function ev
er. It's surprising that the
outcome of these functions is
probably the best of any.
Maybe it touches a boy's
heart seeing a girl holding an
infant who persists in slob
bering down her sweater or
who swings a blob of ice
cream into her hair.
Perhaps these parties could
be extended throughout the
year rather than having them
all fall at Christmas when
when people naturally think
of children with no homes.
But there couldn't possibly be
a better or more worthy func
tion looking at it with the
hardened and jaundiced eye
of the social chairman.
The greatest bane of the
college student is his constant
impoverished condition. To
hear most students discuss
their financial status one
would think that some well
meaning group should get to
gethes to give them a party.
Somehow during the year a
staggering sum is ticked off
for pizza, hamburgers, beer,
"mix", ice, gas, white tennis
shoes, pitch, crazy eight, and
a multitude of other pleas
urable pastimes. But if ap
proached about the Kellogg
Fund they immediately emit
sounds of woe and trot out the
rags.
A professor of mine told the
class that when a wealthy man
in Ancient Greece wanted to
make an impassioned plea to
the jury he would hire a tat
tered wife and assorted tat
tered kids and then lay it on
thick. Maybe if the solicitors
for the fund were to employ
like tactics they would get
better results. Twenty dollars
is a piddling sum for four
years of education. In fact,
I've heard of people paying al
most that to have term
papers written for t'- - The
word for the year, ij . jh
up!"
Kecnan Iledds
Ed Group Drive
Judy Keenan is acting
chairman of a group of
Teachers College students
who are spearheading a drive
to establish a University of
Nebraska Student Education
Association on campus.
Teachers College students
interested in becoming char
ter members of the profes
sional group have been in
vited to attend an organiza
tional meeting 5 p.m. Tues
day in 200 Teachers College.
Students who have assisted
Miss Keenan in drafting a
proposed charter and by
laws include S o n d r a Lee,
Georgiana Stover, Nan Poyn
ter and Janet Anderson. Rex
Reckawey and Edward
Brown are faculty advisers.
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