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Paq 2 The Daily Nebroskan Wednesday, May 6, 1959 Editorial Comment: . Election Contest SC Problem The Student Council elections Monday offered the. student politician a little bit of anything which he might encounter in state politics. - ' Campaigning t was widespread and healthy. Opinions were actively exchanged by the parties involved. There was a mass effort to get out the vote. Several races were close and the ele ments probably decided a couple of them. Heavy rains falling around 4 p.m. pos I ibily kept enough students away from the polls to make the difference. The rains also mined the chances for a record turnout of voters. Still, 74 more people exercised their rights this year than last. And that figure may be deceptive. An additional 275 ballots were tossed out as not valid. Certainly the value of the vote was never more clearly illustrated than in the Arts' and Science race between Sandie Johnson and Diane Tinan. That one, con tested by Miss Tinan, was decided by a . iingle vote margin, a testimony to the (act that each' and every ballot is im portant. For the first time, the IBM machines were used to count votes. The IBM count ing system depends on the use by the voter of special IBM pencils. This could create some problems for the Student Council in the contest election. Not all the student voting used the IBM pencils. A regular pencil will activate the IBM machine if the voter marks the box heavily enough. However, it is still possible to have a legally marked ballot thrown out by the machine because the wrong pencil was used. In this- case the Student Council will have to decide whether these ballots are to be allowed. Now, we don't think there is any reason why they shouldn't. At the polling places, students were requested to use only the pencils provided, but these were not at tached to a voting booth but were lying loose on a table. It was entirely possible that a pencil other than one of IBM make could have slipped into the pile. Because of these circumstances and the contested election, it looks like the Student Council will have to go through all 100 of the voided Arts and Science ballots to see if the machine threw any out that should have been left in. Have fun folks. Opportunity Still A bounds The other day we got one of the fa miliar publicity release stories on a man who had been named to the "Horatio Alger Award of the year." Now this, we thought, is just peachy keen. "The Horatio Alger Award!" What a neat name for an award! Circular file for this one. But out of some sort of curiosity (or mainly because we wanted to kill some time before we had to work) we read the release through anyway. It turned out that the fellow being hon ored was Alfred Hammell, president of the Hallway Express Agency. He had be gun his career as a porter with Wells Fargo in San Francisco. From there the career had followed the usual pattern associated with Horatio Al ger. Moving up through the ranks, Ham mell finally became chairman of the board in March. It was the oft repeated story of the In dividual with determination and a ca pacity for hard work making it big in the United States. And Mr. Hammell was not alone. Also recipients of the award were nine other fellows, among them James Mitchell, Secretary of Labor and Alfred Fuller, head of the Fuller Brush Company. As we continued to read the release, ur cynicism passed. Instead, we felt slight ly awed and immensely proud that these men were Americans and that America had offered them an opportunity to be come successful. So maybe there still is an opportunity in this country for the ones who have the de sire to make it big. Maybe the little fel low still has a chance after all. Maybe the days of the old west are not gone entire ly and some of its spirit may still lurk around the next test tube in the labora tory. But pretty soon, we stopped feeling this way, because we're college students and members of the "beat generation" and thoughts like that aren't supposed to occur to us. But as Kent Walton would say: "Why not!?" Monsoons The week of May 4 the Centennial hit Lincoln. And so did the Monsoon season. But the good merchants of 0 St. can take heart. A friend of ours suggests they convert their flower boxes on the mall into gondolas. The bearded yeoman of the town could act as gondoliers with oper atic basso profundo realism. However, this change of local would require the University Theatre to dig back into their repertoire and replace "Taming of the Shrew" with "The Merchant of Venice." Anyway, folks, the rain is good for the .crops. from- the Sideslines Miss Sides This is not the time of year for writing columns, working on papers, going to classes, accepting responsibility or doing anything that requires the least little bit of exertioa mentally. The rain makes ma le. thargic and slightly groggy probably due to the fact that there has been so much of it that I am permanently water logged. And the appear ance of the 6un is even worse for it inspires me to trudge out on. the sun deck for long grueling hours of sun tanning. All-in-all the only thing that spring is conducive to Is having fun. And, after an, that's not such a bad thing, although It is rather bard on the - grades. For . some reason hour exams seem to abound in the spring, as well as term papers and all sorts of projects. And since the mere sight of a book, when ev erything is green and warm .and its in finitely nicer to be outside than to be get ting eyestrain from black type on misty paper, is enough to throw most students Into a spasm, a conflict is bound to occur. And the old birds, bees, and other such spring-like things are usually the winners of that conflict Edgr Unfortunately the conflict has other ef fects. Most persons are mighty edgy or perhaps just tense. Here it is close to the end of school all sorts of things are not done. The thought of finals is beginning to loom like a spectre over our heads. We haven't had all that fun we promised our selves that we would have when winter finally vanished. We're tired of a lot of the old faces and perhaps just tired of school, ourselves and in general every thing. It's very frustrating and doesn't By Gretchen Sides lead to the best relations between one and all. Watch out, when someone comes up to you and says, "Hi, you ugly old thing, boy, do I hate you," don't be misled by that grin and protestations of "just kid ding," they probably mean it. Of course, it may not be a personal thing they may just be taking out their frustrations on you. I think that's why the spring day push ball event gets so rough all those boys out there taking out all those accumulated frustrations. I can just see those mixed up minds one boy jabbing someone else in the eye as he pretends it's his math teacher or another one saving in some one's spinal cord just because his girl stepped out on him the night before. Ice Cream Cone Personally, I keep having this violent desire to either shove an ice cream cone a great big gooey chocolate 20 cent one on somebody's nose, or to knock some, one's head into the water fountain. It also might be fun to play a trombone in the middle of our dorm full of sleepers about 4 a.m. some morning. But then I won't. I'm a conformist like everybody else. We're all conformists and that's part of our trouble. It causes more conflicts between a secret desire to do something a little different and a hor rible fear of being ostracized from NU society, if we did. Both of these conflict between conformity and individuality and between spring and books are really kind of interrelated. Part of the reason we want to get good grades Is because a certain set of people consider that as the ulti mate goal of life and we also want to have fun because others consider that as the main thing to seek after. But I have thought of a dandy solution for the whole thing how about a Phi Beta Kappa for sun tanners or an Alpha Lamb da Delta for renowned beer drinkers. It's a thought, at least. ABOUT TWELVE YEARS, SQUERX)!? 6KL WILL BE v BkOUIN... a I 5 rTSS0lNST3E;HA!rc.?US TO SAVE ME2 WHEN WE DON'T KNOOIWMOSHEIS.WHKESHE LIVES OR AWTMlNS.. . Excavations OWATOJE NEED 15 SOME SORT OF WANIN3 SYSTEM... FT U)E COULD CALL "EARLY WARNING MARITAL RACVaR itVi can't! STAND V V IT.. A '-fry; I s .-hi V-'' I Kandy A Few Words . . . By e.e. Hines Of A Kjlld Daily Nebraskan jrrSTT-ETGKT TEAKS OLD Member: Assoclatei Collegiate Free latereoIterUt Pren atrprMentatlve: National Adwtisinj: Serrfoe, Incorporated Published t: Room 0. Student Cnioa Lincoln. 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N'tm aoh! ftar n-lflM Miiam on ftraftr ClrculMoa Mtaarar.. .............. ,...Po Iaaa(4aa Miaatla Tartar Irrrf fcWleatla ktaa Kaima., My roommate turned on the television set to atch the tail end of the 6:30 newscast. Ray Robinson, we were told, had been de throned by the Nation al Boxing Com m is sion for his f a i lure to defend his t i t 1 e for over a year. The net work then s how e d e,e filmed interviews with Rob inson and his manager. Robinson complained that he had not been allowed to fight a second rate' contend er while Patterson had fought a boy whose country didn't even think he was any good. Add to that, Rob inson said, the fact that anyone in his income tax bracket couldn't afford to fight more than once a year. Manager His manager was next, and he furnished the hol low exclamation that "My boy lost the title because he was colored, and that's the only reason. If he was a white boy he would still be champ today." I don't know whether my roommate or I used the harsher profanity. If I had ever heard a bigger stack of baloney than the manag er's charge and Robinson's lament I'm not sure when orp where and I doubt that I could ever forget it. If ever a colored athlete has been well recognized, re ceived and rewarded b y white as well as colored sports fans it is Robinson. The validity of the colored boy argument goes to pot when you realize that the fighter Robinson points to as being overly privileged in comparison with him is Patterson who doesn't ex actly belong to a race for eign from his own. And the "harshly" treated fight er who "can't afford" be cause of taxes to defend his title twice a year also doesn't appear to this side line observer as a poor Old Uncle Torn being sold down the river. A similar racial prejudice cry was echoed earlier by a ballplayer cut loose by a major league ballclub I believe the Boston Red Sox. The NAACP demanded a Letterip Tha DlUr Nebrukaa will aaMlia ftair (bate tetr which ara atgaed. LrUera attacking Individuate auiat rarrr the aataor't aamc. Oibera mar ate tailiala ar a ara earn. Lritera ebaaM aat rirerf Mt waraa. W'hra IrUrrt nirH tola limit the Ma hreekaa rreerree tha ritW ta eea eVaee tbeab relalala tha wrlter'f Wat. Sunday Bill Dear Editor: Democracy Destroyed From Within? Sometime next week Ne braskans may find that they have lost a basic free dom and right. The Legis lature is considering a bill which would in effect change the law enforce ment agencies into gestapo troops which would be au thorized to arrest any citi zen who is not willing to close his privately owned business on a specific day of the week. This demag oguery will never happen here, you say; take a long close look at the proposed Sunday closing law and see if you don't find a touch of totalitarianism hidden beneath its high sounding moral facade. Such a law is dangerous. In the first place,' it cuts the very heart out of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which guarantees each man the right to exercise his faith according to his own con science. It also guaran tees the freedom of the Continued on Page 4 report from the club as to why he had been cut, claim ing as Robinson's manager did that it was only because he was a colored boy. Prejudice I am not so naive to sup pose that racial prejudice does not exist. L am not so slipshod in my reading hab its that I do not keep in formed of the present state of the Negro in America. I know ' that recently a Negro man was kidnapped from his cell by a gang of white men who apparently killed him. I know that a colored girl was raped by four white men in Florida. But I am not willing to ac cept racial prejudice as the cause of one and all diffi culties the 'egro finds him self in. A boxing champion has a responsibility to defend his title. If a colored ballplay er can help win more games for a major league team than a white player he will make the grade. This is becoming more ture year after year not only in the majors and baseball, but in colleges and every sport there is. Certainly there aren't any Negroes Thanks to the Lincoln Air Force Base Non-Com-missioned Officers Acad emy Graduate Association for inviting all the Inter national ctiirlonte in , f their Open House on Friday which was the "kick off" for the L i n coin Cent e n nial cele bration. Transporta tion was provided to and from the Air Force Base and there were about 100 Internation al students who learned about and enjoyed the dis play very much. Featured were the Air Force and the Nebraska Air National Guard's latest aircraft, including the B 52, SAC's long range jet . bomber, the KC-135 j?t air refueling tanker, the B-57 light jet bomber, the C-125 cargo-master, the F-100 Su per Sabre, the F-102 Su personic jet .fighter, the Army's "Honest John" rocket, the medium to long range free flight rocket and the Navy "Terrier" missile, a supersonic anti aircraft weapon. I do not know what these names mean.' The officers who took the International students from the Student Union let us alone to go around to see the display. It would have been better if each officer would have taken about 10 to 15 stu dents with him and ex plained everything In de tail. Another very interesting display that I was very eager to see was the Royal Air Force Command's "Vic tor," one of England's new. est jet bombers. The Brit ish bomber, I was told, ar rived from Offutt Air Force Base. The five men consist ed of an aircraft command er, co-pilot, two navigators and an air electronics offi cer. I was told that last Octo ber the Victor landed at Lincoln AFB, the first time it had ever touched down in the United States. The only unfortunate part of the display of this "Victor" was that we were not per mitted to go into the jet bomber. Among other highlights in the display were dem onstrations such as fire fighting, sentry dog drills, a jet acrobatic team and 4 Pa many other programs which were of great inter est i' think that It was very nice of the Non-Commls-sioned Officers Academy Graduate Association t o have taken the initiative to invite us to the display and I am sure that the rest of my fellow International students appreciate this as much as I do. The officers who took us to and from the Air Force were very kind and understanding. Lest I forget, beer also was sold at the Lincoln Air Force Base, and this is the only place where they did not ask for my identification card. on the Nebraska campus who can claim that they aren't playing . every day because they are colored. Ability is the big winner of rights in sports, and this is generally true in other phases of life as well. The Negro has not yet had full opportunity to de velop his abilities in' Ameri can, but neither has many a poor and middle-income white. The Negro, we hope, win nave increased oppor tunities in future years. He will not benefit, it seems apparent, by crying "wolf" everytime he fails to make the grade or tragedy strikes in his life. If he does, the Negro may find himself in the same plight as the shepherd who false ly cried "wolf" so often that when the wolf really appeared no one believed him or answered his cries for help. Iff 1 J ;nfH Am y (By the Author of "Rally Kouna the nag, aoyir ana, ADVENTURES IN SOCIAL SCIENCE: NO. 3 Today, ranging again into the fascinating world of wcial science, let us take up the subject of anthropology the study of man and his origins. The origin of man was indeed a puzzle until the Frenchman, Jean-Louis Sigafoos, discovered the skull and shinbone of Pithecanthropus Erectus in Java in 1891. What Sigafoos was doing in Java is, incidentally, quite an odd little story. Sigafoos was a Parisian born and bred. By day one could always find him at a sidewalk cafe, sipping barley water and ogling the girls; each night he went to a fashionable casino where he gambled heavily at roulette and go-fish; in between times he worked on his stamp collection, which was one of the largest in Paris. DIAMOND DISCOVERY! Lovey new design -a great value.' Convenient Terms 1 jtii Vklea, IIHIIIIIllly7W4J-1" . B QeeMy TeMe" 1 "'iM Mj Ue V Street 1 ha Well sir, one summer Sigafoos lost his entire fortune gambling at the casino. He was seriously contemplating suicide when, quite, unexpectedly, a letter arrived from one Lotus Petal McGinnis, a Javanese girl and an avid stamp collector, with whom Sigafoos had been corresponding from time to time through the international stamp collectors journal. Until now the nature of their correspondence, though friendly, had been strictly philatelic, but in this new letter Lotus Petal declared that although she had never laid eyes on Sigafoos, she loved bim and wanted to marry him. She said she was eighteen years old, beautiful and docile, and her father, the richest man in the tribe, had agreed to give half his fortune to the husband of her choice. Sigafoos, penniless and desperate, immediately booked passage for Java. The first sight of his prospective bride failed to delight Siga foos. Slie was, as she said, beautiful but only by local stand ards. Sigafoos had serious doubts that her pointed scarlet teeth and the chicken bones banging from her ears would be con lidered chic along the Champs Elyses. But sobering as was the sight of Lotus Petal, Sigafoos had an even greater disappointment coming whea he met her father. The old gentleman was, as Lotus Petal claimed, the richest man in the tribe, but, unfortunately, the medium of exchange in his tribe was prune pits. Sigafoos took one look at the mound of prune pits which waa his dowry, gnashed his teeth, and stomped off into the jungle, swearing vilely and kicking at whatever lay in his path. Stomp ing thus, swearing thus, kicking thus, Sigafoos kicked over a heap of old bones which what do you know 1 turned out ta be Pithecanthropus Erectus! But I disgress. From the brutish Pithecanthropus, man evolved slowly upward in intellect. By the Middle Paleolithie period man had invented the leash, which was a remarkable technical achievement, but frankly not particularly useful until the Mesolithie period when man invented the dog. In the Neolithic period came the most important discovery in the history of man the discovery of agriculture. Why is this so important? Because, good friends, without agriculture there would be no tobacco, and without tobacco there would be no Marlboro, and without Marlboro you would be without the finest filter cigarette that money can buy, and I would be will out a job. That's why. vmvm -m Without tobacco you would also bt without Marlboro' tlttw cigartttt, Philip MorrU, c non-filter $mokt that can't 0 beat. Philip MorrU or Marlboropick your plcaturt.
