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j v . s f 5 .'4 i '.4 Page 2 The Daily Nebraskan Friday, December 18, 1955 Editorial Comment: So Little Faith in Principle Spurred by the actions of a handful of universities which have refused to partici pate in the National Defense Education Act loans, the storm about the so-called loyalty cath mounts almost daily. Recent withdrawals from the program include such "name" colleges as Oberlin, Harvard and Yale. The question which has been raised by those who see no wrong in the required affidavit and the oath of allegiance whether this protest by the schools is not a mere academic pro testan egghead's rebellion over trivia. What then are the requirements in or der to receive these loans which are so liberal in ttieir other terms. First, the ap plicant must submit a" sworn statement which is aa oath of allegiance to the United States. The second required affi davit is a statement that "he does not believe in, and is not a member of and does not support any organization that be lieves m or teaches, the overthrow of the United States by force or violence." It is this second required affidavit which has provoked the storm. There has been no real criticism of the requirement that an applicant take an oath which says, "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the United States of America and will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States against all its enemies, foreign and domestic." This sort of an oath is an expected part of being a citizen. The other statement, however, has been termed an insult to the youth of America. It has been pointed out that government subsidization goes to a multitude of re cipients farmers, public housing, etc ... but only students are asked to sign a nest oath." la a preface to the Crimson pamphlet mentioned before, Sen. John Kennedy of Massachusetts made the following obser vation; H U easy to argue that test oaths have become a commonplace ritual which need not arouse sensitive concern of students and teachers. The authors and defenders of these provisions in the N.D.E.A. point out tliat. In recent years, legislation which provides for government assistance to stu dents has characteristically contained loyalty oath provisions. Tt is not sufficient, however, to accept this body of precedent as a guideline for present or future Federal action. It is high time that we reassert our fundamental and lasting traditions, and not translate the expediencies of the moment into eter nal verities. Most important, the affidavit "provision of the Education Act has placed the colleges and universities into an un precedented role: administering 'test oaths' for the Government ... "This is not a quarrel over the principle that Americans should be lawful; it con cerns a doctrine which singles out stu dents as a group which must sign a rather vague affidavit as to their beliefs, as well as to their actions." We live in an age of fright, an age in which we have willingly suspended some portion of our freedoms for protection from without. In times of national peril, this is a historical tradition in nearly every democratic country! A panicky people fear the enemy without and so attempt to solid ify the populace. This wijl not be accomplished by sign ing a dozen affidavits. It has been pointed out that any enemy of the United States would have no compunctions about affix ing a signature Jo such an affidavit. Hence, of what value is it? What can it do other than insult stu dents. It is unfortunate that it is attached to a program which can do so much good for education. Pragmatically, the iigning may not indeed be a large concession by the individual it may not force him to do a distasteful act But the principle is worth disputing this is not a case of an egghead squabble it is a question of putting a little trust back into the principles we mouth such as freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly. We have laws already to deal with per sons who jeopardize the safely of the state in unlawful ways. There is no need to at tack the problem in this fashion. Art in the Netcs Art made the pews twice this week. Once it was a case of the many suffering for the ads of one or two when someone stole another picture from the Student Union. The second case was a much more pleasant one a $250,000 Christmas present to the University from the Woods Founda tion. This money is earmarked for the construction of an, art building to be lo cated next to the Sheldon Art Gallery, A nicer present couldn't have been had. (THASC5ME13 0CR ATTSNTUN THAT YW BAv YvJc SMNS ON THE DEfMT Cf ThElNaWXjALCWlD... IN OWES 4J38D5. W Jl'DcE AS TJ UWtTriK ThE WILD MA5 8FEM SZX Oft W 2EAU.Y TN IT IS WSE T3 ATTEMPT O-ViATIS W0D?UATIS Ni5H3J2.VJJAi?E BA0..I Daily Nebraskan Letterips From the editor's desk: On Campuses 9n Things Diana Sometime just past the egg-nog and tur key time in fact, just a week past the demolition of beautiful wrappings time, we lose a decade. Or gain a new one or something like that The fabulous fifties that's what they've bees called. Fabulous? Grid When the 50's walked in, life was a happy 11. I'd never even seen tel evision, so I couldn't know how I would grow to hate parts of it Somebody had probably said something about the atomic bomb, and I'd seen Frankfurt in 1946, so this had meaning in terms of gray rubble, but not much. ""At that time Staliu was a dirty word, but didn't eem like anything iminently danger ous. I don't know that I knew whether Ko rea was in the West Indies or somewhere near China or something. And -who had ever heard of beatniks and who would have thought of turning one's back on everything. Seems that was the time of the Big Buy. I remember people talking about being able to buy, buy, buy refrig erators, cars, things which seemed fright fully important that we have one as nice or definitely nicer than anybody elses . . . Skirts had bit the ankles, too, and every thing had just been lengthened . . . once in Germany I remember four of Mom's friends declaring categorically that this kick of Dior4! would never take, and even if it did, they wouldn't lengthen their dresses. . . ilaybe it was being 11, but people seemed happier. Not as scared. Maybe not scared enough, maybe that's what's wrong now. , . i: Television was much excitement When we came back from Germany I remember , fitting in the hotel room completely en tranced with Howdy Doody and several hours worth of commercials ... We all watched it for hours on end. Everybody did then. In a year or two a science fiction book came out about how the race had collapsed because everybody sat watching lelevion. They had viewer marathons and trance contests. The rulers ruled painlessly through the picture tube . . . But gee, at 11, nobody had told me about the "communist menace," it seems like. There was something ominous about the Kremlin, but that was mainly because it wasn't a pretty word . . . And' the 50's spun by the 'fabulous fifties" of the adolescence and very-young adulthood. Even while they were happening 11 was disappearing and you can't run back ward to chase ghosts . . . The fashion magazines coined the phrase I think. There was the ".New Look." the much-loathed sack, the Trapeze lhe A-Ltne, the H-Iine and the H-Bomb . . . Somebody stood on tiptoes and tried to touch the moon. Lots of people tried to throw things at the moon, and the good guys were definitely losing because the bad guys shot faster and straighler and were better or ganized . . . Going into the Sixties if can't have a name till they've happened) . . . suddenly this looks like Your Decade the time you roar out into the Big World, wildly wav ing diploma ... Wonder if there is anybody 11 now any body who will just be an "adult" when the 0's flash by and suddenly it's 70 . . .10 years. Ten years which can't help but be momentous times the times in which the decision is made whether to bomb or not to bomb; whether the world will be free or not free . . .whether . . . ; HAPPY KEW YEAR! Bells, Bells, Bells 4 To the Editor: Just to correct an overly abused record book, the ding-dong Delt bells were skillfully removed from un der the very noses of the good-guys by two birds in coveralls win a commer cial moving Van during rush week. . No wonder the good-guys pledge class is so lean this year again. Sam Whatsis face said v that the 16th Street Zoo was deserted when the absence of their adored noise maker was noticed. What sound is more ap palling than that of a group of whimpering good-guys? Tsk, Tsk, boys; you shouldn't dare people to play a game that you can't finish without the help of the Campus and Lincoln Police. By the way, keep that Campus Police phone number at hand. You nev er know when someone may ride out of the night to start you whimpering again. Lest you be misguided, the glorious good-guys did not arrive in the nick-of-time and save their idoL After a fruitless chase by the good-guys, the birds benevolently returned the toy; the spirit of Christmas was upon us! Stop crying now and be thankful we made a gift of your bell You are only too lucky that we didn't melt it don's and recast it for use as a runway marker. Desperado D. Bad Gay God the Hub To the Editor: Respectfully I suggest that Dr. Knowles will not be "essentially the hub of the campus religious life", at Centre College in Ken tucky. In Kentucky, as in Nebraska, one would as sume that the hub of relig ious life is God. Bible-thumping Fundamentalist Daily Nebraskan EirrY-NTYE TEARS OLD Humbert Associated Cotlrrtat Frm. later collerisle Frew epresekUve: National Advertising Serv ice Incorporated fsfeUsned fc Room 20. stndent tJntoa . Liaeoln, Nebraska Utb A B Telephone 1-76X1. ert. tUi, 2!C. 42:7 Tat MMI Mvaraakaa tt awIMH- Muaaa. fama. 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Staa tl alnair V Aaitaal Kuaiiinai Manager ......Oa nnian. . v Cfaa. harM-a. a tuuwi Manage Hum Inmctalr "" MBx Anuilt trtom additions to the physical plant are wholly commend able and all of us "share the students' pride in the re cent additions to the Stu dent Union. ilt is most heartening to find the students, at least a great many of them, ex pressing a constructive in terest in the Library and in improving iti services to them. The overall cost of slay ing open until 11 p.m. five nights a week is not a large sum, viewed in rela-. tion to other educational costs within the University. It means an addition to the present operating budget of the University Libraries cf approximately one percent of its 1&60 total. In a Uni versity which is spending only three percent of its total educational funds in support of its libraries, it is not unreasonable to make this request. No Spare Cash At the same time, and in the same breath, however, I must point out that once a University accepts the v biennial appropriation it gets from the legislature and appbes it to the pro gram widen had been sub mitted to the legislature, it becomes very difficult to find-"spare cash" lying around waiting for applica tion to worthy proposals such as an extension of li brary . hours however meritorious they may be. This is why we are under constant necessity to do our thinking and planning two or three years ahead of possible effective dates of application . . . There is. abundant evi dence at hand, for example, that we need to spend cur-r rently substantially more Library Hours To the Editor: May I first acknowledge and compliment you upon the accuracy of the report ing in the front page story on "Library Hours" last Friday, December 1L Your editorial in the same issue lent effective support to the news story. If I may, in good spirit, I should like to chide you a little about your feeling . that t here is administra tive opposition to improve ments in library service. This is not so. We help to develop many good ideas for the improve ment of the service and an extension of hours of serv ice in the Love Library is one to which we have given more or less regular atten tion and with some effect More Ideas Each year, however, we have mo"re ideas in the di rection of improvement than the University can af ford in financial support . . Our University is grow ing in many ways. With recent improvements in faculty salaries our faculty is bound to gain strength in morale, in numbers, and in abilities. The many fine I ISTOTrifSMTTiEil lOFTrtcSfTsyji; SEA?, PEAK if, KRCi&KZ YCTJ JJbSt A fKf ANtf !3iS AS 153 Si 37 ALS3 JLC&NS W 6 W&tlS? AND If OJ MS VI PA2r TS TN AS ttJ NOT AlSJ jyr&'Ni ' Tri CEflAifQKOF Tr fAMiiV Tn INNOCENT 8?3TrS 02' fxR5 AS "WE CASE MA LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS money than we now do for the purchase of books, per iodicals, microfilm, pam phlets, maps, and other library materials. We hope to attract the attention of the next legislature to this problem. The extension of library hours in the interest of more effective student and faculty use of library books and study facilities is im portant now and should be stressed. We are hopeful that it may be possible to accomplish this extension in the very near future. Finding the necessary funds for this service in, the immediate future, how ever, will undoubtedly be difficult to accomplish. It might even prove to be im possible at this moment This part of the problem is out of our hands now that we have forwarded our proposal . . . Frank A. Lundy Director of University Libraries I PEACE ON EARTH The Rfii!ence Association for 3Ien wishes everyone at ihe University of Nebraska A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS & I 1 HAPPY NEW YEAR May God Bless You During This Happy Yuletide!! I t I 1 i a I I I I I t On Campus iviih (Avkor of "I Wc a Tucm-ap Dwarf "The Many Lvm of Ddm GUSvf, He.) DECK THE HALLS When too tLick of ChristaiM softs you Raurn3!y tJjimk of MiTiloro cigarettes, leading teller in fiip-top box in all Jty ttattes-and if we snaex Wales, in 3 fifty-one and if we aniwx Lapland, in all fifty-two. (This talk about aaiaexmg Wale ami Laplaud is, incidentally, not jurt idle f peculation. Great Britain wants to trade Wales to the United Stat for a dewrt Great Britain rds a detert desperately on account of the tourifi' trade. Tourirts are always ocHninj? op to the Prime MiinVter or the Lord Priry Seal, or the Thaine of Glamis, or like that and baying, "I'm oot knotking your ewiutry, mtrtd twi. It vptt quaint and r9cturjue,etc., what witls Buckingham Palst end Bovril ad Sootkad Yard, etc., but where your dbatitV! I ftJ. H V ' iH07XZKX AH l a II iff 'm mm aV --X!tf 1 9f"" ' 11 I r X flPiAlVf HAP -H? VZAl TM' UfJ&' IWcre I f'irgrt. let me fxajjt out that fxwtlaud Yard. Britaln't ptaiixicrtljett puJkie bracch, a ummi after WJJr jSxrtlaiid aud 1 rd Yard tw invented plain ckrtJ. The Auiericaa plaia ctiAhve Uxix fa caJled tlje F.BX after Frauk B. Incljtliff, lo bjveiited futferprjiit. lieSvre Mr. lacbdifl" iaveutioa, tfry body's fineers T aljw.3utely glawy smojtlj. Ttiif, as you u.iay umudne, played Iwb frith the tdeijlififalk'n of fjpwlxjra lJics in ljffltai8. Frjrii 1"S1 until lJt iw Aiwritan jwut evr broujrfit Ixjjjjc tl right liaby from tije LofjHljJ, TLis later le caaie kixjwn a tl Blaik Tom Exj1k)n. But I digre- EiiglaaiiL I a sayjug, aut to trade Wa,k for a dewrt Sweden jU to trade Lapland for Frank B. IwMiff. The rw k that Swedes to tlik day rtill don't luve fing-Tirirj1. A a rewalt, identifieatijn f LmJik in mdish hjKjit4ifc k m IjajA'aiard tliat Swl( flatly refu to bring their Labk inmt. Tinm are, at preteut, tearly a lialf-)-illi'n UTa-lawjjl 1a1ief in buedkh Lot-pit. mtue of tin d -! tj eigl.'ty years old.) But 1 dism. Marilxiro 'v, of emuve, an kfcJ Cl'riLtniaf gift for ?mt Jritiid ail Ia4 oj -jjjjy filter cijairettw. If, mi t)e ot)n-r haixi, your frxud aJJ iuxnd oim like riiikln Jxit ti'Ui't like fiJlti. tlieu you tau't go roug with a carton of Philip Morris. If your frierxis aod kned ones like a subtly nieutholated cigarette tliat comLinf refrenliing Wite with higja fUtration, tiro luy a curiam of Alpiw. (Alpirje. inddentally, are named after tle late Albert C. line. Al Fine worked all his life to invent a cigarette timt would eou.bine Egljt mtrslhri mi higlj LItratjm, but alas Ijc wvpr ucoaeded. As by-product of Lie research he did manage to invent tle atoia, the gooseneck lamp ad the cocker jkniel, but t!i lightly mentliolaWbd hia filtration-tigsrette. ala. never. Now Uii drefm is realited, and wliat could more fitting tlian to fjy tribute to this gai Ltnt man bj- isalling tliis cigarette Alpine?) - ua,a, We. the maker of ilarlbttro, Philip Sforrh tnd Alpine art now (njogint our tixlh year urith Max Shulman. Obeluly, ire think he Urn funny fellow. M e think you'll think to too, if you took at hi teletuion eerie "THE MAJtY LOVES Or DOME GILLfH" and read hi la: est book. "I WAS A TEES 'AGS DWARF."