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The Dally Nebraskan
Tuesday, January 5, I960
Editorial Comment
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
Big Rich, Uneasy
Five days ago a decade ended and his
tory flipped the page on the 1950's.
"It is a long page, packed with spectac
ular, terrifying and heartening develop
ments. It records ,new concepts swiftly
brought to reality, radical changes, new
visions of the future, sharp breaks with
the past. And it is marked by two clearly
defined characteristics, shadow and
light," according to Relman Morin, Asso
ciated Press correspondent.
What international affairs cast a shadow
on the Fateful Fifties? Morin includes
these;
A hydrogen bomb incinerated an Island
In 1953.
A Russian rocket capable of carrying
such a bomb sought the moon and found
It in 1959.
Rocket-armed submarines, powered by
the atom, prowled unbelievable distances
without surfacing.
Newspaper headline of October 2, 1952:
"Stalin Says War Is Inevitable Between
Communism and Capitalism."
Casting light on the decade, Morin said,
wen international events such as atomic
reactors which began generating electric
ity for homes and factories.
Medical science swept forward in giant
Strides with the Salk vaccine, new drugs
for mental illness, isotopes and other wea
pons in the battle against cancer.
Nations, although political enemies in
some instances, pooled efforts in the
greatest study of the physical earth ever
conducted.
Ostensibly reversing the policy of his
predecessors, Nikita Khrushchev said in
1959, "Let us disarm and compete in
peaceful coexistence."
In his analysis of the past "turbulent"
decade, Morin rays there were also those
events which threw light and shadow on
the world.
Red China, openly aggressive, bathed
Tibet in blood. The Dalai Lama fled and
told his story to millions of horrified Budd
hists in the Orient and free men through
out the world.
Chinese troops invaded Indian border
points. The result of these actions were
sharp anti-Chinese or anti-Communist re
actions in nations previously friendly.
Marshal Tito pulled Yugoslavia out of
the Communist bloc. But his was still a
Communist government.
Western Europe, with American
money priming the pump, rebounded from
the thin postwar years to burgeoning pros
perity. Japan's industrial production more
than doubled the figure for the previously
great base period, 1934-36. Japan became
the leading ship builder in the world.
Hunger and illiteracy, aggravated by
the population explosion, lay heavily over
vast areas of the earth.
The gap between the rich nations and
the poor was rapidly widening.
"The Fifties were more than a decade.
They were an age," he says. An age which
to Americans constituted one of the "an
griest, most strife-torn decades in Ameri
can history since the Civil War," Morin
believes. Internal affairs making head
lines in the Fifties would Include:
A great conflict swirled around the
nation's schools.
The struggle between labor and man
agement produced the longest steel strike
in history.
Juvenile delinquency apparently
reached an all-time high in this decade.
A Wisconsin senator, Joseph McCar
thy, strutted in the center of the Ameri
can stage for almost five years. Terms
such as "McCarthyism," "guilt by associ
ation," "loyalty risk," and "fifth Amend
ment Communist" became a part of the
American vocabulary.
Americans came to the end of the Fif
ties with more of everything, more wealth,
more cars, more schools and churches,
more gadgets', more babies and more self
doubt than ever before, Morin comments.
"There is an overwhelming feeling here
that somehow we have lost our way,"
wrote James Reston, Washington corres
pondent of the New York Times. "No
body seems to know Just how or why, but
everybody feels that something's wrong."
Were Americans worrying about an ap
parent unraveling in the moral fabric of
their society, Morin asks? He cites such
events to answer his question as :
On a single day, New York newspa
pers published on their front pages (1)
news of TV quiz rigging, (2) discovery of
widespread graft in shortweight sales of
meat, (3) two reporters fired after one
admitted a hoax, (4) an investigation of
payola to disc jockeys.
Children committed senseless and
horrifying crimes. When asked why, they
replied ... "I don't know. I had an im
pulse." Youth gangs killed members of other
gangs.
Yet young Americans were staying in
school longer and going to college in
greater percentages.
The majority of Americans were in the
middle and upper-middle income groups.
Minorities of rich and poor constitute the
top and bottom.
Out of two characteristics, suburbia and
the middle class, came another trend to
ward uniformity. It appeared in dress, in
tastes, in outlook, the emphasis on person
al security, the packaged thought.
This was America at decade's end big,
rich, physically comfortable and uneasy
on many counts uneasy about national
security, national morality, the challenge
of Communist societies.
What can Americans look forward to in
the next 10 years? Perhaps Inez Robb,
columnist in the Omaha World-Herald,
has an outlook worth noting:
Having survived half a decade of Elvis
Presley, who can possibly fear the future?
Staff Viewfj
On the Other Hand
By Sondra Wbalen
Christmas balls and tax returns make
money a legitimate topic for discussion.
And although the state legislature won't
meet again until January of 1961, politics
are paramount, so legislatures are an
other good topic.
To combine the two,
let's have more money for
the legislature!
Our stata legislators are
paid $872.09 a year plus
their expenses or travel
ing to and from the spot
of the meeting.
The session, beginning
Cm first Tuesday in Janu
ary, usually lasts approx
imately six months, and
meets on odd-numbered years.
The amount paid to the senators now,
would seesi to barely eover their hotel
bills.
The disadvairteges of such a low salary?
First and foremost, young men are dis
couraged from entering the legislative
race before they've started. To be a legis-
lator, a man must be able to successfully
support himself on his salary for the other
six months of the yar plus his legislative
allowance.
Fr t young man, this could prove diffi
cult. The Jobs that allow for a six months'
leave are few and far between, and sup
porting a family would be next to impos
sible. Thus, the majority of our legislatures
Sondra
must be either retired, have a comfortable
income non-dependant upon steady work
ing, or both.
The results? No young blood, no fresh
ideas!
True, experience is fine, and no better
experience is obtained than through age.
But a state legislature must have a sprin
kling of both youth and experience so that
it does not become stagnant and stale in
Us thinking.
Our low salary also encourages payment
of meals and entertainment by lobbyists
who frequent legislative sessions.
Needless to say, this Is not conducive
to impartial and unbiased actions, even
when no direct word is spoken to legisla
tures about what to do or not to do about
certain bills.
Legislatures are not the only govern
ment officials plagued with low salaries,
however. Court house reporting in Nebras
ka City showed that county officials, too,
are quite lcw paid.
But, to a more cheerful subject
It is a new year.
It is a new decade.
It is, Leap Year!
Yes indeed, better than all the rest is
the news that this is the year that all the
lovely ladies of the world may declare
open season on mankind.
And Feb. 29 is the date for all turn-about
proposals!
Those not receiving sparklers for Christ
mas need not despair yet!
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Errant Thoughts
by caesar
dear di
well kid have you noticed
the apparent resurgent in
terest on the part of the
students in things campus
i have been told by those
attending this institution
for eons that last year
apathy damnable word
was at its peak auf auc
tions fell by the wayside
penny carnivals were dis
continued and practically
nothing was supported by
anybody such a condition
is good in the respect that
it gets rid of a lot of things
that no one will back leav
ing only that which has
more merit strong enough
to survive until the pen
dulum starts its upward
swing
ride the tide
it seems to me that the
campus is again starting to
ride the tide to student in
terest as examples 1 might point
out that in the two major
elections held thus far that
is for homecoming queen
and honorary commandant
nearly seventeen hundred
and fourteen hundred stu
dents respectively voted
this is far more than have
ever voted for either in re
cent years
the recent kk fall show is
another example there
were reportedly about twen
ty two hundred in atten
dance in addition to the in
finitely greater interest dis
played by the organized
houses in participating in
the revue
the pan american room
was jammed recently for
the jazz and poetry semi
nar interest in activities
seems to be running high
among this years freshmen
large crop of pushers for
future years to keep things
going
hope, hope, hope
all of which Is a good
deal but i hope that this
returning desire to partici
pate does not get accom
panied by an introduction
of stupid time consuming
items even more trivial
than queen elections sim
ply because there will once
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again be people to get to
do these things
that which is not overly
absurd let us support but
that which is created to
keep people busy , let us not
tolerate
and those to whom i
speak i hope the audience
becomes no larger know
what i am referring to
and kid this cold weather
deal is absolutely no good
its enough to make even a
hardy individual like me
want to resist the call of
the singing silo
despite the warnings of
my subconscious about get
ting bronchial pneumonia
while gadding about frcn
class to class in t he six
degree weather yesterday
morn i displayed utmost
bravery and i think stupid
ity and made it to two of
my four classes
ithink the chancellor ought
to give the whole campus
the next week off for that
i think i deserve it
sloppy paint .
green and red eyed skulls
are the work of real tnes
the sloppiness of tha job
shows a disastrous lack of
esprit de corps in the al
legedly cloak and dagger
clan they would seem to
have absolutely no pride in
a job well done
but then its really no
wonder either
yours
caesar
After more than five
years in which a steady
stream of publication ma
terial has speculated the
"Can a Catholic Win" ques
tion, Redbook comes up
with the conclusion that one
out of four young voters
doesn't know that John Ken
nedy is a Roman Catholic.
Kennedy, who made the
expected hat toss into the
presidential ring Saturday,
has been the center of a
controversy over whether
any C a tholic candidate
might suffer the fate of Al
Smith in 1928.
Despite All
Despite this overwhelm
ing amount of speculation ,
and polltaking, the constant
outpouring in all communi
cations media, Redbook's
poll indicates that 10 per
cent of those persons , be
tween the ages of 21-40 in
terviewed thought the Mas
sachusetts senator was a
Protestant, 72 per cent
thought he was Roman
Catholic, while 18 per cent
were not sure.
The results of the rest of
the magazine's poll showed
even greater degrees of ig
norance in other areas
such as whether different
presidential possibles were
1 i b era 1 or conservative,
very rich or moderately so,
even down to their party
affiliations.
"The results reveal ig
norance and c o n f u s i on
among many of our young
er voters about the best
publicized figures in Amer
ica today ignorance of
about what they believe,"
the article states.
Where in the Road
This summary may be
justified by noting that only
25 per cent of those inter
viewed could identify Hu
bert H. Humphrey as a
liberal as opposed to a middle-of-the-roader
or conser
vative, despite the fact that
the senator is one of the
most outspoken liberals in
America.
Even questions such as
"What office does he hold?"
drew a surprising show of
Ignorance. Although 98 per
cent realized that Richard
M. Nixon is vice-president,
and 87 per cent knew that
Nelson Rockefeller is gov
ernor of New York, only 60
per cent knew that Humph
rey was a senator, 57 per
cent that Lyndon Johnson is
a senator, and 50 per cent
that Stuart Symington is a
senator.
Many persons inter
viewed seemed to confuse
John Kennedy with his
younger brother, Robert,
who was chief counsel for
the Senate committee in
vestigating labor rackets.
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