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Tuesday, February 16, 1960
The Daily Nebraskan
Editorial Comment:
Russia In Our Backyard
Are the Reds finally gaining a firm
foothold in the Americas?
Is the United State's control over Latin
America, which has lasted since the ad
vent of the Monroe Doctrine, finally
ended?
Madison Ave.
Approach Might
Aid Education
From a column in the "Emory Wheel"
of Emory University' in Atlanta comes
this look at education in the United States,
published here for the Nebraska student's
perusal:
'Terhaps, if in the midst of our present
wave "of capitalist materialism, Ameri
cans value a new car or a television more
than an education, there is something
wrong with education. After all, if it
won't sell, what good is it? And judging
from what our teachers make, whatever
they're offering isn't going over too well
in America.
"Maybe what we need to sell education
Is a good Madison Avenue approach. Aft
er some motivational research work, you
may see magazine ads like this:
" 'For quick, safe, medically approved
relief from the discomforts of TV watch
ing try reading.' Or, 'Men of distinction
read Shakespeare'! Perhaps we might
even be able to make education a status
symbol (as it already is in more civilized
countries).
"Actually, education seems to be a
pretty suspicious thing anyway, if not
completely subversive. After all, if the
Russians are so enthusiastic about it,
there must be something wrong with it.
And besides, it runs completely counter
to the entire capitalistic system, since
you can't make a tangible profit on it. The
sciences aren't so bad, but the humani
ties, with some of their non-materialistic
attitudes, will probably have to be even
tually eliminated as a detriment to the
American way.
"By lowering teachers' salaries to just
above the starvation point, we already
have made splendid progress in this di
rection. However, a small dedicated group
of educators still keeps it going, how
ever feebly. Perhaps the next step will
be burning books, although with the pres
ent popularity of television they may
soon become obsolete and save us all the
trouble.
"AH things considered, it seems educa
tion, especially in the humanities, can be
a pretty dangerous thing, and perhaps it
Is well that Americans have done such an
excellent job of keeping it suppressed."
The answers to these and other ques
tions are a serious and important chal
lenge to the United States' foreign policy.
The ground works for this problem was
laid in 1957 when Fidel Castro overthrew
the existing government in Cuba and es
tablished a new "republic".
However, in the past few months, Cas
tro's true intentions have become increas
ingly evident. He began with a purge of
his enemies and has finally gone as far as
to censor the newspapers.
Last week, Russia's Andre Mikoyan vis
ited Cuba riding the wake of recent blasts
against the United States by Castro. The
end result is that Russia has signed im
portant trade agreements with Cuba and
Castro.
However, far more important to the
United States is the fact that Cuba is fast
becoming a Communist haven. Out of 17
trade unions in Cuba, four are completely
Communist-dominated and six are fast
becoming so. Cuban economic leader
Ernesto Guevara is a known Communist;
there is now a Chinese Communist paper
being published in Havana; and Havana
is full to the brim with known Commu
nists from all over the globe.
Castro now exerts more control over the
Cuban people than did his arch enemy Ba
tista; but unlike Batista, Castro has a tre
mendous popular following.
Many experts feel that Castro's attacks
on the United States are in reality a cloak
for his dictatorial administration. Castro,
himself, insists that he is not a Commu
nist, but the facts remain.
How does this Communist infiltration
into Cuba affect us? The answer is quite
simple. In Cuba and Castro become in
struments or even a sattelite of Russia,
the United States will have Russia in its
own backyard instead of on a distant con
tinent. This is a tense problem, and not one
that is easily settled. However,' it is &
problem that everyone in the country
should be constantly aware of, for it af
fects all of us.
Scots Score, Too
The Scot frequently is the goat when
jokes are on tap, but not always. Listen to
this:
In an English political oration: " I was
born an Englishman, I have lived an
Englishman, I hope I shall die an English
man." From the back of the room in an unmis
takable accent, came the question: "Mon,
hae ye no ambeetion?"
From the Editor's Desk:
It Seems to Me
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Kraut
I have a ready-made excuse for unpolished-looking
shoes if a superior should
question me about them in ROTC lab
Thursday.
It's the slush that's making broad-jump
ing and profane woras re
popular. Sir, I will say, due to
the extremely slushy con
dition of our campus side
walks and streets, t only
appears that I did not pol
ish my shoes.
In actuality, I will answer,
they were polished to a
high sheen until I walked
ever to Nebraska Hall
that', the Elrin Building
and the place where Army ROTC has its
labs), by way of the M&N Building.
There's nothing of course, we can do to
stop the snow from falling or keep it from
melting once the weather warms up, but
it does seem that the University could re
move some of the snow in places where
it's badly needed.
One example in point is the driveway in
front of the north entrance of the Union.
It was a mass of water and melting snow
yesterday and hundreds of Union patrons
had to puddle-jump, with resulting dirty
clothes and shoes, just to go to the Crib
to have a cup of coffee.
And early yesterday morning, more than
ne class-goer took a spill on the icy side
walks along the north side of Teachers Col
lege, the Library and Social Sciences
Building.
In other words, snow left in places like
these poses two basic problems to stu
dents dangerous ice in the colder temper
atures of the morning and dirty slush in
the afternoon.
By Carroll Kraus
I realize that the University's capacity
for snow removal is limited, but it seems
employees could have cleared it from the
above-mentioned places within six days.
(It snowed on Tuesday of last week.)
Most of the campus fraternities are to
be complimented for keeping their walks
pretty much clear of snow early after it
stopped falling.
Some sororities, however, might take
note of the inconvenience packed snow and
ice causes pedestrians.
I know it's not lady-like to scoop snow,
but it wouldn't be hard to find some
youngold man to do the job for a dollar
or two,
Thank God for pledges.
NUCWA is taking a look at the "popula
tion explosion" tonight in a program that
should provide a good insight into what
problems really exist.
This is the "new" group's second pro
gram this year. One last semester dealt
with the labor problem.
When the group reorganized the fallen-into-decay
organization, some campus ele
ments looked on the move as only a po
litical one.
But it does appear that some members
perhaps all of the NUCWA executive
council do have a sincere interest in trying
to make the rest of the campus aware of
current national and international events,
It looks like a program worth attending.
News editor Herb Probasco's promised
words on the Jack Paar situation may
have to wait awhile.
Probasco joined the long line of students
knocked out of action by the flu-bug (ap
parently). Many thanks to news editor-for-a-day
Ingrid Leder who did a fine job.
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THIS IS TH'ONlY CLASS VVHEPE I CAN PCCENT StEffT
The Huskers
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Mary Lou
In 1949 Ralph S. Mueller
saw a dream come true
when the carillon tower
was dedicated. He had seen
other dreams come true,
but this
was a spe
c i a 1
dream.
The car
illon tower
was Muel
ler's thank
you pres
ent to his
school, but
it was far
from his
only present to the Husker
campus. Some of his other
works and gifts for the
University are recorded in
a file of correspondence
several inches thick, filed
in the Alumni Association
office.
The most outstanding
characteristic of Ralph
Mueller, judging by that
thick file, is his wide range
of interests. He was an
electrical engineering grad
uate in 1898, but while he
was here he directed the
first college vaudeville
show on the NU campus.
He sang in the glee club
when he wasn't delivering
newspapers, studying or
working as campus elec
trician. He belonged to Phi
Delta Theta in the days
when fraternities had about
16 members and studied
his way into Sigma Tau.
Mueller kept his interest
in music alive after gradu
ation. The 'second half of
his dream of the carillon
tower was playing it him
self; he did. And he gave
a beautiful part of the cam
pus to a generation of spe
cialists who sometimes for
get that education doesn't
end with a major and two
minors.
The Nebraska Navy ad
miral wrote a book, "Skip
per of the Clipper." Like
the Nebraska Navy, the
book is a dry-dock tale of
his large manufacturing
company, which makes
electric clips about 100,
000 of them every day.
The company is in Ohio,
but Nebraska is woven
through the whole book
The television and radio
were silent in my apart
ment Sunday so at the time
I wrote this Jack Paar still
was not coming back.
I rather
liked his
s h 0 w be
cause oc
c a s i 0 n
ally he had
a very fa
te r e 8 t
ing guest
and occa
s i 0 n a 1
ly an inter-
e s t i n g e.e.
guest would say an inter
esting thing. Sometimes I
could vicariously engage in
a witty or informative con
versation during the show.
But I'm no s ure if I
want Jack Paar to return.
The reason is purely selfish.
A very interesting person
I happen to know was a
devoted Paar fan. This per
son and I occasionally
would be engaged in what
I considered an interesting
By Mary Lou Reese conversation when he sud
denly would look at his
trips to Lincoln for alumni
events, trips to football
games in Pittsburgh to see
the Huskers play again,
visits with other alumni
memories of a campus he
loved.
He loved the campus
enough to want to preserve
a part of the original cam
pus. Nebraska coeds today
walk through the original
gates, heading for a double
row of columns instead of
classes now, because Muel
ler paid to have them res
cued and restored.
In 1929 he helped finance
the student loan fund. In
1958 he gave the Mueller
Planetarium. In 1956 he fi
nanced two health galler
ies childbirth and heart
in the University State
Museum.
But it was what he gave
of himself that made Muel
ler a Husker in my book,
not just what he gave. The
Alumni file is thick with
letters asking what he can
do, offering to help with
some project, making sug
gestions for the Nebraska
Alumnus, thanking the of
fice for helping him.
Mueller said he gave the
carillon tower to thank the
people of Nebraska who
gave him an education in
pre-tuition days. His use of
the education made the
gift possible because he re
fused to be limited to a
single field of interest.
And if the bells seem to
be laughing sometimes,
don't doubt it. That's the
lauh of a Husker engineer
who has the keen sense of
humor about people that
put him in Hatlo's "They'll
Do It Every Time" thank
you box a dozen or sa
times.
Above all the carillon
bells rin for Mueller
after football games. A
champion himself, he
started cheering for Ne
braska when it played Iowa,
Missouri and Kansas
only.
clock and proclaim it was
Jack Paar time.
Our conversation would,
for all practical purposes,
end there. The show pleased
him so much he refused to
talk while it was in pro
gress, and the commercials
displeased him so much
that this time was devoted
to an explanation of why
he "couldn't stand them."
The national playwriting
contest which has been re
vived this year by the
Theatre Department and
I believe the Purple Mas
quers impresses me as an
extraordinarily worth
while venture.
The majority of writers
might be described as
"struggling writers." The
contest, which provides a
little recognition if not a lot
Letterip
The Daflr Nerra will abllaa
onlr (box Mten which art slraed.
Letters attarklnf tadiTldaali mnt
carry the aathor'a aame. Othera may
ase initials or a sea aame. Letters
sheald aot treed too words. Wbea
letters exceed this rhnlt the Ne
hraasa reserves the first to eoa
dease them, retataiaf tha writer's
ytews.
by e. e. Hines
of money, may neip 10
make a few writers feel
that their struggles are not
in vain.
Gestures such as this
fortify my belief that Ne
braska is not an entirely
backward school, but fa
fact one which has a very
much alive complexion. I
have never felt compelled
to apologize for the educa
tional standards of the Uni
versity, or to regret that
there were not a greater
number of intellectual op
portunities above and be
yong those offered in the
classroom. The more time
I spend here, the more I
feel that I am not just ra
tionalizing for the Univer
sity or myself in this be
lief. I must admit that one
thing about the University
does distrub me: the scar
city of both wits and half
wits. The potential supply
seems to exist, but the de
votion most students dis
play to activity together
ness, fraternal mediocrity
or dorm dormancy deters
a good number of them
from achieving anything
near complete maturation.
For as long as I can re
member it was the Re
publican Party in Nebraska
which sought votes by
preaching "don't spend
money for anything new"
(even if it's progressive)
and by reassuring voters
that the taxbase was ade
quate. At the last state elec
tion, the Democrats finally
slipped into power. I
thought they managed to do
so because Nebraskans
were tired of listening to
such obvious demagoguery.
Imagine my surprise
when I read that Robert
Conrad, an ambitious Dem
ocrat, had proclaimed that
Nebraska shouldn't expand
its taxbase until the pro
perty tax was given a
chance. Two prominent Ne
braska Republicans, on the
other hand, have said they
feel the taxbase shoul ' be
expanded.
My Democratic h e t t
belongs to these two he
publicans (Cooper is not one
of them).
Zaffaroni Writes
Two Complaints
To the Editor:
Something must be done! College I CXtbOOK
1. The water glasses in .
the Nebraska Union are
paper. To get water in this
glass, it is necessary to
press the glass against a
metal part X.
To get enoi' pressure
to get any water it is neces
sary to squash the glass,
so the water runs all over
the hands of the user; 110
water to drink.
2. The Alpha Phi drive
way is filled always with
cars. This I don't mind too
much.
But across the sidewalk
there is, usually, a car
blocking the path of un
wary pedestrians on their
way to above-mentioned il
lustrious Nebraska Union.
Student 60672
Dr. Joe Zaffaroni, assistant
professor of elementary edu
cation, co-authored the col
lege textbook, "Science To
day for the Elementary School
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make a shower
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goose errs
11. Brlgitte's head
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while smoking
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song hit
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sellers Assn.
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