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Monday, September 19, I960 Page 1 The Nebroskan EDITORIAL Huge World Circus Opens in New York The Khrushchev, Castro and Gomulka circus opens on New York's East Side this week, headlining foreign leaders from communist and free countries around the world. "Fidel and His Bearded Puppets" arrived Sunday minus their sidearms, but full of anti-United States propa ganda which they will distribute free of charge. The first secretary of Poland, Vladyslaw Gomulka and Antonin Novotny, -president of Czechoslovakia, rounded out the early arrivals for the lSlh General Assembly meetini of the United Nations, a conclave of world leaders which Khrushchev has attempted to convert into an international disarmament conference. Other heads of state will include the secre!ary-?cneral of Romania, Hungary's strong man Janos Kadar, the first secretary of Bulgaria, the Soviet Union's foreign minister Andrei Gromyko, Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia, Gamel Ab del Nasser of the United Arab Republic, President Sukarno of Indoesia and Raphael Trujillo, generalissimo of the Do minican Republic. Speaking to the assembly Thursday, a day before Pre mier Khrushchev, will be President Eisenhower. From the outset there will be conflict. Included on the work docket are the Congo situation, the bomb murder in Jordan, Red Chinese brutality in Tibet and India, shooting down of U.S. planes by the Soviet Union, Cuba's carrying on against the United States, delays in disarmament and trouble with Trujillo, to mention a few. Some 82 nations are now represented and a dozen new African countries plus Cyprus are to be admitted. Each country from the smallest to the largest has equal repre- icmauun ana can speaK as long as tne otner. Trying to predict the outcome of such a spectacular is like forecasting Nebraska weather. Storms will appear instead of expected calm and vice versa. Because of the unpredictability of such a gathering, we I can only sit back and wait and hope. Relentless Huskers Rack Up Another Big One Nothing is more fun than deflating a Texan's ego, I and it was deflated four times on the gridiron Saturday, i ; as three Big Eight teams and Louisiana State knocked i Off the major schools in the -Lone Star state. Of course the big game that had Texas fans wishing 1 they had moved to Alaska was old underdog Nebraska's 1 14-13 upset of the mighty team which the experts had picked for the -top five this year. - Although the win didn't carry the significance of last f year's victory over Oklahoma, the Longhorns were considerably a better team than the Sooners. Which f means Nebraska is a much improved squad over a vear I ago when Texas romped to a 20-0 win in Lincoln. It was the familiar name of Fischer but in a different J position, that of quarterback, that grabbed most of the Headlines. But the new, unfamiliar names were the sur- 1 prises. Thornton, Clay, Powers, Toogood were among the new crop that made the difference. They provided the unexpected for Coach Darrell Royal's boys. Fans who were apprehensive about the advance billing that was being given the Cornhuskers as a much improved ball club, turned out by the hundreds to wel come the tired and happy fighters back to Lincoln. Now comes the job of living up to Saturday's per formance. Although weaker teams are next on the sched ule, Minnesota, Iowa State and Kansas State, they could prove to be tougher than ever because of Nebraska's reputation of being an easy mark for such schools. It was Kansas State that left a bitter taste in the mouths of the Huskers in the final game last year. Minnesota will be out to avenge last year's humiliating defeat at Minnea polis and Iowa State is always tough. The next three weeks will tell the story of whether this is a team that will never let up just as they never let up at Austin. Fan support like that shown at the airport Sunday will show the team that we are behind them all the way to Miami. Smell those oranges. Matchless Cigarette Threatens Chivalrv Matches are on the way out. The latest innova tion of the tobacco industry is a matchless cigarette for smokers who either forget matches or hav a habit of losing lighters. This latest smoking innovation, which follows on the heels of the all-tobacco filter, will be marketed . in December, according to an article in Time maga zine. Here's how it works. The cigarette has a taste less, odorless "flame tip," which ignites when scratched against the side of a pack. Little do the manufacturers realize what this will Io to social set. Can they imagine a damsel who carries her cigarettes in a case asking for a light from her beau, his answer being "Here, use my pack." Worse yet would be the problem if the beau didn't smoke matchless cigarettes. Still another prob lem involves the man who uses a pla.5tic case and . would have to pull the pack out, of the case each time .. he wanted a light. Progress is often painful, but automation will be a long time replacing chivalry. Daily Nebraskan SEVENTY-ONE YEARS OLD Member Associated Collegiate Press, International Press Representative: National Advertising Service, Incorporated Published at: Boom 20, Student Union, Lincoln, Nebraska, 14th & R Telephone HE 2-7631, ext. 4225, 4226, 4227 Th 1ailr Nrbranltaa Is eraMlthrd Monday. Tnrtdey, Wrdnmday and Frl etar ditrlnc the whool year, except during vacations and exam periods, by indents of the I niv-ersiij of Nebraska under authorization of the C ommittee ml Student Affairs as an expression of student opinion. 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Chip Knklln. John Sehroeder Bob Kaff Repnmed ov soecvm p?vmi.ston vt'm (he July 1 issue nf The Nation Maga H line. By Kenneth Rexroth I When t h e newspapers I nave got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose I on the young. The young I are always hews. If they I are up to something, that's news. If they aren't, that's news, too. Things we did as kids and thought nothing of, the standard capers of I all y o u n g animals, now 1 mark' headlines, s'la' e u 1 police departments and rend U12 fra'l hearts of so i cial workers. Partly this is due to the mythologies of '1 mcdern civilization. Ches- 'ertoa once pointed out that I baby worship is to be ex- pectcd of a societ" vere the only immortality any I body believes in is child I hood. Partly it is due to the personal reactions of re- porters, a class of men by and large prevented, occu f pationaUy, from ever grow- ing up. Partly it is hope: 1 "We have failed, they may do better." Partly it is J guilt. "We have failed them. Are they planning J vengeance?" In talking about the Re I volt of Youth we should I never forget that we are dealing with a new concept, s For thousands of years no- body cared what youth were doing. They weren't I news They were minding. They aren't miding now. I That ' isn't news. They haven't been minding since the days of John Held, Jr., College Humor and F. Scott Fitzgerald. In those days, they were cutting loose. Tn the thirties, they were join ing up, giving one last try to the noble prescriptions of their elders. During the McCarthy Epoch and the Korean War, they were turning their backs and walking away. Today they are striking back. That is news. Nobody else is strik ing back. Hardly a person over thirty in our mass so cieties believes it is possible to strike back, or would know how to go about it if he did. During the past couple of years, without caring about the conse quences, maKing up tneir techniques as they went' aiong. organizing spu-uan- eousiy in tne miast or. ac tion, young people all over the world have intervened in history. As the University of Cal ifornia student said at the recent Un-American Activi ties Committee riot in San Francisco, "Chessman was the last straw. I'm fed up." It's about time somebody got fed up, because, to mix the metaphor, all the chick ens are coming home to roost. It has become only too apparent that we can no longer afford the old eatch-as-catch-can morality with which civilization has muddled through to I960. Sloth, rascality, predatory dishonesty, evasion, bluster, v no longer work. The ma chinery has become too del icate, too complicated, too world-encompassing. M a y be it was once true, a hun dred and fifty years ago, that the sum total of the immoral actions of selfish men produced a social good. It is no longer true. Mavbe once, societally speaking, if wolf ate wolf enough, you produced a race of intelligent dogs. Not now. Pretty soon we are just going to have a world populated by dead wolves. Towards the end of his life, H. G. Wells remarked that "something very queer was creeping over human -affairs." He saw a kind of foolish dishonesty, a per verse lust for physical and moral violence, and a total lack of respect for the In tegrity of the personality invarting every walk of life, all the relationships of men, individual and global. He seemed to be not only trou bled, but puzzled. In his own "In the days of the Comet," the earth passes through the tail of a comt and a beneficient gas fills the atmosphere and maxes all men good overnight You feel that he snspected something very similar might have come upon us unawares out of o n t e r space, but that in actuality, the gas had turned out to be subtly and pervasively ma lignant. It is easy to see what he was getting at. No body sees it better today than the young student, his head filled with "the heri tage of the ages." taught in school all the noblest aspirations of mankind, and brought face to face with the chaos of the world be yond the college gates. He's got to enter it, college will be over in a few months Author Gives Report: or years. He Is entering it already led up. Think of the great dis asters of our time. They have all been the result of a steadily growing immor alism You could start in definitely back with Bis marck's telegram or the Opium War' but think of what those men alive have experienced : the First World War itself; a vast "c o u n t e r-revolutionary" offensive; the Versailles Treaty; Fascism and Na-.;sm with their institu ticnaiisaUon of every shod dy and crooked paranoia; the Moscow Tria1;: the be trayal of Spain; Munich, the Second World War, with its noble utterances aid i t s crooked deals; the horrible tale oi fifteen years of peace and cold war; the Rosenbergs; the Hungarian Revolution; and, in the last few monlhs, the rascality that has burst around our heads like exploding shrap nel U-2 phony Summits, an orgy of irresponsibility and lies. This is the world outside the college gates. Millions of people are asked to enter it cheerfully each June, equipped with draft cards, social security cards, ballots, job-application blanks countersigned by David Sarnoff, J. Edgar Hoover, Allen W. Dulles, the family physician and the pastor of the neighborhood church. Is it suprising that a lot of them should turn away at the door of this banquet hall, turn in their tickets and say, "Sorry, I'm already fed up?" Marx believed that our civilization was born in the arms of its own execu tioner, twins who were en emies in the. womb. Cer tainly ours is the only great culture which, throughout its life, has been accom panied by a creative mi nority which rejected all its values and claims. Al most all others have had a huge majority who shared in few, if any of the bene fits, of civilization. Slaves and proletarians are noth ing new, the words them selves are derived from another civilization. But a society which advances by means oi an elite m perm- anent revolt and alienation is something new In the last fifty years, this elito itself has slowly gone un-" der; it, too, has been over whelmed by the society it both led and subverted. L'Homme Revoke has come to the end of his tether. One by one he has compromised and been compromised by all his thousand programs. Nobody believes him any more, so he has become a commer cial stereotype, along with the cowboy and the Indian, the private detective, the war hero, and the bison and all other extinct ani mals. As the agent at M. C.A. said to me three years back, "Revolt is the hottest commodity along The Street." The programs are used up and their promul gators are embarrassed. Youth is fed up with them, too. And why not? Hitler fulfilled the entire emer gency program of the Com munist Manifesto, and in addition made May Day a legal holiday. For the Bolsheviks, the good society would come automatically if the right power were applied to the right program. But power and program are not the question: what matters is the immediate realization of humane Content, here, there, everywhere, in every fact and relationship of so ciety. Today the brutal fact is that society cannot en dure without this realiza tion of humane content. The only way to realize it is directly, personally, in the immediate context. A n y thing else is not just too expensive; it is wrecking the machinery. Modern so ciety is too complex and too delicate to afford social and political Darwinism any more. This means per sonal moral action. I sun pose, if you wish to call it that, it means a spiritual revolution. Prophets and seers have been preaching Runaway Raft v jS'f WE'LL NEVER MAKE 1 thelf'raft't mooring llr parts, two "miiskie" fishermen P00 , h JPv l& desperately fight the current to . . . Jr" ' - reach the shore of the river ... 1 !LiiiiiTrtiij'V?)irfl LwJ the necessity for spiritual revolution for at least three thousand years and man kind has yet to come up with a bona fide one. But it is that kind of action and and that kind of change that young people are de manding today. Myself, past fifty, I can not speak for the young. I am inclined to think they will fail. But that isn't the point. You might as well be a hero if society is going to destroy you anyway. There comes a time whsn courage and honesty become cheaper than anything else. And, who knows, you might win. The nuclear explosion that you could not prevent doesn't care whether you were brave or not. Virtue, they say, in itself is in trinsically enjoyable. Y o u can lose nothing, then, by striking back. Furthermore, just be cause the machine is so vast, so complex, it is far more sensitive than ever before'. Individual action does tell. Give a tiny poke at one of the insignificant gears down in its bowels and slowly it begins to shudder all over and sud denly belches out hot rivets. It is a question of qualita tive change. Thousands of men built the Pyramids. One punched card fed into mechanical brain decides the gravest questions. A few punched cards operate whole factories. Modern so ciety has passed the stage when it was a blind, me chanical monster. It is on the verge of becoming an infinitely responsive instru ment. So the first blows struck back were tiny, insignifi cant things. Not long after the last war, Bayard Rus tin got on a bus in Chicago and headed south. When they crossed the Mas on Dixon Line, he stayed where he was. THE COPS TOOK HIM OFF. He "went limp." They beat him into unconsciousness. They took him to jail and finally to a hospital. When he got out, he got on another bus and continued south. So it went, for months some times jail, sometimes the hospital, sometimes they just kicked him into the ditch. Eventually he got to New Orleans. Eventually Jim Crow was abolished on interstate carriers. Individ ual non-violent direct ac tion had invaded the South and won. The Southern Negro had been shown the only technique that had any possibility of winning. , Things simmered for a while and then, spontane ously, out of nowhere, the Montgomery bus boycott materialized. Every mo ment of the birth and growth of this historic ac tion has been elaborately documented. Hour by hour we can study "the masses" acting by themselves. It is my modest, well considered opinion that Martin Luther King, Jr., is the most re markable man the South has produced since Thomas Jefferson since, in other words, it became "the South." Now the most re markable thing about Mar tin Luther King is that he is not remarkable at all. He is just an ordinary min ister of a middle-class Neg ro church (or what Negroes call "middle class," which is pretty poor by white TUIIIMIPKE Friday, Sept. 23rd ll 1111,1 1 4 The Band that hat sold 54 million records. Advance Tickets $1.75 At The Door . . . ; $2.25 Miller I Paine Tone Shop Students standards.) There are thou sands of men like him all over1 Negro America. Whei; the voice called, he was ready. He was ready be cause he was himself part of that voice. Professional, .white -baiting Negroes wh o thrill millionairesses in night clubs in the North , would call him a square. He was a brave square. He is the best possible dem onstration of the tremen dous untapped potential of humanity that the white . South has thrown away all these years. He hclnd to focus that potential and exert it. It won. No outside organizers formed the Montgomery Improvement Association. , They came around later, but they could never quite catch up with it. It is pretty hard to "catch up with," to institutionalize, a move ment which is simply the form that a whole com- . munity has assumed in ac tion. Although the force of such action is shaped by group loyalty, in the final analysis it must always be individual and direct. You can't delegate either boycott or non-violence. A committee can't act for you, you have to act yourself. The Montgomery bus boy cott not only won where Negro Zelotism, as well as Uncle Tomism, had always failed, but it demonstrated something that had always sounded like sheer senti mentality. It is better, braver, far more effective and far more pleasurable, to act with love than with hate. When you have won, you have gained an unim peachable victory. The ma terial ends pass or are passed beyond. "Desegre gated" buses seem natural in many Southern cities to day. The guiltless moral victory remains, always as powerful as the day it was gained. Furthermore, each moral victory converts or neutralizes another block of the opponents' forces. Before the Montgomery episode was over, Bayard R u s t i n and Martin Lu ther King had joined forces. Today they are world statesmen in a "shadow cabinet" that is slowly forming behind the wield ers of power, and the ad visers and auxiliary lead ers in the councils of Negro Africa. At home in Amer ica, the Montgomery achievement which has flowed the m o r al awak ening, first, of Negro, and following them, of wh i t e youth. Everything seemed to be going along nicely. Accord ing to the papers and most of their professors, 99 44100 per cent of the nation's youth were cautiously pre paring for the day when they would offer their young split-level brains to G. M., I. B. M., Oak Ridge or the Voice of America. Madison Avenue had discovered its own pet minority of revolt and tamed it into an obedi ent mascot. According to Time, Life, M. G. M. and the editors and publishers of a new, pseudo avant garde, all the dear little rebels wanted to do was grow beards, dig jazz, take heroin and wreck other peo ple's Cadillacs. While the exurbanite children sat with the baby sitter and thrilled to Wyatt Earp, their par- k7 1 llilW4'iv,.,l , ,i , STARRING WARREN COVINGTON DECCA RECORDS LATER VlCEPCV? i. jnr.-.Mn' F THINK f THE CURRENTS IF YOU 1 HELPMS US SURE VSWINS IN- J THINK FOR. y IF THAT 4 WURSELF' I 25-POUND sa. mftl f TEST LINE I HOLDS WE'LL JUST CLEAR. sT" VTHEIWr'IPS' ,V$v m "25-lb. test" meant the line itself will stand 25 pounds of pull, but with the aid of the "spring" In the pole. It will hold much more. Take Over ents swooned in the aisles at "The Connection" or sat up past bedtime reading switch-blade novelists. The psychological mechanisms were the same in both cases sure-fire, time-tested and shopworn. But as a matter of fact, anyone with any sense trav eling about the country lec turing on college campuses during the past five years, could tell that something very, very different was cocking. Time and again, hundreds of times, I have been asked by some well dressed,, Unassuming beardless student, "I agree with you completely, b u t what, shall we, my genera tion, do?" To this question, I have never been able to give but one answer: "I am fifty. You are twenty. It is tor you to tell me what to do. The only thing I can say is, don't do the things my generation did. They didn't work." A head of steam was building up, the waters were rising behind the dam; the dam itself, the block to action, was the patent exhaustion of the old forms. What was accumu lating was not any kind of programmatic "radicaliza zation," it was a moral de mand. Parenthetically, I might say that a legend of the Red Thirties was growing lip, too. Let me say (and I was there) : As far as prac tically every campus except C. C. N. Y. and N. Y. U. was concerned, the Red Thirties are pure myth. At the height of the great up surge in California labor, led in its own imagination by the Communist Party, neither the Young Commu nist League nor the Young Peoples Socialist League was able to keep a func tioning student cadre in continuous operation on the University of California campus. At least every four years they had to start all over again. And the leader ship,' the real bosses, were middieaged party funr.ion aries sent in from "The Center." One of them, bel lowing with early senility, was to show up at the re cent Un-American Activi ties Committee riot in San Francisco and scandalize the students. The plain fact is that to day students are incomp arable better educated and more concerned than their elders. As the young do, they still tend to believe things written on paper. For the past five years, bull sessions have been discus sing Kropotkin, Daniel De Leon, Trotsky, Gandhi, St. Simon, Plato an incon gruous mixture oi the world's cat-bellers, looking for the answer. The gap be tween the generations has been closing up. Teaching them is a new group of young professors, too young 1o have been compromised by their actual role in the fYcutcfiMt book Yes, a book full of First Continental Checks IS the handiest book on campus. You have a choice of two checking plans and you receive the handsome scarlet and cream cover shown above and personalized checks absolutely freTT g" OPEN FIRST CONTINENTAL lATIOMAI. RANK " "III THE RIGHT TASTE BECAUSE THANKS" iceroysgotif. r-y 'VICEROY 67T IT ...AT BOTH ENDS! 50TTHE FILTER at both SOTTHE BLENDI A T GOT THE splendid thirties, them selves realistic-minded products of the G. I. Bill; and neither exdupes nor ex-fellow travelers, but ser ious scholars of the radical past. It is only just recently that they have come up, only just recently that the creative minority of stu dents has stopped assum ing that just because a man stood at a podium he was ipso facto a fraud. 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