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v i ; i. ... T -a I t .a A 1 'I V. V if - - mmm - amtmj ten Wednesday, January 8, 1964 BARRY GIVES US: ne Choice Now we all have a belated Christmas gift to ponder Arizona's wonderboy as expected has thrown his hat into the arena for the bid for the GOP presidential nomination. In announcing his candidacy last Friday, Barry Gold water said that he wanted to give the American people a "clear choice" in the 1964 election. Goldwater it right. No ether Republican prospect has given the electorate such a clear choice, because no other candidate has been so distinctly at odds with the direction of the American foreign and domestic policy for the last 30 years. No man has ever been elected to the presidency who stood outside the mainstream of American political thought, and that is where Senator Goldwater has been for the past decade. After Goldwater announced his candidacy, an edi torial in the Denver Post said that Goldwater must ex plain quotes like these, all made since 1960: "I have always favored withdrawing recognition from Russia ... We should withdraw diplomatic relations with all Communist governments including that of the Soviet Union." "I am quite serious In my opinion that the Tennes see Valley Authority should be sold ... it would be better operated and would be of more benefit to more people if it were a private industry." "I have come to the reluctant conclusion that the United States no longer has a place in the United Na tions." "The graduated income tax is a confiscatory tax . . . I am against the progressive income tax." "We must ourselves be prepared to undertake mili tary operations against vulnerable Communist regimes ... we should invite the Communist leaders to choose between total destruction of the Soviet Union, and ac cepting a local defeat." "Despite the recent holding of the U.S. Supreme Court, I am firmly convinced not only that integrated schools are not required but that the Constitution does not permit any interference whatsoever by the federal government in the field of education ... I don't believe the Supreme Court finding is the supreme law of the land." "One of the most important things for Congress to do is to stop foreign economic aid." "The government must begin to withdraw from a whole series of programs that are outside its constitu tional mandate from social welfare programs, education, power, agriculture, public housing, urban renewal and all other activities that can be performed better by lower levels of government, or by private institutions or in dividuals." "The disarmament concept is an effective weapon in the hands of the communists and a danger to the free dom of mankind." "Doing something about the farm problem means and there can be no equivocation here prompt and final termination of the farm subsidy program. As the Post says, "We realize that Goldwater has modified or contradicted a number of these statements, but this tends to give us concern rather than reassurance. It indicates a carelessness of thought and speech, a wav ering and inconsistency of position which would ill be come the leader of the United States in a tense world in a nuclear age." Earlier in the year Goldwater severly criticized President Lyndon Johnson for running for the vice-presidency and the Senate at the same time. He accused John son of "political treachery." "After whatl said about Lyndon," Goldwater said re cently, "If I were to run for the presidency and the Senate they'd run me out of the country." Last Friday Goldwater announced that he would seek both offices simultaneously. Political Treachery? Not according to Barry. In an interview on "Meet the Press," Goldwater said he had changed his mind, saying "I am being a good student of Lyndon's." In the coming crucial months Goldwater may be able to explain away a number of the things he has said and done. And maybe the answers to the statements above which confuse so many Americans will come to light. The editorial sums up the announcement of Gold water's candidacy: 'The very qualities which Goldwater offers in 1964 as a 'clear choice' are those which have fixed him in American minds as an extremist." At this stage we can only regret that Goldwater has entered the race and we hope the Republicans have the political wisdom to reject him. GARY LACEY LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS w s xim n I vim 7S V el,. OCTOPUS- On Mother Goose VtouUlrO Auburn's Scd State Dear Editor: During my career I have tried to do something about the sad state of education, first in California and then in Nebraska. I have always been woefully unsuccessful in my attempts, even though my campaigns had fabulous goals and were most efficiently organ ized. I even had a few good ideas, but I had no prestige and no money be hind me. I still have no prestige but I have acquired quite a good credit rating. Per haps if I were backed by the prestige of your paper, which I believe reflects the real spirit of the U of N more accurately than any other one thing on this campus (and by my good credit rating), my good ideas might get off the ground. To be more specific: In the past few days I have been more and more con cerned with the sad state of education in the South, specifically at Auburn Uni versity and even more spe cifically at the Auburn Uni versity athletic department Most specifically, I h a v e been very concerned with how little Coach "Shug" Jordan must have read about Cornhusker football. Now, it is all very well to criticize him, but in doing this we are not necessaryi ly helping the situation. Obviously Mr. Jordan has no understanding of the term "greater desire"; this is certanly not his fault, nor are many of hit other irresponsible stat e m e n t s really his fault. He is prob ably one of these reading disabilities so aptly de scribed in a not-so-recent book by Rudolph Flesch, "Why Johnny Can't Read." This is an admirable book, but it will be no help to someone who cannot read. Do you sense the reason for my concern? A reading dis ability can never learn to read because he cannot read the books which will teach him this all-important and difficult basic skill. How SAD this ii! As an educator I have long advocated that we get down to the level where a person Is reading no mat ter what his age or posi tion, but I have never had enough money or prestige to get very many peonle to listen to me. Now, there is a book (just written and not yet copyrighted) which I believe would help Coach Jordan. It is well-done by a com petent young reading spe cialist with a doctorate; and I think I could find an excellent children's artist to illustrate it. However, I am not going to all this trouble and exhausting my credit rating without your assur ance that the Daily Nebras kan will back me. I am submitting for your examination the entire con tents of this four-page book by Dr. Barbara Grothe of the University Elementary Education Department. It has a carefully-selected vo cabulary of only 20 words. If you wish, we can place these on oak tag flash cards for drill. The reading content of this unusual book is of extremely high interest level; I am not an authori ty on this particular phase of reading, but I believe it could be used successfully even with reading disabili ties of post-graduate college level. (If you are slightly confused at first, remember that the pictures will help.) THE BIG RED STORY BOOK Dr. Barbara Grothe Page 1 Can you see the ball? Big Red can see the ball. Now Big Red has the ball. Can Big Red run? Continued on Page 3 There appears to be a Mother Goose craze sweep ing the nation's universi ties. No, I do not mean that all college students are playing pat-a-cake at their parties, or that parked cars now echo to the haunting strains of "Hot Cross Buns." No, I am serious. Over the Christmas vaca tion, I found that several of my friends, who attend different schools, are en gaged in learning more about the origins of the Mother Goose Rhymes. On some campuses, Mother Goose is the only subject of conversation. It even replaces that old-time favorite, sex. Anyone can find out about that, but it takes some real work to find out the real relation ship between Mother Goose and her rhymes. According to one of my friends, the professors on her campus encourage the students for the simple rea son that, in their quest for facts, they learn how to 6 John Lonnquist use the research facilities of the library. The Mother Goose Mys tery, as with all mystedes, has several possible expla. nations. The best one that I heard came from Pitcairn Academy for Girls in West Virginia. At Pitcairn, the study has been going on for about three years, and Chey have come up with some amazing conclusions. According to their theory, Mother Goose was a chfon ic alcoholic, and, because of her one woman midnight crusades against the WCTU, she was also a cnron;,' in mate of the town jail. Some of the good ladies in ;the town seemed co be both ered whenever they nwoke to find Goosie standing out in front of their homes drunk and waving a flam ing broom while she listed the famous men and women throughout history who took a little nip now and then. Jail made Goosie feel per Continued on Page 3 t jar jf- ,r"n i , fi K 4 a ' V 'V Hevo Concept of Detign 1200 '0' STRUT lH!llO mic MCTV 0 II ,) H H r Oil " 1 t i ! r f . .... if 4-..,. mum . J , I f i I W This could bo the start of something ... BIG! 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