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FOR THE ECONOMY:
Smoke Another
The result Is about what everyone expected it to be.
The government authorized a committee to study the
medical effects of smoking; it studied and last Saturday
announced the results: Smoking is casually related to
lung cancer. Smoking is one of the most imporatnt causes
of chronic bronchitis in the United States. Smoking is a
significant factor in causing cancer of the larynx (voice
box). Smoking is associated with a 70 per cent greater
risk in heart attack. Smoking generally causes pregnant
women to deliver underweight babies.
With all this astounding scientific data, students at
the University, socially chauvanistic in their smoking hab
it, accepted the evidence with a cold shoulder. The atti
tude was the same over most of the United States even
though the stock market showed a slight drop in cigarette
company stock.
Granted, all must realize that if cigarettes are a def
finitive cause of cancer and other health problems, the
public must be informed and concerned.
The fact still remains that the cigarette industry is
an $3 billion operation and a major segment of our econ
omy. Americans smoked 523 billion cigarettes, 7.2 billion cig
ars and cigarillos and chawed 65 million pounds of chew
ing tobacco.
Some 750,000 farmers in the South annually grow 2.3
billion pounds of tobacco, worth $1.3 billion dollars. Ex
ports of tobacco leaves and cigarettes in 1963 brought ,
$510 million into our economy.
The tobacco industry buys flax for cigarette paper in
South Dakota, Minnesota and Texas and wraps its yearly
output in 71 million pounds of aluminum foil, 35 million
pounds of cellophane, and 27 billion printed packs. Cig
arettes are distributed in 1.5 million retail outlets.
More than 3 million people are directly involved in
the production and distribution of cigarettes, and more
than $150 million dollars is spent yearly by the industry
to advertise its products.
These facts and figures show how a habit has grown
Into an extremely important item in the gross national
product.
If the government passes restrictive legislation, as
has been suggested by some, the nation's economy would
be seriously hampered and unemployment would increase
explosively.
On the other hand, if the education of the nation's
young people against the hazards of smoking is used as a
deterrent to smoking, the result would be a slow but prog
ressive decrease in the number of smokers. Unemploy
ment, because of a loss of smokers, would of course, in
crease, but not so fast that they could not be absorbed
by other job opportunities.
Two important points are virtually unanswerable:
Who can say for sure that education will necessarily cause
a decrease in youthful or die-hard smokers, and what
other industries could absorb jobless cigarette workers?
For economic reasons we had better light up another
one I
GARY LACEY
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Dear Editor
Bob Weaver's The New
Guard in Thursday's Daily
Nebraskan (January 9th)
seems to represent scant
knowledge of the position of
many professors and in
structors concerning the
goals and aims of education
as well as the status quo of
pupil-teacher relationships.
I cannot profess to speak
for the entire faculty, but
having observed the actions
of colleagues in Teachers
College, I can express the
opinion that much thought
and time is given to the is
sues of (1) the goals of
education, and (2) pupil
teacher relationships, as
well as a number of other
important issues
Certainly in the classes
which I teach, I try to de
velop within students an
awareness of the crucial
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Dear Editor:
I was reading the usual
"football letter" in last
Friday's paper. I'm sure
every editor receives about
three or four of these let
ters at the end of each
season.
Although I agree with
some of the points brought
up in""Disgusted's" letter,
I also think football is not
just a passing phase. I think
it's here to stay.
The reason football Is
here to stay is because peo
ple will drive all morning
to get to the game, and
mothers will contact baby
sitters weeks in advance so
they can go to the games.
Football has the support of
the public.
But there is something
new this year. For the first
time on the NU campus
people can do more than
just write a letter to the
editor once a year.
They can get out and sup
port scholastic competition.
The Union and Student
Council have biven us the
opportunity to support a
match of the m!nds in Quiz
Bowl.
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need for critical thinking,
perception of self, an aware
ness of one's contributory
role in society, and an
awareness of the unique
value of each individual.
I am sure that I am not
alone in this pursuit there
are others, certainly, who
discharge this obligation to
their students more effec
tively than I.
Much time is spent by the
members of the teaching
staff in counseling for
mally or informally with
students. Professors do not
begrudge the time spent in
such fashion; indeed, they
consider this activity to be
an essential part of the roles
they play as educators.
Certainly any student
who wishes to discuss is
sues with an instructor has
the opportunity to do so
without fear of condemna
tion or refusal
Stay
scholastic competition that
has invited the whole cam
pus to participate. Quiz
Bowl is the first opportunity
for the whole campus to
support a battle of the
minds by attend ing
matches.
Questions in the matches
cover a wide range of sub
jects, and the audience can
answer mentally right
along with the competitors.
There is entertainment for
everyone attending the com- !
petitions.
Later Quiz Bowl might !
even get enough supporfto !
go further than trophies and I
help those people working
their way through school.
I don't believe the Uni- j
versity is faced with a j
choice of either athletics or i
scholarship. With a Univer- !
sity the size of Nebraska, it j
seems likely that both will
survive.
However, I do believe the
University is faced with an !
opportunity. The opportun
ity to support a different
kind of competition scho
lastic competition. The op
portunity to support Quiz
Bowl every Wednesday
night.
Cuz Guenzel .
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The discharge of the re
sponsibilities of the educa
tor to students does not
end with counseling and
class lectures. Many educa
tors devote much time to
student groups by serving
as sponsors of organiza
tions, by serving at student
functions, and by lending
their support to student acti
vities. -
Fortunately, it does ' not
appear that the University
community is so bleak and
disinterested a population
as Mr. Weaver proposes.
Dr. Barbara Grothe
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Just listen to their Capitol album, "New Directions In Folk Music!
You'll hear the rocking, driving way the Journeymen aing "Someday BgfcjT
a low down blues out of Chicago. The fun they have with "Stackolee," the wfld
song about a legendary terror of New Orleans. Their quiet and moving version
of "All the Pretty Little Horses? one of the most beautiful lullabies ever written.
'Iheir spirited ragtime rendition of "San Francisco Bay!'
Then you'll know what's new in folk songs. And what's best.
Look for-ask for-the
The Right Way.
Those Who Hate . . .
fly Steve Stastny
. . . are those who have
long bred distrust and con
fusion in the public mind
to create an ever widening
split between liberals and
conservatives a primary
goal of the international
Communist conspiracy.
Whom do they hate? Do
they hate those radicals
who seek to destroy the
American way of life? Do
they hate those pseudo-intellectuals
who preach so
cialism and collectivism?
Do they hate those leftist
columnists and commenta
tors who blacken conserva
tives with charges of "fa
naticism?" Do they hate
the unelected bureaucrats
who strive to increase the
centralization of federal
power?
No! They hate those
Americans who believe in
the Constitution and in per
sonal freedom; who Insist
that "the state was made
for the individual and not
the individual for the state."
These hate-mongers vili
fy those who promote the
private enterprise system
and reject the collective
"interdependence" under
the United Nations. They
hate those who believe that
man should be guided by
an objective standard of
values, and not by useless
expediency.
A very real example of
this hatred was shown to
us last year when Lee Har
vey Oswald, a known Com
munist, assassinated the
president of the United
States. Oswald committed
this tragic act while a mem
ber of the Fair Play for
Cuba Committee, a known
Communist front organiza
tion. While I believe that the
assassination was not a po
litical, but a personal act;
the President would be
alive today if the demands
of the Conservatives for a
strong anti-Communist po
licy had been met
A group of Liberals have
unknowlingly fostered this
campaign of hate. Let us
ask the question why lib
erals who consider them
selves "moderates" have
chosen to call Senator Gold
water "insane" for his Con
servative policies.
This trend is evident even
here on our campus. These
accusations, desper
ately manufactured by lib
erals, are hysterical at
tempts to discredit the Sen
ator and his supporters. As
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Journeymen in concert on your campus.
Goldwater said, "Those Lib
erals are forward looking
all right . . . they're looking
forward to getting more
votes for liberal, politi
cians." Typical liberal techniques
are to smear the Senator
with the labels of "extrem
ism" and "inconsistency."
An example of this lib
eral device Is found in a
recent issue of The New
Republic (a leftist maga
zine) which attacks Gold
water for supposedly chang
ing his previous position on
the income tax. The truth
is that he has always be
lieved that the progressive
tax is confiscatory and a
curb on incentive and in
vestment. But Senator Gold
water has never advocated
repealing the income tax!
The New Frontier, in ita
tax cut proposal, appears to
be moving toward Gold
water's view on the In
equity of the graduated
rates.
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