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RELIGIOUS PROBLEM:
Needs New iew
The March 8 edition of THIS WEEK MAGAZINE asked
in the headline to an article by James R. De Foe, "Is God
Leaving The Campus?" Of course, that was not what the
article meant to say.
The article said that college students are being neg
lected by their churches during the critical years when
they are most in need of spiritual guidance in the form of
a quote from a Roman Catholic chaplain.
A Protestant chaplain echoed that quote by saying that
he was lucky if in the course of a term he shook hands
with half the students he was responsible for.
Further, the article said that there has been a radical
shift toward religious neutralism among academic leaders.
And quoted an author as saying that the the student of tra
ditional faith may discover that his convictions are "ig
nored, dismissed in silence, or questioned by another stand
ard of belief."
What it really fails to take a good look at is that the
process of education is in operation. Students are wrapped
up in that and it includes the search for so-called religious
truth and a belief in God.
This country's student has been given the opportunity
to find out for himself a chance to find himself, to find
God himself, a prime alternative to strict indoctrination.
But, if there is a problem it is not, "Is God Leaving
The Campus", but rather "Is The Campus Leaving God."
The blame cannot be placed on campus chaplains and
churches if the students of today are negoists. The religion
of a person should come from within. It can be helped
along, of course, by the clergy, but the clergy cannot lead
faster than the person can go. The clergy should not blame
itself because it thinks it is not doing a job, but should
rather re-examine its methods of operation.
The article states that a new and profound religious
conviction may emerge from the campus, but it will not
emerge unless the churches act now to influence the "vast
indifferent majority" who is being ing'ilfed by the present
religious vacuum in higher education.
There is religion on every campus. But, unless society
stops criticizing the clergy it will never unfold. If the
clergy can evaluate the position of the student, it can help
religion become an important part in the life of a half-developed,
growing person, the student.
Council Action Backed
Dear Editor:
We disagree with Mr.
Morris' contention, as ex
pressed in last Friday's NE
BRASKAN, that the student
Council acted hastily in con
demning the S k e e t e inci
dent. He asserts that we
should have tabled the mo
tion so as to gather more
information on the ramifica
tions of the law and espe
cially its exclusive clauses.
We believe that we acted
on the basis of sufficient evi
dence. Official sources con
firmed our action even be
fore the motion was brought
to the floor. They believed
that the law had obviously
been violated and that the
action of the Barber Shop
could not have been justi
fied according to any clause
within the law.
Therefore, because the in
cident involved a University
6tudent, because we wished
to speak out in this student's
behalf, and because we be
lieved our action would
focus attention on this re
grettable incident and pre
vent its re-occurrence, we
passed the motion.
Especially galling is the
fact that we relieve we
acted with more information
than Morris. Miss Strate
man interviewed the County
Attorney, the Editor of the
LINCOLN JOURNAL, and
Mr. Skeete, so as to validate
our motion. On the other
hand, Morris was not at the
meeting, he received his in
formation second-hand, and
he made no attempt to con
A Different
Dear Editor:
I did not hear the speech
Thursday night by Lt. Gov.
Dwight Burney. Nor could 1
have heard it since it was
given to members of Delta
Theta Phi honorary law fra
ternity. But there exists the
opportunity to express my
opnion.
Why doesn't our Lt. Gov.
Burney take the time to ex
amine the sales tax system
which exists in Kansas.
That state is trying to keep
their northern residents
from buying in Nebraska.
They buy in Nebraska be
cause there is no sales tax.
I have been to Colorado
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Monday, March 16, 1964
tact us concerning the facts.
Maureen Frolik
Mike Barton
EDITOR'S NOTE: The
Editor did not assert that
more information needed to
be gathered to provide a
better basis on which to in
troduce the resolution. It
never questioned the basis
on which the resolution was
introduced. But the Editor
knew, as a first-hand fact,
that there was some ques
tion as to whether it would
be introduced that day be
cause its principal backer
was in his office a short
time before the meeting. In
addition, staff members of
the paper have been on top
of the problem of discrim
ination on campus and in
Lincoln for at least the past
four months. In addition, the
editorial said "apparently"
some members did not even
know what happened and
that has not been denied.
The letter questions the
wrong thing. The Council
should have waited so as to
better evaluate the implica
tions and results of its ac
tion. The Editor still be
lieves that the Council
knows not where Us action
will lead it or even what ef
fect It will or was designed
to have, other than the over
used "preventive" as stated
In the above letter. Con
trary to popular thought,,
speed of action is not always
the best course. In these re
spects it was stated that
Council had sacrificed too
much to enter the resolu
tion that day.
Sales Tax
and Florida during the last
three months. Yes, they
have a sales tax too. This
additional state revenue is
an absurdity. The financial
basis for a sales tax is
sound, If used w'th discre
tion. Ask any resident of the
aforesaid states If they like
to pay those few pennies' for
small purchases.
My proposal is that if this
tax system is better than a
property tax, then it should
not be applied toward ag
gragate necessities f 0 0 d,
clothing, sundries, etc., but
rather that the purchase of
any item in excess of N dol
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ERIC SEVAREID
Dallas Like Other Cities,
Reached Awkward Stage
By Eric Sevareid
The sense of civic pride,
like the sense of nationality,
becomes part of a man's
personality in this life.
When news came of the ab
surd county jail break, a
friend in Dallas said to me
with a groan, "They hated
us last November, now
they will laugh at us."
People are just people. In
no fundamental sense what
soever are the people of
Dallas, Tex., different from
other Americans, though
their pro
f e s s i 0 n
al boosters
at times
like to think
they are.
What hap
p e n e d
to Dallas is
that the
p r i n c
iple of ran
domness in
Sevareid
nature including human
nature caught up with
them. It is the principle
that makes events come in
clusters, from the grouping
of the galaxies to the "run
of luck" at poker.
The murder of President
Kennedy led to the murder
of Oswald, which led to the
trial of Ruby which led to
the jail break. "People will
think," said my stricken
friend, "that we just can't
do anything right."
But Dallas has done
many things right, and
some things much better
than some other American
cities, including, it may be
argued, its handling of the
most difficult civic problem
extant the process of ra
cial integration. Racial
hostility is certainly there,
but it hardly compares with
the massive, sullen hatred
developing in New York
and Chicago.
Dallas has more than
enough of crime, but noth
ing like New York, where
the nightly, non-fatal shoot
ings and stabbings are so
numerous they do not even
make the papers. It has
acquired more than i t s
share of those bitter little
political hate groups, and
one reason they stand out
so sharply is that they ex
ist in the middle of a hu
man climate that is breezy
and openhanded in the best
tradition of Western friend
liness. And this brings one to the
specific practicalities
why Dallas, or Dallas of
ficialdom at least, has done
some things wrong, at criti
cal moments unfortunately,
of her civic history. These
mistakes were not due to
corruption; tbey were not
due to laziness or ignor
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ance. They were a direct
result of this same western,
casual, smalltown easiness
of nature. The "Big D" is
a metropolis in body, but
not yet in spirit. It got big
too quickly for that. It
doesn't want to part with
the chummy, backglapping,
first-naming spirit of its
youthful Main Street days,
and I can't say that I
blame it. With sophistica
tion goes formalities; Dal
las wants the former but
instinctively resists the lat
ter. By the book, a city hall
or a county courthouse
ought to be centers of for
mality, rules, and if pos
sible dignity. In a medium-sized
western city
they become centers of in
formality. The nickname
camaraderie around the
Ruby courtroom both be
guiles and astounds the Eu
ropean journalists covering
the trial.
To go back to the begin
ning, when the law of ran
domness caught up with
Dallas: when the first po
liceman to rush into the
Book Depository building
saw Oswald sitting in the
refectory, of course the
man in charge said, "He's
okay, he works here." And
of course, for the police
man, that was enough.
When the press and cam
eramen wanted a look at
Oswald during his transfer
from the city jail, of
course the chief of police
wanted to be accomodat
ing. When Jack Ruby joined
the throng, of course the of
ficers let him stay; what
was familiar was okay.
The courthouse jailer who
failed to lock the door be
hind him I can't fully ex
plain; I suspect those des
peradoes had become fam
i I i a r 6, too; he probably
called them "the boys."
Dallas wants the rewards
of big city-uess but it
doesn't want to pay the
penalties. One of the certain
penalties is the sacrifice of
cozy good-fellowship in high
places. The police chief who
was in office last November
24th is still in office. Every
body likes him as a decent
man. Everybody Ukes Sher
iff Bill Decker, too. On the
evening of the eounty jail
break, while two or three of
the criminals were still at
large, Sheriff Bill took his
wife out to dinner as he had
promised.
The newspaper accounts
next morning seemed to
take this as a reassuring
sign of steady calm.
Dallas has reached the
awkward age. It's part boy,
part adult; and at the awk
ward age, very awkward
things happen.
insight Slsewkere
little Boy Blue, come blow
Nebraska Senator Roman
Hruska sent the Johnson ad
ministration scurrying a
couple of weeks ago. The
cause of such hustle and
bustle on the part of the ex
ecutive branch was the
amendment Hruska propos
ed to the Senate's wheat-and-cotton
bill.
Our government has just
recently made agreement
with all the major cattle
and sheep exporting coun
tries allowing the import in
to our country of 920 mil
lion pounds of beef and
veal a year. The Hruska
amendment would have
limited this amount to 540
million pounds annually.
In addition to throwing a
shadow over those recent
agreements, the amend
ment, if passed, would
have had no little affect on
U.S. representatives to the
international tariff talks
coming up soon.
The administration, obvi
ously displeased by these
prospects, went into action.
Members of the president's
cabinet made a number of
phone calls and visits to
Senate colleagues. When
this did npt seem to be
enough to stem the tide,
Larry O'Brien, White House
legislative aide, went to
work pressuring and per
suading members of that
august body and informing
them of the administration
displeasure.
President Johnson's ad
ministration proved to be
stronger than our senator in
the final vote taken on the
amendment two weeks ago.
When all the votes were
tallied, the Huruska amend
ment was voted down 46 to
44.
The amentment was just
one of many which the Sen
ate tried to tack onto the
main bill. The only amend
ment which lasted through .
the debates and was made
part of the law was the pro
posal made by Democratic
Senator Allen Ellender to
limit the scope of the bill to
two years.
By far the most contro
versial proposal aside from
the bill itself was the
amendment to withdraw to
bacco from federal subsidi
zation. The motion was
made in consideration of
the Surgeon General's re
cent report on the harmful
affects of smoking. The
haste of the administration
was little compared to a
similar effort put forth by
the Southern Senators. The
fury and might roused by
these oftimes troublesome
Congressmen was sufficient
to defeat the amendment by
a vote of 63 to 26 with
eleven abstensions.
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Most all of the amend
ments were attempts to
weaken the bill; and al
" though some were surely of
merit taken by themselves,
proponents of the bill rea
lized their weakening influ
ence taken as a whole and
reacted by soundly defeat
ing either in committee or
on the floor.
Such vote-power w o n 1 d
normally indicate enormous
enthusasim for the bill, but
such was not so in this case.
Even the most vociferous
supporters of the bill har
bored no pie - in - the-sky
dreams that this bill would
solve the ever increasing
farm problem in the U.S.
The bill itself was ample
evidence that this is truly an
election year. It represent
ed a reversal on the part of
administration which,
under the late President,
had washed its hands of the
whole farm affair after the
farmers vetoed compulsory
controls in the last nation
al referendum. Under
President Johnson, how
ever, much pressure was
put on Democratic colleag
ues for passage of the
measure. Included in this
persuasion was the full sup
port for the bill of Secre
tary of "Agriculture Orville
Freeman who, though he has
recieved little of the notor
iety of his predecessor, has
at least equal if not m o r e
force where such matters
are concerned.
The main bill passed the
senate by a straight party
line vote of 55 to 35 with
some abstensions from both
sides of the aisle. It will
now go to the House of Rep
resentatives where Demo
cratic leaders will no dobut
put it into a conference
committee. Normally this
action is taken to adjust
differences between House
and Senate versions of a
bill. This will be an ex
tremeley difficult task at
this point since as yet the
House has been unable to
pass a wheat bill of its own.
There will be difference,
however, on those sections
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of the bill which refer to
cotton since the House has
approved measures regard
ing this commodity.
What the bill boils down
to is a $1 billion subsidy of
the various and sundry en
terprises connected with
production and proceesing of
wheat and cotton.
The federal governemnt
will set a price support of
$2 a bushel for all wheat
sold for domestic use by
farmers who agree to re
strict their acreage. This
support price will be lessen
ed to $1.55 for wheat pro
duced for export.
The bill includes provi
sions to pay bonuses to all
cotton producers who coop
erate with the government
and reduce their plantings.
The growers will receive a
30-cent a pound support
price, while the mills will
receive about six cents in
subsidy on purchase of cot
ton grown in the U.S. which
is sold at the world market
price of 24 cents a pound.
The bill itself is a contin
uation of older policies and
marks no new solution to
the America farm situa
tion. It is important as it
marks a renewal of inter
est in agriculture by the ad
ministration. As long as
there is this interest and as
long as supporters do not
consider this measure a
cure-all, it is entirely
possible that some sort
of solution will be found
in the environment of this
attitude. The question in
the minds of interested on
lookers should not concern
this bill in particular. Rath
er, they should be concern
ed with how we can insure
that this attitude will pre
vail after the bill is passed
and numerous other affairs
come into the immediate
attention of both the Con
gress and the Administra
tion. Perhaps even more impor
tant: how to preserve the
issues involved in the farm
problem from the veil of
esoteric confusion which us
ually settles over such mat
ters during a political cam
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