THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
Commentary
Monday, May 8, 1967
Editorials
Poge 2
Outstanding Nebraskans
The Daily Nebraskan's Outstanding
Nebraskans this semester are both un
fortunately leaving the University, but
the many services they have contributed
will remain.
Dr. John Lonnquist Sr. the outstand
ing faculty member and Bob Samuelson
the outstanding student are unique as
a faculty member and a student respec
tively for the time they have devoted to
the school and for the great degree of
respect they hold.
Lonnquist, who has been a University
faculty member for 24 years, is rated as
one of the world's most respected genet
icists. He is greatly responsible for t h e
present distinction of Nebraska's agronomy
department.
His contributions are praiseworthy
for his work both as an instructor and
counselor for agronomy students and for
his research in crop production.
Lonnquist's reputation as a teacher
not only with his students but all over
the country is only comparable to the dis
tinction he has received for his knowledge
of Latin American agricultural problems
and his research with corn and other
crops.
Colleagues of Lonnquist have shown
their high regard for him by awarding
him countless agronomy and crop science
awards and honors. Students at the Uni
versity also deeply appreciate this man's
contributions and have likewise tried to
show him recognition with an honorary
membership in the University Agronomy
Club, an honorary membership in the In
nocents Society and by choosing him Out
standing Nebraskan.
Samuelson is an outstanding student
who has never once stopped playing an
active role in the University or doing his
utmost to represent the students' feelings
with hard work and intelligence.
As an undergraduate, he proved ia
his senior year to be one of Student
Senate's best senators. As a graduate stu
dent, he continued this year to be unus
ually active and the foremost of all stu
dent leaders.
When he was a student senator, he
was instrumental in successfully repre
senting the students' opposition to a tui
tion increase. Without his research and
extremely detailed and authoratative re
port, it is likely that tuition would have
been increased at that time.
This year as the first second-vice
president of ASUN, Samuelson occupied
the job as it was envisioned. He often
was responsible for providing the extra
spirit or impetus that student government
needs to get things done.
Samuelson is truly an outstanding per
son who judges people by their true
worth, who is always full of life and en
thusiasm and who is always ready to
try something new which might provide
better results or prove more effective.
He has shown in his five years at
the University that he is a leader who
leads by hard work, by understanding
other people and by really trying to ac
complish something real and worthwhile.
Together Dr. Lonnquist and Bob
Samuelson represent two Nebraskans
who have contributed to the school way
beyond duty. Both the state and the Uni
versity will lose two of their most out
standing citizens when they leave.
The peaceful snatch
-by S,eve Our Man Hoppe-
The New Left movement has proved
to be offensive not only to insensitive,
complacent dolts, but also to some dis
criminating intellectuals and average men
of good will. Why is this? Partly because
of style (shabb uncleanliness, obnoxious
emotionalism, callow rebelliousness), but
more solidly because there seemed to be
nothing beneath such "style" in these
radicals. There was no positive direction,
no ideology, no explanation even for the
simple question: "What are you trying to
do and why?"
Radicals are often more confused
than those who watched them. Will the
movement die? It is just a sensational
fling after all? Those who puffed para
noiacally about fascism have been show
ing the bouse no sustained analysis prov
ing, or even clarifying, the nature of the
charges. But at last a breakthrough has
come and it is worthy of celebration in
this last column our answer to the peace
ful snatch.
Milestone
"Containment and Change" by Carl
OgSssby and Richard Shaull (MacMillan,
1967) is a milestone in American political
thought. There is no doubt about that.
Oglesby's literary style alone ranks him
with such writers as Carl Becker, Peter
Gay, and Edmund Wilson. But it is not
merely style that marks the brilliance of
this book. In a tightly reasoned, well
documented presentation, Ogiesby blows
the lid clean off our mythical image of
ourselves. He exposes the hoax in official
government reasons for world attain and
digs into attack against the bedrock rea
sons of our foreign policy.
Bichard Shaull, the book's co-author,
is a good foil to Ogiesby. He is much
older, has a theological background which
was tested by twenty years of revolution
ary experience in South America, and dif
fers sharply in bis approach to middle
class America. In style Shaull cannot match
bis colleague. He emits no memorables
phrases, paMs &o fascinating metaphors,
arrays no great assemblage of documen
tary evidence. Nevertheless it is Shaull
speaks the most practical advice. He mak
es the significant point that men need
some sort of ideology or shared ultimate
values to give meaning and direction to
their labors;
Involvement Essential
"... ideology provides an opportunity
for such self-understanding on the part
of individual, group and nation it can
help to sustain those threatened by change,
at the same time that it serves as a dy
- namic factor in the social struggle. Ideo
logic thought stresses involvement in a
particular situation as an essential condi
tion for arriving at true insight; it is the
result of a collective enterprise, ia which
the masses can also participate and con
tribnte to a gradual process of social
awakening and reflection." p. 212)
As a jibe at Oglesy Shaull says: "No
country or community can be understood
entirely in terms of its past" and a gala,
"Decisive as self-interest is in the shap
ing of the politics of community and na
tion it is not the enfire picture."
I might pause to point out one glar
ing exaggeration that Ogiesby makes. He
wants to prove that America is a "war
economy" and that the "economy Is ad
dicted to federal subsidy is general and
military subsidy in particular ." Time and
again he returns to this point. In one place
he suggests that 44 directly and indirectly
through the multiplier effect defense may
account for as much at a quarter of the
nation's gross."
Amazed, Angered
The first four chapters are the strong
est Marshaling unusual restraint, Ogles
t7 lets leading businessmen and states-
speak for themselves. Fact after fact,
statement after statement piles up until
suddenly one realizes that the crashing
litany of facts about Americans are not
in accord with the assumptions we have
always held. We are shocked, amazed,
angered. Did readers of Freud and Jung
balk when they first confronted the fact
of their unconscious mind? "No it can't
be," we say. We recheck the quotes, we
recheck the lines of argument-there are
some flaws, there are some mistakes, but
still we are faced with overwhelming evi
dence that our p r e v i o u s assumptions
were wrong. We were deluded.
I do not claim Ogiesby is completely
objective. He is, as he admits, a definite
partisan. Every so often a subtle Marc
Antony pyrotechnique appears ("one does
not claim . . - but.") or a backhanded
compliment slips out ("no less brilliant
than bizzare"), but these literary devices
do not unduely mar the basic honesty of
his presentation.
Labels Meaningless
Chapter five, the Vietnam Case, starts
a bit strained but ends with an igenious
ly startling New Left view. Goldwater
hawks are praised as being even more
humane than Administration liberals, for
the hawk at least "may lay claim to the
stark compassion of MacBeth: 'If it were
done when tis done, then 'twere well it
were done quickly Following Murray
Rothbard, Ogiesby shows us the meaning
lessness of current political labels: Left,
Right, et al.
Chapter six, the Revolted, is an In
teresting philosophical analysis of what
it means to be a revolutionary and bow
one gets to be that way. This chapter
starts with Camus but then takes issue
with him and goes into a more precise
and realistic socio-psychological under
standing. While I am no economist, I
have discussed this charge with those
who are. Here is the reply of Pat Daugher
ty, former budget officer for Gov. Mor
rison :
"The GNP of the U.S. is somewhere
around 700 billion dollars a year. Our to
tal national budget requires about 100 bil
lion or 15 per cent of the total. Of that
100 billion, about 70 billion goes for military
purposes and out of the 70 billion dollar
military budget, some 15 billion has been
said to be used for the war in Vietnam. In
effect, about 10 per cent of our GOT is
spent for military purposes and about two
per cent of that same base is spent in
our war effort ia Vietnam. Seventy billion
and 15 billion are huge sums of money.
Military expenditures do cut a Urge figure
in the economy of the UJ&. However, it
seems obvious to me that expenditures of
that proportion could hardly be said to
support the economy of the U.S. or even
to provide the major attraction for b i t
business ia America."
Creative Tension
This review can orfly begin to Indicate
why "Containment and Change" Is one of
the most exciting books I've read in soma
time. There is a creative tension between
Ogiesby and Shaull as they evaluate t b e
world's future. Shaull's view of Christianity
challenges believer and non-believer alike.
In my opinion his "strategy and tactics"
chapter holds out to the New Left its
most practical hope for eJJectiveness if
act survival
Ogiesby is challenging in a different
way. He is a man the Establishment can
now no longer ignore. If sometimes he
overstates his case that the Big Business
Big Government complex is wholly respon
sible for the world's ills, be also admits
that "America is cot baby simple and her
imperialism has other moods." His point
Is that one tragic flaw is enough to bring
down destruction on our bead.
Crusading We Will Go
The trouble was they
haven't had any real sense
of purpose.
But the glorious, historic
Ninth Crusade will rectify
that. With banners brave
ly flying, we will march off
shoulder to shoulder to save
all Christendom from the
wily InfideL
Up Lyndon, the Lion
hearted! Up Hubert Hora
tio! For God and Lady
Bird!
Oh. you can imagine the
tremendous appeal the
Ninth Crusade will have.
Ta - tee - ta - ta - tab
TAHHH! That flourish of
trumpets you just beard
was to announce the grand
opening of the glorious, his
toric Ninth Crusade.
The need for a new Cru
sade had never been more
overwhelming. We haven't
had a decent Crusade since
the Eighth Crusade petered
out in ths year 1270.
Consequently, for close to
700 years, people have been
either sitting around the
house drinking beer or
they've been marching off
to this piddling war or that
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Campus Opinion
Tear Capilol To Pieces
Dear Editor:
Back in the days when men were men and Nebras
kans were not stick-in-the-mud conservatives, a leader of
Nebraska holiday movement bad the right Idea. His state
ment quoted in "The New York Times" of Jan, 22, 1833:
"If we don't get beneficial service from the Legisla
ture, 200,000 of us are coming to Lincoln and we'll tear
that new state capitol building to pieces ."
Ah, those were the days ...
The Nebraska "Klngflsb"
AUF Thanks Contributors
The officers and members of the All University Fund
organization wish to toank all faculty members who con
tributed To the AUF Spring Drive.
Proceeds of the drive this year will go the the Uni
versity of Nebraska Speech and Hearing Clinic. The dime
provides diagnostic and correctional services to Lincoln
residents and' Universtiy students. About 140 students also
receive on-the-job training in speech therapy through the
clinic. . . .
Approximately tlOOO has been collected lor the drive
so tar. This money will help to provide mucb-needed
equipment for the clinic and provide services for families
not able to pay the costs of therapy.
We greatly appreciate toe support of too faculty
members who have given to toe drive and we invite do
nations from professors who have not yet contributed.
r Nancy toufal
.ALT President
1966-67 Innocents Complimented
alrtudent who has been critical of toe Innocents
Society in toe past. I must compliment toe 1906-67 Inno
cents on toe fairness and lack of politics demonstrated
ia toe selection of their successors.
The fact that only one fraternity which bad mem
bers In 1966-67 is represented in 19C7-68 in Itself shows that
toe society may have ceased to be political football in
which certain houses were practically guaranteed mem
bers where others could not hope tor an Innocent, no
matter bow qualified a member might have been.
The 19C7 political campaign was certainly toe dirtiest -most
emotional and most controversial la recent memory,
It is a well known fact that certain members of toe In
nocents Society were highly involved on one side or the
otoer. That toese Innocents could choose ufcessors to
whom toey may have been directly opposed is a tribute
to their leadership qualities.
Id short, the WGM7 Innocents hiive earned a pat on
toe back. It is to be hope! that toe tradition may have
established will continue. EUeea Wirth
Runaway Polls
News item (Sunday): "PRINCETON, N.J.-Richard
M. S Is toeS choice of
men for their party's 1968 presidential nomination.
This conclusion was induced from
views. Who knows? It could be fBJWepfi)
it- and if Richard Nixon was not his coimty diaimen
firsUhoke toe day before this item appeared, he probably
is now.
Handy Thing
The poll is a handy thing. It can find a majority
and then turn it into a bandwagon.
Aware that the poll, with the help of toe press and
the tauter, is fast becoming an important .weapon
the arsenal of modern democracy, we arranged an Jnter
Sew with the director of the biggest professional polling
organization in the country.
We met George Runaway at Mory's for lunch the
other day.
Mr. Runaway
"Well, Mr. Runaway, how are things going with tha
Runaway poll?" .
"Pretty good, actually. We were right in 60, right in
'64, and we'll be right again in '68.
"Right"
"Right."
1968 Winner
"You mean you can tell us right now who's going to
be the winner in 1968?
"WelL not exactly, it's too early for that yet. But we
have a pretty good idea of how the candidates and issues
are shaping up."
"Yes"
"All we can say now with certainty is that it'll be a
confusing year. In fact, our results are so confusing that
we haven't printed them yet."
Vietnam Policy
"Take Vietnam, for instance. Last month we sent our
Runaway pollsters all over the country asking What do
you think of our present Vietnam policy? Are you for it,
against it, or what?' The percentage replies we got dumb
founded even our computers."
"Yes?" He handed ua a slip of paper with the re
sults: For 82 per cent; Against-2 per cent; What? 64
per cent;
"No wonder you didn't print them."
"People are confused and there seems to be a welling
up of cultural despair."
"How do you mean, sir?"
GOP Professionals
"WelL we've got that documented too. You see, every
body knows LBJ is only 45 per cent popular and Richard
Nixon is the favorite of the GOP professionals."
"Yes"
"But here's the catch another one we couldn't print
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jA. Vt HlTP llOppC to see as Nions r111111"1 mate."
"Here is what we got" He handed us another slip
of paper:
Romney 10 per cent; Percy-5 per cent; Rockefeller
5 per cent; Goldwater 15 per cent; Reagan 15 per cent;
Barbara Garson 50 per cent.
Zt J
Flocking to our standard in
droves will be the gun nuts,
Maoists, the smut smiters,
the Hell's Angels and those
who are just plain tired of
sitting around the house
drinking beer Crusaders at
heart, one and alL
Such an outpouring of
men and treasure, Western
Civilizatior has never seen.
Indeed, the only problem
now facing the glorious, his
toric Ninth Crusade is
where to have it.
Traditionally, it seems we
are supposed to go free
the Holv Land from the In
fidel. But after carefully
weighing the large Jewish
vote both In Israel and
New York) and the deep
interest many have in oil
(both in Jordan and in
Standard of New Jersey),
we have decided to go Cru
sade someplace else.
Vietnam immediately
leaped td mind. Now here's
a small country just beg
ging to be freed from the
Infidels. And there's no
question that a Crusade
there would win enthusias
tic approval from the State
Department, the Reverend
Billy James Hargis and all
hawks in the Senate not
to mention annual Christ
mas time visits from Cardi
nal Spellman.
But Vietnam's already
frightfully overcrowded and
we might get in the way.
Some have suggested we
crusade in Albania to re
store King Zog 1 to his
rightful place on the Alba
nian throne. But research
shows King Zog I died in
exile in 1901 and. anyway,
who wants to go to Alba
nia at this time of year?
This leaves Cuba. It lias
a marvelous winter cli
mate, excellent beaches and
certainly there is no more
Infidel - lookin g Infidel
around than Mr. Fidel Castro.
Moreover, from toe point
of view of logistics and
transport, it's bandy. For
Ibis bastion of Infidelism,
fellow Crusaders, lies only
80 miles off our shores.
So join toe Ninth Cru
sade today. In six months
you'll qualify lor toe low
group charter air fare.
As for me, I'm off to sur
vey Miami Beach as a
staging area. No persona!
sacrifice is too great say
I, with toe future of Chris
tendom at stake.
Up Lyndon, the Lion
hearted! Up Hubert Hora
tio! For God and Lady
Bird! And If Cuba doesn't
pan out, we'll think of
someplace else.
Indeed Alarming
"This is indeed alarming, Mr. Runaway. Can you
imagine Barbara Garson as vice-president?"
"Yes, it's quite distressing. That's one of toe reasons
we haven't released the figures. Another is that our poll
sters were unanimously suspicious that their interviewees
were taking CIA subsidies," he said as he sipped his
coffee.
"One thing we've always wanted to know, Mr. Run
away what is your secret in arriving at your generally
precise percentage predictions? Do you just take a cross
section?" "Well in a way. We interview various pressure groups
and arrange our over-all results in terms of their voting
strength.
Baggy Pants
"We've found that the fashion Industry gives LBJ a
resounding 04 per cent no' because of his baggy pants.
Tbe guns are a strong 96 per cent in favor, toe butters
only four per cent, while the aircraft industries support
him 88 per cent solid. Tbe shoe industry, reporting as
increase in sales of cowboy boots, is behind toe President
64 per cent, up 21 points from four years ago; and so on."
"Do you study any groups besides economic ones? Eth
nic groups, for instance?"
"Yes, of course. Here toe situation is confusing, though.
Sixty-four per cent of the Jews think he has chutzpah
but nobody knows whether this is good or bad; among
Negroes, only 37 per cent think LBJ has a soul; and only
25 per cent of toe WASPs think the President has cooL
Catholics, we have noticed, tend to interpret toe credi
bility gap in terms of papal ba bull; toey are 58 per
cent favorable."
Penultimate
"This is all very interesting, Mr. Runaway. Just one
more question: What do you see as toe penultimate achieve
ment in poll-taking?" '
He moved la dote and whispered in my ear: "We've
found that three-fourths of toe population would just as
soon go Runaway and leave toe voting to us." ;
"By Michael Rosennouse
Collegiate Press Service
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