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The Daily Nebraskan
DAILY
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Time out for
the 5:30 war
If you could hear, at every jolt, the
blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted
lungs
Bitten as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on .innocent
; tongues,
My friend, you would not tell with such
; high nest
To children ardent for some desperate
: glory,
The old lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.
I Wilfred Owen
Each week night at five o'clock a weary nation
trudges home from work, full of thoughts of
Budweiser barbecues, hypnotized by the towering
trivia of another dull day, ready to settle down
for another night with the tube.
Television, that merciless one-eyed master of
the home, however, insists that our weary worker
spend half an hour choking down the spinach of
the Vietnam War before the eight-hour dessert
begins.
- Once again, it is time for the 5:30 war.
" FOR HALF AN HOUR real men fall, real jets
spit napalm into burning villages, real refugees
clog the roads out of this or that nameless Viet
Cong stronghold.
At six o'clock, the ww is over. Out come
the pop-top cans, the TV dinners, and Lucille Ball.
Perhaps this is as it should be. Depending
on the viewer's attitude, this is either a foolish,
amoral war or a necessary holding action designed
I stop the spread of the Yellow Peril. War has
never been viewed in quite this light before, and
perhaps ignoring it will make it go away.
There are people, however, for whom the 5:30
war is as real as either of the two preceding
conflicts. One of them, an ex-Marine named Warren
Storms who has become a frequent contributor
to this page, is plainly distressed by the attitudes
of the homefolks.
HIS GRIPE, quite naturally, is against the
protesters, the demonstrators, and the Daily
Nebraskan for allying itself in opposition to the
war. Ironically, however, it is these protesters and
demonstrators who join him in attempting to make
the public realize that this is something more than
a TV soap opera.
Only in this incomprehensible age, perhaps,
could a war such as Vietnam have become so
unreal. It is a nightmare, necessary to those who
have helped fight it, absurd to those who opppose
it. To those who have arranged for us to be there
through their neglect or tacit approval, however,
it is only the 5:30 war.
We have always known it, but this btest bit
of irony has made us even more aware: there
is nothing sweet or proper about dying for one'!
country.
Jack Todd
George Kaufman . . .
There goes the
old hall game
The other day I ran into my anthropology friend
in the cafeteria.
"Say, how about that World Series?" I said
to open a conversation.
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"WORLD SERIES?" he asked, puzzled.
"You know, baseball ... the championship
between the National and American Leagues."
"Oh, yes." A glimmer of recognition came
into his eyes. "When does it start?"
"Start? It started a week ago. The Cardinals
"Oh of course. I completely forgot ... the
Cardinals. Say, those Yankees gave them a battle
right down to the last game, didn't they?"
I looked at him, but he wasn't joking.
'-; "NO," I said as calmly as possible. "That
was in 1964. This year it's the Cardinals against
the Tigers."
- -"Oh, yes... Hie Pittsburgh Tigers. "
"No, no, no. The Tigers are from Detroit It's
the Pittsburgh Pirates, and they're in the National
League."
"He looked at me quizzically for a moment.
Oh Well, I've been busy recently working on
research paper and I haveat had much time
to pay attention to things like that"
"Oh?" I said. Here at last I thought to myself,
was a really scholastic individual who didn't worry
about petty things like baseball when there were
such important things to do in the world. It was
truly refreshing.
"What are you writing about?" 1 queried, with
true anticipation, my blood literally singing through
my veins at finding such a dedicated and unique
person.
"ITS QUITE intesting really," he replied. "I'm
researching the importance of the Dundlewot Crab
Meat Ceremony to the growth of Hazlenut trees
as a socio-religious rymbol among the Katchalayter
tribe of the Uppw Hemongolia River groups."
"Oh."
I made some polite chatter and excused myself,
but I'm sure I didn't conceal the disappointment
la my voice.
I quickly left the cafeteria and raced down
to the Union auditorium to find a good seat for
the Tiger-Cardinal battle. After all. I felt iad
to save tune in my life for the reailv important
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By Calvin Rife
Not too long ago three great Americans (John
F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert
F. Kennedy) were tragically struck down by
assassins. Recently in Chicago peaceful
demonstrators and tolerant policemen clashed in
a bloody free-for-all. And just last week here in
Lincoln, a man stabbed a woman because she
wouldn't give him a ride downtown.
None of the assassins had talked with or even
met the men they killed. It's also doubtful that
many of the policemen and demonstrators had met
before, personally. Nor had the man that stabbed
the woman ever met her.
YOU AND I pass each other on this massive
campus of ours without either of us acknowledging
the other's presence. You keep to yourself and
I keep to myself. Day after day this goes on
but why? Why do I keep to myself? Could
it be that I fear you, even thoungh I have no real
reason to?
What's wrong with us today? Why are we afraid
to stick our necks out and try to get to know
one another? Could it be because we don't know
exactly what that person sitting beside us will
say next? Is it because we fear that he might
have some strange, uncommon, way of looking
at things and thus threaten our prefabricated
security that we brought from home?
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Could it be the fact that subconsciously we
know that if we come into contact with people
who have varying opinions on various subjects often
enough we just might be forced into a position
of having to think about our own views? That
is pretty scary, isn't it?
You may even find that you've overlooked some
vital factor in drawing a conclusion about some
thing. A factor that yon had not even been aware
of, yet would have surely influenced your conclu
sion. So there it is staring you right in the face.
That individual has made you aware of something
new and important. That individual has proved to
you that you have been laboring under a miscon
ceptionthat you are wrong.
Now what do you do? Do you get mad,
withdraw, and refuse to face what you now know
is true? Do you close your mind and try to forget
about it in hopes that the thought will not rise
into your consciousness again?
Or do you say to yourself, "Yes, I see now
where I was wrong. I thought I was right, but
I guess I didn't get enough information from enough
different sources to draw a reasonably objective
conclusion."
DO YOU FEEL resentment toward the person
that possibly set you straight or ar? you grateful
imgeoFi
Inside report . .
LeMay's mushroom cloud poses threat
by Rowland Evans and
Robert Novak
Toledo, Ohio As George
Wallace finished his speech
to a rally at the baseball park
here, a news correspondent
approached the speaker's
platform in hopes that Gen.
Curtis LeMay would expand
his views on the use of
nuclear weapons.
LeMay was willing to oblige
with answers, but Wallace
definitely was not Joe Fine,
Wallace's able young political
lieutenant, declared that the
General was not available.
The reported was hustled
away by Secret Service
agents.
THE INCIDENT, coming
less than 12 hours after
Wallace unveiled the semi
legendary bomber
commander as his running
mate, reflected the com
pulsion by the Wallace camp
to muzzle LeMay following
his Goldwaterish musings on
nuclear arms. Thus, LeMay
had cast a small, mushroom
shaped cloud on the Wallace
move ment inadvertently
posing a threat to it that
neither Democratic nor Re
publican politicians could con
coct It is, assuredly, only a
threat If LeMay is prevented
from meandering off in more
nuclear - flavored barracks
room talk, no permanent dam
age may be done the Wallace
r e v o 1 ution. Nevertheless.
Le May's selection represents
a deviation from Wallace's
populistic strategy that has
proved spectacularly sue;
cessful.
All year long, Wallace and
some key advisers notably,
Seymour Trammel, his fund
raiser have eyed
Republican LeMay as a
means of broadening their
appeal among upper-income.
pper'lass voters.
Cut when Trainmeil made
overtures to the General dur
ing the summer, LeMay
declined. (Because, In tne
private opinion of the Wallace
camp, h e underestimated
Wallace's potential strength).
That produced a sign of relief
from some Wallace insiders,
who doubted LeMay could
convert the Republican gen
try to Wallace. They favored
a populistic running-mate
former Gov. Albeit (Happy)
Chandler of Kentucky to
reinforce Wallace's working
class appeal.
Although Chandler was
vetoed by right-wing
ideologues supporting
Wallace, the Wallace cam
paign has taken on the
earmarks of a white working
man's movement. The
Northern union member
resentful of his government
union leaders, and the Negro
has turned to Wallace. And
Wallace, while not changing
basic positions, has become
more populistic in tone.
Wallace no longer describes
himself as a "conservative"
in speeches. He is
unequivocally on record
against "right-to-work" laws.
He makes favorable
references to Robert F. Ken
nedy, a hero to many working
men now backing Wallace.
His campaign plane carries
a dozen local union leaders
from Alabama who are ex
hibited in Northern industrial
cities.
Sometimes Wallace's
populism is overt. By remov
ing the tax exemption for
giant foundations, he tells
rallies, "you could lower the
working man's tax." While
mixing populistic rhetoric
with appeals for law and
order, Wallace refrains from
sabre-rattling. If the Vietnam
war cannot be won by conven
tional weapons, he implies, we
will have to get out.
JUST AS this strategy was
reaching full flower last
week, Gen. LeMay had a
change of heart He was
disturbed, the old aviator told
Wallace men, about Nixon's
dalliance with Rockefeller
Republicans (Although
Wallace men suspected
LeMay also was influenced by
Wallace's rise in the polls).
Having found a Vice Presi
dent Wallace privately
warned him to weigh his
words to the press at the
unveiling in Pittsburgh.
To no avail. While actually
opposing nuclear weapons in
Vietnam. LeMay blundered
by ruminating in public about
their hypothetical employ
ment Newsmen searching for
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a Wallace weak spot had a
field day. At rallies in In
dianapolis and Toledo that
afternoon and evening,
LeMay was silenced and ap
peared with Wallace as a
mute, unsmiling totem.
What to do with LeMay the
rest of the campaign is un
determined. One plan would
keep him away from the
press and schedule him in
private meetings with fat cat
Republicans, thereby
preventing him from scaring
the wits out of Wallace's
working men.
Pathetically, LeMay's gar
rulousness is now the best
hope of the traditional parties
that Wallace will yet decline.
With neither local organiza
tion, patronage, nor a pro
fessional staff, Wallace is
running second in electoral
votes and is prevented only
by Hubert Humphrey's
weakness from becoming a
possibility to run first. Even
with the threat of LeMay's
mushroom cloud, Wallace is
the political miracle worker
of the year.
(c) 1968 Publishers
Hail Syndicate
Campus
Opinion
Dear Editor:
We wish to take this op
portunity to thank you for the
publicity we received in the
"Daily Nebraskan" of Oc
tober 2, 1968.
An unintelligent,
unenlightened, biased cartoon
is belter than no recognition
in jour esteemed campus
publication.
Tom Brader
Ron Dana
Acacians
to that individual for sharing those bits of
knowledge and opinions that he possesses with you?
After all, if through communicating with
another individual(s) you gain a better understand
ing of something, the only thing you really lose
is ignorance. But look at what you gain: an
awareness that there just might be more than
one way of reasonably looking at a situation.
Now what did all this cost you? A few minutes
of that valuable time you would have spent sulking
in yonr room, listening to the same records over
and over again and thinking the same old thoughts
over and over again, and winding up going in
the same circles hour after hour.
Why not come out of that mental dungeon
of yours and make an effort to communicate with
someone? Today, why don't you be the brave war
rior and stick your neck out?
Try saying, "Hello!" to someone. It may hurt
a little at first, but the more you do it the easier
it becomes. But be careful; you just may get
to know someone and someone may get to know
you.
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Thought food
You Are What You Eat Book Review
Diet and the Mind edited by the staff of the
Department of Political Husbandry nf th TTni
ty of Nebraska, 160 pages. The Bench Press. $3.50.
A cursory glance at human eating habits
reveals that man has always concentrated on
quantity rather than quality in his diet This
recently published work suggests the existence 'f
a link between diet and political behavior. Its chief
proposal is that an unbalanced diet leads to an
unbalanced mind.
The editors of this book, drawing upon the
results of three years of voracious research, have
divided mankind into three categories: fats,
carbohydrates, and proteins. The thoughts and a.
tons of each of these "groups is distinctive.
THE MEN who subsist on a Daley diet uf
fats are generally affluent, corpulent, and
recalcitrant. These fata are advocates of
conservatism, demagoguery, and self-righteousness.
When threatened by imaginary foes, they react
with excessive force and later White Paper over
the matter.
Carbohydrates are stodgy and form the bulk
and roughage of society. They are noted for thei
plodding manner, total lack f imagination, and
fear of change. They tend to live in suburbs, shop
at Sears, and vote Republican.
Proteins are noted for their energy and effi
ciency They are the building blocks of society.
Proteins tend to gather in the fields of literature,
fashion, music, and painting. They are rarely ftwnd
in politics which is the exclusive domain of 4ie
carbohydrates and fat cats.
The editors of this book also eendaeted research
into the phenomenon of mixed diet. Their finding
show that people who cave spiced their life with
variety often defy classification. For example, the
New Left has adopted the diet of hamburgers and
cokes. This combination of 19 proteia and K
carbohydrates explains why New Leftists are
generally quiet except for brief periods of wflD
tHized energy. Their universal habit of bolttn
their food demonstrates why so many of their ac
tions are only hot air.
The carbohydrate people generally were pro
teins in their uth but as they climbed the ladder
of dietary success they lost their early progress! v;
and liberal attitudes. A small percentage of the
carbohydrates become fats, as shown by the
research of Professors Dow and Jones.
Diet and the Mind suggests that the best wa
to change man is to change his food. Only (
there is a fundamental change in the dietary ord.'i
of society will there be fundamental changes :.a
socjiI behavior. Dietary reformers have their iwr
tions cut out It is up to them to implement ; e
findings of modern research so that we may ail
earn to et in peace.
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