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r- FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1959 PAGE 2 THE DAILY NEBRASKAN ItilHuviHlkr m r Who's tlw sickest? Word Is out that five drug-making giants are going to return $120 million to state and local government ( in repayment for gross overcharges for tetracycline. On the market since 1953, the tablet has been sold to the public agencies for up to 40 cents each; manufac turing cost is 1.6 cents per capsule. (The anti-infection drug has been sold at $1 each retail.) It would appear a handful of people (those connected with American Cyanamid, Olin Mathieson, Upjohn, Bristol-Meyers and Pfizer) had found a way to make fantastic profits off others' illlness. The question is: Is tt the patients or the businessmen who are actually the sickest? Dollars and cents THIS CASE also gives rise to other questions. How much, for instance, of She huge "defense" appropriations are going into actual manufacture of missiles, rifles, bombs and other instruments of destruction? And how much into the profit columns of Lockheed, etc? Perhaps some of the vehement defenders of the high taxes for American military-industrial complex should consider this aspect of the Vietnam war. If peoples' lives mean little to them, perhaps dollars and cents will mean more. We owe you We all owe something to the 14 senators who voted against the constitutional convention to revamp the faulty ASUN document. If any of them are running again this spring, -remember them: Anderson, Boesiger, Cochrane, Collins, Donat, Kudlacek, Lonnquist, Madson, Rassmussen, Seeman, Sherman, Tiegler, Thompson, Gilpin. - Remember to give them a vote of thanks for keeping ASUN an irrelevant and unrepresentative group. They certainly deserve something. They certainly don't : deserve support. - Shadow-portrait, 1969 Early: Steve Abort "Some of my friends said I wouldn't have a chance 'unless I went down to the induction .center and went through all the motions, so I decided I to play their game for a while." Prosecuting attorney (With flourish) "Oh, so it's a game to you, eh? It's all right for everyone else to do it, but to you it's just a game ... is that right? " , (The above is an approximate simulation of a real happening. It happened right here in Lincoln, Nebraska.) A BOY is born to a proud father (the mother, evidently incidental to the process, is not given prominant mention). The child is a frail one, and the father fears he w"l lose his son because of his sicknesses. But the child survives and grows . up. In the process he falls in' poppy-love with a young girl, which shows he has fuUy. recovered from any effects of his childhood ; frailnesses. But, one day, the son comes and tells his father it is time he become a real man. No, he is not trying ,to tell his father that he's lost his virginity; in this ' case, he means he's going to join the army. The proud father is proud. THEN, another one day, he returns to his proud : father and says "Dad, let's go have a beer." At this golden moment the father knows his son has finally grown, up. At the tavern, he hears the town bully bad mouthin' his puppy-love sweetheart. As the young man proceeds to bash the hell out of the bully, the father ; stands by beaming, knowing his frail son is now a : reaJJIAN. XThe above is a pale approximation of a record called "Vance"; it hit the Top Ten and the teeney-bops lapped it up. That happened right here in Lincoln.) ... SAN Francisco State President S. I. Hayakawa calls ; campus demonstrators "facists." Sai Francisco State campus demonstrators call S. I. Hayakawa a "facist." (The above really happened. This give the Corn buskers a 9-8 record and places Cipriano at 0-1.) "" NEBRASKA basketball coach Joe Cipriano jumps off the bench at Iowa State and thrills a regional television audience by having a technical called on him. An Iowa State player makes the free free throw and the two teams end the game tied. Inevitably, Iowa State wins in overtime and Cipriano's Niellsen Rating goes up four points. (The above really happened. This gives the Cor nhuskers a 9-8 record and places Cipriano at 0-1.) TERRY CARPENTER owns a liquor store. Terry Carpenter does not own a pot store. So Terry Carpenter proposes a bill to burn at the stake all pot smokers '. arid proposes another bill to lower the age of liquor drinkers. Aroused by this flagrant abuse of the law-making process, the Nebraska voters rise up in unison and say,;.", nothing. (The above really happened right here in Lincoln. Moral It's okay to get potted, but not on pot.) NEXT WEEK A shocking expose on the origins of the word "Spiro." The Dally Nebraskan is solely a student publication, independent of the University of Nebraska's administra tion, faculty and student government Opinion expressed on the editorial page is that only of the Nebrasksn's editorial staff. ixon s ginger ly-pus tie d tax by Rowland Evans and Robert Novak Washington in a dramatic turnaround un thinkable even a month ago, President Nixon is now gingerly pushing passage of a tax reform bill in 1969. The President disclosed his switch Monday night in a private meeting at the White .House with the two top tax-writers in the House: Rep. Wilbur D. Mills of Arkansas, Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, and Rep. John Byrnes of Wisconsin, the committee's senior Republican. WITH SECRETARY of the Treasury David Kennedy sitting in, Nixon expressed disagreement with some specifics suggested by Byrnes a con servative Republican who is becoming the leading Congressional firebrand for tax reform. But in general, the President gave his blessing to Mills and Byrnes for some kind of tax reform. Before Monday night's meeting, that same surprising word had been passed to Congressional tax reformers by the new high command at the Treasury. Although it will not have specific recom- nvendations ready for the Feb. 18 opening of Ways and Means tax reform hearings, the Treasury says it will testify before the hearings end probably in mid-April. THUS. BOTH EXECUTIVE and legislative branches are now pushing a' cause that seemed dead beyond revival as the year began. Aside from pledging retention of the oil deple tion allowance, Nixon said nothing about the tax structure during his campaign. His lieutenants patronizingly gave that subject a very low priority, to be considered late in his Administration if ever. As for President Johnson, he had denied his own Treasury team's reform program the status of a Presidential proposal, despite a Congressional mandate. SO GLOOMY was the atmosphere that in late December Mills, long an advocate of tax reform, was ready to postpone his long-planned reform hearings scheduled for early 1969. 5 'w tSSH' Campus opinion Bill 24 and freedom Dear Editor: Concerning your views about the study of languages at the university level ("Conjugation Education"): two different questions must be con sidered. First is the general question of the value of knowing a foreign language, second is the matter of language requirements. No valid argument against the study and use of a second language has ever been put forward. Although you have wisely not sought to challenge the obvious values of such a study, I will nevertheless present some of them for your con sideration. FIRST, study of a foreign language brings with it a greater understanding of one's native language. A journalism student, for example, becomes more aware of the structure of the English language, with obvious benefits for his writing style. Second, study of a foreign language broadens one's cultural perspective. An editor, for example, can gain greater insight into current events by reading toreign periodicals instead of relying solely on the pre-digested AP-UPI material, thereby im proving the quality of his own editorials. Third in importance is the development of a skill granted, a difficult acquisition for someone who is already old at the age of twenty. An educated man is a disciplined man, one who coordinates his skills in such a way as to make his contribution to society. The more skills he acquires, the greater his contribution. AND YOU will be the first to admit, I am sure, that the primary purpose of a university is the development of educated men rather than mere specialized cogs in the Great Machine. The second matter is that of language re quirements. They exist simply because many students and high school "educators" are blind to the above values. Unfortunately, even some of our colleges at the university lack this insight. And that a student unlearns a language after his last exam, is not evidence that the requirement should be dropped, but that such a student is really not interested in an education and is at tending the university for something less than the highest goal. Since there are many such students, the university shows its patience by nudging them with requirements where their own perspective is nar row. R .Siding Dear Editor: In regard to Student Government Bill No. 24, . DAILY NEBRASKAN grand claa poetaa Mid at Lincoln. Neb Telephone.: Editor, 47i-258t, Newt 47J-J58. BnauMM 47MS90. Subscription rate are $4 per emeter or par acadende year. Ptiblielied Monday Wednesday Thursday and Friday durisf toe tcbooi year ewept durln vacation. Editorial Staff Editor: Ed lotnotlei Maaaftai Editor Lynn OoeaKBalkt New Editor Jim Evtnrar; Night New Editor Kant Cockaanj Editorial AeaJatant Jan Wagoneri Aaalataat New Editor Andy Wood! Sport Editor Mark Gordon. Nebraskan Stall Writer John Dvorak, Jim Pederaeo, Connie Winkler. Sons JenKlna BUI Smitherman, So SchHOitemeter, So Petty, Ron Taioott. Joanetle Ackerman, BacMttar Singh i Photoarapher Dan Ladely, Linda Kennedy, Mike Haytnaa: Reporter-Pbotofraphera Ed Asaon, John Nolleadorfa; Copy Editor J L. Schmidt, Joaa Waio aer, Phyllia Adkuaon. Have fUipL Sara Scbweiaer. Business Staff Bnalaee Maraacr Roger Boy; Local Ad Manarer Joel Davtat Production Manager Randy Ireyt Bookkeeper Ron Bowlim Secretary Janet Boatman; Classified Ad Jean Baers Subscription Manager Linda If Inch j Circulation Manager Ron Pavelka, Rick Doran, Jamea arisen Advertising Renreeematlve Meg Brown, Gary Qratmquiat. Linda Robin ana. J. L. Scomidl. Fritt Shoemaker. Ouurlott Walker. as the Student Bill of Rights originally stated, the right and power of student regulation is con centrated within the students themselves. It is my belief that a true and equitable government of students is based on the right of each man (or woman) to decide for himself (or herself) how to act in matters not covered by national, state, or local law. Campus laws should be rules of efficient opera tion, not moral codes, and campus organizations should receive the powers of existence from their members. Anything bad will no doubt be banned in state law by Senator Carpenter. The remaining standards can and should be set by each individual student for himself. THE Administration has the right to regulate my behavior standards because I chose to associate with an institution which operates under the policy of in loco parentis. The Administration chose to give their right of regulation in some areas to AWS. ASUN can further my rights by abolishing in loco parentis, which would mean that neither ASUN nor the Administration had the right to set jp rules other than those essential to the mechanical operations of the institution such as registration deadlines and thus could not delegate this authority. Until this step is taken, I shall consider all power manipulations irrelevant and immaterial and vote accordingly. If ASUN wants my support on any referendum it will have to be one which returns to my control the rights and privileges of an adult citizen of a free society. IN SHORT, I oppose all student government, as it is presently set up because it attempts to speak and decide for me on issues that I and every other student are or should be fully capable of speaking and deciding on for ourselves. The Administration speaks for me on a tradi tional and legal basis. Rather than substitute a student government for this snachronostic system inder the guise of progress, I would prefer to Tile myself or leave well enough alone. Janis J. Heim l&m CDOCERDS A MAO wk wm5& cwep a u&r reform Mil What revived both Mills's optimism and the general prospect for action this year was that rarity in American politics: a spontaneous grass roots revolt. Without any organized propaganda campaign, the middle-class tax-paying public sud denly rose up in rebellion over giving the govern ment a good hunk of their weekly paychecks while millionaires and near-millionaires escape taxa tion. The much-quoted warning of a tax revolt from Joseph Barr, Johnson's last Secretary of the Treasury, was merely new gasoline on a fire already roaring. With protest mail pouring into the Hill, Byrnes took the lead in demanding reforms and Mills scheduled his hearings. The Nixon ad ministration was late to pick up the demand, but it has done so. THERE REMAINS, rightfully, considerable ; skepticism among tax reformers about how deep the Administration's desire for the program really is. Kennedy, a Chicago banker, and his Under Secretary, Charls Walker (a former spokesman for the banking industry) are by no means en thusiastic reformers. Nor is tax lawyer Edward Cohen, expected to be unveiled this week as Assis tant Secretary for Taxation, regarded as a zealous loophole closer. Moreover, pocketbooks of businessmen who contributed heavily to the Nixon campaign will be a direct target once the tax-writers get to the thorny details in the Ways and Means Com mittee. AGAINST THIS, however, is the rare agree ment between Mills and Byrnes on major aspects of the bill. They both want to crack down on real estate tax-shelters, tax-exempt municipal bonds, and tax dodges involving charitable con tributions, among other abuses. They both want an increased minimum standard deduction to discourage taxpayers from itemizing their deduc tions and thus simplify the tax collection process. And they both agree the 1969 bill should not attempt reduction of the oil depletion allowance. OVERALL, THE most important ally of reform is the public outcry. If ignored now, Byrnes has warned the Administration, the tax revolt might escalate, forcing Congress to legislate in a mood of hysteria. (c) 1969. Publishers-Hall Syndicate life jJffiO (feiiiD 0 'tistilt The last-minute propaganda effort by the American press failed: 1968 will be remembered, not as the Year We Made It To the Moon, but as the Year of Rebellion. For those who don't swallow the old gaff about "we never had it so good," 1968 was an aesthetic experience, an ex ercise in euphoria. - For the rest, the attitude is summed up best in the sputtering fury of Grayson Kirk and Charles DeGaulle, of Mayor Daley and S. I. Hayakawa. THE REBELS didn't really get away with it They are, as Grayson Kirk said, "transitory birds." Everywhere they tried it, they got tired or bored or frustrated or just defeated and moved on to better things, leaving the Cox Commissions and the presidential committees scratching their heads and trying to figure out what happened. What the rebels did succeed in was knocking a little hole in the money bin letting a little fresh air into a world that was choking from bureaucratic strangulation and industrial pollution. They quit and went home before it was done, went back to acid and communes or good gray business suits, but they left some gaping holes and some big questionmarks in the establish ment. The revolt was so general and so thorough that for a while it looked as if it might almost catch on in Nebraska. But Nebraska "radicals" are a little different. They tire more easily, they become frustrated and tongue-tied at the first pointed question from Dean Ross or Joe Soshnik. PERHAPS Nebraska, the old stomping grounds of the Populists and Reformists, has sunk itself too far in conservatism ever to rise again. Perhaps. But if someone could stir the armchair radicals and semi-hippies who cower in the dark recesses of the Union, perhaps even Nebraska could begin to see the light. Whatever the results, even Nebraskans have inherited a good share of "student power" from their more active brethren in Paris and Morn ingside Heights. Whether our milquetoast revolutionaries ever put that inheritance to work remains to be seen. We still have ROTC, AWS, no control over student fees and a publications board, but they are all anachronisms that could be erased with a little sustained pressure. THERE seems to be an air of depression on campus this semester, a "what-the-Hell" attitude the carries little of the enthusiasm of the McCarthy kids or the Cohn-Bendit bunch. But euphoria is only as far away as an organiz ed effort to bust up the system, to gain a little control over our own affairs and a little breathing room for reform. It's worth a try. m m FDR mstcm aop aa) mm m ne ttvoN&u' iu imn, Hfc uxa. WAS tWRw w ItXL AfiVttia? ueuxt. ADP VET TKfS HAM WROM EHSHOX CM& TATCS. , r e,- .. !