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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1969
Nebraskan editorial page
Top men to talk
For those who want to discuss University
policies with top administrators, Tuesday is the
day to sound off with the questions.
University President Joseph Soshnik and G.
Robert Ross, dean of student affairs, will hold
a talk-In in the main lounge of the I'nlon at 3:30.
The talk-in will provide the opportunity for
students and administrators to discuss differences,
and hopefully provide better understanding through
constructive communication.
Innocents Society, sponsors of the talk-In, should
be commended for finally showing signs of coming
out of its web of self-centered personal concerns
and doing somethings from which the entire student
body could profit.
Students, especially those opposed to University
policies, should appear and sound off with
thoughtful comments.
So goes the nation
Tax change helps
Sen. Edmund S. Muskie
One of the contemporary themes In our society
Is the story of people In trouble and people who
are troubled. From the poverty-stricken ghettos
of our large cities to the college campuses, from
the rural ghost towns to wealthy suburbs, and
from tumble-down shacks to neat middle class
homes, Americans are unhappy about their country,
dissatisfied with the conditions they find in their
communities and angry at wrongs they believe
have been committed against them.
Until this year, we have tended to identify
unrest, rebellion and disillusionment with black
Americans and young Americans. One group has
suffered centuries of abuse and deprivation, the
other resists the difference between what they were
taught to believe and what they think they know
about America.
This year we have added or discovered
a third group of unhappy Americans. They are
the middle class white Americans whom President
Nixon call the "forgotten Americans."
These are the Americans who feel threatened
by efforts to extend equal opportunities to black
members of our society. These are the Americans
who thought they were working for more financial
security and a more comfortable life, only to find
that they are caught in a squeeze between inflation
and possible unemployment. These are the
, Americans who thought they were moving out of
the dirt and grime of the city, only to find that
air pollution, noise and overcrowding are almost
everywhere. The problems of the cities and
metropolitan areas affect all Americans. Money
will not artistically solve the problems of the cities,
but without money the best Ideas will fall flat.
Without money, housing, talk of equal op
portunities In housing, is a fraud for black families
and a continued threat to white families. Without
more and better schools, the drive for equal op
portunity in education is undermined by the fact
of poor educational opportunities for all. Without
better public services, including public safety,
health, garbage and trash collection, transportation,
and pollution control and abatement, efforts to in
still community pride are sure to be moot.
This is a partial list of public needs In American
communities, but It does suggest the magnitude
f the money problems facing mayors, county ex
ecutives, and city and town managers across the
country.
Mayor Cervantes of St. Louis, Missouri, told
a Senate committee recently that his city needs
$1 million in additional revenue by May 1, 1970.
if it is to avoid bankruptcy. He referred to a
recent study which estimated that between 17
and 1977 American cities will have a revenue gap
of over $262 billion. Most cities cannot meet those
needs through more property tax.
I learned recently, for example, that a $10,000
house in Nassau County, New York, Is taxed $1,000
year. It Is little wonder we face "taxpayer
revolts" In mauy American communities. State and
Federal governments must assume a larger share
of the cost of meeting the people problems.
The Federal government is in the best position,
through the progressive income tax, to apply na
tional resources to problems which afflict people
In the cities, towns, and rural areas of our country.
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Open Forum
Dear Editor:
A University student, who
is visually impaired, was
vainly trying to cross Six
teenth Street a few nights
ago. She was carrying a
musical instrument and was
attempting to tap her way
across the busy street with
her white cane.
Not only did motorists fail
to stop they raced around
the confused, defenseless
girl.
Surely, everyone must
realize the significance of the
white cane and, surely,
stopping at a crosswalk
makes sense.
What's the rush? Think
about it.
Mrs. Robert M. Gordon
Centennial College
Dear Editor:
After having the
"privilege" of riding the
shuttle bus system from tlia
fairgrounds for the last few
months, I would like to com
ment on the shelter provided
at Mueller Tower, the free
air pollution offered by the
city buses, and the smooth
ride from the city on 14th
street. Uckl
507-82-8909
Terry Imlg
Dear Editor:
We would like to thank the
History Department for an
afternoon of erudition beyond
compare the appearance
of Professor Edwin O.
Relschauer last Friday. Ills
discussion of Far Eastern
politics and American policy
was Incisive and refreshing.
As students who have fre
quently despaired at the
dearth of stimulating guest
lecturers, we were excited to
be able to hear Dr.
Reslchauer.
Fredrlc and Susan Eisenhurt
David Buntain
Jim Smith
Dear Editor:
It really Is a frightening
thought when we Black
Americans feel so disunited
from our country that we
yell, quote, "Fuck you and
fuck it too." Can't you see
this is the kind of feeling that
causes hate and distrust and
all it tleads to is more
violence!
All of us are fighting for
the same thing; to live in a
world where people actually
believe and practice the
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belief that all men are equal.
To believe this and to live
this are two different
things.
The Whites have
discriminated against us for
hundreds of years, but now
things have changed. It took
hard work, pain and suffer
ing, violence and even death
but we Black Americans
don't want to be as small and
narrow minded as the Whites
have been, we are better
than that!
Listen; stop and think! The
Moratorium two days ago
shows us that they are
trying. It was just as much
for us as it was for them. We
all know that the stress on
internal affairs is lessened as
long as this war Ls on. I know
you have had a friend, or
brother, or cousin or so
meone in this war. Every
man In Vietnam is going
through the same horror. No
one discriminates about who
has to go or why. No one has
said to us this ks "The White
Moratorium, the Black man
has to fight for himself," No
one has said no Niggers, no
Bloods.
It's for all of us, it's for our
country, yours, mine, and
ours.
Charlotte Walker
rillY graft reflects roriirrhrfv Adnrirri&tratinn miQtnho
by Frank Manklewici
and Tom Braden
Washington Before Sen. Abraham Ribicoff
(D-Conn.) has finished his investigation into the
Army's service clubs, other generals In addition
to the former provost marshal, MaJ. Gen. Carl
Turner will be asked some embarrassing ques
tions. Turner, who did a brief hitch earlier this
year as the chief U.S. marshal, has implicated'
himself at least In the Illegal sale of govern
ment property.
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- nltion . . . praise the Lord and pass the
ammunition . . ,M
First on Ribicoff list is Brig. Gen. Earl F.
Cole, former deputy chief of staff for personnel
and administration for the Army in Vietnam.
Ribicoff wants to know why the ring headed
by Sgt. MaJ. William Wooldrldge was permitted
to fleece enlisted men under Gen. Cole's none.
He wants an explanation of Cole's close relationship
with a ubiquitous and mysterious American
businessman, William Crum, who spent several
years in Shunghal after the Commirmst takeover,
supplied goods to the Army in Korea and now
controls nearly all the plnbull, slot machines and
Juke boxes in Vietnam.
Jukes and slots constitute a major element
of the Army service clubs I $277 million annual
gross.
Crum was the subject of an Army Investigation
In Korea, but his record did not hinder his obtaining
franchises for slot machines in Vietnam service
clubs, from which he takes an estimated $2 million
or more annually.
In Vietnam, Crum succeeded In establishing
several of his old Shanghai associates In profitable
Army-related businesses. One of these ls a steam
bath and massage parlor, which Ribicoff will try
to prove was a front for currency manipulation.
Another general whom Ribicoff may call is
Maj. Gen. William A. Cunningham, who command
ed the 24th Infantry Division in Germany while
the ring of sergeants was fleecing the Army clubs.
Cunningham, now retired, was a high official of
a company called Pacific Architects and Engineers,
whose services to the Army in Vietnam run the
gamut from rubbish-collection to street-paving.
Already, Ribicoffi investigation has revealed
enough scandal to make Americans blush when
they talk about the "corrupt Saigon regime." But
it has demonstrated two other points as well.
First, it Is now clear that Atty. Gen. John
Mitchell and his deputy, Richard Kleindelnst. beta
f yliora have reputations as tough administrators,
in fact exhibited the naivete of country boys among
Washington city slickers.
It was Kleindeinst who urged the appointment
of Gen. Turner as chief marshal of the United
States at the very time that the Army's Criminal
Investigation Division was then looking into
Turner's affairs.
In March, 1969. Mitchell named Turnr to be
chief marshal, taking the word of Klelndttlnst, who
In turn took the word of J. Edgar Hoover, who
told Kleindeinst that Turner was a "great
American." Thus convinced, Kleindeinst neglected
to order the routine investigation which surely
would have been required had Turner's title been
"professor" or "doctor" and which would as surely
have turned np the fact that the Army was not
as certain about hla greatness as Hoover was.
The second point which the Ribicoff hearings
are demonstrating Is that old-school ties come In
many colors and that relying on them is an Insecure
way of running a government. In the days of
Franklin D. Roosevelt, bright young Harvard
lawyers were above suspicion, particularly if they
were vouched for by Felix Frankfurter. They were
able, they were bright and they served their country
brilliantly, but among them was Alger Hiss.
Dwlght D. Elsenhower's Washington also
honored a tie. Businessmen In this case were above
suspicion, and they too served their country well,
but they Included Harold Talbot, who got caught
soliciting business for his company on his official
stationery while serving as secretary of the Air
Force.
Today the fashion In Washington is generals,
and the country would be the lesser without the
devoted service of these mainly selfless men, many
of whom earn far less than they could earn in
civilian life. Yet they included Carl Turner, at
the least. Ribicoff thinks there will bt more.
Laa Angoioa Tknaa
by J. L. Schmidt
Isaac Hayes sings Hot Buttered Soul with a
very effective and profound style which is found
In few singers today. Take this excerpt from a
letter written to Hayes by a Michigan minister
In regards to Hayes song, "By the Time I get
to Phoenix:"
"It is a difficult task today to break into another
person's life with all of the hangups, obsessions,
and interests that each of us have. To break through
all of that and to overcome the noise of modern
life is extremely difficult to do it with beauty
is rare. To get an opportunity or rather to make
an opportunity to say something profound In a
profound way and have another person not only
hear it, but to respond to it in a human way
takes a great deal of talent. In your performance
you seem to have been able to get to the core
of human existence."
In eighteen minutes and 40 seconds Hayes gives
almost a life story of the frustrations of the breakup
that generated the song. The low key organ backup
combined with a solid blues base lays the perfect
groundwork for Hayes brand of introspection. A
mellow voice turns the ex.'c.-ience of sorrow into
a feeling of joy.
"Phoenix" is joined by five minutes of "One
Woman," a stock solid blues number which makes
fine padding for the album. A twelve minute version
of "Walk on By" and a real mouthful,
"Hypersolicsyllabicesquedalmistic" round out the
cuts on Hayes aibum.
The minister continued in his letter to Hayes
that he had purchased the album and was planning
to use It in some way in a Sunday service. This
ls total Involvement in music appreciation.
I was introduced to Hot Buttered Soul by tha
Stax records Campus Rep. Vern Slaughter. Vem
added to my musical appreciation by familiarizing
me with such artists as Johnnie Taylor doing Raw
Blues and Mavis Staples doing a variety of songs
including the theme from "A House is not a Home."
Stax is a growing recording company and
already has a bag of goodies with such artists
as Booker T. and the M.G.'s, Percy Sledge, Sam
and Dave and the likes. To my way of thinking,
Hayes has got to be one of the finer of the group.
Hayes, like so many artists, has a beautiful
philosophy of life. He says that he has a weakness
for beauty and can find beauty In almost everything
he sees.
In his own words, "Music was always a
welcome invader of my environment as I came
from a family that could only afford the expenses
of self entertainment. I can recall sitting on the
front porch many evenings with my grandparents
singing favorite songs acapella as a child. This
was our method of relaxation, entertainment and
their means of unloading their burdens at the end
of a hard day's work."
Hayes was in the school band and by the time
he was a senior in high school, he decided to
share his talents with others. His first attempt
at recording flopped but he wasn't discouraged.
Instead, he met David Porter, then an Insurance
salesman, who also liked to write songs. Together
the two lieli'd to develop the "Memphis Sound."
Some of Hayes songs Include, "Soul Man,"
"Hold on I'm Coming" and "B-A-B-Y." These and
others have been made into hits by Sam and Dave,
Carla Thomas and the like.
Stax and Hayes have soul, beautiful soul which
will get you into the lives of your brother and
give you an understanding of this great wide
wonderful world.
OTSII1IME
the
tower
Editor's Note: The column reflects violent protest
In general and not the moratorium on the I diversity
of Nebraska rumpus,
by Michael Egger
Tom Slcdcll
David Paul
Twas October 15th, the date will long stand thus,
That Peaceniks with placards polluted our campus.
Conservatives were hung by their thumbnails wita
care.
In hopes that Ted Kennedy soon would be there.
The radicals assembled in mobs like good Reds,
While LSD visions danced in their heads.
I was settling down for a long protest rest.
When on the south lawn there arose such a clatter,
I got up to see what the Hell was the matter.
I went to the window and threw up the panes,
And what appeared there before me, but something
inane,
A miniature march with merely eight pickets,
And a little old leader with a look so diffuse,
I knew right away it was Herbert Marcuse.
Faster than eagles his New Leftists flew.
He screeched and screamed and called to his crew,
"Here Arthur! Here Kenneth! Press on Theodorel
On Chesar! On Stokelyl Come Rap, Joan and
Gore!"
Across the new garden and past Kimball Hall,
Over the gallery and straight down the mall,
Then up to my porch and right up the wall!
And then In an instant I heard up above,
The burning and looting of each little "dove."
I drew back in fear and whirled right around,
When out of the woodwork Herbert sprang wltll
a bound.
He was covered with beads from head to foots
Ills clothing consisted of ashes end soot.
A bundle of Molotov's hung from his back:
He looked like a radical fresh from the pack.
The gleam of his razor and the siash at my head,
Soon let me know I had so much to dread.
He uttered no sound, but went straight to his work,
Slashed all the furniture and gouged the woodwork.
He Jumped to his mob and gave thera a call.
And away they flew down Love Library mall.
I heard him proclaim as they tore out of sight,
"Happy riot to all and to ail a goofl figatl"
