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In. Your Future?"
"Welcome, Mr. President, to the K-State
campus," began Ernest Murphy's front page
editorial in yesterday's "Kansas State Col
legian." A press notice sent to K-state after the
announcement of President Nixon's intended
visit stated that "the President welcomes the
opportunity to visit the K-State campus where
he can talk directly with students at the start '
of an academic year regarded by many as a
crucial one for colleges and universities . . ."
Murphy went on to express the hope that
Nixon intended to speak with the students,
not at them: ". . . all of us here would appre
ciate it if, even just for today, you would at
least try to level with us." Laced through the
editorial, though, was a sinking feeling, an
expectation and resignation to the disappoint
ment that would surely come.
President Nixon did disappoint Mr. Mur
phy as well as everyone else who had gone to
hear him speak, hoping that he would pro
pose constructive answers to, or at least sin
cerely discuss, the enormous problems that
confront our society.
What they heard was a slick and glib
six-page speech that damned, over and over,
the violence in the U.S. today. But that's too
easy, Mr. Nixon. We all oppose these senseless
acts . . . you're pulling on a string for an
automatic reaction. What we want is an honest
and thoughtful analysis of America's ills
(many of which prompt the violence), and we
want to know the efforts your administration
will take to solve them.
Mr. Nixon did not speak "with" the stu
dents of Kansas State as his press release had
announced . . . instead, he spoke "at" them.
More accurately, his speech was aimed at the
national audience where he could pound the
political drums of anti-violence with the great
est effect.
You can "view with alarm and point with
pride," Mr. Nixon, but there are many disen
chanted people who do not subscribe to the
paste-on patriotism and pride in our country
that you can buy over the counter. And these
people grow even more dissatisfied when you
give them drivel Instead of thought .
There is more than a little irony in the
quote from your speech: "And I would add
that what corrodes a society even more deeply
than violence itself is the acceptance of vio
lence, the condoning of terror, the excusing
of inhuman acts in a misguided effort to ac
comodate the community's standards to those
of the violent few."
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PAGE -4
by FRANK MANKIEWICZ
and TOM BRADEN
WASHINGTON Sen.
Gay lord Nelson of Wisconsin,
who has made a Senate
career of combating pollution
of the environment, has a
surprise in store this week for
the Ford Motor Co.
Ford officials are on the
record before Senate com
mittees as opposed to Nelson's
bill requiring a smog-free
automobile by 1975. "The time
span to meet these demands is
just too short," they say.
But Nelson will reveal that
all the talk about millions of
dollars and years of time for
tooling up and research is
another kind of smog. The Ford
in our future, according to
Nelson, is here now, and all
Ford has to do is mass-produce
it.
Students at Wayne State
University produced the car, a
1971 Ford Capri" with a 302
cubic-inch V-8 engine supplied
by Ford. They entered and
won the recent "Clean Air"
cross-country race from Cam
bridge, Mass., to Pasadena,
Calif., and pollutant-emission
tests were conducted at the
start and finish of the race.
On both tests, the emission of
air-polluting gases was lower
than that required by Nelson's
bill for the year 1975, and lower
even than those Nelson and
the National Air Pollution
Control Agency has set down
for 1980.
Nelson's bill would outlaw the
internal combustion engine
unless, by 1975, it meets the
following standards: not more
than one-half gram per mile of
carbon monoxide; 11 grams per
mile of hydrocarbons, and nin
etenths of a gram per mile of
oxides of nitrogen. Finishing
their tests after the trek across
the country, the Wayne State
entry tested in each category
not only lower, but three times
lower.
To Sen. Nelson, this is proof
of foot-dragging on the part of
the automobile industry. He
charges that only the
generosity of the Johnson
Administration kept the Justice
Department from filing
criminal complaints against the
industry for collusion in holding
back development of a smog
free engine.
Ford, as might be expected,
tells another story. "We gave
those kids anything and
everything they wanted," a
Ford spokesman says,
"including ideas we had been
developing here. And some of
them were part-time Ford
engineers in addition to being
students at Wayne State. We're
pleased that they did so well.
But just because they were
successful over three-thousand
miles doesn't mean we can
easily mass produce their ef
fort to go a hundred thousand."
Nelson in turn scoffs at this
reluctance. He points out that
the Wayne State entry con
tained only the following addi
tions to the standard Ford
The best book buy of the young school
year is Tin Roof Blues, edited by Murray
Martz with joint undergraduate,
graduate, faculty productions in poetry,
pictography and drawing. Murray and
Susan Martz won the English
Department's Vreeland Awards for
poetry hist spring and they have put
together a stylish little sixteen page
magazine that features a durknesj
enshrouded Nebraska State Capitol as
frontispiece and nine outstanding poems
by various contributors as the body of the
work.
The high quality of the verse in Tin
Roof Blues has the feel of having bec;i
written for the occasion. There is a rare
control of subject and tone in the poems
that matches them to the subdued mood
of the frontispiece.
if you are an undergraduate and wish
to impress your parents you could hnrdlv
do better than to leave a copy of the
Blues on your dresser top when next J on
visit home. These are poems that both
you and your parents can read without
any special vocabulary or any special
"in" with literary matters.
Greg Kuzma, who teaches poetry at
N.U., has a direct, spare, ami homst
poem that finds its truth in death.
Kuzma's poem contains not a single
superfluous word and it leaves you with
the feeling that no more can be said
about our growing consciousness of death
than those words say. if you are an old
sort of young person this is likely to be
your favorite in the collection.
"Hark" by Lynn Nelson second place
THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
engine: four platinum catalytic
mufflers, an exhaust gas
recirculation system, an elec
tric fuel pump, insulated fuel
Tnes and a temperature-sensing
carburetor. It used, of
course, lead-free gasoline. All
these could be added, Nelson
argues, for a few hundred
dollars at the most, once the
additions could be mass-produced.
He points out that the
industry spends a billion and a
half a year for styling changes '
on new models "frills, fins
and fashions."
"We can take criticism,'
says a Ford official, "but the
idea that the Ford Motor Co.
and its hundreds of thousands
of employees really want to
pollute the atmosphere is a
criticism we find annoying."
The question, of course, is not
whether the auto industry
wants to pollute the air. The
question is how soon will it
stop? Sen. Nelson thinks the
clean air derby suggests a
simple answer.
HAPPY ENDING DEPART
MENT: A few days ago, we re
ported in this space that the
Peace Corps had summarily dis
missed 11 volunteers in Panama
because of their expressed oppo
sition to the U.S. role in Vietnam-
We are pleased to report
that on the following day, in
part because of this report, the
decision was reversed, and the
antiwar volunteers were
reinstated by the Peace
Corps.
literary review
by
charles stubble field
winner in last year's Academy of
American Poets, is a younger kind of
poem. It is about the death of old
religions. Hawks are dying too the poem
says, and when this "outrider of the
absent gods" is gone there will be the jet
scarred sky arid a blue void. But the
hawk-god is a "dark scrap" of the past
and there will be no tears when he is
gone. The poem is optimistic in its pro
mise "For all will then be light."
Bill Wallis' "Apollo X" does not match
the subdued tone of the other poems in
the collection, there is a freer use of
words and a heightened emotion in the
. poem, but ultimately it is a religious
poem too. and a very good one. The voice
of the poem is an astronaut and the
emotion he feels js the anger-devotion of
his fiery ride into" God's heaven.
There is too much to be said of each of
the poems for a short review, but the
other poems of the collection are as ef
fective as these. Susan Martz's "Brown"
is a controlled and beautifully achieved
love poem, and Mordecai Marcus'
"Traceries" works to understand pat
terns in tlie everyday things of living an I
to extend those patterns into the life of
humans and beyond "where nothing has
been." If you are a Nebraskan from the
outcountry, or If you are sensitive to the
loneliness of train sounds from anv where
you will like Roy Schecle's "Listening for
the Early Morning Train" in which the
coming of the train is like the coming of
an absent lover and his going again.
Here is good poetry in a tidy and at
tractive binding for the modest price of
twenty-five cents. Buy a copy Thursday,
you will be glad you did.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1970