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Peso 4 o "1 ft 1 1 1 IL, 's amendments cloud the real issue Amendments to a routine debt Unit bill intro duced Saturday in the U.S. Senate proved once again that changes need to be made in House and Senate rules. The bill, which would raise the treasury's borrow ing authority from S1.3C3 trCicn to $1.45 trillion, would be enough to carry the government until January, Although the Daily Ncbrcsksn already has express ed concern about our growing national deficit, we realize that, in the short run, the government has no alternative but to raise the limit If the bill is not passed by midnight today, the federal government cannot sell the bonds and notes needed to pay its debts. Treasury Secretary Donald Regan told United Press International that such a delay could cost the United States $250 million in higher interest costs. Still, some senators apparently do not consider the bill so urgent that it cant be weighed down with unnecessary additions. Sen. Daniel Moynihan, D-N.Y., was successful in attaching an amendment that would require a spe cific appropriation by Congress for the United States to provide arms for a Jordanian military force being trained to respond to crises in the Per sian Gulf. Sen. Alan Dixon, D-I1L, tried to add an amend ment that would have had no legal force but that would have put the Senate on record in favor of giving the president line-item veto power on large appropriations bills. His amendment was defeated Whether or not these issues deserve to be put on the record books is not the issue here. Both may deserve to be discussed and voted on by the Senate. But the place for them is not attached to a totally unrelated bill ' In the end, some senators may end up switching their votes on the bill because of the amendments and some who might normally vote against the amendments may end up voting for them because of the urgency of raising the debt ceiling. The rules need to be changed to prevent senators and congressmen from being put in such a position. They should not have to consider unrelated topics when deciding how to vote on a particular issue. r Mil 1 1 1 I III I II llll Mil IIH Jlllllllip l.lUlllMl 'T- II III in li.WlllMllpiIJ'l'Wf--"' Editorial Policy Unsigned editorials represent official policy of the fall 1933 Daily Nebraskan. They are written by this semester's editor in chief, Larry Sparks. Other staff members will write editorials through out the semester. They will carry the author's name after the final sentence. Editorials do not necessarily reflect the views of the university, its employees or the iU Board of Regents. The Daily Nebraskan's publishers are the regents, ; who established the UNL Publications board to" supervise the daily production of the newspaper. According to policy set by th2 regents, the content of the newspaper lies solely in the hands cf its stu dent editors. - i LM U I.I'U D :M Ml I I H N. j Ax ' v,,;f BLESSED AKE THS J) f ?' THEY SHALL BE Halloween BaFilous holidavfarce -. Today is Halloween, the most useless holiday one can imagine. At least, though, it has managed to live up to the standards of most holidays in that, anymore, it b little more than a commercial venture. r ) Bill Llhn a little party at home, inviting other children (and their parents). This v:cy, parents still could provide their children with fun and those caviar-producing rreets, while avciii::' tha dangers. Then yen could fzzl t etter the next day. But while you're sitting hems with Little Dick, cr Jane, or Fido, come ether parent will sitting in an emergency . room, crLr.g, bbmir.g ecne -"crarics when, in fact, the ll'rr.2 ctarU v;tth them. Per hsps you have to be a child to rea!!y appreciate its true impact the after-dark adventure, the apprehension of approaching an unknerva neigh bor and the glee of beir.g rewajded for simply yelling trick or treat" ::".V:v . , And I suppose, from an adult perspectivs, seeing ' your children dreseed in those cute little rpocLy costumes gives you that warm, mushy feeling that makes being a parent so great. . But that warm, mushy feeiir.g wont last for many parents, becauss, without fail, starting in Tuesday's newspapers and on television and radio broadcasts, the reports will appear of injuries and deaths result ing from poisoned candy or the ever-popular razor , blade in the apple. : These deaths and injuries can be avoided with a little common sense. . " A couple of examples: " ' First, responsible parents should go trick or treat-' ing with their chid(ren). And they would know in advance whose houses they would vieit , Cecond, a parent who rc"y cared vould Jurt have Halloween ho tr.;en on a ne.v meaning for me thh year. I used to think of it as simply that time of year when weirdes hurt kids and parents prove beyond a doubt that they ars IrrcepcnsHals. Paier.ts .shcv the same kind cf irresponsibility vhen they let 7-year-cld3 play vdtl? firecrackers on the Fourth cf Ju!y. . : . " ; But already this year, just dap before Halloween, you were able to see Christmas commercials on tele ' vision. Oh, they were subtle. Hone of the blatant kind where Santa Cbus and Rudolph try to sell you dolls cr bicycles. No, they were more ca the order of a. f:.7.v...j v;zT,ti?, no, needing a hcr.e computer and then s to a shot under the tree where little Tommy (or whoever) opens up a new mird-com- puter system to help him learn math. That means Halloween slowly is being incorpo rated into the "Christmas ceaeen," which used to wait until Thanksgiving. . ' . .. . 'v..-... . . All cf thi3 underscores the fact that most of our religious and national holidays have become nothing more than commercialized, money-making ventures, totally devoid, for meet people, cf any If any doubts linger about the cal lousness cf some people cn ths ex treme political right, at ler.:t some cf those doubts may be dispelled by an M fatlwiw CwVWw IvUvt X'A JU'4WAAdL'hft &1 4 VVinwv aw journal recently an artieI-2 ttzt pro- reveals, coiasenatlve hypo poses su Jf r m JhoartiehbbyJ C3 Lovaro, ar.a it appeared in the fail t:rje cf Ftiiey ntmZ nMBV ' A W. "i"? f-mm T ?..w5- tl-n fani. M, A 2 m Is, sua. J.BJ. C 41 Li W'-.f tvi t . rr.ilnutrlen in thb ceuntry b the Then individual irrcereneibilitv or imprudence is the cauea cf hunger, it . raacs more ce to pro cher.3 rather than a month's worth cf feed stamps," Covard writes in "Feed - b,g Everite-: IIe'7 Federal Food Pro- yfc ft-..- Vfci V Wd'd lU" Sim 1 : Cevard writes that current federal " Ur p? f5 r?nvtn j"-,.3 to t,w pocr vcdl t3 Cx el ythan current prcgrams and would r.et c!:trcy anyone's incentive to pro- W A kVlA In the sort cf maneuver that in the theater cr.ee was called "plryir.g to the pit," Covard cells up wtiTare abuae ste- ever food etep reeipi:r.t3 who drove rea!:e3 the rather strare cliim that I-"5- - f fiM.qpy r V,t A hurrer -and r.irtritler u;e evidence nonei;en wiie survey to baek up cljrr.e." 7 In what would be more appropriate as mock epie ctj-i-3 at the start cf his article, Bovard says, This b the story, cf ho7 a handful cf isolated incidents became juetieatien for vastly increas ing dependency in America . . . how ccr7teemen repeatedly exaggerated the extent cf hunger in order to JustiTy trying to feed everybody." At the end cf hb article, Eevard again reaches fer elevated langue-e and tries to attribute motives: 'Hunger has become an fceus to conjure with a political magic wand to mesmerize the pubis's critical faculties." ' Even Dovard cannot diepate the findings of a committee that F.ebert Kennedy headed b 1C37; the cemmit- tee's hearings on hunger b the I2eeb- sippi delta were influential b expand ing food stamp and ether feed as sistance prcrjrams. Ncr can i r" - that fcfant mortality rates b the Uni ted States are relatively high. Cut b Lb artiele, Dovard rcfjres to , ma.:e the xry r,eee--rv rr ..t,-: etween xnabutntica and th r- - ling deaths cf infants and unborn children b ir.povcri:hed creas, both urban and rural As perheps hb most cogent evident that hunger b Amer ica b jict a prctlem, Fsvrrd 7rites: "From 1C33 to ICC 3 the 117 York Times did not run. a tire"- crtiale on hunger b Ameriea." . The unfortunate thing about Folicy nevier's cclf-cenlng -petition, its dwrrTuncd cvn.m cf crieal facts and its hypocritical features cf sym pathy to the poor (tfen't fcrget the soup kitchens and d:t pi!b) b that thb attitude cee-3 to have become prevalent b an clv.ir.l tiitien that will net even empty its wrrcheures of. surphs feci fer to cf leering the Althe-j gh th 3 1: T.ir;:-.-iprc -ram b Coverts mr-'n t-?:i, rfcer,:mna tien cf federal fee J pre : b e.eep irg. And to hzri I . . .1 t:.e L-.::':t cuts : thet the F:r n z :r:!:;n has te'-ah feed prerr:-1 11 zt'.tj criti ce.J Lt.'i w i-'.t r.e . . ... 3 v 1 the. " '!-tcrer;t;enc;t:
