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Lincoln Evening Journal and tV'tbrankaSuio Journal --Editorial Opinion--- The Cynic's Corner Administration and Congress Differ A focal point in the battle of the budget between Congress and the Eisenhower administration is Housing Legislation. There are 3 major areas of differences. One it public housing. Back in 1949 Congress said the government could subsidize 810,000 units. (Uncle Sam pays that part of the indebtedness that rents' do not cover.) By the end of 1958, only 232,000 of that 810,000 quota had been built.

The Democrats propose to extend the authority to subsidize these units. A second area of disagreement comes on the subject of urban renewal. In a 3-year period, the Eisenhower Administration would give the cities $750 million for slum clearance while the Democratic bills would give them twice that amount in the same period. College housing is where the third basic difference appears. The Eisenhower administration wants to abandon the loan program, and instead, help colleges pay off construction bonds held by private investors.

The administration would spend $500 million over 20 years for this purpose. Democrats would continue the loan program. The Senate bill would authorize an additional $300 million for dormitory loans and the House $400 million. The Senate bill, in addition, would set up a new loan fund of $125 million so colleges could bor- row for construction of such other academic facilities as classrooms. The only other difference of $100 million or more among the bills, according to the Congressional Quarterly, concerns apartments built especially for people 62 years and over.

The House bill would let the, federal government loan $100 million to non-profit corporations which wanted to build aparthments for the elderly. Because Congress changes housing laws about every 2 years, long range totals are misleading, but the meaning of the differences between Congress and the administration can be assessed in the costs for fiscal 1960. The Eisenhower Administration estimates its' bill would cost $4.6 million for that year, the Senate bill $188 and House $312 million. The Senate and House bills would be lowered to $38 million and $112 million respectively if raising interest on GI home loans from to succeeds in enticing private banks into making the loans and eliminates the direct loans. Both Congress and the administration are agreed on this point.

The estimated long-range cost of the House bill which is more liberal than the Senate version is $6.1 billion compared to $2.3 billion for the Eisenhower bill. Screening Mentally Retarded Commitments Mention the phrase "mental health" in Nebraska and the odds are this phrase, among other things, will suggest the picture and ideas of Cecil Wittson, director of the Nebraska Psychiatric Institute at Omaha. The Institute is the joint creation of the State Board of Control and the University of Nebraska. Wittson and the Institute, aided by many others in mental health in Nebraska, has given Nebraska the reputation of being one of the most forward looking states inler- ested in treating mentally ill persons. Three or four years ago AViltsou mental retardation was virtually a hopeless field.

Today, after work in this area, he feels something can be done for these unfortunate persons, not only in a humanitarian sense but in equipping them for simple occupations that make them M'age earners and taxpayers rather welfare recipients. He has studied some of the commitments to the State Home for Retarded Children at Beatrice and some 25 persons have been released as not actually menially retarded. Wittson estates about savings in commitment costs to the state for every inmate released in terms of that person's annual cost to the state over his normal life expectancy when admitted as a child. Now Willson feels that preventive steps should be taken to assure that no one in the future should be committed to Beatrice who is not mentally retarded. This prevention would not only salvage human values, but, be- lieves Wittson, would save the taxpayers money, even allowing for the expense of an examination and treatment at the Nebraska Psychiatric Institute.

For these reasons, Witlson supports LB588 i would require commitments to Beatrice be first screened by the Institute on persons under age 12. The bill would authorize examination of these persons and treatment by the Institute for 60 days. Wittson says that much of the cost of this would be borne by private donations, rather than entirely by state tax support, and that no additional buildings would be required at the Institute. At the hearing, the proposal was opposed by the County Officials as the present coopera- i practices not written into statutes are sufficient, that it would delay commitments, give too much authority to the Institute, and duplicate expenses. The same healed opposition between the county officials and Witlson appeared later in regard to a bill which would permit Ihe Board of Control to place menial patients in private foslcr homes tor rchabihlory care.

Many similar objections were initially raised to the program of training psychiatricls and getting mental inmates out of the mental hospitals rather than continuing to expand their bed eapacities. Menially retarded children are, as a group, docile There should be no hurry lo commit them if their commitment might be avoided. Water--Kev to the Future Last year a new organization was formed in Lincoln that may leave its imprint on the future of the nation. Some 500 delegates from some 23 states met in Lincoln in a National Waler Resources Institute. So successful was that meeting lhal the second annual meeting of Ihe institute is being held in Lincoln this week and an.

attempt will made to form a nationwide organization. The object of the instiule is to work toward a sound national water policy. Much of the burden or responsibility in water conservation and use rests on the stales. The United States is becoming more and more acutely aware thai water is one of ils most important resources and of the necessity for comprehensive planning and coordination. It is to the credit of Nebraska that it is taking leadership in this important field and has been so successful attracting eminent speakers, including Dr.

R. G. Guslavson, former chancellor of Ihe University of Nebraska and director of Resources for the Future, lo this second meeting of the Institute. Nebraska, rich in water resources, has a rich slake in the formation of a sound conservation policy, as do all of the other states. Lincoln welcomes these guests who are looking lo Ihe future.

imiNimiiiMimiiimiimiipiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiim VIEWS OF RALPH McGILL, Editor Atlanta Constitution The Decline of the Southern Bloc McGill Washington--Fifteen senators voted against the Hawaiian Statehood Bill. All were from the South. Fourteen were Democrats. In the House, 65 Democrats voted nay. All but two were from the South.

Here in the proverbial nut-, shell is a sad and meaningful story. It is sad because the the South had for vot- "ing against the admission of the people of Hawaii were the wrong reasons. It was a purely political vote based on the fact that Hawaii will bring in senators and representatives who will provide a strength to the civil rights forces. It is meaningful because it very starkly reveals the great decline in the influence of the Southern bloc in the Congress. Prisoners of County Politicians They are here in one of the great capitals of "the world.

It is locked in a great struggle to the Free World from Communist power nd terror. These Southerners are not unintel- Jligent men. They know the score. But they are tthe prisoners of the many county politicians in their state who do not know the score and who cling to concepts no longer valid. I They must watch their traditional Senate 5power erode away day by day.

The Western well before the Hawaiian vote, had ready moved up to a position of equal, if not strength. Only the hold of the South- fern members on committee chairmanships cn- them to retain some of their old influ- 5 years ago the Southern bloc was a hard oort OM of 22 votes. This number, in a Senate of 96 votes, was a veto power. It could, by coalition with Republican conservatives, wield a strength quite out of proportion to its actual numbers. But about 5 years ago, some of the South began to break away.

It could not go along denying legislation in the general field of civil rights. The first such break came in the signing of the so-called Southern manifesto in 1956. It was a document which attacked the Supreme Court for its school decision. It was an idea conceived by Senate members who were then hopeful that the late Sen. Walter F.

George, of Georgia, might be returned to the Senate without opposition. It was felt that he might be attacked in a primary campaign as not having made an effectual fight (which no one could have made) against the court decree. ft Weakened Southern Position It was, from that at least, utterly valueless. Not all the Southerners signed it. Sens.

Estcs Kefauver and Albert Gore of refused, as did Sen. Lyndon Johnson, Majority Leader, from Texas. It was of no help whatever to Sen. George. It weakened the Southern position in the Senate and in the eyes of the nation.

In 1957, 4 Southern senators voted for the mild Civil Rights Bill which had the backing of Sen. Johnson of Texas. In early 1959 8 senators from states of the Confederacy voted to curb the filibuster. The hard core of Southern resistance to the majority is now reduced from 22 to 14. The filibuster now is useless.

A caucus was held ahead of the Hawaiian vote. It was a melancholy meeting in that those attending agreed there was nolhifTg they could do. They did not make a floor fight. Releated by Consolidated News Foatmes. Inc.

are no me educators who say not everybody can be a tcientim so don't feel guilty!" Illllllllllllllllllllllllllltllllltlllllllllltllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll MORE OR LESS PERSONAL The last place to go to assess how well a political party is doing is the'pre-campaign political rallies of the party's faithful. These political "blowouts" are most difficult places to obtain a true perspective about the realities of politics--be it Republican or Democratic, or be it Founders Day or the Jackson Day dinner. The audience is already Political selected and captive. The witticisms at the expense of Rallies the other party are devastating at such ex parte affairs, without any danger of rebuttal or exposure to wounding one's own Achilles' heel. A The mood is, and must necessarily be, expansive.

Oratory dins with the regularity of "Knick-Nack Paddy Whack." Party structures are erected on scaffolds of platitudes. Everyone looks and acts their most gracious best. Candidate rivals, who hate each other, exchange flowery compliments and two-second smiles. Yet neither party has devised a better way of organizing party enthusiasm and the party get-together-and-banquet device has successfully withstood all weathering of time. This type of adversary party system is indeed the American system.

It may well be a commentary on political parties that the "against" position is the easiest tactical role, but at the same time an enthusiastic advocacy of believed-in needs probably evokes the broadest, most spontaneous support at the paity worker level. Headlines in adjacent columns of Monday's Journal on the Republican activities made an interesting contrast. A 3-column headline over (he main Republican Founders Day story stated: "State GOP to Stand Pat on Basic Philosophies." Adjacent to it was, this l-column headline: "Attraction of GOP Fades Says Solon; 'Main Street Going'--Goldwater." While the Republicans in Lincoln were deciding not to "alter any of their basic philosophies in an attempt to win full power in 1960" and campaign on a conservative line, Conservative Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater in Washington was saying: rapidly are losing their hold on main street, the farmers and white collar people. are 8 million voters who left the party between 1954 and 1958. Some of these are Republicans who never before have voted Democratic.

These 8 million could tell you something about the Republican Party." In handing out the Goldwater report, Chicago Chairman Charles F. Percy said: "We want to draft a program that will be attractive to Independents and wobbly Democrats who have the decisive vote in elections." Here, it seems, is the dilemma of the Republican Party. The GOP can adopt the principles urged by the Nebraska party leadership without deviation at the serious risk of losing the election, or the GOP can modify some of those views which have received a minority of the vote at congressional and state elec- in order to recapture the 8 million voters who, Goldwater says, have deserted the party since the days of the Eisenhower crusade. The answer to Republican prospects of success in 1960 would seem to lie with the man and woman on Nebraska's main street and can probably be more quickly located by interviews there than at political dinner rallies in an ovation-filled hall. Goldwater A MOMENTS THOUGHT Hebrews 10:25 fore.iaking the assembling of together, at is the manner of name, but exhorting one another: and go much tfie more, an ye see the Jay approaching.

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Published week day bv The Journal-Star Printing 800-926 Street, Lincoln, Ncbraika. Associated entitled Mehi.ilvfly to for rrpubllcatlon of all local nrwx printed In this MWfpapcr, will all AP Public Mind letters not printed. most If brltf ind signed with full Letttra will over it ptn nma or initials only If accompanied by and addren, but nm of namei ii mot permitted on critical of The Journal UM richt to eondenso retaininf point. Deeds' of Kindness Lincoln In this world of pettiness and selfishness we often forget that there are still people in the world who consider themselves "their brother's keeper." This past week end I was caught in the "flash snow storm" with a group of 6 boys whom I had taken camping for the week end, near a small town about 100 miles from Lincoln. Our car went off the road and was so severely damaged that it is not drivable.

A family went to great personal inconvenience to, first of all, tow us into town to a garage; second, offer us the run and use of their home in spite of our wet and muddy condition; and furnish us with food, good clean sleeping quarters and a nice warm place to clean up, etc. As if this were not enough, when they discovered that our car would be in the garage for at least a week, they loaned us their car to return to Lincoln and to use until we could return to get our repaired car. I hope that by letting other people know about this experience my benefactors will realize the gratitude I feel for their help in my time of need. CLAUDE B. WILSON he was' trying to quote from something he had read.

It must have been Robinson Crusoe, who said: 1 am monarch of all survey My right there is none to dispute, From the center all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute. 0 Solitude! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms Than reign in this terrible place. GRANDMA Quotation Lincoln I wonder why all the comment on the remark of Gov. Brooks. I believe he was so delighted and surprised at being elected after the dis-- turbing re-count, and with the reality of his being governor Gov.

Ralph Brooks said he was not aware he was quoting anyone, but was merely using an old cliche. In writings of William Cowper the lines quoted by Grandma are credited to Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish sailor born in 1676, the prototype of "Robinson Crusoe." In 1719 Daniel Defoe published "Robinson Crusoe" which is plainly derived from Selkirk's story. Baha'i New Year 'Lincoln Friday, Mar. 20, starts the Baha'i New Year, marking the beginning of spring in the natural world, assuring the eternal promise of God's gift of renewed life. It also symbolizes the beginning of spring in the spiritual world with its century- old promise of a special gift from God for the new age-the knowledge of the oneness of mankind.

Upon the knowledge the foundation of permanent world peace shall be established. The Baha'i year is based on a solar calender inaugurated in 1844. It provides for 19 months, each month consisting of 19 days, with 4 intercalary days 'added between the last two months. The final month (Mar. 2-20) is devoted to fasting, when Baha'is take neither food nor drink from sunrise to sunset.

MRS. NINA SEIBERT Chairman, Lincoln Baha'i Assembly Berlin Crisis Lincoln What does Berlin mean to me? I believe it's time for' the people of this country to think seriously about this question because the impending crisis involving this divided city is shaping up to be the greatest threat yet to an already uncertain peace. The issue is political based chiefly on mistrust and misunderstanding between nations. The result can very likely be the agony of world-wide nuclear devastation. Talk about not yielding an inch and peace with honor means little to me.

I think many people ara shrugging off the Berlin issue as just another "crisis" with the feeling that we will somehow muddle through this one as have in the others. This is a dangerous attitude -like developing an optimistic outlook during a game of Russian roulette. The Berlin crisis means to me that we had better talk while there is still time to talk. HOPEFUL fniiiHiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiimiiiiiimiiiiiniiiiiMiiiiiiwiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiim There Oughta Be a Law --By Fagaly and Shorten CARBUNCLE MET WITH A SLIGHT ADVENTURE THAT TOOK ABOUT THREE SHCOMDS IN WE. HAPPENING I'D NOTICED rflM EVNG ME TOR SOME TIME'.

WELL, HE KEPT ME FOR ICEMEMB6I2ED BEADING IS THE 801 AT MUSTACHHD STCANGEttriTRIEDTOGET AROUND HIM NAME ISN'T OH, 1 MUST HAVE MADS A AT THE NEXT MEETING OF THE LADIES LUNCHEON SHE TOLD IT LlkE A PULL HOVEL- CHAPTEO.BV CHAPTER. Lenten Guideposts The Neglected Art By Arthur Gordon When I was 11, my parents sent me to a summer camp run along semi-military lines. Part of each camper's uniform was supposed to be a Boy Scout hat, low-crowned, wide- brimmed, to be worn every afternoon when we lined up for formal inspection. But my parents, through some catastrophic oversight, sent me off instead with one of those Army campaign hats, vintage of 1917. It wide-brimmed, all i when I put it on, I was prac-! tically in total darkness.

As for the crown, it seemed rise half a mile straight in the air. Whenever I wore this hat, Gordon instead of being an inconspicuous and somewhat homesick small boy, I became a freak. Or so I thought. Looking back now, across more than 30 years, I can smile at the memory. But believe me, it was no joke at the time.

I was miserable--utterly, abjectly miserable. Why? Because I was different, different from the others, different from the crowd. Into Later Life There must be few of us who cannot recall some such childhood episode and fewer still who do not carry some of this deep- rooted fear into adult life. But if we value leadership, if we prize achievement, if we are concerned with our own painful struggle toward maturity, we have to learn to overcome this childish concern. The rewards of differentness are a enough to see.

No matter what field you choose--science, entertainment, law, education, the business world--the demand is for individuals, whose performance is above average and therefore different. At any dinner party, the liveliest and most attractive guest is the one whose ideas and observations are stimulating because they are different. I have no doubt that a man's earning power parallels almost exactly his capacity to produce new ideas, to show unusual persistence or energy, to take chances--in other words, to be different. The fear of being different, most fears, tends to diminish when you drag it into the light and take a good look at it. At the bottom of such fears lies an intense preoccupation ith self.

That comical hat, back in my childhood, might have caused some momentary merriment or teasing, but the whole thing was too trivial to have lasted long. I was the one who kept it alive by agonizing about it. Like shyness, this sort of self-consciousness is a form of inverted egotism. Once you face this fact, you are not so likely to be victimized by it. It also helps to remind yourself occasionally that some of the disapproval or hostility that you shrink from encountering is probably imaginary.

In Good Company Another way to minimize the fear of being different is to remind yourself, if you really do run into resentment or ridicule, that you are in pretty good company. Very few of the great pioneers of thought or action escaped being laughed at, criticized, or even martyred. Most of the great religious leaders of history have been non-conformists. Christ was the most striking and dramatic example; Ha was, in fact, a revolutionist. He defied authority, as when He healed sick people on the Sabbath.

He upset convention, as when He sat down to dinner with publicans and sinners. He was not afraid to use violence, as when He drove the money-changers out of the temple. It takes courage to be different, but there is also an art to it. It's a gentle art, an unobtrusive art, but it requires real skill. It's the art of not antagonizing people unnecessarily by your differentness.

Some very rugged individualists never learn this lesson. Billy Mitchell's concept of air power was prophetic-- and correct. Unfortunately, he could not conceal his conviction that anyone who disagreed with him was a fool. As a result, his hopes and dreams were thwarted for years; he didn't live to see their fulfillment. The rule-of-thumb is very simple: be as different as you like, but try to be tolerant of the people who differ from you.

Next--Jim mie Dodd, songwriter a TV personality, tells how, after years of looking unsuccessfully for the "big break," it finally came only after he had given his life to God. (From thp magazine and copyright, by Giildcposts Amoclntmi, Carmel, (Distributed by and Syndicate).