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The Morning After
Tlie Peace Strike
One hour before noon yesterday, half a million
Students participated in peace demonstrations. These
'strikes against war" were held in every prominent
astern and west coast university, and even found
their way into the more progressive middlewestern
institutions.
The morning after, two Student Pulse contribu
tors query as to why the Nebraska campus saw
no demonstration against war. With the aid of edi
torials clipped from the newspapers of nearby
:ampuses, we might attempt an answer.
(Weekly Creightonian, Omaha.)
"One million students have been called by
various organizations throughout the United
States to participate in the annual student peace
strike, Thursday, April 22. Students who think
will have no part in this so-called peace strike.
"It is a call to treason not to reason.
"Students are assured that the strike is not
demonstration against school authority, but rather
a strike against mobilization. It is really a mani
festation of slackerism. The strikers express
refusal to fight for country, even in self defense.
"Peace on earth is indeed a noble end to
strive for. But student strikes that reek of
anarchism and are direct attacks upon the
natural powers and lights of government are
not a reasonable means of manifesting a de
sire for peace. Many of our peace promot
ing organizations could bear :i bit of scrutiniza
tion. Their motives may be found to be anything
but peaceful.
"Creighton students, from their very back
ground, refuse to be regimented with the slackers'
league. We are for peace. We are not for
treason."
In that editorial, you find the sentiment of a
majority of Creighton students in relation to "peace
strikes." It might be safely added that this senti
ment is held iy a majority of Nebraska students
as well.
How do Nebraska students, most of whom never
witnessed a peace demonstration, arrive at such a
prejudiced concept?
Their only information comes from the local
newspapers, which obtain their "peace strike" stories
from press association wires. To any newspaper
man, several hundred students meeting quietly to
hear an address by an authority on international
problems is no story. But when a handful of mis
guided attendants at St. Olaf's college in Minnesota
"picket" their classes for peace, that's news:
In forming their opinions, Creighton and Ne
braska students were unable to learn that other
demonstrations, unheralded by the press, also oc
curred yesterday morning. For instance:
Senator Gerald P. Nye addressed the Duke uni
versity anti-war conference, in which twelve campus
organizations participated.
University of Minnesota students heard Gover
nor Elmer Benson at a faculty-sanctioned peace
demonstration.
Three students, a rabbi, and a minister ad
dressed students on the University of Cincinnati
campus.
Maynard Kreuger, University of Chicago pro
fessor, spoke at the Northwestern university peace
demonstration.
Purdue heard three students and a university
religious leader at its mass meeting.
At Florida State College, every instructor de
voted his 11:00 o'clock class hour to a discussion
of some phase of the war problem.
An open forum wp.s held on the U. C. L. A.
campus, with two students debating methods of
promoting peace.
Student and faculty members addressed two
mass meetings at Oklahoma university, both of
them endorsed by the commandant of cadets.
A law student, a minister, and a professor of
economics presided over the demonstration at Texas
university.
Five students, speaking on different phases of
the war problem, drew a large crowd of University
of California students to their mass meeting.
Francis Lederer, film star and peace enthusiast,
addressed the hour-long demonstration against new
wars on the Los Angeles junior college campus.
Kansas University students heard three of their
number at a "peace mobilization convocation."
Even Kansas State college, so close to this
military stronghold, had their peace demonstration
in the university auditorium.
Yet, all we read of were the "picketing" stu
dents of St. Olaf's college.
This is only a partial list, gleaned from college
papers a type of news which never reaches Ne
braska students in papers which feature sitdown
strikes, axe murders and Hollywood divorces. No
wonder we take such delight in our smug indiffer
ence. But the ignorance of these widespread activities
is not the whole story. Creighton university, like
Nebraska, is submerged in complete domination by
the department of military science, a fact that can
be explained only by administration susceptibility
to pressure groups. R. O. T. C. could not keep its
iron grip on Nebraska students if it were not for
the cooperation of administrative officials.
Another argument has been advanced to ex
plain the disinterested attitude of mid-western stu
dents toward such social issues as war. The de
tachment of central states from industrial and po
litical centers is sometimes used; another, as the
following editorial excerpt from the Oklahoma
Aggie paper indicates, is the waryness of the newer
colleges toward promoting "progressive" thought.
"One would think that the f ireworks in Amer
ican collegiate circles would be found on the
young progressive campuses of America's mid
western universities. Eut such is not the case.
The mid-western universities, as a whole, are too
wary of their recently-gained prestige, to risk the
possible consequences of forceful progressive and
reformative action. The students of old eastern
schools are notoriously the most free-thinking in
the country Harvard, Yale, Wisconsin, and New
York undergraduates do not hesitate to voice
their opinions of any campus institution faculty,
administrative, or student that seems to warrant
their attention."
It would seem that this argument is directly
refuted by the demonstrations on the Kansas, Okla
homa, and Kansas State campuses yesterday. It
may be true that Nebraska students are more socially-minded
than social-problem-minded, but that
argument is limited. Didn't these same three schools
send their representative to Hollywood with an equal
amount of enthusiasm ?
Liberal student groups, if given a fair chance,
would undoubtedly flourish on the Nebraska campus
as well as in the neighboring schools to the south.
There is an urgent need for them, to acquaint a
greater number with more than a superficial under
standing of the causes and cures of mass murder.
But that chance will never come as long as
the Nebraska military department, with the bless
ings of administrative olficials, continue their class
room indoctrination and gaudy pageantry. There
is little room in the student schedule for serious
study when a three-ring circus is in full swing on
the campus. Mussolini found this out to his ad
vantage years ago.
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Why No
Peace Strike t
To the Editor:
Yesterday students on many
large campuses thruout the United
States left thi-ir classes at 11:00
and for one hour demonstrated
that they do not want war. What's
the matter with Nebraska?
Instead 011 our campus yester
day university fellows drilled for
hours at a time, sweating in the
hot sun and doing their bit to pro
mote the next war. Military sci
ence oniy glorifies war. Why is it
that we do not have a course as
well attended glorifying peace?
The cause is more worth while.
I do not believe that a strike on
this campus would be wor th much.
Only a lew strikers would be sin
cere. The others would like the op
portunity of skipping a class. It
takr-s something more than a
strike to make f-tuuentu realize
that it is war and not peace winch
will better our world.
I once took a course in interna
tional relations and it certainly
revealed the inside on war and
peace. We shouldn't have a com
pulsory international problem
course because no course in a lib
eral university should be compul
sory. However, a course like this
one to combat the evils taught in
military science should be better
advertised.
I'm not a prissy school ma'am
person who believes that a 11 Is de
rived from bock, but I do suggest
that people learn a little more
about the causes and effects of
war, before thry take sides for or
against it, j
JEAN SMITH.
Another Peace
Worker Speaks
TO THE EDITOR:
Thursday's Nebraskan carried
an account of a fast by Y. M. and
Y. W. cabinet members and inter
ested students as a dedication to
the fight for world peace. Com
mendable as was the purpose of
this gesture it is hard to see how
a few empty stomachs will affect
the cause of peace, either pro or
con.
To combat the terrific force of
present day militaristic propa
ganda (only a drop in the bucket
to what would be unleashed if a
good war scare could be fomented I
peace lovers must themselves go
after publicity and lots of it.
Another of the ideas suggested
by the Intercollegiate Christian
council for peace day demonstra
ti ms was a student strike. What
with the columns the C. I. O. and
other unions are getting into
every day with their sitdown idea,
any kind of a strike, even a
student strike for peace, ought
Vt make food fo rat leat a H.nall
headline. I'.v.t iXiyM of such head
lines might plant the idea firmly
in the minds of the American
people college students do not
want war, nor do they want any
part of the trappings of war. A
good place for the strike to start
would be In regard to R. O. T. C.
drill. That would ensure plenty
of noise from the opposition.
Dhether a sit down strike or
not is unimportant. (Some might
fail to see anything unusual in
the former due to the recent
effect of spring fever) but at any
rate why not do something at
Nebraska bold enough to at least
be noticed. Campuses all over the
nation are putting over similar
projects successfully. Must we
always lag behind?
R. J. M.
TO THE EDITOR:
I can think of but one word to
describe the recent condemnation
of the Honors Convocation speak
er, namely, nanowmindedness. To
say that anyone who is looking
for trouble will find it is to utter
a platitude. This is precisely what
Mr. Stout and Mr. Mueller are
guilty of doing. I fear that they
missed the real significance of the
address by allowing themselves to
be blinded by one or two pro
Rooseveltian references wnich
were merely presented as exam
ples of the progress being made
in this country.
The progress of a nation, in the
sense in wnich George Fort Milton
was speaking, transcends all polit
ical dogmas and petty individual
"gripes." Mr. Milton was conscious
We hesitated for a moment
before we approuched Senator
R. C. Regan because newspaper
reports for the last two decades
have described him as the "de
termined Irish
man." Then the
next mome n t
we found our
selves talking
to one of the
senior members
of the Nebras
ka unicameral
body, to one
who has prob
ably seen a3
much legisla
tion pass thru
the legislative
bodies of this
state as any
living member
of the unicam- Lr',:l....Lin.rl r J"!
eral.
"Yes. young man, this will
probably be my last session of
Nebraska legislature. At 73 years
of age. I have seen 11 sessions
begin and end. Really, I do not
feel that I will be on hand for the
next session," Mr. Regan confided.
As a member of the judiciary
committee and the public health
and miscellaneous committee, the
Columbus senator has been kept
very busy. But to his credit go
other laurels. Senator Regan is
also chairman of the committee on
committees, and just the other day
was elected chairman of the sitt
ing committee which will attempt
to get the first unicameral ad
journed during the first week of
May.
"We have had very little im
portant legislation during this
term," Senator Regan believes.
"Most of the measures which we
have already passed have been
merely corrective measures.
The fact is, the state is already
legislated to death."
Probably the most important
piece of legislation, if we call any
important, Senator Regain main
tained, was the unemployment in
surance measure which passed
the unicameral last Wednesday,
even this measure, however, is of
secondary importance compared to
the appropriations for which the
body meets every two years, the
senator stated.
Having viewed the Nebraska
legislatures continually from 1911
to 1917, from 1923 to 1931, and
again from 1935 to the first ses
sion of unicameralism. Senator
Regan's opinions and criticisms
are based on real experience. Al
tho the Columbus representative
does not like the rules of the new
assembly, he believes that the
personnel of the present session
is the best that the state has ever
had. That the state has more
honest, scrupulous, and conscien
tious legislators than in any
previous session cannot be denied,
he stated.
Mixing a bit of philosophy
in an interview that is generally
a mere recording of facts and
personal attainments, we asked
the Senator his advice to stud
ents who aspired along political
lines.
"Politics are like wood carv-.
Ing," he declared. ."It's just
nature."
Always. Senator Regan has fav
ored the university, and has done
everything within his power to see
that this Nebraska institution goes
forward.
Representing Platte and Nance
counties. Senator Regan retired
from farming many years ago.
Since that time he has been busily
occupied in legislating for the
state and also as a councilman
in his native town. He is t
democrat, married, and has no
children.
Dr. Inez Philbrick, university
physician, after 43 years of prac
tice has departed to Dayton, O., to
live with her sister and brother-in-law.
One of the city's most
prominent citizens, Dr. Philbrick
was known for her benevolence to
all types of people.
She was the first feminine
physician on the University of Ne
braska faculty. Many students and
teachers attended her summer
health classes at the university.
Dr. Philbrick is a graduate of the
University of Iowa medical school
and the Women's Medical college
at Philadelphia, Pa.
A keen student of medical
science, Dr. Philbrick is recognized
as an outstanding authority in
field of pursuit. She has taken
great Interest in such topics as
peace movement, birth control and
the child labor movement.
Euthanasia Battle. ,
Her most recent battle was
fought in the use of euthanasia.
She was instrumental in introduc
ing a "mercy relief bill" in the uni
cameral and she championed its
cause with much vigor. Altho the
hill failed to pass, it caused much
thinking on the part of those in
terested in this type of legislation.
On arriving in Lincoln, Dr. Phil
brick set up a clinic for the pur
pose of giving medical care to the
indigent and the underprivileged.
She has done a great deal of work
in connection with the Home for
the Friendless, and many people
aver that she had aided thousands
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DR. INEZ PHILBRICK.
of children in recovering their
health.
She is not only Interested In
civic welfare but also in national
prosperity. Taciturn in appear
ance, she exhibits her candidness
and aggressiveness in espousing
a cause which she believes will
better society in general. She
undertakes all her endeavors with
untiring efforts.
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of the fact that he was addressing
a group of young men and wom
en; it was his duty to inspire them.
Can youth be inspired by telling
them to conserve? The very es
sence of any lecture to the youth
of a nation must be progress and
betterment of life.
Heaven help us if the day ever
comes when our youth go out from
the schools with the philosophy of
merely "holding your own" or
"getting by."
Mr. Mueller exemplified his narrow-minded
attitude when he said.
"Such an addr kh does not even
warrant consideration let alone In
spiration." Thus it is evident that
he wrote his condemnation of the
entire address on several minor
references without giving it a fair
consideratio in any sense of the
word.
Youth must be inspired with the
hope of human progress and bet
terment. The mere fact that George
Milton is a democrat should not
deafen our ears to the words of so
learned a man.
DON NEMETZ.
(phDAA
fO..iiisi!jto. ... A
PRESIDENTIAL economy aris
ing from the recent budget mes
sage may spell a sharp curtail
ment in the new broad farm
program, but it is the hope of
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace
that part of the program can be
salvaged. The economy drive
may affect the ever normal gran
ary, farm tenant aid program,
federal purchase of submarginal
land, crop insurance and the
domestic allotment act. The gov
ernment, however, is making
provisions for the continuance of
the soil conservation program,
RELIEF employment for a top
average of 1,786,000 persons an
nually has been figured by WPA
spokesmen in Washington, fol
lowing the presidential announce
ment of the relief appropriation
recommended for the next fiscal
year. This means, if the unofficial
figures are correct, that relief
rolls will have to be cut. consid
ering the fact that about a year
ago 2,871,637 persons were on
relief. On March 27, 1937. the
total had decreased to 2.114,790.
Seasonal employment should take
nearly a million persons off the
roster for this summer.
I'ROFUSE labor difficulties con
tinue to cloud the industrial front.
Powers Hapgood, New England
CIO secretary, and several leaders
were arrested at Lewiston, Me.,
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former is attempting to corner
more labor in its ever-growing
roster.
INTENDED to iron out prelimi
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labor relations act, labor and in
dustry leaders are informally con
ferring in Washington this week.
Secretary of Labor Terkins asked
the conferees to suggest a plan
"which will serve to lessen the
tension and minimize stoppages of
work through misunderstandings.
In attendance are rival labor lead
ersJohn L. Lewis, CIO general
issimo, and William Green, AFL
president and numerous indus
trial leaders. This is the first step
in the official intervention made
by the government to regulate in
dustrial relationships between
capital and labor.
The chain letter disease has
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