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FIUDAY, MAKCII 31, 1939 DAILY NEBKASKAN SEVEN Bracket! tells experiences with Marines in Shanghai On way to San Diego post from Pensacola air base, Lieutenant, grade of '35, stops off at NU Eighteen months residence in the international settlement at Shanghai as a member of the set tlement defense corps has given Elmer E. Brackett, jr., what he thinks will be his onfy oppor tunity to observe a major war at first hand without actually par ticipating in it. Brackett, wh is a member of the Fourth division of tlie U. S. marine corps, was stationed in Shanghai during three months of the heaviest fighting in that area. During; his stay at home this week Brackett described some of the charges which the war has brought about in the Shanghi-region. Acclimated to war "Some great changes have taken place," he observed, "but it is sur prising how people are able to ac climate themselves to changing conditions and carry on their lives in spite of the fact that conditions are not normal. Brackett then explained that he was fimiliar with conditions only in the settle ment area, and was not vell aquainted with the condition of the people up country. Brackett is the son of Prof. E. E. Brackett and a first lieutenant in the U. S. marine corps. He re turned Ik me this week enroute to his new post at San D' .'go. He has just completed a 13 month course at the naval air training field at Pensacola, Florida. Endorses ir Training Brackett, who won his wings oply a few weeks ago, heartily endorsed the plan for the training of college students for the air corps. He declared, "Training for the corps is fine' experience, an. it provides training which .would be useful to any young man." Brackett graduated from the university in 1935. He obtained his commission thru the military department ofthe university. Men stutterers most numerous, speech professor reveals STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (I.P.). Stuttering men are three times as common as stuttering women, Dr. Herbert Koepp-Baker, assistant professor of speech at the Penn sylvania State college, stated. "Some persons hold to the be lief that fewer woman than men stutter because women change their minds rapidly and often," Dr. Koepp-Baker said. "This is not true. There is some physiological basis to the fact that females do not suffer as frequent break downs jn speech as men. The ab sence ff stuttering in women is probably due to some subtle sex link." Gilmore regrets Hull tariff policies not appplied earlier Bus Continued from Page 1 thizer declared, "I have been re buked by the city council in every attempt I have made to initiate reform," adding that two letter's which he Bent, urging the appoint ment of a committee to act oh this proposal, have been entirely overlooked. "They have refused action," the candidate avowed, ." n promises which former councL ien, m rs, and rich merchants made to V di versity groups years ago in order to hold the campus in Lincoln.." - Promises recalled. Recalling promises made in past years for a thru 15th street, a million dollar library and aid to the students in campus problems, Wilkinson contrasted the factual evidence of their intentions. "We have a split campus," the agitator sneered, "with traction rates so high as to make a varied educa tion prohibitive to the average student. Outlays of 60 to 80 cents daily are required" he added, "for the citizens of Lincoln living be yond walking distance to get their children to and from school. "Now " is the time for those powers, which can act, to fulfill pledges long overdue," Wilkinson forcefully declared, stating that such reductions in rates would not seriously harm the traction com- Suggesting that the low assess ment valuations which the com pany has enjoyed for many years amounts in fact to a municipal subsidy, the council candidate de manded return favors, directed tovvard that group of students which comprises the life and vigor of the commercial interests of the city. "Figures taken by the traction company's own expert compared with the tax valuations show that the assessed property of the com pany is a half billion dollars less than the present bare bone value," he pointed out. "Such concessions as the company has received war rant the present request that they grant to students the privilege en joyed at tie present time by stu dents of Omaha, New York City, and many other cities over the country. Fares out of reach. With the comment that it is to be hoped that the city of Lincoln is not going to prove itself just a fair weather friend to the student body of the university, Wilkinson urged that in return for the liberal subsidations to the Tractton com pany, the latter should subsidize the student body by bringing the fares more in tune with the pocket book of the average student. "Many instances can be cited," indicated Mr. Wilkerson, "where young men living in College View, or those outstate men having rela tives in Lincoln suburbs where they might live whi!8 attending the university, are denied a col lege education because of the high " cost of getting to andifrom school." Arguing that merchants of the city were in favor of getting the university here, he was astonished that they should not be more inter ested in getting the students to the university. Urging the city to act immediately on this question, the councilman candidate regretted the poor advertising for Lincoln "the white spot of the nation,' were the students forced to create their own transportation system between the main campus and th i siate farm. Sociologist translates Bible in new way EVANSTON. 111. (I.P.I. For the first timen nearly 2,000 years, the our gospels of the Bible have been translated by a sociologist and the result is a really NEW Testament. The translator is Dr. William L. Bailey, professor of sociology at Northwestern university. "I was astonished when I began this work," Dr. Bailey said, "to find how much of the . realistic detail of the Qpspels had been omitted in translations by theologians. "The four books are concerned with all sorts of sociological prob lems sex, crime, taxes, politics, labor, psychiatry, the family. Ther$ has never been such graphic exposure of the evils of society as the Gospels contain." The very word "Gospel," he said, might be translated into modern idiom as "You'd be sur prised," and this is still true to day. The theories on sex,' mar riage, ami economics expressed by Jesus are just beginning to be generally debated. The Gospel stories were origin ally written in the vernacular of the day, composed of Aramic slangy Hellinistic Greek, and were intended as "new flashes," rather than either history or literature, in Dr. Bailey's opin'on. "The Gos pels were written in a chatty, conversational style which was not at all pontifical," he reported. Parker company sponsors contest Winners to receive cash purses, scholarship A scholarship worth 1,000 to any college or university and 20 cash purses of $25 each will be awarded each week in a series of five weekly contests to be held by the Parker Pen company Degw- ning April 3. Walter W. Hcau, tresiaem oi the Boy Scouts of America, to gether with Mrs. B. F. Lang- worthy, past president or uie na tional Coneress of Parenta and Teachers and Lloyd D. Herrold, professor of advertising at North western university, win seieci in winners. The first week's contest ends Saturdav April 8. and the remain ing four contests end on the four nueeeedinc Saturdays. April 15, 22, 29 and May 6. Sohoiarsnips are transferable, and may be sub stituted with $1,000 m cash in stend Entrv blanks may be se cured in the DAILY NEBRAS- KAN office. Discussing the relationships be tween the "Reciprocal Trade Treaties and American Agricul ture," with emphasis upon recent concessions gained through the Canadian and English treaties, Dr. E. A. Gilmore, assistant professor of economics, outlines the Hull program in the March issue of the Nebraska Alumnus. With a survey of our recent tariff history explaining that the Hawley-Smoot tariff of 1930, by disrupting the balance of interna tional payments, did much to bring about a European financial crisis the following year, Gilmore suggests the the poverty of the farmers might have been prevent ed had the Hull program been in troduced 20 years earlier. "Farmers," he declared, "resent reductions in duties on various products coming from Canada. "Figures, however, show,', Dr. Gil more added, "that agriculture has gained greatly through the recent concessions. The British Empire is now importing fruit and vegetables-as well as , meat products in arge quantities as counterpart to a 42 percent increase in non agricultural products to Canada. LEISURE WEAR K::::::: :::::::: Leisure Jackets Our one desire has been to give you sport coats immeasurable smarter than other coats. 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