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
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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
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The first week's contest ends
Saturdav April 8. and the remain
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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.
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