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Thursday. January 4L 194t
The DAILY NKR1USKAN
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Timorous Liberalism News Roundup
... so was state's ex-officio delegate
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Add to the liascos ot rJda me peace resolu
tion debate ami vote of the American Student
union's national convention at the University
of Wisconsin over the holidays. The delegates,
supposedly militantly liberal minds of those
who sit in the pews of the educational institu
tions, w ere strangely unwilling to commit them
selves to anything at all.
It may be surprising to learn that good
authority has said at least one student of the
University of Nebraska atended the sessions.
It was further learned that this student sat
in the position of somewhat ex-officio mem
ber. Whether this student atended the meet
ings with the purpose in mind of initiating
a chapter of the union here, or whether he
attended out of idle curiosity, could not be
learned. Iitle does it matter.
The important fact is that the group passed
a peace resolution after rejecting by a land
slide vote of 322 to 49 an amendment which
would hold Russia the aggressor in the war
with Finland. The proposition to which so few
of these young liberals were willing to sub
scribe read:
"While the American Student union has
no sympathy for the Eussian attack on Fin
land and specifically condemns it as a clear
act of aggression, nevertheless it does not
want to see our neutrality prejudiced by
those acts we consider to be unneutral."
Even with condemnation of an alleged ag
gressor qualified by so equivocal a phrase as
the wish that our neutrality be not prejudiced
by those acts which may be considered un
neutral, the enlightened intellectuals in the
vanguard of American liberalism found them
selves unable to agree.
Discarding the theory of the Dies com
mitee that the union is under the thumb of
the Third International in Moscow, it ap
pears that the American Student union has
degenerated from an out-spoken but in
effectual debating society into an organiza
tion lacking even the courage to pass a posi
tive resolution. Ordinarily, college minds do
not function in that way.
A resolution calling for peace, as those of
most patriotic-sounding organizations have
been, can be only negative if it merely shouts
the wonders of peace like a Father Divine
angel singing for a hand-out at one of the
Harlem Messiah's branch heavens. There is
very little on which to agree or disagree on
the admirable qualities of peace.
And just now peace as a topic of debate
is like the weather. Everybody talks about
it, but nobody does anything about it. Not
even the ASU. Perhaps it's too much like
the weather: no one can do much about it
except talk.
The Editor's Job
Getting out the paper is no picnic,
If we print jokes people say we're silly;
If we don't, they say we're too serious.
If we clip things from other papers
We are too lazy to write them ourselves;
If we don't, we are stuck on our own stuff.
If we stick too close to the job all day
We ought to be out hunting up news;
If we go out to try to hustle
We ought to be on the job in the office.
If we don't print contributions
We don't appreciate true genius,
And if we do print them the paper is filled with
junk.
If we m?.ke a change In the other fellow's writeup
We are too critical;
If we don't, we are asleep.
Now like as not some one will say
We swiped thi.. from some other paper.
We did, we did, we did!
by Davis, Loos, Mahnken
NEWS AND PEOPAGANDA
By definition, propaganda is news. It can
either be true or false, fact or rumor, an
attempt to influence its receivers either for or
against any desired object. Before the first
world war, the term "propaganda" was seldom
heard. Since 1918, however, it has appeared in
the headlines daily, its true connotation often
being lost or confused in the bitter hatreds
and jealousies of international and national
quarrels.
Today the general publics of the various
nations have become too sophisticated and
experienced to believe the fantastic rumors
of World War 1 propaganda. On the other
hand, in their wisdom, they are apt to be
too cynical and suspicious to believe the
truth in the propaganda when it is told to
them. It is difficult to determine just where
to put the responsibility for this change in
attitude.
That our daily United States newspapers arc
partly to blame can not be denied. No matter
how impartial they try to remain, conflicting
reports and rumors dominate their headlines.
Today is no exception. One headline from
Finland relates, "26,000 Reds Trapped and
Slaughtered."
From Russia comes another, "Finns Weaken
ing Before Russ Drive." From London comes
the news, "Three German Planes Demolished as
Air Raid Fails," while Germany retaliates with,
"Successful Air Raid Carried Out Against
British." It is such reports as these that makes
your international news correspondents nesi
tntp tn nrediet, anvthinc for to attempt ti
analyze these conflicting reports might lead to
pure fiction.
THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE
President Roosevelt delivered his annual
message on the state of the nation to the last
session of the 76th Congress yesterday after
noon. The keynote of the president's speech
was foreign affairs, and, if our cars didn't
deceive us, the chief executive's sentiments are
definitely anti-dictatorship and ant i-" power
polities." Mr. Roosevelt has great faith in the
"democratic" governments of the western
hemisphere and believes that such kinds of
government are feasible for all countries in the
world, even though some seem unwilling to try
them. This opinion sounds reasonable, but it
isn't all so simple, for such things as race,
nationalistic feeling, inborn ambition, and the
like, demand consideration in a discussion of
how a nation can and will govern itself.
The president, in considering the domestic
situation very cursorily, felt that national
expenditures were justified and proper be
cause they increased the income of the coun
try. I want to know at whose expense, in
other words, who will pay the bill finally?
The president must be commended for the
fine quality, politically speaking, of his speech.
For he confined himself admirably to talk
jilifnit. ideals, shied nw.iv from concrete facts.
and appealed for the united support of the
country that is, for a de-emphasis ot partisan
shin. It is. however, iroine to be hard to for
get political parties with elections virtually
upon us.
It was not nice of the president, when talk
ing nlmiit n ennntrv united for neace. to strike
- - - o - - " I 1
at Senator Borah so harshly when speaking of
the country s need lor greater armament.
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Texas, California
universities.
and Harvard
For $1,500,000
: . Queen Sourpuss
was revealed on the Texas uni-
versity CRmpus Monday after an
election in which votes were
bought and sold like gumdrops,
nnp for a nennv. The election is
we'd name a dormitory after soire- an affair to select the ugliest man
4, . . . , . , on the campus, all for the sake
one too. That's just what hap- . . ... KzTthm nrim.rio. sir
pened at Northwestern which re- wag conccted with more pennies
cently received that amount from rolling In for the final vote. It's
the estate of Clara A. Abbott. Half an ill favored face indeed that
the estate was to be given to char- doca nobodv
ity by the trustees who picked ir..,-f VUA
education as a worthy cause. In KOSmet KIllD
appreciation, the university haa mouths will wat eratthe news Umt
named a new 18-story dorm, Ab- Princeton's counterparty the Tri
bott hall. "The money will be ,dub. is taking its annual
used for the advancement of medi- all-male Production on a 3 000
lTt Vh.mw.oi ami aurcical mile tour which includes New
nclJe" JfiL The DaSy North- York. Other clUes to be visited
Llrn by the club'a five-car special in-
Uicky U the college which can ude PhUaddphia, Baltimore,
count among its friends public- rittsburgb C inclnnaU dlanap-
minded individuals of wealth. Pri- olis. Loville Memphta. St
ate endowments such as this one Juis, Chicago, Detroit and finally
have been the main stay of many Qeveland. nPin.tnia
of the nation's finest educaUonal Says The Dally Prlncetonlan
Institutions, including Chicago, (See CAPERS, page 4.)
Yamashita
(Continued from Page 1.)
days on his way to Arlington rem
etcry where William Jennings
Bryan is buried.
When Yajnashita first arrived in
Lincoln aa a vonth after work In p
his way from the west coast, he
went straight to the home ol the
silver-tonirued orator and an
nounced that he had "adonted the
family." He served the household
for six years while he attended
high school and later studied soci
ology and political science at the
university.
Ilia brother. KlvnhlrU Yuma
shlta, received a blzad degree here
in inn.
DlicihlPCQ nrPARTMENT
. . . B.irtnn Thll. Frl Kearlct
MSSISiam BUtinril Wlini(cii - "T,
Circulation Manager Lowell wicnaei
AM. nAII.T aanlcned Hltirl1 are the nainlon at IU editors. Their views
ar oirtnkia M M say refleet tin attitude of the aomtnliitrattoa of the onlveniltj.
Sailer reports delinquency
rates highest among the dull
Tvv.nnnrv nr hrrht?T for dividuals. because of the much
At thnn larrrr nnmhrrs of dull Dorsons. In
j'l'iaviin wiivj eii iiivivij v rr -
for cither feebleminded or normal our schools more effort has been
individuals, according to recent expended in working out plans for
studies completed by the depart- me special room enna man ior ma
ment of cducationcii psychology. somcwnai wurr
Rates were found to be approxl- nevertheless handicapped young-
mately the same for males and stcr. Too often, the latter are
females of both the normal and driven to compete with normal
Bitv.n .nnc:!.). students in . a school nroeram de-
erable discrepancy between the signed for average children."
latter and persons in tne lniermeu-,
iate group rated ns below average
intelligence. Dr. Warren R. Bailer
of the department of educational
nsvcholocv and measurements
found that in the case of the latter
groups, boys are three times
more frequent offenders than girls.
In his study Bailer traced the
careers of more than 400 persons.
who In elementary and high school,
were rated as below average men
tal abilitv. thoueh above the level
of feeblemindedness. In both in
stances a control group of average
men ana women was siuuieu.
Reporting his findings to the
Journal of Genetic Psychology,
Bailer declares that "poor social
adjustment on the oart of the men
tally dull persons is of greater so
cial signincance man is tne poor
adjustment of the lower grade in-
Botany assistant wins
government position
Dr. Joseph Robertson, assistant
instructor in the botany depart
ment ior ine lasi iwo years, rc
sifned recent lv to loin the United
States Forestry Service as range
examiner, rroiessor lioo-jrLson
was selected from a field of sev
eral hundred applicants after scor
ing highest in the nation in com
petitive examinations.
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