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History Professor Offers New Peace
Plan Founded on 12 Basic Principles
A new League of Nations to be
created at the end of the war,
with compulsory membership for
all nations, was advocated by Dr.
Arthur J. Umscheid, professor of
history, addressing the Omaha
Phi Beta Kappa association ban
quet last Friday evening-.
The new league, with economic
and military sanctions, which
would permit no nation to with
draw, should be founded on the
following 12 general principles:
1. The four basic freedoms
freedom of speech and expression,
freedom of religion, freedom from
want and freedom from fear
should be the inalienable rights
of all men.
Practical Equality.
2. All nations, victor and van
quished, must be members of the
league from the date of its incep
tion under terms of practical
equality.
3. The covenant of the league
must not be attached to any peace
treaty.
4. The league must have the
power of military and economic
sanctions and the ability to apply
and to enforce them.
5. No state shall have the power
to withdraw voluntarily from the
league.
Recognize Dynamics.
6. As human society is dynamic,
not static, the mistakes of the
last league, guaranteeing a status
quo, must not be repeated. Proper
machinery to permit boundary,
economic and commercial adjust
ments, as occasion arises must be
provided.
7. Abolition of secret diplomacy
by compulsory registration of in
ternational treaties, protocols and
agreements. Collective action
should follow any demonstrated
and proved violation of this prin
ciple. 8. Armaments must be scaled
down under league supervision to
the lowest point consistent with
safety; emphasis, when and where
possible, should be upon defensive
weapons.
9. Disagreements among na
tions to be submitted to com
pulsory arbitration before a per
manent tribunal set up by and
responsible to the league.
Responsibility.
10. Members of the league must
accept collective responsibility for
the maintenance of peace and rec
ognize a nation committing an in
justice against a neighbor com
mits the same injustice before the
community of nations.
11. Trade barriers must be ad
Justed to such a point that all na
tions shall be able to secure in
equitably distributed minerals.
12. No constitution in its orig
inal state can indefinitely regulate
a dynamic society. Therefore the
covenant should contain an
amendment process not too diffi
cult and not too easy in operation.
Lutheran Group
To Meet Sunday
For their annual Christmas pro
gram and party, members of the
Marti came out ahead with a
meet Sunday evening at 5:30 In
Parlor X of the Union.
LOWELL'S
JEWELRY STORES
and fine Jewelry Cijtn
go hand in hand.
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choice gifli and
lay away until
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Gifts and Radios
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Editor's Note
Five days ago Japan ami the United States officially
went to war. Since that time exchange papers published by
colleges from coast to coast have been received by the N'e
braskan showing the effects of the declaration on student
feeling. Today, on this page, the Xebraskan is attempting to
present a eomposit picture of student feeling as portrayed in
those student publications.
Minnesota
Columnist Asserts: fThis Is It;
This Is Our War, Let's Win It'
(Max Shulman's "Sauce for the Gander" is a regular feature of
the Minnesota Daily.)
I didn't want to write a column for today. I told Lowell Jones,
editor of The Daily, that I didn't think I could write anything funny
and even if I could, today is not the time for levity. He agreed, but he
asked me if I would simply state my feelings as a student on the
new war.
I have done that.
We have grown up during the debunking years. We have been
taught that war is hell and nobody wins.
We have become inured to crises. Starting with 1929 we have lived
under constant tension the crash, the breadlines, the bank holiday,
the NRA.the occupation of the Rhineland, the Spanish war, the rape
of Austria, Ethiopia, Munich, the fall of France, conscription, Dunkirk,
lend-lease, national defense, the invasion of Russia.
Rapidly we have relegated these things to the limbo of forgotten
headlines.
War, peace, liberty, fascism, invasion, oppression these have be
come cliches, glibly spoken, small talk, unreal.
Now we are in a war. We did not ask for it; we could not avoid
it. I first heard of it Sunday afternoon, and after the initial shock and
the quickly dead hope that it might all be a false report, I suddenly
began to think clearly. Three words stood out in my mind as if il
luminated: THIS IS IT.
For me the cliches have taken meaning, the events have resolved
themselves into a pattern. Now I know that it is my war. Now I see
that freedom is a trust. I, all of us, have been living a pretty good
life. Now is the time to settle up.
What I am trying to say is that all of us should now know why
we are fighting and what we are fighting for. Let's resolve that it is
our war, and then let's win it.
Annual's Photo
Studio Moves
To New Site
All individual pictures for the
Cornhusker 1911-42 yearbook will
be now taken at the Whelan utu
diYs, formerly of Rudge's, at its
new location in what was pre
viously the women's lounge in Mil
ler & Paine's. Shirley Russcl, editor-in-chief
of the Cornhusker, an
nounced that all pictures must be
taken and the proofs returned to
the studio by Friday, Dec. 19.
Nine fellowships are among 13!
Lutin Americans enrolled at Louis
iana State universiay.
Carvefh Wells Speaks
on "The Battle for Tin and Rubber"
, . . an illustrated lecture on Malaya
and the Dutch East Indies.
8:00 P.M. Sunday, Dec. 4
Student1 Union Ballroom
Identification Cards Requested
Frankforler Talks
On Gasoline Types
At the meeting of the American
Society of Agricultural Engineers
Col. C. J. Frankforter, associate
profesor of chemistry, addressed
the group on "Petroleum and
Fuels" Wednesday. His lecture in
cluded a sketch of the methods for
making gasoline and the various
types of gasoline. Also plans were
discussed by the group for the
preparation of a party in honor of
those members who will be called
in the draft.
More than 60 percent of students
work at the University of Texas.
University of Minnesota exten
sion division is offering a course
In cartooning under Len Kleis,
Chicago Tribune cartoonist.
1.
War
The Crop of '41
(This editorial appeared in the
Drake Times Delphic.)
The "war babies" are getting
their chance now.
Born during the world war or
just after the nations muzzled
their guns in 1918, today's fight
ing crop will follow in its fathers'
footsteps to fight in foreign
trenches for the "things" they are
willing to die for.
The nazi front has slashed
lsu . . .
fGo to Hell
Tokyo'-l,500
Cry at Rally
Jo to hell, Tokyo, go to hell,"
stormed more than 1,500 spirited
students Sunday night as the real
ization of America in war result
ed in a mass meeting which was
dismissed only when President
Hodges urged the students to "go
home, study and make A's tomor
row." From the front porch of his
home, President Hodges asked the
students to realize that altho en
thusiasm for country was not out
of place "mass meetings will not
aid the war situation."
Wrapped in a dressing gown
and standing on the arm of his
porch swing in order to be seen
and heard by the students, he
urged them to stick to their jobs
at hand.
War Is Serious.
"This war is a very serious and
solemn affair," he said. "Most of
you are too young to be in the war
right away but demands will
be made on all of us for service
before the war is over." "Every
man and woman," he continued
"has a job to do. Your job is to get
your education here at school. In
my opinion this affair will last a
long time. You students will have
your chance."
The meeting started when stu
dents began gathering at the
Greek theater about 8:15 p. m. At
that time only a handful of peo
ple were talking excitedly about
news casters and commentator's
opinions. A few were singing "God
Bless America" and the "Star
Spangled Banner." Within 15 min
utes more than 500 students were
there and a car parade, sounding
off with a bass drum and plenty
of horns, was started to let others
know of the meeting.
Half -dressed cadets peered from
stadium windows at the sound of
the drum and car horns and
women students gathered around
front windows to investigate the
noise, When the parade returned
to the stadium more than 1,500
students had filled the theater and
were calling for Colonel Hill and
President Hodges.
"RECORDS'
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LAST PERFORMANCE
of K. I. CONKLK'S
PROLOGUE TO GLORY'
Portraying Lincoln's New Salem Years
THE UNIVERSITY THEATRE
Dept. of Speech, School of Fine Arts
Dec. 12 8:00 P.M., .
, Ketervniionx Mle m Box Office Dec, It 2.5 P. M, ? !
Babies
Gel Their Chance
j through an opening in the Pacific
and the axis powers have dropped
a few hundred bombs at Amer
ica's back door.
President Roosevelt retaliated
to Japan's bombing invasion and
later declaration of war by de
claring an all out fight in the
Pacific to remove the danger of
any such reoccuring treachery.
Hitler has succeeded in creating
a world-wide front by luring the
United States into direct action.
He has set up Japan as a pawn
to relieve the pressure on the
Russian front and to divert Amer
ican aid to Great Britain. But he
has also done more than any other
person to unify the United States!
Now that the "babies" are old
enough to be soldiers and the
United States is at war, Japan
seems a fitting "climax" to twc
decades of living in post-war
times, including the roaring twen
ties, the crash of 1929 and the
subsequent depressions that fol
lowed in the wake of economic
stagnation.
By Jack Watson, Editor-in-Chief
Kansas State ...
Jokers Call
ROTC Men
To Meeting
As Kansas State students lis
tened to war bulletins late Sun
day night or when they had re
tired after listening to the news
casts all afternoon and evening,
some practical joker got on a
telephone and proceeded to call
all cadet officers of the ROTC
notifying them of a mass meet
ing immediately. The calls were
made about 1:30 a.m.
The voice over the phone used
the names of various person
nel of the Department of Mili
tary Science and Tactics to give
the message an authenic ring.
The announcement given to the of
ficers was to meet at the south
gate near Nichols gymnasium
within one-half hour. The order
was given because of the na
tional emergency, the voice said.
Only a few of the students re
ported at the gate. Most of them
who were called were not con
vinced and checked with other
cadet officers and with mem
bers of the department staff before
they donned their uniforms to re
port. Among those who were called
were several sophomore and fresh
man basic students.
However, the joker did not end
with calling only men students.
Several of the sorority houses
were asked about 2:30 a.m. if they
could be ready to move out of
their houses by Monday noon so
that the houses could be turned
over to military use.
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