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NERKASKAN. nY. DECEMBEK 5. 'W? PAGE TWO THE DAILY I nKiitwtn ttmmiis NEWS PARADE by Marjorie Churchill 'T IU K Or Shall We Get Our Heads Blown Off .-lrf So For no fie Af'i' Congress burns midnight oil. works on Saturdays and holidays for the first time In history to speed up the ponderous process of law making. And the farm bill re mains still under debate. The "complex patchwork" legislation, as Senator King of Utah dubs the senate's Pope-McGill bill, repre sents a tangled mass of provisions which even its supporters are un able to decipher. Senator King denounces the bill bitterly as an attempt to set up "an absolute master" over all ag riculture under "tyrannous, op pressive and illegal provisions. Three administration supporters. Bony, Pepper and Wagner, join in criticism of the bill. Talk Cut Short. The fluent conversation which hns marked the three first weeks will be out short in the senate next week. By unanimous consent, de bate on the farm bill will be lim ited. Hopes for the ending of de bate in the senate by Wednesday are s'ight, but house members may at last come to a vote. With ap proximately two weeks left of the extraordinary session, action on housing, wages and hours, and tax revision seems pretty much of a forlorn hope, even tho Illinois' Senator Rich inaugurates Sunday afternoon sessions and keeps the senate working until the bells toll the opening of a new year. Sorry Rut We're Coing j 77irn inytray. Japan apologiz for intrusion of troops Friday on the American defense sector. At the same time she demands a free hand to move Japanese forces thru the settle ment Feeling has run high since the tossing of a small bomb or hand grenade at the victory pa lade of Japanese troops thru the streets of Shanghai. Immediately following the throwiiig of the bomb Japanese troops encroached upon the American defense sector. Japan at the same time is run ning close to an international cri sis with France and Great Britain. France averts an unpleasant issue when authorities permit Japanese supplies to be moved thru the French concession. The British steamer Siushan is attacked in an attempted rescue of nine French Canadian runs marooned on Tsungming island. Japan continues her tightening grip on strategic points. Nanking faces concentrated attack next week. The next few months may brine Japan an opportunity to demonstrate high sounding state' menu that her war is a war of in. terference for the uplift of a mis guided China and that she does not want all the slices of territory that she can get. Dear Editor: As n group of Nebraska students inter ested in world Affairs, we are concerned over the apparent lack of campus interest on this question. The fact that Nebraska is an inland I school may account for our unconcern toward '.q nations. We. as a group, do not feel that stu dents are taking advantage of the educational opportunities set before them. Do you, as other students, give enough attention to such obvious pertinent questions as international peace? Are you, as students, asleep? Or are you merely not willing to face the realities of this problem? The above is our opinion of how university students react to world problems. What is your opinion? We should like to see some an swers to this letter in this column. A group of students. We print this letter in the editorial col umn instead of in the student pulse column where it rightfully belongs, for two reasons. In the first place Klmer has taken over the pulse column again today and he is a pretty hard man with whom to be running competi tion. In the second place we feel that this ex pression of opinion calls for some editorial comment, so we run it in conjunction with that comment. The Nebraskan feels that there is no problem equal or even near equal in impor-. tance to that of international affairs. The conflicting theories of fascism, pseudo-communism, and democracy keep the interna tional situation in a breath-taking tension. Selfish, near-sighted grasping after raw ma terials and national prestige are closely in terlocked with, or even a basis for, the blood-letting over governmental theories. Anybody with a dram of intelligence can see that a catastrophic explosion is imminent. Students at Nebraska remain naively apathetic. The single forum of the year on fas cism in Pra.il left an overwhelming majority of the cnrollecs cold and the Temple theater virtually empty. The International delations lub has had the gracelessness to die complcilc- ly, instead of nobly fightiig for anoiher year the lingering lealh that threatened it so Ioti". at a time when the international front is hot ter than ever. "A group of students" might weave some new flesh over the old lames of the club new wine for an old bottle. The suggestion in the above pulse that Ne braska's inland location is responsible for this condition of moronic unconcern is undoubtedly without foundation. Students inherit and per- petuate the "don't give a damn" attitude without logical reason. The University of Ne braska campus has established ruts which might be captioned 'social whirl,' 'activity Mind.' 'marriage mart,' and 'vocational train ing.' The ruts utilize all available energy for their navigation. Furthermore, a moment's reflection would rule out Nebraska's geographical position as a reason for unconcern. Memorial stadium is rna- or st rength dedicated to men from Nebraska who died u the last war. The Nebraskan. m its Armistice. Day edition, attempted to reveal the despic able condition on the campus of this educa tional institution during wartime. 1-ittle lore sight is required to realise that the dependence upon foreign markets for sale of farm prod nets, the hardship of regimented rations, the tyrannical control of the press, and speech ami the sacrifice of manpower-i'U demam ed in wartime would fall as heavily upon Nebraska as anv state in the union. . Schools in nearby Omaha, Creighton and Omaha U, have no delusions about Ne braska's isolation nor an insane apathy towards world affairs. Both support flour ishing, and, according to the forum speaker from that city, stimulating international re lations clubs. Nebraska students have reached thc ulti- i .v ....... u.lius in vouth's al- maic (it'iuna 01 uiimn ' , tentative of doing something annul nm tional maneuvering and its goal of war their best vears and main fighting a war. The time is ripe for a more encouraging trend of thouylit. Pulse contribu tions, as suggested in the one heading tins column, showing some thouyht on the foreign situation would help. A revival of the foreign problems club would be likewise encouraging. The Nebraskan has suggested tlmr a keen interest in such subjects as history, economies, international relations, and modern languages would stimulate interest in the foreign front. A noising abroad on the campus of opinions on vital questions in the pulse column and from the new club would make the conclusions in these fields of study more real. The two ap proaches would mutually supplement each other. The Nebraskan is not interested in a var scare, or red scare, or fascism scare. 'We are not interested in hysteria. We arc interested in thought by students concerning the preven tion of a catastrophe in which students would rtlnv the leading roles. Oswald Harrison Villard in the Nov. -7 Nation confesses that the old liberals have been sapped of their strength by suffering Bel gians. Kentucky miners. Tom Mooiiey. the war, etc. Ethiopia "left the old guard cold. Spain seems distant to them. China calls for little loss of sleep. The old guard has also been dis illusioned by the facts. ld liberals have seen so much truth, of the varidy of saving; the world for democracy that they can no longer get sufficiently enthusiastic about a cause to act. But the old liberals have uncovered a lot of important facts. We inherit from them such facts as the significance of armament makers in war, the lengths to which propa ganda is carried by warring nations, the in terests of the National City Bank and other business concerns in foreign countries, the illusion of preparedness we know it to be an impossibility in the first place because of competition, and breeder of war instead of peace. We are closer to the light in the interna tional situation than before the old guard be gan its digging for the truth. If our forerun ners haven't sufficient energv to OtL thsL ClVL give By Elwood Randol. A London cabby will a : tun t ., thempeives this afternoon at 12:30 over the Columbia network when Herbert Hodge tells of the trials and tribulations experienced n dealing with visiting "Yankees." Hodge will explain the problems of driving in those fabled London fogs, getting a license to pilot hack, ami. In addition, he will discuss the American problem: how Americans react to the "silly" London cabs, places they like to go and of course their tipping habits, a subject o great concern to London's taxi men. The broad cast will originate in London. John Charles Thomas, brilliant operatic baritone, will make h hurried 6.000 mile journey by air to appear as the guest artist on Vick's Open House during the ab sence of Jeanette MacDonald, who is on location for the screening of "The Girl of the Oolden West." Thomas will leave New York for Hollywood by plane Immediately after his concert Friday afternoon, and at the conclusion of his radio appearance he will return to N w York for his opening performance at the Metropolitan opera. Upm House is heard at 6 this evening over H r AH. May Jailed. Foster May, WOW's new. catter, had a little difficulty re cently in Missouri where he had been sent to cover the National Cornhusking contest for the Omaha station. Thru the efforts of a Kansas station, the name of which was not divulged, May was arrested in an attempt to keep WOW from broadcasting the contest. May finally was released and the broadcast went on as sched uled. The incident will probably lead to the raising of the "free air" isue before the Federal Communi cations commission. John Gillin, jr., manager of the station, is quoted In the December isue of the "Radio News Tower," a WOW publication, as saying that the in cident was "a violation of public policy for any one station to at tempt to 'sew up' the broadcast ing rights ... We feel that the fundamental purpose or radio is to serve all the people." A new and unique series of tests and experiments in mental tele pathy under the supervision of several of America s leadtng uni versity scientists will be run weekly on a new program, the Zenith foundation, which begins tonight at 9 o'clock over KFAB. The radie audience will be used as the subjects of the experiments. A machine will select various ob jects, designs, colors and other such things quickly identifiable by the mind. Then, ten especially se lected telepathic senders persons whom tests have shown to be es pecially fitted for the experiments then concentrate on the ma chine's selection and attempt to project the thought to the listening audience. The senders are isolated UNION GETS FIRST AIR CONDITIONING UNIT ON CAMPUS (Continued from rage 1.1 to capacity, and all the rooms will also have the proper humidity. Steam Jet System. This steam jet air-conditioning svslem is the only cooling system of this type in this part of the country. Such a systitn was re cently installed in the Chicago Tribune building. After generating electricity at the u'liversity power plant, the ex haust steam will t used as the medium for cooling the water which goes thru the coils, from w hich the Student Union building if cooled. It would require the melt ing of m& tons of ioe every 24 hours to keep this building cool during a hot summer yet with the strum jet system this building can be cooled much more economically. It was announced that PWA of ficial in Washington bad riven approval to changing the proV-ct completion date from Jan. 11, IMH, ii (iT'g inn lly set, until March 1. -rtein universi1y officials, how i vcr, hope to be in the building ly 1'eb. 1. Siudsurf PhIac Elmer Plans for Next Year's Military Ball J Dear Mr. Editor: Your editorial got nie kind of ! sore. In it you say, "Klmer is the boy, not too citified--" and 1 looked for 'citified' in two differ ent dictionaries without finding it, and 1 resent it, But anyway, I want to tell you my plans for staging the Military Ball, which I thought up too late to enter in CoL Oury's contest. Under my plans, the ball would really be more thrilling than ever. First of all. we would have to have the ball in the stadium, so that everyone could get enough fresh air. As the audience starts filing into the stands, half nude memters of the Orchesis will ca vort on the field, sprinkling rfse petals and Kau de Cologne. Simul taneously two a capella choirs will advance a few yards in from each sideline chanting the follow ing chorus which they will sing th roughen it 1he ball, forming a constant musical background: the Et interpret i in a room away from the broad- their facts, it is np 1o ns to o so. Thought and casting studio and tney aione - , . . , . : know the selections the machine inlerest are necessary to such interpretation, mate- ar ne- I vealed only after several days have iel."rss! and listeners replies have i a: ived at the foundation's head- ' mi. art em. Raft Guest of Jessel. George Raft, filmland's rough and tough hem who makes love to stately heroines by talking out of the side of his mouth, will share the 'spotlight with George Jessel on the tatter's popular coast to coast Mutual feature. Thirty Minutes in Hollywood, which is heard every Sunday afternoon at 5 over KFOR. Charles Wakefield C a cj rn n. whose most famous com pout ions and Soldier boy, soldier boy, In your olive drab; Will you be there to fight for your country When the munition makers make their next grab? Soldier boy, soldier boy, Biological fact forbids that you will ever be a mother, But Mendelism be hanged, in the not too distant future. In all probability, you'll be some cannon's fodder. As this is going on, the band will march on the field and go into a double cross formation develojied especially for this event. After all of the audience has ar rived. CoL Oury and staff will mount the press box with win dows off to appear like a bakiony) and the audience will tile part giv ing a Fascist salute, the particular kind to be decided by the Cokmel. The group will then return to I their sc ats and sire "Thc-re Is No J'lac Like Nebraska'' the Wett ' stand elsii r,ing while stands sway their arms. We will then have a pageant de picting the foulness of Commu nism, the position of the Russian women, and an epic proving that the World war to make the world war safe for LH-mocracy only made it safe for the Democrats. Meanwhile soda pop will be served through the compliment of the uuPonts, Eugene Schneider and the Vickers company, in com- art "From the Land of the memoration of the death of Basil I Blue Water." "At Dawning." Zarahoff. "I Hear a Thrush at Eve, i5 Finally, hr's a modern touch) Mishcl ri astro, concertmc-irer of instead of having a grand march,, the Hiilharmonic Symphony or everyone will swarm down on the icbc-slra, will be soloists when John field, and truck in rank and unison Barbirolli directs the orchestra under the guidance of the Cad'-t this afternoon at 2 over KF"AB. Colonel, who has come with any-! The concert is to feature the first one he wants to. 'New York performance of Cad- After a few hours of this, every- 'man's orchestral fantasy. "Irli one will trek out to University , Dancers of the Mardi Gras" !' hall, which the engineers will then tro will play the Ualo Syrc. I ) blow up, thus fumihir,g an awe- j E-spagnole for violin and orchotra inspiring srn-c-tstc )e and removing Owk Cable, noted Mm j-crson-a fire trap all in one shot. Tins ahty, will make a guest J-r i''' concludes cer monies. 1 rce on the Silver theater program Fo you think that Col. Oury in a romantic comedy. "De tour To would give rue li for this plan? ,1-ove." especially written and "tail While it's tor, l.Me for 1V.is time, it or-d"for Cable's abilities by True would he fwU for next year. P.rdman. The theatei j.rern Your '1 mlv iv IxkivI civrr KFAB ux..!v ft timer lilaine, (iixw at A a paper lie-1 . and maclun- j "-"' T DA A