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DAILY NEBUASKAN
THURSDAY, AIMIIL 13, 1939
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BUSINESS MANAGER RICHARD M'GINNIS
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
Managing Editors Merrill Englund,
Harold Niemann
News Editors June Bierbower, R. chard DfBron,
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WE WANT TO LIVE
It was a surprised America lliat read oi its
president's sinilintr farewell to his "little white
house" a few days aro. That America shud
dered at its president's flippancy when he
casually, yet deliberately, remarked, "I'll be
back in the fall if we don't have war."
Always has the American, the son of
hardy frontier stock, prided himself on his
steel-like nerves, his ability to jest in the
face of grave danger. In like mood has the
American forever braced his spirits with the
tonics of optimism. But there is one topic
which even the sturdiest, the most devil-may-care
men of the nation, do not speak of
lightly. . That topic is war.
Obviously. Mr. President was not speak
in fr lilitly. Instead he was speaking very
Seriously and very purposefully. War is not
imminent in America. Hut Avar has been
threatening almost continuously in Kurope for
almost a year. Yet by that word "we." it
was made clear to interested European diplo
mats that Iheir war will be our war, just as
it was made twenty years aero.
Perhaps Mr. President is simply play
ing chess and injecting his thoughts into
the moves of the democratic powers. Per
haps America's 120 million people and its
untold wealth and resources are being made
the foundation of a potent bluff. Perhaps
Mr. President is merely performing Amer
ica's duty to the world, adding its little bit
toward preserving peace and perhaps civilza
tion itself, by angling to force the totalitar
ian states to restrict their guns and their
inhuman ideologies to the borders in which
they were born. Perhaps not.
Twenty years ago the American people,
their wealth, and their resources went to the
aid of the European democratic powers to
"save the world." Nothing was saved.
Instead in the world from the roots im
planted by that war have sprung uglier, more
horrible autocracies than ever anyone deemed
possible in a century so far removed from the
savagery of prehistoris time. Even we of a
generation born and reared after the last war
still founder and fumble in its aftermath. We
suffer today because of an economic upheaval,
resultant of that war we fought for Europe.
Suffering we have received in plenty
because of that conflagration. But benefits
we have received none. Even that would
not seem to make all so hopeless, but that
Europe itself gained only horrible memory
and prolonged unhealing hatred. Are we to
be inveigled into another such fruitless, vain
struggle?
America was surprised, and it shuddered
also, at what its president said, because its
not the American's way to resign himself to
an unpleasant fate. To admit that a European
war would unquestionably drag us into par
ticipation, is to baiter down our first national
defense.
Americans do not want war. lint a.s an
attack with rifle fire must be met with rifles.
so must aclive propaganda to lead us into war
be met with equal activity. AVe must not allow
neutrality measures, introduced in times of
sane and unemotional consideration be swept
away when we are less sane and less unemo
tional, and, paradoxically, when those neutral
ity measures are most sorely needed.
America is not shrinking any idealistic
duty to the world when it declares that self
interest is its first essential. Self-preservation
is the first law of nature, and from it
springs the best of the race. America at
peace, secure in its own defenses while the
rest of the world wage mad war, can remain,
even at heavy cost, the home of a living
civilization, the haven of freedom. They can
remain the survivors of the fittest, the best
of the world.
Sinn die null
IPuailse
Events
um-u i.e., ,aSe i .. ,(,jlinions iluvinR tne tefm
wuh his announcement in Ot-orp, a , u ,ast Q
that he would 'return in the fall,; !T. .
if we don't have a war."
Authoritative sources
uiai nauonai guard releases are fen-ncc to be held this week end at
f,inii.. w una i . v -hraska St ll.lr.nt l'ninn K..4M-
; among the most active member
of the court, having wiitten
w hi
ill last October.
National interest will he for
roport j lls J upon the transportation eon
To the Editor:
This U tter t,.kcs up the cudgel j not being
in rxnair m mv mm-1 m:i ifiion am in a I hi ti nu inn ic nnno
friend. Lloyd Jeffrey, whose re- too bricht'. America mav not be ! infr- Man' of the country's lead-
cent effort was. termed by Lee j able to slay out of this coming
Claire and co. a ''puerile diatribe ' conflict, much as Americ ans have
on our oiouious nroiners Dasca I expressed their Jervent desire lor
peace.
on falsehoods born cither of emo
tionalism or ignorance.
Lee, compare the three syllable-,
studded, name calling rebuttal
with its personal attacks, to the
calm, thoughtful claims of the first
letter and then ask which is emo
tionalism. A man drinks to enjoy the taste,
to follow custom, to show off. to
satisfy a habit, or to get the effect.
No one begrudges the drinker the
trtSte, it is the effects that bring
the debate'. It is self evident that
manly self control is the avoid
ance of the- evil effects which Let
admits can follow drinking.
In the ' rashness of youth" many
drink simply to show off, thus ex
pressing a self conscious defiance
of an authority which they feel
will follow them around like a
nurse-maid U ing shocked at their
daring. As a matter of fact
authority has nothing to do with
the question.
If a "drink or two"' slows up
reactions, causes dangerous over
confidence, begets pugnacity or
otherwise threatens society find
rail-roads and air-lines feel their
employees are not able to fulfill
their duties if they drink at all
while on the job the careless
drinker finds himself face to face
with harmful effects on himself or
tipon society, not mealy flaunting
the tall, thin faced, umbrella car
rying, bone-dry "Kansan."
It is concern for the welfare of
others, even if it forces one to
forego even so innocent a pastime
as "scuddling the suds," or forces
one to resist the laughing ridicule
of friends that manifests true man
liness. The most expressive, and
by far the most sure, method of
exercising the regard for our fel
lowman is Lloyd's abstinence.
Ellsworth Steele
Personalities in the News
T. R. Amlie, Wisconsin radical
appointed by President Hoosevelt
to the I. C. C. has requested that
his nomination be withdrawn. It
was understood that a majority in
tiie senate was ready to block his
confirmation on the grounds that
Amlie was unfitted for the post
both in temperament anil in ex
perience. Marian Anderson, Negro con
tralto recently in the public eye
because of her tiff with the D. A.
R , has been asked by Mrs. Roose
velt to appear in a jK-rformance
to be attended by the king and
queen of England during their
June visit to the United States.
Secretary Hull's reciprocal trade
program took a severe lieating
from the Wallace bloc when it was
announced that the United States
v"j soon embark upon a cotton-export-subsidy
plan in order to rid
itself of surplus stores. Wallace
and other new denlers unfavorable
to the Hull policies have often
urged the adoption of barter
agreements or subsidies as a
means of alleviating this coun
try's, farm problem. The new pro
gram is highly analaous to the
German export subsidy scheme.
Chief Justice Charles Evans
Hughe celebrated his 77th birth
day on April 11. Hughes' past rec
ord shows his poltical campaign
on the G. O. P. platform of 1916,
his occupancy of the secretaryship
of state during the post-war era,
and more recently his appointment
in 1930 to succeed ex-President
William Howard Taft on the su
preme court from which Hughes
had resigned in 1916 to run for
the presidency. Hughes is still
Kosmef commit tee sends out
plea for 'Alias Aladdin7 lamp
Snow can fall in April, and fac
ulty members can give easy ex
aminations, but none can put on
an oriental musical comedy cen
tered around. Aladdin's lamp with
out a magic lamp.
It's not lost. It was never found!
The problem of where such lamps,
not one lamp but two, can be
found has thrown the two-man
property committee of Ralph Reed
and Grant Thomas between the
horns of the dilema.
But four days remain until the
curtain rises on a scene, some
where beyond the Mediterranean
and no one has produced the magic
piece essential for the play. Were
this the only problem with which
this committee would have to con
tend in their search for Aladdin's
original lamp, there troubles would
only be numerous. But to add addi
tional hairs to two already greying
scalps, Irvin Sherman, program
chairman announced, that the
name of the Genii of the unfound
lamp has already been placed on
the program.
No lamp, no Genii.
This leaves them with a lost
Genii that can't be found until
the magic lamp is found, and no
magic lamp is found.
A final plea is sent out to all
loyal students and especially those
who have bought tickets in ex
pectation of a Monday night open
ing, to join in the search for
these unfound properties. The
committee promises that any per
son producing the lamps, which
can go thru the assigned routines
and produce a clever acting Genii
will be a "cinch."
Any clues as to the whereabouts
of such a property or the name
of any person having knowledge
of things unknown, will be re
ported to the Kosmet Klub detec
tive agency, Ralph Reed and Grant
Thomas incorporated.
R.O.T.C. practice parade
to be held Friday at 5
An R. O. T. C. practice parade
will be held Friday at 5 o'clock,
according to military officials.
First call will be held at 4:50
and assembly will be held at 5
o'clock. The battalion adjutant's
call will be followed by the regi
mental adjutant's call. The band
will form west of Andrews facing
north and the junior battalion,
south of the tennis courts, facing
west in a position of close columns.
Dr. Guilford named
Dr. Joy P. Guilford, of the de
partment of psychology, has been
named advisory editor for all
books on psychology published by
the Van Nontrand Company of
New York City.
Dr. Bengtson to speak
Dr. Nels A. Bengtson, chairman
of the department of geography,
will address a Kearney State
Teachers college convocation May
2 on some fundamental factors in
the United States' relationship
with countries of Latin' America.
rs in this field of highly special
ized transport and commerce wil
! in attendance. Nebraska stu
dents should avail themselves of
the opportunity offered to partici
pate in this really outstanding
event.
Cubberley's 'Pin
Money' Gift
Ir. E. P. Cubberley, recently
retired after over 35 years of
teaching, has presented " Stanford
university with a new education
building to be constructed of his
"pin money" donations to the
school. Several years ago Dr
Cubtieiley presented Dr. Ray Ly
man Wilbur, president of the uni
versity, with a check for $5,000
and continued this peculiar prac
tice for some four years. Then
in 1937 he made his last bequest,
a check for over $400,000 accumu
lated from lecture and consulta
tion fees and from royalties on his
more than 100 textbooks.
The building was erected to Dr.
Cublerley's own plans, its con
struction was supervised by him.
and the good doctor and his wife
even picked most of its furnish
ings. Very few men and very few
schools can be as proud as Dr.
Cubberley and Stanford are of this
novel gift made posible thru "pin
money" contributions from one of
the generally underpaid instruc
tional staffs of the nation's colleges.
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