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Friday, May 24, 1940
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LJitoriaffy Speaking J
Rx. for U. S. . . .
Avoid excitement,
gain strength daily
... by wisely-directed activity
At Europe's war continues with important
new developments from day to day, American
opinion varies considerably as to what part this
nation should play in the great history-making
struggle. There are those who would not see
United States citizens fighting overseas for any
reason. There are others who think that the
United States already has delayed too long in
lending active aid to the Allies and would not
have us hesitate another moment before taking
such a step. The latter group has lost a number
of followers since recent press releases have in
dicated that U. S. armed might today is not all
that it should be and could not be made adequate
for many months even under an intensive pro
gram of armament. Even so, such a reputable
publication as the New York Herald-Tribune
has editorially advocated immediate entry into
the war.
One thing is fairly well agreed upon by all
groups, and that is that the United States must
maintain her forces of defense at a level where
she can successfully lead in warding off any pene
tration of the western hemisphere by a European
power. Although no one can foresee exactly what
conditions would be like in the world if Germany
wins the war, it is rather obvious that the position
of this country would be a difficult one in such an
eventuality. There might be grave danger, in the
years which would follow nazi victory, of attempts
armed penetration of South America from African
colonies which would fall to Germany's lot. There
would undoubtedly be attempts to take such terri
tory Important to U. S. security as the Dutch East
Indies and other islands which are considered vital
despite their distance. If one does not restrict him
self to the immediate future, it is possible even to
conceive of an invasion of North America. How
ever the sort of wild war hysteria which has
prompted the mayor of a Texas city to start arm
ing his police force against an air invasion is not
only absurd but the worst way to begin setting up
an adequate defense for this country. Despite the
unprecedented might of the nazl war machine no
one can seriously Imagine any sort of invasion here
for at least several years, and in that time there
is no reason why a nation with the vast resources
of the United States cannot become impregnably
armed. It can't be done by excitedly spending
money before the best use for that money has been
learned. It can't be done by changing plane speci
fications every week to hamper' speedy mass pro
duction. It can be done only by keeping a cool head,
finding out just what needs to be done, and then
doing it as quickly aj possible.
The fate of England and France lies now In
their own hands. There is little which the United
States could do to help them which Is not now be
ing done. If the combined forces of these two
great powers cannot stop Germany, neither could
mere declaration of war by the United States. We
must always remember to look to our own interests
first, and all fcts indicate that we can do that
best by staying clear of any European conflict
. By Norbert Mohnken -
A GOOD WORD IS WORSER.
The day's fighting promised only the worst for
the Allied cause. With renewed fury the German
war machine yesterday smashed its way northward
from Abbeville to Boulogne. Wednesday it had ap
peared that there might be some slight ray of hope
for the Allies, for the German attack had slowed
down, and a French counter-thrust had retaken
Abbeville. The British were reported to be making
some resistance along the Arras front, and opti
mism was suddenly blooming forth on every side.
Today it appeared that the lull in the fighting
was not the result of Allied counter-attack, but
rather was caused by the German's catching their
breath and consolidating their forces for another
gigantic push. Thursday the drive was under way.
Abbeville was retaken by the Nazis without a
great deal of resistance. At the same time a mo
torized unit struck out' northward towards Bou
logne, the French channel port which is just 26
miles from Dover. Prime Minister Churchill .an
nounced that heavy fighting was going on outside
the city of Boulogne, while the Germans asserted
that the city had already fallen.
Anyone who examines a map of the battle
fronts in northern France will realize better than
words can describe the seriousness of the situation
which the Allies face. The enveloping movement
is dangerously near success, and there appears to
be an imminent danger that the Allied forces in the
north may find themselves in a trap from which
they cannot extricate themselves.
ON AMERICAN DEFENSE POLICIES.
Additional evidence was revealed today of the
mistakes which guided American defense policies
during the last years. Philip D. Johnson, president
of the Boeing Aircraft company, told of the aban
donment of two of the most vital improvements
needed in modern aircraft, the self-sealing gas tanks
and armor plating.
The Boeing president pointed out that his com
pany in 1922 built 200 planes with self-sealing
tanks. During the same period a number of planes
containing armor plating around the engines and
the cockpits were turned out. Yet both of these
improvements were left out of the specifications
which the army air corps submitted for later planes.
The net result is that today the army is faced with
the problem of replacing practically the entire air
force to incorporate these now vital improvements.
ScAafL twm
READ OF TWICE, ONCE AND GO MAD.
Oh, pardon me prof. I'm Timothy Featherfly
II of your Psych 1181 class. I'm in a dither, just
simply a dither, and I need your advice.
You see it's like this, I bought a pair of twin
puppies, and it's gotten me all mixed up, that is
not the pups but their names. First of all, I named
them Take It and Leave It. Heh, heh, heh. You
know how little pups are, yea verily.
But that wasn't so good so I changed their
names to Once and Twice, so when people would
say, "Here, doggie, doggie," I'd say, "You'll have
to call him Once and the other one Twice." But
now I can call them both at once because I realize
that in naming them Once and Twice, I had re
named them both twice, once before. I also real
ized that I could name Once Before and the other
Twice Before because I have already named them
once before and twice. Now, neither comes when
I call Once or Twice and I wanta know .
Oh, heavens above, prof, not here on the
campus. Murder! Save me campus cop. Mur .
Ahhhugggg.
I hope some one is looking after my twin pup
pies, now that I am gone.
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TODAY
GAMMA LAMBDA.
Ciamnm l-ambdo will meet at 5 P. m. in
room 313 of the t'nlon.
I'HI CHI TIIKTA.
Phi ChiThcta will hold III annul Initia
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SIGMA TAU.
Members of Sigma Tau will meet at 0:18
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CORNHISKKR FIKI.D COMPANY.
The Cornhusker Field company will meet
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SINFONIA.
Members of Slnfnnla win meet at nooii
In parlor Z of the I'nlon.
Ml SIC PROGRAM.
A proffranr. af masie win be played on
the Carnegie Music set In the faculty lounge
of the Inioa at 4 p. m,
FRIDAY
IMON DANCE,
.loliiiny Cov and hii orchestra will piny
for the I nlon dunce-to be held in the
ballroom nt a p. m,
PHI TAU TIIKTA.
Members of Phi Tau Thctu will meet
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I nlon.
SATURDAY
At BO.
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parlors W't of the Onion at 6:30 p. rn.
RKQIKHT rROGRAM.
A program of request e H be
played on the Carneirle manic set In the
faculty lounge et the Union at 4 p. n.
I refused the Pulitzer prii
Judges of men are but shorn Gods
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By Art Adams. are all tiny and Infinite. People
. say that I am cracked, but they
Fame is an interesting phenome- cann()t e tnat j am cracked
non, if you are interested in phe- but j cqM proye that they ftre
nomenon, but I am not. Phenom- cracked But the plays that I write
ena only helps to prove biological are good piaysthey are good be.
theories, progress, and the truths cause they are sincere x tnink
in Kipling's poetry. I do not be- fh nr th. , , AmH.
lieve in
which ccu!d( exhaust us to the point of prejudicing
our cwn territory and alter our government to the
point where It would resemble that of our worst
enemies. England and France were forced to enter
this war whereas the United States is not, and they
were probably better prepared than we are. Their
situation today should hold a very great lesson for
the American people against ever being similarly
caught.
If Hitler's blitzkrieg has done anything, it
hat almost eliminated the change of this country
sending troops to Europe, since only in a long
drawn out war could U. S. help of that tort be
effective in aiding the Aides. And in a long
drawn out war, it it likely that the Allies could
win without U. S. aid. So finally (or perhaps we
should say, currently) rt appears that there are
just two things for this nation now to do: (1)
watch the war In Europe with unflagging Inter
est, doing what can be done wisely to further Al
lied success; (2) cooAy and shrewdly arm our
selves against the day when we may find the
dominant continent of the world dominated by a
force Inimical to our own peaceful, democratic
mode of life.
progress or xviyiuifi a . ,lf thf . u.gu t Io
poetry any more than I believe in th T M tQ these
"m"ua yi- "V " V little things that I tap out on
they are the best plays in Ameri-
write nice patterns of trash for
the rest of us and they are fa
mous, but that is stupid. We say
that famous men are great but
that is not so. I do not know ex
actly why men are great, and if
I did I do not think greatness is
very important anyway. Every
one eats.
Want thrills
If you sit down to read the
"Cosmopolitan" or the "Liberty,"
you want to be thrilled or excited;
and if you become thrilled or ex
cited, you decide that you are
reading a good story, and you ad
mire the man who wrote the
story. Why is he any better than
any other man? I could write
stories to thrill you.
We go beyond the limits of the
human mind, which is really in
finite, when we measure absolutes.
I don't think that the God man's
It
my typevriter, and I know them
better than anyone else does.
They are little specks of pre
cision in a world that needs pre
cision. A mother would fight God,
if God said that her son was guilty.
Because she is her son's mother,
she knows that he is not guilty,
she knows that he should not be
hanged. I know that my plays are
good because I have been their
mother; or rather, I am their
mothers, because I am a different
man when I write different plays.
Why should someone else tell
me that my plays are good? Why
snouia tney appreciate me : I arr I
predate myself. I hate all forrnsL
of sham and deception even moreAI
than I hate the rules of rhetoric.
Men who judge others are sham
Gods, that is the point that I felt
when I began to write today. Men,
winning prizes or rib-
Coime to
Church
Sunday, May 26
First Baptist
)4lh and K
rtlftoM H. Watartt, Minister
45 A. M - nrer Williams Class for
College Age Group.
11:00 A. M- Musical Service by Choir
"The Hod That Budded."
00 P. M- Soelal Hour.
7 00 P. M- Miss Irene Lyons, Chi-cKO.
mind created expected us to de- u,u
, , i . .. Honest men can write, they may
lf J Ti l wh,dman '3 write badly; but that is unim-
J"': Port-nt, for they are not inter-
' u.v. i tai., vjivi w 3 estcd in
stupid as we are. We worship bons
mm uecaiire ne is peneci unu ooes
not make the mistakes that we
make. That is the exact point. We
cannot judge God, tho we may
know how He should act but
doesn't.
Tiny men in ponds
Tiny men arrogate to them
selves the power to tell us what
is good and what is not, but that
is impossible because there is
really no good and no bad. You
and I know that without being
told, but we like to be told dif
ferently. I saw some violets yesterday,
and they were simple. I thought
they were good. I hate rhetoric
and patterns, but violets make me
think about truth. We all live for
truth, even when we do not imi
tate St. Paul. A man with a
healthy look in his eyes, or a little
child laughing up at her father
that is the truth we live for and
that is a truth a thousand times
more important than all the wise
young men who tell us whirh
books are good. Mostly, they tell
us which ones are bad.
A dissection pan
We love the truth I love it
but I know that I have never
pinned it down in a dissection pan.
and I know that I never will. All
I can do is try to recognize it
when I see it, and see it as often
as possible. I do not ridicule
other men's ideas because they
are better for them than mine.
But I will not hold other men's
ideals for them, for I must main
tain my own character. I think
that humility comes next to God.
To save my own character, I
must not fall Into habits of think
ing that make me depend upon
artificial colors and loud music.
I must be all alone with my ideas.
Because I love God, and the
earth, and the men of the earth,
I do not suffer when I am alone.
Sometimes I am hungry, but I do
not suffer when I am alone. Some
times I am hungry, but I do not
care because I can do what I
think is worthwhile. Most of us
can't. If I fell from my own orbit,
I would not have my own life to
lead, and we must all lead our
own lives. My life would be ended
I would walk in dark streets, and
spill money from my mouth, like
the mint in San Francisco.
I am not Pontius Pilate, and I
do not see how anyone can be a
judge of anyone but himself. We
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First Plymouth
Congregational
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Kaynioad A. MciM ttt, MlataVS "
t:00 A. M -Mst Breakfast, floneers
fatk.
11:00 A. M. "A Worthy Memorial."
University Episcopal
1Mb M4 K
Hey. I.. W. McMillan, rriea sa Cac
1:30 A. M Holy Communion.
11:00 A. M Choral Kxharlet and
Sermon.
First Presbyterian
nta a d r
Dr. Mamas! F. Miller, MlaMer
1:40 A. M. Bible Clase for Col!M
A( Qrvuue D. B. Marti
11:00 A. M -Morning Worship.
t:00 P. M - Colleee Am Group.
Westminster
Presbyterian N
ftfcerMaa MtC Sealh
M. V. Ofld, MkaUU
11:00 A. M. "N cutralliy I Not
Enough."
5:00 P. M. Out doc r ploic and Ves
per Service Mr. Peter
Greenwood, apeaker.
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