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Sunday, March 16, 1941 fcdxiohxaL SuikiuL Research now! No 'if V then! DAILY NEBRASKAN f Chamber of Commerce leaders all over Nebraska are deploring the fact that so little defense money is coming into this state. And as one or two industries which they felt we might have had are going elsewhere, these men fire resorting to the proverbial 'if? x If Nebraskans had started work on a suitable plastic material five years ago, in all probability the refrigeration industry would be setting up plants in Fremont, Grand Island or other Nebraska towns to day. For the limitation on aluminum imposed by the defense commission, are forcing industrialists to seek ut substitutes for metal and even for rubber ice trays. If a slightly different plastic made from corn talks had likewise been perfected, and there are indi cations that such plastics are feasible, we would have far better chances now of getting aircraft industries in the state. Yet no such discoveries were made, and 'if now gets our chambers of commerce no results. The placement of defense contracts' elsewhere has however brought it to the minds of these leaders that Nebraskans can't just sit back and watch farm income decline, watch the popula tion drift to other states where industries are expanding, and just hope that sometime someone will give to this State a few goodwill defense contracts. Thinkers are beginning to say that if Nebraska is ever to get the revitalization it needs, it must find bet ter utilization for its resources, and develop new products from the materials it now has. There is no institution in the state so peculiarly adapted to doing this necessary work as is the university. It has the men, it has the equipment. Its record of im portant agricultural developments in the past, shows the potentialities it has for the future. It has increased farm yields and has made possible hog raising in the state without the danger of disease. There is now every reason to believe that the men in this university could likewise blaze a trail in industrial expansion. This university however didn't do the necessary work on plastics which would have been so essential to the state today. The reason that such work was not done was that the university had no funds to do it with. Legislatures in the past few years have cut appropria tions to education again and again, and since enroll ments have continued to rise, the incidence of these cuts has fallen upon research activities. Until today such activities are almost negligible. At the time when the state most needs the experimentation of educated men, it has cast that experimentation aside. When a man crossing a desert is no longer able to carry his full pack, he must of necessity cast a part of it aside. But surely when his strength fails him,he would not cast off his food supply; for that food supply is the source of the strength he will need to carry him through. The analogy is obvious. Nebraska is depressed; it lacks the necessary funds to carry all its load. Because the population is leaving the state and farm incomes have dropped to practically nothing it is necessary for the legislature to cast something aside. In the past it has cut the university appropriations; and in so doing has cut the source of strength which can Taring new vitality and new industries and developments to the state. If any substantial recognition is made in Remember ASCAP? It looks like the ASCAP-NAB battle royal is at an end, and ASCAP music will once again be on the air. A federal court last week ruled that the association and its managers were guilty of 10 violations of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, the main one of which was conspiracy to monopolize desirable copyright material. The decision of the court shows clearly that justice In America is "the will of the people." Though presumably an author should not be compelled to sell or rent what he produces and Is protected by his copy right, it appears that! where enough other people want a thing, it is monopoly to refuse to sell for the price that they set. And for attempting this kind of "monop olistic control" ASCAP must now pay a heavy penalty. The $35,250 fines and the Josses in revenue from broadcasting studios in the past few months has made the battle an expensive episode. The success of BMI in catching the fancy of the public furthermore makes It appear doubtful that ASCAP will ever reach the posi tion of prominence it held last year. Only time will tell how seriously this fight has crip pled the organization. ASCAP shouldn't be worried about how many people will remember its battle. The studio disput will be talked of for months to come. But what JShould worry these authors now is... How many people remember ASCAP? The Daily Nebraskan Official Neicupaper of More Than 7,000 Student r FORTIETH YEAR. Subtoriptlon Kite are $1.00 Pfr Semester or 1 1.6 for the Coller Tor. ii.to Mulled. Single copy, 6 Centi. Entered hi ireond-clam putter at the pottafflce tn Lincoln, Nebraska, snder Act el Contrail, March S, IS7B, and at ipeelal rate at pontile provided for In Section XW3, Ac at October 8, 1W1. Aalherlitd September SO, 1123, ? Nebraska certainly a greater premium will be placed upon educators, scientists and research men than ever before. It is useless now to say "if." The die has been cast and our mistakes have been made. Our present defici encies in defense appropriations are a hard but perhaps needed lesson. It is for us now however to set ourselves right, that the "ifs" will not be sounded in the future. Too many cooks? The World Student Service Fund dri; is over. In the space of three weeks that organization raised one and one-half times its $500 goal and tripled the amount se cured by it last year. Certainly the Religious Welfare Council is to be congratulated for its efforts and the stu dents for their generosity in meeting a critical need. With the success of this organization fresh in our minds, however, it is easy to see where the uncontrolled solicitations of the 300 similar organizations in the United States might lead. Should they all cover the same territory, and it is conceivable that they might, we could expect a different group to approach this school every day of the school year with the same noble purpose and with the same sizable need. Where would the end be? So many overlapping groups can neither collect the money efficiently, nor expend it economically where it is needed most, for without organization none will know where needs have not been filled, and what parts of the country have not been touched. President Roosevelt's announcement Friday therefore that he would set up a committee to coordinate the work of all these organizations is a step in the right direction. The Americans have shown their desire to help by con tributing so liberally. To administer such a program though is a job bigger than anything individuals can handle. It is therefore essential that the government does organize and actively participate in the work. That econ omy and effectiveness may characterize the distribution of funds. Commentorials . . . from, our readers Why wasn't Ruth Clark's picture in Friday's paper Dear Editor: We should like to have an explanation as to why Ruth Clark's picture was omitted in the DAILY NE BRASKAN's recent publication of the candidates for May Queen. Knowing that her picture has been used in the DAILY and other publications, we are sure it was avail able, and therefore feel the omission is unexcusable. We do not like to feel that this was a discrimina tion against our candidate, but under the existing cir cumstances, we cannot believe otherwise. Alpha XI Delta. Ed. Miss Clark's picture has somehow or other been misplaced. Knowing that it had been used, and that it should be In the Journal morgue, the staff made no provision for securing a new picture of Ruth for her May Queen candidacy. It was not until our news editor went to the Journal Thursday night to "put the paper to bed" that he found the picture missing. Possibly none of the pictures should have been run since the one was missing, but it was fe't that a special notation at the bottom would attract as much attention as a picture. Time gives evidence of German assist once Dear Editor: As one who sees your paper daily, and admires your courage in defending what you believe to be right, I submit the following from Time, March 17: "In Jan uary Herbert Hoover submitted a plan. The Belgians promptly said yes. The Germans said yes, and shipped 800,000 bushels of grain into Belgium, and prepared to ship 3,000,000,000 more. The English said NO." In this connection, the following from H. G. Wells Outline of History, page 1134, ts interesting. "In 1921... a frightful disaster for this tragic people (Russia)... the crops failed completely, and the most terrible famine In the whole recorded history of our race ensued. Millions perished . . .horrible suffering. . .the government could not cope with this monstrous disaster. . .An American com mission was formed. . .supplies sent... .The British gov ernment, which had spent a hundred millions In illegiti mate military operations against her former ally smirched the good name of Britain in the woild by refusing any contribution to the work of relief." Some things are wrong, Tio matter who docs it. As Stanley Jones said the last time he was here, this weapon will act as a boomerang on any nation that tries it More power to you! A Friend. w 10 i IT7 A J News J Ortlal OI son Atlantic count erblochade The German counterblockade against England is now being pressed with a furious vigor hitherto unknown. In the heaviest mass bombing attack of the current year the German luftwaffe assaulted the great docks and ship yards of Glaswog, Scotland, throughout most of Thurs day night. In successive attacks since then the ports of Hull, Liverpool, Bristol, London and others have been severely bombed. The Germans claim that the damage wreaked at Glas gow makes the devastation effected at Coventry last fall seem moderate in comparison. The English say that the damage was relatively minor, and stress the strength of their night defenses that brought down 13 of the night raiders engaged in the Glasgow raid. Clear moonlight as an aid in locating the attackers plus the use of special night interceptor planes equipped with powerful search lights are the reason for this unusual success in defense against night attack. Also the Germans released figures claiming to have destroyed over 9,000,000 tons of English shipping since' the war began. Usually the tonnage of ships admitted lost by the English has run about 50 percent of the nazi claims. However, even if the nazi claims are halved there is still a huge loss of English shipping. Special observer Harry Hopkins has reported to the President that the most urgent need of Britain is cargo ships. Prime Minis ter Winston Churchill recently said that the most effec tive way that American aid under the lend-lease legisla tion could be given was in furnishing shipping. That U. S. authorities plan action to counteract the menace of insufficient vessels is apparent from the re quest for Congressional authorization of almost $700,000, 000 for shipping to carry out the policy of the lease-lend bill. "E5C3P5JiS OF THINGS ON SUNDAY. On this morning, we shall consider things in general and the message we just received from the office ear lier pigeon who delivers and remarks, "Here's a message for you, Garcia." Let us write in paragraph style a bit of free verse. I write free verse because nobody will pay for It. Well, reader, i guess you wonder where ive been, i guess youre in a fix without someone to ring your type writer bell when you get to the end of the line, youll have to struggle along without me because im in the army, im not sure what army it is but 1m In it. you know, reader, i sometimes wonder if this is a free coun try anymore, in fact, i sometimes wonder if this is a country anymore, but what the hell, reader, as long as there is wine women and song a man can stand a lot if he doesnt weaken and theres even something to be said for weakening, but its a hell of a note to have to bottle your impulses, inhibitions, etc. that's what i told them In the army but they Just said shut up and peel those po tatoes, you dirty red. now reader im not a red. my complexion is peaches and cream except where it is sort of weathcrbeaten. but all of this is beside the, point if there is a point, what im objecting to is all this regimentation, its get ting so a man cant do anything he wants to such as rais ing a little general devilment without someone making him stop, just for instance i was walking down the Ftreet the other day and two men who looked like stand ins for gorillas came up and said where are you going. what the hell pals i said a street car is waiting for me down the street, this is a free country isnt it. you dirty red they said dont get subversive, i just have an appointment with a street car i said, im not subversive, i dont have an appointment with a submarine, but they picked me up and put me in a sack and took me to a fate worse than death or words to that effect and here i am peeling potatoes in a uniform, me in the uniform and not the potatoes, i mean, what the hell i say what is this, this is conscription they said, thank the lord I said, i thought it was the draft. well readers, here 1 am the unknown soldier and all I can say is what the hell, if you dnnt want to get in the army gft married and have a baby or better yet be a baby. To be candid, Stackpook, all this conscription talk has me worried.