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Thursday, April 10, 1941 DAILY NEBRASKAN dubiiaL Christ will rise A wicked world, torn with jealousies, greeds and religious strife crucified Christ. They crowned him with thorns and with laughter decried the immortal semblance of the forces of good. They placed him in a grave, saying his way of life was not for them, and let greeds and tyrannies triumph throughout the then known world. Three days later, however, while the faitthful were still mourning his loss, and while the greedy were not yet recovered from their acts of cruci fiction, the "good" was resurrected, and In new glory filled the hearts of man with a never to be forgotten message: "Christ gave his life that man might live. He arose from the dead show ing men that good will triumphs over wrong, and that some day the Kingdom of God will be erected on earth." That is the Easter message. And more signifi cantly with greater feeling than ever before men will repeat that message all over the world this Sunday morning. Men on the battlefields of Yugoslavia and Greece, men enslaved by totalitarian rule, families homeless because of war from the air pressed against the in nocent, and families starving in Belgium, Poland and France. All these men of every denomination and every way of life, will cry out in their hearts for the fulfillment of that message. The world is going through a period of stress, where values have no longer much meaning. Hate and greed has temporarily suppressed hu manitarianism and love. In Asia, Russia has suppressed the church, and has set up material (SuIlsditL again t and regimented codes of faith. Throughout Ger many the church has been attacked, and has been instructed by the rulers what sort of doctrines are to be taught. And sven in America men are ridiculing the churches, with atheistic conceit are laughing down the Biblical messages and with a certain fatalism are saying love and peace are im possible In this world. Yet despite the suppression, a suppression on three continents, and despite the skepticism and doubt, men today everywhere are praying for es sentially the same things that this Easter message symbolizes. They are praying for a resurrection. A resurrection, they cry out for, where good, love and humanity, will once more crowd out of man's minds the hates, the jealousies and the greeds that have brought forth this war. And they live on with the faith that that resurrection will come. Every period of strife produces a new awakening. The war and suffering of the present will be re placed by a new happiness of the future. Through the gloom of today still shines the brightness of to morrow. It is this thought that these men on the battlefields of Europe and of Asia and the starving and homeless refuges of this war will have this Sunday. At the present the forces of evil have tri umphed over the good. But only for a while. As the Friday of the Crucifiction, is followed by the Resurrection Sunday, so out of this period of dis tress and fear will arise a new day. Christ sym bolizes in man's mind everywhere that new day. And that Christ will rise again! Inquiring reporter reveals . . Students spend as little time as possible studying in library By Marsa Lee Civln. Wondering if the Nebraska students were of the studious type, your reporter asked some of them the question: "How much time do you spend at the library every week?"' Kappa Jean Minnlck: "I'm there about six hours every week. The chairs are too uncomfortable to spend any more time." Douglas Varner, Delta Sigma PI, replies: "1 usually average two hours every day therefore with my mathematical mind I perceive it's ten a week (excluding Satur day)." Bernice McDonald, unaffiliated, says: "I spend about ten hours every week." Bob Barr, also unaffiliated, comes forth with, "Five hours is my averager but I'd spend more time if the place was less noisy.' "I'd probably fall asleep if I stayed longer than my average of six hours," replies Alpha Xi Delta, Annajean Ray. Unaffiliated Richard Hagcl berger, "Fifteen hours (he spend seven hours of that working there). I while away the other eight wandering around the stack room reading things that my pro fessors frown upon." His friend Bill Eberllne has been Collegiate . . . Spanish study is increasing due to good neighbor policy . . . survey reveals By Student Opinion Surveys. AUSTIN, Tex. April 10 Speak ers, authors, editorial writers, poli ticians have lately been insisting that the defense of the Pan-American democracy will require a more friendly U. S. attitude toward the nations south of the Rio Grande. "We will never understand our Latin-American neighbors thoroly until we can speak to them in their own tongue," a noted educa tor declared recently. How interested are American college students among whom are found most of the nation's leaders of tomorrow in dealing with Central and South America? How many consider a knowledge of Spanish a requirement to better understand? How many are now studying Spanish? What other languages are they learning? Poll undertakes question Student Opinion Surveys of America, the national collegiate poll conducted by scores of under graduate newspapers, including the DAILY NEBRASKAN has made use of its coast-to-coast sam pling machinery to find the an swers tJ" these questions straight from college students themselves. Here they are: "Do you think it would help our relations with Latin America if more people in this country knew more about the Spanish language?" Only a bare majority of 56 per cent believes Spanish would be an aid. The rest, 44 percent, answered "no." The 3 percent who were un decided were not included in the tabulations. "Have you or are you now taking a college course in Span ish? Any other modern lan guage?" tS prrrmt havr or are tdyln Rpan loll, tbey My, 4ft prrrrnt havr r arc uludylnc an fhrr taMiffaaffr, SI permit kftvr taki'n mp no Nut tara In rwlk'icr. "Do you have a reading or speaking knowledge of Spanish? Any other language?" The following answers provided a close check for the preceding questions: ZS prrrrnt mm at Irani rwnl Npaniah. Sigma Gamma Epsilon initiates ten geologists The following students at the University of Nebraska were init iated into Sigma Gamma Epsilon, honorary geology fraternity, April 4: Richard Cast, William Thorpe, Dave Day, Willard Bunker, Lelan.1 Jacobsi.n, Frank Sims, Wayne Mack, Loren Toohey, Robert But ler and Don McCarthy. 4 prrrrnt ran at Iraat Tm4 tomt nthrr Innintutr. 17 prrrrnt cannot rra4 or ftnrait a forriftn langaarr. . . Among those who can read or speak another language, but not Spanish, these were the results: M prrrrnt ran rr4 or aprak Frrarh. :n prrrrnt ran rrad or spralc German, man. I prrrrnt ran rr4 ar aprak fmmr . dlhrr lanitnace. Students in the south of the United States are the most inter ested in Spanish, perhaps because of their proximity to the Latin American nations. In that section nearly 40 percent had some knowl edge of the tongue. The survey reported above pro vides the present picture of inter est in Latin America as it may be reflected thru the study of Spanish. How this condition will change within a few years remains to be seen. But it is evident that there is much effort being ex pended in making the United States South America conscious and vice versa. Witness the new Latin-American editions of lead ing magazines and the report that among government plans for a "home defense" corps will be a call for volunteers "to learn Spanish." Cyclotron (atom smasher) iccighs mere 4,900 tons BERKELEY, Calif. (A CP). Nearly half the steel for the world's largest cyclotron, the Uni versity of California's 4,900 ton atom-smasher, has been put into place. A total of 3,700 tons of steel, as much as is used in one of Undo Sam's cruisers, will go into the magnet alone. The base and half of the vertical columns of the mag net have been completed. When the magnet is finished in April, work will begin on a build ing to house the cyclotron, with the machine expected to be in op eration by the fall of 1942. The new cyclotron will dwarf the 225-ton atom-smasher on Cali fornia's Berkeley campus, now the largest in the world. Proces sor E. O. Lawrence, Inventor of the cyclotron, expects the new machine to open up new worlds to science. The 4,900-ton cyclotron will be at least five times as powerful as the 225-ton machine. It will bombard atoms with a beam of atomic particles traveling at 60,000 miles a second, which cor responds to 100,000,000 electron volts of energy. UN faculty publication due April 21 Published by the university re search council in order to acquaint members of the faculty with the work of their associates The Ne braska Scholar, written by univer sity professors, will be ready for distribution about April 21. This is the second issue of 1941. Features of this edition are by K. O. Broady, professor of school administration; William E. Wal ton, assistant professor of psychol ogy; A. R. Mclntire and A. L, Bennett of the college of medicine; and M. S. Peterson, assistant pro fessor of English. The regular col umn of "Notes" by the entire edi torial staff will also appear. Arndt- ( Continued from page 1.) consuming process because on the average they have to deal with ten people to secure one speaker. Notable among those who have appeared here this year are Fish- bein, Fodor, Lew Sarett, Thomas Benton and Clifton Utley. On April 18, Professor Mowat, Uni versity of Bristol History professor will speak. "We try to bring men representing various fields of ar tistic and intellectual endeavor,' says Mr. Arndt. Committee experimenting. The convocation committee is experimenting with different hours and places for having convocations in hope of finding the best with a minimum of interference with other work and interests. The use of the Union has made it possible to accommodate a larger number. In that way the question of place has been answered in pail, but the question of time is still unan swered. The addendance has consider ably increased over the last few years. "We are still of course, not satisfied," says Mr. Arndt Fish bein, Benton and Sarett drew the largest crowds with from one thousand to eleven hundred in at tendance. Mr. Arndt had little to say about the plans for next years convoca tions except that the committee is in the early stages of makirg plans for the programs. spending two hours every day reading "Don Quixote." DU Hugh Wllklns states, "Four hours, but the only reason I'm there that length of time is be cause a few of my courses require library reading." "I'm watching a worm bore through a history book so I'm there for four hours," this from Tri Delt, Midge Beasley. , Phi Delt Ben Kahout: "Eight hours (and she's a cute number, too ) . Gene Reese, Phi Gam, utters, "Three." "I go there as little as I'possibly can. It usually adds up to three hours." replies Mary Louise Simp son, Pi Phi. From the above bit of informa tion anyone would think going to the library was a task. P. S.: Well isn't it? Profs go to convention Professors J. E. A. Alfxis, A. L. Elmquist, W. K. Pfeiler, and Doc tors L. F. Wagner and A. C. F. Scherer of the modern languages department will attend the annual convention of the Modem Lan guage Teachers of Nebraska at the Hotel Blackstone, Omaha, April 26. 0 Every operator . in this telephone exchange must speak four languages! -'-' The Daily Ncbraskan FORTIETH I EAR. Mnnarrtptloa Bab arc (l.M lr Drmm rr a fl.M far Uw Ollra tfwr. SX.M Maltr. Htaflc (P, I'raH, Kwrrr a Mwn4-elaaa anattat M tna poatafftoa ha I'IimwI. Nrhranka, aaartr art f laai tmm Marsh t, 1879. an irt aprrlal rate af pamara pravMai fnr tm Hrrttna lion, ant ! Ortohrr 1. Ml 7. Bthvrlir4 Una teookar M, MZS. Wr - 3 JJItjliJi J Each operator in San Francisco's Chinatown telephone ex change miiht speak English plus at least three of the five Chinese dialects Som Yup, Soy Ynp, Heong Sow, Cow Gong and Aw Duck in order to handle calls. For the average Chinese understands no dialect but hit own! Since there ia no Chinese alphabet, the 36 page directory, listing 2200 subscribers, can't be printed in the ufual way. It is handwritten then reproduced by engraving and print ing processes. Subscribers are listed by streets, instead of alphabetically. And operators must almost know the )ook by heart, for the Chinese seldom call by number but by name and address. Here is a Bell System exchange that in many ways is unique. But it is just like thousands of others in giving good service to telephone users. i
