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DAILY NEBRASKAN Wednesday, May 7, SuIIsdhv Aim at happiness! N - The world cannot be changed Yesterday it was the Kaiser, today, Hitler, to morrow somebody else. Men rise and fall. Dream ers they are, of new orders, of world empires. And with each day of glory comes a decade of depres sion and gloom. For centuries the world has been drifting on, always with its dreamers, always with its Napoleons and its Wilsons. Despite all the advancements in science and knowledge, despite all the efforts of statesmen to secure a lasting peace and order in the world, today the entire world is battling in one of the worst wars in its history. It is battling in a war more deadly than any preceding one, and with all the forces of destruction working overtime is pressing downward the standards of living, the culture and the security that a century of toil has built up. Since the eighteenth century Greece and Serbia have been sacrificing men by the millions to gain for themselves the right of self government For a time they won freedom from the Turks, only to find themselves today subject once again to rule from abroad, this time from Germany. The Roman civilization rose, flourished and felL Nations that one time were powerful are to day weak and plastic. Empires have collapsed and the ever changing forces of time have shifted power from one state to another. But wars have continued, corrupt governments are always present, suppres sion and misrule is as bad today as at any time in history. The dead of centuries, crucified as mar tyrs for their ideals have failed to mould a better world. Man is too weak, the forces controlling the world too strong, to make the efforts to secure world wide brotherhood bear much fruit. Are there then any real values in the world? It would be a very pessimistic point of view to feel that man is no more than a drifter moved by forces over which he has no control. There should be no cause for such pessimism. The world is full of goals, goals big enough to challenge any man. And there is much work to be done. But what there is to do lies near at home. In all too many cases the small things that need attention at once are overshadowed by dreamers' vague and impossible ideas of a new order for man. There is no greater value in the worM than happiness and justice. To live a full life, to enjoy the fruits of this life and to make the lives of as many as possible with whom one is in contact, full and happy is a mighty big job. The energies how ever, which are so often spent in fighting wars for vague ideas, employed towards these ends would produce results that we could see and feel America fought on wer for ideals. We have none of those ideals today. And the American peo ple are no happier for the loss of thousands of lives and the expenditure of billions of dollars. Today men are saying we once again should go to war. To preserve democracy, to preserve freedom wherever that freedom is challenged, they say. Day by day our country moves closer to that war. If we should enter and win we could gain nothing permanent; we would only be car ried along by tha forces of nature. Yet at the same time thousands in this coun try are unemployed. Great sections of our larger cities are ill housed and ill fed. Men are dying of disease because our medical service is not available where it is needed. And a faulty legal profession lets the rich control the poor and the crime rings control the governments. We never think of spending billions of dollars to alleviate these conditions,' though we are now willing to sacrifice this money for assistance in war. The amount to be spent if this country en ters the European war would remove most of our slums and make the living conditions of the whole population better. We would then be bringing happiness and justice. True, these things are not the ideals that the politicians are yelling so much about. But we wouldn't sacrifice them and wouldn't tax the people to the breaking point for all the fine phrases they can concoct The only real values In life are individual happiness. Just for a change let's devote our time and money to securing H. Behind ';.-r ' the !? A.QU News LiiZJ Ordal Olson m - - r. n r. T, i n Tl 1 T -I ?. i i -i y- Of 581 men and women who biles in a course in practical me- "jic 5or ave earned doctoral degrees at chanics. 1t13IT13SC-" t v t : : 1 m - j,, C have earned doctoral degrees at chanics. New York university school of edu cation in the last decade, 16 are Compulsory chapel attendance is now college presidents. threatened at the University of Twelve co-eds at Barnard college Rochester as the result of poor are learning how to repair automo- attendance at weekly chapel. A fast game finished.. .pause and 357 .Lt After axtrcist, nothing it mor pleasant than a refreshing pause with Ice-cold Coca-Cola. Its taste Is delicious; and a wel come, refreshed feeling always follows. So when you pause throughout the day, make it tfm pause that refreshes with ice-cold Coca-Cola. I . "'xN x .. 5 ' YCU TASTE ITS GUAUTt BottM aadtr Aotltr TTh rwwnl. Cmmum u. LINCOLN COCA-COLA BOTTLING COMPANT (Continued from Page 1.) woman may develop a career, and there are several possible dangers here. The husband may become jealous of his wife or he may de pend upon her to make the living. Another possible outcome of the wife working is that they may strive to "keep up with the Joneses" because they feel that with the additional income it will be possible. Marriage in college? This question led to a discus sion of marriage while in college or while a graduate student Han dicaps which develop might not appear at the time, but later. The man might have to sacrifice his career and later would blame It on his wife, or the opposite might be true. If the wife worked and helped her husband get his educa- Total aid note As the war in Iraq increases in extent and intensity, British For eign Secretary Anthony Eden urged the Uinted States to in crease its supply of war materials with all possible speed. Eden declared that England's paramount need is ships and more munitions because the effective ness of her diplomatic move3 was conditioned on her military strength. This is particularly true when those diplomatic moves are cen tered in the eastern Mediterranean where military strength overrides all other considerations in the eyes of the rulers Eden coupled his appeal to the United States with a warning to the Arab peoples of the middle east not to side with the axis and thus throw away their freedom, but even as he spoke the fighting in Iraq spread, as the German in spired Moslems continued the fight against the British. Meanwhile, President Roosevelt convened his cabinet in an extraor dinary session Tuesday to act on his request for the greatly ex panded production of the planes that will be necessary to give the democracies command of the air. Earlier the president had called on Secretary of War Stimson to speed up the production of heavy bombers, to facilitate the early reaching of the new goal of 500 long range, four motored ships. The president's latest demand but emphasizes earlier ones, and the speeches of other well in formed persons which stress the desperate need for greater action now. Every request for ships drives home with greater intensity the fact that the United States has but few it can contribute, and the increase in production are com ing with painful difficulty. Things have now come to the point where not only are all ac tions which retard production a serious menace, but every person who fails to do all he can to in crease production shares a respon sibility for contributing to a Ger man victory, which only the Unit ed States can prevent, and which the United States can prevent only if the people of the country make the total aid program mean total, not partial aid. The Daily Nebraskan rOKTUETH rut MiHIiU Mf arc fl.M trt Hfw trr mw Sl.i. few Uw tUc lw. ataJk-4. (wade ), t rmtM. jHm4 M awn at th kmKI flea Se iMmrtn. SHirmnke, aadrr Art ef . r. Hmsch t. IT. aaa- l mprrtmt nM f eia.rr imirltw tr a Iwlfcua ml Orlaarr a, 11)11. UMftaee' k irtm M. unt. tion and start in business he might become a success sooner because of the head start After marriage recreation be comes more beneficial, said Miss Listen, and this does not mean that there need be less recreation. Recreation and budgeting are con nected, for included in the budget should be a "splurge fund," she said, which should be divided among the members of the family and used without questions from the others. Big problem. The problem of money and mar riage is big enough for a semester course and the questions which were discussed constituted but a start for future thinking and plan ning. Miss Listen suggested several books and pamphlets which would help the beginner in buying, bud geting and making money go the farthest The next lecture will be Tues day, May 13, in parlors X. Y and Z, at 4 p. rn. This will be the last in the series and will be called "Religion in the Home." LINCOLN'S LEADING THEATRES! STARTS TODAY "Reaching for the Sun" starring Joel MTREA Ellen DREW wrth Eddie ALBERT Albert DEKKES Billy GILBERT MM Seato Til P. M. SS STniJAIRT 1 NOW! SUr-StaJeX . . . Glrl-Grte . , Mtli-ETltH ... a Weaker She! ZIEGFELD GIRL Starrier JAMES STEWART JUDY GARLAND HEDY LAMAER LANA TURNER AaS Fratariar tht aet keai Ufal ftrle ia U werM! i NOW SHOWING The L rbl Aldrich Family THE LIFE OF HENRY" JACKIE COOPER 2nd Bit UU "Street of Memories" Lynn Roberts Guy KIbbee NEBRASKA MOTHER'S DAY GREETINGS AND GIFTS Greeting Cards for Mother, Sweetheart, Family Relatives and Friends. A large selection from which to choose. Manij unique novelties suitable for Mother's Day Gigts EAS1IAN KODAK STORES INC. 1221 0 Street n tttt G St Ph. 2-5357 i