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I STAFF i r-. .A IV? '. . -53, Vol. 44, No. 39 Lincoln 8, Nebraska Sunday, December 17, 194 1 Three Frosh Take Places On Ag Board Three new freshmen members have been elected to the Home Ec Student-Faculty council to re place graduating seniors, it was announced today by Madeline Holtzscherer, chairman. They are Margaret Bowen, Mariann Srb and Beth Norenberg. The council, which acts as a co-ordinator of student-faculty affairs, has made recent plans in cluding the program for the re mainder of the year. An election will be held Jan. 17, 18 and 19 to select two new members from each of the sophomore, junior and senior classes and one hold-over member. Plans for the year include con struction of the constitution, a study of the college curriculum, determination of the needs to make the nutrition building avail able for student use and a fol lowup of last semester's curric ulum study. Bill Calkins Dies in Action In Germany Pfc. Bill Calkins, former co editor and columnist of the Ne braskan army page and member of the campus AST unit, was killed in action in Germany on Nov. 22, according to word re ceived by his parents on Dec. 12 It is believed that he was in the first invasion landings in France. Pfc. Calkins was a member of the Nebraskan staff for the greater part of the 1943-44 school year as army editor and originator of the "Mopping Up" column. He was also active in Presbyterian student work. Before entering the service he attended Middleberry college at Middleberry, Vt., where he was affiliated with Delta Kappa Ep silon. His parents live in West- field, N. J. Singers Offer Foreign Carols At 3, 5 Today A chorus of 100 voices will sing Christmas carols from other lands in the Union ballroom at 3:30 and 5 p. m. today under the direction of Dr.Arthur E. Westbrook. This will be the sixth annual Christmas concert of the Univer sity Singers and the programs will include carols from England, Ger many, Spain, France and Russia. Other features of the program will be organ numbers by Myron Roberts and Vesta Zenier, and numbers by a string quartet com posed of Miles Dreskell, Ernest Harrison, Ann Golz and Mary Alice Ziegler. Admission cards for the 3:30 concert are almost gone, accord ing to Pat Lahr, director of the Union, but there are enough cards for the 5 o'clock concert to ac commodate all who wish to at tend. The cards may be obtained free of charge at the Union office and ag finance office. Students Discuss Military Service On KFAB Forum "Should We Have Compulsory Military Training After the war? will be the subject for discussion by a panel of Nebraska students on the University Forum of the Air over KFAB at 5 p. m. Satur day. Dr. Leroy T. Laase, chairman of the university department of speech, will act as moderator. Members of the panel are: Mary Ann Mattoon, William Miller, Jean Kinnie and Thomas Soren- son. Last Nebraskan Until '45 This issue of the Nebraskan will be the last this year. The next issue will come out Fri day, January 5. In the mean time, the staff wishes the uni versity Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Dean Sends Christmas News To Ex-Students Christmas letters from the of fice of Dean W. W. Burr are be ing sent to all former ag students in the service. Information con cerning classes, activities, weath er, crops, and other items as well as pictures are included. A por tion of the letter is devoted to excerpts from letters of former students now in the armed forces. Several servicemen have re ported looking up . former class mates as a result of noticing their names and addresses in ine let ters. Studen ts Keep Fourth War Holiday Real BY PHYL TEAGARDEN There's a sprig of mistletoe hanging over my expectant brow, which, by the way, hasn't brought forth any results as yet, but the point is I'm reminded of Christ mas and what it's going to mean to people this year, the fourth wartime Christmas season. Freshmen Pack Early Already 1,000 plus freshman are all packed, and have been since they came back from Thanksgiving vacation. And the remainder of UN students haven't even thought of packing, and probably won't ever get that far Bright Christmas packages hold ing a multitude of secrets and surprises have been floating around for over a month now. Books have been discarded too, for a well-deserved vacation, and students are looking forward to a few days of play and relaxation. AWS Sets Tollies' Deadline on Jan. 31 That's the materialistic picture but isn t this Christmas season a little different from all others? Remember the first wartime Christmas 1941. We were all fighting mad at the little yellow man who came to Washington for peace negotiatitons. And 1942, 43 brought us to a j-ealiza-tion of the fact that we didn't really know the meaning of sacrifice. Christmas 1944 Now here is, Christmas 1944, and each and every one of us is breathing a heartfelt prayer of hope that this will be the last Christmas we'll have to spend wrthout those grand fellas and girls who are with us in spirit but not in body. Let's all try to make this sea son as natural and real as we can. 5o don t forget Uncle Louie s bright red bed socks, don't miss the train, although they're never on time any more, and Merry Christmas to everyone from The Nebraskan. With Coed Follies scheduled for March 15, Wednesday, Janu ary 61 has been set as the dead line for submitting rough drafts of skits, curtain acts and names for Typical Nebraska Coed can didates, announced Midge Holtz scher, chairman of the follies. Ac tual tryouts will be held the fol lowing week. All women's organized groups may plan skits or curtain acts. Skits will be five minutes in length and cutrain acts, three. A limitation has been placed on ex penditures also, setting the maxi mum for skits at $15 and a $5 limit on curtain acts. Rough Drafts Due Jan. 31 Rough drafts for ski is or cur tain acts must be turned in to Miss Majorie Johnson, secretary to the' dean of women, at Ellen Smith hall by January 31. The drafts should contain the name of the director and outline of par ticipants, with two candidates for TNC. The chosing of a Typical Ne braska Coed, one tradition that has not yet disappeared from the campus, will be made on the basis of several requirements. She will be judged on personality, interest and participation in school and war activties, ability to wear clothes well and the adaptibility of clothes to the UN campus dur ing wartime. From these candi dates the models for the sty If show will be chosen. TNC candidates must have u 78 average, carry at least 12 houi and have sophomore standing Participants in the skits and cui tain acts must have no incom pletes in the previous semester ., work. Faculty Notes Roger V. Shumate, associate professor of political science at the university, will accompany the Nebraska delegation of the Committee on Interstate Corpor ations, sponsored by the Council of State Governments, to a meet ing in Chicago on Dec. 29. The meeting will be concerned with postwar problems which will face state governments. During this week Dr. K. O. Broad y, director of the extension division, is attending a meeting of the executive committee of the National University Extension Associations in Chicago. Dr. Broady is a member of the com mittee. Dr. Frank Z. Glick, director of the graduate school of social work, attended the North Central regional meeting of the Amer ican Association of Schools of Social Work, held Dec. 14-15 in (See FACULTY, pare 3.) Directory Goes on Sale In January Because of a shortage of he! ' in the print shop, the belatc' '44-'45 Student Directory will r be available until around the fi st of the year, according to Marily Behm and Margaret Neuman, co- editors. The directory includes tli names, addresses and telephone numbers of university studenu, professors and student pastoi. Campus organizations bid for t' r privilege of putting out this pub lication and this year the Studer.t Foundation is sponsoring it. Last year the directory, undo the sponsorship of BABW, wsj published a week before Christ mas vacation. It is available t all students and faculty at 50c per copy. MB's Schedule Snow, Music By Barron For Party Jan. 13 It may or may not be a white i picture, the six UN snowflakes Christmas, but it is going to be a white January 13 for sure, ac cording to Pat Chamberlin, pub licity chairman for the annual Mortar Board party to be held on that date. Peace Conference Previews Guaranteeing plenty of snow for the "Snowball" theme party on that date, Miss Chamberlin ex plained about the presentation of UN's "Snowman" and six "Snow- flakes." The typical snowman is good girls and to be chosen by letters submitted by campus coeds, describing the man they believe would make the best Nebraska snowman. The let ten are to be specific, naming the man desired and stating why the coed thinks he should be chosen. On the feminine side of the will be presented. They also will be chosen by pictures accom panied by the name of the coed and her qualifications. Every can didate for "Snowflake must be doing war work, the kind of such work to be told in "the infoma tion accompanying the picture. Ghita Hill, chairman of the pre sentation, stated the snowflake candidates "are not supposed to be beauty queens, but all-around engaged in wari work" Letters for either the "Snowman" or the "Snowflakes" should be turned in to Pat Cham berlin at the Nebraskan office as soon as possible. Riithaiina Russel Speaks to Home Economics Class Ruthanna Russell will speak to the freshman home economics class at the university ag college in connection with a series of vo cational guidance discussions that is being presented to the class. Miss Margaret Fedde, chairman of the department of home eco nomics of the university college of agriculture, is conducting a se ries oi mis type in order to give : ,ui ' ..:,,i ...., A i . . . . . , i a a a rv i ij t , ui ulna ivi t i totHi ui7vi j the girls an opportunity to hear ... ' .' r and talk to people who are doing various sorts of home economics work at the present time. Miss Russell has been employed in one of the larger Chicago stores in retailing work. In this same se ries Miss Mary Ellen Brown will talk about the work that is con nected with extension work. Groups Sponsor Singing of Carols On A g This Week There will be carol singing ' the home economics parlors Mon day and Tuesday noon. Monday noon the carol singinr will be sponsored by the horf economics club and the Tuesd; .. noon singing will be held in co -nection with the ag YWCA. JuL.' Crom will lead the singing. Attention Coeds Due to the fact that Christ mas vacation officially begins Wednesday morning:. December 20, UN coeds will be Riven a 10:30 night Tuesday, December 19, as announced by AWfc president Dorothy Carnahan. An International Police Force By Prof. David Fellman Force is an indispensable ele ment of government on any level of authority. Peace within towns or counties, or within the nation Lee Barron and his orchestra, well-known here in the middle (See MORTAR BOARD, pare 2.) Union Closes Both the Crib and the Cam piuline will close Tuesday noon, Dec. 19, and remain closed until Wednesday morn ing:, January 3. The Union of fice will stay open during- of fice hours In co-operation with the Army. the availability of a reservoir of organized power. This does not mean that force is used all the time and in every situation, for of course such is not the case. But it does mean that in the difficult. marginal situations, the peace of the community can be and often is maintained by the use of force There is no reason to believe that peace in the world as a whole can be sustained in any other way. ih's world war, a supreme exercise in violence, is being fought to maintain the peace of the world. It follows, therefore, that total disarmament in the postwar world is not desirable, even if it could course is highly doubtful, to say the very least). The idea of total disarmament is based on the as sumption that force as such is U evil, whereas the real evil is th. anarchial and lawless use of fonv in a world of sovereign statf-; Sovereignty and lawlessness f.ir Siamese twins. Need Police Force Within a country peace is main tained by the force which is i i the disposal of government Would anyone argue that w. would have more peace within our country if we abolished tl police force? The fact is that r: the measure that the state has . monopoly of the instruments t ' violence, the less frequent is tl. resort to violence apt to be. In an imperfect world of in -perfect men there mu.si be powt : somewhere to settle or compel settlement of disputes. The etl -ical basis of the exercise of for by the state is not that force i- good, but that force applied a. - coraing ro law by tne state c actually be achieved, (which of preferable to the force which exercised by private parties, f criminal trial is assuredly a c (See CONFERENCE, page J