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THE NEBRASKA Sunday, December 17, 1944 JIisl Tkbha&hvv FORTY-FOCETH VEAK Subscription Rate mre Sl.M Per BcntfMt f fl.M for ttt College Year. S2.50 Mlie. 8infle copy, S Cents. Entered m econd-elasa matter at the pontofflce ia Lincoln 1. Nebruk, nrtrr Act ol Centres Mart-h i. 187. and epeeial rate ef postare provide for in Section 110 J. Aet el etokr It 111 Anthortaed September M. 1924. Published three times weekly during school year, ex cept vacations and examinations periods by Students m the University of Nebraska under the supervision of the Publications Board. Johnny "Till Johnny Comes Marching Home," besides being the title oi the 45 War Show, has become everyone's holiday dream. Looking behind this year at UN, the Nebraskan sees definite signs that campus life is reviving from its wartime slump. Reporting on the paper this fall has been fun this year instead of work, because the students and the university have pepped up and rediscovered their imaginations. Women cheerleaders came in for the first time in Nebraska history, and did a grand job of yelling at he games. The gridiron squad came thru with two home wins, Homecoming over Missouri, and over Kansas State. The AUF drive for the War Chest and Community Chest went over the top after a few bad moments. Harry James played sweet music in our coliseum, and Dean Boyles allowed university women a 12:15 permission on that Monday night. The Homecoming dance re turned to the coliseum with 600 couples attending. The Dewey-Bricker combination won over Roosevelt-Truman in the pre-election campus poll spon sored by the Nebraskan by a vote of 791 to 469. John Dunninger, master mental wizard, dazed the campus for weeks after his appearance in the coliseum. The War Council's "Chance of a Life time" war stamp and bond auction brought in $4,385 in one "hysterical" evening. The Progres sive party and the Student party for democratic government were newly formed political parties on campus this year, and fought bitterly for their candidates for junior and senior class presidents, only to have the election invalidated by the stu dent council. Looking ahead to 1945, the Nebraskan prophesies that campus spirit will return almost to prewar days. All preparations will be made at the end of this year so that when Johnny does come back home for good the UN that he left will be here waiting for him. Among '45 doings are the final settlement of the junior and senior class presiden tial election, the Mortar Board snow ball, a vice versa party like old times in the. coliseum, the Wr Show, the Miniature Peace Conference, the most ambitious plan ever to hit UN; AWS all-girl "Coed Follies," and the University theater's pres entations of "The Skin of Our Teeth," "Angel Street" and "Kiss and Tell," and plans are being circulated to have a junior-senior prom again. Congratulating the students on such a grand fall semester, and on their plans for the coming new year, the Nebraskan wishes everyone and her or his special "Johnnys" a Very Merry Christmas and a Victorious New Year! Les Said The Better By Les Gtotfelty This is the last Nebraskan before Christmas vacation, and it marks for us an anniversary, our first, as a columnist of sorts. It was in the last paper, at this time in 1943, that we wrote our first faltering attempt at a column, named Hell and High Water. Because every year on the Nebraskan is just like the rest, only crazier, we are again writing our Christmas column. Despite trials and tribulations, hell and high water, the Nebraskan staff can still wish all its readers a Merry Christmas. It is remarkable that the staff still has any good-will toward man or toward anything after three months of all-this-and-it-aint-heaven that has happened this .year. We started out this September with a clean office, five women staff members and one lone man. Four papers came out during rush week with no reporters to help. By the end of the first week, the Nebraskan office was its old self with papers piled high on all the desks, three out of four typewriters out of commission, coke glasses in rows all over the place, and flies in the paste, and still no reporters. At the end of the first six weeks, sixty fresh men signed up to be reporters. "Fine!" we said. So ten showed up to work. . The Cornhusker filched our paste, our copy paper, our reporters, our typewriters, and even a story or two for the yearbook. Reporters began to cower and hate us as the office was filled with screams of "Don't capitalize university Go over to mechanical arts and dig up a story What are his initials? For Pete's sake, is this supposed to be a story? Rewrite it Who can cover the con vocation at 6 a. m. tomorrow?" and so on thru the night. But the reporters stuck it out, prob ably because they wanted activity points, and a few of them got their first byline. Meanwhile the business staff went "ad mad" and began to turn our beloved paper into a shop ping guide. We threatened Martz; Martz threat ened us; somebody threw a bean bag that has been here since the year one; two ad salesmen wandered in with five yo-yo's; someone hid Gene Dixon's hat on a steam pipe; every campus or ganization screamed at us because they weren't getting enough publicity Pat Chamberlin lost the key to her office at least three times a week, the Crib refused to let us bring dishes down; nobody had a match; we got a Christmas tree, bu the yearbookies swiped it back. The telephones got knocked oh the floor and refused to work except when everyone was busy, and then they rang every two minutes for hours at a time. Right now two weeks' vacation looks like heaven. The "Rag" we love with all our ink stained souls, and well be back in two weeks; sitting on our broken chairs, slinging copy madly, trying our darndest to put out a paper that pleases, just one person. Happy New Year, and we'll see ya. Conference (Continued from Page 1.) ercive proceeding, but it is in finitely superior to a lynching party. . , J Man's real choice, in this world of ours, is not between force and no force, (except for a handful of philosophical anarchists,) but between lawful force and lawless force. The question before us now is: Which shall it be in the world of nations? Shall we have some sort of world association capable of using force against lawless ele ments, in the execution of the de liberate and reasoned dictates of an organized humanity? Or shall we blunder on with the sort of force which takes the form of in ternational wars? Of one thing we can be cer tain. There will be lawlessness in the postwar world, at different times and in varying degrees of seriousness. This lawlessness will inevitably provoke forceful re sistance. Will it be lawfully or ganized resistance, or will it take the form of national self-help spasmodically mustered out only when the peril is on the door step? We must choose. Whether we shall have an in ternational police force depends upon the development of some viable international organization. A.s in the case of all police forces, such a force will have to be th instrument of some kind of jurid ical order. An organization of na tions which can make law for the nations can then use a police force to enforce that law. The United Nations are deeply committed to the creation of an association of nations whose primary purpose will be to keep the peace. This is the major long run objective of the present war. Every man of good will devoutly prays that it will be achieved. But even if we do organize an association of nations after the shooting is over, the question is still wide open as to what kind of armed force it shall have at its disposal. There are two major possibilities. It may be a genu inely international army, directly under the authority of the world association, and independent of any national power. Or it may be a multi-national army made up of national contingents according to some quota system set up by the world society, and called to gether only in case of actual ne cessity. It seems likely that, in the pres ent state of world opinion, the latter possibility is all that can reasonably be hoped for. Nation alism is still too strong a senti ment, and the brotherhood of man too weak, to expect much more. i I i It 'V,: Morlar Board . . . (Continued from Page 1.) west, will play for the "Snow ball" Party, which is being held in the coliseum. Barron and his "Rhythm Time Music" have played engagements in most states surrounding Nebraska, in Omaha's Chermont ballroom, and in south ern Canada. General chairmen for the Mor tar Board ball are Blanche Reid and Natalie Neumann. Assisting Miss Hill with the presentation are Jo Martz and Jean Whedon. Classified IXPT Plaetlc rimmed kIsmhmi In brown leather cane on Iflth ati-ret brtwrea R ml O itrei-ta . Midge Holtucherer, i-7.'.M. HightTraining Government Approved School Flight lessons arranred at the Unioa Air Terminal by ap pointment Sight classes for RT011 nd e h o a I instruction. 2415 O Street Phone 6-2885 or 2-6:24. Lincoln Airplane & Flying School Best Wishes for Christmas and the New Year "Keep the lions Fires Burning-" for the boys are coming home! To a better America an America where every one helped in the struggle, now so nearly won. This Christmas we face the future believing that America will not fail our men in the peace, as they have not failed us at war. When the war is a memory look to Overland Greyhound for the finest in postwar bus travel. It (member Tht bcyt w7J net J tkt hutet for ikoic Holiday furlough,. ir m mrU corn gll (iK your teal Co (Srhrtne awn. f?T) Union. Bus Depot Si!a-lB?20So.l3rti 2-7071 At!. SkJSS- OVERLAND GREG'S QUI3E3 u& TS Oporbr INTERSTATE TRANSIT UNH J A Traditional Carols Concert By the University Singers A Program of Unusual Carols 3:30 & 5:00 P. M.f SUN., DEC. 17 TWO PERFORMANCES TO ACCOMMODATE ALL OF YOU WELCOME CiiniS' GOOD EATS 244 N. IStn Get Free Admhtlon Cards ct Union or Ag Finance Office The Student Union j : ' '