THE NEBRASKA
Sunday, December 17, 1944
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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
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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.
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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
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and Natalie Neumann. Assisting
Miss Hill with the presentation
are Jo Martz and Jean Whedon.
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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.
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