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SO OS) w vdsodd VOL. 51 No. 83 :MUCW An information specialist who spent several years distributing U.S. propoganda in Malaya will speak Thursday at Nebraska Uni versity Council of World Affairs meeting. Guy Halferty, newsman and GUY HALFERTY state department official, will dis cuss American Asian policy. The talk will begin at 7:30 p.m. but a short business meeting about the spring conference will preceed the discussion. YW Officer Women For Ruth L. Packard, staff member of the national board of the Young Women's Christian associ ation, will be in Lincoln Thurs day, to recruit Y.W.C.A. workers. "We are seeking young: wo men who wish to follow a ca reer in social group work," Miss Packard says. "The Y.W. C.A. has opportunities for jobs in health education, teenage, young adult and student pro grams." Miss Packard is interested in interviewing persons for group work among student and commun ity associations and for health education. These jobs require a bachelor's degree from- colleges with training in education, recre ation, religion, psychology, econ omics, social or political sciences. There are a limited number of opportunities for seniors with ma jors in these fields. Applicants 'Street Scene1 Tryouts Begin Today; Cast Calls For 16 Men, 11 Women Violent, raw emotions' of all types of people will be expressed in the University Theatre's pro duction of "Street Scene," direc tor Dallas Williams said Tuesday. Tryouts for the play begin Wed nesday at 7 p.m. in Room 201, Temple building. Students may i ti-imiit frnm a tn 5 n.m Thursdav and from 7 to 9 p.m.! Friday. The east Includes speaking parts for 16 men and 11 women and many extras, said Williams, j He stressed that aay University student may try out for the parts. "It is not necessary to be a speech student or have any previous theater experience," he explained. Williams said everyone is given the game consideration when try ing out. He added that in most University Theatre plays, the ma jority of actors have not been speech majors. "The University Theatre is EriilOOS U Deadline Set For Saturday Coed Counselor Application Freshman, sophomore and Jun- of classes the group will sponsor lor coeds may file for Coed Coun- a Coed Counselor party for fresh selor board positions until Satur-man girls. Co-sponsors of the dav noon at Ellen Smith hall. I party are Associated Women Stu- I J..1. 1 i i vMrn A Mary Hubka, Coed Counselor president, Tuesday called for all interested coeas 10 mane Hpym-a-tion. She stressed that coeds need not have been Coed Counselors. Unaffiliated girls are especially urged to fUe, Miss Hubka said. Sixteen board members will be elected daring spring elections. Of these eight will be affiliated and eight unaffiliated. Present Coed Counselor senior board members will compile a slate from which all women stu dents will elect the 16. At time of filing, applicants should sign up for a short interview with the senior board members. The new board will be com posed of four seniors, six juniors and six sophomores. A 5.5 average is required for board membership. ' Each Coed Counselor board member will have charge of about ten Coed Counselor "big sisters," who In turn will coun sel four or five freshman girls next year. tw,iv. wwir npirt vpar Coed Counselors will act as Counselors. The whole group will' li:n -Mfh'hnM . nirnic sometime after! registration. During the first weekApril, Miss Hubka said. To As a member of the Christian Science Monitor Asian staff, Halferty received training in oriental problems. He is now a "free lance" member of the Monitor staff. When he comes across a good story he writes it and sends it to the paper. He is writing a story on the primary election situation in Ne braska and the University's pro gram of studying foreign prob lems in relation to other schools in the nation. Halferty is acquainted with the problems of college students in Malaya. He has explained that there is only one college of any importance in the region the University of Singapore which is not a British institution. There are not enough educa tors in Malaya to cope with the problems created by different races and religions in the area, he explained. He said that they want to know more about Amer ica. Halferty said that the United States information service divi sion of the state department is disseminating literature to li braries in the region. In addi tion, exchange scholars are brought to this country from Malaya as part of a world-wide American program. This program, he said, is nec- essary for the peoples of Malaya was told that the communist ter think of the United States as aVnrists arc waitine for a "new grasping nation. They have the,! To Recruit Social Work should have had experience in group leadership either in teach ing, recreation, activities or com munity organization. In health education both experienced and inexperienced graduates with a major in physical education can be placed. Miss Packard will conduct interviews Thursday afternoon at Ellen Smith hall. She is es pecially interested in the field of health education, but she will discuss other jobs also. Appointments for interviews may be made by calling Miss Ma bel Lee, University extension 7183. Miss Packard, whose headquar ters are in Topeka, Kans., is na tional student Y.W.C.A. secretary for the Rocky Mountain area, comprising Colorado, Kansas, Mis souri, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. anxious to use some new blood," Williams said. "Street Scene," which Williams calls "very realistic," takes place in front of a Brownstone apart ment house in the lower east side of New York. The idea of the play is to present a view of life in the i - . . . ipoor section oi a large city. The PP'e "Street Scene." who are of all nationalities and types, "live by violence and passion more than they do by intellect," Williams said. AU kinds of emotions, including those involving murder, rape and raw passions, are depicted In the play, he added. Williams explained that all parts in the play are character parts. There is no actual leading char acter, he said, but rather a strata of society plays the leading role. "Street Scene" seems to "open the fourth wall" of the New York apartment house so that the audi ence may see everything that goes, on, according to Williams. men por u """" Later in the fall semester. Coed Counselors will sponsor a Friend- ship dinner and style show r aU University women. AJ tf tea in December, imonsored by the group, honors outstanding Coed I Counselors. The "big sisters" sponsor a second freshman party daring ' All-Woman Spring Elections Coed spring elections will be Iteld either March 18 or 19, Coed Counselor President Mary Hubka announced Tuesday. On that day, Coed Counselor officers and board members, Associated Women Students officers and board members, Barb Activities Board for Women officers and Women's Athletic asso ciation officers will be chosen at an all-woman election at Ellen Smith hall. the first week of second semester classes. Penny Carnival, held in Feb ruary, will be the Counselors' main event of next year. After the Coed Counselor board members are elected in iwarcn, Wv will meet to choose Coedltervicw time when they make ap- oro) Q)minJ LINCOLN, NEBRASKA Kleair IHIaWerfy idea that our nation is entirely infected with racial discrimina tion, he said. " The students in Malaya also have a different outlook than they do in this country, he said. They Malaya Fighting Darndest War1 State Representative Asserts In Malaya they" are fighting the "darndest waT you ever saw." After spending several years in that southeastern Asian peninsula as a department of state repre sentative in the information serv ice, Guy Halferty should be an authority. The war, Halferty said in an interview with The Daily Ne braskan Tuesday, is not fought like any he has heard of before. Communist sympathizers, "ac tually half-animal," hide in the jungle and prey on supply lines, unprotected travelers and Brit ish plantation owners. There does not seem to be any reason fot their fight, he said, because they are not accomplish ing anything but terror. When in Malaya, Halferty asked officials what was behind the merciless slaughter of innocent people. He day." Russia, he said, seems to have promised the Malayan commu nists lots of help after they "pol ished off" Korea. "We really set back Brother Stalin when we de cided to fight in Korea," he ex plained. Now, the whole communist time-table is thrown clear off, Halferty said, with the result that a major western victory came out of the Korean de cision. "If the communists want to start anything anywhere now," he said, "they know what they can expect." He pointed to Indochina and the fight the French are now making to retain that country, Large communist armies have been poised in China just above the Indochinese border for a long time, he said, and if they should strike, "all bets against another world war are off." "As things look " how," he added, "there probably won't be another war. At least another full- scale world war." Educational facilities in tense Malaya, Halferty said are poor because there are too many races, Among the characters Is Rose, a young girl who works m an of fice. Her mother,. Mrs. Maurrant, has been untrue to her husband by "running around" with San- :key. a milk bill collector. In the play, Maurrant finds Sankey with his wife and kills them both. Later. Rose marries Kaplan, a Jewish boy, Other characters include Mr. Olson, old Swedish janitor; Lip po, Italian violin teacher; Mr. Jones, drunkard, several street urchins, ambulance drivers, po licemen and what Williams calls a "seething mass of humanity." "Street Scene" was written by Elmer Rice and won a Pulitzer Prize when it was produced in 1929. It was made into a musical and played in New York City for a season. It is well known abroad for its "convincing realism." "Street Scene" will be pre sented March 25 and 26. It will be the last University Theatre Iproduction of the season, Associated Women Students Board Filings To End Feb. 19 Associated Women Students board filings, which opened Tues day, will remain open until Tues day, Feb. 19. Coeds may file for sophomore, junior and senior board positions for next year at Ellen Smith hall. Freshman file for duty on the omen.g governing board during their sophomore year, sophomores f junj- dut 'and juniorg ior nioJ board soon. senior board positions. Candidates will be Inter viewed by present senior AWS board members. A slate will be set np from which all Univer sity women will elect five coeds for senior board positions, five for" junior positions and five for sopliomore positions. President and vice president are also chosen during spring elections. Coeds are asked to sign for in- plication. In order to file, applicants must meet the following requirements: n are more Internationally minded than students in the United States, Halferty stated. For these reasons this reasons this country must play an active role in the Asiatic nation, he said. religions and degrees of civiliza tion. There is only one university and that is in Singapore (Singa pore is not actually a part of Malaya). American movies and maga zines have done the same propaganda Job in Malaya that .they have done elsewhere, Hal ferty added. The average citi zen there believes this to be a country much like theirs gangsters, instead of marauding communists, create terror in our streets. The hardest job of an informa tion specialist is combatting this belief when movies and magazines from America are so popular, said Halferty, who is in the United States now waiting for new or Universal Military Trainin Jo Highlight Universal Military Training will be a major topic of discussion at the meeting of the Candidate Of ficers association Wednesday night in Love Library auditorium. The UMT bill is up for vote in the House of Representatives at the present time. If passed, the bill would provide for six months of training for every male citizen upon reaching his 18th birthday, and would make him a member of the reserve component for a period of seven and one-half years upon completion of the six month's training. Various veterans' organiza tions and the American Legion are the main backers of UMT, and various religious groups, farm groups and educators' are its strongest -opponents. In Wednesday night's discus sion, Major Edgar Lichtenber ger, instructor in air ROTC, and Tony Eistetter, Arts and Science Applications Due For April 24 Service Deferment Exams All eligible students who intend to take the Selective Service col lege qualification test in 1952 should file applications at once for the April 24, administration, Slec tive Service National Headquar ters advised Monday. An application and a bulletin of information may be obtained at any Selective Service local board. Following instructions in the bulletin, the student should fill out his application immedi ately and mail it in the special envelope provided. Applications must be postmarked no later than midnight, March 10, 1952. Early filing will be greatly to the students advantage. All students who have not yet taken the exam are urged to do so, regardless of present defer ment standing. This includes en rolled in ROTC. Those who have aireaay iaicen me lesi may nui laite w over. Three tests will be conducted In Lincoln. They will be given on the University campus, Union College, and Wesleyan univer sity. 1. Have a weighted 5.7 aver age, 2. Have earned by the end of this semester a sufficient number of hours to qualify them as mem bers of the class they wish to represent. (89 hours for seniors, 53 for juniors and 27 for sopho mores.) 3. Have no scholastic delin quencies at the time of nomina tion. The main functions of the AWS board are making and enforcing rules governing women's residence houses, sponsoring Coed Follies and sponsoring, with Kosmet Klub, the annual Ivy Day Sing. Senior members and officers of the board make up the AWS court, which weekly holds coun sel with coeds who have come in after AWS closing hours, failed to sign in or out a speci fied number of times or vio lated other AWS house rules. The court decides whether or not to "campus" a girl require her to stay home on a weekend evening. AWS vice president is in charge of a sign-out committee, which each week checks sign-out sheets of women's organized houses and reports violations to the court. Other positions on the board are secretary, treasurer and chair - men ot publicity, point system, notifications, special events, Coed Follies and Ivy Day Sing. Of W fix) HTl Wednesday, February 13, 1952 it happened at nu... A "student" with that typical Monday morning feeling had some difficulty staying awake in his eight o'clock class. Since his nine o'clock was in the same building he decided to skip his between class cigarette and catch a quick nap. He went to the room( rested his head on his hands and went to sleep. At 10 minutes after nine, he awoke, stretched and found class in session. No less surprised was his in structor who said, with a start led look, " , when did you get here?" In checking the class roll, he had seen only the empty back of the seat, and marked the stu dent absent. Wall To lead Discussion In Better Living Series The topic of the second semes ter session of the Better Living Series discussions is "Choosing a Mate." The discussion will be held Wednesday at 5 p.m. in the Ag Union lounge and Thursday at 5 p.m. in the Faculty lounge in the city Union. Pat Wall is the discussion leader for Wednesday's series and Mr. and Mrs. Ed Weaver will lead Thursday's discussion. The discussions are open to all students and faculty. Wednesday's senior will argue In favor of UMT and Darwin McAfee, COA president and Ruth Raymond, associate editor of The Daily Ne braskan will represent the op position. Major Lichtenberger said that the purpose of the discussion is to present a better understanding of UMT. He said that the problem must be critically observed by all citizens, and that the bad aspects of military training must be done away with. The major said that there are not enough volunteers to fill the present need for servicemen. He said that UMT would not provide for the training of young men as military militia but as citizens in preparation for mili tary duty, and that these men would be kept in the reserve corps as "minute men." Miss Raymond said in defense Results will be reported to the student's Selective Service local board of jurisdiction for use in considering his deferment as a student, according to Educational Testing service, which prepares and administers the college qual ification test. So far, there have been no other dates designated for the test to be given in 1952, since the bulk of the eligible students took the test last year. fiiWwL (FORMERLY NU ALMANAC) By JACK PHINNEY Tell me what hannpnert bpn nean Halleren visited vour fra- ternity." "Oh, that's a closed chapter now." Maid "Shall I take this little rug out and beat it?" Beta "Ladyi that is no rug, that's my towel." Prof. "Will you men stop ex changing notes in the back of the room?" Stude "Them ain't notes, them's cards. We're playing bridge." Prof. "Oh, I beg your pardon." You ean cancel your picnic plans for the week end and put your convert ible tops up, for the wea therman pre dicts rainj and colder weather with the mercury dropping to 45 degrees. Rain Headline from the Clearwa ter, Fia., Sun: LOW NECK LINES ON TV TO BE PROBED. From the Albany Knicker bocker News: "For her cos tume she was awarded a radio and a loving up." From the Kenyon, Mass., Standard: "Senior champion ships were won by William Don ald with his yearning bull." From the Memphis, Tenn., Commercial Appeal: "A census Bureau report revealed that southern girls do marry at an early urge." - From the Fairmont, Minn., Sentinel: "Miss Sally Blank left Wednesday for Rochester, where she expects to have a garter re moved by the Mayo brothers." Bartender: "Lad, are you old enough to drink?" Happy Customer: "YeYsshir, I shertinly am an' I have my fren's ID, right here to prove it" , Control Board To Perfect Undergraduate Program Nebraska's Board of Control is now perfecting an un dergraduate program for training workers to serve in the public assistance field in Nebraska, Mrs. Harold Prince, chairman of the Board, has announced. Mrs. Prince made the announcement to The Daily Ne braskan after answering queries regarding statements she has made concerning social work training in the state. Courtesy Lincoln Star. MRS. HAROLD PRINCE . . . Chairman of Nebraska's Board of Control, Mrs. Prince an nounced that the board is per fecting an undergraduate pro gram for social work. (Courtesy of Lincoln Journal.) Red Cross filings close 4 p.m. Thursday. All students inter ested, contact Nancy Whitmore ftt 2-7938. g Discussion COA Meeting of the opponents to UMT that there is a dangerous trend toward militarizing the country, and that the cost of the program would be too high in comparison to the amount of good which it would do. She said that farm groups op pose the program on the basis that it will cut into their labor; church groups say that it will demoralize our youth; and ed ucators say it will impose upon the education of our young men. Union Clears Lost Articles A daily check of the Union for the purpose of keeping the lounge and book nook, as well as adjoin ing rooms neat, will start Wed nesday. The checking hour will be from 11:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. Mondav through Friday. Spot checks will also be held during the day. Books, coats, and other articles left in the main lounge and book nook will be turned in to the check room. Articles can be checked free of charge, but if anything is left lying about in the Union, they will be taken to the check room and a fee of ten cents will be charged for their return to the owner. The project is under the dire. tion of the Union house commit' tee, sponsored bv Marilvn Mm mey Committee chairman is Bev- tn, ii n na ine memcers are Fnyiiis Armstrong and Pat Nellis. P.M. Headlines By CHARLES GOMON Staff News Writer Ridgway Protests To Reds TOKYO Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, supreme allied com mander in Japan, sent a tersely-worded note of protest to the Russians taking them to task for seizing 178 Japanese fishing craft. Gen. Ridgway called the action "contrary to all prin Acheson Leaves For London WASHINGTON Secretary of State Dean Acheson left for London to meet with the British and French foreign ministers on problems relating to the North Atlantic Pact. Acheson will also represent President Truman at the fu neral of King George VI on Friday. Committee Makes Minor NATO Changes LISBON The NATO mili tary committee, made up of the chiefs of staff of the 11 allied armies and one civilian from Iceland, decided to rec ommend only minor changes in a proposed master plan for European defense. The plan was drafted by a special committee headed by W. Averell Harriman, chief'of the U. S. mutual security agency. Harriman's report was criti cal of the defense efforts of Committee Charges WASHINGTON A House committee investigating armed forces budget requests for the coming fiscal year condemned the defense department's anti quated purchasing system. Ac cording to the committee, du plication is the rule and waste is common. Vice Adm. Charles Fox of the naval procurement office, admitted that a (certain inch brass nut was listed in the navy's procurement catalogue chairman had said that social work training in public assistance could be accomplished in the regular four-year course, without further training in the graduate school. She proposed that the state stop allotting money for public assistance trainees in the University Graduate School of Social Work. The new training program. Mrs. Prince said, involves an alteration of social worker qualifications. "We are keying the changes to experience in the field as well as special training." "I believe very definitely that, since statutes relate to county ad ministration and to eligibility to applicants as well as the spending of money, we must link with the understanding of human needs a knowledge of sound business practice," .Mrs. Prince said "Neither is sufficient in itself." "At present," Mrs. Prince ex plained, "we are working with interested persons in the state. I am not free to go further because the program has not yet crystal lized." The chairman said that she has not consulted Dr. Frank Z. Glick, dean of the graduate school, about the program, and has conferred "only briefly" with University officials. "The aim of the Board of Control," Mrs. Prince explained, "is to provide more efficient administration. I believe that this will be accomplished by our program." Dr. Glick, in answering Mrs. Prince's earlier proposal to eli- minate graduate training in the assistance field, said the graduate school is doing a "fully respect able job." Students of the school said that adequate social work training could not be provided in the regular four-year course. A group of five second-year students agreed that there is insufficient time in the under graduate years to enroll in ad vanced studies and insufficient time in the graduate years to study basic courses. Leo Tighe, who had a master's degree and two years of social work experience before enrol ling in the graduate school here, said he "regarded myself as a novice" and sought further training In the University. Another experienced worker, Winifred Gilson, said she. felt that she was "not qualifed," even after three years of practical ex perience. William E. Brown stressed the importance of field training offered in the graduate school as a supplement to the classroom instruction. Paul Leuenberger and Ardell Banker outlined the value of the graduate school, pointing out that its aim is "not to keep people on the relief rolls, but to help them become self-sufficient." The graduate . students enumerated the pre-requistites required for entrance into the school. These, they said In answer to Mrs. Prince's value of business training, include credit hours in business administra tion. Mrs. Prince, in her statements earlier, had also stressed the need of more "exact science.' The students answered this by point- ing out that some of the students have as many as 60 hours in a I particular social science. ciples of international law and custom." The message accused the Russfans of confiscating outright some 29 vessels. Of the remaining 149, one was sunk, 33 disappeared without a trace and the rest were eventually returned. Knotty problems have been piling up at the meeting of pact member military leaders in Lisbon, and the three for eign ministers will try to find mutually satisfactory answers to these questions in London so instructions may be sent to Lisbon. several of the European countries, notably Belgium. The report analyzes how much the member countries should be contributing to the defense program. The chiefs of staff met rn an atmosphere charged with communist protestations. Al though the communist party is technically outlawed in Por tugal, anti-Atlantic pact hand bills appeared throughout the city declaring "peace pact, yes; Atlantic pact, no!" Budget Duplication as one type of "impeller." Admiral Fox agreed that it might be difficult to find the proper equipment under such a system. It was discovered that olive drab army blankets are pro vided to the quartermaster de partment for less than half as much as medical department pays. Light bulbs sell for one price to the army and an other to the marines. The
