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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
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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
