The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current, February 18, 1952, Page 2, Image 2
i THE DAILY NEBRASKAN Monday, February 18, 1952 EDITORIAL PAGE Fifty-Year Milestone Just three weeks ago this editor dedicated the ledger outbalances the other side. Successes are semester's Daily Nebraskan toward improvement recorded in the archives. On The AP Haywire Amy Palmer of all that lies in the future. Chances are that nearly every other editor occupying this position on The Daily Nebraskan had something similar in mind when taking over the job. This month The Nebraskan celebrates its golden anniversary. Although the student news paper first appeared in 1872 under the name Hes perian, 1952 marks the 50th year for the present title. In 1902, after 30 years of being called the Hesperian, the paper got a new title. In the total 80 years many crises have arisen and been solved by this newspaper, just as any other publication. As every other journalistic enter prise, mistakes have been made and no doubt will be made in the future. But the assets side of the It Is not the intent of this editor to glorify the student newspaper. The only persons Quali fied to do this are a newspaper's readers. They are the ones every newspaper staff strives hum bly to represent and to serve. Twenty-five or 50 years from now another editor of The Daily Nebraskan undoubtedly will sit at a typewriter or whatever machine is em ployed in that age wondering what should be I'm just like Monday back again. The weekend was a little better this time; we had a formal, witn chaperones. 'Hough said. Now that the pinning poll has been published, it's anybody's meat. And I plan to use it as the bone for this column. First of all, did yon know there aren't more than 60 pinned couples on campus? Maybe Valentine's day improved the situation. If anyone was disappointed, how ever. I have the solution. ee - A Student Views The News Communist Leaflets Proclaim Anti-Atlantic Pact Propaganda ! i 'v written about a newspaper's anniversary, Some newspapers publish special, multi-paged j Mike, u,e jeweler, for pins of Issues to observe special anniversaay dates. The ) any kind. His shop is on the Vrhrictin staff nrespnts a rernlar mner aimed I roof of the Union. today, as every day, toward sincerely and con. scientiously serving the students of the Univer sity of Nebraska J.K. Things are really getting rough around here. I seems you have to have a mouthpiece to stay in school. I was sitting on the ground the other day innocently I spinning my top, when a cop ap-j proache 1 me and said l was unaer arrest. I was sitting in a laculty parking lot for my little game and under the new rules, that's nasty. I was a bad kid and now I have to go to Florida for a week; that's as far out of the country as 1 care to go. You know I'm working as a sec- dergoing a war against communism. But it is not anese during the rast war. Aiier uvmi 'ybtftotogto an ordinary war where armies fight and the ob- primitive atmosphere those many years, tney nan der about m bosS- The Steaming, Skinny Peninsula There is a steaming, skinny peninsula that sticks desire to put up with all the hustle and require out from southeast Asia where the world gets the ments of communist labor organizations. So they. majority of its zoo animals. It is a country where kicked the communists out, doing a better job a great deal of the world's supply of rubber and 0f it than we have in this country. Moscow-trained tin originates. It is a country where hate and vio- communists were forced to take to the jungles lence are as thick as the impenetrable jungle. and organize groups of half-beast guerrillas. These This country, the Federation of Malaya, is un- guerrillas went into the jungles to fight the Jap- rxz 'c 31 i Charles Gomon Allies." Whether Europe is jective is to gain control of enemy territory; it is a dirty, messy war where men, women and children are killed only to create terror. Humans are slaugh tered daily for slaughter's sake. Fanatics will go Sato the modern movie theaters and watch an American movie. When they leave, they place a live hand grenade on the seat There does not seem to be any sense to this constant throat cutting, back stabbing war. Why does it continue? This problem was brought up and explained by Guy Halferty when he was on campus last week. Halferty has just returned from Malaya where he served as an information specialist for the state department. He analysed the fight as an attempt to keep Ma laya in a state of continual unrest until the com munist time-table called for a full-scale war. But, said Halferty, that time-table had the props kicked from under it when the United States hit back in Korea. The result: Malayan communists continue the slaughter with the ever-present hope that there is a new day coming. Halferty believes that the new day has been indefinitely halted because Brother Stalin had not counted on this country having enough guts to fight back in Korea. He views the decision to go into Korea under the flag of the United Nations as possibly the most significant decision of the cold "yar. While we may have lost 100 thousand men in that fight, we have undoubtedly saved many " more. Now Russia knows that any time she tries another of her liberating" aggressions she will !Hjbave to answer to us with another world war the 7" result According to the former US propagandist, - the Russian plan was to waltz over South Korea ""and ain bases on that strategic peninsula. Then Chinese communists would swarm into Indochina to wipe out the valiant French armies there. With Indochina, Korea, China and Tibet in communist hands no place in Asia would be safe. Halferty gave an interesting reason for the fact that the communists are fighting this war with guerrillas alone instead of the usual rabble-rousing labor tactics. The workers in Malaya are too lacka daisical, he said, and did not have the energy or developed all the hideous qualities of headhunters. montn after j my started working) Leaflets proclaiming the communist catch phrase "peace pact, yes; Atlantic pact, no!" flut tered down on the streets of Lisbon, Portugal last week as military leaders of the 12 NATO coun tries sat down to conferences on European defense problems. Always great opportunists, the, Reds took ad- ujy 0f and this coal must be mined in Europe the North Atlantic willing to make use of her capabilities is another matter. The European rearmament time schedule is not being met by any country and each one has its own excuse. Britain, plagued by the convulsions of her dis integrating empire and haunted by the austerity of her insolvency, simply cannot pay for both guns and butter. France who made remarkable progress toward recovery in the first few years of ECA aid, finds herself saddled with a war In Indo-China, a re armament program in Europe, and a vocal com munist minority In the chamber of deputies. Ac tually France's Internal disunity accounts for much of her seeming international weakness. The other countries of Europe are in the same plight War devastated economies probably will "not be able to support a rearmament program plus a high standal of living without considerable American aid. At least Europeans think they can't and that is half the rearmament battle lost already. One of the factors behind the factors is coaL European industry depends upon an adequate sup- The war these jungle people fight forces .there, he came to the decision thatntae of a aerial cable-car system (which car- if the cost is not to be prohibitive. British plantation owners and their employees to live in constant fear for therl lives. When plantation owners leave for the cities they bundle the whole family Into armored cars and race down primitive roads. Any car that travels alone on country roads In Malaya is inviting an attack by the marauders. Halferty emphasized the fact that America is not popular in Malaya, or in any part of Asia, my parrot Us can straighten me rm. f,n nnrB Tnanv Twvmi in' out- Or did I tell you about my lue pet parrot? Malaya that communism was good but they did' , an excellent job of proving thrt America is badgent but fce uks aU tte recuuar as it may asecin uj u, wic umua vwje.... there are some students on this ries passengers from hill to hill in Lisbon) to en- campus who need a psychiatrist. Suppose I could sue him? m admit, though, that I am going to need some sort of mental help if the one-way streets go through. Fve been here for six years now (rm a second semester freshman) and I still know my directions on this campus. Of course maybe is that we tell them how to spend our money. Just give it to us," they cry with their oriental logic, "we want to decide how to spend it" But we are unpopular for other reasons too. Our movies al ways show someone "getting his" on the mam street of some quiet American town. Our maga zines scream about vice-ridden cities. Our news papers broadcast race riots and governmental scandal Halferty, who distributed scholarships to American universities as part of his job in Malaya, said that some of the students who received these scholarships did not want to take them because they did not think that it was safe to be on the streets in America. These people who live in a land where throats are cut indiscriminately, are afraid to come to America. Halferty talked to the Nebraska University Council for World Affairs last Thursday. About 20 people took it upon themselves to go to the Union to listen to him. What be had to say was of vital Importance to University students. Yet there is such an apathy on this campus con cerning world affairs that practically no one of the ,000 registered students went to hear him. As Halferty said, it took longer to drive to Lin coln from Los Angeles than ft did to fly from Washington to Singapore. This struggle in Ma laya is closer than we dare realize. It is part of a movement which, Halftery believes, will leave Asia minus its white population. We must wake up and take interest. While European industrial output is up 40 per sure a wide distribution of their propaganda. De- over pre-war levels, the coal output is down time sort of like a professor. Oh,j I mean coed. Well, you know what I mean. Anyway, about my parrot He writes all this drivel you read every week. It makes no differ' ence I have one very loyal fan. I even have her autograph on ; check. It's my mother. That's about all for this week, except Ti would like to find out about what parrot Jack Fninney is using for his joke column. Parrot Tracks. Tiz thinks he can get either a job er a date. Even parrots have troubles. But then so do yen, so run along little ones. Re member, keep a stiff upper lip, that Is. NU BULLETIN BOARD : Food For Thought Let Religious, Racial Walls Tumble God Made No Impassable Fences By REX KXOWLES University Pastor walls separating everything and Wa build everyone. Robert Frost has written, "Something there is that doesnt love a wall that wants it down." He is certainly right And that something is the in finite love of God. God meant the world to be one. He made no plans for impassable fences between man and man. And yet we build them. There Is our religious wall. If God In his in finite wisdom sees a place for Jew and Gentile, Catholic and Protestant, then it would seem that we, in our inferior wisdom, should be able to accept these brothers worshippers of the one God. Fosdick, Sheen, Issemsn, Howells, Sbuster, Stampfer: Protestant pastor. Catholic priest, Jew ish Rabbis? No ministers of God! A protestant minister they call me but daily argin Notes I gain wisdom from the words of Jewish prophets and inspiration from the lives of Catholic saints. How can I allow religious walls to stand in the way of brotherhood when I owe so much for what I am today to the Jewish and the Catholic faiths. There is a racial wall. On the other side of the wall are George Washington Carver, Booker T. Washington, Ralph Bunche, Marion Anderson, Toyobeka Kagawa, Mahtama Gbandi, yes, and Jesus Christ When I look at these towering per sonalities, how small we seem and how infinitely pathetic seems our claim of racial superiority. It seems strange to think that God made one color of people and left all other colors to make them selves. It seems strange to think that all men are created equal, but that some were created more equal than others. Robert Frost has another poem la which be says. "I'd like to get away from earth awhile and then come back to It and begin ever." It Is a good wish. We all should get sway from earth this week, climbing to heaven, and then look back at the walls we have built. How small and Insignificant the towering walls seem to one who climbs vp and sees them from God's point of view. j And then we should "come back to it and begin j over. Gocbnas made one world ana wnat eoa nas made, let no man put asunder. Monday YW Camp Counseling commis sion meets in Grant Memorial at 4 p.m, wear jeans and gym shoes. Gladys Johnson, leader. YW Leadership Traininr com mission meets at S p.m., in Ellen Smith dining room. Miriam Willey, leader. Tuesday AWS filing deadline for board positions. WAVE Officer Career meeting, Ellen Smith hall, 5 pjn. in itoom auj, xempie. spite the fact that the communist party is outlawed in Portugal, Ivan's sympathizers are still active and some of them managed to distribute hundreds of these leaflets from the windows of the aerial trol leys. Corny as the Lisbon advertising scheme might appear to us, the fact remains that the communist propaganda machine is committeed to the task of discrediting and destroying the Atlantic pact Ap parently the idea of an adequately armed western Euorpe is considered by the Kremlin to be an in convenience, a challenge, and a threat A concise statement regarding the status of Europe's defense effort is not possible because the really significant data is stored behind pentagon vault-doors. Speculation on the subject, however, has brought forth all sorts of theories. Few of these are optimistic Most observers agree with Newsweek 's edi torialist Ernest K. Lindley who says that "... the fulfillment of this master plan (for unified Euro pean defense) is well within the capabilities of 7 per cent That means expensive US coal is being imported by needy European nations. Fully 75 per cent of France's economic aid from this country is used to buy American coal at ruinous prices. One very simple reason for the shortage of coal and miners is that "welfare-minded" sons of miners don't want to go into the pits if they can possibly , get better jobs topside. Another reason for less coal is antiquated mining methods and equipment In Poland, the Russians plan to increase coal production by 30 per cent through both "stick and carrot" methods, but slave labor is hardly the answer to western Europe's dilemma. All in all. Gen. Dwight Eisenhower's problems in building a European defense force are not lim ited to getting troops into the field. The task of the NATO staff is the infinitely harder one of first giving the Europeans a sense of urgency con cerning their own defense, second a confidence in their own ability to meet the problem, and third adequate leadership to accomplish the necessary and approach the impossible. So far only the leadership has been evident r Campus Interviews on Cigarette Tests No. 34 . . .ran robst ! WANT ADS Senator Tom Connally of Texas has demanded that President Truman sever diplomatic relations with Red Hungary. The US can do so, he asserted, by cutting off funds for the US embassy in Buda pect But American officials have been loath to make a complete break because they regard Buda pest as an Important listening post behind the iron curtain. The "listening post" is swiftly losing its value and it will never be worth the $120,000 which was recently paid to Hungary for the release of the four American airmen. A complete break with Hungary might prove to future black-mailing countries that the US win never again resort to ransom payments. Nand DeBord, speaking for the Junior class council, presented a plan to Student Council for the de-emphasis of final examinations. It was sug gested by the council that graduating seniors be excused from their finals on the basis of class averages. 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