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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
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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-
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Charles Gomon
Allies." Whether Europe
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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
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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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gallons of mirtnifftit oil to gloss over a subject ligLtly.
Especially such an important item as cigarette mildness.
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and concluded that a "quick puff or "fast sniff"
doesn't offer much evidence. MUliohs of smokers agree
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Zi'i th tetuVLl test... the 30-Day Camel Mildness
Test, which simply asks jon to try Camels as your
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