THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
Friday, March 21, 1952
, EDITORIAL PAGE
Open Or Closed Diplomacy?
On occasion the American people rise up, on the truce talks. The American people, the UN of-
their Declaration of Independence and their Bill ficials and member nations, the Allied forces in
of Rights and shout that their liberties are being Korea and undoubtedly the negotiators are fed-up
usurped, their freedom is being curtailed and their with the nine-months of plodding talks. Lives may
rights revoked. And, on occasion, the American be saved and a world crisis may be averted by
people point to themselves and their land of free a successful conclusion of the armistice negotia-
speech, free religion, free assembly and free press.
They ask the rest of the world to look to their
democracy and their freedom.
The American newsman is one of the staunch
est guardians of these rights and freedoms. When
the North Korean negotiators refused to admit
the press to truce talks last fall, the American
newsman, the Allied negotiators and the Amer
ican people balked. They stood on their Bill
of Rights, then democratic principles and re
fused to negotiate until the newsmen were al
lowed access to the talks.
Barbed Wire
On Thursday, March 20, word came from Pan- h f u prisoners,
tions.
It is inconceivable, at least to The Daily Ne
braskan, that any Allied person or organization
could suggest that a news blackout could speed
the POW negotiations. It is impossible to imagine
that the daily inspection by the .world of the prog
ress or regression of the talks could speed-up ne
gotiations. The issues of the prisoner repatriation
issue are known to the world. Newspaper readers
are aware of the fact that the Allied truce talkers
desire voluntary repatriation of all prisoners and
that Communist negotiators desire a forced ex-
munjom that Brig. Gen. William P. Nuckols said
the United Nations is willing to consider a news
blackout on the prisoner of war discissions if it
would mean speeding up agreement on an armis
tice. The forced or voluntary repatriation of POWs
The issues are at stake and continuous state'
ments from top Allied officials have indicated that
UN negotiators will not give in to Red demands
for forced repatriation,
The news blackout suggestion, obviously emin-
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issue has deadlocked the truce talks and Brig. Gen. ating ffom some Alied source would that
Nuckols has said no possibility of speeding up the
talks should be overlooked.
This sounds like shades of last fall when the
newsmen were refused entrance to the negotia
tions. This sounds like shades of President Tru
man's order that government news releases could
be labeled as to their secrecy and withheld from
newsmen.
However, the fact that is stranger than fic
tion is Nuckols' emphasis that Communist staff
officers in the prisoner of war discussions have
not intimated that they would desire such a
news policy. This blackout suggestion has obvi
ously not been Communist inspired. The story is
cloaked in the words that "the United Nations
is willing to consider . . ." Brig Gen. Nuckols
released the news, commented on the validity
of the suggestion and emphatically took any
Communist backing from the idea.
there is something to the POW question that can
not be told to the public.
With this issue, comes the question of open or
seoret diplomacy. With this issue comes the
attacks on the "glare of pitiless publicity" and
the insistence of free people to know what is
going on in every meeting, negotiation and talk
of the world's diplomats.
In this instance, whoever or whatever the spe
cific Allied source that made this news blackout
suggestion is or are, It would be well to tell the
world just how secret diplomay would speed up
the ft)W talks. It would be well for the Allied
officials to take a stand on open or secret diplo
macy. This latest suggestion for speeding the truce
talks is and will undoubtedly receive protests from
the press. But, this time, the protests are not
against Communist suppression tactics but against
Everything possible is being done to speed-up the United Nations proposal. R.R.
A Time To Say 'No' And 'Yes'
By ALVIN M. PETERSON
Lutheran Student Pastor
(dltor' Note: Each Friday daring Lent, The Daily Ne
kraskau will print a guest editorial written by a student pastor.)
Lent is currently thought of as a period of ne
gations. There are those who find it a helpful
season to carry out a minor resolution or two, quite
inconsequential and rather unrelated to the tenor
of true Lent It is a time of negations but quite
different from what is general opinion.
Lent is a time to say "no" to selfishness, self
will, falsehood, bigotry and smallness. A time of
self denial! It would be refreshing to meet up with
stern resolution in many areas when it comes to
cheating in exams, or taking bribes or yielding to
the temptation just to get by. Where then is the
tern will?
But negation Is obviously a negative ap
proach to life. A person has to learn to say
" 'yes" to food before he has the power to say
"no" effectively to evil. Jesus was an individual
like unto all of us. He was able to say "no" em
phatically and when It counted most. Note His
encounter in the wilderness when He fasted and
resisted temptation. Scripture relates three def
inite "no's" to the voice of the tempter (Luke 4).
Note also His renunciation of evil when the voice
of temptation came disguised in one of His dis
ciples (Matthew 16).
How had He learned such resoluteness? Early
He had said "yes" to His Father's will. At the age
of 12 He reflects the will of His Father, "I must
do my Father's business." The gospel writer, Luke,
relates with repeated emphasis that Jesus set His
face to go to Jerusalem. Why? Because He knew
that was the Father's will that He should suffer
and be rejected and die. It was because He had
said "yes" to His Father's will, that He could with
relative ease say "no" to evil.
Moral fortitude and righteous courage are not
readily acquired, and surely we do not attain these
qualities naturally. The need of the individual and
society is redemptive in character. Sinful man can
not rise much above his environment by either
saying "no" or "yes," for he lacks the power. That
is why God sent Jesus into the world, because the
situation required intervention. Therefore Jesus
came and lived a righteous life. But more, He
voluntarily accepted a humiliating death for a
purpose! And that purpose was redemptive to
give to each individual the power to rise above
self and sin.
The history of Christianity vindicates the
validity of what took place at the cross. Witness
the rise of the church. Note the changed lives of
such as the disciple Peter and the apostle Paul,
or of John Huss, Luther and Calvin, or more
recently of men like Kai Munk, or Niemoeller or
Bishop Ordass. Such men could say "no" when
it counted, because they had said "yes" to God
and His will.
Lent would be quite meaningful to students if
they would truly become disciples (students) of
Jesus Christ. For He is not only a person to emu
late, but He is Christ and Lord, which fact God,
the Father, proved on the first Easter morn.
Wylie
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After the' last two days of
seemingly spring weather,
University students can look
forward to at least three
more weeks of rain, sleet or
snow before the picnic
weather is here to stay. Seems
the weatherman gives us just
a taste of good weather now
and then to keep us going,
A headline
in a local pa
p e r recently
caught my at
t e n t i o n. It
ran: "McCook
Key City In
Kefauver
Drive." Upon
reading the
story I was
amazed to
find that the
council (city,
evidently) had
approved plans
9,000 pounds of DDT to combat
the cankerworm. Ah, yes, mod
ern journalism.
It is a funny thing, but every
body does it. When there is a
new baby being cuddled, someone
always says, "He has his father's
nose and his mother's eyes." Yes,
and if grandpop doesn't stop lean
ing over the crib it's going to have
his teeth.
o
A word to the wise: If someone
tells you that your girl has been
kissed by every guy in town, just
give him your smuggest smirk and
say: "It ain't such a big town!"
Speaking of students with in
genuity, and we might as well,
there's the story of the coed who
dyed her hair red so she could
go out with a Kappa Sig pledge
Wednesday night. It seems the
actives of said organization re
quired their pledges to have
red-headed dates that night.
What some people won't do for
entertainment.
NU BULLETIN
BOARD
Friday
Dr. Harold Urey speaks at 8 p.m.
in Love library auditorium.
Estes Carnival, College Activi
ties building, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday .
Entries for Farmer's Fair par
ade due at 5 p.m.
Ivy Day Sing entries due to
day.
Year Book Completed
Work has been completed on
the 1952 Cornhusker,' accord
ing to Adele Coryell, managing
editor. Miss Coryell said the
only thing which remains to be
done is correcting proof when
it is returned from the printer.
Letterip
Open Letter
.... . t. .1 tH m corlol nf MM Liters
to students by members of the lunlor and
senior class presidents. The letters will be
weekly feature of The Daily MbraKan and
contain reports of the week's actlv ties of
the Council. The first was written by
Martin Lewis, lunlor class president. Next
week, Joe (iifford, senior class president,
will report on progress.
When first planning this year's
Junior-Senior prom, many sug
gestions were brought before the
Junior-Senior Class Council. The
majority of these suggestions fa
vored having the Prom at some
off-campus location.
Joe Gifford and I spent the
next two weeks talking to var.
ious faculty members. Our main
talking point was the fact that
the A.U.F. Charity Ball was
held off-campus; so why could- .
n't the Prom' be held off
campus? Upon presenting our case to
several members of the faculty
committee on social affairs, we.
"Though the A.U.F. Charity Ball
was successful, Dom nnanciaiiy
and socially, it was very evident
that if the majority .of those at- -tending
had knpwn in advance of
the tight restrictions that were
imposed, the Charity Ball would
have been a financial loss." Thus
by having the Prom off-canTpus
we would be endangering our low
class funds. Whether this answer
has any causal relation to our
case has yet to be proven.
.Due to this turn of events, we
had to abandon our original
plans and keep the Prom with
in the city of Lincoln. Remem
ber, the Junior-Senior Prom
will be held Saturday, May 3,
at the Lincoln Hotel.
MARTIN LEWIS
Junior Class President
Sing Entries Due
Ivy Day Sing entries are due
Saturday, Associated Women
Students and Kosmet Klub an
nounced. The Sing will be heid May
3, and winners will he chosen
in both men's and women's di
visions. Entries must contain
the name of the song, name of
the director, expected alumni
help and a $3 fee.
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Jack Lowe and J. C. Bush, editors of the Sid
ney Telegraph, western Nebraska semi-weekly,
have given Vic Anderson and .Bob Crosby plenty
of ammunition for their aspirations to the state
governorship this week.
The Sidney paper has begun a blasting edl-
Margin Notes1
It has long been a discouraging truth that class
rooms at this institution are way under-populated
with pencil sharpeners. It is a bother to have to
walk to the end of the hall every time a pencil
lead breaks, ,
The Daiy Nebraskan has inquired and discov
ered that it is purely up tothe different depart
mjnts aj to whether a room has a pencil sharpen
er or not. Pencil sharpeners are avaliable on order
to be purchased on the department's budget.
The Nebraskan believes that if more instructors
and department chairmen realized the procedure,
there would be more pencil sharpners in class
rooms. Surly, budgets could stand the pressure of
a few pencil sharpeners.
Supreme Headquarters of the Allied Powers,
about 12 miles outside of Paris, had all the fever
f an election headquarters Wednesday as re
tarns from the Minnesota primary election were
stacked on Gen. Dwlght D. Eisenhower's desk.
Ho would give no comment to the swarms
of newsmen on the news that be had pulled
196,519 write-In votes against native-son Harold
Stassen'e 127,630 X marks.
This Is the first time In American history
When the candidate for a presidential nomination
handled bis campaign from such a distance.
The original director of the School of, Mnslo
, died Wednesday In Corpus Christ!, Tex. He was
'3c . ' '
Howard Klrkpatrie, who began his service to
the University In 1900, will always he remem
bered for his many contributions to the School
and the University.
The mother of the designer of the Carillon
tower has entered the news as Kansas' Mother of
the Year. Mrs. Joe B. Kuska, whose son George
drew plans for the tower, received the honor
Wednesday.
George and his two brothers are graduates of
ft 8 University.' .
Daily Thought
art of every age is the clearer phras
its increased awareness of truth.
l.Zp JVylia,
torial campaign against the bad roads in Ne
braska and against the "pressure groups" which
defeated Gov. Val Peterson's road program two
years ago. Lowe and Bush lay the blame for Ne
braska's "crumbling" roads not with the State
Highway Department, but with the "refusal of
Nebraskans to provide adequate financing for
a good highway program."
Both Republican candidates for the guberna
torial office have mentioned road programs in
their platforms. Both favor a highway commis
sion of some sort. Anderson would like to have
the governor head a road commission and work
out a compromise among advocates of various road
plans. Crosby favors a road commission completely
divorced from the governor's office.
Jack Lowe and J. C .Bush are demanding
that something be done about Nebraska's "crum
' bling" roads. Anderson and Crosby will un
doubtedly pick up this editorial fire and use It
as ammunition in their future comments to
would-be-backers concerning taxes for a state
highway commission, the set-up of the commis
sion and the future of Nebraska's roads. B.K.
FIFTY-FIRST YEAR
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