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UNIVERSITY OF NEBftj LIBRARY OCT 25 1961 'archive. UYJ Vol. 75, No. 22 The Nebraskan Wednesday, Oct. 25, 1961 Physicist Comments Sloan 'Scare i By Mike MacLean "It is intended as a threat, as scare weapon," said Pro fessor Daniel Sloan, Univer sity Political Science instruc tor, when asked about the Russian explosion of a 30-50 megaton atom bomb. "Public opinion and criti cism will die down, and peo ple will just keep remember ing that the Russians have this weapon. The advantages must outweigh the disadvan tages, or they would not have set it off," he added. Another Political Science Instructor, Professor A. T. Edelmann, felt that the bomb explosion did not have much significance. "I would tend to agree with Ralph Lapp, one of our leading atomic scien tists, who feels that any atomic bomb over 25 mega tons Is an 'over-kin,' Dr Edel mann said. "The news of this large bomb certainly isn't very en couraging, but the excessive size of the bomb seems to me like using a bazooka to kill Schneider Discusses German Re-Unitv By Nancy Whitford "German prospects for re unification are now so slim that there is some question as to whether or not this is a real issue at this time," Dr. Carl Schneider, chairman of the department of political science told student religious groups Sunday. Schneider said East " Ger many and West Germany have gone their separate ways for so long that now there is very little esemblance be tween them, either economic ally, politically or socially. Schneider discussed and backgrounded the political crisis in Germany. Dr. Rich ard Solberg, chairman of the history department at Augus tana College in Sioux Falls, S.D. told of the religious cri sis in the program sponsored by the Council on Religion. Solberg said the problem of the church in East Germany is the problem of the free hu man conscience. "Could you prepare for a job as a teacher if you knew you would be required to teach Marxism?" he asked. "Could you vote in an elec tion when you knew the choices were not really choices?" Schneider said the immedi ate goal is to try to keep war from breaking. "This is the only common basis we have for negotiation with Russia neither side wants to drop the bomb." He said the major problems V; Act III of scene 1, In the theater season's opening production, "Measure for Meas ure," include a scene of the following cast members. From the left are: Leta Powell, a man when a .22 or .44 would do as well," he said." Anti-Missile "Of much more importance, in my opinion, is their pos sible anti-missile defense that General Malenovsky told the Communist Party Congress about on Monday," he said. He went on to say that "if they do have it, the anti-mis sile is much more of a wea pon breakthrough than a 30 megaton atomic bomb. "By testing these bombs, I think that they are trying to overcome a military lead that we once held. When asked about the pos sible world consequences of the bomb testing, Professor Edelmann said "there has not been the strong indignant pro test we would like to have seen from all countries." "It is to be expected that our allies such as Japan and Norway would protest strong ly," he continued, "but it's been disappointing that the so-called neutral nations seem to be so little concerned." were the continuing presence In West Berlin of western oc cupying forces and the right of access to Berlin. The political struggle has several aspects Schneider said. "The refugees are a sta tistical measure of the human suffering. On the problem of re-unification ' t h e re is no agreement now even as to the definition of the boundaries, and there is some question as to whether or not the Ger mans themselves want unifi cation." Solberg described the Church in East Germany as about 60 percent Lutheran and 40 percent Catholic with a nominal membership based on geographic areas rather than denomination. People in the United States have several false ideas about the East German church and people, Solberg said: Not everyone in East Germany is a Communist. The East German Church is not weak and dying. It has 25,000 full-time workers, in cluding lay teachers, deacons, .deaconesess and ministers, and services are preached regularly on Sunday. The Church is not an open political resistance movement. "Being Christian is not a question of belonging to the church, but the ability to stand up to what is right. This crisis in Germany is special, but it is the same question in every age of the sin of man versus the love of God." CURTAIN CALL portraying K w v : ' I1 fin; I issii,4f Marianna; while Gordon Trousdale plays Duke Vencentio. "If we are ahead of the Rus sians in atomic weapons, as apparently we are, I think it is best for President Kennedy to get an effective agreement outlawing testing entirely with the hope of achieving some real control of atomic and other weapons. When he asked about future testing, Professor Edelmann stated, "if our military plan ners doubt that we have suit able atomic weapons for lim ited warfare, I think we should certainly keep on test ing these. "We are probably short oh these small ones and not the more powerful ones. We should keep testing and re fining them," he concluded. Professor Sloan also felt that we should keep on test ing the small bombs. He said, "if we are going to rely on them, we most certainly should keep on testing and re fining them." Levitas Lecture ScheduledFriday Irving Levitas, member of the U.N. Speakers' Bureau, will speak on "Nationalism and the U.N.," Friday in the Union auditorium. The lec ture, scheduled for 3 p.m., is sponsored by the talks and topic committee of Nebraska Union and is free to the pub lic. Levitas, a noted lecturer and educator, has spoken in many U.S. colleges as well as colleges in the Near and Far East. Educated at Chicago Uni-. versity in Oriental Studies, Levitas has written several articles concerning National ism and Westernization in Asia for various periodicals. He is a faculty member of the University of Kansas City teaching History and Philoso phy. German Speaks Today at 11 p.m. Dr. Carl-Christoph Schweit zer will speak at 11 a.m. Thursday in the Love Library Auditorium on "Berlin-Outpost of Democracy." Dr. Schweitzer was born in Germany but migrated to England at the age of 15 and received most, of his educa tion there. He returned to Germany to do graduate work and earned his PhD. from the University of Freiburg. Dr. Schweitzer was speaker at the Budestage and worked in the Bundescentrale F u e r Heimatdienst, German equiv alent to the U.S. Information Administration. He is p r e s ently chief of the Division for Mass Media. Isabella; Nancy Wilson as PREPARE FOR THE LAST Week of Cornhusker Pictures October 21 Weapon 0 f ' i IJk " vv. 1 s LIKE KA-BOOM Is that Lincoln under the rising mushroom cloud of death pictured above or will just the radioactive contents of the cloud drift onto Lincoln from a multi-megaton explosion like that set off by the Russians this week in the Arctic? Homecoming Dance Ticket Sales Booming Ticket sales for the Home coming Dance featuring Les Elgart and his orchestra are going real well," according to John Bischoff. publicity chairman of Corn Cobs. Tassels and Corn Cobs are both sell ing tickets to the dance. Tickets may also be pur chased in a booth in t h e Union spon sored by Tas sels. Elgart Before he started his own band, Elgart was the featured trumpet player for Charlie Spivak, Harry James, Woody Herman and Billy Butterfield. He was featured in the movie, "Win tertime," with Sonja Henie. The Les Elgart band hit show business with great re action when they started at the Hotel New Yorker. With arrangements done by Charles Albertine, Elgart created "Sophisticated Swing." He leads a modern solid beat. The sax section can be intimate or forceful and swinging. They avoid the piano and put extra emphasis on the guitar. This dance band was re cently at the Hotel Statler in Nebraska Youth Exodus Study Reviews State 's Growth Potential Editor's note: This is the third article in a series studying the exodus of youth from Nebraska. , By Tom Kotouc Over the past five years, Nebraska's adults have be come concerned about the loss of their youth to other states. Yet, when they began to examine the reasons that youth have for remaining here, the weaknesses of Nebraska's economic, educational, and recreational sys tems, which cause youth to leave, become obvious. High school and college graduates, they found, were no longer tied to their home states by loyalty or by obli gation for the education, recreation and happiness they had received in it. The following series of interviews show how Nebras ka's leaders are answering the problems, especially the economic aspects of Operation' Exodus, and what they see for Nebraska in the future. David Osterhout, director of the Nebraska Re sources Division, said that within the decade an industrial and suburban area will begin to spread from Kansas City to Sioux City. Tremendous Growth "The tremendous growth potential of the state is being recognized more and more not only by industry outside Nebraska but by our citizens. We are getting excited about and beginning to promote Nebraska. Cozad, Oma ha, Lincoln and Nofolk are attest to our positive thought and action," Osterhout said. "Our division was set up several years ago by the governor to acquaint industry with the advantages of lo 3 New York City. They re cently won the number one spot in a poll conducted by the Associated Press. Some of his records are "I Don't Know Why," "East Is East," "I'll See You in My Dreams," "For Me and My Gal," and "Dream." The - Homecoming weekend schedule is as follows: Fri day Homecoming Rally, Queen Finalists announced, and house displays open to the public; Saturday house display in the morning, alum ni luncheon at 11:30 a.m. at the Hotel Cornhusker, football game with Kansas University, halftime ceremonies with the presentation of the Homecom ing Queen ,and the dance with the music of Les Elgart. Ten Music Students Join Gamma Lambda Ten University students and a faculty member have been pledged to Gamma Lambda, professional band fraternity. They are: Don Ehlers, Den nis Focht, Eric Rasmussen, John Wick, Jim Wickless, Ger ald Wilkins, Gary Winkle bauer, Bill Carlson and Fred Claussen. Dale Thompson, a graduate student, and Vernon Forbes, a music faculty member, were accepted as associate pledges. on. Bias By Jim Forrest The difference between a 30 megaton ex plosion and a 50 megaton explosion, or even a 100 megaton explosion, is not very great, says a University physicist. After reading the latest account of the Russians' massive blast in the Arctic, this pro fessor of physics, who did not wish his name mentioned, said that the effect of radation and incineration of a 30 megaton bomb is essen tially the same as a 100 megaton explosion. Mathematically speaking: the difference is a factor of two," he said. "The radiation effect can be calculated eas ily because it equals the square root of the bomb's ton size." A bomb of this size could easily incinerate an area with a 60 mile radius, or the dis tance from Lincoln to Oma ha, according to this physi cist who was in New Mexico when the United States set off its first atomic bomb. Radiation The amount of radiation, he said, depends on the alti tude of the blast and the wea ther patterns. If at a high altitude the radiactive mat ter would take a longer time to return to the earth. If low, the fallout would take place near the blast. "One of the things that the newspapers stories aren't tell ing is that in a massive ex plosion such as the Russian's apparently was, what are the limits of accuracy in meas uring the power of the bombs," he said. "Also, how do you go about even meas uring a 30 or 50 megaton ex plosion?" A report which the profes sor had, stated that the De fense Department said there is no great difficulty in building such a large bomb. Thus far, however, the de partment planners have con cluded that there is no press ing military requirement for going above about 20 mega tons. ' The report had been pub lished last spring in the New York Times. Psychological The report continued that the United States Government termed such a large bomb as "a primary psycological ter ror weapon." Elsewhere in Lincoln, the Weather Bureau stated that it will continue to measure just the ionization effect here in Lincoln as it has done in the past every Wednesday. A spokesman said that no rise has been noted since the beginning of the current Rus sian testing. It has been announced by the State Department of Health that Lincoln has been selected as the site of a "large" monitoring station that will continually sample the air for actual pollution by radioactive particles. This will be the only such large cating or expanding in Nebraska, he said. In promoting our state we have emphasized three factors which hold the key to economic prosperity. "First, we sell our people. Our labor force of over 700,000 productive workers, two-thirds of which are of Scandinavian or German descent, boasts its pioneer qual ities and has the lowest ratio of work stopages to time worked of any state in the nation. They are healthier and have less absenteeism." , Industrialist And a "New England industrialist said Nebraska la bor is not spoiled either. "They can do a day's work in six hours because no one has told them yet that they can't." "Secondly, we emphasize the business climate and laws," Osterhout said. "Our nonpartisan legislature is of interest to industry for its integrity, efficiency, and sim plicity. We tell an industiralist that if he likes Nebraska conditions .as they are now, he will find them remaining this way longer through our Unicameral's reluctance to change unless good is apparent." "Too, our labor laws and tax system are important as an executive in the high federal income tax bracket is very conscious of state taxes." Water Resources "Third, we sell our water resources, greater than any other state. Although chemical plants using large quantities of water have not located here as yet for this Continued to Page 4 - 27 scale monitoring station in the state. Monitoring Dr. G. R. .Underwood of the Lincoln-Lancaster Health De partment said that they will resume monitoring the air for pollution on a smaller scale in connection with the state program. The local monitoring had been stopped because of the low amount of radioactive could not even be measured on the department's equip ment. Reports from the United States Weather Bureau show that the fallout was being carried south to southwest by winds and that Russia "would get more of the immediate fallout." However, since the bomb was more than likely exploded high in the atmos phere only a small fraction of the fallout would sift down immediately. The greater portion of it would be sucked into the str atosphere by the violence of the explosion and would prob ably come down perhaps next spring, the report said. Two U.S. scientists said, however, that in the long run the United States will get most of the fallout from the test. University scientists did not wish to comment on this re port. Marshall Attends Regional Meet University Journalism Pro fessor Alan Marshall will be among newsmen and edu cators attending a regional briefing conference of the U.S. State Department Thurs day, in Kansas City, Missouri. Headed by Undersecretary Chester Bowles, the including specialists Charles E. Bohlen of Russia and Robert F. Wood ward Of Latin America, the State Department team will hold all-day sessions reveal ing background information on critical international prob lems. Marshall, a former editor for Newsweeks magazine, teaches classes in magazine writing and editing and inter national journalism at the Uni versity. He joined the faculty this fall after acting as di rector of Journalism Depart ment at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana.