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0 A f Only Twelve v acalionlime Is Near Lincoln, Nebraska Stimmer Nebraskan Tuesday, July 17, 1962 Nebraskans Travel to Truman Library Addressing Students: Truman Says Government 1 if CI iP''lllM -i IT QUESTIONS. PLEASE of former president Harry S. Truman by NU political science students was one asked by a young visitor from Rufugio, Tex. Bill Cullinan received an affirmative an swer to his question, "Sir, may I shake your hand?" In addition to shaking hands with a former president, Bill ias met six state governors, one former governor and has visited 16 state capitals. South American Forum Will Discuss Education A forum on Education m Latin America will be held at 4 p.m. today in the Union auditorium. Speaker will be D e 1 m e r Holbrook, who worked in the field of educa tion in South America for 12 years. Holbrook and his family re turned to Nebraska from South America in June, 1960, and anticipate returning to their work there in perhaps one more year, he said. He is now a part-time instructor at the University of Nebraska and Union College, while studying for his doctoral de gree. "Education is the answer in South America, Holbrook said Our bringing students here from- there is not paying off. Our guns and planes sent down there don't do anything constructive for the United States. We need to help them build their educational sys tem," he added. Speaking of the North American image south of the border, Holbrook said, "We need to be more conscious of Latin America than ever be fore. It is an explosive area, but has tremendous possibili ties. Much good will toward North Americans exists in Latin America." ' By Latin America, he re ferred to all the countries of Spanish and Portugese influ ence south of the United States. Holbrook said there are many opportunities in South America awaiting properly prepared instructors. He said bi-national schools (half English and half Span ish) are now being organized in Brazil; there is one in Mexico already. The Ameri can Association of Bi-Nation-al Schools regularly an nounces more and more job opportunities, he said.. Holbrook was born, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, while his par ents were there as mission aries. He received his under graduate education in Wiscon sin and North Dakota and earned his master's degree in Eastern archeology at An drews University in Washing ton, D.C. in 1354. From 1948 to 1951, Holbrook was a superintendent of schools ki Bolivia. He served Second World Affairs Previiw President of UN Trusteeship Council To Discuss U.S. Role in United Nations Jonathan Bingham to Visit NU. Campus Thursday The U.S. representative and president of the Trusteeship Council of the United Nations, Johnathan B. Bingham, will speak on the "U.S. Role in the United Nations" Thursday at 2 p.m. in the Union ball room. The public is invited to at tend the session, and "any one wanting to know about the U.S. role in the UN had better be here to hear this man they'll never get a bet ter chance," said Dr. Frank E. Sorenson, director of Sum mer Sessions, which is spon soring Bingham's visit as the second in a series of World Affairs Previews. "I doubt if there is anyone better informed about the United States' role than Bing ham, unless it is Adlai Steven r,on (U S. ambassador to the UN)," Dr. Sorenson said. Bingham serves as deputy to Stevenson and is his prin cipal adviser in the field of colonial and non-self-governing territories. As the U.S. representative to the Trustee ship Council, Bingham has the rank of minister. 'Among the questions asked as president of a junior col lege in Lima, Peru. Holbrook said he believes "capable North American in structors shaping young minds in South America serve to improve internation al understanding. Teachers do a better job of teaching here on the home front after several years experience in South America." Steam Cools NU Buildings Steam has been keeping you cool this summer if your classes are in air-conditioned buildings just as it has been cooling campus buildings for the past 27 years. The University's air-conditioning system involves a steam-jet chiller, which cools water. The cooled wa ter is then pumped to the various buildings, according to Charles F. Fowler, direc tor of buildings and grounds. The steam used in the chill er is the same kind of steam which heats the campus buildings in the winter, he said. The 200-ton capacity chiller unit which was installed in the power plant in 1935 was one of the first such plants in the, nation to cool water at one location and then move it to other buildings, Fowler said. A 400-ton unit was installed in 1944, and the two units to gether now cool the library, Social Science, Burnett Hall and Administration buildings. The Nebraska Union has its own central 390-ton air con ditioning unit. Not For Human Comfort The Law Library also has its own unit, but not neces sarily for human comfort, Fowler said. The 75-ton unit was installed to maintain a humidity to preserve the many priceless books, he ex plained. The University is consider ing the practicability of air conditioning the remainder of the older buildings on cam pus, he said. This would re quire approximately 10,000 tons of air conditioning ca pacity, he added. "It's particularly important for Bingham to be here at this time, because we've just had Bowles here speaking on foreign policy, and a very important part of foreign pol icy is being implemented through the United Nations," Dr. Sorenson said. "Bowles gave the over-all view of foreign policy, and by having Bingham here, we're getting a special look at a branch of U.S. foreign policy," he added. "Bowles, President Kennedy's special adviser on Asian, African and Latin American affairs, visited the NU campus last month. "Bingham is a very well known authority in U.S. gov ernment circles as well as in the United Nations groups," Dr. Sorenson said. "He has traveled around the workd in the interest of the U.S. gov ernment, and particularly to the 'Point 4 underdeveloped countries in an effort to deter mine the exact plan the Point 4 program should take in as sisting them to improve their programs of health, education and agriculture," he said. Dr. Sorenson added that much of the Point 4 policy can be credited to Bingham, Is Up to You Former president Harry S. Truman told a group of Uni versity of Nebraska summer students that it's up to them to find the answers to make the United States government what it's supposed to be. "It's. up to you. I've done my best what happens now is your fault," he said. The former chief executive answered questions to put him by members of the Political Editorial Comment See Page 2 Science 20 class, which visit ed the Harry S. Truman Li brary in Independence, Mo. last Friday. In answer to questions, Tru man had this to say: There is no formula for becoming president of t h e United States. Those who pur posely work for that goal usu ally don't work out. The United States should not declare war with Red China if she attacks small islands. "We strive to main tain peace we never, want war," he said. "Next to the 28th Amend ment, the 22nd Amendment is the worst one ever made. It was made as a slap at President Roosevelt and that's all there was to it." There will be no Kennedy dynasty. "There never has been a dynasty in this country and there never will be." "The most satisfaction I had was to get out of the White House," he said in an swer to a question as to what gave him ihe most satisfac tion from being president "No, I really can't answer that without being a braggart. The history of .a president's success can be known only about 25 years after he retires from office." He didn't have to endorse the 1954 Supreme Court de cision on descgretation. "It's been in the Constitution since 1868," he said. The former president ad vised amateur piano players to "go ahead and become pro fessional that way there won't be any problems. If I'd have been a musician or pian ist, the country would've been better off," he said, smiling. One questioner began his question, "Sir, as leader of your political party" at which time Truman laughing ly interrupted, "Am I?" . In closing, Truman told the Nebraska visitors he was "happy as can be" that they came down to Independence, and that he hoped they en joyed visiting the museum. who was the first deputy ad ministrator of the program. "In fact, for some time Bing ham was the acting adminis trator because the first chief, Dr. Henry Bennett, was killed in an airplane crash in Iran while making his first official visit abroad," Pr. Sorenson said, Sorenson Served Point 4 Bingham and Dr. Sorenson are personal friends. Dr. Sor enson served directly under Bingham as the first Director of Education and Technical Training for the Point 4 pro gram. "We worked and traveled together in the in terest of the Point 4 pro gram," Dr. Sorenson said. Dr. Sorenson was on a leave-of-absence from the Uni versity of Nebraska from 1951-53 when he served the Point 4 program. Bingham retired from the Point 4 staff when the Eisen hower administration came in, and returned to his law practice in New York. Soon afterwards he was named deputy to Governor Averill Harriman of New York. Upon Harriman's retire ment, Bingham again re turned to his law practice un TRUMAN'S .OFFICE University of Nebraska visitors to the Harry Mo. view the office where Truman now works. Roy V. Loudon, NU director more, and Richard H. Hansen, instructor for the Political Science 20 class, formerly in one of Truman's White House offices. Students A group of 3l" University of Nebraskans arrived at the Harry S. Truman Library in Independence, Mo. after a seven-hour busride over slippery mud roads last Friday to view numerous historical displays which are part of the national archives of the United States. The presidential library, dedicated in ---1957, contains shelves of filed letters and documents from the Truman Administration. Many of them are used for research by grad uate students, and some of them cannot be made public until Truman's death or a specified number of years af ter his death, his secretary ex plained. A large wall mural inside the entrance to the museum part of the library depicts the Indian and white man life of covered-wagon days. The mu ral, "Independence and the Opening of the West" is by Thomas Hart Benton. Inside the museum the Ne braska visitors saw letters and gifts to President Truman from leaders of various na tions, gifts to him irom sev eral states, the china ana sil verware used by the Trumans in the White House and on the presidential plane, "The Inde pendence," and DeWuldon's model of his bronze sculpture of the raising of the flag at til his appointment as deputy to Adlai Stevenson. --niiigiiam is an attorney with lots of ad ministrative know-how," Dr. Sorenson said. Bingham has delivered sev eral speeches recently in the United Nations praising the emergence of new nations from colonial status int6 full equality in the world com munity. He' termed one of the biggest problems the fact that the Union of South Africa has refused to recognize any in ternational obligation whatso ever with regard to the terri tory of South-West Africa. He has particularly condemned the policy of apartheid. A native of Connecticut and descendant of Deacon Thomas Bingham, an American col onist of the 17th Century, Bingham was graduated from Yale University in 1936 and received his law degree from Yale in 1939. During the sum mers of 1935 and 1938 he traveled extensively in the Soviet Union and Far East as a special correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune. He is the author of the book, Shirt-Sleeve Diplomacy; Point 4 in Action, published in 1954. View Historical Iwo Jima during World War II. Cartoons About Truman The original drawings of cartoons about Truman, auto graphed by the artists, line a downstairs hallway. Other dis plays include coins issued dur ing the administrations of each U.S. president, the table on which the United Nations Charter was signed in San Francisco, and letters and Mosquitoes Are Fewer Due to Breeding Control Mosquitos are less prevalent in Lincoln this year than they were a year ago, according to Orville De Frain, assistant director of sanitation in the City-Lancaster County Health De partment. De Frain said that this was due primarily to controlling the breeding rather' than to spraying for the adult mosquitos. The two main types of mos quitoes to be found m Lin coln are the salt-water breed ers and the flood water breed ers, according to De Frain. The saltwater breeders can be controlled by doing away with stagnant water while the flood water breeders are more difficult to handle be- i.iJ cause trie eggs may De rain on dry ground and may lay for as long as a year until a flood or heavy rain to hatch, he said. The two mosquitoes which cause tne most concern m Lincoln are the Culex tar salis and the Aedes, De Frain said. These two types of mosquitoes are the cause of many encephalitis cases. Owner Must Control The L i n c o 1 n-Lancaster County Health Departments job is primarily to make sur veys in Lincoln and the sur rounding area, saia u a. Sanger, director of sanita tion. After the suspected area, such as a stagnant pond, is found to be a breeding place for mosquitoes, the county is notified and the county in turn notifies the p r o p e r t y Index documents of each U.S. presi dent. Among the presidential dis plays are George Washing ton's draft of his letter asking Madison to rent a house or lodgings for him in New York City, then seat of the new federal government; Wilson's proclamation of war with Ger man; Garfield's last message to Congress; the Alaska Pur chase Treaty,, signed by An- owner. The property owner must then take immediate ac tion for control. According to Sanger, there are two common courses the property owner may take. The owner may drain the stagnant pond or he may choose to spray with chemi cals every ten days. The first is far more effective, Sanger said. As an example of control in action, Sanger said, when Capitol Beach was found to be a breeding place for mos quitoes, the problem was solved by digging out the shore line so the mosquitoes would have no shallow water for hatching. The mosquito is not the only problem the Department of Health and Sanitation has to cope with, as roaches are very much a problem in Lin coln, De Frain said. The most common kinds of roaches in Lincoln are the American, the Oriental, and the German roaches, he added. Although roaches are not known to bite they may carry intestinal diseases. to Inside Pages S. Truman Library in Independence, of personnel, Bob Weaver, NU sopho admire the furnishings which were Displays drew Johnson; and Lincoln's suspension of the writ of ha beas corpus. Lincoln's Pardons Pardons for civil and mili tary crimes, granted by Presi dent Abraham Lincoln, are written in Lincoln's own hand writing on a small tablet. Sav ing a soldier from a firing squad, Lincoln's pardoning statement was "Let him fight instead of being shot." For another pardon Lincoln wrote, "Our little disinterest ed woman of last year is again upon me for the pardon of Isaac Lambent. I propose to the attorney general that the pardon be granted." The president's job is really six jobs, according to Harry Truman. The museum houses displays depicting each of these s i x jobs chief execu tive, chief-of-state, legislative planner and partner with Con gress, head of his political party, commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces and direct or of foreign relations. After the library tour, Rich ard H. Hansen, instructor for the political science class, pre sented to Truman's secretary some sirloin steaks, a gift to Truman from Governor Frank B. Morrison. The NU group returned to the Nebraska campus about 11:30 p.m. after a day's trip that, according to one student, "was great." YWCA Sponsors TV Discussion The KUON-TV series, Problems of Nuclear War and Disarmament, may be seen from 8-8:30 p.m. Fri days during the summer ses sion in the basement party room of the Union. Williard Smith, graduate student in political science, will lead discussions follow ing the programs. The YW CA invites all interested stu dents to attend. 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