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ins following a Panay incident, will be
F. D. R. vs. Ludlow;
Congress vs. People
Holiest subject on the peace front is still
the Ludlow referendum in case of war. A pulse
writer, C. D. 11., takes up the cudgel against
the bill which he wielded forcefully before the
holidays. And on Monday of next week the
Ludlow amendment comes before the house. A
majority rote is necessary for consideration of
f this majority is commanded,
the measure.
s
vote will be required for passage.
a
Administration opposition to the measure
looms large. Roosevelt No. 2 is shakinp n
Administration supporter Senator
biff stick.
George Norris recently went on record against
the spinelessness of the democracies. He
thinks the impending large appropriations for
naval building necessary in face, of the militant attitude of the three great fascist powers,
Germany, Italy and Japan.
This all pertains to the Ludlow amendment because the passing of the decision on
the declaration of war to the people detracts
considerably from both Roosevelt's and Norris' stands. The contention is that the passage of the Ludlow amendment would not
only cripple our diplomats in their maneu-
consid-
ered a power to be trifled with.
Furthermore, we have more to lose in
the way of democratic tradition by allowing
our president to do as he pleases in the matter of international action or inaction as the
case may be, than we could possibly lose in
international prestige.
C. 1). 11. in today's pulse attacks the actual effectiveness of the referendum to keep
us out of war. While the Nebraskan is not
dogmatic on the minor international implica-
tions of diplomacy involved in the measure,
it holds that the amendment would be effective in bringing about an intelligent consideration of the desirability of war by the people,
should a serious situation arise. The issue
centers around the comparative effectiveness
of propaganda on congress or on the people.
C. 1). K. would prove by the authority of
historians that the people wanted to go into
the last war that they forced the hand of
congress.
We contend" that the historians
whom he quotes are indefinite on the point at
best, because they must, of necessity interpret
uncertain facts. There was no expression of
popular will at the polls. Furthermore, there
has been an overwhelming amount of educating for peace since 1917. Facts concerning
the futility of war, the influence of armament
international
vering for advantage in the
makers
and the causes for war have been
melee, but it would be an invitation to forfreely. This bulwark of educanoised
abroad
eign powers to violate our rights with imis not to be taken lightly by one who
tion
punity. This would further debilitate the
holds that the people would again favor war.
U. S. in the international scramble. FurtherC. D. R. contends in his pulse that the
more, the amendment would cause added depeople
would be more easily influenced than
lay in the process of declaring war, which
But he admits the falsity of his
congress.
is already much slower than that of the dicown contention by admitting that both
tators.
Hughes and Wilson ran on peace platforms
Such arguments as these have been diprior to 1917, and that the reason for Wilrected at the Ludlow measure. And the presison's change of heart was the action of lobdent who has done just as he pleased in the
byists in congress.
far east, all in open contradiction to the neuC. D. R. also gives the people credit for
trality act. does not intend to have his power the Spanish American war. His conclusion is
in international politics curtailed. He even doubtful in view of the fact that if the correanswered "No" to the question as to whether spondence between this country and Spain had
or not t lie amendment was consistent with repbeen revealed to the people by congress, and
resentative government.
the matter submitted to the people, there
would have been no war. A fact in point is
An answer to such strong objections is not that congressmen are even now trying to bring
to light documents of importance highhand-edl- v
easy. In the first place we have renounced
concealed before the declaration of the
war as an instrument of international policy.
World war. In the case of these two wars,
That principal is still sound despite its violathe solution for democracy, gone beserk, may
tion by others. The referendum is designed
to keep us out of war at any cost. What that have been more democracy.
The pulse writer's final contention is that
cost would be in the way of loss of international prestige is only a matter of conjecture. the referendum would increase propaganda
It would also increase educational
pressure.
AVe hold, in open despite of the Panay incipressure.
There would be tangible evidence
dent, that this country is not likely to be subject to foreign insult, nor will she lose weight for informing the people. The decision would
be theirs. We have made great strides in the
in international matters because she has a deliberate instead of an itchy trigger finger in analysis of propaganda since the last war. The
case of war. There is little likelihood that a referendum might give impetus to a healthy
skepticism toward1 war, and nothing better
country, which increases her naval appropriations as rapidly as we are on the verge of do- - could happen.
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The fair weather Santa presented u seemi to be lasting
at the prediction for today n
fair and little change In temperature. A good beginning for
the New Year, or
it?
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NEWS
PARADE
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Marjorle Churchill
. More "Shots
territories,
British
dies, Australia and New Zealand.
the World."
''Jobs for the JoMpis"?
continues
Violence
on the
va-
A gloomy
outlook
for employment faces congress
as the
regular session gets under way.
"The sharpest winter decline In recent years" is the report of the
senate unemployment
committee.
thru the "holy land" of China, and WPA rolls are expected to Jump to
captures Chufu birthplace of Con- 1.900,000 in February, says AssistWPA Administrator Corrlng-tofucius, originator of the ancient ant Gill.
Chinese religion. Firing continues
Alarmists view a recession rivin various sectors, with Hankow, aling
that of J 929, as reports for
river,
00 miles up the Yangtze
October, November and December
facing renewed attack.
show a loss of 100,000 more jobs
SPAIN: Both sides hold on firm- than in the same three months of
ly In the struggle for Teruel. In- 1929. Total number of unemployed
surgents, given the advantage in is set at nearly 11 million from remost reports, "battle at bayonet sults of the recent census.
points" to recapture the city. GovRailroads, building and manufacernment forces resist staunchly.
turing are blamed for the largest
upnumber of unemployment cases.
EGYPT: Cairo is faced with
unemployment committee,
risings from the nationalist party, The
the waM. with Premier Mustapha however, does not Intend to get itNahas Pasha seeking a restoration self Involved In the president's reof the party to power. Dismissal cently launched attack on monopoof the parliament, with a large lies as the cause of the recession,
wafd representation has aroused says Senator Byrnes, head of the
etrong resentment and police and commit tee.
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happy ones!
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Norman Alley'i "Bombing of Panay"
Barbara Stanwyck
Herbert Marshall
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Wisconsin, Dumond of. Michigan
and Muzzey of Columbia all separately write that before our war
entry the public in general
staunchly believed we had no al- reasonable that under this measure, we would be more likely to
ternative.
Mr. Editor, can you still contend enter a foreign war. You may
that "it will never be known doubt this, because congress would
whether or not a majority wanted still have to originate the declarwar?" Let me rpfer you to the ation before it came before the
noted Yale historian, Charles
people. True, but with the final
In his "Wood row Wilson derision resting definitely and exand the World War," he records plicitly with the people, foreign
that while the little group of 12 minded agitators would dig in, re"wilful" senators opposed Wilson's alizing that they had more chance
warlike moves, a storm of popu than ever to make their efforts
lar defamation overwhelmed them felt. Do you ask why? No nation
make war
and that by April, nine out of jean wholeheartedly
This
every ten Americans believed it without support nl home.
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this nation's "thoughts and temper
changed very rapidly." Precisely,
and the incredible reversal occurr
red previous to April 1917.
of Harvard, Mary R. Beard
and Charles Austin Beard have described the waves of flaming resentment which swept across the
report of Gercountry after
man atrocities. Reports did not
have to be true to be infuriating
Robinson of Stanford and West of
Northwestern colaborate in writ
ing that Wilson was led by his
faith in democracy to submit even
his foreign policy to the test Of
public approval, James Truslow
Adams, Frederick Austin Ogg ov
New members of Theta Nu,
honorary medical fraternity who
were chosen In secret meeting will
banquet
be tapped at the
this evening at 6:15 In the Grand
hotel. Dr. Paul M. Bancroft, member of the Lincoln Children's clink
and former faculty member of the
Nebraska university school of
medicine at Omaha, will speak on
Dr
some phase of pediatrics.
stu
Wade, advisor to
dents, will make a short talk preceding a business meeting and the
d
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annual election of
cers.
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men.
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afterward came around to approval. But where was it meanwhile? A defendant is not guilty
of murder if the victim was dead
beforehand, and Congress is inno
cent in this case if the people were
already bellicose.
The bulk of historical opinioon
holds that it was the people themselves, and not Wilson or Congress
or the Church that forced us into
the international carnage. H. G
Pi Mu Epsilon, honorary mathematics fraternity, will hold its first
meeting of the year tonight at 7:00
o'clock in Social Science 101. A
short business session will follow
the program for consideration of
Important business.
Edward Vacek, senior, will Rive
brief history of mathematics, and
the function of the society will be
explained. All students interested
in becoming active or associate
members of this fraternity are invited to attend, and active members are urged to be present.
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STUART
mass .sentiment
war at first and
Wells notes in his "Outline"
Distress"
Damsel
forecasters make contradictory observations.
You contend that the war was
disapproved until after the declaration, and that the people were
pushed into the war by the gov-
Til ETA NU TAPS NEW
MEMBERS AT DINNER
rious fronts of the world. Today's
report finds the following state of
affairs:
CHINA: Japan launches drive
DAVE HAUfJ
That there Is another side than
mine is fully recognized, and I am
not blind to the fact that the proposal was, and will be, well supported, in congress and out. I
realize much of the criticism di
rected against it is silly and ill
considered. Yet I maintain that the
proposal should be defeated.
Mr. Editor, your case for the
referendum contained three contentions: First, the events ot
1917 did not demonstrate the
comparative weakness of the
public, for it was congress, not
the public, that seems to have
been foremost in demanding war;
second, congress Is the more
easily propagandized because of
its small number of members;
third, the common man deserves
to vote on a war he fights and
dies in.
The first point, the history of
ouu entry into the war, had not
seemed the least controversial,
but since it has become so, we had
best settle it first. Unless wc
agree on what happened in 1917
we can hardly agree on what will
happen in a similar situation.
Weather prophecies disagree if
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irrevocable.
ernment.
Agreed that
stoutly opposed
"WELLS
FARGO"
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Ludlow amend-
the proposed
STUART
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ment is a dangerous mensure. The
letter used the following argument:
The people are less stable and
level headed in a crisis than is
congress. Their madness in 1917
illustrated this. Given the explicit responsibility for foreign
wars, they will become the dupes
of Intensified propaganda, and
their blundcrous decision will be
History of Pi Mu Epsilon
Subject of Vacek's
Address.
troops are stationed in the streets
to prevent nn outbreak.
PALESTINE: Great Britain and
Italy continue the battle over the
spreud of propaganda among the
Arabs of the Near East. Britain
accuses Italy of distributing thousands of radio sets to Amos in
Palestine. She promptly calls Mussolini's bet and rebroadeats Arabic programs on medium wave
leigths which can be received on
the sets. Indications are that Italy
will retaliate with broadcasts from
powerful stations which will reach
Britain's
that
HOLDS MEETING TONIGHT
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The following
Note:
letter has been cut considerably
because it was felt to be
long. Every effort was
made1 to avoid weakening the
force of the article. We ask that
letters be as brief as possible.
Dear Mr. Editor:
This letter may Inspire no great
joy at the editor's desk. It is
aimed at reviving a question which
supposedly was settled by editorial
comment prior to the holidays. I
had written a letter to the effect
HONORARY MATH SOCIETY
THE WEATIIEK.
ployment in the smaller schools in
the state.
In these schools trvirhprs are required to give instruction in three
Prom Committee.
and often four different subjects.
Members of the recently elected Thus, he points out, those who
prom committee will have made preparation in sever.il
Junior-Senio- r
meet in room 106 U hall at 5 p. m. fiM.is have the best ontiortunil v
tomorrow evening.
for securing teaching jobs.
Corn Cobs.
All Corn Cobr will meet forSo-a
short meeting in room 107b,
Hurry! Hurry J
cial Science hall at 7 p. m. tonight.
3 More Days!
nil
absolutely necessary to enter the
Military Students.
struggle. Can you deny this?
military
From Thursday on, all
How can it be said that the students should attend drill pre.
people did not draw the deluge pared to have their Cornhusker
of hardship and misery upon pictures taken.
in
themselves? To be sure, Wilson
6:30
with
reill
and Hughes ran on peace plat1.1
ha rsnennllv tl'tie
Joel McCrea
forms. That merely illustrates gard to the United States.
Bob Burns
A
how fickle and dangerous is pubThe brains of deception need
Frances Dee
Mm If
mass
lic opinion, when expert "public
then only to inflame the
V.vrry
lobbyists" get at their despicable
KM It A
mind to a point where congress
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jobs. Granted also that we had 'would willingly pass the decision
"March of Time"
to draft men into service, but on to the people. Referendum could
can't a mob want war without easily work into indirect initiative.
realizing the sacrifice? Need all The side with the stronger "Pubof its individual members want lic Information"
agencies would
to give their lives? A draft is guide our hostility against the
necessary anyway to enlist the side with the weaker agencies. A DAMSEL IN DISTRESS
calm minded minority into acWhen our feelings reached the
tive services for the majority. danger point, congress would have
Such a national emergency does to follow. In short, the referendum
not dilly-dallaround with diswould invite propaganda activities
senters and individualists.
and would hasten congressional inYou declare energetically, as a itiative by hastening the danger
second contention, that "it is eas- point in national sentiment.
C. D. R.
ier to propagandize some 600 rep
SURE IT'S A LAUGH!
resentatives of the people than it
is to affect the millions of adults For An Expression
But W.iit Until
in the country."
You See . . .
Your arithmetic
dominates your judgment. Are nl Student Opinion.
two ounces of gold less valuable
FRED ASTAIRE
In yesterday's Rag under the
than ten ounces of lead? AccordReporter"
GEORGE
CRACIE
ing to your reasoning, ministers heading, "The Inquiring
views
arc more immoral than their con- there were expressed various
ALLEN
BURNS
of the
gregations, since ministers are as to the relative merits
In
which will
fewer in number and occupy posi- Ludlow amendment
debate
congressional
come
up
for
tions of special temptation
You
in
the "A
have ignored the factor of ability on Jan. 10. As a member ofComon the World
commission
and character, a factor extremely
Still Is Saturday!
recent National
vital in representative govern- munity ofat the
O., I feel that
Oxford,
Assembly
ment. A committee of a legislaof
tive body can do, and usually does, I am expressing the viewpoint
is all
work superior to thnt done by the the group in saying that it
and
whole assembly.
Why does it? very well to develop an idea the
Because it works on the repre- express it but if that is allbeneof little
sentative principle. And after all, farther it goesto it Is pointed
out to
be
a senator or a congressman is not fit. It needs
quite the dunce John Smith is. the light person to carry any
Draft exemption can not make a weight.
One student said that "the concongressman vote for war while
his electors wish peace. He can- gressmen are close enought to the
represent to
till 6
not win an election
by loud people whom they
wishes in
to
directly
their
answer
mouthed audacity if the voters
1
are not in sympathy. When the such an important matter."
statement.
penalty is his seat
he wish to challenge this
kTlhow we
is not likely to exceed the people's Do our congressmen know
stndcrit
attitude. On the contrary, his as students feel? Another
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good sense frequently requires him said that "we who are most vitally
Ml"
something
have
should
concerned
to trail public sentiment. He is
f U. S. c
Starts
not willing to forfeit his office un- to say about a declaration of war."
Yes, we should have somehting to SATURDAY!
less sanity dictates.
say and right now is our chance
Your final contention is that the to speak.
common man deserves the right to
I wish to urge that every stuvota on the wars he fights and
on the campus who is deeply
dent
dies in. I agree that if he demands
concerned over this problem write
the right to vote on the wars he to the congressman from his disfights, he certainly shall have it. trict, expressing his opinions so
Yet a thief does not deserve to get that the congressman will know
the purse just because he will, nor how the student feels. After all, It
should his resister get a rlout on will be
the students who will furthe head because it will be dealt nish the cannon fodder for a war
him. I say a majority should not and it is up to us to save our own
have the referendum control, and skins. Let's have action!
MIN
"J4 IIUIOW
V. M.
FLOOR. .
I say so because I believe in life
F. S.
and peare, health and happiness.
Those who blatantly support popu- Teachers With Special
llon-'thr
il
lar measures and who shout loudft
Skills Get Preference IB 1
est in the public's behalf, do not
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necessarily by their own claim
hold a monopoly on good inten- it must be remembered that the
tions and humanitarian sympastudent's opportunity for placeIn reality, they are often ment is in direct ratio to the numthies.
most injurious to the welfare of ber of subjects he can teach. The
the common man for whom they university educator said that it is
crusade. So it is that I can have teachers must expect to find em- good motives anil yet flatly say
that the millions of John Smiths nwaiaii
do not deserve the referendum.
1 Willi
There is good reason for my ft
Allrurllon
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ANDY t I t lit
stand. John Smith is more excitTAKE
able than h' congress; his unAM) NLWS 01 TMK l
trained mind can be blown sky
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high to the limits of mania by
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cleverly devised propaganda, He
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has pushed wars on congress, as
Hanked hb the iiutMnnd-ln- (
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plrlurc of 1!I37,
he indisputably did in the
erican
friction, and as he
ROBERT
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did in 1917. The referendum measure would provide that congress .
could not validly declare a foreign
And
war without the consent of a maROSALIND RUSSELL
jority of the people. It Is entirely
Prefers Congress lo
the People in Case of War
C. D. R.
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