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WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 23. 1936
THE DAILY NERRASKAN
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The Union
Forward.
Steps
Oilv federal allocation of funds is neces
sary before the vagary of a Student Union
rmiidinp ran heroine a reality on the univer
sity campus. The plans have been examined
and approved by the P"YA head office in
"Washington, and the project has been pjaced
on the list of those eligible for monetary ap
propriation. The camp-as dream and desire for years
las almost been achieved. The student men
and women -who struggled and argued to se
cure approval of the board of regents, and
then carried their fight in a subscription cam
paign to the campus, and with present plans
formulated to extend it thruout the state, are
to be congratulated and thanked by every
member of the campus populace. Their un
ceasing efforts last year and the year before,
pursued against overwhelming and at times
borne fruit.
Student councillors and other campus
devotees to the welfare of the Student Union
building may perhaps secure an erroneous
impression from the slowing affirmation given
the project in Washington. The fight isn't
over yet in fact, it has only now begun.
At present, there aren't any federal ap
propriations available for the Nebraska proj
ect. Furthermore, the spending trend is toward
"WPA unskilled labor, and not PYA skilled.
Which is based on the fact that more unskilled
than ki!led artisans are in need of work and
federal relief assistance. The government's
arguments are sound and convincing.
The Union building is classed as a PWA
enterprise. Skilled workmen decorators,
architects, designers are necessary to its com
pletion. They have applied for relief in such
small numbers that PWA projects are among
the last to receive federal construction funds.
Much pressure must be exerted if the
Union building project is to come up for ap
propriation, within the near future. And it
must be exerted in the right places. Waiting
now will harm the cause. In the uncertainty
of an election and insecurity of the future, de
lay may kill all chances.
It will be the primary duty of the Student
Union building committee, which will be ap
pointed today, to keep alive student interest in
the project and. more important than that, to
keep the issue before influential Washington
Nebraskans. What is commonly and vulgarly
known as "pull" is the best ceans to force the
Union building to s federal allocation of funds.
With this purpose in mind, it may prove
beneficial for a delegation of students to call
upon United States Senator George W. Xorris.
who is visiting- in Lincoln before opening his
re-election campaign swing thru the state.
Senator Norris is undoubtedly close to the
presidential ear, and close to those who make
the appropriations. His Tri-County feats prove
tins. Senator Norris' influence and help can
be very beneficial in the campus drive toward
a Union building.
Tke Nebraskan urges tie Student Council
fcot to rest cn past laurels and achievements.
Its predecessors performed a thoro and well
doei task when they carried the drive from
Its infancy thru the regents and state PWA of
fice to Washington. The present council must
pielt tip th burden there, and carry the plans
tr.rtl Washington to materialize on the campus.
Evn after monetary expropriation the work
will not be completed. Lffort mast be expand
ed to secure the proper type of buiJdinz, one
tbst can be enlarged, when need comes, to sat
isfy the studect demand. But that task is for
the future. The present and most pressing
difficulty is securing funds in Washington.
They may be forthcoming in the next PWA al
location. The campus roust turn to the task of
seeing that they are.
NEWS PARADE
By
Ralph Woodruff
Only three safe predictions as 1o the No
vember election -un be made on the basis of
straw votes and the Mtiie election. In the first
place, it is fuite evident that Koo-. v Jt has lost
nearly aJl of bis VSM "rnarin of safety" and
that if he wins at all, it wiJJ be by a not at all
comfortable margin.
The second safe prediction jg that this
election will be one of the closest in several
decades.
The third safe prediction is that Lemke. the
union party candidate, will r.ot figure in the
election except that he may take a few pre
cious and perhaps deciding votes from either
Landon or Koosevelt.
A toss up battle is indicated by the Amer
ican Institute of Publie Opinion, which peri
odical; takes polls as to Iioosevelt's popular
ity. The Inst poll gives the president 49 per
cent of the popular vote to Landon's 44 per
cent and '292 electoral votes to London's 23!)
votes. Lemke has polled only 5 percent of the
total popular vote.
At least. 98 percent accuracy in reflecting
public opinion is claimed by the institute. The
250,000 voters are chosen scientifically to rep
resent all classes of people proportionally in ail
states.
The poll is a weekly affair. It has regis
tered a decided drop in Koosevejt's popularity
since it began in February, 1934. Most of the
voters who have changed their mind since that
time have done so because of the "extrava
gance" of the new deal, according to the rea
sons listed on the ballots.
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While "extravagance" has greatly de
creased democratic popularity with one class
of people, it has greatly increased it with an
other class those on relief. According to
the institute's poll of relief workers, 3 mil
lion relief workers will vote for Roosevelt
and only 75,000 for Landon.
A decided Landon victory is so far indi
cated by the Literary Digest poll, most famous
of the straw polls. Landon has received 31-2
votes for every 2 that the president has polled.
An even more startling fact is that the poll,
which was very accurate in predicting prohibi
tion repeal nnd the democratic landslide of
19o2. gives all the doubtful middle western
and eastern states with their large blocks of
electoral votes to Landon. leaving the demo
crats only the states in the "solid south."
In spite of Landon's apparently safe mar
gin the poll is far from conclusive yet. Only
13 of the 4S states have sent in their returns
and onlv 250,000 of the 10 million ballots have
been returned.
There is an explanation for the wide dis
crepancies between the Digest poll and the
institute poll. The Digest poll has not yet
touched the Rocky mountain and Pacific
states which, according to the institute poll,
are solidly for Roosevelt with the single ex
ception of Wyoming. Democratic popularity
in the far west can be accounted for in the fact
that the new deal has started many major irri
gation and power projects in these states.
"As Maine goes, so goes the nation," is
a famous saying. If the saying holds true
this year, the nation will go republican by a
large majority as shown by the election held
there Sept. 14. However. Maine is normally
republican, and in spite of the saying a re
publican victory there does not indicate a
national republican victory, altho a demo
cratic victory in Maine would be a very
strong indication that the democrats would
sweep the nation. The Maine election is fur
ther concrete evidence of the waning demo
cratic popularity, as the democrats swept
Maine in the September, 1932, election.
The amateur photographer will
be Interested In reading: tnatruc
tlons given by Prof. V. F. Weiland
of the mechanical engineering de
partment of the University on how
to build an inexpensive little in
strument by means of which the
intensities of light passing thru
the photograph negative are meas
ured. These measurements, accord
ing to Professor Weiland, are used
on a chart designed by him to de
termine the proper type of enlarg
ing paper and the exposure time
required to make a perfect print.
The univesity faculty member
discusses the use of his new device
In a recent' Issue of American
Photography. The article is en
titled "Exposure in Projection
Printing As Related to Bromide
Paper Characteristics."
In addition the article gives a
rummary of the experimental work
carried on within the past year. A
number of enlargements of pho
tomicrographs of metals made by
this new method are hanging in
the Mechanical Engineering building.
. The Councellor's Corner
t1 . ..
KEEPING ALIVE
i f ' i BY
''-, Robert E. Drew
l' H f " , Methodist Student Pastor
(Ed. Note: This column is second of a series of Sunday
written by Lincoln student pastors whose work centers on the
campus.
STUDENT PULSE
Brief, concise contributions pertinent to matters of
stuoent Ufa and tha university are welcomed by this
department, under the usual restrictions of sound
newspaper practice, w filch excludes all libelous matter
and personal attacks. Letters must bt signed, but
names will be withneld from publication If so desired.
They Call It
'Kameradsdraftlich .'
TO THE EDITOR:
According to a story featured on yester
day's front page of your paper. Dr. Friedrich
Schoenemann. visiting professor from fascist
Germany, opines that "the most important
change that the nazi regime has wrought in
German schools has been to make professor
and student 'kameradsdraftJich'." This is an
interesting idea from Herr Schoenemann; but
there have been some, at least, who have felt
that the expulsion of hundreds upon hundreds
of professors liberals, Jews, democrats men
such as Einstein, to mention the best known
is perhaps slightly more "important."
Of course it is pleasant that student and
professor can be kameradsdraftlich. They can
be kameradsdraftlich while great numbers suf
fer untold tortures in concentration camps,
while the Jewish people are beaten and op
pressed, while civil liberties have been com
pletely put down. After all these things are
of little importance, evidently, to Herr Schoe
nemann. As he has said, student and profes
sor are kameradsdraftlich, and who would
complain about that ?
Think of how pleasant it must be! The
student comes into his professor's office, shouts
out a "Ileil ILtler!", hears a "Heil Hitler!"
from his kamerad (professor), and then they
are frcp to embrace each other, if they wish,
in a irue Kheim-Coebbels fascist endorsed
fashion. They inn sit down and talk about
how their beloved leader has saved Germany
from that horrid hols' evism ; they can watch
from their windows the sadistic brown shirt
returning from a pogrom; they can slap each
other on the back, forsaking academic dicnity
for the moment, and discuss the aesthetic
value of beating labor organizers over the kid
neys with rubber truncheons. Of an evening,
professors and students may journey together
in true kameradsdraftlich fashion to indulge
in a biood purge or a book burning. What fun
they must have! American students must envy
their kameradsdraftlich. For at the book burn
ing, kamerads together, they are able to toss
on the blazing fire the wotkn of Heine, Thornss
Mann. Gorki, Dos Passos. Tols'oi, Wassermann,
and Dreiser, while fascist bifrwigs 6mile ap
provingly. On their way home, professor and
student may arm in arm indulge in some pood
fascist Jew baiting, chauvinism, hatred of the
soviet union, and a little old fashioned war
hysteria. It's all in good fun, very pleasant in
deed. They are kameradsdraftlich.
At the University of Nebraska, where
thought is squelched on occasion, and where
such liberals as Stuart Chase and Norman
Thomas are viewed as "dangerous" and de
nied a fair hearing, room is easily made for
minister of nazi propaganda who whitewashes
the cruelty, ignorance, and terrorism of the
whole Hitler regime. We era to be able to
find room for fascists here. Furthermore,
such action is accepted by professors and stu
dents without question, or at least, without
protest. When sueh a condition exists, it mifht
be said that an American form of fascism is
not far off.
"VELDCN KEES, '35.
There is something stimulating
about the rib-digging, toe-treading,
crush of activity which en
rulfs us in these first davs. As
we etreak from hither to yon and
back to hither again we have a
comfortable feeling of importance.
We respond with glad abandon to
the prodding of the ubiquitous
minute hand with a shivery sen
sation of having at last reached
the place where we are really liv
ing. The semester's beginning
has in it some of the tonic of
spring. Right now it has undoubt
edly brought to many of us the
feeling that must have possessed
Rupert Brooke one spring day
when he wrote, "It's the sort of
day that has brought back to me
that tearing hunger to do and
do and do things. I want to walk
1.000 miles, and write 1,000 plays,
and sing 1.000 poems, and drink
1.000 pots of beer ,and kiss 1.000
girls, and oh, a million things."
Because of the thrill that comes
from this great stir, we just "rar'
back" and take on everything that
offers any chance at all to do
things."
Thrilling though this cyclonic
rush is, most of us in our rare
moments of quiet realize that
the deep values of life do not
come through mere activity.
The strenuous efforts of these
days will have lasting value
only as they have intelligent di
rection. Dean Wicks of the
Princeton ..University Chapel
aptly illustrates this truth. "Be
fore every play the football
team withdraws from action and
goes into a 'huddle,' where the
man who directs the plays
makes up his mind to choose
some alternative which may de
cide the issue of the game."
The success of the team de
pends upon what happens in
that quiet moment when the
next course of action is being
chosen.
Too many of us become puppets
on the strings of circumstance
kicking out our college hours with
little thought of where we shall
be when it is ended. There may
be a few of us who can pick our
direction as we go, but most of
us need regular periods of quiet
and calm. Deep purpose, sure
aim, a spirit sensitive to good,
true, and lasting values come only
to the life that deliberately plans
for these moments of withdrawal.
Jesus Christ, whom though we
accord no other honor, yet must
we acknowledge as Master of the
art of living, found in the silences
such direction that he plumbed the
depths and scaled the heights of
life. He has taught us that the
quiet is God's opportunity to keep
his children truly alvie.
"Let us put by some hour of
every day
For holy things whether it be
when dawn
Peers through the window pane,
or when the moon
Flames tike a burnished topaz
in the vault,
Or when the thrush pours in the
ear of eve
Its plaintive melody; some little
hour
Wherein to hold rapt converse
with the soul;
From sordidness and self a sanc
tuary Swept by the winnowing of un
seen wings,
And touched by the White Light
Ineffable."
Clinton Scollard.
will be kept by the intramural of
fice, and in this manner the ath
letic supremacy of the narh inter
club council will be , ascertained.
This new system, however, will
not put an eml to the former prec
edent of awarding medals to the
teams placing first and second in
the sport competitions. The num
ber or medals awarded will be the
number of players on a team plus
three.
Football Opens Roster.
horney reported that the sports
roster would open with touch jooi
ball, nnd that all teams wishing to
take part in the sports competi
tions ihis year must participate :n
touch football. He also adviM-d
that an alphabetical list of the
club members, showing their ad
dresses and telephone numbers,
and cleany indicating the presi
dent and athletic manager, be sub
mitted to the intramural olr'ice as
soon as possible.
Entertainment for the group
was provided by Athletic Cliair
man uee "Houdini" Nuns, who is
properly nicknamed because of his
novel productions which he calls
a "One Man Magic Show."
Wilbur JSeezley, president of the
barb interclub council and toast
master for the evening, led trie
discussion concerning a coliseum
parly and other proposed hour '
dances. i
Tom Peterson, social chairman,
outlined the social activities ot the I
barb group, and a brief summary j
of the barb campus political situa
tion was presented by Secretary
Austin Moritz. President Beezley, !
Vice President Byile Sheuck, j
Treasurer Bob Simmons, ar.d Or- !
ganization Chairman Dean YVor- j
cestor each gave a brief talk on
the organization and functions of
the council. j
CLA OF '40 TO
TAKE ALLEGIANCE
VOWS THURSDAY
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ize the students with several most
popular Nebraska songs and
yells and to accompany them in
the singing. The band will alto
play several of the school pep
marches to entertain.
"It. is as necessary to the uni
versity as it is to the incoming
students that the latter be versed
in Nebraska song and Nebraska
tradition," declared Marsh. "It is
both for the well being of the uni
versity and for the good of the
freshmen themselves that this con
vocation is held annually."
Tassels and Corncobs, pep or
ganizations, as well as the uni
versity band will take part in the
morning proceedings. The two
groups will form in front of tha
Temple and will march together to
the coliseum.
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much more enjoyable," declared
Horney. "An education amounts
to much more than just sitting in
a class room and studying text
books." Stresses Sportsmanship.
Horney stressed the point that
he does not expect fine exhibitions
of ball games, but he is sure that
he can develop sportsmanship
among the boys. He added that
he wanted to give the boys who
were not good enough for varsity
teams a chance to get the came
diversion and the same opportunity
to enjoy themselves.
In conclusion, Horney declared
that "the intramural program of
fers the barbs what they can't get
elsewhere, and it is all absolutely
free."
The new point system introduced
by Director Horney is similar to
that used by the fraternitieg in in
tramural 6ports but is entirely
new to barb competition. The eight
sports to be taken up during the
yar are divided into two groups,
major eports and minor sports. The
major eports include touch foot
ball, basketball, softball and volly
ball; the minor sport, tenr.is,
horseshoes, handball and ping
pong. This lift of minor sports is
only tentative and some other may
be eubfctituted if enough of the
club are desirous.
Receive 50 Points.
At the outset all teams organis
ed will receive 50 points for or
ganization. The numoer of men re
quired to comprise a club is un
limited, but Horney advised that
no groups attempt to enter with
less than 15 as none are required
for touch football and to have less
than this number would surely
cause a hardship. If any men drop
out of the organization, the origi
nal 50 points is forfeited: however
new men may be added at any
time.
According to the new plan, each
team that enters a major sport
receives 50 points and an addition
al 100 points are awarded to the
team that wins the league compe
tition, SO points are awarded to the
team placing second, 65 to the
third, and 50 to the fourth. Teams
that do not place fourth or above
receive 10 points for each game
that they win. As an incentive to
the teams, an additional 15 points
will be awarded to any teams fin
ishing the schedule without a for
feit or a postponement, whereas a
penalty of 25 points will be levied
for every game which is forfeited.
Winners Get Medals.
The system for minor sports is
the same as for majors except that
only 25 points are given for en
trance, 75 points for first place,
60 points for second place, 45
points for third place. 30 points for
fourth place, and 5 points for each
game won. Similarly, 10 points
are awarded if there are no for
feits or postponements, and a 15
point fine if there is a forfeiture.
A record of the points earned
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