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Proim inrsirDfiiiSfiee .sigirBtinie-. Kir nop a Dies special investigator to talk here Student Council books J. C. Metcalfe at forum next Monday in Union John C. Metcalfe, special inves tigator for the Dies committee on un-American activities, will reveal the inside story of the "American Nazi Front" in a Student Forum at the Union, 11 o'clock Monday. The youthful investigator, who was in char eg of the nazi and fascist Investigation of the con gressional committee, will disclose facts surrounding German, Italian and Japanese espionage activities . in the United States and the threats of alien "isms ' creeping into this country. To get the in formation needed, Metcalfe joined the nazl bund and quietly invest! gated the purpose and activities of the pro-German organization. Propaganda Agents. In his address Mr. Metcalfe will also tell about efforts of foreign propaganda agents to create racial and religious hatred in the United States. Witholding nothing he will disclose their plans and the names of the leaders in these movements. The un-American activities In vestigator was the outstanding witness before the Dies committee at its hearings in Washington which lasted over a period of six months. Chairman of the congressional Investigation. Congressman Dies Sec DIES page 7. Bernard tells yogs practices Just matter of training says Tibetan explorer Going without sleep and living on one meal a day is only a ques tion of training the boffy to renew itself while wide awake as it does in sleep, according to Theos Ber nard, famed explorer and the first white man to enter ever made Tibetan lama. Bernard will speak in the Union ballroom at 7:30 Sunday evening, He will illustrate his lecture "Penthouse of the Gods" with col ored moving pictures of life in the region of the monastic Tibetians, After being admitted to the fan tastic religious ceremonies of the lamaseries, he studied the Yogi practices of regulating the physi cal functions of the body, learned to stop breathing for an indefinite length of time, to slow up hl3 heart beat and halt the flow of blood in portions of his body. After years of adventuring in the land and studying its religion, Bernard has concluded that Tibet was one of the richest in a religi ous and philosophical sense. 'U. S. can't remain neutral today declares Senning The U. S. can't remr.in neutral in view of the situation develop ing in Europ? today," declared J. P. Senning, chairman of the de partment of political science in commenting on the stand the country is taking toward the dic tator powers. "It isn't in the na ture of things for us to stand aside in a conflict of this kind." Explaining that he is always slow is making conclusions re garding American foreign policy Nlnce he feels that much informa tion concerning diplomatic en tanglements is withheld from the general public, 'he outlined the vast number of things which have likely caused our government ' to favor the democracies. , . Trade Follows Good Criedit. "Of great. Importance in ex plaining the aid we have given to months is the Bound credit that France and England In recent these countries posses," the de partment -head began. "We have the constitutional right to sell wherever wc please. TheNfact that Germany's credit rating is unfav orable to exporters in this coun try is undoubtedly an important cause of our. apparent favoritism for her enemies." The professor continued with the remark that we arc not criti Drum king appears here next Friday Gene Krupa, the man whe made the drum famous, hai been signed to play for the Junior-Senior prom, it was an nounped yesterday by the prom committee. Krupa, who played with Ben ny Goodman and his famous or chestra for many years, gained national recognition for his amazing ability with the sticks. During an average week's stand, Krupa breaks at least 40 sticks on the drums he played to fame. With his rapidly rising band, which he organized a year ago, the drum king will be the big gest name ever to appear on the campus. His rise to fame Is equaled only by Artie Shaw and his troup. Love, Burnett lay new dorm cornerstone Chancellor Boucher, Seaton, Wilson watch . sealing of documents Don L. Love, former mayor of Lincoln, and Chancellor Emeritus E. A. Burnett worked the trowels that laid the cornerstone of the new Julia L. Love Memorial Hall yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock. Within the small rectangular shaped sealed copper box, that was I placed under the limestone slab at the southwest corner of the build ing were letters written by Mr. Love, Chancellor Boucher and Mr. Burnett, this year's university cat alogue, circulars from Raymond Hall, the plans and specifications, and a series of Daily Nebraskans describing: the building plans. L. F. Seaton, operating superin tendent ancWalter Wilson, archi tect, who assisted In the ceremony of pu&lyng tie slab into place, also attended, aiong with Chancellor Boucher, Miss Newman, social di rector of Raymond Hall, and Miss Allen, business manager, Bridge contest entry deadline extended Deadline for entering the frater nity-sorority bridge contest spon sored by the Union has been ex tended to 6-o'clock tonight. Mori than 50 bridge addicts have al ready filed. Prizes for the winning partners will be Prom tickets or their equiv alent in cash. Two prizes for the runnersup will also be awarded. The games will be played begin ning at 2 o clock tomorrow. cizing so much the form of gov ernment existing in Germany or Italy as the policies which they Lincoln Journal. Prof. J. P. Senning. have expressed in past actions. He pointed out that considera tion of the aftermath of the See SENNING page 6, ' ' . :r . : .. v i V. : if 4 I " :. '. j ."I v ' ' ' ' ' -i : ' -1 , - i : ., M V : - i .:. v ft i'-yj 1 II ,V,-' , ..s : )- i ! ? V i ' H '-J ... .. .. t - ... ' , VW;-y'-'''. .''V'V, .; -- ' J ilf ,, . , ,. - -.I, , . , 13ri,..- J It fl JZS: Tb Jf "Zjr IS SI Sjr t 1 f r f 1 IS Sit SJ The Official Newspaper of More Than 6,000 Students VOL. XXXVIII, NO. 91. Union board student advisory group Members o! plan formulated by Director Van Sant and Daily Nebraskan; six months audit. accepted Members of the Student Union board last night instructed Director Kenneth Van Sant to investigate the setting up of a student advisory board which would act with the director in formulating an activities program for the Union. Thus the present governing body of the Union gave of fi- cial status to the plan recently worked out thru the mutual efforts of Director Van Sant and the Daily Nebraskan, and taken up by a Student Council committee. Present Board Unaffected. The proposed new group will not replace the present board, but will serve, in effect, as assistants to the director in helping him to know the desires of the student body in regard to the day to day activities which they would like to see their Union sponsor. Mr. Van Sant expressed his pleasure at the favorable action taken by the board in regard to the plan and said that he had long considered its possibilities in giv ing him an inside track on student opinion. "Up to the present time, I have had to direct Union activi ties according to what I hoped were the wishes of the students. Under the proposed new setup, I would no longer have to work in the dark, since my student advis ers would keep me well informed as to campus ideas." Other Business. In other business taken up by the Union board last night, the six months audit was accepted, and members found that the building is operating well within its budget. Some $1,000 more income has been realized thru student and fac ulty fee3 than was expected, ac cording to Prof. E. F. Schramm, chairman of the board. "Nebraska's Union has enjoyed a much greater success in its first year than most of those on other campuses. Professor Schramm stated. The board approved the expend! ture allotted by the Union for pur chase of motion picture equipment and miscellaneous other small sums. Home ec sorority to throw 98 party Formal dress optional at annual affair tonight "Bicycle days of '98" will fur nish the theme for the annual "payoff party of Phi Upsilon Om- Icron tonight at 9 o'clock in the Ag student activities building. This professional home econom les sorority has secured Johnny Cox and his orchestra for the af fair, for which formal dres3 is op tlonal. Managers of the party arc Jane Bracket, general, manager; Gwen Jack, publicity chairman; Mary Gilbertson,; decoration 'manager; and Lois Hammond, dinner, ar rangements preceding the dance; i Membere of Phi UnBHonj Omi qrq fit ihandlipg . tickets', jwhich are 40 cents for women and 35 cents for men. Pre-med students apply for application blanks Thirty-one pre-med students have secured application blanks for the Nebraska Medical college from the office of Dr. Otis Wade, advisor. Twenty-five or 30 more are expected to obtain blanks. The medical college will accept yi00 freshmen. (unJS ? fU?nn i 2 108 approves Critic lauds art collection Says NU has 'kept to American quality' "Nebraska university's collection of American art is stimulating and necessary to a well rounded educa tion," declared Mrs. Helen Apple ton Read, noted art critic, in an address at Morrill yesterday after noon. "I am well pleased to see how you have kept to the American quality, especially in this contem porary period you have continued to select works by sound American painters," she said. Coming from the west coast Mrs. Read has been spending the past months studying American murals. She has studied painting in numerous schools under Henri Dumond and Redfield. She gradu ated from Smith college and con tinued her work in Paris. Among paintings hung at Mor rill that pleased her are, "Land scape by Ogden P. Leissner, Hen ry Varnum Poor s "Self Portrait," Edward Hopper's "Room in New York," and "Deserted Farmhouse' by Charles Burchfield. Thursday evening Mfs. Read presented an illustrated lecture on the various art projects sponsored by the fine arts department of the United States treasury. Hill sees Britain applying 'pound diplomacy1 in Spain The jingle of English gold and silver is again drowning out the (i H ri l'l. : ?!?iH i 1 1 Uncoln Juutiml. ...4. L. Hill. "ji of continental states the "Paymaster of Eu harsf Tli vJ IS Si FKIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1939 Coed Follies judges pick nine skits A.W.S. board members select from 21 groups on record entry list Six skits and three curtain acts which will be featured in the an nual Coed Follies to be held in the Temple, March 23, were re leased following the conclusion of tryouts last night. Twenty-one groups were competing in the try outs, held Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Groups which will present skits in the Follies include Alpha Fhi, Delta Delta Delta, Delta Gamma, Gamma Phi Beta, Pi Beta Phi, and Sigma Delta Tau. Curtain acta will be given by the Barb A. W. S. league, Alpha Chi Omega, and Howard hall. A. W. S. members will be placed in charge of each skit, and groups are asked to begin concentrated practice at the beginning of next week. Entries in the skit competition were the largest in the histroy of the A. W. S. Coed Follies. Debate filings end Thursday Tryouts for April trip set for next Thursday Tomorrow noon will be the filing deadline for the debate tryouts which will decide what men will go on the Chicago trip April 6 to 10. Tryouts will be Thursday eve ning, March 2, and the question, "Resolved: That collective action of the world's democracies is nec essary to guarantee survival." Two hours credit for the second semester will be given the two teams making the trip and all men meeting the regular university re quirements for extra-curricular work are eligible. Bibliographies are posted on the bulletin board at Andrews hall, room 111. Books on thte topic are on reserve at the library. rope" once again loosens the strings of the rich British money bag, this time to profer recon struction loans to seemingly vic torious Franco who needs money to build up the Spain that troops have torn down. Once again Eng land follows the policy of "pound diplomacy" that has enabled her to direct the European balance of power for the last centuries. "At the present time General Franco cooperates with Italy be cause he needs Italian help for his Immediate purpose of conquering Spain," states the University of Nebraska's Norman L. Hill, long time student of international af fairs. "That motive for working with Italy will disappear after the war is over. Then fascist Spain's immediate purpose will be reconstruction, requiring loans which Italy is in no position to of fer, and which England can sup ply." Again the pen is mightier than the sword, if that pen can write a check. Aims Not Parallel. "It . must be remembered, con tinued Prof. Hill, "that Spain, un like Italy is not an anti-statua quo power seeking new territories and colonies. Italy's real allies must be nations like Germany which de mand concessions and revision. It See HILL page 4,