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DAILY NKRRASKAN
FK1DAY. APRIL 14, 1939
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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF HOWARD KAPLAN
BUSINESS MANAGER RICHARD M'GINNIS
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
Managing Editors Merrill Englund,
Harold Niemann
News Editors June Blerbower, Richard DeP-ovn,
Norman Harris, Ellsworth Steele, Fern Steute
vllle, Ed Wittenberg.
Society Editor , Margaret Krause
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
Circulation Manager Stanley Michael
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FOR FUTURE PROSPERITY
"To Ihis state and to the nation, trans
portation presents one of the amite problems
of our time. It involves phases touching: ship
pers, bankers, investors, and transportation
managers all reflect ing the broad public, in
terest." This statement explains briefly the reasons
for sponsoring the transportation conference
which takes place today, because from the un
dergraduate body will come 1he shippers,
bankers, and transportation managers of a few
years hence, reasons become evident for stu
dents taking an active interest in Ihis im
portant and enlightening program.
To the people of this state the question of
transportation is so important as to border
upon being the deciding factor between pros
perity and poverty in the years to come. At
present we are engaged almost exclusively
in agricultural production. As such through
the channels of transportation runs the life
blood of our communities. We must sell our
foodstuffs to the world at large, and in re
turn must receive most of the articles neces
sary to our daily living.
Transportation, however, means more than
simply Ihe providing of the necessities of life
to the progressive people of the midwest. In
addition it spells the force which can doom or
relieve this territory from an involuntary serv
itude to the inconstancies of agriculture. Dis
criminatory freight rates and taxes can pre
vent this state from ever developing large
scale manufacturing enterprises. It is no longcj;
regrettable news but rather the expected fact
when a budding product is removed from local
quarters to such centers ,;s Chicago because of
the savings in shipping.
The conference is especially timely because
changes are occurring, and more are being
championed. Rail legislations of great possible
importance have been introduced in congress,
and we of the midwest must understand their
implications. With this in mind university offi
cials have gathered representatives of every
type of transportation as well as business and
government, to attempt to develop a more com
plete understanding of the entire situation.
Some of the newer transportation facilities
are being subected to regulation for the first
time. The railroads have long been regu
lated, and long have complained that they
are hindered and hampered by laws. A just
and fair regulation is the happy medium
which Nebraskans hope to attain. The pros
perity of this state depends upon economic
distribution that will not excessively burden
the producers nor bankrupt the transporta
tion systems.
The road to settlement may well be paved
by understandings and explanations resulting
from this conference.
Fuller wins in
meat judging
Montana senior cops
trophy in ag contest
Faul Fidler, Melrose, Montana
senior in the college of agricul
ture, carried off the champion
ship trophy in the college's twelfth
annual student meats judging con
test held late Thursday afternoon.
Fidler, in winning the cup, placed
first in judging beef classes and
second in the lamb division to de
feat James Sanders, Undsay, sec
ond place winner. Sanders was
first in pork judging and third in
beef.
Thirty-five contestants, one of
the largest number of entries ever
to compete in this annual event,
judped. Block and Bridle club,
honorary animal husbandry or
ganization, sponsored the contest.
Class winners.
Other place winners In all
classes were: Tom King, Albion,
third; Melvin Glantz, Kearney,
fourth; Rundall Peterson, Grant,
fifth; Eric Thor, Stanton, sixth;
Jeff Broady, Lincoln, seventh;
Wayne Smiley, Milford, eighth.
The second place winner was
awarded a fountain pen and pencil
set and other place winners both
in all class placings and the vari
ous divisions were awarded rib
bons. Edward Zahm of Spalding, a
member of the Nebraska cham
pion meats team at Chicago in
1938, was in charge of the con
test, lie also acted as one of the
official judges, along with Ray
Cruise, Gurley, another member
of the meats team; Raymona Hil
ton, assistant manager of the
Y. W. cafeteria; Margaret Deeds,
manager of the chamber of com
merce dining facilities, and Frof.
R. R. Thalman of the animal hus
bandly department.
Contestants judged nine classes,
two of beef carcasses, two of
wholesale beef cuts, one pork car
cass class, two of wholesale pork
cuts, and two lamb carcass classes.
Division winners were:
Bwl-llrrt, Fidler: aeeond, Kln; thtre,
Pander; fourth, ljilrrr.ce Raller, 'tlr;
Pork flrat, Sundm; aeeond. Broad) ;
third, Don Kewrll, Hnnlh Hlolu lily;
fourth, I'eternn: fifth, Thor.
I-mb first, Kln( aeeond, Fidler; third,
Mylan Ron. .yni fourth, John Berk
flffh, fllanta.
with, lrrui fifth, Olaata,
Archery meet opens
The first round of girls intra
mural archery tournament w ill be
gin today with the opening match
between the Jnfpa DtUs fnd the
Gamma rhi'sv " i .
Agar lecture - -
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maintain the status quo thruout
Europe.
"Before the League council, La
val and Eden literally declared,"
went on the convocation speaker,
"that quibbling and chatter about
justice had no place at the ma
hogany conference table at Ge
neva. Hitler and Mussolini under
stand this and no longer secure
what they think is justice, by
words and pleas, they now meet
the Anglo-French 'lid-sitters' with
whips."
Justice impossible.
"And why not?" Agar queried.
"The poweis that are on op have
made it impossible to secure jus
tice or move ore borderstone on
the continent of Europe without
impairing the peace of the world."
Raising the question of what
sort of democracy we are endan
gering ourselves to support, the
Kentucky journalist declared thai
none of the countries who are con
nected with the Anplo-French
cause have any democratic senti
ments. Even England, he explained
"who talks up the cause of democ
racy has no belief in "Equal rights
for all, and special privileges for
none. That country," Agar de
clared "is the most rigid aristo
cratic and class conscious society
in the western world."
Democracy is a faith.
He contended that democracy is
a faith, which carries with it a
number of obligations. These ob
ligations must be felt at home
where 650,000 homeless, half
starved farmers are denied the
right to vote, to work, or to get
relief, and where millions of dol
lars are spent monthly to create
an anti-semitic feeling.
"If we support the Anglo
Fremh cause," the speaker con
cluded, "we must forget these
fraudulent phases and consider
coldbloodedly what there is in the
fight that will benefit us."
Winner of the Pulitzer prize in
1934 for his book, "The People's
Choice," an account of the lives of
American presidents from Wash
ington to Harding, Agar has dis
tinguished himself in the field of
economics and hist iy. He is also
the author of "Land of the Free"
and "Who Owns America."
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arrangements could be made
within the institution (the univer
sity) or between the institution
and the traction company, the bus
line would certainly have my sup
port. I would be very happy to see
something done about the student
transporation problem."
F. A. Good, member of the state
railway commission, was out of
town Thursday and can not be
reached until later this week. The
commission is the final authority
on matters of rates and schedules
of bus lines, and no changes can
be guaranteed without the appro
val of the commissioners.
Meanwhile, Mr. Heiny will con
sult with his company's attorneys
and the transportation depart
ment in an attempt to determine
the economic feasibility of a five
cent rate, and he has asked the
NEBRASKAN to secure figures
on the number of students going
each way between campuses at
each hour of the school week.
General agreement.
With the exception of Richard
O. Johnson, who could not be
reached by press time, every mem
ber of the city council agreed to
support the five cent rate and 12
minute intercampus service, if
proved that it could pay for itself
by student patronage, and if it
would not hinder other transpor
tation. All agreed also that it was
not under the scope of power of
the council alone to operate or
force operation of a bus line.
For the time being, the plan for
a university operated bus line has
been dropped by the Student Coun
cil. If rate reductions and improved
service can be secured on traction
company buses, the university line
will nwait more thorough investi
gation and long ranpa planning,
according to Ail Hill, chairman
of the intercampus bus committee.
Behind world events
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in this alliance are aristocratic
England interested in the empire
above vague ideologies, semi
tyrannical France and Rumania,
dictatorial Poland, tyrannical Rus
sia, unclassifiable Greece, and
Turkey which is but recently rid
of Dictator Mustapha Kemal Pa
sha who died of natural causes.
England's liberal oligarchy
and France's semi-dictatorial
government today pay tribute to
democratic principles in order
that the United States may be
lured to protect the economic and
empirical interests of those Eu
ropean powers. The people of
France desire democracy, claims
Mr. Agar, but even he will not
not contest the statement that
its present government is not
representative of those popular
aims.
It is this statement of Agar's,
that the people of France desire
democracy, that we must ask modi
fied. The government of France
exists as it is solely because it rep
resents the will of the people. No
type of government, be it good or
bad, dictatorial or democratic, can
exist without the support and con
sent of the governed. If this state
ment, which we believe to be be a
simple and fundamental truism, as
allowed to stand, France is not a
democracy. Dictatorial powers
have ' en granted Premier Dala
dier. 1 c ident Lebrun owes his re
election l')lely to Daladier's politi
cal activities in his behalf. The
French president can, on the ad
vice of the premier and the con
sent of the senate, dissolve the
parJiamentary chambers. Only one
dissenting voice was raised in the
senate to the emergency grant of
powers to the premier and such
powers do not expire for six
months. Certainly no government
which is so responsive to the will
of a single man, in this case Dala
dier, can be called democratic.
Agar contends that democracy
can be preserved only if the
American people are willing to
make this nation the oasis
toward which all those turn who
have faith in liberty, fraternity,
and equality. Today the govern
ment of the United States allows
itself, thru false propaganda
stressing our sympathies with
France and England and thru
other propaganda designed to
circumvent democratic prin
ciples, to be involved in a Euro
pean contest between personali
ties rather than to be ouirieH
into paths winch would be rem- I
edial for pressing illness at
home.
Some political scientists today !
contend that the eventual end of
Europe, irrespective of the out-1
come of the present strife, will be j
communization .Such men look for i
the downfall of fascist and nazi i
powers thru bolshevik revoltions !
overthrowing the present economic j
and social orders. Naturally!
Kosmet Klub colls for
interested freshmen !
All treshmen interested in
ushering for "Alias Aladdin,"
Kosmet Klub spring show to be
presented next week, as advance
work looking oward Klub mem
bership, are asked to meet this
afternoon at 4:30 in the Klub
office, third floor of the Union.
Unitarian church fetes
Jefferson's birthday
In celebration of the birthday
of Thomas Jefferson, the principal
address at the Unitarian church,
12th and H streets, on Sunday
morning at 11 o'clock will be
given by Prof. J. L. Sellers of the
American history faculty.
The "patriot and statesman"
and "our first outstanding advo
cate of the principles of democ
racy" was bom on April 13, 1743,
and devoted 40 years of constant
sen-ice to his country. Prof. J.
M. Rinehsrt will also speak. Dr.
Arthur Weatherly, pastor, will
preside.
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enoun, u we conumie to be gulli
ble in the matter of propaganda
which now floods this nation, this
communal movement will spread
to the United States, woakeni-d by
the failure of its people to prac
tice as well as preach democratic
principles.
Curiously enough, Mr. Agar
says the United States has the
desire for but not the reality of
democracy. In support of this
contention he asks us to view
the current social and economic
inequalities here existent. Ad
ditionally, we mutt note the
New Deal's attack on laissez
faire and capitalism thru indi
rection. Democracy does not in
volve regimentation nor reori
entation of industry and peoples
other than that necessary to
preserve a just and equitable
balance between people and op
portunities. The great democrats
of the American tradition
stressed the factors of equal
rights and equal opportunities
for all. The new deal has ac
cepted these in name but its
methods are not indicative of
the attainment of that goal.
Agar's conclusions are so mani
festly correct that they should be
broadcast to the nation, and par
ticularly to the Roosevelt admin
istration. Briefly that conclusion
follows: the American desire to
preserve a constitutional govern
ment based on democratic prin
ciples and the wish to maintain a
capitalistic economy dependent on
a concept of laissez-faire must be
fought for as well as spoken for,
and home, not Europe, is the place
to start that fighting. Democracy,
political and economic, cannot ex
ist by and of itself, it demands
and warrants our protection. But
problems at home are far more
pressing than the preservation of
the imperialistic plans of Fiance
and England who serve democrat y
in word alone.
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SCHOOL SERVICE
"A Good Teneher Agraey" (
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S 'Com In and See U$
THOMAS JEFFERSON
1743 . 1828
Author of The rieHHratlon of Independence
Author of Vlrnlni Hti.tne of Relipoua l.imriy
Founder of the University of Virginia
Second Unitarian I'reHdent of the U. B.
Mm 196th Birthday will be ct lehrated ul
THE UNITARIAN CHURCH
12TH & H
Sunday, April 16 at II A. M.
Sprmken: Ir. J. I, Srllrra, Prof, of History
l)p. Jam M. ReinhaHl, Pn.f. f Sociology
Dr. Arthur U Weatherly, Tumor
SrurtVnfi Invited
Come
to
Church
Sunday, April 16
First Baptist
Hlh ft K
Clifton H. Waleoit, MlnlMer
8:45 A. M. Student Clam.
30 :4S A. M - P.tieil Speaker Jude W.
H. Wttte of Idaho
6:00 P. M.- KoKT William Club
First Christian
18th K
Ray K. Hunt, Mlnlxlrr
6:45 A. M. Three Church Srlim.l
rlniwea for l'niversit
Bttidanta
11 :0fl A. M. "Hut 1 Want to
Happy"
6.30 P. M. "Where the John of
morrow A re to
Found." Mr. Colter.
Pr
First-Plyraonth
Congregational
ZOIh I)
Raymond A. MeOfinell, Minister
11:00 A. M. "CJirlatlan Queffttonii In
an Are of rower"
7:00 V. M. Sunday Kvenlnif Club
8:00 P. M. HorlHl Hour
University Episcopal
lit ft R
Rev. I.. W. McMillan, Trie! In Char.'
8:30 and il 00 A. II - Regular
Service
First Presbyterian
17th A K
lr. Kdmnnd r Miller, Milliliter
9 ;40 A. M. Rlhle Clnaa for College
Afe.- Prof. V.. W. lJint
11:00 A. M. "In Ihe Afterglow of
K.nirfer"
6:00 P. M. Youth Fellowship Sijper.
Dlacuaaton Group.
Westminster
Pcsbyterian
HhrrMaa mni Moath
Melvla V. OKIt. D. !., MUilter
11:00 A. M. "Jem n4 the Dha-
lorii"
:15 1. M. Fellowship Popper
7:00 P. M. K vent Me Worship,
Faaler, WliatT"
7:80 P. K. TXtKaaMoa
After
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