THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
Wednesday, May 8, 1940
-Jhi Daily Nedmsean
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THIRTY-NINTH YEAR
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EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
Managing Editors Clyde Martx, Norman Hurrls
News Editors.. .. .Chris Petersen, Luci'e Thomas. Haul
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Ag Editor Leo Cocksley
Radio Editor John Mason
$tar reporters this month. .. .Mar Jorie Bruning, Elizabeth
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Combs, Alex Mills.
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ALL DAILY an Mimed editorial are the opinion of the
editor. Their view or oplnltin In no way reflect the attl
tade of the administration of the onlvrmlty.
ments of Prom deficits without a treasury to settle
from. It should mean that next year's Prom will be
gin a new era of success for the traditional closing
party of the formal season, an era in which the
Prom's old glamour and prestige and popularity will
be restored and the dismal affairs .of the last few
j-ears will be fogotten with no regrets.
0J 7 on a ( j)ca Lin g
DOES STATE EDUCATION NEED
A MORE VARIED PROGRAM?
Report of the state planning board suggesting
radical revision of Nebraska's educational program
has stirred up a great deal of comment and spirited
discussion which should be of eventual benefit to
the program even if the report itself is finally re
jected in part or in whole. Certainly no one will
criticize the objectives of the report - first, to make
the public school system and the state institutions
of higher learning fit more usefully the needs of
the state, and second, to reduce the tax burden of
education. Whether or not such sweeping changes
as are suggested would be desirable is a subject
which deserves some debate, and it looks as though
it would get it, with State Superintendent of Schools
Taylor, whose office would be abolished under the
proposed revision, leading the opposition.
Of particular interest to the university is the
recommendation to substitute a single board of
control for all the state institutions of higher
learning in place of the present university Board
of Regents and the state normal board. It is also
suggested that the university be designated pri
marily as a senior college whose main function
would be to provide educational facilities for stu
dents Interested in professional schooling, grad
uate work, and students of the upper classes. In
other words, students interested only in one or
two years of university work would be discour.
aged from enrolling at Nebraska in favor of two
year institutions. One normal school plant would
be used for technical training, two others to pre
pare elementary and two-year high school teach
ers, and only one to train four-year high school
teachers.
Without doubt, some recognition on the part of
the state of changing educational trends is desir
able and one can see great benefits which would
result from greater variation of offerings among
Nebraska institutions of higher learning. There
seems to be a tendency at present, noted by many,
for the normal schools located at Peru, Chadron,
Kearney, and Wayne to try to be miniature state
universities. Nebraska does not need five schools
carrying out the same function. It does need facili
ties to take care of the thousands of young people
not fitted for or interested in any of the present
four-year educational programs. More emphasis on
equipping such people for trades and special voca
tional activities would go far toward alleviating the
present difficulties of state education and do a bet
ter Job of preparing young Nrbraskans to find their
proper places In the life of the state and nation.
OFFICIAL FACULTY APPROVAL of the Inno
cent society as sponsors of next year's Junion
Senior Prom represents victory on an issue In which
this semester's DAILY has been greatly Interested
and which it, in fact, Initiated. It means that next
year's Prom committee will be elected by general
vote of the student body in the fall election, in ac
cordance with the wishes ct voters as expressed on
the special ballot sponsored by tho DAILY a few
months ago. It means that the committee will be
gin their work early in the year under the active
guidance of a small organization which can give it
more attention and interest than the Student Coun
cil ever could muster. It means that the Council will
no linger be bothered with an affair quite outside
their official legislative function, no longer be har
assed by accusation of "dirty politlca" or settle-
TIawa, dfowidufL
Norbort MoknktNi
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TODAY
LION MISSES BUS.
The sorry spectacle which the British dabbling
in Norway turned out to be has moved even Prime
Minister Chamberlain. The bungling English leader
has at length realized, as he admitted yesterday,
that "we have suffered a certain loss of prestige."
Yet neither he nor a majority of parliament seem
to realize that this loss of prestige is the direct
result of the policy-making which he is supposed
to direct. It appears that another session of com
mons will come and go with Chamberlain's usual
soothing words of explanation, with the usual per
functory, half-hearted opposition to the type of thing
the Prime Minister represents, and with no change
of policy for the better.
Chamberlain in his speech yesterday asserted that
his nation apparently fails "to realize the extent
or imminence of the threat which is impending
against us." No better proof of this exists than that
the nation allows the man who spoke thus to re
main at the helm of the government.
The only concrete section of the entire speech
announced that Winston Churchill will hereafter
have special responsibility for the day to day super
vision of military operations. This, it was asserted,
will insure that "when policies are decided upon,
they will be followed up with promptness and
energy." The world at large has ample evidence of
the energy and promptness of the Chamberlain gov
ernmentevidence in Poland, evidence in Finland,
evidence now in Norway. Yet it must be remem
bered that the number of small nations which the
British can offer as living sacrifices to monster
which ihe Nazi aggression represents Is limited, that
eventually even British possessions must be used
to appease the appetite that grows with the eating.
While Labor Leader Maj. Clement Atlee noisily
asserted that "we want different people at the helm,"
Chamberlain begged for the wholehearted coopera
tion of all parties, of employers and laborers. Sud
denly the Norwegians are blamed for the failure of
the British, for they "failed to hinder the Germans
by demolitions." Admitting the half-hearted resist
ance which the Norwegians put up, the contagion of
half-heartedness appears to have spread only with
the defeatist complex which affected the British
troops.
General Sir Edmund Ironside greeted the glum and
dejected returning British troops with questionable
praise. "When you talk to your people," he said,
"tell them how well you fought that you have come
back with your tails up." To us on the sidelines
the reference is unmlstakeable, but the exactness of
the position of the tail doubtful.
From the reports which have been gathered from
the British who have returned one can piece to
gether an amazing story of military inefficiency, a
story of soldiers who sailed away without seeing
a German, of others who were subjected to day
long bombings without the semblance of any de
fense being put up, of troops so ill-equipped with
explosives that depth charges from the destroyers
had to be used to blow up bridges in the hasty re
treat. Accounts sent in by Donald Day and other
American correspondents from Norway substantiate
the reports which Leland Stowe filed at an earlier
date regarding the equipping of the British expedi
tionary forces. An article sent by Day from Trond
hclm tells of the British troops equipped for 60 de
gree weather by wearing two suits of woolen un
derwear, a woolen uniform, a leather tunic, and a
padded duck coat. The military equipment of the
British vaa labelled "effeminate" the cooking
equipment being that which one finds in a first-class
hotel. Most striking was the account of the British
taking over a small sector which the Norwegians
had held for twelve hours, and deciding after 35
minutes that they bad no more stomach for such
fighting. They retired, without telling the Norwe
glan forces on either flank.
Chamberlain can rest assured that everyone ex
cept the English realizes "tho extent and immi
nence of the threat which Is impending
against us."
AIX 8TI IIKNTS.
CnlverHlty observatory on the rlty ram
ihm will be uvfm every clear afternooa this
week to atudenta who eare to eh nerve the
planet Vena.
FACULTY WOMEN'S CLIB.
The Faculty Women's Club will meet ta
the ballroom of the I nion at 1 p. m.
MATIN EF DANCE.
Weekly I nlon matinee dun will be held
at S p. m. la the ballroom. Identinratlon
cards mint be presented for admittance.
UNION FORl'M.
Dr. Thomaa Greenwood, I'nlvernHy of
London pyehnloffUt, will apeak on ''Car
rent Events" la parlors B and C of the
I'nkta at 4 p. m.
PRESBYTERIAN 8TVDENTS.
Prrsbytertaa students will meet M nooa
la pastor X of the I nlon.
rr.RSHING RIFLES.
Members of Penning Rifle will meet at
:SO p. m. ( the Union la parkin X and
I of the laloa.
ASAP..
Members of the America Society of
Agrtcaltaral Engineer will meet at 7:80
p. m. la room 306 of the lTnton.
GAMMA ALPHA CHI.
Gamma Alpha Chi will meet at I p. m.
ta room Sit of the I;nloa.
SIGMA Al.rHA IOTA.
Members of Sigma Alpha lota will meet
la room 8I of the I nlon at p. m.
AIEE.
Members of the American Institute at
Electrical Engineers will meet at 7 p. m.
In M. E. 204. M. A. Buohta will speak oat
"The Unroln Interconnection of the Ne
braska T. V. A." Important mailers of
banlnea will also be dlseusaed at the
meeting.
TRI-K CUB.
Members of the Tri-K clnb will meet at
I p. ra. IB the Crops tab for tho lalUatiea
f new member. At :!(! P. m. the anal
Tri-k Ford will be held In the lab.
CORNHU8KER COUNTRYMAN,
There wiH be a staff meeting of Vmrtt
hasker Countrymen workers at t p. m, k
room SOI of Ag Halt.
POl'LTRY CLUB.
Pealtrjr riah will Initiate Its aew
bers at 7 p. m. In the "Mo. Hoae."
THURSDAY
WnaBt! a4
SIGMA TAl'.
Members of Sigma T will
p. m. In parlor A af the t'nlnn.
RELIGIOUS WELFARE CO! NC1L.
The Relgloa Welfare Council will meet
la parlor X of the I'nloa at noon, .
8INFONIA.
Members of Nlnfonta will meet at n
la parlor of the I 'nlon.
MTJ PHI EPSIU)K.
Ma Phi Kpnllen will meet a roam Si)
of the I nlon at 7 p. nt.
SIGMA HELTA CHI.
Member of Wrma Delta Chi will
la room SIS of the I'nlon at S p. m.
As for history . . .
Sheldon fears Hollywood
will stage-butcher Nebraska
The movies seldom stick to the
facts in their historical produc
tions, thinks Dr. A. E. Sheldon,
superintendent of the Nebraska
Historical society, and he believes
in telling them so.
Director Wesley Ruggles, doing
a film version of Clarence Buding
ton Kelland's "Arizona" decided
he would like to do pictuies about
other states. He wrote to Gov
ernor Cochran asking for a few
items of state history of which
historical fact3 have been garbled
and distorted, dis-synchronized or
otherwise stage-butchered," con
tinued Sheldon.
"As I have seen those beautiful
and attractive stories ruined, I
have been so mad that I would
swear I would never again help a
commercial . screen play."
Dr. Sheldon also offered the di
rector a bit of advice: "If you peo
ple wish to make a really faithful
film story of Nebraska you should
Nebraskans are "most proud." The send one of your most intelligent
"It it the task of intelligence to build up our
social order, and ihe beginnings can be In the das-
room, the cam put end the community. By teaching
men thct they need each other end depend upon
each other, we trill instil the religion Impulse into
modern life. Rabbi Charles Shulman of Clencoe,
III., in talk at Lawrence College, Appleton, Wit., at
tenet the role of religion in m democracy.
"What tee need i$ not to much technological
development but an increased development in the
art of living. We've made great progress during the
last 40 years in mechanical development, but there' t
a tremendous lag in social development. Dr. Marion
B. Smith, assistant professor of sociology mt Louis
iana State University, suggests m re-tcclghing of em
phatit in America's educational institutions.
governor turned the letter over to
Dr. Sheldon.
Seen enough.
"It has been my lot to be called
upon numerous times in the last
20 years by the proponents of va
rious screen stories relating to the
western plains," Dr. Sheldon wrote
to Ruggles. In some cases, decent
acknowledgement has been made
for this material, in others, not,"
"In practically all of them the
and discriminating people here to
the Historical society collections in
our beautiful state capitol, and
have him spend enough time to
sense the situation." lie went on
to list numerous pictures which he
felt violated the truth in Nebraska
history.
He also enclosed a copy of his
book, "Nebraska Old and New."
He requested that Ruggles read it
for an idea of Nebraska's history.
Ashby receives
grad fellowship
to Wisconsin
Lowell Ashby of Lincoln, who
received his master's degree in
economics from the university in
1938, has been awarded a grad
uate fellowship at the University
of Wisconsin next year, it was an
nounced Friday by Dr. C. E. Mc
Neill of the department of eco
nomics. Ashby, who is now in the em
ploy of the Austin, Tex., bureau
of municipal research, becomes
the third Nebraska graduate to
receive a Wisconsin fellowship in
recent years. Richard Eastwood
of Burchard, who received his
master's degree last year from the
ui Iversity, has been named alter
nate, and will receive the Madison
award if Ashby does not accept
Eaitwood is now a member of the
staff of the University of Alahima
extension division.
After receiving his advanced de
grees, Ashby did graduate work in
the school of public service admin
istration of the University of Minnesota.
Pool-
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find it difficult to distinguish be
tween the two. Even more convinc
ing is the fact that protoplasm,
the essence of life itself, is much
the same in the two groups. This
difficult to define, material la
made up of much the same con
stituents in both plants and ani
mals. Bring out practical problems.
Besides bringing out the simi
larities between plants and ani
mals, Dr. Pool's book puts em
phasis on the practical problems
of botany, and also brings out the
belief that the story of evolution
is not mushed. He believes that,
"We have every reason to believe
that the processes of creating new
forms of life in nature may con
tinue for millions of years to come
Countless forms more interesting.
useful and beautiful than any that
have yet appeared may readily
grace those new scenes of nature's
unending pageant of life."
Graduate student gets
position as county
agricultural agent
Leland K. Johansen, who will re
ceive his master's degree in agron
omy from the university ag col
lege this spring, was elected by the
Knox county farm board to be
come the county s agricultural
agent His appointment will be
come effective June 10. Johansen
will succeed Gilbert Erickson, who
resigned to accept a similar posi
tion in Sarpy county.
Johansen waa born in Greely
county; and was superintendent of
schools at Scotia. He has also
been a professor of agriculture at
Dana college in Blair. For the
past several weeks he has been
serving as assistant agricultural
agent He is married and has two
children.
Borden employs Frontz
at World's Fair exhibit
Floyd Ivan Frantz has been en
gaged as a member1 of the Borden
Company's "Dairy World of To
morrow,"' staff at their exhibit at
the New York World's Fair.
Frantz is a student at the uni
versity and was a member of last
year's staff.
Exams
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thruout the United States, and six
months at Randolph Field in
Texas.
In addition to training, the fly
ing cadets receive 575 a month
as well aa board, room, clothing
and medical attention. At the com
pletion of their training, the men
are given the commission of sec
ond lieutenant in the U. S. reserve
air corps. It is possible to receive
up to seven years of active duty
in the army, and many are al
loted commissions in the regular
army.
To examine air corps asplrtants
a board of air corps officers will
be here to give the examinations.
Dr. John R. Haynes, noted phy
sician and regent of the University
of California, is called the father
of the initiative in that state.