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Friday, November 1, 1940 DAILY NEBRASKA Collegiate editors believe Recent Fascist combinations arc aimed at United States By Associated Collegiate Press. How serious and how immediate ia the "triple threat" to America from Rome, Berlin and Tokyo? Collegiate editorialist are specu lating freely these days, and their near-unanimity of opinion is re markable. Recent decision of the three fascist powers to collaborate more closely, reasons the Tech, pub lished at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "ia designed to pre vent the United States from enter ing the conflict by threatening a war on two fronts if we keep ex tending our help to Great Britain." At Brown university, the Daily Herald .sees the Nordics, the Latins, and the Orientals, with much flexing of muscles, pro claiming "their joint supremacy and the utter waste of resistance to such a strength as they repre sent." But the Herald asks: "What strength? It ia meet that we should examine these claims of totalitarian invincibility and our own puerility." Proceeding with such an analysis, the Herald be lieves "the first axiom which, un til disproved, we must accept, is the impossibility of the defeat of Britain. So long as Britain stands we are secure in Europe, and the boasts of the axis are but empty prattling so far as their ability to harm us is concerned. And so long as China stands we are secure in Asia. Our shields are friends, and our only intelligent, our only pos sible course is to re-enforce these shields. The British have learned. The Chinese have learned. And we must learn that the only thing we hare to fear is fear." Aid to Britain. The Butler Collegian feels that litis democracy should continue economic aid to Great Britain, for only the maintenance of the Brit ish navy will enable the U. S. navy to remain in the Pacific ocean. The treaty threatens the United States only when this na tion decides to do what Hitler and his colleagues wish us to do be negative, cease to strengthen the British military machine, and let Japan go about her imperialistic way, uninterrupted." The Eastern Teachers College (Dl.) News advises that "our best answer to the pompous threat of the totalitarian powers is to ignore it. Continue to increase our aid to England and China, who seem to be keeping the dictators fairly ASCAP sponsors music contest The American Society of Com posers, Authors and Publishers, is sponsoring a contest for musical plays written by one or more uni versity students and produced and stage! in costume. The play will be judged on originality, practical neas and neatness. Each year tha society sponsors such a contest. It awards prizes to each of the eight divisions of the U. S. Nebraska is in the fifth division which comprises Iowa, Kansas, North Dakota, South Da kota. and Minnesota. The prize for the best play is $750. Any student interested should see Ar mand Hunter in Temple, theatre, V9. OTjauil iiwciia ui Lite IHAKHJl of music. U J (n.i busy at the present time, and make ourselves strong at home. New Mexico Lobo likewise calls upon America to stifle its hysteria about the newest phase of axis diplomatics. "The alliance," agrees the Lobo, "Just isn't news." These three nations have been informally in a state of cohesion since Ger many began its ambitious on slaughts, and the mere addition of a theoretical formality to a known actuality should be no reason for additional jitters." The Michigan Daily believes that "Japan in recent days has ex ecuted one of the most precipit ous backdowns in diplomatic his tory. Whether the Nipponese will persist in sneak aggressions and convert grabs under their apolog etic smoke screen remains to be seen. In any event, prevailing ideas about the importance of face in Oriental psychology need revision." National student ... Survey shows college opinion divided on Willkie Roosevelt By Joe Belden, Editor. Sffl Opinio Marrer ml Anerlca. AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 1. Amer ican college opinion is almost equally divided between Franklin Roosevelt and Wendell Willkie. Results tabulated this week for the first Student Opinion Surveys of America poll of the college year show the republican candidate with a minute lead of one-half of one percent. Willkie's majority Is so slim that, considering the al lowable margin of error (3 or 4 percent) in all scientific sampling, it would be more appropriate to say that college students are about evenly divided on the two candi dates. The DAILY is cooperating with the surveys and nearly 150 other college newspapers in conducting these polls established in 1938 by the University of Texas. Reports of national college opinion, based on a proportional sample of stu dents from Maine to California, will appear weekly. Scores of personal interviewers using uniform methods over this cross section of campuses asked students, "Whom do you want to see elected president in Novem ber?" Willkie, said 50.5 percent Roosevelt, said 49.5 percent (Of all the students interviewed, percent declared they had not Poultry group plans contest Ag college students will have an opportunity to compete for poul try honors Saturday afternoon, Nov. 2, in the animal husbandry building on ag campus. Ribbons will be awarded in the Junior and senior divisions by the sponsor of the contest, the Poul try Science club, and the high in dividuals of the entire contest will also be given ribbons. On Nov. 9 the Poultry Science club, in co-operation with the Home Ec. club, will present a Sadie Hawkins dance, at which event the winners of the poultry Judging contest will be announced. HALF Tender, juicy, deliciously browned. Served without silverware. Ooodle f Shoestring Potatoes. Jelly with Hot Buttered Rolls. Capital hotel jlj Hedges, Kgr. . Property law should facilitate transfer Foster Dean Henry H. Foster of law college, speaking before the 33rd annual convention of the Ne braska Title Association in Hotel Lincoln Friday said, "In an agri cultural state such as Nebraska, it is important that our property law facilitates the transfer of property, allowing it to be dis posed of according to the inten tion of the owner, unless violat ing some rule of law based upon an existing public policy." The title of his address was "Modern izing Nebraska Property Law." American property law, Dean Foster stated, has developed from the feudal land law of England. Harmful survivals of this law in England have been eliminated by the Property Act of 1925. In America the Uniform Property Act has been framed by the joint efforts of the American Law In stitute and the Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. decided.) Not all college students are elig ible to vote, of course, but of the thousands who are 21 or older and will go to the polls next Tuesday, a majority will probably give their support to Willkie. Cross tabula tions of qualified voters gave these percentages, adjusted to eliminate undecided answers: Voting students: Willkie 52.4 percent Roosevelt 47.6 percent This poll was taken before the president swung fully into his speaking tour, and it may be that before election day he may in fluence many a collegian, with the possibility of his taking the ma jority from Willkie. In 1938 the surveys started sampling collegi ate opinion on the third term. Here is the record, showing the increase of approval as election time approached: Favoring third term for F. D. R. December 1938 27.2 percent January 1939 28.2 percent November 1939 ....31.8 percent February 1940 39.5 percent TODAY 49.5 percent From section to section of the nation opinion varies considerably. Only in the Middle Atlantic states, which the Gallup and Fortune sur veys indicate will be Ihe deciding factors, are students sharply di vided: New England 63 percent for Willkie; Middle Atlantic 52 percent for Willkie; East Central, 60 percent for Willkie; West Cen tral, 62 percent for Willkie; South 63 percent for Roosevelt; West 1 percent for Roosevelt. 0MM00000 FRIDAY ySAT.O 2 GREAT NIGHTS 2 with O ISEGER ELLIS! and his famous w ORCHESTRA A Recently featured at the A TWALDORF ASTORIA. andY Hotel New Yorker, New V York City &Fturit the "It" Girt Song 0 IRENE TAYLOR O Pictur and FUdi STAR OeUuce Mm. Friday 45c E. Tax Pais O Sunday Night Only O A 20th Century Shythm a jay r.!cs!mnn O O1 Sensational Dacca RucorikuA 1 Arttrta fram "Tha Hotba fl V Swing," Kanura City N 5:.i i ' .. i h. j i" J,.,,, i m -'-v...JtfM,.:..i, Schooner adopts new policy; to admit student manuscripts Hopes to stimulate students Student manuscripts may be printed in the Prairie Schooner, university literary quarterly, under a new editorial policy announced by Dr. L. C. Wimberly, editor. Formerly, only works of nation ally established authors have bean admitted for publication. Short stories, articles, one-act plays, poems, biographies, and other student writing may be sub mitted provided the manuscript has been approved by the author's English instructor. All entries should maintain the usual standard of the Prairie Schooner, according to Wimberly. Therefore, students War poses problem for American college libraries NEW YORK. (ACP). Europe's war is posing a difficult problem for American college libraries. Robert Bingham Downs, direc tor of the New York university libraries, declares it is extremely hard to keep highly necessary col lections of foreign periodicals and books up to date. In view of the exodus of schol ars from Germany, some quarters have raised questions as to the present value of German learned publication. But it is the general feeling among educators, Mr. Downs reports, that at least the leading journals in several fields of knowledge should be continued for the present. "With the coming of the war foreign currencies have fluctuated in value, insurance and carriage have steadily increased in cost, and deliveries are slower and more uncertain," says Mr, Downs. Ad vance payments have been re quired on serial subscriptions, with no assurance that publication would not be suspended before the subscription expiration date. The workings of the British embargo have not always been predictable, tho the interference has been less noticeable perhaps than during the World war." HIM! Charles Apgar, 2500 Y street, here in Lincoln, won a brand new Ford V-8 last week in the nation-wide Red Grange football score contest, sponsored by En-Ar-Co motor oil and White Rose gasoline. In addi tion 12 other winners out of 61 were in the KFOR area. YOU CAN WIN Your chance to win the first big prize or one of the 60 other valuable prizes are just as good as Charles Apgar. Get your entry blank at a White Rose gasoline station and pick the winners. Send your en try in as directed on the blank. Then listen in for the winners! Red Grange 6:15 5:45 FRIDAY SATURDAY submitting manuscripts will be re quired to subscribe to the maga zine for a year that they might study the type of literature wanted. "We feel that this exDerienra of writine for a soecific publication and the likelihood of the reward for erood work beinr the anrvar- ance in print of students' offerings alongside those of authors of es tablished reputation should prove a great stimulus to student liter ary work," said Dr. Wimberly. Request of the World Dicest to reproduce condensations of "The fcspauer num Tree" and "The Blue Shawl" which appeared in the fall issue of the Schooner has been granted. Business management of the magazine is conducted by the edi torial and publicity department of the university. Charles Russell, eaiionai assistant, supervises ciro- uiauon, ana accounts, and Miss Eleanor Ambuhl. editorial oroof clerk, assists with both manu scripts and subscriptions. Keith Brown continues as circulation manager for his second year. As sociate editors of the Prairie Schooner are Russel T. Prescott, Martin s. Peterson, Miss Ambuhl, Frederick L. Christensen, V. Boyce West, and Miss Louise Perrv. Book review editor is Leo Sonderegger. Omicron Nu gives pre-election parly Omicron Nu, national honorary society for home economics stu dents, will sponsor a pre-election party tonight in ag college activ ities building. The mixer will be in the form of a dance, with games for those who prefer them. All students ara invited to attend. The dance is to begin promptly at 8 p. m. Admission is ten cents per person. T0NIGHTAT11:15 You're Gonna Gel Heck Scared Oulta You . . . AND WE'RE NOT FOOLIN BIG MIDNIGHT We Dare You to Sit Thru It and Not Get S-C-A-R-E-D...!! w ;;,with BASIL RATH BONE LIONEL ATWILL Regular Prices! 25c-40c BEAT OKIAHOMA ntRRY! r w mm 0SGGHB is II Ray 4- VBIMW Ttrkrt rmrly at the Bos Office. Your Mutual Station