Sunday, February 23, 1941
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DAILY NEBRASKAN
Thompson says Hitler
not real cause of war
Nebraska cadets aid defense
By Bill Palmer.
As foolish as hitting a boil with
a hammer is the policy of oppos
ing Germany's military force with
more force, according to Leon
Thompson.
Thompson, president of the Ne
braska peace council, speaking be
fore the Ag YMCA international
relations forum Thursday night ex
plained that wars are caused by
varied and sometimes hidden
causes, and the internal causes of
strife should be dealt with rather
than the outward violence just as
a doctor prescribes medicine for
the blood to cure boils.
"It is not the military power of
the reich that we fear, but rather
the idea$ and philosophy of nazi
ism. Hitler is pretty good as a
bully, and if all we can do is
match that bullyism tank for tank,
the struggle will be useless," the
peace leader stated.
"Hitler is a symbol, representa
tive of his country's plight. The
causes of the present war are eco
nomic, social and moral, and it is
the cause that ought to be dealt
with," said Thompson.
Americans are heading toward
war hating the effect of nazism
without ever considering its cause.
The soldiers who will fight will
not know what they are fighting
for, he believes. "Hitler is just a
darn fool, not the cause of all the
world's trouble. Thru the ages
men have attempted to rid them
selves of evil by overcoming a
fellow human rather than dealing
with the evil itself," Thompson de
clared. The only way to correct world
problems is thru mediation and
conference, according to Thomp
son. "The League of Nations was
such an attempt, but it failed be
cause all nations did not co-operate
in the plan. The world is too
small today to run smoothly with
out some police and conciliatory
power," he affirmed.
"We must work for democracy
Home ec group
to give formal
Phi Upsilon Omicron
opens parly lo campus
Phi Upsilon Omicron, national
home economics honorary frater
nity, will hold its annual formal
on Friday, Feb. 28, from 9 to 12,
in the ag' college activities build
ing. Admission will be 80 cents a
couple.
The dinner, to be held at the
Union building at 7, is for Phi Up
silon Omicron members and their
dates only; but the formal is open
to any university students desir
ing to attend.
General chairman of the formal
is Ruth Ann Sheldon. Committee
chairmen are: Betty Jo Smith,
decoration; Vivian Brown, dinner;
Sylvia Zocholl, publicity; and Ida
Schweiger, orchestra and chaperons.
Washington sourees report
vital draft dceisions pending
WASHINGTON, D. C. -Vitally
important decisions regarding (a)
new 21-year-draft eligibles, and
(b) college students subject to
compulsory military service dur
ing the 1941-42 school year are
definitely in the wind at national
Selective Service headquarters
here.
Although specific forecasts are
premature, developments expected
during the next few weeks include:
(1) Announcement of the second
rational registration day. There
is strong probability that it will
be pushed considerably ahead of
the October date originally antic
ipated. April 1 is considered like
ly. With conscription now estab
lished for five years (unless sooner
repealed by congress a highly re
mote possibility) consideration is
being given to plans for the "au
tomatic registration" of draft elig
ibles upon reaching 21. In all
probability the second registration
day announcement will be accom
panied with a ruling requiring,
thereafter, individual registration
by young men within five dayj
after reaching their 21st birthday.
(2) Adoption of a policy by
which new registrants may be fit
ted into the existing draft struc
ture. The decision will be between
a second fishbowl requiring that
the order numbers of new regis
trants be "notched" into the exist
all over the world. War, thru the
dictatorship created to manage the
battle, the compulsory service and
the economic havoc it brings, cur
tails democracy, Thompson con
cluded. Thompson refused, on religious
grounds, to register for the draft
and expects to be indicted by a
grand jury for this. His religious
principles, he said, will not allow
him to do compulsory labor, the
only present alternative to army
service. When he is indicted he
intends to file a demurrer on the
grounds that the draft is unconsti
tutional in religious discrimina
tion. Senator Wadsworth of New
York is considering introducing an
amendment to the conscription bill
to provide exemption for those like
Thompson. Thompson believes that
such an amendment will be passed,
but that he may have to serve a
prison sentence before it goes into
effect.
Eligibles for
Ag goddess
are named
Thirty-four candidates
hope to preside over
spring party, March 22
List of 34 girls eligible for the
honorary position of Goddess of
Agriculture, to be presented at
the annual ag college spring party
March 22, has been approved by
the home economics association.
Of the senior girls named as
eligible for the office of Goddess
of Agriculture, voters will choose
the seven seniors whom they think
are the most outstanding in thi
list. The woman receiving the
highest number of votes will be
Goddess of Agriculture, the other
six, her attendants. All home ec
majors are eligible to vote.
Voting will be conducted by a
junior committee which will be
appointed by the Home Economics
association.
The following senior girls are
candidates: Mildred Bauder, Carol
Briggs, Vivian Brown, Geraldine
Buls, Phyllis Burgess, Eva .Bute,
Rhoda Chesley, Helen Claybaugh,
Elizabeth Cross, Doris DeLong,
Ethel Diedrichsen, Louise Gill,
Mary Elizabeth Gill, Jeanctte
Glasgow, Florence Hudson, Fearl
Janda, Helen Klatt.
Others are Elaine Loseke, Dor
othy Mattley, Lila Meyerott, Wil
ma Morrison, Iva Otley, Dee Schill,
Doretta Schlaphoff, Lorraine
Schwedhelm, Ida Schweiger, Ruth
Ann Sheldon, Edith Sic, Betty Jo
Smith, Jean Sundell, Margaret
Thrailkill, Alberta Timmas, Ma
rion White, and Sylvia Zocholl.
ing order lists at the ratio of one
to twelve, and the equally feasible
plan of giving late registrants the
remaining serial numbers up to
9,000 (for which order numbers
have already been drawn.) The
former plan holds more than pass
ing significance for college stu
dents. It is suggested in some
quarters that 21-year-old regis
trants be "notched" this year at
one to six; next year one to three
up to where universal service
(at the age of 21) can be "grad
ually and easily" accomplished
within three or four years.
(3) Adoption of a definite pol
icy regarding college students of
draft age who will enroll for the
1941-42 school year. As yet, little
can be said about this decision.
Authoritative advice, however, is
that it will be far-reaching, that
it will remedy to a large extent the
uncertainty now prevailing among
students, that it will be equally
welcome to college administrators.
NOTE: Selective service deci
sions hinge more and more heavily
upon opinion in administration
quarters regarding imminent na
tional defense requirements. There
is salient evidence that the exist
ing selective service law is de
signed to mobilize in the shortest
time possible a giant draft army,
presumably to witness something
more than field maneuvers.
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Uncle Sam's eaglets, poised for flight at Ran
dolph Field, Texas, will soon be wearing the wings
of the full fledged pilot of the army air corps.
Among members of the training group pictured
here are seven Nebraskans, including Jim DeWolf,
former UN student. This group was transferred
Comedian Guitry
to slar in French
movie Tuesday
Starring in the French movie
"Lea Terles de la Couronne," to
be presented at the Union Tues
day, is the world-famous comedi
an, Sascha Guitry .
The show includes dialog spoken
in three or four different lan
guages and concerns "The Pearls
of the Crown." Sascha Guitry,
besides playing the leading role in
the film, wrote the script of the
comedy. He has been in the show
business for many years, and now,
at the age of 60, plays character
parts in his own stories.
"Les Pearls de la Couronne" will
be shown three times in the Union
ballroom Tuesday, at 4, 7 and 9
p. m. Admission is 25 cents. This
is the second in the series of mov
ies sponsored by the French de
partment this year.
Dispnte-
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on the eve of the Interfrateinity
ball of libelous charges that he
held a band monopoly, and that
his booking of Gus Arnheim on
the same night as the ball was un
fair competition to student man
aged parties. No evidence was
given in that paper, however, to
substantiate the charges.
The facts coming to light in the
meeting showed the student repre
sentatives no connection between
Pauley and monopoly interests,
and furthermore showed the Turn-
pike manager to have consistently
been a supporter of university
functions.
Arnheim booking.
The booking of Arnheim, it was
reported resulted from a con
fusion of dates, and the admission
price charged, Mr. Pauley revealed
by clip sheets, was the same as
was charged in other cit ies in the
country.
Gus Arnheim playing in Omaha
the night following the Interfra
ternity ball had the same admis
sion price as here. This evidence
was presented in answer to
charges that he had cut his prices
that particular night.
It was further revealed that
Pauley had assisted the Prom com
mittee in getting Count Basie, and
in fact by securing for the commit
tee a lower price made possible
his booking for the Prom at all.
Libel charges dropped.
The charges against the pub
lishers of the libelous pamphlet
were reported dropped, though
Pauley suggested that before
literature of that kind is published
in the future it miirht be well to
check on the facts,
Those taking part in the con
ference other than Mr. Pauley,
were: Joyce Ayres, Student Union
director, Prof. K. F. Schramm,
member of faculty advisory com
mittee, Vincent Duflore, Para
mount Theaters, J. J. Marx, city
attorney, John Mason, president of
the Student Council, Jack Cole,
representative of Intei-fraternity
Council and Clyde Martz, editor
of DAILY.
The Gainsborough portrait of
Lord Jeffery Amherst has recently
been presented to Amherst college.
Business men
hold interviews
Seniors get hearings
thru Prof. Bullock
Case of the job coming to the
man instead of the man looking
for the job, will be a reality this
week when representatives from
at least three prominent business
firms will be here to interview
seniors who have prepared for a
business career, Prof. T. T. Bul
lock announced yesterday.
Monday, George F. B. Smith,
assistant vice-president of the
Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance
company of Hartford, Conn., will
meet with those who wish to enter
the insurance business.
K. G. Ellsworth, manager of the
Des Moines branch of the Aetna
Casualty and Surety company,
will meet on Wednesday with
graduates interested in that
branch of insurance.
The young men chosen by either
of the insurance feprenentatives
will be sent to Hartford for train
ing on a straight salary basis.
Students with ability along sales
and research lines will have an
opportunity to meet with John U.
Parker, representing the Ameri
can Rolling Mill company of Mid
dletown, O., who will be in Lin
coln Friday.
Appointment with any of these
men may be made with Prof. T.
T. Bullock in social sciences 306.
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be gathered in the main from the
resources of the university library.
A special feature of the program
will be the presentation, by the
Union, of a free book eacli week.
The student submitting the best
reference question preceding each
week's broadcast will receive a
free copy of a current, best-selling
book.
Members of the radio committee,
besides Btoady are Drs. L. T.
Laase, L. C. Wimberly, A. E.
Westbrook ; Profs. Raymond
Stack, F. C. Blood, George Round;
Joyce Ayres and Richard De
Brown, Chuck Miller, program di
rector for KFAB and KFOR and
Judd Wood, city manager of the
two stations.
Listening to the inaugural
broadcast from the faculty lounge
will be the committee, while the
radio in the Union lounge will be
tuned to the program for the bene
fit of students wishing to hear
the broadcast.
College installs president;
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delegate Irom LIJ attend
Representing the university,
Margaret L. Poller of Yankton,
S. D., who received her B. Mus.
degree here last year, will attend
the installation of Joseph Lyle
McCorison, jr., as the sixth presi
dent of Yankton college.
More than 500 colleges, univer
sities and church organizations are
expected to be represented at the
inauguration which will include an
address by Dr. Irving Maurer,
president of the North Central As
sociation of Colleges and Second
ary Schools and president of Beloit
college, Beloit, Wis.
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to an advanced flying school where they will take
a final ten weeks course for polishing up before
getting their second lieutenant's commissions and
their wings. These low wing monoplanes with a
450 horse power motor are used exclusively for
basic training.
A 2 Fair Board
selects junior
members al ilancc
The ag college senior fair board
picked Harold Bacon, Ben Alice
Day, Ruth Millar, Dale Theobald;
Betty Jeanne Spalding and Ray
Crawford as the junior fair board
at the annual prefair dance Satur
day.
Fashioned somewhat after the
selection of Mortar Boards, the
senior members walked solemnly
among the dancers, approached
the chosen members from behind,
threw a blindfold over their heads
and led them from the floor. After
a few minutes, they were taken
upon the stage and introduced to
the dancers.
Senior Couneil-
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served free of charge to all Coun
cil members. Prior to the dinner,
to be held at 6:15 on Thursday in
parlors A, B, and C of the Union,
an informal meeting will be held
in the faculty lounge for Council
members.
The Council's members must be
selected by Thursday of this week
with the list of organizations and
their quotas as follows: the presi
dent or senior representative of all
organized houses; one senior rep
resentative from each of the four
men's co-op houses; four senior
representatives from Raymond and
Love halls; and president of the
Student Council.
From the following, the presi
dent or senior representative;
Towne club, N club, Gauls, cam
pus Y, ag Y, Palladian. Delian
Union, WAA, and from the city
Y, two representatives.
All members of Innocents and
Mortar Board societies, eight sen
ior representatives from the Barb
Union, four seniors from the Ag
executive board, four from Engi
neering executive board, and four
senior representatives from the
Barh Council, will be Council
members.
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