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Vol. 40, No. 141
Lincoln, Nebraska Wednesday, May 14, 1941
Federal ROTC inspection starts today
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Beginning today with classroom
and practical examination of all
three units in the ROTC brigade,
this year's annual federal Inspec
tion will run through Thursday
and Friday, Col. C. A. Thuis, com
mandent of cadets, announced.
Results of the Inspection will de
termine whether Nebraska will re
ceive the "honor school rating"
given on a basis of training, ap
pearance and facilities. The rat
ing has been won for the past ten
years. In fact, no one in the mili
tary department can remember
the last time Nebraska failed to
get the honor.
Visiting officers who will con
duct the inspection include Col.
C. A. Ba?by, University of Iowa
and Lieut. Col. M. E. Craig, Uni
versity of Wyoming of the infan
try; Lieut. Col. P. Winlock, Iowa
State, field artillery; Col. Ray
mond W. Briggs, field artillery,
Seventh corps area, Omaha, ad
ministrative inspection, and Lieut.
Col. Lewis C. Gordon, Missouri
School of Mines, of the engineers.
Highlight of the three day in
spection will be the parade and re
view of all cadets Thursday after
noon at 3 p. m. The brigade has
been preparing lor tnis event tor
over a month in four parades
which have preceeded the inspec
tion. Thursday's parade will be fol-
Philosophy prof
Patterson
says
important for happy marriage
"How can two neoDle ever come
to believe in each other unless
they can believe in something
else," said Dr. Charles Patterson,
teacher of philohophy, speaking at
the last of the marriage series
sponsored by Mortar Board and
YWCA.
biect vester-
Dr. Fatterson's
aay yvas iwugiuu m uie nuiuc.
He said that religion can not solve
all
I.ruuiemu in me immc um. ...
contributes a great deal.
The large number of divorces
Indicates that something is wrong
and the possible answer is that
they need to have more belief in
Soils research
professor dies
early Tuesday
Prof. Frank Hayes of the con
servation and survey division of
the university and chief inspector
of the central states region soil
survey died early Tuesday morn
ing. His death
apparently re
sulted from a
heart attack, as
he was ill only
a few minutes.
A recognised
authority in his
field and one of
the foremost
soil men in the
United States,
Mr. Hayes was
49. His research
in soil conser
vation brought
great credit to
the university.
Mr. Hayes
Lincoln Journal.
Prof. Hayet.
was born in Hardy, Neb. He grad
uated from Superior high school,,
and attended UN. Graduating as
a bachelor of science in 1913, he
took his master's degree in '16
and his doctor's in '36. He has
been with the university ever
since.
Besides being a member of the
Lancaster lodge of the Masons, he
was a member of Sigma Xi, hon
orary scientific fraternity.
Surviving are his wife, three
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daughters, Harriet, Margaret and rected in action by a co-ordinator,
Marrilyn; his parents, a sister and who will also preside at Joint meet
a brother. Ings of Barb Interhouse Council
Results show school rating
lowed by an Inspection for appear
ance of cadets. The band is to be
inspected on the athletic" field
Senior Council
meets Thursday
Last meeting of the Senior
Council will be held Thursday
in the Student Union, begin
ning at 7:30 in parlors X and Y.
The meeting will be of special
importance to all members and
Senior Class President John
McDermott urges all members
to make a special effort to at
tend the final meeting.
Wong missed appointment
yesterday, speaks today
Tho he miscued his appointment
schedule by a half hour yesterday
Wallace Wong, dean of the West
China Union Theological college.
enroute to the orient will stay over
" pf" Fci-,ai
Union forum on "China Her
West" at 4 p. m. today in the fac
ulty lounge.
Wong, a graduate of the West
China college has been in this
religion
very
in last conference
each other. The imnetus for this
belief may by supplied by religion,
Everyone has a capacity for wor-
ship and if this is developed it can
be a means of greater nappiness,
he continued.
Semifinal round of the interfra
nengion tenas to impress one
with the supreme worth of the
individual and so to teach nponlo
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ii nave uruuur respeci u-r eacn
other. The individual must have
a viu iu uie one wnom
he married or there can be only
arguments and strife.
"Religion is Loyalty."
One definition of religion which
Dr. Patterson said was particu
larly applicable was "religion is
(See MARRIAGE, page 3)
Barbs reorganize program set-up;
Dafoe resigns as Union president
By Marjorle May. and Barb Union. Fourteen mem
Barb Council organization and bers wil1 selected for this new
powers underwent drastic changes council as follows:
last night when a Joint meeting of Five members selected by Barb
the Barb Interhouse Council and
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Barb Union voted to accept a pro
posal submitted by Bill Dafoe and
modified by various amendments.
At the same meeting, before the
motion was passed, Dafoe resigned
as president of Barb Union, giv
ing his reason the fact that he did
not want to accept the responsi
bility for the actions of a rejuve
nated Barb Council or for the ac
tions of the Barb Union.
A conference committee com-
Twiqpfl at twrt Holcp-ntpfi from Rnrh
Onion Interhouse Council, and
Barb Council and one delegate
from the Barb Activities Board
for Women drew up the accepted
plan which modified the program
Dafoe presented at a joint meet
ing last week.
Reapportionment.
The new plan will primarily re-
apportion the representation of
Barb Council and set up commit
tees, which will be guided and di-
where the parade will be held; the
other units will march to the malls
after the parade for inspection.
According to present plans, the
infantry regiment will form for
inspection on Memorial mall, fac
ing east. The Engineer battalion
will be inspected on the mall cast
of Nebraska hall, facing east, and
the dismounted batteries of the
Field Artillery will be inspected
on the athletic field. The motor
ized battery will be inspected at
Oak Creek park.
Federal inspectors will enter the
regular, classrooms today, tomor-
row and Friday and will quiz Btu-
dents on the military science
(See INSPECT, page 2)
country two years while he took
work at the Union Theological
seminary in New York.
A native of the West China riis-
trict, Wong has had personal ex-
yenenuea in war iom v-nina, ana
reports that five refugee universi
ties are guests of his school at the
present time.
At the forum he will give a pic
ture of the war situation in China
from the economic, educational,
and political viewpoint. He intends
to make no particular statement,
but will explain how Japan can
never win against China.
Flies to Interior.
Due to the war situation he will
(See WONG, page 3)
DU, ZBT
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ternity debate tournament sched-
uied for last nieht has been cost-
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Pned untl1 Thursday, H. A. White,
riphnto rnaoh onnmin woofer,
jay Debating' teams in this round
are Delta Uosilon and Zeta Beta
rau
The two teams will meet at 7
p. m. Thursday at the DU chap
ter house, with Delta Upsilon tak
ing the affirmative side. Winner
will compete against Sigma Alpha
mii in uk iinais next ween.
Union four members from Inter-
union, tour tnemDers xrom uuer
nouse council, two memDcrs rrom
BABW, including the president;
four members elected by the barb
student body; and the barb co-or-dinator.
The function of the joint
meetings of the Interhouse Coun
cil and the Union will be to carry
out the political, organizational,
athletic, and the barb paper, If
'Awgwan may be
on stands ths
WCCk'-FHscllCr
Declaring that all local editorial
copy has been prepared for over
a week, heads of the Awgwan
r,n,. a aj that i
& moil aiiiiuuiivc:j iuuajr uiab j.au-
ure of national inserts to arrive
in Lincoln has delayed circulation
of this month's magazine.
"It will be a one day job once
tho Inserts arrive," George Frisch-
er. FlaBh editor, said. "Thcv should
be here in time to have this
month's issue ready by the end of
the week."
Intervention triumphed on the Nebraska campus yesterday as
57 per cent of the 207 members of the faculty polled by the DAILY
NEBRASKAN supported "All Out Aid to Britain not necessarily
short of war." Of these 9 percent feeling our participation essential,
advocated an immediate declaration of belligerency by the United
States.
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Our present policy of aiding Britain where possible without
getting into the war ourselves was supported by 30 percent of the
questionnaire signers while 13 percent favored an Isolationist policy
whereby we would retreat from our present position.
The questionnaire was distributed last Friday following the cir
culation of a petition by an inter-
Ag students
choose hoard
memberships
Ag students went to the polls
yesterday afternoon to elect mem-
bers for the Farmers air JtJoara,
&, sini Council. Coll-Aerri-Fun
Board to serve on those com
mittees for the coming year.
Newly elected members of the
Farmer Fair Board are Harold
Bacon, Orris Corman, Raymond
Crawford, Ellen Wilkins, Betty
Jeanne Spaulding, and Ruth Millar.
In charge of the Ag Social Coun-
cil next year will be Florence Ha-
m senior woman; Norman
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Krause, junior man; Willard Vi-
sek, sophomore man; and Lorene
Bennett, sopnomore woman.
Members named to posts on the
,i . . n v. j r..,i v,f
Coll-Agri-Fun board were Dwight
Sloan, Warren Sahs, and Janice
Marshall.
The old members of these boards
relinquished their offices today
after the election results were re
vealed. All ag students voted in
yesterday's election.
Weaver gets
research award
at Chicago V
v . i J' . a v vr
hi" AB degree in 1939 and his MA
in 1940 f the uniVersitv. has
in 1940 from the university, has
been awarded the John M. Coulter
research fellowship to the Univer
sity of Chicago for next year,
George Works, dean of students
and chairman of the committee on
fellowships, announced yesterday.
The award was made in the de
partment of botany in the division
of biological sciences.
there is one, to co-operate with
the reorganized Barb Council.
Barb co-ordinator.
The office of barb co-ordinator
will direct and be responsible for
carTymg 0Ul "f acuviues JI
variou8 committees, according
carrying out the activities of the
o
Dafoe's plan. In this way the po
litical, social, and organizational
powers will be centralized in one
body (the new Barb Council) and
more or less in one person, the co
ordinator. Present functions of the BABW,
Barb Union, and Interhouse Coun
cil will not be hampered inasmuch
as the new council and the co-ordinator
will unite only those af
fairs in which all barb students
and organizations are affected.
'Not my worries. .
In resigning from his new post,
Dafoe stated:
"I do not wish to take the re
sponsibility of what happens in
barb affairs. Since the Barb
.
union
president is inevitably
blamed for all actions taken, I ten
der my resignation."
Before resieTiin?. Dafoe reDcat-
m hU nlan for a barb co-ordinator
to ke selected by Barb Interhouse
rw....-': riarh TTninn w v.
v&inei his program, answered
(See BARB, page 3)
ventionalist group among the fac
ulty seeking support of the aid to
England not necessarily short of
war attitude by our Congress.
In a letter accompanying the
questionnaire, Clyde Martz, editor
of the NEBRASKAN explained
that the memorial being circulated
by the faculty was permitting only
two choices; either a member of
that faculty could sign and there-
oy uppor.
. . . notir.r.i
Since the question of interven
tion, aid to Britain, relative iso- .
lationism or pacifism is of im
mence importance to every
American, Martz declared the
NEBRASKAN would give every
person interested a chance to
express his stand.
And to avoid any opportunity
of pressure or the fear of a rep
etition of the persecutions of
1917-18 influencing a faculty
member's mind, the petitions
were left unsigned.
Results of the questionnaire may
be sent to Washington, to the
Congressmen and Senators from
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(See POLL, page 4)
Former prof
in law speaks
at Indiana U
Former member of the univer
sity law school faculty, Dr. Roscoe
Pound, until recently dean of the
Harvard law school, spoke last
week at Indiana university in con
nection with his new duties with
Harvard university as "roving
dean."
In addition to his world renown
as a legal authority, he is a
philosopher, botanist and sociolo
gist, an authority on Free-masonry,
the Civil war, an eminent
Latin scholar and an accomplished
linguist.
Dr. Pound has received honor
ary degrees from 17 univeristies,
including the Univeristy of Cam
bridge and the University of Ber
lin. He retired as dean of the Har
vard law school in 1936 and was
the first to be appointed as "rov
ing" professor under a new plan
of Harvard university, in which a
professor must have interests wida
enough to lecture in various fields.
His topics which he has and
will discuss on the Indiana cam
pus are "Social Control Through
Politicially Controlled Organized
Society," "Civilization and Social
Control," "What is Law," "The
Task of Law," and "The Problem
of Values."
Oberlender
heads language
honorary
To elect officers and formulate
a- teuative program for next year,
members of Phi Sigma Iota, ro
mance langauage honorary re
cently held their last meeting of
this year. Mercedes Oberlender,
senior, was chosen president.
Speaker for the program was
Malcolm Hayes who gave a bio-
graphical sketch of Don Eugeni
juausue nuaiuo, a ui la awivo.ii pa
triot, educator and writer. Among
Hostos' well-known works is
"Problems of International Law."
Other officers chosen to take
office next fall are: Mildred Wolfe,
vice president; Esther aPtterson,
secretary-treasurer; Prof, llilario
Saenz, corresponding secetary.