PACK Til KIT. Fellman Lauds Profound Study of Fascism THE DAILY NEIHUSK AN. SUNDAY, DKCKMllKIt . 1937 REGENTS ACCEPT MAIOR CHANGES ROLL Coach Browne Takes Position Assistant Director Of Athletics. Author Borgese Delves Deeply IN T1IK IM'iKMAKY Dunne Harman, Weeping Water. Dismissed. John Hutchinson, Humboldt. Book 'Goliath' Declares Fascism Challenge to Democratic World. t ii.it In Old Italy for Origin of Creed Hi HI It I I I, I Ml Exiled Editor Explains Great c,ist wik.v- u cam.Vi , ,, , . the iMvniv. Ami in cloin mimcnce 01 uia Koine On Present Thought. Changes in the university fac ulty were approved by the board of regents Friday morning. They ac cepted the resignation, effective at the end of this semester, of Dr. T. Bruce Robb, chairman of the department of business research. Dr. Robb has been on leave since Feb. 1 to do work with the fed eral reserve bank of Kansas City. The board approved the retire ment at the end of the school year of A. K. Bunting, assistant pro fessor of practical mechanics. Pro fessor Bunting has been on the faculty of the college of engineer ing for 30 years, attaining; his present rank in 1914. W. H. Browne, head basketball coach, was named assistant di rector of athletics. Coach Browne also holds the academic rank of associate professor. Miss Martha Park, assistant professor of institution manage ment, was named to represent the college of agriculture on the stu dent union board in place of Miss Ruth Odell who is now teaching on the city campus. Student rep resentatives named to replace those who graduated were Morris Uipp of North Platte, Ruth Green of Fairbu.y and Mary Jane Hen dricks of Julesburg, Colo. AROUND AND ABOUT (Continued from Page I., Few boys refuse what's pushed out at them to use the incisive terms of vulgarity. One of the fundamental fac tors in boy's actions toward his feminine companion is his ' ego. This may and does manifest itself in everything from polished manners to very crude ad vances. It is this ego that leads some gents to press matters even when they have no very burning desires. As one lad puts it, "If they don't rate a certain arr junt of responsiveness, they think they're slipping." . . The men, as you know, have many weapons in their little game. One of the hardest for most inex perienced girls to defend them selves against is the term "good sport." Everyone wants to appear a good sport, yet for the sake of appearances many a coed has blotted her good name. If she committs herself all the way she falls Into a rut where she is ought out for nothing but more committment. If she has nothing whatever to say, a it were, her public may markedly dwindle. But if she, as do most gals, wants to be cool yet not cold, her situation is not much sim pler. Just as the problem of ice bergishness is peculiar to each girl, so is her eventual answer. Her temperature will undoubt edly vary from escort to escort. About the only thing to combat either over thawing or over chill ing with is realism. The icelx-rg situation can't be argued realistically in such termi nology as "double standard," "womanhood is sacred" and all that other rubbish. Realism is seeing things Just as they are no rosy optimism or hatas. no murky pessimism or forked tafia. So you, Quandaried Coed, mea sure for yourself, by facts. th core, the status quo, face your findings squarely, and then do as you damn weH please. But don't set out for either the north pole or the equator without hon estly charting the teas. You're the captain, after all. This is an old answer, you think. There it no new one. It sometimes happens, strangely enough, that old things are best. Daily Nebraskan MMfiK In In'ohi, N.wuvi. mln rt of roricrrm. Miirrft 8. t"7. t"4 ri't of fxiw prwi fuc tu won, ItU. rt of ! , 117, -jHr.r vr: BY DR. DAVID FELLMAN. O. A. Hnrsi-v, "Oc.lluth: The Mnrrh of Faorlnin" Ylkln, pp. 4HH. Hiiok rvvtrw by lr. Ilnvlil l-Yllnmn nf iiw mi lltlnil rcIi-ihy ftirully At flip l'tilv'rlly of Nrtirmtkn. All will agree that in this troubled ami confused world of ours, the thoughtful person has an obligation to acquire nn under standing of that astounding mod ern development labelled fascism. Fascism is the great modern chal lenge to the democratic system and to the pence of the world, and one who is interested in liberty and peace must seek to understand their contemporary alternatives. Such an understanding will be found in this extraordinary book by G. A. Borgese. Professor Borgese is a polished and distinguished man of letters. writing now at ttie height of his literary powers. Formerly pro fessor of aesthetics at the Univer sity of Milan, and literary editor of uaiy s greatest newspaper, me i Corriere della Sera, he is now pro fessor at the University of Chi cago. He is. self -exiled from Italy, belonging to a small group of free spirits who find it debasing to live under the heel of a dictatorship, where one must conform to the j dictatorial pattern to live at all. ' Indeed, from our point of view, j it is' one of the happy results of , European tyranny that men like Borgese have come here, to en rich our culture with the ma turity and spiritual richness of their own. "Goliath" is not just another book on the much-discussed sub ject of fascism. It is not merely another collection of facts and re criminations. It is, rather, a pro found study of the inner forces of Italian history. And it is writ ten with wit and charm and elo quence, by one who has added to a well-recognized mastery of the Italian language an extraordinary English prose style. In short. "Go- liath-' is a true literary event, and will be appreciated as literature, as well as for its political and historical acumen. Professor Borgese delves deeply into the innermost recesses of Ital ian history and culture to trace the origins of fascism. One source he the old universal Roman empire, a dream formulated at an early time by such men as Dante and Rienzi and nourished ever since by lead ing Italian writers and intellectu als. Too many of the Italian upper classes have had the habit of look ing backward at the ancient domi nation of Rome, rather than for ward to a civilized adjustment in a modern world. Another root of fascism Borgese finds in the wor ship of political power, as exenv plified in the practices of the me- Jieval Italian tyrants, and as given immortal literary expression by Macniavelu. Still another source he finds in the anarchistic spirit of individual sell -realization at all costs, as ex pounded in the works of such men as Max S timer and Sorel, and as exemplified in such egoistic lives as that of D Annunzio. Finally, liorgese nas a great deal to say about the Italian habit of national self-abasement, a sort of national inferiority complex, for which fas cism is both a compensation and an atonement. Upon these funda-' mental forces does the super structure of the fascist political system rest. Borgese shows very clearly that modern Italy has another tradition, the tradition of the Risorgimento of Maizini and Garibaldi. This is the tradition of popular government and peace, of liberalism and prog ress, born out of a respect for the integrity of the individual personality. These noble ideals of tolerance and patriotic! i, which are so well adapted to the needs of our modern world, have been put to rout by the storm and stress, the intolerance and brutality, the intrasigent nation alism, of Mussolini's tyranny. What, in brief, is Fascism? It is not a simple thing, capable of exact and succint definition. It comprehends a suppression of free dom of inquiry after the truth, the regimentation of labor, the aboli tion '' the normal democratic pisiante-s jf individual liberty. f " n vl I'imfYtfT- ' 4 courtwy Unroin journal. DR. DAVID A. FELLMAN. Fascism is dictatorship, the tyran ny of a party, the unchallenged leadership of an individual leader. The freedom of a whole nation is destroyed that one single man, Mussolini, may exercise a complete and anarchial freedom of this su preme anarchist. Finally, and above all, Borgese shows that fas- Sumniary 1. Arthur Borgese, professor exiled from Italy, "found it de basing to live under heel of fascism," writes brilliantly , 2. Origin of fascism. 3. Italy has a tradition of liberty and peace, now check mated by Mussolini. 4. Answers: "What is fas cism?" 5. Denounces fascist belief in war. cism is a war system, glorifying war not as a regrettable but un avoidable necessity, but as n good thing in itself, and converting a whole country into a military bar racks. Borgese has some interesting things to say about Mussolini's fa mous allegation that war is ; good thing because it brings up to their highest tension the noblest quali ties of man. He writes: "No im perative reason deprives of alter natives the doctrine contending that the game of killing fellow men is the exclusive test of human gallantry; even supposing that there is real gallantry in the wretched lad who, enlisted under compulsory conscription, leaps on the foe, with the real purpose of fleeing forward to grasp in th: enemy trench the spare chance of life which he would miss altogether if he turned his back to the 'enemy,' thereupon to face a firing squad of his own brothers." And he goes on to say: "The j , only lesson of history is that j : even if nature made us wicked j and foolish, it is the calling of man ard his obstinate purpose I thru the ages to master nature, 1 ! not to fawn upon it, to fight I against death, not to reap its i harvest." The highest expres- I l sion of human power, Borgese j contends, is not military power i and empire, but rather "perfec- i tion in human love." j Borgese's "Goliath" is hot mere-1 ly a treatise in history and sociol- j ogy. It is a moving manifesto, in brilliant and stirring language. proclaiming the proper concern of man, which is man. It pitilessly at- j tacks the mysticism and obscuran-! tism, the ro'nantic nonsense and j mmriscs las- the war to , l!or- gore curries on not merely tor tlni Italian exile, but for us ;'. ell. His niggle is us old as the hills, the struggle for iiui'ian !i:edmi, for decency mul toleration, tor civ ilization itself. 10 OF Language Students View French Film Version I Saturday, Dec. 11. "Pasteur." the French movie version of the American picture, "The Life of Iiuis Pasteur," will , be presented to French language ! students at the Varsity theater, , Saturday morning, Dec. 11, at 10 i o'clock. j The picture was directed by I Sacha Guitry, foremost French stage character, who also portrays j the part of Pasteur in the film. Action in the picture is easily ; followed as the sequence is almost exactly the same as the run of the American version. Any student selling 20 tickets to the movie will receive a free ticket. fi ii M coffee ft Ihe Whit Hiiaw. S. K. 11. M4r with 'tetn equipment, g-irft errant. Open all irinler rnirni iiw'ffe. 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