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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.
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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
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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.
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BY DR. DAVID FELLMAN.
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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.
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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.
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