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Fellman Lauds Profound Study of Fascism
THK DAILY NEBK ASK AN. SUMUY. DKCKMHF.H .. 1937
REGENTS ACCEPT
IJI
R CHANGES
FACULTY
ROLL
Coach Browne Takes Position
Assistant Director
Of Athletics.
Author Borgese Delves Deeply
In Old Italy for Origin of Creed
li THK 1M SiniAHY
Dunne Harman, Weeping
Water.
Dismissed.
J-Min Hutchinson, Humboldt.
Book 'Goliath' Declares
Fascism Challenge to
Democratic World.
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. E. 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 Fark, 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
Lipp of North Flatte, Ruth Green
of Fairbu.y and Mary Jane Hen
dricks of Julcsburg, Colo.
AROUND AND ABOUT
(Continued from Fage 1.;
Few boys refuse what's pushed out
at them to use the incisive terms
of vulgarity.
One of the fundamental fac
tors in a 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 dont rate a certain amount
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." Kveryone 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
sought out for nothing but more
committment. Tf she has nothing
whatever to say, as 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
qirl, so is her eventual answer.
Her temperature will undoubt
edly vary 'rom escort to escort.
About the only thing to combat
either over thawing or over chill
ing with is realism.
The Iceberg 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 halns, no murky
pessimism or forked tails.
So you, Quandaried Coed, mea
sure for yourself, by facts, the
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, rtranqely
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 and confused world of
ours, the thoughtful person has
an obligation to acquire an under
standing of that astounding mod
ern development labelled fascism.
Fascism is the great modern chal
lenge to the democratic system and
to the peace 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
Italy's greatest newspaper, the
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
dictatorial pattern to live at all.
Indeed, from our point of view, i
it is' one of the happy results of j
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 bp 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 exem
plified in the practices of the me
dieval Italian tyrants, and as given
immortal literary expression by
Machiavelli.
Still another source he finds in
the anarchistic spirit of individual
self -realization at all costs, as ex
pounded in the works of such men
as Max Stirner and Sorel, and as
exemplified in such egoistic lives
as that of D'Annunzio. Finally,
Borgese has 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 hat another
tradition, the tradition of the
Risorgimento of Mazzini and
Garibaldi. This it 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 patriotism,
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 i tyranny,
What, in brief, is Fascism? It
is not a simple thing, capable of
exact and suceint definition. It
comprehends a suppression of free
dom of inquiry after the truth, the
regimentation of labor, the anon
lion of the normal democratic
guarantees of individual liberty
On Present Thought.
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DR. OAVID A. FELLMAN,
Summary
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
Fascism is dictatorship, the tyran-
y of a party, the unchallenged
adership of an individual leader,
he freedom of a whole nation is
destroyed that one single man,
Mussolini, may exercise a complete
nd anarcmal freedom of this su
preme anarchist, finally, and
a bove all, Borge se shows that fas-
balderdMsh. that comprises fas-
Exiled Editor Explains Great c,isl i''k.v. u carries me w,.r to
' the eivmv. And in doing so. llor-
InflllCnCe Of Old ROme S'-re curries on not merely foi th,)
Italian exile, but for us ell.
His struggle is as old ns the hills,
I the struggle for huii.in lieed-m,
cism is a war system, glorifying i for decency hihI toleration, lor civ
war not as a regrettable butun- I ili.ati on itself.
avoidable necessity, but as a good :
thing in itself, and converting a
whole country into a military bar-'
racks. i
Borgese has some interesting!
things to say about Mussolini's fa
mous allegation that war is fl good j
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 i
there is real gallantry in the
wretched lad who, enlisted under ;
romntllsorv ennserintion leflns on
the foe, with the real purpose of ve,'sion of lhc American picture,
fleeing forward to grasp in the "The Life of Louis Pasteur." will
enemy trench the spare chance of , he presented to French language
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French Film Version
Saturday, Dec. 11.
"Pasteur." the French movto
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
only lesson of history is that
even if nature made us wicked
and foolish, it is the calling of
man ard his obstinate purpose
thru the ages to master nature,
not to fawn upon it, to fight
against death, not Co reap its
harvest." The Kghest expres
sion of human power, Borgese
contends, is not military power
and empire, but rather "perfec
tion in human love."
Borgese's "Goliath" is not mere
ly a treatise in history and sociol
ogy. It is a moving manifesto, in
brilliant and stirring language,
proclaiming the proper concern of
man, which is man. It pitilessly at
tacks the mysticism and obscuran
tism, the romantic nonsense and
Saturday morning, Dec. 11, at 10
o'clock.
The picture was directed hy
Sacha Guitry, foremost French
stage character, who also portrays
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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