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Student1 opinion split
on U.S. foreign policy
No. 10
JOE BELDEN
Student Opinion Survey of America
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AUSTIN, Tex. March 1. American foreign policy has
flared in headlines recently with President Rooseevclt's an
nouncement that the United States is helping the democracies
of the world keep in stride in the
European arms race. American
public opinion approves, 3 to 2,
according to the Gallup poll. But
college students are pretty well
divided on the issue.
By the very slim majority of 2.8
percent, American collegians last
week voted in favor of selling war
planes to democracies and not to
dictatorships, it is pointed out in
a national referendum conducted
by the Student Opinion Surveys of
America for the Daily Nebraskan
and other co-operating college
newspapers.
Student Apprehension.
Altho students have been found
usually more liberal in their views
than the average citizen, this time
they have registered their opin
ions in the closest poll of the 24
subjects used to date by the Stu
dent Opinion Surveys. Perhaps
students are more apprehensive of
the fact that if such a policy leads
this country into war within the
next few years they will be among
the first to be called to the front.
The question asked of a care
1 selected cross section every
over the nation was, "Do
you approve of the United States
selling planes to the socalled dem
ocratic countries and not to the
socalled dictator countries?"
Approve 52. 8 "l
Disapprove 4T.2"i
As January ended the president
blankly told the senate military
affairs committee that the United
States should aid Britain and
France in thwarting the objectives
of the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo axis.
Shortly before it had been disclos
ed that with the president's bless
ing France had been sold 600 lat
est type military planes.
Students who agree with the
president state that the democra
cies must stay together at any
cost in stemming the tide of fasc
ism. Others believe the sale of air
craft will help economically and
will aid the industry.
On the other hand the majority
of those opposing say we should
sell war materials to no one be
cause strained relations and en
tanglements are sure to be the
outcone. Almost none at all fa
vored jelling planes to the dicta
tors to the exclusion of democra
cies. Dividing the ballots section
ally, the middle Atlantic, west cen
tral, and southern states showed
approval of the question more
than other sections by a few per
centage points,
Council seeks
Ag opinion
Wonts student feeling
on intercampus bus line
Initiating the movement to ob
tain an intercampus bus line be
tween the city campus and ag
campus, questionnaires will be dis
tributed soon on Ag campus by
the student council to find what
ag campus students think of the
idea.
Preliminary investigation show
ed that the cost of one to two and
a half dollars per week for inter
campus transportation was prob
ably the biggest reason for dis
approval of the present city trac
tion system. The fact that ag col
lege students pay 3 a semester
as a Student Union fee and then
pay so much extra in carfare to
use the Union entered the reason
ing too.
Tardiness resulting from having
to get from one campus to another
between two consecutive classes
was the third factor given for the
dislike or the present system.
High school class
gives recital at 4
Violin, cello, piano,
voice numbers feature
Advanced high school students
from the school of music will be
heard in recital today at 4 o'clock
in the Temple theater.
Numbers for 'cello, violin, piano
and voice will be featured, includ
ing the difficult Rachmaninoff
"Pollchenelle, for piano, played
by Betty Jean Horner. Mildred
Claire Fteadrich, soprano, will
sing the popular "Villanelle." by
Del Aqua, and Josephine Welch,
'cellist, will be heard in a novelty
number, "A la Gltare," by Gruen-berg.
Music groups
bring Gordon
quartet to uni
Delta Omicron, Sigma
Alpha lota to sponsor
'string program Sunday
Sponsored jointly by Sigma Al
pha Iota and Delta Omicron, mus
ical sororities, the Gordon string
quartet, accclaimed by New York
critics as excellent both technically
and expressively, will appear in
the Union ballroom at 3:30 o'clock
Sunday afternoon.
The quartet is famous for its
rendition of Beethoven's quartet in
E flat, Opus 127. During the 1936-
37 musical season, the quartet ap
peared four times in New York
city's Town hall, played to "stand
ing room only" nouses. Headlines
following the performances ran
"Beethoven gets a new deal from
Gordon string quartet."
Here the quartet will play a
Drocram or selected cnamDer
music. Tickets are available in the
Union office.
YWC A begins
social work
Miss Osborne directs
new staff for service
Working in collaboration with
the university graduate school of
social work, the new social service
staff of the Y. W. C. A. has been
inaugurated under the leadership
of Mary Ellen Osborne.
i The staff has been organized
due to the feeling that the univer
sity Y. W. C. A. rhould give more
service to the community. The aim
is to give enjoyment and enter
tainment to dependent children in
various Lincoln institutions.
According to Miss Osborne, in
terviews have been held with di
rectors of Tabitha home, the Or
thopedic hospital, the new South
west community center, and White
halL the state home for dependent
children. Visits by members of the
social service staff will begin next
week, each girl devoting one after
noon a week to this project.
Block, Bridle club
shows famed bull
Leland Copple exhibits
champ steer at Ag today
Mercer, International Grand
Champion steer of 1939, will be
the feature attraction of a one
bull show Friday morning from
10:30 to 12:30 o'clock in the judg
ing pavilion of Animal Husbandry
hall.
His bullish honor, who brought
$5,000 to his 14 year old former
mistress on an original $G0 pur
chase cost, is touring the country
in the custody of Leland Copple,
ag college graduate of 1934 and
ex-Husker gridman. The Block
find Bridle club, which claims
Copple ns'an alum, is sponsoring
the Champ s appearance here.
The Illinois born and bred beef
on the hoof was purchased from
Irrne Brown, the 4-H Club girl
who raised him from a youngster,
by n tire company which wished
to show the International Grand
Chnmpion steer to other 4-H girls
nnd boys, and farmers to Inspire
them to such heights of achieve
ment. Along with the exhibit of bull
will be shown a motion picture
dealing with rubber in modern
farm operations nnd a display of
modern farm machinery.
Union offers buffet
suppers for students
Union officials announced today
that starting Sunday buffet sup
pers will be served in parlors A,
B and C from 5:30 to 7 o'clock.
The suppers, which will cost 35
cents, will be open to all students.
Service on Sunday In the fac
ulty dining room will bo discon
tinued in favor of the new meal
program.
The Official Newspaper of More Than 6,000 Students
VOL. XXXVIII, NO. 98.
Players close
f38-39 season
in 'Tovarich'
Popular drama opens
March 14; cast to be
announced this week
The University Players will
present as their final production
of the current season, the well-
known French drama, "Tovarich."
The play will open March 14 and
continue through March 18. Se
lection of the entire cast will be
completed this week.
Tovarich was written by Jac
ques Deval, noted French novelist
and dramatist. It was adapted for
American presentation by Robert
E. Sherwood, leading New York
playwright. Originally produced
in Paris in October, 1933, the play
ran 800 straight periormances.
Since then, it has been produced
in virtually every European town
and city.
Hitler Saw Tovarlch.
During the long run of the play
in Berlin, friends of Adolph Hitler
urged him to attend, according to
John Gunther's "Inside Europe."
Hitler, after checking into the
background of the author, saw the
play and liked it so well that he
saw it three times, which fact
should not be held against the
play.
The plot concerns the adven
tures of an exiled Cossack general
and a Russian Grand Duchess in
Paris. Deval did not regard the
play 83 an especially good one and
waited until the opening scenes
were in production before writing
the final scenes.
A movie version of the play was
recpnllj produced in Hollywood
with Claudette Colbert and
Charles Boyer in the leading roles.
Doane man talks
at Sunday vespers
Gene Erion to describe
Saint Sofia cathedral .
Gene Erion, student at Doane
college, w'll be featured as guest
speaker for the Lincoln Cathedral
choir vesper service Sunday at
5:30 o'clock in the Cornhusker
ballroom.
Erion will have as his subject
"The Cathedral of St. 'Sofia.'
which is located at Constantinople,
and Is the great church of the
Mohammedan religion. With the
service centered about this faith,
the choir will sing numbers appro
priate t othe occasion.
Houghton Furr, junior in the
university, will be guest organist.
Collins to tell seminar
about colors of stars
Prof. C. C. Collins of the mathe
matics and astronomy department
will speak to the mathematics
seminar group today on the "Color
Excess of Certain Stars." The
meeting will be at 2 o'clock in the
observatory. Visitors are welcome.
Rag story stirs conscience,
three stolen books returned
Someone's guilty conscience was
stirred by yesterday's DAILY
NEBRASKAN article about the
17 books stolen from the Student
Union "Book Nook."
A package in brown wrapping
paper and tied with store string,
found yesterday in the faculty
lounge of the Union, contained
three of the missing books.
Slogum House, Tha Autobiog
raphy of Clarence Darrow, and
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"X &Y
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Lincoln Journal.
DR. EARL H. BELL.
. . "eyes on Nebraska"
Dr. Bell talks
to Rotarians
Professor recounts
advance of archaeology
Dr. E. H. Bell of the depart
ment of sociology, in a speech be
fore the Omaha Rotary club Wed
nesday noon, pointed out the rise
of Nebraska from the bottom of
the field of archaeological study
to a place of leadership during
the last ten years.
"Ten years ago," Dr. Bell stated,
"no professional archaeologist
could have spoken on the subject
of the archaeology of Nebraska or
even of that immense area called
the great plains. Today Nebraska
has taken her rightful position as
one of the most important states,
archaeologically. The eyes of the
scientific world have been focused
upon her."
Jaw Bone Drws Attention.
Recent discovery in Nebraska
of the jaw bone of a human skele
ton believed 20,000 years old and
other relics of the prehistoric age
have established the state as one
of the richest archoeological re
gions on the continent.
"Largely thru the efforts of Dr.
Robert F. Gilder, Nebraska's pi
oneer archaeologist, the university
under the leadership of Chancel
lor E. A. Burnett, supported by
Dr. E. H. Barbour. Dean C. H.
Oldfather and Dr. J. O. Hertzlcr,
added archaeology to the univer
sity curriculum ten years ago,"
Dr. Bell added.
Orchesis starts work
on annual spring recital
Orchesis, girls' dancing club,
has started work on its annual
spring recital to be given April
29. The program will be along new
lines, with original small group
dances, solos and two large groups.
Miss Shirley Bennett, adviser of
the club, is composing one of the
large dances and the other waa
planned by Miss Claudia Moore,
member of the faculty last year
Meetings and practices will be
held at the regular meeting times
on Wednesday at 7 o'clock.
Horse and Buggy Doctor again
line the shelves of the Book Nook,
but the 14 other books are still
"checked out."
Mrs. Vera Mae Yinger, social
director of the Union, revealed the
finding and stated that "no ques
tions will be asked of anyone re
turning additional books. The
method of return is optional," she
added, "and the more original and
mysterious, the better."
TI1UKSDAY, MARCH 2, 1939
PBK's to hear
labor problem
evolution
Professor C. 0. Swayzee
addresses honorary
at Wednesday session
Nebraska chapater of Phi Beta
Kappa will meet for a dinner in
Union Parlors XYZ Wednesfiay,
March 8, at 6:15, with Prof. C. O.
Swayzee present as principal
speaker. His subject will be "Evo
lution in Labor Problems."
Professor Swayzee made a se
ries of investigations for the di
rectors of the Bureau of Labor
in 1935, and has assisted the bu
reau on numerous occasions since
1934 in the setting up of the un
employment division. The labor
expert is now giving courses at
the university in industrial rela
tions and general labor problems.
Dr. James Wadsworth will pre
side at the dinner, which will in
clude about 60 members and their
guests.
Debaters try
for trip team
4 best tonight travel
to Chicago in April
Tryouts to select four men for
the Chicago debate trip in April
will be held this evening at 7:30
o'clock in U. hall. "Resolved that
collective action of the world's
democracies is necessary to guar
antee survival," is the topic to be
discussed by the competitors.
Affirmative speakers trying out
are: Ewald D. Warnsholz, Charles
C. Spann, Don Nemetz, Ernest
Wintroub, Wendell Basye and Sam
Kirshenbaum. Negative speakers
will be James L. Armstrong,
Frank Day. Eugene H. Curtiss,
Calvin Rollins and Paul Bstandig.
Each speaker will speak eight
minutes with the exception of the
first affirmative who will speak
five and then have a three minute
rebuttal. Four men will be chosen
bythree judges, irrespective of
sides.
The two teams chosen from this
group will compromise tho inter
collegiate debaters who will repre
sent Nebraska the remainder of
the season.
Pfeiler speaks
to Comenius club
Tomorrow's topic is
Czech-German crisis
Dr. William Pfeiler, former Ger
man citizen and member of the
German army during the World
war, now a member of the Ger
man department here, will speak
on the Czech-German situation at
the Commenius club at 7 o'clock
tomorrow in room 215 of tha
Union. The Commenius club is
made up of students of Czech
descent.
Dr. Pfeiler was in the Sudeten
region just before the Czech-German
crisis last fall, making a tour
of Germany and Czechoslovakia.
His talk will include a discussion
of the national socialistic govern
ment of Germany, as seen by an
American in Germany.
Peg Hunt discusses
British foreign policy
Peg Hunt, arts and science jun
ior, will lead a discussion on "Eng
land's Appeasement Policy" at the
bimonthly meeting of the Inter
national Relations club tonight.
Discussion on Britain's affairs
and other current events will fol
low a 6 o'clock dinner at the
Grand hotel. Those who have al
ready paid for their meals else
where may come at 6:30 when the
discussion begins.