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Official Newspaper Of More Than 7,000 Students
VOL. XXXIX, IMO. 3
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I III KSDVV. SKI'TKMKUK 21. 1939
University commences 70th year
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Roosevelt
Republicans
demand war
congress
F.D.R. opponents want
session to keep going
so long as clash exists
By Woerner and Steele.
In an apparent attempt to split
the republicans and brand those
who oppose him as men who will
not forget partisan differences in
time of great national stress,
President Roosevelt ycsterdiy call
ed a unity conference of leading re
publicans and democrats to dis
cuss neutrality. Prominent among
those invited were Lnndon and
Knox, titular heads of the repub
lican party.
Many republican leaders, prob
ably a great majority, oppose re
peal of the arms embargo provi
sion of (he present neutrality act,
but Landon in reportedly in favor
of removal of practically all re
straints upon trade with bellige
rents. Thus Roosevelt may try to
use Landon as a club to force his
republican foes in congress into
line.
Congress would check F. D. R.
The republicans in turn are de
manding that congress remain in
session as long as a major war
exists in Europe. Congress, they
hope, may prove to be a much
needed check upon the president
with all his power to involve the
U. S. in war.
The European situation features
cleaning up operations by Russia
and Germany. Problems in Eurasia
seem to be settled only that the
governments concerned may fight
elsewhere with a free hand. Japan
patches things up with Russia, so
that she can prosecute the war
with China with more vigor. Rus
dia accepts what will probably be
(See NEUTRALITY page 4)
Air course
filings open
Students must apply
at Ferguson's office
Students interested in qualifying
for the university air pilot course
now may file their applications
with Dean O. J. Ferguson, of the
college of engineering. Instruction
and information sheets arc avail
able at the registrar's office.
Students are required to take both
the ground instruction and the fly
ing instruction.
L. E. Gunderson, finance aecre
tray, and M. A. Shaw, president
of the board of regents negotiated
with the Civil Aeronautics author
ity making civilian flying instruc
tion available to 40 university
students selected from any college.
Sophomore students, and above,
betweer . the ages of 18 and 25
with a year's residence will be
eligible. Only those who puss a
rigid physical examination and
have a high scholastic rating will
be accepted to compete in several
tests for enrollment in the course.
General requirements.
General physical requirement
re: Height 64-78 inches; weight
115 pounds and above, proportion
ate to height; vision 20-20; and
hearing excellent. Only one woman
student at the university will be
enrolled as they are restricted to
three percent of the total.
A laboratory fee of $40 this fall
will cover medical examination
fees, insurance, and laboratory ex
penses. No further fees will be
charged either semester. Appli
cants not accepted for the courpc
will receive the fee back except
for the cost of. the medical examination.
seeks
Game tickets
goon reserve
Sept. 25, 26
Selleck holds 6,000
seats in stadium for
student, faculty use
With anticipation of a complete
sellout for the Minnesota and pos
sibly the Oklahoma games, John
K. Sellcck, athletic business man
ager, announced this week that
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JOHN K. SELLECK.
. . . his good seats are going fast
student activity tickets will go on
reserve Sept. 25 and 26.
Approximately 6,000 tickets in
the first 30 rows of the east sta
dium, in a sector between the
twenty yard lines, have been held
for student and faculty use, Sel
lcck explained. Prices this year
have been reduced to five dollars
for a season ticket admitting one
to all football and basketball
events.
Activity about same.
Reservations thus far this year
arc little changed, day to day,
from what they were at a similar
period a year ngo, the financial
manager revealed, adding that
many of the reservations for this
year were made last fall.
Though tickets are still avail
able at the athletic office for all
home games, and will soon be
available for all out of town
games Selleck cited the advance
reservation figures for the games,
and warned that good seats are
going fast.
Some 12,500 season tickets have
been sold to date to the general
public, and about 6,000 will go to
the faculty and student body. Mr.
Selleck suggested that when the
5,000 tickets ordered by Minne
sota and the 2,000 ordered by Ok
lahoma are also deducted, only a
(See TICKETS page 5)
Faculty dinner
set for tomorrow
Chancellor will preside
at informal program
: I An Informal dinner opening the
season of entertainment for the
faculty will be given Friday at
6:30 p. m. in the Student Union
ballroom. Forty-seven new appoin
tees will be presented by their re
spective deans to the university
family. All faculty members with
the rank of assistant and above
will be invited and the dinner is
for faculty members only.
Chancellor Boucher will preside
over the program to be sponsored
by the council of administration.
The number to be present has not
yet been revealed,
Landon's
It's 'Buy Your Way Out'
for registration-weary frosh
The soldiers who guarded the
pass at Thermopylae, vowing that
none should pass, have nothing on
the enthusiastic corps of salesmen
lining the steps and walks leading
from the coliseum.
With freedom and escape from
the ordeal of registration only a
few feet away, students find it
necessary to argue their way to
freedom few escaping unscathed.
Walking down the steps stu
dents are asked to register with
coed counselors while being told
of the beautiful memories that can
be theirs only if they purchase a
Cornhusker.
Freshman caps and membership
in the barb union blend into one
contused blur as the salesmen
punch identification cards with one
hand and take bills and coins with
the other.
Then the student publications
and their advantages are dinned
upon tiie ears of the poor, dazed
students as they struggle to say
no to smiling DAILY NEBRAS-
Hager calls
for yearbook
assistants
Cornhusker head urges
photographers to file;
one to have paid post
Filings for Cornhusker staff po
sitions will be taken from 2 to 5
p. m. today and tomorrow, accord
ing to Orval Hager, editor of this
year's book.
Business staff applicants should
report to Business Manager Irvin
Sherman.
A new position will be filled for
the first time this fall, as a result
of the action of the publications
board last spring in setting up a
paid post for the staff photogra
pher. Hager explained that many pho
tographers are needed for this
year's book. All interested in pho
tography for business or as a
hobby, he urges to make app.l'ca
tion with him this week.
Eligibility for all staff positions
consists of being a sophomore in
school and meeting the regular
university scholarship standards.
These require the student to have
carried twenty-seven hours the
preceding year, and twelve hours
the preceding semester.
Contracts for the cover, en
graving and photography work on
the 1940 Cornhusker were let
during the summer, Irvin Sher
man, business manager, announced
yesterday.
The contract for artwork and
book design went to the Artcraft
Engraving Co. of St. Joseph, Mo.,
the same company which did the
work on the 1936 and 1938 year
books. According to Editor Hager,
work on the book is proceeding
with preat rapidity and the 500
page dummy U practically com
plete. S. K. Smith Co., holders of the
cover contract have been collab
orating with Artcraft in carrying
out the design, Sherman explained,
adding that great care is being
taken to secure consistency In the
theme of the book.
Townsend Studio, Cornhusker
(See CORNHUSKER page 5)
Prominent alum dies
Fdmund A. Pegler, 72, former
university student, who 40 years
ago founded the wholesale house
of Pcglcr-McEachen in Lincoln,
died today after a year's illness.
He had been serving as vice-president
of the firm,,
support
KAN and Cornhusker salesmen.
Bookstore representatives give
away blotters and advertising
folders; as the student looks up
the long walk to freedom only to
see more grinning salesmen wait
ing for those who might have at
one time had the strength to say
no.
European war
well-covered
by university
Union, arts college
to sponsor weekly
forum on conflict
To keep students informed of
the relative importance of day by
day developments in the European
conflict, the college of arts and
sciences and the Student Union
will collaborate to present a new
forum series on war, Union Di
rector Van Sant announced yes
terday. Rudolph Winnacker, professor
of history, will open the series
Thursday, Sept. 28, discussing, he
emphasizes, only the latest aspects
and implications of the war situa
tion. This policy, of keeping dis
cussion on up to the minute topics,
will prevail throughout the series,
according to Van Sant.
Starting a week from today, the
forums will be held at 4 p. m.
each Thursday in room 316 of the
union. Each program will include
a 20 minute talk on some phase of
the war by a member of the fac
ulty, and general discussion.
Speakers will approach the
main theme of the European con
flict from every conceivable angle
chemical warfare, military
strategy, American neutrality,
economic effects, etc. If assured of
(See FORUMS page 4)
'NT book reaches
hands of students
Freshman Day sale,
more than 500 copies
Copies of the "N" Book, com
piled by the university "Y" groups,
went on sale Freshman Day. Of
1,300 copies printed, over one-third
have been sold.
Editor of the annual publication
for this year is Selma Hill. The
business muiager is M a n 1 e y
Hawks.
The book may be bought from
the YM secretary in Temple or
from the YW secretary in Ellen
Smith. It is issued to freshmen
for 5 cents; to upper classmen
for 25 cents.
Purpose of the "N" Book is to
give the incoming student an un
derstanding of the way the univer
sity is governed, its organizations,
nn understanding of what the or
ganizations stand for, and the
ways in which they may be of
benefit,
Registration
varies little
from normal
Enrollment may reach
1939 figures, largest
in history of school
Classes for the first semester of
the seventieth year of the univer
sity begin this morning, with the
enrollment varying little from
normal, according to a report from
the registrar's office after an of
ficial count Wednesday morning.
Exact registrations for the first
semester cannot be given as yet.
Tuesday evening 1,486 students
had completed their registration as
compared with 1,576 on the same
clay last year, the largest registra
tion for any single day. Yester
day's activity seemed to indicate
that the 912 figure for last year
would be reached.
Last year's largest.
Total collegiate enrollment for
the first semester of last year was
6,810. This was the largest in the
history of the university. Students
who registered last spring, paid
fees and completed their registra
tion during the summer numbered
3,050, compared with 2,986 a year
ago. About 450 medical and nurs
ing students will register at Oma
ha Friday.
More than 500 graduate stu
dents have until October 7 to reg
ister without penalty. Several
hundred undergraduates usually
register late and pay the penalty
fees.
No changes permitted.
Students who registered last
May, and who paid their fees are
not permitted to re-register or to
change their registrations until
Friday, Sept. 22.
Changes in registration will be
made in Grant Memorial, west
door, 8-00 to 11:30 a. m. and 1:00
to 4:00 p. m. on Sept. 22, 25, 26.
Counselors
to fete 500
Program begins at 7
tonight in Ellen Smith
Coed Counselors begin their
activities of the 1939-1940 school
year by giving a party for fresh
men women tonight in Ellen Smith.
More than 500 new women en
rollees in the university are ex
pected to be present at the party,
which will begin at 7, according
to Fern Steuteville, president of.
the Counselor Board.
The evening's theme, friendship,
will be carried out through means
of group singing and group gamas.
A variety of table games also
figure prominently in the evening's
entertainment. The activities of
the Coed Counselors will be graph
ically presented and explained to
the new students by the use of
special display rooms and exhibits.
Refreshments will be served.
On Friday afternoon the names
of their "little sisters" will be
given to the Counselors during a
special meeting in Ellen Smith
at 4 p. m. This week end
the Counselors or "big sisters" will
begin contacting their "their lit
tle sisters," whom they will con
tinue to advise and assist for the
remainder of the school year.
U of Cal. neutrality
ballot opposes war
UNI. OF CALIF., Sept. 20.
One out of three undergraduate
students declared here today that
if America becomes involved in
the European conflict, they will
go to jail rather than to war.
A general campus election,
sponsored by the regular elections
committee, was held to sound out
student opinion on American neu
trality. More than 2,500 students
cast their ballots.