-:r n n . a n
yk BMLY lEBMSMN
VOL. XXXIX, NO. 6
Drive opens
Uni Players
25th season
Tassels to sell tickets
Thursday; participation
to be open by try-out
University players launch their
twenty-fifth successive season
when the annual ticket sales begin
Thursday. Tassels, the girls' pep
organization, will be in charge of
the sales throughout the course of
the campaign, Sept. 28 to Oct. 2.
This year the players will give five
productions, and the cost or tne
season ticket will be two'dollars.
"The University Players is a
student activity, and all who are
eligible for extra curricular activi
ties have the right to try out for
participation in these plays," said
Business Manager Hunter. To be
eligible a student must have 27
hours for the preceeding year, and
be carrying 12 or more hours at
the present. In the near future,
the DAILY NEBRASKAN will list
dates and times for initial tryouts.
Each play will be given four
evenings, Tuesday through Friday.
The dates of the plays are: Oct. 17
20, Nov. 21-24, Jan. 16-19, Feb. 13
16 and March 12-15.
Blue Print
will cost $1
Engineering monthly
subscription drive on
The Nebraska Blue Print, college
f engineering monthly, begins its
annual subscription drive today
when solicitors call at the various
engineering labs for orders. The
price is 51 per year.
A member of the national asso
ciation of engineering college mag
azines, the Blue Print is the offi
cial magazine for engineering stu
dents. It hag also been made of
ficial organ of the Nebraska En
gineering society.
Features 'Dean's Comer
Each issue carries articles by
members of the Nebraska Engi
neering society as well as articles
by students and alumni. Monthly
features Include the Dean's Cor
ner, Engineers, and Sledge, Jr,
The magazine serves as a bulle
tin board and record of all col
lege of engineering activities.
Included in the subscription rate
of $1 a year b a yearbook issue
in May. This contains pictures of
the engineering societies and
resume of the year's activities.
Board of Control
holds initial meet
Group reviews troubles
of Nebraska's Greeks
Th'j Interna Urruty Board of
Control met Sunday for the first
time this year, in the Student
Union building and heard Dcnn
T. J. Thompson promise them full
co-operation and support from the
university.
The auditor, C. H. Freeaik,
stated (hat financial reports of the
fraternities must he presented to
the board not later than the
tenth of each month. He also dis
cussed chapter organization and
pledging.
All remaining time was spent in
an open discussion of fraternity
problems. The group will meet
again on their usual day, the third
Monday of each month.
The board consists of ten men,
all of which are alumni of noine
fraternity. Clarence Hinds is preS'
ident of the group.
Four receive medical
attention at infirmary
University students now recclv
ing medical attention at the In
firmary Include:
Richard Linn: No diagnosis as
yet.
Donald Smith: Appendectomy.
James Jocker: Knee injury
from football.
William Herrmann: Infected
hand.
Official Newspaper 0 More Than 7,000
2408
NEWS ROUNDUP
French of fensive shatters
hope for immediate peace
By Steele and Woerner.
All hopes for peace were given
up late tonight, as the French,
pushing preparations for a major
offensive, opened up with a heavy
artillery barrage in the Haardt
mountain sector. The German U
boats continued their relentless
drive to sweep British commerce
off the seas, sinking five ships
over the week end, and adding an-
Game tickets
to go on sale
this morning
Books are available
today and Wednesday
at $5 student price
Student activity books go cn
sale this morning at 8 o'clock at
the office of John K. Selleck,
athletic business manager. They
will continue to be on sale until 5
this afternoon, and tomorrow from
8 until 1. Students desiring tickets
will turn in their money at the
athletic office in the coliseum.
Student price for tickets is $5,
and the price for the general pub
lic is $8.
Harold Niemann, editor of the
DAILY NEBRASKAN, will make
the drawings immediately after
the close of the drive. Reservations
will be given out tomorrow after
noon.
6,000 seats held for students.
Approximately 6,000 tickets In
the first 30 rows of the east
stadium between the 20 yard lines
have been held for student and
faculty use, according to Mr. Set
leek. The season ticket selling for
$5 to students admits one to all
home football and basketball
(See TICKETS, Page 3.)
Drill shoes get
mixed up in news
of western front
While marching men and boom
ing guns on the western front are
bringing most students to the ra
dio. the DAILY NEBRASKAN
bulletin board, and the war forums
in search of news, some people
believe in preparedness.
yesterday a small card was
found posted among the dis
patches from the western front on
the bulletin board. The card, bear
ing the signature of a local firm
offered army drill shoes and other
personal wartime equipment at a
10 percent discount to any student
bearing one of their cards.
Totalitarianism for U. S. almost certain
in war; might be in peace, says
"The United States will have
difficulty enough avoiding a totali
tarian government in peacetime.
War would make it almost cer
tain." That is the pertinent opinion of
Prof. Lancaster, hend of the po
litical science department. "But,"
he adds hastily, "that's only my
guess. Any stutemcnt made these
days is bound to be guesswork."
In view of the increasing ten
dency toward government control
of business and labor contracts,
social security and other sociali
zation measures, Prof. Lancaster
belicvcB the swing toward a totali
tarian government is moving
faster than most people realize.
Dictatorship in five years?
"It might come in five years
without a war. War might bring
us almost inHtantly under a Eu
ropean style or government."
Americans, he thinks, must
keep a careful eye on governmen
tal moves that seem to promise
greater security. "You can't have
too much security in the form
of govci'iuxient-contriilled business
Stddents
TUESDAY, SEVTEMBE1L26?
other late this afternoon. Warsaw,
still holding our after an 18 day
siege, was in ruins, tonight, smok
ing, battered from the German
guns, while the entrapped defend
ers were reduced to virtual starva
tion. The war seems to be here to stay
for sometime, what with the al
lied foreign offices bluntly refus
ing to consider the overtures of
either the Italian or Russian diplo
mats. The question seems timely
to ask what the war means and
what effect it will have.
Picture thousands of workers In
thousands of arms factories, and
thousands of soldiers, and thou
sands of governmental administra
tors, who are eating, drinking,
wearing clothes, using electricity
and coal, and consuming a variety
of articles, but contributing abso
lutely nothing to those who pro
vide the goods. Of such is war. . .
Meanwhile, almost ironically,
Floyd Gibobns, the man who dared
a thousand mysteries, and a thou
sand horrors, died last night, and
died in his own bed. It was he,
Gibbons, the man who could talk
so fast, who brought out, the first
real uncensored pictures of the
last war, in a vain hope that they
would be so horrible that tney
would in themselves help to insure
that there would be no more wars.
As the big French dnve gets
under way, as the airplanes drop
their bombs, Gibbons must turn
away his one eye (for he lost the
other eye in the last war) must
turn his back upon the horrible
reality. For he, Gibbons, more than
anyone, tho loving the adventure,
hated war for what it was, mass
murder of men, mass murder of
ideals, mass destruction of capital.
Hosp to meet
coeds at tea
A.W.S. head will lead
receiving line Thursday
Officially opening the feminine
social season, the university's new
dean of women, Miss Helen Hosp,
will hold a tea Thursday after
noon from 3:30 to 5:30 in Ellen
Smith. All university women are
invited to attend; freshmen worn
en will be especially welcomed.
The guests will be introduced to
the new dean by Virginia Clem
ans, president of the A. W. S.
board, who, according to tradition,
heads the receiving line.
Also greeting the guests will be
Miss Elsie Ford Piper, assistant
dean of women; Mrs. Ada West
over, assistant to the dean; Miss
Margaret Klinker, ranhollenic
chairman; Miss Katherine Hendy,
social director of dormitories; and
Miss Esther OsUund, Y. W. C. A,
secretary.
I "
it I
'"'
l'l
ntasker oath
I. Frankforter will administer pledge to class
of '43; 1 1 o'clocks dismissed for 1600 frosh
Following university traditions, 1600 freshmen will take the Corn
husker oath at their annual convocation 11 a. ni. Wednesday in the
coliseum. Col. C. J. Frankforter will administer the solemn pledge
for the class of '43 as he has done for innumerable other classes.
Annually, the Innocents society sponsors the administration of the
Winnacker
will discuss
war trend
Professor opens first
forum on Europe and
U. S. entanglements
First meeting in the new series
of forums on war will be held
Thursday afternoon when Dr. Ru
dolph Winnacker, professor of
history, discusses "The European
War and the United States."
The series, sponsored by the
Union and the college of arts and
science, will be made up of forums
held each Thursday afternoon at
4 p. m. in room 316 of the Union,
Each program will consist of a 20
minute talk on some phase of the
war by a faculty member. Each
talk will be followed by a general
discussion.
Talks up to minute.
Policy of the series will be two
fold. First, discussion on all topics
will be kept up to the minute to
keep pace with the fast changing
European scene. Second, speaker
will interpret all phases of the con
flict including such topics as
chemical warfare, military
strategy, economic effects, and
American neutrality.
Students may suggest topics for
discussion during the series by
dropping their sugestion into the
ballot box now attached to the
DAILY NEBRASKAN bulletin
board in the Union lobby. The se
ries will continue as long as the
war does if students are inter
ested.
Because students have shown
themselves to be so interested in
the war news, the DAILY NE-
(See FORUM, Page 3)
First rally will
be held Thursday
Rooters to assemble
in east stadium at 6:30
Marching to the chant of "beat
Indiana," Cornhusker rooters will
meet at the east stadium Thurs
day at 6:30 p. m. for the first pre
game rally of the year. Program
for the rally includes cheers,
speeches, and fireworks at the
stadium.
When the stadium program is
over, students, in parade forma
tion, will march to the Burlington
station where the team will en
train at 7:30 p. m.
Mc'inlM-m of tlir rulljr riimmlttw whn
will Im In rlmriir of 'I liurmliiy rully rr
Kulph Kx'd, Niiriimn HiirrlH, Iliiy I'rnf
f III. I.d ItiHH'k, hfliim Hill. ln iMikMlry,
iiliini'l I ruiililnrlfr, 4 urn i till uitvimir,
Mnd two TnnHflH who hHvr not yd bra
IIHIIH'd,
Lancaster
and Fovcrnmcnt-safetruarded la
bor without running the risk of
having your government into ev
erything," Trof. Lancaster says
"A man who chooses to heat
his house with gas has to pny
more for it. In the same way, a
country that chooses the apparent
security of rigid government con
trol has to pay for it in the form
of lost personal liberty.
Sale of arms only beginning
Repeal of the arms embargo
clause of the neutrality act would,
he thinks, increase possibility of
the United States getting into the
conflict. Selling munitions and
arms to warring nations on a cash
and carry basis would 6nly be a
beginning eventually belligerents
would, he believes, be able to buy
on credit. "We would then," he
continues, "come to be more and
more on their Hide the side of
France and England."
What is the attitude of the
American people? Trof. Lancaster
refuses to hazard a guess on the
sum total of U. G. opinion but be
(See LAi CAbTll, Tuge 4)
oath to make new students true
Nebraska students. In order to at
tend, freshmen will be dismissed
from their 11 o'clock classca
tomorrow morning.
At the convocation, the class of
1943 will also meet important
faculty and student officials, sing
the university songs and yell tha
university yells.
Campus notables to speak.
Dean of Student Affairs T. J.
Thompson, Dean of Women Helen
Hosp and Coach Biff -Jones will
speak to the new students. Greet
ing from the Innocents will come
from Roger Cunningham, presi
dent, and Adna Dobson, member
from the football squad. Vice
President Janet Lau will speak for
Mortar Board in the absence ot
Elizabeth Waugh, president.
The varsity band will play and
W. G. Temple will direct the new
class in the university songs:
"There is No Place Lake Ne
braska," "Hail, Varsity," "Fight,
Fight, Fight" and "The Corn
husker." Cheerleaders will lead
the yells. Tassels and Corn Cob
will be there in uniform to usher.
Climax of the convocation will
be the taking of the oath of allege
iance from Col. Frankforter. .
Coeds plan
roundtables
Mortar Boards to tell
of activities, Saturday
The Mortar Eoard student ac
tivities conference, scheduled by
the interorganization council of
Mortar Board will be held Satur
day, Sept. 30, in Ellen Smith, ac
cording to an announcement by,
Mary Jo Henn, conference chair'
man.
This conference is held annually
for university women interested in
the extra-curricular activities field.
All freshmen women are pat
ticularly invited to attend.
Treat six subjects
Six subjects will be treated fa
the afternoon program: politics
salesmanship, ag activities, offW
cers' training, student government
and publications.
Following registration, whlclf
begins at 12:45 p. m., those at
tending will be divided into groupg
for the roundtable discussions. Two
roundtables will be held Bimultan
eously.
Mary Jo Henn is conference
chairman, and Priscilla Wicks, as
sistant chairman. Mary SteuteviUa
is publicity chairman; Jean
Hooper, secretary. Registration is
in charge of Melva Kime and FaiUj
Medlar. v.
Corn Cobs hold
smoker tonight ,
Pep group invites men 1
intending to pledge clufc)
Annual Corn Cob rush smoker.
for the purpose of enrolling new
workers in the ranks of the men'g
pep organization, will be held to
night at 7:30 p. m. in parlor A of
the Union.
All sophomores and junior men
are invited to attend the smoker
Colonel Frankforter, Corn Cob ad
visor will speak to the members'
and guests at the smoker.
All actives and students who in
tend to pledge the organization
should bring $5.00 to Corn Cob
treasurer Bob Miller who will se
cure football seats for them. The
Corn Cob section will be located in
the writer of the east stadium. It
is important that money for tick
ets be turned in tonight if possible
as all money must be turned in to
the athletic office by Wednesday
noon.
There will be a short meeting of
actives and pledges tomorrow at
7:30 p. m. in room 313 of the
Union.
Cornhusker staff
positions still open
Any student, sophomore cm"
above who is interested in a staff
position on the 1940 Cornhusker
should file an application at once
ia the ContfiUBkcr plfice