Minnesota .... 62 Missouri .... 30 K-State .... 34 So. Methodist ... 7 Notre Dame ... 3
Arizona .... 0 Colorado ... 0 Fort Hays ... 7 Oklahoma ... 7 Purdue . . . . 0
TV. U. rally in late minutes ties Indiana 7-7
Vkc Daily f Iebbaskan
Story on page three
Official Newspaper Of More Than 7,000 Students
VOL. XXXIX, NO. 10
Z 408
SUNDAY, OCTOBEffi, 1939
Nebraskan
goes on air
tomorrow
Staff members ready
for first five minute
broadcast at 1 1 p. m.
The DAILY NEBRASKAN news
program will be heard on the air
for the first time, Monday, at 11
p. m. over KFOR for a five-minute
broadcast. It will continue
daily execpt Saturday and Sunday
thruout the school year. Intend
ing to deal with all phases of uni
versity life, it will be of interest
to every student.
The ambition of past NE
BRASKAN editors is .realized in
this new method of getting; last
minute news to readers of the
DAILY NEBRASKAN.
"We are happy to present an
accurate picture of university life
not only to students but to par
ents and friends," states Editor
Harold Niemann.
Ed Cooper and Jon Pruden will
pick out the highlights of the
days activities in the double role
of news editor and announcer.
June Bierbower, famous as the
nation's only coed sports editor,
will give the latest dope on root
ball. Later, she will talk on the
most recent developments in
See RADIO, page 4.
Alumni ratify
constitution
May increase members
on board of directors
Executive committee members
of the university alumni associa
tion met in the Union Thursday
evening and voted to certify the
constitution of the association and
file it for purposes of incorpora
Uon.
The group also decided to hold
the first of two annual meetings of
the board of directors at the Stu
dent Union the evening of Novem
ber 10. At that time there will be
finally drafted pending amend
ments to the association's consti
tution, among them the proposal
to inciease the size of the board
from 10 to 32 members, to repre
6enl Nebraska and the eleven na
tional zones.
Plans were approved for the
national membership program
which began in fourteen major
cities this week, as well as a more
See ALUMNI, page 2.
Awgwan first
f rosh' issue
out Monday
Humor magazine aims
to orient 'green horns'
by hints, gore, laughs
"Directory," first issue of the
year of the Awgwan, university
humor magazine, comes out to
morrow with a welcome to all
freshmen.
The purpose of the Issue, says
Editor Betty Roach, "is to help to
introduce the freshmen to the
hter side of life on the Nebraska
campus." The Awgwan is going to
break precedent and have a policy
this year of stressing particularly
the 'Nebraska angle in its pages.
Hour dances.
Feature articles of the issue are:
"Hour Dances," a chronicle of the
social life of freshmen, by Marga
ret Krause; 'Helpful Hints," in
which the blunders of the usual
freshman are outlined, by Betty
Roach and Virginia Geister; and
'Dear Freshman, giving the inside
dope on getting-ahead-on-campus,
by Bob Hemphill.
A note of pathos in the other
wise humorous magazine is "Part
ing" written by Margaret Krause.
In this month s Gore, the spotlight
habitually carried around by the
gorehounds turns on the fresh
men.
Cover for the issue is a slate, to
symbolize the "first-day-at-school"
attitude of the freshman.
Cornhusker
sets picture
deadline
Hager urges taking
advantage of early
. dates to avoid rush
Pictures for the 1940 Cornhusker
may be taken at Townsend's be
ginning tomorrow, for all seniors
and juniors, fraternities and so
rorities, announced Editor Orval
Hager yesterday.
Prices are set at $1.25 for a fra
ternity or sorority picture alone,
$2.50 for the class picture, or $2.75
for the combination. No appoint
ment is required for students who
take advantage of posing early,
and "those who do so will be
avoiding the rush," Hager stated.
Students who do not have their
picture taken before Dec. 3 will
See CORNHUSKER, page 4.
Omaha host
to U.S. Navy
Band Oct. 5
Corps to play matinee
evening performances
on coast-to-coast tour
Faulkner among 30
in national art show
Miss Kady Faulkner of the de
partment of art has the distinc
tion of being one of 30 exhibitors
in a recent show of the National
Association of Women Painters and
Sculptors whose work was chosen
for inclusion in a traveling exhibit
which will be on circuit for three
months. More than 300 artists
were represented in the show from
which the 30 paintings were
chosen.
Colonel Pillsbury dies
as car strikes truck
Lieutenant Colonel Curtis D.
Pillsbury of the army medical
corps, senior surgeon of Fort
Crook, was instantly killed Friday
when his car sideswiped a cattle
truck 18 miles east of Red Oak,
la. Mrs. Pillsbury was seriously
injured.
Colonel Pillsbury was the father
of Charles and Robert Pillsbury,
both students at the university.
Players drive
lags behind
Tickets move slowly as
Tassels cover campus
Only two days remain of the
University Players' ticket drive,
while sales at present are lagging
far behind those of previous years.
Tassels, who are canvassing the
campus, announced today.
"The University Players will
give a fine group of plays this
season. We sincerely urge that the
university students and the people
of Lincoln take advantage of their
opportunity for seeing plays direct
from Broadway," said business
manager Hunter. "We have for
many years been able to produce
unusually fine plays, and are plan
ning that our 25th anniversary
will be the most successful of all,"
he added.
The five productions this year
will be chosen from the following
list: "Our Town," a play without
scenery which was seen in New
York City last year; "What A
Life," "Post Mortem," by Noel
Coward, which will show its world
premier here provided the players
are able to find the author in war
torn France; "It Can't Happen
Here," "Bachelor Born," "Family
Portrait." "Of Mice and Men,"
and one classical play, perhaps
"Peer Gynt."
"Our Town," a Pulitzer prize
play, has been definitely chosen
as the opening production for the
1939-40 season.
The United States Navy Band
of Washington, D. C, will ap
pear Thursday, Oct. 5, in the
Omaha city auditorium, under the
auspices of the Omaha World Her
ald. As part of its coast-to-coast
tour, the band will play twice in
Omaha, a matinee for children and
an evening concert. Reserved
seats for the evening performance
are $1.10 and $.85. General ad
mission is $.85.
In existence for 101 years, the
band has developed from a group
of five musicians, wearing the nau
tical sea-going garb of the sailor,
into todays famous large band
in petty officer's uniforms.
Since 1925, authorized by acts
of congress, the band has annually
made a tour and has played in over
1.500 cities and towns in the
United States.
NEWS ROUNDUP.
Allies worry
over peace
proposals
English less adamant
as Russo-German pact
becomes dangerous
Last Bulletin.
German U Boats have been
ordered to attack merchant
ships without warning, the Brit
ish admiralty annpunced early
Sunday morning. The action
was taken as a reprisal against
British arming of merchant
ships.
A definite peace proposal is
expected from Hitler next Wed
nesday when he will speak to
the reichstag. No major offen
sive is expected until after that
date.
Westbrook
wants singers
Uni chorus needs 100
more 'for art's sake'
To find 100 additional singers
for the university chorus, is
the problem of Dr. Arthur E.
Westbrook, dean of the school of
fine arts. Already 100 students
have enrolled in this chorus which
meets on Tuesday at 7:15 p. m.
and on Thursday at 5 p. m. in the
Temple theatre, but additional
singers are needed for an effective
choral ensemble.
"Come sing an hour for the
sake of singing." This is Dr. West
brook's invitation to this chorus
which is now rehearsing Handel's
"Messiah" to be given December
17. Any student entering for
credit or non-credit is eligible. Not
intended for students in the school
of music alone, it is rather in
tended as a musical recreation
hour for any and all who enjoy
singing. It should be of special
attraction to those students who
have taken music work in high
school,-but who dropped it on com
ing to college.
by Woerner and S1tIc.
The British and French govern
ments were far less adamant to
ward the German peace proposals
tonight, as it became increasingly
apparent in London this afternoon
that the Russian government was
prepared to come to the aid of
Germany if the new setup in the
east were opposed by the allied
foreign offices.
Tonight in Berlin, Count Ciano,
the Italian foreign minister, is
listening to Hitler's personal ac
count of the new developments
arising out of the Moscow con
ference yesterday. Esthonia has
granted to Russia the use of three
strategic naval bases on the Bal
tic; Turkey has agreed to a non
aggression pact with Russia, and
has further agreed to close the
strategic Dardanelles entrance to
the Black sea. More important.
the Berlin-Moscow accord prom
ises help to Germany in the form
of military aid, if the allies turn
down the Russia peace overtures.
Seeing the direct possibility of
a fighting Russia. English news
papers were relenting in their at
titude toward the Soviet, and
pointing out that the territory
Russia gained did not include any
of the ethnic Poland. English
peace societies and labor unions
presented a statement to the Brit
ish government demanding that
the allied war aims be narrowed
to something more definite than
"stop Hitler," and that the allies
should accept any peace moves
that would permit an "honorable
withdrawal" by the allies.
And so it is, just one month
after the first German .troops
marched into Poland, that there is
a new, a different Europe, that
Sve NEWS ROUNDUP, page 2.
Opinioned polysci professors view neutrality law-pro and con
With opinions similar only to
the extent that they differ, pro
fessors of the political science de
partment lined up on both sides
of the neutrality fence, felating be
liefs of all degrees and tempers
if they had any definite beliefs at
all. a DAILY NEBRASKAN sur
vey revealed this week.
Not aimed primarily at forming
student opinion one way or the
other, but rather with the purpose
in mind of clarifying the readers
regarding both sides of the pres
ent neutrality issue, the opinions
of various professors were sought.
Shumate reserved.
Taking a somewhat reserved
eland, R. V. Shumate declared
that it is doubtful whether any
policy adopted at this time will
prevent active participation of
America in the European con
flict, rerhaps the chances for
neutrality depend more upon sub
sequent events in Europe which
cannot now be foreseen than it
does upon the action to be taken
by congress in the present Fpeclal
session, Shumate added.
The gist of the issues now be
fore congress center around two
questions. First and the one that
brings the greatest comment, is
the issue of embargo repeal. In
stead of a mandatory provision,
whereby the president must pro
hibit shipments of finished muni
tions to countries which by his
Judgment are actually at war, the
new bill with cash and carry pro
visions, requires all belligerents to
purchase and take title of ship
ments, not only of munitions but
of all military and unfinished mili
tary materials in this country,
and to carry them home in their
own ships.
"Of all the neutrality sugges
tions now before congress, Dave
Fcllman declares that this "cash
and carry provision" is the one
most likely to keep us out o
war."
Policy thorn ir flesh.
The other provision which !ias
become a thorn in flesh of the
opposition is the &0-d3y discre-
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ROGER V. SHUMATE.
. . . neutrality ... Is becoming
virtually impossible.
tlonary credit policy which was
reported in committee last week.
This policy allows the president to
grant 90 days' credit to any nation
at his own discretion, removing
this country from a strict cash
and carry neutrality. The opposi
tion claims such a provision gives
the president unneutral powers
and should therefore be stricken
from the bilL
Fcllman takes the stand that it
would be far safer in require the
belligerent nation to take the re
sponsibility for getting supplies
back home, than to permit our
ships to carry munitions or other
supplies into war zones.
With the knowledge of the ques
tion which he now has, L. W. Lan
caster, chairman of the political
science department, does not favor
the changes proposed by the act.
He reserves the right to alter his
stand, however, within the next
six months if new developments
arise. In his opinion, the best
course for America to follow is
one of education. Explaining this
statement, Lancaster declares that
there is much concerning the Eu
ropean question which we do not
understand, and which we mu.?t
understand if we are to make
decisions wisely.
"Neutrality in the original mean
ing of the word is becoming virtu
ally impossible," Shumate sug
gested. "We were officially neutral
in the Italo-Ethiopian conflict, tne
Spanish Civil War, and the Siro
Japanese war."
"In each case, the political sci
entist explained, "our policy
seemed to have the effect of aid
ing one side or the other. Our
present neutrality obviously bene
fits Germany, whereas many
Americans feel that we should
adopt a neutrality policy which
would benefit England or France."
Neutrality against whom?
Therefore, in summing up the
question, Shumate contended that
neutrality has largely becomt a
question of neutrality against
Stc ICEUTHALITY, p;. 4.