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Official Newspaper Of More Than 7,000 Students
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Vol. 39, No.-jfrffi
Lincoln, Nebraska
Friday, October 20, 1939
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Adamic sees
race feeling
in America
'Make America safe
for difference he
urges convo offenders
"America has within itself the
heterogeneous elements and races
" which will enable it to preserve the
culture of the western world at
this time, but this cannot be done,
If because of race prejudice and
anti-immigrant feeling, the cul
tures cannot be absorbed," said
Louis Adamic, noted author and
lecturer speaking before the first
. 1939-1940 university convocation
in Temple yesterday morning.
Tracing his subject historically,
Adamic reverted to before 1830
when the immigrants, customs,
and institutions of this country
were predominantly Anglo-Saxon,
and religion was predominantly
Protestant. "About this time grew
up the American dream. But
after 1830 a change began."
"Immigration of other peoples
than Anglo-Saxons began on a
large scale. Total immigration
trebled every ten years for four
decades. The machine age and the
industrial revolution brought thou
sands of unskilled laborers and
workers, who concentrated in the
great cities.
50 "i foreign born in northeast.
"Now the population of the
northeastern industrial centers is
more than 50 foreign born, or
children of foreign born parents.
(See CONVOCATION, page 5.)
Kansas draws
24 engineers
Faculty members go
to SPEE meet today
Twenty-four members of the
university engineering and mathe
matics faculty will attend the
twenty-fourth annual meeting of
the Kansas-Nebraska section of
the Society for the Promotion of
Engineering Education, to be held
in Lawrence, Kas., today and Sat
urday. Prof. J. P. Colbert of the
department of engineering me
chanics is a member of the pro
pram committee, and Prof. M. I.
Evinger, of the civil engineering
department, is secretary of the or
ganization. University instructors who will
appear on the two-day program
at Kansas include: Dean O. J.
Ferguson of the engineering col
lege, president of the national so
ciety, who will talk on Fundamen
tal Fundamentals; Prof. W. L. De
Baufre, chairman of the depart
ment of engineering mechanics,
who will be a discussion leader;
E. J. Marma, also of engineering
mechanics, who will report on the
national meeting of the engineer
ing drawing conference; Dr. W. C
Brenke, chairman of the depart
ment of mathematics, who will
preside at the mathematics sec
tion meeting.
Other university men attending
the conference are E. O. Morton,
T. T. Aakhus, J. B. Cecil, and
E. A. Grone, department of engi
neering mechanics; L A. Trively,
J. J. Kesner, and D. H. Harkness,
' department of civil engineering:
L. A. Binghan, F. W. Morris, and
O. E. Edison, department of me
chanical engineering; L. B. Smith,
department of architectural engi
neering, and F. S. Harper, M. G.
Gaba, Chester Camp, Lulu Runge,
and D. H. Rock, department of
mathematics.
Cards now available
Identification card pictures
should bo obtained before 5 p.
m. today at the registrar's of
fice. After today all enforcing
agencies may require a picture
with the card before admitting
the student.
Historian,
author,begins
lectures
Prince zu Loewenstein
will appear three times
a week until Nov. 17
Prince Hubert us zu Loewen
stein, distinguished German his
torian, author, and world traveler,
whose four weeks' stay at the uni
versity has been arranged through
the Carnegie Endowment for In
ternational Peace, begins his lec
ture series on present day Europe
Monday afternoon.
Beginning Monday and each
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
until November 17, the lectures
will be given in social science au
ditorium at 4 o'clock. The lectures
are open to students, faculty, and
the public.
Credit given.
All regularly enrolled students
with 12 hours of credits in social
sciences and history, who can ar
range to attend a discussion sec
tion each week, complete certain
(See PRINCE, page 5.)
NEWS COMMENT
Roosevelt
shuts ports
to U-boats
President places no
restrictions on large
battleships, cruisers
By Woerner and Steele.
President Roosevelt, by procla
mation yesterday, closed all Amer
ican ports to submarines of belli
gerent nations.
The president, you will recall,
is the one who wishes to keep the
U. S. out of war, who wants the
U. S. to be completely impartial,
who wants Americans to be neu
tral in thought as well as action
So yesterday, in a further ef
fort as he says, to keep this conn
try from being embroiled in the
European disaster, he forbade sub
marines the right to enter Amer
ican ports.
Mr. Roosevelt forgot to say any
thing about cruisers, or battle
ships, or destroyers, or any of the
other types of warcraft, despite
the fact that such craft would be
far more likely to enter Amer
ican ports than submarines, de
spite the fact that of the tot.U
tonnage of war vessels, more than
85 percent is of ships other than
submarines.
Isn't it possible that this neu
tral-minded president knew that
the allies would be the ones who
would need American ports for
their battleships, and that Ger
many would be the sole user of
submarine privileges ? Isn t it pos
sible that Mr. Roosevelt realized
that this international law, to
which he wants to return, recog
nizes only one type of belligerent
(See NEWS COMMENT, page 2.)
Students plan how to spend
$100,000 in theory only
By Paul Svoboda.
A grant of $101,424 for campus
improvements has been received
by the university from the federal
government. Part of this money
has been earmarked to pay for the
stadium renovation. The remain
der is to be used for other types
of improvements.
As yet there has been no spe
cific statement as to how the funds
will be used outside those set aside
for the stadium. A need for more
parking facilities on the campus
has been felt for a number of
Uni rooters
stage Baylor
rally tonight
Victory bell parade,
bonfire pep meeting
will begin at 7 p. m.
More than 2,000 Cornhusker
rooters will gather around a blaz
ing bonfire tonight to cheer the
team on to victory over the Baylor
Bears tomorrow. The rally, the
first to feature a bonfire in more
than two years, will begin at the
Union at 7 p. m.
Marching behind the university
band and the victory bell, students
will parade from the Union to 16th
and R, from 16th and R to 16th
and S, and from 16th and S to the
western part of the mall, just
north of social science, where Sam
Schwartzkopf, game captain will
light the bonfire.
The slogan adopted for the
game is "BlacKOut Baylor."
Safety precautions
Corn Cobs and Tassels will form
a safety ring around the fire. To
prevent accidents all students will
be required to remain outside the
ring. The rally committee has re
quested that all cars parked
around the mall be removed dur
ing the afternoon, before the rally
begins.
When the marchers have assem
bled around the bonfire Sam
Schwartzkopf and Link Lyman
will predict the outcome of to
morrow's fracas with the Baylor
Bear. If tentative plans are com
pleted Morley Jennings, Baylor
coach and Bob Taylor, the Bear's
game captain, will speak at the
rally.
At 6 p. m. Corn Cobs and Tas
sels will make a speaking tour of
organized houses. No cars will be
allowed in the rally.
Frosh debate
topic chosen
Trophy tilt question
is 'subsidized sports'
"Subsidized sports" will be the
tonic of the annual freshmen de
bate to be held Dec. 7. The winner
of the contest, sponsored by Delta
Sigma Rho, national forensic bo
ciety, will be awarded the Long
Debate Trophy, for one year and
will have his name inscribed on
the cup. Three judges, not yet
chosen, will decide the winner.
Any man of the freshman
class, who is carrying a full load
of semester hours, and who has
not been at some other college, is
eligible to compete. Competition is
individual and each contestant
must study carefully both sides of
the subject in preliminary work
for the debate.
Material for the subject will
soon be placed on reserve in the
library, and a bibiography will be
available next week. Last year's
winner of the trophy was Howard
Bessire of Lincoln.
years and some attempt will be
made to relieve this condition.
HOW DO YOU THINK THE
PWA GRANT TO THE UNI
VERSITY WOULD BE MOST
WISELY 8PENTT
William Salman, graduate college
The mauls axe so barren. A few
trees and shrubbery and a mini
mum of landscaping would im
prove them a lot I'd like to see
16th street between Teachers and
Andrews widened. It would be
a lot safer for both the motorist
(See SPENDING, page 3.)
Dr. Fellman
delivers war
forum speech
More than 1 50 hear
political scientist talk
on Russia in the war
Speaking before the fourth of
a series of Union war forums,
attended by more than 150 stu
dents and interested outsiders, Dr.
David Fellman declared yesterday
afternoon that "The moves made
by Russia in recent weeks are not
morally justifiable."
"In view of the fact that French
and English intermediaries were
present in Moscow when the
Russian-German pact was nego
tiated, it (the agreement) was an
immediate, personal double cross,"
the political science professor con
tinued.
Statin shares guilt.
After stating his belief that
"Stalin shares directly in the war
guilt" because his agreement with
Germany removed Hitler's fear of
being forced to fight on two fronts,
(See WAR FORUM, page 4.)
High school
journalists
meet today
NHSPA convention
features newswriting
contest, discussions
Approximately 350 Nebraska
high school jounalists and their
sponsors will meet in the Union
Friday and Saturday for the
twelfth annual convention of the
Nebraska High School Press
association.
Registration at University hall
will open the meeting. Following
will be a news writing contest
which will be held at the NEBRAS
KAN office. At the general meeting
Friday afternoon Paul Engle
Iowa poet and lecturer, will ad
dress the association. Other high
lights of the afternoon program
arc songs by the University mens
glee club and the Lincoln high
school girls' octette, a report on
the association's critical service
by W. Emerson Reck of Midland
college, demonstrations, sugges
tions. and discussion concerning
high school publications, and the
Nebraska-Baylor football game
Saturday afternoon.
Feature of the Friday meeting
will be the presentation of awards
by Mr. William H. Rice. From
11 to 12 Saturday morning at the
second general assembly winners
of the news writing contest will
be announced, and the selection
of the 1940 convention city voted
upon.
Mr. Engle, lecturer in poetry at
Iowa State, acts as advisory editor
of "American Prefaces, Iowa
literary magizine. "Corn," bis
latest book of poetry, was pub
lished last summer. Other books
by the well known poet are "Worn
Earth,", American Song," and
"Break the Hearts' Anger," in all
these books he contrasts the
American spirit with the decaying
spirit found in Europe.
Mr. Engle received degrees from
Coe college, Iowa State, and
from Oxford where he was a
Rhodes scholar. He was one of
the charter members of the charter
chapter of Quill and Scroll,
Hagcr warns
deadline close
Editor Orval Hager is moaning
and groaning and tearing his hair
Decause the sororities and frater
nltiea are not getting their pic
tures taken for the 1940 Corn
husker. The deadline for the sorori
ties and fraternities is Nov. 1, and
l for the Juniors and seniors Nov. 15
Council says
it's officially
K-state
Judiciary committee
approves trek revision;
train and ticket 4.95
Nebraska's annual football mi
gration has been officially set for
the Kansas State game, Oct. 28,
according to a report from the
judiciary committee of the Stu
dent Council.
Previous to this announcement
the Student Council, by vote, had
decided that the trek of the Husk
ers would be to the home of the
Missouri Tigers, but after consul
tation found that to send the band
and freshman football team would
be financially impossible. Although
the Student Council has not met
to discuss the matter, the judiciary
committee has given official ap
proval to the revision.
A special train carrying Ne
braska organizations and rooters
to Kansas will leave Saturday
morning, Oct. 28, at 7:30 and ar
rive in Manhattan at 11:30. John K.
Selleck announced that the cost
of the train fare and ticket to
the game inclusive will be $4.95.
Tickets may be purchased at the
ticket office in the coliseum.
The homecoming train will leave
Manhattan at midaight Saturday
and arrive in Lincoln at approxi
mately 4 a. m. The Corn Cobs,
Tassels, band, and freshman foot
ball team will increase the Husk
ers representatives at Manhattan.
Daily editor
suspended
Pub board removes
Niemann temporarily
Harold Niemann, NEBRASKAN
editor, was temporarily suspended
by the Publications board yester
day for material which has ap
peared in his editorial columns.
Miemann was
charged with
jumping the re
lease dates on
official mate
rial issued
through the
university Edi
torial and Pub
licity office, as
well as for re
peated e d i t o
rials not consis
tant with the
policies of the
administration.
In d e f e n se,
N e i m a nn de
clared that
Journal and Star.
Harold .Siriiiiinn
news sources on the campus have
repeatedly been closed to DAILY
reporters. The present dispute
arose when the paper published
the new advisory system story
last week, scooping all the news
papers in the state who had agreed
to hold the story until an agreed
time.
ONLY 13 DAYS
Left to Take Pictures for
for 1940 Cornhusker
Because
Fraternity-Sorority Picturt
Deadline IS or ember 1st
Junior-Senior Plcturs
Deadline November ISth
TOWNSEND STUDIOS
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