Wednesday. Octobt 5. 1939
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The DAILY NKRKASKAN
$$QC.hris Peterson
BY WAY OF EXPLANATION:
In answer to a number of
queries on the birth and continua
tion of this little daily endeavor,
today's space is donated to the
cause of explanation.
First of all, everything in this
column is not original. If it was,
I'd lie understudying Bugs Baer
or Bob Benchley. But we do try
to make as much of it original
as possible. And even that is not
too easy a job.
I
I've always contended that there
Is nothing like a augh or a bit
of amusement regardless of its
origin. A good humorist is worth
his wit in gold!
For the past two years, material
has been saved for this column.
When we heard a good crack, it
was tabbed. When we read a
tickler or were struck by a seem
ingly punny idea, it was entered
in the little book. Later they were
whipped up into individual col
umns. We have tried to do our best.
But like everything else, we have
our good and bad days. So stick
with us through the thin and then
try to enjoy the thick.
221 take Cornhusker
pictures; 174 are girls
Two hundred and twoney-one
pictures for the 1940 CORN
HUSKER have been taken. One
hundred and seventy-four of these
can be attributed to the weaker
sex, leaving the total of 47 for
men's organizations. Ti Beta Phi
leads the group with 53 pictures,
Delta Gamma is second with 47
and Tri.Delt third with 24. "
A. T. O. is high with 16 in the
fraternity competition, followed
closely by Phi Dclt with 14 and
Beta with 10. Nine of the men's
groups have not submitted a pic
ture thus far.
Say student directory
will be out by Nor. 1
With the last corrections in the
new student directory completed,
the book will be ready for dis
tribution by November 1, accord
ing to an announcement made
yesterday by the editors of that
publication.
.pOLLEGi:;
By Ed Wittenberg.
War
... as viewed in the columns
of college newspapers over the
country is the subject of today's
effort. In bringing to students the
latest developments in Europe by
means of press services and in
publishing professional interpreta
tions of the conflict, America's
college publications are perform
ing a real service.
Students are spanked
... by the Duke Chronicle for
their apathy toward world-shaking
events in general and toward
the Second World War in particu
lar. The editor claims that college
students have little desire to learn
more about the war and warns, "If
we know little or nothing of the
facts, . . . decisions will be de
pendent wholly upon our emo
tions." We wish to contest one state
ment. Says the editor, "The world
would be a wonderful place if all
the people in it were like us the
college students of today."
Dr. Thomas Mann
. . . writes the faculty editorial
for the Daily Princeton ian in an
issue early this month. Thomas
Mann, eminent novelist and self
exile from Nazi Germany, is at
present lecturer in the Humanities
at Princeton, With no hedging, he
places all war guilt at Hitler's feet,
saying, "The full weight of respon
sibility falls upon the head of that
fatal man a people sadly unedu
cated in politics regarded as its
great man and leader."
Dr. Mann concludes his editorial
with "Two wishes:"
May America succeed in keep
ing out of war and preserving
herself for a better future; and
may this be done not with
apathy towards Europe's fate,
but in a spirit of responsibility,
and in the maintainance of an
active moral as well as economic
neutrality.
Treatment
...of war news in the various
college dailies varies in each pub
lication. Those which are fortunate
enough to have press services, and
there ai'e many, take full advan
tage of their opportunity to bring
full war coverage to student read
ers. Some papers, such as the Daily
Texan, which subscribes to INS,
carry the latest developments in
a box labeled "War News" or
something similar. The Daily Cali
fornia plays up war news, which
comes to it via United Press, even
placing the biggest stories above
campus news.
Other college dailies which do
not have the advantage of a press
service give full coverage of all
events on the campus connected
in any way with war or peace.
Petitions, speeches, interpretative
columns, editorials -all these are
published in the hope of giving
students a more complete picture
of the war and peace fronts abroad
and at home.
Brazilians
enjoy U. S.
and Lincoln
Speaking English with remark
able facility for a couple who have
only been in United States for one
month, Edgung Alencar, graduate
botany student from Brazil, and
his vivacious Italian bride of six
weeks struggled valiantly with the
fine points of the language as they
answered question after question
about their Brazilian experiences
and their impressions of the
United States.
Mr. Alencar, a professor in the
state agricultural college of Vi-
cosa, state of leraes, Brazil, is
spending a year at Nebraska tak
.ing courses in plant ecology, plant
physiology and plant cytology.
Mrs. Alencar, the daughter of
Italian colonists in Brazil, keeps
house for her husband in their
apartment at 1421 R street
Like people the most.
"We like the people the most;
they are very kind to us, they are
very glad, replied the Alencars
when asked what one thing they
liked best about our country.
Mrs. Alencar joins enthusiastic
ally with her husband in praising
life in United States and finds liv
ing here very enjoyable, although
she adds the words "if it weren't
so far from Brazil." Further ques
tioning revealed the fact that she
sometimes gets a little homesick
and that her days do not pass
quite as quickly as those of Mr.
Alencar.
When asked about the govern
ment of Brazil Mr. Alencar replied
that altho Brazil now has a dicta
torial form of government headed
by Getulia Vargas "the govern
ment is not very hard."
Brazilians love liberty.
"The Brazilians are a liberty
loving people," added Mr. Alencar.
"We like the United States gov
ernment but we do not like the
Russian and German govern
mental said Mr, Alencar in an
swer to a reporter's question, "and
we like the Italians of course
(with a nod toward his wife) but
we do not like Italy's govern
ment." When discussing dancing Mrs.
Alencar did the talking. "He's just
learning," she said referring to her
husband, "but I like to dance very
much. We dance the tango, the
rhumbs and the fox, only the fox
is different from yours. The music
here and at home is also different
We have four large casinos in my
home town."
Don't like Germans.
Speaking of che peoples found
in Brazil the Alencars declared,
"We do not like the Germans very
well. They speak their own lan
guage and do not mix much...
Ttfere are lots of Italians in South
America. There are few Indians
in our state. Disease and alcohol
have resulted in the extermination
f some of the tribes. There are
quite a fw Negros in Eras' But
Brazilians are not Negroes. That
is a surprise to lots of people
here."
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HERBERT HOOVER OUTLINES PROGRAM
TO KEEP THE U. S. OUT OF WAR. From his
experience in the last war, Herbert Hoover speaks
out in this week's Tost with an authority in many
ways unrivalled by any living American. Read his
five-point program for the U.S. in We Must Keep Out.
An explosion aft. The sound of rending steel.
Light bulbs broke in their sockets; men were
thrown off their feet. The connlng-tower eye porta
were under. She was going down f ast, now. Seventy,
elghtyfeet.ThedestroyerpasseddirectlyoTerhead."
We promise you an exciting experience In this
week's Post. A pulse-thumping story of how It feels
to be in a U. S. submarine. Scouting the enemy.
In the heat of battle. Here's a story of modern
submarine warfare told with photographic clarity
by a man who has seen service under seas.
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by Alec Hudson
"COO!" SAID THE SUBSTANTIAL BLONDE,
ACCORDING TO P. G. WODEHOUSE. When Freddie
Widgeon took Bingo's baby to the beach to get a whack of ozone
. . . When the well-nouribhed blonde with golden hair flung ber
arms around Freddie . . . (It's no use! We defy anyone to describe
this plot! It's 944100 pure Wodebouse!)
DETECTIVE IN A WHEEL CHAIR. Rather odd that Aunt
Sue was giving the detectives precise instructions for finding the
kidnapers of her nephew. But even from her wheel chair she had
a hawk-eyed way of noting trivia others overlooked. Read Mitt
Uaelest and the Underworld by Almet Jenka.
STEPHEN VINCENT BENET BRINGS YOU A MEMO
RABLE SHORT STORY . . . ZWW Webster and the Idet of
March, a simple, moving story of how the history of the United
States was changed by one casual visit of Mr. Webster's with a
hermit in the New Hampshire mountains.
GRANTLAND RICE INTRODUCES THE WORLD'S
GREATEST GOLF TEACHER. Here he is, duffers. The
Malignant Morrison, who has the whole exasperating game
boiled down to eight simple words! ALSO . . . stories, editorials,
cartoons all in this week's Poet
HOW UCH ARE
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
PLAYERS PAID?
And when pay gets so high the blow-off comes,
what happens to the school ? Francis Wallsos, sports
authority, takes you through the complete cycle of
paVi bigger pay, championship teams, then school
explosion as it happened at the Univeraity of Pitts
burgh. Uncovering actual financial records for you, he
reveals startling facta. In two parts -both plenty hot!
Test Case at Pitt
by FRANCIS WALLACE
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