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Vol. 69, No. 51
Scorn arts
will lead
symposium
Religious leader is to
discuss improved human
relations today at 4
Herbert L. Scam ana, college di
rector of the National Conference
of Christians and Jews, will speak
on the topic "Education for Im
proved Human Relations" at 4
this afternoon in room S15 of the
Union. A fellow of the National
Lincoln Joumil and Star.
HERBERT L. SEAM ANS.
...Jews and-Christians.
Council on Religion In Higher Ed
ucation, Mr. Seamans has spent 26
years as director of college reli
gious activties, working- in Colo
rado, Washington and Ohio.
Following Mr. Seaman's speech
the University Council of Reli
gious Welfare will sponsor a sym
posium on the same subject, in
which three prominent faculty
members will participate. These
men are Dr. David Fellman, de
partment of political science; Dr.
Joyce Hertzler, chairman of the
sociology department; and Dr. O.
H. Werner, teachers college. Dean
F. E. Taylor, Doane college; Dean
F. E. Weyer, Hastings college;
and C. B. Schultz, assistant direc
tor of the university state museum
will also take part in the discus
sion. The symposium is to be pro
ceeded by a dinner in Union par
lors X, Y, and Z.
Dr. D. A. Worcester, president
of the Council on Religious Wel
fare, has invited the following col
leges and universities to partici
pate in today's progTam: Doane,
Hastings, York, Midland, Peru,
Wayne, Kearney, Creighton, Oma
ha Municipal university, Luther
college at Wahoo, and Concordia
college at Seward.
Student chairman in charge of
ararnjrements for the program
, are: Speakers committee, Esther
Stuermer, Lincoln; special events
committee, Doris Reddick, Lincoln;
conference and institute commit
tee, Rosemary Emmettt, Omaha.
Students have
been abstaining
or careful
Not one student was caught
with alcohol In his possession in
the stadium during the entire foot
ball season. Students have be
haved very well, aaxrd.ng to Ser
geant Regler of the campus po
lice. Any trouble that has been
caused has been by outsiders.
Drinking In the tadium as
whole has been considerably less
than In most former years. Prob
ably rigid supervision has had
much to do with the decrease. At
the Saturday game, 60 bottles
were confiscated by the officers
The temperature of the weather
probably had much to do with this
fairly large number.
Seven drunk men were taken to
the city jail and released later,
subject to call. One of them at
tempted to fight Regler in the
stadium, A man was removed
from the stadium because of ill
ness.
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Lincoln, Nebraska
Union to remain open
every day of vacation
The Union building will be
open every day during the
Thanksgiving holiday until 10:30
p. m. Of the service departments,
however, only the Corn Crib will
be open.
Fcllman lauds
convo guest,
Salvcmini
NU political scientist
describes Italian as
very vigorous speaker
Dr. Gacta.no Salvemini, Italian
foe of fascism who will speak here
Dec. 5, is a "very vigorous
speaker," according to Dr. David
Fellman of the political science
department, and Salvemini's talk
should be of considerable interest
to all students.
Fellman, who is well acquainted
with Salvemini, pictured the Ital
ian as stocky and wearing a short
beard.
"He has a definite set of con
victions for which he feels pro
foundly," Fellman said. "He is ex
tremely interested in preserving
the democratic system. Because
he was exiled from his native
land, he has a deep feeling for
democracy and a hatred of
fascism." I
Effective critic of fascism.
Salvemini has been called the
most effective critic of fascism
outside Italy." He will address two
campus groups Dec 5. "Will Mus
solini remain neutral?" is his
topic before a convocation at 11
in the Temple, and "What Is
Democracy" his topic at a Union
forum.
He speaks three or four lan
guages fluently. Dr. Fellman said,
and is the author of many books
and articles. His latest book is
Under the Axe of Fascism."
Others are "The Fascist Dictator
ship in Italy" and "Mussolini-
Diplomat." His articles have been
in Foreign Affairs, The New Re
public, and The Nation.
Former parliamentarian.
Dr. Salvemini was for many
years professor of Italian history
at the University of Florence. He
was a member of the chamber of
deputies during the post-war pe
riod. He refused to take an oath
of allegiance to Mussolini required
of all teachers and was smuggled
out of Italy by his students. He
went first to England, then came
to America.
Salvemini is professor of Italian
civilization at Harvard during one
semester each year, lectures at
the social research school in New
York, and has been a visiting pro
fessor at Yale and Stanford.
Ex-Daily staff member
Finds some gaiety in blacked
Oliver W. DeWolf, staff member and the ending came In a train
of the DAILY in 1932, left Omaha compartment at the famous Bren
three months ago for a vacation ner pass.
in Europe. On the day he landed
in London, war was declared.
the Associated Press. DeWolf was
called into service the moment he
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months. When the war settled port. Neither did they search very Jnfv ou" Cr to My Cof
down to a routine affair DeWolf dUlgenUy his baggage as he en- 'ee.' Coffee doesnt taste like cof
was released from service and JJL .w.Lw,th,r tn tee in Germany." according to the
took a trip across Germany to
Rome.
In a letter to the Associated
Press the former DAILY staff
member recounted the adventures
of his trip across Germany.
A 'Hell HiUer" and heart rend-
ing sighs or reiier irom iwo tjzecn
refugees marked the beginning and
end of DeWolf a journey across
belligerent Germany. The greeting
was extended when he landed at
airport a few miles outside Berlin
Students
Tuesday, November 28, 1939
'Leap Year1
party slated
for Dec. 16
Mortar Board prexy
announces committees,
says get dates now'
Setting Saturday evening, Dec,
16, as the date of their annual
Leap Year" party, Mortar Board
members launch plans for the sec
ond all-university affair of the
formal season in the coliseum.
Elizabeth Waugh, president of
the women's honorary and general
chairman of the event, announced
committees yesterday and stated
that active work has begun in
preparation for the party.
Marian Itfdd, appointed chair
man of the orchestra committee,
says that already a number of na
tionally popular orchestras have
been contacted and the only work
left is to pick the best.
Other committees.
In charge of the chaperones and
invitation list are Mary Steute-
ville and Melva Kime. Faith Med
lar is chairman of the committee
on ticket sales, Selma Hill is
chairman of coliseum arrange
ments, Janet Lau is making ar
rangements for the pre-party
Mortar Board dinner, and Helen
Kovanda and Fern Steuteville
have been appointed to handle the
publicity.
Elizabeth . Waugh, president.
says of the coming event: "With
only two school weeks remaining
until the Mortar Board party, we
suggest that girls seriously con
sider the matter of getting their
dates. We are planning the eve
ning to be the gala evening of the
social calendar and we want every
girl to make the most of the one
time in the year when we honor
the men."
Tassels, as In former years, will
handle the ticket sales. The open
ing of the campaign will be an
nounced soon in the DAILY.
Directory sales
better '39 mark
Sales of the 1940 Student and
Faculty Directory of the univer
sity are slightly higher to date
than sales of last year's directory
were at a corresponding time,
C D. Hayes, secretary of the uni
versity Y. M. C A., revealed yes
terday. At the present time ap
proximately 1,250 copies of this
fall's directory have been sold as
contrasted with 1,203 sold at this
time last year. Total sales for
the 1939 edition reached 1,350, the
last copies to be sold going to
summer school students.
Enters with comparative ease.
DeWolf. reported his surprise at
the ease with which he was able
to enter a belligerent nation. The
rmans offered him no objec-
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lanCe at it when he left
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His train trareL DeWolf said.
was simplified because he had a
transit visa and was enroute to
Italy to take an American-bound
vessel. But tho former DAILY
when U came to traveling by foot
thru blacked-out cities,
In Berlin he stumbled around In
the blackness with a companion
and finally groped his way to a
well known restaurant from which
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University and student officio's say implications
of Dies Investigator Wilson unfounded ai NU
Journal and Stir.
DEAN T. J. THOMPSON.
...interviewed by Wilson.
Journal and Star.
CHARLES W. TAYLOR.
. . .he wasn't.
Greek council
elects Hawks
Unanimous vote names
successor to Englund
Manley Hawks, Alpha Sigma
Phi, was elected by Interfrater
nity Council members to the presi
dency of the Council yesterday aft
ernoon. A unanimous vote of the
group placed Hawks in the posi
tion left open by the resignation
of Merrill Englund, Kappa Sigma.
Englund recently resigned his
position as president of the coun
cil in. order to bring his activities
within the limits set up by the
men's point system.
The Council also decided that no
representative would be sent to the
national interfraternity conference
to be held in New York City, Dec
1-2. Action on election rallies was
deferred until the next meeting.
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no light seeped thru blackened
windows and curtained doorways.
Inside, he said, all was gay and a
small orchestra pounded out the
popular tunes of the day.
Later DeWolf went to a restau-
wWch, waa J
mam open for wnyen ence of news
men. A lone pianist, he said, un-
Nebraska journalist.
The following night DeWolf was
guided by an English speakin
German across Munich to the Hofr
brauhaus where Bavarians smoked
long pipes and drank beer from
huce earthern mugs. The beer, De-
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a barrel behind a copper tub where
each indulger bathed his mug,
That same evening several nazi
party members who had been cut
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By Paul Svoboda.
The question of communistic
activities on the Nebraska campus
was scoffed at by university and
student authorities after Maj.
Hampton Wilson, special investi
gator for the Dies committee,
stated yesterday that practically
every institution of higher learn
ing in the United States was im
pregnated with communism
through agencies like the Amer
ican Student union.
University and student officials
said that they had heard of no
groups on the campus represent
ing the union, which Wilson al
leges is communistic in principle.
Visits school.
Dean T. J. Thompson reported
that he had been visited by the
investigator about six weeks ago
and after a lengthy discussion
with Wilson received the impres
sion that he believed that no sort
of un-democratic activity existed
here at Nebraska. But according
to dispatches received from the
United Press, Wilson declared
that various communistic promo
tion organizations were very
strong in the middle west imply
ing that it was probable that
there were "red" forces on the
Husker campus.
The DAILY has received letters
from the American Student union,
but like most mimeographed
press releases it immediately finds
its place in the editors waste bas
ket. Other releases of a similar
nature also find their rightful
place.
No indications.
"Nebraska is completely in the
clear so far as the school system
ij c:r.??rned," said State Super
lnl.J(L of Eu-uor Charles W.
Taylor. "There have never been
any indications whatsoever of
communistic promotion in our
educational mechanism. No one
has ever contacted me regarding
communism in the school." (Wil
son asserted in his report that he
had done so.)
Investigator Wilson said that
the report which he had submit
ted to the committee hearing was
based on an eight months tour of
50 colleges and universities and
discussions with state and school
board members.
Wilson, who was lent to the
committee by the Veterans ad
ministration, stated that "in prac
tically every institution of higher
learning ana in many city high
schools it was found that the
American Student union wps the
agency used in spreading commu
nism." Cites case.
The investigator cited one case
which came to his attention in
which a lady physician who served
as medical officer for the "com
munist" party in Spain was act
ing chairman of a city school
board.
The investigation branded the
union as a "noisy minority
wherever it exists" and said that
"it usually gets representation on
the school papers, if not full con
trol."
At ftie committee meeting, Wil
son read Into the records excerpts
from the "Communist," a maga
zine of the communist party,
which declared how important it
was to build the American Fed
eration of Teachers. Wilson testi
fied that the excerpt was read to
show the real significance at
tached to the repeated assertion
that the American Federation of
Teachers is strongly imbued with
communism."
Wants speakers.
The American Student union
and the Young Communists
league," Wilson declared, were
agencies to be utilized in the
spread of communism in schools.
The investigator stated that the
union was "forever seeking to
bring red speakers to the cam
puses and is active in sponsoring
red movements whether local or
national In -scope."
The Young Communists league,
he said, has flooded campuses
with literature, adding: "It is the
universal opinion that many thou
sands of dollars expended in this
way must of necessity come from
, Moscow."
