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i i THE DAILY NEBRASKAN Thursday, March" 21, 1940 Daily IVediiasmn O.'icia Nwnxwm Of Aloft ffcnn 7.000 Stumfc THIRTY-NINTH YEAR Offices Union Building Day 2-7181. Night 2-7193. Journal 2-3333 Member Associated Collegiate Press, 1939-40 Membsr Nebraska Press Association, 1939-40 Represented for National Advert'sing by NATIONAL ADVERTISING SERV.'E, INC. 420 Madison Ave., New York. N. Y. Chicago Boston Los Angeles San Francisco Published Daily during the school year except Mondays and Saturdays, vacations, and examination periods by stu dents of the University of Nebraska, under supervision of the Publications Board. Subscription Rates are S1..00 Per Semester or $1.50 for the College Year. $2.50 Mailed. Single copy, 8 Cents. En tered as secondclss matter at the postoffict In Lincoln, Nebraska, under Act of Congress, March 3. 1879, and at special rate of postage provided for in Section 1104, Act of October 3. 1917, Authorised January 20, 1922. Editor-in-Chief 777 Richard deBrown Business Manager .. Arthur Hill EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Managing Editors Clyde Martz, Norman Hrrls News Editore Chris Petersen, Luc'ie Thomas, Paul Svoboda, Mary Kerrigan, Morten Margolin Sports Editor June Bieroower Ag Editor Leo Cooksley Photography Editor Qeorge Ruyat Star Reporters This Month Bob Aldrich, Hubert Ogden, Elizabeth Clark, Marjorie "ipy. m BUSINESS DEPARTMENT Assistant Business Managers. .. .Burton Thiel, Ed Segrikt Circulation Manager Lowell Michael AIL DAILY HilrMl eeltariale are the UnUm ts 44tort. TtMtr views ar eptnlens la M way reflect the attt tae at M admlatateatioa of the anlversMjr. Jliloriallu peahin .Who must mok good The Prom Deficit or who else will be suckers? Each year as the spring season approaches, the momentous question of 'Who will plant the ivy?" begins to float about In the balmy air. This year another question, almost as momentous, has raised its head above the campus greensward like some freak of nature blooming out of season. And dif ficult as it is to concentrate on anything so wintry as the Junior-Senior Prom, the question must be answered, "Who will make up the Prom deficit?" One side of opinion holds that since individual council members signed their names to a state ment accepting financial responsibility of the Prom, those same individuals are obliged to make up the deficit out of their own pockets. Most of University officialdom holds to this view along with a few Council members who are impressed by the words, "moral responsibility", which these officials keep repeating over and over very solemnly. The other side of opinion, held to by most of the Council it seems, believes that Council members were acting for the Council as a whole rather than as individual students when they signed the paper now being held over their purses. In other words, the Student Council was the real underwriter of the Prom and any losses incurred by the affair, AS WELL AS ANY PROFITS, should be laid at the door of the organization and not its individual members. The Prom has made money in past years and THIS MONEY NEVER WENT INTO THE POCKETS OF COUNCIL MEMBERS It went into a Council fund, and no one suggested that this was not right and proper. Suppose that this year's Prom had ended up with a profit would there have been any question as to what to do with the surplus money on hand? Not at all, and one can paint quite an amusing mental picture of the expressions that would come over the faces of those same people who now insist individual Council members divide up the Prom loss if It were ever suggested that the individual Council members DIVIDE UP THE PROM PROFITS IN THE SAME WAY! In plain language, no one but a sucker would agree to take over the losses of a venture unless he alto were guaranteed the profits. If the of ficial decision handed down by Dean Foster and concurred in by other administration leaders is accepted as a just and proper solution of the deficit problem, then one must decide that tho Council members who signed were suckers. And If they are tuckers, It Is becatiM the administra tion officials, who insisted on the signing process at a requirement for staging of the Prom, did not make clear to them their responsibility in sign ing. Granted that the individual signers are financially-responsible under-the law, if they were not made aware of that when asked to sign, then taking their money now It about as just as taking the home away from a poor widow who signed 'away her rights to a city tlicker without realii Ing it. There is no question but that the Council has access to funds which could cancel the deficit. If it did not, it would be a different matter and no one would argue about Individual members' making good. But there is $75 in the current budget which was appropriated to send Nebraska delegates to a National Council convention that has not been used. Certainly using this money to pay a Council debt would be quite as good a way to spend it as to send delegates to a convention ' which has been I CvXjSfi Doris, Loos, Mohnken I 'Mac' soys . . We who are about to dye Easter eggs-Dramatic, eh? DALADIER OUT By Mary Jean McCarthy. Easter time's the time for eggs the time for eggs is Easter time. In a few days each and everyone of us, almost, will be dying Easter eggs or maybe just dying, but any way it will be fun to welcome the For the moment at least a more vigorous prose- 0id rare-bit again, but a great deal cution of the European war appears in the offing more fun to eat it. as yesterday's news reports from the old world ar- crrkkc i iir rive. Both in Britain and in France events promise jttMb Llrt a neater decree of war activity. Alpha Phi Barbara Hodgeman t P,.m,vP iMn,,.rH raiHir nd his likes variety, the spice of life All A ttUV tVMiivi -uvau w-u SO she and Sigma Nu Jim Kirkemdail have decided to try once more to make a go of things. Their first date in many weeks will take place after vacation, so here's wishing them smooth sailing. THE PHI PSIS are simply thrilled at the fact that spring is hear again and they can hurry home at noon from their classes to sit on their front step and waicn an or ine oeautltui gals go by. The girls any it's nice to see nUn Una IIAIU miMrnaA . " . . . f hi m n iiii fiiirr nn.i iiutt ci ilviivu w u a, . m 1 1 oKif -ooior p,.i n.vnaurt a.Uert to form VI. J. . T'"a. i lncir mo, ror u sort o.6.v .'v. j irnm Iieia X1M i-'jU wniuil iu that old familiar Bell. There's triad again. HAVE YOU SEEN Johnny Weingarten, Beta, gloat ing over the following headline: ST IN of inspires them to trudge wearily on. WITH SPRING Edith Knight and Bob WT kessf have decided It is much more fun to be together than to not be, so they have fallen into that steady line. a new cabinet. The fall of the Daladier cabinet doubtless Indicates popular reaction to the weak policies which the cabinet followed, not only in car rying on the war with Germany, but in sacrificing the smaller nations of Europe. The factor which di rectly led to the resignation of the Daladier caDinei DELTA GAMMA LOWES wu the weak vote of confidence which it received SOROfOTY RATING, which ap at ih. nH vf a air.t aainn in th U7au. Peared in the Hollywood Tribune. , , . The truth of the story being, that ,...-. The Camber gave Daladier a 239 to 1 vote of confl- Mr Koehle, Bettv o g dad. had 'A BICYCLE dence, but over 300 deputies refused to vote, and in & especially made before returning for two , -u th laUwt p,,,, accord with French parliamentary tradition the from his recent western trip just time since vesterday for a group . sis-a-fsssa je.?2' The uermans nave c no sen 10 view me uuwmau as a sort of 'gotterdammerung a decline of the OUR SEEN French. More realistic is the assertion that it may and heard.,,0f the day... Alpha well be the Nazi road that will become more dlf- Phi Nancy Halllgan having a jolly flcult Reynaud who has been finance minister in time in that super, glorious, beau- ' , ' ' . . . . . . . .fVt tiful convertible sedan of Beta the Daladier cabinet, and who has, along with Tom wkkJs Tom tQQ Georges Mandel been regarded as the most efficient and aggressive ministers in that cabinet, is a noted BLUE SKYS bitter foe of Naxiism. Should be agree to form a or Happy Days are here again. cabinet, it appears probable that there will be no for Kappa Mary Ella Bennett for more sacrificing of a Czechoslovakia, and few such 1 laughable defenses for failure to aid Finland as we have read the last few weeks. The Daladier government leaves behind it an unenviable record. Coming into power after the breakup of the Blum popular front government, Daladier remained in power by playing the extreme factions off against one another. Little use was made by the premier of the dictatorial powers he was granted except to restrict the liberties of the French worker and follow a diplomatic policy which found him outmaneuvered at every turn. The English, too, have evidenced a renewed In terest in the war. In the largest and most suc cessful air raid they have as yet staged, British KKG Joanne Lyman were seen, just gliding along with Sigma Nua Jack Lee, Jack Ainslev and Mason Mitchell. Ah spring. IT WILL soon be 'up in the air' for Phi Psi Carl Ousley and Sig Alph Hi Messmore who have passed their physicals and are practically on (See SOCIETY, page 5.) Ksimhr rinmacrw1 tha firman naval seaDlane base t w...ui.b 0 . 1 - on the Island or syit. me action was aouDuesa taken to avenge the earlier German attack on Sea pa Flow, and seemed In conformity with Cham berlain's newly-announced determination to the ef fect that "we intend to fight". As usual, repot Li as to the damage done are conflicting, the British ft claiming that tremendous damage was done, while the Germans pooh-poohed the effects of the raids. Danish sources report, however, that the damage was real, that several hangars were blazing ruins, an anti-aircraft battery wiped out, and the Hinden burg Dam, connecting the isle with the mainland was so damaged that train travel across the dan was stopped. Apparently the English air force is not yet ready to concede the supremacy of the Ger man air force as easily as have a considerable num ber of armchair air admirals. FIGURING FIGURES. The need for more definitive statistics relative to unemployment hat again been emphasized by the varying estimate! which have been given the president within the last few dayt. A memoran dum hat been tubmitted the pretident by hit eco nomic advisers which purport to thow that the United Statet ttarted 1940 with from 9 to 12 mil lion unemployed. The estimates submitted thus vary widely. The National Industrial Conference Board is the mot conservative in its estimate, listing slightly over ft million. The American Federation of Labor finds 10.2 million unemployed, while the CIO reaches the high limit of 12 million. The disparity is in general atKut the same which has been evidenced by the es timates of these various groups throughout the yeais past. found to be a useless expense. Or another way to pay off the debt would be to include it in next year's Council budget the same way that a profit would have been entered. There It no reason v.hy the Council at a whole should not make up the deficit since It hat bene fited from past profits. But jutt at turely there It no reaton why InJivldual membert should make up the deficit eince they could never benefit from profitt. To bring up technicalities of the law and budqet-maklng and talk of "moral obligation!" it to take an unfair advantage. To decide the matter purely from the ttandpoint of what would be mott just would be to pay the deficit from Council fundt. If Individual! are made to pay, then a precedent will be established which will make it Impossible for the Unlvertity ever again to get ttudentt to tign an agreement to under write a party. No one likes to be made a tucker. t : . s .... .V......... W.,,..,;....A-,. V -4. .y.y.m. .X '? 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