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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN Wednesday, April 17, 1940 M Editorial Opinion Comment Bulletin t Daily JVebmskan OHkittl Newipap 0 More Thm 7OQ0 Westa THIRTY-NlNTtTVEAR Subscription Rates are S1..00 Per Semester or 91.60 for tho Coilee Year. $2.50 Mailed. Single copy, S Cents, tit tered at second-class matter at the postoffice In Lincoln, Nebraska, under Act of Congress, March 3, 1879, and at special rate of postage provided for In Section 1103, Act f October 3, 1917, Authorized January 20, 1922. 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'ling 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 Monday nd Saturdays, vacations, and examination periods by stu dents of the University of Nebraska, under supervision off the Publications Board. Editor-in-Chief Richard deBrown Business Man ager Arthur Hill (dJiloriaffy S: )peahinj Inefficiency indicated in Eligibility Trouble Again Tuesday's election was postponed by the Stu . dent Council elections committee when a late rul ing of ineligibility on one of the candidates for Ivy Day Orator left one of the campus factions without a representative. Then yesterday the com mittee ruled that the faction could not have a sub stitute candidate's name printed on the ballot which would mean that the election colud have been held just as well on Tuesday as tomorrow. Such indecision and apparent ignorance as to just what to do is a serious reflection on the commit tee's efficiency in directing the Important busi ness of campus elections. Nor would it be neces sary to decide on these last minute mix-ups if clear-cut information regarding the election had been released in the first place. If there is not sufficient time between the clos ing of filings and the election to properly check eligibility of candidates and announce the results, then filings should be opened and closed sooner to allow time. If there is sufficient time now, then it is up to the elections committee to take a little more interest and avoid the confusion which seems to characterize all contests this year. On another Tuesday, February 27 to be exact, the DAILY was forced to carry a similar story on the very day of election to the effect that the names of two candi dates for Prom Girl previously released had been ruled off the ballot because) of ineligibility. Because of the lateness of the announcement, pictures of the ineligible candidates already had been taken and were run along with others in the group in the same issue of the DAILY which printed news of the elec tions committee's ruling. What excuse, what reason can be given for such situations? In the first place, the elections committee itself never appears to be too sure about the rules up to the time the polls open. More publicity should be given the exact qualifi cations which candidates must meet in order to be eligible to run. The Orator candidate ruled In eligible Tuesday was disqualified on a point never mentioned to the DAILY by the committee. Then filings should be checked in time to allow for due settlement of any questions which may arise as a result of rulings on eligibility. There should b none of this last minute business of notifying can didates, factions, and the voters themselves just what the situation Is. Rulings on all controversial points should be made early enough to eliminate ny protests made on a basis of contradictory statements and absence ef concrete facts. For ex ample, the question of women filing and voting for Ivy Day Orator has come up a number of dif ferent years. Yet this year, no definite ruling was made on the subject until the scheduled day of the election and then the ruling contradicted a earlier and supposedly official announcement. A woman candidate for Orator was not ruled Ineli gible until after filings had closed and until after she considered herself officially notified as eligible and her backers had started campaigning. The major trouble, insofar as the DAILY is concerned, is the same as frequently afflicts pub licity of other campus affairs. This is lack of a cen tral organization authority through whom all infor mation about an affair is iasued and who can be counted upon not only to publicise the facts but to Insurance the accuracy of those facts. In the ease of elections, it would seem that this authority should be the chairman of the elections committee. He should not only ascertain all necessary information in due time but he should see that it is made avail able to such agencies for dissemination as the DAILY. When such is not done the DAILY has to get its information from various sources which leads to contradiction, denial and general mix-up. The DAILY Is anxious to print accurate cam pus news and H makes an honest' effort to obtain It But when the authorities themselves disagree. It is inevitable that this Indecision is reflected In this newspaper's reporting. Certainly it Is to the best interests of all the sponsoring organiza tions, the DAILY, and the reading public that acts be given correctly the first time and In suffi cient time. A little more co-operation toward this end would seem in order. By Norbert MohttJtea UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA OFFICIAL BULLETIN 'This bulletin Is for tht use of campus organization, student and faculty members. Notices for the bulletin must be sent or brotiKht to the DAILY office bv 5 p. m. every day for Insertion In the paper the tallowing morning;. Notices must be typed or legibly written and signed by some one wMK the authority to have the notice published. The bulletin will appear, daily rseept Monday and Saturday, on page two of the NEBRASKAN. TODAY MATIN ER DANCK. Agwlar weekly lines janes J be kM ta the l aena ballroom at S p. m. Hiadonta most prroeoi Me(lflalea cards CHIEFS TALK. Activity on the war front yesterday confined Itself to reports from the various government chief tains as to the progress of the war. In France Pre mier Reynaud told the French senate that Germany had lost about one-third of her navy in the past week of fighting. The specific figures which he quoted were that 20 percent of Germany's cruisers snd 25 percent of the destroyers had been lost. These figures at first glance may appears rather high, but they are probably rather exact when one remembers that Nazi destroyers at the outbreak "of the war numbered only, slightly over 40, and cruisers, both light and heavy, and including the three pocket battleships were not more than 20 in number. To suppose that ten destroyers and four cruisers were destroyed is not hard to believe if one adds up the reports which came in during the week. Chamberlain meanwhile thundered away at the Nazis, still verbally, telling the national free church council in London that the German invasion of Nor way and Denmark showed that "no people, however meek, however peaceful they may be can be safe until this mad dog is destroyed." He reiterated his confidence that the monsters of wickedness" in Ger many would be destroyed our confidence would be bolstered if someone other than the Umbrella Man were shielding the British. U. S. GETS SLAP. The United States has been taking the real ver bal beating these days. A few days ago the Ger mans released documents supposed to be taken from Polish diplomatic correspondence which would seem to indicate that if there is to be any "war guilt" this time it is to live at the feet of the Americans, who through their U. S. ambassador supposedly gave the Poles such encouragement as to induce them to refuse the benevolent protection of the Germans. Only this week the other side took their turn as cer tain English officials accused the Americans of fos tering a war spirit and by indirection leading the old world into war. President Roosevelt receives todays slap, this time from the German press. In answer to the Presi dent's recent condemnation of the Nazi invasion of Norway the German press let it be known in no uncertain terms that they would appreciate it if the President would keep his nose out of European af fairs, which is apparently to be the province of the Nazis alone. The President, appealing for interna tional justice last Saturday declared that "if civil ization is to survive, the rights of smaller nations to independence, to their territorial Integrity, and to unimpeded opportunity for self-government must be respected by their more powerful neighbors." In re ply to this statement the Nazis state that "Europe demands that European affairs be regulated in a European manner and not according to American principles and interpretations." We can certainly agree that Europeans, if the Nazis are to be taken as examples, do not conduct their affairs in accordance with American views as to democratic principles of self-government Euro pean methods, personafied by Nazi aggression, which takes whatever it can by the force at its dis posal is certainly out of line with our "American principles or interpretations." I wander around wondering about things. Espe cially the way that we can twist this language of ours around. You too should wonder about the linguistic barriers I've wandered across. Do people who talk to themselves ever become boring? Why is it that when the world limb is mentioned, men never think of arms. Or trees? Isnt it imposing upon yourself when you tax your memory?- If people laugh up their sleeves be cause their funny bone is there? IShy the choke on the automobile isnt on the back seat driver? Do prise fighters go around wishing each other a slap happy New Year? If it isnt better to have halitosis than no breath at all? Why nature didnt make the mosquito a vegetarian? If leaving foot prints in the sands of time isn't a matter of just having big feet? Why more twins arent named Pete and Repete? Why husband-beating wives rent called "the batter half.' If the President cf today isn't just tha two cent stamp of tomorrow ? What happened to our girl Saturday? PRESBYTERIAN STUDENTS, Preabytertna staaoate wSI SMC he par lor X e4 taw I s Ion at noen. rappa phi. sH Phi will meat ss parlors X aai V 4 tha Unlan at 1 p. o. GAMMA ALPHA CM. Mamben of Guam Alpha, Cad wtM aseet ss ream S15 ef the Union at o, as, SIOMA ALTHA IOTA. Member of Sigma Alpha lota, wID meet ha roam Sit ef the) Union at t n. as, MV PHI EPNILON. Members of Ma Phi Lpoiloa w4H meet ha ream 316 ef the Union nt 1:99 a, m. HOME EC ASSOCIATION The Home Kcanomlca association will meet at 8:44 p. m. m the social rooms of the Home Ee bnllding. Srholnrshlps and loan funds which are available to Home l.c students will be discussed. All girls are welcome la attend. KAPPA PHI AND PHI TAU TRKTA. Dowltt Baldwin, secretary of the Board of Missions, located in New York 1 My, will spenk to a joint meeting of Knppa Phi and I'hi Tnn Tbeta Wednesday evening at 7 P. m. In pur lorn X and i' of the I'nion. Mr. Hnldwin will dlsoms the relationship of the college student ta missions and missionary work. TASSKU. Tussrls will meet at the Coliseum to usher for the Musical Jamboree at 1:30 P. ns OORNOOBS. Corncobs wB ease tickets as the nee dance at p. in. ta the Union ball roam. Meeting wUJ be postponed foe a weeU. Extra credit will be given to tarn robs who help Tassels asher at the Mwal enl Jamboree at the OeUseam at V:st THURSDAY p-rencm nuc Tha Preach CUrb will present the Preach film, "I Fla dn Jaar" la the Union bail roeta at 4 aad I n. THETA 810 MA PI. Tbeta Sigma PI will meet as parlor of Mae lintun at :M P. at. VOCATIONAL. LECTURE. Kea Rohlnson, continuity editor ef the central division ef NBC will speak as the Union In pnrlom XVI of the Union at t p. m. In the but meeting of the vocal to ' series sponsored by the AWS. The meeting Is open to aH stwaeats. Hobmson will hold Individual conferences m the fnrulty lounge from 1 ta 4 a. m. SCABBARD AND BLADE. Members of Nenbbnrd and Rlsde will meet la parlors XV of the Union at 7:1ft P. m. SINFOMA. Sinfonla will meet In parlor Z of the I'nion at noon. fiAMMA LAMBDA. Members of Gamma lambda will meet In room SIS ef the Union at 5 p. m. HAMK. The society of Anertcan Military K-ngl-neera wlU Buret In room SIS of the Union at 7 P. m. LUTHKRAN STUDENTS. Gumma Delta Bible class will meet at t p. m. in room 263 Temple. Tho meet ing will be the Inst meeting cf the semester. VX0 Reporter (Continued from Page I.) day, and if the women have a good speaker, she should be allowed to perform. No one can deny that women are good talkers." Lee Clare, business administration senior: "A man, of course, because it has always been a university tra dition to have a man as orator. I don't think we should break an established precedent now." Kathryn Park, arts and sciences freshman: Tm prejudiced. A man." Wally eleven, business administra tion senior: "I think we should allow the elections to be run as they have been run in the past. It's the cus tom to have a man and I don't think that the custom should be broken. Barbara Cook, arts and sciences sophomore: "I don't especially care whether it is a man or a woman, but I think they should both be allowed to run. A man's voice does carry much better than a woman's, however. Howard Zom, ag college sopho more: "I think the orator should be a man, but women should be allowed to run It's tradition though to have a man, and perhaps tradition should be followed. Marion Cooper, business adminis tration senior: "I think a man should be chosen, since a man's voice carries so much better in an outside cere mony. Men are also more inter esting to listen to. Clarence Johnsen, business admin istration sophomore: "It seems more appropriate for men to give orations, because they have a more powerful voice, and express themselves much more clearly. I don't think women should run." Marjorie Fouts: "Certainly a woman should be allowed to run. Since this is a co-educational school, women should have the same rights as men," Barton Baker, arts and sciences freshman: "Yes, let them have a woman orator. Except for the tapping of the new Innocents, Ivy Day is al most entirely ladies' day, and they might as well be allowed to have the orator, too. Profs participate in Writer's Guild meeting Several members of the univer sity faculty will participate in the April 27 meetings in Lincoln of the Nebracka Writers guild. Dr. R. A. Miller, director of university libraries, is chairman of the non fiction panel roundtable on whose program will appear Dr. M. S. Peterson and Dr. Ruth Odell of the department of English. Peterson will discuss "Organized Material for Biography," and Miss Odell will talk on "Unorganized Material fop Biography." Herbert Yenne of the department of speech and dra matic art is president of the guild, and Theodore Diers, radio director, is secretary. Coed (Continued from Page 1.) with John K. Sc-llek's office in ac cordance with the anrounced pio ceedure. Office approves filing. Selleck's office gave her appli cation the official approval, and Miss Miller started her campaign. She carried on her campaigning through Monday night under the impression that she was eligible and had been officially accepted as a candidate. The first notice she received that she was not a can didate for orator was in a story in yesterday's DAILY, telling of Clineberg's ineligibility, and that Bryce Smith, progressive, and Lyle Gill, Barb, were the only can didates. The elections committee, it appears, had not notified her that she had been disqualified on the grounds of the Council's rvling in April, 1939. I feel silly. Miss Miller told the DAILY yes terday evening, "I think the elec tions committee showed a lack of consideration or of common sense in not notifying me of my dis qualification earlier. After ail, I felt rather silly . . . campaigning, and then discovering at the last minute that I wasn't even on the ballott." Professor Lantz explained that the Student Council had ruled last year, when a similar controversy arose, that only men students were qualified to vote for the orator. Following this theme, Lantz con tinued, it was accepted that since men alone could vote, they should be the only candidates for the of fice. Women, it was ruled by the committee, efrcted the May Queen and nominated candidates for Mortar Board; therefore, men should be the sole participants in choosing the Ivy orator and in nominating Innocents. Liberals go to work. The liberal party, on the basis of the election committee's state- merits that women would be per mitted to vote this year a state ment that has been proven to be Inaccurate did an extensive amount of campaigning for their candidate, covering, in the course of their efforts, all sororities and organized barb groups. Dean LeRossignol is toastmaster at Texas meeting J. E. LeRossignol, dean of the college of business- administration, will be toastmaster Friday eve ning at a dinner meeting of the nation's business schools on the Texas university campus. Deans of the business schools are meeting in Austin from April 18 to 20 to discuss their educa tional problems at the 22nd annual session of the American Asrocia tlon of Collegiate Schools cf Busi ness. The three day meeting will fea ture addresses on such subjects as student placement, curricula, so cial lmp'icaliona of business edu cation and other problems. w