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Wednesday, April 17, 1940 Opinions on Parade THE DAILY NEBRASKAN Texas survey fops student opinion throughout nation Students throughout the nation feel that the opportunities for approve the institution of com- most young men and women to putsory educ.U cou, to &gU?SJE the college curricula, according to xhe Btudent survey is conducted a survey made by the Student by the various college newspapers Opinion Survey America headed by means of personal interviews, by Joe Belden at the University The individual reports are sent of Texas. The Survey reports that into the office at the University 61.9 colelgians gave positive of Texas and tabulated. Joe Bel answers to the question. den, a Texas student, instituted Coincident with this opinion the the survey and because of its students of the nation feci that success he is considered one of the higher education is not meeting most outstanding collegians in the present day needs, but do they nation. COLLEGE LIFE AND EDUCATION Do you believe professional football will some day become more popular than college football 7 NO 79.070 Should compulsory class attendance abolished? Should sex education courses be Do you work to pay all or part of your college expenses? Yes 47.2 Do you think education is meeting present day needs? ..No 60.5 Should college newspapers limit their editorial stands to campus problems, or should they discuss national and international questions also? Campus 36.0 National 64.0 Do you believe college education should be mainly technical and professional training or should it emphasize a wide cultural background? ,. Technical 17.0 Cultural 46.0 Both 37.0 SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC Should the United States offer a haven in this country for Jewish refugees from Central Europe? No 68.8 Do you believe a blood test before marriage to detect venereal disease should be required by law? ....Yes 93.1 Do you think college students drink too much? No 65.2 Do you ever drink? Yes 60.0 If you had to make a choice, which would you prefer, fascism or communism? Communism 56.4 When you reach the age of 65, do you think the government should pay you a pension? Men No 66.0 Women No 44.0 Both 63.0 How much do you believe you will be able to earn from your first job after you leave college? $75 or less 11.0 $75 to $100 20; $100 to $125 38; $125 to $150 16; $150 up 15 NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL Do you approve of the policy to strengthen the U. S. army and navy for the protection of all nations in the Western Hemisphere? Yes 62.0 Generally, do you approve of Roosevelt today as President? December, 1938 Yes 62.8 January, 1939 Yes 65.5 February, 1939 Yes 63.2 December, 1939 Yes 61.9 Would you like to see Roosevelt run for a third term? December, 1938 Yes 27.2 January, 1939 Yes 28.2 November, 1939 Yes 31.8 February, 1940 Yes 39.5 If the U. S. went to war for other reasons than the defense of the country, would you volunteer? (Men Only) No 80.3 If England and France were in danger of defeat and the U. S. send troops to help them? No 64.0 If England and France were in danger of ddefeat and the U. S. declared war on their enemies, would you vol unteer? (Men Only) No 58.0 Do you approve of the U. S. selling planes to the so-called democratic countries and not to the so-called dictator countries ? Yes 52.8 Do you believe our present neutrality law can keep us out of war? No 93.3 Do you agree with Congress in reducing relief appropria tions? Yes 63.3 Should the Constitution be changed to require a national vote before the country could draft men to fight over seas? Yes 54.3 If Roosevelt is not a candidate in 1940, whom would you like to see elected President? May, 1939 November, 1939 Paul V. McNutt 17.7 Thomas E. Dewey 33.8 Thomas E. Dewey 156 Do you think England and France should accept Hitler's peace proposals for the sake of world peace? No 87.0 Do you believe the United States can stay out of the pres ent European war?... Yes 68.0 Feeders (Continued from page 1.) bandry department, announced yesterday. Ross Miller is in gen- eral charge of arrangements for the program. Innovation. An innovation is planned this year In the form of a baked foods show, featuring foods baked with . , t. . , . lard as the shortening. Lntries are "open to the world" and farm and city women are urged to send to the ag college for entry blanks There will be five classes in the show. A smoked ham goes to the winner of each class with the sec- ond place product getting a cured bacon and mira piaceiive pounus of ard. The packing firms donat- ing the prires are Armour's. Cud- ing prises in colleges be Yes 63.5 made compulsory? Yes 61.9 Paul V. McNutt 11.0 Omaha; and the Lincoln Tacking company here. There will be a barbecue again this year. Held for the first time last year, the event attracted con- sidcrable attention, Two Hereford heifers already have been slaughtered for the bar- becue thl" y- Mor PO"nd boneless beef will be put jntth P,i,t,1near the "l"dPnt c: tivlties building at midnight, and wU, regdy gerve foUow. mg day Experimental stock. Meanwhllc iivcstock men at the .,, o" are getting their data to- gether for the experiments which wn be reported on during the day. About U(J h d f th exp(rlmen. .... -, . ., . . . tock will be on display during College press co-operates in nose-count The nation's college press, al ways ready to choose up sides for a healthy editorial slugfest, is in virtually unanimous agreement this week on one topic that has stirred bitter debate in other quar ters. The national census, those who guide the student publications be lieve, is not taking undue liberties by prying into private lives. Stu dents in the nation's colleges and universities are being advised to co-operate fully in the decennial nose-count. And they're being re minded that statistics available only through the census are vitally needed in solution of the nation's ills. The Census bureau, it is pointed out by the Glenville, W. .Va., Teachers College Mercury, "needs in two ways the help of students in the gigantic task of assembling facts about 132 million Americans: First, by making sure that their parents will report them to the census enumerator, and second, by supplying their parents with cer tain information they will need in order to report on them accurately. The University of Kansas Daily Kansan, while conceding that "the list of questions Uncle Sam has prepared for his Q-Men to ask are personal and intimate as well as multitudinous," adds that "co-operation with the 1940 census tak ers In every way, by every person in the country, will pay dividends In a number of ways." Pointing out that revealing of financial secrets in income tax re turns has stirred no storm of dis approval. The Daily Iowan at the University of Iowa observes that a more universal survey occurring only once every ten years should not meet with any resentment. More important than the mere ac cumulation of figures is the neces sity for full data for use in a long needed attack on the unemploy ment problem. "Two things," believes the Uni versity of Minnesota Daily, "should keep the census above political taint. In the first place, the ques tions for the new census are not the product of a few bureaucrats, but have been prepared over a fairly long period with the aid of suggestions from private citizens and organizations. In the second place, if the government is to con tinue in the new social and econo mic era of public welfare, it must have fuller statistics to perform In national poll . . . Students turn thumbs down on ghost writing1 for themes H4tt4tFt OfAnAvM Mtwf of ARtffA AUSTIN, Tex., April 14. "Ghost writing," the practice of preparing themes and reports for some one else's class work, gets a thumbs-down expression of opin ion from three-fourths of Amer ican college students. What may be more surprising to some, however, is that the other fourth is either indifferent or openly in approval. These are the results of a poll conducted by the Student Opinion Surveys of America, collegiate sampling or- ganlzatlon of the undergraduate press, or which the DAILY NE- BKASKAN is a member. "What Is your opinion of the practice of students paying ghost writers to prepare themes and term papers for them?" was the question presented to a scientific cross section from coast to ooatt Disapproving were 75 percent; indifferent were 10 percent; ap proving were 15 percent. Answers to the query were tab ulated by the interviewers in five different categories to indicate the Intensity of feeling on this issue. DAVIS SCHOOL SERVICE "A Good Teacher $ Agency 1918 1940 COME IN AND SEK US 43 Stuart Building Nebraska students will take no peace at Hitler's price By Bob Sohlater. you give Htiler enough rope. h Adolph Hitler is out to conquer will hang himself (I .hope) and the world. This- seems to be the ?ave. the democracies of the world common belief about the one man Y1 , . team in Germany according to Adn Dobson, and cin0 public opinion in this country. He 5Sn ' . , , , , has absorbed the small countries They should never accept such of Central Europe and is now mak- a peace because there would be no ing a not too successful campaign peace. It has been proven before on the Baltic tnat Hltler cannot be taken for . . ,. . his word. Why give him another Many people believe that Eng- chance to go back on a promise? mi.u uuu nance bnuum aaqji a German peace proposal for the sake of world peace. Nebraska students answered this negatively in most cases. The question was: Do you thjnk England and France should accept Hitler's peace pro posals for the sake of world peace and why? Elton Wiley, engineering junior. I don't think thev should ac- cept a proposal. There is a definite ucuu iuwiu uicunorsmps hi h,u- jng four or f,ve years ago. rope with England and France the jean Craig, arts and science fresh only really democratic countries man: left. It is up to them to maintain 1 think there should be world the position of democracy for the peace but not at Hitler's price, smaller countries in Central Eu- if lhere were a treaty it would be rope. Naturally England is going one sided. to fight for selfish reasons, mostly Bob Sandberg, arts and sclenoe economic. Germany could have junior: gotten the colonies she wants if 1 don't believe England and she had played her cards right. France should accept a peace pro Mary Adelaide Hansen, arts and posal because they shouldn't ac- sclence sophomore. cept anything that Hitler proposes. No, they should never accept Anything he proposed now would such a peace. It wouldn't settle probably leave him in a position anything. You cannot take Hitler to take anything further he want- at his word so how could these ed when he wanted it. Even if they countries be sure it was a peace can't get rid of him, they will have and if so how long would it last to put him in a position where he I still maintain, althought, that if can no longer dominate Europe. Registrar's office . Releases survey of Honors Day lists over last decade, "Two students in the university has had the following number of have had their names on the students represented: Honors Day list for seven years," Miss Florence I. McGahey, regis trar, stated following a recent study of all Honors Day studertts since the first Honors convocation in 1929. Three thousand six hundred and seventy-eight students were in cluded in this survey, four of which were on the honor roll six years, 22 five years, 287 four years, 439 three years and 788 two years. Class representation. During the ten years eacn class These results are given below : Strongly opposed ...54 percent Mildly opposed 21 percent Indifferent 10 percent Mildly In favor 8 percent Strongly to favor.... 7 percent Significantly, it may be noticed that a majority of students, 54 percent, Is In the strongly opposed class. Also, the trend of approval, looking down the preceding row of figures, dwindles down to a mere 7 percent at a rapid rate. The chief argument of those who favor ghost writing is that In effect It often helps students by giving them more time to study for more important and pressing courses. On the other hand, the majority of those opposed con demn it as plain scholastic dis honesty. FLOYD SHAW & His Cheyenne Mountain Dancers ) Saturday, April 20, 1940 ,.. Hacr. ennineerina soDho- more. No. Hitler wouldn't keep his promise no matter what he says. This has been proven from past experience. I believe they should fight the war until he is defeated. If they stop the war now Hitler will get another foothold and then begin a new conquest. England and France s bur mistake was wnen they didn't begin the fight- Freshmen 1954 Sophomore 1476 Junior 1313 Senior 929 First Professional year 215 Second Professional year 175 Third Professional year 160 Fourth Professional year 103 (Law, Medicine and Dentistry only.) Students in University the first Bemester of 1939-40 had the privi lege of associating with 784 former honor students. Only two of these were freshmen. The other classl fications and the number repre sented were: Sophomore Junior Senior First Professional year Second Professional year Third Professional year "Fourth Professional year Graduate College 187 212 207 21 14 29 39 73 From the total number of stu dents recognized for scholastic achievement 1,850 have received one degree; 388, two degrees; 27, three degrees and four have re celved four degrees. NCA names Oldfather delegate to convention Dr. C. H. Oldfather, dean of the arts college, has been appointed delegate of the North Central As sociation of Colleges and Sec ondary Schools to represent the association at the annual meeting of the American Council on Edu cation in Washington, D. C, May 3 and 4. Grant Memorial Hall 7:30 Adults 40c Sponsored by Lincoln Physical Education Club Will give program of Early American, Mexican and Cowboy Dance aliy, Swift's, and Wilson's in Uie day.