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With his relatives and friends
war machine, Prof. William Van
raphy, is watching with more than
The Netherlands. Born In Utrecht, Holland, about the size of Lincoln,
Dr. Van Royen is thoroughly familiar with the effect of European
wars on small nations. As a youth during the first World War he
beard the rumble of German big guns across the French border.
Hitler's collection of highly in
dustrial nations may be, in the fi- New York for a couple of years
nal analysis, the dictator's down-
f nil rather than his triumph in Dr.
Van Royen's opinion. What Ger-
many needs, ne says, is increased
agricultural resources and the
countrys which have fallen to nazi
rule are mainly industrial with
dense populations. That means
more mouths to feed, more in
dustry of which Germany al
ready has too much and the ne
cessity of looking around for still
I iirther conquest to supply
needs.
food
here Germany will look. Dr.
Van Royen doesn't know but he people into Nebraska, and you
thinks many Americans are living have a fair idea of density of pop
in a "fool's paradise" when they ulation there. In some places it is
laugh at possibility of German
conquest on this continent. "Per
haps they will have to turn either
to South America or Africa," he
tays.
Save our wind.
But we "might as well spare
ourselves the wind it takes to
tulk about it," he remarks. "N'jth
ing we can say will make the
slightest difference with what
goes on over there. However
Kausehnigg may be right in his
book when he says Hitler plans to
conquer the world. At least, we
had better keep our powder dry.'
Pointin to a hime mai) of The
Netherlands on his office wall.
speaking with his slight Dutch ac-
c t r.t, Dr. Van Royen explained the
detense situation. "Manv pennle
have a mistaken idea about flood
ing Holland. Only the southeast
ern area is low enough to be flood
ed. There are also water defenses
farther north. But here" h?
pointed to the greater part of the
country bordering Germany- -''there
is practically no defense ex
cept for the armies." (Lark of
resistence in this sector has born fundamentals of Economic Geog
Dr. Van Royen's statement out.) raphy done in collaboration with
He is not surprised at the turn 'vnt- N(,s A. Bepgston.
of events. "For the last eight years He despairs t the hatreds
I have been telling my classes the existing between (nearly all Euro
hlownn Is due. I was in Europe in Pl'a 'mtions. He found an example
'33 and it looked bad then. I left
Just before Czechoslovakia was
taken over. Last Christmas I was
at The Netherlands legation In
Washington. I was so sure it was
going to happen but they didn't
think that it would come. They
thought thev would at least have
time to eet some children out."
After attending the university
at Utrecht, Van Royen took two
years of graduate study In geog-
tsnhv at Clark university in Wor-
cester. Mass. Before Nebraska he
was connected with The Nether-
land chamber of commerce in
We had better
keep our powder
dry VanRoyen
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DAILY KEBRA8KAN lUff phot.
Aldrich.
in the direct line of fire of the nasi
Royen, assistant professor of geog
the usual attention happenings in
He came to Nebraska in 1930. It
was his first experience in teach
mg
Little chance for Dutch
He speculates on Holland's
chances. "The Finns at least had
their forests in which to retreat.
In Norway they have mountains
for some protection. But the only
way to find shelter in Holland is
to stick your head in the North
sea. In other words, there isn't
any.''
Disregard the northern nroiec-
tion of Holland, stick 80 million
comparable to China. To make
matters worse, there is very little
roeK with which to build bomb
shelters and concrete ones are not
nearly so good.
He used to live ten miles from
the Kaiser's retreat but never saw
the exiled ruler. "I saw his second
wife," he recalls. He says the
Dutch tolerated the Kaiser but
never welcomed him. In fact, feel
ing between Dutch and Germans
has never been warm.
As far as foreigners attempting
to wreck America from within.
Dr. Van Royen thinks "the com-
mumsis are pikers in comparison
,n ,!? nais- The Dies committee
should be more concerned about
n:1TiH "tirring up trouble In Amer-
ica hr'(l ';-S! about communists who
are a small minority."
Taking a moment in the midst
of cor.efrn with Europe to talk of
himself, Dr. Van Royen admits to
authorship of some 14 books and
articles and a host of breifer items
and reviews on geography. "We
annoy our students with this," he
says, referring to a bulky copy of
of Italian dislike (Of France once
n uaiy wnen, inquiring -directions,
he spoke in his college French. "I
could feel the temperature in that
r-m go down to zero." A by-
zander explained in Italian
which Van Royen can understand
but does not speak well that it
was obviously tho French of a
foreigner who had learned It In
scnooi. men mey became very
friendly, he says,
H Duce Imitates.
Mussolini had a hard time
working up a case against tho
Jews. U Duce imitates Hitler in
THE DAILY NEBRASKA
YMCA advisory
board to elect
six nev members
Six vacancies on the YMCA ad
visory board will be tilled at a
meeting of the city campus cabi
net May 21. Two faculty mem
bers and two professional or busi
ness men will be elected to the
board, while the ag campus cabi
net will also choose two members
from the ag faculty.
A summary of the year s activ
ity will be made, and a plan for
contacting freshmen next fall will
be discussed.
The advisory board, to be cho
sen May 2.1, will elect officers May
25, and consider the budget re
quest to be presented to the Com
munity Chest. Robert Howard
and Elton Newman will give re
ports of Y activities during the
year.
Reich produces 80 percent
of country's foodstuff needs
By Mary Bell Haumont.
In spite of Germany's efforts
since 1934 to achieve national self
sufficiency in foodstuffs, she pro
duced only about 80 percent of her
total requirements in 1938, which
was the same proportion she pro-
duced from 1909 to 1914. Although
nearly complete self-sufficiency
has been reached in the supply of
sugar, potatoes, bread grains,
cabbage, carrots, plums, and
cherries, the German production
of meat, edible fats, and oils re
mains far behind normal require
ments. Populace undernourished.
According to official German
statistics of 1937 and later devel
opments, Germany entered the
present war with a large propor
tion of its population already in
adequately nourished. This fact
alone probably will not cause
much trouble during the first year Russia would need her field work
of the war but Germany's stay- ers for sok'.iera, and Germany
ing power and the health of those would need Rushian grain. In
not receiving special rations may France, Belgium, and Holland, a
be seriously endargercd in a reduction in winter grains has not
longer war. Patriotic Germans been made up for by spring seed
may feel noble sending an im- ings because of the late spring
poitant part of each day's rations and a labor shortage due to mo-
to tneir soldiers at the front for a
while, but hungry people some
times forget to be noble.
Conquest of other European
American . . .
Collegians think government
should give medical aid
Br H4rl OpinUm Svrvrjr
AUSTIN, Tex.. May 17. A
great majority of American col
lege students, 83 per cent, is of
the opinion that the government
should provide medical care for
those people who cannot afford It
themselves.
That is what interviewers for
the Student Opinion Surveys of
America from one end of the coun
try to the other discovered in this
week's sclentif;c poll of college at
titudes. The survey points to a uniform
ity of opinion in every section of
the country, but there is a slight
difference between two classes of
students, working and non-working.
Those who earn all or part
of their college expenses, and who
therefore belong in a lower-income
group, are more inclined to believe
that medical Insurance is a func
tion on the question asked:
Do you believe the govern
ment should be responsible for
providing medical care for peo
ple who are unable to pay for
It?
Working Non
All Students working
everything. Germans look down on
Italians and visa versa.
America? "We are the richest
nation da .the worldi We fcave.thp
majority of the world s supply of
coal, iron, oil. We have most of
the gold and we had better keep
an eye on the safe."
"We are dependent upon the
Dutch East Indies for our rubber
snpply. The average person doesn't
realize how much we need rubber
In industry. Also, most of our tin
comes from there. If Japan takes
these from England, what will we
d? There la no use burying our
heads in the sand over these mat
,ter."
'Model T of aviation ...
Pursuit ship rests in cellar
of mechanical engineering
By Ralph S. Comb.
With the Importance of modern
aviation in warfare being stressed
day after day, we marveled at the
flimsiness, the wobbliness, the un
stableness of the ancient relic
of a plane used by the army in
flying days of the past an old
single-seat, V-type eight cylinder
motor pursuit ship in the base
ment of mechanical engineering
building.
This "model T" of aviation was
given to the mechanical engineer
ing department by the army. The
countries won't help much, either,
because the acreage for all win
ter and spring grains is much be
low normal over much of F.urope
and Part9 o Russia. Reasons for
the decrease are the severe win-
ter, a late spring with serious
floods, and mobilization. Floods
were unusually severe in the
Danube basin, and field work had
barely begun by mid-April. The
Danube countries probably will
plant a large acreage to corn and
other late crops. .
Official reports.
In Russia, only 5 percent of the
total plan had been seeded by
April 10, according to official re
ports. This Is apt to be serious for
both Germany and Russia if they
would decide to join forces against
Sweden or the Balkan states, for
bilization. Newly-captured Den-
mark also reported that her grain
crop probably will be below nor
mal, because of the severe winter.
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Frowned upon by the American
Medical association, the idea has
often come up, especially aince
the new deal and its relief and
social security agencies have come
Into existence.
Among the general public the
feeling has been almost identical
as among students, for the Ameri
can Institute of Public Opinion,
even as far back as June, 1938,
found 81 per cent answering yes
to the same question above
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army stipulated when they gave
the plane, that it must not be
flown (as if it could be). And so
today, it rests in the cellar along
side half a ruined army training
plane, and amid propellors, mo
tors, instruments and souvenirs of
ancient aviation.
We marveled.
We looked at this plane today.
And we marveled. Compared with
war planes in use today in nearly
every civilized nation, this archaic
ship with its salt-cooled exhaust
valves and its approximately 24
foot wingspread is a baby. We
looked in wonderment at this
ramshackle crate (they were
called crates in those days). We
stared and wondered how pilots
of the last World war managed to
keep them in the air, let alone
try and fight an enemy ship.
The Curtiss-built plane with an
Hispano-Sousa engine has a wing
spread of 24 feet; Its gasoline
tank holds 31 gallons, with a fivs
gallon reserve; its motor was water-cooled;
an intake valve just
above the propellor shaft provided
the air-power to work the super
charging mechanism. Truly, it
was a pioneer.
Hard life.
The fabric was torn. On th
wings, on the fuselage, on the
tail-assembly, dust and holes and
rips were evidence of a hard life.
The story of a life of wear and
service and hardships were related
by these marks. We couldn't find
ny bullet-holes. Perhaps there
had been some. If there had been,
they must have been patched. Per-
naps no enemy slugs had ever
ripped thsir way thru this par
ticular plane now buried in the
basement of M E building.
Tires were gone. The bare
wheel-rims rested on the concrete
floor. The rubber must have rotted
nd fallen away. The tires, when
they had been on the wheels, were
probably solid-rubber, and did not
do much to ease the jolt of a
landing.
Ruvt eats.
The engine-hood was eone. The
cylinders, the spark-plugs, the en-
'is of the battered motor were
exposed. Rust had grown on the
metal of the motor. Rust had
eaten where oil no longer pro
tected. The motor, even in its best
day's, had been none too good when
compared with the motors of to
day's planes. When compared with
the mighty, multi-horse powered
motors of the fighting planes of
Hitler, of Stalin, of Churchill, of
ueynaud. of Uncle Sam this mo
tor was about as powerful as tha
engine that runs a washing ma-
hine. Top speed for an old Plane
like this was about 100 miles per
hour, but they seldom flew faster
than about 85, except when in a
power-mve.
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