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facleifiite voile at today pol Class prexy races main factional battlegrounds rffo Iaily II Iebrasim Ofl'idal Newspaper 0 More Than 7,000 Students Vol. 40 No. 38 Lincoln, Nebraska Tuesday, November 12. 1940 1 Sister rules in 'Double Door' Family dictator is central idea V'- 11 11 '-"""ipr" " - f "" " ' 'I P ft " Xr ,14 i ; jii Ritl It Art I IF -Tl ft uncoln journal Pictured aKoe.art Mildred Manning and Virginia Thede who carry top roles in the University Theatre's forthcoming production, "Double Door" which will show for the first time tomorrow evening. Today's election candidates Hortense Casady Betty Groth Janet Harris Honorary Colonel pha.,c eaalU ,. (AH students vote fo Margar.f Maurine .. f Nebraska Sncellieatl (All students vote for 1) Virginia Bergsten Marian Bowers Yvonne Costello Ruth I vers -n Charlotte StM Dorothy Wi j Prince Kosmet (All women vote for 1) Forrest Behm Keith Cilmore Ed Huwaldt Tom Horn Robert O'Connell Frank Roth Harry Seagren Dale Tinstman Ralph Worden Senior Class President (Seniors vote for 1) Warren Alfson John McDermott John Stoddart Junior Class President (Juniors vote for 1) Fred Meier Prom Committee (Juniors and Seniors vote for 3 men and 3 women) Vike Francis Gilbert Hueftle Jean Burr Jean Carnahan Frances Drenguis Mary Adelaide Hansen Jean Humphrey Ruth Huston Mary Jean McCarthy Miriam Rubnitz Shirley Russel Betty Jean Spalding Harriet Talbot Flavia Ann Tharp George Abel Norman Davis Phil Ford Raymond Grossman Boyd MacDougall Chris Petersen Blaine Sloan Donald Steele Marvin Thompson of Tlieatreplay Miltlred Manning plays principal role as second drama opens Wednesday Dictatorship is the central theme of "Double Door," Univer sity Theatre production scheduled to open Wednesday. But it's not the kind of dictatorship we're ac customed to reading about on the front pages. The dic tator, in this case, is Vic toria Van Bret, played by Mil dred Manning. As the center or the play around whom the action revolves, Miss Manning is seen as the proud, dominating head of the unusual Van Bret family. Victoria's absolute dominance over her sister Caroline, played by Virginia Thede, and her half brother. Rip. played by Max Whit- taker, is broken when Rip mar ries his nurse, Anne Darrow, por trayed by Roberta Estey. Victoria Newman club will hold a mixer (See THEATRE, page 4) Initial debate tryouts set for Thursday Contestants to argue on hemispheric union; filings remain open Intercollegiate debate teams will initiate this year's competition when tryouts are held Thursday, Nov. 14, at 7:30 p. m. The place is U hall, room 106. The question will be: "Resolved that nations of the western hemisphere should form a permanent union." Thus far the lots of those men who have signed up place Roy Byron, Harry Rinder and George Blackstone on the affirmative and Edwin Carraher and Robert Cham bers on the negative side. Newman Club hears Hubbard Glacier priest relates Alaskan experiences Calling Alaska the land of promise and dispelling rumors that the United States had any thing to fear from aggressor na tions, the "Glacier Priest," Father Bernard Hubbard, S. J., held his audience spellbound with a lecture and movie sponsored by the New man club Friday night. Father Hubbard, tall, barrel chested, gray-haired dean of the geology department of Santa Clara university, declared, "I think Alaska ia one of the most misrepresented countries in the world," and then he went ahead to prove his statement. He said that salmon fishing alone grosses five times the purchase price of Alaska, that in his travels he has waded in crude oil up to his knees that Alaska holds enough coal to last the world indefinitely, that the soil is incredibly fertile, and that with the sort of pioneers that settled Nebraska Alaska could lie come the greatest dairying coun try in the world. He laughed at the suggiestion that America need have any im mediate fear of attack "Hitler haa a bellyful," and "the Japs (See PRIEST, page 4) JOHN McDKRMOTT. Barb WARREN ALFSON JOHN STODDART. Liberal Progressive , . . For senior prexy ' t '-Us! Iff A i w 71 1 FRED MEIER Liberal UII.KK.RT HIKITI.K. Barb VIKE FRANCIS AH eutu from Lincoln Journal. Progressive . . . For junior prexy With elect ion fever running high, factional supremeey on the campus will he decided today when barbs, liberals and pro gressives throw their political machines against one another an students go to the polls to cast ballots for candidates for elcvwi important posts, and six "eligible bachelors." Polls will be open in the Union on the city campus and in Dean Hurr's office on the ag campus from 9 a. m. to 8 p. m, To sound out student opinion concerning further use of col iseum facilities, the organization of cooperative houses, and uni versal subscription to the DAILY NEBRASKAN, the DAILY will submit a questionairre to every student voting in today's election. See editorial and piinted proposal in this issue of the DAILY. Daily Nebraskan survey The following questionnaire will be answered by all stu dents in Tuesday's election: Affiiiateo'G .. Unaffiliated AM students answer: ' How often do you read the DAILY NEBRASKAN per week? (Encircle answer) 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. How often do you read a Lin coln city newspaper per week? (Encircle answer) 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Do you approve of adding $1.00 to fan tuition fees for automatic subscription to the DAILY NEBRASKAN? Yesn No Q All men answer: Do you use the coliseum fa cilities for workouts and show ers? Yesg NoQ How often per week? 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. (See page 4) Featuring- the election is the se lection of junior and senior class presidents. Nominated for the sen ior class presidency are Warren Alfson, John McDermott, and John Stoddart. Junior class nominee are Vike Francis, Fred Meier, and. Gilbert Hueftle. At the same time, students shaft vote on the following proposal as submitted by the Student Council: Nominations for the class and college representatives of the Student Council, and such other persons as may from time to time be designated, shall be made by the filing of the name of the candidates, together with an affidavit of eligibility signed by the registrar and by the pres ident of the point board, not (See VOTE, page 4) Harry Gottlieb . . . Illustrates silk screen process for printing of reproductions Vrlisl lo appear in Morrill Harry Gottlieb, New York art-1 ist, will give demonstrations of the silk screen process of print repro duction in the Morrill hall galleries this week. Opening tod;y and continuing through Nov. 25 will be a large exhibition of the art ists' work. The display i.s open to the public. Gottlieb, recognized as a promi nent American painter, will super vise laboratory groups of thosj wishing to learn the silk screen process. In .gallery B will be a display of 25 recent paintings and drawings by the artist, including several large oil paintings. Many are of industrial subjects for which he is noted. Steel workers, fishermen, miners, and othor workmen are also included in his subjects. Winter landscape. Gottlieb'3 "A Winter Landscape" was shown as part of the annual exhibit here in 1938. In 1931 and 1932 he held a Guggenheim fellow ship and he has been lecturer at Columbia university, the Spring field, Mass., museum of fine arts, and the New York world's fair. In gallery A a group of 14 silk screen prints by Gottlieb will be hung, along with a special scrie of progressive proofs indicating the steps in making a silk screen print. This gallery will also con tain recent examples of commer cial silk screen printing, a color process which has had widespcrutl use. The artist has said, "The Amer ican people cannot afford oil paintings or even water colors, yet they want pictures, in their homes. The sharecropper tacks up pictures from Sunday papers. Thousands slightly better off buy ten-cent store 'old masters.' Witli increasing public demand, tha price of ailk screen pictures will quickly decrease to meet the need for an art which the people caa afford to buy,"