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Oflicid Newspaper Of More Than 7,000 Students
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Vol. 40, No. 122
Lincoln, Nebraska
Thursday, April 17 1941'
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Dunkerque or Thermopylae?
The nazis and the British are locked in mortal combat in Greece
in what may be the decisive battle for the control of the entire Grecian
peninsula.
Though British and German forces have been tangling for several
days Wednesday's action was the first that has brought those British
forces shifted from eastern Greece into contact the Germans.
The heaviest fighting is taking place in the mountains north of
Larissa, and in the shadow of famed Mount Olympus, where the
Greeks and the British are struggling shoulder to shoulder to stem
the hitherto irresistible nazi advance.
The power of the nazis is further demonstrated in the confirma
tion from London that to all practical purposes Yugoslavia is out of
the war. The Germans have captured Sarajevo, birthplace of World
War I, in central Yugoslavia.
According to the German radio Premier Dusan Simovic, who
helped Peter n overthrow the pro-axis regime of Regent Paul, has
arrived in Athens. The British admitted Wednesday that all Serbian
resistance, except for sporadic fighting, would be broken in 48 hours.
The command is so split that the activities of the shattered Serbian
armies cannot be co-ordinated.
Though the British and the Greeks are putting up a serious fight
and may be able to save a part of the peninsula, the Balkan cam
paign so far has been a terrifying reiteration of the outstanding fact
of the war since its beginning.
That fact is that, as yet, no continental force has been able to
stop the onrush of the nazi hordes, and the British in their continental
operations have been just as unsuccessful as have those defending
their homelands against the invaders.
In years to come the cause of this failure to stop the nazis will
provide a meaty historical problem. Today all the reasons for the
failure are not yet clear. The tragic fact itself, however, is glaringly
obvious.
And the fighting in the eastern Mediterranean may well be the
decisive campaign of the whole war. If the Germans are able to sweep
on through Egypt and seize the Mosul oil fields, it is difficult to see
how the English will stand much chance of ever gaining victory.
I-M debate
to eliminate
teams tonight
Third round of the intramural
debate tournament, postponed
from last week, will be held to
night at 7, with all remaining
teams debating. At least one team
will be eliminated, and there is a
possibility that only three will be
left in competition.
Unbeaten Delta Upsilon and un
defeated Zeta Beta Tau debate
apainst Delta Theta Phi and Phi
Delta Theta, respectively. The
DU's and Phi Delts wiU defend the
negative side of the question for
debate.
If both undefeated teams win,
three teams will be eliminated,
since Sigma Alpha Mu and Alpha
Tau Omega, who are matched in
the other contest, have been de
feated once each. The ATO's have
also won ons debate. Sigma Al
pha Mu will take the affirmative.
Two defeats eliminates a team.
Competition will be continued un
till all but one team are elimi
nated. Teams change Bides on the
question every week, so that each
team will have an opportunity to
defend both affirmative and nega
tive sides.
Announcements
for seniors are
on display now
Senior announcements will be
displayed at the Nebraska and Co
op Bookstores this week, and sen
iors are requested to place their
orders as soon as possible.
As in previous years, three
types of announcements will be
available. The 40 cent leather
bound announcement, the card
board bound selling for 25 cents
and the Dutch fold selling for ten
cents, will all be on sale.
All announcements contain a
list of the senior class, the com
mittees, members of the Senior
Council and the baccalaureate and
commencement speakers.
The weather
The weatherman forecasts
cloudy ikies and probable showers
for today and tomorrow. Tempera
tures will remain unchanged.
Poem deadline April 19
Deadline for the Ivy Day
poem contest is noon on April
19, according to an announce
ment made by Mortar Boards
today. Manuscripts must be
mailed or submitted in tripli
cate form to the office of Mrs.
Ada Westover in Ellen Smith.
The contest Is open to all un-degraduates-
Navy captain
opportunities
Capt William F. Amsden, U. S.
Navy, director of naval reserve
for the ninth naval district, will
speak in the social science audi
torium today at 5:15 p. m. Ams
den has gained national fame for
the part he played in raising the
submarine U. S. S. Squalus and
rescuing its crew.
He was captain of the yard at
Portsmouth, N. H., in 1937 when
the disaster occurred. Commis
sioned as a captain in 1935, Ams
den commanded a cruiser one year
later and was under fire many
times as he evacuated American
citizens from Spain during the
Spanish civil war.
Speaking about the new oppor
tunities offered in naval aviation
to university students, Captain
Amsden will hold a discussion and
answer questions at the end of his
lecture concerning all phases of
the projects intended for college
6tudents.
He will also receive applications
Business school
prof
addresses
Young
Advocates
The Income Tax and the
Lawyer" will be the subject of
Prof. David B. Marti of the Lin
coln School of Commerce, when,
he talks before the Young Advo
cates society April 24 at 7:30 p. m.
at social science 209.
Prof. Marti is the father of
Prof. Lloyd Marti, Judge and in
structor in the mock courts of the
university's senior law classes. He
is considered an expert on income
tax, according to Prof. Roy E.
Cochran, sponsor of Young Advocates.
Daily poll finds students
favor Hoover plan
for feeding Europeans
By Elbert Nlchot.
A slight majority of university
students favor the Hoover plan
for sending food to the small de
mocracies of Europe, last week's
DAILY NEBRASKAN poll indi
cated; 51.8 percent of the voters
declared themselves in favor of
the plan. Of those who considered
themselves well informed, how
ever, only 49.3 percent supported
the plan, indicating an almost
even division of opinion.
Altho only a small percentage of
students cast their votes, the re
sults of the poll may be considered
as a fairly accurate check on stu
dent opinion, since the polls were
open to anyone, and those most
interested probably voted.
Two differences of opinion in
regard to the plan were revealed
Counselors
filings open
tomorrow
Filings for the 1941 Coed Coun
selors will begin tomorrow when
any woman desiring to be consid
ered for the position of counselor
may file her name at Ellen Smith
hall, or at the home economics
building on ag campus, from 8
a. m. to 5 p. m. Filings may also
be made on Monday.
No requirements are made for
filing, except that women consider
their scholastic standings and
their desire to accept the responsi
bility. All university women, who
will be upperclassmen at the be
ginning of the next semester, are
urged to leave their names at one
of the two places designated
above. From the list of names
submitted, the Coed Counselor
board will select approximately
150 as the 1941 Coed counselors.
to discuss
in aviation
while he is here. In order to be
eligible, applicants must be under
the age of 27 and must have com
pleted half the credits needed for
a degree in the university.
A motion picture, "The Eyes of
the Navy" will be shown at the
meeting,
National survey reveals ...
Thirty-six percent of coeds,
majority of men earn money
while attending college
By Joe Belden.
Editor, Btadent OpUtea Barren ! America
AUSTIN, Tex., April 17 Work
ing while going to college is noth
ing new to the American colle
gian. But figures of a national
study just completed reveal that
there is actually a majority of col
lege men who are today earning
all or part of their expenses. Sur
prising also may be the fact that
nearly 36 percent of the co-eds
perform some work to supplement
their incomes from home or schol
arships. The significance of this research
conducted by Student Opionion
Surveys of America for the DAILY
English classes
dismissed at 10, 11
To enable professors and stu
dents In the English depart
ment to attend the funeral of
Prof. Maurice IL Weseen, all
English classes between 10
a. m, and 12 noon today will
be dismissed.
by the poll. The main fssue con
cerned the aid the plan might give
to Germany. Those favoring the
plan voted 72 percent to 15 per
cent that it would not be of any
appreciable aid; 13 percent did
not vote. Opponents voted 86 per
cent to 13 percent that it would
help, with only 1 percent not
voting.
Second, though not so evenly
divided, was a disagreement con-
(See RELIEF, page 4.)
Block, Bridle
club to honor
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Livestock honorary group
to hold its annual dinner
in Union on Feeders Day
Chancellor Emeritus E. A. Bur
nett will be honored by the Block
and Bridle club at its annual din
ner the evening of Feeders' Day
at ag college. Each year some Ne-
E. A. BURNETT
... is honored at dinner.
braskan is so honored for his con
tributions to the livestock indus
try. Burnett is being honored for be
ing an investigator, teacher and
administrator at the university
since 1899. He has always been
(See BURNETT, page 3.)
NEBRASKAN and other under
graduate newspapers that support
this institution, lies not only in the
statistics produced, but in the ex
tensivenesa of the survey itself.
For nearly three years on hun
dreds of campuses interviewers
have been asking students, "Do
you work to pay all or part of
your college expenses?"
25,000 Interviewed.
The results are based on nearly
25,000 personal interviews begun
in 1938, ended last month- Ten
separate national samplings have
been taken on this subject, each
representing a carefully derived
cross section of the total enroll
ment. The Surveys chart a rising
curve of student employment Dur
ing the latter part of 1938, in 1939,
in 1940, and continuing in 1941,
the number of collegians who work
Is ever increasing, altho this riro
has been only a few percentage
points.
There Is a vast difference be
tween the number who work for
(See SURVEY, page 2.)
Coed group
to sponsor
conference
Mortar Boards request
women attend meeting;
national prexy will speak'
In accord with their recent at
tempts to exclude women front
campus politics, the Mortar Boards
will sponsor a political conference
tomorrow at 4 p. m. in Ellen Smith
which representatives from all
sororities and unaffiliated or
ganized houses for women will be
required to attend, according to
Beth Howley, Mortar Board pub
licity chairman.
National president of Mortar
Board, Mrs. Coleman, will address
the group on "Politics on Other
Campuses," and will cite examples
of the workings of various po
litical systems in several univer
Bities and colleges.
Dr. R. V. Shumate, associate
professor of political science, will
contribute to the conference with
a comparison of campus politics
with government politics.
The objectives of the conference
and the statements of the other
speakers will be summed up by
Breta Peterson, former Mortar
Board now a member of the law
college faculty, in her talk, "What
Decision We Can Reach Regarding
Politics on UN Campus."
Mortar Boards stressed that b
sides the required representatives,
all other university women are In
vited to attend the meetings.
Pershing Rifles
hold national
meet tomorrow
One hundred and forty crack7
Pershing Rifle men from four
states will arrive in Lincoln to
morrow afternoon for their an
nual national regimental meet
with one eye on awards for mili
tary excellence, the other eye on
140 Nebraska coeds who they will
escort to their finale ball.
Delegations are expected to ar
rive at about 2 tomorrow with
the last group scheduled to arrive
about 9 in the evening. They will
camp in the coliseum on cots
brought from ag campus.
Lahr calls for girls.
Meanwhile, Pat Lahr, Union so
cial director, has made a call for
Nebraska girls to be loyal to the
army by contacting her for dates
with the visiting men.
Names and heights of the men
from Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin
(See RIFLES, page 2.)
Sixteen file
for positions
on ag hoard
Filings for the six positions
open on ag executive board closed
last Friday, and 10 women and six
men had filed for offices. Two
holdover members elected last
week, Mary June Buck and Don
Steele, will also take office this
spring.
Those filing were:
Juniors: 2 men, two women, i
Barb, Dale Landgren, barb,
Charles Marcy, Union, Ellis Ruby,
barb, Donald Tracy, Union,
Gwen Row, Louise Reed, Eliza
beth Lobdell, Lorene Bennett,
Esther Manion, Carol Kitzlnger,
Ellen Grace Wlelage, Betty Brown,
Seniors: one man, one woman.
Harold Bacon, Union, Orris Co
man, barb.
Mary Bell Haumont, and Doro
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