rfk Daily Iebraskam
Official Newspaper Of More Than 7,000 Students
Z 409
Vol. 40 No. 137
Lincoln, Nebraska
Thursday, May 8, 1941
D
emocracy to save America
Earl Bell sees unemployed
as farm problem solution
Council chooses
new committees
. . . may sponsor convention
Thirty-five members were on hand for the first meeting of the
new Student Council last night and started off their term with a bang
by voting to hold the regional convention of the National Student's
Federation of America here next fall.
Various committee chairmen and members were appointed by
Burton Thiel, president, and the
By George Abbott.
"Tin? solution to our surplus farm products problem lies in our
own democratic process; it must come from the people themselves,"
Dr. Karl H. Eell, formerly professor of anthropology in the univer
sity, told a DAILY staff member in an interview yesterday.
Dr. Bell, a Nebraska faculty member until February of last year,
is at present representative of Area 2, Division of Farm Population
and Rural Welfare of the Bureau of Agriculture and Economics, with
headquarters in Amarillo, Tex. He visited the campus yesterday.
Boll pointed out that "the greatest un-tapped market" in the na
tion lies in the unemployed. "As long as there are people in this coun
try who lack enough butter, eggs, beef, pork, bread, cotton and wool
Ag election
filings close
at five today
Applications must
include registrar's,
point board proxy's okay
Soviet goal
is revolution
savs Ginsbur r
All filings for the Farmers' Fair
board, the Coll Agri-Fun and the
Ag social council must be made
by Thursday night.
Open are three places for men
clothing, radios and automobiles, we must constantly aim si a higher and three for women on the Farm
ers Fair board. All must be
standard of living," stated Dr. Bell.
Farmers plan program.
It is up to the farmers to formulate a program to solve this
problem, and by improving their own condition, they can increase
their purchasing power," the former faculty member said.
Biggest problems of the farmer today, according to Bell, lie in
improper distribution of land, too much absentee ownership, unstable
population, and poor health conditions.
It is the work of the depart
ment which Bell represents to aid
the farmers in solving these prob
lems. The department also co-operates
with universities and state
colleges in Colorado, Kansas, New
Mexico, and the pan-handles of
Oklahoma and Texas, in social re
search of a rural nature as re
quested by groups of farmers.
Bell stated that the farmers had
formed land-use planning commit
tees to study their own problems,
with a purely local group in
charge of activities for each
"range." '
Citing several problems recently
dealt with by his department. Bell
mentioned Greeley county, Kansas,
where one group was trying to
solve a problem of turning "rent-
(See BELL, page 8.)
seniors.
On the Coll Agri-Fun board,
two junior men and one junior
Classics prof explains
two-beaded nature
of Russ government
Though Stalin has made strate
gic concessions to the bourgeois
democracies, the goal of Russian
foreign policy today, as always, is
world revolution. Dr. M. S. Gins
burg, Russian scholar and teacher,
declared to students of Professor
Cochran's American foreign rela
tions class yesterday afternoon.
Having lived under the commu
nist regime for nine years and
having been in contact with the
business of each committee was
explained. Members of the com
mittee to plan the NSFA conven
tion are Marion Cramer, chair
man, Mary Rosborough, Larry Hu
waldt, Eldon Mathouser, Ed Chait,
and Becky Wait.
NSFA is a national organiza
tion of student governing bodies,
and though Nebraska is not a
member of the association, the
Council has always been invited
to send representatives to the con
ventions. The last convention was
held in Iowa, and three UN dele
gates attended.
Holding the greatest amount of
power of any of the Council com
mittees, the judiciary committee
includes Dale Theobald, chairman,
Norma Jean Campbell, Jean Hum
phrey, Chris Petersen and Burton
Thiel.
Following are the committees
for the Council next year:
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Dr.
more man, a sophomore woman, a
junior man and a senior woman
will be elected to the social coun
cil. Students filing for the council
must have an 80 average.
Filings must be made on offi
cial filing blanks in Dean W. W.
Burr's office and must be accom
panied by the signatures of the
registrar and the president of the
point board.
in the University of St. Peters
burg prior to his departure in
1926, Dr. Ginsburg, now of the
Nebraska classics faculty, dis
cussed the basis upon which al
leged policies of the Soviet gov
ernment can be analyzed.
There exists at Moscow, he
pointed out, a Janus government,
(See GINSBURG, page 4.)
Students believe
Earl H
woman will be chosen. A sopho- proietariat "elite as an instructor (See COUNCIL, page 2.)
Three YMCA
groups to plan
fall program
Organization members
bold week-end retreat
at Camp Strader
Three student YMCA groups,
city campus, ag campus and Wes
leyan university YM cabinets, will
hold a joint planning retreat Sat-
i tf i . urday and Sunday at Camp Stra-
. . . despite official resentment der Purpose 0f the retreat is the
planning,, of the fall program for
By Student Opinion Surveys. eacn campus.
AUSTIN, Texas, May 8. While the nation shifts its aviation in-
. . ..... . . . 4. . . An assorted program of enter-
dustry into high gear, pending in Congress is the renewal and ex- tainment includs ftball and ca-
pansion of the Civilian Pilot Training Program in which American noeing Saturday afternoon, a steak
colleges and universities during the last two and a half years have fry at night, and breakfast and
worsnip service ounuay morning.
f?ars will rpturn to the various
witnout any ooudi, oeuueni
Government should offer pilot
training thru civilian agency
taken an active part.
Rayburn says congressmen seek
permanent selective service act
any
Opinion Surveys of America dis
covers, collegians the nation-over
want this training continued. In
terviewing a sample of students in
all types of institutions, the Sur
veys found 92 in every 100 want
the government to offer the flying
By the
Intercollegiate
ton Press.
in both houses against tampering courses again.
But there have
Washing- ing though a period when vol
unteers luiea tne majority oi wun me existing way. ine senate
auotas is rieht now beginning: to military affairs committee has
WASHINGTON May 2. A strike home. The .implications arc agreed informally, to defer action coming
t it pment 'bv House Sneaker Sam that changes of some sort have be- and has already shelved several military
Rayburn that congressional lead- come imperative. proposals. Although legislation to
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With as yet no clear body of dental students and interns is still
opinion anywhere in Washingtion "subject to consideration," early
as to the changes that would go action is not expected.
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era are seeking to put the nation's
selective service program on a
long time basis added to indica
tions this week that extensive
K-ei-K liirtV. nptut in Cnlvinr th nrpsrnt riif
changes in draft administration ficulUe8 genUme" t S(4med to be Draft officials: The prevailing
may be near. lining nn this wav during the opinion at national selective serv-
Most important of the changes week:
under consideration, Mr. Rayburn
ice headquarters holds that neces
sary draft changes can be secured
been reports
from Washington that
officials frown upon
"civilian" training. "Some brass
hats have from the first resented
the training program as anen
roachment on their domain the
Chicago Daily News commented
recently. The Surveys has taken
this issue before the American
student body:
campuses in time for students to
attend Sunday school at 10 a. m.
Carroll Moon, regional secretary
of the YM, will speak and lead a
discussion Saturday evening on
"The Objectives of the Camptu
Y." Following Moon's address,
each campus will meet separately
for the planning of its own fall
program.
City campus students will meet
at the Temple building at 1:30
p. m. Saturday and will be taken
in cars to Camp Strader. Ag cam
pus students will meet at ag hall
and leave after the rodeo. All YM,
cabinet members and other in
terested YM members are urged
to attend.
disclosed, is the white house pro
nosal to lower draft limits to 18
and 23, under choice of the year A lirkiirkiovr
in which they would serve. IlOllOl ai V
Mr. Roosevelt in a press confer
ence two weeks ago forecast draft
revisions that would make every
healthy man eligible for service
upon reaching his 18th birthday.
Despite Speaker Rayburn's dis
closure, support for the age reduc
tion did not appear to be crystal-
A charge of 75 cents will be
made, to cover transportation and
ramn rpnt pxnpnsps and to n.iv
"If pilot training is continued in for two nieals Reservations should
Capitol Hill: Feeling is strong without lcgis,aUon The original coum wtter it 1 ZZIT he TamXs Tm Xe'
law accordinc tn this line of rea- . jT.j . J!. ,x- '"'lot- a1 l"e campus nu unite.
elects Tysdal
prexy Tuesday
law, according to this line of rea
soning, was made sufficiently
broad to enable draft administra
tors to read in new interpretations
when circumstances made them
necessary.
Best proof.
Probably the best proof of this
has been the recent "memoran
dums" that have extended for all
practical purposes, at least the
an
handled as a civilian course,
army course, or a navy course
Civilian, said 60
Army, said 27
Navy, sai
(Of those
cent had no opinion)
Although a majority would
rather see civil authorities carry
on with the program, the respect-
ZBTs meet
se'inVeVviewedV 6 per- DU (lcljatCl S
deferment of thousands of college able size (40 percent) of those who
students in "necessary" fields.
(See AIR CORPS, page 7.)
Following initiation of 29 sen
iors, graduates and faculty mem-
lizintr in Washington this week, bers into Gamma Sigma Delta.
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Numerous spokesmen said the honorary ag society, the group while the significance of these in
president's conference suggestion elected Dr. 11. M. Tysdal. agron- terpretations has not been fully Tuiot linnc
was a "trial balloon" released omy professor president Tuesday realized outside of Washington, in- .IHllI "HUlloC
largely to reel out public opinion nignt.
on possible amendments to the ex- . .
Douglas Tate, vice president; Dr.
A. W. Peterson, secretary, and Dr.
C. E. Roscnquist, treasurer.
isting selective service law.
According to these sources,
there is still strong opposition in
both houfle and senate to propo
sals for revamping the draft at
the moment.
dicatiom point to better than fair 1 1
attitude toward students next council ciccis
year. Associate OPM Director Sid- .-.
ney HUlmans letter cautioning HfH UlllCCIS
Speaking on conditions created
draft officials of the "dangerously
low" number of trained specialists
in defense industries has carried
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by war, Supreme Court Judge preponderate weignu m unac uc
Bayard H. Paine declared the velopments.
Three women were nominated
for the office of president of Inter-house
Council at the last meet
ing and one of them will be elected
Military authorities: The army at I P- m- ,in tnp barb office along
and navy are chiefly concerned with the vice president and secre-
with securing trained specialists tary-treasurcr.
and believe they will be found in Ullut wmrmi.
the 21 to 36 year bracket. Offi- and Elleen Fey are running for the day,
are ap
Winner will compete
against SAM in finals
Sixth round of the interfrater
nity debate tournament will pit
Robert Chambers and Bud John
son of Delta Upsilon against Yale
Gotsdiner and Robert Passer of
Zeta Beta Tau; H. A. White, de
bate coach, announced yesterday.
Sigma Alpha Mu automatically
advanced into the finals by draw
ing a bye.
Debate will be held in the DU
chapter house, Tuesday, at 7 p. m.
Losing team will be eliminated,
while the winner will enter the
finals against Art Rivin and Har
old Margulies of Sigma Alpha Mu.
Finals will be held either Thursday
of next week or the following Tues-
While many observers in and out United States is already in the
of the government felt that the world Btrife. He warned that
while house suggestion was pre- swindlers flourish under war con
mature, it was believed that the ditions and advised caution in
president's observations reflected purchasing stocks and bonds.
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i.aror. i v, a f ",if ;t-o i Gov. UwhTht UNSWOla a SO " o....-...,, . j nff . othfr officers
". " o.c " . . . " , . . f 2f,ft0ftnn th war donartment " ' o:0 Ainkn vr,.
creas ng throughout the country spone Drieiiy ana urgea a greater - - , L. ,. pointed. - "t,"
irtusing tnrougnout tne country. interest Jn 'puWlc affairs. Retir- appears not yet ready to limit 1 both Delta Upsilon and Zeta Beta
Mail Increasing. ing president G. E. Hendrix pre- its source of strength to the 18 Tne newly elected persons will Tau in their last two debates, after
The rising volume of congres- sided and Prof. H. E. Aider made to 23 vear Er0UP- Altho individual take office next week at the reg- losing in an earlier round to Delta
sional mail regarding draft prob- introductions. Oscar Tegtmeier, spokesmen ior me miuiary of- uiar meeting of Interhouse Coun- Upsilon. Delta Upsilon and Zeta
lems, observers believe, indicate T. E. Brinegar and J. P. Ross also partments have endorsed the according to Esther Connett, Beta Tau have not yet debated
that selective service after pass- made short talks.
See DRAFT, pae 4.)
retiring president.
ainst each other this year.