DAILY NEBRASKAN
Friday, May 9. 1E4I
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Don't give up the ship!
Defeatism is gaining entirely too much
ground in this country. Entirely too many people
are saying war Is inevitable, and that there is
nothing that can be done to stem the growing in
terventionalist sentiment. Despite previous con
victions voiced before the emotionalism that ac
companies war had blinded their eyes, more and
more people are accepting the pessimistic view
point that American democracy and freedom will
go down with England and that the invincible
German armies, if we delay, will soon reach this
hemisphere and destroy the American way of life.
Tl.ey are falaciously arguing that it is better
to burden Americans with taxation, chance com
munistic uprisings that thrive in disrupted post war
economies, and fight a war miles from our home
base now to avert the remote possibility of a war in
the future on our own continent.
"There doesn't seem to be much we can do
about it," the editor of the Indiana Daily moans,
"if war is coming, it's coming, and we're begin
ning to think it is coming. With such convictions
it isn't easy to be serious about the few remain
ing weeks on the campus. Many men students
wilt be in the army next semester; many will
never come back."
To resign onself to this fatalism however is like
giving up at the start. And resignation to it with
out a protest when one sees America's future better
insured by following other courses, is not the pa
triotism America wants. 1,180 students in the cam
pus spring election three weeks ago voted to sup
port England only "short of war," 523 desired that
America take a more isolationalist stand, and only
123 of those coming to the polls desired active par
ticipation in the war.
Great efforts by way of propaganda and
pressure will be made by administrative heads in
Washington in the next few weeks to change
this antl-interventionalist vote here and all over
the country to meet their purpose. So strong will
be the pro-war shout that those not already re
signed to the inevitableness of the war will be
inclined to give up like the Indiana editor, say
ing "if It's coming; it's coming."
All of which will bring a let down in business,
in classroom attendance and in scholarship. And
the student body here and the young men every
where will more or less mark time until the war or
danger of war is over. This is a very dangerous
attitude for it poisons the blood of the whole coun
try. And it is all so unnecessary for polls over the
entire country show that the public is still for peace.
If America gets into the war we cannot back
down. For once In the war, the prestige of this
country is at stake. And every man irregardless
of his former beliefs will have to pledge every
thing he has to insure a victory for his country.
But until that war does break out, every man can
shout his beliefs to the housetops. And he can
fight on, ever confident that interventionalism
has not yet stamped out the policy to which
America adhered strongly during its sane years
of peace. He can work in his business and study
in his school, with a promising future still ahead
for him.
Above all, he can refuse to give up the ship.
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Denver U faculty decides . . .
Bronze nude statue in library
distracts students from work
, By AsMM-lated Colk-glatr Prron.
Art is all right in its place, but
when the art is a nude statue, its
place isn't the library of Denver
university. So "Summer," a mod
ern classic nude cast in bronze by
the French sculptor, Aristide Mail
lol, is back in her niche at the
Denver art museum.
The trouble started when "Sum
mer" was lent to the university
by the museum to assume her
stance in the Renaissance room of
Mary Reed library. She had been
there only a few days when a pro
fessor asked at a faculty meeting:
"When is that statue going to be
moved?"
It wasn't so much what he said
as the derogatory tone he used
that caused art professors to leap
to her defense.
"She doesn't belong in a li
brary" one faction contended.
"Students go there to study, not
to be distracted by art or any
thing else."
Art a utudy.
To which the art instructors re
plied: "Of course students go to
the Renaissance room to study.
Art is a study, too. And we wouid
be shirking our educational duty
if we failed to give our students a
chance to see and appreciate the
great works of art"
The anti-"Summer" faction,
charging she attracted too many
students to the library but not to
pore over its books suggested the
nude be placed in the university
stadium. "She could draw as
many people as she wanted down
there without disturbing anyone.
The stadium needs filling, any
way," they said.
A college columnist took sides
with the anti'Summer" faction.
"She should be retired to a quiet
corner where always the obvious
appears more subtle and the ar
tistic more comfortable," Lewis
Kornfield said in the Clarion. He
described "Summer" as "a rather
peasant-looking woman with thick
ankles and a fine carriage" who is
"standing in the draft."
"Summer," finally was removed
to the museum, where she is so
highly regarded that she is in
sured for $30,000.
Gray addresses
Congregational
student group
Dr. Henry D. Gray, national sec
retary of student work of the Con
gregational church, will address a
meeting of Congregational stu
dents next Tuesday evening on the
topic, "The Problems of College
Youth." The meeting will be from
7 to 8 in room 313 of the Union.
Dr. Cray is on the campus to
discuss expansion of Congrega
tional student work at Nebraska.
Following his address will be an in
formal discussion period, in which
all attending may take part.
Sophomores at Butler college
elected twins, Barbara and Mar
jorie Kelly, as "Sweethearts of
Butler."
Prowlers who raided a book
store at Drew university limited
their loot to several dishes of ice
cream and several pencils.
Opposition-
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was the answer of AOPi Doris
Marshall, sophomore.
Barb sophomore Leslie Wright
replied "Yes, if we're going to
enter the war we ought to enter
it right now. Otherwise we should
build up the home defense and
stay here."
Kappa Sig frosh Bill Palmer
said "If we're going to get in the
sooner the better. We should have
got into it long ago."
"I am absolutely against it," as
serted Leola Schaper, Tri Deli
senior. "I don't think we have
any reason for entering it now,
but I think we're going to get into
it sooner or later if we keep send
ing supplies to England."
Althea Ware, barb freshman,
stated "I think it would be autclde
for America because we're not
prepared, and I dont really think
it would help anyone more than
our present aid is helping. If we
do get In we won't have the proper
perspective on the peace terms."
AOPi sophomore Lucy McLaf
ferty thought that it wouldn't do
any good. "It will take our natural
resources and men, and what are
we going to get m return ? Noth
ing!" "Definitely not"the predom
inating opinion of the students
queried, was also the first words
of Charles Roper, barb junior. "I
think we should stay at home for
a while," he continued. "I don't
think we have any business with
the war."
Mary Ann Schwarz, freshman
barb, replied "No, I think we
should stay at home. It didn't get
us anyplace last time."
Delta Sig Bob Harkens, sopho
more, believes that we can do
more by staying home. "I believe
in everything short of war," h
said.
Unaffiliated freshman Al Brown
stated, "I don't see why we should
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Bombings, east and west
Nazi bombers lashed at the Suez canal for two hours Thursday
in the longest raid sustained by that link in the empire life-line since
the start of the war.
British officials at Cairo acknowledged that there was "some
damage," but declared that there were no casualties.
In other aspects of the war in the Near East, the British seem
to be holding their own, and in some instances have taken the offen
sive in quelling the Moslem disturbances.
The threat to the important Haifa oil pipeline appears to have
been dealt with successfully, and the RAF has bombed Bagdad with
such effect that the Iraq forces are retreating to the east.
Optimists declare that the attempt of the nazi mercenaries to
stir up a holy war in the Near East are failing, and British authorities
in Palestine say that the area is more quiet than ever before.
In the western theatre, London claims direct hits on the 26,000 ton
German battleships, Scharnhorst and Gnelsenau, anchored at Brest.
The attack on the ships was part of a series of raids aimed at
St. Nazaire, and the refineries at the mouth of the Loire river in
France. St. Nazaire, it may be recalled, was one of those sleepy
French ports that were vitalized during the first World war by the
activity of the American expeditionary force.
And while the war continues to rage, the United States is in the
throes of a heated debate on the subject of convoys.
Much of the unofficial demand for convoys is being expressed by
Wendell Willkie, who declared Thursday: "Call it convoying, pa
trolling, airplane accompaniment, or what not . . . We want those
cargoes protected at once and with less talk and more action."
fight their war for them." He rec
ommended that students read
"Roosevelt vs. Hitler" in this
week's Life in firming an opinion
on the question.
"No," answered Betty Jean
Maxwell, Chi O junior, when asked
the question. "I don't think we
should because there may still be
a chance to arbitrate. Besides, I
don't think we're prepared."
Lucy Maxwell, unaffiliated sen
ior, said "I'd like to have thein
try some other possible way of
getting peace without entering the
war."
"Although I do not favor war,"
began Mylan Ross, Farmhouse
senior, glancing at his watch and
stroking an Imaginary mustache,
"I think the time has come for us
to shave the mustache off old
Adolf in one way or another."
Today-
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tna," and "The West Florida Con
troversy, 1798-1813," and in 1939
he translated "Study of the His
tory of Chile" by Louis Galdames.
He received his B. A. from Dart
mouth in 1896 and his Ph. D. in
1904 from the University of Penn
sylvania where he studied on a
research fellowship.
Cox has been on the Northwest
ern history faculty since 1919. A
contributor to the encyclopedias
Americana and Brittanica, he is
past president of the Ohio Valley
and the Mississippi Valley History
Associations.
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