DAILY NEBRASKAN
Wednesday, May 21, 1941
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New frontiers beckon from South
Americans everywhere arc patriotically whooping up
the "I am en American," celebrations today. And with
a deep love for the freedom of this country and its fron
tier way of life, many of these patriots have decided an
offensive r against a strong enemy and at great cost
to ourselves has become necessary. Perhaps no fear is
stronger nor has contributed more to this military fa
talism than the belief that German success in Europe
will ultimately lead to economic penetration into South
America, resulting in America's markets there being de
stroyed and the present friendly attitude between the
Latin American countries and us going down before a
wave of nazi uprisings. The success of such penetration
and control in Latin America, few will deny would be a
critical blow to the security of the United States itself.
Our Interests aim at the protection of the entire
hemisphere, and the creation of an Interdependence
and close friendship between Its respective nations. In
stead of celebrating "I am an American Day" therefore
we should toast "Pan-Americanism" and be ever
watchful for ways in which our relations with the coun
tries south of us can be Improved.
These countries offer untold opportunities for de
velopment for wealth and for economic expansion. And
contrary to the popular belief, Latin America is not re
sentful to American penetration, but rather desirous
of our assistance.
Letters to DAILY NEBRASKAN this week describe
unlimited openings in Ecuador, where its department of
commerce pleas for energetic young Americans to do
great work. Many fields are almost untapped, the cham
ber reports, and American capital is badly needed for
their development.
Fields for expansion
Millions of ivory like tagua nuts go begging in Ecua
dor awaiting new uses. About half the size of a man's
fist, the skinned tagua closely resembles task ivory,
though it is far easier to carve and to stamp out in anj
tlesired shape or form. Finger rings and beads are be
ing made by the natives from these materials now, the
Sociedad Tan-Americana reports, and int i3 very likely
that the Tagua would make a splendid pipe bowl simi
lar in appearance to the expensive Meersham. "At pres
ent the hand work of the Indians is but a small indus
try. Ecuador needs an outlet for this product in ton or
ship load quantities."
"No man can estimate the quantity of gold that
Is washed away unclaimed and not worked out, that
flows down the slopes of the Andes Cordillera in
Ecuador. Interpid prospectors with gold pans or wash
ing apparatus have frequently reaped huge rewards
for their efforts, but this is one potential industry that
needs development."
"The biggest product for American entrepreneurs
the chamber declares is balsa wood. At present most
of the balsa Is exported to the United States is jsed
In making life preservers for ships. In addition how
ever balsa would be ideal for small shipping boxes be
cause of its small weight, and serves splendidly for in
sulation. Thousands of acres await outside markets
x and the ingenuity of North American Individuals.
The banks of Ecuadorean rivers moreover are lined
with Sandlewood trees. Extracts from this product are
used in the manufacture of the most expensive perfumes.
The wood is almost as heavy and as strong as iron and
when polished, there is no more beautiful wood in the
world. The possibilities of it for cabinet wood are limit
less, yet its exportation today is practically nil
While the Sociedad Pan-Americana is urging Amer
ican immigration the Ecuador department of education
has arranged a special six weeks summer school course
designed primarily for North American students. In
cluding boat fare to Quito and back to the states again,
tours to all points of interest enroute and in the Andes,
and comprehensive instruction by Ecuadorean professors
in the Spanish used in Latin America, in South American
geography, history, native music and art, the course
amounts to less than $300.
With the crisis in Europe, Ecuador is turning to
the United States for friendship and assistance. Ex
pansion of her industry will not only provide new places
for Investment, but will insure the continuation of
friendly South American relations irregardless of the
outcome of the European bloodbath.
Here Is a weapon that pays dividends to its users.
The fears of the Interventionists that South America
will fall to the nazis can largely be quelled by more
active interest In these countries by America itself.
The Sociedad Pan Americana has several pamphlets
available describing business conditions there and the de
tails of this subsidized good will summer course. The
address of the Ecuador chamber of commerce and more
details about it are available at the NEBRASKAN office.
So with our patriotism and our whoops for the "I
Am an American" celebrations, let's bear in mind its
Pan American aspects, and toast those Americans al
ready working there and promoting good will between
the countries, and those young men who in the future
will cement this hemisphere even closer together.
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Danger in Martinique
There can be no question but that relations are
definitely strained between the United States and one
of its traditionally warmest friends France.
The tension, which has been latent ever since the
establishment of the reactionary Petain administration
following the fall of France in June, 1940, threatened to
flare into the open last week as President Roosevelt
warned the Vichy government against too close coopera
tion with the axis.
A big reason for this country's concern over in
creased nazi domination of Vichy is the presence of im
portant French possessions in this hemisphere. "
The most significant of these is the heavily-fortified
island of Martinique in the Caribbean. Others are,
Guadaloupe, Clipperton and French Guiana, to the south,
and the islands of St. Pierre and Mequielon to the north.
The situation has become so serious that four demo
crats on the senate foreign relations committee among
them traditional foes have united to demand seizure of
FTench possessions in this hemisphere.
The four Included Pepper of Florida, Reynolds of
North Carolina, Clarke of Missouri, and Murray of Mon
tana. Senators Reynolds suggested that if a legal ex
cuse were wanted they could be taken over in payment
of war debts. Clark, who long has been an opponent of
administration foreign policy, declared that he "had al
ways been in favor of occupying Martinique annd other
possessions needed for defense."
Although the senators urged direct action, report
from Washington however, give every indication that this
country would do nothing except in concert with the
other republics of the Pan-American union.
In addition to France's western hemisphere posses
sions, another reason for American concern over her
complete submission to Hitler is the, proximity of Da
kar, on the coast of West Africa.
Senator Pepper, who first demanded that we take
over Martinique, also demanded in the same speech the
occupation of Dakar by American forces. The urgency
Commentorials
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Letter 'commends'' those
uho signed memorial
Dear Editor:
I simply must commend those of the fatuity that
fixed their signatures to the Memorial sent to Washing
ton officials and Nebraska Congressmen. Ah, what a
noble overture indeed! We, the students, have such a
brilliant future planned for us to be slaughtered on
the seven seas! To be slaughtered possibly on Iraquian
plains so that the British may retain their "precious"
oil supply. To die on the Libyan desert sands so that
the British may retain control of the Mediterranean Sea.
To aid the Allied people 'not necessarily short of
war' can mean only one thing. It is that we would
take that irrevocable step from which there is no hon
orable turning back. It would mean that we would
underwrite a Hitler defeat. Try to "imagine, if you can,
the frightful number of lives that must be sacrificed
to rout the most efficient and best equipped army of
all time. The time is past for talking of theories, for
wishful thinking. The facts are before' us. Let us be
practical. In advocating aid 'not necessarily short of
war' the signers of the Memorial would have American
dead strewn the world over. I do not want that. You
do not want that. America does not want that!! We
must notify the Allies that our aid is and will continue
to be short of blood.
It would seem that the signers made an error by
sending the Memorial to the Roosevelt, Wallace, Hull,
Rayburn, Norris, et s. Instead they should have sent
it to Secretary of War, Stimson and Secretary of the
Navy Knox. I may seem too cynical, but what can one
expect when he sees that the professors in whom he
has faith and for whom he has respect, are now willing
to throw away our lives for vague objectives. The
youth of America are not afraid to pay the "cost in
blood and sacrifice"; we merely demand that we get
more than a cross and a medal for the exorbitant price.
Herbert Longren.
of Pepper's demand has been intensified by reports that
the nazis alraedy are beginning to filter into Dakar.
The time has already passed for the American pub
lic to cease its wishful thinking about France, and to
face realistically the true significance of the forced col
laboration between the French and the Germans. Any
study of the German method of conquest will convince
that unless this country supplements its watchful eye
with a will to take all necessary steps to prevent it, the
war may be brought to the western hemisphere-and at
Hitler's convenience.
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GainnUl Tj(linh(l(l Bo?rds vi!1 reform their last of- $000,000; Eusboom & Rauh, Fre- and induced draft equipment, were Co., Lincoln.
band honorar
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ficial acts in the university when mont, $504,310.
they assist at the reception.
An orchestra has not yet been
selected for the senior dance which
will follow the reception. All sen-
Initiated last night into the 'ols, and da,tes arf' "vited to at-
honorary band fraternity, Gamma nd lh( di'nvce ?,h,ch , 18 "S
Lambda, were Jesse Bennet, Dick P,anned by lhe Alumni associa-
Weekly, Bob Gillespie, Norman Uon'
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Drummpnd, Bob Thatcher, Frank
Barnes, William Ekblad, Stanley
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$0,429;
Townley
submitted as follows, with the
Newberg & Bookstrom. amounts in 4,500 GPM induced
Offering a base bid of $108,000, draft, 4,000 GPM induced draft,
Newberg & Bookstrom of Lincoln 4,500 GPM forced draft, and 4,000
were the lowest bidders on the GPM frij-ced draft: Pasol Engi-
heating, plumbing and ventilating neering Co., Omaha, $18,635, $17,-
contract. G. H. Wentz, Inc., Lin- 710 (no bid on forced draft); Fos-
coln, $110,006, and E. L Rodwell, ter-Wheeler Corp., New York.
" -v 1 o rr r i i r i m ns r t.n ann i i a .1
wjiiriim, ?iii(.jw, Hifu Bueiiiiufu 9uaouu, $io,ow iiu uiu uu uircu Elevator Co Omaha S8C81
bids draft); Schubert-Christy CoT'-f Krausc Elevator Co,, Omaha, jll,-
Electric wiring base bids Were Louis, Mo., $17,300, $15,810, $17,- 200" Westinahouse Elevator Co
inu uy uj r.itri.ii ii; v., ojJ, oi,ov, iuiiiaji vyv- CJhiC3H0 S12 975
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Advertisements for bids were
Metal & Hardware, Kansas City,
Mo., $0,4 HI; Nelson. Johnson &
Doudna, Omaha, $6,595; Rudge &
Guenzel, Lincoln, $0,910; Johnson
Hardware Co., Omaha, $7,290.
The book stack elevator bids
were submitted by the Otis Ele
vator Co., Omaha, $7,486; O'Keefe
(Continued from page 1.) Lincoln, $22,980; ABC Electric Co.. ng Towers, Inc., St. Louis, Mo.,
Lowe. John D. Woolf. Paul Kelsev regents and the chancellor will Rapid City, So. Dak., $31,245, and $18,990, $16,995, $17,990, $15,995; Bpnt ollt pa 1hlfl vpnr
and Robert Whitney. mcet Thursday afternoon to con- Karrasth Electric Co., St. Joseph, The Fluor Corp., Ltd , New York, aftcr tne bequ,st WaS an.
A banquet was held after the 8idcr bid. preparatory to te Mo., $41,502. $21,057, $19,826, $17,944, $16,498. nounced. universitv nfficiala Raid.
initiation ceremonies.
Rcception-
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timitv tn talk tn rhanreiinr r.oiir h- V&v Steenberg Construction Co.. dinz were the Worthimrton Pump Jmrton Rand. Chicago, $124,260;
er and other faculty heads before st- raul. Minn., $497,200; Ernest & Machinery Corp., Omaha, $38,- General Fireproofing Co., Youngs
leaving. Rokahr Sc. Sons, Lincoln, $508,493; 065, and Natkin & Co., Omaha, town, O., $162,018.
All of the persons in the receiv- Assenmacher Construction Co., $51,260. The $5,828 base bid on finished
ing line besides Chancellor and Lincoln, $533,374; Parsons Con- Bids on the mechanical draft hardware by Fred J. Veith, Lin
Mrs. Boucher have not been Be- struction Co., Omaha, $549,797; cooling tower, taken for 4,500 and coin, waa low. Others bidding were
lected yet Innocents and Mortar Green & Cekel, Manhattan, Kans., 4,000 gallons per minute forced Anderson Hardware & Plumbing
awarding of contracts. The $30,705 bid of the Westing- Base bids submitted on the book
The Olson Construction Co. of house Electric & Manufacturing stack construction contracts in-
Lincoln was low on base bids for Co. was the lowest of the base elude: Art-Metal Construction Co.,
the general construction contract bids for the steam Jet vacuum Jamestown, N. Y., $109,377; Snead
with $475,876. Other bids were cooling unit contract. Others bid- & Co.. New Jersey, $121,930; Rem-
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