DALY NEBRASKAN
Thursday, October 23, 1941
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Let's Rally Tonight
There'll be another' rally tonight this time to
nee the football team off to meet the Missouri
team Saturday. With a defeat last Saturday still
in their minds and with the injury jinx to over
conif, team members will need more support than
ever. Freshman women will be allowed to leave
their houses to attend the 9 p. m. rally, but it is
emphasized that they must be back in the houses
by 10:15. Otherwise, the privilege will probably
iiot be given again.
Let's rally tonight. Let's get out and give the
team a rousing sendoff. The players will need to
know the other students are backing them and
just because they lost last Saturday doesn't mean
they will lose again. Let's rally tonight.
We Vote iVo
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(institution by which any small group of 125 could
elect a member to the council. This new proposal,
incorporating the Hare system, is a different meth
od of proportional representation. There is no ob
jection to the Hare system in itself, although it
makes counting the ballots extremely compli
cated, but in order to bring in the use of the sys
tem, which changes but does not necessarily bet
ter the method already used the list system
the whole constitution of the council is junked and
progress is set back ten years.
The proposed system does away with the stu
dent judiciary committee of the council and places
its powers in the hands of the University Senate.
When this is done, the purpose of the Student
Council is destroyed, because the original purpose
of all student councils to put student government
in the hands of the students.
While it proposes to give minorities representa
tion on the council, the new plan takes represen
tation away from many groups. Women are not
guaranteed representation under the proposed plan.
No college of the university except ag college is
assured of representation. The entire present stu
dent government setup is. based upon representa
tion from all groups, according to sex and colleges.
The proposed plan sweeps away all these guaran
tees. For instance, the engineering executive board
and other such organizations based upon colleges,
now under the council and represented on that
body, would be in danger of annihilation.
What, then, is the new plan? It is simply a move
to make the entire student activities setup a po
litical football, to be tossed to the political party
that can muster the largest number of votes, and
not to the sexes and colleges which should have
voice on the council.
If this proposal goes through, the Student Coun
cil might as well go out of existence as far as any
projects that it now carries on are concerned. With
the group composed of only 20 members, elected
each semester, there would not be enough stu
dents to work on all-university projects and the
few who did carry over from semester to semester
would not be able to carry the whole load of the
projects and training the new members to carry
them on.
This year the council is working and did work
all summer on a great many worthwhile projects
such as:
1. A student lobby to publicize the university and
Its program In the home districts of the students.
On this the council is working In conjunction with
Behind the News
By David Thompson
Irish Sail!
Neutral Ireland today began operation of a gov
ernment owned merchant marine in direct violation
(?) of Adolf Hitler's prohibition that no ships may
call at British isle ports. The ships will ply back
and forth between Ireland and the U. S. All nailing
(lutes are kept secret and every precaution is be
ing taken to see that no harm conies 1o these 15
ships being put into operation.
This is a radical departure from Irish policy of
the war period. To date they have been meticulous
in their care to keep Ireland entirely neutral. They
have refused to allow British ships to dock in Ire
land, have forbidden the use of Ireland us a naval
base, and have otherwise indicated thnt tho they
may not favor Germany in this war, they also har
bor no love for the British.
There is still no love lost between the Irish and
the English, but this operation of ships in the well
defined belligerent zone set up by Hitler is very
likely to result in German attacks upon the ship
ping. When this happens Ireland will rapidly lost
her extreme neutral leanings and begin to co-operate
more fully in defense plans with Britain. This
will be an aid to the English who have long feared
that the Germans might use undefended Ireland as
It is an indication that those nations which have
a base for a back door invasion of England proper.
been noncommittal in their attitude toward nazi
Germany are beginning to turn against the axis.
That is, of course, those nations who can do so and
are not already suffering under the nazi yoke.
The latest outrage committed against the United
States by the nazis was the sinking Sunday of the
cargoless Lehigh, American owned and flying the
American flag, in the Atlantic off the coast of Af
rica. The vessel was well outside the belligerent
zone set up by the fuehrer himself, and was plying
N'tween neutral Bilbao, Spain, and a West African
port. Germany has said that tb" sinking of the
Panama ship, Bold Venture was i.one of our busi
ness, but is still fumbling for an answer to the
sinking of the Lehigh.
We have been hearing of the "Myth of Nordic
Supremacy" a good deal since Hitler came to
power, but nothing like it is being illustrated now.
Ie seems that the Germans consider themselves
near God these days. For every German killed
occupied France, 100 French must die.
Kansas City Livestock Show
Ranks UJV's Fat Sheep High
Race Relations
Changing Says
James Farmer
"It was the intention of our
government at its founding that
its people, but that has not even
yet been accomplisher," sair James
L. Farmer, race relation secretary
of the Fellowship of Reconciliation
at a meeting of the YM-YW
cabinets, last night.
"When President Roosevelt ap
pealed to Hitler in 1937 concerning
the persecution of the Jews, Hitler
retaliated by saying that we had
our own unsolved problems of
minority. After this war, tho
race relations of the world will
be greatly changed, either for
worse or better, depending upon
the attitude of all Chrsitians.
Christians will be able to establish
a policy of freedom thruotit the
world, but to do this, they must
back their ideals with action,"
Farmer said.
Today, Mr. Farmer will speak
to the 8 and 9 a. m. sociology Clas
ses in 105 social science, at the
Y luncheon-forum in 306 home ec,
and to a fellowship group at the
Wesley Foundation at 5:30 p. m
in
The university's fat sheep en
tries from ag campus at the
American Royal livestock show in
Kansas City, Mo., ranked with the
best flocks in the nation as the
results of the first day's contest
were announced yesterday.
UN had the champion pen of
three grade and crossbred wether
lambs, and this pen placed as re
serve grand champion.
Individual winnings included
first, second and third on Corrie
dale fat lambs, reserve champion
grade wether, and first on heavy
weight grade wether. Bill Esry,
shepherd of the university flock,
showed the lambs.
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the alumni association and is being assisted by the
Daily Ncbraskan.
2. Trying to extend the Ivy Day activities into
a greater College Days, comparable to Veishea
Days at Iowa State college, in which all divisions
take part with exhibits, programs, demonstrations
and other activities besides announcing new mem
bers of the campus honoraries. The reason for this
project is to get high school students to come to
the university on their annual "sneak days" to see
what the university has to offer them and to help
them decide to attend the university rather than
other school?
3. Holding the NSFA National Student Feder
ation of America midwest convention here this
weekend. The council is not a member of this fed
eration, but is holding the convention here in order
to get ideas on new projects and on making a bet
ter council from representatives of other councils.
4. Evaluating the constitutions of all the organ
izations on the campus in order to prune them
down to see that they all exist for valid purposes.
5. Carrying on a Red Cross drive in November
as a humanitarian and necessary aid to the coun
try as a whole.
If the proposed plan were passed by the stu
dents, all these and many other valuable projects
would be ruined because there would be no effi
cient body to administer them.
If the students want the Student Council to be
come an impotent, unnecessary body, they will
pass the proposed amendment to the Student Coun
cil constitution at the election next Tuesday. If
they want the Student Council to progress as it
has been doing up to the present time, they will
vote NO with us.
"National defense and welfare are dependent
upon the development of a strong, healthy people.
A positive program of physical, mental and social
fitness is needed. This program must start in child
hood and youth to lay the foundations for healthy
adult life. It is a long-range program. Children,
youth and adults need to learn a variety of leisure
time skills, such as are offered In physical educa
tion, for use now and in the future. Frustrated, neg
lected, or bored people have low morale. Physical
education renders an indispensable service to mo
rale improvement through the development of lei
sure time skills and the opportunities which It
offers for their expression." Frank G. McCormick,
University of Minnesota athletic director. ACP.
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On many of the defense projects encountered by tke Bell
System, the work sheets showing telephone facilities
needed and time allowed would make a good, conservative
engineer's hair stand on end.
For example, take the Navy's huge new air base near
Corpus Christi, Texas, which covers 14,500 acres, includes 29
separate flying fields and 481 buildings. Closely connected
with the base are Defense Housing projects for 1700 families.
Imagine the complex problems involved in planning tele
phone facilities for this new "city" where formerly there
were sand dunes in obtaining and installing miles and miles
of wire and cable, switchboards, telephones by the thousand.
But telephone engineers and construction men took hold
proceeded to shatter records completed their huge task
in seemingly impossible time. For men with the will te
do," there's a real thrill in such Bell System work!
