Wednesday, November 12, 1941.
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DAILY NEGfaASKAN
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The Real America First
What's in a name? We want to know what's
in the name America First, the misnomer adopted
by that committee which is telling the people of the
United States to have nothing to do with the war
in Europe. To us, the term America First should
mean doing everything in our power to preserve
America and the committee by that name is sug
gesting a course of action which will not preserve
the United States or any other part of America for
that matter.
The "America First" committee preaches,
among other things, that the United States should
keep her ships off of the seas and do everything to
prepare "at home" against invasion. Those who
subscribe to the committee's doctrines are willing
to make this brave statement: "I would be the first
to fight if the United States were invaded, but I
do not want to die in foreign mud." Possibly these
people do not realize that to prepare our home
defenses we must have products from other coun
tries. For example, we need millions of tons of
manganese to be used in making steel which is one
of the most vital defense materials if not the most
vital. We have to get manganese from other coun
tries and cannot do this without sending our ships
to get it.
With such an economic system as ours we
cannot Bay that we can stay at home to prepare
our defenses. Aside from the fact that England is
fighting our enemy, Germany, and we should help
England fight that enemy, we shall also have to
fight even to keep building our home defenses. We
shall have to fight to keep a real America First.
Anything Con Happen
Ever sine the catastrophic fall of France in
June 1940, the Vichy government under Marshal
retain has kept an ace up its sleeve with which
to check a good deal of the nazi demands on them.
That advantage was the presence of General Max
ime Weygand and some 200,000 French colonial
troops in North Africa. Numerous times the Ger
mans have asked Vichy to recall Weygand to
France for good, and to turn French North Africa,
including Dakar, over to the axis. Every time the
demand has been turned down upon the insistence
of Weygand who was able to bolster the weakening
Vichy position. It was the personal strength of
the general that insured his position.
The possible chance that Weygand might turn
his formidable fighting force and the territory it
polices over to the Free French under General de
Gaulle was enough for a long time to check Ger
man demands on France. Since the accession to
power of Vice Admiral Darlan in Vichy the prestige
of Weygand there has waned, and it is now offi
cially rumored that Petain is willing to permanently
recall Weygand from his command in North Africa
in a short time.
If Weygand accedes to the recall, that will
turn over for axis domination all of French Morocco
and Tunisia, and with the expected assent of Spain
make possible both a frontal and rear assault upon
the British stronghold of Gibraltar. That is a
probable point of attack by the nazis if and when
they subdue Russia.
Whether Weygand will accede to the orders
that may come from Berlin via Vichy or not is
another question. No one doubts that, if Weygand
decides to spurn the axis orders and join the Free
French, most of his well equipped and trained men
will go with him. This would be a valuable add!
tion to the British and Free French forces in Africa
and would make possible a flanking movement on
the axis forces in Libya.
Anything can happen . . .
Because of Imlcxes
Looking Up References Now
Work of Minutes, Not Honrs
Have you ever worked for hours
to look up a reference? Time
wasted, say the icfcrence librar
ians who can look everything from
songs to items from the Daily Ne
braskan quicker than a blink of
the eye.
According to Miss Clara L.
Craig, reference librarian, many
students may save time by con
sulting the indexes which the li
brary has purchased. Not long
ago, according to Miss Craig, a
professor, after a three hour search
for an item in the Daily Nebras
kan which he thought was pub
lished about two years ago, finally
went to the reference room and
discovered within two minutes the
piece he wanted from the index
which the library keeps to this
paper.
Some of the printed indexes
most used are the Reader's Guide,
with which most readers are very
familiar; the New York Times
Index, which serves as an index
of current events; Granger's Index
to Poetry and Recitation, which is
very useful for locating an illusive
poem by author, title, or merely
first line. A large number of
books of quotations also help to
locate the poem if only a line or
two with catch words is remem
bered. Library Indexes Plays.
In addition to having some good
printed indexes to short stories,
the reference librarians keep an
index on cards which has proved
very useful. While there are many
printed bibliographies of plays
such as Logasa and VerNooy.
Index to One-act Plays, Firkin's
Index to Plays, and Drury's View-
Dear Editor:
Speaking not alone as a faculty member but as
one who was once a student and now intimately
associated with administrative affairs of the Univer
sity, I would commend to all students on the Uni
versity campus serious consideration of the claims
and challenges of Religion and Life Week.
Circumstances in the times in which you live
and, most assuredly, the demands of all time require
that we shall be ever mindful of the spiritual events
of life and ever conscious of our responsibilities for
growing spiritually that we may the better serve the
larger purposes of life.
To the University have come some of the out
standing leaders in the field of religion and from
them each of you cannot help but gain much that
will serve you well.
G. W. Rosenlof
Program
(Continued from Page 1.)
chiro Yuasa. Z "How Do We
Know Right and Wrong?" Al
bert W. Palmer. XY "Per
sonal Religion," Allan A.
Hunter. 315 "Ethics," Father
John O'Brien. 316 "Planning
a Student Religious Program,"
Gould Wickey.
5 p. m. Seminars. Union.
316 "Problems of Organ
ized Groups," John Oliver Nel
son. XY "Preparation to'
Christian Marriage and Home
Life," Sylvanus Duvall.
7 p. m. Seminars.
Love Memorial Hall. "The
Christian World Mission," De
Witt C. Baldwin.
303 Ag. Hall. "Planning a
Student Religious Program)"
Walter Malone.
Pioneer Coop. 511 No. 16th
St. , "Student Cooperatives,"
Carroll Moon.
5:30-8:00 p. m. Denomina
tional and group meetings.
... At UN Library
points in Modern Drama, none of
these is so useful as the card index
to the plays that have been pub
lished in collections, in Poet Lore,
or in Drama.
Perhaps not many students are
familiar with the Song Index com
piled by Miss Sears. If you know
only the line "Not my mudder, but
'tis me, O Lord," by using the
Song Index, the title of this old
Negro spiritual may be found. To
supplement An Analytical Bibli
ography of Universal Collected Bi
ography, compiled by P. M. Riches,
the librarians have made an index
to biographies In other collections
found in the library. A card index
made by the reference librarians
also supplements tr.e printed index
to essays published by the Wilson
company.
Besides indexing the Daily Ne-
braskan as mentioned above, the
reference librarians have indexed
the University Journal and Ne
braska Alumnus for personal items
of any length, and have a growing
index on debate subjects. As time
permits they are compiling a list
of Nebraska authors to supplement
the Provisional list of Nebraska
authors which was published by
the university library in 1918.
In self defense, the librarians
have had to index certain works
of French and Spanish writers
which were published in sets of
thirty or more volumes without an
index. For the same reason it has
been necessary to prepare an index
to the French encyclopedia which,
is now being published as fast as
Hitler permits. ,
These various indexes have
grown through the years as the
need for these time-savers became
apparent to the librarians. They
were compiled with the thought of
helping the reader to save time and
effort as well as being an aid to
the library staff. The reference
librarian hopes the readers may
make full use of these indexes
and other helps in her department,
and will be pleased to point them
out to any one interested.
Students should also remember
that much information of a brief
nature may be given over the
phone when there is not time to
visit the library.
Ilunler Speaks
At Joint YW,
YM Meeting
City and ag YWCA cabinets
will meet with the YMCA cabinet
tonight at 7 o'clock in Temple for
their regular joint meeting. Dr.
Allan A. Hunter will speak to the
group and then will lead a discus
sion. All members of the three
cabinets are urged to attend the
meeting.
On the Thirteenth . .
AWS Freshman Group Holds
Superstition Party for Women
... In Kllen Smith
Inspired by the date, AWS
freshmen are holding a supersti
tion party for all university women
at 5 p. m. tomorrow in place of
their regular meeting. Members
of the AWS board will be guests
of honor and consequently are ex
empt from the ten-cent admission
Red Cross
(Continued from Page 1.)
November 21, each organized
house will have a house chairman
Belling memberships. Each day,
these workers are to report to the
Red Cross desk in the Daily Ne
braskan office where they will
turn in money and lists of mem
bers and replenish their worker's
iupply kits.
Members of Mortar Board are
contacting members of the faculty
for membership contributions, and
students in every phase of campus
life will be reached by members
of the council committee under the
direction of Mary Rosborough.
Preston Hays is in charge of fra
ternities; Maryellen R o b i s o n,
ororities; Shirley Phelps, dorms;
Bob Alberty, barbs; and Betty Ann
Tisthamer, ag campus.
fee which muat be asked from ev
eryone else to cover refreshment
and entertainment expenses.
Serving on the party committee
under chairman Charlotte Graber
are Norma Pasternak, Mildred
Fishberg, Natalie Neumann, Vir
ginia McCulla, Dolores Schwenker,
and Pat Chamberlin. Rachael Ann
Lock and Sue Sh.iw will direct
games.
Botany Prof Presents
Paner on Fungi at Dallas
Dr. L. B. Walker of the Uni
versity of Nebraska Botany de
partment, will present a paper on
a new type of earth fungi at the
national Symposium of the Myco
logical Society in Dallas, Texas on
December 29.
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