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Wednesday, November 19, 1941 DAILY NEBRASKAN The Daily Nebraskan fcXJRTY-FlKST YEAR. Subscription Rates are Jl.OO Per Semester or $1.60 for the College Year. $2.50 Mailed. Single copy. 5 Cents. Kntered as second-class matter at the postolfice In Lin coln. Nebraska, under Act of Congress. March 3. 18i9. and at special rate of postaee provided for in Section IIUJ. Act of October 3. 1917. Authorized September 3H. Published Daily during the school year except Mondays and Baturrlavs. vacations, and examinations periods by Students ol the University of Nebraska under th suoervlslon of tha I JD- U-atlons Board Offices .. .. Union BullrilnR. Pay 2-7181. Nlcht 2-71M. Journal 2-3330 Editor" Mary Kerrigan Business Manager Ben Novlcoff MetrAei fts$ocialed Gollofticfe Prest Diitributoi of Cblle6iale Dieted Member Nenrasna Press Asaociation. 1940-41 EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT. Manarlne Kdltora . .Morton Mnrpolin. Paul Svoboda News Kdltors.. Marjorie Bmnlni?. Alan Jacob. Marjorie May. Helen Kelley. Bob Schlater. Bports Kditor . Bob Miller ' Bl' S I N E SS T F I' A R f M E N T ' , AssistanFBusiness ManaRer Phil Kantor Circulation Manager Erv Friedman Hepreented for National Advertising by NATIONAL ADVF.HTIH1NO SERVICE. INC. 420 Marflma Ave., New VorU. N. V. rhlmro Boston I .os Anielea Kan Franclse QommsmL Ed Note: Today we publish a letter comment ing on a letter published in the Daily Nebraskan and written by the secretary of the campus chapter of the America First Committee. This letter brings out the same ideas brought out in the editorial answering the America Firster's letter, but with a few different angles. The writer of the letter does not want his name published. Dear Editor: If it is not too presumptuous, may an interested subscriber write the editor? We read with inteiest the letter of the UN America First Committee which you published Nov. 7. Viewed in the light of international develop ments during the past year this organization might well be named "Let England Fall, America Next Committee." We have seen Hitler's doctrine of Divide and Conquer enslave millions and create conditions more horrible and more lasting than war. Able observers have warned America for the past several years that our colleges and universities are hotbeds of communi.nr. and the most fertile field in which to sow the seeds of subversive propaganda. If the Committee's letter expresses the consensus of opinion of many of our students, it indeed strengthens the charge. To all but the blind and the gullible, the hand writing on the wall is clear. Hitler proposes to enslave the world and dominate over it by his self styled "superior race." America has a job to do and it will not be done by wringing our hands and proclaiming "War is terrible." This assertion neither raises nor settles any issue. No one denies it. Mr. Faul in his letter asks the editor "Have you ever visited a Veteran's hospital and viewed the lasting results of our last Crusade?" May I ask Mr. Taul. Did you ever see Warsaw? Did you ever see a German concentration camp? Can you picture the agony of the families and friends of the thousands condemned to die in countries overrun by the Teutonic beasts To a proud nation dis armed, starved and regimented for all time to come by ruthless tyrants, the horrors of war pale. All honor to the men who bore the brunt of the last crusade. They obtained for us a twenty-year lease on freedom and decency, and America will not now undo their heroic deeds by following a weak and vacillating foreign policy. When Mr. Goebells reads the outpourings of Lindbergh, Wheeler and the America First Commit tee I can well imagine his reporting to his chief that there is nothing to tear from America: "They are soft to the core, Adolf." Mr. Paul says "and 79 of the youth oppose sending an expeditionary force to die in foreign wars." A greater percent are Opposed to rattle snakes but they should unite to exterminate them. The America First Committee frequently gives us statistics of the concensus of opinion of the youth of America. I am wondering if some of these sta tistics are not gathered from the youth of The National Youth Congress. That organization was conceived, organized and financed by foreign sub versive interests with the avowed purpose of creat ing internal dissention and softening America. The orators of the America First Committee invariably preface, their remarks by stating tjiat there is not one of them who would not give his life for America if her boundaries were actually invaded. Faith of our Fathers! If modern war fare has taught us anything it is that the Army that waits for that contingency to happen need not fight at all. It is already defeated just as America will be defeated if she follows the teachings and precepts of the America First Committee. For an American to say he wouldn't fight until our borders are actually invaded is the equivalent of saying that he wouldn't fight at all. America may be thankful that our Commander-in-Chief had the courage and foresight to acquire naval bases from Greenland to the Panama Canal, bases that would have been acquired and occupied by Hitler had that matter been submitted to Congress while Mr. Lindbergh, Wheeler and the America Firsters promoted a filibuster. Our nation is at war. It is not a question of peace or war but a question of preserving or losing our freedom and all that Americans hold dear. The dangers confronting America are realistic. Let us be practical and get there "firstest with the most est." Yours very truly, R. Agronomy Society Elects Keim National Vice President Dr. F. D. Keim, chairman of the agronomy department of the col lege of agriculture, was elected vice president of the American so ciety of agronomy at its joint meeting with the soil science so ciety of America in Washington, D. C. The meeting was held last Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, and was attended by several staff members from the college and Nebraska experiment station. Present were about 700 delegates from major agricultural colleges in the United States and Canada. Selection of Dr. Keim means that, according to the rules of the organization, he will become presi dent a year from now. The in going president of the society is Dr. Richard Bradficld of Cornell university, Ithaca, N. Y. Dr. Howard Sprague, who re ceived his rh.D. degree from the University of Nebraska, was chosen a fellow of the American society of agronomy. University students took the lion's share of the honors in the society's annual national essay contest. First place went to Dan Atkinson and second to Charles Gardner. Fourth was Dale Weibel and seventh place winner was Jack Carter. This was a contest for essays of 3,000 to 3,500 words on "The Role of Legumes in Agri culture." Winners of the first three places were awarded ex pense money to the 1941 interna tional hay and grain show which opens in Chicago late this month. Other prizes consisted of cash. Collegiate Oddities Frosh Coeds Have Chance To See Kosmet Klub Show With campus interest centered around the Kosmet Klub fall Re vue tomorrow night, the AWS board and the dean of women an nounced today that all freshman women will be allowed a 10:30 p. m. night to attend the show. Ten organized houses held dress rehearsal at the Temple theater Monday night and Klub workers yesterday completed the structure from which this year's Nebraska Sweetheart and Prince Kosmet will be introduced. One word description of the show which will be presented at the Nebraska theater beginning at 7 p. m. is NEW, Kosmet Klub members report, with a new sweet heart and prince, and also new fraternity and sorority prize win ners since both Alpha Phi and Phi Kappa Psi, last year's winners, are not represented this year. Vir ginia Bergstren and Ralph Wor den shared the sweetheart-prince spotlight last year. Who Will It Be? When Johnnie Cox's band strikes up "Sweet Nebraska Sweetheart" either Betty Marie Wait or Bonnie Wennersten will step to stage es corted by either Chet Bowers Larry Huwaldt, Jack McPhail, Bob Sanci berer. or John Thiessen. Students selected the UN honoraries at the fall election but the identity of the two will not be revealed until the show. Picking the winning skits will be an applause-o-graph, a me chanical device secured by the Klub to insure accurate recording of the applause from the audience which decides the winners of the annual cups awarded. Organized houses having skits in the revue are the following sororities: Pi Beta Phi, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Kappa Alpha Theta, Delta Gamma, Alpha Omi- cron Pi, and Delta Delta Delta fraternities entered are: Alpha Tau Omega. Delta Upsilon. Phi Gamma Delta, anil Alpha Sigma Phi. 1he pRST FRATERNITY LODGE IN AMERICA BUILT AT KENYOM COLLEGE (OHIO) By DELTA KAPPA EPSILON -1652 .' CREW RACES STARTED THE FIRST INTERCOLLEGIATE RIVALRIES. IN I852 THE LONG SERIES BETWEEN HARVARD AND VALE BEGAN.' LUCKV Colgate university WAS FOUNDED BY Vb MEN WrTH 13 DOLLARS AND 13 PRAYERS .' Studio Theatre Presents Version Of Noted Play A cut version of the Philadel phia Story will be presented Wed nesday by Studio Theatre at 7:30 p. in. in room 201, Temple. Mary Huffman as Tracy Lord, Max Whittaker portraying C. K. Dexter Haven and Bud Schwartz as Maculay Conner are the leads, Others include; Henry Lee, Helen Goodwin. Bill Reese, Helen Jean Sorenbcrger, Bill McBride, Kit Carson and Roland Metz. Director is Joyce Burke. Expert Forecaster of . . . University Can Even Lei You Know What Days lo Put On Your Galoshes . . . Ily Studying Weather Maps BY ED HIRSCH. Will you have to put on your galoshes tomorrow or will it be a fair dry day? The Lincoln weather bureau of the United States gov ernment can tell you 36 to 48 hours in advance and be substan tially correct every time. According to T. A. Blair, associ ate professor of meteorology, the reason that these forecasts are usually right is because the weath er bureau does not guess. Profes sor Blair is director of the Lincoln weather bureau which is under the supervision of the U. S. Bureau of Commerce and is located in Brace laboratory. To make successful predictions the weather bureau depends main ly on weather maps. Over newly installed teletypes which connect all of the U. S. weather bureau stations come reports that provide the Lincoln bureau with necessary information to construct weather maps that show weather condi tions over large areas at a partic ular time. These maps are made once a day and when the essential information is on hand it only takes about one hour to make. Complex Weather Maps. On these weather maps are placed the atmospheric pressure, the temperature, rainfall, and the wind velocity of various regions of the United States and Canada. High and low pressure regions are also marked on the map. Generally tlje high regions are of clear and cold air, and the low regions bring warm air. Ihe interaction be tween the air masses of high re gions and low regions bring rain. It is on the border of these two re gions where rainfall occurs. Professor Blair, weather man of this territory, then by examining the weather map can predict the future weather for any area. The air masses always tend to move from west to east and sometimes move southeast or northeast. If the weather map shows a warm rainy "low" over Denver, while wind velocity and direction, and other conditions indicate that by tomorrow this center will bo over Lincoln, the probabilities are that there will be a warm rain over Lincoln on the following day. To record the temperatures in the region accurate thermometers are employed, and anemometers are used to measure the velocity of the find. The pressure is measured by a barometer. A decrease of the presHiire, known as a "falling bar ometer," indicates the approach of a storm, and an increase of the pressure, "a rising barometer," is a sign of fair weather. A steady high barometer usually denotes settled fair weather. In Professor Blair's office is lo cated a triple register. This ma chine indicates the changes in di rection of the wind, the amount of rainfall, and sunshine on a chart moved along by clockwork so as to give a continuous record of a certain number of hours. All of those instruments are connected with wind vanes, rain guages and sunshine indicators on the roof of the P.race Laboratory building which registers on the chart in Professor Blair's office. The in struments on the roof and in the office are connected by electrical current. The Lincoln weather bureau fur nishes the Lincoln Newspapers and radio stations with the dailj weather reports. Also Professor' Blair sends into the main weather station in (liicago the weather re ports for this region. With this in formation anil reports from other stations in the state of Nebraska, Chicago is able to issue the weath er predictions for the whole stV.e Instead of local areas. Ninety-five students are em ployed in NYA work at the uni versity of Akron. 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