Thursday, January 15, 194?
DAILY NEBRASKAN
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Day a-7181. NtRht 2-71D3. Journal 2-3330
""""" Editor Mary Kerrigan
Business Manager Ben Novicoff
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Managing Editors ... Morton Margolin, Paul Svoboda
News Editors Marjorie Bruning, Alan Jacobs.
Marjorie May, Helen Kelley, Bob Schlater.
Pports Kditor ..Bob Millet
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BUSINESS DEPARTMENT.
Assistant Business Manager Phil Kantor
Circulation Manager Erv Friedman
Working Conditions
At the Student Council meeting yesterday aft
ernoon considerable time was spent discussing the
working conditions of students in the various eat
ing establishments in the city.
A committee which had been appointed to in
vestigate alleged improper conditions turned in the
usual report of poor fd an( lng working hours,
adding a postscript to the effect that, "there isn't
much we can do about it."
' There has been a committee appointed to look
Into working conditions each year each year the
committee report is the same. For the past five
years they might as well have been carbon copies
of the original. Particular mention was made by
the committee chairman of a certain establishment
which served the student employees what amounted
to "leftovers." He also stated that university offi
cials had at one time taken the matter in hand, but
got no results.
' Why is it that nothing can be effected to bring
about an alleviation of poor working conditions?
The answer is quite obvious. If a student is actually
in need of a job he will take whatever is offered re
gardless of the number of hours or the conditions
under which he works. Also, there are very few
students who take a genuine and active interest
in their "working brothers and sisters."
The Student Council has spent considerable;
time, talk, and effort on the matter every year. It
should be lauded for its perseverance, if not for its
results. But the Council can do nothing if it does
not have the support of the student body and of
those students who claim grievances. And yet the
student body cannot be blamed for its inaction.
Five thousand students, each with his and her own
problems, is an unwieldy group which needs or
ganization, information, and instruction before it
can be expected to take some action relative to the
situation.
Various members of the Council talked of boy
cotting individual establishments if concessions
with regard to food, salary, and hours of work
Behind the News
By David Thompson
China Criticizes . . .
Evidence to support the importance laid upon
Allied prestige among the Far Eastern peoples in
this column in yesterday's paper comes from the
strongest nation in that area. Reports from Chung
king, capital of China, indicate that the lack of
Anglo-American successes against the Japanese,
failure of reinforcements to arrive, and the lack of
foresightedness on the part of the Allies in that
area, all these and many other things, are being
severely criticized in the newspapers of that nation.
They are complaining about the great "num
ber of words-no action'' formula being carried on,
and are particularly disturbed by statements made
in the U. S. and England that Hitler must be
smashed first. All of this is quite understandable
coming from a nation that has been at war with
the Japanese for four long years, and that has
little or no interest in the European situation. How
ever it bodes no good as far as the peace that will
follow this war. Rather it is indicative of a trend
toward nationalism instead of internationalism in
that area.
These Chinese newspapers at any rate do not,
and perhaps do not want to look at this war in its
wider aspects. They are only concerned with the
things that threaten them most. For that matter,
so would any other nation that was in the same
position, nevertheless it does not alter the fact
that it is not the kind of attitude that makes for
internationalism after the war any more than dur
ing it.
If the peace that follows an Allied victory is to
be any more successful than that of Versatile, it
must not involve the same mistakes made in that
notorious treaty, and it must fall upon a world that
is amenable to joint international action in time of
peace as well as in time of war. Our only hope is
that the Chinese newspapers do not reflect the
sentiments of the Chinese government.
were not made by the managements. To talk about
such action is one thing, while doing it is another.
It would seem, however, that a boycott should be
used only as a last resort. There are other methods
of affecting an understanding between the student
employee and the employer which would cause less
friction and yet attain the desired results if prop
erly directed.
Cooperation of the students and particularly
those students who are working is essential to the
success of any proposals made by the Student
Council. Therefore, the working conditions commit
tee of the Council should call a meeting of all
working students, question them concerning their
work, and ask for suggestions. In this way not o,nly
can facts be obtained on which to base further ac
tion but also all petty grievances can be eliminated
Paul E. Svoboda.
Defense
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paper and clothes contributions to
the Red Cross. Book contributions
will be sent to the Victory book
campaign heads for distribution
among TJSO houses and otner
recreational centers for service
men.
Student Council members will
compile a file of defense workers
as soon as all me applications are
in, and workers will be summoned
to duty as soon as the second se
mester begins.
Proiects of the defense com
mittee not mentioned above in
clude defense matinee dances with
admission the price of a defense
Registration . . .
(Continued from Page 1.)
tration for the first three days,
there are a large number of
closed and avoid sections. The fol
lowing sections reported closed
at 5 p. m. Wednesday are: Bus.
Org. 4, Labs. D and F; Commer
cial Arts 27, section 1; Commer
cial Arts 26, section 25; Ed. 63,
sections 4, 6, 7; Ec. 3, section 3;
Ec. 12, section 3; Eng. 2, sections
2 and 8; Eng. 4, sections 1, 2, 3, 5,
6, 7 and 9; Eng. 12, sections 3 and
4; Geog. 72, Labs D and I; Math.
12, sections 4, o, and 6; Math. 22,
sections 1 and 8; Math. 104, sec
tions 2 and 4; Physics 4, Quiz 1
and 3, Labs. C and D; Physics 12,
Lab. B; Pol. Sci. 2, section 2;
Psych. 90, section 1; Speech 10,
section 3; Speech 109, sections 2
JOHNNY
ORCHESTRA
For Your Dancing
Pleasure
Friday
15c each
STUDENT
UNION
and 3: Speech 110, section 2; M.
E. 6, Labs. A and B; M. E. 213,
Lab. B; C. E. 1, Labs. Aand D;
E. M. 2; Labs. C, D, E, and F;
E. M. 225, section 3.
The following sections are
tftked to be avoided by the student
when registering for second scmes
terclasses: Bug. Org. 4, Labs A
and D; Chem. section 2, Lab. D;
Chem. 31, Lab. A; Com Ars 27,
section 1; Eng. 12, section 5; Eng.
22, section f; Geog. 62, section 1,
Lab. D; Geog. 72 Labs. E and I;
Math. 22, sections 1, 2 and 6;
Math. 40. sections 2, 6 and 7; Math.
103, section 1; Physics 12, Quiz 2,
Lab. B.
All fees will be paid in Grant
Memorial, Friday, Jan. 23, and
all changes in sections will be con
sidered on Tuesday, Feb. 3.
YWCA
Bulletin
Corn Colin.
A Hireling- of all Torn Cob will be held
at 7:30 tuniaht In the Vakm. Members
are reauented lo be in Uine.
Hoph Cabinet.
The flrat meeting of the Nophormire
Cabinet will take plaee today at 6 p. in.
la tbe Inlon.
Koemet Klub.
Koemet Klub members will meet Friday
at 4:3 p. m. In the Keemet Klab of flee.
NOW! We DEFY
You Not to
SHUDDER!
with
Walter
Brennan
Walter
Huston
Always a 8et
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staff, member of the Vesper choir
anu was a cieiegaie to the na
tional assembly of Student Chris
tian Associations during Christ
mas vacation.
Jean Christie has been secretary
for the YWCA, social chairman
a member of the Vesper choir and
went to rhe Estes Conference last
summer. Her opponent, Jean
Coffee, has been leader of the of
fice and personnel staff, regional
co-chairman of the peace eommis
sion, a member of the Vesper
choir, and attended Estes Confer
ence last summer.
The candidates for secretary,
Janet Curley ana Janice Cook
have been on the finance staff and
a freshman commission k.der re
spectively. Miss Katzman will sue
ceed herself as treasurer.
Only members may vote for the
candidates and they must present
meir Diue membership cards with
their identification cards at the
poll where they will be checked
on the YWOA membership rolls
Women may become members by
paying for their membership at
the polls.
Those who vote on city campus
are asked to get their blue mem
bership cards in the YWCA office
in Ellen Smith if they are paid
members and have no card. Mem
bers who vote on ag campus must
get their cards in the home ec
parlors if they are members and
have no cards.
Twenty-six states and the Dis
trict of Columbia are represented
in the student body of Texas
Christian university.
After five year rifle work for
women has been revived at the
stamp and knitting classes. Clip
the defense blank out of today's
Daily, and enlist today!
Debate . . .
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were picked as two teams to de
bate both sides of the question
on a weekend tour Feb. 5, 6, and
7. Objective of this tour will be
the University of South Dakota
at Vermillion where they will take
part in a public convocation de
bate. En route they will debate at
a public debate against Creighton
at Blair and against Morningside
College at Sioux City.
These debaters are Rivin and
Rist on one team and Smith and
Mattoon on the other.
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The telephone plays a vital role in army communications.
So the Bell System is helping to school Signal Coqis
men in practically every phase of telephone construc
tion, operation anu maintenance.
This training joh is hut a small part of the tremen
dous task Bell System people are doing in this national
crisis. They're setting up telephone systems for new
ramps,hascsand factories handling an enormous volume
of rails needed to coordinate the Nation's war effort,
Throughout the country, Bell System people are
wholeheartedly cooperating in the drhe for victory. To
men and women of their high caliher, there
is real satisfaction in a difficult joh well done.
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