DAILY NEBRASKAN
Tuesday, March 24, 1942
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F I DITOFIAL DKI'AHYMKNT. "
Managl -K Editors Marjoris Brunlng, Bob tfe-h later
New! Kdltnrs .. George A I) hot t. Alan Jacobs,
June Jamlenon, Helen Kelley, Marjorie May.
B port I Kditnr Bob Miller
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Circulation Manauer Sidney Schwarti
All vnalrnrd editorials are the opinions of I he editor and
should not be ronntrned to reflect the views of the ad
ministration or of the university.
Labor Must
Sacrifice Also
Organized labor has fought an up-hill battle
for existence since the growth and spread of
large scale industry in the United States. Born
from a deadlock of the hopes of the working
man and the oppression of industrial manage
ment, organized labor began as an urgly child
a foundling that the government and courts
would not foster or feed with either words
or creeds of an encouraging nature.
Today organized labor is a large ungainly
youth, wild, reckless, and self-seeking, but
imbued with certain ideals and objectives
which are worthwhile and just. It has the
interests of the laboring man at heart and in
the promotion of these interests it has fre
quently disregarded the interests of others.
Today we are a nation at war. A nation
at war has but one primary objective and all
other objectives which stand counter to victory
must be obliterated until the last triumphant
shot is fired. Business men have their inter
ests. The industrialists have their interests.
The shopkeeper has his interests. The labor
ing class has its interests. Yes, we are all
self-centered and to a certain extent rightfully
so, but unless individual interests are volun
tarily set aside unlil after the present
emergency, they will be set aside permanently
by force.
In Congress this week and last week the
fight on the Smith bill has been going on with
unabated fury. Senators and representatives
stand opposed to Kooscvclt and his aides who
are patting the unions on the back. A poll
of Congress reveals that the bill will pass un
less the administration can snap the proverbial
whip over congressmen who have their own
interests at heart and want the Roosevelt
touch when election time comes around. The
New Deal has always been the godfather of
unionization and is displaying its stand today
when it opposes more working hours per
week and at the same time warning the public
that work shortages are going to occur.
Labor is naturally jealous of the gains it
has made in the past few years. It has fought
hard for wage and hour legislation favoring
the working classes. It has gone thru hell
and high water to establish better working
conditions, workmen's compensation, and
closed shop agreements. Favored by the war,
it has made great strides toward objectives
which .indubitaly would have yet been in the
remote future had not the necessity of max
imum production been thrust upon a nation
which saw its very life blood being drained
by a lack of foresight. Labor sees its progress
heaped in the ash can as Congress toys with
the thought of abolishing the closed shop and
other marks of labor successes, yet if this
nation is to be victorious sacrifices will have
to be general and not particular. -If business
must sacrifice-, so must labor. THE FORTY
HOUR WEEK MUST BE ABOLISHED. THE
UNITED STATES CANNOT COMPETE
PRODUCTIVELY WITH THE AXIS NA
TIONS IF OUR AVERAGE WORKING MAN
PUNCHES THE TIME CLOCK FOR EIGHT
HOURS WHEN THE ENEMY'S LABOR
PUTS IN TEN OR TWELVE HOURS. SPEC
IALISTS CLAIM THAT A MAN'S EFFICI
ENCY DECREASES AFTER SO MANY
HOURS WORK. THAT IS GRANTED, BUT
IN THE EXTRA TIME THAT HE WORKS
HE IS STILL PRODUCING PRODUCING
GOODS WHICH Mac ARTHUR SO DESPER
ATELY NEEDS.
Dear Editor:
It isn't my purpose in this letter to criticize
or offend any of the members of the Daily
Nebraskan staff. But I hope you will accept
this as a constructive suggestion.
Many, many students at the university par
ticipate in intramural sports, both bards and
greeks. With so much interest in intramurals,
it is surprising to me that the sports staff is
so lax in its coverage.
There is no getting away from the fact
that we like to read about ourselves and our
friends. And since the Daily Nebraskan is
mainly for the interest of the students, why not
give them something that they arc truly in
terested in?
Intramurals seem to be covered in spurts;
for a few days, the intramurals are making the
headlines, and the next few wjeeks we are
lucky to even get the results of many of the
contests.
But 1 would, and I think I can speak for
many other students on the campus, enjoy
the Daily Nebraskan even more if intramural
sports were given complete coverge.
Thanking you,
STUART MUSKIN.
By Mars a Lee Civin.
For the first time since 1910 women were
inducted into the mail carriers service. Uni
versity women were requested to fill appli
cation blanks for such positions. The need
for bookkeepers was also very urgent and
positions were open in the office of the Bureau
of Naturalization and the Department of
Labor.
Letters were reecived from John J. Noone,
a first lieutenant in the 319 Infantry of the
national army which told of the idea originat
ing in his division whereby mothers of en
listed men are remembered at least every
second Friday in regular observance of a
mother's hour.
About 1500 names appeared on the honor
roll of the April number of the Alumni Jour
nal. The names listed were of those alumns
in the service of Iheir country.
S By Morsa Lee Civin.
A free press cannot exist without freedom
in education, religion, speech and assembly.
Yet these other freedoms become meaningless
without basic support from a free press. The
newspaper's essential role in education, there
fore, is to guard against any attempts to sup
press freedom of the printed word. At a time
when the future of the world is being decided,
the American press and its schools have an
interdependent obligation to work for a future
that will preserve their traditional freedom.
Newspapers, thru their appeal to readers of
all ages from the child who learns to read by
scanning the comic strip to the elderly scholar
who gathers his research material in the news
columns, rank with the schools as a powerful
stimulant of literacy. And literacy is the
spring from which rise freshets that give op
portunity for human expression. Literacy
stimulates human aspirations, but they develop
only in a society that allows them full free
dom. R. B. von Klemsmid, president, Univer
sity of Southern California, Los Angeles.
The newspaper must be ranked as one of
the great educational institutions of the coun
try. Along with our schools nd colleges it is
engaged in giving to the citizens the informa
tion, knowledge and perspective which a free,
self-governing people must have if it is to
maintain a democratic system of government.
Of all forms of government, a republic, if it is
to succeed for long, requires the best educated
and the best informed electorate. Our well
informed electorate is in large part the product
of the continuous services which are per
formed by the daily press for a people who
have had the advantages of the best formal
education that any country offers. That eter
nal vigilance which is the price of democracy
centers in our press. In the press our citizens
have a powerful protector of their rights. Like
wise, they find in their newspapers constant
reminders of their corresponding duties as cit
izens. Education of the public as to what its
rights and duties are is a major service. Dr.
Charles E. Diehl, president, Southwestern uni
versity, Memphis, Tenn.
Eleanor n Me
By Alan Jacobs
It's natural to want to be something that you aren't. Persona
are always saying, "If I had anything to say about it, I would
do . . ." Of course, very few people ever get a chance to have
"anything to say about it," but wishful thinking is fun, and since
we want some fun, we now do a bit of:
If we were Chancellor Boucher, we could abolish eight o'clocks.
If we were Karl Arndt, we would subscribe to the second edition
of Joe Miller's joke book.
If we were Elmer Spraguc, we would discard our libidinous,
lecherous, salacious, 'lettcripped' " pen and spend more time studying
freshman lecture.
If we were Eleanor Roosevelt, we would change the name of our
column from "My Pay" to "Alan 'n Me."
If we were Yamashita, we would change our name to Murphy.
If we were Murphy, we would commit "hari-kari."
If we were Glenn Presnell, we would subsadize the ''bulk of
sorority row."
If we were director of the Union, we would get "hitched."
If we were Beldora Cochran, we would buy a new sweater.
If we were Richard Calvin Pcrcival HagclbcTger III, we would
buy a new hat.
If we were Mahatma Ghandi, we would buy a new sheet.
If we were Prof. Frankforter, we would use our explosives to
blow up U hall, Berchesgarten and conniving activity men.
If we were a Mortar Board, we would choose the Mortar Boards.
If we were Dinny Ford, WOW.
If we were General Mac Arthur, we would move our headquarters
to Tokyo.
If we Charles Atlas, we would enlist in Nebraska's physical
fitness program.
If we were a columnist, we would write better pieces than this.
Drummer . . .
(Continued from Page 1)
in the Theatre, and since the pro
duction of "Key Largo'' last spring
he has experimented extensively in
stage settings and style of produc
tion in Theatre presentations.
In that production, for the first
time, Brummer began carrying
out the idea of experimenting with
simplified forms of production,
emphasizing realism. "Key Largo"
featured combination of mild ex
pressionism with selective realism,
innovating at the same time se
lective visibility, something never
before attempted.
Androcles' Opens Tomorrow.
University Theatre audiences
will have their last chance, for a
while at lea.., to see a Gogen
Erummer production when the
Theatre presents G. B. Shaw's
"Androcles and the Lion" tomor
row night for the first time and
continuing thru Friday night.
Another experimental play, this
satirical comedy has been com
pletely modernized and brought
up to date, with an entirely dif
ferent adaptation than that of the
original.
Brummer, for the past two
years, iias served as an instructor
in public speaking, fundamentals
of speech, stagecraft, history of
the theatre, and technical make
up. He spent the summer of 1940
making a survey of university,
summer, and professional theaters
east of the Mississippi, combining
this with a pleasure trip.
After receiving his notice Mon
day, to the effect tnat he would
leave March 29 for Denver, he is
now awaiting the arrival of form
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