DAILY NEBRASKAN
Tuesday, March 31, 1943
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ministration or til the university.
'Hour Test7
Is At Hand
America is approaching its first 'hour
tost' of this war. it's had a few dailies al
ready Pearl Harbor, "Wake Island, Bataan
and Macassar Strait on which it has shown
steady improvement.
liy all appearances, the Jap war machine
is headed for Australia. This is a scheduled
test; there can be no claim of a surprise
quiz. Both the Australian and United States
governments have made it known that they
recognize the im.nineitce of the attack.
For the first time in this war we have
committed ourselves to full-scale protection of
any specific part of the United Nations' terri
tory. According to our own communiques, we
have sent large numbers of troops and great
quantities of material "down under." The
Australians themselves, proven battlers in
Crete, Libya and Malaya, are now fighting
for their own homeland, a land nearly as large
as the United States.
When the Japs come to Australia they
will be invading, for the first time, a nation
of free, white men. There can be no excuse that
the Aussies are natives whose loyalty to the
By Marsa Lee Civin
Dean R. Leland, student Presbyterian
pastor, left his duties here at the university to
take up governmental duties as camp pastor
at Gettysburg, Pa.
His duties were of a general nature for
serving the soldiers of his denomination. In
this woik he cooperated with other camp
pastors, army chaplains, and Y. M. C. A.
workers. Thirty thousand men were training
at that time at Camp Gettysburg.
The Ordnance department ofthe U. S. army
needed money and a request was tent to UN.
The Ordnance branch supplied the active
fighting units of the army with munitions,
chemists, accountants, statisticians, and book
keepers. Five Nebraska representatives, Madeline
Girard, official delegate; Fay Breese, and
Camilla Kock, unofficial delegates; and
Beatrice Dierks, Lillian Wirt, visiting dele
gates heard members of the Athletic Confer
ence of the American College Women decide
that war work constituted the best scope for
activities of college women. They signed the
following pledge "We as official delegates
pledge in behalf of our respective organiza
tion to undertake or cooperate in some definite
war work."
Summer training camps for members of
the ROTC were held according to announce
ments from the war department. Those al
lowed to attend included commissioned offi
cers of cadet regiments and also a number of
second year men.
united war effort is qualified by memories of
British imperialism.
There can be no retreat from Australia. The
British experience in handling "Dunkirk"
evacuations cannot be used in this case; there
is simply no place for retreat except perhaps
to a Flying Dutchman existence in the South
Seas. Furthermore, the United States simply
cannot afford to lose men and material it has
placed on the southern continent.
So, we say, Australia's the test. With
MacArthur's assurance that Australia will be
used a springboard of offensive actions in the
Pacific, we take heart in the hope that this
new and effective tactic of a vigorous offense
will take the place of the futile "retirement-to-stronger-positions"
defense methods that
have "laid an egg" elsewhere Purdue Exponent.
'Torn Up' . . .
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The lecturer warm-d that Russia
has switched so many times from
one side to another thus far in the
war that "I hope someone doesn't
rush into this lecture to tell us
that Stalin has deserted the cause
of the United Nations."
Double-cross Feared.
Believing; that Stalin will stick
to the U. S. because of his inter
ests not because of his word which
is the basis for Daics' opinion,
Dean Clark declared that Stalin
doesn't trust Hitler, and Hitler
doesn't trust Stalin. They can't
make a deal because they fear of
being double-cossed.
Joseph Davies' only distinctions,
according to the dean, is his mar
riage to the wealthiest widow in
the United States and his unique
Justification of Stalin's mass ex
ecution of comrades and military
leaders several years ago.
Dean Clark assured the audience
that the Russian people will not
track under the hardships of the
war but will support it to the
limit. The Russians have a pas
sionate loyalty to Russia, and the
soldiers are rugged, intelligent
and loyal, he said.
Many Men Available.
Russia can feed her people, Dr.
Clark explained, since they are
accustomed to a very low standard
of living. The sources of man pow
er for the army are almost inex
haustible and the basic quality is
good.
"The number of trained men is
very large, and they are efficient
soldiers. The generalship and the
staff work has been magnificent.
The quality of major weapons,
airplanes, tanks, and artillery is
much betteh than we had sup
posed." Admitting that the volume is
probably too small, the dean
pointed to the steady flow of ma
terial from England and America
which is slowly equipping the Sov
iet armies to the point where they
may be alk., tot withstand the, re
newed German attack and later
take their own offensive.
Whether the Reds will be able
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to do this will depend upon the
amount of help which the United
States can give them, Dean Clark
believes, since their own supply
from factories on and east of the
Volga is probably wholly inade
quate for the purpose.
"These new enterprises are in
valuable, however, because they
will enable the Russian army to
maintain itself as a fighting force
if it is crowded back to the Volga
or the Urale and is cut off from
our supplies," he added. "They
serve also a great ned in supply
ing the army facing Japan."
Foods . . .
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White said that the price of cina
mon at the time of the last pur
chase was 600 higher than the
price of previous purchases. In
February alone, pork loins in
creased 35 in cost.
Altho nothing is absolutely un
obtainable at the present time, ac
cording to Miss White, such tin
ned foods ps pineapple and sauer
kraut and bananas will be almost
entirely absent from the market
in a short time.
Contest .
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Royal Gettmann, and Mr. John
Gaeth, were in close agreement
as to the placing of the winning
plays. Inyall, eight plays were
entered.
The three winning plays will be
presented by the Department of
Speech in the Union ballroom
Sunday, April 12, at 4 p. m.
Regents . . .
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art for the rest of the semester in
place of Delford Brummer, also on
leave for active duty as a reserve
officer. She received her B. A. de
gree in 1917 from Oberlin College
and has done graduate work in the
Leland Powers School of the
Theater. Previously she has taught
at Berea College, Ky., and at the
University of Wisconsin.
Mrs. Margaret B. Jenness was
appointed as assistant instructor
in psychology for the balance of
the semester in place of Prof. W.
E. Walton, on leave for war work
with the air corps. She received
her B. A. degree in 1921 from St.
Lawrence University Canton,
N. Y and her M. A. degrees in
1926 from Syracuse, N. Y., Uni
versity. Soils Technician Approved.
James Thorp was approved as
soil science technician in the con
servation and survey division.
Thorp is a senior soil scientist
with the U. S. soil survey in the
department of agriculture where
he has been associated for 20
years. From 1929 to 1933 he di
rected work in Puerto Rico where
he also lectured at the University
of Puerto Rico. From 1933 to 1936
he was chief soil technician for the
national geological survey of China
and a special lecturer cn soils at
Nanking University.
Leave for the duration of the
war was grated Dr. John D. Le
Mar, assistant professor of public
health in the College of Medicine;
G. William Ferguson, instructor in
operative dentistry, oral diagnosis
and treatment planning; and John
M. Skack, instructor in pathology
and bacteriology, College of Medi
cine. Leave was approved for Miss
Margaret I. Liston, assistant pro
lessor of home economics from
Sept. 1, 1943, for graduate work.
A new process of reclaiming
hundreds of tons of vital defense
metals now wasted as scrap has
been reported by Dr. John Wulff
of Massachusetts Institute of
Technology.
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