Sunday, September 27, 1942
Collegiate Oddities
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DAILY NEBRASKAN
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FORTY -SECOND YEAR.
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Act of October 3, 1017. Authorized September 30, 192.
Published daily during th school year except Mondays
nd Saturdays, vacations and examinations periods by stu
dent of the University of Nebraska under the supervision
of the Publications Board.
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Editor Robert W. Schlater
Business Manager Phillip W. Kantor
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT.
Managing Editors. Marjorie Pruning, Alan Jacobs
Kfvj Kdiiors George Abbott, Pat Chamberlin,
June J nin it-son. Bob Miller, Marjorie Miy. .
Sports hklitor Norris Anderson
Member Nebraska Press Association, 1941-42
EUSINESS DEPARTMENT.
Ae,!'t. Pus. Managers. .Hot ty Dixon Morton Zuber
Cirviiimion Manager Jim Vanlandingham
All ansictied editorial arc Ihr pinions f the ediler kni
vhenld nt be pon-irtiod t reflet the views ( the ad
ministration r ef the iverstty.
It CAN
Happen Here . .
Nebraska's Iluskers journeyed to Iowa
City yesterday with a loyal student lody sup
coin and the reception they receive which will
porting them hut it is the return trip to Uin-
Al though the team was defeated yester
(leterniine just how loyal that student body is.
day, each man played an outstanding part in
the game. Each man was as determined to
win the game as each student listening to the
rr.dio was certain that Nebraska would win.
Each one of us groaned and our head hung
lower and lower as the mighty Iowa learn
scored each touchdown but it is our job now
to get our heads up and help our team revive
its spirit for the ensuing games.
Many times it takes a defeat to bring a
season of wins and we only hope that this will
bo the case this year. The men on the team
are representing the university, each one of
ns, and we are naturally interested in seeing
that they come out on top.
If the student body becomes discouraged
over the first defeat, the team can hardly
help from being liscouragod. If each one of
ns will get behind the team and prove our
support, win or lose, those men can go out
on the field next Saturday with a feeling of
Many will ask how a student body is able
Dear Sirs:
Fine time to be writing and saying "thanks"
for those two copies of the Schooner (Prairie
Schooner, U.N. literary magazine) which you
were kind enough to send me some weeks ago.
isn't it?
Anyway, I want you to know I welcomed
the Schooners with all the enthusiasm 1 would
have given a letter from home. As far as 1
am concerned, no other magazine in the U.S.A.
(or elsewhere) can even come close to com
paring with the finished touch of the Schooner.
And, to prove it, here is my one buck for a
year's subscription. Yours is the only maga
zine in the world which now bears my name
on the subscribers' list. 1 have very little lime
for reading, and what little time 1 do find to
read shall not be wasted as long as I have a
Schooner within my reach. You may start me
out with the fall issue.
Thanks again for the Schooners and your
most welcome letter.
Sincerely,
(Signed) Cpl. Boyd R. Ogden,
22.id Ferrying Squadron,
Morrison Field,
West Palm Beach, Florida.
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a loyal student body behind them,
to show its support. A game rally will be
held this week before the game. If the team
members see a large group of loyal supporters
at the rally, Ihey can hardly fail to realize
lhat we're still behind .them.
"We've got just as big a job on our hands
as the men on the gridiron. If we fail we
can ak nothing from the football team.
Wanted: Scrap,
Nol Oratory
The period of talking about the nee! for
scrap metal has ended. The period for actually
collecting scrap is here.
Steel mills throughout the nation have re
ported a scarcity of scrap melals which may
result in complete stoppage of the plants on
war materials.
The situation is serious. It is the duty and
by duty, we are not repeating a trite phrase
of everyone to collect their scrap. It is a
job for all of us, and we cannot fail.
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'College Students
Are Living on
Borrowed Time'
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (ACP).
America's college students "are
living on borrowed time."
"There is no commitment that
any man may complete his college
education."
So spoke Harvey H. Eundy, as
sistant to the secretary of war, in
an address to Yale freshmen.
Willingness of the government
tQ permit young men to enter col
lege rather than go into the fight
ing front was described by Eundy
as a 'loan" and an "experiment."
"If the loan to the colleges be
comes a method by which men
who ought to be in the thick of the
battle avoid the hazards of war;
if the colleges retain any of the
aspects of the country club which
have been painfully evident in th
past; if the men who can afford
to go to college are considered us
a separate class exempted ovr
long from fighting, the experimer) B
will be a dismal failure and wi. 1
not long continue," Bundy said.
What the government expects c
the colleges is an increasing num
ber of professional men fitted fo
"greater future service to llK-i1
Honorary Entertains
Xational Secretary
Miss Elsie Jevens, nation
executive secretary of Phi Lamtxi
Theca, national education hono
ary was guest of honor at a 12:3
luncheon, Saturday noon, given b
the local chapter. Miss Gertrude
Knie, instructor in commercial
arts, was hostess. '
Miss Jevens was rormeriy sec
retary to Dean Henzlik. Sh
talked about programs for th
coming year and gave suggestion.
to the group.
Princeton Editor Flays WRA .
Tie conduct of the War "Relocation Authority
in clapping 200,000 Japanese behind barbed wire,
be Ihry friends or foes of the United States, sug
gests that America has found a scapegoat compar
able to the Jews in Germany.
Virtually all the Japanese in this country are
American-born and a large majority of them are
citizens of the United States. Disloyalty among
ihern is much lower than among the Germans and
Italians. Yet while German and Italian aliens run
around loose, General DeWitt herds native-born
eitizens of this country into west-coast concentra
tion camps. Without any investigation of loyally
or citizenship, all Japs were given two weeks 1o
liquidate iheir property and prepare for the trek
to the inl'iior. Last month t he equivalent of ih"
I'.iyne prize at I J. C. L. A. was given in absentia
to a Jap in a concentration camp.
This discrimination is not the product f,f r
t re rue caution but of a weakness for witch burning.
The Germans and Italians in this country weild
significant political power which forces the 1"11
to work tactfully, reviewing each individual ense
before internment. In the case of the Japanese,
who have no poliilcal power and over whom we
enjoy a feeling of superiority, it appears convenient
to spare the trouble of individual investigation and
to cut them off from normal life purely on a
basis of race.
Of the 200,000 Japs now in camps, about 2.200
re of college age. Many of them were snatched
out of college; most would like to go. The WKA
is willing to permit some students to return to
college, providing their college presidents arc will
ing to assume personal and financial responsibility
for them. So far few but church schools have
shown any eagerness to assume this responsibility
and the Big Ten has definitely turned thumbs down.
It may be 'that Princeton, being in the Atlantic
war zone, will not be permitted to take Japanese
students, assuming it is willing, but it is a possi
bility which should be given careful consideration.
Of the Japs now in eonccntrtaion camps it may
be ihat as many as 10,000 were originally disloyal
1o the United States. But it is likely that 200,000
will leave those camps disloyal. Such will be the
result of a natural resentment nourished by fruit
less months, perhaps years, in the grim, unprofit
able clutch of barbed wire encirclement. While
German and Italian aliens run free on both sea
boards, the political machinations of democracy
entomb loyal Americans and much-needed scholars
and linguists in the bleak wastelands of southern
California. Dailv Princetonian.
Just A Minute . . .
In answer to 1 his editorial picked up from
the l);iily lYiriceloiiian, 1 li is editor was unable to
kerp from adding a few facts which 1 Vie editor of
lie Princetonian evidently failed to consider.
Several Nebraska students including your edi
tor worked at a Japanese concentration camp in
Cody, Wyo., this summer and obffiined a little first
hand information on the set-up of Ihese so called
"witch burning" institutions.
In the first place, perhaps the Princetonian
fails to realize that the United States has officially
declared war on Japan. Giving him the benefit of
the doubt, however, we can say that it would be
much more pleasant all the way around if we had
no problem of enemies to the United States at all.
However, as the Princetonian editor stated,
most of the inmates of these camps are citizens
of the United States and most of them are more
loyal citizens than many American born Caucasians.
Few people realize that the Japanese people
are being placed in these camps aa much for their
own protection as for the protection of the Amer
ican democracy. Many of them who are loyal
citizens have been molested on the west coast simply
because they arc Japanese, citizenship or no citizen
ship. This is undoubtedly why the War Re location
Authority found it neecsary to fchip all of them
out of the area despite their loyal citizenship.
The Princetonian editor speaks of barbed wire
camps, evidently comparing them to the widely pub
licized stories of the nazi concentration camp. He
would be greatly disappointed, I am afraid, if he
isited Cody, because he would find no barbed wii
fence hoi ng the Japanese there. True, there are
mililary police around the area, but humorous as it
sounds, the guards are there more for the purpos
of keeping curious visitors out, than for keeping
ihe Japanese in.
It is very unfortunate that Japanese studenrs
have not been fcble to continue their college work
in more schools throughout the country. If a su
vey were taken, however, I believe the number
would astound even the Princeton editor. Schools
accepting these students, naturally, are not makii p
a big issue of 1be sil nation since these are too many
so called good American citizens who would scream
at the top of their voices over allowing Japanese
the privilege of education.
If 200,000 Japanese leave the internment camps
disloyal, it will not be the fault of the War Reloca
tion Authority. The Japanese, themselves, realize
they are far better off than if they were left l
the clutching hands of so called loyal American
eitizens. .
Considering these few added factors, all of its
should accept what is being done in every phase
of the war effort as the best solution possible, at
the present time, and criticize less freely. On the
other hand we must realize, too, that we are living
in a democracy and that it is through criticisms
that the best posible solution 4re ultimately
reached.