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Thursday, October 8, 1942 DAILY NEBRASKAN i I ij 4 - 8 War Council Again Publishes Uag Tags For Soldiers The first issue of Cornhuker Hag Tags, student defense letter which is sent to former students of the university 4 now in some branch of the service, will come out this month. This letter is a brief summary of all important news happen ing! on the campus, taken from the Daily Nebraskan. w The paper consists of two mimeographed pages with con d used news events, sports, features, and society. It is spon sored by the Student War Council and published by Theta .Sigma l'lii, honorary journalism sorority. Last year more than 200 copies were sent out each month. rand many letters were received of appreciation. A survey of the campus is being conducted this week to bring the mailing list up to date. Anyone having 1he name ' and address of a man in any branch of the service who at tended the university in the last two years, is asked to report to either Janet llaggart. president of Thota Sigma Phi. or Pat ( hamberlin at the Daily Nebraskan office, and Ihe soldier will receive an issue of the Kag Tags each month during the "school year. Following is a convenient blank which will facilitate in v giving the desired information. Fill it out and turn it in as soon as possible. ADDRESS BLANK FOR STUDENT IN SERVICE Rank Name Address His home address. Please Print V "if, ? n, A v t : t , it V It.. U f How YOU can help her speed vital war calls WHEN you're about to telephone, remember that the wires efperially Long Distance'' circuits are busier than ever before, with war calls. We can't build new equipment to carry the load because the materials we need are going into ships and planes and shells. Here's how you can help to keep the lines open for war calls. Unless your message is really urgent, please don't use Long Distance service. But if you must, please, make your calls as short as you can. Tlianki! we know you'll be glad to help! Missionary to India Asserts Qhandi's Influence Doubled BY MARJORIE MAY. j Asserting that non-violence "is not a policy, but a creed" to the proclaimed and profaned little In dian, Ray Rice, recently returned missionary from India, insists that Ghandi is "a great man." "Ghandi," Rice explained in a lecture before the Inter-American Relations club this week, "thinks no non-resisting people can be con quered." Hence his sit-down strike advocacy which up to now has proved extremely successful. In fact, since he has been held in jail his influuence has almost doubled. What about India and the pres ent war? The Indian general doesn't think India will be attacked, Rice ans wered when one of the club mem bers brought up the question. There are now about 100,000 Americans, 100,000 Tommies Englishmen and over a million other soldiers waiting in India. But now, during the cold season, is the time for Japan to attack India if she is going to do so, since the rainy and hot seasons are almost impossible for the foreigners to withstand. Rice respects England consider ably. "I think England has done a great deal for India, especially in education and rural reconstruc tion," he stated. "The English people who came out for the civil service were well- State Faces Acute Farm Labor Drouth prepared, and they literally came out to give their lives in the work." There are many reasons why Eng land does not want to lose India and why the Indians have not be come independent. "England doen't want to lose India because why should she? England has always thought that she owed a great obligation to all her colonies, especially India. "The people are 87 agricul turists, living in villages. There are 390 million people with no great program to gain independ ence. Most of them cannot read. They have the caste system, and are extremely religious, all of which has prevented them gaining independence up to now." They have made some progres sive steps in self government, but not fast enough, the mitoionary By Resistance continued. "By the '30s they hadn't accomplished very much." India has many resources, and could really do a lot if given the chance, A round table conference was called to discuss the matter of India in England, since, though the natives elected ministers and. representatives in eleven provinces, there was still a viceroy. N great changes were made. Ghandi came, clad in the same manner as most pictures show the bony, wrinkled little man in a sheet. He met King George. "Ghandi, you didn't have very many clothes on to be presented to the king," one of the represent atives there told him. "I didn't need any more,' the great Ghandi answered with cus tomary though not well-known wit. "He had on enough for two." On Ag Campus ... Home Ec Association Plans Two Mass Meetings This Year . . . To Create Interest Home ec association president, Eleanor Crawford, announced yes terday two important mass meet ings will be held this year instead of the usual bi-monthly meetings. The radical change resulted from the shortening of the semes- Survey Shows Slops Taken Over Country To Alleviate Shortage While Nebraska's farms, ranches, and defense projects were sending out daily appeals for workers, press dispatches yesterday report ed a similar situation in many other areas. Students, office workers, prison era, men in ihe armed forces any one willing to work for help in harvesting record-breaking crops are badly needed. A survey made- by the United Press reports that North Dakota state university in a plan similar to that reported under considera tion here closed its doors for two weeks Tuesday to release a thou sand students for work in harvest fields. The university football squad went to potato fields in the Red river valley, where they will divide the daylight hours, one third practice, two-thirds work. Other schools, including the Houthern nianch of Idaho univer sity have offered to release stu dents wanted for farm work. North Dakota students were re ported earning as high as $9 a day harvesting potatoes, at a 7 cent per bushel rate. In Utah, United Press reported, many Japanese evacuees have gone to work in the beet fields, and glowers have asked for more; at the same time Mexican laborers, under international agreement, have been brought in to help al leviate a drastic shortage of farm workers now in aircraft factories, shipyards and other war plants. Kven prison labor has been re cruited on the west coast, with men from San Quentin pressed into service, while such organiza tions as Boy and Girl Scouts and merican Women's Voluntary Services are canvassing the city for workers. Montana, also hard hit, has at work more than a thousand Japa nese evacuees from the west coast, while Indians have been recruited from Montana reservations. In central Minnesota, three thou sand farmers have petitioned Washington officials to give im mediate consideration to "the se rious threat to the farm and dairy food supply and production." In the meantime, Nebraska stu dents and university officials are awaiting further action on a reso lution passed by administrative heads which would release several hundred university students for a two week period to help solve Ne braska's problem. By Blanche Reid, , Phyllis Ellenberger u Well the ag coming out party went off with a bang. Seen danc ing were Peg Larson and Dwane Muriter. . . It looked as though Phyllis Dodge was having inter fraternity trouble. . By the way did you see FH man-about-town Harold Hansen with one of his many girl friends or AGR Bob Harrington with his one and only school marm Jean Cole. . . Then there was the notice able absence of one of this cam pus' frequent couples, FH Don Mueller and Kay Houston. But don't get alarmed, we hear it was all a misunderstanding. . . In cidentally the new records given by the faculty are really solid. Unexpected Happens. The expected has finally hap pened. Wilma Marcy is now wear ing the AGR pin reported in her possession. . . . Pat Becker, Alpha Phi pledge is also sporting a new locket with the Wentworth crest. This just about completes her col lection of jewelry from this insti tution. ACBC's are wondering when Dilliard Huffocker will give with the smokers. . . Summer activities of Orville Jones and Clarion Buethe also brought cigars to the Beta Sigs out Ag way. New Couples Come. First AGR house party of the season will see many new couples. Rex Rehnberg and Jane Johnson, Bob Schick and Joyce Blackburn, pledges Ned Raun and Leonard Kokes with Virginia Bobbitt and Margaret Alma. Loomis Hall president, Justine Sutton, returned to school this fall with a sparkler on the left hand. The man concerned is a Med student from Omaha. Ac cording to AGR brothers this leaves Rex Rehnberg a trifle un happy but really now we are be ginning to wonder. . . Speaking of diamonds have you seen the beauty being worn by Marge Hull. Watch Them. A couple of FH deals which bear watching. Dale Brookemcier and Alpha Xi Dclt pledge, Mary Hope Hamilton. Also pledge Bob Peterson with almost any smooth number. The Corn Cob-Tassel Homecom ing party this weekend will find AGR Willard Visek with Lorcne Bennett. FH Reuben Heerman and Gwen Row, new Alpha Chi pledge. Harold Hanson FH escort ing Jean Baker, Pi Phi prexy. ter which leaves students less time for activities. By prolonging the length of the meetings the cab inet hopes to make club members more aware of the purposes of the organization and thus to create more interest. Social Program Remains. The social program of the club will remain as it has in former years. Some of the outstanding events scheduled are the annual fall picnic for freshman girls, the Ellen H. Richards dinner, and the Christmas tea. Regular teas will be held throughout the year. The Goddess of Agricilture election will be sponsored by the group also. Plans are being made for a home economics club trio. The group will participate in club and other ag social functions. Has Three Objectives. The home ec association was es tablished with three objectives, namely, developing professional interests, social ease, and leader ship ability. The club has a council made up of 16 members. Miss Margaret Fedde, head of the home ec depart ment; Miss Angela Anderson, child training instructor; Miss Caroline Ruby, clothing instructor, sponsor the group. Next week will mark the be ginning of the annual fall mem bership drive. Dues are 50 cents for the year, or 35 cents a semes ter. Pins or membership cards will be given to all who join. A national student club maga zine subscribed by the club, will be available to all in the home eco nomics parlors. YW on Ag Campus Gives Tea Today at Home Kc YWCA of ag college is enter taining today at an English tea from 4 p. m. to 6 p. m. in the parlors of the Home Economics building. Lila Jane Howell, presi dent, invites all girls to come in school clothes. Miss Evelyn Metz ger and Miss Lillian Brehm will pour. Scrap . . . Continued from page 1 scrap be placed on sidewalks or driveways near the houses so that the metal will not injure lawns. The scrap will be collected Sat urday by the Lincoln salvage com mittee, after which it will be sold, and proceeds from it given to the community chest and other wel fare organizations. A recent tabulation lists the valuation of fraternity and soror ity chapter houses at $153,124,00'). Massachusetts Institute of Tech nology and University of Minne sota are said to be the leading schools in number of physicists? engaged in war work. Georgetown university, founded 1789, is the oldest in Washing ton, D. C, and the oldest Catholic college in the United States. Temple university has appointed Dr. Gerald D. Timmons, execu tive secretary of the American Dental association, to be dean of its school of dentistry.