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Thursday, October 22, 1942 Eeseimf Ssdi&hift DAILY NEBRASKAN FORTY-SECOND YEAR. Subscription Rates nre $1.00 Per Semester or $1 BO for ttie Collepe Year. $2.50 Mailed. Single copy, 5 Cents. Kntered as second-clash matter at the postolfice in Lin coln, Nebraska, under Act of Congress March 3, 1879, nd at special rate of postage provided for in Section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917. Authorized September 30, 192. Published daily during the school year except Monda.-s nd Saturdays, vacations and examinations periods by Stu dents of the University of Nebraska under the supervision Of the Publications Hoard Offices Union Building Day 2-71SI. Nipht 2-7193. Journal 2-3330. Editor Business Manager. .Robert W. Schlater ..Phillip W. Kantor EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT. Managing Editors. Marjorie Brunine, Alan Jacobs News Editors George Abbott, Pat Chaniberlin, June Jamieson, Bob Miller, Marjorie My. Sports Editor Norris Anderson Member Nebraska Press Association. 1941-42 BUSINESS DEPARTMENT. Ass t. Bus. Managers. .Betty Dixon, Morton Zuber Circulation Manager Jim Vanlandinglnun All onsifrned editorials arc thr opinions of the editor and should not be construed to reflrrt the views of the ad ministration or rf the university. Settle Down . . . Many men, especially those 18 years old, have become slightly nervous over their draft Congress. Several have gone so far as to drop school to have a good time until they are called. There are too many of these younger fel lows who do not realize that it will be some time before the actual machinery for induct ing them into the army is in operation, if the bill passes. As its stands now, there is a clause in the bill which offers deferrmcnt until June, 1943, for those enrolled in school. These men who are that age and who are uneasy should settle down and make the most of the time they have here. They will get at least this year and perhaps more if they con tinue their work in the university. Opportuni ties for reserve commissions and the ROTC will undoubtedly be available and these are based on grades and work done ly the students. If we give up now before the bill is ever passed and before we know the entire wording cf the legislation, we arc defeating the whole purpose of the draft program. The policy of draft boards has been to keep men in school as long as possible since their technical train ing is far more valuable to the army than the men who do not have specialized school ing. If we leave school to wait for our draft boards to call us, we are giving up an oppor tunity for self advancement and we are also cheating the army of highly specialized sol diers. Stay in school as long as possible. It is as patriotic as enlisting and far more valuable to the war department. If we allow ourselves to become hysterical, we will not be aiding lbe M ar program. 'Fitness' Is Fitting There is one service to the national war effort that everyone can perform he can keep him self healthy. Much has been said about health in time of war perhaps too much. The conferences, gov ernment bulletins and magazine articles seem sometimes to be as pointless as they are fre quent. But the facts are these. Health is a per sonal thing which applies to each so vitally that it may mean the difference between living through these turbulent tiues or being a victim of them. Greater importance, however, can be at tached to the contribution of physical fitness to the prosperity of the nation, in peace or war. Dear Editor: If ever a university showed that it was not in step with the war effort, this univer sity did last week. I refer to the announce ment of the adoption of a long-term summer session m addition to the present two, reg ular semesters for the duration of the war. Instead of the accelerated program expected by students, the university has added a summer session at which a maximum oi 12 hours can be earned. That is three hours of "accelera tion." Lverv university ot any reputation in the country, even Creightou in Omaha, has adopted the quarter-system or at least, more than the half-hearted action of a university that doesn't seem to understand we are at war. If a chanjrc can be made at other in si it ut ions and rool ones there is no rea son why a change cannot be made at Ne braska. Extra work would be required; pro lessors would lose their well-earned vacations; and there Mould be manv problems to be solved. But this a time when everybody is working extra hard; everybody is giving up vacations; and all sorts of problems are being solved. There is no telling how much longer men will be enrolled at the university, but as long as there are reservists or any male students or female for that matter students should be given an opportunity to get their degrees in the shortest possible time. The university has an obligation to the reservists who were forced to agree to attend summer school under the supposed aceeleration program. If fellows go to school in the sum mer, they want to take a full load so that they can take as much as possible before being called to military service. They can't do it at Nebraska, and the army won't let them go to another school. They are behind the eight-ball. Then, there are pre-medical students try ing to get into medical school as soon as pos sible. With a limit of 12 hours in summer school, tlu-v will have to take a terrifically heavy loaq m tne two regular semesters to keep up with students going to school, for example, at Omaha university. When students entered Nebraska this fall, they were under the impression that UN was going to have a quarter system. That was what was announced in the summer. When they gel here, they learned that half of the university officials had no idea Yd! how the quarter system worked and the remainder of the faculty had no idea of what was going on. j'mt lew expect ed the accelerated pro gram now planned. That isn't acceleration; its' absolute blindness to present conditions. As editor of the Daily Nebraskan, you should lead the attack on the present plan; you should make university officials see that Ne braska students want an education and they want it as fast as possible so that they can get in the battle; you should demand that red-tape and narrow mindedness be forgoten so that the faculty and student-body can get down to the business of education and at the same time remain in step with the war effort Sincerely yours, ALAN JACOBS. Ky Bob Miller It is during times of national crisis that this fact becomes evident. Local conditions in this city point toward the need for every person to appoint himself a guardian of his own health. The hospital facilities which were adequate during peace must now fill the needs of a naval training population as well as those of the students. It is to be remembered that these facilities can meet the needs of everyone, as long as there is not a widespread epidemic of disease. Personal health measures can prevent that if anything can. Iowa Daily Student. Kappas Teach Alalh to Army Fliers in Chicago Flash from Chicago! Prospective army fliers in Chi cago are invited to call upon soror ity girls for lessons in mathe matics. The pre-army study course is offered by girls of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority at Northwestern university to help any air-minded men needing instruction and, pos sibly, to supply a, bit or oompii to induce enlistment of aviation cadets. The sorority's Northwestern uni versity chapter announced a corps of the more mathematically mind ed sisters would act as tutors and coaches to candidates for induc tion as aviation cadets. The girls will cover subjects fea tured in tests of 150 questions, 80 of which must be answered cor rectly to qualify for training. Northwestern university's home coming features a competitive pa jama ra-re in which each frater nity participating must purchase a war bo;id as an entry fee. Two Instructors Attend Four-day Commando School W. V. Knight, associate profes sor of physical education depart ment, and Capt. R. V. Chaw of the military department are attending a four-day Physical Fitness and Commando Training school. The school is being conducted by offi cers of the United States Army, at South Dakota SlaU College, Brookings. lis ill i r. .......... J! A week has gone by since this column has appeared in print and in that week there has been a noticeable scarcity of information about former UN students who are now in the armed services... Don't forget if you know any one serving here or across the seas who attended the university, let us know about it... Any let ters that tell of interesting actions by the formeis, will be welcome First on our roll call today is a 1942 graduate, PAUL C. OREEN. . .Receiving his coinniision as a second lieutenant last spring in the field artillery from Nebraska, he transferred to the army air corps. . .Latest word reveals that he is now oper ating from a pioneer air base in the middle far-east, where he is seeing action against the boys of the Rising Sun... In his letters he tells of seeing numerous historical sights, included among which is one of Ihe seven wonders of the world. . .Creen now holds a first lieutenant rating. LT. W1LIAM AVI LEY who wasgraduated from UN last spring with a commission in the infantry has transferred to the armored force and is training at Fort Knox, Ky.. . .That's the place where they have all of Prof. Karl Arndt's gold stock buried. . .Commenting upon his choice of the armored force in a letter to Lt. Col. Luke Zeck of the ROTC staff, he says, "The one thing that I like best is that I'm in strictly a combatant force. And one addition, if morale is as you once described it, as a soldier feeling that's he's in the best division ,the best regi ment, the best battalion, the best company, the best platoon and he's the best damned soldier in the whole outfit well, that's just the way I feel.". . .While in school, Wiley was an Alpha Tau Omega. Word from last year's politico, CHRIS PETERSON, comes to us from Washington, D. C Peterson is in the of ficer's training school in the nation's capital taking training in the intelligence corps. . .He is taking things well in stride as he now commandeers a jeep for his own use and pul out the camp newspaper. . . A Kappa .Sig in school, Chris did his turn on the Daily a.s news editor and columnist deluxe. BOB FLOUV, 1st Lt. in the army air corps ,is another Kappa Sig on the active duty list...Lt. l-'lory is in the air corps intelligence in Etrypt. . .Pictures from the front show him complete in equatorial garb, complete with pith hat to khaki shorts. . .He was graduated last spring. NED EASTLAOK, former UN student, is now with the army signal corps taking teleeraph training at Camp Crowder, Mo... In a letter he says," I miss school a little and sleeping thru eight o'clock classes. We have five a. in. classes here though and we don't get to sleep thru them. Some of these sergeants have awfully big feet and hard toes to kick sleep people out of bed with." He lists army coffee as one of the modern horrors of war... While attending the university he was affiliated with Acacia fraternity. JOE KJRSENBAUM, another of last year's products, is in the officer's train corp at Aberdeen, Md He is working in ordnance and says that he gets into New York often, meeting BOB SIMON, ZBT fraternity brother, who is in Navy radio school. . .Both left the university early last spring to enlist in the armed services. Another Zeta Beta Tau, LT. ED WITTENBERG of Lincoln now wears his silver wines as an corps observer. . .He re ceived his training at Brooks Field, Texas. . .Wittenberg was one of the "Eyes of the Army" selected for intensive training in tactical coordination and observation from the air. Theater, Daily Will Sponsor New Contest Offering 20 theater tickets as prizes, the Daily and the Lincoln theater are co-sponsoring an essay contest on attitudes that hinder the war and how to prevent them. The Lincoln is sponsoring the contest in connection with the showing of "The War Against Mrs. Hadley" which begins Friday. Mrs. Hadley was a middle-aged widow who thought that the war was an imposition on her. She re fused to cooperate in blackouts, she would not participate in first aid classes, she discouraged her daughter's civilian defense activity and tried every means to keep her son out of the armed forces. People who complain about price regulation, rant abotu rationing, consider the war none of their con cern and express other attitudes that hinder the nation's victory are the sort to be considered in the essays. The essays s.ould further offer Bugestions for correcting such feelings. For ie ten best essays entered, Nebraska Field Group Uncovers Ice Age Village Remains of what appears to be an entire village of people who lived during the latter part of the ice age were found by the University of Nebraska state v.seurn summer field expedition. Dr. C. B. Schultz, curator of the museum, told members of the Interprofessional Institute last weekend at Lincoln, of the find that will not be developed until after the war. This find was the most im portant result of the exhibition, and such material has long been looked for, he snid. "Our boys were in the harvest field more than they were collecting fossils," he pointed out. Dr. Schultz' illustrated his talk with colored motion pictures taken on this expedition and pictures taken in other years. as judged by Arlic Crites, manager or the IJncoln theater, two tickets each for the production "The War A?ainst Mrs. Hadley" will be awarded. All entries must be turned in to the Daily office by 5:00 p. m. Wed,, Oct. 28.