DAILY NEBRASKAN
Thursday, January 7, 1943
College Education Takes
Continual "Slaps in Face"
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By Carton Brodcrick i
Well, Pinkville was like the liquor store
on Sunday during this here vacation. I walked
dow n the street in my J. C. Penney basement
suit I pot at firand Island, and T guess I was
about the only guy on the street. There wasn't
even a dog or a eat either on aeeount of be
cause 1 guess Mr. Olhitz who is the butcher is
having a hard time getting meat to sell. I see
in a magazine where they is selling horse meat
in Roslon too.
Well, we had a high school reunion while
I was home and out of 13 in my class only 2 of
us was home. All the girls and boys is out in
the world I puess. Most of the puys is in the
army and most of the babes is in Washington,
P. C. The other person who was at the re
union besides mc was Tillie Glutz (her old man
is the guy 1 mentioned above who ain't pot no
scruples as to what he sells in his meat market)
well, this Tillie Glutz ain't gone to "Washington
yet on account of because she ain't too bright.
It took that babe ten years to pet through four
years of high school and then 1 think they give
her the benefit of the doubt. Well, Tillie and
me sure had a good time together anyhow.
Wdl, as soon as I get back here to school,
I calls Gallic and we breeze over to the Union
for one of them fake cokes, I drinks mine
down holding the nose and Callie tells me a
whoVe bunch of stuff which I will pass on to
you. It mostly concerns babes on the campus
who pot a h?wch of jewelry this Christmas on
their third finger, left hand.
Well, first Callie tells me there is a bunch
of HIPS who has taken the big step. Some of
them is Dorothy Wirick who is gone and got
berse-f engaged to some guy named "Light"
Night. I sure can't pet over what funny
names some of these puys have. Then there is
little kids like some gal named Shirt Right who
is only a baby but 1 guess even babies can do
it. Over at the "we chew tobacecr" some babe
who is ornery colonel named Ann Sly who
went and got herself engaged to a navy gny.
fioy that takes the bread for a babe who the
army fixes up here with all the trimmins to
get herself mixed with some guy out on the
water. But 1 guess that there is the way life
goes.
Well, Callie said that there was a dot
meetin eoming up in the near future and she
would tell me about it so watch for it later. 1
don't know if we is going to have lunch at the
.All-American cafe next Tuesday or not. Sonic
of the boys is afraid people will watch em and
find out what group they belongs to, but 1
ain't afraid to show my skull and erossbones
to nobody. I guess 1 will have to call the
prexy over at 2-7555 and find out if we is go
ing to meet.
Well, 1 gotta go but I nearly forgot about
Rome Alfa Flee who is getting hitched up to
Jake somebody. Ilcr name is Carolina Covey
This letter and answer was sent to the Daily
editor by a student who said: "A hearty and un
deserved slap in the face by a so called 'War
Mother'." The article appeared in the Lincoln State
Journal.
Dear Mary Gordon: It is time that College Stu
dent and his classmates realize that they are in the
draft just the same as any fellow. Joining the re-
seives is just being deferred.
God bless the boys who answered the country's
call when their time came and with chins tip and
shoulders back marched away to defend our coun
try. They didn't go whining around to the draft
boards and officials that the jobs they were doing
or the courses they were taking in universities were
more important than entering the service.
If some of these students are as patriotic as they
would try and lead us to believe I am quite sure
Uncle Sam would have taken them. No draft board
or official would compel them to remain in the uni
versities for I am sure many men more essential
than they are in civilian life are with the armed
forces.
These students and their parents have it all
planned. They are to continue in , university and
let our boys do the dirty work, then before the war
is over, of course, they are getting in for a while
don the uniform and perhaps be an officer r in
structor and then come strutting home telling how
they won the war.
Of course with their education they will expect
to get the big jobs but perhaps they will get fooled
for we parents whose boys are over there going
thru the hell of this war are going to see that our
boys get the breaks.
We common people have always taken a back
seat and been led around by the nose by the big
shots but there are some things that have opened
our eyes and from now on we are fighting for our
rights and justice to all. A War Mother.
Students, "who are dropping out of
school now, are not being patriotic as
they may believe, but are really show
ing themselves up as men who will
not accept the responsibilities" which
go with university trained officers and
men. The draftee has a job to do.
The officer has a harder job confront
ing him.
The number of men who dropped
out of school just prior to Christmas
vacation is appalling. College stu
dents should have enough common
sense to see that their college training
is valuable to themselves "and to the
army. Men with no education can be
gotten for a dime a dozen. They should
not be criticized. Many have not been
able to afford a college education. But
students who drop out of school before
they are called, are showing a definite
ignorance of the part education is
playing in this war.
The "War Mother," it is obvious,
was swayed by her own personal
emotions. People of this type should
not be criticized since they have never
had the opportunity to train them
selves to know what education means.
War is no time for emotions, however.
We must face reality, and many times
it is very unpleasant.
For those men who left school and
are planning to leave school in the
near future, little can be said. They
are simply not facing the situation as
intelligent individuals should.
It takes men to face responsibility.
It takes men to win this war. A suc
cessful army needs officers and pri
vates. The ultimate victory could not
be reached without both. Privates can
be taken from any walk of life. Of
ficers must be taken for the most part
from men who, by hard work or fate,
have been given the opportunity to
get a college education.
I
Capital to Campus
By Jay Richter
Associated Collegiate Press
and she is taken the quickest way to a life of
married bliss I puess on account of because she
really didn't know and maybe still don't who
she was in love with. It was between two men
and Jake came in as the daik horse so she
compermiscd.
WASHINGTON. (ACP). As students left the nation '
puses for holidays at home, the Secretaries of War and
v with armroval of Mannower Commissioner Fanl V.
Nutt announced the long-awaited college training program
for service men and servicemen-to-be.
Loose ends of the dual program still need to be tied to
gather. For example, just how men are to be chosen for the
college work isn't yet clear.
Which colleges will be selected for training centers is an
other unanswered question, although secretary of Navy Knox
has said 'Wc will give special consideration to those (colleges
with meager financial resources whose existence is threatened
by the war."
Main provisions of the plans, as they affect both Army and
Navy, areihe.se:
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Army men 21 years old and under, and Navy men 22 and
under, may apply for the college work.
Nothing in the new plans will affect existing eontraets of
Army or Navy with colleges.
Men selected for college training will wear uniforms, be
on active duty and receive service pay. Soldiers will to to
school as privates, seventh grade; sarlors as apprentice seamen.
Civilian professors Mill do most of the teaching.
Now that general outlines are drawn for the Army-Navy
college program, the War Manpower Commission is working
on a similar plan which would provide college training for pros
pective civilian war workers, including both men and women.
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