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DAILY NEBRASKAN
Tuesday, February 2, 1943
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nm.btiM. " BUSINESS DEPARTMENT.
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"... with ration cards!"
News columns over the weekend reviewed Adoloh Hitlef's
inbi ten years as chancellor and president of the Third Or-
man ncich. Those same news eolumns almost dailv tll f
growing shortage of food in Germany. "IJitler and his German
armies," a leading story in one of Chicago's largest newspapers
'T' v"1' ,ilt'1"? enemy more terrible than the almost
nightly drone of the RAF, more terrible even than the fightin
spirit of the Knssian soldier. That enemy is starvation."
And therein lies a fault which, we think, has been
with us too long. The American people, possibly, are too prone
to under-estimate the total strength of their enemi-s, too un
willing to view the picture in the long-run outlook. Ninety
percent of us would have said, in January a year ago, that
Japan could not last six months in a war with the United
States; many would have said not six weeks. And most of
ns, since 1938, have been reading reports that Germany is
on the verge of stavation, will not last through another sum
mer. Possibly not.
But the German leaders have something to say about that,
In 1937. Hermann Gnprino- tnM tk i,i tu u'
... ' "vim, 1 lie WUIiU
still grudges us our place in the sun. We must help ourselves.
We want to share in the world's material sources, and we
shall get them ... we are told to buy raw materials with gold.
;e wou,d be r.edy to do so if all our gold had not been stolen
from US. . . First Germanv Ja (ivornnii-cl v. ui, , j .1
i m . ' v.wjvniiw, men 1UUUIU illlU
fcled for reparations. Then come the chosen people and plunder
ycuiun nn ine innation. And then we are told: 'What
o you want with eoloniesT Pay with your gold.' Give us
Dae our gold and our land and we will pay you with it. . .'
Von Ribbentrop echoed this doctrine, "Germany's Leben
srauni is too small, without th Kimnlom
antee an undisturbed, assured, and permanent food supply. The
...uum, vi. uemg permanently dependent on the accident of a
jswvi or uau narvesr is intoiieraDie.
And Adolph took up the chorus, "It is not longer pos
sible for some countries to flow milk and honey while others
have to struggle for a bare existence." These were the an
swers Germany gave in defying a world criticizing her for
a desire to expand, a desire to acquire more land, and with
it a desire for more food.
All this suggests a country without many resources. They
felt it themselves, e. p.. Fritz Sternberg, derma n ronotnii
analyst points out that "Germany in 1039 was allowing her
souners bw grams oi rations as compared with 1,030 in 1913
for a similar period of time (3days)." After some 5,000 words
to this effect, Sternberg closes by saying, "If Germany is left
to her own resources, famine will overtake her sooner than
in the last war, a fact whieh explains Germany's entrance
into uie war. Joday, as in VJU, Germany is facing the p ril
of being defeated by hunger despite her possible military suc
cesses on the battlefields."
Today, however in 1943, and going into her fifty-third
month of total war, Germany is seemingly as well off as she
was in 1939. True, conditions in 1939 hardly pointed to a
successful campaign of world-conquering, but with France,
the only nation in the world outside the United States totally
self-sufficient in food supplies, now completely taken over,
Germany's food situation should definitely be on the up
swing. The French people will raise crops to feed themselves
--and whether Hitler then takes that food and "divides"
it or not, it seems logical to believe that the German armies
will not be facing starvation. In addition, the last harvest
in the Reich was one of the best in years and the minimal
but not unhealthy diet established in 1939 has been main
tained. It is said that General von Fritseh made the remark that
'while a war might well be ended with bread cards, no mod
ern war can possibly start with them." Whether or not that
is true, whether or not Germany's armies are facing starvation
today, she DID start a war with ration cards 1
The American people might do well to take at least some
of the news predicting a German collapse because of food
shortages "cum grano sal is."
G. W. A.
Awards
(Continued from Page 1.)
ner of the fellowship will be se
lected by a committee to be named
by Chancellor C. S. Boucher.
The remaining awards, to be
known aa the "Nathan J. Gold Dis
trict Chemurgic Awards," will be
presented to the amateur garden
ers in each of the six regency dis
tricts of the university, who do
the most progressive work in the
cultivation of new crops with
chemurgic value. First prize award
in each district will be $25. Second
will be $15, third $10.
District awards will be made in
the fall. Gardeners must file their
applications for awards with their
county agents before Nov. 1, 1943.
Judges of district competition will
be a committee of one county ex
tension agent named by the direc
tor of agricultural extension of the
University of Nebraska, and two
other men named by the former,
The state grand prize of $100 will
be awarded by a committee chosen
by the chancellor.
Coincident with the announce
ment of the chemurgic awards,
Mr. Gold said, "Chemurgic Re
search is the key that will open
the door to an ever-expanding and
permanent economic improvement
in Nebraska.
"It will, I believe, ensure greater
income for agriculture, and be the
means of enlarging industry and
employment in the state.
"I sincerely hope that these
awards will stimulate interest and
cooperation in the fine work being
done by the chemurgic department
of our university."
Expressing the university's
gratitude for the awards. Chan
cellor C. S. Boucher stated: "We
are very grateful to Mr. Gold for
this magnificent testimonial of
deep interest in the University of
Nebraska and in the econmic wel
fare of the state. The Nathan J.
Gold Awards in Chemurgy will
stimulate, develop and reward
significant research in two impor
tant phases of chemurgic investigation."
Music . .
(Continued from Page 1.)
voice. In addition, the candidate
is expected to acquire breadth and
maturity of musicianship and a
comprehensive knowledge of liter
ature in his major field, it was ex
plained by Dr. Westbrook.
Offer Undergrad Courses.
A wide variety of undergraduate
courses in music will be offered as
usual in the summer session. These
courses will be available to gradu
ate students who find it necessary
to make up deficiencies in their
undergraduate training.
Teachers and graduate students
may avail themselves of the op
portunity and observation and
discussion of teaching procedure
and music materials in connection
with the all state high school ac
tivities which will again be offered
during the summer session.
Rifles . . .
(Continued from Page 1.)
against all senior unit teams in
this 'area, firing in four stages;
the first stage to be fired during:
the week preceeding February 7.
The top one-third of the teams
qualifying are eligible to compete
in the National Intercollegiate
ROTC rifle team match.
To Be Regulation.
The match is regulation four
postion, 40 shot team match, the
ten high scores to count and the
ten high scores fired in each stage
compiling the final aggregate.
The 15 cadets forming the rifle
team are: Roger Anderson, Oscar
Powell, Herbert Miller, James
Hugh Stuart, Jack Kiewit, Nor
man Zabel, Gerald Clair, Wood
row Collins, Albert Walla, Fred
McLafferty, Alex MacQueen, Don
Albin, Charles Haptman, E. L.
Dodson, Clifford Reed, M. G. Dod
son, Warren Koenig, Ralph Brad
ley, Floyd Blanchard, Harvey Oat
man, Forrest Binder, Gilbert Lese
burg, Thomas McCarville, William
B. Long, Bill Dowell.
"Industrial Inspection" and
"Fundamentals of Automotive Me
chanics" are new ear courses for
women at Kent State university.
Air Corps . .
(Continued from Page 1.)
latter classification will be called
at the end of the current term.
"It is planned that after a short
period of basic training many of
these men will be returned to one
of the selected colleges or univer
sities for several months of addi
tional schooling in a curriculum
prescribed by the War Depart
ment." Since University of Nebraska
students are just starting their
second semester, It would seem
that they are subject to immediate
call under the program as announced.
University of Minnesota had
three presidents during ie ' four
years of the class of 1942: Drs.
Lotus D. Coffman, Guy Stanton
Ford and WaKer C. Coffey.
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