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2 DAILY NEBRASKAN JhsL (Daih ThbAa&kcuv Mail i FOKTK -SECOND YEAR Kuhtrrtntinn RntM r 11.00 Per Semester or II. SO for the College Tear. 92.50 Mailed. Single copy. 6 Cents. Kntered as second-class matter at t)i postoffice in Lincoln, Nebraska, under Act of Oonpress March 3, lh9, and ar special rate ot postage provided for in Section 1103. act of October &, 1917. Authorized septemtier 3U. lbzz. Published dally during the school year except Mondays and Saturdays, vacations and examinations periods by Students of the University ot Nebraska unaer ine supervision of we ruoncauons gosra. Offices Union Building. Day 2-7181. Night J-7193. Journal 2-3330. Editor Alan Jacobs Business Manager Betty Dixon EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT. Managing Editor! George Abbott, Marjorie May News Editors John Bauermeister, Pat Chamberlin, June Jamiesoo, Marytouise Goodwin, Dale Wolf. Sports Editor Norris Anderson. RE: 'Robin Hood' (Xiiginallj planned to include two performances, the fine arts department s production of DcKovcn's "Robin Hood, be cause of an unexpected dehiand for tickets, has been extendci to include a matinee performance Saturday afternoon. Hchim that third performance lies a story a brief story but one we think is worth telling. It's the story ot several men and several women who had an idea. The idea involved an all-university opera, and there was a little skepticism. Concert operas, prior to last spring, had en joyed relatively good attendance, but who mould attend an op era with a student cast? How could production be kept at a minimal cost and still do justice to settings called for? But those men and women Ir. A. K. Westbrook, J. Day ton Smith, Paul liogan, Emanuel Wishnow, Delford Brummer and Miss Catherine Schwdake, to mention a few went ahead with the idea. "Cavalleria Kusticana," presented a year ago represented the first attempt at grand opera, all-university ver sion, in a decade. It was a complete success. And this year, with a little less skepticism, the art, music, and speech departments have offered another totally successful production. Encouraging? Yes, not only for the cause of music, but be cause we get the idea that, despite a war, we are still making the fine things count. And that third performance is indica tive of appreciation, DOES point to the idea realized. So to Dr. Westbrook, Dwigbt Kirsch, Joe Zimmerman, Samuel Oorbach, Miss Schwake, Miss Burry, Dr. LeRoy Laase, and particularly to the more than 150 students who have helped to present ''Robin Hood, a word of commendation, where com mendation is due G. W. A. From Spain, Nobody Came The little girl saw ber first troop parade and asked, "What are those t Soldiers." "What are soldiers?" "They are for war. They fight and each tries to kill as many of the other side as he can." The girt held and studied. "Do you know ... I know something?" "Yes, what la it you know?" "Sometime they'll gtre a war and nobody win come." Carl Sandburg. With all of the major nations thruout the world now en gaged in war, there are few places where an even partially satis fied people can be found. Particularly so is this true in Europe, and the only nation in continental Europe which has not felt the effect of the current war in Spain, sitting peacefully be tween the Pyrenees and the sea. After all, maybe Spain was lucky she bad her war early. It was a bloody war; from Barcelona to Vigo and from Malaga to Bilbao the whole of the Iberian peninsula was torn in heart-rending, home-wrecking civil warfare. -Civil war'' it was, but 20,000 troops from another country aided the Loyalists, 100,000 fought on the side of the insurgents. And when the ham mer and sickle, the faggoted axe, and the swastika had disap peared f"m Spain when tanks and planes made in the Ruhr, machine guns assembled in Vyazma, artillery pieces manufac tured in Turin had gone home the war was over. Madrid was in ruins; the country's universities, art centers, picturesque and historic buildings, were reduced to rubble. An cient vineyards, the pride of several generations, were withered and weedy, neglected by peasants fighting other peasants who had left their flocks high on the Central Mesa. For Spain, the life-blood of two thousand years had been drained in a little over a thousand days. And the Spanish people wept. Domestic, economic, political, educational Spain faced many problems. But Spain was lucky; she didn't have to worry about war, for a while at least. To date, this new global war has passed Spain by, because from Spain, " . . . nobody will come." Spain can look to the west, to the north and south, and to the east, and sec nations in blood battle, Spain doesnt look, just goes on perfectly content to busy herself with the solving of problems that in peacetime would seem to any nation a Tery, very heavy load to carry. The United States, in pre-war days, had them; Britain, France, Russia, Germany and Italy all had them. We as a peo ple were willing to go to war if it would mean temporary sur cease from those problems ,as were the rest of the major powers. Sometime we'll see it in another light, because "Sometime tbeyH give a war and nobody will come." G. W. A. Dear Editor: January 21, 1943 I just read your Daily Nebraskan dated Jan. 20, 1943 and it certainly was a disappointment It is small wonder that the basketball team isn't doing better. In your paper you certainly dished out some slams directed at the team. Personally, I think they haven't done half bad. They have only lost one Big Six game so far and are second on (in) the Big Six. I honestly think that if they had the backing that they should have they would really go to town. During football season there were rallies to back them and also a cheering section at the game; but do they have a rally to give the basketball team? No, you don't have. It seems to me that morale is just as important to a basketball team as it is in this war we're waging. I know of a fellow who had a season ticket to the games and being unable to attend, he tried to give it to someone else or sell it at half price. No one wanted the ticket. When asked why they didn't want it, they said that there wasn't much use of going. Nebraska would only get beat anyway. Do you think that this sort of talk is encouraging our team. Instead of running the team down, why don't you try giving them a little encouragement. Also, how about a little cheering. Show them you are rooting for them. I'm sure they will feel more like doing their best. After all isn't the Daily Nebraskan writ ten for the team as well as the rest of the student body.? Sincerely, An all out for Victory fan. (Editor's note: The column to which you refer was hardly a condemnation of the team it came much nearer to being fact. Author Bob Miller, after reviewing the Nebraska team's record to date, closed by saying: "When they are favored. tney fall short when they arc not, don't sell them short" The point being, of course, that the team has been unpredictable, in that bouncing from near-victory over Indiana to a decisive loss at Ames can hardly be termed consistency. Team members we've talked to have little to com plain about regarding spirit; they tell us the team sn-x consistent. Nor is it an outstandino. aaareaa Won. For that matter, student pep isn't consistent, nor is it outstandingly spirited. We have a sneaking suspicion that "fellow who had a season ticket" would find it pretty valuable in mgni meoraska meets Kansas in the co tcum Besides the university is a little touchy about trans ferring student athletic tickets unless, of course, jvu can sen your iaent eard at the same time. W. A.) Clippi in Pat Chamberlin, Censor o o o o o Official word came last week advising "V-Mail Clippings" that former First Lieuten ant LEROY FARMER is now a captain in the army air forces stationed at Lowry Field, Colo rado. A graduate of '41, and a member of Del ta Upsilon, the captain will continue to serve as assistant post adjutant. He will be joined by his wife, Mortar Board-Alpha Phi Jean Christie Farmer, in the near future. Mrs. Farmer will finish her univer ity work at the University of Colorado. Back on five days feave to the scene of his "Innocence" is AGR First Lieutenant DON STEELE, who so dominated the Rag gossip column the past four years. Don wants UN to take particular note of the First instead of the Second be fore his rank. He just blew into the Union from San Francisco on his way to Fort Sill, Oklahoma, where he will stay for three months, and then go back to sunny Cali fornia with the Field Artillery. 1 ".. ; ' . J ' v 1 NY The Engineer Editor's note: Tie folloin( dewier fcit rtm, W( '" we Mtera News ef SmKi. Hot that wi we eanaecf. MUrtty ... If. L. at. Who is the man that designs our pumps with judgment, skill and care! Who is the man that builds 'em and keeps them in repair! Who later has to shut them down when valve seats disappear? That bearing-wearing, gearing-tearing Mechan ical Engineer! Who makes his juice for half a cent and wants to charge a dime? Who, when we've signed the contracts, won't deliver half the time? Who thinks the loss of 10 percent is nothing very queer That load-inducing, volt-reducing Electrical Engineer! Who builds our roads for 50 years that disap pear in twot Who changes his identity, so no one's left to sue" Who covers all the travelled roads with a fil thy, oily smear f That bump-providing, rough-on-riding High way Kngmeerl Who takes a transit 0'it to find a sewer line to tap I Who, then, with care extreme locates the junc tion on the man 7 Who later goes to dig it up, aud finds it's no where near? That mud-spattered, torn and Uttered Civil Engineer! Who has the heathen idol which he designates research! Who thinks without his produet, we'd all be in the lurch? Who tints the creeks, perfumes the air and makes the landscape drear? That grease-dissolving, smell-evolving Chem ical Engineer 1 Who's the man that'll draw a plan for any- Another promotion was winged on its wav to "BUD" GROVE C. JOHNSON, '42 Sigma Nu, when he was made firt lieutenant on the Liberator B-24. Lieutenant Johnson has rccent y been on duty in the Aleutian Islands. Second Lieut. EARL D. McKENNA, a Kappa Sig, graduated four days ago from the AA Bombardier School, at Midland, Texas. He was among the largest class of bombardiers to graduate from this school, and is now a full fledged "Hell from Heaven" man. During his three-months training period, the class did a great deal of moving target practice bombing from the sleek and speedy Vega Venturas, ex tensively used by the British in raids on Nar i bases. LORRAINE HOUSE, who enlisted as a WAAC last year, has been promoted to Third Officer, a rank equivalent to a second lieuten ant in the Army. She is serving as supply of ficer ata the Fort Des Moines training center, where she is responsible for outfitting newly irrived auxiliaries. Men on whom we have received reports early last year and whom we would like to lo cate more recently include Capt. CARL H. ULLSTROM, First Lieut DAN NYE, Second Lieut WARREN GUINAN, Lieut OLDf A ELLIOT,. Aviation Cadet ROBERT CLOW, Capt "CHUCX" KENTWORTHY. and Sec ond Lieut. EUGENE W. SHAW. If any reader can supply information of the present rank, whereabouts, or adventures, "V-Mail Clip pings" will run the material. By this date WILLIAM W. KOMMERS has been graduated from the Victorville Armv Hying School in California as a full-fledred bombardier, and has received his commission as second lieutenant Lieutenant Kommers at tended Nebraska a few years back, and entered the service just one year ago. Note the psycho logical effcect of "Victorville." If UN pharmacists see an old pal wander ing around the cainpus be sure to say hello to OTTO PFEIFFER, who graduated from ag college last year. He is now a pharmacist mate in the Navy, and is located at Corpus Christi, Texas. He has a few days home on leave, so now is the time to get the low-down on how badly the services need pharmacists. From a transAtlantic liner to a hair pin made of wire? With "if's and "and's," "how'ers" and , "buts," makes his meaning dear? That work-disdaining, fee-retaining Consulting Engineer ! Who takes the pleasure out of life and makes existence hell? Who 11 fire a real good-looking one because she cannot spell? WhoU substitute a dictaphone for a coral tinted ear? That penny-chasing, dollar-wasting Industrial tiling you uesirei JiingineerJ