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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.
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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
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Pat Chamberlin, Censor
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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.
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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
