DAILY NEBRASKAN
Wednesday, February 24, 1943
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Editor... AUn j,cobi
Business Manager Betty Dixon
Oh Yes, Have
A Good Time!
The old pocket-book is takine a bea1inr
ami not because of the usual wasteful expenses
oi university students.
Whoever runs the various charitable drives
on the campus must have decided that the
drives should be held earlv in the vear before
the LRC is called or something:, for FX stu
tlenti? have been bombarded for contributions
to various funds all of which are worthy
enough.
but it is get lino; rough. Hot ween the post
war scholarship fund, the WSSF and now the
Ked Cross, not to speak of the infantile paraly
sis drive and war bond campaign, money is
running; low another drive for money and
everybody will be declaring bankruptcy.
With $."v0 dollars collected through box so
cials, the WSSF is campaigning: for $4"0 to its
goal. And the War Council reminds everybody
that today is war stamp day. And the Student
Foundation is still working on its post-war
fund.
And yesterday probably the most important
organization of all, the Red Cross, announced
a $2,500 campus quota.
Thai means UN studenls will have to dig
find dig deep. Digging for the Kod Cross, how
fver, is a pleasure, for every day newspaper
.accounts tell of the fine work of lhat organ
ization, letters from soldiers abroad praise the
work of the Keel Cross.
If any organization ever desened the sup
port of every man and woman in the n.'tion,
the Red Cross does. If money is running low,
then sacrifices must be made; which is as it
hould be, for everybody should be sacrificing
in these times. College students have not sacri
ficed to excess thus far in the war.
"While urging contributions to the Kod Cross
find support too of the oilier worthy drives
n Ihe campus, we slill can't help asking, why
11 of the drives so close together.
A little time bolwoon campaigns would
Aid all.
So pull out your billfolds, lighten your bolt
ml :
...Aid the WSSF.
Contribute to the post-war scholarship fund.
Buy war stamps and bonds.
Add to the infantile paralysis campaign.
And most important, plan a considerable gift,
an investment, to the Red Cross.
And oh yes. hac a good time this weekend.
Bombsight Minds
"The muddle we hear about in Wash
ington and elsewhere isn't due so much to
greed and selfishness as it is to the average
person's inability to hitch his mind to a
specific problem and hold on until he's
solved it. It's just as necessary for us to
strip our minds of impracticalitics and
daydreams as to strip our homes of un
used metal."
The above ihought of Lawrence Could,
writing in the 'Family Circle.' is worth eaiu
ining; A little reflection on the part of uni
versity students might expose flaws in t li
armor of Ihe college: student, llu- educated
knight of the nation who must lead ii" build
ing the world after the war.''
"... htich bis mind to a specific prob
lem and hold on until he's solved it."
Have you ever found yourself laekling a
half a dozen problems; never finding one to
eoneentrale on specifically? Kvor found jour
self thinking of not a single important prob
lem? Have you ever slarted something-, dis
couraged, start something else; end up accom
plishing nothing.
"... strip our minds of impracticali
ties and daydreams ..."
Have you possibly overemphasized cer
tain aspects of college life? Ever suspected
your thinking might be ft!) percent fanciful,
iiytpraclionl? Could you be puilly of daydream
ing, whirling 1hru time on a lacy cloud?
Now is the time for college students to
examine themselves, remembering above all
the need of the day: for mental toughness.
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Clippings
Pat Chamberlin, Censor
Craduated last week in the largest class
ever turned out by the Army Air Forces (5ulf
Coast Training Center, Randolph Field. Texas,
were Lieut. H. Leonard Jacobson and Lieut.
Charles D. House. Hoih received their pilots'
wings and will be transferred to Ellington
Field and Foster Field respectively.
Lieutenant Jacobson was from UN in "41,
where he was a member of Sigma Alpha Fpsi
lon. Lieutenant House attended Nebraska until
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I.T. JOHN M. DAI.V.l.T. H. I.. JACOBMO?
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last year when he interrupted his schooling to
join the army air corps.
Aubrey M. Stevenson recently was commis
sioned on Ensign in the U. S. Naval Reserve at
the Naval Air Training Center, Corpus Christ i,
Texas. A member of Delta Sigma Pi. he vol
unteered for flight training last Februarv and
received bis preliminary flight instruction at
the Oakland, Calif., reserve aviation base. En
sign Stevenson is now qualified for duty wilh
the fleet, or assignment as an instructor at
once of the Navy's preliminary flight training
bases.
Looking mighty happv about ihose aerial
navigator's wings on his collar is Lieut. John
M. Daly, who atlended FN in "41. "42. He look
his training at Ihe Hondo Army Air Field Navi
gation School, Hondo, Texas. He will now be
assigned to a bomber or a supplv piano to
plot the course from base to destination from
Somewhere, Somewlure, to Somewhere, Some-
w here.
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U. S. Mtnot Cetpt fheto
On Guadalcanal three Marines cross a crudely bridged ravin
In a four-by-four "Jeep" to you. The little quarter-ton all-purposi
rmy trucks, which your War Bonds help pay for, are able to trans
port three fully equipped fighting men, tow a 37 millimeter gun, oi
serve as ammunition carriers. They have increased the mobility
of our fighting forces beyond calculation, provided them with th
flexible striking power so essential in modern war.
l S. 7omry Vtfartmtn
White Space
We had planned to make lodav's column
funny to everyone. We even bought a book
of jokes for uradod intellects, and were ready
to copy out everything from. "Women should
o seen and not hoard," to "Who was the
ady 1 saw you with last night'" Then we
sanl. dol bo with you. to a friend who left
for Ihe Army Air Corns, and we lost our
jocular mood, and decided to trv a serious
column.
We wrote paragraph on paraeraph aboul
the collapse of our ei ilizat ion, and our genera
tion 's cycinal attitude loward the debris. We
ripped off somolliint: like. "Who in our gov;
oration knows anything about. Cod? Who in
our generation knows anylhing about the
worth of a man .' Who in our generation knows
anylhing about himM ) ?
"This is ihe generation that will be in fox
hobs, ride in tanks, fly in warplanen, and,
knowing bow to live, will kill. Cur goiijiiiition
is not goinij to the dogs. It can not : ourjljilhers
boat us to lhat goal. Ours is the vain distinc
tion of surpassing- thorn, we arc to be jackals.
Our generation, our brolher jackals, wr salute
you. May our deal lis be ojiiok ami painless."
Well, after about Iwo hours of writing this
kind of stuff, we road a few paragraphs, and
have not slopped laughing yet. Now we are
in that sentimental mood 1 hat funis nothing
funny in our book of jokes for graded intel
lects, nolhing serious in our diatribe on the
collapse of Western civilization ; but we still
regret lhat our friend had to leave for the
air corps; if for no olher reason lhan that
he might have given us a joke for todaj
We asked Bill what he thought about "the
job" he said, "When 1 woke up at 12 ,noon,
I thought, 1 may never be able to do this
again." Shall we choouc up sides and point a
moral
Ode to The 'Ras' Staff
BY ED FAYTINGER '
Now this is a poem, so Ihe story goes
Full of vicious tales, and many woes. . v
It's about the, "rag" office, as you could guess
Go down some time, and see the mess.
They sit aroYind. and smoke and talk '
Or occasionally sUcok but most of the time, sipiwk.
Now don t g-ot me wrong, they're full of pep
Espeeialy at six. you should see them step.
Positions are open, to those who have talent
Hut 1 know some people, who got in "cause they're gallant.
Ml sizes of people, some toolhpicks, some lards.
They have one interest in common a good game of cards.
Now this gang has a leader, of course it's old Jake
If you think he's a loafer, brother you're a big f.tke.
Now you w onder why 1 said that, well, kid here is why
He just looked over my shoulder, as he passed by.
Now- there's Junie and Thonuny, and Norrie and Tat
l'oopio McN'utt siiould be mentioned cause brother, he's fat.
And occasionally 1 here's C. Willie, commonly knovyn as Ceorge
Abbott j
He comes around too by more force of habit.
There's Goodie and .Tohnny. who work down Iherritoo
And Miss Marjorio May. who looks stunning in blue.
Of course there is Dixie, who just works in her room
Hut b'andy and Shirley, tvpe on midst the gloom. '
l-guess 1 will end this, bul there's really much more
After some people road this, I'll be ihe mop for the floor,
lust one more ilein. FLASH here conies Cappies Lad
Now if von get in ihe rhythm, that last line ain't lid.
Red Cross
(Continued from Page 1.1
The units and respective majors
are Dorm. Laura Lee Mmidil;
Men's Co-ops, Ralph Fox and
Jimmy Howe; Ag Campus.
Dorothy Anderson; Lincoln unaf
filiated students, Bob Dewey, Vir
ginia Steurnier, and Bob Law.
Under the majors are a number
of captains in charge of one or
ganized house, or. as in the case
'of the Lincoln students, a group
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of ten or twelve students. Th
Dorm is divided by corridors and
Halls.
War Fund drive leaders expect
sororities and fraternities to eon
tribute $2,000, and it is hoped that
the unaffiliated students ran be
counted on to raise another $1,000.
Oscar Rodriguez of Havana,
Cuba, is the newest exchange stu
dent at Southern
versity.
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