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DAILY NEBRASKAN
Friday, March 5, 1943
JJisl (Daily. Vkbha&kcuv
FORTY -THIRD TEAR
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tered as second-class matter at tho postofice In Lincoln,
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special rate of postage provided for In Section 1103. Act
of October 3. 1917. Authorized September 30, 1922.
Published daily during the school year except Mon
days and Saturdays, vacations and examinations periods
by Students of the University of Nebraska under the su
pervision of the Publications Board.
Offices Union Building.
Iay 2-71S1. Night 2-71'J3 Journal 2-3330.
Editor Alan Jacobs
Business Manager Betty Dixon
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT.
Managing Editors. .. .George Abbott, Marjoric May
News lOditors. . . . John Uauernvistcr, Fat t'hamher
lin, June Jamieson, Murylouise Goodwin, lK'.le
Wolf.
Sports Editor. .. .Norris Anderson.
War or No War,
Maintain Standards!
Time is growing short. Soon at the end
tf this semester at the latest the great ma
jority of the male enrolment in the university
will be in the army.
Some will never come back to the univer
sity, for there are those on the campus now
who will die on the battlefields; there are
pthers who having "gone out into the world"
will stay there. But there are many who will
f.hoose to return to the university, to complete
their educations, to secure degrees.
For the soldiers who return to school, the
State of Nebraska has an obligation: to furnish
a highly accredited state university with the
best of facilities and instruction.
That is what the state owes to its men who
will have fought in the war, and it also is
what the state owes itself at any time. The
standards of Nebraska university must not be
lowered; they must continue in the manner
which has raised UN to among the most high
ly respected state universities.
This week the legislature's appropriations
Committee has been considering the school's
request for an increase of about $300,000 in its
general fund appropriation. Every effort is
wisely being made to cut expenditures, but the
facts must be faced:
1. Enrolment has dropped 4,500 students,
a decrease of 31 per cent in past three or four
years.
2. The university has lost some of its best
Instructors for failure to meet competitive sal
ary figures.
3. The university will not realize a profit
from the army schools which may be located
on the campus.
4. Other schools have improved their
physical plants and have made other changes
that have improved their national standing,
while UN has comparatively stood still, large
ly due to the lack of funds.
As appropriations committee chairman
flreenamyre stated Wednesday, THE NA
TIONAE STANDING OF NEBRASKA IT
SHOULD BE PROTECTED AND IM
PROVED AS FAR AS POSSIBLE UNDER
.WARTIME CONDITIONS. THAT CAN BE
DONE ONLY BV THE INCREASED AT-
TROI'KIATJON REQUESTED. SUCH AC
TION IS THE ONIA' WAY THAT THE
STATE CAN MEET ITS OBLIGATIONS
NOW ANDAFTER THE WAR.
Dear Editor:
Never before have Ave seen a criticism of the
Rag printed and we hereby usher one which
Ave trust you'll print.
Front page too unbalanced and inconsis
tent. Some Avritmg good, other Avnung is
pathetic.
Editorials Editorials are lair, especially
second semester. More school editorials would
help. Carton Brodcrick'had a big following.
What happened to him 7 Sprague s column
should be used alternately with Chips, by Gene
Bradley.
Society Whv not let one person (with some
nerve) write this all the while? Use the style
Chris Peterson used last year.
Sports Best part of the paper, writing is
best, makup is best. 1 think the column, llorsc
Sense, is by far the most readable feature in
the paper, lou are nearly proiessionai neie.
General opinion a pretty all-around good
college paper, but Ahy not try our imple
ment sY
Three Barb Readers.
(Editor's note: 1. Criticism it's always
welcome if it is constructive; 2. Front page
managing editors are still students orf journal
ism striving for attractive makeup, often going
off the beam; writing sutlers irom idut
experienced writers with no males at all on
reportorial staff; 2. Editorial Carton troa
erick has retired; Bradley may be back; o.
Society Chris Peterson's don't come around
every day; 4. Sports thanks; 6. General
your criticisms are good ones; we may surprise
you by accomplishing some improvements. We
are trying.)
Tilth, Jhonu WfcTlutl . . .
T Sthndly a Mot?
BY BOB M'NUTT.
Wonder when they want us.
Don't mind if they take us now
but Avhy don't they let us know
where we stand. Haven't got
much interest in school anymore.
Don't know how much credit we'll
get if they do want us now. Shall
we go out for spring practice or
study a little harder on military
science?
Shall we buy that new sweater
or will we have enough time to
eet any good out of it? What
will I tell the folks when they
want to know whether they arc
getting their money's worth by
keeping me in school under such
conditions or not.
ERC Students Wonder.
These are as ample of the many
questions that the members of the
ERC are constantly worrying and
talking about. Probably ques
tions similar to these are the big
gest source of worry to some 200
men on this campus.
Added to this is the fact that no
matter how callous a man is, or
pretends to be, it makes him feel
like something of a heel to walk
down town and see so many men
DePauw university men have
volunteered their services to meet
a threatened shortage of labor in
the locality.
A Fordham university graduate
schol seminar is studying the role
of congress as a wartime legisla
tive body.
in uniform when the best he can
do along the same line is an ROTC
uniform that he wears on the av
erage of three days a week.
Certainly Helps.
I just received a letter from my
brother, who is in the naval ROTC
tit Northwestern. According to
that letter, those men know ex
actly where they stand. Because
they do know, they have an added
incentive to study since their
'school record will have a bearing
on their ability to become qual
ified officers.
It is a shame to see these men
remain in school when they are
not taking full advantage of its
facilities nnd of the opportunities
that it offers.
Two Alternatives.
If men concentrate on army life,
they become good soldiers. If men
concentrate on college life, they
accumulate a surprisingly well
rounded education. But the av
erage male is so constructed that
when his attention is divided be
tween the two, he becomes effi
cient in neither.
The foregoing is the humble
opinion and musings of just one
member of the ERC whose sole
hope is that the good old USA
wins this war in the shortest pos
sible time so we can get back and
plant' the corn. However, that
same member is tired of watch
ing other men go off to do the
fighting while he stays safely be
hind, not at all sure in which di
rection to turn next.
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Qwotabk. QuchA.
"Our folk songs grew out of our national lite
and are a part of its history. We need 1 learn
and sing them, for folk songs are a tremendous
force in making people "nation" conscious.
The music capitals of the Avorld have moved
from Europe to America, and it is up to us
to keep them here. We must encourage and
support our serious music, for it, too. helps to
make America American. Dr. Archie N.
Jones, professor of music, University of Texas,-
believes development of an American music
and culture should be a part of the everyday
living of the average patriotic citizen.
"Women must prepare themselves for the
time which is not far off when the man
power commission Mill assign them to jobs
where they are needed. The need for. women
war workers offers us as never before the op
portunity to prove our strength and value 1
society and to our country." Miss Dorothy
Gebauer, University of Texas dean oi women,
asserts college women must rid themselves of
the idea that a college education entitles
them to occupational prestige that is above
manual labor in war industries.
White Space
For a long time we have been wondering
what the horse liniment INorrie Anueram w..-
sumes has to do with his sensible column. ies
terday we found out. When the rich yellow
liquid finally tickles his trembling brain, it
enables him to describe his writer, dene Sher
man, as "replete with fuzz-cut." mis re
plete" business bothered us; so we crept over
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to a dictionary to lind out aooui n.
After careful research we have discoeieu
that Norrie might have meant that Sherman
is either filled to capacity, or copiously sup
plied, or bloated with fuzz-cut. But none of
Ihose meanings satisfied us; and we were
about to give up trying to figure out Nome's
meaning until Ave noted a quotation irom
Owen Wister, some fellow who probably never
heard about fuzz-cuts, that read:
A family of replete and bilious ogres. Then
avo understood what Norrie wanted to say. He
and his staff are a family of replete and bili
ous fuzz-cuts.
We sat in on last Wednesday's comic
meeting, but Ave did not find the proceedings
too exciting. The council was still wondering
what to do about assuring its survival into
the next school year, when Dave Marvin
moved that the six council members returning
next fall be nominated as hold-over candi
dates. Dave said something to the effect that he
thought he had better do something toward
getting the hold-over members elected while
the greek-barb ratio was four to two; am
suggested t hat if he did not hurry ihe hold
over election the greeks would be having some
greek council members resign who were not
returning next year and appoint some stu
dents to the council who were returning, tluis
iiK-reasing the number of (ireek hold-overs,
according to the plan to accept as a hold-over
every returning council member up to the
number of eight.
However, the nominating motion was
passed; and Dave felt that he ha. I t last
kicked some kind of ball away from the
greeks. But just as President Harnsburgcr
was about to call time and send the phiyers
home, council adviser E. W. Lantz jumped
into the game and returned the ball to plnv
by saying that even though the hold-over elec
tion was held at the next meeting, the council
could elect two more hold-over members as
the constitution permits, anytime up to the
end of the semester.
After this quick play by Prof. Lantz, we
could not tell whether he was either referee
mg, or cheering, or playing water boy on a
one man team; so we strolled away from the
field, wondering who would try to add the
score for this game.
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T hat been fktimateJ that 63,000 tclejiliooe calls 4re
necessary in the building of oue 10,000 ton cargo ship.
And America is tending these vessels down the ways by
the hundreds.
We cannot L'uild additional facilities because materials
for telephone equipment are going into war weapons.
Yet today the men and women of the Bell System are
handling more telephone calls than ever before about
90 million conversations a day. It's an important wartime
job. It will continue to be done well.