DAILY NEBRASKAN
Sunday, March 14, 1943
Students' Record, Army
Action Refutes Criticism
JJxsl (Daily- Tkbhaihuv
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Editor Alan Jacobs
Business Manager Betty Dixon
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT.
Managing Editors ... .George Abbott, Mar.lorie May
News Editors. . .John Biiuermeistcr, Pat Chamber
1 in. June Jamieson, Marylouise Goodwin, Dale
Wolf.
Sports Editor. .. .N'onis Anderson.
Youth at Its Best
(Editor's note: The following- editorial
from the Lincoln Star is a well-deserved trib
ute to university students.)
Thiit whs a remarkable gathering at the
University of Nebraska at which Senator
(Jeorge W. Xorris was the chief speaker. It was
a niceling planned, ami arranged for in its
entirety by the uuder-graduatcs. Kvery detail
in connection with it was worked out by the
young men and the young women in charge.
And they made it a very impressive occa
sion, sans pageantry, fuss and feathers, and in
unforgettable recognition for many scores of
young men shortly to loss aside their boks to
become members of the armed services of
Uncle Sam.
There has been so much said and written
about the young people of today their lack
of respect, their carelessness, and their
thoughtlessness. In the eyes of their critics
they are supposed to have scrapped the es
sential courtesies and deference due to age.
They are accused of a lack of appreciation for
the more serious and somber side of life.
Just a few details of what actually took
place at this specially arranged convocation
will reveal how easy it is to misjudge. When
with an escort of a representative of the Inno
cents and the B'ack Masks, the senior organi
zations, Senator Xorris entered the field house,
they rose to their feet, hundreds of them, with
out any pre-a ranged signal, to greet him with
crackling applause. They rose to their feet
and applauded again when he had concluded
a thrilling address upon war aims. They lis
tened intently, without scarcely moving, thru
a portion of 1 he lunch hour. These youngsters
were interested, gravely interested, responsive
in an extraordinary fashion to the high ideal
ism that is back of this conflict.
They are good for the cynic and the pessi
mist who at stated periods condemns them for
uselessness.
The written battle between "War Moth
er" and "College Student" in the "solving
your problems" column of Mary (Gordon in a
local newspaper advanced another step this
week with another letter by "Ex-teacher" im
plying the worthlessness of college students.
The question of what to do with the col
lege student, has been pretty much answered
just this week, not by letter writers but by
the army. Hut those men who have been left
in school do not deserve the abuse to which
they have been subject.
The letter by "War Mother" in Jan
uary charged that: "... these students and
their parents have it all planed. They are
to continue in university and let our boys do
the dirty work, then after the war is over,
of course, they will get in for a while don
the uniform and perhaps be an officer or
instructor and then come strutting' home telling-
how they won the war."
Then ediior Hob Schl.it er answered, . .
She was swayed by her own personal emotions.
War is no time for emotions. We must face
reality. It takes men to face responsibility.
A successful army needs officers and privalcs.
Privates can be taken from any walk of life.
Officers must be taken, for the most part, from
men who by hard work or fate have been given
1 lie opportunity to get a college education."
That is a satisfactory answer for today4 since
its validity is proved by the army's decision
to call men from school, then to send them
back for further education.
This week, however, '"Ex-Teacher," al
tho addressing herself to "College Student,"
another Mary Gordon correspondent, implies
that college studenls are avoiding 'entrance
to the army, that they are doing wrong.
She ends her letter: "You also showed
your smallness having- that letter from War
Mother printed in the college paper. What
about the scrap scandal down there that got
so much publicity to the chagrin of the
teachers and the disg-ust of the public!"
And the Daily Nebraskan also asks, what
about the scrap collection drive on the campus?
With the exception if minor incidents all of
which were rectified, the university scrap drive
was an inspiring example for the community.
The scrap drive, as a matter of fact, is
an example of the very thing- which makes
the arguments of the war mother and ex.
teacher unjustified: that UN males while
waiting- to be called to service are not sitting-
back watching- the other boys do all of
the dirty work; until called, they are do
ing everything they can, supporting every
drive, being good Americans.
THEIR RECORD SPEAKS LOUDER
AND MORE CONVINCINGLY THAN ANY
LETTERWRITER.
What Should Coeds
Do in Wartime?
The opinion below is that of a coed
on the Kansas Stale Collegian slajf. tier's
is one view of what is to he expected of
women in war.
Today, tomorrow, or at some past or fu
ture date we will be saying, or have said,
goodbye to some boy who means more to
us than perhaps we have before realized. He
wants to go and we milst want him to go.
He wants to do his part in keeping us free
and he expects us to do ours but in a dif
ferent way.
Have you ever stopped to think just
what you are doing to help preserve peace
in our beloved United States? Oh yes, you
say, you .are rationed by not getting your
usual too much sugar, coffee, and now
canned stuffs for your greedy appetites. Also
you can't have a pair of shoes for every out
fit any more ; you must be content with three
pairs a year. And yet when all is said and
done, are you really doing that? Don't you
buy more candy and sweetstuffs and don't
you have just as much coffee, but the minute
you found out it is rationed you begin drink
ing more. And when you heard about play
shoes not being rationed, you rushed down
and bought as many as you had money to
pay for.
No, I'm not being fair; there is more in
the American college girl than the greedi
i .noss that I have pictured. There is a strong
restless desire to be doing something to help.
Some of us wish to join a branch of Ihe Wom
en's Relief Corps, some leave to work in de
fense plants, and some of us stay in college
wondering if we are doing the right thing.
Let me ask you this who is going to run the
country after the war! Who will be the moth
ers of our future presidents, senators, gover
nors and businessmen? Now let me answer
it. It will be the college girls of America, the
girls who are learng new and better ways of
doing things, who will use their good sense,
guided by good training to raise their children
when their men come back.
Ferhaps sometimes it does not seem worth
the struggle as people get the idea that girls
should quit school and go to work. But we
must not let that phase us. It is right that
the working people are the backbone of Amer
ica, but it is the educated who lead the masses.
We must fight the battle by studying
harder, learning more, always striving so
that when he comes back, he will know we
too, have accomplished something.
This is everyone's war; it is a global
war with battlefronts on every side. We are
fighting a battle for education, religion, for
the future when our children must know a
not sorrow, peace, not warfare as we have
better world one full of love, not hate, joy,
known.
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Tlmwi .n vn ! little hnv ii.iiiii(1 ('nrton. Carton v:is a
nice little boy and always went to Sunday School where he
w.iu at ilin lijjd nf his class Carton wrote articles for his
Sundav school paper about what good little boys should do.
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lie was particularly tond of writing about the evils or lime boys
who drink tea instead of milk. He wrote a poem for his
Sunday school paper about what he thought. It went like
this:
"Milk is for me,
I'll never drink tea."
One evening Carton and his playmates were having a pic
nic in Carton's backyard. He became sleepy so he laid down
under a tree to take a nap. He had the funniest dream! He
lr(;imf.i1 ilmt 1 wn hiir snots of tea came slidins un and poured
themselves out into many teacups of various sizes, shapes ami
condition. Oive of the cups ran up and knockoit down one or
Carton's playmates, thinking that he was Carton, and not
being able to see very well, due no doubt to tjic fact that it was
so dark around the' fire. Then the cups discovered Carton
and began to gather around him. It seems that they wer; all
Vwiil.ul nn jilmnt. lhe articles which Carton had written for
the Sunday school paper. They told Carton that they didn't
like what he Ind said about lea at all, ami that it he (lulu l slop
writing things like that he would never grow up to be an all-American.
The fnn which knocked down Carton's playmate was
shaped more like a mug than a cup, and was colored a pretty
egg blue. Another cup was not built very well, and was
wobbling in its saucer. One little cup was very noisy. Carl on
easily recognized it as of the Xapoleonic design. It had come
from Carton's next door neighbor's large collection.
Viii!illv one nf ihe euns which came from Cartons own
cupboard opened up the lids of the two pots and poured all
the tea back in. Then one ot the pots slid oil wnn me speeu
of Mercury. The other pot was not so fancy, and it just
changed off. This pot was of the type made by Henry.
Carton told his Sunday school teacher about ims anu saiu
he was very unhappy. Hut the Sunday school teacher rather
likes tea himself, and it is doubt tul whether tanon can wrue
anv more poems about tea.
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Moral: The pen is mightier than the sword, as long as jou
have some ink.
(Editor's Note: The ." Tea-Table Fable," above, was
written by John Mason, a former Innocent, now a junior in
law school. Mason, long an insider as far as campus extra
curricular activities are concerned, offers a "fable" that
needs some clarifying for those not on the inside in campus
intrigue. Certain parts of his story have been necessarily de
leted. rs.T.tin Partnn Rrnderick. nseudo-name for the well-
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known man on the campus who wrote a column for the Daily
Nebraskan last semester, dealing in several instances with the
v,.. c.t nf.iiviiirs nf The! a Xu Ensilon. sub-rosa campus
drinking organization, ami on other occasions with membership
of certain students m the group long ovenooKeu ny uunei
sity officials as long as-it did not inlerferc with universily
property- and staved out of the campus limelight.
Members of the organization, apparently uisiurueu hi wn.it
they considered interruption into something very private and
difficulty with UN denns. accosted Broderick
jrwnon.ij ......... . .. . ,
one evening recentlv, warned him to discontinue writing such
olunins. A fraternity brolher ot twuencK imervcncu,
fighting was avoided.
Iwd lhe new editor of the Nebraskan
on the subject of writing a column this semester, was told
Ibat any columns from him would be welcome, wnemer n
concerning the sub-rosa organization or some other subject
as long as no individual was injured by lhe writing. No col
umns have been received.
There is plenty of "ink in his pen," but not enough spaoe
or general student interest in the whole matter to continue
the personal warfare of Carton Broderick and TNE; they
and their champions will have to find a new scene of battle
besides the Nebraskan 's editorial pages. Despite Mason's
allegations, this editor has no particular sympathies for either
TNE or Broderick.)
Cornell Profs
Chop Wood, Get
Blisters for War
Old-fashioned wood-chopping
bees are helping Cornell uni
versity professors keep the home
fires burning and themselves in
fine physical condition.
. Each week-end, 66 anthropolo
gists, botanists, chemists, eco
nomists, liguists and mathema
ticians head for university wood
lots as volunteer participants in
a statewide fuel and forest con
servation program.
Foresters estimate Uieir ef
forts may aggregate the heating
fSssSffl
(J, w Pybl la advtMt Vi
LOST-Brovn briefeme with testbooki.
Keward. Call 2-11U4. HI So. UL
equivalent of 60 tons of anthra
cite coal.
Blisters?
"You bet. Plenty of them.
But they don't Interfere with
my painting," says Prof. Ken
neth Washburn of the architec
tural college.
my-'
it
Choice positions are rail
Inr oa ns from state all
over the Mississippi Val
ley. We can make yonr enroll
ment profitable to yoa.
Call or write.
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