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DAILY NEBRASKAN
TKursHay. May 6, 1333
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FORTY-THIRD YEAR
Subscription Rates are $1.00 Per Semester or $1.60 for
the College Year. $2.50 Mailed. Single copy, 6 Cent. En
tered as second-class matter at the postoilce In Lincoln,
Nebraska, under Act of Congress March 3, 1879, and at
special rate of postage provided for In Section 1103. Act
of October 9. 1917. Authorized September 30. 1922.
Funniest Sight?
(Editor's note: The following paragraph
was mailed to the Daily ; the sender headed it
"Funniest Sight on the Campus.")
"Down the main drag comes a group of
ROTC "generals," all bedecked in their nice
ly tailored unies, braided rope shoulder-loops,
their fraternity and sorority pins, high school
class pins, Boy Scout, Dick Tracy and Lone
Banger badges, lodge emblems and other as.
sorted hardware glistening in the bright sun
shine. Spotting them, an enlisted man, his
GI uniform none too perfect-fitting, cries out:
"Oh, look at the pretty campus soldiers!"
Every morning the mailman brings into
the Daily office a number of letters from va
rious army posts thruout the country. Host
of them are from public relations offices.
Upon opening a sample letter, one finds a
picture of a young man in an officer's uniform
smiling in an unrehearsed manner at the cam
eraman. Also in the letter is a short para
graph about the man. He has usually just
been graduated from a training school and is
now an officer.
The unusual fact which comes to light
in many cases is that the student was not a
member of an advanced ROTC class, did not
rate particularly high in math, perhaps he
didn't take any at all. Yet he is an officer.
Actually, the average college student is so
high above the normal army intelligence aver
age that he has a good chance of becoming an
officer regardless of what his major in college
may have been. For those men entering the
armed forces with some advanced ROTC train
ing, the chances are just so much better
Personnel officers in every branch of the
service have asked for college men to .bo
trained as leaders simply because they feel
that the combination of an advanced educa
tion, actual military training, study and Rocial
habits acquired by the average college student
are invaluable.
It is a credit to Nebraska and to other
institutions with such a high percentage of of
ficer graduates that modern education is effec
tive in any field which a graduate may choose
inneluding the military.
Reports from the war fronts (the ROTC,
prior to inception of OCS schools, supplied
over 50 percent of all army officers) highly
commend those "pretty campus soldiers" now
jn the field, who serv, on the whole, as well as
men who have come up thru the ranks.
a. w. a.
Dear Editor:
Universal subscription commands universal
interest in how the affairs of the "Rag" are
managed. A collection of fifty cents from each
of the many university students at the time
the fees were paid represents a tidy sum.
Since we have paid our money, we feel the
right to review the policies of the "Rag."
Among those considered interesting are: 1)
discontinuation of the distribution of the
"Rag" to the fraternity houses, 2) the where
abouts of the "tidy sum."
The first of these has been justified for
two alleged reasons: a) decreased fraternity
membership, b) gasoline shortage.
The argument that fraternity membership
has decreased does not justify this action, for
the members that have gone into the services,
or have otherwise left school, paid their fee
no part of which has ever been refunded. Per
haps these members have the hope that their
brothers will forward the paper their fee has
purchased.
With regard to the gasoline shortage, it is
hard to understand why the "Rag" could be
delivered to the Theta house and not to the
Phi Fsi house just across the street; or why a
paper could be delivered to the Tri Dclt house
and not to the Phi Delt house, again just
across the street; or why the "Rag" could be
delivered to the Student Union and not to the
ZI3T, Delt, Phi Gam, ATO and Beta houses,
who have no sororities just across the street.
Furthermore, can we help it if the DU's and
Kappa Sig's don't live in God's Country!
Every sorority girl knows that no longer
is one paper per person being delivered to her
house. Js it conceivable that merely because
Norrie Anderson is the only man on the Daily
staff that the sororities have lost their interest
ji the "Rag" to the point where only one pa
?er is needed for three or four girls!
, Could it be that the managers of the
''Rag" think that waning student interest in
the closing weeks of the semester allows a lax
ity of policy, which would otherwise be the
subject of student criticism! We don't mind
buying new cars for the editors, or sororitv
girls not reading the paper, but we would like
to see the "Rag."
Yours for an apple a day for a dollar a
semester.
James Hewett,
Wayne Southwick.
(Editor's note: The fact that the DU's,
Kappa Sigs, AGR and Farm Hou-e, etc., do
not live in "God's country" and also the de
creased fraternity membership was the basis
Lfor the decision of the business department.
It was thought much gas was being wasted.
However, since there has been such objections,
delivery will be recontinued this week.
Navy's Japanese Language
School Opens to 100 Coeds
Women who are college grad
uates, and coeds about to get their
decrees, now have an opportunity
to learn the Japaese language at
the expense of the u. s. navy.
The navy's Japanese language
school, recently moved to the
United States and now situated on
the University of Colorado cam
pus, has announced that it will
admit soon its first class of about
100 women. The course has been
shortened to one year's length.
Apply at WAVES Office.
Candidates for assignment to
the school should make applica
tion at the WAVES procurement
offices in the Old Federal build
ing, Dcs Moines, la. The accepted
women wil be commissioned as
officers in the women's reserve of
the U. S. naval reserve and after
training will serve at naval shore
stations to release men rncers
proficient In the enemy's language
to serve with the fleet.
The intensive course now being
given selected men and women
navy officers is to teach them to
read and write simple Japanese, to
speak the language clearly in con
vcrsation or over a microphone,
and to be able to understand it
when heard over a radio.
Publish Paper.
Life at the Japanese lamruaee
school bears little resemblance to
that at other navy training centers
because the heavy emphasis on
study has eliminated all military
factors from the curriculum. Stu
dent live, and in general, dress
as civilians until the course is
completed and, for recreation, they
publish a weekly paper in Japa
nese and English. At the end of
their course, however, they are
given a two week's naval indoc
trination course.
All candidates must hold col
lege degrees. The first successful
candidates will start studies early
in July.
Dr. Walter H. Hodge, instructor
in botany at Massachusetts State
college, has been apopinted by the
United States board of economic
warfare to aid in the search for
new sources of quinine in South
America.
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Music School
Offers Awards
To 20 Frosh
Twenty partial scholarships In
music amounting to $40 a year
$20 a semester will be offered
by the university to students plan
ning to enter the music depart
ment this fall as a freshman.
The annual scholarship compe
tition will be held in Lincoln on
May 15 and awards will be made
on the basis of public tryouts at
mis time.
Must Enter Department
To be eligible to receive the
award the student must be a high
school senior or graduate contem
plating entering the department of
music in order to receive either a
bachelor of music or a bachelor of
music in education degree.
The name of each contestant,
age, class in school, residence, and
the mimical selection to be ren
dered, together with the name and
address of his music teacher must
be submitted to the secretary of
the school of music on or before
May 12.
Professors at the University of
California at Los Angeles are till
ing 32 Victory garden plots laid
out on the campus.
Despite withdrawal of Harvard
and Yale because of war time
sports curtailments, the Eastern
Intercollegiate Baseball league is
playing a full schedule of 20
games.
Minnesota game wardens are at
tempting to scatter a large flock
of pheasants threatening the huge
victory garden at the College of
Tom is an expeditor for a New Jersey war plant. All day
long, he contacts suppliers and subcontractors by Long
Distance.
"Are the castings ready? . . . OK New Orleans."
"Hello Detroit, have those parts been shipped?
"Have you received the brass yet, Atlanta?"
' Urgent war calls like Tom's are crowding Long Distance
lints, 'round the clock. And the load is increasing daily.
Won't you help os give war calls the right of way by ob
serving these simple rules.
1 Make only necessary Long Distance calls.
2. If you must call, plan your conversation.
3. When you find the circuit busy, cancel your call if
possible.
Thank you for your help.
St. Catherine.
