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2 DAILY NEBRASKAN Tuesday, May 11. 1943 J Jul (Dallip VldhaAkcuL FORTS-THIRD YEAR Subscription Rates are $1.00 Per Semester or $1.60 tor the College Year. $2.50 Mailed. Single copy, 6 Cent. En tered as second-class matter at tho postoftce in Lincoln. Nebraska, under Act of Congress March 2, 1879, and at epecial rate of postage provided for In Section 1103. act of October 1 1917. authorised September 30. 192X Published dally during the school year except Mon days and Saturdays, vacations and examinations periods by Stu tents of the University of Nebraska under the eu ptrvlahn of the Publications Board. Offices Union Building. Day 2-7181. Nlght-37103 Joumal-2-3330. 'Knowledge is Ruin' "I will have no intellectual training. Knowledge is ruin to my young men." Adolph Hitler. "Books cannot be killed by fire . . . No man and no force can put thought in a tuuuemrauon camp iorever. no man and no force can take from the world the books that embody man's eternal fight against tyranny. ' 'Franklin D. Roosevelt. Libraries all over 1 lie nation yesterday flew their flaps at half mast; ten years ago yesterday Hitler ordered the burning and han ning from Germany "books considered dan gerous to the projection of nazi thought." Minister of "public enlightenment." Gocb hels sponsored the bonfires at the universities of Berlin, Munich, Frankfurt, Hrcslau, and Keil. And as more than 25,000 volumes went up in smoke and flame in Berlin, a student stood by to shout into the night "Emil Lud wig, burned for literary rascality and high treason aaginst Germany. Erich Maria lle lnarque for degrading the CJerman language. Jacob Kosenberg . . ." That was Germany in front of the University of Berlin May'lO. w.v.i. This year in America, the writings of .'Vholom Asch, John Dos Bassos, Heinrich Heine, Ernest Hemingway, Komaine Holland, Voltaire, and many others, are spread on col lege library shelves and bulge from the slacks of the Library of Congress. Today there is in reality only one book in Germany, Mein Kampf. In our own univer sity library there are more than 400,000 vol umnes, in the Library of Congress more than seven million volumes requiring 414 miles of bookshelves among them Mein Kampf. Two countries, two cultural outlooks. Well might the nazi leaders read some of the works of a few Americans almost unknown to them, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, or even Walt Whitman. The written word is eas ily destroyed; the thoughts carried by those words will live forever. G. W. A. CdJtsAifL Dear Editor: With regard to the swift efficiency, or rather, the carefree abandon, with which the AWS board flung away its point system, 1 ob ject. I object to the new liberalism which is better described as the sanction of anarchy in the extra-curricular puddle, a shrugging off of responsibility onto whoever may misuse it. I object to a lack of study of the question and recommend that it be reconsidered next fall when interests and energies will be on the in crease rather than on the wane. "The need for some kind of point system is evident," reports the Daily, and 1 concur. For there is in every class a blessed or blighted group of coeds who by their talents for or ganization can soon control all ottices or boards and exclude others who have abilities but not the push-all-olhcrs-aside-for-it spirit. .None can dispute that fact. Today it is true that there is a shift or trend away from and toward extra-curricular activities and that there mav be not the same number of interested workers. That does not mean the discarding of a proved-good idea, but its adaptation to the new realilv. IVrhaps, AWS board has spring fever, or has been paralyzed by the changes war can bring to a campus, or has lost its interest in sensible control, or wants to go on a picnic, or wants Joe, John, Tom, Bill back home or . . . I give up and have spouted my niekel's worth. Patricia Lahr. Wml at MdUl . . What Tomorrow? Most gracious editors: 1 feel impelled to utter a protest concern ing Don Barsotti's column in the Sunday Daily Nebraskan. Don made a statement to the effect thai the charming ditty "We are never to busy to say hello" was brought to the fair Ne braska campus by a group from Hollywood and Vine. That is a decided mistake as Don and the other cadcls all know for the "Hello Song" and most of the others were brought to Nebraska direct from the dust bowl of Miami Beach, Collins and Lincoln avenues, where each training flight was required to learn at least a dozen songs and where the drill sergeant would gig his men for not sing ing. And so 1 close with one added suggestion. Please print realistic news of the cadets. For instance that Bucknel Phi (Jam is engaged to a lovely girl back home and would give any thing to return to her. Sincerely, Pvt. Barton Lutt, Air Crew. dOdlpJiifL . . . Are Engineers Narrow?-A Reply " have often sus reason for the Dear Editor: We understand that as you wrote your Sunday editorial a week ago you commented, "This ought to draw some letters." We in the Engineering college who begrudninfily help pay the freight on the "raj pected there was no other paper. Engineers are accused of being narrow. Now, forgetting all prejudices, is it narrow: 1. To stay out of petty, childlish, cam pus politics? 2. To stay out of the artificial idealistic atmosphere that prevails amongst the smug so-called ruling set on this campus? Last summer most of the engineers worked in defense projects. To a certain ex tent they have been out in the world. They hav their feet on the ground. They are inter ested in material things and do not hold as their chief aim getting their name in BABY society columns. Everything done here on the campus (excluding the engine college) has a politcal or society page angle. The engineers are mature enough to see these infantile sit uations and stay out. Those who criticize us are really Ihe "nar rows." They are bound by the prejudices and traditions listed above. They have coke elates from 1 to 5 each afternoon and fi to 10 each f veiling while the engineer works. They as sume an air of superiority that we can't de scribe because words are not expressive of our disgust. Look at yourself before criticizing! The engineers are the most democratic group on the campus. They have lots of group spirit which results because everyone has something to say in running the organ izations. The school as a whole, has lost spirit. It should take a tip from this col lege ; let the rank and file help. Give them an interest and watch them work.' Continue to let the "silver spoon" boys operate and watch the campus slip. We engineers did not realize what a swell bunch we really are until some of us were forced to associate with the "statesmen" from other colleges in Love Memorial Library. The engineer has made an outstanding suc cess of boilers, bridges, inolors, and highways. 1ook at what a mess the sl.-ilesmen has left us today. The engineers have just the qualities a statesman should have but usually doesn't. The engineer is far sighted, usually unpreju diced, and can look at a thing as a whole and not from just one angle. J. will take into ac count all the fadors. Let the engineer have a prominent place in the future world and we believe ihe future would be bright. Kesort to the politicians of the present and God help the world ! In closing, to you few I'N sludetits who have found our group crazy, we should like to see a little evidence before you make such a statement. We won't take it lying down. Signed, Standley Howell Everett Eyden Walter Stewart, Jr. Robert Duis Robert Knott William Hashimoto M. Dale Brehm Eldon Mathauser Robert E. Taylor Robert L. Sorenson j Arthur A. Stutheit I By Pvt Walter E. Grauman. MORNING. No doubt you have noticed the bubbling vigor of the air crew cadets as they sing their way from class to class. It can all be explained by disclosing to you an hour by hour Account of a day in our young lives. The hour of enchantment has arrived; 5:15 In the morn ing of course, and we bound merrily from our eider-down beds to the cold, cold floor. With leisurely pace we rip into our clothing and rub the sleep from our eyes. Just in time the mellow notes of our hot trumpeter float to us and we dash to reveille looking forward to another day of army education. Roll is taken as we stand patiently waiting to march to break fast. There is no hurry, the hunger gnawing at our vitals is only an incidental. " Kight-Face, Left-Face, Close-March," and we arc off to chow. The union looms, cheerfully lighted, out of the early morning gloom as we march in to gorge ourselves. Chow! ! ! Eagerly we look toward the bounteous tables heaped with cereals, bacon, toast, fruit, and milk. Each man awaits the filling of his tray and all is calm ami serene, except for that big fellow to my right who insists that he was in front of me. I believe him, anyhow he is bigger than I am. Hreakfast over we march back to the barracks and have a full twenty minutes in which we do nolhing but shave, shine our shoes, make our beds, and sween the floor. The whistle blows us out for our seven o'clock classes ami here our vitality reaches a climax and we spontaneously burst forth into song. The gentle chiding our songs give the boys on the third floor is all in fun. We sing of flat feet and ground-bound infantrv; of Jiving men and artillery. Mental Gymnastics. Andrews hall opens its doors and there before Us is a be- spectacled and smiling trigonometry professor with his pro gram of mental gymnaslics spread over the black-boards (oh earth, whv did you have to be an oblate spheroid!) Having learned to circumnavigate the globe durinc this hour we gracefully retreat to formation for our next class. The physics is extremely simiilp tod:i tomorrow we will l.rn how to conslruct B ill's and the next day; oh well, let that go for the non. Thus is our morning spent and as we flood into the halls of Love Memorial we glow with the prospect of an equally tascinating attcrnoon. i- .....'1 .1 i ., uniii anoiner day Hilow me to return to my studi lou see there is one little point that I am not wiw i.f hour s work in spherical trigonometry. in les. my Kilwart! L. Bernays . . . New York Publicist Establishes Ti ree Research Fello wsh ips Paul L. Schmert Gifford E. Rogers Paul Schlitt G. Wendell Briggs Warren Clark Edward Herzog LeMoyne F. Jones Fred Vesper Don Crandall Roger Garey Jack Ford . Three fellowships for research in public relations for 1943 have just been established by Edward L. Bernays, publicist of New York, author of "Propaganda," "Crystal lizing Public Opinion" and "Speak Up for Democracy." Tho fellowships are: To Western Reserve university, Cleveland, $500 for the study of how in the past 25 years business, education, gov ernment and the mess have in creased their use n public rela tions. This is to be awarded to a graduate student for the study of the public attitudes toward business since 1930 as reflected in the pn ss, on the radio, resolu tions and actions of the different constituent groups that make up our society - labor, religious, farm, social service. Government and otner groups. At Columbia U. To the Columbia university graduate school of journaism $ 1,000 for the study of the at titudes of liberal United States business men in the past 50 years and what the effects of these attitudes were on public opinion and public action. The subject was chosen "because liberal busi ness men have done a great deal to further the relations between the component pails of our so ciety, and the results of their ef forts should ' made available to other industrial leaders who have not learned how to apply such principles and practices to their own commercial and indus trial activities." To New York university $1,000 Accurate predictions of a stu dent's success in study of life sciences has been made possible thru a series of tests developed at the University of Arizona. 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