Thursday, May 15, 1941
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DAILY NEBRASKAN
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A commendable program
Though the finals in softball have not yet been com
pleted, last night's game betwen the Sig Alpha and ATO's
to all intents and purposes brought the closest intramural
race in the six years of Bill Horney's sponsorship of the
program to a close.
And as the points were tallied giving Delta Upsilon
the championship, Alpha Tau Omega second and Beta
Theta Pi third, it was revealed that more students had
participated in the 1941 intramurals than ever before,
forfeitures were fewer and the interest shown by all
groups was beyond comparison.
Responsibility for the increased interest may be laid
at the closeness of the contest throughout the whole
series of vents, or it may have resulted from the fact
that cups are awarded for firsts or seconds in all sports
and to those houses aside from the champions making
special showings in the race as a whole.
Whatever the cause, the results are evident. Houses
have, exhibited more spirit and enthusiasm, intramurals
have assumed a more prominent position on the cam
pus than in the past, and most important of all more
students have benefitted by the competition and group
exercise the program offers.
Congratulations to the Intramural office.
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Grad student decries
mw" petition signers
Dear Editor:
I should like to present the opinion of a graduate
student in the matter of the "not necessarily short of
war" petitions that are being signed by many faculty
members. I am aware that some of my superiors have
signed this petition. Due to my position as a subordinate
I am not signing my name and urge that you publish this
letter as anonymous. My stand on this matter would put
me in high disfavor. It would cost my badly needed refer
ences and mighj result in my expulsion. (Who says we
have freedom of speech?)
I am opposed to active military intervention in the
European conflict. I feel that those faculty members who
have signed this petition are not qualified to urge war
fare. Most of them are beyond military age; many are
women. Many of them are unmarried and hence have no
offspring to be slaughtered. Most are probably physically
unfit either too rotund or rapidly falling into a condi
tion of senescence. Most of them are risking little in the
event of war. All are enjoying greater financial security
than those soldiers that they would have to fight to pre
serve this security.
It is my suggestion that these petitions and the names
of those who have signed them be given full publicity
in all local newspapers including the DAILY NEBRAS
KAN. We know that there are numerous local enter
prises upon which the belligerent faculty could pour out
its adrenalin. The campus needs cleaning and beautifica
tion; non-affiliated men need improved living conditions.
Our neighbors to the north and east of the campus need
Bocial uplift Research of infinite quantity needs to be
done. These are just a few things upon which our belli
cose faculty friends could profitably devote their en
ergies.
Finally, I suggest that if war comes and goes that
a memorial be erected not to the university men who
sacrificed their lives, but to those petition signers who
urge needless loss of life. A tall shaft on Memorial Mall
inscribed with these names might serve to prevent fu
ture faculty members from crying for a bloody fight
whenever the opportunity presents itself.
Very sincerely,
A Graduate Assistant.
It is very likely that the interventionists over the
draft age have not considered the suffering and tor
tures of war to the extent that these factors have been
considered by those who may have to fight. Yet con
demnation of them In this way is not altogether just.
For many holding war sentiments dread that war
and will be affected by It if not directly probably
through relatives and very close friends and only be
lieve war is necessary as the best safeguard for those
things America holds dear.
'Whether their views are right or wrong, whether
they have been hastily conceived and are based upon
an emotional Irrational desire to aid England or ac
cepted with full realization of the price America must
pay In the war Is not known. They are relatively sin
cere In the sentiments they hold and should therefore
not be condemned by future generations If their
guesses prove costly.
Editor.
Dear Mr. Editor:
Why do you call defeatism the gradual recognition
that the British fleet is indispensable to our safety? Why
do you call willingness to face grave danger defeatism?,
Do you call fascism liberalism, or English democracy na
tional socialism, or Roman Catholicism communism, or
love hate, or life death?
You are disturbed about emotionalism affecting" our
calm judgment. Do you think that judgment is rational
when it is governed by. the emotion of fear? Do you
think that love of liberty and hatred of submission to
military aggression (hatred of what most English-speaking
people call defeatism) blind the eyes of rational Judg
ment? Do you wish us to follow the realism of Baldwin
and Chamberlain Did that turn out to be a good model
of rationality?
Why Bhould you use the slogan "Don't give up the
ship?" The figure of speech is unfortunate when what
you advocate is literally giving up all tlje ships, certainly
the British merchant marine and the British navy, and
eventually perhaps the American navy. Better say "give
up alKthe ships." What do we care? We can't use ships
on the prairie.
Thomas M. Raysor.
Chinese-
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now concentrating to a greater
extent on national pride."
According to Wong, the govern
ment gives land to the refugees,
loans money, and encourages them
to make use of untouched natural
resources; "the government en-
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tending the forum was the speak
er's story of students in China.
"Despite the war," Wong asserted,
"there are now more students en
rolled in Chinese universities and
colleges, than there were in pre
war days." '
Reason for this, he said, lies in
the encouragement given to stu
dents by the government. "We
realize that after the war students
will be the ones who will be do
ing the work of reconstruction.
The government would rather have
the young people in school than
fighting in the army," the lec
turer declared.
An interesting sidelight on this
"occupation," according to Wong,
is the fact that "the Japanese sol
diers in the 'occupied cities are
afraid to go out on the streets at
night because of gurillas."
Devoting much of his lecture to
the western part of China, the
dean said, "A tremendous prob
lem in the west is that of the refu
gees migrating to western China.
These refugees, numbering be
tween 60 and 80 millions of peo
ple, are migrating to a land which
is much more backward than the
one from which they have come."
Pointing to the Chinese national
student body as one of the sta
bilizing influences today, Dr.
Wong told of the terrifif hardships
which students and educators have
to endure to continue their work.
"Some refugee students walked
as much as a thousand miles to
the new location of their univer
sity, with some universities chang
ing locations as many as five or
six times, the doctor declared,
"and they studied and held their
classes as they traveled from one
place to another."
Dr. Wong's home is in Chcng
tu, 200 miles west of Chungking,
the present free capital of China.
He has been in the U. S. for two
years as a theological student in
New York, and is a graduate of
the Peking university.
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