DAILY NEBRASKAN
Sunday, November 2, 1941
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Mews Editors Marjorl griming. Alan J acuta.
Mariorte May, Helen Klley, Bob Schlnter.
Sports Editor "I'Jl'l"..
We Must Strike
With mixed feelings and hesitating fingers, this
editor Bits before a typewriter today. Something
must be said, but in saying it we commit ourselves
to a cause that will kill more of our friends and
loved ones than we dare think. We commit our
selves to a cause that may change the whole struc
ture of our lives. Still, we must say that we must
fight to destroy Hitlerism.
We have waited too long. We have talked too
much. Time for action was five years ago, even
tho public opinion was not ready for it at that time.
But now the time has come when we can no longer
Bit at home and watch other countries fight for the
principles we uphold. Great Britain is the last
stronghold of democracy, but Great Britain cannot
win the war unaided.
Yes, we have aided Britain thru our program of
ending airplanes, arms and munitions and other
supplies. But Britain now needs airplanes, tanks
and destroyers manned by Americans. Our duty
now is not simply to aid Britain, but to fight
band In hand with that nation to "make the
world safe for democracy." We hate to use that
phrase because its connotation was full of irony
after World War I, but It is the only phrase that
can be used to express what we now murt io.
These sentiments are not just sentiments of a
few. They are expressed by many. Three repre
sentative college editors, according to a release from
Fight for Freedom, told a nationwide radio audi
ence that "American youth is ready to fight be
cause only by war itself can the menace of Hitler
Ism be defeated." The three young men, all ot
them with the draft ages, spoke over CBS in a
symposium sponsored by the Flrst-to-Fight division,
youth group of the Fight for Freedom.
Here are the opinions of those three editors:
John N. Brooks, jr., chairman of the Daily
Princetonian: "The debate between the isolation
ists arm interventionists was fun while it lasted,
but America today is irrevocably committed to the
defeat of Hitlerism, even at the cost of total war.
Only a small minority fail to realise that the issue
is decided, and still raise their voices of obstruc
tion in belated protest"
Loren Hickerson, editor of the Daily lowan:
"We are In this war now.. The United States is
pitted against the nazi philosophy In a death
struggle. Immediate action is vital wherever
America can strike. The president of the United
States has said: 'We have nothing to fear but
fear Itself.' To this I would add: Never in the
history of man was so much at stake. Never
was the need for high purpose and strong hearts
so great. Never was freedom so worth fighting
for as now."
Charles P. Gyllenhaal, editor of the Daily Penn
sylvanlan: "America's young people believe there
is nothing more important than the final and com
plete defeat of nazi Germany. We are convinced
that this can only be accomplished by the immedi
ate entrance of the United States into an active
war. A year ago I wouldn't have dared to make
Dear Friend:
Since the close of the last university year great
changes have taken place in the affairs of men.
While we are not at war with other nations we are
so closely connected with other nations, their af
fairs are our affairs, and we cannot avoid responsi
bilities arising out of the turmoil and confusion of
strife. Just at present, I believe, every student has
one question uppermost in his mind and that is,
"Where does my duty lie?"
A half century ago the pattern of war had in it
a certain element of high adventure, and young
men engaged in warfare with expectation of having
the opportunity to perform glorious and valorous
deeds with many flourishes. "Off to the wars,'
meant excitement, seeing far places, making a name
for oneself, romantic escapades and a glamorous
homecoming. Also in those distant days a young
man enlisted to save his honor.
Today there is a new pattern and a man's highest
duty is to remain in his place until he is called to
serve. Often the greatest service one may give is
that of doing necessary things while remaining in
obscurity without fanfare and without an eye for
medals.
You ask yourself, "Where does my duty lie?"
You may be assured that it lies in keeping your
head steady and your emotions under control. It
lies in your decision to complete your education
and to make of yourself a more intelligent and
more skilful person. It lies in your sincere resolve
to avoid hysteria and to maintain a calm and ju
dicial attitude. It does not lie in the act of dashing
back and forth on a white charger or in running
about with open mouth from which idle words
drool. It lies in a firm determination to cling to
the idealism you have believed in all thru your life
the idealism given to you by your parents, taught
to you by your pastor and presented to you by ev
ery agency of civilization.
If ever the world needed young men capable of
careful thinking and wise acting it is now, when
millions are engaged in terrible destruction of prop
erty and human life. Something must be done to
build new designs for living to replace the fantastic,
insane, maddening and utterly ridiculous ones now
adopted by nations upon this earth. Something
must be done and those of college age must accept
the assignment. Human beings must learn to live
together. Very truly,
RAYMOND E. MANCHESTER,
Office, Dean of Men,
Kent State University, Kent, O.
University Offers Course
In Aircraft Inspection
A ten week defense training
course in aircraft assembly in
spection has been added to the
curriculum of the college of en
gineering at the request of the
United States office of education,
according to Prof. W. L. DeBaufre,
director of the university defense
training courses. The new course
will begin Dec. 22, and selections
for students will be made Dec. is.
The primary purpose of the
course is to train sub-inspectors
for aircraft assembly, and it is ex
pected that all students who com
plete the course with a satisfac
tory record will be employed by
aircraft companies.
No fees will be charged as all
expenses will be borne by the fed
eral government with the excep
tion of a text book which must be
purchased by the student. No cred
its will be given but certificates
will be given after completion of
the courses.
Course Requirements.
Those interested in the course
must be high school graduates
with two years of mathematics, at
least 18 years of age, and in sound
physical health. Transcripts of
high school credits and a physical
examination by the student healtn
service will be required on regis
tering for the course.
Application forms for those stu
dents interested in the course may
be obtained from DeBaufrc's of
fice in engineering mechanics
hall.
DeBaufre recommends personal
Kelly Explains
Morale Service
On Broadcast
interviews before the selection
date.
Forty hours per week will be
spent in classroom and laboratory
with additional time required for
outside study of assignments in
the course. The course will inciuae
shop mathematics, engineering
drawing, blue print reading and
analysis; materials and measure
ments including wood and meiai
working, organization nomencla
ture and standard parts.
Hershey
this statement. But there has been a change, a
change which has manifested itself in student war
polls, In the editorial policies of student newspa
pers, and in the expressed attitudes of all young
people, both in college and out of college."
All three of the young men emphasized that
youth's job will be twofold, not only to 'win the
war but also to win the peace, the release stated.
Gyllenhaal warned that "Our fight will be a fight
for a new world, a world of international freedom
and security. We will still be fighting to build
this world long after the last bomb is dropped."
Hickerson concluded with: "We must fight, as Lin
coln fought, that there may be a future for the
youth of this nation and for the youth of Ger
many, Japan, Russia, England and all the nations
where minds think and hearts beat."
There are those who will level a derisive finger
at this editor and say: "Of course you oan blithe
ly send us off to war. Your skin is safe. You
are a woman and you do not have to fight." To
these people we will answer thus: "True, but we
women value the lives of the men who are close
to us fully as much as we value our own." There
are ideals and principles for which men and wom
en have ever been dying, that are much more Im
portant than their lives. We speak of the prin
eiples of freedom.
We repeat it is hear breaking to commit ourselves
to a cause that will endanger the lives of those we
love and that may change the future we have
planned for ourselves, but we must not think of
that now. We must strike.
The purpose of the school and
college civilian morale service is
to utilize the services of educa
tional agencies and their leaders
to devt lop programs for the study
and discussion of pressing prob
lems, according to Dr. Fred J.
Kelly, who was interviewed on a
special broadcast of the book nook
news from the Union Friday.
Dr. Kelly, chief of the division
of higher education in the u. 5
office of education, is in Lincoln
to conduct the conference of Ne
braska college presidents that
was held Saturday for the pur
pose of developing a state school
and college civilian morale service
program.
Dr. Kelly announced on the
broadcast that the universities
and colleges over the country
were not forced to adopt a morale
service program by the govern
ment. He explained that the adop
tion of this service was purely
voluntary. Frank Egan of the
university library staff acted as
interviewer on the broadcast.
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leaders who can try to make the
people do well that which they
must do. In this work, universities
are confronted with the task of
facing a world "which, had we
known it would be like this, we
would have done differently for
the last 20 years," he declared.
Discussing the "great problem
of deferment," General Hershey
cited chemistry and medicine as
fields which the public can see
what the future effect would be if
students are not deferred to com
plete their training.
"However, in other fields, this
Is less obvious, and we must con
vince individuals that the demand
for today must be waived to pre
pare for the future. If sometimes
we must be stern and even stub
born about this, it is because we
can see no further way to retreat.
We have the urgent matter of get
ting men ready to do tomorrow
what they couldn't do yesterday."
Effect on Schools.
The selective service system Is
most anxious not to allow the de
fense program to wreck the na
tion's educational system, but he
explained that it must be as care
ful not to ask too little as too
murh.
The general explained that the
philosophy of the selective service
program is to put a man in the
place where he can best serve. It
is sometimes difficult to obtain the
complete agreement of everyone
concerned on this, he said.
"Leadership is knowing on Tues
day what everyone will know Sat
urday. Health is an important part
of this. What is the effect on not
feeling well upon leadership."
The general criticized education
for "some things which have been
done to prepare for yesterday." He
cautioned against continuing to
teach subjects no longer useful in
a modern world simply because
people were on hand who had been
trained to teach them.
Hershey declared that he
thought the four most conserva
tive groups in the country are the
church, the law, the army and the
schools.
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