Friday, January 9 1942
DAILY NEBRASKAN
The Daily Nebraska
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"" Editor" Mary Kerrigan
Business Maoager Ben Novicoff
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Wn.ia'cinR Editors . Morton Margolin. t'aul Svoboda
News Editors Marjorif Brunina. Alan Jacobs.
Yarjorie May. Helen Kclley. Bob Schlater.
Spurts K.ilitoi . Bob Miller
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Do Your Part!
Aid Defense Group
The Daily Nebraskan-Studenl Union defense
committee is today issuing the expected call for all
out student cooperation in its program for the re
mainder of the year. The committee has been work
ing for several weeks on a group of new projects
and is now ready to go ahead with them as soon as
volunteers start coming in. Student Council mem
bers will cooperate with the defense committee in
organizing a file of workers from application blanks
turned in by students. An application blank will be
printed in each issue of the Nebraskan until the end
of the semester.
This call is urgent. There is a great deal of
work to be done and enough of a variety so that
each student may participate in the work for which
he is best fitted or in which he is most interested.
All men's and women's organizations and organized
in this student all-uut defense program in numerous
ways thruout the year. Included in the plans for
the year are all lypes of Red Cross work, aid to
houses on the campus will be called upon to assist
the USO, assistance in sale of defense bonds and
stamps, entertainment, newsletters and correspond
ence to men in the service, and any other projects
that seem feasible as the year goes on.
Every citizen in 'die United States will have
to work hard for defense thruout the war. The de
fense committee is doing its part now and it needs
the aid of every student and organization on the
campus. The call now is: "We need you and want
you to help." Fill out an application blank today
and turn it in at the Union office.
In First War .
Reaction on Campus
Varied from Present
Editor's note: This is the first of a series of ar
ticles on student reaction to World war I.
By Marsa Lee Civin.
During World war I student response was total
ly different to America's participation in the war
than that existing today. Students had just returned
from one week nf spring vacation to find Lincoln
buzzing with preparations for America's entrance
into the cnoll.'et
No sooner had classes opened than applications
for commissions in the officers' reserve corps, the
national iruard. and the recular army began in
earnest.
Ninety-nine faculty members sent a petition to
the president and the Nebraska delegation in Con
gress protesting against aggressive participation of
this nation into European wars.
Chancellor Avery outlined the part the Univer
sity was to play in the war.
1. Immediate graduation of seniors in Medical
college.
2. Class work to continue during the summer
to permit the early graduation of medical juniors.
3. To facilitate enlistment and to meet the de
mand for engineering and agriculture experts any
student in good standing who dropped out of school
between the time of the announcement and the end
of the year to enter the service to be given a full
semester credit for all registered hours.
The executive committee of the Women's Naval
Reserve League met to talk over arrangements for
work. They made bandages, helped with supplies,
and worked to replace men who had left for the
front.
Reasonable curtailment of social affairs was
suggested.
Women students were organized into bandage
circles. One Nebraska coed, Helen Minier, '20 from
Oakland applied to the Naval Training association
office for a position of radio operator.
A league to dissolve compulsory drill formed
the .vinter before was dissolved by an official act of '
its executive committee in view of the world situa
tion.
Campus Oddities
6
Oil OihcL CanifwMA.
MAJ. GEORGE
GRADUATED FROM THE UNIVER
SITY OF MICHIGAN AT THE AoE
OF 93 AT 21 HEWA9 WITHIN
A, FtW WEEKS OF RECEIVING HI?
DEGREE WHEN HE ErNUSTED IM
THE CIVIL. WAR. HE WAS PRE
SENTED WITH HI? SHEEPSKIN
72 YEARS LATER
Til
DE-PANTSING -
AT ARMOUR TECH (CHICAGO) ALL FRESH
MEN REFUSING TO WEAR GREEN CAPS
ARE STRIPPED OF THEIR PANTS AND
REQUIRED TO WALK IN SUCH A STATE
TO ALL CLASSES DURING THE DAY .'
IKJ Cm1 fiEfioiiwr ..
NEARLY
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Behind the News
By David Thompson
Same Old Story
Right now the news of the war is pretty much
Sabotage-
is
(Continued from Page 1.)
the letters should be written on
business letterheads to identify the
writer. However, if a letterhead
is not available, the letter must
have the signature of the writer
and signature of a witness.
To receive airmen identification
card the student must present in
acceptable evidence of citizenship.
He may prove his citizenship in
several ways. He may present n
birth certificate, a certified copy
of public record, or a certified
copy of baptismal or church rec
ord, showing date and place of
birth.
Naturalization Papers Sufficient.
If a student was not born in
the United States, final haturaliza-
By Marjorie May
At Texas U women are asked to register their
abilities in defense work in the most inclusive non
academic registration on the campus. "Many replies
have been received," the "Daily Texan" reported,
"and all coeds seem to be interested and enthusias
tic in doing some type of civilian work. Knitting,
first aid work, typing, radio, home nursing, and en
tertainment of soldiers are all very popular with
the ones who have handed in their registration
blanks.
Louisiana slate University celebrated its 82nd
birthday deserted and alone during Chirstmas vaca
tion Jan. 2. Founded on the eve of the War Between
the States (as the "Dai ly Reveilli" says) the univer
sity is now going thru the fourth war since its
founding in 1860.
Patterned after the Virginia Military Institute
and West Toint, the university was first known as
the State Seminary of Learning and was a literary
and scientific institution under a military system
of government
UCLA student Ann Herod described the present
conflict as a war of nerves saying "We had a black
out last week, and it was ghastly."
"I was putting on my mouth at 8:20," she con
tinued, "and my date was to come by in ten min
utes when we heard the blackout notice over the
radio. In about 45 minutes the town was completely
blacked out.
"At first, people didn't believe it. It took 30
minutes to convince one of the girls in my dorm
that it was real and that she should stop studying
for her test and cut off her light.... My date cr.,ne
by about 10:30, and we rode three blocks on .ur
way to a night club when a warden stopped us and
made us go back. That blackout lasted about three
hours. .
"Next day the dean of women organized a Red
Cross unit and students painted the headlights of
their cars blue. Some profs cancelled their quizzes,
but lots of them didn't, and lots of students flunked.
"What to do during a blackout? Go to a rfovie,
where the light doesn't leak out," the California
coed advised.
1 first! nannrt will Ka euf finiortt tYfrt
just the old story over and over again. The Ger- c,nshil, tr an officia) ,ec.
mans are still retreating in Russia, MacArthur's or( of a certified copy showing
forces are fighting valiantly against over-whelming birth to American parents while
odds, the Axis is near complete defeat on the Libyan i" a foreign country will also be
desert plains and the Japs are moving ever closer ' retention..
to Singapore. What does it all add up to? Just this Decarne effective yesterday
and all CPT students and pros
pective CPT applicants are urged
to fulfill the requirements for air
men identification card as soon as
the newly united forces fighting the Axis on all the
world fronts are fighting for time in which to
achieve the necessary strength with which to strike
effectively at the Axis.
It would be foolhardy and futile to go into this
thing too hastily and ill-prepared. Lives would be
lo3t unnecessarily and in great numbers. Britain
found this out at Dunkerque and in Norway. The
U. S. has learned that valuable lesson without the
heavy price to achieve the required strength with
which to strike, but nowhere near as long a time
as the enemy anticipates. In the last war Germany
determined upon her unrestricted submarine war
fare because she was sure that American aid
aroused by it would arrive too late to be of any aid
to the Allies. In that she was utterly mistaken, and
the Japanese, counting upon the same tiling in the
Far East, are likewise mistaken.
Hong Kong has fallen, the Philippines are al
most completely in Japanese controL Singapore
however must not fall, for it is the only adequate
naval base in the area from which the united navies
can operate against the Japs. It is to Singapore
then that the first reinforcements must go. Given
Singapore and the time needed to arm and train
would be very dificult to deal heavy blows at the
the men necessary, the Philippines and Hong Kong
can be retaken without too much difficulty. If Sing
apore falls the situation will be not so bright. It
Nippon? fleet and armed forces from the bases
that would remain, and while it would not make
victory any less sure, it would certainly make the
task more costly and much longer in duration.
Tendencies at this time, evidenced by the mov
ing of trained Chinese soldiers into Burma and re
inforcements into Singapore, would seem to indicate
an attempt, under the capable leadership of Genera!
Wavell, to cut off and annihilate the Japanese forces
in -the Malay peninsula. The success of such a ma
neuver is again bound up with a time element. If
the present forces in Malaya can keep the Invaders
from cutting Singapore off by land until the neces
sary men and materials arrive, thvn the Japanese
will find themselves again complaining about the en
circlement in Australia along with Australian units
in preparation for the relief of Singapore, and
things will start to happen sooner than most people
expect
UN.Weslcyan
YM, YW Heads
Meet "Sunday "
Members of the city and ag
YWCA and YMCA cabinets will
meet with members of the Wes
leyan cabinets Sunday at 6 p. m.
in Ellen Smith hall.-Reports on
the national Student Christian As
sembly will be given at that time.
Pictures of the city and ag
YWCA cabinets will be taken at
this time. All members of both
cabinets are asked to. be present.
Refreshments will be served and
those attending are asked to bring
20 cents to cover costs.
possible so that their need will
not prevent delay in the Civilfcui
Pilot Training program.
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