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VPm DAILY NEBRASKAN Thursday, April 30, 1942 2 KORTT -FIRST YEAR. Subscription Rates are $1.00 Per Semester or $1.60 tor I the. College Vear. 12.50 Mailed. Single copy. 6 Cents. Entered an second-class matter at tho postofflce In lAn toin, Nebraska, under Act of Congreaa Marrti 8. Ih79. and at special rate of postage provided for In Section 1108, Act of October 3. 1917. Authorised September SO. 1923. Published Dally during the school yar except Mondays and Xlurdays vacations and examinations periods hy 8tudents ot the University of Nebraska under the aupervislon of the fob hrations Board. Off Ires TlnloB Buildlne, Day 2-7181. NlKht 2-7193. Journal 2-3330. Editor Paul E. Svoboda Business Manager Ben Novicoff " EDITORIAL lEPABTMKNT. ManaKlnR Kditors Marjorte BrunlnR, Bob Schlater News Kdltnra.... Georpe Abbott. Alan Jacob, June Jamloeon, Helen Kelley. Marjorle May. Spurts Kdltor Bob Miller Member Nebraska Preaa Association. 1W41-42 BU81NK88 ItKPAKTMENT. Assistant Bua Managers Betty Dixon, Phil Rafttor Circulation Manager Bldney Bchwarta Our Women And The War "What should be the role of college women in time of war? There is no simple answer to this ques tion. The problem is more complex than that for college men. Many college women al ready are working hard at genuine Avar proj ects, but a considerable number are blocking the road to achievement by participating in wasteful and useless activities. The majority are willing to help and are looking for sug gestions on how to serve best. We hope this brief discussion and short list of suggestions will help them get under way. There a're two general rules that are ap plicable to all choices of civilian war tasks: (1) Do those jobs that are definitely impor tant to the war effort; (2) Do those things for which your own ability is greatest. To balance these two criteria against each other and to translate them into concrete actions is diffi cult. The emotionalism of war makes it easy to confuse inspired service with important service. And the actual war projects most favored by many college women throughout the coimlry illustrate how difficult they find it to be sure they are using their special qualifications to best advantage. College women might be doing some or all of the following: (1) Learning; to drive an ambulance. (2) Learning- to "spot" airplanes. (3) Knitting- sox and sewing- hot water bottle covers. 4) Promoting expensive dances in the name of defense. Now neither we nor anyone else would say that No. 1 is unimportant, nor No. 2. But the third one is of dubious utility when we consider the greater efficiency of machines over human hands. The last project "name band" defense dances is a perversion of pa triotism. Our judgment is that college women should spend little time on any of these four jobs or on others of similar nature. The first two and possibly the third task do meet the test of importance, but. they do not measure up FOR COLLEGE WOMEN to the second test, that of "comparative ad vantage." Almost any woman in America can do such jobs. If these are the best, things for college women to do, Ihen a lot of money has been spent unwisely on their education. Anybody can do these things, and if college women are "anybodies" they should not be in college now. Then what should college women do? Let's be specific. (1) Your greatest contribution probably will be in your chosen vocation. Study it more, study it faster and get ready to use your technical knowledge. Meanwhile, this summer you can stimulate and give nutrition demonstrations and canning schools. Nursery schools are needed for children whose mothers are working in war industries. Has anybody thought of the plan of using country school houses during the summer months as play grounds to relieve busy farm women from care of their children? (2) Org-anize and attend classes in home nursing and epidemic control. In the Mid west the threat of epidemics is many times greater than that of bombing, and we are short of nurses as well as doctors. (3) In every community families will be impoverished by loss of jobs or by giving up breadwinners to the army. College women 0jv OUwl QaiiywASLL By Marsa Lee Civin. "Let's get in the scrap" is the slogan of the four-day drive at the University of Minnesota to salvage waste material. Sponsored by the conservation of resources committee, the cam pus drive is part ot a city-wide campaign to collect waste materials of help to the war ef forts. Material collected: tinfoil, newspapers, magazines, old rubber footwear and melals. The Interfraternity Council at Dartmouth accepted a plan to keep rushing on a more or ganized lias is. Demands made by the adminis tration stated that the systpm would have to he modified to deemphasize the drinking asso ciated with rushing, and also to keep all fra ternities' rushing expenditures limited equally for all fraternities. Dr. Hunt Speaks At Iowa Program Dr. L. T. Hunt, Instructor of practice management in the dental college, will give two lectures at the Iowa State Dental association program on May 5. The titles of his two lectures are "Practice Management," and "Accumulating a Competence." A recent check-up Nt six im. lor college sororities In the tJ. f). 'YOUR. DRUG STORE' Our milk shakes hit the mot. Thick and delicious 1 1 for only I UC OWL PHARMACY 148 No. 14th & P 2-1068 iMm;(u?iiraa could serve well bv stimulating their home communities to establish adequate relief plans. (4) If vou are at home this summer and do not have a full-time job, you could offer your services to the local Office of Civilian J Defense as an office manager, a field-contact agent, or for some other post of usefulness. Your OCD doe not have funds to hire people. (5) WTrite letters to the boys in service regularly and widely. Get your friends back home to write. Letting the boys know that they "still belong back home" will give a tremendous lift to their morale. Several girls on the campus have independently thought of another idea. They are going to build up a fund so that their soldier-husband or fiance can go back to school when he returns from the army. (6) If you have the talents, devise cam paign posters, write radio scripts, write a column of facts and interpretation for your home town paper. Many of the faculty would be glad to help you prepare such columns. (7) Right now, on the campus you can make a real contribution by offering several hours a week to the college. Many important research problems are hampered and others will be shut down for lack of personnel, shortage of funds and curtailment of NYA. Some of your time given to these projects would be a big service. Do it not as a favor to the college but as part of your personal war effort. (8) Remember that recreation is related to morale to a much smaller extent than peo ple kid themselves into believing. A more es sential factor in morale is recognition of im portant work well done. If you are doing something important your conscience won't impel you to excuse your play on the grounds of "morale." Get more of your recreation by a change in work rather than by a change from work to play. (9) It is up to you, more than almost any other group, to keep American life functioning well in those areas where war doesn't re quire the most drastic changes. We must keep our institutions functioning so they will be ready to cary on effectively in peace time again. We must prevent emotionalism or false "economy" from disrupting basic pro grams. This means study, thinking and lead ership to emoting. If you learn something of how a war hits society you have it in your power to help cushion some school, church or community against the emotional rampages bred by war. (10) We have left the most important job until last. This is the understanding of the problems created by war and their carry over to peacetime. Learn about the back grounds of the war not merely by listening to an occasional lecture but .by consistent study. Find out what will be the problems in volved in insuring a permanent peace after the war. Help spread the knowledge we al ready have on how to prevent another post war debacle. Help explain the problems of carrying on the war itself taxation, institu tional adjustments, ideas like those in this ar ticle. This is the particular obligation of edu cated women . Contrary to common opinion, educated women frequently have a better un derstanding of most public problems than their husbands do. Make yourself a channel from the college to your family and community. See to it that knowledge on social policy is widely diffused. Again, why not join with a few oth ers to write a column for your home town paper? Tut your knowledge to work. You can add to the list of important jobs. Since yoti are college women you must accept greater responsibility than you would carry if you were not in college. This is a privilege as well as a duty. Iowa State Daily Student. in iw rrw . ...,a The University is located in the foothills ol the Rockies, a mile above sea level, in sight ol per petual snow, in an unsurpassed summer climate. Organized re creation: Hikes, 6teak fries, visits to glaciers, mountain climbing, weekend outings, excursions to Rocky Mountain National Park. Trout fishing nearby. 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