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For years the above plaques have been a part of Grant Memorial. In the all-out effort
for scrap, should they go too? Col. J. P. Murp py, P. M. S. & T. of the ROTC unit, looks
over the situation.
Tradition . . .
In yesl onlay's edition of the T);iily, Chan
cellor llouoher asked all students to "remain
in school." lie said, and has said, that it is
bettor to maintain the usual routine than to
attempt to do something for the war effort
which would le useless.
Nebraska university is an old institution,
but it is lacking in some of the richer tradi
tions of many universities and colleges. We
have only a few reminders of the days when
educators struggled to introduce learning to
the plains, and to make it possible for rich
ami poor alike to obtain learning.
These "souvciirs" of that period of
growth, and the period when other young
men were fighting for, among other things,
this same system of education should not he
forgotten now in a heedless and unthinking
attempt to gather the most scrap. True, the
scrap is necessary, but it is also necessary that
we keep some reminder of the early days be-
(Sce TRADITION, Page 3.)
Scrap
This is a war involving everyone and every
thing. There is no such thing as SOME of the
people participating in the Avar effort; there
should be no such thing as SOMK of the
scrap being contributed toward the present
war salvage drive.
Scrap is needed. It is needed by the great
was industries which are producing for
"Victory." Over 17,000,000 tons of scrap
will be necessary in order to fulfill steel re
quirements during the last months of 1942
and to insure steel mills sufficient inventory
on Jan. 1 to cary them thru the winter
months. Every pound counts when the goal
is 17,000,000 pounds.
Traditions are nice to have; they should
be retained if possible. Hut this is an all-out
drive; that means that traditions be hanged
there is a war to be won.
A 400 pound cannon isn't much scrap, but
from 420 pounds, 210 semi-automatic light
carbines can be produced. Houghly, half of
(See SCRAP, Page 3.)
Reserve Students
Required To Attend
Full Summer Term
T. J. Thompson, dean of student affairs, stated yesterday
that all financially able reservists will be compelled to attend
the summer session under the present accelerated program.
Students already enrolled in reserves and signed to at
tend the session will be compelled to do so. This statement
officially clears up the rumor which was to the effect that
reservists would not have to at
tend summer school.
Girls Should Enrol.
Dean Thompson recommends
that the girls enrol in the summer
term as he believes that eventu
ally everyone will be directly
connected in the war effort or ia
active service. Students in re
serves may transfer to other col
leges for summer school without
affecting their reserve status aa
long as their credits will be ac
cepted by UN.
Freshmen and sophomores who
are at the present time signing
up in the reserves offered by
UN officials will not have to at
tend the summer term is finan
cially unable or are skilled in an
occupation that can help produce
war materials.
Students Deferred.
These students are deferred for
only the normal four year course,
and those who signed up for the
accelerated program are deferred
until the time they get their de
grees. Juniors and seniors enrolled in
critical courses may receive loans
for the summer term. Complete
information on loans may be ob
tained from L. E. Gunderson,
finance secretary of the university.
Under the present accelerated
program sophomores who had
been deferred until December,
1944, under the scheduled quarter
system will be granted deferment
until January, 1945, under the two
(See SUMMER TERM, Page 7.),
UN Cadets
Begin Series
Of Meetings
Junior, Senior Officers
To Hold Initial Business
Meeting on Wednesday
Inaugurating the first of several
gatherings to be held by the junior
and senior cadet officers, a busi
ness meeting will be held next
Wednesday evening at 7:30 in the
Union.
Chief business of the first meet
ing will be to introduce the
brigade and regimental staffs to
the cadet officers. All officer in
structors of the university will be
present, with Col. J. P. Murphy
making an official announcement
of the uniform situation in regard
to the junior advanced students.
A free Dutch lunch will be
served to all those attending. Only
those first and second year ad
vanced students who report in uni
form will be admitted to the meet
ing, reported the military department
Gosnell Speaks
At First PBK
Fall Meeting
First metting scheduled on the
yearly program of Phi Beta
Kappa, national scholastic frater
nity, will be a dinner at the Union
next Wednesday.
Guest speaker for the occasion
will be Rev. C. H. Gosnell, of the
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Barb Students Name Election Slate
For Fall As NIA Achieves Unity Goal
By Marjorie May.
Pome of the lar1i ''ifs" were answered at an XI A meet
ing Wednesday nijiht after the rally as over 100 unaffiliated
students filed into Union parlors YZX and voiced their opinions
-"ourtry Lincoln Journal.
REV. C. H. GOSNELL
. . . Speaks to PBK's.
Holy Trinity Episcopal church,
who will discuss "Religion in a
World at War."
Remainder of the program lists
a talk by Prof. C. II. Patterson on
"Philosophy In a Challenged
World," Dec. 8. group attendance
of the Nebraska art association
exhiibti March 17, and a joint
meeting of Sigma XI and Phi
Beta Kappa April 13 when Judge
John ' W. Delchant wi" n ;ak.
(See GOSNELL, P )
It Takes All Kinds ...
Pretty Blondes, Bashful Joes
Buy Stamps On First Day
. . . But Many Pass Up Booth
A pretty browned eyed coed was
the first customer yexterday at the
Union war stamp booth during the
campus drive to sell war stamps,
sponsored every Thursday by the
W ar Council.
She had evidentally raided her
penny bank to buy her three ten
cent stamps, and as she pushed
those pennies across the counter
she said "I try to have another
book completed every time my
soldier comes home on furlough.'
Then there waa smiling Joe Col
lege who pulled a dirty, dog-eared
25 cent book cut of his billfold, and
pasted in another green backed
stamp which put him well on the
road to a war bond.
In Place of Powers.
A blond coed well known In
activity circles next wanted a ten
cent book In which to place a war
stamp corsage which the boy
friend had sent her.
A sleepy blond Dally reporter
then ambled up to the Unioa booth:
to buy a stamp and start a 10c
book toward a bond. And there
was also the tall, good looking fel
low who bought for his own book
and for his girl's, who was sick in
bed and couldn't contribute her bit
toward making the united campus
drive a success.
Instead of Cokei.
Toward the end of the day when
coking couples were crowding the
Union, one couple walked by the
booth laughing and talking to
gether. They disappeared around
the comer, headed obviously for
the grill. But two and a half min
utes later they returned and each
bought a ten cent stamp, giving up
their coke date to help Uncle Sam.
In vivid contrast to these war
a A'ake students anxious to aid the
nation's war effort, there were
many others who passed the booth
by without a look, and there were
still others who, when asked, said
"Why, why should X buy a
tamp?"
Difficult question to answer I
concerning the haili slate for the fall election.
Instead of lieing "lacked"' hy students with llicir own
inleresls at heart, as meetings have sometimes been in th
past, representatives from practically every unaffiliated fjroup
of students on the campus were present. Members of most
of the eo-op dubs, both men's and women's, coeds from Carrie
Belle Raymond dormitory, and Lincoln studenls arrived willi
calm yet caper opcctalioii. And they discovered they couM
have h vote in activities on the campus.
No Dictators.
There weren't, it was discovered, any bi-ijioiithed, dicta
torial, personality boys to head the campaign this year. In
stead, there are a lot of workers who are in the party because
of the satisfaction it gives them and not because they'll get
their names in print or on a ballot. In fact, party leaders
at least a dozen or them are working together and aren't
worrying about who gets what. Many barbs don't cwn know,
who they arc.
Unity was achieved, or at least started, with capital letters.
Before the meeting it looked like several groups were goinjj
to attempt to gain control of the assembly an 1 push their pro
gram across. It looked like another knock-down, drag-out
fight as well known ami not so well known figures accosted
lesser persons in the grill, at the rally, or at co-op houses and
surreptitiously discussed the candidates.
Groups Co-operate.
But everyone was surprised and pleased when no one lost
his temper, when separate groups were willing to take what
the general barb assembly wanted 1o give them and when
no one told the others how to vole. Candidates were selected,
on. their personal qualifications with no hard feelings and
no "quitting" because of disappointment.
"If the barbs can prevent self-motivated political bowws
from taking over" seemed to have been answered in the nu
merous, morc-or's obscure students who have thuj far
rfARBS, Pag 7.).