Friday, October 23, 1942
DAILY NEBRASKAN
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FORTY -SECOND TEAR.
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Editor Robert W. Schlater
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EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT.
Managing Editors. .Marjorie Bruning, Alan Jacobs
News Editors George Abbott. Pat Chamberlin,
June Jamieson. Bob Miller, Marjorie May.
Sports Editor Norris Anderson
Member Nebraska Press Association, 1941-42
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT.
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Circulation Managc-r Jim Vanlandingham
All ansipned editorials arc the opinion! of the editor and
ahoold not be construed to reflect the viemt ' the ad
ministration or of the university.
Act Now . . .
With the national election not too far dis
tant, students should begin making plans to
cast their ballot in the general election. Those
. who arc old enough should make a special
effort to apply for an absentee ballot.
Making the effort to apply for a ballot is
about all that is involved in getting one. Ne
braska students should write the county clerk
of their county and ask for an absent voter's
application. When this has been filled out,
the clerk will send voting material near elec
tion time, which is Nov. 3.
Voting should be one of the most impor
tant duties performed by any citizen, not
excluding college students. If we do not take
the time or troubc to do it now while we
are in school, we will no doubt fail to make
a habit of it during our later years.
The privilege of casting a ballot is one
which every student should hold sacred since
it typifies our whole scheme of government.
When we fail to accept some of the duties
of citizenship, we are being as unpatriotic as
the soldier who leaves camp A.W.O.Ij.
In Nebraska, especially, voting should be
interesting for students since the candidates
in this state are well known by many on the
campus. This state is not so large that we
do not have the opportunity to at least know
about most of the men and women who are
running for offices.
Too many of us take the attitude that one
ballot will make no difference anyhow, and
so we fail to take the trouble to write for a
ballot. This attitude not only reflects upon
las individually as college students, but it re
flects upon the whole university.
If we are to let the people of the state
know that we are obtaining the right kind of
education, we should cast a ballot. Students
turn out en masse for student elections; they
should do the same for a general election.
At the present time, we face the duty of
fleeting the most capable and conscientious
leaders possible. We mnst pick those who will
lead us intelligently during this national
emergency. The responsibility falls upon stu
dents as well as older people.
Now is the time we should act so that
we will be certain of having out ballots in
time. Write your county clerk and partici
pate in both a right and a duty. We would
all be screaming our heads off if we did not
have the opportunity. Ity voting we are in
vesting in democracy.
The Impossible . . .
Many students have questioned the recent
fiction of the, administration when it was an
nounced that the university would not change
to the quarter system but would maintain its
Xresent plan wilh an increased summer school
program. j
Students had hoped to continue thcii
studies Ihc year around so that their degree
could be obtained in a much shorter period
of time. Those students evidently failed to
realize the impossibility of continuing their
ft udies twelve months a year. Under that kind
of a program, most students would have a
nervous breakdown within six months.
Another reason for the necessity of main
taining the present program, is the lack of
instructors on this campus. It would be im
possible for them to keep up a twelve month
grind under the present conditions since most
of them arc carrying loaded leaching: sched
ules now.
Dear Editor:
Responding in defense of the Student Union
oo t...tqt,15 a roniipst. in the Dailv Nebraskan
of October 21 for week-day and week-end juke
box dances.
Compliance with University regulations is
the Student Union's first obligation. And the
University has asserted itself very definitely
concerning the hours when student dancing
shall be permitted. To quote directly from
the rules governing organizations and social
fnnMinns formulated bv the Faculty Commit
tee on Student Organizations: "Dinner dances
and hour dances may be held on weeK-enu
nights only." The Student Unii was gen
erously granted permission to sponsor hour
dances once a week as a single deviation from
this policy. We have been staging these
dances and shall continue so doing until it
is deemed inadvisable. It is true that we have
ilu facilities to entertain juke-box dances
every day and we would enjoy making the
student body nappy on tins score, out we
haven't the authority to do it. The ruling
itself is not particularly unique to the Uni
versity of Nebraska as would be well borne
out by comparisons with neighboring univer
sities of Nebraska's size. As a matter of fact,
our rule governing such social activity is in
reality quite liberal as compared with some
of our very close neighbors.
We are going to react to the week-end
juke-box dance proposal by sponsoring such
an entertainment this Saturday evening. How
ever, we will not have a juke box that will
require your inserting hard cash for1, your
music. We think the proposal a good one and
our only hope is that it meets with more
patronage than it did when we tried it be
fore. We wish to thank Mr. Brunson for this
suggestion and our hope is that more criticisms
of this nature are advanced to us so that we
can satisfy you. This is our job.
ROBERT SINKEY,V
Managing: Director,
STUDENT UNION.
Chip
By Gene Bradley
THE SHOOTING OF DANGEROUS
PRESTON HAYS.
(With Apologies to Dan McGrew.)
A bunch of the boys were whooping it up there
in the Union grill;
The man who fed the music machine was
"coking" a campus frill.
And there on the floor in a game of chance sat
a dangerous Sigma Nil
And watching him roll those two white cubes
was a lady known as La.
When up from the basement, down below, and
into the music and jag,
There stumbled a Phi Gam sports reporter,
fresh from wntmc the llag;
He looked like a man who had lived in bell,
or lived in the Fiji House;
His features were sunken, his eyes were blank,
with scarcely the strength of a louse.
The man who was playing the "Strip-Polka
Song" stared with a horrified gaze:
The stranger walked forth with unsteady step
toward dangerous Preston Hays;
The music stopped, and Hays glanced up, and
the look on his pan was fierce.
He spit out the words thru tightly clenched
teeth : You d better not come too near us. '
He picked up the girl who was known as Lu,
and thru the smoke and tlac gloom,
I saw him dance her 'round the Grill, around
and around the room.
The Dangerous Hays sprang up to his feet, and
mid all the jive and the jam,
He pulled out his gun to fire the shot to kill
the wolfing Phi Gam.
The lights went out, a shriek was heard, two
guns blazed forth in the dark!
The lights went on, and Norre and Pres were
laying there stiff and stark.
Tho bcth arc dead, and growing cold, there
i3 tab truth to learn, gents :
Before you'd wolf on a Sigma Nu, you first
should get some "Horse Sense."
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Capital to Campus
By Jay Rlchter
Associated Collegiate PrcM
WASHINGTON. (ACP). Let's take a look at the War
Manpower Commission from the vantage point of the capital
city and from the college point of view.
In the Commission, under Paul V. McNutt, lies responsi
bility for college wartime plans affecting individual student
you, you and you.
That section of the Commission concerned with colleges
and universities is headed by Dr. E. E. Elliott, former presi
dent of Purdue university.
Executive officer of the section, working closely with
Dr. Elliott, is Dr. Earl McGrath, who is on leave from his
civilian job as dean of the faculty of the University of Buffalo.
Theoretically, then, these two men have the car of Mr.
McNutt and hold it closely to the ground insofar as college
manpower is concerned.
The foremost concern of the Commission's college section,
are problems of training professional and technical personnel
badly needed to wage global war. Three major divisions have
been set up under Dr. Elliott to take care of these problems:
The first is the "Special Wartime Courses" division. Once
this unit works out courses it deems vital to successful prose
cution of the war, the U. S. Office of FAliication takes charge
of getting said courses into college curricula.
A second division of Dr. Elliott's section is called the
"Procurement and Assignment Service." This division must
provide dentists and doctors to the army and navy without
disrupting private and public health services. And it's doing
a good job, according to reports here.
Finally, a third division called "National Roster of Scien
tific and Specialized Personnel" keeps what amounts to a
punch card file of the country's talent, liy arrangement with
Selective Service this division has developed a list of all
Americans who have highly specialized and scientific training.
Anyone ever graduated from a college engineering or science
course would find his name on the list. The list, however, is
not restricted to college Graduates; the total number of persons
listed exceeds fiOO.OoO. Results of the Selective Service occu
pational questionnaire are swelling that total.
And that's how the college manpower picture looks at the
top; it may be a bit easier now to see -where you fit in.
DO YOU DIG IT?
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ENCUSM TRANSLATION
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