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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 25, 1942)
Sunday, October 25, 1942 DAILY NEBRASKAN " Aii'siiiiG! u FORTY-SECOND TEAR. Subscription Rates apc $1.00 Per Semester or $1.50 for the College Year. $150 Mailed. Single copy, 6 Cents. Entered as second-class matter at the postoffioe in Lin coln, Nebraska, under Act of Congress March 3, 1879. and at special rate of postage provided for in Sertion 1103, Act of October 3, 1917. Authorized September 30. 192. Published daily during the school year except Mondays and Saturdays, vacations and examinations periods by Stu dents of the University of Nebraska under the supervision of the Publications Board. Offices Vnion Building Day 2-7181. Night -2-7103. Journal 2 3330. Editor Robert W. Schlater Business Manager Phillip W. Kantor EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT. Managing Editors. Maijorie Pruning, Alan Jacobs News Editors V.eorge Abbott, Pat Chamberlin, June Jamieson, Bob Miller, Marjorie Miy. Sports Editor Norris Anderson Member Nebraska Press Association, 1941-12 BUSINESS DEPARTMENT. Ass t. Bus. Managers. Betty Dixon, Morton Zuhcr Circulation Manager Jim Vanlandingham All ansirnrJ editorials re the epinin f Ihe editor ni should not be eonstraed to rrtlect the views of Ihe ad ministration or of Ihe university. ADismalFailure This editorial appeared in the Daily Cali fornian. The same remarks may be applicable on this campus. It if does strike home we still have the opportunity to redeem ourselves. Student participation in the campus war effort this semester has been a dismal and dis couraging failure. Except for a handful of conscientious workers in the student war coun cil and a few other activity groups, the entire student body has completely failed to realize that their efforts arc productive for the war effort. As expressed by their utter apathy and in many instances by their downright refusal to co-operate, California students have conclus ively demonstrated that life, cokes and week ends "as usual" have precedence over every thing they hold dear. Ixok at the record, Californians, if you think this is a hollow accusation. Here is a list of specific instances, by no means complete, which elucidates your stupendous disregard for war activities: 1. In this student body of over 10,000 stu dents, only 1 in every 200 students has found time to spend one day picking fruit or vege tables to alleviate the serious food and labor shortages. The average turnout each week end has been a mere 50 students. At the Uni versity of Washington, over 1,000 students eagerly volunteered to harvest fruit recently. 2. Comparable to an act of desertion in the army was the behavior of one campus living group a few days ago. Here a group of ten students actually volunteered to work in a local cannery. The employer, believing their word was good, went ahead with preparations, hired 60 women, and stocked his plant to over flowing with perishable fruit. The day for work came and not one of these ten students appeared on the job or even took the trouble to telephone an excuse. As a result the women employed were unable to do any work and tons of fruit rotted. ..3.. Monday evening a group of brawling freshmen and sophomores demonstrated com plete irresponsibilty when they seized 12 crates of pears in Eshleman court and destroyed them during an enduing pear fight. This fruit was scheduled to be canned within a week; the score or more man-hours consumed in picking it were erased by a ten-minute splurge of 'campus spirit" 4. Recently students were urged to attend a victory dance in the men's gym and by their attendance at this purely pleasure affair, help buy liberty scholarships for returning students. Attendance at this dance was so poor, the rponsoring organization actually lost money, and was obviously unable to earmark money for the scholarships. 5. The sale of war bonds and stamps has tad a most dismal career. Not only is it ex ceedingly difficult to induce students to buy war bonds and stamps, it is nearly impossible to get two or three volunteers (out of student body of 10,000) to sit at a table for an hour each Tuesday and sell the savings script. Yesterday, the bond sale on campus to stu dents netted crdy $131.23, vhich is 1cs tn 1.3 cents per student. The bulk cf ench week's grand total is composed of a few large denoni tion bonds bought by the faculty ai the actur.1 student sale is consistently n:gligib!e. Many cf the smaller high schools in sou'jern Cali fornia are selling over ?1D,CD3 h tends cr.ij C6. lie "Dog!:, for Else jiccts" Crlvc 1LI3 Dear Editor: Your editorial headed "The Imposible" in the Daily Nebraskan for Oct. 23, while 'com mendable in many ways, fails to bring out the fact that the recent decisions of the regents to operate the university on a basis of two semesters ami one summer quarter accomplishes exactly the same objectives which would have been reached by going 011 the quarter tystem. Vndor the quarter system a student could take work during all four quarters of each year and thus complete the work for the bachelor's degree in three years. But, since two semesters are the exact equivalent of three quarters in time, the student will complete precisely the same amount of work in two semesters and a summer quarter that he would complete in four quarters, lie can still receive the bachelor's degree in three calendar years without carry ing any more or any less work than if he were attending a university which operates on the quarter system. Please understand that I am not writing this in any official capacity, but merely as an interested' reader of the Daily Nebraskan who regeits the recent action of the regents, at least if one may judge from the letter written by Mr. Jacobs which appeared in the Nebraskan of Oct. 22. Sincerely yours, ARTHUR F. JKNNKSS. summer would have been another "wash-out" had not generous contributions from the fac ulty and Avenw bookstores swelled the other wise insignificant total. 7. The Student War council recently broad cast a call for students to assist in organizing war activities on campus. After repeated an nouncements, a grand total of six students vol unteered their services. The council chairman also mailed six letters to campus leaders plead ing with them to cooperate in the campus war campaigns. Not one letter was answered. These are specific indictments from which there can be no tergiversation. It must be said, however, that the university has co operated 100 percent in all these student ef forts. Administration leaders have demon strated time and again their desire construc tively to aid various campaigns. This crealest of all wars is being lost on campus as conclusively as it was on Bataan and Malaya. It's the old story of too little, too late. It is inescapable that the student war effort on campus has been a colossal and hu miliating failure and that students have dem onratcd no interest in directly helping the war campaigns. The responsibility for this shameful apathy lies with no one else but 10,000 students. Ninety-nine percent of the students on cam pus "don't give a damn." 1 Dy Bob Miller mmn ; : I If You Can't Sleep . . Good news for night owls and insomnia sufferers. According to Dr. Kleitman, of the Univer sity of Chicago, no one has been known to die from lack of sleep. "It's not the lack of sleep that wrecks your health," says the sleep expert, "but it's worry ing over it" Dr. Kleitman suggests that the future Ein steins on this campus w ho have trouble concen trating on sleep after a hard session concen trating on stndies or something should get up and do things when he can't sleep instead of fretting because they can't He says to make use of your time do something with it, for that time will never come back. lie cited an example of a man who was troubled by asthma and insomnia since child hood. He attended college in New York end could never get to sleep. Instead cf letting it worry him, he got up and studied. It wasn't Ion? unlil be wa-s leading his claxs and at the age of seventeen, he was admitted to the bai lor attorneys'!, and soon h;.d his nunc on a frosted "lass (of a door). By putting aside worry because he wasn't 1c ping, lie didn't let worry de feat him, and was able to go ahead fisliriislijij'.'iy fai in hU profession. I Vy:-!-,olcis1s have said lint loss of sleep e.';;:s(s discomfort by making cire'es irider yo;r eyes, but it won't send you to the undcrtaWr. If !hi is the ease, a student could c;.rry six teen hours at college, work at a Lockheed fac tory d-irin? the n'-f.A and have eight hours M; ovr r f' T f i'Ti. ". -- The letter below is the first response received by the art department 111 answer to the department Newsletter sent out to former students recently (as reported in the Daily Ne braskan on Oct. 18, 1042) : Dear Mrs. Lewis: It's been a long time since anything as pleasant as your "Newsletter" has come in my mail. I'm usually not very prompt in answering mail mainly because of lack of time, but this letter of yours calls for immediate expression of appro ciation. Had a pleasant surprise a few weeks ago. I walked into a classroom for an hour of ground school and sat down by a first liciilenant who had his head in a book. 1 sat there for two minutes or so and got my head in a book. Someone said, "Tool, how's it goin?" It was Marvin Rudolph, who is hero in our observer's class in pursuit of some serial observer's wings. We will graduate the same day, Nov. 11. lie will got some observer's wings and I will get some pilot's, and a com mission as a second lieutenant. I notice that on your list of addresses I was named as a private. Technically, that's not correct, but actually it is almost a fact! The correct term is Aviation Cadet, and the order of rank falls just above a sergeant. But, we look around at the privates, corporals, etc., living the life of Riley and often wish that we were they! Naturally we are subjected to the strictest discipline, but it isn't as bad as it was at Ran dolph field, where we took basic training from July 4 to Labor Day. That place is really the "West Point of the Air," and even the slightest infraction of the slightest rule is rewarded with hours of walking on the punishment ramp. Privates were never as bad off as aviation cadets! But in three weeks we will be flying officers, all ripe for the big airplanes. iit- t - v 1 . el ' 1 a 1- e nave a o-wecK xour 01 tuny nying ooservaxion pianos for the ground officers (like Lieutenant Rudolph) who are learning to be air observers. They work navigation problems, adjust artillery fire, and take aerial reconnaissance photo graphs while we fly the planes for their mission. After these five weeks we have our choice of further tactical training. I think I '11 go on to multi-engine planes if possible. As for art-work of any kind I have done very little. While at Randolph field, 1 was on the staff of Forum One, the cadet magazine, and also contributed a handful of cartoons. We had planned a class book here at Brooks, and 1 had a cover and several transitional pages and a lew decorations almost ready for the printer when the whole project was cancelled because it was non-essential. But in ground school the margins of my notes are filled with sketches of all kinds. 1 still can't resist the temptation to caricature the instructors, I usually sit too far back to see well, but this is necessary, because all the instructors are bard-boiled officers, and if one of them ever caught one of my sketches, I'd be on the punishment squad lor the "duration." That sums up the art-work. Pitiful. I noticed and read an article, in the Cosmopolitan for October, by Lt. Dick Ryan, a forn.cr U. of N. student In this article he mentions his marriage to Ethel Beeson, who went to Fine Arts School for several terms. I have been recommend ing this article to all my friends and relations because it tells in accurate and high detail all about the life and bewilderment of an aviation cadet He mentions the class system for your first five wcks at a new training field you are. vigorously hazed by your upper-classmen. At the half-way point a new class of dodos comes in and then you "get even" by exercising your senior class privileges on them. You just get to the point where you think you are a big-shot and then you graduate and get sent to a more advanced field where you start in as a dodo again. At leist it makes life interesting. Sonic of th fellows who have forgotten to put down their landing gear lfor landing and it does happen find that if they live, life suddenly becomes much more interesting! So far our class has not. had a single fatality, but I do know several w ho have joined the Caterpillar club. The Caterpillar club requires a necessary parachute jump for entrance eligibility. This letter is primarily to you, Mrs. Lewis, in appreciation of your interest in me arid in all of us who are in training, but anyone who is interested may certainly read it! Yours sincerely, JEAN K. TOOL Hlllllll GROCERS IV. 7 r ' X v?. fii- nnv'i( 1rin1 th" vnv von M-nrk it .inv- w at. Dally Tiojaa. I 1