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DAILY NEBRASKAN
Friday, November 13, 1942
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BUSINESS DEPARTMENT.
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All n-rfrneo' erfHtorlats arc the opinion of the
. tfaoola' not be cnn.tnie to reflect the views of toe -:
ministration or ef the aniversity.
Of Brawn . . .
While the university is primarily inter
ested in building brains for the army, the de
partment of physical education under the direc
tion of R. G. Clapp has come through and is of
fering facilities ofr building brawn.
Few of us realize, I am afraid, just, what
the army is going to expect from its enlisted
wen and its officer personnel. The army is no
bed of roses when it comes to long hikes, phys
ical exercise in combat and both physical and
mental exertion in planning and executing stra
tegic plans. It is going to take plenty of energy
on' the part of the students at this school to
adapt themselves to the army if they have had
Too previous training.
The ROTC has offered this training to
gome extent in Saturday morning classes for
cadets. The course has thus been limited to
them and since it is not absolutely compulsory,
the attendance has not been 100 percent. Nat
urally, all cadets should take advantage of this
course since it has been set up along army reg
ulations and is very well planned.
For the numerous other men on the cam
pus who arc not in ROTC, this splendid pro
pram offered by the department of physical
education is well worth taking advantage of.
The course is open to all men on the campus
and should be attended by every man whether
he believes he will be in the army this year or
not: The training which a man will receive in
these classes will be valuable to him if he never
it called to the armed forces.
Last week several hundred men who are
taking the required physical education course
at Northwestern, put on an exhibition of the
work they were doing at the half of the Illinois-Northwestern
football game. It was really
an impressive sight and emphasized more than
ever that the University of Nebraska needed
some similar plan.
It would not be too out of the way to ask
that this training be made compulsory on this
campus but this may not be necessary if men
will turn out for this voluntary program being
offered- The first class will be held at 5 p. rn.
Monday and the turnout then will be interest
ing to note. If the men on this campus are not
interested enough in their own physical well
being, it may become necessary for the army
and the university to step in and require that
the men on this campus use some of their time
and energy in this pursuit. Whether the army
or university is contemplating this, your editor
has no knowledge, but from a very logical point
of view, it seems that this should be done.
The men who landed on the coast of Af
rica have marched 120 miles in three days with
heavy packs and equipment. Some of those men
were probably in school somewhere hist year.
Many of them undoubtedly wish they had
taken physical training before they went to the
army so that they would be that much better
able to carry out the job which they must now
carry out in North Africa.
The armed forces of this country need men
vho are not softies and who have some phys
ical stam'na as well as the necessary mental
training they are receiving in universities. Now
is the time to put forth some effort to fulfill
the second requirement of a good soldier and
A good citizen.
On Wednesday morning, Armistice Day, I
went to school fully prepared to give a five
minute oral report in one of the sections of
English 11. Before giving my report, I wit
nessed the exercises at the campus parade
grounds west of the coliseum. What I saw
there aroused me to hurriedly change my oral
report. By request I am writing the words
1 spoke.
The thing which aroused me was not a sin
of commission, but a sin of omission. It was
not an act that those on the field did or did
not do. It was a shortcoming of the student
body. Where were the members of the student
body who were to witness the ceremony?
Where were you when every patriotic Ameri
can should have been paying tribute to our
country by being there?
You mav ask, "How would my being at
such a parade be significant in the war ef
fort?" I am reminded of a family in Chicago who
was very poor. Mr. Little, the father, worked
hard to keep his wife and seven children
clothed and fed. When the depression came,
he refused to accept relief yet kept his family
healthy and warm. Friends and neighbors were
over-awed and asked, "How do you manage?'
"Very simple," replied Mr. Little. "Even
i;wt nf in T.ittlo's hclDS."
Hit lit i i.oi w a.
Somehow, this is applicable to our war ef
fort. It isn't only buying bonds or making
shells. It's cooperation in everything and any
w v.n a them of national honor. We
are clamoring for a unified command of our
armed forces, yet we retuse to get oeninu a
v.,v v.;v. onrris with it both national
and school spirit. It means doing every little
thing we can including our auenuance i
events such as was sponsored Wednesday
morning. We were taken array from our rush
of school life, our own morale was boost ed
as was the morale of those officers of to
morrow. Those students of military tactics de
serve the support of every American at the
university.
Those of us who were at the commemora
tion rites realized that the Armistice has lost
its original meaning. We have forgotten the
harmonv of peace in the discord of war. We
forgot the significance of November 11, 1918.
Instead, as the service flag was presented and
t.nc rw9iitifnllv evhoed and re-echoed, we
remembered those who had fallen at Bunker
Hill, at Gettysburg, at Belleau Wood, ana at
Bataan. We were suddenly brought face to
face with the realization that we represent
that for which they fell. We were reminded
that as we stood deeply impressed by the cere
mony, our boys of '42 were giving their lives
that we might have another Armistice under
which we might continue to live our lives as
we would live them. Standing Rrimly at atten
tion were these who in due time will assume
the responsibility of carrying our American
spirit to greater and more far-reaching glory.
Is it asking too much to expect you to re
member these?
Some of you may have had valid reasons
for non-participation, but in many instances
the reasons were merely poor excuses. I heard
someone remark about schoolwork. May I re
mind you of the two hour recess from classes
strictly set aside for your benefit. Others
openly blamed the school for poor publicity.
What else can be done than have official no
tices on bulletin boards, and headlines, articles,
and articles in the Daily Nebraskan? Surely
no one is so rash as to blame the weather.
Someone even said that non-interest in mili
tary drill had kept him away. May it suffice
to say that Hitler and Hirohito will never be
slopped by passive patriotism. We must act
and that in the unity exemplified by the
ROTC.
I fchould like to pay tribute to the editor
of the campus paper who closed his Armistice
editorial in this fashion:
"Students who coke or do other unim
portant errands during the two hours this
morning should feel guilty that they did not
take a few minutes to remember the meaning-
of the day. Those students who will not
attend the ceremony this morning are those
students who take every opportunity offered
by democracy, but who never give any ser
ious thought to its continuance or well
being." Far too many of our Rtudent body are pas
sive Anerieans who are willing to shout loud
ar;d long when a victory is ours but cower in
the shadows when a small contribution to a
united effort is requested.
I went because 1 love life; I love it in the
way I can Jive it in America.
J. Eldoa Johnson.
A Letter From Abroad
WhWe some of us are debating the problem of arranging a
balanced diet for red ants or pondering the momentous question
of whether or not to wear the brown striped tie, a boy in Aus
tralia writes to inquire about the blue print of a post-war world.
Through his letter, we are reminded by a soldier, who is hold
ing a place on the fighting line, that our responsibilities include
not only the making of materials for this boy's use in conflict
and amusing ourselves with trivial activities, but also the crea
tion of plans for a decent world for him to live in after the
present scrap is over. His inquiry brings home to us the fact
that we have tasks before us that are more important than some
we find time for.
At this point some "tall-dome" will say, "Let's win the
war first and talk of post-war problems later." But we should
not forget that those on the shooting lines have a reason for
being there. They are not there merely to pop off fire works.
They are there to make it possible to set up and maintain a bet
ter social order. To put it another way, there is no object in
fighting this war if there are to be no out-comes other than the
setting up of plans for a mass slaughter performance 20 years
hence.
Sonic other victim of a brain storm will say, "Yes, but this
is a war of defense. We are fighting to save our skins." The an
swer to this statement is, "Applesauce," We are out to win on
all fronts out to win so that we may stop forever the disgrace
ful spectacle the human race is now staging. We wish to save
our "skins," yes, but why save any "skins" if the "skins" con
tain nothing except the desire to be saved.
The boy in Australia wishes to know what we are doing to
build up barriers against war madness and killing mania. He
feels that his pay envelope should contain not only the price of
a few cokes and movies, but also a guarantee that his efforts
and his sacrifices will be oenstructive contributions. He knows
why he is in Australia and he is doing a superb job, but he is
motivated by a conviction that he has something back home
something more precious to him than his own life. That some
thing is the idealism he learned to believe in during his 20 years
of living in an American home, serving in an American church,
attending an American school, and doing all this in an American
community.
He is in Australia because he wishes that idealism to persist
in that home, church, school, and community. He expects to find
it there when he returns. His question is:
"What are you folks doing about it?"
Raymond E. Manchester.
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