Sunday, November 22, 1942
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DAILY NEBRASKAN
The War Day
Jim Cbaxli Vkbha&licuL
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Into The Future , . .
With Chancellor Boucher's official stamp of approval on
the Daily's proposed post war scholarship plan, all that is
needed now is some organization or group of organizations to
plan a campaign for raising money. The scholarship plan was
suggested to help students who will need financial aid follow
ing the war in order to complete their college education.
Every organization on the campus has some money avail
able which conld be put to good use in a fund of this kind.
In that way each organization would not only be helping itself
but would be helping the university in its post war problem.
If there are no students, there will be no organizations. It is
a good investment in perpetuating the organizations we have
n the campus.
There arc innumerable ways to raise money for a fund of
this kind besides direct solicitation of organized groups. The
organization which does sponsor the plan will have a real job
n its hands but the possibilities it offers and t return which
will ultimately be derived from students returning to school
should prove incentive enough to go ahead and do the job.
Every organization should talk over the relative merits
f this plan in its meetings as soon as possible and begin lay
ing plans for such a scholarship fund.
I By Gene Bradley I
Santa's Bag . . of Gifts
Well, girls, it sort of looks like Christmas is almost ready
to leap out at us again, doesn't it? Which means, of course,
that many young campus blades will be susceptible to an on
slaught of yuletide packages.
Unfortunately, many of these well-meant gifts are useless,
consisting of such gaudy trinkets as red neckties, money belts,
or an invitation to the Phi Dolt houseparty. Cornhuskcr women
buying these presents arc simply frittering away their money.
(One punster, now deceased, termed these women: "Cornfrit
ters.") Choose Wisely
. The Chinese were wise old owls when it came to selecting
appropriate Christmas presents for men. One young lady of the
Chungking dislricts put it rather aptly when she said: ''Christ
mas presents for male students, such as handkerchiefs or glass
suspenders, are as useless as a woman's fashion magazine in
the library of Gypsy Rose Lee."
AFRICAN FRONT
American and British troops, marking the end
of the first 24 hours of combat with enemy
forces around Tunis and Bizerte reportedly
made a five mile advance as nazi forces con
centrated on bringing in reinforcements by air.
Now only 30 miles from the two cities, allied
strategy in the next week should decide the
African campaign of the Germans in Tunisia.
Meantime, to the cast, the British Eighth
army entered Bengasi, Rommel's last hope for
an outpost stand. Heading for the El Agheila
defile, where salt marshes to the south and
west and the sea to the north prevent flanking
movements, enemy forces will face their big
gest attack within the next week or ten days.
ITALY
Turin, northern Italy's chief industrial city,
suffered heavv bombing attacks for the second
time in three days. Both British and Italian
sources reported only three RAF planes lost
EASTERN FRONT
While there was little news from the Russian
front, the first word of allied action on Gua
dalcanal in eight days reported the beginning
of the end for Japanese forces on that island.
While the severely damaged Nip fleet was ap
parently unable to land more reinforcements,
marine forces began a mopping up process of
enemy land forces left on the much f ought
over finger of rock in the Solomons.
Japanese forces at Buna were fighting with
their backs to the sea as overwhilming forces
converged on that base, with their present
fighting indicating a death-beforcsurrender
attitude.
THE WAR WEEK
With the first anniversary of Pearl Harbor
still two weeks away, progress of allied nations
in the past week represented the most hearten
ing news yet to come out of the war. On all
fronts, the beginning of an allied offensive
if not the beginning of the end for the axis
was getting under way.
The Japanese, after two vigorous weeks of
naval activity in New Guinea and the Solo
mons, were forced to change their plans of
holding bases in these two points by a loss of
28 ships in action off Guadalcanal. An allied
offensive to start the huge task of regaining
Jap-held islands in the northern Solomons ap
pears to be in the offing, while even Japanese
sources point out that such an offensive is not
an impossibility.
The axis armies in Europe and Africa felt for
the first time the batterings of the first major
offensive launched against them in the war.
While Rommel's crack army had neared the
end of a 700 mile retreat across the desert
from a position within 70 miles of Alexandria,
enemy forces, brought into Bizerte and Tunis
to halt allied troops driving toward the east,
found themselves surrounded in a 30 mile strip
of land between those cities.
Hitler at the end of the past week also found
his Russian offensive halted, leaving it nothing
more than a holding attack, possibly paving
the way to a withdrawal. The problem of
finding enough planes to ward off RAF at
tacks on Italy, to support German armies in
an offensive on three Russian fronts, to carry
troops and supplies to Tunisia for a defensive
battle there, and to help defend Rommel's
armies belongs enlirely to Hitler, and is any
thing but a minor one.
SAME Hears
Prof. Condra
Talk Thursday
Addressing the Nebraska chap
ter of SAME, Dr. George Condra,
head of the geological survey de
partment, Thursday night told ad
vanced engineering ROTC officers
about the background of the pres
ent military situation.
Condra has traveled thru Eu
rope and was in Russia in 1937
on a geological congress. Assist
ing him in his lecture were Pro
fessor Elias and Professor Thorpe.
Elias graduated from the Univer
sity of Leningrad and Thorpe has
spent four years in China on a
geological survey. They outlined
the natural resources and indus
tries of these countries.
Following the speeches, the
SAME held a short business meet
in with President Francis Cox
presiding. Several members of
the geological department were
present.
Shows
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Traditionally hold at the Univer
sity theater, the place of perform
ance has been transferred to the
Nebraska theater the past few
years, in an effort to accommo
date the increasing crowds.
Obviously, different kinds of fellows prefer different kinds
f gifts. What is sauce for the goose is not necessarily sauce
for the gander. For example, what is more pointless than a
Pabst brew nd in the WAA office, or an airplane in the Phi Dinner
l'si back yardT What is more pomuess, may we repeal, man
these, unless it might be an armless sight-see-er.
For Instance
Enough rambling. Let's get down to eases. Following are
suggestions as to what young ladies should buy to please young
men on December 25:
As Amended ...
McNutfs Student War Loans
Encourage Physics Majors
Paul V. McNutt director of the
war manpower commission, last
week amended the student war
loan plan to give special encour
agement to students majoring in
physics.
The rule specifying that a col
lege must have ten qualified
majors in a certain field before
any student in that field was
eligible to receive a war loan, has
been abolished for physics majors.
They may now apply within 24
months of graduation for a war
Because of anticipated heavy
use of transportation facilities,
Christmas vacation at St. Olaf
college will last from Dec 15 to
Jan. 8.
loan to continue their studies.
This amendment to the rules of
the war loan plan was suggested
by the National Research council
to the Office of Education be
cause of the critical dearth of
psysicists.
About 500 physics majors at
tending colleges and universities
which have small physios depart
ments are now for the first time
eligible for war loans, the Office
of Education estimates.
The student war loan fund,
which offers up to $500 to students
within 24 months of a degree in
engineering, physics, chemistxy,
medicine, dentistry and pharmacy
in colleges accelerating their pro
grams, has to date made 20,800
loans to students in 277 colleges.
For the football type: Anything rugged. Keep away from
the sissy theme. Creamy candies and boxes of kleenex definitely
n the taboo list. Possible suggestions: hard tack, police dogs,
books by Charles Atlas, nails, shoulder pads, and dead rats.
For the Kappa Sig boys: Something cultured. Be careful
not to offend. Definitely on the taboo list: hard tack, police
dogs, books by Charles Atlas, nails, shoulder pads, and dead
rats. Possible suggestions: creamy candies and boxes of kleenex
For the home-loving type: Presents which remind one of
the fireside, with a big dog curling up at one's feet Possible
suggestions: dog fur and a half-burned log.
For the DU: Are you kidding!
For the Cornhusker staff: A book following the theme that
iuccess in athletics isn't everything. Even if they can't defeat
the Rag Staff in football, so what?
For the bashful type: A good, hard kick at the lower end
f the spinal cord, and the suggestion to "snap oat of it."
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in the capital of a native state
in west India. While here, she
attended many functions at the
palace, hobnobbed with the women
of the court, and came to know
the maharaja, his wife and chil
dren. Tt was here that she also met
and later married her present hus
band. He had charge of education
in rural schools in south India,
bo Mrs. Olcott moved to his place
of occupation, on the compound
(campus) of a teachers college for
the training of rural teachers. It
was not long before she obtained
an appointment as supervisor, or
dean of student affairs.
The remainder of her life in
India was spent at her work and
travels through which she came
to know both the princes and the
paupers.
A few years ago she returned
to the United States and has been
residing here since in the town of
Tealla, la. She la a sister of Dr.
Gibbon of the home economics
department of this university.
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