DAILY NEBRASKAN
Tuesday, December 1, 1942
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News Editors Gecrge Abbott, Pat Chamberlin. June Jamieson,
Bob Miller. Marjorie May.
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All unsigned editorials are the opinions of the editor and ihoold not be
construed to reflect the view of the administration or of the university.
Facing The Future . . .
The Student Foundation last night came thru with a plan
to organize and sponsor the post war scholarship fund pro
posed by the Daily several weeks a fro. It is gratifying to find
an organization on the campus willing to go ahead and take
the responsibility of putting over an idea which will take a
great deal of time and effort.
Altho the Foundation is sponsoring the plan, every or
ganization on the campus will be expected to cooperate if it
is to go over with any success. Each group and organization on
the campus should make plans immediately for helping in this
worth while war effort. -
The Student Foundation is beginning the campaign by do
nating a $25 war bond. It hopes to get enough money by
the end of the year to have bonds worth $2,500 at the disposal
of the committee which will give the scholarships following
the war.
Planning for post war education is one of the most vital
factors in our whole war program since many thousands of
students are being called into the armed forces now. These
student will need financial aid if they are to return to school
following the war and if student groups on the campus can
wake donations to that end, they will be doing not only their
organizations but the university as a whole a service.
The plan as outlined by the Student Foundation has double
merit since it will be helping those who return to school after
the war and it will be helping the present war effort since all
donations will be invested in war bonds. Small contributions
will be taken from individuals as well as organizations so that
every student can participate.
Education of men after the war who have been called out
of colleges and universities will insure proper leadership for
post war social and economic reconstruction and rehabilitation.
Unless "we offer that . opportunity for training leaders, our
whole war effort may be in vain.
If we pitch in our dimes now, we may reap a million dol
lar world in the future.
By Research Work . . .
Ag College Experiments
Illustrate Value Of Grasses
. To Agriculturists
BY DUANE MUNTER.
Of especial interest to the farm
ers, research men, agricultural ex
tension workers and teachers is
the subject of grasses. Nutrition
ists are finding it possible to im
prove methods of growing and
handling the grasses.
Farmers have known for many
years that good pasture pays big
returns. After the drouth struck
and made its first inroads on live
stock, attention centered on for
ages, especially annual forages,
and now attention is coming more
and more to be centered on the
permanent pasture, upon re-es-tablishmcnt
and the preservation
of stands.
Experimental work of the agri
cultural college, in cooperation
with agencies of the U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture, includes
breeding, seeding and manage
ment, use of grasses in feeding
rations, grasses in rotations and
varietal differences.
Both native and cultivated
grasses are included. Grasses can
be seen and studied anywhere in
Nebraska, The nursery at the Ag
ricultural College is an excellent
place to see a wide variety.
This year the extension service
) putting its utmost into the now
regularly established annual pasture-forage-livestock
program.
For the farmer this means es
pecially work with pastures and
bay lands as well as sorghums and
other forage in an effort to sub
stain cattle and livestock and to
make Nebraska's agriculture more
permanent
County agricultural agents have
enrolled in this P. F. U work,
This means planning with the
fanner. Later the farmer will
compare his results with those of
others at meetings held in various
sections. A final "finish up" is
held in Omnha. Participants are
located in nearly every township.
It is a rancher's as well as a
farmer's program. Agencies co
operating with the extension serv
ice are the Omaha Chamber of
Commerce and the state associa
tions of crop growers, livestock
breeders and dairymen.
The results of past year's work,
as recorded and analyzed for the
benefit of those who have partici
pated indicate clearly that farm
ers are succeeding and that
grasses are returning.
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TEEN AGE DRAFT
WASHINGTON. (ACP). The president has signed the 'teen
age draft bill; its impact will be felt at once by colleges and
universities thruout the nation.
About one-third of all male collegians are 18 or 19 years
old. Prospects for these men sum up about like this:
Approximately 25 percent probably won't be taken because
of physical abilities.
Those already enlisted in college reserve training courses
won't be. taken they are already in the army and, apparent
ly, passage of the bill won't appreciably affect their present
status. The same goes for those in senior ROTC.
All other 18 and 19 year old college students are subject to
draft call and fast. It fs estimated they will be inducted start
ing about Jan. 1. For a time it appeared that 'teen age men
already in college would be able to obtain deferment until July
1. 1943. That prospect is now out the window for college men,
altho high school students called up in the last half of this
school year may request deferment in order to finish out their
terms. ." .
Enactment tof the law will probably result in a hard drive
by the navy to enlist 17 year olds, since army draft of the elder
'teen age youth will seriously cut into the navy man power po
tentialand the navy still insists upon voluntary enlistment.
ONLY A DIM-OUT.
Passage of the bill does not mean a complete blackout of
educational opportunity for college 'teen agers.
Once they are in the army, these men, as well as all other
18 and 19 year olds who are drafted, will be eligible to take
aptitude and intelligence tests to determine whether they may
return to college for technical and scientific training.
Past education, apparently, will be considered in final se
lection of draftees who may return to college. Other criteria
include "qualities of leadership, military ability andaptitudc
for more education" as reflected in examination results.
According to Representative Sparkman, democrat, of
Alabama, the army will send more men back to college than
it actually needs for its own purpose. These extra men would"
be assigned to industrial jobs.
Sparkman points out that the army plan calls for training
periods of varying length, from 9 to 27 months. Principal
courses would be medical and pre-medical courses, engineering
and science. Those college men whose abilities and interests lie
in the arts, fine and otherwise, are going to be at disadvantage.
Altho there is some disagreement in Washington on the
point, it appears that all of the young draftees will have to
complete basic training before they may return to college.
His financial status will have nothing whatever to do wtih
whether a man is selected to return to college for training. Iron
ically, it takes the dictates of wartime logic to achieve a degree
of democratic selection of those who should attend college.
POST-WAR IMPLICATIONS.
Which brings us to some significant post-war implications
of the 'teen age draft bill.
As he signed the bill, the president announced that a com
mittee of educators is making a study looking toward measures
"to enable the young men whose education has been interrupted
to resume their schooling and afford equal opportunity for the
training and education of other young men of ability after their
service has come to an end.'.'
Altho educators and officials here are chary about inter
preting that statement, it is evident that here are high hopes
it may mean post-war democratization of the American educa
ional system. Or, in basic English, college education for all
whose minds deserve it, regardless of ability to pay for it.
Presumably, this would mean vastly extended government fi
nancing of higher education.
Even tho the president's statement appears to apply only
to veterans-to-be, it carries greater promise of post-war edu
cational opportunity than that enjoyed by veterans of the last
war.
As he president pointed out, "Some useful action along this
line was improvised at the end of the last war. This time we are
planning in advance." After the last war, only men who suf
fered a certain degree of disability as a result of their service
were provided post-war educational aid by the government.
College and university enrollment during the years imme
diately following this war will be double that of pre-war days,
according to some Washington educators.
OPA Limit
On Coffee
Starts Today
Schedule Second
YW-YM Meeting
Al 7:30 Tonight
Second in a series of four meet
ings sponsored by the ag YMCA
and YWCA will be held Tuesday
night at 7:30 in the home economic
parlors on the second floor of the
homo ec building.
Dr. Gerald Kennedy, minister at
St Paul Methodist church, will
again speak and lead the discussion.
UNEB Presents . . .
Army ,Cadet,Honorary Colonels
To Give ROTC Ball Highlights
Infantry Col. J. P. Murphy, Field
Artillery Col. Walt Gardner, Cadet
CoL Dick Arnold and Honorary
Col. Ann Craft will stage a four
way interview tonight over radio
station UNEB as a preview to a
Friday night's Military ball.-' As
guest-star of the 10:30 Campus
Varieties program, they will throw
light on what can be expected at
the ball Friday night
On the same half-hour program,
other special features will be
broadcast: a songfest by the Sigma
Chis, a serenade by the popular
blues-singer "Winn" Nelson, plus
thb : regular nightly feature of
campus gossip.
The Collegiate Broadcasting
station has urged students with
ideas for different types of pro
grams to telephone their sugges
tions to the studio: 2-5592 or to
write UNEB, Student Union, Lin
coin, Neb.
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College Students Will
Get One Cup Per Day
College students, under ration
ing, will get about the same
amount of coffee that the rest of
the American people do during
December and January one cup
a day.
When coffee rationing goes into
effect Nov. 29, college eating
places will be classed as institu
tional users and, under OPA regu
lations, will be allotted for the first
allotment period Nov. 22 to Jan.
31 the same amount of coffee
that they used in September and
October of 1942.
This institutional allotment,
based on a former order which re
stricted coffee deliveries in Sep
tember and October of 1942 to 65
percent of the coffee used in the
same period in 1941, will mean
that college students will get 35
percent less coffee than last year.
In calculating their allotment,
OPA officials report, colleges must
make an inventory of the coffee
they have on hand, and this
amount will be subtracted in cal
culating just how much coffee
each college will receive.
The first institutional allotment
period is nine days longer than the
base period on which colleges will
make their calculations. For that
reason, OPA officials point out
the college student will have
slightly less coffee per capita than
he has had for the first two
months of the academic year.
Fund . .
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Bob McNutt, junior class president
Funds in War Bonds.
All funds collected for the War
Scholarship Fund will be .placed
in war bonds. The goal set for this
year is $2,500 at bond maturity
value. In this way, the fund will
aid both the government in its
campaign for loans, and the vet
erans of this war.
Placed in the hands of univer
sity officials since they are more
permanent than student groups,
the fund will be handled by the
registrar, comptroller, alumni sec
retary, and the chairman of the
scholarship committee.
Organizations Contribute.
The Student Foundation is start
ing the Fund with the contribution
of a $25 bond. All student organ
izations are asked to give 10 per
cent of their year's income to the
Fund. In addition, contribution
boxes will be placed over the cam
pus for individual donations. Cash
or war savings stamps will be ac
cepted in these boxes.
It is hoped by the Foundation
that two methods of raising funds
used on other campuses may be
used profitably here. As at Ore
gon, the Foundation plans to spon
sor a Barb-Greek basketball game
with a comedy game between the
Daily Nebraskan and the Corn
husker staffs as a second feature.
Another bond raiser that has
proven pouular elsewhere is a
faculty show.
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immediately and until further no
tice that portion of paragraph 18
. . . which states that 'Members
of the naval or marine corps re
serve are not eligible for member
ship in the Reserve Officers'
Training corps," is suspended.
"Students enrolled in basic
ROTC are now eligible for direct
enlistment in the naval, marine
corps or coast guard reserve and
will be continued in basic ROTC
after such enlistment."
Dean Thompson pointed out that
this means:
(1) Men who are now enlisted
in the naval, marine corps or coast
guard do not need to be discharged
in order to continue and complete
basic military icience.
(2) Any student not now in
ERC may enlist in any service
directly, without interfering with
ROTC training; they may enlist
in V-l (navy), the army enlisted
reserve corps or marine enlisted
reserve.
(3) Men who desire to take ad
vance ROTC are required to enlist
in the army reserve corps; enlist
ments under the ERC program
will be affected under the same
procedure followed before the an
nouncement, except that men may
now en'lst in other armed services
in addition to the army reserve.