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Traveling
With public transportation
crowded due to war use of facilities and the
ffas and rubber rationing', a major problem'
fiicinj? students is how and if tliey are going
to grel. home for Christmas vacation.
The Association of American colleges is
cooperating with the office of Defense Trans
portation in the holiday transport at ion situa
tion by staggering Christmas vacation dates so
thai no two major schools in the same area
will close or rc-open on the same day.
Starts Dec. 23.
However, this university's vacation, that
of Nebraska "Weslcyan university and the Lin-
May Be Excused F.arly.
There is the possibility
that
students living east of Chicago or
west of Denver may be excused
early to travel home if they ob
tain permission from Dean of
Student Affairs, T. J. Thompson.
Few Soldier Furloughs.
Few soldiers at the Lincoln Air
Base are to be given furloughs
at Christmas time, according to
transportation officials. The en
listed personnel of trainees will
not get leaves, but only certain
of the permanent members of the
base. Many of these live too far
distant to travel home on their
short furloughs, rail heads said.
Although the army and navy
has announced that they would
greatly curtail holiday furloughs,
regular troop movements will
make both December and Jan
uary, critical months for civilian
travel, warns George A. Kelly,
See TRANSPORTATION, Page 3
Recognize New
YW Members
Tonight At 7:30
Include Camllc-Iiglit
Ceremony in Service
A recognition service for the
now members of the YWCA will
be held tonight in parlors X, Y, Z
of the Union at 7:30. All new
members will be officially taken
into the organization and given
their membership cards.
The service as planned will in
rluda a resnonsive reading and
devotional service followed by
candle lighting ceremony. All
those who are new members will
accent the Duroose In a mass re
snonse at the close of the service
Members must have their mem-
hershin cards to vote in the elec
tions and take part in the of
ficial business of the YWCA. The
next election of officers will be
the middle of January when city
and a? cammis officers will be
chosen.
All women who have been mem
bers before this fall are' invited
to the service so that the total
membership will feel a group re
lationship.
Betty Eonebrlght Is In charge
of the recognition service which
is the first of its kind held on
this campus for several years
Monev fro.. t! t freshman mem
bership drive riiu-jt be turned into
the YW office in Ellen Smith hall
by noon today.
Roen1of Attends Army,
Navy Advisory Meeting
In Chicago Saturday
Leavine tomorrow for the
monthly meeting of the Joint
Armv and Navy advisory com
mittee meeting in Chicago la G.
W. Rosenlof. UN registrar, who
will attend the meeting there Sat
urday.
The committee is composed of
representatives from 12 leading
American colleges and works In
conjunction with the federal gov
ernment. Members have met
ivery month since last spring.
During Vacation
systems over
coin arade schools all begin on the same date
iiiNt two d.ivs
sity's vacation begins at 12 -M p. m., "Wednes
day. Dee. 23. and classes are scheduled to re-
ponvpn at R-30
is a proposal pending to extend vacation until
Wednesday, Jan.
pate "verv. verv
the holidays,
1o necessary trips and that students cooperate
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Vol. 42, No. 55
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War Course Reveals
UTrt
. . An Civilian Defense
Organization of the nation's
enemy aircraft spotting system
was explained by Prof. C. C. Wig-
gans in a talk to me university an
nourf!?y Wnroln Journal.
C. C. WIGGANS
. . . Talks to Wardens.
raid warden class Tuesday night.
Prof, vviggans is cnairman oi me
horticultural department and a
graduate of the city civilian war
den course.
Defense against enemy raids
consists of action taken by the
armed forces to destroy hostile
aircraft or drive it away from its
intended objectives, ana scconuiy,
of action taken bv citizens to frus
trate the purposee of the enemy,
he stated.
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'This Is a Spiritual War Between Two
Conceptions of Life' Says Schoenberner
"This war is a spiritual war; a
war between two conceptions of
life," emphasized Franz Schoen
berner, refugee journalist from
nazl Germany, in his speech, "Ger
many In the Post-War World," at
the first convocation of the Union
University series yesterday after
noon In the Union ballroom.
Because we are fighting a war
not between nations but between
minds, we must first fight a war
for spiritual and moral peace with
before Christmas. The univer
a m.. Mondav. Jan. 4. There
b.
Local railroad and bus line officials antici
crowded" conditions darin?
fhev ask that travel be limited
vations as far in advance as
i-nncfll in r ike, promptly when
w i
tat
.ursday, December 10, 1942
Civilian def nse is accomplished
by camouflage and blackouts, such
as the one which the seventh serv
ice command area including Ne
braska will experience Monday,
November 14. Other means of de
fense are the controlling of move
ments of population before and
rfnrinp n raid, which nhase is in
charge of air raid wardens.
Repair squads repair damaged
public services, fire groups ex
tinguish fires, rescue squads res
cue traoncd persons. First Aid
groups render emergency nrst aia,
and the food and housing group
provide for the homeless.
Control Center.
Kev to citv defense during a
night or day raid is the city con
trol center under civilian opera
tion. The location of this vital cen
ter Is kent secret, and can be
moved at any time when danger
or discovery threatens. The con
trol renter eonvevs information
and warnings to hospitals, police
stations, colleges, ana waraens.
The control center gains the
hpppssnrv knowledge from a na
tional information center which
charts the nath of each hostile
plane and decides which district is
to be warned, and when the dan'
per is over. Information centers in
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turn receive their information
from "filter centers" who evaluate
the renorts of enemy planes that
are relayed from observation posts
on the outskirts ot tne naiion.
The hlackout practice for Lin
coln and the university scheduled
next Monday will begin wan
wnmlnc signals sounded bv police
and fire sirens, whistles, and over
(See SPOTTER WORK, Page 3.)
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in our own minds, country, race,
and social organizations, asserted
Schoenberner.
Real peace depends upon our
own effort to create and live a
moral and spiritual peace, which
is more than an armistice peace.
Nazi Minds.
Elaborating on hla discussion of
the mentality of the German peo
ple, he stated that probably not
more than 10 of the Germans
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J. L. SELLERS
...receives letter from
Washington.
Eligibles
Come Out
Stern ie Sternberg Plays
At Mortar Board Party
Nebraska's six most eligible
bachelors will blossom out in typ
cal BMOC style Saturday nigm
when members of Mortar Board
Correclion,Plcasc
Due to an error in the ad
vertisement of the Mortar
Beard party which appeared in
Wednesday's Daily, the price
of the tickets to the affair was
quoted at $1.65 per couple. The
price is not $1.65, but $1.25
per couple, as Mortar Board
president Dorothy Weirich cor
rected yesterday.
stage another "absolutely novel
Dresentation at the annual vice-
versa party in the coliselm.
Considering turn-about as fair
play, coeds of the campus will
escort their dates in style, wim
the traditional startling corsages
and modes of transportation, to
dance to the music of Sternie
Sternberg and his orchestra.
Features Novelties.
Well-known in the middle west,
Sternberg features novelty num
bers and swing music. The ag
gregation includes a glee-club and
members who play novelty instru
ments. Mortar Boards have asked that
those who receive war stamp
corsages donate them to the Stu
dent Foundation; however, they
do not stipulate that the victory
bouquets are the only ones to be
given.
Chosen by Vote.
The six bachelors were chosen
by a vote in the general student
(See ELlGiBLts, rage 4.;
. In Union Talk
were actually nazis. Not more
than 10 were whole heartedly
fiFhtine- an underground war
ae-ainst nazism. and the other 80
were unable to speak, to organize,
or to even trust ineir own iamiues
"Creation of a universal peace
will not be possible until nearly
normal conditions are prevalent in
Europe In general. Political, eco
nomical, and moral reconstruction
must be employed before a toler
ant, not a violent and ruthless,
peace can be establishcctf
A nronosal to utilize colleges
and universities for training mili
tary leaders under federal subsidy
has been acknowledged by the war
manpower commission.
The proposal was submitted by
a group of Nebraska faculty mem
bers and asks that the army, navy
and manpower commission con
sider a federal subsidy to permit
greater use of higher educational
institutions for training army and
navy officers.
140 Sign.
More than 140 Nebraska faculty
members signed the memorial,
which was acknowledged by Fred
J. Kellv. assistant chief of the pro
fessional and technical employ
ment and training division of the
war manpower commission at
Washington.
The nrorjosal said in nart: "In
the present emergency educational
institutions have two inescapable
responsibilities.
Pointing out the fact that "In
the present emergency educational
institutions have two inescapable
responsibilities," the proposal
listed them as follows: "(1) to
train eligible youth as quickly as
possible for effective service in the
prosecutioa of the war; (2) to car
ry forward the regular educational
program so that the nation may
not lack competent leaders during
and following the war.
'We think that instead of pas
sively admitting only such stu
dents as drift to them, the col
leges and universities, with their
special facilities . . . should be
used to scour, each in its own
area, for the most, promising of
ficer material.
'Lack of Means.'
"Much of this material to kept
from college for lack 4k means
and much already there is kept
from getting the best out of col
lege by the same lack. We there
fore suggest a federal subsidy for
such promising material, in the
belief that this would increase th
output of good officers.
Kelly, in a lettter to Dr. J. L.
Sellers, who forwarded the memo
rial, commended the statement and
declared that it conformed with
similar recommendations made by
"educational leaders in the past
few months."
While Chancellor Boucher has
not yet returned from Washington,
where he is discussing the rutuie
of the university in the war effort,
Kelly indicated that the war and
navy departments are expected to
announce shortly their plans for
colleges and universities in war
training programs.
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V SCENE: Journal press-T
Oroom. V
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riitnr nn the Nebras-T
Ulan with five oallev-DroofsO
A before him, pauses. Sudden-A
jST ly, five phones ring. FiveT
r conversations: "Say, I navev
story for the front page in
tomorrow's Rag. It hat toi
be in a box where everyone
can see it it's tnat impor-
yvtant."
V RESULT:
the
stories appears boxed.O
knot
because the linotype orw
headline men at the Journaljf
want it that way. not be-O
cause the night news editor
wants it that way but be-,.
cause: It simDlv 'HAS to beV
A boxed."
sons wishing announcements
in the Nebraskan wouid
make an effort to have them a
in the Daily office before 4r
o'clock the day precedingO
publication, all concerned
T wouia DC nappicr, mu
"must" copy would be burledf
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