DAILY NEBRASKAN
Sunday, January 10, 1943
Colleges Score Big Victory
By Keeping Their Reserves
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MATING-TIME AT THE ZOO
If we do not count the Phi Psi house,
friends, we may say that this campus has
nothing even resembling a zoo. And now that
the holidays are over, we had better start a
little serious thinking on this subject.
Since gas rationing is here to stay, we are
going to have to cook up our own amusement
on a local scale. And what could be more
amusing and more ridiculous than to take
your date to a campus zoo to watch the humor
ous monkeys at playt What could be more
ridiculous than this, may we repeat, unless
you want to take your date to look at Bob
Miller?
The zoo in Springtime is fully as romantic
as the porch of the dorm the night before
Christmas vacation. And speaking romance,
remember this one point: EVERY ANIMAL
HAS ITS MATE. There is the tiger, and it
has a tigress. There is the lion, and it has a
lioness. There is the bear.
So let's all get together on this thing, folks.
I have just completed an interview wieh Pro
fessor Ben Carson who is eager to serve as
Chairman of the Zoo Foundation Committee.
Mr. Carson has a staff of five able workers
who have volunteered to accept all donations
of animals and zoo equipment. They are:
Becky Wait, Large-Animal Sub-Committee.
Buffalo, elephants, giraffes, or anything else
of similar volume. Just send them to the
Theta House.
Larry Huwaldt, Undesircables' Animal Sub
Committee. Skunks, horned toads, wart hogs.
Clean out your basement,
equipment. Anything that will make life
Fred Metheny, Miscellaneous-Animal Sub
Committee. Anything goes from moles to ant
eaters. Brother Phi Delts not accepted.
Mary Louise Goodwin, Zoo-Accessory Sub
Committee. Beds, lawn chairs, playground
equipment Anything that will make life
more pleasant for our dumb friends.
Dave Walcott: Brooms and Shovels Sub-Committee.
Time is short. But if we all work together,
and forget our petty differences, I'm sure
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i tuat. MC:Wiii liuu.. me results xo.ue zoonern.
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Bit by bit, plans for members of
ROTC and the ERC are being released
by officials who have inaugurated
the program for keeping students in
some kind of educational institutions
for specialized training betore calling
them to active service.
As announced today by Dean
T. J. Thompson, members of the ERC
will be required to register next semes
ter if they are to remain in that reserve.
This announcement makes definite the
plans for men in this branch until after
the beginning of the second semester
and every little bit of added definite
information makes it that much easier
on the men.
Further announcement that mem
bers of the advanced ROTC would stay
in school until May, settles for a time
at least another group of students'
plans. Although this information is
coming in by bits, even the bits are big
bites for these men, since they haven't
even been able to live from day to day
with any rational thoughts because of
their indefinite status.
One thing is certain, however.
Colleges and higher education have
won a moral victory as far as the armed
services are concerned. Officials of our
army, navy, and marines have real
ized the worth of college training as
necessary for intelligent oficers. Offi
cials of the armed services have given
the college man the opportunity to
continue his education for a time at
least since neither the army, navy, or
marines .can furnish this type of train
ing in their programs.
Education has become .pne of the
watchwords and backbones of this
war. The value of education has never
been recognized so much in any pe
riod of history, as it has been realized
in this year 1942-43.
Not only have colleges scored a
moral victory by continuing educa
tional programs, but they have scored
a victory by being able to keep their
physical plants open through special
ized schools being set up on the cam
puses over the country. If physical
plants can be kept in operation during
this emergency, the possibilities are
that much better for returning to their
regular college programs immediately
following the war.
Since the armed services have de
creed education for their future offi
cers, it is the duty of the colleges over
the country to provide this education.
Present faculty members should be re
tained, new ones added if necessary
and the budget for continuing the uni
versity should not be cut by the legis
lature which is now assembled.
But. the most important duty at the
present lies with the students them
selves. The students must take advant
age of the opportunity which" has pre
sented itself, and continue their edu
cation as long as possible, as diligent
ly as possible. The word EDUCATION
has become the battle crv of World
War II. We rnust dp Everything in our
I PPW tq .keep, ihat motto alive. a J , ,
NYA-Unwise Economy?
Having strained the CCC and the WPA out of the national
alphabet soup, congress will probably turn its attention on the
NYA this session.
Although it has been suggested that the NYA be combined
with the Manpower commission under Paul V. McNutt, public
opinion seems to favor the complete dissolution of the agency
and cessation of all its projects.
Created in the lean days of depression, the NYA has pro.
vided work and training for young people not enrolled in school
besides giving student aid. Senator Byrd, attacking the ineffi
ciency of the NYA, stated that 12,000 supervisors were on its
payroll, while only 53,000 beneficiaries still claimed government
help through this channel. This shows an average of four train
ees to a supervisor.
This waste may be true in some sections where manpower
shortage and the war boom have provided jobs for former NYA
workers, but in the nation's high schools and colleges, thou
sands of students still look to this agency as their only means
of self help. On the L. S. U. campus alone $29,'J70 has been al
lotted to NYA workers, and more than 300 students earn from
$10 to $20 a month through, part-time jobs. If government funds
were withdrawn, these students would be unable to remain m
school.
If a majority of the men are called to armed forces, univer
sity funds might be sufficient to cover those workers who re
main on campus for the duration, but at this point the govern
ment does not seem to have made up its mind just what is to be
done about students in the Enlisted Reserce corps. Until this
"now they're leaving, now they aren't" attitude is settled, no
one can estimate the effect the abolition of the NYA would have
on working students.
When the CCC and the WPA were abandoned, workers dis
missed had little difficulty in finding other jobs in industry.
The NYA student is in a different position. His field is limited
to part-time hours and proximity to the campus. Most of tbe
NYA workers enrolled in school this year expeeting that NYA
help would continue at least through June. To cut off funds
abruptly would be to break faith with those young people who
have nowhere else to turn for help.
Since the armed forces are taking so many men from school,
those students who are able to finish their education will be
doubly valuable to the country. To end NYA help would be to
hinder this necessary educational program.
Let the 78th Congress reduce NYA appropriations, cutting
out non-student aid if necessary, but let NYA jobs remain in
high schools and colleges at least until a satisfactory substitute
work program has been instituted The Reveille, Louisiana
State University.
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O By Raymond Manchester f
The Civilian
Pity the poor civilian! He is sour because of sugar shortage, weak
because of meat shortage, jumpy because of coffee shortage, bunion
ized because of tire shortage, lean because of fat shortage, cold because
of fuel shortage, cold because of fuel shortage, ignorant because of
news shortage, shabby because of clothing shortage, frowsy because of
barber shortage, smelly because of soap shortage, and ostracized be-
cause he can't buy tooth paste. Commiserate with him because he is
pepless, hapless, glamourless, and umphless. Support him because he is
spineless, aimless, and thoughtless.
Too young, too old, too decrepit, too familyized, too toothless, too
flat-footed, too rheumatic, and too cross-eyed to be invited to Join any
of the various military units he parks his sugar card, his gas card, his
classification card, his fuel card, his coffee card, and his identification
card in his inside jacket and roams the high road and the low road
and areas unchartered, declaring in raucous voice that he will do this,
do that, do thus, do so, and win the war, the peace, the medalians, and
the placques. Wild as a hawk, crazy as a loon, and nutty as a hickory
tree, he haunts the foreground, the background, and the middle dis
tances, proclaiming to all and sundry who may be beneath the stars
above and over the earth beneath that he will "Show 'em, 'by Gum,' or
know the reason why."
A glutton for abuse, a sucker for exploitation, a target for jests,
a victim of circumstances, he rejoices that he can give his hot water
bottle, his lawn mower, his potato-boiling dish, his bed springs, and his
coal shovel to the scrap drive and thereby help make the world safe
for a fellow who wants to call the umpire a deaf, dumb, and blind
highway robber or refer to his chicken-raising neighbor as a plain,
low-down unprincipled scoundrel.
Morale? Say! He has more of it in his little finger than a quince
has of pucker or a pickle has of warts. He is the concentrated essence
of morale itself. He- well, never mind.
Just remember to write his name high when the scroll is made
and put him down among the charter members when the Honor Le
gion is organized. Pity the poor guy, yes, but salute him also as a pa
triot, a gentleman, a scholar, and a fellow who wishes he could buy a
cigar that could be depended upon not to burn merrily -down one Bide
and curl up like a cabbage leaf.
Raymond E. Manchester
Dean of Men, Kent State University,
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