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2 DAILY NEBRASKAN Sunday, February 14, 1943 JIul (Daily. TbJbhaAkcuv FOKTY SECOND YEAR Subscription Rates are Jl.W Per Semester or $1.60 for the College Tear. $2.50 Mailed. Single copy, 6 Cents. Untcrcd as second-class matter at th postoffice in Lincoln, Nebraska, under Act of Congress March 3, 1879, and at special rate of postage provided for in Section 1103. Act ol October 3. 1917. Authorized September 30. 1922. Published dally during the school year except Mondays and Saturdays, vacations and examinations periods by Students of the University of Ncbraskt under the supervision of the Publications Board. Offices Union Building. Day-2-7181. Night -2-7193. Journal-2 3330. Editor Alan Jacobs Business Manager Betty Dixon EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT. M.Miaginp Fditor. George Abbott, Marjnrir May News Kdilnrs.. . John li.mrrmt isli-r, Tat Chanibt-rnn, June J.imitson, Maiykiuivp Goodwin. Wolf. Sports Editor Norm Anderson. Getting Old The universiiy is getting old. Today and tomorrow UN will observe its 7'Jrd birthday in traditional and not so tradi tional Charter Day activities. This 7.')rd year p.ovidos plenty to think about a univer sity seemingly none to anxious to go all-out in war changes finds itself nearer and nearer more active participation in the war. Students are leaving for farms and for military service; professors are departing for new jobs; the university awaits arrival of an army unit. If the 73rd year of the university's existence has broupht the school closer to the war, the year to come will no doubt find Nebraska definitely "'in things." So we are celebrating today and tomorrow. Taday with tko traditional Charter Day address by prominent alumnus John L. Bouchal; tomorrow evening by Innocents' society's three-ring circus Prom. Attendance at the Prom is a concern to its sponsors, but there are enough candidates for the various positions to be named to insure more of a crowd of students than will hear the address this afternoon; that is, if UN students react to Charter Day in the usual manner. Everybody likes a pay time that's what the Prom is for but in the serious circumstances of today, it would be wise for students to do some serious thinking, to observe Nebraska's Charter day in a serious manner. That is why we hope students will take part in the "think ing" aspects of this Charter day and will join faculty members and alumni in taking part in the activities this afternoon. De (Continued from Page 1.) awarded in the past are no longer these are the bachelor and master f philosophy degrees, bachelor of letters master of laws, bachelor and master of forestry, graduate in pharmacy and pharmaceutical chemist. The university now grants 46 degrees. The newest is bachelor of science in social work, and only five have been granted. Degrees are conferred three tinis a year, at the end of the first semester, at the end of the second semester, and at the end of the long sum mer session. At the close of the first Femester of the school year of 1942-43, 165 degrees were granted. The first university in the west ern hemisphere was founded in Santo Domingo in 1538. Prom (Continued from Page 1.) Prom girl candidates, pictured on page one include: Betsy Wright, Alpha Chi Omega; Dorothy Mc Clintock, Alpha Omicron Pi; Vir ginia McCulla, Alpha Phi; Dorothy Black, Chi Omega; Flora Heck, Alpha Xi Delta; Barbara True, Delta Delta Delta; Janet Gibson, Gamma Phi Beta; Helen Johnson, Delta Gamma; Mary Helen Farrar, Kappa Alpha Theta and Dorothy Smith, Kappa Delta. Jeanne Browne, Kappa Kappa Gamma; Janet Hemphill. Pi Beta Phi; Becky Silverman, Sigma Del ta Tau; Betty Malone, Lauralee Mundil, Barbara Stahl, and Addic Kloepper, dorm. Not pictured are Betty Storjohn, Sigma Kappa candidate, and Mary Russell, dorm. Colgate university has built a rare book room in James B. Col gate memorial library. m . , m - WHAT 1 M. Iti art b-3b.V:i-- STICK LANDING? I is;-: v!.: ; tun AKICUTD. M .v" IN THE EARLY DAYS ALL AIRPLANE PROPELLERS WERE MADE OF VYOOO AND WERE OFTEN RE -FEARED TO AS 'STICKS" HENCE THE TERM 'DEAD 5TICK MEANING DEAD PROPELLER. ' 1- ; r - THE ACT OF LANDING AN AIRPLANE WHEN THE PROPELLER IS NOT ROTATING. GLIDER STUDENTS ARE FKST TAUGHT " DEAD STKK'LANDINGS IN A MOTORED CRAFT BE FORE STARUNG GLIDER FLYING AT LAME SA TEXAS ADVANCED GLIDER SCHOOL. On The Spot . . . From now on the War Council will act as a clearing house, promoter, and publicity direc tor for all campus war activities. This pro gram adopted by the War Council, was ap proved by the Student Council Tuesday night. The action means that the War Council is running things as far as student war activity on the campus is concerned. All other organ izations' efforts are now subject to the ap proval of the Council. The move was a wise one, but it puts more responsibility on the War Council. Heads and members of the Council are on the spot ; on them rests the success of campus participation in the war effort. Am judging from action thus far, the Council has plenty of room for improvement, has a lot to learn about arousing student inter est and activity. The place to start is in the sale of war bonds and stamps. Less than a -tlCO worth of stamps Mere sold yesterday a disgusting record. Nebraska students deserve some criticism for this, but the War Council must share in part of the blame. Promotion of the sales has been poor. Student interest hasn't been aroused. The War Council isn't selling stamps; it is putting them on sale. There's a difference. Students are like everybody else; they have to 1 encouraged to action. Look at tho bond campaigns staged thruout the country with all sorts of horseplay, color and interest centered around the sale of stamps. The War Council must get publicity wise. A few dances have been attempted with not too much success, but up to now, the Council hasn't pot anybody steamed up over the sale of war stamps. 'Reel Hot and Nine," the show staged by the Council to pet funds for its activity, was a success. It was handled in an intelligent manner. The same sort of intelligence and sense of student interest must be employed in all programs of the Council. The division of war work to various cam pus organizations isn't enough. The War Council has asked for and received the lead in all campus war activity. The Council must produce. :V.,. Mail'. Clippings i Pot Chamberhn, Censor In a base hospital 'somewhere in the Pa cific" combat zone, First Lieutenant PAUL K. MILLER is recovering from gunshot wounds received in the battle of the Solomons. A grad uate of ag college, he was commissioned a sec ond lieutenant in field artillery due to his ad vanced ROTC training. The lieutenant was sta tioned in Hawaii eight months before he was sent on Pacific duty. This news came to V-Mail from his wife, who is at present a junior in teachers' college. Sigma Chi has relayed news of more of their brothers: Second Lieutenant HILL I)Ni MAN is now stationed at Camp Dais, North Carolina, as an aviation cadet. Captain TOM HORN is "somewhere in Africa" bombing the Axis from the sky as a pilot. First Lieutenant CIIAUNCEV PATTERSON is down in Texas at Fort P.arkclcy, and AL LEFFERDINK is in the Navy officers' training school at Colorado i L nivcrsity. This week was "homecoming" for several former Huskers. Among the uniforms were AL M'SCII, MIKE SELZER, and WALT RUN DIN. Phi Psi Al is stationed at Fort Des Moines in the Fyiancc office. Mike, A TO, is now a staff sergeant at the Stuttgart advanced flying school in Arkansas heading for bis wings, lie told V-Mail that Phi Psi ROD M0NISM1TII is there with him, who has also been promoted to a sergeant. First Lieut. Run din, of the Sig Alph Innocents, blew in on a twelve day leave. He is now at Camp Shelby, Mississippi, in command of a rifle squad. A late report adds that Second Lieut. JOHN SCOTT is also back at UN. Second Lieutenant HILL WKLLINfiER re ceived his silver wings last Saturday at Gard ner Field, Roswell, New Mexico. While at No bra.!;a &boul a year ago, Hill was a Slg Alpli. White Space An old saw cuts best, and that rusty saw, "Well begun is half done" is cutting us pain fully. Beginning a newspaper column seems to be a social grace that we have neglected to cultivate. Hut newspaper editors fear nothing more than unexpected squares of white space; and when confronted with such unreadable stuff, an editor stops tearing bis hair long enough to invite some unsuspecting fellow to cover the white space with a column. An editor's world is full of would-be col umnists. They jump out of his hat-band, crawl from under his bath mat and generally make his life a full if not a long one. Un fortunately for readers, when these literary hacks are given a chance to write, they can. not produce an idea. So they write their col umns without one. As a result most of their copy ranges from Miss Gertrude Stein's a-joke-is-a-joke-is-a yolk-is-a-yolk kind of literary rotton egg to fancy theosophic vibrations. In the end, every edi tor quickly passes his columnist's copy, and hopes that it will be less unreadable than the white space. Thus, for an issue or so. this would-be columnist will try in bis pentle, la bored way to cover a little white space. Did you put aside your grapefruit "coke" the other morning and litH to some campus politico discourse on the Student Council's lat est, biggest scheme? If yeu were too thristy to pay attention (and we cannot blame you for not wanting to leave a grapefruit "coke") we suggest that you look into the council's plan to perpetuate itself by hording a reelec tion within the council. Of course, no clear statement of what the proposed action is has been issued, but the curious are raising a few questions. If an elec tion of next year's council k impracticable now, will an election be so next fall? Will an election of a new council from within th old council maintain the present barb-greek ra tio? How will new members be acquired if they are necessary to maintain the ratio, or the council, for that matter? As we said before, no clear explanation 'f the council's plan has been released, but wilh our incomplete knowledge, the plan seems to be full of more plans than, at best the rule hook, or at the worst a fast talker can solve. So before you order that strawberry sundae, you had better wave a wet finger in politico's hot air and discover which way the campus w ind bags are blowing. We stopped by a small bull sesv'4n last, afternoon and beard the end of a disi usk.n on the technique of the good-night kiss. An rienced woo-pitcher, who claimed Ibat half th women on the campus had thrilled to bis meth od, was holding forth. "WThen the porch light and the light in the girl's eyes arc just ripbt, it's up 1o you." he said, "You close in gracefully, and in :tO seconds ..." ". . . You make the occasion a nibt to re member." one bright boy concluded. A skeptical freshman at the old master's feet asked if the whole thing were net slightly siUy"l always begin laughing and can't stop until I've said good night and run," he fin ished. The old master adjusted the Windsor knot in his tie, and smiled, "Hite your tongue and stand your ground once, man, and you'll never run again," he said. i i r l' Dear Student Council : We who arc about to die salute you! We now can prostrate ourselves on the altar of Mars, secure in the knowledge that we no longer fight for the democratic system at UN. We now are as priviledgcd as the youth of Germany. They die to perpetuate Schickel gruber. We die to perpetuate the Student Council. In closing, I can not think of a more fitting tribute to give to our illustrious leaders than the one our German counterparts give to their master. Council, I give you a hearty "Ileil Hitler", and may your scheme die w ith his soon I WARD BEUNSON. (We dcubt if there v.o'il l b3 anyone in terests;! C20 u'a to ailcnd tuo fuucral, Heil!)