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DAILY NEBRASKAN
Friday, February 26, 1943
Jim (Dcrih Urf)JiaAkcuL
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Journal 2-3330.
Editor Alan Jacobs
Business Manager Betty Dixon
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT.
Managing Editors.. Gwrgf Abbott. Marjorie May
News Editors John Bnuermeister, Tat Chambcrlin, June Jamieson,
Marvlouise Goodwin, Dale Wolf.
Sports Editor Norris Anderson.
Learning to Kill . . .
A L'-'l vear old Marine private, credited vvilh killing 'J(N)
Japanese during a night attack on Cuadalcanal last August, was
decorated with the navy cross yesterday for "extraordinary
heroism. ''
Surrounded by an honor guard of 100 fellow Marines, ihe.
You nil private commented, "This is as great a thrill as shooting
those .laps.
How many of the university's male students, on the eve of
entrance into the armed forces, are mentally adjusted for 1ha
kind of action? How many believe they can yet a thrill out of
killiiisr?
Very few, we believe.
Does it follow, then, that college students, being educated
and thus intelligent, are too idealistic to kill? Or are college
males, for the most part, afraid.'
We don't think they are overly idealistic; nor are they
cowards. They will learn to kill, ome of them may get a great
tin-ill out of it. as a matter of fact.
Actual, personal hatred for the enemy isn't developed
speedily on a campus in the middle of the Tnitcd States. The
mi m her of men relatives and friends of those attending school
now who have been killed thus far in the war has not been
great. I he enemy isn t 100 yards away pointing a jruu in the di
rect ion of the campus.
The axis youths have Ion- been taught the glory of murder
injr. .'erm;ui and Japanese youths have practiced' killing for
rears. To Americans, killing has always been the greatest of
vil, hut they are being re-educated to the extent that killini;
is all right ami necessary in time of war. The niurderinir of 200
is "extraordinary heroism."
And Nebraska's college men will change their point of view.
J little more experience, a few more deaths, contact with the
enemy that is the process of re-education.
We are not worried about the ability of Americans to learn
how and to kill. We arc also confident that alter the war, they
will have the same ease in readjusting themselves and in recog
nizing the sanctity of human life.
BY BOB
Women, while making up ap
proximately one-half of the popu
lation, nevertheless, provide nine
tenths of the interest in this world
Men are in agreement upon the
fact that they can't get along with
women, but neither can they get
along without them.
This of course leaves the women
a free rein socially since, by and
large, men are powerless to do
anything about it.
Some women come to college,
join Kappa Alpha Theta, pick their
man, marry him and live happily
ever after.
oSme women come to college,
join Alpha Phi, run around with
all the men, have a good time
graduate.
Never Fall . . .
Some women come to college,
join Kappa Kappa Gamma, date a
little, study a little, never fall for
a guy. When they graduate they're
proud to say "once a Kappa, al
ways a Kappa."
Some women come to college,
join Delta Gamma, beat around
all the time collecting fraternity
pins, falling in and out of love,
pass Dunker around, graduate
perhaps.
Some women come to college,
join Pi Phi, spend most of their
time setting up wedding scenes ofr
members, try for activities.
Some women come to college,
Join Alpha Chi, try to win Penny
Carnival again, worry aobut ath-
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lctics, try to find a suitable room
for the girls to smoke in -gain
weight.
Like a Poem.
But the majority of the college i
coeds are much like the girl who !
declared:
"Lips that touch wine will never J
touch mine." And after they grad- j
uate they teach school for years
and years and years. j
I'OKM.
Little Willv'i kind of funny
T.ikm II Mfti-r Uti r Juke i
Hwallciwrd all his mMrr money
Baid 1 hut he wan "playing Kile ..."
The Betas are proud of their or
ganization, but are prouder Ptill
of their maxim that keeps it so:
"The best way to ruin the in
dustry of a well organized group
of men is to throw a wrench into
the works."
I think this poem has appeared
somewhere before, so get out your
humor magazines and see if you
can find it for me:
Thrre arc, to me, two kindi of guyf
And only two that I rieiire:
The firm, I'd really like to ulnm . . .
The one who copiea my exam;
The other la the dirty kunk
Who covera hla and leta me flunk.
Gus Douvas is the scourge of
the engineering school since he
started wearing white shirts to
class. He decided that $3 was not
too much to pay for Jerry Buller's
food, so, naturally, breaking engine
college customs wouldn't be too
big a price to puy for her atten
tion. Trouble is, Jerry never makes
her appearance in engineering
classes!
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The editorial in Wednesday's Daily N'cbras
kan, entitled, "Oh Yes, Have a ood Time,"
gives added evidence of the need for serious
consideration of a Campus Chest. And now is
not too early to start planning if such a Chest
is to he set up. An all-campus fund drive is a
big project and a multitude of details must be
carefully worked out and thought through.
Some of us had hoped that such a plan could
he completed for this year.
Many advantages in such an "all out" ef
fort are obvious, Probably the one nearest the
heart of students and faculty would be Ihe
one implied in the editorial already mentioned,
namely, that the campus population is the
"victim'' of the philosophy of our football
yell, "Hit 'em again, HAHhKR, 11 ARDKK."
The results of drives held so far this year, have
been excellent, hut there is always ihe possi
bility that the one which conies last is apt to
get only the "small change"' left in the
pockets of students.
There are probably very few persons on this
campus who would express any serious doubt
iDoiit the value ot the organi.at ions which
seek hinds here. Reference is m. .,! m.lv
those organizations whii-h f.,.L, r .'. ..n
I diversity students, not those annealiixr to
particular sections, such as the Y.('A to men
lc. Mut surely such worthwhile groups as the
ted Cross. World Student Service Fund W.-n-
Scholarship Fund ami the Infantile Paralvsis
campaign, could, and probably should be, e'om-
ninet into one concerted drive.
Perhaps will) such a Campus Chest the "all
campus appeals could secure what monies
they need for their operation and still nermit
students to "have a good time.''
E. H. Floyd,
Executive Secretary,
University YMCA.
(Editor's note: Here is an idea that merits
erious attention. Development of the details
of such a plan might be a worthwhile project
for the Student Council. The point to be em
i , . . , . , , ... 1
pnasizea is mis: ... u is not too early to
start planning- if such a Chest is to be set up."
The Daily Nebraskan is all for it.)
I V . . Mail
Clippings
Pat Chamberlin, Censor
At five o'clock this morning: ten artillery
trucks and a university station wagon rolled
129 sleepy senior men down to Omaha for their
physical examination for induction into the
Unlisted Reserve Corps. These men include
those who have not as yet been inducted into
the KKC's. Fifteen men will be left behind,
however, as these men have registered thru
their local draft boards and their papers have
not yet been processed.
The examination will lat all morning and
part of the afternoon. The group expects io
return i nlate afternoon at about b' p. in., s;ii,l
Capt. .lames Crabill, adjutant.
If those men pass their physical, they will
return as enlisted reservists on inactive' duty.
If a specialized army unit is stationed here in
the future, continued the Captain, these men
will probably be called to active duty.
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Kin Hrrlherer
Recently graduated from Luke Field, Ari
zona, with commissions as Second Lieutenants
ami their army air corps wings, are Milton
L. Hag-elberger, and Ted Herbert Ring. Milt
left Nebraska the first of this year, and Ted
was graduated in '.'!.
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