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DAILY NEBRASKAN
Sunday, March 28, 1943
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Editor Alan Jacobs
Business Manager Betty Dixon
When Soldiers Arrive
The air corps boys iire moving on the
campus very shortly perhaps tomorrow, per
haps later in the week very soon, for sure.
The addition of a large number of men on
the campus, all in uniionn, poses a problem
that will probably have to be faced. It is the
problem of several hundred men in uniform
living in the same community as a large num
ber of able bodied young men in cords and
waddle shoes; of young, red-blooded men liv
ing a disciplined, strielly regulated life while
at the same time similar men are foot-loose
and fancy free.
At other schools, the problem has not
worked out too satisfactorily. There has been
resentment: resentment on the part of soldiers
that men like themselves are dodging the
army; resentment on the part of the students
that the soldiers are taking over, are unfair
in criticizing them.
At a few of the schools, the problem has
been solved by the mutual understanding of
both soldiers and students as to the situation
of the other.
The soldiers learned that almost every man
left on the campus was either in the army,
navy or marines and was but going to school
while awaiting call to active service; that these
smartly clad civilians were not draft-dodgers.
The students were made to understand that
the soldiers weren't on the campus at their
own free will, that it is natural for a fellow
in uniform to criticize others in sport jackets
and smart slacks; that these soldiers were not
interlopers but were men just taken from
other campuses.
The first step in the process of mutual un
derstanding must be taken by the students.
It is up to them to make theair corps men
stationed here feel at home. It is up to them
to walk on the campus with their heads up,
indicating that they need not be ashamed of
the fact they are not in uniform.
Men on the campus students and soldiers
are all working for and looking toward the
same goal. Starting the first day the air men
report here, there should be a recognition that
there is much in common between the two
groups.
It's Too Bad
Nebraska will not play football this fall,
this fall, apparently because a' suitable date
for the game could not be found.
The reason given sounds a bit flimsy al
though it may be the true one. The alibi
"Well, a satisfactory date could not be found"
is given so often that when it is valid it is
not believed.
At any rate, there won't be a game. It's
too bad. We do hope, however, that team mem
bers will continue practicing and cooperating
with Coach Glenn Presnell.
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Editor,
Daily Nebraskan.
Sir:
In your lead editorial of Thursday morn
ing you concluded, "Hut God help the peace
treaty if students are no more informed than
they are now." I feel compelled to add to
that, God help us for we will not help our
selves. You said also, ". . . there were less than
lialf a dozen students present" at the forum
Wednesday on post-war problems. I know of
no reason why your estimate should be doubt
ed. If the Nebraska student body is typical
of student bodies at other universities it prob
ably is and if college students are no more
unprogressive and indifferent than the ration
as a whole they probably arc we are al
ready losing the peace and, therefore, the war
as well. Most persons will deny this and point
to recent gains on the battlefield. I do not
agree. We can, and probably will, lose this
war even though our jeeps run up and down
White Space
With nothing more than a sledge hammer
and a screw driver, Ghita Hill has amazed the
scientific world again. Hy ruining the motor
of her ear with her sledge hammer, and at
taching an outboard motor to the exhaust pipe
with the aid of her screw driver, she has man
aged to combine the pleasure of motoring
down K street, with the joys of Gondola-ing
over the Grand Canal of Venice.
Ghita has been trying to lure someone into
her rejuvenated automobile for several days,
and after intoxicating us with a grapefruit
coke, she found her victim. The ride home
was not only made entertaining by Ghita'.s
combination automobile-speed-boat driving
method, but also by the sensation that we were
riding in a Mississippi river stern wheeler.
If we had been wearing burnt cork, we
could have sung a chorus from "Showboat."
As it was, the car sounded like a hayfeverish
juke box wheezing away at "I Left My Pep
per and Salt City Shaker in Idaho" or what
ever the name of that popular serenade is.
If you have any faith in the old saw "The
good die young" and are sure of yourself, yon
can ask Chita for a ride in her invention; if
not, you had better just watch the fun from
the shore.
One of the art exhibitions added attrac
tions is listening to Mr. Dwight Kirsch try to
explain a picture to a group of Lincoln ladies.
Mr. Kirsch, operating on the theory that once
an artist has finished a picture, the picture is
to speak for itself, attempts to get the ladies
to look at a picture and try to figure it out
from the artist's viewpoint, but he is always
interrupted by some lady intent on telling
what she and her neighbor know the picture
means.
Another feature of the exhibition is the
lady who brings her friends and lectures au
thoritatively on the pictures. Iler friends are
impressed at first, but they soon discover that
the lady's interpretation of the pictures is
straight from the notes pinned on the wall.
the famous trees of Berlin's Unter den Linden.
The aims of our fight hae been semi-officially
announced as the "four freedoms" of the "At
lantic Charter." I doubt whether there are
many still so firmly rooted in the past as to
disavow these aims.
Shall we, therefore, wait for the "good
genii" to effect them for us or shall we ob
tain God's help by helping ourselves, by in
forming ourselves, by casting our votes, and
by making it plain to our elected representa
tives how we feel and what we demand as
the minimum price of the sacrifices our gen
eration is being called upon to make?
Most fathers and mothers left it to the
genii during and after "the war to end all
wars." My parents were no exception. This
week my father wished forlornly, "If they
would only take me instead of Hemic !" My
mother looked at his draft call through her
tears and said, "It hurts, but there is no way
out." Hernie is my "kid brother. I am ex
pecting to be called next month. We are not
complaining. Both of us are eligible for occu
pational deferments. We have decided not to
apply for them because we know we shall be
fighting for ourselves, not -for an altruistic
ideal.
Can we, however, allow our children to
accuse us of mental laziness as we are now
accusing our parents?
It should be said, of course, in defense of
Nebraska students that some are already
pretty well-informed and think they can profit
more by reading and study of the subject at
home. Perhaps they can but how can they
escape the need for an exchange of opinions?
How can they effectively present their ideas
for consideration except in concord with their
fellow-citizens?
There is another group of students who
would like to attend these forums but who
must attend classes and laboratories on Wed
nesday afternoons and, in some cases, everyJ
afternoon of the week. I, for one, am of the
last group.
Couldn't the forums be held some weekend
night? It may be argued that these are date
nights, but anyone who is interested will bring
his date. I know personally several soldiers at
the air base who would like to come, but Fri
day night is their only available time. Al
though the majority of students probably do
not belong to the groups I have mentioned,
it is very likely that the attendance would be
somewhat larger on a weekend night.
Frank Jacobson.
Navy Drops Faulty Vision
Barrier; Opens SV-7 Class
. . . For Engineers
College upperclassmen who have
been kept out of the armed forces
officer reserve program, because
of faulty vision and who are tak
ing a course which lead to degrees
in physics, mathematics or elec
tronics now being accepted by
the navy.
The new program, Class SV-7
of the naval reserve, has been an-
Purling Snarl:
Girls Practice
At Red Cross
Coeds whose mothers and grand
mothers did not teach them the
art of knitting and purling should
not venture forth to the Red Cross
headquartcis to use their yarn for
their first ambitious attempts at
a sweater or pair of socks for
Johnny Doughboy.
Ths information came today to
the Student War Council from
rueful Red Cross instructors who
have been heckled by university
coeds anxious to do their volunteer
war work in knitting.
Takes Practice.
Wool is valuable these days, and
quotas prescribed the regional of
fice of the Red Cross are stiff.
Knitting takes practice and does
not spring from one's fingers
overnight. In other words neither
the Red Cross nor the Student
War Council wants the coeds to
waste time at Red Cross head
quarters but encourages the expe
rienced knitter to sally forth and
do her bit.
For those audacious war-workers
who wish to learn to knit, the
Student War Council suggests that
they purchase a ball of yarn and
attempt some straight knitting
first and folow up with the varia
tions before visiting the Red Cross
or British War Relief offices.
nounced in connection with the
need of the navy for additional
officer candidates for engineering
duties In 1943-44.
Men who have 820 vision and
who can read correctly but one
plate of each three seta of color
blind charts will be excepted.
Dental requirements have also
been reduced.
Under this plan accepted candi
dates will be voluntarily inducted
into the navy through the selective
service system, provided with a
special identifying letter, and
placed on inactive status until they
have obtained their degrees. Upon
graduation from college they be
come mid-shipmen for officer
training with members of V-l and
V-7.
Age Limits 18-28.
The "age limits are 18 to 28 and
candidates must be full time jun
iors or senior students now en
rolled in the necessary courses.
Applicants should visit the Iowa
Nebraska headquarters of the
Naval Officers Procurement, Old
Federal building, Des Moines, for
an interview and physical exam
ination. Preliminary contacts may
be made by mail. Applicants who
can get to Omaha to visit the
traveling naval Officer Procure
ment board to be located on the
8th floor of the WOW building
during the week of March 22 to
28, may place their applications,
or secure further information in
that city.
University Chorus Needs
More Tenors and Basses
University chorus suffered
when the ERC was called into
active duty, and now needs six
to eight tenors and as many
basses.
Students who are interested
should go to room 103 in the
Temple at 11:30 a. m. Friday
or see Dr. Arthur E. West
brook at the school of music.
NEW SWEATERS
and
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