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Authorised September 80, 1932.
Published daily during the school year except Mondays and Saturdays,
vacations and examinations periods by Students of the University of Nebraska
under the supervision of the Publications goara.
Day 2-7181.
Offices Union Building.
Night J-7193.
Journal 3-S830.
Editor Alan Jacobs
Business Manager Betty Dixon
Assistant Business Managers Charlotte Hill. Morton Zuber
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT.
Managing Editors Ceorfe Abbott. Mariorie May
News Editors John Baurrmekter, Pat Chambcrlin. Juris J ami ton.
Marylouisc Goodwin, Mary Helen Thorns.
Sports Editor Noma Anderson.
Circulation Manager Don Pa pes.
Outworn Traditions
In the Post-War World . . .
"It is time to sweep up all the old stencils and dump them
n the scrap heap."
That is what Wendell Wilkie told republican party mem
bers recently. He was referring to the traditional picture of the
Republican party: Social unconsciousness, hide-bound conserv
atism, narrow nationalism.
Altho his remarks were directed at a particular group,
"Willkie could have well told the entire nation to toss the old
misconceptions into nothingness not misconceptions as to the
GOP itself, but misconceptions as to traditional American poli
cies: the protective tariff and isolationism in particular.
Early in American history, the tariff produced swift and
tangible results ; namely prosperity for American labor and in
dustry. But more recently, we have sceen that blind adherence
to a protective tariff is downright dangerous.
Freedom of trade is one 'of the freedoms for which this war
is being fought. Not cartel systems or international doles, but
commerce conducted by free citizens on a two-way flow basis
constitutes free trade.
A pattern of post-war action has been set by the Hull reci
procity program and the administration's lend-lease plan, but
they are only symbols of an enlarged vision of the world's eco
nomic problems,
America is no longer an isolated nation. That lesson was
learned on December 7, 1941. It follows then that a trade pro
gram based on isolationism is impractical.
Every post-war plan, then, must jnclude provisions for a
trade program based on internationalism. Traditional miscon
ceptions most assuredly belong in the scrap heap.
An Editorial Fulminatioii
(The following' editorial, as nearly as we can ascertain,
first appeared in "The Purple and White," weekly newspaper
Of Millsaps college, Jackson, Miss.)
Profs can sit crosslegged on the top of a desk; dean's first
list students can let down their guard; student body presi
dents can fraternize with the masses.
Only an editor is required to be pontifical always.
Only an editor is supposed to know everything that hap
pens, so it is taken for granted that he already knows it, and
nobody ever tells him anything; only an editor is supposed
to keep an open mind always, and at the same time snap deci
sions for each political impasse; only an editor is required to
keep his nose out of politics, meanwhile keeping tab on the
strength of each separate lineup.
Profs have their apple-polishers who ask questions after
flass; dean's list students get their quarterly reports; student
Wy presidents hear quarterly reports; student body presi
dents hear complaints in SEB meetings.
Only an editor has to guess.
Only an editor has to grope blindly along, trying to put
fut a paper for avstudent body who will talk only behind
lis back, who will never tell him what they like or don't like,
avho will squawk audibly only when they are mortally and
Irreparably wounded who never thank him when says anything
nice about them or censor anything nasty, who have to be
tracked down, cornered, and beaten insensible before they will
o much as give him a news lead.
Profs have the satisfaction of seeing their teachings put
Into practice; dean's list students are an inspiration to their
uccessors; student body presidents can point with pride at
year's end to long rows of achievements.
Only an editor never accomplishes anything.
Only an editor has to endure the spectable of 599 of his
f 00 loyal readers, each and every week, turning immediately on
Receipts of the paper to the Finger of Scorn, ignoring every
thing else in the issue; to find the layouts on which he and his
ttaff have spent hours of work, completely unappreciated; to
leel this editorial campaigns which he has planned for months,
which are his only method of criticism of his school and of
Society, coldly ignored.
Profs get to sit on the stage; dean's list students don'M
ave to attend class; student body presidents get to introduce
visitors.
Only an editor is damnfool enough not to want to trade
places with any of them.
And, when all's said and done, only an editor has the sat
isfaction of knowing that his thousand words a week are writ
Jen down in letters that can never be erased; of feeling some
thing in a wav which must have immediate and lastintr effect;
Books vs. Battlefields . . .
TWa ncrmle who find it difficult to understand why sol
diers should be sent to universities instead of to the battle
fields should consider what Col. Herman Buekema, G.S.G, di
rector of army specialized training, said recently:
"We face a serious shortage in the output of men who not
only can perform difficult and delicate tasks demanding knowl
edge and skill but who can teach others to perform them. Near
ly two-thirds of the personnel in a modern army consists of
specialists.
"Some of the gap is being filled by instruction in the
camps, some by sending soldiers to factory schools. Neither
of these methods is adequate. If we could move the colleges
bodily into our camps, our problem would be solved. That
being impossible, the war department is reversing the flow,
by placing selected soldiers in selected instutions for varying
penods of intensive training.
Consider the fact that two-thirds of army personnel must
be specialists 1 Objections that soldiers' time is being wasted
when they go to school seem absurd, and such objections are
absurd.
It is this great need for specialists which will keep men in
universities thruout the war and that will, thus, maintain
American colleges until after the war when normal programs
can be continued.
The army gains as do the universities and as does the
American people.
of knowing that, if he knew how to use it, he has the whole
state for his audience; of sensing that he is doing a job for
the students which no one else could do in quite the same way;
and last but not least, of being sure of a staff that, no matter
how much he is forced to abuse them, overwork them, deny them
any reward for their work, will be driven back for more by
pure love of literary effort. Only an editor would gripe about it.
Farewell
(Continued From Paga f
attributed to ths lateness
Easter this year and LKterer pre
dicts that Increased sales to Aprfl
win help offset the March decline,
predominates, it will be tba first
party, traditional to UN students
since the Junior-senior prom, held
last February.
Tickets will go on sale todaj,
according to an announcement of
Bob Henderson, chairman of the
committee; and can be purchased
at the Comhusker office and Love
Memorial library, or from any
member of the society. Jack Hig
gins will be in charge of distri
bution at the library barracks.
Price is $1.10 per couple.
STARS...
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ter in the Home Ec building before
Saturday. Coeds from the city
campus are invited to attend, but
they are also asked to register.
Women are to be at the dance
by 8:30 p. m. Saturday in order
that they may be checked In be-
fore the dance begins. University
rules governing soldier dances will
apply. Music will be furnished by
jukebox.
Ag campus has felt that some
form of entertainment was needed
for the STAR unit quartered In
the new Home Ec building, and
the co-chairmen hope that this
dance will prove as successful as
previous dances for the air crew
have been on the city campus.
S-T-R-E-T-C-H
your wardrobe
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CaduaL
Comfy slacks-suits
Handsome ensembles for lazy days . . .
in covert doth, soft rayon gabardine,
and the "new "Strutter" cloth. Checks
or plain designs.
$S.S5-$1195
Sport jackets
Trim butcher linen jackets in scarlet,
kelly greea or leaf green. Well-cut
slacks and skirts to match. May be pur
chased separately. Jacket . . . $7.50.
Skirt and slacks . . . $6.50 each.
Separate slacks
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Smart slacks in "Sanforized fabrics
and 100 wooL Navy blue, black.
cool green, bright red.
$4.95 $1195 Tricky head scarves
First Floor Sports Department
A AO
Sher "Fascinators" in dainty pastels.
Tie them under your chin ... or vets'
them as a turban.
$1.95
Bright waterproof tafleta ia triangle
shapes. Stripes or plaids.
5LS5
Big rayon squares in nev spring col
ors. jixa
