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THE NEBRASKAN
Wednesday, February 28, 1945
fj. R. . Bradley
Credits Flak Suit
With Saving Life
I Peace Conference Previews
BY PAT GILLIGAN.
Signs of spring are all around
us lor sure. Evidence Pin-hanging
and candy-passings. It takes
the warm and balmy breezes and
the birds and the flowers to make
a young man weaken. Sig Ep
Dean Messman lost no time in
bestowing his newly acquired ac
tive pin on the girl of his dreams.
Tri Delt Jan Home. No wonder
she's walking on air!
The Chi O's were hostesses
Monday to the Phi Delts when
Shirley Crosby and Bob Crcutz
did the honors with candy and
cigars. Alpna cms also naa
sweets from Sister Betty Svoboda
to introduce her new diamond
from Bill Parmenter, which she
kept well hidden on 'a string
around her neck until the occasion.
KAT Billie Trombla started out
the year dating an ATO but when
he left for the service brother
Bill Lehr took over and now it
is a steady deal.
What Next?
Who were the strange look
ing characters that got into the
Union Monday nite???? It seems
that the Alpha Chis, for lack of
something to wear, borrowed the
overcoats of some of the Sig
Chis. Times are tough you know.
On the campus by the grace
of Uncle Sam were Dick Cole
DU, Bill Edgecomb, ATO
Mickey Allen to see Barb Emer
son, Alpha Chi Ensign "Duggie"
Doyle Bill Albright.
Kay Reese, KAT, found out
how critical the transportation
really is Friday nite when her
date, Benny Murison, who was
to arrive early in the evening
didn't get in until 1:30 a. m.
Tliey're Off to Omaha.
Off to Omaha this weekend
are Betas Harold Helgerson, Bob
Schulte, and Gene Rainey and
Alpha Phis Donnie Peterson, Jean
Koleszar and "Blackie" Blanch
ard. Chi O Midge Sinclair got quite
a present via the mails the other
day to be specific, a diamond
from her man overseas. Too bad
the postman can't be more gen
erous with such presents.
Congratulations to the Alpha
Xi Delts on their' new pledge.
Ruth Ann Rogers, whom we hear
is quite a beauty. Better look
into this, boys.
"Ten Days with Baby" was the
theme song of Ensign Allen Dun
lap and the girl in question was
Fiance, AOPI Phyllis Davidson.
Two other sisters, Bette Tobin
and Mary Lou Bohner, have been
helping make the leaves of Pfc.
Doug Johansen, former UN stu
dent, and Bill Phillipsen more
pleasant.
"Admiral" Tangeman convoyed
a fleet of eight Gamma Phis oul
to dinner Sunday evening. What
were you trying to smooth over,
Tange???
Friday nite brings up the Sig
Ep Biue party and we are eager
ly waiting on pins and needles
to see who the lucky girls will
be.
BY TROFESSOR C. NELSON.
Once more, as alter World war
I, there is a demand lor repara
tions. The Germans must be pun
ished, must be made to pay for
the property destroyed by bombs,
for the devastation of battlefields,
for property confiscated in van
quished countries. Russia, loud
est in its demands, have even ad
vanced a figure $800 billion as
the total claim of the United Na
tions. Are we about to repeat the mis
takes of Versailles and the various
minutes, reparations plans following?
Fundamentally, reparations
would mean the transfer of goods
or services from Germany to the
United Nations with no payment
'in return. This is extremely diffi
cult to effect.. In 1919 and 1920,
when Germany delivered coal to
France, as reparations, the rrencn
Second Lt. Ralph H. Bradlev,
former university student, credits
a flak suit thoughtfully placed be
neath him in his nose compart
ment in the B-17 Flying Fortress
"Li!' K'tty" with possibly saving
his life.
Lt. Bradley, who left in his first
year at the university, is a 20-
vpni-nlH Omah.n HnTnharHipr now
stationed somewhere in England.
He wjs recently awarded the Air
Medal.
'We were iust a few
from Merseburg," said Lt. Brad
ley, whose "exceptionally meri
torious achievement" in more
than n dozen missions won him t lie
med.il, "when heavy flak was
thrown up at us knocking out
one engine and tearing big gap-
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inn iiuifs n nui r in ii iKrincP as
"A burst caught us right under ;ooal profiut.ei.s protested. Shall we
une nose oi our ruinc.-s imi
i propose
thai fiprmanv shin beet
chunks of flak, white-hot, went .. Nebraska in "payment of
the extra flak suit II post,var (World war I) history
on. and imde big ci, rioai-iv ih failure of vaii-
dent in the suit, which is made1..... i novmoni nf
l-r . I J - 1 1 TIT- V. . . , ,
oi me lousncM Mtii. wt- ikiu u reparations, in 1921 German re
turn back trom our target, which parations were made payable in
flvin:' through the air. Several!
of them hit
was sitting
lowing methods.
1. Transfer of German objets
d'art, jewelry, libraries, rare
manuscripts of insignificant
value.
2. Use of German labor in re
construction of war-torn countries
to be fed and clothed by Ger
many. Russia wants this labor.
3. Transfer of German military
equipment to the victors who
will undoubtedly have a surplus
after the war.
4. Transfer of German indus
trial ea moment. If Germany is
to be allowed no "heavy" indus
tries (steel, chemicals, etc.) this
would permit relatively large pay
ments. 5. Transfer of such microscopic
amounts of gold and foreign in
vestments that may still be in
German hands.
6. An annual transfer of goods
from Germany to those nations
willing to receive them. Russia
could accept these because of her
state controlled economic system.
Britain, because it desires to im
nnrt more roods than it is able
to pay for, is another possibility.
. Gold payments ONLY if the
Feature UN Qiicsiionaire
The February edition of Civil
Engineering, official publication
of the American .Society of Ciyil
Engineers, featured an article,
'Weed for Broad Training In
dicated by University of Nebras
ka Questionnaire," by Prof. Roy
M. Green, assistant dean of the
college of engineering. The article,
based on a survey of men en
gaged in highly diversified fields
of civil engineering, explains in
detail, how a broad general edu
cation is a valuable part of the
training for an engineer.
United Nations lower tariffs and
adont other oolicies allowing free
movement of international trade,
and eliminating all monopolies.
This will not he done.
The total amount from all these
possible reparations payments is
unknown, but it is small. Com
pared with $800 billion (ten times
the prewar annual production of
goods and services in the United
States and 27 times that in Ger
many) it is exceedingly small.
Furthermore, collection of any re
narations from a democratic gov
ernment over any long period of
time is virtually impossible.
was supposed to be the s.vntheticiol(i marks, but Germany
on woiks ai ivieiseDers. oui aim
nicked out another objective to
limped back 1o
Flying with
had
and has now only a small stock
nf Plane In mv in roods
nrop our bombs on before we;faiij because the rest of the
our base." world did not want goods; they
the 100th boni-..,., nrnrftirrr minded and not
bard men t group, a unit of the consumer minded. Indeed, al
i Eighth Air Force's Third Bom-Lost every country imposed bar
bardment Division, the divisicp Ljrrs nn 5npominr roods. We. too.
cited by the president for the rajscd our tariff in 1922 and in
England-Africa shuttle bombing 1930.
of the Resensburg Messerschmitt Germany therefore could not !
plants. Lt. Bradley has also pay the required amounts, and so 1
nroppen Domos oil more man a American investors loaned money
dozen other targets. n fiprmanv not to nav repara
tions, true, but none the less the
loans were used for that purpose.
Is this to happen again? Are we
willing to have the United Na
tions levy reparations on Ger
many to be paid bv us in the
form of loans to Germany which
will never be repaid?
It is true that reparations can
be paidr but only in relatively
small amounts, and by the fol-
Jet Mea, 1,944 Years Old
The "new" principle of jet pro
pulsion dates back to the begin
ning of the Christian era. To be
exact, the mechanical idea of it
is 1,944 years old. The first dem
onstration of iet reaction was
Hero's aeolipile a hollow sphere
caused to spin by steam escaping
from two jets.
Townsend Photo Studio.
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