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THE NEBRASKAN Wednesday, April 11, 1945 Jul VhJbAa&licuv rOKTT-roUKIB IKAI rakltafce AMI Mm tW Omr. HhiiiIh mm rrttay fwrtaf ttkM- MlMrtrOM (m ar fl.M Pm laM r (1J IH tkt OaOea;t ln. MaMc4. SiBfte eapy. k Ceata. Ctm4 mm M4-elwn Matter at U artfno a Ljbcms Nekraaka, aaarf Act at CMfraai Mare a. It7, a arwl rata a paatar rarie4 far ka Saeuaa lltt AM J Oetakar a. Uil. Astaartaao' Saalaaikai laea. EDITOaUAL 8TAPV EfHar Haralt . Aateraen Manarinf Elitara . . LeOie lean GlalfeUjr. Betty La a Maries Xmi fcdiallara. .Phytiia Teagardea, Shirt? Jenkins, Mary Alice Cawee. Bill Kekerta Sparta E lrtar ...... Ckack rettraen Seciely Edttar Batty King BUSINESS STAFF Basineaa Maaar rr MiKrel Knrjtreia AsKtant Basineaa Maaafera ... . .Lerraia Akramten, Shirley Slakea Cirealaliea Manarer Janet Hatehinaaa Lettcrip A Lost Cause? When word reaches us of the death in battle of a close friend or relative, a former classmate brother or a brother, the war hits home with telling impact. No longer is it a cold, impersonal matter. The phrase "killed in action" sud denly becomes a very personal thing, takes on a new signi ficance for us. Figures are cold, impersonal thing's. We can read the weekly casualty lists released by the war and navy depart ments, note casually that thousands of American fighting men have been added to the killed in action list, and turn to the sports section without a thought' of the true grief and sacrifice recorded in those cold figures. But we can hardly view the war with a casual and im personal eye when we learn that Larry, the happy-go-lucky kid we used to play baseball with in happier days, has been killd on Iwo jima. We suddenly realize that Larry did more than die for his country. We realize that he died for us, for you and me and the thousands of others like us who en joy the sheltered safety of college life while Larry and his fellow fighting men do their part to fulfill Xhat rendezvous with destiny which, it has been so often said, is the obliga tion, of our generation. With this deepened sensitivity to the war which hits us when we learn of the death of a friend there should come, too, a deepened sense of responsibility, a realization of the fact that we, like Larry, must do our part to fulfill our generation's rendezvous with destiny. But what can we do? How can we, as college students, hope to repay the sacrifice of Larry and the thousands like him who have died in battle? What can we do, we whom fate has decreed shall stay in school while our friends and classmates go off to war? The answer is not difficult: We can do our best to as sure that Larry shall not have died for a lost cause, that the bright new world for which he was fighting shall, one day, become a reality. As the leaders of tomorrow, we can resolve to do everything within our power to build the kind f world for which Larry fought and died, a world in which men and nations will live harmoniously and war will not ravage mankind every 25 years. An unattainable goal? Perhaps. But certainly worth striving for. Indeed, a goal for which we MUST strive if we are to repay our obligation to Larry and thousands like him, if we are to make sure that they have not died in vain. Ballrocm Dance Starts Activities For Union Week A main tee dance in the ball room will start this week Union activities at 5 on Wednesday. Friday nigbt the War Council is sponsoring the juke box dance. There will be an admsision charge of a 25c war stamp for each per son. The war stamps will be placed in bond books and the books will be raffled off during the course of the evening. H&aa'i Baa. Dave Haun and his band willi supply the music for the dance Saturday night from 9-11:30. The Sunday afternoon variety show will feature Barbara Stan wyck in "The Mad Miss Manton." The movie will be followed by a 5 o'clock coffee hour in the lounge. "I think you have heard the big advertisement the Red Cross. Army and Navy have out for whole blood to make blood plasma. Some people take it lightly back there 1 know I did myself, but if they could see some of it being used here, there would be more than enough of it." So writes Jack Grim PhM3c, some where in the Pacific, who was former center on the Pittsburg -(Kansas) Teachers College foot ball team. Kelley . . . (Continued from Page 1.) ters in the graduate library school; in the University of Chicago and has recently passed his prelimi nary examinations for hit doc tor's degree. He will take up his duties here n or about July 1. FliglitTraining School Flight lesson arranged at fbe Union Air Terminal by ap pointment Nigbt classes fr rroaiMi t e a 1 Instmetioa. 241 S O Street Pboae S-2SSS er 2-C124. Lincoln Airplane & Flying School Covernmtnt Approved V Your Pictu re wUI briar joy to roar maa in service . . . to Mother this Mother's Day. Have a true-life portrait taken now by oar expert. STUDIO SECOND rmnE Ed. Note: The following let ter was recently received by Miss Margaret Fedde, chairman of the home ec, department from Miss Elvessa Stewart, a graduate from the department in 1912. Miss Stewart was supervisor of home economics in the Philippine is lands and had been interned in a prison camp since the fall of Manila. Manila. March 16, 1945. Dear Margaret Fedder Your letter was so welcome. How good to have word of home folks after three years of silence. Your letter, was dated February 4 and received about March 8. Yes, Feb. 4 was a Great Day for us, but the forces came into ban to Tomas about 8:45 p. m. the night before so we were free then Tanks, trucks, jeeps and all the other items of war kept arriving and Manila was taken (or a part of it) the next morning. The 3700 internees. in Santo Tomas went wild with joy as the first tank followed by trucks, etc. came near our building. We had been warned by the Japs against any kind of demonstration at any time. They would not allow us to look at our planes when they passed over. Those who did look were punished severely. So we were afraid to leave the building and go down the roads (of the cam-; pus) to meet them, but when theyj were a few yards from the build-j ing with one accord all rushed out shouting. It is a wonder the Jap guards did not fire into the crowd, but they were pretty, busy at this time trying to prevent the forces coming in at the gate. The shouting and cheering kept up practically all night. The menu board announced "Star Spangled Breakfast" and named the items. Incredible! The next morning every starving one of us had all he could eat! iRsafficieat Diet. It is one thing to read of the effects of not enough minerals. not enough vitamins B, C, r others, too little protein all makes interesting reading for those of us interested in nutri tion, but all this takes on some thing far greater than mere in terest when we see our best friends bed ridden with compli cations of several (or all) of these deficiencies, when feet are swollen beyond the resemblance of human feet, and then when friends die before our eyes from these very things, and we (and the doctors are helpless) then malnutrition and starvation take on new mean ing. Dear God, no one who has not experienced it can even vaguely imagine what it means to go to bed night after night hungry hungry and to be able to think of nothing but the cupful of watery rice for breakfast. This relieved a little. Food Grows Worse. Our food grew seadily worse from February, 1944. In Novem ber the Japs gave us 1000 calories per day per capita, in December, 950, and in January, 1945 between I got 550 and 700 calories. weak to figure it out I had been doing it every month for the doc tor in the nutrition council. Meat and fish were practicaly unknown durine the last six months tho the bay abounds in choice fish Eggs and milk unknown, fruits disappeared. The men lost an average of 51 lbs. and the women 32. I weighed 82 from 145 pounds, and I've always been on the lean side as you know. Have gained 15 lbs. since our liberation. The last three weeks I could scarcely walk, added to this I was too weak to walk. Every day some died or ben-Deri or piain starvation. There seemed to be more cases of outspoken beri-beri than of any other one sickness too high schools In the south. The Bureau of Education had a new regulation going into effect in March, 1945 (schools close in March) that no . girl could gradu ate from high school without ne year of home economics. We were checking up on all the high schools that had recently put in home economics. I was in North Mindanao when word came of Pearl Harbor. I started to Ma nila but got only as far as Duma kuete on Negros island. I stayed with friends then fled to the mountains in the Virgin Forest. In July, 1942 the Japs got us and took us back to Dumaguete, two months later were were taken by barge to Bacolod on the other side of the island. Such a trip but all cases were complicated 21 of us. We stayed in Bacolod with more than one deficiency. The hospital was full. The doctor who signed death certificates was put in jail on one-half ration be cause he would not change his statement "Death from Starva tion" for the five who died that day. Then one night a big bronzed fellow strode down the narrow passage way (in our main building) and chopped the door in and liberated the doctor and others amid added cheers, for they had been going on quite a while. This was The Night. Inspect Schools. I left Manila Dec. 3, 1941 to visit until March, 1943 when 119 of us were brought to Manila. Given one hour to get on the boat but the boat sailed five days later! We were brought to Santo Tomas which as you know was the oldest university under the U. S. flag being founded in 1607, by Span ish Dominion fathers. As you can guess, I have lost everything as practically every one else has. The Japs are good looters. The Carinos are safe. My letter is now regulatoin size must stop. Love to you, (Signed) Elvessa Anne Stewart. gin t nuir. twe ia Reprinted from tha May tamo of Esquire "lather! iou keep out of Ihu No place like home . . . Have a Coke y. ?Ji 7 J tWyfi - ilAt ju, V? 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