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Wednesday, April 11, 1945
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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 . . .
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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
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241 S O Street Pboae S-2SSS
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Lincoln Airplane &
Flying School
Covernmtnt Approved
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Mother this Mother's Day.
Have a true-life portrait
taken now by oar expert.
STUDIO SECOND
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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.
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