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Sunday, March 3, 1946
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THE NEBRASKAN
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Keep Off!
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The other day we received a notation from a reader
which students are making unsightly paths across the
titled "To People Who Make Paths," deploring the extent to
lawns of both campuses. The writer had a point which could
well be considered by his fellow students.
We grant that the campus is barren in regard to land
scaping and in need of a vigorous beautification project, but
ugly paths across the few spots of grass are, no improve
ment. One of the worst violations has been the bisecting of
the lawn in the center of the old campus, from Navy Hall
across to Grant Memorial. This is the prettiest spot on the
city campus and the site of the traditional Ivy Day ceremo
nies in May.
Additional sidewalks were put across one of the malls
and along the parking spaces last summer, extending ade
quate sidewalks to practically all the normally used traffic
routes of the campus. Most of us could start to class a
minute earlier and use these sidewalks.
There has always been an unwritten law, almost
amounting to a tradition, that ag campus people walk only
on the sidewalks. The ag campus has always been so beau
tiful that the students took great pride in the grounds and
abstained from cutting across the malls and lawns. During
the war, however, the limited number of employes has cur
tailed greatly the amount of care which could be given the
campus. Recently the ag students have begun to trespass
on the grass and even to park their cars on the lawn along
the drive betwen the dairy industry building and Experi
ment Station hall.
An improved beautification plan in the future could
easily be unsuccessful if we do not learn to take care of the
little that we have now.
Student Ignorance
The student poll on feding Europe which was published
recently in The Daily Nebraskan revealed an extreme ig
norance and callousness on" the part of the students of the
university. Some students said we should do nothing at all
about the starvation in Europe; others that we should make
them "pay for it" or should wait until we had "fed our own
people" or should not send it to Germany or Japan or, for
some reason, England. Lee Harms, who wrote the article,
observed, "Students interviewed semed only mildly aware
that Europe was facing a great food crisis."
Observers report that no young children or older people
in Berlin will survive the winter. In France the infant mor
tality rate is seven times that in the United States. A cable
from Czechoslovakia reads: "Peril to 785,000 children be
yond exaggeration. No milk, fats, meats, rice. Tuberculosis
rising." A United China Relief report: "Ragged and meager
clothing, straw sandals, mounting living costs, lack of the
most ordinary facilities, and the ever-present menace of
malnutrition and disease these compose the lot of many
thousands of earnest and ambitious youth of China."
The rock-bottom healthful diet is about 2,000 calories
a day, provided it includes a proper amount of high protein
foods like meat and fats, generally unobtainable in Europe.
While the American civilian gets an average of 3,300 calo
ries a day, well balanced, the Englishman gets 2,900, not
well-balanced, the Russian, 2,000; the Dutchman, 1,630, the
Urban Frenchman, 1,500; the Norwegian, 1,115; the Grek,
970; the German, 900 to 1,500, the Viennese, 760. Ninety
m'llions of human beings face starvation in Europe, and
900,000,000 in the Far East. When one sees thse figures,
the picture of safe, comfortable, well-fed Nebraska coeds
saying we "should not be taken advantage "of,v is appalling.
We were asked to do our part in the World student
service fund to meet this ned during the A.U.F. drive. We
gave only one-third of our quota of $3,000. The Tassels had
a large sum of money they wished to spend; they could
have given it to the W.S.S.F. They could have spent it to
bring a Russian student to our campus, as was suggested
by them. The Tassels did neither, the money was spent for
a public address system for rallies.
As students and as citizens we must face it. If we be
lieve in humanity we can still give to the W.S.S.F.; we can
send food in boxes to specific persons in ned whose name
the student pastors can secure; we can support the UNRRA
principle; we can educate ourselves about 'conditions else
where in the world..
If we believe otherwise, we can continue to spend our
money on ourselves.
Bill Miller.
Dear Editor:
I am very much in favor of veterans organiza
tions, especially those formed among student bod
ies. I feel that such organizations can do much for
the veterans, for non-veteran students, for the
university as a whole, and that they will assist
materially in holding down inflation in the Bel
gian Congo,
I am sorry to state, however, that I feel the
efforts to form such an organization on this cam
pus to be misdirected. A single organization will
riot suffice; it would become too broad in its mem
bership. We must have several organizations de
signed to fit the needs of various groups among
the veterans.
I will suggest here only a few of the smaller
groups that I feel should and must be formed. The
burden of determining the others must rest on the
shoulders of those veterans who would not find
satisfaction in any which I present. The first of
my special organizations would be composed of
those Veterans Who Went Thru Basic Training
Three or More Times. We also need one for Vet
erans Who Have Inadvertantly Saluted an Officer
With Their Left Hand. It would also be well to
have an organization of eVterans Who Stormed
the Beaches in Normandy on D Plus 92. Veterans
Who Took a Drink of Calvados Thinking it Only
White Wine certainly need an organization to pro
mote their special interests (this would probably
be the largest of the groups so far suggested.) I
shall conclude my list with Veterans Who Have
Survived a Week or More in Paris. This, I repeat,
constitutes only a few of the possibilities, but I
cannot take the initiative for all groups.
In checking over my list, I find myself eligible
for membership in all the organizations, and so I
hereby found such bodies, appointing myself presi
dent pro-tem of each. Any veterans who feel
themselves eligible for membership in any of my
organizations are urged to attend a mass meeting
at 2:30 a. m. Thursday March 8, on the mall north
of Sosh, for the purpose of ratifying the consti
tutions which I shall have drafted by that time,
and also to vote to continue me in office of presi
dent to which I have temporarily appointed my
self. Ex-WACs, WAVEs, etc. are also invited.
Thank you,
Invictus.
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$$tf Wjarthella J4olcoml
With the coming of balmy, spring weather,
sweater girls begin shedding their coats, and th
politicians crawl out of the wood-work ready lor
the early primaries. And primary school is where)
a lot of them belong, we're told. 'Course our knowl
edge of politics is limited to the fact that X marks
the spot where another Nebraska democrat hope
lessly voted a straight ticket. Straight, not stray,
that is.
As we say in the vernacular, "Behold, the mille
nium!" Yep, it must have arrived, for we saw a
pair of nylons in class the other day.
Consider the case of the missing girl at the
Follies Thursday, tho we'd have been willing to
swear there couldn't have been a girl in town
who wasn't crammed in the place. She waited till
Wednesday, expecting Meno to ask her and won
dering why he didn't. Naturally, when she tried
to get a ticket, they were all gone. Then we have
the self-sufficient bachelor girls.
The Weeping Water cheering section at the
class C tourney Friday night gave an admirable
exhibition of good sportsmanship in their prelim
fray. All thru the pitched battle they'd carefully
refrained from shouting during free throws and
observed the other rules of well-trained enthu
siasts. With less than a minute to go, they were
one point behind, when one of the Water-hoy took
a running front flip over a turtle-backed Benne
tite, and landed with his nose caressing the maples.
Instead of the screaming, booing, bedlam which
might have been expected when the oul was
rightfully called against the Benny-boy, there
wasn't a sound from the Weeping Water section.
The after-game comments didn't sound a bit like
that in the coliseum, either. And if the shoe fits,
why not wear it?
Andrews Hall has become the new fashion cen
ter of the campus, what with sartorical comment
dished out "for free" in English classes. Quoth the
professor Friday, in dicussing a poetical character,
'She must have been able to wear clothes very
well. I've noticed some do, some don't."
Many are those who think we don't have good
sense, but until now we'd thought there was only
six senses we didn't have. Oh, the values of a
college education, we've now been told there are
nine senses we don't have. And it doesn't help a
bit to have some perverted wit yelling, "You're
not stupid, you should see Grandpa, he walks like
this." Yipe!!!
News in a
Nutshell
BY BOB BEASON
NOTE: Tht hnllrtins in IhU
column are merely condensations
or bulletins from several nation
wide news services. Opinions as
may be here expressed are simnlv
the opinions of the correspond
ents wno compiicdjhe dispatches,
and are NOT necessarily the opin
ions of this paper.
WASHINGTON. The United
States Government is expected to
protest to Russia against the
newly announced plan of keeping
Red army forces in so-called
"disturbed" areas of Iran, accord
ing to diplomatic officials. The ex
pectation is strongly supported by
a speech made recently by Secre
tary of State Byrnes in which he
laid heavy emphasis on the need
for all countries to get their armies
home again and stop using force
or threats of force for political
advantage. The U. S.' is con
cerned not only , aboOt Russian
forces in Iran but also aboutthose
in Manchuria and Austria. Quiet
efforts have been under way for
some time to get Soviet agreement
to a joint allied withdrawal from
Austria.
LONDON. According to the
London Evening Star, Spain's
Generalissimo Franco "has been
given a month's notice to quit."
The Star said the United Nations
Security Council will "force the
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issue" at its New York meeting
late this month. Franco will be
warned that his regime endangers
world peace, and he will be
charged with harboring German
war criminals and hiding gold
smuggled out of occupied coun
tries by Hitler.
The British Government has not
yet replied to the American sug
gestion for a joint American-Biit-ish-French
declaration against
Spain.
DETROIT. Terms as set forth
by the General Motors Corpora
tion to settle their 101-day old
strike have been rejected. Mean
while, in Philadelphia striking
C. L O. workers have been barred
from parading without a permit
or holding mass meeting by the
city officials. Some 600 policemen
have been alerted to back up the
edict.
WASHINGTON. Rep. Marcan
tonio (N. Y.) has blocked con
gressional action on legislation
aimed at curbing powers of James
Petrillo, musicians' union "czar."
One of Petrillo's latest moves was
an attempt to ban the playing of
foreign musical programs unless
a band of American musicians
was "standing by" during the pe
riod. President Truman has asked lor
subsidies to batk the housing pro
gram and also asked for "price
ceilings on existing homes."
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Kappa Phi Holds
Pledge Ceremony
For 13 Members
Kappa Phi, national Methodist
girls club, held pledging service
for 13 new members last week at
the Methodist student house.
LaVawn Johnson, president, was
in charge of the pledging service,
which was preceded by a diner
for all active and prospective
members.
New members pledged were:
June Anderson, Annetta Auserod,
Norine Braunsroth, Dorothy Bre
voort, Marjorie Fergeson, Rosa
Lee Gruchat, Donna McAuley,
Betty Lee Maynard, Marilyn Mul
ler, Flora Fae Norris, Elizabeth
Quante, Patricia Rice and Ruby
Shake'speare.
Cutest cards in town
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Rd HaJ
Look 'for
m on
NORCROSS
GREETING CARDS
At The
G01DEU00D
; 215 North 14th St.
South of Student Union
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