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THE NEBRASKAN Sunday, March 3, 194R EDITORIAL COMMENT Page 2 JIvl 0jailip 7bJ)AaAkcuv FORTY-FIFTH TEAR Subscription rates are IM per semester r II .M far the contra yr. mailed. Single ropy, 6 cents. Entered u serend-elsss matter at the post tttiet in Lincoln. Nebraska, ander act of Congress March S, 1879, and at special rate postare provided lor in section 1103, act of October t, 1911, authorized September 80, 1923. EDITORIAL STAFF ICIItor Bettr 1 Hnston Managlnc Editors Phyllis Teairarden, Shirley Jenkins Kews Editor Mary Alice C a wood, Fhyllls Mortlork, 4ck Cressmu, Dale Nevotny, Marthella Bolcomb Snorts Editor Ooonre Miller Society Editor t Toot BUSINESS STAFF Bnslness Manager Lorraine Abramsoa Assistant Business Manager Dorothea Rosenberf, Donna Peterson Assistant Advertising Manarer SL,J, fVilT. Cin-ulatioa Manager , Keith Jones, Phone 8-6213 Keep Off! f 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 ioods 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 millions 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 '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. J Jul tiiJv Qovl 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 not 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 6, on the mall north of Sosh, for the purpose of ratifying the consti tutions which I shall have drafted by that tirrie, 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. lTjartlidia MoicomL With the coming of balmy, spring weather, sweater girls begin shedding their coats, and th politicians crawl out of the wood-work ready for the early primaries. And primary school is wher 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 thrpws 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-boy 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 f,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!M in a Nutshell BY BOB BEASONI NOTE: The bulletins in this column are merely condensations of bulletins from several nation wide news services. Opinions as may be here expressed are simply the opinions of the correspond ents who eompiledjhe dispatches, and are NOT necessarily the opin ions or this paper. WASHINGTON. The United States Government is exnected to protest to Russia against the newly announced plan of keenine Red army forces in so-called "disturbed" areas of Iran. nvnrH- 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 , aboilt 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 REDEHBO'S Commerce Barbers 121 No. is Nat. Bank of Com. 13 & O Bldr. 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-Brit-ish-French declaration against Spain. DETROIT. Terms as set forth by the General Molors 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 back the housing pro gram and also asked for ceilings on existing homes." Tuxedos for Rent o ABLE CLEANERS 239 No. 14 2-2772 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 Shakespeare. Cutest cards in town TTLf i, V I" I , . t. I m Look for m on NORCROSS GREETING CARDS At The GOLDEHQOO : 215 North 14th St. South of Student Union A