The Old Order Changeth Continued facts, verify them to check upon their validity and test his conclusions. Upon his decision, depend his own immediate happiness and the future of his country. The time is close at hand when efficient productive manpower will be as scarce as rubber or aluminum, and far more precious. Soon misguidance or waste of human resources will be a most grievous sin. We are in a total war now. That means that the civilians are almost as responsible as the combatants and that they are also exposed to danger. The woman working in the munitions factory and the engine mechanic working at an air base may be just as much on the firing line as the pilot in the air or the gunner in the artillery. Aim high in planning your wartime career just as you do in planning your post-war career. You only live once. The higher the achievement, the greater the satisfaction to yourself and the greater service to your country. Karl G. Maeser used to say: "Don't be a scrub! Anybody can be a scrub!" If you go into nursing, don't stop at the R. N., but aim to become a supervisor or an instructor (Utah produces none). The mechanic learner at Hill Field is only a kindergarten touchdown; aim to become a journeyman and ultimately an aeronautical engineer. Almost anybody can learn to type 55 words per minute in 170 hours training and qualify as a junior typist, but students with vision who are employed by the government will take night school and study to become senior typists, senior stenographers and administrators. The naval reserve and the air corps hold out almost unlimited opportunities for competent young men with one, two or four years' college standing. Majors in almost any college curriculum with one year of college mathematics, are privileged to enlist in the fore part of their junior year in Naval Reserve V-7, remain in college until graduation, attend Northwestern University for four months and go into the navy as an ensign. The navy recruiting officer in Ogden says that there is no limit set upon the number of prospective officers that they will accept under Naval Reserve V-7. Even the selective service of the army is now assigning selectees with valuable college training to the medical corps and to other branches, but assigning them to various universities and centers for advanced specialized training before going into active service. One of fifteen Weber College faculty-student committees on the war effort, after visiting the personnel officers of Hll Field, the Ogden Ordnance Depot and the Ogden Supply Depot, brings in the report that all three of these officers advise students not yet of draft age to secure all possible college training because their value and their effectiveness are in proportion to their training. In 1940, there was approximately one commissioned officer to every 160 men in the army and the navy. At this ratio, the armed force of 7,000,000 men which Brigadier General L. B. Hershey seeks will need 437,-000 officers. In 1938, there were only 1,205,256 college students, including both men and women, in the entire nation. It is encouraging to observe that Japan has 71 college students to each 10,000 people; Germany, 64 college students to each 10,000; and the United States has nearly 1,000 college students to each 10,000 people. (Statesman's Yearbook, 1941). If our college men are as loyal, as willing to sacrifice and to become as well trained in military science as those of Germany or Japan, the odds are decidedly with the United States. In conclusion, then, it is quite apparent that every junior college student must change his plans to include definite training for and, subsequently, a distinct contribution to his country. This revision of plans is a change which cannot be deferred. It should be made soon, and yet not without careful thinking. There is no student who does not desire with all his heart to make the greatest possible contribution and to do that in the minimum of time. Hysteria, snap judgments, and rash conclusions, however, will not produce such contributions. Sincere study of one's experience, interests, capacities and opportunities for growth and the determination to upgrade one's objectives, as applied definitely to military service and defense, can and will equip us to meet any situation which a future of arms and armaments demands. 'Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate!" Longfellow. Page Eight attention local draft board by Lesbeth Lucas All my life I've had a truly vexing fault I suffer from the pangs of indecision. If offered a variety I cannot make a choice; Small wonder I'm an object of derision. When a Weber catalogue was put into my hands From overloading nothing could prevent me. Life saving, Mothercraft and art I signed them all. I really think the dean should regiment me. In campus cafeteria I'm at my very worst, I choose and choose then fill a second tray; From soup to nuts I can't resist a thing One meal has calories enough to last a day. My country's now at war how can I serve? For Victory what shall my offering be To knit, or nurse, or drive an ambulance? Come, Uncle Sam, and blow a draft on me.