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inE nATT. Y KBBBABKAK The Daily Nebraskan Troperty of THE UNIVERSITY OP NEBRASKA Lincoln J. C. BEARD Editor-in-Chief Managing iwmor lint Associate Editor ..Dor Slater Becond Associate Editor.... Ktnei Arnoia RErOUTORIAli STAFF C. E. PauJ Earl O. Jeffrey Charles Frey Marguerite KaufTman Camilla Leyd Luclle Leyda Byron Rohrbaugh Ruth Sheldon Charles Heler A. J. Covert Kffle M. Noll C. 8. HobBon Phil Warner Louise Dobbs SPECIAL FEATURES Bociety Editor Dorothy Ellsworth Athletic Editor Ivan Q. Beede Business Manager Russell F. Clark Asst. Business Manager.... IT. S. Ilarkwon Subscription price 12.00 per year, payable In advance. Single copies, 6 cents each. Entered at the postofflce at Lincoln, Nebraska, as second-class mail matter, under the Act of Congress of March s, 1879. FRIDAY, MAY 21, 1915 MILITARY PREPARATION With reference to the sentiment ex pressed In a Forum article yesterday attacking the Military Department, we should like to focus your atten tion upon, the recent utterance of three prominent citizens of our coun try. Secretary Garrison before the Peace Conference at Lake Mohonk: "Righte ousness is not self-executing. If it is to prevail, the unrighteous must be overthrown; and wherever injustice and unrighteousness take up arms to impose their will upon the just and righteous, the latter must be prepared to withstand the assault and to pre. vail, if they are to survive as moral forces in the world." President Wilson, after the review of the American fleet: "The country has every reason to wish to go for ward in its policy of steadily adding to the strength and equipment of the navy." Jacob Gould Schurman. president of Cornell University: "If wars were were banished from our planet I would retain military training side by side with athletics as an instrument of physical education in our universities; and not only for its physical advan tages, great as they are, but also for its moral, mental, social and civic effects and reactions." Because the United States is appar ently safe from attack now is no rea son that it will always be so. We need to look into the future and adopt a policy that will preserve our position as a moral. force among nations. Pacifism is fast gaining ground in this country. Our people stand united for peace and for a peace policy that will embrace all the nations of the world. But our farseeing citizens realize the United States can exert the greatest influence in bringing about the adoption of that policy by having a defensive strength that will emphasize our moral power. Presi dent Wilson in his message to Ger many said, "We are too proud to fight." That statement connotes the ALWAYS IN STOCK Fn gingering Pine Civil Engineering Pins Palladian Society Pins Union Society Pins Chemical Club Pins Dramatic Club Pins School of Music Pins Black Masque Pins Silver Serpent Pins Workif er Rifle Pins Farm House Pins Senior Pins University Seal Pins Phi Beta Kappa Keys Sigma XI Pins HALLE7T Un! Jeweler Est. 1871 1143 O sentiment that we have the power to compel reparation for a wrong, but w believe the proper way to settle difficulty is to do it peaceably. There was a time when men felt that they must fight duels to settle questions of honor. Now men are "too proud to fight." But still we ad mire the man who is prepared, be cause of his strength and agility, to administer a vigorous physical rebuke to the ruffian who attacks him. The United States can best com mand the respect of the world and exert the greatest moral influence by having a defensive strength that will make us free to disregard our selfish interests in any critical situation Our nation should adopt a system of military training that will fit the great mass of our able-bodied men for im mediate sen' ice If that ever becomes necessary. This policy would not call for extravagant expenditures, but would rather tend to make the men of our nation better men, mentally, mor ally and physically. The present system of military drill in our universities may not be just Ideal. Without doubt it has its weak nesses and does not accomplish all that is intended. But it does give a large number of men a training that would be invaluable to them and to our country in case of an emergency. Perhaps its chief weakness is that it doesn't go far enough, for it reaches such a comparatively small number of our citizens. We need a more com prehensive system. THE FORUM A Warning to Nebraskans At the last meeting of the Young Women's Christian Association, Miss Drake said that a visitor from one of our Eastern states had accused the people of Lincoln of being gross ma terialists. She said she had made several unsuccessful attempts to dis suade him. While this may be a sorrowful diag nosis, it fits the patients. I admit that my own views on the subject were somewhat shaken by your Ivy Day oration. After all, there is some thing of the poetical sense in Ne braska, but it is too rare a sense. I have often doubted whether the beautiful trees which shade the streets of Lincoln were planted so much from the artistic as from the material sense. Were they planted to keep the glorious sun from our wretched selves or were they really placed there for the sake of the picture which the green with the canopy of blue above forms? My dear Nebraskans, we cannot be materialistic and at the same time spiritual. Materialism never has ac complished good worth the name. It has always been opposed to art and culture. And we need culture to be spiritual. We can have absolutely no appreciation of the higher and en nobling things of life without culture. The materialist dwarfs his own soul. He wilfully deprives himself of all the manifold gifts nature offers us. He knows not that every day when so' walks beneath Heaven's blue, through lanes of over-reaching green, that he daily treads the purest and finest art gallery of the world. The very heart within him withers and decays. Let me register a plea against ma terialism in the name of art, poetry, culture, religion. ALTHEA D. STEVENS. Pennsylvania, 'Printing and engraving at Boyd's, 125 No. 12th. Notice The legal fraternity of Phi Alpha Delta met last evening in the Awgwan office. A short business session was held. NOTICES Seniors The first order for caps and gowns has gone in, but still may be ordered at the "Co-op." Order at once. COMMITTEE. Members of Senior Class The Senior class assessments are payable to Mr. Williams, auditor of student activities, office in basement of Administration Building. It U t your advantage to pay this assessment early, as the theatre seats will be given out in rotation. The first twenty-five assessments paid will have an opportunity to secure the first twenty-five choice of seats at the theatre May 31. Pay your assess ment .today. Notice Baptist University students will hold a picnic Saturday, May 22, at the State Farm grove. Take the 4 o'clock Bethany car. Lunch furnished on the grounds, 25 cents. All Baptist stu dents and their friends are invited. Notice The legal fraternity of Phi Delta Phi met last evening at the Kappa Sig house. The meeting was purely social in character. CALENDAR May 21 Pan-Hellenic Dance. Black Masque Banquet. Oklahoma-Nebraska Tennis Meet. May 22 Alpha Tau Omega Picnic. Alpha Phi Picnic. Union Girls' Program. Alpha Tau Omega Dance. Kappa Alpha Theta Dance Rose wilde. Beta Theta Pi Banquet. May 27 Competitive Drill. May 28 Engineers' Smoker. Komensky Banquet. May 29 Peru Club Meeting. Lincoln Commercial Club Banquet to Seniors. June 4 Senior Play Oliver. Temple High Commencement. June 5 Morning Athletic Carnival. Afternoon Pageant State Farm. Class Costume Carnival City Campus. Notice Are you going to be a harvest-field hobo this summer, or would you rather get into a gentleman's game, advertis ing "Wear-Ever" aluminum the game of big profits and valuable training. For particulars see J. F. Chrlsicnscs at the Lindell Hotel, Wednesday or Thursday, or telephone E. J. Althouse at L5170. A Life Termer Escapes From Guard "Bob" O'Connell, convict No. 9528, a life termer of the Nebraska state penitentiary and a trusty working on the outside, escaped from Lancaster yesterday afternoon. When last seen Bob was on the steward's wagon. He made his escape when the driver en tered a store on O street in Lincoln, and as yet no trace of his where abouts has been found. Bob is a full-blooded, yellow bull pup about one year old. He weighs about sixty pounds. Bob was received at the penal institution one year ago. The first six months of his residence at Lancaster was spent behind the prison walls. Prison officials placed confidence in him and made him a trusty. He was placed on the stew ard's wagon, which makes trips to Lincoln daily. The officials were in favor of conferring with Governor MoreheaH in an attempt of securing a commutat' of sentence for Bob. Bob m the property of Jim O'Con nell, chief clerk at the penitentiary. Any information leading to the arrest and return of Bob, the dog convict, will be greatly appreciated 'by the prison officials in general and espe cially by Clerk O'Connell, who offers a reward for his capture. a, Mi .TCiCCOj AGE emphasizes qualities oood or bad VELVET'S Q two years' agein makes the best tobacco better. yf - Qui ft 30C 3 DC 3C Gifts for Graduation Will be easily decided when you see our stock Trade in your books. COLLCQ STORE FACING THE CAMPUS. ' TDE lliiMi School tf Eksic CtUfclUhod 1C34 OjweSta the Unlrcrtity Campua - Elaveath and Q Ui traction five la all brancfcei of trade. Students mj caroH at any time. Bexiaaera accepted. Price reasonable WILLARD KIMBALL, Director When you are looking for a Gff&dssatioa Present go to Hie UNIVERSITY BOOK STORE First. Phone R8684 SIO No. 11th LINCOLN Your calling card must be neat and distinctive. Good taste demands it. Graves Printcry J Specializing m University "PiMing D-2C57 244Nlllh K