THE DAILY NEBBABg.An
The Daily Webraskan
Property of the University of Nebraska
Lincoln
R. V. Koupal Editor-in-Chief
o. K Paul Managing Editor
Percy Spencer. .. .Contributing Editor
Dorie Slater Assoc ate Editor
A. J. Covert Associate Editor
U S Harkson Business Manager
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Entered at the postofflce at Lincoln,
Nebraska, as Becond-class mall mater,
under the act of Congress of March
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EDITORIAL
The article on the European war en
titled "The War and the Problems of
Life," appearing in this issue of the
Nebraskan by Dr. H. B. Alexander, of
the Philosophy Department, is con
tributed in accordance with the re
quest of the managing editor. About
a year ago Dr. Alexander contributed
an article on the war up to that time.
Since that Europe has been plagued
with the most severe war in history,
and we are sure that a resume of the
war to date will be welcomed.
THE WAR AND THE PROBLEMS
OF LIFE
More than a year has passed since
Europe was stricken with war, and
the horror of the event has hourly
grown in intensity. The shock of
amazement, that such a thing could
be, which greeted the outbreak of the
war, has given place to a settled ac
ceptance of the grim fact; but this
settled acceptance makes the thing
itself no less black. Rather, in show
ing us how foolish and vain were our
idealizations of a civilization we
deemed above ambitious murder, it
has brought to us a graver and darker
sense of the problems that beset the
life we must live.
Here In Nebraska, the past summer,
surrounded by quiet pastures and
elorionsly green fields, the war has
seemed like some uncanny mirage lift
ing above the crest of our horizons
its unreal images of maddened death
On the streets we have met the good-
humored countenances of our fellow
men- in the fields, the smiles of a
generous nature ; and we have all been
pacifists at heart. But daily our eyes
have been lifted to the lurid glow of
war constrained to behold ,in spite
of us; and we have ended with a
double sense of illusion, not knowing
whether the reality lay most in the
peace which greets our physical vision
or In the red images revealed to our
intelligence.
The University opens, outwardly as
in other years; but the youth who are
crowding its halls represent the gen
eration upon which most heavily must
fall the consequences of a war which
is transforming the destinies of the
world. Future generations of students
will study the records of the conflict,
as those of today study the past; and
generation by generation Its meaning
will become clearer and easier to mas
ter. But none of them will have more
need of understanding than have the
youth of today, for whom the war is
creating the new conditions of a new
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llfend for none will understanding
be so dearly bought.
There are those who think that
America can be affected by the war,
if at all. only favorably. This Is a
crass and fatal view. Wisacre veterans
of the Civil War have been telling us
that the copious rains of the past sum
mer are the reverberation of Old
World cannonadings: battles bring
rains, they say. And this view how
ever fantastic to the meterologist is
a fair allegory of our short-sighted
American optimism. In a way It is
true that our fields are being rendered
fruitful by the blood which drenches
Europe: market for our produce and
manufactures (at least for so long
as Europe is rich enough to wage war
is assured, and Old World gold strains
our coffers. But the American who
sees in the war only this brief material
gain must regard his countrymen as a
nation of vampires fattening on the
blood of their kindred. We are not yei
that!
But what means the war--what for
us? Time and events are disclosing.
In the beginning, when the war was
first forced upon unwilling peoples by
the decision of kings, it seemed to us
but the egotistic madness of ambi
tious monarchs eager to sear their
names into the imaginations of pos
terity. As; men more fully expressed
their thought, in that great and
strange apologetic literature which the
war has called forth, we saw that.
while indeed the monarchs had made
the occasion and given the signal for
war, the conflict it self is the expres
sion of far more than the Idiosyncra
cies of royal personages. Week by
week we have seen what first ap
peared to be a struggle precipitated by
dynastic arrogance, reveal itself as
the struggle of discordant conceptions
of human government. On the one
hand, a mechanical imperialism, won
derful in capability and intelligence,
asserting its right to rule as a kind
of earthly providence; on the other,
self-willed democracies, full of stupid
ity and contrariety, but full, too, of
love of that liberty which to certain
races of men has ever seemed dearer,
even when it entails imperfection,
than can be the most benevolently
softened servitude. Between these
ideals it is for us, as Americans, no
difficult matter to choose. We know
them both In our own experience, for
no nation is consistently one thing or
the other. We have much to shame
us and much to be proud of, in our
conduct both as imperialists and as
democrats. But when we face the
issue in its ideal form, and ask our
selves Intimately which, in the long
run, we would have our country be,
imperialistic or democratic, the spirit
of our institutions and of our history
gives us but one possible answer.
But with the marshalling of our sym
pathies, spontaneous and inevitable
according to our dispositions and an
tecedents, our concern with the war,
as Americans, does no cease. As events
unfold and the effects of the war are
brought nearer to us, It becomes in
creasingly evident that the struggle
In Europe has precipitated in our
midst issues that we must face. It
is not enough to say that our institu
tions are democratic in spirit; we must
yet answer, shall they continue to be
so? The war has brought to our
national consciousness perils and
threats that we had never before
realized the perils of Internal dis
ruption, owing to the conflicting ideals
of our citizenship; threats of external
aggression, for when we see war
hurtled from the clear upon unsus
pecting peoples, as was this war, we
realize that no nation is secure from
enemies because It Is conscious of no
enmity.
These issues the Issue of the in
ternal and the external perils are
Issues which the young men and
women of the entering generation
must solve. Of the two, the problem
of meeting external peril, foreign ag
gression, is the simpler of solution.
It is a question of the minor sacrifice
of money, time and effort In the Inter
est of military preparedness. sAs it
affects students in the University, for
example, it touches the matter or wil
lingness to drill and of zeal in acquir
ing that modicum of military knowl
iirft which the citizens of states which
are to preserve their independence
must possess. In a yet broader way.
it. tmiohes the whole question of pub
lic support of a policy of national
defence. There are at present two
nniicles ureed by our public men: the
one, that we reject all armament and
rely for our defence upon our virtu
ous consciousness of fostering ill-will
towards none; the other, that we arm,
not for wars of aggression, but for the
preservation of our ideals on an earth
which harbors nations whose political
aims can thrive only in a policy of
aggression. Between these policies we
must choose.
The internal peril is yet more
searching and serious. It turns upon
the question of love of country and
loyalty to its ideals. The statement
has come to my ears that many, very
many, of our young men are saying
that they would not go to war at the
call of the United States no matter
what the issue or what the danger
that they value their personal safety
more than the perjetuity of this or any
other nation. I can hardly credit this,
but if it be to any extent true we as
a people are surely riding to a fall that
will destroy us; and if it be true of the
young men whom the state is educat
ing in free institutions, there can be
no more damning mockery than Is
such state-education. Our country
may, on occasion (for this, too, must
be rare), have welcomed to its privi
leges aliens who have accepted its
citizenship without giving it their al
legiance ; but surely the youth of such
a land as ours are not being reared to
betray it, or in utter want of those
ideals which have been the stay and
inspiration of all greatly historic peo
ples.
Yonder In Europe men have died
and are dying by the thousand for be
liefs that are dearer to them than life
And if we of the United States of
America have no beliefs, no national
ideals, which for their preservation
could inspire a similar sacrifice, we
are of all nations the poorest and
most pitiable.
H. B. ALEXANDER
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