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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
Offlclnl Taper of the
University of Nebraska
IVAN G. BEEDE Editor
LEONARD W. KLINE Mng. Editor
FERN NO&L&. . . . .-'Associate Editor
KATHARINE NEWBRANCH
-.. Associate Editor
WALTER BLUNK,. Business Manager
GEORGE DRIVER Asst. Bus. Mgr.
MERRILL VANDERPOOL
Asst. Bu9. Mgr.
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Those who have had any doubts
about the kind of metal the freshmen
class of this year is made of, will have
these dispersed at the freshman con
vocation this morning, for the girls
in the Temple theatre and for the men
in Memorial hall. It was proven last
night that the spirit was there, and it
will be proven again this morning.
Yesterdav several freshmen got to
gether and worked out the idea that
the first-year men shouldn't wear
green caps to distinguish them in their
newness from the rest of the Univer
eity; they planned a general freshmen
meeting in the Temple last evening
to discuss the matter, and, if those
present decided against the caps, to
pass rsolutions to the effect that they
revolted against the custom. But
when they talked up the meeting
among their fellow classmen they
found that almost all of those they en
countered were in favor of wearing
the caps, and the impetus for the
meeting died a natural death. The
spirit which prompted the bunch to
agitate the discussion of a common
cause is the spirit which will make for
a strong freshmen class and therefore
a greater University. To be sure, the
men were wrong in the assumption
that the wearing of freshmen caps
was useless and humiliating, but that
was because they did not fully under
stand the purpose of the custom and
the content of Nebraska traditions.
But their desire to get together and
work for the good of all freshmen was
right, and when the impulse, when
turned into the right channels, should
make the class of 1921 able to keep
astride of the momentous times in
which it has made its debut. After
the meeting this morning, when it is
explained that freshman caps are
worn by every incoming Nebraskan,
not to make him ignobly conspicuous,
but to enable him to meet and become
acquainted with his classmates as
quickly and effectively as possible;
when he understands that freshmen
are not ridiculed because they are
freshmen, he will wear his green top
knot with pride as he should, while he
sets to work at generating right away
a class spirit which will live the way
for his class to make good at every
thing it tackles.
ANOTHER GRAND ADVANCE?
We are wondering now about the
future German military operations in
Russia from the new base, Riga. Will
the German war chief, aware of the
possible psychological benefits of a
blow at St. Petersburg, push still fur
ther? Will the world see another
grand advance into that desolate land
which Napoleon's army penetrated in
1812, to return demoralized and deci
mated in struggling handfuls? Prob
ably not, for none less high in author
ity than the crown prince himself is
said to have believed that the German
war lord would profit by Napoleon's
mistakes and thus conquer the world.
Napoleon found the long, (extended
line of communications through the
heart of a swampy, barren country
and the bitter winter his undoing. The
outstretched line was harrassed at
every point by bands of peasant guer
illas; it coul dnot protect his ammu
nition and provision trains. The col
umn was so long that it was cumber
some, unwieldy, and when "the infan
try of the snows and the cavalry of
the wold blasts" set in, it wavered and
broke into ever-faster retreat, until
at last the few thousands that re
mained of the half-million pushed
across into Poland and safety,
The -
danger or repeating isapoieons ex
periences even under present methods
of warfare, will balance the benefits of
the possible demoralization of Russia
by the appearance of Teuton troops aa
. the gates of St Petersburg. But here,
too, Germany must consider a ttiiua
tion which Napoleon realized too late.
Napoleon thought the investment of
the Russian capital, Moscow, would
strike dead the heart of resistance in
Russia as a similar blow on Paris
would have done to France. But it
did not. Huge, amorphous, unorgan
ized Russia was not even dangerously
hampered by the occapation of its
capital. The country is today Just as
much an uncentralized mass, capable
of acting independently of one or two
of Jts territorial members. Even
though the Germans might slice off a
section including St. Petersburg they
would be little farther along in their
endeavor to bring about the complete
capitulation of Russia. No, mindful
of their great model's misfortune, the
German war chiefs will probably be
content, as The Independent recently
suggested, to hold the territory they
have gained and claim it after the
war as a legitimate part of Germany,
a "lost province."
GERMANY BEFORE JUDGMENT
(Springleld Republican)
The holy father, reports the British
minister to the Vatican, "felt grieved
at the unpitying condemnation of
Germany's perfidy." It wa8 to be ex
pected that the president's pitiless in
dictment of the honor and good faith
of the Berlin government, in his note
to the pope, would strike the Pots
dam autolrat like a blow in the face
and fill with rage the big and little
beaureaucrats who surround the
"present rulers" of Germany. But it
was high time that German perfidy,
as disclosed by this war, should be
pilloried in history forever. If the
pillorying was to be done adequately,
it had to be done pitilessly. Mr. Wil
son's performance was, perhaps, as
application to the domain of history of
the German doctrine of "frlghtful-
ness" in war, which is to say that he
has not permitted himself to be
swerved by diplomatic convention, or
softness or even politeness from the
task of establishhing the truth for the
ages to come.
"We cannot take the word of the
present rules of Germany as a guar
antee of anything that Is to endure,"
wrote this merciless president of
ours; and in writing that he delivered
a message pertaining to historical fact
that will have to be taken account of
in every history of the great war until
the end of time. Even the German
historians, the Mommsees and the
Von Sybels and the Treitschkes in the
centuries to come, must place in their
pages the president's note to the pope,
and they must give It to their readers
to the last word. One can imagine
them furiously controverting the
president or even abusing him in chap
ters massed like the regiments of the
Prussian guard, but always must meet
his terrific accusation and forever
must the professors and the doctors of
philosophy break their polished spear
heads on his incontrovertible con
clusion.
The president's lofty and unique po
sition as the head of this free nation
Insures absolutely the immortality of
the charge of dishonor and perfidy
against the rulers of Germany; also
the immense historical importance of
his reply to the supreue pontiff in this
fourth year of the war, plales the
charge upon an eminence from which
it will blaze into the consciousness of
all succeeding generations. No one
in a position of lesser importance than
the president could have made such
an indictment and such a fact live for
ever. Two thousand years hence the
president's words will affect posterity
like the most vivid and terse savings
of Thucydides or Tacitus.' And the
evidence will go with the indictment
evidence indestructible and indis
putable, which is accumulatinv on all
sides and which almost daily comes
sifted out of Reichstab debates and
the unguarded confessions of German
soldiers, diplomats and statesmen.
If the president had written the
commonplace abstractions about the
wickedness of exalting might over
right and brutish cruelty over human
ity, he would have left posterity as
well as Prussia cold, fcut by his very
simple, explicit and concrete testi
mony, as a qualified witness at the
bar of history, that no nation can
"take the word of the present rulers
of Germany as a guarantee of any
thing that is to endure," he has driven
home truth that no German triumph
in war could ever erase from the rec
ords of these awful years.
NEBRASKANS RECOGNIZED AT
DODGE TRAINING CAMP
(Continued from page one)
strongest football teams in the mid
dle west on the field inside of a few
days' notice. There are in camp some
of the greatest football- nlavers in the
country and before Thanksgiving day
rolls around, no doubt a number of
new Etars that the sport world has
never heard of, will have developed.
"A team that could take the meas
ure of the majority of the larger col
leges in this section of the country
ecald be picked from atuong tne offi
cers here.
"While at Fort Snelling. the offi
cers football team practiced one hour
every day under Doc Williams of Min-
nesota fcniversity. The same team,
with a few exceptions, could be got
ten together at Camp Dodge.
"Following are the names of the
men who would make an all Western
team, and the positions they would
play:
"At the end of this famous football
aggregation we would have Nicholas
of Cornell University and Corey of
Nebraska. . OEBie Solem test year
coach at East High and a former Min
nesota gridiron hero would be another
candidate for end.
The tackles would he well taken
care of by Baldridge of Vale, Shull of
Chicago and Tobin of Minnesota.
"The guards would be composed of
Halllgan of Nebraska and Gregor of
Minnesota. At center we could select
from two stars, Towley of Minnesota
and Moser of Nebraska.
"There is wonderful material in the
backfield. Long of Minnesota, would
take care of the quarterback position
with Wise and Solon of Minnesota as
the two halves. Pudge Wyman, the
smashing gopher line plunger could
be used at fullback.
Floyd Thomas, a former Harvard
player and last year freshmen coach
at Iowa university, could be used on
the team if needed.
The above team Is composed of
about half the Minnesota team of last
fall, which 'made a wonderful record
on the gridiron in the Western conference."
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