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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 26, 1917)
THE DAILY NEBRASKAN THE DAILY NEBRASKAN Official rpr of th l'iuvrit of Xebraka IVAN G. BEEDE Editor LEONARD V. KLINE Mng. Editor KERN NOBLE Associate Editor KATHARINE XEWBRAXCH Associate Editor WALTER BLUXK.. Business Manager GEORGE DRIVER Asst. Bus. Mgr. MERRILL VAXDERFOOL Asst. Bus, Mgr. NVw Rsmtnt University Hall business. Basement Administration Rkig. News. L.-4t Kusiness. Mechanical rvpartmer.t. B-S14 Published every during the college -ubscrirtKn price. Tr semester, II. Kmered at The postomc t LincM. bbrsk. s second-class mail matter u?ir the act of Congress of Marcn i, Another manifestation of the admir able spirit at Xebraska this fall was seen on freshman cay day yesterday. The entire supply of caps was ex hausted and many we re forced to go without them temporarily. The cam pus was alive with preen topknots; juniors and seniors watched these new Cornhuskers wi:h a little bit of envy as they remembered the first day they entered the campus with skull-caps which seemed to scream for recognition. The successful launch ing of the freshman cap custom to gether wi:h an enthusiastic convoca tion of both freshmen men and wo men, have earned the class of that very important step in success, i pood stan. years I had not witnessed the Inspir ing scene incident to registration of students at this grat instltukm. It is good for a torpid liver or dyspep sia or in-growing pessimism for one to go there and get Into the swirl of a few thousand of the clear-eyed, clean-cut, effervescent young men and women who gather annually from all Quarters of the state of Xebraska in pursuit of knowledge. The very atmosphere is elestrie with the jubi lance of youth and it is nothing less than the elixir of life. In the first place it must be that I is in the mind of hose young folk that the school belongs to the people, that it is their school, and rride grows out of pos sessions. And the school, having de veloped into one of the great institu tions of learning in the land, begets increased pride in the students. Aware that it is one of the first universities of America it appeals to their imagi nation. Sheer bigness: counts for a rood deal in this wor'd: and when is known. that so long ago as two thousand five hundred years ft re wor shipper made pilgrimage from India and all parts of Asia to this place to bow down to their gvd of fire. The altar is there yet and it shows how the rriests of that ancient religion fooled those who came to worship, it is built against a crack In the rock through which enough natural gas es caped to be led in orifices to the top of the altar, where it was lighted ana flared up in a blue fame. This fire, coming apparently from solid rock, was supposed to be sent by the fire god. Pilgrimages to this temple were made by thousands of devotees every year until as late as forty years ago, hen the gas and oil fields were de veloped enough for even the most ig norant to see that there was nothing supernatural about the gas flame. Now there is a well equipped petrol eum refinery under the very walls of the temple and the natural gas which brought so many superstitious wor- shirrers to that place in the last two used What an unfortunate ir.fluer.ee hy perbole ar.d sensationalism in the j juration Cf their own cases. To "earn press has had on the American public ' how to soft pedal here and fortissimo there is to master the grand oratorio of life. That's hy the boys ar.d girls of Nebraska are at the university. Thai's also why the university is there. Checking the impetuous and stimulating the dull spirits of these mine: a cispatcn trom tie tattse-1 r.eics or France reacts mat an Ameri can army is now ready to take its place upon a European battlefield -for the first time in history."" How stu pendous is that thought, and yet how little the statement of it The phrase "for tie f.rst time in his tory" has been 'used by every kind of scribbler to emphasise the im.port- goodness goes w,th it they vnsutute fxf feMape is might, maybe majesty. Whether the j$ unjM. th fo t -w vt ft tv ffwvi evr hid I ! need not argue. Surely the spirit of j So. W J seal and loyalty of the members of j nB ou llstt.vlU these organiiaiions eompetir for in- i T , XI intiates during -rushing week" was j . TL?? refreshing. It is the enthasiasm and "d them to work for us, impetuosity of youth that win batles, ( and he winning of bottle looms large BLOOD, IRON AND GOLD. in he line of our present rational duty. (Theooor Roosevelt, in the Kansas Chancellor Avery summed it up very i City Star) mell when he said to me. "The frats Bismarck announced that his policy are a very pleasant diversion for their or Germany was one of Wood and members, but of trivial importance; jrjj. The men who now guide, and the main thing is to kep the mind on ' for some decades have guided. Ger-' the course of study." Underneath this j international policy have added exuberance was discerned the tre i f old as the third weapon in Germany's serious purpose of selecting stndies j armory. and retting lessons. How and where j To a policy based on callous disre to draw the line between essentials ; Firi3 c th uj suffering, and the and nonessentials is one of the big j brutal use of force, they have added things to be learned. That is where j jye habitual and extensive employ university students may practice ad- men of corruption as a means for weakening their foes and bending oth er nations to their service, The administration a: Washington recently made public the proof that Ambassador Bernstorff. on behalf of the German government. as, up to j the very last moment of his stay, en- caced in efforts to bribe with German 1 " - - - ' iinjuc --iiiri ik-au ui 4.aiii4Uv--us vi iu CO. HOr? . 4 . - . , . . . .1. . . van .iy:it-rg. acai k jiviuals mto coulvi be used to fur- called in Fremont twenty -nine years ; tver Germany's purpose by protesting ago when he arrived here a "green ; mits: nr cemandir-c rx-ace at anv j Swede" and peddled pieplant, peas and j price, opposing the measures neces- ance of every kind cf event, ranging . rrsr.ips. He later went to the uni-; &ary for war, denouncing the allied na from such a one as this to the meet- j ve rsity and went through. He got j tions. praising unpreparedness cr by ing of two water-polo teams. It means j through the university, but the uni-; some other of the methods habitual nothing to us. Nowadays it seems we i ersity never got through with him. j w ith pro-German senators, congress- must have either the grafts of a Hugo 1 He had the stuc in him and he ha stayed tnere. now occupying a position second only to that of the chancellor ind.fferent to novelty because ncvelty or the screaming of a Hearst disciple to touch onr imaginatjons. Of course is at present our daily bread. But were it tot for the fact that hy ex aggeration and i)d characterization 1 we could never pass so easily ever ; the victory of a great army sent thou- ( saris cf miles across the sea to fight or. a fore :gr. soil for the freedom and democracy of the world. men. editors, heads of peace societies and the like. Xo well informed man was surprised at the revelation. Every reasonably well informed man. who has known about matters at Washington, has knon that for nearly three years Ger man money and governmental power has been used for the corruption of I nA7T7rnPn FrVvl r .1 ' I I t II it I II I1-! V 'V m m'A S 1 A 4jK agS So Oo S J Send Over Some 1 j Kesp your soldier cr S V caller bey supplied j . Vv j V Civs bin tbs tssttca (T-TA rcfresbmeot the pro- j 1 WCL tectlon afialcst thirst, ; J Myj tbs belp to appetite i Qf't rlfiley's. j J.TSJ Jts cotstandIa:! Vt feature of the war I uA -All tbs British Army J I Jm Is chewlwi It.- J p .AFTERlEUERYitlEall S WSmm Flavor sr$mgmm Lasts I IS TTTTr?'" '-' wjrg,aU Hi MU & .?..:.: !...!!. r k h fitf I afffl' ,. -rfi trouble shooter cf the institution. Whenever anything goes wrong with a sudent or when a student goes wror.g. he is the mechanician who does the fixing. The boys say he is snrc- enough wizard. Some years agr they j American newspapers and -pacifist or tried romancing with himt. bit tney j ganiiations and for the pay of German have qui; it- They say there is nj ' and the bribery of native scoundrels use trying new; they can't -e: p si j to -wreck our industries with dynamite ith their stuff. He doesn't cr so j and in all ways debauch our political mach to knew the truth, but he watts life. The government, from the high-th-em to tell the truth. So used to it 1 est official dorn. knew all these facts These are strange times and Amer ica is w .rcesslT.g strange things with little wonder. A unite evert in tie ff Id of journalism occurred last Sat urday evening. ten Tr.ecoore Roose vX exscldier. tif:unio: and ex tresiitiit sat ccx at a desk in tie editorial cff.ee of the Kansas Oitv S;ir arjd became a read journal, a l.ttle ferry on iat wice.y- -Ct! There as. to be sure. It. the Star office the old veterans and the young hrr.liant gated askaTK-e as they s off;C-e rule blankly broken ; this er-ergtk be g.nrer who rc-te on both sices of the paper iih Mnie regard to space regu lations TiK-!st of us took it xr.Dth as a inarrer of court Ccimmunira Ti.'.ts to the press haxe always leen 17 ; Iced I.f great men as eSertive eapon cf cfffr.se and effense; even beic-r the t.tr e of o has be hecc'me that he i Me to rec.icT.ire the truth before it g'ts around the comer. Wj-.h pard"r.x.h:e pride his old fr-r-cnt rrsenis hv sees rean Engberg develop into the lie man that he is. The rest cf l:fe :s in the rapid succession of in: rest ing evf-r:s that ocinsttrute it- Gertlic a r slant at familiar things is one cf :hee This is htt I c.id at the tT.:re-?:ty 1: being the jer p"e's s boo! may 1 a gi'd en-ouch reasor- 1-vr me t."1. hereinbefore re-c-ord s:TT;e of ry in-7i!-es-):r. c" a regisrrati.'.x di there Kl" ; THE FIRE GCD !N Th E , Kra City Star) ! The woman ho str.tes a match and lights- the gas in her k::; hex range , has tjo thought that the same kind of i a blue name, pulsing x; tnrouch the I tue holes :n ihe burijer. was wor- thttr scperiors iiade them art. Gr- cver two years ago. The New York World published the tames of some of the editors and other individuals who had received money, and the amounts received. The Austrian ambassador. rnimba. and two or tie uenutn at taches, Boy-ed and Yon Papen. were c s-missed for inspiring and oounte xaxtfiT the intrigues. It was abs-o luttly impossible that hat they did was not ordered and supervised by BerTiStorff. under the direction of the Berlin gen eminent. It was deeply to our discredit that we did 4 then show the courage and manliness to break at occe with Germany, instead of hiding our heads is the sand so as to avoid seeing the guilt of the Ger man government, and puxistirg the n iaar instruments of wrongdoing who ruder tso oonceivable circumstance would or could have acted save as AL. SPEIER Reccmrnends Ths YULE Laen3ry. lis B2754 They soak the clothes not the customer. THE LE BARON-WHEATLEY VOCAL STUDIOS Pkcit B4979 Of er exrertkmal opportunities to Uriversity students. Send for new catalog. -gtnized news dis- sh-pped as a god fee T.-early three j maxy has hitherto been able to do but ; thousand years tCLiKU-t of peo;.)e j hitt against us with h1x& and iron; in that tsm-e ha e travelec i-vxc and gold has beem her w eapon, anfl her y Cicerc from his .lia. Put this is ' -ea.ry jcunieys for a chance to prcs-1 agex-u hare beew rhe foes of our own the f.-st time that the world has ever ; -rate themselves tiid jirty before bomseb old. seer, a natc.xal political f.gure. still ' notj.iLg more than e same thixg jrery man in this country ''ho is game ura. a rec j orercom a presumpticm of grcilty xoo- xt number of the magaxine. tive. There are misguided pro-Ger- 1 Russia, there is ax fccwmnt of the ( mans who are untni nenced Yy corrcjit Ciil ti c gas field of the Bit-wan j motives, Jast as there were in the j gr a: a leader in the conrrrv trtdrs icer- ! you have it. 3'our kitc;i)ex or in the ! nltviii the Tiro-Germa-i tify himself arr.vely as a newspaper ! alcve your heat, a tame of I Ebotu made to fe3 that he xcnsl V. ,V . A -r. . .- V . . . xception Colonel Roosf ve.lt'f con tract iih The Star ooes not really begin until CKtc-U-r 1, but he tlfjared off his cek fct-d go; r-auy for business last meei. The Star has promised some swiX su-e j-urches from the colonel's editorial ft, and its read ers are Inclir.ea ;c bel.-eve that they are coming. At least, as The Atchi son Globe point out. Cok-r.-ei Roose velt, a a TeptT man. w.H alwayj be able to think of someone to write about, 1 :x tancasian Fiussia. on tif 1 CrrH war cojpertieacs wno w ere mere shore of the Cajiiax Si-a ilaxy of ly xuisgTuoea and not conscious wroxg- Ur thixh tit the greatest oil and gas fie'ics in the worid are ix A.menra. Bi-t ours art small compared wjih 1 those cf7os:ts.. wiiert it is cmiy nec-es-sary- -o tig a pit T-enty to tfry feet deep to get all the oil reead for or dinary use.. The whole country is so sa ura red with oil that in j.iar-e it mixes with the earth and Jnrms mud volcanoes, and when a well is crilied a thousand feet or more do wt into the oil learixg sanua, oZ gmhes out wrJi a roar that is heard Jar nriies. The richest deposits are on the Apsheron Peninsula, which lots out into the Catipuoi Sea. Natural gas oozes from crevires in the roct. aad the rums f a great sen-pie ionit ry tre worshippers rtiiid ther. Nt one" A CL1VPSE AT US (Ross Hammond ,n Th F re-mart Tribun) I never ti3 this we-t had any grist take to the NehraaU xmversfry ill. when g Hn -rs eB-rrtA te borper. Therefore ta all the i knows lew old those ruins art, but it doe. But these men are in nugtry uxjeasaiit compaxy. The pac ifist, the man who wishes a jeac without victory, the supporter of Senator LaPollene or Ser.atnr StOTft. the man who In any way now aids Germaxy, may he honest; bet he stands cheek by jowl with tired trait ors, and he is serving the cause of the malignaxiT and unscrupulous erie mies of his country. For Yccr Lcs&crs Giienzel Ca Dr. Edwin Davis, H. of X. alumnus, a doctor ir the John Hopkrns hospital from which institution he was graduat ed in medicine, is a guest on xhe cam pus, where he is visiting friends and aasociates before taking up his duties in France. ..: a, --T.n: i-ij .fr...,;.,.v.iA;..?.. . It 1 it I r $ ?l.r H'. - r? ? , t'lbkU , t- inr.3:.M.'; -jr: .'.. , ; . . Z" t - - . m ..mwmt i I, 1 1, . . . ; ISGIIELIOEGK'S 1 0H!!D jr Burwers