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THE DAILY NEBRASKA!! THE DAILY NEBRASKAN oilUial Paper of the University of Nebraska IVAN G. BKEDE Editor LEONARD W. KLINE. .. .Mng. Editor FERN NOBLE Associate Editor KATHARINE NEWBRANCH Associate Editor WALTER BLUNK. .Business Manager GEORGE DRIVER.... Asst. Bus. Mgr. MERRILL VANDERPOOL Asst. Bus. Mgr. Office ,, News nasement University Hall Business, Hasement Administration Bids Telephones News, I.-sm ISusiness. n-2u97 Mei'hanical Department, li-314a Published every day during the college Subscription price, per semester. l. Kntered nt the postorhce at Lincoln, Nebraska, ns second-class mail matter tinder the ait of Congress of March 3, The magnificent work the Y. M. C. A. is doing at the training camps and in France should serve to remind University students, especially fresh men, of what it is doing here in the University. Freshmen who do not take the trouble to investigate the as sociation and too many of them don't until they have launched into other activities which require all of their spare time are likely to minimize its value. They think of it as a reading room, or, perhaps, they connect the name too with an employment bureau and a series of devotional meetigs. One of the biggest attractions of the Y. M. C. A. to the man who is looking for an outlet of activity where he can do a great deal of genuine good is its modesty. If the association did no more than maintain a reading room, employment bureau, devotional meet ings, it would be an attraction to any one who took the time to investigate. But there are innumerable things the association does on and off the cam pus that many of us never dream of. The "X" book which freshmen will soon devour for information concern ing the University, is a Y. M. C. A. publication, as is the University di rectory, as indispensable to a student as a telephone book is to a business man. University night, which has be come a well-established tradition of Nebraska, has in past years been un der the direction of the Christian as sociation. Last year members of the University Y. M. C. A. taught English to no one knows how many illiterate German-Russians of West Lincoln. More, they conducted a series of meet ings for boys, helped in the Boy Scout cause, and made gospel trips out into the state during Christmas and spring recess. These are some of the things a student can help to do as a member of the Y. M. C. A. And in addition, it gives every man a chance to continue in the same sort of clean. Christian at mosphere that he lived in at home. Much has been said about the stiff schedule the Nebraska lootball team faces, and even more about the great team we will have to face that sched ule. But not a word have we heard so far about what our prospects are in rooting. Are the Cornhuskers of 1917 to go mi against the big teams of the East and West supported by the brand c;f cheering we have had to play an accompaniment for our vic tories of the past? Is a truly remark able year to be dulled by such spas modic. Mates-rights roo'ing? Student teamwork in the stands is, next to teamwork on th" Held, the biggest asset in winning prunes we do not need to be told that. But the old stvle of rooting would really be iron ical this year; it would be about as appropriate as a tin horn in an oper atic orchestra. The football team buckled down to hard drill the first day of registration to get ready for the big games which begin right from the start. What practice in cheering are we to have before the really big game with Iowa? Hooting li'erally speaking, and not applying the word to distorted, misdirected howls and squeals is a matter of getting to gether and working in unison, and that takes practice. Why not nuke the Wesleyan game not only a prac tice scrimmage for the team, but a practice in cheering for the rooters? Heretofore Nebraskans have gone out on the athletic field to watch the t'orn huskers toy with the Methodist eleven while a small band of Wesleyan root ers in the grandstand actually drown ed out the noise made by the entire Cornhusker section, and the visitors were cheering for a cause they knew to be hopeless at that. It would be fine If Nebraska could have a thou sand pair of lusty, willing lungs at the opening game this year to get in train ing for the critical Saturdays to fol low, and incidentally to demonstrate that we are to have a remarkable bunch of rooters to go with a re markable team and schedule. GERMAN MORAL BANKRUPTCY Some of the criticism of German diplomacy which the Luxburg case has evoked misses the point by call ing the sending of the "spurlos ge senkt" dispatches a blunder. What some of the critics, especially in Ger many, really mean by this is that it was a blunder to get found out; if he had escaped undetected, Count Lux burg would no doubt have been hand somely rewarded, and his confederate in the Swedish diplomatic service would probably have been recommend ed to the kaiser for a second class dec oration, to be secretly bestowed and announced only after the war. What the count's critics in Germany de nounce is merely his bad luck; they have no word of reprobation for his perfidy to a neutral government which has been as friendly and long suffering as any on this side of the Atlantic. To get caught recommend ing the murder of innocent citizens of the neutral country whose hospitality he has been enjoying is a melancholy blunder, his critics declare, which will increase the discredit into which Ger man diplomacy has fallen. What they fail to declare is that such conduct is not merely a blunder, but a foul crime, and that his daring to make such a recommendation to his government with the certainty of not being in-1 stantly discharged in disgrac e as soon j as his dispatch was received puts a new stain on the reputation of the present German government. Yet that is the kind of talk Germany needs to hear. Springfield Republican. THE COLLEGE MAN In many quarters the college man has been deemed fit subject for jest and the cartoonist has found a never ending source of inspiration for his pencil in the clothes, the attitudes, the habits and the goings on gen erally of this favored son of fortune. His idiosyncrasies have been empha sized until sight has been lost of his essential fitness for tasks worth while and there have been times and places a-plenty when his most urgent need seemed to be for an apologist. Now. fortunately, all this is chang ed, and in the stress of wars de mands, the college man has thrown off what his friends knew all along to be mere accidentals the habili ments of boisterous young manhood and from all over the land he has re sponded to his country's call with an alacrity, an enthusiasm and a patriot ism which make him stand forth as he is, a leader, a man trained to do and dare. He has not sought the easy by paths which might have been opened for him. but has insisted on plung ing in where danger lurked in its most hideous form. The aviation corps has appealed particularly to him because of the chance it gave for individual prowess and service, and he has clam ored for a chance to "do his bit" with the dashing marines, in the heavy ar tillery, the cavalry, and in fact wher ever there were tasks worth while to be accomplished for God and country. In war. as in peace, he is eager, ready, unafraid, and his quick re sponse to his country's call must win him friends by the thousands even Irom the ranks of those who in gen tler times were suspicious of his con duct, distru.-tful f his purpose and a 1 too prone to question the value of his work in society. In the fierce cru cible of war he has been tested and found not wanting. Ci-ightoJi c our ier. THE WRATH OF VANITY The extreme- indignation of th- Ger mans over what is regarded as Presi dent Wilson's critic i.-m of the Hoh'-ri-zolJenis appears rath-r amu.-ing in the Ijjht of the firmly s.-nici iipo.-i-tion of the Germans th-i:i-clv's a disposition with which tl:e whole world has grown familiar -to cri:ici-e quile Jjeely the social and governmen tal arrangements of all other nations. It is true that the German criticisms with which we are mo-t familiar are private, press or professorial stric tures, and not u.-ually official utter ances, as was I'esident Wilson's inferred-not direct atta k on the Ho hen::o.)et ns in his reply to Pope Uen-"'li'-t XV. But we are a'so accustomed to otlicial remarks of the type of Cap tain von IV. pen's ref n nce to the "idiotic Yankees" and Count von Lux burg's characterization of one of the members of the Argentine cabinet as a "notorious as--." There is Sr hrick iichkeit even in the German adjectives; and substantives. And for years the professors of Germany, who in most cases are government functionaries, have been telling their classes and writing in their books that the United States is not really a republic or a democracy, but an absolute monarchy of the dollar. No- one (except one Thomas Carlyle, now deceased has lampooned the American nation more fiercely or more constantly than the distinguished professors of the I'ni versity of Berlin, including the un!a mented Treitschke. And no press was ever more completely organized for the ridicule and discredit of another nation than the press of Berlin, even Young Men s Clothes The home of Good Clothe is ready with complete Stocks of suits, overcoats, hats and furnishings for particular young men. Belted models, military styles--everything that's new. Borsalino Hats, Arrow Shirts and Collars, Phoenix Hosiery, Sweaters, Caps, Gloves. Come in. before the war, was organized against America. Some British authority has ventur ed the opinion, indeed, that the Amer ican nation was incited to war against Germany more by the remembrance of the insults which had regularly been uttered in the German press, and which were frequently republished in our papers, than it was by the Lusi tania outrage or the long list of tor pedo attacks on American merchant vessels. We do not think that this is true. If that had been possible, the London Saturday Review and Morn ing Post would long since have in volved us in a war with Great Britain. People do not go to war over press insults. But it is probable that this long series of taunts had its full ef fect in preparing the best and sound est reasons had to come. The fact is that the new and Prus sianized German nation reaps in ' a war with all the world the whirlwind of wrath which for many years it sowed in intolerable arrogance. The German nation looked at its own re flection in the pool of German thought until the image which it saw reflected there became the sole thing in the world worth regarding. The German became the superman, the German em pire the super-nation. All that did not resemble, or humbly try to resemble, this image, became matter for scorn and contempt. Science meant German science. Even of aesthetics, where in truth the Germans never excelled, it was said by a German authority, just before the war, "Aesthetics, too, is es sentially, for better or worse, a Ger man study." As for philosophy, noth ing would satisfy the German mind except complete submergence in the most profoundly egotistic mind that ever was born into the world, that of Xiezsehe. It was an obsession. Politic-ally, of course, the obsession con centrated itself in the kaiser and his dynasty. Hohenzollernism focussed itself in the attack which was made by Germany on the political safety of Europe and America. 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