THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
Olllclal Taper of the
University of Nebraska
IVAN G. BEEDE Editor
LEONARD W. KLINE Mng. Editor
FEUN NOBLE Associate Editor
KATHARINE NEWBRANCH
Associate Editor
WALTER BLUNK. .Business Manager
GEORGE DRIVER Asst. Bus. Mgr
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"Score on Nebraska" is the cry of
Wesleyan now, and next Saturday
most of University Place will be out
on Nebraska field yelling it at the
top of their voices. Some of us who
have been in the habit of spending the
day of the first game out-of-town can
learn something from the spirit the
Coyote cry expresses. Nebraska,
later in the season, will have to give
everything it has to win from Notre
Dame, from Michigan, from Syracuse.
The sooner the old-time Cornhusker
chant of victory Is unloosed the
stronger will be our united voices be
hind the team in its big games. Ne
braska roosters have far to travel to
keep pace with the team they are to
cheer; they have several miles to
cover before they can compete on
equal terms with Wesleyan. We, too,
should have a cry for Saturday, and
should be there to shout it; it should
be: "Beat Wesleyan in spirit as well
as in football."
HOPE FOR POLAND
The occupation of Russian Poland
by the Germans has again brought to
our attention that pitiful struggle of
a once proud people for independent
existence and with it the question of
the position of Poland after the war.
Once one of the grandest and most
brilliant of all the courts of Europe,
the Polish throne, weakened by in
ternal partition and placed by fate
as the bone ot contention between
three growing military powers Prus
sia, Austria, and Russia, was set upon
by this triple alliance more than a
century ago, and the Polish nobility
was.pushed from power and the terri
tory ultimiately divided between the
three arch-villians, Catherine of Rus
sia, Frederick of Prussia, and Joseph
of Austria.
Crushed as the country was by the
government of the greedy invaders,
torn and divided as it was by internal
jealousy, the spirit of Poland has
never been subdued through the hun
dred 'and forty years of its humilia
tion, and today there beats in the
breast of every true-born Pole a heart
filled with the undying hope that some
day Poland will again be an independ
ent member of the family of nations
Germany has found out just how
strong is the spirit of the Polish pe .
ple during the present war, and we
read now that the central powers ha t
given up their former plan to crej-'p
a buffer state of Russian Poland, out
wardly constructed to deceive the
Polish eye, but depending for support
of course, upon the Prussian house. It
is now candidly announced that the
greater share of the Poland that was
Russia's is to go to Austria, with
Prussia taking the remaining terri
tory for herself.
Such a program will never receive
a hearing at a peace table with the
allies in the victor's seat. America
especially should appreciate the spirit
of a race that after these many years
of subjection has not lost its identity
as a people nor its pride in "the glory
that wa Greece and the grandeur that
was Rome." The elimination of the
Russian monarchy has taken the last
warped plank from the allied plat
.fonn; a league of democracies can
now fight for the rights of every race
and people, and it is certain that the
rights of the Poles, when the free
rations set to work organizing the
world along the lines of justice and
the right of existence to all, will be
recognized by the creation of a Polish
republic where once again the culture
and art of Warsaw may flourish.
THE "OLD GANG" STICKS
Unofficial information frcm Lincoln
high school students indicates that
the secondary Greek letter societies
have refused to succumb peacefully
tothe campaign of the school board
to eradicate them. Instead of a . 'o
chapters, the fraternities now have
alumni chapters, it Is reported, which
are operated by high schol graduates
living in Lincoln. The high school
men who have been initiated into
these societies are "siient members"
having no audible voice in the admin
istration of affairs. It is a question
far dphate whether they enjoy all
the privileges of the society or not.
There may be inaccuracy in this
report concerning the status of the so
cieties, but it Indicates that yoi.lhful
ardor and loyalty will aim at the rir
petuation of fraternities sub-rosa. It
means that for several years at least
the "old gang" will stick together
after they have passed from the juris
diction of the city school board, even
though that body succeeds in ousting
them completely from the high school.
One must admire such fervent
single-purposed fealty, but our admi
ration must be similar to that we give
to any misdirected but well-fought
cause. The evidence is against sec
ondary school fraternities. Both the
administration of the school itself,
and the University inter-fraternity
council, which deals with such mat
ters in the institution all high school
men aspire to enter, have watched
the operation of the system long and
carefully, and have turned in a verdict
against them. It is not that the good
points of secondary fraternities are
not understood and appreciated, for
they are; it is probably that there
were high school fraternity members
on the Pan-Hellenic board which ruled
against the societies. But these men
have seen, as have most others who
have studied the situation, that the
clannishness, the emphasis upon ex
clusiveness, the fanning of false
pride all attributes of a fraternity
of boys, catches the youthful mind
when it is plastic, malleable, and has
been known to mould men into a dif
ferent type than fathers and mothers
had a right to expect. Not until one
has gone through high school; not
until he has learned that ensignia do
not make worth although they oc
casionally honor it; not until, in fact,
he has learned the lesson that we all
must learn, that no man is better than
any other except that he gives more
freely and more fully of himself to
others, is the average American youth
ready to accept at their proper values
the tokens of appreciation the world
with more or less accuracy bestows.
TO WHOM IS HOMAGE DUE
Everything everybody about the
campus feels keenly the vacant spots
which those who have departed have
left behind them.
We have not appreciated, perhaps,
just how much our friends have
meant to us, until they begin to go
away from us to take their places in
of gladness that the men of the Uni
versity have not been slow to recog
nize their responsibilities and" that
those of us who remain are doing so
because we feel that our place is still
here. But by staying here we have by
no means forfeited our right and our
duty to give our moral aid to these
men who have already gone. Their's
is the personal glory and honor, but
ours is the pride of a University that
has sent out its sons to represent it
and whose own achievement and
worth is reflected in the deds of these
men. We have sent them to every
possible branch of the service. They
are all safe and able to continue their
work now. We do not know how
long we will be able to say that. It is
our part to do homage to them now.
They will not know you have strewn
flowers over them after they have
gone. Daily lllini.
SMILING ONE OF OUR ALLIES
Ever notice how hard it is not to
return a real, genuine smile with a
smile? Nothing is more contagious
than smiling. It increases in geomet
rical progression. "When you smiie,
others smile, and soon there are
miles and miles of smiles."
The world needs "less of sighing
and more of smiling," as Arthur Chap
man characterizes the Wet in IiU
poem?, "Out w here the West bes;i is "
Flowers are cheering;" so is music;
but in the race of good cheer, how
ever, smiles out-distance both.
These are critical times, but that
doesn't mean a censorship has bef-n
plpcM on cmi'ins. Makin? life more
pleasant is different from frivolity. A
smiling man at work is u-uiKy put
tin? his whclc heart ar.d soul into the
work and that i3 the way tho naricn
should be now.
"A smile." Southey ay, " i :e
sunshine opening, through a shower
in the vernal ikies." When the v. r rl'
has been dark andloudy for days, we
most appreciate the rays of sunshine,
of smiles and god cheer that break
through the clouds. The United States
has a big Job ahead, but sullenners,
gloom, frowns and "crabbing" wre
alien enemies.
Let's work wih a f-rr.ile Mi-our-ian.
UNIVERSITY AS USUAL
Thf business Dja of the country
have adopted for tbelr motto: "BuM
ne.s as Usual." We Kuggett as a
University maxim "University as
Usual." Although the times are not
normal it is recognized that the best
method to obtain the most profitable
results is to conduct one's activities
as near normal lines as possible.
A certain readjustment must he
made in the conduct of affairs to gain
the greatest good, and the University
has already made several "war"
changes, such as the adoption of drill,
placing emphasis on certain courses
and the special training to produce
loaders for the reconstruction period
after the war. Such changes are part
of the curriculum and were needed to
meet current conditions.
Students should strive to conduct
their affairs in a similar manner, id
justing themselves to mee charged
conditions. Upon the declaration of
war last spring the sudden change
demoralized college work throughout
the country, because the students and
faculty members. attempted to assist
in preparedness and do college work
at the same time.
The function of colleges now Is to
assist in producing trained leaders and
the proper way to do this, if one itf
in college, is to work diligently, as
under normal times, and not let the
changed conditions warp one's col
lege career into a nightmare of un
settled classes and half-hearted edu
cational endeavors. Utah Chronicle.
STUDY AS A PATRIOTIC STUDY
That the patriotic hysteria consist
ing in the main of irresponsible ac
tion, which drove the youth of this
country into all kinds of supposed
"war work" for which it was entirely
unfitted and unprepared, is over, is
shown by the records of the regis
trar's office.
Wisconsin students are returning,
and with them comes a larger num
ber of, freshmen than was expected
in the most optimistic figures. The
youth of America has realized that
the most patriotic person is the one
who can do and does most for our
country. It has realized that a fer
vent and effusive desire to help unac
companied by intelligent and efficient
action will lead us nowhere. And it
has come to be taught, fitted and
made efficient in the service for its
country.
Study is a patriotic duty. With that
firmly fixed in our minds we shall
face the questions that arise from
time to time with a seriousness hith
erto unknown. The years we shall
spend at the university will no longer
be considered by anyone as a final and
glorious sowing of wild oats before
we enter the grind of the "outside
world."
We have come here to be prepared
to work for our country. And he who
prepares most efficiently is most pa
triotic. Whatever out study may be, engi
nering, chemistry, languages, or phil
osophy, it is a phase of work that is
needed by our country. Every man
and every woman can be used in the
field in which he or she is most effi
cient and it is their duty, to this coun
try to be mose efficient in their re
spective field.
The time-worn reasons of "poor eye
sight" and "help to father" that are
given annually by freshmen and soph
omores, who are invited to leave Wis
consin after failing to make good,
will undoubtedly be repla'ced by the
statement, "I wanted to aid my coun
try," unless we impress it on the
minds of all, that the highest form of
helping our country consists in the
greatest amount of intelligent work
for it. Daily Cardinal, Wisconsin.
Statement of Ownership, Management,
Circulation, Etc., Reqdired by the
Act of Congress of August 24, 1912,
Of The Daily Nebraskan, published
daily at Station "A," Lincoln, Nebr.,
for October 1st, 1917.
State of Nebraska, County of Lancas
ter, ss.
Before me, a Notary Public, in and
for the state and county aforesaid,
personally appeared W. C. Blunk, who,
having been duly sworn according to
law, deposes and says that he is the
Business Manager of The Daily Ne
braskan and that the following is, to
the best of his knowledge and belief,
a true statement of the ownership,
management (and if a daily paper, the
circulation), etc., of the aforesaid pub
lication for the date shown in the
above caption, required by the Act
of August 24, 1912, embodied in sec
tion 443. Postal Laws and Regulations,
printed on the reverse of this form,
to-wit:
1. That the names and addresses
of the publisher, editor, managing ed
itor, and business managers are:
Publisher, none; Editor, Ivan G.
Beetle, Station "A," Lincoln, Nebr.;
Managing Editor, L. W. Kline, Station
"A," Lincoln, Nebr.; Business Man
agers, W. C. Blunk and Geo. Driver,
Station Lincoln, Nebr.
2. That the owners are: Univer
sity of Nebraska, Station "A" Lin
coln, Nebr.
3. That the known bondholders,
mortgagees, and other security hold
ersowning or holding 1 per cent or
more of total amount of bonds, mort
gages ,or other securities are: None.
5. That the average number of
copies of each issue of this publica
tion sold or 'distributed, through the
mails or otherw!se,to paid subscrlb-
ers during the six months preceding
the date shown above is 1000.
W. C. BLUNK,
Business Manager.
Sworn to and subscribed before me
this 27th day of September, 1917.
MAX WESTERMAN. ,
(My commission expires August 4th,
1921.)
Shoemaker Writes He Is
"One Step Nearer France"
A post-card from Edward Shoemak
er, '17. in the Rainbow division of the
United States army, to Prof. C. A.
Robbins seems to indicate that the
government has already exhausted Its
supply of regular army units and is
sending across its picked men from
the national guard. Shoemaker's
card was not postmarked, but the date
line shows that it was held up sev
eral days by the military authorities.
"I am one step nearer France and
expect to be there soon," is the way
it reads. Previous news from Shoe
maker to friends in Lincoln indicate
that he was stationed at a coast em
barkation point, from which fact it
may be presumed that he has reached
France by this time.
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