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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
Oinolal Taper of the
University of Nebraska
IVAN G. BEEDE Editor
LEONARD V. 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.
Offices
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Published every day during the college
Subscription price, per semester. 11.
Entered at the postoffioe at Lincoln,
Nebraska, as second-class mail matter
un.ler the act of Congress of March 3.
1S79.
"Anew supply of freshman caps,
large enough to accommodate all who
were unable to get their topknots for
the official cap day last week, has
been received and placed on sale at
the College Book Store. Every first
year man may now have a cap. and
he will be expected to be wearing
them on the campus by the end of the
week.
TRUE HEROISM
The game with Nebraska offers us
all one of the greatest opportunities
of the year. It isn't often one has the
rhnnce to witness true heroism, but
l there surely will be a chance to see it
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at the Nebraska-v esieyan game. j
can make up our minds right now that
win or lose the wearers of the Yellow
and the Brown are going to come home
heroes. It takes all the qualities that
go to make up a true man to enter
a contest against a foe recognized as
superior, determined to win, but re
gardless of score, keep up an undying,
bull-dog. sporty fight. Wesleyan will
meet Nebraska October 6, determined
to win, and however the score stands
from the view of college spirit our
boys will win.
The admission, with student ticket
is only 25c, and the profits will be
given to the Red Cross. That ought
to be inducement enough for everyone
to be right on the bleachers yelling
and cheering every minute The
Wesleyan.
There are very few students who do
aot intend to purchase season ath'etic
tickets before the first big game of
the season, in other words, before the
contest with Iowa. Why not get them
in time to use them for admission to
the Wesleyan game, which it is
planned will be a practice session for
Nebraska rooters as well as for the
eleven. Both the crowd in the stands
and the players on the field need to
develop team-work before running up
against the crucial tests that are soon
to come, but unlike the team, the
rooters will have few chances to pre
pare themselves except at the open
ing game. A crowd that cannot out
cheer Wesleyan will be poor support
for the Cornhuskers who are to be
seen in action for the first time Saturday.
BOOKS FOR SOLDIERS
Our moralists get very excited
about the pitfalls that are supposed
to surround our soldiers; they are
fearful the men may succumb to one
or another of the destructive tempta
tions that lure human nature from the
paths of rectitude. It is proper to take
reasonable precautions against these
things, but everybody knows it is bet
ter to provide subsitutes. A book is
one substitute.
But the case for books for soldiers
does not rest primarily on moral con
siderations. The essential fact is that
the men want them. They want div
ersion, and they can find it in books.
It is little enough that civilians can
do to mitigate the hardships of soldier
life and it only requires a small con
tribution, after all, to provide this
simple yet unfailing source of aniuse-
I ment.
It is an appeal that should come
home to every man who has found
pleasure in a book, whether philo
sophical treatise or detective story.
Yet the response in Chicago has beeen
meager. It is announced that the
Twenty-first ward street cleaners
classes of the community should con
sider the implication of that fact.
Chicago Tribune.
ON POLITICS
Green caps monopolized the class
elections yesterday. Freshmen were
getting their first taste of the most
fascinating pastime of University life.
They were erperiencing for the first
time the breathless anxiety of the
ardent campaigner when a hostile
voter marches in to chalk up a cross
against the best man in all the world
They were full of the joy of convert
ing others to their arguments, with
the pride of watching a newly-acquired
member of the faith wink away with
scorn the onslaughts of enemy per
suaders. There's was the pure happi
ness of fighting whole-sou'-edly for a
conviction.
And today, which is the political
tomorrow, they are discovering some
thing which they believed last night
was impossible the wor'.d rea'ly isn't
mis-arranged Just because the best
man lost. The sun someway shows
up such fars as mere phantasies of
opinion after all. Even the plums
that wild, myth-covtrrd fruit which
yearly causes as much commotion as
the apples of Taris ilo not appear so
appetizing now that it is known they
are not to be tasted.
This is the redeeming feature of
University politics. The orf.ces are
reaKy not sUaiicant ; they re-iuire no
sptvial preparation, no abnormal
abi'ity. upon the art of the elected
It U only rarely that a ;rson who U
really a mUf.t sets himself up a a
car. lidate. and still m-re rur'.y that
he is elected. If de-p. i'.'. n--I
questions cf m-rit wre involved, a
di3ernt sort of politic r--mb!ir.
more closfly that of th out Bide
wor'.d might prln up But th-r U
nothing of this kind to couip!i at the
situation; party line, -uch a they
are. are drawn on the basis of frt-nl-fchip.
of rewarding those who have
served the University. And so. while
it is great to fight for the man whom
you believe to be most worthy of your
THE STOP-WATCH
Off with a leaping start, the train
ed 100 yard runner dashes down the
runway, racing against time, to do
his best to beat this century race. At
the end of the track is stretched a
tapeT-The moment the runner touches
this tape the official time stops the
stopwatch. Whether the runner has
been successful is all determined by
what the mechanically perfect stop
watch says.
In life, and especially in college
life, there is the student who loses the
spirit of the race. He seems to have
the idea that he has the alloted time
of a mile to run to do his meager luO
yards. Why, it apparently appears
to him that he has all the time in
the world to finish his college educa
tion. Such a student doesn't realize that
he has but the best years of his life
to make his record. At the end of
that period the stop-watch of time
will close his college history. Wheth
er he has done his best or not, all
lies in the past. He must forget his
lost opportunity and go forth into the
wide world of commerce and indus
try. The lazy or forgetful student, on
tirushine a college course by good luck
and thr grace of God. even then seen
to fail to see the importance of the
world work to be done. Why. to him
the years unfold in time and plenty.
But after all. the Almighty holds the
sup-wa'ch.
When your cour-e cf life is ccni
pleted will the work be better for
your having been a citizen of the
twentieth century? Are your epp-or
tur.ities being neglected?
What wilt the stop-war h n:an
v. j- - Iu:l Iowan.
a world of a smile, that possibly he
himself had been the source oi nis
wounds. But they had nursed him
along through it all as if he was a ewe
kitten. Proud? They were as proud
of him as could be. and will leave
him at the corps cage with deep re
gret, which will be mutual."
Not all the old time gallant chivalry
has vanished from this war, nor will
it while Pat is there. Chicago
Tribune.
THIS IS OUR WAR
The other day "Tiger" Ctemenceau,
French senator, and editor and ex
prime minister, was talking to Amer
ican soldiers in France. In one of
his sentences he compared the land
ing of an American army on French
soil with the landing of the Pilgrim
Fathers in America.
"Now." was his idea, "the children
of the Pilgrim Fathers are returning
to the Old World, disinterestedly to
fight for the liberty of France and for
the democracy the world over."
We liked M. Clemenceau's speech
when we read it, and we still do like
it and our war really is a war for
democracy but we don't like all the
implications that some folks may
draw from such a speech as the Tig
er's. In various quarters we have
heard people say that we are fighting
for France, or that we are fighting
for Britain in other words, that we
are fighting somebody else's battle.
This is rubbish, for the United States
is not fithting France's battle, or Bel
gium's battle, or Britain's battle, but
fighting or getting ready to fight
its own battle. In the meantime.
France is Renting our war tor us on
land, while England is holding our
enemies in port so that they cannot
raid our harbors and shipping. We
have a good navy ourselves, ana even
without the British navy we should
give the Germans some nara Dames
at sea; but the point Americans must
realize is that we stayed out or this
war as long as we could manage in
spite of Germany's murder of Amer
icans at sea, in spite of German plots
aeainst us at home and in Mexico, in
spite of broken pledges and now that
we are in it, for us to talk about our
Dart as being a self-sacrificing or gen
erous part smacks somewhat of a kind
of cant which nobody loves but the
borjj canter.
And to that sort oi cam we preier
what Secretary Lane told the Na
tional Chamber of Commerce, as
sembled at Atlantic City. "We make
war in France." said Secretary Lane,
'that we may not be compelled to do
battle here. Let Germany have Can
ada or Mexico or even Cuba, and we
would go to our daily work like the
Pilgrim Fathers with our guns in our
hands. It may be hard that the clerk
must be taken from his desk, the law
yer from his case, the fireman from
his engine, the farmer from his plow.
the mechanic from his lathe but if
they li4 not go now, they and their
sons, other clerks and lawyers and
farmers and mechanics, would live one
long dread day of -fear. This is our
war."
And what we Americans do well to
itmember in October, 1917, is that
we are mighty lucky to have loyal
allies fighting out battles while we
learn how. Collier's Weekly.
to
PATRICK
Thee are gV-rius days for Thomas.
.r cf Atkins, and for ?andy Mac
ThH or Mao-Th.it. and VjT sammy
fn,::i over the ea. but where is the
broth iv a by named Pat? Is Patrick
redoubtable in France. Faith
no He is magnificent. You cant
lne him. Despite the correspondents'
too studied neglect, he will out for i
example. In Lieut. Z.'s contribution to
the New Scribner. Says he:
"Prisoners, their faces green with
lyddite fumes, unshaved and dirty.
MRS. EDITH SALISBURY
1. . ..Mill-
TO SPEAK fT numc
ECONOMICS MEETING TONIGHT
Mrs. Edith Salsbury of the National
Extension department, in Washington,
who was the guest of honor at the
tea given oy me nome economics
department, at the Farm, yester
day, will speak before the Home Eco
nomics meeting this evening at eight
o'clock, in Art hall.
TWENTY-EIGHT THOUSAND
FOR HOME-DEMONSTRATION
WORK IN THIS STATE
Ten emergency home-demonstra
tion agents have been artvinted in
Nebraska, to work under the provis
ions of the federal food production
and conservation act. which set aside
$S.0'.m) for home-demonstration work
in this state. The state has been dis
tricted, with headquarters in the fol
lowing towns: Omaha. Fremont,
Wayne, Central City, Chadron. Bridge
port, Holdrege, Beatrice. Grand Island,
and Hastings. Each new agent ap
pointed will be assignel to a district.
Explanation of home-iemonstration
work will be given to any group of
women who desire it.
STENOGRAPHER WILL HAVE
OPPORTUNITY TO WORK
THROUGH YALE LAW COURSE
and that of vour classmates it is bangdog and furtive and still afraid.
or some ue-
Prof. A. A. Reed has received a call
from Yale University for a university
graduate to earn his way through the
Yale law course by stenographic work.
He will serve as Drtvate secretary
of one of the officers of the faculty
and will noid the position for the full
three years, if satisfactory. Anyone
interested will please inquire of Prof
Reed at once.
not particularly disastrous if both you
and he are disappointed.
Because University politics is so
much like the game of life it Is one
of the most valuable branches of stu
dent activity. Picking a champion,
either a man or an ideal, and fighting
for it. is about all we accomplish in
tbi world, and the experiences we
gain in championing our candidates
in the face of the crit'cal. frank, and
partisan opposition oi class politics
will be worth while to use when, with
perhaps a broader Tision and more
profound conviction, we set out to
make oar life campaign.
shamble by in charge
lighted Irishman, who ha brought
them through the crumps and the hell
fire, and is as croud of them as a cat
I with her kittens, and woe betide any
one who bothers hlj kittens; they are
his kittens and to be treated with re
spect. 'Has any one got any fags for
these poor dirila or mln? Thus he
announces that they are rerCf hia
kittens."
Lieut. Z. saw two such Irish gentle
men with a wonnded German between
them. "They were half carrrta him
along. Though bis painj was much
amused by them. 'We got him In the
itfinJ linn t . X. . . T4ahmn
said, and he hinted broadly, with such
JAMES MILLIKIN UNIVERSITY
OFFERS A TEACHING
FELLOWSHIP IN BIOLOGY
An offer haj come from the James
Millikin university of Decatur, Illinois,
for an assistant in the biology depart
ment. The biology department offers
a teaching fellowship to a candidaten
for a master's degree. All fees re
quired In the course of study will be
paid, and also a reasonable salary,
if a desirable man is found.
The position has Just become vacant
through war conditions and must be
filled immediately. Anyone interest
ed in this offer can obtain more Infor
mation from Prof- A. A. Reed.
THE
LE BARON-WHEATLEY
Phone B4979 VOCAL STUDIOS "iuik,B?dK
Offer exceptional opportunities to University students.
Send for new catalog.
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