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THE DAILY NEBRASKA THE DAILY NEBRASKAN Official Paper of the University of Nebraska IVAN O. BEEDE Editor LEONARD W. KLINE. . . .Mng. Editor FERN NOBLE Associate Editor KATHARINE NEWBRANCH , Associate Editor ARNOLD WILKEN. .Associate Editor DWIGHT THOMAS. .Sporting Editor GEORGE DRIVER. .Business Manager MERRILL VANDERPOOL. Asst. Bus. Mgr, Reportorial Staff Harriet Ashbrook, Eleanor Fogg, Edna Rohrs, Nellie Schwab, Ruth Sny der, Gaylord Davis, J. Landale, Lyman Meade, George Newton. Offices News Basement University Hall Business, Basement Administration mag. 'News. L.-8-ilfi Mechani. ohonei Business, B-2597 1 ..artment. B-3145 Published every day during the college year except Saturday and bunaay. Subscription price, per semester, $1. Rntprpd at the Dostoffice at Lincoln, Nebraska, as second-class mull matter under the act of Congress of March 3, 1879. With the discovery of three new cases of smallpox among Nebraska stu dents the optimistic attitude of yester day becomes out of place. It will be a week, perhaps, before the full total of results from exposures has come in. In the meantime the policy of vaccina tion and examination must be strictly adhered to by students, who endanger their own and their classmates' safety by temporary neglect of the order. Chancellor Avery's article in appre ciation of President Wilson's message to congress, found elsewhere on this page, calls the attention of students to this remarkable document. It is, as the chancellor points out, of interna tional appeal, "the best expression of altruistic political thought to be found anywhere." University students, upon whom Bhall fall a heavy part of the burden of war and reconstruction, can find Inspiration and enlightenment in this article which is destined to take its place as one of the greatest state papers of the time. When tiskets for the Varsity ban quetwhich, it is hoped, will become an annual fall men's dinner dedicated to the Nebraska of today and tomor row were placed on sale, they were distributed under the stipulation that every purchaser fully understood that he is to attend an all-University ban quet where he is expected to deport himself as a Nebraskan should. There is no' common means of comparison between the Varsity banquet and the Cornhusker banquet of old, for none of the bad features of the latter have been considered in planning the new tradition. But, it is important, that every student realize this. He is go ing to a real bnaquet Friday, one which will be something worthwhile instead of something merely tolerated. CHANCELLOR AVERY ON THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE The president's message is an inter national message dealing with inter national conditions in a war involving every continent of the world. It will encourage our French, English and Italian allies. It will afford comfort to all people struggling for national unity and the right to work out their own destinies. It should instill some measure of sanity into Russia. There is charity and sympathy in it for the misguided people with whom we are at war. It helps us to feel that a world fellowship of all right-minded people may yet become something more than a day dream. It is an American message. It voices America's toleration where tol eration is possible. It voices Ameri ca's Inflexible determination to ban ish from our midst those things that cannot be tolerated while we are en gaged In a world straggle. The traitor must feel the iron band under America's velvet touch. For the bab " bling, Irreconcilable pacifists it voices the contemptuous pity in the heart of every true American. The president's message is a mes sage of practical idealism. In won derfully accurate phraseology it gives perhaps the best expression of altru istic political thought to be found any where. Compared with the erode proclamations of the Petrograd en- thusiasts it Is like a marble palace to a mud hoveL It shows our entrance into the world war In its true light as a crusade for Justice, for humanity. and for the establishment In world affairs of those principles which have been exemplified In the private con- duct of the best of humankind since the beginning of our era. SUCH STUFF AS WARS ARE MADE OF A pamphlet entitled "Japan" that came to Collier's not long ago is good example of the way people who presumably want to avoid wars help to make them Inevitable. The objeel of tho pamphlet is to arouse Amerl- cans to a realization of our unsatls factory relations with Japan and the necessity of improving them, as well as the need to strengthen our naval and military defenses on the Pacific Most of the reading matter, consist ing of reprints from "The Military Historian and Economist," is legiti mate enough expression of oplnon from (responsible sources; but the section intended to show what Japan thinks of us is utterly misleading and dangerous. It is headed "A Japanese Opinion (In October, 1916)." Here are some characteristic extracts: Fifty millions of our race wherewith to conquer and possess the earth. It 13 Indeed a glorious problem. Rome built an empire with less; Napoleon nearly did it with less; and England will have done it with less, if she wins if she wins. To begin with, we now have China; China is our steed .. . So be comes our fifty-million race five hun dred millions strong; so grow our paltry hundreds of millions of gold into billions. As for America that fatuous booby with much money and much senti ment, but no cohesion, no brains of government, stood she alone, we should not need our China steed. Well did my friend speak the other .day, when he called her people a race of thieves with the hearts of rabbits. America, to any warrior race, is not as a foe, but as an immense melon, ripe for the cutting . . . North Ameri ca alone will support a billion peo ple; that billion .shall be Japanese, with their slaves. . . . North Amer ica, that continent so succulently green, fresh, and unsullied except for the few chattering, mongrel Yankees should have been ours by right of discovery; it shall be ours by the higher, nobler right of conquest. But is it wise to pluck, even at first, but half the fruit? . . . England has said: "Nay, you may not take America, not even California." . . . Germany has said the same. But now, after two years' ecort ? Would she say it now? Would she rather be beaten by England than divide the world with us? . . . Cannot Ger many be brought to terms with us? Now, if that really is the way Japan feels, the only thing left for, us to do is to mobilize three million men on the Pacific coast and prepare to sell our lives dearly. But does Japan feel that way? To head the item "A Japanese Opinion," without telling us what Japanese opinion, leaves us nowhere. The thing may be a speech or an editorial; it may represent the views of a Japanese statesman, a Japanese lunatic, or a Japanese Hearst. The passage may, of course, be of the gravest import. But those who quote it ought to give us some chance to find out. The worst of circulating such stuff without telling its origin is that it thereby gains a weight all out of proportion to its importance. The average reader doesn't stop to ask where it came from; unconsciously he assumes that unless such a statement were im mensely important nobody would bother to reprint it. Unfortunately some people would, and do. Mr. Hearst's views on Japa nand Mexico strike no responsive fchtord in the heart of the average adult Ameri can, and we are properly indignant when Japanese jingoes quote his gib berings as representing American pub lic opinion. But perhaps they are merely taking a hint from what Amer ican Jingoes are doing. The Prussian autocracy spent forty years imbuing Germany with the con viction that if she did not crush the rest of Europe, the rest of Europe would crush her. Only now are her people beginning dimly to realize that nobody does or ever did want to an nihilate them. The best way to make a possible war a certain one is to make two nations afraid of each other; and the best way to do this Is to circulate anonymous rubbish like "A Japanese Opinion." Collier's Weekly. only. They will have the same rank ing as regular officers of the navy, and receive the same pay, and have the 3ame chances for promotion. Further information may be obtained at Dean Stout's office. LETTER FROM CAMP MILITARY NEWS Dean o. V. P. Stout of the depart ment of engineering has received a bulletin from the navy department an nouncing the appointment annually of thirty acting ensigns, authorized by congress at Its last meeting. Gradu ates of this University, with a degree of mechanical engineering or electri cal engineering, are eligible to apply for appointments. The following alumni and ex-students are now stationed at Fort Mon roe, awaiting orders to leave for France. First Lieutenant Lloyd Wal ter, C. E., '12; First Lieutenant Roy Cochran, '10; Second Lieutenant Kirk Fowler. ' C. C. Towne is now a second lieu tenant in active service in France. Paul Raber, C. E. '17, second lieu tenant field artillery, stationed at Ft. Sheridan, visited the engineering de partments the first of the week. Glenn Montgomery is now second lieutenant field artillery (regulars), stationed at Ft. Snelling. Albert Busboom, who was in the architectural school last year, is now second lieutenant of field artillery at Camp Dodge. Capt. H. P. Letton, C. E. '09, 'irsi Lieutenant E. W. Bennison, C. E. ex '09, and First Lieutenant R. F. Lyman, C. E. '14, are stationed at tori Leavenworth in the Engineer Officers' training corps. J. E. McLafferty, C. E. ex-'14, J. A. Christie, E. E. ex-'18, and Roy Cam eron, M. E. 17, are In training in the government balloon school at Omaha. Lieut. Col. Chas. Weeks, E. E. '98, chief of staff at Camp Custer, spent Thanksgiving here with his family. The following letter received from Wallace Overman, '17, now at Camp Funston in Y. M. C. A. service gives an excellent idea of the way Nebraska men at the front appreciate their schools record in the Red Triangle campaign: "Camp Funston, Nov. 30, 1917. "A few days ago, when I read in the Rae that Nebraska had really failed to live up to her trust and had sub scribed a mere $8,000 out of its quota of $15,000, a feeling akin to 'shame came over me. I felt that surely some thing was wrong, surely Nebraska had not been awakened to the real needs. "Today, when I received a Rag, and a program of the great meeting at the auditorium, and read that old Ne braska has "gone over the top" by over $8,000, 1 feel like throwing up my hat and yelling. "To one who is in such close touch with army life and the real needs of the "boys in khaki," it is surely a su preme satisfaction to see his old school respond so liberally to this call. "I can only express to the faculty and student vbody who responded so grandly to this call, a feeling of great est appreciation. From every Y. M. C. A. secretary In every army camp, this feeling comes, as a result of the overwhelming success of the campaign throughout the whole country. "Just at present the work here is somewhat hampered because of the quarantine, so about the only type of service we can render Is that of keep ing the boys supplied with stamps, stationery and reading matter. No public meetings of any sdrt are per mitted in any of the Y .M. C. A. build ings. This means that thirty-six mov ing picture show, thirty-six religious meetings, twelve "stunt night" pro grams and twelve educational pro grams are lost to the boys each week. We are hoping for a speedy lifting of this quarantine. Until then, we can only do our best with what we have to do. 1 The Rag gets to me about once or twice a week. Day before yesterday I received the Issue of November 1. I think it is the fault of the mail serv ice. With kindest regards, I am, Very sincerely yours, WALLACE L. OVERMAN, Y. M. C. A. No. 4. Camp Funston, Kan. nlay ten thousand or fifteen thousand dollars' worth or gou. Transcript. Lost His Enthusiasm The worried countenance of tho bridegroom disturbed the best man. Tiptoeing up the aisle, he whispered: "What's the matter, Jock? Hae ye lost the ring," "No," Dlurted out the unhappy Jock, "the ring's safe eno But, mon, I've lost me enthusiasm." Southern Wom an's Magazine. "Does your grocer attempt to ex plain high prices?" "He did at first. Now he merely shudders as he accepts the 'money, and I groan." Louisville Courier-Journal. Accurate An editor had a notk-o Htucll Un above his desk on which was printed "Accuracy. Accuracy. Accuracy " and this notice he always pointed out to the new reporters. One day the youngewt member of the staff came in with his report of a public meeting. The editor read it through and came to tho sentence: "Three thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine eyes were fixed upon the speaker." "What do you mean by making a silly blunder like that?" he demanded wrathfully. "But it's not a blunder," protested the youngster. "There was a one-eyed man in the audience." Minneapolis Tribune. Ask for Soil Exhibit The United Soil survey has been re quested by the Union Pacific railway to install a soil exhibit in the Terminal building at Omaha. The exhibit will Include specimens, maps and soil ma terials along the Union Pacific line in Nebraska. The survey will place a large soil column sixty feet high in a glass case. The State Conservation commission has received a great many requests regarding prospecting for oil in Nebraska. This commission has the duty under the law of keeping con stant records of soil prospecting and the purpose Is to gain knowledge of formations encountered. Drilling forj oil Is now under way near Red Cloud. Table Rock, Stockville and Harris burg, and at points in South Dakota and Wyoming near the Nebraska line. ' Dr. Condra recently went over the fid prospected near Ardmore. ACDllrantR mrmr ho olcn ntfsaTl qualified, and not under twenty-one! " D- fd L"sk. Wya. both of which nor over twenty-six years of age. Men tal examinations for the position will be given January 2, 3, 4 and 6, 1918, at this schoL The physical tests fol low these examinations. Those re ceiving the commissions will be re quired to perform engineering duties are points close to the Nebraska line. On the Long Green -My time." said the magnate, "is worth one hundred dollars a minte." "Well," answered his friend ca usual ly, "lets go out this afternoon and SOHEMBECK'S ,. BAND "Bestjfor the Best" START RIGHT-RIGHT NOW Big New Classes Enrolling This Week in Nebraska School of Business OF LINCOLN Best training for the least money. You will find us at the corner of 14th and "O," second and third 'floors, ready to welcome you. Orpheum Drug Store OPEN TILL MIDNIGHT A Good Place for Soda Fountain Refreshments after the Theatre and after the Rosewilde Dance CARSON HILDRETH, '95 and '96 ESTABLISHED 1887 PHONE B-1422 EFFLEY'STAI LORS OLIVER THEATRE BUILDING . 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