THE DAILY NEBRASKA N
THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
Official Taper of the
University of Nebraska
IVAN G. BEEDE .Editor
LE6NARD 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
Reportorlal Staff
Harriet Ashbrook, Eleanor Fogg,
Carolyn Reed, Edna Rohrs. Nellie
Schwab, Ruth Snyder, Gaylord Davis,
J. Landale, Lyman Meade, George
Newton.
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Published every day during the college
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Entered at the postomce at Lincoln
Nebraska, as second-class mail matter
under the act of Congress of March 3,
1879.
Although it would have been im
possible for the 1917 football letter
men to pick a poor leader for next
year's Cornhuskers from among the
candidates, Nebraskans will give
them credit for making a good choice.
"Dusty" Rhodes is a fighter, a man
who enters every game with a bull
dog determination to outbattle every
opponent on the field and he always
does it. Desperately earnest, steady,
unselfish, he will make a splendid suc
cessor to the noble line of Nebraska
football kinds.
This evening Nebraska will have a
chance to establish a new tradition,
the varsity banquet, which will ulti
mately devote itself to the considera
tion, by speech, satire, and discussion,
of University reform and improve
ment. The first dinner will naturally
lack many of the features of future
banquets, but it will nevertheless
strive to carry out this refinite pur
pose. As something intended for the
advancement of the University's in
terests it deserves the support of all
Nebraskans, professors, as well as
the students.
In troublous times great things are
born. When hearts are shorn of pre
tense by the rough burdens they bear,
when spirits are sharpened to quick
response by the idealization of senti
ment, men conceive and execute the
world's miracles. Big responsibilities
breed big men; sleeping power wells
up to meet emergencies. But even in
the days that try men's souls there
must still be the plodder, he man who
daily lpows the field, or turns the
lathe, or sits at the student's desk.
There must be a country, a civiliza
tion, a culture, for the Washingtons,
the Lincolns and the Wilsons to save,
and there must still be one when the
crisis is passed and peace has come
again. And so, until greater respon
sibilities call us to put aside the plaw,
to leave he lathe, or to close the
school book, let us remember Sthat
upon the efficient performance of our
daily tasks rests the very foundation
of American life.
What University men's organization
will be the first to adopt the newest
and most sensible of all the "less"
days, the smokeless day? Who
among Nebraska's slaves of "the great
Gawd Nick-o'-Teen" are williing to set
aside a day's rations for Sammy, Tom
my, and "Frenchy?" The time has
come for the great sacrifice, for puff
less day is following cosely on the
track of its meatless, wheatless, and
sugarless brethren. Already visions
of the thousands of dollars that can
be saved for war relief through this
means are dazzling the minds-eyes of
the reformers. If the whole nation of
smokers were to observe the day it
would save a great many thousands
of dollars so many that statisticians
deem it unwise to publish the exact
figures. All this money, then, could
be diverted Into other channels where
it might accomplish more than to
soothe our nerves. Is there anything
silly or impractical about the plan?
Certainly not! If University co-eds
can knit wristlets, sweaters, stock
ings, mufflers, and other things too
numerous to mention for the soldier
boys, then University men can give
up their after-dinner cigar or his pack
age of Dromedary's once a week for
the soldiers' benefit. And, while we
are about it, why . not observe wo
smokeless days? One when we save
our tobacco money for war work, and
one when we give our can of F. A. or
Bull Durham to the army tobacco
barrels? Smokeless days Bhould be
interesting at least, and might per
haps be' conducive to a happier life
for Sammy.
WAR FAKES
War gives the congenital liar an
extraordinary opportunity. News'
papers and newsgatherings associa
tions receive grotesque tips of hap
penings that would be eensational
in the superlative degree if they
really happened.
The newspaper man is able to
spot the fake at sight or if there
is any uncertainty the network of
press wires will bring a trustworthy
report from the scene of the al
leged event within a few hours.
Hearing that fifty men were killed
in a riot at such and such a train
ing camp last week, he knows it is
not so, for a score of reporters are
covering that camp day and night.
Confidentially advised that such and
such a well-known officer committed
suicide last Tuesday because docu
ments that showed him to be a
German spy were found In his
trunk, he Bends a query and learns
that the officer in question was
tranquilly consuming corned beef
fifteen minutes ago. But a great
many credulous people, who do not
understand the conditions of news
gathering, have a grossly exagger
ated idea of the extent to which
domestic news is censored, and
swallow inventions whose falsity
would be apparent to their simple
horse sense if they would exercise
that faculty.
When there is hardly a household
but has some interest in some young
man under arms, these orally cir
culated war lies must cause con
siderable distress. Remember that,
as to any sensational allegation in
print, there Is barely one chance In
thousand of its being true. Sat
urday Evening Post.
0U SAN'T SAW WOOD
BY ADMIRING THE SAW
You can't make bricks without
straw, but neither can you make
them of nothing but straw. Putting
it another way no amount of en
deavor to put people in a receptive
mood will get anywhere unless they
themselves will go halfway to meet
that endeavor. To get things ac
complished two elements are needed:
the impetus which sets in motion
and the co-operation which main
tains (and finally accelerates) that
initial motion. The United States
food administration can and does
supply information to the people
telling them why they should save
certain sorts of food, and how they
may save them. But unless the pub
lic responds by putting such advice
into actual practice, the game is
only half won. If you ever watched
a relay race, you know that no mat
ter bow fast the first runner sprints
nothing is achieved and the race
is not won unless the next runner
does his part. So it is about saving
foods. When you read that one way
to conserve America's fats for the
use of our allies is not to use butter
in cooking, you are starting in the
right .direction. But if you only
pause and ponder and think how
wise such counsel is, you have ar
rived nowhere. It is only when
you stop using butter in cooking,
or see that it is stopped in your
household, that you have got some
where. That is the first way you
can conserve wheat and fat and
sugar by sparing them yourself.
The second is to persuade others
to go and do likewise. Completed
public instruction and effort can be
accomplished only when Mrs. Smith
drops in on Mrs. Jones next door
to tell just how she managed to cut
down her use of wheat flour and
butter a full third the previous
month. And when Mrs. Jones begins
to try the same system of substi
tution, and persuades Mrs. Robinson
to do likewise, then real results
begin to pile up. That's what co
operation means. Collier's WTeekly.
Bingle note,", and Aunt Elvira wept
&f rsh.
"That's a moving picture photog
rapher at work," snapped her sister.
Daily Press.
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NEWS FROM CAMP
Glenn Mason. '10, who obtained a
commission as first lieutenant of en
gineers after attending the Engi
neer Officers' training school of
American university, visited the Uni
versity Thursday.
Capt. C. J. Frankforter, last year
assistant professor of chemistry, and
C. W. Taylor, former principal of
the Teachers' College High School,
now captains of infantry, were on
the campus Thursday.
Albert liusboom, ex-is, is now a
second lieutenant of field artillery.
Geo. D. Wilson has been given
a commission as first lieutenant of
infantry.
Aunt Elvira rushed into the house.
hysterical.
"I've lost my hearing," she shouted.
"You have?" her frightened sister
shouted back. "How do ycu know?"
"See that man out there playing
that handorgan? Well, I can't hear a
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Tht Unitarian faith is dear to' me because I was born Into
it, and educated In It; and because I have found it to be In my
own personal experience, and In my observation of others, the
most cheerful faith in the world In times of ease and pros
perity, and the surest reliance of any faith In the world In
times of trial and adversity . . . If I am thankful for any
thing In this world, as I often am for the many privileges of
my lot, I am thankful I was born Into and have always lived
In the simple, fundamental convictions of our Unitarian faith.
To propagate that faith Is, to my thinking, a holy thing, a
s.icred duty.
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