THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
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Unlvemlty of Nebraaka
IVAN O. BE1SDK Editor
LEONARD W. KLINE. . . .Mng. Editor
FERN NOBLE Associate Editor
KATHARINE NEWU11ANC1I
Associate Editor
ARNOLD WILK EN. .Associate Editor
GEORGE NEWTON. . Sporting Editor
RUTH SNYDER Society Editor
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C. E. JOHNSON Ass't. Bus. Mgr
Reportorlal Staff
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1879. .
WEARING DOWN THE KAISER
Many are familiar with the fable
that appeared In the old school read
ers about the king who offered a for
tune and the hand of his daughter to
(he man who could tell him a story
that would last forever in the telling,
with the stipulation, however, that, In
case the story came to an end, the
pereon who failed to complete It was
to lose his head by the sword.
A number of adventurous spirits lost
their heads in the attempt to keep a
serial going forever to amuse the ec
centric monarch, but one young man
finally won the fortune and the daugh
ter by wearing out the very bouI of
the king with the story about the
locusts carrying off the corn. "And
then another locust came and carried
off another grain of corn," etc., etc.,
until the king decided he had had
enough of the story.
America in fact, the whole world,
is dealing with an "eccentric" mon
arch today. This monarch wants the
Impossible, and every on who refuses
to give It to him must lose his head.
There Is one way to deliver the peo
ples of the world' from this menace.
Kaiser Wllhelm can be worn out, if
he cannot be crushed by one tremend
ous blow. And the government at
Washington has pointed out the way.
Money will defeat the kaiser. Small
savings, like the locusts, coming along
from 110,000,000 American citizens,
will wear out the soul of the war-mad
monarch. American money can wear
out any army In the world, because
there is a great deal of American
money and there are many Americans
who have it. Just a mere matter of a
quarter a day from every wage earner
in the United States would mean
billions of dollars every year to buy
guns and food for soldiers and ships
to carry them across the Atlantic to
defeat the sinister purposes of the
kaiser and his crew.
A quarter, like the grain of corn, is
not much in itself, but millions of
quarters every day mean victory for
righteousness and humanity. Ex.
THE WRITING ON THE WALL
"The idea of nationality may
become a danger to the ethical char
acter of life. This is the case if, by
milder or severer means, one nation
tries to force its own character and
speech upon another. The
desire for external power at the same
time tends to lessen the attention to
the inner development and unification j
of nationality, without which ultimate
ly little progress can be made In the
development of power. It is through
a common national character, with its
unification of the feelings and efforts
of the individuals, that a people is
first elevated Into a genuine nation;
it is a character such as this that
gives to a people a power of influenc
ing humanity as a whole; it Is a char
acter such as this that gives to the
Individuals the consciousness of be
ing 'members one of another' and with
this a stability and a Joy In lif and
activity."
This well-put denunciation of the
promulgation of "kultur" by force
and propaganda was not written by
an enemy of Germany, but by a
philosopher in the land of the kaiser,
which makes it all the more damning.
The words quoted are from the book
"Life's Basis and Life's Ideal," by
Rudolph Eucken, one of the most
widely-read thinkers since Kant, and
were given as a word of warning to
Germany when she was riding on the
wave of materialism which resulted
in ber insane nightmare of conquering
the world. But the warning came too
late, at the world now knows.
in his statement of the' dauger of
nationalism in Germany Eucken goes
on to analyze tho Oerman character,
and points out the dangerous ten
denotes which later, through tlielr
dominance of the German mind, have
Involved the world in a war to decide
whether the principles they imply
shall live or die. Of the German tern-
peramont and its environment, he
says:
our Inner nature con
tains, before all else, harsh antithesis
Our strength lies chiefly In arousing
to. life depths of the soul otherwise
undreamt-of. Thus in music and in
poetry we have been able to surpass
all other peoples; again we have been
able to give to religion a wonderful
inwardness and in education to evolve
leading ideas. At the same time, how
ever, we are driven In the physical
world to take possession of and to
shape things; we are not the Hindus
of Europe, as other peoples Indeed
previously called us. We came Into
history by achievements in war, and
the desire for conflict and victory has
been maintained through all the
phases of our varied history.. By the
continue diligence of our citizens we
have subordinated the world around
us to our aims; our capacity for or
ganization has been most marked, as
the proaont stato of Industry and
trade shows. However, not only have
these movements toward Inwardness,
and toward the world, a strong ten
dency to oppose one another, but also,
in contrast with these magnificant
gifts, there are many defects and tendencies-that
make the development
of a powerful and unified life exceed
ingly difficult. We show a want of
form and taste, a heaviness and for
mality, a tendency to occupation with
detail and in general with what is
petty in life, and as a result of this,
an uncultured "phllistinlsm" In all
spheres of society, and along with this
the inclination upon the part of in
dividuals to insist upon the correct
ness of their positions, and thus to
cause divisions; finally and this is
the wors t of all much envy and
Jealousy." I.
For his frank ' criticism of the bad
side of German character, which un
fortunately is dominating the German
nation, we can forgive Eucken his
doubtful praise of German poetry and
education, in neither of which, surely,
have they taken the lead. But for its
clear conception of the direction In
which the Teutonic nature was drift
ing, this is a remarkable bit of be-fore-the-war
prophecy.
Twenty-Two on Sigma
Delta Chi Honor
Roil
In the February issue of the Awg
wan which was out yesterday there
is a page service flag representing
the honor roll of Nebraska chapter of
Sigma Delta Chi. The page repre
sents a wood cut made by Dwight
Kirsch, '19. The organization has
twenty-two men In active service.
Those whom the stars represent are:
Max J. Baehr Richard F. Lyman
Philo M. Buck Ted Metcalfe
C. Neil Brown Frank Perkins
Al. E. Bryson Marcus Poteet
Fred W. Clark Merrill V. Reed
L. R. Doyle Harold Schwab
Charles Epperson Everett B. Scott
Keith Graul Kenneth Snyder
George Grimes O. V. P. Stout
Virgil J. Haggart Fred N. Wells
U. S. Harkson John Wendstrand
Carlisle L. Jones
NATIONAL DEFENSE OFFICER TO
SPEAK ON WOMEN'S WAR
WORK AT LOCAL COMMITTEE'S
MEETING
Mrs. Phillip M. Moore of Washing
ton, D. C, a national officer of the
woman's committee, national council
of defense, has been secured by the
Nebraska branch of the committee to
discuss "Women in War Work," at
their meeting this week, the latter
part of a meeting preceding the war
conference Friday.
Mrs. Moore will give her address
Thursday night at the First Christian
church. All students are urged to
attend the meeting,. Prof. Sarka Hrb
kova, chairman of the Nebraska com
mittee said yesterday, as Mrs. Moore
brings a special message to people
with University training.
To Offer New Courses in
Beginning Astronomy
Two courses in astronomy will be
open to beginners during the coming
semester.
Astronomy 6. Lectures and obser
vational work, including one evening
hour at the observatory. Two hours'
iredit
Astronomy 4a. A new course, not
THE DAILY NEBRASNM
yet published" la the' calendar. A lec
t..r rourso. merely: two lectures a
(week, for one hour credit.
The following Is a synovia ui i
llectures;
The fllold of astronomy, the tele
scope, the making of a lens, the
mounting of a telescope, the measur
ing instruments of astronomy, the
spectroscope, astronomical photog
raphy, the nature of the sun, the solar
spectrum, cyclones in the sun, the
sun's magnetic field the domination of
the sun, the sun's radiant energy, the
distances of the stars, the illusion of
a celestial sphere, the constellations,
the motions of the stars, stellar sys
tems, eclipsing stars, clusters and
streams of starB, stars and nebulae,
the life history of a star, variable
stars, ancient and modern conceptions
of the stars, the arrangement of the
visible universe.
HUSKERS START FINAL
WORKOUTS FOR FUNST0N
(Continued from page one.)
the benefit game was planned to In
tart repay the debt the school owes
them for services rendered In the past.
Practically all students are free to
come to this game, because Saturday
is a closed night to all University so
cial affairs, on account of the semester
finals, next week. The promoters of
Nebraska athletics feel that they are
offering the student body a real bar
gain. It Is giving them a chance to
see a Cornhusker team battle with a
team composed of some of the fastest
and best-known basketball men in the
country, with a promise of a hard,
close game, and at the same time to
help one of the best causes of today,
by helping finance athletics in the
training camps and the promoters ex
pect to see every loyal Cornhusker
out to this game.
AVVGWAN AGAIN BRINGS
CHEER TO CAMPUS
(Continued from page one.)
Awgwan staff since the beginning of
the University last year. All of the
cartoons this year, and most of those
last, were done by him. Kirsch is a
Junior in the fine arts school, and is
a member of Sigma Delta Chi,
Journalistic fraternity.
The business management of the
Awgwan, under the direction of John
C. Wright, will put on another sub
scription campaign during registra
tion week. The management feels
that the Awgwan should be better
supported by the students of the Uni
versity than It is at present. - Other
schools like Harvard and Yale look
forward to the Issuing of their comfc
paper, and- nearly all are subscribers.
The management feels that the stu
dent body should give fuller apprecia
tion to the hard work and talent of the
members of 'the Awgwan staff.
ORGANIZED AGRICULTURE
MEETINGS BEGIN TODAY
(Continued from page one)
11:00 a. m. Hortif-iiln trill niioanra 4 lna
In Nebraska. Peter Youngers, Geneva.
JJJHCUSHlUn.
Question box.
2:00 D. m. Summinir Tin r th r ,.......
of Horticulture In Nebraska, G. A. Mar-
niiitii, .Arlington.
Making? a Young Orchard Self-Support-Intr,
A. M. Shubert. Shulrt
Clean Culture for the Bearing Orchard,
Does It Pay? Discussion, led by Val Key-
Regulating the Hearinor Hnhlta nf PV.,i,
Trees, E. II. Hoppert, Lincoln.
vuesuon dox.
Home Economics
All sessions will he held in
Agricultural hall, includl nff fr ir.rl t.nfnraa
and demonstrations.
9:30 a. m. Greetings. PrenMjnt foh..i
D. (Jramllclv Lincoln.
9:45 a. m. Common Sense Patriotism,
Esther Warner, Keward.
10:15 a. m. Demonstrations, "Butter
Substitutes In Cookerv." Iouln Mr.Hitv
Battle Creek; Mabel Sterns, Lincoln. '
z:uw p. m. vocal solo. Louise La Baron,
Lincoln.
2:15 D. in. Artists In War Tim.
Blanche E. Grant. Lincoln.
z:s p. m. woman's service In Time of
War, Mrs. . T. Lindsay, Lincoln.
3:15 p. m. Nebraska Women In th
War, Miss Sarka Hrbkova. Lincoln.
Getting-Acquainted Tea Hnm Fn.
nomlcs hall.
ASHistlnr Hostesiieii Mra YfoUh Vuiu
Mrs. Emma Heed Davison, Mrs. Samuel
Avery. Mrs K. A. Burnett.
8reep Breeder and Wool Growers
Main Moor Judging Pavlllion
9:00 a. m. Address of Wplenm. nan
E. A. Burnett, Lincoln.
9:15 a. m. Kheeo ExDerlennu. w n
Unitt. Seward
9:80 a. tn. -My Experience with Rum.
tner Ewes, George Berry, Norfolk.
ll:uu a. m. Management of a Pure-Bred
Flock. T. F. Jones, Eberly. Ia.
10:40 a. m. Sheep Equipment, W. C.
Coffey; Illinois Agricultural College, Ur
bana, 111.
11:39 a. m. sneeD Legislation. O. W.
Hervey, Omaha.
1 :oo p. m. utieep Slaughtering and Cut
ting demonstration. K. F. Warner, U. 8.
Bureau of Animal Industry.
1:45 p. m. Wool Its Care and Hand
ling, Chaa. Cadwallader, Lincoln.
2:30 p. m. Co-Operatlve Will Sales, J.
H. Tubbe. Beatrice.
1:60 p. m. The Range Ewe as the Farm
Flock Foundation, Clarence Bock, David
City.
J:20 p. m. Selling From the Range. H.
L. Stephens, Gibbon.
1:50 p. m. Buying on the Farm, W. C.
Coffey, Urbana, 111.
4:50 p. m. Co-Operatlve Euylng and
Selling of Sheep Products, L. B. Rlst,
Agricultural Agent, Gage County, Be
atrice. Fairs
Commercial Club, Association of 'bounty
fairs
-8:2 n. m. Banquet, followed bv a
Round Table d.lscussloa of county fair
pruuierns, ia wiutu everyone is e&peciM
to participate.
N
DEAN FORDYCE WARNS
FORT CROOK SOLDIERS
Urges Importance of Maintain-
ins Morals in U. S. Army in
Trenches and in Camps
Dean Charles Fordyce, bead of the
Teachers' college In the University of
Nebraska In addressing a large body
of Fort Crook soldiers Saturday night,
appealed to the men to guard against
the Bocial evils that surround camp
life.
That it is highly important to strive
for tho best possible morals the
speaker showed by referring to statis
tics. The data which he produced as
evidence Indicated that 80 per cent of
the men applying for military service
are rejected because of their physical
unfitness. From this, said Dean For
dyce, we can see that before a fit army
of l.GOO.OOO can be obtained 6,000.000
must have been rejected. "It Is as
high a type of valor to live tor your
country as to die for It." he said.
"The outcome of the present struggle
will depend on the battle behind as
well as In front of the trenches."
The. dean also devoted a part of his
talk to an appeal lo the soldiers to
abstain from the use of the French
light wines as these, he Bald, were de
structive to the spirit and morals of
the men in the trenches and hence
bav am contrary to the Interests of
the cause for which they are sacrificing
their lives. He asserted runner tnat
if the men now in France will remain
true to the teachings of their mothers
the United States will have an in
vincible army.
Men in Trenches Send
Urgent Call for Music
The call has come from seven dif
ferent units, for pieces of music both
Instrumental and songs for the boys
In camps. Any copy of college songs,
popular pieces or Instrumental will
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boys who will appreciate them.
DR. H. B. ALEXANDER
WRITES ON 'AMERICANISM'
Article In New Republic Tracei
America's Development Toward
Deslr for World Democracy
"AmerlcanlBin," an article by Dr
Hartley B. Alexander In the last Issue
of the New Republic, is attracting t
great deal of attention. The article U
the only one listed on the cover and
Is reviewed in the editorial column
with favorable comment.
Three groat epochs In American
history are reviewed by Dr. Aloxander,
the Declaration of Independence, the
Monroe Doctrine and the Civil yrar
Each of these defined a new phase of
American Independence. President
Wilson's proclamation that we are
now fighting for the safety of the
world Is the fourth great epoch, com
pletlpg the definition of Americanism
which has grown from a mere desire
for individual independence to the
daring assertion that we are fighting
for world demofraoy.
ALUMNI NEWS
Callie Gregory Cuscaden, '01, writes
the alumni secretary that her hus
band, Captain Cuscaden ia now sta
tioned at Camp Lewis. She adds:
"Later on I will try to send you some
news. Now the only thing I know
that might be of interest is that the
Phi Kappa Psl's meet Friday's at the
hostess house and lunch together.
Vallery White, 10, who is doing Y.
M. C. A. work here and Lieutenant
Ben Cherrington, '11, and my husband
were the only Nebraskans at the last
meeting."
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