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TUB DAILY KEBR A8KAH THE DAILY NEBRASKAN timrui rpr er t Unlv rally of Nabraaka FERN NOBLE Editor LEONARD W. KLINE.... Mn. Editor ARNOLD WILKEN Newi Editor RUTH SNYDER Society Editor EARL STARBOARD.. Sportinf Editor HORACE TALCOTT. Acting Bui. Mfr.f t once In tela matter if anything I to bo done during this semester. C. W. Offleaa Naws naaeiueiit University Hat) bualnaaa. haaamant AdmliilairUoa uw Talaohonaa Nawa. I.-I41I Hualnaa T-KH Wachanleal rvpartmant. U-J14J Publlahad avary day during tha collar ar axcrpt Saturday ana Kununy. Bubacrlpllon prlca. per eemaatar, 11. Kntvrad at lha coatofflca at Lincoln. Nahraaka. aa aecond-cUma mall tnatlar ndar lha act of Congraaa of March I, 7. Reportorlal Staff Edith Anderson Eleanore Fogg Anna Burtlesa Grace Johnston Gaylord Davla Carolyn Reed Oawald Black Ftank Tatty E. Forrest Eites FYancls Flood Edna Rohrs THE GERMAN CLUBS AGAIN The Dally Nebraskan has never wished to discourage the study of the German language. Editorially the pa per has said: "We realize that we must know the German language if we are to prevent Prussian domina tion of the world." The Daily Ne braskan does not believe that secret club meetings are necessary to learn the German language. There are con versational classas in German which train the ear In proficiently following German dialogue. We realize that public opinion must be considered especially in war times. The fact that the meetings were not announced in The Daily Nebraskan, as has been the custom in former years, would seem to infer that the club members feared public opinion regarding their meetings. Besides it is practically impossible to keep such meetings secret, particularly this year when a number of the members of the club have withdrawn their support or simply stopped attending the meet ings. If public opinion condemns the clubs if will condemn the entire uni versity. Students who wish to secure positions may even be handicapped. Nebraska has already been severely criticized in such matters compared with other states. German is not spoken at the meet ings of the Deutscher Geselliger Verein, a member of the club stated yesterday. If the purpose of these meetings is not for the practice of the German language, Just what is the purpose? French soldiers are taught the Ger man language, newspapers often re port this. But there are no accounts of German clubs in France. Because of the criticism they bring upon the school, because there seems to be' no need at the present time for the promotion of "German culture" we believe that the clubs should dis continue their meetings until the war is over. Self-control and self-restraint are certainly demanded of all loyal Americans at the present time. FORUM The Daily Nebraskan will print in the Forum signed com munications addressed to the editor but assumes no responsi bility for the same. The editor reserves the -right to reject all articles deemed unnecessary. The Nebraskan believes that free and open discussion is bene ficial and for that reason wel comes communications on time ly subjects from both students and faculty members. The sig nature of the writer may be had upon application to the editor but will not be printed if so desired. The Tennis Courts Editor Daily Nebraskan: The board of regents have decreed that the athletic board shall put in new tennis courts, and keep them in repair. Members, of the athletic board have advised the writer that the financial matters rested so'.ly with the director with the consent of the chancellor and the secretary. The director has distalned to do any thing in regard to the matter on ac count of the shortage of funds. This may be true This means that the two hundred tennis followers who signed the petition for new courts must hear the well wo:i statement that since the department has given to a Just and worthy cause $7,000 that this piece of "no man's land" must be allowed to grow weeds In the face of the landscape gardening adjoining the sew buildings. Action should be taken The Unsigned Letter Editor The Dally Nebraskan. The anonymous letter publlahed I last Friday's Nebraakan rrlllclaing the German clubs In the I'nlverslty and more or Ims dlreitly the artMl pf the deju rfnient of German, seems to me to cnll for serious comment. In the first place, attention should be called to the fact that the German clubs, like other departmental clubs exist, for the sake of furthering pro ficiency in the German language that Is, they are means of more readily and capably learning German. The same Is true of German plays, which form an admirable method of train ing the ear for following dialogue In (ht German language. The activities are primarly educational, prlroarly means of acquiring knowledge of Ger man. They should not, therefore, be discouraged, far less suppressed, so long as the teaching of German Is re garded as Important. And I venture to say that the study of German never was so Important or so deserved encouragement In Hie University as at the present hour. It should be helped In every llgltimate way. Primarily for the sake of the nation, Into whose service many of them are soon to enter, the whole body of students enlisted In the Re serve Officers' Training Corps should be studying French and German. Knowledge of these two languages (and the enemy language Is fully as Important as that of our ally) will very greatly Increase the value of every officer who possesses It to the United States government In the war being waged. Further, knowledge of the enemy language may, on many an occasion, save the life of the soldier who possesses it. In my opinion, for the period of the war, German, along with French, should be required of every boy in the training corps. This, in the interests of the United States. Further, we should not forget that the study of German is to be retained In the University when peace Is re stored, for the sufficient reason that it is essential to the career of scien tist and scholar. It Is absurd, there fore, to weaken, by now destroying what the department has laboriously developed through long years in the way of helps to the departmental work. We should not short-sightedly forget that the war is bound to be temporary even though it last some years and that it is an abnormal con dition. Finally and here is the real issue the question of loyalty is not bound up in the question of the teaching of Ger man or the use of the German lan guage any more than it is bound up in the possession of a German name. The two questions are distinct and should be kept distinct. In my opin ion many people are losing their heads in unreasonable and Irrelevant sus pisions. Disloyalty, be it remembered, is treason. Think the word '"treason" and bring no charge of disloyalty where "treason" will not apply. Then, I believe, we shall have far less of the senseless suspicion which is growing everywhere. Let it be remembered that no one individual has a right to make himself . or herself the unre strained Judge of the intentions of others, that there are properly con stituted tribunals before which charges can be brought, and make it a rule of conduct to utter no word of suspicion where you are not ready to bring a charge. Self-control and self restraint were never more demanded in the interests of Justice, which are, thank God, the interests of the United States of America, than in the present hour. April 13, 1918. H. B. ALEXANDER. The German Clubs Editor Nebraskan: I was very much surprised at your publishing in Friday's issue of your paper an unsigned communication, the purpose of which was to attack the two clubs connected with the Ger man department and insinuate by wholesale innuendoes that these or ganizations are disloyal and un-American. Do you think it professional to publish an unsigned communication, if such indeed it was? Is your cor respondent and are you aware, for ex ample, that one of these clubs which he ntta"lrd. showed and JmOiioliaied its Americanism long before any other organization in the UniversUy felt called upon to make any contribution to the cause of humanity, by giving $100 to the American Red Cross? As I say, this was done long before we entered the war. What other organ ization, I ask, had done any such thing at that time, Further, is your correspondent aware that the Drama tic club has purchased Liberty Bonds to the extent of Its ability. $150, be sides its members giving their quota In whatever other organization they were interested; and Is he aware that this same club boasts of having 16 members with the American colors, some In France, some in Hawaii, some in cantonments and that the club is honoring these boys, the University and itself in having a beautiful serv ice flag among its possessions? Do facts such as theae Justify your cor reapondent's Insinuation? Again, I might aak, la it fair to at tack these clubs because they took their Germans names 15 or 20 years ago aa Indicating that they were In terested In knowing the language of a people who, ev-n though we are now at war with them, defending our Mcet principles of freedom and law, and the precious gains of civilisation, nevertheless have a Uteraturo nJ science well worth knowing. What Is the purpose of these clubs? As far as I know, they have been and are organizations Intended to further the work of the department, and nothing else. There Is not a scintilla of truth to the Insinuation amounting well nigh to charges of disloyalty, that they have any other object In view or any other reason for existing. At one of the meetings held some weeks since, at which I was present, three men In khaki, members of the club, were given a sort of farewell recep tion; in fact the meeting was a most enthusiastic, patriotic, American meet ing, an ovation to the boys In khaki. Why were these meetings not adver tised and paraded before the public? Simply because to many people and perhaps one should give these people credit for being honest In their view anything with a German name or con nected with the German language seems reprehensible in and of itself. Your correspondent seems to belong to this class. Personally, I have ad vocated with all the persuasion that I can command that foreign languages have no place in the grade schools. But I cannot imagine that, for an edu cated man or aa educated woman, should be a subject of pride or satisfaction not to Know a foreign tongue. The fact that I may have a knowledge of one or several foreign tongues does not seem to me to impair in any way whatsoever my efficiency as an American or my en thusiasm for the cause of freedom and democracy. Very truly yours, LAWRENCE FOSSLER. NEFF NOW IN GOVERNMENT SERVICE AT PORTLAND, ORE. Harold G. Neff, who since receiv- the government soil survey and has ing his degree last year, has Joined been stationed at Portland Oregon. zkt m - - ' I -i-':, , m .- . -; -; .' :-.-y : :."' r ' 1 t i ! I J He has an excellent position and as recently promoted, although he had been in the government employ for only a few months. Neff is a member of Silver Lynx fraternity and was prominent in school activities. He was president of the senior class. PRINCETON GRANTS ABSENCE " LEAVE TO DEPARTMENT HEAD Princeton University has granted leave of absence to Prof. Frank A. Fetter, head of jthe department of economics, to take effect June 1. Dr. Fetter will devote himself en tirely to war work. He will be manager of the western division of the war camp community service, which, as an integral part of the Fosdick Commission on Training Camp Activities, has entire charge of all recreation and social work outside the training camps. Dr. Fet ter will have charge of all the recreational work surrounding thirty six army and navy camps in the west and southwest. nr Fetter as appointed commis sioner of the New York State Board of Charities in 1910 by Governor Hughes and in 1911 he became the head of the department of economics of Princeton University. He was graduated from Indiana University in 1891, and took his doctor's de gree at Cornell in 1894, having Btudied abroad. In 1912xDr. Fetter was elected president of the Amer ican "Economic Association. Also Dr. Fetter la . the author of the "Principles of Economics" and many other works on the subject. Cliff Scott's Music, B14&2. Lost " Gold ring, two dark sets, raised initials, "L. Q. R." Please call L-7531. Reward. DO YOU KNOW THAT The ordnance'department manufac tures about 100,000 Items. One type of gun with Its carriage has 7,990 parts, exclusive of accessories. Quartermaster expended or obli gated $58,960,857 for construction and repair of hospitals. Congress has authorized $2,034,000. 00, of which sum $1,135,000,000 has been appropriated, for the United States Shipping noard and Emergency 247.955.37 of this sum had been ex', pended. Tresent avenge dally mall handled by the adjutant general Is approx. mately 68,000 pieces. Naval training camps have a capa city of 102.000 Iq summer, 94,000 men lu winter. In 16 cantonments 650.000.0d0 feet of lumber were used. PHONE B3390 08 P GO IE y R THE DEST OF VAUDEVILLE n WW WEDNESDAY (night only) THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY, April 17, 18. 19, 20, 1918 WILL M. CRESSY BLANCHE DAYNE in Mr. Cresay'a 8atlre on Newspa per Lift Entited "THE WYOMING WHOOP" Illustrating the fact that "Once a Yankee Always a Yankee," even when transplanted to the Wild and Woolly. 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O.JONES ORPHEUM DRUG STORE OPEN TILL 10:30 A Good Place for Soda Fountain Refreshments after the Theatre and after the Rosewilde Danes CARSON HILDRETH, '95 and '96 The Eiori OLEANERS-PRESSERS-DYERS HAVE THE EVANS DO YOUR CLEANING TELEPHONES B2S11 and B3355 ESTABLISHED 1887 PHONE B-14 Ordir that Kiw Eastir Suit new-tsday-frea IXIEFFLEY'SAilLORS It's high time. Don't delay. Easter March'31 Special Attention to Students tt.......u.ju.iu.HM..MmJHuii)tnu.iUmii.iimii 'Iw'Mth'-ilitl-l E 1 i 1 11 it n i i ii I! D if f j i i s i Lr: The University School of Music AND OTHER FINE ARTS 1018 SU1II.IER SESSION 1918 Begins Monday, June 17th, lasting five weeks NORMAL COURSE FOR SUPERVISION OT PUBLIC SCHOOL tXUSIO SUMMER COURSE IN PLAYGROUND SUPER VISION AND B rO Y Tr TiT.TTt Q Special Information Upon Request