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THE DAILY NEB RASKAN THE DAILY NE6RASKAN Official Paper of th University of Ntbraaka FERN NOBLE Editor LEONARD V. KLINE. .. .Mng. Editor GEORGE NEWTON.... News Editor ARNOLD WILKEN News Editor RUTH SNYDER Society Editor FRANK D. PATTY.. Sporting Editorf HORACE TALCOTT, Acting Bus. Mgr, OfflrAft Nwa Baaement University Hn Buaineas. Haaement AdmlnUtmuon mag. Talonhonaa w... TfMll Huelnees. n-J5S7 Mechanical Department. U-3H5 Publlahed every day during tba oollefe ar except Baturaay ana aunumj. Subscription price, per aemeater. L iRnturiMi at the Boatofflca at Lincoln. Hahraaka. aa aecond-claae mail matter ander the act of Congress of March t, II7. Reportorial Staff Edith And er ton Frank Patty Anna Burtlesi Francis Flood Oswald Black . Eleanore Fogg . Gay lord Davis Grace Johaatoa B. Forrest Estes Carolyn Reed Jack Landale Edna Rotars A UNIVERSITY SAFE FOR DEMOCRACY In order to study the democracy or the autocracy of a country. Di Wil liam E. Bohn said yesterday, one must study more than the government of that country, he must go into the schools and into the homes and study conditions there. Germany is auto cratic not only because of the imper ialistic government, a government that crushes individuality so that the state may be strengthened; the schools are likewise autocratic, crush individuality to secure group effi ciency. In contrast Dr. Bohn cited the schools of the United States whose aim is to produce "human be ings." Our country is a democracy then, not alone because the people control the government. Our gTade schools, our high schools, colleges, universi ties, all our institutions of learning show the democracy of the nation. Our country could not be considered democratic if our churches did not carry out those ideals. The schools and churches are democratic because they are made up of individuals who are considerate of each other, who believe in the brotherhood of man. If the majority in a school are snob bish, the school will be condemned as snobbish. If the majority of the schools of a country are snobbish that na tion will not be classed among the world democracies. Snobbishness is only one of many expressions of au tocracy. . There are various kinds of' snobbishness. The prizefighter who despises the man not as strong as he is; the languid, superficial person whose standard of worth is clothes or money; the man or woman who holds in contempt any opinion which does not agree with his; are examples of autocracy, physical or social or intellectual. There are stages, degrees of democ racy. Our school and our nation are democratic in just so far as the mem bers not only preach but live the ideals of justice, kindness, humanity. THE EXCEPTIONS TO THE 50-50 RULE By this time nearly everybody un derstands the pound for pound or 50 50 ruling, to the effect that when you buy wheat flour you must purchase at the same time an equal weight of food products selected from among the fol lowing: Corn meal) corn flour, edible cornstarch, hominy, corn grits, barley flour, rice, rice flour, potato flour, sweet potato flour, feterita flour and meals, buckwheat flour. This is clear to all, as well as the fact that it does not matter whether the buyer sticks to one substitute or distributes his choice among several, so long as the total weight of substi tutes equals that of the wheat flour. Somewhat less well understood are the two exceptions to the 50-50 rule. The first of these concerns Graham flour and whole wheat flour. Both of these because of the process of mill ing, use a larger percentage of the wheat berry than regular wheat flour; L e., a bushel of wheat will make a greater weight of Graham or whole wheat flour than it does of the ordi nary wheat flour. In other words, Graham and whole wheat flours are in themselves making wheat go further. For that reason a person buying a certain number of pounds of Graham flour or wnole wheat flour need get only three-flfths of that weight in sub ' stltutes. The second exception applies- to mixed flours. When any mixed flour contains BO per cent or more of Ingre dients other than wheat, it may be sold alone, for It la observing the 50-50 rule in itself; but if this mixed flour contains less than 50 per cent of substitute ingredients, that difference must be made up by other purchases. For instance, suppose a person bought 4 pounds of wheat flour and 1 pound of substitutes. Along with that mixed flour he, would have to buy 2 pounds of some of the speciflod substitutes. In so doing he would be carrying oat of the grocery a total of 3 pounds of wheat and 3 of substitutes. The mere fact that part of the substitutes had been mixed with the wheat be fore It was bought would not matter at all, because the pound-for-pound or 50-50 principle would still be operat ing. Food Administration. NEGRO FOLK SONGS TO BE SUNG AT CONVOCATION University Chorus and Soloists Will Give Musical Program . Thursday Morning "It is questionable if there Is an other of people that has the latent music potentialities of the black. The colored man sings when he works and when he loafs. He sings when he is sad and whistles when he Is happy." This is seen in their songs which are almost all sad and of a religious char acter. The program of Afro-American folk songs to be given at Convocation Thursday morning has been carefully selected to show all these qualities and many others. Most of the negro songs which come as close as anything we have in Amer ica to real folk songs were written before the war when the slaves longed for freedom and their only solace, was in religion. Very often they are sad due to this religious psychology " for when a negro is happiest he will often sing the most mournful strains. There is very little attempt at versification, the words are taken or improvised from the Bible mixed with plenty of personal pronouns and phrases that have no meaning. But what they lack in rhyme they make in rhythm. They upset all ruls of music yet they are pleasing to culti vated ears. Folk songs such as Deep River are the result of inspiration pure and simple. The program Thursday will be sung by the chorus with Incidental solos. They will sing: "Suwanee River." "Nobody Knows the Trouble I See." "Go Down Moses." "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot.' "Sinner, Please Doan Let dis Har vest Pass." "O, Brethern-a, My Ways Cloudy." "Deep River." "Old Black Joe." - .i -,,.,-a Kn tha aiihmsrlne or Ul Mill. ftUIIU) H l V avlutlon are most Interesting to me. dm vaii avf baa thA Harvard Sta dlum? It certainly Is a wonderful athletic field. We drill there nearly everv dav. I would sure like to see Nebraska-Harvard game there Bomo day in the future. Oh, they know jnb hraska Is on the man. I was over t the Kappa Sigma house the other Sunday. The boys seem to know jse hrnika t-hroueh their football teams But it is certainly a shame Nebraska dnes not have a better athletic neia "I suppose you are busy with the track team. From what they say they are going to have a regular Harvard team next fall. I guess they see that the government wants tfce colleges continue their athletic program. "Well, I must close and read up on generators. Tell all the boys hello Be sure to keep the big Irishman, Mc busy. "Wishing you lots of luck, "Your friend. "FARLEY." to GOVERNMENT POSTPONES SENDING SOLDIERS HERE Changes Date to June 15 to Enable More Careful Selec tion of Men "THEY KNOW NEBRASKA . ALRIGHT' SAYS YOUNG Former "N" Man Writes Coach Stewart That Harvard Recog nizes Cornhusker Worth Farley Young, a football letter man, in a recent letter to Dr. Stewart ex presses what seems to be the spirit of the men out in the big fight from Ne braska University. He is anxious that his alma mater come to the front in her athletics, since learning friom actual experience that the Cornhusker foot ball squad is recognized in Harvard sport circles. "They know Nebraska is on the map," says Young, "but it ia certainly a shame that Nebraska does not have a better athletic field." The letter follows: "54 Wendall, Cambridge, Mass., "April 14, 1918. "Dear Doc: "Well, how are things panning out at the Uni.? I hope they are all O K. For my part I have been on the go ever since I left Lincoln. The morn ing I arrived at the Lakes they gave us an examination, then sent us to the Camp Ross for three days. It is a de tention camp before you leave the Lakes for sea or any other place. They took our throat culture there, then sent us here to Harvard Radio school. "I did not have a chance to see Olcott as they moved us so soon. I guess Ed K. is going to stay at the Lakes for next fall. He will sure make a good man for the Great Lakes team. Have you heard where "Bill" and "Ted" are? "My work here Is very interesting. We go to school at 7:20 in the morn ing until 6:10 In the evening, with the exception of an hour and a half drill every afternoon. The work Is not so hard, but it takes time. "There are about five thousand at tending the school. They turn out nearly two hundred a week. They send the men to aviation, armed guard, submarine, destroy and to the regular fleet Most men prefer the Recent orders have been received from the war department postponing the opening of the special technical training camp at the University of Nebraska for regular soldiers from May 15 to June 15. It is thought that this change is made in order to enable a more care ful selection of the men to be sent here from among those who will be sent to camp in this draft. The sol diers who come to the University to take special training in military me chanics and intensive vocational study will not all come from Nebraska, but from any of the training camps in- this part of the country. This action will relieve somewhat the natural complications arising from the maintenance of a large university and a military training camp on the same campus, for the regular session will be over by that time. Tne Temple cafeteria, which will feed the 350 solders that take training on this campus, has nearly as much business during the summer school session as during the regular term, but arrangements have been made to handle the situation. A steam table will be InstaUed in room 9 and the soldiers will have the assembly room for a dining room. It is thought that it can be arranged to sea all the sol diers at once by this plan, as they will be fed a regular ration prescribed by the government instead of being al lowed a selection as the civilian students. Wimberly Writes Sketch "The Heart of France" L. C". Wimberly of the rhetoric de partment is to have a sketch entitled "The Heart of France" in the next number of the "Bookman." It will be run under the heading "War Echoes." This is a new department of the "Bookman", and is devoted to articles dealing directly or indirectly with some phase of the war. DESPOTIC HAND THREATENS WORLD (Continued from page one.) formed the empire in 1871 he saw that by brute force Germany would have to take some of this territory which command the waterways of the world. Germany's Grave Mistake England first because of her island position became the queen of the seas and attained her democratic ideals. When she cut off the head of Charles I she triumphed over autocracy and the people of England have been its rulers ever since except for the short period of the reign of George third. Today it is the most democratic coun try In the world. France was the second power to realize freedom of the people and when they beheaded Louis XVI they attained their freedom. Germany came next and in her revolution of 1848 tried to gain her independence. But at that time Ger many was composed of a number of Independent states and it was easy to put down the rebellion in one state at a time. The only people who wanted freedom were In a few of the sea port cities. The mass of people on the inland estates were in a state of feudal serfdom, absolutely unedu cated. When blood was shed in Ber lin the people made Frederick Wil helm take off his hat to their dead comrades. Their mistake was In not taking off his head as the English and French had done to their tyrants. How Present Empire Was Formed The present German empire was formed in 1871 after the victory over the French. As Eismark looked at this handiwork he saw that all tne other great nations had sea coast and access to the great waterways of the world so he began his system to edu cate the German people to taking the wealth they so badly needed by force. To this end he developed the greatest army In the world and tha most cf flclent school system. "No one knows or can know the Infinite degradation of German army service," said the speaker. It Is o brutal and so de grading that the boys come out of It entirely different from when they went in. The atrocities we hear of are made possible by this training, not because the German boy is any more cruel or brutal than any other boy. Indeed he Is different from other boys only by being more good-natured. Democracy Is not a thing which exists In Washington, D. C, but in the hearts and minds of the people. The difference between it and autocracy Is that it emphasizes the individual as the individual while autocracy em phaslies It only as it makes the indi dual of use to the state. The Duty of German People The service which those of German blood in this country can render to their relatives in German U t0 awaken in them a desire for freedom and self-assertion such as caused the rebellion of 1848. They can also pre vent a patched up peace such as some people are willing to make If It will only stop the war. Knowing Germany ai they do they know that It peace U made now In thirty years we will have to fight all over again. Unless we gain a spiritual victory over the Cerman people our fighting Is all in vain. We are bound to win the war becaune we have a preponderance of men, arms, food and sea power. Their forofath' ers came over here because they re fused to live In the same country ap the kaiser, now their sons are xhrd dlng blood because they refuse to live In the same world with such a government. We must convince the German peo ple that we are not fighting them, but that we-are. telling the truth when we say that we are fighting to make the world safe for democracy. "We have got to have In Germany a poople who govern themselves." We can send them the older, forward-looking Ideals of the older and better Germany. C. ROY MILLER, For Foot Comfort Adjustment of Fallen Arches, removal of Corns and Ingrowing Nails 410 Canter and the relief of Bunions Phone Building COMFORT SHOES B-3781 ORPHEUM DRUG STORE OPEN TILL 10:30 A Good Place for Soda Fountain Refreshment after the Theatre ana after the Rosewilde Dance CARSON HILDRETH, '05 and '55 LOOK AHEAD! What will you be doing six months from now! Will you be em ployed at a comfortable salary? Or will you still be wishing you were equipped to hold a good position? Enroll now and have no vain regrets. NEW CLASSES THIS WEEK. DESCRIPTIVE LITERATURE FREE. Nebraska School of Business and Commercial Teacher' College T. A. BLAKESLEE, President Corner O and 14th Sts., Lincoln, Nebraska. IWtWl1lll)mmWIIlHIIIIIIIPIIM WMIIMII'PWIIMHII'HIIHIIII mm I The University School of Music AND OTHER FINE ARTS 1918 SUMMER SESSION 1018 Begins Monday, June 17th, lasting five weeks NORMAL COURSE FOR SUPERVISION OF PUBLIC SCHOOL MUSIC SUMMER COURSE IN PLAYGROUND SUPERVISION AND- STORYTELLING Special Information Upon Request fi II 3 13 m tj J,;illlM ESTABLISHED 1887 PHONE B-142t Leave your order for those new Spring Clothes KSEFF!LEY'SYA0iL! Don't put it off. Under present conditions full assortments are by no means assured late in the season Special Attention to Students The Eorti CLEAHERS-PRESSERS-DYERS HAVE THE EVANS DO YOUR CLEANING TELEPHONES B2311 and B835S Get Your AWGWAN Now i 1