THE twtt.V NEBRASKA N
The Daily Nebraskan
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA OFFICIAL PUBLICATION
EDITORIAL STAFF
Katharine Newbranch EdltoMn Chief
Gaylord Davis..,, Managing Editor
Helen Howe Associate Editor
Howard Murfln ' Wor
Jack Landale Ne8 Edltor
Oswald Black Sports Editor
Helen Glltner Society Editor
Robert L. Cook Military Editor
BUSINESS STAFF -
Glen 11. Gardner Business Manager
Dwight Slater Assistant Business Manager
REPORTORIAL STAFF
Marian Henninger Gayle Vincent Gnibb Sadie Finch
Rhe Nelson Jeff Machamer Emil J. Konlcek
Patricia Maloney Betty Rlddell Katherine Brenke
Viola Kleinke Leonard Cowley Mary Herring
Offices: News, Basement, University Hall; Business, Basement,
Administration Building.
Telephones: News and Editorial, B-2S16; Business, B 2597.
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Published every day except Saturday and Sunday during the col
lege year. Subscription, per semester, $1.
Entered at the postoffice at Lincoln, Nebraska, as second-class
mail matter under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
With a hundred new cases of influenza on the lniversity cam
pus, and the cases spreading more rapidly than was the case during
the epidemic this fall, the alarming situation calls for some drastic
action on the part of the University authorities. The recent cases
are even more malignant than they were formerly. The approaching
winter weather, which increases the danger of fatalities from pneu
monia intensifies the necessity for immediate precautions on the
part of the University, to safeguard the lives of its students.
The increasing number of cases among the army and navy are
taxing the hospitals beyond their capacities. At present there are
seven cases among the soldiers which it is feared will prove fatal.
All over the country the epidemic is running rampant. It is
exacting an enormous toll of lives. The latest figures are 350.000
casualties. The numbers are still growing, with seemingly no abate
ment. Hundreds aie. dying in some districts. In certain localities
passengers are not allowed to board trains without permits. All
forms of social or public gatherings are strictly forbidden. Kansas
City reports the highest death rate in its history.
Lincoln and the university are facing the same grave problem.
Severe measures must be taken to check the further spread of the
epidemic among the students. The university should be closed. im
mediately, and stay closed for an indefinite period until conditions
improve sufficiently to warrant its reopening. If it was necessary
to close college in October It is certainly vital now if we are to deal
squarely with the facts of the situaion. Class attendance is now
noticeably decreased.
The present demobilization of the student army and navy is
appreciably disrupting the normal trend of college life. The process
of discharging the men will be continued for several days, in which
time hundreds of men will be leaving school. Little could be ac
complished scholastically in the- next week, while, on the other
hand, the influenza could create havoc with the health and lives
of the university people in that time.
Social activities, including the all-university party next Saturday,
should be prohibited, and even small gatherings should be discoun
tenanced. Continuing school in the face of these critical conditions places
the lives of hundreds of university students in grave danger, and
such continuation will surely cast a reflection upon the university
authorities.
Of what value is a few weeks of school work in comparison
with one life?
I A,ia..ii,. nd th 'North American Ke
! view." which once were readable, are
i now a mediocre as other once good
i midline. I am glad to know one. at
least vour -Quarterly' -which has so
ably maintained the old standards
"I am greatly interested In Henry
Chung's paper on 'The Asiatic Monroe
Doctrine.' not only was it brilliantly
and ably presented, but It was true. In
every proposition. You know I spent
a vear In China-three months In Pe
king. I learned to feel a high regard
for the Chinese. They possess to a
remarkable degree that rare and pre
cious virtue, gra.itude. I saw It every.
.i,..r uin.ineot Chinese students.
teachers, people, who realized what
American and Knglish civilians, not
politicians, had done for them, and
among the more enlightened their debt
to us was really magnified. Mr. Citing's
estimate of Japanese aims and meth
ods is in no degree exaggerated, as
our government will probably find out
much too late, as usual."
STUNTS AND DANCING
WILL FEATURE PARTY
(Continued from page 1)
that they will pay all the expenses
of the party, in order that everyone
may go and have a rousing good
time.
The committee in iharge. under the
leadership of Wilson Hryans, declares
that the plans ihey have made are
enough to make one's mouth water In
anticipation. Dancing, ef course, will
be the main attraction, and will con
tinue all evening, except during a
short intermission, when an excellent
program of unimie stunts will be pre
sented. Some very good music has
been procured for the evening, and
the refreshments will receive the
proper amount of attention.
Although the influenza situation is
rather serious, no action has been
taken by the university executives in
regard to cancelling the party, and
unless something develops later in the
week, the party will be held as
plu nncd.
,of the week, you will find yourself In
I the hospital pardon me. the hospitals
l are filled you will find joursvlf
I strewed around most any place.
Of course some few hundred people
around here have died, put Influenza
was not the cause cf their deaths.
They died tr fright The doctor who
tells you that the deuths were due to
the flu knows not of what he speaks
It Is possible that his brain has
been disordered by the overwork of
the last few weeks.
You have looked upon our army
as a brave tnd ourageous body of
men, but when so ninny are stricken
by this strange "fright" (and you
certainly agree that the whole situ
ation Is a fright) you begin to won
der about It. Perhaps the secretive
ness of thp otllcers on this subject Is
due to the fact that they do not wish
to destroy your Illusion concern,
military heroisms. "'
Undoubtedly It U thrllK to .,
In the ambulunce-ull of yuur frioj
say so. Ero long you will HMy
able to venture an opinion based on
your own experience. What a P,y J
would be If public places should U
closed, and your opportunity ( h
the Joys and delights of Influcnilc id
ventures be forever lost to yon.
Each of us is bound to make tht
little circle in which he lives better
and happier; each of us Is bound to
see that out of that small circle the
widest good may flow.
The virtue of hopefulness, the in.
vincible resolve to gaze at the bright
side of things Is a splendid asset in
the life of nations or of individual
A great man is the handiwork of
many small men.
Dance Tonight
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So you haven't had the flu yet! How
very unfortunate! When so many of
us have it. really it is too bad that
you have been so slighted but cheer
up, there is every chance In the
world of you getting it. Just keep
on going to clases in these well ven
tilated class rooms, and by the end
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MID-WEST OUARTERLY
GIVEN HIGH PRAISE :
High recognition and praise for the
Mid-West Quarterly, a publication
edited entirely by Nebraskan?, has ,
come from Miss Mary E. Krout, promi- j
nent author and Journalist of Craw-.
fordsville, Indiana. In a letter recent-1
ly received by Prof'. J. E. Le Rossignol,
she comments very favorably on sever
al articles which appeared in a late
number, and expressed her opinion
that it was better than an other Amer
ican magazine she knew.
The editorial staff of this magazine,
which is owned and controlled by the
University of Nebraska, is composed
of Editor P. H. Frye, head of the de
partment of rhetoric; Associate Edi
tors H. B. Alexander, professor of phil
osophy, and Malcom C. Wyer, librar
ian. Professor Frye was editor of the
Terre Haute Express in 1882. For ten
years he was associated with the Chi
cago Inter-Ocean paper, and from Sep
tember, 1899, to May, 1900, he sent
special letters to the New York
Tribune from China. Dr. Alexander
was office editor and contributor to
the New International Encyclopedia in
3903; editor and contributor to Webs
ter's Dictionaries, in Springfield. Mas
sachusetts, from 1903 to 1908; con
tributor to the Encyclopedia of Re
ligion and Ethics, to philosophical
and other periodicals, and associate
editor of The Midland.
Malcom G. Wyer is a librarian of
note; he compiled the index to New
York governors' messages from 1S40
to 1901, and in Hint',; he also is a
contributor to periodicals, and library
magazines. These men make up a
very able staff.
In the number about which Miss
Krout writes there appeared an article
"Canada in the World War," by Pro
fessor Le Rossignol.. Miss Krout,
w hom Professor Le Rossignol met on
board a boat from New Zealand in
1906, has been associated with a num
ber of the largest American newspa
pers since 1882, and has travelled ex
tensively in the Orent and Australia.
Mutual interest in each other's work
has led to a correspondence which has
been kept up since that time. Part
of Miss Kroufs letter of December 1
follow?:
"Please accept my thanks for the
copy or the Mid-West Quarterly which
you so kindly sent me. I read every
thing in it, with greatest interest,
and think it better a great deal than
acy American magazine I know. 'The
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