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I KAN The Daily Nebraskan UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA OFFICIAL PUBLICATION Published every day except S? urday and Sunday during the col lege year. Subscription, per seni'ter $1.25. EDITORIAL STAFF Carolyn Reed Le Robs Hammond- Sadie Finch... ..Editor . .Managing Editor ...Associate Editor Story Harding - Ne'9 Edltor Leonard Cowley NWB tor Dorothy Darkley socle ,wr Marian Hoyer ....Sports Editor REPORTORIAL STAFF Jack Austin Lois Hartman Detle Farman Eleanor Kinman jesBie Watson Leona:d Hommang Lee Yochum Eldridge Lowe Cloyd Clark Carleton Springer Thvl'ls Langstaff John Neff BUSINEC8 STAFF Roy Wyther Business Manager Fred Bosklng - .Assistant business Manager Jesse Patty..!"! Circulation Manager News Editor STORY HARDING For Th't Issue BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES. The application of the Standard Oil Company for Seniors and graduates of this t'niversity opens a most attractive field to men in terested in work in foreign countries, either for the experience or the travel. The fact that they especially state that no previous business training is necessary shows that they value the scientific and general educational training given at a University a well worth their atten tion. They consider that the men whom they choose, fitted to begin with a college education, can master their fundamental work in the four months school of their direction and go out as efficient business men. One prominent leader in the commercial world said, on being questioned about the actual comparison between beginning college men and those who worked up in the business, "I do not care whether the young man has had any previous experience in business or not. If he is a college graduate, is ordinarily energetic and a live wire. I ll put him in my business and teach it to him. And he will come out of that training in a shorter time more ellicient in every way than the average man who works up through the business." The college man is finding more and more his way paved to the bigger opportunities. The business world today is looking for men ot broad ideas and standards, the "around-the-world" interest and a thinking knowledge of many subjects. Whether a University course teaches in the language of dollars and cents or not. the value comes mvofold eventually. Your opportunity is watting-watch out for it. DIGNIFIED ADVERTISING. Dandelions are not the only unwelcome decorations which adorn the campus this spring. The many huge white signs which have been fastened in the most conspicuous places about the campus. We are not advocating the bulletin board system and we agree that the best advertising method is to place notices where they will catch the eye firt and at all times, whether one is in a hu.ry or just sauntering by. Hut this past week there have been four Urge canvas signs placed haphazard on the main part of the campus, ranging from eight to fifteen feet In length and almost hiding the buildings. The bulletin boards fn the hallways and on the grounds are being practically ,,aed up because they lack novelty and no 'onger attract The main trouble seems to be that everything that comes up must have a large sign and as a result the campus at times looks like the mid-way at Hie county fair. We might establish a sort of system about this and practice a little more discretion in their placement and subject matter. The idea is all right but we have had too much of a good thing lately. They will soon lose novelty too. What then? BREVITY AND VARIETY. Brevity has always been considered to be the soul of wit. Hut not only is it the soul of wit. but of divers things as well. It Is the Houl of after-dinner speeches, musical entertainments, poetry, sermons telephone calls, social visits during business hours, engagements-and from the student viewpoint, midterms. Especially in this day of reconstruction and unrest is this craze for brevity marked. Our most noticeable characteristic to day is a nervousness, a jumpiness. a kind of irritability which will not permit anything to engage our attention for a great length of time. We are living in a frenzied, racy sort of period, in mad pursuit after the Coddess Variety. Just recently a well known musical director made this statement: -Several years ago people thought nothing of going to a concert at 7 r.n expecting to be entertained until 11 p. m. Today there Is a different spirit altogether. It is 8:30 p. m. before the concert begins, and by 9:30 the audience is restlessly awaiting the ganal number. Instead of going directly home as In former years, they now complete the evening at a cabaret, dance or moving-picture show. It is one thing after another in whirlwind succession, with little patience for delays." Perhaps out of this period of maladjustment between employer and employe, of instability of governments and finance, of rising prices and a shortage of essentials, it may be that there is arising amone us a slight degree of fatalism. "Who knows what of evil the future has In store?" people ask. Verily, it's "Drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die." Ohio State Lantern. lTrrr t nnwrnTrTT RflHOOL 1 ..mnncf TT T1 T TP FOR WOMEN vuiiiiw There will be'n school of citizenship lor all present and future women voters held Saturday and Monday afternoons in the Temple from 2:30 to 4:30. This school will be free. There will be many good addresses and an opportunity for the women to ask any question they care to regarding the subject. Many such schools are being success fully carried on all over the country. The school It being conducted by the Extxenslon Lepurtnient at the request of the League of Women Voters and Suffrage Associations. UNI NOTICES Pershing Rifles Pershing Kitles will meet Tuesday and Thursday evenings at seven p. m. until further notice. Socio-Economic Club The Socio-Economle Club will meet Wednesday bt six p. m. in the niue Room of th city Y. M. C. A. Mrs. Ilranthwaite will talk on Americani zation. Meeting open to all. Student Volunteers Important meeting of the Student Volunteers Tuesday from 7:00 to 8:00 p. in. in room 208. Social Science Building. Nomination of officers for next year. Ali members are requested to be present. H01C0MBE WRITES UOIE ABOUT LIFE III EGYPT Junior Ivy Day Committee Meeting Wednesday afternoon, five o'clock, in the Cornhusker office, V 20fi. All members of the committee are requested to be present. Notice All candidates for election to the Student Council meet in room 110 U Hall Tuesday at 11:30. FLORENCE 1. McOAHEY. Registrar. Math Club The Math Club will have a weiner roast Friday, May 14. at Antelope park. This is the last meeting of the year and we would like to have all the members out. Any member may bring a friend with him if he desires to. Meet at Temple Theater, 5:30 p. m.. and if it should rain will have the feed in Faculty Hall. Tickets are twentyfive cents each and may be secured at Professor Gaba's office. from Mr. Rrooks. Miss Pennoyer or Miss Abraham. Alpha Zeta meeting Wednesday at n m a: the Alnha Gamma Rho house. Important. Everybody be there That C. Steele Holcombe takes an Interest In his work and will make the best possible usage or the funds subscribed at the recent, campaign for the near east relief Is shown by the following letter received from him. He Is now on the field rnd although he has been unable to begin nis civilian work he hns be-'n assigned to regular work t antara. Kantara. Kgypt. Ap;'l 6 1920. Dear Friends: Although I shall have more to say about Cairo, 1 have decided to tell you this time about our present home. The secretary for religious and recreational work at Kantara was due for a leave so 1 was sent to take his place. I certainly felt lost as I started out across the desert from Cairo to find the camp but my Interest and hopes were greatly Increased when I learned that the Suez Canal passed through the camp and that the Y. M. C. A. was located on the other side. After we had been on the train about three hours and had not seen any thing but sand for a long time I was sure I was seeing ghosts when I looked out of the window and saw a huge ocean liner about a quarter of a mite away, moving u - desert with not the slightest sign of water or canal. The desert being Hat and almost exactly at sea level, the canal la almost even with the top of the ground and there are no banks visible, so you can easily understand this odd Impression. The oceans at both ends of the canal being at the same level, no locks are necessary. After about four hours we arrived and I was introduced to the largest camp that I bad ever seen. It is the base for all British contacts with the Near East and a half-way point for India. During the war, there was as high as 75.000 troops here at ons time, while before that time there was only one house to mark the spot. At present the camp numbers around 10.000 Including 3.000 or 4.1.00 Indian troops for which we have an Indian Y. M. C. A. Since most of the regular units here have their ow,n social centers, our program is set up primarily for the men in the "demob" camp. This be ing the center for all men going home, we have more by far tnan we can handle. The evenings are filled as follows: cinema (movies) on Mon day. Tuesday and Friday, religious services on Wednesday and Sunday. billiard tournament on Thursday and a whist drive on Saturday. We serve four meals including tea In .he after noon, which is generally by far the best attended, and we have served as high as a thousand men in a day. Perhaps the most popular spot up until now, before the boys could go Ag Club The Ag Ciub will meet In Social Science 101 Thursday evening. May- it o 7-m lninortant. Election of officers. Sigma Delta Chi Sigma Delta Chi will meet Tuesday evening, seven o'clock, student ac tivities. All members requested to be present. Seniors and Graduates The Standard Oil Company of New York needs young men for service abroad, principally in the Asiatic and the Levant. Those ac cented are given training in the New- York office, and if they seem to have the Qualifications for success, are as signed positions. Their duties will range from office work and sales man agement up to the organization and development of agencies. Single men from 21 to 28 are desired. If interested in the above, for de tails see Dr. A. A. Snowden, at the Lincoln Hotel. Thursday. May 20 1920. A. A. REED. Examiner, U. S. Employment Service, Director, Rureau of Professional Service. Ivy Day Concessions Rights for dance concession, check stand and selling stands Inside and outside of dance pavilion for Ivy Day will be sold Monday and Tuesday. All bidders should call at the Student Activities office and leave their bids for concessions at that place. into uie canal, has been n, k 4U house which is known to bo the only hot bath in Kantara. The next most popular la the fancy store with lts souvenirs or Egypt and a few neces sities, which lakes In as much as $500 In a day. My greatest surprise was in tne sle o the Y. Mz. C. A. which covers a space about a block long and half n l,l,.l, r i a umv.iv luc, vjne long minding ruiij full length of one side and Is divided by the kitchen into halves. one hiir is a large room where the men drink their sodas, called the wet canteen, and the other half Is occupied by an officers lounge and dining room h,i. room and the bath at the end. Two nuiiuings very similar run the fU length of the other side. One of them is the concert hall with good stag and cinema apparatus, and the other is divided up into a small barber shop, the fancy -store, reading and writing room for the men and two small rooms for the staff, one of which Is our own palatial residence. This leaves a long open space between these two rows of buildings, in the center of which are the offices and dry canteen. Across one end and al most adjoining the long buildings is the billiard room. This forms an open court of nice size which is a clearing house for the men passing from one place to another. In the open space similar to this court but on the other side of the office is a large open-air dining room for the men. We also have our own electric system with' two good engines. Although it is an old story to talk about the weather I feel sure that you would be Interested in knowing that we have been surprised and de lighted to find the cool weather last ing so long. It Is now Easter time and we have hardly had i day yet when a woolen shirt and heavy uni form have been uncomfortable. We had three or four hard rains around the first of March but will probably not have any more until next winter. About the only vegetation that we have seen In camp Is the castor on plant which seems to thrive on noth ing. There are a few trees along the sweet water canal which comes from the Nile and furnishes the ramp with wter. So far. however, tne tieseri mn not been as monotonous as I had ex pected to find It. Yours as ever, (Signed) C. STEELE HOI.COMnK. 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