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TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 1915
THE FORUM
Army and Navy Journal of February
13, 1915
"We are told that every youth
should go to school to fit himself to
cast an intelligent vote, and that
school attendance should be made com
pulsory. Nations that believe in com
pulsory military training simply ex
tend this principle to military educa
tion. They say if book learning is
necessary to make a boy a good citi
zen, then education In the means of
defending the nation, and thus defend
ing himself and his dear ones, is
equally necessary to make a good citi
zen. The compulsory character of
school education does not detract from
its quality of essentialness, nor should
the compulsory character of military
training be considered as affecting it
as a measure of great national utility.''
SAM M. PARKER,
1st Lieut, of Infantry,
Commandant.
Limitations of the Military Expert
The following is clipped from an
address by Charles E. Jefferson:
Although somewhat snobbish, he has
his virtues. He is not a barbarian or
a charlatan. He is a patriot and a
gentleman. He has not consciously
entered into a conspiracy against hu
manity. His misfortune is that his
ideal is . pagan. His education has
given his mind a bias which makes
him a dangerous counsellor. He is a
specialist, and, like many another
specialist, he is expensive and has a
knack of suggesting elaborate and
' costly methods of treatment He is
prone to diagnose along the line of
his specialty. Ho can see what he is
looking for whether it is there or not.
Prolonged application to a narrow set
of phenomena has destroyed his per
spective. He is apt to see everything
through the bore of a gun. Brooding
over battles has turned the whole
earth Into a battlefield. Looking for
enemies he has found them on every
side. Dreaming of possibilities, he
has reached the astounding conclusion
that every conceivable contingency
must be provided for.. So long as he
deals with matters within the scope of
his knowledge, he is a man to be re
lied on. The moment he attempts to
deal with questions of national policy
he is to be feared. Of all the serv
ants of the government he is the last
to be entrusted with the responsibili
ties of statesmanship. He is peculiar
ly unfit to say how a nation's money
shall be spent National finances are
In a muddle wherever he has his way.
Because he is an expert in the firing
of shells, it does not follow that he
knows how many shells the people are
able to buy. A knowledge of the force
of explosive flta no man to deal with
the tangled threads of international
business. JSalling a battleship is one
thing, and sailing the Ship of State is
another. He evidently knows nothing
of the value of money, or of the dan
ger of turning the screws of taxation
until the people rise in revolt. He
has never once in any land during the
last thirty years suggested retrench
ment. His one cry Is ever, "More!
More! More!"
Office of Associate Professor of Po
litical Science, 1(13 Law Building.
February 25, 1915.
Probably the most bitterly bated
man in the world today is the Kaiser
of Germany, whose preparedness for
war and over-confidence in that pre
paredness has plunged the world into
the most terrible struggle in its his
tory. Before this war broke out Eng
land and Germany had been for years
engaged in a struggle to uotdo each
other in the building of armaments.
Assuming that the writer of the arti
cle in the Forum in Wednesday's Ne
braskan is right, and that war would
not have been brought on if England
had not followed Viscount Haldane's
policy of ceasing for a time in this
struggle to outstrip each other, this
struggle would have gone on until one
of the countries was exhausted and
then, perhaps, this war would have
come anyway. At most, Haldane's
policy can only be said to have
hastened the conflict.
The Kaiser's preparedness and con
fidence in that preparedness, and not
Haldane's unpreparedness, is the
thing that the world should look at
and learn its lesson from. Long after
Haldane has been forgotten, long after
the world ceases to care which side
is victorious, in the years to come
when England and Germany are firm
ly united in a new civilization based
on Christianity and Reason, the
Kaiser and his war policy will be re
membered with bitterness and horror.
We have "Kaiser Williams" here.
They are blind to the real facts. They
hold up Haldane to us as a terrible
example. They would have us follow
the example of Germany and carry
out a program of preparation for war
that can only lead to, or be curbed by,
exhaustion in the end. And all against
an imaginary foe! In Germany, Eng
land had a real foe, warily watching
and waiting to spring the moment
England was caught napping. We
have no such foe, and it is only the
flighty imagination of such "American
Kaisers" as the wone who wrote that
article for the Forum that can predict
such a foe. We grant that there is a
great lesson to be learned from the
present war, but is it to be learned
from Haldane's unpreparedness or the
Kaiser's over-preparedness?
"AN AMERICAN HALDANE."
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FORMER, CAPTAINS
RUN AT TRACK MEET
Nebraska Track Captains of Past
, Three Years Run For Kansas
City Club
"Louie" Anderson, '12, captain of
cross-country, and track, David Reavis,
14, track captain, and "Stony" Und
strum, '13, track captain of the Uni
versity of Nebraska represented the
Kansas City Athletic Club in a tourna
ment at Kansas City, Saturday, Febru
ary 28.
The meet offered an opportunity for
old Nebraska men to appear, Lewis
Anderson took second place in the
thousand yard race. Lindstrum was
one of the four who tied for second
place in the pole vault.
Abel Mlviat placed first in the 1,000
yards In which Anderson ran a close
second. Mr. Kivlat held the world's
record in the 15,000 meter race in 1912,
until Jackson, the English long dis
tance man, brought it down to 3:56
at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics.
March Extension Bulletins Are Out
Two new Extension bulletins have
been issued this month, Directory of
Nebraska Dairy Breeders and Dealers,
by J. H. Frandsen, and bulletin on
Spraying Fruit in Nebraska, by J.
Ralph Cooper.
To Aid Farmers and Blacksmiths
A new policy has been inaugurated
in the forge room of the agricultural
engineering department at the Uni
versity Farm whereby farmers and
blacksmiths of Nebraska will be aided
with any information about new
equipment and new devices that they
may desire. The shop will be fitted
with modern hammers, shears, J
punches, welders, and other new lines j
of tools. An oxy-acetylene welder has .
just been installed. With this, steel j
plates can be cut, delicate pieces of
wrought welding can .be done, and j
cast-iron breaks can be repaired and j
made as good as new. The instructor
in the shops is a blacksmith of years
of experience and is able to teach
methods as well as apply them.
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CALENDAR
March
Friday, March 5
Phi Delta Theta Lincoln
Alpha Sigma Phi Banquet.
Palladian Banquet
Saturday, March 6
Junior Prom.
Union Banquet
Phi Delta Theta Banquet.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon Banquet.
Friday, March 12
Senior Party.
Delta Zeta Banquet
Phi Kappa PsI Lincoln. -
Saturday, March 13
Delta Zeta Lincoln.
Delta Gamma Banquet.
Phi Kappa Psl Banquet
Matinee Mixer for H. S. Visitors.
Friday, March 19
Junior Play.
Alpha Xi Delta Lincoln.
Saturday, March 20
University Night.
Delta Gamma Rosewllde.
Kappa Kappa Gamma Lincoln.
. Kappa Kappa Theta Banquet
Alpha Xi Delta Banquet.
Friday, March 26
Iron Sphynx Lincoln.
Killed January Grasshopper Crop
While breeding some new varieties
of strawberries at the Nebraska Ex
periment Station this winter, the ex
perimenters have had the novel an
noyance of fighting a January crop of
grasshoppers. The strawberry plants
had been removed to the greenhouse
from the beds outside, after the par
ents had deposited their eggs in the
ground in the fall. As the result of
the artificial heat, the eggs developed
Into young grasshoppers that prom
ised considerable nuisance. Before
the youngsters got their wings they
were killed by a spray of tobacco ex
tract. Ants are now a pest, the best
remedy being sticky paper.
Knew What He Wanted to Give
Billie, who had been having trouble
with bis older cousin Ralph, came into
the house, so the Ladies' Home Jour
nal tells us. his mother, knowing
nothing of the trouble said:
'Billie,- what would you like to give
your cousin Ralph for Christmas?"
"I know what I'd like to give him,"
said Billie savagely, "but I ain't big
enough."
He Wat 8he
In a college for women, where the
faculty consisted chiefly of the gentler
sex, a meeting of the academic council
was in progress. Here and there a
lone man sat surrounded by learned
HUNDREDS OP LINCOLN PEOPLE
have paid 1.35 for The Rosary. It is a clean, fascinat
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You will be happy when
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ment, please?
Say! That's a dandy pen,
where did you get it ?
COLLEGE BOOK STORE
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WILLARD KIMBALL, Director
Don't Waste Time
thinking about your programs. Come down and talk it over. We
don't claim a monopoly of the "nifty printing," but we do take
pride in our work. Let ns try to solve your problems In the print
ing line.
Graves
Printery
ladlos. An amendment had JuBt Wm
proposed.
' "Where is the person who offers thig
amendment?" Inquired the president
"Who is she?"
Whereupon Mr. Skeets, the popular
young professor of a favorite subject,
rose and replied, deprecatlngly, "i am
she." New York Evening Tost
Why People "Shrivel Up"
Dr. J. II. Coursault and hla four-year-old
daughter, Ruth, were walking
through. the cemetery on their way
from Sunday school when the follow
ing conversation took place:
"Father, when people die, they
shrivel up, don't they?"
"Yes. Do you know why they
shrivel up?"
"Surely. When people die, their
souls go out of their bodies. Then
there Is nothing to hold their Bides
out, so they Just shrivel up." Mls
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