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better to loaf only a part of the time
for two semesters than It is to take
a complete vacation, concluding with
H return to the farm after February
first. Kx.
The Making of Soldiers
In this day of the greatest of all
wars-the conflict in Kurope much Is
being sard and done to Improve mili
tary conditions throughout the United
States, and the general opinion of all
the officials Interested in the matter
seems to be that there are many more
departments of the national defense,
that need a complete reorganization.
The general conclusions that are
drawn by the public are also unified,
and everyone Is agreed that should
any of the European countries be
come hostile to the United States, this
country would be thrown into great
embarrassment because of the small
number of trained men that can be
depended on in the time of war.
Military training at Purdue has al
ways been conceived of by the great
mass of students as something which
should be gotten over with with as
small an expenditure of effort as pos
silbe. The two years of "War" have
been thought of as the drudgery of
the entire course and as something
that has been put into the univer
sity curriculum merely to discourage
the ambitious freshman or sophomore.
Despite the fact that the military au
thorities at Purdue have in the last
few years done everything in their
; power to make the training interesting,
j and that the commandant has spared
' no efforts in his attempts to raise the
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national headquarters each year, re
ports of the annual inspection at Pur
due have been less favorable each
year.
It is wholly because of the general j
student attitude in the past that con
ditions are reaching such a low point.
. The facilities are here, and the in
struction is as good if not better than
at most land-grant colleges. Co-operation
should be the motto in the coming
year of military training of Purdue
will fall still further. We appeal to
each one of the freshmen and sopho
mores who are taking drill to show
his patriotism and respect for his
country in these troublesmoe times
by giving the best that is In him for
the three short drill hours each week.
The government grant which helped
materially to make Purdue one of the
greatest engineering schools in the
country was made solely that a re
serve army could be made out of the
large number of men graduated from
the land grant colleges each year. It
is the present wave of patriotism that
is going over the country that has
caused so many influential business
men to give up their annual vacations
and go into military training at Platts
burg. X. Y.. and at Fort Sheridan. It
is this same feeling of national pride
that should cause every Purdue stu
dent to make an especial effort to fit
himself as an able defender of his
country's rights if it should ever be
come necessary. Ex.
When a Joke Is Dangerous
For some years there has been agi
tation in University circles against
the custom of fussing to athletic con
tests. Unfortunately most of the stu
dents seem to consider the whole af
fair as a huge joke.
It is sometimes a costly joke. Judg
ing from advance reports, the foot
ball situation In the Rocky Mountain
conference is so evenly balanced that
the result will hinge upon the last
ounce of energy.
Every man missing from the root
ers' section is going to mean a wasted
ounce of Colorado spirit.
The co-eds have few ways In which
they can give their support to the
team. They are barred from the grid
iron and are not even allowed to join
In the yells. But they can. If they
will stand together, keep the men out
of the women's stand, and over among
the rooters where they belong. Ex.
NEBRASKA
DAILY
JAPS KNOW
NO PROFANITY
Their Language Contains No "Swear
words." Unfortunately So Com
mon in the West.
The Jap Is always polite, but once In
a while he slips from grace and when
he does he is up against It. for there
are no swearwords In the Japanese
language, says a writer In Leslie u
Weekly. When a Japanese meets you
lie bows three times and takes off his
hat. but does not shake hands. When
he greets you his first concern Is
bout your ancestors and next about
your stomach. It would be almost au
open Insult for one Japanese to meet
another without atklng him how his
stomach fared. On the third bow he
asks: "This morning, how Is It with
your honorable inside?" As youco.ne
up on your third bow you answer to
the effect that the place mentioned is
doing as well as could be expected
and in turn ask him what news he
bs from the front. Thea he lifts his
hat again and says: "Your delightful
head this morning. I hope It have no
commotion." When you tell him that
you are pleased to report that it feels
well this morning he asks about a
few generations of honorable ances
tors and then you are free to take up
the weather.
Even though they are elaborately
polite, once in a while one Japanese
will get mad at another. Their anger
kindles slowly at first, finally fanning
to a blaze that knows no staying. But
even though there Is a torrent of emo
tion seething in his soul there are no
words to give it vent; It keeps surging
harder and harder until it throws
aside all restraint and gives up all
Idea of decency by putting Into one
phrase all his bitterness and snapping
Bquarely Into the other man's aston
ished face the worst thing that can be
said in the whole language: "Your
stomach is not on straight!" This Is
the final insult; nothing more can be
added he has cast the glove. There
is nothing left for him to do but to t
give his enemy a cutting look, turn on
his heel and haughtily clap-clap away
on his wooden shoes.
If Civilians Learn t Shoot.
Civilian rifle clubs are lately re
ceiving much attention. They have
developed a number of men who are
excellent shots with 22-caliber rifles,
indoors, at a distance of 60 to ?
feet
Comparatively few, however, are
able to handle the modern high-powered
30-caliber TJnited States maga
zine rifle and hit a target 1.000 yards
away. Moreover, even were all our
men good shots, it must be remem
bered that shooting is merely one of
the important parts of a soldiers
training, and that it is a very small
part.
The soldier who can do nothing but
shoot has about the same relative
value as a polo player who can ait
on a fence and wield a mallet skill
fully, but who can't ride a horse.
CapL klchard Stocktcn, Jr.. In Col
lier's Weekly.
Sunday and Holiday Spring.
Is it not Izaak Walton who tells of
a river In Palestine that never flowed
on Sunday? A strictly veracious
story to match this is told in a recent
number of the Proceedings of the j
Connecticut Society of Civil Engi-
neers by Mr. Kooert k. Morton, it
appears that In the red sandstone of
the Passaic valley there is a spring,
located in a picnic ground, which for
merly flowed perpetually. Its habits
have changed, and it now flows only
on Sundays and holidays. The mys-
tery is easily explained: A number of
artesian wells were bored Into the
sandstone in the vicinHy of the spring
to supply water to adjacent silk dye-
Ing establishments. Except on Sun-
days and holidays, when the pumps
are not running, the artesian slope b
drawn below the level of the spring
outlet and the spring ceases to Cow.
Scientific American.
Book of Mormon.
Joseph Smith published his work
known as "The Book of Mormon" Is
the year 1830. He claimed that the
work was a transcript, under divine
guidance, of certain golden plate
buried In central New York, the exist
ence of which bad been supernatural!
revealed to him by an "angel from
heaven."
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