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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (April 12, 1917)
THE DAILY NEBRASKA! The Daily Nebraskan THE BEST UNIVERSITY NEWSPAPER IN THE WORLD EDITORIAL STAFF George E. Grimes Editor-in-Chief Ivan G. Beede Managing Editor Fern Noble Associate Editor Leonard W. Kline Associate Editor Eva Miller Contributing Editor Dwight P. Thomas Sporting Editor Katharine Newbranch Soclety Ed,tor BUSINESS STAFF Walter C. Blunk Business Manager Fred W. Clark Assistant Business Manager Offices: News, Basement, University Hall; Business. Basement. Administration Building. Telephones: News, L-4S41; Business, B-2587. Published every day during the college year. Subscription, per em eater, $1. Entered at the poatofflce at Lincoln, Nebraska, as second class mail matter under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. A HELP TO THE NATION The Nebraskan publishes, in the adjoining Forum column, a letter from Miss Margaret Wooster, which presenis the attitude of a part of the students and faculty of the University towards the war. There is no tendency on the part of The Nebraskan to question the motives of those people; there is a sincere belief on the part of The Nebraskan that they are wrong. Exchanges that come to this office each day show that this University, as yet, is far behind most Universities of the country in preparing to be an aid to the government in the war. Surely no evidence of hysteria has been seen here; we have sinned, rather, on the side of too much calm content with conditions that to the majority of the people of the country have been becoming more and more intolerable. The nation is now at war. arrayed against a powerful foe in a struggle that the majority of the citizens of this country believe is a struggle for principles rather than for ships, for ideals rather than for dollars. Believing that, most of the people of the land are preparing to giw their help to bring that struggle to a suc cessful conclusion. That help will not be given, as is suggested in the letter of Miss Wooster, by "remaining passive and doing nothing to hinder it." The Nebraskan would be ashamed of this University, if the attitude of most of the students and of the faculty were merely the attitude of non-interferance against the policy of the nation as decided by its chosen leaders. It would be ashamed of this, even though it recognized that those people who had this attitude, were moved by honest scruples of conscience. This is probably the day when men's heads are not very cool. But the people who are represented in Miss Wooster's letter gain little for themselves and for their pleas of tolerance, by asserting that the belief that participation in a great world-wide war means action, is "intolerance, jingoism and prejudice." THE GALLERY AND THE KOSMET PLAY For several years past the Kosmet Klub has opened the gal lery of the theatre, on the night of its performance, so that stu dents who cannot afford to sit downstairs and in the balcony would still be able to see the play. This has been a good thing for many of the students, and the Klub is to be commended for deciding to open the gallery this year. Each year, however, theie have been a number of University men who have taken advantage of the opening of the gallery to indulge in childishness that has to a large measure spoiled the enjoyment of those people who go to see the play to enjoy the play and for no other reason.. The fact that the majority of the gallery gods wanted to see the play has not stopped many of them from forgetting that others have rights to get what they paid for. Few will complain of a noisy gallery between the acts. But when the gods In the gallery Interrupt the actors on the stage, and when they endanger valuable instruments in the orchestra as last year, by throwing marbles and other things into the pit. the time has come to either close the gallery, or make these few students who are so regardless of the rights of others, behave. The conceit of a student who thinks that an alleged witty re mark that he may make is to be preferred to the lines and music of the play, is the astonishing thing about it all. The opening of the gallery for this year's performance is a sign that the Kosmet Klub is ready to give the student body another trial. The Cornhusker banquet has taught many students that they are expected to act like the ordinary people they are, at public gatherings. It is to be hoped that another lesson will not be needed at this Kosmet show. Nebraska University wishes all possible success to Dick Ruther ford in his new post as head coach of Washington university, St. Louis. He has done much for us, he is our own, and we will watch his future with the belief that it will be all that it deserves to be. FORUM Mist Wooster Protests Lincoln, Neb., April 11, 1017 To the Editor of The Nebraskan: I hereby enter a protest against the statements in the last paragraph of your editorial of Wednesday on "Ne braska University and the War." In the first place, I believe the state ment that "there will be students and members of the faculty who will block, as best they can. the carrying on of the war by the United State?" is unfounded. However strongly many of these have hoprd that war would be avoided, I be lieve, no'v that we are actually at war, no one in the University will try. by word or deed, to block the carrying on of the war." As citl lens In a democratic country which University Week As Seen By One Journeyman Performer University students who think alarm clocks to make 8 o'clocks the bane of their existence should com pare notes with the University week people. At 4:30 In the morning mem bers of the casts would throttle the noisy clang, catch ten more snores in a forbidden sleep, and then rush madly, wash the remains of the make-up off their left ear and slink down the unfamiliar stairs In the dark. With everyone in the house asleep, feeling like regular Jimmy Valen tines, they tiptoe with the grace and stillness of a young rhinocerus out ff the house and into the starlight, yes, starlight. You stop at the res taurant where a tall, thin youth with a flowing lavendar tie announces that you are to get breakfast at the t town. Poor Gwynne Fowler, that was the shock that almost wrecked his young life and from which he never quite recovered. You compare unfavorable notes about the man in the lavendar tie uniil you board the accommodation train bag and baggage. To be truth ful, where did they get that word accommodation? Carlisle Jones, last one down, sets the three enormous grips he invariably carried into the nearest corner, while the rest of the cast lug on their pocketbooks, and begin quoting poetry. And co on for ' a full week. At one town one group would meet another group just leaving on the same train. "You got away fine in Superior," says the University play ers to the band, "You ought to have heard our sacred concert," members of the baud answer. "We played one hymn and the rest in ragtime." "We walked down to Kansas," chimes in Florence Maryott, "and Cleo 'Cather Young, our chaperon, lost all her baggage except a piece of tatting for three days." "Ed Geeson forgot to show up once or twice, and Paul Dobson and Frank Allen overslept In some mansion figuring that the daughter of the house would take them to the next town in one of the cars. They miscalculated and it cost them three-fifty apiece." "Coming to scandal," says another Jimmy Valentine, "a minister left our show last night, overcome by the artistic ease with which Spray Gardiner as Doyle, the slick sleuth, read the profanity in his lines. Betty held the audience in Holdrege while the pooulace visited a fire and we waited for another audience to come later after seeing an installment of "Gloria's Romance." "Wait until I write a postal to hubby," suggests the chaperon at Red Cloud. "Got your wlskers with you, Wilson?" someone asks, and with that they go to their respective houses, one, two, three. we all love, we abide by the deci sion of our representatives in con gress; and even though we may Oiv lit-'ve thi:: decision was not the wisfsr and best one, still even those most radically opposed to the declaration of war would, as loyal citizens, con vn, themselves with remaining pas sive and doing nothing to hinder it, once declared. This would not, of course, preclude opposition to the intolerance, jingoism and prejudice which are natural outgrowths of the war spirit in any country; or opposi tion to specific measures, such as universal military training, which to many people seem essentially un American. In tho second place, I resent the Insinuation 'hat all those who have opposed the war "believe that the preservation of a life is better thai? ithe giving it np for a cause, for an Ideal." I Ttnture to assert that tlkre is rot s stcdent or member of the faculty in the University who would Ftate it as his belief that, if there were an alternative between giving up bodily existence or giving up a great ideal, bodily existence should be preferred. The real point i that some people believe no such alternative has been presented. They believe that existing conditions did not justify our going into the war. and that the ideal of reason and gf.oJ will, the triumph of which would mean preserving to America the opportunity for moral leadership in a world gone' mad Is worth more than the ideal of national honor an ideal which has stirred the passions of the masses to an en thusiasm for war, for ages past. In a democratic institution there is, and should be always consider able difference of opinion among in dividuals who think. But above all the ideals of a University demand, not only freedom, but also tolerance and reason, in the discussion of pub lic questions. Whatever may be our personal convictions, fairness de mands that we should be willing to admit that those who do not agree with us may have just as good mo tives and just as high ideals as we have. Of all the unfair and intoler ant statements that are being circu lated in such abundance just now, it seems to me that the one which says that all who have opposed the entry of the United States Into this war value their bodies more than their ideals, is the worst. MARGARET WOOSTER. UNIVERSITY NOTICES Kearney Club The Kearney club will meet Sat urday evening at 8 o'clock in - the Y. W. C. A. rooms of the Temple. The meeting is important and all members are urged to be present. NON COMPOS MENTIS Vacation has gone. Vacation has went; Hard times are coming. And our money's all spent. If there is conscription in Au gust, there won't be enough people here to have any University. Won der what some of the p'rofessors will do some of the peaceful ones. More than one thing was added to annals of history last week. Think of an actor having money to lend! D. P. Thomas and Berge Newman missed their train at McCook and were stranded there without money or friends. So they waited for the "Alias Jimmy Valentiners" to come on the next train and borrowed enough money from one of the cast to take them on to Holdrege, where the band was to play that evening. However, it is not an historical event for a traveling musician to run out of money while on a tour. Union Society Union Literary society will give a mixed program Saturday, April 14. Everybody is invited. Chorus Party The chorus party has been in definitely postponed because of the Kosmet play tomorrow evening. Glee Club Rehearsal Regular glee club rehearsal tonight at 7:15 in Faculty hall. Sigma Delta Chi Very important meeting of Sigma Delta Chi in office of student activi ties at 7 o'clock sharp this evening. Girls Club Election The following girls have been nomi nated by the Girls' club board to serve during the next year, this list to be supplemented by two nominees from each class to be named from the floor at Convocation this morn ing: Juniors Dorothy Adamson, Jean Euay No. 476 Leta Theta Pi was organized in the rear 10 for the express purpose of keeping "Wooglum" filled with the departed souls of the wearers ot the "diamond, diamond " Horrible tales of massacred hounds reach the suspicious ears of the innocent neigh bors at initiation time dog soup be ing the favorite liquid that fills the notorious loving cup. The active chapter lives, according to all rumors, in the largest house and in :he most aristocratic part ot town. They become super-beings as soon as they enter the fraternity and always speak of themselves as "one of the big four, you know." Maybe they are. Of the most prominent members on the campus, the little skinny Fol som boy is one of (them, but as everyone is waiting for further de velopments in his particular case, and as he will be given great deal of notice then, we cannot fill space any further on the subject. Ander son Is the head of the house and whenever he leaves them, they will surely feel de loss. John Charles Vivienne Rachel Violet Wright Is the last addition to the fraternity, and his pledging has set us all at rest. We are glad to have the mat ter settled. The fraternity colors are pink and blue, symbolic of the youth and beauty and Innocence of the mem bers. The pin, in the shape of a canteen, can be fceen on most any "class" girl around. Burroughs, Kate Heizer, Winifred Moran, Ruth Shively, Edith Yung blut. Sophomores Genevieve Bech ter, Elinor Bennet, Katharine Kohl. Fern Noble, Dorothy Pettis. Fresh menHelen BJorkroar, La Verne Boyd, Helen Holtz, Jane Kingery, Carolyn Reed. Styles That Are "Different" SKIRTS BLOUSES SUITS COATS DRESSES Styles that ar "different" from th ordinary, he cause the designing and the fabrics create an air of youthfulness .so becoming to the college girl. MANY LATE STYLE IDEAS FOR SPRING AND SUMMER find representation in the scores and scores of late arrivals recently received from America's foremost designers of Fahsion. Their beauty, their newness and modest prices will appeal to you. Rudge & Guenzel Co. Trade That PEN For One You like Now is the time to get a fountain pen. We will give a large discount. THIS WEEK AND NEXT Belts Jewelry Novelties Stationery The University Book Store 340 N. 11th St. J.)ILitll.,W.;.ii;...N.ill;:iil.!!i.l i.i.iUi.iti ilini.U H. M u , 1 .' lii., ......I i'li-i i.h..A.i nl!i!i(tlH;!,.1.l..,i, Mr, :riUt!..4iJui.it mwnx -i i BANKS AND BANKING g Beginning Monday, April 9th, we will offer a short course in Nebraska Law, with special reference to Banks and Banking. 3 5 Class will be in charge of an experienced banker. jj I STRONG COURSES OFFERED IN ALL COMMERCIAL LINES. li ENROLL ANY MONDAY B I Nebraska School of Business! (Approved by the Slate Department of Public Instruction.) S T. A. BLAKESLEE, President H. F. CARSON, Secretary Corner O and 14th SU., Lincoln, Nebr. H p,j'n-"1THIT4,?;'7r,-f"!W-lt(fl"''-''ir "ITT'lf fftfMf -iftf TM rri iti'iffHHiiimtfpM'i!nt!r!iiwim '""ft .lliUWIHIIIlWwIWMaJUWIUltfntMMJUWlHllUtiaUiWUNM UilMMt-"'-" Talaphen 12311 Cleaners, Pressers, Dysrs For U "Wort and Barrio tatf riaaiM." Call B3311. Ta ulppd Dry Cleaning Plant WL Ob lay Mrrtc If a!4 lUaionabl PrtcM, good work, proai rrle. Repair to ' nnnti t$S North 13th tt c&iVally md. tucler"its Register for your ramie work M THE UNIVESITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC Twenty-Third year Just oomrxenclnf Ussy teacher in all branches of moiie to ehooe from. Dramatic Art Aesthetio Dancing Ask for information WTT.T.A'RD rTMHAT.T Director 11th aoid & Sts, Opposite the Campus