THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
Official Paper of the
University of Nebraska
IVAN G. BEEDE Editor
LEONARD VV. KLINE. . . .Mng. Editor
FERN NOBLE Associate Editor
KATHARINE NEWBRANCH
Associate Editor
WALTER BLUNK.. Business Manager
GEORGE DRIVER.... Asst. Bus. Mgr.
MERRILL VANDERPOOL
.'. . .Asst. Bus. Mgr.
Office!
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Published every day during the college
year.
Subscription price, per semester, $1.
Entered at the Dostofflce at Lincoln
Nebraska, as second-class mail matter,
under tne act or congress or March 3
1879.
Some confusion has been caused
some students who are not clear in re
gard to the single tax. This measure
although adopted by the board of re
gents, does not go into effect until
after the war, and such conveniences
as student athletic tickets, which earn
admission to $12 worth of football
basketball and track events for $4, are
just as desirable this year as form
erly.
SAVING SERBIA
The pitiful plight of Belgium has so
occupied the attention of neutral and
allied countries that little Serbia,
buried in the conglomerate states,
with enemies to the north and to the
south, has been overloked by the most
of us. It is only recently that we
have learned' of her condition; how
. the country that first rebelled against
Teutonic oppression has suffered from
the ravages of war and plague until
there is no more a rich and a poor;
there is but an army and a starving
mass. If it were not for a patriotic
fervor and fortitude equal to that
shown by the Belgians there would
lone aeo have been no army, and
even now the Germans, aided by pesti
lence and famine, are pushing hard
the worn-out Slavs. Soldiers in the
field and children in hovels are dying
in great numbers; so far little relief
has come from the outside. But Amer
ica is waking up. She is discovering
that the task of saving Serbia rests
upon her. Money is being rapidly col
lected and sent to furnish hospitals
and men to take care of the sick and
wounded. Thus not only is untold
suffering and wretchedness relieved,
but the Serbian morale, still unshaken
in face of these distressing conditions,
is bolstered to stand against the fu
ture. University people, who have
proved themselves to be generous,
sober givers to the prison relief fund,
the Red Cross, and the Y. M. C. A. war
work budget, will be given a chance
to help in further humanitarian ork
Saturday, when all of Lincoln will be
canvassed for Serbian relief contribu
tions. There is no better place for
the money of those who feel ashamed
to spend spare change on pool, candy,
and theatre tickets.
GOOD MEN, GOOD SOLDIERS
There is no such thing as being too
proud of Auerlca's college soldiers.
It may be the tendency to forget the
size of their sacrifice and the serious
ness of their attitude after the men
have been turned out of the instruc
tion camps, with trim uniforms and
stern countenances, to train the Na
tional army. But occasionally .we run
across something that brings home
the fact that these men who were our
classmates have taken into their new
work that same high sense of right
conduct that guided them in campus
days. The army has never been corn
parade to a gospel schoof, and, save
for the training in self-reliance, reli
ability, and alertness, its influences
are for the most part depressive. It
does one good, then, to read of a
pledge taken by fourteen hundred
student officers, at San Francisco re
cently, binding them to strive to live
and teach in the National army, for
which they were destined, the same
clean standard of living that they
maintained as college men. Here is
the pledge: "Aware of the tempta
tions incidental to camp life and the
moral and social wreckage Involved,
we covenant together to live the clean
life and to seek to establish the
American uniform as a symbol and
guarantee of real manhood. We
pledge our example and Influence to
make these ideals dominant in the
American army." These fourteen hun
dred men have sacrificed their educa
tion, and with it perhaps their dreams
of a veil-ordered life. These they
.have not only given, they have done
"more than that: they have seen It as
their duty to strive to help those
around them live and fight for what Is
right and moral in Its entirety.
J WITH THE COLLEGE
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BON MATIN, ILLINI
(Daily Illlnl.)
The time honored "Welcome Back"
is not outworn. It is voiced with a
new significance in this critical year,
a year that is to abound in things not
quite so calm and uneventful as In
former years. We are glad to be able
to say "Welcome Back." It means
much to the university and much to
the nation that you are back,
"This war Is making Its heaviest
draft upon the educated young men
of the country," said Gov. Lowden re
cently. "When the work of recon
struction comes which will follow af
ter the war, there will be an equally
insistent demand for highly trained
men to meet the new needs of peace
There will be such a need and such
an opportunity for the educated man
as has never existed before
The significance of the governor's
statement is especially forceful at
this time, when men are hesitating
whether to continue in the university
or enter military service. The gen
eral advice has been to continue edu
cational work already begun. The
draft, army will draw a considerable
number, the officers' training camps
have already taken many college
men and others have dropped out to
go to work. But it is time that the
outgoing stream of college men is
checked. Those who will finish school
this year have been especially urged
to continue their work and graduate.
The military mill is grinding slowly
and its sources of supply have hardly
been touched. There is ample time
for college men to enter military serv
ice.
It is the general rule that when a
man quits college, he seldom ever re
turns and for that reason, every man
should feel obligated to continue his
educative process as long as possi
ble. Peace is coming some day and
the man who has obtained his educa
tion before entering the war will be
doubly needed.
With more than the usual enthusi
asm, then, do we welcome back those
who have returned, despite adversi
ties, to fit themselves for better serv
ice to the nation. It Is good to see
familiar faces, with the realization
that these, too, are doing their share.
The great aim ahead should be to
make every minute count; get all you
can out of this year at the university.
It may be your last and you will need
all you can crowd Into it.
To the newcomer, Illinois men and
women extend a hospitable and hearty
welcome. You are to be congratu
lated upon your choice of an univer-
lty and the fact that you, too, have
assumed the obligation that rests on
every American's shoulders to fit
himself as fully as he can for real,
active, helpful service.
is not fair to American patriotism to
assume that the draft was the only
way. If, to some, the war may seem
unpopular, they should remember that
upwards of a million men have vol
unteered to enter our fighting forces
to suppress the Prussian horde. This
force includes the regular army and
national guard troops, the navy, the
marine corps and the new reserve
officers. And It must be Some In
mind that this force was raised with
out any such widespread recruiting
campaign as Great Britain used In
raising four million volunteers. Un
doubtedly America could have done
as well, for many who have gone into
the new army would have volunteered.
had not the draft army been provid
ed, and offered those advantages al
ways available in the formation of
new units. Mso, there are thousands
who would i-jve gone as volunteers,
who will not go at all, had volunteers
been depended on wholly as means of
raising a war army.
Volunteers are constantly being
added to our forces, at the rate of
about a thousand a day; men not in
eluded in the first draft call, or in any
draft call, enlisting for the army and
navy. In the sense that most people
don't want to fight, all wars are un
popular, but there is really no reason
to think that Americans are largely
lacking in patriotism. The Atchison
Globe.
A Great Volunteer Force
Americans generally believe that
the draft offers the fairest method of
securing an army for this war. But,
regardless of exemptions claimed, it
The Aged Stranger
"I was with Grant " the stranger
said.
Said the farmer, "Say no more,
But rest thee here at my cottage
porch,
For thy feet are weary and sore."
'I was with Grant " the stranger
said;
Said the farmer, "Nay, no more
I prithee sit at my frugal board,
And eat of my humble store.
'How fares my boy my soldier boy,
Of the old Ninth Army corps?
I warrant he bore him gallantly
In the smoke and the battles roar."
I know him not," said the aged man,
"And, as I remarked before,
I was with Grant" "Nay, r.ay, I
know,"
Said the farmer, "Say no more.
'He fell in battle? I see, alas.
Thou'dst smooth these tidings o'er
Nay, speak the truth, whatever it be,
Thou it rend my bosom's core.
'How fell he with his face to the
foe,
Upholding the flag he bore?
Oh, say not that my boy disgraced
The uniform that he wore."
'I cannot tell," said the aged man,
"And should have remarked before,
That I was with Grant in Illinois-
Some three years before the war."
Then the farmer spake him never a
word,
But beat with his fist full sore
That aged man, who had worked for
Grant,
Some three years before the war.
Bret Harte.
Styles
of the Times
L. W. Petree, ex-'18, of Oregon, Mis
sourl, now in federal aviation serv
ice, and Bernard Lynch, ex-'19, of
Pender, Nebr., a member of the state
ambulance corps, are visitors at the
Sigma Nu house this week.
announcement
The officers of tlie First Congregational Church are
glad to announce to the faculty and students of the Uni
versity that Dr. John Andrew Holmes of Chaiupaign
Urbana, Illinois, has been secured as their pastor. Mr.
Holmes has just completed a pastorate of ten years at
the seat of the University of Illinois, where his accept
ability as a pastor of University people has made him
widely known, and where more than 200 students and
instructors were' members of his church.
Dr. Holmes has arrived in Lincoln and will preach his
first annual pre-baccalaureate sermon to freshmen and
other students next Sunday morning. The church school
will convene at 12 o'clock, with classes for student men
and women, led by Prof. H. E. Bradford and Mrs. A. E.
Sheldon. Christian Endeavor services at 6:30 p. m. Sunday
All students are cordially invited to the student recep-
21, at 8 o'clock:
tion to be given at this church Friday evening, September
This church, located near the University, at the corner
of Thirteenth and L streets, desires to extend the heartiest
hospitality to all students and instructors. You will feel
at home in it.
the kind you see on Broadway, in every fashionable club and worn
by the best dressers in the leading cosmopolitan cities that's what
we're displaying today for you men who want new typeB of footwear.
If you want real style, a pair of Florsheim's will meet your re
quirements without sacrificing every-day comfort
Call and let us fit you at a price you want to pay.
Prices ranging from '
$6.00 up to $9.00
To The College Girl
Heretofore thru this medium we've always talked only to the
young men at school, sadly neglecting to call to "your" attention
that we also carried complete lines of footwear for the College Girl.
But now we want you to know
that we are ready with the newest
in fall styles and are sure we can
please you in our special showing
of attractive footwear, so that you
will be convinced that this Bholld
be your store, for good stylish, but
serviceable footwear at prices that
make this the popular shoe store
for sutdents.
Prices ranging from
$4.50 UP TO
$12.00
FRED SCHMIDT & BRO.
917-21 O St., LINCOLN
The Eo.n
CLEANERS-PRESSERS-DYERS
HAVE THE EVANS DO YOUR CLEANING
TELEPHONES B2311 and B 3355
SJ So o So
I ffsend Over Some
I :
Keep your soldier or
sailor boy supplied.
Give film the lasting
refreshment, the pro-"
tectlon against thirst,
the help to appetite
end digestion afforded
fey Wrigieys.
s an outstanding
feature of the war
MA!I the British Army
is chewing it.
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