THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
Olllelal I'uper of the
Uiivernlty of Nebraska
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come gift to a soldier, a student at
Fort Snelling writes. The Nebraskan
is trying to furnish every Cornhusker
in war service daily news of former
classmates by sending them the paper
free of charge. So far only a limited
number have been reached because
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doing something that your friends in
the training camp will appreciate if
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Nebraskan.
We all know that "war is the great
leveller." In the American army
there are no rich and poor, no blue
blood and gamon. They are all sol
diers; they sleep and eat together,
they fight and die together. But war
may also be the great obliterator. We
had a glimpse of that possibility last
Sunday tevening, when two thousand
drafted men marched through the
streets of Lincoln. They were on their
way to Camp Funston, and they came
from both South Dakota and Nebras
ka. Cowboys and Indians from the
north and west were there; rough
clothed farmers from the hills and
trim men from the offices of the towns
and cities. They were two thousand
individuals; every one of them was
distinctly different, in dress and car
riage, from the man he marched be
side. Two months from now, as they
march by the headquarters of their
cantonment camp, they will be two
thousand soldiers, dressed in uniform
garb, marching in measured step, as
much like a machine as human en
deavor and drill can make them. The
individual is lost and in his place is
an army. That picture can bring
pride to our hearts, and, were it not
for American character it could also
bring fear. With the loss in individ
ual appearance comes the loss in in
dividual identity. At home they had
ideals, reputations and traditions to
anchor to. In the army they have
nothing but the standard of the whole
to guide them. In that huge machine
America is now building her army
of millions we may be both proud
and glad that every man is fighting
for an ideal which will hold up as a
standard for these millions the princi
ples of right conduct and clean living
that they maintained as citizens.
THE PURSUIT OF PLEASURE
Is Nebraska to solve her own social
problem without a dictum from above?
If she is, a definite policy should be
formed at once. It is evident that
there is a social problem for us to
face, the problem of how and to what
extent students are going to indulge
in the pursuit of pleasure. Everyone
realizes that we must put more time
at work and less at play than in the
blissful, carefree times of peace. This
does not mean that there must be no
social life; nothing would be more
ridiculous than to go to extremes in
moderating it. But on the other hand
a frivolous and extravagant year like
the University normally goes through
cannot be countenanced under pres
ent conditions.. It would be bad taste
if nothing else to waste so much
money on amusement for ourselves
when that money is needed so badly
for more worthy things. The all
University party committee meeting
last night, reached what they consider
a partial solution to the problem by
arranging the regular schedule of all
parties and planning more entertain
ment than ever before. It was the
opinion of the committee that these
parties should constitute the nucleus
of the social life this year; that there
should be found the amusement, the
good times, the relaxation from the
strain that every student Is uncon
sciously cerrying. Around this nuc
leus it is expected will be arranged a
reasonable number of informal parties
by University organizations. But stu
dent? have yet to decide whether they
IS ROMANCE DEAD?
The twentieth century with its machine-run
industries, was supposed to
have witnessed the death of romance.
That was before Kipling wrote Mc
Andrew's hymn. Most of us find little
romance in the present war or, for
that matter, in the war-worn world.
But The New York Post sees in the
Atlantic, filled with giant, steel
clothed warships and lurking U-boats,
a sea more romantic than the one the
bold Captain Kidd roved in days of
old. Following is The Post's com
ment: "Brutalized as the seas are today
by German wickedness and ruthless
ness, unparalleled since the days of
the men who sailed under the black
flag, which the German submarines
ought to be flying, there never has
been a period when there was more of
the dramatic, the romantic, and the
mysterious, as well as the tragic, in
the stories that filter to us through
the veil of the censorship. Great ships
almost daily slip out of the harbor
never to return. Vessels appear
bringing tales of wanton destruction
and hairbreadth escapes to parallel
which one must turn to the pages of
Marryat, Cooper, and Kingsley. Our
harbor contains craft bound for for
eign parts of types not thought fit for
ocean service these fifty years. The
submarine has sent the coastwise
schooner to voyaging abroad, has put
masts into barges, revived the glories
of square-rigger days, and brought to
our docks tiny ships whose normal
orbit was from Hull to Sweden or
Flushing to London. Hulls years in
the sands of California and Cuba are
being dug out to take their places as
of old in the traffic of the seas, and
everywhere men's minds are turning
to water transportation as never be
fore in living memory.
"Yesterday there arrived a ship's
officer who had gone down with the
Iberian, the Canadian, and the De
vonian, and is still willing to risk his
fate upon the ocean. From Queen
Charlotte Island comes the news of
the safe arrival there after seven
weeks in a lifeboat of part of the crew
of a Japanese cargo snip wreciteu
July 27 in Alaskan waters. From
Eneland comes by mall tne story oi
the. survivors of a torpedoed British
crew who landed on a rocky African
shore, only to be killed or captured
by hostile natives thus duplicating
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an adventure oi American nanuio
nearly one hundred years ago. And on
top of all this come now the facts to
show that we have gone back to the
days of Drake and Nelson and are
sailing ships in great fleets under
great convoys. Four separate in
stances in which these convoys have
been successfully, attacked since Aug
ust 15 now lie before us. Just as dar
ing French corsairs in the Napoleonic
days cut rich prizes out of the great
fleets of East Indiamen in sight of
home shores, so the German submar
ines, traveling now in company, have
sunk as many as five ships in a con
voy guarded by destroyers, cruisers
and armed trawlers and sailing in
plain sight of the Irish coast.
"And, despite all secrecy, the fact
is that there are still German rovers
abroad in the Atlantic and Indian
oceans, or were until a little time
back. Thus the Mongolia was sunk
in the Indian ocean by a mine dropped
by a German raider called the Wolf,
and the British government refuses
to answer the question in the Com
mons whether the raider is still
afloat or not. Only today comes the
narrative of how a German rover sail
ed for a day and a half behind its vic
tim in the Atlantic while the English
man's crew rejoiced in being safely
beyond the limits of danger from sub
marines, and in the company of the
friendly stranger astern. Today there
are sailing the seas majestic German
vessels flying the flag of the United
States, and many others soon will be.
What a dramatic situation lies in this,
and what will be the feelings of the
first German submarine officer to fire
on one of these vessels so lately the
pride of his own country? And then
we have the new camouflage of the
sea new today yet as old as the hills
the submarines lurking behind a
captured victim, or rigged as trawlers,
as innocent schooners, hoisting sig
nals of distress, and luring their vic
tims by every trick that the last of
the privateers employed to bring them
alongside of their prey. Truly, it
would take the genius of a Kipling
to set it all forth; to tell us of new
McAndrews driving their limping half
sunk craft to safe British beaches; of
captains on their bridges six days and
nights; of one who saw three ships go
down off his port, bow on a single
voyage, and yet himself escaping
though beholding countless periscopes
rising up out of the seas about him;
of days and nights in open boats, with
suffering unheard-of in its frequency;
of men torpedoed twice in a day and.
most terrible of all, those dreadful
tales of the violation of the finest and
oldest law of the sea that every mar
iner shall save the life that is in dan
ger no matter what the risk to his
own. Literally, not since the days of
pirate ships has the ocean witnessed
what was done to the crew of the Bel
gian Prince made to stand upon the
deck of a submarine while their boats
were destroyed, their life-belts flung
into the ocean, and then the craft they
stood upon submerged under them.
Walking the plank before the pirate's
pistol was not so cold-blooded or so
merciless. And as for the Luxburg
dispatch, it has been suspected that
some of the mysterious disappear
ances the seas have recorded was due
to a fixed policy, but surely never be
fore In the history of civilization has
a government given orders that mer
chant ships should be sunk "without
a trace" in order that crime might be
done and the guilty escape the odium
of the crime.
"It is a relief to turn from this
horrible picture to the many stories
of gallantry, of sea rescues, of daring
adventure where there is nothing but
good to the credit of the human ani
mal. There is the fascinating story
of the wonderful cruise of the schoon
er Ayesha across the Indian ocean
with the escaped men from the fc-m-iIoti-
nniv lnst week it was announced
that survivors of Admiral von Spee's
ill-fated squadron sunk off the Falk
lands in 1914 had but now sailed their
way in a cockelshell safely to a Ger
man harbor. When the taie or mat is
told, of thousands of miles in an open
boat, of the lieutenant who did this
anil Ihpn rpnnrtfid for dutV the next
day after his arrival as a matter of
course, we shall have a narrative un
excelled in the history of modern ad
venture, and all the more astounding
when one thinks of the seas crowaea
with cruisers, buzzing with wireless
and harbors on the lookout for every
waif of the seas. Volumes will be
written of what men have endured in
the submarines, under honest flags as
well as the black. Volumes will and
should be written to1 tell the tale of
the tramp steamer that throngs our
harbor, as never before, and has risen
to an estate no one had foreseen. For
is it not now known of the world that
it is the tramp which is the great pro
vider of the world's goods and food,
beside which transcontinental and
trans-Siberian railroads take second
place?"
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Special classes for students. A study in the "Social Prin
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just starting a very interesting text just off the press this
week, "The .Challenge of the Present Crisis."
Sermon subjects for Sunday:
Morning service, eleven o'clock:
"The Discouragement of Jesus."
Evening service, eight o'clock:
"The Task of the Student."
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