THE DAILY NEBRASUN THE DAILY HEBRASKAN Official Paper of tha University Of Nebraska IVAN G. BEEDE Editoi LEONARD W. KLINE Mng. YAK TKRS NOBLE Associate Editor KATHARINE NEWBBANCH Associata Editor GEORGE DRIVER.. Busness Manager MERRILL VANDERPOOL Asst. Bus. Mgr Americans ao jook uraivuu..- - . conscious. Wiiliara James stated the balance. v .e j : . v..-t i cV Ail as an a.-; ef the men and got Into his am- , .,- i skAd as an a same ice nen e rrpju " i auwc . . . : - j 1 .1 v. -'ni- oatTiA anot Offices Kevi Baaement Cniversjty HfU Buineu, Basement Administration Em. Telephone News, trMll BttfB,if Mechanical Department. B-J1 PubUahed every day during the colore i'bscrlpOon price, per semester. L Entered at the postofflce at "ncoln. Nebraska, as aeoond-cUM mill W tinder the act of Congress of March I. showing too much of our emotions in our faces. It may be a fine psycho logical question whether we are really any more conscious than the more sophisticated Britisher, who has learned to conceal his emotions to be consciously unconscious. But to the eye there can be no question of oar national restlessness under scru tiny, our Inability to forget ourselves. The characteristic is most conspicu ous in our city folk. It fade into the background in the stillness of the country and the hills and the hack- oojs. Lrea there, however, con paring type for type, the nerves of the Kansas farmer are nearer ihe surface than in a Yorkshire farmer; bis face is keener and more eager. The grim look, the set, rather hard faces, strong jawed and close lipped these items, too. 6how clear obser vation. And they suggest an Ameri can characteristic that goes some distance to explain the self-conscious ness. That is our national eagernes. It's coming Thursday morning the , ana keenness, a combination of fresh first football rally of the year. The I unsatisfied interest in the world, witl team and the coach will be there, the endless will to see the thing through band will play, and professors will j -New York Tribune. discard their studied mein for a mo-. ment while they pound their fists on j THE ILLITERACY OF GERONIMO thi rostrum and explain how It can j A German officer, according to dis- and will be done. Out in front a big j patches from British headquarters In gang will crowd the chapel to the doors. They will yell and sing and France, has offered reward of 400 marks for the first American soldier hmusht Intn his rnmn rf cheer for the team until they are j IadJsaJUes to the dead can harm no. hoarse. And when It is over the , bal those fiHr of their rrrvet team will hare been instilled with a j ration, but we can but adumbrate the fight that cannot be downed and fate of the American who is brought ranters will have gained a united , alive, if any such there should be. Into voice that will keep that fight in spired. Last winter a number of Omaha alumni, loyal Omaha boosters, were tricked into supporting for the boom ing of the metropolis a campaign to schedule one of this season's football I have made it possible for the German games in that city, a project which by J commander to study up special Amer the camp of the barbarian. Had our late fellow citizen, Geroni mo, war chief of the Apaches, some times called the rattlesnake, but, to give him his dues, called also the Red Napoleon, been a man of letters as we!: as a man of deeds he might have left a horn book of torture that would a Missouri Valley conference ruling is impossible. They were urged to support the movement by a more or less united Omaha press. After they were advised of the true situation, however, former Nebraskans saw they bad, in their desire to be good Omahans, unintentionally worked against the best interests of Nebraska athletics by hindering united, concen trated support. This one awakening has undoubtedly been enough to warn them against such ill-founded fault-finding as a sports writer in the ; World-Herald gives rent to in a resent issue. Last evening's Star reprints the story, with appropriate comment- It is a com plaint against the "bear dope which, it leads one to infer. Dr. Stewart has lean methods of frightfulness prior to receiving in his camp alive an Amer ican soldier upon whom he might work his Prussian will. Geronimo was fruitful of devices, no doubt, but he began early in life to devote himself almost exclusively to the art of war. There were no pub lic schools or colleges in the section of America in which he was supreme among bipedes and in which the Gila monster was a paramount among creeping, crawling things of the sandy wastes. The great man's education in so far as books were concerned was neglected wholly. In his old age he proved that he belonged to the in telligentsia; that he was an intellec tual in face and really a highbrow, for despite his complete illiteracy he dic tated to an Oklahoma school teacher an autobigraphy which Theodore r.wseveit, then president been sending broadcast without cause. ?f,nt ' the m his attemnt to make things look I J'TJi ln script and - win as a woric or art and as an intensely interesting presenta tion of an Indian warrior's point of view and motives In a war against white men. The preface stated that no effort whatever had been made to Improve upon the narrative as it was recited, and that the raconteur de served all credit for both the mastery marshaling of facts and the dignity of wujt-n ouentimes roup to the level of good literature. What a book of formula for torture and especially the torture of prisoners to discover information, might Ger onimo have written. What a delight such a work would have been to a Prussian offcer. What a help it might have been to the officer who has of fered a reward of 400 marks for the first American soldier, dead or alive. The illiteracy of the Red Napoleon robs the Prussian military textbooks of what would have been a singu.'arly valued volume Louisville Courier-Journal. In his attempt to make thing black for the Nebraska coach, the writer does a little high-coloring him self. For instnace. as the Star points out, he represents Ernest Hubka, a sophomore who played his first game on the varsity Saturday, as a giant weighing 210 pounds. Hubka weighs in at some thirty pounds under that. The whole thing looks like a childish attempt to cause trouble by stirring up antagonism to Dr. Stewart and his policy, instead of supporting him to the utmost while giving him his first square chance to show what he can do. The athletic board last winter expressed its faith in Dr. Stewaifsbi!Ity by re-electing him after one of the least successful sea son's Nebraska has had in the mem ory of undergraduates. Nebraska rooters vindicated him after they saw Nebraska fight again Notre Dame last falL And Omaha alumni, who are good Nebraskans and therefore good sportsmen, will not tolerate longer uch attempts as this to make all the more difflfult the big task that Ne braska has undertaken this season. UNDER FIRE IN FRANCE A Letter From William Allen White to the Emporia Gazette. Somewhere in France! I ran t nnii lt Wednesday afternoon. THE AMERICAN FACE i Here Is where you gather the fam- Wtaen the first American soldiers I I!t round you to listen to the story marched down Piccadily a few weeks ot ftbrs first half hour under fire. ago. there were cheers and. for Britain, great enthusiasm. There ai also keen observation, as the follow ing description of our men in the Manchester guardian shows: The chief thing that struck out was their faces. They looked grim and set. and however racy the London greetings, there was never a smile to be seen. The Americans seemed to be tremendously conscious of being on show so different from the British soldier on a march out, who always gives the crowd as good as he gets in the w7 of repartee and never al lows himself to be betrayed into solemnity. hkh later developed into half a day of It. When we left in the early morning we inspected two Red Cross pocti and then came to a little place badly bombed almont a rain where there as a section of the ambulance corps. The railroad ran in front of the town and the highway for man and muni tions, a great white wagon road al wayi black with trucks, lay back of th town. The little bombed town lay on a hillside sloping down to a brook where a big stone bridge panned the stream. As we got out of the car and stood talking with I the boys of the trp, a shell came This unyielding appearance seemed ""'"" "a w trucs wi-0 a especially to Impress the volatile tremencous baxg. I tried to look French and Belgian soldiers among the spectators. Every one said they looked like business these men with set, rather hard faces, strong Jawed and close lipped. raiuai aoi went on talking, in a moment I atked tome tnea who came around the coiner. 'Where did it Uriker "About Z'A away!" explainer ter thought. -Whang!" came another this time right over our heads and kicked up a dust about 400 feet away. Everyone ducked when they heard it coming. 1 ducked, too. -Yea.- answered the young man starting up his machine. Tin going) after rum now to isae un" hospital." "Badly hurtr 1 asked this time, not trvinr to conceal my anxiety. Z-H-i- Bang! The old thing broke j again this time back of us. Some one said: "They're after that big naval gun." "No, It's the road!" someone else insisted. One shot had hit near the gun; another hit near the road and a third hit between them! Z-ri-ixim Bang! she went again and one of the boys grabbed me by the hand and said: "Come on; let s go to the abri." Abri was a new word to me. but I was glad to go anywhere- I found the abri was a cave back of the bouse nearby. It was covered with railroad Iron and great thick logs and dirt. But it would only resist the glancing blow of a shell. In it we found a score of Frenchmen. Henry came in later wearing a sheet iron helmet We sotod there until the shelling seemed i to stop. Then we came out ior juncn. As we were waiting for lunch to oe served, they dropped in three more. Henry was writing. Someone said, "Are you writing a letter?" and he answered. "No. I'm writing the Ameri can peace terms!" When the three bombs were planted, the Germans stopped and turned the gun off the town. They probably went to another village. After lunch, which was unusually de licious, we went in a car up the hill into the woods to inspect the First Aid hospital there, near the firing line. As we drew further up the hill and into the wood, we could hear the French firing from the artillery. Field guns and naval guns are msKkprf In these woods. Not over a score of them were firing, but as we got further up it was evident the Germans were trying to locate these guns. Shell after shell came burst ing in. and as our road passea ai rectly through the thick of the bat teries, it was marked for trouble. Road memders were at work under the fire, pacthing the great shell holes in the road. We got to the hospital finally and got into the abri, which was a comfort. The passage of shells going and coming was con tinuous. In a little while we went out to the edge of the woods where we could see the French trenches. For some reason three shells plunked in right before us, and as we ducked near a dead mule a piece of a shell hit Major Norton's helmet and dented it. Except for his helmet he would have been killed. We all wore helmets and each man had his gas mask in his hand, ready to silp on. It had j been raining, was muddy and slippery and we were ages it seemed to me getting back toward the car. We rattled back toward the town; but at a cross-road, which the Germans have marked and which is called "dead man's corner," a big army truck had stalled. My heart certainly was thumping when t-s z-z-zim bang came a great big shell and shattered a tree into kindling about eighty-five feet from us about as far as from the Gazette office to Sixth avenue! The boys piled out of the car, gave the truck a lift and soon we were speeding down the bill. By that time it was 4 o'clock and folks in the vil lage said the Germans were done for the day. I had no conscious sense of fear but I know that in spite of the gay persiflage that Henry and I kept go ing, we were badly frightened. I was. An hour later when I started to climb a few stairs, my heart with the tension all gone thumped as though I had been running a mile. That night we went a little farther from the line to the railroad! There we slept in one of the hospital shacks in a great field hospital, with 2,000 beds, which evacuates the wounded from the first aid hospital up the hill into the hospitals down in the in- teror of the country. It was a cloudy night. There was no danger of air raids, so I slept In a cot and did not wake op all night. But on clear nights it is bad busiess to be In hospital after a big German defeat. The Germans have no answer to their enemies than to bomb the wounded. Here also are 6.000 German prison era Just taken at Verdun. They were astonished to see the Americans, and refused to believe they had come over since war was declared, as they were told the submarines had stopped all commerce. But some of them had lost their nerves. one group of forty had killed their captain and come across. (Here five lines are deleted. So that is the story of my first ordeal of shell fire. It was not very heroic, stij I did not break and run much as I wanted to. and I thought you would all like to hear about it. We are going up again tonight ot is pec t a first aid hospital, and may be out all night or possibly but few hours. They say the sight of the trenches under the sky rockets is most wonderful. These ambulance boys who go up to these hospital all the time are the most wonderful boys I ever knew. If they can go every night I should not flinch for once in a lifetime. They are calling now. Good by. W. A. W. RESERVATIONS FOR IOWA GAME AT COLLEGE BOOK S.T0RE 9:00 O'clock, Tuesday, Oct 9th FOR STUDENT SEASON TICKETS ONLY ! 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