THE DAILY NEBRASUN
THE DAILY HEBRASKAN
Official Paper of tha
University Of Nebraska
IVAN G. BEEDE Editoi
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TKRS NOBLE Associate Editor
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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.
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