THE DALY
NEBRASKAN
THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
OlMrial Paper of th
I'nlvernity of Nebraska
IVAN G. BEEDE Editor
LEONARD W. KLINE. . . .Mng. Editor j
FERN NOBLE Associate Editor
KATHARINE NEWERANCH
. . . Associate Editor
ARNOLD WILKEN. .Associate Editor
GEORGE DRIVER.. Business Manner
MERRILL VANDERPOOL
Asst. Bus. Mgr.
are uot best when they are aroldable,
Nebraska students believe that the
desirable labor the University has to
offer the farmers can be selected
without halting the course of the
whole institution.
Office
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Business, fUiMiient Administration Bldg.
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News. L-841S Husitiess. B-2597
MevhanKal Department. B-3145
DROP THE FORMALS
At two universities in the west, for
mat affairs are to be dropped for the
year on account of the war. At the
for the greulation of activities has
University of Wisconsin a committee
been formed under the women stu
dent's war work council and this com
mittee ha sput the ban on all formal
parties.
At the University of Nebraska the
panhellenic council, on a suggestion
from the faculty committee on stu
dent organizations, recommended that
, . .. j . ..., .v.. n.!all formal affairs be stopped for the
Publifche-d every day during the college r
vcar.
eubsoription price, per semester, II.
Kntered at the postoffice at Lincoln,
Nebraska, as seoond-clasa mail matter
under the act of Cong-iess of March 3,
1S79.
The old-time Nebraska "pep." the
kind that kept Nebraska first in the
Missouri valley in the old days when
the relative calibre of the teams
made spirit a more vital asset thn j to realize the seriousness of war and
This seems to be a logical and
wise step, in view of the conditions
that exist today. Mention has been
made time and again by officials of
all the universities that this is not
the time for extravagant and frivolous
living, but for conservative indul
gence in amusement with additional
stress laid on educational pursuits.
The American mind has been slow
it has been for a number of years,
will show Itself again at the first foot
ball rally of the season in Memorial
hall this monring. Students and team
both realized long before the season
started that it would take this old
time fighting to keep the Cornhuskers
supreme in the face of this year's
schedule. That, was why the spirit
on Nebraska field and in the stands
was probably better last Saturday
than it has been since the game
with Kaisas in 1912. That is why,
this morning, there will be no rooting
by the men, no rooting by the women,
no chorus from the balcony of Laws
has been reluctant to give up things
that have been a matter of course
in times of peace. The time has ar
rived when sacrifices must be made.
The Pan-Hellenic Council or the
faculty committee on amusements
and receptions shou'd reccommend to
the organizations of the University
that formal parties be suspended for
the year. Ohio State Lantern.
GOOD-BYE OLD DODGE
To the remaining old-timers who
once roamed the plains of Western
Kansas probably the greatest shock
in the week's news was the story of
the Dodge City Golf club. Most of
but the union of all lungs into one ! old timers never will forget the grand
big voice, the voice of Nebraska con- and S'rous days of the Dodge City
fidently challenging all her foes. i tha ?s' a"d expressions of disgust
probably will be of the Dodge City
j Golf club and the Dodge City that is.
The Convocation committee has an- j ln tne span of human advance.
nounced that some of the Thursday J ment it is a far cry from ,ne xx&e
morning periods during the year will j City of the wild and woolly days and
be turned over to "community sing- j Boot Hill, to the Dodge City Golf
ing." This plan should meet with a i flub, and nothing is more expressive
hearty response by everyone, for i of tne rapid taming of the west than
there is no better way to develop this stor5' of fort' years, the end of
V iK f nn tk w 1 ,t X .ft.
group spirit in this year of stress.
Song-fests have always been recog
nized as a great unifying force as heal
ers of distraction and givers of hope
and enthusiasm. "Keep singing and
we will win the war," David Lloyd
George, British prime minister, told
his countrymen of Wales at a recent
folk festival. Uniting the voices of a
neighborhood or a nation will clear
away the clouds and focus the hope
of the whole.
Such
to bring
to unify their interests. It will make
University songs the heralds of Uni
versity traditions and patriotic songs
a more familiar part of our everyday
life, and it will foster a stronger Uni
versity spirit, as much the guage of a
college community as of a nation.
tarv condition, that chap had ( to
sandwlsh a cheerful, optimistic re
mark. Ohio State Lantern.
e whole. ..6ui mum i i-ommonj
ch a series of "sings" will do much !e"ough for Cit- ,otinK a
ing Nebraska students together, ! up the slope to Boot Hill
. ... . shouting "fore?"
which saw the glories of the chaps
and the saddle completely eclipsed by
the niblick and the brassie.
The rapid change in conditions at
Dodge City probably has resulted in
some mirth-provoking combinations.
People have become fairly used to a
sun-iannea cowboy resplendent in '
cowboy hat. bright-colored flannel
shirt and chaps. Jabbing his spurs Into
the flanks of a Henry Ford. But' can
even Dodge City accustom itself to
this figure which is commonplace
bag
and
outing "fore
In the words of W. S. Kmsinger
the glorious west is so broken and
subdued that it feeds the hand that
bi!es it and them good old days has
went. Emporia Gazette.
A SHORTAGE OF MINISTERS
The war has caused a shortage of
preachers. A great many churches
are pastorless this fall. If the war
continues another year the shortage
..in Inornmo. and 111 ft 11 V thousands Of
churches. Protestant and CatholicA
will be without ministers.
It takes about four thousand new
ministers each year to repair the
losses by death and to supply de
mands of growth in Protestant
churches alone in this country. The
great majority of these, of course,
come from the theological seminaries,
which annually graduate about 4,500,
and thus keep up with the demand.
But a great many of the students in
theological seminaries, when war be
gan, and in the first and second years
of the war, have gone to the war in
various capacities, many as private
soldiers, others as chaplains and
workers for the Y. M. C. A. Many
voung men who would have entered
seminaries this fall have enlisted and
enrollments in theological seminaries
have fallen off an average of 50 per
cent.
The Newton Theological Institution
has sent to the war 50 per cent of thej
students who were there last year,
and Its enrollment this fall is 50 per
cent short of normal. The Southern
Baptist Seminary, Louisville, has lost
even its president. Rev. E. Y. Mullins,
who has gone to war as chaplain of a
regiment. The falling off on students
there is more than 50 per cent.
Union Seminary, Presbyterian, New
York: McCormick Seminary, Chicago,
Presbyterian; the General Seminary,
New York, Episcopal; Princeton Sem
inary, the Yale School of Religion,
the Boston University School of Theo
logy, and many others, all report a
falling off which will average 50 per
cent.
The decrease in students for the
priesthood in Catholic seminaries is
so great that bishops in the Eastern
dioceses have issued statements ex
horting patriotism, but emphasizing
the necessity of keeping the ranks of
the clergy full. Baptists have issued
the same sort of a statement.
There seems no need to worry
over this condition. It is better that
a church should be pastorless than
that a young minister, fit and anxious
to fight for his country, should be de
prived of that honor and duty. Let
all the students and preachers that
can fight go to war. The pulpits can
be manned by laymen until the war
is ended. The most important work
on hand in this country now is to win
the war; and the student who does
his bit in the trenches will be a much
better preacher thereafter than he
ever would have been had he re
mained in school Kansas City Star.
PROFESSOR CHATBURN
COMPARES IOWA AND
NEBRASKA ROADS
tion gathered by questionnaires from ;
FROM THE FRONT
j "Marching through the barracks
It is to be hoped ihat the informa-! street ,and ooki"S in a window. I
piaies wnn a knife and fork
I set along a big table, and 1 slipped
!3 Word tn th novt r,. ,K. .vi.
their cornhusking ability and their at- j mupt be th officf.rs. m;s Whe'"
titude toward a three-weeks' recess j meal time came, to my joy we were
may be used as the basis of a selec- j assigned here, and here's what we
tive conscription plan and not merely j had:
as a guagf of student sentiment, j "An oilcloth on the tab'e. and a
The board of repents will probably j reai fi-ass, too. C,oh. They gave
find, if the feeling expressed on
the campus yesterday may be taken
In the October issue of the Motor
Highway appears an article written
by Prof. G. E. Chatburn, head of the
department of applied mechanics and
machine design, comparing the roads
and road-building policies of Ne
braska and Iowa. The article takes
up in detail the most common errors
made in road building, and their rem
edies. Professor Chatburn believes
that as a rule the roads of Iowa ex
cel those of Nebraska. This is prin
cipally due to the splendid road
laws now In force in Iowa, which tre
lacking in our own state.
as an indication, that there are some
200 students who know how to husk
corn, that there are about 100 more
who are willing to try it and feel
confident of their latent talent, and
about 1,000 more all the rest who
sign the questionnaires, in fact who
want to make the best use of the va
cation if It is granted. It is also ! ever' day to conserve this and that
probable that more students will say j commodity in order that more may
that they would rather the Uni- j ,,e Kent ,0 Europe to relieve suffering
versity course be continued than will j ,here- Many of the movements strike
advocate suspending it temporarily ,he ,n,,vWul being foolish and
The more the plan of "selective UTTT "T haVe a,way8
is considered the more it n ' , "U".'
real knife and fork and plate. A
us coffee with milk in it. I thought
it was Christmas, really."
That is an excerpt from the letter
of an American boy who is now in
France, and it ought to bring a les
son to the rrM of us Americans
who are here on this side, where
peace and plenty are stil! to be en
Joyed. Thre are movement cun
conscription
practical it appears.
From the re-
Evervone should f tm ..nru
suits of the questionnaires this morn- j that American boy in France. Give
ing, the regents will have accurate
information showing them just how
many students would be of actual ser
vice to the farmers and desire the
chance to help. They could also find
out how many more there are that
are anxious but incapable. Taking
these figures as a registration list,
would it not be possible to draft the
cornhuskers and leave the main stu
dent body. Including the women, who
could lend but negligible aid towari
the relief or the labor shortage, to
continue their college work?
War-time naturally makes neces
sary a number of breaks in the regu
alr routine of things; the normal life
of the country is, when' necessary,
pushed aside to attend to the war
business at hand. But such tactics
up articles that have always been
matters of course with a spirit of
gladness. And when we hare cut
down on sugar and what not, be able
to say: "I thought it was Christ
mas, really." Those who are not yet
doing active service for the cation
are inclined to be reluctant in giv
ing up things for others.
Get the habit of gladly sacrific
ing when the need demands it. That
the army life imbues that spirit into
men is shown in almost every letter
that comes from the front. Here's
a bit from a card mailed by a Penn
sylvania college student white on
, board a transport waiting for a con
voy across the Atlantic: "We are
in steerage, all right; a dirty hole
That was written with the right
kind of Fpirit. Even between the
two phrases describing Ma nnsanl-
HUGO OTOUPALIK
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HUGO OTOUPALIK, WHOSE LINE
PLUNGES WILL BE BIG FAC
TOR IN NEBRASKA'S SCORING
MACHINE SATURDAY
First Congregational
Church
13TH AND L STREETS
NEAR THE CAMPUS
The pastor. Dr. John Andrew Holmes,
will discuss Mr. II. O. Wells' recent book,
"Cod, the Invisible King," at the 10:30
service. At 4 o'clock there -will be a com
munion service with reception of about a
score' of University students into member
ship. Welcome
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