THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
"Olllcial Paper of the
University of Nebraska
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It is probable that the conference
of Chancellor Avery with the heads
of the other educational institutions
in the state will solve the problem of
the cornhusking vacation in a man
ner which will serve the best inter
ests of the elements concerned. Sen
timent, in the meantime, seems to be
moulding itself strongly against the
complete paralysis of the state's edu
cational system for three weeks. The
first weakness of the plan for a re
cess is that as far as the University
is concerned, it will yield few if any
more Huskers for the heavy-laden
cornfields than would a well-instituted
plan of selective conscription.
But there are other arguments
against the proposed recess. It
would turn loose not only hundreds
of men who will be useless in a corn
field, but University women, who cer
tainly will not be a powerful help
in handling the corn crop. Then,
too, the recess would be a big ex
pense to those students living in
the outer parts of Nebraska and in
other states.
Students, ,in the questionaires dis
tributed Thursday, showed their own
choice between recess and furlough
by voting two-to-one against the dis
missal of school. Their opinion tal
lies with the bulk of comment made.
Indeed, the only contingency that
would make the vacation necessary,
it would seem, would be the develop
ment of an acute shortage on the eve
of the husking season with no ade
quat preparation to meet it by the
other plan proposed.
Do we want to win from Notre
Dame? It's up to us.
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The team has the power to drive i
through the season without defeat
it showed us that against Iowa Sat
urday. When Nebraska and Notre Dame
meet it will not be, as last year, a
Nebraska eleven fighting gloriously,
but futilely, against a superior foe.
It will be a Nebraska' team, strong
powerful, in combat with an enemy
whose power is not so much greater
but that courage, grit, and fight, will
bring victory. It will be two great
football machines battling on Ne
braska field, with the fate of the
contest in the hearts and the voices
of those in the stands. The Corn
huskers of 1917 can win from Notre
Dame if they have the support they
deserve.
What does that support imply? It
implies the realization that Ne
braska has a great team, one that
potentially is strong enough to win
its stiffest games. It implies the old
Nebraska fighting spirit which does
not countenance over-confidence, but
which, relying calmly on the knowl
edge of its own powers, fights on and
on, refusing to allow a temporary
backfire of the wheel of fortune to
decide the final outcome. It im
plies the Nebraska fight that re
trieves a touchdown against her with
two against the enemy, the fight
which virtually defeated Michigan in
1911 and trounced Minnesota in 1913,
and it implies, if it is in evidence,
victory over Notre Dame next Sat
urday. University co-ed 3 are doing so
much more to help in the war than
the present body of University men,
in the opinion of The Nebraskan,
that the masculine element should
bluph in shame only It doesn't So
far it has been the co-eds who have
shown the truer disposition to econo
mize for the sake of war relief work,
who have been sewing kits for sol
diers, and knitting sweaters, too;
who have been making and selling
confections at the football games for
the Red Cross. And it is the co-
eds, who have secured two rooms
in Nebraska hall, where two' or three
afternoons' a week, they will go to
sew and knit under the direction of
a Lincoln member of the Red Cross
association. Just what have the men
done? Not much. Studied a little
harder than in the carefree days of
old, perhaps, and spent less money
foolishly. Right now it would seem
University men can say little for
themselves. But they still have a
chance to make good. There is
something that they can do, some
thing entirely within their province.
They can buy liberty bonds. Uni
versity men naturally have more
available money than co-eds, and
they should put some of it where it
can help the government. This does
not mean individuals only, but or
ganizations. Buying the bonds is not
an investment; it is a duty. Ne
braskans who went to war did not
hesitate and question the investment.
We should not ask whether we are
making the best financial use of our
money, we snouia pry joose irom
as much as we can spare without
privation and buy real gold bricks
to pad Uncle Sam's fighting glove.
DRAFTED
Boys under 21 have been drafted
to continue their education, that the
class of intelligent men may not be
diminished in a future decade. Let
us be sensible about the thing. The
work lies at each man's hand to be
done the one for the rifle, the
other for the book. It should be
done as allotted.
Only let those who are drafted to
remain remember this: As those
who serve on the battlefield or in
the fleet will do their work faith
fully and well to their utmost, so
they who serve in keeping alive our
heritage of knowledge must do their
work faithfully and well. They are
stewards to serve in place of the
brave young men who have gone
From that responsibility, from that
draft, there is no exemption. Har
vard Crimson.
LEARNING A LITTLE
The Camp Funston and Camp
Doniphan incidents are proving to
the great majority of "the million of
armed men over night" theory. Six
months after the declaration of war
we have much of our regular army
in France. After a fashion we have
mobilized our national guard, and
are now busy at the task of tearing
its innards out and getting it trans
formed into a modern fighting
force. We have completed the draft
machinery and have 45 per cent of
our first draft contingent with the
colors, patiently and patriotically
suffering for clothing and heat be
cause we have been militarily impo-
tent, and the industries and re-
.
"uuii.cs ui a Kieai uaiiuu nave nui
been sufficiently well-organized to
get together the necessary comforts
of life for the men whom we chose
to fight for us our battle for a free
world.
Added to this condition of cloth
ing and housing is the announce
ment from the war department it
self that the country now is manu
facturing but 1.300 Springfield
rifles a day, and that-the manufact
ure of Enfield rifles has not been
begun. Eventually we will get ready
for war, and perhaps the effort and
the suffering will be worth it if we
learn for keeps that we cannot ex
pect to go to war from a flat-footed,
standing start Emporia Gazette.
TEAMWORK AND FOOTBALL
Football rules were made to be
observed. Observe them. They were
also made to make the game fair.
When you disregard them, you serve
notice that you are willing to take
a chance on dirty methods in order
to win. Such a victory is tarnished
and sad. Better a clean defeat and
a knowledge that you are good
sportsmen, than a victory that sends
you home wishing deep down in your
heart that you had not done it.
Play the game hard, but play It
fair.
Always realize that team play
means sticking together with the
other fellows. Sometimes there is
a star team without an especially
remarkable star. Such a team can
result through almost no other
agency than a team playing like a
solid unit. Play for the glory of
the team, and your glory will be
greater. Certainly the individual
who omits a grandstand feat when
he thinks It would not be for the
best interest of the team, is as
suredly made to feel better thereby.
Every fall there are the records of
a light, starless team" which has de
feated time after time, because of
training and team play, much heavier
squads made up of Individuals play
ing much for individual glory. Such
winners perfect the machinery of
fine team play; and then with team
spirit, they use the machine they
set up, and the two working together
are almost Invincible. Walter Camp
In the October American Boy.
THE DAILYNE-BKMorxo..
mii itarism A DISEASE
German militariasm Is a ulseaf.l
Its germs have been planted in
mlndt of the German people and
has made them loyal
disreputable dynasty. Nationalism
Sas been their theme for more than
forty years and their children have
been made subjects to this teach
iha time of tneir
me ever omtc i"- - , .
oifth. Prussianism has idealized to.
them and has placed tneir .
on the altar of God and their minds
have been poisoned against other
nationalities. With this sort of
teaching for years past, is it for us
to wonder at their loyalty to their
country. The German is in reality
two separate persons. He is a hard
working individual of good character
and is one of your best friends. He
is what we would all expect him to
be. As a United States army officer
once said: "God made no better
man than the German," we know
he is a fine type of manhood. On
the other hand let us see what Kina
of an individual he is. In his sec
ond person we see him give up
that which he loves best and is
dear to him for the call or nis
country. At the outbreak of this
war there were many thousands of
Germans in this country and other
countries who gave up their homes
and families - at the call of ' their
kaiser. When Prussianism calls they
are there to answer. The German
fears the might of Prussianism.
On October 3, Marshall von Hin
denburg said at his seventieth birth
day, "Let us gnash our teeth and
not say a word about peace until
the bloody work is done, and the
victory is ours. This must be the
motto of the whole German people."
Yes, it is Hindenburg, one of Prus
sia's monarchs who tells the world
what his people think or rather what
they are made to think.
We are in this war now for the
purpose of destroying Prussian mili
tarism and freeing the German peo
ple. It is a task that has never met
its equal in the history of the world.
We are fighting a mighty nation and
time alone can decide the conquest
The war department issued the fol
lowing statement. "Shaken but still
powerful is the ' estimate of Ger
many's defensive . strength."
We are fighting an ignorant and
suppressed people. We must realize
and act accordingly after the war.
The Lincoln Tribune.
AS A MAN THINKETH
When you see a vessel sailing
through the water, have you ever
thought what it is that makes the
real difference between that vessel
and a piece of driftwood.
It is not th sails by which the
winds force it onward; the unstretch
ing bough of the mountain tree that
falls into the lake can catch the
wind. It is not the artful curve and
pattern of the hull; the piece of
driftwood iioats a swell: It is not
the cabin or the hod, bearing on
their way hundreds of passengers and
cargoes of goods; the floating tree
trunk will bear up a naked bay, and
carry his clothes in asfety. It is not
even that the gliding vessel repre
sents an acme of human intelligence
and stands as a synonym for trade
and commerce; the rude man of pre
historic days found in the fallen tree
at the river's edge a craft perfectly
adapted to his conception of travel
and barter.
But there is one vital distinction.
one integral part of the vessel which
the piece of driftwood does not pos
sess a helm.
Life has a helm; the world has a
helm; the universe has a helm.
Without it there would be nothing
ness. Instead of the great ship of
human life and human knowledge
and the universe as revealed to hu
manity, without this helm it would
be driftwood; it would never have
existed at all.
The helm is thought.
Our lives are only the results of
our thoughts.
The evil man is the result of his
evil thoughts; the good man is the
result of his good thought. Your boy
is the result of the thought you give
him, plus those given him by what
we call environment, surrounding.
Your city government is the result of
your thought about politics. If you
did first think the clothes you wear,
you would be unclothed. Every no
ble building of the world is the re
sult of thought. Had they not been
first thought, they could never have
been built. Your home first found
existence in your thought of it And
the world, the stars, the solar system
and the myriad systems beyond it,
they were thought before they ex
isted. You are the result of your own
thoughts.
If you would be happy, think hap
pily. If you would be healthy, keep
your mind on health. If you think
low things, you will be low. If you
think pure things, you will be pure.
If you feel that there must be a great
realm of wonderful and beautiful
thoughts that yon do not know, get
books and read. Make these thoughts
your thoughts. . Appropriate them.
Take them into your life. Until you
think higher things, you cannot lift
yourself. Show your soul new pic-
1
...... nmhitlffli new ill'
lures, give juui
spiration, bring your mind new ideas,
because it is your life, and your
thoughts is its only helm.
Which way are you steering? H.x.
IT IS UP TO YOU
Growl, and the way looks dreary;
Laugh, and the path' Is bright;
For a welcome smile
ti ..l .-I it a enn shine, while
' . .
A frown shuts out the light.
Sigh, and you rake in nothing;
Work, and the prize is won;
For the merry man
With backbone can
By nothipg be outdone.
Hustle, and fortune awaits you;
Shirk, and defeat is sure;
For there's no chance
Of deliverance
For the chap who can't endure
Sing, and the world ' harmonious;
Grumble and thin"- ,i wrong;
And all the tim
You are out of rhyme
With the busy, bustling throug,
Kick, and there's trouble brewing;
Whistle, and life is gay;
And the world's in tune
Like a day in June
And the clouds all melt away.
THE H. C. L. AGAIN
"When the frost is on the pumpkin
and the fodders in the shock,"
We begin to- wonder how we'll get
our overcoats from hock.
For old Hi Costov Living's eaten up
our weekly pay,
And we haven't saved a "sou
marbuis" against a rainy day.
Last winter's suit we'd figured on to
save us from a freeze,
We find is eaten by the moths, and
has Adams apples on the
knees.
So we positively have to have, a
brand new one, but Ho OH,
We've not the slightest idea where
we're going to get the dough.
We need but as Bill Shakespeare
once remarked "Aye there's
the rub,"
It takes all that we can rake and
scrape to furnish us with grub.
Since every thing. we eat's gone up
three hundred times or four,
We can't stretch that old allowance
beyond the grocery store.
Farmer, merchant and mechanic,
each one is "getting his'n."
But the poor Nebraska student finds
his income hasn't risen,
And with the first of every month
comes naught but woe and
grief,
Oh, god, kind Mr. Hoover, can't you
give us some relief? J. M. L.
The Eo.n
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Next Wednesday and Th,,,.
Prof. F. Mv Fling, of the dei,,?
of European history, will speak J01
meeting of the association
braska librarians at Kearney.
Wednesday evening he will
on , "The Significance of the War
and Thursday morning he will talk
on "The Literature of the War."
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