THE DAILY NEBRASKA
THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
Olllclal Taper of the
University of Nebraska
IVAN G. BEEDE Editor
LEONARD W. KLINE Mng. Editor
FERN NOBLE Associate Editor
KATHARINE NEWBRANCH
Associate Editor
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Entered at the postofflce at Lincoln,
Nebraska, as second-class mail matter
under the act of Congress of March 3,
1879.
Through an oversight two of the
articles which appeared on the edi
torial page of yesterday's Nebraskan
were not properly credited. "The
Tailor's Forward March" is from Col
lier's Weekly, and "The 'One-Hoss
Shay' a Satire" appeared in the
Kansas City Star.
The one thousand dollars Univer
sity students subscribed to the liberty
loan yesterday is a nice start toward
the total sum Nebraska will con
tribute. One fact about the purchase
of liberty bonds which students do
not realize until they have purchased
them, is that the bond holder really
feels that he is more distinctly help
ing his country. The indirect aid
students are giving by keeping the
cultural light burning and by pre
paring fo rmore active service in the
future is of course felt by everyone.
But who is content with that serVice
alone?
of us, more energetic than the rest,
flounder, gurgle and finally swim.
The floundering is often disagreeable
for the faculty, who jab their pikes
in us and keep us moving down
stream. The sewimming, of course,
is grateful to them. The gurgling
is merely incidental.
Those who swim independently con
stitute an uncomfortable element in
the classroom. They are uncomfort
able because they startle us out of
our lethargy. If another metaphor i
permissible, it may be said that we
are merely letting someone pour
it over us, and are passively absorb
ing only an unavoidable quantity.
The ideas of the uncomfortable few
are often unorthodox, but at least
somewhat original. The rest of us
frown on this class. They are not of
us or rather, we are not of them
We justify our position by poking fun
at them. We call them "nuts."
Progress must come through the
uncomfortable few. Sometimes their
movements are not directly ahead
But at least they Jar loose from the
customs to which the rest of us
remain sticking, and are free for in
dependent movement.
This is a protest against the re
actionary attitude or a large pro
portion of the student body. Wash
ington Daily.
Although to all outward appear
ances, the high school fraternity
squabble has been amicably settled,
there still remains a very distinct
duty which every University man who
has a chum among those that signed
the banning agreement should per
form. It will not be at all sur
prising if some of the "gang," if they
receive encouragement from without,
will attempt to violate their word
and run sub-rosa. They will not at
tempt it, however, unless they are en
couraged. University fraternity men
should remember at all times the
ruling against high school fraterni
ties, and should see to it that the
sub-rosa plan receives no commenda
tion from them. !
When, is there a better time to
generate Nebraska spirit than at
dusk on the evening preceding a big
game? There is something unusually
determined about the picture of ener
getic figures gathering from all di
rections to jam the little chapel full,
to break the still evening air with
songs and cheers and deep applause.
It is a great sensation to pour out
into the dusk again, after having
heard inspiring words from the lips
"ORDERS IS ORDERS"
We hear much of German efficiency
and regulation and we are apt to get
the impression that everything in the
fatherland moves in its ordained way
with the smoothness of clockwork.
But now and then a suspcion arises
that a multiplicity of regulation must
sometimes defeat its own purpose,
that even a German would be likely
to become entangled in the meshes
of official gearing.
Consider the pathetic experience of
a contributor to the Berlin Zeitung
am Mittag:
"I have resolved never to violate
another official order. Those I have
already accumulated comprise 2.76S
separate issues, and it took me con
siderable time to learn them all by
heart.
"On reaching the baker's and ask
ing for bread the young aldy assis
tant asked me to detach the bread
stamps from my card, but as order
37S forbids me to do so I icft the
shop without any bread.
"Later I found that my housemaid
had accepted "a parcel addressed to
me from Bavaria, and containing but
ter. This is directly contrary to
regulation 1215, so, to secure myself
against the danger of official pr
cution, I got rid of the girl, butter
and all. ,
"My cook, too, proved herself ripe
for dismassal; she had obtained about
a quarter of a pound of chocolate af
ter two and a half hours' waiting,
without having her coffee-substitute
card stamped, contrary to order 945."
The writer goes on to say that his
physician found an abnormal deposit
of sugar in his system, whereupon he
I felt constrained to turn in his sugar
card to the authorities. The final
incident of the day was of a con
trary nature. It was Monday, and,
therefore, warm water was verboten,
but at midnight a stream of hot water
gushed from the kitchen tap. He im
mediately communicated by telephone
with the proper authorities, who as
sured him that order-2460, dealing
with the warm water supply, had tem
porarily been cancelled.
"I cannot imagine," he concludes.
why in this connection thev authori-
Of having what we love . . .
It is all that we cannot say
And all that we feel
But can translate
Only in singing.
What does this sound like the p
trio'tism of ' complaisant conceit or
love of country sharpened by exile
tested by disaster? The above Is our
own rough version of lines from
recent poem called "L'Amour de la
Patrle." bv Emile Cammaerts. Emile
Cammaerts is a Belgian.
THE SHORT BRIGADE
Half an inch, half an inch,
Half an inch shorter;
Whether the skirts are for
Mother or daughter.
Briefer the dresses grow,
Fuller the ripples flow,
While whisking glances show
More than they oughter.
Forward the dress parade,
Is there a man dismayed?
No, from the sight displayed,
None could be sundered.
Theirs not to make remark;
Clergyman, clubman, clerk
Gaping from noon till dark,
At the Four Hundred.
Short skirts to right of them,
Shorter to left of them,
Shorter in front of them,
Flaunted and flirted.
In hose of stripe and plaid,
Hued most exceedingly glad,
Sporting in spats gone mad
Come the short-skirted.
Flashed all their ankles therft,
Flashed as they turned in air,
What will not women dare?
(Though the exhibits show some
of them blundered.)
All sorts of types of pegs;
Here and there fairy shapes
Just bu(Jt to walk on eggs,
Come by the hundred.
When can their glory fade?
O, the wild show, they mad
All the world wondered.
Grande dame and damoiselle,
Shop girl and bowery belle
Four hundred? H'm ah, well,
Any old hundred.
Daily Illini
STUDENTS BUY $1500
OF LIBERTY BONDS
01 ornnusKers wno nave graced .e-1 ties should have urged me. as thev
braska field of old, to light torches did, to apply at once to the nearest
and march with the spirit of victory
in our hearts down through city
streets, letting the whole world know
that we are proud of our team and
are confident that Nebraska will win
the day. It is pleasing to anticipate
it all, but it will be still more pleas
ing to experience it next Friday evening.
The war has called so many good
men away from Nebraska since last
spring that it may seem undue praise
to single one man out for editorial
comment, but this The Nebraskan
wants to do in the case of Owen
Frank. Thi leaving for army service
of the assistant coach brings to every
follower of Cornhusker football the
thought that he is the type of man
that Nebraska football is proud to
own. To America at large there may
be other Cornhusker .names which
excite more awe than that of Frank's,
but within the borders of his own
state there Is no more loved man
than he. Nebraska cherishes his
service as a Cornhusker not only be
cause he was one of her ablest play
ers and most dogged fighters, but be
cause he was one who loved Ne
braska enough to give everything he
had for her, including the prospect
of the proud glory of leading a Corn
husker team.
The UNCOMFORTABLE FEW
In the flow of school life most of
us drift listlessly, borne on the slug
gish current. Some of us sink, or
climb out on the bank. But some
first-aid station for treatment."
The humor of this is a trifle heavy,
but it is illuminating. Even German
human nature cannot be forged and
welded into a perfect machine. Even
German authorities perceive that me
ticulous compliance with orders some
times approaches the ludicrous or the
insane. ,
We may bewail our own easy-going
system .but it has its advantages, and
it is not clear that the German sys
tem is altogether an unmixed' bless
ing even in war time. Chicago
Tribune.
Hearty Support Given Fraternities
and Sororities Canvasses by Com
mittee in Charge Campus Work
Campus
Rising of the Moon" will be given
by the advanced class and a pan
tomine "The Pied Piper of Hamlin"
will bo given by the freshman class
in elocution. The program is Bald to
be especially well prepared and will
be given with very short intermis
sions between the plays.
Boyd wants to see you about your
printing.
LOST Parker fountain pen. Please
return to Student Activities Office.
15-2t
LOST - Schaffer No. C self-filling
fountain pen. Return to Student Ac
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Students have bought $1,050 worth
of liberty bonds so far this year and
$150 more has been promised ac
cording to the committee boosting
the work on the campus yesterday
Registrar Florence McGahey has been
working in the sororities for the bond
support and Wayne Townsend is
canvassing the fraternities.
Following is the list of students
who have purchased bonds so far:
Harold J. Weeth.
John Vetter.
J. A. Klein.
Walter. H. Judd.
Fied N. Hellner.
Elsie Fisher.
Winifred Perkins.
Caroline Long.
Myron Weinberg.
W. E. Christiansen.
John Boswell.
Corinne Larimore.
George Driver.
Rag" Doing Its Bit
In Fort Bliss Camp
PATRIOTISM AND POETRY
What is patriotic verse that so
little of it is poetry. Poetry must
intrigue the imagination through the
senses. Perhaps the trouble comes,
then, from the fact we never hear,
see, taste, or smell "patriotism," "de
mocracy," "liberty," or any of the
staples of the too-ambitious poet-patriot.
How refreshing to come upon
this definition of "love of one's na
tive land":
It is a certain roof under a cer
tain sky.
And the perfume of the dust in the
ftad.
It is the taste of tobacco and the
taste of bread.
The shining of leaves, the odor of
the wind.
The familiar noises of the village.
It is that which reminds us of our
dead
,And makes us desire our children.
It is the color of our life.
It is the savor of our songs,
'Tis the sweet folly
Of reaping what we sow.
The absurd passion
Fort Bliss, Tex., Oct. 10, 1917. I
have been receiving the "Rag" for
a week and certainly do enjoy read
ing the news from the University. It
bolsters a fellow up to be able to
hear what hla old class-mates are
doing.
I have been here at Fort Bliss since
June 20. I am very much taken up
with my work in the field artillery
and even if we never have to go to
France, I shall never regret my ex
perience in the army.
Our regiment is rapidly being
whipped into shape for foreign serv
ice and will probably be sent across
during the winter. The men are all
anxious to go and get it over with.
I fully expect to be back at Ne
braska University next year, for the
Sammies are going to "knock out"
the kaiser by next July 4th.
I read all about the doings of the
"Cornhusker" football teeani in the
El Paso papers and have reason to
be proud of it. With best wishes
for old N. U. and hopes that I may
be back next year.
Sincerely,
McKINLEY POUND.
Bat. E 18th F. A.
Elocution Department Gives
First Plays Tomorrow Night
The first of the elocution depart
mental meetings which are to occur
very month, will "be held in the Tem
ple theatre, Wednesday evening at
7:15 o'clock. Cable Jackson is tht.
head chairman, supervising the seat
ing, programs and scence shifting
nree plays "Holy Tree Inn," "Wa
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