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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
Oillcial Paper of tlie
University of Nebraska
WAN G. BEEDE Editor
LEONARD V. KLINE. .. .Mng. Editor
FERN NOBLE Associate Editor
KATHARINE NEWBRANCH
Associate Editor
ARNOLD WILKEN.. Associate Editor
DWIGIIT THOMAS. . .Sporting Editor
GEORGE DRIVER. .Business Manager
MERRILL VANDERFOOL.
Asst. Bus. Mgr,
Reportorial Staff
Harriet Ashbrook, Eleanore Fogg,
Carolyn Reed, Edna Rohrs, Ruth Sny
der, Gaylord Davis, R. A. Ellsworth,
J. Landale, George Newton. '
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Entered at the postofTlce at Lincoln,
Nebraska, as second-class mall matter
umler the act of Congress of March 3,
1S79.
This year there is another slogan
for University students to remember
as the holiday season approaches be
sides "Do your Christmas shopping
early." "Get ready now to send
something to Cornhusker soldiers," is
a reminder of another kind of shop
ping we have to do. Through the
services of the faculty and student
patriotic leagues, the University will
send a Christmas box to every Ne
braska soldier whose name is known.
This is the time to help in planning
what the box shall contain, and now,
before you are in the midst of the
rush i of Christmas shopping, is the
time to see that no soldier friend of
yours is forgotten. See to it that his
name is handed in to a member of
the league, or to The Nebraskan, in
which case he will be assured of a
Christmas box and the University pa
per, too.
Now that the first American casu
alty lists have been published we
can understand better han we did
before the meaning of &uch terms as
"fatherless children of France" and
"starving mothers." These are not
the inventions of the yellow journal
ists. They are facts; that's the ter
rible part of it all. America will
never have, we know, starving
mothers and children of soldiers.
Francp. nnr exhausted allv. however.
has had and will continue to have
some 150,000 of them. Now that our
understanding of what war conditions
really are is daily becoming more
poignant it is clearly our duty to heed
the plea that comes to us to America
of alf the world to help the orphans
of France. If you do not feel able
yourself to care for a soldier's or
phan, or contribute directly to its
care, you can at least change the or
dinary channels of your amusement
this evening and attend the play, "The
Piper," at the Temple theatre, the
proceeds of which will go to this fund.
Michigan cheerleaders last Satur
day organized the unsportsmanlike
impulses of the crowd by leading them
in a pandemonium of noise when Ne
braska was trying to advance the ball
on the offense and hushing the mob
to a whisper when the Wolverine
quarterback was giving the signals.
Nebraskans who saw this violation of
all ethics of the sportsman were
roused to heated anger and denounced
it with unreserved vehemence. But
have we really the right? It seems
to The Nebraskan that the Michigan
case was more evident because it re
ceived something like official sanction
from the cheerleaders. But, although
there is no especial attempt upon the
part of Nebraska rooters to drown out
the voice of the enemy quarterback,
there surely is not as much anxiety
shown that bis signals be heard as
when the Cornhusker general is in
action. Are we not also quilty of poor
sportsmanship when we discriminate
against the visiting team, even though
that discrimination be involuntary?
The Nebraskan sincerely believes
that such organized hooting as Mich
igan did last Saturday would be an
impossibility upon Nebraska field, but
it would ask that Cornhusker rooters
think also of the enemy whea, in the
stretches of excitement, they unin
tentionally bother the opposing team
with their exhortations to the players
on the field.
The attitude that the freshmen and
sophomore leaders have taken toward
the foolish customs of bygone col
lege days, when the first few months
of a freshman'8 life were a constant
fight for the right of existence, marks
a pleasing forward step. It has been
several years since a freshman class
has been guilty of kidnapping sopho
mores, or starting midnight scraps,
but there was last year some hinting
rumors that an attempt would be
made to "bag" the second-year presi
dent, and the intervention of the
executive dean was required to
smother it. Of course it is right that
there should be a healthy rivalry be
tween the two classes. The one fact
that it is the best means of building
up a spirit and organization in the
incoming class is sufficient cause for
the development of the right kind of
rivalry. But the Olympics a truly
Nebraska tradition have been de
vised for the express purpose of de
ciding this rivalry and-no other im
promptu battles are called for. The
Nebraskan then, believes that the
leaders of the freshmen and sopho
more classes of this year are seeing
clearly and that their voluntary dis
avowal of "kid" escapades in connec
tion with this year's Olympics is to
be commended. This is a year when
we ntod to cling tenaciously to every
one of Nebraska's wholesome tradi
tions, but it is also a year when it
will be particularly appropriate to dis
card some of the childish follies that
have survived the hazing age.
NOTE. University of Nebraska stu
dents learned last fall of the ter
rible fate of the soldier in the prison
camps of Europe. Winter is coming
again; the long, cold months when
the eternai monotony of the prison
ers' life is the least bearable. The
American society for the relief of
war prisoners publishes the follow
ing strange appeal to remind us that
the time has come again for us to
help relieve the frightful emptiness
in the lives of 6.000,000 soldiers,
among whom there will soon be
numbered men of America.
WAR WORK
Here are a few of the staggering
figures from the world war:
53,000,000 called to the colors.
5,000,000 killed.
6,000,000 prisoners of war.
5,000,000 on hospital beds, costing
the nations $140,000,000 a day or $100,
000 a minute.
Do we realize what is going on not
so very many hundred miles away?
The time has come when we need to
be educated to a fuller extent concern
ing the magnitude of the great war
across the water. Think what such
figures mean in terms of human life.
The Allies and German-Austrians are
fighting for their very existence like
dogs in a street fight. And it is to this
place, this awful scene of carnage and
bloody battle that America is sending
her men. America must send her men
if the war is to be won.
Consider those 6,000,000 prisoners
of war, many of whom have been
there for over three years. Consid
erable numbers of college professors
and students were among those cap
tured in the early drives' across Eu
rope. These pFisoners are kept in
great stockades, surrounded by
barbed wire and guarded with ma
chine guns. The men are housed in
long wooden sheds, many of them
without any warmth except from the
men's bodies. One American who es
caped from the German prison at
Lubeck last week said they were al
lowed one pail of coal every twenty
four hours to heat their shed; that
there was slow starvation everywhere
for they got only a little black bread
and turnip soup three times a day;
that the men dug up dandelions along
the road when they were marched to
work and ate them raw; that if it
were not for the little food packages
sent them by the British Red Cross
they would have died of starvation.
Many of the prisoners have nothing
to do; the inactivity means mental
degeneracy and an awful rate of in
sanity. The Y. M. C. A. in the va
rious prison camps furnishes reading
and writing materials, music, study
classes, a warm room and sometimes
ertra food.
Without the Y. M. C. A. men at the
front, life would be a sorry one in
deed for the soldiers. Few people
realize the real significance of the na
tional war work now being carried on
in Europe and America. It is a work
that should command our utmost re-
epect and our hearty support. Daily
Illinl.
EQUAL SUFFRAGhlLEAGUE
PLEDGES AID IN WAR
(Continued from page one)
and un patriotic all similar sensational
demonstrations which tend to em
harass, the government and "to give
aid and comfort to the enemy."
Furthermore, Be it resolved that the
Nebraska College Equal Suffrage
league hereby unites in pledging
whole-hearted support and loyal back
ing to our President and to the gov
ernment of the United States of Amer
ica and that a copy of these resolu
tions be forwarded to our chief execu
tive. Committee on resolutions,
ALICE HOWELL.
LAURA PFEIFFER.
SARKA B. HRBKOVA. Chairman.
National Society Not Militant
Militant suffrage is in America no
way connected with the national suf
frage association. Mrs. Barkley, pres
ident of the Nebraska Suffrage asso
ciation asserted. The militant suf
fragists, she said, represent less than
one per cent of American workers for
suffrage. They are seeking purely tor
publicity. If the government would
pass a law that newspapers could not
publish what they do, the militants,
she said, "would go quietly home and
engage in some sort of war relief
work."
"There is absolutely no use for
militant methods," Mrs. Barkley con
tinued.. "Every true suffragist will
now give her full services unqualified
ly to the government.
"I believe we are all growing away
from selfish, personal class spirit,"
Chancellor Avery said. "I believe that
woman suffrage has made more ad
vances through unselfish efforts than
through militarism."
"These women who have hampered
the president, women whose point of
view is a very narrow one, it seems
they must be allies of those who, as
we know well, are only too good at
intrigue. Let these women who are
stirring up so much trouble join the
I. W. W.'s, the pacificists, and the
huns, where they belong," she aserted.
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