NEBRA SKAK
THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
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Univri'Kity of Nebraska
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The last football rally of the year
will be held Monday evening from 7 to
8 o'clock. It was planned originally
for the regular Tuesday convocation
hour of neyt week but has given way
for the annual Thanksgiving program.
If Nebraskans ever did turn out for a
mass meeting, then this closing one
should find them there with hearty
lungs and an eager will. The rally
will be both a tribute to the team for
its victory over Kansas, which brought
Nebraska another Missouri valley
championship, and a council of war for
the final battle of the season with
Syracuse Thanksgiving day. It will
be a chance for students to show
proper appreciation of one of the I
greatest teams Nebraska ever had and
it will also be the only chance before
the day of the game to unite Corn
husker spirit for a victory over Syra
cuse. Let's make it the biggest rally
for the biggest battle of the year.
has been hearty and spontaneous,
while Nebraska students have done a
half-way job of it and have seemed dis
posed to let it go at that. Who wants
the University to stand alone as the
one which paid the least attention to
the call for financial support to keep
up the spirit of the nation's army?
Who of us that have assumed the serL
ous duty of continuing our education
in this time of stress care to have it
said that although Nebraska furnished
more men than any other western col
lege for the army, those who remained
behind did less to care for them than
the students of other institutions?
Nebraska still has the opportunity to
make good students will be asked
for this necessary sacrifice at the Uni
versity mass meeting Friday morning.
We have procrastinated too long now,
but we can at least make good in the
end. Let's do it.
Speaking of admonishments, think
of the turkey.
Either this luscious bird or one of
his near relatives has been haunting
the minds of students ever since No
vember came. Our thoughts are fleet
ing homeward in anticipation of the
approaching recess. Mother's cook
ing, the chance to stretch out, physi
cally and mentally? for a day or two of
rest, is luring us well nigh to distrac
tion. We know that there awaits us
a visit with the home folks and a
series of bountiful meals, with one
special feast the details of which are
tinglingly vivid. Of course there will
not be the extravagant overabundance
of the usual Thanksgiving dinner;
turkey may be abandoned for some
less pretentious fowl; but it will be
nevertheless a feast fit lor kings.
How many of us will sit down
snugly at our Thanksgiving table, un
fold our napkins with a joyful sigh and
fill our stomachs, without first making
provision for the Thanksgiving day of
the soldiers of the allies? Those who
do will be either surprisingly heedless
or sufficiently selfish. Our first thought
should be of our fighting forces on that
day; we have our domestic poor to
think of. but we have in addition the
army which must win the w ar and pre
vent further misery and suffering.
Our responsibility is an added one, and
one still more imperative than custom
ary charity. Before we eat our Thanks
giving dinners, which stand as a token
of appreciation for the bountiful kind
ness that the world has bestowed upon
us we must know in our hearts that
our soldiers have received from us
some sacrifice of material wealth for
their comfort and contentment.
"BALL 'EM OUT" TACTICS
It is regrettable that college stu
dents should be afflicted with a form
of pedagogy in some of their classes
that was long ago discarded in grade
schools and high schools throughout
the country. We believe that the de
partment of education will bear us
out when we say that it is rjuslion-
ble didactics for an instructor t
ingle out an individual student, and
the presence of the entir c'.oss.
well on his slovenliness, his dearth
of brains, and his poor chance of
passing the course. i
The university has a little group of j
Instructors who have won notoriety if j
not respect for their adroitness in
these "ball 'em out" methods. There j
are two or three instructors in the
college of liberal arts who have es
tablished a reign of fear over their
several classes. Students aver they
are often afraid to recite when they
know their lessons out of a dread
of getting barked at in sonorous tones
for a mispronounciation, or the like.
Here we have the methods of the
old New England school master who
thundered at his girl pupils because
the laws of convention would have
frowned on him had he flogged them
as the, pupils unfortunate enough to
be boys would have been flogged. If
it is an uncontrollable temper that
possesses our "ball 'em out" instruc
tors, they should seek a type of work i
draft which we the people Issued
against ourselves, acknowledging our
debt for the war; and they would not
be open to the accusation of being ir
redeemable currency, because they
would be instantly redeemable in any
product in the market, Including gold,
at current market prices. These drafts
would pass on the loss from tne in
dividual whose goods were taken to
the whole aggregate wealth of the
country. They would stop nowhere to
any one's loss and the burden of the
war would wholly disappear except in
the increased price of supplies dimin
ished by the war draft and this in
creased price would soon be leveled
by the increased production attracted
by the unmolested war profit. The
increased price could also be easily
offset entirely simply by increasing
the earning power of the people
through embargoes and high tariffs,
which would transfer from foreign
producers to domestic, the three bil
lion dollar order for products now go
ing abroad every year under our low
tariffs. England has done this with
great success. Ask your readers what
they think of It.
Yours truly.
R. A. BENEDICT.
COMING AT CONVOCATION
November 22. Professor W. F.
Dann, discussion of "The Jewels of
the Madonna," "Faust," "La Traviata."
November 26. Thanksgiving pro
gram. The governor's proclamation
will be read. Mrs. Raymond will have
charge of the music.
VESPERS
Ruth Snyder
Miss Fannie Drake, secretary of Uni
versity Y. W. C. A., spoke at Vespers
yesterday In the Y. W. C. A. rooms in
the Temple. Her subject was "Work
ing Faith." Dorothy Adamson presid
ed and Harriet Ramey sang.
"I suppose that every thinking per
son is a skeptic at some time," said
Miss Drake. "If we are to be real
college women we will have to use
our minds. We must not be satisfied
wth insufficient thinking."
"There are three classes of people
who ask questions, superficial evolu
tionists, naturalists and those who be
lieve in the theory of agnosticism."
The suDerficial evolutionists believe
in which their abnormality would in-1 in evoiution as a working theory both
jure fewer persons. A position n j in science and philosophy. It gives us
new ideas but it fails to work in phil-
some stockyards is one possibility
An institution in which it is as
sumed that students are mature
enough to make judgments and recog
nize at least the general aims of edu
cation is no place for the use of class
room tactics that have been aban
doned in the instruction of children
of the "marble playing" age, because
they too closely approximated the
Stone Age conception of social ethics
and fine arts. Daily Iowan.
THE FORUM
The Nebraskan can recall no previ
ous time when students were so guilty
of neglect of duty that they really
needed the hammer instead of the
hand to swing them fnto line behind
a worthy cause. But the hour is now
ripe for some one to give us a good
scolding. We have been shamefully
negligent so far In our response to the)
call for contributions to the Y. M. C.
A. war work fund. While other uni
versities have been responding as the
nation expects them to, we have fid
dled away the days of the campaign
and have raised so far but half of a
just apportionment of the state's sub
scription. Ohio State university raised
her quota shortly after the campaign
started and kept right on passing fif
teen hundred dollars beyond the mark
set, which was $20,000. Illinois uni
versity has subscribed her share of
$21,000 and is continuing the cam
paign with success. At every other
middle-western university the response
War Taxation
New York, Nov. 16. 1917.
Editor Nebraskan.
This is not a kick at the war. The
war has got to be fought out to the
bitter end and the kaiser and his mur
dering crew well and properly hanged
by the neck until they are all as dead
as some of the innocent Belgian girls
whom they, by proxy, have raped and
murdered. If we don't see to this, a
osophy. Evolution does not answer
all the questions and cannot account
for everything.
"By agnosticism, our knowledge is
limited by things we get through sci
ence, those which can be proven. We
all believe in spiritual values of life
and know more about our friends than
could be proven by sciences.
"Naturalists divide God and nature."
They are really dualists and believe
that life can proceed along on two
planes.
All these leave out the essential
things. We can't prove the biggest
things in life. We must first think
and the rest will follow.
NEW LIBRARY E00KS
The following new books have been
received at the library:
The Panama Canal and Commerce
just God will send the same to us I Johnson.
some day by the unconquered Hohen
zollern Huns. Our flag in this war
does not stand for pure altruism but
for enlightened selfishness and an in
vestment for safety in the future
against this jungle of man-eating tigers
which has broken loose over Europe
and will break loose over America
later, unless they are caged or killed
or a little of both.
But we ought not to tax the profits
out of production, or we ought not to
issue these billions of interest-paying
war bonds with their billions of annual
interest to be raised by crushing taxa
tion and their multi-billions of prin
cipal to be retired a little later. Re
pudiation is the only thing in sight
for such didoes as these.
But we do not need to tax the peo
ple directly or to issue war bonds to
carry on the war. We have pledged
our whole wealth to the job; let Uncle
Sam, who is merely our agent to
whom we have given a 6ight draft on
all our wealth, go out and take the
very things he needs for the war, mus
kets, shells, and what not, and com
pel the rest of us, in accordance with
the power we have placed in his hands
as our war manager, to contrbute to
the loss by giving sight drafts, in con
venient denominations from $1 up and
covering in the aggregate the current
market value, including the war profit,
of the stuff he takes here and there,
to those from whom he takes goods,
thus enabling such people to come
back to the market and be reimbursed
out of any goods there offered for sale,
up to the limit of these drafts, at cur
rent prices. The drafts on the whole
market thus issued to people who had
given up their goods should carry a
heavy penalty for dishonor, should run
to bearer forever after and be used
to the end of time or the republic as a
medium of exchange. They would not
be fiat currency, because they are
simply the substitutes of the general
Condition of Labor in American In
dustries Lauck-Sydenstribker.
The Caliph's Last Heritage Sir
Mark Sykes.
Human Nature Higgines.
Principles of American State Ad
ministration John Mathews.
The Slavs of the War Zone Bailey.
As It Is In England Osborne.
The English Drama in the Age of
Shakespeare Crelzenach.
Channels of English Literature
Dunn. The family Goddsell.
Arboreal Man F. Wood Jones.
Humor of Homer Butler.
An Frontier of France Severance.
History of Social Legislation in
Iowa Briggs.
Henry James Ford-Madox Huffer.
Modern Humanists Robertson.
China and the Manchus Giles.
Gymnastic Problems Bolin.
Growth of Music Colles.
The School Flndley.
High School and Class Management
Pollister.
The Offender Lewis.
Emanuel of Children of the Soil
Pontop-Pidan.
Handbook of the Library of Con
gress Small.
Addresses and Papers on Insurance
Potts.
Corona Mexicana Motezumas.
Panger Man Plot Unmasked Chera
dame. Tokens of the English Century
Longman.
Applied Sociology Fairchild.
Village Government in British India
Matthai.
Profits and Wages Kleene.
Distributive Justice Ryan.
Cotton as a World Power Sherer.
The Mystic Vision Fisher.
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