THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
Ofllclul 1'npcr of the
Unlvernlty of NebrnBka
IVAN Q. BEEDK Editor
LEONARD VV. KLINE. .. .Mng. Editor
FERN NOBLE, Associate Editor
KATHARINE NEWBRANCII
Associate Editor
ARNOLD WILKEN. .Associate Editor
DWIGIIT THOMAS. .Sporting Editor
GEORGE DRIVER. .Business Manager
MERRILL VANDERrOOL
As"8t. Bus. Mgr
Reportortal Staff
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Nebraska, as second-class mull matter
under the act of Congress of March 3
1879.
Conspicuously lacking in praise for
the work of the Nebraska football
team against Syracuse was the com
ment of the sports writers of The
Omaha World-Herald and The Omaha
Bee, whose criticism of Cornhusker
athletics found expression 4n thrusts
at the Nebraska coaching staff. This
seems to be a chronic habit of Omaha
newspapermen, for it has not only
been' practised during the Stewart
regime; In the first year or two of
"Jumbo" Stiehm's administration The
Bee led a virulent attack against the
Nebraska coach. While some of the
criticism the Omaha writers have of
fered is Justified, the larger part of
it is biased, exaggerated, and unfair.
It. is. part, apparently, of a harmful
policy to "knock" Nebraska football
because none of the varsity games can
be scheduled in the metropolis.
Are faculty members interested in
the growth of the University through
the development of wholesome stu
dent tradition? If they are, they will
lend the Varsity banquet their sup
port. The dinner will be an experi
ment, to be sure, but it can be a suc
cessful experiement. It will attempt
to review the football season and the
present college semester in caricature
and to furnish at least one solid, con
structive speech a modest beginning
for future growth to build upon. It
should not be confused with the Corn
husker banquet, for, although this din
ner replaces the old affair, the atmos
phere of the two is entirely different.
Rowdyism has no place in the concep
tion of the Varsity banquet. To bring
out the full possibilities of such a
thing the support of the faculty as
well as student body is necessary, and
The Nebraskan hopes that professors
will realize their responsibility.
America will welcome the forth
coming declaration of war with Aus
tria. She can then go about the task
of squelching the kaiser without hav
ing one arm tied behind her by a tech
nical state of peace. The two coun
tries have really been at war ever
since hostilities against Germany be
gan, for Austria and Prussia are linked
as one; they will rise or fall together
The formal declaration will free Amer
ica from restraining her aggressive ac
tivities to the French front alone she
can now send troops to Italy and help
drive the Austro-German vandals back
across the Alps. But there is sure to
develop soon further realization that
America Is hampered because she can
not strike a blow against Turkey and
Bulgaria, both as blackly guilty before
the world as the central powers.
America declared war against Ger
many to crush autocracy, and chose
Prussia as the dominant evil genius
threatening the cause of democracy.
But in order to reach Germany she
must sooner or later recognize offici
ally that she is fighting also all those
powers who have made common war
with Germany upon those ideals and
practices for which America stands.
Before the struggle is over, America
must add Turkey and Bulgaria to her
list of enemies, and it will promote the
usefulness of American arms if this
can be done before the second session
of congress is ended.
EFFECT OF WAR ON SPORTS
(By Sol Metzger)
The effect of this war upon sports
and upon national physical fitness can
not but be tremendous and far-reaching.
Indeed our present athletic su
premacy unfortunate in that it in
cludes but a few of us was the direct
result of the Civil war.
This has hammered the need of
It
physical fitness Into us. We now
recognize both Its need and benefit In
other than Durely military ways. Our
problem Is to bring about a more uni
versal system of physical training.
Even our family physician surprised
me some time ago when examining
the country boys drafted in our- little
community by telling me he now saw
absolutely the need of physical edu
cation in our public schools. This is
a farming community.
Our educational institutions could
do much toward a national physical
efficiency by establishing a physical
standard for entrance, Just as do our
service schools, but they will not do
so. Indeed, and but for the under
graduate, hat small percentage of stu
dents who are benefitted by intercol
legiate athletics would never have had
physical training. How can we reach
this goal?
Compulsory physical training in our
public schools, such as my family doc
tor advocates, would do much to solve
the problem, but this is a long ways
off. We must work, for the present,
along other lines. This means must
afford an appeal to all.
We possess but two ways profes
sional and amateur sport. Neither
has as yet appealed to all citizens,
though the latter has made amazing
and all but unnoticed advances.
Amateur sport and the spirit of
amateurism which is really back of
professional sport, for that matter
seems to be the way we win ionow
after this war to cure our physical in
efficiency or to increase our physical
fficiency, if you prefer it that way.
holds an appeal for all ages and
classes in that it fulfills our inherent
desire for exercise, recreation and
amusement all human needs.
Children seek competitive games,
ouths practice them in their most
igorous forms football, baseball and
ennis and the tired old man now
casts aside his doctor who has
oomed him and finds in golf a game
which gives "pep" to his added years.
This is all due to the spirit of ama
teurism which is nothing more than
the zest of competition and the Joy
from resulting good health which
has done so much to promote health,
prevent disease and prolong life. It
s the factor which is back of the fact
that we are demanding fewer doctors
than ever before, wail though we do
about the decrease in numbers in our
emdical schools. In short we are
gradually recognizing the fact that
our amateur sport is doing more for
our national physical well being than
all the cures of all the doctors in all
Christendom.
The government is wisely, through
the war department's commission on
training camp activities, incorporating
this whole idea in Its armies. The
civilian aides who are taking up this
work are encountering a new field, to
be sure, but the games they will es
tablish, the physical training through
sports they will head, goes well be
yond the purpose of physical educa
tion as we know it. It seeks also to
lighten the mental burden of those
Americans noblest of all who have
the heart, soul and courage to combat
that most odious disease which ever
crept into human brain Prussianized
kultur.
When this war is over sport in
America will come into its own. We
will not discard professional sport or
our intensive intercollegiate sport, as
some advocate. Each has a place and
a use. But we will further amateur
sport as never before. Our big men,
the leaders in business and profes
sional lines, already recognize the
benefit to all from sport, especially by
means of golf. The well-to-do have
practically solved their physical wel
fare problems by this means. But the
job cut out for us is to place the bene
fits of physical training within reach
of the poorer classes. Big corpora
tions were attacking this problem
when the war came. I personally had
three cases of this kind called to my
attention. Here is the broad field we
must work in, the broad field the need
of which has been so clearly pointed
out to us by the war.
(Cpyright, 1917, by Sol Metzger.)
former men's banquets and brought a
bad name to the University, will not
be tolerated Friday evening. The
Varsity banquet will attempt to fur
nish something worth whilo for Btu
dents to see and hear without bring
ing in outside professional talent, and
It does not intend to hark back to for
mer affairs in any particular.
Every purchaser of a ticket today
and tomorrow tacitly assents, when
he buys the card, to fall in line with
the spirit of the new banquet anu to
do his part to see that the first is a
success. This means that he agrees
to conduct himself as a gentleman
Gigantic Plot Against Annual Girls'
Party Uncovered By Co-Ed Sleuth
POLAND AND IRELAND
COMPARED BY DR. G. JONES
(Continued from page one.)
VARSITY BANQUET TICKETS
TO GO ON SALE TODAY
(Continued from page one)
the affair, and so $1 will be charged
for tickets, but the profits, if any, will
be donated to some war wrok.
Original Program Planned
Although in external pretensions the
banquet will confirm with the eco
nomic spirit of the time, its program
will be entirely original and attractive.
It will carry out the idea of the an
nual gridiron dinners of Washington,
with the football team and prominent
students as the victims of caricature.
Following this program, two speeches,
one devoted to an appreciation of the
football team and the other suggesting
some constructive University work
will then be given.
The banquet will be an all-University
men's affair, and both faculty
members and students are expected to
attend. Chancellor Avery has been
asked to sit at the head of the banquet
table.
No Rowdyism
Rowdyism, which has characterized
Ireland aro Irish universities, those in
Poland are German. To enter a uni
versity in Ireland, a person must pass
an examination in Irish."
Ireland Land Laws Bad
Dr. Jones admitted tHat the land
laws in Ireland were very bad. "Yet,"
he said, "they were the same laws as
England had in her own country and
that the United States still has.
"The trouble was," he explained,
"that the Irish people were very poor,
they had no rights, could be turned
out by the land owners, and had to
make their own improvements. Then
about 1846, during the time of the fam
ine, alien land owners came in, men
who had no sympathy with the Irish
people. In 1S70 this state of things
was changed by new laws which have
proved successful. I
"Germany, on the other hand, sent
Germans into Poland to Germanize
Poland. About all this act succeeded
in doing," Dr. Jones said, "was in unit
ing the Polish aristocracy ana peas
ants."
"Please, will you put it in the pa
per, and ask that the person who took
the beautiful camouflougo poster, ad
vertising the girls' Cornhusker party,
from the door of the Armory, return It
at once?
"No questions will be asked and the
poster will bo given back after the
party Friday night."
The above plea was tearfully made
in the Rag otlio last evening by the
chairman of the party publicity committee.
It seems that Dwight Klmh, fiimou,
Awgwan cartoonist, nnintn.i ...."
ficene, foretelling what would uo at ff 1
girls' annual party this Frldav ?
tilnir Tin nnn.. I.. '
mill,, hid jHon-i i gone,
it is a mystery.
Who took
Some say the picture wus taken bv
a group of girls who wished to cony
the costume. But the most popular
opinion seems to be, that the poster
was taken by a shy admirer of Ne
braska's famous artist.
SMALLPOX QUARANTINE
3 ON CAMPUS LIFTED
(Continued from page one.)
pared with the official list of students
kept at the Registrar's offices and the
authorities will have a complete
record of all those not reporting be
fore Tuesday noon. The work is ex
pected to be finished by noon today.
Suspected Case in Museum
A suspected case was discovered
Monday in the geology department
and the Museum was closed Wednes
day morning and fumigated, to safe
guard against the possibility of a
spread of the disease from this source.
Dr. Lyman has placed two students
having the early symptoms of small
pox, into isolated quarters in their
homes and is awaiting further devel
opments. Many Lincoln teachers taking spe
cial work and who are upon the
campus but a few hours a week will be
inspected and issued statements cer
tifying to that effect, even though
there there is not a single case of
smallpox in all the city schools. Dr.
Lyman also requested all visitors upon
the campus to report for inspection.
The effect of the vaccination has be
gun to be felt by many who were treat
ed before Thanksgiving recess. A
period of seven days is required in
most cases before the vaccine begins
to have its effect.
If no more cases are contracted by
either students or others connected
with the University, all social func
tions will take place as scheduled.
Until further notice is given the
daily inspection for those who have
not been vaccinated will be as fol
lows: Dr. Clapp, G 206, 11 to 12 and 2 to 3
o'clock.
Dr. Hansen, S 202, 1 to 2.30 o'clock.
Dr. Lyman, Nebraska hall, 206, 2 to
i o'clock. '
It's so romantic if you see
Cheeks blushing like a rose.
Why can't they say the same, I ask,
About a wintry nose?
Minnesota Daily.
NUTS, HIGHBALLS AND BUMPS
AT THE ORPHEUM
Charles Wilson, who Is willing to
be advertised as the "nuttiest of the
nuts," sustains the reputation, admit
ting that It takes "some nereve" to at
tempt such a role, and Fern, Biglow
and Mehan, in a pantomime tumbling
act, called "Highballs and Bumps,"
spin and spring and roll over the furni
ture and floor in the most surprising
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MASTER'S THESIS ON VETO
POWER IN NEBRASKA NOW
HISTORICAL SOCIETY PAMPHLET
"The Exercise of the Veto Power In
Nebraska" by Knute Emil Carlson in
now among the pamphlets of the Ne
braska State Historical and Political
Science series at the Nebraska State
Historical society 1001113 a,nd the Leg
islative Reference bureau.
The article was presented by Mr.
Carlson as a master's thesis last June.
It discusses the history of the veto
power in the various state and tells
in detail of" the veto power in Ne
braska and how they have been exer
cised. Thirty-six states of which Ne
braska is one allow their governors to
veto items In a bill without vctoine
the whole bill.
Governor Izard was the first to use
the veto power in Nebraska when he
vetoed a prohibition bill on the ground
that a technical error in lino three
section six, made the bill Ineffective!
llilis may be vetoed for three general
reasons, because they aro defective,
because they are not constitutional or
because they aro not politic. On the
whole the power has been used very
conservatively by all of our execu
lives. At the end. of the thesis Mr. Carlson
has added a list of all the bills or
items vetoed in this state and his
source of information. .
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