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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 11, 1917)
THE DAILY NEBRASKAN Official Taper of the University of Nebraska IVAN G. BEEDE Editor LEONARD W. KLINE Mug. Editor FERN NOBLE Associate Editor KATHARINE NEWBRANCIT Associate Editor ARNOLD WILKEN. .Associate Editor DWIGHT THOMAS.. Sporting Editor GEORGE DRIVER. .Business Manager Reportorial Staff Harriet Ashbrook, Eleanor Fogg, Carolyn Reed, Edna Rohrs. Nellie Schwab, Ruth Snyder, Gaylord Davis, J. Landale, 'Lyman Meade, George Newton. Office News Tlasenient University Hall HusineHS, ltasenient Administration mag. Telephone News, I,-S41fi linslness. rt-25!7 Mechanical Department. B-3143 Published every day during the college year except Saturday and Sunday. Subscription price, per semester, $1. Kntered at the postoffice at Lincoln, Nebraska, bh second-class mall matter under the act of Congress of JVIarch 3, 1879. Only fourteen more letter-writing days until Christmas. This week every student should make a list of every Cornhusker soldier he knows not only his chums, but his acquaint ances and should send them next week a Christmas letter. This is to be considered much more in the light of a duty than is the customary re membrance of cousin and uncle and aunt. Our good relatives, most of them, will have a cheery fire, a cozy dinner, and a Christmas tree, to re mind them that the world still hopes that some day there shall be peace on earth, good will toward men. Bat Sammy Jones, in the harness of war and close to the grim job that must be done to bring to the earth this peace and good will, has nothing to remind him that hope is burning in other hearts besides his own stout one. Then surely he has a letter com ing from every one of us; a letter optimistically brief, but filled with Christmas cheer, and expressing a wee bit of our pride in him. Nebraska co-eds, who have been giving a fair part of their time to sew ing for the Red Cross, are now asked to "do double time" in a final drive to complete Lincoln's Jallotment of bandages for the hospitals in France. Distressing news is coming across the sea that the supply of bandages at some of the points behind the line is completely exhausted, and that, for lack of proper materials for dressing wounds, Red Cross surgens are com pelled to use newspapers to close the wounds of soldiers. This is the con dition of affairs which 'demands that the bandages Nebraska had planned to make more leisurely during the winter must be produced immediately and sent to relieve the situation, and calls upon .University women to de vote more than their accustomed time to the work. The urgency of the sit uation is evident, and that is now, as it has been in the past, all that is necessary to bring from Nelftaska 'o eds the necessary sacrifice. In this case it will be sacrificing an evening date or an hour's extra sleep in the morning. It will not be much it would matter little anyway, the size of the task but whatever it is, they will do it, and do It gladly, for that is the way Nebraska women, like Ne braska men, respond to the call of their country. The If 17 crop of freshmen has reached the "cussing" stage. Not that every new student that came up this fall was lacking in this branch of knowledge some of them were profi cient enough to earn Bachelor of Pro fanity degrees without further study. But several hundred others were, when they first began to adjust them selves to their college environment, relatively clean-mouthed, thanks to an early-impressed sense of propriety. It Is these who are fast learning the lengthy vocabulary of the circus-hand and the carnival rustler and are achieving a glib and sang-froid volu bility in its use. They find that it is Just the thing. Their upperclassman roommate swears at everything; In fact, he expresses all the range of human emotion joy, sorrow, rage, contemplation and repentence in a strikingly expressive, if garish, tongue. They hear profanity whis pered, shouted and sung; and they look upon it as a necessary accessory ,to any great amount of learning or prestige. What they do not know, and what their upperclassman room mate does not tell them for ho prob ably has forgotten is that the upper , ' THE DAILY classman himself acquired his tasto for profanity because he, too, thought it was one of the accomplishments of a college man. It is a sad fact that the owners of the most dazzling and original vocabularies would sell them for a song upon the one condition that they were to forever forsake the tip of the tongue. Freshmen should be advised of this fact; otherwise they will acquire, like the most of us, a habit that does not really become a gentleman not even a Kentucky gen tleman and adds little weight to one's authority. It is hardly likely that any Judge, human or divine, will pronounce a life sentence for the sin of voluble vulgarity, for it is not a question of morality; it is a matter of good taste, of mental and moral clean liness. EXCHANGE EDITORIALS GERMANY'S" BEST BET" (Minneapolis Tribune) Germany's great weapon today is intrigue. She has gained no notable advantage by force of arms alone since the defeat of the Roumanian armies. The temporary success in Italy was due to the successful dis semination of clever falsehoods among the ignorant and impression able and unsophisticated Italian sol diery. They were fooled by reports skillfully spread among them of dis asters at home and perils to their families and with the idea that their allies had deserted them. It was only after the false impression thus created had been eradicated from their minds that the Italian soldiers, who are usually good fighters, were able to rally and check the advance of the enemy. This, however,, they have done successfully without help, unless it be true that troops have been withdrawn from the Italian front to meet the pressure on the western. Germany has employed intrigued so skillfully in Russia as to put Russia out of the war and bring about the proposals for a separate peace. Whether the element in control, from which peace proposals have emanated, will be able to maintain itself or not, the diligent spread of the idea of non-resistance and the fraternizing between the troops of the contending nations has given Ger many at least temporary control of the Russian situation. Bulgaria and Turkey are in the central alliance as the result of In trigue with Ferdinand and with the young men's party of Turkey. Ap parently that same influence has been at work in Sweden; for, altho the great majority of the people of that country are democratic in spirit and in sympathy with the allies, the of ficial class and the king are under German influence and seeking to turn the Scandinavian union in the inter est of Germany. There are also persistent reports of et'iorts being made by German emis saries in Switzerland to corrupt the sentiment of that country and. if possible, either bring Switzerland into the war or effect a passage for Ger man troops thru that country. German agents are busy in Mexico, in South America, in Canada, in our own country and wherever they have any hope of accomplishing anything, seeking to plant dissention and sedi tion among the people of the nations with which Germany is at war and to stir up sentiment among the neu trals in her own favor. This is the most difficult aspect of the situation. Germany is no longer dominant in man-power or fighting ability and must rely in large part upon the weakening of her ene mies thru the use of various forms of intrigue in which she is so emi nently successful. Upon this ground she must be met in the future. But how? Perhaps the general council in Paris may find a way. WHAT SHALL HE STUDY? (Collier's Weekly) Writes a young man from Chicago: "1 am a student in my fourth year of high school, and am eighteen. I propose to Etudy further and to be come a journalist. Please advise me about my course and especially about studying languages. " Now, we don't like to give people advice, any more than we like to take theirs. It seems much safer to advise a million subscribers In a general way than to adive one reader in a specific way. However, we do try to answer young correspondents. Here goes: Elect plenty of science. Science wins J wars and crowns peace, ana most journalists are very nearly ig norant of very nearly every science. Get ahead ' of them there! Your future competitors will prob ably be specializing on history and literature while you are studying sci ence. In other words, they will be studying forms while you are master ing materials and methods. You ought to be ablo to distance yonr competitors if, while concentrating on the sciences in your classroom N EBR ASK and laboratory hours, you fit your readings of history and poetry and Action into your leisure hours. Read ing history Is not work. History and biography are the most fascinat ing subdivisions of romance. If you don't feel the truth of this simple statement, you wore probably never intended for a Journalist. You ask about languages. In our opinion, the languages to know after this war will be French, Spanish, and English. You should be able to read a'l three languages rather fluently. If, at your college, there is a Spanish club or a Cercle Francais or a cos mopolitan club, join it (or them) for the sake of the practice in conversa tion. That practice and companion ship are likely to be worth more to you than helping to edit the college literary paper or the college dally would be. It will be useful, no doubt, if you can speak and write Spanish and French, besides reading them. One advantage of your learning to speak, read, and write English Is that you will probably be cured thereby of your present desire to go into journalism. And never forget during your college studies that a good journalist is invariably a human heme: he must be a man who makes ncnunintance easily, and he is for tunate also if he knows how to make and hold friends. In becoming some thing of a scientist, don't become a machine! In everv great or even respectable university there are certain teachers who can inspire a young man and can kindle ideas in him and draw out the fine wire of his Intelligence. We sat under several teachers like that: the first of them was a yellow little man who smoked too many cigarettes but made Cyrus and Xeno- phon and the heroes of Homer real men for us and not just excuses for learning the Greek verbs and prosody and what the yellow little man canea in his hnnterine way "the Gospel ac cording to Goodwin." (Dr. Goodwin was the author of the Greek grammar the yellow man prescribed.) Then there wa sa certain Shakesperian with a white beard; he smoked long black clears instead of cigarettes and read detective stories by way of re laxation from philology. And tne Kentucky geologist who spent his evenings writing the history of his state or explaining the duties of the citizen or perhaps composing an epic in Elizabethan blank verse, partly be cause he liked to spend evenings that way, and partly to disprove Dar win's notions obout the brain of a scientist drying up so far as the appreciation ana creation oi ueamy go. To hear the geologist tolk about volcanoes and cleavages was, perhaps, not so very important much of what he told about volcanoes could be found in black and white in books on a shelf of the college library but to hear the Kentucky geologist talk on any theme at all was very important indeed: for he had the spark. Go to the college, if you cannot go to the war, and study what you will some one else's opinion is just as good as ours. But this we do insist upon: men, not subjects, make real education. Waffles and Coffee 15c HENDRY'S CAFE 136 North Eleventh phone B-1589 ' Lincoln, Neb. DeVilmar-Schaefer Studios Voice Opera Violin Orchestral Coaching Instruction Equal to Paris 1415 O St. (Budd's). Phones L-8183 F-2571 Special Attention to University Students S GOOD CLEANING SERVICE Send Your Work to LINCOLN. 3 Cleaning & Dye Works j 326 So. 11th Phone B-6575 MT-vmrv i!,l"ll'UPl-ir,!ii!l"!!l,!!'l " ; rr;t, I 'iU'li'ir Save Your Eyes Dr. W. H. 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