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
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ARNOLD WILKEN. .Associate Editor
DWIGHT THOMAS.. Sporting Editor
GEORGE DRIVER. .Business Manager
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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.
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