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THE TiAIT.V NEBRASKAN THE DAILY NEBRASKAN Official raper of the University of Nebraska LEONARD W. KLINE Kditor ARNOLD A. WILKEN...Mng. Editor KATHARINE NE WBRANCH . . . . Ass't. Editor GAYLORD DAVIS News Editor LAURENCE SLATER. . .News Editor ADELAIDE ELAM Society Editor WILMA WINTER Feature Editor WILLIAM CAMPEN.. Military Editor FRANK D. PATTY Bus. Manager GLEN H. GARDNER.. Asst. Bus. Mgr. Offices I News Basement University Hall Business. Basement Admn. Building Night Office, Rlghter Composition Co B6696 and B6697 Telephones News and Edltorlat B2816 Business Night, all Departments B669G Published every day during the col leges year except Saturday and Sun day. Subscription price, per semester, 1. "Entered at the postoffice at Lincoln, Nebraska, as second-class mail matter under the act of Congress of March 3, 1879. STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP, Management. Circulation, Etc., Required Bv che Act of CongreM of Auguit 24. 1912, Of The Dallv NebraBkan, publl8hMl five times per week at Lincoln, Nebraska for October 1. 1918. State of Nebraska. County of Lancaster. Before me, a Notary Public, in and for the state and county aforesaid, personally Appeared Frank D. Fatty, who. havlnR been dulv sworn according to lnw, de poses and savg that he l the Business ManaKer of The Dally Nebraskan. and that the fullowlnR Is, to the best of his knowledge and belief, a true statement of the ownership, management (and If a dally paper, the circulation), etc.. of the aforesaid publication for the date shown in the above caption, required by the Act of August 24. 1912, embodied in section 443, Postal Laws and Regulations, printed on the reverse of this form, to-wit: 1. That the names and addresses of the publisher, editor, managing editor, and business managers are: Publisher. University of Nebraska. Editor. Leonard W. Kline, Station A, Lincoln, Nebr. I I t -.1 1 . 1 1 ' llnn I Station A, Lincoln, Nebr. Business Managers, Frank D. Patty and Glen Gardner, Station A, Lincoln, Nebr. 2. That the owners are: University of Nebraska, Station A, Lin coln, Nebr. J. That the known bondholders, mort gages, and other security holders owning or holding 1 per cent or more of total amount of bonds, mortgages, or other se curities are: None. 6. That the average number of copies of each issue of this publication sold or distributed, through the malls or other wise, to paid subscribers during the six months preceding the date shown above Is 1.000. (This information is required from daily publications only.) FRANK D. PATTY. Business Manager. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 28th dav of September, 1918. (Seal) MAX WESTERMANN. (My commission expires Aug. 4, 1921.) DAME RUMOR If one were to make an inspection of the numberless Iron Crosses pinned on the members of the Kaiser's forces be would probably find that the larg est and most richly engraved had been awarded to that Hun responsible for the treaty with Dame Rumor. The alliance with this famous disorganizer is undoubtedly listed by Wilhelm II among his most brilliant pieces of mil itary strategy. "The Daily German Lie" has ap peared generally throughout the al lied countries and, until under con trol, threatened to become one of the greatest hindrances of effective pros ecution of the war. Even today, one may bear rumors to the effect that Liberty Loan subscriptions never reach their goal; that American in ventors have been caught trying to escape to Germany with their inven tions or that certain regiments of Am- j erica n soldiers abroad had been an nihilated by the Hun forces. These and countless other "lies" tend to dls-' organize and hinder and should be branded wherever they appear. On the campus, a modified form of the disrupting influence has made its appearance in the form of the "per sistent rumor." Its origin may not be in Germany but its force for disorgan izing is Just as great. Students bear that members of the . S. A. T. C. will receive no pay; that no uniforms will be if-sued Until two ! months after the men are Inducted; j that men registered in the draft be fore September 12 can not become members of the training corps and a score of men begin to re-arrange their programs, withdraw from the Uni versity or enter some other branch of service. Other men, with les faith in the persistent rumor," go to head quarters and after waiting for an in terview with a lieutenant find the re port to be false. Time and trouble for both students and officers may be saved if published orders are care fully read and all other reports dis countenanced. At the suggestion of Captain Mac Ivor, The Dany Nebraskan will run a ! It's difficult to convince a man that column of Military Orders and Qacr-jhfs wife doesn't love him in the ame ies. Ear h order, officially Issued, will j old way as long as she continues to go be published in this column as it iijtLrough hi pocket. given out. In the Query column, un der the direction of Captain Maclvor. the Military Editor will answer all questions concerning military units on the campus. Those who have inquir ies to make are asked to address the Military Editor, The Dally Nebraskan, Station A. SCHOOL WITH FOCH In tho absence of any request from the committee on public information not to speculate on the subject, one may venture a speculation or two con cerning the location and curriculum of the Foch university for the training of American armies, also known as the Foch finishing school; this on the basis of such meager facts as have crept out in the public press. Our boys have been studying both with Halg and with the French, but of the former we know nothing in detail. The line from Nancy to the southern tip of Alsace is the great American frehhman class. There our troops have had their initiation of the trenches ever since our first contin gent went into the firing line near Baccarat. From there promotion has apparently been to the earliest exclu sive American sector, on the southern face of the Saint-Mihiel salient, where American troops had their first taste of the real thing when they lost and retook Seicheprey. From the "quiet" Lorraine-Alsace front must have come likewise the small detachments we heard of in Champagne and on the Chemfn des Dames whence they were withdrawn in time to escape the German blow of last May and the larger contingent which helped Mr. James Hopper of Collier's take Can tigny last spring. Owing to the exigencies of war time,' the Junior and senior classes and postgraduate courses for the Ameri can army seem to have been consoli dated into one. Thus it would appear that from their sophomore occupa tions on the Saint-Mihiel salient our troops were brought up for full man's size duty along the Marne in the crit ical days when Ludendorff was rap idly moving south preparatory to mov ing north. There, between the Marne and the Aisne, education and life have been blended closely in the bitter struggles from Chateau-Thierry to the Forest of Saint-Gobian under Mangin as chief faculty adviser. Into Mangin's hands our soldiers from the Lorraine front pass for practical use, and from him, we may assume, some of them go back to take their fullfledged stand on the Lorraine front once more, a nucleus and a cement for the Ameri can field army that is soon to walk along in the general direction of Bert lin. Where the American contingents come from that bob up casually on the British front, now in front of Albert,! now around Ypres, we cannot speak with assurance. They may be some of Petain's graduates, they may have had their schooling entirely under a British schoolmaster. But whether on the French front or the British front, the pedagogic method pursued, after the first few months, seems to be the one popularized by the late Mr. Squeers. Foch has been teaching the Americans how to defeat the Ger mans by sending them to defeat the Germans. It is an admirably simple method peculiarly adapted to such willing learners as we have sent over. Very Uttle ink has been spilt by the j Americans in filling up their copy books, very little laboratory apparat us has been smashed in the course of their first steps in the chemistry of victory. It was the good fortune of the Yankee undergraduates to be invited to participate in the Foch experi ment of July 18, which changed the aspect of the war. Americans have taken part with Mangin in the grim research directed again Laon and the itey of the entire Cerman position When the British in the middle of August were held up before Morlan court on the Somme, the Americans appeared. When Voormezeele in Bel glum was to be taken as the first step toward the reconquest of the Wytscoaete Ridge, the Americans were there In September. Where else they will appear it is unsafe to pre dict at the moment of writing. Of them a French general has happily quoted from an old friend of college days. Corneille's "Cid": "Et pour son coup d'essai il fait tin coup de maitre." ("His apprentice stroke was a matter j stroke...) Collier's. EX NEBRASKAN EDITOR OF INTERESTING BOOK "Our National Forests" Is the title of a book Just off the press of Mac millan Company. The author, a form er Nebraska man. Richard H. W. Boerker. Ph. d., 'IS. i well known authority on forestry. His book gives a short account of the work of the U. S. forest service on the National Forests of the went and, while of In terest to foresters and conservation ists in general. Is written primarily for the Information of the layman. It is the first book so far published covering this vital subject. It answers such question as: Why the National Forests were created; what natural resources are found within their bor ders; how the forests are organized and administered; why and how they are protected from forest fires and other dangers; and how the vast re sources are made useful to the peo ple. The book especially emphasizes the relation of forests to the welfare of humanity; and how forests enter into the daily life of the people. The National Forests are shown to be a great heritage, of vital Import to both the state and the na tion, which we must hand down from generation to generation. Their prop er care, protection and development are therefore most essential to the life, liberty and progress of our coun try. About eighty half-tone illustrations, reproduced from original photographs, are used to illuminate the text. UNI HOSPITAL CARES FOR THOUSAND PATIENTS Omaha Institute Provides for Cases of Many Differen Kinds Since September 3, 1917, more than 1,000 cases have been taken to the University hospital in Omaha, which is operating in connection with the University of Nebraska College of Medicine. Among this number were persons from all parts of the state, with a variety of ail ments. County commissioners and physicians generally have cooperated to the end that sick persons, without sufficient means for the employment of a physician or surgeon, may be sent to the University hospital. Patients, residents of Nebraska, are received into the University hospital upon recommendation of any legally qualified physician, the appli cation being countersigned by a county official. The cost of the operation is borne by a general ap propriation made at the biennial ses sion of the legislature. However, if the patient has relatives, a charge of ' $1.25 a day is made. This is less than one-half the actual cost for a patient per day. Drafted men with minor surgical defects, and families or soiaiers dependent wholly upon civilian relief, have been received as patients into this hospital. Victims of the Crofton, Nebr., cyclone were also cared for. Several courses in nursing are provided in connection wilh the hos- pital. In addition to the regular three-year course in nursing, a tva year combined collegiate and profes sional course leading to the degree of bachelor of science as well as to the degree of graduate of nursing, is of fered. A post graduate course and and affiliated three-year course is offered to nurses who have had two years training elsewhere. Two hun dred and fifty-one applications for admission to the school have been received the last year. Forty stu dent nurses are now enrolled. WORLD'S HOTTEST PLACES The Sahara desert, between paral lels 10 and 0, is considered to be the hottest place in the world, but Hyper abad, in Sid desert in India, is even hotter. In summer months it is said be temperature there often rises above 125 degrees in the shade. STEAM ENGINE HELPED It is an historic fact that the devel- proent of the steam engine enabled jEngland to stand the cost of the wars jwlth Napoleen and speedily enjoy a jnore widespread proeperity than the country had ever before known. Dancing at Antelope Tark every night, except Susdzys. zt-t 1 5 S Yii v v. r A V, I --Z f 2J' f -ft and Mr. The marriage of Miss Ruth Sprague and Clarence Hinds, which occurred at Niagara Falls early in August, came somewhat as a surprise to their many University friends. Mrs. Hinds was a student at the University last year Mr. Co-Op Hoof! Have Drawing Instruments coming. It you want to be sure of getting a set some early. We have been promised priority shipments for S. A. T. C. students. Come in and place your order. We handle Eugene Dietzgen Instruments. CO-OP BOOK STORE 318 NORTH 11th TRADE AT im (hi Cor I21h. EXCLUSIVE LADIES OUTFITTERS THE DAILY NEBRASKAN has an Opportunity for any Student who can qualify for the position of SPOTS Newspaper experience or study necessary. Upperclassman preferred. Clarence Hinda and a member of Delta Gamma soror ity. Mr. Hinds graduated with toe 1918 class and was a member of Alpha Theta Chi fraternity. At present Mr. Hinds is overseas doing special gov ernment work. Mrs. Hinds is assist ing in Professor Reeds' office. Store EDITOR