THE TiAIT.V NEBRASKAN
THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
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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.
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October 1. 1918.
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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.
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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.
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1918 class and was a member of Alpha
Theta Chi fraternity. At present Mr.
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ernment work. Mrs. Hinds is assist
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