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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 9, 1918)
t n e DAILY NEBR ASK AN . . . nnirrn FRESHMEN COEDS HIS rAi.lt: 1,1 till ! tU HOLD CONVCOATIOH - : Appreciation of "Bob" Burdcttc short. io.p" laika hu.i.ih nc Grows With the Years. tlvitlen and war work characterized , the program nt the frcsnman gins convocation In Art hall. Tuosaay. Sarah Ilottor presided. The ' Star Si angled Banner" was sung as an oj nirB number. Mrs-. J. 15. Lee gave a rourm'nute talk on cne, Ut)Wrt j it,wtlotto. better Liberty Ixvin. -Nothing matter." he , n(nvn' u, .v,Ktl nnd breadth of the said, "but the winning of this war and j nn,j us 'n.,h" Runlet to, nnd chiefly winning It as soon a possible." She famous cnuse of his humorous lee- 000 for clothing, winter and summer; Our axes for the army have cost over $6,000,000; our rolling kitchens $47,000,000 and field range 11.500.0(0, KIs Brand of Delicious Humor, Never Malicious, Had a Spontaneity That Fixed It In Mem ory of Hearer. spoke of how the Rrltlsh women flock ed to the munition factories in answer to the call. "Drop everything and send him shells." She told how the French i women had taken up the agilcultural lmplenents"where they had been drop pod In the fields. "Nothing counts, save France." was their slogan. ture "The Rise and Fall of the Mus tache." which he used on the lyceura platform for nearly HO years, had a spontaneity which whs truly remark aide. Sudden flushes of wit nnd humor cropped out constantly In his conver sation. Like other great American hu morists, some of the best things that The next number was a series of i he said fell upon the ears of a hand ful of friends nnd never found uieir way Into print. In the afternoon of life he sunned himself on the porch nt 'Eventide," his restful home at CUffton-by-thc-Soa. It was from there .hat he penned these lines to an Intimate friend: "Here I nm in dry dock, watting for the Great Builder to give me a gen eral overhauling. My boilers appear to be burned out, nnd I need new short selections by the Hawiian play ers; Carol.wi Heed. Klizabrth Serin ner. Lucille Oline, Fae Breose. and j Florence Reed. They played "Mr. j Moon." "Pretty Mermaid." "The Stut-j terlng Boy and the Lisping Girl." "Ocl-1 lege Pays." and "I' l' I'ni." I Explains Y. W. C. A. Ruth Welch gave a short talk on the - Tl- r 4 OU ..I. t.. t t 1,1,1. . ., , , ., grates In my firebox. Guess the old pose, as an organization of Christian ,g but mayb democracy, to promote fnemlsih wo can t,nker ,t up Sf tnat lt w,n among the university girls. "To make niftke B few roore trips. Seems as the kind of friends with whom you can (hough my switchboard had been talk over your ideals and aims in life," ; struck by lightning. I have my good she explained. She closed by inviting ' days nnd my bad days, but I lost count the girls to attend the five o'clock Ves-! of them some time ago, and now I .m. ft. It ners held in the Y. C. A. rooms on , an t tea mem apart Tuesdays. Mrs. Carrie B. Raymond then spoke on chorus work. She took up the value of singing in war time and ex plained that the work of the chorus this year would be to learn patriotic and popular songs. She also discuss ed plans for an all-University Vesper service, which would not only be of valuable influence but would give ex cellent training for choir work. W. A. A. Discussed The Women's Athletic association was briefly discussed by Madeline Girard. "Every university girl should be a member of the W. A. A.," she said. The admittance to this associa tion is determined by a system of pr'z'. ven in athletics. She explain ed also that war work will be an im portant phase of the society's activi ties this year. Katherine Kohl explained the pur pose of the Women's Self Government association. This organization has grown out of the Girls' club, organiz ed in 1908. The purpose of the club was to broaden the social activities of the university girls. This has grown into the present W. S. G. A. which has Jurisdiction over the conduct of uni versity women in rooming houses. Last year' the Girls' club maintained Red Cross work rooms. This year the W. S. G. A. plans to carry on the same work. The program closed with "Le Marseillais." sung by Margaret Perry. i ins 1 1 n j i ' 1 1 iu vin . t - r, " i as they were pretty. One day he over heard a party of young matrons dis cussing dress goods. "I don't like the new figured pat terns, Doctor Burdette," exclaimed one of the young women. "Do you?" "It might have been the part of wis dom for the humorist to have agreed with her, but by so doing he might have disagreed with her companions, so he sidestepped the issue, and paid the lady a deliriously subtle compli ment by replying: "Oh, I don't know. I should con sider them very good If they all con tained as pretty a figure as the one In the gown that you are wearing." HAND GRENADES Art In the Home. A good story Is going the rounds concerning Walter Bayes, whose fa mous academy picture, "The Under world," has been purchased by the committee of the Imperial war mu seum. Mr. Bayes has always been a very 6cvere critic of his own pictures, and one day, being dissatisfied with a large painting he had completed, he gave the canvas to the charwoman to take away with her. telling her she could do what she liked with it. , 11 ..mam Avnmlnn.1 1 JtlsYAAllf bending It this way and that and thumping lt all over with evidently Increasing satisfaction. "Thanks, Mr. Bayes," she said at bast. "Thanks very much. Thlsll do fine for me front parlor. It's much ! better than them common oilcloths wbat let the water through ; this Is a j good, strong one, with plenty of paint on It." Pearson's Weekly. WORDS ARE NOT NEEDED Class car service here In Lincoln. Isn't It? This morning you grabbed vour books-twelve large ones-ami four note-bo corner, which point you renewed j jQ curry supplies and ammunition cost disannearing down : ..... . .... u.o -o. lime l. ."V .- - , fOIQQOO. 00. the street. ion wur. wni" Tluv waited. More people came -twelve large "'-; Th, anny ls 8,ng 2.500.000 shovel. ,oks. and dashed H n our motor truck. h point you readied In ,i ammunition cost w neons nnd Tiny waueu. wv i-t i 17 000 000 You all waited A car drew nigh. You f clutched your books preparatory to the certer rush, but the car "ore iu tftft nno.ono nd the harness for -fen "No stop." and with a sign of deep S30.000.000. tinned vour "watch ful waiting." At last the car came, and the seething mob bolted for it. It seemed to you that half the popula tion of Lincoln was on that car. "Step forward, please." shouted the Irate conductor. Now since two bod ies can not occupy the same space at the same time, surely six or seven can not. so your stepping consisted mere ly of juggling your feet a bit in hopes that yours rather than your neigh bor's would land on top. The car started. You desperately grabbed at a strap. Two others grabbed the same strap. The car continued, stopping, starting", "turning dizzy coiners, you all the time reeling madly as you clung to the strap, with one hand and frantically balanced books with the other. "R street." bawled the conduct or, after a few hours of such agony. You put your head down, your elbows out and with a few vigorous and well directed goat-like motions you effect ed your exodus. THE LIBERTY LOAN FEEDS AND CLOTHES OUR SOLDIERS Since the beginning of the war. we have spent for army use $37,000,000 for flour; $14,000,000 for sugar: $43,000,000 for bacon: $12,000,000 for beans; $9,000,000 for canned tomatoes, and $3,000,000 for rice. These are only some of the large items in o r army's bill of fare. We have spent $126,000,000 for shoes; over $500,000,- and for horse-drawn carts we have spent Our 279.000 horses and it nnn ninlen have cost us neariv tmnoonnoo: to feed them has cost them nearly $30,000,000. These figures are large, but we have , nearly 2.000,000 men In Franco and nearly as many in cantonments here, and the United States and the people of the United States, through the Liberty Loan are making these iiol diers as safe and as comfortable as powerful and effective as poaslhle. Every subscriber to the Liberty Loan has helped, and every subscriber to the fourth Liberty Loan will help to win the war. W. S. G. A. LIVING UP TO IIS FULL TITLE The Woman's Self Governing asso ciation is truly going to be a self-governing body. Pan Hellenic takes care of all sorority girls, but hitherto those, outbide have recelvedlplt tentlon. All cases of personul conduct not tip to standard, and breaking 0f rules will come before the board and Miss Heppner. General supervision of girls will bo effected In this way The fourth Liberty Loan must be great success. The fourth I .Iborty Iioan Is a fighting loan. When our soldiers on the l.:,ttie front are braving death, each 0n ofTerlng to make the supreme sacri fice for his country and the great cause, we who remain safely at hw.e surely should give them every sup. port, should make every sacrifice, to strengthen them. If we can not ourselves we can make our dollars fight. . It is a great cause for which Ame'r-. lea is engaged In this war; It is great struggle in which the very hope of the world is bound up tha. is be ing waged in Europe and on the .high seas. It is an honor to have a p-irt in it and all Americans, all of 1 he ir lives, will be proud of the part tiny had in it or ashamed of their failure to do their part. The fourth loan Is a fighting loan. Every subscriber to the loan street a blow for Liberty, for Victory. Every Hundred Dollar Bond Makes A Hun Dred More. NOW TRY ROBERTS New Sanitary DAIRY LUNCH 1238 " O " STREET Open 6:30 A. M. to 12 P. M. The best of hairs must part! "ELECTION" When someone grabs your open hand And pulls that "Son, you're looking grand;" "And while we're talking; just where: do you stand?" Why. that's election time. ; i When the books you carry have too ! much weight. And they help ycu along so you i won't be late; j While they point out the best thats' booked on the slate j Why, that's election tim. When half the discourse is food for the wise. And the other half dealt out is noth ing but lies; When the air is chock full of a Jingle of cries, Why, that's just election time. If convenient buy cotton and stuff in your ear So yon won't b bothered w ith stuff that you hear. And cast your vote as you like, never fear That's the trial of election time. Gayle Vincent Grubb. A Delicate Matter. "Why wasn't the German crown prince relieved permanently of his command?" The kaiser said there were dy castle reasons.'" "What did he mean by that T "Well, I presume the situation la something like this : The crown prince made several foolish statements about what he was going to do and lt would hurt the prestige of the royal house considerably to acknowledge that he hadn't done them." Birmingham Age-Herald. Japanese Paper. - Japanese native-made paper is not surpassed anywhere, and ls used for the finest books. The paper cloth of AtamL from widen durable clothing Is made. Indicates not only the strength, but the variety of nses to which the native paper of Japan can be put. None of the Ataml paper cloth ls sent out of the country, ow ing to the large hon.e consumption. Cutting a Child's Hair. TbefS U an old-fashioned belief IB Derbyshire and father English counties that an lnfanfs hair should not be cut before lt ls a year old, and then It must be cut by the mother. If this ls not done 111 luck will follow the child through life. Babies' nails also should not be cut till twelve months have passed, but the mother may bite them shorter. Buying LibeJy Bonds Puts "V in the V. S. A. Origin of "Honeymoon." Honeymoon Is a modern term traced back to an ancient custom among the Scandinavian races to drink mead or "methlecen." that Is diluted boner. j for thirty days, crrrppor.ding to the ; moon's age, after erery wedding. Salle! History Paper 60c Ream-History Paper e WEDNESDAY 1 2:30 to 1 :30 only We carry Student Supplies. We can interest S. A. T. C. boys. See our Drawing Boards, Ink, Paper, Triangles, Pencils and Art Goods Unnmsify 111 n 1 340 North 11th Street
