THE DAILY N E BRASKAN
THE DAILY HEBRASKAN
Official Pfcrr of the
University of NbrV
LEONARD W. KLINE Editor
ARNOLD A. WILKES... Mtf. Editor
KATHARINE NEWURAN'Cll. . . .
Asst. Editor
3AYLORD DAVIS News Editor
LAURENCE SLATER. . .News Editor
ADELAIDE ELAM Society Editor
OSWALD BLACK Sport Editor
FRANK D. PATTY. . . .Bus. Manager
GLEN II. GARDNER.. Asst. Bui. Mgr.
Reportorial Staff
Add Burtleii Helen M. Howe
Sadie B. Finch Terea Magulre
Katherlne Brenke Mary F. Hertins
Betty Rlddell Earle Coryell
Howard Murfin Viola Kleinke
unfilr. and one denounced by demo- j
crmtlc national leaders.
Rect-ntly a democratic organ In the I
state rrinted the following statement:
"A democratic victory will mean con-1
tinued and vigorous support for all
patriotic measures. A republican
triumph will bring rejoicing ro every
Hun sympathizer's heart." Every
loyal republican will cast his ballot
for a loyal democrat against a repub
lican who has failed the "acid test"
but will revolt at such a general In
dictment of his party as the above
The grrat party, now leading us
through our most critical period will
profit by singling out unworthy candi
dates In the republican ranks but It
will certainly lose by a wholesale
slander of the G. O. P.
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LAURENCE SLATER
For This Issue
PEACE TALK
Now that President Wilson has
shown the American people that the
time for peace has not yet come and
that the German notes are as yet
subterfuge and trickery the talk of
peace mast stop.
With the allied armies advancing
on all fronts and the German forces
In headlong retreat it has been diffi
cult for our people to see that peace
is as yet long distant. Let us re
member that our victories in this year
are no greater than were the German
victories of 1915, 1916 or 1917. Let
us remember that our armies are not
now as near to Brussels, Belgium, as
were the Hun hordes to Paris. Three
lines of defense project German terri
tory today while only the valiant
taxlcab army .of Paris saved France's
capital from ruin.
Victory will come to the allied
armies, of that there Is no doubt, but
it Is still distant many hard and
bloody battles. Even the most con
servative war-writers see hard fight
ing during the summer of 1919. Sec
retary Tumulty's announcement that
"the government will continue to s-nd
over 250,000 men with their supplies
every month and that there will be no J
relaxation of any kind" shows clearly
that onr war-leaders, knowing condi
tions better than we, see the need
for the continuance of vigorous fight
ing.
What red-blooded American wou'd
give peace to Germany at this time?
Her territory is still intact while she
ravages and destroys as she retreats.
Indemnities can never pay for the out
rages Bhe has committed. Money can
never bring back the lives of ;he
countless non-combatants of Belgium,
trampled out in the face of a neutrali
ty treaty. Money can never bring
back the lives of those Americans
sunk on the Lusitania nor restore to
those little children their mothers,
shot as they struggled in the Icy sea,
toward the lifeboats.
A fifty-dollar bond may avenge the
death of a Belgium mother; It may
bring punishment to the slayer of a
little child in France, while larger
bonds will equip aeroplanes that may
bomb Berlin as the German p'.anes
have bombed the Red Cross hospitals.
Buy bonds and more bonds and
STOP THE PEACE TALK!
A CALL FOR OrTICERS
Upon the shoulders of the men in
the University training corps rests a
real responsibility. With the an
nounetment that the government will
fend 2"0.000 men to France every
month comes the appeal for officers'
ho are trained to lead these so'diers.
According to a statement mad some
months ago by General Foch. the C.er
man line can be broken at any time
America has 3,'0'000 men in the field
and it Is probable that his master
stroke will be held until that time.
Two million mt-n are already across
but only a part of this army is to be
usfd for fighting at the front. Two
hundred and fifty thousand men will
be needed d':rlrg each of the winter
months if America Is to have her
3.000.000 on the firing line at the open
ing of the spring campaign.
From very training camp comes
the demand for officers. Many re
ports are that troops are ready to go
but cannot be sent until there are offi
cers to lead them. It is to its great
"reservoirs," the universities, the gov
ernment will look for these trained
men and the universities must be
ready to answer the call.
Officers' training camps will be kept
running at full speed and calls will
be received frequently asking trans
fers for members of the student army
training corps. Every man should fit
himself to go at the earliest possible
mement. Nebraska answered the first
call for officer candidates with one
hundred fifty applications. She will
be prepared to answer, in the same
way, those to follow.
Ing the disease. Delay in class work
means delay In the government pro
gram and should be allowed no longer
than Is absolutely necessary. Protect
yourselves accordingly to the physi
cians' rules of personal hygiene and
protect o'hers by avoiding crowds.
THE SUB FAILS
Of even more encouragement than
the rout of the German army on the
western front Is the news of the re
cent allied successes against subma
rine bases on the Belgian coast. Os
tend and Zebrugge are practically
cut off from supplies by infantry and
French cavalry. British monitors
have approached within five miles of
the coast held by Hun forces and it
is rumored a major naval attcak will
soon be launched.
With (the cutting of the Belgian
railway lines, the only road by which
Germany can send munitions to the
coast bases is blocked. To reload
their magazines Hun subs must now
make their way back to territorial
waters after every raid, thus length
ening the distance to their prey Uy
over 500 miles and shortening the time
they can lie in wait for trans-Atlantic
shipping by several days.
The toll of submarines should In
crease greatly and allied shipping
losses should decrease. The Kaiser's
boast that America could send no
troops to France while his faithful
subs patrolled the seas will soon have
gone the way of many of his other
bright and happy dreams of success.
BE SQUARE
Already the sparks are beginning to
fly In the gubernatorial campaign.
Leaders of both parties in Nebraska
seem to be able to unearth about the
same amount of scandal concerning
their opponents and from now until
November 5 some interesting reading
may be expected.
The democratic party In the state
will profit if It discards its plan of
wholesale attack upon the republican
party as a Kaiserite organization. It
It undoubtedly true that some repub-j
Means from Nebraska have not sup-!
ported many of our important war j
measures but to class every republican
with the men Is a practice obviously
It is well to reflect, at times, on the
saying that the war has taught us all
one great lesson "to value life itself
but nominally and to set up at their
true value those things more lasting
and more vital to the world than mere
existence."
GERMAN YARNS SPUN DAILY
Moretown, Vermont, has heard the
following picturesque yarn: "Mrs. J.
J. S. of Los Angeles, Cal., and
her daughter called on an acquaint
ance one day and found the lady In
tears. Her son, who had been drafted
and sent to American Lake canton
ment, had been Innoculated with a
poisonous serum, along with several
others, and her son had died. The
sequel was that four doctors were
court-martialed and shot." No such
incident occurred. No soldiers were
innoculated with poisonous serum and
no doctors were court martlai?d or
shot.
This Is one of the rumors about epi
demics In camps that were most fash
ionable last winter. Since that time,
the army death rate from disease
has been reduced as low as three men
per thousand per annum. The best
ivcord hitherto has been the Japanese
record in the Russian-Japanese war,
where the Japanese death rate from
disease was 20 men per thousand per
annum. Our death rate from disease
among nun of military age in civil
life- is 6.7 per thousand per annum,
so that our men in uniform have twice
as good a chance of escaping death by
disease as the same sort of men out
side of the army.
TWO DIE AT BASE HOSPITAL
Private Guy R. Elliott, Twenty-sixth
Company, and Edward S. Stump.
Twenty-second Company, died Wed
nesday at the base hospital.
The cause of Elliott's death was
given as bronchial pneumonia and
Stump's as nephritis.
The former's home was at Beaver,
Pa , and the latter at Lonaconlng, Md.
YANKS GET STABS' BATS
Bata that have been used ty -ry
Cobb, Eddy Colllna, Happy Felsh. Jo
Jackson, Buck Weaver, Tilly Walker,
Bobby Roth and other American
league sluggers, were In a collection
of baseball equipment presented to
Camp Funston Yanks by Charles Com
Iskey, president of the Chicago White
Sox.
Kinderhook, 111., reports a story
"that all sweaters that are knit by
the Red Cross are taken from the sol
diers when they embark for overseas
duty." This is a falsehood, and it is
one of a large company of similar
falsehoods designed to discourage Red
Cross work. Another comes from Dal
las, Texas, to the effect that "mem
bers of the 133rd Field Artillery were
recently ordered to burn their sweat
ers, socks, etc., other than regular
issue." This being a specific lie, can
obtain a specific denial. The quarter
master's office at Washington says
that no such order was issued.
There's Zip to it, Boys!
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the campus favorite
with college colors
in stripes across
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never a better
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styled, or a better
wearing shaker
sweater. It's a
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ideal for all 'round service a big luxurious sweater
that will stand four years and more of "rough
housing" on the campus.
If your dealer doesn't sell Bradley Sweaters, America's best
Shakers, Jumbos, Jerseys, and the only genuine Navajos, write
us for the names of dealers who do it will pay you.
BRADLEY KNITTING CO..
Delav2n, Wisconsin
While the University has closed its
classroom doors as a safeguard
against the spread of the influenza epi
demic every student should make
sure that he is doing his part in check-
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