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The Daily Nebraskan VOL. XVIII. NO. 28 UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, WEDNESDAY, OCTOHKR 30, 1918 PRICE FIVE CENTS SOLDIER li REOPENS AT UHI daises and Drill Hours to Bo Assigned to Men in S. A. T. 0. Soldiers to Be Transferred to Either Officer Schools or Cantonments a A. T. C. men at the University of Nebraska began today with a new icbedule governing their army life. Instead of the usual long drill periods working up to and culminating In a five or six mite hike the Nebraska soldier students were agal summon ed to the class rooms to arrange for recitations and study hours. The men from now on will be march ed to study rooms In the- evening where they will put in two or more hours of solid study on one subject Study hours for the remaining of their objects will haTe to come between recitations so that the men will be re quired to adopt a systematic and effi cient schedule for preparing their les sons. Must Take Maximum Those having few hours of work, less than fifteen or sixteen hours and not In any particular branch of in struction requiring Intensive study will be recommended for an extra hour of drill each day, while those car rying sixteen or eighteen hours of scholastic work combined with the drill will be required to take only two hours of drill each day. Recent transfers in the companies and other changes has so npset the original program for instruction that a complete re-arrangement in drill and study schedules is likely to result. For this reason men should with hold the printing of their schedules until they have been definitely as signed to companies and given regu lar recitation and drill periods. (Continued on page 4) WRITES OF WORK WITH AERO REPAIR SQUADRON Corporal John C. Wilbur, Former Nebraska n, Describes His Work "Over There" "In France." Dear Friend: - I was very glad to know that friends and organizations all stand back of the Simmies for moral support and oiherrire. The fact that I was away from camp on detached service for toar weeks with very Irregular mall service explains why 1 did not get raw tetter earlier. Twelve of us from this flight were t to an Instruction center to learn 111 abont the aeroplane. There we remained for four weeks and made ex cellent progress so that now we feel coaCdeot of being able to care for plane of our own. Being a "repair' qnadron It Is our duty to look after the j,beep of the planes so that they re always ready to go. For toy part I specialized on wlre ks construction, repair, and opera- and am very enthusiastic about wth work. Planes are equipped with wirtleta that message can be sent back at any time, la the capacity of reWJr loan ft is sometimes necessary to ro on a trial flight to adjust and 0 K- the apparatus before it la turn- to tie observer. That Is T c"nty becomes a pleasure and, believe toe, I haJl derive as much Pkartre out of it as the next one. I am Toral of the "guard tonight U li 1,7 2;o . n, nd ail U cui2t it is qnlte chilly and lonesome. witting by the light of a afcgle At 2:Gt o'clock I aha3 wak3 7 relet axd. after their, midtlgbt m tit e post and I aa3 a la- This U great sport guard 17 1 Lav. done It often and li al- ways affects me the same. To be .tw only one awake, to bo a lonely son tlncl on post with nothing to do but to walk and look and walk some more; that Is when one must depend on- his own thoughts for rnterralninent and I never got to first bane in that kind of sport When I write again I may tell you of the contours of the clouds and de scribe the view of the earth from the height of 2,000 meters or more. Strange sights and wonderful expe riences' are bound to happen. Give my regards to all my friends. As ever, JOHN. O. K. Max Chapman, 1st Lieut H. S. S. C. U. S. 11. Sneexlng Superstitions In Scotland it has been maintained that Id iota are incapable of sneezing, and the power to do so has been deemed evidence of the possession of a certain degree of Intelligence. It was a Flemish belief that a sneeze during a conversation for a bargln proved that what you said was the truth. The Chinese believe that a sneeze on -New Year's eve means bad luck through the coming year. The Japanese hold that one sneeze means that some one Is praising you. two show blame, whereas, if. you sneeze three times, you are merely ill. FOUR HUNDRED FIFTY HEN ARE TRANSFERRED New Schedule of Classes Shifts Men From Citj to Farm Campus All was hustle and bustle in camp Tuesday afternoon when four hun dred fifty-men were transferred from the university campus to the state farm. .The men went bag and bag gage; cot and mattress in the huge army trucks to their new abodes Knowing that In the army, one is not permitted to choose his comrades, no complaints were heard, and on the way they showed their good sports manship spirit by singing. "Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag and smile, smile, smile." The men transferred were moved because the studies they had register ed for were being taught at the farm. The men will be lodged in the new barracks recently constructed espe cially for S. A- T. C. men. There are outside stairways on all the buildings so thai the men on the upper floors are la completely separated compartments DEAN CARL C. ENGBERG TELLS VALUE OF FULL UNIVERSITY SCHEDULES Dean Cart C- Engberg. executive Dean of the university. In a talk to all S. A- T. C. men Tuesday morning, gave some valuable hints for success in college. The executive Dean and his assistants had Just completed the new schedules for classes, and he wished to impress upon the men. the Urge ma jority of whom are first year men, how important It is to have every hour la the day accounted for and wasting none. He made an appeal for team work, saying that It is just as essen tial is school work as in footbalL The men were called Into the Tem ple In company groups during the mid dle of the drCl work. Blank sched- cards were given out to each man and Dean Engberg explained the way to fill them out. Indicating diTJ boura. study and recitation pnods re rorded in d Cerent colored Ink. These beules will be given to the mTJtary authorities and If aH the time is not : Vea a? tr citicr drCl or study more drCl win be gien- TRAIN Hb MAKES SS Aeronautic and Artillery Men for Officers' School Are Not Yet Announced Each Man in S. A. T. C. and S. N T. C. to Act as Offcer Wlille the rest of the university was marking time on account of the quar antine over the state, the detachment of army and navy men at the univer sity has been taking long stTides to wards becoming a well drilled unit. Captain E. J. Maclvor said Tuesday afternoon that there would be battal ion drill each day, which is an Indica tion of the rapid progress his men had made lately." Lieutenant E. M. Cassady. who was stationed at Fort Sheridan last sum mer and who was company command er at the Hayward camp, has begun his duties as commander of compan ies "D" and "E" and the naval sec tion of the S. A. T. C. Lieutenant W. G. Murphy has charge of companies "A." "B" and "C" and Lieutenant Sporer oversees the work of Section "B." Every Man Has a Chance Under the plan about to be started every man in the S. A. T. C. will be given a change to act as company leader, sergeant, guides and corporals. As the men at the university camp are all working for officers schools, this training will be of great value to them in preparing themselves and also will enable tlw authorities to judge their ability. Artillery Men Not Yet Announced Due to heavy office work and the unusual work of shifting four hundred fifty men at one time, the list of the men who were accepted for the ar tillery officers., training school and for aeronautic schools has not been completed. The names will probably be given out for publication Wednes day night FRATERNITIES FACE SERIOUS PROBLEMS G reeks Consider Disbanding for Period of War Releasing Houses With their members separated into various companies, and located in dif ferent barracks, fraternities at the uni versity are fating a problem that has not troubled them in other years. The men bare little or no time to meet together, and living In the bar ,. thev have to do. maintaining a house is Impractical. Tbe.questlon has therefore naturally come up whether it would be tbe wise thing to try to keep up the fraternity, or to clos down for the period of the war. The Greek letter societies for men have not yet held initiations, although Pledging progressed as usual this fall. Since they have a sufficient number of pledges to carry on a fraternity uccessfally. the Greeks do not want to disband. The first society that is known to have d finitely settled the problem. Is the Delta Chi fraternity, which released its house on "S" street and rented club rooms at 408-410 BrowneU Hock. They moved a part of their furniture to these rooms so ,hy wCl have a meeting place and also can carry on the initiation of pledges. Uncle Eber -De man dat makes money too easy." aid Unr Eben. "takes his turn at ie bard work whenjt comes to ex plalcla' how be got it." Why Crescent Is Turkish Symbol When Constantinople was a Byzan tine city, Philip, the father of Alex ander the Great, tried to reduct It by siege. He was unsuccessful by day, and when he thought to take the city by surprise In the dark the crescent moon and stars appeared and exposed his warriors to the citizens. In honor of her protection of the city the By zantlans built a statue to Diana and made the crescent the symbol of the city. Machine Works With Peat Gas Danish inventors have perfected mo tors that are claimed to work well with peat gas fuel instead of benzine or gasoline. Daily Thought No really great man ever thought himself so. Hazlitt. REGENTS APPROVE THE THREE SEMESTER PLAN Army and Navy Men Will Be Given Special Examinations if Called The university board of regents at their meeting Monday night approved he recommendations of Executive Dean Carl C. Engberg for three terms of school work, the first ending Jan uary fourth; the second beginning January sixth and ending March twenty-ninth, and the third opening March thirty-first and" closing June fourteenth. The following recommendations were made in order that the present school term may not be shortened too much as a result of the present quar antine:. (1) That the Christmas vacation be reduced to Christmas day, and that the term be extended one week. i. e., to January 4. (2) That where necessary, special examination privileges be extended to S. A. T. C. or S. N. T. C. men who may be called to cantonments Janu ary 1. " (3) That "the second term begin January 6 and close March 29. the spring recess coming March 22-29. (4) That the third term begin ; March 31 and close June 14. i (5) That the first summer com mencement exercises be held June 16. Due to this change In terms, the midwinter commencement exercises will no doubt be dispensed with as Charter Day does not come near the close of a semester. Commencement exercises may be postponed until February 14, the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the university. Modern Science Rehabilitates Soldiers Wounded in Battle Copyright 1918. by The International Syndicate. Among the marvelous constructive developments of the present war, none perhaps has been more epochal, and certainly none has been more striking, than the stimulus that hase been given to the scientific conversion of human wrecks Into normally functioning hu man beings. The aftermath of past wars has been a pitiful army of useless, help less cripples, each of them an eco nomic liability, an object of charity. The cripples of the present war, ever so many of them, are cripples only for a time, each of them converted from an economic liability into an economic asset, with a chance to come back into tbe world of action as a helpful and constructive unit in so ciety. Human reconstruction, as It Is be ing practiced la the war hospitals of France and England, and In Canada and la. this country, does not deal with the restoration of the body alone. It Is more than material. An important element is psychological moulding HUSKERS AND BULL DOGS MIX IH FRAY Nebraska Hangs Up Score of Thirty-three to Nothing Be hind Locked Gates Northwestern Considering Propo sition to Switch to Thanksgiving The Cornhuskers and the Cotner Bull-dogs Btaged a fast forty-five min ute scrimmage session on the wind swept, mud crusted football field yes terday afternoon, the Huskers piling up a total of 33 points to the suburban ites' none. It was a rather scrappy exhibition of football 'and the Corn huskers got a little of the stiff scrim mage practice they need to season them for the coming battle with Notre Dame next Saturday on the Nebraska gridiron. Armed guards were stationed at the gates and the crowd which stood shivering around In the cold was not what could be called a record break er. The ban on public gatherings which necessitated locking the gates will be lifted next Saturday and the Cornhuskers and the Notre Dame Hoosiers will collide in the season's biggest scrap. Two in First Quarter Nebraska crossed the visitors' goal line twice in the first quarter but fail ed to kick goal both times, making the score of 12 to 0. Hubka was re sponsible for acquiring the first touch down and Schellenberg accounted for the other. Before the second quarter got fairly under way, Lyman, the big right tackle, swung around left end and headed for the goal posts. A Cotner man tackled him in the middle of a mud puddle and they both rolled over the goal line together. Howarth kicked goal and brought the score np to 19 to 0. Hubka received the next kick-off and on the following play, Howarth sped 30 yards and would have crossed the goal but was pushed out of bounds. Hubka then passed to Howarth and he rang up another touchdwn. The sergeant-major then planted the ovaL squarly between the posts and the score stood 26 to 0. Lantz pulled off a spectacular run a few minutes after the kick-off, and raced 35 yards before he was downed. Hubka attempted a forward pass to Schellenberg but it was Intercepted by a Cotner Bull-dog, and the visitors took tbe ball in their possession.. They successfully completed a pass and gained several yards. On another attempt, Hubka reached (Continued on page 4) the wounded man's thoughts and out look on life at the same time that bis maimed -body is being educated to function under radically changed conditions. Tbe Importance of this coordinated reconstruction of the mind with the body was the subject of a recent state ment from the office of the Surgeon General in Washington to the effect that many well Intentioned individ uals have offered to take crippled sol diers into their service as watchmen, messengers and in positions of sim ilar character. While the spirit la which these offers are made la ap preciated, said the statement, they conflict with the policy of the med ical department of the army. Work Starts At Ore From the time a wounded soldier Is takeu to the field hospital he Is en couraged to understand that the ser iousness of his -wounds will not ren der him worthless for useful work. The work of reconstructing him both pbysIcaHy and mentally Is carried on simultaneously. (Continued on page 1) "I
