The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current, November 28, 1918, Image 4
THE DAILY NEBR ASK AN The Daily Nebraskan UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA OFFICIAL PUBLICATION EDITORIAL 8TAFF Katharine Newbranch Kdltor In Chief Gaylord Davis Managing Kdltor Holen Howe Associate Kdltor Howard Murlln News Kdltor Jack Landale Newa Kdltor Oswald Dlack Sports Editor Heidi Clltner Society Kdltor Itobert L. Cook Military Kdltor BUSINESS 8TAFF Glon II. Gardner Business ManaKcr Dwight Slntvr Assistant Huslness Manager REPORTORIAL 8TAFF Marian Hennlngcr Gayle Vincent Grubb Sadie Finch Barle Coryell Mary Helping Kmll J. Konlcek Uhe NeUon Hetty Hiddell Kathrrine Ilrenke Tatrlcla Maloney Leonard Cowley Anna Hurtles Jeff Machamer Offices: News, Basement, University Hall; Duslness, Pasement, Administration Building. Telephones: News and Editorial, B-2816; Business, B 2597. Night, all Departments, B6696. Published every day except Saturday and Sunday during the col lege year. Subscription, per semester, $1. Entered at the postoffice at Lincoln, Nebraska, ns second-class mail matter under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. THANKSGIVING Since the memorable First Thursday founded by the Pilgrim Fathers, has there never been such a glorious Thanksgiving! Indeed we can not be content with giving thanks but we must celebrate, tor this is a Thanksgiving which demands action, and positive grat itude not merely passive Thanks. For more than two weeks we have been rejoicing over the most vital settlement of human welfare. There may have been some such Thanksgiving at the close of the Civil War. Today totally eclipses all other Thanksgiving Days in history, for the reason that this fall .Militarism and Autocracy met an overwhelming defeat at the hands of Democracy. Of the many records of the struggles of the people for an ideal and against a selfish domin ion, the overthrow of the German Powers by the Allied Nations is the most significant. We who live in such highly momentous times, have more than our share to be thankful for. Ours is the opportunity to observe Tife at its brightest and at its gayest. Today is not a National holiday alone. It is, furthermore, a world wide holiday. For the other nations of the earth this is a new day. The world, lanched as it is into a new era. takes up new responsibilities with the secure feeling of ability to accomplish what is to be done. We are glad that the past is past, and our gladness lights up the future. S. A. T. C. This week the members of the Students' Army Training Corps were given the opportunity to vote on two questions, vital to the con tinuance of their own organization. The first question which was concerned with the time of the dismissal of the Students' Army, re sulted in a vote of 740 men who wanted to be discharged from th;. imit at the end of the present semester. Of these 547 will remain n schoo.1. There are, however, 471 men in the organization who-jfreft-r to have the privilege of remaining in the unit until schooLefoses hf the Spring. If the S. A. T. C. is disbanded before the nejj "Semester there are 610 men who will leave school. .- When the S. A. T. C. plan was first ,,t into operation this fall, many men who had been in school ieforc, complained that the present plan of going to college, and trying to serve the government at the tame time, was not satisfactory either scholastically or in a military sense. For some there- Was too much going to school and not enough military work and instruction to create a feeling of accomplishment in the nation's w?,,. WOrk. For others who felt that the military part of the training Vas secondary, there was too little time for school work, and little or ,10 t,-me ,0 follow the course of study that would have been -ClfXlCrUmtside the Army unit. Since the signing of the armistice, and the consequent relaxation of military drill, and the inevitable loss of interest in such courses, there has been more time devoted to study and to the normal pursuits of peace times. Those men who came to college in the Students' Army, primarily bcause of the war, feel now, that the war is over, that they are wasting time. Military duties have become irksome, especially where no interest was placed In the academic branches of the course. There are, necessarily, many things that had the consideration of the men who voted en these important questions, if the vote influences the unit, over half of the men now in school will leave. Likewise if the S. A. T. C. continues, two-thirds of the men who compromise it will be dissatisfied. During the war period school was looked upon by many as a non essential. Such an opinion was, without doubt, erroneous. Appeals to stay in school were made to the youth of the country by our fore most men. Military authorities, more than any others, realized the need of education for the men who were to do the fighting, and for those who were to be the coming citizens of the United States. If edu cation was requisite in time of war. It is vital now in time of peace, when the young men of today are the ones to whom will fall the arduous tasks which the war has left. THANKSGIVING" By Gayle Vincent Grubb The engine clanged and belched its smoke In a column of mirky white. I rested my head on the back of the seat And closed my eyes to the sight Of all but that which was uppermost In the recess of my heart; The. lazy dreams I had often dreamed And hopes that will never depart. For in adding the figures from year to year To determine the mark you've made. You've won or you've lost and you've marked your course. And your best Is the price that you've paid. Thuukfulni'xa? Long as the world moves on Tho' we've tasted the bitterest dregs, Tho the path was tough and a trifle rocgh. If we finish tin both or our logH, Then we owe a tribute to Heaven altove With a heart and a soul that's true. If we've trau-led tho road of reverses and knocks And have seen the Journey through. For what we are Is what we are, Not the man In the garments new. The tailor serves but to make the clothes While the man Inside Is you. And so I mused to the grind of the whet-Is What I owed to the world of men; But I found my debt was heavy Indeed As I lazily dreamed again; Peace to a country that's dripping In blood. And the freedom of bondaged souls, Thanksgiving? Ah yet. It's a year of years In the making and breaking of goals. So It's Just that you and ifs Just that I Tho' a speck In the world, but a mite Should be thankful we're part of Democracy's cause That has struggled for freedom and right. Thanksgiving? My friend, have you known the time When It seemed that you'd given, all, When you've marvelled at men with their brilliant careers, When the part you played seemed so small? Well, stick at the problems you've started to solve, Just be thankful you're trying your best. And the sum of your efforts will not be lost. You will grin at the hardest test. Oh. there's so many things to be thankful for There Is so much in life worth while; And I wonder at folks with their moans and groans When it's so much better to smile. "The Fast is Fast and the West is West" And never can I be you. Yet the things you do may be the same As the things that I can do. And both of us, glad of the path we've made Should be thankful down to the core That the stand we've made is the stand we've made With the prospect of something more. The engine clanged and the brakes set hard And my senses run clean rife, Home: Thanksgiving: And over it all. A brand new view of life. NOTES OF THE FIRST THANKSGIVING By Jeff Machamer The party was held at Paw Mitlln . stuccoed wlgwum on Riverside )r,V() (Paw Hattan was a funiouH n,e Cu,.j and had an extensive cement i,,lrilHti1 at Broadway and Forty second street) Miles Standlsh and John smith clasped hands across the turkey W,n they saw each other's fraternity ,,H Polkahawntus. daughter of aw Hattan, the firo chief, squeezed j Smith's hand under the table while her ilrewaterrlghtlng father Rvo Thanks. Miles Standlsh wouldn't rush p,,,, because she wasn't a sorority Rri' John Smith wasn't that sort of fellow at all! John Ahlen, the chap who hooked Standlsh, was so engrossed In the big, blue, bottomless (yea as bottomless as that famous hole In M.imnmth Cave) eyes or Priscllla (can't recall her last name; haven't seen her in yeahs) that he didn't notice the drill hie of cranberry sauce on his check ered necktie. And when Polka's small brother called his attention to it, he was so einbarassed that he swished the elbow of his tuxedo throuch Maw Hattan's scrumptious but greasy dress ing. (Yes In those days checkered neckties were highly permissablo with tuxedoes.) It- is presumed that "mayonnaise" (Xo -no, Patricia, that isn't the name of the French national anthem) was at the height of its table popularity at the time of the first Thanksgiving dinner, and it has been on a steady decline ever since! 'Quality Is Economy' 1" HAM SAVE 20 TO 30 BY Bu ViNG A T SCHAFFNER & MARX All- Wool Suit or Overcoat FOR Wise economy is not to see how low priced a suit and overcoat you can buy; but to see how much you can get for the money you spend-Here 's our proposition, we know, and so do you, that Hart Schaffner & Marx All-Wool Clothes are positively without rival; and when you can buy Quality of this character at the prices we ask, you have spent your money economically. 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