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THE DAILY NEBRAS KAN The Daily Nebraskan UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA OFFICIAL PUBLICATION EDITORIAL STAFF Katharine Newlinuuh Kdltor In Chief Gnylord Davis Managing Editor Helen Howe Assotlulo Kdltor Howard Murfln Npwh Kdltor Jack Lnndale Newu Kdltor Oswald Ulack Sports Editor llolc.i tltltner Society Editor Robert L. Cook ' Military Editor BUSINESS STAFF Ulen II. Gardner Ilusinesa Manager Dwlght Sinter Assistant Huslnoss Manager REPORTORIAL .STAFF Marian llenntnger Gnyle Vincent Grubb Sadlo Finch Earle Coryell Mary Herein Einil J. Konicok Rhe Nelson Hetty Rlddell Katharine P-renke Patricia Maloney Leonard Cowley Anna Hurtloss Jeff Machamer Offices: News, Basement, University Mall; Business, Basement, Administration Building. Telephones: News and Editorial, B2S16; Business, n-2.197. N'ight, all Departments, B6696. Published every day except1 Saturday and Sunday during the col lege year. Subscription, per semester, $1. Entered at the poslofiice at Lincoln, Nebraska, as second class mail matter under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1ST9. The University gladly welcomes its "War ClAuR-ellor" back today. Chancellor Samuel Avery has been absent from the University a year doing important work for the Government in the chemical research department of the national council of defense. The University feels especially fortunate that it can welcome its Chancellor as well as its boys who aie coming back. When Chancellor Avery left Lincoln to enter the service he went in the capacity of a "dollar a year man." He gave all of his time and energy to the cause for which Nebraska gave so many of her men. Later he was commissioned major and taken into the war department officially. After his term of duty he has been honorably discharged and he is back in his office today. We are as happy to have the Chan cellor of our University back, as we were proud when he was gone. IN REGARD TO UNIFORMS The Students' Army Training Corps received order to disband before the men who comprised that unit had received uniforms. The S. A. T. C. of the University of Nebraska has been in operation since October first. Recently two carloads- of uniforms arrived at the quar termaster's department but were returned at once "because there was not time to distribute them." The distribution of uniforms of neces sity entails an enormous amount of work and no little expense. Fur thermore the officers at the post are encumbered with the task of demobilization. According to an official statement the men who at any time of the war have had the right to wear uniforms have the right to so on wearing them for four months after the close of the war, or four months after they receive their discharges. The government has allowed the men in the University's Students' Army to wear their own citizens' clothes pending the arrival of uniforms. Many of them have disposed of most of their clothes and have kept only what they needed until the equipment from the government should arrive. After two months of hard wear they are left with nothing more than what they had. The Commanding Officer announced that only issued equipment was to be worn, but as no uniforms had been issued the men were per mitted to, wear their own clothing for the interval. They acted in accordance with this order. In the meantime there was delay. Tliere was also ridicule which was hurled, not at the men in "cits," hut, nev ertheless, ridicule which was borne by them. Those affected by the order have been patient and have done very little complaining. When Kansas came to Nebraska for the Kansas-Nebraska game the S. A. T. C'a from there took back with them a very belittled opinion of the Students' Army here. In a consequent isRte of the "Daily Kansas." the official aper of Kansas University, our men were described as very ludicrous to the observer. Various papers in the state remarked about the dearth of uniforms and the substitutions made for them. There were witticisms 10 the effect that if appearances alone were to be considered the University's men looked more like a "gang of I. W. W.'s than like a unit of the United Slates Army." Nebraska's Student Army is one of the largest in the country. Uniforms have come here later than to any of the neighboring units. It is the general opinion of the men, and of the University public that the members of ihe S. A. T. C le issued the uniforms to wear for the four months that is allowed bv the order. BRIEF BITS OF NEWS Will Teach at Columbia Professor H. B. Alexander has accepif-d an offer from Columbia university to lecture thereon war aims rext summer. The offer came as a result of his book, "Liberty and I'K-mocracy," published in ISIS by the Marshal Jones Company of Boston. Bengston to go to Eorcpe Profes sor N. A. Bengston has distinguished fcimsi f doing w ar work in Washing ton so 1hat he will be sent to Den mark on a food commission. When peace was declared he asked for a release from his work to come home, but ihe Washington authorities con sidered him too good a man to lose and pavf him this new task. Proles wtr RTig-stvn has been encaged bv the war trade bureau to investigate the trade and commerce conditions in order to we that neutral countries do not get over-sufficient sax plis. WORK OF DISBANDING TO COMMENCE TODAY Task of Demobilizing; Nebraska's Student Army to Beg-in Immediately Link an though n lot of the forty live e:irold draft loyn will not bo nl to call themselvcH veterans of anything but the Influenza epidemic. It M a good plan to name tho Imliy Archie, and then when ho grown up and loaeH hl hair you can call him Archibald. Men Are to be Disbanded by Companies Section "B" Comes First A lot of people will always believe it was hunfluenza. Black Mask, Silver Serpent, Dra matic Club. Un'cn Society, Pa'a cNan Society, Math Club, Senior Pins, Fraternity Pins, Crests 4. Monograms. PINS HALLETT UNI. JEWELER Established 1871 1143 O St. Some people marry for love" and others live happily ever after. Thf-re will be about Line million miles of second-hand barbel ire placed on the market oon. Tr. ? greatest T-essimist in the world is the one who wears a be:t and sns-pr-nders at the same time. Lieutenant l J. O Neil returned this j morning- front Minneapolis, Minn., j where he received Instructions regard-j ing the discharge of the university) . .... - M I troops. The work or uisoamung inn students army training corps of the Nebraska University will commence this morning, Section "II" receiving Its discharge first. I Present plans contemplate the de I mobilization of each company separ I ately. and the paying of the men up to. and Including the date of their j discharge. The men will be given I their discharges in much the same manner as they were inducted, pass- ins through a rigid physical examina- i ! Hon by officers from the surgeon gen-1 : eral's department. Three important' I blanks regarding the physical condi tion of the soldier, one signed by the 1 soldier, one by his company command er and one by the examining physi cian, are to be issued. . The examina-' lions will he conducted in the Armory. To Give Honorable Discharges j Honorable discharges will be issued! ; to the majority of the men. although , a small minority will receive simple! discharges. AH men receiving an hon- orable discharge will be recommended f.r further service, while those re ceiving the simple discharges, because of some physical defect, wi'l not be eligible for re-enlistment. To Wear Uniforms 4 Months Aeeording to the government ruling- 'men on leaving the service are en- i titled to take with them one flannel ! shirt, one blouse, one pair of breech- es. leggins, a hat and hat cord, shot s j and overcoat where these have been issued. They pledge that they will ro ( turn all equipment within four months. in as good condition as when thev i were issued, allow ing for ordinary . ! wear. i May Continue Insurance All members of the students' army I training cors will be given an oppor- i t unity to carry government insurance after their discharge from the army, and an essential part of the work will 1 consist in making out the renewal in-1 sura m-e blanks. The following telegram regarding j I the contiuation of government insur ance was received Friday: Commanding Officer, S. A. T. (, University of Nebraska. Lincoln. Nebraska: The commanding general directs that you institute immediately an active campaign to explain to all officers and men in your command, their rights and privileges in connection with the continuation and conversion of Unit ed Slates government insurance. Ev ery person in the military service holding government insurance mav continue same in its present form 'for ! rot more than five years, and during this time may oonaert the present l"rn! insurance into standard forms of government insurance including ordi rary life, twenty payment life, endow ment maturing at age sixty-two anri other usual forms. A soldier may con tinue government insurance after hi is discharged. It is highly desirable that men now in the service keep up their insurance and continue to keep it up after they return to civil life. If a soldier permits insurance to laps,, he will loe valuable right to convert same into standard forms of government insurance. This should be impressed on all officers and men by their ommandiag officers in per forsl talks and also by bulletins, cir culars ard systematic canvassing ua ri rireetioti of insurance officer. Lit erature and circulars mil be forward ed to ou. No person should be per mitted to drop insurance until the ad var taefs of continuing fame and con verting It into after-the-war forms of government insurance have been fully explained to him and he is thor oughly acquainted with his privilege and duties under war risk insurance CLARENCE L. STORER JEWELER Diamonds, Watches, Jewelry REPAIRING A SPECIALTY A. C. NELSON, Optrometrist Ph B228S 127 South 11th Street Lincoln, Nebraska Same pictures are like some people hanging :'s too good for ihem. Whc2 T2 J"CtI hit yoU thitk of h m he doesn't expect to gt your real epLion. We Are Good Printers That is the reason we do most of the student Printing DO WE DO YOURS? 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