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EDITORIAL STAFF
Katharine Ne branch Edltor-ln Chief
Gaylord Davit Managing Editor
Helen Howe Associate Editor
Howard Murfln Newi Editor
Jack Landale New Kdltor
Oswald Black Snorts Editor
Helo Glltner Soc,etX EdUor
BUSINESS 8TAFP
Olen H. Gardner Business Manager
Roy Wythers Assistant Business Manager
Offices: News, Basement, University Hall; Business, Basement,
Administration Building.
Telephones: News and Editorial, B-2S16; Business, B 2597.
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Published every day except Saturday and Sunday during the col
lege year. Subscription. V?r semester, $1.
Entered at the postoftlce at Lincoln, Nebraska, as secondclass
mail matter undvr the Act of Congress of March 3. 1879.
The opening of the mate legislature this week, affords an oppor
tunity to students to understand how the state laws are made, and
to increase, their information by keeping in touch with the matters
under consideration by this body.
.Many questions pertaining to the University and to Ptudent
life are discussed and voted upon at every session of the legislature.
It is decidedly to the interest of the men and women in college to
keep in touch with these bills as they are brought up. It is further
more the duty of each of us to make manifest the interest we have
in our own institution. If we fail to show such concern we have no
legitimate cause Tor complaint or criticism. It is necessary to famil
iarize ourselves with these problems in onbr to appreciate and to
understand what is done.
The general and building appropriations, salaries, fraternities,
sororities, are some of the many debatable questions. Be alive and
know what is going on. The outcome may mean a new gymnasium,
a woman's dormitory, appropriations for Woman's Hall, or what
not. Step up to the capitol when some of these discussions are under
way.
DISINTEGRATION IN EUROPE
(The New Republic.)
Now if ever is the time for international co-operation on (he broad
est possible basis of fellow-feeling and irrespective of racial, class and
national differences. The menace to civilization which has been
created by four years of competitive annihilation unprecedented in
human history is just as terrible as was the menace of the German
militarist autocracy; and the free nations are even less prepared to
deal with the consequences of an enervating and exhausting war in a
spirit of mutual suspicion and aggressive self-assertion, which was
responsible for the war itself. They are unable to see that just as the
free nations formerly needed an unprecedented conciliation of exer
tion and power for the purpose of defeating German autocracy, what
they now need, after having defeated Germany, is the subordination
of their triumphant power to healing and magnanimous human pur
poses. The peac e conference should be nothing less than a committee
of public safety, composed of all the free nations and animated by
a disinterested will to surrender their suspicions and to form a union
for the better handling of the new and awful menace to their com
mon welfare.
How awful the menace is has for the first time been clearly
stated by Mr. Harold Williams in a recent cable to the New York
Times. "The spectacle," he says, "of European ruin is simply appall
ing. Nineteenth century civilization has broken down. ....
There is a collapse of human moral energy, a revival of the primitive
barbaric instincts and the fierce endeavor to have one's little private
will by force. . . . Through all this seething and chaos run evil
currents of intrigue after intrigue, monarchial, bolshevist, financial,
imperialistic, particularist, clerical, atheist. . . . Up through the
European chaos is surely creeping the menace not of socialism, but of
bolshevism, which is the revengeful shadow of reckless modern ma
terialism." In spite, that is, of the victory over Germany, and as a
direct consequence of the use of war on such a destructive scale in the
interest of civilization the very tissue of civilization
is suffering from corruption and disease. It is not
merely that the indispensable tools of industry are run down and
destroyed so that normal wholesome social labor and human inter
course cannot be resumed for an indefinite period, but armies cannot
be demobilized, violence cannot be suppressed and mutual confidence
cannot be restored. All over Europe, in Germany. Dalmatia. Toland,
Russia and Hungary, armed forces are seizing coveted territory in
defiance or irrespective of international equity and the will of the
inhabitants, and they are doing so because the active and aggressive
ruling classes of the several nations have no faith in a just solution
cf the problems of the war.
According to Mr. Harold Williams, there is only one way of stem
ming (his terrible tide of demoralization. It is "supremely important"
io lay an impregnable moral foundation for a new and better inter
national community. "If the league of nations is Utopian," he says.
then our spiritual strength is exhausted and civilization will go down
in a welter of barbarous slaughter." This conception of the league of
nations as primarily a salutary moral affirmation on the part of the
members of the league is unusual, but it is the only conception which
will enable the league to save civilization from the threatened nun.
If the American people understand the need of saving civilization
from the consequences of the war as well as from its German instiga
tors and support their president, he may be strong enough to bring a
binding union and a healing reconstruction to Lurope and America.
Vnd if they do not, they themselves will eventually be engulfed ,n
the anarchy and ruin which Is now threatening Europe.
UNI NOTICES
Woman's Athletic Association
The executive hoard of the Woman'r
Athletic association " n,,,rl Thur"
day night. January 9, at 7 o'clock In
the Woman's hall. Fourteenth and II
Important. The regular association
meeting will be hold at 7:30.
Delisn Literary 8oeiety
The Dellaii Literary society wll1
meet Friday evening at 8 in Facult)
hall. Tempi. A" i,,,"' nro ,n
vlted to attend.
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Observatory
rim Obscivnton will be open to th
....i.u.. i-i..,...inv imiim v 9. from 7:1 SO
to 9::!0 p. m. if the K1es are clear,
for a lew of the nnn.
Komensky Club Meeting
The Komensky dub will hold It?
first meeting of the ear on Januar
in i.. ivi.i.iti at 7::i'. Kiection
I AX. Itl '
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of officers will h- iiei.i.
dents are Inxited.
Bohemian stu
Sophomore Class Meeting
The sophomore class will meet In law
101 Thursday morning at 11 o'clock
Very important.
Union Literary Society
Everybody is welcome to the Union
society meeting Friday evening, Jan
uarv 10, at S:30, in Union hall. A good
program is being planned with lots of
fun for all.
for
the
Omicron Nu Meeting
Oniicron Nu will meet
first time in its new room at
VAYmi.Ms hall Thursday evening at
7:4.V Important business will be dis
cussed at the beginning of the hour
after which Professor Cochran will
give a talk of unusual interest. His
subject will be "Some Phases of the
Teace Conference." Every member is
urged to be present, and any alum
nae who are in town are cordially in
vited.
Xi Delta
Xi Delta will meet at
Thursday evening in the
building.
7 o'clock
Woman'
Twins Club
The Twins club will meet Friday
eveninir. Jan. 10. with the Wolfe
Twins, at the Delta Zeta house, 1437
street. All twins are urgea to dp
present.
Course in Mathematics
The following courses, primarily for
students in the School of Commerce
are offered: Math. 42 Mathematics
of Life Insurance, 2 or 3 hours credit
rofessor Babbitt. Math: 43 Mathe
matical Theory of Investments.
hours credit, Professor Brenke. Vre
requisite for either course in Math, la
or equivalent. For students of math
ematics or nhysics Viector Analysis.
2 or 3 hours credit, rrofessor Gaba.
DAILY DIARY RHYMES
By
Gayle Vincent Grubb
They're resigned from the. best to
I he w orst.
Killed In Action." It seemed that the
eyes of the dog
Could spell out the name, now-denied.
For he slunk away to his bed In the
barn
And a few days bro he dlef!
.There's no fako sentiment stored In
here;
It was written to me. by chance.
Learning how to sell the public
something that the public doesn't
want Is a service to society as w ell as
an invaluable training t oneself.
The best man and most beloved by
the gods is he that as a husbandman
does the duties of husbandry'; as a
Eurgeon the duties of the medical art;
in political life the duty toward the
Two of the most bitter things In life commonwealth. The man that does
are being jilted by a girl and a dose of nothing well is neither useful nor
"A PAL"
(From a letter)
You could beat 'im and could call 'im
names,
And kick his yeller hide;
He as just a dog and a mongrel, too
But was white, clean white inside
Just to lay in the grimy dust at youi
feet,
Was a chunk of the sky for 'im;
He was true, all true, and a pal foi
sure
And his name why they called him
"Slim."
Tho' lanky and homely the love in his
(heart
Was the kind the world seldom
knows,
It stands that all of us, down to the
last.
Must growl at the way life goes.
War! And his master, true to him
self.
And his pride cut clean to the bone
Took hinns with the rest, forgetting
the dog
That he'd left back at home, all
alone.
The grief of a man or a woman, too
Tho keen as a sword at first.
Eventually sinks to forgetfulness,
From a friend of mine whose brothor
It was,
Who was killed on the field of
France.
Mm
You could beat Im and could call
names,
And kick his yeller hide;
He was Just a dog and a mongrel, too,
But was white, clean white Innida!
The richer a man la the harder he
tries to make people believe ho u
poor.
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