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The Daily Nebraskan
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA OFFICIAL PUBLICATION
EDITORIAL STAFF
Katharine Ne branch Editor In Chief
Caylord Davis Managing Editor
Helen Howe Associate Editor
Howard Murfln N' Kd,tor
jack Landale Ne Edl,or
Oswald Black sPrt Edl,or
Helen Gilmer Socletr Ktlltor
BUSINESS STAFP
Glen H. Garduer Business .Manager
Rov Wvthers Aaalstnnt Business Manager
REPORTORIAL STAFF
Patricia Maloney Marian llennlnger Sadie Finch
Story Harding Gnyle Vincent Grnbb Khe Nelson
Mary lleriing Katherlne lirenke Viola Klelnke
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Entered at the postoffice at Lincoln, Nebraska, as secondclass
mall matter umhr the Act of Congress of March 3, 1ST9.
Students and faculty hao been united in an effort to make
-Service" the motto of the University. During the war period this
wns the proper attitude. We may well he proud of our college. She
loaned her men. her buildings the energies of some of her ablest
in. -1 motors.
It is now the duty of each and ery student and faculty member
to do his or her utmo.-t to help the I'siiverMty. Every act that reflects
credit on any individual connect..! with the University, credits the
University as such. We are all anxious to make our college the best
coeducational institution in the ocr.n'ry. It will be what we make it.
The worst thing we can do for oar school is to knock it. "Crabb
ing" is almost a popular form of amusement these days. We pass
hurriedly over the things that pleases us and dwell exhaustively on
those that displease us. We seem to find a sinister enjoyment in lay
ing bare the faults that we find wiih the various events -in college
life.
If instead we were to hunt out tl.-- good points, the things that we
do appreciate and venerate in our school life, what a different atti
tude we would soon acquire, and how mmh we would contribute to
our ultimate happiness as students. It is a question of boosting or
knocking.
AUTOCRATIC GOVERNMENT
We do not doubt the Kaiser when he says he did not want to insult
England with that telegram to Kruger about the Boer War. But his
"advisers" insisted, and after holding off for three days he wiped
his eyes and scrawled his name. Probably he was as tractable for a
week after that as an urchin that has been soundly spanked usually is.
Likely enough the Crown Prince tells the truth when he says he
wanted to make peace after the First Battle of the Marne, did not
want to attack at Verdun and opposed the submarine campaign; but
Ludendorff glowered at him and told him to shut his mouth and mind
his business. Likely enough the All Highest and next All Highest
had miserable half hours when they sneaked off by themselves and
condoled each other on the way things were going and the rude
manner in which the Great General Staff boxed their imperial ears.
Likely enough, because that is the usual way of autocracy. In
forty recorded centuries of kingship there were hardly forty kings
that ruled. Poor little Nicholas in any one of his vast palaces was
bossed by his wife, who was bossed by her firt lndy in waiting, who
took her cues from a dirty, ill-educated religious faker, who prob
ably got his instructions and thirty dollars a week and a kick from
the German Ambassador.
Autocracy vests authority in a symbol. Once in a while, as with
a Russian Peter, a Prussian Frederick, an English Henry, the smybol
is rea'ly automatic, being endowed with such extraordinary personal
force that it can work itself. But that is very exceptional. Usually
somcbotlv has to work it. Saturday Evening Post.
THE OPPRESSED AS OPPRESSORS
4 New York Tribune.)
The behavior of the delivered nations of central and eastern
Kurope until recently known as the "oppressed races" reflects no
credit upon human nature in general and belittles the political saga
city of the peoples concerned. Instead of pulling themselves together
in a collective effort to clear away the decaying remnants of the old
order and to build up the framework of the future economic and
cultural development, instead of doing their best to smooth out differ
ences of detail and to emphasize the commonness of esseniial inter
ests; they quarrel unconscionably.
The world is invited to witness what promises to be a free-for-all
fight of Poles and Ukrainians, Ukrainians and Rumanians. Ruman
ians and Serbs. Serbs and Italians , Magyars and Czecho-Slovaks.
Czecho-Slovacks and Poles. Poles and Lithuanians, not to mention the
Germans, who still enjoy the privilege of being hated by everybody
in general. And while this spectacle proceeds bobbevism is delivering
its violent blows on the eastern gate, and behind the scenes the agents
of Hohenzolleinism rub their bands, biding their time.
It is a dangerous game. In most of the cases it is a matter of three
or four counties, of another coal district, another railway center,
another port. The impulse is general. If the Poles claim the whole
of eastern Galicia. with 75 per cent of the population Ukrainian, the
Ukrainians claim Lemberg, which is a Polish city. We mention this
instance became it is typical of a score of others.
There are excuses. The phychology of the "oppressed race" is a
chapter to be considered. Oppression breeds in the victim vindictive
ness. txdusivism. intolerance. The desire to "turn the tables" is
intensely human: and Europe cannot afford to jude too harshly its
stepchildren for being what European statesmanship, or the lack of
iti ha made them. But the people of central and eastern Europe
cannot trTcrd to try the worlds' patience. The difficulties to be set
tled are nrt inconsiderable; but the one way in which they most
probably wi 1 not be settled satisfactorily is if all the contestants try
to be ju'lges of thir own cases and eecutor "f heir own awards.
ThT wou!d rfo a great deal better to restrain the over-zealous elements
and i rep--re to sr-pear 1-efore the tribunal with clean hands and sub
stan'lal b:ief. Otherwise, it will not be long before we shall hear
train the o'd arguments about peoples incapable of self-government.
HWHKNVK. Kan.. Jan. M-Food
for three days I what University of
Kansas -tudent. resident, of rratcrn
l.ies and oro-rlilcs. will be asked to
supply us their gift to the starving
people of the Near East.
Translated Into American money, j
,1,1, i 51 cents, for 17 cents win Mis
tain life a day In that country. A com
mittee of student today was named
to present the matter M each fratern
ity house, and to have the collection
taken.
The Lawrence city schools are tak
ling their collection by the milk bottle
system, each r!ns room striving to fill
a bottle with coins to buy food for
the sufferers In Armenia. Syria and
other countries in the Near East.
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