THE DAILY N B H R AS K A N
The Daily Nebraskan
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Howard Murfin Managing Editor
Ja k Landale - New Editor
Clarence Haley -....Acting News Editor
Iluth Snyder Aasociate Editor
Oswald Black - 1 sPrt Edltor
Helen Giltner Society Editor
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CONGRATULATE THE TEAM
Prospects in the (-porting world are brightening up considerably for
Nebraska. After a discouraging season of football, we have been elec
trilied into the realization t'nat we have a basketball team. Moreover,
it is a team that now stands second place in the Valley, according to
the statistics compiled by the sport writers. Our rivals, the Kansas
Aggies, have yet to prove their worth. To-date they have met only
inferior Valley teams, and virtually hold their present position by
accident.
The rise or fall of Missouri, Kansas Aggies, and Nebraska, hinges
upon the outcome of the games that are still to be played. So far the
season's games have been in the nature of preliminary contests. The
contenders have been merely "feeling each other out." From the elimi
nation process, Nebraska has emerged with flying colors. With the
odds slightly on the side of Missouri, we have a fighting chance to win
the pennant. The team goe3 to play Kansas University and the Aggies,
in two weeks, playing four consecutive games on foreign territory.
The following week the Aggies play Missouri at Columbia, giving
Missouri the advanttgc of the home floor. Consider the excellent rec
ord the team has made so far, and the hard road that lies ahead, and
every time we meet a player on the campus, let's give him the con
genial hand of congratulation, and wish him good luck in the battles
that are to come. Convince him that he is not fighting alone.
THE BALLOT ON THE CAMPUS
We were afforded a taste yesterday of what real, old-fashioned,
hit and smash election might be like. Political henchmen of various
creeds were congregated about the Armory doors the greater part
of the day, and many were the innocent voters who were lead by
persuasive, doll-eyed, co-eds to cast their vote for so and so. The
competition was limited to the contest for freshman and senior
president, but the fighting spirit demonstrated, made up in some
measure for the lack of interest in the other classes.
The large number of votes that were polled, is encouraging to
those who had hoped to see the student body take an interest in
political affairs. It appears that we have not completely lost sight
of the importance of our constitutional right to the ballot. After we
leave college, and take our place as an active citizen of the body
politic, our one, small right to a voice in the government is exer
cised through the proper and sober-minded use of the ballot For a
man to neglect his duty of casting a ballot on election day, is to
brand himself as a civic outcast His apathy classes him with the
convict and with the demented unfortunates who inhabit our asylums.
There is no better place to learn the power and the significance
of the ballot than right here on the university campus. It Is encour
aging to observe that a small proportion of our student body is
learning to exercise its civic powers.
"OVER THERE"
A few months ago the American people and their soldiers were
with .great gusto singing George Cohan's famous song, the last line
of which was "We won't come back till it's over, over there." We all
want the boys brought home as soon as possible, and they very natu
rally are eager to get back. But we must remember that everything
is not yet "over, over there." That being ihe case we must make our
word good. An army of occupation is as necessary now as an army of
combat was three months ago. Peace has not yet been made. The
whole of eastern Europe is in a turmoil of which Germany, may be
trusted to make the most. It is not, as Speaker Clark said a few days
ago, a question of doing police duty, but of seeing that the terms of
the armistice are complied with, and of enforcing the peace terms, if
this shall prove to be necessary.
The quota to be furnished by each nation will be determined by
the peace conference, and the American people will acquiesce in the
decision. They have formed the habit of finishing any Job that they
undertake, and they will finish this one. The problem is not a Euro
pean one, but a world problem. It is one of finishing a war which is
as much our war as it is that of France. We are bringing home 300,000
men a month, and that is well. But it is important that those who are
not returned they and their friends and relatives should realize the
vital nature of the duty that is. yet to be performed, and that it is a
duty that we owe, not to the French or British, but to ourselves, and to
the great cause in behalf of which we went to war.
After all. it is not pro'. oble that there will be any delay, due to the
peace ooiifeiriivts. lu bringing ihe men Win. At the rate of StfO.OOO
a month, which is the top figure, it will take more than six months to
get our army out of France. Whether overseas or in this country our
soldiers realize that they are still in the service of this country, and
will be until they are discharged. The Indianapolis News.
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HAND GRENADES
A Winter's Tals"
(Through an error on the part of the
compositor several paragraphs were
omitted from the Hand Grenades in
Tuesday's paper. The story, as it
should appear, follows:)
Some one gave us a cruel blow the
other night. A certain man asked
why the "Has" did not run a hu
We wilted. Who
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wouldn't? Then we explained at
length that Hand Grenades were real
ly supposed to be scintillating out
bursts of wit and humor. Much sur
prise was registered on the face of
the heartless man, who said he at
ways thought that the Hand Grenades
were mereS- advertisements for pat
ent medicine or something like that.
There was another fellow with him
He said he read said Hand Grenades
once In a while, but he couldn't give
them much. He furthermore said,
that he wished the fellow who wrote
them would lay off the dainty, girlish
stuff as he had no idea how to depict
feminine characters, his work being
bunglinglv masculine. Maybe he was
right. Maybe a fellow six feet tall
who tips the scales at on hundred
and eighty cannot accurately portray
fluffy-ruffle, lady-like, personalities
but then we would like to meet any
who who really understands maidenly
mannerisms. We are sure such a
fellow would be hard to find.
We could forgive him for this, but
we can neither forgive nor forget his
remark to the effect that he wished
that once in a while that Shrapnel or
Hand Grenade or whatever-he-called-
himself fellow would take his stories
from life, rather than forever giving
want to his distorted imagination.
After that, we needed a few "ruby
rays" yes. we went to the Orpheum
last week what our imagination re
fuses to distill in the laugh line we
glean at the Tuesday matinee.
Well, today we're going to tell a
true story a breezy one about the
blizzard. (Tlease read the last of
that sentence again we don't want
you to miss the joke!) Out in the
wilderness in the little town where
our family tree 'is firmly planted, the
blizzard blizzed lots harder than it
did here. The wind howled and the
snow drifted. In one of the deepest
drifts was buried a lady a beautiful
lady with golden hair and a rose
petal skin! The snow piled over her
and the icy blasts raged about her.
Ever and anon, a stalwart man
would struggle through the storm.
All looked at the unfortunate lady,
and a few would-be heroes started to
help her, but no one really rescued
her. There, during that awful day,
she remained in the ice and snow.
Now, the men in our little habitation j
do not lack courage. Many of them j
have just returned from France where
they shared in deeds of heroism. Wby,
then, were they not brave enough,
and chivalrous enough to aid the beau
tiful lady? Perhaps, they felt it be
low their dignity to help a wax lady
from a snow-drift Oh, didn't you
know she was a wax lady? Guess
we forgot to tell you that The wind
blew in a store window, and blew out
the wax-lady.
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