T II K I) A I h Y N K n It A 3 K A N
MAYOR SMITH TURNS
OVER KEYS Of CITY
UfcntlnuF(! from Fat On)
always thrown open, and nothing will
be too good" for tho students who are
"lords and kings of the day." Oma
ha'a attitude toward the university
has ever been the mont altrulHtlc.
fair example of this ran be noted In
the manner In which her newspapers
have always been anxious to do their
part In booking th school. Omaha
encourages her citizens to send their
sons and daughters to the State Unl
veralty. and hundreda of the moBt
leprenentatlve and prominent stu
denta have heeded this- call. The
newspapers of Nebraska's largest city
do not nek for fccandal that will
muke a nennatlonal atory. and give
the people of the state a wrong Inv
nreHHlon ns to wi the students are
accomplishing. i' v publish that
which Is proper from a newB Btand
polnt. and not that which tend to
be senHatlonal without having any
r-al newa value. Furthermore they
are anxloiiH to publish all the newa of
the unlvei-Hlly. and not merely an oc
cuslonal formal notice of an Impor
tant happening.
A Commercial Center
This year Omaha will be different
than she was even three years ago
She has changed mightily; she has
"grown up." With the Incorporation
nf South Omaha, and other smaller
suburbs, her population Is now close
to 2r0.00n. Her line of skycrapers is
ever changing, and her municipal im
provements and park Bystems are
widening. The observance of these
changes by one who has not visited
the Gate City in three years will be
something in itself to open his eyes.
It is almost Imperative that stu
dents stay with their groups this year,
n order that the least amount of con
fusion may occur, and the Inspection
of the various Omaha points of inter
est may be systematized. After the
speeches, dinner and informal recep
tion and dance in the evening the
students and faculty will return tired,
but with the appreciation and educa
tional enjoyment which the thousands
of dollars spent by the Omaha citi
zens for the visitors' entertainment
will create.
MISS CARSON TO DISCUSS
RED CROSS SOCIAL WORK
Miss Norma Carson, field repre
sentative in Nebraska of the Civilian
Relief department of the Red Cross,
will visit the University Monday and
Tuesday of next week. She comes
at this time particularly to . discuss
the openings for social work through
the Red Cross and wishes to meet
seniors who are Interested in this
line of work.
Miss Carson is a Nebraska gradu
ate who has had several years of
study and research in the New York
School of Civics and Philanthropy.
She will address the sociology class
in Law 107 at 3 o'clock Monday after
noon; and other students interested
are invited to attend this lecture.
ALUMI NOTES
SOCIAL EVENTS
Alpha Theta Chi held Its spring
I arty at the Lincoln Hotel. Seventy
nuuples attended. Mr. and Mrs. James
Lawrence and Mr. and Mrs. Arthur
IMtner chaperoned the party. The
out-of-town guests Were Mark Har
graves, Kenneth Dinsmore, Wymore;
Loren Caley, Sterling.
Seventy-five couples were enter
tained by the members of the Farm
House at their spring party at the
Lincoln Hotel. The decorations were
in maroon and gold. The chaperones
wore Prof, and Mrs. W. V. Burr. Mr.
and Mrs. C. W. Pugsley. and Prof. H.
J. Young. Guests from out of town
who attended the party were: .F. C.
Coulson, Norfolk; B. H. Reiher. Red
Cloud; A. V. Tjoulson, Gothenburg,
and B. E. Skinner, Champaign, 111.
The Sophomore hop was held at
the Commercial Club. Ninety couples
attended. Dr. and Mrs. George Con
dra were the chaperones.
The women of the faculty enter
tained the faculty at dinner at Wo
men's Hall. Places were laid for two
hundred. The tables were decorated
with apple and cherry blossomB. Miss
Winifred Hyde was chairman of the
committee.
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Mis Ina OUtlngs. '06, formerly
physical director at the University of
Nebraska, la now with the American
Commltte for Relief at Constan
tlnople. The party made the trip
across tho Atlantic In the Leviathan
and landed In Brest, France, from
which they were taken to Marseilles
In a hospital train. They salleacross
the Mediterranean In a British trans
port to Tunis, Africa and then liar
bored at Salonika. Miss Gittlngs
wrote the following letter to her
mother, Mrs. A. II. Gittlngs, of
Superior.
March 6, 1919
For two days we have been anchored
In the harbor at Salonika, Greece, at
the base of Mt. Olympus where the
ancient gods were- born and dealt
happiness or woo to the people or
tribes or nations of those days. The
natural beauty of this blue corner of
the Aegean Is overwhelming, but after
we went ashore and saw at close
range the city of Minarets (prayer
towers Moslem) and the ancient
walled city In ruins above the more
modern city, the beauty had a pathetic
tinge. Squqalor, misery, and Ignor
ance In the home of the gods In the
cradle of civilization. Is time then
of bo little value to the human race
that nothing had been reaped or kept
that will add value to the real knowl
edge of how to live? Minarets on
countless mosquqes from which pray
ers are said or sung to east and west.
and north and south and yet where is
the comfort for these miserable
sufferers.
The harbor Is entirely land locked
and circled with mountains, some
snow capped, and the blue sky and
the blue water make it a beautiful set
ting for ships of all nations. One
large one is beached, having been
torpedoed by German submarines.
Aeroplanes soared over the city all.
day yesterday. Military and refugee
camps of and for all nations are at
the edge of the city; British, French,
Italian, Greeks and Russian have large
military camps and most of the
refugees are Greeks, Armenian or
Balkan tribes. This has been the base
of all operations for the Balkan wars
for years and years and now the
great war has made It more the vortex
than ever. Since the Balkans have
been tho bone of contention for all
the European powers and Turkey, for
so long and finally precipitated things,
one can pick up political and geog
raphical facts to a good advantage and
see the war with .new and wide open
far-seeing eyes even better than to
view the trendies of France. The
effect Is terrific.
The British seem to have the big
gest and best camps and the most in
fluence. My respect for them as men
and soldiers steadily rises.
"If It were not for some of the autos
and aeroplanes and bright well kept
uniforms brought In by the soldiers,
one would think they had dragged off
Into a plague-stricken city of some
time before Christ. There are certain
sections of the city that show a little
order but for the most part it is a
hodge-podge of wrecked buildings and
beggars groveling In the remains.
The city has been burned and bombed
and shelled intermittently but not
extensively.
Out in the hills (we had a trip in
a Red Cross car to some camps) Greek
sheperds In costumes of Biblical times
drive their flocks hither and thither
and make great unmelodious, un
poetical noises when the sheep per
chance wander into unfenced fields of
grain about the size of a house
foundation.
On the rocky, winding roads are
long cavalcades of donkeys loaded
with everything from straw, milk cans,
garbage, stove wood, roots to house
hold furniture and brlc-abrac. One
can scarcely guess whether it la mov
ing day or whether this is the com
mercial avenue of the land. Nothing
seems to travel on wheels and one
pities these little beasts and frayed
out horses of about the same size. A
few antique carriages ply in the street
of down town district but one wonders
if there are not more passengers on
or in the plush seats than meet the
eye. The horses that draw these ve
hicles are harnessed with odds and
ends of straps, but around their necks
are great necklaces of bright blue
beads and in their collars, sleigh bells.
The beads are even seen on dogs and
children and are guaranteed to keep
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Awaits the men and women
of the future---students at
our State University who
will have much to do with
moulding and making the
policies under which our
great State is to. develop.
Make yourselves thorough
ly at home. If you don't see
what you want, ask for it.
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Thomas Kilpatrick Co,
March 7.
We have passed into the strait of
the Dardanelles and are about half
through it. On one side we view
Gallipoli and review the stories of the
recent British disasters there and
wonder what might have happened
had they (the British) in their first
attack gone on and sacrificed a ship
or two more, for It is now known
that only a few rounds (6-10) of am
munition were left in the Turkish
forts. Six more hours of daring and
Russia's fall might have been pre
vented.
On the other side we see the flat
plain from which the city of Troy
arose, and where now evidences of
Ine buried cities, one above the
other, have been unearthed.
Too much to see and hear. Good
bye for now.
INA.
STUDENT MEMBERSHIP FOR
ATHLETIC BOARD MONDAY
(Continued from Page One)
Cable Jackson, John Pickett and
Harold Gerhart are the present stu
dent members who will be superseded
at the coming election. The faculty
members are: Prof. 11. D. Scott, pres
ident; Dr. R. G. Clapp, secretary; G.
E. Barber, Prof. H. W. Caldwell, Prof.
R. H. Wolcott and Dr. E. J. Stewart.
The alumnus member is Mr. V. P.
Sheldon, while T. A. Williams acts
as treasurer for the organization.
The fifth number of tho Awgwan,
the "Commencement" number, will
be published during commencement
week this spring instead of next fall
as stated in the Daily Nebraskan yes
terday. The sixth number, however,
will not be published until next fall
but will reach all present subscribers.
While in Omaha
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