i -i Theatre -FRI. 9AT, . . n-, a uiir... " Paslea " ELINORGLYNTS 8uc.r te "Three Week. The Only Thing umk ELEANOR BOARDMAN nd CON RAD NAGEL A Mtro Goldwy Picture Nr Pth. Comedy i.'t Love Cockoo -...ah1 "iT 1 i. R- 7. ft. n7. soc. cmi 10c. n.' "Herb" Williams Vaudevlllt's Favorite Buffoon Presents "THE BELLS" A RuHine Comedy An All CM Revue Rita Mario & Co. ,0CHAFMINC GIRLS 10 Presenting, MUSIC AS YOULIKE IT" Billy McDermott B CWifyinf the AmjT-k Bum In 1 Tbe count oi wvmn Assisted by TOM JONES SAM ESTELLE Summers & Hunt A Duo of Funsters In "GIGGLES" Mankin A Spectator Novelty 'THE FROG MAN" "Sunken Silver Uit Chapter Alio News and Comedy Picture BAB1CH AND THE ORCHESTRA SHOWS AT 2: SO, 7:00. 9:00 Lincoln Theatre ALL THIS WEEK Brown Eyes Ths Cow Star Ap pearing with Buster Keaton TnTrrrrt. In His Screaming? Part "GO WEST" A Metro-Goldwyn Picture ON THE STAGE PRIZE WINNERS OF THE LYRIC CHARLESTON CONTEST RICHARD COLE THELMA STROH ERNEST LINDERMANN Pretentinf the prize winning dances COMEDY NEWS FABLES Lincoln Symphony Orchestra Wilbur Chenoweth, Organist SHOWS AT 1, S, 5, 7, 9. Mat. 35c, Nlte 30c, Chil. 10c. LYRIC ALL THIS WEEK AN ALL FUN PROGRAM A Hilarious Tale f Love and Locks 'Bobbed Hair' From the Novel by Twenty Authors with Marie Prevost Kenneth Harlan Louise Fazenda "THE PEACEMAKER" A Charming Story of "The Married Life ol Helen and Warren" MINUTE NEWS AND VIEWS ON THE ST ACE RIVA & ORR 'ihe Dancing Stars with RAMAJO BAND . HARRISON'S LYRIC ORCHESTRA MRS. MAYM. MILLS. ORGANIST SHOWS At 1, S, 5, 7, 9. COLONIAL THIS WEEK ZANE GREY'S Thrilling Western Romance "The Light of Western Stars" "East Side Wert Side" Twenty Minutes of Laughter "EXTRA THUR FRI. SAT. THE ACE OF SPADES." Last Chapter SHOWS AT 1, S, B, T, B. Kiaito THUR.-FRI.-SAT. I i s ''",m, mimniit mn n mnmiummMMmmtimi. mm r.mmimm.Mimiimiiiimnim.i.mmi University Players TONIGHT, Friday and Saturday "WHY THE CHIMES RANG" I With U of N Quartet 1 POOR AUBREY "THE NOBLE LORD " 'OP-TI-'ME-THUMB" I "THIRTY MINUTES ON THE STREET" Plays that are new, absorbing, and worthwhile j SPECIAL SATURDAY MATINEE 50c Seats at R. P. Curtice Co. Eve. 75c j . Curtain 8:20 and 2:30 f c Claim Gridiron Sport Is Over- Emphasized in Modern Schools With Capt. Marion A, Check of this year's varsity eleven scheduled to be speaker against the present over-emphasis on football at the Har vard Debating Union meeting this week, and the Harvard Crimson the collet daily paper coming out today with a strong editorial against the over-emphasis on the game football, 'as conducted at the present time, is receiving considerable atten tion in Cambridge just now. That the discussion now going on at Har vard is being watched with interest by football followers all over the United States is well known, and the effect it is going to have on the future of the game will be closely watched. That college football has developed into such a state that some action will have to be taken to keep it in its right place seems to be the opin ion of a vast majority of the persons closely connected with the game. That it is a splendid sport and wor thy of an active place in intercol legiate activities is unquestioned, but its very popularity has led it into a position where it has become too im portant in the eyes of many. The Harvard Crimson, in its edi torial, declared that: In theory football is good for the players, for the general body of undergraduates, and for the alumni. For the players, football serves to build charac ter, to inspire personal cour age, a.nd to develop true sports manship; but the present over emphasis tends to rob the game of all pleasure and make it a grim and serious business. For the general body of undergrad uates, football is a cohesive force and represents dramatic ally the ideals of the college; but present over-emphasis tends to give it a false importance which distorts the students' sense of collegiate values. For alumni, football is a magnet, drawing graduates back to col lege and serving to renew their interest in the affairs of the college; but present over-emphasis tends to confine their in terest to the maintenance of a winning football team, and to crowd out of their minds co'm " pletely matters of larger educa tional importance; and here is, perhaps, the most serious evil of the present situation. Just how to put football on a ra tional basis seems to be a difficult question. The adoption of rules and Gift Hosiery With winter nipping at one's ankles and keen winds blowing from around every corner, wool hosiery is the logical choice. Especially when one can choose such smart ones as those at Rudge & Guenzel's. Knit in de lightful patterns and ex quisite colorings, and so beautifully made that they are very acceptable as gifts. You can choose from all wool, silk-and-wool, wool-and-cotton a splendid selection. Or, if you prefer a dain tier hose to give your friends you can find at Rudge & Guenzel's all the smartest shades of silk hose in either service weight or sheer chiffon. Choose your gift hosiery today. Personal Service Bureau Budge ft Guensel Co. II VEft tAlLLSl icq I J I regulations of a too drastic nature might well fail to do any good. The game has been slowly growing to its present state and it will take time to overcome the undesirable features which are noted at present and bring the game back to the condition that should prevail. Too drastic action is pretty sure to fail. Offer Several Sag getioni With a view to making a start the Harvard Crimson has offered the fol lowing ideas as a first step toward the desired goal: 1. The Harvard Athletic Com mittee should arrange for a football meeting, with represent' tatives from Harvard, Yale, and two other universities to be selected later, who would draw up an agreement: A. To abolish all spring foot ball practice and preseason prac tice, thus starting the football season at the time college opens, and ending it with the last game. B. To abandon scouting. By scouting we mean the current practice of sending accredited agents to watch and report the system of play used by an op posing team. Just as signal stealing, once a common thing in football, was finally discredited by common agreement, in like manner scouting can be given the stamp of common disappro val. C. To limit football practice to three hours in the afternoon. We mean by this that the num ber of hours of practice shall be so limited, that football will not make the exorbitant de mands upon a student's time that it now does. Evening meet ings should, therefore, be dis couraged. Coich Should Be Harvard Man 2. The head coach of the Har vard football team should be a Harvard man, since a graduate of Harvard is more likely to be in sympathy with the ideals for which Harvard stands than an outsider. Because of his great influence upon the players, his character and personality should be paramount considerations. Since the object of coaching is to teach men, to play the grme, and, since in every sport to play well is one of the greatest in centives to playing at all, the Harvard football coach should be the very best available. 8. The Crimson advocates ath letics for all. Class football, be gun this year, should be contin ued and fostered by providing class teams with adequate, paid coaching. 4. Admission requirements and general academic standards should be maintained as strict ly as they are at present. Stu dents who represent Harvard on the football field should be rep resentative Harvard men. This implies that they maintain their accademic standing at all times. 5. There should be no public sale of tickets to any Harvard football game. Such games should be considered the con cern of the undergraduates of the competing colleges. Throw ing these games open to the gen eral public has brought about some of the worst evils of col lege football. All sales of tick ets should be by application, and a strict check should be kept of the occupants of seats at every game to discourage speculation. Advocates No Schedule Change 6. For the present the Crim son advocates no change in Har vard's game schedules. The pres ent ruling against post-season games should be continued. The Crimson opposes the idea of an Eastern Football Conference, which is being currently discuss ed in the press. It is conceiva ble thut such a conference might be made the instrument for ef fecting a wider1 acceptance than is now possible of limitations upon the overemphasis of foot ball. But just the opposite mo tive seems now to underlie the agitation in favor of such a con ference. A Big Eastern Foot ball League, with its big confer ence games every week, would bring to final completion those evils against which the Crimson directs these proposals. 7. The Crimson deplores the preponderance of space devoted to college football in the news papers. The doings of profes sional football teams may in the future, come so to fill the public eye as to remedy a large part of this evil. The custom of pick ing All-American teams is the last stage of that cheap aggran dizement through newspaper publicity which tends to create in students' minds a false sense of values. The Crimson, there fore, has discontinued this year its old custom of picking an Ali Stadium team. The (Crimson also deplores the habit of sport ing writers to make college players the butt of their gibes and witticisms. This practice is decidedly pernicious. Because a player makes an error in a football game, his career in life may bt. Tuined by branding him before the public as "the man who dropped the punt" THE DAILY NEBRA8E AN MILITARISM IS UNDER ATTACK Compulsory Feature of Mili tary Training in Colleges la Condemned ASKS FOR ITS REMOVAL Washington, Dec. 10. Military training in high schools and its com pulsory features in colleges and the universities are condemned in a statement issued Monday by a rep resentative group of statesmen, edu cators, churchmen, editors, social workers and prominent men and wo men, including Senators William E. Borah, (Rep.), Henrik Shipstead, (Farmer-Labor), George W. Norris, (Rep.), and Robert M. LaFollette, Jr., (Rep.) The attack is contained in a fore word to a pamphlet on "Military Training in Schools and Colleges of the United States," by Winthrop D. Lane, of New York City, made pub lic then. The group calls for the re moval of military training from high schools and of its compulsory fea tures from colleges "as a minimum program for dealing with the Re serve Officers' Training Corps." The pamphlet will be issued within a day or two. "The extent of miliary training in the United States will come as a surprise to many Americans," says the opening paragraph of the fore word, commending the pamphlet. Continuing, it says: Fact Call for Some Action "But facts like these call for some action. Even those who, hav ing read this pamphlet, still believe in the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, will surely want to be on their guard against its becoming a means of militarizing America. It would be a tragedy if at the very moment when such ancient enemies as Ger many and France are outlawing war between each other, the military spirit should assert itself in the Un ited States. "Our schools ought to be the best defense against this. There certain ly we should have a positive edu cation for peace. Such education is wholly inconsistent (1) with military training in the high schools, and (2) with compulsory military training in the colleges. "At the very least, military train ing should be rigidly excluded from the high schools. It does not pro vide the best form of physical train ing, it does not teach constructive citizenship; if successful it tends to impart aggressive, even jingoistic notions by its effect upon immature minds at their formative period. "When such training is made com- nulsorv in hich ahnrls if ic on direct approach to that nniversial military training and service which in peace time public opinion in Am erica has overwhelmingly rejected. Against Compulsory Training 'The same argument applies to compulsory training in the colleges when imposed by college faculties. A country which has refused to ac cept compulsory training and ser vice for all its citizens cannot con sistently permit young men ambi tious for an education to be forced into accepting militarytraining as a part of the price for that education. So much ought to be clear to every man who has respect for the spirit of American institutions and hop ; for American leadership in world peace. "The removal of military training from high schools, and of its com pulsory features from the colleges, is a minimum program for dealing with the R. O. T. C. But a further con clusion is forced upon us. We are convinced that it is alien to the best interests of our universities and to the highest ideals of learning that the War Department should be given bo much power, and military training so much place as it now has, in our college world. "The atmosphere of military training is not the atmosphere for the finest, the most, thoughtful work along any line requiring inde pendent thinking. Higher education ought to exist for the encourage ment of independent thinking. "Science, art, and culture are not and cannot be purely national. All earning is witness to the truth that 'above all nations is 'humanity.' Are Inappropriate Fields "Colleges and universities, chore- fore, are peculiarly inappropriate fields for military training and for the intrusive presence of a military bureaucracy. We Americans would have said this of any country in the world. There is no virtue of our own which makes us immune to a militarism which has playd so fatal a role in Europe. "In recommending this pampHet therefore, we urge not merely the thoughtful consideration of its statements but action to secure to American youth such educational in fluences as will makn equivocally for peace." In explaining "Why This Pamph let Has Been Written" Mr. Lane says: "The object of this pamphlet is to put facts into the hands of the Am erican people. The public has not passed upon the question of military training for youth. It has register ed opposition to the idea of univer sal compulsory military training, but w 4 Before SHOP HERE! for your Christmas gifts Make your selections early choose the gifts to take home to the family, and be certain of securing acceptable, and delightful ones. Every section in uniaue or in some priced and presented Choose GLOVES JEWELRY HOSIERY UNDERWEAR NECKWEAR "OUR WITCHING are fine enough to upon the present near-substitute it has not spoken. Congress, under the emotion of a great European war, put into effect the National De fense Act, and in so doing author ized the President of the United States to introduce military training into civil educational institutions; the War Department is now showing what this may mean, but the general public has hardly known what was going on." ALUMNUS WRITES OF WORK Sargent Telia of Study in Massachu setts Institute of Technology J' A' S,u?n vCi' '2?' te"S bont W0JLk in Massachusetts institute oi leennojogy, jn a jeui-er to Professor Mickey of the civil en gineering department of the Univer sity. Mr. Sargent is registered there as a graduate student and is work ing for his master's degree in civil engineering. He states that he is especially interested in his work in the field of soil mechanics under a European instructor, Dr. Charles Terzaghi. He adds that students there liave a splendid opportunity to hear the speakers of real note. He mentions John Hays Hammond, Sr., and John R. Freeman and Mr. Eddy of Metcalf and Eddy, who spoke on the report, of the Commission of Investigation on the Sanitary District of Chicago. May Disbar Entire Class of Freshmen The freshman class of the Uni versity of Washington has number ed among its 2500 members a num ber of persons who painted the class numerals on buildings and memorial towers. According to the senior council, unless the guilty parties are found by thiB noon the entire class will be barred from all social, ath letic, and other academic activities. It's all var but the houtinf for you fel lows, 1 mean about the question of what to do with your clothes over Xmas vacation. I'm talc ing care of them. Send them In for clean in or pressing ana mine ine 4 ticket "Hold" and , V they'll be safe. Jf Varsity Cleaners ROY WYTHERS. Mr. B3367 316 No. 12 St. FOR ORIGINAL PARTY FAVORS with CHRISTMAS MOTIF CAU. Eilaea Wlnslnw 140 No. 38 St. I B S99S DELICIOUS SANDWICHES. SOUPS HOT DRINKS Ledwich's Tstie Siioppe 12th an4 r. 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