Tlie DAILY NKHKASKAN
Sunday, November 19, 1939
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Thomas, Clyde MarU, Chris Peterson.
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Ag Campus Editor Rex Brown
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AM. DAII.V unsigned edltnrtnM are the opinion of Its editors. Their views
or opinion In no way reflect the attitude of the administration of the university.
The University of Nebraska stands dismayed and
stunned today at its first gridiron death.
Friday night, two freshman teams, both instilled with
sportsmanship and the desire to do their best, met in what
was to them, a major contest. Their spirit, so typical of
Muskers, demanded that they give their best even in that
practice game.
During the game, a player was hit hard, went down.
Teammates gathered around that still form on the ground.
A doctor hurried onto the field but to no avail. Douglas
Davies lay dying.
Uncalled for and useless? Are football's few thrills
and temporary individual "glory" worth such a price?
'Consider the ease of Doug Davies.
Night after night he reported for long grueling, tire
some, drilling and practice, lie jumped at and hoped for a
chance to play during scrimmages. In short, he loved the
game.
lie, like the other 21 men on that field, was there to
do his best, to give all he could to the game, to develop em
bryo sportsmanship into a full quality most envied by all
men so that he too, like so many others in the past, might
add more glory to university tradition and name.
Every precaution possible against such an accident
was used. There was a team physician on the field and
the players were outfitted in the best equipment that can
be bought. Davies was given immediate medical attention.
Hut as Coach Levvandowski so ably put it, "It was just
one of those things that you read about and hope never
happens to you."
Doug Davies died playing football, Friday. lie gave
everything he had to the game. Surely, that must have
been the way he would want to do it. C. P.
Moral decay
endangers
democracy
. . . says educator
Characteristic feature
of world today is
bewilderment Rosenlof
The character istira of the pres
ent age are bewilderment, retreat
from reason, betrayal of trust in
high office, disintegration of mor
als, and man s dependence upon
material rather than spiritual val
ues, said Dr. Rosenlof, of the de
partment of secondary education,
addressing the Scottish Rite Ma
sons of Lincoln, Friday.
Dr. Rosenlof went on to point
out how these challenge democracy
today. He said that the most char-
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actcristic feature of the modern
world is its bewilderment. Too
many people are demonstrating
perplexity, doubt and fear in their
every act. What is more serious,
people wno nave convictions are
looked upon as bring old-fashioned.
Common sense uncommon.
Dr. Rosenlof pointed out that the
application of common sense to the
solution of our everyday problem
is itself very uncommon. We re
sort to expediency, we temporize,
or compromise. Emergency meas
urea seem to be the limit of our
concern, and what is needed is an
appeal to reason and not a retreat
from reason, said Rosenlof.
In the third place, Dr. Rosenlof
said, we are too much disposed
to condone the betrayal of trust
which is imposed upon us to safe
guard the ideals of life, liberty
and pursuit of happiness.
The professor said that the
fourth characteristic of the age is
moral disintegration. Honesty used
to be taken for granted, but today
it must be proved. Finally, he de
clared our age is characterized by
depending upon material rather
than spiritual values.
Must defend schools, churches.
In answer to these challenges,
Dr. Rosenlof set forth that the
only way to preserve our democ
racy is through the defense and
support of our institutions of learn-
Is it worth the chips?
College football is fast becoming America's favorite sport.
Eut that doesn't help Doug Davies.
College football is n big business. Millions of people an-1
nually pay millions of dollars to dick the turnstiles in the con
crete temples of (iod Football in this country. College football
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rs has a huge pay vol i n mums mania, nowis, nciu nouses, sun-
ports athletic, departments and programs, makes colleges great.
But that doesn't help Doug Davies.
College football molds character. And is Davies character
sufficiently molded?
College footbnll teaches co-ordnntion, co-operation, respect
for the other fellows' rights, the subordination of self-interest
to the general plan, ability to sacrifice for an ideal. But that
doesn't help Dous Davies.
NO, DOUG DAVIES IS DEAD. HE DIED PLAYING
FOOTBALL.
(!o ahead, minimize the chances of death on the gridiron.
There are only 20 or !H) killed so each year. In llWH, there were
17, in 1MI, there were .'W, the all-time high.
And why did Davies die? Ask me instead, why do college
men "play" football and die.
They ' play' to help themselves through college. I hey
are the recipients of "jobs," "scholarships." They
get through school easier often minimum scholastic
standards- arc lowered to meet their efforts. I'd rather
be alive.
They "play" to make' names for themselves. "Whether
it's pro ball or coaching, insurance or automobiles, the
magic of a big namclnade in college football precedes
them. I'd rather be alive.
They "play" for glory.
And it is a thrill to see your name splattered across the
front pages of a nation's newspapers. I'd rather be
alive.
"They "play" for the love of the game.
And the thrills of a hard clean tackle, of a precision
block, the beauty of a Christman pass, arc an art in
themselves. I'd rather be alive.
They "play" because pressure is applied to them.
They're big, they're fast, they're rangy they'd be
made to feel themselves cowards if they didn't "play."
I d rather be alive.
Hut, even more important than being alive, is being alive
in one piece. A lootball game is a pipe compared to the 4U-year
struggle with life that begins when we leave college. We need
all our health and strength, stamina and intelligence. We need
to be free from physical weakness and mental blackouts.
Yes, we can shove Doug Davies and the others who will
die "gloriously" on the gridiron this fall into the second
rank. In the first, we shall place the 60,000 to 75,000 foot
ball "players" who are "temporarily crippled each year."
For among these is the man who will carry the arthritic
pains of a once-broken shoulder, a spine that keeps sending
him back to the hospital, a trick knee Ufilt keeps putting
him back on crutches, the tortures of sinusitis originating
from a smash between the eyes, an addled brain that has
survived concussion or fracture, or, in extreme cases, re
curring paralysis from a cleat in the nerve center.
True, there are no accurate figures on the permanent in
jury of college football "players" they would be practically
impossible to get. Hut, think back to the football greats of the
past. How many of them have souvenirs? Is there one among
them who would not trade a few of the cheers, a little of the
glory, a bale of newspaper clippings for a sound knee, a whole
spine?
Is the risk involved worth the chips? Is it worth being
Christman to have a Nebraska team laying for you, an Okla
homa team bent on smashing you, an N. Y. U. eleven with
"Stop Christman" on their lips? We don't know.
Ancient Rome had her gladiators. Their business was to put
on a show to kill, to maim, to survive. Modern America has
her football players. Their business . . . ?
WHAT A USELESS WAY TO DIE! WHAT A PUR
POSELESS AIM FOR WHICH TO RISK PERMANENT IN
JURY! M. E.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
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Cnmnna club will Imva ft dinner mfii.
next Wedncadiy at fl p, m, In Kllen Smith.
The orKanlzuUc.n la fur all fnculty, admin.
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noon.
"V" FROrlll (JOMMIHMION,
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to prepare for tliulr weekly coininlanioa
It roups.
'" HKI.IOIOIN (IROIU'H.
The Y. W. comparative rrlliluua itn.un.
will meet with l'nt Sternberg In 'n,.
Hmlth tomorrow at 3 p. m.
WXIAI. HDHVKK BTAI'K.
All membcra of tlie Y, W. aoclai aerviu
itiilf will meet at 4 P. m. Monday.
v:Hr:n choir.
Vcaper choir, directed by France Kfffer
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Smith.
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whether or not they are member of v w
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URKICNH DINNKR.
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women'a orKantaaltima are Invited to attend
me iranmonai Hanging or tne Oreena
dinner aponaored by the Y. W. on Deo fi
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UNITARIAN COIXKOK CLASH.
The aermnn of Dr. Arthur L. Weatherlw
today at the All Soul's Unitarian church
will bs "Ainerictt'e Mhndon to Humanity."
The church la at the comer of 12th and H
and the aermnn heejna at 11. Immediately
after church the coili'KO clua will meet tor
a dlacuaalon of the aermnn.
TAHSMJI.
Tun.se In will meet Monday afternoon at I
In room 313 of the Union. Money for the
Cnrnhuakcra ia to be brought for a flnsj
checkup.
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German film
shows choir;
Vienna music
Story of homeless boy
with a golden voice
comes here Wednesday
A German movie, "Singcnde Ju
gend" or "An Orphan Boy of
Vienna" to be presented by the
German 'department Wednesday
in the Union ballroom will feature
the Vienna choir boys and the
Vienna Philharmonic orchestra, a
The utory concerns Toni, aT
homeless boy, who is befriended
by Hans Olden, a lovable and
happy-go-lucky street sinper. Dis
covering Toni's excoptional voice,
Olden contrives, after several
amu.sing adventures, to have him
admitted to the world-famous
Sangcr-knaben choir.
Finds devotion.
Toni's adventures with his now
friends in Vienna and the Tyrolean
Alps, his finding a warm mater
nal devotion in Sister Maria, and
his exoneration from a suspected
theft in which he had accidentally
been Implicated, all provide hu
morous and dramatic foundation
for the superb music and photog
raphy which embellish the film,
Subtitles of the film will be in
English.
Tickets may be bought from
any German student, at the Ger
man office, or at the door. Trice
for a ticket for the series is f0
cents; a ticket for a single show
is 25 cents. The picture will be
shown at 4:30, 7:30, and 9 o'clock.
The second show, "Maulkoib"
will be given in February. "Kinil
uiul die Detektive" is the third
show and will be shown in M;iy.
ing and of our religion.
An educational program that is
universal and free, and a religious
program that recognizes God at
the head, will of themselves be the
best guarantees of a realistic state
which lives for its citizens and
seeks through its every means to
ensure for them those things which
the constitution of the United
States sets forth in its preamble,
Dr. Hoscnlof believes.
He .'!ot forth a final plea for
manhood that believes in persever
ance and work, that is sclt-reliant,
that is possessed of faith and open
mindedness and that is ready to
yield to insight and clear vision.
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