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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 23, 1917)
THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: SEPTEMBER 23. 1917. I Nebraska CHANCELLOR SAYS' METCALFE WRONG Avery Corrects Statements Made by Agent of State De fense Council With Refer ence to German. BY SAMUEL" AVERY. (Chancellor I'nivcr&ity of Nebraska. Lincoln, Neb.. Sept. 22. (Special.) I is with regret that I feel again compelled to reply to Mr. Metcalfe, the underlying principle1 of whose work to make Nebraska fully Amer ican in thought and feeling I heartilv appreciate and fully endorse. In the Omaha Nebraskan of the past week Mr. Metcalfe said that the cost per student in the German de partment is $10.71, while in the com bined department of English literature and rhetoric it is only $6.44. Mr. Met calfe again unintentionally conveys an erroneous impression, just as people usually do who use figures from the standpoint of the advocate and not from the standpoint of the judge. Many Facts Ignored. Mr. Metcalfe's figures, while based on an accurate statement of the num bers in the different departments, ig nore the fact that in foreign language work the beginners usually recite four or five times per week, while in English literature three hours, and in rhetoric two. They also ignore the fact that when work is given in the mother tongue it does not require the constant personal drill to get results that is required when a foreign lan guage is to be taught. The student is practicing his mother tongue when ever he engages in conversation with his associates or reads a newspaper. Under the leadership of Professor Frye the department of rhetoric has been very economically conducted. Its work is of such a character that this is possible, through the fact that in struction may be given to lecturing to a relatively large number of students at one time. The lectures are then supplemented by requiring the writing of themes, for the correction of which graduate students may be employed at relatively small salaries. The cost in this department is $3.59 per Student hour. The term "student hour" means one recitation or lecture per week for each student. Thus, five students reciting two times a week represent the same number of student hours as two students reciting five times a week. Subject .Makes Difference. In English literature it is possible for a great scholar like Dean Sherman or brilliant teachers like Professors Stuff, Pound and Scott to lecture in sniringly to relatively large classes. The nature of the subject does not demand the close personal drill that J 1 - f t i T worK mi a iorcign language noes, in this department the cost per student hour is $4.17. If instruction in a foreign language is to be worthy of a great university, it must be sound. This demands smaller sections. The work in Ger man was, before the dropping off of students on account of the war, placed ,on a very satisfactory basis insofar as the instructional force was concerned. The average cost per student hour was $4.19. A fair comparison of the cost per student hour might beimade between a foreign language ana mathematics, since both of these require personal drill and supervision. The cost of the department of mathematics is $5.81 per student hour. In making this comparison the salaries of Deans Engbergand Davis have been de ducted, 'as they are largely engaged in executive work. The cost per stu dent hour in the department of Latin is $10.95. Comparisons Mean Little. " These comparisons of the cost per student hour mean relatively little. They are of little more significance than a comparison of the relative cost of the cabbage and coffee on our dinner tables. Each serves a different function in a well balanced meal and each should cost enough o be good. The work in foreign languages in the University requires constant ad justment. The rising department al ways shows the lowest cost. This is now true in Romance languages. Ad justment n cost comes later. In the.' proress of readjustment now going in French, Spanish, Swedish and Bo hemian will receive greater support. The next biennial report of the re gnts will probably show a.decrease in the money spent for German to the extent of. about $8,000. The public is interested primarily in understanding thtat the chancellor, deans and heads of departments under the general di rection of the regents, are adjusting these internal matters as fairly and rapidly as they can. The money going to any department is ultimately de termined by the free election of the students, and not by the favor of the regents. If any believe that our work in German should be deflated, they will doubtless learn with satisfaction that the students arc deflating it and the authorities are readjusting the work as fairry arid as rapidly as they can. ' f Will Give Statistics. In conclusion I wish to say that if Mr. Metcalfe will submit to me prior to publication any use he wishes to make of university statistics, I shall be pleased to send him in a purely , private way any. comments that I may have to make on his deductions. I wish to say further that while nearly all connected with the uni versity are doiag everything in their power to support the president in this war and to increase in the state an attitude of aggressive loyalty, their hands are weakened by the articles that Mr. Metcalfe has been writing about the internal condition of affairs at the university. Mr. Metcalfe's patriotic impulses should prevent him from a repetition of this kind. Witness Suffers Change , Of Heart When Accused Frewont, Neb., Sept. 22. (Special Telegram.) When confronted with a witness who testified he had made , slighting remarks about the president and the part the United States is playing in the war, James Hansen, a farm hand, suffered a lapse of memory and said he was unable to recall that he had made such statements. Han sen admitted, however, that he had leaned toward Germany when the war first broke out, but had suffered a "change of heart" and was now for Uncle Sam. Hansen's application for second naturalizatioa papers was de nied by Judge Button. Lieutenant Prince of Grand Island Arrives in France Lieutenant Harold A. Prince of Grand Island, Neb., is a young officer of Nebraska who has just been sent to France for special training and ob- MORE NEBRASKANS GO TOFORT RILEY Two Sections Carrying Large Number of Drafted Men De- part From Lincoln for the South. (from a Staff Correspondent ) 1 Lincoln, Sept. 22. (Special Tele i gram.) Another little army of Ne- !l 1 . - ' T - ! . ... uraKi s quoia .ur run ivuey went out of Lincoln this afternoon over the Union Pacific in two sections of four teen cars each. The first section contained quotas from Custer, York, Seward, Morrell, Box Butte, Grant, Hooker, Thomas, Loup, Sherman, Howard, Blaine. Wheeler, Garfield, Valley, Greeley and Merrick counties, while the second section cars received men from Platte, Butler. Phelps. Clay and Fill more counties, about 800 men. Four men from Camp Syracuse, N. Y., joined the first section here way to FortxRiley to take expert instruc- &fezo2dZZ.d0?iiire servation work. Word came last week to his father, W. A. Prince of Grand Island, of his safe arrival there. Lieutenant Prince received his com mission at Fort Snelling recently and was chosen as one of a party of six in his company to go to France immedi ately. He is a splendid example of the caliber of young men who are repre senting Nebraska in the world war. He graduated from the Univrsity of Nebraska in 1915 and was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa" fraternity be cause of his high record in scholar- snip, for three years he was a member of the university debating team, and debated with Iowa, Wiscon sin and Minnesota. At the close of his law course in the university 'he was elected to the honorary legal fra ternity, the "Order of Coif." When war was declared and a call for volunteers came, Harold Prince enlisted from Hall county and went at once to Fort Snelling, where he made an excellent record in the officers training school. His parents have no word from him other than that he has arrived safely and that his address is "Lieutenant Harold A. Prince, care of the American Expeditionary Forces, France." SUCCESS KNOWS NEITHER CREED NOR CLIME- WHERE you start is not so important as WHAT you Start- Ambition will not tolerate limitations. It has a way of overstepping boundaries, ignoring precedent, upsetting rules, shocking "ethics" and looking through instead of at people.. , ' Progress operates on a big scale. It demands the right of way and people with big heads and pet corns had best yield it. Show me a success and I will show you the reason for it. Big business exists today because by shrewd manage ment they give the people MORE for their money than they could secure otherwise. However, success cannot last longer than the founda tion upon which it was built. Radical change of policy, sacrificing principle for profit adding the prefix "0IS" to the word "HONESTY will change brilliant success to dismal failure. If each of us were allowed to decide our station in life we would all be successes and failures would be unheard of, but" as the world usually does its own appraising, there is nothing left for us to do but to fight it out. ' Had I listened to the raven's croak and the dismal pre dictions of well meaning but short-sighted friends, I would have stifled ambition and would never have perfected my local anesthetic which won for me the name of "Painless Withers" and built for me one of the largest Dental Prac tices in the West and the largest in the State of Utah. Specialized Dentistry, Sanitary Dentistry, Painless Dentistry at prices that are fair to you and fair to me are going to repeat that success in Omaha. Painless Withers, Dentist 16th and Farnam Streets. I Douglas 4604. Office Hours: 8:30 A. M. to 8 P. M. Sunday, 9 to 1 423-428 Securities BIdg. or Rose. HARTELL NINETEEN HUNDRED AND NINE CAPITOL AVENUE ' OMAHA, NEBRASKA Miss Hartell presents her compliments i ' , ' and requests the honor of showing t - her collection of Fall and Winter models in Gowns, Suits and Coats Monday, September twenty-fourth tion in the horseshoing school there. They were Patrick Cosgrove, George Miller. Ernest Ringler and Michael Mahoney of Boston and were the only uniformed men on the train. They en listed in the spring and have been taking instruction in drill since that time. All the men. with the exception of the York and Seward quotas, dined at the Lindell hotel hotel at noon, and, headed by the University band and the Lincoln colonial drum corps, were escorted 'to the station. The York and Seward-men wflc fed at their home stations. ! Tomorrow 1..UH) more men will ar rive in Lircoln and will be entrained and fed beiore leaving for Fort Riley. John W. Towle Engineer In Big Warship Plant 22. (Special 1 owlc, presi works of Omaha, was appointed field engineer of construction of the $20, 000,000 steel shipbuilding plant to be erected in Philadelphia. Mr. Towle is a cousin of Congressman Keavis of the First district. OMAHA LAWYERS TO SPLIT $40,000 OF CIRCLE MONEY Washington, Sept Telegram.) lohn Y dent of the Omaha Structural Steel Iron Strikers Return to ( Work; Temporary Agreement j Yashington, Sept. 22. Shipping board officials today felt encouraged that construction ot government ships at S.in Francisco would nut be de layed much longer by the strike of iron workers there, following receipt of reports that the union men have agreed to return to work it a tem porary wage agreement can he reached. It was felt a temporary settlement had been comparatively easy, and that some permanent basis for a uniform wage scale in all Pacific coast ship yards would be developed within a few weeks. (( ontiiiurd front I'age Our.) placing the power to change the laws of the society in the hands of the supreme lodge, which took supreme power away from Mrs. Manchester alone, giving it to the executive council of three members of which Mrs. Manchester is chairman. The ruling of the supreme court is as follow?.: ChangeMn Laws Ratified. Attorneys for both sides of the con troversy met in June and came to agreement which would settle the trouble if carried out. This agree ment was taken to the general ses sion of the order at Atlanta in July where the agreement was ratified and the law s so changed as to prevent any further trouble. The action yesterday by the su preme court was in ratifying these changes in the laws. This was done in the presence of attorneys fos both factions and also the. attorney general of the state. Class of Sixty at Fremont Fremont, Neb., September 22. Spe cial Telegram.) Archbishop J. J. Harty, of Omaha arrived in Fremont this evening for his first visit to this parish. Archbishop Harty will con firm a class of sixty at St.' Patricks church Sunday morning and will then be honor guest at a luncheon at the Catholic school. From Fremont Archbishop Harty will go to North Bend to confirm a class. He was met at Valley this evening by a delegation from the Fremont parish who made the trip in automobiles. , FT TT THAT IS Having purchased of Haydeh Bros., Omaha's largest department store (who retire from the 'piano business) the entire stock of Pianos, Player Pianos, Sheet Music and Musical Merchandise for a fraction of its cost, we now offer over 300 superb Upright n f Knabe Player others At Prices Lower Than Ever Known in the rlfs- tory of the Business, in Omaha. The pianos occupy four full floors of our five story building at 1311-1313 Farnam St. Every single instrument must be disposed of. All classes of buyers are interested, for there are bargains at all prices. DO NOT MISS THIS OPPORTUNITY Here are a few of the names of the instruments: Knabe. Sohmer. Everett. Estey. Bchr Bros.. Fischer. Meh-. lin, Kimball, Schaeffer, Price & Teeple, Shoninger, etc., etc. The house of Hayden Bros, having for many years past been Omaha s representatives of the Knabe Piano, they have naturally accumulated a very large and choice stock of these world famous instruments. These Pianos will be offered at exceptionally low prices. In fact, this is your only opportunity to obtain KNABE PIANOS AT LESS THAN REGULAR PRICES , For many of these less known Pianos only a nominal price will be asked. '. "Visitors cordially welcome. Easy monthly terms of payments will be granted. Modern stool and scarf in cluded with every piano. Come early to obtain choice of selection or write at once for catalogues and complete list of bargains. , , Remember, we are closing out Hayden Bros.' Entire Stock of Player Pianos at less than cost $175 .AND UP. 500 copies of Sheet Music only each. 1311-1313 FARNAM STREET. Omaha's Leading Piano House. N. B. Correspondence in regard to this Closing-Out Sale pf Hayden Bros.' Pianond Sheet Music Stock Will receive immediate at tention. Every prospective purchaser within a radius of 500 miles of Omaha ought to feel it his duty to secure one of these bargains. EZ i ehmoller S Mueller PIANO CO. Remember, we are closing out Hayden Bros, en tire stock of Pianos at half price, $47 and up. 600 Player Rolls, only 12c each. $18.50, $20, $22.50, $24.50, $29.75 At these prices at this store you get the full limit of value for your money. The price range offers unusual value at whatever you want to pay. An in spection of these new Pall Suits will convince you that better quality was never shown in snappier style. The workmanship will impress you. i Greatest Boys' Suit Values at $6.50, $7.98, $8.50 and $10.00 You can check up on this statement by making compari sons. They come in a series of models that embrace all the new style notions; the woolens are beautiful and will wear wrell. Tailored for "boy-proof" wear. BEDDEO WILL TRUST YOU If you have been trading with Beddeo you already know him and his liberal pleasant manner of doing business. If you don't know him come in and get acquainted. Make, arrangements to outfit yourself as well as the entire family. Remember, all Beddeo expects is a small cash payment and the balance in easy weekly or monthly payments. Come in Monday. He will be glad to meet you. THE GREATEST CREDIT CLOTHING STORE IN NEBRASKA hi. 11 O P I 1417 Douglas Street CREDIT TO OUT-OF TOWN PEOPLE II S ELMER BEDDEO