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Daily Iowan, November 17, 1918

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Page Two The Daily Iowan State University of Iowa Sunday, November 17, 1918 THE DAILY IOWAN The Student Newspaper of the State University of Iowa Member Iowa College Press A morning paper published for the period of the war three times a week----Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday----by The Daily Iowan Publishing company at 103 Iowa avenue, Iowa City Entered as second class matter at the post office of Iowa City, Iowa Subscription Rate $2.00 per year BOARD OF TRUSTEES C. H. Weller, chairman, E. M. McEwen, E. S. Smith, Gretchen Kane, Alice Hinkley, M. Elizabeth Hendee, Mary Anderson EDITORIAL STAFF Editor-in-chief Mildred E. Whitcomb Telephone Black 1757 Office Hours----8 to 12; 1 to 6 daily, Room 14. L. A. building. Managing editor Rowena Wellman Night Editor This Issue Bernice Shaver News Editor Agnes Kingsbury Humorous Editor Elizabeth Hendee Exchange Editor Ethyn Williams Feature Editor Ruth Stewart Sporting Editor G. D. Evans BUSINESS STAFF Romola Latchem----Business Manager Telephone 935 Office Hours----daily, 103 Iowa Avenue "I have never had a policy. I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day as each day came."----Lincoln. "FIRST THE BLADE----" Out of the bloodshed of Europe is found to grow a democracy of nations, such as the world has been seeking for centuries, a democracy that means rule for the people of Europe and of the entire world. The war is practically over, although our boys cannot come home for some months, but the new era of things brings its new and perplexing problems. For months the allied world has been training itself to hate all that is German. Now there is a change. Germany has given up the struggle. She has asked the aid of the Allies and the United States in her dire distress. A German republic has been formed. If this republic is successful and there is no successful counter revolution to restore the military party to power, the aim of President Wilson will have been accomplished. The junker class will be powerless. And if this republic of German states comes into being the humanitarian policy will be to recognize without hatred this new governmental endeavor. The blade of democracy is beginning to appear in a country once ruled by the Kaiser and his crowd. In the fertile corn fields of the West we have "first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear." If we the American people distinguish between our hatred of military Germany and the democratic inspiration of the German people, we will be letting the new republic bud into full strength and become a neighbor republic of the all democracies. CZECHO-SLOVAK VS. RING LARDNER "Is Flanders a town, a country, or a meadow?" inquired a "co-ed" after hearing McRae's poem. "No," replied her companion, "as I understand it, it is a bay in the north of France. Didn't you ever hear of a Flander's fish wife?" Such deplorable ignorance may seem amusing; in fact it merits a prominent place in B. L. T. But to regard the situation in its true light, it is evident that our University women need to broaden their minds, to study current events, and to learn just exactly what is going on in the world today. We have all rejoiced at the news of the armistice. How many know the terms of this great move? We talk flippantly about the Czecho-Slovaks, but do we understand the basic principles of this party? The basis of this ignorance may be found in the reading matter. Hearst's, Smith's and Ring Lardner "stuff" in the Saturday Evening Post may do well for the "tired business man," but the average student is not worn out so mentally but that she can not employ her spare time improving her mind. In the University library are shelves of books on current topics. They are put there for the benefit of the students. And in them may be found knowledge about every branch of the war, about the various countries, and about the probable results of peace. The advantage you take of this opportunity will determine your fitness to fill the position to which you aspire. In fact, the question is: do you get your information from a highly colored, improbable "thrill" story, or do you seek for it from and authentic volume by a world authority? UNAPPRECEIATED AMATEURS The world is inclined to look with awe upon the distinguished man or woman who has made a marked success in any business, art, or profession, but is inclined to scorn the work of one who makes a mere avocation of a task he loves. "Amateur" has become almost a term of reproach. "Oh, I'm only an amateur," the tennis player apologizes when he has won a match game and wishes to appear as modest as possible. "You know I'm only an amateur," remarks the daughter of the house as she sits down to the piano, "And you mustn't expect much." (But she sits down just the same). Of course they are only amateurs. If they weren't their friends would be paying to see or hear them, and would watch or listen without the least personal interest in the performer. One thing too often forgotten is the undeniable fact that every professional was once an amateur, and the equally interesting one that every amateur is a potential professional. Why does a two-dollar ticket make a song more beautiful, or a price tag increase the pleasure from a picture? Part of the answer is only too easy. The ticket or tag gives confidence to the uncertain critic, and he is not afraid to admire. "I never heard of him" we say, and pass an author or a speaker by. No one ever heard of us, but we should seriously resent being classed among the "non-essential citizens." Gone are the days of the good old singing schools, where those with voices and those without joined together in melodies that were for the joy of the singers and not for the edification of a nervous audience. Going all to swiftly are the genuine literary societies, in which boys and girls and men and women practiced at things they could not do, but wished to learn, and never thought they were furnishing a free entertainment for their friends. The great men of all ages have been men with avocations, and surely if such as these can profit by their amateur interests, the humble citizen cannot afford to let his field grow narrow. Ruth Rogers spent Friday at Cedar Rapids. [advertisement] PASTIME Theatre To-Day----Tomorrow CONSTANCE TALMADGE in a side-splitting comedy "MRS. LEFFINGWELLS BOOTS" A laugh a minute Admission 10c----15c [advertisement] ENGLERT THEATRE FRIDAY NOV. 22 Direct From The Auditorium Theatre, Chicago Prices ----$2.00----$1.50----$1.00----75c----50c----Prices Seat Sale Thursday Mail Orders Now The Comstock-Elliott Co. presents The Smartest and Brightest Of All Musical Comedies "OH BOY" by Guy Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse Music by Jerome Kern [illustration of woman in costume sitting with legs outstretched and saluting] The 4th Princess Theatre (New York) Musical Comedy success Jolly Tunes and Pretty Girls. O. T. CANDIDATES DON'T GO The fifty S. A. T. C. men in the infantry, who had planned to leave here Wednesday night, for the officers' training school at Camp Pike, were ordered at the last moment to remain in Iowa City. The men were at the station, arguing over the position of their berths, preparatory to leaving at 8 o'clock, when a telegram came from headquarters stating that all orders sending men to officers' training schools were revoked. Claud C. Wells, who was a senior dental student last year is still confined to his bed at his home in Shenandoah. Mr. Wells was taken sick in April with general septicemia and was taken to his home in July. [advertisement] DAINTY LUNCHES between or after classes. 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