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PAGE TWO  THE DAILY IOWAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA Thursday, November 28,1918

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   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 

NOVEMBER 28, 1918
   Thanksgiving! Since our stern and rugged Pilgrim fathers rendered up thanks for their garnered crops and their triumphs, costly in lives, over hardships, the word has not have such meaning. It is an occasion when hearts not words express gratitude for the salvation of all mankind from greedy aggrandizement.
   In past years the day has been so mean in comparison, so petty and selfish. We have been thankful for health, for friends, for money to gratify our little vanities, for turkey with cranberry ice, for little advantages others did not have.
   A spirit of true altruism prevades today. We can rejoice to wear a wretched coat that little French orphans may be warm and well fed through our money. We are thankful that the dark stain of the last four Thanksgiving days has been removed from the peoples of the earth. We are full of gratitude that our men, and our allies, have not fallen in vain or for an ignoble end. We need mingle no shame or remorse with our Thanksgiving.
   So let us be thankful in this larger sense today. Trivial blessings we are happy in, but it is world blessings that demand our thoughts.

FRATERNITY FUTURES
   When the academic fraternities voted to re-open their chapters, they were looking into the future. And well might they, for the returning soldier boys are not only going to bring democracy to politics but also to university social life.
   When the non-fraternity soldier who fought at the second battle of the Marne returns to Iowa, will he not regard himself entitled to all the social privileges of the University? Will he meet that old distinction between fraternity and non-fraternity man?
   Perhaps Dean Robert E. Rienow had this thought in mind when he told the interfraternity council at its recent meeting that if the Greek letter societies are to justify their existence at Iowa they must conduct themselves in an honorable, businesslike, democratic manner. In the past there has been too much fraternity jealousies and petty differences.
   The fraternity of the future should be big and wholesome enough to think both of the good of the fraternity and of the University. At times in the past the chapter man has thought only of his individual organization, not of the University.
   Men who have studied the fraternity problem realize that the good fraternities do outweigh any evils they may bring about. As president Wilson says, every boy wants to belong to something. The chapters answer a social need in college life. There are those schools, of course, that have legislated fraternities out of existence. Princeton, Oberlin and Grinnell do not have fraternities. But Princeton men admit that Princeton clubs are worse than well regulated fraternities; besides they have all the evils and none of the advantages.
   The fraternity system is established at Iowa and the administration of the University has given the fraternities every reason to believe that they will continue to enjoy life on the Iowa campus. The fraternities have helped Iowa and they ought to stay.
   But the handwriting is seen on the wall. Fraternities must accept democracy in the fullest sense of the word. They must recognize a man as a man and not judge him entirely by a Greek letter attachment to his name.

TO BRING THE BOYS BACK
   In the past the big Thanksgiving obligation was to demonstrate how much you thought of your mother’s ability as a cook by eating a tremendous dinner. This Thanksgiving day there is a greater and not less pleasant obligation confronting every resident of Iowa. That duty is to participate in the Thanksgiving War Savings Stamp drive to the extent of buying every penny’s worth of stamps you can afford.
   Iowa is fifteen million dollars behind her quota of War Savings stamps. The campaign is near a close and if the state is not to fail in this highly important campaign, this amount must be purchased by the people of the state during the drive. Iowa’s conspicuous record in every other drive will not permit of failure in this.
   Our duty to our soldiers does not end until the last one of them is safely back on American soil. One way to do that is to provide the government with funds that can be expended to keep them warm and well fed while they remain away. Use the War Savings stamp as a vehicle for expressing in a way that counts the thanks you feel for the splendid services of our fighting men. Your Thanksgiving day duty is to buy stamps

WHAT OTHERS THINK
   The Daily Iowan will gladly print any communications from students or faculty members. The writer must sign the article to show his good faith in sending it, but no name will be printed if the sender so designates.

Dear Seniors:
   Do you think that many seniors are glad they belong to the class of 1919, rather than to any other class?
   Do you think that to many of the freshmen, sophomores and juniors, that the word SENIOR means anything more than that you have spent four years in the State University of Iowa and that you are soon to attain your goal of 120 hours?
   Do you think that I know you as well as I would like to or that you know all of my good qualities?
   Do you think that it will be much of an honor for you to say that you were in the same class with me at college, when the headlines tell you that I have been elected governor of Iowa?
   Do you think that there is someone in my “hum town” that you know or vice versa? Wouldn’t you like to compare home towns with me?
   Of course all of us are just rushed to death. Of course all of us are over-organized  but think. . . . . . when we come back in twenty years to homecomings and we run into each other at the Iowa-Ames game, we won’t even know that we belong to the same class, if things keep on like this.

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PAGE TWO THE DAILY IOWAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA Thursday, November 28,1918 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 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 NOVEMBER 28, 1918 Thanksgiving! Since our stern and rugged Pilgrim fathers rendered up thanks for their garnered crops and their triumphs, costly in lives, over hardships, the word has not have such meaning. It is an occasion when hearts not words express gratitude for the salvation of all mankind from greedy aggrandizement. In past years the day has been so mean in comparison, so petty and selfish. We have been thankful for health, for friends, for money to gratify our little vanities, for turkey with cranberry ice, for little advantages others did not have. A spirit of true altruism prevades today. We can rejoice to wear a wretched coat that little French orphans may be warm and well fed through our money. We are thankful that the dark stain of the last four Thanksgiving days has been removed from the peoples of the earth. We are full of gratitude that our men, and our allies, have not fallen in vain or for an ignoble end. We need mingle no shame or remorse with our Thanksgiving. So let us be thankful in this larger sense today. Trivial blessings we are happy in, but it is world blessings that demand our thoughts. FRATERNITY FUTURES When the academic fraternities voted to re-open their chapters, they were looking into the future. And well might they, for the returning soldier boys are not only going to bring democracy to politics but also to university social life. When the non-fraternity soldier who fought at the second battle of the Marne returns to Iowa, will he not regard himself entitled to all the social privileges of the University? Will he meet that old distinction between fraternity and non-fraternity man? Perhaps Dean Robert E. Rienow had this thought in mind when he told the interfraternity council at its recent meeting that if the Greek letter societies are to justify their existence at Iowa they must conduct themselves in an honorable, businesslike, democratic manner. In the past there has been too much fraternity jealousies and petty differences. The fraternity of the future should be big and wholesome enough to think both of the good of the fraternity and of the University. At times in the past the chapter man has thought only of his individual organization, not of the University. Men who have studied the fraternity problem realize that the good fraternities do outweigh any evils they may bring about. As president Wilson says, every boy wants to belong to something. The chapters answer a social need in college life. There are those schools, of course, that have legislated fraternities out of existence. Princeton, Oberlin and Grinnell do not have fraternities. But Princeton men admit that Princeton clubs are worse than well regulated fraternities; besides they have all the evils and none of the advantages. The fraternity system is established at Iowa and the administration of the University has given the fraternities every reason to believe that they will continue to enjoy life on the Iowa campus. The fraternities have helped Iowa and they ought to stay. But the handwriting is seen on the wall. Fraternities must accept democracy in the fullest sense of the word. They must recognize a man as a man and not judge him entirely by a Greek letter attachment to his name. TO BRING THE BOYS BACK In the past the big Thanksgiving obligation was to demonstrate how much you thought of your mother’s ability as a cook by eating a tremendous dinner. This Thanksgiving day there is a greater and not less pleasant obligation confronting every resident of Iowa. That duty is to participate in the Thanksgiving War Savings Stamp drive to the extent of buying every penny’s worth of stamps you can afford. Iowa is fifteen million dollars behind her quota of War Savings stamps. The campaign is near a close and if the state is not to fail in this highly important campaign, this amount must be purchased by the people of the state during the drive. Iowa’s conspicuous record in every other drive will not permit of failure in this. Our duty to our soldiers does not end until the last one of them is safely back on American soil. One way to do that is to provide the government with funds that can be expended to keep them warm and well fed while they remain away. Use the War Savings stamp as a vehicle for expressing in a way that counts the thanks you feel for the splendid services of our fighting men. Your Thanksgiving day duty is to buy stamps WHAT OTHERS THINK The Daily Iowan will gladly print any communications from students or faculty members. The writer must sign the article to show his good faith in sending it, but no name will be printed if the sender so designates. Dear Seniors: Do you think that many seniors are glad they belong to the class of 1919, rather than to any other class? Do you think that to many of the freshmen, sophomores and juniors, that the word SENIOR means anything more than that you have spent four years in the State University of Iowa and that you are soon to attain your goal of 120 hours? Do you think that I know you as well as I would like to or that you know all of my good qualities? Do you think that it will be much of an honor for you to say that you were in the same class with me at college, when the headlines tell you that I have been elected governor of Iowa? Do you think that there is someone in my “hum town” that you know or vice versa? Wouldn’t you like to compare home towns with me? Of course all of us are just rushed to death. Of course all of us are over-organized but think. . . . . . when we come back in twenty years to homecomings and we run into each other at the Iowa-Ames game, we won’t even know that we belong to the same class, if things keep on like this.