University of Nebraska Lincoln - Cornhusker Yearbook (Lincoln, NE)

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It i willi kccMi satisfaction that 1 Uarn of the large number of students of the University of Nebraska who are preparing to serve their country in lliis great world conflict between Democracy and Autocracy. I trust our present exfjcrience will serve to impress upon us beyond all question of doubt the absolute necessity of universal training and service. The lesson of the hour makes the need of this apparent. The draft will iquitably di tribuIe the burden of the war and will give us large numbers of men, but it will not give us trained men. What we need is a system under which each youth will receive that degree of training necessary to make him promptly available as a trained soldier. This is the best method of in- suring peace. We can be strong, prepared and ready without being aggressive o r overbearing. 1 ' crve should be the motto of each and every American in this great crisis. It may not be service in the battle line, but somewhere we can. and must, serve — serve all together with that singleness of purpose which alone will make available the tremendous strength and resources of this country, lultiva ' .e the soil as you never cultivated it before; train the nun. and push forward the preparations for war. Remember that it is the strong and prepared nation whose voice determines whether questions are to lie settled by arbitration or by war, and not the weak one, and remember above all things else the ages old warning, In time of peace prepare for war 1 here is no time to do it after war comes. If we are to make the world safe for democracy, we must always stand prepared to immediately bear our part as the champion of Democracy whenever the occasion arises. The great nation of the world today are organized so thoroughly that lluy can turn their forces almost instantly against an enemy — in other words ihe advice of Washington and miisl of our President- In time of peace prepare for war is advice which wi- must heed if we are to live as a nation. y z: t.L. xz

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IN MEMORIAM

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j0(tbicalxon Oo MebrasKatts -Students, Alumni, acultY-b ire aii6 over tl)ere, in ll)e service of tbeir country anb of civiliza- tion, offering tbeir all for tl)e preservation of those things wl)icl) alone make life wortl) living — 3fonor, Justice. emocracY. TF ' ree6om— this, C3b i I IS (TornbusKer is 6e6icate6.