April 6, 1917.

Twenty-eight citizens from Ericson Nebraska, have solemnly denounced the attitude of the Chancellor and eighty-four professors of the State University and demanded their resignations for supporting President Wilson in his stand for a firm foreign policy. On the other hand demands have been made that the University dismiss conspicuous officials who have been active on the other side of the question. Demanding the resignation of those who do not agree with the demander is a popular pastime in our American states. The Regents of the University are not likely to take any notion inasmuch as the demands involve some of their own number. The good sense of the people of Nebraska leads them to realize that before the declaration of a state of war by Congress American citizens were perfectly free to express themselves any way they pleased in regard to the controversy. Naturally those who serve the University would avail themselves of this privelige: naturally their opinions are of unusual interest. In view of these facts a close scrutiny of the faculty would fail to reveal many who have not expressed themselves. If all who have any opinions are to be removed it will be difficult in the world of scholarship to find other men without opinions to take their places. Particularly would it be difficult to find educated men who have not supported Wilson since Bernstorff's departure. But the citizens of the sandhills town should not despair. There is one educational institution in the state old enough to have a body of alumni for drafting as professors in the University who certainly have not been offensively active in their support of the President. The Star alludes to the intitution for the feeble-minded in Beatrice.