' V "5 F wnw""' UNIVERSITY MISSOURIAJM. FIFTH YEAR COLUMBIA, MISSOURI, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1912 NUMBER 17 AS ITS VIEWED IN POLITICAL CAMPS Some of County Leaders are Confident Others are Hopeful. PLANS FOR CAMPAIGN The Three Parties have Their Tickets Named and in the Field. Confidence in one camp, hope in an ntiipr. and satisfaction in another. seems to be about the way the three political parties are lined up in Colum bin and Boone County. From the Democratic camp comes the news that the victory in the county is as certain as it has always been, even more so. Glee fills the Progressive headquarters as news of the desertion one after another from the Republican ranks comes in. "We will poll the normal vote," says n Rtnunnh Hamiltonian Republican. The Progressives have been working hard to get enough signers to place their candidates, both congressional and county, on the ticket. This morn in nr Mat Merer came into the head quarters of the party and announced that he had four signers. These sign- prs were from the University. a WiUnn-Malor club has been formed to boost things in general and a Wilson-Marshal club to arouse in terest among the University students. The "Wilson-Major club promises to net a number of big speakers. Move ment is on foot in the student club to co in a body to hear Governor Wilson at St. Louis October 9. The Republicans will bring a num ber of speakers, they say, including Charles Nagel. Secretary of torn merce and Labor in President Taft's cabinet. With the exceptions of a few desertions to the Progressives, , Dr,.ni.iifniiQ will have a full county ticket. The following is a list of the county nominees on the Republican ticket: representative, James A. Miller: ,,.,. ;.1(to smithern district, va- rint- northern district, Orello G t oo. .irnspoiitinn attorney and iiorifr vacant: assessor, James E. Starbuck; county treasurer, James W. Seymour: surveyor, Stephen A. Bewick: public administrator. Fran cis H. Russell; coroner, John i. Hickman. The Progressive nominees are: representative. D. V. Lindsey: coun ty judge, southern district, William -irhtpndirk. northern district, Ed ward Chamberlain: sheriff, Joseph Crane: assessor, Isaacher Noe; treas urer. James W. Seymour; surveyor, Stephen A. Bewick: public adminis trator, A. T. McMillon; coroner. Dr. A. W. Kampschmidt; constable, Bour bon township, T. W. Earner; con stable, Missouri township, M. T. Slater. The Democratic nominees are: representative, Frank G. Harris; prosecuting attorney, E. C. Ander son; sheriff, G. B. Sapp; assessor, P. H. Sapp: surveyor. H. E. Brown; public administrator, S. F. Conley; coroner, Edward G. Davis; county judge, northern district, Ben Tate, southern. J. T. Rowland; constable, Columbia township, Fred Whitesides. Tonight at the courthouse Prof. G. C. Hosford will speak at a meeting of the Wilson-Major Club. Gifford Pinchot, Chief Forester in the cabinet of Theodore Roosevelt, will speak in Columbia October 10. He had been expected October 9, but a telegram received last night stated that he could not come till the next day. A letter received by C. W. Loomis, chairman of the county cen tral committee, from the manager of the Progressives' speaking bureau, said that the speech at Columbia would be the only one Mr. Pinchot would make in Missouri. Later on the Progressives hope to have Gover nor Hiram Johnson and Jane Addams to come to Columbia. However, nothing is certain about the last two. OFF REPUBLICAN" TICKET Three Withdraw Today In FaTor of the Propressires. Frederick W. Xiedermeyer, C. W. Loomis and John A. Gilbert officially withdrew yesterday as candidates on the Republican ticket. Mr. Xieder meyer was candidate for prosecuting attorney and has been nominated for secretary of state by the Progressive Party. Mr. Loomis was Republican FAIR WEATHER, THE FORECAST Not Much Chance in Tenijterature, Is the Prediction. The weather forecast for Columbia and vicinity is: "Fair tonight and Sat urday, though probably becoming un settled Saturday afternoon; not much change in temperature." The tem peratures: 7 a. m 50 11 a. m 73 S a. m 53 12 (noon) 75 9 a. m 6' 1 p. m 77 10 a. m 72 2 p. m 78 candidate for sheriff and Mr. Gilbert was running for county judge of the southern district of (Boone County. They have joined the Progressive Party. WITH CAMPAIGN- LITERATURE Circuit Clerk Back From St. Louis After Conference. J. E. Boggs, circuit clerk, has just returned from St. Louis where he conferred with the State Democratic Committee on the campaign in Boone County. Mr. Boggs brought back a large supply o campaign literature which he will distribute through the county. Campaign workers have been chosen in sixty of the school districts. Wilson Club to Meet Tuesday. The meeting of the Wilson-Mar-shall Club which was scheduled for tonight, has been postponed until next Tuesday night. The club will procure a speaker for that night. The meeting will be held at 7:30 o'clock in the Y. M. C. A. Building. THEY'VE BEEN WED 50 YEARS Celebration in Kansas City of Ann lersary by M. U. Graduate. Judge and Mrs. James J. Hitt cele brated the fiftieth anniversady of their wedding Tuesday evening, Sep tember 24, at the home of their daugh ter, Mrs. F. H. Emmert, 3041 Garfield avenue, in Kansas City. Judge and Mrs. Hitt were married in Platte County, Missouri. Judge Hitts is one of the older graduates of the Missouri Universtty, receiving his diploma in 1SG1, and Mrs. Hitt is one of the Christian College girls. There are six children living O. J.. P. J. and L. W. Hitt. and Mrs. F. H. Em mert. Mrs. H. S. Stark and Mrs. W. B. Laughlin. All were present except O, J. Hitt. The occasion was quietly celebrated by a 6 o'clock dinner for the imme diate family, and later in the evening relatives and many friends called and extended their congratulations. FRATERNITY COUNCIL LARGER Members Added from Faculty and Columbia Alumni. The Pan-Hellenic Council, the ex ecutive and legislative body control ing the twelve fraternities at the University, has decided to increase its membership by the election of alumni from the faculty and town. At a banquet at the Virginia Grill Tuesday night the following men were chosen: Dean E. W. Hinton and Prof. J. P. McBaine of the School of Law, Dr. George Lefevre of the Col lege of Arts and Science, Prof. C. L. Brewer, director of athletics. From the town alumni J. L. Stephens was chosen. It is the intention of the council to invite other alumni mem bers to join. The officers for this year are: President, Alex Thomas; vice-president, Roy A. Drum; secre tary. Ward A. Neff; treasurer, C. P. LeMire. MORE JOURNALISM STUDENTS Increase This Year Over the Enroll ment of Last Year. The enrollment in the School of Journalism of the University of Mis souri shows an increase over last year's enrollment, despite the in crease entrance requirements and the increased number of universities of fering courses in journalism. Two years of college work are now re quired for entrance. Thirteen states and two foreign countries are repre sented in the enrollment: Kansas, Arkansas, Mississippi, Illinois, Indi ana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, California, Nebraska, Montana, Kentucky, Ten nessee, Missouri, Canada and Japan. Eight women students are enrolled. Hochepnrt Couple Married. Miss Lyda Roby and L. C. Pipes were married Wednesday at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Roby, near Rocheport. The cer emony was performed by the Rev. W. S. St. Clair. They will live on a farm in Howard County. MONEY WASTED ON MANY STUDENTS H. J. Davenport Says More Could Be ', Educated if Drones were Eliminated TELLS HOW TO STUDY Believes Best Graduate Is One With Questioning Mind. "It is one great mistake to believe that everyone can profitably be edu cated," said Prof. H. J. Davenport in the course of a short talk to University students in the Y. M. C. A. Building lat night. Professor Davenport spoke on "How to Study." "If Instructors could be relieved of the task of constantly prodding stu dents who do not care to be educated and could devote their entire time and energy to the instruction of those who do care," said Professor Davenport, "we could handle four times as many students in each class as we do now. In this way better instruction could be provided and the expenses of running the University could be reduced about S7J percent. The funds of the state are constantly being wasted on men who are not paying dividends on the investment" Education does not consist, the speaker said, in coming out of the Uni versity with a large amount of knowl edge. It is the student who comes out of the college full of Interrogation mark who has got the best out of his university life. For when he goes out into business life he will constantly be learning by looking for the answers to his questions. The purpose of ed ucation is not to teach the student how to make a dollar, but how to spend it in such a way as to get the best out of it. "The best student," Professor Dav enport said, "is the one who applies himself diligently during his leisure hours. I do not mean by this that the student should have no time from his studies: I believe that recreation peri ods are necessary, not only to the health of the student, but also toward securing the best results from his work. If the present prescribed work could be shortened and the student could be allowed more time for read ing and for thought and investigation outside the text it would be found to be a great deal more profitable, pro vided the student could be depended upon to make use of this time. It is what you are thinking and talking about outside the cla-sroom that fur nishes the real test of scholarship. "Some students come to the Univer sity not because they want an educa tion but to get away from home and have a good time. Such a student ought not to be here. We haven't the goods he wants in our shop, for our business is not to teach dancing. That student can do a great deal better by staying at home and learning to make himself useful there." Professor Davenport also took up the question of athletics in their rela tion to intellectual life. He believes in athletics as a recreation from study, but only as such. "In the words of Woodrow Wilson," he said, "I do not believe in letting the sideshow cover up the main tent, or in other words I do not believe that the glory of the University depends upon a drop kick or an end run." RELATIVE OF. P. W. GRACE HERE Arkansas Electrician, Chicago Bound, Visits Srene of Student's Death. W. L. Wood of Texardana, Ark., a brother-in-law of Preston W. Grace, the University student killed here re cently by an electric shock, was vis iting in Columbia yesterday. He left last night for Chicago where he will attend a convention. Mr. Wood is an electrician at Tex- arkana and is a graduate of the Mas sachusetts Institute of Technology at Boston, where he "made his letter" on the football, baseball and track. teams. L. T. Terrell Wins Shoot. L. L. Terrell won the fifty target shoot with a score of forty-six yes terday afternoon at the Columbia Gun Club Grounds in Westwood. He gets to wear the trophy cf the club, a dia mond studded watch fob, until the shcot next Thursday. The trophy be long" to the Club and each week the member making the highest score in t'-e flrty targets is entitled to wear it until the next shoot. STEPHENS IT'S HEAD" FOR FIFTEENTH TIME Columbia Baptist Has Been Moderator of State Asso ciation Many Terms. OUT ONLY ONE YEAR Except Once When in Eu rope, He has Served Con tinuously Ever Since. E. W. Stephens will go to Kansas City October 22 to serve for the fif teenth time as moderator of the Mis souri Baptist Association, which meets annually. With the exception of one year when he was traveling in Europe, Mr. Stephens has been moderator of th association continu ously. The association is reorganized and new officers elected at each meet ing. When Mr. Stephens was first elected moderator it was unusual for a lay man to be elected to this office. Now laymen are frequently elected. Mr. Stephens was president of the Southern Baptist Convention one year and one year he was moderator of the General Baptist Convention. The for mer is composed of representatives of all the Baptist churches of the Southern states and the latter is com posed of representatives of the South ern and Northern conventions. The convention which meets in Kansas City October 22 will be in ses sion about four days. The questions that it deals with are those of state missions, home missions, foreign mis sions, education, orphans' home, san itarium and the support of aged min isters. The convention will be preceded by a ministers' conference Monday after noon and night, October 21. INTERESTED IN PURE FOODS Demonstration of Household Tests At tracted at State Fair. Four men were kept busy at the State Fair this week demonstrating simple household tests for food adul- I teration at the exhibit booth of Dr. W. I P. Cutler, pure food and dairy com missioner. Interested women were shown how to tell milk with formal dahyde in it, how to distinguish butter from oleomargarine and numerous other food substitutes. Samples of condemned butter and canned goods were on exhibit. Upon request of the management Doctor Cutler will take the exhibit to the American Royal Stock Show at Kansas City. This is the first time that a pure food exhibit has been made there. Increased interest in pure food keeps Doctor Cutler and his assistants busy all the time. October 11 Doctor Cutler will address the second Mis souri Rural Life Congress at Kirks ville. His subject will be "The Farmer and His Home." Y. M. C. A. IN 32 COLLEGES N'early 4,000 N'ew Members Listed In State This Year. R, H. Garner, student secretary of the organizations of the Y. M. C. A. in the colleges of the state visited in Columbia this week. He returned to St. Louis yesterday. Mr. Garner says that the Y. M. C. A. has organizations in 32 colleges in the state and that the members listed for 1912 are 3,731. In the total number of memberships there are 453 men who are preparing for the ministry, CI who are going to do foreign missionary work and 15 who will become association secreta ries. The number of positions obtained by the associations for students who wished to earn their way through school numbered 500. HE DECLINED A RIDE Y. W. C. A. oy Mistake Invites One Man to Its Picnic. Being the only man. invited to a Y. W. C. A. picnic is something that few students even the old grads can boast. But D. A. Bickel. of Tarkio, Mo., a student in the School of Educa tion, received an invitation to go on a picnic with the Y. W. C. A. girls next Saturday. Mr. Bickel thinks it's all because his first name is Dora. Mr. Bickel has declined to attend the picnic. He believes there was a mis nnderstsnding somewhere. BETTER RAILWAY SERVICE Sleeping Car Put Back by the Kutj Other Changes. The sleeping car service between Columbia and St. Louis will be begun again Sunday. This will enable pas sengers to take a through train and get a full night's sleep, instead of having to wait several hours at Mc Baine. Another special train also will be started Sunday, leaving at 5:35 a. m. for Hannibal; Moberly, Fayette, Seda lia, Nevada, Clinton and points in Ok lahoma and Texas. The new trains will be Nos. 3 and 4. Train No. 3 will leave St. Louis at 11:40 p. m. arriving at Columbia at 7 a. m., Boonville 7:22 a. m., Se dalia 8:40 a. m. Train No. 4 will Se dalia at 8:50 p. m., Boonville 10:13 p. m., and Columbia at J2:03 a. m., arriving St. Louis 7:30 a. m. AD CLUB TO MEET TONIGHT Date of the Annual Carnival Is to Be Changed This Year. The first meeting of the Ad CluD will be held at 7:30 o'clock tonight to organize for the year. The county clubs will be urged to elect their rep resentatives. Members of the club say they expect to work for the Ninth Constitutional Amendment as indi viduals, but the club as an organiza tion will not take part in the cam paign. It is planned later in the year to have a course of lectures on advertis ing, through the Associated Ad Clubs of America, with which the local so ciety Is affiliated. The date of the annual carnival has been changed. It will come some time between Thanks giving and the Christmas holidays, not during the second semester as for merly. The officers of the Ad Club are: President, August Dieter; vice president, J. P. Bennet; secretary, A. M. Howard; treasurer, G. R. Hastings. VISIT SOON BY W. B. PETTUS University Graduate and Y. M. C. A. Worker Has Returned from China. W. B. Pettus, a graduate of the University in 1901 who was general secretary of the University Y. M. C A. in 1900 and 1901, now National Secretary of the Y. M. C A. in China, has just returned to the United States and will visit the University early in November. Mr. Pettus will be ac companied here by Mrs. Pettus and they will be the guests of the local Y. M. C. A. John S. Moore, now secretary of the University Y. M. C. A., says: "Mr. Pettus is probably one of the strong est men in the religious work that hase ever gone out from this Univer sity and is a recognized leader in the Christian work in China." SISTER OF J. P. ANTHONY DIES Had Been in 111 Health for Some Time Burial at Perry Grove. Mrs. A. Butler, a sister of J. P But ler of near Colombia, died yesterday afternoon at Appleton City, Mo. Mrs. Butler had been in ill health for some time. She is survived by her husband and two children: her mother, Mrs. Nancy Anthony; a sister, Mrs. L. A. Scibban and a brcther, J. P. Anthony. The funeral services wil be held to morrow morning at the Perry Grove cemetery. The Rev Henry Chevans will conduct the services. SIMRALL-BANGS WEDDING Former M. t". Girl Married In Sweet Springs Mo. Miss Martha Wallace Jones re turned yesterday from Sweet Springs, Mo., where she attended the wedding of Miss Dorothy Simrall and Frank Bangs. Miss Simrall is a former University of Missouri student and a member of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority. Mr. Bangs is a former stu dent of the University of Kansas. He is a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. Scientific Association Meeting: A new section chairman will be elected at the mect'ng of the mathe matical and physical section of tha Sr.entific Association to be held to morrow night at 7:30 o'clock in the physics lecture room of the Engineer ine Building. Prof. H. Wade Hibbard is the retiring chairman. Prof. Hib bard will read a paper on "Academic Efficiency Operating Engineering Schools under Scienific Management." Mrs. Hudson in Boulder, Coin. Mrs. Jar William Hudson, wife of Professor Hudson of the philosophy denartment. will remain during the school term at Boulder, Colo., where she and her husband passed the sum mer. THIS PASTOR A FAST E Preacher Made Trip From Columbia to Independence In 7 Hours. WAS IN AUTOMOBILE Drove ,Home Over State Highway From Road Meeting. The Rev. Frederick M. Smith, first president of the Re-organized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, recently road from Columbia to his home in Independence in seven hours running time. It is probably one of the quickest trips ever made from Columbia to Kansas City, a distance of 159 miles. The distance to Inde pendence is two miles less. Mr. Smith was returning from the Missouri Old Trails Road convention in Fulton and Mineola. He left Col umbia at 4:50 o'clcok Saturday after noon and reached his home in Inde pendence at 1 o'clock in the morning, stopping fifty minutes at Slater and a short time at Marshall. Mr. Smith tells of his ride in a let ter received here. He writes: "I was glad of the opportunity, quite unexpected as it was, to see so much of the cross state highway as I did. We left Columbia at 4:40 p. m. and at 1:00 a. m. I was at home in Independence, having covered the distance in eight hours, twenty min utes, at an average speed of about nineteen miles per hour. Counting out the time lost at Glasgow in find ing the ferry man to take us across, and the fifty minutes we stopped at Slater for supper and a short rest, and a short stop at Marshall for gas oline, would put the average above twenty miles per hour, which is sure ly a good record. "The road from Columbia to Judge Hariston's home was negotiated at some discomfort to the Judge and me in the back seat, for Mr. Mead's de termination to make speed caused some of the "thank-you-ma'am" in the road and the "high bridges" to send the Judge and me up into the air occasionally. But at no time did the car run out from under us, we always alighted in the seat, and Mrs. Hariston and Mr. Mead on the front seat did not seem to mind our bumps one bit. But despite the speed and the rough portions of the road the Judge and I enjoyed our conversa tion. "The Judge and Mrs. Harriston, with genuine southern hospitality, urged us to stay all night at their home; but Mr. Mead, afraid of rain, was anxious to get as far towards home as possible, and so we left them at their gate, and from there to Glas gow we hurried at top speed, to make it by seven if possible. We did. with nineteen minutes to spare. But the boat was tied up and so we hunted up the ferrymen to take us over. From the other side to Slater was a succession of spurts and slow-ups, spurts on the good stretches and slow tips to ease over ruts and bumps. "Mr. Mead is by far the most pro ficient driver I have ever sat beside. He seems to know every inch of his car; and while to a casual observer he appears to punish his car yet a close observation will show that in every way he favors his engine, giv ing it every advantage. And the en gine is of course the most vital and essential part of the car. His atten tion being always centered on the road, he makes wonderful time by always taking advantage of every smooth piece, negotiating the bumps with consummate skill generally. But then, he was driving a wonderful car. I think I never saw an engine work nicer or truer. It Is a wonder. "At Slater we stopped, at 7:40 p. m., for supper, and rested ourselves by walking about some. We stayed fifty minutes, and at 8:20 started to wards Marshall. The fourteen miles was covered in thirty minutes. A short stop for gasoline and oil and we were off again for Kansas City. With unerring accuracy and without hesitation, Mr. Mead made the right turns, never once missing the trail. It was an interesting and novel trip, made, as it was, from east of Glas gow by the light of the lamps. "Sailing" was easy from Levasy in. though a recent heavy coating of oil prevented Mr. Mead from making the speed he desired. But we went plenty fast, and at 1 a. m. ended my part of the run, for I was home." 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