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m'mi 'n.s"m"" -'rv.'sappr" UNIVERSITY MISSOURIAJSL FIFTH YEAR COLUMBIA, MISSOURI, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1912 NUMBER 21 FOURTH PUCE FOR NL U, JUDGING TEAM Nebraska Won First Honors at the Royal Live Stock Show in Kansas Citv. BUT: KANSAS WAS LAST Individual Prizes Taken Only ByNehraska and Iowa Students. The University of Missouri stock judging team won fourth iIace in the American Royal students livestock judging contests in Kansas City this week. The University of Nebraska was first and the Kansas State Agri cultural College was last or fifth. Second honors went to the Iowa State College at Ames and third place to the First District Agricultural School of Arkansas. The announcement of the winners -was made by V. L. Nelson of Colum-' bia. assistant secretary of the State Hoard of Agriculture. The rating of the teams on a possible score of 4,300 points was: Nebraska. :!,C49: Iowa, 3.4P.S; Ar kansas, 3.3S0; Missouri, 3,302; Kan sas. 3.120. None of the students from Missouri, Kansas or Arkansas won in the indi vidual contests. To retain permanent custody of the trophy, the agricultural college of the j University of Nebraska must win the next two contests. The Kansas stu-, ilents won last year. The trophy has been held in past years by these state i schools: Kansas. 1911: Iowa. 1910; . Missouri, 1S99: Kansas. 1S98; Iowa, 1S97 AG COLLEGE HEARS UNDERPAID Finnish Professor Snys Foreign Schools Pay Better Salaries. Among the visitors at the American Royal Live Stock Show in Kansas City this week is Prof. George von Wendt, president of the experiment stations of Finland and of the Agri cultural University of Heisingfors in that country, who says agricultural colleges in this country do not pay their presidents enough. He is in this country investigating new ideas i i,n nn1n wo icmir in Hiietri" "' l,,c wall"r ""- He nsserts mai t-iiwaiiu is -- u. , the greatest dairy countries in the world for its size, exporting to Eng land alone eight million dollars worth of butter annually. The prosperity of the people there is lined with their) Professor Wendt lias been in the United States six weeks and has found many things that have surprised him Explosive I'sed in the First 3rotor.s, in regard to the country. The growth ) Automobile Lecturer Sajs. of population in America especially) Tlie first gasoline engine was in was a matter for astonishment to him vented in 1S00 by J. J. E. Lenoir, of He also made some comparisons! France, according to J. R. Wharton in between the agricultural experts and ' his lecture last night on the nutomo instructors in this country and in bile motor. There had been previous his. He said, "Another thing that surprises me is the small salaries you I pay your scientinc men who mu linrts in llin live stock alld agriclll- - . . . ' tnral businesses. Why, the conductor i of the train upon which I rode from I Portland to San Francisco got as I much salary as the president of any I agricultural college in American. You think that sr.000 a year is a large ; salary to pay for a man qualified to j be president" of the agricultural col- lose of a great state like Kansas on Missouri. But in Europe we recos nbe the importance and value of such men. Tlie head of tlie agricultural collego in Lcipsic gets jr.O.OOO a year and the president of tlie college in Berlin gets $0,0.000." BLUE RIBBONS TO COLl.MBIA First Honors at" Itojal Horse Show W on lij - O. .1. 3Liores. O. .T. Moores, a Columbia man. tar ried off first honors at the opening of the fourteenth annual American Royal Horse Show in Kansas City this week. Before the largest opening night crowd there, Mr. Moores carried otf two blue ribbons, three reds and one white There were 4,000 persons in the grandstand applauding the eight closely contested events. Tlie runabout event was an exciting event. Mrs. Moores competed in this as well as Miss Loula Long of Kan sas City. Mrs. Moores won the first, however. Main- figures familiar to the show's patrons were present. Miss Long of Kansas City took second honors win ning three ribbons with her four en tries. Mr. Moores won his six rib- SHOWERS AND THUNDER STORMS f Unsettled Weather Predicted for This Vicinity. The weather forecast for Columbia is: "Unsettled weather tonight and tomorrow with showers and thunder storms this afternoon and tonight. Colder tomorrow." The temperatures today: 7 a. in 70 8 a. m 73 ! i. m 72 10 a. m SO 11 a. m 83 12 (noon) 87 1 p. m S7 2 p. m 87 bons from a total of twelve entries. Mr. and Mrs. Moo res are familiar figures with Kansas City horse show audiences. They have competed in events there for several years. 31. U. CATTLE WOX AT ROYAL First Daj's Awards Include Ribbons for l'nh en.it.v Stock. Disputer, the University of Mis souri's champion grade Hereford steer of last year's show, is one of the eight steers the school is showing at the American Royal live stock show which opened in Kansas City Monday morning. Since last year Disputer lias won the international champion- g, for steers under one year and tile stcer championship at the State Fajr Of the awards made in the first day's show the University won the following: Hereford ring Class 3, Junior Yearly Steer, first on Onward's Last ."ith; class ", junior calf steer, third on Dislodger C7th. Aberdeen-Angus ring. Purebreds: Two year ol8 steers, second on Di- rector: yearling steer, second on Princo of viewpoint 4th: steer calf flrst on Ia0r(1 Roberts, and second on QUeen-s Counciler; purebred steer i.rii Sp0nn,i Alnonp the other exhibits bv the university of Missouri was that of a nlode, ,IOultrv house bv the poultry MfMKirniii'iir ni nit I iiivt'rsiiv- I lit i state poultrv exhibit is in charge of ' T E Quisenberrv of the experiment station at Mountain Grove. REPRESENT 3L I'. AT ROYAL Stock Jiidtrinir Team Selected from Winners at State Fair. The University of Missouri stock i judging team at the Kansas City Royal , Live Stock Show this week was chosen j at Sedalia last Thursday from those' who made the highest scores of the icui ouiv juubiui, ui i clnrlrtfifii i ctni1' iitntrmi frti I the University at the fair. Til pi- nro" ' j. M. nouglass. Shelbina: C. W. Hick ... man. Slater: M. I. Hurley. Grant Citv; Mac D Gordon and J. I. Smith of Columbia: alternates, F. L. Bent-i ley. Albany and L. M. Drumm, Colum-! bia. I GUNPOWDER BEFORE GASOLINE engines worked on tlie explosive j principle, some using gunpowder as , "-""' Tills .,! 1 first gasoline engine was ! ...j. ,... ... i rauier cruuu uui was aiuhui. used. It seemed to give an incentive j to tne worK anu in is-.j m. aip".uumj de Rochas invented an engine and J stated the principles by which tne modern engine works today. He also made the plans for the modern four-' cycle engine which is now used ', almost all automobiles. But the plans of the engine meant J noimng 10 ine commercial wiiiiu l,, j til they were carried out in 1S77 by a scientist named Otto. Many smaller contributions have been made since 'l,cn- I .Air. vnarion gae mauiuioaiu "" ; lantern-slide illustrations of the working of the gasoline engine. Before the lecture Dean II. B.Shaw gave an outline of the lecture work for the semester. Warrensbiirsr Students Elect Oilicers. The Warrensburg Normal l inn ot the University elected these officers yesterday: F. G. Rotn. president; Lauretta Ferguson, secretary; Charles Robinson, treasurer: Edwin Hilli brand. social chairman. The club consists of all former Warrensburg Normal students. It has as its motto, "Get and stand together, boost for the University." Commercial Club Meetine Tomorrow. Thc Commercial Club will hold their regular Thursday luncheon at the Virginia Grill at noon tomorrow. No special program has been ar ranged for this time. MUST DOCTOR CURE TO COLLECT BILL? Henry Merkle Contests Suit on Claim That Medicine Did Him No Good. TWO CASES PUT OFF Only One of Five Tried in Circuit Court Yesterday Afternoon. When a doctor give a sick person medicine and the patient asserts it does him no good, is that person ob liged to pay the bill? This point was raised in the Circuit Court this morning in the case of Dr. J. W. Carryer against Henry Merkel. Doctor Carryer wants the money due him from Merkel for medical atten- tion and medicine. Merkel's attorney i ment student social club. A meeting said it would be shown that the medi- to organize was held at the Y. M. C. cine used in the case did no good, and ; A. Building. Plans were made and that not until another doctor was j committees were appointed to put the called did the sick man begin to im- club into immediate prominence as a prove in health. The second doctor i factor of University life., treated the patient for different dis- j,out fort. attended the meeting, ease than did the first doctor when The gathering was composed of about recovery came, further claimed Mer-, ali equal number of men and women, kel. Another reason given for not j c. M. Elliot called the meeting to or paying the bill was that it was too ,jen j s 0ore, secretary of the bigh. I Y. M. C. A., spoke, and several Doctor Carryer stated when cross-, students expressed their ideas of the examined that he had to go five miles I plans and purposes of the organiza over rough, muddy roads to visit his tion. The fact was brought out that patients, the Merkels. He said that he charged $." a trip to see one person. and fifty cents extra for every extra patient seen on that trip. Other doc- tors on the witness stand claimed tt these prices were reasonable, one stating that he charged more than ,his eVcr-v tilne' Tn the biH aa,nst Merkel are charges for whiskey to "1URe ". "" .UCu """ for the sick man The bill dates back to 1911. No evidence was given by the de fease during the morning to show that the medicine given was not ef fective. In the state case against R. H. Ells. Ells was given until thirty days be fore the next term of court to plead, and the case was continued. The case of A. C. Bledsoe against the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Rail way Company was continued on the . niti.n f ti. Hpfendnnl- and at its cost. The case against J. N. Puckett was dismissed by the plaintiff. The taxes and cost were paid. Tlie case of Frank Giesing against Benjamin Geising was tried and judg - ment rendered for ttie plaintiff. A case against R. A. hlungerat was called but put off until later in theiChiieSf Elizabeth Whiteford, term. THE WIG WAS TOO TEMPTING Negro Woman Stole One but Wouldn't Wear the Bangs. Amanda Craig, a negro, was fined $r. in police court this morning for steaHnK a wic from Amamla caned ,,on Clara Brisco. Mrs, Brisco a week ago and took the wig when she . ft n , t,, I,Pi!ri,ilnrs billed a """ " Uttlc ater t0 borrow the wig, but it co,ld not be found Anlan,la was SUSpected. But she deniea taking it. Later she was seen on the streot wjth it and Mrs. nrisco , d , arrested. Brought to Mrs. Rrisco-s i,olne si,c was wearing ,the WB wjthont "bangs". The stolen wig had long, curly bangs and Amanda gajd t,m wag proof that lnig was a different wig. n,It cvcn without tno banRS Mrs. Irisco fcncw ,)er A ,,romise of a heavier fine if she did not bring back the bangs and Amanda brought ti,em rorth. Thc wig is now in two parts and much of its beauty is lost forever, but it is again in the hands of its rightful owner. Series of Talks by Doctor Hill. "Tlie Social and Ethical Teaching of Jesus" is the subiect of a series of locturcs to ,,c lvcn hv President A. ,oss nm for t,)e beneflt Qf rniversity i students. These lectures will he given j in the Y. M. C. A. auditorium and are I open to all students of the University. The first lecture of the series will be given at 2 oclock next Sunday after- noon. Tan Beta Pi Elects 3Iembers. The Tau Beta Pi honor fraternity has elected the following men: E. L. Williams, F. I. Kemp, F. G. Beckman, H. S. Finlayson. E. H. Lewis. O. E. McCIain, C. A. D. Dieter, W. P. Jesse from the senior class and F. A. Burg from the junior class. SO COLLEGE LIFE TBE A Movement Started To Provide SocialJLife For All Var sity Students. MEETING LAST NIGHT Committees Appointed and An Organization Will Be Perfected at Once. There is not enough social life among a bulk of the University of Missouri students, some say. So plans have been started toward an organi zation which will provide social ac tivities and needed recreation for these students. It was decided last night that the University should have an all-depart- about' two-thirds" of the students of , the University have little or no social life. The other one-third it is said, I have such a crowded social life as to suffer a detriment to their real interests. So it shall be the purpose of this organization to promote a wholesome and systematic opportun- i ity for all the students of the Univer sity to enjoy an elevating social life. It is the plan to have regular meet ings of the club about every two or three weeks. The organization is not vnder the auspices of the Y. M. C. A. or Y. W. C. A. but Mr. Moore has tendered the use of the Y. M. C. A. Building for the meetings. The or ganization is to be a democratic so ciety for all the students in the Uni versity. Mr. Moore said that he be lieved that there was an urgent de mand for such an organization in the school, and that he believed that it was a movement capable of doing mnre nd than am- single orcaniza - tion that had been established in the four years that he had been connected with the life of the University. The members of the different com - 1 mittees are- Reception- H. C. Taylor. Hulda H0tan. Edith " Crawford, W. W M. ; Linger, Frances Delaney. J. A. Wis dom, Hazel Hcnthom. J. II. lesson. Ethel Cox and C. F. Dienst. Entertainment: Herbert Loomis, A. I , M. Campbell, Clara Haggard, Pansy; Slocum, F. W. Anderson, Madge Shri- vcr. Grace Rideway, Mabel Banks, L. T. Wasson, G. M. Oehm, C. B. Elliott, H. C. McLaughlin. L. A. Miller, C. C. , Sparks, Irma Leon, Evan Winkler. LJ - dia Stefanski. F. P. Ralston. C. II. White, Alta Hall, Edith Rundle, Elea- ' . ' . nor Wilkes, and Kuby graven. Refreshment: Blanche Gale, Dolly Hewitt, J. H. Coulter, .1. K. woipors, , Mamie Sharp, A. S. Emig, Miriam Bleak and R. Loomis Advertising: G. W. Turner. R. C. ' Bennett. Clarissa Spencer, Myrtle Mc - Dougel, and Mary Stophlet. ' It is planned to have the first meet- j inK ot the new club Thursday, Octo- ber 17. TRADES 3IEALS FOR FRENCH Russell 3Ionroe Goes Without Food to Study a Language. Would you trade a perfectly good, warm luncheon each day for a knowl edge of French? Anyway, whether von would or not. Russell Monroe, a former University student who is now head proof reader at the Stephens Publishing Company, is doing that very thing. The only hour Mr. Monroe has free from his regular duties during the day is from 12 until 1 o'clock. That is his luncheon hour. But he wants to );now. the French language so he poes without food each day and at tends a class at the University. He says he does not miss his noon-day meal and that in the end the French will do him more good. Dean Williams In St. Joseph. Dean Walter Williams of the School of Journalism is in St Joseph today to speak at the Commerce Club. IN PINCHOT WILL .OT BE HERE Telegram From Him Sajs He Will 'ot Come West Again. Gifford Pinchot will not speak in Columbia tomorrow. A telegram re ceived late last night by C. W. loomis. chairman of the Boone County Pro gressive Committee, says that Mr. Pin chot had decided not to return West. He reached Chicago last week from an extended tour of the West. He will speak in the East the rest of the campaign. Arthur Sager. former circuit attor ney of St. Louis, will take the place of Mr. Pinchot. He will speak at the courthouse tomorrow night. An at tempt was made to get Henry J. Allen of Kansas, but he will not be in Mis souri before a week or ten days. Plans were made at -a meeting of the Wilson-Marshall Club composed of University students, last night, for a poll of the Democratic students of the University. Men were appointed in each department to get the names of all Wilson voters. Several students left last night for St. Louis to here Woodrow Wilson speak today. J. E. Boggs, circuit clerk of Boone County, spoke to the club. Mr. Pinchot was to have been asked to speak to the University students at assembly tomorrow. Since he is not coming no program has been arranged for tomorrow assembly. "HILL" ROPER WILL SPEAK HERE II. A. Collier Says He Will 3Take a Democratic Sjieech in Columbia. W. Wr. Roper (Bill), the renowned football coach, is coming to Columbia a week from next Friday or Saturday to make a Democratic speech, accord ing to H. A. Collier. He will speak under the auspices of the Wilson Marshall Democratic Club. Mr. Col lier received a letter today from Mr. Roper. Mr. Roper (of course, everybody re members) was the M. U. coach in 1909. Incidentally he will look over this year's Tiger team. He is prac ticing law in Philadelphia. THESE TEACHERS FROST 31. V. All Except One in Columbia High Are Graduates of University. Of the thirteen teachers in the Co lumbia High School all are graduates of the University of Missouri except (one. Tlie exception is .miss irginia Fox, who was graduated from Mis- , souri Valley College at Marshall. Four of the teachers are graduates of the high school as well as the University. Thev are: Winifred Remley, Mary "10". Isabe 'Tohnson and 3Iar-v jiiray. In tne commencement exercises at I .l.n Tr:..n..n;.. Inn. ..na.,... n n mtr rt lllie I 111 CI ILJ IdSl 0M1U VI1W Ulll w every ten and four-tenths in tne coi- lege of Arts and Science were grad uates of Columbia High School; one out of every fourteen in the School of Education; one out of every seven teen in the School of Law, and two out of three in the domestic science department. IN TWELFTH C to . Today's World's Series Game Called on Aeeonnt of Darkness. The Boston Red Sox and the Xew York Giants tied fi to C in the world's championship series today. The game was called at the end of the twelfth ' inning on account of darkness. Mat- , thewson pitched for the. Giants and I Collins for Boston. Today's game was the second of the series. Boston won yesterday's game, 4 to 3. TO STURGEON FOR BURIAL Family Aceomnipanies Body of J. E. Hidireway to Pixirah Cemetery. Thc body of .Tohn E. Ridegway. who committed suicide yesterday by drink ing carbolic acid, was taken to Stur geon today for burial. Burial will bei in the Pisgah cemetery near Sturgeon, The body was accompanied by mem-1 bers of his family, J. II. Chedester Mrs. .Mat and Mrs. Hawkins. Chedester and Teachers ill Hear Doctor Cutler, j Dr. W. P. Cutler has been asked to' address the Missouri State Teachers Association, which will meet in Jef-. ferson City November 14 to 10. He will speak on the relation of the pub lic schools to the public health. Trade Journals for Students. The department of forestry received last week, eight lumber and trade journals which will be placed In the agricultural library. ALL LI STREETSJIMPROVED Few Important Highways Will Be Left When" Present Work Is Done. PAVING 3 MILES NOW Also Four Teams at Work Grading Dirt Roads of Town. Columbia, with its eighteen miles of paved streets, more pavement than any other city of its size in Missouri, it is said, is preparing to pave about three miles more. According to J. P. Price, city engineer, there are about thirteen and a half miles of brick pavement, three miles of macadam, a half mile of gravel and a half mile of tarvia macadam. West Broadway is now being paved out to the city limits and Hudson avenue to the city limits. The con tract has been let for 110 feet of brick paving on Fifth street also. Resolu tions have been passed for concrete paving on Sexton Road from Third street to the city limits, about a mile in length. A half mile of paving on Williams street and on Hockaday street from Broadway to Bouchelle has been proposed. The dirt streets of the city are now being graded under the supervision of Fountain Rothwell, chairman of the street committee. Mr. Rothwell has four teams at work in the north part of the city. Among the streets already graded are Melbourne, Rich ardson, Court, Gordon. Oyama, North Boulevard. Coats. Fairview, Tandy avenue, Fay, North Seventh, North Sixth. North Third, First avenue. Sec ond avenue, Third Avenue, North. Grand avenue, and North Garth street. Mr. Rothwell says every dirt street in the city will be graded. It will take about two weeks more to complete the work. More than a mile of paving was laid in Columbia during the past summer. Cherry street. Seventh street, Mis souri avenue and parts of Hockaday and Maryland Place were paved. There is more paving in the south part of the city than in any other section. All of the paving in Columbia is of a good grade. Almost all of the long streets are now paved. Range Line. Eighth street and Paris Road are paved throughout. Broadway will be piactically paved clear through when the work is completed on the west end. Among the long streets in the city without pavement are Worley, Garth. McBaine, North Boulevard and Moores Boulevard. WIVE EARLY 3IISS0URI PAPERS Historical Society Recehes 3Iore Rare Publications in State. The state historical library has just received 084 volumes of old Missouri newspapers which are being bound and placed in thc files of thc library. This is the largest single addition that has ever been received at the library. The library already has one of the most complete collections or newspa pers in thc country. Old papers dat ing as far back as 1S19 are on file there. It is the purpose to make these collections as complete as possible. They constitute an invaluable source of current history that cannot be had or preserved in any other way. Fre quently the library is visited by his torians and professional men from a distance who consult these files for rare and otherwise inaccessible his tory. Among the recent additions which Floyd C. Shoemaker, assistant librar ian, is now filing are nccnteen vol umes of old Memphis i.Mo.) papers dating from lSf.9 to 100.":, which were given by the editor of the Memphis Reveille; nine olumes of the old Missouri Republican of the years 1S01 to ISO'J. and fourteen volumes of the Missouri Democrat from I sr.S to 1S72. given by the late J. R. Love, who was a pioneer editor. There Is one volume of the old Missouri Cas cade of the years lS."il-.". This paper is an interesting type of the old abo litionist journals. Mrs. Mary Joseph ine Taylor of Macon, Mo., has given some rare volumes of the Macon County Gazette or the years 18G2-"".. .Mrs. Taylor's late husband was editor of this paper. 3Trs. Callisnn Visits Daughter Here. Mrs. J. G. Callison of Windsor. Mo., spent Sunday with her daughter, Ruth, at Stephens College. NEARLY NG i