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ftv -- " r fc4.i v "j-" 7 "-v W- -V"" - mvmAN, 4 -41 -rl FIFTH YEAR COLUMBIA, MISSOURI, SUNDAY, JANUARY 19, 19.13 NUMBER 95 P5tW mtmsmms'imrysmmmmatti SMfSmPbrK- si - f"' I"1 U ML H PUT THE OOjOIK Dllj H. L. Cooper of Mississippi River Power' Co., to ' Speak at Assembly. THIRD IN MAGNITUDE i j PAIR WEATHER TODAT 1? , ,. , j Ofticlal Forecast Predicts Clear Oat " " ' f-Dotrs.r - The official weather forecast for to day is: "Fair and warmer with a temperature above freezing." .1 ie lorai nxpenaiture ior Conducting This Work Will Be $30,000,000. Hug') I Cooper, vice-president and chief engineer of the Mississippi River Power Company, will lecture on the construction of the hydro-electric ftovcr plant at Keokuk, Iowa, at 8 o'clock next Thursday night. In the University Auditorium. The talk will be illustrated with lantern slides. In reviewing the civil engineering works of exceptional note in process of construction Jn the United States during the year 1912, the Scientific American names two as exceeding in Magnitude and importance the bar won cgejjn U I ? -T Swiss Farmer HIS ALFALFA it City Took jswing of the Mississippi River at Keokuk, the Panama Canal Js one of them. Anticipating the popular interest that would be taken in the enterprise, the company built five large observa tion platforms from which the opera tions could be viewed, and employed a special guide to conduct parties, ex plain details, and answer questions in regard to the undertaking. About 60,000 persons have taken advantage of the opportunity to see the living moving picture with Its twenty shriek ing toy locomotives running back and forth, and its two thousand pigmy workmen hustling hither and thither. But these locomotives are no toys; they are regular standard gage switch nes; and these men are no pig ifcs, but are full-sized men of many nationalities dwarfed though they may be by the magnitude of the work. Sightseers are not the only ones who have taken advantage of the on- Dortunities offered hv thp rnmnntiv. ISo Important has the construction been considered from an engineering standpoint that Keokuk has been th mecca of engineers from all parts of the world, including England, France, Switzerland, Germany, Russia, Fin land Japan, Argentine and the United States. General Bixby, chler of engineers of the United States army, has Issued a circular calling upon all engineers of the United States army corps east of the Rocky Mountains to visit the site for the instruction they would receive. Representatives from Ames' Agricul tural College, Armour Institute, and from Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, and Wisconsin universities have made the pftltrlmage to Keokuk, and graduates offeveral f these as well as similar J" eastern institutions have been employ' .edUs assistant engineers on the con struction The Keokuk plant has a composite Individuality. The dam compares favorably with the Assuan dam in fefypt The former impounds water tor power purposes, while the latter holds water in reserve for irri gation. The electrical output at Keo kuk will compare with the total -out put of both American and Canadian companies at Niagara Falls. The lock at Keokuk vies with those at Panama. Though not as long, it is the same width and ts a trifle higher than the largest of those on the isth mus. A dry dock costing in the neigh borhood of a million dollars Is in cluded in' the contraction at Keo kuk. The length of the dam proper and its abutments is 4,649 feet; the power tST 1,7IS fet: tbe Bea wal1, 1,n0 fef ihe lock, 400 feet; the area of tnV dry dock, 1.6 acres; the hydro electric development will be 300,000 horse-power, and the total expendi ture will be between $25,000,000 and J30.000.000. Although only recently popularized and exploited, efficiency has been a term w ell known tn engineering circles for at least twenty-Ore years, and efficiency has been the- watchword at Keokuk during the building of this Plant. " Mr. Cooper spent $1,000,000 for tools and machinery. Including fifteen miles of railroad track, sixteen locomotives, and o.io hundred and forty-two cars, and lias placed approximately twenty five hundred men on his payroll. Columbia is in the "Keokuk Zone." and may some day be recetvteg aome. ' 'J 1 1 of Pierce aissobh Karailst Prise. ' The pioneer alfalfa grower of Mis souri was here last week. Wednes day he received first prize, a silver cup offered, by the Missouri Ruralist for the best yield of alfalfa produced in the state during 1912. He Is Simon Baumgartner. a Swiss farmer, of Pierce City, Mo. Mr. Baumgartner also claims to be one of the original scientific farmers of the state. "I was born and reared on a farm In Solothurn, Switzerland," he said "There we were accustomed to grow ing alfalfa, which was easily culti vated and which made great yields. I came to this country and settled tn Southwest Missouri in 1883. I bought a hilly and worn out farm In Law rence County. I planted alfalfa the way we were accustomed to in my native land,, expecting it to grow in the same way. But to my surprise it would not grow. The neighbors said that my efforts were hopeless and that alfalfa would never grow in Missouri. But I began to experiment Every body said that I was a fool and even my wife said that I was wasting my time. Still I persisted." RQBER T PEARMAN IS Iff PEflFECTBABY I I -3j " ' i 3 M ' ' Son of W. R. Pearman Gets 96 1-2 of a Possible 100 Points in Contest. TWO OTHER AWARDS f t i " ' i i Carl Smarr and Stanley Back ' us '"Win in Their Age Divisions. BIGGEST CROWD YET More Than Fifteen Hundred , Farmers Registered Here Last Week. of I ""eht and Dower from thesis jJb!ssi.,A river. ' ' The total registration of farmers last week at the College of Agricul ture was 1,581. Several farmers ar rived too late to register. That Farm ers' Week was the best and largest ever held here in the point of attend ance and more interest shown by them than in any previous year, is the opinion of W. L. Nelson, assistant state secretary of agriculture. "The attendance this week was larg er and better than ever before," said Dean F. B. Mumford yesterday. "The largest previous attendance was 1300 registered farmers last year. This year tbe total attendance was 1580. In previous years we liave registered people from Columbia, but this year only visiting farmers were allowed 10 register. There were more actual farmers here from a distance than in dicated by the registration. The most remarkable i fact of all is that 104 of tbe 114 Missouri counties were rep resented. Twelve different states were represented by visiting fanners. ' "My observation la that the farmers spent more time attending the lectures and less time visiting than in former Various state associations-met and discussed matters pertaining- to agricultural -production and also leg islative movements. Committees were elected to advise the legislators what the farmers want. "The banquet given Friday night at the University Club, was the largest ever given here, 501 persons being served." Robert Pearman is, according to the judges of the baby show Friday, the most nearly perfect baby id Columbia. This decision was reached after little Robert had been carefully measured according to the official requirements and had been examined as to mentality and alertness. He is the son of W. R. Pearman, who lives at 2 West Broadway. Of a total 100 points Robert was given 96. The judges declined to say what particular points It was that the prize-winning baby lacked, and they also declined to give his measure ments. All the babies in the contest were first divided into three age groups; the first 6 to 18 months old; the sec ond, 18 to 30 months, and the third 30 months to 3 years. In the first group, Carl Smarr, 7 months old, was the winner; in the second, Stanley Backus took first place, and in the third Robert Pearman was declared winner. Later it was decided that Robert also had the best claim to the "sweepstakes." The Baby Health Contest was held under the auspices of the Missouri Homemakers' Conference and was in tended to be an illustration of what a perfectly formed and developed child might be. The medical examination in the con test was made by Dr. W. J. Calvert, professor of preventive medicine. The physical measurements and the several characteristics were decided by Miss Rebecca Conway, assistant in the woman's gymnasium, C. L. Brewer, professor of physical education and Dr. C. W. Greene, professor of phy siology. Twenty-seven infants were entered. BAPTIST GUILD FOR STUDENTS PLANNED if r '1 tl '- Dr. T. W. '- 'i?i j Young, New Minister Here, Explains the Need of One. FIRST SERMON TODAY - t i z, u t g i ' t Worked Way Through School While Preparing ' for'the Pulpit'. ' Dr. T. W. Young, the new pastor of the Baptist Church, will preach to day. He comes here from Detroit, Mich., where he has been for seven years the pastor of the North Baptist Church. Before that, he held the pastorate of the church in Ann Arbor, Mich., twelve , years. Doctor Young arrived In. Columbia Friday night. Doctor Young is a graduate of the Southern Baptist Theological Semin ary at Louisville, Ky., and of the Theological Seminary at Jackson, : H r . - 1 bsbssH&M- BSBSBSH BBBBBBBBBBBBBVgBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBs! BBBBBBBBBBBBBKt'iBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBl bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbL&bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbI BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBRF?''BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBn BBBBBBBBBBBsK'riBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBl bbbbbbbbbbbbV 'bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbH bbbbbbbbbbbbbV'ibbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb! BBBBBBBBBBBBBbV iBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB Man Paul" at 11 o'clock this morn ing. The night service will begin at 7:30 o'clock. Sunday school will ba at 9:45 o'clock this morning and the Christian Endeavor at 6:30 o'clock. CAR CARRIED 5588 PEOPLE J. A. Stewart, the Owner, Says Pat roas Only Use it In Bad Weather. Columbia's motor bus has carried 55,538 paid passengers since It was put in operation last May. But it is not being used as much as was ex pected, according to J. A. Stewart, owner of the car. Most of the peo ple who use It In bad weather walk when the weather is fair. "Like all other system,' Mr. Stew art commented, "ours is imperfect. Yet tbe car is In running condi tion most or tne time and pas sengers can tell within two minutes of the time it will arrive at a given point. "The whistle, to which so many have been objecting, was stolen and the car ran for sometime without it. But our passengers complained about this. They want the whistle to warn them when it is coming. For this reason it must be distinctive." SO JILL MAY LEARN ' ' OF ROAD BUILDING - Course in'Highway Construc tion to Be Given at Uni versity Next Month. FIRST OF KIND HERE Opportunity for Everybody to Get Instruction ' on ' Making of Highways. SPRAYER BROUGHT HIM $1,680 Now Neighbors Do Not Question E. S. Bats Sanity. , Edward S. Butt of Lafayette Coun ty netted $4,000 profit from 40 acres or apples last fall. Eighty-five per cent of the apples were Bold in class number 1 at $1.05 a barrel. Mr. Butts, who attended Farmers Week, says that he has had the orch ard for about twenty years without realizing much profit. Two years ago he bought a sprayer and began caring for his orchard. He attributes last year's profit to spraying. "When it got out that I had spent $100 for a sprayer the neighbors talk ed as if they thought my sanity should be tested," Mr. Butt said. Dr. T. W. Young. KANSAS CITY STAR MEN" HERE Edward R. Sehanffler and A. B. Chapln Gathered Material. far Story. Edward R. Schaurfler, who writes about Missouri and Missouri people for the Kansas City Star; and A. B. Chapin, cartoonist for the Star, and lecturer, were visitors at the Univer sity of Missouri yesterday. They gathered material for a special illus trated story for their paper, giving their impressions from "an ..outsider's I viewpoint" Both will be remembered for their excellent talks Journalism Week last year. Y. M. C A. GIVES DINNER TWO MISSOURI EDITORS HERE C. L. Overall and Dee Brydea Are Members of State legislature. C. L. Overall, publisher of the Camp bell Citizen, Dunklin County, and Doc Bryden, publisher of the Essex Leader, Stoddard County, were speakers at the Rural Life Conference Friday.' Both men are members of the state legisla ture and visited the University yester day. This is their first visit to Co lumbia. Mr. Overall Is a member of the ap propriations committee, chairman of the township organization committee and ranking member of the text book committee. He is working for legis lation to change the period of town ship elections from two to four years. --Mr. Bryden is chairman of the text book committee and has Introduced a bill for uniform text books In public schools. Botbrmen.! think the measure-will carry. -i WRIGHT DECLINES- SEW PLACE :.h IasOlate Lectarer Doesn't Care to Be C'Aadraln CoMrttf.Fana AdTlser. J.' Kelly' Wright, institute lecturer on animal husbandry) for the State Board, of Agriculture. has de clined to accept the position as farm adviser of Audrain Coenty, recently offered nun. ?ne poara m. agriculture has increased Mr. Wright's salary. C." K. Ober, Secretary of .the Interna tional Organization, Is Gaest. The University Y. M. C. A. cabinet gave a dinner to C. K. Ober at the Y. M. C. A. Building last night Mr. Ober is senior secretary of the Inter national Y.'M. C. A. Committee' witn an office in New York. Mr. Ober is making a tour of Wes tern universities and colleges pre senting the opportunities in the Y. M. C. A. work as a life vocation. He will talk at a meeting in the Y. M. C. A. auditorium at 9 o'clock Sunday morn ing. KEMPER DEFEATS C. H. S. Military School Basketball Team Wins with" Score 41-29. The Kemper Military School de feated the Columbia High School bas ketball team at Boonville Friday night The score was 41 to 29. . Vogt and Rishell.of the high school team 'went into the game with slight injuries but did most of the scoring. H; K. Tistadt of Central College tef ereed the game. Kemper will plaV here -'next Saturday night Senate Appropriations Committee. i The members of the appropriations committee from the state senate have been appointed- They are: SJ P. Beaven, 'William d. Busby, J. F. Dun woody, Thomas J. Lysaght, Charles O. A. Brunki, Benjamin L. White. R. S. McClinUc. Kirk Hawkins, Craig Bran son,1 igniter C-'Qoodson and Fr M. Wilson.-1' Tenn. While attending the Louisville seminary, he earned his way by preaching in one ur the local city churches every Sunday. Besides ac complishing his work in the seminary he built up the church membership and improved the financial condition of his church very materially. While Doctor Young was pastor of the church In Ann Arbor, he Inaugu rated there the Baptist Student Guild. The aim of this is epeclaj social and religious work among the students. They bought a building and property for $15,000, all of which they paid for in three years. The building Is used for a social meeting place for 'Bap tist students and was well equipped for all sorts of social and religious purposes, It is the purpose of Doctor Young to do the same thing tn Columbia. There are about 800 Baptist students here, and he feels that some such organization is the most efficient means of reaching them individually. The local church board haB Just re ceived a communication from the Baptist State Mission Board, recom mending the work of Doctor Young in connection with the organization and equipment of a student guild, and promising Its aid in the project here. Besides the guild in Michigan, there are similar ones in Illinois, Kansas and Wisconsin. ' TRIP FOR MANDOLIN PLAYERS Club Already Has Dates for Kansas City, Lexington and Slater. The Mandolin Club of the University will go on a trip the latter part of Febrnary.-giving concerts in Kansas City February 22, Lexington Febru ary 24 and Slater February 25. It is possible that the club will play also in Sedalia, Liberty, Joplin, Klrksville and St Louis. The Mandolin Club and the Glee Club together will give a recital in Co lumbia February 13. The officers of the Mandolin Club are: President H. Charles Cox; business manager, Mil ton Bernet; leader C. ''E. , Swart; librarian, Ben Seward. ACCEPTS FIELD FUND Jm- I J r 11 1 M'' Scholarship in Journalism in Memory of the "Child- Poet." ren's CHURCH SERVICES TODAY Dean G. D. Edwards of Bible College Will Preach at Methodist Chareh. Dr.' Granville D. Edwards will preach at the Methodist Church at 10:45 today. Sunday school will be gin at 9:30. The Rev. A. V. Bayley will preach tonight at 7:30. Prayer meeting will be held Wednesday night at 7:30 and the Ejfworth League will meet at 6:15 tonight in a union meeting at the Baptist Church. The Lutheran Church will hold their meetings today in the Y. M. C A. Building. Professor .Dau -of St Louis will -preach' In English at the morn ing" service at 11 o'clock and In Ger roan at. 7:30 tonight Biblo School at the. Christian Church will "begin this morning at 9:30 o'clock. "Dull Tools and Our Life Work" will be the subject of the ser mon for theWirnlne service at! 10:43. The evening service will begin at 7;30. The pastor, will talk on "The Veiled Gospel and the God of the WrorW." Christian Endeavor Society begins at 6:30vtand prayer meeting at 7:30 Wednesday, night v! Dr.s-W. WL Blwane will preach at the Presbyterian Church on i"God,'3 The Board of Curators of the Uni versity of Missouri yesterday accepted the Eugene Field Monument Fund of $1350 for establishing . the Eugene Field Scholarship in Journalism. The money was collected in small sub scriptions through the efforts of J. West Goodwin of Sedalia. Tbe direc tors of the association which had charge of the fund recently tendered It to the Curators for establish ing the scholarship. The report of the live stock ex hibits for the last year showed a total of $711 won in prizes. Howard de Forrest of New York was appointed teacher in forestry. M. W. Talbot was made student as sistant in forestry for the remainder of this session. I. A. Lowry and J. B. Rand were appointed student as sistants in veterinary science for the short course, given the second se mester. The members of the board present were: Dr. J. C. Parrish of Vandalia, Charles Yeater of Sedalia and C. B. Rollins of Columbia. .' Because of the vast importance of highway construction and Improve ment within the state, the University of Missouri announces that It will of fer next month a short course In high way construction and maintenance. The course will continue two weeks, beginning February l and ending February 28. This course is designed to offer an opportunity for all persons in the state really interested in good roads to learn, the best methods for their construction and care. No examina tions are necessary and there will be no fees of any kind. Tbe only re quirement is that' each-person en rolling be more than 16 years old. The co-operation of Curtis Hill. state highway engineer, has been ob tained and a special course of lec tures will be given by him. The va rious courses and demonstrations will be given by members of the faculty in the School of Engineering. What the Coarse Is For. "This course is intended to meet the needs of men interested in the prac tical construction and maintenance of country highways, who may not have had opportunity to study in detail the principles involved, and methods em ployed, in such work," says Dean H. B. Shaw of the School of Engineerinc. 'Good results in highway construc tion depend upon certain well defined elementary principles, which have been established by study of the re sults obtained in the practice of lead ing road builders. These principles, when brought together, form the ba sis of a science of highway construc tion, which may be applied in a study of methods of construction and main tenance, so as to enable a Judgment to be formed concerning the relaUve values of various methods, and in dicate ways in which present practice may be improved. . "In this course the subjects will be presented from, the point of view of the practical road builder." These courses will be given: The Courses Offered. Road surfaces discussion iof meth ods of construction and maintaining the surface of roads and streets; methods of forming and maintaining earth roads; materials and methods In construction of rock roads; dust -prevention, road builders qnd durability lot services. Road grading and drainage discus sion of methods of forming road bed and getting' rid of water; methods of determining gradients, how to reduce gradients, making cuts and fills. Road structures discussion of the materials and methods employed In constructing small bridges, culverts and bridge foundations. Special at tention will be given to the use of concrete Testing materials demonstrations in tbe laboratory of methods and re sults of testing materials used in con struction; tests of cement, sand, brok en stone, concrete blocks and beams, road material and road binders. Special lectures a series of special leetures by the state highway engineer. WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO HIM? Sophomore -Joaraallsts Meet - The sopho:nore:":'Iafcs,.'In,' tfie School of Journalism f elecfceiL-offlcefa Friday. J; A.".Murray was elected .president, Robert Bohon, secretary- a"nd( Thomas Hudson, SavitaTeTr?reinSflve. t' ,' : .. Condemned Colamhla Candy. Fifteen (pounds ,ot dirty' chocolates and ten "pounds of moldy peanpts were condemned in one of Columbia's candy stores Friday. Tuesday Clan to Meet The TuesdaV Clsb will mest at 2:45 o'clock, -Tuesday- -afternoon. Current events will be'dlsctrssea'. Five "Thirteens" Mixed ip With Mr. Painter's New Bnagalow. L. S. Palmer, chemist in charge of the research laboratory of the dairy department of the University, who has completed a new bungalow on Stewart Road, does not think that thirteen Is a "hoodoo." Five thirteens are con nected with his new bouse. The lot is No. 13, the block No. 13, and the range No. 13. The deed was recorded January 13, 1913. Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Stephens Entertain. Mr. and, Mrs. E. 8. Stephens enter tained Friday night with a bridge party for Mrs. H. C. Snell of Chicago who was a schoolmate of Mrs. Stephens. The Rev. C W. Tadlock Has the Grip. i The Rev. C. W. Tadlock, pastor of the Methodist Church, will be unable to preach today on account of illness. He has tbe grip. .. . j.i ', V IMJlm i twk? -.i rfri" t