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VOLIDIE I.
COLUMBIA, MISSOURI, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1908.
NUMBER 11
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CO-OP MUST MOVE,
EXECUTIVE BOARD
OF CURATORS SAYS
Recommendation Adopted at
Board Meeting Saturday
Awaits Ratification at
Session in Rolla, Oct. 8.
MERCHANTS COMPLAIN THAT
STORE ISN'T CO-OPERATIVE
Location on the University
Campus Said to Be Unfair
Advantage.
Tin' Co-opor.it iio Store, known to the
students of the University of Missouri
a-, "the Co-op." must move oil tin
University campus ami sever its con
nection with the University, if recom
mendation adopted Saturday by the
-ceutive hoard of the Hoard of Curator-
N ratified by the board as a whole.
The Coop occupies spacious quarter in
the basement of the University, into
which it moved last summer. Trior to
that it was in a loom on the first floor,
which it outgrew.
The recommendation adopted by the
vxecutive board sets forth no reason for
the action. It is commonly known that
merchants of Columbia have complained
that the Co-op was no longer strictly
co-operative, that it had outgrown its
original purpose of selling books to the
.students at reduced rates, and that its
location in the University gave it an
unfair advantage oer other competi
tors in Columbia.
CURATORS B. H. BONFOEY AND
CAMPBELL WELLS PRESENT
The Executive Board is organised
with three members, but at present
there are only two Campbell Wells of
Platte City and B. H. Bonfoey of Un
:......;n.. ri...v mlimtiil tlie resolution
K regarding the Co-op.
As a rule, the acts of the executive
l.:ir1 are final. Ratification by the
Board of Curators is considered a for
mality. The Board will meet at Rolla
Oct. S. and will then pass on the rec
ommendation. The recommendation is that the move
Ik made before Aug. 1, 1909.
Prof. L. M. Defoe, who is president
of the Co-operative Board, said to a
reporter for the University Missourian
today:
"Personal!... I would lose interest in
the Coop if it were moved off the
University gi omuls. It would then
tease to be co-operative, and the stu
dents also would lose interest in it. Its
ihief value, aside from economy, has
been in its accessibility and convenience,
and I am in favor of taking the matter
up with the Board of Curators as a
whole. I think it possible that when all
the facts are laid before the lward it
may reconsider.
FACULTY AND STUDENTS
ORGANIZED THE STORE
Members of the faculty of the Uni
versity and students advanced the small
original capital with which the Co-op
was inaugurated. At first only books
were sold. The original purpose was to
ninke text-lwoks cheaper for the stu
dents. As time passed the Co-op giew in size
and scope, until its stock embraced all
the articles usually found in a book
store and the quarters on the first
lloor were found to be too small. In
moving into the basement, a large
amount of money was spent by the Co
op in remodeling the new quarters.
DEBANON UNIVERSITY
CHAMPION MATCHMAKER
ITS PRESIDENT BOASTS
Since It Was Founded, 52 Years Ago,
There Have Been $10,000
Weddings There.
LEBANON. 0., Sept. 28. Lebanon
University is a great matchmaking
plaee, according to the statement of
President Allnrt S. Hill, who says that
inee it was founded, fifty-two years
ago, there has been 10.000 weddings.
Dr. Hill believes in the co-educational
system. "We believe that five women
will humanize at least a rundred men."
he says.
The founder was Alfred Holbrook,
well known as an educational text-book
maker as well.
Subscription to the University Mis--SOUIUAN"
is $2 for the school term. 1.25
a semester invariably in advance. Sub
scribe now.
HE
WARS
AGAINST
STUDY ON SUNDAY
Minister Urges Students Not
to Desecrate Sabbath in
Pursuit of Learning.
ATHLETICS AS A TEMPTATION
Freedom From Restraint is a
Danger, Rev. M. A.
Hart Says.
The Rev. Madison A. Hart, pastor
of the Christian church, in his sermon
Sunday eveniug, deplored the studying
of lessons on Sunday. He took as his
subject "The Temptations of College
Students." In part he said:
"A very serious temptation to the
college student is the temptation to
studv on Sundav. It tempts both the
good and the poor student. The good
student, who is striving to make a
record in his class, is tempted to study
on Sundav as well as on Saturdays.
The poor student usually puts olT his
lessons until the last minute.
Sunday study is one of the demoral
izing forces in college life today. A
great many lives are wrecked by it. A
good plan is the half holidays on Sat
urday and Monday, thereby eliminating
much of the Sundav studv.
Temptation to Spend.
'The great temptation to the young
man or the young woman in college
life is the freedom from restraint. In
many cases it is the first time the stu
dent has been free from guidance in the
spending of money, and in the choice
of his companions and amusements.
There are practically no check upon the
actions of the student; he is free to
do as he pleases.
"The fredom in spending money and
in choosing companions is, perhaps, the
greatest temptation. One of the foolish
things which parents do. is to give the
student money without placing any
limitations upon the spending of it.
Whether the amount is small or large,
there is always the danger of spending
extravagantly and foolishly. The col
lege student is like a small child on
Christmas morning who has so many
presents that he hardly knows which to
play with. There are many things
which look like gold to the student, but
he will sometimes find to his sorrow
that all is not gold that glitters.
"When the student is spending dol
lars, lie is spmiling himself, not money,
livery dollar which goes out is the
individual going out. The extravagance
of the wealthy people today is what is
arraying the classes against each other.
The freedom in the choice of amuse
ments, out here away from the home
inlluence, is a temptation which many
students have never had before. Of
course certain normal amusements are
all right, but the student must choose
for himself between the innocent and the
harmful amusement. The church is not
here to choose for the individual, but
to help him to choose for himself.
Athletics a Temptation.
"Activity in the social and athletic
phases of college life presents a very
grave temptation to the man or woman
attending college. Whenever the mi-
"iireme end of the student is to be an
athletic star, then that student is miss
ing the mark. And when the supieme
end of the college man or woman is to
be a leader in social circles, then that
student is missing the mark.
"With the widening of the intellect
ual horizon the student is likely to have
old beliefs and impressions challenged.
When the students legin to find out the
why and the wherefore of the things
which they learned as boys and girls,
they stand face to face with tempta
tion. May I ask the student not to be
too quick to give up the old? The great
fundamental things you have heard back
home are true. Men and women as
teachers and preachers must be care
ful as well as truthful. Arrival at the
intellectual horizon will develop what
you young men and women are made
of. The temptation is not so much
to forget religious teachings as to loosen
up on the moral life.
"The Old Folks at Home."
"The temptation to grow away from
the old folks at home is deplorable. 1
do not know of a sadder picture than
the young man who has apparently
forgotten his home ties. The test is
going to come back yonder, there is
where you must ring true. When you
return home mother's calico dress may
look different, father's horny hands will
seem more noticeable. John's sun-brown
face will look homelier, and Mary's
slips in English will be more noticeable.
If you can ring true at home, God
has builded you in a splendid way: and
vou have builded vourself well."
COLD SNAP BREAKS
COLUMBIA
RECORD
Temperature Never Before
Fell So Fast, Forecaster
Reeder Says.
COOLER WEATHER IS COMING
Rain Has Prevented Frost,
but it is Expected
Tonight.
The forecast:. "Generally fair and
cooler to-night and Tuesday; frost to
night." "The temperature at C a. m. was 34
degrees; at 2 p. m., 58 degrees."
The present eold weathei follows an
abrupt change in temperature, said bv
Forecaster Reeder to be the suddencst
ever experienced in Columbia or here
alouts. The cool wave and lain was pre
dicted by the Weather Iture.iu to reach
here Saturday and it arrived on time.
The temperature Saturday lose from 80
leu to -10 degrees and Monday morning
len to -10 degrcs and Monday morning
had fallen to 34..", making a continuous
fall of more than fifty degrees.
While the temperature has fallen
lower in September, the amount and
suddenness of the fall has never before
been equal hereaboutsc.
It Has Been Colder.
The lowest temperature recorded here
in September in the past twenty years
was 20 degrees Sept. J0, 18!)."), a fall
of about thirty degrees in thirty-si
hours.
The first light frost of last year was
Sept. 2."i and Sept. 21). The killing frost
however did not occur until Oct. 12.
Forecaster Ueeder says the tempera
"ture of '14 under normal conditions
will produce a damaging frost, but that
the heavy rainfall prevented a frost.
The piecipitation was 2.1.1 inches.
The sudden cold wave is general
thioughout the West, according to Uni
ted Press dispatches to the University
Missonrian. In the Central States, the
drop in temperature ranges from 20
to 40 degrees. Rain generally accom
panied the change.
In Wisconsin the downpour cheeked
the forest fires, which have done serious
damage.
The cold wave started in Montana.
The government forecast for the Middle
West is for a continuation of the chilly
spell for several days. In the large
cities there has been real suffering
among the poor classes who had failed
to prepare for winter.
YOU CAN FIND "TACKY"
IN ONE DICTIONARY
Dr. E. A. Allen Discusses Missouri's
Famous Adjective.
"Tacky" is si Missouri word concern
ing which many inquiries have been
made. A correspondent ot the Mexico
Intelligencer, writing from Durango.
Colo., asks what is meant when one
savs: "He looks tacky."
Dr. K. A. Allen, head professor of
English in Missouri State University,
thinks that the Intelligencer's corre
spondent is mistaken in saying that the
meaning of the word cannot be found
in any of the dictionaries. The Mis
souri word, as it is. ean be found in
I the supplement to Webster's Interna
tional Dictionarv, which savs:
1 "Tacky (taky). a. etymology uncer
jtain dowdy, shabby, or neglected in
appearance, unkempt. Local, U. S.
I "Tackv. 11. Written also tackev an
t
ill-condition, ill-fed, or neglected horse;
'also a person in a like condition.
I Southern U. S."
The New English (Oxford) Diction
ary will likely give the history of the
word, according to Dr. Allen, so far as
known, if it ever gets to the letter "t."
H. T. HUDSON SUCCUMBS
Prominent Wright City Man Is Dead of
Heart Failure.
WRIGHT CITY, Mo., Sept. 28. II. T.
Hudson, aged 02 years, who died of
heart failure Tuesday night, was the
oldest of a family f eight brothers,
among them being Dr. D. 0. Hudson,
of Montgomery City. Mo.; Dr. E. A.
Hudson, of Wellsville, Mo.; Dr. Mose
Hudson, of Sherman. Tex., and W. H.
Hudson, of St. Louis, and Matthew
Hudson, of Mexico, Mo., who are trav
eling men. He is survived by a sister.
Mrs. H. II. Teschmacher: a son. Taylor
Hudson, and a daughter, Mrs. W. II.
Krorae, of St. Louis.
KILLED STUDENT,
COMMITS SUICIDE
Slayer Hangs Himself in Cell
of Jail at Manhattan,
Kas.
THREATS OF VIOLENCE MADE
House Burned, Friends Gone,
Man Ends His Troubles
in Death.
MANHATTAN. Kan., Sept. 28. Mil
ton 1). Creviston, who was under arrest
on a charge of killing .lohn Coons, Jr.. and
hooting another student at the Kansas
State Agricultural College, committed
suicide Saturdav bv hanging himself
in his cell. Creviston was to have been
arraigned today on a charge of minder
growing out of the shooting. He killed
himself some time during the night, but
his body, hanging from the cell roof, was
not discovered until nearly noon.
Students Annoyed Him.
Coons and companion were passing
Creviston's house when he fired on them.
The man claimed students had greatly
annoyed him by pounding on his house.
Last Saturdty Creviston's house was
tired. While the fireman were at work
the water supply was suddently shut
off and the house burned down. Crev
ison had been held in jail ever since
the shooting for fear students would
carry out threats of violence against
him.
POOR MOLLYCODDLPS
AT WASHINGTON U.
MUSN'T BE HARMED
Probably Freshmen Will Be Hazed
Hereafter by Saying "Boo!"
Like That.
Attention Freshmen! If the paddles
of the "Sophs" have ruffled your dignity,
there may be a haven of refuge.
Ha.ing to suit mothers and molly
coddles is the order of the day at
Washington University in St. Louis.
The opening of that institution, press
dispatches say, disclosed a distressing
dilemma in the "chi-chi-ing" situation.
Owing to the hazing incident at West
Point, wherein President Roosevelt ex
pelled students for over-severity, and
Gen. Wiight re-instated them, and the
President again expelled them, "Frcsh
ies" at Washington University will not
hereafter be subjected to such harsh
tieatment as heretofore. They must
propose to the blushing coeds at Mc
Millan hall, and aNo to the scrub
women, if the Sophomores so will it,
but there will be little laying on of
paddles.
In future no doubt Washington U.
will come to see Freshmen hazed by
mere word of mouth, or compelled to
knit doilies in public and wear bibs
at meals and sit in high chairs.
STUDENTS IN POLITICS
Republican and Democratic Clubs
Among University Men.
W. W. Wright, a student in Law
Department, has called a meeting to
organize a Bryan-Cowherd Club, which
will meet in the Courthouse at 7:30
p. m. this evening. A large number of
Democratic student voters arc expected
to attend.
A Taft-Hadiey Club was formed last
Friday, with a membership of 200. S.
A. Smith, a junior law student, was
chosen president of the organization.
G. II. Boehn, of Hermann. Mo., was
elected vice-president; C. M. Mulen
neaux of Unionville, Mo., nominee of
the party in Putnam county, for
county treasurer, was elected secretary;
E. A. Jasman of the same place was
made treasurer. A personal letter from
Mr. Taft, written to the club, was read
by the chairman, and was greeted with
enthusiasm. E. A. Remley, chairman
of the Boone County Republican Central
Committee, spoke.
MEETING OF JOURNALISTS
Students in New Department Plan
Organization.
A "gctting-acquainted" meeting will
Ih held by the students in the Depart
ment of Journalism Wednesday at 8
p. m. in Room 44, Academic Hall.
A department organization will be
perfected.
The University Missolt.ian is on
sale at the Drug Shop at two cents a
copy.
HERMAN
IDE
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Man Who Tried to Dissuade
Bryan From Running
Heads Committee.
OKLAHOMA ASKS RESIGNATION
Some Citizens of New State
Want Accused Man to
Step Down.
By United Press.
NEW YORK. Sept. 28. Herman Kid
der, editor of the New York Staats Zei-
tung, took control this morning as treas
urer of the Democratic National Com
mittee to succeed Gov. Charles N. Has
kell of Oklahoma, vv hose resignation
was demanded by Bryan.
From what couM 1m learned at head
quarters, it was Mr. Mack who sug
gested the name of .Mr. Kidder and that
Mr. Bryan at ome replied that the selec
tion of Mr. Kidder would be an accept
able one so far as he was concerned.
Since the opening of the democratic na
tional campaign Mr. Kidder has been
in charge of the Literary Bureau of
the Eastern headquarters. Before the
Denver convention he was opposed to
the nomination of Mr. Bryan, but af
terward he fell in line.
Haskell announced his resignation Fri
day night in Chicago.
When Mr. Kidder was reminded of
this incident, he said: "It is true that
1 was at first opposed to Mr. Bryan,
but I have accepted the trcasureship of
the National Committee for the reason
that I favor tariff reform and in my
opinion as the only hope of such reform
is the election of Bryan."
OKLAHOMA WANTS HASKELL
TO RESIGN AS GOVERNOR
FOKT WORTH, Tex., Sept. 23. That
there is an organized effort to unseat
Gov. C. N. Haskell of Oklahoma, is borne
out by numerous dispatches from Guth
rie and Oklahoma City to prominent
democrats of this city and Dallas. Spe
cials today from Oklahoma correspond
ents to Texas newspapers corroborate
these private advices and add that At
torney General West, a democrat, and
who tried to oust the Prairie Oil Com
pany, is bitter against Haskell and said
the governor should step down in the
light of recent disclosures.
"WHAT ABOUT DEPEW?"
HASKELL ASKS ROOSEVELT
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Sept. 28 Gov.
Charles N. Haskell, passing through
this city tonight on his way from Chi
cago to Guthrie, gave the Associated
Press a letter addressed to President
Roosevelt, defending Haskell's attitude
toward the Prairie Oil and Gas Company
and assailing the President for grant
ing, before statehood, a franchise in In
dian Territory for a Standard Oil pipe
line, at the request of Senator Chaun-
cey Depevv.
'You knew," writes Haskell, "that
Senator Depevv was the greatest Stand
ard Oil agent in the Senate."
"WHAT ABOUT HUGHES?"
BRYAN ASKS ROOSEVELT
MILWAUKEE, Wis., Sept. 28. De
fending his knowledge of Gov. Haskell
against the charges which have been
brought against him '-until the charges
can be examined in some court, where
partisanship does not bias," William
Jennings Bryan, democratic candidate
for Pre.-ident, on his way from Madison
to this city gave out for publication
his reply to President Roosevelt's recent
letter in response to his telegram on
the subject.
Mr. Bryan speaks of the election of
Mr. Haskell as governor of Oklahoma
and says, that "the constitution was
adopted" and that Gov. Haskell was
elected in spite of the efforts of your
administration and in spite of the speech
made in Oklahoma by Mr. Taft.
Mr. Brvan charges among other
things that the steel trust '"with your
express consent" purchased one of its
largest rivals and thus obtained control
of more than ."0 per cent of the total
output.
He asks the President if he will insist
'that in permitting this you showed
less favor to the monopolistic corpora
tions than I do in opposing it
Mr. Bryan abruptly charges that Gov.
Hughes, quoted by President Roosevelt
as having "riddled the democratic trust
remedy," was himself the beneficiary of
the trusts and cites the campaign con
tributors to the Hughes election fund
two years ago.
Among these are J. P- Morgan, John
D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie and
William Nelson Cromwell.
SUCCEEDS
HASKEL
KIN1 WINS RUSH
FOR FRESHMEN IN
PRESENCE OF 411)
Missouri Farmer Boy Climbs
Light Pole and Unfastens
Banner Amid Plaudits of
Throngs on Campus.
DEFEATED SOPHOMORES SEE
VICTORS' TRIUMPHANT PARADE
Contest Continues Only
Minutes and is Clean
Sport.
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Striplings in a Trojan battle!
Freshmen against Sophomores and
the Freshmen won.
Hats off to the valiant youngsters who
evened the score for two weeks' hazing.
Ifats off to the crafty class which cap
tured the Missouri banner by strategy
from the top of an iron light pole on
the University Quadrangle, cheered by
4,000 spectators as they made history
in the annual class rush.
Ifats off to that nimble, 120-pound
Missouri farmer lwy, Grover Kinzy, of
Chillicothe, who scaled the iron pole
and crowned his elass with honor Fri
day night.
Borne on the shoulders of his sweat
ing, half-exhausted classmates to the
Ionic columns and thence to the en
trance of the Engineering building,
Kinzy tried in vain to grasp each hand
as it was thrust upward for his touch.
OVATION FOR PERSPIRING
FRESHMAN WHO SCALED POLE
Frantic with joy, Freshmen patted his
perspiring back, his legs, his arms.
Two hundred new recruits to the Uni
versity of Missouri went mad with joy
while they danced around that trium
phal procession.
Seldom has the class rush been so
quickly decided. In .'!4 minutes from
the moment the Field Marshal's revolver
barked the signal for the light, the ban
ner was waving in Kiny's hands. In
a trifle more than half an hour, a new
page was written in 'Varsity history.
Freshman strategy shortened the bat
tle. The Sophomores, who had planned
ahead with care, found themselves un
able to execute their maneuvers, through
lack of individual or numerical strength.
SOPHOMORE KLINE ALMOST
WON BANNER FOR CLASS
Victory came near perching on the
banner of the Sophomores within a fevv
niinutcs after the revolver shot had
sounded for the beginning of the rush.
Hurtled to the center of the crowd
on the shoulders of his fellows, his arms
and legs moving as thoe of a swimmer
in the surf, came a young Sophomore,
Kline and took a firm grip of the pole.
He was hoisted up by his companions,
until he hung, feet in air and head
down, his Lody almost parallel with
the pole.
Hanging on by sheer strength and
grip Kline was pushed up, up, an inch
at a time, by his fellows, till he hung
clear of the crowd. He lowered his
body to a horizontal position and des
perately tried to pull himself up, so
as to grasp the pole with his legs. The
crowd held its breath while the man
on the pole fought to get higher. But
the strain was too much. He sank
down, headfirst, into the crowd. The
spectators, men and women, cheered
him for his effort.
THERE'S CLEAN SPORT IN CLASS
RUSH WHEN IT IS SAFEGUARDED
One thing the rush demonstrated 1m?
vond peradventurc of doubt, spectators
who saw it declared Monday, is that
when it is properly safeguarded, it is
clean, manly s-iort, a fair test of
strength, endurance, skill and resource
fulness. Kinzy was one of M "reserves,"
posted lehind the terrace from which
the columns rise, ami held in waiting
there half an hour, until the Sopho
more's raging alout the pole had ex
hausted a great part of their strength.
When the reserves, fresh and aching
for the struggle, hurled themselves in
a compact mass upon that other com
pact but struggling mass about the light
pole, every man had a definite goal
lefore him to get as near that goal
as possible, and boost a reserve Fresh
man to the top.
KINZY TANTALIZES HIS
OPPONENTS WHEN HE WINS
When Kinzy climbed over the shoul
ders of his companions in the reserves,
grasped the pole and kicked free from
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