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UOTVERSITY MISSOUHIAK
VOLU3IE T.
COLUMBIA, MISSOURI, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1908.
NUMB ER 13
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LAST STRAWS BLOW
ALONG BROADWAY
Reporter Counts Twenty
Within an Hour on Men,
Five on Women.
ICY BLASTS ALL AROUND 'EM
But Columbia, Paris-Athens
of Missouri, Resolutely
Sets New Style.
ou remember how cold it was yes
terday afternoon and how every one
fished overcoat out ef mothballs at the
bottom of ti imks. Some thought it
would snow liel'orc night. That was
tin- afternoon a reporter for the
University Missourian eount-l l'1L" straw
hats on Rroadway.
Facing the icy blasts upon Ilitt
stuet was a pair of four-inch cuffs on
a thirty-si-inch eoat. topped by a
straw hat!
In ome town-. Sept. 1" is considered
the last day for the straw hat as ap
parel. Columbia thinks differently.
.vi... M-onlil von think of see-in five
straw hats upon the streets of Colum
bia on a day like that when walnuts
were dropping frosted from the tree's?
Could your imagination picture TEX
in one hour upon the streets! The
first football game takes place this
week and the newspapers are discussing
the turkey crop for Thanksgiving.
Would you listen if .someone told you
there were fifteen straw hats out Mon
day? As a matter of fact, there were
TWENTY different straw hats worn by
men. and five by women em Broadway
uithin an hour yesterday afternoon.
Columbia, the seat of learning and
eulture, claims the title of "the Athens
of Missouri." Why not the Paris of
Missouri as well? Does not the first
and widest cull on trousers appear on
her streets? Are not her windows the
iirst to display buckled suits, green
hoes. and the rah rahest of clothes?
The latest? Why, straw hats in the
winter time is the latest in Columbia-
Columbia, the Paris-Athens of
.ouri!
Mis
"F
n
AGAINST SELVES
Arts and Science Numerals
on Backstop May Cause
"Scrap."
The Freshmen of the College of Arts
and Science have placed their numerals
on the back-stop in the corner of Rol
lins Field.
The appearance of the red and white
sign on Rollins Field this morning was a
surprise to the other students, as the
numerals of the Frehman classes in
the Department of Engineering have oc
cupicd this conspicuous place for many
v cars.
It is a time-honore'd custom among
indents at the University of Missouri
that the Freshman class succeeding in
putting its numerals on the Rollins Field
back-stop, and keeping them there dur
ing the fir.st football game of the season.
liould le peimitted to leave them there
the rest of the c-ar.
As the Arts and Science Kre-hmen are
determined to keep their numerals on
the Wrd, and as the Engineering Fresh
men are determined to repaint it. a class
"scrap" soenis imminent.
2-CENT RATE TO ENGLAND
Postage Reduction Will Go Into Effect
Tomorrow.
l!r 1'nlted Preas.
WASHINGTON'. 1). C. Sept. 30. The
two-cent letter rate to Great Britain
ln-gins tomorrow. If the innovation is
successful, the Government hopes to cx
tend it to all the European countries.
The English colonies. France. Italy
and Germany have asked a similar ar
rangement. DR. HILL AT KANSAS CITY
Addresses Assembly of Westport High
School Students.
President A. Ross Hill, of the Univvr
ity of Missouri, and .1. V. C. Karnes,
of Kansas City, a memlier of the Board
of Curators, addressee! the opening as
sembly of the Westport High School
in Kansas City Monday,
and were present.
Four thous-
RESHIES
DIVIDED
JACK FROST. DESPITE
CHILLY RECEPTION, TO
CONTINUE VISIT HERE
Announces His Intention To Remair
Overnight;. Fair Weather
Promised.
Mr. Jack Frost, who has been a
visitor in Columbia for the past feu
days, will prolong his .stay until to
morrow. Mr. Frost is widely known
hereabouts, but he got a chilly recep
tion. The announcement that he
would continue his visit was made of
ficially in this form:
"Fair and cooler tonight, with frost;
Thursday fair."
The temperature at 1 a. m. was ."2;
at 2 p. in., 70.
Y. M. C. A. OFFERS GOOD
COURSE OF LECTURES
Strong List Can Be Obtained if 625
Tickets Are Sold.
A strong lecture course will be of
fered this winter by the Young Men's.
Christian Association if those in charge
succe'ed in selling 02d season tickets.
The ope-ning number on this course
will be the International Symphony
Club, an organization of six recognized
artists. Cen. 7.. T. .Sweeny will lecture'
and Jeihn T. MeCutcheon of the Chi
cago Tribune will give one of his fa
mous "Chalk Talks."
Lorado Taft, one of the foremost
American sculptors, will give a realistic
repioduction of "A Sculptor's Studio"
on the stage before the audience.
Isabel Gurghill Beecher will be seen
in interpretative recital. Jacob A. Riis,
"Xevv York's most useful citizen," will
lecture. Gov. .1. Frank llanly of In
diana is billed to lecture, and the Whit
ney Brothers Quartette is en the list.
A. P. Priestly anil Perry Wilson are
in charge of the movetiu'nt to obtain
this course for Columbia.
HASKELL THREATENS
TO SUE ROOSEVELT
Accused Governor May Also Bring Ac
tion Against Hearst.
GUTHRIE, Okla.. Sept. 30.-It was
stated on good authority to-day that
a Missouri attorney would arrive te
morrow to assist Governor Ilaskeli in
drawing libel suits against W. R. Hearst.
It was also intimated that the Gover
nor would file civil suits lor damage's
agiiiiist President Roosevelt.
The Governor would not cemlinn nor
denv the rumor. ee-ept to state that
before taking any action he would in
vestigate the h-gal lights of President
Roosevelt.
"I understand," said Governor Haskell,
"that the President of the Unite-el State's
has some rights that others do not
enjoy. Yeni can say, however, that I shall
light Roosevelt from nevv on to the e-nd
of the campaign, he attacked me first
and I shall not hesitate to follow
pace he has set until fleet inn day.
the
300 MORE SALOONS
OUSTED BY OHIO VOTE
Local
Option Election Adds
People to "Dry" Area.
400,000
Rv t'nlteil l'ress.
COLUMRUS. O.. Sept. :(). Today's
tcturns show that twelve additional
counties in Ohio have veited to oust sa
loons, adding a dry area of 400,000 peo
ple. Three hundred more saloons are put
out of business by the vote-. The prohi
bitionists have not lost a county in a
'erics of local option elections.
METHODISTS PLAN
FIGHT ON CANNON
Chicago Conference Would Seat Anti
Saloon Leader in His Stead.
Ilr United lre.
CHICAGO. Sept. SO. The Rock Island
Methodist conference opened today,
making Speaker Cannon of the House of
Representatives, the object of attack.
The Methodists plan to defeat Cannon
fer re-election to Cemgress and to seat
Superintendent Raker, of the anti-saloon
league, in his place.
FAMINE ATTACKS INDIA
Want and Disease Add to Suffering of
Flood Victims.
Hjr United nr.
ROMRAY. Sept. 30. Famine and dis
ease have added greatly to the sufferings
of the flood victims in India. It is im
pewsible to send relief to the stricken
districts, as the rivers are still running
high.
It is feared that thousand will die
before aid can arrive. Hundreds are ill
of the fever which invariably follows
torrential rains.
COLLEGE TRA
NING
BRINGS SUCCESS
Chancellor Houston, in First
Address at Washington
U., So Declares.
IT IS NO PLACE FOR WEAK MEN
Points to Noted Examples to
Show Why Training is
Good Investment.
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 30. -When the first
chapel meeting of Washington Univer
sity for the present term was held,
Chancellor David F. Houston addressee!
the students for the first time, the text
of his remarks being that higher educa
tion teaches a man how to live himsclt
and how to help others to live, and that
in business undertakings the college
man is more like-ly to be the successful
man. He said the sons of successful men
are now seeking eolh-ge and university
training that they may add to inherited
qualities the advantages of broad found
ation at the outset and disciplined minds.
Pretty clear evidences, he said, of the
value of higher education even for in
dustrial tarining was evidenced by the
fact that two of the most successful
captains of industry are devoting their
wealth in a large measure to the cause
of higher education. Rockefeller has
given $43,000,000 to the General Educa
tion Roard and many millions to the
Chicago University, while Carnegie has
given $1.1,000.000 for the advancement of
teaching and $10.000,"' Ml for the Carne
gie Institute of Ri-earcli.
College Men in Business.
He called atte-ntion to the fact that
college, men have made successes in busi
ness, citing Frederick L. (Sates, business
and benevolent representative of .I0I111
1). Rockefeller and J. Pierpont Morgan.
In the larger affairs of life, he said, the
man with the soundest e-elucation, no
matter how acquired, is likely to be the
truly practical man, while the so called
practical man without education is likely
to be a most dangerous theorist, insis
ting upon doing things which the experi
ence of the world, unknown to him, has
over and over again shown to be impos
sible of attainment.
"In my experience" he said "many
calls have b 1 made for men of broad
training who were willing to undergo ap-picutit-cship
with the view to promotion.
Men from the ranks to technical work
well, but lack perspective and outlook
le-quiicd in higher positions." and he con
tended that an education fits a man for
leadership in industry, politics, religion
or learning
College is no place for yening men of
weak will, feeble intellect, inadequate
pi cpar.it ion or fiivedoiis disposition. The
piescnce of such men in college, he
thought, has had much to do with preju
dicing many people against a college
carer, and the college man needs pro
tection against such i-onstituents of the
student lieidy. lie contended that no
education could ever unlit a man to do
things skillfully with training. There are
a vast number of uneducated, half-edu
cated and mis-educateil men who have
made the world suffer, but it has never
sulTcre-d from the man of real training.
Need of Athletics.
Dr. Houston sjiokc of the necessity for
atheletics in a school ami in a colh-ge
as well, and he did not think that e-ol-
lege boys should be eharge-d with the
evils of American life-. Socially unlit
and criminal men arc men of poor judg
ment, he said. Eiidmiiig and universal
types of men like Caesar. Aristotle. Au
gustus. Charlemagne. Alfred. William
ef Orange. Washington. Lincoln. Lee. are
such men of judgment and not the spec
ial performers. Democracv needs noth
ing more to-day than men of sound judg
ment in positions of leadership.
Rev. Dr. W. C. Kitting also gave an
address and at the close complimented
the school upon the generosity of such
men as Mr. Roln-rt Rrookings. "I should
like to get hold of the purses of some
of the rich men in St. Louis," he said,
a sentiment that the students greeted
with much applause.
The annual election of the Washington
University Sophomore class and the
staff of Student Life, a Washington Uni
versity publication, was held yesterday
afternoon at the university. The class
elections were as follows: President.
Carl E. Gray, former pupil of Western
Military Academy; vie-e-pre-sident. Alice
Elliott, former pupil of Mary Institute;
secretary tre-asurer. Walter Harting. for
merly president of the senior class at
Yc-atman; athletic manager. Charles
Shiller. half back of the football team.
Elections to the staff of Student Life
are as follows: President, Harry Thomp
son; chief editor, George Piekson, form
erlv an associate editor.
TENOR IS HIT OF
STEPHENS CONCERT
Artists in Oratorio Please
Critical Audience With
Classical Numbers.
PIANISTE WINS LONG APPLAUSE
Many Handsomely Gowned
Women Hear Attractive
Program Presented.
Reed Miller's rich and llexiblc tenor,
ami Mis Lois Louise Davidson's dis
play ef technique and feeling in ac
companiments and a piano solo espec
ially delighted the audience which hearel
the concert given by the Oratorio Ar
tist in the auditorium ef Stephens Col
lege last evening.
Miss Davidson's rendition of Liszt's
"Tarantella." and Mr. Miller's spirited
and animated style in Salter's "A
Proposal" won prolonged applause. Mr.
Miller was also pleasing in the duet with
Frederick Wheeler, bass-baritone, Mr.
Wheeler was at his be-st in this num
ber. His voice, which is of wide range,
seemed somewhat harsh in other num
bers. Miss Hinkle In Good Voice.
Miss Florence Hinkle was in good
voice, though not at her best in some
of the selections. In the dust with Miss
Adah Campliell Hussey, the contralto,
she was heard to best advantage. Miss
llussey was appreciated in "His Lulla
by." The program began with a quartet
from Lehmann. The epiartet 'Carmena"
was probably better liked. Those who
enjoy lighter music were well pleased
with the soprano solo, "The Gay But
terfly." The trio from "Faust" was ap
preciated. The program concluded with
the beautiful, but somewhat hackneyed,
sextette- from "Lucia".
Mr. Wlw-cler. after the close of the
concert, spoke highly of lhe accoustic
properties of the auditorium at Ste
phens. Society Was There.
In the audience were:--
Mrs. J. C. Jones, wife of the Dean of
the- Cedlege of Arts and Science, in a
sheer white princi'ss dress over a yellow
slip. Her wrap was of broadcloth, with
Robispierre collar of silk. With her was
her mother. Mis. Thompson, in black
tussali royal.
Mrs. Peeler, wife ef the President et
Stephens College, wore black silk with
Moiisquitaire sleeves and yeke of tuck
ed net. Mrs. Peeler was accompanied
by Mrs. Whitman, wife of head of music
department at Stephens College, gowned
in figured tan and seal-brown silk, trim
med in silk of a darker shade.
Mis. Lizzie Morris, wore a costume of
mole colored drap d' etc. She was ac
companies! by her son.
Miss Mary Matthew's dress was a
sheer white semi-princess, elaborately
trimmed in lace. With it she wore a
long evening wrap of Eddison blue chif- j
fon broadcloth, finished at the neck by
Incroyable collar of velvet.
Mm. Shaw, wife of head ef music de
partment eif Christian College, wore
a black, lace-trimmed voile over silk,
with long black eeiat of silk.
Miss Comba. an Italian Opera singer
who is teaching at Stephens Cedlege.
wore a cream colored suit e)f diagonal
serge, trimmed with ecru lace, and silk.
A large white feather boa completed the
costume.
Mrs. Putnam, wife of professor of
Economics, was gowned in dove-colored
silk with trimmings of the same color.
Miss Mittie V. Robnett's gown was of
leather-brown French serge, wit I
and gloves of the same color.
hat
200 STUDENTS EAT
Disgruntled Chinese Tries
Wholesale Killing at
Stanford U.
nj- United Pre.
PALO ALTO. Cal.. Sept. .'10. Two
hundred students of Lcland Stanford,
Jr.. University are seriously ill today
from the effects of eating poisoned
breail in a beiarding club.
A Chinese servant, who had leen dis
charged, placed poison in the dough.
Prompt action ef physicians saveel
the lives of all, but many are still in
a dangerous condition.
P NED
BEAD
EMMETT MOORE IS
DYING IN NEW YORK
No Hope For Recovery Of
Former M. U. Student,
Physicians Say
Weird has been received in Columbia
today that Emmett Moore, son of Pike
Moore, formerly of Columbia, is dying
in a New York hospital. He has
stomach troubles ami anemia. The doc
tors entertain no hopes for his recovery.
Emmett Moure is widely known in
Columbia through Jiis relation to the
University of Missouri, where he was
formerly a student. He delivered one
of th efirst lectures on Journalism.
Moore began his newspaper vveirk in
New York City making rapid progress
and became city editor of Chicago
Inter-Ocean and later of the Examiner.
Finally he was called back to Xevv York
to assume the position of city editor of
the New York Herald, which he held
when stricken with his present illness.
NEW LEASE FORBIDS
LOOKING OP ONIONS
Cabbage Also Under Ban in St.
Apartment Houses.
Louis
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 30. "And it is fur
ther agreed by and between lioth par
ties that, shall the lessee cook or per
mit to be cooked in the said premises
any onions, cabbage or other odorifer
ous vegetables or anything which shall
penetrate the common halls of the
premises, either in odor or smoke, this
lease shall be void."
This is one of the provisions of a new
form of lease drawn up by owners of
West End apartments. It has been
passed upon by counsel the same as
was the original "no children" clause,
which so stirred up President Roose
velt and Mayor Beall, of Alton.
In the Page and Vernon avenue dis
trict all tenants must agree to its terms
and comply with them or vacate.
J. I. Epstein, who controls several
fashionable West End apartment build
ings, says: "The restrictions are in
the mutual interest of tenants. They
prohibit certain things which would
tend to disturb the dwellers in the
apartments."
ROAD ROLLERS WILL BE
SHOWN AT STATE PAIR
State Highway Department Plans An
Unusual Display.
The State Highway Department, un
der the direction ef State Highway En
gineer Curtis Hill, will have a large
display of modern road machinery at
the State Fair this year. There will
lie several sections of culverts showing
plain and reinforc-ed concrete constru
tion. There will also be a complete
culvert model of a type that can be
used on ordinary country roads.
Two large steel bridges with rein
forced concrete fiooring will be a feat
ure. Graders, crushers and rollers ot
all types will be on display. A Mertz
gasoline road roller, shown the first time
this year at state fairs, will be on
exhibition. There will also be a Her
man crusher shown.
Oct. ! will be "good roads day" at
the State Fair. Mr. Hill says more
interest than ever before is lieing taken
in the good roads movement, and that
a State-wide improvement ef roads in
Missouri will result.
Roosevelt Silent!
Hv United Tress.
WASHINGTON 1). C. Sept. ..
Secretarv Loeb announce-d today that
President Roosevelt would not reply to
Rryan's latest open letter. President
Roosevelt gave as his reason fer not
answering that it was simply a per
sona! attack iijton him and that their
was no ex-casion for him to reply.
Bankers in Convention.
Br Unlled Iren.
DENVER. Colo.. Sept. .in. The regu
lar session of the National Rankers'
Convention liegan here today. Cov.
Ruchtel and Mayor Sneer made speeches
of welcome. Talks were made on sav
ings banks, guarantee of bank deposit,
the postal savings bank and enlarging
the jwnvers of bank presidents.
St. Louis Newspaper Man Here.
W. J. Cochran, traveling ceirrespond
pnt'of the St. Louis Republic, visited
th" Department of Journalism of the
University of Missouri this morning.
Subscription to the University Mis
socbiax is $2 for the school term, $1.2.
a semester invariably in advance. Sub
scribe now.
NOTED ENGINEER
FOR M. U. FACULTY
Prof. H. Wade Hibbard Will
Succeed Prof. A. M. Green
Next Semester.
CHAIR HAS BEEN LONG VACANT
Newcomer Man of Experience
as Well as Scientific
Learning.
Prof. H, Wade Iliblurd, whose ap
pointment as professor of Mc-ehanical
Engineering was approved by the exec
utive board of the Board of Curators at
its meeting Saturday, will assume
charge of his duties here Feb. 1. Prof.
Hibbard succeeds Prof. A. M. Greene, Jr.
The chair has been vacant since Prof.
Greene's resignation.
Prof. Hibbard, who has a wide reputa
tion, will come to the University of
Missouri from Cornell University. He
obtained his liberal education, with math
ematical and scientific elective, at
Rrown University, being graduateel with
the A. R. degree there ill 1S8i.
Won Prize at Cornell.
Entering at once upon three full years
in the shops of the Rhode Island Loco
motive Works, Prof. Hibbard personally
constructed various parts of locomotives.
The two years following were spent
at Cornell, where Prof. Hibbard re
ceived the First Sibley prize anil was
elected to the Society of the Sigma
Xi. In 1891 he received the degree of
Mechanical Engineer and became a jun
ior member of the American Society of
Mechanical Engineers.
After that, Prof. Hibbard was me
chanical engineer for the Pennsylvania
Railroad at Altoona, and designed the
cylinder sizes and link motions for the
compound locomotives still in use on
the heaviest expresses Mvveen New
York and Philadelphia. He spent a sum
mer in Europe, investigating railway
engineering in England and on the Con
tinent. His Practical Training.
Prof. Hibbard was subsequently chief
draftsman of the Lehigh Valley Rail
way, in charge of machine design at the
University of Minnesota, chairman of
the Master Mechanics Association, and
ice-president of the Northwest Railway
Club. He is recognized as an author
of ability on technical subjects.
Prof. Hibbard has a private library
of 1,500 railway blue; prints. He is
now a full member of the American So
ciety of Mechanical Engineers, and ef
the American Railway Master Me
chanics' Association. He is a member of
the Society for Promotion of Engineer
ing Education, and is recognized as a
man of high education and fine scientific
training.
STUDENTS TO MAKE
Tl
Excellent Program Arranged
for Assembly "Tryouts"
for the Chorus.
A musical program, under the direction
of Prof. W. II. Pommer, will 1m- given at
the assembly tomorrow morning. The
program includes a violin seilo by F. (
Shoemaker, a tenor solo by W. 1 Us
tick, a piano solo by Miss Lerovi Car
ter, a soprano solo by Miss Madge.
Muntly. and a violincello 0I0 by I. O.
Muench.
The University Chorus will have itn
second meeting next Monday evening at
li-.-lj o'clock in the auditorium. At the
last meeting sixty or seventy were
present and the evening was spent in
the study of one of Mendelssohn's four
part songs. Prof. Pommer was pleaseel
with the cpiality and volume of tone.
There will 1? an examination of can
didates for the University Chorus on
Saturday morning from 9 to 10. Prof.
Pommer hopes that the 2W voices, to
which the chorus is limited, will soon
lie found.
Senior Engineers Elect -Officers.
At a meeting of the senior engineering
class last night the following cla-s of
ficers for the ensuing yi-ar were elected:
President, William Stava; vice-president,
II. S. Rove; secretary. It. C. Pal
mer; treasurer, L. S. Palmer; sergeant-at-arms,
R. GiMehau-, Sr.
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