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UOTVERSITY MISSOURIAN
VOLUME I.
COLUMBIA, MISSOURI, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1908.
NUMBER 14
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STUDENTS TO TAKE
STRAWBALLOTHERE
Reporters for the University
Missourian to Canvass Vote
for President.
BALLOTING WILL BE SECRET
In Conjunction With Four
Other Newspapers, Mimic
Elections Are Planned.
I low do you stand on the presidential
election. Should it lie Bryan or Taft?
The University Missourian will try
ti answer that question in so far as the
sentiment of the students of the Uni
versity of Missouri is concerned, and to
that end it asks the co-operation of the
students and faculty members.
Xct week the University Missourian,
li its stair of student reporters, will
take a ".straw ballot" on the national
candidates to be voted on in the general
election in Xo ember. The vote will be
taken in strictly a non-partisan manner
and will be absolutely secret. No one,
not even a member of the University
Missourian .stall", will be entitled to know
how any person votes in the mimic elec
tion.
Non-Partisan Ballot.
The ballot will in no way be construed
as a forecast of the result of the election
here.
Tn taking the straw ballot, the Univer
sitv Missourian is acting in conjunction
with a syndicate of four newspapers, the
New York Herald, the Chicago Uecord
Her.ild. the Cincinnati Knnuirer and the
St. Louis Republic, which has planned
a canvass to cover the entire country.
The result of the vote here will be pub
lished simultaneously in these four news
papers and in the University Missourian.
Similar polls will be taken in all the
jrieat universities of the country.
Rvnrr nnnrnJif oil mili .stllilent of llie
TJniversitv will be asked to cast his bal-
lot, regardless of whether he has reached
the voting age. The vote will be simply
to determine what is the sentiment of
the students. A similar secret poll will
be taken of the faculty. No one will
be asked to vote on the state candi
dates. Printed forms for voting, each enclosed
in an envelope, will be distributed to
the male students and a box to receive
ballots will lie placed in the main cor
ridor of Academic Hall. The results
'ill be compiled by the students in
journalism, as practice in handling elec
tion returns for a newspaper.
Full details of the taking of the' vote
will be published later.
OH JOY! CIRCUS COMES
TO COLUMBIA; SMALL
BOY MAKES MERRY
Elephants, Camels, Lions, Pink Lemo-
nade And Peanuts
Are Here.
The circus is in town. The small boy
Jisul peanut roaster was much in evidence
as the parade passed down Broadway
this morning.
The elephants, camel and caged ani
mals .iccomptnied by bands and perform
ers m.ule a what dramatic critics call "a
distinct hit."'
The Campbell Bios. Consolidated Cir
vus will show in a two ring and elevated
stage tent. It lias a menagerie and there
is the usual side-show.
MASS MEETING TOMORROW
Football "Rooters" to Work Up
Enthusiasm for Saturday.
The first student mass meeting of the
University of Missouri school year will
be held tomorrow evening in the Uni
versity auditorium.
The student band will play and
speeches will be made calculated to
arouse the "rooters" to a high pitch
of enthusiasm for the football game
Saturday with the Warrensburg Normal
team. A permanent chairman of mass
meetings for the year will lie elected.
Mrs. Vantine Here.
Mr. Vantine, who is suing for one
sivth of the estate of John Butler, late
"King of Bhiekfoot." has been in Colum
bia several days consulting her attorneys
She departed yesterday for Sturgeon and
will go thence to Paris. Mo., where her
fo-tcr mother lives.
Subscription to the University Mis
miukiax i $2 for the school term. $1.25
a syniester invariably in advance. Sub-i-cnl
now.
HEADS OF STUDENT CLUBS
APPROVE STRAW BALLOT
W. W. WKICHT, president of
the students Bryan-Cowherd Club:
''The straw ballot proposed by the
University Missourian certainly
meets with my full approval."
. A. SMITH, president of the
students' Taft-Uadley Club: "The
idea of polling the students on the
presidential candidates strikes me
as an excellent one, and the repub
lican club will lie glad to help it
along
IA WILL
HEAR NOTED MEN
Attorney-General Hadley and
Augustus Thomas to
Speak Here.
Augustus Thomas, playwright and
personal friend of William .Jennings
Bryan, will speak to the Boone county
otcrs on liehalf of the democratic tick
et at the Airdome Theater Friday af
ternoon at 1:30 o'clock.
Mr. Thomas will speak under the aus
pices of the Bryan -Cowherd Club.
Attorney Ceneral Hadley will address
the voters of Boone county at the Air
dome Theater Saturday afternoon at 2
o'clock. Mr. Hadley will speak under
the auspices of the Taft-Hadley Student
Club, which will meet him in a body
at the station, upon his arrival, accom
panied by the University cadet band.
Mr. Hadley will be introduced by R.
A. Smith, president of the Taft-Hadley
Student Club.
After the speaking Mr. Hadley will be
the guest of the republican students at
the Missouri -Warrensburg football
game.
JACK FROST BEATS
PROPHET REEDER'S
WEATHER SCHEDULE
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There's Some Hope for. Good
Football Weather in His Table of
Averages.
The forecast:. "Fair and warmer to
night and Friday."
The minimum temperature was 38
degrees at 7 a. m.. The maximum tem
perature was 59 degrees at 2 p. m.
The frost of last Monday evening was
the earliest "killing" frost in eighteen
years, and furthermore, when Mr. Frost
made his mcmoiable early visit eighteen
years ago, he came on the same date
of the month, Sept. '2S, 181)0.
The regular monthly report of Fore
caster Reeder has just been issued and
it shows some interesting statistics. It
shows that according to the average
temperature, covering the last nineteen
years, we need not expect a "killing"
frost until October 13, but for some 1111
cxplaiuable reason "Sir Jack" got am
bitious this year and did his "killing"
three weeks before schedule.
Prophet Ueeder, among other things,
shows that the warmest October during
the last nineteen years was in 181)7. witii
an average temperature of 4, and the
coldest was in 1393, with an average of
32 degrees. Further, he says that ac
cording to the same average, the rain
fall for the month will lie 2.23 inches,
and the average number of clear days
seventeen. This speaks well for football
weather, and, combined with the pre
vailing winds from the southeast, at an
average velocity of seven miles, seems
propitious for dog days.
But Mr. Reeder's good forecasts for
Octolicr are spoiled by a discouraging
little paragraph which states: "These
averages covering observations taken
for the last nineteen years must not be
construed as a forecast for the coming
month."
TEDDY, JR., EARNING
$5 A WEEK; KERMIT
IS HARVARD "SWELL"
One
of President's Sons Answers
O'clock Whistle; Other' Takes
Spacious Apartments.
Bjr United Tress.
THOMPSON VILLE, Conn., Oct. I.
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.. answered the 7
o'clock whistle this morning at the plant
of the Hartford Carpet Corporation and
went to work at a salary of $3 a week.
He will lie a clerk first and later will
lie transferred to the mechanical depart
ment. BOSTOX, Oct. 1. Kermit Roosevelt,
son of the President, today entered the
new business school of Harvard Univer
sity. He has spacious apartments in
Claverly Hall, where the scions
wcalthv families are mostlv housed.
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COLON
FOOTBALL INJURY
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Player on Yale Team Loses
Mind From Injury While
He is Practicing.
FORMER WOUND IS REOPENED1
First Serious Injury of Season
Brings Grief to Sons
ot Eli.
XEW IIAVEX, Oct. 1. Fears aie
entertained here that Lee Gilbert War
ren of Piqiia, 0., who was injured Tues
day while playing halfback on Vale's
scrub football team, may not recover
his reason, which was unsettled by the
injury to his skull.
At first it was thought Warren was
not seriously hurt, but on the street
car returning from the practice he began
talking wildly, and it was necessary to
Use force in restraining him.
Hobbs, Andrus and several other play
ers were with him. They held him with
dilliculty until an ambulance arrived.
Warren was then unconscious, and was
taken to the Yale Infirmary, where at
a late hour he was in a precarious con
dition. It is feared that his skull is
fractured.
Injured in Mix-up.
Warren's playing was aggressive and
as the 'varsity eleven attempted to make
a gain he tackled Holt, the opposing
halfback, who carried the ball. A scrim
mage followed, in which both teams
piled up. Warren and Holt were at the
bottom of the heap.
When the mass of men was untangled
it was found that Warren had been
hurt. He was taken out of the game,
but remained on the side lines and
watched every play until time was
called. He left the grounds with the
other players, and when he lioarded the
car for home showed no sings of weak
ness. According to the hospital surgeon,
Warren was in no condition to play
football. While a student at Washing
ton and Jefferson College his head was
badly injured and he had never fully
recovered. In the niK-up to-day the
old wound was opened and caused his
collapse.
The accident is the first serious one of
the football season.
OF
NATIONS FL! HERE
"Cosmopolitans" Will Meet
to Welcome the New
Foreign Students.
Insignia of the leading nations of
the world will fiy in the ladies' parlor
of the University of Missouri tomorrow
evening when the Cosmopolitan Club
meets to celebrate its admission to the
Association of Cosmopolitan Clubs of
America and to welcome the new stu
dents from other lands who are at
tending the University for the first
time.
The Japanese quartet, led by Toda
Clio, and the Argentine trio, directed
by Francis Iribarne. will honor their
respective Hags with songs popular in
their own lands.
in addition, there will lie a violin
solo by Prof. Silverman and speeches by
representatives of Russia. Germany and
the United States.
An opportunity will be given the new
members of the club to get acquainted
with the old members. The new mem
bers are:
June Hikiila. a graduate of the Uni
versity of Tokio, Japan, who is taking
work in the Department of Agriculture.
R. B. Lapez, who conies from Argen
tine Republic to take special work in
the Department of Agriculture.
G. A. Hellstrand. Sweden, in the De
partment of Engineering.
Mr. DeLcon, who has been in this
country for many years as a govern
ment student and has just returned from
the Philippine islands after a visit to
his home. He will take work as a senior
in the Arts and Medical Departments.
Acacia "Frat" Smoker.
ine .-vcaeia iraternity will give a
smoker Sat in day evening at eight o'clock
at the chapter house. 009 Elm street. All
Mi'sons in the student liody are invited.
The Acacia fraternity is composed of
University students who are Masons.
It is not a Greek letter fratemitv.
MAY
ACTRESS WHO SUED
ELKINS IS MISSING
Miss Lonsdale Disappears
From Her New York
Apartments.
NO SETTLEMENT MADE WITH HER
Davis Elkins, Son of Senator
and Brother of Defendant,
Makes Denial.
XEW YORK, Oct. 1 Ada Louise
Lonsdale, who last week instituted a
suit for $100,000 damages for alleged
breach of promise against Blaine Elkins,
sou of Senator Stephen B. Elkins, of
West Virginia, has vanished from the
Caledonia apartments, Xo. 28 West
Twenty-sixth street, and her lawyers
say they do not know where she Iijj
gone.
The young woman's address, where
she had lived for several months, was
kept secret by the actress's lawyers,
who said she wished to avoid any un
necessary publicity. A reporter learned
the address yesterday. The manager
of the Caledonia said that Miss Lons
dale had given up her apartment and
gone, he did not know where.
Lawyer Denies Settlement.
"If the case lias been settled behind
our backs it will do no good, for an at
torney is protected in West Virginia as
he is in New York." said Jesse S. Ep
stein last night. "When we last con
ferred with Miss Lonsdale she was eager
to press the suit. We warned her
against accepting a settlement, and she
said she would not under any circum
stances consider a compromise. I can
conceive of only one reason why site
should disappear without letting her at
torneys know where she was goin;
"We took the ease only after wc had
satisfied ourselves that it was not, as
Senator Elkins called it, a 'plain case
of blackmail,' and only after we had
investigated the facts in West Virginia.
We have 300 letters and almost as many
telegrams from Blaine Elkins to Miss
Lonsdale that show he was desperately
in love with her at one time."
Davis Elkins, brother of Blaine, de
nied, at the Waldorf-Astoria, last night
that any settlement had been made
with Miss Lcnsdale, or that any would
be made.
P. c.
He
is Chosen President of
Class Ovation for
"Tubby" Graves.
At a meeting of the senior academic
class held in Room 44, Academic Hall,
this morning, P. C. Alexander was
elected president.
"Tubby" Graves of football and base
ball fame received an ovation when he
was nominated by acclamation as aca
demic candidate for "all-senior" presi
dent. The other olllcers elected were F. L.
Jackson, better known as "Jack," vice
president; Miss Florence Helm, secre
tary; R. E. Talbcrt, treasurer; and II.
W. Crain, sergeant-at-arms.
A committee was appointed by
president to see that there is a
representation of the class at the
the
full
all-
senior meeting tomorrow evening.
CAMERA CAN BEAT
SWIFTEST RUNNER
University Missourian Gets a
Machine for Snapping
Athletes in Action.
The University Missourian, in connec
tion with the Savitar and the Depart
ment of Physical Education of the Uni
versity of Missouri, has arranged for
the purchase of a snap-shot camera for
use in taking pictures of athletes in
action.
The camera is the highest develop
ment in picture-making machines. It is
graded to make an exposure in one fifteen-hundredth
part of a second and can
catch the swiftest runner in his stride
' without blurring the plate.
SENIORS
ALEXANDER
MISSOURI BOY WHO
HEADS JOURNALISTS
Walter Stemmoxs.
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Sophomores of Washington
University Have Fun
With New Men.
ST. LOUIS, Mo.. Oct. 1. The Sopho
mores of Washington University gave a
"night shirt parade" early yesterday
morning.
About 23 Freshman were dragged out
of bed and were put through "stunts."
The Sophomores greased their hair, bath
ed them, and set them to fighting among
themselves.
The "night shirt parade" came after
5 days of the least severe initiations that
Washington University freshmen have
undergone in many years.
COST OP THAW TRIAL
GALLS WESTCHESTER
Supervisors May Refuse Money to Pay
for Experts.
XEW YORK. Oct. 1. Xow that Su
preme Court Justice Mills at White
Plains has granted Harry K. Thaw a
trial without a jury on Oct. 12, to de
termine his sanity, District-Attorney
Winslow, of Westchester county, is
wondering where he is going to get
money to piy experts in behalf of the
State. The Westchester supervisors will
hold a special meeting on Oct. 3, but it
is reported that a large number of them
are opposed to saddling extra expense
on the county.
"There is no provision in the law al
lowing me any money to engage ex
perts in a case of this kind," said Mr.
Winslow yesterday, "and if the super
visors do not make an appropriation 1
do not know what I shall do."
It is reported that taxpayers in West
chester county will raise a protest at
the meeting of the supervisors .against
spending any of the county's money in
the Thaw case.
VETERAN CHAUFFEURS
ORGANIZE A CLUB
No
Member Shall Take Car Without
Owner's Consent.
WASHIXGTOX. Oct. l.It pains
veteran chauffeurs in Washington to
note how many low-grade men are be
ing called chauffeurs. Therefore, they
have started to organize a club which
shall be for the moral, professional
and perhaps the financial uplift of the
brotherhood.
"It shall be unlawful for any member
to use a car without the written consent
01 the owner, is to ne me corner-stone
of the club. Smash-up while
so-called chauffeurs are driving cars
without permission from the owners
pain the organizers of the club more
than the low social standing of men
who are being called chauffeur.
MUSICAL PROGRAM AT
UNIVERSITY ASSEMBLY
Student Activity Takes Melodious Turn,
Pleases Crowd.
According to the custom of the com
mittee on University assembly pro
grams, the meeting this morning was
given over to student activities, consist
ing of a musical program.
Each numlier received applause. Those
who took part in the program were
Misses Lerovi Carter; and Madge Mundy,
Messrs. F. C. Shoemaker, W. I Ustick
and L. O. Muench. '
HAZERS
GREAS
FRESHMEN'S
HEADS
CLASS
New Department Organized
With Good Wishes of
President Hill.
MANY STATES ARE REPRESENTED
Officers Are Chosen and
Committee Appointed to
Decide on "Stunt."
The first meeting of the first class of
the first practical school of journalism
in the world with that introduction J.
B. Powell, temporary chairman, last
night opened the initial "getting-ac-piainted"
meeting of the students and
faculty of the new Department of Jour
nalism, in Room 44 of Academic Hall.
Walter Stemmons was chosen president.
President A. Ross Hill of the Univer
sity was present and the chairman called
on him, as the "host" of the new school.
to tell what he thoight about it.
President Hill Praises Profession.
Dr. Hill objected to being called the
"host." He said the Department was
already so well established that it
needed no host. Dr. Hill referred to
the Teachers College and the Depart
ment of Journalism as two departments
of the University of specially great val
ue to the State, the one teaching men
and women personally, the other giving
instruction indirectly, through the pen.
Roth, he declared, were the natural out
growth of the originally expressed pur
pose of the University.
"More than twice as many students
have come here to enter the first school
of journalism as we expected," said Dr.
Hill. "I believe the school will continue
to expand and I hope that soon our fa
cilities for teaching will be greatly
increased.
"Boost the University."
"Ai'd while we arc Jwosting the De
partment of Journalism, don't let us
forget to boost the whole University as
well."
The applause that greeted Dr. Hill's
remarks was hearty and spontaneous.
While Dr. Hill in his speech disclaimed
any knowledge of newspaper making, a
speaker following him declared that the
president nevertheless was imbued with
that spirit of good fellowship which is
part of the freemasonry of newspaper
men the world over.
Walter Stemmons, called on for a
speech, urged the establishment of a
press club, to take in all the students of
the department. The idea was heartily
seconded by several other speakers.
Miss Paxton's Speech.
Miss Mary Paxton, representing the
six girls in the department the six
coming society editors, as the chairman
put it was asked to tell what she knew
about the duties of the society editor.
"I'm like Dr. Hill," said Miss Pax-
ton," I don't know anything about
journalism. That's why I'm in this de
partment." Koyall Fillmore of Kansas City, intro
duced as the fattest man in the Uni
versity, bubbled with wit. "A short
order house for current events," was his
definition of the Department of Jour
nalism. Hin Wong's Hit.
llin Wong, a young man with a pur
pose, told why he had come from fur
China to the University of Missouri to
study journalism. Very quietly and very
sincerely Wong told of his ambition to
learn American methods that he might
return to his own land to aid his peo
ple. And when he sat down after thank
ing the American students for their
friendliness toward a stranger in a
strange land, there burst out unre
strained applause that rivalled the re
ception given to Dr. Hill's speech.
Warren H. Orr. circulation manager
of tli" University Missourian, aroused
enthusiasm when he declared that he
wa willing to wrap himself in a blan
ket and camp on Rollins Field, if by so
doing he could aid in any friendly
"stunt" that the Department of Jour
nalism wanted to "pull ofP against the
other departments of the University.
Orr pointed out that the University Mis
sourian is a students' paper, open to the
expression of student opinion.
Press Club Favored.
Frank C. Wilkinson, of Kansas City,
s-cnded the idea of a prcsn club. John
C. Dahl, of Brooklyn, X". V.. said he ex
pctcd to go back East and "show" the
Easterners that Missouri could teach
journalism. Representing the other
side of the continent, R. P. Gould, of
Xew Mexico, spoke. Between these ex
tremes, the chairman pointed out that
six other states of the Union, beside the
STEMMONS
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