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UNIVERSITY M1SSOURIAN, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1909. JOURNALISM RANKS HIGH SAYS TAFT President-Elect Addresses the Students of University of Pennsylvania. PRESS A POWER FOR GOOD He Talks of the Relation of Ministry and Teachers to Politics. In 11 :ullri . liefort' tin1 University of Pi'iiiiIaiiia on "I'lt-fiit Relation of tin l.'-:i m-l Professions to Political tlovernmeiit." Picsidcnt-eleet Taft lki' i tin' mini-try. the teacher and tin- journalist. He -aiil when tin new-papers were cnndtiitcd on tlif highest plane they exerted :i- inuih influence for good as the miui-ter- and liail a wider range. The ministry, however, he declared, a- h-t much of its influence upon t;o eminent ly the spread of education ami a wider diffusion of knowledge. so that t"I.iy the piofcssion does not at tract the ablest oiuig men. This decla ration brought to the minds of his auditoi- the attack on Taft's religious ies in th- recent campaign. The effect of an intense patriotism taught lis and girls in the .schools, he aid. in a marked decree, remains with the men and women. The press, he deel.ned. is necessary to keep the people informed as to what the men in trusted with the country's affairs are doing, and he regretted that this great and necessary force is often abused by elhiw editors. Duties of a Citizen Defined. His address in part follows: "It is the duty of eery eitien. no matter what his profession, business or trade, to give as much attention as he can to the public weal, and to take as much interest as he can in political matters. "I piopose this morning to invite your attention to the present relation of each of the learned professions to ilitics and government. "The lirst profession is that of the ministry. Time was in New England and in every other part of the country under the iiillticnce of its traditions, when the minister of the Congregation al Chinch, in addition to that of his sacied ollice. exercised a most powerful inllueiiee which was of a distinctly po litical character. His ievs on the is sues of the day were considered of the urea test weight in the community in which he lived, and he ranked everyone as its lirst eiticn. "Creat changes have come over our methods of life since that day. Then the ministry, because of the rewards In the way of inllucncc. power, and promiiicncc. attracted the ablest of educated minds, and the ability and force of character weie where power and inllueiiee resided. Lost Much of Its Influence. "Hut the spread of education and in li pendent thinking, the wide diffusion of knowledge and news by the press, the enormous material development of the country, the vast increase in wealth, the increase in rewards and in llueiiee of other vocations, the disap pearance of the simple village life, have all contributed to change radically the position and inllueiiee of the ministry in the community. Today it is not ti in that profissicn attracts the ablest oitng men. and this I think is a dis tinct his- to our society. "The next profession is that of the teacher. Of course, the greater num ber of teachers are engaged in primary and secondary instruction and in in dustrial or vocational work. Their re lation to politics and go eminent is 01 the utmost ii!ixrt!Mice. though indi leet. It is. and ought to be, their high est duty to instill in the minils ot the .Mniiig girl- and boys the patriotism and love of country, because the Iioy is father to the man and patriotism of the extreme jouth of the country may well determine that of the grown men. "Th" effeet of an intense patriotism, whiih thrills through the nerves of the bs of the country, is illustrated in the immense strength whiih .lapan de nies from it. Places Journalism Third. "A third profession which exercises sttiee of the functions of the ministry and some of those of the teacher is that of the writei. Hi- profession max bt literature and embrace the poet, the historian, the noeli-t. the critic, or may be journalism, and include the edi tor, correspondent, and the news gath erer or city reporter. "In many respect- writing is a pro fi ion: in others, when it is reduced lurch to the purveying and wile of news, it is a business. When conduct ed on the highest plane it exert- a- muih influence for good as the tr. and has a wider range vulgarest taste for sensationalism and becomes entirely irresponsible in re spect to its inllueiiee for good and its statement of the truth its pernicious tendency is obviated only by the power of the people to protect .them-selves against it by a safe discrimination and a healthy skepticism and a clear un derstanding of its recklessness and baser motive. "The close relation between journal ism and polities and the carrying on of a government, no one who has been in the slightest degree familiar with the course of a popular government can ignore. The people demand to know what their servants in the Legislature, in the executive and on the bench are doing, and the chief, if not the only, method by which thev are innile suv-ire of the character of the service rendered to them i- through the press. Regrets There Are "Yellows." "The unjust color sometimes given through jaundiced editors and corre spondents has an injurious effeet. but fortunately in the mimlier of newspa pers and in the variety of motive- that affects those who furnish the new- such injustice is generally remedied. "The next profession for considera tion in its relation to governmental matters is that of medicine. They have ln-come more interested in got eminent of late year-, because the functions of government hae widened, and now em brace in a rial and substantial way the preservation of the health of all the people. "1 may stop here to mention other technical profession-, like those of the chemist, soil expert, botanist, horticul turist, forester, meteorologist and the -tudent of general agricultural science" "We come finally to the profession of the law. With the exception per haps of the profession of amis. law has always been in all countries most prominent in political and governmen tal matters. This is o because in a wide sense the profession of the kiw is the profession of government, or at least it is the profession in the course of which agencies of the government are always used and in which the prin ciples applied are those which affect either the relations between individuals or the relation between the government and individuals, and all of wlii'-h are defined by what, for want of a better term, is called "municipal law.' "National exigency seems to call forth, as if by aid of a special Provi dence, the men peculiarly fitted to meet the requirements of the situation. Such were Lincoln and Crant during the great l'iil War. Such in the Revolu tion was Washington, the anniiersary of whose birthday this university ap propriately makes its commencement day. He was not a lawyer or a doctor or a minister, lie was a surveyor ami farmer. As a student of military science only in the hard school of ex perience, hi- profession may be said to hae been that ot amis. CARLISLE INDIANS ARE Ti STRONG Redmen's Team is Dropped From Minnesota and Harvard Schedules. ONE BIG GAME LEFT THEM Brown Get Date on Crimson List Boston Laments Change. WHAT THE CURATORS ASKED Board Estimated Needs of University at $1,592,000. The report of the visiting committee of the State Legislature on the needs of the University, published in the Uni versity llissourian yesterday, includes also a statement of the amounts asked by the Hoard of Curators, as follows: Maintenance. $(il.'i.O00; for summer -es-ion. 20.000; Parker Memorial hos pital. $12,000: contingent fund, 10.000; general library. 2.1.000; scientific lab oratories 25.000; student labor. 10. 000: fellowships and scholarships. 4. 000; extension work. 1 0.01)0; publish ing and advertising. 10.000; printing plant. 7.-00; grading, granitoid and improvement of grounds. $5,000: light and heat station. 25.000; library building, fire-proof. 250.000; physics building. 100.000; chemistry building. 75,000; women's gymnasium. 50.000; College of Arts and Science. 10.000; Teachers College. 10,000; College of Agriculture, including experiment sta tion. 10.000; additional teachers for -hort course-. 10.000; library in ag riculture. .'1.000; soil survey. 15.000; for outlining experiments! in connect ion with soil survey. 20.000; experiment in experiment station, i-25,000! animal husbandry, 20.000; new agricultural building, furnishing, etc.. 15.000; pow er plant, horticultural. 10.000; veter inary science. 20.1 MM); dairy depart ment. 10.000; horse barn. 0.000: live stock pavilion. 12.000; medical de partment. 3.000; law department. (". 000; Parker Memorial hospital. laun dry, etc.. .7500; clinical instructions. SI 0.000; extension of medical depart ment for clinics. 50.000; Engineering Department. 10.000; additional teach ers for same. 5.000; engineering libra ry. 3.000: additional engineeriii!! equipment. 25.000; Missouri State Military school. 10.000; lire escapes sS.ooo. Total. I.5!)-J.ooo. The Carlisle Indians are still paying the penalty of having too good a foot ball team. Py losing the Harvard game, just announced, they have lost the second of their most remunerative games. They had previously been dropped by Minnesota. This leaves them with only one big Eastern game, that being with the Unhersity of Pennsylvania. Theie is no hope for a game with Yale. Princeton. Dartmouth or Cornell, the other big Eastern teams, while in the West Chicago turns a deaf ear to requests for games. This leaves the l'eilmcu in a serious predicament for contests of a champion-hip caliber. Harvard not Afraid. It is a curiou- commentary on inter collegiate matter- that the Indians are indirectly obliged to suffer thus because they have such a strong team. How ever, it should not be said or inferred even that linn aid refused to schedule a game with the Indians for fear of a beating. The Crimson soundly tiounccd the Kediiien last year and suffered their only defeat from them the year pre vious. Harvard had to make a choice between the Indians and Hrown. and chose the latter because Brown is a college institution strictly and Carlisle is not. In another way. however. Carlisle is suffering Iiecaiise her team is so strong. Harvard has an unusually heavy sched ule mapped out for this fall with games against Cornell. Dartmouth and Yale. The Indians would have been hauler to defeat than any team on the schedule with the exception of Yale. It was not unexpected then that Har vard should prefer a game with Hrown to one with the Indians. Boston Laments. There is much lamenting in Hoston over the loss of the Indian game, for the Hcdmeii were prime favorites in the Hub city, and drew an attendance sec ond only to the Yale game. Hut as it is Ilarvaid will hae a list of games that will attract a big attendance with out the Indians. Even if Yale and Princeton were disposed to play the In dians, though they are not, it would be practically impossible to get games this late in the year. Consequently the Indians are likely to have a much less remunerative schedule this fall than for many years past. mtvii ' I '7J'x: XA 1 . ..: IP Copyright 1908 by Michaeb-Strra & Co. RocJmif r. N. Y. NEW SPRING GOODS CTILL more of our new Clothing and J Haberdashery for spring has arrived and is now on show, including the latest models in nobby suits the "Rochester" (made especially for us), the "Bugby," "Hunter," "Yale," "Oxford" and "Cam bridge." Many more patterns and fab ric novelties than you have ever seen before. The "last word" is ours this season aboyt Hats, College Caps, Shirts. Pay vs a call and be friendly, even if you are not wealthy, and we'll put you right! "THE ROCHESTER" 9 1 1 BROADWAY COLUMBIA, MO. HIGH HEELS GAVE THEM FALLS in AMENDS TO JEFFERSON DAVIS Roosevelt Orders His Name Restored to Famous Tablet. WASHINGTON', Feb. 2(!. Official amends for the elimination of .lefferson Davis' name from the tablet on Cabin .lohn Hridge, six miles west of this city, during President Lincoln's admin istration, is given in directions the President has issued through the Secre tary of War to the chief engineers of the army to restore the name. The tab let is on a structure famous for year-a- the longest single span of stone bridge in the world. The bridge carries the conduit which brings Washington's water supply from the Upper Potomac. It was begun under Davi- a- Secretary of War and when he joined the Con federacy and became it- Pie-iilent. his name, miner iioveriiinent onlers. was chiseled from the tablet. llepeatcd effort- to restore it have been made. At the 1'MI" convention of the Daughter- of the Confederacy at Hichmoud, a resolution was adopted asking for the restoration and Repre sentative Meyer of Loui-ana sought un successfully to have this carried out. The erasure of the name was by direc tion of Caleb Smith. Lincoln's Secre tary of the Interior, after a suggestion by Caliisha Crow, of Pennsylvania, then Speaker of the House. First Out of Trolley Cars, Then Suits for Damages. NEW YORK, Feb. 215. The higher the heels on the woman's bootees the greater her contributory negligence if she takes a tumble. So the law and the precedent stand in New Jersey, where, in Newark, two women lost suits for damages against the Public Service Corporation. The women swore that, alighting from ears, they had not planted their tiny feet firmly before the cars started and tossed them. The cases were heard before the learned Judge Ilusley in the Circuit Court of Essex countv. Chauncev II. Heaslcv. who seems to have a certain knowledge of the proper height of a woman's heel, defended the company. Mrs. Annie Dyer's suit was dismissed as quickly as if -he had sought damage- after putting on stilts and trying to climb a ladder. Mrs. Annie Isner. of Newark, who asked for 10.000 dam ages, sant siie wore walking shoes when a trolley car. starting suddenly, threw her into the atmosphere. The company had some witnesses concerning Mrs. Isiier's heels. "They were opera heels." Miss Walsh testified. '"They were extraordinary heels for a woman of her weight.'' said Mrs. Potter, a witness called for the defense. "I don't see how she expected to walk on them." 'T never saw such heels," exclaimed Columbii- O'Connor, who discovered Mrs. Isner on the pavement as the trolley car moved on. A. M. Baird Attorney at Law Office Exchange National Hank building J. G. WILLIAMS BARBER home: of e. z. shaves modern bath rooms 74 Broadway Phone 288 The State Normal School At Kirksville, Missouri, Undertakes to be A GREAT TEACHERS' COLLEGE It provides for all the conditions arising in the public schools. It pre pares teachers for the Kindergartens, the Elementary Schools and the High Schools. It offers College Courses in Algebra, Analytical Geometry, Calculus, and Field Work in surveying. It prepares teachers of Mathematics for High Schools. It offers College Courses in Ancient History, in Mediaeval and Modern History, in English History, in American Constitutional History, in iSth and 19th Century History, and in Ancient Life. It prepares teachers of History for High Schools. It offers College Courses in English, Latin, Ger man, and Science. It offers five years in Music and four years in Art. It prepares supervisors of Music, of Art, of Manual Training, of Gymnasium Work and Summer Play Grounds. It offers superior facilities in spring and summer courses for teachers having short terms of school. It offers special courses for Principals and Superintendents. send for btliicti. JOHN R. KIRK, President ROOSEVELT TO VISIT MISSIONS $50,000 RUG IN THE WHITE HOUSE FOR SALE. Twenty thousand dollars worth of street bonds in amounts from one hun dred dollars up. These bond", are first minis- Hen en the property improved and bear iiml indeed eight per cent interest per annum and has piobably robbed the profession of pan of its usefulness, because it ha- ' 11c a substitute for it with many p '-oils and in many families. ' Its power of public instruction i f great, but when it panders to the are personally guaranteed by me on de mand, thus making a splendid invest ment for those who have idle money. J. A. STEWART, Rooms 205-206 Exchange National Bank Building, Columbia, Mo. (adv.) Gift of Armenian to Nation Accepted for President's Home. WASIIINOTON. Feb. 2i!. A rug said to be worth more than $.0.000 and de clared the finest in the world has been pre-ent eil to the White House as a gitt to the nation and accepted by President Roosevelt. It will he placed in the parlors of the President's home. The donor was H. H. Topakyan. a rich Ar menian of New York City. The rug i- si and a half feet long and four and a half feet wide and is of imperial silk heavily jeweled with rich pearl-, turquoises, rubies and other oriental -tuiie. President Interested in Religious Work Being Done in Africa. CHICAOO. Feb. 2(1. While in Africa President Roosevelt will not only visit a number of missions, but will make addresses giving his observations when he returns to this country. This statement was made here at the Methodist ministers weekly meet ing, by Hishop Joseph (!. Hartell. who has charge of the Methodist African missions, and who recently visited the President at the White House. "The President.'' said the sneaker. asked me for a list of missions in the territory which he will iisit. and he expressed marked sympathy with the work thev are doing." Fresh Fruits and Vegetables DISPLAYED EVERY MORNING IN THE WINDOWS AND DISPLAY BOXES This is the place to buy your Cauliflower, Lettuce, Celery, Oyster Plant, Sweet Potatoes, Cabbage, Turnips, Parsnips, Cranberries, Onions and Pickles .'. v .'. v .". v .'- '.' Two Phones " nAWDLEK Gribble Building No. 260 The Leading Grocer South Ninth GIRL STUDENT HANGS HERSELF Mr. Fox will le glad to show you his line of spring styles in '"Foxy Clothes" at Sykes & Broadhead's Friday and Saturday. (adv.) Overstudy Blamed for Act of Pupil of Elocution School. BOSTON. Feb. 2i. Flora Fullerton Heath. 20 years old. of Potsdam. N. Y.. a student at the Leland Powers Elocu tion school. Boston, committed suicide by hanging in the apartments occupied by herself and her mother. Mrs. Julia Heath, in the Hotel Oxford. Huntington avenue. Mrs. Heath found the body. She told the olice that her daughter had lieen studying too much and that she had probably ovi rtaxed her mind, which had given away under the strain. Miss Heath was extremely popular with her classmates and was to have been graduated from school in May. HH A NEW GOODNESS IN CANDIES Unless you have tried "Olympian" Chocolates you do not know how good Candy tastes. Our pure home-made Candies are so different from the ordinary kind there can be no comparison. Olympian Candy Kitchen IOIO Broadway We Serve the Best Brinks in Columbia invfPiiifiiinniwiMiMi Glennon Club to Meet. The Olennon club will meet to consider the installation of ter of th" Knights of Columbii-liimbia. tonight ii chap in Co if you have idle money read the ad vertisement of J. A. Stewart found elsewhere in this paper, as his propo sition looks good. (adv.) TJOW is the Time " to See Our Line of New Spring Suiting's Clothes that bear "Columbia Tailoring Co." stamp fit better, look nicer, wear longer. Exclusive clothes are made here and the cost is no more than elsewhere Columbia Tailoring Co. North Ninth St. Phone 299