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UNIVERSITY MISSOURIAJSL FIFTH YEAR COLUMBIA, MISSOURI, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1913 NUMBER 111 BEST BOOK SELLER GETU100 PRIZE Charles D. McLean Made Kearh 51000 in 66 Days Last Summer. NILL HAVE WARMER WEVTIIER V. nil her Bureau Sa, It Will He W armer Tonltrlit and Tomorrow. The United States Weather Bureau sajs: "Mostly cloudy tonight and Friday. Not so cold. Lowest temper ature will probably be about 1C or IS aboe zero. Probably bome snow Friday afternoon." Here are the hourly temperatures: BUT FEW E STUDENTS TIGERS WIN EASILY SHE ISM. U.STUDENT M.U. WOMAN PREACHER AT COL Fl AND A PREACHER, TOO Mrs. Martha Trimble Is Pas tor of Three Churches Near Columbia. The Highest Grade Made In Only Thirteen Pupils the First Semester. Missouri Victorious in the First Conference Basket hall Game 29-11. i i UMBIA HIGH HI WASHINGTON t I 7 H 3fl Wtf fc. i RECEIVED 2 CHECKS m:i... I l r.,1N.l T Hthe Hot Sun His Va ried Experiences. Xe'arlj JH'i'O in sixtj-slx dajs by panussiir- for books. that's what one Unhen-ii t Missouri student made last bumi.if r And he can't even esti mate the maiiv wcarj miles he walked in the hot miii. or the a erase num i.r m nouiids ot "literature" he car- . . .1...... nnlLc Illc , irTlni ' rleU Oil lll'T- uiio .... .- r.-. -. ... .1 111 n .. filrv tfil.t up the Mian of a bank president. Hut ! rharles D Mi Lean, a senior in the School or Engineering, is the best book agent of t'11' seeral hundred emploed b his compan McLean received two checks from Vs companv josterdaj for prizes that fe won Ouo check was for $100 - . .. i i.. i... ..... i This amount is offered bv the com- pan to the man who does the larg-jtho est aiiuiuiii "" ..(. . cation In the contest are men from almost everv universitj in the West and Xorth The other check was for 5G55 in pavment for prizes won for doing a certain amount of work each week M'coiiil Year in the WrV. It was McLean's second ear at sdlins books. Last ear he made al most $900. His home is in Joplin, Mo During his entire University course he has made all his own ex penses. He is a member of the Uni versity Cadet Hand and of the Uni 7ersitv Orchestra. He plavs a pic- olo and sa.vs that this gives him his !st recreation while in school McLean worked in Western Ne vada and Eastern California last summer He believes in making his work give him a chance to see the country as well as earning mone. However, he will tell ou that the , people out West will buy books bet- . i,cre tlal, in EUr0pe." Haul an Kat ter than those in the Middle states or .vijk of Holland, professor of piano at in Eastern states. He tells many in teresting stories and experiences but sajs that he has never "gone broke The University of Missouri's best book seller sab that he never gets lonesome while out on one of his long trips. "There is alwa.vs something to do or to get a laugh from if jou know how to look at things," he said. One warm summer night out in Elko, Xev, on my last trip I was standing on a street corner listening to a street Socialist talk. A tjpical west ern street tramp walked slowly up to where I was standing and decided lean on the same telephone post ith me He didn't speak for a time. out flnnllv he turned around anu said: 'I have nothing to say.' A few more minutes the stranger was silent then he turned and said again: 'I have nothing to say at all.' He Was a Literarj Tratiii. "Hut I never answered him for there was nothing to say. After an other little period of silence the stranger turned to mo and with a literary air said: 'One boon I ask, I ask no more, give me the price of a drink." " Once McLean visited the University of .Nevada at Heno One hundred countrv school teachers were attend ing summer school and he thought that he would sell books there for two eeks. He visited a girl's dormitory and was "showing" his book to one of the teachers in the parlor. Some of the other girls in the building stole his hat from the hall rack and when started back to the hotel, he had co b.iri-lieaded. The book-agent left town soon. He never ventured back to the dormitory. "Evcrj thing is high out West." said McLean "You hae to pay flfty cents for a bath, fifty cents for a hair cut and twenty-live cents for a have That is why I always carry oy safety ra?or in my vest pocket. And railroad fare it's high too. One kas to pa from five to ten cents a mile. That boon taught me to walk. Saw Them l'lay Kngby. "I saw Missouri men almost every where I went There arc a few of them at Berkeley. Cal. I saw a rugby football game there, but it does not compare with what we have here. After the game was over, the band Hyed their school song and it was much like "Old Missouri" that for . first time In my work, I was 7 a m 1 S am 4 '.. a.m : 10 am i:: 11 am 17 12 (noon) 22 1 pin 23 2 pin 2.s homesick for Columbia and the Unl ersity." McLean will staj in school this semester and take some academic work lie intends to travel and sell engineering fixtures and supplies af ter June 1. Rut he sajs that if he does not get a position just as soon as school is out. he will go back to selling books 1 0 IIIEl HAVE 10 .SELL IT i M. ('. (Jiiiiin Hears of Troubles of Mex ico Electric Line. Four of the stock-holders of the''ove '" I,er cenl wcro S0ltl0m 8en - Mexico Traction Company are now at- I Tlie highest pen. eiitaw of failures tempting to hae the road, what there' wak made by the junior class. In that i nr it nia thrmi..ii tiu.' li.miU r,r a ! class 27 ier cent of the grades made receiver, aciording to a letter received ' ' Mom,.lv , M t; Qj,m. chairman of'-'I per cent M's : rajIwa;v coniniittec of the Coluiu-'i" the junior cla; ,llia ('omniercial Club, from Mattliais f president of the road and chief promoter. "It is very probable that the road will be sold." said Mr. Quiiin this morning. "It may be that it will not be put in the bands of a receiver and sold that way. Judge Crum is much 'opposed to selling it in that way." There is a judgment against the road for about -CiO.OOO now. When this is settled there may be some chance to bring the road to Columbia if Colum lia wants it, Mr. Quinn thinks. 'VMEKICA IS LIKE 1I0I.LM I'aul van Kutwl.ik Talk al Comiticr- cial Club Luncheon "I like America very much, for I find it much like Holland, and I feel at home. I like the club life. Then I nil(j it I11UCM easier to get acquainted Christian College, said this at the Com mercial Club luncheon at the Virginia j(;rill today. Mr. van Katwijk said he had been told that the American ac (l'aintance with music was superfi cial, but that he had found conditions different and much interest was show n. X. T. Gentry, president, said Mr. van Katwijk's remark about the ease of getting acquainted in this country re minded him of the story about the v isit of the Prince of Wales to Xiagara. and how an American newsboy climb ed up to the window of the coach and said, "Hello, Prince, how's your Ma?" A letter was read from Dean F. B. Mumford of the College of Agriculture, thanking the Commercial Club for their cooperation in making Farmers' Week a success. Mr. Gentry said the annual banquet would be held about February 20, and that he wanted every member of the club to consider himself a committee of one to see that it was a success. Omar D. Gray has promised to act as toastmaster. The number of tickets will be limited to three hundred. Today's cigars, Mr. Gentry remark ed, were furnished by H. B. Price, and he added that next time the represen tatives of the Columbia papers would be expected to furnish the "smokes." A paper advocating a law providing for a heavier penalty for white slave traffic, presented by the Women's Civic League, was signed by each mem ber of the club present. CHAIR TILTIG THERE Seat Are "'ailed Donn" In en I'll) sirs Buildlnir. Xo more will the professor, with a Ftock of blue books In his hand tell the "fellows" to 'move their chairs as far apart as possible.' That Is, they won't in the new Physics Building. ri,rn no one can tip his chair back to a comforting tilt and at least get a little bodily comfort during the lec ture hour. The chairs over there are bolted down to the floor, and are sup ported by one iron, instead of four uooden legs. They are as unmovable as unsympathetic as the Rock of Gibraltar or the decrees of a profes- Two students are moving the fragile apparatus from the Engineering Bulld og to its new place in the Physics Building. SENIOR CLASS BEST English Courses MostFaiJ- ures, With Latin Next, J. E. McPherson Says. Only two E's were made by bojs in Columbia High School the first se mester of this school car. Both j thej heat the Washington Imver.-itj these were made by seniors. Eleven jiabt night by a score of 29-11. It was E's were made by girls si by sen- I MSSOHn-s BallM! :iii the way. The iors. three by juniors and two by! Washington University fieshmen. E. H. Cauthorn. principal'1 ........ ...... 1.1 . tn .ilinnt) I. ki 1. nip l'l ft I ! of the school, said it was the policy of ! the high school to give few high ' I grades. Hefore the jiresent grading , sjstcm was adopted which is the same ' no tiint uvpil in tlu University, grades! ("' ... 1 ' h "ere failures, 29 per cent I's. anil no i-. s. me guia.nc makes up in speeu. ue never uiaue ass, however, did a lit- a basket but is one of the fastest men tie better. They made 'J per cent E's, ::r, per cent S's. S7 per cent M's, 1" per cent I's and only 12 per cent F's. The best grades were made by the senior class. Only 0 per cent of the grades made by senior girls were fail ures. Seven per cent of these were made by senior bojs. Almost half of the grades made by senior girls was S, :U per cent M. 13 per cent I and 4 per cent E. With the senior bo.vs includ ed, .". per cent of the grades were E, 21 per cent S. 40 per cent M. 2S per cent I. The grades in the sophomore classes were only a little lower on the aver age, than were those of the seniors. The sophomores made 1 per cent E's. ::o per cent S's, :!S per cent M s, 2o per cent I's and S per cent F's. The grades made bj the bovs in this class were almost as high as those made by the girls. There w ere no E's made in the fresh man class. The girls made 34 per cent S's, 40 per ent M's. If. per cent I's and 4 per cent F's. But the boys niiiii.ll thi freshman class standing down considerably. They made 20 per cent S's. 31 per cent M's, 32 per cent I's and 14 per cent F's. The 1013 class made the best grades in school last jear. with the 1912 class second. The 1913 class also surpassed the 1914 class last ear. Mr. Cauthorn said he found the matter of class grades did not depend so much on whether it was a freshman or senior class. He said that a freshman class would sometimes take the lead and keep It through the four jears. A few inferior students usually keep the standing of the whole class down. Then a few subjects bring a large num ber of the students' grades down. English is where many of them find their greatest trouble. .1. E. McPher son. superintendent of the schools of Columbia, said English was the strong est "flunking" subject in high schools throughout the country. Mathematics, he said, was next. The Columbia High School students are not excep tipns in mathematics cither, for many of them fail in it. However, Latin has a greater number of failures here than has mathematics. The fact that the ward schools of Columbia have only seven grades, cause many students to get into the high school when they are jounger than the average high school fresh man. ('. II. S. TEAM OX A TRU Two Ha-ketball Games by Hie Hipli School Team Tomorrow. The Columbia High School basket ball team will play two out-of-town games tomorrow. The first will be against the high school five at Mo berly In the afternoon and the sec ond against the .Missouri Military team at Mexico tomorrow night. The Columbia team has won six out of nine games P. Vogt. captain. IU shell. Robnett, Stephenson. Church and H. Vogt will make the trip with E M. Todd, coach. Inquiries About Road Course. The new short course in highway construction and maintenance is at tracting attention. Dean H. B. Shaw hafj received inquiries regarding it from Illinois, Kansas and Missouri. Two thousand announcements have been sent out. PLAY AGAIN TONIGHT Lacy, Midget Player, Is the Speed Star of the Visiting Team. The Tigers took a ictory in the hrst conference basketball game when i . . . . . -- B ularly was this true of the easj chances but on one-handed "hurrj- up" feiiots they were better. i.icv. who nIaoil riirlit forward for V . . .. . Ca oil's team, is one of tile smallest basketball plajers in the Valley. He s so small that one would think that SOine high school boy had slipped in the game. Hut what he lacks m sue. UH uiu icuiu anu ,.,... i ... ..... . " the floor, he has a good chance of get- !... ..n. . ii Iiaii fli-i li 1 I in till 11. i ne uiu.ii-i.uis oiu..t i. .-. U. ,. rrM. ,.!.. .-!..... ... .... ..Imito nf time veiling at him. I.acj in Action. Uicy is a lighter. When he gets his linmls on the ball, the referee will nanus on uie uan. m ..-.-. .-.- " ?" -.ir "- can take It away from him and he will hold on until the whistle blows. Then when the jump comes, he is too short to even touch the ball and it is here that the bleachers jell at him. But after the ball is in plaj-. he gets in the game and makes the rooters feel "queer" because they made fun ol him. The Washington midget never fails to take one-handed shots at baskets. He's so short that this is the only chance he has to throw when a tall plajcr is guarding him. He just reaches around one side and shoots where he thinks the basket ought to be and he usually uses good judg-1 ment in finding the board even if he does not score any points. The Tigers used a different stjle or plaving from that against the Kan sas Aggies. Short and snappy passes were used more. This stjle of plaj ing made team work better. Almost all of the Tigers' basket shooting was done from short distance. Captain Edwards, however, made one basket from the middle of the field. Missouri used seven men. Burnett, who was disqualified in the last half because of four personal fouls, was replaced by Stern. Goldman took Taaffe's place at right -forward in the last ten minutes of play. The Pikers used nine men. Berryhill, who was one of the best men on the team last jear, did not go into the game until tho last half. Seeond Half Was Fast. The second half of the game was fast. Both teams plajcd rougher. This seemed to please tlie rooters for they jelled continuallj'. Ana vS ref eree didn't care but when the game was over, he asked what all the noise was about. Prof. C. I Brewer introduced a new referee. He is L. L. Touton, a Wiscon sin University man. He keeps the game going all the time and does not hesitate in calling fouls. The two teams will play again to night at 7:30 o'clock. Between halves the University Gym Team will give an exhibition. Tho line up: Missouri: Taaffe. Goldman, r.f.; Craig, l.f.; Burnett, Stern, c: Palfrey man, rg.: Edwards (Capt.), 1 g. Washington: Lac.v. Chavis, r.f.: Maenner, Ross, Berrjhill. l.f.: Modi sette, Scherer. c; Donk. Maenner, r g.: Graj (Capt.), 1 g. Summary: Field goals Taaffe 4, Bcrnett 4, Edwards 1, Maenner 2, Graj 1. Berrjhill 1. Fouls: Missouri 12. Washington 9. Free throws Taaffe 3 out ot 7, Edwards missed one, Modi sette 1 out of 6, Berryhill 2 out of 6. Referee. Touton, (Wisconsin) : time keeper. Anderson, (Missouri.) Change In Line-up Tonight I Palfreyman, who developed a case of "Charley horse" last night, may not start in tonight's game with Wash ington. If he is not able to play, his . -. i m k tolrnn hv Stern. SSZZS .UK .r;.rd place of Craig or Taaffe. .Mr. Murllia Trimble. HERE'S E FIELD FOR WOMEN I iiherMl Cannot .Supplv Ileniand for i'lijsital Instructor. Here Is another Held open to the ,..,... ,.., ,.i i ,, , j h(Mjtn her J0UtIl hcr r...ix., n ..,i .,i.,rv " - i lie iiciii.iim lui wuiuuii ii-ditina ui t phvsic.il training," savs W. W. Char ters, dean of the School of Education is growing greater than the supply. . We could turn out live or six each j ear f- ''"' a"11 ?. i'Si- lions for them a... As it is we naci, dmrchos shc hab now madc about one gin a jear who :uus m teach gvmnasium." The salaries, according to Doctor Charters, are about the same as for teachers of other subjects and less training is needed. That is, the teach er of phvsical training does not need , to be a college graduate unless she is to teach other subjects too. The best teachers, however, have training in phjsiology and eugenics as well as in gj-mnastic work. The public schools all over the United States are introducing plijsi cal training in some form or other in- ir. il.oir fiirrifiiln. If thev have no equipment for indoor work, they have Imskotball :ind other games. This is true in both grammar and high schools. Miss Rebecca Conw.ij-, in structor in gjmnasium, thinks the greater demand is for women who can teach some regular school sub jects such as English or German and who are capable of teaching phjsical training, too. It is certain that the teacher who is capable in this way Is chosen in preference to the one who knows English or German onl.v. In the city grammar schools special teachers of phvsical training arc now in demand though men are usually pre ferred. But in similar towns the teacher who has the regular class work is expected to train the children in gjmnasium, too. Doctor Charters sajs it is best for the public school teacher to at least know some game well so she can teach it to the chil dren. The women teachers of phjsical training, who hold the best positions in universities and colleges, sajs Miss Conway are graduates of phjsical training schools such as Wellesley and Doctor Sargent's School of Phjsi cal Education in Cambridge. Mass. The best schools of this sort are in the East. This may account partly for the deficiency in the supply of teachers since a great many girls who would prefer the teaching of gjm nasium to the teaching of languages or historj- cannot afford to go east to school. Three women now attending the University of Missouri expect to go to Wellcsly next jear to take special work in phjsical training. Both Miss Conway and Doctor Charters consider the possibilities for women teachers of physical training exceedingly good. The playground vork is growing too. and offers many opportunities for women. Miss Elea nor Kenney, a former University stu dent, is now doing playground work. Several other University girls have ob tained good positions as gymnasium teachers. Mrs. John Hansen taught phjsiology and gymnasium at Steph ens College last year: Miss Stella Davis, who attended the University last years, is now teaching practical training in Hardin College. Xext semester there will be two courses In gymnasium offered to girls v?ho expect to teach In one class. the "Teaching of Physical i raining, ,. w, b. -- - - books, lectures and practice work. IS AN EVANGELIST Her Congregation at Tolles ton, Ind., Built New Church in One Day. Mrs. Martha Trimble, a student in the College of Arts and Science, is one of the few women preachers in the state She has traveled exten sively as an evangelist, and has acted as pastor in several churches. While attending the I'nivcrsity she has been preaching alternately at Heniek. Ashland and Armstrong, .Mo .Mrs. Trimble is the wife of X. 11. Trimble, also a preacher, who is tak ing special work in the University. Thej live at 110D E-ist Iiroadway. Previous to her marriage Mrs Trimble lived in St. Lo-iis. While voung she became interested in church work, and at the time of her marriaBe bho a State Superlnten- 'dent of junior work of the Christian, M.urcil 01 .u.ssuu... one- u.u i -... to preach at first but was persuaded - 1. tt. . I tV. . .ll,l't ii nitt I. ,.. .--...! .1 1... !... ... i . . , .1 ... ..!...,. l.t lm,. lO CUUUUCL St;l.'l.ll ...I.-C. . uj ..!- 'husband who sajs he recognized her exceptional ability She had such (success tnal sue uecame iinoresieu n (he wjjrk am, has g,nce (,on(J work vlI1Pfi;t ami agisted her nushandn'nf worS al of ." preaching her life's work. Mrs. Trimble was ordained at Bal timore about six jears ago by Rev. B. A. Abbott who is now pastor of the Union Avenue Christian Church at St. Louis. Since then she has held many evangelistic meetings. Some of her most successful meetings were those held at Indiana Harbor. Ind. Wanatah, Ind, Wajnesboro, Pa. and Tolleston. Ind. .Mrs. Trimble has several pictures of these meetings In which she has marked the converts with a cross in ink. The number of converts seems to exceed the other .,i(.nil..r nf flip conerecations. It uas at Tolleston, suburb of Garj Ind. that Mrs. Trimble gained re nown as the woman preacher who built a church in a daj Seeing the need of a building in which to con duct the meetings she secured a lot and materials for a church and per suaded interested persons to contrib ute their labor. The material was placed on the ground at 1:00 o'clock in the afternoon and services were held in the completed church at 7:00 o'clock that night. The methods used were so successful that Mr. Trimble later built two more churches in a day on the same plan. While Mrs. Trimble was preaching at Tolleston, Mr. Trimble was preach ing in Garj The steel trust owned the Gary townsite and opposed the building of any churches there, with out an investment of $15,000 to be paid within six months. They wished to keep the churches out of Garj ac cording to Mr. Trimble, because they feared that they would create an un favorable opinion toward the steel trust. It was impossible to build a church at a cost of $13,000 so Mr. Trimble built a two-story flat and left the downstairs in one large room which lie used as a church. Mr. and Mrs. Trimble have together added over six thousand converts to the Christian Church during their six jears work. Mr. Trimble says that most of these people were converted by his wife, who he claims is the best woman preacher he ever saw. In recent meetings at Renick, Mo. Mrs. Trimble added twcntj--five mem bers to the Christian Church. She has had similar success at other towns where she has preached while at tending the Universitj-. She has late ly been appointed to preach regular ly at Kenlck every other Sundaj". Other SundajB she will preach at Ashland. Armstrong and other towns. After leaving the University Mr. and Mrs. Trimble will continue to work together, preaching and doing evangelistic work. Mrs. Trimble was among those who received high honors in the fresh man class of the College of Arts and Science last year Expects UK) Xew Students. Dean J. C. Jones estimates that be tween 73 and 100 new students will register In the College of Arts and Science next semester.