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UNIVERSITY MISSOURI AN
SEVENTH YEAR
COLUMBIA, MISSOURI, TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 1915
NUMBER 193
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GERMANS TRY WEOGE
ON ALLIESAT YPRES
Canadian Troops Capture St.
Julian, but City Is Re
linquished. TRAWLER IS SUNK
Belgians Regain Lizerne and
Repel Three Attacks
on Dixmude.
I!j United Press
LONDON, April 27, A lull Is pre
vailing in the half-moon line that sur
rounds Ypres due to the re-alignment
and re-enforcement of the troops, but
a renewal of the fight is believed im
minent. There is rejoicing over the
Canadians who have repotted the cap
ture of St. Julian and the strengthen
ing of the line at the points found
weakest. The French general later
reported that the forces had relin
quished the prize, taking a position
clober to Ypres.
The Germans are apparently flat
tened against the Allies' salient angle
northeast of Ypres. attempting to
wedge the British line and hold the
arc around Ypres while their artillery
operates unmolested.
Though admitting the German oc
cupation of Lizerne, the Belgian offi
cial statement today insisted that the
Belgian artillery, by charging, had
reoccupied the town Monday, at the
same time driving the Germans back,
both sides lost heavily. The Belgian
artillery also repelled three attacks
at Dixmude.
It has been announced that the lin
er Nordame carrying the American
delegates to the Women's Peace Con
ference at the Hague has been per
mitted to proceed after detention and
will reach port this afternoon.
The Allies are checking the Ger
mans toward the north. The French
are recapturing ground and the Brit
ish are progressing south of St. Ju
lian. German attacks against Ypres
have been repelled.
According to a French statement,
French aviators bombarded seven rail
way stations.
DR. PJUTCIIETT NOT COMING
Carnegie Foundation President Un
able to Attend Journalism Week.
Dr. Henry S. Pritchett of New York,
president of the Carnegie Foundation
for the Advancement of Teaching,
writes to the School of Journalism
that he has been obliged to cancel all
his engagements. Dr. Pritchett was
to have opened the Journalism Week
program here Monday night.
There will still be one notable
speaker, and possibly two, for the
opening Monday night, session. George
p. Dealey, vice-president and general
manager of the Dallas News, the
Dallas Journal and the Galveston
News, will talk on "The Newspaper,
Its Revenue and Its Policies," begin
ning at 7:30 o'clock, in the University
Auditorium. Mr. Dealey is one of the
leaders of southern journalism. His
address will be of a- popular nature.
This meeting like the others of
Journalism Week, will be open to the
public
WILL DEBATE TONIGHT
Meet
Freshmen and Sophomores to
Tonight in Auditorium.
The freshman-sophomore debate
will be held in the University Audi
torium tonight immediately after the
lecture by Leon Ardzooni. The sub
ject for the debate is "Resolved: That
the Monroe Doctrine as It Now Exists
Should Be Abandoned in the United
States." The freshman hae the neg
ative and the sophomore the aflirma
tiv side.
The members of the debating teams
are, freshman: Fred Gabelman, leader,
.Myron S. Kendrick and Joseph J.
Stone; sophomore, Hubbard P. Saun
ders, leader, Lewis It. Long and J.
W. Joslyn. The debate is open to the
public.
FIFTY MORE LETTERS
READ INT, R, SUIT
History of Boss Piatt's Re
gime Exposed in Libel
Suit.
CROWD DIMINISHED
ONLY HE WHO DIGS
DESTROYS DANDELION
Dr. J. C. Whitten Tells How
Lawns Can' Be Rid
of Pest.
TUESDAY CLUB MAKES REPORT
Outline fr Year's Work Is Planned
at Business Meeting.
Preceding the election of officers at
the annual business meeting of the
Tuesday Club yesterday afternoon in
the Y. M. C. A. Building, the reports
on the various committees and board
of the club .were read.
Miss Frances Denny, chairman of
the program committee, gave a par
tial outline of the program for next
year. Miss Denny said the committee
had planned on having two musical
numbers. The first musical meeting
will be of a general nature and the
second on grand opera.
Civic Day was the subject decided
upon for another program. Probably
all the women's clubs of the city will
be invited to this meeting and an open
discussion of civic problems in Co
lumbia discussed. "Geography in the
Making" is the subject for another.
A debate has been planned for an
other meeting and the remainder of
the meetings, with the exception of
one on recent Inventions and modern
science, will be given over to litera
ture, probably one program each to
poetry, philosophy, drama and mod
ern fiction.
A report of the librarian, Miss Lelia
Willis, was read. Miss Willis showed
the wonderful growth of the library
during the last year. Juveniles' books
were lent out last year to 1,653. Adults
used the library books 3,499 times and
the library was used by 2,671 different
persons. One hundred and twenty-six
new books were added to the library's
collection of 1900.
Mrs. J. E. Thornton, the retiring
president, in regard to this report
said that the club's work along this
line was being appreciated by the city
and hoped that the time would come
when the club could be the means of
getting a Carnegie library here.
Mrs. J. A. Klass introduced a reso
lution that the delegates to the State
Federation of Women's Clubs at St.
Joseph be instructed to read before
that body resolutions telling the feel
ing of the Tuesday Club of Columbia
about the present European War.
RADER TRIAL BEGINS
Was Convicted in First Case
Technicalities Bring
Him Reversion.
The second trial of Claud Rader of
Centralia, charged with counseling a
theft, began this morning in the Cir
cuit Court before Judge Samuel Davis
of Marshall. Rader was convicted af
ter the firbt trial of counseling and ad
vising William Bell to steal hay, corn
and oats worth $34.75 from W. L.
Green of Centralia and was sentenced
to two years in the state penitentiary.
Because Judge David H. Harris omit
ted the words "with felonious intent"
in his instructions to the jury the
Supreme Court reversed and remand
ed the case.
Rader was to be retried in the Feb
ruary term of court, but the jury wait
ed in vain for the defendent to appear.
Judge Harris declared the bond for
feited and continued the case.
Bell and Green were cross examined
on the witness stand this morning.
Roosevelt Chafes at Inactivity
While Correspondence Is
Being Read.
Ily Tutted Press
SYRACUSE, April 27. The hidden
history of Republican Boss Piatt's
regime became a record today in the
trial of the Barnes-Roosevelt libel
suit. Roosevelt chafed nervously on
the stand at the inactivity of hours de
voted to the mere reading of fifty
more letters exchanged between him
and Piatt during Roosevelt's term as
governor and as vice-president. In
one letter Roosevelt, apparently jocu
larly, wrote, "you (Piatt) are an easy
boss."
The letters are generally not con
sidered to have held startling revela
tions. However, some evidenced cor
diality between Roosevelt and Barnes.
One letter disclosed that Roosevelt
once decided to refuse the vice-presidential
nomination, preferring govern
orship again. Questions regarding
Roosevelt's autobiography which
promised to produce sensational tilts
were ruled incompetent.
The crowd attending the trial was
diminished today.
The rigid demands of Attorney Bar
num, who insists that Colonel Roose
velt should answer categorically, and
the introduction of forty more Roose-
velt-PIatt letters are expected to tilt
the lid of the political Pandora's bo
again in the trial.
MANY IN BLOOM NOW
Plant Resisted Drought Last
Spring When Blue-Grass
Was Killed.
TUB WEATHER.
For CoIimiM.i ami Vicinity: Hem-rally
f.ilr tonlKht and Wwlm-siUv: not much
rlianjrp lit teniiiemttire but sllstitly cooler
tolllKllt.
For .Missouri: Centrally fair tonight anil
Wcdiicsil.ty: sllstitly eoolcr m-rth portion.
Wratlirr Condition-..
Pressure continues relatively liljjh oer
flie eastern half of the country, ami low to
the west ami north. The conditions west
of the Mississippi am alons the Canadian
horder continue somewhat unsettled and
wlmly, hut not much rain occurred during
the last L'4 hours. The flood condition In
Texas has Improved, and no rain fell
there (lurlnj.- tin- last 24 hours or more.
i-lear sklen prevail this morning from
western Texas. New Mexico, Coldrado,
them-e eastward to Missouri.
Illlfll tcmilMr ltltl.t .tl.l.iln l Ihu nu
Lt-ulf states, the plains. Mississippi vallev.
ami eastward to the Atlantic; the tempera
ture was ,s degrees In Iloston at 7 o'cloek
t Us morning, which N unusual for this
time of the ear.
Ill f'fllllllllll 1 r.u.i..H.lM .i- .. .....I...- f
Indicated for the next . hours, preceded,
I'.v slightly threatening this afternoon.
.. Loral Ilata.
The highest temjierature In Columhla
yesterday was 7s nml the lowest last night
was !: nni liilt.ittim no t
terday the highest was ViiihI tl,'..'"l,.i'i....
s; precipitation. .itl inch.
The Almanac.
.-uu rises louar. .:li; o to Si,, .un
7 p. m.
jiimiii sets at rititl a. m.
TO KANSAS CITY MEETINGS
Delegates From Columbia Schools to
Attend Mothers' Club Contention.
Mrs. James A. Gibson, delegate from
the Lee School; Mrs. T. E. WIndson,
delegate from the Benton School, and
Mrs. F. H. Russell, delegate from the
Grant School, went to Kansas City
Itliis morning to attend the annual
convention of the Missouri State Con
gress of Mothers' Clubs and'Parent-
jTeachers Associations. They will be
Joined by Mrs. Bernard O. Hurst, who
is president of the Benton School
Mothers' Club.
Dr. M. P. Ravenel of the School of
Medicine of the University, Miss
Louise Stanley, professor of home
economics, and C. H. Williams, secre
tary of the University Extension Di
vision, attended the meeting of the Par
ental Teachers' Association and read
papers pertaining to their particular
lines of work.
ELECT MAY QUEEN' TOMORROW
Women Who Hine Paid S. G. A. Dues
Are Entitled to Vole.
Tomorrow is the day for the elec
tion of May Queen. Miss Myra Harris
and Miss Marguerite McGowan are
the candidates and every woman in
the University who has paid the S. G
A. dues for- one semester is entitled
to ote. The polls, which will be open
from 8 a. m. until 4 p. m., will be In
the corridor of the women's depart
ment.
There will be no one to take the
illots. They are to be signed 'and
dropped into the box. The result of
the election will be posted on the
bulletin board and at the Missouri
Store.
Just now the dandelion is in the
height of its glory. Last summer was
dry, and the dandelion, which is
drouth-resistant, had things much its
own way. The dry weather killed the tiik calkxiiai:
I Anril 7 . il.Ti-LU - i..t. ..-. i i.. ii
grass in spots and the perennial dan- torium i7-' i,.i, Arziirooni u "Cenuuiy
.,.,-, , . . :""1 ,,,'r I"'-'"- In the Hull." 7:30 p. m.
delion took its place. This accounts! April 2i. Annual Cerm.iu I'lav- "Die
..loiirnallstoii."
for the unusual amount of yellow on -Mar I Ingh School Day. Athletic meet
Mini T.H Mr-it v i tuiiiikt
the Columbia lawns now. -May :i-7. ' Journalism Week. Popular
, . , , 1 J" Hires, Unht-rslty Auditorium each een-
The owners of fine lawns have used .lug.
several method In their wirfnro .1 M'i-V ." K"1' l;nHt"" Perkins Cadv of
,ei.rat mtuious in meir wanare ,the I'nhersltv of Kansas will address rui-
ugainst the flower. But there is only )r,ril' ,"r.. -M!sso,,r section of American
,' hemlcal Society,
one practical way of ridding the lawns Slav is Address at I'nlwrsltr Assembly
of the pest, according to Dr. J. C. KpcVl's'of'the1 War?, p" m!''"" '
Whitten of the hortirnltiirnl tlenart-1
rnunt nnd tlmf tc tf Airr '
vui Ami uie Jiutus. J
He says that the upper portion of
the root should be cut away with the
plant to insure the prevention of a
new plant from the same root. At
least an inch or two of the thick root
should be taken away, he says, and
more would be better. 1 The chinchbug and the Hessian fly
"A solution of iron sulphate is fire developing in threatening num-
sometimes used," he said. "This chem- i.bers in some counties in Missouri
ical will burn the leaves of the dan-Uhis week, according tn Jewell Mnves
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MORNING'S CLEANUP
BRIMS KIH DUMP
Fifty Loads of Refuse Make
Half-Day's Yield in One
District Campaign.
NEGROES HELP MUCH
Nineteen Men With Ten
Wagons Haul Away Re
maining Trash Today.
1WHEAT PESTS APPEAR
Chinch Bug and Hessian Fly
at Work in Several Mis-
y soun bounties.
,delion before it injures the grass, but
secretary of the State Board of Agri-
there Is hardlv enough difference in
the resistance of the two to make this .future, who has returned from a trip
a very effective remedy. Spraying of inspection of crop conditions
.with this solution might be prefer-
.throughout the state. Many wheat
growers are worried about the con
ditions, he says.
Farmers all over the state are busy
iplanting corn. The soil conditions re-
MASS .MEETING TOMORROW
I'rof.
on
C. L. Brewer Hill Speak
High School Day Flans.
R. W. McClure, student president,
has issued a call for a mass meeting
in the University Auditorium at 7:15
o'clock tomorrow evening. Prof. C.
L. Brewer, director of athletics, will
speak to the students on plans for
High School Day next Saturday.
Prof. W. J. Shepard will explain in
detail the working of the preferential
ballot, which is to be used for the
first time in the student election Fri-
Lday. Several amendments to the con
stitution of the Student Association
will likely be voted on also at the
meeting.
able for a large area, covered chiefly
with dandelions, but digging is better
for the average lawn."
Tinetnr Whitten s.iid that the nlants
could be removed from a lawn quickly rmain fine' , w,tn a tendency toward
if an instrument with a .harp blade acK ol molslure m sorae secuons-
IKa .m1 n thMm nA11fjsv l"SS. I
ul luc eiiu ui u u.uun, ..u.itt.u .,,.-. SH0E FACTORY .MANAGER HERE
used. This way of digging would save '
backache, he said. He added that an Paul L. Hogan of IlnniiHon-llnmn
oil can filled with gasoline or carbon ( Company Vlslfinir Factories,
bisulphide should be carried by the j Paul L. Hogan, general manager of
dandelion fighter. A few drops on 1 the Hamilton-Brown Shoe Company,
the remainder of the root after the j is now visiting the factories at Union,
crown had been cut off would insure Columbia and Mexico by automobile
(he end of that particular dandelion, J from St. Louis: He left Columbia to
ha :nld day for Mexico and from there will
Plants Should Be Burned. return to St. Ixwis. His wife is ac
companying him.
Mr. Hogan left St. Louis last Wed
nesday and spent that afternoon and
SIv Engineers on St. Louis Trip.
A party of six students in the School
of Engineering will leave for St
Louis tonight, where they will inspect
a number- of foundries and factories.
The members of the party are study
ing mechanical engineering and will
,?pend four days in St. Louis inspect
ing machinery. L. I Leach, S. G.
Goodman, P. It. N'olting, Justus Rose,
L W. Haney, Glenn Duble and Prof.
P. A. Fessenden will take the trip.
Ardzrooni Talks on Germany Tonight;
Leon Ardzrooni, instructor in eco
nomics, will speak at the University
Assembly in the University Auditori
um at 7:30 o'clock tonight on "Ger
many's Place In the Sun."
Dean Williams Buys Trio Lots.
Dean Walter Williams of the School
of Journalism has bought two lots
on Glenwood avenue in Westwood. He
will build a residence this summer.
The lots were bought from Judge J.
A. Stewart.
PLACE OF LUNCHEON CHANGED
.Commercial CInb Will Meet In Its
Rooms Thrs Week.
The weekly luncheon of the Com
mercial Club will be held in the rooms
of the club this week instead of at
,Mrs. Robinson's dining room on
Broadway.
Representatives of the Boone Coun
ty Fair Association will attend the
meeting and present their plans for
the 1915 fair.
The plants should not be piled up af- j
ter cutting, as there is usually enough .
jPlant food left in the crown to ripen I
the seeds of all those that are in
bloom. They should be burned, or the
seeds will soon find their way to other
lawns. If allowed to spread, dande
lions will eventually crowd out the
grass.
Doctor Whitten said that only con
certed action by the community would
iremove the dandelion or check its ad
vance. "It is of little use for one man to
remove the pest, when the wind is car
rying great numbers of the seeds from
Jiis neighbor's lawn. Communities
.have almost eliminated the dandelion.
however, by concerted action. Colum
bia or communities in Columbia could
do as well."
night at Union. Thursday morning
he left Union at 10 o'clock and, cross
ing the Missouri River at Washington
made the trip to Columbia in six
hours. He found the roads a little
rough as a result of the rains, but
says they soon will be In excellent
condition. He expects to travel by
automobile throughout the summer.
Mr. Hogan says he met several par
ties making long trips and thinks
much more travel will follow later in
the summer.
WEAR BASKETBALL CAPTAIN'
Meeting
C. H. S. to Play Jefferson City.
Columbia High School will play the
refferson City High School baseball
team Friday,
Logan Attends Farmers' Fair.
J. C. Logan, who was graduated
from the College of Agriculture in
1914, and is now teaching agriculture
in the normal school at Cape Girar
deau, attended the Farmers' Fair Fri
day and returned to Cape Girardeau
yesterday. While here, he had a con
ference with Dean F. B. Mumford and
Dr. J. C. Whitten, of the College of
Agriculture, regarding agricultural
courses being taught in the normal
school. Mr. Logan will introduce a
new course, farm accounts, in the nor
mal school this summer.
Tiger Forward Elected at
This Afternoon.
John A. ("String") Wear, a junior
in the College of Agriculture, was
elected captain of the next year's.
basketball team at a meeting of the
, - r- ... oio Ii n,en nela at Kotnweu Gymnasium
a shipment of r.00 Euonymus Radican I
... . . . . . 1 this afternoon.
vines. These will be planted to run ,,... .. A.
, ., . .. .. , nariey nyue was me ouier caiiui-
on the buildings about the science J ,,.., ,..
ouadrancle and will take the place of r"". .. e ' " " p"-""""
Recelu-s Vines for N'e Buildings,
Prof. H. F. Major has just received
the heavy five-leaf ivy which covers
the old buildings. This vine grows
more slowly and has a more delicate
tracery. It has small round, light
green leaves, edged with white. It is
similar in apiearance to the VInca
used so much in window boxes.
Miss Ilillle Hnse 111 In Hospital.
Miss Bille Huse. a student la the
College of Arts and Science, is in the
Parker Memorial Hospital suffering
from an attack of appendicitis.
High School Debate Here Saturday.
The judges of the debate between
Mexico and Chlllicothe High Schools
in the University Auditorium Satur
day evening will be Prof. W. J. Shep
ard, E. W. Stephens and Prof. D. O.
McGovney. The subject of the debate
will be the minimum wage law. The
judges will also determine the best in
dividual debater.
fiieeuiib tllC lU men CULll ICWCl-tU
the same number of votes. Wear has
played forward on the Tiger Ave for
, wo years. His home is in Kansas
.City.
Eight wagons began to gather up
Columbia's trash this morning. The
wagons were divided into two groups.
One started from the west side of
Eighth street, north of Broadway. The
other started east from -Moss street,
north of Broadway.
L. D. Shobe had charge of the east
squad and John Silver had charge of
the west. Four wagons were lent by
the road district commission, and the
city lent two. Nineteen men are work
ing with ten wagons this afternoon..
"Columbia people have answered
our call for cooperation with splendid
spirit." said .Mrs. W. E. Harshe, pres
ident of the Civic League. "In the
districts visited this morning, the
trash was invariably placed in con
venient situations for the wagons to
reach. This read- coojeration has
aided the men in gathering the trash
ouickly. Fifty loads were carried
out of the east district this morning.
"We are urging everyone to put the
trash out so it can be handled as
quickly in other places. These wagons
are given to us free, and we want
to try and not give them too much
work."
One of the two dumping grounds of
the city was filled before noon today.
Dumping grounds for the east squad
are on the Parsons farm, near the
corner of Range Line and Moore's
boulevard. The west dumping ground
is on the block between Second street
and Garth aenue. New dumping
grounds will be chosen when the
teams begin work on the south side
of Columbia tomorrow or the next
day.
The following organizations of Co
lumbia have cooperated with the wom
en of the Civic League in cleaning up
the town: The City Council; city en
gineer: road district commission: Boy
Scouts; Retail Merchants' Associa
tion: negro school teachers; negro
preachers; negro Boy Scouts.
The women of the Civic League and
the City Council are financing the
movement, with the help of these
other organizations. The food and
shrub sale cleared about $34. This
money goes to help pay expenses of
the clean up.
The negroes of Columbia have been
of great assistance in the movement.
Ernest S. Redd, a negro minister, has
been especially active. The negroes
have planted the bulbs given them by
the Civic League, and they have dis
tributed the literature on ridding Co
lumbia of flies.
MIXED TENNIS TOURNAMENT
at
Entries Must Be In by Tomorrow
C O'clock.
A mixed double tennis tournament
will be held at the University starting
Thursday, April 29. All entries must
be handed to Fred Loomis before 6
o'clock tomorrow.
These tournaments have not been
held at the University for a long
.while, and this one is held because of
the great interest taken in tennis this
reason. Prizes -are offered by the ath
letic department.
Women Eleel May Queen Tomorrow.
The election of the University May
Queen will take place tomorrow In
the women's department from 8
o'clock in the morning to 4 o'clock In
the afternoon.
To .Meet in Women's Gym Tonight.
The Women's Athletic Association
will meet in the women's gymnasium
at 7:13 o'clock tonight.
Governor Major Leaves for 'Frisco,
is.v I'nltetl Press
JEFFERSON CITY, April 27. A
special car for the use of governor E.
W. Major and his party stood on a
siding here this morning and all was
hurry and anticipation in the execu
tive mansion as the departure of
Governor Major and his party for the
'Frisco fair neared. Governor Major,
Mrs. Major, their two children, Hor
ace Rumsey of St.. Louis. Mrs. Rum
sey. Colonel W. A. Dallmeyer of Jef
ferson City, Mrs. Dallmeyer and
Judge John A. Cunningham, Mrs. Cun
ninghom of Caruthersville, Mo., are
members of the party.
Miss Frances McClure Returns Home.
Miss Frances McClure of St. Louis
returned to her home yesterday after
spending the week-end with Miss
Mary Perclval. Miss McClure is a sis
ter to R. W. McClure. student president.
LAST DITE NOT ON PROGRAM
Sophomore Farmer Who Refused to
Work at Fair Gets Ducked.
It. A. Schwartze, a sophomore In
the College of Agriculture, was "ar-
is
rested" yesterday by the Police De
partment of the Farmers' Fair. He
was accused of non-performance of
duty at the Fair, when he failed to
make a hlge dive into the pond after
he had mounted the diving tower. He
was found guilty and "ducked" In the
pond before 200 spectators.
Student Candidates Won't Speak.
Candidates for president of the stu
dent body! met last night and oted
not to hold the try-out which had
been planned for them. Each was
to give a five-minute talk at a mass
meeting Friday night. The men did
not feel that such a try-out would be
a fair test of their abilities.
Commercial Club Directors to Meet.
The directors of the Commercial
Club will hate a 6 o'clock supper in
tie rooms of the club tonight.
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