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itwmwwjpimiijLipwi.0. k UNIVERSITY MISSOURI AN SEVENTH YEAR COLUMBIA, MISSOURI, TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 1915 NUMBER 193 ' "?L 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 1 --,. ---. v-vup 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. , a,. .1.31A-.,. --'''& iC m Vrif iiiiBfimllalrfMliiai