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m-tors: Ualpli II. Turmr, President;
ik King. Svt-rvtary: lvati II. Kpiier
I). V DaUs, II. i:. Taylor. diaries
it 1. I). Patter.ou, A. a. Illumau,
Wilson.
rrsH all communications to
UNIVlMtSITY MISSUUItlAN
Columbia. Missouri.
v: Virginia ItullilltiK, DonnstalrH
Phones: Iluslness, M; News, 274.
;rcd at tlie postolllce, Columbia,
as secuiid-clahs mull.
Mo.,
r, KM; uiontli, 23 cents; copy, S cents.
i:Kri.: a dry county iiky
'In- prohibition forces of Daviess
mty, having gained the upper hand,
intent on prohibiting. Now they
c invoked the law to aid them in
ping the liquor out. A temporary
auction has been granted against
Wabash and Hoc'.; Island railroads
1 the American, Adacu and Wells
rgo express companies, restraining
ni from carrying liquor into Da
ss County.
f outside companies are permitted
ship liquor freely into a dry town
a dry community, then lc'113 dry
nilies nothing and the law or or
lanee isn't worth the money and cn
;y expended in holding the election,
y tlie law and order folk and the
hibition adherents of the comniu-
y.
Daviess County isn't the first to car
this problem into the courts. Pat
isburg had a simi'.ar case a few
mths ago, resulting in a permanent
.unction against the transportation
mpanies. It has been tried in other
itcs. Other Missouri counties hav
g the same difficulty to contend with
e watching these cases. The prcc
out will be followed.
i!y all means where the public senti
ent, backed by the votes, puts a towji
county in the prohibition column,
t us have prohibition that prohibits.
says.
Does the United States owe Colom
bia an apology and $25,000,000, as
specified in a treaty which the Co
lombian senate has agreed to? The
foreign relations committee of the
United States last Thursday reported
that the amount of money be changed
to 51.r.,000,000 and that mutual regrets
from both nations be substituted for
tlio United States' apology. There is
doubt as to what is our duty.
Former Secretary liryau says, "It
is our duty to do justice to Colombia
and, in ease of doubt as to our duty,
resolve that doubt against ourselves
and In favor of Colombia."
won the independence occurred, he j 110 defense even though tlie minor may
have so stated he was of full age.
Playing pool is not by the nature of
the game anv crime against the high
ideals of any community, and wlieni
well regulated it is a wholesome
means of getting exercise as well as
enjoying the social intercourse of a
group of jolly fellows. In a college
town this phase of the question is very
marked, indeed. But it is equally true
that harm is often done the minors at
such places, and so the law ought to
be enforced rigidly.
Tlie pool halls of Columbia seem to
be running under good regulation.
There is little, very little, violation of
tlie law.
The chief of police of Columbia said
recently that lie himselr watched what
was going on at the pool hulls and
that lie thought them well regulated,
lie told of several instances when he
saw minors playing, hut on asking the
proprietor about the matter lie was
immediately shown written permits
from tlie parents of the youngsters.
There are, however, few minors in
Columbia who are playing at the halls.
The big majority of tlie players are
young men who take this means of
breaking the monotony of the routine
of school life and that, too. at places
where tlie law is obeyed. M.
Wonders will never cease! All but
of the 1-0 counties of Kentucky, the
ate of moonshine tales, have been
y for some time. In spite of the fact
iat they represented these counties,
iwcvcr. members of the Kentucky
gislature voted down statewide
ohibition recently. That they felt
illed on to explain their votes is re
galed in the time taken for the roll
11. More than an hour was necessary
r the voting legislators to tell why:
hen it came to tlie showdown, they
llowed the precepts of tradition
tiier than those of their constituents.
DRY I'OM.KfiK TOH'.NS
The citizens of college towns are
slowly but surely coming to realize
the bad effect of the saloon on the col
lege student. Each year finds more
college towns changing from tlie pol
icies of the wets to the principles of
the drys. Beginning with Columbia,
the list of dry college towns includes
Fulton. Mexico, Fayette, Marshall,
Warrensburg, Kirksviile, Maryville,
Holla, Tarkio and Liberty. College
towns that have as yet no dry regime
are St. Charles, lexington. Cape Girar
deau. Springfield and St. Joseph.
The result of this attitude on the
part of the college towns will soon be
shown. When mother and father, af
ter carefully rearing their children In
an environment of temperance, decide
to give them tlie advantages of higher
education, the college in the wet town
will not be the gainer. Would the care
ful florist rear his choicest plants in
the favorable atmosphere of tlie hot
house and then subject them to the
blighting influence of the uortii wind?
Neither will the fond parent, after
bringing up his children in righteous
fear of intemperance, expose them to
the blighting influences of the saloon
town.
In short, when college time conies
for the thousands of young men and
the low music ov the kricket and the
grasshopper." Real Estate Advertise
ment. "Bright red hair has become very
fashionable in Paris and sells for $200
a knot."
"A man boasting of the smartness
of his children said that his youngest
was so smart that she would take her
hand off a hot stove without being
told to do so."
THE NEW BOOKS
'rNM'iiHals m" LinslMi SpM-rlil"
How did the English language come
into being?
Who was responsible for its origin?
What changes have taken place in
its orthographical development?
To whom is this development due.
and through what media has it been at
tained?
What are the refining influences that
have brought it through Its crude orig
inal forms to the plastic medium for
expressing thought which we have to
day? These and similar questions are an
swered in a new book. "Essentials of
English Speech," by Frank II. Vize
telly. Mr. Vizetelly, who is managing
editor of Funk & Wagnalls' New
Standard Dictionary, in this new work
traces the historical and ethnological
development of tlie language. Muta
tions of form and sense of words in
Thirty Years Ago.
"Stephens College has a ruby and a
riddle in the same person. Miss Ruby
Riddle arrived here recently and is
now a student at the college,
"if an s and an i and an o ami a 11 with
an at the end spell su.
And an e and a 3 and an spell I,
What is a speller to do?
Then if also an and an i and a K and
an li-e-il spell "cide,"
There's nothing much left for a fellow
to do
But to go out and commit "Siouxeye-
sighed."
"So more wood subscribers will be
taken after March 15. Those that
have agreed to pay in wood will be
required to pay tlie, money if they
don't bring the wood by tlie time
specified."
Twenty Years Ago.
"A cablegram from St. Petersburg
states that tlie news has reached that
city from Doctor Munsen, who started
out to find the North Pole, and that he
has been successful. The report
states that the pole is surrounded by
land. Tlie party set out to find the
pole on June 24, 1S93."
"Champ Clark has announced his
candidacy for the nomination to Con
gress from the Ninth District."
"A St. I.ouis reporter, who was shot
accidentally in the leg, will have a
photograph of the leg and bullet made
by the new process."
War is again up before Congress. The
committee on war claims reported
favorably Wednesday on the claim al
lowing the University $3,075. This
amount, however, will not be forth
coming until a bill appropriating the
money is passed by the Senate and the
House of Representatives."
Phone 55 to have the Missourian
delivered to you. 25c a month.
To Hare SIlTer Tea.
The Woman's Missionary Society of
the Methodist Church will give a sil
ver tea at the home of Mrs. D. R.
Shore. S13 College avenue, from 3 to
5 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. All
are cordially invited.
Pliono 55 to have the Missourian de
livered to you. 25c a month.
Ten Years Ago.
"There are two kinds of courage.
The courage of limelight which
prompts a nice young man in white
ducks to jump overboard to rescue a
lady's handkerchief, and the real cour
age that makes a man face the horrors
of a fashionable wedding, the torture
of meeting the bills of a housekeeping
apartment and the agonies of walking
1 the lioor all night with a baby. The
their development and the foreign ele- 1 two are seldom fouml in the same
ment in our language are well treated. I yotlIlg nian
There are chanters on the elements 1 ..v,.-.i,i .. ,.... i m,. ion
women who leave home yearly. the., iteraturc, tht functlon ot tne die- of cloth warran;ed to wash-and mat-
tionary, the dictionary as a text-book. rimonv is the laundry. It may improve
tlie function of grammar, phonetics. him give ,lim starch and fresnen him
pronounciatiou and reading, writing ,, or R lnay take all ,,. coIor out of
for publication, individuality in writ- nim
ing and the corruption of speech. ..I!ut ()f course a man doesn't mean
There is an appendix in which is giv- . ..f,r , Iias ,..,,, ,hp fmirth
dry towns will reap tlie
material prosperity
harvest of
A Thought for tlie Day
111: TRorni.i: with Colombia
Back in IDO:: the senate of the He
lblic of Colombia adjourned, refus
g to ratify a treaty with the United
ates giving the republic $10,000,000
r a strip ot Panama on which to
instruct the Panama Canal.
Three days later a revolution broke
it on the Isthmus of Panama, defy
g Colombian authority. The United
.ates landed troop3 there "to protect
mericans" in the revolutionary re
011. The revolt was successful, and
ie Republic of Panama was cstab
shed. Within a week after its estab
shment it was officially recognized
f the United States, and negotiations
.r the purchase of the ten-mile wide
rip of land for the canal were made.
Tho New York World says the rev
lution which made possible the Pan
aia republic and consequently a new
wner of the land wanted by the Unit
J States for tlie canal was engineered
1 the United States and carried out
y the employes of tho Panama rail
oad. James T. Dubois, minister to
olombia, says the revolt freeing Pan
ma was planned by a handful ot men
nd not one in a hundred Panama cit
icns knew anything about it until the
ag of the new republic was raised by
an American officer in a United States
Tiny uniform."
The Republic of Colombia now has
isked damages amounting to $25,000.-
100 and an apology for the conduct of
he United States.
Theodore Roosevelt, during whose
.residency the revolt In Panama took
.ilace, says that tlie people of Panama
were a unit in demanding a revolution
and that the United States was an out
sider, except that troops were landed
to protect Americans, a practice which
has been sanctioned in twenty of the
fifty-three previous Panama revolu
tions. The revolution against Colom
bian authority was evident four
months before the outbreak which
No man can be convincing, writer
or speaker, who is afraid to send his
words wherever they may best follow
his meaning, and this with little re
gard to whether any other person's
words have ever been there before. In
assessing merit, let us not stupefy
ourselves with using negative stand
ards. What stamps a man as great is
not freedom from faults, but abund
ance of powers. Oeorge Herbert Pal
mer, in "Keli-cuiiivation in uugnsu.
The Open Column
Pool Table I.a.
Editor the .Missourian: There is
probably no problem of the city and
town connected with the care and pro
tection of the youth that causes more
perplexity in the minds of those who
are interested in doing their best to
help the young than that of the pool
hall. Some tiiink pool halls ought to
be done away with; others say that
they keep young men from worse
places, and the result of the problem
is tlie effort of the communities to reg
ulate the affairs by demanding that
the law be enforced. The law is:
"Every keeper of a billiard or pool
table who shall suffer any person un
der the age of 21 years to play on such
table kept by him, without the permis
sion of the father, master or guardian
of such minor first granted, shall for
feit and pay a fine of $30 for every
such offense. Furthermore the good
faith of the keeper in believing that
said minor is over 21 years of age is
en a list of several hundred of the i,ttt Io of champagne."
best English and American autnors,
past and present, with the character
of their work, their chief works, when ;
Four Years Ago.
"The claim of the University for
written and the dates of the birth and I damages received during the Civil
death of each author. There is also 1 --
a list of the best hundred books, com
piled by tlie late Sir John Lubbock. I
The work is comprehensive. It is '
not only interesting reading but it will
prove a valuable aid to the reader of 1
English literature.
(Funk &. Wagnalls Company, New I
York; cloth, I0S pages; $1.50 net.)
Looking Backward
Six! -Fin- Years Ago.
"Slaves in upper Missouri at this
time sell and hire very high. Negro
men are worth from $900 to $1,100 and
readily hire at from $150 to $200. Ne
gro women sell and hire in propor
tion." Liberty Tribune.
"Upper Missouri," says tlie Columbia
Statesman, "must be crazy, thus prov
ing what we have long since thought,
that our state is weak in the upper
story."
Fifty Y'ears Ago.
"I ken sell for $1S39 a pallas, a
sweet and pensive retirement looking
on tlie virgin banks of a stream, kon
taining 35 acres. The land is luxur
iously divided by tlie hand of natur
and art into pastur and tillage, into
plain and deklivity, into stern abrupt
ness, and the dalliance of sparkling
gladness (thick with fish) danse
through this wilderness of butv tew I
The
Newspaper
By its editorial
Policy
Selects its own
Type of readers
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