Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-09-18

call, Tor $lo,O0O,O00, was answered by
1905 subscribers, with offers of $685.
100000, the bids running as high as $40
for 500 bond at 5 per cent. The Sec
ond call, for $25, 100000 was met by 49,
051 subscribers, with offers of $45,00O,-
600. Since there was scarcity rather
than a plethora of money in Japan at
the time, and safe investments at a
higher rate of interest than the 5 per
cent offered by the government were
easily to be made, we must reckon these
subscriptions to have been fine show
ing of popular patriotism"
From the above figures it will be seen
cheaply as well as effectively and that
her people display large degree of
public spirit in support of their govern
ment. When we see figures of the cost
of our war published with startling
comments it would be we'll for us to re-
member this statement of the Japanese
war before we become frightened.
PROFESSIONALISM IN ATHLETICS.
The recent row that has come to light
in college circles over the action of the
Intercollegiate Athletic Associations
games committee in adjudging one of
Drake University's prominent athletes
a professional. calls to mind the whole
subject of professionalism in college
athletics. That the schools of this state
have become very lax in their regard
for the purity of their amateur sport is
only too we'll known. AS each succeed
ing year of victories and defeats saw
the athletic rivalries increasing in in
tensity the desire to win has grown
most acute, and in many cases has led
the young men into methods and prac-
tees that before would have been a
shock to their natural sense of inter-
cholastic honor. Leading college men
have begun to feel that the time has
come to call halt and the movement
last spring on the part of the State Uni
versity and Grinnell College toward bet
terng the condition of athletics in Iowa
These two schools, which have for
years been the acknowledged leaders In
college athletics, drew up an agreement
among themselves, and the other col
leses in the state We're invited TO join
them in it, providing for committee
of alumni which should have supervis-
1tl,
college athletes in the state, and if this
committee should find that any schoo
was not observing the full requirements
of the amateur standards in giving
membership to it's athletic teams the
parties to this agreement would refuse
to meet those schools in any contest. L
was thought that such an arrangement
would serve to purge all college team:
| of any faint of professionalism ant
would certainly go far toward doing SO
Grinnel and S. U. L. signed it, and it i
thought that several other leadin,
schools will join them.
The trouble at Drake University i
an outgrowth of this tendency to laxit.
i in preserving the amateur standard o
college athletes. The school leaped int
4 a prominent place almost at singh
bound in football last season, and thu
lcharges of corrupt practices, the hiring
of men, We're made right and left. Nom
were ever known to have been proved
an almost impossible thing to do, bu
4 there could hardly have been so mucl
smoke without a little fire. In the sprin;
this same feeling against Drake result
ed in a protest and preferred charges Q
i professionalism against their mos
/ prominent athlete, one Holland. Tn
i count that was proved against him, al
though sufficient to sustain the charge
was trivial IN itself. but the action wa
prompted by other and more seriou
4 violations of amateur requirement
which We're known to exist, but wer
more difficult to prove. When tn
4 protest was raised at Drake and tn
school went so far as to cancel all il
"A agreements to play the other colleges
4 the state this year, but the verdict wa
accepted with favor by nearly all c
those schools. There is a feeling anon
these schools that Drake has been tn
most fragrant violator of the athleti
honor code. differing from themselve
only in degree, we fear, and they ar
pleased to see the action of the interco
Ilegiate committee result as it dit
Whatever the degree Of justice in tn
verdict a move for purer college atf
letics has been made and it is hope
that it is only the beginning of generi
movement of reform throughout ii
colleges of Iowa.
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.
In commenting upon the recent NOV
in Hubbard to consolidate rural schot
districts the Citizen of Iowa Falls says
This is an attempt at solving tn
country school problem, and it is ste