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Nowa Girl Who Will Act as Sponsor for
New Cruiser Des Moines.)
leo, as chaperone. Mr.. Macomber is
practising law in Des Moines, where
he was city collector for four years.
Miss Macomberwas born at Ames while
her father wac professor Of physics in
the State Agricultural college The
iowa party at the launching was
planned to be composed. of Gov. and
Mrs. A. B. Cummins, the governors
staff and Miss Macomber. The city of
Des Moines, for which the cruiser was
named. arranged to have nc. etficiaI rep
resentative at thalaunching, but the
: governor and Miss Macomber both re-
side here.
Statement Denied.
The trustees of the state college
at AmeS have announced that the pub
1ished statement to She effect that
James Wilson had been invited to re-
sign his position in the cabinet of
President Roosevelt to accept the pres
fdency of the institution to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of William
M. Beadshear, is incorrect and I'M
founded in fact. The trustees have
reached but one conclusion with re-
spect so the presidency of the institu-
tion. That is, not to fill it until next
year. Mr.. Wilson has not been asked
to resign his position in the cabinet
and to consider the Ames presidency.
There is a bare possibility that he may
be. but the trustees have not discussed
the matter in their meetings. Henry
Wallace, of Des Moines. is one of the
prominent candidates. for the place
In the sense that his name has been
pushed forward by his friends. He
is editor of the Wallace's Farmer
Will Meet President
Gov. Cummins will meet President
Roosevelt when he enters the state
September rs. and will accompany him
throughout Iowa. The governor has
received permission to attach his spe-
cial car to the special train carrying
the president. He will go to Sioux
City to met the president September
S6, accompany him that day to Deni-
SON and return to Des Moines, the
president going on into Nebraska. On
September 80 he will meet the presi-
dent at Clarinda and accompany him
throughout the day on his tour to
Des Moines and then to Keokuk. going
south.
Elected to New Chair.
T. G. Holden, of Bloomington, ILL.,.
has been elected to the chair of agron-
pmy in the State Agricultural college
of Iowa. This chair has been created
but recently. Its field embraces the
whole science of the production of
farm crops. For this, Professor Hol-
den has large. experience. He is a
graduate of Michigan Agricultural col
lege and has held professorships in
that institution and in the Illinois
Agricultural college. He organized
the Corn Breeders association of Hi
nois, was manager of the Pekn Beet
Sugar company's farms, and recently
has been superintendent of the $4,000
acres of seed corn farms of Funk Bros.
al Bloomington. He comes to Iowa
solely because he is more interestedin
science than he is in making fortune
for himself. His work at Ames will
be to develop the corn breeds. Corn
!" ""e'u VI III tiIfe pilnclpal purposes:
Food, oil, starch. Gluten is needed in
food corn. starch in corn to make
starch out Of, and fat TO make oils.
Formerly there was but one kind of
corn. prolific in some of these elements.
deficient in others 1t is the business
OF the agronomist. now, to discover
a means for breeding different kinds
of corn, one of which shall carry an
excess of gluten, another of fat, an
other of starch. The work has been
started by Professor Holden, and at
the Iowa institution he hopes to be
able to develop breeds of corn as dis
t1nct as are the different breeds of
cattle, which will greatly multiply the
value of the product.
Roosevelt In Iowa.
President Roosevelt will arrive in
Sioux City September 20 instead of
September 30, as stated formerly. He
WIFI be in that city on that date, and !
90 from there to Arion, De4ison and Y