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University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1908-12-01

YIAS Missouri flag! As far az
III records show, the only flag ever
adopted for Missouri by legisla-
tive enactment was that adopted by
the Confederate Congress during one OF
its early sessions, and there seems to
be no evidence that this flag was ever
used.
However there is a way of getting
u flag through a more powerful agency
than congresses or legislatures is
through custom or usage. Let us see
what custom has done for us in the
way of furnishing a flag.
In the Civil War, Missouri regiments
carried in addition to the stand of
regimental and national colors pre-
scented to them by the national gov
ernment, a state flag on which was the
coat of arms of the state on q blue
ground This flag is carried at the
present time by the National Guard
of Missouri, and is accepted, at least
semi officially, as the state flag. It is
certainly a state flag. Is it THE state
flag?
1t is customary for all states or ma
tions to make use of their arms
for flags of one sort or another. The
question is, if there is a question, does
Missouri, not being a nation in her
self, have any need of flag in the
sense that the "stars-and- stripes" is
the flag of the United States.
Whether the question of the state
flag is, or is not, a proper one, there
are some questions concerning the coat
of-arms of the state that may very
we'll be raised. One raised without
eause is regarding the kind of bear
that should be used in the coat of
arms. It has been suggested that
G.. Pettus, the Secretary of
State who had the engraving of the
Great Seal of the State of Missouri"
in charge, was to use the white bear
Or the grizzly bear as he thought best
This Interpretation perverts the mean
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1908-12-01
THE CENTRAL STATE.

In the South, Missouri is called a
northern state, in the North it is re-
ferred to as a southern state. On the
Pacific coast it is called eastern and
the Atlantic coast dwellers speak of it
as the west. Paradoxical as it may
seem all are right. Missouri is north
ern, southern, eastern, western. 1t is
more than that, it is central.
Missouri is classified incorrectly,
however, when it is called entirely
either southern, northern. eastern,
western. A southern state lies south
of Mason and DixOn's line, went into
the COnfederacy, always votes the
democratic ticket. suffers from race
question and raises cotton. Missouri
does none of those save that it raises
a little cotton which, as all Missouri
crops. is better than that grown any
where else in the republic. Northern
states are generally over -egotistical,
write their own histories and have snow
six months in the year. None of these
applies to Missouri. A western state is
new, chaotic and raw; an eastern state
is conservative to the point of dull
ness, inclines to five per cent and the
dinner habit. Missouri is between the
extremes. 1t is too old to be vet in
the lettuce stage and yet not old
enough to sit with folded hands in the
chimney corner.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1908-12-01
OUR NAVY YLEADS
IN SHOOTING

The American Navy leads the world
in accuracy of shooting; six years age
it was behind the navy of every first
class power. Six years ago the stand
ard for firing heavy turret guns
which are now battleship's sole
weapon of consequence in battle-was
once in five minutes; the average of
hits on the target now in use would
not be once an hour.
At present these guns fire an av
erage Of one and half shots min
ute: they hit the target once min
ute. Six years ago. the standard rate
of fire for siy-inch guns was less than
two shots a minute; as shown by the
tests of 1902 less than one shot in six
hit the target. Today these guns fire.
quently make as high as twelve hits
a minute. and the average of the
whole navy is six hits minute.
These are the records at the 1000
yard range. At the last long range
target practice in Massachusetts Bay.
the battleships of the North Atlantic
feet. firing at target from three to
five miles away, averaged nearly 30
per cent of hits.
With target one-third the size of
the ships at Santiago. at distances
from two to three times as great, our
fleet made more than fifteen times the
percentage of hits.-November Nc
Cmre's.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1908-12-01
UNIVERSITY CALENDAR

Dec. /. Lecture, Tone in Painting
DR.. John Pickard. Art room
Academic Hall, third floor. s
p. m.
Dec. 8, p. m, and Dec. 4, all day,
Oriental sale, l.. w. C. A.,
University auditorium.
Dec. 4. Lecture, John T. McCutcheon,
Auditorium
Dec. 5. NJ. S. U. Debating Society.
Jeffersonian Debating Society
Athenaean Literary Society.
Union Literary Society.
New Era Debating Club.
Dec. 10 and IL. Inauguration of Dr.
A. Ross Hill as President.
Dec. II. ''She Stoops to Conquer"
Dec. Is. Lecture, dorado Taft, Audito-
rum.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1908-12-01
Domestic Science Experiment.

As an experiment in domestic science
the University of Illinois has rented a
large house and half of it is furnished
according to present-day methods. and
the other according to the styles OF
grandmother days. Modern conve-
nienees of heating and cooking will be
gauged against the oldfashioned ways
of oil lamps. pump water. carpets on
soft pine floors and so on. Careful ac-
counts will be kept of expenses. time
consumed in preparation of food and so
OH to discover which is the more eco
nomical.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1908-12-01

The Atlantic fleet which left Hamp-
ton Roads. Va. Dee. l6. 1907. will
sail from Manila on the latter half of
its world encircling voyage to-day. The
officers and men of the fleet on
this trip around the world have been
lavishly entertained at every port
touched. Each government endeavored
to outdo the others in the welcome ex-
tended the visitors and the result has
been degree of official hospitality
seldom recorded. In Australian waters
the Americans were greeted by men of
their own race: in Japan and China
they saw the splendors of the Orient;
in South America they were accorded
the lavish hospitality of our Latin
neighbors and in the Mediterranean.
Southern Europe will turn out to do
them honor.
The circumnavigation of the globe by
sixteen American battleships is a feat
that has never before been equaled in
the history of the world. The success
fnl voyage of the fleet has shown to
the world what the United States navy
can do and it has been instrumental
in promoting good feeling between the
United States and the nations visited
by the feet. LEO r. SACK.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1908-12-01
HAS MISSOURI NEED
OF AN OFFICIAL FLAG? /?
Before Adopting Any More State Emblems.
Writer Sussests We Should Correctly
Use Those We Already Have.

| ing of the statute. Only one bear is
spoken of and that is called 'the white
or grizzly bear of Missouri"
Why it should call the grizzly
white is for us to explain if We can,
and if we can't explain it, We Ought
to let it 60 at that. We can see no
justification for calling the grizzly the
grizzly bear of Missouri" until we re-
member that, at the time the bounda-
ries of the state were so indefinite
that territory stretching south into
what is now Arkansas and westward
to the Rocky Mountains, was then
considered part of Missouri.
He was then in truth ''the grizzly
bear of Missouri" even though perhaps
few of the men who made up the first
general assembly had ever seen one of
his family. But these legislators could
scarcely have used their imaginations
to stretch even the indefinite bounda-
ries of that time so much that they
would include any part of the polar
home of the white bear
However, the seal is not what the
statute specifies that it shall be- The
position of the bear in the coat-of-
arms is counter passant instead of
passant as the statute demands. That
is, it faces the central line of division
instead of the other way. The coat
of-arms, as it appears in the seal Of
the University of Missouri, is correct.
In the book plate used by the Uni
versity library, not only does the bear
face the wrong way but also the hori-
zontal line that divides the right side
of the arms bisects it, instead of leav.
ing, as it should leave, one-third above
and two-thirds below. The crescent
also has been often printed out of pro-
portion to the other parts of the arms.
Missouri heraldry is a much muddled
affair but would it not be better for
us to learn how to rightly use the
emblems that we already have before
we consider the adoption of any more,
D. R. SCOTT.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1908-12-01
RIIS ON FAIRGROUNDS

Jacob Riis. who is to lecture here ir
the Y. NJ. c. A. course, talked about
Fairgrounds recently in Boston. Ht
told the Civic Conference there of New
Iork's trials in starting the play
grounds movement.
Mr.. Riis said that he was in at the
beginning of the movement, which had
spread all over the country. And il
is only a few years since the move
ment was laughed at as silly, imprac-
tical, sentimental, and worst of all as
not being in any sense educational.
principle of education.
Mr.. Riis said that it took some years
to drive this fact home and to get the
people in power in the Government to
see it. One mayor of New York face
tiOusly called the movement "vaude-
vile" and then gravely remarked that
vaudeville killed Rome" But the idea
kept growing in spite of the negative
as well as the positive opposition and
Mr.. Riis kept hammering away at it,
because as a newspaper man doing po-
lice headquarters work and work in
the courts he saw day after day youth
full criminals sent to Elmira and else
where-boys who were made criminals
from lack of Fairgrounds, from lack
of sunshine and from an environment
which reeked in crime and in
criminal possibilities. "Hell's Kitchen"
in the old Bowery district, was
infested with crime and criminals. 1t
was cleaned out, a little park was
opened and the sign keep off the
grass was not put up. Crime and
criminals disappeared when fresh air
and sunshine appeared. The lesson de-
rived from 'Hells Kitchen" was ap-
Piled to other sections of the city, with
equally satisfactory results.
So widespread has the movement be-
come. said the speaker, that more than
2CO cities have established public play
grounds within few years, and nearly
as many more are about to start. Out
in the Far Western State of Washing
ton there is even more enthusiasm over
than in any State in the
except Massachusetts, for it
must be borne in mind that Massachu-
setts leads the country in this matter
at present. What does all this
mean" exclaimed Mr.. Riis. 1T means
that as a republic we are beginning to
the necessity of giving all
'nr children fair start in life. If
child labor is not killed the manhood of
the country will die. You can't make
hall boy more than half a man. The
;hild of six who is put to work is
spent man at thirty. A boy without a
playground is the father of a man
without job" A number of instances
we're given of criminals seen during his
newspaper experience who had turned
'ut TO be good men when given a
nance. He said: "The day will come
yet, and l hope We may all live to see
t. when the prison door will be re-
garded as school door, and when in
tead of the word vengeance there
will be over the door the word .hope,'"
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1908-12-01

+. B. came home and for the first time
in our recollection he merely minced at
his dinner, and went right to bed. He
looked old in the morning. but it only
made us laugh at him and tell him to-
wait TIL he struck some of the rocks
OF business or professional life. These
smiles and tears of life's struggle come
along fast enough. We can't expect to.
make touchdowns every time we buck
the world; sometimes We are thrown
back for loss'
Courage.
''Then there is the absolute necessity
OF courage. There is no place on the
team for the one who stops to think
Of possible injury. A good player Is
fearless and thinks not of what NAV
happen to him. And facts show that
these fearless players are the ones
least often hurt. They must have the
honor of the school at stake, and for
get themselves in the s.ory they are
helping to win for the school, which at
every game is represented with yells
and colors and bravos to inspire and
rouse all the fighting spirit the team
possesses.
Cleanliness,
TO see the team after a hard game,
when the ground has been a bit soft,
tousled, grimy, bruised, faces deep
lined-that is time to repel, even dis
gust, novice or stranger to the mys-
t'ries Of football glOries. But when r. !
Il. appears at dinner after the daily
Shower bath and rub down at one Of
Soston's splsndidly equipped school !
Lmidlngs, we see that cleanliness must 2
he virtue to add to the long list OF
good things which football g. acts from
its devotees.
But some one says the dangers to
life and limb. A rough game means
certain possibilities, but F. B. has play
cd three years without an hours in-ys
jury, and none of his team have had
more than a temporary soreness.
Scholarship Must Be Maintained.
Several of the good men have been
laid off because of neglect of studies.
IL Is severe strain to make a man
work his hardest during the afternoon
IN practice and then face the harder
lessons at night. No weakling, physi.
al or mental, should undertake II.
Dun F. B. held up his scholarship -
hever before.
Physical perfection is the final
big residuum of the sea-
'on's strenuous effort. What could pos.:
'ibiy compare with the training ard
PREPARATION the boys have gone through
With to fit them for the hard work Of
chool through the winter F. b
ONES out of the season in prime con,
lltion for the hardest kind of tacklins
md protracted endeavor, with Lam
'uages, physics and mathematics.
Thus we gladly pay our tribute e s.
he great game which is doing SO muck
or developing our young men physie-
lily and morally, preparing them IT,
ne hard grinding battles of cod g
ays."
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1908-12-01

The New York World which recently
published the much commented upon
interview given DIR. William Bayard
Hale by the German Emperor, has sent
an apology to Prince Won BuelOw, I'm
perial Chancellor of Germany. The
World believed at the time that it pub
lished the interview, that it was pub
fishing an authentic story. Later events
showed that the interview" was not
reliable.
The New York World in apologizing
publicly and privately to Chancellor
Won Buelow, reflects credit on itself
and upon the American press in gen.
eral. The apology shows that the Am
erican newspaper is willing to make
amends for the publishing of false
news.
The Worlds apology is:
prince Won Buelow, Imperial Chan
cellOr, Berlin-After painstaking inves
tigation the New York World finds no
convincing basis of fact for it's pub
lished synopsis of the Hale interview
with his Majesty, the German Emperor.
1t accepts your verdict that the alleged
interview ascribed to the Emperor stu
pidly absurd words which he cannot
have uttered. As matter of simple
Justice to the German Emperor and the
German people, the World will print an
editorial Monday morning expressing
its sincere regret at the publication of
synopsis which it regards as mislead-
ing and mischievOus.
1T was an honest mistake, commit
ted merely through overzeal, without
the knowledge of the proprietor or chief
editor, and so late at night that the
article did not appear in the first edi
ton. Proof of the synopsis sent to the
author of the interview had been cor
rected in his own handwriting. and this
was naturally accepted as evidence that
the articles as printed was personally
approved by him."
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1908-12-01
Basketball at California, Mo.

To the Editor Of the University Missourian:
Basketball is the favorite game with
the California high school boys and
girls. We have good teams in both
associations. Our boys have played
three matched games and were victors
in all three. The Thanksgiving game
was the most interesting. 1t was a
spirited game with the Missouri State
Deaf basketball team of Fulton.
The girls have played two matched
games and were victOrs in both.
We do not put athletics first by any
means in our school but find our bas-
ketball players among our very best
students. C. B. HUDSON,
Superintendent of California,
Mo-, Public Schools.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1908-12-01
In Football Times,

Now the college boy gets gay
And noisily celebrates.
Would that he'd be the cub that cheers
But not inebriates.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1908-12-01

scales. And these fellows valued theil
bigness until a little team from a dis
tance-which we notice has not beer
baten this season-came along and
they lined up against the elephants
But the little fellows were full ot
chain lightning. Under, over, and
around they went, starting their plays
with a jump, and every man in the
bunch helping the fellow with the ball
They formed magnificent interference
and kept things moving with a speed
the big fellows did not think was pos
sible. Our F. B. found that more than
weight is needed for success, at least
on the gridiron. To follow the ball,
to see where it is going, to anticipate
plays, to break through interference
cne must be alert, with eyes in the
back of his head and . thinker in
that head to- decide and act in q fash
Especially must one be alert in falling
on the ball. Some one drops it and
the victory may all depend on getting
the pigskin- It takes quickness to do
it.
"Fumbling, when everything else IA
vors, is often disastrous. Too great
eagerness of one or two, in starting too
soon, results in penalty of twenty
yards or more of lost ground. Every
thing counts, and the one weak spot
in the line will soon be found out and
hammered for gains and, therefore,
victory.
Endurance.
What a splendid lesson F. B. has
learned in that virtue! His team has
been defeated but once in fifteen games.
And this quality of endurance has been.
among many, the biggest factor. Other
years this team has started out well.
but not till this season has it been
able to hold out through the last five
minutes of play. Game after game has
shown this F. BIS team stronger on
wind 1 do not know what the coach
has done, but he has put the boys
through some disciplining which has
meant Never say die He says be-
tween the halves, Boys, you've got to
VIM And they do win. Hard as
nails every one of them, and their wind
IS like that from pair of patent bel
ows, which blows on both the up and
!own stroke. Always the other team
S the most exhausted, and always at
.he end OF the game our boys come off
resh. Nothing spectacular has been
aught. but steady forcing of the
opponents yard after yard, keeping it
;p and keeping it up, till the goal has
zen passed. One important game was
Son. with very few seconds left, all
because of the splendid form of the
'oys in ceaselessly keeping at it to the
inish.
oys OF Victory and Sorrows of Defeat
Both Of these have been important
ess"ns. +. B. had ride with another
ne Of the team on the shoulders of the |
oys frcn the grounds to the dressing
Dom. Then there was a defeat which |
aused some of the boys to shed tears
nd look as if the skies had fallen
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1908-12-01

The negotiation of a treaty between
the United States and Japan has just
been completed. The treaty" as it is
called, is a declaration of the policies
and purposes of this country in the
Orient. More particularly it is decla-
ration of the policies and purposes of
Japan, with the necessary mOdifica-
tion that they are the policies and
purposes of the latter so far as they
may be indicated by official pronounce
ment and by open authoritative con-
duct towards the matters mentioned
and defined. The treaty will be bind
ing both upon the United States and
Japan.
The new treaty is a fitting climax
to the interchange of pleasant greet
ings between this country and Japan
while our fleet was in japanese ports
and gives the two countries something
more binding than mere word of mouth.
The treaty is regarded by the French
press as a master stroke of diplomacy
for the two countries.
The London papers are all well sat
isfied with the treaty, because it re-
moves England from what would be
delicate position in case of trouble be-
tween the United States and Japan.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1908-12-01
VIEWPOINTS

(The University Missourian invites contri-
buttons. not to exceed 200 words. on matters
of University interest The name Of the
writer should accompany such letters, but will
not be printed unless desired. The Univer-
sity Missourian does not express approval nor
disapproval Of these communications BY print
ing them)
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1908-04-25
Take Notice.

Lexington, Mo, March II, 1908.
Notice to all who owe delin-
quent back taxes personal and
real):-
You are hereby notified that
the back tax books for both delin-
quent personal and real property
have been turned over to me for
suit against all delinquents, and
under and by order of the county
court, and the collector, suit viii
be absolutely brought against all
who owe delinquent personal tax
es before some justice of peacein
their respective townships after
May the first 1908, also suit will
be brought against all who owe
back taxes on real estate after
May 1, 1908 for the August term
of the circuit court.
So please call and settle all
delinquent back taxes before May
l, 1908 and save costs and ex-
penses.
This notice applies to you,
hence avail yourself of the oppor-
tunity of settling before May /,
1908 and save costs and ex.
penses.
Look at your tax receipts and
see if you are delinquent.
Nofurther notice will be given,
but suit will surely be brought
after May 1, 1908.
CLARENCE VIvIoN,
Back Tax Attorney.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1908-04-25

dawn in the dull eyes Of the poems
and watched the insolent coquetry
Of Spain mingle with the stolid saw
agery Of the Indian women?
/ was there that night and l saw
when Manuel and Lyzette began to
love each other. Saw? / see it yet /!
Can a woman forget when the man
she loves gives his eyes and lips to
another? But it was her fault. She
wooed him openly, shamelessly, and
he? All, men are SO weak, so weak,
Senorita We women can but for
givel Besides, he never truly loved
her. 1t was but a few short months
he even pretended to; and II l for
got her when he came back to me.
I did not expect that Lyzette
would die but / was glad, glad when
they told me she was dead. 1t was
only when / saw her father, old
Pedro, as he came for the priest to
bury Lyzette aud her child that l be-
gan to be afraid.
Commonly, Mexicans do not waste
much affection on their daughters,
What was there about Lyzette, with
her devils heart, that her father
should especially love her? Was he
the only man with but one childf
And if Lyzette did die in shame
and agony and despair, what then
For to what are women born but
love and suffering?
How then, did she dare to curse
my love, as she lay dying? Did she
not know that the curses of the dying
are heard in Heaven? Or did she
never truly love him? For II
would have given Gods peace that
he might be- happy even in her
arms
So Pedro buried Lyzette and bel