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University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1908-10-02
VALUE OF ATHLETICS.

Intercollegiate athletics furnishes the
student community with its heroes. In
this materialistic age hero worship has
been swept away into the trash heap of
last century's ideals. But it is essential
to the temperament of the growing
youth that he have ideals and that he
have heroes to embOdy the ideals. II
is necessary even for university to
have physical heroes. In the few univer
stiles where athletics is of secondary
interest, the atmosphere has become
too academic. The greasy grind has
become the university type. Athletics
interferes with that anomaly. The foot
ball hero turns us back in measure to
the Greek ideal of a university. The
gymnasia. where the Greek youth was
sent to become a well developed man,
forms a contrast to the university of
today. To make the man fine animal
was its first object; training his mind
came second. Primarily. he was taught
how to live, what time he had left was
devoted to the cultivation of his mind.
Our ideal of university is reversed.
Puny Phi Beta kappas are often the
result. intercollegiate athletics help to
furnish more than any phase of univer
sity life the golden mean between the
Greek gymnasia and the modern Ameri-
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1908-10-02

The University Assembly on Tuesdays
and Thursdays is one of the most i'm
portant events at the University. Ever!
program is valuable either for instruc
tion or entertainment. Some of the pro-
grams are so interesting that the audi
torium would be filled if an admission
price were charged. The fact that any
University student who has laboratory
period in the morning must work dur
ing Assembly keeps some away. The
only excuse University students with
this hour free can give for failure to at
tend is Indifference to their best inter
ests
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1908-10-02
Promotion of Otis.

To the Editor of the University Missourian:
1t is excusable if the powers that be
in the military department wish to pro-
mote over his brother officers any man
who has taken an active interest in the
various department hops, but when it
comes to making second lieutenant out
of high private in the rear rank" it
looks as if the military department has
adopted the new system of additional
credits on scale of geOmetrical pro-
gression. The fact that Merrill Otis was
last year voted the most popular man
in the University does not 60 to show
that the competent sergeants of last
year who are still sergcants will rejoice
with him because of his extraordinary
promotion.
DISINTERESTED
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1908-10-02
VIEWPOINT OF
THE STUDENTS
Maybe It's The Bracing Weather.

To the Editor of the University Missourian:
There is noticeable change among
the students this week. Study instead
of play is the dominant feature. Those
who have been suffering from homesick-
ness are beginning to brighten up and
take an interest i'm their surroundings.
The men on Rollins Field are getting
over their stiffness and are beginning
to put vim into every play of their
muscles. The weather. the church sOcials
and politics are doing their best to make
the students enjoy life this fall. All
in all. Missouri seems to be entering on
the most successful year in its history.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1908-10-02

The news that Prof. II. Wade Hibbard
has been appointed to ill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of Prof. A. NJ
Greene Jr., in the school of engineering
is welcome to the students in that de-
partment. The resignation of Prof.
Greene to take up a more lucrative posi-
ton was blow to the engineering
school; and it was feared that his place
would be difficult to fill. Prof. Hibbard,
however, is competent and able man.
He will be a valuable addition to the
faculty.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1908-10-02
COLUMBIA WOMAN IN
WAR ON IMPURE MILK
Mrs. Walter McNab Miller. Authority on Pure
Food. Opposes Theory That a Large Death
Rate Among Infants Improves Race

Almost twenty-five per cent of al
american children die below the agt
of one year. This death rate has grown
so much larger in this country than in
others that economists are making
detailed study of the cause
Mrs. Walter McNab Miller, of Colum-
bia, has made close study of the
milk supply of the United States and
has found that SS.7 per cent of the
babies fed on ordinary market milk
die in their first year. Mrs. Miller.
chairman of the National Pure Food
Committee, read paper before the
Missouri HOusekeepers' Conference As
sOciatiOn, in which the need of milk
supervision is clearly set forth.
Mrs. Miller opposes the theory that a
large death roll among infants improves
the human race. The same cause that
kills many children leaves others in a
weakened condition. 1t is by 10 means
a question of the survival of the fittest
Scientists Don't Agree.
Scientists have not vet agreed as to
the effect of preservatives upon milk.
FOrmaldehyde will keep the milk
sweet, but it also has a deleteriOus
effect in that it aids in concealing the
dirt and filth that the milk may con-
.aIn.
Most authorities agree that heat, cold
and cleanliness are the best preserva-
tives. Ordinary market milk is often
filthy. Dirt gets into the milk from the
stables. the cows. the mixers. recep-
tacles, insects and impure water. This
rnclean milk gives rise to tuberculosis,
scarlet and typhoid fevers and other in
fection. A large part of disease is con-
tracted in this way.
Mrs. Miller urges Americans to 90 to
Denmark for a model method of con-
Quoting dairies. Some thirty years ago
Mr.. Busck's attention was drawn to
dairy products by the refusal of a dis
tillery in Denmark to sell his workmer
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1908-10-02

milk because he didn't buy his spirits
there" He then began an investigation
that revealed the true condition of the
milk supply in Denmark, where there
was no control over the cattle, the Ia
bOrers or the adulteration or contamina-
tiOn of milk.
Mr.. Busck was philanthrOpist. He
conceived the idea of improving the milk
supply and formed an association to
carry out his plans. All over five per
cent of the profits were to be used in
reducing the price of the milk to the
consumers. His associates were noted
scientists and experimenters. Certain
regulations were adopted by the associ
alton and rigidly enforced. One of the
most important provided for an in
spection of every COW by veterinarian
at least once in every two weeks. He
made report on cleanliness, quality of
feeding and general treatment and es-
pecially looked for any disease which
affects the animal.
The farmers who were in the assOcia-
tiOn were under contract to report any
case of sickness i'm herd or wOrkmen and
to refrain from using milk from any
suspected COW. Any workman who was
ill or who had sickness in his family
was isolated. In order the better to
carry out these regulations, the isolated
workman received full pay and the as
sociation gave full price for the unused
milk. This took away any incentive to
fraud.
This milk was sold as follows: Whole
milk, 20 cents per gallon; half SKINNED
milk, 10 cents per gallon; cream, No.
l, SIPS per gallon; cream, No. 2, Is
cents per gallon. These prices would be
much higher in this country if as much
care were taken in handling the milk.
At double the price, in Mrs. Miller's
opinion, such milk would be as cheap
food as many doctors bills. and fun
eral expenses, sad hearts and empty
homes would be lessened.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1908-10-02

THE State University of Missouri. at
Columbia. has just put widely
mooted proposal into practice by
the establishment of a School of Jour
ralism, coordinate with its schools of
law, medicine. engineering, and agricul-
ture. The plan is the outcome of long
period of deliberation: it was accepted
in principle several years ago, and dur
ing the past three years arrangements
have been begun for the establishment
Of the new department, while newspaper
writers of reputation have been address
ing classes preparing to enter upon a
journalistic career. The new school
will produce results interesting to all
who are watching the attempt to place
journalism upon scientific footing
Harper's Weekly.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1908-10-02

NIUMBER |. Volume l. of the Uni
N versity MissOurian is off the press.
1t is the newspaper published
by the new school of journalism of the
University of Missouri.
The first number of the paper is neat
in appearance and shows care in editing.
While it is not of the yellow variety
it is not ultra conservative. 1t is good
example of the everyday newspaper so
dear to the heart of the American pub
lie. 1t is not inclined to ''cOver up
anything. 1t contains an article about
the investigation of the keeper of the
city Jail in Columbia. where the paper is
published. one about two suits for the
purpose of keeping Columbia playhouse
dark" and another local story about
leap year causing suit for failure to
we'd" 1t plays up wreck on page l
and tells story of man who sees
through the grated eye of a rabbit. 1t
contains some interesting feature stO-
ries. including one which declares Eu-
gene Field was the first editor of the
University.
One note of interest is that the sub
scriptiOn is absolutely in advance" The
print paper used is of such fine quality
that to run off one edition on it would
almost bankrupt metropolitan paper.
Taken all around the University Mis-
souran is very creditabe product
st. Joseph Gazette.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1908-10-02
MISSOURI'S RATIO NOT HIGH.

Interesting figures and comparisons
relating to the ratio of students to
teachers in American colleges may bt
found in Bulletin Number = of The
Carnegie Foundation for the Advance
ment of Teaching The proportion OF
students to teachers ranges from four
to one at Clark University to twenty
five to one at Drake. Missouri Uni
versity in company with Kansas Uni
versity, Iowa, Purdue, Amherst and
Wesleyan, occupies the middle divis-
ion with a ratio of thirteen to one.
Twenty-one colleges, including Columbia
University, Leland Stanford, Cornell,
and the University of North Carolina
have a ratio of ten to one. Yale has
a ratio of eleven to one. One of the
strongest groups, including Princeton,
Harvard. Michigan and Pennsylvania.
has ratio of eight to one.
1t is, OF course. impossible to state
definitely what constitutes an ideal ra-
tio, as that depends upon the purpose of
the school and upon the quality and
ability of both students and instructors.
However. something is evidently wrong
when institutions doing similar work
vary so greatly in their ratio of stu
dents to teachers.
As a rule eligibility is, and should
be, the only restriction placed upon the
number of students and tie number of
instructors is dependent upon the none
tary allowance for that purpose. Few
if any institutions have all the financial
support they need. Obviously some sac
rifice must be made. Shall that sacri-
fee be in the size or efficiency OF the
staff employed! Surely for the greater
part it should be in the size of the staff.
Two $4,000 men are as rule better
than four $1,000 men and the stand
ard of work is higher even though the
two men have classes of thirty each a,
against the four having classes of fif-
teen.
Too often the development of an in
stitution is along the line of ever add
ing new though unimpOrtant courses,
even at the cost of deterioration in es
tablished branches. Progress is desir-
able but expansion is not necessarily
progress. Adding the Department of
Journalism to Missouri University |
marks the school as progressive and |
puts it in line with the plans of the |
foremost educators of today. We would
not recommend, however. that salaries
in Romance Language, for example, be
reduced in order that new teacher be
added to offer courses in Syriac or Ice
landic, even though that would be ex
pansion.
Missouri University now has ratio
of thirteen to one which is low as com
pared with other great Universities.
The economy of the future should be
in the addition of new teachers and the
in getting men of the high
est efficiency. The labor should be in
solving the problem of the distribution
of instructors so that the ratio of thir-
teen to one will not be so far from
the ratio which will exist in the class
room.
Then watch Missouri grow.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1908-10-02
ABOUT SCHOOLS
OF JOURNALISM
@AN journalism be taught. Greeley
I not only dismissed the sugges-

I~AN journalism be taught, Greeley
, not only dismissed the sugges-
tinn contemptuOusly as unworthy
of consideration, but even went SO far
as TO decry the academic training of
the intellect and he prayed for deliv-
erance from those horned cattle, the
college graduates" The scholarly Dana
also maintained that the only success
full school of journalism is a newspaper
Office: and this. | suspect, would be
found upon inquiry to be the opinion
of practically all journalists now in the
front rank. with one notable eNcep
ton. But will the common saying that
journalist is born, not made stand
the test OF analysis: Is it any more
than assertion. Has any one ever tried
to demonstrate its truth by process of
reasoning, or could one hope to sue
ceed in such an attempt in these days
of wider and freer intellectual devel-
Opment in the universities! True. the
familiar declaration that journalism
cannot be taught as surgery or engin-
eering is taught seems plausible. but
is it indeed the fact: We may grant
that certain technical knowledge re-
specting the mechanical construction
of newspaper can be derived most
easily. if not solely. from actual eX
perience: but that experience can be
obtained as well without as within
newspaper Office if the facilities be af
fOrded. This form of proficiency, more
over, is of the smallest comparative
value, and bears a relationship to the
practice of journalism as profession
hardly closer than the ability to con-
duct an advertising department. Sure
ly. too. one can be taught how to write,
edit, think, even how to perceive, as
readily i'm college as in a newspaper
of the latter being that-Of inestima-
BILE value. to- be sure-which is derived
from enforced practice: but even this
cannot be regarded as unattainable, if
the mental energy and ingenuity said
to be exercised by some undergraduates
in striving to avoid work could he di-
verted into other channels.
Journalism can never be history; its
activities deprive. it of the
of scientific inquiry. 1t |
cannot even be the rounded truth, since
the necessity of prompt presentation of
what seems to be fact renders impossi-
bic the gathering and weighing of all
evidence which bears upon an event that |
must be chronicled. As a purveyOr of
what we call news. the newspaper can
not present daily photograph happen
ngs: it can only give picture. imper-
iect because painted by fallible beings.
As guide, it must form opinions and
pronounce Judgment Instantly: the delay
IF day or even an hour at times
would be fatal to full effectiveness.
Hence the necessity for the most com
,lete and finished mental training: and
where pray. can we look for the build
NJ of thoroughbred minds if not to
he university :-George IIarvcry, Editor
iarper's Weekly.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1908-10-02

n ICIIARD H. JESSE, Ii. d., former
II president of the University of Mis-
souri,. is pleased with the showing
made in the Department of journalism.
and has high expectations of it's future
results.
THE number of students enrolled in
the Department of Journalism is larger
than ! had expected" said DIR. Jesse. Il
read the University Missourian every
day. 1t is a bright, newsy paper. and
is evidence of the good work being done
by the department.
There never has been doubt i'm my
mind as to the success of a department
of journalism. Certainly the University
cannot make journalists, any more than
it can make doctors. or lawyers. or en-
9ineers. But the training which it gives
furnishes the foundation on which a
man or woman may become journalist.
The newspaper man should have the
broadcast education. He is called upon
to write on a great variety of sub
iects, touching almost every phase of
human activities. He is a teacher of the
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1908-10-02

people. The Department of Journalism
and the Teachers College are sister
institutions.
Il understand that some newspaper
men have criticised the idea of teaching
journalism in the University Criti-
cism of similar character was directed
against universities and colleges when
they first began to teach law, medicine,
engineering. and agriculture. The critics
of the Department of Journalism will
soon find themselves in the same posi-
tion as are the critics of the other de-
partments. The University can train
for any line of work which requires
reason and intellect. If there be no sci
ence to journalism, then it cannot be
taught; but if there is a science to Jour
nalism and fundamental principles un-
DERIVING it, then most assuredly it can
be taught.
1t will be only short time. think,
until it will be essential that the sue
cessful applicant for position on
metropolitan paper have special training
for newspaper work"
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1908-10-02

Mrs II. L. Holland, of 7Ol Maryland
place. entertains this afternoon at five
hundred. Those invited are:
Mesdames F. W. Neidermeyer. Stock
ton Dorsey, j. H. Guitar, J. II. Crews
Turner Gordon, S. A. Smoke, Joe Estes
J. ID. Ellif, and guest, Mrs. Cohn, of
New lork; Mrs. Odell, of CarrOlIton.
Misses Clara Hickman, Ida Howard.
Rho Crews, Mamie Campbell, Eva John
ston, and guest from Germany, Stella
Strawn, and guest, Miss Chamberlain.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1908-10-02

can university. Therefore let us con-
tinue to bow in alteration before our
Eckersalls and our AndersOns. They
more than faculty or students make the
University sane place in which to live.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1908-10-02
SOCIETY

THE marriage of Miss Elsie Estelle
McClOud. of York. Neb.. to Mr.. Viii
liam Thompson Conley, of the Cen
tral Bank here. will be sOlemnized at
the home of the brides parents. Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Albion McClOud. Thurs
day evening, Oct. Is. at $3.50 O'Clock.
Mr. and Mrs. COnley will be at home
after Nov. 10, at IA Maryland place.
Columbia.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1908-10-02

The girls of the Y. w. c. A. house
are at home this afternoon to the adj
visOry committee and some of the wOm-
en- of the churches who have taken a
great interest in furnishing this home
for the association.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1908-10-02

The Delta Tau Delta Fraternity gave
a pretty informal dance last evening at
their new chapter house on Rollins
street. About twenty-five couples were
present. The programs We're hand
painted. w. A. Hammer, of AIOberly
furnished music
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1908-10-02

Miss Estelle Anderson will entertain
the chatting dish club tomorrow after
noon in honor of Miss Agnes Talbot. of
Fayette, who is visiting Miss Adele
Fleming.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1908-10-02

Frank J. Bullivant, Eng, 'O7. of ST.
Louis, is visiting at the Delta Tau
House this week. He was formerly cap
tain of a cadet company and was Al
member of Tau Beta Pi, the honorary
Engineering Society.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1908-10-02

Mrs. c. w. Greene will entertain the
members of the cabinet of the Y. w. C..
4. at dinner tomorrow evening.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1908-10-02

Miss Babb, state secretary of the Y.
W. c. A, will be in Columbia from
Monday until Friday next week.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1908-10-02

Miss Mabel Turpin and Miss Birdseye
are visiting at the ri Beta Phi house.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1908-10-02

The Tuesday Club will meet Tuesday
afternoon at 2:30 o'clock in Fishers
Chapel of the Presbyterian church.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1908-10-02

The UNIVERSITY MISSOURIAN is on
sale at the Drug Shop at two cents
copy.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-07-01
Peculiar Ceremony Believed by Many
to Be Legal.

Secondhand marriages." said q
clergyman to Philadelphia Bulletin
writer, are believed legitimate and
binding by many ignorant people. In
fact, during my slum work, found a
number of worthy couples who
claimed to have been married second
hand. OF course, such marriages have
no existence in Law.
ITO marry secondhand, you and
your lady attend an actual wedding,
and silently make the responses which
the real bride and bridegroom make
aloud.
Secondhand marriages are popular
on account of their cheapness-they
save all fees. Their secrecy is another
great advantage-nonec can find them
out. In fact, everybody would prob
ably marry secondhand, but for the
unfortunate fact that the ceremony
doesn't legally hold"
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-07-01

The profit Of gold mine depends,
not on the amount Of rock crushed un-
der the stamps but upon the amount of
gold which can be extracted from the
rock. In similar way the value of
food which is eaten does not depend
on the quantity which is taken into the
stomach but upon the amount Of nOur-
ishment extracted from it by the organs
Of nutrition and digestion. When
these organs are diseased they tail to
extract the nourishment in sufficient
quantities to supply the needs Of the
several organs Of the body. and these
organs cannot work without nourish-
ment. The result is heart trouble"
liver trouble" and many another all
ment DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery, acting on every organ Of
the digestive and nutritive system. re-
stores it to health and vigor. 1t cures
diseases remote from the stomach
through the stomach in which they
originated, Golden Medical Discov-
cry" contains neither alcohol narcotics
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-07-01
st. Peters at Rome,

From the beginning Of the founda-
ton to the time when st. Peters
could be said to be complete, three
and half centuries had elapsed, Is
architects had been employed, and 40
popes had reigned. The cost of the
great church can never be known with
exactness. At the end of the seven
teenth century it had cost $4,000, 900,
without including the sacristy bell,
towers, etc. The last important work
on the edifice was done by Pope Plus
TX, on the four hundredth anniversary
Of the birth of Michael Angelo.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-07-01
CD. BURHANS TESTITES AFTER
FOUR YEARS.

g. B. Burhans. Of Carlisle Center
N. r., writes. About four years ago
! wrote you stating that | had been en-
tirely cured Of severe kidney trouble
BY taking less than two bottles Of Fol-
ey's Kidney Care. Il entirely stopped
the brick dust sediment, and pain and
symptoms Of kidney disease disappear
ed. | am glad to say that | have never
had return Of any Of those symptoms
during the four years that have clasp
ed and | am evidently cured to stay
cured, and heartily recommend FoIey's
Kidney Cure. to any one sufeaing
from kidney Or bladder trouble Sold
BY all dealers.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-07-01

The name proposed as a substitute
for the present commonplace title d
Sixteenth street in Washington, d. G.
Is the Avenue OF the Presidents. II
this some persons object because Of
it's length.
How would they like to import q
few street names from China, where
such poetic titles yas the following are
ia vogue:
STREET. Of Golden Profits, strost Of
Benevolence and Love, Street 81 Ever.
lasting Love, Street Of Longevity,
street OF One Hundred Grandsons.
Street OF One Thousand Grandsons'
Street Of salutlng Dragons, street Of
the RepOslng Dragons, street y ~.
freshing Breezes. Street Of swespIne
Beatitudes. Street 81 Z ThousandfoId
Peace Street of Five Happln estes.
Street Of Ten Thousand HapplnensSn.
Street Of Manifold Brightness ana
Street oe Accumulated ooodneoa