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University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-03-11
THE PRESS AND THE LAW.

The press is the unpaid tribunal that
stands superior to departments of just
ice, and all the instrumentalities OF
law" said Josephus Daniels, editor of
North Carolina paper, in an address
before the National Editorial associa-
ton.
This is true statement. 1t is pub
licity that prevents crime, publicity
that causes the punishment of the
criminal. The modern criminal works
only when he thinks his deeds are a
secret. The newspaper opposes Sc
crecy. 1t is here that crime and news.
papers clash, the paper becoming a
foe to the lawbreaker.
Tie power OF the press as applied
to law enforcement and obedience is
best shown by the efforts to suppress
news. lS vi every SuCCSSSt
newspaper is filled with attempts to
suppress stories of bribe, graft, or
theft. This is because the papers
reach the people and appeal to public
opinion, while the law breaker shuns
il.
But it is not the iawbrealer alone
that fears the newspaper. The per-
sons whose duty is to enforce laws are
held TO their duty by the agent of pub
licity. They know any attempt to con-
ceal lawlessness will be told by the
press. 1t is this force that makes the
better newspapers an unpaid tribunal
superior to departments of justice.
The press is check to both court and
crime
Publicity is the strong arm of law
enforcement. The press is the one
great agent for publicity
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-03-11
Wants an Accounting.

To the Editor Of the University Missourian:
In November - more than three
months ago-the Athletic Committee
solicited contributions from students
and faculty members of the university
to help pay Roper's salary. No public
accounting has been made of the
money thus obtained.
Why this policy of secretiveness?
No one, believe, questions the integ-
rity of the Athletic Committee. But
that does not relieve the committee
from the obligation of making known
the exact disposition of the money
collected last November. The students
stood by the committee last fall. Now
let the committee play fair with the
students.
Last year was born the New Mis-
souri, Spirit" and everybody worked in
harmony for the good of the team. Re
suit: Missouri IL, Kansas G. Is the
Athletic Committee, by Withholding an
accounting to which the public is en-
titled, trying to undo the good work
that was done last year?
I'VE ask to know?"
ONE WHO CONTRIBUTED.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-03-11
THE UNKNOWN FUTURE.

Scientists have advanced theories as
to the probable life on this earth a
hundred years hence. Even these
theorists have not failed to estimate
the Importance which electricity will
bear to the future life here.
The uses of electricity today are
only in their primary stages. Despite
the fact that man has s:ibdued this
wonderful power. he knows pTacticall.
little OF its comings and goings.
Mans superiority over this force
is seen in the latest inventions of this
age. The wireless telegraph is per-
laps the greatest of these. This may
be only the first step toward COM
n,unication with the other planets.
The future may make this practicable
Recent experiments with electricity
have proven it's usefulness in directing
submarine ships. By the aid of a
strong electric current it is possible
to direct the course of a vessel from
shore. Such experiments with elec.
tricity make it all the more interesting
to surmise the possible inventions of
the future. At present the knowledge
which we have of electricity is limited.
The future alone holds the secrets of
It's further development.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-03-11

The dean of the Bible College has
just given a series of lectures on the
problems of the country church and
the Bible School. The new dean of
the School of Education will conduct
a class on Sunday schools and Sunday
school teaching. An expert in the
College of Agriculture has large
class in poultry raising. The depart.
nent of Home Economics is teaching
students how to cook, care for babies,
and furnish home. If Missouri will
not have better attended churches and
better trained Sunday school teachers
sat chickens in the back yards, neat
and strong babies in the homes. it is
not the fault of the churches and
schools at Columbia.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-03-11
NEWSPAPER FOE TO IGNORANCE.

The part Of the modern newspaper
IS aptly told by Victor Rosewatar, ed
or OF the Omaha Bee, in an address
before the University of Nebraska
lis address, The Combat with u
"orance,' reviews the development OF
lie modern paper, and the light it is
.a!,ing for more truth.
The mission of the newspaper .''
said Mr.. Rosewater, lis broadening
the area of popular intelligence and
helping along the triumph of truth
over ignorance.
ignorance comes from a lack of
understanding or knowing humanity in
action and thought. The modern
newspaper is the register of all human
activities. 1t is a record of thought.
IT'S cheapness makes it easily obtained
! everybody, and its nature is such
hat it forces itself upon one. 1t has
IS faults, but it endeavors to maintain
level of popular intelligence. Before
,he coming of printing newspaper
knowledge was confined to few. The
asses were ignorant because they
,ould not get at the sources of intelli-
-ence. The newspaper reaches these
,cople, gives them the story of human
activity, and awakens in them the
.'cwer Of thought.
me modern newspaper, as cham
ION OF individual liberty, an awakener
+ public opinion and swift COM
unicant of all activities, is a real
-oe to ignorance.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-03-11

through his settled position in a local
ity is in a better position to exert good
influences for the university from
which he was graduated.
Throughout the State of Missouri
there are hundreds of graduates of the
university, many of whom have not
given serious thought or action since
the day they were graduated, in regard
to what they might do to help their
alma mater. In but few places are
the alumni organized efficiently to aid
the university. Banquets are given
in various parts of the state but many
of these only show the lack OF interest
taken by the majority of graduates il
the community.
Alumni of the University of Missouri
should organize They should get to-
gether regularly, and earnestly take
steps to help the university. 1t is
from them that good must come. If
the state is to experience an awaken
ing to the needs of its university they
must help in the awakening.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-03-11

\ news item two years hence, when
the new street railroad is being built
n Columbia. might read as follows:
"Laborers tearing up Ninth street for
the tracks of the new railway today
we're surprised after digging two feet
0 find well-laid brick pavement. ~
Better clean the streets now.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-03-11
Announcements.

Beginning Monday, March IA. the
time and place at which university
students may consult DR.. Woodson
Moss for free medical examination
and advice will be changed as fol
lows: Monday, Wednesday and Fri
day, 4:30 p. m, for men, and Tuesday
and Thursday for women. The place
will be at the hospital, under the
amphitheater, entrance on the south
side
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-03-11

There is a bright spot in the dark
ness of the high prices. The Home
Economics department of the uniyer-
Sitv is teaching students how to pur-
chase for and to furnish the home
economically.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-03-11
Notes of Society.

Miss Ruth Robertson and Miss Marie
Rose, both of Mexico, Mo-, are visit
ing in Columbia for few days. They
cane to attend dinner-dance to be
given at the Delta Tau Delta fraternity
house tonight.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-03-11
CALENDAR AND
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Calendar

March u - Women's basketball
,anes.
March l.. Pref. George Lefevre on
evolutionary Zoology at assembly.
March list. Patrick's Day.
March 19 - Women.s basketball
games.
April 1 - Pan-Hellenic baseball
games begin.
March 21-Spring football practice
begins.
April 7-Quarterly meeting of Board
If Curators.
May 80 to June Final eXamina-
ions.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-03-11

NapoleOn's feat of crossing the Alps
with an army is nothing compared
with the feat performed by a Co.
lun,bia mother who manages to get
down town over the complicated street
crossings with a baby carriage
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-03-11

Tie return of spring weather would
indicate that some poor freshman engi.
neer will soon get padded for cutting
across the campus instead of walking
around
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-03-11

Sixty-eight letters which have been
delayed for a period of four years
were recently delivered in Paterson,
n. J. Columbia offers the right hand
Of sympathy and fellowship.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-03-11

The Deep Waterways Commission
might interview the Martians on how
they got their appropriations for their
canals.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-03-11

\ Harvard professor says that a
T-2l can live on twenty cents day.
But he neglects to explain how many
cas-.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-03-11
ALUMNI SHOULD ORGANIZE.

IN every university of any Importance
tie organization of the alumni is one
CT the strongest factors in establishing
the standing of the university. In the
large Eastern universities more promi-
nence is given the alumnus than the
undergraduate. The graduate student
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-03-11
VIEWPOINTS

THE University Missourian invites contribu-
tions on matters of University and Columbia in
terest The name of the writer shou d accompany
such letter, but will not be printed Mess de-
sired
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-03-11

NICELY FURNISHED FRONT
roon. for rent, with or without board
1906 Walnut street.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-03-11

TO RENT-LARGE, NICELY FUR
nished room with alcove; southern ant
eastern exposure; suitable for two OF
four; $12 per month; good table boarc
at 81 per week. COL s. 5th st.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-03-11

LOST MONDAY-A GENTLEMAN
slipper, knit of red and gray wool. Re-
turn to Mrs. McGiil, 1915 Hudson ave.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-03-11

FOR RENT-TWO ROOMS, NICELY
furnished, in modern house, one block
from Broadway; gentleman only.
1G1 S 9Th St Mrs. G. NJ. Perkins.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-03-11

FOR LE-SECOND-HAND DIN
ing table, IL feet long. Delta Tau
Delta house Phone sos.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-03-11
CLASSIFIED ADS.

NICE ROOM WITH BOARD Fol
2 or 3 young ladies; also table board
$40 Turner ave.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-03-11

DESIRABLE ROOM AND BOARD
for two young ladies; adjoining
campus. 306 S. 9th St.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-03-11

WANTED-THREE GENTLEMEN
"oomers at 906 Lowry St. Clean. light
rooms. half block of Academic Hall.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-03-11

FOR RENT-TWO NICE ROOMS.
southeast and east. very reasonable
6G2 S. 1th.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-03-11

LOST-AT CARNIVAL FRIDAY
night, a triargle-shaped gold pin with
"W 'O5" in raised letters. Reward il
returned to o. Edgar, COS S. 4th st.
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CLASSIFIED ADS.

FOR RENT-NICE WARM ROOM;
modern house. COZ Locust St.
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ROOM AND ONE-HALF 10 RENT
>U3 Elm. Phone 533 Red.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-07-15
YOUTH ADMITS PLOTTING
TO ROB SISTERS FlANCE
Intended Victim shoots HOIduD Man
just After Saying Goodbye
10 Sweetheart.

CHICAGO, July H.-John Rush, 20 years
old, at the ,Woodlawn police station late to-
day made one of the most unusual con-
fessions in the history OF the local police
department when he smilingly related how
he had turned his sisters fianee and his
own friend over to holdup men to be
robbed.
The boy told with as little concern as
though discussing the weather the story OF
a plot that might have cost the life OF its
intended victim, Elmer Cooper but that It
went wrong and resulted in the killing OF
one Of the plotters, Ray Mahany. Cooper
shot Mahany early Monday morning Just
after saying good night to Catharyn Rush
at her home
Rush's unexpected confession received the
last element of mystery from the killing Of
Mahany. Veteran policemen who heard his
story said they could not understand the
mild hammered youth who had bid a
friendly goodbye to his future bnother-In-
law. then hurried from the house to plot
with crooks who he knew might kill Cooper
in carrying out their purpose.
This confession. however. was fora
Swallowed earlier in the day by a confession
from Theodore Burgess. who asserted that
he. with Mahany, Joseph Mcbride and
Rush, had planned the attack upon Cooper
as he was leaving the home OF Miss Rush.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-07-15
Bluffs Lawyer
Tries Fast Cure
and Is Better
Prominent Man Abstains from Food
for Twelve Days and is
Helped.

Several Council Bluffs people are trying
the fast cure for bodily ailments with vary
ing degrees Of success. one man, promi-
nent member OF the PottSwattamle County
Bar association, is enthusiastic in his APP
prevail of the plan, and is about the only
person who has had the courage to carry
out his plan 10 fast for period definitely
fixed at the beginning
Last December he was pronounced by To-
cal physicians and Chicago specialist to
be suffering from an incurable kidney d.
sease and was Informed that a fatal termi-
nation was but matter OF time. He has
been reading HereWard Charrington's arti-
cles concerning the fast cure and decided
to try It. The period fixed for complete abb
stinence from food was twelve days He
weighs $50 pounds and has always been a
hearty eater.
At the end Of the first day Of the expert
ment he was desperately hungry and in CON
siderable distress. AT the end OF the second
day he was contemplating suicide and on the
third day he was ready to commit murder.
on the fourth day natures demands began to
ease up little and on the fifth day he says
nearly all Of the mental pictures OF good
things to eat that had thronged his mind
and tortured him almost to madness had
faded entirely away and the thought OF
food was rather unpleasant than otherwise.
At the end of week he declares that it
would have been q positive hardship to
have been compelled TO eat hearty meal
At the conclusion of the twelve-day period
he returned to the eating habit almost with
aversion.
He says he never felt so we'll, so free
from all kinds of physical discomfort, in
his life as he did after the first few days,
and when he began eating again he reduced
his food allowance to minimum of what 1t
had previously been. A month later he sub
mitted himself for examination to the phys
icians who had limited his life to a few
months. Not trace of the disease could
be found, and examinations made fire.
quently since have failed to disclose any
return of the symptoms. During the whole
fast period he drank all of the water he
desired, and large quantities of hot water.
The first two days he lost six pounds,
and was nine pounds lighter on the fourth
day. On the fifth day he began to gain,
and was only two pounds below his normal
weight at the end of the fast on Monday
of this week both he and his wife started
In on a ten days fast for relief from
chronic stomach troubles, the husband
really undergoing the ordeal to encourage
his wife, who is the acute sufferer. She is
cooking for her family, in which there is
at least one big, healthy boy with an appe-
tite like an OK, and she stated last evening
that her worst trouble was to overcome the
habit Of tasting the food to determine its
seasoning while cooking 1t. At the end OF
the ten-day period she now believes she
will become q greater enthusiast than her
husband
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-07-15
Taft Neutral in
Coming Campaign,
He Defends Party
Will Participate Only in General
Way-Wants Monetary Reforms
in Next Congress.


BEVERLY. Mass. July 4-Presldent
Taft is giving considerable thought to the
forthcoming report by the monetary com
mission, which Il is expected will recon-
mend TO congress sweeping monetary re-
forms. IL is doubtful II the report will be
ready for consideration until a year from
next December.
II the next congress is republican, the
president will make an effort TO get a
monetary bill through Senator Aldrich
the leading spirit in the commissions work.
whl have retired from congress by that
time, but It is said that after leaving the
senate he viii spend considerable time in
going through the country making ad-
dresses in favor of a central bank of, tissue.
The president is also mapping out line of
work for the economy commission to be
composed OF department chiefs at Washing
ton.
1t was authoratlvely announced today
that President Tafts participation in the
campaign this fall will be wholly OF a gem
eral character. Whatever the president
may have to say on politics will have to do
with the work Of the last congress and in
proclaiming the fact that to his way of
thinking the republican, party representa-
tivcs placed I'm power two years ago have
kept faith and carried out the party plat
form.
The president will attempt to read no one
out of the party. Neither will he have any
ca ndidate for any office. Personal friend
ship for William Loeb led the president In
q friendly way to suggest to him that he
would make good candidate for governor
of New York But he has stated that il
was not his intention to interfere in the
affairs of any state and will strictly adhere
to this policy.
1t was announced that when the presi-
dent and his family and party OF friends
leave here or the Mayflower Monday they
will head directly for the Bay of Fundy
and the waters about Esstport. This will
be the farthest north. Turning there the
presidential yscht will thread its way
through the Lubec Narrows and run down
to Bar harbor, where a stop of two OF
three days will be made. 1slesboro will be
visited. No other definite stops have been
decided upon. and no formal engagements
have or will be made.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-07-15
Elkhorn Valley
Has Good Crops
Willis Johnson of Whitney Says
North Nebraska Will Get Good
Results This Year.

Willis johnson of Whitney, Dawes county,
was in South Omaha yesterday with lot
of cattle from his ranches in the extreme
northwest section of the state. He reports
very copious rain during the last week. He
said the hay crop would be short in his
section, but that the corn never looked so
well. He said the corn OF the entire state
is perfectly clean OF weeds and growing
splendidly. The subsoil was in fine con-
dition early in the season and the dry
weather OF June and July has not yet hurt
any of the fields.
II came down through the Elkhorn valley
and everything looks better than thought
1t would from the reports I had read. The
Elkhorn valley usually gets ali the rain IL
needs and 1 think it is one OF the best In
the state
Mr. Johnson is successful breeder and
shipper OF Dawes county. Not less than a
dozen shipments have come from him to
South Omaha during the last year. He said
he made 5000 money on each OF them and
IL wen pleased with South Omaha as a
market town.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-07-15
ARMY WORMS DO GREAT
DAMAGE IN SOUTH DAKOTA
HOrdes of This Pest Appear and Lay
Waste Fields of Growing
Crops.

WATERTOWN, s. D., July I--(Special)
The appearance of vast hordes of army
worms in Deuel. county is causing by far
more crop alarm than the dry weather.
Practically every acre of timothy in the
county is said TO be ruined. and the pest
Is beginning work OH the wheat fields. Sec
tions OF Hamling and Clark counties also
are reported attacked by this crop des-
troyer
Farmers in Deuel. county were at a loss
to account for the loss of their timothy
until one discovered the vast number of
worms and sent specimens to Prof.
SEVERN, entomologist OF the state agri-
cultural college at Brookings. Here they
were recognized at once. and most vigor-
Gus measures were taken TO protect thu
remaining fields.
Thousands OF circulars have been issued
giving instructions how to protect fields
not yet ravaged by the pest. These circu-
lars have been placed in the hands OF every
farmer as far as possible, and the plan Is
to have every farmer in reach OF several
counties adjoining those affected Thoroughly
acquainted with the best way TO fight the
worms
Prof SEVERN advises blowing two or three
parallel burrows around the. fields not vet
destroyd. turning the dirt in the direction
the advance Of the worms is expected. In
these furows dig postholes every fifteen
feet and about six inches deep. In its for
ward march the worm will not climb the
vertical side Of the furrow until it first
moves laterally in search Of an easier way.
In the lateral movement 1t will fall into
the holes where it may easily be killed by
crushing or by a dash Of kerosene
The worms will destroy a field OF wheat
in few hours, and move to the next field
in regular formation, habit from which
they derive their name
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-07-15
BAND OF BOY BANDITS
TAKEN BY NORFOLK POLICE
Young Man in Similar scrape Before
IL RinRleader at This
Time.

NORFOLK. Neb., July H.-(s2eciaL)-
Another band of alleged boy bandits has
been arrested in Norfolk. charged with the
same sort of crime for which similar
band of youths-some of them the members
of the newly captured crowd-were brought
into the laws meshes couple OF years
ago. Breaking into freight cars and steal
ing merchandise is the charge. The six
boys who were jailed last night. some of
them at the city jail and some at the South
Norfolk Jail. were:
Emery Bonney. said to be the leader of
the gang; a one-legged youth who has a
long police record. He was said to have
been the leader of the former gang. -. 49,
Wallace Dorsey, son Of c. p. Dorsey.
Kenneth w. Richardson. son OF Charles
Richardson. janitor OF the Grant school
house.
Chester Housh, son OF Peg Leg Housh.
now serving a sixty-day sentence in the
county jail for assaulting Harry Howarth.
an elderly man.
Stanley Amedon. son OF c. M. Amedon,
q hackman.
William schorregge. son of railway en-
ploye
OF the half dozen arrested, Ronney has
by far the worst record. He seems to be
= natural born thief and is a degenerate.
A cripple with but one leg. he is the only
son OF q widowed mother, whose home was
recently destroyed by fire. Bonney was
alleged to nave been the leader OF the other
gang taken two years ago, and he was
finally paroled by Judge WEIGH. who de-
livered n lecture to Bonney that brought
tears to the eyes OF the lawyers who heard
Il. He pleaded with the youn- criminal to
mend his ways and he gave Bonney a chance
to make good. Since then Bonney has been
as bad as ever. Only few weeks ago he
stole number Of bicycles. changing wheels
and frames so that they would not be
easily recognized by the owners.
The first charge against the boys is for
breaking into Northwestern cars on the
night OF July IL. at the South Norfolk
yards On this night the seals on six cars
were broken. Other charges will be filed
later.
Among the goods stolen since the robbery
began are whisky gin, cigars. gloves,
shirts and clothing canned goods and
food stuffs and other merchandise.
According to the authorities the boys
maintained camps in different points around
the city, where they held feasts on the
stolen goods. Several debauches are re-
ported by the officers which were
held by the boys on presumably the
stolen liquors.