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University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-11-16
Defeat-Then Victory.

To the Editor Of the University Missourian:
Almost any one can throw his hat
up in the air and yell himself hoarse
over a great victory. There is need
in the University now for men who
can look defeat squarely in the face
and grit their teeth and fight right
on.
Some students seem to be of the
opinion that things are in a slump at
the University. The Eleventh Amend
ment was defeated by large ma
jority. The Tigers have been defeated
twice. And because of those things
some students want to quit trying.
Nobody ever accomplished anything
with such a give up spirit. OF
course we are all sorry that the
Eleventh Amendment didn't carry
and we're sorry the Tigers didn't whip
Ames and st. Louis. But those are
things of the past. Let the dead pas
bury it's dead. There is enough be.
fore us to occupy our attention with
out leaving much time for thinking
over what might have been. Many
things might have been, but several
things will be what We don't want
them to be if we don't quit wasting sc
much time in "fussing" with things
in general.
The University of Missouri is still
among the Il ans" and the Tigers
still have good appetities.
Editorial
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-11-16
EDUCATION FOR SERVICE.

Study should not be a restriction.
We have the recluse who lives simply
for study. He is solving problems
that can only be solved by close ap-
plication to work and he is isolated
entirely from society. Fortunately
the demand for such a work is not
great.
The great need today is for work
of service to mankind; a work that
makes happier, better lives. Study
should be so broad that it will tend
to bring the student nearer to man,
and not farther from him. 1t should
give him an opportunity and fit him
for a closer association with those
about him, a better understanding of
mans problems, of his hopes and
ambitions. These things make pos
sible larger sympathy for the work
man is doing. Its makes larger his
possibilities. His work is more effec-
tive. His service is greater.
You can learn mans problems only
by being man, by living his life.
You can solve these problems only
by knowing men.
Don't be above being a man. You
are no better than the millions about
you. Your study does not lift you
above the masses. 1t tends only to
draw you closer to them. 1t gives you
larger conceptions, stronger apprecia
ton. 1t enlarges your opportun
tiles, as a man; that's all.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-11-16

Beat Kansas" is the signal. Let's
make it 60.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-11-16
LARGEST CIRCULATION
IN BOONE COUNTY.
NO REVISION DOWNWARD.

The sober, second thought of the
University students apparently EN-
phatically condemns the lowering of
ideals suggested by the revision down
ward Of University yells and songs.
Profanity is no less vulgar when it is
set to music than when it is spoken,
it is no less ungentlemanly when in
dulged in by groups collectively than
when uttered by single individuals.
The evils attaching to football as a
college sport are not so much inherent
in the game itself as they are in the
demoralizing practices which often
accompany the playing.
Let the students of the University
of Missouri aid in keeping the game
by their clean, gentlemanly conduct.
They have reputation for such be.
harior. It should not be thrown away
in the unfounded belief that such be-
havior Is inconsistent with victory
The Thanksgiving game of last year
showed to the contrary.
Keep the standards up. Let's Beat
Kansas with Missouri colors flying.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-11-16
STRIKES AND THE PUBLIC.

In the Industrial warfare which has
existed In this country for number
OF years. the rights of the public have
not received enough attention. Both
the capitalists and the laborers have
always had champions who demon
strate quite conclusively that the
other side is entirely in the wrong,
but until recently comparatively few
have seriously considered the posi-
tion of the public in the labor disputes.
In q discussion of the recent strike
of expressmen in New York, the Out
look says that the law should and
must provide method by which labor
wars that directly involve public and
convenience will become impossible.
There is great need of such a
measure. Not only is the public
greatly inconvenienced by strikes, but
often there are even more serious re-
suits arising from them. Lives of
citizens not connected with the strike
are often endangered by them. 1t
would not be difficult to remedy this
state of affairs. Canada has law
which does not prohibit strikes but
which controls them to a great extent.
In the differences constantly arising
between labor and capital, while care
should be taken to be fair to both
sides directly involved, the rights of
the public should not be ignored.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-11-16
Viewpoints.
Suggests Yell For Big Game.

To the Editor Of the University Missourian:
l wish to take this means of sug-
gesting to the yell leaders yell which
believe will be one of the most effec-
tive we can give at the Thanksgiving
game. 1t is this: Spell Missouri
three times in the same way that we
are accustomed, slow and song-like.
Then follow this Immediately by spell,
ing Missouri rapidly three times, short
and snappy.
I'd like to see this tried at the next
mass meeting. 1t makes noise and
has swing that will help rout that
Rock Chalk. l have been practicing it
in my room, it sounds fine. YELLER.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-11-16
VARSITY ATHLETICS.

One reply to the charge that athle-
tics is overdone in colleges may be
found in the fact that the newspapers
over-emphasize college athletics and
thus give rise to the charge that the
colleges overdo this department. A
sporting page of city paper would
perhaps give one this idea, but it must
be remembered that the newspapers
deal with college life as found on
Saturday afternoon from 2 to 5
o'clock. The other five days of the
week in which the grinding" is going
on, receive no mention at all. During
this time sport is thought of only by
those directly interested, and then
during the latter part of the day. At
the practices the students or part
Of them may be present, but this
is the most pleasant recreation that
can be INDUCED in, and is to the col
lege student what spin in the auto
is to the city man. College spirit that
goes with the sports is noticed far
and wide and for this reason it causes
many to think athletics overdone in
colleges.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-11-16
to this part of the country.

Another topic is that of the trade
relations between the United States
and the Central and South American
countries. Close akin to this topic is
that of the usefulness of the Panama
canal, and the arrangement of its
operation in way that the United
Stated will receive the most benefit.
Other subjects for consideration are
Irrigation, reclamation. parcels post
bill, railroad rates, conservation and
merchant marines. The Congress will
be attended by men sent from every
state in the Union as we'll as repre-
sentatives from other countries.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-11-16
WHAT OTHER JOUR-
NAILS ARE SAYING
A Big Work For Women.

A page in the Sunday Post-Dispatch
suggests that there is big work for
women to do, in the interest of Justice
and humanity. 1t is shown that, un-
der present conditions, juries Of men
will not condemn woman to serve a
sentence in our state prisons, because
such prisons are not fit places for
women. Arkansas and other Southern
states have no provision in their pen
itentiaries for women convicts, who
are for this reason pardoned when in
generation would, under proper con-
ditions, be best for them and for the
community,
Miss Caroline Thummel, ST. Louis
lawyer, in an able article on the page
indicated, urges the infliction of the
legal penalty upon women criminals,
but thinks that failure to inflict it Is
due to a false sentimentality on the
part of male jurors, and would abolish
the jury system.
EX-Gov. Johnson sees deeper. He
condemns the prison and penitentiary
as barbarous, and says that putting
women into such places would crush
their pride, ruin their bodies, and i'm
pair their mentality.
Is not the Indictment equally appli-
cable in the case of men sentenced to
prison or penitentiary? Has it not
been shown repeatedly that the aver
age prison or penitentiary is medieval
in the inhumanity of it's conditions?
The late Elizabeth Ward Howe was
an indefatigable worker for prison re.
FORM There are men and women
always working to this end, but they
are few. There is no doubt that WON.
en- can do more in this direction than
men. An army of good women is
needed for the work of making prisons
reformatory and wholesome. There
will be plenty of male helpers in such
a work.-St. Louis Post Dispatch.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-11-16
A Six Hundred.

rc the Editor Of the University Missouriar:
Some of the larger dailies in the
state have lately been making much
mention of the roofing force at the
University of Kansas. There is an
organization there that is called "The
Fighting Five Hundred, composed of
five hundred or more men whose
whole thought when at football
game is on roofing their team to
victory. They are men who can al
ways be depended upon to root to
the very last second for their team,
win or lose. In a recent issue of The
Kansas Star. it was suggested that
"A Frantic Six Hundred Cat Missouri
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-11-16
ALoWER DEATH RATE

The United States as a whole should
congratulate itself on the report of the
census bureau stating that the death
rate of the country decreased last year.
The census figures show that where
the death rate in 1908 was 1874 for
every 1000 population, it was Is for
every 1000 in 1909. The difference
at first appears to be small, but when
multiplied for the entire population,
the great difference can be seen.
The figures can be accounted for
largely in one way. This is that the
United States as whole is becoming a
more healthy nation because Of the
closer observance of hygienic rules.
Some sociologists say that the
American race is becoming weaker
because of the unhealthy environment
that the nation as whole partially
creates for ITSELF This argument can
not stand, however, because figures
prove that Americans are becoming
more healthy. Some might say that
these figures were padded, but vital
statistics usually are carefully kept
The United States has reason to be
proud of the growing tendency to live
better and cleaner lives, the thing
most conductive to longevity.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-11-16
HOME FOR WISCONSIN co.EDs
Fund of 100000 Has Been Provided
For New Dormjtory,

MADISON, visa new woman's
dormitory on the shores of Lake Men
dota, one of the most pleasant sites
at the University of Wisconsin, is
foreshadowed by recent purchase OF
a 40,000-square-foot tract which is now
the residence of John M. Olin. A
fund of 100000 for building the pro-
posed dormitory is in the hands of
the board of regents. Until the new
building is erected the Olin resi-
dence will be used as a dormitory for
women.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-11-16
Rummaue Sale.

Section of the Ladies' Aid Society
of the Christian church will have a
Rummage Sale in the Whittle build
ing, 913 Broadway, all day Saturday,
November 10. -
The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1910-07-28
Nutgrass-To Destroy.

J. II. A., Tennille, Gal have
piece OF land that is covered with
nutgrass. Can you tell me how TO
kill It?
Answer-The secret OF killing nut
grass is to pillow shallow and har-
row the ground until it is put into
good mellow condition, and then plant
in oats or cowpeas according to the
time Of year,, seeding and fertilizing
literally. 1t would have been better
to have seeded to oats in February,
or last fall, and sow in peas after har-
vesting the oats. But I would not
wait until next fall simply in order
that the war against nutgrass may be
inaugurated with an oat crop. Com
mence at once to break the land
broadcast and get into good, workable
condition and SOW one and one-half
bushels of seed peas before the first
of June, applying at same time 200
to 500 pound Of sixteen per cent. acid
phosphate and twenty-five to forty
pounds of muriate of potash. If you
can get the seed in with a regular
small grain drill, so much the bet
ter. You can save seed and increase
the yield, however, by sowing the
seed continuously in three-foot rows
and cultivate two or three times.
Make hay of the cowpeas, and as
soon as practicable turn under the
pea stubble-say, about the last of
August; harrow every two or three
weeks (if necessary and SOW to oats
by the open furrow" method, fer
tilizing and seeding literally, Har-
vest the oats about the last of May.
You may then use your own judgment
as to whether 1t would be better to
SOW in peas again, or plant in cotton
or corn, or some other crop that must
be cultivated, to be followed by an
other crop of oats to be sown in Oc-
tober or November. BY following the
plan thus outlined, believe you NAV
subdue, If not utterly destroy, the
nutgrass with little or no extra labor,
making paying crops all the time
while the campaign of determination
is being carried on. argue this from
the fact that I have practically de-
stroyed the nutgfass in my one-acre
garden in the city of Griffin in two
years. Its destruction depends upon
keeping the soil constantly cultivated
in a crop, or densely shaded by a
crop (peas) all simmer, thus giving
the nutgrass no chance to grow and
spread. believe a sweet potato crop
is the most effective nutgrass Destroy
er l have seen tried, on small areas,
since the vines give a dense shade
from early in summer until a killing
frost. This opinion is based on my
own eXperience.-R. ]. Redding, in
the Atlanta Constitution.
The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1910-07-28
Southern Agricultural Topics.
Modern Meihods That Are Helpful to
Farmer, Fruit Grower and Stockman.

in the first thirty feet is directly re-
sponsibe for a lost yield of its own,
and has not a pound to spare. A
fence with a weak place, or a chain
with a defective link, cannot be made
perfect by making some other panels,
or some other links, of double
strength. That is a simple illustra-
ton, but it FITS into the argument
How to secure and how to preserve
a good stand is question that may
be easily answered in general and in
detail, but probably 1t is not neces-
sary just now. The main thing now
is to exercise skill and care in han
ding the pillow and the hoe. The eye
of the sower should follow both, and
be vigilant. A careless laborer may
destroy the stand of cotton to an ex-
tent In one days work as that the re-
sulting loss in the yield of the space
hoed by him in a day would pay the
wages of a careful worker for a full
week.
The difference between the yields
of two adjoining fields, separately
owned and cultivated. may be TWEEN
ty-five per cent, and be due entirely
to the circumstance that the stand on
the more productive field is that much
better. The cause of one mans fail
ure as a cotton grower may be due
more to bad stands that might have
been prevented by proper care and
skill and the presence of the eye Of
tAe owner, or that OF his manager,
than to any other one cause.--R, ].
The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1910-07-28
EIintY Hearted.

Speaking of the discouragements
that sometimes come to the lot of a
well meaning clergyman, the Rev. DR..
E. T. LETTERS, a professor in the Col
legiate Institute in New York, said in
a confab with the Presbyterian min
listers in the Witherspoon Building:
There is always some fiint-hearted
individual in your congregation TO
frown on the 'prodigal sons back
sliders, lost sheep and other peni-
tents who return to the fold
81 was once welcoming a prodigal
son and was Just warming up to my
subject when one of these individuals
in the congregation said in a very
audible whisper!
Corn husks would be too good
for the critur. PHILADELPHIA
Times.
The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1910-07-28
A Pointer on Combs.

Many cockerels of the Mediterra-
mean class, especially Minorcas, are
discarded because their combs Top
over while they are young. If a big
combed bird be a little out of sorts,
his comb will at once droop. After
he comes into good condition again,
the eomb generally stands erect, es-
pecially If the base of it is thick and
strong. If cockerels of this class are
forced too much, especially, If given
lot Of soft food, their combs ap-
parently lose firmness When a comb
is noticed to fall, the bird should be
given a cod-llver capsule at night,
and fed entirely on grain i'm lsoIne
cases cockerels' combs, ateSso weak
at the base that noihipg lSilL make
them stand, but Even such birds
should not BE dfsearaed, sfor If they
are otherwise good they will be val
liable for pullet-breeding.
The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1910-07-28
Did Her Duty.

The first grade teacher had been
able to spank Tommy with the great
est enthusiasm, but his next teacher
had not reached the point where she
felt she could do justice to him in
spite of all his naughtiness,
Send him to me when you want
him spanked" said the first grade
teacher one morning, after her col
league had related his many misde-
meanors.
About II o'clock Tommy appeared
at the first grade teachers door. She
dropped her work, seized him by the
arm, dragged him to the dressing
room, turned him over her knee and
did her duty.
When she had finished she said:
well, Tommy, what have you to
say?"
Please, miss, my teacher wants
the scissors. "-Everybody's.
The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1910-07-28
skin Rumor Lasted OK yso..

"Cuticura did wonders for me No..
twenty-five years suffered ayoUs
from a terrible humor, comnleto,'.
covering my head, neck and shon;
ders, 50 even to my wife, | became ~
object OF dread. At large exnenso
consulted the most able doctors -.
ana near Their treatment was Of no
avail' nor was that of the - Hos.
pital, during six months efforts
suffered on and concluded there was
no help for me this side of the grave
Then heard OF some one WIN bad
been cured by Cuticura Remedies and
thought that trial could do no harm
In surprisingly short time I was
completely cured. s p. Keyes. III
Congress St., Boston, Mass, octobsr
~, '09."
The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1910-07-28
Face Covered With PImpIes.

II congratulate Cuticura upon INV
speedy recovery from plmples which
covered my face. used Cuticura
Soap, Ointment and Resolvent for ten
days and my face cleared and am
perfectly we'll, had tried doctors
for several months but got no results
VIM. J, sadiier, 1914 Susquehapna
Ave-, Philadelphia, May /, 1902
A solemn visage sometimes dis.
guises the poorest mourner.
The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1910-07-28
Well Paid.

A rural resident, upon his first
visit to the city, obtained employ
ment as a motorman for the street
car company.
Every night, when he put his car
in the barn, the conductor quietly
slipped him couple of dollars.
= This kept up regularly until a day
or two after pay days. When he
failed to come after his pay check
the manager. sent for him and in
quired the reason. -.
The unsuspecting motorman re-
piled; why the conductor has been
paying me of every night. Judge.
The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1910-07-28
REMARKABLE GROUP OF LIVING WOMEN ONCE RULERS

second son, the present King Miguel,
and prevented his death.
Queen Amelie is still heavily bur-
dened with affairs of state because Of
the youth of the present monarch.
She is one of the most beautiful and
intellectual royal women in the
world.
Marie Sophia Frederika Dagmar,
the royal widow Of Russia, is a potent
political figure. She is especially in
teresting by reason of the fact that
she is a younger sister of the now
widowed Queen Alexandra, and there
was always a deep affection between
the two Danish princesses who were
chosen to ascend such mighty
thrones.
Queen Marie was born in 1S47, and
although throughout her married life
with the Car Alexander III. she had
great sorrows, and although since her
widowhood, in 1894, she has passed
through troublous times during the
reign of her son, the present Gar, she
has remarkably retained her youthful
appearance,
She has always been regarded as
almost equally influential with the
Gear, her son, over whom she has
considerable control. In times of
stress in Russia, she has been the
emissary--under the veil Of social
vicits-to otbpr cOurte
Shared Troubled Throne.
Queen Margherita of italy has
shared a troubled throne, and even
now, in her age and invalidism, is a
mighty factor in the government Of
Italy.
She Is a daughter of the late Duke
of Genoa, and was married to the late
King Humbert in 1869. After the
occupation of Rome by the Italian
Government, in 1870, she took up her
residence in the Quirinal Palace,
where she has lived ever since.
The difficulties with the Vatican
and the attempts on the life of her
husband by political enemies added
to the hardships of her royal position,
but she achieved a popularity with
the people that never waned.
It was the influence of Queen Mar
gherita that, according to accepted
belief, prevented the marriage of Miss
Katherine Elkins to the Duke of the
Abruzzi.
And now Queen Alexandra is Joined
to the brilliant galaxy of royal wild
ows.
She was the Princess Alexandra,
eldest daughter of the famous King
Christian of Denmark, when, in 1868,
on the 10th day of March, she became
the wife of the then Prince of Wales.
Queen Alexandra is now in her sixty
fifth year.
And, in mentioning this group of
remarkable royal widows, 1t is inter-
esting to note in contrast that the
only royal widower in Europe is the
stanch old Emperor Franz Josef of
Austria.
The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1910-07-28
HOTEL PATTEN

Absolutely nreproof, every window screamed tns
coolest and oleanest hotel In the South. - roo
passed regular New York hotel and one OF the snor
places OF the South, Rates $50 and up pr .,tsa.
ton Low round trip railroad rates. stop-oyei pr
uegas on all through tickets. Write Tor boohiv"
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-03-18
Onions.

How about raising onions? |
have never seen anything in the
papers regarding onions in Lincoln
county, tits all apples. Now, when
onions are nearly always from 90c
to 81 so per bushel why not give
onion raising a little boost?
We have hundreds of acres of the
very best soil in the world for rails
ing them. We do not have to
irrigate and all we do have to do is
to pick a piece of sandy ground
along any OF our streams and put
on some barnyard manure to warm
the ground early in the season, as
they should be planted as early as
practicable after the first of March,
although | have seen good onions
raised that were planted after the
first OF May, but that will not al
ways do to risk.
Mrs. j. January is the Onion
Queen of Harlan. She raises all
the way from fifty to three hundred
bushels every year and has gained
a reputation for her onions to such
an extent that where she has sold,
she tells me, she can get fifty cents
more on the bushel than other
onions sell for. They grow large
and are very mild favored.
B. f. GRANT.