University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-10-30
University Chat.

sponsble for the position which this
nation has among the nations of the
world today. During the past ten
years no state in the union has made
greater progress in education than
Missouri.
Through the University and normal
schools the standards of teaching have
been raised until today our teachers
will compare favorably with those OF
any other state. Hundreds OF thou
sands of dollars have been invested
in new and modern school BUILDINGS
and they have been supplied with the
most up-to-date equipment. Without
exception, in city, town, village and
country districts the people of Mis-
souri, have worked and given to bring
the school system of this state to the
highest point of efficiency.
At the election on November the
voters of the state will decide whether
this work so splendidly begun is to
go on; whether the state University
which is the crown of the public
school system is to be put in posi-
ton so that it can do the work that
the needs Of the state require it to
do. OF course if the Eleventh Amend
ment is not passed the University will
tcontinue to do a good work but it will
trnf do ifc inStif,,finn
can plan for the future unless it
knows what it can depend upon from
lyear to year in the way of income.
If the amendment is not adopted il
will mean poorly paid and in time
an inefficient teaching force at the
University. 1t will mean in the very
|near future, action will have to be
taken by the Board of Curators lin
Iiting the attendance will have to be
many ambitious young men and wom-
en- of Missouri the privilege of Uni
versity course.
So vital is the influence of the Uni
versity upon the educational system
of the state that the adoption or re-
lection of the Eleventh Amendment
will affect in some way every boy or
girl in the state who wants an educa-
tion.
Let every man and woman who loves
Education see to it that the voters vote
yes" on the Eleventh Amendment.
II international peace is ever to
come it must be through the mutual
understanding of the races. Mere
Association of the members of one
race with the members of another does
not bring this about. 1t is necessary
that one race shall find out the prob
lens of another, and find out what
are it's characteristics and appreciate
whatever differences there may be.
There is no other way to bring races
to an understanding of one another
except by the members of different
races working side by side in CON-
mon causes. and each attempting to
minimize the differences which exist
between them. The Cosmopolitan
club affords an opportunity for young
men of many races to come together
as men of one same race and cast off
their differences and prejudices. They
are united by common cause. They
are truly desirious of understanding
one another and they are liberal
minded enough to make allowances for
radical peculiarities. Americans seem
as strange to the Chinese as the Chi
nese seem to us.
| Provincialism is a thing of the past. |
Cosmopolitanism is of the present and
the future. Man is now a citizen of !
the world His interests are world |
wide. So must his understanding be-
All our education should serve to
broaden our views and make us more |
tolerant of the manners and customs
of others. The true desire to know |
our world-brothers and an active in
terest in adjusting the differences be- |
tween us are the things necessary in /
promoting international friendship.
above all nations is humanity"
If there is any doubt in the minds
of the voters of Missouri as to wheth-
err the University authorities are cap
able of properly using more money
than they are now allowed for the
institution, let the voters consider the
record made by these men. With an
appropriation one-third that received l.
by the University of Kansas they
have put our University on higher
plane than that occupied by the Kan
sas institution. A part of this small
appropriation they have used to build {
up College of Agriculture that has /: