Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1911-09-19
UNIVERSITY union
State Board Appropriates Church
Building at Iowa City
PRESIDENT BOWMAN PLEASED

Management Of the Organization
Will 30 Under Control Of Board
Made Up From the Student
Body and Y. N. G. A.
Des NOTES.-THE Iowa state board
Of education at its meeting In VIM
ton the past week voted to appropri'
ate the old Unitarian church on Iowa
avenue and Clinton street for the
purpose of q student union in the
State University of Iowa. The board
also appropriated a small sum OF
money in order that the building may
be equipped at once with comfortable
reading rooms and with dining
room, where good board at moderate
cost will be offered to about l25
boys. The organization of the union
has not been completed, but Its man
agement will be under the control Of
. board, made up Of representatives
from the student body, the Y. NJ. c.
A. and from the faculty of the uni
versity. In making the request that
the union be established President
John G. Bowman said Briefly, the
purpose of the Iowa union Is to make
for higher quality Of student citi
zenship. From the English univer
stiles We inherit traditions of per
sonal culture, as part Of college
education, but, except In our Oldest
universities. these ideals have been
neglected In America. The new use
now of the old Unitarian church IL
an effort in this direction: it is an
effort to organize college life around
leisure hours as we'll as around
hours Of work to the end Of training
gentlemen. I am aware that the
great part Of . gentleman Is made out
Of the gospel of hard work and thor
oughness. A shirk, less than ever
before, is not a gentleman. But hard
work is not enough. Efficiency does
not necessarily include usefulness Of
character and devotion to service; II
does not express necessarily moral
maturity or the power of self respon
sibility. These are qualities which
grow naturally out Of right associa
ton and good fellowship, and 1t is
for this side of college life that the
union is created. 1t will be meet
ing place for boys among them.
selves and for boys and members OF
the faculty; it is the natural center
Of student activities, and trust, too.
that it is a place where the alumni
will always feel comfortably 1t
home"
Protect Iowa Live Stock.
Iowa's live stock will be protected
from disease in the future by the
most stringent set of rules In force
in the United States, which have
been issued by DR.. James L. Gibson,
state veterinarian, chairman Of the
new commission of animal health.
BY these rules epidemics which have
destroyed many hogs, sheep, cattle
and horses in the past, will be made
impossible, for no animals will be
permitted inside the state for dairy
or breeding purposes without clean
bill of health.
The aim Of the commission. which
was established by the Thirty-fourth
general assembly is to bring the
health of Iowa live stock to stand.
ard where it has never been before.
and to keep 1t there by strict laws
regarding the health of all animals
shipped into the state.
Quiet at Muscatine.
Conditions at Muscatine, where
several hundred buttonworkers are
on strike. are quiet at present, &C
cording to a report of H. E. Sampson,
special counsel in the attorney gen
erals office, received by Mr.. Cosson.
Mr.. Sampson has been at Muscatine
for a week investigating conditions.
No rioting or disturbances have oc'
Cured, although the union workers
are still on strike.
Fire Marshal After Fire Traps.
Fire Marshal Roe is at present
making tour of the state searching
out and ordering the removal or de-
struction of ramshackle structures
when situated SO as to endanger the
business portions of towns. Knox
vile was the first inspected and a
half dozen shacks were ordered torn
down or removed to less dangerous
locations. He is at present looking
over conditions at Boone.
Great Western Files Denial.
The Chicago & Great Western
railroad filed denial of charges pre-.
terred by E. G. Wylie, freight rate
commissioner, with the state board
Of railroad commissioners. DiscriDin.
alton in rates from Des M~ines to
many points in Iowa and to st. 10.
seph and violations of the long and
short haul clause of the interstate
commerce law are alleged in the
complaint.
In Hard Fight For Thomas.
Friends of Charles c., Thomas are
working hard for his parole from
the Fort Madison penitentiary, where
he is serving a life imprisonment
sentence for the murder of Mable
Scofield, one OF the most notorious
cases in the history of Polk county
An application for parole has beer
filed with the state board of parole