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The Dickinson press., 1912-04-27

c. B. Hanson sells farm lands on easy
terms. 2-11-tf
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-06-04
WE IMPORT POTATOES.

Although the United States boasts
that she is an agricultural nation
there would have been a shortage in
potatoes this spring had it not been
for the growers of ireland and Eng.
land. Census figures show that in
little more than four months. I.645,-
Ill bushels of potatoes We're re-
ceived at Boston from across the wa
ter. In the same time. 6,14O BUSH
els were received at Portland, Me-,
and 100000 bushels were received in
bond at the same place, to be ship
ped by rail into Canada. In one week,
449,576 bushels of potatoes were re-
ceived at the port of New York.
Twenty-Five cents a bushel is paid
i'm revenue on potatoes shipped into
this country. 1t is said that the GUS
tom receipts on potatoes will be lar
ger this year than ever before. The
total will add considerably to the
United States treasury.
With the tremendous growth of
cities in the United States has come
a need for greater agricultural de-
velopment The potato industry is
but one example. Colorado and Min
nesota raise vast quantities of pota-
toes. Thousands of acres are de-
voted entirely to their growth. Ore
gon, Washington and other states
grow potatoes in large quantities.
Missouri is adapted to the growing
of potatoes and many counties in the
Ozarks offer unusual advantages.
The homely Irish "spud' or ''tu-
ber" or 'pratie''-choose your own
name from a dozen or more of ap-
proved appellatiOns,- is one of the
necessities of life. The world eats
potatoes. 1t is strange, indeed, that
the United States should import them
from Ireland and England when We
might be competing with those ma
tiOns for the potato eating trade in
other nations.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-06-04
The New Books


Dickensian in flavor, interesting
in plot, filled with an atmosphere
which, although it is entirely differ
ent, is just as real and convincing as
that which permeated his former
work, Vaughan Kester's new novel,
The just and the Unjust, proves it.
self a worthy successor to The Prod
igal Judge. The author has shifted
his locale, and instead of centering
his action in the Old South, he has
staged his drama in a small. conven-
tiOnal town of the middle west,
which is just large enough for ev-
cry one to know every ones else
affairs and to bring the different
characters into intimate relation
with each other.
The delicacy of workmanship. the
keen appreciation of human nature,
the gentle humor which marked Mr..
Kester an author of unusual power,
makes itself felt in this book, and
the reader is swept along with a Sc
ries of events which sustains inter-
est, gives abundant food for though;
and satisfies to the last degree. 1t
is timely, too, for the author, with
out giving himself to preachment or
expOunding thesis, sounds note
of warning against capital punish
ment and circumstantial evidence
and so admirably are his theories
woven into the plot that they become
part of it and are absorbed by the
reader with a relish which usually
fails to accompany the avowed "pur-
pose novel. ."-(Cloth, illustrated.
$50 pages. $1.25 net. BObbs- Mer-
rill Company, Indianapolis.)
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-06-04
MISSIONARY JOURNALISM,

The Christian Science Monitor has
upset few traditions in the news
paper business. Don't borrow your
neighbors paper, was once a cry of
many newspapers. The subscriber
was adjured not to lend his paper to
the man next dOOr-let every man
buy his own paper was the newspa-
per motto. The Monitor requests it's
reader to pass the paper along"
Newspapers once endeavored to
create the impression that the man
who read another's PAPER was a
sponge" and the subscriber who lent
his paper was helping teach his
neighbor bad ethics.
In nearly every issue the Mon
itor acrries a little card on the
first page, asking it's readers to send
the paper to some friend or lend
it to a neighbOr. The postage rates
in the United States and in foreign
countries are printed to facilitate
sending the Monitor through the
mails after it has been read.
The Monitor has taken a broad
minded view of the matter. Certainly
everyone should read his own news
paper, but there is no reason for the
influence of single copy to be con-
fined to the man who buys it. The
man who reads a paper secondhand
may become a subscriber. At least,
the borrowed paper may exert as
much influence for good as the one
that was bought. The Monitor is a
newsy, we'll edited newspaper, covers
a wide field of news and is by no
means limited in scope as its name
might suggest.
Newspapers are educators-they
should strive to gain the widest cir
culation possible, whether this cir
culation is paid for or borrowed.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-06-04

years ago John Clay of Clay, Robin
son & Company. Chicago, endowed a
department of journalism in Iowa
State University. Mr.. Clay believed
that the pen could do more than the
plOw to make the best of country
life. The department he founded has
already turned out men holding posi-
tiOns in the field of agricultural
journalism. In all, seven courses are
given, two of which are for women
in the department of home ecOnO-
mics. A course in agricultural ad-
vertising is offered 1t is found that
students taking the work in Journal
ism are stimulated to deeper and
broader agricultural study. The
Iowa Agriculturalist is largely a pro-
duct of the department.
The Kansas State Agricultural
College. too. has department of
journalism. Students i'm general
science, agriculture. mechanical en-
gineering and home economies take
work. They write. set up tyne for
and print weekly paper. the Kansas
lndustrialist. The paper is distinct
in that it is not only for those inter-
ested in agriculture but also for
those engaged in the allied trades.
Six courses, all practical, are given.
Students beginning with this years
freshmen may take degree in Jour-
nalism with work in the other divis-
ions of the college elective. The
University of Kansas, in addition,
gives courses in journalism.
Wisconsin is another university
doing ambitious work. A course of
four years in journalism is given. The
aim is to supply the student with a |
practical journalistic education, to-
gether with education in the present
world such subjects as history, econ
omics and sociology. News, editor
ial and advertisement writing are
taught.
In addition to the foregoing uni
versities courses are offered at many
others among which are the Univer-
sites of Indiana. Illinois, Michigan,
Colorado, Nebraska Ohio, |
New York and Massachusetts Agri-
cultural Colleges. Some of these give
extensive and practical courses. 9th
ers give little more than a course in
news writing in the department of
English. Each year sees the list of :,
colleges giving work in journalism
grow larger and larger AS yet there
is no well defined organization of
the schools and departments that is
the organization best
adapted to the work. However, the
is to place in instruction
practice above rules of rethoric, and
N the later schools and departments
organization follows closely that of
he School of Journalism at the Uni
7ersity of Missouri. The teaching of
journalism will eventually find it's
place. H, J. Mex.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-06-04
The Teaching of Journalism

Journalism teaching spreads. 1t is
taught now in a score of colleges and
universities in the United States. 1t
is taught in Germany, England, New
Zealand and Canada. 1t is feeling
its way cautiously, growing always.
At one place it is a course or two in
the department of English, in anoth-
er it is a branch of economics. In
its greatest development it is a sepa-
rate professional school giving a de-
gree in journalism. There are more
prOfessed journalists in the United
States than there are dentists, civil
engineers, architects, veterinary sur
geOns. dairymen or trained nurses;
and for all these professional train
ing is supplied.
J. c. Collins of the University of
Birmingham. England. it is claimed,
was the father of the movement. The
University of CHICAGO did pioneer
work in the United States. The work
there was not of an active journal
istic nature. In 1908 the University
of Missouri opened the first profess
sional school of journalism in the
country. 1t is still the only district
school, although two new ones will
be open this fall The laboratory
product of the School of journalism
here is the University MissOurian.
No more pretense is made of running
an ideal newspaper than would a pro-
fessOr of English make for the
themes his students in English COM
position handed in as class work for
ideal examples of rhethOric. One
great aim is to turn out journalists
with his ideals to work in a newspa-
per world that is.
Columbia University is also OPEN
ing distinct school of journalism
The ideals of the school are high and
it, no doubt. has a useful service to
perform. NOtre Dame, Indiana, is
university that will have a
school of journalism this fall Thus
is journalism opening the doors of
the sectarian university. NOtre
Dame is Roman Catholic. Its school
of journalism is founded on a gift
as is the school at Columbia.
Instruction in journalism in most
of the universities is given at present
in a department taking the same
rank as. for example, the depart
ment of English. Washington State
has a department of this
class that is doing ambitious work.
1t issues an ideal newspaper. On
this newspaper the members of class
es act in turn as telegraph, north
west and news editors; editor-in-
chief, managing editor, editorial
writer's and reporters. The de-
department daily has four pages. On
an eight page paper is is !
sued containing features stories.
The first branch of established |
instruction to tie to
journalism was agriculture. Seven
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-06-04
TO ADDRESS U. OF OKLAHOMA

DIR. j. W. Hudson Will Be Com.
mencement Speaker There June IL.
DR.. J. w. Hudson of the philOso-
ply department of the University of
Missouri, will deliver the commence
ment address at the University of
Oklahoma, at Norman, June 13. His
subject will be American Ideals in
Education"
Doctor Hudson will 60 from Nor
man to Boulder, Colo, where he will
spend the summer vacation.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-06-04
Poem of Action.

The best book of poetry for boys
published in many long day is ''Po-
ems of Action" 1t contains a COL
lection of verse for boys. young and
old, collection of real poetry. CAS-
sociation Press, 124 East 2Sth ST..
New York IS cents)
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-06-04
The Normal School
at kirksville, Missouri
at kirkSVille

Initiates movements in education. Through
Household Economics Department it makes
Botany division of zoology
study chemistry
tnuous experiment in products, permanent
fertility Biology bacteri
ology. practical way the
yeast in the bread to the disease
the food. The Farm. wholly
garden products Science De-
partment
The Institution offers special laboratory
Ing soil farm machinery
lecture bacteriology sanitation cooking analysis etc.
etc. has commercial training painting
burning pottery, forge years
music and all the college and high school
adapted to the needs of public school teachers.
lase and city graded schools village
pervisorshps and superntendencies
Large illustrated Bulletin
JOHN r. KIRK, President.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-06-04

Coming Thursday to the Star The
ater the Seymour Duo i'm singing and
unique. soft shoe dancing and imper-
sOnations. featuring Anna Mae in i'm.
presentations of Anna Held.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-06-04

T. +. Jones Visiting His Parents.
T. f. Jones has gone to his home
in Lime Springs, Ia, where he will
visit his parents and relatives. He
will not return until the opening of
the summer session here.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-06-04

from the individuals standpoint
with such blending of wit and
practical common sense that any
reader will be interested.-(Pictu
cover. 35 cents. Forbes & Co., 443
South Dearborn Street, Chicago.)
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-06-04
Cutting 1t Out.

The celebrated journalist, Samuel
G. Blythe in Cutting 1t Out" offers
delightfully."- fresh on the
liquor question. The book neither
mOralizes nor refers to prohibition
but considers the drink problem
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1912-11-08
The article goes on to say


The police court records tell different story.
From May 7, 1911, to October l. 1911, while Rockford
was under the license PERIOD there were 379 arrests
for noXication, and under the present regime, from
May 7, 1872 to October I, 1912, arrests were 27I.
And | want to say to you that who may
get seasick crossing the State street bridge, who
may have eaten apple and is making face
it, gets arrested here. There is for drunk
here 1t is not under his for temptation,
and he who through wilful intent orders it from
distance goes to Freeport Beloit, Pecatonica
Belvdere to celebrate, cannot expect to come back
Rockford and be leniently treated The police
records further show that of total arrests that the
who have confessed to getting their liquor in
Belvidere represent one-haf of the number Beloit,
Wisconsin, one sixteenth; Pecatonica three six
teenths; Freepor one-sixteenth and other cities
sixteenth number getting their liquor from Rock
ford drug stores, supply laid in when Rockford
wet, and blind pigs, two-sxteenths
Less Than One Sale Per Drug Store Per Day.
The following is report of the drug store liquor
sales for the five months in 1909 when this city
dry before, and the first five months in 1912 When
the city dry before, had what known
the registration law for the drug stores 1t was one
way of making saloons of drug stores. Here
is the report made by the police department.. For
the first five months in 1902 total of 1882 sales
made by all the drug in the city Of Rock
ford under the registration law. With prescription
ordinance which now have our books, the total
sales by the twenty-five drug stores of the city of
Rockford has been 22o7, less than sale per drug
store per day for the entire five months.
Taxes Higher in License Times.
And as for the license money which came into this
citys treasury, want to say you that the people
of Rockford have reached that position where they
longer rely upon this form of They realize
that if they do not have the $4,000 that paid by
the ftythree saloonkeepers here that they have lost
just that much revenue for the time being but their
of justice to their fellow men is not going to
permit them have their reduced their children
educated their streets paved while poor mother
stands at the wash tub because the father is helping
pay that saloon while standing in front of the
bar. This matter of revenue and taxation has all got
to be worked out. 1t will take time. I not going
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1912-11-08
THE AMERICAN ISSUE
November 8, 1912.

CAN ISSUE November 8, 1912.
be foolish stand here and tell you that be-
of the fact that Rockford has been dry her
have been lower. Nevertheless, her taxes have been
lower under the dry regime. Our highest taxes have
been in wet times going to tell this thing it
is, because is right tell it, and because have
hdence in the manhood of this community.
city where the tax levy is less than 100000
may, if it undertakes some great Improvements like
the building of high school or ward school or two
increase the appropriation of that year by $4,000
$I5o,ooo or if it undertakes any other great public
Improvement it may at that time increase the taxes
very great Degree and if that time happens to be
during wet regime the taxes are consequently high
and if no great improvement is undertaken during
dry time, the taxes consequently lower 1t will
take time to bring about proper equalization. 1t
would take years for the living in Rock
ford who has previously spent his money where he
ce1ved value in return, to accumulate enough to
build little home, to make his investments which
here become taxable When this time comes, with
taxable value in this city, it means in conse-
quence reduced taxation.
Identifying the Blind Pggers.
The article goes on to say:
% with @ a ss ht Fev s s @
regulation
[ want to ask you, Mr.. Editor of the Midas Cri-
erion who is it that is breaking the law in the city
Of Rockford It isn't the dry people, It is such
Ed Malone, who within the last thirty days
victed in police court for running blind pig. Since
then the circuit has taken him in hand and he
serving time in the county jail Tuesday of this
week he indicted by the United States grand Jury
and Uncle Sam will now take his turn with him. And
who is Ed Malone? Convicted when Rockford was
dry before, and who, during the license PERIOD ran
bottling works in South Rockford. Tell me who is
breaking these laws Tell me what we are coming to-
if in this government that boasts that the majority
shall rule, that if in the event that the Temperance
people of this city have spoken in sufficient numbers
and have proclaimed that Rockford shall be dry there
is continuance of illegal work. as the editor of this
whisky paper chronicles.
Rockford Dry AS Result of Deliberate. Thoughtful
Act of the Voters.
The editor continues:
The will
left
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1912-11-08

elers, twentyyear lease, and rented at that, from
the Rockford Brewing Company.
Police Court Records Show Decreased Drunkenness
One-Eighth, Only, of DRINKS Get Liquor
in Rockford
The article goes on to say:
The leader-enterprise. [volume] (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1912-1915, 1912-11-29
The Shrinking Glaciers.

1t appears that, save over small
area, the glaciers of the world are
rctreating to the mountains. The
Arapahoe glacier in the Rockies has
been melting at a rapid rate for sev-
eral years. The glacier on Mount
Sarmiento, in South America, which
descended into the sea during the
last century, is now separated from
the shore by vigorous growth OF
timber, The Jacobshaven glacier,
In Greenland, has rctreated four
miles since the year 1860, and the
East glacier, in Spitzbergen, is more
than a mile away from its old ter
minal moraine. In Scandinavia the
snow line is farther up the noun
tains, and the glaciers have with
drawn 1900 feet from the lowlands
in century. In the eastern Alps
and one or two other small districts
the glaciers are growing. Harper $
Weekly
The leader-enterprise. [volume] (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1912-1915, 1912-11-29
If the Heart Stops Beating.

When the heart stops the circula-
ton ceases, the capillaries of the
lungs become gorged with stagnant
blood, while the blood in the brain
no longer carries away the waste
products and brings the oxygenated
fluid to restore the tissues. AS the
blood takes about half a minute to
circulate through the whole system,
it may be taken that at the end of
this period after the stoppage of
the heart the arteries would be fill
ed by the last effort of the left VEN
tricle, while the veins would be
pouring their contents into the
right auricle. In few seconds more
the nervous centers would cease to
act, and probably by the end of the
minute the subject would be prac-
tically dead from suffocation, al
though reflex muscular action would
probably keep up the appearance of
life for some seconds longer.
The leader-enterprise. [volume] (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1912-1915, 1912-11-29

The fusome advice President elect Wilson reaches its
zenith when gives favorable expression suggestion
Mr. Taft appointed to the Supe bench President
already appointed majority Of the Supreme Court during
president than has fallen any of his
and has virtually paced conr of the adjudication
constitutional questions entire accord with his and
interpretations of constitutional questions To add Mr. Taft to the
Supreme Court would Indefinitely place the final disposition of
Congress the the class represented in the Ma
by Mr. Taft and his advisers TIE danger the Re-
public pointed the usupaon of powers
the Supreme Court intended by the Constitution AMI
point Mr. Taft that important place would firmly fix this
theory the Judiciary being higher than the legislative branch
Government The people this country by their retired
Dir Taft would be unwse for the corporations through their
attorneys, the politicians, to renstate him.
The leader-enterprise. [volume] (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1912-1915, 1912-11-29
Origin Of Paper Confetti.

Years ago firm of printers in
Paris executed an unusually large
order for almanaca. Each sheet was
punched with a small hole for eye
letting and an immense number Of
tiny circles of colored paper ac-
cumulated in the workrooms. One
day a workman grabbed handful
of these and in spirit Of fun
threw the bits of paper over "A girl
worker who was passing. She re-
taliated; others followed the ex-
ample of the two. and a miniature
snowstorm was in progress when
the head Of the firm entered. Be
ing man Of imagination, he saw
Something in it," Confetti was the
result. Instead Of destroying the
punched out circles of paper he or
dered new and special forms Of ma
chinery for turning out the little
papers that form so picturesque a
role in many festivities throughout
the world. 1t is said that this firm
alone turns out more than sixty
tons of confetti a week.--Harper's-
The leader-enterprise. [volume] (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1912-1915, 1912-11-29
Union Sundo y School
Convention AT The
New Baptist c hurch

Mr.. D. w. Sims, field secretary
of the Georgia Sunday School As
ISOLATION, is conducting a Sunday
School Convention at the new Bap-
fist church under the auspices of
the white schools of The city.
M. Sims is live wire in Sun
,iay s .hool wark AMI the talks and
discus ,ons as the sessions last
light and this morning were o.
such character that no person
ould Il, ar them without becoming
more e; ,huslastic in Sunday School
work.
Urt,rtun tely the people gen.
rail !, Go not sfem 10 know o. the
Co feIt:cu. There wlll be a SEES
SIGN at 500 o'ciu eli this afternoon
a aluther ioDigt at 7:3O. Ii is
h ,ncd that narv more will avail
th mselvcT If the : portunlty to
get Il. ger vision and zeal
The leader-enterprise. [volume] (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1912-1915, 1912-11-29
Evolution of the Needle.

Sewing needles of bone, stone,
glass and bronze antedate all his
toric records, but those of iron,
brass and steel are comparatively
modern. Bone and glass needles
have been found in Egyptian tombs
that are known to be over 1000
years old, and similar domestic in
struments of bronze and copper
have been found in the mounds and
burial caves of Europe and America
which are believed to be much older
than those found with the Nile
mummies. The needle first appear
ed in its present form in European
countries in the year l4l0, but the
art Of making them was kept Sc
cret for upward Of $50 years after
the date last given. In the year
1850 they were first made in the
American colonies, but at what
point is mootel question among
the historians.