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The Holbrook news., 1912-09-27
Up to Him.

81 feel that 1 could overcome any
obstacle for you" he declared.
There is only one obstacle that
you will have to overcome to get me"
Ehe replied.
What is it? Tell me, and I will
overcome It."
81 have made up my mind that
will never marry any one whose ears
stick out like the wings on mono
plane. Get yours to fatten them
selves against your head and the OBJ
stacle will be- overcome"
The Holbrook news., 1912-09-27
Could Spare One.

One day Charlie, aged four, and hin
baby sister were playing with some
small marbles when one of them dis.
appeared and could not be found.
Their mother assisted in the search
and WAS very much alarmed, fearing
the baby had swallowed it.
"Oh, well, don't worry about II
mamma" said Charlie We've Eoa
enough marbles without it."
The Holbrook news., 1912-09-27
MARSHALL NEW IN POLITICS

Gov. Thomas R. Marshall OF Ina
diana, the Democratic nominee fol
vice-president, rode to the front Of his
party on a wave Of reform. But the
Indiana wave was not so boisterous as
those that broke on the New Jersey
coast and elsewhere. Governor Mar
shall believes in reform-in modera
ton. Also he believes in progressing
with moderation. He does not be
lieve that this great and glorious com
monwealth is going to the "demnition
bow-wows;" in fact, he points with
pride to his belief that the country ia
Just little bit better politically
financially and morally than ever be
fore.
1t required heroic measures on the
part Of his friends to induce Governor
Marshall to take mis- presidential
chances seriously, and even then he
refused to allow any effort to be made
in his behalf outside of Indiana.
Governor Marshall was born in
Manchester, Ind, in 1854 and has
The Holbrook news., 1912-09-27
Inv 1rEHH1 lLHEXHLILII(GEfl17
NELLIE GRANT WEBS AGAIN

The marriage recently Of Mrs.
Nellie Grant Sartoris to Frank H.
Jones, a Chicago banker, was in sharp
contrast to her first marriage, SO years
ago, to Algernon J. Sartoris, an Eng
fish army officer.
Nellie Grant was then the idol Of
the nation and her marriage took
place in the east room Of the White
House while her distinguished father
was president. 1t was one of the
greatest social events the White
House had seen up to that time, or
perhaps since. Simple, amiable and
unaffected, Nellie Grant, the only
daughter of General Grant, had en-
deared herself to the American people
and she went with her husband to
their English home accompanied by
the heartiest good wishes.
In England she was presented to
Queen Victoria and dined at Windsor
Castle. Yet her life in England prov.
ed most unhappy. Her husband treat
ed her with injustice and cruelty, so
The Holbrook news., 1912-09-27
HIa Parting Words.

"Goodby. daughter, I suppose yoI
will be engaged a number Of timei
this summer"
81 suppose so, dad"
well, you're getting along. See 1
you can't make one Of them perma
nent."
The Holbrook news., 1912-09-27

native He graduated from
old He praciced
in
gola, in
why nothing colossal
shoulders
white do not bst his brows do
vioetblue mild
political Little Giant
sundert stood
The Holbrook news., 1912-09-27
Mnra PrnhtahIa

Ole Scrabbler-I hear you have Civ
on up fiction writing.
Younge Scribbler-No; mSrell
changed my style. I've become q
oA@AEdaamant wrttar@JudGA
The Holbrook news., 1912-09-27
A Promised Reform,

Mrs. Hustler-When women Fult
there'n be no more of this wine. WON
en- and song" thing.
Mrs. HustIer-No?
Mrs Hustler-No; it'll be ~mirth
men and music. "-Judge.
The Holbrook news., 1912-09-27
The Boston Version.

Chicago is a great town. Every
body boosts"
Boston inhabitants are excessively
ardent agitators for the uplift, too
responded the gentleman from tina
burg.
The Holbrook news., 1912-09-27
SWIMMING Nit.

The purpose of the mitt is to make
possible a more effective stroke In
swimming by preventing any flow OF
water between the fingers.
The Holbrook news., 1912-09-27


Philadelphia
the attendance of the school time
tina
The Holbrook news., 1912-09-27

much that her sympathy aroused in her behalf and he
of
I'M
The Holbrook news., 1912-09-27
AID AFFORDED TO SWIMMER
Mitt Slipped Closely over Fingers
Prevents Flow of Water and
Facilitates Stroke.

A swimming mitt, having body Of
length and width to slip fairly
closely over the four fingers of the
hand, is shown in the illustration
The Holbrook news., 1912-09-27
Play and DIspIav.

Teacher-What is the differences BE-
tween play" and display"
Bright Boy-Boys love to play and
d-ls love to display.
The Holbrook news., 1912-09-27


the O he Northern
J.
youth
massng of money. he born in Guelph Ont. in 1885,
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-02-26
Viewpoints
Ii We Had That Million.

Editor the MissOurian: The ad-
visory board of the proposed school
of Journalism at Columbia Univer-
sty. made possible by the gift of the
late Joseph Pulitzer, is up against
the apparently difficult task of found
ing a school to teach Journalism on a
small sum like S1,OO0.O00. BY the
terms of the will, 100000 of this
sum is to go into the construction of
a building. Upon the interest of the
other $500, ,000 the school must de-
pend for maintenance. Columbia
University has already donated the
grounds for the school, valued at
$500, 900 and officers of the Univer-
sity have offered to come to the res
cue of the school of Journalism.
In other words. the new school of
Journalism is to have an immense
plant, all the facilities necessary for
a large school and is to be connected
with one of the great educational
Institutions in America, yet will not
have a maintenance fund sufficient to
employ a teaching force on a scale
coordinate with its equipment.
This situation of affairs at the new
school in New York should afford
consolation to the Missouri School of
Journalism for the fact that we had
to start on limited scale. The Mis-
souri, school had no educational pal
ace to fill. consequently our modest
appropriations have not been out of
harmony with our equipment. Per-
haps it was just as well that this was
SO for all healthy development is
along the lines of steady growth. 1t
is difficult for school to spring Mi
nerva-likc into fruitiOn and the New
York school will doubtless profit by
its obstacles. Certain it is that the
Pulitzer gift will be utilized to the
highest possible advantage. And yet
We cannot help the thought. If We
only had that million.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-02-26
Memorable DAYS in Missouri

: Two hundred and thirty years ago
on April =, next, La Sale, the French
explorer. took posse ssiOn of the Mis-
4 sissippi valley in the name of the
King of France. Had the English or
the Spanish obtained possession of
this territory there would i'm all
probability never We been any Mis-
souri, to have state anniversaries. 1t
was through the explorations of La
Sale that the French laid claim to
Louisiana and it was the French Ma
poleon. who, when pressed hard for
ready cash. sold this territory for
S1j. 100000.
One hundred and nine years ago
next April 30 negotiations We're COM
pleted for the purchase of Louisiana.
but il was more than ten months la
ter. March 10, 1904. before the Stars
and Stripes replaced the tricolors of
France at st. Louis.
Little as Napoleon valued Louisi-
ana, Jefferson seems to have had an
inkling of its worth. Next May II
will be the one hundred and eighth
anniversary of the start of the Lewis
and Clark expedition up the Missouri
river.
Progress rapidly followed the flag
On March .. lS0J, less than a year
after the United States had come into
possession of it. Louisiana was made
a territory with General James Will
kinson governor and with its capital
AT ST. Louis.
The anniversary of Missouri as a
territory is June 4. The centennial of
its creation as a territory will be
June 1. next. January s. just past,
was the ninety-seventh anniversary of
the battle of New Orleans. The year
1919 marks the last attempt of any
European power to obtain posses
sion of this territory. Six years la
ter. and only seventeen years after
its acquisition by the United States
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-02-26
4 MISSOURI CHANNEL.

by unanimous vote the House
Committee on Rivers and HIarborS
made 81. .661.000 available. in four
months. for use TO dig siX-foot
channel in the Missouri River from
Kansas City to its mouth.
If the bill gets through the House
and the Senate as it stands, Missou-
rians may see the channel in ten
years.
May it be so. The only remarka-
BILE thing about this piece of legisla-
ton, if it ever gets through, is that
it was not carried through a quarter
of a century ago. Discussion of such
a bill is of far more interest, to Mis-
souriars than discussion of the re-
vision of Schedule X, and money
spent in such an enterprise is far
better spent than in building anOth-
or gunbOat 1t is only to be feared
that by the time the men in the high
places get ready to build siX-fOOt
channel. traffic will be such as to
warrant twelve feet.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-02-26
WHY HEAR kCBE!.IK.

The last thing in the requirement
of culture is an appreciation of art
and music 1t does not matter how
we'll a person is versed in science, in
literature or in history. He is not en-
tirely cultured if he has not an appre-
citation of the good in arts and music.
Where this appreciation is present
it must be fed Where it is lacking
it must be created. And here is an
tion of music. To hear the mediocre
does not always inspire us with res
pect. 1t is only the best that absOrbs
us. and makes us crave more. And
our opportunity is to hear the best.
Kubelik will soon be here He is
violinist. The violin is one of the
oldest Instruments 1t is the parent
of other stringed Instruments. Ku-
belik embodieS in himself all that the
ages. during the existence of that in
strument. have learned. TO hear him
is to hear the violin doing its utmost.
Good music has a refining influ-
ence. When We forget ourselves
amid its strains, our best qualities
come forward, and for a time We walk
and live in a better world, and feel
kindlier toward each other
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-02-26
ISIT WALLINGFORD'S:

The total annual receipts of the
Columbia gas company are more than
$4,000. and the rate is SID for
lighting and $l.6o for heating and
power. The total receipts at Boon
Vile are less than $l1,0o0. yet the
rate for lighting is only $l.5n and for
heating and power $l.3o.
statistics from fifteen Missouri
towns. ranging III size from ST. Louis
to Parnell. show that Columbia has d
higher rate than any of the fifteen.
The little town of Parnell, where the
total receipts are scarcely more than
Sl0o pays only $l.5". st. Louis pays
$l.2o and Hannibal $l.25. With the
exception of Columbia the prices
in the main from $l.25 to Sl.50.
That Columbia should be forced to
pay $1..5 looks hardly reasonable.
And to make bad worse. the service
is not what it should be-and the gas
company is operating without fran
chiSe.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-02-26

then. more food. There must be
fewer consumers.
War is the most natural means Of
adjusting demand to supply. Contin-
Gus wedding out OF the less desirable
citizens or a systematic reduction of
the birth rate are the only alterna-
tives. Neither of these is feasible.
War is surely preferable to star
vatiOn. There is in campaigning a
degree of pleasure and stimulation
that makes for manliness. And it is
highly efficient: one prOtracted war is
said to have carried off about a
fourth of the Germans.
Not many people actually starve
in civilized communities. but. as the
interval of peace draws to a close,
living becomes increasingly difficult,
so that malnutrition and the many
hardships of poverty make the work
of disease easy. 1t is the same as
starvation in the long run.
Other nations beside our own have
reached the stage of acute want. Des-
tructiye wars have often followed
such conditions. When men lack the
necessities. they are little disposed to
regard treaties and laws. The will
to live Overrides all ordinary cOnsid-
eratiOns. c. 5.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-02-26
Thinks War Necessary.

Editor the MissOurian-Thep par
tisans of arbitration break into print
quite frequently. Their contentious
rest largely on sentiment and there
fore easily win the unthOughtful.
Contrary arguments, resting as they
do on cold. unpalatable reasoning.
appeal only to the small minority and
can never become popular.
What follows is, of course. merely
an expression of opinion. Today, the
writer believes it firmly. but he
makes no claim that it is certainly
true. Many peace advocates lack
this Wholesome difiidences. The
qualification Il believe" would not be
unbecOming to them.
The death rate of plants and ami
mails varies directly as their rate of
increase. Man is no exception.
As food is the prime necessity of
life, SO the want of it is. directly or
indirectly. the most frequent cause
of death. The food supply of man in
creases in arithmetical. man himself
in geometrical. ratio. The existence
of fertile. uninhabited lands does not
solve the difficulty. Many must
starve.
The cure for high prices is not.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-02-26

Call 30 for Circulation Depart
ment University MissOurian.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-02-26

Missouri became a state. August 10.
1921.
March 6, next. will be the ninety
sixth anniversary of the first Mis-
souri, Compromise, or the real begin
ming OF Missouri as a state. though
she was not formerly admitted to the
Union till over Year later.
The birthdays of great MissOurians
mark number of anniversaries.
Thomas Hart Benton. thirty years in
, the United States Senate. was born
100 years ago next March IA. James
:. Rollins. the father of the rniver-
sity. was born 100 years ago next
April 10.
Sterling Price. governor and lead
er of Confederate troops. was born
September II. 1909. Frank p. Blair
United States senator and leader of
the tnionists at the opening of the
Civil War, was born on February 10,
ninety-One years ago. John :. Phil
lips. governor. was born December
-, 1914: James :. Green, United
States senator. February IS. 1917:
X. =. Bland. congressman. August
10, 1879; Edward Bates. attorney
general in LincOln's cabinet, Septem-
Der 4, 1888; B. GratZ Brown. Unit
ed States senator and governor. May
2S, 1926: James b. f,ads. engineer.
builder of the St. Louis bridge and
the Mississippi jetties. May %. 1920;
A. w. DOniphan. leader in the march
to Mexico. July =. 1909: Hamilton r.
Gamble. the war governor, NOvem-
ber -. 1898; George &. bingham,
the famous Missouri artist. 100 years
March 20. last; Eugene Field. the
childrcn's poet September =. 1850;
EnOch NJ. Martin. bishop and preach
er. June II, 1923; Samuel Lang
horne Clemens MARK Twain No
vember 80, 1888; Carl Schurz, Unit
ed States senator. March =, 1929;
Daniel Boone. explorer and pathfind-
cr. November 2, 1874
c. A. L.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-02-26
TOGdy's Anniversaries
TOtlay'S Anniversaries.

William F. Cody (BuffalO Bid. ia
nous as scout and guide, born
1S4J.
John G.. NicOlay, author. private
secretary TO President Lincoln. born
1882.
Indians of Hoboken. y. J. massa-
cred by the Dutch, l643.
Eugene Schuyler. author and dip
lOmatist. United States minister to
st. Petersburg and COnStantinOple,
born 1910.
Fifteenth amendment giving suf-
frage to the negroes passed by both
houses of Congress, 1869.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-02-26
Ten Years Ago.

A Columbia paper printed pict-
ure OF Champ Clark on the front
page. boosting him for United States
Senator. The paper was hardly out
when the announcement came that
Clark had withdrawn from the race.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-02-26
Fifty Years Ago.

Fifty thousand Federal soldiers
were ordered from Washington to
Kentucky.
4 Cincinnati woman was buried
alive by mistake. The burial killed
her.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-02-26
SiXty-Ninp Years Ago.

A Columbia paper had failed to is
slIe for two weeks because two hand
cOmpositOrs had been ill. They re-
covered; so did the paper.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-02-26
Twenty Years Ago.

The removal of the University was
a question stirring Missouri.
A Columbia paper had an editorial,
rs the World Mad?"
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-02-26
Echoes of Yesterday
Four Years Ago.

The grand jury returned thirty-two
indictments, most of them being Tor
the illegal sale of liquor.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-02-26

n thn moved ~ a al
is
h an n The
Mountain and pr Mr temper i f t.
Wyoming NrtD DakoaM Minnesota aand Manitoba
AS the d b. by amda press
II
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-08-24
OF INTEREST To
WOMEN
On Love of Dress

TN Love OF Dress.
In an article in the American mara-
zine on "A Woman and Her Raiment,"
Ida NJ. Tarbell says that wealth is the
generally accepted standard of meas
urement of value in this country to-
day and that there is no way in which
the average man can show wealth so
clearly as in encouraging his owmen
folk to array themselves. Following
is an extract from the article:
Moreover. to put in ones DAYS in
hard labor simply to dress we'll, for
that is the amount of it, is demoraliz-
ing. 1t is this emphasis in the matter
which impels a reckless girl
times to sell herself for money to buy
clothes. I wanted the money! I
heard a girl. arrested for her first
street soliciting. tell the judge. Had
you no home?' Yes "A good home p
Yes For what did you want
money! Clothes
Gee. but I felt as If I would give
anything for one of them willow
plumes.' a pretty ~16-year-old girl told
the police matron who had rescued
her after leaving home with a man,
because he promised her silk gowns
and hats with feathers.
This ugly preoccupation with dress
does not begin with the bottom of So
ciety. It exists there because its ex-
lists at the top and filters down. In
each successive layer there are wom-
en- to whom dress Is as much Of a vice
as 1t was for the poor little girls I
quote above. 1t is a vice curiously
parallel to that of gambling among
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-08-24

the proposed regulation to levy a tax
upon all cats in the district. The
majority of the club members claim
that the district commissioners would
receive very little revenue from cat
fanciers if the regulation were enact
ed into a law, because the really valu-
able cats are never allowed to roam
the streets, consequently a tax would
be foolish.
Mrs. Henry L. West. president, said
Yesterday that she was in favor of the
regulation, so far as keeping the num-
Der of stray cats in the district was
concerned to a minimum, but was OF
the opinion that So was exorbitant
for a license.
Inc owners of valuable cats" said
Mrs. West, "of course would be willing
to have them tagged and gladly paw
the price, but it would be a foolish
expenditure of money for a cat that
never goes outside of the home, as is
the case of the cats that are really
valuable"
Mrs. William H. Bixby. a prominent
member of the club. and owner of
several valuable %felines, said very lit
tie revenue would he gathered from
the proposed regulation because few
people other han the owners of valu-
able cats would pay a tax.
II me proposed law is primarily
LIN G"SlI Nv luIOS,
very little money will come from it,
said Mrs. Bixby, las the whole plan
is impracticable. I am of the opinion
that no better work can be performed
than that now going on. Whereby cats
OF no worth are collected upon request
and sent to the poundmaster for ex-
ecution."
The proposed regulation was made
upon the recommendation of the
health department of the district,
which suggested that a tax should be
levied on all the felines of the dis
trict. as we'll as on the dogs. The
proposition is now in the hands of
the commissioners, who may ask for
legislation by congress. The failure
of congress to enact legislation to
meet h pension payments of the DO
lice and firemen caused the commits
s%ioners to consider a cat tax. Just
how much evenu would be gathered
is problematical. The income de-
rived from the sale of dog tags
amounts to 100000 per year.
Since July 1 the mortality rate of
the cats Of the district has been in
creased. Nearly 1000 cats have been
killed off by the poundmaster.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-08-24
WORLDS WOMEN
Items of Interest from all Sec
lions of the Earth.
a good many people waste sleep for

A good many people waste sleep for
tear that women are going to stop be-
ing women as they fare forth into
new paths. while nature. with per-
feet economy" is turning everything
TO account. says a writer in the New.
York Post. They need assurance and
assurance that what women are
asking for is the chance to he women.
not little men. no matter through
what channels of activity their being
may come to expression. These un-
easy ones would he gladdened if their
eyes could rest upon the Mutual
Bank for Self-Supporting Women in
Berlin. Cut flowers stand on the
desks. green plants adorn the stills,
and sheer white muslin curtains hang
at the windows. The feminine touch
is everywhere visible. In becoming
business people. teh women who run
the bank-there are no men in it
have not ceased TO be women.
This bank is said to be the only one
in the world financed and conducted
entirely by women. 1t was founded
in 1910 to enable self-supporting girls
and women to obtain such pecuniary
accommodations as have long been at
the disposal Of men. The enterprise
was started on a small scale, the cap
ital being $25.000. Any German WON
an can become a member of the CO.
operative body which controls the
bank by paying the membership fee
and taking up n IS share of the
concern. No woman may hold more
than $4,000 of capital.
Women may open accounts without
their husbands knowledge, and. in
MANY cases. pecuniary help has been
granted to enable women to start in
trade. the bank accommodation o.
ing a stepping stone to immediate sue.
cess. Small temporary loans are made
TO tradesWomen to tide them ove1
crises. 1t is said that by this means
many an honest woman has beer
saved from bankruptcy or from the
usurer's tolls. Business men have M
difficulty in obtaining loans on ade.
quate security in Germany, but WON.
en- in like need nave not been able tc
secure much accommodation until tho
establishment of this Genossenschafts.
bank selbststandiger Frauen.
The bank subscribes to cautious
methods. however; will not lend more
than % pounds to a borrower, and re.
CURES security for any amount owe,
$40. Loans must be paid back with.
IN three months. The banks board
OF control consists Of four women
On the staff are two directresses, with
a force of even women clerks under
them.
Members of the WASHINGTON Ca,
club are looking with disfavor upon