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University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-05-14
insurance. was $15,42O,OOO.

insurance, was $lJ,fSV,VVV.
None of the companies has suffered
losses that it cannot readily pay and
many of the companies were not in
vOlved at ALL" the Spectator adds.
The Aetna Life Insurance Com
pany reports that its accident losses
are 100000, with possible additions
of $4,000. The largest policies in
this total were upon the lives of
Frank NJ. Warren of Portland, Ore,
SIS, 900; Charles NJ. Hays of Mon
treal, president of the Grand Trunk
Railway, $4,000; Emil Brandeis of
Omaha. $4,000; Charles S. Chap
man of New York, $13,65O. accident
and a life certificate. and S. w.
Blackwell of Trenton, n. j.. $4,000.
The Northwestern Mutual of Mil
waukee estimated Wednesday a to-
tai loss of 1-2 million dollars. The
United States Health and Accident
Company. Saginaw, Mich. estimated
$4,000 accident. The preferred Ac-
cident Insurance Company of New
York said it would lose 100000 on
accident policies carried by two first
cabin passengers on the Titanic. A.
f. Nicholson and Emil Taussig.-
From the New York Sun.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-05-14
MOVING DAY FOR WHOLE TOWN


Santa Fe. the county seat of Has
kell County. Kas., is going to move
The town. with its stores, homes
public buildings and coo citizens
will be moved eleven miles across
a level prairie to new site on a
railroad. The town couldn't get a
railroad built near it. so it did the
next best thing.
The question of moving the town
Jail is at present perpleXing the town
officials The Jail, veritable fortress,
hasn't been occupied for five years.
But it may become a very busy insti-
tuition in the new site.
Not all of the citizens will profit
by this removal. "WaterwOrks'
Smith is perhaps the heaviest loser.
He is virtually left without an Occu-
patton. There were only two wells
in Santa Fe, and "WaterwOrks"
Smith, who owned a team and a tank
wagon. was engaged in the business
of carrying water for the various
homes The new town has an abund-
ance of wells.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-05-14
LIKE ANTS. FOR INSTANCE.

Everybody has watched ants at
work around their hill. Perhaps you
have noticed that these ants always
are in a hurry. Their legs are ap-
parently not long enough for the
ants are always i'm such a hurry they
do not even use enough sense to
know where they are going or what
they are trying to do. Look at that
one. for instance. He is breaking
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-05-14
FEW TAKE MISSION POSITIONS
Y. W. G. 4. Receives Request for
Nurses. Teachers and Physicians,

Y. W. &. 4. Receives Request fOI
Nurses. Teachers and Physicians.
Many letters are received by the
Y. w. C. A. asking for students tC
fill positions in foreign lands. These
were sent first to the Student VOlun.
teer Board and then forwarded to the
different universities.
Miss Esther Chapman, general sec.
retary of the Y. w. c. A., has just re.
ceived two letters, one asking for a
nurse and medical missionary to &c
to Egypt, and one for a lady princi.
pal for a boys school, recently built
in Bombay, India.
Not long ago." said Miss Chap
man. someone came here and beg.
ged me to find some young woman
who would be private secretary to the
head of college in China. I cannot
answer any of these demands be-
cause there is no one here who is pre-
rared or willing to 60"
Every four months a list of posi-.
ions is sent to the association. The
asst one contained 500 vacancies OF
which 200 were for women. Many
new schools are rapidly being built
in foreign lands and there are none
to take charge of them. There are
also demands for women physicians
and surgeons. for nurses, kinder
garten. directors. physical directors.
Bible teachers. stenographers and
superintendent of orphanages.
For men there are positions as en-
gineers, teachers. athletes. physical
directors. architects and builders,
physicians. business managers of col
leges and mission stations, and dem
fists. Printers are needed to operate
the many mission presses being set
up. The salaries paid vary in the diff
ferent counties with the cost of liv-
ing. Travelling expenses are paid by
the mission boards.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-05-14

dent at 2 million dollars and marine
at 6 million dollars.
The insurance loss on the vessel is
, million dollars. on the cargo $42O,-
600, on personal effects 100000, ac-
cOrding to the Spectators figures.
The same paper estimates the proper
ty loss at $9.420.OOO, divided as fol-
lows: Vessel. s million dollars; car
go. 100000; person effects, 1 mil
lion dollars. Thus the estimated ag-
gregate loss, including property and
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-05-14
TOddy'S ANNIVERSARIES
The Pullman strike began, 1894.

The Pullman strike began, 1894.
Battle at Jackson, Miss. 1868.
Timothy Dwight, clergyman, edu.
Gator and author, a president of Yale
College, born 1862.
The convention assembled to draft
the United States Constitution, 1887
Lewis and Clarke started up the
Missouri River, 1904.
Samuel II. Parsons, soldier and
jurist. the first judge of the North.
west Territory. born 1871.
George Cooper. poet. author OF
many popular songs and poetry for
children. born 1910.
James ID. Cameron. railroad pres
ident and politician, Secretary of
war under President Grant. born
1888.
Samuel Dexter, jurist and politi-
clan. Secretary of the Treasury under
President Adams, born 1861.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-05-14

his neck to get somewhere with an
old, dried-up wing of beetle. He
knows he can't eat the thing and he
knows, too, that they can't eat it at
home. Nevertheless, when he saw
the wing he probably reasoned, here
is something almost too big for me
to carry, but it ought to be carried ;
therefore, I will carry it. Acting on
the train of his suggestions he grabs
the beetle wing and starts. not to-
ward home but in the opposite direc-
ton. In order to make the distance
longer he climbs all the weeds near
at hand, scrambles over numberless
sticks, falls into holes and mounts
every rock in sight This ant is an
Industrious ant: that is the reason
he works so hard to keep from get
ting any place.
When this ant has climbed all the
weeds in his vicinity and fallen over
all the sticks and stones near about.
it suddenly occurs to him that there
was a fallacy in his reasoning about
the beetle wing Ant-like he drops
it and rushes off. The first thing he
encounters is another ant carrying a
rich morsel toward the hills. Think
ing it his duty as a member of the
ant community to be helpful to the
other ant, he seiZes the mOrsel and
pulls in the direction opposite to that
which the other ant wishes to go.
Generally speaking. individuality
is a characteristic of men as well as
of ants.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-05-14

AS for influence, the community
cannot escape from the newspapers.
Surely the newspapers cannot COM
pei the community to accept their
advice. Surely they do not exercise
a. paternal power. 1t would be un-
wholesome if they should. In any
number of cases their advice has
been repudiated by the people of a
community in an election. At the
same time it is impossible to get
away from the power of suggestion
| happen to know a town which has
been dominated for years by a cyni-
cal newspaper. which has made it a
point to make fun of every attempt
at progress. A friend who went there
to address a mass meeting that was
called to consider the commission
form of government assured me that
the leaders We're frightened at their
own audacity. Everybody on the
Main Street, they told him, would be
laughing at them and calling them
the holiness party" and ''gOO-goOs."
In the same way decent newspaper
may be of tremendous help in the up
building of the town by constant
hammering on progressive measures.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-05-14
PRESIDENT HIBIsEN.

Last Saturday DIR. John Grier Hib'
ben was inaugurated as president OF
Princeton University. Many dis
tinguished men, including President
Taft and the Chief Justice of the
United States. were present at the in
auguratiOn.
the office. Princeton University is to
be congratulated upon his selection.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-05-14

The fact that the editorial is un-
; signed is sometimes urged as defect
on the ground that it makes for ir-
responsible utterances and detracts
from the effectiveness of the Opin-
ions. The contrary is true. The edi-
tOrial ought not to be signed be-
cause it represents the views of no
single person, but of an institution
with a personality of it's own. The
question with an editorial writer on
the New York Evening Post, for in
stance, is not what his private views
happen to be, but what would the
Evening Post with it's century of his
tory behind it. have to say. A writ
er may have his own individual likes
and dislikes. But he is expected to
rise above them and adopt the in
stitutiOnal view when he writes an
editorial. In way his position cor
responds to that of a cabinet men,
ber. On the big things he ought to
be in sympathy with the purpose of
the administration. If he isn't, the
proper thing for him to do is to get
out. because he cannot work effect
lively under such conditions. If edi-
tOrials were to be signed | believe
they would disappear. may care for
what the ChicapO Tribune Or tho Nou
York Times says, but | have no inter-
est in the opinions of the John Jones
who happens to write the editorial i'm
question.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-05-14
TITANIC LOSS IL MILLIONS

This Is the Sum as Figured by the
Spectator, an Insurance Weekly.
The insurance loss on the Titanic,
including marine, life and accident.
is estimated at 12 million dollars by
the Spectator, the insurance weekly.
which will publish today its figures
based on information supplied by
practically all the companies that
suffered. The Spectator puts life in
surance at 4 million dollars, acci-
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-05-14
Major Frazier Goes to Honolulu.

Word has been received by the
alumni recorder that Major Joseph
Frazier. of the 1st U. S. Infantry, has
been transferred from Vancouver
Barracks at Washington to Honolulu,
Hawaii. Major Frazier was gradu-
ated from the University in 1885.
receiving the degree of Pc p, (Prin-
cipal of Pedagogy.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-05-14

OF course it is fact that some
body must own the newspaper. and it
is only fair, | suppose, that the owner
should control the editorial policy.
But broadly speaking, there exist to-
day only two important points of
view for the consideration of public
and industrial problems. The one
is the conservative and the other the
progressive. In almost every city
you will find both viewpoints in the
local newspapers. If You don't en-
joy one, you can usually get the 9TH
err for the modest sum of one cent,
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-05-14
In common with the other features I

In common with the other features
of the newspaper, the editorial de-
partment has undergone severe criti-
cism in recent years. We have been
told in magazine articles that editor
ials no longer have influence, that
they convey nObOdy's views. that they
really should be called editorial
ene"that they are under corrupt con-
troll. and that altogether they are in
a sorry plight. recall that when
| was in college l shared in this very
hearty contempt for the editorials,
and that | took it for granted that
they were worthless lot.
Now | may venture to call your at
tentiOn to the fact that a periodical
like Current Literature or the Liter
ary Digest depends on newspaper
comment to large degree. An un-
prejudiced observer looking over one
of these periodicals cannot fail to be
impressed with the large amount of
really valuable comment that they
quote.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-05-14

There is one point on which the
editorials may justly be criticised. In
following the tradition that calls
for comment on every topic of cur
rent news, the writer's assume an ON
nicience that they do not possess and
they become in consequence perfume
tory and uninteresting. Our friend
in central Kansas may feel that the
newspaper ought to know Just what
should be done to prevent recur-
renee of the Titanic disaster. But if
it doesn't it ought to admit the fact
and not try to palm off half baked
ideas for the real thing.
You don't expect the welcome vis-
itOr that we have been talking about
TO know everything. If he assumes
to. we feel instinctively that he is
bluffing and that he isn't quite sim
cere. There is no greater nuisance
than the garrulOus old chap who
hangs around and gives his opinion
on every subject that comes up. The
newspaper that tries to do this makes
its audience tired.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-05-14
The Value of the Editorial
(From the H. Haskell Of the Ka
City SfaeN

so there is little practical danger OF
keeping you in ignorance.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-21
C. Notes

The gymnasium and the boys de-
partment are being thoroughly over
hauled with paint and scrubbing
brush and when these two depart
ments Will be opened the first Mon
day in September the members will
be treated to a surprise.
The swimming pool continues to
draw many sufferers from the heat"
daily. Each day the pool is thor
oughly cleansed and filled with 10000
gallons of sparkling artesian we'll
water.
Secretary Cozzens has returned
from the Y. M. C. A. Institute, held
at Silver Bay, Lake George. and is
now busy preparing for the season
which will open on the first of Sep
TENDER. He is confident that there
will be a large enrolment of new
members.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-21

From very point of Jew the Dig Removal Sale is the most pronounced trade amesm heh history
of the Bambape Store which is to say is the most mrmn @nmgf junction on record in Newark Few
have ever aped TO such pcdYUs sale and it is not at all probable that the ppe of
North Jersey will ever. again be ned to such a variety of Sbdannh bargains w e have made up on
to dispose Of as mehd our stock possible before we enter our splendid new store and we have
set bout nNhey to accomplish our purpose The new store must be. nw!
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-21
Buy for Future
Needs

IS unrlvaled IN Its
hundreds, Of oppor-
tunities for real
economy in buying
for fu,t use.
Thousands of dol
lars worth Of merchan-
disc thatwlll be worth as
much a year from now
as it is today is offered
at greatly reduced prices.
Therefore, many Of our
customers who are best
acquainted with our
stocks and who want the
best merchandise are not
only buying for present
needs, but for future re-
q%uirements as we'll.
Come to this sale and
supply your future wants.
The bargains warrant it.
You will make no mis-
take.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-21
Departments Will Be Strongly Featured

IC TUHUWmX departments VIII DC OHUHgV ICdlmUu IUMU1UW
F Mems Shirts Tea Sets Drugs and TM. Goods -
Buy for Future Poters Uphokmds Mems Trousers The 0bttd
Needs Mems NekNear Mns ns ls and Embroidery This Sale
n-E-.LL. Toys dinner Sets Window Screens @
is mmLd in its Stationery sweaters Ribbons - a.
huMhd am Dhm Beds and Bedding Iw. Mmms md. hat the -
m@ for real SkerWar N. sUN"." WIN"
economy mbmm Footwear handkerchief SmedMM new
for future use Lace Curtains uoLn a Screen DNH not my" Tar
Mmm%d %%% Dress Goods Wore,s SMS Rrgeats mmIhsh
&H@mwha Millinery White floods Wonnns Gloves the merchandise
@hb today S&d Artists Supplies Misses, Dresses Gas Table, Lamps shall be new 1t
n1r many %% Shirt Waists Womens Skirts Gas omes m@@ Oph@
@m % Misses Skirts Wash Fabrics Umbrellas much four r
%h@w%w"% Misses Suits Trunks and Bags Electric DMes %m as we can
only buying Mmm PeHIoaE Hair Goods Garden Hose u@%mn store now
m%%% Typography Knit Underwear Leather Goods %%%m we
Come mI and Carpets and Rugs Boys mmr QMmS Electric Lamps mhmmm@nmM
Tmhmmwmm& MwinWear Mems Smr suits Water Coolers mb@m mI
M%@%m BabyC Carriages Hory Oil Stoves %@%mm% %@~
Infant; Wear Fur Coats mS aS Cas- Stoves -
While it must not be aSed that everything in the store is reduced yet hMem sufficient ndc
tons to warrant us in exploiting this as the greatest nakbwn sale ever attempted in the history of the
dry goods business in Newark The reductions we have made are bmfda however, and those who come
to Bamb@rst tomorrow will go away abuhmy sTfd An East Orange customer sadly yesterday Il
came back from ocean Grove expressly for your removal SALE intended merely to spend the day in yon
store You. bargains are SO ahaNe though that stayed over Maybe won't go home until bmr
row." We de say there are hundreds Tiers wmc could voice hBw omans sentiments Come to Bmtagefs
Thmda-cme as early as YOU Iy@ late @yuc can Xix hBB too important to remain away from
sRal$$$$BBl $3.50 lE$EEERE@1F 80 - Haf4g F$$ 80
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-21

While it must not be assumed that ~everythin
lions to warrant us in exploiting this as the greatest
dry goods business in Newark. The reductions we
to Bambergers tomorrow will go away abundantly
came back from Ocean Grove expressly for your reno
store. Your bargains are so attractive, though, that
row. We dare say there are hundreds of others who c
Thursday-come as early as you can-stay as late as yot
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1912-03-14
WHAT HORSEPOWER MEANS
slnes Given to Explain the Com
mon Phrase.

In connection with steamship pro
pulsion the average man is apt to
speak very glibly Of so many hundred
or thousand horsepower. But 1t IL
extremely doubtful II one person In
hundred really has a due appreciation
Of what the phrase actually means.
On this point some very interesting
remarks were made by John Heck.
the Glasgow engineer surveyor
He said that, calculating the
strength Of twelve men to be equal
to one horsepower. 1t would require
$4,000 men to produce as much en-
ergy as the 10000 horsepower de-
veloped by the turbine machinery of
the express Cunarder Lusitania Then
II the men were to work on the eight
hour day system those figures would
give total Of $3.50, 900, that being
the number of men whose strength
would be necessary to drive the vessel
across the Atlantic ocean. So 1t would
take all the men In Scotland to supply
the energy produced all the day round
by the wonderful turbine machinery Of
this great ship.-Railway and Loco
motive Engineer.
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1912-03-14
$4,000, 900 Forced In 1911,

albert S. Osborn, author Of 'Ques-
toned Documents and an authority
on the subject, declares that the forg.
cry loss in this country for the year
1011 is fully $15,00O,0OO," writes Frank
Marshall White in the Munsey. In an
article, "The Day Of the Forger," the
writer quotes Osborn as saying:
Clever penmen are leaving a trail Of
bad checks reaching from Portland,
Me-, to Portland. Ore. Banks and no.
tells are naturally the shining marks
of the forger; but nearly, If not
quite, as much money is paid out on
forgeries by individuals, small store
keepers, and business houses as by all
the banks and hotels combined. A
large proportion, especially of the
unreported forgeries, is in amounts
OF less than 500. If the forger of a
small check has vanished, and only
doubtful clue remains, the natural
impulse Is not to send good money
after bad" In most cases, nothing is
done, and the criminal goes on his
way unhampered and unafraid. Banks
naturally do not care to have it
known that they pay out customers
money on forged paper, and If the
forger Is gone they are not inclined
TO tlke much trouble to find him."
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1912-03-14
HE LENDS MONEY ON ANIMALS
Or. Martin Potter Takes Strange
PIedges-How One OF Them
Buncoed Him.

Not even the author of the Club OF
Strange Trades" conceived OF an odd
er means of livelihood than that OF
DR.. Martin Potter. says the New York
correspondent OF the Cincinnati
Times-Star He runs an animal pawn
shop. II you have a lion that you
don't need as badly as you need the
money, or want to soak trained bear
for a few weeks. or put up an ele-
phant until you hear from home, go
around to DR. Potter. He'll loan you
the money against your live stock and
he will not charge you any interest.
But you'll have to pay the board o.
your pledge. 81 just drifted into the
business" said DR.. Potter. Il started
out to furnish trained animals to
shows. I've rented everything to show
men from a troup of thoroughbred
horses TO a red eyed Numidian lion.
BY and by found that | had to lend
money now and then TO my patrons
and take their stock in pledge IL
was necessity OF the business. but
low | like it.
His stables contain elephants and
camels-if you're a regular Snowman
you'll say cam-u-el-and monkeys and
dozen sorts of dogs and all varie
ties of the cat tribe and the deuce
knows what And his proudest boast
is that he was never stuck but once.
Fellow borrowed $50 from me on
trick dog" said he. Finest dog
ever saw. I'd have loaned 800 on
him as easy. But | wasn't shown all
that dogs tricks by his owner: That
night found that he had been trained
to unlatch the door and get out-and
his owner had not trained him TO
come back"
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1912-03-14
Pythian.
Crescent Lodge No. 8.

Crescent Lodge No. 3, X. of p. meets
every Friday night in Pythian Hall al
1880 o'clock.
R. Chestnut, chancellor commander;
l.. ]. Burton, vice chancellor; A. 5.
Covell, prelate; ]. B. Babin, master OF
work; c. Berthaut, master-at-arms; +.
f. Babin, keeper of records and seal;
George Lecourt, master Of finance; l..
]. Peterson, master Of exchequer; c.
Miller, inner guard; Louis Martin
outer guard; ]. B. Babin. grand repre-
sentative: l.. ]. Burton, alternate; Z.
Miller, janitor; E. E. Babin, organist;
f. J. Mothe and ]. B. Babin, general
relief committee; R. Chestnut, j. b,
Babin and c. Berthaut, committee OF
nine; Louis Peterson, DR.. c. V. Kraft
and l.. ]. Burton, trustees; DR.. Jno.
A. Rupp and DR.. w. H. Weaver, physi-
clans; E. ]. Mothe, undertaken.
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1912-03-14
Oriuin of the Stocking.

A writer in a French newspaper has
been investigating the origin of stock
ings. 1t appears that Henry II. when
preparing for the marriage Of his Sis
ter in 1859 first conceived the idea Of
silk hose, and was the first TO wear
silk knitted stockings at that epoch
making event. A hundred years later
one Hindres established factory for
stockings in the Bots de Boulogne.
This was the first hosiery factory in
France. 1t was a success at the start,
and. when It received protection from
the then ministers, it was a kind Of
gold mine. In 1863 the venture was
turned into company. From 1t arose
"the Society Of Silk Stocking Makers"
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1912-03-14
Virginia Lodge No. 1856.

Virginia Lodge No. 1876, X. OF F.,
meets on the second and fourth Mon
days of each month in Pythian Hall at
1880 p. m.
B. voegtlin, chancellor commander;
Andrew Stecklin, vice chancellor; A. j.
Besson, prelate; W. Cuny, master OF
work; L. F. Gisch, keeper OF records
and seal; A. F. Kaufman, master Of
exchequer; C. Krogh, master Of finance;
II. Munsterman, master-at-arms; w.
Goodwin, inner guard; ]. E. Thorning,
outer guard; Shade G. Smith, grand
lodge representative; A. J. Besson, al
ternate; S. G. Smith and L. F. Gisch,
general relief committe; s. c. Smith
and H. Myers, trustees; John Barrett,
undertaken; DR.. J. E. Pollock, physi-
clan; S. G. Smith and w. B. Owens,
Joint entertainment committee.