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University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-11-28
IN THEIR PATERNAL HILLS.

y missionary visiting in Columbia
tells of conditions in the mountains
of Kentucky which, in the face oi
modern travel, education, transporta-
ton and enlightenment are hard to
conceive. Yet there are many such
communities in the mountain districts
not only of Kentucky but of the Vir-
ginias, Carolinas, Alabama, Tennessee
Missouri and Arkansas. The tide of
progress has swept by leaving them
without transportation, comforts, and
until recently, without schools. Small
wonder then that children never see a
Christmas tree or that old women
are delighted with dolls.
Missionaries do not have to seek
work in foreign lands: Just follow
the grown byroads which lose
themselves in creek bottoms. There
will be found communities which have
been lost in their ancestral hills.
But why do such conditions exist
Why, with progress all around them,
have those communities stood still ?
They have no roads.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-11-28
PAYING HIGH FOR POOR SCHOOLS
District System of Maintenance Throws Heavy
Burden on Some Districts, According
to Figures on the Subject.

negro school to support, it is found
that 20 districts had both a higher
levy and a shorter term, and that
20 more have either a higher levy or
a shorter term. Just why little dis
trict should have to support an extra
school is an interesting question
There is nothing like it anywhere
except in the South. Many people
think that the whole county should
share in the education of the negro.
To leave the expense on the shoulders
of individual districts is hardly fair
to the white children in the districts
concerned.
1t is interesting to speculate upon
what would happen to st. Louis, with
its $50 schoolhouses, if it had an or
ganiZation such as the country dis
trict has. The city of st. Louis
would then have about $50 school dis
tricts with three directors to school,
making grand total of $40 directors.
Some of the districts, such as the
downtown districts, would have few
children and millions of assessed val
uation requiring levy of only l or
2 cents. Other districts, with many
children and low valuation, would
tax themselves to the limit and still
not be able to maintain good schools.
st. Louis would not tolerate such a
situation. 1t is satisfied to have
twelve men run the whole system and
is convinced that all the wealth of the
city should be pooled to educate the
children of all the city.
Some day each county in Missouri
will do away with the vestigial re-
mains of an outgrown system and
will, like the cities, pool it's wealth
to educate all the children of the
county, whether they live on one side
of road or on the other.
In the meantime the searcher for
bizarre effects can spend many excit-
ing hours looking into the anomalies
of the country district which still ex-
ist in 50 of the AZ states of the union.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-11-28
ANYTHING FOR A DEER.

Don't shoot me. l am a cow
These words in big black letters, were
painted on white blankets used by a
Massachusetts farmer to cover his
cattle to protect them from hunters
during the open season on deer.
Even with this protection the farmer
considered himself lucky that none of
his cattle were killed by hunters.
The hunting instinct is still strong
in man. Many of our hunters do not
seem able to control their desires to
kill while in the woods, and this leads
them to become reckless and to kill
when it is not really sport.
In Massachusetts, the deer had in
creased rapidly during several years
of closed season and. unmolested, had
become tame enough to eat with the
farmers cattle, it is said. 1t is esti-
mated that there were ten hunters
to each deer when shooting was al
lowed there this fall. Killing these
animals could not be called sport, il
was a slaughter. 1t was like shooting
deer in a park. Many hunters got
their deer within an hour after the
season opened. AS they became fewer
and wilder the hunters became more
reckless. Any moving thing. animal
or human, was apt to be shot A deer
at any cost seemed to be the idea of
the hunters, and human life and prop
erty paid
1t is the same way in Wisconsin,
Michigan and other states where deer
are hunted. The hunters are ten or
more to every deer, and the reckless
hunter shoots at every moving thing
in the hope that he may be the one
who is successful. At the present rate
Of killing We shall soon have no deer.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-11-28
ON GIVING THANKS.

Thoughts of turkey dinners and
thanks that we can have turkey din
ners are about as far as the average
person ever gets in his celebration
of the season of THANKSGIVING.
Of course we are all thankful. We've
lots of things TO be thankful for. But
why not show an active spirit of
thankfulness? Why not help those
who have little to be thankful for to
have a real Thanksgiving all winter
Why not in our spirit of gratitude
give a little that those less fortunate
may not suffer from cold and hunger
during the winter?
The Charity Organization Society
of Columbia is making and carrying
out efficient plans for relieving the
families in real poverty. But it lacks
funds. Your subscription seems to
be Slow in coming. How could you
show a better spirit of thankfulness
for what you have than by making a
subscription to F. P. Miller of the
Charity Organization Society to be
used in making others happy. Do it
now!
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-11-28

of the oldest anachronisms in Ameri
can society. Nearly everybody sup
poses that if district pays high taxes
it has a fine school, long term, a
| good teacher and an excellent build
ing But that is not what happens in
country districts. Just the opposite
is true The higher the tax levy the
| shorter the school term is one of the
maXims of the country school district
1t is found in the schools of Boone
County that those schools which run
months levy AZ cents. months levy
AZ cents, months levy 81 cents, )
months levy 60 cents, months levy
65 cents.
Thus, the more you pay, the less
you get. Moreover, this state of
affairs can be found in every county
in the state.
Not far from Columbia, within easy
driving distance of the University,
there are two districts called Number
40 and Number so. One has thirty
five children in school. the other has
thirty-two. The children are just as
much worth while in so as in 49, One
would expect to find about the same
school conditions.
But 49 has an assessed valuation
of $13S,560, while the valuation of so
is S25,065; and from these figures
many oddities arise. 1t is found, for
example, that 40 supports its schools
on 30-cent levy, while so has to levy
the maximum of 65 cents. A 30-cent
levy gives 49 an month school, while
with a 65-cent levy, 80 must be salts
fled with a 5-month school. With a
long S-mOnth term of school, 40 has
also a $50 teacher, while the boys and
girls of district Number so have to be
satisfied with $40 teacher during
their months of school. With its
small levy and great assessment,
wealthy Number 40 houses its child
rem in a $1,000 building, modern and
up-to-date, containing $500 worth of
equipment, while poverty-stricken
Number so has to be content with a
S4O0 house and 500 worth of equip
ment.
Evidently it makes a great deal of
difference to some country boys and
girls whether they are born on one
side or the other of an imaginary
line called the district boundary line
The Boone County case is not unus-
ually odd. In "a counties the average
valuation of the richest districts is
$13O,0O0; of the poorest, $4,000. One
set of districts is worth seven times
as much as the other although the
poorest districts have as many child
rem to educate. These wealthy dis
trictS run their schools on a 35-cent
levy, the poor ones on 65-cent levy.
The former have or 9-month schools,
$400 teachers, or better who have
second or first grade certificates. The
latter have or 6-month schools,
teachers often drawing less than $3.50
and having only third or second-grade
certificates.
When negroes happen to live in the
district,peculiar conditions arise. In
80 pairs of districts in the state, both
districts of each pair having the same
valuation but one of the pair having a
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-11-28

Shoes that have been run over are
very uncomfortable and look the same
way. Let me repair them. w. w. Nor
rison, Eighth and Walnut. (24tf)
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-11-28

DIAMOND Sparkling Ginger Ale 65
cents per case. Just the thing for the
bunch. Columbia Bottling Works. 54S-
Black. Q9,tf)
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-11-28
At Stephens College

Misses Elizabeth Cottey and Lea
Buckles, students in Cottey College
Nevada, Mo-, were the guests of Miss
Maurine DeHart, Sunday and Monday
Miss Ruth Waters of st. Louis is
the guest of Miss Margaret Evans.
Miss Edna Monroe of Hale, Mo-, was
the guest of Miss Mildred Barr, Moul
day.
Stephens plays basketball with How
ard-Payne Saturday in the gymna-
SUM. Monday the return game with
Synodical will be played at Fulton.
The Beta Sigma Omicrons were at
home to their friends Monday evening
in the College parlors. The receiving
line was composed of Miss Emma Pau
line Smith, Miss May Day Clark, Miss
Frances Oldfield, President and Mrs.
James NJ. Wood and Miss Althea Holt,
dean OF women.
Miss Ina Estes of Dexter, Mo-, is the
guest of the Beta Sigma Omicrons
for few days. Miss Estes was grad
uated from Stephens last year.
YOur nayt daDpa coll ono oF WIFI
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-11-28

| 10. Sdll ll0 f1ltt street. l1o,olpJ
Shoe Repairing while you wait.
Parsons Shoe Shop. South Ninth.
(13c)
Shoes that have been run over are
very uncomfortable and look the same
way. Let me repair them. w. w. Nor
rison, Eighth and Walnut. (24tf)
DIAMOND Sparkling Ginger Ale 65
cents per case. Just the thing for the
bunch. Columbia Bottling Works. 54S-
Black. Q9,tf)
All kinds of soft drinks 65 cents per
case. Columbia Bottling Works. Phone
| 54S- Black. Q9,tf)
Learn to read your light, gas and
water meters. l saved $11 in two
months by knowing how to read mine
l can teach you. NJ. R.. ia Missouri
ave. (7,mo,c)
Dressmaking and tailoring done at
reasonable prices. Miss Perry, 2O7
Guitar Bldg. Phone 246- White. Q1,c1m)
Patronage of Missourian patrons de-
sired. Scurlock Transfer Co. Phone
Y. Q0,tD
OLD clothes made new and new ones
made too. Who tailors best in Co
lumbia? Machaelson Bros. Above
University Barber Shop. (5,1m,c)
WANTED-Men's clothing and shoes.
Millers Second Hand Store. 26 N.
Ninth Street. Phone 7O8-Black
(5.1mo,c)
Dancing lessons given privately at
sos Conley. Phone 44S White. (2s,tfc)
WANTED.
WANTED-A boys bicycle, cheap
and in good repair 5O7 Hit. (2S,3tc)
YOUNG COUPLE want to rent or
3 rooms furnished for light housekeep-
ing, to be occupied about Dec 2. Call
E. ]. Tatom. Phone 7S5. (25,3tp)
WANTED-All kinds of second hand
furniture; we also do repairing. W.
H. Leebrick, 500 Walnut. Phone 394
green. (25 tf)
ROOMMATE WANTED - Large
room, half block from Academic Hall.
Address j., AIissourian. DGD
TO RENT
FOR RENT-Room, 600 South Ninth
street Phone 245 White. (26,tD
BEAUTIFUL furnished rooms, new
ly decorated, including two suites,
with or without board. SO4 Hillcrest.
Q9-tf)
LOST
LOST-Gold stick pin, amethyst set
was probably lost near Cafeteria or
Academic Hall. Finder please call
702 Green. (26,Stp)
LOST-Blue Cravenette raincoat.
Return to Missourian office. Reward.
(26,3tc)
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-11-28
WANT COLUMN
MISCELLANEOUS

FOUND-Pocketboo with bills and
silver. Found Tuesday, November
IS. Call lis Hit street. (2S,3tp)
Shoe Repairing while you wait.
Parsons Shoe Shop Z South Ninth.
Q3c)
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-11-28

Your next dance call one of Will
Meyers cars. Phone SIG. (adv)
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-11-28
TO RENT

FOR RENT-Room, 600 South Ninth
street. Phone 245 White. (26,tf)
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-11-28

BEAUTIFUL furnished rooms, new
ly decorated, including two suites,
with or without board. SO4 Hillcrest.
(19-tf)
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-11-28
LOST

LOST-Gold stick pin, amethyst set
was probably lost near Cafeteria or
Academic Hall. Finder please call
7o2 Green. (26,3tp)
LOST-Blue Cravenette raincoat.
Return to MissOurian office. Reward.
(26,3tc)
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-11-28

All kinds of soft drinks 65 cents per
case. Columbia Bottling Works. Phone
54S-Black. Q9,tf)
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-11-28

Learn to read your light, gas ant
water meters. l saved $11 in two
months by knowing how to read mine
l can teach you. M. r.. ia Missouri
ave. (7,mo,c)
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-11-28

ROOMMATE WANTED - Large
room, half block from Academic Hall.
Address j., NIissourian. (DGt)
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-11-28

Dancing lessons given privately al
sos Conley. Phone 448 White. (29,tfc)
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-08-14
HOSPITAL HAPPENINGS

Among the Brookings people who
are, or have been, in the hospital
recently are Mrs. r. A. Larson, Mrs
Hill and son Robert, Grandma Hughes,
Mr.. George P. Sexauer, Ruby Perrin,
and Mrs. Harry Mcknight.
The little daughters of j. M. John
son Of Elkton, are steadily improving
Mrs. Matte Jurgenson of Dc Smet,
and Mrs. Emily Proul of Arlington,
have enjoyed their stay as much as
sick folks could. Especially have they
appreciated having a room on the
main floor just across the hall from
the reception room where morning
family worship is held. The many ex'
pressions from the patients lead the
deaconesses to feel that patients as
we'll as deaconesses and nurses are
strengthened for the day by this wait
ing upon the Lord.
Judging by the number of children
cared for the last few weeks it would
seem that parents are awake to the
danger resulting from tonsil and ade
mold trouble; also that they are getting
ready for the coming school rear by
having the little folks cared for before
school opens.
MIR. w. O. Bielski, who is working
for the hospital, reports an interest in
the surrounding country which means
financial aid. The crowded condition
all through July made the need Of
more room seem imperative.
In another column will be found the
announcement Of Secretary Howell's
coming visit to the hospital. The bet
ter organization of the deaconess
movement at the last general confer
ence has resulted in Strengthening
work then organized and the establish
ing Of new institutions such as thu
hospital here In Bookings. Do mo-
fail to hear DR.. Howell, August %.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-08-14
DR.. HOWELL COMING

DR.. Daniel w. Howell, secretary Of
the deaconess board with headquarters
at Buffalo, N. Y, will spend August
22nd in Brookings. A meeting of the
Dakota Conference Superintendent,
the Deaconess Board of Nine, the vari-
u deaconess aid committees through
out the section, and the Dakota Dea-
soness Association leaders will be
held at the hospital in the afternoon.
DR.. Howell will speak in the evening
at the Methodist church. Coming d.
rectly as he does from the controlling
board the things which he shall say of
this ever growing movement shall not
only be interesting but shall be vital
as well. Bookings people should
avail themselves Of the opportunity
to hear this leader. The evening meet.
ing Is open and all are urged to be
present. Remember the date,
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-08-14
JoHNSoN-TRYGSTAD

Last week we made brief mention
Of the marriage of Carl o. Trygstad
and Miss Agnes Johnson, which took
place at Heron Lake, Mimi, on August
6. The wedding is Of particular inter
est to Brookings people, as the young
people are we'll and favorably known
to most Of our citizens. Mr.. Trygstad
is a prominent young lawyer, being al
present city attorney, and is a young
man of fine ability and very popular
with his acquaintance. The bride has
taught in our public schools for sew
eral years and is a splendid young
lady, with a large circle Of friends
here. The Register joins with their
friends in the hope that every happi
ness may come to them.
The Heron Lake News had the fol
lowing accoun Of the wedding:
"One Of the prettiest home weddings
ever solemnized in this city took place
Wednesday at high noon when Agnes
Caroline, the youngest daughter Of Mr.
and Mrs. Peter Johnson, vas joined in
wedlock to Mr.. Carl o. Trygstad Of
Brookinss, g. d.
Precisely at twelve o'clock to ths
strains of Lohengrin's wedding march
played by Miss Georgia Dieson, the
bridal couple took their place In the
parlor surrounded by their near rela
tives and friends. Rev. Norman oi
Window. performed the ceremony
after which a four-course dinner was
served.
1.-THE bride was unattended and look
ed very sweet in a dainty gown q
white crepe meteor and sprays o.
lilies OF the valley.
this dining room was artisticall!
decorated in pink and white while tn,
tables were beautifully decorated will
wreaths of twining smilax.
mt. and Mrs. Trygstad left on thu
afternoon train for a trip through Vel
lowstone Park, after which they will
return and make their home in Brook
ings, where the groom, who Is one o
the prominent lawyers, Is building &
fine home.
THE bride Is one of Heron Lake:
most popular and highly respected
young ladies, and this entire commun
ity offers it's kind benediction for hel
future happiness. Our people will sin
cerely miss her.
"The out of town guests were: Mis-.
Lydia Tuberg of Mankato; Miss Marie
Serum of Jackson; Oscar Johnson ant
Mr.. and Mrs. j. Clevan of Bookings
and Mr.. and Mrs. John Johnson o.
White, s. D."
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-08-14
SCANDINAVIAN IN SCHOOLS

Prof. J.. N. Lenker of Minneapolis,
who has been touring the state in the
interest of adding Scandinavian to the
modern language studies of the high
and graded schools, spent a few days
visiting at the home of Rev. Fosness
of the Lutheran church. Prof. Lenker
is known to many Brookings people as
he has preached from the local Luth-
eran pulpit on several occasions and
has also talked to the students Of the
State College. He believes that owing
to the large number of S~candinavians
in this country that it is only proper
that Scandinavian be taught in the
schools on an equal footing with Ger
man and Latin. Prof. Lenker says,
that modern languages are now being
taught in Europe and the east accord
ing to the direct conversational meth
cd and not by the Latin grammar and
children come now from schools able
to speak two languages in America as
they do in Europe. To advocate a two
language education is not new in
Europe and the east and is no expert
ment. The figures from the central
west are instructive on this point. Gin.
cinnati, for example, has $1,000 pupils
in it's graded schools who take Ger
man; Cleveland 10000; Indianapolis
1000 (more than half of whom are not
Of German descent); Milwaukee 80,
900 in 900 classes in the grades, and
Chicago in a little mor than a year
increased the number OF graded
schools teaching German from So to 90
q net gain Of 40. The northwest has
been a little slow. Minnesota the last
three years introduced Scandinavian
into 80 high and 100 graded and coun
try school and the work 10 growing IN
North and South DAkota."
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-08-14
NEW BUILDING COMPLETED

The new Roberts building is practi'
cally completed and makes the most
substantial addition to the business
district that has been built in some
years. The building is a handsome
one, constructed of dark pressed brick
and the interior is finished off in fine
shape. The building is fifty feet wide
and runs back to the alley, furnishing
two splendid rooms. The front is prac'
tically all plate glass, giving the inter
ior a fine light.
The east half of the building was
constructed especially for a moving
picture theatre, and it is strictly mod
ern throughout. The theatre will be
the home of THE Fad" the new pic
ture show and vaudeville house, OF
which C. C. Erie is the proprietor. II
has a seating capacity of about $50
and Is furnished with opera chairs OF
the best make. The floor slopes from
the entrance to the stage, affording
spectators a fine view. The room is
finished in hardwood, with hardwood
floor and the ceiling Is of steel. The
walls are beautifully tinted, the upper
half being a light yellow and the lower
part a dark brown. The stage is
equipped with a complete set Of cur
tains, and under the stage good dress.
ing rooms n provided. The building
is entered by large swinging doors
with commodious lobby and the
crowds al be easily handled. The
box Office is in the center Of the lobby
with entrances to the theatre proper
on either side. Above the box Office is
the room for the moving picture ma
chine, which by the way, is the
largest and best machine made. The
room is lined with asbestos and tin
and is strictly fire proof. The lighting
of the theatre will be especially good,
the lamps being shaded to throw a
soft mellow light over the
The theatre is one of the best equip.
ped and handsomest we have ever
seen, and it should become a popular
place with B~rookings people. Mr..
Erie is showing his confidence in
Brookings by investing a large amount
of money, and he is deserving of a
good patronage, which we feel con,
fident he will get.
The other half of the building is a
handsome store room, finished in hard
wood, with steel ceiling and tinted
walls. 1t will be occupied September
LIST by R. H. Bartlett with his Variety
Store.
]. H. Roberts, who built the fine new
building, is to be commended for his
enterprise and he will have the thanks
Of every booster for a greater Brook.
ings.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-08-14

boat loads of blue-jackets with small
guard poured a deadly fire into them
and forced them, theoretically OF
to abandon the attack and re-
turn to the ships. When the recall
bugle sounded from the ships, indicat-
ing that the Americans" or defenders
had Won the bands struck up the Star
Spangled Banner" and the crowd of
over two hundred thousand people
cheered for ten minutes.
The celebration of the week was in
tensely patriotic and could not help
but be an inspiration to every Ameri-
can who witnessed ii.