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University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-03-24
EXAMS FOR POSTMASTERS.

Postmaster-General Burleson is de.
yeloping a plan whereby third and
fourth-class postmasters may be chos-
en- by competitive examinations. II
the new plan is adopted the present
postmasters of these two classes will
have TO show more efficiency than
their rivals in order to hold their
jobs.
Mr.. Burleson says: Many OF
those who today hold positions as
fourth-class postmasters secured them
as a result of pernicious activity. The
PostofIice Department should be a
business institution, run on scientific
business principles. / intend to use
my influence to make it such"
This is a commendable stand of the
new Postmaster-General. The exam
nations, however, will need to be con-
Quoted with scrupulous care in order
to assure the country of their impair
TALLY. They should be in charge of
the civil service commission, whose
decisions would be impartial and
final.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-03-24
VIEWPOINTS
"FOr Old MissOuo Speaks.

Editor the Missourian: 1t would
seem evident that the leaders in the
opposition to the Stunt Week have
very little or no hopes of ever becom.
ing seniors or they would not adopI
:he shcrt-sighted policy that they are
urging.
There seems to be misunderstood
ing in regard to the week that should
be corrected. In the FIRST place it has
been settled definitely by the faculty
e. the University that there shall be
Sc. aside a period of three days at the
close of school when the divisions OF
tie University may give their stunts
1t has also been definitely settled that
examinations will come after Com
mencement Day.
1t remains with each division OF
the University whether it will put
on a stunt or not.
Now as to the purpose of Stunt
Week it is entirely and alone for the
benefit Of the University and not for
the benefit of any particular group OF
students. In nearly all of the larger
and more progressive universities oi
the country something is done by the
students each year for the entertain
ment of visitors and alumni who come
Among these might be mentioned
Michigan, Wisconsin, Columbia, and
closer at hand, Illinois. At these uni
versities thousands of alumni fiock
back annually, the ties between grad
uate and Alma Mater are continually
strengthened and the school enroll
ment is constantly swelled by men
urged to attend there in preference tc
other schools.
As to the seniors part in the present
move here it is merely to take the
lead in adopting a progressive policy
for Missouri and it should be the part
Of every loyal Missourian to follow
in the movement which is sure to ben.
eft their university.
The situation is now this, all stu
dents will be here, time is set aside
for the entertainments. There is q
missing link but that can be filled in
BY the students-if we have spirit
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-03-24

street. 1t makes a person wonder II
there won't be some extra sessions oi
the City Council to hear some of the
"Colonel's" good stories.
He Has Held Office.
Mr.. Moore has been in public office
before-more than once. When a
kid" as he says, he received an ap-
pointment as revenue collector under
President Andrew Johnson. He also
adds that everybody in those days
paid taxes. For three years he was
city comptroller of Quincy, ILL.,, and
was a councilman in La Grange, No.,
two years.
Columbia's next mayor is different
from some other men in several re-
spects. Haven't you noticed that the
fellow who has attended several col
leges usually takes some pride in tell
ing about it? Whenever anyone asks
him about his education, he begins
to name off the schools, the promi-
nent men he went to college with, the
athletic teams he played on, and SO
on. Doesn't he? Colonel Moore
has attended a Baptist seminary, a
private academy and a college of arts
and science. But he doesn't take any
particular pride in the fact. William
Jennings Bryan is an alumnus of the
college which he attended at Jackson
vile, Ill. But W. P. Moore never says
anything about it.
On the other hand, Mr.. Moore gives
the little old log schoolhouse in
Knox County the greatest credit for
what he knows. The reading and
spelling, he learned under the teach
ing of William r. Strachn and the
mathematics which old Doctor" Dodd
crammed into his knowledge box are
the points in his education he likes to
talk about. Doctor" Dodd was a re-
markable mathematician by reputation
and also by practice, according to Mr..
Moore. The old schoolmaster was
versed in the other subjects of the
early schools as well.
High Tribute to Teacher.
Il never asked him a question that
he could not answer" is the tribute
paid him by his pupil. That means a
great deal when you consider the va
riety and number of questions a
can ask.
Is it worth while to say that Mr..
Moore was once a newspaper man?
Certainly. The newspaper man ought |
to make a good public official, because
he generally has the art of knowing |
the public. You don't have to wait
for Colonel" Moore to tell you that |
he established the Democrat at La
Mo-, and that he was for some
time business manager of the Herald
at Quincy, Ill. You can tell at once
he is past grand master Of the pad
and pencil. How? Why, by the way
he greets you, by the pipe he smokes
and by the way he tilts his chair.
F. R.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-03-24
SOLVING THE TRAMP PROBLEM.

With the approach of spring We are
again confronted with the problem
of what to do with the tramp. AL
ready the vanguard of the vast army
of vagrants have arrived here after
their winter in the South. Each sea-
son brings the tramps and reminds us
anew of the need of doing something
toward the elimination of this afflic-
tion.
Since Menes assumed the admins
tration of united Egypt more than
5000 years ago, the tramp has been
a problem in all civilized countries.
Germany several years ago took ma
tional action on the problem. Now
in America the individual states are
beginning to take up the matter.
Massachusetts took the lead in solv-
ing the problem and New York took
a similar step by the passage two
years ago of a law providing for the
establishment of a tramp farm. Here
the state can confine the vagrant and
compel him to pay at least a part of
the cost Of his maintenance.
The Chandler law, as it is called,
provides for an unpaid board of seven
members with authority to elect a
superintendent and other officers. On
January / of this year the state took
title to 225 acres of land in Duchess
County and upon this the tramp COL
ony will be located.
Commitments to the state farm may
be made by any court or magistrate
Any man over 81 who is adjudged a
tramp or vagrant, may be committed
for an indeterminate sentence not ex-
ceeding eighteen months. If, since
the age Of 16, he has been committed
TO a penal institution, he may be de-
tanned two years. Any person COM
mitted may be paroled or discharged
by the managers at any time. An ef.
ficient parole system has been pro.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-03-24

vided so that the supervision of tn,
inmates by the state does not cease
with release. 1t is especially provid
ed in the law that reputable working
men. temporarily out of work and
seeking employment, shall not be
deemed tramps or vagrants or commit
ted to the colony.
1t is estimated that in the past the
tramps and vagrants in New York
have meant an annual cost to the state
of not less than two million dollars.
1t is believed that under the state farm
plan able-bodied, work-shy men can
be made to produce their own food
and probably a surplus for other state
institutions.
OF course there are enemies of the
plan who urge as an objection that
there is no such thing as reformed
tramp. But granting that this is true,
which has by no means been proved,
the plan would still be found to be
a saving to the state, for the tramps
can at least be prevented from tramp
ing. They can be rounded up and
kept off the roads, off the park
benches, out Of the dives and police
cells and out of the polling places on
election day; and they can also be
compelled to wash and comb and to
do enough work to diminish appre-
ciably the cost of their maintenance.
Farm colonies may not pay in a
commercial sense, but if the cost Of
unrestricted vagrancy saddled upon a
community be reckoned up they will
be found to pay we'll.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-03-24
WANTED TO STAY on FARM
Prof. Emberson Found Few Boys Who
Wanted to Be Professional Men.

Farmers, %; teachers, 3; drug
gists. 2; lawyers, 1; preachers, L;
jewellers, 1; no preference, 4. This is
the way the count stood when r. H.
Emberson, professor of rural educa-
ton at the University, asked the boys
who attended his institute last week
what they wanted to be.
The meeting was held at Belllower
Montgomery County. The program
was planned especially for boys in
the last year Of the rural school
course and for older ones who had left
school. The object of the institute
was to find out the boys views in re-
gard to farm life and to interest them
in some of the elementary phases OF
scientific agriculture.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-03-24

enough-and that link is the entertain
ment itself. Is there any really good
reason why we should not entertain
our alumni now that we are going to
be here and a time is set aside for r.!
Every sane practical thinker will
agree that there is none.
Another thing which only needs to
be touched upon to show its logic and
that is if we do not make our stunts
the biggest and best success ever We
are taking a pretty poor method OF
showing our appreciation Of the in
creased number of holidays which
have been given us this year at
Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter.
If we should fall short on the matter
that is before us now what possible
grounds could We have for asking the
same or further consideration in the
future. This is not threat but pure
logic.
No single class can put on stunt
as we'll as all the classes working in
unison and it should be the part Of
every individual to see that the stunt
of his department is put on better
than the stunt of any other school.
Let's take this means of advertising
a bigger, better, University and a
broader minded deeper sighted body
of students than Missouri has ever
before had. FOR OLD MISSOU.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-03-24
To Give Shakespearean Recital.

Genevieve Howard of Boston
will give Shakespearean recital in
the University Auditorium next Tues
day night under the auspices of the
Writer'S Club. Mrs. Howard is said
to have unusual talent. Her impress
sions Of the characters of Shakespeare
have been praised by the many critics
who have seen her.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-03-24

street, died last night. The child -.
been sick two weeks. Funeral serv,e.'
will be conducted at the home at a.n
o'clock this afternoon. The body m
be taken to Nashville, Mo-, tomor,.
for burial. Mr.. Nichols is a stn.I
mason.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-03-24
The SeUeuhT Column

Squaws in an Indian reservation in
the st. Lawrence country are after
suffrage. Formerly the chiefs were
chosen by counting noses, now they
are selected by ballot. The squaws
claim they have been "nosed" out.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-03-24

An Iowa farmer tied the tail of his
COW to a stall before milking her.
He leaves considerable property, it
is said.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-03-24

A derailed freight car was trans
formed into a parlor car at st. Louis
last week. 1t left the track, crossed
a paved street and entered the best
room" of a nearby house.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-03-24
BOARD AND ROOM

TO RENT-ROOms suitable for
couple or small family. For particul-
ars address &C" care Missourian.
TO RENT-Some very desirable
rooms to young men at ST Rollins.
First block from gymnasium, where
the entire Rollins Field can be seen
from the rooms. Rooms comfortable.
prices reasonable. T. H. Reese. (d16)
TO RENT-Large room with east,
south and west windows. Phone SIS
red. 3O7 College. (d3t)
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Want ids,

The cost of Missouran ads but half word
day. They bring greater results in proportion @
any other form Of advertising. Phone your wants to M
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-03-24
FOR SALE

FOR SALE-Six room cottage with
bath, strictly modern, on easy terms.
Apply to Lee Forbis; phone No. 81.
(d12t)
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Boy Of 2 Months Dies.
Clifford Nichols, the 7-months-old
son of w. o. Nichols, 30S Monroe
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FOR SALE-Hand embroideries and
laces for layettes. also Irish crochet
Mr.. A. L. West ott, 14O2 Windsor
Phone $50 green. (d6t)
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FOR STUDENTS-Two piece d
union tailor-made Suit to order
University Tailoring Co. IS MOI
9Th st. Guaranteed all wool and ~
fit, $40 and up. (dsp
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PICTORIAL-Log of the Bstf
Fleet cruise around the world al|
fifty cents at Campbell & Alexandx1|
This same book formerly sold ~
50. Your library is not complets ~
out one. (09|
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-03-24

The new Alaska legislature has
passed woman suffrage mainly, it is
said, to get women to come to Alaska.
We'd better look out in Missouri.
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FOUND-Senior pin. Owner G.
have same by calling at this office aal
paying for ad.

A SANITARY SHOP means -
protection. The Star BARRIERS, mot
sanitary shop in town. We can prov
it. 809 Broadway. i
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-03-24

Now comes an announcement from
New York that the new skirts are
to contain pockets. Since they have
been unable to get votes the New
York women have decided to take
pockets instead.
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FRIENDSHIP JEWELRY-Bfee
es. tie pins and Bracelets. H
gers. 813 Broadway.
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MISCELLANEOUS

72-Means prompt baggage service.
FOUND-Chase signet ring. Own
er can have same by calling at Daily
Brothers Tailoring Co., Virginia Bldg.
describing and paying for this ad.
WANTED-A large furnished or un-
furnished room (preferably one I may
have for three years) in a private
family. Address s Missourian. (d6t)
CALL 2S-For your baggage when
you leave. (d1oD
WANTED-1.000 student trunks to
haul. Scurlock's. Phone 72.
COMPOUNDING medicine is a seri-
GUS business. SO we give it all the care
and attention 1t demands. You can
depend on medicines being right II
they come from the Peck Drug Co.
(d6t)
PARTNER WANTED-In growing
magazine. Excellent field for Journal
list, $4,000 required. Address 314
Woodruff Building. Springfield, Mo.
(d3t)
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-03-24

DANCING lessons given privsf
sos Conley. 448 white.
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THREE HUNDRED-Rexall -
edies. All guaranteed: q remsdy
every ailment, at Columbia Drug
Corner Ninth and Broadway. ~
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YOUNG MEN WANTED-1oe o|
summer. Good wages for the Il
parties. Apply at the Central B.
Room 9. (d11A
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THE ROLL.R RINK-meet o|
bunch there every night; admit
25c; half block north of wabash ~
tion. Open Sunday afternoons (i1Q|
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72-Means prompt baggage service
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MARCH 20-Pack up and phcns .
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SAFE AND SPEEDY-ScurloD
trunk service. Phone 72.
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FOR SALE-Special Frat JsWe
and class pins made to order. =
ninger's-S13 Broadway.
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FOR SALE-Snappy 3-16 g
Diamond Rings SIS to $40 at
ninger's Jewelry Store.
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ALL baggage-Phone n.
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WANTED-1,000 student trunks t,
haul. Scurlock's. Phone 72.
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PHONE 72-Baggage to depot
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Scientists who declare kissing dam
gerous are right. A 14-year old Texas
boy was fined 800 and given thirty
days in Jail for kissing a school girl.
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CALL 23-For your baggage when
you leave. (d10t)
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A st. Louis paper says 1t will have
to admit the home town is "measly"
place. st. Louis has 1000 cases of
measles under quarantine.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-03-24

A smooth young man came to Co
lumbia,-represented himself as a
University student and casheu bad
checks. In Berlin a young tailor re-
ceived seven "sa Der" cuts from an
obliging barber, ired a frock coat,
assumed a title ana then reaped a
harvest posing as University stu
dent. One touch" makes the whole
world kin.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-03-24

Don't spend a minute doing a thing
that can be done in fifty-nine seconds
except eating.
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FOR efficient baggage ssrviea !
a.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-03-27
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
So Thew ALI Ate Onions.

Sallie Fisher, the musical comedy
star, who sang herself into the upper
register of popular favor with that
"Dearie" song, has mother who oc.
casionally gets Sallie into trouble. It
was at a little dinner party in New
York last season and there were four
at the table, Salle, her mother and
two friends. Mrs Fisher carefully
scanned the menu card and then stat
ed, with particular emphasis, that she
wanted an order of Spanisi.. onions.
sliced and raw, and didn't care what
else was ordered
''Mother!" calculated Sallie.
Onions? And before the perform
ance?"
Onions and before the perform
ance," insisted Mrs. Fisher. Then she
cast rather scornful expression to-
ward the fastidious daughter. IF these
boys could see you eating garlic in
the summer time they would have no
objections to my eating onions in the
winter time" said Mrs. Fisher, de-
cisively, whereupon Sallie collapsed.
Then they all ate onions.
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smuggled in wives disguised in trous-
ers, but the monks angrily expelled all
they detected
The abbot of the older Russian mon
astery kept a cat, which recently dis
graced the island by having kittens.
All the monks held a court to try her,
declared she had broken the sacred
rules and had her drowned. The alb
bot was reprimanded for taking in the
cat before finding out whether it was
eligible for admittance.
Some of the monasteries are very
wash even their hands or faces, or to
go outside the gardens, which are said
to be very beautiful. Others contain
the oldest Greek manuscripts in the
world, supposed to be able to fill gaps
in the Epistles and other parts of the
New Testament.
The idea of making Mount Athos a
republic came from Russia anxious to
keep her influence in Macedonia, and
is unwelcome to Bulgaria. tired of tu-
telage and used to consider the church
as political factor, now of less i'm.
portance than before. But the other
allies pressed Russia's proposal be-
cause they felt jealous of Bulgarian
domination in that sacred territory.
Delegates from all the allied states
will meet in aalonica under the Rus
sian consul aISd draw UP the new re-
public's laws. The patriarch of the
Bulgarians, who hitherto has lived in
Constantinople, probably will live on
the peninsula
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at the parsonage, should be member
of that curious company. When he
rose to speak he had seen her in the
front row, beside the thin, middle-aged
female who had entered the chapel
with Captain Hammond and with her.
She was looking at him intently. The
lamp over the speakers table had
shone full on her face and the picture
remained in his memory. He saw her
eyes and the wavy shadows of her
hair on her forehead
He had taken but few steps when
| there was rustic in the wet grass
behind him.
"Mr. Ellery," whispered a voice,
"Mr. Ellery, may | speak to you just
moment?"
He wheeled i'll surprise.
why! why, Miss Van Hornet" he
exclaimed. "Is it you?"
81 felt" she said, that l must see
you and-explain. / am so sorry you
came here tonight. Oh, 1 wish you
hadn't. What made you do it?"
81 came" began Ellery, somewhat
stif1y, because well. because
thought it might be- good thing to
do"
There was bitterness in his tone,
unmistakable. And a little laugh from
his companion did not tend to soothe
his feelings.
Thank you," he said. Perhaps 1t
/ is funny. l did not find 1t so. Good
evening"
The girl detained him as he was
turning away.
Il came after you," went on Grace
rapidly and with nervous haste, "be-
cause I felt that you ought not to mis-
Judge my uncle for what he said to-
night He wouldn't have hurt your
feelings for the world. He is a good
man and does good to everybody. If
you only knew the good he does do,
you wouldn't-you wouldn't dare think
hardly of him."
"I'm not Judging your uncle" he de-
clared. at seemed to me that the
boot was on the other Leg"
81 know, but you do judge him, and
you mustn't. You see, he thought you
had come to make fun of him-and us.
Some Of the Regular people do, people
Who aren't to tie his shoes. And
so he spoke against YOU. He'll be
sorry when he thinks it over. That's
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The Reiqn of Woman.
on my pu

Women will serve as public porters
and dining car walters on the special
train which is to carry the Illinois
suffragists to the Washington parade
and except for the train crew and soil
tary man to shine shoes it will be an
example of feminized railway trans
portation. The male shoeblack
prompts masculine reflections on the
division of mental labor under the
new dispensation But mere man
may take heart. The time is still re-
mote when there will be women at 10
connective throttles or in the more re-
sponsible posts in railroad operation.
New York World
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1913-03-27
GOTHAM SEEKS FLY SWATTER'
Fame of Teacher in Cleveland Normal
School Brings Offer From
the East.

New York.-Dr Jean Dawson. a
woman teacher in the Normal Train
ing school of Cleveland, is recon-
mended as an official fly swatter to
the board of estimate
The appointment is urged by Dr.
William Henry Hale. superintendent
of public baths in Brooklyn
DR.. Hale says DR.. Dawson has rid
Cleveland of flies, which now is known
as the fiyless city" Bring her to
New York, he urges, and she will
work wonders here, too. His letter to
the board reads:
ITO get the best results work must
begin before spring, so that the COM
paratively few mother flies who sur
vive may be killed before laying eggs
Success can only be obtained by CO
operation of several city departments
with the health department
''As Miss Dawson has demonstrated
an efficiency for this great work
which is comparable with the elimina-
lions of yellow fever from the Pan
anna canal zone, suggest that she be
hired by the city
The board intends to let Comptroll-
er Prendergast wrestle with the sug
gestion.