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University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-11-24
The Life of Charles A. Dana.

Whenever a man rises up who is
original, strong and bold enough to
make his opinions a matter of conse-
quenCe to the public, his biography
generations. For more than a half
century Charles A. Dana was intimate
ly associated with great men and great
events in this country and with his
pen he eXerted a tremendous influence
upon both the men and measures of
his day. Because of these things
James Harrison Wilson's new book,
The Life of Charles A. Dana" is of
special concern TO those interested in
history during the closing half of the
nineteenth century.
AS member of the Brook Farm
community in New England, as a cor
respondent for the New York Tribune
during the great social and economic
movement in Germany and France il
1S4S, as assistant Secretary of War at
critical period of the war between
the states and finally as editor of the
New York Sun, Dana carried with him
a spirit of independence, of alert and
fearless determination which made
him powerful factor in the political
history of the period. He could never
tolerate injustice or corruption, took
every precaution to learn the truth
and once having satisfied himself
prosecuted and condemned the offend
er with relentless vigor.
Danas unconquerable spirit is well
illustrated by an editorial which ap-
peared in the Sun August 6, 1897, just
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-11-24
USING RURAL SCHOOLS.

Just now there is a movement in
some of the states which has for its
object the revival of the rural school
house as the center of community life.
Kansas and Wisconsin are the leaders
in the movement and school houses
are being lighted up for use which for
twenty years or more have never
known what it is to be open at night
Neighborhood improvement clubs are
being held in the school houses to dis
cuss matters of interest to the COM
munity.
In the early days the school houses
was an important factor in rural life,
but since the enormous increase in
the number and size of towns and vii
lagos it has fallen into disuse. The
old time spelling bee, the box sosial
and literary society have gone the way
of the stage coach and the spinning
wheel. Even the rural church is los
ing ground.
Students of rural conditions tell us
that the lack of social centers in the
country has been largely responsible
for the recent decline of rural popu-
lation. If this be true then the school
house is the hope of the rural commu-
nifty.
With all the recent agitation in IA
vor OF rural uplift the movement for
the rejuVenation of the rural school is
timely enough. A revival of these So
cial gatherings as they used to exist
would mean to the rural community
what the old town meeting once meant
to New England. With good roads
coming it would revive community
spirit, bring the people together often
er and raise them to a higher social,
moral and educational level
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-11-24

two months before his death. The ed
itorial was written in reply to ru-
NOR that he had retired from the Sun.
Dana said:
"A friend in Geneva informs us that
certain papers in that neighborhood
say that Mr.. Dana has resigned as
editor of the Sun.
This is falsehood. Mr.. Dana has
never been OF a resigning habit, and
hereby declares that he has not COM
menced the practice in the present
case.
''He can be found doing business at
the same old stand. and the man does
not live who can say that he has seen
him there or elsewhere turn his back
upon either a friend or foe"
Mr. Wilson's book is in reality a
fiftyyear political history through
which is interviewer the romantic
story of a genius whose clear and con-
else style OF writing made his paper
a household word throughout the
world and changed the whole course
of journalism. 0Iarper e Brothers.
New York; price, So nett.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-11-24
BOOK REVIEWS
The Main Road.

The deep sympathy OF the writer
which is necessary for the greatest
success, is the thing that makes The
Main Road" by Maude Radford War
ren, appeal to every reader.
1t is the itinerary of a woman S
journey from sentimentalism TO love
the high road on which she started
confidently, the blind alleys where in
experience led her, the long detours
and the glory at the end.
And it is more! 1t is the appeal OF
the feminist movement in its entirety
strongly written in story form. 1t
deals with equal suffrage, the strug-
gle of the shop and factory girl, the
Indifference of the sO-called upper
classes of society to conditions sur
rounding them, the sex problem and
free love, socialism-in a word, with
the relation of women to the human
race and to life.
1t is the struggle of a sheltered
girl to keep her ideals. Janet never
knew more of the real romance of life
than she gathered from the countless
novels she consumed when a girl
Even four years at college did not un-
deceive her until her beloved, her
ideal of dreams, found that he did not
really care much for the sentimental
girl. Then starts the real struggle
of the girl to adjust herself to the real
world, to make her life count for
something, to keep herself worthy OF
the man who would be good enough
for her.
The author has vivid Imagination
and an accurate knowledge of the con-
ditions about which she writes. She
seems to experience in all their full
ness the feelings of others in the sit
uations in which she has placed them
She knows unusual sympathy for hui
manity. She makes the reader feel
the sensations he or she would have
in just such a position.
Maude Radford Warren is frequently
visitor in Columbia and is here now
Those who know her can appreciate
even more the great sympathy and un-
derstanding of humanity which has
made The Main Road" one of her
greatest successes.
In an interview published in the
Missourian recently she told some
thing of her work.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-11-24
CHINA POUNDS NAVAL COLLEGE
England Loans Captain Christian For
Three Years Service.

SHANGHAI, Nov. 24-In prepara-
ton for the arrival of Captain Harold
Christian, of the British Navy, who has
been sent to China for a period OF
three years. Chinese Government ex-
perts today are looking over Nimrod
Sound near here in search of site for
new naval college. The government
has naval training schools at Tientsin.
Nanking and Canton, established un-
der the monarchy, but the proposed
college will be much more comprehen-
sive and modern. The Minister of the
Navy hopes to develop it, with Captain
Christians aid, into a national insti-
tuition. The training schools at Nam
king, Canton and Tiesntsin will not be
discontinued for the present, and they
may be retained permanently as feed
ers to the proposed college. Correl-
ative with the naval college and the
service at sea. \ number of up-to-
date training ships for this purpose
will be added from time to time to
those now in use.
Captain Christian is one of the best
known officers not of admiralty rank
in the British Navy. He is commander
of the Hannibal. He will be assisted
as director of the new naval college
by several instructors in various naval
branches. They, too, will be drafted
from the British Navy and are expect
ed to leave with Captain Christian.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-11-24
If ADVERTISING WERE A CRIME
Cupid Might Get Efficiency Expert to
Prevent BankruDtcy.

If advertising were a crime in CO.
lumbia, there would be no calling of
the town as the train comes to a
standstill. No name would appear on
the station. Unless the bewildered
traveller had counted the telegraph
poles from Centralia or some other
distant point, he would have no
other knowledge of his location.
The draymen would stand in line
quiet, peaceful, undemonstratiye
me stranger could pass by undis-
turbed.
There would be no street signs to
guide the wanderer. The street num-
bers, too, and the crossroads direc-
tons would be missing.
An inquiry for the best store would
be useless. No one could direct the
questloner, because is that not ad-
vertising? There would be no sign
or name over the door. Window dis
plays also would be under the ban
Public buildings must be buiIt
along similar architectural lines
The church would lack its staanle
and the bells and chimes would he
silent throughout the year.
The minister could not announce
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-11-24
CHICAGO'S FINANCIAL BATTLE
LaSalIe Street Scene of Attempt ia
Merge Public Utilities.

Ey United Press.
CHICAGO, Nov. 24.-LaSalle Street,
the Windy Citys replica of New
York's Wall street, is watching with
the keenest interest these days for
the newest moves on the financial
checker-board in a game where the
city's utilities are the pieces and the
outcome perhaps of more Importance
than in any big deal that ever af-
fected an American municipality.
The game, La Sale Street says
confidently and confidentially, is to
merge all the public utilities in Chi
cagO, excepting the Chicago Tele-
phone Company, into one gigantic
combination. If it is played success
fully, one group of financiers, who
will be known as the Insull-Cobe-
Blair-syndicate, will have absolute
control of the heat, power, light and
transportation facilities of the sec
ond city of the United States. Sam
uel insult, head of the Commonwealth
Edison Company; Henry A. Blair, fl
nancial head of the Chicago Rail-
ways Company, and Ira NJ. Cobe,
chairman of the board of directors of
the Chicago City Railway Company
the three men declared to be work
ing the merger into shape, all issued
denials of any such intentions today.
But the talk of the giant combine
persists in Chicago business centers
and financial experts point to recent
developments to support the theory
that the big merger has become
something more than a dream.
The Chicago telephone company,
the single big public utility outside
the program has a merger plan of its
own hanging fire. For several weeks
the financial hackers of the company
have been attempting to get the city
council to consent to the purchase of
the Illinois Telephone and Telegraph
Company, the automatic phone con-
Germ, and its only rival in the local
field. This proposed merger is being
held up, pending information from
Attorney General McReynolds as to
whether or not it would violate the
Sherman Act.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-11-24
At Christian College

Miss Marion Belcher was the guest
of Mrs. C. B. Miller on last Sunday
Only a few students will lower their
grades by trip home for Thanksgiv-
ing.
Miss Helen Hayes of Kansas City is
visiting Miss Frances Fleming for the
week end
Miss Annice Davis of ST. Louis
class of 1912, is the guest of her sis
ter, Miss John Davis.
Mrs. r. F. l.. Etter of Gallatin, Mo-,
is visiting her daughter. Miss Golden
Etter, college senior.
Miss Nell Ruth of Poplar Bluff, Mo,
is the guest of Miss Mildred Rains at
the college.
Handsome new reading tables and
magazine and newspaper racks have
been installed in the college library.
Miss Gladys Houston of Carrollton
Mo, graduate of School of Expression
1912, is the guest of her sister, Miss
Ernestine Houston
Miss Dorothy Virgins of Kansas
City and Miss Zelma Chapline of Pop
lar Bluff, Mo, are guests of Miss Eliz-
abeth Gibbons at the Gamma bunga-
low.
Practically the entire college attend
ed the Kansas-Missouri game. A half
5day was granted in all depart
ments and "Old Missouri" sung at
chapel for good luck"
Christian College will play basket
ball with the Canton team in the col
lege gymnasium December -. Dates
with Central College at Fayette and
Synodical at Fulton have not been
fixed
Enthusiasm is growing among the
students in the Mart of Nations" to be
given in the college gymnasium the
afternoon and night of December 8.
The enterprise will be under the aus
pices OF the local Alumnae Association
and the college Y. w. C. A.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-11-24
COULD X. c. HAVE DONE BETTER!

The events of last Friday and Sat
urday should silence, once for all, the
talk of ever again playing the Kansas
football game in Kansas City, or any
where else except in Columbia and
Lawrence.
What football rally in Kansas City
could have been half so impressive as
that mass meeting on the campus Fri
day night, with the Columns for a
background? What entertainment in
Kansas City hotel parlor or a hired
hall could have had the college favor
of the reception in Rothwell Gymna-
SUM afterward? How could Saturday
mornings parade have been duplicated
in metropolis?
Six Thousand visitors poured into
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-11-24

Columbia for the game, and departed
again Saturday night and Sunday. II
any of them went hungry or slept on
curb, they failed to make their COM
plants known.
The attendance at the game was as
large as the average attendance at the
last five games in Kansas City, accord
ing to Professor Brewer. This should
still the cry that Missouri and Kansas
athletics need the financial support OF
the city fans.
Not until the game had been away
from Kansas City for year or two
did the slogan change from Beat Kan
sas" to Welcome, Kansas" Missou-
rians of the earlier generation were
firmly convinced that all Kansans wore
horns and cloven hoofs, but the annual
visiting back and forth is making the
two universities neighbors in feeling
as well as in location.
The best feature of the occasion,
however, was the return of so many
alumni TO the campus of their Alma
Mater. They had an opportunity to see
the old school at its best, to greet their
old friends and classmates, and to
rekindle the ashes of affection for the
University. A loyal body of alumni, as
well as a local body of students, is a
and progress of Old Missouri.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-11-24

the topic of his next sermon, nor any
of the mid-week meetings, if there
were a law against advertising.
There would be no wearing of fra
ternity pins, sorority pins or "old
Guard buttons.
Cupid would demand an efficiency
expert to prevent bankruptcy because
most diamond rings would be forbid
den.
Pennants and tanners would have
no place on the walls of the students
room. There would be no need for
the kodak to preserve the scenes
which advertise the good times en-
ioyed at the University. Photo
graphs, too, would be barred unless
the owner could prove before the JUS
tice that they were not meant to ad-
vertise the charms of the individual.
The time-honored custom of wear
ing freshman caps would be dis
pensed with No special uniforms
would be worn by the cadets or by
the band.
The law against advertising would
create a phinX-like expression ON the
face of every inhabitant. A free trip
to Jail would be the result of a smil-
ing countenance or of sorrowful
demeanor.
There would be no mass meetings.
Enthusiasm would be prohibited The
slogan, Beat Kansas" and the new
yell would be entirely eliminated
from the vocabulary of the Missouri
IAN
!. Even Mother Nature would be in
terested. In summertime no rain
bow would greet Columbians with its
promise of pleasant weather. In
winter the sunset would never be
red and glowing, the sign of Il
warmer day to follow.
And all because a little thing like
advertising is ruled out!
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-11-24
OUR NUTS AND WILD FRUITS.

In Missouri one can still find a good
variety of nuts and wild fruits in au-
tumn, though the ak OF the woodsman
has left them scattered.
Our black walnut, a favorite fire
wood of our grandparents but now too
valuable to use for picture frames, is
more plentiful in Boone county than
in most parts of the state Though it
is no longer a common sight to see the
boy with the brown walnut-stained
hands or the woodshed covered with
nuts to dry, one who searches diligent-
ly can still find all of these nuts he
wishes.
Our hickory trees, too, which fed
so many roaring fires, can still be
found, though the nut gatherer with a
bag of shell barks" on his back is a
rarity. The appetizing hazel nuts are
not all gone. In the lowlands of the
river there are yet few pecans.
The persimmon, whose eating can
not be hastened, and the paw-paw are
two of our favorite wild fruits of au-
tumn The red haw and tha black
haw give variety to the crop.
Though we are not rich in these
things any more, it would seem that
there was something lacking in the
fall without them. 1t would seem a
pity to destroy any more of them. We
should save our nut and autumn fruit
bearing trees as much as possible, and
gather them while we can.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-11-24
At Stephens College

Miss Nola Critz of Memphis. Mo, is
a guest of Miss Alice Wilhite.
Miss Eunice Drake will spend the
week end at her home in Rocheport.
Clifton Kerr of Kansas City is visit
ing his sister Miss Elizabeth Kerr.
Estill Miller of Pittsfeld, Ill, is
visiting his sister Miss Mary Miller.
Oren Porter of haywood is visiting
his cousin, Miss Anna Loudermilk.
Misses Pauline Hubbell and Elsie
Cornell of Kansas City are guests of
the Mu Epsilons.
Miss Lena Kendrick and NJ. +. Ken
drick of Green Ridge, Mo, are visiting
Miss Eta for the week end.
Miss Elizabeth Spencer of Carroll
ton, Mo, is visiting Misses Meador of
Kansas City
Miss Mary Gilbert returned Friday
after few days visit with her parents
in Odessa, Mo.
l.. Lindsay Dyche of Kansas Uniyer-
sity is here for the game as the guest of
his sister Miss Ruth Dyche
Mr.. and Mrs. Means Ritz of Ieffer-
son City will be the guests of Miss
Myrtle LeCompte over Sunday
Miss Elizabeth Wilson of Lexington.
Mo, is the guest of Miss Marcia Ellen
COrder
Mrs. S. p Callison of Windsor, Mo-.
is visiting her sister Miss Ruth CALI
son.
Miss Lucy Elliott of Odessa is the
guest OF her sister. Miss Elizabeth Ell
liOtt.
Miss Cornelia \. Montgomery re-
turned from the State Sunday School
Convention which has been in session
for the past week at st. Joseph, Mo.
Miss Susan Killiam of Ellsberry, Mo,
who was a member of the Stephens
College Faculty for several years, is
visiting Miss Myrtle LeCompte
Miss Gertrude Avery of Hale, Mo-,
and Miss Josephine Lillard of Kinks
vile. Mo-, are guests of Misses Mildred
and Mary Barr.
Misses Mildred Melvin and Vera
Asher of Trenton, Miss Ruth Crockett
of Caruthersville, Mo-, and Misses May
Day Clark and Eva Ratcliff of Vinita,
Okla, are the guests of the Beta Sigma
Omicron.
Miss Mary d. McReynolds is enter
tanning her mother, Mrs ]. c. Mercy
nolds of LaBelle, Mo Mrs. Mercy
nOlds brought Il box of good things"
and the Mu Epsilons had a real turkey
dinner last evening.
Mrs. Walter McNab Miller gave a
real suffragette talk for the girls in
convocation Thursday morning on
Home Efficiency" Women stand on
the right side when a big question is
at stake We need the mother love and
interest to promote public welfare and
to raise the social and economic eff
cheney"
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-11-24
Fifty College Girls to Sing and Dance
in Greek Drama.

Students in the School of Express
ion, Christian College, assisted by the
glee club and gymnasium department,
will present the Greek tragedy. The
Alkestis of Euripides, in the College
auditorium on Tuesday night, Nov.
25th at 8 o'clock. Tickets 80 cents.
(adv. M
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-11-24
FOR SALE

FOR SALE-Clear lot, 5S 1-3 feet
front, southeast corner Keiser avenue
and Lee street. Write owner, H. w.
Gray, Box %, Route Is Los Angeles.
GAM. Q1,7tc)
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-11-24

FOR SALE-One good, practically
new, mandolin, case and music rack.
Price when new, $40. For sale at
$l2. Phone 442-White 200 2tcl
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TO RENT

BEAUTIFUL furnished rooms, new
ly decorated, including two suites,
with or without board. SO4 Hillcrest.
G9-tf)
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WANTED.

ROOMMATE WANTED - Large
room, half block from Academic Hall.
Address j., AIissourian. D6D
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FOITNII.

FOuND-Ladies purse on Missouri
avenue. Call at MissOurian Office and
pay for this ad. (d,3tc)
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-11-24

For Rent-IIalf of a desirable room
to young man. All Hit, corner Uni
Verslty Avenue. Q6,6tc)
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Your next dance call one of Will
Meyers cars. Phone 576. (adv)
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Dressmaking and tailoring done at
reasonable prices. Miss Perry, 207
Guitar Bldg. Phone 246-W White. Q1, 1,c1m)
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-11-24
WANT COLUMN
MISCELLANEOUS

Shoe Repairing While you wait.
Parsons Shoe Shop. I South Ninth.
Q3c)
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Patronage of Missourian patrons de-
sired. Scurlock Transfer Co. Phone
Y. Q0,tD
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-11-24

OLD clothes made new and new ones
made too. Who tailors best in Co
lumbia? Machaelson Bros. Above
University Barber Shop. (5.1m,c)
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LOST

LUSI = PocketbOOk containing
money and papers. Return pocket
book and papers to NIissourian and
Keep the money. C. ]. Blackburn. 2t
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Dancing lessons given privately al
sos Conley. Phone 44S White. (29,tfc)
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WANTED-Men's clothing and shoes.
Miller's Second Hand Store. 26 N.
Ninth Street. Phone 708-Black
(5,1mo,c)
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-03-12
MAKING SCHOOLS EFFICIENT.

Strong accusations against the
schools of which our country is so
proud have been made by magazines.
Impracticality and inefficiency are the
two crimes with which they are
charged.
Unfortunately much of the accusa-
tion was true. Expensive buildings
have been used only six hours of the
twenty-four, and even much of the six
hours has been wasted for the pupils.
When our young men want to enter
a profession they go to a university;
when they want TO enter the business
field they go to a privately managed
business college.
In some places, however, the issue
has been met squarely. In Kansas
City, night schools have been run
suSStsSiuii., anu just tit oluti uay
an item in the papers told of the first
graduation from high school busi-
ness course. The young man attend
ed school half day for two school
years, and learned things that will be
of prime Importance now that he has
left school. A position was waiting
for him.
Another article tells of the passing
of a bill by the Kansas legislature
allowing night schools to be held in
the regular schools of that state.
America may yet get a school sys-
TEN of which to be proud, If we will
Just learn that our present system
is not perfect.