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University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-12-21

probation is partly due to ignorance
Of the purpose Of the state Institutions
and partly to the MISREPRESENTATION
brought about by reports OF the less
mature conduct Of the students, which
in any school is detrimental to the
bigger accomplishment of those con-
nected with it.
The campaign for a building for
women's interests will stand out as a
student movement which has nothing
trivial connected with 1t, for it cannot
be considered q matter of wanting
something from the pork barrel for
students who will not be here to en-
joy the advantages of such building.
For that reason, If for no other
and there are plenty of others IL you
stop to consider that the accommoda-
tions for the women students of today
are the same as those made when
women were first admitted to the
University-the movement should be
one of state interest and one fostered
by those in the state. s.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-12-21

leave in it nothing but an apprecia-
tion Of what is here.
There are, of course. many things
that could be given-a new building or
two, a million dollar appropriation. a
mill tax or few professors. These
are not freely given. Christmas gifts
are OF the lighter kind. Santa Claus
would perhaps better give an appre-
citation of the things that are here.
After all, it is the satisfaction of
the students that make a university.
Old Dartmouth was great when she
had few graduates, because that few
loved her. That same feeling will
make Missouri great. and she has
enough now for good basis for the
feeling.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-12-21
WHAT HE NOTICED WAS

Some persons see things A man
gifted with this ability said that he
could not help noticing some things.
Here are some of them:
The more worthless and no-'count
and onery man is, the worse every
body's down on him.
Looks like the harder a man tries,
the less he gets DONE
There are two kinds of men,
those who are going to do and those
who have done The kind that is do
ing does not talk about it.
II you walk anywhere with a man
who owns an automobile, he always
tells you coming back that If he'd
known 1t was SO far he would have
brought his "cyah."
The most aggravating thing in the
world is the man who gives you a
story about himself and then says,
Il like to help you fellows; 1 was in
the newspaper business once myself
The most Improbable thing in the
world is betting with girls.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-12-21
The Open Column
Charity @ Children.

Editor the Missourian: Christ
mas tree" all of "thirty-five feet high,
with large spreading branches to hold
charity presents for the poor chill
dren of Columbia" is an unkind and
insulting statement flung at the chill
dren who are just as good and just
as sensitive as your children and
my children.
1t is not the children's fault, If
fault it can be called, if their fathers
earn less money than you and earn.
Most of their fathers had not the
good start in life that you and l had.
Some of their fathers have done bet
ter than | have, considering their
progress and my progress from the
two starts. Probably most of their
fathers are doing the very best they
can in earning. Why emphasize the
gap in luxuries between us and them?
Those children, they are not, theirs
but "ours," our dear children,
Hold the jollification around the
tree, make it bond of good cheer be-
tween us and "ours," permit it some
how in the Masters spirit to be for
getting by givers and their dear chill
dren recipients of any gap that either
givers or children's parents do some
times feel. Drop this gap business.
cut out this condescension about
charity. omit the word and thought
poor people"-or hope by all that is
holy that some poor" parent will set
fire to the tree Thursday night.
Are you and l, reader. doing all we
can privately, with personal effort
more than with easily handed-out dol
lar, tactfully and gladly with good
cheer. to bring happiness more than
transient to children who have less
than our children?
ANTI PUBLIC CHARITY"
P. s. But say, just a moment,
while the Good Book wrote "let not
thy right hand know what thy left
hand doeth." it implied 'let thy left
hand be busy" A. p. &C."
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-12-21
THE REAL CHRISTMAS

II do not believe in Christmas is
the excuse given by a young man in
the second age of wisdom for forget
ting that such a day is coming soon.
Don't believe in Christmas? Then
perhaps you do not believe in good
ness and charity and love and affec-
ton. Perhaps you do not believe in
forgetting seemingly great things and
being a child again, dreaming Of ideal
things; in feeling love for all about
you; in knowing that all's right with
the world.
Maybe you have spent three or four
years in the University and have be-
come so filled with knowledge that you
know the myth of Santa Claus is but
a foolish story, first told to the chill
dren of barbarians, and can analyze
its growth and tell the reasons for its
being. Maybe you are SO learned in
history and philosophy that you do not
believe that the Son of Man was born
that morning beneath the Star of
Bethlehem, which the wise men fol-
lowed to find the Infant King.
This is certain, youth of wisdom:
Christmas is not subject to learned
analysis. 1t is day of love; day
in which to follow the lesson of that
Man; a lesson you believe, though you
doubt the teacher; day to be made
perfect, after which other perfect
days will be easy.
Have you forgotten how long time
ago you looked on Christmas as the
greatest day of the year and how it
was great, because you thought it so?
Has your superior knowledge done no
more for you than to take away the
sentiment that makes Christmas Day
and to make you look at this day as
any other of the year? Has it de-
stroyed your ability to become again
as a little child, whom the Master
said "suffer to come unto me-?
Do you believe there is nothing in
comprehensive to your wondrous
mind? There is more to life. than his
tory and science and philosophy.
These together cannot explain Christ
mas. 1t takes faith, dreams, poetry
and love to push aside the barriers of
the unsightly and see the supernal
glories, real or fancied, of the world
beyond.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-12-21
That Lonely Studsat

Editor the Missourian: When you
see that lonely student who is spend
ing his vacation here, don't pass him
up, but give him the glad hand. 1t
will make him feel better. Slap him
on the back and greet him. He will
appreciate 1t.
There are many reasons why he Is
here. Maybe he has no home to go to;
maybe he has a job to hold down;
maybe he likes Columbia; maybe he
lacks the money, and has too far to
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-12-21

Have you considered the Christmas
horn as medium for the spread Of
the rampant grip? Go to the 10
cent stores and watch the public as
1t blows.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-12-21

Let's not call Ford Colonel" pleads
William Marion Heedy. The word
has such an unpleasant, nutty como
tation.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-12-21
The Women's Movement.

Editor the Missourian: The wom-
en- OF the University are trying to Gre
ate sentiment out in the state in ia
vor Of the granting of money for a
Women's Building at the University
by the Legislature next year. This is
movement which should be of vital
interest to all who have the interests
of the University at heart In ad-
vocacy Of the need of such an appro-
priation, much more than the women's
wishes will be taken into account.
1t is something to be deplored that
the general sentiment in the state is
one of not enough appreciation for
the state institution. This lack of ap-
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-12-21
THE UNIvERsITY,s STOCKING

II Santa Claus were driven by the
Society for the Prevention of Useless
Giving and the University of Missouri
should hang up its stocking Friday
night, the Joy bringer would probably
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-12-21

Up in Maryyille the interest in tho
war seems to have pervaded every
thing. Even local athletic organi-
zation calls itself the "Krupps"
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-12-21
Walnut Street
Theatre

Free to every child in Columbia un-
der the age of sixteen Christmas af-
ternoon.
"The Adventures of Boy Scout" q
five-act World Film Corporation pic
ture that has been shown all over the
country under the auspices 0f Boy
Scout Organizations. It's a winner
and Mr.. Gage wants all the kiddies to
be his guests for Christmas.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-12-21

He has no one to talk things o.
with. Act the pal" to him; he '
like 1t. NJ
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-10-19
Topics of the Times

Wilson. says the headlines, is to
challenge Bryan in his speech before
the Manhattan club. The question Of
large additions to the defensive forces
Of this counary is the bone of conten-
ton. But suppose Mr.. Bryan should
challenge the president to discuss the
mail routes and the monkey work that
is going on there? There are no Man
haitian clubs out west but it fairly
reeks with farmers who get their mail
on routes all over the middle west.
No more cement bridge building at
ter Nov. / is the conclusion of the
Highway Commission. However, it is
to be considered that the commission
covers the state from north TO south
and local conditions may be favorable
for local work so that in localities ce-
ment work need not be discontinued
except as the weather indicates. But
the commission covering an entire state
is obliged TO fix an arbitrary date and
Nov / is certainly late enough for
that
That New York thief who has been
in the business ffty-one years and has
but $500 to show for it should have
invested his picking in Iowa land. A
man may work as hard as he chooses
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-10-19

TO take the loss rather than to enter
tain the knowledge that it had pc
trayed the homes where the news
paper belongs 70 the school children
as 10 their elders.
So the argument is with both sides.
Both are right as far as they go. 1t
still remains for the editor of news
as OF other departments OF the paper
from the ad mans desk TO the sane
tunl" to use judgment and feel respon-
sibility. The entire responsibility Of
what is news and what should be
printed as news can not be left to be
decided by a demand more or less I'M
certain and hard 10 anaiyze.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-10-19
THE SECOND IOWA CAVALRY.

MarshalltoWn is to entertain notable
guests tomorrow and the day following
when The survivors of the famous Sec
ond Iowa cavalry hold their regimental
reunion here 1t will be but a rem
nant Of the regiment for perhaps less
than 300 survive out OF the 2,400 whose
names are on the roster during !ts
existence as part of the army of the
civil war None of those who gather
here however. will be strangers-for
no civil war veteran can be q stranger
TO the people of Marshalltown-and
many Of them are friends and neigh
bors for a considerable quota of the
Second were Marshall county and
Tana county men and Of those who re-
turned from the battlefelds many have
lived their lives where they were born
and in the community whence they en-
listed.
II was a great regiment, brave, dar-
ing and determined. 1t was in the war
with a purpose. 1t went where it was
ordered and stayed where 1t went. 1T
came back from the establishment by
battle of vital principle of govern
rnent to dress ranks in the armies Of
Industry, and turned from the mag
nifcence of war and conquest to the
splendor of mightier conquest Of
peace. And in the years Of struggle
and development these men bore their
part as bravely and unfiinchingly as
they had carried arms IN splendid pur-
pose for an eternal principle.
| Tennyson wrote his best known poem
upon the charge Of the light brigade, q
blunder made magnificent by the un-
questioning bravery Of the splendid at
tack. OF the Second Iowa the war cor
respondent OF the New York World
from the battle field OF Pennington
wrote that the charge Of the Second
Iowa had no counterpart except that
famous charge at Balaklava But the
charge at Pennington was no blunder
The Second was sent against $4,000
men and batteries which counted
twenty-four cannon in an effort to saw,
an army from destruction. 1t silencet
the guns and demoralised the infantr,
it attacked ana turned the tide Of bat
tie. And SO from August, 1861, to Sept
10. 1854, the Second Iowa marched an,
fought across the south from Bird
} Point, Missouri. to Selma, Alabama
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-10-19

And from that dag. s::sy-one years ago
when they were discharged as regi-
ment its members have marched and
labored bravely and nobly in the ranks
Of The other armies which have made
continent blossom as the rose and con-
quered the last wilderness between the
oceans.
So Marshalltown in high pride and
deep respect greets and welcomes the
remnant OF the Second Iowa, extends
to It not only the keys OF the city but
opens wide the gates of the hearts OF
its citizens.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-10-19
WHY IS A CORPSE NECESSARY

| A reckless Sioux City driver ran
down and killed a woman from a
neighboring and tributary town the
| other day. Immediately the commits
sioners of the city announced that
something must be done to curb the
reckless driving and that they in
tended to take strict measures toward
this result.
| 1t is very common assurance-so
common that people discount it when
they read it and expect small results.
| Human nature is very much the
same whether in Sioux City or else
where, II rises lip and raves while the
| corpse is warm Ii forgets as readily
until the next palpitating body lies at
! gaze in the streets The reckless
driver slows down for a day or two
struck with the horror of the posi-
bilities OF his recklessness, the COM
I missioners feel as they talk and the
| public raves its demands; but when
the corpse is out of sight in the ceme-
terry the thing begins over again, the
slackness of control returns and all
goes along as before until another
calamity brings the crowd TO a stand
still.
When the automobile came in its
speed possibilities aroused sleeping
mania for fast driving. Recklessness
was common. II was new plaything,
pleasure and a sport and many
persons of otherwise good judgment
raced their machines TO the danger of
themselves and the public. But with
the practical use of the machines
much OF this mas been eliminated The
average man drives his auto carefully.
He thinks of consequences to himself
and t. others. The recklessness in
mainly confined to a few, and these Of
a class whose carelessness and lack
OF sense is as evident in their own
lives as in their driving.
1t is these who need the strong
hand. Some people there are who
must be reformed by hurt who must
be made afraid in the interests of the
public. Like children they must be
burned to learn to dread the FIRE
Burn them. Burn them well. Make
a memory that will arise to check the
inclination to throw aside regard for
authority and the safety of others and
make them afraid. That is the only
way.
The streets should be as safe as pos
sible to those who throng them The
man who fails to use proper precau-
ton and restraint in city street
should be taught a lesson that ne
would not soon forget. So much the
city owes to those who throng it's
streets whether they are from tribu-
tary villages or belong in the city In
the average Iowa town the proper ap
plication Of the full limit of the law
10 q dozen such exceptions to the gen.
eral rule would practically settle the
matter.
One or two corpses should suffice.
1t should not be necessary TO kill
man or woman in order to get a stiff
fine for reckless or careless criminal
driving.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-10-19
BABIES.

Babies are chubby listed shafts oil
sunshine which are sent down to earth
for the purpose of giving the father
and mother something to think about
aside from the weekly pay roll and the
suffragette parade. The man VINO has
a baby to come home to. after ten
hours or real labor, is not going to be
greatly surprised when he wakes up en-
the sunny side OF the eternal hills.
Babies are composed Of various in
gradients, including tears, chuck!es.
spunk, sweetness and Group. The
first six months of oabys life are
usually given over to entertaining Group
in its most malignant and leep-defying
form. This merciless ailment never at
tacks the baby until 2 q. m, when
everybody is sunk several feet in SUM
Der. 1t does not take the baby long to
determine that the Group has arrived
and when it is fully advised !: the
premises 1t proceeds to inform the re-
mainder Of the family in tones Of pas.
sionate protest which make Ella Wheel
er Wilcox read like the annual repor,
of fire insurance company.
When the baby il I months old it Ii
| allowed to sit upon the parlor rug an6
try TO swallow SKIP rubber rattle. Be-
coming tired of this. It will tip forward
| heavily On its nose and give everybody
in the house an attack OF heart failure
Many father who II shaving on ths
third floor when this occurs hurr1e.
| down in two jumps to explain that Fl
| never could have happened II he hat
been present
Some people are not fortunate escug!
to have babies. and are unable to IN.
derstand why some ne!ghbor who never
gives anything to the church should b.
profusely decorated with twips. Man,
times these people adopt babies which
have no home, and ind that the invest
ment pays bigger dividends thai
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-10-19
PRINTING THE NEWS,

The Webster City Freeman Tribune
having hoped that the big snoobish
newspapers Will not devote more than
a page per day to the forthcoming
marriage of President Wilson the
Sioux City Journal proceeds to argue
that it is good news. that people want
il and that they have a right to it and
concludes that if the people who read
the newspapers want a page a day
a bout ii they should have 1t.
Tit, tut, why all this excitement?
Both are right. The announcement OF
the presidents coming marriage was
the big news story OF the day 10 most
readers, bigger than the war or Cliff
ford Thorne's speech or Harding
shadow boxing with issues or Carl
kuehnles bank statement. Folks
wanted to know. They read il avidly
and talked about il in every home
And anything that sets the folks talk
ing about i, at the supper table or
around the family lamp is news and
don't you forget it.
But the Webster City paper hints
at fault nevertheless and one that
should be amended in news reports
There is no better reason Tor diiutiiis
news than for diluting milk. 1t ought
to run at least three pounds of butter
fat to the hundred. When the news
papsrs dilute their news they do it
for the same reason that the milkman
waters his milk And watered milk and
watered news are both poor stuff. II
the coming wedding were to be di-
luted to make a page { day 1t would
be a blue mixture.
| A newspaper should hold mirror up
to its clientele wherein. the passing
| throng is reflected, where its reader
may see the principal events Of the
| world pass in review as they take
place or occur, a moving picture Of the
| face of the earth. 1t must show the
presidents wedding not neglecting the
marriage of Algernon Edward, eldest
! son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Jabez Jonathan
| Jones with Gladys Mae, second daugh-
| ter of Mr.. and Mrs. William Henry
Brown at the residence Of the brides
parents, 1s43 Back street. That's what
| a newspaper is for. But there is no
good reason for watering the milk ex-
cept to save the trouble and expense
of milking.
To print what people want to read
is not snobbishness but it Is fitting to
| study and understand not only what
people want to read but whether they
want to read it and whether it should
be printed in a newspaper that IL a
daily visitor and companion in the
home. There is no good reason to be-
lieve that people desire to read pagei
Of gush and slop or that the reading
public has a thirst for dishwater. And
leaving the question Of snobbishness
and the weddings out OF the argument
there are plenty Of things to print that
people will read that never should b
printed in a reputable family news
paper-instance the associated presi
report Of the Thaw case much Of which
the Times-Republican eliminated be
: cause 1t was shameful to 90 into homes
and unfit for decent people to read. Tin
T.-R. had demand for the stun blu
1t preferred to let the readers who de
manded it find it somewhere else AM
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-10-19
II p,.th End, Al.

And suppose after all that death
does end all. Next to eternal Joy.
next to being forever with those We
love and who have loved us-next to
that. II to b. wrapped in the dream-
less drapery Of eternal peace. Next
to eternal life 10 eternal sleep. Upon
the shadowy shore Of death the sea %
trouble casts no wave. Eyes that
have been curtained BY the everlast.
ing dark win never know again the
burning touch Of tears. Lips touched
By eternal silence viii never speak
again the broken words Of grief
Hearts Of dust do not break. The
dead do not weep. Within the tomb
no yelled and weeping sorrow sits.
And in the rayless gloom IL crouched
no shuddering fear.-Robert Ingersoll,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-10-19

but if he doesn't invest wisely he can't
expect to retire on fortune.
1t has been decided to call off that
Thanksgiving dinner at Constantinople.
cipal dish of the day.
Another branch of industry that is
making big money is that of manu-
featuring artificial limbs. That's an
other business that war sets booming.
The Pan American conference will
recognize Carranza today. We shall
have to await developments to learn
the fire.
DR.. Cook has been arrested as a
spy by the Germans Very properly
too. A man who can see the north
pole across a thousand miles of ice
hummocks would be a dangerous OBJ
server close by.
Since the beginning of the war 1000
been Killed on the battlefield and 5000
have been put out of service, according
to statistics given out today by the
ministry of public instruction. The
number of modified teachers is 10000.
When the Times Republican COM
puted the tire bill in Iowa to be three
times the county road tax a conserya-
tive estimate Of the average cost OF
auto tires was placed at $40 per wheel
equipment but the National Automo-
bile Chamber OF Commerce is out with
an estimate of 100000 tires used an
nually in the United States at cost OF
5000. 600 900. This is an average cost
per wheel of s33 or s132 per annum
per car. II the automobile association
estimate is correct our tire bill in Iowa
is five times the county road tax. Does
anybody think that we can't afford
hard DIS in this state?
;owa or@..:H..:cM AND NOTES
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-10-19

fighting chance, this would be better
world to live in.
There 10 no stiffness In the world like
the stiffness in the home out Of which
the baby has gone. No diversion, no
distraction can tighten it or ever I'M
hinge memory from the tenderess OF
its treasures. But 1t is worth the sor-
row to have had them for time, and
losing them. to know they are not lost,
but absent for q WHILE
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-10-19

a Business Man For Business Office
Sounds good" admits the Algona Adj
vance, but what does it mean? We
move for a more specific statement"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-10-19

stock in a shrapnel factory. The baby
is SO constituted that it can get along
without milk. but not without love, and
when it has both there is something in
the house more beautiful to look at
than Circassian walnut bedroom suite.
II there were little less money given
to free public Libraries and stadiums
and swimming pools and more to give
the babies of the tenement districts a