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University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-01-24
THE NEW BOOKS
Tales of the Trail.

James w. Foley, born In st. Louis,
now living at Bismarck, n. D., writes
Of the trail of human nature, toler-
ance, humor and mirth. He sings Of
common folks in a common way, US
ing mostly the language prevalent
in a pioneer community "a Tale of
the Trail" is a good insight into Mr..
Foley's idea of life and from a read
ing of it one can gain a good idea
of what to expect throughout the
book. "a Providentfal Discovery"
and "The Wreck" will delight anyone
who has lived in a rural community.
It is book worthy of a place be-
side volumes of Riley and Field.
(E. P. Dutton & Co., New York;
12mo cloth, pen and ink sketches by
John Wolcott Adams; price s1.35
nett.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-01-24
The Literary Trawler

The New Testament knows of no
salvation by our Lords rovely char
acter. Nor does it publish salvation
by means of Christ's ideal teachings.
II is Christ the Gospel, not Christ
the Gospeller, of which Gods Word
makes such insistent mention. Ac-
cording to the Savior and His apos-
ties, it is the death divine that saves
men, and that alone. The apostles
say far more of the death than of
any other element of the Lords earth
ly history. Many today shift the CEN
tire of gravity from Christ's death
to His life If this be right the New
Testament is fiagrantly wrong. 1t
suffces for many Of US that such
teaching is unscriptural. We stand
or fall by the Scriptures.-Rev. Dins-
dale T. Young.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-01-24
One Good Story

Readers who had some difficulty in
remembering where the Falkland Is
lands we're, may have been helped by
the recollection of one of Ian Ma
claren's stories. After a disaster to
an emigrant ship many years ago,
some of the survivors reached those
islands. When the news reached
home, the minister of a Scottish
church to which some of the emf
grants had belonged, prayed thus:
"Oh, Lord, we pray thee to be with
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-01-24
More Learning for superintendents.

County superintendent of schools
in Missouri hereafter will have to be
holders of diplomas from a state nor
NAL school or from the School of Ed
ucation of the University or of life
state certificates, If bill introduced
in the State Legislature goes through,
These requirements are to go into eff
feet in 1918.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-01-24
Boy Born to MIR. and Mrs. I. G. walborn

Mr.. and Mrs. Ira G. Walborn OF
Pottsrille, Pa, are the parents of a
boy born yesterday morning. Mrs.
Walborn was Miss Carey Mountjoy of
Columbia. Mr.. Walborn was gradu-
ated from the University in 1906 with
the degree of B. S. in E. E. In 1914
he received an A. B. degree.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-01-24
COLUMBIA,s ANTIQUES.

The University of Missouri main
tains two museums in Academic Hall;
one, the Archaeological Museum,
wherein are shown copies of the stat
uary of the ancients; the other, the
Historical Museum, wherein are In
dian relics and Civil War mementoes.
Columbia, it seems, ought to be
represented in one or the other OF
these repositories of antiques. The
University city ought to have last
ing memorial somewhere in the Uni
versity's archives.
What has Columbia to offer? Build
ings, to be sure, of historic interest;
the second brick house built west
of the Mississippi River. This is a
trifie too big, perhaps, for the hous-
ing obtainable.
But why not the ancient and honor
able stepping-stones that have graced
the city's crossings from the time
when the memory of man runneth not
to the contrary? They wouldn't
take up a lot of room.
And think what a relief it would
be to have them out of the way, so
that Columbia might take on more
the appearance of a modern city!
Here are the two birds. Why not kill
them with one stepping-stone?
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-01-24
The Open Column
This Compulsory Vaccination.

Editor The Missourian:- Looking
at the matter merely from the
standpoint of community efficiency,
the compulsory vaccination now be-
ing enforced on the students of the
University seems a blunder. There
is too much suffering, too much lost
motion, for the results attained.
The order very probably was made
in the right spirit, with a consider
alton of the student health and we'll
being at heart It's effect, however,
has been this: more actual suffering
has been undergone in the aggre-
gate, more class-hours have been
missed and more trouble has been
caused at the hospital than would
have resulted from ten Sor twenty
cases of real smallpox The preven-
ton is worse than the cure.
Any person who has been in Par
ker Memorial Hospital the last few
days, while the vaccination wounds
were being dressed, would have seen
stiff, swollen, discolored arms that
were painful and troublesome to
their possessors. He would have
heard excuses asked for because of
cut classes. He would have seen the
hospital staff rushed very nearly OF
their feet to bandage barred arms.
Each sore arm itself Is not SO dis
astrous to its owner as a case Of
smallpox would be. Individually, the
vaccination undoubtedly has been
beneficial, provided that there was
any real reason to expect an epi-
demic
Considering it from the standpoint
of the University community, how
ever, this vaccination has been loss,
a serious loss-K.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-01-24
searching for Mormon History.

e. NJ. violette, professor of history
in the Kirksville Normal School, is
in Columbia looking up documents In
the State Historical Library relating
to the Mormon troubles of Missouri's
early history. Professor Violette says
that he may write a book dealing
with this phase of Missouri's history.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-01-24
es the farm.

An Illinois poultry fancier has pro-
duced a duck that doesn't quack.
Now If Science will just take this up
and apply the principle to some of
our garrulous friends!
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-01-24
THE "wISCONSIN IDEA.-

After fourteen years of trial, the
Wisconsin Idea" has gone to smash
in its home state. The people have
revolted from it. What is the wis
consin Idea" and why has it been
overthrown?
1t originated in 1900 with the cleo
ton of a radical governor and other
officials who advocated reform. The
first reform measure was the pass
age of a statewide primary law,
which its enemies say Getting figures)
has resulted in a decreased interest
in elections on the part Of the vo-
ters Gradually the Wisconsin Idea"
developed a form whose principle is
paternalistic. All lines of endeavor
are regulated and supervised by COM
missions composed of university
trained experts, and the state must
be developed in the interests of the
future citizens.
Whatever the value of the theory
may be, its practice in Wisconsin
resulted in an increase In the ex-
penses of the government of from
100000 in 1900 to s1S,000.000 in
1914. 1t was this expensive govern
ment with its many commissions and
employees and the high taxes it neces-
STATED that the people revolted
against.
The failure of the Wisconsin Idea"
there does not necessarily mean that
it is of no account By the vote of
the people they stamped it as "a fail
ure for them. In revolt they sudden
ly overthrow principles that came
into being rather suddenly. The
things in American government that
have stood the test are not the revo-
lutionary things that have sprung
up from time to time, but the evolu-
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-01-24

Sam Jordan is on the right track
when he suggests that the name
farm adviser be changed. That
adviser" business rather antagoniz-
es the farmers.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-01-24

our brethren, stranded in the Falk-
land Islands, which, as Thou know
est, are situated in the South Atlantic
Ocean"
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-01-24
Definition: A war correspondent is
a person who knows what news a CEN
sor will like.
MUST EVERYTHING BE TAUGHTi

While we are revising the curric-
ulum of the University, let's add a
course or two in general information
or in current affairs. When it comes
to such a pass that University stu
dents can't tell who Hank" Gowdy
is, or who wrote Madame Butter
fly" or what Hoyle wrote, it is time
that something were done to wake
them up to the fact that the sun
arises in the east and sets in the
west.
A young man might be excused for
ignorance concerning the opera and
the author of the standard work on
games, but the male student in the
University of Missouri in the year
1915 who doesn't know of what
Hank" Gowdy's claim to fame con-
sists is either applying himself too
closely to his books or is fit sub
ject for a brain specialist.
General information questions have
been published in many newspapers
lately and it is becoming fad to
test ones knowledge of the world as
it rolls. This sort of test at best If
successfully passed, only shows a
most superficial sort of knowledge.
Such a fund of information should
be taken for granted in the case of
University students. But a good
many of them are going through
school in such way that they might
as well be blind and deaf for any
good their eyes and ears do them in
keeping up with the worlds progress.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-01-24

tionary ones which are patterned on
the old and tried principles of gov
ernment with which we are familiar.
The Green Forest tribune., 1915-04-23
ARKANSAS PRESS ASSOCIATION WllL STOP ZAcN ON
 TRIP EASTWARD

One of the features of the Press excursion which follows tHig pfesssmeeting at Harrison next month will be a visit to Blowing Cave at Zacl1, Searcy county, now used extensively for cold storage purposes.
 The owner of the cave MT. M. A. Farr, who has extensively improved it, extends a special invitation to the newspaper party. This cave is but short distance from the depot, and the trip in the cave can be made wi thout soiling the clothes. Several cars of apples and other supplies were kept safely during the winter in this natural cold storage plant, and it is one of the odd sights of the section.
 Only a few steps from the cave is one of the finest, coldest springs of North Arkansas.
The Green Forest tribune., 1915-04-23
DID YOU KNOW?

Did you ever realize this? The United States occupies about 6 per cent of the earth's surface, and has less than 7 per cent of the population, yet it produces 70 per cent of all the corn 60 per ceet of the cotton, 60 per cent of the petroleum, 55 per cent of the copper, 40 per cent of the coal, 55 percent of the tobacco, 30 per cent of the lead, silver and live stock, and 20 per cent of the wheat, timber and gold products of the world. This is some country.
 And did you know that Arkan- sas is in the United States and Green Forest is in Arkansas, and
The Green Forest tribune., 1915-04-23
QUIT FOR GOOD

Several liquor houses in Arkan- sas that have existed for many years, will close their doors on Dec. 31 and the proprietors will never again, according to their statements, engage in the liquor traffic. Many of the wholesale liquor houses have already made their plans for opening in St. Louis and other places on Janu- ary 1. Most of the retail liquor men will engage in other busi- ness, for fully 65 per cent are residents of the cities in which they are now operating, own property there and cannot move away. Most of the Little Rock saloon men have begun arrang- ing for after the first of the year and they, as well as many of the bartenders, figure on remaining in this city. Farming seems to be the principal attraction for the retiring saloonists.
The Green Forest tribune., 1915-04-23

right. The abuse of the pardon ing power, as we see it, is the strongest justification for capital punishment. With any reason able assurance that the sentence would be served, most people would say that a life sentence for first-degree murderers is preferable to hanging. But the life sentence has become a joke and farce. No sooner is a life sentence pronounced that shreWd attorneys and friends with a pull" get busy. If they cannot influence the governor then ir office, they try it, on the next, and the next; and sooner or later some governor steps into office who was helped to get the office by the shrewd attorneys of friends of the prisoner, and a pardon is the next thing in order. So long as unrestricted pardon ing powers rests in the hands of the governor, we are opposed to a discontinuance of capital pun ishment in Arkansas. Russell vile Democrat.
The Green Forest tribune., 1915-04-23
WE ARE SURE WITH YOU

Another strong argument for capital punishment is the pardon by Governor Hays of Clarified and Anderson Turner, two bro- thers, convicted of killing a far mer in Fulton county in 1910.
 The farmer was killed while blowing in the field, the murder presumably being premeditated, cold blooded, and without reason- able provocation. The defend ants were tried by jury and sen fenced to hang. Governor Dona- ghey commuted the sentence to life imprisonment. Cover n o r Hays early in his term reduced the sentence to 21 years, and last week he pardoned them out
The Green Forest tribune., 1915-04-23
NEW USE FOR TAE AUTOMOBILE

It's @ dull day when somebody doesn't report a new use for the automobile. The reports to the effect that the farmers are using them in doing the family wash ing, or in cutting wood for the cooking stove, or in operating a patent churn-such reports no longer attract attention. Nor do the reports that they are being used in transporting pigs to mar ket, or to draw seins along the lake shores. These things are of common knowledge in con- nection with the automobile. But the farmers out in South Dakota have found an entirely different use for the machines and that use is in killing prairie dogs.
 The prairie dogs have given the Dakota farmer a good deal of trouble and it has been impossible to get rid of them. But the automobile has now been turned loose upon them, and the end of the prairie dog is said to be near. The process? Oh, just back the automobile up to a prairie dogs home, attach a hose to the ex- haust valve, drop the end of the hose into the entrance of the hole, and let Ter go. The fumes from the burning gasolene do the rest-and the dogs-Which are not dogs at all, but rats-die happy.
The Green Forest tribune., 1915-04-23
A Gc ID RECORD

The Arkansas Bankers Associa- tion in session here this week will commend the work of the State Bank Department and urge it's most excellent work as the chief reason that a bank guar anty bill is not necessary. Since the banks of Arkansas began operating under the state law, and the wild cat concerns elimen- ated, there have been less bank failures in Arkansas than any of the states of the Union. The banking department has reduced overdrafts from several millions to less than $160, 1000, and within a year expects to have even this margin wiped out.
 The bankers believe that this department protects the weaker bank without expressing the stronger ones.
The Green Forest tribune., 1915-04-23
FARMERS MEETINGS

I will hold meetings in the in terest of better farming at the places named below on tue dates mentioned, at which time we hope to meet all who are interest ed in better farming.
 Carrollton, April 26, 8 p. m.; Delmar, April 27, SD. m.; Osage, April 29, 8 D. m.; Rule, April 29, 8 p. m.; Piney, April 30, 8 p. m.
 Farmers, their wives, sons and daughters are urged to attend these meetings.
 Yours for better farming,
 Ben F. Greer,
 County Agent.
The Green Forest tribune., 1915-04-23
ARE YOU, PATRIOTIC?

Various interests of Arkansas have contributed the funds necessary bear the expense of collecting exhibits for the Panama Pacifce Exposition and our State MAINTENANCE.
 The Legislature appropriated $40 GOO for this purpose and the Supreme Court declared the appropriation illegal To permit this building to remain vacant with boards nailed the windows sell to other company will give Arkansas black eye 1t will from Have you enough State pride and paroism give 100 CENTS to keep the Arkansas building open and advertise the state before the millions attending this exposition? contribution may the bringing of immigrant the State who will purchase land from you your neghbor Certainly the citizens of this county will do their part toward this worthy enterprise.
 Every subscriber receives of the aluminium medals made from Arkansas aluminium, showing the Arkansas building side and the State seal on the other.
 SHOW YOUR LOYALTY TO STATE AND HOME Send dollar to the editor of this paper the Popular Dollar Subscription Committee, Box 648 Little Rock, Ark.
The Green Forest tribune., 1915-04-23
CULTIVATE THE ORCHARD

regardless of whether or not f prospects for a large fruit 0p are bright at this time or FFrds should have ample cuIti-
 'tlon. The fruit trees will re- pfe an early start, and in order fC they may have it early cul- Iatlon It will be desireable. It |l De worth while to store up l |much moisture as possible so
 trees may have enough to
The Green Forest tribune., 1915-04-23


 keep the tissues in a growing condition when the rains fail and the weather is warm and dry.
 The mistake is sometime S made when the fruit crop is in- Jured to neglect the trees be- cause a profitable crop is not ex- pected the first year. This is a very serious mistake because trees must be kept in growing condition if regular bearing is expected. Such trees as peach trees produce wood and fruit buds this year for fruit next year. The growth that is start ed early this spring will be the wood upon which the fruit buds will be formed late next summer or early next fall. Hence it will be seen that if growth is not satisfactory this year bearing cannot be satisfactory ne t year.
 Cultivation of the orchard should be begun early and kept up as long as seems necessary. Usually the orchardist will cease cultivation when the days get hot and a soil mulch is already well established. Care should always be taken not to injure the trunks, branches and roots of trees. A careless driver should never be given the orchard to cultivate. He is likely to do more harm than good. It re- quires skill and patience to do good work in the orchard.
 The smoothing harrow is Q very good implement to use in orchard cultivation. It will not destroy many weeds if one lets his orchard go until the weeds get start. But when the ground is broken early and the harrow used every week or ten days weeds can hardly get a start in the spring.
 Spring-tooth harroWs are very popular, especially if there are "grubs" or stones to interfere with the ordinary cultivators made for smooth land. Itis only necessary to keep up a surface mulch after the soil has once been broken to sufficient depth.
 Whether or not crop is plant ed in the orchard weeds must not be left to rob the trees of moisture nor must the ground be permitted to get hard to acclerate evaporation.
 If the trees are young and do not shade the ground too much it may be a good plan to plant a legume such, for instance, as peas, or soy beans. The crop may be planted late, after the trees have made a good growth and so the crop will not compete with the trees for plant food and moisture. The crop should not be taken off unless the soil is very rich. but it may be turned under to provide humus for the soil.
 The summer cover crop should not be planted too close to the trees, but should be some dis tance from the trees for best results. Where the branches are almost 'lapped' between the rows, if a crop is planted at all, only small space in the middle should be planted.
The Green Forest tribune., 1915-04-23
NOTICE w. o. ".

All members of Green Forest Camp No. 219 are called to meet at the Odd Fellows hall Friday night of this week. Important business. Don't fail to come.
 w. E. Lamb, c. c.
 c. c. O'Neal, Clerk.
The Green Forest tribune., 1915-04-23

that they both have something to do with this vast per cent of which the United States can boast? This is some state and this is some town; write the Commercial Club, they will tell you all about them.
The Green Forest tribune., 1915-04-23
STATE DOsNGS

mum wage act is to be seen in the Little Rock department stores where boys have replaced girls in the cash desks, and none but experienced employees are seen behind the counter, who already draw more than the minimum wage of $1 and $1.25 per day. It is figured that fully fifty girls were forced out of employment by this bill, and they cannot go to the laundries, for they cannot pay more than conld the depart ment stores.
 There may be advantages to the bill, but so far nothing has appeared but hardships for the girls it was supposed to protect.
 The most forlorn looking ob- ject 1 saw on the Panama-Pacific exposition grounds" " writes a Little Rock citizen, who is now on the Pacific coast is the Ar ansas building. It is a thing of great beauty and one which will cause states pride to swell, but just at present it is no great ad- vertisement for Arkans S a S. When we get it open it will so far outshine the other states that thousands will be a t tr ac t e d toward Arkansas. Itis so located that it is almost impossible to cross the grounds without going in front of one it's doors. <"
 For the very purpose of open ing this building and maintain ing it to the close of the expo sition, a great S1 campaign has been inaugurated by the Arkan- sas Commission, which is hoped to bring in the money necessary. Special commissioners have been appointed to carry orathis cam paign, and forces have been organized to sweep the state like the passage of the army worm.
 Patriotism and state pride is the argument of this great Fly ing Squadron The state is divided into four sections, and one of the squadrons will work in each of these. It will be composed of two expirenced soli- citors, and augmented by a committee of local club women at each place. The soliciting will then take under the leader ship of Commission worker. It is planned to have each squadron work three or four towns daily, and the results will be daily shown in the papers of Little Rock, as well as the names of the donators published in their local papers. In this manner ii is hoped to cover the entire state and raise sufficient funds, within sixty day.
 Each person donating a dollar to the advertisement of the state, and assisting Tn placing Arkan. sas right before the world, will be presented with one of the souvenir medals of aluminium which show the Arkansas build ing, and also the State seal or the reverse side.