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University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1916-05-10
CLASS OF '16 To Be
STEPHENS LARGEST
Diplomas to AZ This Year
Will Break the Previous
Record of 81.

Stephens College will this year
graduate the largest class in the his
tory of the school. FOrty-seven are in
the class, as compared with thirty
seven last year, the highest previous
record. President Wood says that he
is expecting at least 200 out-of-town
guests.
Class work at the college will close
Saturday afternoon, May 27.. On that
evening, beginning at 7::3O o'clock, a
flower masque entitled "The Lovers
Garden" by Alice c. ID. Ripley, will
be given by the students This will
be blending of light scenes from va
rious Shakespearean plays and will
include dancing and singing.
The baccalaureate sermon will be
preached at the First Baptist Church
Sunday night, May 2S, by the Rev.
Frederick l.. Anderson of Newton
Center. Mass.
Monday afternoon, May 30, the an
nual reception will be given by the
art and home economics departments
to those who are especially interested
in the work. Displays of the students
work will be shown, and tea will be
served by the seniors in the home eco
Monies department.
The regular class day exercises will
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1916-05-10
The Open Column
The Stranger and the Lectures.

Editor the MissOurian: Humanity
rarely appreciates properly what is at
hand. 1t locates the seven wonders at
ends of the earth.
A student who came to Missouri
from another university marked re
Gently what a great educational force
the public lectures We're. When a big
man speaks in the University Audi
torium. he goes TO hear him. This
stud nj considers the lectures valu-
able because by giving him insight in
10 numerous phases of life they keep
lis specially from becoming a tower
ing height hiding from him the sun of
knowledge.
Are you one of the students who do
not appreciate lectures because you
have never gone elsewhere than Mis-
souri,? Attend the Lectures for while
and see how they broaden you. l..
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1916-05-10

met this afternoon to discuss plans for
the senior picnic and for the Y. W. C.
A. work during the summer session.
The Civil Engineering Society held
its regular bi-mOnthly meeting in
Switzler Hall Monday night A. ].
Accola talked on the treatment of
sewage in Cleveland, Ohio. Officers for
the coming year will be elected at a
special meeting next Monday night.
The Delta Gammas will entertain
the following guests at a house party
this weekend: Misses Mildred Pearl.
EVELYN and Mable Threlkeld, and Ada
Nav Elder of Hardin College, Miss
Ada Lee of Chillicothe and Miss Lucy
Bowles of KirkwoOd.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1916-05-10
GETTING IN AND OUT

This isn't a Columbia story. But it
happened in a town very much like
Columbia. In fact, it happens in lots
of them.
Sundry undertaking articles accus-
ing the dealer of boosting the high cost
of living led farmer whose boys were
tired of the farm to think that the diff
ference between the mere cost of max
ing mems clothing and the price the
clothier sells the clothing for was all
profit.
So the farmer induced town friend
of his to go into business with him. He
moved to town, bought a stock of
goods, put in his sons as clerks and
started.
But there were a lot of things he
hadn't counted on. Competition was
know advertising: he didn't know
salesmanship; he didn't understand
the fabrics and designs he was trying
to sell: he didn't realize what overhead
cost amounts to; the trade he count
ed ON didn't come fiocking to his door.
So he sold out at loss, finally, and
moved back TO the farm, while the dis
gruntled boys went on to the city.
1t was a case of business non-pre-
paredness.
Every day men and women all over
the country are going into business
without preparation, without that
knowledge, training, or natural mer-
cliandising ability which makes for sue
cess.
1t is easy to get into business.
1t is also easy TO get Out-thrOugh
the bankruptcy court of selling at a
'oss.
Not SO very long ago the Merchants
Trade Journal of Des Moines con-
Quoted an investigation. The editor
wrote to 5000 merchants in thirty
nine states. Eighty-nine per cent of
these merchants replied that they
would be pleased to dispose of their
stocks at less than 90 cents on the dol
lar.
1t takes preparedness to win in to-
days business wars just as it takes
preparedness TO win on the European
battle fields.
The unprepared business man, like
the unprepared nation. has a mighty
slim chance of being listed among the !
survivors.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1916-05-10

Phone 55 to have the Missourian de-
livered to you. 25c month.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1916-05-10
DECiDENCE OF OUR SONGS

There is no gainsaying the fact that
cur literature has undergone rad cal
changa-and that for the worse but
it can hardly be said to have sunk
80 low as our popular songs. Books,
by The EOldness of their style ana
harm, but as there is vast number
who never read a book. good, bad or
Indifferent. from one years end to the
other. there is a limit to the damage
they may do.
On the other hand a catchy, senti-
mental song will be taken up and sung
by n arly everyone. and it will be re-
membered. Into what home can YOU
go where there are young people and
not hear even these who should be
learning only the good things of life
singing or humming these twentieth
century denominations?
A few years ago in Chicago an ordi-
nance was enacted whereby the wave
of popular songs was decidedly check
I'd by a penalty being attached to the
warbling OF some of the famous. or
rather infamous, hits" of the season.
O'Connell, too, meant well when he
said, LET me write the ballads of a
country and | care who not writes the
laws" But there is growing tenden-
cy in this country today to believe that
the writers of the lays of this particu
lar nation ought to be in the country
bastile or in some other institution
where their pernicious activities
would be curtailed.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1916-05-10
II. II. kINYON INVITES $40
Alumni Secretary Nails Notices of
Luncheon and Reunion.

Formal almuni luncheon and re-
union Invitations have been sert to
the classes of 81. 80, '0l. '06 and -
by II. II. Kinyon, alumni secretary
Many of the 800 members of these
classes have already expressed their
intention of being here, and personal
letters are being written by members
of each of these classes to their class
mates.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1916-05-10

be held Tuesday morning, May 80.
These exercises will include the usual
planting of the senior tree and ivy by
the juniors, and pageant procession
of the different classes and the alum
nae. This will be followed by a buff
fet luncheon to alumnae and guests.
Tuesday evening the commencement
exercises will take place in the COL
lege auditorium. The address will be
delivered by Frank w. Strong, chan
cellor of the University of Kansas.
Here Are the Graduates.
The following are the students who
will receive their diplomas:
Misses Juliet Ahrens. Wagner, Okla. :;
Bernice Allen. Mountain Grove; Louise
I,abb. Columbia: Grace Bailey Oregon
Mo: Mary Barr. haywood: isabel Bar
rriraS. 81. Louis; Lonnie BlOunt. Potosi !;
Lena Brandon, 'iallatin; Josephine Brown
ing. Appleton city; Gertrude Buckley, Co
lumhia: Ruth CalliSon, Windsor: Alya Ma
rie clay. Pennington; Louise Clemments,
Fredonia. Kan; Ellis Deter, Sac Paulo,
Brazil; Marian GieSsing Pennington
Pearl lierren. Maysvile; Mildred Holcomb,
okmulgee. Okla; Maurine Hone. Knox
-fty; Julia Hnlett. Columbia: Katherine
Journey. IIigginsville; Pauline REMOVER,
Breckenridge: Pansy REMOVER. Brecken-
ridge; Eva Lee, Charleston; Ruby Ley
burn, Pilot Grove; Lou-Eva LOngan. Sc
dalia: Louila Malone. Armstrong: Leila
Pnrkin. Fredericktown; Gladys Pirtle,
Clara Pittman. Brecken-
ride; Evelyn Prather. Columbia: Lola
Prescott. Salisbury; Thedosia Pritchard.
Sara Quigley, Upton; Mabel
Ringer. Bonne Terre; Eua Belle Roddy,
tcntralia: Alene Sanford, Columbia; Cur
It's Taylor, Armstrong; Agnes Thomas
WIkcnda: Faye Nann. Fairland, Okla.
innetta Vernon. Charleston: Grace Vim
yard. Jackson; Helen Walker, Liberty,
Neb.; NaOma Walton. Armstrong; Lucy
Williams, Withers Mill: Laura Woodard,
Windsor
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1916-05-10

Columbia as the home of the Uni
versity should set an eXampl 10 the
rest of the state in matters of muni-
cipal affairs"
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1916-05-10
Awarded Sociology Scholarship.

Clyde X. Chambers, a junior in the
College of Arts and Science. has ben
awarded a scholarship in sociology
and anthropology in the University of
Minnesota. The scholarship. which
is for next year. amounts to 1925 and
tuition.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1916-05-10
Get Your Bill In.

All firms holding accounts against
the 1916 Farmers Fair should mail
statements to w. F. Harmes, 7O7 Mis-
souri, avenue before May - to insure
payment. 217. (Adv.)
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1916-05-10

Good Roads for Boone County is
the slogan of the progressive citizens
of the community"
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1916-05-10
Twenty Years Ago.

President II. II. Jesse made the ad-
dress at the dedication of the new high
school at ST. Joseph, Mo.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1916-05-10
Looking Backward
Thirty Years Ago.

Central Missouri is solid for Fran
els NJ. Cockrell for the United States
Senate"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1916-10-24
Roorlah and .urhana,

When we speak of a person as "boor.
ish" we mean that he is rude, Ill bred
and uncouth. We seldom stop to think
that the word originally meant moth.
ing more than rustic" Boor Is the
same word as the German bauer
and the Dutch "boer," signifying "a
farmer" The manners of the peas,
antry are alluded to in an uncompli.
mentary way by the history Of this
and many other words In the Ian.
guage. Heather" and pagan" meant
simply country bred" and Village
bred" once upon a time. Culture and
the higher civilized virtues were
thought Of as originating in towns and
making their way slowly, If at all, to
the rural districts. So we have as an
antonym to 'boorish" the word ''ur-
bane"-which originally meant "city
ded."-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1916-10-24
CHARLES E. HUGHES
Observation-Disclosures

expect you for dinner" (which
MEANS" said to Edith, "if you, too,
choose to give up wealth for love, 1t is
no concern of his"
We reached my uncle's house half
an hour before dinner. He was not at
home, but expected soon. When he
arrived he found us In the library
waiting for him. He shook hands cor
daily with me and kissed Edith, then
led the way into the dining room.
The moment we entered it both
Edith and myself were astonished. II
seemed to have been set for wedding
feast. A bottle Of champagne was in
q cooler beside my uncle's chair and
as soon as we were served with food
it was uncorked, and our glasses being
filed my uncle raised his glass.
ITO the folly of youth" he said.
"Those who put you two under my
management found one who, under.
standing these same follies, has been
well able to carry out their designs
This marriage was planned for you
long ago. and when consented to be
your guardian consented only on con.
dition that / should have my own way
as to bringing you two together. Had
1 told you that you must marry, you
would have turned your backs on each
other When told you you should not
marry, with the penalty Of each losing
q fortune, drove you into each others
arms"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1916-10-24
The Tyrant Man
Kicks Back
By EDWARD T. STEWART

A crowd was emerging from q hall
where votes for women meeting had
been held. Suddenly lady plunged
forward, pushing aside those in front
Of her, and caught man by the sleeve.
'Give me my pocketbookP' she cried.
''Your pocketbookl What do you
mean?"
"You were sitting by me In the meet
ing. have lost my pocketbook. What
can be palmer than that you have tax.
en- itF See the slit in my reticule,
made by some sharp Instrument
IF I stole your pocketbook, madam,
l must have passed it to pal. for ]
haven't got II"
Il say you haver'
The man, who was well dressed in a
check suit, looked over the heads Of
the crowd and, seeing a policeman,
called to him.
"One moment, please. Madam, you
have accused me Of stealing your pock-
etbook, your accusation being based
on your own deductions. If you prove
me guilty you will have done q duty:
If not, you viii have to pay well for
all the Inconvenience and injury you
may cause me-"
The woman declared that she was
ready to take the consequences of her
act. The policeman led the man away,
At the station the culprit insisted on
being searched. Nothing except his
own belongings was found on him.
TON Nolan,'' said the man at the
desk, we've been looking for you ever
since you made your escape from the
penitentiary six months ago. Up to
your old tricks, see. You look more
prosperous than when you were sent
up. What's become Of that beautiful
mustache you used to sportT
"I'm not Tom Nolan"
You'd better send to your pal for
the lady's valuables, you'll get lighter
sentence"
III you think I'm Tom Nolan or any
one else than myself, prove it."
Dead easy. Your photograph was
taken and graces the rogues' gallery"
The photograph was produced, and II
IL was not q likeness Of the prisoner Il
was the very image of him.
"AI right" said the prisoner. II
want messenger"
He sent for a lawyer and for bail.
Then be was suffered to go, being or
dered to appear the next morning.
The lady was in court, supported by
half hundred Of her sister workers
in the cause Of justice for women.
She made her charge, told her story,
showed the cut in her reticule and
/ stated the amount Of her loss. The
identity Of the prisoner was proved by
the photograph Of Nolan, who had rob.
bed many women In much the same
way that the accusing angel had
been robbed. The prisoner was per.
mitted to make his statement 1t was
this:
"Your honor and gentlemen Of the
jury, this affair occurred at a meeting
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1916-10-24
A vIcious Dwarf.

Bebe was the favorite dwarf of the
former King Stanislas Of Poland. Born
in 1741 In Lorraine, at the age Of five
he was twenty-five inches high and al
his death in 1894 thirty three inches
He was neither physically nor mental
ly active. Once Count Borowlaski
visited him, and he became so Jealous
Of the formers superior manners and
intellectual qualities that he attempt
ed to throw his visitor into the fire
but was prevented by the household.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1916-10-24

OF women with a sprinkling of men
which | attended last evening from
curiosity. l listened to accusations of
men Tor their barbaric treatment of
women from Adam and Eve down to
the present day. l contend that men
have received as much unjust treat
ment from women as women have
from men. am now suffering from
such treatment. My accuser has made
c1rcumstantial evidence a basis for
bringing upon me what will be a great
injury. / propose to punish her for
doing so. She should have given me
an opportunity to explain. / could
have convinced her that l am above
stealing ladies' pocketbools, for am
In receipt of $500 a week salary AS to
my being mistaken for this man No
Ian, that is another matter for which
the lady is not to blame. But | shall
make her pay for what she is to
blame"
The accused's lawyer then put the
manager of film company on the
stand, who swore that the prisoner
was Alonzo Devereaux, prominent
movie actor, and that he-the manager
was paying him $500 week for his
services as an actor. The next move
of the defense was to hang a screen.
darken the courtroom and show the
photograph of Nolan greatly enlarged.
The prisoners picture was then shown
"a "closeup"-and considerable differ
ence appeared In the two pictures
That of the prisoner showed a minute
globule on the lower lid Of the eye
The jury were called on to examine
the real globule with a magnifying
glass, and they found it to be In place
as shown In his photograph.
The prisoner was discharged and at
once brought suit for $4,000 against
the lady who had accused him for in
jury done him In his profession by the
accusation and its consequent public
ity. Since he had all the money he
required to press the suit and the lady
had none, even though he should lose
his case in the end, he could appeal
and appeal till she was tired out and
at loss to pay lawyers fees. Though
advised to make the best terms she
could she decided to fight the suit and
did so till It had been twice appealed
Then she called for what her opponent
would ask in compromise. She was
surprised to receive written state
ment for her to sign, making an apol-
ogy for not giving Mr.. Devereaux an
opportunity to defend himself without
publicity and acknowledging that the
greater than those of women to men.
AS to a money consideration, Mr.. Dew
ereaux asked nothing, he agreeing to
pay all costs.
The lady signed the document. She
had been fighting the suit for two
years and was on the eve of collapse.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1916-10-24
A pisanpointIno Trim.

Il hear that you were invited to take
a four day automobile tour with Mr.
and Mrs. Whitby."
Eyes"
Glow did you enjoy it?''
"Oh. didn't care much for it. Mrs
Whitby was so enthusiastic over tbs
scenery and things that she never told
me thing about any Of our friends
that I hadn't heard before Albany
Knickerbocker Press.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1916-10-24

No, the Democratic party will not
be saved by the European war If
you would know what our condition
will be when that war ends, think of
what our condition was before that
war began, If you think these nations
are so impoverished that they cannot
again turn to work Those millions
of men now fighting are better able
to work than ever before in their
lives. Their factories are
there; their plants are there; they
know themselves better than ever be-
fore. They are better disciplined,
more alert, keener. stronger, better
physically than ever before, in the
main, and they are ready to turn
great national energies into the pur-
suits Of peace to pay their war bills,
to produce up to the limit. to send
their goods throughout the world.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1916-10-24

II you are going to have the basis
for prosperity In this country; If you
are going to protect the American
wage scale; II you are going to have
American enterprise able to meet the
competition which will follow the end
ing of this war. you must have an
honestly devised, wisely framed tariff
law to protect Ameri can industry.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1916-10-24

With Mr.. Roosevelt hkening his
neutrality" TO that of President VIII
SON and the Houston Post coup ing his
most famous act with that of Demo
cratic Congress, the Late Mr.. Pontdus
PLATE must be having an uncomfort,
able time in his grave. If he has 6
grave.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1916-10-24
asninn L. Rinht

II was out for a spin In my new car
yesterday"
spin is right, old man. 1 saw you
when you skidded on the wet asphalt
and turned around three times before
you could get coatrol Of the car again"
st. Louis Post-Oispatch.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1916-10-24

Then came the Underwood tariff
bill itself. What was the RESULT En-
terprise halted and there was a con-
traction of trade throughout the land,
and America, instead of going ahead,
stopped. That is what happened.
Three hundred thousand were unem-
ployed In the City of New York.
There was not city in this land
where the jobless man anxious and
able to work did not walk the street.
They we're fed by our charitable or
ganizations. which were taxed to the
utmost limit to provide for those for
whom American enterprise could no
longer make provision. 1t was a sad
spectacle. Americans have not for
gotten 1t. It is not forgotten here
or anywhere. It cannot be forgotten.
It Is too recent.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1916-10-24
Mr.. Wilson used four pens to affix b

Mr.. Wilson used four pens to afix his
signature to the Adamson bill, SOU
venir for each Of the brotherhoods'
chiefs. The public's souvenir
will be in the form Of an added
tax amounting, say, to fifty million dol
lars year. or fifty cents head for
every man, woman and child.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1916-10-24
Telling Tariff Points

Let these telling points on tariff
and protection in the speech by
Charles Evans Hughes, the Republi-
can candidate for President, delivered
In the Salt Lake Tabernacle, be fixed
permanently in your mind and
memory during the remainder of the
campaign:
We are dosirious Of having strong
and sure the foundations of OF ma
tional greatness In this pursuit of
competition among the nations which
is sure to follow the cessation Of
the present struggle.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1916-10-24

Mr.. Wilson has become so thorough
ly neutral that he looks with grave
suspicion on the American contention
in any international dispute.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1916-10-24

propose that we shall study this
out, applying principle that we be-
lieve in. and secure intelligently and
honestly adequate protection to Am
erican industI.e les in every part of this
land.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1916-10-24

The President has kept US out of
war;" but would you like to have him
boss the job If some one should force
war on US?
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1916-10-24

T. RS grin when he compared
Watchful Woodrow unfavorably to Pom.
tuis PLATE was deleted by the censor.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1916-10-24

propose that the Republican party
as the national party, according to
the constitution OF the United States,
within the national sphere. shall pro-
coed wherever 1t Is practicable, to
build up and foster and encourage
American enterprise, and open the
doors wide for honest American
achievement.