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University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1916-04-20
THE PERSECITED DEADBEAT

The poor deadbeat is having an
awful time Of ii now
Formerly ii was an easy matter TO
start "a charge account at one grocer's
when your credit at another's had
given out. But the retail merchants
association has changed that. When
purchasers card shows that he does
not pay. a merchant hesitates to ex-
tend credit.
But worse than this. In some places
they're collecting bad back accounts.
Out in Manhattan, Kan, delinquent
debtors paid up $20,00S when the mer-
chants threatened to post their names
in public. The merchants announced
that they intended to hand the n.
counts over to the retail merchants
association. which. after obtaining a
judgment, would post the names Of
the debtors, Offering the accounts for
sale.
The debtors paid up. No suits or
posting of accounts for sale were nee
tSEl:.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1916-04-20
TO PRESENT "iNCIENT MARINER
seniors OF University High Will Give
COIeridye'S Famous Poem.

The senior class of the University
High School will present Coleridge' S
Ancient Mariner" at the close of the
school year.
More than thirty characters are
necessary. The parts range from the
Ancient Mariner as narrator and as
sailor, to be played by l.. II. Hamilton
and II. X. Wilkinson. respectively. to
Death and the AlbatrOss, which will
be played by Himself and Itself.
All the seniors will take parts. ].
NJ Roberts, Paul Cheavens and c. Il.
Jolley will be the wedding guests;
Miss Theeta c. Searcy. the bride; +.
II. Walton, Jr., the groom; Miss Mar
garet Mary Keegan, life in death; w.
II. Bedford, the spirit from the land of
ice and snow: Frank Leach. the pilots
boy. There will be sailors, death fires
and voices.
The seniors who will take part are:
Misses Mae Dunnaway, Guida May
Grigsby, Mary Catherine Hanna.
Louise l.. Jackman, Margaret Mary
Keegan. Nora Elizabsth Keegan.
Margie NJ. Leach, Mary II. Scudder
and Theeta c. Searcy: o. A. Atterber-
ry. W. II. Bedford, w. +. Busby, Poe
Chambers. A. c. Dale, ID. A. Drake, l..
II. Hamilton. J. b. Howatt, c. b. Jol-
ley, X. c. Kinkade, W. b. Kelliher, F.
II. Langhauser, Frank Leach, p. ii.
Mari, J. W. Mcleod, G. F. Middleton,
c. II. Nicholson, Fred Pearson. A. F.
Pierce, ]. f. Quisenberry. j. NJ.
Roberts, V. L. Squirting, p. T. Toalson,
E. II. Walton. Jr., II. X. Wilkinson,
Robert Dunning and Paul Cheavens.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1916-04-20
WHAT DO YOl KNOW!

What do you know this morning.
It's common sort of gTeSing,
ranking just after Hello" Good
Mornin'" and "How-de-do?" 1t is
more than a greeting 1t is also an
inquiry for news. But did you ever
get any? Not often.
"Oh nuthin," is the usual response.
Occasionally, 81 know it's a fine
day" Or, Fierce weather" 81 know
| got a cold"
Somebody always says Il don't
know nothin' an | aint right sure of
that"
One man, bored with the triteness of
the remarks he encountered, started
out one morning with the firm inten-
tion of really imparting some infor-
nation whenever greeted with the
What do you know" salutation.
To the first he announced, Aunt
Jane had spell with her heart last
night" His questioner looked at him
queerly, and then said, What the
deuce do | care?" He walked off.
To the next, The price of corn has
gone up" What of it?' said his
acquaintance, craning his neck as he
stared after the man who had impart-
ed the unexpected information.
To smiling lady he related,
Mrs. Smith is advertising new hats
at - per cent off," She tLrned yividly
red and snapped. How dare you in
suit me so?"
When he had told the latest news
from the front. commented on the
Mexican situation. announced the en-
gagement of his sister, complained of
a dog fight in the back yard in the
middle of the night and that a fellow
in his house had added another fra
ternity pin 10 the already formidable
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1916-04-20

umns and smiled reminiscently.
well, I've either got to marry OF
buy some socks" another said. i've
got on my last pair and the heels and
toes are completely gone"
BUY socks" l advised him.
Marry" another exclaimed scorn-
fully. I'D rather take. my chances
with a bulldog or a pipe"
"If you choose your wife with as
much care as you do your bulldog,
began, but he stopped me.
Nothing to it," he said decisively
There's no gamble about pipe or a
bulldog, but you never can tell about
a woman. I've the dearest, prettiest
little mother you ever saw, but my
fathers hair is decidedly thin on top
and his mouth is drOopy."
Ten minutes later | saw him ten
derly assisting a perfectly ablebodied
Young woman over the stepping
stones.
The next sat alone on the bottom
step leading to the Arts and Science
Reading Room. The leaves OF MS
notebook blew about unheeded. lie
held his head with both hands ana
rested his elbows ON his knees.
you've been disappointed in love,
| surmised.
He turned his head toward me
wearily. He was very young.
Are YOU ever going to marry? |
asked him.
He regarded me gloomily. Me-
he questioned mournfully. "Tm mar
ried already"-M. w.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1916-04-20

collection of a prominent coed, and
had been treated in a most discourte-
Gus and unappreciative way on each
occas;Cu, even to the point {: having
TO engage in a mild young fistic en-
counter at the last, he gave up his
resolution in disgust.
people don't want you to tell them
ANYTHING, after all. They want the
same old trite stuff" h said ruefully,
as he brushed the dust off his clothes
after the fstic combat.
Now he always answers "Nuthin :.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1916-04-20
THE MYSTIC

Mysticism is synonymous with mys
terry fer most of us, and We associate
II with ghostly and unearthly com
muniCatiOn from elsewhere than his
world. The mystic however, claims such
is not so. Faith. satisfying and COM
plete. exists and satisfies his yearn-
ing for nobler things. Life IS full of
surprises, delightful experiences,
knightly adventures and recompense
for the misadventures.
1t takes a mystic to appreciate a
mystic; therefore, We, the public, do
not We do not even attempt to un-
derstand him, but pass him by with
illusions to mystery. In GDite of this,
the pleasures of mysticism are not
necessarily unknown to us. We, too,
may know the sudden glow of some
uneXpressed thought, the uDlift Of
higher moments and appreciation of a
living Being in the sunset aEI the
grass and trees and flowers.
If it be mysticism to see the Hand
in the changing color of autumn and
the. birth of spring and the presence
of higher power in everything, then
let us cherish that kind Of mysticism
and make ii universal
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1916-04-20
MEN OFFER RECIPROCITY
ON MATRIMONY QUESTION

Well" another hedged, "a fellow
really oughtn't to marry until he can
earn salary enough to support a Wife,
How much would that be-" he was
asked.
"Oh, that depends upon the girl. l
should say $3.50 month"
"Are you going to wait that long?'
"Of course not. I've job promis-
ed me in June at SIS week, with a
raise to SIS a week in January of next
year. Helen says two can live on SIS
a week. | meant all that other for the
rest of the fellows"
ITO be sure I'm going to marry,
said an engineer. 'DO you think I've
spent five years bOning round here
to earn enough money to keep myself
in cigars and sOcks?'
What question:" jeered anoth-
er. "Do you think I'm going to live in
a boarding house and eat pale, rub
berry meat and sour biscuits all my
life?"
"Perhaps the one you marry Will
turn ont sour bread occasionally"
Not on your life, | didn't spend
four years in this place and still not
know how TO choose a wife. The girl
I'm going to marry can make bis
cults that would make mother envi-
GUS"
And he looked away over the col
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1916-04-20

Since the senior women of the Uni
versity have declared themselves for
matrimony. it seems fair play that the
senior men should be interviewed on
the subject. They were not so frank
about what they thought. They gave
as their reason for not wanting to
cohmit themselves that it was leap
year. A few were coaxed into talk
ing, and here is what they said.
Marry? said a farmer, "Yes, if |
can find a girl who knows more about
a farm than she does about the first
spring violets and poetry
DO the University women impress
you as being poetry ridden?''
Not until it comes TO marriage;
then the most levelheaded girl will
quote Elizabeth Barrett Browning. !
don't object to poetry, but if | were
to wake up some morning and the rain
was pouring on my unraked hay, hot
biscuits for my stomach would go
further than poetry for my soul.
Marry" the next questioned. Il
had a friend who gave party TO
pledge himself to bachelOrhood. A
week later he met little school
teacher from Montana. Another two
weeks. and the fellows who attended
the pledge party threw rice at them
when they left for the San Frasclsco
fair. It's never safe for man TO say
what he'll do"
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1916-04-20

sympathy. His Interpretation of the
Emperor concerto is grandiose, with
occasional flashes of tenderness. II
is an Interpretation worthy of the
work. The great pianist scars in the
last movement into the region of dra-
matte poetry"
The Symphony Society's orchestra
consists of eighty members with
Walter DamrOsch as conductor. The
concert here will be under the aus
pices of the Phi Mu Alpha.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1916-04-20
CRITIC LAUDS JOSEF HOFFMAN,
Interpretation Of "EmperOr" Concerto
Especially Commended.

The work of Josef HOfmann as So
loist with the Symphony Society OF
New York, which will give a concert
in Columbia, May 9, is commented on
in the following manner by the New
York Sun:
"Mr Hofmann is in his kingdom
with BeethOven's Emperor cOncer-
to. With such music he is wholly in
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1916-04-20
Monday Will BE school HOLIDAY,

The Columbia High School and
grade schools will have a holiday
Monday.
The evening world., 1916-11-15
GRAY HAIR BECOMES
DARK and BEAUTIFUL
Try GRANDMOTHER Old
Favorite Recipe of Sage
Tea and Sulphur.

Almost everyone knows that Sage
Tea and sulphur. properly com
pounded, bring back the natural color
and luStrc to the hair when faded.
streaked or gray. Years ago the only
way Ia get this mixture was to make
IL at home, which is mussy and
troublesome.
Nowadays we simply ask At any drug
store for "Wycth's Sage and sulphur
Compound" You will get n large bot
tie Of this old time recipe improved bv
the addition of other ingredients for
about 50 cents. Everybody uses this
| preparation now. because no one can
possibly tell that YOU darkrned YOUR
hair. rs IL does IT So naturally and
evenly. You dampcn a sponge or soft
brush with it and draw this through
your hair, taking one small strand at
| q time; hy morning the gray hair n,s-
, appears. and after another application
or two. your hair becomes beautifully
dark, thick and glossy and you look
years younger. Wycth's Sage and
sulphur Compound is a delightful
toilet requisite. II is not intended for
| the cure, mitigation or prevention of
disraSe.-Advt.
The evening world., 1916-11-15
POLICE SAVE PRISONER
FROM EAST SIDE MOB
Crowd Threatens TO Lynch Nan Ac-
cuSed of Luring Little Girl
Into Tenement Cellar.

By vigorous use OF their night
sticks two policemen saved John
Overlander. an orderly in the city
Hospital on Blaokwell's Island. from
being lynched at E1fty-first street
and First Avenue this afternoon
when he was arrested on a charge OF
having lured a year-old girl
into n tenement cellar.
A score OF men battled with the
policemen to seize the prisoner I'M
al he was thrown into - comman-
deered automobile and hurried 10 the
East Fifty-frst street Police sta
ton.
The little girl was Katherine Helm
OF NO. 94i First Avenue.
In Nurkville Court Magistrate Kro-
tel dismissed the charge against him
for lack of curroborative testimony.
The evening world., 1916-11-15
QUEENS ORGANIZES
BOYCOTT AGAINST
HIGH PRICE Of COAL
Woodhaven Committee to
Place Order for Winters Sup
ply With One Dealer.

Citizens Of Queens are to-day on
gagged In a coal rebellion. II was
organized last night at "a mass meet
ing in Woodhaven. l.. l.. when they
formed the West End citizens League
"a buy coal on "A basis OF square deal
ing. which they declare they cannot
get from local merchants.
we have been treated as 'bOobs'
long enough" said Deputy Attorney
General Robert T.. Boyer. who was
elected President OF the League.
They seem To think that. because a
man lives in queens. he is Il TT sub
ioc, for any kind Of grand larceny
game. I think we should taboo our
local coal dealers and never buy from
them again"
Hundreds attended the meeting.
and All were angry. This as nc-
cause. after years Of dealing with To-
cal firms. they are still charged from
The evening world., 1916-11-15

japanese Lanterns, hexagonal in shape
with fine lattice work panels in the
sides. Wonderfully made of very thin
brass. Polished finish.
The evening world., 1916-11-15
50 to ,i1 a ton for coal. although the

50 to s11 a ton for coal. although the
price in the rest OF New York has
come down to 1925 to s. a ton.
Arrow G. Hanklns Of the Hankins
Realty Company. and Charles Pfeifer.
n jamaica Avenue jcwelcr. told OF
neighbors who were held up for Sill
and $12 a ton within the last few
days, regardless Of the drop in prices
in the open market.
The League adopted resolutions
calling upon the District Attorney OF
queens to begin al investigation be-
fore the Grand Jury like that which
quickly brought the price Of coal to
rights in Manhattan and in Kings
County"
A committee is TO be appointed 10
contract for all the coal needed this
winter by citizens ~ Woodhavcn and
place the contract with one dealer
who will play fair and charge an hon.
est price"
\ committee was appointed TO cx-
amiuc the books " local coal men
and find out from them the names OF
the ~ holo~alors" whose prices com
pei them to charge 81 a ton. Dealers
VINO refuse to show books will bc
reported To the league.
The leagues coal buying committee
is instructed to arrange with John
i. Dillon, state Commissioner OF
Foods and Markets. a plan whereby
eggs. apples ana vegetables ear be
bought I'm large quantities direct
from the farmers through the De-
partmont ~ Foods mud Markets. thus
cutting out the Johbcrs ana retailers
Who have lately forced M the prices
Of food.
The evening world., 1916-11-15
To Keep Your Skin
Free From Hairs

II YOU are willing Ia spend n few
minutes timrs in your room using u
dclatonc paste, YOU can easily Danish
any ugly, hairy growth without dis
comfort or injury. The paste is made
hy mixing some water with u little
powdered dclatone. This Is then
spread over the hairy surface and
after about . minutes rubbed off and
the skin washed. You will not he dis
appointed with this treatment, pro-
viding YOU get real dclatonc-Advt.
The evening world., 1916-11-15
DYING. SAYS DON'T TELL

Of am going to die. doctor. Please
dou't ;ell mother"
So said tiirtecn-yenr-old Francis Me-
Garry. Of NJ 3d. East Thiriieth Street,
when Or. Tiea in Bellevue Hospital
placed him on the operating table to-
day.
Francis had been struck By a motor
wagon OF the Manhattan Sand Com.
runy of 80. $50 Washington Street.
The evening world., 1916-11-15
noos.,eii's OLA uomr Ws,cd.

House wicctcis began this morning
&C. dcmolish the old Roosevelt home at
No. ~ East Twentieth street to make
way FOR the erection Of "A s,N-stury llft
building. Former President Roosevelt
was born thtic and at the time the
n~clshhorhpod was unc Of the most cN.
elusive in the rity.
The evening world., 1916-11-15

Harry Lloyd the chauffeur. was unable
to stop the wagon and one wheel passed
over the boys leg.
You're a good little man. Francis
said Or. Iica You won't die this
time" But the hospital authorities hold
out little hope FOR him.
The evening world., 1916-11-15
sGets-It' for
Me After ThiS!"
II Gets" Every Corn Every Time
Painless, Nothing More Simple.

I'LL tell YOU " ~. I've quit using toe
eating sslvcs Tor t,fus. I've quit making
q package out % my Toes with bandn ger
and COntraptluns-Quii digging with
HALVES and scissors. Give me GETS IT,
every time"
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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-07-31
NAVY BILL FIGHT
MEANS QUORUM CALL
Members Of House May Be Re-
called to Washington.

Absentee members Of the House
who are at home attending to politi-
cal fences may be called back to
Washington within the next few days
on account of the impending fight
over the naval appropriation bill.
Hopes of these members that they
might be permitted to remain at home
until adjournment arc teopardized by
The row between the big-navy and
small-navy advocates in the lower
chamber and the practical certainty
that the conference report on the
naval budget cannot be adopted with
out call for quorum.
From both sides of the controversy
have come threats that a quorum
must be in Washington when the con-
ference report Is presented. The con-
Serees soon will finish their work on
tho greatest naval budget in the his
tory OF the country. Congressman
Britten. minority member Of the Naval
Affairs Committee, threatens that II
conferees NEEDLE with the personnel
legislation and the building program
as provided in the Senate bill, he will
nght the conference report and insist
upon a roll call.
Congressman Cox and Congressman
tack. Mr.. Cox says he will attempt to
block the bill unless the conferees
change the personnel provisions, and
Congressman Buchanan. along with a
number OF other "small-navy" men,
is preparing for trench warfare
against the big building program OF
the Senate.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-07-31
COOL WAVE IN SIGHT
IN STRICKEN CHICAGO
Heats Death Toll in Windy City
Reaches 264 in Four DAYS.
Other Towns Hit.

CHICAGO. july 3l.-Cooler weather
was in sight for the Middle West today
after another day or record scorc ching
heat. cool wave. according to tn,
Weather Bureau. will hit this section
tonight.
Deaths toll IN Chicago yesterday from
the heat was III. Inis makes a total
Of "a deaths in Chicago In the las,
four days as result OF the heat
Nlnety-nine babies have died since Fri
day night.
The number Of deaths in other cities
throughout the Middle West as a result
OF the heat. is not obtainabIe. II II
estimated. however. that they will ado
at least $50 TO iist.'
Milwaukee alone reported twenty-five
dead yesterday. Sunday was Milwau.
KEGS hottest day in forty-tive years. II
was l02 degrees by the Government,
thermometer.
A temperature Of 101.7 was recorded In
Chicago. a record since 1901, when the
mercury registered 1923 degrees. Sc
great was the jam at bathing beaches
here that police reserves were called on,
to clear the streets leading to the
beaches.
Gary. Ind. was the hottest place on
the map. with 1l6 degrees. Three died
from the heat there.
At San Francisco the temperature was
@. II was comparatively cool along the
border. Ell Paso and San Antonio. Tex.
each registered So.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-07-31
CHANGES ANNOUNCED
AT CORRESPONDING.
Assignments Of Faculty Are
Made Public by the PresI.
dent, Rev. A. J. Donlon.

Faculty changes at Georgetown Unit
president. the Rev. A. ]. Donion, The
number of changes II said TO be less
than for many years.
The Rev. William r. cowardin. iden-
tined with Georgetown for many
years years as student and professor. viii
the last three years. TO become spirit
The Rev. Thomas <. Emmet for sew
s.s ysspcuPs saf's Ct e e. . s ss:
ssd viii Ell rom a% New YORK %sst A lns,s
3; HIS place viii be filled BY the Rev.
comes from Poughkeepsie. N. +.
Other Changes Made.
Other changes are as follows:
The Rev. J. F. x. .o'Connor, spiritual
director Of the college for two years,
will 20 TO 81. Francis xavier's College.
New York city. The Rev. Philip NJ.
F1negan. professor Of sophomore class.
Is to be stationed next year at Loyola
College. Baltimore. The Rev. Herman
try in the Fordham Medical School.
will take the chair If organic cbemis-
try.
The Rev. Joseph A. Farrell. a teacher
at the college five years ago. VIII teach
history during the coming season.
Arthur A. O'Leary. s. j.: Charles @.
Herzog. s. j.. and Leo a. Dore. &. j..
who have been engaged in teaching
the sophomore. freshman. and history
classes. respectively. will Eo to Wood
stock College. Nd. to resume their
theological studies. The professors IN
languages and mathematics will remain
unchanged.
Complete Staff Of College.
The complete stan OF the college ds-
partment will be the Rev. Alphonsus ;.
Donlon. d. j.. president; Rev. Davso
]. Roche, b. j.. vice president; REV.
Peter Archer. director OF astronomical
observatory; Rev. Francis Barnum ar
chivest; Rev. James b. Becker, treas
urer: Rev. Cyril Brones. professor OF
FRENCH: Rev. Aloysius Brosnan. proies
Iin.n X. cowardin, spiritual director,
kev. John Il. Creeden. project OF stuoies'
Rev. Edward l.. Dewitt historian; rev.
thomas /. Gasson. dean OF the graduate
SCHOOL; Rev. Joseph A. tarreil, protessor
OF history; Rev. Vincent 5. McDonousn'
project OF discipline; Rev. John =.
Uuirk, professor OF metaphysics In tne
senior class; Rev. Henry J. Snanoeue'
nDrarian: Rev. Frances A. IondorL. pU
lessor OF biology; Kew. John =. Aovnss.
professor of logic in the junior cIass'
REV. Herman /. Storck, professor or Or
ganic chemistry: James II. Doian. pro-
lessor OF sophomore class; FRANCIS "A.
Mclluade. professor of Freshman ctess'
John p Gallagher. professor or inor-
gauic chemistry; Walter q. summers
professor Of physics.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-07-31
ANNAPOLIS HIGHWAY
, HEARING ON AUG. 10
Maryland Commissioner viii
Hear Washington Advocates
of National Defense Road.

Maryland State Roads Commissioner
Zonck has designated Saturday. August
10, .or a hearing OF those interested In
the construction OF national defense
highway. connecting Washington with
Annapolis.
Among those who will speak in favor
Of the proposed construction OF such
q road will be G.. c. Magruder. Con-
greesman Sydney E. Mudd OF Mary
land. Osborne !. Yellot. Eldrldge e.
Jordon. Thomas =. Littlepage. and
Frank NJ. Duvall.
A petition recently was sent to the
Maryland State Road Commission, in
which II was stated that by a recent
act OF the Maryland legislature such a
road was authorized and 3l25.0O0 was
appropriated for its construction.
Since then Congress has passed a bill
providing for construction OF State
roads with the help of the Federal
Government. This appropriation was
SIS. 10000.
The signers OF the petition have urged
the commission to take advantage of
this recent appropriation and begin the
construction OF the road Immediately.
The seventy-two signers Of the
petition include the heads OF the largest
business houses and banking firms of
this city as well as many prominent
property owners OF Maryland.