The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-07-31


VATE are living in iconoclastic
wv times. You would think the
college yell had come to stay, but it
hasn't-at least, not in Zion City. In
announcing his reorganization plans
for Zion City college, Overseer Wilbur
Glenn Voliva
College Yells Are said college
Forbidden by yoliva yells would not
be permitted.
"Stuff and nonsense" is what he called
, them. He also announced that the
Bible would be the official textbook
in teaching astronomy, chemistry,
geology, mathematics and all other
sciences, which simplifies the currl-
culum, to say the least.
But a college without yell would
be an anomaly in this country, famous
for its infinite variety of noises and
noise makers. A student body which
never INDUCED in "rah-rahs" would
ere long succumb to profound apathy.
Life in such an institution would be
stale and profitless. That the students
would suffer there can be no reason
able doubt.
The psychology of the college yell
has never been fully explained, but
the louder college boys yell, the great
er their love for their alma mater and
the deeper their interest in all things
pertaining to her-ever including pro-
fessors and the subjects taught by
these learned gentlemen.
A college without yell would lack
"pep," pride and persistence. 1t
might possibly put out fair debat-
ing team, but its football would be
a farce and its baseball no better. Sad
indeed would be the fate of any youth
condemned to attend such an institu-
ton.
~ IMPORTERS of Charles E.
y Hughes will crowd Carnegie
hall tonight when the notification
ceremony is to take place. Ordinarily
a nominee for the presidency, in his
speech of acceptance, would be ex-
pected to discuss all the great govern
mental issues claiming the attention
of the American
Hughes to Harp on people, but the
Mexican Situation forecasts of TO-
nights pro-
gramme indicate that Mr.. Hughes will
eonfine his remarks chiefly to the
Mexican situation.
Colonel Roosevelt, the one-time Bit
ter enemy of the standpat machine
whose candidate Mr.. Hughes now is,
will be on hand to speak for the ticket,
and it is said that he, like the stand
ard bearer, will confine himself for
the most part to President Wilson's
Mexican policy.
Of course, both Hughes and Roose-
welt will proclaim their Americanism;
their ardent love for this glorious land
Of liberty, but if the star performer
has a profound feeling of gratitude
. genuinely sympathetic heart-an
expression of appreciation of the
German Americans who promoted his
cause in the Chicago convention and
made his nomination easy, would pe
fitting. The intense interest which
the hypenates have taken in his candi-
dacy ought to be worth a paragraph
at least, but Mr.. Hughes advisors may
advise against any reference to the
Teutonic American alliance and the
felicitous message of congratulation
which that organization sent the
nominee until some future occasion.
In ringing the changes on the Next
can question and telling what he
would have done had he been in Presi-
dent Wilson's place, Mr.. Hughes may
be able to satisfy the avowed enemies
of the democratic party, but intelli-
gent republicans, as well as the rank
and file of independent voters, will be
eager to hear Mr.. Hughes come out
in a straightforward way and state
his attitude toward the constructive
legislation which the democrats have
placed on the statute books. What
does Mr.. Hughes think Of the federal