The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1917-01-02
MISSOURI PRESS COMMENT

From the st. Joseph Gazette:
Missouri's state university must be
kept intact.
A special state tax should be pro-
vided for the state university SO that
it can have a large enough income to
maintain itself properly.
December % should be set aside for
a University of Missouri day. and
should be observed all over the state
by gatherings of students and former
students and friends Of the university.
These are some of the sentiments
expressed at noon Thursday at a
luncheon at the Hotel Robidoux, at
tended by more than 100 students, for
mer students and friends of the high
est institution of learning in the state.
Both men and women were present.
The gathering was the most enthus-
iastic ever held in st. Joseph in the
interest of a state educational insti-
tuition, and it is believed the general
sentiment of this part of the state was
expressed in a set Of resolutions
adopted unanimously, for upholding
the integrity of the university and for
giving sufficient funds for the support
of the institution.
Every member Of the legislature, as
well as the governor and other state
| officers, will be presented with copy
of the resolutions, and the Buchanan
| County friends of the university will
support any measure for maintaining
the integrity of the university, and will
| oppose any measure which will have
for its purpose the switching of any
department to the school of mines in
Rolla, a part of the university, for
fear that this tendency will have the
effect Of eventually making two uni
versities in Missouri instead of one.
Real Danger, Says Zwick.
There is real danger, now, in the
belief of G. L. Zwick, member of the
| board of curators of the university,
| and to substantiate this statement
Zwick produced a telegram from the
St. Louis Times, received yesterday,
in which he was asked if the curatOrs
intended to remove A. Ross Hill as
president of the university.
Zwick said he was not speaking for
the board of curators, and was not
speaking for part of the board, but
merely as an alumnus of the univer-
sity. He declared that there was no
movement whatever among the curat-
ors for the removal of President Hill.
The head of the university has been
most satisfactory, he said. But this
is only one of the roundabout ways, he
said, in which the university is to be
attacked. The indirect attacks will
be made on the curators, on the presi-
dent on professors in the university,
and on customs which have grown up
in the university, said Zwick, but it
will all have the effect of violating the
integrity of the university.
Judge w. X. James of Andrew Coun-
ty and Charles R. Dubois of st. Joseph,
members-elect of the legislature,
pledged themselves for the movement
to maintain the integrity of the univer-
sity. Dubois was a student for a
year and half in the school of mines
in Rolla, this being a department of
the university, but, he said, he learned
later when attending the University
of Illinois, that all the school depart
ments in one place is much more sat
isfactory than to have the depart
ments scattered.
For Maintenance by Direct Tax.
At the suggestion of c. D. Morris the
section of the resolutions was adopted,
favoring a direct tax for the mainten-
ance of the university. Upon motion
of John Albus it was decided to send
copies of the resolutions to all the leg
islators, and suggestion was made to
start an endless chain letter plan
through students and graduates al.
over the state, bringing home to the
legislators the necessity of keeping
the university intact.
R. L. Spencer was toastmaster. He
attended the university years ago. 1t
was then a comparatively small insti-
tuition. Now it has $500 students.
Miss Gala Warner, an instructor in
Central High School, spoke of the ne
cessity of keeping all the departments
possible in Columbia where the main
university is located.
Frank B. Fulkerson also attended
the university, and told of some of his
experiences there. In speaking of the
effort to divide the university he re-
ferred to the state motto: United we
stand: divided we fall" and said this
principle applies to the university as