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The Columbia evening Missourian., 1922-06-03
THE OPEN COLUMN
Dwindling Sentiment.

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Editor the Missowian: Many people
honored the dead Memorial Day by goini
fishing.
Somehow traditions in America do moi
count for much. A holiday set apart in
sacred memory, instead Of being cele
brated by enlightening programs and pa.
triotic address, has now deter.orated
into a day Of celebrations and hilarity.
Not only is this true Of Memorial Day.
but of independence Day, Washington's
birthday and many others.
These days, if rightly observed. would
be so inspiring to the youth of today as
to make American patriotism dynamic
thing. After all, these days are set apart
for just that purpose. The Columbia
public is not only thoughtless regarding
the service great men have performed
for them, but they are neglecfing one OF
the most important steps in beitering
American citizenry.
1t is strange indeed, that within 50
short time from the days of the great
war where thousands of lives we're sacri-
ficed for the people, that the people
should be so thoughtless as to spend
Memorial Day in selfish amusement.
The Columbia evening Missourian., 1922-06-03
KEEPING FAITH.

Many OF the important nations Of the
wcrId not only encouraged the idea Of
d better understanding between world
states but affixed their signatures to a
pledge limiting armament. Diplomats
fcrvently spoke for international amity
and we're profuse in lauding any move.
mcnt which betokened a reduction in
war budgets and safer channel for the
affairs of the world as they bore upon
one nation or another in political and
commercial Intercourse. All of these
promises and eulogies to good intent
we're forthcoming at the Washington
Conference for the Limitation Of Arma-
mcnis.
Hardly had that great hos, Of diplo-
miIic personages returned TO their re.
sPectiye homes. some at the other end of
the world, when reports and rumors,
brought 10 America by cables tell, not
Of an abated activity n military pur-
sriis, but of greater energies being bent
10 build up large war establishments. Al
though the Washington Conference dealt
chiefly with naval disarmament. the
sane spirit which impelled such out.
standing naval tonnage cuts surely did
not intend to leave a loopholc for those
Of false faith to escape through. The
building up Of greater armies does not
indicate that the signees Of tha, memor.
ably Washington docketed are living up
TO The spirit Of the Conference
The United States has kept her disar-
mameni promises by dropping from the
position Of one of the first nations in
army personnel TO the fourteenth place.
her relative rank being the twenty fifth |
when population is taken into consider
alton. The army today has but one man
for every twenty-five square miles Of ter.
riiory; one soldier to every 900 people,
and only one soldier for every 100000
Of national wealth. The United States
is no; only living up to the spirit Of the |
Washington Conference, but is going be-
yond in an endeavor 10 further the cause |
she sponsored.
Though some Of the signatories of the
Washington pact are living up to their
promises. others are showing bad faith
by passing compulsory military laws; by
increasing the size Of their armies; BY
preparing for war, when every effort
silould be bent for maintaining peace.
These nations which are not living up
TO the spirit of the disarmament confer.
cncc-which arc breaking faith, will be
held accountable by the great majority of
nations of the world. should the war
drums beat again.
The Columbia evening Missourian., 1922-06-03
WEEDS.

Weeds bumper crop Of them agair
this year!
4 weed is any member Of the vege
table kingdom that grows out Of is prop
~ place. and it is astonishing how few
OF them know their place. They are
here for the summer and we must either
accept or reject them. II weed were
en- trial for its life no one would be 50
foolish as to defend L against the
charge of being obnoxious and pesky.
let often We give them the right Of emf.
men, domain on our lawns and yards.
There is city ordinance requiring
c'cT property owner TO keep his lots
clear Of weeds. This regulation has been
and should continue to be enforced. As
matter Of city Identification il should
appeal to the pride Of every citizen. And
as matter of comfort the destruction Of
weed, is boon to the suffering victims
Of hay fever.
\ little energy expended and little
vigilance used and weeds would cease
10 make our city unsighily or uncou,h.
Mos; Of us like the ..dea Of being a har.
ves,er. Now is our chance, even though
'hr bniiom has dropped out Of the weed
market.
The Columbia evening Missourian., 1922-06-03

Women's Self Government Association.
She is a member Of the Chi Omega sor-
ori,y, and Mortar Board. Miss Houk
has also taken part in University debat.
ing and was on the team that debated
with Wisconsin. She is in the School
of Education. Miss Houk has just re-
turned from New York City where she
attended convention.
Miss Agee is treasurer for Womens
Self Government Association She Is
The Columbia evening Missourian., 1922-06-03

student in the School Of Journalism q
was awarded the Jay L. Torrey scb,ls
ship this year. This scholarship i, -
to the woman who has shown bers.H 4
best all-around student in the 49,,
She is member Of the Phi Mu soro,s
Gamma Alpha Chi, advertising so,..s
Zeta Sigma, social inter-sorority. r..
Tau Alpha, honorary journalistic 49,,
nifty. and Mortar Board. honorary |. !:
women's organization.
The Columbia evening Missourian., 1922-06-03
NJ. u. WOMEN ELECTED
TO EXECUTIVE OFFICES
IN STUDENT ACTIVITIES

Misses Florence Meisner, Bern, Kan. j;
Alline Smith, Kansas City; Agnes Thum-
ser, Lockwood, No.; Elizabeth Agee. Co.
lumbia, Mo-; and Mary Houk, St. Jo-
seph; hold some Of the prominent Offices
to which women in the University are
eligible.
Miss Meisner was elected president Of
the Women's Self Government Associa-
ton for the coming year. She was this
last year all-department president Of the
School of Law in which she is matricu-
lated. Besides this she was on the Uni.
versity debating teams. Miss Meisner is
member Of Mortar Board. She has al
ways taken an active part in school af-
fairs.
Miss Smith is the newly elected presi-
dent of the Young Women's Christian
Association. She has devoted much time
TO social work and was a delegate from
tho association this year to the national
convention. She is a member Of the
Kappa Alpha Theta sorority and Mortar
Board. She is in the College of Arts and
Science.
Miss Thumser is the president Of the
Women's Athletic Association. All dur
ing her college career Miss Thumser has
been active in athletics for women. She
is versatile, taking part in all of the
sports, and is member of the m"
women's organization to which only those
who are most proficient in athletics be-
long. She, is also member Of Mortar
Board az honorary senior women's or
ganlzatiOn. -
Miss Houk is the past president Of the
The Columbia evening Missourian., 1922-06-03


Fundamental in the organization a,
Berkeley there is a condition that has.
we fear, become fixed beyond correction.
But the fact that discussion Of the coed.
ucational system may be in a practical
sense futile shall not deter the Argonaut
from speaking plain mind. Nobody
these days wishes to deny to women op.
portunity for any form Of education they
may desire. The day is past when WON.
en- were held to be mentally inferior or
when it was deemed judicious to denv to
them facilities of culture in any sphere
but the fact that women are entitled to
equal privileges with men, 10 the aid of
The state in the matter of education.
does not imply that men and women
must be instructed in precisely the same
th-ngs, at the same times, and in the
same classrooms. When young men and
young women are brought together under
conditions as they exist at Berkeley
and at a hundred other schools the
country oyer-there enters into the situa.
tion an equation that is to the advantage
OF neither. Under the cocdscational
system there is inevitable loss If the con.
cenirstion that makes for excellence in
college work or in any other kind Of
work. Young persons brought into in,i.
mate association at a period Of lie when
sex sensibility in its subtle forms and
Tendencies is at its highest are exposed 10
distractions and not infrequentb to tenn.
tations beyond the limits of moral con.
troll. There will be few to denv ,b.,
best results are attained in schools where
ihdiscriminaie mixing of sexes is moi
pracficed. Harvard and Yale continue
TO produce better standardized rpe of
man than the ce-educational schools
Jus as Smith. yassar, and Rpn Mavr
yield superior SON Of woman.
We have at Mills a poorly endowed
s'ili struggling. but promising women,s
college. In the judgment Of the Ar.
gonaut it would be a policy of wisdom
for the state to take over this school and
affiliate it with Berkeley. precisely as
The Columbia evening Missourian., 1922-06-03
COLUMBIA EVENING MIssoURIAN SATURDAY, JUNE g. 1922

Radcliffe is associated with Harvard
and Barnard with Columbia. In max
ing Mills a state college for women,
Berkeley should be left exclusively a
school for men. This suggestion. we
repeat, is probably beyond the line Of
practicability, since sentimentalism long
ago brought the state to adopt co-educa-
iion as fixed policy. None the less, it
is bad policy-bad for men students,
bad for women students, over-costly, in
many ways mischievous if not positively
vicious. An interesting speculation rests
upon the query as to how separation into
different schools Of men and women,
those now attendant at Berkeley, would
affect the class rolls. We suspect that it
would automatically eliminate fully half
Of the young women, thus relieving the
university of a considerable element at
tendant upon its courses neither for its
own good nor that of the community.
There are times-nearly all times, N
fact-when it appears TO be forgotten
that a vital necessity Of the country is
the higher education Of considerable
element of its citizenship; and in the
sphere of higher education We do not in
clude half of the courses pursued at
Berkeley. We do not believe the educa.
ton Of farmers. horse doctors, trades
men Of various crafts, milliners, aesthet-
ic dancers and scenario writers is in any
sense the duty of a school of higher cul-
ture. 1t should be left TO trades schools,
Of which the University Farm at Davis
is notably fine example, to train stu
dents in the sphere Of practical industry.
The jumbling up of all these things
with schools Of academies is mischev-
Gus all round. 1t is fatal to the higher
forms of intellectual culture. Not all
will admit it, but every scholar, every
serious social observer knows it for the |
truth. IL.
DIR. Barrows having resigned the pres
idency Of Berkeley. it now becomes nee !
essary to find a man for that post Two |
types are practicable-only two. A man
of subservient character who will allow
the academic senate to rule him, man
who will hold the place without dignity
ing it or making it effective, would per-
haps be able to rub along for few years.
Such men may be found in numbers, but
no school ever attained high position
or achieved notable public service under
such administration. The alternative is
a man of high character and of personal
force who will demand as the first con-
dition Of acceptance positive support at
lhe hands Of the regents. Upon the heels
of DIR. Barrows experience no man really
1t for the place will take it unless his
shall be definite. If such a
nan shall be desired-and it ought to be
;o--a man Of demonstrated characters
nan who will not hold the post under
'ther than right should be
sought. The Argonaut does not know a
,etter man for the job than David P.
8arrows." ,..---
The Columbia evening Missourian., 1922-06-03
"Popularizing" the University
of California Brings Protest

tiers mischievous in their effects in re-
lation to the work Of the university and
Of its service to the state. There has
long been at Berkeley what we may style
an obsession Of numbers. Ambition te
make the university the biggest OF its
kind-or Of any kind-has inspired a
policy fatal to the normal purposes Of a
school of the higher culture. 1t has con-
| founded the unfit with the fit. 1t has
promoted lower as distinct from higher
standards Of entrance and of examina-
ton. The tendency has been to make Of
Berkeley something between a chautau-
qua circle and a country club. Student
activities as distinct from academic thor
oughness have, with the idea of making
the university attractive to numbers, all
but destroyed the atmosphere which
makes for academic spirit. Student
standing has related quite as much to
things extraneous and futile as to things
essential and important. In consequence
there has been engrafted upon the sys-
TEN a multitude of things foolish and
futile tending, not to thoroughness and
dignity, but to their opposites. In con-
nection with the university the public
more frequently hears Of matters frivo-
lous than serious. 1t is rare week when
public attention is not invited more to
sporting and social events than to things
that should engross the major part of the
time and attention of students. There
has been created campus atmosphere
in which dirty corduroys and rough
neck sweaters are yielded a higher con-
sideration than ambition or diligence in
studies. The public is more frequently
disguised by pictured representations of
girls dancing under the col
lege oaks than cdifed by students
groups attending to their legitimate
work. There are times when devotion TO
athletics and what is called aesthetic
dancing, mostly in underclothes OF no
clothes at all. appears to have supersed-
ed the humanities, mathematics, or the
classics.
The Columbia evening Missourian., 1922-06-03

Choice Strawberries, 2uce a quart f- a,
Nowell's. Get some tonight.-Adv.
The Columbia evening Missourian., 1922-06-03

| One day last week some two thou.
sand young men and women we're given
diplomas Of graduation. 1t is pertinent
to speculate as to what proportion of
this vast output Of the university has in
reality been benefited by four years ex-
perience Of student life under the condi.
tions at Berkeley? How much of real
scholarship does a graduate diploma i'm.
ply! And by the same token, what de.
gree of loss is reflected in waste of time
in lack of discipline. in discursive hab.
Its established in campus life? We do
not question that some have gained that
which may serve themselves and ulti-
maiely serve society, but of this We are
sure: that many-perhsps the greater
number-havc left college less fit IN
meet the requirements Of practical life
than when they entered it. There can.
oil course be no immediate testimony To
support this presumption, but every EN-.
ployer who has had to do with the pro-
duo; OF the university has discovered tha,
before the average college man can be
turned to practical account he has vas,
deal to unlearn. chief among them care.
less and dilatoy habits. 1t would seem
that a school designed and maintained at
great cost to prepare young men and
women TOR usefulness in society ought to
develop in them propensiiies. ambitions.
discipline that are less frequently hon.
ored IN the observance than in the
breach.
The Columbia evening Missourian., 1922-06-03

We come now to consider other mat.
The Columbia evening Missourian., 1922-06-03

Demands from the university multi.
ply. There seems no limit to its capacity
TO consume money to the end Of adding
ne~ courses. extending outside courses.
OF providing the machinery and other
, means OF student entertainment. What
the university really needs il, no, ex,en.
sion Of courses and facilities, but eoncen,
The Columbia evening Missourian., 1922-06-03

! The dignity and even the character
of the university is degraded by efforts to
extend lis courses into the sphere of su-
perhuiiies and superfcialties. Advertise
ments on dead walls and in street-cars to
the effect that If you can not come to
the university. the university will come
to you. are not cdifying to thoughtful
minds. Ii should not be a function of
the university TO contribute to cheap and
superficial phases of education. Rather
its policies should reflect the ancient
wisdom embodied in the saying that
little learning is dangerous thing. Still
less edifying is the fact that branch of
the university is maintained among the
convicts at San Quentin. Surely what
ever of benefit the university in charity
and wisdom might yield to the derelicts
'of society should be provided in ways
not directly affiliating our great state
school with those who for the good of
society We place behind stone walls and
in locked cells.
Many times when the Argonaut has
asked why the university advertises it.
self in company with Mr.. Heinz invita-
tion TO the public TO buy his pickles and
baked beans. why it seeks to purvey half
knowledge or less through its extension
courses, why it teaches the arts of hair
dressing and military, why it imposes
rpon its system anywhere from a score
to two score trivial things unrelated to
general culture, the answer has been that
its policy is to 'popularize' itself. And
when inquiry has been pursued there has
come frank confession that by these
methods it is sought so to extend the
functions Of the school as to broaden its
basis and so get from the taxpayer larger
appropriations Of money. In other words,
the business management of the admin
istration has been pursuing the arts of
salesmanship by tricks of trade that bear
no relation to the legitimate work of
the university. The plain truth of the
matter is that to notable degree the
normal and wholesome purposes of uni
versity administration have been subor.
dinated to a policy out of harmony or
propriety as related to the purposes for
which the school was founded and for
which it deserves to be maintained.
The Holly chieftain., 1922-03-16
A CLEAN. MOUTH
Prepared by the
COLORADO TUsERcULosIs Assn
BY ARTHUR NJ. HUNTER. o. o. ..


"a medicine be made
prophecy the ior mouth hygiene
Proper methods ofcor,ecs
How to dental disease
Very persons water
mir
Housewives cooking
before quickly
after / passes lips
How
aef
the emouthp q Go
to him
to
these systemic
with
characters
There
whch only XI,ay discover
perform
health Remember tooth decay
will polute the food
preferred
saten namely, and vegetables
gift
the gums
cavities pollution of food with digestive disturbances death
disease and finally broken down health
public
of hygiene than TINT"
The Holly chieftain., 1922-03-16
Good Leale.

Terre Haute boy scouts have. ~
Gently organized q sea scout troop.
Several Of the new members were
waiting for their leader the other day.
but still he didn't come. Finally enc
of them was sent out to 1nd traces
of him. He journeysd q block and
then saw him In earnest conversation
with girl.
Now, he didn't want to expose the
official-also he felt that he must be
truthful, since he was q scout. 90 he
used strategy when hs came back.
"Yes, saw him." he said, "and we'd
better wait here, for he was doing
some official business. He was inter.
viewing a candidate for the position
of first mate."-IndianApolis News.
There are two Sides to ths question.
For one thing there 10 Q tendency on
the part Of = boy to darive his prs,
dominant traits from his mother.
For another, the mother u. obvious,
ly more instrumental than the father
In creating the environmsot which
plays large paft In the development
Of the sons.
In the average homs the problem
of providing minimum bf income
which is the duty sf the fathss-b
much less complicated than the prob
lem of making both ends mest-which
Is the problem OF the mother.
Long before statesmen ever DRAINED
Of budget system. that msthod was
familiar to the women. In one gen,
GRAFTON after another they have had
to pay their way with resources that
did not increase in proportion - ths
families grew.
The csrefulness, prudence and fore
sight that woman displays In run.
ming her house naturally show thsn-
selves in the bringing up Of her men.
children. II she 10 Incompetent and
shiftless in one direction, she will b
the same in the other.
The Holly chieftain., 1922-03-16

Every -Four Corners has it's Home
Town week nowadays, but all the boys
and girls who have wandered from the
Township Center cannot get back to
enjoy the loved surroundings. But all
can subscribe to the old home town
paper and thus keep well In touch
with the little spot they once called
home.
What joy to run over the school
promotions and find that the tots of
few years ago are moving higher
and higher in scholastic circles and
eventually blossom forth as the "sweet
girl graduates" or the clean strong
boys discarding knickers.
Just watch that hardened old city
codger open up his home paper-it is
the first thing he picks up out of his
bunch Of mail-and what can he find
there to interest hlm7 Angus Me-
Gngan's horse died yesterday; Peter
McGregor Will run for the county
clerkship; Horace Jell hopes to win
the secretaryship of the HlIltown Ag-
ricultural Society; Lydia Munger has
opened a millinery store; Mrs. Brown
lost her hand satchel In the butchery:
DR.. Dorland Is attending Clara Brown,
who Is down with n severe cold; Mrs.
Platter broke her ankle and is in the
county hospital.
Yet though he smiles at the old-time
styles and expressions he enjoys II
all over and over again, for 1t takes
his mind back home where his won.
derful boyhood days--happy days
were spent. ,
The Holly chieftain., 1922-03-16
Letting III. l.wy.r. werk . Llt.l

Letting the Lawyers Work Little.
Erastus, negro. being charged with
burglary, told his defender that he
had only one conviction against him
disorderly conduct. On cross exam
ination by the district attorney. after
giving plausible explanation. he was
asked about his court record.
"Disorderly conduct sab" he said
smilingly.
"Sure that was allY'
The defendant paused ts consider.
Have you-all found out anything
else?' he inquired.
"Elmira reformatory for burglary
in 1911 and twice to Sing Sing for
the same crime" replied the D. A.
Fright, sub. I Just thought I'd let
you-all find that out for yourself" !"
said Erastus. He was Convicted
From the Annual Report Of the Legal
Aid Society.
The Holly chieftain., 1922-03-16
THE ROMANCE OF WORDS
GOSSIP"

OSSIP" or "gossib,' as
" Chaucer spelled 1t, was
the name given by the Hamp-
shire peasantry to the persons
who acted as sponsors in bap-
tism, the godfathers and god
mothers. 1t was compound
word. made up of the name
God" and the word "sib," still
used In Scotland In the sense of
"akin"--the meaning being that
the gossip was akin to God and
stood In this relation to the
child, a sense which is still ex-
tant in our own word "god-
parent"
Considering gossip" in its
ordinary use as one addicted to
tattling or prattling or the car
rylng of tales and 1t appears TO
bear little relation to the word
as originally coined. But 1t
should be remembered that the
"gossibs" we're brought by a
common sponsorship into
close familiarity with one an
SSsiss. with led eventually to
trivial, Idle talk and the carry
ing Of information from one to
another. That this failing is
not peculiar to Anglo-Saxon
godparents is evident FROM an
examination of the French word
commerage and the fact thar
commere has passed through
precisely the same stages as
its English equivalent.
(Copyright)
The Holly chieftain., 1922-03-16
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from the dawn Of history to the
present day. In sacred and secular
afairs, the influence Of the moth.r
mas always been the greatest factor
IN the development Of ability or es.
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