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PAGE TWO THE DAILY IOWAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA Tuesday, February 4, 1919 THE DAILY IOWAN The Student Newspaper of the State University of Iowa MEMBER IOWA COLLEGE PRESS A morning paper published for the period of the war three times a week--Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday-- by The Daily Iowan Publishing company at 103 Iowa avenue, Iowa City Entered as second class matter at the post office of Iowa City, Iowa Subscription Rate $2.00 per year BOARD OF TRUSTEES C.H. Weller, chairman, E.M. McEwen, E.S. Smith, Gretchen Kane, Alice Hinkley, M. Elizabeth Hendee, Mary Anderson EDITORIAL STAFF Editor-in-chief Mildred E. Whitcomb Telephone Black 1757 Office Hours--8 to 12; 1 to 6 daily, Room 14, L.A. building. Managing editor Rowena Wellman News Editor: Ruth Rogers Pink Sheet Editor: Helen Hays Humorous Editor: Elizabeth Hendee Exchange Editor: Marie Kellogg Sporting Editor: Leon H. Brigham BUSINESS STAFF Romola Latchem--Business Manager Telephone 935 Office House--3-5 daily 103 Iowa Av. Edw. Chamberlain--Advertising Mgr. "I have never had a policy. I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day as each day came." --Lincoln. Night Editors Beth Wellman Ruth Rogers THE DEAD BEAT The highwayman is braver than the dead beat. Even the sneak thief takes more chances with the law than he. All of these worthies are actuated by the same motives--to shift the burden of gaining their their livelihood upon the shoulders of others. Immunity from legal punishmnet of the dead beat has caused the industries of the more active robbers to languish of late years, and while it is rare to find a man who goes out on the highway and boldly holds up the wayfarer, every community has its quota of dead beats who prey upon their confiding neighbors. Even the University has its parasites. There are those who read their neighbors' morning paper because they "forgot" to order it; those who will peruse their friend's Hawkeye in the spring for "neglect" to buy one. Some appropriate the treasured notes of others, borrow a powder puff, and mooch a cigarette. Every one is acquainted with the odorant species that visits a drug counter to test the latest perfumeries and carries away a fusion of the garden of roses, free of charge. There are many others. The dead beats keep up a show of respectability. Often they belong to a church and sit in the pew long enough to criticize and censure the conduct of their neighbors. They are a severe tax on any community and on intolerable group in a University. Legislation cleans up other vices and student crusades puts across its drives. Why not clean up the parasite vice and inaugurate a crusade against the dead beat. Boycott him from the social life of the University. Such an undertaking would be the first step toward true bliss in society. Down with the dead beat. FEBRUARY Although it is a short month, this February of 1919 promises to be a memorable one. With the work of the peace congress closing in, and a constant stream of soldiers returning from overseas, the national holidays will take on a new meaning and a deeper significance. It will be the first February in four years that there has been no fighting, no growing horror in that world across the seas, no restless anxiety over here. They seem almost symbolical, the twenty-eight short days of the month, for just as they lead toward spring, they point to a brighter world era. By the time they have passed, it is to be hoped that a fixed peace will not be a probable speculation but a reality. And when we celebrate the anniversaries of the birth of Abraham Lincoln and George Washington, together with that newer holiday, which is to commemorate Theodore Roosevelt, let us try to understand that the great principles which they so staunchly upheld have been realized at last. THOSE SPRING CLOTHES The day has passed of putting on one's flannels at the first breath of winter and keeping them on until the first of May and sometimes June. Spring clothes lead every month in the year except July and August, when women seem to shrink from old Sol's direct rays by hiding under a huge velvet hat, a heavy winter suit and furs. What a joy it used to be to pass the show windows in April and May and see displays of straw hats, slippers and thin dress goods! One knew spring had come. But now straw hats are donned at Christmas time, oxfords and pumps have been worn the entire winter, and for some time merchants have been displaying thin dress goods in their windows. One could scarcely say there are such things as spring clothes any more, and flannels are certainly tobooed. By what sign shall we know spring has come?--Evening Missourian. NOT OUR FAULT The Daily Iowan exceedingly regrets the transposition of pages which occurred in Sunday's edition. The night editors found the pages in their regular order on the proof, but they were interchanged by the pressman when running the papers through the press. UNIVERSITY PLAYERS MEET The University Players will meet this afternoon at 5 o'clock at the natural science auditorium. All members are urged to be present WHAT OTHERS THINK POOR MAYBELLE The much abused Maybelle is no more. Poor Maybelle--they say she belongs in the back of the book next to Portland cement because she was an ad. We admit. Maybelle was an ad; and she accomplished her purpose in direct proportion to the amount of hatred she engendered. Thank you, Mis sSenior, for the letter in Sunday's Iowan. That also was an excellent advertisement for the Hawkeye and is deeply appreciated as such by the entire staff. And, as an ad, it, too, belongs next to Portland cement, that is, in the feature section of the Victory Hawkeye. Maybelle need no longer be called "it." She is a live girl now, and a regular one. No one has heard any complaint on Happy. GRACE ALTSHULER. THE DORMITORY SYSTEM Are we unconsciously drifting into a realm of militaristic realism? Intimated action on the part of the University authorities, which would inflict a system of compulsory dormitory life for the freshmen and sophomores was unanimously agreed upon and it was further predicted, according to reports, that its advent was not far off, because of the necessity for regulating the embryo student. Is it the necessity of regulating the students or the necessity for using dead investment of the University? Universities and colleges over the country agreed to build substantial barracks for the quartering of the S.A.T.C. men, providing the government would finance half the proposition. Today the barracks, large modern structures, adequate in all respects, are idle, due to the sudden culmination of the war. The means to offset the proposition is the dormitory system. Should the student be encroached upon and forced to pay for the investment and misjudgment of school authorities? These structures might be used as dormitories and students admitted upon their own volition. Doubtless there are many non-fraternity men who would welcome the opportunity of being housed together. But there is a decided question as to whether the proposition should be mandatory in its eect and scope. You can lead a horse to water but you cannot drive him. The tendency would be to alienate candidate students for the University and would be the cause of many others seeking other institutions of learning. Man resents anything based on compulsory methods. On the face of the proposition it would seem that such action is as a means of delivering a death blow to fraternity life. If not why make the dormitory project a matter of compulsion? Under such jurisdiction men would lose their individualism; would be denied the privilege of accumulating social graces in their early years of college, and scholarships would be lowered, for the competition of the various fraternities, scholastically, has given fraternity men higher standing in scholarship than the non-fraternity men. Why not put the dormitory system on a voluntary basis, give the freshman and sophomore his freedom, and let the fraternity live. Surely the educational leaders of our nation have not imbibed a bit of educational prussianism out of the war. R.E. OVERHOLSER. Isabelle Allard, B.A. '18 is teaching science at Lamoni. H.A. STRUB & CO New 1919 Dress Goods and Silks-fine line-the latest and prices right H.A. STRUB & CO. THE Townsend Studio If you've paid the fee, If you've signed the book, Your face you'll see, In the "VICTORY BOOK" If not *!'....?-;:*$*!!! TALC Jonteel 25 c [Illustration of perfume bottle] gives every woman who loves a rare perfume, the opportunity to know and enjoy a talc having a wonderful, costly odor at a price unusually low. Take Jonteel home with you today. Henry Louis The Rexall and KODAK Store 124 E. College People's Steam Laundry 225 IOWA AVE WHEN IN NEED OF LAUNDRY WORK, Telephone 58 C.J. Toms UNDER GOVERNMENT SUPERVISION Use a Check or a Draft When Mailing Money A draft or a check drawn on this bank is the safest and most convenient way to send money through the mail. If you haven't a checking account this is a particularly good time to call on us and open one. You'll find it useful in more ways than sending money to distant points. We will be glad to advise you in the matter of handling your Christmas finances. Maybe we can make some suggestions that will prove mutually profitable. First National Bank MEMBER FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
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PAGE TWO THE DAILY IOWAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA Tuesday, February 4, 1919 THE DAILY IOWAN The Student Newspaper of the State University of Iowa MEMBER IOWA COLLEGE PRESS A morning paper published for the period of the war three times a week--Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday-- by The Daily Iowan Publishing company at 103 Iowa avenue, Iowa City Entered as second class matter at the post office of Iowa City, Iowa Subscription Rate $2.00 per year BOARD OF TRUSTEES C.H. Weller, chairman, E.M. McEwen, E.S. Smith, Gretchen Kane, Alice Hinkley, M. Elizabeth Hendee, Mary Anderson EDITORIAL STAFF Editor-in-chief Mildred E. Whitcomb Telephone Black 1757 Office Hours--8 to 12; 1 to 6 daily, Room 14, L.A. building. Managing editor Rowena Wellman News Editor: Ruth Rogers Pink Sheet Editor: Helen Hays Humorous Editor: Elizabeth Hendee Exchange Editor: Marie Kellogg Sporting Editor: Leon H. Brigham BUSINESS STAFF Romola Latchem--Business Manager Telephone 935 Office House--3-5 daily 103 Iowa Av. Edw. Chamberlain--Advertising Mgr. "I have never had a policy. I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day as each day came." --Lincoln. Night Editors Beth Wellman Ruth Rogers THE DEAD BEAT The highwayman is braver than the dead beat. Even the sneak thief takes more chances with the law than he. All of these worthies are actuated by the same motives--to shift the burden of gaining their their livelihood upon the shoulders of others. Immunity from legal punishmnet of the dead beat has caused the industries of the more active robbers to languish of late years, and while it is rare to find a man who goes out on the highway and boldly holds up the wayfarer, every community has its quota of dead beats who prey upon their confiding neighbors. Even the University has its parasites. There are those who read their neighbors' morning paper because they "forgot" to order it; those who will peruse their friend's Hawkeye in the spring for "neglect" to buy one. Some appropriate the treasured notes of others, borrow a powder puff, and mooch a cigarette. Every one is acquainted with the odorant species that visits a drug counter to test the latest perfumeries and carries away a fusion of the garden of roses, free of charge. There are many others. The dead beats keep up a show of respectability. Often they belong to a church and sit in the pew long enough to criticize and censure the conduct of their neighbors. They are a severe tax on any community and on intolerable group in a University. Legislation cleans up other vices and student crusades puts across its drives. Why not clean up the parasite vice and inaugurate a crusade against the dead beat. Boycott him from the social life of the University. Such an undertaking would be the first step toward true bliss in society. Down with the dead beat. FEBRUARY Although it is a short month, this February of 1919 promises to be a memorable one. With the work of the peace congress closing in, and a constant stream of soldiers returning from overseas, the national holidays will take on a new meaning and a deeper significance. It will be the first February in four years that there has been no fighting, no growing horror in that world across the seas, no restless anxiety over here. They seem almost symbolical, the twenty-eight short days of the month, for just as they lead toward spring, they point to a brighter world era. By the time they have passed, it is to be hoped that a fixed peace will not be a probable speculation but a reality. And when we celebrate the anniversaries of the birth of Abraham Lincoln and George Washington, together with that newer holiday, which is to commemorate Theodore Roosevelt, let us try to understand that the great principles which they so staunchly upheld have been realized at last. THOSE SPRING CLOTHES The day has passed of putting on one's flannels at the first breath of winter and keeping them on until the first of May and sometimes June. Spring clothes lead every month in the year except July and August, when women seem to shrink from old Sol's direct rays by hiding under a huge velvet hat, a heavy winter suit and furs. What a joy it used to be to pass the show windows in April and May and see displays of straw hats, slippers and thin dress goods! One knew spring had come. But now straw hats are donned at Christmas time, oxfords and pumps have been worn the entire winter, and for some time merchants have been displaying thin dress goods in their windows. One could scarcely say there are such things as spring clothes any more, and flannels are certainly tobooed. By what sign shall we know spring has come?--Evening Missourian. NOT OUR FAULT The Daily Iowan exceedingly regrets the transposition of pages which occurred in Sunday's edition. The night editors found the pages in their regular order on the proof, but they were interchanged by the pressman when running the papers through the press. UNIVERSITY PLAYERS MEET The University Players will meet this afternoon at 5 o'clock at the natural science auditorium. All members are urged to be present WHAT OTHERS THINK POOR MAYBELLE The much abused Maybelle is no more. Poor Maybelle--they say she belongs in the back of the book next to Portland cement because she was an ad. We admit. Maybelle was an ad; and she accomplished her purpose in direct proportion to the amount of hatred she engendered. Thank you, Mis sSenior, for the letter in Sunday's Iowan. That also was an excellent advertisement for the Hawkeye and is deeply appreciated as such by the entire staff. And, as an ad, it, too, belongs next to Portland cement, that is, in the feature section of the Victory Hawkeye. Maybelle need no longer be called "it." She is a live girl now, and a regular one. No one has heard any complaint on Happy. GRACE ALTSHULER. THE DORMITORY SYSTEM Are we unconsciously drifting into a realm of militaristic realism? Intimated action on the part of the University authorities, which would inflict a system of compulsory dormitory life for the freshmen and sophomores was unanimously agreed upon and it was further predicted, according to reports, that its advent was not far off, because of the necessity for regulating the embryo student. Is it the necessity of regulating the students or the necessity for using dead investment of the University? Universities and colleges over the country agreed to build substantial barracks for the quartering of the S.A.T.C. men, providing the government would finance half the proposition. Today the barracks, large modern structures, adequate in all respects, are idle, due to the sudden culmination of the war. The means to offset the proposition is the dormitory system. Should the student be encroached upon and forced to pay for the investment and misjudgment of school authorities? These structures might be used as dormitories and students admitted upon their own volition. Doubtless there are many non-fraternity men who would welcome the opportunity of being housed together. But there is a decided question as to whether the proposition should be mandatory in its eect and scope. You can lead a horse to water but you cannot drive him. The tendency would be to alienate candidate students for the University and would be the cause of many others seeking other institutions of learning. Man resents anything based on compulsory methods. On the face of the proposition it would seem that such action is as a means of delivering a death blow to fraternity life. If not why make the dormitory project a matter of compulsion? Under such jurisdiction men would lose their individualism; would be denied the privilege of accumulating social graces in their early years of college, and scholarships would be lowered, for the competition of the various fraternities, scholastically, has given fraternity men higher standing in scholarship than the non-fraternity men. Why not put the dormitory system on a voluntary basis, give the freshman and sophomore his freedom, and let the fraternity live. Surely the educational leaders of our nation have not imbibed a bit of educational prussianism out of the war. R.E. OVERHOLSER. Isabelle Allard, B.A. '18 is teaching science at Lamoni. H.A. STRUB & CO New 1919 Dress Goods and Silks-fine line-the latest and prices right H.A. STRUB & CO. THE Townsend Studio If you've paid the fee, If you've signed the book, Your face you'll see, In the "VICTORY BOOK" If not *!'....?-;:*$*!!! TALC Jonteel 25 c [Illustration of perfume bottle] gives every woman who loves a rare perfume, the opportunity to know and enjoy a talc having a wonderful, costly odor at a price unusually low. Take Jonteel home with you today. Henry Louis The Rexall and KODAK Store 124 E. College People's Steam Laundry 225 IOWA AVE WHEN IN NEED OF LAUNDRY WORK, Telephone 58 C.J. Toms UNDER GOVERNMENT SUPERVISION Use a Check or a Draft When Mailing Money A draft or a check drawn on this bank is the safest and most convenient way to send money through the mail. If you haven't a checking account this is a particularly good time to call on us and open one. You'll find it useful in more ways than sending money to distant points. We will be glad to advise you in the matter of handling your Christmas finances. Maybe we can make some suggestions that will prove mutually profitable. First National Bank MEMBER FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
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