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PAGE TWO THE DAILY IOWAN, STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA Tuesday, May 27, 1919 THE DAILY IOWAN A morning paper published for the period of the war four times a week—Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday—by The Daily Iowan Publishing company at 103 Iowa avenue, Iowa City Member of Iowa College Press 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, Gretchen Kane, secretary, E.M. McEwen, E.S. Smith, Alice E. Hinkley, M. Elizabeth Hendee, Mary Anderson EDITORIAL STAFF MILDRED E. WHITCOMB, Editor-in-chief Telephone, Black 1757; Office House—8-12; 1-6 daily, Room 14, L.A. Building Rowena Wellman—Managing Editor Associate Editor Ralph E. Overholser News Edior Eileen Galvin Exchange Editor Nancy Lamb Humorous Editor M. Elizabeth Hendee Sports Editor Harold Chamberlin BUSINESS STAFF ROMOLA LATCHEM—Business manager Edward Chamberlin—Advertising Mgr. Telephone 935; Office Hours—3-5 daily, 103 Iowa Ave "I have never had a policy. I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day as each day came."—Lincoln Night Editor Elsie Katz POOR SERVICE For the bungling job of supplying its subscribers with news of our-of-town games and contests, The Iowan makes profuse apologies. However it does not assume the blame except in a few instances. Unfortunate individuals who have had dealings with the telegraphic service under war measures have sympathy with any paper which cannot afford leased wire service. The Iowan has wasted many dollars during the year in telegraphic service on games and track meets. About twelve hours after the paper has gone to press and after the team is safely home with a full account of the whole contest will come a telegram announcing the results of the game. This has happened repeatedly. Sunday morning's paper failed its readers in two glaring instance. No stories on the state track meet or the baseball game were carried. The paper was held open until the latest possible moment but neither report arrived. For one of these failures The Iowan will assume the blame. A telegram asking for the material on the track meet was sent to the sports writer at the wrong address and it reached him too late. The Western Union office closes at nine o'clock and telegrams are rarely delivered after that hour. The wires early in the evenings especially on Saturday evenings after big games are often engaged in advance by sports writers with long strings. All these things make the lives of small paper editors a burden. When the government gives over the control of the telegraph lines Iowan readers may hope for better service. Until then The Iowan will simply do all it can. FUSSING A University girl who will get her degree three weeks from today recently remarked this: "If I could teach every freshman girl only one thing, it would be 'never to fuss'." Many girls on the campus owe their popularity to their skill in fussing. It takes a freshman completely off her feet and more completely out of her head to come to the University and find out that so much is her company desired that not a night passes that she is not asked for a date or two. Back in her home village if she had two dates a week with a man, the neighbors thought things are "getting serious." At the University customs are different, so different that in her reaction against the hometown philosophy the freshman is apt to swing too far. It does not occur to hear to analyze her popularity; if she did she might have food for thought. Of course freshman are not the only offenders in this social question, but they in their extreme youthfulness and thoughtlessness are the chief. Freshman always have more dates than older girls. They are cute and fresh and possessed of a certain shyness that later disappears in the fusser. The girl may still be foolish as a sophomore, but the chances are that by the time she is a true upperclassman she has sickened of the thing or else has acquired an unenviable reputation through her folly. While students are spending four or five nights out of the week dating, they are getting very little out of their University work. Many students who later wake to ambitions for Phi Beta Kappa and other scholastic honors are defeated through their low grades as freshmen when the social whirl engulfed them completely. In two weeks time this promiscuous fussing might be abolished from the campus, if older girls would exert their influence against it, if freshman girls would use their heads, and if men would show women a little more respect. All co-educational institutions face this problem, but let Iowa lead in combating it. It is public opinion which makes it permissible and public opinion can reduce it to a minimum. MONEY FOR AUTHORS A prize of $1,000 is to be offered to the authors of Iowa for a moving picture scenario or a story from which an acceptable scenario can be written. The offer comes from the Iowa War Savings committee, which wants a picture play that will teach through modern screen methods the principle, purpose and profit of thrift. The play, according to the state savings committee offer, must be one that will be worth $1,000 many times to the state in an economic way. In other words it must teach enough improvident people to be systematic savers that the resulting good to the communities where the picture. may be shown, can be seen and realized. That the winning play, or story, will come from a hitherto unknown author is the belief of many newspaper men to whom the idea has been submitted. Yet a score of the most prolific writers in the state are preparing to submit scenarios. The first condition is that the author must be an Iowan. WHAT OTHERS THING SAUCE FOR THE GOOSE There appears to be a great deal of agitation among the student body in regard to the proposed compulsory physical training (five hours a week). The argument which seems to be the main one advanced is that it will be good for the students. But if it is good for the students why is it not also good for the faculty? If students need five hours a week of athletic activity to counteract the evil effects of their indoor environment how much more does the faculty need it, who have been exposed to this deleterious environment for many years. Of course there are a few athletic enthusiasts among the faculty members, but they are very few compared to the total number on the faculty. From time to time their numbers are augmented by athletic theorists who appear on the athletic board. (N.B. By theorist we mean those who do not devote five hours a week to P.T.) Of course it may be said that faculty members are too busy to indulge in such pastimes but the students would like a demonstration of a faculty member who is busier than a student who is working his way through school and acquiring an education at the same time. If the faculty members claim age as an exemption, we would remind them that there are many among their number who are not many years older than certain students in the professional colleges. At the same time we would like them to look back on their own college days and answer frankly the follow [sic] question: "As a student, what would be your candid opinion of a faculty which adds five hours of P.T. a week to an already heavy schedule?" [Photo caption] Capt. Lee Gillis, former head of the physical training department, at South Dakota Normal school at Aberdeen, will become student secretary fo rthe [sic] Iowa Y.M.C.A. executive committee June 1. B.I.F.F. Professorisms SERIES II Brisco: Now get this. I want you to read this. I read an interesting article. This is absolute essential. Bunny Wassam: Intensely interesting. Wernli: She is a conscientious worker. Seashore: Ahem! Dr. Nutting: Taking it by and large. Dr. Patrick: O yes, but that doesn't count. Dr. Hauser: That will be sufficient. Miss Daley: This is just another of my fool notions; you don't have to believe it. Jack Watson: Hit it right out, now. Mr. Shaw: As it were. DR. ALLEN SERVES IN HOSPITAL Dr. Coral Allen came last Thursday to serve in the new children's hospital under Dr. Byfield. She spent one year in France doing children's welfare wark [sic] and returned to this country March 6. Since that time she has been at the home of her mother in Washington. HAWKEYES ARRIVE IN SEALED CAR The Hawkeyes are here. Last night they were sealed in a freight car on the siding of the main Rock Island tracks. Arrangements were under way yesterday afternoon to unpack the books, and they will probably be ready for distribution on the steps of the Old Capitol building sometime this morning. Those who ordered the de luxe copies of the Hawkeye may have to wait till a little later in the day as these volumes were sent later by express. Extra copies will be on sale at the book stores. Komenians will meet Tuesday, May 27 at 7:45 at the home of Irma Prizler, 227 North Governor street. Iota Xi Epsilon will dance Thursday at the Burkley hotel. Prof. and Mrs. G.J. Keller will chaperon. [Ad] IRISH'S Business College Commercial Bank Building 205 1/2 Washington St. Summer Session Classes Begin June 16, 1919 Registration Open until June 23, 1919 Instructions in the following Branches— Gregg Shorthand Pitman Shorthand Touch Typewriting and Bookkeeping SPECIAL COURSES Filing and the Dictaphone [Ad] OH BOY! Did you ever taste those Sweet Rolls served for breakfast in the JEFFERSON COFFEE ROOM and JEFFERSON QUICK LUNCH SERVICE CAFE They are simply wonderful. Delicious coffee also—n'everything. [Ad] Drink Coca-Cola DELICIOUS and REFRESHING You can't think of "delicious" or "refreshing" without thinking of Coca-Cola. You can't drink Coca-Cola without being delighted and refreshed. The taste is the test of Coca-Cola quality—so clearly distinguishes it from invitations that you cannot be deceived. Demand the genuine by full name—nicknames encourage substitution. THE COCA-COLA CO. ATLANTA, GA. Sold Everywhere [Ad] BASEBALL AMES VS. IOWA Wednesday, May 28 4:30 P.M. Iowa Field Admission 50c
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PAGE TWO THE DAILY IOWAN, STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA Tuesday, May 27, 1919 THE DAILY IOWAN A morning paper published for the period of the war four times a week—Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday—by The Daily Iowan Publishing company at 103 Iowa avenue, Iowa City Member of Iowa College Press 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, Gretchen Kane, secretary, E.M. McEwen, E.S. Smith, Alice E. Hinkley, M. Elizabeth Hendee, Mary Anderson EDITORIAL STAFF MILDRED E. WHITCOMB, Editor-in-chief Telephone, Black 1757; Office House—8-12; 1-6 daily, Room 14, L.A. Building Rowena Wellman—Managing Editor Associate Editor Ralph E. Overholser News Edior Eileen Galvin Exchange Editor Nancy Lamb Humorous Editor M. Elizabeth Hendee Sports Editor Harold Chamberlin BUSINESS STAFF ROMOLA LATCHEM—Business manager Edward Chamberlin—Advertising Mgr. Telephone 935; Office Hours—3-5 daily, 103 Iowa Ave "I have never had a policy. I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day as each day came."—Lincoln Night Editor Elsie Katz POOR SERVICE For the bungling job of supplying its subscribers with news of our-of-town games and contests, The Iowan makes profuse apologies. However it does not assume the blame except in a few instances. Unfortunate individuals who have had dealings with the telegraphic service under war measures have sympathy with any paper which cannot afford leased wire service. The Iowan has wasted many dollars during the year in telegraphic service on games and track meets. About twelve hours after the paper has gone to press and after the team is safely home with a full account of the whole contest will come a telegram announcing the results of the game. This has happened repeatedly. Sunday morning's paper failed its readers in two glaring instance. No stories on the state track meet or the baseball game were carried. The paper was held open until the latest possible moment but neither report arrived. For one of these failures The Iowan will assume the blame. A telegram asking for the material on the track meet was sent to the sports writer at the wrong address and it reached him too late. The Western Union office closes at nine o'clock and telegrams are rarely delivered after that hour. The wires early in the evenings especially on Saturday evenings after big games are often engaged in advance by sports writers with long strings. All these things make the lives of small paper editors a burden. When the government gives over the control of the telegraph lines Iowan readers may hope for better service. Until then The Iowan will simply do all it can. FUSSING A University girl who will get her degree three weeks from today recently remarked this: "If I could teach every freshman girl only one thing, it would be 'never to fuss'." Many girls on the campus owe their popularity to their skill in fussing. It takes a freshman completely off her feet and more completely out of her head to come to the University and find out that so much is her company desired that not a night passes that she is not asked for a date or two. Back in her home village if she had two dates a week with a man, the neighbors thought things are "getting serious." At the University customs are different, so different that in her reaction against the hometown philosophy the freshman is apt to swing too far. It does not occur to hear to analyze her popularity; if she did she might have food for thought. Of course freshman are not the only offenders in this social question, but they in their extreme youthfulness and thoughtlessness are the chief. Freshman always have more dates than older girls. They are cute and fresh and possessed of a certain shyness that later disappears in the fusser. The girl may still be foolish as a sophomore, but the chances are that by the time she is a true upperclassman she has sickened of the thing or else has acquired an unenviable reputation through her folly. While students are spending four or five nights out of the week dating, they are getting very little out of their University work. Many students who later wake to ambitions for Phi Beta Kappa and other scholastic honors are defeated through their low grades as freshmen when the social whirl engulfed them completely. In two weeks time this promiscuous fussing might be abolished from the campus, if older girls would exert their influence against it, if freshman girls would use their heads, and if men would show women a little more respect. All co-educational institutions face this problem, but let Iowa lead in combating it. It is public opinion which makes it permissible and public opinion can reduce it to a minimum. MONEY FOR AUTHORS A prize of $1,000 is to be offered to the authors of Iowa for a moving picture scenario or a story from which an acceptable scenario can be written. The offer comes from the Iowa War Savings committee, which wants a picture play that will teach through modern screen methods the principle, purpose and profit of thrift. The play, according to the state savings committee offer, must be one that will be worth $1,000 many times to the state in an economic way. In other words it must teach enough improvident people to be systematic savers that the resulting good to the communities where the picture. may be shown, can be seen and realized. That the winning play, or story, will come from a hitherto unknown author is the belief of many newspaper men to whom the idea has been submitted. Yet a score of the most prolific writers in the state are preparing to submit scenarios. The first condition is that the author must be an Iowan. WHAT OTHERS THING SAUCE FOR THE GOOSE There appears to be a great deal of agitation among the student body in regard to the proposed compulsory physical training (five hours a week). The argument which seems to be the main one advanced is that it will be good for the students. But if it is good for the students why is it not also good for the faculty? If students need five hours a week of athletic activity to counteract the evil effects of their indoor environment how much more does the faculty need it, who have been exposed to this deleterious environment for many years. Of course there are a few athletic enthusiasts among the faculty members, but they are very few compared to the total number on the faculty. From time to time their numbers are augmented by athletic theorists who appear on the athletic board. (N.B. By theorist we mean those who do not devote five hours a week to P.T.) Of course it may be said that faculty members are too busy to indulge in such pastimes but the students would like a demonstration of a faculty member who is busier than a student who is working his way through school and acquiring an education at the same time. If the faculty members claim age as an exemption, we would remind them that there are many among their number who are not many years older than certain students in the professional colleges. At the same time we would like them to look back on their own college days and answer frankly the follow [sic] question: "As a student, what would be your candid opinion of a faculty which adds five hours of P.T. a week to an already heavy schedule?" [Photo caption] Capt. Lee Gillis, former head of the physical training department, at South Dakota Normal school at Aberdeen, will become student secretary fo rthe [sic] Iowa Y.M.C.A. executive committee June 1. B.I.F.F. Professorisms SERIES II Brisco: Now get this. I want you to read this. I read an interesting article. This is absolute essential. Bunny Wassam: Intensely interesting. Wernli: She is a conscientious worker. Seashore: Ahem! Dr. Nutting: Taking it by and large. Dr. Patrick: O yes, but that doesn't count. Dr. Hauser: That will be sufficient. Miss Daley: This is just another of my fool notions; you don't have to believe it. Jack Watson: Hit it right out, now. Mr. Shaw: As it were. DR. ALLEN SERVES IN HOSPITAL Dr. Coral Allen came last Thursday to serve in the new children's hospital under Dr. Byfield. She spent one year in France doing children's welfare wark [sic] and returned to this country March 6. Since that time she has been at the home of her mother in Washington. HAWKEYES ARRIVE IN SEALED CAR The Hawkeyes are here. Last night they were sealed in a freight car on the siding of the main Rock Island tracks. Arrangements were under way yesterday afternoon to unpack the books, and they will probably be ready for distribution on the steps of the Old Capitol building sometime this morning. Those who ordered the de luxe copies of the Hawkeye may have to wait till a little later in the day as these volumes were sent later by express. Extra copies will be on sale at the book stores. Komenians will meet Tuesday, May 27 at 7:45 at the home of Irma Prizler, 227 North Governor street. Iota Xi Epsilon will dance Thursday at the Burkley hotel. Prof. and Mrs. G.J. Keller will chaperon. [Ad] IRISH'S Business College Commercial Bank Building 205 1/2 Washington St. Summer Session Classes Begin June 16, 1919 Registration Open until June 23, 1919 Instructions in the following Branches— Gregg Shorthand Pitman Shorthand Touch Typewriting and Bookkeeping SPECIAL COURSES Filing and the Dictaphone [Ad] OH BOY! Did you ever taste those Sweet Rolls served for breakfast in the JEFFERSON COFFEE ROOM and JEFFERSON QUICK LUNCH SERVICE CAFE They are simply wonderful. Delicious coffee also—n'everything. [Ad] Drink Coca-Cola DELICIOUS and REFRESHING You can't think of "delicious" or "refreshing" without thinking of Coca-Cola. You can't drink Coca-Cola without being delighted and refreshed. The taste is the test of Coca-Cola quality—so clearly distinguishes it from invitations that you cannot be deceived. Demand the genuine by full name—nicknames encourage substitution. THE COCA-COLA CO. ATLANTA, GA. Sold Everywhere [Ad] BASEBALL AMES VS. IOWA Wednesday, May 28 4:30 P.M. Iowa Field Admission 50c
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