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The Daily Iowan The Student Newspaper of the State University of Iowa Vol. XVII--NEW SERIES VOL. II IOWA CITY, IOWA, TUESDAY, JULY 8, 1919 NUMBER 124 AMERICANIZATINO, AS PROF. KLINGAMAN SEES THE PROBLEM Adult Illiteracy and Foreign Influences Are Discussed at Convocation FACULTY MEN TO LECTURE Series of Lectures Will Be Given This Week on Phases of New National Program "The future of this country is safe only in the degree in which we educate our people in Americanism and better citizenship," declared O. [illegible] Klingaman, director of the ex[illegible]sion division, at the University convocation yesterday morning. Respect for the will of the majority, the removal of illiteracy and the immediate end of seditious talk prevalent over the country which is spreading the doctrine that the autocratic forms of government were more effective in the war than the democratic, must be effected at once. The rule of the minority can be either autocratic or revolutionary, both of which conditions America is seeking to avoid. Democracy Has Met Test American history should be taught from the angle that democracy has met every test to which it has been [put?], Professor Klingaman believes. The revolutionary war was fought to establish democracy, the civil war to maintain our united democratic form of government, and the world war to make the world safe for democracy. And we must continue to teach that democracy is equal to any situation. A common language is necessary to the Americanization program. In an illiteracy test applied to the men in the army camps, 24.9 per cent failed to pass. The test consisted in reading a copy of a daily newspaper printed in English, and writing a letter home in English. For these illiterate soldiers, an adult education given by adult teachers must be provided. Many Opposing Agencies In opposition to the Americanization of our citizens, there are no less than 50,000 agencies working in this country. They all have as their basic principle the perpetuation of the motlier country in Europe. Notable among these are the society for the rebuilding of Poland, of which there are more than 10,000 members in America, and the Pan-Hellenic society which would provide for the unification of the lands about Greece. Besides these societies, there is a circulation of foreign newspapers to the number of 10,000 in this country, there being 150 different newspapers printed in foreign tongues. This lecture was the opening one of a series which will be continued through out the week, in as much as this week has been set aside as Americanization week. Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock Prof. G. G. Benjamin will speak on The Composite Nation. Wednesday evening Prof. E. D. Starbuck will lecture on the Ideals of our Democracy. Prof. Benj. Shambaugh will lecture on The Citizen and the Government Thursday evening. Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock the series will be concluded by Dean William F. Russell, who will talk on the School and the American. All of these lectures will be held in the liberal art auditorium. CHEMISTRY PROFESSOR IS AN IOWA GRADUATE An Iowa graduate, Dr. H. L. Olin has been elected associate professor in charge of industrial chemistry. Dr. Olin received his degree here in 1908. He will take the place of Prof. A. W. Hixson who has recently accepted a position on the staff at Columbia university. After leaving the University of Iowa, Dr. Olin served as graduate assistant in the University of Illinois from which he received the degree of Ph. D. in industrial chemistry. During the war he has been captain in the ordnance department, stationed at the great Edgewood arsenal. Since demobilization he has been in industrial work. PRAISES IOWA MEN AT CAMP FUNSTON Report to Lieut. Gore Shows Iowa Has Creditable Place Among R. O. T. C. Men Iowa men at Camp Funston are making an excellent showing, according to word received here yesterday by Lieut. Roy C. Gore, University commandant during the absence of Col. Morton C. Mumma. The summer training camp will make an excellent source for the selection of cadet officers for the coming year, declares Lieut. Gore. He expects a several times larger representation at the summer R. O. T. C. camp next year than was sent this season. Capt. A. L. Lane of the University staff accompanied the Iowa men to Camp Funston and is there with them now. No Iowa man was denied admission because of physical disability. Alan Rockwood, one R. O. T. C. man from the University regiment, was transferred last week from Funston to Fortress Munroe. In the field and track meet held at Camp Funston on the Fourth of July, University men failed to place. One man from the state, R. D. Cole of Cornell college won first in the 440 yard dash. High honors in the meet went to Culver military academy and Wentworth military academy. Keen composition is on at Funston between the members of the infantry R. O. T. C. camp for places on the rifle team which will be sent the early part of August to the navy rifle range at Caldwell, N. J. The team will consist of twelve principals and two alternates selected from among the crack shots of the R. O. T. C. Students making the fifty best scores in the preliminary competition now being held will be considered as candidates for the team. An elimination contest will be held to select the fourteen best. These men will be sent to New Jersey to receive instruction in rifle firing and to shoot the nation rifle match late in August. The team will stay at Caldwell from August 4 to 30. All traveling expenses and subsistence will be paid by the government. TO RETURN FROM EXPEDITION Prof. Homer R. Dill will reach Iowa City July 10, or later, from his expedition to the Quillayute needle bird reservation located on some small islands off Puget sound. .Professor Dill's return has been delayed because of the slow shipment of specimens, of which they have collected many. This expedition was conducted during the month of June. EMERSON DAVIS GETS CITATION FOR SERVICES Iowa Man Highly Commended for HIs Work in Organizing Schools in Germany George Emerson Davis, a student in the graduate college and one of the most well known men around the University, has received a citation for his excellent service with the A. E. F. in educational work in Germany. Sergeant Davis returned only a week or two ago. Following is the document received by sergeant Davis from Capt. J. P. Mudd, assistant division school officer: "1--The chief of G-3 section, Col. Schofield Andrews, directs me to express to you his appreciation of your very efficient and loyal services during the past three months, in assisting the division school officer to organize and maintain the 90th division education program, which has been officially recognized as the most successful of any division in the A. E. F. "2--I wish to add my personal appreciation of your untiring work and your very valuable assistance. Your long service with the 359th infantry of the 90th division in the field during the St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne drives, has given you an intimate knowledge of soldiers and their ideas. This, plus your knowledge of the organization of army units and their methods of functioning, I consider as a large contributing factor to your successful work. "3--Your ability for organizing, your popularity with the men and all officers and civilians with whom you were associated and your excellent knowledge of educational work, was tested and proven in the work which you did in organizing and setting in motion, in a few days, the Division High School at Traben, Germany. This school was later inspected by many high officials of the educational corps and high ranking officers from general headquarters, A. E. F., and was generally pronounced to be the BEST SCHOOL IN THE A. E. F. A very large share of the credit for this success is due to your work." Sergeant Davis has been active in education work at the University and is a member of the Phi Delta Kappa honorary education fraternity. IS MADE STATE CHAIRMAN E. G. Schroeder to Head Committee on Physical Training Mr. E. G. Schroeder, head of the physical education department, has been appointed chairman of the state committee for the American Physical Education association. Other members of the committee are Margaret McKee, director of physical education in Des Moines, and William Reuter of Davenport. Mr. Schoder has been authorized by Dr. William Burdick, president of the association to select other members for his committee. The duty of this committee is to promote state conferences for all agencies interested in physical education, and to cooperate with the Physical Education bureau o the Playground association, which has its headquarters in Washington D. C. Mr. Schroeder was also appointed a member of a committee with Dr. A. P. Reycroft to standardize and regulate physical and efficiency tests throughout colleges and universities. [Photograph] Zinita Graf HELPED TO PUBLISH THE A. E. F. NEWS Leslie Hildebrand Was Associate Editor of Paper in French University Leslie N. Hildebrand, who was graduated from the University in 1914, was associate editor of the A. E. F. University News published at Beaune, France. This paper was published one a week on Friday during the school year. It is a four page paper printed in the usual American newspaper style under the direction of the college of journalism, of Beaune University. Beaune University will be disorganized this summer and the instructors who represent school from all parts of the United States will return home. Nearly 400 army educators were in duty in the university. Students were to start their trips to port on June 8, and leave in groups of from 1000 to 2000 daily thereafter until all had gone. Every student who completed successfully a course in the A. E. F. University was given a certificate for the work, and credit in colleges in the United States will be granted them. The college of journalism at the university compiled material for a History of the A. E. F. University" France, but which will now be given to a publishing house in the United States. The book will contain some thirty articles written by students of the school concerning its organization, develoment, and activities. Whatever firm in the United States publishes it will be furnished with the address of all the members of the university, so that books can be mailed to them. BIOLOGY SEMINAR BEING CONTEMPLATED Owing to the large attendance at the Saturday morning lectures given by Dr. Gilbert L. Houser on Modern Biology, a seminar at the completion of the course is being contemplated. This seminar would necessarily fall on Saturday, July 26 in order not conflict with the lectures already scheduled. The next lecture of the series will be on the beginnings of animal life on the earth, and old-age and death as phases of a biological process. HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS OUTNUMBER THE BOYS Senior classes in Iowa high schools are made up of twice as many girls as boys, judging from figures compiled in the office of the University editor, University of Iowa. ZINITA GRAF PLAYS LEADING ROLES IN DEVERUX DRAMAS Dramatic Company Which Appear here this Week Presents University of Texas Star ENGAGEMENT OF 60 WEEKS Devereux Players in First Western Tour are Booked Ahead Until May 1920 Four years ago a student in a Texas university--today leading woman in one of the the best known dramatic companies, has been one step in the brief and meteoric career of Miss Zinita Graf of the Devereux Players who are to appear here Friday and Saturday. During her senior year at the University of Texas, Miss Graf became an assistant in the department of dramatic art, and when the Devereux players visited the Texan town, with a vacancy in their ranks, she was asked, by reason of her talent and position in the university, to act as substitute. She took the part, played it with unusual success, was invited to remain permanently with the company, was advanced rapidly, and now plays leading roles in Shakespearean plays and others of the world's greatest dramas. Has Strong Support Miss Graf will appear here at the natural science auditorium on Friday evening, July 11, in "The Taming of the Shrew," on Saturday evening in "Romeo and Juliet," and on Saturday afternoon in Sheridan's famous comedy, "The School for Scandal." Clifford Devereux and Miss Graf are said to be supported by a strong campany most of whom have had large experience in Shakespearean roles. The fact that the company has been booked for sixty weeks straight without any intermission during the summer has made it possible for Devereux to get some superior persons on the stage to sign contracts with him. This is the company's first western tour. From I. S. T. C. The Devereux company will come to the University from Cedar Falls where they are scheduled for an engagement on June 9 and 10 at the State Teachers College. The dramatic company will play at most of the universities of the West and Middle West which are now in session. Tickets are on sale today at the library and the University Book store. Prices are 83c (including war tax) for single tickets and $1.65 for course tickets. OLSON LEAVES UNIVERSITY Merrill Olson, Alpha Tau Omega, left Saturday for his home in Red Oak. Olie will coach athletics at Cherokee high school next year. He has been taking Jones' course in football coaching this summer. Olson's greatest athletic record in the University was made in basketball. He was graduated at the June commencement. ED FEENEY AT THE JEFFERSON Ed Feeney of Iowa City, a graduatet of the University, is now manager of the Jefferson hotel. His duties began yesterday with the departure of T. O. Hoffman, manager for the last four years for Des Moines where he will be at the head of the Savory.
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The Daily Iowan The Student Newspaper of the State University of Iowa Vol. XVII--NEW SERIES VOL. II IOWA CITY, IOWA, TUESDAY, JULY 8, 1919 NUMBER 124 AMERICANIZATINO, AS PROF. KLINGAMAN SEES THE PROBLEM Adult Illiteracy and Foreign Influences Are Discussed at Convocation FACULTY MEN TO LECTURE Series of Lectures Will Be Given This Week on Phases of New National Program "The future of this country is safe only in the degree in which we educate our people in Americanism and better citizenship," declared O. [illegible] Klingaman, director of the ex[illegible]sion division, at the University convocation yesterday morning. Respect for the will of the majority, the removal of illiteracy and the immediate end of seditious talk prevalent over the country which is spreading the doctrine that the autocratic forms of government were more effective in the war than the democratic, must be effected at once. The rule of the minority can be either autocratic or revolutionary, both of which conditions America is seeking to avoid. Democracy Has Met Test American history should be taught from the angle that democracy has met every test to which it has been [put?], Professor Klingaman believes. The revolutionary war was fought to establish democracy, the civil war to maintain our united democratic form of government, and the world war to make the world safe for democracy. And we must continue to teach that democracy is equal to any situation. A common language is necessary to the Americanization program. In an illiteracy test applied to the men in the army camps, 24.9 per cent failed to pass. The test consisted in reading a copy of a daily newspaper printed in English, and writing a letter home in English. For these illiterate soldiers, an adult education given by adult teachers must be provided. Many Opposing Agencies In opposition to the Americanization of our citizens, there are no less than 50,000 agencies working in this country. They all have as their basic principle the perpetuation of the motlier country in Europe. Notable among these are the society for the rebuilding of Poland, of which there are more than 10,000 members in America, and the Pan-Hellenic society which would provide for the unification of the lands about Greece. Besides these societies, there is a circulation of foreign newspapers to the number of 10,000 in this country, there being 150 different newspapers printed in foreign tongues. This lecture was the opening one of a series which will be continued through out the week, in as much as this week has been set aside as Americanization week. Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock Prof. G. G. Benjamin will speak on The Composite Nation. Wednesday evening Prof. E. D. Starbuck will lecture on the Ideals of our Democracy. Prof. Benj. Shambaugh will lecture on The Citizen and the Government Thursday evening. Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock the series will be concluded by Dean William F. Russell, who will talk on the School and the American. All of these lectures will be held in the liberal art auditorium. CHEMISTRY PROFESSOR IS AN IOWA GRADUATE An Iowa graduate, Dr. H. L. Olin has been elected associate professor in charge of industrial chemistry. Dr. Olin received his degree here in 1908. He will take the place of Prof. A. W. Hixson who has recently accepted a position on the staff at Columbia university. After leaving the University of Iowa, Dr. Olin served as graduate assistant in the University of Illinois from which he received the degree of Ph. D. in industrial chemistry. During the war he has been captain in the ordnance department, stationed at the great Edgewood arsenal. Since demobilization he has been in industrial work. PRAISES IOWA MEN AT CAMP FUNSTON Report to Lieut. Gore Shows Iowa Has Creditable Place Among R. O. T. C. Men Iowa men at Camp Funston are making an excellent showing, according to word received here yesterday by Lieut. Roy C. Gore, University commandant during the absence of Col. Morton C. Mumma. The summer training camp will make an excellent source for the selection of cadet officers for the coming year, declares Lieut. Gore. He expects a several times larger representation at the summer R. O. T. C. camp next year than was sent this season. Capt. A. L. Lane of the University staff accompanied the Iowa men to Camp Funston and is there with them now. No Iowa man was denied admission because of physical disability. Alan Rockwood, one R. O. T. C. man from the University regiment, was transferred last week from Funston to Fortress Munroe. In the field and track meet held at Camp Funston on the Fourth of July, University men failed to place. One man from the state, R. D. Cole of Cornell college won first in the 440 yard dash. High honors in the meet went to Culver military academy and Wentworth military academy. Keen composition is on at Funston between the members of the infantry R. O. T. C. camp for places on the rifle team which will be sent the early part of August to the navy rifle range at Caldwell, N. J. The team will consist of twelve principals and two alternates selected from among the crack shots of the R. O. T. C. Students making the fifty best scores in the preliminary competition now being held will be considered as candidates for the team. An elimination contest will be held to select the fourteen best. These men will be sent to New Jersey to receive instruction in rifle firing and to shoot the nation rifle match late in August. The team will stay at Caldwell from August 4 to 30. All traveling expenses and subsistence will be paid by the government. TO RETURN FROM EXPEDITION Prof. Homer R. Dill will reach Iowa City July 10, or later, from his expedition to the Quillayute needle bird reservation located on some small islands off Puget sound. .Professor Dill's return has been delayed because of the slow shipment of specimens, of which they have collected many. This expedition was conducted during the month of June. EMERSON DAVIS GETS CITATION FOR SERVICES Iowa Man Highly Commended for HIs Work in Organizing Schools in Germany George Emerson Davis, a student in the graduate college and one of the most well known men around the University, has received a citation for his excellent service with the A. E. F. in educational work in Germany. Sergeant Davis returned only a week or two ago. Following is the document received by sergeant Davis from Capt. J. P. Mudd, assistant division school officer: "1--The chief of G-3 section, Col. Schofield Andrews, directs me to express to you his appreciation of your very efficient and loyal services during the past three months, in assisting the division school officer to organize and maintain the 90th division education program, which has been officially recognized as the most successful of any division in the A. E. F. "2--I wish to add my personal appreciation of your untiring work and your very valuable assistance. Your long service with the 359th infantry of the 90th division in the field during the St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne drives, has given you an intimate knowledge of soldiers and their ideas. This, plus your knowledge of the organization of army units and their methods of functioning, I consider as a large contributing factor to your successful work. "3--Your ability for organizing, your popularity with the men and all officers and civilians with whom you were associated and your excellent knowledge of educational work, was tested and proven in the work which you did in organizing and setting in motion, in a few days, the Division High School at Traben, Germany. This school was later inspected by many high officials of the educational corps and high ranking officers from general headquarters, A. E. F., and was generally pronounced to be the BEST SCHOOL IN THE A. E. F. A very large share of the credit for this success is due to your work." Sergeant Davis has been active in education work at the University and is a member of the Phi Delta Kappa honorary education fraternity. IS MADE STATE CHAIRMAN E. G. Schroeder to Head Committee on Physical Training Mr. E. G. Schroeder, head of the physical education department, has been appointed chairman of the state committee for the American Physical Education association. Other members of the committee are Margaret McKee, director of physical education in Des Moines, and William Reuter of Davenport. Mr. Schoder has been authorized by Dr. William Burdick, president of the association to select other members for his committee. The duty of this committee is to promote state conferences for all agencies interested in physical education, and to cooperate with the Physical Education bureau o the Playground association, which has its headquarters in Washington D. C. Mr. Schroeder was also appointed a member of a committee with Dr. A. P. Reycroft to standardize and regulate physical and efficiency tests throughout colleges and universities. [Photograph] Zinita Graf HELPED TO PUBLISH THE A. E. F. NEWS Leslie Hildebrand Was Associate Editor of Paper in French University Leslie N. Hildebrand, who was graduated from the University in 1914, was associate editor of the A. E. F. University News published at Beaune, France. This paper was published one a week on Friday during the school year. It is a four page paper printed in the usual American newspaper style under the direction of the college of journalism, of Beaune University. Beaune University will be disorganized this summer and the instructors who represent school from all parts of the United States will return home. Nearly 400 army educators were in duty in the university. Students were to start their trips to port on June 8, and leave in groups of from 1000 to 2000 daily thereafter until all had gone. Every student who completed successfully a course in the A. E. F. University was given a certificate for the work, and credit in colleges in the United States will be granted them. The college of journalism at the university compiled material for a History of the A. E. F. University" France, but which will now be given to a publishing house in the United States. The book will contain some thirty articles written by students of the school concerning its organization, develoment, and activities. Whatever firm in the United States publishes it will be furnished with the address of all the members of the university, so that books can be mailed to them. BIOLOGY SEMINAR BEING CONTEMPLATED Owing to the large attendance at the Saturday morning lectures given by Dr. Gilbert L. Houser on Modern Biology, a seminar at the completion of the course is being contemplated. This seminar would necessarily fall on Saturday, July 26 in order not conflict with the lectures already scheduled. The next lecture of the series will be on the beginnings of animal life on the earth, and old-age and death as phases of a biological process. HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS OUTNUMBER THE BOYS Senior classes in Iowa high schools are made up of twice as many girls as boys, judging from figures compiled in the office of the University editor, University of Iowa. ZINITA GRAF PLAYS LEADING ROLES IN DEVERUX DRAMAS Dramatic Company Which Appear here this Week Presents University of Texas Star ENGAGEMENT OF 60 WEEKS Devereux Players in First Western Tour are Booked Ahead Until May 1920 Four years ago a student in a Texas university--today leading woman in one of the the best known dramatic companies, has been one step in the brief and meteoric career of Miss Zinita Graf of the Devereux Players who are to appear here Friday and Saturday. During her senior year at the University of Texas, Miss Graf became an assistant in the department of dramatic art, and when the Devereux players visited the Texan town, with a vacancy in their ranks, she was asked, by reason of her talent and position in the university, to act as substitute. She took the part, played it with unusual success, was invited to remain permanently with the company, was advanced rapidly, and now plays leading roles in Shakespearean plays and others of the world's greatest dramas. Has Strong Support Miss Graf will appear here at the natural science auditorium on Friday evening, July 11, in "The Taming of the Shrew," on Saturday evening in "Romeo and Juliet," and on Saturday afternoon in Sheridan's famous comedy, "The School for Scandal." Clifford Devereux and Miss Graf are said to be supported by a strong campany most of whom have had large experience in Shakespearean roles. The fact that the company has been booked for sixty weeks straight without any intermission during the summer has made it possible for Devereux to get some superior persons on the stage to sign contracts with him. This is the company's first western tour. From I. S. T. C. The Devereux company will come to the University from Cedar Falls where they are scheduled for an engagement on June 9 and 10 at the State Teachers College. The dramatic company will play at most of the universities of the West and Middle West which are now in session. Tickets are on sale today at the library and the University Book store. Prices are 83c (including war tax) for single tickets and $1.65 for course tickets. OLSON LEAVES UNIVERSITY Merrill Olson, Alpha Tau Omega, left Saturday for his home in Red Oak. Olie will coach athletics at Cherokee high school next year. He has been taking Jones' course in football coaching this summer. Olson's greatest athletic record in the University was made in basketball. He was graduated at the June commencement. ED FEENEY AT THE JEFFERSON Ed Feeney of Iowa City, a graduatet of the University, is now manager of the Jefferson hotel. His duties began yesterday with the departure of T. O. Hoffman, manager for the last four years for Des Moines where he will be at the head of the Savory.
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