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Daily Iowan, July 20, 1919

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PAGE TWO THE DAILY IOWAN, STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA Sunday, July 20, 1919 THE DAILY IOWAN A morning paper published during the six weeks summer session on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays 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 Under direction of department of journalism, Room 14, liberal arts building MILDRED E. WHITCOMB, in charge MEMBER IOWA COLLEGE PRESS Subscription rate. . . . 50 cents the summer BOARD OF TRUSTEES C. H. Weller, chairman, E. M. McEwen, Mary Anderson, Marian Dyer EDITORIAL STAFF BETH WELLMAN Editor-in-chief Telephone, Black 1757; Office hours 1-5 Daily. Room 14, L. A. building Marian Dyer Managing Editor Mary E. Rice Associate Editor BUSINESS STAFF ROMOLA LATCHEM, Business Manager Telephone, 935; Office hours, Daily 9-12 103 Iowa Avenue THE WONDER WORKER One would think to hear home people talk, that with the granting of equal suffrage to women, all of the social evils will automatically disappear and all the little stumbling blocks in the path of progress will be smoothed out as if by the waving of a magic wand. One frequently hears the remark that when women get the ballot such and such conditions will no longer exist and when they get the vote they will see to it that such and such measures for social betterment will be enacted. Undoubtedly there are certain fields in which women have a larger interest than men, and especially is this true of matters directly relating to the home and to the welfare of the child. The mother is very likely to have a somewhat different viewpoint of certain social conditions form the big manufacturer, just as any two persons of varying occupations have different avenues of approach to any problem and look at it from different angles. But to think that as soon as women have within their grasp the privilege of casting a ballot, every measure which is desired will be enacted into a law, is not looking at the matter squarely. It sounds well to say that women are going to do so and so, but those people seem to forget that merely casting a ballot does not make a law. It takes a trained lawmaker to draw up a law which will really accomplish the ends desired. Many a law has been rendered ineffective through one little phrase or clause which has offered a loophole for evasion of the spirit of the law while the letter is obeyed. How do those people who think that all these wonders are to be accomplished expect that women can at once surmount all the difficulties which have been besetting the path of our lawmakers all these years? This is not intended to belittle the part which women will play in the future. Unquestionably they have a role to fill ,and the suffrage will be of immense advantage in helping them to fill that role. But we would like to remind some of the more optimistic persons against being carried off by sentimentality. Women are human beings and are subject to the limitations of human beings. We ought not to expect that their admittance into the political field is going to alleviate all the troubles, or secure all of the desired improvements. THE DEVEREUX PLAYERS In the last issue of The Daily Iowan there was given a statement of the receipts and expenditures of the Devereux Players while in Iowa City. A glance at this statement will show that for them playing before an Iowa City audience was not exactly a paying proposition. It seems to bad that these plays were not better patronized. The more mature summer session students are the very ones who would be expected to be glad of the opportunity of seeing the type of entertainment presented by the Devereux Players. What, then, was the reason for the small attendance? Was it an indication of a general lessened interest in Shakespearean productions. Attendance at the "School for Scandal" was about the same as at the other performances. Or did the hot weather serve as a deterrent element? Many expressed the wish that these plays might be given out of doors, but the committee in charge found too many obstacles in the way. The Devereux Players have signified a desire to return to the University in the fall, although their visit here this summer was not as profitable as had been hoped. Universal satisfaction with the talent was professed by those who witnessed their performances. It is to be hoped that they will return to play before packed houses in the autumn. SMALLER DIPLOMAS Diplomas given seniors at the University of Minnesota this year measure but five inches by six inches. Some of the regents declared the diploma should be of larger dimensions, saying that, now the wartime emergency was over, the university could afford to give the students larger diplomas. President M. L. Burton explained that the small diploma was the prevailing fashion. "Nowadays," he said, "it is a case of the better the institution, the smaller the diploma." "Times have changed," said Regent C. L. Summers. "When I graduated I got a diploma as large as the side of a wall."-- Minneapolis Tribune. COMMEMORATION AND SERVICE An unwonted dignity and solemnity, as well as an enthusiasm beyond precedent, have been lent to the commencement observances of our colleges and universities. Nowhere can the exercises for the dead in the great war have been more impressing or affecting, for nowhere else has there been quite the same association with those who died. The inspiration of these youthful dead has been variously interpreted. Some of the commemoration exercises have been very beautiful, that at Yale particularly so. There a commemoration poem set to orchestral music by Prof. Horatio Parker so moved a great audience that many hailed it as an enduring addition to the finest in American literature. But the speaking was less adequate to the theme. Since a year ago these youths, for the larger number were recent graduates, have gone upon the great adventure of death. And the patent inspiration of their memory is a compulsion upon those remaining to undertake, with a faith as gallant, the great adventure of life in these times of change. Those commencement orators who spoke of these men as having given their lives for the preservation of established institutions, but spoke only in long familiar accents, seemed half deaf to the voices of the time. Reaction followed the French revolution and the Napoleonic wars in Europe; in a large sense, at least, political reaction rather than progress followed our own civil war. But the war now formally to be ended by the signing and ratification of the treaty, was won, we have told ourselves, with new idealism. And again and again has the truth been spoken that the sacrifice of those who died will have been rendered barren unless that idealism is applied to the problems of social reconstruction. --Springfield Republican. CHURCH NOTICES Corporal Francis Brown, recently returned from overseas will speak before the Epworth League at the Methodist church tonight at 7:30 on "Living the Gospel." A special meeting of the Young People's Union of the Frist Unitarian church will be held this evening at 7 o'clock. A number of members of longer standing will tell of the "good old days." The speakers and their topics are as follows: "Discussions," Archer Brant. "Social Life," Jeannette Kyle. "Y. P. R. U. Plays," Mrs. H. C. Pfotenhauer. "What the Y. P. R. U Has Meant to Me," Pearl Elliott. Other reminiscences are expected to be offered by older members who are present. "Overdrafts" will be the subject of Dr. Ruth Gallaher's address before the students' class at the Methodist Sunday school this morning at 9:30. Robert Tiusty, Sigma Pi, is a week end visitor in Iowa City. Don't leave, Professor Don't go away on your vacation before you give us your order for coal. You can have it put in whenever you say, but by ordering now you can take advantage of July prices. Authorities agree that coal is likely to be scarce and expensive in the fall. 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