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PAGE TWO THE DAILY IOWAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA Thursday, January 2, 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, Room14, L. A. building. Managing editor Rowena Wellman News Editor Agnes Kingsbury Humorous Editor Elizabeth Hendee Exchange Editor Ethyn Williams Feature Editor Ruth Stewart Sporting Editor G. D. Evans Night Editor Elizabeth Hendee BUSINESS STAFF Romola Latchem-Business Manager Telephone 935 Office Hours-daily, 103 Iowa Avenue "I have never had a policy. I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day as each day came."-Lincoln THE S. A. T. C. A FAILURE? "Another year of the S. A. T. C. in colleges, and fraternity life and everything else essential to the young man's education would be completely ruined." On the surface this statement of Judge DeGraff seems of exaggerated forcefulness, and with it The Iowan cannot strictly accord. No one, however, who has witnessed the changed attitude of students under an academic and a military regime can doubt the inherent truth of the judge's decision. Judge DeGraff has looked at the matter from the fraternity standpoint chiefly. That gambling was carried on to an extent never before indulged in or allowed by fraternities is a clear fact. It is told that at our sister institution, Ames, one man earned enough at poker to buy him a Cole 8 in the first two months of the S. A. T. C. At Iowa, men were more discreet, but the gambling carried on within the barracks as a quarantine pastime may have become a habit that will be hard to toss off. With military officers responsible for the conduct of the men, there was drunkennesses among University students such as never has been known since the old days when Iowa City was a wide open town and a "stew" was considered the appropriate way to celebrate athletic and romantic victories and defeats. Often the S. A. T. C. officers led the men in drunkennnesses as well as in drill, and more than one man with leather puts and shoulder bars needed the assistance of his men to find his cot. Such stories as S. A. T. C. men will carry to their home communities, and such as they will leave untold, will reflect on the students' army training crops at Iowa. It has been demoralizing without a doubt. Academically nothing has been accomplished, Judge DeGraff further states. This also is unpleasantly near the truth. Men have acquired methods of cutting classes and of careless preparation that will be hard to get away from. Military authorities have instilled in them this disregard for the academic by the assignment of petty tasks to take precedence over studies. But with all its deficiencies, its evil effects, and its hardships, the S. A. T. C. was not in vain. Had the war lasted longer, had the government been given time to correct obvious defects in the system, had the co-operation of military authorities with academic become greater, the students army training corps would have lived more pleasantly in our memories. And there are few among its numbers who regret the experience although they have no desire to relive it. It has taught them innumerable things, above all to appreciate the opportunity for real application to academic work now that time for it is at hand. Now, so near to us, we see only the defects of the S. A. T. C. As time goes on and it becomes more remote, these defects will no longer protrude and the University may look back upon this period of military regime as a fruitful part of its history. NOBODY HOME "Stay at home in your mind." That quoted bit of wisdom, that spark from the philosopher's stone must have inspired the modern vulgarism, "Nobody home," which is accompanied by soundings of the frontal cavity with the index finger and a sympathetic blank expression. It's just Cause and Effect bobbing up again. Because people will disregard Emerson's word of advice, the resultant state is one of nobody homeness. Then when Opportunity comes knock, knock, knocking at the door of the student's intelligence chamber, there comes forth only such hollow cavernlike echoes that he becomes frightened and scuttles away. An American university campus is rarely a breeding ground for original thinking, for individual expression so far as the undergraduate is concerned. Great is the pity. Students plagiarize ideas. They steal them bodily from dry books and professors with no attempt to disguise them with their personal reactions. Shamelessly they flaunt them as products of their own reason. Are students to be no more than parrots cursing when their professors cure (purely figurative language) and clapping hands when their professors applaud? The earnest thinkers of fifty years back who wrote ambitious and exhaustive articles for the old Vidette Reporter and orated vociferously from literacy society platform are all dead and without issue. Students no longer need Emerson's advice on staying at home in the mind and have accepted the nobody home attitude as all that is expected of them. Let's be done with reciting other people's opinions. Take down that old nobody at home sign and move back into the mind to stay. Air out the musty corners of the brain, replace the rented furnishing with those bought by hard work, pull up the blinds, and let the light of your own intelligence shed its beams. A HAPPY NEW YEAR The Daily Iowan wishes you A Happy New Year. Perhaps the nicest thing about wishing or being wished A Happy New Year is that it must be said cheerfully, and in a tone a bit louder than ordinary, and it is positively null and void unless it is accompanied by a smile bordering on a grin. A genial Happy New Year greeting warms you on a frosty morning. Merry Christmas is the same kind of an expression. It can't be spoken gruffly; it radiates good cheer. More than gifts it makes Christmas a happy day. He is a hopeless grouch who does not respond to such genial expressions as these which accompany our holiday season. 'Twouldn't be a bad idea, if there were not so many things already to learn that we can never get an education, to have some new and meaningful expression for each day in the year modelled after these well-wishing and smile-provoking sayings of the holidays. Every day is some saint's day; still no one knows which one it is. It would probably cause great confusion. There's one way the friendly spirit of the holidays can be kept up throughout the year. Good Morning, when you stop to analyze it, has just the same qualities for bringing a cordial response as Merry Christmas and Happy New Year wishes. If it is only said with a smile and with a vim, and to enough persons, it could have the world in a holiday mood continually. Good morning with all the flourishes of A Happy New Year has endless possibilities. A Good Morning warning: Don't make this a New Year's resolution to break; make it a habit you can't break. B. I. F. F. NEVERMORPS Students' Army Training Corps You sure made us awful sorps. Clumsy, tiresome, hopeless borps We were shot-but shed no gorps- Studies little, pokered morps, Raked the campus, scrubbed the florps, Played the peeler, watcher a storps, Had experiences galorps 'Nough to make an angel rorps. Now, imposter, all is orps Fare you well-please shut the dorps, Students' Army Training Corps. -Contributed by X. Y. Z. SENATOR IS A PRIVATE Senator Karl Miles LeCompte, who was graduated from the University in 1909, is now a private at Fort Des Moines. He volunteered last spring and has been at Fort Des Moines ever since but expects to be released in time to take his seat in the legislative session. He was the youngest member of the state senate two years ago and will probably have the same distinction this year. He is publisher of the Corydon Times-Republican and represents Wayne and Lucas counties in the senate. Arthur Fortsch will receive his discharge the first of January and will return to the University for graduate work in the physics department. Quality Drugs Whetstones Quality Sodas DAINTY LUNCHES between or after classes Drop into WHITING'S PHARMACY On Dubuque St. The Season's Greetings This is an opportune time for wishing you a Happy and Prosperous New Year For our part, we pledge to you the continuation of our efficient service, striving constantly for its improvement. BEST QUALITY ALWAYS THE LOWEST PRICES. Yetter's THE BIG STORE S. U. I. MEN We Welcome You Back to Our City THE S. A. T. C. TRAINING CAMP IS NOW A THING OF THE PAST. YOU WILL BE IN LINE FOR A NEW CIVILIAN SUIT OR OVERCOAT. Fashion Park Clothes Tailored at Fashion Park, Rochester, N. Y. REGISTERED WE HAVE A SPLENDID ASSORTMENT OF FASHION-PARK AND SOCIETY-BRAND SUITS AND OVERCOATS. JUST THE KIND YOU WILL WANT. START THE NEW SEMESTER RIGHT WITH A NEW SUIT AND OVERCOAT FROM BREMERS GOLDEN EAGLE EVERY ARTICLE GUARANTEED TO GIVE SATISFACTION. ANY GARMENT THAT DOES NOT PROVE AS REPRESENTED WILL BE ADJUSTED TO YOUR ENTIRE SATISFACTION. BREMERS' Golden Eagle
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PAGE TWO THE DAILY IOWAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA Thursday, January 2, 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, Room14, L. A. building. Managing editor Rowena Wellman News Editor Agnes Kingsbury Humorous Editor Elizabeth Hendee Exchange Editor Ethyn Williams Feature Editor Ruth Stewart Sporting Editor G. D. Evans Night Editor Elizabeth Hendee BUSINESS STAFF Romola Latchem-Business Manager Telephone 935 Office Hours-daily, 103 Iowa Avenue "I have never had a policy. I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day as each day came."-Lincoln THE S. A. T. C. A FAILURE? "Another year of the S. A. T. C. in colleges, and fraternity life and everything else essential to the young man's education would be completely ruined." On the surface this statement of Judge DeGraff seems of exaggerated forcefulness, and with it The Iowan cannot strictly accord. No one, however, who has witnessed the changed attitude of students under an academic and a military regime can doubt the inherent truth of the judge's decision. Judge DeGraff has looked at the matter from the fraternity standpoint chiefly. That gambling was carried on to an extent never before indulged in or allowed by fraternities is a clear fact. It is told that at our sister institution, Ames, one man earned enough at poker to buy him a Cole 8 in the first two months of the S. A. T. C. At Iowa, men were more discreet, but the gambling carried on within the barracks as a quarantine pastime may have become a habit that will be hard to toss off. With military officers responsible for the conduct of the men, there was drunkennesses among University students such as never has been known since the old days when Iowa City was a wide open town and a "stew" was considered the appropriate way to celebrate athletic and romantic victories and defeats. Often the S. A. T. C. officers led the men in drunkennnesses as well as in drill, and more than one man with leather puts and shoulder bars needed the assistance of his men to find his cot. Such stories as S. A. T. C. men will carry to their home communities, and such as they will leave untold, will reflect on the students' army training crops at Iowa. It has been demoralizing without a doubt. Academically nothing has been accomplished, Judge DeGraff further states. This also is unpleasantly near the truth. Men have acquired methods of cutting classes and of careless preparation that will be hard to get away from. Military authorities have instilled in them this disregard for the academic by the assignment of petty tasks to take precedence over studies. But with all its deficiencies, its evil effects, and its hardships, the S. A. T. C. was not in vain. Had the war lasted longer, had the government been given time to correct obvious defects in the system, had the co-operation of military authorities with academic become greater, the students army training corps would have lived more pleasantly in our memories. And there are few among its numbers who regret the experience although they have no desire to relive it. It has taught them innumerable things, above all to appreciate the opportunity for real application to academic work now that time for it is at hand. Now, so near to us, we see only the defects of the S. A. T. C. As time goes on and it becomes more remote, these defects will no longer protrude and the University may look back upon this period of military regime as a fruitful part of its history. NOBODY HOME "Stay at home in your mind." That quoted bit of wisdom, that spark from the philosopher's stone must have inspired the modern vulgarism, "Nobody home," which is accompanied by soundings of the frontal cavity with the index finger and a sympathetic blank expression. It's just Cause and Effect bobbing up again. Because people will disregard Emerson's word of advice, the resultant state is one of nobody homeness. Then when Opportunity comes knock, knock, knocking at the door of the student's intelligence chamber, there comes forth only such hollow cavernlike echoes that he becomes frightened and scuttles away. An American university campus is rarely a breeding ground for original thinking, for individual expression so far as the undergraduate is concerned. Great is the pity. Students plagiarize ideas. They steal them bodily from dry books and professors with no attempt to disguise them with their personal reactions. Shamelessly they flaunt them as products of their own reason. Are students to be no more than parrots cursing when their professors cure (purely figurative language) and clapping hands when their professors applaud? The earnest thinkers of fifty years back who wrote ambitious and exhaustive articles for the old Vidette Reporter and orated vociferously from literacy society platform are all dead and without issue. Students no longer need Emerson's advice on staying at home in the mind and have accepted the nobody home attitude as all that is expected of them. Let's be done with reciting other people's opinions. Take down that old nobody at home sign and move back into the mind to stay. Air out the musty corners of the brain, replace the rented furnishing with those bought by hard work, pull up the blinds, and let the light of your own intelligence shed its beams. A HAPPY NEW YEAR The Daily Iowan wishes you A Happy New Year. Perhaps the nicest thing about wishing or being wished A Happy New Year is that it must be said cheerfully, and in a tone a bit louder than ordinary, and it is positively null and void unless it is accompanied by a smile bordering on a grin. A genial Happy New Year greeting warms you on a frosty morning. Merry Christmas is the same kind of an expression. It can't be spoken gruffly; it radiates good cheer. More than gifts it makes Christmas a happy day. He is a hopeless grouch who does not respond to such genial expressions as these which accompany our holiday season. 'Twouldn't be a bad idea, if there were not so many things already to learn that we can never get an education, to have some new and meaningful expression for each day in the year modelled after these well-wishing and smile-provoking sayings of the holidays. Every day is some saint's day; still no one knows which one it is. It would probably cause great confusion. There's one way the friendly spirit of the holidays can be kept up throughout the year. Good Morning, when you stop to analyze it, has just the same qualities for bringing a cordial response as Merry Christmas and Happy New Year wishes. If it is only said with a smile and with a vim, and to enough persons, it could have the world in a holiday mood continually. Good morning with all the flourishes of A Happy New Year has endless possibilities. A Good Morning warning: Don't make this a New Year's resolution to break; make it a habit you can't break. B. I. F. F. NEVERMORPS Students' Army Training Corps You sure made us awful sorps. Clumsy, tiresome, hopeless borps We were shot-but shed no gorps- Studies little, pokered morps, Raked the campus, scrubbed the florps, Played the peeler, watcher a storps, Had experiences galorps 'Nough to make an angel rorps. Now, imposter, all is orps Fare you well-please shut the dorps, Students' Army Training Corps. -Contributed by X. Y. Z. SENATOR IS A PRIVATE Senator Karl Miles LeCompte, who was graduated from the University in 1909, is now a private at Fort Des Moines. He volunteered last spring and has been at Fort Des Moines ever since but expects to be released in time to take his seat in the legislative session. He was the youngest member of the state senate two years ago and will probably have the same distinction this year. He is publisher of the Corydon Times-Republican and represents Wayne and Lucas counties in the senate. Arthur Fortsch will receive his discharge the first of January and will return to the University for graduate work in the physics department. Quality Drugs Whetstones Quality Sodas DAINTY LUNCHES between or after classes Drop into WHITING'S PHARMACY On Dubuque St. The Season's Greetings This is an opportune time for wishing you a Happy and Prosperous New Year For our part, we pledge to you the continuation of our efficient service, striving constantly for its improvement. BEST QUALITY ALWAYS THE LOWEST PRICES. Yetter's THE BIG STORE S. U. I. MEN We Welcome You Back to Our City THE S. A. T. C. TRAINING CAMP IS NOW A THING OF THE PAST. YOU WILL BE IN LINE FOR A NEW CIVILIAN SUIT OR OVERCOAT. Fashion Park Clothes Tailored at Fashion Park, Rochester, N. Y. REGISTERED WE HAVE A SPLENDID ASSORTMENT OF FASHION-PARK AND SOCIETY-BRAND SUITS AND OVERCOATS. JUST THE KIND YOU WILL WANT. START THE NEW SEMESTER RIGHT WITH A NEW SUIT AND OVERCOAT FROM BREMERS GOLDEN EAGLE EVERY ARTICLE GUARANTEED TO GIVE SATISFACTION. ANY GARMENT THAT DOES NOT PROVE AS REPRESENTED WILL BE ADJUSTED TO YOUR ENTIRE SATISFACTION. BREMERS' Golden Eagle
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