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PAGE TWO  THE DAILY IOWAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA
Thursday, February 13, 1919
THE DAILY IOWAN
   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 
   Member 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 Hours--8 to 12; 1 to 6 daily, Room 14, L.A. building. 
   Rowena Wellman—Managing Editor
   Ruth Rogers..News Editor   Helen Hays..Pink Sheet Editor   Elizabeth Hendee..Humorous editor   Nancy Lamb..Exchange editor   Leon H. Brigham..Sporting editor 
   BUSINESS STAFF ROMOLA LATCHEM--Business manager  
   Edward 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  Kathryn Fritson   Agnes Kingsbury

THE SOCIAL COMMITTEE
   A challenge has been put to University students. If they want self-government, as some of them profess most heartily to desire, they can take a long stride in that direction.
   Self government among students has always been most coveted at times of alleged social injustice. When anyone chafes under social regulations he immediately begins to assert a mad longing for student government. Last year authorities took cognizance of this undercurrent of murmuring for student control, and student members were placed upon the University social committee. Although the majority of students forgot they had a part in the social regulations after they had read the announcement of those selected, they still had a representation.
   The Iowan sometimes doubts that the majority of students want self government. If they do, they have never taken advantage of opportunities pointing in that way with any very real interest. The students control a newspaper, but they exercise little of their rights in that field. The vote for the student trustees, the controlling force, of The Daily Iowan, is indicative each year of an interest in student control which is anything but substantial. There is something delightful and scholastic about self government in theory, but practice has shown such interest to be only superficial and a trifle periodical in recurrence.
   Now if students are to shake off the skepticism that exists regarding the desire for self government on the campus, the idea opportunity has presented itself in this student representation on the social committee. The faculty committee, in Tuesday’s issue of The Iowan, sent forth a challenge to the students who believe in self government and think that public sentiment demands it. The faculty asks that the students work out a system of their own whereby the student body will be adequately represented.
   The Iowan throws its editorial page open to suggestions as to the best method of student representation on this committee. Althought it does not believe the time is ripe for self government among the students or that public opinion demands it, it realizes that representation on such an important committee may be the first milepost towards self government.
   The student who can successfully solve the question of adequate representation here at Iowa will be hailed with extreme delight. A system is needed which will not only work for the University social committee, but for Hawkeye representative women, Kuehnle and Finkbine dinners, and the constant demand that is made for representative men and women.
   Set your minds to work, students, and let the University social committee know that you are worthy and anxious to be represented on this powerful committee.

TWO LOYAL ALUMNI
   Again two of Iowa’s most loyal alumni have united to act as host to representative undergraduates of the University. Such a plan is characteristic of both Finkbine and Kuehnle. Always they have done everything they could to promote the best interests of the institution.
   Two years ago these two prominent alumni banqueted seventy men. At the dinner the students discussed with their hosts affairs which concern both students and alumni and laid plans for a greater University, in sports, and classroom, in relation to the state, and their own lives. Last year, through war necessity, the dinner was abandoned, but with invitations being circulated for Feb. 24, it looks as if the theory that the dinner is to be an annual affair is being borne out.
   Whenever the University undertakes a project, Kuehnle and Finkbine are on the spot to back it. The University of Iowa association has their names on its executive committee where they have been since the organization was effected. When the University has a measure before the legislature, its staunchest supporters are Kuehnle and Finkbine. Their time and funds are readily contributed to anything making for a greater University. Mr. Finkbine is the vice-president of the Green Bay Lumber company in Des Moines. Mr. Kuehnle is a banker, business man, and former legislator and is spoken of for governor.
   The establishment of this annual banquet is one of the noteworthy happenings in the life of the institution. It will tie the alumni more closely to the students and bring the students in more intimate relation with the alumni. A university is judged by both alumni and students. With both working toward the same end and with common understanding the future of the institution takes on an aspect of brilliance and power.

ROCKWOOD TO DESCRIBE MODERN GAS WARFARE
  “Modern Gas and Warfare” is the subject that Prof. E. W. Rockwood has chosen for his lecture to the Baconian club Friday night at 7:30 in the physics lecture room. Military strategy will not be included in the lecture. The more technical or perhaps chemical side of gas warfare will receive most consideration.
   The great strides that this country has taken along both offensive and defensive lines of gas warfare, the great factories that have been erected, and the discoveries that have been made, will be the chief topics of Prof. Rockwood’s lecture.

   Let The Iowan be your letter. 

HIGH SCHOOL PLEDGING MAY BE DISCUSSED
   Inter--fraternity council delegates held a meeting last Wednesday at the Phi Kappa Psi house. After being entertained at a dinner they took up a problem that has recently become quite a factor in fraternity affairs. The pledging of high school men has become a common practice and it was thought something might be done to curtail it.
   Many educators throughout the state are opposed to it, and the reasons enumerated are quite varied. In some cases the men never go to college, and in others often when they return to their own schools considerable animosity is aroused. Very few of them have a true conception of a fraternity as is shown by the attempt made by organizations of this kind in the high school.
   High school fraternities are now practically discontinued by state law. They seem to have no real purpose and sometimes develop a clique that is detrimental to school affairs. Men belonging to high school fraternities are not at all looked upon in disfavor, but as to the organization itself the council is opposed to anything of its kind.

ARMY DISEASES SPREAD SAYS J.H. HAMILTON
   “With the demobilization of the armies, there will probably be a rapid spread of infectous diseases,” says Dr. J. H. Hamilton of the epidemology department. Many of our men who have been in southern camps, in the United States and also in the trenches in France and Italy have picked up diseases of infrequent occurrence in this country.
   One of the most common is the socalled louse borne disease which may break out, even if the subject has been “deloused,” under unhygenic processes. Epidemic meningitis is another disease which may be expected to spread rapidly among the soldiers returning home. Many men who do not take typhoid fever themselves, are carriers for this and other diseases and Dr. Hamilton urges the students and people of Iowa to take every precaution against these diseases so they will not become serious in this state.

EDDA MEETING POSTPONED
   The meeting which Edda literary society was to have held Saturday has been postponed until some day next week.

DIRECTORY READY SOON
   The new University directory is now in the hands of the printer and is expected to be ready for distribution sometime next week.

   Helen Daugherty is entertaining her mother and brother of Guthrie Center at the Alpha Delta Pi house for a few days.
   Leo Englebert, former student here, is again in school and is registered as a freshman in the College of Law.

[advertisement] DAINTY LUNCHES between or after classes. Drop into WHITING’S PHARMACY On Dubuque St. 

[advertisement]SABINS' EDUCATIONAL EXCHANGE   Founded 1893   A.M.M. DORNON, Manager   The most widely patronized, because the most reliable Teachers Agency in the Middle West. Territory form Mississippi River to Pacific Coast.   FLYNN BUILDING   DES MOINES, IOWA 

[advertisement] [picture of a pipe] Look at this one. A corking piece of genuine French Briar, sterling ring, vulcanite bit, the smoothest workmanship— a shape that makes it mighty convenient to have in your room. [emblem W D C TRADE MARK]
   YOU will see W D C Pipes on every campus in the country—Americans pipes for American men, and not bettered anywhere. You can get any shape, size and grade you want in a W D C. The best shops carry them at $6 down to 75 cents.
WM. DEMUTH & CO., New York        World’s Largest Pipe Manufacturer

[advertisement] Basketball and Gym Shoes
 On entering sports, you will want to equip yourself to win. Get the best while you are getting. 
   “Just like I do my old pipe; throw ‘em away, then hunt ‘em up’ is what one fellow told us about a pair of gym shoes he got here. 
   Come in and try on a pair of our new arrivals.
   Biggest Shoe Repair Shop in the City
Boston Shoe Store   125 S. Dubuque

[advertisement] UNIVERSITY BOOK STORE ON THE CORNER 
  Text Books and Supplies   Valentines for the Young and Old
UNIVERSITY BOOK STORE

[advertisement] Corsage Bouquets made especially to suit her.
YOU THOUGHTFUL MEN WILL SEND HER A FLOWER VALENTINE FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14th
   No other gift can quite represent so beautifully the spirit of St. Valentine. She will appreciate our beautiful flowers more than anything that you can send her. We are Prepared to Send Flowers Anywhere   PRINCE’S FLOWER SHOP   25 S. Clinton St.
   Beautiful Flower filled Baskets and Boxes.

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PAGE TWO THE DAILY IOWAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA Thursday, February 13, 1919 THE DAILY IOWAN 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 Member 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 Hours--8 to 12; 1 to 6 daily, Room 14, L.A. building. Rowena Wellman—Managing Editor Ruth Rogers..News Editor Helen Hays..Pink Sheet Editor Elizabeth Hendee..Humorous editor Nancy Lamb..Exchange editor Leon H. Brigham..Sporting editor BUSINESS STAFF ROMOLA LATCHEM--Business manager Edward 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 Kathryn Fritson Agnes Kingsbury THE SOCIAL COMMITTEE A challenge has been put to University students. If they want self-government, as some of them profess most heartily to desire, they can take a long stride in that direction. Self government among students has always been most coveted at times of alleged social injustice. When anyone chafes under social regulations he immediately begins to assert a mad longing for student government. Last year authorities took cognizance of this undercurrent of murmuring for student control, and student members were placed upon the University social committee. Although the majority of students forgot they had a part in the social regulations after they had read the announcement of those selected, they still had a representation. The Iowan sometimes doubts that the majority of students want self government. If they do, they have never taken advantage of opportunities pointing in that way with any very real interest. The students control a newspaper, but they exercise little of their rights in that field. The vote for the student trustees, the controlling force, of The Daily Iowan, is indicative each year of an interest in student control which is anything but substantial. There is something delightful and scholastic about self government in theory, but practice has shown such interest to be only superficial and a trifle periodical in recurrence. Now if students are to shake off the skepticism that exists regarding the desire for self government on the campus, the idea opportunity has presented itself in this student representation on the social committee. The faculty committee, in Tuesday’s issue of The Iowan, sent forth a challenge to the students who believe in self government and think that public sentiment demands it. The faculty asks that the students work out a system of their own whereby the student body will be adequately represented. The Iowan throws its editorial page open to suggestions as to the best method of student representation on this committee. Althought it does not believe the time is ripe for self government among the students or that public opinion demands it, it realizes that representation on such an important committee may be the first milepost towards self government. The student who can successfully solve the question of adequate representation here at Iowa will be hailed with extreme delight. A system is needed which will not only work for the University social committee, but for Hawkeye representative women, Kuehnle and Finkbine dinners, and the constant demand that is made for representative men and women. Set your minds to work, students, and let the University social committee know that you are worthy and anxious to be represented on this powerful committee. TWO LOYAL ALUMNI Again two of Iowa’s most loyal alumni have united to act as host to representative undergraduates of the University. Such a plan is characteristic of both Finkbine and Kuehnle. Always they have done everything they could to promote the best interests of the institution. Two years ago these two prominent alumni banqueted seventy men. At the dinner the students discussed with their hosts affairs which concern both students and alumni and laid plans for a greater University, in sports, and classroom, in relation to the state, and their own lives. Last year, through war necessity, the dinner was abandoned, but with invitations being circulated for Feb. 24, it looks as if the theory that the dinner is to be an annual affair is being borne out. Whenever the University undertakes a project, Kuehnle and Finkbine are on the spot to back it. The University of Iowa association has their names on its executive committee where they have been since the organization was effected. When the University has a measure before the legislature, its staunchest supporters are Kuehnle and Finkbine. Their time and funds are readily contributed to anything making for a greater University. Mr. Finkbine is the vice-president of the Green Bay Lumber company in Des Moines. Mr. Kuehnle is a banker, business man, and former legislator and is spoken of for governor. The establishment of this annual banquet is one of the noteworthy happenings in the life of the institution. It will tie the alumni more closely to the students and bring the students in more intimate relation with the alumni. A university is judged by both alumni and students. With both working toward the same end and with common understanding the future of the institution takes on an aspect of brilliance and power. ROCKWOOD TO DESCRIBE MODERN GAS WARFARE “Modern Gas and Warfare” is the subject that Prof. E. W. Rockwood has chosen for his lecture to the Baconian club Friday night at 7:30 in the physics lecture room. Military strategy will not be included in the lecture. The more technical or perhaps chemical side of gas warfare will receive most consideration. The great strides that this country has taken along both offensive and defensive lines of gas warfare, the great factories that have been erected, and the discoveries that have been made, will be the chief topics of Prof. Rockwood’s lecture. Let The Iowan be your letter. HIGH SCHOOL PLEDGING MAY BE DISCUSSED Inter--fraternity council delegates held a meeting last Wednesday at the Phi Kappa Psi house. After being entertained at a dinner they took up a problem that has recently become quite a factor in fraternity affairs. The pledging of high school men has become a common practice and it was thought something might be done to curtail it. Many educators throughout the state are opposed to it, and the reasons enumerated are quite varied. In some cases the men never go to college, and in others often when they return to their own schools considerable animosity is aroused. Very few of them have a true conception of a fraternity as is shown by the attempt made by organizations of this kind in the high school. High school fraternities are now practically discontinued by state law. They seem to have no real purpose and sometimes develop a clique that is detrimental to school affairs. Men belonging to high school fraternities are not at all looked upon in disfavor, but as to the organization itself the council is opposed to anything of its kind. ARMY DISEASES SPREAD SAYS J.H. HAMILTON “With the demobilization of the armies, there will probably be a rapid spread of infectous diseases,” says Dr. J. H. Hamilton of the epidemology department. Many of our men who have been in southern camps, in the United States and also in the trenches in France and Italy have picked up diseases of infrequent occurrence in this country. One of the most common is the socalled louse borne disease which may break out, even if the subject has been “deloused,” under unhygenic processes. Epidemic meningitis is another disease which may be expected to spread rapidly among the soldiers returning home. Many men who do not take typhoid fever themselves, are carriers for this and other diseases and Dr. Hamilton urges the students and people of Iowa to take every precaution against these diseases so they will not become serious in this state. EDDA MEETING POSTPONED The meeting which Edda literary society was to have held Saturday has been postponed until some day next week. DIRECTORY READY SOON The new University directory is now in the hands of the printer and is expected to be ready for distribution sometime next week. Helen Daugherty is entertaining her mother and brother of Guthrie Center at the Alpha Delta Pi house for a few days. Leo Englebert, former student here, is again in school and is registered as a freshman in the College of Law. [advertisement] DAINTY LUNCHES between or after classes. Drop into WHITING’S PHARMACY On Dubuque St. [advertisement]SABINS' EDUCATIONAL EXCHANGE Founded 1893 A.M.M. DORNON, Manager The most widely patronized, because the most reliable Teachers Agency in the Middle West. Territory form Mississippi River to Pacific Coast. FLYNN BUILDING DES MOINES, IOWA [advertisement] [picture of a pipe] Look at this one. A corking piece of genuine French Briar, sterling ring, vulcanite bit, the smoothest workmanship— a shape that makes it mighty convenient to have in your room. [emblem W D C TRADE MARK] YOU will see W D C Pipes on every campus in the country—Americans pipes for American men, and not bettered anywhere. You can get any shape, size and grade you want in a W D C. The best shops carry them at $6 down to 75 cents. WM. DEMUTH & CO., New York World’s Largest Pipe Manufacturer [advertisement] Basketball and Gym Shoes On entering sports, you will want to equip yourself to win. Get the best while you are getting. “Just like I do my old pipe; throw ‘em away, then hunt ‘em up’ is what one fellow told us about a pair of gym shoes he got here. Come in and try on a pair of our new arrivals. Biggest Shoe Repair Shop in the City Boston Shoe Store 125 S. Dubuque [advertisement] UNIVERSITY BOOK STORE ON THE CORNER Text Books and Supplies Valentines for the Young and Old UNIVERSITY BOOK STORE [advertisement] Corsage Bouquets made especially to suit her. YOU THOUGHTFUL MEN WILL SEND HER A FLOWER VALENTINE FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14th No other gift can quite represent so beautifully the spirit of St. Valentine. She will appreciate our beautiful flowers more than anything that you can send her. We are Prepared to Send Flowers Anywhere PRINCE’S FLOWER SHOP 25 S. Clinton St. Beautiful Flower filled Baskets and Boxes.