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Vol. XVIII-NEW SERIES VOL. III
IOWA CITY, IOWA, THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1919
NUMBER 128

LIEUT. FRED BECKER AWARDED CROSS AND CROIX DE GUERRE
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Memorial Services For Former Gridiron Star Will Be Held at Waterloo
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MANNER OF DEATH IS TOLD
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Fellow Officer Writes Concerning Circumstances of Death on Battlefield
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   The memory of Lieut. Fred H. Becker, former Iowa gridiron star and member of the all-American eleven in 1916, has been doubly honored by news just received of the award to him of the croix de guerre and the Belgian war cross by the French and Belgian governments. Heretofore the distinguished service cross for heroic action while with the American army in France, was the only war medal known to have been given to him.
   Memorial services for Lieutenant Becker are to be held at Waterloo July 20, E.W. Koepe a fraternity mother, is writing a biographical sketch of Becker to be used on that occasion.
   The manner of Becker's death I told in a letter received here last September and written by Lieutenant William R. Mathews, one of his fellow officers.
   "Beck', as we all called him" write Lieut. Mathews, "was instantly killed in the evening of the 18th of July. Our battalion had attacked in the morning and that evening we went over again. It was during this second attack that Beck was hit by a shell fragment. At the time we were advancing across a wheat field north of Vierzy-near Soissons. We would not stop but one of my sergeants was with Beck when he was hit and says that he did not move after falling. His jugular vein was cut. The next morning I sent a party to bury him but they could not find him. Evidently the stretcher bearers had taken the body in. He is buried probably near ----. Beck was loved by every officer and man in the battallion and was a real soldier and officer from the ground up."
   Becker was one of the University's best athletes, the only man to make the All-American football team from the University. He would have been a junior at the time of his enlistment in 1917. He was a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity. 
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CHICAO MAN VISITS HERE
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Professor Tryon Will Give Lectures For All History Students
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   Prof. Rollo M. Tryon, well-known teacher of history in the University of Chicago, will visit here Friday of this week and give three lectures.
   History classes meeting at eight and nine in the morning will assemble to hear Professor Tryon, and at _0 o'clock in the liberal arts assembly he will give a public lecture on "The Problem and Project of Teaching History."
   Classes in the teaching of history at the University of Chicago are under Professor Tryon's direction. His visit to the University will bring about a conference of history teachers.
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NEW YORK MECCA OF GRADS
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Five University Women Are Attending N.Y. Summer Schools
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   New York City is the Mecca this summer for at least five graduates of the University. The former University women who are attending summer school there include Magdalene Freyder, of Iowa City, instructor at the University high school, Frances Barnhart, of Omaha, Neb., who has been doing war work in Washington, Marian Kime of For Dodge, Ruth Rath of Iowa Falls, and Dorothy Paule of Burlington.
   The women have rented a furnished apartment near Columbia university. Magdalene Freyder and Ruth Rath are both taking work in English at Columbia while Dorothy Paule, Marian Kime, and Frances Barnhart are attending the Y.W.C.A. training school. The trip was made from Iowa with stop-overs in Washington and other interesting points enroute.
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E.H. GRIFFIN WILL ADDRESS ARMY MEN
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To Urge Discharged Soldiers Not to Drop War Insurance - Will Answer Questions Put
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   Boys, don't drop your war risk insurance!
   This is the message that Edward . Griffin, of Iowa City, representative of the war risk bureau, will bring to discharged army men in his lecture at the natural science auditorium Thursday evening July 24. The meeting will be informal, and Mr. Griffin will attempt to answer all questions put to him concerning the bureau and its policies.
   Seventy per cent of the insurance taken out during the war is being allowed to drop, it is believed. Mr. Griffin expects to tell the men what government insurance really is worth and in what minor details it differs from insurance in regular companies. The ordinary life insurance, he says for example, is paid in full at death, but the government has safeguarded the beneficiaries of its policies by providing for the payment of war risk insurance in 240 monthly installments.
   "Those who have dropped their war insurance already may still be reinstated," Mr. Griffith declares. A nine month limit has been placed on payments. He accounts for the insurance being dropped by such great numbers by the fact that so many discharged soldiers are still out of work and have not the funds to meet their regular monthly payments. Others do not realize the extent of its benefits, and are being advised by the ill-informed that it is unwise to keep it up.
   A disability clause is also connected with the war risk insurance measure which provides that any discharged soldier, totally or permanently disabled, may receive the maximum benefit of the insurance monthly.
   The average amount of war insurance taken out by the men of the entire army was slightly in excess of $8,000 per man. All discharged soldiers of the University, county, and city, will be welcomed at the meeting.
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   Miss Sarah Hull, of the extension division, leaves Thursday afternoon for an extended vacation in Estes Park, Colorado.
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CAMP FUNSTON MEN MAKE RIFLE TEAM
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Three University Men Qualify as Range Sharpshooters - Others are Average
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   University men at Camp Funston are "making out fine", according to a communication received here by Lieut. Roy C. Gore, University commandant during the absence of Col. Moton C. Mumma.
   Three University men have qualified as sharp shooters on the range, and all the rest shot on the average. There was keen competition between the members of the infantry R.O.T.C. camp for places on the rifle team which is to be sent to the navy rifle range at Caldwell, N.J. the early part of August. The team consists of twelve principals and two alternates selected from the crack shots of the R.O.T.C. Students making the fifty best scores are considered as candidates for the team, the fourteen best being selected in the elimination contest.
   These men will be sent to New Jersey to receive instruction in rifle firing and to shoot the national rifle match late in August. They will stay at Caldwell from August 4 to 30. All traveling expenses and subsistence will be paid by the government.
   Five men from the University at Funston have been promoted to the advanced course of the senior section. White won in two rounds from a Negro in an elimination box bout July 12.
   Lieut. Gore considers the record of Iowa men as very good, since most of them were too young to get into the federal service during the war and therefore received all their training from the University military department.
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PHI DELTA PHI HOLDS LUNCHEON AT JEFFERSON
   Phi Delta Phi, honorary law fraternity, held their monthly banquet at the hotel Jefferson yesterday noon. About sixteen of the active chapters were present. Attorneys of Iowa City, members of the fraternity who attended were Donald McClain, Henry Walker, W.R. Hart, William Hart, and Harold Evans. Faculty members present were Dean McGovney, Professor Patterson from the University of Colorado, who is teaching the law college during the summer session.
   After the luncheon speeches were given by W.R. Hart, Professor Patterson, and William Sheridan who has just been initiated into the fraternity.
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MISS McGUIRE TO BE DIETICIAN AT OHIO
   Miss Lelia McGuire of the home economics department will not resume her work here during the coming year. She has accepted a position in the Ohio State university at Columbus, where she will go in September to take charge of the work in foods in the domestic science department.
   Miss McGuire came to take up her work here in 1918 fro the Ohio State University where she was dietician. Her home is in Columbus.
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President Walter A. Jessup returned to the University Friday morning from a combined business and vacation trip to Washington, Indiana and other points in the east.
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BOARD ON MEMORIAL MEETS
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Pres. W.A. Jessup and Prof. F.C. Ensign Are in Des Moines
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   The million dollar memorial hall voted to the University by the alumni is definitely on its way. The first steps is in the systematic organization of a campaign for the financing of the building will be taken at a meeting of the board with its chairman, Frederick W. Sargeant, in Des Moines to day.
   Memorial hall was voted during commencement week by the alumni to commemorate the part taken in the war by the Iowa soldiers and sailors, both living and dead.
   President Walter A. Jessup and Prof. F.C. Ensign, of the department of education will attend the meeting in Des Moines.
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PROF. E.O. DIETRICK DELIVERS LECTURE
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"The Origin of Color" Subject of Discussion Based on Work Since 1914"
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   "The Origin of Color" was the subject of the lecture delivered by Professor Ernest O. Dieterich, of the department of physics building at eight o'clock last night. Professor Dieterich illustrated his lecture with a number of experiments.
   The greater part of the address was devoted to a discussion of the more recent work since 1914, in an attempt to answer the question of physicists as to the mechanism responsible for the emission of spectra.
   "A number of experiments have shown that some charged vibrating body takes part in the phenomena connected with the emission of light", said Professor Dieterich. "This vibrator is though to be the same as the electron within the atom. By a number of ingenious experiments is the last five years, a number of leading physicists of the world have found further evidence that the emission of light could be correctly attributed to the vibrations of the electrons within the atoms. This has been done by measuring the resonance potentials and ionization potentials for a large number of elements. The experimental results furnish proof of the theory held, and in addition to furnishing some evidence as to the source of radiation, give us insight into the structure of the atom. 
   "The physicist is interested color," said Professor Dieterich, "chiefly as it concerns wave-length, which produces the effect on the eye known as color. Light is an electro-magnetic disturbance, and wherever there is light there are different colors. Professor Dieterich performed experiments having to do with spectra and with the nature of the collisions of electrons and atoms, from which are deduced the wave lengths of radiation emitted by the atom, shown by collisions between elastic and inelastic spheres.
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MOTHER GOOSE SEMINAR
   A "Seminar On The Sociology of Mother Goose" will be one of the features of the social for Congregational students and their friends to be given at the Conference house, 128 North Clinton, Friday night. This will be the church's last social occasion of the summer session, and the Congregational students are invited. There will be music, games, and refreshments.
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SHOULD SHOW MORE INTEREST IN JURY, SAYS MR. DUTCHER
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College Professors and Business Men Evade Sitting on Jury When Possible
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JURY DECIDES THE FACTS
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Young Should Be Educated to Civic Responsibility-Women May Site on Juries
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   That not more than twelve or fifteen college men have served on jurys with which he has been in contact during twenty-five years of practice of law was the statement made by Mr. Charles M. Dutcher, a prominent lawyer of Iowa City and alumnus of the University, at the University convocation yesterday morning.
   Mr. Dutcher deplored the fact that college professors and most business and professional men evade the responsibility of sitting on a jury, through one pretext or another since they are the very ones who are the most competent for this type of service.
   Mr. Dutcher's subject was "The Educated Citizen and the Jury System". He emphasized the importance of the duty of American citizens to "an important and neglected institution," and showed how life, liberty and property rest in the last analysis upon the verdict of a jury.
       Cannot Change Verdict
   "If fourteen men swear that a horse is white and once man swears that it is black the jury can if it desires discard the testimony of the fourteen and accept that of the one," said Mr. Dutcher. "And the judge cannot interfere with that verdict," he added emphatically. "So if the guilty man escapes it is not the fault of the law, but of twelve men."
   The jury is the organ which decides the facts of the case, and there can be no appeal from a decision on facts. The judge must pronounce his sentence on the basis of the facts as determined by the jury.
   To one not acquainted with the machinery of the courts, the procedure is almost meaningless, such for instance as the declaring of any testimony as irrelevant or immaterial. There should be a greater interest in court procedure on the part of the average citizen. The young should be educated to civic responsibility, he said. The speaker also suggested that women may soon be called upon to perform this function, as suffrage involves jury service.
   Music was furnished by the vesper choir under the direction of Prof. W.E. Hays. About three hundred students were present.
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COLORED ALUMNI ELECT OFFICERS
   Colored alumni of the University of Iowa at their fifth annual meeting in Des Moines last week elected the following officers:
   S. Joe Brown, president; Dr. E.A. Carter of Buxton, vice president; Prof. Lawrence C. Jones of Braxton, Miss., second vice-president; Adah F. Hyde of Des Moines, secretary; Ruth Southall of Petersburg, O.; corresponding secretary; Dr. W.H. Lowry of Des Moines, treasurer.
   The election took place following a luncheon at the McCree tearoom. The table was set in form of an "I", and the decorations were old gold and black.

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Vol. XVIII-NEW SERIES VOL. III IOWA CITY, IOWA, THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1919 NUMBER 128 LIEUT. FRED BECKER AWARDED CROSS AND CROIX DE GUERRE _________ Memorial Services For Former Gridiron Star Will Be Held at Waterloo _________ MANNER OF DEATH IS TOLD _________ Fellow Officer Writes Concerning Circumstances of Death on Battlefield _________ The memory of Lieut. Fred H. Becker, former Iowa gridiron star and member of the all-American eleven in 1916, has been doubly honored by news just received of the award to him of the croix de guerre and the Belgian war cross by the French and Belgian governments. Heretofore the distinguished service cross for heroic action while with the American army in France, was the only war medal known to have been given to him. Memorial services for Lieutenant Becker are to be held at Waterloo July 20, E.W. Koepe a fraternity mother, is writing a biographical sketch of Becker to be used on that occasion. The manner of Becker's death I told in a letter received here last September and written by Lieutenant William R. Mathews, one of his fellow officers. "Beck', as we all called him" write Lieut. Mathews, "was instantly killed in the evening of the 18th of July. Our battalion had attacked in the morning and that evening we went over again. It was during this second attack that Beck was hit by a shell fragment. At the time we were advancing across a wheat field north of Vierzy-near Soissons. We would not stop but one of my sergeants was with Beck when he was hit and says that he did not move after falling. His jugular vein was cut. The next morning I sent a party to bury him but they could not find him. Evidently the stretcher bearers had taken the body in. He is buried probably near ----. Beck was loved by every officer and man in the battallion and was a real soldier and officer from the ground up." Becker was one of the University's best athletes, the only man to make the All-American football team from the University. He would have been a junior at the time of his enlistment in 1917. He was a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity. _________ CHICAO MAN VISITS HERE _________ Professor Tryon Will Give Lectures For All History Students _________ Prof. Rollo M. Tryon, well-known teacher of history in the University of Chicago, will visit here Friday of this week and give three lectures. History classes meeting at eight and nine in the morning will assemble to hear Professor Tryon, and at _0 o'clock in the liberal arts assembly he will give a public lecture on "The Problem and Project of Teaching History." Classes in the teaching of history at the University of Chicago are under Professor Tryon's direction. His visit to the University will bring about a conference of history teachers. _________ NEW YORK MECCA OF GRADS _________ Five University Women Are Attending N.Y. Summer Schools _________ New York City is the Mecca this summer for at least five graduates of the University. The former University women who are attending summer school there include Magdalene Freyder, of Iowa City, instructor at the University high school, Frances Barnhart, of Omaha, Neb., who has been doing war work in Washington, Marian Kime of For Dodge, Ruth Rath of Iowa Falls, and Dorothy Paule of Burlington. The women have rented a furnished apartment near Columbia university. Magdalene Freyder and Ruth Rath are both taking work in English at Columbia while Dorothy Paule, Marian Kime, and Frances Barnhart are attending the Y.W.C.A. training school. The trip was made from Iowa with stop-overs in Washington and other interesting points enroute. _________ E.H. GRIFFIN WILL ADDRESS ARMY MEN _________ To Urge Discharged Soldiers Not to Drop War Insurance - Will Answer Questions Put _________ Boys, don't drop your war risk insurance! This is the message that Edward . Griffin, of Iowa City, representative of the war risk bureau, will bring to discharged army men in his lecture at the natural science auditorium Thursday evening July 24. The meeting will be informal, and Mr. Griffin will attempt to answer all questions put to him concerning the bureau and its policies. Seventy per cent of the insurance taken out during the war is being allowed to drop, it is believed. Mr. Griffin expects to tell the men what government insurance really is worth and in what minor details it differs from insurance in regular companies. The ordinary life insurance, he says for example, is paid in full at death, but the government has safeguarded the beneficiaries of its policies by providing for the payment of war risk insurance in 240 monthly installments. "Those who have dropped their war insurance already may still be reinstated," Mr. Griffith declares. A nine month limit has been placed on payments. He accounts for the insurance being dropped by such great numbers by the fact that so many discharged soldiers are still out of work and have not the funds to meet their regular monthly payments. Others do not realize the extent of its benefits, and are being advised by the ill-informed that it is unwise to keep it up. A disability clause is also connected with the war risk insurance measure which provides that any discharged soldier, totally or permanently disabled, may receive the maximum benefit of the insurance monthly. The average amount of war insurance taken out by the men of the entire army was slightly in excess of $8,000 per man. All discharged soldiers of the University, county, and city, will be welcomed at the meeting. _________ Miss Sarah Hull, of the extension division, leaves Thursday afternoon for an extended vacation in Estes Park, Colorado. _________ CAMP FUNSTON MEN MAKE RIFLE TEAM _________ Three University Men Qualify as Range Sharpshooters - Others are Average _________ University men at Camp Funston are "making out fine", according to a communication received here by Lieut. Roy C. Gore, University commandant during the absence of Col. Moton C. Mumma. Three University men have qualified as sharp shooters on the range, and all the rest shot on the average. There was keen competition between the members of the infantry R.O.T.C. camp for places on the rifle team which is to be sent to the navy rifle range at Caldwell, N.J. the early part of August. The team consists of twelve principals and two alternates selected from the crack shots of the R.O.T.C. Students making the fifty best scores are considered as candidates for the team, the fourteen best being selected in the elimination contest. These men will be sent to New Jersey to receive instruction in rifle firing and to shoot the national rifle match late in August. They will stay at Caldwell from August 4 to 30. All traveling expenses and subsistence will be paid by the government. Five men from the University at Funston have been promoted to the advanced course of the senior section. White won in two rounds from a Negro in an elimination box bout July 12. Lieut. Gore considers the record of Iowa men as very good, since most of them were too young to get into the federal service during the war and therefore received all their training from the University military department. _________ PHI DELTA PHI HOLDS LUNCHEON AT JEFFERSON Phi Delta Phi, honorary law fraternity, held their monthly banquet at the hotel Jefferson yesterday noon. About sixteen of the active chapters were present. Attorneys of Iowa City, members of the fraternity who attended were Donald McClain, Henry Walker, W.R. Hart, William Hart, and Harold Evans. Faculty members present were Dean McGovney, Professor Patterson from the University of Colorado, who is teaching the law college during the summer session. After the luncheon speeches were given by W.R. Hart, Professor Patterson, and William Sheridan who has just been initiated into the fraternity. _________ MISS McGUIRE TO BE DIETICIAN AT OHIO Miss Lelia McGuire of the home economics department will not resume her work here during the coming year. She has accepted a position in the Ohio State university at Columbus, where she will go in September to take charge of the work in foods in the domestic science department. Miss McGuire came to take up her work here in 1918 fro the Ohio State University where she was dietician. Her home is in Columbus. _________ President Walter A. Jessup returned to the University Friday morning from a combined business and vacation trip to Washington, Indiana and other points in the east. _________ BOARD ON MEMORIAL MEETS _________ Pres. W.A. Jessup and Prof. F.C. Ensign Are in Des Moines _________ The million dollar memorial hall voted to the University by the alumni is definitely on its way. The first steps is in the systematic organization of a campaign for the financing of the building will be taken at a meeting of the board with its chairman, Frederick W. Sargeant, in Des Moines to day. Memorial hall was voted during commencement week by the alumni to commemorate the part taken in the war by the Iowa soldiers and sailors, both living and dead. President Walter A. Jessup and Prof. F.C. Ensign, of the department of education will attend the meeting in Des Moines. _________ PROF. E.O. DIETRICK DELIVERS LECTURE _________ "The Origin of Color" Subject of Discussion Based on Work Since 1914" _________ "The Origin of Color" was the subject of the lecture delivered by Professor Ernest O. Dieterich, of the department of physics building at eight o'clock last night. Professor Dieterich illustrated his lecture with a number of experiments. The greater part of the address was devoted to a discussion of the more recent work since 1914, in an attempt to answer the question of physicists as to the mechanism responsible for the emission of spectra. "A number of experiments have shown that some charged vibrating body takes part in the phenomena connected with the emission of light", said Professor Dieterich. "This vibrator is though to be the same as the electron within the atom. By a number of ingenious experiments is the last five years, a number of leading physicists of the world have found further evidence that the emission of light could be correctly attributed to the vibrations of the electrons within the atoms. This has been done by measuring the resonance potentials and ionization potentials for a large number of elements. The experimental results furnish proof of the theory held, and in addition to furnishing some evidence as to the source of radiation, give us insight into the structure of the atom. "The physicist is interested color," said Professor Dieterich, "chiefly as it concerns wave-length, which produces the effect on the eye known as color. Light is an electro-magnetic disturbance, and wherever there is light there are different colors. Professor Dieterich performed experiments having to do with spectra and with the nature of the collisions of electrons and atoms, from which are deduced the wave lengths of radiation emitted by the atom, shown by collisions between elastic and inelastic spheres. _________ MOTHER GOOSE SEMINAR A "Seminar On The Sociology of Mother Goose" will be one of the features of the social for Congregational students and their friends to be given at the Conference house, 128 North Clinton, Friday night. This will be the church's last social occasion of the summer session, and the Congregational students are invited. There will be music, games, and refreshments. _________ SHOULD SHOW MORE INTEREST IN JURY, SAYS MR. DUTCHER _________ College Professors and Business Men Evade Sitting on Jury When Possible _________ JURY DECIDES THE FACTS _________ Young Should Be Educated to Civic Responsibility-Women May Site on Juries _________ That not more than twelve or fifteen college men have served on jurys with which he has been in contact during twenty-five years of practice of law was the statement made by Mr. Charles M. Dutcher, a prominent lawyer of Iowa City and alumnus of the University, at the University convocation yesterday morning. Mr. Dutcher deplored the fact that college professors and most business and professional men evade the responsibility of sitting on a jury, through one pretext or another since they are the very ones who are the most competent for this type of service. Mr. Dutcher's subject was "The Educated Citizen and the Jury System". He emphasized the importance of the duty of American citizens to "an important and neglected institution," and showed how life, liberty and property rest in the last analysis upon the verdict of a jury. Cannot Change Verdict "If fourteen men swear that a horse is white and once man swears that it is black the jury can if it desires discard the testimony of the fourteen and accept that of the one," said Mr. Dutcher. "And the judge cannot interfere with that verdict," he added emphatically. "So if the guilty man escapes it is not the fault of the law, but of twelve men." The jury is the organ which decides the facts of the case, and there can be no appeal from a decision on facts. The judge must pronounce his sentence on the basis of the facts as determined by the jury. To one not acquainted with the machinery of the courts, the procedure is almost meaningless, such for instance as the declaring of any testimony as irrelevant or immaterial. There should be a greater interest in court procedure on the part of the average citizen. The young should be educated to civic responsibility, he said. The speaker also suggested that women may soon be called upon to perform this function, as suffrage involves jury service. Music was furnished by the vesper choir under the direction of Prof. W.E. Hays. About three hundred students were present. _________ COLORED ALUMNI ELECT OFFICERS Colored alumni of the University of Iowa at their fifth annual meeting in Des Moines last week elected the following officers: S. Joe Brown, president; Dr. E.A. Carter of Buxton, vice president; Prof. Lawrence C. Jones of Braxton, Miss., second vice-president; Adah F. Hyde of Des Moines, secretary; Ruth Southall of Petersburg, O.; corresponding secretary; Dr. W.H. Lowry of Des Moines, treasurer. The election took place following a luncheon at the McCree tearoom. The table was set in form of an "I", and the decorations were old gold and black.