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The Daily Iowan The Student Newspaper of the State University of Iowa VOL. XVIII - NEW SERIES VOL. III IOWA CITY, IOWA, SUNDAY, JUNE 29, 1919 NUMBER 120 PRIZE WINNERS IN HIGH SCHOOL ESSAY CONTEST ANNOUNCED - University High School Wins First in Freshman Class - W.S.S. Are Awarded - HONORABLE MENTION TO 12 - Local Contests Were Conducted and Bronze Medals Given to Winners in Each Class - Winners in the state wide high school essay contest conducted by the Iowa Patriotic league have recently been announced from the league headquarters at the University of Iowa. War savings stamps were awarded to the four students in the state with [best?] essays for their respective grades [?] classes, senior, junior, sophomore, and freshman. Honorable mention was given to the three members of each class ranking next to the high-[?]. The first awards went to the following: Bush Girl Winner Louise Nacke of the St. Mary's high school at West Point, whose essay on "The Menace of Bolshevism" was judged the best of any senior's. Leona Trainor of the Sacred Heart Academy of Cedar Rapids won the senior prize on the same subject. Mary V. Bruins of the Pella high school took the sophomore honors [?] an essay on "Reconstruction." The freshman prize went to an essay on "The League of Nations" sent by Millicent Bush of the University high school at Iowa City. Honorable Mention Honorable mention in the state contest went to Ruth Hotz of the Iowa City high school, Mabel Clan-[?] of the Cathedral high school in Sioux City, and Gladys Gashel of the [?] Falls high school among the seniors. Junior honorable mention was given in the following order to Ruth [?] of Tama, Mary Phelan of the Cathedral high school, Sioux City, and Nita Knowles of Jesup. Sophomores ranking high in the contest and awarded honorable mention are: Gertrude M. Clinard of the visitation academy, Dubuque, Anna O'Connell of Our Lady of Victory academy, Council Bluffs, and Ola Phillips of the Pleasantville high school. Selected Own Subject An unknown writer won first honorable mention among the freshmen of the state, No. 12 of the Owasa consolidated school. Rosena Ricklefs [?] and Clara Smith of the Visitation academy also received honors among the freshmen. The contest is the culmination of a year's work of reading on current topics and was conducted among the several hundred high schools in the state which are enrolled in the league. Seven or eight national subjects were given and the student selected his own and prepared his essay. Local contests were first conducted and the university sent bronze medals to the winners of the contest [in?] each class. Then these prize essays were sent to the University extension division to be entered in state competition. Judges were selected from the University faculty. Ninety-seven counties in Iowa had high schools enlisted in the Patriotic league which is the state's big contribution to the Americanization (Continued on page 4) SPEAKS ON GIRL PROBLEM - Mrs. B.F. Langworthy Discusses Girls' Dress and Amusement - Dress, amusements, and chaperonage are high school problems because mothers do not give their daughters proper training and ideals in the kindergarten, declared Mrs. B.F. Langworthy, former president of the Illinois Congress of Mothers, in her lecture on the high school girl, at the Women's conference Thursday after- Dress is a problem only because girls love beautiful clothes, georgette crepes and filmy materials, and are not educated to the impropriety of wearing them on all occasions, Mrs. Langworthy believes. The automobile and good roads, as amusements, are a very mixed blessing, and in her opinion proper chaperonage is no longer a mere convention, but a necessity. Mrs. Langworthy is head of the girls' state council of defense of Illinois. She is at present instructor in the modern drama at Lewis Institute, Chicago. - FORTY PERSONS GO TO AMANA COLONIES - Second Trip to Amanas Attracts More Than First - Colonies are Communistic - Forty persons took the second excursion to the Amana colonies which was conducted by the University under the direction of Prof. Paul S. Peirce yesterday afternoon. Six cars were hired for the party and several other persons went in their own autos. The party left the south entrance of liberal arts at one o'clock and returned last night at nine. Supper was eaten at the colonies. The nearest village of the colonies is twenty miles from Iowa City and the round trip covers a distance of sixty miles. The seven Amanas were visited on the trip. Two villages containing woolen mills are of special interest to parties. All of the Amanas contain stores, shops, and a church and school. The society owns 35,000 acres of land. The Amanas are interesting to University students chiefly because they are communistic. All property is held in common, and religious bonds unite the people. A board of trustees govern the society. The expedition of a week ago was taken by more than thirty students from the University. Several such trips are made annually. - HANCE TAKES POSITION AT WASHINGTON, D.C. - Prof. J.J. Runner, who for the past five years has been professor of geology in the South Dakota school of mines, has been elected to succeed Prof. J.H. Hance as assistant professor of geology. Professor Runner is a graduate of the University of Chicago and is now teaching in the summer session there. He with his family will be in Iowa City for the beginning of the fall quarter. Mrs. Runner is the daughter of Dr. Gilchrist who was formerly connected with the University, and spent her girlhood in Iowa City. Professor Hance resigned to accept a position in the oil valuation division of the department of the interior, Washington, D.C. IOWA CONTINGENT OF R.O.T.C. AT FUNSTON PREPARED FOR WORK - Summer Reserve Officer's Camp is Organized - All Iowa Men Pass Exams - THREE IN ADVANCED WORK - Rockwood Writes That Men Favor Swimming and Sleeping for Recreation - CAMP FUNSTON, Kan., June 28. - Special: Despite the prevailing hot weather, students of the R.O.T.C. in camp here, are going ahead with their work with as much enthusiasm as when the camp first opened. A big get-together meeting was held at the Y.M.C.A. auditorium Monday morning at which time the cadets were introduced to the administrative officers of Camp Funston and those of the R.O.T.C. camp who do not come in direct contact with the men. The feature of the meeting was the presentation by Brigadier General Sage of the Croix-de-guerre with palm and two silver stars to Private G.W. Hayes, member of the Fourth Machine Gun battalion, who is here awaiting discharge, for gallantry in action in France. Iowa Men Placed Three courses of training are being conducted at the camp, namely: the advanced course, senior basic course, and junior course. Zahorik, White, and Rockwood of Iowa are in the advanced course. Goeppinger, Geib, Lambert, Luscombe, and Soper are in company D which comprises the senior basic course. The physical examinations, which were unusually rigid, were completed yesterday. Only a few failed to pass the requirements. The majority of the men in the advanced course are from Wentworth military academy and since the commanding officer was from there also the Wentworth men escaped the examination. Little work was done by the companies until Wednesday. Saturday they came in; Sunday the men received inoculation for typhoid, and Monday and Tuesday drill was light. Abundant Recreation Cadet officers in the camp are changed every day and practically all special instruction is conducted by them. Some have already exhibited qualifications indicating their fitness as reserve officers in the army. The hours of training have been modified recently to include only one hour of drill in the afternoon thereby affording more time for athletics. An athletic board has been organized and the program includes tournaments in baseball, volley ball, basket ball, tennis, boxing, and wrestling. A big field and track meet will be held July 4 and valuable prizes have been procured for the winners. Camp For Six Weeks Alan C. Rockwood writes The Daily Iowan: "Monday aftetrnoon a schedule about 5,280 feet long was laid out for us, but the senior prof announced that only five hours of work would be done instead of seven. Blanks were given us to fill out telling how we wished to be recreated. The favorite sport was swimming; it turned out the nearest water was five miles away. Sleeping was another favored means of recreation." The R.O.T.C. summer training school at Camp Funston will last six weeks. FAMOUS ACTORS HERE SOON - Devereaux Dramatic Company Coming to City July 11 and 12 - The Devereaux Dramatic company will present "The Taming of the Shrew", "The School for Scandal", and probably "Love and Geography" at the evening of the 11th and the afternoon and evening of the 12th of July. The company has played with Southern and Marlowe in Shakespearean plays. Miss Zinita Graf is the leading lady. The Devereaux Company has traveled extensively through the South and East and have played long engagements at Columbia University. This is their first trip west. This is the first time anything of a dramatic nature has been given in the summer session but it may become a regular feature in future sessions. - DAILY SCRIMMAGE ON IOWA GRIDIRON - Football Material for Two Squads Have Presented Themselves to Coach Jones - Football scrimmage in June is a rare thing in this old state, but on the Iowa gridiron where the sod is being carefully nurtured in preparation for more strenuous work next fall the pigskin thumps daily, the lines charge, and a few roots get mussed up. Jimmy Barry would never have permitted it. Coach Jones is giving his athletic coaches some real work. With twenty-six men studying football coaching and twenty-four in the class for basketball coaches, the Hawkeye leader has plenty of material to provide teams and competition. These two sports, however, are not the only ones in which instruction is being given this year at the University. E.G. Schroeder, gymnasium director and coach of the University gym team, has a class of ten men in track, and his proteges keep the weeds off the track by plowing up the cinders daily. Eleven men are taking the course in gymnastics which he is offering and fitting themselves to teach this work in high schools and colleges. Of a more special nature is the work done for the men who are taking the course offered for scoutmasters. These leaders of boys are in a class by themselves and receive instruction from Mr. Schroeder in games that have a particular appeal to boys of scout age and temperament. Interest in swimming is also on the increase. Dave Armbuster, assistant in the department of physical education, has a class of twenty-six in elementary swimming and six in an advanced class. Recreational swimming has a registration of 129. Tennis has its usual popularity, and the combination of two sets on the clay courts and a plunge in the gymnasium pool does its share toward making work in the summer session popular. - IS BAND DIRECTOR O.R. Patcher, cornet soloist in the University band, is to be director of the band at Oxford during the summer. He is attending the summer session but will make frequent trips home for band rehearsals. DR. LUTHER WEIGLE TALKS ON TEACHING CHILDREN TO PRAY - Warns Parents Against Repeating Children's Bright Sayings to Neighbors - SHOULD LEARN BY DOING - The Child's Religious Attitude Depends on the Kind of Home and Parents - "The last thing which parents should do is to repeat to their neighbors their own children's sayings in prayer," declared Dr. Luther A. Weigle, professor of Christian nurture in Yale university, in a lecture yesterday morning before the conference for religious workers, on "Teaching Children to Pray." To brag about a child's sayings in prayer will foster in him the wrong attitude towards prayer and tend to make him a "smarty" and a braggadocio, Dr. Weigle said, although it is frequently done by proud parents. Create Right Atmosphere A child, he believes, is capable of religious feeling long before he is capable of religious thought. The first step, therefore, in teaching a child to pray is for the mother to pray for the child in his presence as she tucks him in at night. Thus the child registers sense impressions, which have an effect on his after life; he responds instinctively to the difference in the attitude of the mother, in her tone of voice and in her expression. Bringing the child into the right social atmosphere is of the utmost importance. The mother who is wise will kneel with the child instead of asking the child to kneel alone and say the prayers to her. Should Furnish Forms It is a mistake, Dr. Weigle believes, to think that because the child cannot understand the full significance of prayer he should not be taught to pray. Education in general begins not with knowing, but with doing, and the child understanding of prayer may be the result of a habit of prayer as much as of knowledge of it. All instruction in the meaning of prayer comes back to the relation of the parents and child. The child gains the right attitude toward religion if he is brought up in the right kind of a home and has the right kind of parents. He has had the experience of being loved and cared for and also of having his wish denied at times. As to forms of prayer, Dr. Weigle thinks that the parents should furnish the child with successive forms of prayer through childhood. There is a danger, however, in furnishing forms of prayer too far beyond the child's knowledge. In this case hypocricy and falsehood may be fostered, but on the other hand, if it is placed at too low a level, the prayer will become mechanical. - BOSE GOES ON LECTURE TOUR Dr. Sudhindra Bose ,lecturer in political science, leaves Thursday for a two months chautauqua tour. His schedule will take him through Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouri, and a part of Iowa. "Ten Thousand Miles from Home" " America's Appearance in the Orient," and "The Message of Brotherhood," are some of the subjects of Dr. Bose's lectures.
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The Daily Iowan The Student Newspaper of the State University of Iowa VOL. XVIII - NEW SERIES VOL. III IOWA CITY, IOWA, SUNDAY, JUNE 29, 1919 NUMBER 120 PRIZE WINNERS IN HIGH SCHOOL ESSAY CONTEST ANNOUNCED - University High School Wins First in Freshman Class - W.S.S. Are Awarded - HONORABLE MENTION TO 12 - Local Contests Were Conducted and Bronze Medals Given to Winners in Each Class - Winners in the state wide high school essay contest conducted by the Iowa Patriotic league have recently been announced from the league headquarters at the University of Iowa. War savings stamps were awarded to the four students in the state with [best?] essays for their respective grades [?] classes, senior, junior, sophomore, and freshman. Honorable mention was given to the three members of each class ranking next to the high-[?]. The first awards went to the following: Bush Girl Winner Louise Nacke of the St. Mary's high school at West Point, whose essay on "The Menace of Bolshevism" was judged the best of any senior's. Leona Trainor of the Sacred Heart Academy of Cedar Rapids won the senior prize on the same subject. Mary V. Bruins of the Pella high school took the sophomore honors [?] an essay on "Reconstruction." The freshman prize went to an essay on "The League of Nations" sent by Millicent Bush of the University high school at Iowa City. Honorable Mention Honorable mention in the state contest went to Ruth Hotz of the Iowa City high school, Mabel Clan-[?] of the Cathedral high school in Sioux City, and Gladys Gashel of the [?] Falls high school among the seniors. Junior honorable mention was given in the following order to Ruth [?] of Tama, Mary Phelan of the Cathedral high school, Sioux City, and Nita Knowles of Jesup. Sophomores ranking high in the contest and awarded honorable mention are: Gertrude M. Clinard of the visitation academy, Dubuque, Anna O'Connell of Our Lady of Victory academy, Council Bluffs, and Ola Phillips of the Pleasantville high school. Selected Own Subject An unknown writer won first honorable mention among the freshmen of the state, No. 12 of the Owasa consolidated school. Rosena Ricklefs [?] and Clara Smith of the Visitation academy also received honors among the freshmen. The contest is the culmination of a year's work of reading on current topics and was conducted among the several hundred high schools in the state which are enrolled in the league. Seven or eight national subjects were given and the student selected his own and prepared his essay. Local contests were first conducted and the university sent bronze medals to the winners of the contest [in?] each class. Then these prize essays were sent to the University extension division to be entered in state competition. Judges were selected from the University faculty. Ninety-seven counties in Iowa had high schools enlisted in the Patriotic league which is the state's big contribution to the Americanization (Continued on page 4) SPEAKS ON GIRL PROBLEM - Mrs. B.F. Langworthy Discusses Girls' Dress and Amusement - Dress, amusements, and chaperonage are high school problems because mothers do not give their daughters proper training and ideals in the kindergarten, declared Mrs. B.F. Langworthy, former president of the Illinois Congress of Mothers, in her lecture on the high school girl, at the Women's conference Thursday after- Dress is a problem only because girls love beautiful clothes, georgette crepes and filmy materials, and are not educated to the impropriety of wearing them on all occasions, Mrs. Langworthy believes. The automobile and good roads, as amusements, are a very mixed blessing, and in her opinion proper chaperonage is no longer a mere convention, but a necessity. Mrs. Langworthy is head of the girls' state council of defense of Illinois. She is at present instructor in the modern drama at Lewis Institute, Chicago. - FORTY PERSONS GO TO AMANA COLONIES - Second Trip to Amanas Attracts More Than First - Colonies are Communistic - Forty persons took the second excursion to the Amana colonies which was conducted by the University under the direction of Prof. Paul S. Peirce yesterday afternoon. Six cars were hired for the party and several other persons went in their own autos. The party left the south entrance of liberal arts at one o'clock and returned last night at nine. Supper was eaten at the colonies. The nearest village of the colonies is twenty miles from Iowa City and the round trip covers a distance of sixty miles. The seven Amanas were visited on the trip. Two villages containing woolen mills are of special interest to parties. All of the Amanas contain stores, shops, and a church and school. The society owns 35,000 acres of land. The Amanas are interesting to University students chiefly because they are communistic. All property is held in common, and religious bonds unite the people. A board of trustees govern the society. The expedition of a week ago was taken by more than thirty students from the University. Several such trips are made annually. - HANCE TAKES POSITION AT WASHINGTON, D.C. - Prof. J.J. Runner, who for the past five years has been professor of geology in the South Dakota school of mines, has been elected to succeed Prof. J.H. Hance as assistant professor of geology. Professor Runner is a graduate of the University of Chicago and is now teaching in the summer session there. He with his family will be in Iowa City for the beginning of the fall quarter. Mrs. Runner is the daughter of Dr. Gilchrist who was formerly connected with the University, and spent her girlhood in Iowa City. Professor Hance resigned to accept a position in the oil valuation division of the department of the interior, Washington, D.C. IOWA CONTINGENT OF R.O.T.C. AT FUNSTON PREPARED FOR WORK - Summer Reserve Officer's Camp is Organized - All Iowa Men Pass Exams - THREE IN ADVANCED WORK - Rockwood Writes That Men Favor Swimming and Sleeping for Recreation - CAMP FUNSTON, Kan., June 28. - Special: Despite the prevailing hot weather, students of the R.O.T.C. in camp here, are going ahead with their work with as much enthusiasm as when the camp first opened. A big get-together meeting was held at the Y.M.C.A. auditorium Monday morning at which time the cadets were introduced to the administrative officers of Camp Funston and those of the R.O.T.C. camp who do not come in direct contact with the men. The feature of the meeting was the presentation by Brigadier General Sage of the Croix-de-guerre with palm and two silver stars to Private G.W. Hayes, member of the Fourth Machine Gun battalion, who is here awaiting discharge, for gallantry in action in France. Iowa Men Placed Three courses of training are being conducted at the camp, namely: the advanced course, senior basic course, and junior course. Zahorik, White, and Rockwood of Iowa are in the advanced course. Goeppinger, Geib, Lambert, Luscombe, and Soper are in company D which comprises the senior basic course. The physical examinations, which were unusually rigid, were completed yesterday. Only a few failed to pass the requirements. The majority of the men in the advanced course are from Wentworth military academy and since the commanding officer was from there also the Wentworth men escaped the examination. Little work was done by the companies until Wednesday. Saturday they came in; Sunday the men received inoculation for typhoid, and Monday and Tuesday drill was light. Abundant Recreation Cadet officers in the camp are changed every day and practically all special instruction is conducted by them. Some have already exhibited qualifications indicating their fitness as reserve officers in the army. The hours of training have been modified recently to include only one hour of drill in the afternoon thereby affording more time for athletics. An athletic board has been organized and the program includes tournaments in baseball, volley ball, basket ball, tennis, boxing, and wrestling. A big field and track meet will be held July 4 and valuable prizes have been procured for the winners. Camp For Six Weeks Alan C. Rockwood writes The Daily Iowan: "Monday aftetrnoon a schedule about 5,280 feet long was laid out for us, but the senior prof announced that only five hours of work would be done instead of seven. Blanks were given us to fill out telling how we wished to be recreated. The favorite sport was swimming; it turned out the nearest water was five miles away. Sleeping was another favored means of recreation." The R.O.T.C. summer training school at Camp Funston will last six weeks. FAMOUS ACTORS HERE SOON - Devereaux Dramatic Company Coming to City July 11 and 12 - The Devereaux Dramatic company will present "The Taming of the Shrew", "The School for Scandal", and probably "Love and Geography" at the evening of the 11th and the afternoon and evening of the 12th of July. The company has played with Southern and Marlowe in Shakespearean plays. Miss Zinita Graf is the leading lady. The Devereaux Company has traveled extensively through the South and East and have played long engagements at Columbia University. This is their first trip west. This is the first time anything of a dramatic nature has been given in the summer session but it may become a regular feature in future sessions. - DAILY SCRIMMAGE ON IOWA GRIDIRON - Football Material for Two Squads Have Presented Themselves to Coach Jones - Football scrimmage in June is a rare thing in this old state, but on the Iowa gridiron where the sod is being carefully nurtured in preparation for more strenuous work next fall the pigskin thumps daily, the lines charge, and a few roots get mussed up. Jimmy Barry would never have permitted it. Coach Jones is giving his athletic coaches some real work. With twenty-six men studying football coaching and twenty-four in the class for basketball coaches, the Hawkeye leader has plenty of material to provide teams and competition. These two sports, however, are not the only ones in which instruction is being given this year at the University. E.G. Schroeder, gymnasium director and coach of the University gym team, has a class of ten men in track, and his proteges keep the weeds off the track by plowing up the cinders daily. Eleven men are taking the course in gymnastics which he is offering and fitting themselves to teach this work in high schools and colleges. Of a more special nature is the work done for the men who are taking the course offered for scoutmasters. These leaders of boys are in a class by themselves and receive instruction from Mr. Schroeder in games that have a particular appeal to boys of scout age and temperament. Interest in swimming is also on the increase. Dave Armbuster, assistant in the department of physical education, has a class of twenty-six in elementary swimming and six in an advanced class. Recreational swimming has a registration of 129. Tennis has its usual popularity, and the combination of two sets on the clay courts and a plunge in the gymnasium pool does its share toward making work in the summer session popular. - IS BAND DIRECTOR O.R. Patcher, cornet soloist in the University band, is to be director of the band at Oxford during the summer. He is attending the summer session but will make frequent trips home for band rehearsals. DR. LUTHER WEIGLE TALKS ON TEACHING CHILDREN TO PRAY - Warns Parents Against Repeating Children's Bright Sayings to Neighbors - SHOULD LEARN BY DOING - The Child's Religious Attitude Depends on the Kind of Home and Parents - "The last thing which parents should do is to repeat to their neighbors their own children's sayings in prayer," declared Dr. Luther A. Weigle, professor of Christian nurture in Yale university, in a lecture yesterday morning before the conference for religious workers, on "Teaching Children to Pray." To brag about a child's sayings in prayer will foster in him the wrong attitude towards prayer and tend to make him a "smarty" and a braggadocio, Dr. Weigle said, although it is frequently done by proud parents. Create Right Atmosphere A child, he believes, is capable of religious feeling long before he is capable of religious thought. The first step, therefore, in teaching a child to pray is for the mother to pray for the child in his presence as she tucks him in at night. Thus the child registers sense impressions, which have an effect on his after life; he responds instinctively to the difference in the attitude of the mother, in her tone of voice and in her expression. Bringing the child into the right social atmosphere is of the utmost importance. The mother who is wise will kneel with the child instead of asking the child to kneel alone and say the prayers to her. Should Furnish Forms It is a mistake, Dr. Weigle believes, to think that because the child cannot understand the full significance of prayer he should not be taught to pray. Education in general begins not with knowing, but with doing, and the child understanding of prayer may be the result of a habit of prayer as much as of knowledge of it. All instruction in the meaning of prayer comes back to the relation of the parents and child. The child gains the right attitude toward religion if he is brought up in the right kind of a home and has the right kind of parents. He has had the experience of being loved and cared for and also of having his wish denied at times. As to forms of prayer, Dr. Weigle thinks that the parents should furnish the child with successive forms of prayer through childhood. There is a danger, however, in furnishing forms of prayer too far beyond the child's knowledge. In this case hypocricy and falsehood may be fostered, but on the other hand, if it is placed at too low a level, the prayer will become mechanical. - BOSE GOES ON LECTURE TOUR Dr. Sudhindra Bose ,lecturer in political science, leaves Thursday for a two months chautauqua tour. His schedule will take him through Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouri, and a part of Iowa. "Ten Thousand Miles from Home" " America's Appearance in the Orient," and "The Message of Brotherhood," are some of the subjects of Dr. Bose's lectures.
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