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PAGE TWO THE DAILY IOWAN, STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA Tuesday, July 8, 1919 THE DAILY IOWAN A morning paper published during the six weeks summer session on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays by The Daily Iowan Publishing company at 103 Iowa avenue, Iowa City Entered as second class matter, at the post office of Iowa City, Iowa Under direction of department of journalism, Room 14, liberal arts building MILDRED E. WHITCOMB, in charge MEMBER IOWA COLLEGE PRESS Subscription Rate . . . .50 cents the summer BOARD OF TRUSTEES C. H. Weller, chairman, E. M. McEwen, Mary Anderson, Marian Dyer EDITORIAL STAFF BETH WELLMAN Editor-in-chief Telephone, Black 1757; Office hours 1-5 Daily. Room 14, L. A. building Marian Dyer Managing Editor (Rest of Staff to be announced later) BUSINESS STAFF ROMOLA LATCHEM, Business Manager Telephone, 935; Office hours, Daily 9-12 103 Iowa Avenue EXPRESS YOUR VIEWS It has been the custom in times past for The Daily Iowan to run a free parliament column under the heading of What Others Think. The summer publication wishes to continue this practise, and to extend to its readers a chance to express their views in its columns. Communications from students and faculty will gladly be published. Because of the lack of the use of this means of discussion, the conclusion has been reached that perhaps the summer session students have not understood that such space would be allowed them or that such a column existed. The Daily Iowan is a student paper, published by students and for the benefit of students; it is therefore fitting and proper that students wishing to get their views before others should use this as the logical channel. Most thinking students have views on certai nmatters which they would like to present for the consideration of others. Free discussion leads to greater democracy without it, democracy is next to impossible. If you have some good ideas or some pet scheme which you would like to see carried out in regard to student activities or anything pertaining to life at the University, express those ideas or explain your plan in What Others Think. Some other student may be cherishing that same scheme and you can benefit by combined effort. Or if you have a protest to make, voice it. It may set some others to thinking also. No article will be published unless it is signed by the writer. That does not mean, however, that the name of the writer must be printed in the paper; in fact the full name of the signer is rarely seen in print. All we ask is that we know from wham the article came. BOOKS, PLAYS OR PEOPLE In these days of multitudes of newspapers, magazines, books, and moving pictures are we not, perhaps, carrying our idea of automatic learning to far? Are we not forgetting that people─or just folks─make up a large part of this world, and a more important part than all the newspapers, magazines, books and movies every produced? In the olden times, the advice was "Read!" We have read. America is a nation of readers. We read insatiable journals and books upon every conceivable subject from mechanics to philosophy, and from religion to the Police Gazette. But in this orgy of reading, haven't we forgotten our fellowmen? Aren't we content to go on through life without meeting our neighbor─the man we pass on the street every day, sit next to at the movie, and brush elbows with at church? Books, and their swifter moving brothers─magazines and newspapers─are invaluable; but there are not human. People are human. And being human, they bear to their fellow men a message to which no printed page will ever do justice. Come down off your pedestals, Americans, and be just folks among folks again.─The Evening Missourian. AMERICANIZING Now, when in broader and wiser spirit than that of war we can approach the subject of Americanization, is a good time to ask ourselves what an American is and what we mean by Americanization. As The Register sees it, Americanizing is leading a man who is ignorant about or hostile or indifferent to the things that distinguish an American, gradually and constantly to understanding, appreciation and devotion. The things that distinguish an American are a passion for liberty under law, a firm belief in the rightness of democratic institutions, and a faith in the United States as a permanent and principal instrument of liberal progress in the world. Now, how is an alien resident to be made that kind of a man? It is immensely to the credit of those whose intelligence is directing Americanization plans that the survey of "Americanism" in Des Moines is to be first of all a survey of living conditions affecting "Americanism." First of all America has got to be a happy land for them that are here on our invitation, and no less for them that are here as natives. Economic prosperity, social concern, educational opportunity, these are the political gastric juices that will digest for us our aliens, and convert them to our greatness. Above everything it will be destructive if Americanization is approached as a war time drive, with card indexes registering the specific gravity or the thermal reaction or the what-not of each non-American, and with a stern and holy resolution to cram shouting Americanism into his system. There is infinite chance of mischief in such procedure, not only to the alien but to ourselves. It is particularly inadvisable to start or to allow anybody to start on the assumption that every man or woman of alien birth or parentage in America is subject. Thousands can be de-Americanized by that method. Tact, tact, tact, and more tact is called for, and tact has got to be based on honest recognition of the average good intention and loyalty of the foreigner. The fact is that much Americanization is needed by people who may be table to trace their ancestry to the Mayflower. Some effective Americanizing process could well be employed in the senate of the United States. But before starting out to Americanize strenuously among the foreign groups of Iowa it would be a capital plan to require every committee to read over daily a list of Iowa's soldier dead, with particular attention to the national significance of their names.─The Des Moines Register. OHIO MAN TO LECTURE Prof. Rudolph Pitner of Ohio State University will lecture to students of the summer session this morning at 11 o'clock in the liberal arts assembly room. Gwendolyn McClain, Kappa Kappa Gamma, spent the week end in Des Moines. Sergeant George W. Smith of the 55th Engineers arrived in Brooklyn Saturday. He will return to the University and enter the law college in the autumn. Floyd Smith, formerly a student at the University and later at the University of Chicago, was in town Monday on his way to his home in Maxwell, Iowa, after attending the national convention of Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity at Atlantic City, N. J. [Advertisement] Typewriters ALL MAKES SOLD & RENTED Patterson's Typewriter & Office Equipment Store Dey Bldg. Phone 71 [Advertisement] H. A. STRUB & CO. SUMMER DRESS GOODS─SILKS AND WASH GOODS SUMMER HOSIERY─ SUMMER UNDERWEAR─ H. A. STRUB & CO. 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PAGE TWO THE DAILY IOWAN, STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA Tuesday, July 8, 1919 THE DAILY IOWAN A morning paper published during the six weeks summer session on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays by The Daily Iowan Publishing company at 103 Iowa avenue, Iowa City Entered as second class matter, at the post office of Iowa City, Iowa Under direction of department of journalism, Room 14, liberal arts building MILDRED E. WHITCOMB, in charge MEMBER IOWA COLLEGE PRESS Subscription Rate . . . .50 cents the summer BOARD OF TRUSTEES C. H. Weller, chairman, E. M. McEwen, Mary Anderson, Marian Dyer EDITORIAL STAFF BETH WELLMAN Editor-in-chief Telephone, Black 1757; Office hours 1-5 Daily. Room 14, L. A. building Marian Dyer Managing Editor (Rest of Staff to be announced later) BUSINESS STAFF ROMOLA LATCHEM, Business Manager Telephone, 935; Office hours, Daily 9-12 103 Iowa Avenue EXPRESS YOUR VIEWS It has been the custom in times past for The Daily Iowan to run a free parliament column under the heading of What Others Think. The summer publication wishes to continue this practise, and to extend to its readers a chance to express their views in its columns. Communications from students and faculty will gladly be published. Because of the lack of the use of this means of discussion, the conclusion has been reached that perhaps the summer session students have not understood that such space would be allowed them or that such a column existed. The Daily Iowan is a student paper, published by students and for the benefit of students; it is therefore fitting and proper that students wishing to get their views before others should use this as the logical channel. Most thinking students have views on certai nmatters which they would like to present for the consideration of others. Free discussion leads to greater democracy without it, democracy is next to impossible. If you have some good ideas or some pet scheme which you would like to see carried out in regard to student activities or anything pertaining to life at the University, express those ideas or explain your plan in What Others Think. Some other student may be cherishing that same scheme and you can benefit by combined effort. Or if you have a protest to make, voice it. It may set some others to thinking also. No article will be published unless it is signed by the writer. That does not mean, however, that the name of the writer must be printed in the paper; in fact the full name of the signer is rarely seen in print. All we ask is that we know from wham the article came. BOOKS, PLAYS OR PEOPLE In these days of multitudes of newspapers, magazines, books, and moving pictures are we not, perhaps, carrying our idea of automatic learning to far? Are we not forgetting that people─or just folks─make up a large part of this world, and a more important part than all the newspapers, magazines, books and movies every produced? In the olden times, the advice was "Read!" We have read. America is a nation of readers. We read insatiable journals and books upon every conceivable subject from mechanics to philosophy, and from religion to the Police Gazette. But in this orgy of reading, haven't we forgotten our fellowmen? Aren't we content to go on through life without meeting our neighbor─the man we pass on the street every day, sit next to at the movie, and brush elbows with at church? Books, and their swifter moving brothers─magazines and newspapers─are invaluable; but there are not human. People are human. And being human, they bear to their fellow men a message to which no printed page will ever do justice. Come down off your pedestals, Americans, and be just folks among folks again.─The Evening Missourian. AMERICANIZING Now, when in broader and wiser spirit than that of war we can approach the subject of Americanization, is a good time to ask ourselves what an American is and what we mean by Americanization. As The Register sees it, Americanizing is leading a man who is ignorant about or hostile or indifferent to the things that distinguish an American, gradually and constantly to understanding, appreciation and devotion. The things that distinguish an American are a passion for liberty under law, a firm belief in the rightness of democratic institutions, and a faith in the United States as a permanent and principal instrument of liberal progress in the world. Now, how is an alien resident to be made that kind of a man? It is immensely to the credit of those whose intelligence is directing Americanization plans that the survey of "Americanism" in Des Moines is to be first of all a survey of living conditions affecting "Americanism." First of all America has got to be a happy land for them that are here on our invitation, and no less for them that are here as natives. Economic prosperity, social concern, educational opportunity, these are the political gastric juices that will digest for us our aliens, and convert them to our greatness. Above everything it will be destructive if Americanization is approached as a war time drive, with card indexes registering the specific gravity or the thermal reaction or the what-not of each non-American, and with a stern and holy resolution to cram shouting Americanism into his system. There is infinite chance of mischief in such procedure, not only to the alien but to ourselves. It is particularly inadvisable to start or to allow anybody to start on the assumption that every man or woman of alien birth or parentage in America is subject. Thousands can be de-Americanized by that method. Tact, tact, tact, and more tact is called for, and tact has got to be based on honest recognition of the average good intention and loyalty of the foreigner. The fact is that much Americanization is needed by people who may be table to trace their ancestry to the Mayflower. Some effective Americanizing process could well be employed in the senate of the United States. But before starting out to Americanize strenuously among the foreign groups of Iowa it would be a capital plan to require every committee to read over daily a list of Iowa's soldier dead, with particular attention to the national significance of their names.─The Des Moines Register. OHIO MAN TO LECTURE Prof. Rudolph Pitner of Ohio State University will lecture to students of the summer session this morning at 11 o'clock in the liberal arts assembly room. Gwendolyn McClain, Kappa Kappa Gamma, spent the week end in Des Moines. Sergeant George W. Smith of the 55th Engineers arrived in Brooklyn Saturday. He will return to the University and enter the law college in the autumn. Floyd Smith, formerly a student at the University and later at the University of Chicago, was in town Monday on his way to his home in Maxwell, Iowa, after attending the national convention of Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity at Atlantic City, N. J. [Advertisement] Typewriters ALL MAKES SOLD & RENTED Patterson's Typewriter & Office Equipment Store Dey Bldg. Phone 71 [Advertisement] H. A. STRUB & CO. SUMMER DRESS GOODS─SILKS AND WASH GOODS SUMMER HOSIERY─ SUMMER UNDERWEAR─ H. A. STRUB & CO. [Advertisement] TRY THE Bon=Ton Cafe For a Good Square Meal Tables For Ladies Newly Furnished Throughout [Advertisement] Let a Daily Iowan Want Ad do Your Work It will rent your room and find your lost articles for you .... Try One and See How It Works [Advertisement] RACINE'S CIGAR STORES BILLIARD PARLOR AND SODA FOUNTAIN [Advertisement] UNIVERSITY BOOK STORE ON THE CORNER Text Books and Supplies WATERMAN, CONKLIN AND SCHAEFFER FOUNTAIN PENS UNIVERSITY BOOK STORE
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