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Daily Iowan, July 24, 1919

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Page Two The Daily Iowan, State University of Iowa Thursday, July 24, 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 Mary E. Rice Associate Editor BUSINESS STAFF ROMOLA LATCHEM, Business Manager Telephone, 935; Office hours, Daily 9-12 103 Iowa Avenue WE SAY FAREWELL With this issue of The Daily Iowan, we bid you adieu for the remainder of the summer. Today's is the final edition of the paper for the first six weeks; none will be published during the last five weeks of the summer session. We take this opportunity to thank the many people who have cooperated with us in endeavoring to make a success of the first attempt by the student body here at publishing a summer University paper. For the past two years, the activities of the summer session students have been covered by a small sheet called the Sumer News, which was operated independently by some enterprising journalism students for their own practical experience. The staff of The Iowan this summer feels that there is a real place for the paper in reporting the various activities about the campus, and hopes to see it continued next year and in the future. The last issue would not be complete without the management's expression of its appreciation of the cooperation which the business men of Iowa City have given during the past year. Despite the unusual conditions arising from the war, the S.A.T.C., and the influenza, the business men stuck by The Iowan, and their patronage has made it possible to put out a more complete paper than ever before. They have made it possible for us to pay our debts, look the world in the face with a clear conscience, and leave the paper in a good financial condition. The business staff's relations with the men of Iowa City have been the best that could have been hoped for; the merchants have always been more than willing to help in any way possible to them. Our biggest hope is that they will see the way clear to give the same cooperation to next year's staff, and we are assured that they will receive even better service next year than they have this. WHERE WILL YOU TEACH? Editor's note. The Daily Iowan takes the liberty of reprinting an editorial which appeared in the Summer News last year, with reference to country school teachers: "Young teachers with thoughts of service and fame will find unrivalled opportunities for both in the rural schools. The one-room country school with its cross-lights, it common drinking cup receiving and giving germs indiscriminately, its ill-adapted, city-made curriculum, its well, open to surface water and decaying animals, the teeth and health of its pupils unheeded, has not passed into history along with the log cabin and rail fence and other poet-sung remnants. Thousands of them have been waiting half a century for teachers with ideas and energy. "Surely these would-be teachers are not blind that they study such conditions and their remedies in the universities and think them isolated relics of an uncultured past. It cannot be that they have no passion for reform within them that knowing the existence of such scholastic degeneration they are content to seek positions where constructive work has long been accomplished. must it be a selfish motive that leads them to subordinate positions where initiative is suppressed but where entertainment is close at hand and they may move in a tiny circle of culture? "The country school is in no need of him who shuns work and is not given to thought. It is rather a challenge to the man or woman who courts ideas and pleasures in experiments. There is an opportunity in every rural school in the country for a person to make a name for himself and to render infinite service to the sturdiest stock of the nation." A REPORT HARD TO BELIEVE From London comes the astonishing news than an effort is being made there to substitute printed for script writing. So stated, it might be thought this meant that the movement was to make general the use of typewriting machines, but such, it seems, is not the purpose. Instead, according to this almost incredible report, the change sought, and already to a considerable extent effected, is a return to the sort of writing that was done by the monks who produced books before the printing press was invented, or, rather, to that done by children in the letters they write when they have first learned their letters. In explanation of this "reform" it is declared that the present system of script "does not stand the test of commercial life in England and causes great loss of time and labor." It is even said that he who prints separately each letter of a word, instead of running the letters together, can get his thought on paper more rapidly because he does not have to make the connecting lines. That claim is so wildly absurd---so contrary to everybody's experience and knowledge---that one's inclination is to dismiss the whole tale as the work of some British humorist engaged in that derision of his own people which is the favorite sport of British humorists, or else as the invention of a Sinn Feiner, maliciously endeavoring to make the world think that the inhabitants of the other island are all mad. Neither explanation, however, accounts satisfactorily for the dispatch announcing this plunge of our cousins into mediaevalism or infancy. It is seemingly quite serious, and besides, almost anything is possible in a land where the typewriter is still banned by many great business houses, and is used with something of apology and a sense of sin by those that have admitted it to their offices. ---The New York Times EVELYN WALKER IS CLERK A dispatch from Washington, D. C. tells of the appointment of Evelyn Walker, junior student in the University, to a clerkship in the treasury department. Miss Walker left Iowa City immediately after the close of the general session. During the war she held a position in that department. She will return to the University at the opening of the fall term. WAR RISK LECTURE TONIGHT Edward H. Griffin, representative of the War Risk Insurance bureau, will speak at the natural science auditorium at 6 o'clock tonight on "What to Do with War Risk Insurance." All discharged army men interested in the problem are requested to attend. TRAINS FOR Y. W. C. A. WORK Five University of Iowa girls are attending Y.W.C.A. training schools in New York City. Lena Dalrymple, '12, Miriam Kime "15, and Elizabeth Hendee '19 are in the regular Y. W. training school, and Lucille Matyk '19 and Mary Pazdera '21 are attending the training school for Old Country service of the Y.W.C.A. The two latter will be sent abroad to conduct the work of the association among the peoples of their own nationality. DON PRICE RECEIVES ANOTHER GOLD MEDAL Don Price, captain and coach of the Varsity rifle team, recently received a gold medal for his perfect shooting at the national match at camp Perry, Ohio some time ago. He made 100 out of a possible 100 at the tournament in rapid firing 200 yards from the target. Captain Price will leave the first of August for Caldwell, N. J. to compete in the national army tournament for which Col. M. C. Mumma is training teams. Price has between fifteen and twenty sharpshooter medals. The state board of education was entertained at a luncheon at Currier hall Wednesday noon. [advertisement] DON'T LEAVE, PROFESSOR Don't go away on your vacation before you give us your order for coal. You can have it put in whenever you say, but by ordering now you can take advantage of July prices. Authorities agree that coal is likely to be scarce and expensive in the fall. We don't want you to be caught by an early winter without your coal bin being full. We recommend PYROLITE to you. Pyrolite is southern Illinois soft coal of superior purity and heating qualities. At ordinary temperatures it will not fuse into clinkers, and it leaves a comparatively small amount of ashes. Just as you say, however. We keep many kinds of coal and coke. Our prices are always right, and you are sure of Dunlap service. Pay as you wish, by cash or a bankable note. [illustration of "Dunlap Quality Service Price Lumber and Coal" shield trade mark] You're Sure When You Buy of DUNLAP By the Dam Phone 10 [advertisement] H. A. STRUB & CO. Summer Dress Goods---Silks and Wash goods Summer Hosiery--- Summer Underwear--- H. A. STRUB & CO. [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 IT WORK [advertisement] A SERVICE MESSAGE YOUR FRIEND IN TOWN Make this bank your friend in town. Whenever you are too busy to come to the bank in person mail your deposits to us, or call up on the phone. We are always glad to be of any service to our farmers, and count it a privilege to offer you the advantages of such a service. FIRST NATIONAL BANK Iowa City, Iowa Member Federal Reserve System
 
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