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4 I 1 I 5 Heme Home Edited Home Kead TOE CAPITAL TEMES Tuesday Afternoon, May 17, 1921 I U. W. FORCE PROBE COSTS University Lost Heavily Through Land Grant Sale School Now Dependent On Taxes Because Valuable Tracts Were Sacriced; Story is Dramatic With Incidents. BADGERS WILL BE GIVER OUT. AT MUSIC HALL Distribution Commences at Eight Oclock Tomorrow i i L.

HOLMES i Tomorrow at 8 oclock the first 1522 Badger will be given out to the first in line at Music hall. All throughout the day distribution will continue lasting unt.l Thursday night at 5 oclock. In two days Badgers will be distributed to those presenting their stubs. The hours of distribution are between 8 and 5 on Wednesday and 8 and 11 in the morning and 12 and 5 in the afternoon Thursday. People who have lost their stubs can straighten their accounts by call.ng at the Badger office tomorrow afternoon between 4:30 and 6 oclock.

Just 50 Badgers can still be ordered by 50 people who have not yet gotten around to do so but Cap Rasmussen 22, business manager, advises immediate attention to the matter as there are more than 50 students who have been depending on this last minute opportunity. Some one will be in the Badger office at the Union building tomorrow to take last minute orders. POWER CANOES WILL RACE ON VENETIAN DAY Event is Part, of the Canoe Tournament in Morning A motoT canoe race is being planned as a feature of the canoe tournament to be held the morning of Saturday, May 28, in conjunction with the annual interscholastic track meet and the Venetian night celebration on the same date. The tournament will be the first to be held here during a scholastic year since 1914. The seven contests which comprise the program of events for the tourney follow: Mens singles race, 100 yards; girls singles race, 100 yards; yards; yards; yards men; Prizes including in part a canoe paddie, a pipe, a shirt, and candy will be awarded the winners of the events.

Competition is open to all. The motor canoe race will follow a triangular course in front of the gymnasium. The remainder of the events will be held along a straight away in front of the gym, in view of all on shore and the interschol-asric visitors on boats provided for them along the course. Those owning canoes fitted with motors and all others desiring to compete in the other events may arrange for entries with Gordon War.zer 24, 150 Iota court. I i I i 1 ht The pleasure is worth it.

There's no substitute for Camel quality and that mild, fragrant Camel blend. The fellow who smokes Camels, wants Camels. Thats because Camels have a smoothness, a fragrance and a mildness you cant get in another cigarette. Dont let anyone tell you thafcany other cigarette at any pnee is so good as Camels. Let your own taste be the judge.

Try Camels for your-self. A few smooth, refreshing puffs and youd walk a mile for a Camel, too. Accountants to Gather Data On Building Prices Accountants from the. university economics department are being thrown into the work of collecting data from Madison dealers in building supplies for the committee appointed by Mayor Kittleson, which is investigating the building costs and credit in the city, as a basis for an increased and permanent building program, according to Prof. W.

II. Kiekhofer, chairman of the commit, tee. The committee met last wek and outlined its work. Building credit ill be investigated, cost of materials will be ascertained and trade agreements inspected. More than 100 dealers in building supplies in Madison are co-operating with the committee in furnishing figures on materials.

This investigation by its very nature is time-bonsuming," Prof. Kiekhofer said. It will be weeks, at least, before the committee will be in a position to make even a partial report on its findings. MADISON HIGH WILL PRESENT SHERWOOD Madison high school students interested in dramatics will present Sherwood in the high school auditorium Friday, May 27. This play is a very costly production and the high school dramatic department is making every effort to make Sherwood the greatest play ever presented by M.

H. S. students. Over one hundred students are included in the cast and executive staff. The actual cast consists of over 80 students.

The largest number of students that have previously taken part in any one play was about 45. The executive staff consists of a business manager, publicity manager, stage manager, production manager, and electrician. Tickets for the play will be placed on sale within the next few days. For the first time, reserved seats wtll be sold. This will be necessary, as the high school auditorium will seat only about 1500 people and present indications are that the demand for tickets will exceed this.

COMMERCE CLUBS TO HAVE PICNIC AT MONONA PARK The mens and womens commerce clubs are riding and stepping out to a real joy fest in the form of a joint picnic. The eats, plenty of them, will be at Lathrop hall at 4:30 p. m. Wednesday, to meet their Waterloos, the members of the two clubs. From Lathrop hall, Madisons steel tired locomobiles will take the picnickers out to the suburb of South Madison.

From there, the future financiers and financieresSes will trip the light fantastic a short distance over to Monona park. FLOATS TO ENTER VENETIAN PARADE Applications for places in the Venetian night parade on May 28 will not be accepted until Wednesday, May 25, it was announced yesterday by Arthur Kinnan 22, chairman of the committee in charge. All students who have canoes, row boats, or power boats available may enter floats in the parade in competition for the silver loving cups to be awarded the best decorated craft in each class. Cap Isabel has boats suitable for floats and decorative fixtures, which may be secured by arrangement with Gus Tuckerman 23, 621 N. Lake, and Cap.

Canada Grain Men Fail To Pay Cost of Growing From Canada comes information that oats growers in Alberta, and to a somewhat less extent, other grain growers in Saskatchewan and Manitoba, dare not risk consigning their grain to the markets because the prices prevailing are so low that in addition to all returns they may be called upon to add a check to cover the cost and the freight. Canadian farmers have realized little if any better grain prices than U. S. farmers. Cattle and sheep prices in the U.

S. markets are now so low that sheep will not pay transportation and selling charges, unless butcher lambs, and milk cows and thin killing cows can not be shipped by rail except short distances for the same reason. Recent inquiries by farmers in cutover timber lands of Minnesota for animals of this class to consume their grass, brought out the fact that they are n6t to be had because owners are deserting the markets. Dunkirk Farmers Protest Appraisors Awards Here Four Dunkirk farmers, recently awarded compensation in condemnation proceedings, came to Madison to protect the awards. They claimed damage from an overflow of the Stebbinsville dam owned by the city of Stoughton, and a commission consisting of Frank Bell and H.

M. Atwood of Madison and Harry Hook of Oregon was appointed by Judge Stevens of the circuit court to appraise the damage. The men are Phillip OReilly, August Schieldt, Cornelius McCarthy and J. McCarthy. OReilly claimed $4,500 damages and was awarded Schield asked $1,500 and got Cornelius McCarthy asked $4,000 and was granted and J.

McCarthy was awarded $209.40. He claimed $3,000. Read Capital Times Want Ads. By FRED Legislative appropriations for the support of the University of Wisconsin fall more upon taxes than in some other states, because this state wasted the land grants given it for the support of the university. Wisconsin with twice the quantity of land than Michigan, but received only half what that state did from land sales.

The state of Michigan received an average of $12 an acre for its land. Wisconsin offered its university lands for sale during the dark period of Wisconsin political history. Political chicanery stalked in the houses of the legislature. The legislature was wheedled by bribes from railroad land speculators, which has left a chapter in state history known as the period of the party thieves. But the story of the sale of Wisconsin school lands is dramatic with incidents.

It explains to the present generation why this state must support its university largely by taxes. "The first legislature not only failed to elect a board of regents; it refused to provide funds for the immediate organization of the university, says Prof. J. F. A.

Pyre. It had, however, arranged for the valuation of the university lands by electing in joint session three ap praisers for each county of the state. By the time the legislature again came together, appraisals had -been returned on a good portion of the lands and, before the end of another year, sixty-three sections and a fraction had been appraised at an average of two dollars and eighty-seven cents an acre. By an act of 1849, the secretary of state, the state treasurer, and the attorney general were constituted a board of commissioners to direct the sale of school and university lands and to invest and manage tho funds The appraised value was established as a minimum and the commissioners were instructed to offer the lands for sale at auction, commencing December 16, 1850. Many of the appraisals must have been thoroughly dishonest.

The average price per acre set upon the selected university lands was over sixty cents lower than that set upon ordinary school lands. Yet the university lands had been early and competently chosen from the best in the state, white the school lands were the chance sixteenth sections of the townships. These facts, laid before the legislature by the regents were reiterated in the governors message and in a decisive report from a legislative committee on the university and university lands, and, falling in with the enthusiasm which attended the chancellors in anguration, produced so strong an impression upon the legislature of 1850 that a new act was passed, setting the minimum price at ten dollars an acre, and ordering immediate sales under this limitation. In the course of the year, a thousand and fifty-nine acres were disposed of at a little more than the minimum price. The future bloomed; the chancellor in his next report estimated the endowment of the university at $450,000 and was moved to congratulate the state upon saving its university endowment from the disasters which had befallen similar funds in communities less favored by divine providence.

He was doomed to a speedy disillusion. By the next meeting of the legislature a formidable resistance had developed amorg pre-emptors and speculators. The governor wa3 induced to urge the protection of pre-emptors already in possession of university land3 by enabling them to buy, sav forty acres, at the appraised values of 1849. But the legislature went farther and on the fourth of March the assembly, notwithstanding the efforts of the university interests, concurred in a senate bill which set the minimum price at four dollars an acre. Governor Dewey vetoed the bill and it was succeeded by another, which became a law, setting th-.

price at seven dollars, and instructing the commissioners to remit any excess over this amount paid by former purchasers. This reduction was not altogether unwelcome to the university officers since it promised a more rapid sale of the lands. But the end was not yet. The next governor, L. J.

Far-well (1852 and 1853), though appa-reetdy conscientious espoused a policy which proved favorable to private interests. Hi3 first message opposed the withholding of the university lands from sale as inimical to the material progress of the state. The legislature took the cue and voted a re-appraisal of the lands, establishing three dollars an acre as the minimum price at which appraisals might be made. As a further inducement to buyers the requirement of purchase money was abolished. The new appraisers virtually adopted the three dollars imposed by law as a maximum with the result that a good share of the lands were sold at about this price.

But, not only was the price reduced, the fund was mulcted for a new appraisal charge and the security of sales was greatly impaired. The act of 1849 fee the sale of school and university land3 had restricted bid3 from any one person to one hundred and sixty acres for the purpose of confining purchases to actual settlers; but this feature wa3 likewise rescinded and it was not until 1855, after great scandal and damage, that a new limitation (to 300 acres) was imposed. Tie high minimum prices of 1850 and 1851 protected th university land3 temporarily from the greed of speculators, but the reduction of the price and the abolition of forfeit, money enabled buyers to enter large quantities of lands which they couid inspect at their leisure, turning back upon the commissioners those lands which proved undesirable as investments. In a very short time, the holdings of the university consisted mostly of rejected lands of rela tively little value, and in the end, the entire grant netted but a third of the chancellors first estimate. As if this were not enough, the fund was still further mulcted for clerk hire and suffered diminution through bad investment.

It was originally intended that the expenses of the school and swamp land bureau should be sustained from the fees charged to the purchasers of lands. But under Governor Bars tows administration (1854 and 1855), the state officers adopted the practice of drawing money from the treasury for the payment of clerks and pocketing th fees. An investigation of the state departments in 1856 showed that $35,385.75 in office fees had been converted to the private use of the commissioners, an enormous tax for the benefit of two or three people already paid for their time out of the treasury, while there had been charged off against the land3 $22,753.58 in clerk hire, besides other expenses for appraising, advertising, blanks, etc. The loss of the university in charges of this character was more than $10,000. The sum that was lost through bad loans in small amounts of $500 to private individuals throughout the state was said by an investigating committee of regents (1860) to amount to only $500, nor was the charge fully proved that these losses occurred chiefly among private friends and pplitieal adherents of the state officers.

Even according to the standard of those easy-going ways, however, gross offenses had been committed. The university fund had been intrusted to the management of the state departments so that it might be spared any administrative expense; instead it had been exposed to the inroads of the Forty Thieves of contemporary parlance; many precious dollars, that might have helped to launch the university on its way, floated instead the champagne suppers of Barstow and the balance. Prices Reasonable In Baraboo Says Rate Body Denial that the rates allowed the Wisconsin Power, Light and Heat Co. by the railroad commission are unreasonable in Baraboo has been filed in the circuit court by the commission and the defendant company in the suit brought against them by the city of Baraboo lor lower rates. McFarland McFARLAND Theodore Olson has just purchased a Franklin limousine.

It was delivered to him Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Gerhard Hansen of Independence, Iowa, who were recently married, are visiting at the home of the formers parents, Mr. and Mrs.

II. P. Hansen. Mrs. Stiner Thompson has been in Edgerton, helping care for her daughter, Mrs.

E. A. Grefthen, who is ill. Mrs. A.

H. Vick visited in Edgerton over Sunday. ITalvor Vick died at his home here Saturday afternoon about 1:00 oclock. He had been failing for some time and had recently returned from the St. Marys hospital in Madison, where he had been taking treatments for heart trouble and dropsy for 13 weeks.

The deceased is survived by liis wife and four children: Bennie of Madison, Oscar, Homer and Agnes (Mrs. Henry Larson) of this place, besides several sisters and brothers. The funeral will be held at the home at 1:30 and in the church at 2:00 oclock, Tuesday afternoon. Rev. Brandt will officiate.

The Young Ladies Aid will be entertained Saturday afternoon. May 21, at the church parlors, by invitation of the Misses Clara Helgerson, Pearl and Beatrice Alsmo, Inga Gunderson and Mrs. Christ Jenson. Miss Beatrice Alsmo of Madison spent Sunday with her mother, Mrs. T.

Leckwe. The M. L. Y. P.

S. will have a Wiener Roast at Larsons Park, Friday night. May 20, if the weather proves favorable, otherwise there will be an ordinary social at the church hall. Every one welcome. Miss Louise Dyreson, who is teaching at the Sunnyside school at Utica, spent the week end at her parental home here.

Miss Ruth Schantz of Madison, well known here, md Frank Loh-man, will be married Wednesday afternoon. Miss Kaia Daley will be one of the bridesmaids. A marriage license has been issued to Lorraine Holscher, McFarland, and Phillip Kohl of Wanpun. The wedding will occur this month. Edward Johnson of Nebraska motored here recently.

He is visiting his brother Halvor Johnson nrd other relatives. His stay is indefinite. Miss Adelaide Anderson, Madison, scent the week end at her home here. Miss Luella Harrison is visiting friends in Rockford, 111. Miss Essie Rosenkrans went to Mazomanie last Wednesday night to vHt her fatr Rev.

William Hansen and Miss Alice Connell of Janesville spent Sunday at the home of II. P. Hansen. Mr. Carl Helgerson has purchased a new Ford roadster.

Mrs. Ole Elvehjem suffered a stroke last week but i3 recovering. Mrs. Ida Brickson is home from the Blooming Grove sanitarium. ft Allies Meet To Discuss Silesian Problem LONDON There may be a full meeting of the supreme allied council to discuss the situation which has arisen in Silesia as a result of the Polish revolt there.

Dispatches from Paris indicate M. Briand intends to lay the situation before the French chamber of deputies when it meets Thursday. There has been an exchange of views between the British and French governments but suggestions that a meeting be held have been met with assertions in Paris that it would be impossible for the French premier to discuss the Cil-esian affair with Mr. Lloyd George until after Thursday. Advices over the week-end indicate cessation of fighting in upper Silesia, but there was notihng to show that the Poles were withdraw, ing from regions they occupied dur- Rcad The Capital Times Want Ads.

JL REYNOLDS Tobacco Co Wmatonr-Solem N. DATE IS SET FOR SENIOR SWING-OUT That Senior Swing-out should always be held on the first Friday in June, and that no other all-university functions should he held cn that date, was set as a tradition to be followed from next year on, at the Keystone meeting yesterday, as the result of a discussion concerning this years Swing-out. In order that seniors and juriors might carry away the spirit of the ceremony, it was decided that the whole evening must be given up to Swing-out. Pictures of candidates in the Blue Dragon, Yellow Tassel, and F.ed Gauntlet elections will be posted on the bulletin board in Lathrop hall, it was announced, in accordance with a suggestion made at the S. G.

A. convention. The election date was set for June 7. Read Capital Times Want Ads. EDGERTON Gust Gunnulson, who has been in Rochester, with liis wife dur ing the past two weeks, has returned Mrs.

Oscar Mason and her sister, Mrs. Fred Lintvedt, are also at the Mayo clinic, the first for an operation to remove goiter, and Mrs. Lintvedt for ailments of a more general nature. Both expect to return in the near future. Attorney P.

N. Grubb, who has been practicing law in Edgerton since 1913, has joined the law firm of Nolan ard Dougherty of Janesville, and will enter into active partnership with this law firm about June 1, the new firm to be known as Nolan, Dougherty and Grubb, with offices in the Jackman building. Mr. Nolan has been practicing law in Janesville since the early eighties, and Mr. Dougherty has practiced law for about 20 years.

Nolan and Dougherty have been in partnership during the last six years. Mr. Dougherty was recently appointed U. S. district attorney.

The work on the Edgerton Country club grounds is progressing. Enough space is already available to give golf enthusiasts a taste of the coming glories of the course. The junior class of the Edgerton high school has picked its dramatic talent and organized its troup of players. They are now busy rehearsing the piece, The Touchdown, which will be presented June 3. Tom Burns, manager of the General Cigar Co.

warehouse at Winona, has been spending a week at the home of his mother, Mrs. John Burns. Head of Holstein Body For Filled Milk Bill MILWAUKEE, Wis. R. A.

Ryan, DePere, president of the Holstein-Friesian Breeders Association of Wisconsin, Monday urged the asso-, ciation to favor the bill before the'1 legislature prohibiting the sale of filled rndk, at the annual meeting here. Fifty delegates were present. Addresses by Prof. L. J.

Cole, Madison, and J. M. Kelley, Baraboo, were on the program. Sixty three head of Holsteins will be sold at the annual sale Tuesday at the state fair park pavilion. SCIENTIST? Everybody is When All the Facts Are Printed Out Before Them He has a posterior air tube, remarked the learned looking one, peering through heavily tortoise-shell-rimmed glome at the funny little insect in the glass case of the biology budding's weekly common animal exhibit.

A water-scorpion, I believe. Lucille the Cubbess, filled with awe, mechanically noted down his utterance on the address side of a post-card. He was so evidently a real naturalist! A posterior air tube! she faltered, hapelessly, giving him on appealing look. To breathe with when he is under the water, said the glommed one, gently. The water-scorpion lives in wet, marshy places.

Yes, I see, said Lucille, who had discovered a little card of explanations on her end of the exhibit shelf. You may call this a bug if you like, because it really is one. Of course! cried the naturalist, with a look that marvelled at her intelligence. "Are you biology? No, just writing up the menagerie. But a journalist has to know everything.

See, Its forelegs are modified for grasping prey in accordance with its habit of feeding upon small aquatic Wonderful! cried the scientist, melting away in the direction of the door. The Cubbess gazed worshipfully after his retreating figure. How marvellous to have talked to someone who knew all about posterior air tubes on water scorpions! Alas for illusions! Walking around to the other side of the exhibit she discovered that he, too, had been reading from a card! SHAEFFEE TALKS ON ADVERTISING The Advertising of Marshall Field and Company will be the subject of a talk given by G. R. Schaeffer to a vocational conference of all commerce students in the Physics-Economics auditorium at 4:30 p.

ra. Thursday, May 19. Mr. Schaeffer is the Advertising Manager of Marshall Field and Company. He will illustrate his talk with lantern slides.

He will point out the elements which enter into his companys advertising and show the results obtained. The University Advertising club has united with the Madison Advertising club to give a dinner for Mr. Schaeffer at the Y. M. C.

A. Thursday at 6:15. If yon carry liquor in your foun, tain pen, says Tennyson J. Daft, dont write to me. Just send your blotter." ENGINEERS MAG IS 23 YEARS OLD The May issue of the Wisconsin Engineer marks the twenty-fifth milestone in the history of the magazine.

Hence the special interest of the feature article for this month which is a tale of the struggles anc! successes of the founders of the magazine and their successors down to the present day. The article contains much of historical interest, reminiscent of old Wisconsin men, and many points of benefit to staff workers on any campus The part played by the College of Engineering in the University Ex position is set forth in detail, illustrated by photographs, in the second article of the issue. If you didnt understand some of the engineering exhibits, read this article and have your questions answered. For those with a philsophical turn of mind, some material abstracted from notes on The Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering, by Profs. Edward Bennett and IL M.

Crothers, entitled, The Necessity for Precise Ideals, will offer food for thought. Another account of a Successful Wisconsin Engineer, together with the usual editorials, campus and alumni notes, complete the last issue for the year, and make this number uphold the traditions of 25 successive years of sound engineering and journalistic practice. PRESS CLUB PLANS PICNIC ON MAY 24 Press club will hold it3 annual picnic at Monona park, on Tuesday, May 24. The organization extends an invitation to all journalists, whether they be members of the club, or not, to poin in the fun. Games, and races as well as dancing, will be the principal amusements.

The music will be furnished via the nickel--in-the-slot way. A picnic menu of buns, wieners, potato chips, pickles, coffee, with ice cream cones for dessert, has been planned by the refreshment committee. GIRLS! LEMONS WHITEN SKIN Squeeze the juice of two lemons Into a bottle containing three ounces of Orchard White, which any drug store will supply for a few cents, shake well, and you have a quarter pint of harmless and delightful lemon bleach. Massage this sweetly fragrant lotion into the face, neck, arms and hands each day, then shortly note the beauty and whiteness of your Bkin. Famous stage beauties use this lemon lotion to bleach and bring that soft, clear, rosy-white complexion, also as a freckle, sunburn, and tan bleach because it doesnt irritate.

Adv. Madison Orchestral Association Presents the NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA JOSEF STRANSKY HENRY, HADLEY CONDUCTOR ASSOCIATE CONDUCTOR University Armory, May 23 Reserved Seats, $2 and Students $1.50 and $1 Orders for Student Tickets must be accompanied by Fee Card SEAT SALE NOW AT ALBERT E. SMITHS MUSIC STORE READ CAREFULLY GOWNS THE LATEST IN pr 4Ti vrtf For aD occasions mn tno Accordion, Box and Side Bugle, Wooden and Seed rnSS TJS5EADS Filet Metal and Sida VERED BUTTONS All sizes and styles ,28 MISS HETTY MINCH CAREFUL ATTENTION GIVEN TO MAIL ORDERS' BgBf-anv- Tfle.