SIXTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK — PART VIII. 871 



People of sterling worth and character are apt to have a feeling ot 

 contempt for one, who, by his faultless dress and spruce manners shows 

 that he is actuated by a "dudes" view of life. A coat with the mark of 

 use upon it is a recommendation to people of sense, for the best coats 

 in our streets are worn on the backs of penniless fops and men who 

 never pay their debts. Rev. Madison Peters said that a dandy reminded 

 him of the cinnamon tree because the bark is worth more than the body. 

 In a large open square in the city of New Orleans stands a fine marble 

 statue erected to a woman who never owned a silk dress or wore a kid 

 glove, but this monument was erected by the city as a thank offering 

 for a helpful, unselfish life. Some parents think their sons have no 

 chance because they have not means to send them to eastern colleges to 

 finish them up, as they term it, for some business or profession. I know 

 I shall be bitterly censured when I tell you that I believe it would be 

 better for the young men and also for the country if fewer young men 

 were sent to eastern colleges. I have great faith in our grand free schools 

 and believe that any boy of the right make up can obtain an education In 

 the schools of Iowa and thus keep at home thousands of dollars that 

 would make possibilities for young men. When parents send their boys 

 to eastern colleges they are not sure but they may be spending their time 

 learning that barbarous game called football or some other thing as use- 

 less, or they may lose their lives before they get through thai foolish, 

 degrading practice called hazing. Boys and even girls are allowed in 

 these colleges to carry on performances that are a disgrace to civilization, 

 if newspaper reports are true. If the people of China should practice 

 such things you would be collecting money to send missionaries among 

 them. I will relate one incident that you may all remember, for It hap- 

 pened last November and the account was in many papers. At Kenyon, 

 Ohio is located Gambler college. Attending that college was a young 

 man by the name of Stuart L. Pierson. A college fraternity known as 

 the Delta Kappa Epsilon is one of the fraternal institutions of that col- 

 lege. When young Pierson came to college the first thing to be attended 

 to was to initiate him into the mysteries of this order. First he wa& 

 made to crawl through the town on his hands and knees while his com- 

 panions beat him with sticks and stones. Deep abcesses formed on his 

 limbs until he could not walk for some time, but as soon as he could walk 

 they must finish the initiate ceremony, so they took him to a railroad 

 bridge and tied him to the track and went away intending to return and 

 release him before the regular train was due, but when they went to 

 release him an extra train had been scheduled for that fateful night and 

 he was already cut into shreds. But no one could be punished for that 

 dreadful deed for not one of all the thousands of this fraternity would 

 dare to betray the facts of this terrible tragedy. A college education 

 counts for, little unless mixed with plenty of common sense. 



It was^a boy born in a log cabin and without schooling or books who 

 won the admiration of mankind by his plain, practical wisdom while 

 president during our civil war and who emancipated four million slaves. 

 There is success for every boy under our flag who has energy and ability 



