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Newspaper
Franklin
Location
Franklin, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1918
Page
2
In the Franklin Indiana post office record from 1908 the item notes second class matter status dated November 18 1908 under the 1879 act. The staff includes Editor-in-Chief and Associate Editor William Book Nellie Eikenberry and Yandell Cline.
Ben Franklin references time and a dry state while noting drought prospects. The DePauw Daily-A prominent Pas sa Picca Pie quips about open season for pins. Americans reportedly captured two Germans in a raid as college chatter imitates a booster plea for The Daily.
A philosophical reflection on war as a moral good when defending oppressed peoples. The piece argues war reveals a nation’s decay if treated as mere instrument of powerful masters. It situates fighting tyranny as a higher duty and cautions against selfish motives.
The excerpt cites John Stuart Mill on war as a righteous, liberating fight for justice and the renewal of individuals. It notes the enduring relevance of Mill’s lines to modern leaders in wartime, asserting the timeless truth that moral struggle shapes freedom and humanity.
Franklin students reflect on the recent Big Meeting and the influence of Dr. Johnson and Mr Naftzger. The revival of religious interest sparks renewed faith and duty, urging students to apply lessons by working diligently to benefit mankind.
The piece criticizes students labeled as Honor Grabbers for their obsession with joining multiple societies and collecting honors. It portrays these individuals as overly eager to belong to every group from social fraternities to eccentric associations and to pile up accolades, dulling genuine achievement.
The piece describes the Honor Grabber as a self serving student who blends confidence with tact to secure positions and honors. He attends meetings to curry favor with those in power, accepts roles to project ability while often underperforming, and gathers hollow glory as he leverages class structures. The remedy urged is stricter student discernment and adherence to the honors point system.
The University of Nebraska Base Hospital Unit 49, 299 personnel, organized last December, is ordered to mobilize March 25 in Omaha. The unit will train at Camp Dodge and head to the front in France by June, with Liberty Bonds urged to support the war effort.
Carnegie Tech will start a new war course for engineers under the ordnance department from Washington. The first group will include twenty to thirty men to be sent to Pittsburg. The note also explains the term Yengees as a corruption of Anglais and its evolving usage among British and American groups.
The Columbia University Committee of Women's War Work promotes a course begun yesterday at Armingdale by the New York State School of Agriculture. It urges college and professional women to exchange porch reading for weeding and farming tasks during vacation.
Ten American universities respond to Daily Kansan queries by announcing general faculty salary increases to offset the rising cost of living. Salaries below 2500 dollars rise 5 to 20 percent, with some cases including a 200 dollar gift. Wyoming reports a regular annual increase while Mississippi seeks a 25 percent boost from its legislature.
Minnesota Daily reports a college girls Bible class purchases a knitting machine for the Home Economics building sewing room. The machine will be accessible to all girls to aid Red Cross efforts and support troops abroad, with machine-made socks lasting three days and hand-made five, promoting steady supply for the army.
At a mass meeting of UC students a resolution was adopted to restore the alumni represented Athletic Board of Control. The move follows ongoing student agitation for stronger athletic teams since the close of the last successful football season.
The University of Illinois heating plant burned around seventy tons daily on hot days and up to 256 tons during severe winter conditions. Last winter the plant consumed between 29,000 and 30,000 tons of coal at an expense near 27000 dollars. Daily Ulini.
News from Baghdad reports a Turkish attack burned the famed Oriental library of the Carmelite Fathers in Baghdad. The collection numbered over twenty thousand items on Mesopotamia topics, including rare unpublished manuscripts bought in the last century.
The history traces to 1794 when Samuel and Elisha Payne settled in the Chenango Valley. In March 1816 Daniel Hascall and twelve Baptists formed the Baptist Historical Society to support education. The institution opened formally in May 1820 after a charter in 1819. The first work began in a downtown building with six students.
Magdalene Glick of Amanda Ohio wed George P Boyer of Canal Winchester Ohio on March 13 in a simple ceremony attended by close relatives. Glick a Franklin sophomore and Delta Delta Delta member. Boyer a Franklin senior and aviation trainee at Columbus Ohio. Cabinet members led Y M C A meeting with talks on committee work and a three fold plan for the coming year.
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