TUB DAILT NlBBlbKJLR Grocer Must Also Be Something OF A Chef, Says Allen To Clas That a grocer must be something of a chut wad tho startling statement made by Fred Allen of the O. J. Kirs company in his talk given before the class iu retail salesmanship Tuesday morning. This is the second of a se ries of talks on the necessity of thu salesman knowing the goods he selis Mr. Allen explained that in order to work up a demand for new or fancy groceries the salesman must educate the housewife in their use. Very often the woman who entertains welcomes suggestions from her grocer as to tho new and unusual in refreshment. Not only must the salesman be tble to suggest a new commodity but he must be able to tell how it Is pre pared for the table. He must under stand what kinds of dressings will blend most harmoniously with certain kinds of food. In short ho must bb connoisseur of food. Mr. Allen discussed In detail sev eral kinds of fancy groceries, such as alienator pears, caviere and Swiss cheese, telling where they are pro duced and touching on their use. ORGANIZATIONS. Palladlan. The Talladian Literary Society elected officers at a business meeting Monday evening. Those who will hold office the rest of the year are: Tresident. Pwight Sprccher; vice presidnt. Opal Lewton; recordinp secretary, Dorothy Wahlgren; corre sponding secretary, Anne Streitz; treasurer, Edith Olds; social chair man. Hertram Ellsworth; rrograni chairman. Mary Taker; hall commit tee, Reginald Frary, Mildred Mc Millin; poster chairman, Gretchen Sprecher; reporter, Harold McMillin; critic, Olive Hartley; historian. Dwight Slater. WANT ADS. LOST Diamond ring setting Sunday on either R or S streets, between 12th and Kth streets. Liberal re ward. Return to Student Activities office. 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COBB SPEAKS TO LARGE AUDIENCE (Continued from page one.) most necessary, a second fried dough nuts until the greese popping oil her hands blistered them Into great red nionstrocities and still another fainted at her work and fell face downward on the glowing coals. Mr. Cobb depicted humor as the saving grace of the American people and illustrated this with humorous stories scattered throughout hie whole speech. He told the story oi" the biggest laugh the German army had during the war. He and four other war correspondents were wan dering through Belgium when they came upon the fourth son of the kaiser and his staff. Mr. Cobb wore a straw hat without any crown, u pair of gray bedroom slippers and a butcher's canvas smock cohered with grease thick enough to furnish a blue blaze forty-eight hours if U were set afire. The others looked worse. As Mr. Cobb approached a high officer ho raised his hat and the German army let out its greatest laugh of the war. Reception After Lecture. After the lecture, Mr. Cobb wa& given an informal reception at tho home of Mr. and Mrs. Carlisle L. Jones, Eighteenth and D streets. Among those in attendance were Gov ernor and Mrs. Samuel McKelvie, Prof, aud Mrs. M. M. Fogg, William Hiller, Prof. II. Alice Howell, Misd Fitzgerald, Mr. and Mrs. Grier, How ard Murfin, Kenneth Saunders, Story Harding, Oswald Black, Roy Gustaf son, George Maguire and Amos Ginn. SEERESS RENOUNCED BY UNIVERSITY AUTHORITIES (Continued from page one.) stated, "that it was without the knowledge or approval, so far as cn bo learned, of any department ol the, University, or of its higher nuthorri ties, that Miss ceves Becuied tho priv ilego of lecturing in a University hall during the last few days. The room was let, I understand, on a purely commercial basis, as a couscquincc of a misunderstanding arising in the office of the superintendent of grounds and buildings of the Univer sity," he stated. 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