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University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1914-02-27
Y. THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.

One unique feature of the University
of Missouri is that it is not for grown
up folks entirely. Over on the south
west corner of the campus is a frame
building in which miniature Univers-
Z ity men and women work and grow.
/ This frame building is not at all
like a school house and yet it is call
ed the Elementary School. The high
mission door and the windows at the
entrance resemble the opening off the
porch at home. The door opens into
a reception room hall. There friend
ly, inviting atmosphere greets the pu-
pill.
There is a bubbling fountain in the
hall Up the stairway on the land
ing is a huge bunch of flowers in the
spring and fall and in the winter a
bit of bright foliage TO give a touch
of warmth.
A little girl comes quietly through
the hall. She stops to drink at the
fountain. then goes up the stairs in
a busy way. The bell in SwitZler
Hall rings. Soon boys in twos and
threes come down the steps. They
are talking and laughing together.
The peace and enjoyment of a we'll
regulated family are here. The usual
constraint of a formal school room is
lacking.
Through double doors pupils pass
from the front hall into the fountain
ROOM The sun shines in nearly all
day long through the big windows.
This is not a class room. for there are
no desks or chairs. Yet it is the
real center of the school life.
At helsouth windows is the aqua
rum. In one compartment are eggs,
tad-poles and frogs at various stages
of development. In another are gold
fish, turtles and snails. FlOwering
plants and ferns surround the boy-and-
goose fountain which supplies a con-
stant stream of water trickling over
rocks and shells.
The fountain room is the music
room. Here the pupils learn to sing.
The choir boys" in the bas-relief
above the piano is their inspiration.
The children enjoy their folk dances
in this room. too.
At the north end of the room are
cases containing many pieces of work
done by the pupils. Here are draw
ings, writings, collections of pictures
and samples of needle-wOrk and wood
craft. Here are collections of mount
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1914-02-27
TWENTY.SIX YEARS An EDITOR.

The Hume Border Telephone, a
weekly newspaper published by Lewis
W. Moore, at Hume. Mo-, is celebrat-
ing its twenty-sixth birthday.
The foregoing paragraph does not
tell the whole story Hume, Mo-, ac-
cording to the 1910 census, has ex-
actly 514 people. According to the
newspaper directories the Border
Telephone has nearly 1000 subscrib-
ers.
As Editor Moore modestly expresses
ii:
1T is with a great deal of (and We
hope pardonable) pride that We call
attention to our twenty-sixth birth
day anniversary. We consider it quite
a journalistic feat to keep a newspa-
per alive for &c years in town the
size of Hume
There have been many times when
we could not earn enough money to
pay running expenses, let alone buy
provisions for our family We are sat
isfied that the same amount of energy
and toll expended in other lines would
have earned for us a competency.
But true success cannot be meas
ured by dollars, which is about the
only excuse country editor has for
hanging on" from year to year.
Here's hoping that We may be able
to continue and keep out of the poor
house for another quarter of century.
In the meantime we promise to do our
full duty in printing the news and
boosting for a bigger and better
Hume"
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1914-02-27
WHY A NATIONAL HIGHWAY.

The question in the National Gov
ernment's appropriating millions for
the building of roads is whether the
money shall be expended upon one
main road reaching clear across the
continent or scattered among the vari-
Gus states.
The contest is growing bitter. Those
favoring a highway call their oppo-
nents ''pork-barrel' statesmen, saying
that they want to spread the money
into their districts to please the voters.
On the other side. those who advocate
a main road are said to be the lobby
lists of the automobile trusts.
There you are. Both arguments are
personal and overlook the most i'm
portant consideration of which would
be best for the country.
Ii is true that a continental high
way would give the most benefit to
the parts of the country through which
it ran. But it would be permanent
Too much of the money in the other
plan would be wasted because there
would not be enough funds to make
the road work lasting.
When single county builds a rock
road. all the roads crossing it or lead
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Judge Walker. SIS. a Candidate Again.

Thomas A. Walker, an alumnus of
Missouri, is candidate for reelection
to the office of probate judge in La
is serving his second term. He was
graduated from the School of Law in
1888 and is a Democrat
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{. H. :. and L. II. :. to Play Basketball

The basketball teams of the COlum-
bia High School and the University
High School Will play in Rothwell
Gymnasium, Saturday night
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Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-12-23
ARMY OF 100000
READY IN SPRING
Allies Preparing For Tremen'
d0us Assault Upon Germans
In France and Belgium
Relieve Veterans.

In Belgium. Dec. 19.-Just now SOL
diers of both the allied armies n the
German army in Flanders and France
are alternating along the 200-mile
battle front. There is skirmishing and
an occasionally bloody engagement,
when one side OF the other attempts
q ground gaining movement, but the
real business OF fighting has been de-
ferreG until spring.
AT that time the British, French and
Belgian governments will be in a po-
sition to place in the field against the
Germans at least 4,000.0 900 troops. That
is the strategy of Kitchener, French
and Joffre. All is being conserved for
a great blow at the army of invasion
when the weather again becomes mild
enough for field operations.
The picked men of each side, who for
four long months held the renches at
the front. q been relieved by less
valuable fighting units and are being
held IN reserve.
Except for the sporadic artillery
duels that go on night and day there
is little fighting. And in all probability
even the she'll fire will diminish grad
ually as the Information grow more
complete. for it costs money to hurl
great shells in the general direction
Of a dug in" army when the chance
of inflicting extensive injury is slight.
The winter campaign is on n these
men are resting on their arms. In the
spring then this great. new allied army
of 1900, 600 will hurl itself on the Ger
mans in the hope of winning a decisive
victory.
The French troops make an army of
nearly 100000 picked men as they
now stand. and to them SOC, 900 are be-
ing added. Kitchener's policy has not
been quite clear in the past. The COM
p%aratively few men who have stood
the brunt of so much heavy fighting
have 20 been sacrificed in vain. At
home there is being recruited an army
that win certainly exceed 1900. 600.
They are being withheld from the
front until thorough, vigorous training
may nave seasoned them for actual
warfare.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-12-23
BERLIN PRESS DECLARES
VICTORY GREATEST OF WAR

Berlin. Dec. 10, (via Amsterday and
London). = The Lokal Anzeiger, COM
menting on the news of a German vic
tory in Poland. says:
Never since this old earth has had
a history has such a gigantic battle
been fought. Seldom in centuries has
there been an event of such decisive
Importance. The battle of Poland will
be classed in history among the VIC
tories of the first rank. 1t will be men
battle of Salamis and Leipsic.
W. have TO thank Won Hindenburg
and the desperate courage of his troops,
who fought under the glorious banners
of Germany and Austria"
The Tageblatt. after eulogizing the
bravery and tenacity of h troops, par
ticularly the West P%russians and He's
slams. adds:
This victory. with the defeat of the
Russians. is particularly significant be-
cause the Russians threw all their
force into the scale in order to win a
victory. From the most distant por-
tions of the empire. Siberia and thu
Caucasus. the last reinforcements were
brought up. Politically the victory will
have widespread Importance. especially
with the Balkan states. If one or the
other of these states counted on the as.
sistance of Russia it will now recog
nize it's vain hope.
with this victory in the West Polish
theater, the campaign in the eastern
theater Of the war is for the create,
part decided"
All the newspaper hail the victory
in Poland as the most brilliant achieve.
ment in the campaign. One of them
coupling the eastern situation with the
b~ombardment Of the east Va of Eng.
land says that while the naval gun.
were laundering sit was a salute 70,
the victory in the east and the oveI.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-12-23
GERMANS BLOW UP
FRENCH TRENCHES
Attack. However, RepuIsed,
Says Paris-Further Gains
In Flanders and North
France Reported.

Paris, Dec. 19.-The French war Of
flee this afternoon gave out an Off
cial communication as follows:
The day of December IL was marked,
we said yesterday, by an advance on
our part in Belgium. where every coun-
ter attack undertaken by the enemy
failed.
I'm the region of Arras a vigorous
offensive made us masters of several
trenches.
These are located at Auchy. La Bas-
see. st. Laurent and Blangy. At this
last mentioned place we occupied a
front more than M kilometer long, al
most all the first line trenches of the
enemy.
I'm the region of Tracy-Le-Val, on
the Aisne. and in Champagne, our
heavy artillery gained distinct advan-
tages.
In the Argonne the Germans blew
up n of our trenches. to the north
of -Four de Paris. and e%ndeavored to
come out from their position with three
battalions of troops. This infantry at
tack. as Well as the one they undertook
at st. Hubert. was repulsed.
ITO the east of the Mouse and in the
Nosges there is nothing to report"
London. Dec. 19.-The Daily Chron-
icle's Dover correspondent says the
allies advanced to West Ende yester-
day after the shells of the allied war
ships made the German positions there
untenable.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-12-23
CANADIAN TROOPS
REGISTER A I c.
Officer Who Inquired for
Complaints Received
Them.

London. Dec. 19.-Canadian troops
now in England have not been sent to
the front because English generals
don't van them there. which is a very
good but to go into detail a
ways: The reason the generals don't
want them is because the Canadian
soldier is a big, broad, rough and ready,
devil-may-care soldier, and "a magni11-
cent fighter.
The generals. he says, is not suffi-
GENTLY trained to fit the needs of the
fields. They want disciplined troops.
The Canadian is AN independent crea-
ture.
An officer suddenly popped into the
mess tent at Salibury plain recently
and said he had been sent to receive
any complaints they had to make about
the food. Instantly every man drew his
arm back and let fly a half boiled po-
tato at the officers head.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-12-23
AFRICAN REBELLION
ENDED IS BELIEF
General Botha, Premier of Col.
ony, Ceases Active Cam
paign of Suppression.

Cape Town. (via London), Dec. 49,
General Louis Rotha. premier of the
Union OF South Africa, considers that
the rebellion. apart from the round
ing up of a few stray bands. is at an
end. Accordingly. he has gone for a
short vacation on his farm before I'M
dertaKing a campaign against German
southwest Africa.
With the capture of General De Wet
and the death of General Beyers in an
engagement. the South African govern
ment recently announced that the re-
bellion started by the leaders was prac-
tically at an end Most of the follow
ers of DeWet and Beyers. it is stated,
have been either captured or dis
perSed.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-12-23
KAISER WILL RETURN
TO FRONT THIS week
Inference Is That Emperor
Will Not Be Compelled to
Undergo Operation

Amsterdam. (via London). Dec. 49,
According to the TELEGRAPH. Emperor
William. who has been detained in
Berlin for some time because of illness,
will return to the front this week.
The emperor, the dispatch says has
just conferred the decoration of the
Iron Cross. first class. on Chancellor
Won Bethmann-Hollweg.
The inference OF the above dispatch
Is that the kaiser will not be com
PEELED to undergo an operation, as in
dictated in previous dispatches
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-12-23
ALL ATTACKS REPuLsEp
SAYS BERLIN WAR OFFICE

Berlin. (via London), Dec. 19.-T'he
German war office this afternoon gave
out an official statement as follows:
The fighting in Newport continues
favorable, but no decision yet has been
reached.
1.-THE French attacks between La
Bassee and Arras and on both sides
of the river Somme have resulted in
failure with severe losses to the en-
envy.
"On the Somme the French lost 1000
men in prisoners and at least 1,S0O in
dead; our own losses We're under 1000.
I'm the Argonne forest our success
full attack resulted in the capture of
some 1900 prisoners in addition to
wal material. There have been no i'm
portant developments elsewhere on the
western front"
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-12-23
RIVERS AND HARBQRS BILL
PARED TO THE BONE

Washington. Dec. 19.-"Pared to the
bone" was the phrase, used by Chair
man Sparkman of the House rivers and
harbors committee, to describe the con-
dition of the rivers and harbors bill.
when completed late last night. The
bill provides for the expenditure of
$34, 12S,5S0 on waterways improve
mcnt. The original estimate of the
government engineers, submitted to the
committee at the beginning of this
session, asked for $4,000, 900.
The iIissouri river appropriation this
year is, $1,000, 600. mouth to Kansas
City; $4,000. Kansas City: to Sioux
City; $4,000. Sioux City to Fort Ben
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-12-23
SAYS GERMANS WOULD
annex SWITZERLAND
Editor Of Matin Charges That
Kaiser's Government Plans
to Seize Republic.

Paris. 1925 a. m. Dec. 19.-As proof
that Germany made plans to annex
Switzerland, the Matin prints photo
graphs of German 10 and 20 pfennig
stamps which are printed in black
letters 'Schweiz, 10 centimes," and
"Schweiz. 25 centimes."
The editor claims that he has stamps
of this kind in his possession.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-12-23
MAJORITY OF BERLIN'S
war OFFERING is DEAD

Amsterdam. (via London). Dec. 10
Berlin newspapers reaching here de-
clare that a majority of the 10000 resi-
dents of Berlin, who went to the front,
have lost their lives.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-12-23

London. Dec. 19.-Again the Ger
mans n the Austrians seem to be on
the crest of a wave of battle as the in
terminable struggle in the east o
tinues. Again Berlin is gay with flags
and again Petrograd declines to concede
victory to the invaders.
Berlin and Vienna contend, however,
that the Russians are falling back along
the entire front from the Baltic to the
Carpathians. with the invading center
less than 80 miles from Warsaw.
To the south, where a few weeks ago,
Russians were pouring over the Car
pathians into Hungary, combined Aus
tro-German columns have now forced
them back through the passes, 1T is
asserted, nave advanced two-thirds of
the way across Galicia and are nearing
the fortress of Lemberg, occupied by
the Russians early in the Galician CAM
paign.
Russia Comedies Nothing.
The Russian Official announcements
admit none of this. They dismiss the
happenings in Galicia as engagements
of no Importance and class the opera
tons to the west of Warsaw in the
same category. 1t is claimed, however.
that the extreme Russian right near
Mlawa. has thrust the Germans back
and that Russian cavalry has swung
across the southern border of east
Prussia.
According to latest advices from
Warsaw. the nearest city of conse-
quence to the fighting zone, declares
hat a great battle is in progress so
miles west of that point. The Polish
situation. according to these dis
patches. centers at ~Sochaczew, where
the Germans have succeeded in re-
establishing themselves. after having
suffered heavy losses.
Here the We're met With
severe resistance on the part of the
Russians. Hand 10 hand encounters
resulted. Both sides We're reported to
be bringing up heavy reinforcelnents.
which were expected to turn the tide
OF battle.
Russian offensive against Silesia and
Posen completely broken down. but
that the Russians everywhere have
been driven back. while the Austro-
German forces have crumpled the
Russian steam roller at every point in
the great battle line.
General Retreat Not UNLIKELY.
What the extent of the German sue
cess amounts to canno be estimated
though it is a keen disappointment to
the allies. For several days PetrosraG
has intimated that a drawing back OF
the Russian armies might be rendered
necessary. The Russians have beer
fighting under a severe handicap. the
Germans possessing superior Transport
tation facilities. 1t is said that a gen
eral retreat of the Russian armies
would place them in much better posi-
ton to move troops and supplies from
one point in the battle line to another
while the Austrians and Germans
would FIND themselves under the same
handicap which the Russians hereto
fore have had to contend with in the
matter of transportation.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-12-23
German Capital Is Celebrating
What Is Termed Greatest
Victory Yet Scored In
Present War.
FEW DETAILS ARE KNOWN
Petrograd Comedies Nothing
and Sets Up Counter Claim,
But General Retreat
Is Probable.

rerlin. (via London), Dec. 49,
The German general staff today
gave out the following Statements:
ON the frontiers of east and
west Prussia, the situation is I'M
changed.
I'm Poland we continue to pur-
u the %retreating enemy"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-04

ne went 10 the field with a certain grim apathy. he
event was not with him. he was the playhng OF Dei-
tiny. In six wears ne had fought eleven ducls.
Thereafter ne fought no But life was % closed
boo, 10 him Those six years shut him ont from the
future. as they shut him out from the past lie was
aware Of no rcmorc: only of dull regret that Inc h'd
not himself fallen in that first duel, and of consuming
wonder that he of an men, should have been singled ont
for the special malice Of fortune turned aside from me
o,ic pathway me had chosen, and driven through TINS
bloody thoroughfarc to pcrliton There could be mo
ovcrri,lng Providence no immuable Justice. He lett
HI; faith. with his future, the field Of honor
Slowly the scandal died away. The Count lived
quietly IN Paris seeking acquaintance nor avorhnG
any a man Of silcnccs rather than Of mystery None
Of his ducs had been fought on French soil The rum"S
Of them therefore, came rumo from affair." 10 aic IN
time TO the quality Of the merely fabulous before the
plain evidence Of the mans quiet life anil obviously
pacific character. 1t is some proof OF the tenacious
vitality Of rumor that ten years later he was still spoken
Of rs ~thc notorious Count Stcnart, the duchs'
though few men could have citcl chapter and book.
Two lettcrslay onthc Count table, one blue ''',I
looking document, the other bearing amiliarp"'t-
rnarl;-from his mothers notary no doubt Each year.