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University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1914-11-24
s0pHoMoREs WIN IN HOCKEY
Defeated Seniors Yesterday-Tie
With Juniors for Championship.

The sophomore hockey team de-
feated the senior team 20, yester-
day afternoon. During the first
half the sopohmore playing was
much better than the senior.
According to Erma Waltmer.
captain of the senior team, her
team was crippled by the incapac-
ity of the three best players, Enid
Patterson, Myrtle Moore and Mar
garet Darlington. Vera waltmer.
left wing, made both goals for the
sophomore team.
The sophomores and juniors
stand tied for the championship.
or the series which began last
Tuesday the following games are
yet to be played: senior-freshman.
sophomore junior, sophomore
freshman.
The series will end Friday when
the winning team will be pre-
sented with a cup. All the girls
who play in two games of the
seies will be awarded numerals in
hockey.
The sophomore team won the
cup last year.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1914-11-24
The Literary Trawler
The Wife Of Flanders.

Low and brown barns, thatched
and repatched and tattered,
Where / had seven sons until to-
day
A little hill of hay your spur has
scattered
This is not Paris. You have lost
your way!
You, staring at your sword to find
it brittle,
Surprised at the surprise that
was your plan,
Who, shaking and breaking bar
riers not a little
Find never more the death-door
of Sedan.
Must | for more than carnage call
you claimant,
Pay you a penny for each son
you slay?
Man, the whole globe in gold were
no repayment.
For what you have lost. And
how shall / repay?
What is the price of that red spark
that caught me
From a kind farm that never had
a name?
What is the price of that dead man
they brought me
For other dead men do not look
the same.
How should pay for one poor
craven steeple
Whereon you shattered what you
shall not know,
How should l pay you, miserable
people,
How should l pay you every
thing you owe?
Unhappy, can / give you back your
honour?
Though forgave. would any man
forget?
While all our great green earth |
has, trampled on her,
The treason and terror of the /
night We met,
Not any more in vengeance or In /
pardon,
One old wife bargains for a bean |
that's hers.
Thou hast no word to break; no
heart to harden.
Ride on and prosper. You have |
lost your spurs.
C. X. Chesterton. /
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1914-11-24
THE VALUE OF HUMAN LIFE.

We have been taught that as civ
iiization advances, a higher value
is set on human life. Our ideas of
civilization have received more
than one severe jolt since this war
began In Europe. And now we have
reason to wonder whether or not
The Value OF a human life has not
decreased rather than increased as
the centuries, with their boasted
progress. have come and gone.
z The modern American can sit
down and read Of fatalities on some
European battlefield amounting to
tens OF thousands. He is almost
unmoved as headline strikes his
eye. telling him that 100000 men,
under the greatest strategists of
the day. are engaged in the battle
west OF Warsaw. European parlia-
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1914-11-24
C. H. S. TEAM TO KIRKSvILLE
WIN Close Football Season Thurs.
day-Want Special Train.

Twenty-Five men of the Columbia
High School football squad were
out for scrimmage last night pre-
pairing for the game next Thurs
Cay with Kirksville High School.
All are in good shape for the sea-
sons final contest. Thanksgiving
day. Coach Todd says his boys
will put up a good fight.
AT least six of this years team
are playing their last year on the
High School team Schooler,
Schwabe, NJ. Shut, Esrey and Col
man will not be on next years
team.
Efforts are being made to get a
special train from Columbia to
Kirksville for the game Thanks
giving.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1914-11-24

ments are voting new levies of mil
lions of men with apparent thought
of the tremendous cost in human
life. Before this war is over the
casualties will run into figures that
battle the imagination. Europe's
best will be sacrificed, but civilized
Americas horror is not deep.
Do we value men more than did
our forebears centuries ago? When
Leonidas and his Spartans, three
hundred of them, won an enduring
place in history when they died in
their effort to stop the flood OF Per-
slams. How much space would q
battle in which three hundred men
were killed get in the American
newspapers today? Why do we say
that we are more civilized than the
Greeks of the fifth century before
Christ?
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1914-11-24
TURKEYS HOLY WAR.

Like a swarm of locusts the
millions of Moslems will hover
down on the Christian nations" was
the prediction several months ago
when the possibility of Turkeys de-
claring a holy war" and entering
the war arena first came to notice.
1t was pointed out that the fol-
lower of Mohammed who died in
battle with the infidel Christian was
assured safe and quick transport
into the seventh heaven of that
sensuous paradise described by
Mohammed as the future home of
all good Mohammedans. This as
surance, with their belief in predes-
tination, has made the Moslems
show utter contempt for the dan
gers of warfare in the battles of
history in which they have figured.
Turkey declares war. The Sheik-
ul-Islam, the chief ecclesiastical
dignitary of the Mohammedans in
Turkey, issues a decree saying that
in the fighting with Russia, Eng
land and France the duty of every
Mussulman is to his faith. This de-
cree is spread throughout the Mo-
hammedan world. What happens?
The leaders of the Moslems ih the
Malay states Immediately assure
England that her war against Tur-
key will not affect their loyalty to
the empire. And they send her more
troops.
The war is even unpopular
among many of the Turks them
selves. Rumors of a threatened re-
volt of Turkeys navy get into the
newspaper columns. The fanatical
rally of the Mosems seen in past
years hasn't taken place. Why?
It's just this way. The Koran
orders theft punished by cutting
off the offending limb, the right
hand. Today, Imprisonment and
hard labor have been substituted
for this sentence. The Moslem
bible hasn't changed. The Moslem,
has simply added little
common sense to what once was
but blind faith.
Time has changed the fanatical
follower of the epileptic prophet.
He refuses to die and to let his wife
and children starve on the promise |
Of eternal reward. He no longer |
fears the consequence of a para
1ise lost if he refuses to fight the |
Christian. For the Christian inf
lei buffers his bread. /
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1914-11-24
The Open Column
University Women in Politics.

University Women in Politics.
Editor The Missourian:-If one
were to use the activity of Univer-
sity women at the polls in student
elections as a basis for figuring the
activity of educated women in poli-
tics, he would doubt whether wom-
an suffrage would ever carry in
Missouri.
In the senior election this year
not over 80 per cent of the women
voted, according to the judges of
the election. One of the judges
says that four out of every five
women who did vote were brought
up by some man. The man would
come as close to the polls as he
thought safe. The woman would
come up, give her name, take the
ballot, and, smiling at the Judge,
would say, Il don't know either of
these people, but I was told to vote
this way
One prominent young woman
who worked for the suffrage
among the students ad-
mitted that she did not vote. When
asked why. she said there was MOTH
ing great at stake. 1T would be
different in a real election she
said.
When it comes to politics and
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1914-11-24
400 At SHERWOOD" READING
Miss Josephine Barlow Of Stephens
College Faculty PIeases Crowd.

To the group of musicians and
artists in Columbia has been add
ed reader of high type in Miss
Josephine NJ. Barlow, teacher of
expression at Stephens College.
About 400 persons heard Miss Bar
low give a recital in the college
auditorium last night. The read
ing was distinctive both in the
subject chosen and the manner of
delivery. 1t proved that dramatic
art has a place along with the
other great arts and has a field
broader than is usually attributed
to it.
The reading given was the play
Sherwood" by Alfred Noyes. 1t
was handled in pleasing manner
by Miss Barlow. 1t would have
been much easier to give a num-
Der Of humorous or light readings,
but she chose rather a difficult
classic to prove that her art is
above the light and humorous eff
forts of the ordinary reader.
Miss Barlow's home is in Law
renee, Mass. She is a graduate of
both the literary and expression
departments of Mount Holyoke
College. This is her first year at
Stephens.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1914-11-24

suffrage the University is polit-
ical unit in itself. Let the women
take the active part in the next
student election that they would
take in an election in the real
world"
The men are learning some of the
finer points of the game in these
school elections and the women
should profit, too. $.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1914-11-24
Phi Delta Phi Initiates Four.

: The Phi Delta Phi, an honorary
legal fraternity in the School oil
Law, initiated four new members
in the club rooms in the Virginia
Building last night. Those initiat-
ed were: Keene Berry, Columbia,
Mo-, e. C. Lead, Slater, Mo-, s. T.
Wilkes, Columbia, Mo-, and w. A.
Daugherty, Neosho, Mo.
Mr.. Berry is a senior in the Law
School. The other new members
are juniogs.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1914-11-24

Welcome, winter, welcome! How
we love to see you come, bringing
us the Christmas lay-off when we
see the folks T. hum" How we love
your icy whiskers! How we love
your rosy cheeks! But Winter,
how we hate you when our blast
ed bugie" leaks!
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1914-11-24
DOCTOR TAYLOR COMING
University OF Chicago Professor
Will Speak on Social Work.

Or. Graham Taylor of the Uni
versity of Chicago will be in Co
lumbia December 6 and z. Doctor
Taylor probably will address two
churches on Sunday, and Monday
morning he will talk at Assembly.
Monday afternoon he will ad-
dress members of the Y. NJ. C. A.
on Social Service as Life Work. ("
During his stay he will be given
a luncheon by people interested in
social work.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1914-11-24
ADOPT CREDIT SYSTEM
MOberly and Maryville to Use Co.
lumbia Merchants Plan.

The credit system used by the
Columbia Retail Merchants Asso-
fciation will be used by similar or
ganization in two other cities In
the state. The Commercial Club
Of Moberly has sent a letter to C.
o. Hanes, secretary Of the associa-
tion here, asking particulars. They
will use the system here with mod
ifications they will receive from
other merchants associations.
The Maryville Commercial Club
sent two men last week to a study
the system used here. They will
install a system there identical to
the one that is now in use in CO.
lumbia.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1914-11-24
Cosmopolitan Club Meeting.

The University of Missouri
Chapter of Corda Fratres Associa-
ton of Cosmopolitan Clubs has is
sued invitations for its annual
open meeting at s o'clock Novem-
Der 80, in the Y. NJ. C. A. Audi
torium.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1914-11-24

Now that the football season is
past, some Missouri students have
nothing at all to occupy their
minds. Might not the University
faculty recommend a bit of study ?
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1914-11-24
rs THIS COUNTRY UNEAsYa

Last week the newspapers OF the
United States published story
setting forth the views of General
wotherspoon, just retired chief OF
staff of the United States Army,
that this nation should double the
size of its standing army, create a
large reserve and strengthen its
coast defenses-in other words,
prepare a fighting machine large
enough to defend this country with
some efficiency in case of war.
Since then the press of the Unit
ed States has been commenting on
General Wotherspoon's views. Some
of the influential metropolitan pa
pers are very strongly supporting
the plan. To such arguments as
America cannot hope to ask the
world to disarm If she does not
take the lead" and Spain, nation
without arms, is also out of the
war;" answer is made that il Eng
land and France had been better
prepared, the war in all probability
would have been averted, that Aus
tria's weakness was always a
threat of war, and that the War of
1912 and the Spanish-American
War could have been shortened or
prevented if we had been prepared.
ITO be prepared for war is one
of the most effectual means of pre-
serving peace" said George Wash
ington. The Chicago Tribune's
comment is:
The sentimental fallacy of the
doctrinaire pacifst who quarrels
with Washington's common sense
is that passive nations can induce
aggressive, expanding. imperial
people to disarm by offering them
an example of defenselessness.
Nothing in history or in the present
situation of nations justifies this
paradox. Only sentimentalists hope
that war will be abolished through
an example of disarmament offered
by non-aggressive peoples. War
is avoided through an equilibrium
OF power, and until the millennium
arrives weakness will invite ag-
gression whenever aggression |
promises profit"
Does all this indicate that an un-
recognized feeling of uneasiness, a |
change of spirit, is growing in this
country? Are the people beginning
to feel that assured peace is a long,
long way off and that the United
States cannot afford to endanger
herself in order to become an Eek
ample?" 1t may not be, but at any
rate military men who know the
true conditions are pointing out
that our army is almost worthless.
Should it then be kept at all, or
should it be made large enough to
be of worth? II is a question for
serious thought.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1914-11-24
Engineering Students to NJ

: The students in tn School !.
Engineering and the p-s-engine>,
ing students will give \ dance
Columbia Hall at 9 O'Clock touoo.
row night. the music is to be x,
Aished by Pirkey's Orchestra.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1914-11-24

Q. High Team to Montgomery City
The University High School
football team will play the Mont
gomery City High School team
Thanksgiving Day at Montgomery
City.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1914-11-24

Gauntiett to Play Mt High School.
Basil d. Gauntlet will play at
the assembly period at the Univer-
sity High School at IL o'clock to-
morrow morning.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1914-11-24

French Club Gives Musical.
The French Club of the Uniy,r
sity gave a musical program l.r
night.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-06-18
Lanes in the ST. Lawrence.
New Bedford Standard)

New Bedford Standard)
In agitating for lanes of travel for
ships going in opposite directions in
the lower st. Lawrence river and the
gulf, the Montreal Star is turning the
collision catastrophe into a valuable
lesson that might have been learned
by observation, without waiting for
personal experience, If Canada bad
not had the tendency of other folks
not to notice needs until they are
thrust upon them. The lower st.
Lawrence is a great sea and the sepa-
ration of traffic there ought to be en-
tirely possible. Convenience in drop
ping and picking up the pilots may
have had an influence in clinging to
given channel, but the chances are
that nobody ever thought of the dou-
BILE passage ways as a precaution to
safety. Yet this is essentially a day
of safety precaution in industry and
safety-first campaigns in numberless
directions. But all times, unfortun-
ately, are times of personal and COM
munty carelessness and thoughtless
ness.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-06-18
Prof. John Y. Stanton.

Uncle Johnny Stanton. the orni-
biologist of Bates college, celebrated
his Soth birthday on Tuesday. The
people of Lewiston and Auburn are
familiar with the bowed figure, white
hair and kindly face of this sweet
charactered bird lover. For a gener-
alton his bird walks" have been pop
ular with men, women and children.
He knows every note and habit of his
little feathered friends, and from afar
he tells his companions what they are
to see In the twilight of life to him
the birds sing more sweetly, and in
that hour his associates at Bates cling
more closely to the loved professor.
Many friends called upon Uncle
johnny on Tuesday, and he received
many tokens of the occasion. He was
born at West Lebanon, Maine, June
16, 1884. He entered Bowdoin In 1852.
Leaving Bowdoin in 1856, he studied
law for one year, taught for two
years, ana STUDIED in AndoNer Iheo-
logical Seminary for three years. At
the end of two years of successful
teaching in an academy in Derry, N,
H., Prof. Stanton was called to Lew
iston as professor of Latin and Greek
at Bates college. The institution was
then but two years old and since that
TINA. Prof. Stanton has been one of
the faculty.
The quiet. unpretentious life of this
man who has found satisfaction and
happiness in the simpler things of,
life, has undoubtedly had great in
fiuence upon the character of the in
stitution and of its product He has
put ostentation and show out from his
life and has met all as Gods creatures
and his friends.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-06-18
After the Tax Dodgers.
(Springfield Republican,


Federal income tax dodgers are like
ly to have a run for their money, in
view of the announcement by the
commissioner at Washington that pur-
suit of them will be relentless. With
experience the government will be-
come more expert in collecting the
tax. and its sources of information
concerning persons of means will eX-
pand also with the enlargement of its
supervisory powers over corporations.
1t is to be said. on the other hand,
that many people found themselves
exceedingly befuddled in making first
returns of income and that there was
probably a good deal of tax lodging
that was unprecedented and inno-
cent. The government may as well
be lenient at the beginning of tax
system with which the present gen.
Grafton of taxpayers has had no eX-
perience whatever. Time is needed to
educate them, as taxpayers in England
are educated. for in that country their
grandfathers paid an income tax, and
everybody with an income over $500
year expects to get caught by the
tax gatherer lat the source"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-06-18
Stretchind the Excuse.

All over the commercial world ship
pers are figuring out the amounts that
they will be able to save, and the IN
creased amount of business they VIII
be able to do. by the shortening OF
traffic through the Panama Canal. A
committee of the Vancouver Board of
Trade has reduced to definite figures
the difference between the cost of a
voyage from that point to New York
over the old way through the Strait OF
Magellan. While the tolls upon an
ordinary steamer will be ten or twelve
thousand dollars, from sixty to ninety
DAYS will be cut off and the gross saw
ing is estimated at something over
twenty-five thousand dollars. More
over, three voyages can be made
through the new artery where one
could be made in the old way A
great deal more business can be done
and at a much reduced cost. While
the comparison with transportation
over the Panama railroad would prob
ably not show so large a difference,
the cost through the canal will be
much less for our coas.wise COM
nerce even though it can no longer
hope for a disguised subsidy from tolls
exemption.-Boston Transcript.
But why not have given American
consumers the benefit of this dis
guised subsidy" instead of throwing
the advantage to foreign merchants
and shipping? 1t seems to us that
the excuse has been stretched until II
is wholly transparent.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-06-18

the listeners will want the subject
served hot; and they will be gratified.
The Panama canal is an American
enterprise, running through American
territory, and guarded by American
force. We alone are responsible for its
operation, it's upkeep and its safety.
We alone must control it.
Public sentiment will support the
whole Of the proposition; and public
sentiment is forming. The Presidents
reversal of his position took the coun
try by surprise, and surprise has been
followed by no little impotence, not
to say indignation. Great Britain's
hand is big and plain in the business,
and Great Britain has never been pop
ular in our politics. And she is less
popular today because of this episode
than hitherto in fifty years
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-06-18

that the admitted trickery was the
work of a few, and unknown by the
candidates. Fudge!
The President approved the platform
and endorsed it in it's entirety. On
Aug. Is, at Washington Grove, N. j.,
in an address before an association of
farmers, he fatty endorsed canal tolls
exemption and pointed out 70 his hear
ers the advantages to the public in
which such coastwise competition with
the railroads would result.
When Woodrow Wilson and VIM. j.
Bryan sought power at the hands of
the people, they were for tolls exemp-
ton. Since that time some force has
caused them to change their minds,
to repudiate party pledges, and to be-
tray the people.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-06-18
Editors Table

Greeks in America" by Thomas
Burgess. Sherman, French & Co.,
Boston. sl.S5 net.
This book brings to us especial in
terest Just now, in view of the war
clouds hanging over Greece and Tur-
key and also the fact that the author
has recently come to Augusta as the
rector of St. Barnabas Episcopal
church. 1t has been kindly received
by readers of that kind of puhlica-
ton and the press notices have been
very fiattering.
The book opens with a concise his
tory of the Greek people through its
several thousands of years of varying
conditions, treats of all the causes Tor
and conditions of the immigration 10
America and brings out the activity
and prominence shown and attained by
that race in our land. They now
number over 250,000, the greater part
having come in the last 80 years. They
are all Industrious and many OF them
have accumulated wealth, while bust
ness prominence and social standing
has been won TO a marked degree. The
book carries a vast fund of informa-
ton and statistics but is written in
very interesting style, being without
that "dryness'' which charaeterizes so
many works of a like nature.
A pleasing word for the book is CIV
en- by Charles George, Georsaklis OF
this city, a well-known and weil-reao
Greek. who says Il have read the
book with increasing interest. because
found the statistics correct, the state
ments reliable and up-to-date and the
style so much like a story that
couldn't let it alone until had finished