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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-20

Editor The Times Why does the fire in the CRATE go out
and why does burn up brightly when the ashes stir
red? little boy will be grateful for to these
questions. HAROLD.
The fire in the CRATE anything else that is burning will
go out the supply of air cut off, for unless the flames
bine with air oxygen there can be no fire.
But the CRATE fire often goes out when there plenty
OF fuel for to burn and when there plenty of air in tho
And the for this is that the draught in the
chimney is not very strongnot strong enough draw the
air to the flames and for of the fire sufocates
goes out
The air enters the fire almost entirely from below but if
there ashes in the CRATE get to the fire to keep
burning That is why the flames glow when stir up the
ashes in the CRATE.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-20
CALIFORNA'LL STOP HIM

The police of the East send warning to California author
tiles look for and arrest mad millionaire who escaped
from sanitarum at Wawatoosa Wis., by bribng all attend
ant
The is said to have fortune of 100000 and to be
provided his journey to the fair with check book upon
which he draws literally He is said to be affable and harm
less his pecuares being the wearing of dress suit in the
morning and drinking champagne instead of coffee for break
fast.
Oh yesl California officers will arrest him all right if he
shows and then him under bond to remain in the state
long the money holds out California simply dotes
that brand of insanity
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-20

Don't say cit can't be DONE" The chan
are you find somebody doing it.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-02-01
MORE DOGS FOR COLUMBIA.

To him that hath shall be given.
At least that seems to be Columbia S
position when it comes to dogs. Not
content with letting us stumble over
and kick our way through our local
dogs, bill in the state legislature
proposes to make Columbia the dog
center of Missouri. to load a whole
sale-sized kennel on us and have us
supply the state with dogs. Woe to
us! Woe to US!
This is. however, a really serious
business. 1t is part of the movement
to get rid of the useless dogs of the
state and improve the remainder. The
dog can no longer run at will with
only his master to fight it out with
the neighbors because of him. His
case is to come under the considera-
ton of the government, and unless
he acts according to statute his fu-
ture is dark.
The bill now before the state legis-
lature is directed against Sheep
killing dogs in particular. The dog
is one of the greatest hindrances to
sheep-raisers, and it is not proposed
to let him stand in the way of cheap
and valuable mutton any longer. The
bill proposes state tax on all dogs,
and in this way it is hoped to get
rid of many of them, for men will not
raise dogs by the pack if they have
to pay taxes on them.
Dogs are often nuisances, and it
will do. no harm at all to cut down
their numbers. Rigid laws will in
sure greater care on the part of the
owners in training their dogs and
keeping them at home, in which case
a dog is a good thing to have. AS for
the kennels in Columbia, only the
best of dogs would be raised in
them, dogs that would be an aid to
the farmer, not a pet.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-02-01
The Open Column

Editor The Missourian: The Mis-
sourian misunderstood Mr.. Severance
about the library when it credited him
with saying that only forty-five books
were lent to town people last year.
What Mr.. Severance did say was that
forty-five town people are registered
at the library.
Having worked at the delivery desk
for four years have come to know
these people and they draw out a
large number of books. They use
the library regularly Others who are
not registered, among them children,
draw out books occasionally. Fic-
ton and children's books are most in
demand, which we can supply to a
limited degree. Books on art, home
economics and travel are next most
often called for. Mr.. Severance did
not mean to imply that the library
issued only forty-five books to town
people last year. His figures were to
show the number of town people who
make use of the library. The charg-
ing system does not make it possible
to tabulate the number of books they
take out.
HERSCHEL M. COLBERT.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-02-01

boldly set out in black type: "The
Salvation Army suicide bureau al
673 South State street gives aid and
advice to would-be suicides" 1t of
fers an interesting problem in psy.
chology. VIII the statement coun-
teract the story in the mind of the
person who contemplates taking his
life? In some cases such persons
have gone to the bureau and received
aid, have been tided over the dark
spell and saved. OF course, such a
plan cannot reach all, but If one life
is saved it is worth while, and it will
be interesting to watch the results
of the experiment.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-02-01
The Literary Trawler
A Debt.

A Debt.
What do owe you. all you stranger
Swinging along abreast with roar
of song,
Smiling at me decrepit from your
strong places?
What do l owe you? What have 1
left to give
To you who swing to death that
may live?
Shall it be pipes and puddings, cup
board-favours,
Blankets and socks and mittens,
creature-boons,
Or something that a dash of soul en-
favours?
What have I left, what precious
thing to give
To you who swing to death that 1
may live?
Bowing my heart in reverent salu-
tation
l search my treasure-house but
nothing find,
Nothing to match with your supreme
oblation-
Soul-bankrupt still, whatever gifts
l give
TO you who swing to death that l
may live? j. r.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-02-01
Presbyterian Study Class Elects.

The study class of the Presbyterian
Church has elected the following of.
ficers: President, Mrs. Robert Ram
say; recording secretary, Mrs. Fred
erick Tisdel; treasurer, Mrs. J. C.
Whitten; secretary of literature, Mrs
Walter Ballenger; secretary of home
missions, Mrs. John T. Esrey, secre-
tary of foreign missions. Mrs. ID. o.
McGovney; secretary Of education and
ministerial work, Mrs. J. H. Shep-
herd.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-02-01
GRANDSON OF GENE FIELD DEAD
Appendicitis Fatal to Child of Poets
Daughter.

The 10-year-old grandson of Eu-
gene Field, the poet, died in Chicago
last Sunday following an operation
for appendicitis. The child was Will
liam. Engles, Jr., son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Engles. formerly of Kansas City. His
mother was Mary Field, daughter of
the late poet, author and humorist
Eugene Field was student in the uni
versity in his younger days.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-02-01
HOTELS AND AUTOISTS.

l. J. Kirker, field agent of the Ole
Trails Road Association, predicts thai
$4,000 automobiles will pass through
Columbia this year on their way to
San Francisco and that the tourists
will spend an average of $25 a day
In the same copy of the Missourian
telling of the foregoing small story
appeared which said that once more
the hotel question seems to be near
ing a favorable conclusion. Get the
connection?
AS Columbia is the largest town on
the Old Trails Road between st.
Louis and Kansas City it is probable
that many of them will stop here The
money which they would spend here
would amount to goodly sum in it
self, but that is not the most import
ant feature for Columbia. AS a uni
versity town, many persons probably
will want to stop long enough to see
it. They will carry away a certain
of the town and advertize
it wherever they go.
Now If Columbia had good hotel,
well advertiZed, many more would
stop than will under the present con-
ditions. Comfortably housed, their
will be improved and Co
lumbia will benefit in many ways.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-02-01
A SUICIDE BUREAU,

In Chicago there is a suicide bu-
reau, and, strange as it may seem
on the surface, this bureau is con-
Quoted by the Salvation Army. Its
purpose, however, is to save would
be suicides, and this is the way it
works:
Every story Of suicide that ap-
pears in the Chicago Herald is pre-
ceded by the following statement
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-02-01
MAY GROW CUT.FLOWERS
College Of Agriculture Graduate Plans
to Install Plant Here.

An especially constructed building
for growing cut-flowers is the plan of
Carlyle Wheat, 1912 graduate of the
College of Agriculture.
Mr.. Wheat, who has been conduct
ing a greenhouse and experimenting
with flower production for the past
two years, thinks that such a plant
would be successful in Columbia. He
has recently opened flower store on
South Ninth street.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-02-01
FOR A STATE MANAGER.

TWO bills introduced in the state
senate go a long step further than
the city manager bill, the adoption OF
which is optional with the voters OF
certain cities. The senate bill pro-
vides, without option, for state
manager.
The law at present places the man.
agement of the various state depart
ments and of the state institutions in
the hands of officers elected or ap-
pointed under the statutes or the
constitution. The General Assembly
makes laws for the government of
these departments and institutions
and appropriates such amounts for
their support and maintenance as it
sees fit. For the uses to which these
appropriations are put and for car
rying into effect of the governing
laws there is the most rigid account
ing. The general assembly must first
appropriate the money after its COM
mittees investigate the several needs.
The expenditures must be authorized
by the officers of, the department or
institutions and the warrants issued
for payment in accordance with the
appropriation of the legislature. No
more can be drawn from the state
treasury than was appropriated nor
can it be drawn for any different pur-
pose than that for which it was ap-
propriated. In connection with the
expenditure and as prerequisite, all
bills and vouchers, properly audited
and approved, must be filed in each
department or institution showing the
entire transaction in every detail.
Responsibility for misappropriation
rests with the managers.
The proposed bills necessarily du-
plicates in the Office of the state audi
tor at Jefferson City all this machin-
cry of auditing, accounting and ad-
ministration. The additional cost,
which would be considerable, is iusti-
fed, in the view of the advocates of
the measure, by the saving to the
state which, it is claimed, would re-
suit. Any saving, however, could be
accomplished only in case moneys
appropriated by the legislature are
now being stolen or misused. If this
stealage prevented by the adoption
of the bill is greater than the high
cost of the additional machinery for
the operation, then there would be
proportionate saving. Some question
may be raised as to this, however.
The one outstanding fact, however,
concerning which there can be no
doubt, is that the bill creates a state
manager for all state institutions and
"No money paid into
the state treasury" says the proposed
bill, from any source whatever
shall be paid out except upon war
rant issued by the state auditor, and |
the state auditor shall not issue any |
against such appropriation |
until bill or account, setting forth |
the items and purposes of the expen-
diture and duly certified by the per-
son or the power officer of the coun-
ty, municipality or corporation, or
head of the department entitled to
such appropriations, has been duly
fled in the auditors office and duly
audited and approved by him."
The last five words transfer the
of the several state de-
,artments and state institutions
rom where the law now places them
O the state auditor.
1t gives him the power but not the
of state manager.
A SUICIDE BUREAU,
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-02-01
New Office for Business Manager.

Edward E. Brown, business man
Iager of the University. has moved his
Office from Room IL, basement of
Academic Hall, to the Office OF r. H.
Gray, university accountant. The
room formerly occupied by Mr.. Brown
will be used as a store room for sup
plies.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-02-01
One Good Story

Are the Newriches entertaining this
season. Entertaining? Well, ]
should rather call them amusing
Boston Transcript
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1915-02-01

Bobby HOgg VIII Return to M. u.
Robert Hogg of Hannibal, a sopho-
more in the University last year and
Tiger first baseman, will return to
school next semester. He has been
employed by the Hannibal Trust Com
pany for several months.
Evening star., 1915-11-21
Firemen's Uniforms.

The new uniform adopted for the
members of the District fire depart
ment will carry them still further
away from the old freman's costume
OF days gone by. 1t will not, how
ever, detract from the picture sque-
ness of the organization on parade.
but will on the contrary give it a
neater and more military appearance,
suggestive of order and discipIine.
1t is noted, however, that the local
hremen are not to fight fires in their
fine new clothes, but are to answer
alarms in old garments better suited
to the rough and dirty work. One
item OF the oldfashioned uniform re-
mains in evidence, the heavy leather
helmet with broad brim extending
over the shoulders and decorated in
coiors. This helmet is survival of
the days of volunteer fremen, when
it was the pride of the community.
1t was devised for the purpose of pro-
tecting the head and body of the
fireman from falling embers and still
serves that purpose when worn, as it
is occasionally, when men are sent
into burning premises. Firemen in
action suffer chiefly from wet cloth
Evening star., 1915-11-21
Anthrax and Furs.

A girl died in New York the other
day from anthrax, which, it is be-
lieved, was contracted from an infec-
ton carried by a fur boa or collar
she had recently bought. The fur
proved to be cat fur dyed, as is the
case with many of the skins marketed
under fanciful names. Heretofore
anthrax, known to be borne in the
wool of sheep and the fur of other
animals, has not been attributed to
the cat as carrier, and now an in
vestigation is in progress to deter
mine whether the common domestic
pet is a transmitter of this deadly
germ. 1t has been accused of many
sanitary crimes, and now it falls un-
der grayer suspicion than ever. An
thrax has been more in evidence with
in few months than ever before.
Several fatal cases have occurred, and
announcement has been made of a
serum cure which is believed to be
highly effective But, in fact, anthrax
is not new" disease. 1t has been
long known, under various titles,
many of them of local character.
If the furs of commerce are con-
victed of the transmission of this
malady they must be subjected scru-
pulously to disinfection before prep
aration for sale.
Evening star., 1915-11-21
The rhyming will of Joe Hillstro

The rhyming will of Joe Hillstrom,
l. w. w. poet. was unquestionably in
bad taste. Yet it is placed before the
reading public and attracts attention.
The poet has ever been source of
irritation and an object of suspicion.
In early England when poetry sought
expression in the theater bad poets
were taken out and tossed in blan-
kets. Few of them did anything suf-
ficiently atrocious, either individually
or professionally. to require hanging
or shooting. At the present day there
is no authority of any kind exerted
over rhymesters. As to poets, it is
contemptuously assumed that they
do not exist and the public is left free
to choose, without scholastic check
or critical guidance, whatever rip
ping doggere1 chances to appeal to
its untutored fancy. Possibly this is.
after all, the way to develop a truly
national type of poetic expression.
Evening star., 1915-11-21

ing, as most fires are fought from
the outside in comparative safety,
and the percentage of peril from fire
itself is small The ideal freman's
working suit would be made of water
shedding materials, and it would, per-
haps, be well for each member of the
department, in addition to the dress
uniform, which has just been pre-
scribed, to have an outfit of such
clothes, made from goods that have
been subjected to test. Clothing that
will measurably shed water and not
become heavily soaked, and that can
be cleaned, should constitute this uni
form. Some sort of khaki cloth
would probably make suitable out
fit for FIRE fighting.
Evening star., 1915-11-21

wise for the government to 60 into
the sea carrying. business.
Nothing daunted, however, the ad-
mirnstration is preparing to renew
the proposition, and there is promise e
of the renewal of the opposition in
vigorous form.
The subject is of wide and deep in
terest, and should receive the atten-
ton of all the leading commercial
bodies, and particularly those of sea-
coast cities. Business men should
make it a point to advise Congress
from the business side of subject
which touches bus tness intimately.
The desire to have the flag appear
on the blue water again at the mast
heads of merchant ships is general.
Both parties and all sections have ex-
pressed it, and Congress should re-
spond to it as soon as possible. At
time when discussion of extending
our overseas commerce is so interest
ing. this feature of the matter has
strong claim on Congress.
Nobody who has investigated the
subject belittles the difficulties in the
way of accomplishing what is neces-
sary to give us standing among the
great powers. Before the war began
there were large merchant fleets in
all seas, but we had none. We were
paving an enormous sum in freight
age; but to outsiders. When the war
ends these fleets will resume activi-
ties, and we shall be obliged to re-
sumo patronage of them again unless
meanwhile we shall have taken steps
to do business for ourselves. How
should those steps be taken? We
know what steps brought prosperity
to Great Britain, Germany and japan.
Evening star., 1915-11-21
A Merchant Marine.

Seth Low, president of the New
York Chamber OF Commerce. was
POSTMASTER at the banquet of that
body Thursday night. and in speech
referred to the question of a mer
chant marine. and announced that
the chamber would submit bills for
the restoration of the American mer-
chant marine" when Congress takes
UP the subject.
After describing the administra-
tons attitude as disclosed in the
government ownership and operation
proposition, Mr.. Low said:
The chamber of commerce. on the
other hand. is standing for a privately
owned and operated merchant ma
rine. which. however, it recognizes
must receive government assistance
u, some form IL it is. to be permanent
The high wages of labor and the high
standard of living which it appears
TO be the policy of our government
% have maintained under the Ameri-
can flag. afloat as well as ashore. eyi-
uShtiy hidhc IL iiipoSslDle IN ordinary
fines for private capital unaided to
compete upon the high seas with
chips that cost less to build and less
10 operate"
Last winter this matter was left
very much to politicians and legisia-
tors. They fought it out in Congress,
and the administration was defeated.
Seven democratic senators-one the
Vice President pro unprecedented,
on what they considered state, social
ism. They thought it would be un-
Evening star., 1915-11-21
An AQUARIUM for Washington.

Washington has many attractions
for the tourist, a wonderful equip
ment of public buildings, in which the
work of the government is done, an
unparalleled series of parks with ex-
ceptional landscape features, several
highly interesting scientific and tech
nical establishments which are mar
vels Of efficiency and skill, an art gal
lery of rare merit, a national mt
scum filled with wonders. One of
the parks holds geological collec-
ton which ranks high among those
of the country But despite the fact
that here is the headquarters of the
governments work in the study and
cultivation of fish life, there is at the
capital nc" aquarium worthy the
name At the fish commission build
ing are few small tanks which pass
as public aquarium. They are, how
ever, by no means sufficiently inter
esting in size or variety to serve as
a representative of the remarkable
work that the government is doing in
this line of conservation.
There is no lack of opportunity
here to maintain an aquarium of good
size and wide range. 1t is near
enough to salt water to permit living
specimens to be brought here safely
and to be maintained in large, we'll
lighted tanks. The commission boats
are constantly getting unusual fish
from the sea, and surely some of
these can be kept alive for exhibi-
ton in a properly fitted building.
They are always far more interesting
to the public than preserved dead
specimens, however we'll the co1oring
is kept.
There is nothing more interesting
to the average person than an exhi-
bition of marine life. The aquarium
in New York in the old Castle Gar
den at the Battery is constantly Wis
tied by throngs of people, and such
an institution here. centrally placed,
would draw great numbers and would
be educational as we'll as entertain
ing: This matter should be presented
to Congress promptly with a recon-
mendation for an appropriation to
provide a suitable building Indeed,
the FISH commission itself is urgently
in need of proper home, and the
aquarium might perhaps be incor-
important bureau.
Evening star., 1915-11-21
The President and Tammany.

Here are two questions under in
teresting discussion just now in DEM
ocfatfc circles: () If the President
makes up" with Tammany Hall what
will be, the effect on the independent
vote in New York next year? If he
does not make up, what will be the
effect on the Straight democratic
vote?
The. only way to make up" with
Tammany is to give it patronage.
Man does not live by bread alone,
but Tammany lives by patronage, or
the hope of it, alone. A protracted
period of want in organization cir
cles always tells against the man at
the top. He is held responsible. He
must secure, and distribute, the
goods" or lose his place.
As yet, Tammany has received next
to nothing from the administration.
Leader Murphy has not been in
Washington since his visit at the
time of Mr.. Wilson's Inauguration.
There was no comfort for him then,
and there has been none since, from
any source connected with the White
House !
Now, while this has been highly
unsatisfactory to Tammany, it has
been most pleasing to the New York
independents. They have boasted of
it, and on the strength of it discussed
the formation of an organization for
putting Tammany out of business. If,
therefore, the President should turn at
this time and do something for Tam
many, the suggestion is that the in
dependents would grow cold toward
him.
On the other hand. the President
must face the facts. Despite his neg
1ect, Tammany remains the source of
whatever power the democracy pos
sesses in New York He could not
have won in 1912 without the organi-
zation's support; and he will be just
as dependent on it next year. If,
therefore, he continues to look the
other way when -Tammany and pat-
ronsge are mentioned, will not the
effect be against him when he appeals
for Tammany votes next year? If he
wants the Tiger to follow he must
feed it.
II was Mr.. Bryan who raised the
row at Baltimore. There is nothing
to show that Mr. Wilson was so re-
sentful of Tammany's support of Mr..
Clark that he wanted the organiza-
tion seourged from the convention.
But when Mr.. Bryan changed front
and took charge of the Wilson boom
Tammany caught the lash.
Today Mr.. Bryan is opposing at
least two of the Presidents policies,
and does not figure as a Wilson as
set, while the support of Tammany is
absolutely essential to Mr.. Wilson's
reelection. Another strange little
exhibit of the whirligig of time.