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The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1916-08-17
OKLAHOMA MAN VISITS HERE
". l.. Carlyle Looks Over VI. L. Col.
lege of Agriculture.

W. l.. Carlyle, dean of the Oklahoma
Agricultural and Mechanical College
and director of the Oklahoma expert
ment station, saltwater. Okla, arrived
in Columbia yesterday in his automo-
bile, accompanied by members of his
family and Carl Williams, editor of
the Oklahoma Farmer and Stockman.
Dean Carlyle judged cattle at the
Bluegrass Fair at Lexington, Mo-, last
week and decided to visit the College
of Agriculture on his way home.
Dean Carlyle was graduated from
the Ontario Agricultural College and
the University of Toronto in 1892
and spent the next year in the dairy
and live stock department of that
school. At Minnesota during the next
three years Mr. Carlyle started the
first university extension work in the
United States. He went to the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin in 1897 and remained
there until 1903, when he went to Col
orado as dean and director of the state
agricultural college. After seven
years in Colorado, Professor Carlyle
went to Idaho University as dean and
acting president and remained there
six years. Upon leaving Idaho in 1914
he went to Oklahoma.
During the years he has taught in
the different agricultural colleges Pro-
fessor Carlyle has done a great deal
of experimental work. especially at the
University of Wisconsin. While at
the University of Colorado he helped
conduct a government carriage horse
experiment.
This was Dean Carlyle's first visit
TO Columbia. He was very favOrably
impressed with the University and with
the College of Agriculture in partic-
ular He said the College Of Agri-
culture is one of the best in the coun-
try, being second only to the Cornell
agricultural school, Dean CARLYLE
says the postgraduate work here is
excellent.
Dean Carlyle and party will leave
for Kansas City tomorrow morning
After a few days visit in that city they
will return to saltwater. Okla.
The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1916-08-17

Pa. president of the National Far
mers' Union; Lou d. Sweet, Denver,
Charles McCarty of Madison, Wis,
.bief of the Wisconsin Legislative
Reference library; James c. Caldwell.
Iakefield, Mimi: H. J. Hughes of Min
neapolis. editor of Farm, Stock &
Home. Charles Poe of Raleigh. n. c.,
president Progressive Farmer pa
pers.
Also F.. NJ. Tusley of Minneapolis.
American ROchdale League; E. p. Har-
ris. Montclair n. Y; Herman w.
Danforth. Washington, ILL.,; president
National Council Farmers Co-opera-
tive 'nion: y. {. Sampson of Spo-
kane, Prof L. ID. II. Weld of Yale, NJ.
r. Myers of Chicago. editor American
Cooperative Journal: Frank f. Long,
Chicago, publisher Farmers Review;
f. T. Meredith, Des Moines, publisher.
Successful Farming: Thomas Cooper,
Fargo. y. d., director of state agri-
cultural experiment stations; ]. NJ.
Caffrey, Franklin, La.
Also: George w. Simon, western
agent of the Jewish Agricultural Aid
Society: John Lee Coulter, Morgan
town. W. Va: dean of agriculture,
University of West Virginia; l.. S.
Herron, Lincoln, Neb.. editor, Nebras-
ka Farmer: II. f. Young. Chicago; II.
]. Waters, Manhattan, Kansas, presi-
dent. Kansas Agricultural College; W.
l.. Ames, Oregon, Wis: Roger Derby,
Jackson Strings. y. c., and George w.
Holman.
The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1916-08-17
VALUE OF VACATION

The human body is an engine. a
very excellent engine with self-ad-
justing. self-mending, self-adaptinS
mechanism. But once in a while it
needs to be pulled off the road for a
new motor supply and change of ad
justment.
About once every so often, Tarying
with the kind of work done, every per-
son needs TO take a holiday. rest up
and get new yigor or mingle with
folks that will give a new adjustment
in life. Steady plodding gets work
done but the worker is liable to be-
come morbid. fall behind the times
and grow old too quick.
Today business men succeed in pro-
portion to their ability to stay young
and vigorous. Comfort, vigOr and eff
ficiency are all one. A few hours
week, not overdone, on the ball dia-
mond, tennis court or joy ride inev-
itably shows up in the dollars and
cents column.
This hot weather only emphasizes
the case. The same reason that ar
gued for shorter hours and six day
laws are still arguing for short va
cation in the middle of the week.
The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1916-08-17
And All the Powder Is at the Front.

I;v United Press.
LONDON, Aug. IA leading hair
dresser here said today that she had
discovered that English women are
developing war wrinkles" on their
faces. She declared that the little
wrinkles around the mouths and eyes
of her patrons are unlike any she ever
saw before and have appeared only
since the war began. They have, she
said, changed the average Englishwo-
mans expression.
The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1916-08-17
DETROIT Is POLITICAL CENTER
Progressive Votes and Ford" Given
as Reasons for Picking This City.
BY United Press.

DETROIT, Aug. 11.-Detroit-poli-
teal battle-ground of the nation, Such
it is today. For the first time in its
history the issues of a great campaign
are being fought out by the leaders
in this city of the middle west.
Roosevelt started the tide of bat
tie DetrOitward when he came here to
The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1916-08-17

by United Press.
LONDON, Aug. 17.-I.ance Corporal
Riley, cOnvalescing in Queen Mary's
hospital from the effects of 81 bullet
wounds suffered in the Big Push. was
advised today that he will receive a
piece of gold braid for each wound.
Riley has lCckjaw, too.
The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1916-08-17
TO HELP SMITHSONIAN WORK
Argentine Government Omers Aid to
United States Commission.

gentine government has issued orders
that every facility be extended to the
members of the Commission from the
Smithsonian Institute at Washington
who are coming here to engage in
solar studies.
1t is understood the commissions
work will be mainly in the interior,
remote from large towns. and all pos
sible preparations are being made for
its convenience.
The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1916-08-17
TO CHECK
WASTE IN MARKETING
Fourth National Conference
To Meet in Chicago on
December 4 and 5.
DISCUSS CREDITS ACT
How to Increase Efficiency on
The Farm to Be the
Chief Subject.

By nlleu lTtSS.
CHICAGO, Aug. 17.-How to check
the billion dollar waste in the market
ing Of farm products will be the domi-
nant theme of the fourth national con-
ference on marketing and farm Gre
dts. called today to meet in Chicago
December 4 and ).
Farmers of all states are expected
to unite in a discussion of ways and
means 10 remedy a condition termed
"wasteful and iniquitous in the eX-
treme" by the committee in its meet
ing notice.
Surveys will be made prior to the
winter gathering that will show the
movement of crops such as livestock,
grain, cotton and hay. The whole
milk problem and its relation to city
distribution will be worked out.
Practical plans will be drawn for
products and increasing the consump-
ton of certain farm crops.
Half of the conference work will be
devoted to rural credits and the feder-
al farm loan act will come in for its
charp of criticism
The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1916-08-17
II. z. SmOOt Visits Here.

institute lecturer for the State Board
of Agriculture, spent yesterday in Co
lumbia.
The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1916-08-17
The List Of SignerS.

Frank l.. McVey, chairman. Grand
Forks, y. D.; president of the Uni
versity of North Dakota; Frank P.
Holland. of Dallas, publisher of Farm
& Ranch; Clifford Pinchot, Milford
Pa, governor Arthur Capper of Kan
sas, president of the Capper farm pa
pers: Charles S. Barrett. Union City,
The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1916-08-17
viii Analyze the Limitations.

The delegats will analyze the scope
and limitations of the act" said Char
les W. Holman of Madison, Wis, to-
day. And when they are through the
American farmer will know what to
expect under its terms. Contrary to
the general belief, this act does not
solve the rural credit problem. 1t is a
beginning. but crude one. 1t may
prove to be almost imperative in a
number of states where federal juris-
dictiOn will clash with existing home
stead laws.
Nor does the act touch even re-
mOtely the question of personal ere
dit ard it is long way from striking
at the great problem of turning ten
ants and landless men into home
owning farmers"
How to adjust state laws to har-
monize with the act will be shown
by speakers at the conference. Aid
IJl lHt ldllultSS man anu lllt llllllll-
grant will be discussed. We expect
delegates from every state in the Tn
ion and from Canada. A feature of
the winter session will be hearings
to bring out needed information. The
results of careful investigation and
long experience will be presented on
practical phases of the questions.
Farmers organizations will be invit-
ed to send men to tell their troubles.
The conference is an open forum
now in its fourth year. 1t is nonpar-
tisan. Its deliberations are followed
up from year to year by committees
and special bodies working for the
delegates. The general committee
singning the call are:
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Missourian business office. phone 30.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-02
By Roland G. Usher.

(Author OF "Pan-Germanism," "Pan-Ameri-
caniSm," etc.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-02
sent into the field.


For the last few weeks trouble has been
brewing almost daily. Hundreds of Ameri-
cans have been killed in Mexico during these
three years, and along the frontier there has
been constant pickering and quarrelling. Mex
leans. too, have been shot by Americans in
revenge. and for fully week before the ar
rival OF Villa ru1nors Of his expedition were IN
the air. In all this time nothing was done
What was needed the army officers well knew
and any blame for the deficiencies or the
future trouble they may cause must not rest
upon the army officers They have talked till
their tongues hung out and have written until
their hands fell off, and the pigeonholes OF
the Washington department are cranmed with
their recommendations and requests.
TRANSPORTATION THE PROBLEM.
II should have been very obvious even to
the Secretary of War or to the President OF
the United States that the most important
single factor for a campaign in Mexico would
be transportation. The country IS huge, is
approached from the cast and north through
a relatively arid belt, containing no supplies
of food suitable for our troops, no fuel and no
water except at rare intervals. Literally
everything has 70 be carried, and the troops
are utterly dependent upon its arrival.
The rapidly of the movements OF the army
will depend entirely upon the rapidity OF the
transportation OF supplies, and its ability 10
move wherever necessary will depend upon
the possibility OF its leaving the railroad, the
highways and the cultivated fields, where the
supplies can be had from the countryside or
can DO rapidly shipped in by tranloads.
With the problem difficult at best, it was
doubly imperative that the transportation IA
cilites should be moro than adequate when
the United States government meant to pur-
sue, as II did. the policy of leaving everything
10 be done until the outbreak had occurred
The department In Washington, indeed, seems
TO have sanctioned the purchase OF nothing in
addition 10 the ordinary supplies until the
Cabinet decided. after Villas raid, that the
'focps should move.
They we're then confronted with the fact
90 the things which they bought in New
,s;, Chicago and the East were two or three
distoncc by rail from any part of the
can order and after their arrival had to
fuD1ted ~ rail along hundreds Of miles
ac frontier IN order 70 get them TO the
,e point where trouble had occurred. The
moment any expedition moved 10 the frontier
or across II, hours or perhaps days would be
required 70 get the supplies TO 1t by tesming
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-02

should. Of course, have been half dozen IN
struments in the district 1t was therefore
literally true that within three days after the
United States detachment started into Mexico
they were sending out news and requests by
horsemcn, precisely as when CorteZ himseH
invaded Mexico in 1890; and this. too, when
the wireless and telephone have reached their
present state of perfection This is prepared
ness with vengeance
One might have supposed that the aeroplane
could have been depended upon TO bring back
news instead of using horsemen. as was, in
fact done Eight aeroplanes were indeed sent
out to scout for the fugitive bandit Within
forty eight hours two of them were definitely
lost, and the rest Of the army and aeroplanes
were out looking for them and were so ex-
tremely efficient that they did not find them.
One of them was forced to alight because the
gasolene had leaked out of the tank, thanks
to a hole There were apparently no tools to
mend it with and no mechanician observer
to assist IS there should have BEEN
The real truth is that Congress has declined
steadfastly to appropriate enough money to
provide adequate aeroplanes Of the newer and
better models, and the nation which invented
the aeroplane is at present the only one in
the world that has no dependable machines
and no corps of men who know how to use
them. Yet they the eyes of the modern
army.
Another prime essential in the Southwest
is water, and not only water, but good water.
Nearly all the springs and rivers in the South
81 o4ra al a,,I b,,
the drainage of the district The water must
be boiled or filtered by some effective system
before it can be used. The ordinary method
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-02

professor of Sociology, University OF
Iondon.)
4 T THE present moment, when interna-
n tional relations are in state OF chaos
L n and nobody can forctell to-day what
may happen tomorrow, any attempt to specu-
late upon the nature of such relations in
distant future will perhaps seem absurd. Yet
/ believe il is worth our while to consider
whether some conclusions in this respect may
not be drawn from the course which moral
evolution has taken in the past.
The moral tenets of savages are embodied
in their customs. A custom, in the strict
sense OF the word, is not merely the habit OF
a certain circle of men. but is at the same time
a rule OF conduct, a moral rule. We say that
custom commands" or custom demands
and speak of II as Strict" and "inexorable'
and even when custom simply allows the com
mission of a certain class OF actions it i'm
plicitly lays down the rule that such actions
are not to be interfcred with.
ITO believe that man in a savage state is
endowed with freedom either of thought or
action" says Sir G. Grey. is erroneous in the
highest degree" And this statement is cor
roborated by an array OF facts from all quar-
tiers Of the savage world. Rousseau's savage
is not the savage of modern ethnology.
II would be mistake to suppose that social
evolution had been characterized by ncreas-
ing social restraint. 1t would likewise be
mistake to assume that moral evolution has
implied stricter observance OF moral rules,
or IN other words, that uncivized men arc
less moral from their own point OF view than
CIVILIZED men are from theirs II is in the
moral rules thenscycs not IN The observance
OF them that NC have 20 'ook for those
changes which we afc rsc1 10 ,erm moral
progress.
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across a most difficult country. NO extern
porized transportation service could possibly
conquer such obstacles with rapidity, and there
Is vet no certainty that the haphazard arrange
nents which have been mace will continue
ADEQUATE, even if the MeXicans themselves at
tempt no interference.
THE MULE WAGON TRAIN.
AS matter OF fact the first day out the
results were precisely what might have been
prophesied four years in advance by any OF
hcer of experience. Such supplies as were
taken were carried by mule teams about as
efficient as those used in the Mexican War OF
1876. little more modern in pattern, but still
moving at the pace OF mule. Moreover,
space was so valuable and was needed so des-
perately for munitions and food that no sup
plies of water could be carried. At the end
of the first day the troops reached the camps
with swollen tongues and blackened mouths,
totally unfit to fight.
The suffering was absolutely needless and
could have been easily prevented had the
preparations been made even month ago
which General Funston requested in his
first dispatches. The experience IN Europe
has shown the immense superiority OF auto
trucks over wagons drawn by any animal
power and has proved conclusvely that great
train of auto trucks can even keep up with
column of cavalry and can operate over rough
ground and even in the mountains better than
mule teams This was known definitely III
the fall of 1914. and yet eighteen months later
after the column had crossed into Mexico, the
government was buying its first auto truck.
There were evidently no men in the army
who could be depended upon to run an auto
mobile of that character, for the contract ex-
pressy provided that the company should ship
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-02

canism," etc.
no YOU realize that it took the United
! States about as long to put 5000 men
- into Mexico as it took the Germans
to put 100000 men into Franco
Do YOU realize that in half of that time lit
tie Belgium put 100000 men into the field tor
defence and that twenty-four hours alter INC
orders were given the first German oe'aoh-
ments were in Luxembourg
Moreover, the Germans were equipped win
everything the imagination could suggest ds
desirable, while even after weeks delay 5000
American troops went forward 'fn light march
ing order" lacking everything necessary 10
maintain them in Mexico once they got there
and possessing merely the absolute essentials
They had i've days provisions, no water
Going into a waterless country-and some con-
siderable supplies of munitions. Although the
supply of munitions seemed considerable when
its bulk was viewed, there was enough only
for a relatively short engagement
We learned ultimately of the deficiencies OF
the American army on the frontier from mc
orders placed by the government Immediately
after the detachment was ordered to move
The lack Of preparedness was amazing; worse
than that, it vas pitiful. Three years ago
trouble was known to exist in Mexico and the
possibility that the United States might have
TO interfere was thoroughly well understood
in Washington. When the troops were or
derci to Vera Cruz one would have supposed
that the mere possibility of the necessity OF
campaign in Mexico would have led the gov
eminent to provide everything desirable, CIV
ing the few thousand men we have the equip
ment indispensable to save their lives when
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-02
Despite Civilization,
There Has BeenLit.
tie Growth in Re-
straint Since Saw.
age Might Was Law.

act OF homicide committed among their own
people and one where the victim is stranger;
while the former is in ordinary circumstances
disapproved of, the latter is in most cases al
lowed and often considered worthy Of praise
The stranger is often devoid Of all rights
even at somewhat higher stages of civilza-
hon. But the old distinction between injuries
committed against compatriots and harm done
TO foreigners remains. The Latin word hoStis
was originally used TO denote a foreigner
That among the ancient Teutons the lot OF
stranger was not an envable one is testified
by the German word cIendcr, which has ac-
CURED its present meaning OF "wretched" from
the connotation Of the older word, which meant
'outlandish" man.
AS commerce increased and the stranger
was more often seen in Teutonic lands royal
protection was extended to him. Yet through
out the Middle Ages all Europe seems to have
tacitly agreed that foreigners were created for
the purpose OF being robbed. In the thirteenth
century there were still several places in
France in which stranger who fixed his resi-
dence for year and a day became the serf
OF the lord OF the manor. In England, for up
ward Of two centuries after the Conquest, for
eign merchants were considered only as So
journers coming to fair or market, and were
obliged to employ their landlords as brokers
TO buy and sell their commodities
For long time it was the custom in Europe
to confiscatc strangers effects on their DEATH
and not only persons who were born in
foreign country subject to this droh
fdubdins. as it was called in France. but in
some countries it was applied even to persons
who removed from one diocese to another or
from the lands Of one baron TO another. In
1890 the French National Assembly abolished
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-02

10 YOU realize that it took the Unlted
States about as long to put 5000 men
- into Mexico as it took the Germans
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-02

When we examine the moral rules of
civilized races we first notice that they in a
very large measure resemble those prevalent
among nations OF culture. According 20 early
CUSTOM person who takes the life OF another
may be killed by the relatives of his victim.
So also savage custom prohibits robbery and
theft, subjecting the culprit to punishment or
revenge, or, at the very least, compelling him
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-02
IS The Futilitv of Trying TO Hurna>ize War

to restore the stolen property to its owner.
And besides negative commandments, which
tell people what they ought not to do there
are in primitive ethics also positive command
ments. which tell lem what they ought to do.
Savages regard Charity as duty. and their
customs concerning mutual aid are often much
more stringent than our own.
Savages carefully distinguish between an
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-02
= 0@AMPATGNING WITHOUT PREPARATION y
Professor Usher Points Out Deficiencies IN
the Equipment Of Our Punitive Expedl-
ticn" Into Mexico and the 1mnprOba~
Eoality of Its Ever Catching Villa.

mcchancians and chauffeurs with the ma
chimes What the machines will be worth I'M
der those conditions no one can tell. The gov
eminent bought what was already completed
instead OF sending into the field, as the Ger
mans and French did, trucks especially de
signed to stand the shocks OF rough country
and especially calculated 10 carry military
equipment
Once the transportation has been estab-
lishcd the next most important and necessary
factor is the maintenance OF communication,
the preservation OF contact with the army
Whatever the facilities, trucks or no trucks,
however small the army, it can carry only
very small portion OF the supplies needed for
a campaign. The present detachment original
ly carried FIVE days rations and probably
enough munitions for a few days constant
fighting. This means that constant and per-
manent contact with the base of supplies for
the United States is imperative, especially as
the arid country into which they had gone
contains neither food, fuel nor adequate water
SUPPLIES. They must keep, therefore. military
contact with their base or must not 60 too far
TO rcsstablish contact.
PROTECTING THE LINE.
There were, however not enough troops on
the scene to maintain such contact with the
original expedition, and after the first day the
expedition was really cut off from its COM
rlunications. There being as yet no obstacle,
however, a sort of formal contact has been
up to the present maintained; but how slender
the line of communications is will be clear
when we reflect that one of the aviators, who
had an accident, was nearly three days near
the wagon road before supply train arrived
which could help him.
The rcinforcements necessary to keep IN