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The daily Missourian., 1917-02-13

The drive through Belgium was an
example of such an attempt. Were
it not for the determined resistance
of the Belgians, the German drive
would have ended in Paris, jugger-
naut-like, crushing any defense which
the French could have made.
The unrestricted submarine war
fare is another example of extremist
warfare. The extremists in Germany
have but one regret over the rape of
Belgium They are sorry that the
attack was not strong enough. They
are now determined to make no such
mistake with their new weapon, the
submarine.
1t is well for Americans to remem-
Der however, that just as there was
a strong party in Germany which was
opposed to the devastation of Bel
gium. so is there a strong party
against unrestricted use of subma-
rines The extremists in that coun-
try. the military caste, have got the
upper hand Should the extremists
in this country will be too strong and
crates, as the moderates were con-
quered in Germany, the United States
will also be led to measures which
will outrage the code of fair play.
1t is to be hoped that the mOderates
nthis country will be too strong and
too coo,-headed to be stampeded by
the inflaming utterances of the ex-
tremists.
The daily Missourian., 1917-02-13
SPEAKERS FOR ~Y' MEETING
President of Central College Will Give
Address Here This Month.

Association meetings have supple
mented the Monday Night Forum at
the Y. VI. c. A. J. S. Moore, general
secretary of the Y NJ c. A., has ar
ranged a number of these meetings
for the second semestser.
Prof. A w. Taylor of the Bible
College will speak next Monday night
on as Patriotism a Crime?" Febru-
airy 10, Dr. ]. w. Hudson of the phil
osophy department will repeat, at the
request of Mr.. Moore and a number
of students, the lecture he gave dur
ing the first semester on "Immortali-
ty." DR.. Paul Lynn, president of Gen.
trail College, Fayette. will be the
speaker February 26 Doctor Lynn has
not announced his subject. March 5,
the Rev. W. c. Biting, pastor of the
Second Baptist Church of st. Louis,
will address the meeting. Doctor Bit
ting has spoken frequently in Colum-
bia
The daily Missourian., 1917-02-13
For a Eugene Field Room.

Editor the Missourian: A great
Indianapolis hotel has Riley Room
and st. Louis is now agitating for a
Mark Twain Room in new hotel be-
ing constructed there. The last gen.
Grafton of Missouri literary men con-
tains few more notable figures than
that of Eugene Field, who laid the
foundation for his subsequent fame
during the years spent in Missouri and
particularly at the University here.
A magnificent hotel is now being
erected on Broadway. 1t is named in
commemoration of the works and
deeds of Daniel Boone, Missouri's pio-
neer and settler. Might not a Eugene
Field Room in this structure have the
same relation to Columbia life and
literature as the Riley Room in In
dianapolis or the Mark Twain Room in
ST. Louis? By placing Eugene Field
Room in the Daniel Boone Tavern, Co.
lumbia might represent two features
of Missouri history-the period of the
pioneer, Daniel Boone, who blazed the
way for the man that followed, the
man of letters, Eugene Field. If a
room couldn't be furnished in
the new hotel building, the new Uni
versity Library would be another ap-
place.
Columbia owes something to this
literary man. He was figure in the
early life of the town and the Uni
yersity. Why not commemorate him
with Eugene Field Room in the new
Daniel Boone Tavern? r.
The daily Missourian., 1917-02-13
Brains to Give Away,

Editor the Missourian: She wanted
to be teacher; SO she spent four
long years of study at the University
She expended at least $500 for her
education, and finally was graduated
from one of the best schools of edu-
cation in the United States. She was
now prepared to devote her life to
teaching.
She obtained a position in the Co.
lumbia schools because she knew the
merits of the town and was reluctant
to go into a strange community. She
sold the results of her superior train
ing and years Of labor for-$1S
week. If she remains here long
enough, she may receive a few dollars
more. The average salary of Colum-
bias women teachers, composing one
of the best trained grade and high
school faculties in the United States,
is $50 month.
Miss Cornelia Crumbaugh. after de-
voting twenty-one years of her life to
service on the underpaid faculty of
the Columbia schools, was recently
forced to resign her position as prin-
cipal of Benton School because of ill
health. She had consecrated her best
to her work, converted listless body
of school children into a virile, ambit-
ious lot who take supreme pride in
their school What was her reward
other than the mere pleasure Of do |
ing? She had brains to give away.
According to Prof. ]. d. Elliff. Co.
lumbia's teachers rank near the top in |
ability-near the bottom in remunera-
ton. Step by step, the local school |
The daily Missourian., 1917-02-13
THE CHANGING THEATER

European slings and arrows against
our new-world crudities have struck
against a recent artistic defense.
American cities, those strongholds of
commercialism, are becoming esthet-
icised; they are developing a cultural
spirit of their own. Art, which has
always been a matter of personality,
has carried this element over into the
city theater, and it is becoming a
community affair.
The huge commercialized theater.
which is a money-making proposition,
declaring there was nothing in high
brow" plays for the tired business
man, has discovered to its surprise
that perhaps, after all. it has made
the business man tired. Now in most
of our larger cities we have small in
dependent theaters, which are putting
on good plays, work of genuine artis-
tic merit-and they are popular.
Acting is being freed from the old
formulae of professionalism. En-
thusiastic amateurs have given a new
charm and freshness to theatrical con-
ceptions, and the younger, untried
and impecunious dramatist gets a
hearing. 1t is another encouraging
sign of the increasing self-conscious
ness of the citizen. We are beginning
to know what We want, and get it.
The daily Missourian., 1917-02-13
NAVY BEFORE DEBT IN JAPAN
Appropriation for National Deficit to
be Used for More WarshipS.
By United Press

By United Press
TOXIC, Jan. Il Thy maiD.-Ex-
pansion of the Japanese navy today is
considered more important by the
government than reduction of the
cOuntry's national debt This view
was expressed here by Kazuye Shoda,
Minister of Finance. Shoda's state
ment came as an explanation and de-
fense of the Terauchi ministry's an
nouncement that beginning with the
fiscal year of 1888 and continuing
until Japan's seven-year naval pro-
gram is finished, $1O,O0O,OO0 of the
$25,0O0,00 which the government had
set aside for the annual redemption
of the national debt will be used in
the construction of warships.
The recent peace talk and its de-
mOralization of the Toxic Stock Ex-
change has just given Japan a taste
of what her condition will be after
the war. Japan's new naval con-
struction program calls for an ap-
preparation of s130,32O,S95. 1t is pro-
posed to build three battleships of
the superintendent type, two bat
and several light cruis-
ers, destroyers, auxiliary vessels and
submarines in the seven fiscal years
beginning 1917-1S. With the conclu-
sion of this program the Japanese
naval authorities will have realized
their long-cherished ambition of es-
eight battleships and four
battle-cruisers as the unit of the ma
tons feet.
Announcement of this program,
on the heels of the bill which
will double the fighting capacity of
the American fleet, has created great
interest here. This interest has been
heightened by the con-
tention of large section of the Japa-
nese press that the naval expansion |
Of the United States is directed at |
Japan.
The daily Missourian., 1917-02-13
LEATHER NAY GO HIGHER STILL
W. II. BraseFton Thinks Navigation
Laws Partly 10 Blame for Prices.

LAWS fdTuy " DiumC hoA
What effect the present situation
will have upon leather is not known
according to Walter H. Braselton,
manager of the Columbia factory OF
the Hamilton-B Brown Shoe Company.
There are so many ifs and ands and
butts that not even the tanners know,
he saws. Leather has been firm for
the last month and the chances are,
it will go still higher. Something
like 25 per cent of our leather comes
from Mexico, and that supply is shut
off. South America shipped her leath-
er to America through London and
when it goes there now it stays"
Our navigation laws are partly to
blame for this. Mr.. BraseltOn thinks,
for they are strict in many details,
while those of foreign countries are
more lax. For this reason. We have
few ships and now that war has TAX
EN- our foreign carriers, we are left in
a lurch.
Incidentally, Mr.. Braselton stated
that the Hamilton-Brown Shoe Com
pany had been awarded a contract by
the Government for $4,000 pairs of
shoes. This means something like
quarter of a million dollars, he says,
but whether or not this branch Of the
company will fill the order is not yet
known.
The daily Missourian., 1917-02-13
HAS LECTURED IN is STATES
Prof. c. II. Eckles Will Speak to 18th
Farmers Week Audience In March.

Prof. c. H. Eckles of the depart
ment of dairy husbandry of the Uni
versity has lectured to farmers week
audiences in sixteen different states
this year and will speak before an
other in March when he goes to Vir-
ginia to be on a program there.
Professor Eckles has just returned
from Madison, Wis, where he gave
two lectures on Breeding for High
Herd Efficiency" and Growth and De-
velOpment of Dairy Cattle" at the Uni
versity of Wisconsin Farmers Week.
The daily Missourian., 1917-02-13
WHERE DO EXTREMES LEAD,

Step aside, Herr Moderate. and per-
nit me, Herr Extremist. to conduct
the war which you have bungled. "
This is fair Interpretation which can
be placed on the policy of Germany
to wage unrestricted submarine war
fare.
And the extremist is logically cor
rect. though the policy will bring on
Germany the odium of being ready to
win by foul means or fair. The one
advantage which an autocracy has
over a democracy is swift movement.
In order to win the war it has al
ways been necessary for Germany to
make swift. smashing drives to over
come the Intellectual. unprepared re-
sistance of a slow-moving democracy
The daily Missourian., 1917-02-13
LITJLE THEATER A SUCCESS
Dramatic Club Hears of Coming Port
manteau COmpany.

The Dramatic Club of the Univer-
sity met Thursday night at the home
of Prof. J. E. Wrench. o. V. Batson,
president of the organization, spoke
on the Portmanteau Theater and its
success in other cities. Everywhere
it is well received" he said. 1T prov
ed popular in New York and has
brought greater interest in the thea
ter wherever it has been produced. 1t
has played to many eastern college
towns, and these towns are asking
for it again with great enthusiasm.
The Portmanteau Theater is a rare
treat"
Robert Winternitz, who is one of
the directors of the plays, spoke on
a schedule for rehearsing
THE Silver Box
The daily Missourian., 1917-02-13
Military Training at Michigan T.,

The University of Michigan is to
have military training after more
than fifty years in which the question
has been discussed, forgotten and dis
cussed again. The board of agents has
authorized President II. B. Hutchins
to make application Immediately to
the Secretary of War for the detail of
United States army officer, to take
the chair of military science in the
university. The place is to be created
for him.
The daily Missourian., 1917-02-13
UNIVERSITY DEBATERS QUALIFY
Teams for intercollegiate Work VIII
Be Chosen February IL.

The following students qualified for
the University debating squad in the
final try-out Thursday night: E. V.
Alternately. Perryville; Baxter B. Bond,
Columbia; Bernard Hurwitz, Kansas
City; Slade Kendrick, Mendon; H. P.
Saunders, Columbia, and Glenn O.
Young, Linneus.
From this group and also from the
group that qualified in the try-outs
before the holidays, the teams for the
debates will be chosen
tomorrow
The debate with the University of
Kansas to be held here will be on an
industrial investigation similar to that
in the Canadian act. The
debates with Oklahoma and Texas. the
latter to be held here. will be on the
single tax issue.
The daily Missourian., 1917-02-13
PROHIBITION's ECONOMIC VALUE

With the campaign for prohibition
comes the chief argument of the liquor
traffic that an economic depression
would result from statewide or ma
tion-wide prohibition.
The New York City Board of Health
has shown by its statistics that in the
five leading industries of the country,
for every s1,OOO,OOO invested, the iron
and steel industry employs 2S4 men;
the paper and printing business, 367;
the leather industry. 469; textiles,
SIS; lumber, $40 For every million
dollars invested in the liquor traffic,
seventy-seven men are employed The
fact that nearly three-fourths of the
$500 persons employed in the liquor
trade are mechanics, draymen and
statesmen who could work as well in
other industries goes to show that
the abolition of the liquor traffic
would not necessitate idleness for
many workmen.
Statistics of Spokane, Wash, show
that business there has increased
from to 35 per cent in a year of pro-
hibition. and the increase is reported
by the merchants to be chiefly in gro
ceries and women's and children's
clothes. This shows where the money
that is being spent for drink would
go when prohibition is established
The daily Missourian., 1917-02-13
Texas L. Will Play "kid" Games.

BY United Press
AUSTIN, Tex, Feb. 13.-Sedate col
lege professors and husky football
warriors will join pretty goods to-
night in Playing ring -a-rosy,"
y-wants-a-corner" and other
more or less interesting kid" games
as part of the program of home econ
omics week. The games will be given
by the womans physical training de-
partment of the University of Texas.
Rural school teachers complain that
one of the hardest things they are up
against in training children is COOP
erative playing. 1t is said they fear
modern children are losing the art
of playing" The professors, foot
ball players and goods are going to
show 'em how.
The daily Missourian., 1917-02-13
KANSAS GETS VALUABLE FOSSIL
Court Awards an $4,000, ,OOO- Year. OLD
Lizard TO Lawrence Scbool

The University Of Kansas will not
have to pay cent for what the court
called an $4,000, ,OO0-year-o.d" lizard
although it is valued at $4,000. This
is the decision of a Kansas court in
suit brought by Peter l.. Garritv
against the Lawrence school, in which
he sought to recover pay for fossil
lizard which scientists found on his
farm. The court said he could NOT
maintain an action against the board
of administration of the university.
The ancient lizard now repOses in
the university's museum.
The daily Missourian., 1917-02-13

There are four ways to settle inter-
national difficulties: Arbitrate: ex-
change ultimatums, then arbitrate:
break off diplomatic relations, then
arbitrate; engage in a destructive war
FOR several years, and then arbitrate.
The daily Missourian., 1917-02-13
Women to Hear Civil Service Talk.

Miss Rachel Holmes will talk on
opportunities for Women in Civil
Service" under the auspices of the vo
cational committee of the Association
OF Collegiate Alumnae at 4 O'Clock
Thursday afternoon in Room 22O. Aca-
demic Hall.
The daily Missourian., 1917-02-13

system has advanced TO the front rank
in American education. The people
have denied nothing which will ad
vance the cause of learning
The next forward step should be an
increase in the salaries of Columbia
teachers. w.
The daily Missourian., 1917-02-13
Dr. Browns House 10 BE Repaired.

Carpenters have begun to repair the
house of DIR. W. H. Brown, 1106 Pa
quin street, which was damaged by
fire January IL. The delay has been
due to the inability of three insur-
ance companies to reach an agree
ment.
The daily Missourian., 1917-02-13

The Injunction, Love thy neighbor
as thyself," evidently wasn't meant to
cover those with neighbors who are
aspirants for the bugle corps
The daily Missourian., 1917-02-13
THE OPEN COLUMN

A public forum for the discussion Of
things worthwhile. Articles should be
short and signed by the writer, as proof
TO the editor Of good faith. Signatures
will not necessarily be published.
The daily Missourian., 1917-02-13

Americans who insist on looking
into a German torpedo tube should
expect to be "submarined."
The daily Missourian., 1917-02-13
Special students Visit Creameries.

w. B. Combs, with four special
creamery students, returned Sunday
from an inspection trip of up-to-date
creameries at Macon and Moberly.
The trip was to give the students some
idea of modern management.
The daily Missourian., 1917-02-13

Millions for defense, but not one
cent of tribute to Mars for aggres-
sion.
The daily Missourian., 1917-02-13

Faint heart ne'er won a Democratic
primary
The daily Missourian., 1917-02-13

After Pay-Up Week has ended, why
not have a -What-f fou-Haye-
borrowed Week?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-13
GIANTS WIN TWO

New York, Sept. 12.-New York clos
ed its home National League season
here today with two victories over
Brooklyn, the scores being to and .
to I. The second game went II in
nings. In the first game the Giants
! hit Smith hard while loose work by
Brooklyn enabled them to pile up runs.
Schupp permitted only two hits, both
made by Myers
Cheney and Tesreau had an exciting
pitchers battle in the second game
Brooklyn scored on hits by Johnston
and Miller and an inield out in the
second and Robertson's home run tied
it up for New York in the sixth The
Giants Won in the 18th. Kauff and
Zimmerman singled with none out and
the former scored when Johnston
fumbled the latter's hit. The scores:
First gameA
Brooklyn -.... Q 0 0 0 % %
New York ,.. 0 8 0 0 0 x-9-1o-3
MiiJus and Wheat. Smith; Schupp
and McCarty. Gibson.
Second game
Brooklyn :. o / q 0 q q 0 q 0 o-1-s-1
New York Q 0001o 700 1-e-s-n
Cheney and Miller; Tesreau and
Rariden
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-13
LITCHF'lELD

Mrs. Asa Newell and Mrs Frank
Reynolds, who have been visiting rel
atives here, returned home Saturday.
Miss Carrie Kendall was the guest
of Mrs. j. B. Stevens Friday after
noon.
Miss Linda Gowell. who has been
passing her vacation with her parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. 5. Gowell, returned
TO Boston Saturday.
Mrs. Dennis Bishop is working in
Gardiner.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Weston, w. C.
BoWley, Miss Ruth Bowley, Mrs.
Gertrude Baker and Miss Lena Baker
were Sunday guests of MIR. and Mrs.
William Newell.
Mrs. Emma Bowley. who has been
taking care of Mrs. J. A McCaslin.
returned home Tuesday.
Mrs. Arrest A. Gibson. who has been
passing a few weeks with relatives
at Readfeld Depot. returned home
Saturday
Mrs. Ellen Gowell is the guest Of
her brother. Mr.. and Mrs. Alonzo
Gowell.
Mrs. Eta Small was the guest of
Mr.. and Mrs. H. s. Weston Tuesday.
Miss Ruth Bowley and Mrs. H s.
Weston were business callers in An.
gusta Saturday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-13
GREAT TIE BATTLE WITH SENATORS
MAKES RED S0x A CONTENDER

Washington, Sept 12.-Eos,on re-
manned a possible American League
pennant contender today as the result
OF a great 16-inning to l tie battle
with Washington. while the leading
Chicago White Sox were idle. The
game was pitching duel between
Shore and Ayers, who went the full
route, the former allowing only six
hits.
Washington scored its run in the
fifth inning on Fosters walk, a sac
rifice by Morgan, which Shore played
10 second too late to head Foster.
Morgan was caught off second a lit
tie while after but Foster beat Scott S
relay to the plate.
Boston tied it up in the sixth on
Cadys double and singles by Shore
and Hooper. This was the only inning
in which hits were punched on Ayers.
Both teams gave a fine fielding exhi-
hilton. the work of Shanks and Scott,
the opposing shortstops standing out
prominently. The score:
BOSTON
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-13
Boston Stock Market
New York Produce Market

New York. Sept. L.
WHEAT-Spot quiet; No. 2 red and No.
hard 227 and No. ! northern Duluth go,
government prices elevator.
CORN-Spot steady; No. yellow so =;
No. mixed go elf New York.
OATS-Spot easy; standard GSl.
LARD--Firm; middle west 240tM245h
B U T E r ~ Steady; receipts H,So2.
creamery higher than extras "A S-4d 45A
creamery extras, 81 score, "A 1-4G4ia; tirsts
1904; seconds 4ld42l.
EGGS-Steady; receipts 1891 fresh
gathered extras 45G46; extra firsts 1904.
frsts ioa442; seconds $3.50; state. Pa.
and nearby western hennery whites fine
to fancy 55M57: state, Pa. and nearby
hennery browns 47G50
POTATOES-Steady and unchanged.
Other articles unchanged.
SUGAR-Raw nominal: centrifugal 102;
molasses 6l4 refined steady; fine Eranu-
lated S400S50.
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NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE

WHEREAS Hattie A. Webb q ~.
gusta, in the County of kennebsc AZ
state OF Maine. by her mortgage detn
GATED the second day OF August
1910. and recorde in the kennebec Cou....
registry Of Deeds, in Book ISL Page :.
conveyed to me. the undersigned. 81.
tam parcel Of real estate situated in ~
susta, In said County and State. g.
bounded and described a. follows. A es''
tam lot or parcel OF land with the ouI,r
,hgs thereon; bounded on the East
land owned or occupied by Byron Belgs
on the South by land owned by "a "a
the North by land owned or oceupf'
py n. j. Turner. And whereas the
dlt1on OF said mortgage has been hrok.s
now therefore. by reason OF the brs...
OF the condition thereof. claim io'''
closure of said mortgage
@'eo september D. i'l7 ..p.s,hurs
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-13

Douglas opportunity today and won
the fnal game of the series, s to 4.
Schneider pitched IN fine form and al
lowed the locals to bunch hits in only
one inning. Home runs by Schneider
and Williams featured the game, the
latter driving in a run ahead of him.
Chase's single in the seventh sent two
men home and gave the visitors the
game. The score:
Cincinnati ......0 o ! / 1 . 0 0-6-13-3
Chicago .,......0 2 0 0 0 2 o o. ID
Schneider and Wingo: Douglyas,
Henrdyx and Wilson. Dilhoofer.