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The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1917-05-14
THE SQUARE DEAL POLICY

Fighting men from Australia, thous-
ands of miles from the scene of bat
tie. received credit few days ago for
making a big hole in the German lines.
To the Canadians recently went the
honor of capturing Vimy Ridge, a po-
sition which the Germans claimed
could not be taken at any cost.
Just few days after the United
States declared war, little Cuba
promptly spoke up and drew its sword
against the kaiser. The Philippines
pledged their loyalty. and Porto Rico
said, We're with you, Uncle Sam"
Several South American republics
broke off diplomatic relations with
Germany, and now the president of
Haiti, republic of blacks, wants to
declare war against autocracy.
These are remarkable examples of
the inestimable value of a national
square deal policy. Being so far
from the scene of the conflict, Aus
tralia and Canada could have adopted
a half-hearted course, which Germany
seemed to expect they would do, and
Britain would have been almost
powerless to compel real support.
But the two colonies have poured
their life-blood and all their energies
to the support of the mother coun-
try. The American revolution
seemed to teach England to treat its
colonies square" and the policy has
paid.
The action of the smaller countries
OF the Western Hemisphere, who have
been little affected materially by the
war, shows that the square deal in
vestments of the United States have
returned dividends, the value of which
cannot be estimated. Uncle Sam has
The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1917-05-14

A review of the athletic history OF
Missouri and Kansas universities this
year reveals the fact that Missouri
has come away victor in the four ma
jOr sports. In football, basketball, in
track and in baseball, the Tiger is
better than the Jayhawker this year
Schultz
The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1917-05-14
5lAs The Pages IurrR
GO A
international Government,

"lnternatOnal Government
"The present war has produced many
catch Words writes Bernard Shaw
in his introduction to international
Government" among them "a war to
end war; AN inconclusive peace,
the destruction of militarism,' the es-
tablishment of the rights of national
tiles on an unassailable basis free
negotiations by free peoples and this
must never occur again. Most of
these shibboleths proclaim their own
thoughtlessness. War can do many
things, but it cannot end war. No
peace can be conclusive peace. 1t
The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1917-05-14

Three from Mexico Join Company +,
J. A. Grafford, Leon VI. Ogier and
James w. Berry of Mexico were added
to Company F yesterday by Captain
E. f. Major. Enough men have sig
nified their desire to join to make up
the required number, according to
Captain Major
The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1917-05-14

sent armed forces into some of the
countries. but it was always for un-
selfish reasons.
Square dealing among individuals
pays. The war is proving that the
same is true among nations.
The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1917-05-14

So much has been said about a free
press that some persons seem to think
a newspaper should do everything
free.
The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1917-05-14

1t must be admitted that both the
fly and the kaiser are doing mighty
well, considering that they are the
victims of so much swatting.
The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1917-05-14
CIVIC LEAGUE TO TRADE PLANTS
Bulbs and Settings to Be Exchanged
at Meeting Tomorrow.

The Civic League will meet at 1880
o'clock tomorrow afternoon at the Y.
NJ. C. A. Building. Each member is
requested to bring plants and bulbs
to exchange and distribute among the
members. The care of plants will be
discussed.
Recipes for cooking meat and its
substitutes will be given.
The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1917-05-14

If there is anyone who needs a vaca-
tion it's the newspaper men, and
Journalism Week furnishes mighty
good excuse for one.
The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1917-05-14

A small man always has one
weapon he can use against a great
big man: he can talk about him
The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1917-05-14

Some legislation that the world
needs today is a closed season for the
dove of peace.
The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1917-05-14

If the back-lot garden would only
come up as fast as the food prices
do.
The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1917-05-14

Columbia need not extend the keys
of the city to the visiting editors, for
they were taken away some eight
years ago by Missouri newspaper men,
and now the city maintains an open
door" policy for all those engaged in
newspaper making.
Tensas gazette., 1917-12-21
AMERICANS IN GERMAN ARMY
Enemy Forcing Sons Of United States
Citizens in Germany Into
Service.

Copenhagen.-The German military
authorities continue the practice of
putting into the army persons living
in Germany who have lost their orig
inal citizenship without acquiring Ger
man nationality. A new order says
that former nationals of foreign states,
including former Americans, will not
be employed with the frOnt-line troops,
but must serve in the armies of occu-
patton or elsewhere behind the front.
This applies to German-Americans
who returned to Germany to live after
being naturalized in the United States.
The children of such parents are IL
able to service in the trenches in case
they have not completed the neces
sary steps to obtain American citizen
shin.
Tensas gazette., 1917-12-21
Navy Department Gets the Story
From Captain of an Amer.
lean Schooner.
WRECKED ON CORAL REEF
Seventeen Ships Captured by German
Raider In Spectacular Cruises In
Two Oeeans-Hoodwinks Brit
ish by Clever Ruse.

Washington.-The full story Of the
cruise Of the German commerce raid
er Seeadler has been obtained by the
navy department from Capt. Haldor
Smith of the American schooner r. @.
Slade and three other mariners, who
landed at Tutuila in an open boat Sep
tember 20 after being marooned on
Mopeha island by the master Of the
Seeadler when the raider grounded
and was abandoned. :.
The Seeadler, formerly the Ameri-
can ship Pass Of Balmaha, was cap
tured by German submarine and sent
to Bremen and fitted out as raider.
A picked crew was placed aboard.
some Of whom spoke Norwegian, and
sent out into the Atlantic under the
guise of Norwegian ship.
The ruse worked so well that after
leaving Bremen on December p, 1916,
the Seeadler was held up by the Brit
ish auxiliary cruiser Highland Scout,
examined and passed.
Captured Seventeen Ships.
Captain Smith learned that while
cruising in the Atlantic 13 ships, val
ued by the Germans at 60,0O0,OOC
marks, were captured and four in the
Pacific.
Relating the story Of the capture
Tensas gazette., 1917-12-21
burning engines. Her captain was Fe-
a. Crof x-ap

burning engines. Her captain was Fe-
lix Graf Won Luckner.
When the men from the Slade ar
rived aboard the raider they found
nine prisoners from the American
schooner A. B. johnson Of San Fran
cisco, captured three days before. On
July 8, Smith stated, the schooner Ma
Mia was captured and dynamited after
Mia was captured and cynamited.
= For about three weeks the raider
kept beating up and down looking for
passing ships. Meeting none. they
went south to MOpeha on July 81.
anchored on the lee side of the island.
and on August 2 the ship was driven
hard and fast ashore. After working
all afternoon they gave her up as lost
and took ashore everything they could
move, including the boats, gear and
wireless. The wireless plant. very
powerful one, was set up between two
coconut trees.
On August %, Captain Smith re-
lated, the German officers fitted up
and armed q small boat and started
for the Cook islands or the Fiji IS
lands, where they hoped to capture an
American ship and come back for the
crew. Count Won Luckner, the mas
ter. was in charge. They were never
heard of again at Mapeha island.
On September 5 French trading
schooner from Papeete. the Lutece,
put in at the island. First Lieuten-
ant Killing took a motor boat and ma
chine gun and captured the ship. She
had large cargo of flour. salmon and
beef and supply of water. King and
his crew dismantled the wireless plant
and left the island in the Lutece that
night, leaving 4S souls, including the
Americans.
A small boat had been left behind,
and the marOOned men fitted 1t up.
The captain of the Manila, with
small crew, started out in the boat for
Tahiti on September s. They failed
to reach Tahiti and returned exhaust
ed on September 16. Captain Smith,
with three men, took the small boat
and managed to reach Pago Pago ten
days later.
Recent dispatches indicate that the
captain of the Seeadler and five of his
crew were captured on September q
off the Fiji islands by Fijian consta-
bulary. What became of the men who
left Mopeha island In the Lutece Is
not known.
Tensas gazette., 1917-12-21
Professor Vincent Conquers the
Most Dangerous Enemy OF
the Republic.
HELPS INCREASE MAN POWER
In Former Wars More Soldiers Per.
ished From This Disease Than by
Bullets-Fever Has Vanished
From Beifort District.

Paris.-One Of Frances most dan
gerous enemies has now been van
quished-typhOid fever, and the victor
is Professor Vincent, an officer of one
of the French medical schools.
The war has shown that the most
deadly of fevers is at the mercy OF
science. TYPHOID fever was always a
great enemy of armies in the field. 1t
has been established that in wars pre-
viOus to the present one more men
died of typhoid than by bullets and
shells.
Typhoid Epidemic Started.
At the start Of the present struggle
a typhoid epidemic started In October,
1914. and increased through the win
ter of 1914-l915.
Professor Vincent set out to stop the
epidemic by using vaccine which
he had discovered four or five years
previously.
Already, from 1911 to 1914. most Of
the French soldiers under arms had
been vaccinated. But the mobilization
men arrived in different depots In hun
dreds Of thousands.
Doctor Landouzy. head Of the medi-
cal service in the Belfort district, had
100000 men vaccinated. Three
months later typhoid fever had en-
tirely disappeared from his district,
and it was proved that only in dis
tricts where men had not been vac
cinated was typhoid to be feared.
Number Of Deaths Smaller.
At present vaccination Is Obliga-
tory everywhere. and. Tanks to this,
the number of typhoid cases dropped
from seven in January, 1915, to OOPS
In March, 1917.
Tensas gazette., 1917-12-21
MAHY WEALTHY MEN
AMONG C0NSCRIPTS

San Antonio, Textile per
capita wealth Of the nine
tieth (9Oth) division of the
National army In training at
Camp Travis is $3.50, and the
average subscription for Liber:y
Bonds is S105 per man of the
more than $4,000 men on the
rolls. The cOnscripts composing
this division were taken from all
walks of life and all classes In
the states Of Texas and Okla
hOma. Five men are worth, In
their own name, $500,000 each,
20 Of the recruits can sign checks
for 100000, AZ are worth, in
property. more than $4,000 each.
and one man Is said to be the
sole heir to an estate estimated
at S3,OO0.OOO. There are more
than 400 young men in this camp
who are doing the first "real
work" of their lives. and all of
them are over twenty-one years
Of age, but they are among the
happiest in the ranks.
Tensas gazette., 1917-12-21
Typhoid Wiped Out in France

The number Of deaths through ty-
phoid had also dropped to such an
extent that now they have to be reck-
oned on an average Of 10000 men. So
far, for the present year, only 0.O4
deaths In 100000 have been record
ed.
"It is permissible to affirm" says
Professor Vincent, shat preventive
vaccination, for which the antityphus
laboratory Of the Val de Grace fur
nished the army zones with 5,513,013
doses of vaccine, has saved consider
able number Of men for the country.
"If the morbidlty and mortality ex-
perienced from November, 1914, to
January, 1915, had been maintained
and on the hypothesis that between
100000 and 100000 men had been
sent to the front during that period,
the number of cases would have been
more than a million and the number
Of deaths 145,OOO"
Tensas gazette., 1917-12-21
Tells EXPLOITS OF The SEEADLER

of his ship, the Slade, Captain Smith
said:
81 left Sydney on April "a. 1917, and
proceeded without any incident until
the evening of June II, when the Sec
ond mate reported to me that ship
was firing on us. She was about eight
miles off. There was heavy squall
starting eastward-wind favorable to
this time, and / thought it possible
to get away and kept holding on. But
she kept firing on me at intervals Of
about five to ten minutes and was
coming up on me fast.
II concluded that there wasn't any
use and lowered down spanker, clew-
ed down topsail. hoisted the American
flag, and hove to. Shortly after the
prize officer came aboard and o doctor
and about ten men. These officers
were in uniform. They told me to
leave the ship and to 60 On board
the raider and they would give me
time In the morning to pack my
clothes.
''They took all our men aboard the
raider except the cook. Next morn
ing went back on board with all my
men and packed up. We left the ship
with our belongings on June Is. We
were put on board the raider again
Shortly after saw from the raider
that they cut holes in the masts and
placed dynamite bombs In each mast
and put fire to both ends Of the shiT
and left her."
Captain Smith said the raider was
a full-rigged ship Of steel or iron
about 2,3OO tons, propelled by oil
Tensas gazette., 1917-12-21

teal and theoretical. and, living up to
the war demands of the day, are doing
their bit. they recently took up a
collection and bought a Poland rig
The baby porker has been installed in
sty near the schOolhouse Vnd falls
heir to all the scraps left over from
the childi ems dinners. So great has be-
come the interest of the children in
this latest addition to the halls of
learning that it fares about rs well as
the children as fur as the food ques-
ton Is concerned. Never a grunt is
heard against the high cost OF living.
Tensas gazette., 1917-12-21
British Get Honor Stripes.

London.-British soldiers who have
served in the great war will hence
forth bear a distinctive mark of their
service on their uniform. The war Of
flce announces that chevron stripe
will be Immediately issued to every
soldier who serves overseas in a thea
ter of war. Soldiers whose service
dates back to 1914 will be given a red
chevron, and those whose service be-
gan after that year will get a blue
stripe. An additional blue stripe will
be awarded for each aggregate OF IL
months service. The new stripes Will
be worn by officers as well as privates.
Tensas gazette., 1917-12-21
Matter of CIothinQ.

In the matter of clothing war has
brought the navy even greater aCtiv-
ity. This winter for the first time in
many years Uncle Sans Jack tars re-
quire heavy winter clothing. For in
the peaceful winters since the Spanish
war most of our warships have spent
the cold months in the West Indies,
where chiefly the lighter summer
clothing was adequate and the amount
of heavy winter clothing required very
small.
Take the old navy of $4,000 men,
increase it in few months TO more
than 100000, and send it into the chill,
damp climate of the submarine zone
off the British isles, from latitude 20
straight up to latitude 60, and anyone
can see that whole new scheme of
clothing is required.
Just the other day the navy was
compelled to issue statement on this
point to discredit rumors that its men
in northern waters were inadequately
clad and that thousands of patriotic
women would have to knit sweaters,
socks, mittens, and other heavy wooden
garments for them. Nothing to it
Admiral MCGOWAN started knitting
sweaters early last spring. when the
first division of deStrOyers was sent TO
European waters, md as clothier and
furnisher for the navy he has been
able to set q pace which left volunteer
knitters far behind months ago. The
navy's new scheme of winter clothing
is on a scale of magnitude. variety
and fitness far beyond anything that
could be attained through volunteer
Tensas gazette., 1917-12-21
FiQurcs of Speech.

"This poet speaks of forswearing the
flagon. People don't drink out Of
fiagons nowadays"
"The word is used in a figurative
sense. People are always talking about
climbing aboard the water wagon, but
you rarely ever see anybody on real
water wagon but the driver. ."-Birm-
fngham Age-Herald.
Tensas gazette., 1917-12-21

fly that did spiral glide and landed
on his bald head. Mr. Zimmerman
was attending church when the swat
ting occurred. The minister was rails
Ing money and had asked for 50 SUBJ
scriptions when fly aIighted on Mr..
Zlmmerman's head. He raised his
hand to brush awey the fly and the
preacher caught the movement. H.
N. Zimmerman suhscribes So; who will
be the next?" the preacher announced.
Mr.. Zimmerman paid the subscription,
as he said It was worth the price to-
swat the annoying fly.
Tensas gazette., 1917-12-21
Coffee From Velvet Beans.

Quitman. Ga.-The velvet bean. 80
abundantly grown In the South, Is be-
ing put to an entirely new use In this
section and is no longer classed as q
stock food exclusively. A hotel start
ed the movement by the announcement
to a large number of travelling sales
men that the coffee served was made
from velvet beans, after the dinner
had been finished and the guests were
profusely complimenting the proprie-
tor for the splendid "Javva." One OF
the guests, claiming to be an expert
connoisseur, had taken the third cup.
Tensas gazette., 1917-12-21
SAND BURR KILLS RANCHER
Gets Into Throat While Victim Is
Shocking Corn-Operation
Comes Too Late.

Siory Falls. s. D.-The accidental
drawing of a sand burr into his throat
caused the death of Clarence McClel-
end. a prominent Fall River county
rancher.
While shocking corn sand burr be-
came faSter~.' one or MS nngers. lie
Tensas gazette., 1917-12-21

when he appeared as Richelieu and
Hamlet will be made into warm gar
ments for those soldiers which the
stage has sent into service.
Mrs. Arden has held the costumes
among her most priced possessions, but
she feels that no more satisfying use
could be made Of them than that to
which the stage wOman's war relief
will put them.
Tensas gazette., 1917-12-21
Family Tree In Window.

Ada, Miss.-The Klinger family tree
is on exhibition in a local show win
dow, giving the ancestry Of that fam
lily from 1795 to the present time.
Adam and Eve Klinger. were born in
1895 and 1876, twelve children being
born to them, from which spranS 1,
900 relatives.
Tensas gazette., 1917-12-21

attempted to eXtricate the sand burr
with his teeth. 1t became loOsened just
as he took deep breath and the sand
burr was drawn into his throat.
He could not dislodCe II, and was
rushed to a hospital. where an opera
ton was performed, but too late to
save his life.
Tensas gazette., 1917-12-21

Lady (out of sight)-but If the
woman next door refused to give you
a bite, and set the dog on you, it is
strange you wear such benevolent
smile.
The Hobo-Ah, mum, dat Is a smile
of expectancy dat settled on me face
outside de smile frOze on me face and
won't come off.
Tensas gazette., 1917-12-21
KEENE ROBES AID SOLDIERS
Deceased Traeedian's Daughter Gives
Costumes to Stage Woman's
Relief Fund.

New York.-The stage woman's war
relief has received from Mrs. Edwin
Arden, daughter of Thomas Keene, de-
ceased tragedian. all her fathers cos
tunes.
The robes and cloaks Of furs and
velvet which adorned the tragedian
Tensas gazette., 1917-12-21
An object Of sympathy.

"who was that dapper little man
you spoke to just nowT
my dancing teacher. Did you no
tice the look of commiseration he gave
ne?'
- Yes"
>"I recently confessed to him that I
thought it waste of time to dance"
Tensas gazette., 1917-12-21
a Scientific Waster,

"Why does young Flubdub always
keep taxicab waiting?'
Hes n spendthrift."
"Well?"
"But he's incurably lazy at that. So
be likes to run up bill with the aid
Of machinery"
Tensas gazette., 1917-12-21
Accident of Birth.

"It is said that this idol Of the
screen is in reality a red-blooded fell
ow."
Maybe so. ] don't suppose 1t is his
tault if he happens to have regular
features, Irresistible eyes and curly
1air."
Tensas gazette., 1917-12-21
Getting BY.

"Was your wife's party formal af-
fair?"
"Very," replied Mr.. CumrOx. 1--WE
had q very particular butler who didn't
like my looks. knew he wouldn't be-
'lieve me If told him l was the owner
of the house"
"How did you get in?"
81 told him was one Of my wife's
relations"
Tensas gazette., 1917-12-21
Plenty In Stock.

81 have been trying for three weeks
to have buzzer for my desk"
Come out home with me, dear boy.
There are buZzers enough there to sup
ply your whole Office"
Tensas gazette., 1917-12-21
Bv JAMES n. COLLINS.

oy SSN6S ~. SS1@'SSs
Washington.-A British naval officer
who has been doing teamwork with
the American destrOyers in the subma.
rine zone said the other day: There
are just three points upon which l
would want to criticize Uncle Sans
sailors: First, they are too well fed;
second, they are too well clothed;
third, they are too well paid"
"The best fed body of men in the
world" our navy has been pronounced,
and the figures just compiled for the
navy ration this year show that the
high standard has been maintained.
despite the rise in the cost of food ar
ticles, with very little extra expense to
Uncle Sam.
War has added some complications
to the task of feeding the navy, for
the number of men has suddenly In
creased from about $4,000 to more than
100000, and hundreds Of small patrol
boats and submarine chasers have been
manned by our sailors on duty in coast
defense districts and elsewhere. Uncle
Sam has been able to maintain his
navy diet economically by large pur-
chaSes for the increased forces.
Uncle Sam feeds his sailors, not ex-
actly regardless of cost, but with cost
always the secondary consideration.
AS Admiral MCGOWAN, paymaster gen.
eral of the navy puts it: "Cost is a
by-product" What the sailor eats is
governed by the revised statutes,
which specify the quantities Of the
various food staples which may be is
sued to Zach man in the naval service,
and good nOurishment and palatabil-
ity come first, with cost figured out at
the end Of the year after the men
have been fed.
Increase in Cost.
The navy ration for 1917 cost
| SO.4405 as against S0.3764S for 1916.
These mystic decimals indicate an in
| crease in the average cost of the ration
| of about 20 per cent over the preced-
ing year. Statistics compiled by the
department of labor show that there
was an increase of 40 per cent in the
wholesale prices of the principal items
of food Had the navy ration in.
creased in cost to the same extent. the
outlay would have been slightly over
$4,000 a day more, or 81 100000 more
on the year, which may be regarded as
money saved.
The navy's high standard of diet
was maintained with economy by the
prohibiting the purchase Of patent and
proprietary foods by closely scrutiniz
ing all reports of the survey of provi
sionc rendered unfit for use. so that al
causes for loss could be eliminated; by
investigation in every case where ships
operating under the same conditions
showed a marked difference in the cost
Of the ration; by making cakes. pies
ice cream. and so forth, on board ship
instead of buying them ashore and by
care in buying provisions at season:
when they were most plentiful. and the
best prices could be obtained.
The navy ration is as much matter
Of pride to the officials who have 1t IL
charge as are the craftsmanship rec
ords of officers of the fleet.
Schedule Of Weeks Meals.
Believing that the proof Of tn,
pndding is in the eating" the nav!
submits complete weekly schedule o
meals served 10 the enrolled men OF
board q battleship at sea. the prOvi
sions being furnished by supply ship
so that this schedule may be taken a
an illustration of what is accomplish
Tensas gazette., 1917-12-21
Rural School Does ats Bit"

Poplar Bluff, Mo. - Miss Annie
George, a young rural schoolteachers
of this country, and the students of
the school have cOmbtred the prac-
Tensas gazette., 1917-12-21
An Optimist.

Hungry HarOld-DO we have to go
widout supper?
Educated Edgar-No. We merely
postpone 1t until tomorrow.