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The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1917-08-06
THE OPEN COLUMN
FayOrS Road District.

Editor the Missourian: l wish to
express my hearty approval of the
plan to establish a special road dis
trict between Columbia and Roche
port. | have been a farmer in the
section of the country crossed by the
Rocheport Gravel for twenty years
and can appreciate the efforts TO es-
tablish system of good roads in any
part of the country. The Rocheport
Gravel has been an excellent thor
oughfare since we first started to keep
it in condition, but at the present time
it is in need of repairs. No other road
in Boone County is more used than
this road, which accounts for its pres
ent condition.
At the meeting held at the home of
P. ]. Mitchell more than seventy-five
farmers and men from Columbia
showed by their enthusiasm that they
were heartily in favor of the benefit
road district. 1t would be a shame
to let this proposition fall through aft
er such hearty response from those
most vitality interested in the prof.
ect. The other farmers in the dis
trict must cooperate, however. if the
plan is to be a success.
Signing the petition for the district
does not in any way commit one to
pay certain tax for upkeep of the
roads. What this tax will be must
be decided later Establishing the
special benefit district simply makes
it possible for us to make the tax
whatever we are willing to invest in
our roads. 1t is a well known fact
that the value of farm land is much
enhanced by good roads, and |, for one.
am ready to do my part to insure the
farmers along the Rocheport Gravel
that their land shall not depreciate in
value on account of bad roads.
A TAXPAYER.
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MAY HAVE AIRCRAFT
At THE COUNTY FAIR
R. l.. Hill, Secretary, Re-
ceives Proposition for War
Apparatus Here.
WILL TOUR SCHOOLS
w. B. NOVEL; and r. H. En-
bersOn to Arouse Interest
in Rural Children.

The Boone County Fair, which will
be held in October, may have several
aeroplane flights and an exhibition of
war guns and other fighting appara-
tus. The proposition has been con-
sidered by r. l.. (Bob) Hill, secretary,
but nothing definite has been done. A
meeting of the directors which was
scheduled for Saturday afternoon was
postponed 1t is probable that anoth-
er meeting will be called for next Sat-
urday.
Efforts will be made to get all the
Boone County children to enter the
contests at the Fair. r. H. Emberson,
a member of the agricultural extension
service of the University, has charge
of this work He and w. B. NOVEL;,
Jr., president of the Retail Merchants
Association, probably will take tour
of the rural schools in September to
arouse interest in the fair.
If the cooperation of the rural
school teachers can be obtained, it is
believed that the children's depart
ment will be a complete success. The
large number of prizes which have
been set aside for the boys and girls
should be added inducement for per-
sons to enter, according to those in
charge of the Fair.
The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1917-08-06

Hello. yes, you just wanted to tel
me what a good time you had at the
picnic Yesterday" This is a bit OF
conversation taken from one of the
members of the Pollyann's Club this
morning while she was talking to one
of their chaperons. The POllyann's S
or the Glad Girls of the Columbia
Telephone Company held their annual
picnic yesterday near the Bonne Fem
me Church. seven miles northeast of
Columbia on the Ashland gravel.
There are twenty-fOur members of
this club and each one attended the
picnic, yet Columbia had its usual tel
ephone service. THAT sounds
strange said one of the operators,
but here's the way they did it. Half
of the POllyann's left here at 1890
o'clock in the afternoon and returned
at 5:45 o'clock and the second group
left at 6 o'clock. In this way each
member attended the outing. and while
one-half served 2,4OO telephone sub
scribers the other half served pickles
and olives in the woods.
The chaperons were: Mr. and Mrs.
o. ]. Withers and Mr.. and Mrs. A. L.
LaFOrce.
Only Club OF Kind i'm Country.
The POllyann'S organization is the
only one of its kind in this country.
They have been organized about two
years. The members are only the
girls employed by the Columbia Tele-
phone Company. The purpose Of the
organization is fundamentally educa-
tional in nature. The girls are taught
to sew, cook, serve and many other
things of this nature. Their motto
The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1917-08-06
MUSIC POPULAR WITH JACkIES
Boys at Naval Training Station Al.
ways Have Song on Lips.
BY United Press

BY United Press
GREAT LAKES, ILL.,, August A.
'rMusic hath power" among other
things, to train voices for commands.
At least this is the belief of J. VI.
Maurice, bandmaster at the United
States Naval Training Station here,
and upon this theory he holds regu-
lar singing school for blueiackets at
the station.
1t is proverbial of course, that the
bluejackets in Uncle Sans Navy al
ways have a song on their lips no mat
ter what their work may be. There
are songs for every occasion, and 9TH
ers for no particular occasion at all.
That these all may be as musical as
possible is one of the efforts being
made by the station singing school,
Never is Sweet Adeline" so sOulfully
rendered as by some thousands of
Uncle Sans nephews now training at
Great Lakes, and especially when
dozen or more bluejacket stringed
bands play the accompaniment. Ev-
cry company of recruits has its own
quota of sOngsters and musicians. A
new man with a knack of picking q
stringed instrument or with an excep-
tional voice, never lacks a welcome in
the service.
1t is in the evening, as the night
breezes from Lake Michigan begin to
blow, that these sessions of the sing
ing school are held-that the bluejack-
cts break out their ukeleles, man
dOilns and guitars and make their
way to the natural ampitheater in the
ravine northwest of the station, to
lift their voices in song. To visitor
approaching within a half mile of the
ravine the impression given is that
The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1917-08-06
MASON JAR PATRIOTISM

President Wilson has issued
proclamation calling upon the mousse
1vivas and farmers to take advantage
of the fortunate and plentiful crops
and conserve every possible atom OF
produce by canning. The President
commends the farmers for their over
whelming answer to his plea for in
creased production, but asserts that
this is merely half of the campaign.
Surplus fruits and vegetables must
not be wasted.
Right now is the time to heed the
Presidents call before fruit and veg
etables now in season are allowed to
spoil. Here is the chance for those
women who have not been actively en-
gagged in Red Cross or other war ben
efits to be of equal aid to the nation
in this crisis. The food situation in
the nations already three years in the
fight should be ample example of the
necessity for intensive food conserva-
ton and preservation. The war will
be long, say the experts, and every
housewife must look ahead to the day
when the nations produce may not be
so plentiful.
Food preservation is as important
to the life of the nation as the much
stressed food economy. The only
logical method of avoiding the waste
of perishable foods is their preserva-
ton.
Action by housewives now will
mean money and resources saved
few months from now. During the
present times of plenty we should
take a glance into the future and
take every advantage of the over
whelming crop production. Not every
household can afford space for a gar
den, some can not conserve food more
than fhay olroady bava but oil oop
preserve surplus perishable foods to
their own future gain
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PHONE SERVICE GOES ON
WHILE OPERATORS PICNIC

is, give gladness, laugh, love and life
and the worlds need is the glad
hearts gift" They hold meetings
twice each month, when they memor-
ize verses of scripture. Duplicate
meetings have to be held While one
shift is on duty the other is in session
Many other telephone companies
have taken interest in this club and
have asked for full information re-
garding its organization. Miss Fran
els l.. Oberbeck of st. Louis, who is
regarded as the mother of the Bell
Telephone Company" is a charter
member of the Pollyann's. Miss Ober-
beck recently visited the club and
gave Columbia Exchange place of hon
or as being best in service and best in
discipline of the northeastern district
of the Bell Telephone Company, con-
tributing much of this to the Polly
AIMS harmonious work. Miss |. A.
Potter, chief operator, is in charge of
the club work.
Has Rigid Membership Rules.
Some of the requirements to be-
come a member of this club and also
to become an operator are: Each
member must be at least 5 feet 12
inches in height and between the age
of II and %. They must also have
clear voice, be able to pronounce
words clearly and distinctly. such as
trilling "3's" so the subscriber won't
think the operator is trying to initiate
him. The figure is the one often
misunderstood over the telephone,
which is the reason for trilling it.
The club expects to have another
picnic soon.
The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1917-08-06


State of Missouri
IS
County Of Boone J
In the Circuit Court in Vacation before
October Term, 1917.
Frank NJ. Barnes and Maggie NJ. Barnes,
Plaintiffs:
against (2I999)
benjamin +. Mayer Boone County. in the
| State of Missouri, and the unknown con-
sorts. heirs, deviSeeS. donees alieneeS or
iihhedlate, mesne or remote, voluntary or
involuntary grantees of Thomas J. Glib
bonS. deceased; William b. Gibbons. de
| ceased, and each Of them respectively and
all persons under whom they claim and all
persons claiming or who might claim the
>shle DE' through or under them or either
OF them, Defendants:
The State Of Missouri, to the above nam
"a unknown defendants, and to BENJAMIN
+. Mayer. greeting:
You are hereby notified that an action
mas been commenced against you in the
circuit Court of Boone County, i'm the
STATE OF Missouri, affecting the title TO
the following described lands and tene-
IIehtS. to-Wit: The Southwest Quarter of
i iIe Northeast Quarter, except five acres
I!lhS IN Il square in the Northeast corner
thereof. and the Northwest Quarter of the
southeast Quarter, all in Section THIRTY
three t33l. Township Fifty-one (51). Range
lNelVe tl2l, all in Boone County Missouri
winch said action is returnable on the first
day of the next term of said court TO be
held at the Court House in the City of Co
lumbla, Boone County, Missouri, on the 1st
uaE OF october. 1917, when and where you
may appear and answer or otherwise de.
lend such action; otherwise plaintiff's be
tition will be taken as confessed and
judgement rendered accordingly.
Witness my hand and seal This 1otb d,v
Of July, 1917. ''
JAS. f. BOGGS. Clerk.
+. g Anderson f'''-
Atty for pIT-
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Demonstrations Over the State.

The usual work of the home eco
nomics department of the Agricultural
Extension Service has been laid aside
for canning, and drying of fruits and
vegetables demonstrations, and lecture
work on the elimination of waste
With five women kept constantly busy
requests are received daily from diff
ferent parts Of the state for demon
strations and literature.
The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1917-08-06
THE NEW BUSINESS

Paul w. Brown, in his admirable
journal of finance and industry, The
West at Work, says: 1T is compare
lively easy for a nation to get men to
die for their country, but much harder
to get them to think for her.
In a brilliant editorial upon "Busi-
ness and the Imponderables," he
points out that nothing is purely a
business proposition, that there is no
purely economic side to life. Busi-
ness may never forget mans body and
its needs, mans mind and its possi-
bilities, mans spirit and its aspira-
tions. Every humiliating chapter in
our business history, private or gov
ernmental, has been written because
of attempts to look at business aues-
tions purely in a business sense"
1t is as silly as to suppose that the
meal exists for the sake of the cook
instead Of the cook for the sake of
the meal
A new code of business should fol-
low the war. Business can never he
again isolated. Tariffs, drawbacks.
export rates and trade preferences
must be considered in a new light
Nor is this a question for the one
man, but for all men, We are all
concerned with business and business
must take all men and all man in its
consideration.
The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1917-08-06

the young men are trying their lungs
on songs they all know, and after
singing verse or two expressing ap-
probation or adverse criticism in
yells which have been said to re-
semble that of the southern troops in
the Civil War Apparently the tun-
ing-up number at the singing school
is "My Old Kentucky Home, for it
it with this selection that a session
always begins. Then comes Sweet
Adeline," or any one of hundred SEN
timental numbers.
The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1917-08-06
Keep Cool While You Work.

To keep cool and do canning at the
same time, Miss Sarah Petit suggests
that the food to be canned be prepared
early in the morning on the back
porch and suggests the use of an
alarm clock which will enable the can
ner to keep out of the kitchen ex-
cept when her presence is absolutely
necessary.
The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1917-08-06
Returned Missionary visits Mrs. Moss

Miss Mamie Hopper, former
Christian College student, and for six
years a missionary in Mexico, with
her sister, Miss Ruth Hopper, is the
guest of Mrs. Luella st. Clair Moss at
Christian College for the month of
August. The Misses Hopper have
been in charge of a community house
in Kansas City during the last year.
The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1917-08-06

Columbia women have started to
make comfort kits for those men here
called out by the first army draft. 1t
Is thoughtful deeds such as this that
make it easier for men to endanear
The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1917-08-06
New Order for Bulletin Made.

An additional order for $500 copies
of the bulletin Preventive Medicine,
Its Accomplishments and Aims, by
DR.. NJ. p Ravenel, of the School of
Medicine has been made This is one
of the most popular bulletins of the
University series among the students
and the people of the state.
The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1917-08-06

While farmers are speeding up pro-
duction it would be we'll to know inst
how much land in Missouri is idle
and why. The Missourian who holds
land idle that it may increase in value
through the improvement of other
land should in some way be reached
by law.
The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1917-08-06

When the war cloud whirled down
upon the United States did the peO-
pie appeal to Jess Willard to save
the nation? They appealed to the
brains of the nation and called Thorn
as Edison.
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Sayings of the Day

Rally round our all-Russian centers
and we will show the country and the
world that the nation which created
the greatest revolution in the world
cannot and shall not perish.-N. T.
Tcheidse.
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as Edison.

A S35O,OOO,OOO crop of vegetables is
reported to be the result of backyard
and empty lot war gardens" planted
by people over the country. This is
a pretty hard blow for the erstwhile
prosperous vegetable man.
The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1917-08-06

War is like a great tug-of-war; the
smallest extra pull means victory for
either side. The women of America
may be able to supply that little pull
-Ex-Mayor Henry VI. Beardsley.
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II is not too late to swat the fly,
is il?
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their lives for democracy and a prin-
ciple.
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MISCELLANEOUS

WANTED: to hear from owner of good
ucularS. ID. F. Bush. MINNEAPOLIS. MINI
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ROOMS FOR RENT

FOR RENT: . furnished rooms. with or
without kitchen. Private bath All on
second floor. 1i06 East Broadway
The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1917-08-06

The diminution of shipping losses is
incontestible. 1t is impossible to
abandon the subject without paying
homage to the aid given by the Amer
iCan navy, both regarding the organ
ization of conveys and by torpedo boat
destroyers, which have rendered an in
valuable service.-David Lloyd George.
The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1917-08-06

This war has become an American
war, fight for American principles to
be discontinued when American inter-
ests are safeguarded and satisfied. 1t
is no longer war to spread democ-
racy in Europe or for rehabilitation of
European countries. 1t is a war
showing that the United States though
slow to act is swift to avenge-S -Sena-
tor Borah.
The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1917-08-06
CLASSIFIED
ADVERTISING
HALF . Cent . Word q Day.
LOST AND FOUND

LOST: Mans black silk umbrella, wit
curved wooden handle, at the Cafeteri;
Finder return to Coon Store C-pgo
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APARTMENTS FOR RENT
HOUSES FOR RENT

FOR RENT: Modern brick residence
with sleeping porch, l 1-2 block from Cam
pus; Phone ll5i-Red or call at Arthur's
Variety Store oSc-t 80 "
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FOX RENT: September /, the Kappa
aIpha mouse; Fifteen rooms. 500 College
ave. W. Men. Miller, phone 7O7. M-a09
The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1917-01-21

ARTICLES dealing with each of the public
schools In Columbia will be published in
the Missourian at frequent intervals)
The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1917-01-21

wreck. A broken rail had caused the
wreck. He resigned and began walk
ing the tracks over the 500-mile
stretch of desert between Yuma and
Ell Paso. looking for broken rails.
With a blanket and a frying-pan
slung over his shoulder. he has tramp
ed his beat winter and summer for
twenty years, reporting defects in the
track to the nearest section house. He
has never ridden on train since his
wife was killed.
Nearly every tourist over the south
western route has seen ARIZONA
Charley" Conductors and Pullman
porters always pointed him out as the
train sped past leaving him a speck
in the desert.
OF late years the old man has be-
come feeble, and now the Cochise
County court has adjudged him in
sane and committed him to the state
asylum.
The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1917-01-21
First Colorado U. President dies

DR.. Joseph Addison Sewall, IS years
old. first president of the Uniyersitv
of Colorado, died last week following
stroke of paralysis. In 1877 Doc.
tor Sewall, with faculty of three and
a student body of nine, held first
classes Of the University of Colorado
For ten years he managed the school
He was born in Maine and was a des-
cendant of Judge Samuel Sewall. who
formed one of the special courts which
condemned the Salem witches.
The daily Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1916-1917, 1917-01-21
A FINE PLAYGROUND
At THE LEE SCHOOL
Mothers Club Raises $50 to
Buy Materials Plans
By c. l.. Brewer.
PUPILS MAKE BOOKS
Prize Won for Illustrating
and Lettering-Records
Are High.

This is the story of a grade school
that became too large for its build
ing and. bubbling over, continued to
keep school" in the back yard. In a
few weeks the new four-room addi-
ton to Lee School will be ready but
the children. teachers and mothers
club will continue the idea of out
door education.
Some of Columbia's grade schools
emphasize different things. One fea-
lures athletics, another domestic sci
ence or manual training. The Lee
school is working for the largest and
most completely equipped playground
in the city. Last year the Lee school
mothers club raised $50 to buy ma
terials for playground equipment.
Nearly all of the apparatus was made
by the seventh grade manual training
classes. The equipment includes four
teeter-boards, a horizontal bar, double
swings, a slide and a giant-swing.
The rear half of lot adjoining the
school building was recently purchas-
ed by the school board and will be
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head of the newly established depart
ment of intercollegiate athletics. Grew
is the only college sport not included
under the headship of the new de-
partment.
Coach Hunt will himself coach foot
ball and basketball and have complete
supervision of track, baseball, wrest-
ling and tennis. Baseball will be
coached by Brinker, of the Vancouv-
er baseball team, and track will be
supervised by Coach Hunt.
Under the new organization, the su-
pervisor of athletics will be required
to remain on the campus all the year.
He will receive salary Of $4,000.
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faculty are: Mrs. j. X. Fyfer; prin.
cipal, seventh grade; Miss Mary Scar,
cy, sixth grade; Miss Alma Wilhite
fifth grade; Miss Mary Fisher. third
and fourth grades; Miss Joy Few
smith, first and second grades. The
Lee school district is included in the
wedge formed by the conveyance OF
Oak and Sixth streets and extending
southeast to the city limits.
Two hundred and seventeen pupils
are enrolled. No truancies were re-
ported for 1916 in Lee and Jefferson
schools-the record for the year.
There was but one case of corporal
punishment other Columbia schools
reported as many as fifty such cases.
The attendance averages SO per cent.
But thirty-one failures in subjects
taught were reported by Lee school
last year, thirteen below the nearest
competitor
1t required s1,7O5 to operate the
school last year The cost of educat-
ing each pupil in Lee school is IA
cents a day This is one or two cents
more than reported by the other ward
schools. A minute account of the ex-
penses. general and incidental, of Co
lumbia's schools is filed in the office
of Superintendent J. E. Mcpherson.
BY consulting the expenditures for the
last few years and considering the
general market fluctuations, a budget
is made out and presented to the
schoolboard at the first of each school
year. Referring. to this budget from
time to time, the board is able to de-
termine how far they are conforming
to the general financial scheme and
govern the expenditures accordingly.
Mr.. Mcpherson is purchasing agent
for the Columbia school system, sub
iect to the action of the school board.
and in this manner is able to keep
IN accurate account of the expendi-
ures.
ARTICLES dealing with each of the public
schools in Columbia will be published in
he MiSsourian at frequent interyalsl
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Y. p. U. Meeting Tonight.

The Young Peoples Union of Co
lumbia, which includes societies of
four denominations, will meet at $50
o'clock tonight in the. Baptist church.
Dean G. d. Edwards of the Bible Col
lege will speak on Attaining To
Ones Best" The program will in
clude duet. The collection taken
will go to the support of Hinkson
Chapel