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The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-11-29

No waiting for shipment of knit
ting needles in Costa Rico! The Red
Cross chapter there makes them out
of coco-bolo wood.
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tional funds should be made available
to this department and that they
should be expended through existing
machinery"
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-11-29
,nSSapeake & Ohio Ry.

Schedule subject to &C angs .Ithoui notice
Effective Sunday, November II, 1918.
EastbOund
No. 8 9:4S a. m, daily.
No. 2 1855 p. m, daily.
No. 16 200 p. m, daily, except
Sundays.
No Is S:25 p. M, daily except
Sundays.
No. 4 S:55 p. m, daily.
No. 6 9:45 p. m, Mail and Ex-
press only.
WestbOund
No. 1 1920 a. m, Mail and Ex-
press only.
No. 1854 a. m, daily.
No. 10 5:25 a. M, daily except
Sundays.
No. II 1000 a. m. (arrives) daily
except Sundays.
No. 8 3:47 p. m, daily.
No. 1850 p. m, daily.
W. W WIKOFF, Agent.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-11-29
RAILROAD TINE TABLE
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Time table effective Sunday Feb
ruary 10th.
No. II leaves Maysvills 6:3S a. m.
daily except Sunday.
No. leaves Maysville $40 D. m.
except Sunday.
No. 2OS leaves Maysville 4:10 p. m.
Sunday only.
No. 10 arrives in Maysville 9:45 a.
M, daily except Sunday.
No. 210 arrives In Maysville 1855 D
M, Sunday only.
No. 16 arrives in Maysville $3.50 D.
m, daily except Sunday.
H. 8. ELLIS, Agent.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-07-22
THE OPEN COLUMN
The New Coaching School.

Editor the Missourian: The coach
ing school which will be opened here
on September is a peculiar kind OF
school to our western people; there
fore few words of explanation would
be proper.
/ know of but five others like 1t in
this country; all are located in the
extreme East, except one in Alabama.
Each member Of Congress, and
United States senator is supposed, in
times Of peace, to keep three midship-
men all the time at the Naval Academy
at Annapolis, Md. and three cadets at
West Point When these young men
are appointed, generally three alter
mates are examined at any Pestoffice
that gives civil service examinations
to ascertain if any one of them Is quail
flied to enter Annapolis or West Point.
These examination questions are pre-
pared by the academic board of the
Naval Academy. The work Of this
coaching school is to prepare these
young men for their examinations.
The number of cadets and midship-
men has been greatly increased every
year of the war. There are something
over 1000 appointed every fall in
times of peace, but now probably
twice that number, including alter
mates. These young men are general
ly of the best families in their dis
tricts.
I write to ask IL each citizen Of Co
lumbia will not write to any and all
of such appointees of whom he may
hear, in this and other states, and try
and induce them to come to Columbia
to be coached? The Mississippi Valley
and the north, western and central
part of the United States should nat
urally come 10 the Coaching school
here, and they will do so if we all pull
together for it.
The members of Congress can also
exert very potent influence as to the
place of his appointee attends.
u. S. HALL.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-07-22
HEADLINE WRITER'S ENGLISH

made 30. Through a maze of head
lines loom our old friends vampire
and H'love pirate" and when some one
is not telling her life's romance" she
is likely 10 foster hate" or be Tong
welded"
Crime reminds US of plot" or plot
| tiers linked, branded, tangled or foiled,
of spies hemmed in, nipped or barred,
of providers fred on and police defed,
Of police who quell, of thugs who
slash, or rip, or cut, or carve; Of slay-
ers who cringe, OF thieves who strip
houses, prowl or are nabbed; Of black
mailers who reap rich harvest. of
clansmen who kill or tragedies that
dim. Some one, 1t seems. Is always
running amuck; missiles come In
showers. Then trapped by fire."
'qeap TO death" hooters In wake" "
"firemen felied" take rank as indis-
pensables. Fire either cripples,
sweeps, RACES or deyastates. and ex-
plosions rock or shake.
When was there a blow in head
liners land which was not smashing,
or which did not gain force or impetus
or was not thunderously acclaimed? ?
Was there ever a gap that was not
torn, or a stride that was not great,
or an attack that was not vitriolic? !?
Goals are always set, tides are always
stemmed. When the lid is not lifted it
Is tilted. Threats are scoffed at Blows
are crushing. Steps are radical. When
opposition does not loom 1t cracks, or
else some one scents it. And then we
have pact" next to pilot" most preci-
Gus of words to the headliner, always
available when he has no charges to
sift, no alarm 10 sound, no stage to set,
no story that is weird, nothing to view
with alarm, no condition that is grave,
no debate that Is acrid and no rumors
that are rife.
But the headliner ought not to be
held up to ridicule. Many of his kind
know the absurdity of such instances
as we have cited, with thoroughness
which no one not trained 10 the art
could possess; and 1t is to such as
they that we owe the headlines which
are so lucid. candid, precise and free
Of drudge-words that we fail to notice
their existence as We absorb their mes
sage. At best the head writer's lot Is
not happy one. Locomotive drivers
and telegraph operators on newspaper
wires are the only souls with tasks as
nerve-racking as his daily and nightly
grind. A million Of the general sort,
who could not hold his job and know
nothing Of his problems. speak of him
slightingly; by the nature Of his work
and hours he is shut on from most Of
the normal human activities; he ex-
lists as a sort OF super-mind. even, in
formed and alert, floating nebulously
in a social scheme which depends upon
him always for more than it can real
ize, yet which will never know who
he is.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-07-22
The Soldiers Chances.

Great as the danger and large as
the losses in the aggregate, the in
diyidual soldier has plenty Of chances
Of coming out of the war unscathed,
or at least not badly injured.
Based on the mortality statistics of
the allied armies, a soldiers chances
are as follows:
Twenty-Five chances OF coming
home to one chance of being killed.
Fortynine chances of recovering
from wounds to one chance Of dying
from them
One chance in 500 of losing limb
VIII live five years longer because
of physical training, is freer from dis
ease in the Army than in civil life, and
has better medical care at the front
than at home.
In other wars from 10 to Is men
died from disease to 1 from bullets;
In this war / man dies from disease
to every 10 from bullets.
For those of our fighting men who
do not escape scathless, the Govern
ment under the soldier and sailor in
surance law gives protection to the
wounded and their dependents and to
the families and dependents of those
who make the supreme sacrifice for
their country.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-07-22
Picnic Pointers.
All of us do not know how to g

All of US do not know how to go on
a picnic; we all have, at some time
or another, staggered under picnic
burdens far too heavy, entailing q
feeling voiced by all that "picnics
aren't fun, after ALL"
But indeed they arei
Do you really know how to pack a
picnic basket?
To begin with, you should take as
few things which have to be brought
home again as possible. Instead Of
china cups or glasses. take paper
cups for tea or lemonade.
Take papier-mache plates, which
may be thrown away, and paper nap
kins. Sandwiches made Of bread
from which the crusts have been cut
may be packed in oiled paper sand
wich bags to keep them fresh.
Liquids may be kept hot or cold in
the bottles which come for this pur-
pose. Everything comes for the pic
mic girl nowadays-things to be fold
ed away in small space, and things
which may be thrown away after
using.
One of the conveniences for tea
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-07-22

Head writers" English"-that- ex
traordinary adaptation Of our mos
copious and matchless of tongues tc
the limitations Of type which counts
fifteen and one-half units Of thirty
point to a twelve and one-half EN- line
lis a source of alternate amazement
and despair 10 those who possess an
ear and eye for the beauties OF Eng
lish as it might be. But head writers
English, all the same. is fact TO be
reckoned with, and potent factor In
the daily mental pabulum OF the pop
ulation, writes the Knickerbocker
Press, Albany, n. Y. Those who sneer
at it may not know il, but it has more
power than they-which Is, to be sure
all the more reason why 1t ought to
live up to its responsibilities. 1t is
possible to construct a headline In
plain language, without the use OF
stilted. hackneyed. frayed out words
and phrases, but few head writers
have the art. The limitations of space
compel them constantly to resort to
short words, and the requirement
often fancied-of force and vividness
and punch inclines them to reiteration
of a few outworn and veteran locu-
tions which deserve a pension.
Armies, for instance. when they do
net menace, hammer hamper wedge,
fee. balk or pound, are generally found
TO jam. press, rake, tear. smother, de-
vastate, hem. hurl. rout, dash, NOW or
thunder.
When the president does not insist,
adhere. refuse. demand. defend. urge or
voice, he acts, rules. asks, warns or
espouses.
Congress or the courts, when not en-
gagged in branding. upholding. baking,
banning. barring. quizzing, probing,
absolving and heckling. are accustom-
ed to laud. acclaim, scan, rush. push,
hint, lay bare, rebuke, confront,
sponsor. prod, pinch or assail. ;
Turning to the sea, our old friends
death ship" mystery ship" and
phantom ship" rule the waves. Fear
for safety is another standby Floods
always maroon; rescues are always
daring; bodies always foat ashore.
and craft always pitch. Seemingly,
moreover, sailors are always in peril.
Death brings to mind that celebrated
phrase, near DEATH" and then there
are silent throng." death claims, /"
buried with simple rites" many
mourn" "rich and poor bow" "throngs
at bier" 'last rites" and "obsequies." f"
Some newspapers could not exist
without them, any more than they
could dispense with "nuptials," T"
"cleaves to first live" or their good old
pal Dan Cupid"
According to the headliner women
and girls are either the prey" Of
something or someone, or are love-
lorn, penniless, deserted. Tilted. spurn-
ing. scoffing or trouncing. Always
they are beautiful; if not. they are
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-07-22
No Ice Shortage.

Women need not fear an ice short
age anywhere in the UnitedStates and
therefore need not dread difficulties in
keeping milk for the feeding of babies,
according to the Food Administration.
Soda water fountains are not likely
to close. There is no reason to an
ticipate an ice shortage anywhere,
with one or two possible exceptions,
which are being carefully looked af-
ter, and every possible precaution is
being taken," said C. W. Merrill, Ice
Division, United States Food Admin
istration. "The Food Administration
Is In close touch with the situation,
through local and state administra-
tors, and there have been no reports
of shortage"
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-07-22
PERCENTAGE AND POLITICIANS

The phrase zone hundred per cent
American" is banded about in certain
newspapers and in the places where
politicians most do cOngregate. Just
what is meant by the "one hundred
per cent American" has never been
defined with exactness. Doubtless the
candidate for ONCE would define the
phrase as a description of the citizen
who cast his ballot ior him. Others
might define it differently. If ii
means an American who is wholly for
the United States and who is not max
ing blatant loyalty mere pretext for
obtaining profits or getting Office it
is worthy striving for. When 1t is
used as the campaign shibboleth Of
men who wish to win Office for them
selves or their friends or as a cry to
hide other profiteering it excites dis
gust among sensible Americans.
Whatever Office seekers and their
campaign champions assert no think
ing citizen acquainted with the facts,
will believe, for example, that Folk
is a more loyal American than Wilfiey
or vice versa or that ShacklefOrd is
any less loyal than Nelson or Mayhall
or Gentry. These are merely the
cries of the outs seeking to get in
and voters will consider them accord
ingly.
Folks experience in state and
Nation and Shackleford's long and
distinguished service in congress may
be pleaded as reason for preferring
them to untried men at this critical
time in national affairs. Or the
special ability of Senator Whitley, the
the broad knowledge of Spencer,
the wide experience of Torrey. Nell
sons excellent service as editor of the
Bunceton Eagle and assistant state
secretary of agriculture Mayhall's
forcefulness and high character and
Gentry's splendid standing as a citizen
may be truthfully urged in their be-
half. But to say that any of these
men are un-American is wholly alb
surd.
Let's have done with such nonsense,
Let's fight the Kaiser not our fellow
citizens.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-07-22
THE NEW LIFE

We are living in an era different
from any we have ever known. There
are demands upon our time, our pro-
duction and our money as never be-
fore. Nor is this all. We are giving
up our friends and members of our
families. Our business senterprises
have been subjected to changed con-
ditions and in many instances brought
under direct control
We cannot continue living accord
ing to the customs we have known
during the past. We must ponder
the problems of the day in the light
of existing circumstances. We adapt
ourselves to the present needs.
This,may require new life philos-
ophy. Without question it requires of
all who would render their best SER
vice in this time of war trials that
each devote some time to readjusting
all Of life's affairs so as to square
with the demands of the hour.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-07-22
Food Hint for Today
How to Can Plums.

Select sound, uniform plums. Prick
each with a needle to prevent burst
ing. Pack as firmly into jars as pos
sible without crushing. Fill jar with
hot sirup made by boiling 5 pounds
and s ounces of sugar and i gallon OF
water for 5 minutes, and strained
(Plain boiling water or honey may be
used instead of sugar syrup) Par
TALLY seal jars; boil (process) quarts
for Is minutes. Remove, seal air
Highland when cold, test for leaks
Store in a cool, dark. dry place.-U
S. Department OF Agriculture.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-07-22

"a rattle-headed incompetent or a
demagogic self-seeker can wave the
flag and shout for the war as vfgor-
ously as the next man. There has got
to be more searching test than that.
He must support the war heartily
and intelligently too" So says the
Saturday Evening Post under the cap
tion your Congressman"
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-07-22

The brewery interests are now
fighting prohibition on the ground
that thousands of men will be
thrown out of employment. The
strange thing is that they are not able
to see that the need for men in war
production is one of the reasons for
shutting down the breweries. The
brewery forces are needed to make
arms and munitions. The boys in the
trenches need these supplies.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-07-22

A carrier pigeon was captured
which carried this message in Ger
man, ''The fighting for the Marne
is worse than in inferno" Sherman
expressed the same sentiment about
war but in fewer words. Is this an
argument in favor of the superiority
Of the English language over. the Ger
man?
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-07-22

making is a little folding alcohol
stove, which only takes up few
inches of space, and which costs COM
paratively little. Its feet fold under
the solid alcohol carrier. and It is
slipped into a little lidded saucepan,
which makes it quite complete
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-07-22
Four More Boys Join Navy.

Four Columbia boys, Niles o. Esrey,
Raymond r. ,Denham, Pete c. Stamp
al and C. F. Miller, went to st. Louis
today for final enlistment in the Navy.
Postmaster R. H. Gray sent them.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-07-22
Miss George Leaves Hospital.

Miss Hazel George, who was oper-
ated on for appendicitis ten days ago,
left the Parker Memorial Hospital
this morning.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-07-22
ssO Attend Social.

About $50 soldiers and students at
tended the third union social on the
Baptist Church lawn Saturday night.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-07-22

Four Great Duties of the Stayers
at Homework; Save; Economic;
Give.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-07-22
CLASSIFIED ADS.
Half o Cent Q Word . Day

Terms. cash In advance The amounts In
volved in want ads are too small to be
charged. When received over the phone
1T Is with the understanding that the
ads win be paid for at once
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-07-22
MISCELLANEOUS

wANTED-Two to four rooms for light
housekeeping. Furnished or uufurnished.
Phone 763. J-2e1
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-07-22
FOR SALE
LOST AND FOUND

LOST-Jeweled fraternity pin. Alpha
Zeta, Friday morning. Reward for return
to w. w. SWEET, 140S Rosemary or phone
1925 Black S-264
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-07-22
FOR RENT

FOR RENT-My residence at 713 Mis-
souri, Avenue Light housekeeping apart
ments for rent next door, at III Mo. Ave.
Mrs. Wheat, us Mo. Ave. Wz76
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-02-07
SCHOOL CHILDREN "sLAckERs."

In our zeal to serve our country in
this critical hour, let us exercise ex-
IRENE care with reference to the use
of the term Stacker"
We know of a little girl, an orphan,
who became almost heartbroken a few
days since because in her school the
implication had gone forth that those
who, failed to buy thrift stamps or
war savings certificates are slack
ers." 1t is needless to add that a thrift
stamp campaign had been organized
in the school.
Let us be certain that before we
permit such a stigma to rest upon any
pupil the appellation is not undesery-
ed. These boys and these girls are in
the formative ~stage-the stage out of
! which character develops.
Perhaps we need not observe that
there are boys and girls whose little
savings, if fortunate enough to pos
sess any at all, would better be in
NcSlSu IL StOShiilSo III ohoCo III
wraps than in thrift stamps, import
ant as the latter may be.
The boy who, through decent liv-
ing, through personal example in as
ISOLATION with his fellow-lads, mani
tests those qualities which character
ize the manly man, is to be preferred
above the boy who invests golden
eagles in wal bonds but who lacks
the elements of appreciation of his OPP
%portunities and his obligations to
those about him.
The girl who, lacking the financial
resources to acquire ownership of
thrift stamps, helps her mother wash
the dishes and watches over the baby
while mother takes a needed nap,
has the making of a better woman
nation, than the girl who, investing
literally in ~ar savings certificates,
sweetly MARBLES II want to be an an
geT' while tired mother finishes the
~after-dinner houseWork and puts the
peevish children to bed.
All children should be encouraged
to invest in thrift stamps. it is true.
but no n should be urged to divert
money to the thrift stamp campaign
that ought to be expended for shoes
and clothing and books.
There are things that money can't
buy. Loyalty to ones government is
one of them: integrity is another;
faithfulness to duty, not only to ones
self bout ones kin and kind, is a
third. Investment in bonds, or Y. M
lie. A., or Red Cross, or smileage book
lets, is not the supreme test of loyal
ty, although it is an important test
for those having the means to spare
not otherwise invested for the vel
fare OF ones country.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-02-07
kNuTE NELSON, AGED rs.
GREETED BY MlNNEsoTANs

United States Senator Knute Nelson
celebrating his seventy-fifth birthday
anniversary at Washington today, re-
ceived a congratulatory telegram sent
officially by Secretary Of State julius
"A. schmahl, on behalf Of the people
of Minnesota. The message follows:
ttAll Minnesota congratulates o
on your seventy-ifth birthday ami
versary and will r%e-elect you to the
United States senate on Nov. next
4 was sure that everyone In Min
nesota would unite in that expression
Of good win and ~felicitation,'' said
secretary achmahl. in commenting
on the Observation-Disclosures Jour
mil
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-02-07
FOR SHERIFF..

To the republican voters of Cooling
ton County:
| hereby o myself as a can
didate for the office of Sheriff of said
county, subject to your approval at
the primary election to be held May
28th, 1918. l was born in Codington
county and have lived iii or ear the
county for t%hirty-f1ve years. Your vote
and support will be appreciated.
John B. Heyn.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-02-07
SHOULD GET TOGETHER.

The Sioux Falls Press, referring to
its local contemporary and the Non
partisan League, declares that the
thing its contemporary fights is repre-
scented as utterly vicious, without q
single redeeming feature.
1T occurs to The Saturday News
that it is about time the especial
newspaper champions of Governor
Norbeck should have a sort of get
together meeting SO IS to conform
their editorial policies to that Of the
governor in his campaign for re-elec-
ton.
Not only does the Sioux Falls polit-
ical organ which has become the gov
errors mouthpiece ~denomirtate the
league as vicious, but the lesser or
cams Of the state, including the Wa
tertown product. have likewise been
Iarruping the league al an undesirable
institution.
These organs should reflect that
EGoyernor Norbeck himself Is endors!
ling the principles for which the league
stands. He II averringsthrough his
series 81 public ~utterances, that he
has recommended TO the legislature
tho adoption Or the very ideas that
he legislature has already enacted
lsgielation x carry into effect ne hi
8&&ESsELZ6r |AszSss xx r22L..SN-.1
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-02-07

To the republican voters of Cooling
to County:
hereby myself as a can
didate for the Office of County Aud
itor subject to your approval at the
primary election to be held May 2Sth
next. Have served as deputy County
Auditor for the past three years. Your
vote and support will be appreciated.
VIM. M. Olson.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-02-07

dominate Germany and German az
fairs. or if German affairs are to be
directed by a joint commission rep
resenting the powers which are now
aTrayed against the Central Allies.
Any other outcome OF the war than;
that Of Standardization as applied
It'd the various peoples concerned
would not represent the spirit Of de-
mocracy and, conseQuently, would not
result III accordance with the Amer
lean spirit.
II the German people could only
grasp the fundamental principle that
brought America into the cortlict
that III 70 NV, could comprehend the
American vfewpoint-their fears on.
scerlning the intended ensiavement Of
the Germans 81 those nov lighting
against German autocracy would IT
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