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The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-03-06
THE FALL OF JERICHO,
1900 B. G.. AND 1913 A. d

The recent capture of Jericho by the
British was not accomplished in the
way that Joshua did it about 1900 B
c., when he was leading the Israelites
from their forty years in the wilder
ness.
The Lord told Joshua that he would
give Jericho into his hand II the men
of war and the priests compassed
the city once each day for six days and
seven times on the seventh. Then
when the priests should blow their
trumpets and the people shout, the
walls would fall.
And it came to pass, when the
people heard the sound of the trumpet,
and the people shouted with a great
shout, that the wall fell down fiat,
so that the people went up into the
city, every man straight before him,
and they took the CITY,"
The story goes that the Israelites
slew every man, woman, child and
animal in the city. sparing only one
family who had helped them. And
Joshua pronounced a curse on the man
who should rebuild it. In 954 B. C. the
city was rebuilt by Hiel, upon whom
the curse fell as Joshua had said.
In Joshua's time, Jericho was one
of the largest cities of Palestine. The
Jericho which the British captured,
within the month. is a dirty, squalid
village of about 200 inhabitants which
would have offered little resistance to
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-03-06
Road Overseer Appointed.

E. W. Quisenberry was appointed
road overseer for Districts So and 81,
east of Midway, by the County Court
yesterday These two districts are rem
nants OF districts which were absorb
ed when the Midway Special District
was organized. Grover Via had been
road oYerseer for one of these dis
tricts. The County Court also re-
ceived bonds from nine newly ap-
pointed overseers.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-03-06
Everett Treben Is Critically iii.

Everett C. Treben, a student in the
College of Arts and Science of the
University, is critically i'll at Parker
Memorial Hospital with acute tuber-
culosis following an attack of measles.
His recovery is not expected. His
father, Charles Treben, has come Mr.
Treben's home is at Mendon, Mo.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-03-06
A PATRIOTIC CHAIN LETTER
A. Z. Shiller of Atlanta Put Thrift
Thrift Stamp In Communication.
Nv Associatad Drasa

AZ lie SnliltF vi athHtd Iut IHFHt
Thrift Stamp in Communication.
BY Associated Press.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, Mar. g.
A Z. Shiller of Atlanta, Ca, has dis
covered a new use for the chain letter
which has served so many ends and
purposes in the past. Mayor Over
holster of this city is in receipt OF
communication from Shiller, contain
ing a thrift stamp with the request
that the mayor purchase five thrift
stamps and send them to five friends,
together with the chain letter.
Shiller asked that Mayor Overhols-
ter fill out his thrift card and request
his friends to whom he sends the
chain letter to do the same.
IN this way the sale of thrift
stamps will be stimulated throughout
the country" Mr.. Shiller wrote.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-03-06
RAISE MOTOR INSURANCE RATES
Pleasure Cars viii Have to Pay %
Per Cent More.

ST. LOUIS, Mar. 6.-Missouri liabili-
ty insurance rates for motor vehicles
have been raised, according to sched-
ule recently issued by the Missouri
Compensation Bureau. Pleasure cars
will have to pay a rate which is 25
per cent over that of last year and
business trucks will be advanced about
so per cent The rates for special
clauses also have been raised.
The new rates have gone into effect
on all new policies. but will not be
applied on renewed insurance until
after April l.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-03-06
PROCLAIMs SEED CORN WEEK
Governor Asks Farmers to Discuss
termination March IL to 16.

Governor Frederick d. Gardner. at
the suggestion of the College of Ag-
riculture, has issued a proclamation,
to all Missouri farmers to devote the
week of March Ills to seed corn
termination and its test.
Every Council of Defense in the
state is urged to hold at least one
meeting to discuss the seed corn stu
alton. The College Of Agriculture
expects to have representatives visit
about thirty counties that week.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-03-06

The population Of some countries
doubles every fifty years. If the pop
ulation Of Columbia increases at that
rate for 1000 years there will be more
people living in Columbia then than
are now living in the world.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-03-06

II working with "t. n. t." in muni-
tions factories makes the English wo-
men turn a metallic gold in color. it
also makes them worth their weight
in gold
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-03-06

We wonder if the resignation of
Prof. Ellery Cory Stowell was caused
by some one not reading farther than
the first chapter?
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-03-06

All of us cannot be Pollyannas but
we can take the rain and wind and
petty disagreeable things with little
of Pollyanna's spirit.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-03-06

They must celebrate April Fools
Day in Germany, since Hindenburg
has announced that he will be in Paris
April /.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-03-06
Benton School Mothers Meet.

The Benton School Mothers Club
held a call meeting yesterday after
noon. Mrs. r. U. Coombe is president
of the club.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-03-06

A new Russian monarchy is the re-
port. Does then the battle naught
availeth"?
New-York tribune., 1918-06-15

real and the false. There are plenty
of George Grotons and Merode Juer-
genses in this ork-a-day world of
ours, and all the characters in the
story are written true to life. Inciden-
tally, MI. Barton points out more than
one moral in this very interesting So
Geological study Of human nature.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-15
Hide and Seek at Sea
A Death Game Between a Trans
port and the IJ-Roata

PORT Translated from aumD tha yrench rMANS ~
Grace Fsllow Norton. l2lno. pp. Iii. Hough.
Some time ago we reviewed note
worthy book which told the observa-
tlons, experiences and feelings of an
omceT OF German U-boat. 1t was in
tensely interesting. Now we have here
the self-told story of an officer Of a
french transport. which traversed the
war zone again and again. five times
! !ne circumference Of the globe, dodg-
ing and defying the submerged assas-
sins, until at last It, too. ike many
others, was "spurlos versenkt." It also
is intensely interesting; on the whole.
much more than the other,
It is the more interesting. not alone
because of the superior charm Of style,
not because Of the much ampler ac-
count which it gives Of the tricks and
manners of submarine warfare. but
also and supremely because of the
gross materialism which pervaded the
Germans story and the exalted spir-
ituality with which this Frenchman's
well-named Odyssey is instinct. The
humor, the humanity, the pathos, the
sentiment, the vision Of this little book
are marvellous. The reader gets such
an insight. intimate, sympathetic,
truthful, into the life Of seaman in
the war as he could scarcely get else
where, and such as convinces him again
and again that, lose what she may
France is unconquerable. For to be-
lieve otherwise would be to admit the
heresy that the material is superior to
the spiritual and that the flesh is su-
perior to the soul.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-15
Human Nature in Wall Street

THE MAKING OF GEORGE GRoToN BY Bruoe
Barton: Illustrated l9mo pp. S3l. Doubleday.
PaSe & Co.
This is the story of country lad
whose ambitions were far greater than
the small New England town of Merwin
can offer him and who found his way
to New York. Because Merode. Juer-
gems, successful broker of New York,
who left Merwin as a boy, on a visit
to the town of his boyhood careless
ly made the remark to George Groton
that he was too good 81 chap to be
wasted in that town, George went to
New York and found employment in
Juergen's office; Shortly after being in
the Office he had the opportunity Of
putting over" his first big deal, and
thereby winning the confidence and pa
tronage of his employer. After his
first promotion in the firm. success
after success seemed to come to him,
and his "New England conscience" was
buried under the title of "high fn-
ance." After many missteps young Gro
ton found out that there was a great
difference in the eyes Of the "street"
between conservative banking and
brokerage houses and mere "bucket
shops" He learned his lesson and found
himself, and also discovered his part
ner in life.
The author has written big book,
and has shown the different varieties
of success in love and business, en-
phasizing the difference between the
New-York tribune., 1918-06-15
Various Stories
Partly Fact and Partly Fiction
in War and Peace

"The Flying Teuton," by Alice Brown
(12mo, PIP. 921; the Macmillan Com
pany), is collection of entertaining
short stories. partly about the war, by
the accomplished author Of Bromley
Neighborhood."
"The Audacious Adventures Of Miles
McConaughy," by Arthur D. Howden
Smith Q2mo, PIP. 1854; the George II
Doran Company. is an exciting tale OF
the merchant marine in war time, with
various narrow escapes from hostile
submarines.
"Gold and Iron," by Joseph Herge.
sheimer (12mo, PIP. 1872; Alfred A.
Knopf), contains three stories set in
widely different parts Of the world, all
full of adventure and the resolute
achievements Of manhood.
"On Two Frontiers" by George T.
Buffum illustrated, 12mo, PIP. 375;
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Company, is
collection of spirited tales of the Far
West and of South Africa, of miners
and men of adventure.
Nothing of Importance" by Bernard
Adams (12mo, PIP. 1874; Robert M. Nc
Bride G. Co.., is the finely told story of
fine young scholars service at the
battlefront in a Welsh regiment; full
OF manly hero1sm and inspiring vision.
"A Flying Fighter" by Lieutenant F..
N. Roberts illustrated. 12mo, PIP. 338;
Harper & Bros.), is the true mar
rative, more romantic than fiction, of
an American aviator above the lines in
France, In battles and perils innumera-
BILE.
"Captured," by Lieutenant J. Harvey
Douglas ILLUSTRATED, 12mo, PIP. 1875;
George H. Doran Coz, is the story of
sixteen months experience as q pris-
oner of war in Germany; with interest
ing photographs and facsimiles.
Surgeon Grow" by M. c. Grow (il-
A. Stokes Company, is the personal mar
rative of an American physician and
surgeon who served with the Russians
in three great campaigns as surgeon
and soldier, too.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-15

and explaining the psychology Of the
revolution. That Professor Ross has
succeeded in this so admirably is
doubtless largely attributable to the
fact Of his being an expert sociologist,
and therefore gathering his facts, max
ing. his observations and writing his
book from the sociological point of
view
1t is after reading these luminous
and authoritative pages that we can
best understand how the workingmen
Of Russia gained complete control Of
the government and Of the country, to
the exclusion of the capitalists, the
land owners and business men, and the
educated classes. 1t is, then, too, that
we are assisted in forming some esti-
mate of the durability of the Soviet
regime, and some forecast of what may
follow it, 1t is volume Of singular
interest to all students Of that stu
pendous Russian problem" of which
we have as yet seen only the beginning,
and it is not without value for the les
sons which it suggests for the benefit
Of our own land.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-15

E. P. Dutton & Co. will introduce a
new poet to American readers the lat
ter part of the summer. His name is
Willard Wattles and the title of his
book will be LANTERNS for Gethsem-
ane." Mr.. Wattles was born in Kan
sas and has been a member for five
years of the Department of English Of
the University of Kansas. He is now
training at Camp Funston.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-15
Ego ct Rex Meus"
The Apotheosis of Colonel
House and the President

TIE REAL COLONEL HOUSE BY Arthur D.
George Il Doran Company.
There rise instinctively to mind, in
reverence and in awe, the words Of
Browning, "Is it God?" Surely this
cannot be mere man, a mortal man,
of whom Mr.. Arthur D. Howden Smith
is writing. Not even a Superman could
be so wise, so great, so strong. Even
Gilbert's prescription for the COM
pounding of-what was it? A British
rrenadier never reached such height
Of intellectual mastery and spiritual
splendor. Yet here it Is, set down in
black and white and twelve point type;
and not only about one, but about two
of 'em. Count 'em!
And, listen! 1t was President Will
son and Colonel House, alone in all
the world with Lord Roberts, q hand
full of Teutonic generals and poll
ticians and a few English thinkers,
just they and nobody else in all the
world, who saw this war a-coming
months before it actually came. Think
of it: Wilson, House and Roberts, and
a few "also rams" But why lug in
Roberts? Was it not enough that the
President and the Colonel knew all
told her love-" For "Mr. Wilson never
made public this fact" and it is quite
characteristic of the mans stern self
confidence" that he never even thought
Of doing so. Poor old Noah, we remem-
Der, warned his neighbors that there
was going to be some wet weather.
But not so Woodrow Wilson. He was
willing to be criticised. to be de-
nounced, even to be defeated, rather
than to reveal to the world his "unioue
vision of Armageddon," which he kept
to himself in his "close-mouthed
austerity and pride" Neither has he
ever disclosed the tremendous fact that
three months before the war began he
sent Colonel House to Europe to warn
the kaisers, kings and other high cock
alorums of what was going to happen.
Which makes US wonder who did give
the story away. Surely not the colonel.
Was 1t "Joe" Tumulty? Or some of
the kaisers and chancellors? Or has
Mr.. Arthur D. Howden Smith evolved
it from his inner consciousness?
Let us remember, too, that it was
Colonel House who conceived or in
vented or at any rate. who first used
the phrase "The Freedom of the Seas"
Those Of US who imagine that we heard
it used by others. long before the
spring of 1917, >must account ourselves
deplorably in error. 1t was Colonel
Houses very ownest own, though no
patent or copyright was apparently so
much as applied for.
We cite these things as mere sam
pies, by no means the most important.
Of the tributes which this temperate
and restrained biographer paws to the
two men who in his opinion quite over
New-York tribune., 1918-06-15
An Extravaganza of Patriotism

THE UNCIvIL WAR. BY Porter Emerson Browne.
limo. pp. ls6. The George Fl. Doran Company.
Mr.. Browne dedicates this volume to
Charles Hanson Towne, who made it
possible: AS for US, then, we thank Mr..
Towne. for making it possible, and we
hope that he will do it some more. Mr..
Browne is true humorst, and be has
the rare, fine quality of being able to
write with irresistible humor on even
so grave subject as this damnable
seeming to be making light of serious
matters. In fact, his spontaneous and
contagious fun is calculated to make
people think and feel most deeply and
seriously, and therefore it is to be COM
mended to those who wish for thought
full discussions of the war, as we'll as
to those who wish to be amused and en-
tertained.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-15

metropolis to the most unconventional
adventures of the "wild and woolly"
West. And especially welcome are
works which deal with such themes in
simple, Straightforward, veracious
fashion, without exaggeration, false
pride or assumed humility.
Such a book is that which lies before
US. The author knows his subject, its
scene and its actors. He knows how
to construct story that may be and
probably is an almost literal transcript
Of actual life. He knows how to tell it
without particle of exaggeration, and
yet with intense and unfagging inter
est. We shall not ourselves exagger-
ate, indeed, if we compare his tale with
Winthrop's masterpiece in it's breezy,
bracing breath Of the great out-of-
doors, and with Bret Harte's stories in
its unfailing naturalness and its ire
sistible humanity.
1t is the story of somewhat roman
tic and sentimental young man who, in
compact with a New York girl whom
he thinks he loves, goes to the Oregon
wilderness to seek his fortune, joins
the settlers in their fight for their
rights against an unscrupulous cor
poration, and finds that ne really loves
girl whom he meets out there. This
simple plot is developed in action, and
the actors in it are developed in char
acter drawing, until we have full
sized romance of absorbing interest
and exceptional charm.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-15
Burlesouing TRAGEDY

MY FOUR WEEKS IN FRANCE. By Ring W.
Lardner. illustrated by Wallace Morgan i2mo
pp. 1877. The Bobbs- Merrill Company
Mr.. Lardner's book is irresistibly
funny. There is no question of that.
1t is more necessarily ridiculous, more
pervasively absurd, than almost any
other book that we have read for
years. 1t is more continuously mirth-
provoking than "Innocents Abroad" or
Yet we are sorry to say that we do
not altogether like it, because it makes
a bowling, screaming burlesque of
practically everything in the saddest
New-York tribune., 1918-06-15
Kind Hearts and Coronets

TIE l.,I TIME ,,s SPIRIT RI By J. c: snaih Illus
It is an old, old theme, as old as
pride and all the other foibles and
frailties Of poor humanity, which were
old when Clara We're de Vere's great
grandsire was born; and yet it is
new, as perennially new as the new
found love of youth and maiden. Are
the conventionalities of caste, and of
purely artificial caste, to outweigh
truth and honor and pure devotion ?
1t Is through the enchanting mazes of
brilliant and delightful romance that
Mr.. Snaith leads us to an answer, and
the answer is one which must appeal to
the approval Of all mankind; for do not
"all mankind love a lover"? Humor,
satire, deft picturings of various Eng
lish social scenes, and the vivid and
vital portraiture of some singularly
human and lovable people, mark the
pages of one of the most noteworthy
novels of the year.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-15
Vivid Phases Of the War
Book News and Miscellany

country Of the world and in the mourn
iuilese tragedy in human history We
a ao not object to exploitation CT the
hol humorous rT, phases which even this war
aas. h lnank God for the ability to see
numor in it; an ability which saves us
from going mad with the horror Of it
an. But to "plav horse" with every
thlng in extravagant burlesque, strikes
false note, as if one should write q
ionic Bible" or turn handsprings on
New-York tribune., 1918-06-15
The Greatness of Col. House
Some Other Choice Fiction
By Willis Fletcher johnson

top the world. As for the rest, the
acts OF these two. first and last, are
they not written in this book? And
It is not campaign biography, either.
But 1t Is at least blithe and jocund
reminder that the age Of bubbling and
effervescent humor is not past-not
while Mr.. Arthur ID. Howden Smith has
pen or pencil or typewriter with which
to picture his chosen world-heroes
their supreme austerity of enchanted
pride.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-15
Irrigation and Romance
A Fine Tale Of Settler Life in
OrAoop

TIE sMITING OF THE ROCK. BY palme,
Bend With colored froatispiece. l2mo pp. 1928.
1t is always pleasant to welcome into
our literature works of what we may
paradoxically call truthful fiction por.
traying typical phases of American life
and history. Our own country teens
with themes worthy of the romancer's
best skill. which it would be an un.
speakable pity to have neglected and
lost: and these range from the most
sophisticated social doings Of the
New-York tribune., 1918-06-15
The Soul of Russia
Disclosed and Analysed Amid
the Throes of Revolution

HqSsiA posa IN uPHEAvAL By Edward Alsworth
Wtsn nto'ees4I OF Sociology IN the University Of
rhns Mhiscons'n; Illustrated with more than eighty
Snuop SSnU,ographs Svo. pp. xviii. S54. Tho Century
We have had many books about the
Russian revolution. admirably narrat-
ing and describing it and telling a
great deal about its causes and pur-
poses. some of them written With con-
spicuously high authority; but we have
seen none quite SO truly written from
within as this. BY within we do not
mean merely within the geographical
bounds of the empire, within the po-
iitlcal parties and factions or within
the court circles. We have seen many
books DO written from such points Of view.
We now. mean a book written from
within the minds and hearts of the
Russian people, disclosing, analyzing
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-22
MATERIAL FOR WOOD
 SHIPS STILL SLOW
Piez Tells Committee Stoppage of
 Wooden Shipbuilding, However, Is Only Temporary

Washington, January 21.-'Stoppage of the wooden ship building is only temporarily, and is due to lack of ma terial and labor" Charles Piez, gen. eral manager of the Emergency Fleet corporation today told the Senate in vestigating committee. Lumber could be delivered to Pacific coast yards, ne said, but vessels under construction in the east must be completed as quickly as possible and available ma terial is being sent to the Atlantic coast and gulf yards as fast as possi- hle
 There is not enough material in sight to build the 400 wooden ships con tracted for. MT. Piez said. due to fric- tion between government agencies sup plying spruce timber for the aircraft board and those trying to get out tim Der for ship building. Mir. Piez hoped to settle through an investigation in the fleet recently began.
 Senator Jones maintained that some of the Pacific yards which soon would complete ships should be given new contracts. but Piez said that no con- tracts would be given at this time
 Henry Howard, director of recruiting service for merchant marine, told the committee that he believed there would not be shortage of officers or men to man the new ships as they come from the yards. He outlined an ex- tensive plan of training now being prosecuted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-22
TELLS OF ORIGIN
 OF FUEL ORDER
Nasmyth Says It Was Conceived at Conferences Held in New York
 January 12 and IA

Washington, January 21.-The idea of the fuel restriction order was conceived at conferences in New York on January F and II, attended by Senator Calder, representatives of Mayor Hylan and rep resentatives of the fuel administration, George W. Nasmyth. the fuel adminis- tration's executive secretary, today told the Senate manufacturers committee.
 After the fuel administration decided to enforce the plan, he said, it was laid before President Wilson, Director General McAdoo and Chairman Hurley of the shipping board, but only the approval of the President was asked. Nasmyth said it was shown to McAdoo and Hurley merely for their information.
 The plan was perfected, Nasmyth con- tinued, on the night of January 15, at a conference of Fuel Administrator Gar field, F. B. Moves of the fuel admin istration and H. D. Nims, legal advisor to Dr. Garfield. The following day it vas considered by all the fuel admin istrations advisors, Nasmyth testified, and issued that night.
 Both Chairman Reed and Senator Lodge questioned Nasmyth on whether the order had originated entirely out side of Dr. Garfield's office" but he maintained that as far as he knew it Had not.