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The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-03-04
PREACHERS ARE BEST PAID
AMONG STUDENT WORKERS

That a student in the University
should earn from SIS to S22 for few
hours work a week seems like fairy
story when the average pay for stu
dent labor is from 20 to 25 cents an
hour. But there really are a number
of students in the University who do
earn regularly these amounts. They
are the student preachers who con-
duct services at the country churches
around Columbia on Sundays. Some
of them have regular charges and re-
ceive a stated salary for the school
term. One student now attending the
University is paid $500 for the ses-
sion. All theological students who
come to the University pay their ex-
penses in school by preaching at the
country churches.
According to Prof. A. W. Taylor of
the Missouri Bible College, the Uni
versity furnishes preachers to coun-
try churches within a radius of fifty
to sixty miles of Columbia in the fol-
lowing counties: Randolph, Howard,
Cooper, Moniteau, Audrain, Monroe.
Galloway and Montgomery. The coun-
try churches, Professor Taylor says,
much prefer student pastors to regu-
1ar pastors, as the salaries the church.
es pay would not obtain a regular
man of first-class ability.
At present the demand for preach
ers is much greater than the supply,
as the war has reduced the number
of students in the profession from
so to so per cent, not only in the Uni
versity, but in all the theological
seminaries in the country. Only four
teen are attending the University this
year, whereas there were twenty-six
students-the average number-last
year. One of the principal reasons
for the decrease is that a great many
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-03-04
Varied Program Pleases.


Editor the Missourian. The second
of the series of Sunday afternoon re-
citals by the faculty of Stephens Col
fege was presented in the College Au-
ditorium at o'clock yesterday after
noon. The program was a combina-
tiOn of reading and music, in which
Miss Mama Lynn Forbes and Basil
Gauntlet appeared.
Mr.. Gauntlett's playing of the Cho-
pin group was marked by brilliant
blending of delicacy and force. His
faultless technique was shown in the
ease of his graceful embellishments
and the heavy, taxing climaxes Of the
Ballade and Etude. The elegance and
| finish of his Interpretation was es-
pecially manifested in the charming
rhythms and delicate nuances of this
group. He answered the hearty ap-
probation of the audience with a
Chopin waltz as an encore.
Miss Forbes, who is at the head of
the expression department of Ste
phens College. appeared for the first
time in recital before Columbia au-
dience. She is a graduate of Chicago
University and of the Columbia Col
lege of Expression of Chicago and has
been for two years a member of the
Columbia College faculty.
THE Wine Press" by Alfred Noyes,
which Miss Forbes presented is the
strangely prophetic poem, published
in 1913, in which Mr.. Noyes tried to
rouse the British nation through the
blood and terror of the Balkan war to
hatred of all war that is made
men. The poet centers the intoler-
able anguish of battlefield and DESC
lated homes in the experience of one
peasant family. The poem ends with
the lyric prophecy of the dawn of a
new day when the suffering people
shall make all war impossible.
Miss Forbes reading showed fine
reserve and sincerity, free from any
touch of exaggeration which could
easily have made melodramatic and
unbearable the heavier passages in the
poem. Her stage presence is notably
free from any mannerisms which in
trude between audience and artistic
production, and the clearness and pre-
cision of her enunciation gave every
word apparently without effort to
every listener. Especially charming
WAS her phrasing of the delicate de-
scriptive passages. The sustained foerc
of the battle scene was carried through
with a fire and intensity and an en-
phasis of Mr.. Noyes' swinging rhy-
thms which proved the exceptional
quality of the readers rich flexible
voice.
In spite Of the rainy afternoon, Miss
Forbes and Mr.. Gauntlet had a large
audience, which showed a very real
appreciation of a program of high
esthetic value, rendered with bril-
lance and finish. sc.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-03-04
THE GREATEST PROBLEM

Our biggest problem in the war is
the labor problem. When we think
of our war preparations, our empty
shipyards and our congested freight
traffic, we realize this. We also real-
ize that the majority of the fighters
come from the laboring classes,
Therefore, means should be consider
ed by which labor is to become avail
able and effective during the war, and
by which il shall receive its reward
for sacrifices at home and abroad.
Its reward can come through trade
union action and through legal enact
ment. Trade unionism will be pushed
forward by the war. and the organized
workers will have their condition bet
tered.
ly help the masses of unorganized
men. For them must come help
through the democratic expression of
public opinion in our legislative halls.
Some of the well thought-out steps
and those which England has in a
large measure adopted are guarantee
of regular work, workmen's compen-
sation and health insurance. Eng
land had 400 national employment
bureaus before the war, and now she
has planned to increase the number
to 1000. Authorities in this country
have recognized this policy of Eng
lands as necessary to our war policy
and to our national security when
demobilization comes and millions Of
men will be without employment.
Workmen's compensation. another
important measure, has now spread
over most of the industrial states, but
it needs to be extended Thousands
of laborers are seriously injured each
year, and as they are indispensable to
the war, it has been recognized that
they should receive just compensa-
ton. England, since the war began,
has increased her compensations to
workmen 25 per cent.
The war has also made more neces-
sary than ever the development of
workmen's health insurance. Hun
dreds of thousands Of war workers
are about to enter strange employ
ments, and will be placed in dangers
with which they are not familiar. 1t
is well known that laborers will do
better and more work if their future
is insured when they get sick.
While fighting this great war, We
must also give more attention to our
home conditions, or the country can
not insure itself against disaster. Our
greatest attention should now be CIV
en- to the labor problem. because it is
the biggest problem. May We, as Eng
land has, see that the laborer gets his
just deserts. and thus insure our ma
tional security.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-03-04

Of these men have entered the war,
some as soldiers and some as chap
lains.
Not more than one-third of the stu
dent preachers who have taken work
in the Bible College during Professor
Taylor's service there, are at present
holding churches. Some Of them are
doing foreign Y M. C. A work. some
are doing child welfare work, others
are chaplains in the Canal Zone or in
the Army, and a few have gone as
missionaries.
Professor Taylor knows of only one
student pastor who prepared himself
for country work. He was j. @. Moore,
who came here from Drake University.
He now has two churches in Saline
County near Marshall, and is also
superintendent Of all the churches in
his county. He was not graduated
here.
Practically all the student pastors
here have done graduate work in the
Bible College and in the University.
Another characteristic is the early role
played by Cupid and Hymen in the
lives of these men. There have been
only two or three student pastors
studying here who were not married
when they came. or who did not marry
Immediately after graduation. Some
have married while attending the Uni
versity. Professor Taylor attributes
this to the fact that these students
receive good pay while in the Uni
versity.
Only one wo nan preacher, Mrs.
Martha Stout Trimble. has been gradu
ated at the University. She received
her A. NJ. degree last June, and is now
in charge of a church at Merriam,
Kan, near Kansas City. Her husband
is also a preacher, but he is now doing
chautauqua work.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-03-04
EDISON, THE ssHOw ME, MAN

Thomas A. Edison, who last month
attained his seventy-first birthday an
niversary and said he did not have
time to take holiday. is. according
to William Maxwell in an article in
the American magazine for February
the original man from Missouri"
He believes little that he has not
proved himself. He regards intuition
as mental laziness. He does not
countenance snap judgments.
Perhaps few men could afford to
put their creed so badly. But ever
since Edison started on his career, as
a telegraph operator, he has been
showing the world new ways of doing
things. He has answered the skeptiC
with the electric car, the phonograph
the electric light. the telephone. the
moving picture-and they have
worked
Edison is both a vindication of, and
a reason for, the "show me" slogan.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-03-04
will Prevent Coal HoardIur.

The Fuel Administration has sent
out a warning to coal consumers that
in laying in a supply during the spring
and summer for next winters con-
sumption, care must be taken not to
hoard more than is necessary for the
winter. Consumers will not be al
lowed to provide more coal than is
strictly necessary. The administra-
tion, however, is uring that consumers
plan to store as much of their supply
as possible during the spring and sum
mer so that there will be no danger
of coal car shortage and congestion
next winter.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-03-04

of the successful stenographer's or
lates the keys that unlock the mystery
correspondents work-tells how the
successful worker does it, so that
others who so desire may go and do
likewise. 1t is a book that is practi-
cal in every detail and will increase
the store of knowledge of either the
stenographr or the correspondent.
(The International Correspondence
Schools, Screnton, Pa; cloth, 422
pages; so cents.)
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-03-04
CHEMICAL GAS AFFAIR SETTLED
Was Not Caused by Agricultural or
Engineering Students.

A volunteer investigation by stu
dents concerned in the affair has dis
closed that the loosing of chemical
gases at the recent junior election was
not caused by agricultural or engin-
eering students.
During the meeting. the act was
attributed to the combine of agricul-
tural and engineering students by a
member of the College of Arts and
Science. Apology for the accusation
has been made and accepted.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-03-04
Rarley Scenes,

2 cups barley meal. u teaspoon salt.
2 teaspoons baking powder, table
spoons fat, 81 cup sour milk, %
teaspoon soda. Sift together the dry
ingredients and work in fat. Dis
solve soda in a little cold water and
add to milk. Combine all to form
a soft dough. Turn out on a well
floured board.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-03-04
l. c. s. BOokkeeper's Handbook.

The Bookkeeper's Handbook is
a reference book for business men in
clear, concise language information
on bank bookkeeping, corporation
bookkeeping, cost accounting, banks
and banking, business law, modern
office methods, money and the money
market, and practical problems in
arithmetic. The book is certain to
prove valuable to those engaged in
these lines of work. international
Correspondence Schools. Scranton,
Pa; cloth 302 pages; s1.25 metz
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-03-04
THE NEW BOOKS
TrOtzky i'm Print.

What President Wilson gave as the
four principles of possible peace,
Leon Trotzky in his book, THE Boil
sheviki and World Peace" laid down
three years ago as the only conditions.
THE conditions upon which peace
should be cOncluded-the peace of
the people themselves, and not the re-
conciliation of the diplomats-must
be the same for the whole Inter-
national. No contributions. The
right of every nation to self-determina-
ton. The United States of Europe
without monarchies, without standing
armies, without ruling feudal castles,
without secret diplomacy"
But the main cry of the Bolsheviki
minister of foreign affairs for revolu-
tionary Russia, is the appeal to the
laboring man. The present war, he
says, shows the failure of the capi-
talistic regime. The day of the
masses is coming. No longer will
nationalistic aspirations. on account
of which the laborer is put into the
battlefield, exist. Glass war will be
the outcome of the present conflict
"A working class that has been
through the school of war will feel
the need of using the language of force
as soon as the first serious obstacle
faces it within its own country 'Neces-
sity knows no law the workers will
cry when the attempt is made to hold
them back at the command of bour-
geOis law
Have the International, the World
Socialists, failed? Trotzky says no.
The rise Of the radical movement has
been interviewer with nationalistic
regimes. 1t is the historical back
ground of new idea that made it
succumb to the first blow. Another
reason was that the capitalistic ma
tions can force peaceful socialist to
take up arms. The scheme itself has
not failed, he says; it will arise to
new day in the dawn of tomorrow.
New forms are needed to meet the
new situations. Tomorrow there
will be more of us than today. And
the day after tomorrow, millions will
rise up under our banner, millions
who even now, sixty-seven years
after the Communist Manifesto, have
nothing to lose but their chains"
.(Boni and Liveright, New York;
cloth, 23S pages; s1.50)
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-03-04
Hand Book For Stenographers.

THE Stenographer's and Cores
pondent's Handbook" published by
the international Correspondence
Schools, gives special attention to
those subjects that relate directly to
stenographic work. The book manipu-
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-03-04
Daily Food Hint

1918 saw marvellous developments
in the food situation, America began
to manufacture rice -four, corn -four,
potato -four, soy bean meal, and barley
meal in large quantities and the peo-
pie used these in place of wheat -four.
thus releasing enough wheat to feed
the soldiers of the allied armies and
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-03-04
Orchestra Proprietor Leaves.

Benton S. Gabbert. sophomore in
the University, will leave school We'd
nesday for his home in ST. Joseph.
Mr.. Gabbert controlled the Triangle
Orchestra, his rights in which he has
sold to Eugene McCown.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-03-04

1t is reported from France that
married men stand shell shock better
than bachelors. Which makes us
wonder if that is one reason why so
many of our men get married before
they go to France.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-03-04
"Window-Trimmer's Handbook,

The Window Trimmer's Handbook"
is one of a series of twenty-five
Little Giant" reference books west
pocket size) and treats of the prin-
ciples involved in the arranging of
merchandise displays in show windows
and cases, and approved methods Of
decorating interiors and exteriors of
buildings. 1t contains valuable in
formation for the professional trimmer
and the merchant
(The international Correspondence
Schools, Scranton, Pa; cloth, illus
trated with drawings, 315 pages; so
centsl
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-03-04

Chancellor Won Hertling's statement
that Courland and Lithuania would be
freed means that they will be given
the same freedom" that Germany has
given in the past-self-goyernment
with the kaiser debating.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-03-04

the United States. Make it true. Make
the pages of history bright for the
children to read tomorrow. We VIII
do 1t. 1t will come home to US eventu-
ally. but don't wait. Begin now.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-03-04

$1,000 I maturity value costs in
March, $S2S.00. You will get s172.00
interest on January LIST, 1928. II you
must have your money sooner, the
Government will cash your Baby
Bonds at any time upon 10 days no.
tice. Let US add your name to the
list.
d. A. Robnett
s. NJ Stevinson
Berry McAlester
March Campaign Cammittee.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-03-04

If you cannot furnish silver" bull
lets for the Nation to carry on the
war, you may contribute war garden
bullets. Both are effective.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-03-04
Corn Flour Griddle Cakes.

IL cups corn -four, " teaspoon
soda, "a teaspoon salt, l cup sour MILK
1 egg. Sift the dry ingredients to-
gether, add the milk and the beaten
egg. Mix we'll and cook on hot grid
die. The batter must be very thin.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-03-04
No Drill This Afternoon,

The University cadets did not drill
this afternoon on account of the As
sembly in the University Auditorium
Regular drill will be held at AIS to-
morrow afternoon.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-03-04
$1,000 Patriotic Club
War Savings Stamps

These are the people who have TAX
en- the limit. There should be a good
many other people in Columbia and
Boone County who are will to go the
limit to help the Government.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-03-04

The trouble with wheat substitutes
is that most of them are so good and
appetizing that we do not feel patri.
otic when eating them.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-03-04
Extends an Apology.

Editor the Missourian: hereby
apologize to the Home Economic-Ag-
Engineer combine for accusations
made at the All-Junior election Feb
ruary 2S.
(Signed) H. F. HICKMAN.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-03-04
Rean Malasses Cake.

1h cups -four. ~ cups bean meal
* teaspoon soda, egg. " cup moias-
ses, ~ cup milk. 1 teaspoon sait.
Sift the dry ingredients. Add the mo-
lasses to the milk and add to the dry
ingredients. Shape into loaf ano
bake In a moderate oven.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-03-04

Gone are the days when we cracked
jokes at the expense of the lunch
counter ham sandwich and the board
ing house prune.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-03-04

The real man with the hoe, it ap-
pears, is destined to become as pop
ular as the picture of that name.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-03-04

The former car of Russia still has
some Of our admiration. II is report
ed that he refuses to take back the
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-03-04

throne from the hands of the Ger
mans.
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1918-10-18
ZIONISTS CONGRATULATE
ALLENBY.

Nahum Sokolow has sent the fol-
lowing telegram to General Allenby:
Zionist Organization sends
heartiest congratulations to you,
officers and men under your com
mand on latest and most brilliant
victory
Congratulations were also sent to
Lloyd George. The message to the
Prime Minister states that the Jew
ish People hail with unbounded Joy
the further extension which this vic
tory signifies in the sphere of free
dom and good government in their
ancient homeland.
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1918-10-18
October Is, 1918.

my fathers Yarzheit because |
haven't any idea when the date
came around. We are very soon
going across and I know that I
shall not come back, and you
couldn't do anything better for me
just now than get up these lectures,
and bring me back a little to my
own people before go across.
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1918-10-18
LIBERATED SAMARIA AND
GALILEE NEED MUCH
HELP.

DR.. Elder and Cavaliere Bianchini,
members Of the Zionist Palestine
Administrative Committee have
made an inspection of the territory
set free by General Allenby's recent
victorious advance.
They have cabled to the Zionist
Organize ton of America that they
have also visited Chedera and Zich-
ron Jaakov, where conditions were
not as bad as may have been ex-
pected. The colonies, however, need
funds to replace the cattle of which
they have been robbed and to restore
damaged property as we'll as to re-
stock their farms which have been
denuded during the war; The con-
stantly increasing extent of the lib
Grated territory requires a proper
tional expansion of relief funds
Considerable assistance will be re-
CURED for opening up the Jewish
colonies in Samaria and Ga1i1ee
which have been war victims for the
past four years and large sums of
money will be required for the re-
patriation of the exiles who were
banished to Samaria and Galilee
prior to the liberation of Jerusalem
year ago. The members of the
Commission pay very high tribute
to the brave Jewish pioneers who
stuck to their posts in Samaria and
Galilee in the face of all risks and
out of their undying attachment "to
the sacred soil of Jewish Pa1estine'.
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1918-10-18

rabbi at Waco, he brought the sun
dered hearts together and the next
day they became one.
At a small naval section base
along the New England coast, the
Jewish Welfare Board Field Secre-
tary talking with one or two of the
men learned from them that their
impression was that there was a
considerable number of Jews among
the three hundred men in the base.
At going to headquarters to ask
Capt. Murphy, the officer in charge,
what might be the number of Jew
ish men. The Captain replied, he
believed there would be fifteen to
twenty, but in order to make sure
he reached for the telephone and
made inquiries. The Captain al
most lost his balance on his chair
when the message came back to him
that between thirty-fve and forty
per cent of all the men in the sta
ton were Jews, and that instead of
fifteen or twenty, there were nearly
one hundred and twenty-five Jew
ish men in that station. When he
realized this fact, he Immediately
gave orders to change the program
of the naval base, so that Friday
evening should no longer be study
night on which the men were com
PEELED to remain in the station study
ing, but it should be free night, and
special facilities should be given to
the Jewish men for going to town
and attending religious services on
their Sabbath Eve.
News came to the Jewish We'll
fare Board representative at Camp
Kearney, San Diego, that a Jewish
soldier had been hurt in fight with
his sergeant. The name of the in
jured one was not known nor was
his company or regiment known.
The Jewish Welfare Board field
worker walked from barrack to bar
rack in search of the missing man,
eventually he found him and learned
the story of the fight. The injured
man had been called a Jew by his
sergeant and had retorted with his
fists, but the sergeant had had much
the better of the encounter. The
Star of David man went to the hos
pital and found man sitting up
in bed rather badly battered. He
introduced himself as the Jewish
Welfare Board representative.