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The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-06-05
REST Is UNREST

II you are hot and tired and the
path gets harder and more laborious
to climb and you wish that work had
never been invented to worry the
hand OF man, just let your mental cur
tain up on the past vacations which
you expected to be one hilarious joy
ride after another, but which ended
like toneless funeral marches, so
monotonous did life without work be-
come.
Well did Iago wall, My occupation!
My occupations gone!" for lack OF
occupation is not rest. 1t makes
shamble of your peace of mind. Throw
aside what you have to do and you
might as well throw overheard your
gripsack of mental peace into the
turbulent sea of unrest.
Toilers must have some rest-an
eternally rapacious appetite for work
is just as bad as an aspiration to
bask in utter odalisque inactivity. The
idea of no work at all as the blissful
goal toward which humanity should
strive is a wrong conception born of
the old belief that labor was curse.
Its parents were master and slave. |
1t has no place in the busy world of
achievements today, when man is
known by what he does and not by
what he does not do.
So let US mop our brows and dream
of other worlds to conquer and not
decide to devote our lives to rest, for
that would be but beckoning to
Charon's mudscow
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-06-05

awake at night and as 1t grows more
intense in these war times, when the
price of everything rises at stagger-
ing rate, the weaker and less con-
scientious managers, yield the more
steadily to the temptation to bow down
to advertisers or to court by unworthy
means additional circulation without
which rates cannot be increased. The
Congress of the United States takes
this worst of times to advance largely
the postal rates. Increasing the price
of the metropolitan newspapers to
two cents is only slight relief. If
the war lasts many of the weaker
dailies and weeklies must go to the
wall-an editor writes me that there
are 100 weeklies within so miles of his
city in upper New York State that are
likely to go under soon And it al
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-06-05

ress delivered this morning by Os-
York Evening Post and the Nation.
term of Imprisonment. So the voicing
, of opposition is at an end until peace
comes, and from every sanctum, every
press-roOm, every composing room,
men go forth to fight the country's bat
ties with other weapons than the type.
All the more worth while is it in
this period of partial fallowness to ex-
anime anew some of the considerations
which confront the journalist in nor
NAL times and some of the recent ten
denotes not born of war conditions, vet
profoundly emphasized by the stress
and strain of war. Our people have
been worried of late because it has
seemed to them that the urban press
mas gradually been surrendering to
| commercial interests, while in the
East. at least, the rural press has be-
come more and more the tool of poll
tlclans, upon whom it relies for so
large part of its advertising support.
In every reform camp and among the
plain people the belief exists that the
newspapers with heavy capital invest
ments are Capitalistic press and
therefore opposed to the welfare of
the masses. Then the public is watch
ing with great alarm the steady drift
toward consolidation. They behold
only one morning newspaper in Cleve-
land, Indianapolis, Detroit, Toledo. |
Columbus, Denver, Scranton and st. |
Paul, and they have read with alarm
that the morning field in Chicago is
now divided between the imperiaIistic
Tribune and the Hearst Examiner
Herald; that there is no newspaper
there to represent genuine liberalism.
real democracy. 1t is startling to note
that in out of II Michigan cities
there is not single morning news
paper and but one evening newspaper
apiece; that in that State the number
OF daily newspapers printed in the
English language has shrunk from
~ to only %, and that three more have
been purchased for consolidation or
suppression within the last three
months. OF the %, nine are controlled
by two brothers. Six cities receive
chiefly or only from them the news of !!
The world and the political news of
Where will this tendency
end? What becomes of the old Ameri-
can belief that both sides of all our
national and domestic issues shall n /
have their spokesmen in the press? |
Advance i'm Postal Rates.
More than that, the business of pub
ishing newspapers has become a race
between rapidly rising costs and in
creased advertising and circulation
'eceipts. How to preserve a margin
which will allow for reasonable profit is
he problem over which publishers lie
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-06-05
SHOPPING In COLUMBIA

Your downtown business should not
get anemia, fatal disease which will
surely fall to its lot if the towns peo-
pie fail to nourish it. The physiolo-
gfst tells US unused muscles lose their
functionings; so business unencour-
aged will soon be no business at all
A set of people thrive in every
town who look on it as an infallible
mark of caste to go to the city to do
their shopping. They will not buy
pins in their home town if they can
help it, With them a city firms label
is equal to a made-in-Paris guaranty.
But Columbia's business men have
not given such people a chance to
flourish. The temptation they put
forth in the form of well-made clothes,
good grocery products, reliable drugs
and a myriad more things is too great
to resist The number of Columbians
who go outside to do their shopping
is decreasing yearly.
With the merchants it is not a case
Of prophets without honor in their
own country, for these seers of better
business are reaping the honors of
their good work in the past, in larger
Golfers of good will and gold now.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-06-05

Partisan audiences sing with the
choruses in theaters in spite of immi-
nent air raids-a return of the gay
defiance of the French cavalier of old
who went into a duel with a smile. 1t
is a spirit we would do well to emulate
in everyday life. Put up a good fight
but have a smile for any fate
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-06-05
Enters Reserve Engineers Corps.

David l. Cole, senior in the School
Of Engineering, left last night for
Dove, where he will visit his parents
a few days before departing for Camp
Lee. Petersburg, Va, to join the Re-
serve Engineers Corps. He was rec
commended for this branch of service
by President A. Ross HILL He re-
ceived his degree in absentia.
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Continued on Page Three)
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-06-05
Max +. Meyer to Do Patriotic Work.

Prof. Max F. Meyer of the expert
mental psychology department left to-
day for Northern Wisconsin, where
he will spend several weeks doing pa
triotic work for the National Council
of Defense. His work will be mainly
among German-born or German-speak-
ing farmers.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-06-05
THE DUTY OF JOURNALISM
DURING AND AFTER WAR

Full text of the add delivered
wad Garrison Willard Evening
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-06-05

means putting in new capital INTO
tbose that survive, so that the strcng
newspapers have long been in the
million-doIlar class. How can we
prevent the editors and owners OF
these newspapers from regarding
every question from the point OF Vie"
of the other managers of great COM
panies with huge capital investment?
How can we induce them to present
the 1oint of view of the plain people
on public questions and to view ma
tionaI and international problems at
least somewhat from the point of view
of the masses? Nothing is more
alarming than this growing rift be-
tween newspaper publishers and the
small paid workers of the country. In
nl
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-06-05

Columbia may rejoice that she is
not big city and cannot belong to a
big baseball league-her male popula-
ton will have to bemoan the loss of
baseball players.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-06-05
CHARLES W. FAIRBANKS DIES
Former Viee.President Had Been Un
conscious "a Hours.

Charles W. Fairbanks, a former
Vice-President of the United States,
died at his home at Indianapolis, Ind,
last night He had been unconscious
for twenty-four hours.
His wife and three of his sons were
at his bedside. The fourth son, Major
Richard Fairbanks, is with the Amer
ican Army in France.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-06-05

Let's make Cleanup Week every
week.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-06-05
THE BIBLE COLLEGE OF MISSOURI
THIS SUMNER SESSION
Courses Given Credit in the eUniversity of Missouri

The Bible Literature: The purpose will be to acquire
knowledge of the nature of those studied
appreciation of the beauty variety and OF the Holy
Scriptures literary Hours obe arranged Mr. Edwards
2 History Of tie He6reVS This is offered on cond
that many FIVE people elect take An effort will be
acquant student with the narrative portions of the Old
Testament These will be eauated and each student will
with collateral reading and class discussion write his
history Jewish origins and development
Hours to be arranged. Mr.. Edwards.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-02-22
CITY HAVING RAPID GROWTH
Norfolk Bids Fair to Break all Rec
ords at Her Present Rate
of Progress.
(TlIE END.)

There is not a city in this country,
perhaps none in the world, that is
growing at a more rapid rate than Nor
folk" remarked G.. w. Sizer, manager
of one of the leading hotels of that
city, at the Raleigh, the Washington
Post states. 1.-THE last census gave
the population of Norfolk at less than
10000. Today it is estimated that Nor
folk is a city of 100000, or more than
double the size 1t was in 1910. Wash
ington prides itself on the tremendous
growth attained in the last two or
three years. / take considerable pride
in the growth of Washington, for [
lived here many years, but the pro-
p%ortionate increase in the population
of the national capital cannot compare
with that of Norfolk. OF course, both
cities are helped by war business.
Washington, l presume, is the busiest
city in the world, but Norfolk Is al
most next.
Hampton Roads is filed with ships.
Battleships are passing in and out
every hour, and soldiers and sailors
ulC AllilS iiC RllNClSi IlOACio IN iS1A
dences of Norfolk. Only recently l
saw some 1000 soldiers from New Zea-
land parading through the streets of
Norfolk. Many of them were not
young. New Zealand already has sent
close to 10000 men to the front in
France, and Belgium, out of a popu-
lation of 100000, and is still sending
men, which should be IN object les
son to us.
Business is booming in Norfolk as
before. The hotels are filled to
overlooking just as they are in Wash
ington. New business blocks are GO
ing up and the residence sections or
the city are being extended far into
the outlying districts. I venture to say
that in another decade Norfolk will
come close to being the leading city in
the Old Dominion, both in population
and Importance"
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-02-22
STRANGE VARIETIES or FOOD
People of Different Parts of the Earth
Are Shown to Have Decidedly
Different Tastes.

Strange foods, such as potato -four,
artificial protein cakes, green bone-dust
preparations, tabloid soups, pudding
powders and other unusual things, have
come into use during the war and their
adoption serves to remind us that much
good food material is neglected in or
binary use. Only n few people eat
snails; most of us would starve amidst
plenty of l%ocusts; and the thought of
snakes as food would give those who
call themselves civilized the shudders.
But unusual foe1, once become ia
miliar, is often relished. Colonel
Roosevelt got the best work from his
men on his African expedition by
promising them raw steaks from
slaughtered hippopotamuses. Cap
tain Bartlett, who carried Stefansson
to the arctic water, found raw polar
bear flesh more appetizing than any
thing he had eaten at home.
Frenchmen eat snails and dog steaks
cost there more than mutton. Some
arctic tribes prefer to have their fish
decomposed befor., eating them, and
even then perhaps they smell NJ worse
than Limburger or Brie cheese. South
Americans eat lizasds and mares milk
is a favorite Russian beverage. Truly,
there is no accounting for tastes."-
New York Sun.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-02-22

They were very busy and very happy
and pretty prosperous with their three
ranches. They never heard of Charlie
Fox again, or of Buck Olney-and they
never wanted to.
If you should some time ride through
a certain portion of Idaho, you may
find the tiny valley of the Wolverine
and the decaying cabins which prove
how impossible it is for a couple to
live in three places at once. II you
should be so fortunate as to meet Billy
Louise, she might take you through
the canon and point out to you her
W 1t is possible that she might also
show you the washout which always
made her and Ward laugh when they
passed 1t. And If you ride up over the
hill and slong the upland and down.
another hill, you cannot fail to find the
entrance to the Cove and perhaps you
will like to ride down the gorge and
see the little Eden hidden away there.
And If you should meet them, give my
regards to Billy Louise and Ward
who never calls himself a football
these days.
(THE END.) !,
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-02-22
Pringle will come up tomorrow. Wen
manap all right

Pringle will come up tomorrow. Well
manage all right"
you're quite right. But, Miss Mac
Donald, there is something else. Ter
should like to give you a little-wed-
ding gift, since you honored me with
the news Of your approaching-mm-m
marriage. AS an old neighbor, and
n of your most sincere admirers, who
would feel greatly honored by your
friendship, I-should like to have you
accept this" He held something out
to Billy Louise and pulled open the
door for instant escape. "Good night,
Miss Macdonald. 1 think 1t will
storm" Then he was gone, hurrying
down the narrow path with long
strides, his tall figure bent to the wind,
his coat Tapping around his lean legs.
Billy Louise closed the door and her
half-open mouth and let down her
lifted eyelids. Standing with her back
against the wall, she turned that some
thing-an envelope-over twice, then
tore off the end and pulled out the
contents. 1t was the note she and Mar
thy had signed no longer than an hour
ago, aud written large across the face
Of 1t were the words: "Paid, Samuel
Seabeck."
misunderstanding !" said Billy Lou
ise under her breath and went straight
IN to show 1t to Marthy.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-02-22
PIayino the Man.

No matter what part he may be
playing in the strenuous game of life
as it is presented today, the brother
hood man, above all others, must play
the man. These are times when the
best that is in US must be given to
Garry on" and the race run with
steadfastness and a manly purpose.
AS Robert L. Stevenson so beautifully
puts 1t: whether we regard life as n
line leading to a dead walI-a mere
bags end, as the French say-or
whether we think of it as a vestibule
or gymnasium, where we wait turn
and prepare our facilities for some
more noble destiny whether we thun-
der In a pulpit or rule in little esthetic
poetry books about its vanity and brew
ity, whether we look justly for years
of health and vigor, or are about to
mount into a bath chair, as q step to-
wards the hearse; In each and all of
these views and situations there is but
one conclusion possible; that a man
should stop his ears against paraly-
sing terror and run the race that is
set before him with a single mind"
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-02-22
CHAPTER XVII.
Marthy.

nHLY LOUISE led the way down
the gorge, through the meadow,
and along the orchard to the little
gate. The Cove seemed empty and
rather forlorn, with the wind creep
ing up the river and rafting the dry
branches of the naked fruit trees.
She stopped for a minute on the
doorstep, hesitating before she opened
the door. Behind her, Seabeck drew
close as if he would shield her from
something; perhaps he, too, felt the
deadly quiet and emptiness of the
place.
Billy Louise opened the door and
stepped into the kitchen. She stopped
and stood still, so that her slim figure
would have hidden the interior from
the eyes of Seabeck had he not been
so tall. AS it was, she barred his
way so that he must stand on the step
outside.
BY the kitchen table, with her ell
bows on the soiled oilcloth, sat Mar
thy. Her uncombed hair hung in
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-02-22

wisps about her head; her hard Old
face was lined and gray, her hard eyes
dull with b%rooding. Billy Louise, star
ing at her from the doorway, knew that
Marthy had been sitting like that for
a long, long time.
She went over to her efficiently.
Hesitatingly she laid her g%auntleted
hand on Marthy's stopped shoulder.
She did not say anything. Marthy did
not move under her touch, except to
turn her dull glance upon Seabeck,
"C'm ill.," she said stolidly. "What'd
yuh come fer?"
miss Macdonald will perhaps ex-
plain"
"She amt got nothin' to explain"
said hard old Marthy with grim final
ity. "T1l do what explainin's to be
done. Cm In. Don't stand there like
a stump. And shut the door. It's
cold as a barn here, anyway"
ooh, Marthyl" cried Billy Louise,
with the sound of tears in her voice.
"Don't oh Marthy me-" said the
harsh voice fatty. ST don't want no
Marthyin' nor no sympathy. Well, old
man, you're here to colleck, 1 s'pose.
Take what's in sight faint none Of it
yourn, fairs I know, but anything you
claim you kin have, fer all me. I've
lived honest all my days an worked
fer what I got. I've harbored thieves
in my old age and trusted them that
WANT fit to be trusted. I've allus paid
my debts, Seabeck. I'm willin' to pay
now fer bein' a fool"
"W-where's Charlie?" Billy Louise
leaned and whispered the question.
II dino, and l don't care. He's
pulled out-him an that breed. I'll
have t. pay yuh for seven growed
cattle I never seed till yist'day, Sea-
beck. You can set yer W price on
'em. I amt sure, but I've got an idee
they was shot las night an dumped
In the river. You en- set yer price.
I've got rheumatic SO bad I couldn't
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-02-22
Continued from last week
SYNOPSIS.

CHAPTER xvII-Leading the way
through the gorge, the Cove seems empty
and forlorn. BY the kitchen table sits
Marthy. who explains that she has been
fooled into harboring thieves. Two wom-
en- sign a note covering the value OF the
stolen stock, the note later being given to
Billy Louise by Seabeck as a wedding
present, and written across the face of
the paper is the word Paid"
CHAPTER xvIII-After remaining all
night with Marthy, Billy Louise next
morning rides to Wards where she finds
Brave Buckaroo" has grown lonesome
and is trying to bride Rather, and en-
deayoring to move about on his crutches.
She assists and they start for Marthy's,
because she is left alone. Billy Louise
and Ward are married just as soon as
Ward Is able to make the trip TO the coun-
~ seat-which is as soon as he can walk
comfortably with a cane.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-02-22

to a corner OF the hay corral and
stopped with her hands clutching the
top wire.
"Ward Warren, for heavens sake,
what are you doing?" You couldn't
have told from her ONT that she had
been crying, a mile back, from sheer
anxiety, or that she ''loved him to
pieces" She sounded as If she did not
love him at all and was merely disgust
ed with his actions.
I'm trying to sink my loop on this
buzzard-head of a horse" Ward re-
torted glumly. 1--WE been trying for
about an hour" he added, grinning a
little at his own plight.
well, it's a lucky thing for you he
won't let you," Billy Louise informed
him sternly, STOPPING to crawl under
the bottom wire. you've got about as
much sense as" She did not say
what. "Give me that rope, and you
take yourself and your crutches out
of the corral, Mr.. Smarty. I just had
a bunch you couldn't be trusted to be-
have yourself"
Brave Buckaroo got lonesome"
Ward said, looking at her with eyes
alight, as he hobbled slowly toward
her. you'll have to open the gate for
me, William. Rattler'll make a break
for the open if he sees a crack as wide
as your little finger"
BY then he was near enough to
reach out an arm and pull her close to
him. ooh, William girl, I'm sure glad
to see you once more. l got scared. !
thought maybe 1 just dreamed you
were here; so l tackled"
"You tackled more than you could
handle. You ought to know you mustn't
try to ride Rather, Ward. What If he'd
pitch with you?"
"In that case, I'd pile up, I reckon.
Say William, a broken leg does take a
deuce of a time to get well. But all
the same, I'll stop old Rather, all right.
I'd top anything rather than spend an
other night in that jail"
you'll ride Blue" Billy Louise told
him calmly. "I'm going to ride Rather
myself"
Eyes, you are-notr"
"Do you mean to say / can't? Do
you think"
"Oh, 1 guess you can, all right, but"
well, If 1 can, I'm going to. If you
think I can't handle a measly old skate
like that"
He's been running out for nearly
two months, Wilhemina-"
"And look at his ribs If you'll just
kindly go In the house while I sad
die"
'TIl kindly stay right here, lady
girl. You don't know Rather"
"And you don't know Billy Louise
Macdonald" She wrinkled her nose
at him and turned back to unsaddle
Blue. 81 really didn't intend to go
back right now" she said, 'but seeing
you've got your heart set on it, I sup
pose we might as WELL" Then she
added: "We're only going as far as
the Cove, anyway; and l really ought
to hurry back to look after Marthy.
Charlie Fox and Peter pulled out and
left her there all solitary alone. I've
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-02-22
CHAPTER XVIII.
All Riuht and Comfy.

"HE next morning Billy Louise
rode up the creek at a long lope,
and she pulled up at the stable
and slid off Blue. She went straight
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1918-01-12
THE DEMAND OF THE TIMES.

The need of this, as of all time, is
mutual understanding upon public ques
lions. That the leading thought upon
this subject has not only appreciated
this fact, but is expressing its eonvie.
tions is evidenced by recent utterances
of leading men.
In an address before the Standard
Literary Society New Years day DR..
B. F. Riley emphasized this need. On
the same evening Ex-Governor Charles s.
Deneen, speaking before the Negro Eel
lowship League, suggested the same
idea.
We are also of the opinion that since
there seems to be some doubt on the
part of the uniformed as to just what
the COlored American attitude is upon
the great questions which are agitating
the thought of the world, we should
make our position clear in an authentic
manner. And since we are becoming a
race of independent thinkers the most
an individual can do is reflect the
thought of his community. We therefor
suggest that LEGAL townships or county
conventions be held and that delegates
be chosen to state conventions and that
such state conventions choose delegates
to a national convention to be held in
some central city most convenient to the
largest number. This national conven-
tion after due elaboration shall publish
to the world a declaration of the Col
ored people Is conception of the primer
pies of Democracy, patriotism and hu-
mainly, so that there shall be no further
question as to our attitude upon world
problems as they affect us and hu-
mainly.
The columns of THE BROAD AK are
open to the public for an expression of
opinion upon this question, both as to |
the need of such PRONUNCIATION and as
to the manner of securing same.