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The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-06-20
THE TROUBLE BUSTER
There's a good deal in a name, el

There's a good deal in a name, es.
pecially when it is as euphonious as
the title of the lively little periodical
| published by the class in printing
under Major W. H. Henderson, at Fort
McHenry, U. s. General Hospital No
2. The Trouble Buster is an historic
document because it is the first peri
odical of any kind published in this
country devoted entirely to. the re-
making of the disabled soldier and
sailor. 1t is we'll illustrated by local
rehabilitation talent and has on its
editorial staff a poet who contributes
the following to Vol. /, No. 1:
II you can hold your head up while
the others
Are dropping theirs from marches
and fatigue;
II you can drill in dust that clouds
and smothers,
And still be fit to hike another
league;
If you can stand the greasy food and
dishes,
The long black nights, the lonesome
road, the blues;
II you can choke back all the gloomy
wishes
For home that seem to spring right
from your shoes;
II you can laugh at sick-call and the
pill boys,
When all the other lads are check
ing in;
II you can kid and jolly all the kill
joys,
Whose faces long ago forgot to grin;
If at parade you stand fast at atten-
tion,
When every muscle shrieks aloud
with pain;
If you can grin and snicker at the
mention
OF some bone play connected with
your name;
If you succeed to keep your knees
from knocking,
At thoughts of all the bullets you
may stop;
II you can do these things and really
like 'em,
You'll be reg'lar soldier yet, old |
top.
D. H. W.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-06-20
Betsy Ross interviewed.

A recent issue of the Philadelphia
Public Ledger contains a signed news
article by Sara Lockwood, a graduate
of the School of Journalism who joined
the staff of that paper in May after
having done newspaper work in st
Joseph and Tulsa, Okla. The story
relates a conversation between the
writer-"a girl from the newer West"
and the Spirit of Betsy Ross, whom
Miss Lockwood found on Flag Day in
the little house on Arch street, Phila-
delphia, where Betsy Ross in the flesh
sewed together the bunting for the
first American flag.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-06-20
ARROW ROCK

Among Missouri towns, Arrow Rock
has a position unique.
Other towns resemble other towns
Arrow Rock has an atmosphere all
its own. Saline is a rich county, with
fat fields and fiourishing communi-
ties. 1t is richer than other counties
in the possession of this picturesque
hamlet on the Missouri river hills.
Arrow Rock is as a piece of the old
Missouri imbedded in the new Mis-
souri, 1t has lost none of the charm
of the old, and yet has all of the
progressiveness of the new. There
is flavor of aristocracy, town aris-
tOcracy, in Arrow Rock.
A quaint building, without freakish-
ness, is the historic Tavern. The
well-kept lawns, the business houses,
and hospitable homes of the citizens,
and most of all, the citizens them
selves, with the grace of gentle folks,
make Arrow Rock in reality a city
set upon the hill, and worth visiting
by all who would know Missouri.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-06-20
OUT OF RUSSIA

John Reed, the radical, has come
out of Russia. As voice in the wild
erness, his voice is uplifted amid the
maze of tangled thoughts in an ex.
PLANTATION of the new Russia. The
Russia that is being born now through
long and painful years of suffering
is, in his Interpretation, not bewild-
cred giant, not knowing which way
to turn, but calm, assured person
who has come to his own.
Nowhere in Russia, says John Reed,
have men been killed because of their
opinions. This in spite of the conflict
ing messages that have come to us
of the deaths and terrors. 1t is to
be hoped that Mr.. Reed is right. If
anyone is equipped to give a fair rep
resentation of the new Russia, John
Reed is. He is at heart in sympathy
with the proletariat, a condition Of
mind and heart not at all common in
the observers who have come out of
Russia with their tales of starvation,
riots and deaths.
John Reed says the only people in
Russia who have been hungry under
the new government are the people
who never were hungry before; the
people who lived in hotels and the
rich bourgeoisie. For that reason,
there has been so much noise about
the hunger of Russia.
With sublime faith in the future of
Russia, if she holds on to her ideals,
has John Reed come out of Russia.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-06-20
AN UNSOLICITED TRIBUTE
TO THE SALVATION ARMY

gadier or private, who, If he spoke
at all of the Salvation Army, did not
speak in terms Of fervent gratitude
for the aid that the Salvationists are
rendering so unostentatiously and yet
so very effectively. Let sizable body
of troops move from one station to
another, and hard on its heels there
came a squad of men and women of
the Salvation Army. An army truck
may bring them, or it may be they
have battered jitney to move them
and their scanty outfits. Usually they
do not ask for help from anyone in
reaching. their destinations. They
find lodgment in a wrecked shell of a
house or in the corner Of a barn. By
main force and awkwardness they set
up their equipment and very soon the
word has spread among the troopers
that at such-and-such a place the
Salvation Army is serving free hot
drinks and free doughnuts and free
pies. 1t specializes in doughnuts, the
Salvation Army in the field does-the
real old-fashioned homemade ones
that taste of home to homesick SOL
dier boy.
| did not see this, but one of my
associates did. He saw it last win
ter in dismal place on the Toul Sec
tor. A file of our troops were finishing
a long hike through rain and snow
over roads knee-deep in half-thawed
icy slush. Cold and wet and miserable
they came tramping into a cheerless,
half-empty town within sound and
range of the German guns. They
found a reception committee awaiting
them therein the person of two Sal
vation Army lassies and a Salvation
Army captain. The women had a fire
going in the dilapidated oven of a
vanished villagers kitchen. One of |
them was rolling out the batter on a |
plank with an old wine bottle for a |
rolling pin and using the top of a |
tin can to cut the dough into circular
strips. The other woman was cooking |
the doughnuts, and as fast as they
were cooked the man served them out,
splitting hot, to hungry wet boys
clamoring about the door, and nobody
was asked to pay a cent.
At the risk of giving mortal affront
to ultradoctrinal practitioners of ap-
piled theology 1 am firmly committed
in the belief that by the grace and the
grease of those doughnuts three hum
BILE benefactors that day strengthened
their right to a place in the Heavenly
Kingdom.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-06-20
THE OPEN COLUMN
Graduate Work.

Editor the Missourian: 1t is a mat
ter OF regret that provision at the
University for graduate work is SO
inadequate this summer that a number
of the graduate students who were
planning to be here have found it
necessary to go elsewhere. There is
no class of students that means so
much to the University as those in
the graduate school and no effort
should be spared to hold these per-
sons who are so influential among the
students who will be entering the
higher institution Of learning within
the next few years-A. M.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-06-20
HOME GUARD TO DRILL TONIGHT
Total Enrolment 225-New Recruits
Joining Daily.

At 1880 o'clock tonight on the Court
house lawn, all three companies of
the Home Guard will meet for organi-
zation. Non-commissioned officers
will be appointed and drill started. L.
C. Adams said this morning. that the
Home Guard now had probable total
enrolment Of 225 men. The majority
Of these men are over 81 years old, and
some Of them, Mr.. Adams said he sus-
pected, are beyond rs. He stated that
new recruits were coming in every
day.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-06-20

days OF constant demands upon Its
space on behalf of a multiplicity oi
enterprises-most of them worthy, tC
be sure-does a newspaper get q
chance to print boost" without be-
ing asked to do so. We reprint the
following tribute to the Salvation
Army for the same reason that in
spired Irwin S. Cobb to write it, as
part of a war article in the current
issue of the Saturday Evening Post }
Right here seems a good-enough
place for me to slip in few words of
appreciation for the work which anoth-
er organization has accomplished in
France since we put our men into the
field. Nobody asked me to speak in
its favor because so far as l can find
out it has no publicity department. l
am referring to the Salvation Army
may it live forever for the service
which, without price and without any
boasting on the part of its personnel,
it is rendering to our boys in France!
A good many of US who hadn't
enough religion, and a good many
more of us who mayhap had too much
religion, look rather contemptuous-
ly upon the methods Of the Saliva
tionists. Some have gone so far as
to intimate that the Salvation Army
was vulgar in its methods and lack
ing in dignity and even in reverence.
Some have intimated that converting
sinner to the tap of a bass drum
or the tinkle of a tambourine was an
improper process altogether. Never
again, though, shall l hear the blare
of the cOrnet as 1t cuts into the chorus
of hallelujah whoops where a ring of
blue-bonneted women and blue-cap-
ped men stand exhorting on a city
street corner under the gas lights,
without recalling what some of their
enrolled brethren-and sisters-have
done and are doing in Europe
The American Salvation Army in
France is small, but, believe me, it is
powerfully busy! Its war delegation
came over without any fanfare of the
trumpets of publicity. 1t has no paid
press agents here and no impressive
headquarters. There are no we'll
known names, other than the names
of its executive heads, on its rosters
or on its advisory boards None of
its members are housed at an expen-
sive hotel and none of them have hand
some automobiles in which to travel
about from place to place. No cam
paigns to raise nationwide millions |
of dollars for the cost of its ministra-
tions overseas were ever held at home |
l imagine it is the pennies of the poor
that mainly fill its war chest. l i'm
agine, too, that sometimes its finances
are an uncertain quantity. Incidental
ly l am assured that not one of its
male workers here is of draft age un-
less he holds exemption papers to
prove his physical unfitness for mill
tary service. The Salvationists are
taking care to purge themselves of
any suspicion that potential slackers
have Joined their ranks in order to
avoid the possibility of having to per-
form duties in khaki.
Among officers as well as among en-
listed men one occasionally hears
criticism-which may or may not be
based on a fair judgment-for GER
tain branches of certain activities of
certain organizations. But 1 have yet
10 meet any soldier, whether a bri-
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-06-20
Wheat and Oil I'm Oklahoma.

Mrs. Jesse E. Wrench has received a
letter from her husband, Professor
Wrench, who is working in the wheat
harvest near Gurber. Okla. He says
that they have had a great deal of ex-
citement there this week on account
OF oil being struck on the farm on
which he was employed "One can see
perhaps fifty wells from the door
yard he says, "and all around them
are acres and acres of wheat, part OF
IL cut and part still standing"
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-06-20
GERMAN BIRTH RATE LOWERED
Forty Per Cent Fewer Babies in 1915
Than In 1918,

Correspondence of the Associated Press. }
LONDON, May 15.-The first three
years of war reduced by over TWO mil
lion the number of babies who would
have been born in Germany had peace
prevailed, says a report OF the British
Local Board. Some 40 per cent fewer
German babies were born in 1916 than
in 1913. The infant death-rate, which
rose to an abnormal height for time
after the outbreak of war, appears to
have gradually returned to the pre-
war rate. The food difficulties have
not led to an excessive number of
babies dying, at least up till the end
of 1916. In the towns where the food
shortage was most acute, the death
rate tended to fall
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-06-20

The following letter, written al
Great Lakes, ILL.,, is from Harry E
Taylor of Traer. Ia, recent gradu-
ate of the School of Journalism.
am just starting on my fifth week
in the Navy and 1t gets better the
farther along 1 go. The first three
weeks in detention camp were much
like a freshman's first weeks used to
be at the University. 1t is tough
Initiation and am glad l am out of
that All the dirty work was ours
while in detention. But there are a
lot Of good things about it. Practi-
cally every recruit gets it. no matter
what branch of the service he enlists
in. The experience is especially good
for those who come here expecting
to fall into an easy job. 1t is a sort
of democratic influence and reminds
US that we are all equal.
I enlisted as a musician, having
played band instrument at home /
was assigned to the Second Regiment
Band this week, but have not yet been
issued an instrument. Am anxious
to get a horn and start in with the
others.
l have been trying to write a little
for the Star-Clipper (Traer, 1a.) every
week SO as not to forget how to write
for a newspaper.
l have met three jackies here with
whom l had become acquainted at the
University. There are many college
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-06-20

1t is difficult to realize that the
weed patches so noticeable in some
sections of Columbia are the much
cherished war gardens of which we
were hearing so much last April.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-06-20
PERsHING TO DEAN WILLIAMS
General Pleased That School Is So
Well Represented I'm Service.

General John J. Pershing, comman-
der-in-chief of the American Expedi-
tionary Forces in France, in a letter
to Dean Walter Williams says:
Il am pleased to know that the
School of Journalism is so well repre-
sented in the national service"
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-06-20

The program of the government to
develop river transportation is one
that will mean more to Missouri than
to any other state in the Union. With
transportation facilities developed by
river and by rail Missouri will have
made great stride toward industrial
and economic leadership.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-06-20
Camp Funston to Have Pageant.

Friends Of Kinney White, who was
a student in the School of Journalism
last year, have received a letter from
him from Camp Funston. He saws a
dramatic director has been sent to the
camp from Washington and is plan
ming big Fourth of July celebration
The chief feature will be a historical
pageant in which 5000 persons will
take part
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-06-20

Taylor's address is Second Rssi-
ment Band, Camp Dewey, Great Lake,
Ill.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-06-20
FROM TRENCH AND CAMP

(n
preferred
full the soldier
Of conneted)
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-06-20

men in the service here. One con.
pany claims to be so per cent collere
men.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-06-20
President Wilson'S
War-Savings Proclamation
June 2S Designatsd as National War Savings Day,
All Citizens Asked to Pledge to Saue and
Buy War-Sauings Stamps on or
Before June 2Sth


"This of Nations of armies, and all of
usted conditions this Nation play Its full part u
conflict The problem before primarily financial
problem but rather problem of increased production OF
sentas and OF the materials and the labor Tor
expenditure Of nonsentals the labor OF
the products of the and factories and overbudens
nsporson all Of which be used the and at their
best for purposes.
Ths results which seek be obtained only the
participation of member of the Nation and old in
National concerted Thrift therefore that
everywhere pledge themselves by the Secretary
Of the Treasury the practice of Thrift the Government
winning conerve fuel
rails Of kind devote their labor only the
and those things which essential individual
health efficiency and that the evidence OF their
Savings stamps The by Depart
within the OF the door
tun this matter wide all To practice Thrift
times virtue and brings great benefit to the
for materials labor with which the the practice OF
individual Thrift is patriotic duty and a necessity
81 appeal all who either Liberty Bonds WarSavngs
Stamps continue to practice and thrift appeal to
all who do Government securities to do likewise and
purchase them the of their The who buys
Government securities transfers purchasing Of hts
the United States Government until after this and to that
degree does buy In competition with the Government
~ EARNESTLY APPEAL TO EVERY MAN, WOMAN AND
y9 Epes 81 E 4o svH on 9k I
TO BUY AS REGULARLY AS POSSIBLE THE SECURITIES
POSSIBLE THROUGH MEMBERSHIP IN w WAR;sAyI@M9s y @
SPECIAL PERIOD OF ENtisTMENT IN The GREAT Yoic
MS1 3R SP S5 AIR m aE
DAY"
(sgneO WOODROW WILSON
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-03-07
NEWS FROM COUNTY
Notes From Married..

John Pagan of Canada, who visited
here with relatives the past week has
returned to his home.
Mrs. Wagner of Msnitowoc spent
several days here with her daughter
Mrs. w. Kronforst.
Mrs. Mary Sobeskey spent Saturday
at Denmark.
There was large attendance at the
auxiliary meeting Tuesday, which was
held at the Kyitek and Steinbrecker
home.
There are many new members that
joined the Red Cross. They are as
follows. Mrs. j. Heisdori, Mrs. H..
SCHNEIDER, Mrs. Peter Reedy, Mrs. Jos.
wotruba, Mrs. A. Fidler. The next
meeting will be held at the home Of
Mrs. II. Kellner.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Saeger and fam
lily Of Rosecrans have moved into the
residence OF Mrs Doubek.
Mr., J. Reedy, Sr., who has been on
the sick list is recovering.
Mrs. Shimonek of Appleton is here
to visit her relatives.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-03-07
Three Klndn q Forest Elrea.

There are three kinds of forest fires
the Surface fire, which merely runs
In the leaves and ground litter; the
"ground fire. that covers the under
brush and the dense forests, and the
Grown FIRE" the most dangerous and
terrifying Of ALL A crown fire Is usu-
ally caused when the ground or sur
face fire reaches the top Of d ridge or
knoll, and the increased draft carries
the blaze up the trunks Of the trees
TO the tops Of the Crowns" It Is the
crown fires which have made the great
forest fires Of history. Surrounding the
burning area by q trench from which
everything down to the mineral soil
has been removed Is The only kind OF
fire line which win stop ground fire,
and IT viii often stop d surface IRE
For surface fire whipping OF using
brush branches or water soaked sack
ing 70 whip the burning leaves at the
edge Of the Gre back into the burned
area Is most effective Sand as wei as
water is valuable IN fighting this Kind
Of fire, too. There Is only ore way to
fight a crown hre-that Is, by back
1ring"--hghtlng fire with fire.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-03-07
Did Germany Wrong Belgium?
By G. c. FISKE, Associate Professor of Latin in the
University of Wisconsin.

morning Of August 4, 1914, by the
Belgian Ambassador, said,
Germany has nothing with
which to reproach Belgium, and
the attitude of Belgium has al
ways been perfectly correct"
On the same afternoon in his fam
Gus speech before the Reichstag, Won
Bethmann-Hollweg, the German chan
cellor, said:
I'VE are in a state of necessity,
and necessity knows no law.
So we were compelled
to override the just protest of the
Luxembourg and Belgian Govern
ments."
Out of the mouths of her two high
est officials Germany thus condemnsl
herself
There is not a shred of evidence that
France intended to invade Belgium.
When asked by Great Britain on Julyl
81, 1914, France on the same day re.
piled that she intended to respect thel
neutrality of Belgium, and so informedl
the Belgian Government.
Great Britain had told the Belgianl
Government as early as April Z, 1881
that she would not invade BelgiumI
except to defend its neutrality, neverl
first
How Germany Planned Invasion.
What about Germany? When asked
by Great Britain on July 81, 1914, Ger.I
many refused to make any promise.
France, Belgium, and Great BritainI
have clean slate. Germany is a self
confessed criminal in the court Of
civilization.
Two months later Germany an.
nounced that she had found in the
Belgian war Office records of a prof.
posed plan by which England was to-
pass through Belgium to attack GerI
many. She did not point out that these
same documents showed that the plan
was to be carried out only in case
Germany invaded Belgium. Neither
did she explain that King Albert had
i told her of this plan when it was made
several years before the war began
Cermany's attempt to excuse her gross
violation of Belgium's neutrality Isl
both clumsy and dishonest.
Belgium and Great Britain were
more than justified in their suspicious
because of the German strategic rail-
ways built for five years before the
war, which threatened the easternI
frontiers of Belgium like the tentacles
of an octupus.
But what has the crime against
Belgium to do with our entrance into
the war? Germany's violation of Bell
GUM is menace to the Monroe doc
trine. Will victorious Germany that
violtted Belgium regard the rights of
the small nations in Central and SOUTH
America?
In the violation of Belgiums neu.
trality we Americans see a concrete
and bitter proof Of just what the real
izatlon of the ideas of German mill
tary autocracy means to the world
and means to us. The German gov
eminent asserts that necessity knows
no law, that might makes right, that
a solemn contract is a scrap OF
paper" Such ideas are menace to
every nation in Christendom.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-03-07
Notes From Quarry.

We wish to thank all those who at.
tended our program last Friday. The
sum Of $3.50 was collected (only grown
ups paying admisslon) This sum was
more than was needed in order to OBJ
tain our 1000 membership on our Red
Cross flag. We have now organized a
Junier Red Cross Auxiliary. The
officers are as follows:
President Mabel Fitzpatrick
Secretary Florence Einbergcr
Treasurer Minnie Mailman
After the program Rev. Smith gave
very good talk on the work Of the
Red Cross and an auxiliary was formed.
The following officers were chosen
President Mrs. A Erickson
Secretary EugenIa Kolensky
Treasurer Mrs. Alfred Torrison
Signed Teacher and pupils Of
the Quarry school,
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-03-07
Notes From BrOckyiIIe

Miss Wayne Richdorf was at Mantle.
woo last Saturday.
Miss Julia Zeman was at Green Bay
last Saturday.
Miss Mary P,lger left for Manltowoc
last Tuesday where she viii be employ.
ed.
Our local community has organized
a Red Cross Auxiliary, the first meet.
ing was held at Mrs. Joe Zsman and
the second al Mrs. Edward Kosteyy.
The officers are: Chairman, Miss Julia
Zeman; Yice.Chairman, Mrs. Charles
Rezek; Secretary, Miss Wayne Rich
dorf; Treasurer, Mrs. Frank Shiwou.
Miss Mamie Shimon left for Maribel
where she will be employed.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-03-07
Con1nressinu Cotton,

Scientific investigation has proved
that compression Of high degree does
not inlure the fiber, and cotton Is pack
ed IN other countries today ut dem
slty substantially three times that Of
ours nv the most economical practice.
The Egyptian package has density
Of about - pounds cubic foot; the
Indian cotton Is compressed to 40
pounds per cubic foot while some In.
dian ana Chinese bulng plants effect a
density Of from s. to 90 pounds OF
cotton per cubic foot.