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The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-07-09
AIRPLANES
"a One-Act Play.)

Time, present. Action takes place
on big plateau of cloud over Mis-
souri,. The sky is clear, but the hori-
zon is ringed with mist.
Cast of characters:
Mr.. Commercial Progress, auction
eer.
Columbia, Kansas City, st. Louis,
Carrollton, Boonville and other towns,
represented by citizens.
Attendants, cashier, water-boy
pilots and mechanics.
Scene
Mr. Commercial Progress. (Begin-
ming sale)-Gentlemen, the twenty
first century is the century of prog
ress. Modern business must be done
in a modern way. We shall offer
twenty-five airplanes for sale today
The demand is greater than the sup
ply, and this will be your last chance
for a month. Who wants the first
one? ono hands raised.) The Allan
tic has been crossed several times;
we nave udu IoNSluulSHl acne man
for more1than a year, and passenger
service has been established in the
fastest growing cities. Who wants the
first one?
Kansas City (citizen).-I want ten
Commercial Progress.-Fifteen more
left, who's next?
st. Louis (citizem.-I'll take five.
Carrollton (citizen).-Tll buy one
Boonville (citizen) Put me dowr
for one.
Columbia (citizens' soliloquy).-T
buy or not to buy? Boonville and Car
rollton bought one apiece and perhap:
Centralia and Brownsville will buy
one apiece. What shall we do? Co
lumbia is a progressive town. Al
airplane would give her the finishing
touch.
Commercial Progress.-Do not hesi
tate, gentlemen. You will buy event
ually. Stay on the map with YOU
neighboring towns. This is bust
ness investment and not a risk. The
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-07-09
REPEAL THE LUXURY TAX

A tax on a strength building food,
a tax that hits rich and poor alike and
equally, is not fair luxury tax. The
multi-millionaire pays two cent tax
on his children's ice cream sodas, and
by the same law the shop girl pays
the same amount on her MONDAY des-
sert and the late-to-work man on his
breakfast of matted milk.
It's obvious the government needs
the money or such a method would not
have been even conceived. Prohibition
too cuts big hole in the income of
the United States that must be filled.
But surely our representatives in
Washington can devise better means.
The 10 per cent tax on soda fountain
confections is not the only glaring
fault in the law. Clothing that is Or
dinarily considered expensive is taxed.
But in nine cases out of ten, because
of value received, it is more economi-
cal to buy the so-called high priced
clothing. In the long run it is cheap
er. Here again a luxury is not taxed,
but thrift itself.
True enough the luxury tax has its
good points, but the bad ones sadly
overshadow the good
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-07-09
gress, Wilson can declare wartime
prohibition at an end.

gress, Wilson can declare wartime
prohibition at an end.
On the assumption that beer con-
tanning 2.75 per cent alcohol is not in
toxicating, many saloons and brewer
les are continuing the sale of such
beer. Some of these saloons are also
selling wines of 2.75 per cent or less
alcoholic content. No distilled liquors
except in defiance of the law, are be-
ing sold, as they contain more than
2.75 per cent alcohol.
Through the Attorney-Generals Of
fee arrests are being made in num-
ber of cases where 2.75 per cent beer
is sold to provide for court tests on
the validity of the law as applied to
beer of this strength. This will prob
ably be the only step taken until the
Supreme Court, which meets in Oc-
tober, decides whether 2.75 beer is in
toxicatipg.
However, the drys in Congress
maintained that they will stop the sale
of 2.75 per cent beer within two weeks
by passing bill defining intoxicating
liquor as a beverage or product con-
tanning one-half of 1 per cent alcohol.
Thus, pending court decisions or 'ac-
ton by Congress defining intoxicat-
ing beverages, sale of the lighter
drinks in states in which there are no
regulatory laws will be permitted nntii
January 16, 1920, when constitutional
prohibition becomes effective. Other
than this, the only ray of comfort left
the anti-prohibitionist is the coming Of
the time when President Wilson will
declare rehabilitation of the army
complete, which automatically would
suspend operation of the wartime act
until January 16.,
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-07-09
NOTICE OF EXECUTRIX

Notice is hereby given. that Letters tes-
tamentary on the Estate Of Rosa Bledsoe.
deceased, were granted to the undersigned
on the 26th day Of June, 1919, by the Pro-
bate Court of Boone County, Missouri. All
persons having claims against said Estate
are required to exhibit them for allowance
to the Executor within six months after
the date of said Letters. or they may he
precluded from any benefit of said Estate;
and If such claims be not exhibited within
one year from the date Of the last inser-
ton of the publication of this notice, they
shall be forever barred.
MARY E. CALDWELL,
Executrix.
Attest: H. A. COLLIER,
Judge of Probate. C-2S3
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-07-09
THE NEW BOOKS
"New Schools for Old.

In New Schools for Old" Miss
Evelyn Dewey, the daughter of Profess
sor John Dewey, tells the story of the
revival and new life of an unattractive,
dilapidated and almost deserted rural
school near Kirksville, Mo. She de-
scribes how it passed from burden
and disgrace to function as vital
force in the education and social life
of not only the students but of the
community of the entire Porter dis
trict.
This change was accomplished as
a result of the vision, energy and per-
severence of woman, the teacher,
Mrs. Marie Turner Harvey. This
woman has taken a torn-down district
school, reorganized it and made it a
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-07-09
THE CALENDAR

July 14-Basil Gauntlet will give piano
recital at the University Audito-
rum at 1880 p. IN.
July 21-Basil Gauntlet will give piano
recital at the University Audito-
rum at $50 p IN.
Aug 4-Basil Gauntlet will give a piano
recital at the University Audito.
rum at 80 p. m.
August 14-Summer term of the University
ends.
August 21-26-Columbia chautauqua on
Stephens College campus.
August 26-Registration for the fall term
Of the University starts.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-07-09
HHE PROHIBITION SITUATION

Wartime prohibition became effec-
tive July through President Wilson's
proclamation prohibiting the sale of
Intoxicating liquors from that date un-
til such time as rehabilitation of
troops should be completed When the
army reaches a peace-time basis. ac-
cording to the figures fixed by Con-
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-07-09
~The Earth Turns South,

Clement Wood in the poems, "The
Earth Turns South gives sympa-
thetic revelation of the real southern
negro. But the poems are not all about
negroes. Some are full of an almost
fierce love for nature and beauty, in
spired by the restless urge of those
who see and feel.
(E. P. Dutton and Company, New
York, cloth, 149 pages, $1.5O)
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-07-09
THE MARRIED SCHOOL TEACHER

THE MARRIED SCHOOL TEACHER
Every once in while an official
body, representing an enlightened,
twentieth-century community, COM
mits some rash, uncalled-for act for
which it receives nationwide con-
demnation.
Recently the Pittsburgh, Pa, Board
of Education made itself ridiculous in
voting to 8 to bar married women
from regular positions in the Pitts
burgh public schools. AS conse-
quence eighteen otherwise good and
eligible teachers of proven ability have
been dropped.
Their places will necessarily be
taken by either young teachers or less
experience or so-called "old maids"
who will be left to direct the play
and mold the destinies of the young
lives of Pittsburgh from now on.
ut is quite certain that whether
we have celibate fellowships at our
colleges, or advertise for gardner
without membranes or dismiss
women teachers on marriage" says
Professor Karl Pearson, an eminent
sociologist of our day. 1--WE are ignor-
ing the fundamental laws of eugenics.' -
Marriage is the right and duty of
every good woman physically, intel
lectually and morally fit. Society is
the loser, if the women of our intel
lectual class do not marry and the
next generation grows up the offspring
of inferior stocks. AS sure as we make
marriage a stumbling block to eco
nomic pursuit We are lessening the
number of marriages among the edu-
Gated class.
The unmarried state is just as false
a standard for teaching in the public
schools as sex is a false standard for
the exercise of the right of suffrage.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-07-09

first passenger who rode in a train
was afraid. In a few years you will
not think anymore of riding in an air.
plane than in a passenger train.
Who's next?
iBoonville (second citizen).-Co-
lumbia has plenty of them.
(Cloud drops.)
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-07-09

now a resident of New Orleans, La.
arrived in Columbia on Monday. She
will be the guest of her sister, Presi-
dent l.. w. st. Clair-Moss at Christian
College for several weeks.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-07-09
SOCIETY

Mrs. A. F. Neate and her sons Will
liam and Sidney, and sister, Miss En-
ma Buckner of Paris, left Monday for
Billings, Mont. From there they will
drive to Yellowstone Park where they
will spend a month.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-07-09

Eugene Coon of Eldorado, Kan, ar
rived in Columbia today to visit
friends. Mr.. Coon was graduated from
the University in 1918 and has since
been employed with the J. c. Hoyt
Loan & Insurance Company in Edo
RADIO.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-07-09

work vet done by Miss Kerr, setting
forth as it does the characteristics of
modern American life which are
growing all too common, and pointing
the way to the solution.
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The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-07-09

If weeds bore valuable fruit. own
ers of vacant lots in Columbia could
turn fruit growers for the summer and
retire on their incomes by fall.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-07-09

Robert Brown, former student in
the School of Law, returned to Kan
sas City yesterday after spending a
week with his parents on Paquin ave-
nue.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-07-09

Masonic students, alumni, faculty
and business men will be present at
the Masonic smoker to be given Friday
night by the Acacia fraternity.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-07-09

DIR. w. H. Brown returned to Aux
vase yesterday to resume his prac-
tice after spending the weekend with
his family.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-07-09

Miss Julia Pollak of Louisiana, Mo-,
is the guest of Miss Libbie Collins,
7O6 Missouri avenue, this week.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-07-09

A Kansas City paper carried the
head line saloons were open Sunday"
So were the soda fountains.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-07-09

knowledge is blessing, but it takes
manners to smooth its way through
the world
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-07-09

Mrs. Nova Dyser and her daughter
Dorothy Claire, left for Montana last
Friday.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-07-09

Strictly fresh river fish at Hetzler's.
Phone 165. (adv.)
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-07-09

firstIclass school and at the same
time a community center.
The story is told in almost as fasci-
mating a manner as the story from
which the title is taken. For as If by
magic the little one-room school that
the community had deserted has be-
come a model rural school.
(E. P. Dutton and Company, New
York; cloth, illustrated with photo
graphs, 337 pages; 50 metz
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-07-09
.The See-SaM.r


Throughout their married life, 1t
was Marcia who made all the conces-
sions, all the compromises and ad-
justments. But when his self-willed
love of pleasure led Harleth into a
Irritation with Leila Templeton, one
of her close friends, Marcia rebelled.
Not until he had drunk of the dregs
of his own folly did he awaken to his
selfish wrong doing, and then, had 1t
not been for sudden dramatic turn
of affairs, it might have been too late
for reparation. There is an unexpect-
ed unlacing of the tangled threads of
the story leading toward happiness.
"The See-Saw" by Sophie Kerr, is a
story of the life of Americas pros
porous and fast living younger sci"
in which business, the life of the
country club and thousand other
pressing social matters crowd out all
the finer elements of family life.
This book is by far the most mature
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-07-09

Miss Helen Mitchell returned Tues
day night from Bowling Green where
she spent the weekend with Miss
Mary Lee.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-07-09

Mrs. Isadore Enoch, formerly of Co.
Iumbia, but now of st. Louis, is visit
ing Mr. and Mrs. ]. A. Klass, PA South
Eighth street.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-07-09

Mrs. Max W. Miller, formerly on
the official staff of Christian College,
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-07-09

Mrs. P. Houston of Washington,
d. c., who has been visiting Mrs. l..
Price at Read Hall for the last two
weeks, left yesterday to spend week
with friends and relatives in Kansas
City.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-07-09

Misses Gertrude and Pauline Job
son of Mission, Tex, are visiting at
the home of Mrs L. Terrill in Colum-
bia.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-07-25
Alabama Leads World
In Peanut Production
Produces This Year One-Fourth of Nations Total Crop
Newark Paper Says Underwood Reflects Sentiment
of Country Toward League of Nations
Nv HIGH w. ROBERTS

Washington, July 24.-CSpeciaL)-Th
south will produce this year. according
to forecasts of the agricultural depart
ment, more than 55,OoO.OOo bushels of
peanuts, enough to supply every man.
woman and child in the United States
with pecks
Alabama will produce more than one
fourth of the total peanut crop of the
United States-14,7oS 600 bushels. Texas
follows with 100000 in round num-
bers and Georgia, with 100000
The south's crop will be 100000 bush
els in excess Of the crop last year, al
though peanut acreage has been reduced
q per cent. Texas and Arkansas are
the only states showing acreage icreases
The acreage reduction in Alabama is
not obtainable, but Alabamas production
( will be 100000 bushels less than its pro-
duction last year.
Officials of the department, interviewed
by the correspondent of The Age-Herald,
declared it very fortunate that the south
had determined to grow peanuts in great
abundance, and find means for their ex-
planned that while other products often
take from the soil it's most valuable
characteristics, peanuts give to the soil
additional advantages Crop after cror
of cotton, for instance, will eventually
cause the soils deteriorat ton; crop after
crop of peanuts on the other hand
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danger. be submitted to the high court
of arbitration
This is a temperate view. 1t errs, If it
errs at all, on the side of conservatism.
Make such wars impossible and probably
no actual causes of war remain that can
not be amicably adjusted
Finally, Senator Underwood gave a
word of sane counsel to those who in
woke the speeches of Washington and
other of our wise forefathers to Their aid
in opposing the treaty He reminded them
that dangers to our people and our re-
public that were not dreamed of a CEN
fury ago confront us today al our very
doors, threatening menace to our lives,
our civilization and our Institutions To
defend these things was the desire of our
forefathers and their way was suited to
their time and circumstances; but. asks
Senator Underwood, Shall we continue to
dream of the ideals of the past or meet
as practical men the dangers of the flu
ture?
There as only one answer and Senator
Underwood has it, for as the late Mr..
Roosevelt said to the late Mr.. Hartman,
we are practical men,"
The editorial is headed For Practical
Men"
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sequently, when he spoke on the league
Tuesday. he did not have anything to
take back and neither did he have to
square himself with preconceived opin-
ions. He was free to make a good
speech.
Mr. Underwood is for the league with
out amendment or reservation because he
believes it to be a practical step towards
world peace, involving no sacrifice of ma
tional sovereignty. 1t seems to US as If
Senator Underwood comes as near ex-
pressing the opinion and sentiment of the
great ma .ority of the American people as
anyone can"
The editorial then refers to the fact
that Senator Underwood has no extrava-
CANT hope that the league will eliminate
all causes for war or make all war i'm
possible, and to the position of the SEN
ator that the league will not institute a
super government 1t then continues:
THE strength of the league, Senator
Underwood recognizes, is its moral au-
thority, and it is this that certain per-
sons are doing their utmost to destroy. I
am more interested in the principles enun-
ciated in the clauses relating to the
league of nations the senator said, than
am in the powers given for it's govern
ment; for on those principles the future
life of the league must depend Laws
CO mot compete against principles. Es-
tablish principle and Laws must be adj
justed to it, When Mr. Underwood backs
principles he is betting on a sure thing.
The essentials of the peace treaty were
settled when the underlying principles
were accepted.
1.-The greatest of these principles, Sem
ator Underwood pointed out correctly,
is the provision in Article TO-, which VIII
Hays, chairman of the republican COM
mittee, says will have to be modified,
hxrx ,Iare of he laoc
dertake to respect and preserve against
external aggression the political indie
pendence and territorial integrity of
every member of the league The accent
falls on aggression The guaranty here
offered is against predatory wars, wars
of conquest, wars of Illicit expansion. 1t
forbids such wars and only such wars.
They are the only wars that need to be
eliminated. Take away the incentive for
such wars and. as Senator Underwood
said. few actual causes of war will re-
main that cannot, without difficulty or
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-07-25
REPORT ON MURDERS
BY THE MEXICANS

Washington, July 3.-(Special)-Re :
earding the Mexican situation, which is
regarded as serious, the American Asso-
ciation for the Protection of American
Rights in Mexico. has collected data tend
ing to prove that 317 Americans have been
murdered in Mexico since December, 1910
The list is claimed by the ASSOCIATION
to be incomplete. 1t estimates that ofo
have been murdered. The government
has not obtained reparation for these
murders and it Is declared that in
n,aioritv of the cases there have not
been formal protests to the Mexican gov
eminent.
The reports of these outrages are IN the
secret files of the state department A
thorough investigation into the enure
Mexican situation is under way oy com,
mittees of both houses of congress anu
the state department.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-07-25
INDIANA'S SYMPATHY
WITH sen ATOR NEW

Washington. July 25,-( Special)- Former
Senator Thomas Taggart of Indiana has
nothing but sympathy for Senator Harry
S. New in the present embarrassing cir
cumstances growing out of the murder of
Frieda Lesser, Birmingham girl, by Harry
s. New, claiming to be the senator's son.
Senator Bankhead, who has just re-
turned from French Lick, the resort
owned by Mr.. Taggart, declared that the
latter spoke only in the kindest spirit of
the man who defeated him for reelection
to the Senate.
According to Senator Bankhead. Mr..
Taggart declared that everybody in In
diana was full of regret that Senator New
had been brought so conspicuously oerore
the public, and belief that the situation
would not rebound to his political disad-
vantage.
Senator Bankhead declared that Mr..
Taggart had no further political amoi-
ton that he seems to be satisfied with
his magnificent resort and place of en-
tertanment.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-07-25
GRAND JURY WILL
RECONVENE MONDAY

With approximately 40 cases on the
docket and 100 witnesses summoned for
Monday and Tuesday the Jefferson
county grand jury will reconvene Mon
day morning after a recess Of several
days.
Judge William e. Fort Of the crimi
nal division of the circuit court charged
the grand jury when it was organized
to investigate the coal and insurance
combines alleged to exist. There was
some speculation around the courthouse
as to whether or not the grand jury
would investigate both matters. but no
official information could be obtained
yesterday.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-07-25

will cause poor soil to transform itself
into good soil
1t was explained that while some years
ago, a farmer could procure from the
merchant in return for a bushel of pea
nuts, so cents in trade, he can now de-
mand and receive $3.50 in cash. The de-
partment states that peanuts are be-
coming more and more an article of food
for humans. 1t was stated that as oil,
it takes the place of lard in cooking
vegetables, and its flavor cannot be de-
tected; that it can be used as lard In
bread and cakes, although in the latter
it's taste is traceable.
The peanut pulp. the department adds
makes a good fertilizer SO that the
peanut which, it is indicated, is makinS
the southern farmer free of debt and pros
porous, has not rendered it's fullest serv-
ice even after it has given its life and
the ingredients of its body for the
use of man.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-07-25
UNDERWOOD REFLECTS
VIEWS OF NATION

Washington, July 24.-(Special Litter
allure prepared by advocates of the league
of nations covenant includes an editorial
in the Newark Evening News highly
commendatory of the recent speech on
that subject by Senator Underwood.
The editorial begins: Senator Under
wood of Alabama is not one of those who
made up their minds rashly concerning
the league of nations He was in no
hurry to commit himself either for or
against it. He kept an open mind. Con-
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ACity of Memory
and History

and events of romantic history than
Demopolis
Spanish knights primal of this territory
of
fascinating which
good friendly chief ruled and orded these wild
And with borrowed glow the
of the majesty title
with which
she directly speaks the gulf of two hundred
history history really may
not be true.
This habits
cities able to withstand the hadshps pioneer wilder
pushed away him
the first friendly ships that sailed for France
After ALL the race to strong strong
WELL hearty tuned by good health for the
Right Alabama at Hatchetegbgee
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demands
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