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The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-01-04

The following members of the Phi
Delta Theta fraternity have returned
to school for the semester: PhiliI
stephens, George Ruth. Jack Craw-
ford. Joseph Brecklein, Frank Hedges
Numa Heitman, Eugene Montgomery
l.. +. Whybark, Leo Sanders, Frank
Lowe. Searcy Ridge, Bernard Anna
walt. Alfred Eagen, Erwin McEwen,
Austin Rittenour. Frank Houston. AL
len Mattingly, Marion Brown, Robert
SimOns. Doyle Cotton, Harrison For
grave, Eugene Mcconnell. Edward
Hayward, Tom Byrd, Clayton Gordon,
Ralph COffey, Frederick Ludemann.
William TOotle, Eric Schroeder. and
Henry BurrOw Clark.
Miss Virginia Quarles arrived from
Kansas City last night and is the
guest of Miss Mary Hill at the Phi
Beta Phi house. She will leave Sun
day night for Lasell Seminary. Bos-
ton, Mass.
Mrs. J. T. VI. Johnson left today for
her home in Kansas City after spend
ing a week with her sister-inIaw,
Miss Eva Johnston and with relatives
near Ashland
Mr.. and Mrs. James Garth have re-
turned from Little Rock. Ark. where
Mr. Garth attended the officers train
ing camp at Camp Pike. They are
staying at the Daniel Boone Tavern
temporarily.
Ralph COffey, who was stationed at
Camp Bull. Ky, has returned to school
after spending the holidays in Kansas
City with his parents, DR.. and Mrs W,
II. COffey.
Emmett Smith left yesterday for
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-01-04
THE OPEN COLUMN


Editor the MissOurian: :-Professor
Majors suggestion of a fitting mem
Drial to the many students and for
mer students of the University who
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-01-04

Miss Mary Robinson. clothing spe-
cialist VIII leave Sunday for Higgins
vile where she will assist Miss Mil
dred Glasse in a clothing conservation
campaign
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-01-04

San Antonio, Tex, to visit his wife and
children. who are spending the win
ter there.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-01-04

Clayton Gahnestock, Rich Hill
George Parrish, Kansas City.
William Sherman, Poplar Bluff.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-01-04

Raymond Clouse, a student in the
University last year, will return to
school Monday after receiving his dis
charge from Camp Zachary Taylor.
Louisville, Ky.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-01-04

The Phi Delta Theta fraternity en-
tertained the following guests at din
ner last night: Miss Esther Robert
son. Mr.. and Mrs. William Searcy
Ridge, John Wallace, Thomas Cloney
and Edgar Ford, Sedalia. and Nelson
Dearmont of Cape Girardeau.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-01-04

Mr.. and Mrs. J. T. Mitchell will ell
tertain with a family dinner tomor-
row for the following: DIR. and Mrs.
P. ]. Mitchell, Mrs. W F. Sylvester,
n. T. Mitchell. Mr.. and Mrs. R. H.
Gray, Mitchell Gray. Misses Pearle
Mitchell, Fannie BOothe, Martha
Brown. Exile and Frances Gray.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-01-04

Miss Laura Moss Stephens will
leave tomorrow for her home in Kan
saS City after visiting her grandpar-
ents, Mr.. and Mrs E. W. Stephens.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-01-04

Emmett Smith left yesterday for
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-01-04

Miss Alma Cotton will leave tomor-
row for Vassar after spending the
holidays with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Weldon Cotton. 11O1 University
avenue
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-01-04

Mrs. Mary Lee Reed entertained the
following guests at luncheon today for
her daughter, Miss Helen Reed: Mrs.
George A. Evans. Miss Lucille and Re-
becca Evans. and Miss Katherine Con-
ley
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-01-04

Columbia expects every cast-off
overcoat to do its duty.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-08-22
Blackfoot Man
Talks Printing
Continued from page one

1t seems to me now, that changes are
coming far more swiftly than ever
before. II we thought newspapers
were going out of business rapidly
during the war, we can be prepared
for further surprises in the period
ahead of US. The newspaper of the
future is going to be better, and the
circulation of the individual paper
will be larger, but there Will be a
severe thinning out of printing plants
and of individual firms publishing
papers. Small towns having two or
three or five papers struggling along,
will cut down to one or two and they
will be better. The town of 5000
people will soon be producing paper
as good as has been produced in the
town of 10000, but some of the COM
petitors of the old days will go out
of business and the people operat-
ing them will be doing other work.
probably raising peaches or red APP
pies or sugar beets.'
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-08-22
Failing But Don't Know 1t

~ was In printing plants where
they are supplying their product at
.re-war prices and are going broke
I'd don't realize it, When they are
closed up they will hardly know how
Ii all came about. The manager of
one little plant told me he had $1,000
IN the bank the first of January, and
has nothing now, and he does not
understand it, for he has had a good
run of business He is simply letting
his assets be absorbed by his Gus
toners in the community by deliver
ing his product at the old prices that
make him lose a wide margin on
every order he fills. ! was in an old
0onular newspaper office in eastern
Oregon, where they should have ten
" twelve thousand dollars worth of
equipment to keep abreast of the de-
velopment of their community. and
the whole plant would not invoice
more than $500 and their business
is simply pinching out by slow de-
grees. The head of the house boasts
that he has been in the business for
thirty years, and therefore he knows
the business well He is in reality
as far behind in his profession as the
old-time dray man would be with his
old-time dray in competition with the
transfer company with modern
trucks. The pavements that keep
his horses feet sore and keeps them
from making time, are what enable
the trucks to move swiftly with
larger loads"
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-08-22

was no head to the business, and no
definite controlling plans. The man
ager was s so busy doing detail
work among the ranks of the en-
ployees that he had no time left to
plan, to keep books, to supervise or
to take his bearings SO he could see
where he was drifting. Everybody
was at sea-. everybody was worried or
Indifferent, and there was enough
time and materials going to waste
about the place to make good pro-
1T it they were managed right and
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-08-22

these losses turned to account. was
in two good old newspaper offices in
Oregon, where they have had every
opportunity to keep abreast of the
times, and the very worst arranged
and dirtiest printing house in Black
foot would be model compared to
them.
Going Out of Business
For a good many years the larger
papers have been doing little or no
Continued on page four
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-08-22
Printers Becoming Scarce

In all the printing houses I
visited, there were probably a total
of 500 people employed, and in only
two places did they have anyone
learning the trade. Those shops were
in small town, each had one boy
learning, and the shops were so
crudely managed that if the boys
worked there for two or five or ten
years, they could not hold job a
day in any successful printing office
because they are not learning the
right methods. In the state of
Oregon there is move under way,
proposing to- make a base rate Of
$1.00 on hour for printers, wages
nearly doubling present prices, and
that will bring about an interesting
rush OF adjustments. Surprising that
no printers go into that state from
elsewhere, all the shops that hire
help and are not making a profit, will
speedily advance their prices of
everything or go broke. The little
shop where the owner does the work
with the help of boy or other as
sistant who does not have his wages
fixed by the association, will have a
rush Of work, it will be done at the
old prices, till the bank account and
the credit account are exhausted, and
then it will close. The firm that
keeps abreast of the changes and pro-
tects itself from these losses will
still be able to operate and turn out
the goods. Even if the labor costs
did not rise, the rapid decrease in the
number Of available printers, would
soon thin out the workers as fast as
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-08-22
Seven Reasons Why

Some of the vital elements that
are bringing about the changes in
the printing business are the high
wages paid to printers and still going
higher every day; the large num-
Der of printers and publishers killed
in the war or dead with the flu; the
demand for printers and publishers
to go to foreign countries to fill po-
sitions; the lack of apprentices learn
ing the business to fill up the gaps;
the high cost OF living for those re-
naming in the work and the rapid
advance in the prices of all materials
and equipment used in printing"
Operating Expense Still Rising
at was generally expected that
these conditions would come back to
normal after the war, but from all
these natural causes the strained con-
ditions are being intensified and the
prospects are that the high tide of
that condition will not reach us for
a long time yet. The mere fact that
young people are not learning the
printing business shows what pam
icky times are in store in regard to
labor. Printers wages have nearly
dou bled since we went into the war.
and wage costs are rising faster now
than they ever did before. Our
weekly report that came this morn
ing showing the changes in the prices
of printing as adopted in the Porte
Standard Price list for the inter
mountain region, shows an advance
Of 10 per cent in the price of floor
mems work, 20 per cent advance in
the work of the presses and 25 per
cent in the linotype, and these are
not arbitrary advances, but are based
on supply and demand, and the firm
that disregards them will wake up
in an embarrassment"
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-08-22

find what they want. Our. buyer
knows the ropes. gets what we
want, and ships them early, but
that is not the chief message we
want to give you.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-08-22

never less than two, there have been
efforts in recent years to esta blish
one more large one, daily. But at
the present time it is almost impossi-
BILE to keep enough competent help to
publish the two dailies and a small
weekly. In the face of these high
costs for labor and the famine in the
labor market, the advertising has
fallen off till there is difficulty in
paying the help. When paper will
not pay its own operating expenses
and nobody is willing to fill up the
gap of losses from time to time, that
paper is likely to cease to appear.
The loss of the automobile advertis-
ing alone, is a serious blow to news
papers and auto dealers who cannot
get cars to sell do not usually adj
vertise much; and automobile adj
vertising is not the only kind the
newspapers have lost in the past year
or that may stay lost for long time
| to come.
Dailies Not Progressive
"Men operating large dailies do
many things that make drains on the
business land seem to think that just
because they are dailies they can
stand these losses. Or perhaps they
are too busy to check up and see
what they are losing or find the
remedy. l have been in some big
plants where they have two dozen
linotypes, and all of them are using
melted type metal that is heated by
gas flames. The fumes from the
flames added to the fumes from the
metal Injuries the health of the OPP
orators and some of them are laying
off all the time getting over the pois
oning from this source. The danger
of explosions and the danger from
| fire added to the damage to the metal
and the loss of time due to the vari
able heat of the gas fame, all com.
bine to make heavy losses. In one
such plant they had four-horse mo-
tor operating fans to drive the fumes
out of the building, and in winter
his was also wasting the heat needed
to keep the building comfortable for
work. For few thousand dollars
they could install electric heaters
Ito melt the metal and thus do away
with all these other expenses and
dangers at one stroke. The electric
ity used to run the four-horse motor
and the fans would nearly operate
the melting pots and still they don't |
make the change. When / asked
why they didn't do it, was told that
the price Of melting pots had gone
up to $1S5 apiece, and that this was
too high. In short time these melt
ing pots will cost $3.50 apiece, and |
will still be. worth more than they |
cost. But these progressive fellows
who have made their fortunes in the |
past twenty years will wake up after
while to find that they have fallen
behind in the race and are operating |
at prohfbitive costs.
"A Hold-Up Game
IT visited one printing plant where
they were doing good business and |.
the owner was making money, but
the employees were holding him up
for wages and taking advantage of
him in every way they could to make
him their slave. ! visited another
plant where dozen persons were
doing rushing business, but there
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-08-22
A Month in the Eastern Markets
Reveals Many Interesting Facts

Conditions are different from
what they have ever been be-
fore. 1t used to be that the sell
ers were looking for buyers but
now the buyers are hunting for
the goods, and happy when they
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-08-22

labor-saving machines could make it.
up if everybody went to buying ma
Chimes"
Boise Papers in Trouble
In our own state capital where
there have been from two to four
papers for the past twenty years, and
New-York tribune., 1919-03-05
Senators Demand
Quick Decentralization
Vote Shows They Favor Dis.
charge of Troops in United
States in Thirty Days
Nrm }orh Tribune
HuaHIttufnu D,,,+,,,

Nd"tlhufoH Burftu
WASlllNGTON. March l-Demob
lliaation of all soldiers in the United
states except the regular army within
,h'rty days WAS virtually demanded
by The senate to-day just before the
linal adjournment by vote of is
TO 81.
The temper Of the Senate ON this
matter was illustrated by "A vote on nm
amendment which would have madc
the length Of time in which the sol.
diers can be demobilized sixty days
instead of thirty. This was laid on
the table by bare majority.
During the brief discussion which
the time permitted the Vice-Presj
dent declared the Senate adjourned
just after the announcement of the
vote-virtually everyone who spoke
agreed that the rehabilitation wheels
were not turning swiftly enough.
incidentally, the amcndment-of-
fcred to House resolution nrovjd-
ing for some additional clerks. which
was being considered by unanimous
consent as matter of courtesy TO
the House-was almost exclusively a
Democratic propositions 1t was of
tered by Senator Gore, of Oklahoma.
Fearing it would kill the House reso-
luton, Senator Underwood made a
point of order against it, but the
vice President overruled this.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-05
AZ Police Heroes
On Honor Roll for
Valorolls Conduct
Eight Given "Honofable
Mcnlion': Pos,humous
Award 10 W. Burrcl Who
Died Stopping Runaway

Forty acven heroes of the Police
Department, who won distinction by
meritorous conduct In the line Of
duty, are on the honor roll announced
yesterday. Eight of them, who showed
extraordinary bravery. receive "hon-
orable menton," which entities each
to wear silver star on his sleeve
The others receive "commendation, 4"
which means that they may wear
bronze stars.
A posthumous award WAS made to
Patrolman William Barrett, who died
in an attempt to stop runaway
horse on the Williamsburg Bridge
on August %, 1918 His name will
be placed on the memorial tablet at
Police Headquarters.
A pistol fight with five robbers placed
Detective Bertram Maskiell among the
leaders. Early in the morning OF Sep
tember Z, 1918, Maskel was told that
robbers were holding up the members
of the Waiters' Club, 787 Sixth Avenue.
AS he entered the hallway five of the
hold-up men, who were descending the
stairs, opened fire upon him. He drew
MS revolver, shot the leader dead. and
wounded another. The rest turned back
10 the second floor and made their way
to an adjoining building, jumping from
anticipated them and ran to Forthwith
street, where he captured one of them.
fatrolman James McCatfroy caught
another q fter a chase OF several blocks.
Gun play also brought honorable
mention to Patrolman Thomas Flahertv V
and Detective George J. Andrews. who
arrested Salvador Annahle. who escaped
from Newark after killing man.
Acting Captain John y Coughin
was shot IN the ihipl, by Achille Sierra.
~ x-tonvict, who was pursued bv
Coughlln, IN an automobile after by
ISLANDERS said Sierra had shot - man
Runaway horses afforded the or-
ro,tuhity which placed OH tho honor
toll Joseph ! Wey. Nicholas r. Cocks.
Michael llieteS. Henry r. schneider,
Henry v, Harrington, Joseph Hon
dpnzn, llanl, 4 Mecetrou. Charles y.
smith James hapueN Michael
!, shVenN' James l'en, 'ol,u leaheY,
Jeremiah 'lliofd, Daniel Curry, and
James i Callahan
New-York tribune., 1919-03-05
epidemic Squad''
Praised by Daniels
Secretary of Navy Commends
Men Who Assisted in
Influenza Scare

WASHINGTON, March Secretary
Daniels announced day that he had
commended ffty-two enlisted men OF
the navy who during the recent in
huenza epidemic voluntarily submitted
to experiments at the naval hospital
at Chelsea, Mass, TO aid naval doctors
in the attempt to determine the cause
and method OF transmission of the
disease and preventive.
At the same time the Secretary com
mended Machinst Mates John Har-
ris, Winter Park, Fla. and Lewis I
Bessenger Dade City, Fla, of the Ava-
tion Service, for rescuing a comrade
who had fallen from the breakwatcr at
Waukegan, Ill.
Among the men Of the Influenza
squad who we're commended are: Robert
A. Allan, Rochester, N. Y; Arthur r
Anderson, Hartford, Conn; Muro G.
Bullock, Elmira, N. Y; James j. Gala
brese, Alb Central Avenue, Brooklyn;
Eugene A. Kearney. Newark, N. j.:
Thomas Kleint, 179 East 1l7th Street
New York; James W. Malone, 1885
Broadway, Brooklyn Paul A. Mas
Glendale, N. Y; william J. Murphy
Johnson City, N. Y; John II. Mean.
neny, New Haven, Conn; Henry +
Crowley, Jersey City, N. j.; Arthur u
Bernhard, 728 Elton Avenue, New York;
Charles +. Edman, $50 Forty-secone
Street, Brooklyn; Henry J. Englcrt, 455
Concord Avenue, New York
New-York tribune., 1919-03-05
Navy Graft Denied
by Great Lakes Head
Captain Bassett Tells Daniels
Arrests at His Station Are
''CrOssly Exaggerated'

WASHINGTON, March 4.-Captain
Bassett, executive officer of the Great
Lakes naval station, reported to Sec
retary Daniels to-day that the printed
reports regarding the arrests at that
station were Sensational and prosslv
exaggerated"
Investigation, Captain Bassett said.
indicated that only few enlisted
men were involved and that they evi-
denly accepted money under false pre-
tences, as so far no evidence had been
found that any man had been dis
charged as result of the passing Of
bribes.
Captain Bassett's report to the NAVY
Department was as follows:
"Referring to your telegram, the re-
ports carried in the newspaper ac-
counts exaggerated the facts. Mos
covitz and another man who had had
financial dealings in connection with
releases were recalled to active dutv
for investigation. While being uues-
toned in aide for information office
in Chicago Moscovitz attempted sui
eide by jumping from a window and
died several hours later in a hospital.
AN investigation shows that only
a few enlisted men were involved and
that they evidently accepted money
urder false pretences, as so far no
evidence has been found that any man
has been discharged through fraud.
Apparently this is all a petty affair,
sensationaized by the suicide of Mos,
covitz."
New-York tribune., 1919-03-05
69ih Objected to
British Uniforms.
O'Leary TcstiGes
Near Muiiny in France When
New York's Irisl, Fighters
Had 10 Wear Them. Law
yer Now on Trial Declares

Jeremiah A. O'Lcary, on trial before
Judge A. N. Hand in tho United States
District Court charged with violating
the espiohage act, spent all day yes
terdav on the Witness stand denying
the charges The government has made
agonst him. explaining his speeches
aud writings. denying that he hated
England and commenting OH the worth
of books written hv famous i5nglish4
men,
He reiterated again nnd again that
he WAS not IN favor Of revolution, thnt
he was not Ii Socialist, but That he was
a "Jeifersonian Democrat" All his
acts, he suid, had been inspired by
Amcrioanism
Concerning his first meeting with
Madame Marie de Victorica, OLoary
said she had been sent to him by a
MIR. Ripper, with whom he had had
associations for three or four years.
She came to him on December /, 1917.
he said. She wanted a divorce and said
her husband became insane u short
time after they were married.
OLeary denied having seen her at
Long Beach or having been at Iloff-
mans Inn Government witnesses tea
tilted they had seen them in each
others company at both places.
Discussing the membership Of the
Goth Infantry, now the 1G5th, which he
testified he helped build up, O'Lcary
said that amy man who joined The
69th, and favored England took his
lifc in his hands" He testified that
b, q.
so intense against England that there
was nearly mutiny in France, when
the men were ordered to don English
uniforms.
Explaining his meetings with j.
Willard Robinson he sNid he first met
Robinson az a client. then as an ad-
vertising solicitor for Bull Publishing
Company. He was dismissed, OLeary
said, and he helped him get work in
garage. Government witnesses tcs-
tilted that Robinson went abroad for
OLcary.
OLcary denied ever meeting him in
company with Arthur Lyons, or meet
ing Robinson at lIoffman's Inn, or at
the Nassau Hotel, as is charged He
said he bought Liberty bonds Of every
issue and sold his house for $4,000
to buy bonds of the Fourth loan.
Asked about the proposal to nomi-
nate him for Mayor on an anti-con-
scription ticket, OLcary said he had
declined to run on such ticket because
he was not opposed to conscription.
When it was tried to make the ticket
Socialist, OLeary said he declined
again, because he was opposed to
Socialism.
Due to the ndisposton of Ernest
r. Hunter, foreman Of the jury, who
has cold, Judge Hand adjourned the
case to Thursday morning, when
OLeary will resume the stand.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-05
Ranger Left All TO ART

The late Henry Ward Ranger. in
January. 1917, announced his intention
of leaving his entire estate to the
National Academy Of Design. to be
used for the purchase of paintings
by American artists to be presented to
various public galleries, according to
the testimony of Harry W. Watrous,
secretary of the academy, in the trial
Of the Ranger will case yesterday.
Mr.. Watrous was called by the prose
cution to rebut testimony of Edith F.
Ranger, sister of the dead artist, and
one of the defendants on trial for con-
spiracy to defeat the probate of his
true Will, and who swore that relatives
had told her that her brother had
stated that he had drawn Will leaving
his estate to her