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Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1919-01-03
Millions Die of Famine

Deaths by war have amounted to
about five million; deaths by famine
in the same period have amounted
to more than twenty million.
To prevent the starving of addi-
tional millions, the Food Admins
tration is asking that the people OF
this country continue to save from
their plenty; that they still limit
their consumption of food, despite
the fact that the war is over, in Or
der to keep the wolf away from the
door of the world.
Some seven countries of Europe
are now suffering from actual ia
mine. 10 Armenia. the land has
been given over to massacre and
plumber for almost four years. and
there has been neither sowing mol
reaping except by stealth. while
war conditions prevented any food
being imported for the relief of the
starving population
Millions of people in Russia are
now facing absolute starvation
The huge estates of the nobility
have been plundered and ruined
the villages have not enough food
stored away to supply the popula-
ton; and there are no prospects fol
any adequate crops, as the peasant
lands were only halftilled.
Famine has ravaged Poland sine
1915. As result of the lack o.
milk in the country. scarcely an!
chill born there in the last fou
years has survived. One fourth o
the entire population persisted from
starvation.
| Swept by revolution aud destroy
ed by civil war. Finland also is nov
facing a winter Of starvation.
The new states of Czecho Slava
kia aud Jueo-Slavic which hav,
risen from the ruins OF the Austrian
Empire. are hungry. The people o
these countries are now free politi
cally, bur they are under the yok
OF famine.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1919-01-03
Government Control


The unity of purpose that inspir-
ed labor and capital 10 war time
constituted one of the finest exhibi-
tons of loyalty that has ever been
born of Democracy. Now that the
war is all over but the shouting
complicated questions are arising
out of the insistence by various in
terests that conditions be recognized
as permanent which we're clearly
adopted to meet war emergencies.
The people of the country expect
that prices will fall, but it is hardly
tribute to human nature to OBJ
serve that most producers want the
reductions to descend on some other
than themselves. In these columns
we take into &C. cunt the problem
of labor considered in connection
with the policies adopted h. the
Government.
Under date of January Is. 1918,
the Director General of Railroads
appointed a Railway Wage Commits
sion. and acting upon their recon
mendation the recognition of the
basic eight hour day followed. and a
general advance of wages was ap
proved. amounting in some cases to
43 per cent. and this increase was
made retroactive to January l. 1918
BY further orders the wages Of all
persons employed in the service
under the Railroad Administration
we're advanced. Mr. McAdoo. in
promulgating his order, declared
that further steps would be employ
ed in order to do practical justice
to the 100000 railroad employees
of the country" To this he added
the earnest hope that railroad of
ticials and railroad employees will
realize that their relations under
Federal control are not based upon
the old conditions of private manage
ment."
The Federal Trade Commissio n
estimates that 20,000,00O people be.
came engaged in war work Prac'
tically all of them. outside railroad
express and wire employment are
now shifting for themselves; read
Ijustine, their own affairs They
have returned to what Mr.. McAdOC
condemns as the old conditions o
private management" But it viii
be readily recognized that the bro
therhoods engaged in railroad EN-
pIoyment have fastened their wa
emergency methods very firmly up
on the railroads in peace times. an,
that wholly through the ihterven
ton of the Government in their be
half.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1919-01-03
Pays to Raise Hogs

Every now and then you will hear
some pessimistic individual declare
that there is positively no money to
be made in raising hogs and we
take pleasure at this til in giving
concrete example of the fallacy of
this statement says Shelbyville Her,
aid
Arthur Walters, prominent farm
er who lives east of Bethel. was in
this city last Thursday and while
here related the splendid success he
has had with one SOW lately. This
SOW in question has farrowed three
times in the last Is months, having
in all 33 pigs of which 81 were rails
ed Mr.. Walters has sold out of
this number $500 worth of hogs,
kept six hogs for meat and still has
IL pigs If you can beat this record
by all means let Us have it.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1919-01-03
Cost of Amendments

The publication OF the nine
amendments proposed to the state
constitution, which were defeated
at the recent election by large ma
jorities cost the state $23,287.5O OF
$202,50 per county according to
figures obtained from the secretary
of state.
The publishing of the proposed
amendments is required by law
and is ordered by the secretary oil
state.
Prohibition, which received the
highest number of votes. lost by
about $4,000.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1919-01-03
THE WORLDS MOST
NOTABLE STATE PAPERS
A Volume of Historic War
Utterances by President

No body of state papers will ever
be published. probably. of such per-
manent and vital interest to the
whole world as those gathered into
the volume, President Wilson's
State Papers and Addresses" pub
lished by George H. Doran Company.
Under our form of government, the
President occupies place that has
no parallel in the government of
any other important country In
the last analysis we are governed
by public opinion. of which the
President is chief exponent. He is
the country's spokesman. not mere
ly by custom but by express Con-
stitutional provision and mandate.
And Woodrow Wilson. unique
among American Presidents, has.
by universal acknowledgment. be-
come not only the spokesman of his
own country but of enlightened CIV
llization throughout the globe. Our
Allies in the great war have turned
to him with reverent satisfaction to
crystalize the ideals of modern de-
mocracy. President Wilson's utter
ances have shaped events. not only
in the current sense. but in the
largest aspects of history.
The remarkable literary quality
of Mr.. Wilson's addresses" as DR.. Al
bert Shaw says in his introduction
to the volume, lis only eclipsed by
their statesmanlike character in re-
lation to public affairs Of great mo-
ment His sentences and para
graphs, in their discussion of world
affairs, have helped to crystalize
the vague longings of right thinking
men in all nations into something
like definite policies for permanent
peace on the basis of democracy
and International justice"
The book contains over seventy
addresses and state papers, includ-
ing all the historic war utterances.
both preceding and since our en-
trance into the var. The volume
includes illuminating editorial notes.
a Biographical Sketch, an Analyti-
cal index and a list of the notable
phrases coined by Woodrow Wilson.
I Every library, public or private,
and every loyal citizen. who would
serve his country intellectually as
, well as physically, it goes without
saying. should possess President
Wilson's State Papers and Address
90"
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1919-01-03

The far reaching reputation Of
the Chillicothe Business College is
further shown 10 the call last week
from a business school in Calgary,
Alberta, Canada for teacher and'
which was filled with Miss Stella
Roberts Of Red Star. Ark, the third
student to recently be placed with
Canadian schools.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1919-01-03
Reib's Great Clearance Sale

Reib's. 52l Maine ST.. Quincy.
Illinois. Great Clearance Sale starts
January End. 1919, and continues
from day to day until every Suit
Coat, Dress. Skirts. Waists. Petit
coats. Furs. are sold. This is one Of
the biggest under-priced event has
ever been offered.
Suits IL price. Coats Is less.
Fur Sets IL price. Dresses 1 8 lessg
Skirts Ia less, Waists Ia less
Petticoats | 4 less.
2w REIB'S. Quincy.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1919-01-03

Some people with more zeal than
discretion are advocating the sink
ine of the captured German fleet.
If any portion of the captured prop
erty is to be destroyed why not all
of it? We do not know the value
of the German feet, in dollars, but
presume it reaches into billions and
we can conceive of no sane reason
why property of such value should
be destroyed while we are spending
huge sums 10 building additions to
our navy. II is understood. . Of
course. that the captured war ships
do not all belong to the U. S. but il
is well understood that "a righl
smart chance" OF them do. Toe
many things are being advocated
on the theory that money dom
count Ii is Solom6nitish with thu
wisdom omitted.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1919-01-03
Weddings.
McNutt- Umstattd

A Christmas wedding which came
as a surprise TO their many friends.
was that of Miss Ethel McNutt and
Mr.. James Umstattd.
The ceremony took place Thurs
day at 1890 o'clock at the home of
the bride, the Rev Burton T Whar-
ton officiating
The bride is an accomplished and
attractive young lady She is a
graduate of the Monroe City Public
School, William Woods College at
Fulton, and the University of Mis-.
souri, Columbia For the past year
she has been teaching in the High
School at st. Charles, but has re-
signed her position
Mr.. Umstaltd is splendid young
man. He is in the Naval base hos.
pital at Charleston, W. Va, which
is receiving wounded soldiers and
sailors from overseas.
They left on the afternoon train
for Charleston, W. Va. where they
expect to make their home during
Mr.. Umstattd's stay at that place.
Lewis
Miss Ethie Catherine Lewis of
this city and Mr. Max Kramm. of
Chicago, whose engagement was an
nounced early in October, were mar
ried Wednesday, Dec IS. 1918. The
wedding took place at the home of
the brides parents, Mr. and Mrs.
C c. Lewis, Christmas morning at 8
O'Clock, the Rev Burton I Wharton
officiating. Miss Bess Wharton
played the wedding march Only
few friends of the contr acting par
ties were present.
The bride, only daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. c. C Lewis. is one of
Monroe City's most accomplished
and attractive young ladies. She
is graduate OF William Woods Col.
lege. Fulton. the Chicago School oil
Expression and has had two terms
at an Expression School in New
York City. At the time of her mar
riaee she was at the head of the de
partment of expression and physi.
cal training at llibbins, Mimi She
has, however, resigned her place in
that school.
Mr.. Kramm is a prominent mu.
stefan of Chicago, being a wei
known pianist. teacher and com
poser of that city and 10 which cit!
the happy couple will make theil
home.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1919-01-03
Public Notice

Monroe City. MO-, Dec. so. 1918
Notice is hereby given that the
partnership existing between Lena
A. Vaughn and John D. Utterback
under the firm name Of Vaughn &
Utterback. has this day been dis
solved. John D. Utterback now be-
ing the entire owner thereof. All
persons indebted to said firm are
requested to call at once and settle
their accounts.
John D. Utterback,
Lena A. Vaughn.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1919-01-03

Since the flu we have a new fad
the stay at home" fad. II was
brough about by the precautions
taken to keep the flu" from gaining
Roadway here, 1t is rumOred some
good folks have not tried staying at
home for ever so long, and that since
they have tried it. it is bound to be
come popular as winter program
The flu is bad thing. but it has
brought about a condition in Monroe
City whereby whole families have
become acquainted with one another
by staying at home in the evening
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1919-01-03

Miss Wayne Lewis is visiting her
brother, Perry Lewis and family in
Hannibal.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1919-01-03

It's not too late to enter the new
classes which we're organized at the
Chillicothe Business College January
LIST nor to join the almost two hun
dred new students who have just
matriculated. Arrange your enroll
ment for any day next week
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1919-01-03

Mrs C P, Forsythe and TWO child
rem returned to Macon Sunday after
a visit with her parents Mr., and
Mrs. Jasper Henderson.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-01-07
DIR. TIvNAN HEADS FORDKAM.
Father Mulry's Ill Health Makes
Long Rest Necessary.

Announcement was made last night
that the Rev. Edward =. Tivnan. s. J.,
had been designated as president o.
Fordham University to succeed the Rev
Joseph A Mulry. s. j.. whose retire
ment has been forced by Ill health.
Since 1915 Father Tvnan has h"en re-
gent Of the ForIham school OF Medicine
and before that was professor Of chem
stry at Boston College and t'ordham
University.
Father Mulry's health has not been
good for some time. He had been active
~ war work for many months, walch
duties he assumed in addition to those
imposed upon him as head OF the uni
yers,ty, and Il was decided he would
require a long period FOR rest and rccu-
pcratlon. Like Father Tivuan, Father
Mulry was active in the work Of the
Knights Of Columbus and other war
bodies.
Father Tivnpn was born In Salem.
Mass, in 1882, and stIiied at Boston
College. lie entered the Society of Jesus
in 1899 and pursued his theological
course at Wood stock College, Nd, going
from there to st. !gnatius's College, Val
kenhurg, Holland, He was ordained at
Midtown Park Dublin. In 1914.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-01-07
WHERE THE PLAYS CHANGE.

The French Theatre du Vieux Colon
bier last night presented the fourth play
of Molieres that it has given this season
"I.'ANare" which was included III last
seasons repertory. The favor with wnich
4 was received last year led 10 re-
peatine It again this year. Charles
Dublin played the title role.
Chauncey Olcott has demonstrated by
his performance in THE Voice OF Nc
Conneu" at the Manhattan Opera House
that he is still able to gain new ad-
mlrers while holding his old ones. His
role Is admirably adapted for his re-
1uirements As comedian and he has
never given a better performance than In
this play by George NJ Conan.
with David Warfeld in THE Auc-
tioneer" the standard Theatre this week
offers one Of the most important attrac-
tons OF it, season. 1t Ia seventeen
wears since Mr. Wlrfeld first appeared In
| this play on broadway. In the cast arc
several others OF the original company.
Owing TO the large business done al
the Shubert-Riviera by Business Before
Pleasure" A II. Woods and the Shuberts
continued the play here for second
week.
The spectacular English melodrama
seven Days Leave Is to play for the
week at I.oew's Seventh Avenue Theatre
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-01-07
LADY CONSTANCE IS
STAR AT THE PALACE
Titled Dancer Comes to The
ire for Weeks Engage
ment-Other Features.

Lady Constance -Fichard son
has come % the Palace for weeks en-
gagement The programme OF dances
which she presented yesterday afternoon
was the same that she gave in London
last summer at the Court Theatre. Since
the outbreak OF the war che has been
engaged in war charity work. and she l.
now on her way TO vladivostok to estab
I,sh schools for the Russian War
Orphans Fund. Her husband, Major
Edward Austin Stewart-Richardson was
killed at Ypres It will be remembered
Duke OF Sutherland.
Nan Ha,perin appeared in 1919 song
cycle. Leon Erroi and Jed Prouty were
held over for second week in their
comedy. The Guest LOIS Josephine
with her now partner Tyler Brooke; Joe
Jackson Lyons and Yosco, Fenton and
Fields. Edwin George and the Zip var
Yaph ankers were also on the bill.
The Riverside offered a New Years
festival with Leon Enrol. Fritzi Schef
the Mosoon Brothers and Hyayns and
Mcintyre Gs tire chief luminariea. Among
the other entertainers we're Milo. Harry
Krantz and Bob La Sale. Harry ant
Ann Seymour in Breezy Bits OF Mirtf
and Melody" and Collins and Hart
"Nbdra," a new burlesouc given at tn
Columbia, I'm itself an interesting nov
city, was supplied with n cast o. prin
ctpals who had never before appeared a
this house The presenting company II
| known as the Beauty Trust. Among tn
| leading people were Jack Pearl. France
Farr and All Hitler.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-01-07
NOTES OF THE SOCIAL WORLD.

For tho benefit Of the Lafayette Fund
a special performance OF Dear Brutus'
will be given this evening at the Empire
Theatre. A supper and dance will fol-
low In the Della Robbia room OF the
Vanderbilt. Among those who have taken
seats and boxes are Mrs. Herbert L..
Satterlee. Mrs. L. Henry Hartman, Mrs,
william II. Moore. Mrs, Edward 8.
Hardness, Mrs. Edmund LeB. Gardner,
Mrs John jay Chapman. Mrs D. Hum
ter McAlpin, Mrs Frederick n. Watriss.
Mrs. William ID. Sloane, Mrs. Frank v.
Storrs, Mrs w. Forbes Morgan, Mrs
John Aspegren, Mrs. William Beverly
Rogers, Mrs. Edward I. Frost. Mrs
Frederick Lewisohn and Miss Adah II.
Marks
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Allen Townsend VIII
20 TO Palm Beach early in February to
remain for a month.
Mr.. and Mrs Henri wertheim Van
Heukelom, who have been In France for
two years will arrive In New York late
this month and will be with Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Seligman.
The annual dinner and dance OF the
Virgnians will be given at the Plaza or
, January 81.
Lieut.. Thomas Robins, Jr, u. 8. "
and Mrs Robins who was Miss Louidu
Cogswell. are receiving congratulations
on the birth OF q daughter last week al
their home IL East Eleventh street
Lieut.. Robins, who was on board sub
marine chaser In foreign waters, re-
! turned to New York on Christmas Day
! Mr.. and Mrs Richard McCreery hav'
come to Plaza Hotel from San Fran
cisco.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert X Cassatt o
| Philadelphia, are at the Rlt1-Carlton
Princess Enrico Ruspoli who will dc
part for France today on the Espagn
| gave a farewell luncheon yesterday II
| the Louis XVI suite OF the st. Regis
. Among her guests were Mira Vanderbilt
| Mrs. M Orme Wilson. Mrs Richar'
Cambria, Mrs. Adolf Ladenburg. Mrs
| William Post, Mrs. James u. Duke. Mis-
Louise Sands, Mrs. James Lowell Put
nam, Mrs Hermann Oelrichs, Mrs II
Van Rensselaer, Kennedy. Miss Marriott
| Berry, Mrs T.. Burial HOFFMAN, Mrs
| X. Horace Gallatin, Mrs Adrian lselir
Mrs. James Speyer. Niles Alice Val
lensselaer Mrs. Lucius X. Wilmerdin
and the Duchess dc Richelieu. TIL
| Princess, who has been here yeai
| will return to her home in Rome.
Mr.. and Mrs. s. Carman Harriet hav
returned from Atlantic City.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-01-07
SECOND OF BAGBY
SERIES OPENS HERE
Miss Claudia Muzio and Gu
seppe de Luca Heard
in Selections.

Mr. Bagby began another series or
musical mornings yesterday In the grand
ballroom of the waldorf-Astoria- The
artists were Miss Claudia Mdzio and
Giuseppe dc Luca OF the Metropolitan
Opera and Jascha Heifetz. violin Rich
ard Hageman and Andre Benoist were at
the piaI.o.
Miss Muzio sang an aria from III
Trovatore," English, French and Italian
songs. also with Mr.. de Luca duos from
Aida" and I'll Trovatore." NJ. de Luca
sang "A Tanto Amor from La Favo-
rita and a group Of Italian songs. Mr.
Heifetz played compositions OF Tschai-
Kowsky-Auer Moszkowskl. Brahms Joa-
chim and Cecil Burleigh.
Among those in the audience were Mrs
William ", Sands. Mrs. Charles Belts
Hllhouse Mrs. Charles A. Chlds, Miss
Louise lselin. Mrs. Charles Walsh, Mrs.
j. Allen Townsend, Mrs Dexter Haw-
rims. Srs. G. Iedyard Blair. Mr.. and
Mrs Clarence Winthrop Bowen, Mrs.
| Hc~ry scott R1henbauEh. Mrs. Hamilton
! NuN Twomb,y, Mrs. Arthur II. Twum-
/ bly,. Mrs. Adrian lselin, Mrs. VI. Ormc
! Wilson. Mrs Andrew Carnegie. Miss
} Margaret carnegie. Gen. Horace Porter,
/ Mira John X. DrcXel. Miss Alice Drexel,
Ms Henry phippe. Mrs II. Fairfield
! Osborn. Mrs. Louis I. Hoyt. Miss Luis\a
| Leland. Mrs. Charles s Whitman. Mrs,
! l.. Harrison Dulles, Mrs. a. r Iauter-
/ bach. Mr.. and Mrs. Hamilton Carhardt,
, Mrs. Charles Aston Bristed, Mrs George
H. Hun, Jr.. Mrs Louis Livingston Sea-
man. Mrs William G.. Rockefeller. Mrs
| Burke Roche. Mrs William Walter
. Phelps and Mrs Finley J. Shepard.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-01-07
GEoFFREY BUTLER IS GUEST.
Farewell Dinner Given for HIM ~
McDouuaII Hawkes..

McDougall Hawkes.. former Dock
Commissioner, gave farewell dinner
last evening in his home, East Fifty.
third street, to Godfrey Butler, Chief or
tho Bureau Of Information Of the Brit.
ish High Commission, who In few
days will sail for England to resume
his work at the British Foreign Office.
Among the other dinner guests vera
Give Bayley. the British Consul Gen.
eral TO New York Dr. w. IL. Anghins
baugh of New York University: Ancell
II. Bail, Henry j. Cochran. John Foordi
Archer NJ. Huntington, the Rev, r. J. Fl
Jackson of Cambridge University. Otto
II Kahn, John Il. Lunger. the Rev. DR..
William T. Manning, Frank A. Munsey,
John A. Penton. r. A. c. Smith. Prot
Henry Alfred Todd. Prof. Schoield Of
Harvard, George r Wilson. Louie Wiley
and John J. Waterbury. "
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-01-07


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