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The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-04-15

Theta Sigma Phi, woman's honorary
journalism sorority, held an initiation
at Switzler Hall last night for Miss
Elizabeth Bruce. Miss Claire Gins
burg and Miss Carolotta Sommers.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-04-15

The Chi Omega sorority announces
the pledging of Miss Mildred Roetzel
of Bald Knob. Ark
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HELP WANTED

WANTED-Young or elderly colored
woman to do house work and cook. Will
pay good wages. Phone 1894 Red.
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HOUSES WANTED

wANTED-To rent until September 1,
n furnished fraternity or sorority house
expecting to close during the summer.
Phone 937 Red 1SS-tf
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-04-15

Mrs. c. c. Dimmitt of Fayette, r. E
Mitchell of Fayette and Homer R. Nit
chell of Dallas, Tex, are visiting their
mother, Mrs. D. T Mitchell, who has
just returned to her home at 301 Col
lege avenue.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-04-15

Phi Delta Phi, honorary legal fra
ternity, initiated Victor S. Weber of
Kansas City yesterday afternoon.
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Ethel Wylder of Jacksonville, ILL.,, and
Miss Frances Mitchell.
Miss Gladys Freeman of Jefferson
City is the guest of Miss Celestine
Roach on University avenue.
Lester Davidson and J. n Dyer, who
spent the weekend at the Phi Delta
Theta house, left yesterday for st.
Joseph. They are stationed at the
naval aviation school at Pensacola,
Fla
Miss Zella Edwards and Miss Leah
Patt motored from Kansas City yes
terday after spending the weekend
with their parents.
Delta Tau Kappa, honorary Eng
lish sorority, will hold a meeting for
the new members in the Faculty Room
in the Library Building at 1880 o'clock
Friday evening.
Miss Jennie Obernier will arrive to-
morrow from st. Louis to visit Miss
Lucille Royston at the Alpha Delta
Pi house.
Theta Sigma Phi, woman's honorary
journalism sorority, held an initiation
at Switzler Hall last night for Miss
Elizabeth Bruce. Miss Claire Gins
burg and Miss Carolotta Sommers.
Miss Elva Planke of Kansas City
is a guest at the Pi Beta Phi house.
The sorority will entertain at dinner
this evening complimentary to Miss
Planke.
Misses Caroline Kercheval, Opal
Davis, Eunice Drake, Mary Shelley and
Martha Slaughter were dinner guests
at the Alpha Gamma Rho house Sun
day
The Chi Omega sorority announces
the pledging of Miss Mildred Roetzel
of Bald Knob. Ark
Mrs. c. c. Dimmitt of Fayette. R. E.
of Fayette and Homer R. Nit
chell of Dallas, Tex, are visiting their
mother, Mrs. D. T Mitchell, who has
just returned to her home at 301 Col
lege avenue.
Phi Delta Phi, honorary legal fra
ternity, initiated Victor S. Weber of
City yesterday afternoon.
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-14
TRADE BRIEFS

The number of different varieties
of, bamboo, found in China is over
thirty. Mr.. Frank N. Meyer, agri-
cultural explorer for the United
States in China, made an extended
study of the bamboo for the purpose
of demonstrating it's utility for in
PRODUCTION into the United States.
The results of his studies can be OBJ
tanned from the Department of Ag-
riculture.
A commercial man in France de-
sires the representation of manu-
facturers and exporters of dry goods
and haberdashery &
Before the war the peanut indus
try of China had reached its highest
point in its relation to foreign ex-
port trade. The annual exports
then were about 10000 tons of'shell-
ed peanuts and about $4,000 tons of
oil. More than 40 per cent. of these
amounts went from the port of
Tsingtau as Shantung has developed
into the largest peanut producing
province of China.
Licorice root occupies prominent
place in the materia medica. of Chi
ma, which according to foreign ply
sicians, is very rich. 1t has within
recent years assumed position of
importance in China's export, trade,
as Indicated by the customs returns
for 1917, showing an expectation of
$4,000 tons, mostly from Tientsin.
Lungkow, in Shantung, exported l.
900 tons.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-14
IF HE CONES NOT BACK

(Waiting for Final Casualty Re-
ports.)
And If he comes not back!
o. pleading heart,
Reach up to touch the plying
heart of God!
If we must always listen for his feet
And hear their eager, eager hurry
ing home,
Yet always find it is the falling
CO.,. leaves!
If we must always hear, with fam
ished hearts,
His voice in happy greetings to his
child
Whom Life brought while he faced
Death overseas,
Yet always know it Is the MUIR
muring pines!
If we must watch with straining
eyes to see
His face light up with wonderiat his
son,
Yet always know tits but the sun
light there!
If we must always feel on aching lips
Sweet lips that linger, welcoming his
first born,
Yet, yearning. know tits but the
passing wind!
If he must always sleep on that far
line
While hearts grown desolate un-
sleeping lie,
And stars through all the night of
blackened years.
If he comes not
o. little children's God,
And Father of the Desolate,
Bind up
With bands of steel my woman's
heart!
Make strong
The grieving soul!
Make strong the hand!
No easing of the agony I plead.
My spirit still can stretch its bleed
ing hands
Upon the cross of desert years-and
smile
To see them crucihed,
This, God. If :.
May only live as strongly as he died!
If I may only fling my life.
AS he flung death,
In one unbreaking line across the
years;
May only guide my dead mans son
/ to march
With fearless feet beneath the lrs-
trous stars
That light the cropping world tc
liberty;
May only guide his hand to hold
aloft
Unwavering. unsullied, that far
dream
That CLEANS upon the flag for which
he died.
Not, easing pain, but strength, God
strength, I plead,
With which to fill his son,
That hands of steel
May strongly hold the things he died
-. to save!
Eleanor Cochran Reed.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-14
PEACE LEAGUE

TINE League to Enforce Peace,
which was the formula devised
by Ex-President William H.
Taft and others, seems to be taken
over bodily and revamped for his
purposes by President Wilson. 1t is
far from new discovery and the
wonder is that the discussion of the
plan has SO largely omitted Mr.. Taft
from consideration.
Cardinal Gibbons, Alton B. Park
er. Henry Van Dyke. j. r. Mott,
Samuel Gompers. Harry A. Wheeler
and many other hardheaded and
practical men have given their en-
dorsement to the proposed league,
and 1t is now proposed to have an
important conference at New York
in the near future which will be one
of a series of such conferences to
consider the obligations of victory
and the best method of bringing
about lasting and satisfactory
peace.
1t is the deliberate judgment of
many thoughtful men that the for
nation of League of Nations to
Enforce Peace should be secondary
to the actual consummation of a
peace settlement at Paris; that the
primary purpose of the peace con.
ference is to determine the things
which must be done to assure per-
manency of peace among the family
of nations, and that the question oi
the future policies affecting the vari.
Gus nations ought to be left to a lat.
er period when the problems thai
are now confronting the world car
be solved with greater assurance Of
beneficial results.
At Independence Hall in June
1915, the League to Enforce Peace
was formed with the declared pur.
pose of using both economic ant
military forces to preserve peace IL
the world. Since that date the wal
has been fought to q victorious con
ciusion, and those nations which
have been leagued together mus
now agree upon some plan that will
give assurance Of permanent goot
will to the end that wars may. ceas,
and the development of the various
nations proceed along sane and civil
lied lines. Germany spent fift,
years in preparing for a great wa
of world supremacy. and the ne
tions which prevented the achieve
ment of her purpose can well amor,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-14
And the Ydnks Didn't Boast
CDR. John Irvine in the Outlook

CDR. John Irvine in the Outlook.)
The American soldiers came and
we liked them. They were fine.
healthy looking, resolute men, with
the self-confidence of men who
know what they can do and are de-
termined to do 1t. 1 do not mean
to suggest that there were not any
American soldiers who Dragged -
there probably were, although 1
never met any--but I do mean to
suggest that the very great majority
of them were men of quiet demean-
or who made few assertions, but
who asked great many questions.
l am not sure that their inquisi-
tiveness did not astonish us more
than their modesty. They were al
ways making inquiries-they even
carried note books in which they
jotted down our answers to their
questions-and they manifested a
desire to know all that there was to
know There was no attempt to
teach us how to do the Job; there
was .on the contrary, a great ak
iety to be taught
Rumors began to run about the
trenches of the way in which the
Americans were testing this and
testing that, comparing our gas re-
SplratOr Win the french one, .ac-
cepting this idea from us and that
from the French, and perhaps an
other idea from the captured Boche.
And training! In no place in the
world are so many rumors born and
spread as in the trenches; and after
while the stories of the way in
which the Americans trained be-
came legendary in character. And
most extraordinary change In our
attitude towards them took place.
Imagining that they would be full
of boasts, we had prepared to deprc-
cate them; finding that they were
modest and determined. wo actually
took to boasting in their behalf;
and our favorite expression was
"The Yanks'll put the wind up to
Jerry when they get at him" With
swift unanimity we decided that the
Americans were taking the war seri-
ously
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-14
Last of a Glorious Fleet
'(Fron the sBath Independent.

(From the Bath Independently
The destruction by fire of the
Phippsburg ship Aryan. takes the
last wooden ship built in America.
1t has become customary to call
most anything that sails the seas a
ship. This is true of landsmen and
some of the sailors of modern times.
To an old sea dog. however. ship
means a craft ship rigged and moth
ing else. The Aryan was of this
class and had the distinction of be-
ing the last wooden ship built in
America, also of being built on the
bank of the KenneDec within few
miles of the spot where was launch
ed the first vessel fashioned by CIV
ilized hands in the New World; The
Aryan was built by the late Charles
" Minott, of Phippsburg. who In his
day was one of the best known ship
builders In the country. She was
launched in 1899 and her loss will
be Ynourned by many who knew her
a. being the last built OF her type
From the Bath independents
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-14
VICTOR BERGER'S ERROR
(From the New York Times.)

I. (From the New York Times.) .
Victor Berger and the other So
cialists who have been found guilty
of violating the espionage act were
Surprised" when the verdict was
announced. They had looked for a
hung jury and hoped for acquittal.
Apparently Berger and his asso-
ciates have entirely missed the re-
markable change that has been ef-
fected in American public opinion
since August /, 1914. They have
failed to catch the meaning of the
reawakened sentiment of national
ity that is evident to others. They
have stood still while the country
has been going forward. Wrapped
in their theories. devoted exclusive
ly to their personal conceptions of
political philosophy, they have fall
en- far behind the country. Popular
opinion has left them in the rear.
While they have been looking at
themselves as leaders, they have
been blind to the development of q
spirit antagonistic to their purposes
and opposed to their practices,
which was scarcely discernible four
years ago.
Probably Berger belle, ed his sue
cess in the Congress campaign of
last fall was an unlimited indorse-
ment of his course and a blank par
don for his transgressions. That ii
was not undoubtedly came as a
blow in the face to him. His tears
were the tribute his astonishment
paid to a force he had not recog-
nized.
The verdict in this case accurate
ly expresses public sentiment. The
Socialism of Berger is not more toll
erable than the I. w. w. of Big Bill
HAYWOOD in the atm osphere of loyal
Americanism that exists today.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-14
Street RaiLWdY Problems

Since Boston on December 1 in
creased the fares on its elevated sys-
tenn from to s cents, the service
has grown worse instead of better,
There is more confusion; trains RIM
less frequently: cars are more over
crowded; the management IL poorer.
and the stations and cars are dirt.
Ter than ever. This IS the verdict
of the travelling public.
1t is predicted that the fare short
ly will be increased to 10 cents. A
"Zone" plan. now being considered,
provides for 10-cent fare except
for short hauls.
1t appears that the principal fac
tors in the present situation are poor
management under the original own.
ership, failure of the state trustees
to cope with the rapidly changing
conditions, excessive costs of main
tenance due to the war. tho substan-
Rttal increase in the wages of the
men, and lack Of "Fnan power"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-14

dies for Children" The specified
price was two coppers. A rude draw
ing of'a goose with a very long neck
and wide-open mouth adorned the
title page. No copy OF this original
publication is now known to exist.
It's said that about the year 1856,
gentleman Of Boston, q member of
the Massachusetts Historical So
ciety, while examining q file of old
newspapers in the library of the
American Antiquarian Society, at
Worchester, came across a dilapi-
dated copy of the original edition of
Mother Goose's Melodies" Not
more than twelve or fifteen pages
were left.
AS to how the writing of these
Melodies" came about is related as
follows: On the birth of Fleets son
and heir, old Mrs. Goose, in ecstacy
over the event, spent all her spare
time In the nursery or in wandering
about the house, singing the songs
and ditties which she had learned
in her younger days. Thomas Fleet,
being something of humorist as
we'll as q shrewd businessman. con-
ceived the idea of Furnishing her
for she had become the annoyance
not only of his household, but of all
the neighborhood - by collecting
these songs, with such as he could
gather from other sources, into O
book which bore her name on the
title.
But the name Mother Goose is
known to have been in use in the
sense of folk tales at least one hun
dred years previous to this. when
Charles Perrault made his coilec-
ton of fairy tales, "Contes de ma
mere fOye." The oldest mytholo-
gists traces Mother Goose to la
Refine Pedauque, the last word
translated being "goose-foot." At any
rate, Mother Goose Is simply a popu-
lar reminiscence of the old Morse
goddess, Freida Or Frigga.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-14

France before giving further thought
to our attitude toward the Hun as
a proper member of the future in
ternational family. ay
Some one has suggested that the
character of the situation is illus
trated by little incident in the life
of the late Cardinal Newman. On
his return to London after his ap-
pointment. Cardinal Manning called
upon him and he refused to receive
him, sending him a note in which
he said: LAS find in my heart, a
rooted personal distrust of you, 1t is
useless to keep up the forms of
friendship" That is the new orders
reply to the old to-day. So it is with
respect to final treatment of Ger
many. There is no real confidence
in the good faith of the Hun and any
settlement at the peace table must
be on the basis of force rather than
of altruistic regard for Germany's
feelings.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-14

~HE Rotary Club has undertaken
= , big Job in deciding to raise
$4,000 to finance the Children's
Industrial Homo and the Nursery
Home for the coming year. But the
club has not had one failure in its
long history and doubtless 1t will
put over" this campaign in the two
weeks it has set apart for the work.
The charity is worthy and the need
is great.
Think moment, you father, you
mother! How would it be if one of
your own little ones lay at deaths
door? How readily you would spend
your last cent to bring back the glow
of health to its cheeks! All the world
Wouau SShtCE dIOuHu thO COb "AOA y
your boy or girl tossed in the dele
rum of fever. All your hopes and
fears would hang on the beats of
that fluttering pulse.
Multiply that picture one hundred
times and you have conditions at the
Industrial Home. The management
did what you have done. They spent
all their money and went into debt.
And they can't stop. They must go
on. The same is true of the Nursery
Home. Both must have money or
their doors must be closed and their
babies sent to the poorhouse or else
where.
Will the people see that happen
for a matter of $4,000? Not II we
know Harrisburg. Go to it, Rotar-
ians, the city is back of you.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-14
SPEED

CFrom the New York Tribune.]
While the aircraft manufacturers
were at dinner Tuesday evening, to
receive, among other things, the
congratulations of Secretary Baker
for their achievements in the war.
the wires were humming with news
that what is believed to be new
world record for airplane speed has
been made in O trip from Dayton to
Cleveland. In a new Glenn Martin
bombing plane, driven by two LIB
erty motors, Eric Springer, pilot. and
his mechanician covered a distance
of 215 miles in one hour and fifteen
minutes. That was an average OF
of gasolene. tools and baggage car
ried was $500 pounds. 1t was not
intended as q speed test.
During the war there have been
many sensational announcements OF
great speed attained. AS a rule,
they were under. conditions that for
bade accuidcy of reporting and
comparison. It goes without saying
that air conditions, and. especially q
prevailing gale. can make an enor-
nous difference. There is little
doubt that flights have been made
at a. greater speed than 172 miles
per hour, but they were pretty clear
ly combinations of wind power plus
machine power. We shall soon now
again have airplane contests under
controlled conditions. and we shall
then be able to Judge how greai
an advance In speed was made dur
ing tho war. The prewar interna-
tional record was that made in 1918
by Provost at Rheims in a Deeper
dussih plane. That was about zoe
kilometers, or almost exactly 12E
miles. per hcurs 9
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-14
Kansas Typicaliy American
From The Galley of Democracy, by
Meredith Nicholson, Charles
Scribner's Sons.

From The Galley of Democracy, by
Meredith Nicholson, Charles
Scribner's Sons.
There is hardly another American
state in which the social organiza-
ton may be observed as readily as In
Kansas For the reason that its
history and the later social scene"
constitute. so compact n picture I
find myself returning to 1t frequent
ly for Illustrations and comparisons.
Born amid tribulation, having in
deed been subjected to the ordeal of
fire, Kansas marks Puritanism' s
farthest west; her people are. still
proud to call their state THE Child
Of Plymouth. Rock" The New Eng
landers who settled the northeastern
part of the territory were augment
ed after the Civil War by men of
New England stock who had estab-
lished themselves in Ohio, Illinois
and Iowa when the war began, and
having acquired soldiers homestead
rights made use, of them to pre-
empt land in the younger common
wealth. The influx of veterans af-
ter AppomattoX sealed the right of
Kansas to be called a typical Amer
lean state. kansas sent practically
every able bodied man of military
age 10 tne ClVll war 4sdyS Wiihah
Allen White, land when they came
back hundreds of thousands of other
soldiers came back with them and
took homesteads." ..+...
For thirty years after Kansas at
tanned statehood her New England
ers were a dominant factor in her
Development, and their influence is
still clearly perceptible. The state
may be considered almost as one
vast plantation, peopled. by industri-
Gus. aspiring men and women. Class
distinctions are little known; snob-
berry,, where it, exists, hides itself to
avoid ridicule; the state abounds in
the Comfortable we'll off" and the
well to do; every other family
boasts O motor car. -.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-14

to spend few months designing
plan which will prevent another
cataclysm of the same character.
Under the leadership OF ex-Presi-
dent Taft State organizations are be-
ing formed for the purpose of dis
cussing the proposition of a League
to Enforce Peace. and through this
intelligent understanding of what is
meant by a proposition to combine
nations against another such out
break as that for which Germany
was responsible. International good
probation of the obligations of the
nations one to the other.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-14
The Idealistic Boundaries

Said Latitude to Longitude:
at tire of fixed relation,
Henceforth 1 mean to run myself
BY determination"
Said Longitude to Latitude:
1T share your contemplation:
In future l shall take for guide
The ethnic aspiration"
Forthwith they changed themselves
about
In high anticipation,
And marvelled much to find the
world
Was lost in every station.
-McLandburgh Wilson
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-14
Who Was "Mother Goose?"

A LII children love Mother
~ Goose" The fame of this
woman has gone into every
home where the English language
Is spoken and read. Even before
an American child is able to read
the pleasing little Mother Goose
rhymes, he or she is familiar with
the pictures that illustrate them. Nor
is Mother Goose" confined alone
to the English-speaking children, but
she has her prototype in almost
every nationality
Most persons usually imagine that
Mother Goose is an imaginary per-
son whose name has been attached
to the rhymes for children, but this
Is not true. The maiden name of
the woman who started the Mother
Goose cult" was Elizabeth Foster, a
New Englander. who was born in
1855. She married Isaace Goose in
1898, and a few years after became
member of the Old South Church
in Boston, and died in that city in
1851, at the extreme age of ninety
two years.
In the City Registrars office in
Boston. may be found this entry of
the marriage of the originator of
the American Mother Goose":-
Thomas Fleet
Elizabeth Goose.
Rev. DR.. Cotton Mather Presbyn.
July s, 1715.
The original name of the Goose
family into which Elizabeth married
the first time was Vertigoose, which
was later shortened into Goose.
Thomas Fleet, who became second
husband was printer, an English
man, who had emigrated to Boston
in 1912, and started printing house
in Pudding Lane. All this is fact,
not legend.
In 171s, it is said. there appeared
from his printing press q book with
the following title; Songs for the
Nursery, or Mother Goose's Melo-