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i qu" v-' wwryj"-cw ''lyw, ''VWf Hjft-jfciajjt Twv-Wj JVy'. A r SUNDAY MORNING fflSSOUBIAN, DECEMBER 16, 1917. SERVICE FLAG FOR RED CROSS MEMBERS ?-; i . j i f- -Miuunii wunuWt m , , z BB H . H M ssfl sssssssh Hsfl 1 H ssH sH H H sLH sssssssLH sLH ssH sbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbh bbM isH sbbbbbbbbbbi sssl sfl H BBBB BBBBl ONLY RED CROSS MEMBERS Are Permitted to Display This Scrrlce Flag. Small red crosses, about one inch square, are obtainable from your Chapter Headquarters (or may be cut out from red paper). One should be' added to the flag for each additional member of your household who joins the Red Cross either full or junior membership. Instructions for Display of Red Cross Serrjce Flag. Pin or paste this flag in your front window (showing to the street). Paste on one additional red cross for each member of your family when they Join. Display this Service Flag beginning Saturday, December 1. On Christmas Eve, Monday, December 24, place a lighted candle or electric flash light just behind the Service Flag. (The flag is on thin paper to insure the effective showing of the Red Cross of Mercy and Relief.) Those who desire may use this as a pattern for a cloth Service Flag of similar design. IS RARE COLUMBIA Only One Unusual Disaster in Last Five Years Pub lic Being Educated. AUTO ENGINE HELPS E. N. Kurtz, Fire Chief, Recommends Instruction in Fire Prevention. Teaching fire prevention in the public schools as a regular part of the curriculum from the first grade to graduation would be the best way to reduce fire loss to a minimum, ac cording to E. N. Kurtz, chief of the Columbia fire department. Kurtz has been active in the work, carried on here in recent years, of ducating people in methods of fire prevention. Representatives of in surance companies performed a sim Ur service. , This work has had its effect. In toe last five years, Columbia has had only one really serious fire that in Joe business section last spring. Be fore that time, fires were so common here that students made dates in ad vance to go to them. Fire-fighting facilities have been Ouch improved by the purchase of an automobile fire engine. Shingle Roofs Dangerous. According to Insurance agents, Sres occur most frequently in ex tremely cold weather, when furnaces we heated to their full capacity, and In the fall, when everything is ex cessively dry. Kurtz says that he lways predicts a fire when the air dry and crisp, there is no breeze and it is cool enough for furnace fires. Shingle roofs, he says, are probably the greatest cause of fire in the resi dence district When they get dry, they make excellent kindling for a spark from a soot-laden chimney. The greatest fire losses in private homes are due to this cause, since such a fire spreads rapidly and Is bard to control. Defective construction is a cause for fire that can be corrected only by knowledge and care. The average person building a house knows very little about construction. The only way he can be sure that he is getting a safe building is to call upon some disinterested person who is compe tent to pass upon the bids made. Carelessness a Cause. Carelessness is another great cause or fire. Together with defective con struction, carelessness causes most of the fires In the business district. Carelessness is often the result of ignorance. A furniture store owner. Tint lrnnwinir that furniture polish is highly combustible, may polish a chair and toss the rag he used on tne glistening top of a mahogany table. He is astounded to find the table In flames when he returns a few hours later. It Is to combat such ignorance that Kurtz suggests that a regular study of the causes and prevention of fire be introduced into the public schools. Recent Real Estate Transaction. Lots 4 and 5, Poindexter subdivi sion of Garth Addition to Columbia v,ere sold Friday by J. W. White sides to Leslie T. Proctor for $200. Martin E. Butler disposed of 155 acres three miles east of Harrlsburg to Omer C. Carey for $2,000. On the same day Sophia A. and Elmer C. Sublett sold 40 acres one mile east of Harrlsburg to Minerva T. Pigg for 11,200. PEACE 31UST REMOTE RIVALRY" German Sajs Rule of Snbject People Will Cost Economic Efficiency. (Correspondence of tbe Associated Press) AMSTERDAM, Nov. 30. German victory in the war would mean that the Germans "as the dominant race, would have to keep in subjection by force of arms the crushed and dis possessed peoples," asserts George Gothein, a leading Liberal member of the German Reichstag in an editor ial article in the official organ of the influential German Association for Commercial Treaties. "Should we actually succeed in gaining a decisive victory, which only a few persons believe possible," he writes, "we should have to bear a weight of armaments for that pur pose which would make it impossible for our national strength so terribly weakened in any case by bloody loss es, to regain its economic power. And yet without this, permanent po litical strength is Impossible. "One day the world would rise against the German sway, would burst its fetters, would destroy our power which would be lacking in economic support. For if we. have been able to hold out this time, we have above all to thank our economic efficiency. There remains only one solution, peace by under standing. A peace which is perma nent must remove from the world the rivalry of power. An economic war after the war would be unbearable for Germany." To Talk on Junior Red Cross. Miss Ella V. Dobbs will speak at 7:30 o'clock next Monday night in the Missouri Union Building on "The Junior Red Cross." The public is in vited. The lecture is under the auspices of Pi Lambda Theta, an honorary English sorority. PI TJ,,M Theta became a national or ganization last July. The chapter here Is the Alpha chapter. FOR WOTHERS' CLUBS Each School' to Be Repre sented in Boone Parent Teacher Association. HAS VARIOUS AIMS Organization to Study Child Welfare and Unite Peo ple of Community. Plans for an organization to cen tralize the work of all mothers' clubs In Boone County were laid before the Lee School Mothers' Club Thursday afternoon by Miss Ella V. Dobbs, one pf the vice-presidents of the Parent Teachers' Association of Missouri. This council will be called the Boone County Parent-Teachers' Association. It will have representatives from each club, and will probably meet every six weeks or two. months. A commit tee has been appointed to outline the constitution of the council, and to nominate officers. The first meeting v. ill be held some time next week. The object of tbe council is to bring the people of the community together and make them work as a whole. Miss Dobbs said that club work would be devoted to the study of all child welfare problems in the most scientific way, and that every one should combine his strength and attack a single problem at a time. The county council will enable people to do this, she said. It will also be a means of making mothers feel not only responsible for their children, but for all children. Another aim is to bridge the gulf between country and town by bringing the people to gether in a common cause. Mrs. Jesse Wrench was appointed representative of the Lee School to report to the county chairman of the Missouri Division of the National Council of Defense the problems that come up at the Lee School. This appointment developed from the re quest of the National Council of De fense that all clubs interested in child welfare work send in reports to be made public so that other schools may get ideas in connection with their particular problems. The meeting was opened with a song and recitation by students in the fifth grade. Mrs. Louis Selbert talked on "Hygiene in the Schools." Page Three STUDENTS IEAYE FOR HOME Renn and Nettles to Go to Third Training Camp January 5. Oscar Renn, captain in the Univer sity Cadet Corps, a student in the School of Law, who received an ap pointment to the Officers' Training Camp at Camp Pike, left yesterday for St. Louis. He will visit at his home at Summersville before report ing at Camp Pike, January 5. H. Edward Nettles, a student in the School of Journalism, who also re ceived an appointment to the camp, left yesterday for his home at Cedar Grove, Mo. Joplln Students Form Club. The Joplln Club of the University was organized for the year at a meet ing Thursday night at the Missouri Union Building. Leon G. Gemincr was elected president, Lynn Johnsoa, vice-president. Edna Maitland, secretary-treasurer, and Thomas Cheek, reporter. It was decided to engage a special Pullman from Kansas City to Joplln for the Christmas vacation trip. There are about twenty stu dents in the University from Joplln. Toilet Articles In Ivory and Silver HENNINGER'S 813 Broadway Thomas R. Taylor in Balloon Section. Thomas R. Taylor, a son of John N. Taj lor, received notice yesterday to report December 28 to Fort Omaha, Neb., for training in the balloon sec tion of the signal corps of the United States, irnU' Ir. Taylor attended the University of Missouri in 1911. ESI Ukl SB II I I I IKS Sterling Souvenir Spoons of Varsity Buildings at old prices HENNINGER'S 813 Broadway "We're as Near as the Nearest Telephone" Z& StTSClvKiLm NsFiKan jq eVv T Ak hnstmelR . (MstfssWMssWJ V EsHEst ViiHsssk I m Iontfers..Plants.and G VOU are now invited to inspect the finest and most extensive col lection of Flowers, Plants and Novelties that we have ever gathered together for the holidays. Let us remind you that it is none too early to make your selection for your own home and for the Flowers you will send for Gifts. Whatever you order will be packed nith greatest care to insure delivery in perfect condition. JEspecial personal attention to all phone ard mail orders. tgjg FLOWEfcS PHONE 70 1005 BROADWAY ,jjl Jp'i NWS B smi.'g.Jvrv 17 jssT"-:?. - - r ml Buy Your Christmas Candy Here A full line of fancy boxed randies. Also our big stock of home-made candy, made fresh daily, at Special Christmas Prices. Don't forget to take her that box of candy when you go home, also mother, sister or little brother. Cigars, Cigarettes, Fountain Service. Virginia Confectionery ELLIS MOSCOW, Proprietor ACROSS FROM HALL THEATRE PHONE 641 BUCK Slippers for Christmas Gifts A Merry Christmas to All For mother, for father, for sister, for brother, for relatives near and dear, far and near, Slippers the comfort, cozy footwear are al ways chosen as Christmas gifts. They serve as a year 'round, daily reminder of your good wishes and their usefulness is unquestioned. Find out what sizes are required. You can do that now in a casual way. Then come in while you have plenty of time. We, too, have more time now to help, you select just the right thing than we will during the holiday rush. For Mother Warm, Woolly House Shoes wool and flannel lined leather and felt soles prettily decorated with dainty colored ribbons Father and Brother "Slip-on" Slippers high bootees light, flexible soles, warm linings in tan, black and fancy colors Sister Dainty Boudoir Slippers, daintily decorated and. beribboned high heeled mules, chic and bright looking C I f' vWM&z SHOES r tf r i H & . v ShML-iSk-