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-wpcinpwe' !5f" THE EVENING MISSOURIAN TENTH YEAR COLUMBIA, MISSOURI, TUESDAY EVENING,. OCTOBER 30, 1917. NUMBER 39 ' "'H - " . N rfr-v l.i$M W it" FODD PLEDGERS FIND ONLY ONE SUCKER Most of Columbia Women Ran Out of Cards Early in Morning Campaign. MORE TOMORROW Local Housekeepers Are Asked to Stay at Home To morrow to Help Work. Only one "slacker" was found today in the food pledge campaign which is being carried on In the city. This woman lives in the cast part of the city. "Why won't you sign the pledge?" asked the canvasser. "Because I am a German and I sympathize with Germany," was her reply. The women of the different wards report a willing co-operation of nearly all the women visited In signing the Hoover pledge and in the fuel sur vey. Those who were reluctant to sign were so because of a lack of under standing the reason of the campaign. As soon as it was made clear to tbem, all except one woman signed the pledge readily. Mrs. W. T. Stephen son, chairman of the Third Ward, did not have enough of the pledge cards for the district. The supply ran short, and she had to wait until she received more cards. The district from Sixth to Tenth street ran out of pledge cards, but the canvassers of that district expect to make up for lost time tomorrow. y It is asked that all Columbia wom en remain at home tomorrow if pos sible, in order that the women will not have to call more than one at each home. J. T. Mitchell, who is con ducting the- campaign in the county, was in Centralia yesterday. In the fuel survey, the canvassers report that nearly every woman is un able to give the exact amount of coal or wood used during the winter but that a rough estimate was given in many cases. Only one person was able to give the exact amount of fuel used. The campaign will continue during the rest of the week if necessary. The cafeteria was -visited today, and the patrons all signed the Hoover pledge. OPPOSE BETTING ON GAMES Sunet Club Passes Resolution Against Practice. The Sunday afternoon Sunset Club Sunday passed a formal resolution against the practice of betting on intercollegiate athletic contests. Re garding the practice Coach H. P. Schulte made the following state ment which was read at the meet ing: "I am greatly opposed to this betting business. I don't like it at all. It does not help, but rather hurts the team and has a bad moral effect upon the men themselves." Short talks were made by Morris E. Dry, student president, and H. i Rasmussen. The regular afternoon luncheon was disDensed with but will be given again in two weeks. There will be no meeting next Sunday as a special Y. M. C. A. speaker from Fort Riley will address the student body In the University Auditorium. PAT MOTOR AND DOG TAXES Licenses Bring the City $1,357 In Revenues Thus Far. Dog taxes and automobile tags have netted the city $1,357.50 in revenue to date. All the licenses have not been sold yet, since about 200 motor car tags remain. Thus far $255 50 has been taken in from the sale of dog licenses. Automobile licenses brought J1.102. Tomorrow Is the last day on which dogs can be licensed at $1.75, the fee 'going up to $2 50.. Twenty-seven licenses were issued yesterday bring ing the total un to 157. Berry Jacobs city collector, estimates that there are 450 taxable dogs In Columbia. MRS. II. T. DALTON DIES Pneumonia Fatal to Annt of Ice Walker at Wentzville. Mrs. II. v. Dalton, an aunt of Lee Walker rii1 rt -rrnntTrilln vpsterdav. Mrs. Dalton, formerly Miss Harriet u. Walker was a sister of the late u. J. Walker of this city. She leaves one son, Warren R. Dalton, a lawyer at Wentzville. Mrs. Dalton had visited in Columbia. Mrs. Dalton became ill with pneu monia Thursday and died Monday. She was 75 years old. The funeral will be tomorrow morning at Wentz ville. Equal Suffrage League to Meet. The Columbia Equal Suffrage League will meet at 2:30 o'clock Saturday afternoon at the home of Mrs. w. E. Harshe, 400 South Sixth street. The federal woman suffrage amendment and the Hoover pledge will be discussed. Jnnlor "Acs" Get Class nats. The juniors In the College of Agri culture hae received their new class hats and many were worn today. About fifty were ordered. TIIE CALENDAR Not. 2. Increased postage rate goes Into effect. Nov. 2. Football mass meeting at the University Auditorium at 730 p. m. Nov. 2. Prof. J. W. Hudson will speak on "The Educator and Social Recon struction" under the auspices or the Alpha Zeta Tl at 8:30 p. m. in the University Auditorium. Not. 3. Missouri-Oklahoma football game on Rollins Field. Not. 3 Meeting of bog producers of Missouri at the College of Agri culture. Not. 12 Second Phi Mu Alpha concert by Zoellner Quartet in University Auditorium. Not. 25. Missouri-Kansas football gime on Rollins Field. ' Homecoming Day at the University. WAR WORK MEETING SUNDAY Omar D. Gray Asks- Y. M. C. A. Cam palgners to Gather at Courthouse. All of the county workers In the campaign for a Y. M. C. A. war fund will meet in the Circuit Court Room at the Courthouse next Sunday after noon. G. C. Lord, who 13 in charge of Y. M. C. A. woik at Camp Funston will speak and an attempt will be made to get a man from the trenches here. Omar D. Gray of Strugeon, chairman for Boone County, has written the following letter to each member of the executive committee in the county: "An appeal has come from Presi dent Wilson for a more extensive and intensive Y. M. C. A. work in the camps of our soldiers at home and abroad, which calls for the immediate raising of a fund of $35,000,000. Mis souri's share will be one million dol lars. This appeal is backed by that of the military leaders of France, Russia 'and Italy. "The Y. M. C. A. Is the only organ ization equipped for this work and is the chosen medium through which we are providing moral and religious protection to our soldiers and those of our allies. The movement goes far beyond this, however. In providing the only semblence of comfort, whole some recreation and uplift that our boys must have, or the loss from im morality and neglect will be greater than that in the trenches. "The state has been completely organized and Boone County forms a part of district number eight. Our share will be $12,000 and this must be raised during the week of November 12 to 19. The chairman of thi3 district is Judge David H. Harris and the cam paign manager is "Hugh Stephens, I have been elected chairman and H. M. McPheeters, campaign manager for Boone County. "The two great welfare organiza tions connected with the war are the Red Cross and the Y. M. C. A. What ever we do in these kinds of work will help to win the war. It is up to the entire civilian population to come to the front now and do their bit." "Y WAR. COMMITTEE APPOINTED Head of Camp Funston 1. M. C. A. Work to Speak Here Sunday. The general committee of the stu dent and faculty campaign for raising the University's quota of the $35,000, 000 for Y. M. C. A. war work met last night In President A. Ross Hill's office and selected the faculty committee for the campaign which begins next Mon day morning. The committee is as follows: H. O. Severance, W. J. Shepard, F. F. Stephens, H. L. Kemps ter, Lewis W. Morley, L. D. Halgh, E. J. McCaustland, G D. Edwards, Miss Louise Nardin, R II. Emberson, O. M. Stewart, F. L. Martin, Louis Ingold, M. F. Meyer, E. J. Durand, C. A. Greene, J. L. Meriam, C. C. Taylor, and Miss Louise Stanley. Dean E. R. James of the School of Law is chair man of the committee. SPECIAL STUDENTS ARRIYING E. H. Hnphcs Predicts Blsr Enrollment in Short Course This Year- "The Short Course students are coming In fast, and it seems that we will have a larger number than last year," said E. H. Hughes this morning. Representatives from the Y. M. C. A., in charge of R. J. Tilley, are meeting the students at the trains and helping them find rooms. Registration will begin at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning. A lecture will be given every Monday evening during the session. Dean F. JJ. Mumford will give the first lecture at 7:30 o'clock November 5. THOUGHT HE WAS IMPOSED ON So Dyron Emns Threatens Fellow Worker "With Revolver Is Held. Thinkink that he was being made to work tco hard and that Sam Saunders, who was shucking corn with him was, trying to impose upon him, Byron Evans threatened Saunders. Evans and Saunders were working for Ben Eley near Shaw. They began to race to see who could shuck the fastest and Evans thought the racing was to make him work harder. Sheriff Whitesides was notified. He arrested Evans this morning. Evans pleaded guilty and will be brought before the Circuit Court for carrying concealed weapons. Dr. J. W. nndson to Lecture. "The Educator and Social Recon struction" will be the subject of a lecture by Dr. J. W. Hudson, pro fessor of philosophy, before the Alpha Zeta PI at 8:30 o'clock Friday night in the University Auditorium. COUM BUYS COAL TO AVERT PAH T. W. Whittle, as City's Rep resentative, Is in St. Louis Today to Purchase. AN IMMEDIATE NEED Mayor Boggs, in Telephone Talk With Fuel Head, Ex plained Conditions. T. W. Whittle of the firm of Whit tle and Hockaday is in St. Louis today to confer with Wallace Crossley, state fuel administrator, in regard to the coal famine here. Ho is the official, representative of the city, having been appointed by Mayor J. E. Boggs. The city plans to buy coal and dis tribute it. The mayor arranged a meeting be tween the two men by telephone last night. In talking to Mr. Crossley, he explained that several cars of coal destined for Columbia had been con fiscated by the railroads. A railroad has a right to confiscate the coal which it needs because transportation of food supplies Is absolutely neces sary. It is the plan of the city to buy is much co.il as is needed and as it Is possible to get in order to relieve the situation. Some plan of distribution will be devised, but, as Major Boggs says, "we must get the coal first." Tho mayor also stated that the city would try to take care of all of Its people out of coal. Whittle 'and Hockaday received a carload of coal yesterday. The Co lumbia Charity Organization Society bought sdne; of it to supply poor fam ilies. It will be hauled to these fam ilies in lots of about ten bushels. Mr. Boggs suggested this morning that much coal would be saved if every one would heat only the rooms that are in constant use and shut oft the heat wherever possible. Crossley to Seize CoaL By Associated Press ST. LOUIS, Oct. 30. Lieutenant- i Governor Wallace Crossley. state fmjl i administrator, today began inquiry to i learn why many interior towns of I Missouri are experiencing a coal fam ine and determine how to relieve the situation. He said he would not hesi tate to seize coal from those who have a reasonable supply and send it to those who are in need. 10 SEPARATE PEACE Russian Minister Declares Defense of Country Is Fundamental. By Associated Press PETROGRAD, Oct 30. Former Minister Terestchenko, in addressing the preliminary parliament today, said a separate peace was impossible and that defense of the Russian terri tory was one of the fundamental things at this time. The former min ister asserted the belief that the lib eration of Courland and perhaps of Poland and Lithuania was impossible, as it would mean that Russia would revert to days before Peter the Great. He also declared the disarmament of the countries of the world and the neutralizing of straits were impossi ble and emphasized again that Rus sia's foreign policy had not changed since the first and that her principles of no indemnities, no annexations and the right of nations to self govern ment were sUH in effect. "COLLEGE WIDOW NOV. 27-28 Proceeds Will Be Sent fo Drafted Men at Camp Funston. "The College Widow will be pre sented by the Columbia Dramatic Club at the Hall Theater the nights of November 27 and 28. The play will be gien as a benefit for the men, who have been drafted from Boone Coun ty and who are stationed at Camp Funston. The Columbia Dramatic Club is composed of University stu dents and townspeople who have taken part in local amateur per formances in Columbia. The prices of seats will be $1 for the first fifteen rows and the balance of the downstairs seats will be sold for 75 cents. All of the balcony tickets will be sold for 50 cents but will not be reserved. The advance sale will start November 15. Miss Helen Groves will play the title role of Jane Withcrspoon, the widow, while Harry Stevens will take the part of Billy Bolton, the halfback. DR. E. R. ANDREWS IS DEAD Former Chancellor of University of Nebraska Was In Florida. Bj Associated Presi PROVIDENCE, R. I., Oct 30. The death at Interlachan, Fla., of Dr. Slisha Benjamin Andrews, formerly of Brown University and later chancellor of the University of Nebraska, was an nounced today. IS Cold Weather Is Causing Suffering Among Needy in Columbia. 20 APPEALS A DAY Secretary D. F. Major Inves tigates Each Case Before Giving Aid. The cold weather is bringing many calls for help to the Columbia Char ity Organization Society, including calls for food, clothing ahd fuel. The organization was able to buy sixty bushels of coal today In spite of the shortage of fuel. D. E. Major, secre tary of the organization, hired a wag on and went himself to distribute the coal among the families who were in need. This was enough to supply about six families. Twenty or thirty persons come into the office of the charity organization each week to get clothes for them selves or their families. Families are being supplied with groceries at this season more than at any other time. The money to carry out this work comes from the Conley Poor Fund, from donations and subscriptions and from such helps as that of the mu nicipal garden this summer. Helping the needy is delicate work at all times and requires tact, ac cording to Mr. Major. Even though tadly In need of supplies, some families will not accept aid unless it is skillfully proffered. Others have no hesitancy, in accepting help and tell Mr Major how much and what they need. But In the buying for needy families, the amount of groceries to be given them, and what these shall be, is left entirely to Mr. Major. The groceries are supplied according to the size of the family, but are given In weekly allowances. Mr Major visits the needy family, sees what is needed, considers the size of the family and buys enough to last a week. When the head of a family is sick, the organization often has to sup port the family for months. USE 2 AND 1-CENT STAMPS No Higr Supply of Three Cent Stamps at Local Fostofflee. The present supply of two-cent in the local postoffice will be used up before the new three-cent stamps, which are to be used on letters after Friday, November 2, can be obtained. No extra supply of three-cent stamps, or the three-cent stamped envelopes has come yet, but orders for the new envelopes are being taken. As long as the present supply of two-cent envelopes and stamps lasts, none of the new ones will be sold. It will also be some time before tho two-cent postal card will be on sale, and until the new supply comes, It will be neces sary to affix an extra stamp to the one-cent postal card. After November 2', all letters out side Columbia will cost three cents. Letters for local delivery and for rural routes from Columbia, will cost two cents. Otherwise the postal rates will remain the same. Christmas packages to soldiers must be mailed by November 15. The weight limit Is seven pounds, and they should be wrapped and tied securely. FOOD WILL WIN TIIE WAR Hoover Congratulates Dean Mumford on Pledge Campaign. Herbert Hoover sent F. B. Mum ford, food administrator for Missouri, a telegram yesterday congratulating him and the thousand volunteer work ers helping in the family pledge cam paign for their thorough preparation. Mr. Hoover is particularly gratified over the prospects of a big success in family registration and assures Dean Mumford and his co-workers that no effort exceeds theirs in pa triotism or in effectiveness for world civilization. He says every day brings more evidence that food will win the war of democracy against autocracy. If we Americans, by vol untary democratic effort, he adds, save this food to ship to the Allies we shall be in a better condition to con trol prices and sustain the inevitable economic pressure that will follow peace. Wants Track 3Ien Out. The track situation at the Univer sity this year is so unfavorable that Coach H. F. Schulte wishes the meet ing at the Missouri Union at 7:30 o'clock tonight to be virtually a mass meeting of the men students. "If Mis souri is to make a proper showing in this acthlty this year it Is very Im portant that several men come out very shortly," said Morris E. Dry in1 a1! ', .1 1 .. ..(In 1. . linn strutting oi xne si'cciai meeting ub um called for tonight. To Ship Red Cross Supplies Thursday. All articles which have been made for f the Red Cross will be shipped from Columbia Thursday. All wom en who have finished articles, samples or small balls of yarn are asked to bring them to the Red Cross headquarters either tomorrow or Thursday. CHARITY SOCIETY GETT NG MANY CALLS THE WEATHER For Columbia and Vicinity: Generally Si" S?"1,1 w"m tonight. Wednes lay partly clondy and warmer. Lowest temperature tonight about 30. ii-m "onrt: Partly cloudy and warm light rain northeast portion Wednesday Wednne0sdarICSt PrtIn ,ate t0nlsht or Shippers' Forcast: Prepare shipments within a radius of 200 miles of Columbia withstand temperatures as follows in all directions a few degrees below the freezing point. Weather Conditions. The low pressure wave now dominates the Atlantic seaboard, and is beginning its tlantlc Journey. Snow has been general from Missouri up the Ohio Valley and in .ill territory north, while rain, more or less heavy, prevailed in the coast states. The center of the cold wave traveled southward, causing the coldest weather on record for October in Oklahoma, Texas, western Louisiana, and also in south eastern Kansas and sonthnestern Mis souri. The freezing line has reached San Antonio, i In Columbia milder weather will obtain during the next two or three days, be coming more or less unsettled Wednesday and Thursday. Local Data. The highest temperature in Columbia yesterday was 52 degrees and the lowest list night was 20; precipitation 0 00; relative humidity 2 p. m. yesterday 82 per cent. A year ago yesterday the highest temperature wor 70 and the lowest 5J. precipitation 0 00 inch. The Almanac Sun riies today, G:33 a. m. Sun sets, 5:11 p. m. The Temperatures Today. 7 a. m 20 11 a. m S3 8 a. ra 22 12 m 33 9 a. ni 25 1 p. m 37 10 a. m 32 2 p. m 37 TU.S. Lieutenant in Signal Corps Was Wounded by Shell Splinter Today. By Associated Press WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE, Oct 30. The first American soldier wounded in the trenches ar rived today at a base hospital. He i3 a lieutenant in the signal corps. He was hit in the leg with a shell splinter while working in a communi cation trench near the firing line. The weather was clear and cool to day In the American sector. BACK FROM WAR LECTUItE TMP Dr. Max Meyer Talked at 3fany Places, Ranging From Church to Saloon. Dr. 'Max F. Meyer returned yester day from a week's lecture tour in Southeastern Wisconsin for the Wis consin State Council of Defense. The general subject of his lectures was "The Relation of the German-born Citizen to the War Policy of the United States." Doctor Meyer lectured in various places, ranging from a church to a saloon. His audience in some in stances included small groups and at other times he addressed as many as 1,000 persons. He found a striking situation, he said, in that the people who voted for La Follette for United States Senator are now against him and some of those who voted against him are now for him. RETURNS FROM TRAINING CA3D? Rowland T. Jordan Gets Honorable Dlscahrge at Great Lakes. Rowland V. Jordan, son of County Collector J. R. Jordan, returned home today from the Great Lakes training camp, where he has been for six weeks. He was given an honorable medical discharge. Jordan enlisted September 10 in St. Louis, where he was employed as bookkeeper for the Overland Automo bile Company. He will return to St. Louis in a few weeks and take his old position, which the company has held open for him. TO SELL OLD GUARD BUTTONS Girls of University Will Compete for Prizes Tomorrow. The Old Guard buttons, announced for sale last week, have arrived and J will be sold tomorrow by girla of the University. The Missouri Store offers a prize to the person who sells tho greatest number of buttons. Dr. W. E. Meanwell will give a box at the Okla homa game to the sorority selling the most buttons. HATFIELD" TO TALK THURSDAY Business Men Will Hear St Louis Man at Luncheon. C. E. Hatfield of the St Louis Con vention Bureau will speak at the Boone Tavern at the weekly Commer cial Club luncheon. His subject will be "Community Advertising. air. Hatfield 13 coming to Columbia to confer with Flojd C. Shoemaker about the state centennial celebration. Schweitzer Society to Meet The Schweitzer Chemical Society will elect officers at 7:15 o'clock to-, night in Room 202, Schweitzer Hall. ' Talks on the "Relation of Geology to Chemistry" by G. P. Moore and the "Chemical Control of the Preparation of Coal for the Best Combustion by A. E. Langemcier will be given. Is Chairman In Food Commission. Elizabeth B. Wales of Jefferson City, secretary of the Missouri Li brary Committee, has been appointed chairman of the Library Publicity Committee of the United States Food Commission for Missouri by F. B. Mumford, state food administrator. I CASUALTY UDINA IS CAPTURED By Enemy Is Pressing Insistently Against Italians on North ern Plains Towards Taglia mento River. SWOLLEN STREAM HINDERS RETREAT Allies' Rear Guard Checks Teutons' Attack for Time and Destroys Bridges Over Isonzo. By Associated Press BERLIN, Oct. 30. Udina, the for mer Italian headquarters, has been captured by Austro-German forces and is being occupied by Teutonic troops today. The Austro-Germans are pressing their forces with great insistence against the Italians on the northern Italian plains, toward the crossings of the Tagliamento River, the state ment says. The Austro-German troops ad vanced from the Cornlc Alps and have reached Venetian soil, where tho whole front is pressing forward against the upper course of the Tag liamento. The retirement of the divided Ital ian army is being hampered at the few water crossings by the swollen condition of the river. Troops at Carso Sold Firm. By Associated Press LONDON, Oct. 30. The Milan cor respondent of the Times, in a dis patch today, refers to the breakingof the Italian line at certain points where the German carried on no heavy bombardments, and says that on the Carso sector not one of the ' Austro-German attacks has resulted in the loss of a single inch to the ene my. The troops at Carso have all "passed through hell and beyond," says the correspondent. No details are known of. the results, of the fighting from Montenegro, on the northern end of the Isonzo front. The correspondent says the fighting there from the first hour of the at tack has 1en as glorious an epic as it was in 1915. ' Italians Fight Bravely, Says Report. By Associated Press ROME, Oct. 30. The Italian retreat continued jesterday, the war office announces. The Italian cavalry is in contact with the vanguard of the ad vancing -enemy. The Italians de stroyed bridges over the Isonzo and ! fought violently with the van guard. thus checking the Austro-German ad vance for a time on this front. British Batteries Saved. By Associated Press ITALIAN HEADQUARTERS, Mon day night (delayed). After several days with the retiring Italian army, an Associated Press correspondent, who has just arrived at headquarters, stated that all the British batteries have been saved. The men suffered much from cold, torrential rains and hunger during the retreat As to the general situation of the Italian army in its retreat the corr espondent is prevented from giving details by military necessity. U. S. to Send Fnel and Food. By Associated Press WASHINGTON, Oct 30. The next move by the United States to help Italy In her critical hour will be to divert quantities of coal, supplies and food intended for other desUnations to the twenty-five ships already lurne-d over t0 tne Italian government By this response to Italy's needs, the first actual help to be extended from any of the Allies, much material ben efit to the fighting forces Is expected as well as encouragement of the civil population. Italian military experts claim that General Cadorna will retire with his whole army to the new line of de fense twenty-five miles to the rear of the present line. Here the Italians have formidable and permanent de fensive works and the line should hold, unless the fortifications have been stripped of their heavy guns to place them in the mountain tops. DEAN NOTES HAS RETURNED Medical School Head Released to Continue Duties Here. Dr. Guy I Noyes, dean of the School of Medicine, returned to Columbia tnis afternoon from Camp Funston, Fort Riley, Kan., where he has been in the army service since the first week in August Doctor Noyes holds the rank of captain In the Medical Reserve Corps. He has been released to con tinue his duties at tho University. A Son For Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Green. Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Green of 107 Willis avenue announce the birth Monday night of a 10-pound boy. Mr. Green is employed in the farm man agement department of the College of Agriculture. OCCUPIED AUSTRO HNS