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-$ F""yW 9 ' V TV N -r'TT-T L SUNDAY MORNING MISSOURIAN 11 m &1 lei I TENTH YEAR COLUMBIA, MISSOURI, SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 4, 1917. tm NUMBER 43 P .' RAISE MORE H PRODUCERS ARE TOLD Conference Seeks Assurance That Swine-Breeding Will Yield Fair Profit. SHORTAGE IS FELT 200 at Meeting Designed to Increase Output of "Ideal Food for Soldiers." To consider means for relieving the shortage of pork called by Dean F 13. Mumford "the Ideal food for the soldiers" 200 swine Breeders or .Mis souri attended a conference at the Agricultural Buildinp from 10 to 4:30 o'clock yesterday. After hearing talks in which they were advised, as a patriotic duty, to .feed corn to hogs instead of marketing the corn, the pro ducers adopted two resolutions that iiiav have an important bearing on the food situation. They urged, first, that a price be fixed by the Food Adminis tration guaranteeing to tne pone pro ducers as much money for 100 pounds of hogs on foot as he could get for fourteen bushels of corn, and, second, that substantial premiums be paid for heavy hogs to stop the selling of immature animals. The ratio of 100 pounds to 14 bushels was recom mended by Dean Mumford, state food administrator. The Pork Producers' Conference, as it was officially named, discussed from many angles the question of in creasing production and at the same time assuring the farmer of a reason able profit. Would Suspend Cholera Rules. The delegation from Atchison County proposed the suspension of the hog cholera rules so that they might ship in hogs to cat their frost-bitten corn. Hog breeders from other sec tions of the state and Doctor D. F. Luckey, State Veterinarian, defeated the measure. The meeting .however empowered C. E. Yancy. president of the Missouri Live Stock Producers Association, to appoint a committee of fie to confer with Doctor Luckey and the State Food Administration with regard to finding a way to modify the cholera regulations. , All the speakers agreed that good prices for corn and the uncertainty of pork prices remaining at their pres ent height caused farmers to hold back from feeding corn. They pre ferred to "play safe." Sherman Houston, a feeder of Malta Bend, ad ocated that the government stabilize pork and corn prices. Most of the speakers believed that farmers were making a mistake In selling their hogs Immature. George M. Rommell of the United States Department of Agriculture pre sented statistics showing that there were 5,427,000 fewer hogs in the coun try this year than last. Moreover, he said that Missouri would have on hand 136,000,000 bushels of corn more than was produced last year. This should be fed to hogs, he concluded. Prof. S. D. Cromer of the agricul tural department recommends feed ing of alfalfa to supplement corn, and cited a successful hog-feeding venture of last summer in support of the contention. Anti-War Propaganda. Dean Mumford read a telegram from Herbert Hoover calling attention to "certain propaganda in the country stimulated by pro-German and anti war sources intended to discourage and mislead the livestock grower." "For instance," the message con tinued, "a statement that the Food Administration faors $10 hogs Ms been widely circulated by insidous means In many states. We have given all possible publicity to the absuridity of such a statement. "The profits of the meat packers are to be limited and their business rigidly controlled. I believe it sound business for every farmer to increase hog production for 1918 as much as possible. I am sure that the nation needs that increase to help win the war." The telegram from Mr. Hoover also told of the establishment of a com mittee of important hog producers to advise the administration as to cost of production and other matters deal ing with the raising of pork. Are Conserving Food. . Judging from remarks made by the producers who attended the confer ence, Missouri farmers are keenly alive to the necessity of food con servation. T. F. Avery of Hale. Carroll County, has begun to pay his ten or twelve hired men by the hour. This he says allows them to make more wages and helps him to keep abreast of his work. Hands are hard to get. Ben F. Geisert. B. S. in As. '15, who ships a large number of hogs a year, has planted more wheat this fall in preparation for the heavy demand. Mr. Geisert lives at Washington in Franklin County. He was engaged in acricultural extension work in 1916. Edward Petty, who keeps about 300 hogs, said his wife had signed the food pledge and had begun substltut- THE CALENDAR Nor. 5. Annual meeting of Columbia i;nanty Organization Society at t-.ia ociock in commercial Club Rooms. Nov. 12. Second Phi Mn Alpha concert by Zoellncr Ouartet In University Auditorium. Nov. 14. Lecture on "The Government A1U In Feeding the Nation." by V. It. Newell, bead of department of civil engineering. University of Illinois, In Agricultural Auditorium nt 8 p. m. ov. 13. Lecture on "Co-operation Among Knjrineer," by Prof. !'. II. Newell, head of department of civil engineering. University of Illinois, In Pbjslcs Lecture Itoom at" 4 p. in. Nov. 29. Missouri-Kansas football game on Rollins Field. Ilomecomlng Day at the University. TAKE lUpiCANo Germans Capture Party of U. S. Soldiers While on Scout Duty. By Associated Press BERLIN, Nov. 3. The capture of nine American soldiers, while on a leconnoitering tarty, by German sol diers was announced by the War De partment today. They were doing outpost amy ana scouting along a canal running Into the Rhine on the northeastern border of France. This region of the Rhine has not been the scene of battle since the early part of the war. The capture occurred twenty miles from Lunezille. TWENTY-SIX REFUSE TO SI A PLEDGE But Few of the Women in Columbia Showed Any Disloyalty. CANVASS A SUCCESS 0 Incomplete Reports From County Show 3,083 Will Economize. By Associated. Press WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE. Nov. 3. A heavy down pour of rain beginning at noon Friday hindered activities of the artillery in the portion of the French front where the American battalions are on duty, and converted the vast areas into seas of mud. No official communication was is sued on Friday, but there has been nothing in the reports to headquarters to suggest any change In the normal situation along the American sector. Generrl Pershing returned yesterday from a visit to the BriUsh front. A party of American major-generals in spected the billets of the first con tingent. TWELVE U. S. SAILORS DROWX Accident In Home Waters to Men of Battleship JlichJgan. By Associated Press WASHINGTON, Nov. 3. Twelve men, all the crew of a picket boat of the battleship Michigan, were lost when the little craft foundered In home waters. In a brief announce ment of the disaster today, the Navy Department gave no details. Presum ably the fast little picket boat was on patrol duty and foundered In a heavy sea or may have met with an accident. Three bodies have been found and, as all the others are missing, the Navy Department as sumes that all were lost With the casualty list, the department made this formal statement: "The Navy Department announces that on October 30 the picket boat of the United States Ship Michigan foundered. Apparently the entire crew of the boat was lost. The finding of the bodies of three of the crew and failure to find any other trace of the boat or its occupants leads the depart ment to beilleve all are lost." The body of Coxwain E. L. Tamillo, whose mother lives in Chicago, has been recovered. Twenty-six persons would not sign the Hoover food pledge in Columbia last week, and 2,621 persons did sign it. Mrs. W. E. Harshe, vice-chairman for Boone County of the food pledge committee, said that with incomplete returns from the county and reports from the Third Ward in Columbia lacking, the total registration was 3.0S3. Sturgeon reported 459 nledKes signed. Mrs. W. K. Bayless, who supervised the campaign in the most thickly pop ulated district, reported 1,291 who signed the pledge. Mrs. J. A. Gibson had 635 signers and Mrs. R. P. Finley had 350 names, with reports from two of her committees yet to come in. Mrs. Carrie George signed 290 at the cafeteria. Mrs. John H. Estes turned in 249, the greatest number of names, ob tained by one person. Mrs. H. Wade Hlbbard was next with 192 names. Mrs. L. L. Hunt and Mrs. L. B. Truitt were third and fourth with 1S1 and 178 names, respectively. The campaign was a success in every way. The twenty-six persons who would not sign declined chiefly because of ignorance of what the pletlge really meant. Seme were re luctant to sign any sort of a paper, some were uninterested, some had to wait and see their husbands and a very few were antagonistic. "I don't believe those twenty-six persons are disloyal," said Mrs. Harshe. "I be lieve they Just didn't understand." The campaign in the county has been extended until Not ember 12, as the blanks and pledge cards did not come until late. So far, the returns from the county have been excellent. OF W. A, BRIGHT ' ON TORPEDOED BOAT No Word From Columbia Boy, Senior Lieutenant on Finland. THE WEATIIER T! r. ri?pJr.t I""I Saturday.) warmer?" Sunday; sllsl,tly For Sllssourl: Fair Sunday; slightly warmer south and e-ist portion, and ex treme east portion Sunday. ON HIS THIRD TRIP Clarkson Bright Was in Charge of the Transport's Gun Crew. Clarkson Bright, son of W. A. Bright, who lives two and one-half miles north of Columbia on the Black foot gravel, was the senior lieutenant on the transport Finland, which was torpedoed on tne home journey re cently. Nine men lost their lives. W. A. Bright told a Missourian re porter last night that he knows little more about the attack than has ap peared in the papers. He had re ceived no word from his son. Clarkson Bright was graduated from Annapolis In 1910 and has been in the Navy ever since, rising to the office of senior lieutenant, in charge of the ship's gun crew. The last time that Mr. Bright saw his son was in September, when he and his wife went to New York to visitjiim while he was on a leave of absence. He has not been in Colum bia since the war started. This was his tbird trip on a transport ship and the first time that he has met any accident. The official announcement" of the affair was as follows: "The Navy Department has re ceived dispatches stating that the transport Finland was torpedoed while returning from foreign waters. The damage to the ship was slight, and she returned to port under her own steam. The Finland was under escort, but no sign of the torpedo or submarine was seen." Another report of Navy Department told of the loss of nine lives. Yesterday's Football Result. Minnesota 7, Wisconsin 10 Illinois 0, Chicago 0 Ohio State 26, Indiana 3 Oklahoma 14, Missouri 7 Kansas 9, Kansas Aggies 0 Mo. Sch. of Mines 2, Washington 21 Ohio U. 43, Baldwin Wallace 0 Grinnell 25, Drake 7 Central 0, Oklahoma A. and M. 13 Brown 0, Syracuse 6 ITALIANS REPULSE MAN ATTACKS GERMAN SHIPS SUNK British Sea Forces Destroy Cruiser and Ten Armed Patrol Boats. PROF. F. H. XEWELL COMING HOW SOMiJ WOJIEX SAVE Meatless the Re- 31. U. -MAX BUILDS U. S. CAMP (Continued to page G.) S. B. Houx Xow Has Contract to Build Airplane Training Base. Samuel Bailey Houx, formerly of Warrensburg, graduate of the School of Engineering in 1902, is now head of a Houston, Tex., construction company that built Camp Logan and now he has a large contract from the government, the building of a two squadron air- pany, which, besides the government On the first Job Houx had 4,000 men working at once and gave out weekly pay checks amounting to nearly $90,- 000. Eight years ago with one man, now dead, he founded his construction com' pany, which, be sides the government lobs, has a long list of the largest projects of the Southwest to Its credit. Houx was a football star while In the University. TWO TIGERS ARE INJURED Bass Whose Collar Bone Was Broken, May Be Out of the Game. Henry B. Bass, right tackle on the Missouri team, suffered a broken col lar bone in yesterday's game with Oklahoma. He may not be able to play in any of the remaining games this season. E. G. Schroeder, right end, was also severely injured. The ligaments in his right shoulder were torn loose during the last quarter of the game. He had to be replaced by Marshall. It is believed he will re cover from the injury in time to play in the Washington game November 17. 3IIss Whealdon Tells of War Work.; only for breakfast. I do not use lard Miss Martha Whealdon, Y. W. C. A. in making cornbread so Just that much secretary from Bombay, India, spoke fat Is conserved. We use very little at an informal meeting of the cabinet meat for we have our own chickens," yesterday morning in Academic HalLj Mrs. J. D. Van Horn, 1614 Amelia Miss Whealdon told of the war -work In street, says that although she is the India, the care of the wounded English wife of a grocery dealer she has been and Australian sodiers in Bombay, and . the Y. W. C. A. work for the nurses. (Continued to Page Six) and Wheatless Days Vogue in Colombia. Wheatless days and meatless days are the vogue in Columbia. Hoover pledge cards are seen in practically every home and many are the women who are following the plans of the Hoover administration. In the homes of families of moderate circumstances food conservation is practiced every day in the year, and usually year In and year out, regardless of wars. Yet almost every housewife In Columbia is finding some new way In which she can conserve, a new wheatless recipe, a substitute wheat dish or sirup in stead ot sugar cookies. "I do not ice my cakes," said Mrs. H. O. Severance, 117 Edgewood avenue. and this, together with the use ot honey in cookies, is a great saving. In the line of meats we use very little for we have our own chickens." This is the ono way where a large number of Columbia housewives are economizing and saving the meats. They have bought chickens which not only supply the necessary meat but also eggs. The table scraps are fed to them but as one housewife declared, "we have to buy chicken feed for we don't have table scraps now. We are giving the garbage man a chance to get the kink out of his back." Mrs. J. E. Thornton, 301 HItt street, believes that the conservation of food is the doing without that which the government can ship to the Allies, and usng those meats, vegetables and fresh fruits which cannot be sent. "In the meat line," said Mrs. Thornton, "I use game, fowl, eggs and fish. Then if pork or beef is desired, I use liver, brains and spareribs, or In other words, those parts which are not ship ped to the fighting force. I have been using more beans and have discovered that the small brown speckled bean, has as much nutritive value and Is less expensive than the navy bean." "We have just finished a beefless, porkless and muttonless week, with oysters, fish and chicken as substi tutes," said Mrs. P. F. Trowbridge, 1305 Keiser. "With a five-gallon jar of sorghum, I also intend to do with less sugar. Speaking of new dishes, I have discovered that a crustless pump kin pie. In other word, a pumpkin pud ding, is very good, and thatis a sav ing of wheat and fat." Mrs. J. A. Roberts, 312 North Eighth street declared that her economy had been practiced for a good many years. "The signing of the Hoover pledge does not make much difference with me," she said, "for I have a family that likes cornbread. We the Man." have it twice a day and wheat biscuits Two Lectures Here by Former clamatlon Service Director. Prof. F. H. Newell, head of the de partment of civil engineering of the .University of Illinois, former director of the United States Reclamation Ser vice, will deliver two lectures here November 14 and 15. The lecture on November 14 will be given in the Agricultural Auditorium at 8 o'clock. The subject will be "Government Aids in Feeding the Nation," and it will be Illustrated by Btereoptican slides. "Co operation Among Engineers," will be Professor Newell's subject In the afternoon of November 15. It will be given in the physics lecture room at 4 o'clock. Both these lectures are giv en under the auspices of the Sigma Xi. HEADS PEXX SUMMER SCHOOL Xcw Position for Dr. II. L. Crosby, Former 31. U. Teacher. Dr. Henry L. Crosby, assistant pro fessor of Greek in the University from 1906 to 1909, has been appointed head of the summer school at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is assistant professor of Greek. Doc tor Crosby was graduated from the University of Texas in 1901 and re seived the degree of Ph. D. at Harvard in 1905. He taught at Pennsylvania before coming to Missouri and was preceptor of classics at Princeton the following year. Mrs. Crosby, who was formerly MIs3 Olive Williams, Is a sister of Mrs. W. G. Manly of Columbia. By Associated Press LONDON, Nov. 3 The admiralty an nounces that certain British forces have engaged in the Cattegat an arm of the North Sea between Sweden and Denmark, and that prisoners are be ing brought in. No further informa tion is yet at hand. The statement issued by the British admiraly says: "Further reports from our forces operating in the Cattegat have been received. We destroyed a German cruiser armed with six inch guns and also ten armed patrol craft. Sixty-four prisoners have been rescued by our forces. No British losses have been reported. Further details will be published on the return of our forces to their base." German Raider Sunk. Bt Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Nov. 3. The sink ing of the German raider, Crocodile, and five German armed trawlers was reported by men on two Danish steamships. The men said they sighted the German vessels in flames and later saw them sink. Pressure More Noticeable Now on Left Wing of Their Armies. AN APPEAL TO U. S. War Office Wants This Country to Declare War on Austria. By Associated Press ROME. Nov. 3. The Austro-Ger-man pressure is more noticeable on the left wing of the Italian armies on the Tagliamento line, says the of ficial statement Issued today by the Italian war office. Attempts have been made by the Teutons to reach the right bank of the river, the statement adds, but all attacks have been re uplsed by the Italians. German Cruiser Sunk. By Associated Press LONDON, Nov. 3. Thirty German sailors from the German cruiser Marie were killed in a naval battle that occurred between the latter and a British destroyer, according to re ports fronf Copenhagen. CAI'ITOL ALMOST COMPLETED TO GIVE FOOD TO THE POOR Churches Will Distribute Baskets Thanksgiving Day. The Columbia churches and the Charity Organization Society will dis tribute baskets of food to poor fami lies in the city Thanksgiving Day. The Ladies' Aid Society of the Baptist Church has already promised thirteen baskets. Mumford to Talk to Grocers. iDean Frederick B. Mumford, federal food administrator for Missouri, will deliver an address upon the work of the administration before a meeting of the wholesale grocers of Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma in Kansas City Monday. Two Statues Xow Being Considered for Place in Main HalL The construction work on the new capitol building at Jefferson City is about completed and all that remains to be done is the decorating and in terior furnishing, according to E. W. Stephens, chairman of the Capitol Commission. It is estimated that two or three months will be required for this work. Steel furniture yet remains to be obtained for the buildings, and all the Interior decorating and painting must still be done. The pediment carving, which will probably be elaborate, has not been arranged for but the detail that is most in abeyance is the selec tion of a suitable statue for the main hall. Two figures are being considered for the place of honor. The one that seems to have the preference is that of Ceres, Goddess ot the Harvest This is favorably considered because of its aptnes in showing the agricultural possibilities of the state. It would cost $3,000 or $4,000 and would be made of bronze or copper; probably of the latter metal as bronze Is now very expensive. The other figure suggested is' that of an Indian, the hands outstretched to the sun, and arranged on a pedestal that would turn by clock work to keep the figure always facing the sun. This idea has gained some favor because of Its novelty. Wants War on Austria. By Associated Press WASHINGTON. Nov. 3. America can best aid Italy in her Dresent crisis by declaring war on Italy's arch enemy. Austria-Hungary, said an official cablegram from the general headquarters of the Italian army re ceived here today. "it is the general opinion in Italy that the United States can render the greatest service to Italy and to the cause of the Entente during the critical events of the present time," the cable gram says. "There Is no question here of America sending soldiers and steamers: it is by declaring war on Austria-Hungary, the allies of Ger many and the enemy of Italy." Germans Retreat In West. By Associated Prua PARIS. Nov. 3. The French are ad vancing between the Oise Canal and the region of Carbeny and have reach ed the south bank of the Aillette River, the war office announced today. The Germans have retreated to the north bank of the river. The bridges across the Aillette have been destroy ed by the Germans. Since October 23 the French have captured 422 guns and 720 machine guns. Russians and Germans Fraternize. By Associated Press PETROGRAD. Nov. 3. Russian troops in the Vishneff sector yesterday fraternized with German troops, it was announced today by the war of fice. Vishneff is a town on the Rus sian front southwest of Vilna. BAX OX CHRISTMAS GIVIXG Track 3feetlng Tomorrow Night A. second meeting of track men has been called by Coach H. F. Schulte to be held at 7:30 o'clock tomorrow night in the Missouri Union Building. All interested in track work are re quested to attend. To Speak at Presbyterian Church. C. G. Lord of Camp Funston will ad dress the young people's societies at 6 o'clock tonight at the Presbyterian Church. His topic will be "Arms and S. A. E. Freshmen Win. The Sigma Alpha Epsilon freshman football team defeated the Delta Tau Delta freshmen yesterday morning on Rollins Field by a score of 12 to 0. To Close Library on Sunday. The University Library is to be closed on Sunday until a larger supply of coal is obtained. Christian College Club to Use Jloney for Armenians. The Christian College Club decided Thursday afternoon to abolish the giving of Christmas presents and to use that fund for the benefit of the Armenians. It was also decided to give a sacred concert for the benefit of local charity. Fifty persons at tended the meeting. SOLDIERS GIVE WAR BEXEFITS One Wounded Canadian Has Raised $150,000 'for British War Fund. A letter to Dwight Adams, a stu dent in the School of Engineering from his sister in Birmingham, England, tells of the life in the trenches as related by four Canadian soldiers who are incapaciated for further service. One, a Red Cross Ambulance corporal, was fired upon while taking the wounded off the field and part of his skull was blown off. Now a silver plate is inserted in bis bead. Another can scarcely see, the optic nerve of one eye being entirely destroyed; another is partly paralyzed and the fourth still has a trace of shell shock. These men are now giving entertain ments for the benefit of the British war fund. One of them plays on a trench violin made from a tin crack ed box, with a piece of wood from a destroyed Belgian church for a neck and the strings from an old piano. He has raised $150,000 for the war fund in this manner. They say the Germans try to make their troops believe that London is destroyed, that France is In their possession, and the Idea of Americana sending more troops abroad is ab surd. The men In the trenches are well fed and well taken care of, and re signed to what may happen. They look forward to the mail like small boys, and their advice to every one is to write to some soldier and send him tobacco and reading matter. COLLIER FUEL ADMIXISTRATOR To Observe Week of Prayer. The Woman's Missionary Society of the Broadway Methodist Church will observe their annual week of prayer from Monday, November 5, to Friday, November 9. The meeting Monday afternoon will be devoted to Red Cross work In the Thllo Building. On each succeeding afternoon, prayer service will be held at the church from 3 to 4 o'clock. Will Be In Charge or Coal Distribu tion In the County. H. A. Collier has been appointed fuel administrator for Boone County by Wallace Crossley, state fuel ad ministrator. Mr. Collier will have two assistants. One of his first du ties will be to make a coal survey of the county. Home Demonstrator Employed. The Agricultural Extension Service of the College of Agriculture has em ployed Miss Florence Carven of Wichita, Kan., as ah emergency home demonstrator, with headquarters at Independence, Mo. Miss Carven will work in eight counUes In the western part fit the state, organizing boys' and Recital at Methodist Church Today. A twilight recital will be given at 4 o'clock this afternoon at the Broad way Methodist Church by Isaac Ed ward Norris, organist, and Miss Anna Laura Johnson, contralto, assisted by R. G. Spurling, cellist A silver of fering will be taken for the benefit of the choir music fund. Two Couples Get Marriage Licenses. Marriage licenses were Issued yes terday to Miss Mamie Sue Wade, 21 years old, and Clarence C. Brown, 22 years old, both ot Columbia, and Don ald Francis Shore, 19 years old. ot girls' and house-keepers clubs, for the Centralia and Miss Ruth Fordyce, 20 purpose of food conservation. years old, of Wellsvllle. si teg 1 fc i-i -" takS all L4 l M i m m I i &t L tsJLh- zJZ