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aiiMhrilW " - "" mmmmmmm I THE EVENING MISSOURIAN 1! TENTH YEAR COLUMBIA, MISSOURI, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 24, 1917. NUMBER 85 s W U i IN A' FOREIGN LAND ON CHRISTMAS DAY About 20 University Students Spend Holidays Many Miles From Home. Y. M. C. A. PLAYS HOST How the Season Is Cele brated in Other Lands "Boxing Day" in Britain. About a score of students In the University will celebrate their Christ mas Day thousands of miles from home home somewhere in England, or Sweden, or sunny Hawaii or the far East. There are seventeen for eign countries represented by stu dents here now. Yet one can hardly think that they are here in spirit. Al though impotent to Tealize their happy dreams, in the mind's eye they must see themselves again in the na tive land, they must be living over again that last Christmas at home, surrounded by their own people, fol lowing their own customs and enjoy ing the festival in their own way. Of course all the foreigners do not celebrate Christmas Day as such. In Japan and China the day Is ob served only by a few Christians, but the rest of the people have a similar annual festival that takes p'ace about the first of the year. So our Christ mas trees, Santa Clauses and family dinners do not bring reminiscences to them, except in suggestion. An English Christmas. If Miss Marcia Bailey were to spend Christmas in her London home she would follow the same old customs that Dickens pictured in his "Christ mas Carol." Christmas in England although very similar to the Ameri can festival, Is unique in a number of ways. Late Christmas Eve the carol iboys walk up and down the London streets singing old English carols, hymns and ballads; in effect they are heralds of the nest day Christmas celebration. At the English Christ mas dinner, which always comes at night and is a state affair, the pro erbial plum pudding vies with the turkey for place of honor as the prin cipal course. Just after the turkey Is served the lights are turned off, the shutters are closed and the pud ding, lighted and holly-stuck and con taining little favors Is carried In on a large platter. ' One unusual feature of the English Christmas season is "Boxing Day," December 26. On this day all the tradesman and public servants come to the various homes which they serve to get boxes of presents and to leave their own gifts for the mistress and the house sen ants. In the Philippines. In the Philippine Islands Christ mas is a very different affair. A stu dent from there, Vicente Mercado, says that all the celebration takes place the night before Christmas. At midnight Media NocHe is celebrated a feast of relatives and friends who come to one's home and stay until 4 o'clock In the morning. Then they give a masque. After very early mass, the children go to the homes of all their relatives, kiss their hands In greeting and receive presents. Only children under 16 years receive any thing. The Philippines have no Christmas tree and do not teach the children to 'believe in a Santa Claus. Besides this mid-night feast they have a laree dinner unnsimas uay ui. which are served delicacies Imported from various countries. The church es are decorated with flowers and leaves and the houses with gay lan terns. Christmas in Honolulu, Hawaii is a picturesqe celebration in the. two principal streets of the town. The populace gathers during what is called the "Peace Night" and holds a sort of carnival similar to the Mardi Gras in New Orleans. In Honolulu they flaunt feathers, throw flowers and confetti in all the streets. The celebration of Christmas in Sweden Ij a three-day affair. Miss Signe Freestrom of Halmstad, Swe den, says that in that country all the fun and excitement comes on Christ mas Eve. On noon of that day the people make a kind of beef broth called "doppa" and eating this at evening supper formally starts the season's celebration. Instead of tur key the Swedish serve a fish known as lut fish, which is bought dried" and is soaked for three weeks before Christ mas in wooa asnes. Anomer ui mo dishes is rice cooked with a few al monds. In the evening old and young dance around a Christmas tree, whlcn is usually cut by the family in the neighboring woods. But the Swedish tree rarely holds gay or festive pres ents; a toy is heralded with delight and useful things are the rule. Christ mas Day is spent quietly, and the peo ple always go to a candle lighted church at 5 o'clock In the morning. But here In Columbia things will he different for the foreign students. The Y. M. C. A. is planning its annual Christmas dinner for those who can not go home for the holidays, but even that and a few parties are sorry re compense for what they miss by not being In their own countries and among their own people. PLANNING FARMERS' WEEK Stress Will Be Laid on Importance of Beekeeping. Some of the principal attractions of Farmers' Week, January 14 to 18, will be short courses in country life problems and In beekeeping, and ham and bacon and corn shows. Uel W. Lamkin, state superintend ent of schools, will address the con ference on Friday, January 18, and T. J. Walker, Inspector of rural schools, will talk on the samo day. In the short course during the week, all the problems of rural life will te dealt with. The program of the Country Life Conference is under the direction of W. H. Hargrove. There are twenty-two lectures on the program for the beekeepers' short course, which, is under the direction of Leonard Haseman, a strong effort will be made to get all the successful farmers of the state to start small apiaries and maintain them the same as they do their gardening and poul try raising. Beekeeping, it is pointed out, is doubly Important at this time, when sugar is needed abroad. Two of the best-known authorities on bee culture are on the program. They are Frank C. Pellett, who will give an illustrated lecture on "Bee keeping in the North and the South," and C. P. Dadant, editor of the Amer ican Bee Journal, who has achieved international fame as an authority on commercial beekeeping, on which subject he will address the Apicul- tural Society. According to J. C. Hackleman, sec retary of the Missouri Corn Growers' Association, the corn show will not suffer o naccount of the near-failure of the corn crop In North Missouri, for the crop was exceptionally good in South Missouri, and there will be more entries than ever. The ham and bacon show will be held this year under the direction of the College of Agriculture; previous ly it was held by the State Board of Agriculture. First, second and third prizes for hams, bacon and sausages will be offered. EGGS AT U CENTS A DOZEN Record Made by Ten Pullets Fed by Prof. H. L. Kempster. Fourteen-cent eggs sounds unrea sonable, especially when the retail price of eggs has mounted gradually during the last two or three years. Perhaps It is not possible to produce eggs. for that price during the. present: winter, but that is the record made by ten White Leghorn pullets last year. These pullets were purchased Novem ber 1, 1916 by Prof. H. L. Kempster of the College of Agriculture. Only two were old enough to lay before January 1. At the end of seven months, May 31, the flock had' pro duced 749 eggs at a feed cost of less than 14 cents a dozen. The average retail price of eggs in Columbia dur ing this time was not less than 35 cents a dozen. Thus, on the basis of that price, the hens returned a labor Income of $1.32 each. The house in which the 'birds were kept had been made of packing boxes and was covered with roofing paper. The actual cost of the house not in cluding packing boxes, was $3.85". During the seven months the birds ate 225 pounds of cracked corn and 125 pounds of mash. The mash con sisted of-equal parts by weight of bran, shorts, cornmeal and beef scrap. Oyster shell was kept before the hens in a can attached to the wall. The total feed cost, including one bale of straw, was $8.66. Owing to the high price of feeds it may not be possible to produce eggs so cheaply during the present winter. However, Mr. Kempster suggests that the record made by these hens was not exceptional. At any rate the backyard poultry keeper will be able to make considerable saving by pro ducing his own eggs. Further In formation concerning the backyard poultry flock will be found in Exten sion Circular 26 of the College of Agriculture. NEED OF CONSERVING STRESSED Dr. Wilbur Again Tells What the Na tion Mast Do. At a conference in the Agricul tural Auditorium Friday afternoon. Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, lecturer for the Food Administration, further em phasized the fact that It is impera tive to reduce the consumption of wheat. In place of wheat products Doctor -Wilbur suggested the use of oats and corn meal. He declared that the sugar situaUon needs con stant attention, for there Is a great shortage of sugar. "The rule of three pounds a month for a person must be enforced," he said. The conference was open to any persons interested In the conserva tion of food. New Books at University Library. "Verse and Prose by Eugene Field," hlch are facsimiles or Eugene Field's poems, principally from his "Echoes from the Sabine Farm," has "been received at the University Li brary as a gift from William K. Bixby of St Louis. This is from the George H. Menowine collection of books and manuscript. "The Crime," by the author of "I Accuse." is another new book. This is an arraignment of the rulers and government of Germany and Austria. The book comes in two volumes. This is Volume 1. A Red Cross Christmas We are a large family. This world war Made in. Germany against which we are fighting has 'sent our incomes down and our expenses up. The pinch hurts, but it is not going to kill us. We still have enough and something to spare. Though we feel poor, don't let us be impoverished by selfish fear. Let us save in food, in service, in clothes, in luxuries, but not in money. Let us use it by giving it to save the wounded, the suf fering, our friends, our country. Let us keep Christmas this year by keeping up the Red Cross. Then it will not be a poor ChristmaSj but a rich Christ mas in our hearts. HENRY VAN DYKE. y CALLAWAY KEEPS OLD E Completes Work of Raising Fund for Building the Highway. MILLERSBURG VOTES Bonds Carry in District Adjoining Boone by Big Majority. The farmers in the Mlllersburg special road district in Callaway County, adjoining the Boone County line on thfe east, voted $11,000 in bonds Friday for the completion of the Old Trails Road. So favorable was the sentiment for building a permanent highway through the district that the proposition carried by a vote of about 13 to 1. In addition to the No Mlssourlan Tomorrow. Tomorrow, Christmas Day, there will be no issue of the Evening Mlssourlan. The next Issue will be Wednesday. bonds, farmers in the district sub scribed $3,200, the Fulton special road district gave $1,100 and the Cal laway County Court $2,200.' This makes $13,000 raised In the district, which will be matched dollar for dol lar by the state and federal Govern ment. Thus, there is now a fund of $35.00 available for the completion of the seven and a half miles of road In the district. The news of the success of the bond issue was given over the long distance telephone yesterday by J. L. Maughs of Fulton to the office of E. W. Stephens, president of .the Old Trails Association. The significant thing about the election Is that it means that by next summer there will be eighty-four miles of hard-surfaced highway on the Old Trails Road run ning from Rocheport, through Boone and Callaway Counties to a point in Montgomery County eight miles east of the Callaway County line. This will be the longest stretch of rock road on the highway. With the 100 mlle3 already built there will be by the end of next summer, at least, more than half of the road con structed through the state. The people of Callaway County have proved themselves alive to the necessity of completing the road. It is the only county that has kept Its pledge to start active work for the actual construction of the road. Through the persistent efforts of the road boosters in the county bonds were voted in the eastern part of the county through the Williamsburg and Calwood districts and now there is a fund of $50,000 available for the high way from Fulton to the Montgomery County line. Work in Callaway County will be gin as soon as the weather permits next spring. It is possible that con vict labor will be used as is being done' in the Mineola district. Al ready the arrangements have been made with the State Highway Depart ment for the use of graders and other road machinery. So Lightless Sights Order Here. Mayor J. E. Boggs says he has re ceived no order from the United States Fuel Administration regarding llghtless nights on Sunday and Thurs day nights each week. The order sent out in Washington forbids the use or display advertising electrlo lights on the business streets of cities, on the use of any outside lights other than those necessary for pe destrians on streets. Counties Arrange for Agents. P. H. Ross leader of the county agent movement hopes -to have at least 40 Missouri counties supplied with agents, either district or coun ty, early In the coming year. The work Is now being carried forward In Montgomery, Howard, Henry, Jasper, Ray and Vernon counties. TRAILS ROAD P EDO BOLSHEVIK! BRING r ARMS TO Ufflft Munitions Found Concealed in Cargo of Hides on Rus sian Freighter. MEANT TOR I. W. W.? Packages Contain Slugs Like Those Used by Germans on East Front. fiy Associated Preus , A PACIFIC PORT, Dec. 24. Fed eral officials toda.v found packages of ammunition, several hundred rifles and a number of bags filled with re volvers buried under a cargo of hides brought by the Shilka, a Russian freighter which Arrived here Friday night under controj of a Bolshevik! crew. The officials said that In the ammu nition packages wero slugs such as have been used by the Germans on the eastern front. It Is believed that the arms and ammunition were intended for In dustrial Workers of the World in this country or for a raider In the Pacific Ocean. TO CONFER ON BUBAL SCHOOLS Country Life Meeting- Will Be Feature of Farmers' Week. The conference on rural schools, which will be part of the rural life conference program during Farmers' Week, from January 14 to 18, will have representatives from the differ ent consolidated rural schools that maintain high schools in the country and villages of Missouri. They will report on the work done In their dis tricts. "This plan will Bhow farmers what others are doing, and will make them ambitious to push their educa tional work up to compete with the schools doing the best work," said W. H. Hargrove, extension assistant in agriculture, today. The meeting will be led by T. J. Walker, inspector of" rural schools In the state superintendent's office. Mr. Hargrove has already received letters from C. A. McMillan, in charge of the consolidated schools at Raymore, and Miss Osta B. Feurt, In charge of the consolidated schools at Martinsville, saying that they will come. BED CB0SS DRIVE TO CONTINUE Committee Hopeful That- County's Full Quota Will Be Raached. The final results of the Red Cross membership drive In Boone County are not known, as some places have not been heard from, "but the members of the committee In charge believe that the full quota of the county will be reached, particularly If the people continue to respond as they have In the last few days. E. Sydney Stephens, the chairman of this district, has instructed the heads of committees in the different towns to continue the work for the next two days. According; to Mr. Stephens, the figures are snowing up better than has been expected. TAXICAB DRIVES FUSED $20 Death of Fine Saddle Horse At tributed to His Carelessness. Elery Rice, a Star Taxicab driver, was fined $20 and costs in police court this afternon on a charge of reckless and careless driving December 21, when the 18x103 he was driving killed the thoroughbred saddle horse owned by William P. Jones, a negro. The horse was valued at $500. The case was appealed and will be tried at the next term of the Circuit Court Rice was released on a $100 bond. Two Marriage Licenses Issued. A marriage license was Issued to day to Ambrose Hulen Hathman, IS years old, and Miss Gertrude Baker, 18 years old, both of Columbia. Mr. Hathman is employed In the Model Lunch Room. A marriage license was issued today to Carl Wasser Clark and Miss Grace Matthews both of Columbia. THE WEATHEE cor lOiamDIA and TU.li.. .., , mnch colder tonight. Cold ware. Tuesday generally fair and colder. WednSdar cloudy, cold, probably .now flnrrle.. Tem perature tonlcht to 10 or lower! probably ro or lower Tuesday nltht. 4 T ,nniri ,Mlss..Kr,: SloaiT " itch colder tonight, with cold wave northiand west portion. Tuesday fair and coffer. nn SET Si'U Wltbln !" of 200 miles of Columbia the lowest teniper- flfnro tnntcht will K tr , T iti"7? tVlQ "below NSrffsVSSrSS Weather Conditions. A cold ware Is aweenlnr mnih ! out of the Northwest. Temperature al ready has fallen 20 or more belEw lero In i western Canada and Montana, end to xero as far south and east as northern Kebms. Ka and western Minnesota. The cold wave will coyer most of the Plains and Cen tral Valleys within the next 38 hoars. Light snow has fallen OTer portions of the northern sections but there has been no precipitation In the wlnttr wheat belt. In Columbia cold weather "will prevail f,c. Aucsuajr auu ireuaesaay. Iocal Data. The highest temneratnr In rViinmTit yesterday was 56 and the lowest Iast.h k..i . .v ., " night was 48; precipitation 000; rclatlre uuuuuiiy p. m. yesieraay 83 per cent. A year ago yesterday the highest temper ature was 34 and the lowest 21; precipita tion 0.00 inch. Tbe Almanac Sun rises today, 7:28 a. m. Sun sets, 432 p. m. Moon sets 3:40 a. m. Tbe Temperatures Today. 7 a. m. 48 11 a. m 37 8 a. m 43 12 noon 36 a. m vs 1 p. 10 a. m 39 2 p. m. DOWN TO 1 0 TONIGHT Cold Wave Headed Toward Columbia Zero or Low er Tomorrow. A cold wave is scheduled to Strike Columbia tonight, with the tempera ture going to 10 or lower. The tem perature tomorrow night will go probably to zero or even lower. The wave Is sweeping south and east out of the Northwest The temperature has already fallen 20 degrees or more below zero in Western Canada and Montana, and the cold wave will cover most of the Plains and Central Val leys within the next 36 hours. The temperature has already reached zero In Northern Nebraska and Western Minnesota. MOBE MISSOURI WHEAT FOB 1918. Condition in Boone County Is S3, . . SajsBeiM4W. In the future E. A. Logan, field agent of the bureau of crop statistics. United States Department of Agricul ture, will issue a monthly govern ment crop review from Columbia. The reports have been issued here by the United States Weather Bureau. The reports are based on Information telegraphed from Washington. According to the December report Issued last week the condition of wheat in Boone County Is 85. The report says: "The farmers of Missuorl have in creased their wheat acreage '25 per cent The increase is five times that suggested for the state by the United States Department of Agriculture last August. The acreage seeded this fall Is 580,000 acres more than was sown in 1916 and 21,000 acres more than la 1914. "Seeding began In September and continued over a longer season than usual, some being sown the last days of November in the Southeast low lands. The soil was put In better con dition and more acres fertilized than customary. A larger portion of the crop was sown on corn stubble than usual. "The backward condition of wheat In December was caused by the drouth of October and November over all the state, being broken the last week of November by good rains over the Southern part only. Early sown wheat has made a fair growth, re tarded somewhat by drouth, but late sown is small and has not yet all come up. The crop got a late start In some localities of the East and South sections. The plant Is reported to be well rooted. Wheat on bottom lands show a condition well up to that of a ten year average." STREET CAB BUNS AWAT, 17 DIE Coach Dashed Into Confectionery Store in Pittsburgh. By Associated Press PITTSBURGH,, Pa., Dec 24. A street car ran away In a tunnel here today and dashed into a confectionery store. Reports to the police said that seventeen persons were killed and a number injured. WILSON TO MEET LABOR MEN Heads of Railway Brotherhoods Sum moned to Conference. By Associated Press WASHINGTON, Dec 24. President Wilson has summoned the chiefs and the leglsIaUve agents of the four railway brotherhoods to a conference which will be held at the White House next Thursday. Telegraph Business Grows. Tbe receipts at the Western Union Telegraph office here show an in crease of $200 In December over De cember, 1916. The Christmas tele grams have just begun to come in, and tonight and tomorrow morning, according to C. A. Raum, the local agent the greatest number will be sent and received. I RUSSIANS DECLARE FOR NO AlEJATi Peace Terms Discussed With Germans in Conference at Brest-Litovsk. TEUTONS GAIN POINT Von Kuehlmann Made Per manent Chairman of In ternational Gathering. By Associated Press PETROGRAD, Dec. 24. Peace without annexation, under the form ula adopted by the German Reichstag In Its peace proposals of last July, is Lne Kevnnip nr rnn mieafnn nana terms now being discussed at Brest- T.ftnvalr TTio TOuasfon t... of the Central Powers, who have taken them under advisement Immediate evacuation of territory seized during the war is proposed. Russia further suggests that national groups that were not independent be fore the war shall decide their future status at a referendum. Germany has scored a point In the selection of Von Kuehlmann, her for eign secretary, as permanent chair man of the conference. Attack on Cossacks Threatened. By Associated Press PETROGRAD, Dec 24. An Army of 100,000 is advancing on the rear of the troops of General Kaledlnes, the Cossack leader, according to an .an nouncement today by the Bolshevikl press bureau. German War Prisoners Released. Dy Associated Tress LONDON. Dec. 24.-Petrograd dis patches report that an effort is being made by the Bolshevikl Commissary to negotiate with the Ukrainians for the settlement of thhe difficulties which have arisen, and that the au thorities of the Ukrainian government are willing to accept proposals for a peaceful arrangement. The attitude of the Bolshevikl is attributed by the correspondent of the London Times to the fact that their leaders are realizing the grav ity of the situation to an increasing extent. For the same reason, he says, they are believed to be inclined to modify their attitude of hostility to the' Constituent Assembly; whleh Is likely to meet within a week. There are rumors of further fight ing, but apparently nothing on a large scale. Reports have reached Petrograd of the concentration of large numbers of released German war prisoners near the capital. Arms, It Is said, have been turned over to them, and they are expected to march to the capital. Referring to these rumors, the cor respondent of the London Post says that 1,000 released prisoners of war are moving toward Petrograd. But even more significant In his opinion, is the German activity In building up trade with the Russians. He de scribes Germany as making the most a trade, opportunity the like of which the world has never seen before. Russian industries are paralyzed, and Germany will be able to push her ad vantage without competition from any other nation. OUTGOING TRAFFIC DECLINES More People Than Usual, However, Are Coming in for Christmas. The number of students leaving Columbia for the holidays is substan tially smaller this year than for sev eral preceding years. This decrease has been noticed by both railroads. Two causes are assigned for it the smaller number of students enrolled, and the fact that a good many left be fore the holidays to enter some form of national service. More persons are coming to Co lumbia for Christmas this year than in former years, the railroad agents say. A large number of these are men from the Army camps. LAST-DAT SHOPPING RUSH" Toys Much in Demand in Columbia Stores Today. Last-minute shoppers filled the stores this afternoon. Of tbe toys, doll accessories seemed to be most In demand. One shopper bought a doll bed and a doll dresser for $13.70. All the dolls are "Made in America," for no dolls came from Germany this year. Not a store has a doll with "hair on the head," and all the dolls have "stuffed" bodies. Rose O'Neill's Kewple dolls are much in favor. For the forgotten friend, handker chiefs still hold sway, and one of the 10-cent stores had such a crowd around the handkerchief counter that it took a floorwalker to keep space for other shoppers to pass. This same store found It difficult to keep Its counters stocked with toys. It was evident that the S. P. U. G. has not a large following In Colum bia, even in wartime. Lieutenant Babb Visits Here. Lieutenant Glenn Babb is here 'on leave of absence from Fort Leaven worth to visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Bobb. He will return to morrow. Lieutenant Babb expects to be transferred to Fort Bliss soon. m I : ffl rtfiVftfarlfti